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Two 17-year-olds from Greater Manchester have been arrested on suspicion of drug offences following the death of another 17-year-old at Leeds festival this weekend.
Lewis Haunch, also 17 and from Greater Manchester, passed away in the early hours of this morning after taking an "unspecified substance", the Guardian reports.
Haunch collapsed last night (August 27) at Leeds Festival and was taken to hospital in a critical condition, according to West Yorkshire Police.
The festival's police commander, Keith Gilert said: "We are currently investigating the death and how he obtained the substance he took. At this time the indications are that the man consumed drugs immediately before he collapsed. A report will be sent to the coroner in due course."
Disclosure headlined the festival last night, while Biffy Clyro played their tenth Leeds festival with a headline set on Friday night and Red Hot Chili Peppers headline tonight.
Chili's bassist Flea, who played Reading Festival last night with his band, said he isn't fazed by a Fox News host calling RHCP the "worst band on the planet".
Speaking to NME at Reading, Flea said: "I remember seeing a poll recently that said people who watch Fox News knew less about world affairs than people who watch no news at all. It's clearly a funny programme. It doesn't faze me, not really."

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Trust. It takes consistently positive experiences over time to develop trust in a medical professional and that is exactly what residents of Cumming have discovered with the ear, nose and throat specialists at the ENT Institute. Confidence, reliance, faith….these are some of the words residents of Cumming have used to describe their overall feelings toward their experiences with the ENT Institute's staff of board-certified physicians, allergy specialists, and audiologists.
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• Deaths of critical patients as attendants, doctors run for safety
• Police van torched; property damaged; provincial information minister manhandled
• Punjab bar council announces boycott of courts against arrest of protesters
• Young doctors seek Punjab health minister's resignation over ruckus
LAHORE: Hundreds of charged lawyers on Wednesday attacked the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC), allegedly tortured doctors and attendants and damaged hospital property and forced the critical patients to rush for life, according to police and witnesses.
The raiders were apparently on a mission to avenge a group of lawyers, who had been beaten up at the PIC a few weeks ago, soon after some video clips went viral on the social media showing some doctors making fun of the lawyers while recalling the incident.
The outraged attackers, mostly young faces dressed in black suits and sporting neckties, spared no one present on hospital premises, where several serious cardiac patients are under treatment at any given time.
Witnesses told Dawn there was chaos as beds were hastily dragged to hideouts, in a few cases the washrooms down the corridor away from the wards, after the mob carrying clubs and rods forced its entry into the government-run hospital.
One of the known victims of the frenzy was Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan, who was manhandled when he arrived for damage control. Many journalists, including a woman, and police personnel besides attendants of the patients were also dealt with brute physical force. The attackers also snatched cameras from the journalists.
The police acted on finding the information minister under attack by lawyers and fired tear gas, baton-charged before arresting many protesters. Fierce clashes broke out between the protesting lawyers and law enforcers after a police van had been set on fire. There were reports that some protesters in the mob carried weapons and fired into the air.
The situation worsened when a mob stormed into the emergency department, seemingly in search of some doctors. In view of the approaching danger, the doctors fled the scene.
As condition of some critical patients deteriorated in the absence of doctors, four PIC patients, including a girl and an elderly woman, died reportedly during the time extreme fear reigned over the hospital. A spokesperson for the health department, however, said three patients breathed their last while the PIC was under siege. He said it would be premature to fix responsibility for the deaths, as the patients were under treatment for 'very serious' ailments.
The latest and perhaps one of the biggest violent protests by lawyers in Lahore, which caused fear among medical fraternity in particular and public in general, came only weeks before the crucial bar elections.
In the backdrop of the attack on the hospital in the presence of a heavy contingent of police, the doctors withdrew their services at in-patient and out-patient departments as well as emergency wards of all public-sector hospitals of Punjab. In the wake of ruckus, the young doctors called for the resignation of health minister Yasmin Rashid.
CCTV and mobile phone footage that later surfaced showed the size and intensity of the attack during which many vehicles parked at the hospital on Jail Road were damaged. As the visuals were shared on the media, police came under severe criticism for failing to protect the hospital employees, patients and property. The Punjab government later called in the Rangers to take control of the situation.
What provoked the lawyers?
Whereas any justification for the violent actions by the lawyers seemed impossible, the protesters claimed that the legal fraternity was provoked by several video clips doing the rounds on social media. They showed some doctors making fun of the lawyers after some hospital staff had thrashed a group of lawyers over a dispute at the PIC.
A more recent video clip that showed a young doctor speaking 'boastfully' about his encounter with the lawyers could well have proven to be the last straw on the camel's back. In this video, he was talking about an FIR registered against doctors, paramedics and security guards of the PIC after they allegedly subjected some lawyers to torture and injured five of them. The lawyers had visited the PIC for treatment of a colleague on Nov 20.
Police version
Additional IG (Operations) of Punjab Police Inam Ghani told Dawn they arrested some 40 protesting lawyers on charges of damaging public property, attacking doctors and government employees and over a breakdown of law and order.
The police were going to register two separate cases against the attacking lawyers; one on a complaint of the hospital management and the other at the request of law enforcers for setting fire to police vehicle and injuring security personnel.
The additional IG, however, said no decision was taken to register the cases under anti-terror law, as the SC had given a ruling in this regard.
The officer said the police had tried to avert the attack by making a human chain. He said force was used as the last resort.
Boycott of courts
The lawyers' representatives abstained from condemning the act of violence inside the PIC rather called it a reaction to police inaction over the torture of lawyers at the hospital in November.
The bar blamed the police and doctors for resorting to violence.
Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) President Chaudhry Hafeezur Rehman and other office-bearers later called on Chief Justice-designate Mamoon Rashid Sheikh and discussed the situation.
The bar representatives demanded immediate release of the arrested lawyers.
An emergent meeting of the Punjab Bar Council (PbBC), presided over by its vice chairman Shahnawaz Ismail, observed that the lawyers had been holding peaceful demonstrations, demanding arrest of the accused doctors, but the authorities failed to pay any heed. It said the lawyers also had staged peaceful protest demonstrations outside the civil secretariat and the IG office, but in vain.
The bar council said a video of a 'provoking' speech by a doctor namely Irfan went viral on the social media wherein he tried to humiliate the lawyers and their peaceful protests.
It condemned 'criminal' silence on part of Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) and Young Doctors' Association (YDA) and failure to take any punitive action against the doctors involved in the incidents.
The bar council gave a call for complete boycott of courts in the province on Thursday (today) and demanded arrest of doctors nominated in the FIR of the November incident and those allegedly involved in the Wednesday episode. It said lawyers would take out rallies across Punjab till the release of their colleagues and the arrest of the doctors.
In a late night development, the Punjab government said it had managed to broker peace between the two parties over the dispute. The lawyers deny a patch up.
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Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh ...
Bivalves are another group of mollusc that you can recognise today. Cockles, mussels, and oysters are all bivalves.
They live inside shells with two parts, known as valves, that are usually mirror images of each other. These valves open so the animal can feed, and close to give the animal protection.
All bivalves live in water, and most of them are found in the sea. They feed by filtering out small food particles from the water around them. Most live buried in sand or sediment. Some can attach themselves to hard surfaces or bore into rock. A few can even swim.
Fossil scallop shells and Gryphea, which is sometimes called the devil's toenails!
The oldest bivalve fossils are over 500 million years old. Because bivalves are still common today we know a lot about how they used to live. The shape of their shells can tell palaeontologists if they swam or if they burrowed, and the type of environment they lived in. Huge numbers of fossil bivalve shells can form limestones.
You can find fossil bivalves that look very like modern bivalves.
The molluscs are split into different groups - the gastropods, bivalves and cephalopods. The cephalopods are also split into three groups.
If you read these pages you should become an expert invertebrate identifier!
The major groups are listed below - select a link to learn more about this type of fossil.
Sponges Corals
Molluscs Brachiopods
Arthropods Graptolites
Echinoderms Return to the wheel
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Steven Petrow wrote a pretty interesting piece for USA Today that is definitely worth reading if you, like me, nerd out on crowdfunding ethics. Specifically, the fact that the success of a campaign can be directly related to the privilege of its owner.
Ethicists are generally circumspect about crowdsourcing for medical care, with good reason. Margaret Moon, MD, an ethicist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, bluntly warns, "crowd funding via social media can be … a sophisticated form of panhandling." By that Moon means she doesn't know if the money she donates to "a particularly compelling panhandler" will buy what he says he intends, or repay his own grad school loan. There's no accountability when it comes to crowd sourcing.
While that may be true, some people might argue that your control over funds given to a panhandler ends the moment you release the money. Once you've given a panhandler a dollar, it is not up to you whether he spends that dollar on a bag of chips or a bag of cocaine. The exchange of money — one which is done freely, for nothing in return — is little more than a casual social contract. You hope that he'll use the money for "good," but giving him money does not contractually obligate him to do so.
Crowdfunding, however, is a bit trickier. Panhandling is generally considered unregulated and, in some areas, illegal. Therefore, you can't complain if someone used your dollar to buy booze rather than food, as you technically broke the law in giving him a dollar in the first place.
With crowdfunding, there is a layer of security provided by the technology lacking in your typical panhandling transaction. You hopefully know the person's name, history, location, and details on their exact needs. Campaign owners are not only required to be truthful per the crowdfunding platform's terms and conditions, but by law as well.
