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The story of sumud
Contributed by Arab Educational Institute on 16.07.2008:
Lecture at the conference about The Future of Palestinian national identity, Inash al-Usra, El-Bireh, 21-23 March 2008
By Toine van Teeffelen/Arab Educational Institute, Bethlehem
Narrating identity
Stories help to develop and express identity. They create a people, a place and a history. Conversely, denying identity is taking away one's story.
Much of my professional work has been in the field of "story and Palestine." In the Netherlands I was involved in studies about how the Palestinian story has been systematically negated in common or popular discourse about the Middle East, such as in popular literature. In Palestine I have been associated with educational organizations that worked in the opposite direction – the construction, through story, of a national identity of Palestine.
Here are two personal experiences that motivated me to go deeper into the latter direction.
My daughter goes to a school in Bethlehem and follows the Palestinian curriculum. When she was seven years old, a couple of years ago, it happened that she had to study a chapter in civics about the Palestinian refugee camps. She learned the names of the camps in Gaza, West Bank, and the Arab countries by rote. But when I asked her whether she knew what refugees were, she said she didn't. She did not know about the story of the refugees and the camps, and the origins of the refugees. She learned about the central Palestinian symbol of the refugee camp without its story.
I was surprised and arranged a meeting with her civics teacher who expressed his own dissatisfaction with the curriculum, at least as far as the representation of the Palestinian narrative is concerned. This story motivated me to go further into the issue, together with others already active in that field. Right now the YMCA/Advocacy. Ittijah from the Galilee, and AEI-Open Windows in Bethlehem work on public advocacy regarding the representation of Palestine in the Palestinian and the Israeli curriculum. The essential aim is how to develop and strengthen an open and human Palestinian narrative in education.
The second story is about a school-based oral history project a few years ago, in which I had the good luck to be involved. At St Joseph in Bethlehem, female students of 16-17 years, encouraged by their English teacher, interviewed older persons in their family and community, and wrote their personal stories. One student interviewed her grandfather, whom she had never asked before about his experiences during the British mandate time and the 1948 war. She was mesmerized by his story of courage and strength in coping with the hard circumstances at the time. When her grandpa soon died afterwards, she felt that the interview was a way of restoring her lost contact with him. By listening to his story, she was in fact able to tell him goodbye almost at the moment of his death. After this oral history project, the St Joseph teacher continued with a diary writing project, up until this very day.
Narrating is connecting. The teacher involved in the oral history project called this process of connecting "the golden chain of stories." Connecting with history, with memories of place and community is similar to what the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga once called the experience of feeling a "historical sensation." Often unexpectedly, through an eye-opening event like talking with an older family member in jointly shared oppressive circumstances, you feel that you become part of a history and you start to identify with it, even be inspired by it. You feel that this history becomes your own. The words are not dead as in rote learning; they become alive and one's feelings resonate with the experiences of a community. To emphasize this element of connectedness, the book that came out of the girls' oral histories at St Joseph was called "Your Stories Are My Stories."
Stories which resonate
Which stories help to evoke this historical sensation or resonance? My assumption is that to a large extent it is about bringing back the human element. Stories about daily life are especially helpful. It is the daily life setting which connects. Daily human concerns and values are to a large extent the same all around the world: Most of us are led by the concerns of raising or sharing a family, and we struggle to preserve the values of education, work, and health. When we talk about humanly connecting with history, place and community, it is essentially about bringing back this daily life perspective. Extraordinary achievements within a daily life context are particularly inspiring. When common people show outstanding human qualities in ordinary life while facing difficult demands and constraints, including pain and loss, you cannot help to feel involved.
This, is my assumption, ties a person with histories and stories around the world. It is, I think, a common experience, wherever you live. Huizinga stated that historical sensations are not limited to feeling connected to histories of one's own community. It is in fact not uncommon to feel this magic moment of human closeness while hearing about stories from other communities (and then, one can add, it often happens that afterwards you look at your own community in a different way). But here we deal with stories that express a common cultural identity such as the Palestinian identity. What needs to happen to establish resonance with the stories of your own community?
In the case of Palestine, not any story from Palestinian daily life is likely to create a specifically "Palestinian" resonance. We would have to look to daily life stories which somehow point to central Palestinian experiences that are part of the collective memory.
The symbol of sumud epitomizes, I think, such a central experience. It is based on Palestinian stories in which common people show extraordinary qualities while facing extraordinarily difficult demands, pain and loss in daily life. This symbol I wish to explore in the rest of this paper. At the end I will come back on the potential of sumud as a concept not just to reflect a central Palestinian experience, but also to connect with human experiences across cultures and contexts.
The meaning of sumud
Sumud has a double meaning which is also clear from its English equivalent: steadfastness. On the one hand, it relates to a vertical dimension of Palestinian life, "standing strong" on the land, having deep roots. On the other hand it indicates a horizontal time dimension – an attitude of patience and persistence, of not giving up, despite the odds.
Why does sumud centrally resonate the Palestinian experience?
Sumud is, in essence, an assertion opposing the denial of Palestine. The denial of Palestine has of course been a central Palestinian experience. There has been no time when Palestine or the Palestinian identity was not at risk. Because of this identity-at-risk Palestinians have been continuously challenged by fundamental and sometimes politically motivated questions such as who is a Palestinian, where is Palestine, what is the connection between Palestinians and Palestine, and – in present times most urgently – is the Palestinian cause viable? In opposition to the Zionist image of Palestine as a land without a native people, an image which aims at destroying the Palestinian narrative, sumud asserts; I am a Palestinian and this is my land. It is an assertion of the core cause and an assertion that this cause will not disappear.
The symbol of sumud has been subject to various discussions and also criticisms. Historically, there is the question whether it relates to a particular stage of grassroots community building, in advance of and preparation for the non-violent resistance of the first Intifada in the 1980s. Alternatively it is seen as a feature that characterizes Palestinian history throughout. I will take here the last perspective.
Originally, sumud was the name given to a fund in Amman (established in 1978) assigned to help keeping Palestinians in Palestine, and given this origin, there has been the discussion whether sumud is a top-down concept, or whether it can be employed as a source of inspiration for community building from below. I think there is no reason not to apply sumud in the second meaning.
Another discussion relates to whether sumud is a form of resistance or rather survival. The concepts of struggling or active sumud have been developed to emphasize the resisting element and to suggest that sumud should be understood in a dynamic and active manner. It should however be possible, in my view, to take the position that resistance and survival can be understood as a combinable or overlapping set of meanings.
An even more fundamental discussion relates to the shortcoming of national symbols in general and sumud in particular. It is about the tendency of such symbols to become frozen, to loose their human story-like meaning and to become part of political discourse divorced from reality on the ground.
When we consider sumud as a story concept and not just as a static identity symbol we can avoid some of these last problems and show its potential for a pedagogy of Palestinian national identity.
In the following I will dwell on four aspects of sumud which relate to its potential to raise a pedagogically human and open perspective:
Its democratic or participative character, the openness of this symbol to many different life stories
The agency or willpower it demonstrates
Its esthetic perspective
The possibility of connecting sumud with wider human values and circles of community.
Raja Shehadeh's diary The Third Way dating back to the early 1980s, explained the story of sumud as one of courageous citizenship in which in principle all Palestinians can participate, not just in the political field but in all aspects of life. Essentially, such stories are about the will to keep and assert the Palestinian identity, to keep the commitment to the land, family and community, and to keep going on with daily life despite the extreme adversities one faces.
This spirit is expressed in the typical stories of Palestinians who refuse to leave their land(s): for instance the family rebuilding their home again and again after each new demolition; the peasant who continues to cultivate his land in the face of expanding settlements, the family going on with life despite being surrounded by the Wall on all sides, the stories of families who maintain the fabric of daily life despite imprisonment during prolonged curfews. Many of these stories are to a greater or lesser extent shared by people in Palestine. Many of them have been documented in diaries, human rights accounts, interviews and journalistic articles. Though they express pain, they have become part of the collective memory that forms the Palestinian national identity.
These sumud stories show an element of hardiness, of steeling perhaps, often associated with the peasant's connection with the land. This strong commitment is not just expressed by staying on the land or in your house, but also by the will to continue with one's daily life.
One way of classifying sumud stories is according to the kind of human willpower that sumud demonstrates, the kind of extraordinary human quality shared by many Palestinians that challenges adversities in conditions of pain and loss. That human quality can have different accents and appearances; it does not need only to express, for instance, a quality of hardiness.
Thus, it can be about preserving the ability to dream and to imagine another reality when you live in a black tunnel. Several of the diaries at St Joseph school have been about dreaming. Or it can be about maintaining the ability to joke under the most serious and heavy of circumstances. It can be about longing and looking for beauty when faced by the ugliness of the Wall and other barriers. About keeping a human view of your adversary when you are yourself being dehumanized. Or it can be about taking the initiative when there seems to be no choice. All these abilities have as a common denominator: to stay human in Palestine, to keep an irrepressible human spirit under the most trying of circumstances. These stories form a cultural repertoire of proudly expressing a common identity.
From a pedagogical point of view the bringing out and collecting of such stories is a rewarding enterprise. Not just in terms of learning how to interview or write such stories but especially because they help to connect with people and communities, help to increase a deep feeling of appreciation. In fact, preserving the stories is a gift to the community and the nation. Nothing builds community so much as sharing extraordinary human stories taking place in daily life despite the pain and loss one experiences.
Many people like to tell their stories of sumud and to have them recorded. They can be put in books, on the Internet, and in films. That has in fact been done in many cases, including in a range of recent Palestinian diaries published in English. These years, several schools in Palestine have encouraged diary writing. Writing down stories of sumud is in fact itself an expression of sumud. Registering and documenting stories in an accessible manner is an important practical aspect of regaining the national story. Inspiring Palestinian stories of daily life are innumerable but they are still spread out and fragmented over especially the Internet. People are not aware of their existence.
Internet documentation is nowadays becoming more important for educating about the national identity. I am myself involved in the www.wordpress-230236-736489.cloudwaysapps.com site which documents stories about the cultural identity, including stories in the spirit of sumud. It is a wiki website which encourages people themselves to submit stories or photo stories and other items in an organized and controlled manner. Such a website is participative and people-oriented, in the same way as the stories of sumud are.
Narrative connects the past of who we are with the future of how we will survive and reach out to our dreams. This is done in an expanding present where we share space and relationship with communities (Lederach). The present is expanding because there is choice, even under the most restrictive and oppressive circumstances.
Sumud stand for the spirit and energy of Palestinians to make a choice even though one stands with the back against the wall. The choice is both positive and negative. Positive, as for the assertion that "one keeps going on with keeping going on." Negative, as for the refusal to resign to humiliation, discrimination and oppression. Both add to a sense of achievement. Sumud is perhaps not liberation but it is definitely an achievement at a personal and community level.
Here is an important pedagogical issue at stake. It is a truism that education is about hope. Hope not an easy optimism but a hard-won awareness that there is always, even in the face of the most extreme adversities, a human perspective and human choice. Many of the stories of Palestine that circulate among Palestinians are failure stories. To bring back human achievement stories, with their support for self-appreciation and pride because of the will to make human choices, is by itself an educational achievement.
Taking sumud center stage can even help to look at Palestinian history with different eyes, emphasizing certain elements which in the known, "official" stories have been backgrounded. For instance, in the history writing about the Nakbeh it is not common to pay attention to the moments when Palestinians were courageously holding on at military or civil levels. But such stories, with their unknown heroes, exist and could be inspirational sources of hope, also today.
Choices imply dilemmas. Looking and thinking through hard dilemmas is another educational opportunity. We discuss in our youth groups in Bethlehem the issue of staying steadfast in the homeland or leaving the country, the last action perhaps considered as a contribution to the national cause but from outside the country. Such discussions tend to go deep. If you go deep into existential dilemmas which relate to the preferred life story, you face questions such as: What is my sense of place in the world? What is the meaning of home and place? Who am I? From the perspective of Palestine's national identity, the understanding of such dilemmas may lead one to learn more about the cultures and wisdom of Palestine and its values, and may even lead to the holy books of Islam and Christianity which have much to say about steadfastness and commitment as life choices.
There is a wider issue here. Values such as sumud open up and frame certain fundamental dilemmas in life. It is possible to take central Palestinian experiences other than sumud and show that they evoke different dilemmas. In terms of a pedagogy of national identity it would be for instance possible to choose the value of traveling as reflecting another fundamental Palestinian experience. Edward Said wrote about the value of living in the ghurba (exile). While deeply painful and unsettling, it can be productive for viewing the world with different eyes. He spoke of his preference for travelers above sultans who stick to their seats. Traveling can be a way to become familiar with world cultures. It can be about a return to the homeland experienced from different perspectives and angles. Traveling can also be about letting oneself loose, which is an interesting educational experience by itself. In his latest diary book, Shehadeh spoke about the sarha, an old Palestinian custom of hiking without destination. In such understandings, traveling can promote educational values of mobility, flexibility and change. Traveling is so central a metaphor of Palestinian life that sumud and traveling, both understood in a context of extreme adversity, uncertainty, pain and loss, might be seen as the yin and yang of Palestinian life and identity.
The aesthetics of sumud
To identify, to develop and communicate sumud requires an aesthetic sense. Narrating is an Art. As many Palestinians convey their pride and pain in relation to the homeland, they have done so by translating that into esthetically developed forms. Sumud has been expressed in symbolic paintings, poetics or graphics of the land and its community, such as in the form of the image of the olive tree with its roots deep in the land and branches reaching out to the sky. Part of the educational challenge here is to build skills and to identify genres in which an artistic sense of sumud can be conveyed, showing the beauty of a moral spirit that at the same time is affected by suffering and loss.
One can give judgments about and discuss the aesthetics of artistic expressions of sumud. I am not artistically educated and would be reluctant to join that discussion. But from an educational point of view I think that a main challenge for an aesthetics of sumud is to encourage Palestinians to discover the extraordinary qualities and deeds of Palestinians facing the challenges of their besieged lives.
In my organization's experience with school and university youths in the Bethlehem area the problem is not so much a lack of telling or even writing talents. It is rather the difficulty for many people and youth to discover the extraordinariness of their own or family's or community's stories. They often feel they have nothing special to tell, as if the subject of telling about daily life in Palestine is not worth for others to know about, because "everybody already knows it."
The trick, for teachers and trainers and others working with youth, is looking at reality as if you see it for the first time, to create this sense of wonder and, in the Palestinian context, also of fresh anger, needed to see the impossibility of life here and its injustices but at the same time discovering people's spirit of refusal and resistance.
Discover what you know, said Paolo Freire. For resonance with your own community's stories, you sometimes need to take a step back, a different perspective. Here a heightened sense of aesthetics and identifying new ways of expression and communication can help. At St Joseph, students first wrote diaries in English, then wrote a script of some of each other's diaries for a drama play, then with the help of professionals developed it into a combination of dance and theater. Using different aesthetics, their ordinary-extraordinary stories about life during curfews helped them to communicate basic human qualities from fresh perspectives.
Wider communication
Because of this deeply human quality, sumud resonates wider than the Palestinian community. Showing inner strength under extreme adversities is a universal phenomenon. A Dutch peace worker told me that the Palestinian stories of sumud reminded him of the spirit to which many Czechs stuck during the times when they were oppressed under foreign influence, before 1989. The stories of sumud are in fact good to share with people and youth abroad, who often hold stereotypes of Palestinians as either terrorists or powerless victims. They give a different dimension to understanding the Palestinian experience. People everywhere are interested into this extraordinary quality of staying put and staying human. Sumud is, paraphrasing the words of the German philosopher Schopenhauer, about the great will to live human which connects all the single intentions behind people's life stories.
Palestinian sumud stories resonate with similar stories from other countries. That is one reason why they are so effective for communication across cultures and contexts. Let me give you, in ending this talk, another personal story which illustrates this and which connects Dutch and Palestinian situations and histories.
When I worked in Amsterdam some 20 years ago, I used to pass daily along the Anne Frank house, watching the queues of international tourists. At that time I did not relate to Anne Frank much, never felt a historical sensation, even though Anne Frank's story is to some extent constitutive of the Dutch psyche. You may know about Anne Frank's story of sumud. As a Jewish girl, she was locked up during the Second World War in a room at one of the Amsterdam houses along the canals. She wrote her diary until she and her family were caught and killed in the concentration camps. Her diary writing was an act of sumud. For me, Anne Frank's story became alive when the diary project at St Joseph started. Teenager girls of the age of Anne Frank participated. In preparation for the diary project the girls learned about girl's diaries from other contexts, such as from Sarajevo during the civil war in former Yugoslavia or from an Indian teenage girl in 19th century US. When they first read Anne Frank's story, they rolled their eyes according to the teacher. The Second World War and the occupation of Holland by the Germans was not a setting to which they easily could relate or desired to relate. But after a while they started to identify with Anne Frank, not in the least because they could understand Anne's predicament of being closed up in a room. After all, curfews have been a familiar phenomenon in Palestine.
After a while the interest in Anne's diary grew. The teacher asked me to bring more books of Anne Frank, in English. As a reliable courier I brought books from the Steimatsky bookshop in Jerusalem to Bethlehem. As an international I of course did not face problems of traveling from Bethlehem to Jerusalem. The teacher said that even from the distant Ta'amreh area to the east of Bethlehem there were parents interested in reading Anne Frank's story. So the story left its mark.
Now it happened that one of the diary writing girls lived in a house which was occupied by the Israeli army during the siege of the Nativity Church, April 2002. This house oversaw Bab al-Deir, Nativity Square in Bethlehem. The family was obliged to live in one room. They even had to get permission to go to the toilet located on the same floor. The girl, like her classmates, continued their diary writing, indeed an act of sumud under such circumstances. At one point she went to the Israeli soldier in the corridor and asked him: "Do you know the story of Anne Frank?" "Of course," the soldier said and added, "Do you want to read it?" "No," said the girl, "I read it. But I want you to read it!" A very challenging and courageous remark, under the circumstances. As for me, after learning about that moment I started to become myself interested in Anne Frank's story. Sometimes a historical sensation goes along an unexpected traveling route.
The symbol of sumud can and should indeed travel into different directions.
Diaries and histories from Palestine
Suad Amiry, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law, Ramallah Diaries, Granta, London, 2005.
Susan Atallah and Toine van Teeffelen, The Wall Cannot Stop Our Stories: A Palestinian Diary Project. (English, with separate teacher manual and DVD). Published by Terra Sancta/St Joseph School for Girls, Bethlehem, 2004.
Mitri Raheb, Bethlehem Besieged: Stories of Hope in Times of Trouble. Fortress Press, 2004.
Raja Shehadeh, The Third Way: A Journal of Life in the West Bank. Quartet, London, 1982
Raja Shehadeh, The Sealed Room: Selections from the Diary of a Palestinian Living under Israeli Occupation September 1990 – August 1991, Quartet, London, 1992
Raja Shehadeh, When the Bulbul Stopped Singing: A Diary of Ramallah under Siege. Profile Books, London, 2003
Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape. Profile Books, London 2007.
St Joseph School/Terra Sancta Bethlehem, Your Stories Are My Stories: A Palestinian Oral History Project, Culture and Palestine series, 2000.
Toine van Teeffelen, Bethlehem Diary: 2000-2002, Culture and Palestine series, Bethlehem, 2002.


