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For a long time, I wanted to attend to a culinary course but have been putting it off because I didn't want to go alone. As we all have busy lives, making it happen sadly seemed on the verge of impossible. After a few attempts on reaching an agreement it became obvious that if I were to wait for the whens, wheres and all that to come together, it will probably never happen, so I decided to go by myself.
I've participated in a bread & dairy workshop a few weeks back and it turned out to be so much fun! Did not even miss company because my attention was completely focused on making the food. In 3 hours, not only did we bake several delicious breads, but also prepared our own butter, yogurt, fresh cheese and yeast starter to take home with us. From scratch.
On this occasion it cleared on me how straightforward making your own dairy could be. Before seeing it for myself, I thought it' something you can't possibly have the proper tools and conditions at home. With my newly acquired knowledge though, I jumped straight into homemade dairy and I don't think I'm buying these items from the store anytime soon!
TBH, I don't drink milk. Period. Lattes and hot cocoa yes, but not plain milk. Dairy though! I love, love, love dairy. Thank God (and mom and dad and genetics) I'm not lactose intolerant, I'd be so miserable missing out on all the deliciousness. Having allergies myself, I really feel for everyone with this condition, fingers crossed we will soon have some kind of remedy.
So why should you start making your own yogurt and butter? Not because it's cheaper, although you'd be better off (not counting the value of your labour that goes into it). And not because it's more convenient, as lifting products off a store shelf is always easier, of course. Why do it then?
Because it makes you proud. In a word where most of us are nine-to-fivers sitting in an office all day and our jobs come down to keystrokes and clicks, sooner or later you start feeling like you need to make something tangible. To create. Art, crafts, food, or anything really, with your own hands.
I started my blog because I was at that point, and I cook and DIY for the same reason. Not that I hate my day job, it's just that I had to look for an outlet elsewhere to channel my creative energy. Luckily, I found my passion and the everyday grind gets so much more tolerable when you have activities that relax your mind, charge you up and give you satisfaction.
But back to the matter at hand! Utensil-wise, if your kitchen is equipped with a pot, some kind of a jar, a mixing bowl and an electric mixer (or at least a whisk), you are set to go. Other useful devices could be a food thermometer, ramekins and a sieve, but those are not strictly mandatory.
For the yogurt, ingredients are milk and a cup of natural, unflavored yogurt. Skim, semi-skimmed, or whole milk will all work, both HTST and UHT. Note that the higher the fat content, the thicker, creamier and tastier your yogurt will be.
The natural yogurt will act as the starter culture, the live bacteria in it turn the milk to yogurt. Once you start making your own yogurt, you can use leftovers from each batch to culture your next. Just save the proper amount to use for this purpose. The recipe can be scaled up or down.
Homemade Natural Yogurt
1 l/34 fl oz milk
160 g/5.64 oz plain natural yogurt
- Heat the milk in a heavy bottomed pan to just below boiling (95°C/200°F) stirring occasionally to avoid sticking to the bottom.
- Wait for milk to cool to warm, around 50-60°C/120-140°F
- Stir the yogurt with the milk using a whisk until dissolved
- Transfer mixture to a jug or jar, wrap container in a heavy scarf to slow cooling process.
- Let set on the counter for at least 4 hours or as long as overnight. Avoid jostling or stirring until yogurt has fully set.
- Cool.
Refrigerated, yogurt keeps for about 2 weeks.
For the butter, use whipping or heavy cream (30-36% fat content). You need to churn the cream until it divides to butter and buttermilk, which can be done with a whisk or an electric mixer. Save buttermilk for later use.
Homemade Butter
400 ml/13.5 fl oz heavy whipping cream, cooled
- Pour cream in a high sided mixing bowl to avoid splashes, and start whipping.
- You will eventually reach the state of whipped cream; continue whipping.
- You'll notice that whipped cream starts to collapse and clump up. That's what you're looking for, keep whipping!
- When clusters of fat collect and buttermilk has precipitated, your butter is ready: drain buttermilk with the help of cheese cloth or a sieve, and transfer butter to a ramekin or muffin tin.
- Refrigerate. When butter has cooled, you can turn it out from the mold.
This amount of cream makes approximately 125 g/4.4 oz/1 stick butter and 245 g/8.6 oz buttermilk.
Next stop for me? Definitely cheese. I'm already eyeing some courses, can't wait!
How do you feel about making some foods for yourself instead of opting for the convenient choice? Let me know in the comments!
"Close-up of glass of milk" photo featured as title image © asierromeo / freepik


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I had joined the local pub's angling club (The Gladstone), and was on my first match. It was on the Yorkshire Derwent.
I'd only started fishing a month earlier, and was full of trepidation, but excited about it. The lads seemed a decent bunch.
Being a newcomer, as with all of them, I was put in 'A' section to assess my skills, against the others.
Somehow, the smoke emitting old Bedford OB coach got us all the way there, and to the 2 mile hike along the river bank to our designated match stretch.
For the first 5 hours and 50 minutes of the 6 hour match, I didn't even get a bite! Then, when I did, I struck, and struggled to get the fish out, and it was a tiny eel, and I'd never seen one of them before. Nobody had explained to about how slippery and slimy they were, and I ended up on the grass, fighting with this 3 ounce eel, and nearly losing!
The whistle indicating the end of the match was blown as I was putting the eel into a bait box full of water, I looked back up the bank, and there were about half a dozen of the lads who had been watching my embarrassing fight with the tiny eel, and they all laughed and then gave me a clap!
It turned out at the weigh-in, that only two fish had been caught - my hard nosed eel, and one Tommy Ruff, so on my first match, I'd won the prize money, and had a challenge cup to keep for a year!
Easy this match fishing I thought.
My next win was nine years later.
So we all packed up and took the trek back to the pick-up point for the bus, that conveniently being a pub car park. With only two fish being caught, the weigh-in had took no time at all, and we were very early for the pick-up, the coach not yet in site. The landlord opened the pub up early for us.
I was soon guzzling ale, and listening and watching some of the lads play a game of 'Tippit', which I'd never seen before, and was fascinated with it. After a while, I thought I'd better nip to the toilet before the coach arrives, and off I went to the little boy's room, where I found I had a touch of constipation, but persisted painfully.
When I got back into the pub, there was none of the lads or any of their tackle to be found!
They had piled the tackle and themselves on board, and driven off, leaving me behind in the loo!
Bless them, I was a new face, and they were rat-arsed, understandable really!
There were no mobile phones to use in those days. I rang the Gladstone, leaving a message, and requesting rescue.
Then settled into a game of domino's with some of the locals, oh, and imbibed a few more pints of the excellent ale on offer.
It turned out that about an hour or so later, the lads on the bus were sorting out the raffle, and eventually they realised I was not there.
They returned to collect me, amid much jibing, mickey-taking, and the ranting of the bus driver, and picked me up.
I fell into a splendid alcohol induced stupor on the way home.
I was working at Tesco at the time, and this new girl had started there, and my heart and desire's were all of a flutter.
Eventually I plucked up enough courage to offer to take her on a date, to the pictures (to the Elite cinema).
Her response, hit me hard, and I've never forgotten how she leant her head to one side, smiled a radiant smile, and said: "No thanks titch, I only date men!"
Oh that hurt!