Moving on:
NYU's Caplan worries about a different issue: bias. For instance, many campaigns feature adorable kids allegedly in need. "Just because someone is cute and has a very emotionally engaging disease" doesn't necessarily mean your dollars are better spent there than, say, funding a scientific non-profit that does research into that disease or one that helps many people in need, based on pre-determined criteria.
Being in animal rescue myself, I've seen this play out far too often. Many people will happily donate hundreds or even thousands of dollars to help an animal who has been hit by a car or born with severe defects, but ask them to fund spay surgeries and they are less interested. Fact remains: the more dramatic the story, the more likely people are to donate. That doesn't mean either case is less worthy, it simply means that people give to causes that compel them to do so.
In the above example, the actual story of a small child whose face you can see in front of you on a GoFundMe campaign is certainly more compelling to many people than research which, while important, is more vague and less personal.
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Moon also shares that concern, adding that crowd-funding for medical costs is "creating a new disparity in access to health care." In other words, she says that those who are successful may be so because they tell a story well, and have access to technology and the skills to use it. "Many with the greatest need won't be able to access crowd funding."
This is an intriguing view, and one which I think gets easily overlooked when we talk about the most successful campaigns ever made on GoFundMe. Not only do the people behind those campaigns tend to have the communications skills to write such campaigns, they also tend to have stronger networks with which to share them.
Back to our panhandler example, if he is in need of medical care, he's told to go to the emergency room or try and get seen at a low cost clinic. Have you ever been to one of those places? You wait and wait and wait for hours and maybe get seen; if you're lucky, there's low-to-no-cost insurance available to cover you. That's if you get seen at all.
But your average high school educated individual with a computer and an internet connection can go to GoFundMe, write up a paragraph or two, attach a couple photos, and perhaps meet their goal in a matter of days.
What's the solution to this disparity? I wish I knew. Crowdfunding platforms should better support their users with advice on writing compelling campaigns. Hell, an even better solution would be to live in a world where people don't need to beg strangers on the internet for a few bucks just to access health care — but let's not get ahead of ourselves.


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It wasn't easy to live zero waste lifestyle in the US, didn't expect that I came out this conclusion for my first few days of YSEALI program!
The first meal I had outside of hotel was in a cafeteria in a Museum, I realised that they only provide disposables for dine-in customers. I requested one stall to serve food in reusable which the staff agreed to, but when my friend Kathy trying to do the same, the staff got angry and insisted to give her only disposables.
Same stall, almost same food, different plates.
Same happened when I was walking around in a supermarket nearby hotel, when I was taking pictures of a shelf of freshly baked pizza and thinking about taking away with my container, I was scolded by the staff. HAHA that was impressive. I ended up going back hotel with empty hands, fed myself with some fruits and went to sleep.
This is the picture that got me into trouble, but it looks delicious, isn't it?
Since then I was not dare to raise any special request to anyone. Instead of taking away with my container, I chose to dine-in or takeaway leftover food from orientation lunch.
I also found it hard to get tea without tea bag since I came here. I don't drink coffee, but I had no choice and ended up filling up hot coffee in my tumbler, just to fight against jet lag. I was also shocked to see how much disposable coffee cups were used every day in the hotel. The number could be reduced so much if the hotel at least provide reusable mug as an option at hot drinks counter.
Common paper cups are not recyclable or compostable due to a thin plastic lining on the inner layer. Compostable cups are better? They are only compostable at commercial or industrial level composter which might not accessible to you. It requires huge amount of energy and water to generate a single compostable cup, why don't we bring our own cup and wash with small amount of water?
But, everything become smooth from the time I stepped into Eugene, a small green town surrounded by mountains in Oregon. On the second day here, I went to the Kiva supermarket next to the hotel. I was so happy to see so many varieties of food available without packaging.
However due to the experiences I had in Washington, I dare not to ask the staff if I could use my containers to shop. Because when you are using heavy container to buy bulk food, first you need to tare before filling up food. And, yes, this cause trouble and I don't want to get scolded again! 😛
Instead of containers, I used paper bag that I brought over from Malaysia to buy loose tea leaves there. When I was filling up the food, a kind, friendly grandma approached me and showed me how she always buys food with her own glass jars!
She told me that people here have no problem when customers using their own containers, just go to the counter behind, they will weight your container, put a mark on it. Then you are really to shop anything you want! At the check out counter, cashier will deduct the weigh from total price!
Here is my zero waste shopping experience at Kiva Supermarket!
Yes! The people in Eugene really friendly and nice! There are compost bins everywhere in this small town, collecting food scraps from households and businesses. They have bike share system, encouraging people to ride instead of drive. They have strong organic community, you can buy package less, locally grown organic food every where!
Compost bins are everywhere, even the hotel we staying in collects food scraps for composting. Almost half of our daily trash is compostable, if we take serious actions like Eugene did, our trash problem could be eased.
Before I came to US, there were so many people told me about how beautiful this place is. Now I agree with them, because I feel like I am now living in a Zero Waste Paradise, living zero waste lifestyle in this town is super easy and affordable! Thanks to the friendly people who always willing to lend their hands to me 🙂
Talk to organic farmers, support them by buying fresh healthy organic produce, and save the environment by bringing own shopping bags. The world won't be saved by someone else, it has to start from yourself.
So much interesting and unique things happened in the past one week, one blog is just not enough to cover them all! Hope that I could have more time to write them down and blog more in the next few weeks!
Thank you for reading!


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I did a post about this recently. One of the issues that arose in it was whether to buy an internet package in advance or after embarkation. Solent Richard commented (in the context of Cunard) "Just to say that on Cunard there is always an additional amount of Internet time offered as an incentive in the first 24 hours on board".
I had a look back at my posts from our Baltic cruise on Azura last summer for which I had bought an internet package in advance, and I see that I commented that one way and another I'd got two lots of extra minutes: one for buying in advance, and the other for actually getting the account set up on the first day. All told, I got 320 minutes for the advertised price of 250.
That was last summer, of course – almost a year ago today, in fact – and there's no guarantee that the same generosity is available this year. But that's what happened. Here's a link to the relevant post.


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Apple releases Apple Watch battery results: 42mm model runs longer, 3h phone, 6.5h music, 7h workout
In addition to making a general claim that the Apple Watch will run for up to 18 hours per charge, Apple has quietly added a new battery test results page to its web site discussing the Apple Watch's performance across a variety of different tests. According to Apple, the 38mm and 42mm versions of the Watch will have different run times, and the 42mm Apple Watch "typically experiences longer battery life." The company does not note how much longer the larger Watch will last for, but does disclose the 38mm model's times for everything from phone calling to music and workouts…
"Our goal for battery life was 18 hours after an overnight charge," Apple says, "factoring in things like checking the time, receiving notifications, using apps, and doing a 30-minute workout." The company says that it hit that 18-hour mark with a total of 90 time checks (five per hour), 90 notifications (five per hour), 45 minutes of app use, and one 30-minute workout with music playback via Bluetooth.
Apple also says that the Apple Watch will be able to be used for up to 3 hours of continuous phone calling when paired with an iPhone, 6.5 hours of music playback via Bluetooth, and 7 hours of active workout time with the heart rate sensor on. Additionally, the Watch will last for 48 to 72 hours under specific conditions.
If paired with an iPhone but used primarily as a watch, it will deliver up to 48 hours if the time is briefly checked five times per hour. With Power Reserve mode on and no iPhone pairing, it can last up to 72 hours assuming four brief time checks per hour.
Recharging time will be roughly 2.5 hours from 0% to 100%, with an 80% charge in around 1.5 hours. Two separate magnetic chargers will be offered for the Apple Watch, one with a 1-meter cable length for $29, the other for $39 with a 2-meter cable.
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GoGreen Hemp's veterinarian formulated CBD Dog Soft Chew's for dogs provide a broad spectrum hemp extract product to your K-9. Each soft chew can be used as a treat, supplement, or addition to any dog's diet. These soft chew bites have been specially formulated to help canines with pain, inflammation, stress, anxiety, age related issues and overall health and wellness. Each container contains 40 soft chews with 2mg per soft chew.
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Seek out positive messages
- Spend time reading, watching or listening to things that inspire you and give you hope. Don't settle for fluffy messages though. Keep an eye out for positive but realistic messages. Fluffy messages might make you feel good in the moment, but they're not your friend in the long-run. They can lead you down the wrong path.
Give yourself an outlet
- Write down your thoughts in a journal. Actually, you don't even need a journal. You can just grab a piece of paper and write down everything you're thinking. Then rip it up and throw it in the garbage. At least you're getting your thoughts out in the open where you can see them. This makes it easier to let them go. Ripping the paper up and throwing it in the garbage is also a way of letting go.
- Have a candid conversation with someone you trust.
- Do work that's import to you. Even if you can only do it on the side. Get involved in something that's important to you or create something that's important to you. There are more opportunities to do this now than ever before.
- Exercise. The term "workout" is a good metaphor, because exercise really does help you work some things out of your body and out of your mind. It's a de-stressor and can help provide better clarity of mind. As long as you're not over-training. Over-training can cause increased anxiety, and injuries that may never go away. Moderation is important.
Give your concerns to God
- Be thankful for what you have, every day.
