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LPG Catalogue: Backlist 2017
Series: In the Trenches Best of subTerrain Magazine Paperback Brian Kaufman 9781895636192 $25.00 FICTION May 30, 2020
In The Trenches: The Best of subTerrain represents ten years of alternative writing, as featured on the pages of Vancouver's literary renegade magazine,subTerrain.In The Trenches features works of poetry, fiction and commentary by innumerable talented emerging writers, many of whom have since gone on to become established Canadian authors. Included is work by: Derek McCormack, Steven Heighton, Helene Littmann, Elise Levine, Grant Buday, Dianne Warren, Mark Anthony Jarman, Bud Osborn, Sophia Kaszuba, Michael Turner, Mark Cochrane, Joanne Arnott... + Read More
Series: Cabalcor An Extracted History Mixed media product Sun Belt 9781772140033 $24.00 FICTION Jan 28, 2015
The debut work by Sun Belt is a genre-bending almanac depicting the rise and fall of a company town that, within the span of a century, becomes a desert wasteland. A full-length album of dusty, surreal songs by the Sun Belt music ensemble both informs and is informed by a blend of transcripts, photographs, micro fictions, wildlife plates, film stills, costume designs, environmental reports and other invented artefacts. The result is a multimedia portrait of a mythic place closer tohome than we'd like-and an artistic collaboration that defie... + Read More
Series: Breakneck Paperback Nelly Arcan 9781772140118 $20.00 FICTION May 01, 2015
Rose Dubois and Julie O'Brien find themselves on a burning roof together, on a summer's day, and from then on their fates intertwine, in a world where the natural force that is the changing climate foreshadows and encourages their predestined suffering. Rose and Julie's submissive love for the same man, Charles, creates in them an arms race of artificial beauty and debasement. The first in their common obsession for plastic surgery and their attempts to be the avatar for the perfect female, and possess the perfect female organ; the second in ... + Read More
Series: Seep Paperback W. Mark Giles 9781772140125 $20.00 FICTION Sep 03, 2015
Dwight Eliot was born on a baseball diamond, during a dugout-clearing brawl between his hometown team, The Seep Selects, and a team of barnstorming Cuban All Stars. Decades later, when he sees his childhood home being moved on a truck down the highway, he begins a quest to research the history of his hometown and of his family. Seep is being dismantled, and the land is being redeveloped as a master-planned recreational townsite to complement a nearby First Nations casino. And then his brother Darryl arrives on his doorstep with the force of a b... + Read More
Series: I, Dr. Greenblatt, Orthodontist, 251-1457 Paperback Gary Barwin 9781772140132 $18.00 FICTION May 28, 2015
At times comic, tender, dark, compassionate, and arrestingly bizarre, Gary Barwin's latest fiction collection marvels at the strangeness, charm, and beauty that is contemporary life in the quantum world. Raging from short story to postcard fiction, Barwin's stories are mysterious, luminous, hilarious, and surprising. A billionaire falls in love with a kitchen appliance, a couple share a pair of legs, a pipeline-size hair is given the Nobel Prize only so that it can be taken away, a father remembers with tenderness, the radiant happiness... + Read More
Series: Jabbering with Bing Bong Paperback Kevin Spenst 9781772140149 $18.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2015
Kevin Spenst's much-anticipated debut collection of poetry opens as a coming-of-age narrative of lower-middle class life in Vancouver's suburb of Surrey, embroidered within a myriad of pop-culture and "post-Mennonite." Jabbering with Bing Bong interrogates memory and makes its way into the urban energies of Vancouver. Language is at play with sit-com sonnets and soundscapes of noise; videogame goombas and an Old-Testament God; teenage longing within the power chords of heavy metal andthe complicated loss of a father to schizophrenia. Jabbering... + Read More
Series: Foreign Park Paperback Jeff Steudel 9781772140156 $18.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2015
Foreign Park situates itself in an epoch where prior assurances of the natural world's solidity begin to slip. Poisons enter the Fraser River Basin. An oil slick approaches by night engulfing a fishing vessel, leaving its captain in open waters. Page after page, Foreign Park makes strange with its inhabitants. As it unfolds, it plots itself along the Fraser River overlaying myth and historicity with present day. These calm poems detail the effects of destruction on land and simultaneously explore family and community in Vancouver's coastal city... + Read More
Series: Rue Paperback Melissa Bull 9781772140163 $18.00 POETRY Apr 15, 2015
In her compelling debut poetry collection, shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award, Melissa Bull explores the familial, romantic, and sexual ties that bind lives to cities. Rue takes us through its alleys, parks, and kitchens with a robust lyricism and language that is at once inventive and plainspoken, compassionate and frank. In English, to rue is to regret; in French, la rue is the street ? Rue's poems provide the venue for moments of both recollection and motion. Punctuated withneologisms and the bilingual dialogue of Montreal, the colle... + Read More
Series: Rogues, Rascals, and Scalawags Too More Ne'er-Do-Wells Through the Ages Paperback Jim Christy 9781772140170 $20.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 15, 2015
Never before have as many outrageous and out-sized characters appeared in one place at the same time. Words like rogues, rascals, rapscallions, reprobates and rodomontades don't completely describe these individuals; they are more than each or any combination thereof. They are scalawags. People who claim to push the envelope are stamped, sealed and delivered compared with this bunch. They may be conmen or conwomen, adventurers, fabulists and/or delusional but they all share the extremepassion for life ? always more Life! Some are of the modern ... + Read More
Series: Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer Paperback Stuart Ross 9781772140187 $18.00 LITERARY CRITICISM May 28, 2015
Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is a continuation of the columns and essays that comprised Stuart's 2005 release, Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. Again, equal parts literary memoir, reckless tirade, and unsolicited advice for the aspiring writer, Further Confessions is drawn largely from Stuart Ross's notorious "Hunkamooga" column, his blog entries, essays for subTerrain magazine and other online venues. We bring them together here in their collected brilliance: alternately snarky, sincere, touching, honest, and always op... + Read More
Series: 10 Women Paperback George Bowering 9781772140316 $20.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2015
Ten Women is a new collection of short fiction from one of Canada's preeminent writers. Each of these stories offers us a portrait of a woman with whom the author may or may not have had either an intimate and/or a meaningful relationship. You can't really tell for sure. Depending on your proclivities, some of them might even seem pretty hot - like the lurid fantasies that illustrate the covers of pulp fiction novels, the ethereal intellectual beauties that emanate from poetic fields of asphodels, or the petit bourgeois housewives that litter A... + Read More
Series: Traversing Leonard Paperback Craig Savel 9781772140330 $16.00 FICTION Sep 15, 2015
Winner, 37th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest Paul is a young physics professor at a major university in New York state. He is drawn to Leonard Zavitsky, a once promising but now washed up and annoying ex-professor who is kept on the payroll as a custodian, more out of pity than any nod toward professor emeritus status. The once great Zavitsky has some wild theories about quantum time travel, but he convinces Paul to accompany him on a journey through time - back to the 1950s, then further back into the 1930s. Humorous, whimsical and dipped in sci... + Read More
Series: Vancouver Vanishes Narratives of Demolition and Revival Paperback Caroline Adderson 9781772140347 $32.95 ARCHITECTURE Nov 15, 2015
Finalist, Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award (BC Book Prizes), 2016 #1 on the BC Bestseller List Since 2005, nearly 9,000 demo permits for residential buildings have been issued in Vancouver. An average of three houses a day are torn down, many of them original homes built for the middle and working class in the 1920s, '30s and '40s. Very few are deemed significant enough to earn the protection of a heritage designation, but they are part of our heritage nonetheless and their demolition is not only an architectural loss. When these old ho... + Read More
Series: The Revolving City 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them Paperback Wayde Compton 9781772140323 $18.00 POETRY Sep 03, 2015
Finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them is a vibrant and diverse collection from a who's who of the west coast poetry scene. The poems assembled here range from the lyric to the experimental and address the theme of disconnection in an urban environment from a variety of positions, concerns, and cultural perspectives. The collection also includes short reflections on the poems, written by the poets themselves, providing readers with an intimate insight into the inspiration and mea... + Read More
Series: M Is Dead a collaborative novel Paperback Brian Kaufman 9781772140309 $20.00 FICTION May 30, 2020
