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Home Monsters Viktor, The Ancient Vampire Lord - Digital Version
Viktor, The Ancient Vampire Lord - Digital Version
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This includes the Viktor Vampire Lord miniatures. It sits on a medium (25.4mm) base. It comes in 4 poses, each with cloaked variants. This also includes a withered version with 4 poses and a spiritual weapon that sit on medium (25.4mm) bases.
Viktor, Vampire Lord
The Lord of Barotharia and a member of The High Council of Ormenvahl.
Known throughout the nation as one of the most vile, cruel and narcissistic vampire lords. It is debated if him or Ysabelle are the first vampire as they both have ruled their states for centuries. Back when they were mortal it is written Itheria and Barotharia were opposing nations. Now they hold the most power in The High Council.
The annals of history say that Viktor betrayed his father to gain his dark gift and to ensure that Barotharia would never fade from memory. Taking his father's life would surprise no one as he has openly displayed his evil nature throughout the centuries. Most vampires resemble their former selves except with all their negative traits amplified. Viktor was evil in life and somehow even more terrible in undeath.
His evil manifests in a nightmarish form he can assume. Revealing his true nature, that he has become a monster that looks like a man.
His lair, Castle Barotharia is described as a complex structure that towers above the dark forests that cover the nearby lands. At night a dim red glow can be seen from some windows and illuminating pillars of smoke escaping chimneys dotting the rooftops. Nearby towns say the land sometimes shudders and they can hear echoes of clanging or grinding metal coming from the castle.
One can always assume that one as evil as Viktor is always scheming. For now, he works with The High Council and Ysabelle. Eventually he will bring ruin to all who oppose him if left unchecked.


Founded in the 1850s, the heritage streetscapes of Heathcote reflect the town's gold rush past but it's the wineries of the area that are the major drawcard today. The first vines appeared in the 1860s, but it was not until the 1960s that the real wave of development occurred.
The Shiraz grape is the main planting, with the Heathcote Shiraz being renowned for its unique character. Visitors to the region can taste the wines and meet the winemakers at cellar doors all year round.
Further proving that this is red wine country, the Cabernet Sauvignon style is rich and generous, with blackberry aromatics and flavours. Some of the classic central Victorian eucalypt-mint character is present in some vintages.
Few would argue that Heathcote's climate and soil produces world-class Shiraz with a unique character. It is deep, rich and velvety, with cascades of dark cherry plum and sweetly spicy fruit. The ripe but fine tannins give texture, sustaining length and a superb ability to age.
Heathcote's climate and soils are strongly influenced by the Mt Camel Range, providing natural tunnelling for the prevailing cool, south to south-east winds that blow throughout the growing period from October to March.
The result is a cooler mean January temperature with summer temperatures two to three degrees lower than the peaks for nearby Bendigo.
Rainfall is surprisingly even during the year and, thanks to the hillside location of most vineyards, spring frost is seldom a problem.
While there is significant soil variation in the region, the slopes of the Mt Camel Range comprise a superb red soil with fine structure overlying uniformly textured red calcareous sodic clay soils. Confusingly, these soils are known as Cambrian Greenstones.


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South Korea probes firms over alleged North Korean coal imports
A group of activists stages a rally in Seoul, South Korea, on July 23, 2018.PHOTO: EPA-EFE
Jul 31, 2018, 2:46 pm SGT
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SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean authorities are investigating local firms for allegedly importing North Korean coal into the country last year in breach of UN sanctions, an official said Tuesday (July 31).
The probe comes after Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon told lawmakers last week that a total of 9,000 tonnes of North Korean coal was imported into the South via Russia on two cargo ships last year.
The coal was reportedly transferred to the Russian port of Kholmsk, reloaded onto the two ships and then brought to the South Korean ports of Incheon and Pohang last October.
"We are investigating a multiple number of companies for importing North Korean coal," a spokesman for the Korea Customs Service told AFP, adding that the firms were South Korean.
He declined to give further details, but Yonhap news agency reported that two companies were under investigation.
"We will take relevant measures in accordance with the outcome of the investigation," a foreign ministry official was quoted as saying by Yonhap.
"We are in close cooperation with the United States to faithfully implement the UNSC resolutions."
Last year the UN Security Council adopted a series of resolutions to ban North Korean exports of commodities in a bid to cut off revenue to the nuclear-armed regime's weapons programmes.
North Korea reportedly earned US$200 million (S$272 million) in revenue last year from exports of coal, iron, steel and other banned commodities.
In March the UN Security Council blacklisted 27 ships, 21 companies and a businessman for helping the North circumvent sanctions.
A recent diplomatic thaw culminated in a historic meeting between the North's leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump in Singapore in June.
But there has been little evidence of concrete post-summit progress on the key issue of denuclearisation, with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo telling lawmakers last week that Pyongyang was continuing to make fissile material.

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Aging is a natural process and there is nothing that can stop it from happening. I have never been overly concerned with this process, but I have a sister who is 60 and she thinks she is a teenager, she fights it tooth and nail, but the fact is the natural defense of our skin and the whole body weakens as we get older, but we can do a few things, like eating a lot of fruits, avoiding stress, drinking a lot of water and using natural therapies to help delay the aging process.
Everyone wants to hide their age and most are using some form of anti aging skin care procedures and products. However it will not be achieved by any magic potion at this time. It is all about discipline and being proactive and the best time to start is when you are young. We would all like to delay the aging process and a lot of studies have been done that state declining hormone levels play a key part in the aging process.
Who knows maybe they will come up with something and I'm sure they will in the future to dramatically help the aging process slow down. It seems only fair that it would be administered to old people so they can enjoy their retirement years and not feel useless and a burden to someone else.
They work hard all their lives taking care of family and community and then when they retire they are too old to enjoy it. It really would be cool if it was like the old Mork and Mindy show, with the reverse aging process.
Be proactive and start your anti aging skin care now. Healthy eating habits of course is high on the list. We need a balanced diet to maintain the proper metabolism. Avoid oily and fatty food it lacks nutrients and contributes to obesity and diseases and helps increase the aging process. The best source of fiber is raw fruits and vegetables and very good for our body.
Stress disturbs the body metabolism and accelerates the aging process. Sleep, exercise and a relaxing bath, are all good ways of beating stress and aroma therapy is soothing. Also drink lots of water it helps to flush the toxins from the body, hence keeping it clean and making it less prone to disease. Around 8 glasses of water (per day) is recommended by all doctors.
Regular exercise is great for toning your muscles and it helps to clean the skin by flushing out toxins in the form of sweat. Exercise should be followed by a warm shower in order to completely remove the toxins and protect your skin against UV radiation ; UV rays are known to speed up the aging process. So, a good sunscreen lotion should be a part of your anti aging skin care routine.
Don't overuse skin care products and avoid strong, chemical based products on your skin. Remember excessive and harsh applications can be harmful. Natural skin care products are a good option. Use of organic skin care products (home made or commercial) can be a very effective anti aging skin care measure.
People use a lot of vitamin C skin care products and if you do be very careful because they tend to oxidize very quickly and can be harmful to your skin. Make sure you store them properly and watch out if they turn a yellowish brown color, if it does it has oxidized and it is no longer suitable to use.
Skin disorders can lead to permanent skin damage so don't ignore them. You can try over the counter medication, but if it doesn't help you should seek advice from your doctor. If it's extremely bad he may refer you to a dermatologist.
Smoking of course we all know is very bad for our skin and alcohol takes the potassium out of the system . Of course these two can do a lot more damage than just age our skin, but I wont go in to all that. You definitely need plenty of rest and cut down on caffeine. As you can see there are many things we can do to help slow down the aging process. It just depends on you.
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Before I issue my 2019 Market Outlook in the days ahead I wanted to highlight some key practical lessons from 2018 as they will help set the stage for next year. Firstly, I think it's fair to say that markets ended the year quite differently from how most people expected them to at the beginning of 2018. Before you think this is going to be an exercise in "I told you so" it's not. As I outlined in Lessons on Being Wrong: "Everybody will be wrong at some point or another. Markets are boss and will ultimately humble you".


