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4 burning questions on Italy's budget scaremongering
Why the country's populist government is testing Brussels' — and financial markets' — patience.
By	Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli
Updated 10/12/18, 12:58 PM CET
ROME — The Italian government is taking a gamble on the country's budget, which could make or break the country — and the eurozone.
The Italian parliament is due to vote on the budget proposals on Thursday and once lawmakers approve them, possibly with a few significant amendments, the government will forward the document to the European Commission for review. But other national institutions, from the Bank of Italy to the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), have slammed the update to the country's budget targets — the documento di economia e finanza (DEF) — as unrealistic.
Here's why the Italian budget scares the eurozone.
1. What's the government proposing?
The populists' proposals include borrowing more to finance generous campaign pledges like a universal income and postponing the budget balance until "the economy is back to pre-crisis levels." Another pillar of their budget is a substantial rollback of the pensions reform approved under Mario Monti's government, to allow workers to retire at a much younger age. A public investments plan to promote growth is another element at the core of the plan, but details are yet to be unveiled. The measures should lead to a sustained path of debt reduction, according to the DEF, based on the assumption that Italy's economy will grow 1.5 percent next year and 1.6 percent in 2020.
The country hasn't seen such growth levels since the early 2000s. Nevertheless, the League and 5Stars coalition is confident skeptics will be proven wrong. On Tuesday and again on Wednesday, Finance Minister Giovanni Tria told the parliament's budget committee that the measures are "courageous." In the government's view, the universal income will trigger consumption and a younger retirement age will boost youth employment. However, the Treasury has allocated €9 billion to the 5Stars' flagship measure, which doesn't translate into the promised monthly €780 for two years for 6 million people.
2. What do critics say?
The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday it expects Italy to be one of the slowest growing economies in the eurozone, with a GDP growth rate of 1 percent in 2019. The IMF also urged the Italian government not to backtrack on the job market and pension reform implemented by previous governments. Speaking at an event in Florence, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the IMF forecasts should be revised in light of the draft budget proposals.
Italian Minister of Economy and Finance Giovanni Tria arrives during an Eurogroup meeting at the EU headquarters in Luxembourg on October 1, 2018 | John Thys/AFP via Getty Images
But later on Tuesday, the PBO also said the government's growth forecasts appear to be "excessively optimistic" and the investments plan is "desirable but particularly ambitious compared to current trends." One London-based Italian investor agreed: "The [finance] minister has completely lost credibility and can no longer act as the gatekeeper of Italian public finance as President [Sergio] Mattarella had hoped when he forced his appointment."
Former Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan, currently a Democratic Party MP, told POLITICO the budget objectives "depict an ambiguous and imprudent approach to public finance." He explained that it is imprudent "because it's based on unreliable growth forecasts and if the growth doesn't happen, the only certainty would be a rising public debt." Padoan, who is also a former OECD chief economist, pointed out that if things don't go according to plan, the country's fate will "no longer be in Rome's or Brussels' hands, but in financial markets'."
3. What do EU rules mandate?
The bloc's so-called fiscal compact mandates a "budget balance." The rule "is considered to be respected if the annual structural balance meets the country-specific medium-term objective and does not exceed a deficit (in structural terms) of 0.5 percent of GDP," or 1 percent if the country's debt-to-GDP ratio is below 60 percent (which isn't Italy's case). This rule has also been incorporated into the Italian constitution.
According to the previous government's plans, Italy would have reached a budget balance by 2020, but this has now been postponed. Delaying it indefinitely while also increasing the structural deficit to 1.7 percent for the next three years marks a significant departure from the country's previous commitments and is cause for "serious concern" in Brussels. In a letter to Tria last week, Commissioners Valdis Dombrovskis and Pierre Moscovici said: "Italy's revised budgetary targets appear prima facie to point to a significant deviation from the fiscal path recommended by the Council." The Commission noted that "according to the government's own projections, the new targets would correspond to a structural deterioration of 0.8 percent of GDP in 2019." Brussels and Rome will engage in formal discussions after October 15 once the Italian government submits the draft approved by parliament.
Italian Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio with Italian Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini in Rome on October 3 | Giuseppe Lami/EPA
4. Will Italy be the next Greece?
Both the League's Matteo Salvini and the 5Stars' Luigi Di Maio said they have no intention of backtracking on the budget proposals. However, bond yields rose during early trading on Wednesday after Moody's Analytics' economist Mark Zandi told Italian daily La Stampa that the "budget was a mistake that will reflect on the country's rating." However, Zandi, who works for a subsidiary of the ratings agency and does not focus on ratings actions, said: "Ratings decisions are based on numbers not politics."
Tria has said "we are ready to act if the spread between Italian and German government bonds yields reaches 400 basis points." But Salvini and Di Maio dismissed concerns and suggested there must be some sort of investors' "conspiracy" against the country. The measures contained in the draft take into account a debt yield figure of around 240 basis points but if borrowing costs go up significantly, the government's math will have to change. Debt yields reached 3.75 percent this week, a four-year high, and investors are now eyeing the 4 percent mark as the "tipping point" for a possible eurozone contagion.
The situation isn't helped by ongoing rumors that Tria will be sacked and replaced by a more "friendly figure." But according to two government sources, "it isn't realistic at this point because as much as we'd like it, it would put too much pressure on the government."
Moody's and S&P will give their verdict on Italy's sovereign debt at the end of this month, and a downgrade seems highly likely. "I don't see how it can be avoided with these numbers," said one ratings agency official in London. Italy is just two notches away from "junk." A double downgrade would make it impossible for many corporates and the European Central Bank to buy Italian bonds — making it extremely hard for the country to finance its debt on its own.
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Shenxianju, a national 5A scenic spot–China's top classification for tourist destination – in Xianju county, East China's Zhejiang province.
Shenxianju, literally meaning "dwelling for immortals", covers a total area of 22.32 square kilometers and features an intact ecosystem and geologic structure.
The name hails from a decree by the emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), who renamed it after reading ancient China's luminary poet Li Bai's prose. The prose describes the area as a domicile of deities.
Numerous renowned films and TV dramas have filmed scenes at the attraction. They include film The Forbidden Kingdom starring Jet Li and Jackie Chan and TV series like Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils and Xuan-Yuan Sword.
In 2019, Shenxianju received 2.3 million visitors in total, generating 113 million yuan ($16.3 million) in tourism revenue.


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (KSAZ) - A group of homeowners in Downtown Scottsdale are waging war against plans by a developer to expand a portion of the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall.
The homeowners are concerned about the height of the new buildings, in addition to increased traffic, if that project moves forward.
FOX 10's Courtney Griffin reports.
Scottsdale Fashion Square Statement
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Dream (2008)
Posted on 31 January 2015 By AntBit
Review first published by EyeforFilm
"I, Chuang Tsu, once dreamed I was a butterfly, fluttering between here and there, in all its aims a butterfly. I just knew that I followed my moods like a butterfly, and was unconscious about my human nature. Suddenly I awoke; and there I laid: again 'me myself'. Now I don't know: was I then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or am I now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man? Between man and butterfly, there is a barrier. Crossing it is called change."
