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V. Hunter Pittman
V. Hunter Pittman, associate professor of architecture, has been appointed interim director of the School of Architecture + Design in the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. His appointment is effective June 16. He succeeds Henri de Hahn, who is stepping down to focus on teaching and research.
"With more than 20 years in the School of Architecture + Design, Hunter is well equipped to take on the role as its director," said Jack Davis, Reynolds Metals Professor of Architecture and dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. "His deep knowledge of graduate and undergraduate education in design are a tremendous asset to our four internationally recognized programs."
Pittman has been a faculty member at Virginia Tech since 1995. He has taught in the undergraduate and graduate programs in architecture both in design studios and in building and environmental systems courses during his tenure. His research interests lie at the intersection of architectural design and practice, and their resulting physical assembly, and have included work with faculty colleagues and students in design/build studios and projects.
Currently chair of the school's graduate programs in architecture, Pittman also served as chair of the professional program of the bachelor of architecture degree from 2001 to 2007.
He received the college's 2014 Certificate for Excellence in Teaching and the 2014 J. Stoeckel Design Lab Teaching Excellence Award from the School of Architecture + Design. In addition, he has received the University Teaching Excellence Award and four other college and school awards for teaching and professional excellence.
Pittman earned his master of architecture and bachelor of architecture from Virginia Tech. He is a registered architect in Virginia and has worked for architectural firms in North Carolina and Virginia.
Katie Gehrt
Blacksburg, Va.
College of Architecture and Urban Studies


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I write this post from the WordPress app on my brand spankin' new iPhone 5. Screen could be a smidge wider, but I am glad to have a real mute switch and a real home key once again. The battery life seems to blow away that of the Samsung Infuse. Oh, and it hasn't crashed or frozen yet, even though it's been turned on for more than ten hours.
Below is the first photo I've taken with the camera.
In related news, I have a Samsung Infuse and its accessories available for sale.
Is that a playstation 3 that you own on the right side?
You are awesome. I bet you play assassin's creed 3. You know, the one that takes place during pre-civil war times and during civil war times.
The only video games I have are FIFA and Madden. Haven't played them in ages. The PS3 is now just a glorified DVD/BluRay/Netflix player.
I found that the Juice Defender app helps greatly with the Infuse battery life. It was getting sluggish here recently, but taking off a few apps that I wasn't using seems to have helped.
I'm between the Galaxy SIII, Note 2, or Nexus 4 when the time comes. The Nexus 4 would have the advantage of not requiring a contract renewal.


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Uzbekistan in talks with FAO over participation in World Food Summit 2021
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Uzbekistan and FAO are in talks over active participation of Uzbekistan in the work of the World Food Summit in 2021, as well as in the preparation of documents and decisions of the summit, Trend reports referring to the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of Uzbekistan.
In January 2021, the Minister of Agriculture of Uzbekistan, Jamshid Khodjaev, and the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Qu Dongyu discussed and agreed on the plans for 2021 indicated in the roadmap.
FAO director general confirmed that FAO welcomes Uzbekistan's active participation in the Food Summit and looks forward to the coordination of Minister Khojaev as Chair of the Regional Conference for Europe. He also noted the importance and necessity of Khodjayev's contribution to the work of the FAO Council meetings scheduled for 2021, as well as global conferences on food and climate change.
In addition, the main points of the Country Framework Program between FAO and Uzbekistan for 2021-2025 were discussed. The program is scheduled to be approved and signed during January.
Khodjaev noted that many joint projects were implemented and several new ones were launched, for example, in greenhouse farming, locust control, rice cultivation, and beekeeping. In accordance with the new UN Sustainable Development Framework, FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture team have now prepared a new Framework Program for Uzbekistan for 2021-2025.
Also, the minister reiterated his readiness to support from Uzbekistan the creation of the International Digital Council on Food and Agriculture, especially for farmers with a small amount of financial resources.
As the minister noted, one such good opportunity for action could be the upcoming Global Forum on Food and Agriculture 2021 and the 13th Berlin Conference of Agriculture Ministers. Another venue will be the upcoming World Food Summit 2021.
The meeting ended with the signing ceremony of the Agreement between Uzbekistan and FAO on the creation of a thematic zone of Uzbekistan at the FAO headquarters.
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Vancouver, BC – June 25, 2012: Altair Ventures Incorporated (TSX-V: AVX; "the Company") reports that an updated resource report for the Kena gold project near the town of Nelson in southeastern British Columbia has been filed on SEDAR. The Kena Property comprises 152 claim units for a total of 7,609 hectares and covers approximately 8,000 metres of strike length on a district-scale gold-copper system.
While multiple gold and gold-copper targets exist on the Kena Property, most drilling, and hence the resource estimate, is based upon the Gold Mountain Zone and the Kena Gold Zone. The Gold Mountain Zone comprises 1.84 million tonnes averaging 0.87g/t Au classed as Measured plus 9.01 million tonnes averaging 0.68g/t Au classed as Indicated and an additional 22.11 million tonnes averaging 0.60g/t Au classed as Inferred. The Kena Gold Zone comprises 2.91 million tonnes averaging 0.77g/t Au classed as Measured plus 11.77 million tonnes averaging 0.60g/t Au classed as Indicated and an additional 3.8 million tonnes averaging 0.70g/t Au classed as Inferred, all at a 0.30g/t Au cutoff. Total M&I resources for the two zones comprise 549,000 contained ounces of gold, while total Inferred resources comprise 513,000 ounces.
The updated NI 43-101 compliant Mineral Resource Estimate and formal report has been prepared by Gary Giroux, P.Eng, MASc. and Perry Grunenberg, P.Geo. Both authors are independent of Altair Ventures Inc. and the vendor, Sultan Minerals Inc. The updated resource incorporates drill holes completed since the previous resource estimate (Giroux and Dandy, 2004) and makes the resource current for Altair.
"The updated resource estimate on the Kena Project gives Atair an excellent foundation from which to expand the two principal zones of gold mineralization", stated Altair's President & CEO, Fayyaz Alimohamed. "We intend to commence diamond drilling in July, with the primary aim of building the resource, while evaluating many other exciting targets on the project".
The Kena Property is located seven kilometres south of Nelson, British Columbia and is readily accessible by highway and secondary logging roads. The property lies predominantly within lower Jurassic Elise Formation (Rossland Group) mafic volcanics and associated mid Jurassic Silver King intrusive rocks.
Altair can acquire up to a 75% interest in the Kena property from Sultan Minerals Inc.


