Cake mixes take the drudgery out of meticulously measuring ingredients for cookies made from scratch. Nearly everything you need is already in the mix making this a speedy process indeed. It's also ideal for a first-time baking project with the kids. When they've mastered the limited measuring, mixing, scooping or rolling involved, you can move on to from-scratch cookies. But these are so tasty, you might prefer them instead. For these recipes, a cake mix that produces a two-layer cake is required.
There's something so decadent about a recipe with "double chocolate" in the name and these scoopable cookies deliver.
Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or lightly coat with cooking spray.
Pour the chocolate cake mix in a large bowl or stand mixer. Add egg and butter. Mix thoroughly until a ball forms.
Fold mini semisweet chocolate chips in until combined.
Using a cookie scoop, place dough on prepared cookie sheets spacing 2 inches apart.
For chewy cookies, bake 7 minutes. For crispy cookies, bake 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool 5 minutes on pan before removing cookies to a wire rack to cool completely. Store tightly covered.
Substituting different chocolates for the semisweet chips and adding nuts make this a really special dessert offering. Use white-chocolate or chocolate-mint chips in place of the semisweet chips. Add 1/2 cup chopped pecans, walnuts, or macadamia nuts or sliced almonds.
Turn a yellow cake mix into chewy, moist bar cookies by adding chopped dried apricots, cranberries, and nuts.
1 (16.5-ounce) package yellow cake mix with pudding in the mix or labeled "moist"
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line with parchment paper or lightly coat with cooking spray a 13x9-inch pan.
In a stand mixer or large bowl, mix together cake mix, brown sugar, and cinnamon until well incorporated.
Add butter and eggs and mix until combined.
Stir in by hand the apricots, cranberries and walnuts. Transfer to prepared baking pan, spreading evenly.
Bake for 35 to 40 minutes until edges turn brown. Remove from oven, cool 10 minutes, then run a knife around edges of pan to loosen sides.
Transfer to a wire rack to cool for 1 hour. Sprinkle with optional confectioners' sugar and cut into 12 to 16 bar cookies.
This recipe lends itself to experimentation since the dried fruit and nuts can be varied according to your taste. Instead of using dried apricots, dried cranberries, and pecans, try substituting dates, raisins, and walnuts or dried mango, dried pineapple, and macadamia nuts.
With all the busy work involved in holiday entertaining, using cake mix to speed up the process of making rolled gingerbread cookies is a stroke of genius.
Heat oven to 325 degrees F. Have several cookie sheet pans at the ready.
In a stand mixer or large bowl, thoroughly combine spice cake mix, flour, eggs, oil, molasses, and ginger. The dough will be soft and that is OK. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 2 hours.
Cut parchment paper to fit the cookie sheet pans but do not put it on the pans.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator and cut in half. Rewrap the second half and place back in the refrigerator until ready to use.
Working with one piece of dough at a time, roll the dough directly on the parchment paper, but not on the sheet pan, to prevent warping of shapes.
Using cookie cutters or templates of similar size so they will bake evenly, cut desired shapes spaced 3 inches apart. Remove excess dough and set aside to be rerolled for more cookies. Lifting by opposite corners, transfer the parchment paper to a cookie sheet.
Depending on the size of the shapes, bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges just start to brown. Remove from oven and place pan on a wire rack. Cool cookies completely on the pan before attempting to remove them.
Decorate cookies with white or tinted royal icing.
For a spicier, more aromatic cookie, add 1/4 teaspoon cloves, 1/4 teaspoon allspice, and 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon to the dough. However, these spices are already present in the spice cake mix so only add them if you like a bold flavor.
Instead of cutting the dough out in individual shapes, use the recipe to cut pieces to build a gingerbread house.
For busy families, cookie recipes that deliver homemade results in half the time are a gift. Enter the cake mix that can be converted into a cookie by using, in general, less liquid. For success, it's important not to wing it. Use a recipe specially formulated to make the transition from cake to cookie a smooth one.


• A handy book with a focus on existing conventional and novel lasers and energy devices with an accent on patients of skin of color.
• Has three sections-the first covering the technology, the second covering the applications, and the last covering the practical aspects.
• Has leading contributors who are experts in their field.
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COURSE DESCRIPTION: The American College of Lifestyle Medicine is pleased to offer the Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine Board Review Course, 2nd Edition. This course is developed by co-authors and faculty John Kelly, MD, MPH, DipABLM and Jeni Shull, MD, MPH, DipABLM, with active feedback from an editorial Advisory Panel that includes experts in the field of Lifestyle Medicine.
The Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine Board Review Course 2nd Edition is an evidence-based course designed to provide a review and successfully prepare candidates for the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM) Certification Exam. Please note that no single course can do justice to the breadth of a medical specialty and that it is up to the exam registrant to ensure that their knowledge is in line with the published exam competencies (http://www.ablm.co/how-to-certify).
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The love between Ada Lovelace and Lord Byron.
Love often works in mysterious ways.
Take, for example, the story of Lord Byron and Ada Lovelace.
Lord Byron was the pinnacle of Romanticism. He is often described as one of the greatest English poets. His love burned through pages and ink, and it burned through people too.
He would father one legitimate child among a litter of others -- driving his wife to bitter cynicism. Lord Byron would set sail for Greece five months after his one legitimate daughter was born.
A few years later, he would die of fever in Greece at the tender age of 36. After having fought for the Greeks in their war of independence, he was forever immortalized as a loveful folk hero. Animated by love for Hellenic principles, he had given his life for a country halfway around the world.
His daughter was not so lucky. She only received a poem that immortalized her as "the sole daughter of his home and heart." But she would never have her father in her life.
Lord Byron's daughter would grow up talented in mathematics and logical reasoning, a pursuit swayed by her mother, who wanted her to grow away from what she deemed her "father's insanity".
As a result, the daughter became immortalized as Ada Lovelace -- a polymath who became the world's first programmer. Ada was the first to grasp how significant computing machines would be.
She was a genius borne of a strange kind of love. Told to stay away from her absent father, she ended up becoming something completely different -- yet she always wondered about him.
When Ada Lovelace died at the exact same age as her father, she had long since asked to be buried at his side.
Lord Byron's love burned so brightly, it could not contain itself to one person or country. It bled into the annals of literature, and there, became immortalized in history.
Ada Lovelace's love was quiet, taciturn -- she grew up to be everything her father wasn't -- yet that never stopped her from missing him.
Their love for each other burned differently, hued in contrasting shades. Yet there can be no question about that love, the very same love that may have powered them both to spurts of genius and insanity.
Our world is better, in so many unfathomable ways, because of the divided love they shared.
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If you love Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, Manhattan Transfer, the Drifters and more...we think you'll love this concert! Hot acapella charts mixed with sizzling small jazz combo and vocals. Swing into Spring with the AACC choirs!
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Q: In asp.net-mvc, how can I replicate creating this using javascript instead of serverside C#? I have an asp.net-mvc page and in my javascript in my view, I have this code which works perfect:
MyView.aspx
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     var apps = <%= new JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(Model.Apps) %>;
     SetupApplications(apps);

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(Apps is a array of strings).
I now need to change this to be called from an ajax method.  I tried a few things but neither seemed to work.  I am passing back a string array from server side controller action like this:
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            Apps = GetAppsStringArray()
        });

and on the client side javascript callback I call the same method:
  $.post("/MyController/MyAction", function (data) {
        SetupApplications(JSON.stringify(data.Apps) }
    , "json");

Do you see anything flawed in why these wouldn't be equivalent?

A: You are creating a JSON string from the object that was created by parsing the JSON string that you get in the response. As the SetupApplications function doesn't take a JSON string in the first version of the code, it shouldn't do that in the second either. Just pass the object to the function without turning it into JSON again:
$.post("/MyController/MyAction", function (data) {
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I was worried too because I'd validated it before. I found more errors, so the new one should replace it. I just did a search of Bourne on my computer in title, and got just the bourne Supremacy and the Bourne Identity. Also when you clock n the author listed when you click directly to that book, you don't see it in the listings. Very odd. Jessie, anything you can figure?
That's strange that it wouldn't show up. I did a search for Bourne because I thaught I remembered seeing it on the new books section awhile ago and it turned up.


Us Brits love a good curry and it's become a staple part of our cuisine.
Our Chef was taught by an Indian Chef how to make the sauce for a curry (look away when the butter or ghee goes in…!) which provides the base for most Indian curries. The rest is how to adapt it to be one of the flavours we are so keen on, such as Tikka Masala or a mild Korma. And it's up to you and what you'd like in it. There can be so many combinations that work well. Chicken is probably the most popular and everyone's favourite but any meat of fish can be used.
Curry is now a popular item for evening Wedding food. It can be served as a Hot Fork Buffet which works well if tables are still in situ and there are no extra evening guests to seat (it's not the best food to eat standing up or on your lap!). It can be served with all of the usual accompaniment such as Rice, Naan Breads and Side Dishes such as Lentil Dhal or Onion Bhajees.
That being said many weddings and events now are taking on a much more informal feel, with large paella type pans and food stands set up outside. Small disposable bowls of curry and similar certainly hit the spot when partying is the top priority or you want to have a relaxed and sociable feel (embracing the British weather to the full!).
So if you are looking for Curry Caterers in East Sussex, whether it's for a wedding or other occasion, then please call us on 01323 486881 and we can chat through all the options.