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This is the weekend of holidays and I like to think it's the beginning of spring. Here are Easter and spring sparklers to enjoy with the spring holiday foods you will be enjoying with family and friends.
Though we had a very mild winter here, it's always nice to look forward to bright sunny days, the fragrant spring flowers, and taking time to enjoy the beauty that nature provides.
Many will be celebrating the holiday with meals that blend sweet and savory flavors of spring ham and vegetables. There is never a perfect wine for all the foods we are serving but there is always a sparkling wine to enjoy.
Sparkling wines are often thought of as a wine just for celebrations. That is true especially when you consider every meal with family and friends should be a celebration. It doesn't have to be for a special occasion.
A very food-friendly wine that has crisp acidity you can serve sparkling wine with a variety of dishes. The acidity is a perfect match for hot/spicy dishes; fried foods; cold salads with citrus or vinaigrette dressing; and it tames the sweetness in the glazes on the ham.
There are many affordable sparkling wines to choose for the holiday. There are pink varieties of sparkling wine; there's Spanish Cava, Crémant, or Prosecco. These are widely available in most major markets.
If you prefer just a crisp white wine choose a Sauvignon Blanc, Riesling, or Gewurztraminer. These whites are known for their crisp acidity and are also very food friendly.
For the red wine lover a fruit forward Zinfandel can be a good match for the sweet glazed ham.
Don't hesitate to ask the salesperson in your local wine store for assistance. They are very knowledgeable and will be happy to help you select a wine you prefer.
Don't stress over choosing the perfect wine. The best pairing is food and family which makes the wine just perfect. Remember "it's a matter of taste!"
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If the Department of Energy is to be believed, weekly gasoline demand has fallen 7% on average from a year ago, to its lowest level since 2001.
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Driving O2O in Hong Kong (Interview with CompBrother)
01 September 2016
Backed by a team of strategic, technical and creative specialists, CompBrother provides IT services including website design, search-engine optimisation and social-media promotions, helping companies to drive their e-commerce initiatives.
When Phoenix Wan and his partners started CompBrother a few years ago, group-buying websites – also known as collective-buying websites – had emerged as a major model for Hong Kong's online-shopping business. Consumers can buy food, products or services from these websites, then print out a voucher for redemption at a retailer. Many of these group-buying sites work through negotiating deals with local merchants and promising to deliver a higher foot count in exchange for better prices.
CompBrother has developed about 250 group-buying websites for its clients. Today, the group-buying frenzy is cooling down, and only a few dozen of those websites are still active. Wan has witnessed many trends come and go in e-commerce, a competitive arena in which only the very fittest survive. "To stay competitive, one might find that there is always more to learn," said Wan. "From unique selling propositions to product sourcing, from front-office display to user experience to social-media engagement, everything requires close attention to detail.
"To stand out in a crowded online market, one needs strategies that continuously build brand awareness, which is not a one-off job. In many cases, it would be more cost effective to engage professionals in different fields to help."
Inspired by the concept of OpenRice, a dining guide and restaurant review platform, Wan has developed and operated a number of O2O (online-to-offline) websites, the key to which is capturing consumers online and directing them to real-world stores.
One of Wan's O2O websites facilitates searching, evaluation and price comparison of MC (master of ceremony) services in Hong Kong. Wan realised that people needed MCs for many occasions, such as wedding banquets and annual dinner events, but that there was no platform to obtain their services. Similarly, MCs in Hong Kong had no channel through which to market themselves or at least to make themselves known to the public.
On Wan's platform, MCs can list information such as their specialties and experience, allowing potential clients to search for the services that best suit their requirements. The platform is free to users, who have access to instant communications with MCs, who are charged a commission. After an event, clients can evaluate an MC's performance and leave comments on the platform.
CompBrother also creates and owns platforms that link potential clients with other services, such as hair salons and wedding planners.
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At the beginning of this month, on the United Nations International Day of Older Persons, the Royal Hospital Chelsea hosted the launch of a vital new initiative 'Stay Safe for Older People' with the aim to help older people lead healthy and independent lives.
The Stay Safe for Older People (www.staysafe.support) portal is a free information and resource website signposting older people and their family, friends and carers, to the wealth of available expert advice and support – ranging from safety in the home to avoidance of scams – under one easy to use umbrella site. It brings together materials and guidance from key organisations and experts to make it easier for older people and those who care for them to access vital knowledge when they need it. This helps them to ensure their safety and wellbeing and ultimately avoid hospital admissions arising from preventable accidents.
The site covers topics ranging from accident prevention and keeping your home environment safe, to managing medication and first aid through to frauds, scams, hoaxes and hoarding – with contributions from relevant experts including RoSPA, Age UK, academics, Trading Standards Scams and Fraud and other supporting organisations.
The portal is supported by the Stay Safe Community Facebook group which allows users to access key experts directly to ask them for advice as well as offering a discussion forum for sharing experiences and useful information.
Among the supporters of the initiative is Matthew Ryder, Deputy Mayor of London, Hugh Pym BBC Health Correspondent, and Dame Esther Rantzen.
Professor Keith Brown of Bournemouth University, one of the UK's leading experts on financial scam prevention among vulnerable people, says: "Our research has shown the impact of being scammed can have devastating effects not only on the individual's confidence and independence, but their family and communities, the health service and society as a whole. Often the fraud is the catalyst and can often result in the victim requiring residential care or admission to hospital. This is why I fully endorse the vital support offered by Stay Safe for Older People empowering people with resources and information to help them feel safe, supported and able to cope."
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Let's assume Apple announces and/or releases something today, June 9. (Nothing would make me happier if it didn't, but who's counting?) So, what else happened on this truly historic day?
• 68 Nero committed suicide. The pain of being more than 1,900 years too early for the iPhone was too much for him to bear.
• 1790 The first book was copyrighted in the U.S., Philadelphia Spelling Book. You didn't even have to slide to unlock it!
• 1934 Donald Duck debuts. Too bad Disney cartoons are horribly boring, and have nothing to do with the iPhone.
• 1954 Joseph Welch goes on that whole "Have you no decency, sir?" rant re: Joseph McCarthy. Fifty-four years later, cellphone manufacturers competing with the iPhone will ask Steve Jobs the same question.
• 1973 Secretariat won the Triple Crown. He was in that hamburger you ate last night.
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When you are jetting off on holiday or for a weekend getaway, the last thing you want is to be driving round Dublin Airport trying to find a cheap car park with either a space or one that is actually going to be as cheap as it says it is - without being closer to home than the airport.
The best advice is to search online and book before you go, usually saving you money and definitely saving you time and stress at the last minute. The top two cheapest suprisingly aren't perhaps the most popular or the most well-known, but still cheaper than the bigger competitors and just as close and secure. Take for example Airside Aiport Parking, for less then €5 per day, they have 250 spaces underground, in a secure, CCTV and 24 hour on call staff car park. So if you are getting away for a week, you can ensure a safe space for only €33.50 for the week, with only a seven minute trip to the airport by shuttle, which runs every ten mins (Except during 12.30am - 3am) for only €1 per person.
Or if you are coming down the M50 or the M1, a more convenient place to park is the Express Park And Fly - which does exactly what it says. For only €4 per day it is slightly cheaper than above and only 3 minutes away from the airport. The only downfall for this cheap car park at Dublin Airport is the fact that it is not twenty four hours - so it won't suit those flying out between 1am and 4am. The shuttle bus does depart to the airport every half hour between the hours of 4am and 1am, again for the same price as above, one euro per person (children under 16 ride free)
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Check out what we've improved in Simulation, Sketching, Rendering, Display, and CAM in this update!
Awesome! many thanks for the 'rotate/view' updates!! the other things are also pretty nice… I just wish though that you guys would make it a priority, to easier spot the component in the component tree when you select a body/component in the window… that tiny striped line under the text is really, REALLY hard to see for some (myself included), and therefore annoying to search for even for people who have superman eyes…
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About this course
Landscape approaches call for innovative interventions that cut across sectors and scales. Public and private funders are ready to invest but there are gaps to bridge. Integrated landscape investments need to be built on shared understandings and motivations between landscape inhabitants and leaders and the world of finance.
Are you from the finance world and want to think from a landscape perspective? Or, are you working in or for a landscape initiative and want to mobilise resources? Join this course and bridge the gap between finance and landscapes. Gain critical insights and develop the skills to capitalize on investors motivations to invest and the need for innovative financing in landscapes.
You'll learn from experiences with linking public and private to stimulate game-changing investments. You'll hear about multi-sector, multi-stakeholder investments that manage and effect multiple landscape functions.
Join the course now and jump right in to breaking down complex language and concepts in a light and highly interactive manner. Learn about plural values and how they can be achieved with the right investment. Learn too how to stimulate, secure and coordinate the execution of that investment. During this course you'll also learn develop integrated investment strategies to support landscape leaders and investors in their related efforts. This course will get you ready to join the global discussion, debate and journey toward sustainable and inclusive landscapes.
Join this course now and take your first step towards the Professional Certificate Programme in Landscape Academy. Join two more courses in this programme and earn your credential.
The Landscape Academy Professional Certificate Programme lets you harness the power of place and advance your career as a landscape leader and the programme consists of the following courses:
- Landscape Leadership: Catalyse sustainable development in landscapes
- Landscape Finance: Investing in Innovation for Sustainable Landscapes
- Landscape governance: Collaborating Across Sectors and Scales
- Climate Action in Biodiverse Landscapes
What you'll learn
- Learn how integrated landscape investments can add financial value
- What sources of capital are available for integrated landscape investments
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Airforce Delta/Headscratchers
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To add questions raised by Airforce Delta series games.
Lots of questions regarding the enemy's choice of weapon systems come up throughout all of Airforce Delta Strike.
- How useful to an overall war effort can the OCC's 100+ meter diameter steamrollers be if the entirety of their Area of Operations is one small, winding canyon--with no large enough way in or out--that can be easily circumnavigated?
- How useful to an overall war effort can the OCC's 100+ meter diameter wind-generator fans be if their ground stabilizer systems can only be deployed at a cliff's edge? Strike's terrain does feature a lot of canyons, but very few have the mesa-top terrain that is flat enough, just the right distance across and stable enough to support these otherwise useless weapons.
- How useful to an overall war effort can the OCC's 100+ meter diameter, 5-barrel rail-cannon Leupold Battery be when every gun is built in a completely fixed position, trajectory and direction? Once you have bombarded the one area they can hit, they can't target anything else. Just another one that can be easily avoided.
- Why didn't the EDAF simply send a small contingent of ground forces in to deal with the Tornado Generators? The tornadoes could only be generated around the top of the generators and would dissipate as soon as the machine was turned off. They could not affect tanks or low-angle artillery firing from a few miles' distance.
- That's actually explained: The testing ground is far behind enemy lines, at a point where only planes can get to them. Of course, there's probably some ground-based, heliborne force that could have easily dealt with them - the local version of the SAS, Green Berets, Spetznaz, etc - and dealt with the generators that way.