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The average man wants to be rich. What's the best way to go about it? Reading books by industry leaders and adopting their knowledge to your finances is the assured way of making wins and accumulating wealth. Here are three books on personal finance that will set you on a path to better money management whether tax planning, saving, investing and everything in between.
1. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
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2. The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias
If you're in your 20's or 30's, you should read this book to make smarter decisions. It is the type of book that you should keep with you and reread severally given there are aspects you're unlikely to pick up when you first read it. The book teaches those starting out how to make smart investments and decisions with their money. Topics include investing, taxes, saving, insurance and other practical topics one can apply in their daily life. The million-copy bestseller book was published in 1978 but has several updates, the most recent one showing readers how, in the wake of the change on Wall Street, how to use the money to your advantage, no matter how much they have. The book is written with the average person in mind; you won't have to struggle when reading it.
3. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by William Danko andThomas Stanley
The content in this book will shift the image on which we deem millionaires are. It aims to show that the wealthy are not necessarily those who live flash lives, but instead, those who saved invested and also lived below their means. The authors give an analysis of seven millionaire habits that have repeatedly come up in their research and how you can adopt them as well. Quite simply, as the title implies, you could have a millionaire next door and not know. The book was published in 1998, but the new edition has Dr. Thomas J. Stanley writing a foreword for the 21st century.

