Have you hugged a Seeker in 2010?
Okay, for anyone who has followed this blog – or even knows anything about me – I'm a BIG fan of Seekerville.
What is Seekerville, you might ask? It's a fabulous, funny, and encouraging site for writers and readers of good fiction. Though most of the authors write inspirational fiction, all readers are welcome to glean from the wisdom and fun of this site.
I became a Seeker-Stalker in May of 2009 and have been helplessly and happily addicted ever since. Even had the wonderful opportunity to meet many of the Seekers at the American Christian Fiction Writers Conference in September. It was one of my 2010 goals!!
So – as a tribute to some fabulous ladies of fiction, here's a look at the 2010 Seekers Publishing list (in no particular order – except Ruthy's ;-).
Sandra Leesmith – got the 'Call' to publication in July and her first novel , The Price of Victory, is set to join the world of print in Spring 2011. Woohoo!!!
Julie Lessman has had a FABULOUS year with the publication of her beautiful novel, A Hope Undaunted, and a wonderful array of awards for her writing. Awards included are #5 on Booklists Inspirational Fiction for 2010, Borders Best for 2009, and finalist for ACFW's Book of the Year. If you've not read any of her previous 4 books, run to the nearest bookstore (or Sam's) and purchase them. For a review of A Hope Undaunted follow this link.
Along with providing helpful writing tips on her webpage, Myra Johnson's fun novel, Romance By the Book, and beautiful story, Dogwoods in Bloom, came out through Heartsong Presents. To read a little about Romance by the Book, check out my review here.
Glynna Kaye has great news. Besides the great reviews for her debut novel, Dreaming of Home, she has a new book to release with Steeple Hill Love Inspired in February 2011. Woohoo! Congrats, Glynna, I'm looking forward to finding Second Chance Courtship in the store.
Besides winning the Genesis awards at the ACFW conference and the Maggie's Inspriational category, Pam Hillman is well on her way to joining her Seeker sisters in the world of finely printed published novels. I can't wait to see what 2011 has to offer for her.
Cara Lynn James debut novel, Love on a Dime, graced the bookstores in 2010 and now she has TWO MORE coming out in 2011. Wow, what a fabulous start!! If you like historical romances, with vibrant characters check out Cara's books.
Missy Tippens, with her usual sweet southern flare, ended last year with her lovely novel, A Forever Christmas, and looks forward to new newest release, A Family for Faith, coming spring 2011. I think she's been doing a bit of book editing on the side too, isn't that right, Missy?
Well, I'm still dancing for joy about Tina Radcliffe's debut novel, The Rancher's Reunion, supposedly released next month – but mine is already read and sitting on my bookshelf for all to see. Not only that, but her second book with Steeple Hill Love Inspired is set to come out Fall 2011. Oh so happy for you, Tina!!
To stick with that Love Inspired SUSPENSE theme, Debby Guisti has enjoyed a year of GREAT news. Her novel, Protecting Her Child, won the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence and her novel, Killer Deadline, came out in February. Her new novel (and series) The Officer's Secret, is scheduled to hit a bookstore near you in May 2011.
Let's keep up the tension with author Cheryl Wyatt – who reached book 7 in her Wings of Refuge series this year. Book 6 – A Soldier's Devotion– and Book 7 – Steadfast Soldier– both came out this year. Maybe she'll catch us up on what's happening for her in 2011?
Last – and certainly NOT least, is Ruth Logan Herne. WHAT. A. YEAR!!! I think she's trying to keep up with Mary. All I have to say about that is…they're both crazy. 🙂 Her year started with her debut novel, Winters End, and zoomed ahead to end with her third novel, Made to Order Family. They are such GREAT books. GREAT! And there is no end in site for the prolific lady. Besides caring for adorable kids and dogs, cooking like Martha Stewart, and creating snappy replies to anyone who will listen, 2011 looks to be another amazing writing year for her. THREE MORE BOOKS (Er…I stand corrected. Ruthy will be ringing in the New Year with FOUR new books – I forgot her Christmas book 😉 are on the way, starting with Reunited Hearts in April. Oooh, I can't wait. Check out a review of her novel, Waiting Out the Storm, here.
Whew – WHAT A LIST!!! Are you excited to see what the new year has to offer? I sure am. With authors who love Jesus and love writing, there are going to be some very happy readers out there.
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I so appreciate these ladies! I did get to hug Ruthie last month and it was a treat to meet her! Cheryl helped me so much with her critique of my first chapter!
JULIE!!! Now she is one who has so blessed me and I hope to one day give her a hug and let her know in person what a blessing she has been!!
This is definitely one of the best sites around for writers and a great group of ladies!
I am just a wee bit envious that you got to hug Ruthy – but I have HIGH hopes of getting in a good hug this year.
You just HAD to rub it in that you got to meet them don't you?? Oh well. I'll let you get away with it- this time.
And I have every hope I'll get to give a CASE a hug in September 2011. Woohoo! WHAT fun!
The Seekers are AWESOME! I was privileged to meet some of them at the RWA conference in July and more of them at the ACFW conference in September. What a thrill!
Isn't it a treat, Keli.
Pepper, thanks for all the publicity and kudos. What you all don't realize is that you Seeker friends mean just as much to us as we do to you. Your wonderful input inspires us as well, your humor tickles our souls, your caring reaches out. Thanks and hopefully I'll get one of those hugs from you.
Oh my stars, I'm GLAD I PAID YOU AS MUCH AS I DID, PEPSTER!!!! It was well worth it, money well spent, LOL!
What a lovely thing to do and I'm so glad you told us about this because I had little ones today (not everyone's a teacher, so my other mom's don't get holiday weeks off) and just cruised back into Seekerville now.
Thank you, my friend. God has wonderful, delightful, marvelous things in store for you, besides the gorgeous mother (I'm so stinkin' jealous!) the great husband, the beautiful kids, and wonderful job that truly benefits others.
You amaze me. And your fun brand of writing is going to wow some editor one of these days and we will PARTY HEARTY in Seekerville with you!
And all our Seekervillian buds who work so diligently. Because that's what it's all about, the hand up, the hand out. The encouraging word. The well-meant advice. And cyber food.
I'm just a little (just a tad) excited.
Whoa – wait a pea-pickin minute.
Did Ruth Logan Herne comment on my blog?!?
It's a VERY big job.
HOLY COW, PEP, WHERE DO I SEND THE CHECK????
This is SO stinkin' sweet of you (to use a Ruthy phrase!) to promo Seekerville like this that I want to hop in the car right now and come down and hug you, girl. But I guess I'll have to wait till ACFW to do that, won't I???
I couldn't agree with you more — the Seekers are hands-down some of the nicest human beings and most diverse women I have ever had the privilege to meet, and I honestly feel like I fell in to a bucket of blessing when I hooked up with them.
And I totally ditto everything Ruthy said about you, sweetie. You are an AMAZING whirlwind of energy, passion and talent, and I simply cannot wait to see you published because you are going to be something, girlfriend.
JULIA!!! I definitely have a hug with your name on it, girl, because right back at ya — you have been an incredible blessing to me as well, which pretty much is how God is — nothing with Him in the middle is ever one way, is it???
I'm perfectly okay with taking my time in the published arena. I'll keep writing for the sheer joy of writing, but I'm certainly going to be glad with it someday. I can't imagine the thrill of holding your book (the one you've sweated, slaved, dreamed over for years). WOW!
Love you, Jules. You are such an encouragement to me. I totally concur with Julia.
PEPPER! Thank you for the shout out! In 2010 Seekers celebrated 5 years together and 3 years of blogging. But it's our "Friends of Seekerville" — like you! — who make the blog come alive and fun for everyone! Wishing you all the BEST in 2011!
As always, Glynna, my pleasure.
Seekerville has truly been a blessing to me this year.
you must be EXHAUSTED from that list. And EXCUSE ME!!!! Ruthy and I are crazy???
You are making Julie felt left out.
And Ruthy, four books next year? Really? I lost count. Wow.
So our success is YOU, Pepper darlin'.
Also, I got my tooth fixed. I'm a little shakey.
Yes, Mary. Exhausted – but so glad you got your tooth fixed.
Shakiness? From the tooth fixing or….something else? 😉 Too much eggnog, eh?
Ooooo, yes! I would say that the Seeker ladies are hands down some of the most loving, caring, writers EVER! And boy, can they write. I'm always amazed at how God uses them to touch others with their tales of love.
I'm hoping for a Writers Alley get together in 2011. Talk about fun?!? that would be super-awesome.
Wow, Pepper, thank you for this lovely promotion of Seekerville and Seeker books!!! Can't wait to return the favor one day!! I have a lousy cold and feel terrible. Your post is the best medicine I could have.
No, no, no Pepper! You've got it all wrong!! YOU made MY day when I got to hug you at ACFW! You are so cute and bubbly on the digital screen, but downright lovable and adorable in person!
Thanks so much for your kind thoughts and words for Seekerville. But remember, we would be nothing without you! I absolutely love our extended Seeker family. All the food and fun, and don't forget the some of the outrageous comments to posts that take us on conversations that have nothing to do with the original topic.
I don't know if the good Lord thought far enough ahead when He tossed you to the Seekers…but we're so glad He did, LOL!
I know I'm blessed to call you friend.
AND, I'm still scratching my head over why He gave you so many more hours in the day than any of the rest of us. Do you ever stop to look at all the stuff you do during the day?
Work outside the home, raise 5 kids, are the perfect wife to your adorable husband, keep up with numerous blogs and emails AND write novels spanning multi genres??
Sheesh. I want to know how much you paid the big guy AND if I can get in on the bribe, LOL!
You go, Pepper! You are my hero!!!
Honestly, Seekerville would not be what it is today without our faithful Seekervillagers and/or Seeker Stalkers. We're like one HUGE and wonderful family, and it's fun to see what craziness each day is going to bring.
Praying God blesses you big-time in 2011, Pepper!
What a sweet post, Pepper!! Thank you! We love your blog, too.
Pepper! Thanks for mentioning us! Seekerville wouldn't be what it is without friends like you. Big hugs and boisterous thanks!
As a fellow Seeker-stalker, YAY What a fun list of great ladies and great books.
I'm anxiously awaiting the chance to party with the Seekers when you announce your first sale, Pepper.
And it was AWESOME hanging with you and the Seekers in Indy.
Sorry I'm so late to the party. I appreciate the key to unlock Mary Nealy. I'm so jazzed about that. Wow.
The Seekers are amazing, aren't they? I check two blogs every morning and mine is not always first.


