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All quiet during the festive period
The holidays are always nice and relaxing when spent here in the UK. The birding has, admittedly, been limited, though I did get time to write the gulls section for the 2013 London Bird Report. Anyway, a couple of visits to Burgess Park and around Rotherhithe haven't revealed any cold weather gems, but I'll keep trying. London's at its (mediocre) best when it acts as an 'urban heat island', attracting birds that have been frozen out from elsewhere. It often takes more than just a couple of days, so hopefully by the end of the week things may start to happen. In the meantime, these were the commonest bird I saw today: -
Ring-necked Parakeet Southwark Park 29th December 2014
That's what happens when you stick to urban London I guess. These beasts, and umpteen Egyptian Geese - they're increasing exponentially it seems! No Med Gull at Burgess Park over the past few visits, and the only thing slightly noticeable is an increase in Shoveler numbers, a handful on Burgess Park on 27th and then 18 today at Southwark Park.
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Delivering Christmas presents in Sevenoaks
I got back from Mallorca late last night, and tasked with a few chores today I started early. Had a couple of pleasant hours in Sevenoaks delivering present to my brother, his wife, my niece and nephews. Genuinely, they live exactly 1.1 miles from Sevenoaks WR and despite much contemplating of driving straight past, I gave in. It was rude not to have a look. Who wouldn't if you were that close?
American White Ibis Sevenoaks WR, Kent 24th December 2014
Having been present a few weeks now, this juvenile American White Ibis sparked a remarkable degree of interest from specific quarters within the hardcore twitching fraternity. As someone who formerly went for dross like this at the drop of the hat, I've learnt that in terms of the listing game this sort of stuff gets you nowhere. African Spoonbill, Purple Gallinule, Spur-winged Plover, Chinese Pond Heron, Cinnamon Teal, Pied Crow... seen 'em all. End result - zero. All nice to see of course, God's creatures and all that. I headed back into London, and drew blanks at Crossness and Burgess Park, where I couldn't even locate the Med Gull. And there was I thinking Mallorca was devoid of birds.
To liven things off, here's an American White Ibis from earlier this year, looking slightly less pissed off in the Texas sun.
American White Ibis High Island, Texas April 2014
Hope everyone has a decent Christmas. What present would I like? A belated one next autumn, an Eastern Crowned Warbler holding out for me please.
Just a few birds in Mallorca
I've just returned from 4 relaxing days on Mallorca. Bird wise, it was a non event. In brief the birds were relatively uncooperative, I didn't try too hard as a lot of it was standard Mediterranean stuff I'd seen many times before. Mind you, as I was staying in the mountains around Puigpunyent, the hotel grounds held Hawfinch, Cirl Buntings, Black Redstarts and more Firecrests than I've probably ever seen before. So I suppose I did see some birds. Not many gulls though, which is what it's all about. Just a few of these around Alcudia one evening: -
Audouin's Gull Alcudia, Mallorca 21st December 2014
Other than that, I visited Porto Colom where Andy H had given me some nailed on info about where to find Balearic Warblers. And so I parked in the northeast corner of the harbour, then walked along the gravel track (Cami de S'Algar) to the coast. From here I walked south past the cove, and was able to locate about four Balearic Warblers in the low coastal scrub - pretty camera shy though, and with Karen waiting about ready for lunch, I didn't hang around. Lots of Sardinian Warblers, a couple of Thekla Larks and thankfully copious numbers of Song Thrushes. Mediterranean Shags (race desmarestii) were nice and showy in the harbour here too, with good numbers also seen up the coast near Alcudia.
Mediterranean Shag Porto Colom, Mallorca 21st December 2014
Perhaps with a bit more effort, I could probably have seen a few more species, but for some reason this place really didn't inspire me to get out and about birding too much. I'll be glad to get back to London birding in the morning!
adult Yellow-legged Gull Port d'Andratx, Mallorca 23rd December 2014
A 19 year old Black-headed Gull and another Casp at Crossness
I didn't get round to posting about what I did on Sunday. Mainly because since then, work has taken over and I'm looking forward to the Christmas break come the end of this week. Anyway, I headed off to Crossness where I met up with John A. We had a decent walk around the place, where there were lots of birds - typically nothing too special to start off, with a Greenshank and Common Sandpiper by the outfall, a couple of Little Egrets and Yellow-legged Gulls, and a handful of Meadow Pipits and a Chiffchaff.
The forecast cold weather never really materialised, so there were no thrushes or wildfowl on the move. However, scanning across the gulls on the foreshore on the way back we came across a 1st-winter Caspian Gull; a relatively sturdy, large bird so presumably a male. However, unlike at the tip, viewing distance was an issue for decent shots. And so, happy enough, I headed the short distance to Southmere.
A couple of weeks ago, on 30th November, I'd been there and found a Black-headed Gull with a white ring AVC. With a bit of research, it was a Danish bird and so I emailed Kjeld Pedersen. The bird was still present the Sunday just gone, and so I emailed him again to let him know it was still on Southmere, Thamesmead. Anyway, it transpires that this bird was ringed as an adult in 1997 - so the latest it can have been born was 1995! Amazing stuff, at least 19 years old and still going strong.
Black-headed Gull 'AVC' - ringed in Copenhagen, Denmark as an adult in March 1997; therefore this bird is at least 19 years old.
Remarkably, despite having its ring read over 75 times during its life, it had never ventured out of Denmark - remaining in the Copenhagen area, where it was first ringed (as a female) on 20th March 1997. Interestingly too, there had hardly been any November/December sightings of this bird so perhaps it has previously moved west early winter (just remaining undetected).
More Caspian Gulls on the last tip visit for 2014
Very similar conditions to last Saturday. A nice, crisp day with good light and lots of gulls making the most of the tip's offering. With less than a handful of hours sleep post-Christmas party, there was nothing like the fresh smell of rubbish to wake me up this morning. Admittedly I wasn't at my best today, so it was good to be able to fall back on Steve A's sharpness! There were a total of three 1st-winter Caspian Gulls located - two seen a couple of times over the morning, while another was more brief.
1st-winter Caspian Gull (bird 1) 13th December 2014 - a relatively typical individual with deep brown based greater-coverts, pale underwing and dark centres to the scapulars.
1st-winter Caspian Gull (bird 2) 13th December 2014 - present for most of the morning and similar to the bird above, though larger in size and also greater-coverts paler and more barred.
There was also the reappearance of a distinctive bird from late November - presumably a hybrid Herring x Glaucous Gull, and certainly a bird of northern origin.
presumed hybrid Herring x Glaucous Gull 13th December 2014
A couple of Yellow-legged Gulls, an adult and a 2nd-winter, and an adult Med Gull were also present. Lots of Common Gulls present again, presumably frozen out of their usual foraging areas. I spent a lot of the time sifting through the gulls, looking for rings - 32 in total for today, my second highest total of the season. Mainly local birds, but mixed in were individuals from the Isle of Wight and Aberdeenshire, as well as a couple from Suffolk.
2nd-winter Herring Gull (ringed 5D0B) - initially ringed on the Isle of Wight in September 2013, I then saw this bird in March before its return to the tip today
Mediterranean Gull returns locally
I've been popping into Burgess Park a few times over the last month, in the hope that the annually returning Mediterranean Gull would put in an appearance. I've usually seen it by the end of November, but a couple of years ago it turned up into December. So when the first slice of bread was hurled out, the distinctive 'awk' call made me look up and smile... it was back again. For anyone fussed, it's the small lake just off the Old Kent Road; park on Cobourg Road. I got asked 'are you a fed?' yesterday, so do be prepared for Joe Public and/or wannabe gangsters.
adult Mediterranean Gull at Burgess Park, Camberwell, London 7th December 2014
I first found this bird in November 2008, when it was a 2nd-winter, so by my calculations that makes it 7 years old - born in 2007, presumably somewhere a fair way away from London! My only ringed Med Gull seen locally (in Greenwich a couple of years ago) came from Poland and a previous Inner London wintering Med Gull had been ringed in Germany.
On a less pleasant note, the lake at Burgess Park was rife Egyptian Geese - 24 in total, my peak count for the site by a long way. Heinous monsters that look better on the Nile in the sunshine.
A trio of Casps in crisp conditions
I think that cold, clear winter days are my favourite conditions for birding in southeast England. Often with harsher frosts elsewhere, you tend to get the odd cold weather movement down here. And with a decent frost overnight, while trying to scrape the Land Rover, decent numbers of Lapwings were passing overhead.