Perfect for busy city days, these white perforated leather trainers maintain an elegant silhouette for times when comfort is paramount. An iconic design that remains resoundingly popular every season, the Francisca affords timeless style, finished with the classic Trainspotting ribbon. A leather-covered heel is mounted onto a rubber sole for the most superior comfort.


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Cima da Conegliano: Poet of Venetian landscape
Cima da Conegliano: Poet of Venetian landscapeadmin2021-01-26T11:48:08+02:00
Cima da Conegliano, one of the leading painters of early Renaissance in Venice of the generation between Giovanni Bellini and Giorgione, never strictly made a landscape painting but it is for his landscapes that he is best remembered. The bulk of his artistic output were altarpieces, most of them featuring the Virgin with Child, but Cima was one of the first Italians to assign a place for landscape depiction and to formulate the laws of atmosphere and of the distribution of light and shade in doing so. Although Cima's refined classical style was always capable of modest innovation, his greatest sin in the eyes of art critics is that it did not undergo any radical alteration during a career of some 30 years.
Even after Giorgione had introduced his revolutionary tonal reform, Cima continued with his own lines of expression – his figures statue-like and monumental in their firmness and his pastel colours richly limpid. Spaced with perfect harmony amid the sharp interplay of light and shade, Cima's figures stand against the dreamy beauty of the countryside of the Veneto. His human figures and countryside always partake of the same sublimity. They are Raphaelite images of an uncorrupted and incorruptible world, of a timeless and mythically serene present. Cima's style was distilled out of a melting pot of Antonello da Messina, Alvise Vivarini and Giovanni Bellini but never transgressed its own boundaries.
Cima, who shared Giovanni Bellini's feeling for nature, nevertheless innovated in respect of his background landscapes. He painted them with a poetry capable of spanning centuries and therefore they are still relevant today. Their hills and stone formations contrasted against the intense depictions of dawn and sunsets forge man and nature into one. Bernard Berenson, an authority on the Venetian Renaissance, said of him: "No other master of that time paints so well the pearly light that models the Italian landscape with a peculiar lightness and breadth." There is no question that Cima's landscapes paved the way for Giorgione, Titian and the substantial period of Venetian painting of the 16th century.
A good example of this landscape poetry and my personal favourite is Rest on the Flight into Egypt which now hangs at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. This sacra conversazione with the restful figures, the clarity of light and the freshness of colour is one of Cima's most serene works. With trusting simplicity, the Virgin, seated on a rock, offers the Child to the adoration of St John the Baptist, St Joseph, St Lucia and two angels against the backdrop of the Veneto. Through the transfiguring light shines the serenity of Cima's figures and his countryside. This is a Virgilian evocation of the ancient world, executed – as always with Cima – with great sensitivity and consummate craftsmanship.


When Emily Asher announced a last-minute gig at Radegast, that cheerful Bierhalle in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last Tuesday, I was eager to go. Three-quarters of the group was familiar to me — people / players I admire: Emily herself on trombone and vocal; Rob Adkins on string bass; Nick Russo on guitar and banjo. What added to the allure was the fourth member: trombonist Shannon Barnett, someone I didn't think I knew. So . . . two trombones plus rocking rhythm. How could I be blue?
When I arrived at Radegast — and was directed to the back room, which is quiet and cozy — I met Shannon once again. Once again because we had encountered each other at the Home of Happy Ears (326 Spring Street) one Sunday night. After the band set up and played two numbers, I stepped forward and said to the front line, "Forgive me for getting in the way, but this isn't just a session. This is A BAND!" They were obviously feeling the congenial vibrations too. The two trombonist heroines (from the States and from Australia) had never played together before; the music they made reinforces the idea of a swinging common language.
Both Emily and Shannon not only play but sing, so you will hear some charming, assured vocalizing. And I know they will have a wide repertoire — larger than these familiar tunes. There was talk of Jay and Kai compositions / arrangements. I'm looking forward to their next gig.
The only thing this band lacks is a NAME — I made some suggestions, which were met with kind amused attentiveness — but I am sure that the four inventive players will think of one that is both apt and witty. For now, just enjoy! Nick Russo swung things along as he always does, although his cap was more wintry than usual; Rob Adkins was playing his new string bass — with beautiful sound, fitting for such a thoughtful, swinging player.
Both Emily and Shannon have websites — you can check them out on the JAZZ LIVES blogroll. And I know you'll want to be on hand when this band — a precocious one for sure — turns one, two . . .
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Halász Aladár (Budapest, 1892. január 25. – Budapest, 1966. január 10.) magyar jogász, ügyvéd, egyetemi tanár, politikus, 1947 és 1953 között országgyűlési képviselő.

Élete
Halász Aladár 1892-ben született Budapesten római katolikus hitre tért zsidó hivatalnokcsaládban, Halász Emánuel és Politzer Dorottya fiaként. Nagyapja Halász Náthán (1834–1910) iskolaigazgató, lapszerkesztő volt. 1910-ben a budapesti V. kerületi állami főgimnáziumban érettségizett, görög nyelvből és irodalomból kiegészítő érettségi vizsgát is tett. A Budapesti Tudományegyetem Állam- és Jogtudományi Karának hallgatója lett, ahol 1915-ben szerzett jogi doktorátust. Egyetemi tanulmányai mellett kezdett politizálni, 1910 és 1914 között a Galilei Kör jogtudományi szakosztályának tagja, majd 1925-ig a Magyar Radikális Párt és a párt ún. elnöki tanácsának tagja volt.

1915 és 1919 között Halász Frigyes (nagybátyja) és Baracs Marcell budapesti ügyvédek, illetve a Budapesti Központi Járásbíróság joggyakornoka volt, a Tanácsköztársaság alatt a Szociális Termelés Népbiztosságán dolgozott, majd 1919-től 1925-ig Bécsben élt. Hazatérve egységes bírói és ügyvédi vizsgát tett, és Budapesten ügyvédi irodavezető lett, majd 1930 és 1944 között önálló ügyvéd volt. 1944-ben származása miatt törölték az ügyvédi kamarából, Magyarország német megszállása után, 1944 májusában pedig feleségével együtt letartóztatták. 1945-től 1951-ig ismét Budapesten dolgozott ügyvédként.

A második világháború után részt vett a Magyar Radikális Párt újjászervezésében, és a párt főügyésze, majd 1949-ben főtitkára lett. Az 1945-ös nemzetgyűlési választáson pártja országos listájának 5. helyén szerepelt, de nem szerzett mandátumot. Az 1947-es országgyűlési választáson pótképviselővé választották, majd az év decemberében behívták, így országgyűlési képviselő lett. Nagy szerepe volt a Magyar Radikális Párt és a Polgári Demokrata Párt fúziójának előkészítésében. A Magyar Jogászszövetség vezetőségi tagja, majd az Ügyvédi Kamarák Országos Szövetsége főügyész-helyettese, illetve Országos Szabadművelődési Tanács tagja volt.

Az 1949-es országgyűlési választáson a Magyar Függetlenségi Népfront jelöltjeként jutott parlamentbe, majd 1950-ben a Fővárosi Tanács, 1954-ben pedig a Hazafias Népfront Országos Tanácsának tagja lett. 1951-ben a Szegedi Tudományegyetem ÁJTK Római Jogi Tanszék tanszékvezető intézeti tanára lett, majd az év decemberétől egyetemi docens volt. 1956 januárjában az Igazságügyi Minisztérium és az Ügyvédi Kamarák Országos Bizottsága törölte az ügyvédek sorából, 1958-ban pedig a jogi tudományok kandidátusa lett. 1956 és 1959 között a Pécsi Tudományegyetem Római Jogi Tanszék tanszékvezető egyetemi docense, majd haláláig tanszékvezető egyetemi tanár volt.

Felesége 1934-től Lánczos Gizi zongoratanárnő, Lánczos Kornél fizikus, matematikus testvére volt. 1966-ban hunyt el Budapesten, a Farkasréti temetőben nyugszik.