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Pai boasts a disproportionately large amount of restaurants for a community of its small size, but the greatest variety of cuisines on offer in Pai can be found at the stalls on Chaisongkran Road each evening. Vegetarians and people who prefer healthy eating will be pleasantly surprised at the number of Pai restaurants which cater to their specific dietary preferences.
Last Updated: November 2019
Health food aficionados may be especially interested in Good Life. This establishment is simple to spot because of its distinct wheat grass plant image. Brown rice, wheat grass shots, and a variety of teas can all be found on the Good Life menu, which includes both Thai and Western organic dishes.
Good Life: A. Pai, Mae Hong Son 58130 | Open: 08:00-23:00 (Daily) | Map
Those who prefer a more authentic Thai dining experience, specifically dishes from the country's northern section, may prefer Na's Kitchen. Na herself prepares many of the meals in her restaurant kitchen, speaks English, and will give Thai lessons upon polite request. Na's Kitchen is only open after dark and tables can be tough to secure during high season.
Na's Kitchen: T. Wiang Tai, A. Pai, Mae Hong Son 58130 | Open: 11:00-21:00 (Daily) | Map
The Om Garden Café menu items may frequently change, but the garden setting by a lotus pond with a sun deck always remains the same at this restaurant which specialises in vegetarian cuisine. It is not uncommon to encounter customers who roam barefoot or play musical instruments at this laid-back establishment.
Om Garden Café: #60/4, T. Wiang Tai, A. Pai, Mae Hong Son 58130 | Open: 08:00-17:00 (Tuesday-Sunday) | Tel: +66 82 451 5930 | Facebook | Map
The Western restaurants on Chaisongkran Road tend to receive higher ratings than their Thai counterparts, especially the ones which serve up coffee and breakfast. Many friendships among expats and tourists have begun at the wooden bench shaped like a U at Big's Little Café. Diners can begin their day watching the preparation of their full English breakfast at this unassuming cottage's open kitchen.
Big's Little Café: T. Wiang Tai, A. Pai, Mae Hong Son 58130 | Open: 08:30-20:30 (Daily) | Tel: +66 93 131 3472 | Facebook | Map
Boomelicious Café is another Pai restaurant which stands out among the rest for its hearty breakfasts, high quality coffee, tasty shakes, and lovely stone bar. Diners may choose to eat outdoors on the patio or beneath the funky colourful chandeliers.
Boomelicious Café: #74/1, M. 3, A. Pai, Mae Hong Son 58130 | Open: 08:00-22:00 (Daily) | Tel: +66 80 342 9066, +66 83 209 1411 | Facebook | Map
Cafecito's two main specialities are its tremendous variety of Mexican delicacies and house blend coffee. Not only is Cafecito's coffee available in latte, Americano, or espresso format, but coffee lovers can even make requests as the staff blend and roast their brews. Gluten free brownies are also available alongside the tortillas, tacos, and smothered burritos on Cafecito's menu.
Cafecito: #258, M. 8, T. Wiang Tai, A. Pai, Mae Hong Son 58130 | Open: 09:00-17:00 (Closed on Thursday) | Tel: +66 86 587 2107 | Facebook | Map
Bean bags and hammocks are the places where diners can savour both their meals and the stunning mountain backdrop at Pai Chan Cottage & Cuisine. The restaurant offers a variety of Western and Thai dishes. The menu also features a good choice of juices, soft drinks and Thai desserts.
Pai Chan Cottage & Cuisine: #191, M. 1, T. Mae Hee, A. Pai, Mae Hong Son 58130 | Tel: +66 81 180 3064 | Facebook | Map
Vegans can sometimes struggle to find restaurants to accommodate their dietary requirements in some areas, but this certainly is not the case in Pai. Charlie and Leks stands out because of its cooking classes, romantic atmosphere, and the fact all of their vegetables were grown on the farm of this restaurant whose logo is We Love Lettuce.
Charlie and Leks: T. Wiang Tai, A. Pai, Mae Hong Son 58130 | Open: 11:00-21:30 (Daily) | Tel: +66 81 733 9055 | Map
Vegan options are available on the menus of most Pai restaurants, but Earth Tone is one of the few establishments where the majority of meals are prepared without meat or other animal products. Vegan tempeh sandwiches, waffles with coconut milk, and raw sliced cakes are among the standout items on the menu of this vegetarian restaurant which also sells organic soap and other natural products.
Earth Tone: Opposite Mae Yen Temple, A. Pai, Mae Hong Son 58130 | Tel: +66 84 662 8062 | Facebook | Map


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This off road mtb ride takes your over 2 high plateau crossing the top of Le Thier de Coo, La Haute Levée, Le Rosier and La Vecquée.
After riding up the first high plateau you will pass the beautiful paragliding start points of Coo, offering one of the best panorama's of Belgium!
You than ride direction of Francorchamps.
A more technical single track takes you to a smaller climb heading to the second high plateau between Le Rosier and La Vecquée Climbs. Here you will pass next to the Natural Park called 'Le Domaine de Berinzenne'.
You will than have some nice straight flat gravel roads leading you to the top of La Vecquée.
The ride takes you than down to Stoumont where you can reload if needed at the local bakery ' Boulangerie Bourotte '.
After a technical descent you will ride up one of the best single track portion of the region passing in the back garden of ' Le Chateau de Froidcourt '.
You than are almost back at the café riding through the valley of the Amblève river and finishing with a loop around the beautiful lake of Coo.
LEVEL : This MTB ride is for mid to advance mtb riders
Max elevation: 569 m
Total climbing: 1098 m


