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What Heaney means to me
The criteria for choosing a favourite Seamus Heaney poem may vary, but the evocative power of poetry is the link that connects each one, some Heaney fans tell ARMINTA WALLACE
Literary tour guide and owner of Laurel Villa guesthouse, Magherafelt, Co Derry
"If I had to pick just one Heaney poem it would be Blackberry-picking. It brings me right back to happy childhood days at our farm in Dunamoney, just outside Magherafelt. At the end of August every year, the younger ones of us would set off with the McGlades and the McGuckins to gather blackberries. We hunted for them as a pack but each of us knew, from previous years, where to find the richest seams and we rushed to get there first, to taste the 'flesh that was sweet like thickened wine', before plopping the ripe and not-so-ripe ones into our milk cans. I just love that line: 'Summer's blood was in it.'
"There was a great feeling of anticipation as tin cans began to fill up and you thought of all the money you would get when you took all your canfuls into the town, to Jimmy Campbell's yard at the bottom of the Fairhill. Alas, we too felt the disappointment when 'we found a fur/A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache' and those ones had to be discarded. Every time I hear this poem I feel something of that same 'lust for picking', remember palms 'sticky as Bluebeard's', savour the simple pleasures of blackberry-picking."
Musician and filmmaker
"I suppose my nearest and dearest poem of Heaney's is The Given Note. What it refers to – as I understand it – is the body of water between Dún Chaoin and the Blasket Islands called the Blasket Sound. The lore locally is that the tune Port na bPúcaícame out of that body of water. For me, many things resonate in that poem. I hear the tune when I read the poem – or when it's in my head, I also see the place. And when I stand and look out at the Blaskets I often hear that tune, and the poem, in my head. They've become interwoven, really.
"There's something about the time we're in now – the things we're given are the things we take for granted. But ultimately, they're the things that are valuable beyond value. They were given freely, and were passed on orally, transmitted from one to the other, nothing asked for but everything given. 'Bits of a tune/Coming in on loud weather'."
Jazz pianist and theatre composer
"There's one poem at the moment I love, love, love: I set it to music, because it just pulled me right in. It's from Clearances, and starts: 'When all the others were away at mass. . .' He describes a Sunday morning when everybody else is out of the house. He's there with his mother, peeling potatoes. They sit at a table, doing this work, and kind of dreaming. It's very, very quiet: there's just the little 'plop' of the peeled potatoes as they drop into the cold water, one by one.
"Then it switches to the parish priest at his mother's bedside, going hammer and tongs at the prayers for the dying. Some people are listening and some are responding, but the poet goes back in his memory to the two of them peeling potatoes, and the last line is: 'Never closer the whole rest of our lives.' In my own life, when my mom was ailing, I would sit with her at her little kitchen table – and then when she really was not able to handle her accounts and bills, her younger brother, my uncle, would sit with me at the table, doing that work for her. I became very close with my uncle because of that, so when I saw that poem I thought of it immediately."
Abbot of Glenstal Abbey, Co Limerick
" Lighteningsis the poem I would choose, because it connects monasteries with the world of art. It is not my 'favourite' Heaney poem – there are too many of those – but at this moment it speaks to me as abbot of Glenstal Abbey.
"It speaks about the work of the monk and the way in which monasteries can act as anchors for art in ways that are helpful to both.
"This poem is also significant because Heaney himself quoted it in 1995 when he was receiving the Nobel Prize.
"It showed that he too was struggling, as he said, 'with contradictory allegiances . . . to the numinous and to the matter-of-fact', two dimensions that must receive attention if our passage to the future is to be rooted and on course."
Psychotherapist and mother of three
"My favourite poem by Seamus Heaney is Scaffolding. I heard his wife Marie describe on a radio show how, early on in their marriage, he produced this poem for her following a row. Beats a mouldy bunch of flowers from the garage, eh?
"Anyway, intrigued by the romance of the story, I checked out the poem and just loved the maddeningly simple yet deeply evocative language and the picture it painted for me. I know these words are often used at wedding ceremonies but, being somewhat obtuse, I turned to it when my husband Ed died last autumn.
"And yes, the metaphor of the lyric holds true for me: while my scaffolding was ripped away, I have survived. More exposed and vulnerable, maybe, than before — but still a fairly solid structure."
"I'm going to choose At the Wellhead. On the surface it's about two women – his wife Marie, who always closes her eyes when she sings, and Rosie Keenan, a blind-from-birth neighbour.
"You can read it at that level – a poem about two women – and get a lot out of it. Most readers never see the rhyme scheme, or the structure, because it never intrudes.
"But if you drop down deeper and spend time with it, you could write a book about this poem.
"This well doesn't just hold water: it holds marvels. When he looks at his blind neighbour, he doesn't see a little woman with a white stick – he sees 'a silver vein in heavy clay/Night water glittering in the light of day'. That's a marvellous description of a poem – that's what poetry is."
Literature officer with the Arts Council
"I moved to Ireland from the US more than 10 years ago, and owe a great debt to Heaney's poetry for helping me understand what Ireland looks and feels like. It is impossible for me to read Mossbawn: Sunlightwithout seeing the landscape, the pump, the yard, the interior of that rural Irish kitchen. What makes the poem so resonant for me, however, is its conclusion: 'And here is love/Like a tinsmith's scoop/ sunk past its gleam/ in the meal-bin.' Heaney's Derry suddenly becomes my Watertown, New York, and I'm with my mother in our suburban kitchen.
"In a different way, District and Circle absolutely stuns and amazes me. I remember reading it when it was first published, and it captures, with sympathy, grace and complexity, the anxiety people were feeling following the 9/11 and London bombings. The poem is at once acutely real and strangely dreamlike and everything a good poem should be; it makes you think, it makes you ask, its images linger, its language holds."
JOHN McCARTHY
Freelance writer
"The piece I have chosen is Lighteningsfrom Seeing Things. The story, as Heaney himself says, 'has all the there-you-are-and-where-are-you of poetry' about it. For me it lives in that sacred place where poetry and reality overlap and it tells me that the miraculous and the mundane exist in the same space, illuminated by our perception of them.
"That such a miracle tale can be told with words at all is the first marvel. Then for the monks, the sight of a ship sailing in air must be beyond even their learned comprehension and the sailor, coming 'back out of the marvellous as he had known it', suggests to me his wonder as a mere mortal at the monks' work of preserving for posterity – through their transcriptions and illuminations – the mysteries of existence."
Director, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
"My favourite is Alphabets. It gets me in the gut; it brings back to me a lot of memories about how I learned to read. It's all about symbols. The poet talks about school work being marked 'with a little leaning hoe', which got me puzzling and thinking – where did that symbol come from, the tick for a correct? Every letter he sees, he recognises it as something else; 'the fork that they call a Y'.
"It's a wonderfully circular poem with lots of references to globes, in which his life is spun out in alphabets – Greek, Latin, the old Irish script – and all the time his alphabets keep coming back to the land and to objects that he knew. It's a journey through life and through literature and literacy by alphabets."