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She-Devils Reveal Debut Album, Share "Hey Boy"
The band have also announced some North American shows
Published Mar 23, 2017Montreal duo She-Devils delivered a self-titled EP last year, and now they're ready to unveil plans for their debut full-length. Also a self-titled effort, the 10-track offering is due out on May 19 through Arbutus Records in Canada and Secretly Canadian elsewhere.
She-Devils is the project of Audrey Ann Boucher and Kyle Jukka, who blend the former's vocals with primitive electronic gear and an "amusement park of sounds" to create what a press release dubs "a fun-house world of beautiful chaos."
They cite musical inspirations as wide-ranging as Iggy Pop, Madonna, T-Rex and Can, as well as film and art influences from Gregg Araki, Yayoi Kusama, Andy Warhol, John Waters and Quentin Tarantino. Fuelled by these works (and online tutorials), Boucher turned herself into a self-taught singer.
"I've always seen music from the perspective of an artist or music lover rather than that of a musician," she said in a statement. "When I sing over a loop, I don't feel like I'm in control of what I do, or that I am cerebrally engaged with making music, it's more like my subconscious is completely taking over my mind and it just comes out of my dreams."
It's a musical foundation that gels well with Jukka's on the new record, and you can hear their creative forces collide on the first single from the upcoming She-Devils, "Hey Boy."
Scroll past the LP's tracklisting and the band's upcoming live shows to give it a listen below.
1. Come
2. Hey Boy
3. Make You Pay
4. Darling
5. How Do You Feel
6. Blooming
7. You Don't Know
8. The World Laughs
9. Never Let Me Go
10. Buffalo
Tour dates:
04/20 Toronto, ON - The Costume House (Red Bull Sound Select)
05/17 Paris, France - Pop Up du Label (Fireworks Festival)
05/18 London, UK - Moth Club
05/19 London, UK - London Fields Brewhouse (Bad Vibrations Alldayer)
05/20 Brighton, UK - The Great Escape Festival
05/25 Berlin, Germany - ACUD
06/02 Toronto, ON - The Baby G
06/03 Detroit, MI - UFO Factory
06/07 Philadelphia, PA - Ortlieb's
06/08 Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool (Northside Festival)
06/09 Boston, MA - Lily Pad