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2010 MISSION LEARNING OPPORTUNITYBack to Trip History
Seventeen people went in 2010 - now a total of 69 people have been used in this ministry. We expanded the Baseball Camp to include one other Croatian baseball club in addition to the Sisak Storks. We started a Texas Carnival, built a water well on a farm, built a cabin for youth camp at Zolina Dolina. We also served as Youth Camp counselors and kitchen help at the camp. We continued to visit and encourage churches, returned to the Drug Rehab at Rejeka, and donated finances and labor to help with the building of a new baseball field in Sisak for the Storks Baseball Club. The Storks' field ("The Nest") is one of only 3 baseball fields in the entire country of Croatia.
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Founded in March 1980, The Women of Sacred Heart (WOSH) supports parish activities, develops spiritual growth, and encourages a strong feeling of community among the women of our parish.
All women who are members of our Parish are members of WOSH. Attending our meetings is a great way to get to know one another and to share in our parish activities. For some, the family is far away, so it's reassuring and a comfort to know you have WOSH friends!
Parish Activities
WOSH is always ready to lend a hand to parish needs. Here is a sampling of activities in which we participate: First Communion and Confirmation receptions; Giving Tree; Parish Festival; Mardi Gras Dance; Easter Egg Hunt; assist parishioners with special needs or circumstances.
Funeral Ministry
We try to provide food and serving help with after-funeral receptions here in the parish hall for the family and friends if they so desire. Right now this is usually done by the Women of Sacred Heart. We would like to get a Bereavement Committee started to handle this, as well as providing support and comfort to grieving families, arranging meals, etc.
Meeting ID: 824 0107 4228
Passcode: WOSH
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*from the perspective of a broke anti-streaming slacker*
Thanks to the annoyingly catchy and _trendy_ tv commercials it's pretty hard to miss the news that apple have started a music streaming service. For anyone that has an iphone and has bought an app, and therefore has an itunes account, it's very easy to opt into and start the free three month trial of "Apple Music". Important reminder: go into the settings and turn off automatic subscription renewal.
The first noteworthy thing is that 3 month trial. Three months is a long time. It's very clever. Not many companies would have the capital to pay for all that initial set up without some return in the near future. More importantly, for schleppers like me three months is long enough to get hooked.
Up til now there have been a couple of global streaming services – spotify and pandora. I tried spotify for about half an hour and was not impressed. They have no free trial. If you want to listen to it for free then they insert lame-oh advertisements after every second song – thus turning your favourite album into bad radio.
So I started trialling the apple service a couple of weeks ago expecting it to be rubbish. It's not but the jury's still out on whether I'd actually pay for it. It's 12bucks a month in Australia so over a year $144 which if you'd decided to take a different path through reality, would be I guess about 6 physical albums. If at the end of that year you cancel the service then you're left with nothing except those sweet memories. And then there's always the chance apple will raise the price.
For me one of the big sticking points is that it's streaming. That's okay at home using the internet and wireless router but for outside I'm a) on a budget phone plan and use phone megabytes sparingly. I try to make 100Mb last for two months. It doesn't work but there's certainly no room for 4Mb per song or whatever it is. B) Even cellular coverage in Australia is patchy let alone the thought of streaming via wifi while out and about. I lose phone reception on the train between Geelong and Melbourne. But at home it's fine and I was listening to music all day and it didn't use any noticeable amount of bandwidth here.
The main thing I was dubious about was what music they had available. One neat thing is you just use the itunes program on computer or app on a phone the same as you would with your own _owned_ albums. So for the last two weeks I've been quizzing it. I think of some old or somewhat obscure artist and think Oh you got that? – look it up and mostly I've been impressed. Although my musical taste has been sliding to a slightly more mainstream point over the last ten years.
They got 13th floor elevators, they got Stetsasonic, they got Ganggajang and they even got this album (just packaged differently) :

Of course it's always possible to find the odd artist here or there that's not on the service, perhaps because the artist had previously taken control of the copyright to their music — taking it from whichever company originally published it. An example it the '90s Melbourne indie group, Sandro. Their album Hate Songs is not on there. But then you could trawl five or six music shops in Melbourne and not find the CD there either.

Here is a list of other failings I found.
- The Bell Sisters. I tried loading up an album of theirs. It was a compilation but I don't know that they ever really did proper albums. Some music librarian data entry person goofed because instead of those two '50s girls voices I got Duke duke duke duke of Earl.
- Swervedriver. Despite being a pretty popular alternative crusty UK grungish rock outfit in their time, Swervedriver ended up with a series of record deals from hell — or something like that. A couple of good albums were essentially buried, deleted and difficult to get a hold of for years and years after release (in the '90s). And indeed 1995's Ejector Seat Reservation is missing.
- Occasionally songs just don't come through. Like Guantanameraby The Sandpipers. It's the lead track of their 1966 album, Guantanamera. I click on it – and nothing. Yet the other tracks from the album play. *[Edit]* A week later I try it again and now it's working.
- Even for a well known artist like Aphex Twin there's a whole lot of stuff that's not there – like (one of my faves) the EP Mike Flowers Pops Vs The Aphex Twin, and the Mike & Rich album. That's one thing but also Richard D James recorded under a whole load of names (AFX, Polygon Window etc.). The iTunes interface could make it much clearer in linking collections of music made by the same artist. There is an 'artists you may also like' thing on the side but then for example on the Aphex Twin page it lumps AFX in with completely unrelated, maudlin try-hards Autechre.

My other major criticism is the search function is always steering you back to the popular. I look up an artist and you get in order, top singles, top albums, and then 'albums'. The top result is nearly always a 'best of' compilation.
I like drilling back, finding who influenced who and I just prefer to go about it more studiously most of the time and listen to one album at a time.
Or at least that's the theory. The convenience of looking up any music you can think of and have it playing a few seconds later is pretty mind-blowing. I'm still in the phase of engorging myself and barely getting to the end of one song before going on to the next thing.
*What I'd like, uh-huh*
I'd like to be able to search by record label. I type in Tommy Boy, and I want to see a list of the albums released by that label. Same with 4AD and so on.
I'd like to be able to click on that 150 X 150 px jpeg of the album cover and then get a much larger HIRES version of it to look at and if possible be able to flip to the liner notes or inside fold artwork.
For us cellular-challenged Australians I'd like to see a function where an album or selection of songs could be downloaded onto an iphone in a way so that the album could be played once but then be locked — so it's not being _stolen_ but can be listened to once at least, offline before getting back to somewhere with wifi.
I'd like to be able to use the Siri voice recognition function (on computer as well as phone) to cue up albums or songs using only speech so that I might feel *LIKE A GOD*.
A whole other thousand words could be written about how streaming audio media is going to completely reshape the experience of music but I can't do it now. I can barely think because of Jello Biafra & DOA's Full Metal Jackoff is rattling the windows — I haven't heard it (or thought of it) since the sharehouse in Westgarth in '95.
PS. It was just in the news that Australians love to pirate media more than most countries, and it was pointed out that if movies or whatever were more easily accessible (legally) and priced reasonably then people would go for it. This is where Apple Music is succeeding – in comparison, torrenting albums is arduous. And the streaming service is relatively reasonably priced.


