Do you know a veteran or are you a veteran with a story to share? Please contact Don Moore at 941-426-2120 or donmoore39@gmail.com and set up an appointment. Take a look at the website here. There are over 900 veterans' interviews on this site.
As of May 2010, at their request, we also contribute interviews along with a DVD and supporting documentation to the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.
Click here to view the collections on the Library of Congress website. This link takes you to all the interviews, in alphabetical order, that Don has submitted. You'll see some are tagged with "View digitized collection." That's just the Library of Congress' fancy way of saying, "take a look at the DVD." Unfortunately, the LoC won't upload every DVD Don sends. They gave me no reason.
Need an accountant in Englewood? Contact Maryellen Harley at By the Numbers.
Need a fishing guide in Englewood? Contact Cameron at Grande Adventures.
Traveling to south Louisiana, Lafayette-area in particular? Looking for a church? Please check out Christ Church, where my son-in-law, Brandon Nealy, is lead pastor.
The Seven Best Places to get a snowball in Acadiana. Please continue on and read the comments.
What is Acadiana? Click here.
Planning a road trip to Louisiana? Click here for touring information.
And here's another link about — what else — but food by a NY Times reporter from 2002.
And here's a suggested itinerary for New Orleans. Some of this repeats what I've already shared with you.
If you're staying at the Wyndham on Royal Street, lucky you. Royal Street is filled with antiques shops that boggle the mind!
My suggestion would be to get the smallest portion or half-size of whatever it is you want. Get the pralines. Get the desserts. Get the snoballs. Get several snoballs – the smallest size they allow you to have. Get several at one time – get the special of the house.
I believe you could spend a year in NOLA and eat somewhere pretty wonderful every day and not repeat. But I'm not familiar with the city anymore and mostly play it safe and go back to the same places almost every time.
Central Grocery of course, the muffaletta created there. 923 Decatur Street. You'd have to share it with 3 other people. You might want to take some stuff home with you that would keep — I loved this place so much I had a matted and framed muffaletta wrapper (clean) in my breakfast room in my house in La. The wrapper was free but the framing was about $100! This was in the 70s!
Charlie's Po-Boys – around the corner from Jackson Square. Whatever you get, tho, don't let them put mayo on it. I love their fried shrimp poboy.
Tee-Eva's – more than pralines and snoballs! I've had her étouffée'.
***** Leah Chase – pay attention to the hours she's open.
And click here to see Miss Leah making gumbo.
And if you go here, walk over a short distance (just ask) to Migon Faget jewelry.
The Carousel Bar – I've had the crawfish beignets, cuban sammy and mini monty po-boys. Life was good back then!
You may not care to get on the streetcar but if you never have, you should try to do it – it's a great way to see the changes in the cultures as you get farther away from the Quarter. Find out about getting the pass for a couple of days. You can get on and off — you can take it to Camellia Grill. Same waiters there for 40 years! Sit at the bar and the mayor might be sitting next to you.
Hansen's Sno-bliz Have the Satsuma orange one. Call ahead to make sure they're open, they, like most other snoball stands are open in the spring and summer months, they typically are closed from October until April.
Go to the Hilton Hotel and there's a ferry there at the end of Canal Street. Take the ferry to Algiers – the "West Bank." It gives you a neat view of NOLA that you don't see otherwise. I wish I could remember the name of the seafood restaurant I like to visit – it's a half-block from the ferry terminal. Just walk on. I don't think they charge and if they do it's minimal. The River Walk shopping area used to be a lot of fun but now I think it's gone the way of flea market. I'm not sure.
If you're lucky enough to get the right guide/driver, the horse and carriage ride is interesting and fun. There also used to be a bus tour of the damage Katrina did. It's fascinating. Your hotel concierge can direct you.
Tours of the Superdome are available.
Don't forget about the free tours available at the 1850 House. Or ask about them – call ahead. Things may have changed since I was there.
Cafe du Monde at any time of the day or night! It's open 24 hours a day!
I'm very serious about the safety measures – it's very easy to wander off a block or two and find yourself in an unsafe place. I would take a taxi to and from if you stray very far from lively & well-populated places.
Top 5 New Orleans snowball stands.
Snoballs are a big deal in New Orleans and other parts of the state, as well. We all have our favorite stands.
End of summer means end of summer for snoballs. Thankfully not in Englewood, Florida!
Cajun Grocer is one of best sites to find everything Cajun or Creole if you're a Displaced Cajun. Tell Mr. Charlie The Sno Queen sent you.
Blue Dog Cafe, one of my favorite restaurants in Lafayette, La.
Need a realtor in south Louisiana?
Emily Nealy and her business partner, Rachel Cook, are more than a "real estate agents." Their blog goes far beyond than wanting to sell you a house. Check out the Nealy Cook Group. You can also read about the culture, music, festivals and day trips in Acadiana. Emily happens to be my daughter. She's the blonde in the picture below.


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What Is an Adjective of Quality?
G. Wiesen
"I have a large cat" is an example of a statement containing an adjective of quality.
An adjective of quality gives information about another word to describe it. Much like other forms of adjectives, they are used with another word that they modify, which is typically a noun or pronoun. These words basically answer a question like "What kind of?" about the object that it modifies. For example, while someone could simply say "I have a book," it would leave the statement open to the question, "What kind of book?" The same statement with an adjective of quality could be "I have a large book," or "I have a good book," and answers that question through the words "large" or "good."
There are a number of different types of adjectives, but they all serve a similar function. The basic purpose of them is to modify another word, which means that they are never found alone in a sentence, unless the modified word is implied. An adjective of quality usually comes before the word that it modifies, as in a phrase like "red house" or "shiny spoon."
While this type of adjective can come in a number of different forms, they all tend to describe some specific element about an object. Shape and color can be expressed by these words through adjectives like "large," "rectangular," "blue," and "dark." There are also ways in which an adjective of quality can be used to express the opinion of a speaker about an object's value or worth through words like "good" or "useless."
The origin of an object can be indicated through the use of an adjective of quality, usually by some type of directional or geographic indicator. A phrase like "northern trout," typically indicates that the trout comes from the north or is commonly found there; "American English" is used to demonstrate that the type of English being referred to is American in origin. These words can also describe the material or components from which an object is made. "Wooden train," for example, indicates that the train is made out of wood.
There are also types of adjectives other than an adjective of quality, such as one of quantity or distinction. An adjective of quantity answers the question of "How much?" about an object. This can include general words like "many" or "some," as well as specific amounts like "six." Adjectives of distinction typically provide information that allows someone to indicate the exact object to which he or she is referring. These can include possessive adjectives like "her" or "his" and demonstrative words like "that" to indicate "that book."
What Is a Negative Adjective?
What Are Comparative Adjectives?
What Is a Degree of Comparison?
What Are the Different Fields of Semantics?
What is a Proper Adjective?