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La Mancomunidad Gran Ciudad del Sur es una asociación de 7 ciudades importantes dentro del Departamento de Guatemala, fue creada con el propósito de planificar, organizar y supervisar la prestación de servicios de consultoría, asesoría o participación en la solución de asuntos municipales que las asociadas requieran en materia administrativa, técnica o jurídica. Dicha Mancomunidad esta conformada por las ciudades de Amatitlán, Ciudad de Guatemala, Mixco, San Miguel Petapa, Santa Catarina Pinula, Villa Canales y Villa Nueva. Juntos integran menos de un 1% del territorio nacional, pero albergan más del 20% de la población guatemalteca.

Estas ciudades son parte del área metropolitana de Guatemala y de la expansión territorial del área construida, donde el 28.5% corresponde al municipio de Guatemala y 14% a los municipios de Mixco y Villa Nueva, y el resto a los municipios restantes. Estos deberán responder a un plan metropolitano, pues forman un objetivo global de un Plan Regional de Desarrollo Urbano, instrumento de gestión para el uso más adecuado del territorio. Asimismo se promueve la capacitación a personal de las municipalidades, mediante la creación, mejoramiento, desarrollo, modificación, ampliación o sustitución de procesos, procedimientos, métodos, técnicas, manuales, instructivos, guías y proyectos que consoliden y modernicen los sistemas municipales.

El fin primordial de la Mancomunidad del Sur del departamento de Guatemala es llevar desarrollo al área, lo cual será más fácil si se enfrentan en conjunto los problemas que los afectan. Nace con el lema: "Soluciones comunes para problemas comunes".

Creación de la Mancomunidad

Alcaldes de seis municipios firman Acta Constitutiva que da vida a la Mancomunidad.  En un acto realizado en el Palacio Nacional de la Cultura, los alcaldes Mainor Orellana de Amatitlán, Otto Pérez Leal de Mixco, Luis Barillas de San Miguel Petapa, Erick  Pocasangre de Villa Canales, Edwin Escobar de Villa Nueva, y Víctor Alvarizaes, Concejal I de la municipalidad de Santa Catarina Pinula, en representación del jefe edil, Antonio Coro, junto a un importante testigo de honor, Otto Pérez Molina , Presidente de la República, firmaron el Acta Constitutiva, la cual da vida jurídica a la mancomunidad Gran Ciudad del Sur.

El objetivo principal es buscar soluciones comunes a problemas comunes, dijo el alcalde de Villa Nueva y presidente de la Mancomunidad, Edwin Escobar. "Dentro de esta figura de mancomunidad estamos armando tres aparatos: El Instituto de Planificación y Desarrollo Urbano, el Fondo Patrimonial y una Oficina de Atracción de Inversión, con lo cual buscamos atraer más de 500 millones de dólares anuales, provenientes de distintos sectores, privados, públicos, municipales, mancomunados, cooperación internacional y sociedad civil", acotó.

"Lo que hace más atractiva la Mancomunidad, es que no arrancamos de cero. Cada una de las municipalidades aportó Q1 millón, por lo cual contamos con un capital de Q6 millones, y tenemos ofrecimientos de diferentes instituciones de cooperación, quienes podrían brindarnos aportes de por lo menos Q10 millones", aseguró Escobar.

En esta región del país, existen muchas necesidades y son varios los proyectos que los jefes ediles, buscan trabajar juntos, entre ellos: rescate del Lago de Amatitlán, seguridad, mejoramiento de barrios, educación, transporte, desechos sólidos e infraestructura, con lo cual se beneficiaría alrededor de 3 millones de habitantes de la Gran Ciudad del Sur.

El Presidente de la República, Otto Pérez Molina dijo que este es un momento histórico e importante para todo el país. "El hecho que seis alcaldes electos por diferentes partidos unan esfuerzos para trabajar proyectos en conjunto y mejorar las condiciones de vida de la población, no sólo es muestra de valentía, sino de inteligencia", aseguró Pérez Molina. "Yo firmo como testigo de honor en esta conformación que los seis alcaldes llevan a cabo y tienen todo mi apoyo, sin duda alguna el de la Vicepresidenta y de todos los ministros. La Mancomunidad es un paso firme, sólido e importante para que los jóvenes tengan una mejor vida, por ello, vamos a trabajar para obtener mejores resultados en seguridad y lograr traer inversión a estos municipios", puntualizó el mandatario.

Elección de Junta Directiva

Durante el acto memorable de la firma de estatutos eligieron los alcaldes y concejales a la Junta Directiva de la Mancomunidad, la cual quedó integrada de la siguiente manera: Edwin Escobar, alcalde de Villa Nueva, presidente; Otto Pérez Leal, alcalde de Mixco, vicepresidente; Erick Pocasangre, alcalde de Villa Canales, secretario; Mainor Orellana, alcalde de Amatitlán, tesorero; Antonio Coro, alcalde de Santa Catarina Pinula, vocal I; Luis Barillas, alcalde de San Miguel Petapa, vocal II.

Al hacer uso de la palabra los jefes ediles coincidieron en que están seguros que unir esfuerzos para mancomunarse traerá muchos beneficios a los municipios.

Según lo expresado por el Presidente de la Mancomunidad, es un gran paso para hacer realidad el sueño de construir y desarrollar la  región que hoy está constituida en La Gran Ciudad de Sur. "Tenemos historia en común, riqueza cultural y natural, la cual sólo podrá darse a conocer y conservarse si trabajamos juntos. Llevar desarrollo para traducirlo en una mejor calidad de vida para más de 3 millones de personas que habitan en la región será más fácil si estamos unidos", manifestó Escobar alcalde de Villa Nueva.

Objetivos de la Mancomunidad

Entre los problemas más urgentes que se espera trabajar en mancomunidad están: transporte, rescate del lago de Amatitlán, seguridad, barrios y comunidades de verdad, educación, salud, tratamiento de desechos sólidos e infraestructura.

La Mancomunidad está abierta para que otras municipalidades del departamento de Guatemala, que así lo deseen, puedan asociarse. Para ello deberán presentar, entre otros requisitos, solicitud escrita del Alcalde Municipal, en la cual se declare el deseo expreso de formar parte de la agrupación, además de aceptar y cumplir los estatutos de la misma.

La firma de los estatutos y la integración de la Junta Directiva de la Mancomunidad del Sur del departamento de Guatemala son hechos históricos y memorables para el país; ello es una prueba de que enfrentar problemas comunes, buscarles soluciones y ejecutar las mismas se puede lograr para mejorar la vida de los pobladores que habitan en municipios que registran altos índices de pobreza.

Véase también

 Ciudad de Guatemala
 Departamento de Guatemala
 área metropolitana de Guatemala
 Amatitlán
 Mixco
 San Miguel Petapa
 Santa Catarina Pinula
 Villa Canales
 Villa Nueva

Notas y referencias

Referencias

Bibliografía

Guatemala (Departamento)
Organizaciones de Guatemala

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Q: How to split the comma separated values in tcl I have several lines separated by comma in a file, I want to add the comma separated values into a list. How can I do it? Split command gives me a list. But I want to maintain array for hold these values.
            For example : Jack,John,Ted

I want to create an array to hold these values. How can I do this?