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103A is a mysterious number often used to describe the hardness of a skateboard wheel. The hardness of skateboard wheels are measured using the Shore test. The A refers to the Shore A scale, which is designed for measuring the hardness of rubber and softer plastics.
The catch is that the Shore A scale only goes to 100. Shore hardness is measured using a durometer. The hardness value is determined by the amount of penetration by the durometer into the material being tested. If the material is completely penetrated, the reading is "0". If there is no penetration at all, the reading is "100".
In other words, it's impossible to have a reading higher than 100A. Wheel manufacturers use numbers like 101A and 104A, but they aren't actual figures, just marketing hype. Their wheels may be slightly harder than everyone else's 99A, but no matter how much harder they actually are, they can't be rated higher than 100 (at least on the Shore A scale).
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Kudos to New Times ("Morro Bay bar patron maced and tased," June 14) and Shredder ("Who you gonna call?" June 14) for documenting the civil rights violations of the Morro Bay Police Department.
If the officers had a warrant to arrest Martinez, they had every right to arrest him. Otherwise, Martinez was not obligated to walk outside, speak with them, look at them, or do any other damned thing he didn't want to do. Again, blood-sucking lawyers may say otherwise, but to quote Jefferson: "On every question ... let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
So what does that founding document—the supreme law of our land—say about this case?
Fourth Amendment: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to
be seized."
Clearly they had no warrant for any suspected crime.
Hopefully the citizens of Morro Bay will rally to check the powers of roaming men with weapons and a distorted view of what used to be known as being a "peace officer."
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Jocelyn and Kalen's wedding photography took place at the nice wedding venue of Admiral Baker Clubhouse. The Admiral Baker Clubhouse and golf course is one of the many lovely venues available to active and retired military in the U.S. Navy Region Southwest, and one of a number of nice military locations where I've been pleased to photograph military families. And once again, Admiral Baker offered panoramic views of the golf course and surrounding mountains, making for a lovely backdrop to Jocelyn and Kalen's wedding.
In this wedding photography article you can see some of my wedding photographer favorite photos of the couple from their Admiral Baker wedding, including images created at the along the golf course, at nearby pond with wonderful trees, and at the clubhouse. Photography began with shots of Jocelyn, her bridesmaids, and her daughter and other flower girls on the lawn, with fairways, palms and trees as our photography backdrop. This moment lead into a wonderful wedding first look between the bride and her groom Kalen, which was certainly one of many really happy moments for the couple.
Having the first look meant we could do a lot of important wedding photography before the ceremony. So it was at this time that we created a nice collection of wedding photos with the wedding party and the families. We also had the time to create some lovely wedding photos with just the bride and groom, which we set out to do by taking a gold cart out to a different are of the course where there was a pond, trees and great lighting for wedding photography.
Joceyln and Kalen's wedding ceremony and photography took place next on the patio and was officiated wonderfully by their Navy Chaplain. Everyone of their 100 plus guests enjoyed the sweet and fun wedding ceremony as much as I did. Because of the two cameras and multiple lenses that I alway use, and moving about unobtrusively, I captured a nice variety of perspectives of wedding ceremony photography for the couple, some of which you can see here.
After the ceremony the guests were able to enjoy a nice cocktail hour. Because we had already shot most of the posed photos that the couple wanted with family and friends, Jocelyn and Kaylen were able to spend nearly the entire cocktail hour with their guests, many of whom had travelled some distance to come and share in their Admiral Baker wedding day.
The Presidio Ballroom featured the wedding reception, which like the cocktail hour was catered to by the fantastic staff of Admiral Baker, who prepared an excellent meal and were always very pleasant and attentive to the guests. The Admiral Baker wedding photography captured the grand entrance, first dance, father-caught dance, meals, toasts, bouquet ross, garter toss, cake cutting, dancing, and a large group photo. The wedding schedule and excellent music and sound was managed perfect by master of ceremonies and DJ Deondre of MYDJS.
Jocelyn and Kalen's Admiral Baker wedding photography was a true delight to create, prepare and share here for the couple. With their online gallery of images, prints, ready to hang wall art, and perhaps a wedding album, the couple will have timeless and beautiful keepsakes of their wedding that will last a lifetime. You can see the couple's complete collection of wedding day on my San Diego Wedding Photographer Client Galleries page (password required).
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Bits and pieces, but information about the spring shoot for Wes' new film Moonrise Kingdom is starting to come in. A reader points us to this recent Boston Globe article that claims a casting office began posting notices for the film at the end of January in Rhode Island. The presumption is that the film will at least partially be shot there. This is supported by producer Scott Rudin moving all of his operations to New York to oversee a number of East Coast projects, including Wes' film and Noah Baumbach's While We're Young. The film looks to be moving along steadily for a spring shoot, and if you come across any info you'd like to share with us, let us know on Twitter, the forum, or in the comments below. See our previous stories, including the rumored cast here.
Putting "Fantastic Mr. Fox" Oscar Nominations in Context
This morning it was announced that Fantastic Mr. Fox received two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Animated Feature and another for Best Original Score. This is the second nomination Wes has received, after receiving a Best Original Screenplay nomination with Owen Wilson in 2002. But what are Fantastic Mr. Fox's chances come Oscar time? We'll take a look at that and get Wes' reaction to the nominations after the break.
Continue reading "Putting "Fantastic Mr. Fox" Oscar Nominations in Context"
Mr. Fox's Foes
With the announcement today that Jason Reitman's new film Up in the Air is being moved up to Thanksgiving, that got us thinking about what films will be vying for an audience when Fantastic Mr. Fox opens in the U.S.
After the jump, a breakdown of some of the films opening around Mr. Fox, and how we think they might affect Mr. Fox's box-office prospects. Continue reading "Mr. Fox's Foes"


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Student Coin Found New Ways to Use Crypto
In the last years, recruiters showed great interest in people with higher education, which led to a greater need for money among potential students. However, due to the economy's fragility, students started searching for alternative solutions to not depend on banks.
And it's not just the students. Entrepreneurs who are struggling to raise money to bring their business ideas to life also need alternative options. Bank practices are inconsistent, and start-up financing programs are highly competitive.
But these years are also coming with good news – cryptocurrencies are becoming more popular with each passing day. That made people feel more financial and data secured.
But no one considered this technology could also respond to the prayers of students and entrepreneurs, except Student Coin's team.
What is Student Coin about?
Student Coin is an ecosystem built on blockchain technology that increases the functionality of cryptos.
The project was designed to make it possible for individuals and legal entities to build their tokens and cure others of digital anxiety.
Student Coin is sustained by over 500 academic institutions, all of them conquered by its potential. Top universities such as Stanford, Harvard, and Newcastle are just some of the names that support it.
What does Student Coin offer?
There are currently two features you can already use and two that will be valid from the Q3 of 2021.
Available features
- The crypto learning program
The board consists of five sections, ranging from basic details about blockchain technology to studies about the most influential cryptocurrencies. To complete a written course, you need to pass the exams as you go.
- The voting option
You have the right to vote for project implementation decisions, sign multiple petitions, and even participate in university elections by keeping the STC token – the platform's core currency.
Upcoming features
- The exchange platform
This is an essential feature that will boost the value of STC-based tokens over the years.
- Personal tokens
Users can build these tokens without vast technical knowledge, opening the door to an impressive income strategy – crowdfunding.
How does it work?
Every student can build his token and put it on the market for sale.
These tokens are then bought by other users, giving the student the money he needs for tuition. Once he graduates and becomes employed, he will start paying back the loan.
This approach provides students with funds while eliminating the fear of major changes in their interest rate or the bank's operations.
And those who want funding to start up their own company may also use this approach.
Final words
In recent years, the crypto area has changed a lot. As long as brilliant minds discover new blockchain technology applications, the economy will regain its balance, and we will have a better lifestyle.


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Editor's note, March 8, 2012: With all of the recently renewed interest in Professor Derrick Bell's parable, "Space Traders," The Root has decided to unearth this 2012 essay relating to the film adaption of that story. Scroll down to watch videos of the film.
Professor Derrick Bell, who died on Oct. 6, was a hero of mine even before I was lucky enough to adapt his unforgettable story "Space Traders" (pdf) for HBO, starring Robert Guillaume and directed by Reginald Hudlin. It was part of a three-part 1994 series entitled Cosmic Slop, a sort of Afro-Twilight Zone, introduced by none other than George Clinton. The P-Funk front man with the multicolored hair would be odd company for any other celebrated law professor, but for someone as relentlessly radical as Bell, the two were a perfect match.
"Space Traders" was just one of the jaw-dropping stories from his best-selling collection, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. In it, aliens arrive on Earth promising vast riches and endless resources if America hands over all its black folks. The president and his cabinet debate the offer, including Gleason Golightly, a conservative black economics professor and unofficial adviser.
Golightly tries to reason with his longtime conservative colleagues, but it's no use. A nationwide referendum is held, and guess what? Bell describes what happens to us in the haunting conclusion to the story:
In the night, the Space Traders had drawn their strange ships right up to the beaches and discharged their cargoes of gold, minerals and machinery, leaving vast, empty holds. Crowded on the beaches were the inductees, some twenty million silent black men, women and children, including babes in arms … Heads bowed, arms now linked by slender chains, black people left the New World as their forbears had arrived.
It was a weighty treat to work with Bell and consult with him on the adaptation. I had followed the professor's fight for more law professors of color at Harvard Law School somewhat obsessively. The first black tenured professor at the school, he left to protest the absence of black women on the faculty.
My mother had been a Yale law student, a classmate of another brilliant legal mind and creative writer, Yale's Stephen Carter. She died at the age of 37, but had she lived longer, I imagine her having a career similar to those of these two talented men, thanks to the doors that Bell fought to open.
The courageous stand he took at Harvard, the sacrifice he made for those still waiting in the wings, we should never forget.
As a fellow storyteller, what Bell did that no one has ever done better was to use narrative — specifically, a robust African-American strain — to illuminate some of the most intractable, disturbing and infuriating inconsistencies of life in America for black folks. When I blog about politics, I do my best to channel his wit, drive and anger; to anchor the rage of the political in the lush stream of compelling storytelling.
His invention of black civil rights attorney Geneva Crenshaw, his oft-used fictional heroine, was nothing short of genius. Through her he was able to translate complex legal ideas for the rest of us. Through science fiction he was able to entertain while educating. Rarely has a professor been so playful. Just listen to his introduction to Faces at the Bottom of the Well:
At the outset, let me assure her many friends that the lawyer-prophet Geneva Crenshaw, the fictional heroine of And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice, has returned […] Here, I again enlist the use of literary models as a more helpful vehicle than legal precedent in a continuing quest for new directions in our struggle for racial justice, a struggle we must continue even if — as I contend here — racism is an integral, permanent, and indestructible component of society.
He goes on to write in the preface:
The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.
He needn't have worried. Bell told his truths with such audacious verve, such unrestrained flights of fancy, that we were transfixed and transported.
Trey Ellis is a novelist, screenwriter, blogger and associate professor at Columbia University.