- Be mindful of your thoughts. Observe them, and let them go, trusting that God will work things out for you.
Focus on your breathing
- Take notice of your in-breaths and out-breaths. This will help you stop thinking so much. It gets you out of your head and centered in the present moment, reconnected to your body and what's going on around you.
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'Citizen scientists" gardening experiment reveals any beer will do
Published by admin on Mon, 2019-06-24 09:00
Get Stuck into Summer With Glorious Gardens, Beloved Bugs and Floral Fun at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park (17 - 21 July 2019)
Published by admin on Sun, 2019-06-23 12:00
Hints & Tips For December/January by David Greaves
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A spot of gardening, even on the coldest and greyest of days, will lift your spirits, and warm you up! The shorter days also make it more difficult for gardening as the daylight hours but there are still may jobs to continue with in the winter months
Gardening Tips for October/November by David Greaves
Published by admin on Tue, 2016-10-11 11:00
Hints & Tips: For August / September by David Greaves
Published by admin on Tue, 2016-08-16 12:00
Sweet Scent of Summer at Easton Walled Gardens
Published by admin on Thu, 2016-06-30 09:00
Technical Turf Caring For Your Lawns....
Published by admin on Mon, 2016-06-20 13:00
Hints & Tips for June/July by David Greaves
Published by admin on Fri, 2016-06-10 14:00
Hints & Tips: For April / May by David Greaves
Published by admin on Wed, 2016-04-27 12:00
Now Spring is here and the temperature is rising there are numerous jobs to be tended to. Firstly plant any new evergreen trees, shrubs and hedges and move any existing evergreens.


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An Architectural Tour of North & West Kerry
Nesta Fitzgerald/Declan M. Downey
Regular price €12.50
Published by the Irish Georgian Society
North and West Kerry once formed part of the ancient earldom of Desmond - a wealthy and powerful medieval autonomy - the memory of which resonates in its fascinating architectural heritage and history.
Following the Wild Atlantic Way, this guidebook opens up new and interesting dimensions for locals and visitors alike to the region's architectural styles that span the centuries.
Nesta Fitzgerald of Glin, County Limerick, is an internationally acclaimed illustrator who is currently based in London.
Declan M. Downey of Tarbert, County Kerry, is an award-winning historian and a member of the Spanish royal Academy of History, who lectures at University College Dublin.


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What is non reusable vapes?
Non reusable vapes as well as e-cigarettes are a great option for a brand-new vapers first ever vaping device. Non reusable vapes come pre-filled with e-liquid and also a pre-charged battery usually integrated in the same, user friendly system. They are ready-for-use right out of the box and also require no filling, billing and also can be tossed out when completed.
Best Non Reusable Vapes of 2021
Non reusable Vapes obtained less focus ins 2015 now they are back with an outbreak! Solid throat hit or smooth cloud of pure nicotine salts provide them a helpful attention amongst vapers. They can tackle various types, much like their cloud-chucking cousins. Mobile, stealth with various tastes to choose from these vapes rock.
A lot of people desire something more detailed to a cigarette's feel and look, do not have the funds for a large purchase, or simply desire a system that requires little to no work on their component. In such a situation, the non reusable vape is the only way to go. There's a great variety of disposable e-cig brands here, so whatever requirements you're seeking, you need to find something that you'll like listed below.
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This disposable e-cigarette is extremely unbelievable because it can be found in 5 exciting flavors. Taking a draw off of it really makes a hit thanks to the realistic flavor and five percent pure nicotine content. The taste is similar to that of a juice mixed drink, and also each sheath holds 1.3 ml of e-juice. These attributes make this disposable cheap disposable vapes one of the best flavor selections on the marketplace.
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The Jamba Pop vape disposable, pre-filled e cigarettes been available in 8 various tastes. The taste choices run from Mango Frost to Cool Melon and are mostly fruit-based. Other tastes consist of Blueberry Ice and also Frozen Grape. The devices are small as well as portable and can suit any pocket. The Jamba Pop vape disposable are implied for single-use only, and they are neither rechargeable or refillable. Each Jamba Pop vape is air-activated as well as has no switches. Inside the device is a 1.8 ml capacity hull loaded with a nicotine salt formulation. In spite of the various flavors supplied, the coverings have a solitary pure nicotine toughness at 6% or 6mgs.
# 3 YUOTO Minibox 700puffs Non reusable Vape 2.3 ml.
The YUOTO Minibox Disposable Vape is filled with 5% of pure nicotine salt-based e-liquid in a variety of popular tastes. There's no need to re-fill it with e-liquid. Just inhale to vape. 15 flavor alternatives of YUOTO Minibox Disposable Vape: Blue Berry Ice, Banana Ice, Guava Ice, Tobacco, Watermelon Ice, Mint Ice, Lemon Shake, Mixed Drink, Lemon Tea, Mango Ice, Energy Consume Alcohol Ice, Peach Ice, Milk Coffee, Scotch, Grape Ice.If you such as to attempt something new, this is a good selection.


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These lights again?
If you've been busy reading articles on the best 1000 watt LED grow lights, you've probably seen the same lights over and over again.
That changes now.
The reason everyone recommends those lights (and then helpfully provides a link to Amazon) is that Amazon pays them an 8% commission whenever someone buys something after clicking on their link.
When you click through to Amazon, a "cookie" is stored on your computer. If you then make a purchase on Amazon, the cookie tells them what site you came from and they pay that site their 8% commission.
We recommend different lights, because we base our recommendations on features, not commissions.
We don't link to Amazon, because we sell all of the lights on our own site. We make money no matter which light you buy.
Or, if you choose to buy elsewhere, we make nothing, no matter which light you buy.
Either way, the four 1000w lights we highlight below are the best value for money you'll find on the market today.
All 4 of these lights are excellent. Which one is right for you depends on your personal needs and preferences. This post will help you decide.
1000 Watt LED Grow Light Comparison Table
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wideband full-spectrum light
full-spectrum white light
one controller for 1000 lights
the best output per watt
Factors to Consider When Buying a 1000 Watt LED Plant Light
Actual Wattage
This is the actual amount of electricity the fixture will use. Three of the lights featured here always use the same wattage, while the other one has a range. That's because it gives you some control over the spectrum.
During the vegetative stage of growth, for example, plants don't need as much light as they do during flowering. A fixture that lets you turn off LEDs (or dial back their intensity) when they are not needed will save you money in electricity costs.
There are two factors to consider here: the color of the light and how customizable it is.
1. White LEDs vs. Colored LEDs
First it should be noted that the fixtures using colored LED lights also have some white LEDs in the mix. But the NextLight Mega and the Green Sunshine Company Electric Sky 300 use ONLY white LEDs.
And depending on whom you ask, fixtures using only full-spectrum white LEDs are either amazing or completely worthless.
Here are the two sides:
Pro White Light
Proponents of all-white LED grow lights say their spectrum is the most natural, since it is very similar to the sun. It basically gives you the same light as an HPS bulb combined with a metal-halide bulb. In other words: an HPS spectrum with additional blue light.
HPS light has proven to work well and plants obviously love sunlight, so it only makes sense that white LED light is the best way to go. And it does work, just like the HPS and MH light it replaces.
And white light has one more advantage—one that is very important to some people. Your plants look natural under white light, so it is much easier to inspect them and to notice any discolorations, etc. This can be quite difficult under pink light.
Against White Light
Opponents of white light point out that it's mostly made up of green and yellow light, which is used only minimally by plants and thus mostly goes to waste. This is fine for the sun, since it is an unlimited supply of free light. But when YOU'RE footing the bill, wouldn't it be better to not pay for all that wasted light?
So, which side of this debate are you on? If you prefer all-white light, the NextLight or the Electric Sky are the fixtures for you. If you prefer a mix of colors, you can safely ignore those two lights.
2. Customizable Spectrum
Some lights have separate modes for veg and bloom and some, like the California Lightworks SolarSystem series, give you complete control over the spectrum.
The advantage of this is a lower electricity bill. Plants don't need as much light during vegging as they do during flowering and they need even less during cloning. Being able to dial back the amount of light means you use less power.
But there's a flip side. Some of those savings are offset by a longer grow cycle. When you change the color spectrum mid-grow, plants get a shock and suffer from growth stalling for up to two weeks. Switching modes on an LED light will not cause an overly long period of stalled growth, but you can count on a few days' delay.
During this time, you will have to pay for electricity to run the lights and for nutrients to feed the plants. This won't make up for the savings you get from switching the color spectrum, but a shorter grow time is very important to some. Furthermore, fixtures with only one mode are obviously much easier to operate—just turn it on and forget about it.
Light Output
1000w LED fixtures generally have an output equal to 900 watts of HPS light, despite what many manufacturers claim.
For our ratings, we gave 4 stars to the fixtures whose intensity is about equal to 900 HPS watts and 5 stars for an intensity better than a 1000 watt HPS bulb.
The Electric Sky 300 is actually much weaker than the other lights, which is why we use two of them for this comparison. Two ES-300 lights are equivalent to a 1000w HID light.
Canopy Penetration
Again, almost all manufacturers claim their LED light penetrates as deeply below the canopy as HPS light, but that is rarely the case. We gave 5 stars to lights that equal the penetration of an HPS bulb and 4 stars if they fall just short.