Director of Clifden Arts Week
" Mossbawn: Sunlightis the one that hops off the table for me. It has a sense of belonging: of going with my mother across the river Shannon to my grandmother in a village outside of Athlone; of arriving there, and the welcome, and the warmth, the cake of bread in the window. Long before mobile phones we cycled – if you can imagine – what is now the superhighway from Ballinasloe to Athlone. And in Clonown they'd put up a white sheet on the chimney, and my uncle, seeing the white sheet, would run down to the Shannon get into the boat and row across to fetch us. The summers always seemed very long; there was always sunshine and a great sense of wholesomeness of nature – of being alive and alert and part of nature. The memory of a happy childhood, really."


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Calvados (French pronunciation: ; English ) is a department in the Lower Normandy region in northwestern France. It takes its name from a cluster of rocks off the English Channel coast.
Calvados is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from a part of the former province of Normandy. The name "Orne inférieure" was originally proposed for the department, but it was ultimately decided to call the area Calvados after a group of rocks off its coast.
One popular legend ascribes its etymology to the Salvador, a ship from the Spanish Armada that sank by the rocks near Arromanches-les-bains in 1588. It is more likely, however, that the name Calvados was derived from calva dorsa, meaning bare backs, in reference to two sparsely vegetated rocks off its shore.[1]
After the allied victory at Waterloo the department was occupied by Prussian troops between June 1815 and November 1818.
On 6 June 1944, the Allied forces landed on the beaches of the Bay of the Seine in what became known as the Battle of Normandy.
Calvados belongs to the region of Basse-Normandie and is surrounded by the departments of Seine-Maritime, Eure, Orne and Manche. To the north is the Baie de la Seine, part of the English Channel. On the east, the Seine River forms the boundary with Seine-Maritime. Calvados includes the Bessin area, the Pays d'Auge and the area known as the "Suisse normande" ("Norman Switzerland").
The most notable places in Calvados include Deauville and the formerly elegant 19th-century casino resorts of the coast.
Agriculture dominates the economy of Calvados. The area is known for producing butter, cheese, cider and Calvados, the apple-based spirit that takes its name from the area.
The President of the General Council is the centrist Jean-Léonce Dupont, the former dominant figure of the right and centre in the department. The Conseil General of Calvados and Devon County Council signed a Twinning Charter in 1971 to develop links with the English county of Devon.[2]
The inhabitants of Calvados are called "Calvadosiens" (male) and "Calvadosiennes" (female). In 1999, Calvados had 648,299 inhabitants, making it the 30th most populated French department.
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The Bayeux Tapestry is on display in Bayeux and makes the city one of the most-visited tourist destinations in Normandy. Juno Beach Centre at Courseulles-sur-Mer, Calvados, commemorates the D-Day landing of the Canadian liberation forces at Juno Beach during World War II in 1944. The cult of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux brings large numbers of people on pilgrimage to Lisieux, where she lived in a Carmelite convent. Every September, Deauville hosts the Festival of the American Movie and the beach resort of Cabourg hosts the Festival of the Romantic Movie. Annually, the city of Caen celebrates the festival of the electronical cultures called "Nordik Impakt" & The festival of Beauregard, just around Caen.
The local dialect of the Norman language is known as Augeron. It is spoken by a minority of the population.
Calvados is one of the most visited areas in France because of its seaside resorts which are among the most prestigious in France with their luxurious hotels, casinos, green countryside, manors, castles, the quiet, the chalk cliffs, the typical Norman houses, the history of William the Conqueror, Caen, Bayeux, Lisieux, the famous D-day beaches and numerous museums about the Second World War. The culinary specialties from the verdant countryside of Calvados are abundant: cider, calvados, camembert and Pont-l'Évêque cheeses.
One of the advantage of Calvados is to be fairly near large urban centers (Paris, Ile de France). Calvados is therefore often preferred for holidays and for weekends and sometimes considered as the countryside of Paris .
Calvados, via the port of Ouistreham, is an entrance to the continent from Britain. There are two airports: Caen-Carpiquet and Deauville-Saint Gatien. The department of Calvados has several popular tourist areas: the Bessin, the Plain of Caen, the Bocage Virois, the Côte de Nacre, the Côte Fleurie and the Pays d'Auge. Several beaches of Calvados are popular for water sports, including Cabourg and Merville-Franceville-Plage.
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This ranking takes into account all the municipalities having over 10% of second homes in the departement of Calvados. 80% of owners are from the Paris area, 10% are English and 10% are local.
According to the general census of the population of 1 January 2006, 18.9% of housing available in the department were second homes.
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Have you ever had an experience, emotion, or altered state of being that you just couldn't explain?
Maybe you enjoyed it in the moment and then brushed it off later, trying to rationalize it…
I want to create a space here to acknowledge and honor experiences that are difficult to explain. I know I've definitely had experiences that I can't completely explain that have caused profound shifts in my life. And I've also had some that just feel mystical even if they don't seem to have any meaning at all.
I recently decided that it is important to honor these experiences and emotional shifts and acknowledge them even if we can't explain them. In fact, it may be better if we don't even bother trying to explain them, but simply honor the direct experience.
I want to bring awareness to the importance of honoring the full range of unexplainable mystical experiences to complete acceptance of all emotions as they flow, and everything in between.
So what exactly is a mystical experience?
William James a psychologist and philosopher defined four characteristics of mystical experiences:
1) Ineffability: an experience too great or extreme to be described in words, too sacred to be spoken
2) Noetic Quality: States of knowledge, insight, and awareness beyond the grasp of intellect, a feeling of union, and that space and time are transcended
3) Transiency: fleeting in linear time yet feeling eternal
4) Passivity: a feeling of being swept up by a superior power, trance, out of body experience, experiencing visions, etc.
All of the experiences I've had meet these criteria to some degree–mostly the first two. They're difficult to describe and I can definitely relate to feeling a sense of union and interconnectedness that I'm not usually aware of.
But mine have left me feeling altered for much longer than the 30 minutes to two hours described above. And while I might feel a sense of God/the Universe and gain insight, I can't say that I've felt swept up or had an out of body experience.
So I propose here that we dismiss criteria and honor any emotional experience that is enjoyable and difficult to explain.
Examples of Mystical Experiences
I recently read an excerpt from a book called The Imprisoned Splendour which gives several written personal accounts of mystical experiences. All of them seemed to meet the criteria outlined by William James. Common themes among them were being out in nature and feeling an overwhelming sense of connectedness and insight, as if the normal experience of reality had fallen away to reveal a more interesting and truthful reality.
One woman sitting in the countryside had just cracked an ice pond, so some lambs could drink water and forgot all her worldly fears and worries, feeling a deep sense of interconnectedness with nature. Another account was of a person who witnessed a strange smoke while at a church service and then began to visually perceive the outdoors beyond the walls of the church with 360 degree vision, along with a feeling of other spiritual beings, but only for a brief amount of time before everything returned to normal.
Okay, so you might be thinking: what was in the smoke??? But even the smoke seemed to be part of a vision or visual experience, and regardless what the cause was–does it matter? Does seeking a rational explanation for such an experience really discount its impact?
The most profound types of mystical experiences I've ever heard of are the ones where people have near-death experiences that are so amazing and intense that they live their lives completely differently afterwards.
I've never experienced anything quite like that, but I have definitely had blissful experiences and perhaps mystical experiences I can't explain. I remember one time in yoga class, each person was asked to team up with two other people for back bends. One person would go into a back bend and be pulled in opposite directions from someone on either side to create an intense spine stretch. This was the first time I had ever done anything like this, and I have no idea what happened.