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Cytoscape is an open-source software program used to research and visualize organic networks. Along with having the ability to import networks from quite a lot of sources, Cytoscape permits customers to import tabular node information and visualize it onto networks.
Sadly, such information tables can solely include one row of information per node, whereas omics information typically have a number of rows for a similar gene or protein, representing completely different post-translational modification websites, peptides, splice isoforms, or situations.
Right here, we current a brand new app, Omics Visualizer, that permits customers to import information tables with a number of rows referring to the identical node, join them to a number of networks, and visualize the linked information onto networks.
Omics Visualizer makes use of the Cytoscape enhancedGraphics app to point out the information both within the nodes (pie visualization) or across the nodes (donut visualization), the place the colours of the slices characterize the imported values. If the person doesn't present a community, the app can retrieve one from the STRING database utilizing the Cytoscape stringApp.
Fragrant stacking facilitated self-assembly of ultra-short ionic complementary peptide sequence: β-sheet nanofibres with outstanding gelation and interfacial properties.
Understanding peptide self-assembly mechanisms and stability of the fashioned assemblies is essential for improvement of useful nanomaterials.
Herein, we have now adopted rational design strategy to exhibit how minimal structural modification to a non-assembling ultra-short ionic self-complementary tetrapeptide FEFOkay (Phe4) remarkably enhanced stability of self-assembly into β-sheet nanofibres and induced hydrogelation.
This was achieved by changing versatile phenylalanine residue (F) by the inflexible phenylglycine (Phg) leading to constrained analogue PhgEPhgOkay (Phg4), which positioned fragrant rings in an orientation beneficial for fragrant stacking. Phg4 self-assembly into steady β-sheet ladders was facilitated by π-staking of fragrant sidechains alongside hydrogen bonding between spine amides alongside the nanofibre axis.
The contribution of those non-covalent interactions in stabilising self-assembly was predicted by in silico modelling utilizing molecular dynamics simulations and semi-empirical quantum mechanics calculations.
In aqueous medium, Phg4 β-sheet nanofibres entangled at a essential gelation focus > 20 mg/mL forming a community of nanofibrous hydrogel. Phg4 additionally demonstrated distinctive floor exercise in presence of immiscible oils and was superior to industrial emulsifiers in stabilising oil-in-water emulsions.
This was attributed to interfacial adsorption of amphiphilic nanofibrilles forming nanofibrillised microspheres. To our information, Phg4 is the shortest ionic self-complementary peptide rationally designed to self-assemble into steady β-sheet nanofibres able to gelation and emulsification.
Our outcomes recommend that Extremely-short Ionic-complementary Constrained Peptides or UICPs have important potential for the event of cost-effective, sustainable and multifunctional delicate bionanomaterials.


text: Album on a Wall: The Total Package In this tutorial we'll go through all aspects of using your "Album on a Wall" collage product. This collage is a fully-editable PSD file (and bonus InDesign file) with room for 60 individual images ABOUT THE COLLAGE If you open the PSD file in Photoshop you will see a separate layer for every image position and frame. Each of these layers is fully-editable, meaning you may change the sizes, orientations, and colors. WHAT'S IN YOUR DOWNLOAD FOLDER This template is simple, fun, and so easy to use! First, let's take a look at what came in your download folder. INDESIGN_FILE: This folder contains an InDesign file containing both templates. JPEG_PREVIEW: This folder contains a small preview of both templates, so you don't have to wait for the .psd preview to load in order to take a peek. PHOTOSHOP_FILES: This folder contains the PSD files you will be using in Photoshop and the "INSERT IMAGES.atn", which is the action you'll load into Photoshop to add your images to the templates quickly. read_me_pretty_please_template_copyright.txt "" This text file contains a quick word on copyright. TUTORIAL.txt: This text file contains a link to the tutorial you're reading now. THE COLLAGE SIZE The PSD of this collage is sized to 24—52 (including the white wrapped area) for a finished size of 20—48 inches, which can easily be printed through ProDPI. All of the elements in the collage are in vector format, which means you may size any of the items up or down without any loss in quality. We recommend sizing your collage to the final print size before inserting your images. USING THE ACTIONS TO INSERT IMAGES IN PHOTOSHOP CS3 OR NEWER If you decide to use the bonus InDesign file, you can simple drag and drop your images into the template. If you decide to use Photoshop, there are several actions to help you easily add your images to the template. You can add them 10 at a time (using the actions, "INSERT IMAGES 1-20", "INSERT IMAGES 21-40", etc.) You can also add the images one at a time by selecting the image layer you would like to populate (such as IMAGE LAYER 19) and running the "INSERT ONE IMAGE" action. When you finish you will want to make sure the "NUMBERS" layer is turned off at the top of your layers palette so they are not on your final saved file (these are just to guide you while you add your images.) The action automatically turns it off for you, but it's always a good idea to check. INSERTING IMAGES BY HAND There are two ways to insert your images into the collage. The first way is by hand and the second is by using the bundled action. Depending on your design style, you may find it easier to insert images by hand. To do this, open the template and perform the following: 1. Mouse over the layer you would like to insert your image into, right click it, and choose it from the list. For example, if you would like to insert an image into position 20, choose IMAGE LAYER 20 from the list. 2. The layer will now be selected in your LAYERS palette. 3. Choose FILE -> OPEN and choose the image you would like to insert into this space. 4. Choose the MOVE tool. (Keyboard shortcut "V") And drag the image onto the collage. 5. With the image you've just placed selected, choose "CREATE CLIPPING MASK" from the drop down menu at the top right of the layers palette. This will confine your image within the boundaries of the IMAGE LAYER. 6. Use the FREE TRANSFORM tool (Keyboard shortcut Control+T) and drag in the corners of your image to position it correctly within the frame. (Hold SHIFT while you drag to constrain proportions, so your image won't get "smooshed".) 7. Press Enter to apply the transformation. When you finish you will want to make sure the "NUMBERS" layer is turned off at the top of your layers palette so they are not on your final saved file (these are just to guide you while you add your images.) The action automatically turns it off for you, but if you're adding your images by hand you'll need to turn this layer off manually. CHANGING THE COLOR OF THE BACKGROUND (the area that wraps that is currently white) 1. Select the layer you would like to change in the LAYERS palette (BACKGROUND COLOR). 2. Double click on the colored box to the left of the layer name (this is the color fill). 3. Choose a new color. 4. Click "OK". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *REMEMBER- Although this template is currently vertical, you can easily rotate it 90° for a horizontal canvas. Tags: Tutorials ← Older Post Newer Post →


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Have a wonderful 2013.
We are not personal fans New Years Eve due to fireworks. They are almost as scary as thunder and vacuums!
You know how the big ball drops in New York City? We do that too. The only difference is that our ball is a rubber glow-in-the-dark bouncy ball. Each year we mark how high it bounces. Our owners still don't where the crayon lines on the wall are coming from (hee, hee, hee).
.....And a happy new year,
Stanley and Katrina von Cat the Master of Wisdom and Knowledge