The Canadian National Vimy Memorial was unveiled in France. Edward VIII, making his first trip abroad since becoming king, spoke at the event in a speech broadcast around the world.
Adolf Hitler agreed to support the Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War by sending 26 transport planes and other equipment.
The Comintern agreed to establish International Brigades to fight in Spain.
The mercury soared to 107 degrees in Des Moines, Iowa as the 1936 heat wave continued to devistate the mid-west.


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Season's Gleanings 'FARM-TO TABLE' style greeting cards and prints are created from the diversity of farm crops and flora unique to NW Washington; perfect for all the 'foodies' in your life, from gardeners, farmers, friends who love to cook, your favorite chef, raw food enthusiasts to locavores everywhere.
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Rio Thomas was born loving food. She's grown much of her family's food for over 30 years, and worked on local organic farms for over 15 years. During that time she developed and directed a local gleaning effort, Small Potatoes Gleaning Project, which continues today as a project of the Bellingham Food Bank. The early inspiration for Season's Gleanings came while making thank you cards for farmers and volunteers involved in the project. The first thank you card, made for this purpose, is still available today.
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Apparently jerked by President Robert Mugabe's call to normalise activities in the capital, the Harare City Council this week razed down an estimated 700 houses and makeshift structures in Eyestone suburb in Harare South, with affected residents complaining they were not warned on time of the action.
Mugabe recently lashed out at city authorities for letting lawlessness prevail in the city and called for immediate corrective action.
The houses and cabins, some made out of plastic sheeting, were deemed illegal by the authorities who maintained people settled in the area illegally.
Some of the affected settlers interviewed by our news crew said they were shocked by council's arbitrary action, especially coming as the onset of the rainy season fast approaches.
Council's corporate communications manager, Michael Chideme maintained the houses had to be razed down as they were built on undesignated land. He argued council had sought legal recourse to carry out the demolition exercise.
"We have all the necessary papers to remove those people. These structures were illegally built. 700 (houses) have been demolished, this is council land and it has to be properly planned (for)," he said.
Last year, City of Harare approached the High Court seeking eviction and demolition orders, accusing the members of housing cooperatives of failing to comply with the city's laws and regulations.
"We were never given any warning. If they had told us a week before or even in the morning, I would not have left for work. I had to be phoned by my neighbours and I rushed here only to find them already knocking down our house. These stands were advertised by Government Workers Association and we signed contracts and paid our money, never knowing it would end up like this," an affected resident told the media.
Most of the affected residents said after buying the stands through various co-operatives, they later signed affiliation forms to join Harare South Housing Apex Cooperative Society. However, the society's chairperson, Tonderai Nkomo, said he wasn't aware of how the stands were parcelled out.
"We never gave out stands there. These are people who were short-changed by other dubious co-operatives and we took it upon ourselves to represent them and made them pay a fee to be affiliated to us. We have been in and out of courts over the issue. Last week, we were told council cannot just demolish without showing us a court order allowing the demolition, but today they didn't even want to hear of it; they just demolished," Nkomo was quoted saying.
Vice chairperson of Mvurachenachena Housing Co-operative Mr Evans Shava said he was taken aback by the demolitions.
"We were given this land by the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe(CAAZ) and Local Government in 2012. Last year, they (council) came to demolish our houses again and we went to court. We are also shocked that this is happening, we will go back to court," he said.
Our news crew visited Eyestone and witnessed scores of families living in the open without proper ablutions facilities. Their belongings were strewn all over evidently without a clue of their next move. Most affected households said they had nowhere to go to and needed humanitarian assistance in the form of shelter and foodstuffs.


Have you ever been listening to a drab, mediocre song when all of a sudden you found yourself getting down to a few bars of music that are uncharacteristically good? Do you keep some songs in your collection purely for 20 seconds of awesomeness out of four minutes of lame? Here's the phenomenon I'm snappily dubbing "mediocre songs with amazing bits".
It's like a grey school uniform with an unusually funky striped tie, or a plain green salad with a small pile of crispy bacon in the middle. That one section of cool music sandwiched in an otherwise boring song can make it all seem worthwhile.
Goldfrapp's Rocket is an unremarkable pop-dance track. The Penguin Prison remix adds little for the majority of its 6:35 playtime. A sharper drum beat, some bass with a little more rumble. But then 4:38 happens and everything changes.
An infectious little synth starts pulsing away with a maddeningly addictive rhythm, and at 5:08 a lead electric guitar explodes into the track with verve and vigor that were nowhere to be found in the last few minutes.
It's the sort of musical event that puts a big smile on your face. For about one minute out of that song, joy is compulsory. Resistance is futile.
Hardware Store is one of my least favourite Weird Al songs. It's largely tuneless, and the chorus is dull. And then comes the bridge.
When I listen to Hardware Store, I invariably skip right to the bridge, and sometimes repeat it two or three times.
This one track by The Guess Who is two songs bolted together. No Sugar Tonight plays until 1:58, and New Mother Nature picks up from there. At first, it seems like that's all it is: two separate songs with a slightly ungainly transition between them. But wait, there's more!
Both halves of the song are decent, or even pretty good, but at 3:53 something marvelous happens. The two songs intertwine, with alternating lines from each song weaving around each other as if they were always meant to be sung together.
Of course, when you've heard it, it seems obvious. But on first listening, I didn't see it coming, and that feeling of giddy surprise stays with me on repeated listening.
Perhaps the quintessential example of "mediocre songs with amazing bits" is Groove Armada's sultry electro-jazz track Pre 63. It's pretty cool throughout, in a forgettable easy listening sort of way. But I love it for five seconds out of 6:27.
From 3:49 to 3:54, there's a brief, throaty, distorted arrangement of noise (it could be a synth or an electric guitar filtered until it's unrecognizable), which makes what is quite possibly the funkiest sound to have ever massaged my ears.
Six and a half minutes, for five seconds of ecstasy. Totally worth it.
Those are my top picks for "mediocre songs with amazing bits". What would you nominate? Drop your choices in the comments below, or on Facebook/Twitter.