Díjai, elismerései
 Munka Érdemrend ezüst fokozata (1965)

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További információk

1892-ben született személyek
1966-ban elhunyt személyek
Budapesten született személyek
Magyar jogászok
Magyar egyetemi, főiskolai oktatók
MRP-tagok
Országgyűlési képviselők (Magyar Radikális Párt)
Országgyűlési képviselők (1947–1949)
Országgyűlési képviselők (1949–1953)
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Holographic Magic Show
at the e-Government Day Ceremony
A professional performance director has staged the Holographic Magic Show as an opening performance for the Fourth e-Government Day ceremony, which features stories such as the history of e-Government, the great strides taken so far, and digital government's future.
#1. Lay the groundwork for the 1st e-Government
1967Korea's first computer for administrative duties
The National Bureau of Statistics of the Economic Planning Board (now Ministry of Finance and Economy) adopted the IBM 1401 to reduce the cost and time of processing statistical analysis of demographic data.
1978Pilot project for administrative computerization
Key administrative affairs were computerized and a computer network was built to share computer systems and facilitate business processes of government agencies.
19875 Major national backbone networks
In line with the information age, the national information highways were built to integrate 5 major networks: an administrative network (for government and state-invested enterprises), a financial network (for banks, insurers and securities firms), an education and research network (for universities and research institutes), and national defense and public security networks in addition to automating administrative affairs in these areas.
#2. Sow the seeds of administrative computerization
2001e-Government Act and 11 Major Missions
During the late 1990s, the e-Government emerged as a key national policy agenda.
▶ Academia and the public sector raised the need to enact the e-Government Act.
▶ A more effective legal and institutional basis than the Basic Act on Informatization Promotion needed to be established.
Basic principles for driving e-Government policies
Digitalization of civil complaint handling
Adoption and utilization of new technology-based e-Government services
Electronic documents serving as the basis of e-administration
Administrative electronic signature
Construction of a common platform system for data utilization
Sharing of administrative data
Adoption of the Information Technology Architecture (ITA) for enhancing e-Government operations
Establishment of the foundation for efficient information management
Policy tools for successful implementation of e-Government, including Ppreliminary discussions on e-Government projects, performance assessment, international cooperation, and designation of dedicated agencies
11 Major Projects
Service innovation for the people and businesses, administrative productivity improvement, construction of e-Government infrastructure, and more.
200331 Major Tasks under the e-Government Roadmap
Ambitious goals were set, including the realization of participatory democracy, balanced development, realization of the era of Northeast Asia, a per capita annual income of more than $20,000.
The focus was on advancing government administration by achieving a transparent administration through innovation of how government officials work; an efficient administration through innovation in information resources management; and a participatory administration by government service innovation.
2010Ranked 1st at the UN e-Government survey
The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) conducts a survey to evaluate e-Government development index and online service index among over 190 UN members. The Republic of Korea ranked first for three consecutive times in, 2010, 2012 and 2014.
2016Establishment of e-Government 2020 Master Plan
In accordance with the e-Government Act, a 5-year plan(2016-2020) was developed. Starting the second half of 2014, the government analyzed ever-changing ICT environment to better leverage the Fourth Industrial Revolution including using emerging technologies within the government. It prepared a master plan that showcases the new paradigm for e-Government and agenda.
Key Point 01
Various intelligent information technologies, such as AI, IoT, cloud computing, big data and mobile, have been used to expand the government's public-private partnership efforts to political and social sectors as well as the administrative sector.
Each individual's complex attributes and needs have been reflected to provide integrated, tailored services.
Intelligent information technologies have helped create a new ecosystem where government, businesses, civil societies, and individuals can work together, contributing not only to sustainable government innovation but also to social development.
#3. Digital Opens a Wonderful World
by 2025Enhance Data-driven Administration
Strengthen Digital Foundation
Innovate Intelligent Services
Enhance Data-based Administration


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Nia DaCosta (8 de noviembre de 1990) es una directora de cine y guionista estadounidense. Es conocida por su largometraje debut Little Woods (2019). Sus otros créditos incluyen la serie de televisión británica Top Boy (2011-), y dirigió el reinicio de Candyman (2020). También dirigirá la próxima película del Universo cinematográfico de Marvel, The Marvels (2023)

Primeros años
DaCosta nació en Brooklyn, Nueva York y fue criada en Harlem. Siempre supo que quería ser una escritora, pero tras ver Apocalypse Now (1979) se enamoró del cine. Esto llevó a DaCosta a descubrir las películas de los años 1970, siendo inspirada por directores como Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Steven Spielberg y Francis Ford Coppola. Debido a su nuevo amor por las películas, DaCosta siguió los pasos de Scorsese y se matriculó en la Tisch School of the Arts de la Universidad de Nueva York, donde finalmente conoció a Scorsese mientras trabajaba como ayudante de producción televisiva.

Carrera
Después de graduarse y trabajar como ayudante de producción televisiva, el guion que DaCosta escribió para la película Little Woods fue uno de los 12 proyectos seleccionados para el laboratorio de guionistas y directores del Festival de Cine de Sundance de 2015. DaCosta ayudó a financiar la película a través de Kickstarter, reuniendo $5.100 con la ayuda de 72 financistas.

Little Woods
Little Woods narra la historia de Ollie (Tessa Thompson), una traficante de drogas reformada que vive en una zona rural de Dakota del Norte y su hermana Deb (Lily James). Cuándo su madre muere, Deb aparece en la casa de Ollie junto a su hijo pequeño y revela  estar embarazada. Esto lleva a Ollie a buscar una manera de recaudar dinero rápidamente para pagar al banco y mantener la casa de su madre, y enfrenta a Deb a la decisión de si quiere o no abortar.

La película se estrenó en el Festival de cine de Tribeca en 2018 y recibió el premio Nora Ephron por la "excelencia narrativa de una escritora o directora." Luego fue adquirida por la empresa Neon y distribuida en América del Norte en abril de 2019. DaCosta se refirió a Winter's Bone de Debra Granik  y Frozen River de Courtney Hunt como inspiraciones de su guion, ya que siente que sus películas presentan actuaciones de buen nivel y un drama tenso, abordando también problemas reales de la sociedad estadounidense.

Candyman
A finales de  2018 se anunció que DaCosta fue escogida para dirigir lo que se describió como una sucesora espiritual de la película Candyman (1992). Se anunció que la historia regresaría al barrio de Chicago donde la leyenda empezó, el que en esta nueva versión habría sido gentrificado. La película está siendo producida por Jordan Peele a través de la empresa Monkeypaw Productions, con Peele citando a la obra original como "una película histórica para la representación negra en el género de terror". Yahya Abdul-Mateen II fue seleccionado para protagonizar la cinta, mientras que Tony Todd volverá a interpretar al villano principal, contando además con las actuaciones de Teyonah Parris y Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. Universal Pictures planea estrenar la película el 12 de junio de 2020, con una producción que comenzará en la primavera de 2019 y finalizará en septiembre.

Filmografía

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Nacidos en Brooklyn
Directoras de cine de Estados Unidos
Puertorriqueño-estadounidenses


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Q: nasm displaying a dword with printf this is my code (test.asm)
expected "num = 1337"
output: "num = 4199373"
question: How do I fix it.
intent: curiosity towards assembly language, not assignment.
; nasm -fwin32 test.asm
; gcc test.obj -o test
    extern _printf
    global _main

    section .text
_main:
    push num
    push msg
    call _printf
    add esp, 8
    ret

msg db 'num = %i', 0xa, 0
num dd 1337

changing push num  to push dword [num] fixed it.

A: push num pushes the address of num (similar to push msg), but not the value contained there.
You need push dword [num] instead.


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Eight thousand hinterland nursery and primary-level (Grade one) children have seen significant improvements in their emergent literacy and numeracy scores following the successful completion of the Guyana Early Childhood Education Project (GECEP).
At the conclusion of the three-year project, literacy among hinterland children improved by 139.78 per cent while numeracy improved by 133.67. Students started the project with a literacy rate of 36.63 per cent in literacy and 37.53 in numeracy.
GECEP Project Coordinator, Quenita Walrond-Lewis said the strong finish is a testament to the mental shift in how early childhood education is treated.
"These children finished stronger quite possibly because our teachers were better prepared, our teachers had more interactive teaching, learning materials and they had the partnership of their parents and primary caregivers," Walrond-Lewis said.
Yesterday, the Ministry of Education hosted a closing ceremony at the Umana Yana to celebrate the success of the project.
GECEP was launched in Bartica, Region Seven in 2015. The project sought to improve emergent literacy and numeracy outcomes for children at the nursery as well as Grade One levels in Regions One, Seven, Eight, Nine and riverain communities along the coast.
Minister of Education, Nicolette Henry, said the project's success solidifies the need for national scale-up of certain components. She added that Early Childhood Education (ECE) resource toolkit, which was used in the project, will be provided to all coastland nursery schools by the end of the month. Minister Henry noted the kits have already been procured.
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Assommano a circa 400 le città e villaggi arabi spopolati durante la guerra arabo-israeliana del 1948, che hanno provocato l'esodo delle loro popolazioni.Alcune località furono interamente distrutte e rese inabitabili; altre restarono abitate da poche centinaia di residenti e furono ripopolate da immigranti ebrei e successivamente chiamate in modo diverso, secondo le tradizioni storico-culturali ebraiche.