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Which came first? AMI Logo or TRIFORCE (r) symbol?
If you've seen the American Megatrends (AMI) logo, it resembles three triangles. It's actually not three triangles. Instead it depicts a stylized letter A stacked on top of a stylized letter M.
However, some of our logos incorporate triple triangles along with words (See our MG9098 NVMe, SAS, SATA backplane controller logo). You see, in order for someone to trademark a logo, it must be distinctive or run the risk of being declined. In fact, the United States Patent Office (USPTO) has a spectrum of distinctiveness classification. Visit the USPTO for more information on this subject.
I've gone through the USPTO database looking for a registered trademark or service mark that depicts just three triangles. I couldn't find any. I guess that using three triangles alone as a logo isn't distinctive enough to be granted a trademark.
However, all that aside, this subject comes up from time to time in varying forms.
"Did American Megatrends copy the TRIFORCE® symbol design?"
When I first heard about this, I was confused as I didn't know what the TRIFORCE® symbol was. In fact, I've never seen or played any of The Legend of Zelda™ video games.
So, which came first?
This is a difficult question to answer as I don't know exactly when Nintendo of America Inc. publicly released a game that used the TRIFORCE® symbol. I can only give you the American Megatrends perspective. Perhaps someone from Nintendo of America Inc. could answer this. From what I can tell, The Legend of Zelda™ video game was released in 1986, but didn't use the triple triangle.
Even though AMI was founded in 1985, prior to the release of the game, the AMI logo wasn't created until a few years later. As mentioned earlier, the AMI logo is actually a stylized letter A stacked on top of a stylized letter M. At the time, many technology companies used striped logos. My predecessors decided to incorporate that feature so when someone looked at our logo, they would assume, "Oh, a technology company."
The AMI logo was first used on boot up splash screens in early 1990. It was basically created using our own ASCII character codes opposed to an image file. The first AMI logo was comprised of four individual characters in a two by two grid. The reason for doing it this way was because the initial boot screens didn't support graphics. In fact, during the late 1980s and early 1990s, most monitors were monochromatic. Think green or amber monitors. Even color monitors only supported a handful of colors. Most computers only supported text. Back then, computers were called clones... I am going off into a rabbit hole.
If you know when the TRIFORCE® symbol was first used, please let me know.
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Mr. Reynolds 08/23/2018
I teach 3rd-5th grade computer classes. I was updating the BIOS on a computer when one student asked me what I was doing. We talked about what a BIOS chip is and what the software does as we looked at pictures online. She said, "I have two questions about the BIOS". Her first question was, "Why does the BIOS logo look like the Triforce?" I didn't know what she meant so I scrolled back down to the picture of the BIOS screen. She was right, it did look like the Triforce, I can't believe I have never noticed that. So we Googled "American Megatrends" to see when the company was founded. One of the first things we see is this post from American Megatrends about their logo and the Triforce design! First, I thought it was super cool a 5th grader is wanting to learn about a system BIOS. Then I was shocked she spotted the Triforce design as I was talking about it. I was happy to see that not just anyone took the time to write about it... but American Megatrends themselves! I emailed her the link so she could read about it when she had more time. The Triforce in the original NES game (The Legend of Zelda) was a solid triangle when you defeated Ganon. The middle triangle piece wasn't knocked out of the middle of it until the Super Nintendo game (A Link to the Past) came out. The first Zelda is a classic but A Link to the Past is an amazing game! Thanks for posting this. Hi Kiera!
Terry 08/24/2018
Mr. Reynolds, Thank you for sending us your comment. We find it super cool too. I personally am glad to discover that grade-schoolers are still interested on the ins and outs of the computers that have now become routine in our daily lives. Many do not know that firmware is what makes their systems come alive. A good analogy is a simple street or road sign. If the metal that makes a sign is the hardware (computer hardware components) and the letters on the sign make up the operating system, the firmware would be the base coat of paint (primer) on the sign. So in a STOP sign, American Megatrends could be thought of as the red paint. Thanks again for your comment. Terry
Excuse my google translation. Thank you for running my PC. Triforce was first used in "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link" released in 1987. However, this simple pattern is called "mitsu-uroko" (three scales) in Japan, one of the famous "kamon" (emblem) used by Hojo clan. Nintendo is likely to have been affected by this kamon.
Yes, I agree. It is a ka-mon or family crest. I was not aware that it was from the Hojo family. There is also a more similar ka-mon to the AMI logo.
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For the British flautist, see Gareth Morris.
Gareth Alun Morris FRS is a Professor of Physical Chemistry, in the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester.
Morris was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle and Magdalen College, Oxford where he was awarded a DPhil in 1978.
Research in the Morris lab involves the development of novel nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy techniques, and their application to problems in chemistry, biochemistry, and medicine.
1 2 Morris, Gareth Alun (1978). New techniques in fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford.
↑ Brown, J. M.; Chaloner, P. A.; Morris, G. A. (1987). "The catalytic resting state of asymmetric homogeneous hydrogenation. Exchange processes delineated by nuclear magnetic resonance saturation-transfer (DANTE) techniques". Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2 (11): 1583. doi:10.1039/P29870001583.
↑ Morris, G. A. (1980). "Sensitivity enhancement in nitrogen-15 NMR: Polarization transfer using the INEPT pulse sequence". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 102: 428–429. doi:10.1021/ja00521a097.
1 2 "Professor Gareth Morris FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-06-07.
↑ Morris, G. A.; Freeman, R (2011). "Selective excitation in Fourier transform nuclear magnetic resonance. 1978". Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 213 (2): 214–43. doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2011.08.031. PMID 22152346.
↑ Morris, G. A.; Freeman, R. (1979). "Enhancement of nuclear magnetic resonance signals by polarization transfer". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 101 (3): 760–762. doi:10.1021/ja00497a058.
↑ Bodenhausen, G.; Freeman, R.; Morris, G. A. (1976). "A simple pulse sequence for selective excitation in Fourier transform NMR". Journal of Magnetic Resonance (1969). 23: 171–175. doi:10.1016/0022-2364(76)90150-5.
↑ Bax, A.; Morris, G. A. (1981). "An improved method for heteronuclear chemical shift correlation by two-dimensional NMR". Journal of Magnetic Resonance (1969). 42 (3): 501–505. doi:10.1016/0022-2364(81)90272-9.
↑ Pelta, M. D.; Barjat, H.; Morris, G. A.; Davis, A. L.; Hammond, S. J. (1998). "Pulse sequences for high-resolution diffusion-ordered spectroscopy (HR-DOSY)". Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry. 36 (10): 706–714. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-458X(199810)36:10<706::AID-OMR363>3.0.CO;2-W.


Some: theologians have exacted from an inquirer, at the very outset of his conv'ersion, that he should carry in his heart what they call the disinterested love of God. They have set him on the most painful efl'orts to acquire this affection, - and that too, before he was in circumstances in which it was at all possible to entertain it. They have led him to view with suspicion the love of gratitude, as having in it a taint of selfishness. They are for having him to love God, and that on the single ground that he is lovely, without any reference to his own comfort, or even to his own safety. Strange demand which they make on a sentient being, that even amidst the fears and the images of destruction, he should find room in his heart for the love of complacency! And equally strange demand to make on a sinful being, that ere he admit such a sense of reconciliation into his bosom, as will instantly call forth a grateful regard to him who has conferred it, he must view God with a disinterested affec tion; that from the deep and helpless abyss of his depravity, he must find, unaided, his ascending way to the purest and the sublimest emotion of moral nature that ere he is delivered from fear he must love, even though it be said of love, that it casteth out fear; and that ere he is placed on the vantage ground of the peace of the Gospel, he must realize on his character, one of the most exalted of its perfections.


While the first card is modern, and quite dimensional, the second one is vintage. In my first card, I used distress oxides to colour the panel. And glued some foam flowers and twigs to create a branch.
Can you see the golden shine on the sentiment and on the butterflies?
For my second card, I stamped some brushes and then used the butterfly stamp to give the brushes wings.
Everything was again coloured using distress oxides. Same colour theme runs in both cards except for the vintage edges and pattern paper used in this one.
I then glued some pieces with foam, while some with glue.
I hope you like how these turned out.
Adore the background and the rose branch on the first card! So beautiful! The vintage card is also fabulous! What a cool idea to give the plumes wings! Great designs!
Pretty! Fabulous pair of cards, love the colours. Thanks for joining in with the Inspired by Nature Challenge at AAA Cards.
Two fantastic cards using your sweet little butterfly images. LOVE the watercoloured background with the rose spray for your first card. Gorgeous with lots of dimension. Your second card does have the vintage feel with the colours you've used and the sponged edges which really bring focus on to your adorable images. Thanks for playing along with us at Twofer Card Challenge.
Wow! Lovely cards! So colourful! Thanks for playing along with us at AAA Cards!