A: Most likely a Tcl list is actually the correct data structure for your needs.  A common misunderstanding with Tcl is that its list data structure is like a traditional linked list data structure, with all the implications thereof (such as O(n) access time).  In fact, the Tcl list is really a vector, with O(1) access to elements, as well as efficient enumeration via the foreach command.  In comparison, Tcl's array is actually a hash table, which may be what you want -- but if all you need is to iterate through the elements, or access specific elements efficiently, a Tcl list is perfect.
To iterate through the elements, use foreach, as mentioned:
foreach name $values {
    puts $name
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To access a specific element, use lindex.  Remember that lists are 0-indexed, so index 2 is the third element in the list:
puts [lindex $values 2]

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A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of photographing the wedding of Tracey and John at the stunning Himley House situated between Kingswinford and Wombourne Just southwest of Birmingham in the West Midlands. What made this wedding a little unusual was the days before it snowed and snowed so there was a TOTAL blanket of snow on the ground. The view of Himley House in the snow was magnificent.
We arrived about 2 hours before the wedding, or about an earlier than we normally would, we spent that hour taking photos of Himley House in the snow and lots of detail shots.
The bride and Groom by the Christmas Tree at by the main staircase – this is why I love winter weddings. Winter wedding photography has its own challenges including the cold, bright glare and the reluctance for couples to go outside for photos, but with winter weddings come Christmas weddings and all the associated bonuses that go with it.
The good news for us is that Tracey and John were excited about a winter wedding so when I suggested we went outside for a few wedding photos in the snow, they were more than happy to oblige !
I hope you have enjoyed this sneak peek – Winter weddings are GREAT fun, so if your getting married in the winter, dont worry about the weather, if its cold and snowy it just makes for much prettier photos.
Quite simply 0ne of the most sought after destinations in London, Searcy 4030 at the top of The Gherkin otherwise known as No.30 St Mary Axe in the City of London.
Couples lucky enough to hold their wedding at the Gherkin are in for a once in a lifetime experience. Offering a unique 360 degree view over The City of London and beyond guests are left speechless upon exiting the elevator on the 38th floor and walking into the the ceremony room.
The Gherkin is a challenging experience for any photographer, with Black Marble floors wall to wall glass and ceilings that extend up around another 40 – 50 feet reflections can be tricky to say the least.
The up side of holding your wedding at the Gherkin is undoubtedly the spectacular backdrop which is quite simply London – You look over The Tower of London, The River Themes, The Shard, Canary Wharf to name but a few.
When choosing your photographer to capture this most special of days, its important to choose one who has experience of this magnificent venue, one who knows exactly which equipment to bring, how to light up the interior to maximize each and every photo opportunity.
We have experience of working with wedding co-ordinators, personal security details etc, We carry 5 million pounds worth of Public Liability and professional indemnity insurance. I have a current CRB check and was previously Positively Vetted by the Ministry of Defense. We can offer clients total privacy and exclusivity contracts and are happy to deal with magazine and magazine editors if needed.
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Please view the following photographs from the wedding of Alun and Rachel which took place at The Gherkin recently.
While this was going on, Oliver and his staff were transforming the room downstairs for dinner, once it was complete before the wedding party went down for a candle lit dinner over looking the whole of London, I shot a few long exposure photos of the room.
and if you a regular blog follower of mine you will know I am well known for my reflection shots, I always look out for unusual reflection photos – check this one out – you could only get a shot like this in a round room at somewhere like the Gherkin.
well thats about it, ALMOST………….
I just wanted to share a few others with you, I didnt know where they fitted in but I love them anyway.
Rachael had the most magnificent flowers for her wedding they were beautiful – here is just one arrangement. This is a 30 second photo painted with light – pretty cool – great fun to make.
I hop you have enjoyed this look at the most amazing wedding of Rachael and Alun, congratulations to the happy couple.
A couple of weeks ago I had the great pleasure of photographing the wedding of Fiona and Whyndam. The wedding was at the magnificent Hurst House in Pembrokeshire and although it was a bit of a winter wedding the weather was amazing.
Fiona looked amazing in a beautiful Jenny Packham wedding dress (one of my favorite designers) and Wyndham looked as please as punch.
Just before the first dance we ran the slideshow (if we are at your wedding all day we do a slideshow in the evening) an Fiona stood next to Helen and myself. I have never known a bride cry her eyes out so much to her wedding phtoos. It humbled us.
Below is the sneak peek directors cut of the wedding photos – more in the next few days.
Saturday saw me shooting a wedding pretty close to home, the wedding taking place in Worcester with the wedding reception at the stunning Ragley Hall wedding venue. The bride was getting ready at Malvern Spa in Malvern, Worcestershire.
Both Helen and I agreed that this was one of our favorite weddings of the year, the couple were so into photos, the guests were in party mode, the Vicar was THE BEST VICAR we have ever worked with and Ragley Hall is the most amazing Warwickshire wedding venue.
From the time we turned up till the time we left the whole day was a total blast and it was so so so so obvious that Toni and Paul are so smitten and totally in love with each other that the day just ooozed love.
here are a few sneak peeks – Enjoy.
I thought long and hard about including the next photo and decided I would include it, it was a very special moment following the signing of the register, you could feel the love between Paul and Toni and Paul looked so happy to have just married the girl of his dreams, then following a kiss he wept a little.
and last but not least, a very quick grab shot, this is one very happy bride.
I hope you have enjoyed this quick sneak peek.
This Sunday saw us visiting the Hampshire / Surrey border to shoot a fabulous wedding at the amazing Northbrook Park – a truely beautiful wedding venue.
So here are a few photos of Colin and Gnyaneshwari getting married at Northbrook Park.
We are available for weddings all over the UK – for more information visit out wedding photography page on our website.


The Israeli military launched an operation on Tuesday to "expose and thwart" tunnels built by the Hezbollah militant group it says stretch from Lebanon into northern Israel.
The tunnels are not operational, the military said, adding that its work to find and neutralise them was taking place inside Israeli territory.
But the operation could send tensions soaring between Israel and its Iranian-backed foe, who have both been preoccupied with other conflicts since their last conflagration more than a decade ago.
"We see Hezbollah's activities as a flagrant and blatant violation of Israeli sovereignty" and of UN resolutions, said Lt. Col Jonathan Conricus, a military spokesman.
"This activity is another example of the negative effects of Iranian entrenchment in the region." The military did not disclose how many tunnels snake into Israeli territory from Lebanon or what tools it was using to deal with the threat, although it said the operation could last for weeks.
Israel has spent years attempting to tackle a network of tunnels from the Gaza Strip into Israel and has used a variety of methods to destroy tunnels and prevent them from being rebuilt.
A Lebanese military official told The Associated Press that Lebanese troops and military intelligence agents, along with UN peacekeepers deployed in southern Lebanon, were observing the border on Tuesday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, had no further details. Israel has been using earthmovers and other large machinery to build a massive wall along its northern border, saying the barrier is needed to protect civilians from Hezbollah attacks.
While the construction has prompted complaints from the Lebanese army, Hezbollah has not responded, an indication it could remain restrained amid the new operation.
Israel, meanwhile, gave no special orders to residents of northern Israel, signaling that it too was not expecting an immediate response from Hezbollah. The existence of the tunnels did not appear to have surprised Israel. Conricus said Hezbollah has been developing an offensive plan against Israel that would "shift the battleground into Israel."
The group would use firepower and ground units and "the surprise component of that plan was supposed to be tunnels that would allow infiltrators into Israel."
He added that Israel has investigated the possibility of underground Hezbollah tunnels since 2013 and launched a task force which has been working for the last two years searching for them.
He did not explain why the operation was launched now. Bulldozers and military vehicles were seen operating near the pastoral Israeli border town of Metula on Tuesday.
Residents of the area told Israeli media they had been hearing digging noises for years and had reported their suspicions to the military. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah and its Al-Manar TV did not make any mention of the Israeli operation.
Malene Jensen, spokeswoman for the UN force in Lebanon known as UNIFIL, said the situation in the peacekeepers' "area of operation remains calm" and that they are in touch with all relevant parties to make sure calm and stability is maintained.
The Israeli operation began hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a snap trip to Brussels to meet US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in which the two discussed "ways to halt together Iranian aggression in the region," including in Lebanon.
Israel has long voiced concern about Iran's growing military presence along its northern border, warning of an Iranian corridor that could assist in the transfer of weapons to Hezbollah.
Israel has generally refrained from engaging in Syria's civil war, though it has carried out scores of airstrikes against what Israel says were Iranian shipments of advanced weapons bound for Hezbollah.
Israeli officials have long warned the threat posed by Gaza's Hamas rulers pales in comparison to that of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah a heavily-armed mini-army with valuable combat experience and an arsenal of some 150,000 rockets that can reach nearly every part of Israel.
Hezbollah meanwhile has also been distracted by the war in Syria, where it has fought fiercely alongside President Bashar Assad's troops. With Syria's civil war winding down, Hezbollah is now free to re-establish itself back home in Lebanon and refocus on Israel.