Steve and I shared the tip today with the NTGG, who managed a couple of big catches ringing a high total of 567 gulls. The gulls for us though started relatively slowly, with just a couple of Med Gulls of note from our first position. It's remarkable what a slight shift in position can do, and it didn't take long for things to start happening, initially with this showy adult Yellow-legged Gull. This was one of three seen, along with a 2nd-winter and 1st-winter.
adult Yellow-legged Gull 6th December 2014
There were a lot fewer gull rings compared to last weekend, suggesting a turnover of birds with the cold weather. Common Gull numbers were up too, often an indicator species as birds only really flood onto the tip when their normal fields are frosted over. About 5 Med Gulls were seen in total, all adults apart from one 1st-winter bird.
It took time, but it did happen, with three Caspian Gulls seen on the tip today. There was a showy 1st-winter bird that remained faithful to a specific area of crap for an hour or so. Quite aggressive, it was seen to chase off intruders as well seen regularly to long call - I'd put the video I took up here if I knew how!
1st-winter Caspian Gull (bird 1) 6th December 2014
A second Caspian Gull - a 2nd-winter - appeared, albeit briefly, and papping it before it headed off revealed that it was green-ringed - presumably a bird from eastern Germany; though unfortunately, it seems like it was just a bit too distant for the ring to be read.
2nd-winter Caspian Gull 6th December 2014. A green-ringed bird, but perhaps just a bit too far for the code to be read with any certainty.
As we came off the tip, there was an area of rubbish where a load of gulls were scrounging while it was being compacted, and in this small group was the third Caspian Gull of the day - another 1st-winter. Slightly larger than the showy individual above.
1st-winter Caspian Gull (bird 2) 6th December 2014.
Finally, there was a leucistic Herring Gull present too - a bit of a Glaucous Gull imposter, though it seems as though this bird was in fact different to a juvenile Glaucous Gull reported nearby during the week.
leucistic Herring Gull 6th December 2014. Very difficult to age leucistic birds, as I learnt last year as a pale iris doesn't necessarily mean this bird isn't a first-winter.
A handful of Casps and copious amounts of rings
A nice bright day today, and with that for some reason the tip was really busy (which often it isn't in bright conditions). With a good area to view both the loafing gulls and the tip face, there was a fair amount of action and a lot of movement of birds too. It was a heavy day for both decent species, but also my single best day for rings - 38 rings read from 7 different projects! Here's a summary: -
- 5 Caspian Gulls (two adults and three first-winters)
- 3 Yellow-legged Gulls (an adult, a near-adult and a first-winter - the near adult bird was ringed at Rainham last winter and has been to France and Switzerland in between now and then)
- 3 Mediterranean Gulls (two adults and a first-winter)
- a pale-winged first-winter bird, presumably of northern origin with some Glaucous Gull genes
- 38 gull rings with 27 North Thames Gull Group birds, two Dutch-ringed birds and others from Sussex, Suffolk, Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire.
No puncture either, which made a change compared to the last three weeks! So all in all, a very enjoyable day that ended with a Kingfisher during a short walk around Russia Dock Woodland, Rotherhithe.
1st-winter Caspian Gull 29th November 2014
adult Caspian Gull 29th November 2014 - note the underside to P10
1st-winter Caspian Gull 29th November 2014 (above two photos) - a dusky bird in comparison to the first photo
Yellow-legged Gull 29th November 2014 - ringed (YY5T) at Rainham Tip, London on 22nd Feb 2014 and then seen at Blaringhem, Nord, France on 27th February 2014 before spending time Ile aux oiseaux de Preverenges, Lausanne, Switzerland from 9th April to 1st May 2014
Dutch-ringed Herring Gull 29th November 2014 - ringed by Kees Camphuysen as a breeding adult on Texel, Netherlands on 25th May 2014. Its nest of 3 eggs this year got predated unfortunately.
Third time unlucky
This is the third week in a row I've visited the tip. And for the third week, the day ended with a flat tyre. Obviously tips are hazardous places with bits of metal and the like sticking out of the ground, but given the last couple of years there have only been a three or so punctures in total, this is real bad luck. And before having to leave prematurely, there were actually lots of gulls but unlike last week, the Caspian Gulls didn't really perform. In fact, there was just one first-winter bird today that disappeared behind one of the compactors and couldn't be relocated. Add to that a 2nd-winter Yellow-legged Gull and half a dozen locally ringed gulls, and that was my lot.
one of several locally ringed Herring Gulls from today - ringed by the North Thames Gull Group
A handful of Casps to kick off the season
It seems that with all those Desert Wheatears last weekend, the winter has now typically set in. And, to be honest, it couldn't come soon enough. The autumn promised a lot with the weather systems in early October, though actually delivered very little except for my bi-annual Eastern Crowned Warbler dip. Gulls are the winter theme, as here in a people saturated southeast England, there isn't really much else to look at that really interests me. I'm fine with that though, as today exemplified.
first-winter Caspian Gull (bird 1) 15th November 2014 - a typical, brute of an individual with a nice clean underwing. Greater-coverts a bit frosty but clearly a fine Casp.
A dreary, relatively mild day on the tip kicked off the season. The ringers were about too, and managed a decent catch of birds. The cannon netting didn't really disrupt the flow of the birds too much today, and with a load of dust carts coming in and out, there was plenty of food for the gulls. And loads of gulls too - more than what we were getting on average last winter. So, with cachinnans withdrawal symptoms, today I was back on it with a total of five Caspian Gulls seen - three first-winters, a third-winter and an adult-type. There were also a similar number of Yellow-legged Gulls knocking about, as well as a Med Gull and a couple of leucistic Herring Gulls. Gull rings were limited to just half a dozen locally ringed birds, but it's actually quite tricky to scan for birds and look at their legs!
1st-winter Caspian Gull (bird 2) 15th November 2014. A cute looking, short-billed and rather short-legged individual with rather advanced bare part colouration and feather wear. I guess it may not have pure Caspian lineage.
1st-winter Caspian Gull (bird 3) 15th November 2014.
3rd-winter Caspian Gull (bird 4) 15th November 2014
adult Caspian Gull (bird 5) 15th November 2014
Already looking forward to next weekend, and the run up to Christmas. At least it's a good excuse not to be able to go shopping on a Saturday.
2nd-winter Yellow-legged Gull 15th November 2014
Another day in Kent...
It's going to be a long old winter with just gulling to keep me going. So with a 1st-winter Desert Wheatear just a short drive out of London on the Kent coast at Reculver, it was rude not to pay it a visit. Josh kindly gave me a lift for what is likely to be my passerine highlight of the autumn, trumping the current contender of Yellow-browed Warbler.
1st-winter male Desert Wheatear Reculver, Kent 9th November 2014
It seems to be the 2014 fashion of being rather harsh on these desert dwelling critters. What with all the long lenses shoved up their rear ends, there has inevitably been a little bit of overkill - the amount of photos on the web between this bird, and the other two (in Norfolk and Suffolk), is a little extreme. But, that said, chats are still pretty good looking, characterful birds that always have pleased the crowd. The way this bird sallied from its rocks was nice to see.
The Desert Wheatears we get here in late autumn - the harbingers of winter - are probably eastern birds from Kazakhstan/Central Asia (races atrogularis/deserti) as opposed to North Africa (race homochroa). And to add a bit of nostalgia to the occasion, it's 20 years since I first saw this species in Britain - on a dull November day, with my Dad, on wasteground by the side of a Morrison's in Blackpool.
Back to the gulls thankfully
It's been a week now since I returned from the Azores. And after enduring a 30 hour journey back from Corvo to London (5 flights and 6 airports later!), I got involved in my usual post October Azorean trip activity - driving overnight to the northeast of England to dip another Eastern Crowned Warbler. At least the gulls still love me though...
1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull at Dungeness, Kent 8th November 2014
And so, with a week done at school already, it was time to start hitting that favourite activity of mine that'll see me through from now til April. Gulling. It didn't start too well, as Steve and I met up for a tip visit but with a flat tyre on the vehicle and nobody about at the workshop to fix it, we headed off. I went to Dungeness, after briefly toying with the idea of seeing a nice cute Desert Wheatear. Down at a blustery Dunge, the highlights were two 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gulls, three ringed birds (including two Scandinavian Great Black-backed Gulls), lots of Kittiwakes moving west offshore and a solitary Great White Egret drive by on the ARC Pit.
