I couldn't have asked for a better start to the New Year – for weeks I had been pondering over the most epic way to ring in 2015, and then everything fell into place in the very last minute. I then had about five days to say goodbye to family and friends back home before heading to Berlin for a couple of days of fun and catching up with old friends in one of my favorite places in the world. But I experienced a major planning fail while I was there – more on that and on my other planning fails below in 'What went wrong'.
I'll miss these guys… I love being an aunt!
From Berlin I flew to Helsinki, and later that day I took the ferry over to Sweden. The next morning, I was in Stockholm, where I spent a fantastic couple of days, before I returned to Helsinki in time for the MATKA Nordic Travel Fair. Another small travel fair & blogger conference, and another big success for me. The networking aspect – discussing potential partnerships with travel industry professionals – resulted in an interesting opportunity for me to visit another new country that I've been wanting to visit, but since we haven't discussed any details, I'm not going to spill anything just yet (but it would be on a continent I haven't been to!). I was a bit apprehensive about traveling to Scandinavia in the winter, but I actually enjoyed my week in the snow. I had followed the Scandinavian saying 'There's no such thing like bad weather, only unsuitable clothing', and borrowed all sorts of warm clothes from family and friends. In the end, I even had too many warm clothes since temperatures were hovering around 32F/ 0C instead the anticipated 5F/-15C.
That week, plus the three in Germany beforehand, were enough winter for me though, and I was glad to escape to Asia right after. I went to Hong Kong with a stopover in Istanbul (best idea I've had in a while!) and knowing that I'd spend another few days in Hong Kong in the spring, I didn't waste much time there and continued straight onto the Philippines… because I was in urgent need of a beach.
Istanbul… What a great city! I need to spend more time there.
My actual plan was to start with a few days of hiking (the rice fields of Banaue, the Hangin Coffins in Sagada) before moving on to the islands, but as soon as I arrived in Hong Kong I realized that I was completely exhausted and just wanted to relax on a beach instead of hiking. I was so burned out that I slept ten hours straight two days in a row and still was dog-tired. I just wanted to lay and sleep. My ambitious sightseeing plans for Hong Kong didn't happen as much as I would have liked to, and I knew that there was no chance I was going on some hikes before I hadn't recovered from the past few weeks of running around like crazy and sleeping only for 4 hours on most days. Luckily I was still able to move my flight forward which is why I am finally at the beach… Slowing down. I've come to a few important realizations over these past few weeks which I'll talk about in 'Lessons learned' below.
I know this might sound silly since I've been doing this solo for months now, but my Asia trip is my first true solo trip (the only other trip on which I did some solo travel was Israel, but I ended up spending barely any time on my own there) and I am happy to report that it is going well (so far!). Somehow, I always ended up traveling with other people last year, and in the end I was craving solitude. But I also wasn't sure how I'd do as a solo traveler – after all, I've never traveled solo before. That said, starting next month I won't have much solitude for my remaining time in Asia – several people who excitedly proclaimed they'd come visit me in Asia actually booked their flights (usually it's been much talk without much action..) and are getting ready for their beach vacation (and I should get started planning some cool things for them!).
Another thing that went well: selling myself. At networking events like MATKA where dozens of bloggers mingle with industry professionals and discuss possible collaborations, it is hard to stand out and to leave an impression. The speed networking at TBC Asia was a good practice run in November and I am finally getting comfortable at presenting and selling myself and my website. The positive feedback I get sure helps to make this aspect of being a professional travel blogger easier.
I've already said it: I am pretty burned out at the moment. After my busy itinerary in Sri Lanka (21 beds in 37 days) I just kept going instead of resting and recharging my batteries. Being home for Christmas was lovely but it also meant lots of family gatherings, meet-ups with old friends, babysitting duties for my nieces and nephew, which then led to many night shifts catching up on work until the early hours. The Nordic Blogger Experience was amazing, but also meant little sleep and long days. When I left for Hong Kong I was dying for some 'me time'.
Just me. And a beach. That's all I need.
I've learned quite a few lessons this month… But the most important one is that I need to make time for me. And listen to my gut feeling. I've already done that when I realized in Sri Lanka that I craved beach time instead of running around sightseeing for a few weeks. So I changed my travel plans for this month – instead of meeting up with friends in Thailand and traveling to Myanmar, I decided on a whim to fly to Hong Kong and to the Philippines instead. I did the same again this month when I decided to push back my hiking plans until I've recharged my batteries at the beach. And I plan to continue doing this – I have already drastically reduced my Asia travel plans which were – as always – way too ambitious. I am still dying to get to places like Vietnam and Myanmar but I know I'll do it next time I come to Asia.
I also learned that if you need new pages in your passport (I've finally filled mine up) you shouldn't wait to deal with it until the day before you leave the country. It turned out that the Bürgeramt in Berlin couldn't see anyone without an appointment when I was in town – something that I could've avoided had I dealt with it right when I got there and not waited till the very last minute. I hope to be able to get new pages at the embassy in Bangkok next month.
Don't wait till the very last minute – that's the motto of the month I guess, because it turned out that waiting to book a Hong Kong hotel until the very last minute (I was already in Istanbul, ready to board my flight to Hong Kong, when I started looking) is not a great idea, because what's left 24 hours prior to your arrival is not where you want to stay.
I can't believe that this room cost me more than my cozy double room in Berlin!
Talking to my fellow travel bloggers in Finland also made me think about setting up a base somewhere – at least for part of the year – as many of them seem to have a base now to which they retire after a period of heavy traveling. This seems to be the best way to organize my travels in the future, too, to ensure I'll keep my sanity and don't lose my wanderlust. Now if I only knew where this base would be.. Until I've made a decision, I'll use housesitting as a method of slowing down and recharging my batteries, I guess.
I am happy to report that after only a few short beach days, I am feeling almost human again!
When I talked to another blogger this month about my story and how I got started blogging I noticed that 1 February marks my 5-year escaping-the-cubicle anniversary! That's when I handed in my notice in 2010 and said goodbye to corporate life. In honor of that milestone I wrote a whole post on that and how my life has changed since then. I wrote some thoughts on my 'job-quitversary' (that's a word, right? 😉 ) and the things I learned from quitting my job to travel the world.
I will wrap up my time in the Philippines in a few weeks and fly to Bangkok! I splurged and booked a nice hotel to ease into Bangkok life (the city and I weren't off to a good start when we first met in 2011, and on return visits, I've never grown to love it) before showing my first visitor the best of Thailand.
Thailand! Can't wait to see you again!
More interested in what I am up to on a monthly basis? Check out my other monthly round-ups.
*The photo of me on the beach at sunset was taken by the talented Ayan Villafuerte. Check out his incredible portfolio!
I've laid low since our go-around with airline reward miles. If anything, it got me thinking. I don't ever want to be know as a "Know-it-all". So, you've reminded me to listen to others and check out new ways. Thank-you for that.
Here's to your next 5 years! Have fun going Solo too.
Your first photo is making me so jealous. 😉 It's fun to catch up on work from an exotic location. Your January sounds so amazing! All the best for your travels ahead!
Glad to hear the solo travelling is going well so far! Other than a couple of weeks backpacking by myself in Italy and a week in France a few years ago, I haven't really done any solo travelling either and will be heading out on my first real solo trip in June – British Columbia, Alaska and Hawaii for 3 1/2 months – excited but nervous!
Katie – I am amazed how well I've adapted to the solo travel, I'll write a post about it soon, but I keep thinking 'I don't even know myself anymore' when I just chat up strangers in hostels and bars and on boats and whatnot 😀 I can't wait to hear how your first solo trip goes! Oh but I do appreciate this website and that it gives me the chance to meet up with readers all over the world!
Is the new country that you are trying to visit "New Zealand"? This is my wild guess and just wanted to try out my luck on the same! As always, love reading your travel stories. Look forward to know more about the islands of Phillipines and any other stories about Israel. Cheers as always!
Sometimes just reading about your travels exhausts me! No wonder you were burnt out, but good to hear you're getting some down time now! Now I'm all curious to see where you pick as a base eventually. Come join the club in Berlin, maybe…?!
Sam – trust me, if it exhausts you to read it, imagine how much it exhausts me to write it all down, let alone actually DO it 😉 Berlin's definitely still the most likely choice as a base for me, but in the long run… not any time soon… but after I had such an amazing time on my short visit to Berlin last month (as always!) I vowed to spend more time there!
Hope to run into you here in Thailand, let us know if/when you get to Chiang Mai!