Europe and Southeast Asia are the only regions in the world to have adopted comprehensive legally binding anti-trafficking conventions: the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (CoE Trafficking Convention), adopted in 2005, and the ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (ASEAN Trafficking Convention), adopted in 2015. Comparative analyses of these two anti-trafficking frameworks, with a view to exploring avenues and obstacles for collaboration between the two regional organisations in addressing this global phenomenon are lacking. This study seeks to bridge this gap by analysing the anti-trafficking frameworks and developments in the CoE and ASEAN to be used by experts, policy makers and practitioners.
The report presents examples of initiatives by governments, businesses and civil society organisations to prevent trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation, reviewing their strengths and weaknesses. The research has been conducted by Mike Dottridge, independent human rights consultant, within the project "Improving Poland's Capacity to Prevent Trafficking in Human Beings" funded by the Norway Grants Financial Mechanism and implemented by the Polish Ministry of the Interior together with the Council of Europe.
A study* by Professor Zbigniew Lasocik, commissioned in the framework of the project "Improving Poland's Capacity to Prevent Trafficking in Human Beings" funded by the Norway Grants Financial Mechanism and implemented by the Ministry of the Interior and Administration with the Council of Europe.
A joint Council of Europe/United Nations publication presented at a special launching event in the United Nations headquarters in New York on 13 October 2009 on the occasion of the 64th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
The study stresses that trafficking in human beings for the purpose of organ removal is a small part of the wider problem of organs, tissues and cells (OTC) and highlights that there is widespread confusion in the legal and scientific communities between the two types of trafficking, which require different solutions.
A practical tool for parliamentarians, this handbook is designed to suggest working approaches for elected representatives who want to combat trafficking in human beings and promote the Convention.


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If you or someone you love came down with chickenpox, would you know the symptoms? What about measles, mumps, rubella or pertussis (whooping cough)?
Stanley E. Grogg, DO, a board-certified osteopathic pediatrician in Tulsa, Oklahoma, says that in the wake of recent outbreaks, it's key for patients to recognize the signs of these classic illnesses.
People who've been exposed to measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox or whooping cough should isolate themselves, since the diseases are highly contagious.
Measles: Rash that starts on the face, red eyes and bad cough.
Mumps: Swelling above the jaw, plus aches, fever, inflamed glands and other flu-like symptoms. For adult males, the most common complication is swollen testicles.
Rubella: Rash on face lasting two to three days.
Chickenpox: Itchy red bumps that appear in clusters, plus flu-like symptoms.
Pertussis: Intense coughing with a distinctive 'whoop' sound.
To learn more, view an infographic on the key symptoms of these illnesses.
These illnesses are making a comeback due to international travel and the growing number of unvaccinated people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Measles, declared eradicated by the CDC in 2000, hit a 20-year high in 2014. Vaccination is only about 88% effective against mumps, according to the CDC, so even those who have been vaccinated may be vulnerable to the illness.
People who believe they've been exposed to these illnesses should consult their physician, who may be able to help prevent the disease from developing. Until you can see your physician, it's strongly urged you isolate yourself since these illnesses are highly contagious.
Someone with the mumps, for example, is considered contagious for five to seven days after the onset of initial symptoms, and they can spread the virus rather easily through sharing liquids or eating utensils, kissing, coughing or sneezing.
"People who haven't been vaccinated can protect themselves from measles by getting the MMR vaccine within 72 hours of exposure. With mumps, a third dose of the vaccine seems to be helpful and is particularly important for males of reproductive age, who can become sterile if the mumps virus settles in the testicles," Dr. Grogg said.
Complications from pertussis can be life-threatening for infants less than 6 months old. They might turn blue and vomit after coughing fits. Other babies might not cough but rather develop more severe complications such as pneumonia, seizures and brain damage. Parents who suspect their child has whooping cough should immediately make an appointment with their child's physician or seek emergency treatment if symptoms become more severe.