This brain-teasing parable, attributed to the fourth-century BCE Chinese philosopher Chuang Tsu, forms the enigmatic underpinning of Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk's 15th feature Dream. Here, too, there is a butterfly, and two figures diametrically opposed yet mysteriously linked through dreams – but unravelling the film's evolving ambiguities is like trying to define the sound of one hand clapping.
Jin (Jo Odagiri) dreams that he is obsessively tailing the car of the girlfriend (Park Ji-a) who dumped him, when his own car becomes involved in a collision with another. Waking in alarm at the vividness of his dream, he drives out to the location where the crash occurred, only to discover that there really has been a hit-and-run incident – except that the driver behind the wheel was Ran (Lee Na-yeong), who insists she was asleep in bed at the time. It emerges that Ran is Jin's exact opposite – a woman who has dumped her own lover (Kim Tae-hyeon) – and that whatever Jin dreams, Ran acts out in her sleep. Disgusted that Jin's dreams of getting back with his former lover keep leading her back into the arms of her own despised ex, Ran insists that together they find a way to stop sleeping (and therefore dreaming) – but who is really dreaming? And can they ever wake up?
Dream bears all the hallmarks of a Kim Ki-duk film. There is the bizarre love triangle (or at least quadrangle) and impossible prison escape of 3-Iron (2004), the grotesque scenes of self-harm and wildly irrational, paradigm-shifting final images of The Isle (2000), and the presence of a Buddhist statue calmly watching over the proceedings, as in Spring, Summer, Autumn , Winter… and Spring (2003).
What is different here, however, is the loquacious dialogue, from a director more normally noted for the muteness of his characters. Even in this respect, however, Kim Ki-duk is, in fact, using language to highlight the communicative gulf that exists between his dramatis personae – for while Jin and Ran may talk at length, and with a large degree of repetition, Jin's every line is in Japanese, whereas Ran (along with all the other characters) speaks only in Korean, so that their conversations, though ostensibly bringing them closer together, also serve constantly to set them further apart (as well as to remove them entirely from reality).
Near the beginning of the film, a policeman confronts Ran with a surveillance camera image of herself at the wheel, and asks: "What about this picture? Does the camera lie? This is you, isn't it?" By the time Dream is over, viewers will be far from certain about the identities of the different characters or the veracity of the pictures that have been playing out on screen.
For despite its title, this is in fact a film about the slippery nature of reality, and the power of self-sacrificing love to restore balance and yield change in a world otherwise locked in a repeating pattern of selves perturbed and divided. Harmony is at last found in the space between a man and a butterfly, in a closing sequence that is as hauntingly beautiful as anything this side of sleep.
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Whilst the five points from Coventry's win against Bishop's Stortford last weekend was something most had predicted before the game, the manner in which they were achieved certainly wasn't. It was a less than convincing performance from a Cov side that stuttered and stalled in places against a Bishop's Stortford team that lifted it's game as so many do when they come to the BPA for the first time.
This weekend Cov, now top of the league following last Saturday's win, take on bottom of the table Fylde in a game that should be something of a banker as far as away games are concerned.
Two teams, as far apart in the table as you can get.
You'd think so, but this is Coventry and last season we travelled up to Fylde in confident mood only to be well-beaten by a Fylde side that had done their homework and were the better team on the day.
This time I'm only counting my chicks once they're completely out of their shells.
I might be wrong here, but I think Cov travelled up to Lytham on the Friday last season and I would imagine that they will have done so again yesterday – with so much potentially at stake this season, I expect RW will want to make sure that the players are given every opportunity to prepare both mentally and physically for every game, especially those way from home – Fylde, Darlington and Plymouth all involve getting on for a three-hour coach journey and ideally that's not something you want to be doing on the morning of a game at this level.
So why then do I travel up to Fylde today with that nagging doubt in the back of my mind that it could still all go somewhat pear-shaped?
And I have to say I feel very disloyal admitting it…but too often, even last season under Rowland Winter, Cov has failed to deliver on its travels and I have yet to be convinced that the coaches have totally cured the team of its tendency to self-destruct on occasions when away from home.
The Old Albanian game in Week 3 was a close run thing by all accounts and although results at Hull and Esher already this season have provided plenty of evidence to suggest that Cov is much stronger and much more confident away from the BPA, I've seen far too many games in recent years where we just haven't done ourselves justice. I'm ever the optimist, but even so it's going to take far more than just three games to prove Cov has developed the mindset to overcome previous insecurities about playing away from home.
…but for now, we must face a Fylde side that despite it's lowly position was good enough to beat Rosslyn Park at home just two weeks ago. I think I'd be far more confident had Coventry looked more convincing last week but even so, you have to believe Coventry, even with the number of injuries it's currently experiencing, will be far too strong for what is by all accounts a very young and inexperienced Fylde side.
Rowland Winter has certainly resisted the temptation to rest more than just a couple of his senior squad and unlike the team that faced Old Albanian, Makaafi and Preece both start in the back row. Luke Narraway remains on the bench with Brett Daynes the only one of the three who started against Bishop's Stortford, although this time he's at no 8.
I imagine that Daynes and/or Olly Povoas will get a couple more starts over the next few games as Rowland Winter will presumably want what would probably be his strongest starting back row of Makaafi, Preece and Narraway fresh for that tricky run of five or six games before Christmas. The fact that Daynes is comfortable at 6 or 8 gives the coaches plenty of options to rest at least one of those three and you know with Brett (or Olly) that he'll never let you down.
Even without Grove, Knox, Fenner and White, the backs look to have plenty strength in midfield and pace out wide and I think Tom Emery has impressed everyone with his performances in the last couple of games – and he offers the added bonus of being able to switch to scrum half should Dave Brazier need to come off for any reason.
With arguably 7 of the 'regular' Development Squad involved in today's game (Neal, Jeannot, Oghre, Palmer, Titchard-Jones, Gray and Lane as a traveling reserve), the benefits of having a reserve side are now becoming tangible – and maybe their presence in the senior squad is the reason for the cancellation of today's Zoo Shield fixture (it has have yet to be announced) – or maybe I just missed it?
Prior to RW's arrival, many of these players would have played little if any rugby over the past few weeks or, if they had, it would have been at a more junior level. Cov can now call upon players who are training with the full first team squad under the watchful eyes of the Coventry coaches and will be more than familiar with what is expected at a senior level.
And I reckon that is a big, big advantage. Just how big we might begin to see today.
Neal might have played earlier had he not been injured and looks to have been given the nod over Kwaku Asiedu. Palmer, Gray and Titchard-Jones would all be playing in most National One sides by now anyway and have acquitted themselves well when they've stepped up to the senior team already this season. And even though George Oghre will be making his league debut today if he comes on off the bench (although I think he came on against Rotherham pre-season), he certainly won't be phased by the step up.
Young Joe Lane really stood out for me in the pre-season games for the Development Squad and looks a really good prospect and the fact that he has been given the opportunity to travel up with the senior squad suggests that the coaches are encouraged by the progress he is making.
Luc Jeannot perhaps is the most interesting addition to today's match day squad though. I know he was formerly a member of the Saints Academy sides, although little else.
I remember RW mentioning him during a pre-season training session, saying what a good prospect he was and how well he was adapting to life at Cov and that he was already pushing some of the players more senior to him.