Being pulled from both sides while in a back bend felt amazing and when I came out of it, I felt significantly altered. I can't even describe it. I felt extremely euphorically happy and calm and blissful and this lasted for several days. I felt immense joy in every moment, just by looking at familiar objects. I have no idea how to explain it. I've read that kundalini energy can be cultivated in yoga practice, which is supposed to travel up the spine and create such experiences, and maybe it was that–but who knows???
Around the time that I had my great synchronicity experience last year, I felt a deep sense of interconnectedness. I felt bliss and a sense of divinity all around me working for my highest good and this last for several weeks.
I'm starting to notice a pattern within myself. Complete surrendering to the moment and feeling fully present seems to be the antecedent for bringing about such experiences for me. They reach a peak where I feel bliss and interconnectedness, but then I feel afraid that I will lose the feeling and it will leave, and I won't be able to explain it or understand it or feel it again. I find myself starting to disconnect from the feeling, maybe out of fear. And then I just start to feel normal again.
Most of the experiences I read about in the excerpt from The Imprisoned Splendour were similar in that the people who had these experiences always felt sadness that they would come to an end. Sometimes they created profound shifts that were life-changing, but the feeling always ultimately left.
Are These Experiences Real?
So if you have a mystical or strange feeling that comes out of nowhere, are these experiences any less real because they don't feel like reality?
We're taught that reality is harsh and there is cold hard truth. People offer up pessimistic perspectives over optimistic ones and complain that anyone who doesn't like them doesn't want to hear "the truth".
But what if the truth is that most of what we feel on a daily basis is actually an illusion–the sense of mundanity, disconnection, and fear of the the worst happening?
What if the reality is bliss, connectedness, and that everything always works out for the best, and that there is so much more to reality than could ever be fully perceived in our current state? And what if we can only glimpse this in tiny intervals when the curtain falls away just for a moment, revealing a beautiful reality that stands in contrast to our typical day to day experience?
I recently read an amazing idea proposed by Marianne Williamson that blew my mind on this perspective. You know that feeling when you have a crush on someone or first start dating someone you really like? In a way, it feels almost like a mystical experience–you feel bliss, happiness, connected, like the world is an amazing place. It is a time when you are focused on the positives and not the flaws of the other person. The scientific word for this state of mind is limerance, a neurological state lasting about three months. This is also known as the "honeymoon period" if the relationship progresses.
We tend to view this experience as illusion and what comes after is a slow descent into reality, where we start to notice flaws in the other person and begin to tackle real issues that come up.
But what if the reverse is actually true? What if the joy and full acceptance and feeling of unconditional love you feel in the beginning is actually a deeper connection to true reality? What if you are tapping into a more fundamental joy and unconditional acceptance of another person that is eventually lost over time in the same way mystical experiences fade?
Just a thought!
Integrating Mystical Experiences
In the past, I haven't responded to such experiences in the best way. I would become frightened and disconnect from my emotions. I would over-analyze the experience and try to figure out exactly what caused it, maybe even coming to the conclusion that finding a specific reason somehow invalidates the experience. Such as I felt that way only because A, B, and C happened, so it makes sense. As if finding the source and explaining it takes away the ineffable quality. Or I would omit the experience from my story and write off the experiences as a fluke.
I believe a better way to handle such experiences is to accept them fully without trying to question them. It is natural to search for a source and it may be possible to find one, but looking too hard creates the opposite of a mystical experience. When we over-analyze and try to understand, we are trying to gain control, and this moves us away from the direct experience–the very gift that it is.
This happens on a small scale when we don't fully feel our day to day emotions, over-analyze them, try to name them, and wonder where they came from rather than simply observing and feeling the flow without questioning.
Emotions are associated with right-hemisphere processing in the brain along with intuition. It is the left hemisphere that tries to find reasons for what the right hemisphere experiences. Our search to find reasons may be completely pointless.
Studies have shown that people with brain injuries or damage who are exposed to images outside their consciousness will remember them without being conscious of them and act on them without knowing why. For instance, a person with short term memory difficulties might be shown a picture of a Coke and then forget about it. They may have a sudden desire to get up and get a Coke and when asked why, they might say they are thirsty or remembering a Coke commercial they saw–completely unaware that the real reason is that they just saw a picture of a Coke and forgot about it!
So how do we know that the reasons we come up with to explain our emotions or experiences have anything to do with what's really going on inside of us? The real reasons may have more to do with what we are unconscious of.
When you start to pay attention to how your body reacts to emotions you feel, you may find that one very small thought you had a few minutes ago created a big shift that you are still reacting to even though your stream of consciousness has moved on to something else.
That's why it's so important to stay conscious of feelings. Identifying the source of a feeling can be helpful, but not always necessary. It is enough to accept any emotion that comes up as valid regardless of being able to find a reason and without creating a meta-feeling. A meta-feeling is a feeling about a feeling which moves you further away from direct experience. It might be a feeling of shame about an emotion, avoidance of an emotion, or any reaction that separates feeling from the raw experience.
I invite you to accept any strange and mystical experiences or emotions you have had now as part of you, your life, and your story, regardless of where they came from and what they mean. To deny them is to disassociate and not be wholly who you are. You are already everything you have ever been and experienced and everything you will ever be. If you've never had an experience like this, I invite you to feel each passing emotion fully without trying to explain it or find its definitive source. Just feel it and acknowledge it.
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The Jerusalem Ballet presents Memento, a dance work choreographed by the company's Artistic Director Nadya Timofeyeva, honoring the memory of Franceska Mann, a Jewish ballerina from Poland.
A beautiful dancer who performed both classical and modern dance, Mann was killed in Auschwitz in 1943. Although her story is not well known, there is testimony (in two different versions) that as she was led to the gas chambers, along with the other women, she managed to take hold of the Nazi officer's gun, killing him and wounding another Nazi, before her own death. Timofeyeva tells Mann's dramatic and unusual story through dance, in a series of vignettes that reveal her life in Warsaw, with her family and onstage, the invasion of the Nazis, life in the Warsaw Ghetto, and the heroic moments leading to her death.
Performances will take place:
September 1, 2019 – Suzanne Dellal Centre, Tel Aviv, at 21:00
September 7, 2019 – Rebecca Crown Auditorium, Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem, at 21:00
Choreography: Nadya Timofeyeva, Artistic Director of the Jerusalem Ballet; Research and Libretto: Michael Sadovsky (Russia) and Nadya Timofeyeva; Music: Maurice Ravel, Issak Schwartz (Russia) and more; Set Design: Yana Polonsky; Costume Design: Nadya Timofeyeva and Yana Polonsky.


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In the summer of 2019, the members and friends at St. John United Church of Christ made a bold choice. "Putting their faith into action," the congregation embarks on a major project in creation care and environmental justice by "Going Solar" with the installation of a 65 kW Solar Renewable Energy Project.
St. John UCC will install a 65 kW solar energy system this fall, producing enough renewable electric energy to provide 100% (or more) of the power needed to operate our church campus each year. Working with Iconic Energy Solar Professionals and Blackhawk Bank of Rockford, this project will lower the church's carbon footprint by more than 1000 tons over twenty years. This project will make St. John UCC the first 100% self-generated solar powered faith community in Illinois, and the first 100% renewable electric powered business in Freeport and Stephenson County.