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Under a new proposal, criminal history checks would not be necessary to access medicinal marijuana. Photo: Pixabay
Criminal history checks on doctors and patients wanting to access medicinal marijuana should not be relevant regarding applications to access the drug, a parliamentary committee has argued.
This follows the delivery of a special report by the Parliamentary Health, Communities, Disability Services and the Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Committee, on a bill that would create a formal process for doctors in Queensland to prescribe medicinal cannabis to patients.
Within the report the committee has made two recommendations; first – to remove provisions allowing for criminal history checks.
And secondly a call to prioritize options to cultivate cannabis crops for medical use in Queensland.
"The committee recommends that the Queensland government, through the lead department – the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries – prioritise its investigation into options to obtain a licence to cultivate and manufacture medicinal cannabis in Queensland," the report reads.
"The committee shares submitters' concerns about the appropriateness of a practitioner's and patient's criminal history being a determining factor in the treatment of a patient's medical condition."
The Public Health (Medicinal Cannabis) Bill 2016, as it currently stands, allows the chief executive of Queensland health to request a criminal history check on medical practitioners and patients, as part of the decision on whether the individual is suitable to prescribe or receive the drug.
Spokesperson for Medicinal Cannabis Australia, Heath Kratzer, believes this is an unnecessary procedure, drawing into question the already readily available dangerous drugs on the market.
"People have been using cannabis as a medicine since the start of recorded history – it is only the past 80 years that this has been removed as an option," Mr Kratzer said.
"Doctors already prescribe a wide range of drugs with more potential for abuse and death than cannabis medicine, if they can be trusted with these, why not cannabis?
"To deny a person medicine because they have a criminal record is a very serious issue; everyone has the right to be healthy and heal themselves."
The bill would not allow patients to grow their own marijuana and would track the amount and type of marijuana dispensed to patients through pharmacies.
The proposed bill would not allow individuals to grow their own marijuana. Photo: Pixabay
Under the committee's proposal medicinal cannabis would be dispensed by approved pharmacists, with Queensland becoming home to one of the country's largest cannabis plantations.
This would allow home-grown plants to be cheaper and quicker to access than those sourced overseas.
The proposed bill follows evidence to suggest that medicinal cannabis can help patients with multiple sclerosis, arthritis, chemotherapy-induced nausea, epilepsy, HIV and AIDS-related symptoms, and chronic pain.
According to the Queensland Network of Alcohol and other Drug Agencies, medicinal practitioners already require criminal history background checks as part of their registration process.
The committee has recommended the bill be passed.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — With the world a colder, crazier place these days, it's nice to remember that good still happens.
Sometimes, some of us not only listen to our better angels but become them. And in those moments, the world, at least a corner of it, feels a little warmer.
The Women Veterans of New Mexico is a great example of the unsung people who deserve recognition for doing good deeds in the community.
Maybe you know someone like that. Nominate that marvelous person and tell me why he or she should be included in our seventh annual Angels Among Us honors.
Deadline is Dec. 14. Send nominations to jkrueger@abqjournal.com; call 505-823-3603; message me on Facebook or write me at the Journal, 7777 Jefferson NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109.
The best of your nominees will be featured in a column around Christmas and the recipients will be given a special Nambé angel.
And so it was for Melissa Atkinson, an Air Force veteran down on her luck and down to her last can of tuna when a host of angels showed up.
Like many other veterans, Atkinson came back from her tours of duty from 1997 to 2005 with battle scars, some inflicted by those on her side of the war.
She doesn't, she can't, talk about the specifics of those events that led to the depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder she struggles with, she said, but she is in counseling and receives a modest disability check.
Returning to civilian life has been a series of disconnects. Atkinson, 37, has little family support. A fiancé came and went. So have apartments and jobs, mostly contract work as an information technology technician. These days, she works as a convenience store clerk.
Life on a couch was taking its toll, she said.
This month, her luck started to change. A regular customer hearing about her strained and transient living situation offered to put in a good word for her at his Northeast Heights apartment complex.
She moved in with little more than a pillow, a bowl and a few cans of tuna.
On Nov. 10, the day before Veterans Day, she told her counselor about her big move.
How great it would be, the counselor told her, to make a miracle happen by furnishing the apartment by Veterans Day.
Enter the Women Veterans of New Mexico, a nonprofit that provides outreach and support from women vets to women vets, particularly those who are homeless or facing homelessness.
Until this month, Atkinson had been paying her store manager $300 to sleep on her couch, unable as she was to find an apartment willing to rent to her because she was fined for breaking a lease at another apartment over the noise from a neighbor that had become intolerable.
Last year, the organization placed eight homeless female vets into homes and provided furniture and household items and assisted nearly 20 homeless or near-homeless vets.
"We immediately went directly to the veteran to find out what she needed," said Judy Quintana, vice president of the organization. "She pretty much needed everything.
Quintana made a mental checklist: Couch, bed, linens, coffee tables, kitchenware, microwave, food, for starters.
Women Veterans of New Mexico: womenveteransofnewmexico.org or on Facebook at Women Veterans of NM. Contact 505-358-0839, nmwomenveterans@gmail.com or P.O. Box 36648, Albuquerque, NM 87176.
Veterans Integration Center: nmvic.org or on Facebook at NM Veterans Integration Centers. Contact 505-265-0512 or 13032 Central SE, Albuquerque, NM.
Quintana said her organization worked with others, including the Veterans Integration Center, churches, the state Department of Veterans' Services, and YWCA to help Atkinson.
By Veterans Day evening, Atkinson's apartment was furnished and food was in the refrigerator. The next day, a new full-size bed arrived.
The Women Vets took care of that for her Thursday.
Quintana said it's important that Atkinson and other vets like her know they no longer need to fight their battles of stability and disability alone.
Atkinson is home now, thanks to a series of kind acts and a bunch of better angels.