Big Luc Jeannot, a prop, is the first to mention. A fan favourite with songs like "woa ho ho he's magic you know, never get past Luc Jeannot" seem to be among the loudest sung around the pitch and as the nature of the wild Jeannot (sic) you can be rest assured whenever he is a round, there will not be a quiet moment.
Now it might be pure coincidence and as there's no photo to confirm it's the same Luc J, then maybe it is indeed a different player, but given he would be about the same age, also a prop and with such an unusual name, well what are the chances…?
The sign of a good side is how well it reacts to a poor performance.
Well, last weekend was certainly a poor performance by Cov's standards, or at least if not poor, then one of its poorer performances.
Rowland Winter has said he expects a reaction this weekend and those traveling up to Fylde today will be hope to see Cov dominate the game far more than they did last week.
Cov has yet to find the consistency that it will need if it is going to still be challenging for the top spot in April and if I have a concern, it would be that in two of the six games we've played so far we haven't looked a top two side – and against relatively weaker opposition.
We can't just turn it on for the big games – we have to show a more ruthless streak and against teams like Old Albanian and Bishop's Stortford, good as they are, we shouldn't be allowing them to settle into their game to the extent we have so far this season.
In the end, the manner of the win will always be secondary to the win itself, but we shouldn't be putting the kind of pressure on ourselves that we have done on a couple of occasions already this season.
Hopefully, Cov can do what they often do, and put the game beyond the opposition's reach before half time – it they can, it will certainly make watching the game rather less fraught for the supporters.
For those supporters not making their way up to Fylde today but who would like to keep up-to-date with what's happening in real time, other than just updates of the scores, please let me know and I'll be happy to tweet regularly from the game.
The tweets, when combined, make a crude 'commentary' of sorts. Be warned though, you might get well over a 100 tweets during the course of the game, so if that is too much @CoventryRugby will probably offer score updates. I'm not sure if Fylde has it's own Twitter feed, but it might be worth checking.
Coventry's twitter feed at home is improving all the time, but whether it is providing anything away from home is unclear…hopefully they will, although it will probably updates of scores and key moments in the game, rather my 'tweet anything and everything' approach to the game!
Pilot – sickly sweet pop…and to think when they split they joined either 10CC or The Alan Parson's Project. From 'February' to 'Rubber Bullets' – shocking.
Not sure how you watch the game and provide so many updates Tim, but it's very much appreciated.


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Familiar, but not so much. As the Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts kicks off next month Shakespeare will play a huge part. A Midsummer Night's Dream will run over two days at Earl Cameron Theatre, launching the festival's inaugural Shakespeare on the Rock Series.
It should be interesting even to those who already know the comedy, which was written by William Shakespeare circa 1585.
This adaptation is a modern one, set in the 1930s and choreographed in a Bollywood style. Paul Taylor 2, the eponymous company founded by the legendary choreographer who died in August, continues the dance theme.
The Royal Gazette spoke with the festival's executive director T.J. Armand about them both.
Q: Why Midsummer Night's Dream, a comedy that so many people are familiar with? Why of interest for the 2019 festival?
A: As with any Shakespeare play, there is a timeless element which replenishes itself further with new productions. Taking the 1930s as its starting point, not to mention the new choreography and movement, this is a fresh, new approach to a familiar classic play.
Q: Why did you think it would resonate with a Bermuda audience?
A: We loved the approach taken by the Honey-tongued Theatre Productions and, as past festival attendees will remember, their successful production of Twelfth Night here in Bermuda was a big hit. We are also interested in daring new productions of Shakespeare plays to inspire a new generation of theatregoers.
Q: Does the storyline differ from the traditional in any substantive way? Is it performed in modern or Shakespearean English?
A: I would strongly urge gestival-goers to [watch the video attached to the online version of this story] for a preview. Music and choreography would be the substantive difference and the language is also a mixture of modern and Shakespearean — one really needs to experience the blend with which the narrative is presented.
Q: Tell me a bit about the Shakespeare on the Rock Series, particularly the outreach and scholarship. How will that work?
A: For this play, select high school drama students will be invited to spend an hour with A Midsummer Night's Dream's [cast] for an interactive workshop on Friday, January 25 at 10am. Also, we just announced our year-round Student Outreach Programme and Shakespeare On The Rock is big part of it. [It] will enable local high school students to perform abbreviated versions of William Shakespeare's works and support further studies in the dramatic arts all year round.
Bermuda Festival's Shakespeare on the Rock Student Outreach Programme will serve as the continuation of the former Bermuda Shakespeare Schools Festival's programmes, but will have its own programming, guidelines, calendars and procedures.
Since Shakespeare's plays are part of the GCSE curriculum, Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts complements the school GCSE requirements by giving students a better understanding and appreciation of the works.
The programme will include student workshops performed at various locations throughout the year. Please contact outreach@BermudaFestival.org for more information.
Q: Bollywood and Shakespeare? Is the mix typical of director Helen Tennison's work?
A: I would say that Helen Tennison's work is always unpredictably delightful.
Q: Paul Taylor is legendary but there are so many wonderful dance companies out there. Why did you choose that one?
A: Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company is different than some of the touring companies; their professional dancers are specifically hired to perform the late Paul Taylor's works, meaning they're not students or temps as that tends to be the case for a lot of touring dance companies.
When we heard about Paul Taylor's passing [in August], which happened a few months after we had already booked them, we realised that the show was now to become a tribute and one of the first international performances of Taylor's works in the new year.
Q: Part of Taylor 2's remit is community outreach. Will any of that go on while they are here?
A: Absolutely. As outlined in our student outreach newsletter on our website, we encourage students to contact us for the one-hour workshop which will be held at City Hall on January 22 at 10am. It's free, but with reservations only on a first-come, first-served basis.
Q: One of the performances by Paul Taylor 2 is called Oracle. How does that fit with the festival's 2019 women's empowerment theme, She is Art?
A: A solo from Oracle will be performed with our empowerment of women theme in mind. The piece premiered in 1977 and is influenced by Minoan culture — a matriarchal society and civilisation which flourished in the Middle Bronze Age on the island of Crete.
Paul Taylor 2 Dance company added this piece to their repertoire just for us and our theme.
Q: They will also perform Esplanade. Why do audiences find it so fascinating? Is it what Taylor is best known for?
A: I would say so. It's one of his signature pieces and I specifically asked for it.
In Esplanade, Taylor was fascinated with the everyday human movements: running, sliding, walking, jumping, falling, etc. The work is set in five movements to Bach's Violin Concerto No 2 in E-flat Major.
Q: Taylor died this year, aged 88. When did he last perform? Choreograph?
A: As his obituary states: "... a surge of interest in the early Nineties by classical ballet companies [not only to restage Taylor's works but also to commission new choreography] augured a new phase", which was why Paul Taylor 2 Dance touring company was formed.
Taylor was heavily involved with his work until the very end. He retired from dancing in 1974 but his works as a choreographer will be remembered for ever.


There's a lot of talk at the moment about 'Big Writing' and many schools out there are already working with the Ros Wilson materials. Our Highland Literacy Group are keen to know what you think and if you know of any other good writing resources that might be of interest to others. We're keen to take a look at the 6 traits+1 materials (see the images above) and see what these have to offer. We'll let you know!