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Select an option below for step-by-step instructions on how to search for, install, activate and use Stickers in iMessage for iOS 11. If you are still using iOS 10, please update your operating system first to begin using the latest user interface.
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text: Subscribe to our newsletter Aug 12, 2017 E.E.E. Volume 31 I skipped a week! On purpose! I needed space. It's not that I was doing too much really, it was more E.E.E. Volume 31 By Elsie Escobar • Issue #31 • View online I skipped a week! On purpose!I needed space. It's not that I was doing too much really, it was more like, I felt like I needed the space, between this thing and that thing…maybe it has to do with the fact that I had just finished the audiobook Body Thrive (and that took it out of me.)OR maybe the teachings within the book itself really landed - yet *again.*Regardless, I am here now! Staying on the Body Thrive train, one of the habits Cate talks about is "Start the day right.""Once you're up and at 'em, sip or guzzle about a quart of water, between room temperature and tea-water hot. The purpose of this water is to flush your inner toilet."Ok. So. This has been one of the main habits that I've been working on for almost 2 years. I had let go of the habit, and am back on the train. Here's how I go about it: I super boil a quart of water the night before. I put it in my beloved water bottle.In the morning, the temperature has dropped enough that it's still 'hot,' but perfectly so. I then sip, sip, sip and as water starts to drop even more in temperature, I guzzle.The magic tool? My thermos! I own this one in 32 oz Hydro Flask Double Wall Vacuum Insulated Stainless Steel Leak Proof Sports Water Bottle, Wide Mouth with BPA Free Flex Cap www.amazon.com • Share I also own a 16 oz for non-water drinks. The flask is by far the number one reason that I can be consistent with my water drinking in the morning. I set myself up for success!!!——I've been feeling desire for more. It's been happening for a while. What's been keeping me back? My lack of action.I get very complacent or overwhelmed by all the 'stuff' I have to do, and in the end, I don't do ANYTHING.I shifted that last week. I forced myself to take very determined and deliberate actions and they forced me to deal with other things that haven't been done, one of them was finally getting this 2-YEAR-OLD BLOG POST (yes, two years old) out of my computer and onto my site. It is LONG, over 3000 words and it's totally worth the read, specifically for those that are considering starting a podcast. In the article, I address things that I feel are never touched on, on most how-to podcasting articles. Check it out! And if you like it, feel free to share it! I saw this thing and I really wanted it. I thought it would make eating so fun for my girls! TRICERATACO! That's it!Hope you're enjoying August!xoelsiePS. I had the most incredible conversation about things that truly matter to me, both in motherhood, but most importantly in podcasting. Please listen to this conversation if you ready to shift the narrative about your work and how we can focus on language that you can repeat. Did you enjoy this issue? By Elsie Escobar Elsie's Emergency Excitement 💙 My latest obsessions and/or excitement about anything & everything (with a GIANT #podcasting industry bias): health, tech, software, books, TV shows, products, food, services, make-up, whatever is floating my boat right now ❇ Excitement = spontaneous, because in all honesty, my excitement is lost within a few weeks or so...um...#fickle BUT STILL in the moment I am truly o.b.s.s.e.s.s.e.d. Tweet Share If you don't want these updates anymore, please unsubscribe here. If you were forwarded this newsletter and you like it, you can subscribe here. Powered by Revue Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Subscribe to our newsletter


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Morgan Stanley has sent an email to employees advising them that they will be on lockdown tomorrow.
No one will be added to visitor lists for Friday after the end of the day Thursday, the firm told employees.
They are battening down the hatches in advance of an anticipated Occupy Wall Street march through midtown that will start in Bryant Park tomorrow, according to the email. Thr route is expected to take marchers past financial institutions in midtown.
From two to five in the afternoon, the firm will have an "enhanced perimeter security" at its two offices on Broadway and on Fifth Avenue.
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The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Fellowship, established in 2005, provides one graduating Columbia College senior annually with funding for one year of post-baccalaureate study at the University of Oxford in a social science or related field. The Fellow will live at St. Edmund Hall.
Each fellowship provides for direct payment of its recipient's University and College fees, plus a stipend for travel and living expenses.
Current seniors in Columbia College are eligible, provided they are in good academic and disciplinary standing. Some preference is given for candidates with an interest in the broad sphere of conflict resolution, either during their time at Oxford or beyond.
Candidates must also apply for admission to their department at Oxford, and the course of study must be admissible to St. Edmund Hall, as this is where the Fellow will take up residence. Oxford academic program deadlines vary, but you must apply no later than January and indicate St. Edmund Hall as your preferred College. The fellowship award is contingent on your acceptance to the proposed degree program.


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Sculpted by hand from a mixture of clay, sand and straw, building houses out of cob is a full mind and body experience; one that requires patience. But these homes are worth the wait!
Building on ancient traditions, today's timber framers and selective loggers are forging a sustainable future. Visit the people behind some of the most intriguing wooden structures in British Columbia
It seems counterintuitive that a framework packed with straw bales could create such a sturdy home. In fact, the straw acts as a natural vapour permeable insulation that allows these buildings to breathe.
A rammed earth wall is durable, energy efficient, and made from the most abundant material on the planet. Learn how these builders and homeowners applied this ancient technique to create timeless contemporary homes.
**I don't agree with adding cement to a rammed earth wall. It doesn't need it, and it actually changes the way the walls handle moisture for the worse while making the walls too rigid. Cement has been added over the years because people don't understand. It's such a shame!


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Tiger Woods may have attended Stanford, but the past two weeks have proven how stupid he really is. I like Tiger Woods and believe him to be the greatest golfer of all time, whether he tracks down Jack Nicklaus' record of 18 professional Majors or not. Tiger is the best at what he does, but as we learned from Michael Jordan, being the best in a sport has very little to do with being good in the rest of life.
What's odd is that we think it does. When I was a youth minister, I frequently told students that one of the best ways they could witness for God was by being good at what they did. Colt McCoy, Hunter Lawrence, Jordan Shipley and Tim Tebow are examples of this. By performing with excellence in one area, our very lives are granted credence in the minds others. It's only natural that people believe that the excellent are excellent. But that's not always the case. Through all the fist pumps, chest bumps, sunk putts and kicked rumps, we continue to find that our "heroes" are anything but.
Here's El Tigre, the worlds most recognizable person, complete with a yacht named "Privacy" slinking around, hooking up with cocktail waitresses and pornstars – allegedly – and thinking, presumably, that he wouldn't get caught; that no one would find out. You've got to be kidding!
That's just plain stupid.
He was bound to get caught.
But it's the best thing that could have happened to Tiger Woods.
Why? Because of Steve McNair and Michael Jackson.
Last summer, former NFL great Steve McNair was found shot by his girlfriend. A married man, McNair was having an affair with Shalel Kazemi, a 20-year old, who murdered him in his sleep before turning the gun on herself. (In case you didn't know, if someone continues to hook up with a string of women who do not care that he is married, he will run across one who is crazy!) That's what happened to McNair, whose girlfriend feared he was leaving her, and that would have eventually happened to Woods. It's unlikely that it would have ended in murder, but it almost certainly would have been worse than bad press and a re-written pre-nuptial agreement.
And we all know the disturbing tragedy of Michael Jackson. Something dismaying happens to people when we are too tightly insulated. That was the case with Jackson and has been the case with Woods. No healthy person can exists in a world of yes men and staff rather than friends and mentors. Woods – due to our incessant desire to know everything about everyone – had created his own kingdom, perhaps with Elin and his own mother as the only citizens by choice, the only ones who wanted him for him and not cash or celebrity.
This has been his greatest weakness. Tiger has fired caddies and coaches for doing commercials and giving too many interviews. In Tiger's world, it's Tiger's way or the highway. In fact, Tiger's mom once reportedly told a former girlfriend of his, "There's only one star in this family. Tiger." That's the problem. Everyone needs people in their life to tell us the truth, to remind us that the world, in fact, does not revolve around us and folks like Woods are woefully short of them.
The titillating headlines concerning the train wreck Woods' life has become over the past two weeks, present Tiger an opportunity. If he can resist the urge to be handled or save face, he can come clean with himself. No one besides Elin needs an apology or explanation. Tiger has the chance, right now, to rewrite who he is, not to resurrect his shattered image, but become a new man. Right now, Tiger can take a big swing.
Deal with your issues, Tiger, – because it's clear to everyone now that you have them. Become a better father to your kids (good dads don't cheat on mom). Stop sporting for gullible, star-struck women, using them as objects, and stop doing whatever else you've got going on under the surface. Become a man who is honest, friendly, open, humble, straightforward, less the golf machine and more an authentic man. Just think what Jackson's life could have been had he a chance to be more Michael and less icon. Today Tiger's life has a chance to be genuine, something, I think, at the end of life, he would much more enjoy than the coat-check girl.