The installation is scheduled to begin in mid-October, with a service of dedication and "Flipping the Switch" on Reformation Sunday, October 27, 2019. More events will take place at the church throughout October to welcome the Freeport community and share information on renewable alternatives and creation justice. Stay tuned for updates!


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The Financial Planning Association announced on Wednesday that Alvin Carlos, co-founder and CEO of District Capital Management in Washington, D.C., has been awarded the FPA Retreat 2018 Diversity Scholarship, which looks to highlight professionals promoting diversity in the financial planning field.
Carlos is a member of the FPA if the National Capital Area and volunteers with pro bono financial planning activities, including Baltimore's Money Power Day, and other events providing education to underprivileged youth.
"Many of us come from different backgrounds and bring unique perspectives to the goals we are trying to achieve. FPA is proud to build diversity among our members so all can benefit from the power of financial planning," stated 2018 FPA president Frank Paré. "Carlos has made extraordinary contributions to support diverse communities and advance the association's efforts to bring financial planning to all families and individuals who might benefit from financial planning irrespective of their financial net worth. We look forward to recognizing him and his accomplishments at FPA Retreat this month."
The diversity scholarship includes a one-year FPA membership and a fully paid trip to the 2018 FPA Retreat, held April 23-26 outside of Phoenix.
The scholarship is annually awarded to students and professionals who have actively promoted diversity in the financial planning profession. Criteria for applicants include promoting the profession in diverse communities; serving said communities with financial planning efforts; and creating more opportunities for diverse candidates to advance within the profession.
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Geek cred for cut-tag understanding... ;-)
- That was good stuff.
- Thank God for spoiler-whoredom.
- "No more Buffyverse" hasn't hit me yet. Hell, it won't hit me, because I am the pollyest of pollyannas when it comes to the hope of further interaction with the characters in some way, be it movie, spinoff,
locking Joss in a closet and making him tell me slashy bedtime stories on pain of taking away his bucket
- Wes' death hasn't hit me as hard as it could because
a) I know there *was* going to be a Season 6, so he wouldn't have died permanently at the end of this season, if not for the WB, because there was no way they were dumping Alexis. It puts his death into a hazy limbo state for me, where denial of its permanence doesn't even feel like denial.
b) Illyria's reaction hit me harder (as several deaths in the Buffyverse have done, like Angel and Cordy's reactions to Doyle, Willow's reaction to Tara, everyone's to Joyce)
c) The minor annoyance of Wes' last thoughts being of Fred undercut my personal reactions to losing him a little bit, though I did appreciate his half of the scene on an artistic level. Meaning it was well staged and well acted and Wes = the pretty, and I love him.
- I thought I wasn't going to buy Lindsey's death; seemed too random in summary. In practice? Oh god, pretty/ha/ouch/ohyeah/soright. I'm not happy with Lindsey's thing about coming back to get power, etc., given the way he left, but they sold me on how much it was All. About. Angel. to the point where the rest is window-dressing that I can write off as Lindsey's sad little world-o-denial.
- Connor! Anne!
- Angel/Lindsey? "I'd be more comfortable..." Angel's fight with Hamilton? "Say kill Spike and we may have to kiss?" Gayest. Episode. Ever. Hamilton was only sleeping with Harmony for the info. Seriously. Dude.
- I was sad that Harmony couldn't have been the one vamp to show that it's possible for them to not only change, but change enough (soulless Spike changed, but not enough to be accepted/trustworthy without the soul), but at the same time satisfied that yes, betrayal is in character for her. She's not actually evil. She sucks at evil, truly -- she's just cheerfully amoral. It has a certain attraction.
- They do *not* die after the credits roll. I mean, no, seriously, Pollyanna aside, virtual seasons aside, this was not Thelma and Louise. It was left open-ended on *purpose*.
- I love Spike.
- The previous may have come as a shock to some of you, I know...
- Effulgent! Can I deny you three times?
- Seabreeze count: 3
- Poor bubeleh Lorne.
- For that "Thank you for five years of good times" spot afterwards? Fuck you, WB. Sideways. With vinegar-flavoured-lube. Fuck you and your toaster and everyone who *looks* like your toaster. I love syphillis more than you.
- There is going to be a Season 6, goddammit. (More than one, I'm sure, but this one has definitely taken on new concreteness to me as it does start to hit home - that the only Jossverse premieres next fall will be the ones we make ourselves.)


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"Toots" motor yacht is a perfect blend of classic design and up to date contemporary systems.
Indeed, more than a quarter of a million pounds has been spent on her comprehensive refit to provide immaculate accommodation, ensuring an exquisite, memorable holiday on board.
The three double en-suite cabins are light, bright and cool.
The saloon offers two dining areas and exceptional lounging space for all guests on board.
The aft deck has a fixed dining table providing spacious dining and relaxing shelter from the heat of the day.
The forward deck has a very large and comfortable sun bed where up to three guests can sunbathe and relax.
The flybridge has seating for all aboard and is protected by a large Bimini top, giving maximum sun protection. A second steering and navigation position provides full control for the Captain. Comfortable seating and a "Wet Bar" make the perfect spot for pre-dinner cocktails, whilst watching the sun set over dizzying mountain ranges and beautiful islands.
Major Refit 2012 / 2013
Saloon re-upholstered in cream leather Interior fully refitted and relined. (Walls and ceiling)
New teak/holly flooring on main deck
Galley refitted with Durat surfaces, oven, grill and extractor fan etc
New Siemens 8 place dishwasher
All new Raytheon navigational electronics, main and Flybridge
New exhaust piping throughout and all new lagging
New main Windlass
Side steps in Stainless steel and teak
New aft deck total enclosure
New aft deck seating installed
Owners cabin bathroom rebuilt with new shower, mirror and Durat countertop
Echotec Watermaker installed (2900 litres per day)
Hynautic controls rebuilt
Flybridge helm seat (new)
New Ribeye Tender + 15HP Suzuki outboard
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Ambassador stainless steel rope cutters fitted to both shafts
Hydraulic Bow thruster overhauled
New safety swim steps in stainless steel and teak
Refit over winter 2017/2018
All new curtains
New fridge–operates on inverter for continuous operation
New deep freeze / operates on battery via inverter for continuous operation
New microwave / operates on batter via inverter for continuous operation
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Both fuel tanks emptied and flushed before filling with new fuel
All small bore seawater strainers replaced with new
Oil analysis by Socotec on both engines confirming all satisfactory
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Set of current flares
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New intelligent genny battery charger
4 new 200 AH service batteries
1 x 80 AH generator start battery
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New Icom dual station VHF system and new antenna
Plotter supplied with Navionics Central/West Europe and Med and Black Sea charts
2 x new watermaker membranes. DOW SW2540
Tecsew full flybridge Bimini Top with storage valise in blue Sunbrella
2 folding bicycles with weather cover
Sonic shield 111 Ultra sonic antifouling system
Pepwave Premium MIMO International router
Samsung Smart TV in Saloon T32E3905X
M5 650 Samsung Sound Bar
Sony Blueray DVD/CD player
Opecmare hydraulic gangway passerelle 2.6 metres 200 kg lift capacity, on custom made bracket to optimise operating angles. 2 remote controls and fixed controller
3 x money safes fitted (1 large one for laptops)
5 Cruisair reverse cycle aircon/heating units serviced and 5 new digital control panels installed
Shipshape pocket sprung custom mattresses for owners cabin bed
Master Cabin bathroom fitted with new Planus quiet flush toilet
Second 240 volt electric instant shower installed alongside conventional ships shower
3 covers for Flybridge seating
Cover for helm seat
8 x Besto Auto Lifejackets
New (high capacity) Fireboy MA210 engine room Fire Extinguisher
Starboard engine overhauled at Nautica Bazia, Sicily, Cooler replaced from U.S. Nautica Bazia are Detroit MTV authorised engineers.