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Peter Wagner (Lütjenburg, 18 de setembre de 1956) és un politòleg alemany, professor d'investigació ICREA en Ciències socials a la Universitat de Barcelona. Doctor en Ciències polítiques per la Universitat de Berlín, ha desenvolupat la seva activitat acadèmica a Alemanya, el Regne Unit, França, Itàlia, Noruega, els Estats Units i Sud-àfrica. Ha estat investigador al Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung de Berlín, catedràtic de Sociologia a les universitats de Warwick i Trento, i catedràtic de Teoria social i política a l'Institut Europeu Universitari de Florència. La seva recerca se centra en l'estudi comparatiu i analític de les diferents formes de modernitat social, econòmica i política, i de les trajectòries històriques de les societats modernes. Des de l'any 2010 dirigeix a la Universitat de Barcelona el grup de recerca internacional TRAMOD «Trajectòries de la modernitat. Comparació de varietats europees i no europees». Ha publicat, entre d'altres, Modernity as Experience and Interpretation. A New Sociology of Modernity (Polity, 2008) i Modernity: Understanding the Present (Polity, 2012).

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My first apiary made from an old chicken coop!
Any chance you can post inside pics?
Thanks! I put it facing east so it gets early sun but shade in the hottest part of the day. That's wat got advised to me.
Sorry, I do not understand, did I post against the rules or in a wrong place?
Old mate wants to see inside the chicken coop.
Aaah, now I get it, yes hold on!
Looks great, but is it cramped doing inspections? I feel like I'd kill my back and eyesight.
That's something I still need to experience. I don't have bees in it yet, although I tried it out with an empty box and is is an okay height for lifting them and not bumping my head. Lighting is also something I'm unsure about, but i'll see!
Do you live in a very cold climate? Or is there some other benefit of having them inside?
No, I think 7 or 8. But it is more so it looks nice and it preserves my boxes a little more. It is open on 2 sides so it is more just a roof.


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"Excuse me, I need to use the restroom," I stood to walk away from the kitchen table.
Closing the door and turning on the faucet, I collapsed into a child's pose, tears silently falling. The high-end tile felt cold against my face. My empty stomach groaned, not out of hunger, but out of a craving to be filled with life.
The week prior I was dumped, again. In an effort to somehow salve my broken heart, I found a dirt cheap flight back to my hometown and my two best childhood friends promised to hold me in their arms and spend a Saturday evening together, just like old times.
We met at the huge, gorgeous home that my newly married friend had just moved into. Her husband jumped into a frenzy when he discovered she was pregnant and promptly hunted down a stunning house to move into and raise their family in. As we sat around her table, to my left my other best friend's pregnant belly protruded even more than the belly of my friend on my right. Rays of the purple setting sun reflected on the luxury swimming pool outside of the grand bay window. After brief pleasantries, in their excitement for their upcoming births, my two best friends jumped into an hour-long conversation about names and strollers and what gender they hoped their babies would be. "It's seriously so incredible to be pregnant," they said, bringing up the names of all our other mutual friends who also were expecting.
I sat silent. Stomach flat, covered in non-maternity clothes. Images flashed from the week prior: weeping on my couch with the man I adored as we tore our lives apart from each other. The lives of my best friends, each with their handsome, hardworking husbands and beautiful new houses, seemed perfect — exactly the life I had hoped for as a young girl. And I, well, I was a million miles away from even knowing where to start to pick up the pieces of another broken dream.
I sat silent. Stomach flat, covered in non-maternity clothes. Images flashed from the week prior: weeping on my couch with the man I adored as we tore our lives apart from each other.
30 isn't old, but it's also not young. It's old enough to know the countless ways a couple can experience infertility. It's old enough to have your doctor somberly tell you that if you want children, then it wouldn't be a bad idea to start trying now. It's old enough to have held your stillborn niece in your arms. It's old enough to have only lived the romantic narrative that everyone you love, so far, will leave you.
What do you do when the only thing you're sure of in life is that you want to, one day, be a mother? Is "phantom infertility" a possible sensation? Perhaps you are technically able to bear children, but you can't even find the starting line to try.
When we talk about hope, we say it in terms like, "I hope it doesn't rain on the concert" or, "I hope to win the Powerball." These are uncertain events and we simply use the word "hope" to somehow designate that we desire for just the best case uncertainty to grace us with good fortune. But what if hope isn't a passive posture of uncertainty, but rather a statement of certainty about what's to come? Hope is faith, just in future tense. We may not know the exact ways our dreams will come to pass, but perhaps choosing to live in hope means having the confidence that the destiny written on our hearts will surely, one day, come our way… somehow.
If motherhood is written on your heart, your journey may go one of many paths. Maybe you'll find a very "traditional path." Or, maybe not. The act of "becoming a mother" can blossom in many different ways, but all lead to the same place of sacrificial love. Whether by exploring medical interventions, embarking on pregnancy without a partner, adopting or becoming a foster parent, there's more than one way to care for our children. The path isn't what's most important. What matters is the undertone of love and the outpouring of that love to the next generation.
The path isn't what's most important. What matters is the undertone of love and the outpouring of that love to the next generation.
When you're grieving, people often bring up the oft cited (and oft cliche) encouragement that life is all about seasons. "Your winter will end and spring with come," they say. But could it be that the season of new life might not be spring? That it might not be when the bright green leaves start to appear and brilliantly colored poppies bloom? Perhaps F. Scott Fitzgerald captures seasons best when he says, "life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." Perhaps falling down on the cold hard tile and starting over, yet another time, was the precisely the day new life was born inside me all over again.
For you, if fall is upon you or it's all just falling apart, I want you to know that I recognize that pain. Pain from singleness, pain from not having children, or the pain of any dream you hold dear. Feeling like our dreams are dying can feel as though we are dying, but today will be over as soon as the sun sets.
And tomorrow, on a crisp fall day, may a new dream start all over again within you.
These words put language to my heart's emotion for the past few months as I am making a major life transition and there are dreams that have been divinely placed inside of me, that I deeply desire, but I see no way of them coming to pass. WOW. This is my heart, in a few sentences. I will choose hope as a statement of certainty, not passivity.
Thank you so much of the true vulnerability said with something I too deal with daily.
Thank you for sharing Talitha. Well-expressed.
It's amazing to me how many women and men feel this way. I hope all of us who hunger so deeply for family will someday be satisfied.
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The Comments on this post are at best, devastating. Coming from a family that was taught, by pattern, that women have families and get married no later than 25 – I completely understand this. I also understand that your deep desire to have children and to contribute to this life with a partner, is very much in your heart. I feel it too. After countless dates and being called, "marriage material" time and time again with singleness always near – I completely understand. I often feel it heavily and then at other times feel the freedom singleness. Knowing that it too, holds so much. Perhaps not exactly what I longed for and still do, but it allows me to be a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Foster Youth, to be a friend in a very different way than I could otherwise and it does even allow me to date. I have been a culprit, all too many times of the "I hate dating, I love dating" cycle. But I will say it has allowed me the opportunity to get to know so many people in this world and even when that date ends or we stop seeing each other, I have had the assurance to say that I still regard them as people of so much worth.