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I fell in love with Heartless Bastards' vocalist Erika Wennerstrom's voice on the Junior Kimbrough tribute (Sunday Nights – The Songs of Junior Kimbrough). I was absolutely floored and immediately went to find out more about this band.
I am pleased to report that Heartless Bastards' debut album, Stairs and Elevators, sounds nothing like they do on the Kimbrough tribute. But you know what? It's a million times better. It's the first album from a new band in a long time that made me stop what I was doing and LISTEN to it, the first album I was blown away over, the first album that I had to take the time and get to know it. I loaded it on my iPod and during the first few days, time and time again, a song from this record would come up in the random shuffle and I'd have to stop what I was doing to check the display on the iPod – "What IS this? Man, it's good." Oh. Stairs and Elevators. Should've figured.
You're going to struggle to figure out who Wennerstrom's voice reminds you of – I know I did. I went through everything I could think of – Ann Wilson? Annie Golden? Lucinda? It was driving me insane until I hit the third track, "New Resolution". Maybe it was the fact that the intro bass line seems to be a boy howdy tribute borrowed from "Blitzkreig Bop," but this was the song that the penny fell into place:
She's a female Joey Ramone.
Honestly, that's the best description I could give you, and I only want to try so hard to explain it to you because her voice is so unique and tremendous, a soulful, vulnerable warble, a heartfelt croon. And it only gets stronger with the next song, "My Maker." Realize that I consider this to be like one of the greatest compliments I could give anyone, because it's not just that she's channeling Joey (I'm entirely certain it's not intentional, but I could be wrong) Wennerstrom's own brand of emotion and grace is permeates the entire record, every corner, every note. It has soul, it has guts, it SAYS something. She's not whining or pleading, there's a calm grace and power. This isn't much of a surprise, coming from someone whose web site statement reads: "My name is Erika Wennerstrom. I'm 27 years old and from Dayton, Ohio. I've wanted to be a songwriter and performer since I was born….I just want to keep on moving and do my best not to look back."
The music. It's another three piece, but so complete, robust, satisfying. It's not minimal as much as essential. Erika on guitar, Mike Lampling on Bass and Kevin Vaughn, and it's bigger than it should be. This rhythm section is both fluid AND solid, I mean, like Entwistle-Moon solid; listen carefully to the drum fills rolling behind "My Maker" if you don't believe me, and "The Will" and "Pass and Fail" could be Isle of Wight-era Who.
The songs don't fit into any neat little category, they rock, there's retro (without being such a carbon copy you wonder why they even bother). I could totally expect to have walked into CBGB in 1985 and seen this band onstage, but they don't sound dated. In fact, quite the contrary: they sound fresh, original, inspired. You could even dance to them (okay, that drunk couple who think they can dance really well, but can't, will get up in front of this band and dance to something like "Pass and Fail" for sure).
If for some reason you didn't plunk down the cash to buy the Kimbrough tribute (and why not? It has two songs by the new Stooges!) "Done Got Old" is on here too, and sounds even better in context with the band's music book-ending it. It reveals itself to be the standout track that it absolutely is.
"Piano Song" is the only track to have, well, a piano, and this is thrilling. I wish there were more. It's just Wennerstrom and the keyboard and here you can actually hear every detail of that vodka-soaked, world-wise instrument. "Lazy" wraps it all up, crystallizes it, the voice, the crunge-worthy guitar, the stop-and-start precision of the rhythm section, in my minds' eye I see the drummer twirling his sticks above his head with a Moon-ish grin on his face. It also wouldn't have been out of place on Paranoid (and owes perhaps just a little to it).
Stairs and Elevators will be on my top ten of 2005, hands down. Hell, It already is.


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So here we are, pretty much a year to the day since I started this blog and a lot has changed, and a lot really hasn't. I kept going with the blog! Ha! New Years Resolution 2012 TICK TICK TICK. It doesn't matter that the posts were shamefully few and far between since I got back from overseas, I think I averaged about one a month or something so it COUNTS.
And overseas! The best trip of my life. Health concerns not counted of course, but I have to thank God for not letting such concerns ruin my trip. I saw some of the most amazing places in the world and I have an absolute swagload of memories to share with my friends and my boyfriend, who (BEWARE: MUSH) I have grown to love properly and more than I thought possible. Not that I didn't love him before. But I now realise that love needs to be challenged in order to appreciate the strength of it correctly. We have been together for over three years now and its only recently that we experienced our first real speedbumps and I'm pretty happy that we did. Because our relationship didn't fall in a heap at the first sign of trouble. My parents have been married a few years short of three decades and I have only now woken up to the fact that all relationships take work, and no relationship - none, NIL - is always trouble-free. That's life, peeps. Okay, relationship rant is over now, but seriously, yay my boyfriend. I love him. <3
I finished a book! (I actually finished two, but one of them was so completely and utterly woeful that I stuck it in a drawer and haven't touched it since). And I sent the first bit of the decent book to an agency and they requested the whole thing!! And I'm still waiting to hear from them sooooo....*crosses fingers, toes, all manner of appendages*
I continued with my Masters and have reached the conclusion that I probably won't finish it and perhaps it is not for me. An unfortunate decision to reach after the time and money spent on it so far, but again, LIFE! No matter.
I've started a new job which I already know will not be a full-time career prospect, and it has presented its own set of challenges, but I am committed to it for as long as 2013 goes the way of suiting it in my life. I am feeling a bit crazy, as though I'm standing on the ledge over the rest of my life and I need to make some kind of important career decision before I jump into it, but there are so many things floating around my head that I can't decide which option to snatch out the air. (Hopefully) time will tell.
I don't like making huge sweeping numbers of resolutions (I used to not do resolutions purely because I didn't want the pressure of sticking to them) but I have just a couple of bits for the coming year.
1. Cook more (this I am probably least optimistic about, but dammit, it's going on the list)
2. Lose all my cortisone/holiday weight (I have the exact number in my head and a loose plan, but that's my business *sticks out tongue*)
3. Write a novel, or at least a manuscript, that I can show my grandmother/elderly friends without blushing and wishing they wouldn't read it.
4. Keep blogging, but more frequently.
And to you all, people I love and hold near and dear, people I don't know too well, those I don't much like at all, and to anyone I have not yet met, I wish only the best and brightest things for you in 2013. Have a great year. xoxo


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Knot theory is an important branch of mathematics with applications in other branches of science. In this paper, we explore invariants on a special class of knots, known as virtual knots. We find new invariants by taking quotients of quandles, and introducing the fundamental Latin Alexander quandle and its Grobner basis. We also demonstrate examples of computations of these invariants.
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Tamagawa, Sherilyn K., "Quandles of Virtual Knots" (2014). Scripps Senior Theses. 358.
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.


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For more than 30 years now, the month of October has seen a huge push to raise awareness about breast cancer. Created in 1985 through a joint effort between the American Academy of Family Physicians, Cancer Care, Inc. and the British chemical company, Imperial Chemical Industries, now AstraZeneca Healthcare Foundation, Breast Cancer Awareness Month has brought together healthcare workers, industry sponsors and activists spurred on by personal experiences with the cancer that affects 1 out of every 8 women in the U.S. sometime during her lifetime.
Failing, so far, in all attempts to find a way to prevent this pervasive and potentially deadly disease, focus was shifted to building awareness about the importance of early detection. Healthcare professionals believe that the number one best way to prevent and reduce deaths from breast cancer lies in finding it as early as possible and being able to take advantage of current state-of-the-art treatments. The earlier the detection, while still small and contained, the better the odds for successful treatment. To do that, awareness programs stress the importance of regular screening tests.
Predictions, for women in the U.S. during the calendar year, are for roughly 250,00 to be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, which is where the cancer spreads to surrounding breast tissues. Of those, some 40,000 are expected to die during that same period. The good news is that death rates have been decreasing since 1989, just a few years after the first Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In addition to advances in quality and effectiveness of treatment, this trend has been attributed to increased awareness resulting in earlier detection through screening.
Women have been advised to do self-exams and have regular check-ups for any indication of breast cancer for years. The difference that screening has made is due to its ability to find and diagnose a disease before symptoms appear. Once a tumor is large enough to feel, it has had a chance to not only grow but also spread. Breast cancer detected through a screening is more likely to be much smaller and still confined to the point of origin. When breast cancer is found in its earliest stages, a woman has a better than 90% chance of long-term survival.
Pink Is Not Everyone's Favorite Color
When the calendar flips from September to October, everything goes pink. The lights on the lawn bathe the White House with a rosy glow. Huge pink ribbons appear on everything from 747s and beer trucks to NFL helmets. Some police departments have even gone so far as to using pink handcuffs during October.
Not everyone, however, believes this is such a good thing. Heightened awareness has been beneficial, as evidenced by the lowering of the death rate from breast cancer. No one argues with that. What some do have issue with, though, is that the October campaign has become more of a marketing opportunity for companies. Plus, the millions of dollars collected could, perhaps, be better spent. They believe that it is time to shift the goal from awareness to action and funnel those dollars into research for preventing breast cancer and finding a cure for it and the many other types of cancer that affect so many.