We currently live in Florida, but have called many places home. For instance, 36 years ago, my husband and I were married in Fairbanks, Alaska and our most recent move was from a home in Panama's mountains. Prior to that, we called EvenStar, a Gemini 105MC catamaran home.
I earned a B.A. in English from Calvin College, which is in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
As noted above, 36 years ago I married my husband, who also happens to be my best friend. We have two daughters, one son-in-law, two grandchildren and a wide assortment of feathered and furry characters, who we call 'family'.
The first two books of the Chatterre trilogy are out. In Star Bridge, Nimri an herbal healer and Chatterre's new Keeper of the Peace, must safeguard her tribe from their bitter rivals. To do this, she must find her 'magic core'.
Many light years away, Colonel Larwin Atano, an elite Guerreterre Shadow Warrior, fights to save his intergalactic star-fighter. Despite all efforts, he crashes.
Larwin perceives Chatterre's resources as a means to gain power and prestige and views the planet's inhabitants as a minor inconvenience.
In December, 2014 The Red Claw, which is book 1 of The Sea Purrtector Files, debuted. Xander de Hunter, is Catamondo's Sea Purrtector. During his youth, Xander "The Kamikaze" de Hunter gained fame in Catamondo's kickboxing tournaments. By age 5, Xander organized techno-savvy cats and created Catamondo's first interactive website, which was a reowsing success. When, he and his family moved aboard sailing vessel, Whispurring Winds and Catamondo's Council created a new office and Xander to be the first Sea Purrtector. Thus The Kamikaze organized his new position utilizing all the advanced technology available aboard: single side-band radio; satellite phones, marine radio and of course, the Internet, which he'd become skilled at.
Before I learned how much I love writing Sci-Fantasy, I wrote three contemporary suspense-romance books: Deadly Rumors, Fatal Attractions and Passion's Fire.
I have always enjoyed writing, but IMHO, I officially began writing when I was 17 and Flower and Garden published some tips I sent them.
After the birth of our second child, my husband and I decided that one of us should be an 'at home parent'. Since his benefits were better and I could work free-lance, we decided that he would continue working. About this time, we purchased our very first PC a Delta Gold, with a 10 mg hard drive. We thought it had more space for data than we could ever use.
Yeah, we laugh about that, too.
Anyway, while I was an at home mom, I wrote policy and procedure manuals and computer user manuals, but I was also frustrated and needed an emotional outlet. So, I started 'playing' with fiction. The first book was dreadful, but I had fun writing it, so in between freelance contracts, I studied and practiced writing fiction.
My novels are character driven, therefore, each one seems to take on the protagonists' character.
Various ways. For Purr-a-Noia, I saw a T-shirt on Pinterest.
That we should accept others for the individuals they are instead of pigeonhole them according to gender, height, weight, education, religion, coloring, politics, nationality and/or any other superficial pigeonhole people seem to use.
In other words, treat others the way you want them to treat you.
LOL, that depends on if you believe cats are techno-savvy or that madrox (cosmic dragons) live in the sun's corona. That said, Nimri's herbal knowledge is real, ditto for the realistic relationships between characters.
The Sea Purrtector Files were written in memory of Rom, who I think was the best cat ever. In fact, the Siamese cat pictured on the covers of The Red Claw and Purr-a-Noia is Rom.
I love the books by J. R. R. Tolkien, James Clavell and Judith MacNaught. While none of them were particularly prolific, they all wrote books that would keep me up all night.
I just downloaded Callie by Sharon Srock, but have not actually started reading.
I enjoyed the first three books of F.P. Spirit's Heroes of Ravenford Series.
I also enjoyed Denise Liebig's debut novel, Dear Maude and Jennifer Coburn's quirky characters.
At present, my time is divided between writing the first draft of Fire Island, which will be book 3 of the Chatterre trilogy and editing Purr-a-Noia's rough draft. It always amazes me how a story can seem fabulous, as I am initially putting the words on paper, then, when I read it through, after it is complete, I usually wonder what I've been thinking when I wrote this or that. I also wonder where I learned to spell, and if I've ever heard of grammar… There is a reason the initial draft is call a rough draft.
Purr-a-noia is book 2 of The Sea Purrtector Files is on schedule to come out in June.
BTW, Purr-a-Noia is set in Haiti, land of voodoo and witchcraft and book 3 of the Sea Purrtector Files will be Vam-Purr.
Can you tell that I love cats?
My friends, who are great.
In one shape or form, writing has supported me for about four decades. The main difference is that initially, I did technical writing, which basically gives facts and shares information. Now, my primary focus is on Sci-Fantasy, which entertains and shares emotions.
Not any of the ones that are published … a lot will get changed before the two I am currently working on get assigned an ISBN.
I think it was a natural evolution from my love of reading.
Deadly Rumors – Kelsey MacLennan and Devlin Doran both want to make the world better. Doran believes the rumors about the MacLennans dealing drugs, so his goal is to bring them down. Kelsey MacLennan wants to make the world better, but her senatorial political campaign turns deadly and rumors abound, when the incumbent must win or be killed by his backers. Devlin Doran's younger sister died of an overdose, so his goal is to prosecute pushers. Rumors abound that the MacLennans are high in the local drug network and he is targeting Kelsey MacLennan.
Fatal Attractions – Ariel and Tempest Danner have escaped Tempest's homicidal father for the sixth time in five years. Armed with new identities and disguises, they are determined that Fairbanks, Alaska will be a sanctuary where they can live in peace.
Stone O'Banyon, their new landlord, has been divorced from a mercenary woman for three years. All his energy is focused on his job and Dolly, who would never hurt him.
The last thing Ariel needs or wants is the attraction she feels for another tall, dark man, who seems hard as the granite he is named for, but the fascination will not go away. Stone isn't any happier with his obsessive thoughts concerning Ariel.
Things seem calm, then Ariel and Tempest catch sight of the man they had hoped they would never encounter and things turn fatal…again.
Armed with new identities and disguises, Ariel and Tempest Danner are on the run, again. Will Stone O'Banyon, their new landlord and Fairbanks, Alaska be a sanctuary or a trap?
Star Bridge – When Colonel Larwin Atano's star-fighter crashes, he sees Chatterre's resources as power and prestige. Nimri, an herbal healer, must protect her tribe and planet.
Thunder Moon – Thunder Cartwright dreams that madrox will invade Chatterre and destroy his world unless the star bridge is closed.
The Red Claw – Dame Esmeralda, the Purrsident's littermate, has been catnapped. Xander de Hunter, Catamondo's Sea Purrtector hurries to Jamaica to help rescue her, even though Jamaica is one of Dogdom's strongholds.
Finding time and space to concentrate.
I love J. R. R. Tolkien's diverse characters and how individuals from such different backgrounds can bond and become allies/friends; James Clavell for the rich texture of his historically based novels; Judith MacNaught for characters who do not limit themselves with social class, etc. Dan Brown, who write a mystery, which I never work out by mid-book.
Learning to let the characters 'drive' the plot.
After writing three contemporary suspense-romance books, I wrote Star Bridge and realized that I preferred writing for a younger audience and in an unknown world.
If you are writing a book because you love to write, by putting words to paper, you are a success. If you decided to write a book because you wanted to get rich quick, you might want to rethink your plan.
The first book I recall my mother reading to me was The Little Engine that Could. The first 'real book' that I recall reading myself (3rd grade) was Gone With the Wind.
If you want to be notified when new books become available and/or when titles are on sale, please write to me at j_foguth@yahoo.com and ask to be put on the announcement list. This is a 'blind list', so your information will not be shared with others.
Laughter: when I hear the light-hearted sound of children laughing. Crying is easy, just watch/read the news and realize that we humans prefer to fight over differences instead of discover the things we have in common.
Pick one? That is difficult and I do not have a name, but I would love to meet the designer of the Great Pyramid and ask him or her: 1) if there is a deep meaning to the mathematics used in the construction or if pi was simply used to strengthen the structure; 2) if the pyramid was build as a 'gateway to the afterlife', as some have theorized and if it was not used as a gateway, did it have some other function; 3) what type of technology was used to cut, move and stack those stones.
LOL, I don't want a headstone, I want to be cremated and have my ashes spread wherever the wind takes them.
Yarn crafts, sewing, gardening and painting.
On the rare occasion that I watch TV, I like The Big Bang Theory and House of Cards.
I don't have favorites, but there are some I am not fond of. For instance, I am not particularly fond of gray and I avoid listening to opera because when the soprano hits a high C, it feels like a spear in my ears.
I love painting. Hmmm, perhaps I should clarify, since the last time I made that statement, the individual I was speaking to told me she loved 'painting walls, too'. While I have been known to paint walls and even do murals, when I say paint, I mean on canvas and with oils.