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Thousands to commemorate officers who 'paid the ultimate price of their commitment'
More than 2,000 people will gather in Northern Ireland to honour officers who have died or been killed in the line of duty as part of National Police Memorial Day.
By Joe Shine
PFEW chair John Apter: 'I am proud to have served with truly outstanding officers who are now no longer with us'
Now in its 15th year, the day of remembrance this Sunday (September 30) will also mark the centenary of the First World War as a wreath is laid to commemorate lives lost.
The names of officers lost in the last 12 months will be read aloud during the service, including Thames Valley PC James Dixon, who died in a collision on the A4 while riding his motorcycle, and South Yorkshire PC Dave Fields, who died in a car accident on Christmas Day.
A Guard of Honour with representatives from forces throughout the UK and overseas will welcome people on arrival to the Waterfront Hall in Belfast.
John Apter, chair of the Police Federation and England and Wales, said National Police Memorial Day was an important day to reflect and remember the "truly outstanding" colleagues we have lost.
He added: "Year on year we gather to pay tribute to officers who have given their all and in their memory, the police family stands shoulder to shoulder with the loved ones left behind.
"The sacrifices of those we have lost will never be forgotten – it is right and proper to have this national day in their honour. It is a day that has grown to provide solace to many and, while sad, it provides a fitting tribute to some of our finest.
"I am proud to have served with truly outstanding officers who are now no longer with us, and to have accompanied family members to National Police Memorial Day over the years, seeing first-hand what this day means to families.
"This Sunday is a day of reflection and I am privileged to be part of it."
The day will include candles being lit by relatives of fallen officers and a shower of petals will descend from the gallery, which represents all who have lost their lives.
National Police Chaplain, Canon David Wilbraham, added: "Commitment, tenacity, bravery and integrity – all exercised with compassion and fairness – are the personal qualities that together with professional skills, sustain the thin blue line.
"Frontline personnel also serve with a willingness, should the need arise, to put themselves in the place of danger and harm to protect and serve others. Sadly, each year, some colleagues pay the ultimate price of that commitment.
"I reflect when I conduct or attend funerals for those officers that in the minds of colleagues attending are two thoughts. Firstly, respect for a fallen colleague and support for their loved ones; secondly, the inner acknowledgement 'it could have been me' for I know that each officer present would do that to protect the most humble and lowly of our citizens."
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It's been a long time since she was a young Spirean Atabahi, and she's been through a lot, interacted with a bunch of people.
I'd like to know how she's doing, so shoot!
Well, there's not been much interaction between Xenia and Teani, however, I have gotten to interact with her a bit as Telma. Teani is really interesting, and to me, came off even a bit intimidating! She's definitely someone I'd want a chance to RP more with.
I'm going to try and chase Xenia down for some more RP. Was fun for the short bursts of interaction that happened at the festival.
I like how eager Teani is to get into combat and try hard. As an enemy, Moi is developing respect for her, because she keeps trying, even against bad odds, and she seems determined to improve. Haven't really RPd much, but keep up the PK! You are improving!
The Divine voice of Razmael echoes in your head, "God of imps."
Eugenides says to you, "Imp, Are you sure you were not born a Troll?"
The Divine voice of Arion echoes in your head, "Every time I try to punish you for being so flippant, I find Myself laughing instead."
Hugo has expressed his esteem of you for the following reason: Being a badass leader.
Wish I had more time to actually sit down and work out some kinks and make real improvements when it comes to PK. We'll see in the future, I'll do my best regardless!
*bump* Really? No one has any input?
I was pretty surprised at how aggressive she got the other day. Seemed almost like it came out of nowhere but it was a pleasant surprise.
My new partner in crime, heh.
The character is well portrayed, though I've only caught the odd glimpse of why the character is who and how she is.
I've enjoyed all the RP interactions we've had so far - the jellies the other day, the issues with another guild member awhile back, even the wedding dress stuff - and I think Teani's a pretty convincing character. The emotes are nice and I hope we can do more in the future.
We totally need more interactions. I have enjoyed the few that we have had and Teani a fun, interesting character. I hope we'll get to RP more in the future.
I, of course, have always adored Teani regardless of the character. At least, in the sense that they've witnessed from afar and never been a part of the character's life-changing moments and thoughts. She's a strong character and you give her a great life that I enjoy bouncing off of. I really wish there were more excuses to harass her without creating ridiculous reasons because I'd take them up.
Wow, I can't believe I have never posted in here!
I've really enjoyed watching Teani and Emelle's friendship develop -- it's unique because it's startlingly "normal" for what Emelle is used to, and I think that's good for both of them. You convey her character clearly with nice emoting style, and I especially admire how flexible she is with her interactions; while she belongs to Duiran, it isn't unusual to see her hanging around Spinesreach doing business or causing trouble. I never know what she'll be doing at any given moment, and that makes her very much like a living, breathing person.
I feel like our playing times haven't matched up too well lately, but I hope we get back into regular interactions soon!
"The smell of dusty fur, sweet smoke, waiting and patience, a thing that time cannot kill. The moth that candles won't burn."
The only woman to ever 'beat' Ishin by hitting him in the balls.
Low blow, bro, low bro.
Hey! @Ishin deserved it for nearly ripping off her dress in public and laughing about it! >.< It's awesome fun to RP-fight though. Thanks @Eleanor for setting it up.
@Teani has always been an adverse character to Aarbrok in some form or another, I am not sure if it is the fact they just are both stubborn, or if its the fact Aarbrok definitely was really hard on her in the past and Teani through it all remembers the unicorns he put her through.
It has been settled on more than one occassion but through it all, they manage to have some sort of respect for one another, even if it is through a veil of well planned backhanded insults or general sarcasm and snark. They both know that each other work and will stick to their guns in the midst of an argument, so I think they do the best to not set off the other one since they both know its a futile battle.
I as a player adore Teani, because she feels human, filled with a firecracker of emotions and impulse, that are trying to be hidden underneath a bit of bravado masking fears, uncertainties and other things.
Long story short: She can choke a unicorns out if you unicorns with her.
bumpeti bump. Interacted with some new people and some old ones. I'd like to know what could possibly be changed, and what's good/bad and all that.
Small bump to see if anyone feels like commenting.
We seem to fight and get along like the up and down pattern of a sound wave. It's kinda weird, but it's okay too. I just wish we could fight less about stuff OOC and just keep it IC, but it is what it is.
Yeah, @Ishin. I just can't handle your attitude when I'm struggling with RL stuff. That's why we can't manage OOCly. IC is fine though. I don't mind fighting there, because it makes things more interesting. Teani needs something to grumble about from time to time. Lifted Ignore now. Just going to keep things IC and we should be fine.
Bumping this thread. I've been involved in some RP things lately and interacted with some new people and I'd like to know how I'm doing.
Faerah and @Teani have a strange relationship with one another.
It's friendly (...I think) but also politely distant. Still, Teani is one of the few people outside the Syssin who Faerah does not think is a complete idiot, which says a lot considering that the beginning of their relationship was tumultuous (at best). I think they bonded somewhat, despite their vastly different outlooks on life, over a mutual love of music... Which I think is kind of neat in a game where the music is all in our heads.
Overall, despite the fact that Faerah does not actively seek Teani out (because she is a total misanthrope that does not seek people out unless she needs something), as a player I truly enjoy their interactions.
These latest interactions between Teani and @Faerah has had me constantly smiling. It's a very complex relationship, but one I thoroughly enjoy. You can count on Teani seeking her out more.
With Teani getting more involved in training, as well as running around with a lot of huge projects here and there, I'd like to know what others think about her. Do you all just suffer her presence or does she bring something interesting in terms of RP/PK? Is there something negative you can say in how she is played? Something positive?
So it's been a while since I have even been on the forums, and I came across this and wondered why I never posted in here for you! It has always been a delight to RP at Teani, whether it was our original gang of random party nights, her burning my wings off and cursing my name to the skies above, or bopping back to Duiran and Spinesreach. You keep her true to her and even though we haven't rped in a long time, it was always fun and watching her change and grow only added to that.
So, it's been over a year since I bumped this and a lot of things have happened. Teani has met a lot of new people and I would like to know what you all think of her. Is she a solid character or are there things I need to clarify when RPing? Anything about her you like/dislike in particular?
I really enjoy how Teani and Emelle's friendship has persisted over the years despite the many things that have transpired. I feel like I should apologize to you for not encouraging it more -- Emelle really went through some unicorns awhile back, and I think she alienated Teani as a result which, while true to life, isn't very conducive to more interactions! So now they've settled into this hot-and-cold mostly business relationship.
I've always appreciated how inclusive you are with your roleplay, and how Teani is capable of existing in Graytolia as a character that has total agency -- she plays by her own rules and makes decisions based on what suits her, which makes her a very accessible character no matter what "side" you're on.
I fully intend to hunt her down soon. I'd really like to strike up a friendship again!
Teani was actually one of the first people I met when I randomly started playing again a couple years ago. (That fair in Delve made me poke around instead of just loggin in and out) Was that even where the fair was? I guess so. She was playing some other game or something. I don't know. the first have of this message was saved in my forum draft thing for like, at least a year now, so I guess I'll hit enter. ARMWRESTLING!? I think I was a little drunk at the time.
@Aishia Yes! There was a fairground there for the Year 400 celebration and Teani was indeed armwrestling. That's how she managed to get her hands on her mount (a strider). I remember them speaking a little, but not overly much.
Also, Order of the Leek needs to have a meeting, I believe!