"M" is Dead is a collaborative novella written by five writers (Brian Kaufman, Annette Lapointe, Mary Ann Saunders, Michael V. Smith, and Madeline Sonik) about a FTM (female to male) transsexual performance artist known only as "M". Through five voices we learn the story of M, beginning with posthumous reminiscences from five friends who knew M in an intimate, personal, or professional capacity. The friends only learn of each other, and hear one another's reflection of M, at a small, private service organized by M's friend and manager. P... + Read More
Series: Jettison Paperback Nathaniel G. Moore 9781772140477 $20.00 FICTION Oct 06, 2016
Nathaniel G. Moore follows up his 2014 ReLit Award win for Savage with a diverse collection of short fiction, his first, Jettison, featuring stories which dangle somewhere between horror and romance. "Jaws" explores a father's desire to over-share the erotic origins of his children's "Aunt" Louise; "Blade Runner" uncovers the darkest and most hilarious aspects of dating by delineating the psych ward politics surrounding a male mental patient with five girlfriends who takes apart his bed when they visit; in "A Higher Power," readers are introdu... + Read More
Series: As if Paperback Alban Goulden 9781772140484 $18.00 FICTION May 28, 2016
As If is a collection of stories that, as its title suggests, points at an indubitable truth: all literature is speculative. Goulden's, however, extends past the boundaries of conventional fiction into areas traditionally occupied by fantasy and magic realism. These stories rail against the industrial and digital mechanisms of our age and, in the great fabulist tradition, call upon its characters to take action, to reach beyond the repetitive anxiety of being a cog in the wheel of mechanical environmental destruction. Sound too ethereal and a... + Read More
Series: Cretacea & Other Stories from the Badlands Paperback Martin West 9781772140491 $20.00 FICTION Jul 28, 2016
Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards) The stories in Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands mostly take place in hot weather, where dust and sweat envelop everyone and everything. A teenage boy spends a summer with his hard-livin', hard-drinkin', messed up uncle and has to fight for a position in his new, temporary "family." A recent widower gets swept up in the world of the local swingers' scene. A band of misfits struggles to survive at a makeshift commune. An eccentric woman with OCD has a strange fetish that involves the pres... + Read More
Series: Garage Criticism Missives in the Age of Distraction Paperback Peter Babiak 9781772140507 $20.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 15, 2016
Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards) In Garage Criticism Peter Babiak eviscerates and deflates some of the cultural sacred cows of our time. From Fifty Shades of Grey ("Hot for Teacher: What Fifty Shades of Grey Taught Me About Salacious Grammar, Sexy Women and the Scandalous Conflation of Cultural and Literary Culture") to the disintegration of the "deep read" ("F You Professor: Tumblr, Triggers and the Allergies of Reading") to the Hunger Games ("The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - But It Might Be Carnivalized 'N' Shit") and Twil... + Read More
Series: Les Faux Bourgeois Paperback Andreas Seppelt 9781772140514 $26.95 COOKING May 30, 2020
Les Faux Bourgeois Bistro is an award-winning French bistro situated at the awkward intersection of Kingsway and Fraser Street in an equally disjointed neighbourhood in East Vancouver. Founded in 2007, Les Faux Bourgeois soon became a beacon of French bistro "amor" and garnered a loyal clientele and critical acclaim to match. Selected by the Georgia Straight as "Best French" in 2013, 2014, and 2015; Mia Stainsby of the Vancouver Sun proclaimed: "It either makes you pine for Paris, or transports you there!"; and, Vancouver Magaz... + Read More
Series: Assdeep In Wonder Paperback Christopher Gudgeon 9781772140521 $18.00 POETRY May 28, 2016
Assdeep in Wonder is a collection of new poems that explore the idea of identity in a myriad of contexts: personal, sexual, cultural, national, literary, and poetic. The poems are raw and immediate, exploring themes of addiction, sexuality, loss, love, and wonder in equal measures. Selected Praise: "Gudgeon's first poetry collection is a quirky valentine to irreverent readers, full of stark and pretty imagery, wry quips, and glorious bursts of vulgarity. ..." (Foreword Reviews)
Series: Serpentine Loop Paperback Elee Kraljii Gardiner 9781772140545 $18.00 POETRY Apr 20, 2016
"Writers, like skaters, score the blank sheet and test the edge of inclusion and exclusion. Most of these poems begin with a word from skating and push off to another topic. Others revisit ideas of femininity, control and language as pattern, or visit the past through movement, or enact principles from the rink such as symmetry, joy, endurance, crescendo and accent, revolution, response. The blade melts ice via friction and pressure. I drifted away from skating but the language is imprinted in me, too, a tracing, a line extending beyond... + Read More
Series: Ignite Paperback Kevin Spenst 9781772140538 $18.00 POETRY Apr 20, 2016
A finalist for the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, Ignite is a collection of elegiac and experimental poetry powder-kegged with questions about one man's lifelong struggle with schizophrenia. Born into a strict Mennonite family, Abe Spenst's mental illness spanned three decades in and out of mental institutions where he underwent electric shock treatment and coma-induced insulin therapy. Merging memory and medical records, Kevin Spenst recreates his father's life through a cuckoo's nest of styles that both stand as witness and waltz to the ... + Read More
Series: The Encyclopedia of Lies Paperback Christopher Gudgeon 9781772140750 $20.00 FICTION Apr 18, 2017
In these sixteen stories, Christopher Gudgeon, bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Song of Kosovo, takes a heartbreaking and hilarious look into the lives, loves, sexual obsessions and delusions that inform a grand cast of off-kilter characters. Here is a gay couple who persevere with their marriage plans as the world, literally, crumbles around them, a woman who discovers the mysterious collection of letters that reveals a terrifying truth about her deceased fiancée, a dutiful son, locked in an life-or-death marathon race with hi... + Read More
Series: Bad Endings Paperback Carleigh Baker 9781772140767 $18.00 FICTION Mar 15, 2017
Winner of the City of Vancouver Book Award Finalist for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Carleigh Baker likes to make light in the dark. Whether plumbing family ties, the end of a marriage, or death itself, she never lets go of the witty, the ironic, and perhaps most notably, the awkward. Despite the title, the resolution in these stories isn't always tragic, but it's often uncomfortable, unexpected, or just plain strange. Character digressions, bad decisions, and misconceptions abound. While steadfastly local in her choice of setti... + Read More
Series: Bad Engine New & Selected Poems Paperback Michael Dennis 9781772140774 $20.00 POETRY Apr 07, 2017
Selected and with an Introduction by Stuart Ross Michael Dennis has been hammering his love, his anger, his grief, and his awe into poems for over forty years. With seven books and nearly twenty chapbooks to his credit, Dennis isn't exactly a household name in Canadian poetry, but he is a natural heir to poets like Canadian icon Al Purdy and American legends Eileen Myles and Charles Bukowski. His poems are his life made into poems: direct, emphatic, honest. Bad Engine brings together mostly revised versions of about one hundred poems sele... + Read More
Series: The Three Pleasures Paperback Terry Watada 9781772140958 $24.00 FICTION Oct 10, 2017
1940s Vancouver. The Japanese have just bombed Pearl Harbour and racial tension is building in Vancouver. The RCMP are rounding up "suspicious" young men, and fishing boats and property are soon seized from Steveston fishers; internment camps in BC's interior are only months away. Daniel Sugiura, a young reporter for the New Canadian, the only Japanese-Canadian newspaper allowed to keep publishing during the war, narrates The Three Pleasures. The story is told through three main characters in the Japanese community: Watanabe Etsuo, Morii Etsu... + Read More
Series: Long Ride Yellow Paperback Martin West 9781772140941 $20.00 FICTION Oct 01, 2017
Long Ride Yellow is the debut novel from two-time Journey Prize Finalist Martin West. The novel explores the limits of sexual desire and willfully prods the veil at the edge of reality. Nonni is a dominatrix who likes to push the boundaries; she is also easily bored. Her disdain for all that is conventional and "vanilla" launches her on a journey of personal discovery: first via the local swingers' scene, then through the world of clandestine S&M clubs, and on to more adventurous and dangerous "private" diversions. She eventually pushes the e... + Read More
Series: You Are Not Needed Now Paperback Annette Lapointe 9781772140934 $20.00 FICTION Sep 18, 2017
You Are Not Needed Now is a brilliant new collection of stories from Annette Lapointe, author of the Giller-nominated novel Stolen. Often set within the small towns of the Canadian prairies, the stories in You Are Not Needed Now dissect and examine the illusion of appearances, the myth of normalcy, and the allure of artifice. Lapointe presents characters who are extraordinarily real. They are often strange, vulgar, or messy: collecting blood-stained cotton pads and hairs from shower drains, slicing through skin to get more urgent medical tre... + Read More
Series: Leaving Mile End Paperback Jon Paul Fiorentino 9781772140972 $16.00 POETRY Mar 01, 2017