What is the Metaphysics of Quality?
What are Aristotle's Categories?
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Maa inji / Mango ginger is a plant of the ginger family and is closely related to turmeric. They are very similar to ginger but have a raw mango taste. They are used in making pickles in south India. Due to its exotic flavor and medicinal property, they are also used in the preparation of special foods, beverages, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Since it has lot of health benefits, i thought of making different recipe apart from pickle. So i tried mango ginger rice for very first time and it came out very well.
Wash and cook the rice. Spread cooked rice on a wide bowl and let it cool completely.
Heat oil in a pan, season with items given for seasoning. Add onion and green chilies saute for few minutes. Along with this saute grated mango ginger, turmeric powder, peanuts and required salt for 3 or 4 mins.
Add cooked rice and coriander leaves; mix well. Sprinkle little water and cover with lid; let it cook for 2 or 3 minutes.
Finally squeeze some lemon juice to this and mix well. Switch off the stove and serve hot with potato fry or chips.
While buying mango ginger it is better to break it and check if it gives aroma of fresh raw mango. Since mango ginger and turmeric root will looks similar.


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Arsenal v Olympiakos: Player Ratings | The Transfer Tavern | Where football transfer rumours fly or die!
So another Champions League round of fixtures, another win for the Arsenal.
Though there were a few scares during the course of the game, the Gunners eased to victory at the Emirates over Olympiakos on Wednesday night.
The Gunners now have six points out of six and are in the driving seat, just as we expected.
The young Italian was rock solid once again and put in another fine performance. He is doing all he can to challenge Szczesny for the number one shirt. He could do nothing about Konstantinon Mitroglou's late goal in the first half, and barring a few nervy moments, had a good game.
The young right-back seems to be growing in confidence game-by-game and is repaying the faith Arsene Wenger has put in him. Jenkinson once again enjoyed getting forward during the game and joining the attack whilst not neglecting his defensive duties. Solid all round.
The Frenchman's return from injury has been a little shaky. Were it not for Mertesacker picking up an injury, Koscielny may not have started the game. He had a few rash moments in the first half but improved in the second half.
Along with Koscielny, did not have the best of first half's. A few late tackles and was lucky not to have an early bath. The Belgian perhaps should have dealt with the cross that led to Mitroglou's goal better.
Another great performance from the English left-back. Gibbs was constantly up and down the line, making runs. He is performing very well with Lukas Podolski on the left.
Though the smart Spaniard was not as influential as he usually is in the centre of the park, he did get an assist for Gervinho's goal.
Brought in to replace the once again injured Abou Diaby, the Frenchman was anonymous for most parts of the game. He picked up an injury late on which hopefully will not be serious as he will be needed for the next few games.
Looked a threat in the first half, making some good runs and putting in some crosses but faded away in the second half and would eventually be replaced by Theo Walcott.
The little maestro was not at his imperious best, but showed a few decent touches during the game.
Podolski worked hard during the game, but just could not get going during the game and was fairly quiet. Took his goal well and is clearly enjoying life at Arsenal.
The Ivorian continues to impress for Arsenal and grabbed himself another goal. Gervinho is enjoying a more central role this season and is keeping summer recruit Olivier Giroud out of the team.
Theo Walcott – had a productive cameo appearance from the bench and was a constant threat.
Olivier Giroud – Got himself an assist with a great knock-down to put through Aaron Ramsey. Giroud was making the right runs and getting in to some good positions.
Aaron Ramsey – Some great touches, some not so. Fantastic finish to cap off a great night for the Gunners.


Remember when you had to spend months querying agents in New York, just hoping to find one who would represent you and your book? That process was like playing the lottery. It could take months or you could win on your first try. But that was only the first step.
The next wait came when your agent sent your book out to publishers. Then the beauty contest began again. If the book was not picked up by a publisher, you might be asked to re-write the book, your agent might drop you, or she might wait around while you wrote a second book.
If you were lucky enough to find a publisher to take on your book, you had to hope that it would become the victim of the revolving door of editors moving from house to house. If you were lucky your book might see the shelves of a bookstore one and a half years after your typed 'The End'.
Now, all of that has changed. In my mind, for the better.
Today you can take matters into your own hands and self-publish your work and get your book into the hands of readers immediately.
Yes, you do still need to have your work edited. An eye-catching book cover will help you stand out from the crowd. And working up a consistent marketing campaign will help readers to find you.
The key is that all of these opportunities and responsibilities are now in your hands.
Which is why, in my mind, today is the best time in the history of the world to be a writer. The only thing stopping you is your willingness to do the work. Which means that really, you have all the unlimited resources you could ever need!


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Public School Bible Ban? Missouri Middle School Says the Bible Isn't Banned, Despite Student's Claim
CP U.S. | Thursday, January 08, 2015
By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor
A miniature flag rests on a copy of the Bible at voter registration at West Philadelphia High School. | (Photo: Reuters)
A claim against a Missouri middle school teacher of religious intolerance against a Christian student has been determined to be baseless, according to one school official.
The parents of 12-year-old Loyal Grandstaff accused a teacher from Bueker Middle School of attacking their son's religious convictions after the teacher reportedly stopped the student from reading the Bible during some free time.
However, Bueker Middle School Principal Lance Tobin told The Christian Post that upon investigating the matter the incident was found to be false.
"The incident was never validated," Tobin told CP, adding that the original claim derived from a local media story.
"Fox 4 News ran the report before we had the chance to look into the incident ourselves," he asserted. "All is good at BMS!"
On Monday, Monica Evans of Fox 4–Kansas City had a story published alleging that Grandstaff had been told to not read the Bible during free time in class.
"Loyal says he loves reading his Bible and decided to bring it to school before the Christmas break so he could read it during his free time. But the seventh grader said his teacher told him it wasn't allowed," Evans reported.
Evans interviewed Loyal and his father, Justin, who commented that they believe Loyal's rights had been violated by the teacher.
"I feel like it violated his freedom of religion but also his freedom of speech," Justin to Fox 4, adding that "There's kids walking around disrespecting their teachers, kids walking around cussing and everything else, and they're practically getting into no trouble at all."
This week, several online news and opinion sources picked up the story, including several posts on blog sites like Tumblr.
Other publications that picked up the story from Fox 4 included The Blaze, Yahoo News and Inquisitr.com.
More In U.S.
Christian scientists viewed as less intelligent than their peers, study suggests
North Dakota bill aims to ban accommodations for students who identify as trans or 'animal species'


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A small (but surprisingly roomy) take on our best-selling Medium Transport Tote. What goes into it? Here it is by the numbers: 2 pieces of fine leather are used for the body. 2 ways to carry: with the top handles or the detachable shoulder strap. 1 exterior pocket for those things you gotta grab fast. 1 interior side zip pocket to keep your keys, phone and wallet at the ready. 24: the number of hours in a day that this bag looks adorable. How many compliments you'll get? 500 gazillion.
