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'use strict';

// MODULES //

var tape = require( 'tape' );
var constantcase = require( './../lib' );

// TESTS //

tape( 'main export is a function', function test( t ) {
	t.ok( true, __filename );
	t.strictEqual( typeof constantcase, 'function', 'main export is a function' );
	t.end();
});

tape( 'the function throws an error if not provided a string', function test( t ) {
	var values;
	var i;

	values = [
		5,
		NaN,
		true,
		false,
		null,
		void 0,
		[],
		{},
		function noop() {}
	];

	for ( i = 0; i < values.length; i++ ) {
		t.throws( badValue( values[i] ), TypeError, 'throws a type error when provided '+values[i] );
	}
	t.end();

	function badValue( value ) {
		return function badValue() {
			constantcase( value );
		};
	}
});

tape( 'the function converts a camel case string to a constant case string', function test( t ) {
	var expected;
	var actual;

	expected = 'CAMEL_CASE';
	actual = constantcase( 'camelCase' );
	t.strictEqual( actual, expected, 'returns expected value' );

	expected = 'IS_MOBILE';
	actual = constantcase( 'isMobile' );
	t.strictEqual( actual, expected, 'returns expected value' );
	t.end();
});

tape( 'the function converts a string to constant case', function test( t ) {
	var expected;
	var values;
	var i;

	values = [
		'Hello World',
		'I am tiny little tea pot',
		'Big problems',
		'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'
	];

	expected = [
		'HELLO_WORLD',
		'I_AM_TINY_LITTLE_TEA_POT',
		'BIG_PROBLEMS',
		'THE_QUICK_BROWN_FOX_JUMPS_OVER_THE_LAZY_DOG'
	];

	for ( i = 0; i < values.length; i++ ) {
		t.strictEqual( constantcase( values[i] ), expected[i], 'returns expected value.' );
	}
	t.end();
});

tape( 'the function converts a string with Unicode characters to constant case', function test( t ) {
	var expected;
	var values;
	var i;

	values = [
		'Привет мир',
		'Я маленькая лошадка',
		'Большие проблемы',
		'Быстрый коричневый фонд',
		'Café esuna bella'
	];

	expected = [
		'ПРИВЕТ_МИР',
		'Я_МАЛЕНЬКАЯ_ЛОШАДКА',
		'БОЛЬШИЕ_ПРОБЛЕМЫ',
		'БЫСТРЫЙ_КОРИЧНЕВЫЙ_ФОНД',
		'CAFÉ_ESUNA_BELLA'
	];

	for ( i = 0; i < values.length; i++ ) {
		t.strictEqual( constantcase( values[i] ), expected[i], 'returns expected value.' );
	}
	t.end();
});

tape( 'the function leaves a string that is already in constant case unchanged', function test( t ) {
	var expected;
	var values;
	var i;

	values = [
		'CAMEL_CASE',
		'IS_MOBILE',
		'THE_QUICK_BROWN_FOX_JUMPS_OVER_THE_LAZY_DOG'
	];

	expected = [
		'CAMEL_CASE',
		'IS_MOBILE',
		'THE_QUICK_BROWN_FOX_JUMPS_OVER_THE_LAZY_DOG'
	];

	for ( i = 0; i < values.length; i++ ) {
		t.strictEqual( constantcase( values[i] ), expected[i], 'returns expected value.' );
	}
	t.end();
});


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Rubens in the city (1)
(-) In the spotlight (4)
(-) Exclusive (2)
(-) Donation 2021 (1)
A new Rubens Self-Portrait
Rubens House presents five new loans
The Rubens Househas a remarkable new exhibit to unveil: a recently rediscovered Rubens self-portrait. It is one of five new loans to add to the lustre of the artist's former residence.
The Rubens House: always open online
The museum is always open online. Take a digital tour of the museum with director Ben van Beneden, learn everything about the portico and garden pavilion with an online talk and a 360° photography tour, check out our acquisitions and loans or find out more about Rubens by taking our audio tour 'The Master Lives' via the Antwerp Museum App.
Rubens House wins Europa Nostra Award
The 2020 European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards saw the Rubens House honoured with one of the world's most renowned heritage prizes for the restoration of its portico and garden pavilion.
The Rubens House is showing two unique loaned works
The Massacre of the Innocents and the Head of the Apostle Matthew
The Rubens House is showing two unique loaned works this autumn: The Massacre of the Innocents, an early masterpiece by Rubens and the most expensive Rubens ever and the Head of the Apostle Matthew, an outstanding early work by Rubens' most talented pupil, Anthony van Dyck.
King Baudouin Foundation provides masterpiece Van Dyck on permanent loan
An outstanding early work by Rubens' most talented pupil, Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) has been provided on permanent loan by the King Baudouin Foundation. The Head of the Apostle Matthew is the only composition from the famous Böhler series displayed in a Belgian public collection.
Christ and Six Apostles, (Fragment of The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes)
Practical information about opening hours, ticket sales, how to reach us and accessibility. And how can you enjoy a safe visit to the museum in these times.