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Little Rock police: 25 people shot at nightclub
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Police say 25 people were shot after gunfire rang out Saturday at a rap show at a downtown Little Rock nightclub, prompting pleas from top leaders to curb the growing violence in Arkansas' capital city.
Police said the shooting at Power Ultra Lounge was the result of a dispute among clubgoers and not an active shooter or terror-related incident. Little Rock police said Saturday that 25 people were shot and three others suffered unrelated injuries. All were expected to survive, police said.
Police early Saturday cordoned off the block as crime-scene technicians gathered evidence from inside and outside the club. Glass from the club's second story windows littered the ground, along with empty drink cups.
Little Rock Police Chief Kenton Buckner told reporters that "some sort of dispute broke out between people inside" the club and that there are "probably multiple shooting suspects."
A video posted online by a club patron, Darryl Rankin, showed a packed house for Finese 2Tymes, a performer from Memphis, Tennessee. About a half-minute into a break in the raucous concert, several bursts of gunfire rang out — more than 24 shots in an 11-second period.
Rankin told The Associated Press that he was recording the show on Facebook Live when gunfire erupted and that one of his friends is now at a hospital with a bullet "stuck in his spine."
Courtney Swanigan said she was near the front of the club with her sister when gunfire erupted about an hour into the show. They were not injured. She didn't know what led to the shooting, but she said she saw someone onstage with a handgun amid the melee.
"I just closed my eyes, got down on the ground and put my hands on my head," Swanigan said.
A posting in all capital letters on Finese 2Tymes' Facebook page expressed thoughts and prayers for those injured and said: "THE VIOLENCE IS NOT FOR THE CLUB PEOPLE. WE ALL COME WITH 1 MOTIVE AT THE END OF THE DAY, AND THATS TO HAVE FUN."
The shooting follows a week in which there have been about a dozen drive-by shootings in Little Rock, though there's no indication the events are linked.
"Little Rock's crime problem appears to be intensifying," Gov. Asa Hutchinson said in a statement. "Every few days it seems a high profile shooting dominates the news, culminating with this morning's event. I have spoken this morning with Mayor Stodola and I have offered both my heart felt concern over this senseless violent tragedy and state assets as needed to address the continued threat of violence in our community."
Early Saturday, Raida Bunche waited outside the club after she had heard from a friend that her son had been at the club. Later Saturday morning, she said she found out her son ran out once the shooting began and was unharmed.
"I'm sick of all the killing and I'm tired of all the shooting, the kids getting hurt," Bunche said.
Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control officials suspended the club's alcohol license hours after the shooting occurred and set a hearing for July 10.
The club's Facebook page promoted Friday night's show with a poster depicting a man pointing what appears to be a gun at the camera. A call to a number listed for Finese 2Tymes' booking agent wasn't immediately returned Saturday.
Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola said on Facebook that more information would be released at a news conference Saturday afternoon.
"My heart is broken this morning — my prayers are with the victims of this tragedy," he wrote. He went on to add, "We are committed to doing everything possible to bring safety to our city. We need everyone to help."
In May, one person was killed and six people were hurt in a mass shooting at a downtown concert in Jonesboro, Arkansas, about 115 miles (185 kilometers) northeast of Little Rock. In that case, two men were charged with first-degree murder and six counts of first-degree battery.
Arkansas lawmakers earlier this year approved a measure expanding where concealed handguns can be carried, including bars if allowed by owners, for licensees who undergo additional training. The law takes effect in September, but the training likely won't be available until early next year.
This story has been updated to correct the name of the nightclub to Power Ultra Lounge instead of Power Lounge and to correct spelling of mother's name who waited outside club to Raida Bunche.


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text: Researchers have created a radio so tiny that almost seven would fit on the face of a penny. The device runs without a battery; instead it uses "power harvesting," a process by which it recovers and uses energy from the same waves that carry signals to its antenna. Even if the radio chip did need a battery, a single AAA battery has enough power to run it for more than a century, researchers reported at the 2014 Symposium on VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers. Many components of the radio had to be scaled down to fit onto the tiny silicon chip; the antenna, for example, is one-tenth the size of a Wi-Fi antenna—and yet, it runs at a fast speed of 24 billion cycles per second. The tiny radios cost only a few cents to manufacture, the researchers say, and such devices are key to the next wave of wireless devices; eventually they could link together gadgets like smart phones with everyday objects, which will then be able to make decisions with minimal human intervention.


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NEW! Little Book of Germs
Are you up for a road trip? Ride along the back roads of the vast Yellowstone region and enjoy stunning panoramic photographs that reveal the beauty of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana and include Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park in all their glory. Embark on an expedition without GPS, visiting majestic wildlife and drinking in fantastic landscapes along the way. Glimpse the emerald green Shoshone Falls in Idaho, turning aspens and grazing moose in the Grand Tetons, black bears roaming the Devil's Tower region in Wyoming, glorious geysers, steamy hot springs, and imposing bison with their young in Yellowstone, the raging Bull River and otherworldly Glacier National Park in Montana, as well as lonely railways and isolated barns along "gray" roads, that is, the ones less traveled. The appendix includes a complete list of camera equipment, exposure, and panorama statistics—enough to satisfy even the techiest of photographers.
Size: 12″ x 9″ | 143 color photos | 192 pp
ISBN13: 9780764353390 | Binding: hard cover
David Skernick spends as much time as possible traveling,photographing, and teaching workshops along the back roads of America. His goal in life is to drive and photograph every road in the United States. Born in 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio, he received a bachelor's degree in photography in1977 and moved to California soon after. In 1981 David and his wife, Ria, founded PHOTO 24to bring his generation of fine art photographers together in amission to sell nature photographs to corporations and institutions,arguing "everyone would be better off with a little more nature." Recent shows include the LA Photo Show and Photo LA 2015 and 2016 andPhoto Independent 2015. His book Lost on Gray Roads was released along with a showing at the ArtLA gallery in Bergamot Station in Los Angeles in 2013. David and Ria reside in Woodland Hills, California, with their dog, Chewy. Visit his website, photo24.com, and contact him directly at email@example.com.


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The Royal Highland Show is run by the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland which was founded in 1784 to promote the regeneration of rural Scotland.
The show is regarded as one of the UK's top agricultural events.
It is a stalwart of the Scottish agricultural calendar but is also Scotland's biggest outdoor event attracting visitors of all ages for what is regarded as a great day out.
Attractions include
- Entertainment & Events The Greatest Show on Earth has music, song and dance and more
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Wilmington Vegan hosts a 100% vegan holiday craft fair!
Wilmington Vegan Holiday Party This Thursday!
Wilmington Vegan Holiday Party and Craft Fair
Wilmington Vegan Holiday Potluck and Craft Fair
This December Wilmington Vegan is hosting a holiday party and craft fair! Instead of our regular potluck, bring your favorite vegan holiday hors d'oeuvres to share and let's celebrate the holidays together. We're hosting a craft fair for your holiday gift needs full of vegan goods!