Coverage Area
This is the area in feet that the light will cover during flowering. During vegging, they can cover an additional foot or two in length and width. So a light that covers 4 by 4 feet during flowering will cover 5 by 5 or 6 by 6 feet during vegging.
The 4 Best 1000 Watt Horticultural LED Lights
2x Green Sunshine Co ES300 — Wideband Spectrum Replicates Sun's IR Power
The Green Sunshine Company Electric Sky 300 (link goes to the product page) is brand-new and one of the most technologically advanced lights on the market. We use two of these lights for this comparison, because two are equivalent to 1000 watts (though two together still cost less than all other lights in this article).
The two groundbreaking features of the Electric Sky lights are the wideband spectrum and the unique configuration of optic lenses.
The wideband spectrum replicates the infrared power of the sun. It is a full-spectrum white light that also contains near red light (IR). It penetrates deeper below the canopy and leads to much higher yields.
The unique optics configure the light from 1 ES-300 into a perfect rectangle, and that from 2 of these lights into a perfect square.
This leads to a much more even distribution that doesn't suffer from the huge dropoff in light in the corners of the coverage area that plagues other lights. It also allows you to hang the light much closer to your plants, without burning them.
- Lowest power usage of any light this size
- Wideband spectrum that gives you deeper penetration and improved yields
- Optic lenses that focus the light into a rectangle, drastically reducing light dropoff in the corners of the coverage area
- Low price when compared to the other lights on this list
- Two lights required to get similar output to only one of the other lights
- Smaller coverage area even with two of these lights, the coverage area is a bit smaller (but output is much more even across the area)
- Can't customize the spectrum with this light (it's debatable whether this is a negative)
NextLight Mega — Best Full-Spectrum White LED Grow Light
A part of NextLight's commercial series, the Mega (link goes to full review) delivers an output equal to a double ended 1000 watt HPS light, but with a spectrum that contains more blue than HPS. In fact, the NextLight spectrum is very similar to natural sunlight and thus works well throughout all grow cycles.
- 5 by 5 foot coverage area—the largest among 1000w equivalent LEDs
- 2.15 PPF/watt—the most output per watt among all full-spectrum LED lights
- Deep canopy penetration—equal to a 1000 watt DE HPS bulb
- Low heat output—no internal fans, so completely silent
- LEDs rated for 100,000 hours—the longest among LED fixtures
- Great warranty and best after-sale care in the industry, by far
- Only white LEDs (may be a positive to some)
- No customization (same spectrum all the time)
- No UV/IR
California Lightworks SolarStorm 1100 — Fully Customizable Spectrum Using Controller
California Lightworks (link to full product review) manufacture their lights entirely in the US from American and German parts. Their lights are exceptionally high quality and they enjoy a stellar reputation in the industry as a result. Like the other lights on this list, they do not make bogus or exaggerated claims about their lights.
- Top-bin 5 watt Osram diodes—high power for penetration and intensity that beats HPS
- Fully customizable spectrum using optional controller (sold separately)
- Veg and bloom modes—uses less power during veg and save money
- To take advantage of all features, you need to purchase the spearate controller for another $179
- Coverage area is a bit smaller than the 2 of the other lights
Black Dog PhytoMax-2 600 — Best Multi-Band Full Spectrum Light
Black Dog is the most honest LED company. This light uses 630 actual watts, so they named it the PhytoMax-2 600 (link to full review). Other companies would have called it the PhytoMax-2 1000. Despite the 600 in the name, this light is easily equivalent to 1000 watts of HPS power and is actually the most powerful fixture on this list.
- Uses only 5 watt diodes—powerful light that matches HPS in intensity and penetration
- 5 by 5 foot coverage—larger than all equivalent lights except the Mega
- Amazing heat management—despite 5 watt diodes, emits similar amount of heat to competitors
- No customization (same spectrum for all stages)
- Warranty and return policy not quite as good as CLW


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Throughout the year 2018, I have seen roughly 50 films that came out. This is my list of the Top 15 Movies of 2018.
I created this website for me as a way to connect with people and to share with them one of my biggest passions, film. Ever since I can remember going to the movie theater has always been one of my favourite things in the world to do. I love the escapism movies provide and their ability to take us to new worlds and place us right in the middle of characters lives that we start to care for over the span of 90 minutes. For my first post, what better way to kick off than to celebrate all the great movies to have come out in 2018.
This is my list and is completely based on my opinions. Film is subjective and you may disagree with my list, but life would be boring if we didn't. I have a few honorable mentions and they are as followed: Black Panther, The Incredibles 2, Searching, BlacKKKlansman, and Sicario: Day of the Soldado. Without further ado, here are my 15 favourite films of 2018.
#15. First Man
From director Damien Chazelle, director of Whiplash and La La Land, which were not only my favourite movies of the year they came out, but are among my favourite movies of all time. To say I was excited about this movie is a bit of an understatement. What did I think of First Man? I thought it was great. First Man strips back the wonder and awe of going to space and shares the intense and dangerous side of going to the moon. The space race was scary business. The film is gorgeous and a marvel to look at. Incredibly shot and directed. Ryan Gosling provides a cold portrayal of Neil Armstrong. A performance of more internal processing and he didn't have moments where he'd lash out, and say what he was feeling. This made it hard to have a connection to the film. But for me, the intense thrill of the space race and how it was depicted was captivating, and out weighted the emotional side of the story that it lacked. Out of Chazelle's three films, this is easily the weakest but is still a great film about an incredible achievement in our history.
#14. Creed 2
The Rocky franchise is one of the greatest franchise's out there (except Rocky 5, Rocky 5 sucks). When the first Creed was announced, I was worried about it. But with the name Ryan Coogler attached I knew it had potential and ended up being one of my favourite movies of 2015. When Creed 2 was announced and no Coogler this time, I was even more worried. After hearing that Creed 2 would follow the story built upon the story of Rocky 4 had me even more nervous. I love Rocky 4 but it's a product of its time and 80% of the movie is a montage. After now having seen Creed 2, it was exactly what I wanted. A satisfying conclusion of this now 8 film series. I really hope they end the story here because this was a perfect ending to this movie. Michael B. Jordan continues to prove he is one of the best actors of his generation. Sylvester Stallone is Rocky and of course, crushes it. Dolph Lundgren is surprisingly good and heartfelt as an older, broken Ivan Drago. This story, set up about fathers is one of the most touching plot lines of the whole series. Creed 2 ranks as one of the best Rocky movies and is a good addition and continuation of this story.
#13. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Can You Ever Forgive Me? was a huge surprise. I loved this film. Watching the trailers, they didn't do much to get me interested in this story or its characters. Now having seen the film, I can say Lee Israel and Jack Hook are some of my favourite characters this year. I was so surprised by how much this film had me laughing, which I shouldn't be, considering Melissa McCarthy is starring. A captivating story that is rooted and would not work in the context of a film if it wasn't for the incredible friendship on display between our two leads. Richard E Grant gives what may be my favourite performance this year. Can You Ever Forgive Me? is one of the most enjoyable watching experiences of the year.
#12. Roma
A deeply personal story for director Alfonso Cuarón to share and I'm so pleased he did. Roma is an incredible look into a life that on the surface seems so meaningless but Cuaron finds the beauty in the simple and mundane life. Roma is the best shot movie of 2018. The long takes the camera uses, lingers and takes its time to invest you in the world of Mexico City in the early 1970s. The slow crescendo builds into the powerful and emotional ending of the film. This film is beautiful and deeply moving. Alfonso Cuaron is a master in filmmaking, and Roma ranks as one of his best. And the best part is it's on Netflix, you can go watch it right now.
#11. Eighth Grade
Never have laughed so hard and felt so awkward while watching a movie reminiscing on my life. Eighth Grade captures something I don't think I've seen done so well in a movie before. Eighth Grade captures perfectly in a very real way exactly what it feels like to be in school in 2018. Bo Burnham, who is a hilarious comedian, is so in tune with today's teen demographic. He nails every part of growing up to a tee. This movie is funny, relatable, touching, raw, and so endearing. Elsie Fisher carries this film as if she's done it 100 times before. Her performance is so pure and lovely and reminded me of so much of my life in grade eight. Eighth Grade is the best coming to age film this year, easily. You will not be disappointed with this one.
#10. The Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos as a director is unlike anyone you've seen before. His films are unique and you won't find many movies like his. The Favourite is easily is his most accessible film for people who have never seen any of his work, however, it's still very strange and bizarre and I loved every second of it. This oddball Victorian-era period piece tells a tale of rivalry and a battle of wits. All three leading women (Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, and Emma Stone) are Oscar worthy. The offbeat humor paired with the strange scenes of dancing and duck racing in some cases make The Favourite unique and entertaining. This is an experience you won't want to miss.
#9. Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody is a formulaic, very run of the mill, rock biopic, but also gave me one of the most emotional responses I had this year. The beginning of the movie is standard rock biopic storytelling. We go from scene to scene tracking through the life and rise of Queen. It isn't until the second half of the movie when we dive into the life of Freddie Mercury that Bohemian Rhapsody becomes one of the best of the year. Let's talk about Rami Malek, or should I say Freddie Mercury reincarnated. My god, what an incredible performance. What I love about this role and what makes the movie so good is the way Freddie is portrayed. They take this larger than life character, the greatest frontman of all time, maybe even the greatest vocalist of all time, and they bring him down to a human level that everyone can relate to. His story was so meaningful and emotional and brought this movie to a whole new level. And the last 20 minutes of the movie makes it into my top 10 alone. The Live Aid scene is stunning to watch and so moving, it adds the perfect emotional weight to the film. Bohemian Rhapsody is a great film and I'm so happy it exists to introduce generations to come to the music of Queen.