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JUBA - An official with the French charity ACTED has confirmed that many internally displaced persons (IDPs) angry over not meeting U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, last week destroyed the agency's office inside the camp.
ACTED country director Robert Simpson said his staff has not been able to access the camp since the incident took place due to security concerns.
IDPs accused ACTED staff of denying them the chance to meet Ambassador Haley in person last Wednesday during her visit to the camp.
Simpson said his agency, which manages the U.N. Protection Of Civilians (POC) site in Juba, was only responsible for facilitating Haley's brief visit to the camp and had little control over who she saw or when she left the camp.
"After a certain amount of time and the trip already coming to a close, the decision was taken by the embassy to remove Ambassador Haley so that she could make the flight out of South Sudan. Following her departure there were some ACTED staff and US embassy staff who remained in the POC and as a result of the demonstration becoming a little more agitated and making some threats made to staff, it was necessary to remove the staff we had present at the POC from that environment," Simpson told South Sudan in Focus on Tuesday.
He said after Haley and ACTED personnel left the scene, ACTED's office was destroyed by demonstrators.
Simpson told VOA he understands that many IDPs wanted to meet Haley in person and express their concerns.
"There's always interest when an outsider with influence enters this environment and with such a large camp and so many people wanting to express certain opinions and a limited time available during the schedule, it's possible that there were frustrations around not being able to communicate all the things that wanted to be communicated," Simpson said.
But Simpson denied accusations made by some IDPs last week that ACTED brought a woman from outside the camp to speak with Haley rather than allow her to meet IDPs living inside the camp who were dressed shabbily and had grievances.
While Simpson said that was not the case, he admits that IDPs have "legitimate grievances" about their living conditions at the camp, "some of which were directly related to the visit of Ambassador Haley and others were completely unrelated to the visit of Ambassador Haley."
He called it "regrettable" that people who had opinions they wanted to share with Haley "may not have got the chance to address those opinions directly."
As the camp management agency, Simpson said it is ACTED's responsibility to listen those grievances "and also work to resolve them."
"Unfortunately, the method of airing those grievances chosen was a violent demonstration and destruction of property, so it becomes so complicated for us now to address those grievances directly," Simpson said.
Since Wednesday's violent demonstration and looting, ACTED has talked to UN officials, donors, and other partners to resolve the situation and will soon talk with IDPS to resolve the issue.
"We are very willing to engage in a direct dialogue to explain very clearly what we had control over and what we didn't and also trying to remove ourselves from any allegation of not wanting to facilitate this visit," said Simpson.
He added that ACTED's main priority now is to rebuild relationships that have been damaged with those in the camp in the safest way possible and the French charity will ask for a complete list of the grievances the IDPs have and work hard to address them.


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Photos and Story by Libby Casey, APRN – Washington DC
Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC Saturday for Fox News commentator Glenn Beck's "Restore America" rally, which featured Sarah Palin.
Glenn Beck organized the rally to follow-up on Tea Party gatherings, but said instead of focusing on politics, he wanted this event to feature American heroes, devotion to God, and what he called a return to traditional values. For the most part there weren't political signs and while Beck kept the message positive Saturday, one day later he criticized President Obama's religious beliefs. Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin addressed the crowd from in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Karen West traveled from Tennessee to attend the rally and wore an "Uncle Sam" costume, with hat, coat and pants covered in stars and stripes. She says hearing Palin speak was a special moment.
"She's awesome. She's a wonderful lady, and I really I respect her a lot. I think she's straight-forward, she's honest, she's not afraid to tell you what she really thinks," West said. "Even if you don't agree with her that's OK, because at least you know what she thinks. And to me that's important. I don't' have to agree with you, I just have to believe that you're honest."
West says she would vote for Palin if she ran for national office and, in fact, would vote for anyone Palin endorses. The power of getting a political nod from Palin is in the spotlight right now, as pundits are wondering how much her support is worth. She backed Alaskan Republican senate candidate Joe Miller this summer, who then got funding from the California-based Tea Party Express and did far better than expected at the polls last week.
But rally attendee Dennis Rhen, a retired engineer from Pennsylvania, says while he admires Palin and likes her politics, he doesn't think she's ready to lead the nation.
"I'm not totally convinced myself she's presidential material. Maybe she is, but I'm not convinced of that yet," Rhen said. "My worry is her popularity might divide the conservative vote enough that we may get outvoted."
Saturday was the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech on the National Mall, and critics said Beck should not have chosen the day for his rally. Civil rights leaders held their
own "Reclaiming the Dream" march nearby.
The crowd for Beck was overwhelmingly white. But there were some people of color – like African American Marietta Williams, of Maryland. Williams was one of the few people who planned to attend
both rallies, and she was happy with Beck's religious message. Williams says while she wouldn't necessarily vote for Sarah Palin, she is glad the Alaskan was part of the 2008 presidential contest.
"She brought an energy there that we needed to feel, because our nation is really – we're really going – morally we're becoming very bankrupt," Williams said. "It's gotten worse to tell you the truth."
Not everyone on the Mall approved of Palin. Washingtonian Virginia Harris went to the rally to politely disagree with its message. And she really doesn't like the former Governor.
"I believe that Sarah Palin has set women back decades," Harris said. "Her overtures of empowerment to women are the antithesis of empowerment for women."
But Harris was definitely in the minority at the Beck rally – Two years after Sarah Palin was plucked from Alaska to run for vice president, she has an audience. They're not united on whether she should run for president, or what her role in politics should be, but they want to hear more of what Palin has to say and cheer her on in the national spotlight.
(Top) Thousands of people gathered on the National Mall Saturday for Glenn Beck's rally. They surrounded the Reflecting Pool that lies beneath the Lincoln Memorial. (Right) Karen West of Tennessee dressed like Uncle Sam at the Glenn Beck rally. She's joined by her brother and mother.
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So, how are things gong with the Residential and Commercial markets in Duvall. Pretty much the same as last month....
Nothing has closed in the last two weeks. First, on the commercial side... several listings have expired. Oddly, they were listed by their owners. I contacted one in case he wants to work together on it. I think I can help him since he's not part of CBA (www.commercialmls.com) or other commercial property listings.
The big item is Riverview Plaza, its now for sale. I heard through the grapevine that the owner has other projects he wants to concentrate on. I really like the building... wish I had some money. :-) I haven't checked the numbers to see if the price makes sense or not. It's represented by Markus and Millichap, a large commercial brokerage. They should do a good job on it.
I noticed that there is a new brokerage assigned to Duvall Commons. Still a lot of empty spaces available throughout town.