19" (at shortest) to 21 5/8" (at longest) crossbody drop.
7 3/4"H x 7 3/4"W x 2 5/8"D.


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Russia is known for its unnavigable bureaucracy, but thankfully, travel to Russia has become easier since Soviet times. You'll still have to register, and you still need a visa, but Russia travel is as easy as it is enjoyable - if you bear in mind the following tips.
First of all, plan to apply for your visa well in advance of your trip through an embassy located in your country of residence.
You will need an invitation (issued by the hotel at which you plan to stay or through a travel agent), and you can use this invitation to apply for your visa. Sound complicated? This system has become much more relaxed in the past few years, so grin and bear it.
Travelers to Russia must register within three days of their arrival. The immigration form received at passport control must go wherever your passport goes - you will get a stamp at your hotel that will complete the registration process. Be sure to register at every new hotel you stay at when moving from city to city. Registration stamps may be checked upon departure or by law enforcement officials who can prey on naive or careless tourists.
The Russian unit of currency is the ruble. It used to be that it was possible to purchase items in Russia with US dollar bills.
Cash is always your best bet while you travel Russia. Not every place will accept credit cards. Bank machines will accept debit transactions, however, so don't leave home without the plastic. These cannot be found everywhere, so make sure you always have money to last a few days.
You may take traveler's checks if you are going to Moscow or St. Petersburg, but it is advisable not to rely on them. They can be difficult to cash, and, in smaller cities, completely useless.
Never exchange money on the street. People who offer to do this are shady characters at best, and cannot give you a fair exchange rate.
Water in Russia is not held to the same standards of sanitation as is water in the US, Western European countries, and other developed countries. Foreigners are advised to purchase inexpensive bottled water to avoid travel illness and water-borne germs.
Ingesting small amounts of the water in Russia is generally not harmful, but some cities, like St. Petersburg, are worse than others. You may even want to brush your teeth with bottled water.
Public transportation in Russia is inexpensive, reliable, and used by everyone. Buses may be crowded, but they are usually the chosen mode of transport for those cities without metro systems. The metros in cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg are easily navigated, though they can be hectic at peak times and you may have to stand while you ride.


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Northern Rivers Accommodation
The Murwillumbah Motor Inn is affordable Northern Rivers accommodation that is close to the town centre. Our motel units offer a full range of bedding options, so whatever sized group you are bringing, we have you covered.
If you're looking for things to see and do in Murwillumbah, we always like to recommend the walks throughout the Wollinbin, Mooball, Lamington and Nightcap National Parks. Choose from one hour walks to longer five hour treks, or the longest nearby walk is the historic Nightcap National Park, which usually takes a day and a half to traverse. This walk between Mount Nardi and Rummery Park can be started at either end and uses parts of the original trail used by postal workers between Lismore and Murwillumbah around the early twentieth century.
Art deco enthusiasts and cinephiles should visit the Regent Cinema on Brisbane Street. Built in 1947, this art deco building retains many of the charming old features of that time, but has been updated with the latest in digital projection and surround sound technology in 2012.
Explore the Tweed River with Mount Warning Tours, Seafood Rainforest Tweed River Sightseeing Cruise. You will travel on the Spirit of Wollumbin, a traditional Huon Pine River ferry. Be wowed by the spectacular mountain views, and enjoy a glass of Australian wine while the ferry runs through the heart of the Tweed Valley on the Murwillumbah's Heritage Trail. There is a one hour lunch or dinner, with a local seafood tasting platter for two at a riverside cafe after the tour.
While you are in Murwillumbah, visit the Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre in Mistral Road, South Murwillumbah. The gallery includes the Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture and the Gallery's collection includes an outstanding collection of portraits of Australians from all walks of life. The Margaret Olley Art Centre (MOAC) celebrates the work of its namesake, Margaret Olley — Australia's most celebrated painter of still life and interiors.
The Murwillumbah Motor Inn is affordable Northern Rivers accommodation close to the town centre. With so many things to do and places to see in the Tweed Shire, and Murwillumbah at the centre of it all, why don't you book your next NSW escape. Book now.
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Motorola Accompli 008
By Andy Szebeni | August 16, 2001 -- 23:00 GMT (16:00 PDT) | Topic: Smartphones
✓Extensive feature list
✓excellent data communications
✓compact, with good build quality.
✕Memory is not expandable
✕complex to use and set up
✕cannot synchronise email.
The Accompli 008 is Motorola's stunning debut in the smartphone market, where the Nokia 9210 Communicator now sets the standard. However, the comparison is not entirely fair as the Accompli 008 successfully carves its own niche as an extensively-featured phone rather than a phone-equipped PDA.
Whether justifiably or not, Motorola has a reputation for supplying the least-intuitive user interface among the major mobile phone manufacturers. The Accompli 008 neatly sidesteps this issue with a well-implemented touch-screen. The major phone functions are accessible using a virtual keypad in combination with hard keys. The latter include a rocker switch on the left edge for changing the volume during calls and moving through the options, and four keys on the front including the on-off switch. However, these keys are virtually redundant when you use the stylus.
The large flip, which doubles as protection for the screen as well as a high quality speaker, has a sturdy hinge and clips shut reassuringly firmly. The chassis feels solid and fits comfortably in the hand, and although the casing isn't particularly pretty, it is scratch-resistant and hard-wearing. The stylus stows neatly into the phone thanks to a telescopic extension, which solves the problem that the body of the phone is too short to accommodate a full-length stylus.
If you are used to Palm devices and other handhelds, the 54mm by 40mm screen initially seems small, although it has a resolution of 240 by 320 pixels. A large quick-access icon at the top centre of the screen enables you to toggle the phone functions on and off the screen, and the other icons around the top and bottom edge can be tapped to give more information about a particular item, such as the battery meter or ringer status.
Four group tabs along the right edge give access to the phone's more advanced functions. If you are expecting a full-blown PDA then you are likely to be a somewhat disappointed: this device is a phone at heart, unlike Pocket PC-based convergence devices such as the Sagem WA3050 and Trium Mondo.
In order to be so pocketable -- in photos the Accompli seems a lot like a handheld, but in reality it's quite small -- Motorola has done away with Palm- or Pocket PC-style embellishments, and most applications merely enhance the phone functions. For example, from the contacts list you can tap a phone number or email address, whereupon you are taken to the relevant application to make a call or send a written message. The WAP browser, email client (you can use POP3 or IMAP, but be warned: you can't synchronise the email with your PC), SMS application and phone dialler are all well integrated.
The Accompli 008's main competitor for the next few months is likely to be the Nokia 9210 Communicator. However, apart from being a lot smaller and lighter, the Motorola product plays the GPRS trump card -- a feature surprisingly absent in the Nokia 9210. Also, unlike the Sagem WA3050 and Trium Mondo, it is GPRS- enabled out of the box.