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I lost all my defenses( Or Songs for the Morning)
Throughout the day, music can be a vital part of keeping your sanity. It helps set a tone and a pace for what hopefully is a pleasurable day. In my opinion, music for the morning needs to be chill, more laid back, and should be there to bring out maximum relaxation, especially on weekends. This list includes some of my vital go to morning jams. Hope you enjoy
Beck, Morning, Morning Phase
When Beck returned with this companion piece to "Sea Change," no one quite knew what to expect. However, after realizing that it was actually brilliant, the listener is able to relax and drift across wondrous pools of water and imagine the world as it should be. Peaceful, and full of laughter and joy. "Morning" is both a lyrical and instrumental powerhouse, while still being able to gently ease into the world. The chorus especially evokes images of a pink sky coming out of the darkness of the night, and the hope for another beautiful, perfect day.
Bon Iver, Holocene, Bon Iver
The gentle guitar strums over a quiet lake, early in the morn. This is one of the best qualities Justin Vernon is able to employ in his role as Bon Iver. Many songs have this similar element and feeling to it, but "Holocene," off his brilliant second album, stands out among his best. His passionate, soft spoken voice is able to bring all the pain and honesty through with little effort, but the song just get's better as it progresses and more instruments show up to add layers. It's a reminder of how much the song is beautiful thing, as also how everything has a purpose and a pace to it.
Deftones, Teenager, White Pony
Maybe the most unlike Deftones song ever, but it's place in the flow of "White Pony" is brilliant and poignant. It's a track full of internal struggle that slowly leaks out into the world, Chino's voice is able to be gorgeous and patient, which is in certain contrast to the other side of him that can scream and howl with the best of the "metal community." This song also works so well because it's out of left field. Not to say much of this masterfully perfect album isn't different than what came from them previously, but this track especially stands out.
Grizzly Bear, Sun In Your Eyes, Shields
Grizzly Bear is a band that been making progressively better records for awhile now, but with 2012's "Shields" they man an album so worthy of accolade that I barely met anyone who didn't fall in love with its sounds. As the final glimpse into the world of "Shields," "Sun In Your Eyes" is a triumph, and fits perfectly in the theme of a slow morning where you need purpose, but it might just be lacking. The vocals are verbose, especially for a band like GB that has shied away from that more often times than not, but it's the music and it's slow towering effect on the listener that really makes it a special track.
M83, You, Appearing, Saturdays = Youth
For me this song starts at night, and emerges more and more as blues and purples creep into the atmosphere. It's a song full of hazy fog over a crowded forest, where the smell in the air is unlike anything you've ever been a part of. Texturally the song is gorgeous, and the why the vocals show themselves only help to add another layer to a perfect song for late nights that turn into inspiring mornings, in which love is all around us, and the promise of a fun day is ever present and faithful.
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Movers and Shakers in Transport & Infrastructure- The headlines from September
September for Britain has been an uncertain one. We've seen May's Chequers plan rejected by the EU, calls for a rail reform, a tropical storm and now a heatwave…
But despite this, the transport and infrastructure sectors have been as busy as ever, let's take a look at who's made a move in September…
Paul Griffiths, Managing Director for phase two of the line is to leave the company to become Programme Director on Canada's $40bn Metrolinx project. Griffiths joined as Development Director in 2015, was promoted to Managing Director of phase two in September last year.
Have announced the appointment of Dave Smith as Managing Director of Balfour's regional construction business in the south of England. He joins from the McLaren Group where he was Managing Director of its construction business.
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Daressa Frodsham has joined as Head of UK Water. She will be responsible for driving growth in the water sector for the consultancy. Frodsham leaves Ricardo Energy & Environment where she has been since 2016.
Ian Chapman has also joined as Client Director – Regional Programmes South in the rail business. Chapman joins from Alstom where he has been Business Development Director since 2016 for the signalling, systems & infrastructure business.
Keltbray
Keltbray's structural solutions business' Managing Director, Gordon Dunne, has resigned from the firm. Keltbray Structures COO Andy McClafferty will now assume the role of MD at the business.
Miles Shelley, CFO, has retired from his role at the contractor following 25 years in the position. Leighton More will succeed him as its new CFO. Mr More joins from Costain, where he has been the Finance Director for its infrastructure division.
Nichols Group
Former HS2 Chief Executive, Simon Kirby is joining as an Associate Senior Advisor. Kirby left his position as Chief Operating Officer at Rolls-Royce, after just 19 months at the business.
Henrik Lundgaard Pedersen has been appointed as CEO, he leaves the Maersk-owned terminal operator, APM where he has served as Chief Commercial Officer since January 2017.
HB Reavis
Have announced the appointment of Steven Skinner as its new UK Chief Executive. Skinner joined HB Reavis UK in April 2017 as a Transactional Director, he will take up the position as UK Chief Executive with immediate effect
CAF Rail UK
Have appointed Kane Jellyman as Head of Production at their new Newport assembly hub. Jellyman leaves Bombardier where he has been Production Manager.
Transport for the North (TfN)
Have announced that Richard George has been appointed by government to oversee both infrastructure and train operations in the region. George has served as chairman of the boards of FirstGroup, First Great Western, First Great Eastern and First North Western, and is currently global head of rail infrastructure at SNC-Lavalin.
Rock Rail
Have appointed Mike Kean to the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer heading up Rock Rail's asset management business. Kean leaves Abellio where he has been Franchise and Programmes Director and Deputy Managing Director for Greater Anglia. He will be succeeded by Ian McConnell who moves internally from ScotRail.
Have hired three new directors for its transport and infrastructure divisions. Andrew Dodds joins from Network Rail as Deputy Group Director of rail engineering services for the South, Steve Burrows becomes Deputy Group Director for rail engineering services in the North, and Iain Salisbury is the new Design-and-Build Director for the highways team based in Glasgow, leaving Jacobs.
VolkerWessels
Simon White has joined as the company's new Chief Digital Officer. White was previously Digital Director at Atkins.
South West Water
Have appointed Matt Crabtree as its new Engineering Director, succeeding Graham Murphy, who is taking early retirement after more than 27 years with the company. Crabtree joins from Costain where he was Water Sector Director.
Third Energy
The Chairman and the Senior Independent director of Third Energy have resigned after the company's efforts to frack in North Yorkshire stalled. Keith Cochrane, Chairman, is a former chief executive of Weir Group and was Interim Chief Executive of Carillion in the months leading up to its collapse. Baron Gadhia of Northwood, its senior independent director, is a former investment banker.
Ricardo Rail
Have appointed Olivier André as Managing Director for Ricardo Rail Consulting UK. He joins from Porterbrook where he was Commercial Director.
Angel Trains
Andrew Kleczkowski has been promoted to Head of Commercial. Kleczkowski has been with Angel Trains since 1998, most recently as Senior Commercial Manager.
BAM Nuttall's Highways Strategic Director, Bill Gifford, has left to join SNC-Lavalin in Canada, he has taken on the role of Senior Vice President General Infrastructure.
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On Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd July Bryngwyn Hall will host its annual Summer Fayre and the water will be CLOSED. However, PAAS will be participating in the Fayre with a Club Stand, Course Fishing and Fly-Casting Demonstrations. For further information visit: http://www.bryngwyn.com/events.html (Opens in a new tab).
Also, please remember Members must ensure all gates are shut and secured with the chains as there are now cattle in the lower fields for the season. If the gates are not secured with the chains the cattle lean on the gates and push them open. (Rule 4b).
We also have a new Catch Return Box at Bryngwyn Hall, located just through the pedestrian gate going onto the dam head. Members must complete a catch return for each visit.


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Q: React-Native Calendars: Pass date into custom function when a day is pressed Using a calendar from React-Native Calendars, I just want to be able to pass the date (maybe as a dateString) into a function when a day is pressed.
Here is my code:

import React, {Component} from 'react';
import {View, Text, Button, ScrollView} from 'react-native';
import colors from '../config/colors';
import { TextInput } from '../components/TextInput';
import { Calendar } from 'react-native-calendars';

class SetReservation extends Component {
    showDayTest(date) {
        alert(date);
    }
    render() {
        return (
            <View>
                <Calendar
                    onDayPress={(dateString) => this.showDayTest(dateString)}
                />
            </View>
        );
    }
}
export default SetReservation;

For now, I just want it to alert a dateString in this test function when a day is pressed, so I know I can use it to do what I want. Here is what is happening:
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A: The onDayPress function returns an object in its callback. That is why when you alert it you are getting [object Object]. The object it returns should look like
{
  day: 1,     // day of month (1-31)
  month: 1,   // month of year (1-12)
  year: 2017, // year
  timestamp,   // UTC timestamp representing 00:00 AM of this date
  dateString: '2016-05-13' // date formatted as 'YYYY-MM-DD' string
}

If you wrap dateString in JSON.stringify, then you should see the full object in the alert
onDayPress={(dateString) => this.showDayTest(JSON.stringify(dateString))}

However, if you deconstruct the object that is returned and do this
onDayPress={({dateString}) => this.showDayTest(dateString)}

it should give you what you want.

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If sPrompt = "" Then sPrompt = "Input value"
If sPrompt = "" Then sPrompt = "Select value"
2 responses to "DotNetFactory interface functions – create custom dialog"
Can you also provide an example of how to get those values once dialog is closed?
You simply need to access the properties of objects you put on GUI form.
Can you please explaing how to capture events? For example i have form with two buttons. i want to do two differnet operations on click of buttons.