#8. Avengers: Infinity War
I remember going to the theatres and watching the first Iron Man and falling in love with the character, and after that going to see every Marvel movie in theaters. Now to see this 10-year accumulation of all these great characters finally battle the villain that has been set up since 2012 on the big screen, and to have it pay off the way it did, made for one of my favourite theater experiences ever. Infinity War pulled off something we have never seen before and did it while looking so cool. To balance all the characters and each giving them a moment to shine (for say Hawkeye and Antman) is an incredible achievement. Not only that but to set up Thanos, brilliantly played by Josh Brolin in some of the best performance capture work I have ever seen. Thanos is one of the best villains ever. Not that you agree with him, but you understand his motives. He's not just another bad guy. In his version of the story, Thanos is the hero. When the villain believes he is doing the right thing and that he is the hero, it always makes for the best villains. Avengers: Infinity War had me jumping up and down in excitement and cheering, while at the same time in complete shock and horror by the end. End Game, you better deliver.
#7. Beautiful Boy
A harrowing tale of addiction and the effects it carries on a family. Beautiful Boy is able to capture what both our main characters are feeling. Nic Sheff's feeling of unfulfillment and finding meaning in drugs is brought to life by the incredible Timothee Chalamet. The heartache of wanting to help as a father, but feeling so lost on what can be done is beautifully displayed by Steve Carell. Beautiful Boy explores the horrors of drug addiction and how much it can harm a person and their loved ones. This is one of the years most emotional movies. It will make you want to call your family after and thank them. I was so captured by the story, I went the next day and picked up the book the movie was based on and did my own research on the topic of addiction. Beautiful Boy is a hard watch but I think an important watch, and brings up a discussion on addiction that should be had.
#6. A Quiet Place
The years best thriller came out swinging at the beginning of the year and was never dethroned. Who knew Jim from The Office had this in him, and I mean that in the best way possible. The sound design and lack of dialogue made me conscious of how loud I was chewing and breathing. John Krasinski does a great job of making you a part of the family and going with them in this journey of survival. At its core, A Quiet Place is about family and how far a father will go to protect his family. With Krasinski's real-life wife playing his wife in the film, Emily Blunt, their chemistry was unreal. The relationships of the family are the heart and soul of this film which just amplifies the tension and horror of the situation.
#5. Mission Impossible: Fallout
Mission Impossible is a series that gets better with every film. It is so impressive that the sixth film in a franchise is the best and still feels fresh. Tom Cruise's dedication to the art is so entertaining to watch and can be seen in every frame he's in. He literally risks his life for our entertainment. This is one of the best action movies ever made, right up there with the recent Mad Max Fury Road. Each action scene carries weight and impact with the story and feels so real due to the incredible stunt work on display. Mission Impossible Fallout is my favourite in the whole series.
#4. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
The biggest surprise of the year. I was completely blown away with this movie. Not only is the animation style original and so visually grasping, but the story was so heartfelt and touching. The story of Miles Morales was engaging and filled with so much heart. And it was funny. I had such a blast watching Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. This is the best superhero film this year and quite possibly my favorite of the past few years. Go see this movie!
#3. Green Book
The friendship that develops during this film makes this movie special. This is a movie I can recommend to anyone. Green Book is a great crowd-pleasing story that could have taken a much darker route, but the filmmakers wisely choose to focus on the friendship between Viggo Mortensen (in a role you've never seen him play) and Mahershala Ali, who is given much more time to shine then he did in his academy award winning role in Moonlight. Choosing to take this subject matter of racial tension in the south and to play it in a way that uplifts an audience adds something so special to this film. Green Book is a crowd-pleasing, enjoyable film with a great message of friendship at its core.
#2. A Star is Born
When I heard that Bradley Cooper was remaking A Star is Born for his directorial debut and cast Lady Gaga in the lead, I kind of rolled my eyes. Now after watching the film, I realize how wrong I was for doubting it. I envy how talented Bradley Cooper is, not only did he give his best performance ever in this movie, he learned how to sing and play guitar pretty damn good, and directed the hell out of this movie. Lady Gaga convinced me she was this character and gave the best performance this year by a woman. She is my pick for the Oscar. Sam Elliott, although a small role, was so powerful in just the look he gives. The acting talent on display is some of the best work this year. The story of these two people is heartbreaking and personal. A Star is Born pulled the biggest emotional response from me this year.
#1. Blindspotting
My number one movie of the year is a movie that next to no one saw. When I saw this in theaters I was the only person there. Blindspotting is the most overlooked film this year. This is my favourite screenplay this year. Blindspotting has a unique feel to its dialogue as most of the scenes are strung together through rhyme and rhythm. It makes this film feel fresh and bold. The message was put together poetically through the film's title Blindspotting. And the final spoken word scene is my favourite scene this year. It had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. Please do yourself a favour and go watch Blindspotting, it is my favourite movie of 2018.


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Blute nur, du liebes Herz! from the St Matthew Passion by J S Bach
Written in 1727, the St Matthew Passion is an oratorio setting Chapters 26 & 27 of the Gospel according to Matthew to music. In this aria, the Virgin is beseeching God to spare Jesus from his approaching death on the cross. Moving stuff. Fabulous song. Fabulous rendition by Texan soprano Helen Donath.
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
For real? - Weigh In
People, I have all but given up figuring out how my body works! I did get in 3 days of "normal" exercise last week before the 2 days of no impact modification so there's that. We did it again last Sunday and basically had another high cal day because we were forced to eat out because the kitchen was baking central and the Mr said he wanted me off my feet. So we tried to eat as healthy as we could (which we did) but it was the cookie tasting that killed us. I'm still glad I did though because one of those batches was bad and I threw them out. So remember how we had 2 high cal days the weekend before and I gained the 3 I lost the week before that?? Oy. Whatever man, I'll take it knowing it's short lived. If my foot gets better by NYE we may be doing a bit of an indulgent weekend. Well that coupled with 3 eat fests from the 22nd to the 25th will shoot me back into the 80's but for today, I will enjoy the 70's again however brief it may be.
I've got dinner pics but they're not uploaded yet so I'll probably post them tomorrow if you guys want to see them. I just need a day to myself to have no demands, no plans, watch the remaining Christmas movies we haven't watched yet and actually elevate my foot. The Mr is burnt out too. I'm thinking next December, Hawaii and we'll drop off our presents on Thanksgiving and see everyone at Easter. :)
Anything planned for today?
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I had a similar week. Lots of stress, high calorie days and still lost 2lbs(when my weight loss has been kinda stalled lately) I was totally expecting a gain! Our bodies are weird!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2012 at 8:30 AM
Congratulations! Five pounds - I'm a jealous cow.ReplyDelete
I love the dinner pictures. I'm pretty sure its what drew me in the first place. I get good ideas there. But it is the holidays and dinner will still be there when things settle down. Rest your foot and your brain and enjoy your down time.
Woohoo! Five pounds! That's awesome. :) My body tends to go in "whooshes" too. My weight loss chart looks like an EKG sometimes.ReplyDelete
way to go on the WL!!!awesome!yay...u do "do" a lot for christmas...u r a rockstar:)..ReplyDelete
well I am cleaning and setting things in the house before my parents arrive for their 3month stay with us!! yay....havent seen them since my wedding last november..so cant wait..it will be fun...showing them DC...the white house and all...zoo lights...:D
Wouldn't that be fantastic! Hawaii for the winter and no holiday stress. Then again you'd miss the snow. Of course this winter you might miss the snow from your own living room.ReplyDelete
Congrats on the 5 lbs no matter how short-lived it may be.
Congratulations on 5 lbs!!! Our bodies make no sense sometimes, so we'll take good news when we can get it! =o) Plans for the weekend included getting 2 new tires for the car, eye doctor, Christmas shopping and hockey game tonight. My father-in-law passed away on Wednesday so the whole family drama door just got opened again with the mother. I'm seriously considering running away where no one can find me. =o)ReplyDelete
Holy Crap Batman!! 5 down, is fan-freakin-tastic!!! Congratulations! Today, I'm making your gingersnap truffles, so far so good. They're currently in the freezer and I'm going to get started on the chocolate *fingers crossed*ReplyDelete
I'll take it! Finally got the courage and remembered at the same time to get on the scale after about three months of paying no attention whatsoever. I'm up 17. Just hope that two or three of those was water retention from a very salty previous day's food, but WTH! I haven't been going THAT crazy! Or have I? No one to blame but myself, and no plans for today except being lazy yet again. At least all Christmas plans and preparations are done.ReplyDelete
Nice job!! I'm happy the scale moved for you...it always gives me a little emotional boost when that happens. My body is weird, too. I'll go 12-15 days without any movement and then whoosh...5 pounds down. Drives me bonkers, but I've come to expect that that's my body's preferred way and who am I to fight it, you know? Enjoy your relaxation today!ReplyDelete
Bodies and scales are equally weird. Glad it went your way this week!ReplyDelete
Today is a fleece-and-snuggly day for me. I'm enjoying myself tremendously!