Leaving Mile End is Jon Paul Fiorentino's seventh collection of poetry and tenth book-a collection of poems that documents the daily din and clatter of cafés, galleries, and dive bars that make up Mile End in Montreal, perhaps the most artistically vibrant neighbourhood in the world. But this is no ordinary tour-we take a sharp turn and go online as Fiorentino mines the peculiar linguistic resources of a new world of doxxing, swatting, snarking, trolling, catfishing, and shaming. While addressing the disconnect between the way we treat each oth... + Read More
Series: Escape from Wreck City Paperback John Creary 9781772140965 $18.00 POETRY May 15, 2017
Escape from Wreck City is a debut collection of poetry from Calgary author John Creary. There are poems about nature, poems about love and relationships, poems about living in the city, and poems about traveling the world. And all at once they capture the thrill of being fully engaged with the world, keenly observing each moment and event that constitutes being human. Whether it's following the "wounded insomniac" through the "desert lushness of sage and creosote" or hot lovers who "flicker bare back beneath the full moon, panting" or drifti... + Read More
Series: A Temporary Stranger Paperback Jamie Reid 9781772140989 $16.00 POETRY Jun 15, 2017
A Temporary Stranger is comprised of three sections: Homages, Fake Poems, and Recollections. In Homages we find poems of reverence and honour, tributes to writers who had opened up the world of poetry to Jamie. There are poems to Spicer, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Breton, Francis Ponge, Tristan Tzara and others. At the centre of A Temporary Stranger are the Fake Poems, so called because "There is no art on earth that can fully represent the exact and flowing experience of viewing stone within the flow of water and the waving light within the water an... + Read More
Series: Surviving Canada Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal Paperback Myra Tait 9781894037891 $29.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 27, 2017
Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal is a collection of elegant, thoughtful, and powerful reflections about Indigenous Peoples' complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how--even 150 years after Confederation--the fight for recognition of their treaty and Aboriginal rights continues.
Series: Smells Like Heaven Paperback Sally Cooper 9781894037914 $18.95 FICTION Jun 30, 2017
Series: Islands of Decolonial Love Paperback Leanne Simpson 9781894037884 $19.00 FICTION Nov 15, 2013
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the hist... + Read More
Series: Quivering Land Paperback Roewan Crowe 9781894037907 $19.95 POETRY Oct 15, 2013
Roewan Crowe's compelling and haunting literary debut, Quivering Land, is a rather queer Western, engaging with poetics and politics to reckon with the legacies of violence and colonization in the West.Written in a sparse style, this lonely, sometimes brutal book invites the reader on a powerful journey with Clem, Violet, and a dead girl in a red dress. Clem, a lone cowboy, caught in the inevitable violence of the Western, compulsively rides through ghost towns and Monument Valley. Violet is an artist who pulls dead bodies, guns, and memory int... + Read More
Series: Sin Eater Paperback Angela Hibbs 9781894037495 $14.95 POETRY May 15, 2014
Sin Eater reassembles the seven deadly sins to reflect a modern context and culture. For her third collection, Angela Hibbs explores and dissects the everyday and the extraordinary: literary figures, office workers, "Everybody's Baby," the deconstruction of a Crazy Train, cosmetic procedures, and understudy deities. Morality, etiquette and judgment are under a microscope--removed from the theological, anchored in the here and now.With nimble language and an uncommon wit, Hibbs reveals the fluidity of transgression when traditional definitions n... + Read More
Series: Winter We Danced, The Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement Paperback Kino-nda-niimi Collective, The 9781894037518 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Apr 26, 2014
The Winter We Danced is a vivid collection of writing, poetry, lyrics, art and images from the many diverse voices that make up the past, present, and future of the Idle No More movement. Calling for pathways into healthy, just, equitable and sustainable communities while drawing on a wide-ranging body of narratives, journalism, editorials and creative pieces, this collection consolidates some of the most powerful, creative and insightful moments from the winter we danced and gestures towards next steps in an on-going movement for justice and I... + Read More
Series: Land We Are, The Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation Paperback Gabrielle Hill 9781894037631 $24.95 ART Jun 15, 2015
The Land We Are is a stunning collection of writing and art that interrogates the current era of reconciliation in Canada. Using visual, poetic, and theoretical language, the contributors approach reconciliation as a problematic narrative about Indigenous-settler relations, but also as a site where conversations about a just future must occur. The result of a four-year collaboration between artists and scholars engaged in resurgence and decolonization, The Land We Are is a moving dialogue that blurs the boundaries between activism, research, an... + Read More
Series: Semaphore Series Shopping Cart Pantheism Paperback Jeanne Randolph 9781894037617 $14.95 PHILOSOPHY May 15, 2015
Glorifying consumerism as the de facto religion of our time, Shopping Cart Pantheism offers a preposterous yet challenging invitation to participate in commodity worship. As our narrator meanders the Las Vegas Strip, its sites and monuments become examples of Christian sainthood, miracles, worship, and dogma now transformed into icons of consumerism. Satiric, witty, and deeply insightful, Shopping Cart Pantheism reveals the fraught beginnings of the twenty-first century's most pervasive neurosis.
Series: Talking to the Diaspora Paperback Lee Maracle 9781894037655 $16.95 POETRY Oct 18, 2015
In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Lee Maracle has earned the reputation as one of Canada's most ardent and celebrated writers. Talking to the Diaspora, Maracle's second book of poetry, is at once personal and profound. From the revolutionary "Where Is that Odd Dandelion-Looking-Flower" to the tender poem "Salmon Dance," from the biting "Language" to the elegiac "Boy in the Archives," these poems embody the fearless passion and spirited wit for which Lee Maracle is beloved and revered.
Series: Access to Information and Social Justice Critical Research Strategies for Journalists, Scholars, and Activists Paperback Jamie Brownlee 9781894037679 $19.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Oct 30, 2015
Access to Information and Social Justice combines the political and the practical aspects of Access to Information (ATI) research into a single volume in order to reinvigorate critical social science, investigative journalism, and social activism in Canada. Not only does it expose some of the most important political stories and issues uncovered by ATI researchers in recent years, it also facilitates future investigations by demonstrating, in concrete ways, how any citizen can effectively use ATI requests in their work and in their capacity as ... + Read More
Series: The Archaeologists Paperback Hal Niedzviecki 9781894037792 $18.95 FICTION Sep 30, 2016
The Archaeologists follows six people from the fictional edge city Wississauga whose lives intersect when bones are discovered in a backyard overlooking the site of a proposed thoroughfare. As personal beliefs are challenged and lives are turned upside down, they each must grapple with the big questions--the environment, consumerism, ennui, repatriation.
Series: Accordéon Paperback Kaie Kellough 9781894037839 $18.95 FICTION Nov 15, 2016
Finalist for the 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel AwardAccordéon is an experimental novel, a piercing deconstruction of Québécois culture, an ode to Montréal--a city where everything happens at once and all realities exist simultaneously. Against a satirical Ministry of Culture set on quotas, preservation and containment according to its own cultural code, Kaie Kellough weaves voices and images from the margins to probe collective fantasies of Québec old and new.
Series: My Body Is Yours Paperback Michael V. Smith 9781551525778 $17.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 08, 2015
A memoir about fathers and sons, breaking out of gender norms, and reconciling with a dangerous childhood. Lambda Literary Award finalist Michael V. Smith is a multihyphenate force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male--a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family; a sissy; an insecure teenager desperate to disappear; and an obsessive writer-performer, drawn to compul... + Read More
Series: Well Fed, Flat Broke Recipes for Modest Budgets & Messy Kitchens Paperback Emily Wight 9781551525792 $22.95 COOKING Mar 31, 2015
In this winsome cookbook, based on her popular blog of the same name, Emily Wight offers great recipes, ideas, and advice on how to prepare imaginative, nutritious, and delectable meals without having to spend a lot of money. Perfect for students, new adults, and others on a budget, it's a personable guide that adapts the act of cooking to our modern economy. Chapters are divided according to ingredients so that readers can choose their main and build a meal around it. Recipes range from the simple (perfect scrambled eggs, rice and lentils) to... + Read More
Series: Lost Boi Paperback Sassafras Lowrey 9781551525815 $16.95 FICTION Mar 31, 2015
In Sassafras Lowrey's gorgeous queer punk reimagining of the classic Peter Pan story, prepare to be swept overboard into a world of orphaned, abandoned, and runaway bois who have sworn allegiance and service to Pan, the fearless leader of the Lost Bois brigade and the newly corrupted Mommy Wendi who, along with the tomboy John Michael, Pan convinces to join him at Neverland. Told from the point of view of Tootles, Pan's best boi, the lost bois call the Neverland squat home, creating their own idea of family, and united in their allegiance to P... + Read More