This is YOU, a person of so much worth. I am so thankful for your genuine nature, that allows all of us to learn with you and stand beside you – even if it is a standing through the tides of Media. I know you are a person so full of life in every aspect of it, the griefs and the joys and I am so thankful for that. To know that when you speak – it is from a genuine place. Thank you, thank you for opening up your heart to see the goodness of each high and low in life.
Carissa, I could not agree with you more. Very well put!
Hi WomenRDumb! Thanks for checking in. I've been dating someone since December or so. He's really great. You'd have to ask him if I've given him what he's wanted. Was on a game show and won $12,000, so that's going into savings to take care of my future kiddos….. Pretty cool blessing from the universe. Not sure if it was ever all about me…. but I have spent a lot of time this past year volunteering and fundraising for various non-profits.
Thank you for your vulnerability and expressing what so many women feel. As someone who just entered a new decade of my 30's, becoming a mother and starting a family has become my #1 dream. I've already begun to share some of your feelings and it's encouraging to know that we're not alone in how we feel in our journey to motherhood, no matter what your circumstance.
I am that girl as well. 32 (tomorrow) and desperately wanting a child. It's something I think about each time that time of the month comes around and an aching my in stomach when I see friends my age having their second and third children.
Thank you so much for your words, as they are truly comforting even though you may be in pain.
Happy birthday. I'm so sorry that you're feeling this, but I know there's still a ton of hope out there. It's just a very real thing that somedays you feel like you can't find it.
I was deeply moved by your story. I am that girl, about to turn thirty and feeling the sadness of an empty womb with a lost relationship in the rear view mirror. So odd when you want to celebrate with your best friends as they have their first (and second) children but there is a deep sadness that is stirred up in the celebrating.
Thank you so much for this encouragement. Know you're not alone.
Thank you for being brave enough to write this. Sending you a hug tonight. You are not alone.
Sitting with you on a Sunday night. Thank you for your bravery, honesty, and hope. Even Eve, the mother of all living things, didn't have children when she was first named. Being a mother, providing love, nurturement, and care doesn't have to be limited to blood children. While not the same, through your words, you have "mothered" me. Thank you!
I love this, so much. Amazing insights on the Eve concept.
Truth expressed with such clarity through the pain- thank you.
Beautifully and tenderly said. And, oh, so true.


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WPA2 (WiFi Protected Access v2) supports the use of AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) for encryption.
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2), and Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) are the three security and security certification programs developed after 2000 by the Wi-Fi Alliance to secure wireless computer networks. The Alliance defined these in response to serious weaknesses researchers had found in the previous system, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP).WPA (sometimes referred to TKIP standard) became available in 2003. The Wi-Fi Alliance intended it as an intermediate measure in anticipation of the availability of the more secure and complex WPA2, which became available in 2004 and is a common shorthand for the full IEEE 802.11i (or IEEE 802.11i-2004) standard. In January 2018, Wi-Fi Alliance announced the release of WPA3 with several security improvements over WPA2.
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Accordionist, Conjunto, Musician
As a boy, Valerio Longoria took apart a harmonica to see how it worked. When he was 8, his father, Valerio Longoria, Sr., bought an accordion for him for $10. In a short time, he taught himself to play and gradually learned the intricacies of his instrument. He dismantled and rebuilt the accordion to learn about its construction and the creation of its sounds. Within months, he was playing on the streets of his South Texas hometown of Kenedy for friends and passersby and soon was hired for area weddings and parties, playing waltzes, schottisches and polkas.
In the early 1930s, Longoria traveled with groups of migrant farm laborers. He worked in the fields by day and played dances at night. He was inspired by strolling musicians he saw in Mexico and devised a system of straps that allowed him to play and sing standing up.
In 1942, when he was 18 years old, Longoria enlisted in the Army. He put his accordion aside until he resettled in San Antonio in 1946. There he formed his own conjunto (ensemble) comprising accordion, guitar, stand-up bass and drum set. He made his first recording, "El Pokerito," in 1947 for the Corona label, and over the next decade he recorded for nearly every Spanish-language label in Texas.
Longoria became known for the instrumentation of his bands and for his ability to renovate instruments and experiment with new sounds. To one of his accordions he added a fourth row of buttons (the contemporary standard has three rows). On another instrument, he paired reeds tuned an octave apart to produce a rich, organlike sound. He also removed a standard set of bass stops, which he found insufficient, and replaced it with a larger set.
He was the first accordionist to combine his singing talents with his instrumental skills. He was also the first to tune and alter the accordion's metal reeds to give it a new hoarse sound and facilitate the immediate transition to keys other than the original one. He introduced modern dance band drums into the conjunto and was the first to record the slow-paced bolero, a genre long associated with the genteel tradition but that demanded more vocal finesse, greater technical skill and more rhythmic and harmonic complexity.
In 1959, Longoria left Texas to record and tour the Midwest under the sponsorship of the Firma label in Chicago. He moved to Chicago, planning to be there for three months but ended up staying eight years. From there, he moved to Florida, then back to Chicago. He traveled wherever people wanted to hear his conjunto music. After some time in Colorado and Idaho, he went to Los Angeles. Once again, he thought he was going to stay for only a few months but remained eight years.
In the 1980s, Longoria moved back to Texas upon hearing rumors that he had died and that his friends and fans were planning a memorial album for him. He settled in San Antonio and steadily regained his musical reputation in the state. With the founding of the Guadalupe Cultural Center in San Antonio, Longoria became active in teaching accordion to children and aspiring musicians.
Cicchetti, Stephen J. "Stand Up and Play It Right." San Antonio Monthly (September 1984).
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Peña, Manuel. The Texas-Mexican Conjunto: History of a Working Class Music. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985.) Ratliff, Ben. "Valerio Longoria, 75, Conjunto Musician." New York Times (December 19, 2000): A32.
Reyna, José R. "Tejano Music as an Expression of Cultural Nationalism." Tonantzin (May 1989) 6: 2.
Salas, Lesley, and Melanie Cole. "Conjunto Connections." Hispanic (July 1995) 8, 5: 9.
Walljasper, J. "Music." Utne Reader (November/December 1990) 42: 136.
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______. Texas Conjunto Pioneer. Arhoolie 358.
Longoria, Valerio, et al. San Antonio's Conjuntos in the 1950s. Arhoolie 376.
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The most critical problem we face, not only in the barrios, but in Nicaragua and Central America, is that of the threat of an invasion by the United States.
America, United States, Invasion
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They [Nicaragua] haven't had elections because they are in a state of seige by the United States. They would have had elections if the U.S. had left them alone. But the U.S. has mounted a full scale war against them. So how can you ask them to behave normally?
War, United States, Election
Freedom-loving people around the world must say . . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.
People, Vietnam, World
Ronald Reagan (2004). "Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches", p.265, Simon and Schuster
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The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.
Bartolome de las Casas
Christian, Mother, Children
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
Smedley Butler
Brother, Light, Oil
Smedley D. Butler (2003). "War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier", Feral House
There are going to be stories of very young kids that were brought to this country at a very young age who don't even speak Spanish that are going to be sent back to Nicaragua or some other place. And it's gonna feel weird and I understand that. The goal here is to have an immigration policy that works. And if you provide a path for people to enter this country illegally and if they stay here long enough and pay enough in taxes, well let them stay legally...why would anyone come in through the legal process?