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A fire breaks out in a London park as a record heatwave rages
A Fire erupted in Shirley Hills to the south London during a nationwide heatwave.
Flames and large plumes of smoke can be seen rising over the nearby area Croydon as temperatures hit highs of almost 40C in London and other parts of the UK.
London Fire Brigade were called at around 12.07pm and four fire engines and around 25 firefighters are currently battling the Oaks Road fire.
Shirley Hills, also known as Addington Hills, is one of south London's largest parks and consists mainly of woodland and heathland.
Shirley Hills covers 130 acres of land
(BBC News)
A London Fire Brigade spokesman said: "Recent hot, dry weather has left the ground extremely dry, which unfortunately means grasslands and parks burn quickly when exposed to even the smallest sparks.
"Common causes of grass fires are carelessly discarded cigarettes or matches, as well as litter such as glass bottles, which can cause flames by amplifying the sun's rays.
"Each of us can help reduce the risk of fire and help keep our communities clean, ensure rubbish is thrown away safely and cigarettes are always disposed of properly.
"If you see a grass fire, do not try to put it out yourself as grass fires can spread very quickly and change direction without warning. If you see any sign of smoldering grass, call the brigade and let us know where the fire is."
Another four fire engines are also dealing with a separate grass fire at Chapel View in South Croydon, where about an acre of woodland is currently ablaze.
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HPV vaccines for South Africa: coming to a school near you!
"Cape Town – Government will start administering cervical cancer vaccines in schools from February next year, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has announced.
Speaking during the health budget vote debate in the National Assembly on Wednesday, Motsoaledi said government hoped to negotiate lower prices for the vaccine, which treats the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) – the major cause of cervical cancer among women.
Quoting experts, he said cervical cancer affected 6000 South African women a year, 80 percent of them black. More than half the women affected died of the disease.
This is a really, really big deal for South Africans – and pity is, the vaccine will not be given to boys, or universally to girls.
Seriously: all the science says that giving it to boys as well limits spread of the viruses far better; not making it universally available will mean all sorts of recriminations around unequal access (read: to less privileged kids ONLY as part of the government programme at first).
But a big step in the right direction!
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Florence Adaline Newton
Name Florence Adaline Newton [1]
Born 21 Jun 1903 Ashland, Ashland, Wisconsin, United States [2]
Born at 11:45 PM on Sunday, June 21, 1903, at Ashland, WI, reported by A.P. Andrus.
Newton, Florence Adaline Birth Certificate
Census 1910 Mellen, Ashland, Wisconsin, United States [3]
1910 US Federal
in the Harry Newton household on Tyler Street. Enumerated were Harry (head) age 38; Mable (wife) age 33; Bess (daughter) age 10; Florence (daughter) age 6; Evelyn (daughter) age 2; Harry (son) age 7/12
in the Harry Newton household . Enumerated were Harry (head) age 47; Mable (wife) age 43; Bess (daughter) age 20; Florence (daughter) age 16; Evelyn (daughter) age 12; Harry (son) age 10; Eunice (daughter) age 9; Nedra (daughter) age 7; Stella (daughter) age 5; Jean (daughter) age 3 11/12; and Clyde (son) age 2/12
Census 1940 Fairbanks, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States [5]
in the Roy McKinney household (rented $4 rent) Enumerated were ROY McKinney head male white 48 married completed G4 born in MO lived in same house in 1935 no (not at work for pay or profit) yes (was assigned to public emergency work) Laborer at WPA worked 20 wks? for $500? / FLORENCE A wife female white 38 married completed grade 5 born in WI lived in same house in 1935 / ROY son male white 16 single attended school completed grade 7 born in MN lived in same house in 1935 / HARRY son male white 14 single attended school completed grade 7 born in MN lived in same house in 1935 / LEOTA daughter female white 10 single attended school completed grade 3 born in MN lived in same house in 1935 / MADELIA daughter female white 5 single attended school completed grade 0 born in MN lived in same house in 1935
Died 22 Jun 1977 Two Harbors, Lake, Minnesota, United States [6]
FLORENCE A. MCKINNEY OBITUARY
"Duluth News Tribune" Thurs, June 23, 1977 Pg 2B Col. 2
Florence A. McKinney, 74, Brimson, died Wednesday in a Two Harbors nursing home. Surviving are two sons, Harry and Roy Jr., both of Brimson; two daughters, Madelia (Howard) Johnson, Embarrass, and Leota (Robert) Johnson, St. Paul; two brothers, Harry Newton, Ontonagon, Mich., and Clyde Newton, Milwaukee; five sisters, Bess (William) McKune, Stella (Chester) Jelinski and Jean (Benjamin) Jelinski all of Milwaukee, and Nedra (Merle) Cress, and Eunice (Henry) Norm, Phillips, nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Svendsen-Johnson Funeral Home - Two Harbors.
"Two Harbors Chronicle & Times" Thurs, June 30, 1977
Florence A. McKinney, 74, of Brimson, died Wednesday, June 22 in Lake View Memorial Nursing Home. Mrs. McKinney was born June 21, 1903. She came to the Brimson area in 1924 and has made her home there since that time. She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy McKinney Sr., in May of 1973 (sb 1972). She is survived by two sons, Harry and Roy Jr., both of Brimson; two daughters, Madelia Johnson, Embarrass; and Leota Johnson, St. Paul; two brothers, Harry Newton, Ontonagon, Mich.; and Clyde Newton, Milwaukee, Wis.; five sisters, Bess McKune, Stella Jelinski and Jean Jelinski, all of Milwaukee, Wis.; and Nedra Cress and Eunice Norm, both of Phillips, Wis.; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Saturday morning in the Svendsen - Johnson Funeral Home, Two Harbors, with the Rev. John Reppe officiating. Organist was Gladys House and soloist was Olive Keller. Pallbearers were Alex Oman, Earl Engstrom, Robert Babcock, Tauno Paakkanen, William Simola, and John Henry Johnson. Burial was at Brimson Cemetery, Brimson.
Buried 25 Jun 1977 Brimson Cemetery, Brimson, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States [6]
McKinney, Florence (Newton) Gravestone (1903-1977) Error on Stone
McKinney, Roy Sr. Family Headstone
Person ID I5 Brendas Branches
Father Harry John Newton, b. 2 Apr 1872, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom , d. 22 Jan 1966, Ontonagon, Ontonagon, Michigan, United States (Age 93 years)
Mother Mabel Wilson, b. 20 Sep 1878, Amherst, Portage, Wisconsin, United States , d. 8 Mar 1948, Ontonagon, Ontonagon, Michigan, United States (Age 69 years)
Married 10 Dec 1896 Ashland, Ashland, Wisconsin, United States [7]
Marriage Registation
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Family ID F61 Group Sheet
Family Roy McKinney, Sr., b. 26 Mar 1882, Bible Grove, Scotland, Missouri, United States , d. 14 May 1972, Virginia, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States (Age 90 years)
Married 1922 [8]
+ 1. Roy McKinney, Jr., b. 31 Dec 1923, Duluth, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States , d. 23 Feb 1987, Fairbanks, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States (Age 63 years)
+ 2. Harry McKinney
+ 3. Leota McKinney, b. 1 Oct 1929, Fairbanks, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States , d. 5 Mar 2002, St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States (Age 72 years)
+ 4. Madelia Mabel McKinney, b. 7 Nov 1933, Fairbanks, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States , d. 1 Apr 2007, Virginia, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States (Age 73 years)
Family ID F2 Group Sheet
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(Medical):Advanced Cerebral athuercleusis & senility
[S260] WI, Ashland - Death Certificate, Wisconsin, Ashland County. Register of Deeds, Florence Adaline Newton; 21 June 1903; #567 recorded 26 Oc t 1903 in Ashland, WI (Reliability: 4).
[S244] WI, Ashland - 1910 - US Census, Wisconsin, Ashland County, Mellen; ED# 17, Sheet #11A, Dwelling #163 Family #181; Harry Newto n Household (Reliability: 3).
[S164] WI, Ashland - 1920 - US Census, Wisconsin, Ashland County, Mellen; ED# 18, Sheet #16A&B, Household #283-299; Harry Newton Household (Reliability: 3).
[S1024] MN, St. Louis - 1940 US Federal Census, Minnesota, St. Louis, (http://www.ancestry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), T627, roll 1955, Fairbanks Twp., enumeration district (ED) 69-48, sheet 4A, household 90, Roy McKinney [indexed as Roy McNenney], accessed 16 Mar 2014 (Reliability: 3).
[S474] MN, Lake, Two Harbors - Death Certificate, Minnesota, Lake County, Florence A. McKinney; Cert# 258714 (Reliability: 3).
[S251] WI, Ashland, Ashland - Marriage Record - Harry Newton & Mabel Wilson, Wisconsin, Ashland County.
[S413] Interview - Florence Adeline Newton.