Today I am sharing with you some of my Lightroom presets that I have been working on for quite some time now, an update on what has been happening in my life AND this amazing recipe for a Blood Orange Buckle.
The first month of the year always seems to go by the quickest—I don't know if it was the flurry of activity or the changing of locations (Jeremy and I went on a week-long trip to Mexico with some friends), but the whole month seemed to go by in a snap! We've been working on some big life-changing decision type stuff, but I don't want to share it yet until it is 100% finalized (I'm kinda superstitious and don't want to jinx it!), but that particular thing has required a lot of thought and energy and I think it's another reason why time seems to be moving so insanely quickly, since the whole thing happened so fast in the first place. Aaaaaand that's enough on that for now before I spill the beans!
I've also been hard at work putting together some really beautiful Lightroom presets for food + travel photography, and they're now a new resource available over at First We Eat—YAY!!!!!
Okay, enough nerdy photo talk, let's dive into this buckle! I know everyone's all "whole 30" and everything right now, but I've never really gotten the idea of dieting and feel like if you just eat everything in moderation you'll be fine, and that includes this buckle! Obvi don't eat the whole thing by yourself, just enjoy it with friends & family, or take it into work and use it to schmooze with the up & ups, or use it as a delicious bribe! (Food makes for the most pleasant form of bribery. Yes spouse, you DO want to do the laundry today.) The most important thing is that you get to make it and enjoy it, because this guy tastes REALLLLLYYYYYYY good. If you're unfamiliar with a buckle, it's basically like coffee cake but a bit denser in texture. This one also has some delicious bright citrus to it from the grated orange zest and the thinly sliced citrus on top, which contrasts perfectly with the warm cozy cinnamon and vanilla notes in it from the batter + crumb topping. The best part is that it is super duper easy to make, and will take you less than 90 minutes from start to finish! So if you're looking for a little ray of sunshine to get you through winter, I highly recommend giving this colorful little citrus sweet a try.
This is a recipe for an easy to make, yet super delicious Blood Orange Buckle If you're unfamiliar with a buckle, it's basically like coffee cake but a bit denser in texture. This one also has some delicious bright citrus to it from the grated orange zest and the thinly sliced citrus on top, which contrasts perfectly with the warm cozy cinnamon and vanilla notes in it from the batter + crumb topping!
For the blood orange buckle, preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease and lightly flour an 8-inch cake pan and line the bottom with a circle of parchment paper. Set it aside.
Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon in a medium bowl and set it aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar at medium speed until smooth and slightly fluffy.
Add the eggs, one at a time, mixing well and scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition.
Add the milk, orange zest, and vanilla extract and mix until combined.
Add the flour mixture in two increments, mixing until the batter just comes together.
For the crumb topping, mix together the flour, brown sugar, granulated sugar, and cinnamon in a small bowl. Cut the butter into pea size pieces over the bowl, pausing to stir every minute or two to coat the butter pieces in the mixture.
Sprinkle the top of the buckle with the crumb topping. Arrange the citrus slices on top of the buckle in an attractive fan, making one big fan or several small ones.
Place the pan in the oven and bake until the top of the buckle is golden and a toothpick inserted into it comes out relatively clean, about 50 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 20 minutes before slicing and serving.
Aw thank you so much! It is SO delicious! Perfect with a cup of tea or coffee!
Although my January didn't go anywhere near as fast as yours, I'm glad it's over now! This cake looks just too beautiful for words! I can't wait to try it!
oh my, it looks really good!! I'm craving a slice as we speak.
Inspire me to make it right now as I have all the ingredients in house.
The emails I get from your blog are the only ones I ever look forward to opening. I know I will be seeing something beautiful and delicious! I did want to ask if you could add a modification for your recipes at the end for people who live in higher elevations. I can't seem to get mine to turn out quite right when I try to make one of your amazing baked deserts at elevation 9,281 feet. Thank you!
Oyyy I've never baked at higher elevations and the thought is overwhelming! Is it A LOT different? 🙂 And also, Eva's email is one of the few I get wide-eyed at out of excitement.
Uhhh, I'm curious to hear about your big news! And I cannot wait to listen to the new episode of First We Eat! Aaaaaaand I want to eat that cake while I'm listening.
Thanks for sharing all this wonderfulness and your beautiful pictures with us!
Its very much informative post i must say, so many well know facts which covered in this post.
Looks amazing and super yummy! And the decor on top of that cake, I love it!
what a fun thing to make, have never heard of a buckle unless on a belt, never in a pan, so a dense version of a coffee cake sounds good to me, thank you!
Thank you for the beauty .
I did want to ask if you could add a modification for your recipes at the end for people who live in higher elevations. I can't seem to get mine to turn out quite right when I try to make one of your amazing baked deserts at elevation 9,281 feet.
I dont know if im missing something but not sure where the crumble recipe is? Its says 1 1/2 cups flour but does not state that it should be separated or how much goes to the crumble. Help!