Country, Kids, Long
"Rubio now supports Arizona law, hardens immigration line" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. May 6, 2010.
Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'
Fall, Cat, Marine
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I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
Brother, Wall, Boys
"War Is a Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.
Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
Adam Braun
Taken, Long, People
"Fathers & Sons". The Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2012.
Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated "heavily indebted poor country," with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is for sale. And once Nicaraguans decide to cash in and sell their houses or farms, they have to look far inland for anything affordable.
Tony D'Souza
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"The Boomtown, the Gringo, the Girl, and Her Murder". www.outsideonline.com. May 1, 2007.
I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
Moving, Artist, Impact
"Kate Voegele 'went on journey for new LP'" by Jennifer Still, www.digitalspy.com. April 27, 2011.
Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today. That's why they don't get linen.
Life, Caring, Worry
Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
Law, Justice, Way
In my opinion, peace has not come to America, to Nicaragua, or to El Salvador. A hungry people is a people without peace. If the demands of the people are not met, what kind of peace are we talking about?
Rigoberta Menchu
Talking, America, People
Source: www.indians.org
The Democrat Party of the 1980s chose the Soviet Union over Ronald Reagan, in Nicaragua, and in Moscow as well. Now, all of a sudden, they don't like Russia and they don't like the Soviet Union?
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Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
Both my best and worst memories are of my time in Nicaragua. The experience as a whole was totally redeeming and amazing. It sounds so cliche, but I don't care because I'm saying that from the heart. I stayed with a host family and went back to the same kind of rural farming village outside of Managua.
Memories, Heart, Sound
"New York tops the list for young actress". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. May 17, 2011.
The US reasserted control over Nicaragua in 1990. Since then, the country has experienced a steep decline. It's now the second poorest country in the hemisphere.
Country, Hemisphere, Decline
Source: www.madre.org
Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.
Moving, America, Crushed
For years we have seen people coming on rafts, etc., but now we are seeing people entering Central America, Costa Rica, Panama and then they have nowhere to go because those countries are not - for example, in Nicaragua, the border was closed. I've always said that I'm open to a study on how can it be changed.
Country, Years, America
Source: www.univision.com
The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.
Christian, Latin, America
Source: www.crisismagazine.com
My goal is more youth oriented. I'm super big on education, I was in school to be an elementary education teacher so I'm starting to build schools, getting supplies in schools in Nicaragua.
Asher Roth
Teacher, School, Goal
Source: www.parlemag.com
In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT's Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!
Daughter, Military, War
"Peace netter". Interviewed with Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2002.
When I was 15 and then 16 years old, I spent two summers in Nicaragua for a service project. I took Spanish classes the first week and got acclimated to Central America. I loved it.
Summer, Years, Class
The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated.
War, Media, Ideas
Source: www.progressive.org
It's a little bit about being a global citizen, with all the United Nations positive umph that there is with that phrase - it's about being a positive do-gooder. But it's also: how can I participate in globalization in a really clear way? Like: don't leave the house unless you can bring something worthy into the world. And so Nicaragua changed the way that I want to do things.
Anne Elizabeth Moore
House, Citizens, Phrases
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National DCP Announces Corporate Office Opening in Gwinnett County
May 31, 2013 | Latest News
Expansion to add 125 new jobs in metro Atlanta
(GWINNETT- METRO ATLANTA) May 31, 2013 – National DCP, LLC (NDCP) joined with Gwinnett Chamber Economic Development to announce the opening of its new corporate office in Gwinnett County, metro Atlanta, Georgia today. The exclusive sourcing, purchasing, and distribution partner for Dunkin' Donuts restaurants, NDCP will open its corporate office in August 2013, creating more than 125 full-time administrative functions at the Duluth area location.
"After the successful merger of five different operating companies across the U.S. in 2012, we are opening this new office to better serve our customers, the Dunkin' Donuts franchisees," said Scott Carter, National DCP Chief Executive Officer. "Dunkin' Donuts has announced its plans to double in size with significant growth occurring primarily in the South, Southwest and West. In support of the rapidly expanding Dunkin' chain, we decided that the Company's headquarters needed to be located in a more geographically central location, and after a great deal of study, we chose Gwinnett County, metro Atlanta."
Chris Cummiskey, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Economic Development said, "It's not surprising that an industry leader such as National DCP would gravitate towards a centrally-located, logistics-oriented state like Georgia for its corporate office location. We have workers well-qualified for these 125 new jobs and many other resources that help logistics-focused companies thrive."
"We are pleased to welcome National DCP to Gwinnett County, an addition that will bring new jobs and investment to our community," stated Gwinnett County Commission Chairman Charlotte Nash. "National DCP's strategic decision to invest in Gwinnett is a statement about our favorable economic climate and advantageous location. We look forward to National DCP's continued growth and success."
Approximately half of the 135 administrative positions currently located in the Bellingham, MA corporate offices will be given the opportunity to relocate to Gwinnett County or remain locally. More than 1,100 NDCP employees, including those who work on the operations side of the 35 distribution centers and hubs across the country, will not be affected by the move, as they will continue to play a key role in the distribution of products to Dunkin' Donuts restaurants nationwide.
"This Gwinnett County location was chosen after researching multiple communities and sites. Gwinnett Economic Development and the state of Georgia have been extremely helpful in providing relocation assistance, resources, and training," said Leo Taylor, National DCP Chief Administration Officer.
"We congratulate National DCP on this announcement and celebrate an excellent addition to the growing number of corporate headquarter locations that already call Gwinnett County and metro Atlanta home," stated Kellie Brownlow, Director of Economic Development for Gwinnett Chamber Economic Development and Partnership Gwinnett. "As we work to attract businesses, create jobs, and support companies' growth efforts in one of metro Atlanta's largest and most diverse communities, we are confident National DCP will thrive in Gwinnett County."
Employment opportunities at the NDCP location in Duluth are accessible via the "Career" tab on the company's website at www.nationaldcp.com.
For more information, or to learn how to get involved in local economic development efforts, please visit www.gwinnetteconomicdevelopment.com.


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Throughout time, violent battles and bloody clashes have changed the course of history and shaped nations or empires. Battles of annihilation are rare, but ever since antiquity a stunning victory on the battlefield, even if it has failed to win the war, has captured the imagination. In this book Mir Bahmanyar examines battles of annihilation throughout history, some well known, others less so, but all equally extraordinary, to discover what sets these engagements apart, whether they achieve a decisive strategic advantage in war, and why there are fewer battles of annihilation in modern times.


It's been a kind of leisurely day today, although I seem to have lost the morning as a result, lol. Anyway, I began the afternoon by selecting papers for my forthcoming CJ on Bubbly Funk. I think I may yet decide to change my title and will be putting it all together at the last moment. I really need a few other things in order to start doing my pages, so a little nose on the net later may be the trick, LOL.
So today I made a birthday card, which is well over due, but it's done now and I'm quite pleased with the result.
The ribbon is very pretty and kind of of folded over on each side. I bought it in Valencia last year and wish I'd bought more now, as you do, LOL.
Hope to be back tomorrow with my wk 4 of the 52Q's.
Do I believe in Fairies............?