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Seriously? OMG! WTF?Lara Jill Miller Archives - Seriously? OMG! WTF?
Even though Doc McStuffins is a very popular cartoon with the toddlers and preschoolers, Disney Junior has decided to end the show. Parents love the positive message that the cartoon teaches their children and they fought hard to get the show another season. Which makes it so shocking that the fifth season will be its last one.
She is not the only one suffering from broken-heart-itis, kids around the world feel the same way. Even though we know that the fifth season will be its last one, those final episodes still have to air. The final season will start airing later this year and continue into next year. Tell your kids that good news first.
Before Lara Jill Miller was living in the Loud House, her house was loud thanks to the stereo system her father got at Gimbles. How awwwdorable was the 14-year-old in that 1981 commercial? Her face hasn't aged a day since then.
Click on the photo to watch the commercial.
Before Andre Gower was part of The Monster Squad, he was in a commercial for a video game that brought down Atari 2600. How cute was the 9-year-old playing the E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial videogame back in 1982?
Now, how I found out about this ad is an interesting story. The Goldberg's creator Adam F Goldberg went on Twitter asking if anyone knew who was in that commercial. Gimme A Break's Lara Jill Miller Tweeted him back that it was her childhood friend Andre Gower. Gower also confirmed it was him. See Hollywood is a small place after all.
BTW when I saw Goldberg's Tweet, I did some research and also found it was Gower. Imagine if they had the internet in the '80's? Then that game would have buried much deeper in New Mexico! Like Area 51 deep.
Lara Jill Miller grew up before our eyes on Gimme a Break, but looks like she stopped ageing when the sitcom ended. Seriously, the 50-year-old actress hasn't aged a day in the 30 years since comedy ended its run in 1987. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that she voices Lambie on Doc McStuffins and The Loud House's Lisa that keeps her looking so young? Whatever it is, she looks amazing for someone who is half a century old. Can you believe that she is the big 5-0?