1st-winter Great Black-backed Gull at Dungeness, Kent 8th November 2014 - ringed as a chick in Nordjylland, Denmark on 1st July 2014.
Azores days 6 and 7 - goodbye to Corvo for another year
So that's it. Another autumn on Corvo done, just writing this from the airport on Terceira before a late flight to Lisbon. It's been another enjoyable one - with the obvious highlight being the Northern Shrike (as well as the en-route Willet). But again, a swine of an Eastern Crowned Warbler has turned up and caught me with my pants down once more. I'll be back in London not soon enough (as TAP are on strike so I've been re-routed via Madrid, and as a result, trying to get back quicker wasn't an option) but if it's there tomorrow then I'll be in Cleveland for dawn Sunday...
Long-billed Dowitcher on the airstrip, Corvo 31st October 2014
But anyway, here's the update from the last couple of days on the rock. And I'll start with today - where a walk around the village fields pre-flight produced a lovely Long-billed Dowitcher on the airstrip. Birds right up until the last, and with a cargo ship seen passing east, sure there'll be some new yanks on the island. Just nobody to find them, as we all left the rock this afternoon.
So what about yesterday? Not much really. Started off at the reservoir, where there was a single White-rumped Sandpiper and a Snow Bunting to show for my efforts. I then headed down into Lapa where there was a Monarch butterfly whipped through, stirring up memories of those halcyon days on Scilly in the 90s - where these orange beasts, and other yanks, were more or less taken for granted. I also located a Chiffchaff in Lapa too, and while this was going on, the Germans had relocated the Scarlet Tanager in Tennessee Valley. For me, despite an afternoon vigil, there was no sign and I descended down into the village as the sun started to set.
With a few hours to kill in Terceira this afternoon, it was rude not to head to the hotspots. The Short-billed Dowitcher at Cabo da Praia made it a double dowitcher day, while other stuff there included single Pec and White-rumped Sands, a couple of Semipalmated Plovers and Euros such as a Redshank, Little Stint and two Curlew Sandpipers. Around at Paul da Praia, there was a female Lesser Scaup and Blue-winged Teal to round things off.
Azores day 5 - shrike it lucky
The fog was still around this morning, but not as bad as yesterday. So I headed up to the far end of the island and went solo into Lighthouse Valley - the theatre of dreams with records of Golden-winged and Prairie Warbler amongst others. There was, alas, nothing there today amongst the Blackcaps, Canaries, Blackbirds and Chaffinches.
The other guys managed to locate the Chimney Swift from the whale watching hut between Lighthouse Valley and Cantinho but by the time I got there, the fog had closed in and there was no joy. So Jerome and I headed down the middle road, stopping at Poco d'Agua for a bit where I was able to see my first Redpoll on the Azores. Looked pretty standard to be honest. And then I headed up to Pico where, despite a fair bit of effort, I saw nothing. Heading out of Pico though, the Germans were trying to radio through something - in the end, I deciphered that there was a Northern Oriole in Poco d'Agua and they confirmed this. So off I went, getting Jerome in the process.
Needless to say, we both arrived by the road and the bird had flown a minute or so previously. So I then asked 'was it a bright individual?' to which Jurgen showed me a shot on his camera... it was not a bloody Northern Oriole, but the Northern Shrike - an absolute crippler of a bird, a species I'd never previously seen in the US and something I thought I'd be going into the caldeirao to see. I hit the roof, with the cock up in communication. A nervous half hour or so, in wind and poor visibility, was testing but in the end, the sun shone through and the bird duly performed.
1st-winter Northern Shrike (race borealis), Poco d'Agua, Corvo 29th October 2014
Despite being a first-winter, the bird was really vocal - singing continually at times, perched low in the hydrangeas. Pale lores, heavy barring and overall dusky tones to the head and nape were really obvious. I watched the bird for an hour or so, before it headed down the valley and into the gloom. Once again, coming late to Corvo had paid off with the best bird of the season still lingering.
Heading back down to the village, I saw a couple of Collared Doves in the higher fields - a new bird for me here, as the species wasn't about on the island until this year. A stroll around the middle fields late on produced a Tree Pipit (a major bird here) courtesy of Jerome and a perplexing falcon that headed fast over late on has meant a later than expected night.
Azores days 3 and 4 - foggy on the rock
Yesterday was largely spent in transit getting from Sao Miguel onto Corvo; I ended up briefly visiting a further two islands (Terceira and Faial) on my way here as for some reason, that's what SATA scheduled for me. Anyway the flights were uneventful, as was the birding arounf the village yesterday afternoon. Since arriving here, the whole of the island is covered in fog so places like the caldeirao (where there should still be a Northern Shrike), the reservoir, the upper fields and the upper parts of the ribeiras have been a total write off.
Luckily though, the end of the lower road - Cantinho and Fojo - were birdable to an extent today, so that's where I headed. And in a lucky break, just as I was leaving Cantinho and heading back along the road, the cloud lifted a bit and there was a Chimney Swift flying low over the trees. In true Corvo style - no photo, no bird - so got a few grainy shots on ISO2000.
Chimney Swift over Cantinho, Corvo 28th October 2014
I then headed up into Fojo from the lower road, and slipping and sliding made my way up beyond the white house where I hung about for a while. Pishing away, wading through the Chaffinches and Blackcaps, along came that sweet 'tsip' that is only ever going to be one thing - a Nearctic wood warbler. And indeed it was, a Black-and-white Warbler. But within 10 seconds or so, there was more movement and amazingly another appeared right beside it. Both looking similar, in that they were 1st-winter males, the whole thing must have lasted 30 seconds or so before they both headed off calling across the clearing. Only on Corvo. There have been sightings of Black-and-white Warbler (one bird) in Fojo up until 20th October, with further sightings this autumn of birds in Cantinho and Da Ponte. All, as far as I'm aware, have been 1st-winter males so difficult to unravel how many birds.
Black-and-white Warbler in Fojo, Corvo 28th October 2014
I managed a couple of Chiffchaffs together at the bottom of Fojo, but apart from a healthy total of 4 Woodcocks flushed in the gloom, the rest of the day was effort for nothing. Interesting to note some rather bizarre responses on other social media sites today about vagrant searching in the Azores - seems like those rocked up in their Norfolk armchairs see it as rather easy. Good luck to anyone who tries it out here, as it's tough. And as always, the rewards are contextual.
Azores day 2 - sunny Sao Miguel
The Azores is a funny old place. Every island is different, and with only three flights a week to Corvo (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays), it was another day for me on Sao Miguel today. To be honest, in other years, I'd have been chomping at the bit to get west but with the tiredness of a hectic week still in me it was nice to chill out at a leisurely pace. I even managed to squeeze in an ice cream this evening.
Western Willet Ponta Degada ETAR, Sao Miguel 26th October 2014
With a full check of the sites in the eastern half of the island, it was obvious that settled conditions equals no birds. Highlights, if that's what you call them, were a female Wigeon and female Teal at Lagoa das Furnas and a female Wigeon at Faja de Cima. However, plenty of opportunities for papping Azorean Gulls were taken, and another Western Willet show - even better than yesterday - made sure I had another nice day. There really is very little that beats getting close to vagrant Nearctic waders. With the Atlantic like a millpond this September, and Ireland failing to deliver, this Willet is the first chance I've had this autumn.
I've just had my last supper - a nice bit of local meat with salad - in preparation for the next five days, in the culinary desert that is Corvo. Anyway, hopefully it'll be another memorable trip out on 'The Rock' but we'll see. With a few days of westerly winds and a Northern Shrike (Nearctic race borealis) waiting for me, it could be a lot worse.
Azorean Yellow-legged Gulls at Vila Franca do Campo, Sao Miguel - first-winter (top) and second-winter (below)
A 19 year old Black-headed Gull and another Casp a...
Azores days 6 and 7 - goodbye to Corvo for another...


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Book Review - Lucky by Annie K.
Against all odds, a filly attacked by a mountain lion at birth not only survives, but thrives. Her name is Lucky, and as she grows she earns friends, respect, knowledge, and possibly even a love interest. But, all that is threatened to be ripped apart by an impending battle between two horse herds. Is there a way to stop this unnecessary violence and win over both herds, or will all attempts be in vain? Will Lucky herself be pulled into the thick of it all?