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Joys Abound
Anandi Bhattacharya
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Joys abound introduces the golden voice of Anandi Bhattacharya on a contemporary exploration of her musical roots. With sublime accompaniment by her father Debashish and other leading instrumentalists, Anandi's outward-looking approach imbues Joys Abound with real musical wisdom which belies her years.
'a refreshing debut' The Guardian
'absolutely beautiful' Evening Standard
In the words of Anandi Bhattacharya, her debut international album release Joys Abound 'is about knowing happiness without restraints'. From the opening joyous invocation to Lord Ganesh to the celebration of colours of the various cultures of the world, the album carries a celebratory and positive message throughout, as Anandi's remarkable voice explores her traditional roots within a modern setting.
Being the daughter of the great Hindustani slide guitarist Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya, Anandi has been surrounded by music since birth and recalls how having 'breathed in music from every room in the house was a blessing'.A child prodigy in a family of renowned musicians, Anandi's golden voice was inherited from her grandmother, whose music was nurtured within the family. Anandi started training under her aunt Sutapa Bhattacharya at the age of three and gave her first radio performance at four. Fast forward a dozen or so years and she has toured internationally with her father and uncle and featured on the critically acclaimed fusion album Beyond The Ragasphere. At 22 she is now headlining her own shows, accompanied by her father and uncle, and fellow contemporary vocalist, clarinettist and composer Carola Ortiz from Spain, all of whom feature on the album.
Although steeped in the Indian classical tradition from an early age, Anandi was never encouraged to be a purest by her father and Guru and explains how 'they never condemned a genre to elucidate the exquisiteness of another'. This philosophy paved the way for Anandi's deepest regard for fusion, and consequently Joys Abound shows a truly modern approach to tradition deeply influenced by other musical genres. As Anandi puts it 'the album is light-hearted but carries the true essence of ragas and their moods and evokes a sense of familiarity amidst uncharted waters'. Along with folk songs of Rajasthan and Bengal and a beautiful piece by Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore, the album includes original compositions by her father Debashish Bhattacharya and Carola Ortiz and features dextrous and sympathetic accompaniment by Anandi's uncle Subhasis, one of the world's foremost tabla players.
Along with the towering influence of her father and other legendary Indian musicians such as Ali Akbar Khan, Ravi Shankar and Lata Mangeshkar, Anandi sites influences as diverse as Thom Yorke, Ella Fitzgerald and Joni Mitchell. This outward looking approach coupled with the years of dedication and nurturing of her voice, when she also trained under the renowned Indian female singer Vidushi Shubhra Guha, allows Anandi to explore new musical directions with grounded musical excellence. Listening to Joys Abound one gets a true sense of how her incredible tone and timbre allows her to convey the full gamut of emotions and expressions as it conjures up the flavours of a Rajasthani monsoon in 'A Pluviophile's Dance' and beautifully captures childhood nostalgia in 'Maya's Dream'.
For the musical philosophy at the very heart of the album, Anandi is very much indebted to the incredible experience of performing with her father and uncle on the global stage and the exposure this has given her to so many different countries and their music, summed up beautifully by Anandi herself 'I do not believe that I was meant to imbibe my own culture alone, I think for me, finding my sound with all that I love to hear and all that churns within me is my path forward'. This outward-looking approach imbues Joys Abound with real musical wisdom which belies her years.
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How Steve McQueen Displays Addiction in Shame
From the opening shot, Shame feels uncanny. Michael Fassbender, as Brandon, lies nude on top of his light blue sheets. He has a sex addiction, though that hasn't been established yet. From overhead, there appears to be nothing else, as if his sheets were an ocean, on top of which he was floating. The bed encompasses the entire frame. As he stares at the ceiling, the only thing that's clear is that something isn't right. The shot, in no uncertain terms, sets the tone for the film. Through diligent and meticulous set design, costume design and cinematography, Steve McQueen and his cast and crew articulate the inner turmoil of having and attempting to escape an addiction.
The aforementioned opening shot, which runs for almost 50 seconds, is pregnant with foreshadowed meaning that reveals itself as the film's plot progresses. The camera remains entirely motionless for the entirety of the take, and Brandon only moves in its final seconds. Immediately, the connection between Brandon and nudity and a bed is implanted in the mind of the viewer. Brandon's eye color very closely matches the color of the sheets on his bed, as well. He stays almost entirely on one side of the bed, only extending an arm and a leg to the emptier half. This impresses upon the viewer that, while his life may not be full without a companion, there is no room.
The high key lighting of the shot makes it feel, more than anything else, sterile. Demonstrated in many ways by both the costume and set designers, the life that Brandon projects out is a construct. It's disinfected and polished. His apartment is the perfect demonstration of this. All of the walls are white. All of the furnishings are silver or black. It does not, in any way, feel like a home. Despite the fact that there are personal belongings-a television, a record player and accompanying collection-it feels much more like an apartment for sale than it does like an inhabited one. It's also telling that the first time Brandon's apartment is really shown, the camera sits stagnant while he, naked, moves from his bedroom to his kitchen and then to his bathroom. It creates a thematic contrast between the remarkably untainted apartment he lives in and who he appears to truly be. His nudity doesn't feel pure. It feels quite the opposite.
The clothing that Brandon wears is similar in nature to his apartment. His clothes are either a light shade of blue, a light shade of gray, white or black. He looks good, there's no real doubt about that, but it also looks calculated. More than good, he looks sterile. All of this, of course, is a way to make the viewer understand that Brandon, more than anything, is keeping up appearances. He understands that his addiction is unsavory and that people around him can't find out about it. He counters that as best he can by displaying the cleanest possible image for himself. Even if its artifice is obvious, he is able to obscure exactly what he's hiding.
Past the costume and set design, the way that Brandon is framed is frequently demonstrative. He is almost never framed in the center of the shot when he is by himself. When he is putting on a mask for the people around him or otherwise acting normal, he exists much closer to or exactly within the center of the frame. In an early part of the film, he is at a bar with his colleagues talking to women. When he enters the conversation, he is almost dead center in the frame. As his framing suggests, within that scene he is perfect. He remembers the eye colors of all three women to whom he and his boss are speaking. Charm is dripping off of him. Later, he puts his boss in a cab and gets into a car driven by one of the women with whom he was flirting. He stays centered in the frame of each shot. He is centered so deliberately than even after he gets in the car, the camera pans to keep his seat approximately centered as the car moves further and further away. Only when he and the women are having sex against a building does he move more towards one side of the frame.
What is arguably the most important and demonstrative shot of the film comes after about 40 minutes. While Brandon's sister is in his apartment flirting and presumably becoming intimate with his boss, Brandon goes for a run. The camera follows him on a dolly, and it seems to best literalize the internal struggle going on inside of Brandon's head. He is framed on the left side of the screen, running towards the right side. As he speeds up or slows down, he moves closer to or further from the center. Regardless of how fast he moves, however, he is unable to move himself into the center of the frame. It is an expression of his inner struggle and failure to truly center himself. The takes runs for nearly a minute, which further emphasizes the extent of the fight Brandon is having within himself. This scene functions as a turn of the page, so to speak, for Brandon. Despite what appears to be a lack of success in overcoming what shackles him, it's the first moment in the film where his effort to break from it in his own right and within himself is demonstrated.
Brandon goes on a date soon after the night he goes on a run. The dinner is with a woman from his office. She had been an object of his affection from a far for what seemed to be quite a while. There a few shots earlier in the film that show him staring at her. When they sit down for dinner, they're in a long shot. Brandon is framed towards the very left of the frame and his date is framed approximately in the center. Their date takes place in one unbroken take, and as it progresses, the camera slowly moves in on the two of them, allowing for them to be subtly reframed as it goes. By the end of the date, he is just left of center and his date is just right of center. He spends most of their conversation further from center than she is, but it ends up evening out greatly when Brandon begins to open up to her about his dating history. Again, he is most central towards the end, after he admits that his longest romantic relationship was only four months. When the two of them are walking after their dinner, Brandon is centered in the frame. It demonstrates his change, at least in the present. When their date ends in a non-sexual fashion, he appears satisfied. It feels to Brandon like a true, actual turning point in his life.
That night, while he is masturbating in the bathroom, Sissy walks on. Ultimately, this ends in Brandon throwing away all of his pornography and his sex toys, as well as his laptop. While all of this is happening, he remains centered in the frame. This demonstrates something very important about Brandon and addiction in general. In his mind, an entirely unreasonable action that culminated in him throwing out a piece of expensive electronic equipment that likely had invaluable files was perfectly reasonable, or normal. He imagined it as part of what was necessary in order to center himself. The film recognizes, however, that his actions, while drastic, were entirely symbolic. He may have done what he felt he needed to do in order to escape his addiction, and his framing shows that it was, indeed what he felt he needed to do, but that doesn't make the addiction go away. Instead, it forces the addiction to manifest itself in different forms.
Through the film, the way Brandon moves through the frame is a powerful representation of what is going on in his head. An incredibly important thing to understand is that it is really a representation only of what is in his head, not what is actually happening. The efforts that he makes, for the majority of the film, are not to escape his addiction, but to hide it from the people close to him. Even when he opens up to his date, he isn't truly opening up. He is not ashamed of the fact that his longest relationship was four months because he knows that that fact is relative to. The act of tossing out all of the items he believes stimulate his addiction is a perfect embodiment of this. They were, to almost everyone, completely secret. By destroying them, all he did was make it seem to himself like he was beating his addiction even when he wasn't. That, truly, is the most powerful thing that the framing and mis-en-scene within the film has to say about addiction and coping with it: fighting appearances will only make it appear that there is no addiction. Fighting appearances won't make it go away.
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Everything is an "addiction" these days (unless it's a disorder of course). The idea that men rather like sex, and always have, is transmuted into an aberrant behaviour.
We are rapidly spiralling into a puritan era that will be as misguided and damaging as the last one whose height is famously the Victorian Era. Then, as now, male pursuit of sex was derided as an unnatural urge. "Male Chastity!" was the cry of the Puritans, led by that hardcore of erotophobic harridans driving the Social Purity Movement.
Of course, they're much more professional now. The language is refined, rebranded, medicalised. But the message is the same. "No sex before marriage" is replaced with "No sex before a committed relationship". Anyone who enjoys it for its own sake- male or female, but the emphasis of course is on man the predator- is a deviant in need of corrective intervention.
Most revolutions are started by well meaning people seeking freedom, and then subverted by opportunists into a vehicle for oppression. It seems that, after all, the Sexual Revolution has followed that dismal path.
Have you seen the film? Brandon's issues with sex are akin to a cocaine habit. This film has nothing to do with Male Chastity. His relationship with sex is destructive and consuming.
It might have been better to watch the movie before climbing on the hobbyhorse. 🙂
Kathryn Talbot
I hope the ride on the bandwagon is smooth.
Ruby Greer
Shame is certainly not a simple film to watch, but def a stimulating and significant eye-opener.
Good post. While I absolutely loved the movie, the scene in the gay club left me baffled. There isn't any shred of homosexuality shown throughout the film to suggest Brendan would willingly let a man go down on him.
He's a man in serious need of escape and the fix.
I would not see this film again, but it is powerful and shows a film maker in full command of his craft. Waiting for dvd release of 12 years a slave.
Riviera De TyTy
I watched this in cinema – crass comes to mind. In fact, it wasn't until reading your article, that I had any idea the film was alluding to sex addiction.
Miles Meldrum
McQueen's brilliance is in the way he doesn't just confront issues, but has everything in his work absorb it and represent it. I cannot stress enough how much I was reading this and nodding like one of those… Nodding… Things.
The analysis in there actually makes me wanna fiddle with my own filmmaking a little, you know? You make big thematic stuff that a very good director worked on seem straightforward and palpable.
Your analysis is worthy of academia- I love your interpretation and applaud McQueen's take on sex addiction. Unlike other films that deal with this subject, he doesn't try and make it humorous or sexy- it is sad and painful. It's especially difficult to make someone not look at the Fassbender's business, so good on you McQueen!
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One way to grind nethershards is to kill the Rare Spawns in Broken Shore.
You can see when a rare spawn have spawned by looking at your map.
A skull will show the location of the spawned mob.
At the moment, it goes pretty fast to kill them when you are more players so you have to be fast and move there directly when you see it on the map.
The Rare Spawns can be soloed as well (maybe some more skilled playing for that).
We will most likely see an addon coming out for this. As soon as I see one , ill let you know.
Another way to gather Nethershard, is to contribute Legionfall War Supplies for bulding the constructions. When contributing 40 war supplies, you will be given a chest that contains around 30 Nethershards.
Choose to upgrade the Nether Disruptor. When this building is active, it will provide you with a buff called Netherstorm which increase the drop rate of Nethershards.
I have a guide covering what Legionfall War Supplies are, what they do and how to grind them. Click here to get to my Legionfall Wa Supply Guide.
The main way to grind the Nethershards is in the Sentinax area.
Location is in Broken Shore.
Check the map for a space ship symbol, called The Sentinax.
This location is an event in which there are mobs under the spaceship that can drop Senitax Beacons.
These Senitax Beacons are used to communicate with the spaceship.
Depending on what Beacon it is, the outcome will either be that more mobs will spawn via a portal or that the spaceship sends down supplies that are used for professions.
Killing adds under the space ship and also adds that comes out from the portals will award you with Nethershards.
The first Sentinax Beacon you get, will start a quest in which you have to deliver it. Do that before you start killing adds under the ship, so that you can actually start looting them.
Summons adds that gives Nethershards and can drop rare and common Sentinax Beacons.
Loads of imps spawns. (approx. 30 Nethershards).
Can drop rare and common Sentinax Beacons.
Melee and casters with eye beams.
Elite adds (Draining Eye) and trash mobs comes out of a portal. Approx 20-30 Nethershards.
A beam fires at your location (no damage) and Felslate Spike comes out from the ground. This can be picked up by miners.
Portal stones are epic items that tells the Sentinax to send a powerful demonic lieutenant to the area. This is a silver dragon elit mob.
How much Nethershards do you get from mobs?
10-20 from elite mob from the elite portal.
It takes about 5-6h to get 1000 Shards if you do it alone and do ONLY that.
If you go PvP realm it will probably take longer.
If you go PvE realm it will also take longer becuse I was more or less alone grinding, but sometimes opposite faction came and we didnt share mob loot from portals so some stole adds from me that I couldnt loot when I activatred a portal.
It comes down to how much the avarage player playes per week which I dont know. But from my gaming time, I would get a Dountless token per week OR a Relinquished every second week if the prices are like they are now.