Series: Where the words end and my body begins Paperback Amber Dawn 9781551525839 $14.95 POETRY Apr 01, 2015
The first full-length poetry book by the Lambda Literary and Vancouver Book Award Winner. Finalist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Award-winning writer Amber Dawn reveals a gutsy lyrical sensibility in her debut poetry collection: a suite of glosa poems written as an homage to and an interaction with queer poets, such as the legendary Gertrude Stein, Christina Rossetti, and Adrienne Rich, as well as contemporaries like Leah Horlick, Rachel Rose, and Trish Salah. (Glosas, a 15th-century Spanish form, typically open with a quatrain from an existin... + Read More
Series: True to Your Roots Vegan Recipes to Comfort and Nourish You Paperback Carla Kelly 9781551525884 $26.95 COOKING Aug 31, 2015
Delicious meat-free recipes in which root vegetables take centre stage. Once the lonely, unattractive kin of sexier, more popular produce, root vegetables finally get the love and attention they deserve in this inventive and far-reaching vegan cookbook. Author Carla Kelly puts roots, tubers, and rhizomes front and centre in recipes that include lighter versions of traditional stews and soups as well as juices, salads, and desserts, as well as ethnically-inspired entrees such as Potato, Sauerkraut & Dill Pierogies and Sweet Potato & Pinto Bean ... + Read More
Series: Decolonize Your Diet Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing Paperback Luz Calvo 9781551525921 $26.95 COOKING Oct 01, 2015
International Latino Book Award winner, Best Cookbook A return to indigenous Mexican-American cooking: delicious recipes for physical and spiritual healing. More than just a cookbook, Decolonize Your Diet redefines what is meant by "traditional" Mexican food by reaching back through centuries of history to reclaim heritage crops as a source of protection from modern diseases. Authors Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel are life partners; when Luz was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, they both radically changed their diets and began see... + Read More
Series: Castro A Graphic Novel Paperback Reinhard Kleist 9781551525945 $22.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 01, 2015
On the heels of America's renewed relations with Cuba: a vivid graphic novel on the life of Fidel Castro. As America moves toward normalizing relations with Cuba, this gripping, vivid graphic novel reveals the life and times of Fidel Castro, one of the 20th century's most intriguing, charismatic, and divisive figures. The book is narrated by a German journalist named Karl Mertens, who is plunged into the searing heat of pre-revolutionary Cuba in the mid-1950s. He first meets with Castro while the latter is hiding in the mountains, then follows... + Read More
Series: Suite Francaise: Storm in June A Graphic Novel Paperback Emmanuel Moynot 9781551525969 $21.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Sep 30, 2015
A stirring graphic novel based on the extraordinary book by Irene Nemirovsky. Suite Francaise, an extraordinary novel about village life in France just as it was plunged into chaos with the German invasion of 1940, was a publishing sensation ten years ago; Irene Nemirovsky completed the two-volume book, part of a planned larger series, in the early 1940s before she was arrested in France and eventually sent to Auschwitz, where she died. The notebook containing the novels was preserved by her daughters but not examined until 1998; it was finall... + Read More
Series: Snapshots of a Girl Paperback Beldan Sezen 9781551525983 $17.95 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 01, 2015
A funny, poignant graphic novel about a young woman's coming out amidst both Islamic and western cultures. In this fresh, often funny autobiographical graphic novel, Beldan Sezen depicts her coming of age, and her coming out as lesbian, in both western and Islamic cultures (as the daughter of Turkish immigrants in western Europe)--to friends, family, and herself. Through a series of charming, self-deprecating vignettes that take place in North America, Germany, the Netherlands, and Turkey, she navigates the messy conflicts of her life, dealing... + Read More
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[BREAKING] Final Debate: Can Trump Recuperates His Chances in Winning?
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump gets a final chance to make his case for re-election before a vast audience of Americans when he squares off against Democratic rival Joe Biden on Thursday in their last debate before the Nov 3 vote.
The televised meeting comes as Trump badly needs to alter the trajectory of the race. He trails Biden significantly in national polls less than two weeks before Election Day, though the contest is much tighter in some key battleground states.
Opinion polls show there are relatively few undecided voters. A record 42 million Americans have already cast ballots ahead of the debate in Nashville, Tennessee, meaning Trump's window to influence the outcome of the race may be closing.
The contentious first debate between Biden and Trump was watched by at least 73 million viewers. Trump passed up a second debate after it was switched to a virtual format in the wake of his COVID-19 diagnosis.
The illness kept Trump, a Republican, off the campaign trail for more than a week, and he has been furiously been trying to make up ground since, sometimes holding two rallies a day.
His travel schedule has been heavily focused on states, including Arizona, Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, where polls show the race is the closest and where winning could allow him to squeeze out a tight victory in the U.S. Electoral College.
To make up ground in the debate, Trump likely will have to modify his behavior from the first face-off, in which he repeatedly interrupted Biden, attacked him personally and showed little respect for the moderator. Swing voters, particularly women, were turned off by his actions, post-debate polls and focus groups showed.
Michael Steel, a Republican who served as a top aide to then House Speaker John Boehner, said Trump needs to take a step back and give space for Biden to make mistakes.
"There is probably nothing President Trump can do in terms of attacking Biden that he didn't already try in the first debate," Steel said. "He now needs to rope-a-dope, laying back and acting presidential while needling Biden to flub - and flub badly."
This time around, each candidate's microphone will be switched off while his opponent makes his two-minute introductory statement on a topic, so as to give him uninterrupted speaking time. Both microphones will then be active for the discussion period that follows.
Debate topics will include the pandemic, race relations, climate change and national security. The Trump campaign argued that the entire debate should be focused on foreign policy.
Trump is expected to return to a line of attack that surfaced in the first debate, accusing Biden and his son Hunter Biden of unethical practices regarding Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine while his father was vice president. No evidence has been verified that support the corruption allegations by Trump and his aides, and Biden in the first debate called them false and discredited.
Beyond holding rallies, the president has been spending much of the week leading up to the debate looking to pick fights. He criticized his top expert on the coronavirus, Dr. Anthony Fauci, as well as NBC journalist Kristen Welker, who will moderate the debate. Welker will be the first Black woman to moderate a presidential debate in almost 30 years.
Biden spent the week off the campaign trail preparing for the debate. He is expected to continue to bash Trump's handling of the pandemic with cases on the rise in several states, while arguing that the outbreak has had a disproportionate economic impact on low-wage workers.
The pressure will be on the former vice president to deliver a disciplined performance to appeal to the small sliver of voters who have yet to make up their minds.
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Author Ken McGoogan, born in Montreal and raised near Deux Montagnes, recently published How the Scots Invented Canada. According to a review in the Globe & Mail, he "isn't writing about tiresome tartan chauvinism." Rather, he is illustrating "the undeniable fact that, in so many ways, Scots created the nation we inhabit today." Taking a highly original approach, McGoogan traces the Scottish influence into contemporary times, and shows how Scots and their descendents invented even Canadian diversity. Novelist Kathleen Winter wrote in the Globe of McGoogan's "elegant, lucid and impassioned writing," adding that another of his books "taught me how a deft piece of narrative non-fiction can pack the power of the best novels."
McGoogan is best-known for his four award-winning books about Arctic exploration: Fatal Passage, Ancient Mariner, Lady Franklin's Revenge, and Race to the Polar Sea. These works have earned him the Writers' Trust of Canada Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, the Canadian Authors' Association History Award, the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography, and the Pierre Berton Award for History. McGoogan made a cameo appearance in the acclaimed docudrama based on his book Fatal Passage. Now based in Toronto, he writes a column for Canada's History magazine, serves as chair of the Public Lending Right Commission, and sails as a resource historian with Adventure Canada.