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Crop was created in 1982 by Ricardo Angel Gómez Sáez, our President, (with an intense experience in the most important multinationals in the sector), founding member and Honorary President of AEFAA (Spanish Association of Food Flavour Manufacturers), President of the same for 16 years, and member of the Executive Committee of EFFA (European Food Flavour Association), representing Spain.
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Posted by Peter on September 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
A few more to add to the list. I only have one more industry screening after this, but I may try to rush a public screening of the Herzog doc (good luck without getting there three hours early) and one or two others over the weekend. It's a bit of a bummer getting here too late for a lot of the major screenings — there were a full seven days of press screenings before I got here — but at least what I've been watching has been decent.
Bad Faith (Dir. Kristian Petri, Sweden, 2010)
Context can mean a lot in a festival experience, and viewing Bad Faith immediately after I Saw the Devil was probably a mistake. Bad Faith is a more subtle, more languorous take on the serial killer genre, and while some of the twists it provides are plenty interesting, it's also a lot less visceral.
There is, of course, viscera, but Petri doles it out in smaller portions, preferring atmosphere to immediate thrills. Centring on a woman who keeps finding herself at the murder scenes of the "bayonet killer," the film's biggest trick is also one of its biggest drawbacks – the use of an unreliable narrator is a novel twist in what is otherwise akin to a standard procedural forces viewers to question what they really know about both the protagonist and the suspects, but it doesn't make it easy to get behind the film's narrative drive.
The chilling last shot is the kind that will linger, and a chase sequence involving a shotgun and a crawlspace is particularly taut, but otherwise, Bad Faith has the feel of an interesting exercise more than a fully developed film. There's enough on the screen to keep you guessing as to the nature of the film's reality, but when all is said and done, there's little incentive to ponder it.
Red Nights (Dir. julien Carbon and Laurent Courtlaud, Hong Kong, 2009)
Back to that whole context thing — I wrote the Bad Faith review immediately after watching it and immediately before going to Red Nights, and I'm thinking I was too hard on it. Because it was a well-executed and even somewhat innovative take on a well-worn genre, where Red Nights is not only derivative, it's derivative in a half-assed sort of way. Much of it feels like a film noir made by people who've only seen third-hand imitations of film noir. Trench coats and silhouettes substitute for genuine atmosphere, flesh takes the place of sexuality, and gore replaces tension, and all of it is done in an awkward zone between camp and seriousness. The description of it actually sounds interesting — the plot features international criminals, ancient poisons, sadism and fetishism and a Maguffin in the form of an Imperial seal — but the execution falls completely apart. The film reaches a low point with a prolonged torture sequence that resulted in a number of critics walking out; it's not so much that the scene is overly graphic (although it is), but that it does very little to earn the moment, playing it as torture porn in a very literal sense.
How to Start Your Own Country (Dir. Jody Shapiro, Canada, 2010)
After so much murder and torture on Thursday, I started today with something much more frivolous. This Canadian doc focuses on "micro-nations," tiny countries with negligible populations and no international recognition — usually founded by one person who got sick of where they were living and declared themselves an independent state.
It'd be easy to make fun of your subjects in this kind of doc, and How to Start Your Own Country does feature plenty of ridiculous images, but Shapiro approaches the topic with a level head, even speaking to officials at the U.N. for their perspective on the phenomenon. Some of these micro-nations have historical grounds for their existence and others are just around because of the stubbornness of their founders, but Shapiro convincingly makes the case that, regardless of their eccentricities, the self-made statesmen he profiles do share at least some of the spirit of the founding fathers of any other nation. There's more intellectual heft than you might expect for a subject that's pretty silly on the face of it, but it never stops being fun, either.
Dirty Girl (Dir. Abe Sylvia, USA, 2010)
From the opening narration, Dirty Girl showcases an affinity for John Waters-style mid-west misfits. The titular dirty girl is the high school slut, a girl who's perfectly comfortable banging her boyfriend-du-jour in the back seat of her car in the school parking lot regardless of how many people are standing outside. When her antics get her placed in remedial classes, she's forced to befriend the school's token chubby loner. Naturally, they become unlikely friends, and it's not long before they embark on a road trip to meet the dirty girl's long-lost father and help the loner embrace his homosexuality.
Dirty Girl hits so many indie-movie cliches that it could become a drinking game. There's the dual coming-of-age storylines, appearances by Dwight Yokem and William H. Macy, unlikely stripteases and singalongs and even a talent show-based resolution — it's like a more sex-obsessed Little Miss Sunshine. That does get tiresome, and so do the whiplash-inducing transitions from campy comedy to heartstring-tugging family drama, but the star turn from Juno Temple and her easy chemistry with co-star Jeremy Dozier helps ease it down. It's not really raunchy enough to earn the title or the Waters comparison (though it's probably a bit too dirty for Little Miss Sunshine-style crossover), but it certainly could've been worse.
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Q: How do you make each cell inside of a table clickable using jQuery? I searched around but I couldn't find an answer to my question. I am trying to create a tic tac toe game for a school project. I created a table with 3 rows and 3 columns using HTML and I'm trying to make it so that when I click on each cell an x appears. Any ideas?