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THE DEVIL AND WEBSTER
by Jean Hanff Korelitz ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 21, 2017
The president of an elite New England college grapples with student protest in Korelitz's sixth novel (You Should Have Known, 2014, etc.).
Naomi Roth is Webster College's first female president, a fitting denouement to the school's half-century evolution from a bastion of WASP privilege to a progressive institution housing a diverse faculty and student body. Naomi, herself from an earlier generation of demonstrators, is inclined to be tolerant when a group of students camps on the Webster quad to protest the denial of tenure to popular professor Nicholas Gall. Although the students insinuate it's because Gall is black, in fact his only published work was found to be plagiarized—but if Naomi says that, Gall could sue the college. She hopes the protestors, who include her daughter, Hannah, will soon fade away, but she hasn't reckoned on the charisma of Omar Khayal, a student of Palestinian origins, whose soft-spoken demeanor belies his ability to inflame the situation at every turn. Korelitz has always been a deft plotter, so presumably it's intentional that readers will figure out Omar is not what he seems long before Naomi does. She is the latest in the author's long line of smart but blinkered female protagonists, but this time the origins of Naomi's obtuseness remain murky, and her relationships with secondary characters like best friend Francine Rigor, Webster dean of admissions, are less fully fleshed than usual. In addition, the academic concerns that made such a vivid backdrop for the human drama of Admission (2009) here seem excessively self-referential, as does the endless wrangling about just how inclusive Webster really is. Granted, this is currently a hot topic on real-life campuses, but it needs a more compelling fictional framework. Nonetheless, Korelitz's smooth prose and unfailing intelligence make this novel worth reading, if not quite up to her usual high standards.
Review Posted Online: Nov. 22, 2016
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2016
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by Jean Hanff Korelitz
YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN
by Donna Tartt ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 16, 1992
The Brat Pack meets The Bacchae in this precious, way-too-long, and utterly unsuspenseful town-and-gown murder tale. A bunch of ever-so-mandarin college kids in a small Vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact Dionysian frenzies in the woods. During the only one that actually comes off, a local farmer happens upon them—and they kill him. But the death isn't ruled a murder—and might never have been if one of the gang—a cadging sybarite named Bunny Corcoran—hadn't shown signs of cracking under the secret's weight. And so he too is dispatched. The narrator, a blank-slate Californian named Richard Pepen chronicles the coverup. But if you're thinking remorse-drama, conscience masque, or even semi-trashy who'll-break-first? page-turner, forget it: This is a straight gee-whiz, first-to-have-ever-noticed college novel—"Hampden College, as a body, was always strangely prone to hysteria. Whether from isolation, malice, or simple boredom, people there were far more credulous and excitable than educated people are generally thought to be, and this hermetic, overheated atmosphere made it a thriving black petri dish of melodrama and distortion." First-novelist Tartt goes muzzy when she has to describe human confrontations (the murder, or sex, or even the ping-ponging of fear), and is much more comfortable in transcribing aimless dorm-room paranoia or the TV shows that the malefactors anesthetize themselves with as fate ticks down. By telegraphing the murders, Tartt wants us to be continually horrified at these kids—while inviting us to semi-enjoy their manneristic fetishes and refined tastes. This ersatz-Fitzgerald mix of moralizing and mirror-looking (Jay McInerney shook and poured the shaker first) is very 80's—and in Tartt's strenuous version already seems dated, formulaic. Les Nerds du Mal—and about as deep (if not nearly as involving) as a TV movie.
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The question of "what is the most important meal of the day?" was always one I had and heard about back in high school and the answer was never the same, but the most common one was breakfast and I still hear it today, if I believe it, is another story.
My whole high school career I believed it because I'd have early mornings with 7:30 classes and my parents would probably feed me if I didn't eat my breakfast because that's how passionate they were about it too, so yeah, I believed that breakfast was the most important meal of the day because at the time it made the most sense as I would obviously get very hungry if I didn't eat in the morning and I'd lose the gains that me and my rugby teammates would talk about pretty much all time, heck I was ridiculed just for having two slices of bread for lunch sometimes and never eat again until dinner, but I didn't know much and they didn't know much either thinking that lunch meal I had would mean I'd lose my gains, but that's a story for another time.
What is the most important meal of the day? It depends on how you see your meals of the day, like what is a standard breakfast, lunch and dinner? I had friends who'd have a fruit for breakfast and to me, that is not a breakfast because I'd be hungry in the next hour, but if I'm running late for morning gym, I would have just a banana and some would consider that a breakfast sometimes.
It also depends on what you're eating your breakfast for, like is it to not be hungry during class like me in high school? Do you eat it as part of starting your gains train early during the day or do you not eat breakfast because you're on a weight loss program that includes morning fasting, which I can't say much about because I don't know enough about it, but I've heard these things before and your perception is really what is important.
But above all of that, the most important meal of the day is your next one, it can be your breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner or snack meal. It is the most important because it is from that meal where you calculate how much more or less you need to eat to reach your desired calorie count for the day, it is from that meal that you won't fall hungry during an important meeting that is five hours long and it is from that meal that you'll hypothetically survive.
There are people who suffer from eating disorders, people not knowing where they'll get their next meal in and who are just so frustrated that they give up on their fitness goals that get them up in the morning or keep them going. I personally can say that when I do prepare my meals in advance, I get more motivated to train and work hard because I've got my fuel dispenser ready to fuel me (great analogy), like driving a car knowing that you've constantly got some free fuel waiting to fill your tank, you'll go crazy with that car and put it to work.
Nonetheless, never forget that your next meal is your most important one and remember to always be grateful for that meal. Check out The 101: How To Meal Prep to help you on preparing your meals in future! Let's Connect.
I love the direction you took with this post. I too was under the impression that breakfast is the most important meal of the day because I was told it sets the tone for your metabolism for the day. I didn't know this in high school. The reason why I ate breakfast because I would be hungry if I didn't. Similar to you. My breakfast consisted of a Pop tart and a bottle of apple juice. Every. Single. Morning. I don't eat that anymore though! I really like how you said your most important meal should be your next one. I personally have struggle with not knowing where my next meal was going to come from when I was living on my own in college. It makes me all the more grateful about my meals now. Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you for taking the time to read the post, much appreciated! I've never had a pop tart before haha, but I'm guessing it isn't much .. I'm currently in varsity, so I understand how that feels right now and has taken me two and half years to get an idea of a plan that I'll be using to get my lean mass goals still being cost effective for me and I hope you work something out to make things easier for you.
Poptarts are so bad for you lol. Full of tons of sugar. I feel you on finding cost effective things. It's a struggle but so worth it!
Haha cool! Definitely worth it.


Business often feels like a contact sport. Your competitors want to rough you up, blitz you with unexpected new products, undercut your prices, gang up on you via alliances or mergers and hammer away at your stock price. Organizations are bound to get the occasional bump and bruise—or worse. The important thing is a company's ability to minimize the damage, recover fast and quickly get back in the game with new strategies, business models and products. That's what business "resilience" is all about.
When couched in sports metaphors like these, resilience sounds fairly simple. It's not, of course. In fact, an analysis by Booz Allen Hamilton finds that only 17% of organizations are resilient, meaning that they are "highly adaptable to external market shifts, yet focused on and aligned behind a coherent business strategy" (Neilson, Pasternack and Van Nuys, 2005, p. 85).
To be resilient, an organization needs to have a certain kind of corporate culture, one that supports the three components of resilience capacity, as laid out by University of Texas researchers Cynthia Lengnick-Hall and Tammy Beck (2005). First, a company needs to have "cognitive resilience," which means that the organization has a deep understanding of what's happening around it. It not only notices how things are changing but makes sense of those changes and formulates responses. Such cultures help organizational members resist the all-too-human proclivity to live in denial about unwelcome truths. It helps if workers have a strong sense of the core identity and values of the organization so they know how to behave in times of change or even crisis.
Third, there's "contextual resilience," which depends a lot on internal social connections. Interpersonal networks often help companies rapidly cope with and respond to changes. It turns out that resilient people have a knack for getting others to help them out in times of need (Lengnick-Hall and Beck, 2005).
Although information flows freely in resilient organizations, people tend to be clear about who is responsible for making which kinds of decisions. Decisions are not second-guessed once they've been made. And such organizations are more likely to distinguish among high, adequate and low performers (Neilson, Pasternack and Van Nuys, 2005).
Hamel and Valikangas also suggest that employers could set up semi-free markets within their organizations for funding innovation. They note that there can be hundreds or even thousands of people who control budgets in large corporations. If they're allowed to invest a small proportion of those budgets—say 1% to 5%—in strategy experiments, then corporate capital would be allowed to flow to the best rather than just the most politically connected innovations.
For more information on adapting to changes, see HRI's Managing Change Knowledge Center. This contains, among other things, a recently updated and published highlight report. Also see HRI's Creativity and Innovation Knowledge Center.
Hamel, Gary, and Liisa Valikangas. "The Quest for Resilience." Harvard Business Review ( September 2003): 52–63.
Lengnick-Hall, Cynthia A., and Tammy E. Beck. "Adaptive Fit Versus Robust Transformation: How Organizations Respond to Environmental Change." Journal of Management ( October 2005): 738–757.
Neilson, Gary L., Bruce A. Pasternack, and Karen E. Van Nuys. "The Passive-Aggressive Organization." Harvard Business Review (October 2005) : 83–92.