There is no HTML browser, but WAP works well. You can have virtually limitless WAP bookmarks, five connection profiles, five gateway proxys and five email profiles, which gives a lot of flexibility. The manual is comprehensive, easily followed and really helps when you're entering these settings.
Emails can be organised into folders, and SMS and other text entry is achieved using either the virtual keyboard or the Wisdom Pen Handwriting Recognition system. The latter requires no special character set and tries to predict the letter you are writing.
As with most high-end phones, the real power of the Accompli 008 is unleashed when it is connected to your PC. A serial cradle is supplied so you can synchronise your contacts, notes and schedule with most major PC PIM applications via the supplied TrueSync software.
The cradle has nice touches such as status lights and a compartment to charge the spare Li-ion battery, but this is spoiled by an untidy connection for the mains power -- a USB connection would have allowed much quicker data transfer and done away with the need for a separate power supply.
The TrueSync software is nowhere near as simple as the Pocket PC's ActiveSync or Palm's HotSync, and also compares poorly with the Siemens SL45's PC connection kit. You need to keep tapping settings on the phone and then on the PC each time you want to synchronise. It is also fiddly and major features, such as the downloading of Java applets, are unnecessarily complex.
One of the Accompli 008's killer features is its Java capability, in the shape of Sun's J2ME environment. For third-party applets, Motorola pointed us towards www.midletcentral.com, where we found a bunch of games, an alternative WAP browser and some screen savers. However, only a couple of applets would work when downloaded to the Accompli -- and one of them was a rather unimpressive stopwatch. To be fair, it is early days for Java phones, so we will keep an open mind.
The flexibility of Java is a great asset to this device so it is a disappointment to find that its relatively meagre 8MB of memory cannot be expanded -- especially as only around 3MB is usable. However lean Java applets may be, you would soon use up half of this memory with a few small programs and, say, 500 contacts, a busy schedule and task list and few emails.
The Accompli 008 may have a notes application and a neat Inkpad function for drawing maps, but this phone is definitely not going to replace a fully featured Palm or Pocket PC handheld. Then again, this is one of the Accompli 008's virtues: it makes no pretence to be any more than a fantastically well-featured phone.
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When I worked at Life Time Fitness I went through their nutrition coaching program to become the coach for our club. I am so grateful that I did, because I learned so much and really found my passion for nutrition. Actually, I am going to be getting another nutrition certification in the fall so I will be able to offer more in terms of nutrition programs to my clients and potential new clients. But, back to my point about nutrition. If you remember last month I posted about being at a plateau that I couldn't figure out. Well, I am still dealing with it and I also have been gaining belly fat for no reason. My eating has been clean and my workouts consistent. In my nutrition coach training I learned that weight loss is more than just calories in and calories out. Our bodies are very complex and we have hormones and other functions that can be disrupted by the foods that we eat and the toxins that we are exposed to. I also learned about blood testing and how through blood work a medical professional is able to get a better picture of a persons whole health. So, I decided to seek out holistic care. I was given a referral to an integrative health care practice (turned out they are covered by my insurance) and I had my appointment yesterday.
It was an awesome experience and I am so glad that I went. I was informed about the type of care they offer and as the PA was talking I was nodding my head knowing that I had found the right place. She said that they offer traditional medicine when needed, but mostly practice holistic medicine and seek to find the cause of the symptoms and treat them naturally with supplement and nutrition...ding, ding, ding! She listened to me and explained what the next steps would be. She even told me a few things she thought it could be, but wanted to have my blood work before making any decisions. So there at the clinic I had my blood drawn and made my appointment for 2 weeks to go over the results and make a plan of action. I am so excited to go back for my results. Until then, I am still going to keep eating clean and working out. I will let you know when I find out the results.
I am sharing this with you in hopes that you will seek this kind of care when you know that there is something off with you. Don't just go to a doctor that will throw a scrip at you and send you on your way. Unfortunately this is the way "health care" is done here most of the time. It is more like "sick care". No one ever really addresses the real issues that are causing the problems and instead of looking at diet or possible food allergies/aversions or looking at your full panel blood work, they treat the symptoms.
I am reading a book right now that talks about how food affects your brain chemistry, your gut function and even how you feel on a daily basis. If you are eating foods that make you feel less than your best daily, you may not even know how "your best self" feels. Take a look at what you are eating and decide if it can be the cause of some of your health issues. I will write more on this topic later when I am done with the book and have done the 10 day elimination/whole body reset diet.
I truly urge you to rethink traditional medicine and how the food you eats affects your whole body. If you feel that you are having health issues search the Internet for integrative health care practices and call until you find one that your insurance covers. Feel free to contact me with any questions, I would be happy to help in any way.
I LOVE this! Congratulations on your journey towards holistic health! I am so excited for you. I also belong to a holistic wellness clinic and it has been an amazing experience - mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Best of luck to you!!
Thanks Jenn! I am really excited for it! I know that it is going to give me exactly what I need to reach my optimum level of health. I want to feel amazing so I can be at my best. I love that you have had the same experience, and I hope that more people go this way with their health care.
Such good motivation to seek out holistic healthcare!
Ursula, it is! I can't wait to find out the results and my plan going forward!
I love this! I think this stuff is just so cool! I agree with you 100%. While I believe in Western Medicine, I am not found of our system. My son hasn't been to the doctor in almost two years and youngest in a year. Sure, we get sick but we don't run to the doctor. I just understand the need to run there for every little thing. I am responsible with my children and take them in with unexplained symptoms and when I need to rule out major illness that require med... but I know my children and we just aren't a "medical" family. We don't get every vax for the kids either and never the flu shot. And I think the poor food choices we make as our society are absolutely the cause for chronic diseases. Right on sister!
Thanks Lindsey! It is a balance between the two! I feel like it is important to take care of your body with food and exercise. I totally agree with you about running to the doctor. The poor food choices and the processed food industry are making us all sick, unhealthy and addicted to the processed foods. It is scary to think that they do to that food. I am excited to do the 10 day elimination diet and get off processed foods for good! Time for a reset!


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At noon it parcheth the country, and who can abide the burning heat thereof?
A man blowing a furnace is in works of heat, but the sun burneth the mountains three times more; breathing out fiery vapours, and sending forth bright beams, it dimmeth the eyes.
Great is the Lord that made it; and at his commandment runneth hastily.
He made the moon also to serve in her season for a declaration of times, and a sign of the world.
From the moon is the sign of feasts, a light that decreaseth in her perfection.
The beauty of heaven, the glory of the stars, an ornament giving light in the highest places of the Lord.
At the commandment of the Holy One they will stand in their order, and never faint in their watches.
Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it; very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof.
It compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the most High have bended it.
By his commandment he maketh the snow to fall aplace, and sendeth swiftly the lightnings of his judgment.