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Venezuela marks International Day of
Peace with Orwellian contradiction
By David Codrea, September 26th 2014
"Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro launched a nationwide disarmament program in Caracas over the weekend as the head of state tried to cap the alarming rates of violence endemic in his country, which has the second-highest homicide rate in the world behind Honduras," Olivia Crellin of VICE News reported Tuesday. "The plan, announced on September 20 — International Day of Peace — will see the Venezuelan government establish a $47 million fund to help establish 60 centers where citizens can voluntarily surrender their firearms."
Note that's just to establish the aptly-pegged surrender centers. This is hardly a "buyback," itself an intentionally deceptive term, even though the intent of some in this country (if you consider New Jersey to still be part of it) leaves little doubt the end game is the same, whether you rule in a socialist hellhole or are just trying your best to create one.
In Venezuela, the penalties for disobedience, such as "being caught with a firearm ... can land you with up to 20 years in prison," are supposed to be enough. Demonstrably, with that homicide rate, it obviously ain't working.
It's not like that should surprise anyone. Four years ago, I referenced a Reuters report in a column about Sean Penn snuggling with a dictator, which noted "Homicides in Venezuela have quadrupled during President Hugo Chavez's 11 years in power, with two people murdered every hour, according to new figures from a non-governmental organization."
Also showing "progressive" sympathies for a totalitarian who tolerated no free speech, no dissent and no independent reporting was anti-gun "Authorized Journalist" Bernd Debusmann, who fawned all over his favorite "rock star" totalitarian.
Now that Chavez is gone, new strongman Nicolas Maduro has continued and expanded on the tyranny with predictable results. For committed collectivists, no amount of control is too much, right down to sending troops to seize a toilet paper factory.
That may seem laughable, but it's merely a symptom of much deeper outrages directly attributable to a police state in which criminal investigations are used as political tools; the judiciary are willing pawns of the administration; media is state-approved or illegal; human rights advocates can be prosecuted for treason; prison conditions are violent and deadly; and paradoxically, unions in this socialist worker's paradise are but extensions of the ruling elites.
"Killings by security forces are a chronic problem," Human Rights Watch noted in its 2014 World Report. "According to the most recent official statistics, law enforcement agents allegedly killed 7,998 people between January 2000 and the first third of 2009 ... [I]mpunity remains the norm."
Venezuela represents exactly the type of "monopoly of violence" JPFO warns against in its unique message that "gun control" is the common factor in the most prevalent form of homicide, murder by government. How telling that monopoly is exactly what domestic gun-grabbers laud as the ideal, even going so far as to credit German sociologist and economist Max Weber.
What they conveniently leave out is Weber's support for approving Article 48 into the Weimar constitution, establishing "emergency powers" to bypass Reichstag consent, and allowing Adolf Hitler's rise to unchallenged power.
Gee, what could go wrong?
This is the ultimate path those who would impose total citizen defenselessness, like all those monopolies that have gone before, would lead us down. That they couch their scheming under banal terms like "common sense gun safety laws" is no matter, because they've let slip their end desires too many times, and too many real world examples exist, to ignore they're playing a game of incremental gains to a deadly end goal.
That totalitarians would justify a renewed disarmament push under the banner of the International Day of Peace is simply them doing what evil, lying tyrants do. It evokes nothing so much as the one Orwellian slogan that best exemplifies Opposite Day "progressives": More valuable 1984 category quotes, including many from George Orwell, can be found here.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
David Codrea is a field editor at GUNS Magazine, penning their monthly "Rights Watch" column. He provides regular reporting and commentary at Gun Rights Examiner and blogs at The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance. David Codrea's Archive page.