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Mosaic Unbound – Hispanic Heritage Month – The Etownian
By Helen O. Gadbois on	 September 23, 2021 True religion hats
Lauren Robitaille wears a lot of hats. The student of Elizabethtown College is at the same time an intern at Office of Diversity, Equity and Belonging, Bowers Writers House and the High Library.
On Monday, September 20, these three organizations collaborated to sponsor a Mosaic Unbound Dialogue Series meeting to kick off Hispanic Heritage Month at the College. As an intermediary, Robitaille hosted the event.
She began by admitting, "I'm by no means an expert in this area, but I want to learn. "
The members of the NOIR dialogue club, the staff of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Belonging and interested students sat in an alcove on the long top of the Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness and Well-being. The group sat in a loose circle, most of them in bean bags. Nichole Gonzalez, Dean of Students and Executive Director of the Diversity, Equity and Belonging College, was also in attendance.
Robitaille begins the discussion with a little history. She explains that many Latin American countries celebrate their Independence Day from mid-September. in mid-Oct. This explains the "blockage" of Hispanic Heritage Month.
To recognize the second half of the month that lasts until October, Robitaille finds it appropriate to tell a story about the popular Latin American tale of La Llorona, the mother who wanders the river bank, weeping and seeking the children she she drowned.
After that, she moved on to the centerpiece of the dialogue – a personal essay "Girl's Guide to Sexual Purity" by Latin writer Carmen Maria Machado. Machado is best known for her short story collections, but her essay describes her attempts to reconcile her bisexuality with the beliefs of her community's religion.
Machado's attempt ultimately failed and she became an atheist.
Gonzalez commented on the writer's conflict.
"It is not always possible to reconcile [one's religion and other identities] and stay true to who you are, "Gonzalez said.
More broadly, Robitaille asked: "Does religion hold back our evolution as human beings?
Associate Director for Office of Diversity, Equity and Belonging Ellis Bonds said that when he asks religious people to tell him what they think is wrong with homosexuality but "don't use the Bible" they can't do it.
Robitaille said she believed religion was compatible with social justice, but for the most part not "religion as it is now". While she believes organized religion as it stands has too much baggage, she also believes that individual experiences of faith can aid the mission for righteousness.
In the same vein, Robitaille felt: "There is a balance between celebrating heritage and abandoning toxic cultural norms".
Bonds agreed and spoke of his own heritage.
"We are very homophobic in the black community," Bonds said.
However, he feels he can be proud of his identity because he wants to "advance this culture".
Robitaille attributed sexual prejudice in the Latino community at least in part to outside influence.
"Everything goes back to colonialism like everything else," she said.
Gonzalez also added: "And the patriarchy."
At that moment, Robitaille nodded fervently.
Concluding the event, Robitaille thanked his guests and named some of the other upcoming events in the Mosaic Unbound series.
On October 18, they will cover LGBTQ History Month and on October 15, a discussion on Native American history.
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I just saw this tragic video detailing the 911 call's final moments of a family whose 2009 Lexus ES350 experienced uncontrolled acceleration, leading to a fatal crash.
According to the original LA Times article, the driver, Mark Saylor, was a veteran California Highway Patrol officer, and a related article states that Saylor and his family "had taken their own Lexus to a dealer for servicing and been given a loaner Lexus in its place."
I've driven loaner or rental cars for various reasons, either while waiting for my regular ride to be repaired, or for fun, as was the case with a Ford Mustang convertible my wife and I took on a beach trip to St. Augustine. With a new vehicle comes new features. In my case, there was a learning curve in getting to know how to put the Mustang's top down, certainly not for safety's sake, but convenience, and of course fun. I didn't rent the convertible for the privilege of driving a Mustang, despite its heritage (Bullitt fans, represent!).
Should the Saylor family have reasonably been expected to know they'd need to compensate for sudden, uncontrolled acceleration? In my opinion, no; if you're driving a car, you expect it to be fully under your control, especially where speed and drivability are concerned.
If the car has pushbutton ignition as this one does, it seems to raise the bar a bit on what it expects the driver to be able to control. Removing the physical act of turning a key to start or stop the vehicle places the driver into a new paradigm as far as driving is concerned.
As this article regarding Toyota's safety advisory details, the driver must "firmly and steadily push the button for at least three seconds to turn off the engine".
When I think to myself, could I push and hold my car's start button for three seconds to shut down the engine? Sure, why not? Could I do the same in a panic situation, in the middle of rush-hour traffic? California, specifically Los Angeles rush-hour traffic, trying at once to avoid a collission while at the same time trying to calm my passengers who are probably flipping out as much or more than I am?? Probably not! Therein lies the problem.
I think Toyota would do well to pioneer at least audio and possibly video warnings and introductions to their cars in the rental or loaner role.
If a car is a rental or loaner, perhaps when the driver sits down and buckles in they'd be presented with a little audio-visual presentation on the basic safety features of their vehicle. Only when the user acknowledges and signs off on basic awareness of these features, perhaps by hitting a big OK button on the car nav system's touchscreen or HUD, would they be allowed to actually get on the road.
Of course, given the level of computerization today, you might expect your car to go above and beyond the now trivial "your door is ajar", and do something like, well, prevent the car from entering the runaway acceleration state in the first place.
Why would a car be accelerating uncontrollably for any good reason, particularly in rush hour? If you're a police officer this would be perfectly reasonable to expect, you along with your sirens and flashing lights would weave in and out of traffic at high speed in pursuit of some suspects who have perhaps just robbed a bank or carjacked some poor motorist at a busy intersection. If you're an average joe taking the family out for a cruise, however, there's no reason to expect this, particularly in a rental or loaner.
What should Toyota do to prevent more tragic deaths due to uncontrolled acceleration?
TO SAVE LIVES, the car's onboard computer should maintain situational awareness and if necessary disable the engine or otherwise allow the driver to maintain complete control of the vehicle, before an uncontrollable state is reached.
TO PROTECT ITSELF, legally, it should enable a rental or loaner "mode" for its vehicles, allowing a dealership or rental company the option of having the car force its driver to OK and acknowledge safety features before allowing the car to be driven.
While I think it is certainly in the scope of driver responsibility to make onself fully aware of a vehicle's basic safety features before driving it, I think it is wholly within the manufacturer's responsibility to make their vehicles smarter.