Through this the treasures are opened: and clouds fly forth as fowls.
By his great power he maketh the clouds firm, and the hailstones are broken small.
At his sight the mountains are shaken, and at his will the south wind bloweth.
The eye marvelleth at the beauty of the whiteness thereof, and the heart is astonished at the raining of it.
The hoarfrost also as salt he poureth on the earth, and being congealed, it lieth on the top of sharp stakes.
When the cold north wind bloweth, and the water is congealed into ice, it abideth upon every gathering together of water, and clotheth the water as with a breastplate.
It devoureth the mountains, and burneth the wilderness, and consumeth the grass as fire.
A present remedy of all is a mist coming speedily, a dew coming after heat refresheth.
By his counsel he appeaseth the deep, and planteth islands therein.
They that sail on the sea tell of the danger thereof; and when we hear it with our ears, we marvel thereat.
For therein be strange and wondrous works, variety of all kinds of beasts and whales created.
By him the end of them hath prosperous success, and by his word all things consist.
We may speak much, and yet come short: wherefore in sum, he is all.
How shall we be able to magnify him? for he is great above all his works.
The Lord is terrible and very great, and marvellous is his power.
When ye glorify the Lord, exalt him as much as ye can; for even yet will he far exceed: and when ye exalt him, put forth all your strength, and be not weary; for ye can never go far enough.
Who hath seen him, that he might tell us? and who can magnify him as he is?
There are yet hid greater things than these be, for we have seen but a few of his works.
For the Lord hath made all things; and to the godly hath he given wisdom.


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Barbados elects its first-ever president to replace the Queen as head of state
Dame Sandra Mason after she was made a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George, and Queen Elizabeth II arriving at a state banquet in Germany.
Barbados has elected its first-ever president to replace Queen Elizabeth II as head of state in the process of becoming a republic.
Sandra Mason, the current governor-general, is set to be sworn in as president on November 30, the country's 55th anniversary of independence from Britain.
Calling the parliamentary vote a "historic milestone on the road to the Republic," the Barbadian government tweeted that its House and Senate had elected Mason, 72, on Wednesday.
In September 2020, Mason announced the break with Britain, saying "the time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind."
"Having attained Independence over half a century ago, our country can be in no doubt about its capacity for self-governance," she said.
When asked about the plans last year, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said it was "a matter for the government and people of Barbados."
Barbados — which has a population of just under 300,000 — was claimed by the British in 1625. It has sometimes been called "Little England" for its loyalty to British customs.
It is relatively prosperous, and a popular tourist destination: prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, more than a million tourists visited its idyllic beaches and crystalline waters each year.
The Caribbean's easternmost island is also well-known as the birthplace of superstar singer Rihanna, who is a Barbadian ambassador tasked with promoting education, tourism and investment.
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Americas|Only Captivity Will Save the Vaquita, Experts Say
Only Captivity Will Save the Vaquita, Experts Say
A vaquita that died after being trapped in a net used to catch other fish in the Gulf of California.CreditCreditFlip Nicklin/Minden Pictures
By Rod Nordland
TIJUANA, Mexico — It was not the first time Robert L. Brownell Jr. had seen a dead vaquita, the rare and endangered porpoise that was lying on the stainless-steel necropsy table inside the Tijuana Zoo on Monday. But it might well be one of the last.
Mr. Brownell, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, had in effect discovered the porpoise, finding the first full, dead specimen in 1966. The world's smallest member of the cetacean grouping, which includes whales and dolphins, the vaquita was the most recent cetacean to be recognized by modern science.
Now it may well become the latest to go extinct.
A high-level, bilateral panel of Mexican and American scientists met this week and is expected to announce that it believes efforts to save the animal have, essentially, failed. That announcement would mean that the only hope for the vaquita's recovery would be to capture the surviving animals, if any can be found. Some of the scientists involved think the surviving vaquitas now number as few as two or three, and the latest two vaquitas found dead could even be the last ones — though it could take years to confirm that.
The vaquita has been described, by some of the few people who have seen one of the elusive porpoises alive, as the smiley-faced sea panda because of the dark outlines around its mouth and the black circles around its eyes. Its plight has drawn in celebrities like Miley Cyrus and Leonardo DiCaprio, and spurred cooperation among scientists and environmentalists, north and south of the border, in and out of government.
But the push has been imperiled by traffickers in the body parts of endangered species, unscrupulous fishermen and uneven enforcement efforts.
The problem can be traced to Chinese demand for a rare swim bladder from the endangered totoaba fish, which shares the vaquita's range, in the northern tip of the Gulf of California. According to Mexican scientists, that demand has grown so much that prices for the bladders, used for a homeopathic remedy, rival the wholesale price of cocaine — as much as $10,000 per kilogram. Mexican officials and those from the Mexican-American panel, the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita, say Mexican drug cartels have been attracted to the trade by the high profits, and by the assurance that no fisherman has ever gone to jail for trafficking in swim bladders.
The nets used to catch the totoaba have trapped the much less numerous vaquita as well, to devastating effect. The Mexican government has banned the nets and even paid some fishermen not to fish in the vaquita's range, but those efforts have not helped.
The results on the necropsy table at the Tijuana Zoo were only too evident. A 1-year-old female, a little over three feet long — full-grown vaquitas are nearly five feet — the porpoise had the imprint of the net in which she died stamped in six-inch squares on the grayish skin on her left side. On her right side, the skin was flayed off, probably as the porpoise struggled while drowning in the net.
The specimen was labeled PS7, because it was the seventh vaquita (scientific name: Phocoena sinus) to be found dead since a survey last summer, which determined that only 30 vaquitas remained at the time. Then on Tuesday, PS8 was found by a NOAA scientist, washed up on a beach at the northern end of the gulf. Scientists say there are likely to be many more undiscovered dead ones.
Budget cuts from the Trump administration may add to the vaquita's woes. Both Mr. Brownell and the scientist performing the autopsy, Dr. Frances Gulland, a veterinarian from Sausalito, Calif., who is also a commissioner on the federal Marine Mammal Commission, now work for offices facing major budget cuts for the coming year.
A totoaba, top, and a vaquita that died after being caught in a net set by fishermen. The swim bladder of the totoaba is in demand, and the nets used to catch the fish also trap the vaquita.CreditOmar Vidal/Omar Vidal, via Associated Press
Not since the Yangtze River dolphin went extinct in 2006 in China has a cetacean gone over the brink. "We always thought that what happened in China would not happen here," Dr. Gulland said. "We have the U.S. government's prize laboratory and it's on their doorstep. We have all these experts and scientists — we have everything. We thought, 'This won't happen, we can fix this problem.'"
She was referring to NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, a San Diego community just a short day trip from the northern Gulf of California. "It has taken on a huge symbolic importance."