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[Press Release] The Legacy of Abducted and Disappeared Redemptorist Priest Fr. Rudy Romano, C.Ss.R. for the Cause of Justice and Peace, Continues
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The Legacy of Abducted and Disappeared Redemptorist Priest Fr. Rudy Romano, C.Ss.R.
for the Cause of Justice and Peace, Continues
Cebu Archbishop Most Rev. Jose S. Palma encourages the Archdiocese of Cebu parishes, religious communities and schools to make the people aware of the life and advocacies of disappeared and abducted Redemptoristpriest Fr. Rudy Romano, C.Ss.R.
In a letter to the clergy, religious and laity of the Archdiocese of Cebu, Archbishop Palma urged the local church to follow Fr. Romano's example in addressing social concerns and legitimate human needs.
At Sunday Masses on July 7, 2013, all parishes are encouraged to read the Archdiocesan Statement on the Commemoration of the 28th Year of the Abduction/Disappearance of Fr. Rudy Romano, CSsR.
Redemptorist Center for Social and Ecological Concerns (RECSEC) Director Bro. Karl Gaspar, CSsR said, "It has been 28 years since the abduction Fr. Rudy Romano, C.Ss.R. on July 11, 1985; and 13 years since he was presumed dead, yet Cebuanos never cease to remember and to carry on his legacy."
On July 11, 2013, to mark the 28th anniversary of the abduction/disappearance of Fr. Rudy Romano, the Redemptorist Province of Cebu will hold activities to relive the story and advocacy of Fr. Rudy.
At 8:30 a.m. on July 11, in Brgy Tisa,Labangon, Cebu City, the Redemptorists will lead a wreath-laying ceremony at the site of Fr. Romano's abduction by the armed men of the Marcos Martial Law Regime.
At 5:30 p.m. of the same day, there will be a 'Mass to Remember Fr. Rudy Romano' in the Redemptorist Church. After the mass, there will be a short program and awarding of prizes to the winners of the poster-making and essay-writing contests participated in by students of Catholic Schools.The contests' theme is "How the youth can help build the Church of the Poor following the example of Fr. Rudy Romano,CSsR". A candle-lighting ceremony at the Redemptorist Church rotunda will conclude the day's anniversary commemoration.
The Holy Father, Pope Francis has challenged the Faithful to focus on being agents of God's mercy to the poor, the suffering, and those alienated from the Church.
Responding to this call, the Redemptorists and the whole Church strive to continue Fr. Rudy's legacy in helping build the Church of the Poor; to follow his example in advocating human rights, justice, peace, and love.
Donald Bryan Angayan
Staff Member, Redemptorist Center for Social & Ecological Concerns (RECSEC)
Tel. No. 412-6903
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Since 2008 it has been a key mission for the Foundation to enable the best young talent in America to effectively train for the privilege and honor of representing the United States at the Bocuse d'Or in Lyon. The result of that patience and determination was realized for the first time in 2015 when Team USA stood on the podium with the Silver Bocuse, garnering the recognition and respect of the international culinary community. In January of 2017 we were proud to return from Lyon with the Bocuse d'Or, having realized Monsieur Paul Bocuse's dream of USA winning Gold.
Congratulations to Chef Matthew Kirkley and Commis Mimi Chen on being named Bocuse d'Or Team USA 2019!
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6 Myths About IBD in Minority Patients, Busted
Here are the most common misconceptions surrounding Crohn's and ulcerative colitis in minority populations.
Brianna Majsiak
Last week, the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation brought patients and advocates together to bring attention to the need for diversity in IBD research. From left to right: Michael Osso, Tina Aswani Omprakash, Gaylyn Henderson, Stephanie Hughes, Dr. Brent Polk, and Laura Wingate.Photo Courtesy of Everyday Health
Brent Polk, MD, a professor of pediatrics and a gastroenterologist, says that at least 40 percent of his patients with IBD are from underrepresented minorities. Photo Courtesy of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) like Crohn's and ulcerative colitis (UC) are not easy conditions to talk about. But an even rarer topic of conversation is how minority patients are affected by these chronic and debilitating diseases.
Although IBD has predominantly affected whites in the past, a study published in August 2016 in the journal Inflammatory Bowel Disease found an increase in the rate of IBD in minority groups in the United States over the past two decades.
"Patients may be reluctant to identify as having ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease, so our current numbers may really underrepresent these minority groups," says Brent Polk, MD, a professor of pediatrics and a gastroenterologist at the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. Dr. Polk says at least 40 percent of his patients are from underrepresented minorities.
According to Polk, who is also the chair of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation's National Scientific Advisory Committee, a lack of diversity and engagement in IBD-related clinical trials could be responsible for the missing data on minority patients. To try to bridge this gap, the CDC recently provided a grant to the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation, under the guidance of Polk, to explore IBD in racial and ethnic minority groups.
Despite the increase of IBD in underrepresented populations, many misconceptions still exist surrounding Crohn's and ulcerative colitis in minority patients. Here we debunk six common myths.
Myth 1: Minorities Aren't at Risk
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis can affect anyone. Historically, Crohn's was believed to only affect European populations, but research shows now that minorities are also at risk.
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A study published March 2016 in Gastroenterology, conducted by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, found that African-Americans are at a slightly lower risk than white Americans for IBD, although African-Americans are still at a significant risk for gastrointestinal disease.
"As an African-American, diagnosed in 1998 — I didn't know anyone that looked like me with Crohn's disease," says Gaylyn Henderson, a Crohn's advocate and the founder of Gutless and Glamorous.
Henderson remembers being told, 'Black people don't get Crohn's,' even though she had a severe case of it and none of the medicinal options were working.
As IBD increases in minority populations, incidence rates also seem to be increasing around the world, Polk says.
According to a study published in the journal Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, ulcerative colitis is more common among Hispanics compared with non-Hispanic whites, and Crohn's disease–related hospitalizations are increasing in Asians.
"In India and China the incidence rates [of IBD] are going up in very large urban centers and, frequently, where they're adopting U.S. diets and fast food settings," explains Polk, highlighting the environmental influence on IBD incidence rates.
Myth 2: There Is No Racial Disparity in Treatment
There is a prevalent racial disparity in treatment for IBD. A review of more than 40 studies in the journal Inflammatory Bowel Diseases found that African-Americans with IBD receive different surgical and medical care than whites with IBD.
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According to the research, minorities with UC are 25 to 50 percent less likely to undergo colectomy than whites, while minorities with Crohn's are 30 to 70 percent less likely to undergo bowel resection than whites. Authors of the study suggest the difference in surgical rates correlates with access to healthcare. African-Americans were also found to suffer disproportionately from IBD compared with whites because they lacked access to affordable healthcare, specialized doctors, and suitable accommodations at work.
Additionally, an April 2017 study in the Journal of Crohn's and Colitis found that African-American patients experience more postoperative complications, including higher rates of sepsis and infection, following surgery, in comparison with non-African-American patients.
Myth 3: You Have to Keep Your Diagnosis a Secret to Prevent Shame
In certain cultures, it can be seen as taboo to share an IBD diagnosis with family or friends.
As a South Asian woman with Crohn's, Tina Aswani Omprakash has struggled firsthand with the cultural and societal stigma that surrounds being diagnosed with a chronic disease.
"It runs in my family [and] it's pretty aggressive in my family, and because my family has this, it helped a little to normalize it because they knew what it was. No one else I knew in the South Asian community really had this disease or understood anything about it," says Omprakash. "In a lot of cultures and in my culture specifically, it's best left sort of to the imagination. If you have a condition it's better not to talk about it."
When Omprakash was diagnosed with Crohn's at age 22, she had to leave her career on Wall Street and felt like her life was in a constant free fall. After 22 surgeries, four near-death experiences, and many complications, Omprakash decided that she no longer wanted to be ashamed of her condition.
After her third ostomy bag surgery she felt a turning point. "I came out of surgery with feeding tubes, with an ostomy, with drains coming out of my back and I thought, you know what, that's it," Omprakash says. "It wasn't that my life was in free fall, it was that my life was coming back and I was going to make it come back. I took ownership."
She now openly shares her journey as a patient advocate for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation and through her blog, Own Your Crohn's.
Myth 4: Stress Causes Inflammatory Bowel Disease
IBD is a biological disease and there is no evidence that stress or depression causes it. However, stress and depression, which disproportionately affects minority populations according to a study published in May 2018 in Preventative Medicine, can impact symptoms and management of the diseases.
"At least one-third of patients with inflammatory bowel disease will have a bout of major depression at some point in their life," says Polk. "Some patients can essentially tell when their symptoms are going to get worse based on their anxiety, disturbances in sleep, or other behaviors."
Henderson, who has been living with Crohn's since 1998, tries to cope with the mental impact of her IBD day by day.
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"Once I learned I would have to have a colostomy bag, I think I went through a really dark time," says Henderson. "I just couldn't believe I would have to have one."
Henderson has learned that living with a chronic illness is an everyday job. "It can be depressing, it can be isolating, it can be discouraging, but I just really try to take it one day at a time."
For dealing with stress, Henderson practices yoga, deep breathing, prayer, and meditation.
Myth 5: Alternative Medicines Are Better Than Doctors' Orders
Although it might seem right to start your treatment with alternative therapies that are part of your cultural norm, it's important to remember that your doctor will provide you with the treatment he or she deems necessary according to your diagnosis.
"There's a clash between Eastern and Western medicine," explains Omprakash, who from a young age used Eastern medicine, but has since embraced Western medicine to manage her condition.
Omprakash recommends that people with IBD have open conversations with their doctor about their cultural norms and ask which alternative therapies are safe to try. This ensures that treatment isn't delayed.
"I do still use alternative treatments, but mainly as a complement to my Western medicine and only with the approval of my GI doctor," says Omprakash. "I find that the holistic therapies — acupuncture, homeopathy, Ayurveda — can ease peripheral issues, or ailments I have that are secondary to the Crohn's [such as] joint pain, mild sinus issues and migraines, but for me, they aren't able to control my brand of Crohn's disease."
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Myth 6: You Are Alone
Most of the myths and fears surrounding Crohn's disease exist because patients believe they are alone. Whether it's a fear of cultural shame, the negative stigma of a chronic illness, or a struggle with mental health — living with an IBD can feel like the odds are stacked against you.
"I struggled immensely with body image and how I saw myself and how I thought others would view me," says Henderson.
When Henderson finally had ostomy surgery, she couldn't believe how much better she felt. "I really don't want others to suffer the way I suffered because of the stigma," she says.
In fact, Henderson is doing everything she can to help other people, especially minorities, know that they are not alone. This past summer, American Eagle featured Henderson in an Aerie Real campaign with her ostomy bag.
"It's not lost on me, the significance of that campaign. I was once somebody that needed to see that. If I had seen my image when I was 14, when I was diagnosed, I think the whole trajectory of my journey with Crohn's would have been different. I wouldn't have suffered as long as I did, I wouldn't have had debilitating pain as long as I did [if I had] seen this image," says Henderson.
Laura Wingate, the senior vice president of education for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation, finds that countless patients with IBD feel isolated and alone. Wingate recommends that anyone newly diagnosed or struggling reach out to someone — whether it's your doctor, a peer in the community or a family member or friend.
"Tips and tricks from other patients can make managing the stress and anxiety and body image issues so much easier. It's so empowering to be able to get that information from a peer."
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Autosport es un magacín semanal publicado por Haymarket Consumer Media en el Reino Unido y dedicado íntegramente al mundo del motor. Su primera publicación tuvo lugar el 25 de agosto de 1950 por Gregor Grant. Es una referencia en este deporte ya que publica muchas exclusivas sobre todo de la Fórmula 1 y muchos medios la consideran como tal. En 2016, Motorsport Network adquiere a Haymarket y todas sus publicaciones, meses antes muchos periodistas de esta se había trasladado a la principal web del grupo Motorsport, motorsport.com.