This story is very unique because it is told from a horses point of view, and deals with human-like conflicts throughout the story! Unlike many author's showing communication between animals, this author decided to use quotes to show that a horse is talking. Although this does make it easier for us to relate to the horses as humans, it does almost make you think that the horses are talking in English aloud to one another, which I'm pretty sure is not the case. However, this unique choice helps us understand what is thought and what is speech, something that helped me read the story easily!
The story starts off with a very vivid description of the setting, something I always like. The author also places us directly into a scene with almost no background information. Throughout the story, the author uses vivid descriptions for just about everything, making it very easy to visualize the setting and characters. Plus, the word choice is very descriptive, making the writing even better! In some sections of the story though, the author adds in too many details, such as how Lucky doesn't know what a crescent moon is. Some of these details include horse facts which are, although interesting, unnecessary at certain points in the story, but could be added elsewhere.
The main conflict so far is intriguing, and the writing flows nicely. The word choice is advanced, yet the plot is simple and easy to follow. I look forward to seeing where this story will go and hope that we will find out what happens to Lucky soon!
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Publishing can be the best part of writing. After developing a story, having fun with creating a setting, characters, and editing, you have an almost-finished story lying in front of you. But you still have to get the story to go somewhere, for people to read it and appreciate your work (which is what we've wanted all along, right?). So this is where publishing comes in handy. And I don't necessarily mean sending in your work to an editor. Publishing can also mean putting your story on a website, sending it in to a magazine for them to publish, or doing just about anything else you can think of that allows your work to be put somewhere that other people can read it on.
_I've recently become aware there are SO many different e-book communities in which you can post your story on.
_Some of the few I know of are booksie.com, quizilla.teennick.com, and wattpad.com. I use Wattpad because I find it the easiest to use, although I've heard good things about the other two.
_Wattpad allows me to post my story, chapter by chapter, onto the website. I create a profile page that holds all of my stories, as well as a bio, my "library" where I can make different lists containing stories on Wattpad (I have I'M Reading... and YOU Should Read... for my lists) for people to see. There are also a message board where people can send me messages.
However, the best feature by far is the fan system. When you join Wattpad, people can fan you if they really like your work (which can include poems, novels, etc.). And, you can fan other people. So far, over 90 people have fanned me, meaning that they get notified when I add a new chapter and when I send a message from my profile and click "broadcast to fans".
As well as being able to "fan" people, you can also vote and comment on chapters of people's stories. Voting means that you like a chapter, and you can comment to tell the author what you think of their story or the individual chapter. The number of votes and comments you get on your story determines whether your story goes onto different lists, such as the What's Hot list.
E-book communities are a great way to get your stories out there and get lots of feedback. However, most people's dream is to publish their book. And in order to do this, you have to send your book to a publishing company.
In order to send your manuscript to a publishing company, you'll need an agent. And agent is normally hired and gets an agreed upon amount of your profits from the book. The agent will then act on your behalf and send in the manuscript.
However, you may not get a reply for months. Most manuscripts get put into a big pile of stories called the slush pile, and they get skimmed over by editors once they get to it. This is why it is crucial to make a catchy beginning to your story. If the beginning isn't good, the editor will dismiss it and send a rejection letter without reading the whole thing. It doesn't matter if your plot gets really good in the middle of the book... if the beginning is basically all about the main characters clothes and uses absolutely no advanced vocabulary or interesting descriptions, then the editor will set it aside. So you need to make your story pop. As I read on a website, the writer said that you have to make your manuscript colorful. I recommend seeing this page for tips on how to get an editor to like your manuscript. This website came up when I searched about publishing and while the rest of the website is irrelevant to publishing, that page gave me a few tips.
Finally, you can submit your work to a magazine. There are so many contests that literary magazines hold that allow you to submit short poems, stories, and other written works. Although I'm not going to focus on that because there are SO many different magazines and contests out there, I will say that this is a great way to get an opinion of your work and publish your work for the first time without having to commit to all the hassle of publishing a book. I suggest you try this before submitting to an publishing company!
Do you have a published story?
Who published it (what magazine or company)?
How do you publicize your story?
Tell us all this in your comment below!
Okay, I'll admit it. This is a blog I'm writing at 10:24 pm on the night of what was supposed to be my deadline. Yeah, I know, great time management job. Okay. Stop laughing at me. It was a mistake. I've got a lot on my mind. I'm lucky I remember to breathe.
Anyways, I'm doing a song...I'm doing a song from...I don't know. Hmm...probably shoulda thought this one out more. I was going to do Song of Love, but then it was way too repetitive. What to do? What to do? Erg! Now I'm thinking in musical. Okay...lets see.
You know what? I'm gonna mix it up a little bit. I'm not doing a song. This time, I'm going to offer helpful tips. Yes. I'm deviating from the theme. Call the cops. Whatever. This is my blog, and I'll help if I want to! So, I'm going to throw tips at you for when you don't have time to write.
Most of you probably do this already, but, one of the easiest things to do is carry around a notebook. Its great for a bazillion reasons. One, you can carry it almost anywhere and can write in it whenever you have some free time. Then there's the fact that you have it with you whenever or where ever inspiration strikes. This is good if you're like me and will forget things you're supposed to remember (such as a blog) late after you should've done it.
Notebooks not your thing? Use a portable recorder or take a voice memo on your iPod for the same effect.
You know how they say practice makes perfect? And you know how practice basically amounts to repeating the same things over and over until you get it right? Well, the same is true for writing. If you get an idea, just think it over a few times until you think its cemented in your brain.
If you're a writer and pressed for time, any extra time you have is as precious as gold. Or water in the desert. If you have it, use it. There's nothing worse than a person who complains they don't have anytime to do whatever but when they do have the time, they waste it. If you're lucky enough to have half an hour. Sit and write. Don't even bother editing, just get it out. You know what they say, if you don't use it, you lose it.
So, yeah, there you go. Tips. On. Time. Management. Perhaps I could use these. Then I wouldn't have to write blogs this time of night. Thanks for reading!
What do you do to remember things? Tell us in your comment below!
We are thrilled to welcome amazing reader and writer Sarah to our blog! Sarah has been a great friend of mine and edits one of my stories. For her blog post, Sarah will be talking about how she edits and what techniques she uses!
Sarah's Bio: Hi! My name is Sarah. If you see me, I will probably be writing, reading, or riding a horse. Possibly onstage in a play. When I grow up, I really want to be an actress and an author simultaneously. I am in the process of writing a series right now, and I hope to get it published before Enders Game the movie comes out (2013).
Hi! I'm Sarah. This is my first time blogging, so here goes nothing. I had asked to be a guest blogger, but I had no idea what to write about. Fortunately, my friend Ali (who is the editor of this site) said I could do something about how I edit her stories. So here's how everything works.
First, Ali sends me the new chapter of her story (which she eventually posts on wattpad.com) and I make little changes to fix grammar and spelling. I have a little ritual type thing that I do when I edit.
1 - I receive her story via email and put it in a special folder on email marked "Ali's various stories". This makes everything easy to get to, and I suggest you do the same with anything important related to writing.
2 - I copy and paste the new chapter into the word document (I keep a separate one for each story).
3 - I reread the entire story so that I know what's going on in the new chapter.
4 - Usually grammar and spelling errors really pop out at me, so as I read through the chapter I fix them.
5 - Finally, I go back through the chapter and revise anything that either doesn't sound realistic or sounds weird. Basically this makes the chapter flow and make sense.
6 - The last thing I do is send the new version back to Ali!
_Another thing I look for besides grammar and spelling is continuity. That's basically making sure the story makes sense as a whole and flows nicely. For example, if the main character has a book in her hand when she's talking to her mom but then doesn't three seconds later when she talks to her brother, I will either add something about how she put the book down or change it so that she has the book when she is with her brother. Sometimes it will be something really small, like, say, if the main character's cat's name changes from Sunlight to Sunshine in one paragraph.
"The walls were a beautiful, indescribable shade of green."
"The walls were a shade of green that was not quite lime, not quite forest, not quite grass, not quite spring..." etc.
Last thing! Sometimes, let's face it, we writers let our imagination run away with us. But hey! Isn't that what writing's all about?
Well, not always. If you're trying to write a realistic fiction novel, then you need to make sure that there isn't a fairy flitting in the window when the main characters kiss, or a dragon starting a forest fire on a camping trip. More often than not, it's more like continuity again. I have to make sure that the characters on this fateful camping trip don't set up their tent in five minutes or less. Even if that is what it says on the package, I know from experience that the least amount of time to set up a tent is at least ten minutes. Just things like that.