Queste aree, che entrarono a far parte dello Stato d'Israele, mantennero un'esigua presenza araba in circa 100 villaggi e due città. Gli arabi palestinesi rimasero in piccolo numero in alcune città più importanti e popolose (Haifa, Giaffa e Acri); e Gerusalemme fu divisa tra Transgiordania (presto diventata Giordania) e Israele stessa. Quasi  palestinesi rimasero nella Città Santa, in quella che divenne nota come "parte araba" di Gerusalemme (o, semplicemente, Gerusalemme Est). All'incirca  rifugiati non-ebrei si sistemarono del pari a Gerusalemme Est, mentre  rifugiati ebrei si spostarono dalla parte orientale della Città Santa in quella occidentale ebraica. Un numero enorme di residenti arabi, e altre componenti non-ebraiche - come greci e armeni, che vivevano nelle città entrate a far parte dello Stato d'Israele (Acri, Haifa, Safad, Tiberiade, al-Majdal Asqalan, Beersheba, Giaffa e Beisan) - fuggirono o furono espulsi. Molti dei palestinesi dei villaggi vicini che erano rimasti, furono sistemati all'interno d'Israele e classificati come "Presenti assenti".

Vi sono più di libri e resoconti riguardanti i villaggi palestinesi che documentano la storia dello spopolamento provocato dalle forze israeliane. Queste pubblicazioni sono basati sulle testimonianze concesse dagli abitanti di quei villaggi.

Le città e i villaggi sottoelencati sono ricordati secondo l'articolazione in sotto-distretti redatta dall'amministrazione mandataria.

Cittadine e città
Acri
Haifa
Safad
Tiberiade
Ramle
Lydda
al-Majdal, Askalan
Beersheba
Giaffa
Beisan

Villaggi

Sotto-distretto di Acri

 al-Bassa - attacco militare, espulsione condotta dalle forze dell'Yishuv, 14 maggio 1948
 al-Birwa - attacco militare, 11 giugno 1948 o metà luglio
 al-Damun - attacco militare, 15–16 luglio 1948.
 al-Ghabisiyya
 al-Kabri – attacco militare, intimidazione, 21 maggio 1948.

 al-Manshiyya – attacco militare, 14 May 1948
 al-Mansura – espulsione da parte delle forze dell'Yishuv, primi di novembre del 1948
 al-Nabi Rubin
 al-Nahr - attacco militare, 21 maggio 1948.
 al-Ruways
 al-Sumayriyya attacco militare, 14 maggio 1948

 al-Tall (Tell) - attacco militare, 21 maggio 1948
 Amqa - attacco militare, 10–11 luglio 1948.
 Arab al-Samniyya
 Al-Zib - attacco militare, 14 maggio 1948
 Dayr al-Qassi
 Iqrit - espulsione da parte delle forze dell'Yishuv, primi di novembre 1948.

 Kafr 'Inan – espulsione da parte delle forze dell'Yishuv, febbraio 1949
 Khirbat Iribbin
 Khirbat Jiddin
 Kuwaykat – attacco militare, 10 luglio 1948.
 Mi'ar
 Sha'ab
 Suhmata - attacco militare, 30 ottobre 1948

 Suruh - espulsione da parte delle forze dell'Yishuv, primi di novembre 1948
 Tarbikha, espulsione da parte delle forze dell'Yishuv, primi di novembre 1948
 Umm al-Faraj - attacco militare, 21 maggio 1948

Sotto-distretto di Beersheba

 al-Imara
 al-Jammama
 al-Khalasa
 Beersheba, attacco militare, espulsioni, 20 ottobre 1948
 Umm al-Rashrash

Sotto-distretto di Beisan

 al-Ashrafiyya
 al-Bira
 al-Fatur
 al-Ghazzawiyya
 al-Hamidiyya
 al-Hamra
 al-Khunayzir

 al-Murassas
 al-Sakhina
 al-Samiriyya
 al-Tira
 Arab al-'Arida
 Arab al-Bawati
 Arab al-Safa

 Beisan
 Danna
 Farwana
 Jabbul
 Kafra
 Kawkab al-Hawa

 Khirbat al-Taqa
 Khirbat Umm Sabuna
 Khirbat Zawiya
 Masil al-Jizl
 Qumya
 Sirin - Ordine di evacuazione per i palestinesi, aprile–maggio 1948.

 Tall al-Shawk
 Umm 'Ajra
 Yubla
 Zab'a

Sotto-distretto di Gaza

 al-Batani al-Gharbi
 al-Batani al-Sharqi
 al-Falluja
 al-Jaladiyya
 al-Jiyya
 al-Jura
 al-Khisas

 al-Masmiyya al-Kabira
 al-Masmiyya al-Saghira
 al-Muharraqa
 al-Sawafir al-Gharbiyya
 al-Sawafir al-Shamaliyya

 al-Sawafir al-Sharqiyya
 Arab Suqrir
 Isdud
 al-Majdal
 Barbara
 Barqa
 Bayt 'Affa
 Bayt Daras

 Bayt Jirja
 Bayt Tima
 Bil'in
 Burayr
 Dayr Sunayd
 Dimra
 Hamama
 Hatta
 Hiribya

 Huj
 Hulayqat
 Ibdis
 Iraq al-Manshiyya
 Iraq Suwaydan
 Julis
 Jusayr
 Karatiyya
 Kawfakha

 Kawkaba
 Najd
 Ni'ilya
 Qastina
 Simsim
 Summil
 Tall al-Turmus
 Yasur

Sotto-distretto di Haifa

 Abu Shusha
 Abu Zurayq
 al-Butaymat
 al-Ghubayya al-Fawqa
 al-Ghubayya al-Tahta
 al-Jalama
 al-Kafrayn
 al-Mansi
 Al-Mazar

 al-Rihaniyya
 al-Sarafand
 al-Sindiyana
 al-Tira
 Arab al-Fuqara
 Arab al-Nufay'at
 Arab Zahrat al-Dumayri
 Atlit
 Ayn Ghazal
 Balad al-Shaykh

 Barrat Qisarya
 Burayka
 Qisarya
 Daliyat al-Rawha'
 Ayn Hawd
 Hawsha
 Ijzim
 Jaba'
 Kabara
 Kafr Lam
 Khirbat al-Burj

 Khirbat al-Dumun
 Khirbat al-Kasayir
 Khirbat al-Manara
 Khirbat al-Mansura
 Khirbat al-Sarkas
 Khirbat al-Sawamir
 Khirbat Qumbaza
 Khirbat Lid
 Khirbat al-Shuna

 Khirbat Sa'sa'
 Khubbayza
 Naghnaghiya
 Qamun
 Qannir
 Qira
 Sabbarin
 Tantura
 Tiberiade
 Umm al-Shawf
 Umm al-Zinat

 Wa'arat al-Sarris
 Wadi Ara
 Yajur

Sotto-distretto di Hebron

 'Ajjur
 al-Dawayima - massacro
 al-Qubayba
 al-Zakariyya
 Barqusya
 Bayt Jibrin
 Bayt Nattif
 Dayr Nakhkhas

 Deir al-Dubban
 Khirbat Umm Burj
 Kudna
 Mughallis
 Ra'na
 Tell al-Safi
 Zayta
 Zikrin

Sotto-distretto di Giaffa

 Abu Kishk
 al-'Abbasiyya
 al-Haram
 al-Jammasin al-Gharbi
 al-Jammasin al-Sharqi
 al-Khayriyya
 al-Mas'udiyya
 al-Mirr

 al-Muwaylih
 al-Safiriyya
 al-Sawalima
 al-Shaykh Muwannis
 Bayt Dajan
 Biyar 'Adas
 Fajja
 Ijlil al-Qibliyya

 Ijlil al-Shamaliyya
 Jarisha
 Kafr 'Ana
 Rantiya
 Salama
 Saqiya
 Yazur

Sotto-distretto di Jenin
 Al-Mazar
 Ayn al-Mansi
 Khirbat al-Jawfa
 Lajjun
 Nuris
 Zir'in

Sotto-distretto di Gerusalemme

al-Burayj
al-Jura
al-Qabu
al-Walaja
Allar
al-Qastal
Aqqur
Artuf
Ayn Karim
Bayt 'Itab
Bayt Mahsir
Bayt Naqquba
Bayt Thul
Bayt Umm al-Mays

Dayr 'Amr
Dayr Aban
Dayr al-Hawa
Dayr al-Shaykh
Dayr Rafat
Deir Yassin
Ishwa
Islin
Jarash
Kasla
Khirbat al-'Umur
Khirbat Al-Lawz
Khirbat al-Tannur
Khirbat Ism Allah

Lifta
al-Maliha
Nitaf
Qalunya
Ras Abu 'Ammar
Romema
Sar'a
Saris
Sataf
Shaykh Badr
Suba
Sufla

Sotto-distretto di Nazaret
al-Mujaydil
Indur
Ma'alul
Saffuriyya

Sotto-distretto di Ramle

Abu al-Fadl
Abu Shusha
Ajanjul
al-Barriyya
al-Burj
al-Haditha
al-Khayma
al-Kunayyisa
al-Maghar
al-Mansura
al-Mukhayzin
al-Muzayri'a
al-Na'ani
al-Qubab
al-Qubayba
al-Tina
al-Tira
Aqir
Barfiliya
Bashshit

Bayt Jiz
Bayt Nabala
Bayt Shanna
Bayt Susin
Bir Ma'in
Bir Salim
Daniyal
Dayr Abu Salama
Dayr Ayyub
Dayr Muhaysin
Dayr Tarif
Idnibba
Innaba
Jilya
Jimzu
Kharruba
Khirbat al-Buwayra
Khirbat al-Duhayriyya
Khirbat Bayt Far
Khirbat Zakariyya