Ediciones y eventos
Cuenta alrededor del mundo con:
 Autosport.com, edición digital con noticias actualizadas, incluye un importante foro. Se inició a partir del 2005.
 Autosport Asia Edition, magazine mensual publicado en Singapur a partir del año 2008.
 Autosport International, evento de motor disputado anualmente en Birmingham.
 Autosport Awards, premios otorgados por Autosport a los pilotos y equipos ingleses y mundiales que más han destacado en las principales categorías de motor.
 Ranking de Pilotos, la web de Autosport.com cuenta con un ranking de pilotos internacionales.

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Q: XJC : Creating Stub for XBRL schemas After a few hours now, I am unable to create the Java stubs for several xrbl XSD's.  There seems to be a problem with the legacy files. Then, every time you try to customize the xjc outputs:

[ERROR] XPath evaluation of "schema" results in empty target node
      line 4 of file:/C:/Users/Carlos%20Conti/Desktop/ipp/2008/bindings.xml

After this, theory says that I must write a customization in the form of an external bindings.xml file where I resolve the conflict, but I am not being able to overcome that. I am currently stuck at the point where XPath isn't able to find the most basic node in the referenced file inside the customization file.
Here is the customization file:
<jxb:bindings version="1.0" xmlns:jxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <jxb:bindings schemaLocation="http://www.xbrl.org/2003/xl-2003-12-31.xsd" node="schema">
    <jxb:bindings node="//complexType[@name='locatorType']//sequence/element[@ref='xl:title']">
      <jxb:property ref="xlink:title" />
    </jxb:bindings>
  </jxb:bindings>
</jxb:bindings>

When I include this as the external customization, an additional error is output:

[ERROR] XPath evaluation of "schema" results in empty target node
  line 4 of file:/C:/Users/Carlos%20Conti/Desktop/ipp/2008/bindings.xml

The file I am trying to build java classes from is quite big. Sorry, but I cannot link it either. The main problem though comes from an imported xsd inside that file (xl-2003-12-31.xsd), which can be found here:
So this should be enough information to solve the problem.
I am pretty sure it is a tiny detail I am omitting, but I am not being able to get through.
Any advise is greatly welcome.

A: It looks to me like there is something wrong with namespaces.
The XPath expression:
//complexType[@name='locatorType']//sequence/element[@ref='xl:title']

has empty prefixes everywhere, but no default namespace seems to be in scope. Hence, unless XJC provides and documents a default namespace, this means that the above XPath expression will return an empty sequence. Indeed, XML Schema elements are in the XML Schema namespace. You can see also this in XBRL's XLink schema (the link provided) because, even though it does not use prefixes, it does have a default namespace binding:
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

Since the root element in the customization file binds this namespace to the xsd prefix, this XPath expression may work better:
//xsd:complexType[@name='locatorType']//xsd:sequence/xsd:element[@ref='xl:title']

The same applies on the line above: node="schema" should probably be replaced with node="xsd:schema".
The most important thing to remember is that prefixes (or the absence thereof) do not matter, only the namespaces matter:

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*A prefix bound to two difference namespaces in two different files will not match against itself.

*Two prefixes bound to the same namespace, however, will match.

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University College London Hospital are looking for Band 5 General nurses to work in T6 Head & Neck ward.
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the largest and most successful Foundation Trusts in the UK with an international reputation and a tradition of innovation.
The T6 Head & Neck ward are looking for motivated, caring and experienced bank nurses willing to commit to regular lines of work.
You do not need to be an experienced head and neck nurse, just a caring professional with an interest and keen to work.
Regular bank workers willing to commit to a minimum of 10 shifts in the department will be placed on our Altered Airway study day.
An enhanced band 5+ rate of pay will be offered to candidates who have previous Head & Neck experience and can commit to a line of work.
To apply for this role please complete the application and attach your CV. If you have any queries then please do not hesitate to contact the UCLH Bank recruitment team on 0207 959 3550 (option 2).


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* Start one single discovery operation.
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* in REPLY state, we will get passive discovery info & event.
* report directly to LMP.
* to process pending events in NDM state machine.
* Note : the spec doesn't define what's a successful discovery is.
* Somebody is trying to discover us!
* more likely to receive a connection request over the medium.
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* contains bugs, please mail a patch to the author instead.
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* delete all frames stored in window.
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* be used to restrict certain values.
* user may not have set all of them.
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It's mid-November, which means we can officially start buying Christmas presents, blasting out Mariah Carey and planning our Christmas party outfits.
then there are only six weeks left to go until the final weigh in. With half of the challenge already behind us, this really is the time to make significant improvements to your lifestyle if you want to see those results.
It's been a good fortnight for the bloggers, as no one has gained any weight and quite a few people have lost enough weight to make a difference to how they feel. Take a look at the top 10 in the table below.
Once again, we need to say a huge congratulations to Rachel Melton for consistently being the top performer of the challenge. We spoke to Rachel to discover what the key to her success was.
"I'm just really enjoying the challenge. I think I've realised I need to make some changes, especially with regards to food I eat in winter. I've been exercising more than I have any other winter too," she said.
As the weather gets colder and the evenings darker, we are all drawn to comfort foods that we wouldn't normally indulge in. Suddenly, warm puddings and hot chocolate seem like an appropriate after-dinner ritual, whereas a fat-free yoghurt would have sufficed in the past. While it's fine to have the occasional treat, making yourself feel cosier with junk food is not a good idea in the long run and will quickly add up to some unwanted festive pounds. There are plenty of winter warming recipes that can be good for you, as well as satisfying your cravings. Try making your own sweet potato squash and lentil soup, or test your culinary skills with a meat-free lasagne which swaps pasta sheets for layers of courgette.
Many of the bloggers taking part revealed that they fell off the wagon because of occasions such as birthdays, going on holiday and then, of course, Halloween and Bonfire Night parties. As the festive season approaches, the frequency of food-orientated social occasions will only increase, so it is crucial that you develop your willpower as much as you would any other muscle in your body to find the strength to not give in and indulge in the party food and alcohol!
We want to provide people with the right support and advice to help them stay on track, because being motivated is half the battle.
Top-of-the-league-table blogger Rachel continued: "I think the posts are helping as they give me a focus. The little challenges & suggestions every fortnight are great too as they give me something different to try that I wouldn't necessarily think of myself".
If you are following a healthy diet and still not seeing the weight loss results that you deserve then it's time to increase your exercise output. Whether you go to your local DW gym a few times a week, or prefer home workouts, we are encouraging you to increase your cardio by 30 minutes for the next two weeks.
take a look to see where your local DW gym is if you're not already a member.
With six weeks to go until the end of the challenge, it's time to visualise yourself getting into the festive outfit of your dreams. Imagine how amazing you'll feel in your new clothes after all that hard work! Positive reinforcement is much more powerful than thinking negative thoughts, so you have a free license to start complimenting yourself!
We all know that processed food is filled with sugar, fat and salt. While we'd typically steer clear of ready meals and takeaways, there is also a huge amount of unhealthy ingredients in everyday food we deem to be healthy, like tinned soups and sandwiches. Stay on the safe side by preparing your own sauces, soups and porridge, as these are some of the worst culprits for hidden sugar.


Bernae Helvet. : Excudebat Mathias Apiarius, 1539.
15 woodcuts, including 2 repeats, mostly signed IK with a dagger.
Printer's mark on t.-p. and on last page.
The 15 woodcut illustrations are mostly signed I.K., accompanied by a short dagger in a sheath, some have the initials only, and some are unsigned. They are by an unknown German artist, thought erroneously attributed by many authorities to Jakob Kerver or Jakob Koebel. cf. Nagler, Monogrammisten, v.3, p.1021, no.2682.
Presentation copy from Edward Burne-Jones to William Morris, whose bookplate is inside front cover.


A Cleburne teenager was hit with a Taser by police while he was having a medical emergency, and the incident was caught on tape.
So what kind of medical emergency was it?
The kid was unresponsive and the officers response was to tase the kid. Then the medics tell the officer what was wrong and the officer knows he's in trouble.
This isn't the first time we've seen something like this either.
Because again, your first response should always be force. That way you can compound the medical emergency.