Alarmed about the new vaquita deaths, her commission paid to put out acoustic listening devices on a limited scale in February, focusing on where vaquitas were last found in 2016. The devices pick up the animals' echolocating clicks, a form of sonar they use to navigate and communicate. By analyzing the number and frequency of the clicks, compared with previous years, scientists can calculate the number of animals in their fairly limited range.
In February two or three animals were believed to still be active, Dr. Gulland said. Since then four more vaquitas have been found dead, two in March and the two this week, one of which was recovered by a monitoring vessel from the Sea Shepherd environmental group.
Capt. Oona Layolle, who runs the group's vaquita campaign, said their ships had recovered 183 totoaba nets just since December. She disagrees, though, with the vaquita panel's proposals. "I don't think by putting an animal in a cage you are saving it," she said.
"There was another dead vaquita found yesterday," said Barbara Taylor, a marine conservation biologist at the science center, and a member of the vaquita recovery committee, on Wednesday. "We're all very depressed about that. The committee meeting will be making very clear that any vaquita that's basically not taken out of its dangerous habitat is probably going to die."
The extinction of the vaquita is a sensitive political issue in Mexico, where President Enrique Peña Nieto has made it an issue of pride that his country could save the animal. "The president has said that even if there is only one vaquita left, we will do everything we can," said Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, a scientist who is in charge of the vaquita effort for the Mexican environment ministry.
The porpoise's decline has been increasing exponentially, even as protection efforts have ramped up. In 1997, scientists counted 567 vaquitas; the number dropped by half in the next nine years, to 245. In just one year, the number halved again, to only 30 last year from 60 in 2015.
The vaquita may go extinct without mankind ever having gotten to fully know it. No live specimen has ever been taken. Because vaquitas are small and travel singly or in pairs rather than in big pods, following and observing their behavior is difficult. Tragically for conservation efforts, a female takes two years to produce a single calf, and two years to reach sexual maturity, so replacing each lost animal takes years. Already, vaquitas are so inbred that genetically, as Ms. Taylor said, "they basically all have the same last name."
If the vaquita becomes extinct, Dr. Gulland said, it will have the distinction of being wiped out entirely through human action, even while humans were trying desperately to save it. "This is direct, human-caused extinction," she said. "If there's one lesson learned, it's that we can't manage humans."
Mr. Brownell said this might be one battle the fishermen had won. "The fishermen just think, 'Oh, good, if we can get rid of the last one, then we can get on and keep fishing.'" If that hasn't already happened, many scientists now believe, it may soon.
Correction: April 27, 2017
Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated Dr. Frances Gulland's position on the federal Marine Mammal Commission. She is a commissioner, not the director.
An article on Friday about the vaquita, an endangered porpoise, referred incorrectly to future budgets for the government offices that employ two scientists, Dr. Frances Gulland and Robert L. Brownell. The offices face major budget cuts; the entire budgets of both offices are not threatened. In addition, a capsule summary for the article misidentified the organism whose bladder is prized in eastern medicine, often leading to accidental catching of vaquitas. As the article correctly noted, it is the totoaba fish, not the vaquita.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 11 of the New York edition with the headline: Attempts to Save Endangered Vaquitas Have Largely Failed. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe
Before Vaquitas Vanish, a Desperate Bid to Save Them
The Vaquita, the World's Smallest Porpoise, Slips Closer to Extinction
Vaquita Porpoise, and a Way of Life, Face Extinction


Mikajy Natiora combines research and community outreach to save lemurs in northwest Madagascar.
Mikajy Natiora undertaking outreach in a local school.
Mikajy Natiora protects Madagascar's endemic biodiversity by combining ecological research and local community involvement; they currently focus their work on northwest Madagascar in the region surrounding the Sahamalaza Iles Radama National Park. Evidence of the importance of this young organization's work can be found in the fact that it has been funded by over a half-dozen prestigious foundations including the Van Tienhoven Foundation for International Nature Protection, the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, and the Rufford Foundation.
What lemur species does Mikajy Natiora protect?
Mikajy Natiora participating in a local environmentally-themed carnival.
Mikajy Natiora always informs local communities when they are going to conduct activities in the vicinity by using public meetings to explain the objectives of their work. In addition, the organization undertakes several education and outreach programs to supplement their research-based approach.
Mikajy Natiora has been conducting regular education and outreach programs on the lemurs of the Sahamalaza-Iles Radama National Park since 2013. The objectives of this outreach are to increase the local communities' awareness about the need and the importance of the conservation of the lemurs and its forest habitat.
In addition, Mikajy Natiora trains park rangers and local stakeholders to increase their knowledge about biodiversity and their skills in managing and interacting with the local ecosystem sustainably.
Starting in 2015, Mikajy Natiora plans to begin implementing programs that allow communities to develop new sources of income that help decrease the need for humans to use the local forests for survival.
Donations are not currently accepted online.
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Newcastle v Swansea preview and prediction | The Transfer Tavern | Where football transfer rumours fly or die!
Newcastle who are without captain Fabricio Coloccini through suspension, Gutierrez, Perch , midfield 'metronome', Yohan Cabaye through injury and there is still a doubt over Pappis Cisse.
The last time the sides Cisse scored a brace, one of which was a delightful chip over Michel Vorm. However this time around, Newcastle are waiting for FIFA clearance to allow Cisse to play. The Guardian reported that Cisse failed to travel to Senegal's game in Niger due to a back injury.
If Cisse doesn't start there could be a chance Newcastle will go back to their 4-4-3 which brought them so many points from the back end of last season but are likely to continue with 4-4-2.
As for this season Swansea will offer an even tougher challenge than last year. Laudrup's side are likely to continue their fluid 4-3-3.
Michu will come in for Danny Graham and play a false 9 role with Dyer or Routledge and Hernandez offering wide support. Graham has been fairly disappointing so far this season, scoring just 3 goals in 12 games.
With Vorm out until December, German 'keeper, Gerhard Tremmel to take the gloves. This could be a deciding factor in the game as more often than not Vorm has kept Swansea in the game to the annoyance of opposition strikers but he's not just a shot stopper, Vorm actually starts every attacking movement for Swansea because he's so good with his feet.
I can see this game being tough for Newcastle as they won't see much of the ball however with Anita and Tiote both in the center of midfield they could help break play up and frustrate Swansea.
The biggest weapon for Newcastle is patience and having someone has hot-headed as Cheick Tiote that could be easier said than done. The second biggest factor is going to be how clinical Newcastle are in front of goal. If Ba,Cisse and Ben Arfa play like everyone knows they can play; Swansea could be in some real trouble. As for Swansea they just need to rinse and repeat with their fluid, passing football but I feel if Michu starts up front there could be no focal point for all the passes.
My prediction is 2-1 to Newcastle.
I think Newcastle will be much more direct and even if they don't have 50+% of the possession, when they do get the ball in the final third they have the players who'll finish.