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Earlier today, Politecs spoke on Frederick Douglass. It reminded me of a workout two years ago…
For my son's history report, he had to choose someone. He chose James Armistead. The first word outta my mouth was, "who?" He was very excited that this individual was a spy. (A James Bond Armistead, if you will.)
Needless to say, I learned a bit (after editing for him….sheesh!) Here is a 5th grader's view of a really cool fella, er, spy….
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December 17, 2010
During the Revolutionary War, General George Washington had to have spies to know what the British were planning. One of those spies, James Armistead, proved that his loyalty was with America. Why did James choose to be a spy for the Americans? Was it for freedom? Was it for adventure, or was it a strong belief in a new Republic?
James Armistead was a slave owned by William Armistead. In 1781, at the age of 21, James asked if he could volunteer in the army. He was granted permission. At this time, some states were granting freedom to soldier-slaves as well as the same pay that was paid to white soldiers. James may have believed freedom would be his. The British Army was also promising freedom for slaves willing to serve their army. Unfortunately, many slaves joined the British Army. Their outcome was not so good. When the British lost the war, these slaves were sold in the West Indies. James Armistead must surely have wanted his freedom.
George Washington was a spymaster. He had to employ spies to compete with the British spy network. During the Revolutionary War, British generals would send spies to taverns, telling them to go; sip. The word gossip was created. James Armistead got to hear plenty of gossip. After getting permission to serve in the military, James was assigned to the French general, Marquis De Lafayette. The French were friends with the Americans and fought alongside them during the Revolutionary War. Lafayette had James spy on Benedict Arnold. Benedict was the most well-known turncoat of the time. When Benedict moved north, James was assigned to spy on General Cornwallis. This general was very important. Because of James' high intelligence, he quickly became a favorite of General Cornwallis. Cornwallis actually assigned James to spy on the Americans! Being a spy was looked down upon and very dangerous, because if you were caught, you were killed. Now James was a double agent, but his loyalty proved to be with the Americans. This was a man with a sense of adventure.
James could have been an agent for Cornwallis, but he only pretended to be. Time after time, the information Lafayette received from James would prove beneficial to the Americans. The information provided to Lafayette and Washington made sure Lafayette was successful in capturing the British in Hampton, and General Washington was able to set a trap for Cornwallis and his troops in Yorktown, Virginia. This battle ended the war and Cornwallis signed an official surrender. James Armistead loved and believed in his country.
Unfortunately, James went back into slavery. The Act of 1783 that Congress passed allowed freedom to slave-soldiers, but not to slave-spies. Thankfully, Lafayette came to Virginia in 1784 and was upset that Armistead was still a slave. He petitioned the Virginia General Assembly who then granted Armistead his freedom. James added Lafayette to his last name, bought 40 acres of land, started farming, and raised a large family. In 1818 James petitioned the state for veteran's pension and was granted $40.00 a year by the Virginia Legislature. James Armistead was a slave, a hero, an adventurer, and a true patriot.
Murray, Stewart A. P. The American Revolution. Irvington NY: HarperCollins, 2006.
Sanders, Nancy I. America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes and Early Leaders. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, 2010.
Ellison, Ralph. "James Armistead Lafayette." The American Revolution Homepage. 2004. <http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/JAMES.HTM>.
Salo, Jessica Jina. "Lafayette, James Armistead." The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed. 2007 – 2009. <http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/lafayette-james-armistead-1760-1832>.
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"A Pause in the Disaster"*
Late in August 2018, David Waldman asked Facebook friends to state their favorite musical genres. Among the genres mentioned were: funk, contemporary jazz, swing, folk, and Motown. He set about writing a musical work with elements of all 5 suggested genres. Originally, he was going to call it "Disaster", which he assumed would be the new genre created by this musical effort. As the piece turned out better than expected, he's called it "A Pause in the Disaster." See what you think, and share it if you like.
David Waldman
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Song: "A Pause in the Disaster" video and music © 09/07/18 by David M. Waldman All Rights Reserved
Image Credits:
1. Opening or closing screen: Photo by Mohammad Metri on Unsplash
2. Funk: Photo by Vlad Shalaginov on Unsplash
3. Contemporary Jazz: Photo by Diego Sulivan on Unsplash
4. Swing: Photo by Jeremy Attwood on Unsplash
5. Folk: Photo by Nicole Honeywill on Unsplash
6. Motown: Photo by Glen . on Unsplash
David Waldman
Latest posts by David Waldman (see all)
- "CinemaSlice presents: Art Lives On by David Waldman" – #11 - November 17, 2018
- Art Lives On! #10 – "A Pause in the Disaster" - October 26, 2018
- Art Lives On – "A Pause in the Disaster" - September 18, 2018


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What do twelve bands, a charming southern town, and warm friendly people have in common? Savannah Stopover Day 2 of course- review and pics!
Tag: Honduras
Savannah Stopover Friday Must Listens!
Listen to music from Nikki Lane, Kemba, Michael Nau, New Madrid, Cicada Rhythm, Honduras, Grace Joyner, and many more playing Stopover Friday night