Catch up from the holidays: What were some of your high points of Christmas/New Years?
Were there any low points or struggles?
On Sunday, Eric introduced the concept of the "40% Factor", which is basically the idea that when your brain tells you, "You're done, you can't do any more," you are actually only at 40% of your potential.
So if you can run 4 miles and your brains says, "that's it," 4 miles is actually only 40% of your true capability (10 miles).
If your brain tells you that after 1 hour of studying you're at capacity, you actually have the capacity to study for 2.5 hours.
What if this applied to spiritual growth as well?
What if, instead of declaring, "This is as loving/ compassionate/kind/giving/etc. as I'll get," you instead recognized that you are capable of much, much more?
Do you have an area of your life in which you have experienced a "40% moment"?
In truth, the Bible tells us that we are actually capable of even more than that. Each person—every human being on the planet—contains inside of them God's DNA.
The seed of a plant contains its DNA, its genetic blueprint. The seed of an oak tree looks nothing like a 200 year old specimen, but the potential is all there.
John plays this thought out in an interesting way: read 1 John 4:7-8.
If God is love, and we have the genetic blueprint/DNA of God inside us, how loving are we capable of becoming?
Is there any area of your life that you desire to see significant growth and change?
Don't settle for last year's life. Choose discomfort and commit to growth, and also choose to break it down into daily habits and choices to bring about the change you'd like to see.
Pursue a life of impact and fulfillment in God's Kingdom.
The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard, and a Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster are two in-depth studies of how we can partner with the Holy Spirit to see true life transformation.
In addition, How People Grow by Henry Cloud, is a great practical trainer on how to experience life change.


A person who meddles or pries into the affairs of others.
a person who pries into or meddles in the affairs of others.
noun nosy parker (informal), gossip, troublemaker, snoop, intriguer, intruder, pry, eavesdropper, snooper, stirrer (informal), meddler, scandalmonger Some busybody tipped off the police.
My busybodying takes many forms, sometimes helpful - fresh out the hairdressers I was in the road giving it the 'left hand down, to me, clear' as I helped a lorry driver negotiate a tight corner in Central London.


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WINTER PARK, Colo. — A 62-year-old man died after suffering a medical episode at Winter Park Resort on Saturday.
According to the Communications Director for the resort, the man died at roughly 9:30 a.m. while skiing on the Mary Jane Territory; the man was wearing a helmet.
Officials with Winter Park Resort said that Ski Patrol responded immediately and the man was transported to the Denver Health Winter Park Medical Center at the base of the resort, where he died.
The man's medical episode was not detailed.


Carrie Medlock was born and raised in San Diego, California. When she graduated from High School she moved to Los Angeles where she attended Azusa Pacific University and graduated as the top International Business Student. After college she spent a few years in the business world while she earned her Masters in Business Administration (MBA). In 2000, she and her husband moved to Colorado. At that time she decided to pursue her dream of teaching. Soon after becoming a high school Business and Marketing teacher, she earned a second Masters in Education. From 2008-2010 she reached beyond the high school level and taught Business and Marketing for Colorado Christian University and Front Range Community College. Carrie still teaches for Front Range Community College within the College Now Program at Legacy High School.
On the home front, Carrie is married to a wonderful man, Casey who is also in the field of education. They have two boys, Sean and Blake, who enjoy filling their time with all kinds of sports!
During her twenties, and before kids, Carrie spent a lot of time traveling the world. She has traveled to thirty-seven international countries in Europe, Asia, the South Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Mexico, Bahamas, Carribean, and many more regions of the world. She was fortunate enough to live in Japan, the Netherlands, and Norway.


We are so happy you have chosen Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital as the place to have your baby. The Mark G. Collson Birthing Center is home to a team that is highly trained in mother/baby care and we can't wait to meet you.
As you prepare for your new little one, your maternity care team stands ready to help you on your journey. If you have questions at any time, please don't hesitate to contact your care coordinator. Your care coordinator is your one-stop source for birthing plan discussion, registration information, maternity tours, breastfeeding and childbirth class recommendations, and more.
As you think through what you want your experience to be, communicate it to your care coordinator. In no time, the day will be here, and we'll be ready for you and your new baby.
Background image: A small dining table and couch in a well lit Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital maternity room.
The Mark G. Collson Birthing Center provides a welcoming, safe and secure environment for you and your new family.
After your labor, delivery and recovery, you and your baby will continue to receive care and recover in a different room where you can introduce guests to your new baby!
Childbirth Preparation and breastfeeding are just a few of the excellent classes and support groups held at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital for you and your family.
Every birth experience is unique. When you meet with your hospital maternity care coordinator, you can share with them the kind of birthing experience you desire. Who will be there with you? Do you want a natural birth, or medication to help with your comfort? Do you want to walk around or sit in the jetted tub during labor? Will you be breastfeeding?
This is your time! Since babies often have a mind of their own, not everything will go as planned. The preparation you do beforehand, though, will enable you to focus on what is most important - your experience and the birth of your baby!
You can park in any of the hospital parking areas and enter through the Emergency Room. If you need immediate attention, please have your driver pull up to the turnaround by the Emergency Room door.