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Women of the Week October 9, 2017
Woman of the Week: Dr. Nadine Wong
Life is certainly not black and white for Dr. Nadine Wong. Ever since she was a little girl growing up on the island of Jamaica, she knew that creativity was a natural aspect of her life. Wong is now she the CEO of the Alabaster Wellness Clinic in Pickering, Ontario and the creator of the Alabaster Beauty Ointment, a job that combines creativity and out-of-the-box thinking with years of study. But how did a little girl from Jamaica get here?
While other girls were playing with plastic barbies, Wong could make toys out of things she found in her own backyard, including mango seeds. She would meticulously dye each seed and hair a different colour using Kool-Aid and host her own 'mango beauty pageant.'
Life was never boring as she grew up in a multi-ethnic household with a grandfather from China mixed with her strong Afro-Caribbean heritage. She admired the work of her mother, who was a renowned chef that cooked for the likes of Bob Marley. At a young age, she was fortunate enough to be well-travelled, often taking family vacations to North America where she observed the changes in culture. She knew that eventually one day this place would be her home.
When her family finally moved to Toronto, the transition was difficult— "the saying, come live with me and come stay with me are two different things." Wong remarked. Travelling on vacation was one thing, but integrating yourself into the culture and school system was a different story, which is an all-too familiar feeling for any immigrant.
While dealing with the differences in the school system, as well as suffering from dyslexia, Wong also experienced her first taste of racism from her community. Many people around her could not understand why a black girl could have the surname Wong and why she understood Mandarin and the intricacies of Chinese food.
"I was a woman of culture walking the hallways of school where I could understand the white rock or the Jamaican classic. People would often ask, where are you from, I've never met anyone like you?"
This uniqueness and drive helped Wong to really understand her true self "I am not going to say I was an 'A' student, I struggled, I struggled because the system is only created in black and white and if you're creative like myself, who sees in green, purple and pink, it's just going to be a challenge."
After a negative shift in her life where, under the influence of friends, she didn't take school as seriously. Her father stepped in and told her she was a young woman of fashion and style, so why not explore something with cosmetology.
Wong enrolled in Marvel Beauty School for hairdressing, but something was still off. Wong saw how things were supposed to be and not what they were. She began to think about the dynamics of the hair and scalp and why exactly black hair was so different from other ethnicities. Eventually, Wong was accepted into Dudley University in North Carolina to understand ethnic hair care and obtained her Doctorate in Cosmetology from Dillard University and another Doctorate in Trichology in Alabama. Once she obtained her doctorate, Dr. Wong came back to Toronto where she was recognized as the first certified trichologist the city.
With her new knowledge and fresh ideas, Dr. Wong shared her thoughts with the black hair community, addressing issues such as alopecia, often caused from braiding. She now understood the science behind the selection of hair treatments and products, and this drive led her to the formation of her own clinic, the Alabaster Wellness Clinic. There, she could provide a different approach to hair issues, more than a hairdresser can answer. Dr. Wong began to focus on issues dealing with hair loss and thinning, not just in the black community, but for everyone.
"I am a visual person, so I would sometimes sit and watch women, walking into a beauty salon and they would come with one mood and leave in another mood."
The observation led Wong to consider why women have a change in mindset when it comes to temporary body alterations such as a hair style. Wong returned to school once again, to understand the human body and the dynamic of behaviour. Wong explored natural medicine and her so called "ah-ha" moment came when she realized the importance of minerals and food science affecting the human body.
It dawned on her that human beings have one thing in common. Despite our cultural background, we all use the same cosmetics— shampoos, perfumes and hygienic products. Through the study of food science, Dr. Wong now treats her clients by addressing issues that affect the body internally. The clinic can identify possibly causes or issues that are already affecting patients. Using a hair mineral analysis, where a small sample of your hair is tested, Wong can design a custom beauty program and wellness plan for her clients.
"Even if you have the best medicine and beauty products, if your minerals are low, at the end of the day your body will never be harmonized."
Dr. Wong has come to the conclusion that every human body is different and that everything stems from the core of your body. The unity of health and wellness is one unit and it doesn't come in parts. The products that the Alabaster Clinic offers are not cosmetic brands, but they are beauty ointments, infused with minerals made to penetrate the dermis of your skin. The key to health is absorption so products like the Pumpkin Body Butter, Oat Facial Cleanser or the Alabaster Beauty Ointment, all contain natural ingredients based on a patients needs.
Looking back, Dr. Wong has realized that her creative nature as a child continues today as an adult.
"When you look at science, you have to look at things through the lens of a child, because as adults we analyze everything."
For more information and to keep up with all that Dr. Wong has to offer, visit alabasterwellness.com
by Leanne Benn
Fashion January 20, 2017
Should you ditch your daily makeup routine?
A part of almost every woman's morning routine is makeup. Whether they go for a neutral look with some concealer and blush, or opt for a more glamorous contour and fake lashes combination, it's no secret that women spend a lot of time enhancing their physical features for both visual appeal and mental satisfaction — no woman can deny the power they feel when sporting a bold lip.
However, there seems to be a shift in beauty practices recently, as female powerhouses such as Alicia Keys and Hilary Clinton were seen at some very public events without a spot of makeup on their faces. The message behind this small change is simple; women don't need makeup to be fierce. Its not only empowering, but rather inspirational. The no-makeup trend has created a wave on social media with both women and men either criticizing or embracing their choice to wear makeup, in addition to posting bare faced selfies for hundreds of people to view.
Brr.
Although it would be empowering to hop on to this bandwagon as a testament to 2017, going makeup free is just not something I'm ready to commit to. I personally love the transformation that comes with a good makeup look. It gives you the ability to travel eras; from a classic 1920's winged liner and red lips look to a modern day grunge, featuring black lips and a smokey eye.
Personalities alter with makeup. Ladies can attest to the flirty side that is revealed with the right red lipstick, or the inner goddess that comes out to play with a dark, burgundy pout.
Unfortunately, I'm still at a point in my life where going bare-faced makes me feel less confident and a little underdressed. Battling self esteem issues has influenced me to hide my imperfections behind a plethora of concealer and a dash of self loathing. But the more runs I make to the convenient store across the street in sweatpants and the unwanted guest on my forehead, the more I realize the beauty that comes with going au naturel.
The vulnerability that comes with a bare face is refreshing. It allows people a more personal view into your life. Only a handful of people are able to see a glimpse of what you look like first thing in the morning, and last thing at night. And although expanding your audience to your Chanel bags and freckles can be daunting, it is something that should be on your bucket list.
Going makeup free not only forces you to build self love and confidence, its opens the door to breathable, clearer skin- in addition to more time spent doing things other than cleaning your makeup brushes, taking off your makeup, and of course the stressful morning ritual of actually putting it on.
If Alicia Keys can hit the red carpet with her perfect flaws, an army of empowered women is bound to follow. It's time women gave patriarchy the middle finger and stopped covering up behind over priced foundation. "Not my face, not my mind, not my soul, not my thoughts, not my dreams, not my struggles, not my emotional growth. Nothing," as Keys so beautifully vowed.
I'm behind you, Keys- a few times a week, especially on Sundays.
Will you join the makeup free trend? Let us know in the comments below!
by Tasnia Nasar
Fashion October 1, 2016
Fact: The cosmetics you use are probably still being tested on animals
When you put on your make-up in the morning, do you ever wonder whether it was tested on an animal first? Do you ever wonder if the mascara on your eyelashes or the gloss on your kips caused the deaths of thousands of rabbits and guinea pigs? Though the winds are changing, animal testing is still happening and we need to know why.
Animal testing is becoming less popular in Canada (but is still legal), however, it remains a mandatory practice in China for international cosmetics products such as those provided by Estee Lauder and MAC. This is despite the fact that animal testing in cosmetics has long been known as an unnecessary practice. Fortunately, there are people who are fighting to get the practice banned in Canada and around the world.
#BeCrueltyFree is a campaign that was launched by the Humane Society International (HSI) in 2012. "It is important to be cruelty-free because animals are suffering. It's unnecessary. There are so many safe ingredients to use for testing and animals don't need to be used any longer,"#BeCrueltyFree Campaign Manager Aviva Vetter says. "When we are raising awareness to ban animal testing in Canada, the first thing people say is 'I thought that was done 20 years ago. Isn't that done already?'" The European Union banned animal testing in 2013 and since then 34 countries have done so. Isn't it Canada's turn now?
In December 2015, Canadian Senator Carolyn Stewart Olsen introduced the Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, also known as Bill S-214. The bill would "prohibit animal testing and the sale of cosmetics developed or manufactured using cosmetic animal testing" and is about to launch into its second reading. Bill S-214 would mean that cosmetics currently in stores would have to abolish animal testing in order to sell in Canada.
China is one of the countries that has mandatory laws to test imported cosmetics. "Companies [of imported cosmetics] are required to submit finished product samples to the government for testing in a CFDA-recognized laboratory," U.K #BeCrueltyFree Campaign Director Claire Mansfield says. "Once approved for sale, provincial authorities also conduct post-market inspections of cosmetic products, which can include a further layer of animal testing."
What does all of this mean?
It means that any large cosmetics company that imports to China is testing on animals. It also means that any small brand owned by a parent cosmetics company that sells to China may not actually be cruelty-free. Estee-lauder, Lacome, Revlon, Clinque, MAC, Covergirl, Victoria's Secret, and Alamy are some of many large-scale cosmetics companies that are currently selling in China — and testing on animals in order to do so.
When I last bought Mascara at Shopper's Drug Mart, I was told that Smashbox was cruelty-free. I excitedly purchased their make-up and, when presented with this article, contact them with high expectations. Instead of an interview, I was offered a written statement.
"Yes, we live for lipstick and are serious about primers — but we also love animals. That's why we are cruelty-free. We don't test on animals, only volunteers. Nor do we sell in any countries that require animal testing by law," a Smashbox spokesperson wrote.
That's when I found out they were owned by Estee Lauder. Spokesperson Alexandra Traber explained that Estee Lauder "may still conduct or require animal testing by law of cosmetic products or ingredients to demonstrate safety" in countries where regulatory authorities require it.
"For example, before we are able to import any of our products into China, the Chinese government requires all importers of cosmetics, including us, to pay for animal testing that is conducted by a government-mandated laboratory in China," she said. "As a global company, we are committed to providing our products and services to our consumers where they live, and we must comply with all legal requirements in the countries where we do business."
Smashbox does not sell their product in China, but refused to elaborate on the particulars of their policy, which I found confusing. Is this true cruelty-free advocacy? Needless to say, my Smashbox mascara landed in the trash the next day, just to be safe.
Instead, I turned to a smaller grassroots business. Many cosmetics companies in Canada are already using cruelty-free practices and choose to comply with a standard known as Leaping Bunny. This animal coalition is made up of seven animal protection agencies in Canada and the United States, and certifies companies to ensure they aren't testing on animals. The coalition has grown over the last 20 years to encompass over 800 cosmetic companies. There is also no cost for a company to become certified.
"If we are working with ingredients that are synthetic and dangerous for the earth and our bodies, why are we animal testing? Two wrongs don't make a right,"says Milena Lye, owner of Leaping Bunny certified cosmetics company Just the Goods. "I sought out Leaping Bunny personally. I went to their website, and found it is actually easier than I thought to become involved. You document all of your suppliers, assuring that they don't test on animals. . It is a 2-3 year period, and companies are spot-checked. I found about 80 per cent of suppliers are willing to be cruelty-free, no reason for it to be tested anymore."
By purchasing cruelty-free and taking part in the #BeCrueltyFree campaign, you are supporting positive change for the way people treat animals. With various in-vitro alternatives to animal testing already available (and cheaper as well), banning animal-testing in places like Canada and China seems to be the only option.
I'm going home to get rid of all of my animal-tested cosmetics, are you?