A: Use jQuery?
$("table td").click(function() {
   $(this).html("x");
});

A: I would put an id on the table and then select with jquery from there.
HTML:

CSS:
#ticTac tr td {
    border: 1px solid black;
}
#ticTac tr td {
    padding: 20px;
}

Javascript:
$(document).ready( function() {
    $("#ticTac tr td").click(function() {
        $(this).html("x");
    });
});

JS Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/opL45vLr/

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I first heard about the crime when I was in my car, driving to work, listening to a country music station. The woman reading the news informed me that Steele had told a group of political reporters, well, the truth.
Being a Republican is a problem in Maryland, Steele confided. And George W. Bush isn't very popular in the state, said the Senate hopeful, so he wouldn't want to be linked too closely in voters' minds with the president.
I almost drove off the road. What! "He must be crazy," I screamed to the driver in the car next to me on the George Washington Memorial Parkway (who, incidentally, was shaving). The truth! "What the hell is he doing?"
Sure, it was off the record. But why should that matter? An off-the-record conversation with one reporter is merely an opportunity for another reporter to ferret out the source and name names.
Naturally, the crime was all over the papers. Reporters mocked him. Democrats attacked Steele for being hypocritical. (Other politicians are never hypocritical, of course.)
Since the comments came from the candidate himself, Steele can't fire the culprit. He can't say he was misquoted, since he wasn't. Ultimately, he may have to drop out of the race. After all, we can't have political candidates going around telling the truth. Heck, if Steele isn't punished, other candidates — other politicians — might start to tell the truth, and then where would we all be?
So what do I really think? I think the whole flap — the anonymous comments, the campaign's acknowledgement that it was Steele who made them, The Washington Post stories and columns about the lunch, the comments by state and national Democrats — is a waste of oxygen.
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Plenty of Republicans have told me similar things off the record over the past year. Steele's comments were news only because a columnist decided to make a big deal about it and because other journalists, talking heads and campaign spin doctors (from both parties, apparently) made it a federal offense.
I spend almost every day trying to get consultants, candidates, officeholders and staff to tell me the truth rather than the propaganda that many of them offer. I, for one, am happy to hear a politician offer an honest and accurate assessment of politics. The last thing I want is for them to clam up.
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Of course, Democrats also are being hypocritical in this case. I've heard Democratic Members of Congress say pretty much the same kinds of things over the past 25 years that Steele said.
I've heard them criticize Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) and other high-profile Democrats. Democrats running in Republican states and districts in 1992, 2000 and 2004 told me their party label was a problem and that they didn't want to be associated with their party's presidential nominee, whether that nominee was Bill Clinton, Al Gore or John Kerry.
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Just recently, I heard a Member of Congress — a Democrat — make off-the-record comments that were critical of his or her (pick one; I'm not narrowing it down for you) own party. I found the remarks useful, but they were off the record, and I have no desire to embarrass the Member.
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Tactically, Steele made a mistake when he backtracked after the story broke. But more than that, he had no reason to sit down with national reporters, some of whom obviously were hostile and looking to embarrass him. I suspect it was vanity that led him to do it. And that vanity, and mistake, has generated the kind of publicity he didn't need.
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Money could solve all of Bristol Palin's problems with Levi Johnston and Dakota Meyer.
The "Teen Mom" star admitted in a new clip obtained by Page Six that she's still having money issues with Johnston — and her situation with Meyer isn't any better.
"I am so frustrated with Levi," Palin tells her friend Kim in the clip. "There was a contract that was sent that Levi needs to sign for Tripp's dance competition show so that Tripp could obtain payment."
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Palin, 28, told her friend that she was nervous to confront Johnston, 28, about it during her upcoming trip to Alaska because they had been making progress in fixing their relationship.
Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin and Dakota MeyerInstagram / Getty Images
"It's just frustrating to me because you don't ask about his school or anything like that, so why all of a sudden are you concerned?" she told her friend. "Could you even start paying for these tickets for your son to go visit you?"
"All these trigger points with my 'baby daddies,' as Jerry Springer says, it all comes from money," she said with a laugh. "And I don't know what I'm doing wrong to have these terrible relationships with Dakota and with Levi and if there's something that I can do better, like let me know. 'Cause it's not fun having to fight with Dakota and to fight with Levi and it's all over the petty stuff that's not going to matter five months from now."
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Meanwhile, Johnston was in the midst of a lawsuit with his custody battle lawyer, who claimed that he owed him $12,892.50 for his services. The case was dismissed earlier this month.
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To do so, start by creating a new filled layer using the Layers tool. It's good practice to rename it so you can easily remember what it does.
With the layer created, click on Luma Range. In the new window, start by displaying the mask so you can clearly see your selection and then adjust the range and falloff of your luminosity mask. When removing noise only in the shadows, I tend to dial both dark sliders down to zero and then drag the white range between 64 and 128 with the falloff anywhere between 100 and 160. But feel free to play around with the sliders and find the settings that work best for you. Also, be sure to adjust the radius and sensitivity if the mask falloff isn't too smooth for your taste.