Khulda
Latrun
Majdal Yaba
Nabi Rubin
Qatra
Qazaza
Qula
Sajad
Salbit
Sarafand al-Amar
Sarafand al-Kharab
Saydun
Shahma
Shilta
Umm Kalkha
Wadi Hunayn
Yibna
Zarnuqa

Sotto-distretto di Safad

 'Akbara
 Abil al-Qamh
 al-'Abisiyya
 al-'Ulmaniyya
 al-'Urayfiyya
 al-Butayha
 al-Buwayziyya
 al-Dawwara
 al-Dirbashiyya
 al-Dirdara
 al-Hamra'
 al-Husayniyya
 al-Ja'una
 al-Khalisa
 al-Khisas
 al-Malkiyya
 al-Manshiyya
 al-Mansura
 al-Muftakhira
 al-Na'ima
 al-Nabi Yusha'
 al-Qudayriyya
 al-Ras al-Ahmar
 al-Salihiyya
 al-Sammu'i
 al-Sanbariyya

 al-Shawka al-Tahta
 al-Shuna
 al-Wayziyya
 al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta
 al-Zanghariyya
 al-Zuq al-Fawqani
 al-Zuq al-Tahtani
 Alma
 Ammuqa
 Arab al-Shamalina
 Arab al-Zubayd
 Baysamun
 Biriyya
 Dallata
 Dayshum
 'Ayn al-zaytun
 Fara
 Farradiyya
 Fir'im
 Ghabbatiyya
 Ghuraba
 Harrawi
 Hunin
 Jahula
 Jubb Yusuf
 Kafr Bir'im

 Khan al-Duwayr
 Khirbat al-Muntar
 Khirbat Karraza
 Khiyam al-Walid
 Kirad al-Baqqara
 Kirad al-Ghannama
 Lazzaza
 Madahil
 Mallaha
 Mansurat al-Khayt
 Marus (Safad)
 Meiron
 Mughr al-Khayt
 Qabba'a
 Qadas
 Qaddita
 Qaytiyya
 Sa'sa'
 Sabalan
 Safad
 Safsaf - massacro
 Saliha - massacro
 Taytaba
 Tulayl
 Yarda
 al-Zawiya

Sotto-distretto di Tiberiade

 al-'Ubaydiyya
 al-Dalhamiyya
 al-Hamma
 al-Majdal
 al-Manara
 al-Manshiyya
 al-Mansura
 al-Nuqayb

 al-Samakiyya
 al-Samra
 al-Shajara
 Awlam
 Ghuwayr Abu Shusha
 Hadatha
 Hittin
 Kafr Sabt

 Khirbat al-Wa'ra al-Sawda'
 Lubya
 Ma'dhar
 Nasir al-Din
 Nimrin
 Samakh
 Tabgha
 Yaquq

Sotto-distretto di Tulkarm

 al-Jalama
 al-Manshiyya
 Bayyarat Hannun
 Fardisya
 Ghabat Kafr Sur
 Kafr Saba

 Khirbat al-Majdal
 Khirbat al-Zababida
 Khirbat Bayt Lid
 Khirbat Zalafa
 Miska
 Qaqun

 Raml Zayta
 Tabsur
 Umm Khalid
 Wadi al-Hawarith
 Wadi Qabbani

Note

Bibliografia
 Morris, Benny, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Si vedano in particolare le pp. xiv–xviii, in cui Morris elenca 389 villaggi palestinesi spopolati per massacri, espulsioni, attacchi militari, o abbandono da parte dei relativi abitanti.
 Morris, Benny, 1948: The First Arab–Israeli War, Yale University Press, 2008.
 Khalidi, Walid (ed.), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, Institute for Palestine Studies 1992, 2006.
 Shavit, Ari, Deir Yassin: Survival of the Fittest, intervista con Benny Morris, Haaretz, January 9, 2004.
 Davis, Rochelle A. (2011), Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced, Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-7312-6.

Voci correlate
 Guerra arabo-israeliana del 1948
 Piano Dalet
 Khirba

Collegamenti esterni

Città della Palestina storica
Guerra arabo-israeliana del 1948


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Management by Baseball
By Jonathan Becher on November 16, 2006 in alignment, books, Leadership, metrics, performance management, strategy management
Much to my own surprise, this week's blog is about another book. But, unlike last week, it's not about performance management per se but rather what we can learn about aligning an organization from the sport of baseball. Yup, baseball. The book, Management by Baseball by Jeff Angus, purports to provide "The Official Rules For…


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Q: Excel AddIn Click Once deployment issue When I create a Excel 2010 Add-in project in Visual Studio 2010, and configure my prerequisite publish options for click once deployment, the 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime (x86 and x64) option item, has a warning indicator over the icon, which screen tip says "Prerequisite could not be found for bootstrapping". Once I try to publish, it publishes fine, however, I get the warning:
"Item 'Microsoft.VSTORuntime.4.0' could not be located in 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\Bootstrapper\'."

I've tried re-installing the VSTO 4.0 Runtime to resolve this with no luck. Any ideas how to fix this warning?

Update
After uninstalling VS11, and repairing VS2010, then uninstalling VS2010, and re-installing, I now have these issues:

A: Have you got Visual Studio 11 installed, bootstrapper should be here
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Bootstrapper
I got VS2010 with Windows 7 ultimate.


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Peak Bloom Poppies in Antelope Valley and Why You Should See Them!
3 Buddhist Tips to Follow Your Bliss!
Plus 7 More Buddhist Tips to Happiness!
- Nathan, Erin and Erin's brother, Chris, ran a marathon!
- Why Marathon's are the Worst Idea Ever!
- Or are they the best, most Wholesome Idea Ever!?
- Plus an in depth interview with Chris about his life as a famous, Philadelphia-based Chef!
- The Arts of Pitching Like a Pro!
- How Nutrition Influences Depression!
- Tips from Dr. Rhonda Patrick!
- Day Without an Immigrant!
- Ripomatics and Stupid People!
- The Gay Way to Happiness!
- Scientology has been Accused of Covering Up Rapes?! What?!
- Erin Blows the Lid off of Logan and the X-Men! Spoiler Alert!
- David Grows a Hulk Hogan Mustache!
- Erin and Nathan Run 22 Miles! Watch the Exclusive Live Post-Run Report on the Unimaginary Friend Facebook Page!


Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Therefore, we now offer you a round-up of our favourite Valentine's Day mysteries by indie and small press authors.
The holiday mysteries cover the broad spectrum of crime fiction. We have plenty of cozy mysteries, small town mysteries, culinary mysteries, animal mysteries, paranormal mysteries, historical mysteries, jazz age mysteries, police procedurals, crime thrillers, legal thrillers, amateur sleuths, crime-fighting witches, crime-fighting bakers, crime-fighting ghosts, crime-fighting dogs, masked vigilantes, missing children, kidnappings, sleazy lawyers, serial killers, assassins and much more. But one thing unites all of those very different books. They're all set on or around Valentine's Day.
This is a short Valentine's Day story of 7200 words or approx. 24 print pages in the Silencer series, but may be read as a standalone.
Welcome to a very flapper Valentine's Day!
Are you ready for the roaring twenties? For spunky young women crafting their own lives? If so, you'll love Violet, Julia, Abigail, Evelyn, and Rosemary.
Inside, you'll find four short Valentine's day adventures, 1920s style including roses, chocolates, kisses, and cocktails. With stories from The Violet Carlyle Mysteries, the Piccadilly Ladies Club Mysteries, the Abigail Dutcher Mysteries, the Jazz & Gin Cozy Mysteries, and The Lillywhite Mysteries.
It's Valentine's Day and 20-year-old Emma Wright just wants her crush to take notice of her. But Colby Davidson, the K9 search and rescue deputy only thinks of her as a kid sister. How will she get him to take her seriously?
It is Valentine's Day in White Eagle Montana and Tess and Tilly are busier than ever delivering Valentine Cards along with the daily mail. Of course it wouldn't be Valentine's Day in White Eagle without a mystery to solve or a holiday adoption party to prepare for.
In this delightful combination of a whodunit mixed with humor, a woman, who has been celebrating her birthday and Valentine's Day, is rushed to the hospital complaining of stomach pains and nausea. She grabs the doctor and tells him she has been poisoned, but before she can tell him any more, she dies. When Lt. Dekker and Sgt. Murdock investigate, they find out that no one liked her, with the possible exception of her husband.
BETTER CHANGE THE LOCKS. BOBBY DID.
Disbarred attorney Bobby Custer continues to use his main skill set; murder, treachery and perversion in an ongoing effort to increase his personal gains.
Ever the charmer, Bobby provides Emily with an unforgettable valentine that up until now she could only dream about . . . or maybe it was a nightmare. Together they forever mark the day with a memorable secret. Psychotic, sociopathic, always charming– and you thought he was here to help.
A respectable, middle-aged housewife. An ambitious young lawyer. A student burlesque dancer. Three women with nothing in common – except for the fact that someone has sent them a macabre Valentine's Day gift; a pig's heart pierced by an arrow.
Valentine is a novella in the best-selling Kate Redman Mystery series by crime writer Celina Grace.
Just when Lady Rample has given up on love, a former flame reappears, bringing with him all sorts of emotions she thought buried. Unfortunately, that flame comes with one very aggressive and rather angry almost-ex-wife. The ensuing catfight is almost worth the price of admission.
When the ex-wife is found dead in Hyde Park, stabbed with a hatpin in the shape of a heart, the police naturally assume the killer is the husband. Our intrepid heroine is not about to allow her love to go down for a crime he didn't commit. Unfortunately, proving him innocent may put her own neck on the line.
Never one to shirk from danger, Lady R—with the help of her eccentric Aunt Butty—will need all her wits about her if she's to solve the crimes of the Cupid Killer.
Enjoy the glitz and glamor of the 1930s with the sixth book in the popular 1930s historical mystery series, Lady Rample Mysteries.
Will there be Valentine wedding bells for Samantha Sweet and Beau Cardwell? (introduced in this mystery series opener Sweet Masterpiece) Sam's bakery, Sweet's Sweets is busier than ever this Valentine week, as she struggles to replicate the magical chocolate-making techniques of the enigmatic chocolatier who boosted her winter holiday sales into the stratosphere. However, candy classes take second place to a new mystery, when Sam meets a woman whose missing son's case seems to have been dropped by the authorities. Marla Fresques learns that she is dying and needs for her son to come home and raise the daughter he left behind. Sam agrees to help, hoping that Sheriff Beau's inside connections will bring about a quick and happy resolution.
But what about Sam's and Beau's own wedding plans? They may be in jeopardy when an entirely new development appears in the form of Beau's ex-girlfriend who is determined to win him back.
With the familiar mix of mystery, romance and a touch of magic that has enchanted readers of this series, Sweet Hearts draws the reader even further into the captivating world of Samantha Sweet.
When a minor celebrity staying at the Shady Lake Bed and Breakfast dies of an allergic reaction during a blizzard, it doesn't seem like it could get much worse. But was it really an accident?
Jake Crawford is a D list celebrity who loves to come back to Shady Lake to be the big fish in a small pond. This time, he brought his new wife back to Shady Lake for his honeymoon and they are staying at the bed and breakfast that Tessa Schmidt helps her family run. Jake is kind of a jerk, but then a blizzard hits and he dies of an allergic reaction. It seems like things couldn't get any worse for a Valentine's Day weekend. But Tessa is starting to suspect that the allergic reaction isn't the horrible accident she had assumed.
As the blizzard stretches on and on, secrets keep coming out. It seems like almost everyone has a motive to kill Jake. Can Tessa figure out who wanted to kill Jake Crawford before the killer strikes again?
This entry was posted in Books, Writing and tagged 1920s, 1930s, amateur sleuth, animal mystery, cozy mystery, crime fiction, crime shorts, crime thriller, culinary mystery, hardboiled mystery, historical mystery, Indie Crime Fiction of the Month, jazz age mystery, kidnapping, legal thriller, missing persons, my books, noir, other people's books, our books, paranormal mystery, police procedural, pulp thriller, revenge, science fiction mystery, serial killers, small town mystery, The Silencer, Valentine's Day. Bookmark the permalink.


Here is the latest poster on the location of the Four Nation Stamp Exhibition.
In addition, Pos Malaysia will release daily cancellations in the exhibition. Here are the designs.
In addition, Pos Indonesia has confirmed their attendance. Pos Indonesia has been actively participating in such events which is very good to enhance the promotion of Indonesian stamps. Thailand and Singapore are expected to send their cancellations to the exhibition site. PSM mentioned that they will release a postcard….hopefully not too glossy this time.
Buy your stamps and envelope earlier in your nearest philatelic bureau branch. The exhibition opens at 10:00 am. From past exhibitions in Melaka, there is a shortage of envelopes.
Just head there and buy the MS and just have one person in your group queue to buy so that the queue is faster. Please decide earlier rather than dilly-dally at the counter. No rush on MS, usually there are excess stock and the exhibition closes at 10:00 pm….though some of us want to go back early :-).
Bring along the Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia stamps if you want to stick and cancel with the respective countries' cancellation. It will be easy to buy Indonesia stamps since Pos Indonesia is coming.
Parking….well either you park at the daily rate parking as you turn into Jalan Laksamana or at the large parking area between Dataran Pahlawan and Mahkota Parade. You need to work out the economics of which one is cheaper and the distance you want to walk.
If any of you have an order with me and want me to bring along, just drop me a note. Or if you want me to bring certain covers, just drop me a note.
I will provide limited updates from Melaka. Too busy chopping and shopping. See you there!
Singapore Post will unlikely come but their cancel will be held by their Philatelic Association. From past experience, they are quite strict as to what stamp they will cancel. Normally, they will require at least a local postage value, which is 30c. In Bandung 2 years ago, many Malaysian collectors came with their old Singapore stamps with values 1c to 10c to save money. These were promptly rejected. In KL 4 years ago, SingPost came and it so happened that a new issue was launched on the same day. They only brought the FDI for that issue and will not cancel any other stamp. BTW that issue was a S$2 x 2 setenant, so many collectors had to fork out quite a bit to get their cancellations.
Hi Clifford!, thanks for the updates on Singapore!