Well, that's it! And although each story is different, most stories have the same type of mistakes. So, to become a great editor, look for these mistakes and anything else that needs to be changed. So, that's all there is to editing!
What do you look for when you edit something? Do you have a question about editing? Tell us below in your comment!
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Editing is often known as the most tedious part of writing, and, for the most part, this is absolutely true. However, when done right, editing can be the difference between a good and bad story.
First of all, I just want to get across how important editing is. Being someone who often reads unpublished stories online, I will enjoy a story more if there are few mistakes. It doesn't matter how good the plot sounds, if I can't even read the story without noticing how bad the spelling or grammar is, I will not continue reading. And, while we all make mistakes, you can easily fix most mistakes by clicking "Spelling and Grammar" on Microsoft Word.
Now, I'm not going to tell you how to edit (someone is guest blogging about that tomorrow), but you should at least know that editing requires a lot of courage. Even I hide when someone tells me I have to edit my own writing. So I suggest that you get a friend to edit your work for you. As well as making less work for you, you tend not to notice your own mistakes so this will ensure a well-edited piece.
However, although you may have your friend editing your writing, it's always fun to edit someone elses writing. Using a red pen to point out mistakes is, for some inexplicable reason, entertaining. Plus, it makes you feel important. So I suggest that you try to edit other people's work. They will gladly accept. This also improves your spelling, grammar, and writing skills in general, making less work for whoever gets to edit your writing. So grab a bright red pen and get to work!
Do you like editing? If so, do you strictly use red pens or do you use other colors too? Tell us in your comment below!
_I'm back! I'm ready! And I'm pretty sure I'm awesome! Okay, we're warmed up, we're good. Thank you, I'm sorry, that was weird. I'm ready, I've got a song. This week I'm gonna do "Opening For a Princess" from "Once Upon a Mattress" in which I play Princess #12 and my brilliant editor, Ali, plays Lady Larken in. Anyway, enough about me, let us commence with the blogging.
"Alas, a lass is what I lack. I lack a lass, alas a-lack,"
Sometimes you can tell when something's missing from your excellently written tale. Sometimes, that thing is a character. Some people try to change this by altering another character to fit the bill of the missing character, it doesn't really work out that well. If you need another character, make another character. It isn't like you're going to have pay to make another character. Writing is free, you aren't going to be charged for having awesome ideas. Come up with as many characters as you want, just don't bog down your reader with thirty-thousand different people to remember. That's confusing.
"Tell us when you intend to end this dilemma we're in,"
This is going to sound a little 'crazy', but imagine your characters are real people. Now, imagine you're missing one crucial character. Your characters are going to be missing a big portion of their lives because you haven't created this character. They're going to get annoyed with you, because they know you have the power to add a character… but you aren't. If you keep a piece of their lives from them, they're going to resent you. And who wants their creations to resent them?
"We have an opening for a princess who's good enough, nice enough, sweet enough, smart enough, rich enough for our poor prince!"
Just because you're missing a character, doesn't mean you can just throw anyone in the spot. They have to fit the bill. You wouldn't put Spongebob into an episode of Modern Family just because you needed a character for the episode, would you? Of course you wouldn't. That wouldn't make any sense. Spongebob has nothing to do with Modern Family. You want your new character to make sense in your story. You don't want a Spongebob where you clearly need a Gloria (MF reference for those of you who don't watch it). Your readers will be able to tell when you just make up a character to put a character in, they probably won't like them either, but ya never know, if they're a really good, established character, they may like him/her.
So, anyway, that's all I have this week. Hope y'all enjoyed. See you next week!
Have you ever felt something was missing from your writing, like a character? Tell us in you comment below!
Hey y'all, I'm back and better than ever...I think. How has everybody been? Good, that's good. I was worried that you had gotten sick or something, but it seems as though you're all okay. Anyways, let's start the blog.
This week I'm going to connect "Opportunity" from the Broadway musical "13" to writing. 13 is a personal favorite of mine. It's basically the story of Evan Goldman, a Jewish New York native, telling about the month leading up to his Bar Mitzvah. His parents get divorced and he moves with his mom to Appleton, Indiana, a town in the middle of nowhere. He wants to get the cool kids to come to his Bar Mitzvah and ends up getting blackmailed into getting the whole school into an R-rated movie and getting the geeky kid on crutches a date with the prettiest girl in school. In the end, the cool kids abandon Evan when he realizes he doesn't really like them anyway and he decides to be friends with the kid on crutches and his loser neighbor.
You should YouTube the song, but beware, there are two versions. This is the version that would be preformed if you went to a school or community theatre production, or any other modern production.
"If I prayed to God and cried a little, maybe he'd provide a little O-P-P, opportunity,"
Okay, ignoring the religious part, your writing opportunities are often things you have to keep wishing for. You might have to work a little bit to get them, but it's not always up to you. Sometimes you think about it, get a little worked up over it and then go to bed and hope for the best opportunity to present itself. It's kind of the same with any kind of opportunity, writing, acting, singing, etc.
"We could be king and queen of this school,"
Your opportunity could be the best thing that ever happens to you. It could, if you're lucky, take you to the top of whatever you're doing. It could take you to the top of the website you post on, it could get you the most reviews, or even get you to the top of the bestseller list (and isn't that we all want, deep down inside?)! No one wants to be second best, no one wants to make it almost all the way and then have to stop and not make it there.
"And there's nothing to say, unless I scheme and I plot 'til she's outta the way. If it didn't make me hate myself, I bet I could create myself an O-P-P opportunity,"
In the end, you're going to have to take matters into your own hands and do something. That something may just be going after what you want and saying yes to your opportunity. It might be saying the right thing to get your opportunity. It might even be getting in and getting dirty to create your own opportunity, surfing the internet, looking for publishers. You could join a writers' club and that could help you find the right publisher or website. Whatever you do, however, don't be a Lucy (the nasty character who sings this song) and sabotage another writer to get an opportunity. It's nasty and will earn you a horrible reputation.
So, there you go. Remember: go after your opportunities and chase your dreams, no matter what others tell you. No dream is stupid or unrealistic if it's what you truly want. Don't give up on it until you get what you want.
What is one opportunity that you've had that has helped you to advance or do better at one of your hobbies? Tell us below!


This works on my development server, and xxxxx is my domain name.
My client will view the application on my development server. Can I make it so that the email will originate with them? (i.e. info@cccccc.com where cccccc is their domain).
I realise that when the application is transferred to their server, it will possible to change the smtpserver setting to smtp.ccccc.com, but at this development stage I want to keep the application on my development server but still have the emails originate with them.
As long as you can hit their SMTP box from your Dev Server, yes you should be able to do this. If their mail server is setup correctly though, you will not only need to change the server name but also provide a valid email account that exists on their box to send the email. Otherwise, if you could have anything in the From field, their mail server would be setup as an Open Relay which means anyone could use it to Spam through.
I will only tell you how to do it, not do it for you.
Unless, of course, you want to hire me to do work for you.
"As long as you can hit their SMTP box from your Dev Server"
Please can you tell me what you mean by this?
Also, what do you mean by "change the server name"?
From what you are saying, it seems I could write an application that sits on my dev box and sends any email anywhere I like that comes from some other company's account (assuming I know at least one valid address of that company, e.g. info@). Surely I ought not to be able to do this, as I could reak havoc for that company!!! Have I misunderstood something?
Conceivably, you can. What it depends on is if the SMTP server you are trying to send email through requires authentication or not. Some SMTP servers will allow you to send email to all of the accounts contained within itself without requiring authentication, however, when you try to pass an email to another domain (you are using this SMTP box as a relay at this point) it will require you to authenticate.
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State v. Castillo-Lopez: Substituting Counsel & Continuances
March 13, 2016 Bellingham Defense Attorney, Constitutional Rights, Continuance, Due Process, felony, Jury Trial, Rape, Sex Crimes, Sixth Amendment, Speedy Trial & Continuances, Substitution of Counsel, Washington Court of Appeals, Whatcom County Criminal DefenseBellingham Criminal Defense Attorney, Mt. Vernon Criminal Defense Attorney, Skagit County Criminal Defense Attorney, Whatcom County Criminal Defense AttorneyAlexander Ransom
In State v. Castillo-Lopez, Division II of the WA Court of Appeals upheld that the trial court's decision to deny a motion to continue a trial on five counts of Rape of a Child in the Second Degree to allow the defendant's retained attorney to replace the defendant's court appointed attorney.