I am not sure just how The Word Among Us knew that I had been needing these two books but they have printed resources that I have long been seeking. The answer, of course, is that I am not the only one who needs them. You just might find the perfect answer to a gift for first communion, a wedding, or a much needed resource for someone contemplating entering the Church.
Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus, while before your face I humbly kneel and ask you to fix deep in my heart lively faith, ope, and charity; true contrition for my sins; and firm purpose of amendment; while I contemplate with great love and tender grief your five wounds; while I call to mind the words your prophet David said of you, my Jesus: "They pierced my hands and my feet; they numbered all my bones" (see Psalm 22:17).
I have been looking for "the right" Catholic prayer book for a long time and not found one that just suited my needs perfectly until receiving this one. A treasury of traditional prayers, this little book is one that I have been slipping into my "big bag" just in case I need quick reference to the Act of Contrition (yes, I still don't have it memorized) or I stop in for a quick visit to Jesus in the tabernacle and want a prayer or something for contemplation. It has clearly marked sections for Everyday Prayers, Prayer and the Sacraments, Prayers to Mary and the Saints, Classic devotional Prayers, and Prayers for Special Needs. Most of the prayers are traditional while a few are contemporary. The contemporary are clearly marked with the initials of the writer so it is easy to sort out which is which, if one desires to do so. Looking through it, I have found a wealth of prayer assistance that I didn't know existed, such as the many prayers and scriptures available to use before confession. There is also a basic examination of conscience included. The index is an alphabetical list of prayers which I have found very handy as well. Highly recommended.
Flannery O'Connor, the great American writer who was also a devout Catholic, and who also suffered and died from the immunological disease lupus, once wrote that being sick is like being in a foreign country. This is true of any kind of physical, psychological, or spiritual suffering as well. there are borders, it seems. Maybe even fences and the border patrol.
Be present. Don't hide, don't shut doors, and don't turn away, convinced that there is nothihg you could do or that there is no need for you.
Love, after all, is what John tells us over and over that Jesus is about. Love required, first of all, presence. sometimes our presence can lead to action, but sometimes presence is enough.
Of course, presence is hard. It is horrible to watch someone suffer; it is even worse when our hands are tied. Who wouldn't be tempted to run away? Even if we're not in the situation of the disciples, who literally feared for their lives, remaining with the suffering can make us fear for our lives in another way, as we face our own future, as we face the possibilities of pain that exist for all of us, as we are reminded of the suffering we may have survived in the past.
But given all of that, what is really the alternative to presence? It's running away, denial, closed eyes. It is fear.
We don't know what went through Mary's mind as she watched her Son suffer and die. We can guess, and writers through history have used their imaginations to describe what she might have been feeling. A minor but intriguing theme of some medieval spiritual writing was that as she watched Jesus die, Mary experienced the birth pangs she had been spared thirty-three years before.
But it's hard to say what she felt beyond the normal pain of a mother watching her son unjustly executed and the extraordinary pain of a sword through her heart as she went over and over the angel's promises so long ago.
A pdf of the first chapter of the book may be downloaded here.


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Saturday Fluffernutter: The Punch to the Solar Plexus Edition: Lindsay, Madonna, Black Eyed Peas… and Urkel?
Not so much a punch to the solar plexus, but Justice Marsha Revel did give Lindsay Lohan a boot to the nads (or the appropriate female equivalent) she won't soon forget. A weeping Lohan was told by Judge Revel this week that, due to her probation violations- including not attending an alcohol education programme, she was heading to jail for 90 days.
Meanwhile, a waitress at Hollywood nightclub Voyeur denies she punched Lindsay Lohan during Lohan's 24th birthday celebrations last Thursday. Said Jasmine Waltz:
All I have to say is that disturbed little train wreck is delusional. I didn't hit her. But I'd like too."
Wonder if her lawyers approved that statement?
It's what did she really mean day on the set of W.E.. Star Margo Stilley has quit work on the movie citing "artistic differences," with director Madonna.
Said Stilley:
I had the role, but we had artistic differences. She (Madonna) is really something. I wish the cast luck because they are all really talented.
Ouch, that's gotta hurt. But considering Roger Ebert said of the other movie Madonna directed, Filth and Wisdom, "…the pop stars directing debut, is a pointless exercise in shocking behaviour," perhaps the artistic differences are that Stilley doesn't want to make a crap movie.
We interrupt this post named after a sandwich to bring a Lindsay Lohan update: Little Miss contempt of court had a vile, unspeakable comment written on her fingernail during her court appearance. It was just a little joke, COCO assured the media after. Not intended for her honor at all.
Former child TV star Jaleel "don't call me Urkel" White is being investigated in an apparent domestic assault incident. Bridget Hardy, mother of an infant urkellete, says the suspendered funny-geek punched her in the chest while they were driving on a Los Angeles freeway last month. The alleged incident continued at their home, where White apparently slapped her and pushed her into a toilet.
Urkel org disputes these events:
The incident never happened. This is just a ploy in an ongoing custody battle over their young daughter to tarnish his name.
The Black Eyed Peas, who's manager punched Perez Hilton (not hard enough, it turns out) last June in Toronto, have teamed up with James Cameron to make a 3D concert documentary.
Hoping to merge Cameron's film technology with the Peas concert experience, the Peas note that:
We have the biggest director, because we are the biggest group on the planet… People will be able to see us in the theatre with the 3D glasses and everything.
Note that it's the people in the theatre who will be wearing the glasses, not the group – although with will.i.am's fashion sense, I could have that wrong.
We can assume at least that Fergies biggest assets will be impressive in 3D.
In Led Zeppeliny circles it's considered an open secret that Jake Holmes originally wrote Dazed and Confused. In 1967 Holmes opened for the Yardbirds, featuring Jimmy Page by then, at a Greenwich Village Club and performed Dazed and Confused. Impressed, the Yardbirds decided to cover the song, and the next day set about an arrangement, which would become I'm Confused. After the Yardbirds disbanded, Page brought the track to his new band, Led Zeppelin, returning it to the name Dazed and Confused. Fourty years after the fact, Holmes has decided to sue for royalties. In past interviews Holmes, who has remained on friendly terms with Page through the years, has suggested that he would not do so, but he appears to have changed his mind. The suit could be worth millions, but a statute of limitations applies in such cases, so Holmes can only request three years of back royalties. The present filing would therefore include all sales of the 2007 Mothership greatest hits CD, and the re-issue of The Song Remains the Same. No word on when Steve Marriot is going to sue for Whole Lotta Love. And we're not even going to mention Randy California, Taurus and Stairway to Heaven in the same blog post.
We interrupt this post named after a sandwich to bring a Lindsay Lohan update: Her long time lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley issued a statement suggesting Lohan's punishment was "harsh and unfair," then tended her resignation as her lawyer. "I don't do human rights law," she isn't quoted as saying. Neither did she say, "I'm sick of wasting my day on this drugged out moron." Lohan will be represented in her appeal, or future drug cases, or something, by Tiffany Feder-Cohen.
This weeks episode of the Bachelorette was cut short so the producers could bring you a sniping match between former Bachelor Jake Pavelka and his chosen one Vienna Girardi. Here's the short of it: they met on TV (he's a fame whore she declared un-sarcastically), they moved in together after a month (she's a whore-whore, he hinted equally un-sarcastically), then it fell apart (surprisingly, I editorialized entirely sarcastically). No punches were thrown, solar plexus or otherwise, but this does lead to two unavoidable questions: who are these people? and who watches this stuff?
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O Foro de São Paulo (FSP) é uma organização que reúne partidos políticos e organizações de esquerda, criada em 1990, a partir de um seminário internacional promovido pelo Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), do Brasil, que convidou outros partidos e organizações da América Latina e do Caribe para promover alternativas às políticas dominantes na região durante a década de 1990, chamadas de "neoliberais", e para promover a integração latino-americana no âmbito econômico, político e cultural.

Segundo a organização, atualmente mais de 100 partidos e organizações políticas de diversos países participam dos encontros. As posições políticas variam dentro de um largo espectro, que inclui partidos, organizações comunitárias, sindicatos, movimentos sociais, esquerda cristã, grupos étnicos e ambientalistas.