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Mystery Bridge 41: The Queenpost Truss Bridge over Okabena Creek
Photo taken by Sam and Anna Smith in 2012
Our next Mystery Bridge article takes us back to Jackson County, Minnesota, specifically along Okabena Creek. Flowing west from Heron Lake to Brewster and beyond in Nobles County, the creek was once laden with pony truss bridges, built between 1900 and 1910, some of which were relocated here in the 1930s. The Okabena Creek Bridge near Brewster (known by MnDOT as Bridge L5245) is one of those structures that was built in the early 1900s but relocated here during the Depression era. According to records, the bridge was built in 1905 at an unknown location. It was one of seven Queenpost pony truss bridges built in the county during that time. Characteristics of a Queenpost pony truss bridge are a bridge built with three panels, with the center panel featuring a pair of diagonal beams crossing together, making the letter X. Most of the Queenpost spans are pin-connected, making it easier to disassemble and reassemble wherever needed. This bridge is unique because it is the oldest remaining bridge of its kind left in the state, according to state historical records. Relocated to its present spot in 1938, this bridge once served a minimum maintenance road known as Township Rd. 187 but now known as 330th Avenue, and despite being closed to traffic since 1990, it can be seen from County Road 18 to the north.
This bridge is mysterious in the way for there are no known facts as to where the bridge was originally built at the time. Even the builder's date of 1909 is vague, for it was based on the testing of the metal parts of the structure. Yet some of the features of the bridge (in particular, the V-laced endposts) match those of a couple bridges built by the bridge contractors, Raymond and Campbell in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Established in 1874, the bridge building firm was Jackson County's prime contractor, having George C. Wise as their agent. Over two dozen bridges were built between 1880 and 1915, first by the bridge company, and later through Mr. Wise himself, who had left the bridge company in 1881 to start off his own business. At least seven of them were located over the West Branch Des Moines River, including the one at Kilen Woods State Park, whose very first structure featured a through truss bridge with similar endposts like this one. More evidence is needed to determine whether this hypothesis is true or not.
According to local newspaper articles, the bridge was relocated here in 1938, most likely as part of the Works Progress Administration project that was undertaken during that time to get as many of the unemployed back into the workplace as possible. Many of these structures were relocated during that time to replace wooden structures that either had worn out or had been washed away by floods. It is possible that a previous structure had taken its place before 5245 came in to replace it. It was one of at least two bridges along Okabena Creek that was relocated to their current spots. The other was the County Road 9 Bridge north of Okabena, relocated to its current place from Owatonna in 1936 to serve traffic until its replacement in 1998.
At the present time, the bridge near Brewster is still idle, waiting to either be reused as a pedestrian bridge or be part of the nature that is currently taking its course. Talks are still being carried out as to how the bike trail network should be extended from Jackson onwards, including adding one along the Des Moines River. Yet with scarce funding and opposition from county residence, it will take a few years until the project is realized. Yet this bridge would be a key asset, together with Bridge 2628, located three miles east of this one and is scheduled to be replaced in two years' time. Like Bridge 2628, Bridge 5245 is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places because of its unique bridge design and age. Yet more information is needed to fill in the missing gaps left in the bridge's history. This includes:
1. Where and exactly when was the bridge originally built?
2. Who was the bridge contractor?
3. Was there a bridge at this location prior to 1938?
4. Who led the efforts to relocate the bridge here?
Any leads and other information should be sent to Jason Smith at the Chronicles, using the e-mail address in the informational page About the Bridgehunter's Chronicles. While the bridge was mentioned in the County's Bridge book, there is still a possibility that more information is out there, which warrants some searching and inquiries, especially if the bridge was to be reused as a bike trail bridge in the near future. The more information for this unique bridge, clearer the information will be regarding its history and significance in the county and the state of Minnesota.
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History: Originating from the south of North America, it was cultivated for oil on the steppes of Russia. Here were made the first attempts of extracting the oil from its seeds. The sunflower oil is rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids. In folk Romanian medicine it is used as emollient and laxative.
What is the technology of pressing?
Cold-pressed Sunflower oil Elixir is made according to a traditional recipe from Transylvania, which was adapted to modern technologies. We are producing ourselves the oil by cold-pressing the seeds which we harvest from our farm land. Dachim, the producer of Elixir oils, supervises the entire cycle of production, from planting, growing, harvesting, extracting the oil, and then dispensing it. After pressing, the oil is decanted for a month, this way preserving intact the taste and flavor. Sunflower Oil Elixir is a premium product, 100% natural, extracted through cold-pressing. We use high quality oleic seeds, cultivated and harvested in our own farms. It is a rich source of vitamin E, with a high content of healthy unsaturated fats, necessary for a healthy diet.
It's concentrated in fatty acids, like Omega 6 and Omega 9. It is rich in linoleic acid and monounsaturated oleic acid (providing "good cholesterol" in the blood).
It contains a complex of vitamin B and it's a rich source for vitamin E. This is a strong lipid soluble antioxidant, necessary for the stability of cellular membrane integrity, for the health of mucous membranes and of skin, by limiting free radicals. Niacin and pyridoxine are two vitamins from the B complex which are abundant in sunflower seeds. Niacin helps reduce the LDL-cholesterol from the blood. Also, GABA activity is supported through use of sunflower oil, which helps to reduce anxiety and neurosis.
Sunflower oil Elixir is a rich source of essential minerals like calcium, iron, manganese, zinc, selenium and copper. These minerals play a vital role in bone health; they produce red cells and enzyme, play a role in hormone production and regulate muscular, cardiac and skeletal activities.
Cold-pressed sunflower oil is an excellent source of vitamin E, a primary lipid soluble antioxidant. It neutralizes free radicals which would deter structures and molecules that contain fat, like cellular membranes, brain cells and cholesterol. By protecting these cellular and molecular components, vitamin E has significant anti-inflammatory effects which reduce asthma symptoms, osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis.
Vitamin E plays a very important part in preventing cardiovascular disease. Vitamin E is one of the main antioxidants found in the blood stream which prevent cholesterol particles LDL and HDL from oxidation. The oxidized LDL thickens the arteries and initiates the process of atherosclerosis. Studies show that a high amount of vitamin E can reduce significantly the risk of developing arteriosclerosis and, consequently, blocked arteries, heart attack or cerebral vascular accident. Actually, studies show that people, who have more vitamin E, have a lower risk of dying of a heart attack, than those with a vitamin E deficiency.
Sunflower oil is a good choice for your heart's health!
Sunflower oil is a good source of selenium, a very important trace mineral for our health. Many studies have argued for a strong, inverse correlation between the consumption of selenium and the incidence of cancer.
Selenium induces ADN repair and helps with the synthesis of destroyed cells, to inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells and to induce their apoptosis, so the body eliminates damaged or abnormal cells.
. In addition, sunflower seeds contain poly-phenolic compounds like chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid etc. These compounds are natural antioxidants which favor the elimination of harmful oxidant molecules from the body. Also, the chlorogenic acid helps with the reduction of sugar from the blood, by reducing glycogen from the liver.
By eating a healthy diet that includes cold-pressed oil, we encourage a natural detox!
Magnesium is necessary for the health of the bones and for producing energy. Almost two thirds of your magnesium is found in bones. Magnesium balances calcium, contributing to nervous regulation and vasomotor tone. In many nervous cells, magnesium serves as blocker of the calcium channels. By blocking calcium, magnesium maintains nerves, muscles and blood vessels relaxed.
If our diet offers us too little magnesium, then we are predisposed to high blood pressure, muscle spasms (including coronary artery spasm or bronchospasms, symptomatic for asthma), headaches, migraine, but also muscle cramps, tension, pain and fatigue.
Sunflower seeds are a good source of protein with quality amino acids, like tryptophan and Magnesium. This nutrient cocktail is essential for the growth and development of muscles and bones, especially in the case of children.
We look after the health of our muscular system and we are full of energy, with the right diet!
. We recommend having one spoon in the morning, on an empty stomach, to optimize bile flow, for teeth whitening, to increase blood flow and for the invigorating effect it has on the body. From a nutritional stand, sunflower is rich in Omega 3 and Omega 6, vitamin E, has a high lecithin content, which fortifies the nervous system. Its benefic effects are felt for the endocrine system and for the cellular regeneration of the body, also, because it is antioxidant.
First press Sunflower oil Elixir can be used for any dish, either for frying potatoes, baking cakes or for sophisticated recipes.


My brother is working on the storage sheds at my Mom's.
So, we've been sorting through some treasures!
The two stools the basket is sitting on need some work and a base, but will be wonderful.
I didn't take a side picture of this old tote that has been repaired with can lids. But, I will. Maybe my Dad didn't do the repair and he bought it like this from an auction, but it is just like the type of repair he would have made!
The chair is fairly sturdy and I'm in for all things photography.
An old milking stool is holding the AWESOME set of stencils!
I guess it's actually called a Stencil Outfit.
You can see it all needs some cleaning and it may take me awhile to get that done, but in time, I will.
I'm thrilled with my finds!
I'm linking up this week with Kim Klassen's Friday Finds.
I like that shopping basket and the stencils too - tres cool!
Those are wonderful treasures. Most of all I like the top photo of the treasures! That's a lovely vignette!
Wow, very cool stuff! I especially love the stencils and their container!
Great finds! Love the stencils and the tote!!!!
Great Stuff! The stencils are great!
Love the milking stool. I am looking for one of those. You will love the chair, I use mine all the time.
amazing finds - and I am green over the stencil kit - that is so cool!
Those are some great finds, Jill. The old tool tote is wonderful. And the stencils - so much potential for creativity there! Have fun.
Oh my these are wonderful finds. what an inviting blog you have - I love the header!


After spending an unforgettable few days on Fraser Island in 2008 I knew I had to return on my 2019 Australia trip. As the biggest sand island in the world, filled with beautiful nature, it is definitely one of the top places to visit in Australia! If you are heading up or down the east coast, make sure you add it to your itinerary! Cool Dingo Tours offer pick ups from Rainbow Beach and Hervey Bay.
There are a few different tour companies operating on Fraser Island, some are self drives in 4x4s, and others (like Cool Dingo Tours) offer a tour bus which offers more comfort and security, and no worries of ending up stuck in the sand!
Cool Dingo Tours also offer no tents! You will stay in one of their wilderness lodges or resort hotel rooms at the Kingfisher Bay Resort.
If you've booked on to the Cool Dingo Tours this is what you can expect of the three day tour on Fraser Island. The two day tour will be the same, just minus the third day.
We were picked up from our hotel in Rainbow Beach at 7:30am in order to get the 8am ferry to Fraser Island. We made it to the first destination of Lake Mckenzie by 10am and we had 2.5 hours to enjoy the crystal blue water and white sand, before we enjoyed a buffet lunch in the shade.
The second stop of the day was to Basin Lake, a fairly secret spot known by Cool Dingo Tours, we were the only group there! Our guide Peter was amazing at pointing out the local wildlife such as tiny frogs and ant eating insects that hide in the sand.
Thank you Peter for this photo of Basin Lake!
Our final stop was a walk through the lush rainforest, admiring the different flora on the island. We finished the day watching the sunset at the beach at the Kingfisher Bay Resort (where we would be staying for the next 2 nights). Perfect way to end the day and chat a bit more with others from our tour group.
Dinner is a buffet style all you can eat affair in the Dingo bar, where they also organise daily evening activities like a quiz and karaoke. It's just down the path from the cabins where you will be staying.
We started the day with a full cooked breakfast at the Kingfisher Bay Resort before heading out to explore the north east of the island.
On the way to the Champagne pools we stopped at the Maheno Shipwreck. The SS Maheno was an ocean liner belonging to the Union Company of New Zealand that operated in the Tasman Sea, crossing between New Zealand and Australia, from 1905 until 1935. It was bought by the Japanese and sadly ended up washed on the shores of Fraser Island whilst being transported to Japan. It's a pretty impressive site!
We also stopped at the pinnacles which are a beautiful natural phenomenon created when iron mixes in with the sand.
We then made it to the absolutely breathtaking champagne pools where we were able to spend a few hours relaxing in the water and admiring the bubbles and waves.
Lunch on the Cool Dingo Tour is a great affair, our guide set out a buffet for us to create our own wraps or sandwiches and there is a great mix of food to suit all dietary requirements.
After lunch we climbed up to Indian Head lookout, to try to spot some marine wildlife as well as enjoy a view of the beaches. We spotted a couple of turtles but unfortunately no sharks or dolphins.
We spent the afternoon having so much fun floating down the extremely refreshing Eli Creek. Cool Dingo Tours provided a few blow up tubes to make it easier to float too.
After a filling breakfast we hopped back on the bus with all our bags ready for our last day on Fraser Island.
We started the day at Lake Birrabeen, which not many tour groups go to (we were the only ones there!). Cool Dingo Tours provided a few paddle boards which was a fun way to explore the lake.
After a buffet lunch at the Eurong resort we headed to the last stop of our Fraser Island Tour, lake Wabby. The beautiful green lake is surrounded by a humongous sand dune and forest and is unlike anywhere I've been to before!
After an amazing 3 days on Fraser Island with Cool Dingo Tours I was very sad to leave and go back to reality! I will definitely be back, and encourage you to add Fraser Island to your Australia bucket list!