Mr. Castillo-Lopez was charged with having sexual intercourse with his step-daughter "T.S." on five separate occasions between January 2012 and February 2013. T.S. turned 12 years old in 2012.
The court set the case for trial on July 7, 2014.
On June 19, 2014, Castillo-Lopez argued motions for substitution of counsel and for a continuance of the trial date. Castillo-Lopez argued the case should be continued because his new attorney needed time to prepare and the parties were still awaiting DNA evidence. Although the trial court ruled it would grant the substitution, the court denied the continuance. The Court referenced "a statute that says the court has to consider also the impact of this on the child . . . (RCW 10.46.085).
On July 3, a different judge presided over a trial confirmation hearing. And again, the trial court made it clear that it would allow the substitution, but would not grant the continuance.
The matter proceeded to trial. The jury found Castillo-Lopez guilty of five counts of rape of a child in the second degree. The trial court sentenced Castillo-Lopez to a minimum of 500 months' confinement.
Castillo-Lopez appealed on the argument that the trial court denied him his counsel of choice and abused its discretion when it denied his motions to substitute counsel that were dependent upon the court granting his motions to continue the trial date.
The Court of Appeals, however, disagreed. It decided the trial court did not abuse its discretion because the denial of the continuance was based on tenable grounds. In considering these types of motions, a trial court should consider all relevant information because "these situations are highly fact dependent and there are no mechanical tests that can be used." State v. Hampton. Finally, it reasoned that trial courts should consider all relevant information including the 11 factors described in the most recent version of LaFave's Criminal Procedure treatise:
(1) whether the request came at a point sufficiently in advance of trial to permit the trial court to readily adjust its calendar;
(2) the length of the continuance requested;
(3) whether the continuance would carry the trial date beyond the period specified in the state speedy trial act;
(4) whether the court had granted previous continuances at the defendant's request;
(5) whether the continuance would seriously inconvenience the witnesses;
(6) whether the continuance request was made promptly after the defendant first became aware of the grounds advanced for discharging his or her counsel;
(7) whether the defendant's own negligence placed him or her in a situation where he or she needed a continuance to obtain new counsel;
(8) whether the defendant had some legitimate cause for dissatisfaction with counsel, even though it fell short of likely incompetent representation;
(9) whether there was a "rational basis" for believing that the defendant was seeking to change counsel "primarily for the purpose of delay";
(10) whether the current counsel was prepared to go to trial;
(11) whether denial of the motion was likely to result in identifiable prejudice to the defendant's case of a material or substantial nature.
Here, the trial court did not abuse its discretion because the denial of the continuance was based on tenable grounds. It considered relevant information and applied a number of the above-listed factors in making its decision. It also reasoned Castillo-Lopez never expressed dissatisfaction with his appointed counsel. Castillo-Lopez did not want a continuance. Again, the trial court made it clear it would grant the motion for substitution of counsel, but without a continuance. Thus, the denial of the motion for a continuance on July 3, 2014 was not an abuse of discretion because there were no substantial or compelling reasons to continue the trial date and the benefit to Castillo-Lopez was outweighed by the detriment of a continuance on the child victim.
My opinion? The Court should have granted at least one continuance. Although the crimes were heinous, that's not the point. Under the 6th Amendment, all defendants deserve a fair trial and to be represented by counsel of their choosing. It takes a lot of time to prepare for jury trial in a multi-count sex case involving Class A felonies. At least one continuance is warranted.

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TEDxUW and the Interconnectedness of Things
BY Veronika Szostak
Dec 23 2016 | IN A\J Special Delivery
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TEDxUW is a key player in the global TED movement, which aims to share 'ideas worth spreading', for free, across the world.
For as long as he could remember, Michael Murphy's dad would spend each year scraping off the weathered down paint on his house and repainting the exposed bits with fresh new paint. It was more of a catharsis than a restoration. One day Murphy got a call and was told that his father had terminal cancer and had only 3 weeks to live. Murphy packed his bags and moved to his hometown to be with his father and decided to take up restoring the house. Three weeks passed and Murphy's father was still alive. After three months, his dad joined him, and after 18 months they refurbished the windows and replaced the rotting porch. It was then that his father said, "You know, Michael, this house saved my life."
After deciding to go to architecture school and working on numerous projects in Africa and the U.S, Murphy realized that there was more to buildings than the novel, ecologically driven designs: the work that people do together to create can not only heal a person, but an entire community.
"When you go outside today and you look at your built world," says Michael Murphy in his TED talk, "ask not only: 'What is the environmental footprint?' -- an important question -- but what if we also asked, 'What is the human handprint of those who made it?'"
Interconnectedness can be an elusive topic. In fact, this was the topic of this years' TEDxUW at the University of Waterloo, and where I watched Murphy's intriguing TED talk video. TED: Ideas Worth Spreading is a non-profit organization devoted to sharing a diverse array of ideas through short talks. TED supports numerous TEDx events (such as TEDxUW), each run by independent organizers all over the world who want to create a TED-like event in their community.
Stories are a fascinating tool to be able to see the underlying connections in issues both small and large.
Murphy's story is one that explores the human ingenuity associated with architecture but also of exploring the connections between communities working together and their collective healing.
In each TED talk, story and personal experience were used in order to show the underlying connections between a variety of diverse topics.
The importance of Intergenerational connectedness
Ilona Doughtry
At 14 years old Ilona Doughtry attended her first national conference.
"I was disoriented, lost, and lonely," Doughtry said in her talk. She was 100% potential, 0% accomplishment. A woman saw her and encouraged her to sit down, which sparked a conversation that changed Doughtry's life. "It gave me the opportunity to see the value that I have, and she also showed me that I have potential that I could turn into impact… By the end of that conversation, she had offered to help me get involved in the leadership of the organization that was running the conference."
"Three years later" she said, "I would be sitting at the United Nations in New York City, an official Canadian delegate to the UN conference at 17 years old."
It was the beginning of a life long quest to make sure that other young people had the encouragement, support and opportunity to make their voices heard.
Doughtry is now the Managing Director of the Youth and Innovation Research Project at the University of Waterloo, as well as the founder of Apathy is Boring, an organization that educates youth on democracy and encourages them to vote. In her talk she argues that we need intergenerational partnerships to be more connected to a sense of purpose and making an impact.
"When we believe in young people and give them the opportunity to fulfill their potential," she says in an interview, "they most often surprise us by stepping up to the challenge."
Her story let her discover the power of intergenerational partnerships: when we realize that each generation offers a unique set of skills, we can work across generations to magnify our impact.
An Organic Model of Leadership
Kurtis McBridge
Interconnectedness can also be chaotic. In his talk, Kurtis McBridge explores the troubles of hierarchy of leadership in his company and how a hierarchical model nearly destroyed it.
What drives people to be engaged? Each individual can be looked at as having passion, a skill, and a business need. If each of these areas of an individual are met then the person can be the most engaged in the company. Leaders also have three important qualities, which are coaching, strategy making, and execution. Leaders are usually born with one, have learned a second, and struggle with a third. In a hierarchical leadership model, McBridge explains, leaders usually hire people who are good at the things they are not, and as you build the hierarchy there is a "dilution" of those three qualities, resulting in people on the bottom who have no idea what to do.
In McBridge's situation, he used the idea of interconnectedness to solve the underlying problem of inequality in the hierarchical model, and turned his company into an organic and adaptable web of people that learned from each other and knew what to do.
In his new model, McBridge explains that the "leaders job is now to support the individuals, rather than be their boss. Each of the individuals has a relationship with each of the three types of leaders, and the leaders work on the type of work on based on their passions and skills."
From implementing these changes into his company, McBridge has found that this model encourages workers to be most engaged and efficient in their work, with results in a more connected company.
From three vastly different topics, Michael Murphy, Ilona Doughtry and Kurtis McBridge each discovered how interconnectedness played a role in their lives and the world at large.
These talks represent only a pinch of the insights gleamed from the speakers at TEDxUW. Interconnectedness can be difficult to grasp yet if we know where to look, it is all around us.