« Keto Spinach Feta Egg Muffins Grab & Go Breakfast!
Rice and potatoes, we low carbers fear them, but probably dream of them every night! After all, what is Butter Chicken without rice? What is Beef stew without potatoes? Rice and potatoes are the ultimate comfort food when topped with stews, sauces and other tasty and drippy foods. And what other food can catch all those yummy juices?
Well let me show you how I use my handy, dandy KitchenAid Food Processor to turn the humble and lowly cauliflower into both of these delicious dishes.
Both of these dishes are all over the internet in various forms. I'd like to credit I Breathe, I'm Hungry for turning me onto cauliflower in a major way. Check out that site for lots of other great cauliflower recipes.
Take 1/2 large head of cauliflower, wash it and break into chunks. Place in your food processor. Pulse until it looks like rice!
In a non stick ceramic pan with either 2 tbsp olive oil, butter or coconut oil, saute 3 chopped green onions and 2-3 sprigs of chopped parsley.
Add in the riced cauliflower.
Stir in 2 teaspoons cumin.
Fry the 'rice' until it is the texture you want. I like it almost soft.
These are another staple in my house. I especially love this under Pork Belly Adobo or Butter Chicken.
Break a head of cauliflower in chunks and boil until fork tender.
Once they are tender, place them in the food processor .
Puree until smooth. You might have to scrape the sides once.
These are SO much like mashed potatoes, you will never miss them! I promise!
Here are a few of my recent dinners using these amazing 'rice' and 'potatoes'!
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I tried making the cauliflower "mashed potatoes" but haven't been successful so far… is it absolutely necessary to use a food processor? I don't have one so Ive tried a nutri-bullet and a hand beater but both times it still came out chunky and stringy (the nutri-bullet spins too fast and pushed the cauliflower immediately to the sides). Can I use frozen cauliflower or does it have to be fresh?
If you want that nice smooth texture then I'm afraid the food processor really is the best tool for the job. But it's one of those kitchen tools that you will have forever and is a real workhorse. I can't live without mine. I'm pretty sure frozen cauliflower would work, you would also have to cook it first. Good luck!
Frozen works great, cook until really soft the put them thru a ricer, I have a steamer pan that sits on top of another pan and a masher to push it thru the holes, a foley food mill will also do the trick. Look for these things at thrift stores.
these are both awesome, i have tried them riced(no rice) and as mashed potatoes! today i make the cauliflower casserole! loving cauliflower.
We just had our Canadian Thanksgiving last weekend and I made the 'mashed potatoes'. Even the non low carb people thought they tasted great! Glad you liked the recipes.
i haven't tried these yet,but I'm sure going to. I don't eat white potatoes or white rice soooo. Thanks.
Thanks for visiting! Hope you enjoy them!
I love both the rice and the potatoes, it's a staple here. I hope this one works out for you.
Yummm! Must try this !
haha, I hear some people say collie flower and then others say colla flour. The 'mashed potatoes' are a dream come true for me!
Looks really delicious! I plan to make some, minus the oil… will probably use sesame seeds instead if I want some creaminess.
I'm printing this off. This loos really good.
I am trying some gluten free recipes out, and these look so amazing! I never would have thought to mix rice and cauliflower together!
There's no rice in this at all! Just cauliflower!


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Five-Time Olympic Medal Winner Kim Rhode to Bear Team USA's Flag at Toronto 2015 Pan American Games
by NRA Staff - Thursday, July 9, 2015
She's made America proud in five consecutive Olympic games, taking home three gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Now Kim Rhode will be bearing up the American flag again in the role of Team USA's flag bearer for the Opening Ceremony of the XVII Pan American Games. The games, which will be held July 10 in Toronto, Canada, will be covered live starting 7:30 p.m. ET with the Opening Ceremony on ESPN and ESPN Deportes.
Rhode was nominated by the members of the U.S. Pan American Shooting Team and chosen by a vote of fellow Team USA members. She is the second-ever shooter to serve as flag bearer for Team USA at the Pan American Games. Lones Wigger also carried the flag in 1975. Wigger earned 18 medals over the course of six Pan American Games.
"This honor would not have been possible without my teammates and their nomination," Rhode said. "In all the Olympics and Pan Am Games I've competed in, you always remember your first in everything you do. Being selected as a flag bearer, this is a first for me and I'll cherish it!"
Having made her Olympic debut in 1996, Rhode is the only American to win an individual medal in five consecutive Olympic Games. Of her five medals, three are gold (1996 - Double Trap, 2004 - Double Trap, 2012 - Skeet), one is silver (2008 - Skeet) and one bronze (2000 - Double Trap). Rhode broke the Women's Skeet Olympic record with a near-perfect score of 99 at the London 2012 Olympic Games. She is also the only woman to win three individual gold medals in the sport of shooting.
On the Pan Ams stage, Rhode has earned two gold medals (2003 - Double Trap, 2011 - Skeet) and one silver (2007 - Skeet), and is seeking her fourth medal in Toronto, where she is Team USA's sole Women's Skeet competitor.
Don't miss Rhode and the rest of Team USA carry the flag live on ESPN. (For more information on ESPN coverage, please click here.) Though no coverage is specifically dedicated to shooting events, Pan American Games coverage will be provided through a variety of ESPN platforms, via TeamUSA.org and usashooting.org.
The 2015 Pan American Games will take place from July 10-26 in Toronto, and for the first time, feature all 28 sports on the Olympic program. The 17-day competition will feature more than 6,000 athletes from all 41 member nations of the Pan American Sports Organization competing in 37 sports, making it the largest multi-sport event ever held in Canada.
For more information and photos of Team USA at the 2015 Pan American Games, visit TeamUSA.org/Toronto2015 and follow @TeamUSA on Twitter.
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How Onassis Became the Richest Man in the World
Anna Wichmann - October 9, 2022
The Suez Canal remains blocked by the container ship Ever Given, but it's not the first time a crisis has occurred at the waterway.
The Greek Pioneers Who Dug the Suez Canal
Ioanna Zikakou - July 22, 2022
Greece has been connected to the Suez Canal since it was first envisioned as a pie-in-the-sky project in the mid-nineteenth century.
Greece's Suez Crisis: Corinth Canal Closed for More than Three Months
Tasos Kokkinidis - April 21, 2021
The Corinth Canal, one of the most important infrastructure works of modern Greece, remains shut for maritime traffic since January 2021.
How the Moon Helped Free Cargo Ship Ever Given in Suez Canal
Patricia Claus - March 31, 2021
The Suez Canal, reopened this week after the "Ever Given" was finally freed from the side of the canal after the full moon gave it a boost.
"Ever Given" Refloated as 16 Greek-Owned Vessels Stuck at Suez Canal
Tasos Kokkinidis - March 29, 2021
The huge container ship "Ever Given" that has been wedged in the Suez Canal for six days has reportedly been refloated on Monday.
The Greek Pioneers Who Constructed the Suez Canal
Philip Chrysopoulos - December 25, 2019
In the mid 1800s, almost three quarters of the residents of Kasos Island in Greece picked up and moved to Egypt to work on one of the most ambitious construction projects in the world: The Suez Canal, which would...
Lionfish Invades Crete for the First Time
Mary Harris - July 26, 2016
The poisonous lionfish was located for the first time in the sea region of Agios Panteleimonas in Crete, Lassithi. The Cretan Aquarium of the Greek Center for Marine Research announced the appearance of the tropical fish, otherwise known as...
Alert! Rhodes Invaded by Alien Fish Species From Suez Canal
Mary Harris - May 27, 2016
The lionfish, found in the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, South Africa and east of Sumatra, has now made its way to the Aegean Sea, particularly in the sea region of Rhodes. It first appeared in the summer of...
Greece's Energy Ministry Confirms Greek-Russian Collaboration
Katerina Papathanasiou - August 11, 2015
Greece's Energy Minister Panos Skourletis discussed with his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak on Tuesday about the acceleration of preparatory procedures for the 9th Joint Interministerial Committee that will be held in November. The Greek Ministry confirmed that both Greek and Russian officials are on the same page...
French President: Greece Could Reach Deal by End of August
Philip Chrysopoulos - August 7, 2015
French President Francois Hollande said that Greece could, and should, reach a bailout agreement by the end of August. The French President made the comment while in Egypt on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the Suez Canal expansion. "We...