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Is digital technology a technical or adaptive problem in health?
by Victoria | Mar 29, 2016 | Digital, mental health, NHS stuff, social media | 1 comment
Around three years ago I was invited to speak at a consultant psychiatrists committee meeting about social media and digital technology. I was mid way through my PhD and steeped in online ethnographic research about how people accessing mental health services and practitioners were making use of social networks. I had an inkling that I would have a mixed audience and I knew that not everyone would share my (then*) enthusiasm. As such I spent time preparing a range of compelling examples of digital technologies and social media practices, determined as I was to win over any detractors. I arrived a little early and so listened in to the tail end of an exasperated discussion about the various grinding limitations, obstacles and shortcomings of the in-house electronic patient record (EPR). If my audience's primary experience of technology in health was such a bad one, then this did not bode well for my presentation – I quickly realised I was going to have to recalibrate. How could I be so naive as to think a conversation about the future potential of digital technologies would be welcomed, when the basics of reliable and effective electronic patient records seemed like a pipe dream? This experience came back to me whilst reading The Digital Doctor – Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age (Wachter, 2015) which is dominated by an expansive analysis of the shortcomings of contemporary electronic patient records. Wachter argues that EPRs have brought many a physician 'to their knees' with their clunky, confusing and complex systems (73). It is salutary to note that three years on...
My small act of Facebook solidarity #TheProfileProject #8
by Victoria | Mar 13, 2016 | #TheProfileProject | 0 comments
Alaric tells the story behind his most recent Facebook profile picture: "I have changed my profile picture many times since I came late to Facebook – a curios skeptic determined not to take it too seriously. I generally use self portraits, and when Facebook urges users to add rainbows or French flag filters to their profiles, I either ignored or signaled my approval of the cause in more personal ways. The most recent such occasion was the Bataclan shootings in Paris. "My response to this event was partly intellectual, mostly personal. I spent a lot of time in Paris in the 1980s, I still have good friends there and I am a Francophile. More than that, I see Paris as one of the great achievements of post enlightenment Western culture. For all its many faults like the ring of deprived suburbs, the civilized urbanity of Parisienne life is rightly held to be a template of how life can be lived well. That the IS terrorists chose to attack a concert hall and restaurants just made my feeling more visceral; I have worked in many Paris venues as a sound engineer, I have eaten in Paris restaurants and promenaded along her streets in the evenings. "I understand the west's culpability in fermenting the crisis in the middle east; from France and Britain drawing lines on maps at Versailles, partitioning liberated Arab lands for their own gain, via the shambles of the British Palestine protectorate, French colonization of Syria, the fawning in front of Saudi oil wealth to the illegal invasion of Iraq… and much more. After the attack the Internet...
"My profile works as a sort of filter" #TheProfileProject #7
by Victoria | Feb 16, 2016 | #TheProfileProject | 0 comments
@gopaldass AKA Abhay Adhikari tells the story behind his choice of Twitter profile pictures: "At the moment, my Twitter profile picture is of me cycling into the horizon, without a care in the world! My account is a personal and professional space and my profile picture reflects this. It also serves as a personal reminder that I shouldn't take myself too seriously and that I should take time to reflect on what others say. So much of social media is reactionary. "My picture changes quite often. Say, every couple of weeks. Every now and then I upload a profile picture that may indicate what I do for a living and where I live. For the most part, my profile picture is a reflection of how I am feeling and whether I want to actively connect with people at that point in time. By not giving it all away, I think my profile works as a sort of filter – engaging people who are curious, open minded and open to a chat. So far this approach as worked as I have met a lot of interesting people (in real life) via social media and this has allowed me to launch Digital Identity projects from Stockholm to Delhi!" You can find out more about #TheProfileProject here and connect on Twitter...
*I was reluctant to expose my visible Muslim-ness* #TheProfileProject #6
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This is my first anonymous story for #TheProfileProject – sharing a very personal and salient narrative about a Twitter profile picture. I've chosen the image of a carnation to draw on the idea that we wear something distinctive when we meet a stranger for the first time. I hope to meet this person 'in real life' soon: "There are probably only a handful of active tweeps in my timeline who do not use their face photo as their profile image; and I am one of them. My primary reason is the attempt to remain as anonymous as I possibly can, and to protect my personal privacy as far as possible. This may appear to be a paradox, because I have a public profile (description). However, my full name is a very common one (I personally know four people with the exact full name) and if someone did not know my career path, they would not know it is me! "I also do not want to waste time changing profile pictures every few months; I have a purpose of being on Twitter which is to engage with practitioners in my field, experts and colleagues; and for that purpose I do not see why a "real image" of me is relevant or important. However, I must admit, that when I first started using Twitter, I was hesitant to place a real face photo of myself. This is because I wear a headscarf and I am a very visible Muslim. I am proud to be Muslim; and I know that the vast majority of my followers are not anti-Muslim. But I also have first-hand experience of the...
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No music or rum for tourists after Castro death
By Laurent THOMET (AFP) Nov 29, 2016 in World
Tourists looking to drink daiquiris at El Floridita, a favorite haunt of legendary US author Ernest Hemingway in Havana, found the entrance gated shut.
Others hoping to eat dinner while watching a music and dance show at El Guajirito restaurant stared at an empty stage with a closed curtain.
As Cuba observes nine days of mourning following the death of communist icon Fidel Castro on Friday, tourists have been wandering unusually quiet streets in Havana, devoid of street musicians.
Authorities have banned alcohol sales, while shows have been cancelled, leaving foreign visitors with few options for entertainment (though some restaurants ignored the prohibition).
A Spanish couple was sipping lemonade at the Bilbao bar in Old Havana instead of one of the many bottles of rum or beer on display behind the counter.
Cuban capital Havana remains quiet during nine days of offical morning for Fidel Castro
Juan BARRETO, AFP
"As a tourist, you would like to drink a beer, but it's understandable," said Vicente Pavon, 28, a section chief at a home improvement company in Madrid.
"It's a historic moment that you'll remember. In a few years, we'll be able to say that we were here" when Castro died, said Pavon, who nevertheless would have liked to drink a daiquiri next to the life-size bronze statue of Hemingway at El Floridita.
Others like Pavon took the booze and music bans in stride, appreciating that they landed on the island at a momentous time in history, as Cubans bid farewell to a man who ruled the island for almost half a century.
"It would be a different experience (if Castro had not died) but it's still a life-changing event," said Amanda Lecuyer, a 29-year-old esthetician from Toronto who went to the usually bustling La Bodeguita del Medio, only to find the bar closed behind a wooden gate.
Before coming to Havana, she and a friend were listening to a Justin Bieber song on her speakers at a pool in the resort town of Varadero, until the staff "asked us to turn it down."
- 'I can come back' -
Americans who came on a "people-to-people" tour to learn more about Cuban music ended up listening to lectures from musicians instead of hearing the sounds of son or salsa.
JuTina Singletary, a 55-year-old teacher from the southern US state of Louisiana, seized on the historic moment and went to Revolution Square, where hundreds of thousands of Cubans paid tribute to Castro at a memorial.
She stood in line for four hours to enter the monument of independence hero Jose Marti, where a black-and-white picture of Fidel as a young guerrillero was put on display for mourners.
A tribute to Fidel Castro showing photographs, decorations and medals at independence hero Jose Marti's Memorial, a popular tourist site in Havana
ADALBERTO ROQUE, AFP
"I can always come back for the music, but never for this experience," Singletary said.
Other Americans said their visit during Castro's remembrance events have allowed them to learn more about the former leader, opposite to the image he has in the United States of a dictator who jailed dissidents.
"I have a different understanding of Fidel. I see that he has done good things," said Sandi Rockers, a 52-year-old public accountant from New Mexico, citing the free health care and education available on the communist island.
- Trump threat -
Americans have come to Cuba in droves since US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro decided to restore ties in December 2014.
While the decades-old US embargo still forbids Americans to travel to Cuba as regular tourists, they can visit under special permits and Obama has removed much of the bureaucracy to make it easier to visit the island.
Foreign visitors to Cuba have had few options for entertainment during the mourning period for Fidel Castro
Yamil LAGE, AFP
Almost 137,000 Americans traveled to Cuba in the first half of the year, an 80 percent increase from the same period in 2015, according to Cuban government figures.
But some worried that President-elect Donald Trump will carry out his threat this week of halting the US-Cuban detente if the government doesn't offer "a better deal" to its people.
"What Obama established with the Cuban people is valuable and should continue," said Brian Weaver, a 40-year-old oral surgeon from Ohio who arrived Monday with three other friends.
As they walked to a cafe in Old Havana, his friend Eric Buck said he never thought he would step foot in Cuba in his lifetime.
"To take a step back as a nation would be sad," the 40-year-old dentist said. "It's neat for Americans to be able to come here."
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Daily Digest 5/11 – A High Frequency Map of the Market, What Is The Fed Thinking?
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Saturday, May 11, 2013, 2:54 PM
A High Frequency Map of the Market (adam)
We should recognize that a good map is an extremely valuable asset. If one could create a highly accurate map of the market, and thus track or predict where money is flowing at all times, this amounts to no more than a modern day treasure map. Yet, a "map" is only a basic description of what's being developed. The more important question is, how is this map created and what's the underlying process?
Gold & Silver – It Could Get Uglier And Take Longer (Taki T.)
It used to be the "Golden Rule" was, He who has the gold rules. That has been replaced with, He who controls the purse strings dictates. The shocking reality of the latter will become more prevalent, one country at a time. Central bankers will default and make it appear the fault of the paper holders. What are you going to do about it?!, will be their attitude. All the central bankers are doing, under the protection of governments, is stalling for time as they get their end-game in place. What is that end-game? Securing their stranglehold on power over the failing Western countries so that they remain in power.
Safeguarding the Past, in an Uncooperative Present (jdargis)
The Benaki's permanent collection now includes a huge range of Greek art that traces the development of Hellenism from antiquity through the Byzantine age, the fall of Constantinople, the Ottoman occupation and the formation of the modern Greek state. But there is also an antique toy collection, a stunning collection of Greek regional costumes, an annex devoted to Islamic art and a new building for temporary exhibits, cultural events and workshops.
What Is The Fed Thinking? (jdargis)
The Fed has tied policy to the unemployment rate, now at 7.5 percent, but officials understand its limitations. (The rate falls when workers are so discouraged they stop looking for work, for instance — hardly a sign of progress.) They could be looking for three to six months of growth in payroll employment of 200,000 or more each month. That could be the "substantial improvement in the labor market" they have in mind.
Better Safety in Bangladesh Could Raise Clothing Prices by About 25 Cents (jdargis)
The dangerous conditions have been partly blamed on price-conscious businesses, some of whom go with the cheapest and often least-safe local suppliers at the expense of protections for workers. After a November fire that killed 112 workers, brands like Wal-Mart, Gap, and H&M refused to sign a new union-proposed safety plan, which would have introduced more rigorous safety inspections, saying it was "not financially feasible."
Traffic Pollution May Be Harming Kids in Ways We Never Imagined (jdargis)
The German research team collected blood samples from nearly 400 10-year-old German children, most of them in Munich, and analyzed auto emissions around the home addresses where the children were born (the study controlled for socio-economic status, birthweight, Body Mass Index, and second-hand smoke in the home). For every 500 meters a child lived closer to the nearest major road, insulin resistance increased by 7 percent by the time they were 10. As the researchers write:
Cyclone Could Threaten Thousands of Myanmar Refugees (jdargis)
Although the storm could change direction or lessen in intensity, aid groups say even heavy rains would create very difficult conditions for the displaced families who are camped out in muddy fields vulnerable to tidal surges. Myanmar is prone to violent tropical storms. A cyclone in 2008 killed more than 150,000 people in the country's Irrawaddy river delta. Another storm in 2010 in western Myanmar, in roughly the same areas as those under threat now, displaced tens of thousands of people and killed more than 100.
Rebuilding After Sandy, but With Costly New Rules (jdargis)
Maria Zanetich, who lives across the street from the water in Point Pleasant, N.J., with her husband and two grown daughters, considers her family lucky in many respects: their first floor is still gutted, but they can continue to live on the top floor of their three-bedroom raised ranch. Their insurance premiums will increase sharply, however, unless they elevate their home five feet, which she said could cost more than $100,000 because their home sits on a concrete slab instead of a foundation with a crawl space.
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Daily Digest 7/17 – WH Projects $1T Deficit For 2019, CA Cities Spending Big Instead Of Prepping For Next Downturn
Daily Digest 7/16 – Living On The Edge In CA, Inside The Battle For the Next Global Monetary System
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Nanny McPhee is an excellent movie… if you're a seven-year old girl. That's less a negative evaluation than it is a statement of fact. This isn't a "family film;" it's a "children's film." What's more, it's for girls who are old enough to understand the basics of reading and writing, but not old enough to be interested in boys. That's a small target audience for a motion picture, but if you have a child that fits the above description, you could find a worse way to entertain them than Nanny McPhee. Just don't expect to get the same level of enjoyment out of the experience as your offspring. Despite the superb cast, comprised of A-level British actors, the script offers nothing remotely adult. It's a straightforward fairy tale, told without a hint of guile or cynicism. And there are none of the oh-so-popular elements that go over the head of the youngsters to score points with older viewers. Nanny McPhee is sweet and endearing, but it's neither smart nor witty. And it is predictable to a fault. 15 minutes into the movie, not only will you guess the ending, but you will recognize every step that leads to the ending. Watching Nanny McPhee for the first time is like watching many other movies for the second time.
The story, which borrow liberally from a library of established fairy tales (most notably "Cinderella"), features the widower Cedric Brown (Colin Firth) in a quandary about what to do with his seven misbehaving children. Led by Simon (Thomas Sangster), the eldest and the ringleader, they have a history of driving away nannies. Outside of their father, only one other loves the children: Evangeline (Kelly Macdonald), the scullery maid. Enter Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson), a crone of a witch who believes she can restore order to the Brown household. She works by a single rule, which she tells the children: "When you need me, but do not want me, then I will stay. When you want me, but do not need me, then I have to go." There are more complications in Cedric's life than the unruliness of his offspring. Great Aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury), who provides Cedric with enough money to support his family, has decreed that he must marry again within a month. Ignoring Evangeline, the perfect candidate under his roof (she is, after all, a scullery maid), he makes a pact with the rapacious Selma Quickly (Celia Imrie), who bears a striking resemblance to an unsavory breed known as the Wicked Stepmother.
Colin Firth plays Cedric as the most impotent man on Earth, an individual who managed to mature into adulthood without a fully formed backbone. Emma Thompson makes sure we know that Nanny McPhee is made of sterner stuff. She looks like the Wicked Witch of the West (without the greenish cast to her skin), although her appearance improves with each step forward made by the children. She's no Mary Poppins. When she delivers a dose of an anti-measles tonic, she does not sing, "A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down." Kelly Macdonald is as delightful as ever - she's this movie's Cinderella. Angela Lansbury, largely unrecognizable to Murder, She Wrote fans under the makeup, plays Aunt Adelaide as a nearsighted version of Pride & Prejudice's Lady Catherine de Bourg. Finally, there are the seven children, who get us to the point where we despise them before coming to sympathize with them.
Nanny McPhee is perfect for little girls. There's no bad language or violence. There's nothing close to resembling a sexual comment or innuendo. There's true love, the princess factor, and a gloriously over-the-top finale that features a combination of a white wedding and a food fight. The good guys are rewarded and the best guys get their just desserts. As an adult, however, I couldn't help but thinking that this was a missed opportunity, and a little fracturing of the fairy tale (á là Shrek, for example) would have made the experience less tiresome. But that's not where Nanny McPhee's heart is. The result is a surprisingly bland movie that has its occasional pleasures, small though they may be.