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BUSINESSES in the area are being invited to join a free session run by LOCALiQ on pay-per-click strategy.
Guest speaker Brandon Griffin, head of B2B marketing at LOCALiQ, will deliver the Seven steps to success webinar helping local businesses create a winning PPC strategy.
The one-hour event starts at midday on Wednesday, July 20 and will give attendees great advice from market-leading experts.
Content will include:
- Aligning your online local PPC strategy to your offline business goals
- How to build your local PPC campaign (from setting the budget and keywords to creating ad copy)
- The most effective methods to maximise your campaign to ensure you're converting searchers into customers
To register your place visit marketing.localiq.co.uk/webinars/local-ppc-business-strategy-th
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Hiking in South-Tirol for a week in May should bring some beautiful days with perfect light and tons of amazing sceneries … so far was the plan. What came out was a quite cold and rainy week in the Dolomites, which led to the decision using the OM-2sp not in the mountains, but during the…… Continue reading Olympus OM-2 spot/program with G.Zuiko Auto-W 2.8/35mm
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Olympus OM-4Ti with Olympus G.Zuiko Auto-W 2.8/35mm
Well, this time I planned taking the Olympus OM-4Ti with me in on a hiking trip to South-Tirol – besides my workhorse, the Olympus OM-D E-M1. Planned it and prepared it and … while testing if finally everything works fine … the OM-4Ti refused to fire. Olympus OM-4Ti with G.Zuiko Auto-S 1.4/50mm (yep, not…… Continue reading Olympus OM-4Ti with Olympus G.Zuiko Auto-W 2.8/35mm


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Out of Time by Jen McLaughlin
December 2013
Desperate to keep him...
I've finally gotten everything I ever wanted: love, freedom, happiness, and, most importantly, Finn. Our love is everything I expected it to be and more. We've finally found each other, but the world seems determined to tear us apart. We thought my father was the only obstacle between us, but now it's the military. With Finn's departure looming, we're squeezing in every moment together before we run out of time.
Trying to make every moment count…
Being Carrie's bodyguard was one thing. Being her boyfriend is another. Every day she's mine is a day the sun shines in my life. Yet our time together is running out. Her father will never think a tattooed Marine will be good enough, so I'll do whatever it takes to be worthy of her love. But the road will take me away from the girl who makes me feel alive--the girl I can't live without.
Time only gets us so far...
"The sun's finally shining."
I was completely invested in Carrie and Finn since Out of Line so I was eager to see what up next for them. Jen instantly had me hooked from the beginning of the story till the very end; I was not able to put the book down. This book will have you on a very emotional roller coaster ride. I laughed, I cried, I swooned, and damn those sex scenes were HOT!
Finn and Carrie have finally stopped fighting their feelings for one another. Their love for one another was just too strong that nothing could keep them apart. Finn would continue to be her bodyguard, while taking on the new role of her boyfriend. They just would not disclose their relationship to their families. Carrie's father will not hesitate to end their relationship once he finds out about them and who knows what he could do with Finn's future. It is much safer to keep it a secret until they formulate a solid proof plan. Since Finn and Carrie were in California and her family was on the other side of the country, it was easy for them to be caught up in their own little world.
The more time they spend together, the deeper they both fell for one another. It's as if they depend of each other to live. Finn adores Carrie and will do anything and everything in his power to keep her safe and make her happy. With a fresh start in this relationship, they have promised to be completely open and honest with one another, no more secrets.
"I'm scared your father is going to shove me out of your life when he finds out about us. That he's going to make you see I'm not good enough for you or your world. But most of all? I'm scared you'll realize it all on your own without him there to tell you." ~ Finn
They both come from different worlds. Finn feels that Carrie deserves to be with someone of her status, someone better than him, someone more suitable, and someone her father would approve of. His insecurities are getting the best of him and he is scared out of his mind that one day he might possibly lose her. That one day she will finally realize that he cannot give her everything that she needs and will leave him and break his heart. He has always watched her in her element through the shadows, but a date gone wrong proves he can't even pretend to try for one night. It isn't who he is.
Carrie loves Finn for who he is. Status means nothing to her. She has never felt more alive or more whole than when she is with him. He makes her feel these things no one else has ever made her felt. They are it for each other. Carrie cannot and will not lose Finn. She is willing to fight her father and give it all up for her love for Finn.
Finn gets a weird feeling in his gut that something is wrong. Carrie's father is not being his normal self and isn't checking in as frequently. This is completely raising flags for Finn. Does he know about their relationship? Did he send someone else to watch over them? He also gets a call that he needs to see his commanding officer on a weekend that he doesn't need to report. All of these things are putting him pretty much off edge. He doesn't know how to react towards them and he's taking his frustration out on Carrie. A number of different scenarios are running through his head and overall, he's scared that he could lose Carrie as the end result.
As it turns out, Finns gets reassigned by his commanding officer in another country for a few months. This may be a good way to change Finn's Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) because Carrie's father would approve of him a little more once this mission is complete. They need to sacrifice being apart but it will be good for their relationship in the end. As much as they promised no more secrets, Finn is not allowed to forfeit any details about this mission to Carrie and it is killing him on the inside.
"I'm going to tell you this once and once only: I will not leave you. And if you leave, I will always be here waiting for you when you get back. Whether it's in a few days, a week, or a freaking year. I'll be here. I'll be yours." ~ Carrie
Their time is very limited, so they spend every moment with one another creating as many memories as they possibly can. Not knowing what the future has in store for them, Carrie is determined to prove to Finn that she will not go anywhere. She will wait as long as she needs to for Finn. Finn breaks my heart when he creates on their last night together, their special Christmas. You know he's hurting on the inside because he doesn't want to leave her, but he's trying really hard to be strong for her. He went all out. Got a tree to decorate, he cooked dinner, Christmas music, movie, they decorated, mistletoe and surprised her with a very special gift. It truly was a night to remember.
Will their love be strong enough to withstand the distance? Will Carrie be able to wait for Finn? Can Finn make it out of his mission safely? Will Carrie's father find out about their relationship? Was Finn leaving for the mission the right thing to do for the both of them? What does the future hold for them now that Finn has left?
Carrie and Finn will tug at your heart, I know it did mines. The situations that the two were faced with, at such a young age broke my heart. They should be living life and not dealing with these issues. But yet, some of these situations are what people go through on a daily basis. I've been rooting for these two since day one and they deserve their happy ending, no one or nothing should be standing in their way. I love the fact that Carrie has opened up more since the first book, she has grown a lot. And Finn has change since he has fell in love with Carrie I didn't like the big cliffhanger that she leaves you at though. That was not very nice. I can't wait for the next book of the series. Great job Jen.
I received an ARC for my honest review.
This review was done by Jenn.
Jen McLaughlin is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She writes steamy New Adult books for the young and young at heart. Her first release, Out of Line, came out September 2013. She also writes bestselling Contemporary Romance under the pen name Diane Alberts.Since receiving her first contract offer under the pen name Diane Alberts, she has yet to stop writing. She is represented by Louise Fury at The Bent Agency.
Though she lives in the mountains, she really wishes she was surrounded by a hot, sunny beach with crystal clear water. She lives in Northeast Pennsylvania with her four kids, a husband, a schnauzer mutt, a cat, and a Senegal parrot. In the rare moments when she's not writing, she can usually be found hunched over one knitting project or another. Her goal is to write so many well-crafted romance books that even a non-romance reader will know her name.
Website: http://dianealberts.com/
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Chrissy Teigen is basically our spirit animal. Seriously, who else could be that gorgeous, that fun, and that funny? Plus, Teigen's down-to-earth attitude and openness on social media has had us wishing for years now that she would just agree to be our BFF.
Teigen's latest endeavor, however, will bring the model a little closer to our kitchens. Her first-ever cookbook is officially in the works. This isn't all that surprising considering her passion for the culinary arts — a love that anyone who's checked her Instagram or read her blog, So Delushious, is familiar with.
"I am honored to be the first person to bake parchment paper into a cake and write a cookbook in the same year," she said in a statement. "I'm proud to be this pioneer and hopefully inspire others to embark on their own culinary adventures — successful or otherwise."
Although a publishing date and official recipe details have yet to be announced, the book is said to feature 100 dishes perfect for even the most amateur of chefs. We're hoping she'll include these 15 unbelievable-looking dishes she's posted in the past — plus her trademark hilarious wit and lots of bulldog snaps.