Well, that ought to make the crappy foot injury feel a little better! I am in the kitchen all day today--made 6 huge homemade pizzas and 2 big cakes for a sweet 16 party for a friend's daughter tomorrow. Still have to decorate the cakes so it's back to the kitchen I go!ReplyDelete
Enjoy that 5-lbs loss! You earned it, exercising thru the pain!! With you--I am confident that you will never give up--it's a lifestyle and no matter how long it takes--in the long-run, the scale will continue the downward trend. Love the recipes and your blog. I read every single one!! Your comment on my 3-yr anniversary blog cracked me up--I am not now nor will I ever be a "sexy beast" but it sure made me smile!!ReplyDelete
Woo hoo! Don't question it, just embrace it. :) I've decided to not weigh myself until after Christmas--I am waving the white flag. Too much baking this week. :(ReplyDelete
I hope your foot is better in time for the New Year!
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Fight against female genital mutilation progressing in Africa
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This Monday marks the 14th International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. Unicef has called to end FGM by 2030, adding it would focus efforts on 15 African countries.
UN figures show at least 200 million girls and women are suffering the consequences of mutilation with girls of 14 and younger representing 44 million of those who have been affected.
According to the UN, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) "comprises all procedures that involve altering or injuring the female genitalia for non-medical reasons".
It is mostly carried out on girls and infants below the age of 15 - often by their own mothers. It's also considered a violation of human rights.
"It is a traditional practice that was taking place ages ago, that is part of initiating a girl into womanhood," explains Halima Shariff, the Director of the Advance Family Planning in Tanzania.
Recurring problems
FGM is a reccuring problem in some parts of Africa, but not all countries are affected the same way by the issue. For example, in Somalia, 98% of the female between 15 and 49 are victims of genital mutilation. Meanwhile in Cameroon that number is at around 1%.
But according to statitics released by American NGO Population Reference Bureau, the numbers of woman affected are declining in Africa.
"In all countries that have taken action, we see progress," Marilena Viviani, the Director of the Unicef Geneva Liaison Office, told RFI. "We know for instance that Nigeria has taken action, Gambia has well. Legislation is the first step."
Several African Countries have passed laws forbidding FGM in the past few years.
"We need to enforce such leglisation," explains. Marilena Viviani. "But this is the first step for us to collect data, to analyse informations. Then we can use leglisations to help health workers. It give us the space to raise awareness."
Halima Shariff, who has been fighting FGM for years in Tanzania, recalls several programmes undertaken in her country:
"A good number of NGOs have been educating communities and in fact mobilising those women who are doing the circumcision to educate them on why it's no longer important. When you look at studies, there are some change of attitude among community members."
FGM has a deep and lasting impacts on the health of victims of mutilation.
"You're violating her right to enjoy sex and a curcumsised woman will have problem during child birth," notes Halima Shariff. "A number of young girls die in the process and there's a risk of infection because the blades used are often not sterilised."
While prevention and education are key, activists are also fighting for women who have been victims of forced circumsision. In several countries, there are programmes in place that allows them to have a reconstructive surgery.
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Thursday 24/03/2016
Left Wellington about seven p.m. heading to Jessie's place in the Hutt, once together we drove to Dawson Falls arriving at the car park after midnight.
Friday 25/03/2016
Got our gear sorted out and decided to go to a close hut for tonight, as it was a bit chill with a small amount of rain. The hut was Waingongoro Hut, new one for us both, the only hut that we had to ourselves this Easter.
|Waingongoro Hut
|Waingongoro Hut
|Waingongoro Hut in main room
|Claggy forest walking
|Lake Dive Hut
|Lake Dive Hut resident goat
|Lake Dive
|Sunset from the bush edge of Upper Lake Dive track
A very early start to get away from the crowds and arrive at the next hut before it gets full. The walk up the hill is a quick stroll with a few wooden steps along the way to trip you up, catch your shoes, and collapse on you. Clouds had gone from below and we had a good view looking back at Lake Dive and the hut.
|South to Lake Dive
|Route to Brames Falls track from Lake Dive
|Route to Brames Falls track from Lake Dive
|Mossy rocks along the way
|Looking North to Mt Egmont
|Clouds up high
|View North to Mt Egmont
|Gully heading to the top
|More of the moss and lava
|More again
|Brames Falls Track
|Lava cliffs just before SW to Brames Ridge
|Brames track down this ridge top
|Heading along the ridge
|Narley old tree
|Brames Falls
|Brames Falls
|Ladder minutes from Waiaua Gorge hut
|Waiaua Gorge Hut
|Old hut site
|Not great views
|Monitoring station just before Kahui Hut
|Kahui Hut
|Old style National Park sign
Sunday 27/03/2016
Another rainy morning that cleared by eight a.m. so we decided to can the round the mountain trip and head up to the top. We went up the Okahu Gorge summer route, which is 5.01 in the NZAC Taranaki Mount Egmont climbing guide.
|Looking SW back at the gully below the ridge we came up
|Alpine meadow near Black Rock
|Across the meadow
|Great views
|Jessie at the finish of the vegitation
|Heading left of the bluff
|Clouds chasing us up
|Into the scoria
|Hot slow going thru here
|Me taking a selfie
|Top in the distance
|Jessie coming up the rocks
|Ridge and heading for crater
|Jessie on the edge
Up in the crater, which had a small amount of ice.
|Crater ice
|Memorial near top
|View from top
|View from top
|View from top
|Jessie on the top
|Fanthams Peak with Syme Hut
|Closer to Fanthams Peak and the hut
|Looking back where we came from
|Syme Hut
Monday 28/03/2016
I got out of bed early and went outside to make coffee and porridge, as the hut floor was full of sleeping people. Very chill had to layer up and put on gloves. Beautiful sunrise views with perfect weather.
|Sunrise from Fanthams Peak
|Sun up
|Jessie at Syme Hut
|Looking at Mt Egmont
|Looking back at Syme Hut as we head down
|Moon and clear sky
|Wooden steps, fast way down
|View of the mountain from car park
Map of the Walk
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Trip Times
Friday 25/03/2016
0055 Left car at Dawson Falls
0130 At Waingongoro Hut
left Waingongoro Hut
At Dawson Falls
1118 Left Dawson Falls
1315 Arrived Lake Dive hut
Saturday 26/03/2016
0614 Left Lake Dive Hut
1034 Arrived Waiaua Gorge Hut
1206 Left Waiaua Gorge Hut
1233 Passed old hut site
1234 Junction
1349 Junction
1419 Arrived Kahui Hut
Sunday 27/03/2016
0856 Left Kahui Hut
1019 Out of the bush
1129 Out of the moss
1502 Top of Mt Egmont
1559 Heading down to Syme Hut
1638 Arrived Syme Hut
Monday 28/03/2016
0738 Left Syme Hut
0819 Onto steps
0833 Bagged BLAH Lodge
0906 Back to car at Dawson Falls
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Our next meeting will be on the 15th November at 7pm in Kilwinning Academy.
We will be hearing from two developers about their plans for major housing developments in Kilwinning they are:
Taylor Whimpey for Dalry Road.
North Ayrshire Council for St Michael's Wynd Phase 2
We will also have Updates from Local Police, North Ayrshire Councillors, MSYPS and our Community Councillors.
All are welcome to attend.


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Another NHL legend is calling it quits and this time it's under more heartbreaking circumstances. Paul Kariya is retiring from the NHL after 15 seasons in the league and after a career filled with terrifying head shots that saw him miss plenty of games for it and all of last season thanks to the aftereffects of the damage from concussions.
Kariya finishes his NHL career as a point per game player, something that in itself is rare to find these days. Kariya played 989 games over 15 seasons and finished with 989 points and 402 goals over a career that saw him play for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Colorado Avalanche, Nashville Predators, and St. Louis Blues. A smaller player with speed to burn, Kariya was a dynamic goal scorer after coming out of the University of Maine. The skills he had were the stuff of legend and the kind of thing that saw him team up with Teemu Selanne in Anaheim to help lead the Ducks to the 2003 Stanley Cup finals.
Kariya issued a statement through his agent Don Baizley announcing his departure from the league:
"Today, I announce my retirement from professional hockey. I would like to thank all of those who have been part of so many great memories – my teammates, coaches, team management and staff. I am also very grateful for the support I have received over the years from the fans, especially those in Anaheim, Colorado, Nashville, and St. Louis. It was my dream to be a professional hockey player in the NHL from my minor hockey days in North Vancouver and Burnaby, through junior hockey in Penticton, college hockey at the University of Maine, and the Canadian National Team. I would not have achieved it without support from all of these people and organizations."
Kariya's career wasn't all goal highlights however as he was also on the receiving end of some of the most disturbing body checks and cheap shots the league has seen. Kariya told The Globe & Mail's Eric Duhatschek today that he was retiring from hockey and took aim on the numerous illegal head shots he took from the likes of Gary Suter, Scott Stevens, and Patrick Kaleta that helped put an end to what was an amazing career.
Kariya's words were pointed and forceful and the brand of thing everyone in the NHL and NHLPA should start listening to if they plan to get serious about cutting back on concussions and punishing players who target the head.