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I'll be putting up a free read on my website for folks to download soon. I was thinking of also putting it on Scribd because I wanted to be able to track the downloads.
Does anyone have any experience with Scribd? Anything they'd like to share or opinions? Know of any other sites that are just as good or better? I don't wanna deal with Smashwords or some site where the formatting becomes a headache. I only wanna be able to track downloads and I also think Scribd is a good way unless I'm wrong.
I welcome all opinions and advice. Thanks in advance!
I went to Scribd once or twice. I could not figure how to use it. Never returned.
Thanks, Barbara. I appreciate you chiming in. I can understand how it seemed confusing. I haven't been able to read up on the main site yet because they got all that black stuff that pops up around the screen. LOL! It's very annoying. I'm gonna continue to check it out though just to see. I haven't really had a chance to learn about it.
What I like is it's very popular, people get tons of hits and it's hooked to Facebook.
Not only is there all the black stuff, but it freezes my screen and I have to close down the computer.
Scribd is my man retailer for my ebooks. They're textbooks and don't convert well to epub, so I leave them in pdf format. I love Scribd. I found it easy to upload, easy to maintain, lots of activity. It did take about six months to get my first sale (I'd pretty much given up) and then they rolled in. I like the connection to Facebook and Twitter, though I don't have much of a community going there like I have on Twitter. They also make it very easy to embed your book in a blog, etc., so visitors can take a peek at your writing. To date, it's my second-largest sales outlet, Amazon being first.
As a result of this thread, I visited scribd yesterday. but I found it awkard to find books. For instance, Dan Coleman wrote that his books were on scribd. I was unable to find any.
Soooooooooooooo, how does find books on scribd?????
It's under Explore. Then you search by Documents (fiction/non-fiction, etc) and People. That being said, though, I do agree. It's not the most user-friendly interface. What I can tell you as an author is, I sell books on it. I am so excited that Google ebooks has finally arrived. If I can sell on Scribd--where it is oh so hard to find anything--imagine what I'll sell on Google!
As a fan of Scribd, perhaps you should notify them about their user-UNfriendliness.
Haha. I'll bet they'll work overtime to fix it!
Thanks, Dan. I did not know your middle initial. Suggestion: Use the "L." in your profile name . . . because my search on Scribd for "Dan Coleman" came up with nothing. I always use "C." in my profile name 'cuz there are soooooo many Barbara Johnsons.
Hi again. Putting in Dan L. Coleman withOUT quotes brought up scores of pages with the name Coleman. I then searched for "Dan L. Coleman" -- the quotes part of the search -- and it brought up FOUL SHOT, which I began reading. Because I do not know how long or short it is, I'll put it on my list later today. I've got to finish first reading the real-life transcript of a recantation hearing in 2001 in a case involving real-life, wrongly convicted Native Americans.
FOUL SHOT has an exciting first and second pages!!!!
Such a great beginning, Dan, that I succumbed and read the rest of the first chapter, Great!! Conflict, tension. Definitely moved along. With good reviews and decent marketing, and if the rest of the book moves as quickly, it should sell very well. Bravo!
I'd love to read it and would love getting a copy from you. Amazon does not, unfortunately, send books to Costa Rica. I've heard -- true or not -- that there is no copyright agreement between the two countries. On occasion, I've downloaded Kindle directly to my PC, but then I cannot take the book to bed with me. Broke, I cannot afford a Kindle machine at any price. So my options are limited.