História
O primeiro encontro foi numa reunião ocorrida de 1º a 4 de julho de 1990, no extinto Hotel Danúbio, na cidade de São Paulo, Brasil, e conseguiu reunir 48 partidos e organizações de 14 países latino-americanos e caribenhos, atendendo ao convite do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT). Essas organizações reuniram-se visando debater a nova conjuntura internacional pós-queda do Muro de Berlim, em 1989, e elaborar estratégias para fazer face ao embargo dos Estados Unidos a Cuba. O encontro chamou-se "Encontro de Partidos e Organizações de Esquerda da América Latina e do Caribe".

No encontro seguinte, realizado na Cidade do México, em 1991, com a participação de 68 organizações e partidos políticos de 22 países, examinou-se a situação e a perspectiva da América Latina e do Caribe frente à reestruturação hegemônica internacional. Na ocasião, consagrou-se o nome "Foro de São Paulo". Dois anos depois, em Havana (Cuba), contava com a participação de 30 países e um aumento no número de participantes.

Se a primeira reunião do Foro foi realizada em São Paulo em 1990, desde então ele tem acontecido, a cada um ou dois anos, em diferentes países da América Latina. Até julho de 2017, foram 23 encontros no total. México (1991), Manágua, Nicarágua (1992); Havana, Cuba (1993); Montevidéu, Uruguai (1995); San Salvador, El Salvador (1996); Porto Alegre, Brasil (1997); Cidade do México, México (1998); Niquinohomo, Nicarágua (2000); Havana (2001), Antígua, Antígua e Barbuda (2002); Quito, Equador (2003); São Paulo (2005); San Salvador (2007); Montevidéu (2008); Cidade do México (2009), Buenos Aires, Argentina (2010); Manágua (2011); Caracas, Venezuela (2012); São Paulo (2013), La Paz, Bolívia (2014), Cidade do México (2015), San Salvador (2016), Nicarágua (2017), Havana, Cuba (2018) e Caracas, Venezuela (2019)

O Grupo de Puebla, criado no México em 12 de Julho de 2019, é apontado como o sucessor do Foro de São Paulo.

Posicionamentos

Os objetivos iniciais do Foro de São Paulo estão expressos na "Declaração de São Paulo", documento que foi aprovado no final do primeiro encontro, na cidade de São Paulo, em 1990. O texto deste documento ressalta que o objetivo do foro é aprofundar o debate e procurar avançar com propostas de unidade de ação consensuais na luta anti-imperialista e popular, promover intercâmbios especializados em torno dos problemas econômicos, políticos, sociais e culturais que a esquerda continental enfrenta após a queda do muro de Berlim. O documento afirmou que o encontro foi inédito por sua amplitude política e pela participação das mais diversas correntes ideológicas da esquerda.

Por fim, a Declaração diz encontrar "a verdadeira face do Império" nas renovadas agressões a Cuba e também à Revolução Sandinista na Nicarágua, no aberto intervencionismo e apoio ao militarismo em El Salvador, na invasão e ocupação militar norte-americana do Panamá, nos projetos e passos dados no sentido de militarizar zonas andinas da América do Sul sob o pretexto de lutar contra o "narcoterrorismo". Assim, eles reafirmam sua solidariedade em relação à revolução cubana e à Revolução Sandinista, e também seu apoio em relação às tentativas de desmilitarização e de solução política da guerra civil de El Salvador, além de se solidarizarem com o povo panamenho e com os povos andinos que "enfrentam a pressão militarista do imperialismo".

Um dos temas centrais previstos para o encontro do Foro de São Paulo em Montevidéu (dias 22 a 25 de maio de 2008) foi a reivindicação de renegociação do tratado de criação da Usina Hidrelétrica de Itaipu Binacional. O presidente do Paraguai, Fernando Lugo de esquerda, é membro do Foro de São Paulo e deseja aumentar a receita paraguaia proveniente da Usina de Itaipu, fixada no tratado de constituição da hidroeléctrica, de 1973.

Em Janeiro de 2010, o Partido da Esquerda Europeia - uma coalizão ampla de partidos de esquerda na Comunidade Económica Europeia - expressou na abertura de seu terceiro congresso seu interesse em estreitar os laços com o Foro de São Paulo.

Em resposta aos protestos em Cuba em 2021, iniciados em 11 de Julho, partidos integrantes do FSP declararam apoio ao povo cubano e sua revolução.

Organização

O Foro funcionou sem um grupo executivo apenas na sua primeira edição. No segundo encontro, realizado na cidade do México, em 1991, foi criado o chamado "Grupo de Trabalho", encarregado de "consultar e promover estudos e ações unitárias em torno dos acordos do Foro". Já na reunião realizada em Montevidéu (1995), foi criado o Secretariado Permanente do FSP.

Essas instâncias têm sua composição decidida a cada encontro e já foram integradas por organizações como: Partido dos Trabalhadores (Brasil); Izquierda Unida (Peru); Partido Comunista de Cuba; Partido da Revolução Democrática (México); Movimiento Bolivia Libre  (Bolívia), entre diversos outros.

As Forças Armadas Revolucionárias da Colômbia (FARC) foram excluídas do Foro a partir de 2002, após abandonarem as negociações para um acordo de paz na Colômbia e enveredarem pelo caminho dos sequestros, como da senadora Ingrid Betancourt, e do narcotráfico para financiar sua causa. O grupo tentou participar de duas reuniões subsequentes (em 2004 e 2008), porém não obteve sucesso. No ano de 2008 sua presença foi barrada pelo PT, que ocupava a secretaria-executiva da entidade.

Organizações membros

Lista de alguns partidos membros do Foro de São Paulo, ordenados por país e com respectiva posição ao governo vigente:

Presidentes no poder

O triunfo de Chávez em 1999 foi seguido pelo triunfo de Lula da Silva do Partido dos Trabalhadores no Brasil (2002), Tabaré Vásquez da Frente Ampla no Uruguai (2004), Martín Torrijos pelo Partido Revolucionário Democrático no Panamá (2004), Evo Morales pelo Movimento para o Socialismo na Bolívia (2005), Michelle Bachelet do Partido Socialista do Chile (2006), Rafael Correa pela Aliança PAIS no Equador (2006), Daniel Ortega pela Frente Sandinista de Libertação Nacional na Nicarágua (2006), Fernando Lugo pela Alianza Patriótica para el Cambio no Paraguai (2008), Mauricio Funes da Frente Farabundo Martí de Libertação Nacional em El Salvador (2009) e Ollanta Humala pelo Partido Nacionalista Peruano (2011).

Cuba com Raúl Castro se voltaria para a social-democracia.

Manuel Zelaya foi eleito presidente pelo Partido Liberal de Honduras (não afiliado ao FSP) em 2006, mas recebeu apoio do Foro quando sofreu o golpe de Estado de 2009.

Ver também
 Aliança Bolivariana para as Américas (ALBA)
 Bolivarianismo
 Chavismo
 Grupo de Lima
 Guinada à esquerda
 Neogramscismo
 Onda conservadora
 Revolução Bolivariana
 Socialismo do século XXI
 União das Repúblicas Socialistas da América Latina (URSAL)
 UnoAmerica

Ligações externas

Esquerda (política)

Organizações partidárias internacionais
Socialismo
Trabalhismo

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I learnt to cook the dish from Madam Chong Lay Wah, 60, a chef who specialises in Penang Nonya cuisine.
In Penang, jiu he char is a classic favourite.
With the bangkwang and carrot taking centre stage, I find the dish very similar to Hokkien popiah filling with the addition of dried cuttlefish and dried solefish.
For this dish, use dried cuttlefish sliced into thin strips.
Madam Chong says no oyster sauce or soy sauce is used so that the bangkwang doesn't take on any brownish hue.
She stays true to tradition, slicing up the bangkwang and carrot using a kitchen knife, claiming that this method keeps the vegetables crunchy. I took the easy way out by using a vegetable shredder.
The dish is great party food.
One more tip from Madam Chong: The dish tastes even better if it is kept overnight in the fridge.
1. Rinse and soak the dried cuttlefish for 15 minutes or until softened.
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6. Add the sliced pork and pepper.
8. Stir-fry to mix the ingredients. Fry for two minutes.
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