To watch the talks done at TEDxUW 2016, go to: http://tedxuw.com/index.html
Veronika Szostak
Veronika Szostak is a student at the University of Waterloo in the Environment and Resource Studies program. She is a volunteer at A/J and aspires to become a journalist, artist, and environmentalist.
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On Oct. 26, 2015 a team of 12 representing "BBC" left early in the morning, 1:30am, to travel to Cambodia for a medical missions trip. The team comprised of 1 pastor, 1 doctor, 4 nurses, 1 electrician, 1 teacher, and 4 helpers, (4 men, 8 women) . After a couple of layovers and a long flight we arrived in Phnom Penh where we were greeted by our hosts Paul and Jeanet Tabanao with many of the Bible students from Highlands Bible College from the Rawlings foundation. We got to Highlands approximately 2:30 am Wednesday, Oct.28. after a short rest we visited the village of Pich Nil and set up our first medical clinic.
While the clinic was being set up some of us visited a retired military man's home from Pastor Imm's church. After visiting with this humble man and his sons we took a trip to the area mall. This mall was not like anything back here in the states. Everything was under make shift like huts with no walls. The floors were mostly dirt, wooden benches had the young and old preparing chicken, beef, fish, and vegetables, all for the days sales. Pastor Mick took advantage of getting a hair cut for $1.00 where no appointment was necessary. Back at the clinic approximately 87 patients were seen. The most memorable was a mother who brought her new born baby in with burn blisters over her little body. When those doing triage asked what happened, one of the Highland Bible College students who was helping interpret said when the mother was resting on some hot coals with her baby resting on her breasts, (a tradition, to help keep evil spirits away) fell asleep her baby rolled off onto the hot coals. Doctor Sarah and nurses Margret, Leslie, Judy, and Janet went into action and put medicine and bandages on the little body. We found out 3 days laterthe baby was responding to the treatment along with our prayers, many of the blisters had disappeared, Praise the Lord for his goodness.
A little later in the day, pastor Mick and Dr. Sarah Stewart visited a home to help treat a 14 day old baby with club feet. The second part of the day was a clinic back at the Highland Bible College where 77 patients were taken care of. End of day one.
Thursday Oct. 29
Day 2 of our trip "journey" we visited the village of Chambok in the mountains, about an hour and a half from camp. The morning started with small group prayer and then the coloring books and crayons came out. Many of the children (and adults) enjoyed coloring pictures of Jesus, Noah and many others. The children got to hear about Noah (through an interpreter) and the gospel as well as did the adults who heard the message of our Lord by many of the Highlands Bible college students. All in all about 130 people received medical care.
Friday Oct. 30
On this day we set up a clinic in the village of KohSla. It has a growing population and is almost at a city status. They have a big temple and government building. The Prime minister was visiting and we passed three humvees with soldiers on our way there. It was an amazing day because we were not originally scheduled to visit this place. There was a change in plans and we went here at the last minute. On the way there one of our helpers, Jenn Guevare Simblante from the Bible College, shared with u about the children's ministry at the dump site village near the Killing fields from the war in the 1970s. While at the village in KohSla we met Sagoeun Yocun the pastor of the church in KohSla.
Pasor Yocun is a disabled army veteran who while fighting against the Pol Pot regime was buried alive from an explosion during the war. While in the hospital he and many of the other veterans were ministered to by many Bible students and after hearing the gospel Sagoeun Yocun gave his heart to the Lord. Many disabled veterans live in this community and now Sagoeun has a heart to minister to them and their families. 131 people received medical care in a little over 3 hours God directed our paths and it was such a blessing to serve them.
Sat. Oct. 31
On this day we traveled to an island called Koh Kong where 115 people received medical care. While there, 25 people prayed and accepted Christ as their Savior. A pastor from the main land is hoping to start a church there. Because of the love and care that was shown, seeds were planted and now the doors are open for someone to start a church there. After ministering here we took a boat ride across the Sourth China Sea, where some of the team took a refreshing swim.
Sunday Nov. 1
We got to worship with our brother and sisters at the Highlands Bible Baptist Church, what a great experience! We also got a chance to worship at Pastor Imm's church back in the village where we were also able to see the baby the medical team cared for, Our God is Great!
Monday Nov. 2
We had a great Monday visiting the village of Cheung Prey, which is over 2oo years old. Again our awesome doctor Sarah Stewart, and the amazing nurses Leslie Spencer, Janet Lyn Mitchell, Margaret-Grace Henry, and Judy Poplaski, saw 106 people at this clinic
Tues. Nov. 3
Tuesday was our final day of medical clinics and it was a long one! We traveled 2 1/2 hours from Phnom Penh to the village of Svay Rieng which is 40 minutes from the Vietnam border. 128 People received medical care. Out of 817 people that were cared for in 6 days, there were 144 professions of faith!
Weds. Nov. 4
On this day we were able to visit the floating village at the Tonie Sap Lake in Chong Khneas, where there are 1,115 families and 200 species of fish and birds. This is also where there was an alligator farm where you can order alligator meat, some of the team were brave enough to try it, but by the expression of their faces it was not the best they had ever had. From there we were able to visit Siem Reap where we toured Angkor Thom and Angkor Watt where we took an elephant ride around the park. The last place we visited was the Killing Fields. This tour was a chilling reminder of what can happen when the heart is not surrendered to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Psalm 137:4 - "How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?"
By listening to the Lord's voice and obeying. We went to Cambodia not knowing what to expect but we all had one goal in mind, and hat was to try to e a blessing to the people we came in contact with. We were able to set up medical clinics, help load rocks into a cart for a church building, painting a fence, teaching conversational English to some of the Bible college students, playing frisbee with the kids, inspecting electrical wiring on campus buildings, supplying funds so a pastor could buy a new lap top computer, listening to the people's hearts, all of this with no strings attached.
May we have this kind of heart here at home as we did in Cambodia.
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It's a label given to self-taught, unconventional and often uncelebrated artists, but in recent months exhibitions of outsider art have shown up at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Atlanta's High Museum of Art.
While mainstream interest in the genre may be on the rise, it's always been in the spotlight at Intuit: The Center For Intuitive And Outsider Art, a small gallery founded in Chicago in 1991 that is one of the few museums in the world dedicated solely to outsider art.
Deb Kerr is the gallery's the executive director. On a recent afternoon, she's helping set up for a new exhibit showing the work of Susan Te Kahurangi King, an artist on the autism spectrum who stopped speaking around the age of 4.
Kerr says good art always speaks for itself, but outsider art is as much about the story of the artists behind it as what's on the canvas. Outsider artists, sometimes called folk artists, are usually self-taught and often have had to overcome some hardship to create and exhibit their work.
Take Henry Darger, one the genre's best-known names. In January, one of his works sold for $684,500 at a Christie's auction in New York. But Darger was a recluse, and his art wasn't discovered until just before his death in 1973.
Darger worked as a janitor in a Chicago hospital and spent his free time writing a kind of graphic novel — thousands of pages long and full of vibrant watercolors depicting a fantastical battle between good and evil.
Intuit acquired much of Darger's collection and even re-created the artist's apartment inside their gallery. It's a small, dimly lit room with Darger's Remington typewriter and Victrola record player. There are a few tables piled high with bundles of old magazines, boxes of crayons and coloring books. He had boxes marked "small rubber bands" and "large rubber bands," balls of twine, and kept a daily handwritten log of the weather for 10 years.
Darger never exhibited his artwork. Even if he had wanted to, he might have struggled to find an outlet. But today, because of museums like Intuit, it's easier for outsider artists to find an audience.
One of those artists is E. Nix, whose work is on display now at the Chicago gallery. Nix apprenticed as a blacksmith and uses those skills in multimedia sculptures that deal with themes of trauma and addiction.
His self-portrait is a sculpture subtitled "Pinnochio," drawing on a childhood nickname. It's his version of an nkisi — an African "fetish" figure or spirit object. His is made from found objects: salvaged school chairs for legs, nails hammered into its shoulders and empty plastic bottles of methadone inside his torso.
Nix says he's always felt compelled to make art.
Nix says he's never considered himself an outsider artist, but he accepts the label.
Another outsider artist exhibiting alongside E. Nix at Intuit, Robert Johnson is known among Chicago collectors for his reverse oil paintings done on salvaged windows. Images of guns and bags of white powder evoke Johnson's past struggles with addiction.
His newer work is full of brightly colored skulls and grinding gears inspired by his time as an Army mechanic in Iraq.
Johnson says making art is like a form of therapy.