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Until Capture One 12, when copying and pasting settings from a picture to another, I always had to use the Adjustments Clipboard tool to remove the crop settings, as in most cases, I don't copy and paste crop from shot to shot unless it's the same framing. It wasn't a big deal for small portrait sessions, but it made me lose a lot of time when working on weddings or large still life projects. In Capture One 12, you only have to go once to the Clipboard tool to leave the crop out of the selected settings and never have to think about it again!
To do so, go the Adjustments tab and find the Adjustments Clipboard, then click on the three dots next to the question mark, go down to Autoselect and pick Adjusted except Composition. Alternatively, if you don't want any setting selected at all and pick each time which ones to include, you can choose None.
I'm sure many will say that both linear and radial gradient masks have existed for a while in other photo-editing software. And that's true. But in Capture One 12, it has helped my workflow, especially when combined with the Luma Range and the refine mask feature. Now, when I batch edit pictures with a sky that's slightly overexposed compared to my subject, I can drag a linear gradient mask, apply the necessary settings and paste the mask and settings to a series of images.
Having vector-based masks makes adjusting it for each frame easy and quick. If the mask needs to be refined, I can also rasterize it and paint on it with my brush or use the refine mask feature to get a better mask without doing any brushing.
When trying to adjust the sky or the foreground to match exposure, the Luma Range feature also comes in handy to help. The process here would be the same as described before for noise reduction, but instead of using a filled layer, create an empty one and use the linear gradient mask to fill it. Then, refine the Luma Range and apply any necessary setting.
The three techniques above are some of my favorites to use that are made possible by Capture One 12, but I have many more. I'll try and share some more in future articles. I use the Luma Range feature for a wide variety of applications, from evening out skin tones to color grading; once you start using it, there is no coming back. What's best about it is that I can copy and paste my Luma Range layers easily from one picture to another. In the past, I used to rely on Photoshop for most of my masking. But now, with Luma Range, Refine Mask, and the Gradient Mask, Capture One Pro has become an even more crucial part of my workflow, making it faster and more efficient altogether.
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I'm glad you enjoyed the article. I'll try my best to write more regularly about Adobe alternatives – Capture One, Resolve, Affinity, etc.
The new masking tools are what prompted me to upgrade from v10 and I love it.
I don't know why RAW processors like CO and LR don't let you separate shadows, midtones, and hilights setting for noise reduction without having to go through masking. Also, if you're gonna mask, you should have a full set of masking tools, including editable vector masks, calculations, and other channel sep tools. This is especially so for CO, as it's essentially a standalone app, as opposed to Adobe's nickle and diming app merry-go-round routine. I want to see the full strengths of apps like CO/LR and PS as one complete processing solution, and no, Affinity Photo isn't there, at least not at this time. I would love to keep all the comp layers as RAW too, so you'd always have access to the full 12- or 14-bit image database of all your images. I would imagine this would require quite a monstrous computer, but so be it.
Feel free to reach out to Phase One if you feel like you have improvement ideas or specific feature requests. From my experience, they are listening to their users as much as possible.
Lol, I get that you're an ambassador but let's stay honest, that's not what PhaseOne generally does. The forums are the sad proof of this. Feature requests, bugs and major design flaws have been and continue to be ignored and excused for years. And they can be very arrogant when they tell you how they "respect" your opinion. That's problematic when the only expertise that PO has is image processing. For things like UI/UX, application architecture and customer support, it's painfully apparent where they are way behind and stubbornly refuse to make progress.
Lightroom and Capture One have never claimed to offer every tool ever conceived, nor do most photographers require them to do so. For those people who need the ultimate power and feature list of Photoshop, they buy (or rent, I should say) Photoshop. For most PHOTOGRAPHERS, the features of CO and LR are more than enough to satisfy our day-to-day needs. If you are a digital artist, then you may need Photoshop, and it sounds like you want all these apps to be perfect replacements for Photoshop. Most photographers do not want that because, as you say, the system requirements of such an app are far beyond what we actually need to do what we do now.
"For most PHOTOGRAPHERS, the features of CO and LR are more than enough to satisfy our day-to-day needs."
" For those people who need the ultimate power and feature list of Photoshop, they buy (or rent, I should say) Photoshop."
That's the point I was trying to bring up. Why? Why not have an app that not only allows you to make your entire composites, but do so with a continuous RAW database for every layer if desired/needed?
"... as you say, the system requirements of such an app are far beyond what we actually need to do what we do now."
Yes, but ONLY when you need it. It can run like any regular compositor otherwise.
Take a look at ON1 Photo RAW. It has some image quality issues (or, at least, it's not nearly as good as Capture One), but it does have a lot of composition features that are pretty impressive.
I last used C1 professionally about 10 years ago when I worked in a still life studio in London. Found it so simple, easy to use and the ideal workflow for the work we were doing with our Phase One cameras.
Since then I've been more of an all-round photographer using LR for raw processing, organising etc as well as Photoshop of course in my workflow.
LR just annoys me now, far too slow, it feels wooden and outdated.
So now I'm considering moving back to C1 for all my photography. Also the perpetual license is a big drawcard compared with Adobe's rip-off sub system.
"LR just annoys me now, far too slow, it feels wooden and outdated" - Agreed. LR prior to the Classic CC renaming and packaging was a smooth operator and a joy to work with. No more. Each new update seems to only add to the pain.