On the residential side, only a few have gone pending (so everything that was pending in my last report still is.) Not a whole lot new listed. And... this brings me to my
What is the deal with cancelling a listing and re-listing it immediately? I can't of a really good reason to do this, other than trying to manipulate the appearance in the MLS... making it seem "new" when it isn't and making it show up on agent "Hot Sheets". It drives me crazy because how can you get decent statistics on the market when have the new listings are really just re-listings of the same listings that got cancelled. this week was particularly bad with that... of the 12 'new' listings, 1/3 were actually re-listings of cancelled listings. Some had major price changes but some had no change or only minor changes (like a $500 price increase.. woopety-doo!)
The minor price change issue was fixed by the MLS... agents can be fined for trying to fool the system and other agents with it. Looks like someone should take a closer look at the cancelled listings, now.
There is a variation on this, and it bugs me too.... its the 'purposefully let your listing expire, and then relist it' approach. Can't do much about that, since listing genuinely expire.... and even I've accidentally missed a date. But, for some agents its common enough that its clear its on purpose... again, primarily to make their listings show up in the hot sheet.
Why should you care if you are a client?
Good question. One might argue that your agent is working hard for you by trying to cheat the system. what's the saying? If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'!
But, what happens if you need your agent to give you an accurate picture of what is going on in the market place? If 1/3rd of the listings are not really new, then maybe there isn't as much competition coming online as it seems. Or if a bunch of cancelled listings are getting re-listed, maybe the competition isn't going away. The point is, it breaks the system for everyone because the data gets skewed.
Anyway, just one those things that bugs me when I see it. I always wonder about the overall ethics of the persons involved. Are they making honest mistakes? (Are the competent then?) Or, does it just seem like a 'white lie' to them? Where does their honest start/stop?
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The Impact of California's Changing Environmental Regulations on Timber Harvest Planning Costs
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The primary purpose of this study is to establish basic and supportable information on the impact of environmental regulations on California's forest products industry. More specifically, the study focused on the effects of changing forest practice regulations on timber harvest planning and preparation costs. A survey of wood-processing and forestry consulting firms was conducted in the Summer and early Fall, 2004 seeking data on Timber Harvest Plan (THP) preparation costs, a major component of the transactions cost in California's timber market. Despite the short data collection period, 607 sample observations were obtained. Analysis of the sample data clearly indicate significant cost increases resulting from ever-intensifying forest practice regulations, especially as a result of rule amendments in the early 1990s. Over the 30-year span, THP costs increased at a compound annual rate of about 4%, above inflation. Around 1993, there was a dramatic increase in these costs as THP costs, increasing nearly 60% within one or two years. As a result, a typical THP costs around $30,000 to prepare today, whereas 30 years ago it cost less than $2,500 (in today's dollars). But these increases only reflect harvest planning costs under routine conditions. California's Forest Practices Act can force considerable alteration of logging operations, increasing logging costs which in turn reduce economic rents (a.k.a. "stumpage") to timberland owners. Thus, California timberland owners are "squeezed" on both cost and revenue sides. Landowners facing uncompetitive returns from managing their lands for wildland resource values, like timber, are increasingly inclined to sell their land for higher returns. In California this frequently means conversion to housing, a far more environmentally degrading land use. In other words, California's increasingly strict environmental regulations of forestland are, in many cases, having precisely the opposite effect from that which was intended. Well-publicized urban sprawl and urban migration to historically rural areas is evidence of this effect.
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- Easy machine operation, remote control, the machine can be moved by the wheel loader bucket with grab and slip-on coupling or by the hydraulic drive*.
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Welcome to the North West Poultry Club site
It is with pleasure that you are welcomed to North west poultry club our
club was formed in August 2009 to safeguard the interests of all pure
and traditional breeds of poultry also so our members could come
together to promote the breeding and showing of pure poultry and to
exchange ideas and information on all relevent and related matters. we
are an independent Club, Club aims to be of interest to everyone, -
whether a child, a novice, a family or serious breeder, our Club
welcomes all ! our Club produces two newsletters, a yearbook and a
breeder's directory each year,we also hold shows and poultry fairs
throughout the year we hope you enjoy your visit to our website.


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Home Blog Private Label Your Virtual Tours
Can I Host My Own 360 Virtual Tours? Yes you can! If you are currently a virtual tour business owner, then you know that creating your own brand and marketing is extremely important.
All 360 Virtual Tours created with the RTV virtual tour software system are hosted directly on our servers by default, but we do offer two very unique options that other virtual tour companies just don't offer.
Remote Host – The RTV virtual tour software system was designed so you can always say "Yes!" when asked if your virtual tours can do something. With our remote host solution you can literally host all of your virtual tour productions on your own server. This will however require a bit of extra work on your part as you'll need FTP access to your server and you'll want to have a basic understanding of HTML and web design. A Remote Host version of your virtual tour is alwasy available to you in your deliverables section of your virtual tour manager. Be advised however that when offering a remote host version of the virtual tour the virtual tour owner will not receive weekly traffic reports and they will also not be able to make fast updates to the virtual tour production.
MyBrand – Something great that can help you personalize your virtual tours and still get all the bells and whistles is to use the RTV MyBrand feature. Using our MyBrand feature, users will have the ability to direct traffic to a designated website allowing you to promote your virtual tour business and website.
This useful feature is great for any virtual tour business who would like to create a gallery of their best work and host it on their own website, while using their brand name. So instead of having your tours played through the default fusion URL, you can customize to specifically match your own domain. Any webmaster can utilize this option by simply navigating to MyBrand section located in the Settings tab of your Fusion virtual tour manager account. Just follow the easy steps and make the correct changes within your web host dashboard.
To show you a great example of MyBrand, visit this BlueLavaMedia virtual tour – http://tours.bluelavamedia.com/74589
As you can see, the virtual tour is private labeled to match the BlueLaVaMedia look and feel right down to the virtual tour URL. Focusing on the Internet to market your business is a huge part of what determines a successful virtual tour company. Do not overlook this great option that is available to you and take advantage of it today!
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Posted by: RTV Tours
Posted: November 13, 2013
Category: Blog Uncategorized
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Bareboat Chartering
Ask2Travel gives you the opportunity to charter a bareboat yacht and sail around the ocean on your own. You can just anchor at any Island you choose.
You can hire a motor or sailing yacht for up to 10-12 people or even book a larger yacht for 30-50 on sailing holidays in Greece. An intimate group of a few friends with a cruise to the Greek Islands can be the trip of your life. You can set your own itinerary and time tables, and you can also change it as you go. Sleeping onboard the yacht, avoids packing and unpacking when you get to a new Island.
There are three different options for bareboat chartering (Yachts without permanent crew). Please click on each category to find out more about each, in order to plan your exciting sailing holiday.
Family and Friends
Enjoy the fascinating experience of sailing around the Greek islands on your own boat. Treat yourself to a unique sense of freedom and privacy and to a great opportunity to share with your family and friends the picturesque beauty of the Greek islands.
All you need for chartering a bareboat in Greece is a sailing license (issued by any sailing school or sailing club worldwide) and to establish contact with our company, in order το choose the monohull or Catamaran of your preference from our own fleet, always at the most competitive prices.
Our yachts undergo a yearly inspection by the Hellenic Register of Shipping and are equipped with all the necessary safety and navigation equipment. Additionally, they are fully insured against any damage and third party liability.
In the event that you do not hold a sailing certificate, you may still plan your exciting sailing holidays. Our company is able to provide you, at an extra charge, a professional skipper with great experience at the Greek waters and all the local weather patterns.