Kipling earlier this month brought its Make Happy campaign to New York City, distributing flowers, metro cards, sweet treats and Kipling-branded gifts to busy commuters passing through Herald Square. If its bright pink branded truck wasn't enough to catch their attention, the friendly brand ambassadors who invited them to stop and share what makes them happy usually did the trick, especially when they pointed out the menu posted on the side of the truck with fun prizes to chose from.
"We see commuting as one component of the busy day of our consumer, and that is how we approach it," says Kathy Hines, vp of marketing at Kipling N.Am, which last year brought out a line of bags just for commuters. "Our research tells us that once a consumer knows our brand and has the opportunity to experience and live with one of our bags, we have them for life. If we can just get them to know us, they are going to love us.


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We recommend the best and most effective environmental options suitable to your home and land. These considerations in the planning stages of your home will provide significant reductions in your ongoing expenses and reduce environmental impact. Everybody wins.
We consider the positioning of the house, verandas and pergolas to maximise sun and shade combinations that effect your land. This allows us to naturally boost the efficiency of heating and cooling.
No one wants to rattle around in a noisy cold house. This finish improves both thermal and acoustic performance and is standard in all our designs.
Water is such a scarce resource and efficient toilets and showers help keep usage under control, particularly in family situations.
Using lightweight building alternatives such as brick veneer can provide greater thermal protection in comparison to double brick. It is lightweight, quicker to install and more cost effective on sites that are affected by clay.
We all love the look of windows overlooking gardens, courtyards or views, but windows bring the heat in summer and let the heat escape on a cold day. If you want maximum benefit from heating and cooling systems and want to reduce their use, double glazing can improve efficiency.
We will think carefully about the types of systems you need, the spaces, the controls and the level of comfort you want for the home.
Advances in lighting in the last few years offer fabulous opportunities to save money and they look fantastic. All of our homes are fitted with LED Lighting as standard. We will also consider the positioning of LED lights in your home to enhance their effectiveness.
Along with site positioning and shade, ventilation is one of the most important cooling systems you can have, particularly in our climate with hot days and the evening dockter breeze. Take unwanted dampness, odours and heat out of your home with efficient ventilation in strategic locations. Talk to us about the suitability of roof ventilators too.
These are a must for modern homes. Simple, effective distribution of temperature throughout the house. Fantastic to support air conditioning and heating systems, reducing wastage.
Big space, little space, large tank, underground or bladder designs can be fit into unusual spaces. Rainwater usage ensures green spaces stay green during water restrictions, not to mention being able to use it in many other ways during droughts. There are also opportunities to utilise rainwater for plumbing.
Solar hot water and energy efficient appliances save you money in ongoing costs and you know you will be helping the environment.
The world is changing rapidly and battery storage for photovoltaic systems is a reality that is becoming more and more affordable. Discuss the options with us and investigate potential savings and energy security over the longer term.
Hamlen Homes is a proud member of the Carbon Neutral Plant-A-Tree Program (www.carbonneutral.com.au).
We plant 25 new trees for every home we build. Over the last couple of years we have contributed to the establishment of thousands of trees and shrubs in the Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor in Western Australia. It is part of our strong commitment to the State and our commitment to improve Australia's sustainability and protect our precious environment. We want to be a sustainable business and our investment in Australia's natural systems is a central part of that process.


This section provides a tutorial example on how to define and use class variables and object variables. Class variables are stored at the class (package) level. Object variables are stored in the object. If an object is a reference of a hash variable, object variables are really hash keys and values.
In Perl, all package level variables are class variables. There is no private variable concept in Perl. All variables are publicly accessible in the same way as package variables.
As you can see in the previous section, you can bless a reference of any "thing" into an object of a specific class.
If you use references of scalars, you can only have one object variable.
If you use references of arrays, you can have many un-named object variables.
If you use references of hashes, you can have many named object variables. Of course, hash is the best choice to host object variables.
In order to define object variables, we must create objects with references of the same data type for the same class. Using references of different data types for the same class will cause confusion to class and object methods.
Since objects are references, accessing object variables can be done in the same way as accessing references.


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The lame duck National Assembly of El Salvador
A "lame duck" legislative session refers to a meeting of the legislature after an election and before newly elected representatives take their seats. Usually it is a time of little substance.
Tony Saca and ARENA have much different plans for the rest of the lame duck National Assembly. The new National Assembly commences on May 1, and in that Assembly the FMLN will have a greater presence and the ability to block votes such as authorization of borrowing which requires a super-majority, an ability the FMLN currently lacks.
In the last three days of this National Assembly then, Saca seeks to get approval of the foreign borrowing he needs to fund his Red Solidaria program, to fund a program for improving the educational system and other projects. But Saca also wants to get many more laws approved including a law for protection of witnesses, law against terrorism, laws for electoral reforms, and authorization for government wiretaps of telephones. They plan to elect magistrates for the Supreme Court of Justice, and to vote on constitutional amendments to prohibit homosexual marriages, and to change the length of terms for mayors and legislative deputies.
For weeks since the March 12 elections, the ARENA government has been negotiating with all parties other than the FMLN to strike deals to pass this legislation. If all this legislation is passed in the final hours, by many legislators who will not be in office after May 1, many people will appropriately complain. The appearances, if not the reality, are that this legislative flurry is an attempt to circumvent the will of the people expressed in the recent elections.
Oh, come on! There is no statute that limits the Assembly after the elections. Legally speaking, it ain't over until the fat lady sings, and our assemblymen are collecting a paycheck until the very last minute that their elected positions hold. The old Assembly can do whatever the law entitles them to, up until the clock runs out.
Constitutionally, the old Assembly lives on for 6 weeks or so after the election, because, you know, the Elections Tribunal had, by Law, 4 weeks to declare a winner! Of course, some people couldn't be bothered to wait the legal 4 weeks, and started to destroy public and private property... what? 3 days after the elections?
Now, why is there a flurry of bargaining going on now? Why, of course, because a certain party that shall remain unnamed spent the last three years pretty much blocking (whenever they could) anything the Administration proposed, including leaving the General Attorney position vacant for months, as if we did not have plenty of unsolved crimes to prosecute. And boy! Just how moronic is it to oppose Red Solidaria? First, the concept was invented by leftist icon Lula, so it's got impeccable Socialist credentials, and second it works wonders (or at least it will, for about 5 to 10 years, until the thing becomes 100% corrupt and just a form of distributing patronage for the party then in power).
Having said this, I have to say I am dismayed that ARENA is planning to steal 40% of our democracy right before our eyes, in the next 2 or 3 days... ARENA wants Assemblymen and Mayors to be elected every 60 months instead of every 36. Average Salvadoreans will have 40% less chances to express themselves through their votes during their adult lifetimes. It horrifies me that I have not seen a single public voice challenge ARENA's anti-democratic proposal.
It is flabbergasting that ARENA failed to include this "minor detail" in their "2006-2009" legislative proposal book, and shows they cannot be trusted.
Pretty grim situation. So sad. May be a good time to think about emigrating from El Salvador, for our democratic outlook is pretty bleak.
Tim said…
I didn't say I oppose all the legislation -- I just don't think the process is good for governance or public confidence. I think Red Solidaria and the education programs are worth funding. I think the law to protect witnesses is definitely needed. I agree with you on the terms of the mayors and deputies.
Frankly, the approach of the FMLN to be an obstructionist opposition rather than a constructive opposition is part of the problem. So I agree with most of what you say, but I still think the lame duck process stinks. These proposals could have been moved forward before the elections so that the public could consider them as part of their election calculus.
They were elected by the people. It is legal what they are going to do in the next 3 days. Opposition never play fair when they got their time, it was only obtructionist to the proposals at the time. Now ARENA is in Business. Will see what will happend the next 3 years.
I think we do know how in El Salvador this political class works.
Of anybody it is not known that these things have happened from always in our country, and we did not hope that that changes in a near future.
Unless a new generation borns and breaks with this laborious inheritance
That's the idea MOGOL. We have to educate, I believe is the best thing we can do.