"If you want to get rid of it, I'm a believer that you don't go after the employees, you go after the employers," said Kariya. "The first concussion I had, on a brutal, blindside hit, the guy got a two-game suspension. That was in 1996. The last one, from (the Buffalo Sabres' Patrick) Kaleta, was exactly the same play, and he doesn't get anything.
"If you start at 10-game suspensions and go to 20, that sends a message to the players. But if you start fining the owners and suspending the coach, then it's out of the game."
Kariya went on to say that every hit that ever knocked him out came as a result of an illegal hit.
"Every single one," he reiterated. "I'm not saying you're going to ever eliminate concussions completely because it's a contact sport, but if you get those out of the game, then you eliminate a big part of the problem.
"A two-game suspension? That's not enough of a deterrent."
The kinds of punishment that Kariya is suggesting to employ are the sorts of ideas that have been kicked around from people on the Internet both connected directly to the game and those who are just fans. Severe suspensions as well as fining teams for actions that happen on the ice are the kinds of things Mario Lemieux spoke of when trying to curtail thuggish behavior and continued suspensions.
Kariya calling it quits also makes us wonder how other players who have had serious concussion problems are going to handle their careers going forward. Players like Kurt Sauer, Peter Mueller, and Marc Savard have all had major complications with concussions and their effects on them even months and years after suffering the injury. If the NHL and NHLPA weren't already worried about how they look when it comes to looking the other way on these injuries, they've now got a big time face to put on the issue in Kariya.
It's sad to see any favorite player retire from the league, but in Kariya's case it breaks your heart to see it because it was essentially taken from him thanks to the actions of those around him. Fans will debate which hits were clean or dirty, but the fact remains that players are suffering at the hands of other players and the inability of the league and player's association to get things figured out to change things for the better.


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Good morning! Today we are introducing a new category to Ali Does It: MAD SCIENCE.
Cait and I did a lot of science together in high school, and we quite enjoyed ourselves. So we decided, while I was home in Ottawa for a WHOLE MONTH, to do some more science to keep ourselves occupied and out of the Pie's hair.
For our first attempt at science, we decided to create polymer bouncy balls. Seemed simple enough. We got all the necessary supplies at the dollar store, including these sparkly plastic Christmas balls that held chocolate. We threw out the chocolate but kept the spheres to serve as moulds.
So what you need to do this is borax; corn starch; white, clear, or blue school glue; warm water; measuring spoons; two small plastic containers for mixing, as well as a stick or spoon for stirring; and optional glitter or food colouring.
Pour 2 tablespoons warm water and 1/2 teaspoon borax into one of the containers and stir or shake it to dissolve the borax. If you want to add food colouring, now's your chance.
In the other container, pour 1 tablespoon glue.
Add in 1 tablespoon of corn starch and 1 tablespoon of the borax solution that you just made. DO NOT STIR. Let this all mellow and mix together on its own for 15 seconds. I think maybe our container was too big because there wasn't really any interaction going on.
After fifteen seconds, whip out your spoon and start stirring. Stir until the mixture becomes too stiff to pull the spoon through.
Then empty the contents of your container into your hands and start kneading. It will begin as super messy.
But then it will start to come together.
And eventually form a ball.
However, we couldn't really get our ball to fully solidify, and it never bounced, so we thought we'd try again.
This time we used clear glitter glue.
This stuff ended up forming an odd sort of non-Newtonian fluid and never solidified at all. Not to mention it didn't turn out translucent as promised. I blame the weird dollar store glue.
And of course the amounts we used were way too small to fit in our clever little moulds.
Never mind. We'll try again some time.


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If all goes as planned, the Senate will vote today on the Republican Party's grand tax overhaul.
The last big policy scheme the GOP tried to pass was the repeal and replacement of ObamaCare. Like that bill, the GOP tax plan was passed by the House before coming down to a razor-thin vote in the Senate. Both bills also share the same basic flaws and inherent problems. And as I'm sure you recall, the legislative push to decimate ObamaCare ended in spectacular and humiliating failure.
This does not mean the tax bill will fail. It might well pass. But it does teeter on the brink. In the end, it will all come down to the votes of a handful of wavering Republican senators. And their rationale for supporting or opposing the tax bill may well mirror their decision-making process on TrumpCare.
Like TrumpCare, the GOP's tax bill is an incoherent patchwork stitched around one central goal. For TrumpCare, that was killing ObamaCare. For the tax bill, it's big tax cuts for the wealthy, with big cuts to business taxes, high-end income taxes, the estate tax, and the alternative minimum tax.
Needless to say, no Democrat wants anything to do with this tax plan, just as they refused to get onboard with gutting President Obama's signature legislative accomplishment. That has forced Republicans to use reconciliation — a Senate procedure that avoids the filibuster and allows bills to pass with simple majority votes — to try and pass both bills. But even by sidestepping the 60-vote supermajority required to overcome a filibuster, reconciliation's simple-majority threshold is still tight for Republicans, who hold a bare 52-to-48 majority in the Senate.
Among the catches with reconciliation is that any bill passed using this mechanism can't add to the deficit past its first 10 years. That means all the revenue losses from the GOP's big tax cuts for the wealthy have to be offset with either tax hikes or spending cuts elsewhere. TrumpCare tried to deal with this problem by slashing subsidies and reducing regulation in ways that would've cut government spending, but also thrown millions of Americans off their insurance while driving up premiums. Over the long-term, it would also have absolutely gutted Medicaid, the program that provides over 70 million low-income Americans with health coverage.
The Senate tax bill deals with the deficit problem differently. After a decade, most of the stuff in the GOP's tax bill just goes away completely. Among the few things that don't expire are the corporate tax cuts, and a change to how inflation is calculated for income tax brackets, pushing more people into higher tax brackets faster. Beyond 2027, the Senate bill would actually raise taxes on many people making under $75,000 relative to current law.
Republicans probably hope that pushing this event out 10 years will negate the political costs. In the short-term, they've tried to sweeten the pot by clearing out loopholes and deductions while cutting rates, expanding the standard deduction, and (very modestly) boosting some tax credits for working families. But as with TrumpCare before it, doing this in any sort of defensible way involves really detailed policy work the Republicans are clearly not up for. In an analysis of the Senate bill, The New York Times found the combined effect of all these changes will actually raise taxes for plenty of middle-class families as early as 2018.
Raising taxes or cutting spending on low- and middle-income Americans to make budgetary room for big tax cuts for the one percent is obviously poisonous politics. And Republican lawmakers know it.
Still, the GOP has been able to stay relatively unified in the House, where they have a comfortable majority. But in the Senate, the bill dies if the Republicans lose three measly votes. (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a critical tie-breaking vote in the event of a 50-50 split.) And with bills this complex, with this many moving parts, and with politics this bad, the opportunities and motives to jump ship are numerous.
Ultimately, Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) bailed on TrumpCare over its cuts to subsidies and Medicaid. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was upset about that too, but also that his party jammed the bill through both chambers with such speed and so few public hearings. Of course, the GOP had to do that, precisely because the effects of TrumpCare were too horrible to expose to the light of day for long. And they're doing that again with the tax bill.
This time around, Collins is upset over the death of the individual mandate, and Murkowski is not happy with the bill's general effects. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) are both unhappy with how the bill treats taxes for smaller businesses versus big corporations. GOP Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee, Jeff Flake of Arizona, and James Lankford of Oklahoma are all worried about that $1.5 trillion in additional deficits in the first decade. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) doesn't think the child tax credit boost is big enough. McCain is still cranky about regular order.
Still, none of these senators are guaranteed to jump ship. Indeed, they might all vote for the bill.
Collins, Murkowksi, Corker, and Johnson, in particular, all sound like they've been at least temporarily placated. But the vote still has to happen. The triggers Corker is calling for in case the bill doesn't deliver on revenue seem particularly likely to anger other Republicans. And even if the Senate does pass the bill, it still has to agree on one final version with the House before sending it to President Trump's desk. At which point, different senators could bail over other problems all over again. House Republicans seem unlikely to swallow Collins' ask that they strengthen ObamaCare's markets in exchange for killing the mandate, for instance. And the results would be bad for Americans even with that offset.
The upshot is this: If the tax bill fails, it will fail for the same basic reasons TrumpCare did. But if it passes, it will be for one reason and one reason only: The Republicans are even more terrified of failing their big-money donors on taxes than they were of failing their anti-ObamaCare base on health care.


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Questions are strange things. The more you answer, the more you get asked. How does that work?
Every once in a while I reach into the mailbags that line the hallways at Blog Headquarters, dip in and sample a few of the most recent vintage.
There are tried and true categories (no, the ISBN questions will never die) and questions about very specific scenarios.
My hope is that you'll find something here that will answer a question that's been nagging you. Wouldn't that be nice?
ISBN and Barcodes
Q: I'm changing the price on my book for a reprint. Do I need to have a new ISBN number? or can I just remove the price barcode?.
A: You don't need a new ISBN. You can either replace the price encoded in the barcode with the new price, or replace the whole barcode with the "null" barcode (no price encoded). And you can always get adhesive labels to sticker the books with the new barcode.
Q: Do I need to copyright my book first, or order the ISBN's before publishing? My goal is to sell my books on every level, but as far as steps to take what would you do first?
A: Please be aware that copyright has nothing to do with ISBN. You will need an ISBN before you publish your book if you plan to sell it through retail channels. Once the book has been published, you should send in your copyright registration within 90 days of the publication date.