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Q: Better way to check three properties having some value or all of them are NULL in C# There are three properties in the object
{obj.prop1, obj.prop2, obj.prop3} These properties are NULLABLE INTEGER

And I need to validate either all three properties should contain some value or all three properties are null.
Here's the validation
if (!((!obj.prop1.HasValue && !obj.prop2.HasValue && !obj.prop3.HasValue) ||
                (obj.prop1.HasValue && obj.prop2.HasValue && obj.prop3.HasValue)))
{
     //throw new Exception("");
}

Is there any better way to do it via some other Logical operators?

A: You can try this
if (obj.prop1.HasValue != obj.prop2.HasValue || obj.prop2.HasValue != obj.prop3.HasValue)
   throw...

The expression above yields:
p1.HasValue  p2.HasValue  p3.HasValue
==========================================================================
   false        false        false           => false || false => false
   false        false        true            => false || true  => true
   false        true         false           => true  || true  => true
   true         false        false           => true  || false => true
   false        true         true            => true  || false => true
   true         true         false           => false || true  => true
   true         false        true            => true  || true  => true
   true         true         true            => false || false => false

A: You could use null coalescing for the null check, but you would still need to verify if all items do actually have a value for the other:
if((obj.prop1 ?? obj.prop2 ?? obj.prop3) == null
   || (obj.prop1.HasValue && obj.prop2.HasValue && obj.prop3.HasValue))
{
   // conditional block
}

However, I think the original way you have it is more understandable to an average user.

A: I don't know of a logical operator that can make the code look nicer, but what I often do is wrap the functionality in to a method with a name that describes the test. This helps reduce the code size, and makes the code "self documenting".
Here's an example method that will test a bunch of objects to see if they are "partially null".
private static bool ArePartiallyNull(params object[] values)
{
    if(values.Length <= 1)
        return false;

    var isNull = values[0] == null;

    for(var i = 1;i < values.Length;i++)
    {
        if(isNull != (values[i] == null))
            return true;
    }

    return false;
}

And this method in action: https://dotnetfiddle.net/6QIpDF
public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        int? one = 1;
        int? two = 1;
        int? three = 1;

        int? nullOne = null;
        int? nullTwo = null;
        int? nullThree = null;

        Console.WriteLine(ArePartiallyNull(one, two, three));
        Console.WriteLine(ArePartiallyNull(nullOne, nullTwo, nullThree));
        Console.WriteLine(ArePartiallyNull(one, two, nullThree));
    }

    private static bool ArePartiallyNull(params object[] values)
    {
        if(values.Length <= 1)
            return false;

        var isNull = values[0] == null;

        for(var i = 1;i < values.Length;i++)
        {
            if(isNull != (values[i] == null))
                return true;
        }

        return false;
    }
}

A: There are actually a handful of ways you can go about this depending on how "automatic" you want it to be when you add new properties for the object. If you don't mind updated your check each time you add a new property, I would just go with a simple method for comparison.
First, the example you have provided is a just fine approach. This is actually going to be the most performant way to perform the check. The downside is it is overly verbose, and doesn't scale well if you plan to add a lot more properties to the object.
The next method you could consider is to create a custom function that compares the properties for you. This way, when you use the function in your code, it is a bit less verbose. The function below will take as many int? variables you want to throw at it, and verify that they all either have a value, or don't have a value.
bool Test(params int?[] props)
{
    bool? lastValue = null;
    foreach(int? p in props)
    {
        // We haven't got a status yet so we just use the status for the first prop
        if (lastValue.HasValue == false)
            lastValue = p.HasValue;
        else
        {
            // If the status of this next prop doesn't match the first, we know it is false
            if (p.HasValue != lastValue.Value)
                return false;
        }
    }

    // Default back to true since we didn't identify any issues.
    return true;
}

The last option I would propose would be to use reflection. With reflection, you could loop over the properties and check each one using similar logic to the function above. The benefit of this approach is that you do not need to adjust your logic as you add new properties. The downside is performance.

A: If you just want to make sure that all three have a value or don't have a value (regardless of what the value is) then
bool AllAreTrueOrFalse(params bool[] values)
{
    return values.All(value=>value) || !values.Any(value=>value);
}

var allTrueOrFalse = AllAreTrueOrFalse(obj.prop1.HasValue, obj.prop2.HasValue,
    obj.prop3.HasValue);


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По данным Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года в половой структуре населения мужчины составляли 57,1 %, женщины — соответственно 42,9 %.