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I have applied to Legon many times but they have not still called me - Cartun cries in video
23 days ago read comments by Edwin Lamptey
- Cartun has indicated that he has tried several times to enter into Legon but to no avail
- He revealed in an interview that he has bought forms for the school yet he has not gained admission
- The actor who doubles as a musician went on to reveal the aggregate he got in his WASSCE
Ghanaian actor and musician, Cartun, has recounted one of his low moments in academics and has said he has tried entering the University of Ghana all to no avail.
Speaking in an interview with Ghanaian blogger Zionfelix, Cartun revealed that since 2015, he has been trying to get admission into Ghana's premier university but they keep turning him down.
Asked why this has been the case with him, the actor who also doubles as a musician said he was at a loss why he was being denied entry.
Name what you want for Christmas; I'll choose randomly - John Dumelo causes stir on Twitter
Speaking about his academic history, Cartun revealed that he sat for his West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in 2015.
He however added that he was not allowed to sit for his Christian Religious Education (CRS) paper because of his hairstyle at the time.
Recounting that episode too, Cartun said it was borne out of some dislike that a certain teacher had for him because some students from a private school were allowed to sit for the paper with different hairstyles.
Forward to the 4th minute to hear what Cartun said
Cartun was very certain of the hatred the teacher had for him because he was made to sit for all his other papers with the same hairstyle so he did not know why the teacher was making the exception for that particular paper.
In another report, YEN.com.gh earlier reported that Ghanaian pastor, Abbeam Ampomah Danso of God's Solution Centre, has put smiles on the face of one of his church members by gifting her an amount of money.
Ghanaian pastor gifts day's offertory to church member to put into her business
In a video sighted by YEN.com.gh on the Instagram page of celebritiesbuzz, the preacher was seen asking a lady to count the day's offertory.
After the money was counted, the woman revealed that the offertory amounted to GHC707.
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Description: As you can see from the dates, we don't know a heck of a lot about Ms. Sarnecka except that she died from tuberculosis, studied with Leschetitzky (piano) and Wladyslaw Zelenski (composition), published her early works at her own expense and was savaged by critics for being weird, depressive and "chaotic" in form and content. Yet the Ballade recorded here took second place to Szymanowski in a competition marking Chopin's 100th birth anniversary. Some of this music will remind you of Rachmaninov or Medtner, some of it of the virtuosity of, say, Godowsky. It's not futuristic in the sense of late Scriabin - it wears its late Romanticism proudly - but it's definitely not chaotic (although it isn't the music of a happy soul). A great discovery leaving us hoping that this pianist, who tracked down all Sarnecka's manuscripts, will find the means to record more. Marek Szlezer (piano).


Both ThatOneGuy and Thundr cross the finish line at the buzzer, Thundr a millisecond or two behind ThatOneGuy... both with the exact same time for the lap. Epic finish to an epic race.
Tonight was a TrackMania night for ThatOneGuy, Thundr and Atholon. You might call it an "Island Vacation", as the night was dominated with Island tracks. And there was much rejoicing.
Atholon knocked off before the TrapMania tracks started cycling on the server.
One of them was a very short track with a sharp 90-degree turn at the beginning, coming straight off turbo pads, followed by an unnatural chicane right after, then another quick/wide 90. Get past that and you're met with a short jump to a piece of road with a column right-in-the-middle, then a high loop to the finish line.
It was taking us 20-30 seconds to finish a run at first... but by the time the Time Attack timer was about to finish, Thundr and I were racing to finish our last laps; both trying our best to beat that last sliver of a second.
Literally at the buzzer, I fly through the gate only to see Thundr flying through milliseconds after. I bring up the scores and we both have the exact same time. Immediately after, the podium screen appeared. Because I got the time first, I kept the first place.
It was, hands-down, one of the most epic races in FNG history.