Q: My organization wants to purchase 1000 ISBNs. If we purchase a package of 1000, are there rules on which numbers to use for different products? I have the ISBN Guides from Bowker, but I am still very confused about how to assign numbers to different products.
A: There are no "rules" about it, but for internal administrative reasons you might choose to segment the list of 1,000 so you could use those in the 100-200 range for print books, 200-300 for ebooks, 300-400 for flash drives, or some similar scheme. But as the publisher, this is completely up to you, you could also just use them in numerical order.
Q: If I want to change the price, higher or lower, how is it best to register it in the ISBN so that I won't need to buy another ISBN. I'll get an ISBN and barcode for only the paperback. Also, I assume after I pay they will tell me my ISBN and then I'll have to give more detail when I buy the barcode. Is that right?
A: Changing the price will not require you to assign a new ISBN. You can purchase a barcode but many book designers will supply one for free when they create your cover art. If you're concerned about price changes, get a "null barcode" that doesn't include the price, it will work just as well.
Q: To publish and/or self-publish my book, I'd need to register and secure an ISBN; however, if I begin by blogging my manuscript content on a regular and consistent basis, will I need to begin with registering and securing an ISBN?
A: ISBNs only relate to published books, they are a method of assigning a unique identifier to each separate format or edition of a published work, so they are irrelevant to blogs or blog content.
Q: I published through CreateSpace a few months ago. I want to resize my book so that I can use expanded distribution. I didn't realise at the time of publishing that my book needs to be 5″ × 8″. I've just sat down to amend it and it seems that I can't change the trim size because I have got an ISBN. Is it set in stone then, that once you are assigned an ISBN, the size of your book can never be changed?
A: You are free to change the size of your book any time you want. When you issue the book in a new size, it will be a new "edition" and every edition needs its own ISBN. So just assign a new ISBN to the new size. You might want to "unpublish" the earlier one to avoid confusion in the market, and make sure you note somewhere on your sales page that it's the same book as before, in a new size, so you minimize the chance of someone buying the same book twice.
Q: We are publishing an adult coloring book and just printing 100 copies to start. I understand the ISBN but the bar code for price is confusing. I purchased a book at Costco for $12.50 but the bar code was 51999. So if you give stores your book with a price how does it work that they sell it for less? Doesn't the bar code price have to match the sale price. I am lost.
A: Barcodes come in two styles, either with the price (like the one you saw at Costco. By the way, the "5" means that the price following is in U.S. dollars) or without, which is usually referred to as a "null" barcode.
No matter which one you use, the retailer is only going to use the ISBN part of the barcode to retrieve their own database entry for that item, which will include the retailer's price.
In the U.S. you can't dictate the retail price, only "suggest" one, so all book prices—whether included in the bar code or printed on the book—are essentially "MSRP" or manufacturer's suggested retail price, and retailers are free to charge whatever they like.
Book Design
Q: Have you noticed the abundance of books that don't follow the "chapter starting on the
recto (right-hand page)" convention? I looked at 40 books yesterday and none of them followed that rule. Is this a new trend thanks to digital technology?
A: It's common for chapters in fiction books to open on the next available page, and for nonfiction books to stay with the recto chapter opening, but these are conventions, not rules.
Q: I have a quick question. Some books contain a list of endorsements in the body of the book, but these days, it seems more books only include them on the front cover and on the back cover. If you were to include a list of book endorsements inside the body, where would you put them? Is it inappropriate to include lists of endorsements inside, is that out of the current style, or otherwise?
A: These blurbs or testimonials are usually on the first 2 or 4 pages when you open the cover of the book. Since they are not part of the text of the book we paginate them separately (a, b, etc) and that's why they've come to commonly be called "A/B pages."
Q: If the trim size for the book is 6 x 9, then what should I set the actual page size to be with the minimal border for text?
A: The page size is the same as the trim size. The text area is smaller because it includes the margins. Try 3/4″ for your margins, so your text area would be around 1.5″ smaller in both dimensions than your page size. And when you set up your document, no matter what software you use, use the page size as the document size.
Book Marketing
Q: I'm wary of giving away too much of my novel. It's so easy to steal ideas these days and everyone seems to be thinking along the same lines. I know this sounds paranoid. I have this great idea of starting my author website and introducing the characters of my novel, giving their backgrounds, a bit of their personal story so that potential readers can see how they connect with me, the author and in so doing whet their appetites for the final product. Great idea but I'm afraid to do it. Should I be this worried?
A: I think your plan is a good one: write about your characters, their background, even the places where the story is set, they are all great topics for a blog before the book comes out. And since you won't be revealing any plot, I don't think there's any reason to be suspicious or paranoid about "stealing." If Shakespeare blogged about Romeo, Juliet, Venice, family feuds, the art of swordplay, banquets in 15th century Italy, etc. no one would ever suspect what the play was actually about, would they?
Q: I am getting ready to publish my self-help book for healthcare professionals. I'm aware that review copies should be sent out to certain publications in advance but I don't have that list. Can you let me know where I can find it? If it's available in one of your books, I will buy the book.
A: The "list" doesn't exist because each book has a set of potential reviewers depending on the subject matter in the book, and that varies from book to book. However, if you're referring to pre-publication reviewers, basically, it's the New York Times, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal (when appropriate), Los Angeles Times and Kirkus Reviews, as I recall.
Q: After setting up my book launch page, I set it as the static home page through my WordPress dashboard. I just got a notice from Google via Webmaster Tools stating that my webpage is suspect because the home page is redirecting to a different page and may "mislead visitors to your website." Is there a way to make this NOT look like a misleading page?
A: I would definitely not redirect your home page elsewhere. Just set up a menu with the book launch page linked to a menu selection and you should be fine. Use the home page to welcome visitors, introduce yourself, say what the site is for, and so on.
Business of Publishing
Q: Hi Joel, I just read How to Create, Register and List Your New Publishing Company and I have a question. I have a U.S. "S" Corporation. I want to create my own publishing company as a division of the S-Corp which will bill for my services. What steps would I take to get a name for the publishing company and tie it to the S-Corp? Or could I just use the same name?
A: You can certainly use the same name or simply establish the publishing operation as a subsidiary or "imprint" of your S-Corp, there's nothing specific that you have to do except file a fictitious business name statement ("DBA") if the name is different than the S-Corp's name.
Q: I'd really like some further clarification. Am I filing a DBA (not incorporated and want to stay as sole proprietor) for the imprint that I create or the publishing company from which it will be housed under? Or must I be a corporation to create this hierarchy within? (Publishing company–>imprint)
A: You can have any type of business organization you like, they each have advantages and disadvantages. There's no need to incorporate, and if you already have an independent business and file a Schedule C (in the U.S.) you probably don't need a new business at all, you can do your publishing (as long as it's related in some way) under your current business structure.
Q: I was told by my editor to just send a copy of my manuscript to myself registered mail and don't open it. 22 months seems like forever when you are ready to release your book. Won't this method work to get started?
A: Sorry, but mailing yourself a registered copy will do nothing for you, it's a waste of time. 22 months is how long it takes for the copyright office to process registrations, you'll do that after you publish the book. You own the copyright to your work when you create it, the Copyright Office is just registering it. You don't have to wait for your registration certificate before you publish, just print the © symbol and appropriate language in your book, then after publication fill out the forms and send them in.
Q: I'm working on republishing a series of 4 books which are out of print. Do I need consent from anyone other than the copyright holder? I'm recreating them from hard copies so will I have joint copyright of the new edition?
A: You will need to get permission in the form of a license for your own publication. You'll then own the rights specified in the license, but you won't "own" any of the copyright since you were not the creator of the works.
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Hipster-ish brunch cafes are pleasantly abundant in Singapore, but Nosh offers something slightly less hipster, more classic. The fact that its location is more remote means that it's usually not jam packed on weekends; you definitely won't need a queuing ticket to get a table (like we did at Atlas Coffeehouse).
The Greenhouse part of Nosh is an outdoor area, surrounded by greenery. It's beautifully peaceful, no wonder the first time I attempted to brunch here on a Sunday afternoon, it was closed for a wedding. With such a setting, I would've been skeptical about their food, but after hearing multiple positive experiences, I had to try it for myself.
House-cured Salmon with Scrambled Eggs
The house-cured salmon with scrambled eggs didn't look too inventive at first. But we were impressed with the execution of the unexpectedly creamy eggs. The smoked salmon was also delicious, especially when mixed in with the mentaiko sauce.
Shakshuka with goat cheese and eggplant fritters *must order*
But the shakshuka was definitely a winner. It might even be the best ones I've had to date in Asia. The sauce was appropriately thick and flavourful. The mix of chunks of goat cheese added to the layers of flavours, as an almost pungent flavour would sneak into a bite here and there. I would've preferred the eggplants non-frittered however, as they made the dish a little heavy.
Beautiful spot to enjoy a lazy Sunday afternoon
With the green serene setting and a great brunch menu, Nosh is definitely a solid and comfortable destination to enjoy a lazy Sunday afternoon. My only complaint is that the coffee was decent, but definitely did not live up to the strong coffee standards of cafes in Singapore in general. So I'd say, save your caffeine quota for the late afternoon somewhere else!
9 Rochester Park (near Buono Vista MRT)
Phone: +65 9755 5015
Spend per person: SGD25-30


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