Cabin & Berth
If your dream is to sail around the Greek islands, but you are traveling alone, or even as a couple, and you cannot afford the expenses of chartering your own boat, we are able to make your dream come true!
Our company now gives you the opportunity, to charter only a berth or a cabin (with two berths) in one of our sailing boats or Catamarans, which sail with our professional skippers around the most beautiful Greek islands, following particular itineraries, and on scheduled departure dates.
Our yachts undergo yearly inspection by the Hellenic Register of Shipping and are equipped with all the necessary safety and navigation equipment. Additionally they are fully insured against any damage and third part liability.
Just let us know the number of persons in your party (one or more) and the sailing period of time that interests you, and we will let you know the soonest possible, the nearest date and all the details concerning the availability in berths or cabins, at the time of your inquiry.
Individual travelers usually share a cabin with other travelers of the same sex. Needless to say this depends on the accommodation availability on board.
Although sharing a boat with strangers might sound "risky", please keep in mind that all travelers who share interests such as love for sailing, love and respect of nature, conquest of beauty and appreciation of adventure, most likely and most importantly, possess a great sense of respect for their fellow travelers
This is the ideal way for a big group of people with the same interests (Universities, Sailing Schools, companies etc) to sail together following the same itinerary, but also to enjoy their privacy, as they are divided in smaller groups and sail with similar-size boats.
There are two flotilla options, we can organize for you:
- a) You may have your own skippers in the group (one skipper with a sailing license, is required in each boat) and you may plan your own itinerary, as well. In this case, we provide you the boats of your preference, all the advice necessary and information concerning the places you plan to visit and, of course, technical support during your trip.
- b) You may have neither the experienced skippers in your group, nor a particular itinerary of places worth visiting. In this case, we can provide you not only the most suitable boats, but also experienced skippers in each boat (at an extra charge), as well as a recommended itinerary which includes the top destinations and attractions all over the Greek islands, that you can visit during your sailing trip. Needless to say conforming with an itinerary depends on the weather, in which case your skipper is responsible for choosing the best sailing route, with your safety and comfort in mind.
Crewed Chartering
|Our Crewed Yachts are divided in four major categories:
If you'd like some extra comfort and luxury during your holidays, we highly recommend that you treat yourself to one of our Crewed Yachts (Yachts with permanent crew).
You will enjoy 5 star atmosphere and facilities onboard, as well as professional services by a highly trained crew. Feel free to plan your itinerary or let your experienced captain and crew be your guides in a majestic journey around the Greek islands.
Here you may see indicatively the entire fleet, available at the Turkish coasts, for crewed chartering: GuestListings
Gulet Cruises
For those who are not familiar with a gullet, it is the design of Turkey's indigenous sea-going vessel, which blends practicality and tradition in a relaxed style.
Gulets are fitted out with all kinds of comfort and equipment and provide relaxing and memorable vacations for all guests. We can arrange charters and fixed tours for a specific group or for you individually. Unlike cruises on large ocean liners, on a gulet you can explore the secluded and often deserted bays and coves of the coastline.
Blue cruising on board a gullet is done along the southwestern coasts of Turkey which we also name the "Turquoise Coast". The coastline is really famous with the beauty of its numerous hidden bays and gulfs.
There would be two options while chartering a gulet in Turkey. Cabin only charters or private gulet charters:
Cabin only charters are for those who do not want to charter a whole gullet privately. Only cabins are chartered while onboard. These charters depart only on fixed days of the week, with fixed itineraries. You travel on those standard gulets with other people of mixed nationalities and ages.
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The latter, private charters are mostly recommended for customized traveling, as they give the clients the opportunity of deciding on their own itinerary, meal options and gulet details and allow them to have the boat for their own disposal.
Modern gulets are comfortably equipped with all of the amenities of home and encourage an environment in which you are expected to do nothing but enjoy yourself. Gulets include comfortable cabins, shower, WC, mainly air-condition (some cabin charters do not offer airco), living room and sun terrace.
Our captain and crew are distinguished for their skill and experience on water, yacht handling and navigation and for their ability to provide high quality service, comfort and guest satisfaction.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for availability and prices. We look forward to getting the chance to serve you on board for a unique and memorable experience


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March 7, 2018
Hackers Hit Patient Records at St. Peter's Center – New York, United States
A surgical center affiliated with St. Peter's Hospital has been hit by the second-largest computer breach of patient records in New York state since 2016. St. Peter's Surgery & Endoscopy Center revealed that hackers potentially compromised medical records of about 135,000 patients earlier this year. The breach has been reported as required under law to the Office of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Hackers from an "unknown and unauthorized third party" installed malware on computer servers for the center, located at 1375 Washington Ave., which was discovered Jan. 8, according to a statement from the center issued Friday. A subsequent inquiry by the center was unable to determine whether any records had been copied or not. Patients were advised to check insurance statements for suspicious activity or "charges for services they did not receive," according to a statement from the center. Letters have been mailed to patients affected by the breach. Computer servers for the center that were compromised included patients' names, dates of birth, addresses, dates of service, diagnosis codes, procedure codes, insurance information and, in some instances, Medicare information, which includes Social Security numbers. The servers did not contain credit card or banking information, according to the statement.
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Apparent Explosive Device Found on Mexican Ferry Off Cozumel – Mexico
What appeared to be undetonated explosives were found on a ferry that runs between the Caribbean resorts of Playa del Carmen and the island of Cozumel, authorities said Friday, less than two weeks after a blast shook another ferry plying the same route. Quintana Roo state prosecutor Miguel Angel Pech Cen said in interviews with Mexican media that the boat was anchored 500 yards (meters) from the Cozumel dock and was not in service when the object was discovered Thursday. He said a company diver reported the object, and Mexican navy divers removed it and handed it over to the Defense Department for analysis. The announcement came on the heels of reports that a Feb. 21 explosion on a ferry owned by the same company and on the same route was caused by a bomb. That blast injured 19 Mexicans and at least five U.S. citizens. Authorities had initially suggested it could have been a mechanical malfunction. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico said in a statement that it was barring its workers from taking any tourist ferries on that route because "undetonated explosive devices were found" on the boat. The region is one of the most popular travel destinations in Mexico.
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Representatives from Across Aviation Meet for Roundtable Discussion – United Kingdom and The United States
British and American politicians met with representatives from the aviation industry for a roundtable discussion on security in Washington last week. Alongside the Department of Homeland Security's Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, the Home Secretary Amber Rudd and Aviation Minister Baroness Liz Sugg heard from key organization representatives including from Heathrow and Manchester airports, and Virgin Atlantic Airways and British Airways. The meeting is part of an ongoing collaboration between the UK government and the civil aviation industry. Secretary Nielsen said: "I am grateful for the close collaboration with our UK partners, air cargo, airline and airport leaders in raising the global bar for aviation security. Our enemies continue to target the transportation sector, and we must work together—both government and the private sector—to keep passengers safe. "Efforts by the United States and United Kingdom to secure air travel will continue to protect travelers and flights around the globe. Our roundtable was productive, and it laid the foundations for future engagement to counter emerging threats. I look forward to continuing these conversations with industry leaders and advancing new ideas to protect the travelling public."