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Gowanus Open Studios 2019
To recall six foot waves, meadows, tidal surges, eight inch oysters that this was the land that the Gowanus canal replaced. Fortunately, we now have human creativity surging through this area of Brooklyn.
For my part in the Gowanus Open Studios 2019, one of my works is of a man reaching with his hand to feel the softness of a meadow plant. I will display this palladium print on Japanese gampi paper and a few other works as part of GOS2019 on the weekend of October 19th and 20th, from noon to 6 PM.
The location is King Killer Studio, 69 Second Ave. near 9th Street in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn.
The link to all the artists exhibiting is https://www.artsgowanus.org.
Pray for Amazonia
A phoenix is tattooed on her torso. Her hand rests on her hip. This is a window into hope. She is surrounded by burning, smoke and golden haze. Fires set to disrupt a rain forest habitat. Home for myriad insects, animals and hospitable for humans without destruction. No need for a monoculture of beef or the illegal logging of trees.
As if in flight, the insect and bird wings embrace her phoenix. If only this forest could rise from the ashes.
Artists in a current exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum communicate the problems of strife and political upheaval. Goya and Kathe Kollwitz made powerful works about the effects of war. Contemporary artist Titus Kaphar observed, in commenting on this exhibit, that we need to highlight these artists who resisted and communicated the troubles that they saw.
Surrealism = Meaning
In my work I take small fragments of nature and make camera-free negatives. I combine these with photographs I have taken of people's tattoos. The fragments of flora and fauna loom larger than the tattoos of my models in my works. I do this to compare our human scale to the expanse of the Earth. I hope that people viewing my work may comprehend the magnificent life around us.
Wily as a Fox
This expression is a legacy of the Medieval world. At the Getty Center is an exhibit and a book titled: "Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World". Curated by Elizabeth Morrison and Larisa Grollemond, this exhibit highlights how people in the Middle Ages perceived animals and explores the intersection of the animal and human worlds. Animals, both real and fantasy, were thought to have moral characteristics of good and evil. Hence, foxes were thought to be cunning in their pursuit of food, which included raiding hen houses of farmers. We also see the legacy of this visualization of animals in ours lives in the Harry Potter books and in the series "Game of Thrones".
I pair the human world with animals to highlight the fragility of our current connection with nature. The human and the fox in this work here are united in their desire for the protection of the forest.
Recently I found a goose feather and as I walked, with the feather in my hand, I noticed how the feather responded to the wind. I felt how a bird feels as it flies.
At the Cooper Hewitt in New York City, there is an exhibit titled "Rebeca Mendez Selects" which highlights the fate of the Aztec ruler's, Moctezuma II's, private aviary at the hands of the Spanish conquerors. The Spanish set fire to his aviary and killed all the birds, which had come from all over the Americas. That this act demonstrates the destructive powers inherent in colonialism; it also illustrates the tensions arising from our conflicting impulses towards nature. This exhibit shows birds as sources of art, design and science and also discusses the effects of climate change and human avarice.
Feathers float above a woman's tattooed thigh.
Tattooed New-York
In the spring of 2017, my work was part of the exhibition "Tattooed New-York" at The New-York Historical Society. This exhibition traced the history of tattooing in New York starting with the native peoples to our times. It was curated by Cristian Petru Panaite.
My piece, "Hands Fly", was exhibited with work that expands tattooing from the personal into art.
Tattooing was and is a part of human cultures globally.
Spiders Then and Now
My work is often inspired by the close relationship between tattoos and the honoring of plants and animals by other cultures, both past and present.
At the Brooklyn Museum is a small exhibition of jewelry, pottery, hunting tools and other objects of the indigenous peoples of the Americas in the Pre-Columbian time. One of the objects is a gold Chiriqui pendant of a spider whose legs end in human hands. This pendant served as an active extension of its owner, like tattoos, and a communicator of awe for a creature of nature.
An artist whose work includes spiders is Louise Bourgeois who saw spiders as elegant, fearsome and protective.
Gold pendant at The Brooklyn Museum from Costa Rica
My work is a combination of experimental photographic techniques and hand-applied color. To make the photographic base image, I collage negatives of photographed tattoos with negatives of flora and fauna. For the tattoos, I photograph people's tattoos with a 4X5″ camera and enlarge the negatives onto larger film in the darkroom. The negatives I use for my imagery of flora and fauna are camera-free. In the darkroom, I project a small object — a flower or a piece of seaweed, for example — onto negative film with my enlarger. I try to allow the shapes to take form in an organic process of discovery, working with various degrees of focus in the final image.
I then combine multiple negatives of tattoos with negatives of flora and fauna. Next, I paint palladium emulsion on handmade translucent Japanese gampi paper. Once the emulsion has dried, I place the negatives on it and top with glass and expose the image outdoors in the sun. It can take mere minutes in the summer or even hours in the winter for the image to form.
Depending on my ideas for each work, I may expose the work again with other negatives or paint it with water colors. Each unique work is process driven. At each stage I decide how the work is communicating.


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Q: how to convert a string value to enum in typescript here's my enum definition
export enum CallerComponent {
  HOMEPAGE= 'homepage',
  DEFAULT = 'default'
}

 callerString = 'homepage';
 const caller: CallerComponent  = CallerComponent[callerString] //I'm getting undefined...

All the page I've found say this is the way to go. Am I missing something?
Thanks for helping.

A: You could try something similar to this:
const callerString: string = "homepage";
Object.keys(CallerComponent).forEach((key) => {
    const component: CallerComponent = CallerComponent[key as keyof typeof CallerComponent]
    console.log(component);
});

EDIT: A google search resulted in the same question being answered( with a similar solution too)

A: CallerComponent compiles to the dictionary like {HOMEPAGE: "homepage", DEFAULT: "default"}. What is why  CallerComponent["homepage"] is undefined.
And "homepage"  === CallerComponent.HOMEPAGE.
So,  I 'm confused. What do you want to achieve?
UPD: Ah, I get it. I  guess you tried to get a key name by the value? It works this way with regular enums, not string ones.
    export enum CallerComponent {
       HOMEPAGE,
       DEFAULT
    }

    const keyName = CallerComponent[CallerComponent.HOMEPAGE]; // HOMEPAGE

More information is here: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/enums.html#reverse-mappings

Keep in mind that string enum members do not get a reverse mapping generated at all.

So if you really would like to reverse it by some reasons, you could play around the underlying dictionary, as you usually do in plain javascript