Like Nix, Johnson is also ambivalent about being labeled an outsider artist, but he says people in the traditional art world never really made him feel welcome.
"There's a lot of, 'Oh, you made it into this gallery?' Or, 'Where were you schooled at? I have my sculpting degree, I have my MFA, I have this.' Well, OK, does that lessen somebody who doesn't have that? I don't really think so, but unfortunately so far in the art world, that's the way it's been working," Johnson says.
That could be changing, in part because of museums like Intuit that blur the lines between who's considered part of the art world — and who's outside it.


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Sniper Elite: The Board Game coming to Kickstarter, preview at PAX Unplugged
By Calin George-Adrian November 29, 2019 Article 0 Comments
Rebellion Unplugged, the board game division of Rebellion Developments has recently announced that they are working on a board game version of the famous tactical shooter video game series, Sniper Elite.
Designed by David Thompson and Roger Tankersley, the game will be a competitive stealth action game for 2 to 4 players. David Thompson previously worked on Undaunted: Normandy with Duncan Molloy, who started the board game line at Osprey Games in 2015 and is now the head of Rebellion Unplugged.
The art will be done by the same team that does the video game series.
The game will be coming to Kickstarter in 2020. Meanwhile, you can get an early look to it at PAX Unplugged next weekend, December 6th-8th, in Philadelphia. Rebellion Unplugged will be at Boot 3023.
Here is an overview from the official BoardGameGeek page:
"In this hidden movement game, one player takes the role of the sniper, who is trying to make their way past the German guards by stealth or violence. Up to three other players control squads of German soldiers, striking a balance between defending their objectives and hunting the sniper.
Sniper Elite features a bag-manipulation element. The sniper draws chits from a bag to target the defenders, though canny defense can decrease the sniper's likelihood of making their shot…"
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PacXon online is a game on uHappyGame.com.
PacXon is an addictive arcade game primarily based on the initial Pacman game that will certainly keep you challenged for hours.
Achieve the goal of the game by filing the provided empty space, capture monsters and build a wall around them.
Playing the PacXon game is quite easy. There are three crucial steps to follow.
•	Begin by moving the PacXon to the empty area as well as the wall to capture the area.
•	Try grabbing the power-ups swiftly as they appear. This will enhance your speed as well as slow or freeze the monsters.
•	Advance to the next level by filling more than 80% of the area. Note that levels get harder as you advance.
Winning PacXon is primarily by avoiding the ghost/monsters. Touching the ghosts reduces your lives. You can view the number of remaining lives on the top left side and the game progress at the top right.


Rihanna as a janitor? If so, she is the sexiest janitor I have seen in my entire life. RiRi was spotted filming for Ocean's Eight last night in the lobby of a Times Square building in Midtown Manhattan. She was seen getting warmed up with a big puffy jacket and with the help of a personal assistant during the chilly weather. Check out the first photos and a video below.


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Advertising: Ad firms seek local prominence Ketchum agency once had
By Teresa F. Lindeman, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
Rueful applause broke out at the recent Pittsburgh Advertising Club's awards show when a tiny, black-and-white death notice flashed on the screen.
Titled R.I.P., the award-winning entry marked the loss of the region's venerable Ketchum Advertising.
"On Sept. 1, 1999, Ketchum, age 77, passed from this world. Beloved agency of Heinz, Rubbermaid, Old Frothingslosh, Westinghouse, PPG and others. Loving father of such lines as 'A Manwich is a meal.' And 'Calgon. Take me away.' National independent agency with offices in five countries."
Ironically, the item listed Egan/St. James -- the agency that emerged from two successive sales of Ketchum's advertising operations -- as a survivor. It was intended as a promotional piece.
But Egan/St. James didn't make it either. The entry came from Blattner Brunner Inc., which swallowed its competitor the following summer.
At this point, it's not clear if any advertising agency will gain the prominence that Ketchum once had, both regionally and nationally.
Marc USA replaced Ketchum as the largest shop in town back in the mid-1990s. With $684 million in total billings and $220 million in its local office, it has used an acquisition strategy to establish a presence across the country. Just last year, Marc took out another local name by buying the St. George Group.
Marc also has been successful in a number of account pitches. Its clients include True Value Corp., Rite Aid, UPMC Health Systems and Eat'n Park Restaurants.
It has yet to be acclaimed as the best creative shop in town. Blattner Brunner is making a run for that crown, this year dominating the Addy award show with honors for everything from television ads for Zippo lighters to direct marketing materials for PPG Automotive Glass and newspaper spreads for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
When former Ketchum Chairman Bill Genge took the stage to be inducted into the ad club's hall of fame, he joked, "Can you imagine how far I would have gone if I'd been with Blattner Brunner?"
Another major local player, Hallmark/Tassone, decided last year that being acquired made sense strategically. Now HMS Hallmark, the agency is a subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio-based HMS Partners which recently bought another Columbus ad group to build its holdings.
More shifting seems likely as district agencies cope with consolidation among their clients as well as changes in technology and marketing.
It's not unusual now to see a large customer assign various aspects of an account to different agencies, said Cheri Gmiter, president of the Pittsburgh Advertising Club and sales manager for KDKA AM. One might handle sales promotion, another do public relations and still another interactive media.
Technology has changed the business in many ways. On the simple side, broadcast commercials are rarely made just for television viewing anymore, said Gmiter. The same spot needs to be done so it can be shown on the Internet, too.
In a more complicated example, cable and online advances now make it easier to place specific ads in front of the appropriate customers. Gmiter noted that instead of targeting, say, males 25 to 54, advertisers can now get their messages in front of 35-year-old men with two children.
While the changes have created more niche markets and specialty shops, competitive forces seem alive and well in the region. The black-draped audience at the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts clustered in company groups, cheering heartily for friends and co-workers. Joe Blattner, for one, got more enthused as his company's awards piled up, throwing up his hands in celebration when Blattner Brunner took the final prize -- Best of Show.
Another Hall of Fame honoree urged the crowd to enjoy the game while they're still in it.
John Waldron, formerly president and creative director of HBM/Creamer, Pittsburgh, delivered an ode to the business that celebrated the long meetings, the unlimited supply of yellow legal pads, the all-night red eyes and the creativity under fire as the battle for an account waged on.
With a nod to the 1979 war movie "Apocalypse Now," Waldron proclaimed, "I love the smell of napalm in the conference room."
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Isaiah Rider net worth: Isaiah Rider is an American former professional basketball player who has a net worth of $10 million. Isaiah Rider was born in Oakland, California in March 1971. He was a 6'5″ shooting guard and small forward who was a top rated player at Encinal High School. Rider played for two junior colleges before transferring to UNLV where he was a Consensus second-team All-American and the Big West Conference Player of the Year in 1993. Rider was drafted #5 by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 1993 NBA Draft. He played for the T-Wolves from 1993 to 1996 and then for the Portland Trailblazers from 1996 to 1999. Rider played for the Atlanta Hawks from 1999 to 2000, the Los Angeles Lakers from 2000 to 2001, and the Denver Nuggets in 2001. During his career he was an NBA All-Rookie First Team selection and the NBA Slam Dunk champion in 1994. Rider won an NBA Championship with the Lakers in 2001. He started a charity called the Sky Rider Foundation to help kids with costs involved in playing basketball.
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I have had a cancellation this Saturday and still want to shoot.
Please note that it will be a location shoot and it will be cold!!! I am looking for someone with experience so we can shoot quickly and not spend to much time in the cold.
I am offering £30 for 3 hours.
Shooting will be around the bank area and I am looking for a 9.30am start.
I will share 4 to 5 images per outfit, full edited and they will be resized for social media and insta.
Please also note that these images are only intended to be use for social media, your website and portfolio. Any promoting outside these means or submission to magazines will require my consultation and my permission. And that apply's to both of us.
I have lots of clothes and need someone who is about 5.8 (with or without heals) and is about 8 to 14 for clothes.
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What Time does Vallarta Close & Open on Weekdays?
Most Vallarta stores are open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday. Remember that there may be a slight variation in the operating hours of the stores. And for this reason, you may come across certain locations that do not conform to the aforementioned hours. In addition, bear in mind that there may be some adjustments on some federal holidays. You will find more details below.
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Vallarta stores are open on Saturday and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Please be aware that weekend hours and schedules may also slightly vary across different locations. And also, some national holidays may result to the adjustment of weekend hours.
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