Throw into this the fact Swansea haven't beaten Newcastle in the past season meetings and have failed to score in their past six away games this all points towards 3 points for the home side.


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Marvel Comics and the creative team of writer Jason Aaron, artist Russel Dauterman and colorist Matthew Wilson didn't waste any time whatsoever bringing Jane Foster back from the dead. In the last issue Foster sacrificed herself and the powers of Thor to defeat the Mangog. She used chains "forged by the dwarves of Nidavellir to bind the monster Fenris until the day of Ragnarok." She then attached Mjolnir to the chains and sent the beast flying into the sun, seemingly destroying Mangog and Mjolnir in the process.
Without Mjolnir granting her the powers of Thor, she reverts to her human form which is ravaged by cancer. The exertion of the battle and the cancer would kill her. However just one issue later, Aaron and company have brought Jane Foster back to life.
Thor Odinson is beside himself. He refuses to let Jane Foster die and attempts to harness the power of the God Tempest to use its energy to bring her back to life. Meanwhile Jane Foster is on the doorsteps of Valhalla, but she refuses to enter believing her story in the land of the living is not done. She convinces Odin that she still has more to do in the land of the living. Odin believes her and joins Odinson in harnessing the God Tempest. The two are able to bring Jane Foster back to life using the God Tempest like a defibrillator.
Interestingly enough, Foster's cancer is still ravaging her body. Despite, dying she is still having to undergo chemotherapy. Apparently the powers of the God Tempest still pale in comparison to cancer.
While I think it was a little quick to revive Jane Foster after an honorable death. The overall story was well written with some above average artwork from Russell Dauterman. It was one of the more well-written stories with true emotions being showcased that make you feel for these characters. You can feel Odinson's pain at the loss of Jane Foster. You can see Odin's own rage and sense of betrayal. But you also see him come to terms with how his rage controlled him. There's also triumph and jubilation at achieving success and resurrecting Jane Foster.
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Jessica Yaniv, Trans activist who lost a lawsuit against beauty salons for refusing to wax her scrotum may be threatening lawsuits again – this time against gynecologist
Jessica Yaniv, is a transgender person who identifies as female but has male genitalia, tried to sue three women from a beauty salon because they refused to wax her male genitalia. She lost the case and was ordered to pay damages.
Now it seems, she is picking a fight with gynecologists. She took to Twitter to express her dismay when a gynecologist's office told her that they do not serve transgender patients.
Gynecology is defined by the Oxford dictionary as: "the branch of physiology and medicine which deals with the functions and diseases specific to women and girls, especially those affecting the reproductive system".
In her Tweet she asks whether they are legally allowed to refuse to see a patient and goes on to suggest that gynecologists ought to work with trans patients, "either as part of the transition stage performing surgery or managing pre- or post-transition gynaecological problems."
Aside from her previous failed law suit, she has also been accused of being a sexual predator. She attempted to arrange for girls as young as 12 to swim topless where the parents were not present.
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As Frank Smith once said "one language sets you in a corridor of life, two languages open every door along the way". We're extremely happy to present a truly global champion in today's translation case study. The young Austrian company Usersnap already gains global success and international companies around the globe trust in its fantastic bug tracking tool.
Today Thomas Peham, Marketing Manager at Usersnap, answers some interesting questions on the topic of translation. We're happy to have Usersnap on board talking about the very beginning of the company and their translation progress.
Founded in 2013, Usersnap is now the #1 feedback and bug tracking tool for web development. Please, tell us about the beginning of the company and the achievements you've made so far.
Usersnap was founded in March 2013 by Florian Dorfbauer, Gregor Dorfbauer and Josef Trauner. The idea behind Usersnap was born out of the different communication problems we faced with our daily work in developing web applications.
The product is a result of our vision to make web development more efficient and pleasant. Because we couldn't find an existing solution in the market and seeing the potential of a visual bug tracking tool, we decided to build our own and Usersnap was established.
Usersnap committed itself to enhance customer feedback and facilitate bug reporting. Can you tell us more about your great bug tracking system and its features?
Sure. The main thing that separates Usersnap from other feedback and bug tracking tools out there is definitely the screenshot.
Usersnap creates screenshots of the current browser content. It helps developers, customers and everyone involved in a web project to share feedback and communicate effectively about issues.
With its point and click issue reporting, tracking bugs was never easier. The screenshots, along with important information such as browser version, screen size, URL and other additional information, help you solve every web issue faster.
Usersnap also offers more than 20 integrations with your favorite project management and bug tracking systems (such as Basecamp, Asana, JIRA, Trello, …).
Lots of developers are also reading our blog so we want to point out a technical perspective as well. How does Usersnap integrate in the web development process?
That's a great question. We have a lot of web development teams among our customers who make use of Usersnap in different ways.
Usersnap can be used for better collaboration throughout various project stages. You can discuss design drafts or first prototypes inside Usersnap as well as collect bugs and issues while testing your new web app or website.
After a site goes live, Usersnap is also used to collect feedback from website visitors.
Famous and international companies like Microsoft and Netflix trust Usersnap. How many countries are you currently shipping your product to?
Yes – that's true. More than 90% of our revenue is generated from customers outside of Austria. We have customers in more than 2.500 cities around the world.
We are also proud to have a lot of companies such as Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Talkdesk as well as small startups and agencies on board trusting Usersnap.
We are happy that you are translating the Usersnap widget with LingoHub. Please tell us how you handled translations before using LingoHub and how you are managing translations now.
Because Usersnap is used by people from all over the world, we already started thinking about the challenges of translations early on. Before LingoHub, we had quite a basic workflow set up.
We created a Google Spreadsheet where we translated our feedback widget into 15 different languages with Google Translate. This workflow worked out quite well in the beginning, since it enabled us to translate our widget automatically.
However, Google Translate isn't really the best way to go when dealing with a lot of technical terms so we started looking for other options.
After giving LingoHub a try, we knew that it will bring our translation workflow to the next level. With LingoHub, we are now able to easily collaborate with external translators, giving them an easy-to-use interface to do their job.
We are curious to hear which improvements you've made since you've started using LingoHub. What do you like best about?
Since we started using LingoHub, our translation significantly improved and as a result, more and more customers are requesting new languages for our feedback widget.
With LingoHub, it is easy to add new languages to our product. As of today, we are already offering our feedback widget in 25 languages. Thanks to Lingohub, managing those translations is simple & pretty straight forward.
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Wacky ideas: Success stories and flops!
As teacher, I very often try to keep my students interested in the lessons by trying out weird but lovely ideas. The thing is that sometimes the weird ideas that pop into my head, turn out to be a great lesson but other times, well, they turn out to be a flop : p.