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Well, now that America has celebrated its dominance over nature and indigenous peoples with the annual bird-killing ritual, I have to say I did see about three times as many of those "what about vegetarians?" stories as usual. There will probably be even more of them next year once the reality of this has set in: "Bird Flu Pandemic inevitable, 7 million people could die," says the WHO. I know, they keep sounding the alarm about this, louder and louder, and I keep relaying the message, yet I'm sure that as of Thursday fewer than one in a dozen Americans had any idea there was such a thing currently ravaging the Pacific Rim, much less that the World Health Organization believes a pandemic is inevitable. We'll see if that's any different by next Thanksgiving, and how much we have to be thankful for at that point.
UPDATE 11/29: Sorry, "7 million people"? More like 100 million, according to today's stories.
Saturday, November 27
Wednesday, November 24
That's the hed on this editorial on Sunday's weird hunter-on-hunter serial-killing (which I would've blogged here except I thought I already had - I had actually blogged it at MeFi, where most of what I have to say about it can be read). And of course the interesting thing is that the phrase describes perfectly what's normally practiced there and elsewhere during "the season." But I'll admit this incident remains very curious, especially now that the shooter is claiming he was tauntingly shot at first. As this piece says,
[W]hile it is shameful, we don't find it hard to believe that a group of hunters - or others - are capable of spewing a few racial or ethnic slurs in a confrontational situation.
It is harder to believe that a state hunter would fire in the direction of someone - even as warning shot - given the long-ingrained emphasis on hunting safety and the credo that a gun is not to be pointed at anyone. Common sense would dictate as well that you don't do such a thing when the person you are firing at is armed.
Still, it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
Nope, it sure ain't - not when you're talking about people for whom senseless mayhem in Wisconsin woods is their idea of fine family entertainment.
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Tuesday, November 23
This is part of a growing journalistic trend which, predictably, the Inquirer missed on Sunday despite devoting four separate stories to changes in Thanksgiving traditions: The Alternative (Read: Vegan) Thanksgiving Story. Not that the story hasn't already been done to death, but as vegetarians and vegans continue to make their presence known and deal with the issues of "turkey day," there will only be more articles like this.
Ginnie Maurer would travel hours to spend Thanksgiving with friends, even though, as a vegan, "having a turkey as a centerpiece was hard to bear." Like many vegetarians, Maurer used to make a meal of side dishes, and she simply swallowed a lot of the ribbing that came her way from some of her dinner companions. She finally gave up after what hosts billed as a "part vegetarian" feast ended up being a dinner where the "veggies" guests were seated on one side of the table and the "carnes," or carnivores, on the other.
This article also gets two sets of bonus points: One for not misspelling "Tofurky," and one for including "Nutrition expert Suzanne Havala Hobbs" as a source. She knows her stuff... ing.
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Monday, November 22
McDONALD'S LOSES ANOTHER CEO TO MEAT-RELATED ILLNESS
No surprise, but USA Today reports that "McDonald's has taken yet another body blow to its battered but resilient executive suite. The fast-food giant's cancer-plagued CEO stepped down Monday, less than one year after the previous CEO was killed by a heart attack."
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That's the hed on yesterday's Inquirer "trend" piece on the growing number of fashion lines that are incorporating vegan options. "Dozens of merchants now offer wares that are labeled cruelty-free; the Web site Vegan Essentials offers hemp shoes and clothes. And Stella McCartney, long an activist for animal rights, has added shoes stamped 'suitable for vegetarians' to her collection. Her fabric-and-Lucite pumps are available at Nordstrom." It continues: "Vegan products are finding takers not only among the roughly six million Americans who call themselves vegetarians, but also among shoppers attracted to prices that are often 60 percent to 75 percent lower than leather. A spike in demand prompted Earth Shoes to introduce 15 vegan styles this year." That's all great, but I'm not mentioning it as some seismic development, only as a reminder that as options and alternatives increase, the stranglehold that animal-based products has had over our culture will continue to slip. And fewer outlets for, say, leather means higher prices for slaughterers who otherwise have to pay someone to get rid of the stuff. Baby steps...
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Hello out there,
sorry if i double post,
i tryied to post to this maillist via google groups two days ago, i
about it, and i came to the conclusion that usenet postings may not be
retransfered to the mailinglist.
This was my original question:
I have a squid 2.3.STABLE1 ( IP_AUTH Patch ) on redhat linux 7.0
kernel 2.2.18
running as internal proxy for internet access.
squid has annother proxy as parent in its configuration
cache_peer 192.168.30.2 parent 8080 0 no-query default
never_direct deny internal
never_direct allow all
i have some acls making use of dns such as dstdomain <domain> or src
<ip> .
The IP_AUTH patch allows you to submit username and password for porxy
authetification over a secure connetcion ( https server and cgi
scripts ) and validiate it against ldap ( in my implementation )
The server is running fine, i just noticed a huge number of dns
connections ( >= 1000 ) to our internal dns server from time to time.
As i started to monitor our internal dns server ( bind 8 on solaris 8
) ( for annother reason by the way ) i noticed that every request for
a web page, resulted in about 10-40 dns querys for that domain name,
one for every item on that page, i think. I think that is the reason
for the huge number of connetctions to the dns server.
from the logfile of the dns server
14-Nov-2001 20:41:58.630 XX+/192.168.40.1/www.test.de/A/IN
14-Nov-2001 20:41:58.780 XX+/192.168.40.1/www.test.de/A/IN
14-Nov-2001 20:41:58.868 XX+/192.168.40.1/www.test.de/A/IN
14-Nov-2001 20:41:58.874 XX+/192.168.40.1/www.test.de/A/IN
and so on
( as you can see i am from germany (-: )
(192.168.40.1 is the proxy)
As far as my unterstanding of squid goes, it should once lookup
and then cache the entry as long as the ttl of the record is.
(As far as the cache_postive|negative_dns directrieves are not changed
(what they are not. Negative was set to 0,
but i changed it to default, no difference.))
A look to cachemgr.cgi confirmed this, ( a lot of cache hits )
IP Cache Statistics:
IPcache Entries: 196
IPcache Requests: 53293
IPcache Hits: 44959
IPcache Pending Hits: 261
IPcache Negative Hits: 57
IPcache Misses: 453
A test.
requesting www.feuerwehr.de ( www.firefighters.com )
IP Cache Statistics:
IPcache Entries: 196
IPcache Requests: 53349
IPcache Hits: 45011
IPcache Pending Hits: 261
IPcache Negative Hits: 57
IPcache Misses: 453
IP Cache Statistics:
IPcache Entries: 198 ( 2 more )
IPcache Requests: 53427 ( 78 more )
IPcache Hits: 45074 ( 63 more )
IPcache Pending Hits: 263 ( 2 more )
IPcache Negative Hits: 57
IPcache Misses: 457 ( 5 more )
but gave me 6 entries for lookups for www.feuerwehr.de( A Record ),
i thinks thats because there are not many pictures on the start page,
other sites give me up to 40 lookups for the same address.
Can someone tell me if that behaviour is normal?
In my eyes it is not?
thank you,
timo proescholdt
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Before discussing the advantages and disadvantages of volunteering, I feel it is best to firstly come up with a clear concept of what 'volunteering' and 'voluntary work' is actually all about. Volunteering defined by Dictionary.com as "a person who performs a service willingly and without pay". There are various deeds that can be considered voluntary work, right from helping out the local neighbour with their garden, to aid work in poverty ridden parts of Africa. Hence, the list below of strengths and weaknesses of volunteering is rather 'tongue in cheek' and subjective to every given individual and the voluntary task in hand.
Advantages of Volunteering
Satisfaction - Often the main benefit that volunteers claim is the satisfaction and rewarding feeling that they receive from helping someone in need. Your 'inner' conscious telling you that you have done a good deed, and have helped improved another human being's life in someway or another.
Experience & Skills - obviously depending on the voluntary task in hand, you will have gained a specific experience and skill set that can be useful to you in later life, whether it comes to applying for jobs or universities, or perhaps your experience is needed to help guide other volunteers on how to commit to a particular task.
Health - there have also been academic studies conducted that conclude that on some level that certain voluntary work can help promote an individual's health both physically and mentally, especially for the more elderly generations.
Social Awareness & Personal Growth - conducting voluntary work often makes a person realise there is more to life than what meets the eye, it broadens their horizons too and from this a person can growth in both social intelligence and awareness.
Disadvantages of Volunteering
Time Consuming - a negative aspect of volunteering is the opportunity cost of time, where instead of volunteering you could have spent your time having fun with friends and family or studying harder to pass a certain exam.
Over Bearing - Volunteering isn't right for everyone -- whether it is the amount of time, the amount that is asked of you or simply the people you are working with (or the issue of no payment), it maybe the case that volunteering work can be rather overbearing and which can lead to stress for an individual.
Emotionally & Physically Tiring - your voluntary work may involve a lot of manual work, which as a result can cause you to be physically exhausted or if it is dealing with advice for distressed victims it can leave you to be emotionally and mentally tried also.
Frustrating - particularly if you join a volunteering scheme, you may find certain aspects of the scheme frustrating whether that be people who aren't taking it as seriously as you are, or there are obvious flaws that you recognise yet have no power or control to be fix them.
Summary of the Advantages and Disadvantages of Volunteering
Volunteering can benefit society on so many levels -- economically, socially etc. -- and it doesn't only benefit the people that the volunteers are actually helping out but also the volunteers themselves through gaining new experiences and skill sets etc. As long as the individual enjoys and is happy to do the volunteering in many cases voluntary work has to be considered a win--win scenario. If you have any additional advantages and disadvantages of volunteering or any general remarks regarding voluntary work then I encourage you to share them in the comments box below.


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Pro Series II™ Builder Kit
Almost 27 inches tall and powered by D, E and F engines, this 1:5.3 Scale Model is an impressive Sport and Scale model of the sounding rocket manufactured from Lacrosse rocket motors for the project Hardtack Nuclear Test Series.
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This is the Estes Green Eggs rocket. Put rocket building and launching skills to the test with the Green Eggs Bulk Pack. A crowd-pleasing STEM activity kit for launch parties and science projects, this bulk pack comes with 12 rockets. Each kit includes its own set of instructions.
A perfect science activity for both kids and adults, the Green Egg payload rocket includes a plastic payload section to carry its fragile cargo, a raw egg. The lightly tinted green payload section is transparent so rocketeers can see how their eggstronaunt is handing the flight. Educators, youth group leaders and rocket launch party hosts will love creating an 'egg-static' experience as rocketeers work towards making sure their precious cargo returns safely home.
Required to build:
Sand block
Carpenters glue
Hobby knife
Masking tape
Clear tape
Primer (white)
Paint (green, white)
Clear coat (optional)
Construction and finishing supplies (not included)
Required to launch (sold separately):
Estes Porta-Pad II launch pad with launch controller
3/16 in. (5mm) Maxi launch rod
Estes model rocket engines (see additional information for recommended size)
Recovery wadding
Four 1.5V high quality AA alkaline batteries (not included)
Recommended Engines:
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Length: 23.6in
Diameter: 1.8in
Estimated Weight: 3.50oz
Estimated Assembly Time: 2 Hours ( painting and glue drying time not included)
Fin Materials: Laser Cut Wood
Launch System: Porta Pad II and Electron Beam Launch Controller