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225g (8oz) Puy lentils, picked over for stones
1 fresh bay leaf
1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
2 garlic cloves, peeled and left whole
pinch of caster sugar
1 large red onion, finely chopped
50g (2oz) sundried tomatoes in oil, drained and chopped
1-2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar (depending on your taste)
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
100g (4oz) goats' cheese or feta cheese, crumbled
3 tablespoons chopped fresh flatleaf parsley
salt and freshly ground black pepper
Put the lentils into a pan with the bay leaf, vinegar, one whole garlic clove, sugar and a little salt and pepper.
Cover with plenty of cold water, bring to the boil and leave to simmer for about 20-25 minutes until the lentils are just tender but still holding their shape.
Drain the lentils well, discarding the bay leaf and whole garlic clove. Tip them into a salad bowl and leave them to go cold.
Finely chop the remaining garlic clove and stir it into the lentils with the rest of the ingredients. Stir together well
Season to taste with salt and pepper, and stand for two hours before serving if you can.
For a brief shining moment a couple of weeks ago, it felt like spring was finally getting going. It was warm and lovely, the tulips were doing their thing and life was feeling on the up. However, this being the UK it didn't last long and today we are shivering again under grey skies and rain. But we hope for the best. The reason I mention the weather is that this dish is one of my go to salad type things for a barbecue as an accompaniment. It is (in my view anyway!) fabulous - the earthy lentils, sweet balsamic and sharp feta give a great range of tastes to enjoy and it can stand up to any grilled meat you happen to be doing.
It originates in a book the Late Wife bought for me many years ago - Ainsley Harriot's Barbecue Bible. It is out of print now, but it contains (quite) a few gems, and a number of recipes which I go back to again and again. Reader, if you are surprised, so was I - but believe me it is a good one. Over the summer if it is a good one, I will doubtless touch on a few others from here.
Puy lentils are a requirement I would say. You could use green lentils but they do'nt have the same earthy taste nor do they maintain the bite when cooked. The quantities here are meant to be for 8 as an accompaniment which is about right. You should make it a few horse before to allow the flavours to mingle, and serve at room temperature in my view. it is delicious for days after so dont worry about left overs, although you can easily halve the recipe


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Our lovely Cornish hotel offers a warm welcome and a festive Christmas in 2020. Enjoy good food, good company, trips to Truro and Padstow and drives through the beautiful Cornish countryside.
Day 1 After a home taxi pick up, we travel through Dorset and Devon making suitable refreshment stops along the way. We arrive at our hotel in St Agnes late afternoon. This evening we have a Sherry Reception and dinner is followed by musical entertainment.
Day 2 Christmas Eve. After a leisurely start, we make our way to Truro, Cornwall's Cathedral city. Centre stage is the impressive gothic revival cathedral, and in its shadow a warren of back streets to explore. We have a scenic drive back to the hotel. This evenings dinner will be followed by musical entertainment. Details of Midnight Services will be available at reception.
Day 3 Christmas Day. Happy Christmas! Why not follow your breakfast with a stroll through St Agnes, but make sure you return to meet Santa before your traditional Christmas Dinner is served in the restaurant. Watch the Queen's Speech this afternoon or take a Christmas walk along the beach. This evening we have a splendid buffet followed by entertainment.
Day 4 Boxing Day. After a leisurely breakfast, we travel north to Padstow, its narrow streets leading through pretty pastel houses to a picturesque harbour. We return to our hotel around mid-afternoon for a lovely cream tea. Tonight, we have a Farewell Dinner and more musical entertainment.
Day 5 Leaving our hotel after breakfast, we travel east with suitable refreshment stops, reaching the local area late afternoon.
This delightful and elegant hotel has been tastefully extended and is set in its own secluded gardens and woodland, only 100 yards from the main street of the unspoilt village of St Agnes. All rooms have TV, telephone, hairdryer and hospitality tray. The hotel has WiFi in the lounges, does not have a lift, but some ground floor rooms are available.


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Now that the reviewer reports are back, I am pleased to officially announce the forthcoming publication of Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse. Bringing scholarship from cultural and media studies into conversation with scholarship from the medical humanities and social sciences, this collection (edited by myself, Sandra Becker, and Sara Polak) aims to give readers a fuller picture of how we make sense of contagion in contemporary global culture.
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Discussing Deviance at Winchester School of Art
Photos from the Winchester School of Art launch of Gothic Remixed are now available in this event report on the MA Global Media Management blog. Thank you to everyone who could join us! It was wonderful to celebrate with you, and to hear more about the other book presented at the launch, Fashion Crimes: Dressing for Deviance (ed. Jo Turney)
Gothic Remixed Publicity and Joint Book Launch (London, 14 November 2019)
Since the publication of Gothic Remixed on 31 October, I have been doing some local publicity. You can read an interview I did with the University of Southampton's media team at this link. A brief excerpt from the interview is below:
"We have this idea of monsters as 'others' and as objects of cult fandom but actually in the last 10-20 years they're not cult anymore but more mainstream," Dr de Bruin-Molé explains. "I want people to think about what it means that monsters are now mainstream – is it even possible for a monster, which is inherently peripheral, to be mainstream? What do we do with that? What does that say about our contemporary culture?" [read more here]
On 14 November, The Second Shelf feminist bookshop will also welcome myself and Dr Liz Gloyn to talk about monsters, metamorphoses, and modernity (and for a small launch party). In Gothic Remixed: Monster Mashups and Frankenfictions in 21st-Century Culture, I look at what the current popularity of the 'monster mash' can reveal about our assumptions regarding originality, monstrosity, authorship, and historiography; Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture takes Liz on a journey around the contemporary world to explore why the monsters of ancient myth continue to survive in our world. Liz and I will read extracts from our books before a short discussion around the continuing power and meaning of monsters.
Gothic Remixed Now Available!
I'm thrilled to announce the official publication of Gothic Remixed: Monster Mashups and Frankenfictions in 21st-Century Culture!
This book explores the boundaries and connections between contemporary remix and related modes, including adaptation, parody, the Gothic, Romanticism, and postmodernism. In it, I argue that popular remix creations are the 'monsters' of our age, lurking at the limits of responsible consumption and acceptable appropriation. Taking a multimedia approach, case studies range from novels like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, to television programmes such as Penny Dreadful, to popular visual artworks like Kevin J. Weir's Flux Machine GIFs.


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While smart home technology includes everything from turning on the heat to monitoring air quality, the simple job of a doorbell has been oddly overlooked until the arrival of Ding. A collaborative effort between the London-based startup and creative consultancy MAP (an arm of the industrial design studio Barber & Osgerby), the smart doorbell is a three-part system made up of an exterior button, indoor Wifi speaker (cleverly named Chime), and a corresponding iPhone app. When visitors come to the door, Chime functions as a normal doorbell, but the app allows residents to communicate with whomever is at the door remotely.
What makes Ding so special it that it's not only simple to use, but was designed to integrate into your home decor. Plus, it's slender enough to fit on a door frame.
The fabric-covered Chime speaker comes in a variety of textiles and can either sit on a shelf or be mounted on a wall.
Pre-order your own on the Ding website.
- 'Violently' Ringing Door Bell Served As Home Security in the Early 1900s
- Tiny $9 Lamp Shade Transforms Your Smartphone Flashlight Into Functional Furniture
- Talk Dock Is the Retro Alternative for Hands-Free Chitchat