I had started teaching in the public sector. I had been assigned to a primary school in a village. My students were a group of ten 8 year olds so I thought," What can I do to keep them interested? Love English?" I decided I would play a song. "Heads, shoulders, knees and toes" was the song I chose. I got them to repeat the body parts, they also showed me where their head, their shoulders etc were and then I played the song. We did the song's moves and everything was going smoothly. They loved it. So, I had the brilliant idea to play it again. They were having a great time, weren't they? I said to my students, " Ok, since we all had fun, let's do it again!" Then an eight year old boy stands up and in a heavy Cretan accent says," No, we don't want to do this again! Now, we want to do tsalimakia!Sirto!" and he started dancing and clapping. It took me ages to get him to stop dancing and go back to his seat and back to business. For all my non Greek readers, please press the link to see what he started dancing. Pay attention to the lead dancer and imagine a 8 year old trying this!
Authentic materials,,, I love using them. Back in the days, when MP3s were non existent (I know, I am quite old) I decided it was about time I used songs my students liked, in class. I asked them to bring in their favourite songs. We were going to do some listening based on the songs they chose. I ended up with ten CDs, bits of papers with scribbles on them and a big headache! I did not know where to begin?!? I had no track number, no song titles and no, no , no! I ended up (I am ashamed to admit this) losing some of the bits of paper and I never realized this oh, so brilliant idea. Next time round, I need to plan this better. Get them to bring in the single on their MP3 players, know the artist's name and the title of the song. Then, I make a big file with everything and do some cool listening activities with music.
Adult learners and haribo gummy bears…. is that a Do or a Don't?After being on the 7th week of an intensive pre sessional EAP course, and in the middle of drafting and redrafting a research paper, my students started to be a bit less motivated. They were mostly sleep deprived and without much energy (if you have taught on these courses, you will know what I am talking about). Before I move on, I should let you know that during EAP courses I do tend to walk around with Haribo gummy bears in my bag just to get a boost. So one day I said, " I know you are all tired, but let's do this, and then I will give you some Haribos" Most of my students were from China and did not know what a Haribo gummy bear was so that kinda added some extra incentive. Once we had finished, I passed around the bag of Haribo and they munched away happily. The next day, we were going through the material as normal, and then one of my students goes, " So Joanna… no candy today?" I ended up being one of Haribo's best customers in those final weeks.
It is carnival season. Wherever you look there is a mask, feathers, a costume! I always wear something festive and try to be in the carnival mood and every single year I say, " Never again!" Seriously! Why do I do this? This year, I had the brilliant idea of wearing big tinted glasses and a hat with pom poms hanging off it. It is so hard to teach in those. So, yes, my lesson was planned, my materials were ready, we were going to talk about costumes and carnival. The only thing I had not included in the anticipated problems section of my lesson plan was flying pom poms. So, of course my lesson was more on the "Haha! Miss you look funny" side and not that much about grammar and vocabulary. Lesson to be learnt. ….next time I want to dress up… I won't!
I like trying out new things. I think that sometimes I get caught up in the enthusiasm of something new, and my planning skills go down the drain. Some of my best lessons have been a result of trying out something new, something out of the ordinary. So, go ahead, plan a nutty lesson (emphasis on plan).
I enjoyed writing this post and I hope you liked reading it. Please do share some of the unusual stuff you have tried out in class. I would really like to hear some of your stories.


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How superannuation laws are strangling Australia's art scene
Finance Your Super How superannuation laws are strangling Australia's art scene
10:08pm, Sep 29, 2019 Updated: 10:58pm, Sep 29
A superannuation rule is believed to be contributing to stagnant Australian art sales. Photo: Getty
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Art sales in Australia have hovered around the same level for almost a decade, and an obscure superannuation law is partially to blame for the woes.
While art sales lifted 6 per cent globally in 2018 (up to a whopping $67.5 billion), in Australia only $107 million worth of art moved through auction houses, according to Dr David Challis.
Dr Challis – a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Melbourne's School of Culture and Communication Art History program – said those numbers are comparable to the past 10 years, and 39 per cent below the peak in 2007.
Surprisingly, one of the driving factors is a drop in demand for art following changes to superannuation law in 2011, when the tax office announced that artworks purchased by self-managed superannuation funds could not be stored or displayed in the fund members' homes.
Business owners are permitted to store art bought through an SMSF in their offices, but again the pieces can't be displayed.
Instead, those pieces have to be locked away in storage or leased to galleries, or the funds' members will face serious financial penalties.
Worryingly for artists, SMSFs accounted for 15 to 25 per cent of all Australian art sales, and the 2011 changes have devastated the market.
That figure was higher for indigenous artworks, where super funds accounted for as much as 40 per cent of demand.
"Not only did funds stop buying art, but they started selling what they had, so it was a bit of a double whammy," Dr Challis told The New Daily.
"Where it's really knocked the stuffing out of the market is when artists start to establish themselves and start selling paintings for around $10,000. The ability to go from an emerging to a mid-career artist has become more difficult, and established artists can't make a living out of it any more."
In fact, established artists' wages fell by 15 per cent between 2010 and 2017, according to calculations by Lowensteins Arts Management – an accounting firm with 4000 Australian artists among its client base.
Dr Challis is calling on the ATO to recognise "investment-grade artworks" as a new and separate category of investable asset so would-be collectors can hang the collection bought through their SMSFs in their homes.
"Art is a bit different to other assets like sports boats and collectable coins, where using them can detract from their value. Hanging a painting on a wall isn't going to hurt its price," he said.
Such a change would make it easier for fund members to store the works they buy, and would support not only the value of their art collection but the artists too.
Not addressing the problem
Michael Fox, principal of Michael Fox Art Accountant and Valuer, agrees the current rules have hurt Australia's artists, with the past 12 months being the worst year he's seen in his 20 years managing artists' finances.
But Mr Fox doubts the answer is a new 'investment-grade' category for artworks.
"As a tax professional, I can tell you there's no way they'd ever legislate an 'investment-grade artwork' scheme. It's too subjective," he said.
"How do we decide what art is investment grade? The other challenge is that the artist's reputation often stands behind the value of the art. People were buying Rolf Harris's work up until everything about him came out – What would happen if his pieces had previously been considered investment grade?"
It also fails to address the root cause of the problem, Mr Fox said.
The laws were introduced as a sort of "sin tax", like the excise on tobacco products, Mr Fox said. They were designed to dissuade people from investing in art to prevent them getting into trouble.
Those risks could be better managed by instead introducing minimum standards for art dealers and galleries, forcing sellers to have professional indemnity insurance at the very least and ensuring buyers are paying fair prices for art that's likely to appreciate in value.
"There needs to be better regulation of art dealers. As long as we can be sure the place art is being purchased from is reputable, we shouldn't have any of these issues," he said.
"Right now there are no rules around who can call themselves an art dealer, an art consultant or a gallery. We just need a set of minimum standards.
"Instead, the rules that we have now are a bit like trying to open a walnut with a mallet."
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