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"Medical clowns" employed in Israeli hospitals to boost kids' recovery
August 21, 2012 / 3:19 PM / CBS News
In a Tuesday, July 24, 2012 photo, Borekkas, a Dream Doctors medical clown, center, helps Majed, a child patient, while he is prepared for surgery in the Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, central Israel. AP
(AP) JERUSALEM - Doctors in Israel are beginning to believe in the power of clowning around.
Over the last few years, Israeli clowns have been popping into hospital operating rooms and intensive care units with balloons and kazoos in hand, teaming up with doctors to develop laughter therapies they say help with disorders ranging from pain to infertility.
This is not how things are done in most of the world's hospitals. Clowns often visit pediatric wards to cheer up young patients, but in most places the clowning ends where the medicine begins. When it comes time for a child to get a shot or go under the knife, the clowns step aside.
Israeli clowns thumb their shiny red noses at that approach. They quote studies which suggest that a clown's participation in treatments can help patients - especially kids - endure painful procedures and speed their healing.
They say it's time for the medical community to recognize medical clowns as legitimate paramedical practitioners, like occupational or physical therapists.
Israel's hospital clowning guild, Dream Doctors, founded 10 years ago, is the leading advocate for infusing more medicine into the artistry.
"It's not just putting on a red nose, floppy shoes, and playing a ukulele," said Dr. Arthur Eidelman, recently retired chief of pediatrics at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, and chair of the Dream Doctors' scientific committee. "We see medical clowns as an integral part of the health care team."
Over the last few decades, dozens of hospital clown guilds have formed in the U.S., Canada and Europe, drawing inspiration from New York's Big Apple Circus, which pioneered the first professional hospital clowning program, and from a 1998 movie hit starring Robin Williams as real-life hospital clown Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams.
The idea behind these initiatives is that clowns in simple costumes - no caked-on makeup or squirting flowers - can parody the role of the doctor, making the hospital a less scary place for patients.
On a recent morning at the Jerusalem medical center, one such clown cut short his coffee break when a nurse called to say a boy was being wheeled into surgery to fix a ruptured eardrum.
Dr. Sababa - which translates to Dr. Groovy - rushed up the stairwell and through the double doors into pre-op, greeting Aaron Marziano, 13. They'd met earlier that morning in the pediatric ward, where he'd performed imaginary surgery on the boy's ear with a long kazoo.
"What's your favorite dream?" the clown asked Marziano among a group of nurses, prepping him with guided imagery before sedation. He quickly stretched nets around his floppy green shoes, threw on blue scrubs, and helped wheel Marziano into the operating room. The clown, not the anesthesiologist, placed the anesthesia mask over the boy's face.
"Eight years ago, going in the operating room was science fiction," said Dr. Sababa, who answers to his real name, Avi Cohen, when he's out of his polka-dot necktie and grapefruit vest.
Today, he estimated, a clown is present at about one out of five of the hospital's full anesthesia surgeries for children. A study led by doctors there found that a clown's presence in pre-op reduces the amount of anesthesia administered and speeds up a patient's recovery time.
It's one of a half a dozen studies the clowns and their physician advocates have conducted in recent years, a campaign to prove to the medical community that their therapies are working.
One Israeli study, published last year in a leading reproductive science journal, Fertility and Sterility, suggested that a woman's chances of getting pregnant after in-vitro fertilization rose from 20.2 percent to 36.4 percent if a clown was brought in to entertain and relax her immediately after the obstetrician implanted a fertilized egg.
Penny Hanuka, or Dr. Fifi, a Dream Doctors medical clown, speaks on the phone as she entertains Yael, a two year old baby girl at the Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba, central Israel on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. AP
Of the 219 women who participated in the yearlong study, about half received a surprise visit by a clown dressed as a bumbling chef. Dr. Shevach Friedler of Assaf Harofeh Medical Center said his study indicated that the laughter therapy might reduce stress or strengthen the immune system in the womb to increase the success rate of the treatment.
Another study, conducted by the head of pediatrics at a northern Israeli hospital, found that if there was a clown in the room, children with urinary tract infections didn't need sedation to keep still during an imaging scan. The clown would make a deal with a young patient that both would simply freeze during the scan. It worked: Out of 142 children studied, 137 did not need sedation, eliminating the risks of complications and side effects that often come with sedatives.
"In the last one or two years, there (has been) hard science, evidence-based data, generated that this does make a difference," Eidelman said.
About 25 Israeli medical centers keep professional clowns on hand. One Israeli university offers what it calls the world's first full-time degree program for medical clowning, part of an effort to standardize training for the profession.
Israel's clowns and their physician partners are presenting their studies in international medical conventions and meeting with hospital administrators around the globe.
In the U.S., reactions to the Israeli clowning philosophy are mixed.
Dr. Ernest R. Katz, director of behavioral sciences at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, said he doubts U.S. hospitals would be willing to pay for a whole new group of professionals, since child life specialists and play therapists already employ similar techniques.
Besides, he said, many Americans simply can't stand clowns.
"The term itself carries a whole lot of baggage here," he said. "The term 'clown' has a connotation of Bozo, or less of a professional ... you say medical clown, and I say, what the heck does that mean?"
The man widely regarded as the father of hospital clowning, Big Apple Circus's Michael Christensen, said Israeli clowns' integration into the medical team is "really inspiring," but that there's also value in clowns relying purely on artistry.
"I want both worlds. I want the world in which the medical clown is an extension of the medical team . and the ability of a medical clown to be an artist. To be able to stand in the doorway, in a clinic, not knowing what's going to happen next," Christensen said.
In Europe, Eidelman said, hospitals are more willing to let clowns incorporate the Israeli approach into their acts. This summer, clowns from Holland, Brazil, Germany, Russia, the U.S. and Canada shadowed Israeli clowns at a hospital in the northern city of Haifa.
One Dutch clown peeked into an examination room where her Israeli colleague hopped up onto an examination table next to a wailing child with a needle in his arm. The Israeli clown inflated a white medical latex glove into a makeshift balloon animal.
The boy's shrieks turned to giggles.
First published on August 21, 2012 / 3:19 PM
Rachel Barton Pine's Music by Black Composers initiative aims to highlight works by composers who may have been overlooked by history.
One employee hopes the dog, named "Subway Sally," helps raise awareness for other stray pets.
The legendary performer and wife Patti Scialfa were at the ceremony to cheer Sam on.
Jack Wilson, the 71-year-old volunteer security guard who said he killed the gunman with a single shot, was honored Monday for his heroism.
Sabrina Scali took action when she saw a deck of NHL playing cards, that only showed the queens as cheerleaders.
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Recently I attended the Dunedin Women's Lifestyle Expo on a mission to connect with women and mothers doing something they are truly passionate about. The expo did not disappoint. I met many wonderful women only too happy to chat with me about why they love what they do and how that love keeps the fire of passion burning.
For many, their business is a creative outlet. They feel a sense of joy in using their hands to create and express themselves. This was true for Kelly from Iron Butterfly Jewellery. She described her work as a hobby but if you stood there and looked at the beautiful pieces she creates, you would see, as I did, that it is much more than that. What makes her work a passion and not simply a means to money is that she genuinely loves to see people wearing her jewellery and is overjoyed to hear the stories of reactions people have when her jewellery is gifted. "I do it because I love it".
It's a similar story for Sue from Susanne Pearls and Subarb Productions. She described the joy of being able to make something out of nothing and on top of that – having someone buy it! I loved talking to Susanne who has been running her own business for 35 years and knows what it takes to stay in love with what you do. "When things got tough I had to think outside the square".
I met another Sue at In2Learning. It was so wonderful to hear her talk about her programmes for children and adults with learning difficulties. She literally lit up from the inside out when she talked about it. Here was a woman clearly doing something she loved. She described the buzz she got from helping kids and how touching it was to see the parents cry tears of joy to see their child finally reading. "I help change both kids and adults' lives for the better." You can't ask for more than that.
For others it's less about what they themselves have created and more about the passion they feel for the products they sell. High on the list of reasons given to become an independent sales consultant were the flexible hours (working around family) as well a strong belief in the quality and value of the product they sold. For Sandy Jefferies, it was the back story of Prenzel that drew her in. The husband and wife team from good old Blenheim who opened their own distillery and things just blossomed from there. "They have a passion for their products, that sort of rubs off on you". I sensed it was a combination of the amazing tastings available coupled with Sandy's enthusiasm for a range of products (that can turn a boring dinner into a gourmet meal I'm told) that had her stand running hot all day at the expo.
I found the same sort of passion for products over at the Intimo stand where I met Jeanine and Kate. Yes they loved the flexibility, meeting people and having fun but I could tell what they both truly adored the most about working for this company was the personalised service they provided to women (especially those who struggled to find lingerie in their size). Kate told me "By working with Intimo I'm modelling to my customers what this product is about. It's about you. Fitting around you. Comfort, support and pretty – you can have it all". And here's something Jeanine said that made my heart smile - "I'm modelling to my 3 daughters that you can be a mum and have a business". That's what I loved about meeting these women and mothers in business. They have allowed themselves to have something just for them. Something they are passionate about and brings them joy.
That's certainly the sense I got from talking to Sarah at the Nutrimetics stall. "It feels good to help women feel good" is what Sarah told me. I couldn't agree more. Furthermore she spoke of the supportive culture of the business which allows for less pressure and the ability to go as slow or as fast as she wants. Just like the other independent sales consultants I spoke to that day, she told me how the structure of the organisation encourages them to support each other. I was so happy to see teams of independent consultants standing at the same stall. Instead of competing against each other, they work together. They build each other up and support each other which helps them to help others.
A quality product and great team culture are just two reasons Dr Martha Nessler and her husband Dean sell dōTERRA. Actually, they don't just sell dōTERRA, they literally live dōTERRA – using the oils and products every day to support their body's ability to heal and balance itself. You wont meet a more passionate duo when it comes to standing behind a product that truly delivers on its claims.
Magical Mary - such a lovely lady to talk to.
The last lady I chatted with that day was Mary from the Women's Institute. I was very glad to come across her stall and other exhibitors who were there to promote awareness and encourage community. I could tell from speaking to Mary how much she loves the vision and purpose of the Women's Institute – "to encourage and inspire women within a dynamic, caring organisation". I adored hearing about what she loves about volunteering for the institute "the jokes the 80 year old ladies tell" was one such thing. The Women's Institute is for women of all ages and this is something I love. Because I truly believe there is so much wisdom the younger generation is missing out on by not mixing and mingling with our wise elders.
Mary had so much wisdom to share with me as I chatted with her, I'll let her finish this blog with her closing remarks - "You have to care about what you're doing with your life, so that you can help others. It does you good to do something good for someone else".
As many of you know, I'm now on a journey to digestive health which is a slightly less glamorous than my journey to pin up.
On my first visit to Flourish Naturopathy, Tracey Loughran told me straight. No more caffeine, chocolate or dairy for two weeks. Actually, I think it's no dairy or chocolate for two weeks. Caffeine is probably something I'm giving up for good. Strangely I'd already been cutting back on my dairy intake before I even went to see her. I noticed how bloated I felt after a big milky coffee so I started having straight coffee instead. And yet straight coffee was making my tummy felt tight and burning. I guess the writing was on the wall for coffee.
The reason I run off and do these strange challenges is partly due to the fact that I'm naive. It's something a lot of people used to tell me is a flaw. I've found actually that my naivety serves me well. It means I jump feet first towards challenges without getting caught up in worrying about whether it will work or if something might go wrong. On the other hand, there is a downside. Jumping without looking often means I experience steep learning curves as I find myself in over my head and thinking to myself "man, I really didn't think this through" (putting on a conference without any clue how to market it is one example).
So sure, no coffee – why not? I honestly didn't think that going off coffee would cause me any discomfort except maybe the odd craving. I wasn't drinking copious amounts of coffee, just one or two a day so it should be easy. WRONG, dead wrong. By the second day of being caffeine free the agonising leg pains started. Looking up caffeine withdrawal on Dr Google, I found out that apparently this was quite a common detox symptom and only lasts for about 7 DAYS! I was shocked. It was like I had just picked up the phone to hear a little girl whispering "on the 7th day you will be out of caffeine hell".
Out came every natural remedy I could find from bathing in baking soda, taking magnesium supplements, stretching, oils, epsom salts – the lot. At the end of the day, nothing brought me relief except ibuprofen and though I like to keep things natural usually, on this occasion I was all about the drugs. I'm happy to say the pains did subside by the 7th day.
Not being able to buy a coffee at my local cafes has introduced me to the world of tea. Well, kind of. Tea has caffeine in it so I'm allowed to have fruit teas, chamomile and peppermint. With an iffy tummy, fruit teas are a little harsh so really it's chamomile or peppermint. That was until a dear friend of mine sent me some samples of Teeccino – hallelujah!
Teeccino is a herbal coffee. It's made from dandelion root and is considered a coffee alternative. I'll just emphasise again that it's a coffee alternative, not a replacement. Nothing replaces coffee in my opinion. As an alternative to coffee though, I think Teeccino is a pretty awesome option. It has a fuller, richer, roasted kind of flavour to it that you miss when you stop drinking coffee. It also comes in flavours that you cannot get in tea like hazelnut, vanilla and mocha (using carob).
And what about not having any dairy? I've learned lots of things since going off dairy. Like eggs are not dairy (hooray!), there isn't anything I can order from my local Mexican restaurant (they put cheese in everything including the salad) and at most cafes, the only sweet thing I can order is a bliss ball (and only if it has no chocolate in it), an oat and granola power bar or a piece of banana loaf. This means that I'm going to have to get out of my comfort zone (again!) and start researching local cafes and restaurants that specialise in vegan food. I'm not vegan but when it comes to dairy free food, a vegan cafe is going to have more to offer me than a dry, crumbly bliss ball.
So far my digestive system has remained very calm through all the changes. Hooray! My legs had a bit to say (or scream) about the lack of caffeine but have now adjusted. I'm actually looking forward to seeing what's next on my digestive journey after my next visit with Tracey.
I'll check in with you then.
For those of you who read what I learned from trying a pin up look you'll have seen that process required me to embrace and honour my body. When I got back to Dunedin to resume my normal life I realised that my decision to honour my body had gathered momentum. I found myself no longer wanting to eat stuff that caused my body suffering. I absolutely LOVE chocolate and I can tell you that my body absolutely HATES it. Every time I eat it my body sends me promptly to the bathroom to reject it. I have to start listening to my body if I want to honour it. I don't want to do that to my body anymore.
My journey of 'Frumpy Mummy to Pin Up Yummy' was me loving my body from the outside in. This has brought me to a new journey. A journey to love my body from the inside out. Starting with my digestive system. What's strange about this journey is that it's not so much a focus on what I'm eating and drinking but rather how what I'm eating or drinking makes my body feel. I'm paying attention to tightness, burning, nausea and bloated feelings. I had all these feelings before but now I'm actually listening to them.
My first stop has been a naturopath who has suggested no dairy or coffee for the next three weeks. She isn't actually so mean as to deny me chocolate at Easter time and said I could start after Easter. However, I know what chocolate does to me and so I decided to stop eating it straight away. Some have suggested that maybe I could eat just a little bit? To be honest, there has never been such a thing to me as 'just a little bit of chocolate'. If I start eating chocolate, I eat it until I can't stuff anymore in my mouth. Even though I can hear my body begging for mercy, I eat it and then later when my body rejects it, it is me begging my body for mercy. So no thanks to the chocolate.
I'm actually really excited about this journey to digestive health. It feels more motivating than doing something around 'weight loss' or 'clean eating'. It's not about shame, denying or suppressing. It's just about health and listening to my body. So stay tuned as I get out of my comfort zone yet again trying new foods and substitutes.