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The Humane Society of the United States is an "animal rights" organization, that was founded in 1954. It is often criticized for many reasons.
Notes show that the HSUS gave only $1,000 of its $133 million budget to support sheltering in the entire state of Tennessee. The Humane Society is also not affiliated with any animal shelter and it opposes the eating of meat.
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The Radical Dreamers Edition True Ending
In Elden Ring, there are a lot of NPCs that you interact with and do side quests for which they will give you different rewards. This game has some side quests that are not very simple and you have to do certain things in order to complete the quests. So, in this guide, we'll be telling you about how would you get the Tonic of Forgetfulness and what to do with it.
Getting Tonic of Forgetfulness
You'll get the Tonic of Forgetfulness from the Tanith at the Volcano Manor in the Mount Gelmir region. In order to get the tonic, you have to talk to Rya the orphan daughter of Tanith at specific times.
At first, you want to talk to Tanith and agree to join them.
After going through the dialogues, she'll give you the Drawing Room key which opens some doors down the hall. Open the Banquet Room which will be the second door on the left down the hall. Talk to Rya for some dialogues and pick up the first assassination task of Volcano Manor.
Complete this task and return to the Tanith to claim the reward of Magma Shot sorcery. Now the Rya will move to a new location inside the Volcano Manor. She'll be in the second room down the hall on the right. Open the door and she will be in her true form of Zoraya Serpent. Speak to her through the dialogues for further progress.
After this go to the Banquet Room and pick the second task for Volcano Manor from the table. Complete the task and come back to Tanith and she'll give you the Serpentbone Blade as a reward. Go to the site and rest then go talk to Rya in the room where she was at the last time. Talk to her and she'll tell you about the hidden walls inside the Volcano Manor.
Go to the hallway and then to the first door on the right, go inside and there will be an illusionary wall that you have to go through. Follow the path and you'll reach Prison Town Church Site of Grace. Now you have to make your way to the Temple of Eiglay. Go there and fight the Godskin Noble boss, after defeating him, you'll get Godskin Stitcher and Noble Presence Incantation. Rest at the site and then pick up the Serpent's Amnion at the back of the temple.
Return to Rya and show her the Serpent's Amnion and go through her all dialogues. After resting at the site Rya will move on to her next location. You can talk to Tanith about the disappearance of Rya and go through the all dialogues, talk to her a second time and she will give you the Tonic of Forgetfulness.
You won't get this Tonic if you have completed the third request of Volcano Manor.
What to do with Tonic of Forgetfulness
Tanith will certainly ask you to give the tonic of Forgetfulness to Rya. By giving the Tonic to Rya, it will also complete her questline as well. The Rya next location is near the Temple of Eiglay Site of Grace shown in the image below.
When you find her, talk to her and she will ask that you put her out of her misery which is the one way to end her quest but a bad one to do so. There will also be an option to give her the Tonic of Forgetfulness that she doesn't know about. The third option will neither attack Rya nor give the Tonic, you have to make a choice here but the Tonic of Forgetfulness will be used on her to end her questline.
If you didn't give the Tonic to Rya, you can also give this Tonic to Brother Corhyn at the Mountaintops of the Giants.
But he wouldn't take it and then the Tonic of Forgetfulness will stay in your inventory.
That is all regarding the Tonic of Forgetfulness, hope this guide helped you with what you were seeking.
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Ok, so I bought myself a second GTS300, a new white Euro 4 model. And I couldn't resist having some fun with the pair. I thought I would turn the white one into a Yacht Club model, so I moved the blue horn cover, knee pads, top box and lower side panels from the blue GTS to the white one.
These pictures show the results. I actually think the blue one gained more from the swap, and it looks really great with its white horn cover and side panels. What do you think? I have ordered some blue pin-striping for the side panels of the white scooter. It should look better than the blue panels.
Second picture of the white one is vertical in my library. Why does it get rotated when I post it here? Bloody computers!
I agree with you on the blue one gaining more. Interested to see how the pinstriping shows up on the white one.
Probably need some white pin-striping on the topbox to balance it.
My eyes like the white one.... but both look nice Mike. Well done.


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Q: How to test the value of a function which is access using instance() method I have a react component like bellow
import React, { Component } from 'react'

import { ActionWrapper } from 'components/Wrappers'

import { P } from 'components/Text'

class TestStock extends Component {
  total = (a, b) => {
    let totValue = 0
    totValue = a + b
    return totValue
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <ActionWrapper
        title="In stock"
        description={'Manage your in stock items'}
      >

Total is {this.totValue}

      </ActionWrapper>
    )
  }
}

export default TestStock

and i have write a test ,  to test the total function bellow
 describe('total function in the stock', () => {
  const wrapper = shallow(<Stock />)
  const value = wrapper.instance().total(5 + 7)

  test('for total value calculation', () => {
    expect(value).toBe(6)
  })

  test('for total less or equal to 10 ', () => {
    expect(value).toBeLessThanOrEqual(10)
  })
})

But the test failed as i received the Nan as the value.
What i have done wrong , how can i test this function

A: The problem is that instead of passing the values as arguments to the instance function, you pass then as an expression and hence the second argument is undefined which results in a + b to be evaluated to NaN inside the function. Change your code to
const value = wrapper.instance().total(5, 7)


The IGLTA's John Tanzella and Iris Serbanescu.
Tina the Travel Agent attends the IGLTA's 35th Annual Global Convention.
Community Marketing & Insights' Thomas Roth and David Paisley.
Tina was especially fond of the life-size cutout of Justin Trudeau, provided by event host, Tourism Toronto.
Annual Global Convention at The Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto last week, highlighting the city's rich cultural diversity as a reason it made an ideal host.
With a vision to be "the global leader advancing LGBT travel," the IGLTA convention is the largest of its kind, with a total of 40 countries represented in Toronto.
Welcomed by emcee Iris Serbanescu, the IGLTA's co-ambassador for Canada and manager of trade development for Bannikin Travel & Tourism, and John Tanzella, president and CEO of the IGLTA, members in attendance were provided with a deep dive into LGBTQ travel trends, and specifically Canadian travel habits.
Through a presentation from Community Marketing & Insights, Thomas Roth, president, and David Paisley, senior research director, took the room through their 'LGBTQ Tourism Study on Canadian Travellers', highlighting that the market here in Canada is estimated to be worth a staggering $4.5 billion.
Comparing Canadian LGBTQ travellers to their U.S. counterparts, the survey found that overall LGBTQ Canadians tend to take slightly fewer vacations but they tend to spend more days in the destination and tend to be "year-round travellers," making it a great market to target for shoulder season travel. In terms of what "type" of traveller they are, survey respondents were a mix, with 4% considering themselves luxury travellers, 28% "moderate, with a little luxury", 26% moderate, 28% budget travellers "with an occasional splurge", and 14% budget/economy travellers.
In terms of time spent away on vacation, 53% of respondents spent four or more nights away, while 51% tended to go on shorter vacations of one to three nights away. What's more, 76% of LGBTQ parents took at least one trip with their children in the past 12 months, 45% of which went on an urban/city vacation, 40% travelled to a resort town, small town or rural destination, and 36% went on a beach vacation.
Breaking it down a bit further, Puerto Vallarta ranked among the higher preferred international destinations for gay and bisexual men, while Cancun was a top choice among lesbian and bisexual women.
To read the full survey by Community Marketing & Insights, click here. To learn more about the IGLTA, click here.
Having worked in travel for the last 16 years, Kerry has experience covering the industry as media, as well as being under its lens when she worked for Thomas Cook, TravelBrands and itravel2000. A new mom, Kerry recently returned to the workforce and when she's not chasing after her daughter, you'll see her out and about covering industry events alongside her new BFF Tina the Travel Agent.


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'Hilarity For Charity' Trailer: Seth Rogen And His Famous Friends Come Together For A Good Cause
By Chris Evangelista/April 2, 2018 5:00 pm EST
Seth Rogen and his funny, famous friends got together for a good cause, and now Netflix is beaming it into your home. Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity combines stand-up, sketches and music with the hopes of raising awareness, inspiring change, and accelerating progress in Alzheimer's care, research, and support. Watch the Hilarity for Charity trailer below.
Funny people coming together for a good cause is an age-old tradition. Jerry Lewis used to host telethons to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Comic Relief used to assemble huge names in comedy to raise funds to help those in need, particularly America's homeless. And then there's Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity. Founded in 2012 by Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller Rogen, Hilarity for Charity serves as "a resource for the millennial generation, to help bridge the gap in understanding the landscape of Alzheimer's disease. Today, HFC is dedicated to raising awareness, inspiring change, and accelerating progress in Alzheimer's care, research, and support through the engagement of millennials."
The latest Hilarity for Charity live event was filmed recently in Los Angeles, and Netflix is going to stream it for all to see. Ahead of the Netflix debut, here's the Hilarity for Charity trailer.
Hilarity for Charity Trailer
The latest Hilarity for Charity comedy special features a line-up that includes Ike Barinholtz, Alison Brie, Michael Che, Sacha Baron Cohen, James Corden, Tiffany Haddish, Nick Kroll, John Mulaney, Kumail Nanjiani, Craig Robinson, Sarah Silverman, and Michelle Wolf, with performances by Post Malone and The Muppets. That's a pretty killer line-up (especially The Muppets).
"We started the Los Angeles variety show six years ago in order to raise awareness for Alzheimer's, a disease that has touched so many families including my own," said Lauren Miller Rogen. "Our goal is to educate a younger audience and ultimately create the next generation of advocates for the cause. I am so thrilled to be able to share this year's show with an even larger audience through our partnership with Netflix and are proud to have them as a partner."
Hilarity for Charity debuts on Netflix on April 6, 2018.
Seth Rogen and friends combine stand-up, sketches and music into an outrageous comedy special that could only come from the mind of Seth. The all-star guest lineup includes Tiffany Haddish, Sarah Silverman, Michelle Wolf, John Mulaney, Michael Che, Michael J. Fox, David Chang, Ike Barinholtz, Chelsea Peretti, Kumail Nanjiani, Jon Lovitz, Jeff Goldblum, Sacha Baron Cohen, Nick Kroll, Post Malone, Chris Hardwick, and Craig Robinson & The Nasty Delicious all star.