I've managed to squeeze in some time to finish my week 3 of the 52Q's - Do I believe in Fairies? I don't have anything fairified LOL, hence the best thing I could use from my stamps was my Maiden stamp. I think she's so pretty and looks deep in thought, possibly wondering whether she believes in fairies herself, LOL!! So, I decided to use her, together with a bit of sponging of ink and some glitter. Sorry for the poor quality of pics again, taken at night.
I'm feeling rather chuffed right now as I've finally managed to create my first ever blog banner. Cor, what a sweat that was, LOL. Karen and Di (links to their blogs are to the right) from Bubbly Funk popped up a set of instructions (tutorial) for a blog banner, so I first decided to try a digi one, hence working from Di's. I shall also try another one tomorrow, that's if it doesn't take another week to do it, LOL. So I just want to say thank you very much Di, even though I did get a little confused going along. I think if you try to do something yourself first it kind of sinks in better than if someone did it for you, IYSWIM? Not that I would turn down anyone's offer of help, but I just find it helps me to try it myself aswell.
So, oooh, I'm so chuffed, I really am.
I don't have anything to show as I haven't had any time to create anything this week, (hence my new title, rather appropriate I thought, LOL).
So, I will try and pop by tomorrow and hopefully show my 3rd week of Emily's 52Q's.
Oh, my hubby thinks that the font needs changing as he read it as "realing now and again!!" Please let me know what you think? I wanted the font bigger, but it only went up to 72. Any tips or advice is appreciated. Thank ewe!
First, I'd like to wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I hope it's a year which brings good health, warmth, happiness and peace of mind to you all. I know that I for one, certainly need the peace of mind bit LOL!!
So..............I am going to try not to forget to do my blog this year. Well, it's not a case of forgetting, it's a case of having the time to set aside in order to get everything ready to upload, but I have had to make a couple of hard decisions lately and although they were very difficult to make, they may allow me the extra bit of time to spend creating and begin enjoying my hobby again!! We'll see!
What have I been up to recently then..................? Well, I've decided to join in with my first CJ on Bubbly Funk and I can't tell you how excited I am about it all. I will probably take forever and a day to choose my theme, but nevertheless, I am really looking forward to this one. I last did a CJ about 3 years ago, so I think it's about time I did another one LOL!!
I've also taken up the Emily Falconbridge's 52 Q's. http://www.embers.typepad.com/ and have completed the first two, so how's that for being organised? I'm waiting now for the next one and determined to keep up to date with these aswell. I've yet to think of where I'm going to keep them, or what I'm going to make to keep them in, but that will have to wait for now. I have also written some personal notes/sentiments for these, but these are kept separate for that reason alone.
What do I wish for this year to bring?
I also finished my mug that I got when up at the NEC Birgmingham with the Bubblies. The photo isn't brill due to bad lighting (that's right, it's never the photographer's fault lol). No, the lighting was not good, but you can just about see what I did.
The 52Q's and CJ are the first two things that I really wanted to do in my spare time. I'd love to join in with other projects too, but for now I don't want to take on too much, otherwise it's a case of backing out and spoiling it for other people and I don't want to do that. So fingers crossed for me that I can dedicate my time to these little fun projects. I'm really looking forward to it!!
Been having a play before tea today with my BIA machine. I bought it in November for my birthday, took it out of the box before christmas and finally had a go with it today LOL!! Looking forward to making some little projects with it soon. I don't know what the difference is between this one and version 2. Does anyone know if there's much difference?


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DuClaw Exec Debuts On-line Ordering System for Small to Mid-Size Breweries
An executive at DuClaw Brewing Co. has developed software that streamlines the chaotic ordering process between distributors and suppliers, and is making it available to the craft beer industry.sponsored content
The platform, called BrewOptix, officially launches this month. In addition to ordering, BrewOptix also is an inventory management system, and effortlessly communicates product movement among stakeholders. Read more.
Lone Oak Farm Brewing in Montgomery County Cited by County
Lone Oak Farm Brewing at 5000 Olney-Laytonsville Road in Olney was ordered to stop serving food after it was found operating without the proper food service facility license, according to Montgomery County officials. Inspectors also said they reminded the business that live music was prohibited except for live-streaming or broadcasting, in accordance with the order issued by the Maryland Department of Health. Read More.
Flying Dog, Annapolis Native Team Up for Bay Oyster Recovery Efforts
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland – Annapolis native Chris Hopkinson recently announced that he will attempt an ambitious 240-mile journey from Havre de Grace, MD to Virginia Beach, VA atop a 14-foot paddleboard over the course of just nine days. The Bay Paddle, presented by Flying Dog Brewery, will take place September 18-26, 2020 to raise awareness and funds for the Oyster Recovery Partnership (ORP) to plant oysters in the Chesapeake Bay.
Hopkinson has set a fundraising goal of $200,000 for his journey, which will launch from Concord Point Lighthouse in Havre de Grace on Sept. 18. From there, Hopkinson will follow a route that mirrors that of Captain John Smith when he set out to explore the Chesapeake Bay in 1608. Read More.
Wine of the Week: Maryland has wines from Albariño to Zweigelt
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I must admit — I am a bit embarrassed. I have lived in Maryland for almost 20 years and it never occurred to me to check out the Maryland wine scene. Why? I have no idea. It's a shame really; Maryland has such a rich history of winemaking in the state and it's literally in my backyard.
According to the Maryland Wineries Association — whose executive director Dr. Kevin Atticks recently appeared on The Vine Guy podcast — the earliest recorded winemaking event in Maryland dates back to 1648, followed by Governor Charles Calvert, who planted the first European grapes on 200 acres on the east bank of St. Mary's River in 1662. Read More.
Enjoy Maryland Mead This Saturday
Courtesy the Brewer's Association of Maryland: Mead is not quite beer, though it is credited as being one of the first drinks resulting from the human pursuit of zymurgy. Historically, mead has been revered and is known colloquially as "the nectar of the Gods."
Today, there are several members of the Brewers Association of Maryland making exceptional and delicious modern meads. Join the National Mead Day celebration this Saturday with meads from one of our members:
The Buzz Meadery
Charm City Meadworks
Maryland Meadworks
Try some awesome meads from these great, local producers this weekend. Check with them for pickup, delivery, and shipping options!
Share your #NationalMeadDay journey with us and be sure to tag #MDBeer.
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Kevin Smith was the Maryland beat reporter for the Mid-Atlantic Brewing News from 2007 until 2019. He also had regular beer columns for the now defunct Want2Dish.com (2010-13), and the Frederick News-Post (2016-2020). Kevin has worked as a freelance and/or staff reporter since 1996 covering everything from business to zymurgy. He has written articles about the Mid-Atlantic craft beverage scene for The American Brewer, Wine Business Monthly, Hagerstown Magazine, Maryland Life, and others. He currently resides in Frederick County, Maryland where he writes, edits and publishes Frederick Behind Bars.
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How the "Become Your Own Dream" Scholarship Fund Got Its Name
This scholarship, known as the "Become Your Own Dream Scholarship Fund," was created and founded by Hooman Tavakolian (aka Coach Mo) and Lorelei Martin-Tavakolian, with the help of Jon Tush, who was one of the first contributors and supporters of the fund.