For most of the past two years, the U.S. intelligence community has presented a united front on all the key conclusions in the January 2017 report that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.
Now, congressional investigators have unearthed text messages and emails showing the FBI feared there were some in the intelligence community with "partisan axes to grind" and suggesting there could be no singular conclusion that Moscow wanted to help elect Donald Trump.
For instance, then-FBI agent Peter Strzok's text and email messages in December 2016 and January 2017 show his boss feared that giving some classified information to the White House, then-Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper James Robert ClapperHow I learned to love the witch hunt 10 factors making Russia election interference the most enduring scandal of the Obama era Ten post-Mueller questions that could turn the tables on Russia collusion investigators MORE and the larger intelligence community in the final days of the Obama administration might result in political abuse.
"Yeah, but keep in mind we were going to put that in the doc on Friday, with potentially larger distribution than just the dni," Page texted back. Strzok answered back, escalating his concerns: "The question is should we, particularly to the entirety of the lame duck usic with partisan axes to grind." "USIC" is an acronym for the United States Intelligence Community.
The text messages were exchanged at a critical time, less than 72 hours before the U.S. intelligence community would release an explosive report to then-President Obama, President-elect Donald Trump and the public concluding that Russia did in fact meddle in the 2016 election.
That report concluded Russia's intent was to help Trump win the presidency.
But texts and emails uncovered by congressional investigators suggest there was some ambiguity in the classified information about sorting out the true intentions of Moscow.
Just before Christmas in 2016, as Trump was preparing to assume the presidency, Strzok and Page texted sentiments of concern that there was some conflicts between classified intelligence and the information already in the intelligence community.
Those conflicts, they feared, would surface as the FBI made its final contribution to the intelligence community report on Russia meddling.
"Man, our intel submission is going to be a BOMB," Strzok texted on the evening of Dec. 18, 2016.
"Oh god, why do you say that?" Page wrote back. "Was planning to try to go in early to reach it before our mtg with Jim," an apparent reference to FBI chief of staff James Rybicki.
"Oh it's fine. You've heard it all. I'm just saying the C portion is absolutely different from the bulk of the stuff in the community. And the community and especially the WH will jump all over it since it's what they WANT to say and they can attribute it to us, not themselves.
"All the benefit, none of the political risk. We get all of that," Strzok added.
At the time, the FBI had the unverified dossier written by a former British spy alleging unproven collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow, as well as information from an Australian diplomat suggesting a Trump campaign aide had prior knowledge of Russian hacking of Clinton's emails.
Congressional investigators believe Strzok and Page might be referencing that classified information, since it was something not widely known in the intelligence community at the time.
But at the same time, the FBI also was debating whether it could definitely conclude that Russia's intent in meddling in the 2016 election was to help Trump win. Strzok, in December, had talked with the House Intelligence Committee, and some lawmakers privately expressed concern that his analysis was different than that of the CIA, emails show.
"The specific point I made was we did not have information to differentiate what their ultimate goal was," Strzok emailed, adding that then-Director James Comey James Brien ComeyDavis: The shocking fact that Mueller never would have accused Trump of a crime Sarah Sanders is entitled to her opinions, but not her own facts James Comey, wife donated ,400 to Klobuchar's presidential campaign MORE told Senate Intelligence something similar.
"In other words, the activity is one-sided and clear but we can't say the sole and primary purpose was specifically intended to help someone, hurt someone else or undermine the process. The reality is all three," he wrote.
That report has been the official conclusion of the community for two years. But there has been evidence of dissent or uncertainty — not on Russia's meddling but as it relates to Trump.
The National Security Agency disclosed it only had "moderate confidence" in the conclusion that Putin was trying to help Trump. The House Intelligence Committee said it could not validate Putin's intentions about Trump.
And now Strzok's recently disclosed emails and texts show the final process leading to the issuance of the Russia report was secretly mired in concerns about "partisan axes," differences in intelligence community information and a subtle but important realization that the "primary purpose" for Russia's meddling really couldn't be determined.
Today, there is little doubt Russia meddled in the 2016 election. Special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE's indictment of the Russian military hackers makes a convincing case.
Yet, day by day, the more sensational claim that Trump and Russia colluded together on that effort are being called into question by evidence that belatedly gets produced by the FBI and Justice Department.
Such slow-walking of the truth is what angers members of Congress who have longed to achieve transparency.
"If you're really trying to help the American people understand what took place, just give us the stuff," Jordan said.
The FBI and Justice Department have a chance to make good on that. President Trump Donald John TrumpDemocrats' CNN town halls exposed an extreme agenda Buttigieg says he doubts Sanders can win general election Post-Mueller, Trump has a good story to tell for 2020 MORE has ordered the declassification of the key originating documents in the Russia probe. The question is whether the FBI and Justice will do so, or engage instead in creative editing and redaction.


Dreams are a daily part of our lives. For centuries people have tried to unravel the mysteries of dreams, but this mystery is still unanswered. Why do we dream?
Most of our dreams have no meaning. They are just a string of thoughts and images that are random, and we often forget. Such dreams are normal dreams. But have you ever had the dreams that gave you a vision of the future events, and it occurred?
Yes, there are some psychic dreams too, and most of us have had that at some point. Psychic dreams give us warning about some future events. They always try to say something or occur to fulfill your unconscious wishes that we could never do in real life. It is like a dream come true every day.
So, it is essential to understand every intuition that is linked to our dreams. Some are good, some are nightmares, but the psychic dreams have some meaning (foretelling). So let's unravel some of them and find what mystery lies there.
You met a long lost friend of yours last night in your dream and the other day miraculously you run into that person into a mall, isn't it curious? You must have been thinking what kind of a dream was that you had. So to be interpreted, that was a dream that gave you a premonition of the future event. Such dreams are called Precognitive dreams, and they provide a vision of the things, events, or persons, that is going to mingle in your life sooner or later. These dreams can give an image of both good and bad news. So, don't always overlook your dreams as they can inhabit some deeper meaning and predictions too. You need to differentiate it from your ordinary dreams.
In common term, I would name it "soulmate's dreams." Yes, you are getting it right. The dreams in which you tap onto other persons' consciousness and thoughts are called telepathic dreams. It is like communicating with one another, knowing each other's secret thoughts, or getting an intuition of the sickness of your loved ones, in your dreams. These dreams do not always come nor do they happen to everyone. This high level of communication is only experienced between two souls deeply connected. A non-verbal language of images and thoughts most often combines, when one of the two is sleeping.
These are the dreams where you psychically connect with the real life things or objects. The things that happen in real life while you are dreaming them are mysterious to experience. Like you are dreaming of thunderous rain, or of an earthquake, or anything got lost, and as you wake up, you found that the same thing has happened in real. Isn't it puzzling? Have you become a prophet or what? No, don't give way to your anxieties as it's not happening to you exclusively. Most of us have had such dreams. It's evidence that we are one with the body of earth and its happenings.
The name itself suggests the power of these dreams. Such dreams give us an insightful knowledge of ourselves, our decisions, and our way of life. It's not like after having such dreams you will be cured or healed physically. Healing dreams include much deeper healing. These dreams sometimes take us to the problems in our relationships, or unhappy jobs, or some decisions that disturb us in real life. These dreams sometimes end up suggesting a solution to the issues or sometimes rather are challenging to deal with if you are running from these problems in real. So, rather than feeling uncomfortable, look to the aspect of these dreams and try to let them work as your healing pills.
Recurring dreams are those dreams that take images and episodes from your real life stress, anxieties, and trauma. You are preparing for an international meeting since long, and a week or month before your day you start having nightmares that you are running for your flight, and you missed it Or a nervous you running continuously in a never-ending long corridor to your trip and getting nowhere, and so on. Such dreams are not only one time dreams; appearing and then getting lost forever. They are experienced repetitively and frequently until you go through that moment in real life and found relief. Such dreams often start with your adulthood, incurring so many dream themes like being chased and attacked, falling down, constantly stuck in a situation, or being late.
Lucid Dreams come with a different aura altogether than the others. In such dreams, while dreaming the dreamer remains constantly conscious within the dream. Unlike any other dreams where ones conscious shuts down, and unconscious performs, lucid dreams give you the ability to understand your dream and control it clearly. You can see yourself fighting with the demons like a superman, or flying high in the sky. Everything that you feel hears, tastes, and smells, in your dream, seem authentically real. Don't worry; it's not any paranormal activity happening to you. These dreams are entirely natural and safe to experience.
Water: Like the image of water can be interpreted in many ways. Calm water symbolizes the calmness within us and running water- the strings of confusing thoughts. It also symbolizes cleansing, transforming, and renewal of life.
Seeing birds for a long time in your dreams interpret peace and communication. So does the completion of a circle with a sense of complete and satisfaction in life.
Dreams are too confusing to be taken seriously in life. But once you start comprehending your dream world, and its connection with your activities, you start having a much deeper knowledge of yourself. You can gain mastery over yourself if you link up with your dreams and their impending meanings.
So have a good sleep and Happy Dreaming.


The Bird Box Sandra Bullock Coat is made from wool. The coat comes in a stunning light blue color that gives it a smart and sophisticated look. The Malorie Hayes Coat has a fur lined lapel style collar. The inner of the coat consists of a soft viscose lining for warmth and comfort. The sleeves of the Bird Box Sandra Bullock Coat are long and fitting with folded cuffs. To keep stuff the Malorie Hayes Coat has two side waist pockets. The coat is long in length. The coat is the replica of the one worn by the character. The Bird Box Sandra Bullock Coat is durable to wear due to its fine quality stitching. The coat is perfect for a day out with friends.