The Road to the Isles Half Marathon is considered to be one of the most enjoyable and scenic half marathons in the UK. It, and the accompanying marathon, 10k and 5k, help to raise funds for the local swimming pool.
Known to be a highly scenic and very friendly event, the race starts and finishes in the beautiful coastal village of Arisaig. Runners follow a hilly route with uninterrupted views to the islands of Muck, Rum and Eigg.


Shrapnel focuses on a future where humanity has reached out and colonized the Solar System and a Solar Alliance governs the planets similarly to the way ancient Rome dominated over their territories. Venus, the last free colony in the system, must do what it can to battle the domineering Marine forces of the Alliance in order to remain sovereign. Unbeknownst to the Marines, or even the Colonists themselves, one of the Alliance's greatest heroes has exiled herself on the lost planet, hoping to escape the life she once knew as a soldier. Now, pulled back into the fold, she must teach the Colonist how to fight for their freedom and come to terms with her own past.
The story is being written by Nick (son of Carl) Sagan, who's got a fair number of decent Hollywood writing credits to his name, including several episodes of various incarnations of the Star Trek franchise. It's being co-written by M. Zachary Sherman, who's written Marvel Comics Presents, Star Wars: Visionaries and other comics. And some of the concept designs were done by Syd Mead, who created the visual designs for Blade Runner and Tron.
Of course, none of this to say that the book will be a guaranteed hit, nor does it speak directly to it's quality. But it does, I think, give the book a leg up over a lot of other books published these days. And, since it's not about superheroes, I heard about it via Boing Boing -- which tends to cast a wider net over their audience than most comic news outlets. This might also give the book a bit of oomph in the casual reader/bookstore market. I've heard anecdotal evidence, at least, that this is exactly what happened when Marvel put out some Stephen King comics last year.
Interesting, though, that smaller publishers are doing the same thing, despite not having the clout or cash flow of larger companies.