The scholarship is granted to a New York City student-athlete who has overcome obstacles, felt hardship, and who plans to wrestle in college. The scholarship is open to those who have graduated from high school (or are seniors attending college in the fall), and those who currently attend college.
Hooman has a deep affection for this scholarship, as he was a victim of hardship growing up, yet his love for athletics kept him motivated. Hooman arrived in America in 1986, after his family left behind their war-torn country. Living in poverty, Hooman struggled with lack of money to cover things that most people take for granted, but he never lost focus of his dreams and goals. He faced the obstacles head on. He found sports, especially the sport of wrestling, to be his true loyal friend. Win or lose, he always held his head high. Wrestling taught him important virtues, including to never give up.
Although he never achieved All-American honors or graduated from an Ivy League school, Hooman is proud of where he is today and owes much of that to the sport of wrestling and his family for supporting him. Hooman recognized that in order to escape poverty, he must strive for his goals, and Become His Own Dream.
Hooman graduated with honors in high school. He received his Bachelor's degree from Hunter College and his MBA from Long Island University, CW Post. He recently completed his 2nd Master's degree with honors in the science of law, focusing on compliance. He has a successful career in finance and compliance. He has continued to wrestle, and recently won the Veteran National Championships on two different occasions. He is an ambassador to wrestling with his close ties with the Iranian wrestling federation and national team.
Hooman "Mo" Tavakolian – Creator & Founder
Lorelei Martin-Tavakolian – Co-Founder
Lorelei, a native New Yorker, was introduced to the sport of wrestling when she met her then-future husband, Hooman. She felt an immediate connection to the sport when she witnessed the success and drive of the athletes.
Lorelei has worked in Compliance in NYC since graduating from Fordham University in 1997. She graduated from Pace University in 2005 with her MBA. She ran the NYC Marathon in 2009 — an accomplishment she credits to being surrounded by Wrestlers.
Being a wrestler is about having passion; it's about putting your whole being into everything you do. Accomplishments can be hard to reach, especially when you are faced with challenges along the way. Wrestlers reach their goals at all costs. Lorelei shares the same vision and is honored to be a part of this scholarship.
Jon Tush – Co-Founder & Initial Contributor
Born and raised in New York City, this effort is very important to Tush. "Wrestling and wrestlers have always been here in NYC, but very few ever really cared. Now they do and that is fantastic. It is my responsibility and privilege to help in any way I can", said Jon.
Jon is a Vice President of a worldwide medical device company. He was a two-time State Prep and Parochial Champion out of McBurney High School in NYC. He attended East Stroudsburg University where he was a Starter as a Freshman and Sophomore and placed in the Pennsylvania Conference Championships. With a change of academic direction, Jon transferred to Hunter College in NYC and had continued success on the mat. He was inducted into the Hunter College Athletic Hall of Fame after graduation. Jon continued wrestling on national and international levels for the NYAC. He won the US Open Veterans Tournament as well as Gold and Bronze medals at the Veteran World Championships. He is President of the NYAC Wrestling Club and sits on the NYAC Wrestling Committee. Jon's passion is coaching kids and mentors several through his "Garage Wrestling Complex" in Maplewood, NJ. He makes himself available to his wrestlers whenever and wherever they may need him.
Jon has been married to his wife Santa for 21 years. They live in Maplewood, NJ with their children, PJ and Sammy, 16 and 12 respectively.
Justin Hoch
Formerly a staff member at Beat the Streets, Justin is a graduate of Binghamton University with degrees in Psychology and Management (Finance Concentration). He was a five-year participant and two-year captain of the Bearcats wrestling team. He also served three years on the executive board of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
"I am extremely proud to be a part of the Become Your Own Dream Scholarship. It is such a great opportunity for New York City's wrestlers and I'm honored to partner with Hooman, Lorelei, and Jon in making these dreams become reality."
He finds time to wrestle when his schedule and body permits.


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Well, so much for the era of good feeling.
President Obama traveled to Capitol Hill on Tuesday afternoon for the first of four meetings he has planned this week to reach out to Senate and House Democrats and Republicans in search of political consensus.
While, not surprisingly, his first session with Senate Democrats went relatively smoothly, he encountered some pushback from a liberal Democrat over Social Security reform. And he was greeted with the unhappy news that a Republican senator, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, had placed a hold on a must-pass continuing resolution to keep the government operating through the rest of the fiscal year.
The dustup over the continuing resolution, which must be enacted before March 27 to avoid a government shutdown, may have reminded the president why he has generally stayed away from the Capitol until now.
According to a handful of Democrats who sat in on the meeting with the president, it was a highly productive gathering that covered everything from immigration and gun control to spending and taxes to the president's renewed hopes to negotiate a comprehensive plan with the Republicans for reforming entitlements and the tax code and bringing down the deficit.
Obama's visit to the Capitol coincided with the release of Republican House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's fiscal 2014 budget, which was designed to wipe out the deficit in ten years through nearly $5 trillion in spending cuts, an overhaul of Medicare and Medicaid and the dismantling of Obamacare. Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray is scheduled to release the Democrats' version of the budget on Wednesday. Her plan contains a combination of tax increases and spending cuts, but doesn't eliminate the deficit for the foreseeable future.
Both sides have indicated a willingness to use the upcoming debate this spring over the budget to seek an alternative to the$85 billion of across the board spending cuts that began to kick in this month.
Liberal Democrats, seniors and veterans groups fear that Obama might go too far in agreeing to changes to Social Security and other entitlements in pursuit of a bipartisan deficit reduction package. Harkin said he made it clear that he and other liberals would not support some of the ideas being floated by Obama, including altering the cost of living adjustment formula to gradually cut Social Security benefits.


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Leaders gather to envision the future of education
Jenny Wiedower
On June 19, the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council gathered leaders, stakeholders and advocates from 30 education-related organizations to envision a future in which students, educators and everyone who supports them are prepared for their role as global citizens. With generous support from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, attendees worked for seven straight hours to craft a shared vision for what success around sustainability education in the U.S. looks like, and proposed hundreds of recommendations, organized within eight strategic subsets, for the pathway to reach that desired future state.
Representing school districts, curriculum developers, technology vendors, publishers, research institutes and sustainability champions, the group reached consensus around the case for rapidly increasing the presence of sustainability themes in K-12 education. Inspired by a paradigm in which education builds and strengthens bridges between students, schools and communities; where students and educators work together on authentic problem solving; and student performance is improved in the classroom and beyond, the collaborative set its sight on a future in which all K-12 students graduate literate and equipped to make decisions in the "4Es:" environment, economy, equity and ethics. Looking to past education and sustainability turning points for insight on the path forward, attendees agreed that in order to reach this vision, a cross-sector collaborative should lead the charge to build capacity and integration across these subsets:
Integrated content/curriculum
Pre-service teacher education
We are incredibly grateful for the individuals who joined us in Washington, D.C. this month who committed to collectively advancing this incredibly important work. The Center for Green Schools will continue its role as convener, engaging new and existing audiences to transform our schools into high-performing places, inside and out. Over the next 4-6 weeks, the Center team will collect additional feedback on elements of the national action plan and will publish the plan in the fall as a result of the June convening, public comment and additional research and collaboration.
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Please visit the official national action plan public comment page over the coming weeks to weigh in on draft content. Be sure to share the page with your networks as well!