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What if you took a camp counselor – t-shirt and all – and dropped her in a synagogue? Instead of telling her to leave all that "campy stuff" at the door, invite her to bring it all in with her. Don't stick her in a classroom on a Sunday morning to talk about camp for an hour, instead have her bring that "camp magic" year round to every activity and every kid in the building. Add a splash of "pied-piper" appeal and camp recruitment responsibilities and you have a Service Corps Fellow in action.
The Service Corps Fellowship asks the question, "What impact can a dynamic, excited camp staff person have on a congregation when he/she is focused on embodying camp in the community?" What can we learn from these Fellows about how to get kids interested in Jewish camp and build stronger Jewish communities?
Generously funded by an anonymous donor, the Union for Reform Judaism's (URJ) Service Corps Fellowship places summer camp staff with at least two years of experience in synagogues for 4-5 hours a week during the academic year. Service Corps is a shared grant of the URJ and Ramah Camping Movements. Though each movement runs their own program, we share professional development programs, materials and learn from each other's work.
Cultivate an awareness of the power of camp in the congregation and encourage more students to attend Jewish summer camps.
Utilize best practices from Jewish summer camps including experiential education models, relationship building, and role modeling to engage students in Judaism and bring some of the "magic of camp" to congregational programs.
Though the data from year one is just coming in, we are now able to identify what success looks like and have a glimpse into a new and exciting approach to connecting children to camp and engaging them in Jewish life year-round.
Meet Jennifer. Jennifer is the one of the URJ Service Corps Fellows from URJ Greene Family Camp and is working at Temple Beth Shalom in Austin, Texas. Because of Jennifer's work as a Service Corps Fellow, Temple Beth Shalom saw 36 campers attend URJ Greene Family Camp last summer and 50 kids enrolled for this summer, 15 of which are first-time campers. So what did Jennifer do? How did she (and other Service Corps Fellows like her) have this impact on camp enrollment with only seven months in the community? Wearing her camp T-shirt, Jennifer welcomes families each Sunday morning to Religious School. During the second half of the day, she helps teach chuggim (free choice activities) and includes camp lingo, activities and fun camp give-aways. She gets to know the kids and talks about how much she loves camp. When parents want to know more, she calls them and keeps in touch. She encourages students to join her at the URJ Greene Family Camp prospective camper weekend and spends time with them while they were there. She helps run a Camp Shabbat at the congregation, and takes part in other congregational programs (all in her camp T-shirt). In short, Jennifer is fully integrated as the congregation's "resident camp counselor." Jennifer is not alone – many of our Service Corps Fellows have become important parts of their communities and had a significant impact on camp numbers and student engagement with Jewish life.
We know from preliminary data that congregations that have been successful with Service Corps had a level of readiness before the Fellow started. Congregations that applied to this program were open to the idea of promoting camp and integrating experiential education. In most cases, at least one person on the professional staff spent time during their summer serving as camp faculty. Many ran a "Camp Shabbat" during the year, invited camps to do recruitment programs during the Religious School day, and integrated "camp-style" learning in to their education program. In addition, many of these congregations already offered some level of scholarships to help families with the expense of camp.
However, even with a congregation's previous commitment to camp, Jenn and Service Corps Fellows like her have been able to have an impressive impact on camp recruitment numbers – an impact that all of those other efforts were unable to accomplish. So what is unique about the Service Corps approach and what can we learn from it for camp recruitment in all our settings?
First – by walking around in a camp T-shirt and being known as "the resident camp person" we believe our Fellows put camp on the radar in a deep and meaningful way. There are a lot of things competing for attention in a congregation – the very presence of a Service Corps Fellow seems to keep camp at the top of that list. Since the Fellow is in the room, camp and "camp-style" learning is often a topic of conversation and considered in program planning.
A second reason for the impact of the Service Corps Fellow program might be called the "pied-piper" effect – children want to follow the young adult who is fun, welcoming and engaging. If they like their Service Corps Fellow, and their Service Corps Fellow says "follow me to camp," (or "go to the camp I went to") they are much more likely to go. When you add to this fun activities and good times with friends, you have a perfect mix to attract new campers and engage kids in Jewish life.
Lastly, is the relationship-building that our most successful Fellows have been able to cultivate. Camp staff are master relationship builders. They know how to build community in the first five minutes of bringing their kids together in a cabin and how to make "friendships that last a lifetime" in the short eight weeks of summer. When we, through professional development and support, tap into that knowledge, there is a powerful outcome. Service Corps Fellows are talking to kids and parents, working with teachers, and creating friendships as they go. When this relationship is seen as what "camp people" do, families are drawn to the larger summer experience to get more of the same.
These successes suggest some interesting approaches for camp recruitment in all of our communities. Can congregations tap a young adult already on their staff – such as a teacher or part time youth advisor – to become the "camp person"? If they embodied the camp spirit and talked openly about their love of camp, could we see the same results? Are there ways to frame existing youth group or family-based programs with camp language and branding and thus put camp on the radar for more of our families? Are there tools of relationship-building from camp that we can use in congregations and schools to build our community and help people feel connected? As we continue the Service Corps program and learn from both our successes and our challenges, we will continue answering these questions and identifying new ways to connect our children to powerful and immersive camp experiences.
Michelle Shapiro Abraham has worked in the field of Jewish education for over 20 years. Her work focuses on blurring the lines between formal and informal education and brings her to camps, congregations and national organizations. Currently she serves part time as the Senior Program Manager for Camping for the Union for Reform Judaism, in addition to her work with the Foundation for Jewish Camp and other independent consultant positions.


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Movie Monday: Beginners
March 26, 2012 / jackcameron
I knew absolutely nothing about Beginners except that it had Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer in it and that Plummer won an Oscar for it. I put it in my Netflix queue because after Plummer won I heard someone say, "I hope this makes more people see Beginners."
I think at this point, there needs to be a new genre called 'Dead Parent Rom/Com'. With Garden State it was a dead mom. With Elizabethtown it was a dead dad. With Beginners it's a dead gay dad. All of them seem to follow a fairly familiar pattern. Parent dies, adult son deals with the aftermath, meets beautiful woman, falls in love, has problems, but works it out amidst the backdrop of quirky friends and occasionally odd local customs. It should be noted that while this sounds like a formula, my understanding is that each of the movies mentioned above were labors of love for the filmmakers involved and that I don't think any of them were ripping each other off. It should also be noted that none of this makes them bad movies.
Beginners starts after Oliver's father has died. It then jumps back and forth through time showing the months leading up to his father's death and occasionally flashing back to his childhood. Ewan McGregor plays Oliver with a quiet sadness that works for his character. Early on the in the film there is very little dialog and yet he manages to convey exactly how he's feeling. This is the sort of thing good actors don't get enough credit for. We often remember great lines but great silences are just as important.
Christopher Plummer's Oscar winning performance as Oliver's father, Hal is incredibly authentic. Hal stayed married for 44 years until his wife died. The entire time he knew he was gay. The curiosity with which he discovers things is fun. There's a scene where he comes back from a gay nightclub and calls his son in the middle of the night to ask what they call the sort of music they play in places like that. Oliver says, "House music?" and Hal diligently writes it down. It's a small scene that implies a lot and that's really all you want in a flashback.
Mélanie Laurent plays Oliver's new love interest, Anna. She and Oliver soon discover that they both have a history of leaving relationships. They also notice that they like each other far more than they'd each prefer. For whatever reason, I couldn't really get into her character. I'm not sure if this was the fault of the writing or the acting, but I just found her to be there because Oliver needed a girlfriend. It's the one part of the movie that just didn't quite gel for me.
The most charming thing about Beginners is writer/director Mike Mills' playful directing style. His sudden stock photo montages even when regarding things like cancer work well to lighten the mood along with Arthur the dog's subtitles.
As Dead Parent Rom/Coms go, Beginners is a good one. I like it just fine. Though I must admit I like Elizabethtown better.
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