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The Food Sharing Revolution: How Start-Ups, Pop-Ups, and Co-Ops are Changing the Way We Eat
by Michael S. Carolan
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Marvin is a contract hog farmer in Iowa. He owns his land, his barn, his tractor, and his animal crates. He has seen profits drop steadily for the last... Read more
twenty years and feels trapped. Josh is a dairy farmer on a cooperative in Massachusetts. He doesn't own his cows, his land, his seed, or even all of his equipment. Josh has a healthy income and feels like he's made it. In The Food Sharing Revolution, Michael Carolan tells the stories of traditional producers like Marvin, who are being squeezed by big agribusiness, and entrepreneurs like Josh, who are bucking the corporate food system. The difference is Josh has eschewed the burdens of individual ownership and is tapping into the sharing economy. Josh and many others are sharing tractors, seeds, kitchen space, their homes, and their cultures. They are business owners like Dorothy, who opened her bakery with the help of a no-interest, crowd-sourced loan. They are chefs like Camilla, who introduces diners to her native Colombian cuisine through peer-to-peer meal sharing. Their success is not only good for aspiring producers, but for everyone who wants an alternative to monocrops and processed foods. The key to successful sharing, Carolan shows, is actually sharing. He warns that food, just like taxis or hotels, can be co-opted by moneyed interests. But when collaboration is genuine, the sharing economy can offer both producers and eaters freedom, even sovereignty. The result is a healthier, more sustainable, and more ethical way to eat.
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Bare Essentials is a 1991 American made-for-television comedy film starring Gregory Harrison, Mark Linn-Baker and Lisa Hartman. It was directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Allen Estrin and Mark Estrin.

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Gordon (Linn-Baker) and Sydney (Hartman) are both hard-working, over-stressed, and engaged and decide to take a short cruise. However, they end up getting lost and stranded on an island named Luhana. While there, they meet an American named Bill (Harrison) who has lived on the island for 3 years and also owns it. Eventually Sydney starts to fall for Bill. They take walks together and swim in the ocean. They wind up having sex under water. Meanwhile, Gordon's laid up since hurting his back after chopping down a palm tree to make a boat out of. Gordon meets Tarita who turns out to be Bill's girlfriend. When Sydney finds out, she's furious. The two couples end up playing Monopoly like they're at war. Gordon is falling for Tarita, who gave him a massage earlier which cured his back. Eventually, the couples switch partners for the better. But then, Sydney finds out that Bill has been hiding on the island because he's wanted for insider trading. She decides to turn him in to the police who eventually show up to rescue her and Gordon. She then decides not to, as she's grown very fond of him. She and Gordon start to head back home. But Gordon then jumps ship and swims back to Tarita. Sydney returns to New York, but realizes she misses Bill. She gets on a ferry to take her back to the island. Bill surprises her by showing up on the ferry, clean shaven and wearing a suit, to return to his old life in the city. He tells her he was framed and that his case has been settled. Gordon now owns Luhana. Sydney and Bill kiss as the movie ends.

Cast
Gregory Harrison as Bill Buzell
Mark Linn-Baker as Gordon Perkins
Lisa Hartman as Sydney Wayne
Charlotte Lewis as Tarita

Reception
In a contemporary review, Variety described the film as "mildly diverting" and that director Martha Coolidge "does a crisp job with what's she's got, though writers Allen Estrin and Mark Estrin don't offer much help with the repartee."  The Los Angeles Times panned it as having a "Clothing-Thin Plot".

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1991 television films
1991 films
1991 romantic comedy films
American romantic comedy films
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CBS network films
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The Cuban people have faced a prolonged period of economic crisis since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of favorable subsidies from the socialist bloc. In that time, the government has alternately initiated and curtailed market-oriented economic policies that promote small-scale entrepreneurship, known in Cuba as cuentapropismo. Such activity and the social arenas in which it takes place have grown tremendously since the early 1990s, touching nearly everyone's life. Outside analysts tend to characterize this rapid growth in self-employment as evidence of the natural forces of capitalism breaking through the stranglehold of communist ideology, while the authoritative discourse of the socialist state itself often regards these changes as encroachments of "the market" necessary for the preservation of the communist project. In this dissertation, I demonstrate how creative entrepreneurship among low-income workers in urban Cuba is actually carried out through dense networks of reciprocity and coded in the moral principles of invento, or invention. Relying on ethnographic data collected in and around a large farmers market, I argue that the morality through which my informants construct their relationships is a form of "competitive solidarity" that produces, in effect, a subaltern political struggle against state socialism as well as global capitalism. While this might seem paradoxical, both capitalism and socialism share modernist assumptions about human nature that are at odds with the way ordinary Cubans live their lives. By way of contrast, I show how the state's own discourse and ritual practices have of late promoted the values of possessive individualism, consumption, and capital accumulation, leading to an acute moral dissonance that has yet to play itself out.
What my informants playfully call invento is in this sense a grassroots "invention of the market," in which relations of solidarity are realized through market transactions carried out in an ethos of gift exchange. These practices pose a challenge to the basic assumptions of formal economic theory — the abstract "invention of the market" that predominates in social science and takes the maximizing, self-interested individual as its starting point rather than its product. In this way, my reading of the political economy of everyday life in late socialist Cuba builds on a long history of anthropological critique questioning such assumptions, largely on the basis of cultural contexts where gifts are central and commodities are peripheral. But beyond showing how market exchange is always embedded in moral systems, this dissertation ultimately insists on theorizing markets themselves as already moral. This is to say, they are always organized with respect to variable moral premises that necessarily have political implications. In this light, alternative market paradigms — in Cuba and beyond — have the potential to foster a pragmatic oppositional politics. From a theoretical perspective, what I am proposing is that social science wrest the idea of "the market" once and for all from the straightjacket of idealized capitalism: In adopting a neo-Maussian framework, we can attend more closely to the reciprocal relations of mutual support and obligation that can and often do operate through markets, not just in spite of them.


Working to enact positive change, Green Spa Network (GSN) held its 10th annual Congress this past week at Carmel Valley Ranch (CA). With the theme of "Inspire Action and Create Community through Storytelling," the three-day interactive event featured a host of speakers who inspired attendees with information and insights on how to create and implement sustainable initiatives in their own spas that support the planet. Bill Reed, AIA, a principal in Regenesis Group and an internationally recognized practitioner, teacher, and authority in integrative systems design, sustainability, and regenerative community planning and implementation, helped guide attendees to create their own action plans. One idea that sprung from the exercise came from brand and wellness activist Joanna Roche. The #justonething Instagram campaign inspires people to do one green thing, such as refusing plastic lids for takeout drinks, recycling at work, forgoing plastic straws, and biking to work every day for 30 days. Attendees were challenged to invite their families, friends, teams, and colleagues to join them in doing one earth-friendly thing to make a difference in improving the health of the planet. Participants are invited to post photos of their efforts on Instagram with the hashtags: #justonething, #30daysofgreen, #inspiredaction, and #greenspanetwork. At the conclusion of the campaign on April 11, the GSN Board will be announcing the adoption of a new international green initiative centered on reforesting.
Other engaging speakers included Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center; Josiah Cain, director of innovation for Sherwood Design Engineers; and Celia Hoffman, associate director of The Goodman Center. Attendees also had the opportunity to participate in focused sessions on a variety of topics, including The Story of Healing Waters with professor John Paul De Vierville, Anne Bramham, and Debra Dunier; Women in Leadership Roles with Tara Grodjesk and Heidi Clark; What A Vital Community Can Do for the World with Attila Koronczay, Jennifer Lynn, Tamara Jercha, Gilad Lang, and Lisa Jacobs; and Creating a Value-Based Economy with Michael Stusser, Roche, Nic Goldsmith, Tom Eddington, and Bonnie Baker.