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This morning before Joel and I started the day, we lay in bed discussing an argument we had last night. Ultimately we were trying to pinpoint the reason why we keep falling into the same negative patterns in our relationship. During our talk an older post came to mind, something I have not given much thought to over the past few years. In 2010, I had written a Personal Mission Statement and posted it to our blog. At the time I was feeling burned out as a mom, in strong need for direction and purpose. The mission statement gave me power and a sense of purpose in my daily job as a stay at home mom/wife.
Right now we are both burned out, lacking direction and purpose in our marriage. We are here, showing up everyday, and working extremely hard as parents. Yet over and over again we stumble on the same hard issues, feeling lonely, and building resentment. We are competing with one another, we lack respect for one another, and more often than not put our own desires first. When someone is winning in the relationship, the other is losing. A marriage where two people are striving to be one, the habit of competition has become destructive.
2016 is a huge year for us, in June we will be celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary. January seemed like a perfect time to pull the older post up, and review the statement I made six years ago. How do I feel as a mother to six, wife of ten years, and woman entering into a new decade? I would love to write a new Personal Mission Statement that better reflects the person I am today, and the dreams I hold for my family in 2016.
April 21st, 2010 | Personal Mission Statement
"I want to be a creative, imaginative, fun mom. A mom who comes up with awesome things to do everyday, creating traditions and memory in ordinary life. I want my child to remember the fun in everyday life, and look back on her childhood as a blissful memory full of love, laughter, family, and togetherness… To know that we never missed a moment, and created a strong bond that will last our entire lives. That a three hour mess to clean up was worth the five minute project. That ice-cream is definitely a meal, and that pizza is a food group. I want everything I do to display how awesome God is to my daughter, and that she will grow with a love and passion for Him. Family is number one (dog included), we love each other and will always remain a strong tight-knit unit. YaY us."
January 21st, 2016 | Personal Mission Statement
I want to be a fun mom who smiles more often, laughs more often, and is intentional with my time. I want to spend time with each child everyday. For each one of my children to know without a doubt how loved, and wanted they are – that they find stability in our home.
I want my spouse to know how much of a priority he is in my life. For him to feel wanted and needed by me everyday. I want to argue less, forgive more, admit my wrong, and grower deeper in our relationship. To build real trust, and embrace this stage excited for what is ahead.
I want to be on top of laundry, dishes, finances, and clutter. Waste less time struggling to find things, worry less over the budget, and be prepared to meet each day with a purpose.
I want to serve my King in our home, setting an example for our children so they know what a heart seeking God looks like.
I want to be in the word everyday, to study and grow deeper in my relationship with God. I also want to stretch serving others beyond my family with a pure heart filled with Christ's love.
I want to take care of myself; my health, my mind, my spirit. To find balance, set boundaries, and work daily on healthy habits.
I may tweak this statement as time goes on, if I think of new things I want to add or take away. I am not one hundred percent sure this qualifies as a 'Mission Statement' on an official business scale. For me these seem like some great goals, ones that rely on trust in God and working together with Joel to accomplish. I am excited and feel purpose to fulfill it.


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After an awful shade of yellow, the Taj Mahal—India's shining monument of love and winner of the New 7 Wonders of World initiative—is now turning brown and green.
Responding to photographs of the Taj Mahal submitted by petitioner MC Mehta, a bench comprising Justices Deepak Gupta and MB Lokur reprimanded the Centre for its laxness. "We are concerned at the change of the colour of the Taj Mahal. We don't know whether you have or perhaps don't have the expertise. Even if you have the expertise, you are not utilising it. Or perhaps you don't care."
Environmentalist MC Mehta has claimed that harmful pollutants in the air and deforestation in the area are fuelling the damage caused to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, which attracts millions of tourists to Agra every year. Last December, the bench asked the government for a broad and inclusive document with a futuristic vision to protect the Taj. In response to the Supreme Court's comments, the government said that the Archaeological Survey of India is assessing measures for the monument's protection.
Interestingly, the Taj Mahal is one of almost 100 of India's heritage sites up for adoption under the government's Adopt a Heritage programme rolled out last year.


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A 94-year-old woman died after being hit by a car on February 12, 2013 in Northwest D.C.
The accident happened on the corner of Harvard Street NW and Georgia Avenue NW when the driver of a Dodge Ram made a right turn and hit the victim in the crosswalk. The victim was rushed to the hospital in critical condition but did not survive her injuries.
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The influences of that music origin from french Musette-Waltzes, the hungarian Çsardas, or spanish Flamenco, as of the original music of the Sinti, which all together has been mixed and played by the french Manouche-musicians.
Django Reinhardt, is the most famous protagonist of Gypsyjazz or Jazz-Manouche (french. manouche = gypsy), who undoubtedly has left his deep footsteps in this Jazz-style with his very unique, creative and virtuoso way of Guitar-playing bringing it to worldwide recognition and has been influencing uncountable guitarrists even until today.
In the tradition of the Manouche (french Gypsies) the typical phrases and play-techniques of Gypsyjazz usually only have been orally transmitted from generation to Generation inside their families, without ever been written down into sheet music. Thus the access to these special forms of music, their tricks and specials remains secret even if there is a need of authetic material to play the "Django Reinhardt-Style".
Bertino Rodmann, guitarist from Frankfurt / Germany playing Gypsyjazz since the early 1980ies, has taken care of this job and presents the attempt of an authentic introduction to the style of the JazzManouche with his methodbook "Gypsyjazz Guitar".
The aim of his book is to explain the typical and authentic rhythmical and soloist's aspects of the Gypsyjazz-playing, as well as to grow the respect for the ancient tradition of the Sinti and Manouche, who are the creators of this music.
Many guitarrists that are interested in Gypsyjazz and for example are coming from playing Blues, Rock or Popmusic often have the problem to be able to see thru and understand the many facets of JazzManouche and/or to find a suitable learning method. Of course meanwhile there are lots of CDs, DVDs and methodbooks on the market, but as well many of these aren´t easy to understand for a beginner of this style nor are they really suitable for learning the style in an authentic yet easy way.
For that reason Bertino developed this guitar-methodbook for beginners of Jazz-Manouche on the knowledge basis of his own guitar-workshops in the style, to open up a clearly structured method to learn and understand this music from scratch.
In his book Bertino uses a different aproach to develop the style with more "easy-to-understand examples" of known songs like "Minor Swing", "Blues en Mineur", "Douce Ambiance" or "Blues Clair" - which all together show a very close relation to traditional Blues, to explain the authentic play-techniques, scales and melodies that are beeing utilized in Gypsyjazz.
On 150 pages the book contains many interesting explanations and pictures to explain the utilized guitars, strings, picks and more, as well as many personal remarks, tipps and Tricks of the author. Particularly a great focus is used on the very authentic mediation of the style as to grow the respect for the ancient tradition of the Sinti and Manouches.
A total of 5 songs from Django Reinhardt and the "Quintet du Hotclub de France" as well as 2 original compositions of the author, are included in the book all written out with staffnotations / tabulatures of many examples, tricks, licks and more on rhythm- and solo playing. To roundup all content there are also many examples of licks typically utilized by famous Gypsyplayers like e.g. Django Reinhardt, Stochelo Rosenberg, Lollo Meier, Romane and many more.
Additionally the book has an audio-CD which contains 83 sound examples of all exercises, songs as well as suitable Playalong-tracks of the contained songs for practicing.
The book is available in german and, since 2013, also in english language.
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- 13 Solo Licks (of famous Gypsyjazz-players)
- 7 Songs in staffnotation/TABs (7 complete Songs + Solos)
The price is 25,80 EUR incl. Audio-CD (plus delivery).
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Haglöfs LIM Essens Down Jacket
The model reviewed in this article is the very first Essens model and is difficult to find in stock anywhere as Haglöfs has released several newer models, so the specs and features mentioned may differ from the newer models. Haglöfs described this jacket as following: "The L.I.M Essens Jacket is our premier down jacket when… Continue reading Haglöfs LIM Essens Down Jacket
Montbell U.L. Thermawrap Parka
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Montbell Torrent Flier jacket
Seeing that we would most likely face quite some torrential rain while trekking at the end of the monsoon season in Nepal I was looking for a jacket that would be able to keep me dry, yet not add too much weight to my pack. Weighing in at a mere 243 grams while still offering… Continue reading Montbell Torrent Flier jacket
Norrøna Bitihorn dri1 jacket
As New Zealand is notorious for its heavy and consistent rainfall we thought that not even the sturdiest of rain gear would keep us dry. Nonetheless, with the promise of excellent waterproofness, breathability combined with its low weight and small pack size we went for the Norrøna Bitihorn dri1 jackets. Specs The Bitihorn dri1 is… Continue reading Norrøna Bitihorn dri1 jacket