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Cheap shots in Georgia
by Steve Benen November 23, 2008 January 9, 2022
CHEAP SHOTS IN GEORGIA…. The polls must be pretty close in Georgia's runoff election for the U.S. Senate, because the right, true to form, is aiming pretty low.
Over the last few days, both the National Republican Senatorial Committee and a far-right group called Freedom's Watch have both launched ads attacking Democrat Jim Martin for being "soft on crime." More specifically, the conservatives insist that Martin has opposed measures that would crack down on criminals who prey on children.
Of all the issues Republicans could have picked, this has to be the most offensive — Martin's daughter was kidnapped when she was just eight years old. She was, fortunately, returned to the family safely, but Martin has a more personal background when it comes to crimes against children than most of us would even care to imagine.
With that in mind, the Martin campaign released this ad and a fact-sheet documenting Martin's extensive record on penalties for criminals and protections for children.
One wonders if, perhaps, the right-wing attacks on this go a little too far, and might backfire, just as the Liddy Dole "godless" ad had the opposite of the desired effect in North Carolina earlier this month.
Then again, there is a track record to consider. Saxby Chambliss won a first term with an offensive ad smearing Max Cleland on national security; perhaps he'll win a second term thanks to a couple of offensive ads about crime.
Trump's Latest Attack on Biden: Photoshops and Cheap Shots
Georgia Barnburner
Keeping the heat on in Georgia


The Refined Geek » Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving: Hyper-Accelerated Story Telling.
Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving: Hyper-Accelerated Story Telling.
It may come as a surprise to long time readers who've followed my near clockwork routine of one post per weekday for the past couple years that I can be rather awful at scheduling, especially under certain circumstances. This week I had genuinely intended to review Sleeping Dogs however I completely underestimated how much time would be required to blast through the main story line and thus when Tuesday night came around and I had no indication I'd be done within the next couple days I started looking for alternatives. I did grab a copy of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet as I heard it was relatively short and well received but I didn't manage to get enough time on that either. Thankfully my bacon was saved by an intriguing set of games that promised intense story telling that rivalled AAA titles.
Gravity Bone puts you in Blendo Game's Citizen Abel world, a place where everything is stripped down to its most simplistic representation. You are Citizen Abel, a spy who's been sent to perform a mission in this particular section of the world. The first mission acts as a kind of tutorial, showing you how the game operates and setting up the main character for the second (and final) act.
Usually I make comments about the graphics here, commenting either on the how advanced/dated they are or how the choice of stylization worked or didn't work. It almost seems redundant to comment on that here as the graphics really are the bare minimum required to carry the story forward with the most advanced thing in there being a couple particle effects. It's not bad mind you, both Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving make good use of such a simplistic format. Indeed I don't think this kind of game would benefit from advanced graphics in any way, it would just be more distraction from the real core of the game.
The actual mechanics of the game are also pretty secondary to the visual story telling aspect of these games. If I was to classify it in any particular way it's like a traditional platformer/puzzler but instead of the story being progressed by lengthy dialogue or massive walls of text you're instead treated to environmental clues, flash backs and weird jump cuts that allows you to piece the story together as you go along.
Before I dive into the stories of these two games however I will make a note of a couple issues I had when playing. At the end of both games I inexplicably couldn't exit them, being left with a black screen and an unresponsive game. I'm not sure if this was a quirk of the engine (it uses the Quake 2 engine) or something on my end but the first time I was willing to write it off as a quirk, the second not so much. I also had a crash when I was playing through a second time with the developer commentary on when it tried to load the second half of the game.
Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving's true strength comes from its ability to tell a story in the extremely short time frame. Both of these games are incredibly short, 15 minutes each give or take, and this doesn't leave any time for extended periods of dialogue, cut scenes or any other forms of traditional story telling. It's quite similar to Unmechanical in that regard as all the game world is the narrator, showing you various bits and pieces allowing you to pick up on bits of the story and draw your own conclusions as to what it's all about.
Comparatively though the way in which the stories of these two games play out are very different beasts with Gravity Bone being pretty linear in its progression whilst Thirty Flights of Loving being much more of a jump cut fever dream that forces you to make connections between the disjointed scenes. The contrast is actually quite stark when you play them back to back and shows that the developer behind Blendo games has grown considerably in the interim between releases (approximately 3 years).
The enjoyment from these games comes from noticing all the subtle environmental clues and then using your imagination to draw the connecting dots. This kind of story telling isn't for everyone, indeed the developer notes that many players will simply breeze past key sections without a second thought, but there is definitely a lot of people who like drawing their own conclusions about how the story fragments join together. I personally found it highly confusing at the beginning (as was intended, I believe) of both of the games but the utlimate conclusions are pretty damn satisfying and they wrap up the story quite well.
Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving then are a real oddity, even in light of the massive influx of weird and whacky games that have come out of the indie scene in recent times. I quite enjoyed them and it was great to run through the latter with the developer comments on to get a feel for how my experience of the game lined up with what the developer was trying to craft. Considering that these will only take up less than an hour of your time combined I highly recommend giving them a play through, even if you're only doing so to say you've played them.
Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving are available on PC right now for free (on the developer's website) and $4.99 on steam.


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Download, install and run IM-Magic Partition Resizer Server. Right click partition that has available space and choose "Resize/Move" option.
Shrink the selected partition and squeeze some unallocated space.
"I have partitioned my Seagate hard disk into 4 partitions on my PC when installing the Windows Server 2003 operating system. Unfortunately, I only allocated 20GB space to C drive and now I want to reallocate more space to it. However, after clicking C drive under Disk Management, there is no Extend Volume option. Is there any other way to extend Windows Server 2003 C drive?"
"Extend Volume option is grayed out when I want to extend C drive space on Windows Server 2008 under Disk Management. There is about 30GB unallocated space which display behind D drive. How can I add the unallocated space to C drive on Windows Server 2008?"
If there is no unallocated space, you can shrink other partition by selecting "Shrink Volume" option under Disk Management.
Usually, you can extend C drive (system partition, primary partition, boot partition) and data volume under Disk Management on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows SBS 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 and more.
If you cannot meet the requires mentioned above, the Disk Management will be unable to extend disk volume. In this situation, you can use IM-Magic Partition Resizer Server, with which you can squeeze unallocated space from other partitions. In addition, if the unallocated space is not contiguous to the volume you want to extend, you can move partition by using the software. With help of IM-Magic Partition Resizer Server, it is quite easy to extend C drive system partition and data partition without touching data stored on the drive. IM-Magic Partition Resizer Server is Server partition magic which can extend partition on Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows SBS 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows SBS 2008, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows SBS 2012, etc.
IM-Magic Partition Resizer Server can not olny expand volume on Windows Server, but also enables you to extend volume on Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8, etc. If you want to extend volume on those Windows OS, you can also run IM-Magic Partition Resizer Free, which is free partition magic software to extend system partition and data partition without data loss. The partition magic provides safe and easy way to resize hard disk on PC without reinstalling system or repartitioning the hard disk. It supports all brands of hard disk to allow you to resize NTFS partition and FAT32 partition.


Linking up with Fine Linen and Purple for "What I Wore Sunday."
I mentioned in a recent post that we are in the process of switching parishes. We haven't moved (although we've experienced joining a new parish for that reason as well) but we are finally switching over to our geographic parish. There were a number of factors that came in to play, but after some prayerful discernment, we realized God was nudging us to join the little parish up the street.
I always feel kind of unsettled when joining a new parish, and I thought it might be helpful to share some ways that I've found to make the transition a bit smoother.
1. Officially register at your new parish.
2. Officially un-commit to anything you are committed to at your old parish...but don't necessarily bid your friends farewell for good!
In our 5 years of marriage, we've belonged to 3 parishes (counting our newest one). At each of our previous two parishes, we were involved in some way. It's just a matter of common courtesy to contact the necessary people and tell them that you'll be switching parishes and no longer able to participate in your ministries/activities anymore. If you can fulfill any previous commitments you've made. For example, if you're a lector and you're close enough to finish your lectoring commitments, go back and do so!
Let your friends know if you're switching parishes, but don't lose those connections! We've found some wonderful friends at each parish, and have found friendships worth maintaining.
3. Go to daily Mass at your new parish.
The daily Μass goers are often the ones in the know! Just coming to Mass every day, or even just a couple times a week, can help you get to know your pastor and some of the other parishioners better.
4. Be patient with yourself!!!
Transitioning parishes can be unsettling...give yourself time to adjust, and be patient with yourself in the meantime!