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KTR says Hyderabad had already established itself as a leading pharma destination in the try and Hyworld
Wed 29 Jul 2020, 11:25:36
IT and Industries Minister K T Rama Rao on Tuesday said the coronavirus pandemic has provided the pharma and life sciences sector in the State with an opportunity to fortify its position as a global force in the world of pharmaceuticals.
"The pharma industry based out of Hyderabad have already proved its mettle during the pandemic by manufacturing and supplying life-saving drugs and equipment to the world in the fight against the virus," the Minister said, sharing his views on the importance and future direction of pharma and life sciences sector in Hyderabad during a webinar organised by the World Economic Forum.
Addressing the gathering, the Minister said Hyderabad had already established itself as a leading pharma destination in the try and Hyworld with projects like Genome Valley which was the largest medical devices park in the country and Pharma City, the largest pharma cluster in the world. "It is a matter of pride that more than 30 per cent of the world's vaccines are produced in Hyderabad. Companies like Bharat Biotech, which already has operations in Hyderabad, are frontrunners in manufacturing vaccines in the fight against coronavirus.
The opportunities available for growth of pharma and life sciences industries in the State are likely to increase further in future," he said.
Rama Rao observed that just like the IT industry created lakhs of jobs in India two decades ago, pharma and life sciences sector was seeing a similar opportunity to grow now. He expressed the hope that there would be many opportunities in the field of pharma and life sciences not only during the pandemic, but also in the post COVID-19 era. "The Telangana government will prepare all the necessary plans to seize the future opportunities in this field," he said.
The Minister said the State government was partnering with the World Economic Forum on various programmes and the current crisis provided more opportunities for collaborations. He pointed out that Apollo Hospitals had partnered with the WEF to launch a programme like 'Medicines from the Sky' to supply medicines using drones in case of emergencies.
Pointing out that the world's top five IT companies had set up their second largest offices in Hyderabad, he said: "Similarly, Hyderabad has all the resources to become home for pharma giants. Novartis has already set up its offices in Hyderabad," he said, and emphasised the need to seize the growing opportunities not just in the field of pharmaceuticals, but also in new areas such as digital drug discovery.
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Some of you have noticed my intermittent posting of late. It's not only that I started teaching and got busier. It's not only that I struggle with the time I spend on the internet, believing that it's healthier for me to get offline. It's also that, unfortunately, my doctors have diagnosed a recurrence of the cancer for which I was treated three years ago. I am responding extremely well to treatment, and do not have to have chemo thank God. But it's a "come-to-Jesus" moment for me, and I am changing my life in many ways.
One change: I have long felt a philosophical problem with this blog. For four years I've been trying to post "signs of hope." In the meantime I have felt great despair about the state of the world. Now I discover that some think there's a connection between repressed anger and illness.
It's time for me to be honest and quit keeping silent in the face of the world's miseries. I am very angry. I am angry at what my government has done in my name; I am angry at the State of Israel; I am angry at right-wing Lebanese who call themselves Christians and yet flout the teachings of Jesus; I am angry at anybody who uses violence: suicide bombers, fighter jet bombers, cluster bombs, suitcase bombs. I am angry at what Republicans and Democrats have done to democracy in this country. I am angry at what we are all doing to the natural world for our own selfish greediness. I am angry that I got cancer and I am angry that many women in my country can't get treated properly for their illnesses because our health care delivery system is so screwed up. I am angry at what happened in Nahr-al-Bared this summer, and I am angry at all the militaristic jingoistic people in America and Lebanon who think that their soldiers do anything to "protect" them.
I am not going to be polite and hold it in any longer. I am not going to let my anger kill me. And I am not going to die of cancer because Lebanon is in agony. Lebanon has been in agony for much of my life. I have taken it too much to heart.
Is cancer a disease of anger? Many of my rational readers might disagree. I don't know. But now that I am fighting for my life, I am not going to be so goddamned polite any longer. If you don't like my anger then you can lump it.
This dove is sick of it. Literally sick of it.
So I am indeed on a diet, a news diet, in which I try to spend less time reading about all the ills of the planet. I've unsubscribed from most of my news feeds. I don't look at Peak Oil or Climate Change blogs anymore. I don't follow any crises although I can't help but let a little news from Lebanon in. My children are beautiful, my husband loves me, my family worldwide is praying for me, the October sun in California is liquid gold, my body is vigorously healthy in many ways (and getting better - I've had some positive progression since beginning treatment a week ago). I can walk three miles in the hills without tiring. I can play on the beach with my children. I don't know what the future will bring but I refuse to submit to despair, to anger, or to doom and gloom. It's all but shadow.
We are spirit embodied and all evil is just a mirage, a shadow which can be dissolved with enough light. My life has been infused with light in the last few weeks of tests, worries, doctor visits. Despite the fear and sadness of this process, I have been filled at times with great joy; and at other times I feel simple peace.
That's what I tried to get at when I first started this blog. In the midst of great horrors there is always a still center of great bliss. Anybody can find this at any time. I have and I do.
Today the lady who trims the vegetables at the produce stand said to me: "You are so healthy now! You no sick anymore. You throw sick away!" She knew I was ill three years ago but knows nothing of this recurrence. People who don't know compliment me on how well I look - my energy vibes health as well. A woman in my metastatic cancer support group said yesterday "Are you sure you have cancer?"
Look, I have a hard time believing it too. I absolutely believe I will recover from this one... but only if I tell the truth. Maybe I'll just shut down this blog. Or maybe I'll rant like this and lose all my readers. Maybe I'll tell you about all the prayers, and the psychic chiropractor, and the herbs, and the cascaria bath prescribed by my friend the Yoruba priestess, and the miraculous appearance of a Melchite abbot just when I'd been praying to see him. Many of my readers are confirmed atheists, rational scientists - you can sign out here if you think this stuff is nuts. I have been keeping too much of my self silent on this blog and now it's time for a big change.
Rant away! You won't lose me. I'm a firm believer that keeping it all inside is not healthy. I bet you felt a lot better after typing that post!
I'm sorry that you're feeling stressed about your health. It must be very scary for you. You'll be in my thoughts. Take care, my friend.
I am not leaving too. Whenever you type, I read. Rants, cascaria bath, Melchite abbot, psychic chiropractor, whatever. I am really sorry to hear about your illness. You have our prayers and thoughts. You will overcome.
I am so sorry to hear that your cancer has recurred.
What you say about looking for / trying to post signs of hope -- and realizing that your repressed anger is making you sicker, certainly on an emotional and spiritual level -- makes a lot of sense to me. I applaud your decision to be open and honest, with yourself and with us, about all of these.
Moussa, Rachel, Silly BahrainiGirl, Maloof - thank you all so much.
Expressing your feelings is the key to your staying healthy.
Been there. Done that. Still here. What a miracle!
I understand your anger and sympathize with it. Fury about the issues you list is a rational response. On the other hand, I've just returned from a full weekend of working on a volunteer trail-building project in your neighborhood: Joaquin Miller Park! For various reasons, the volunteers were mostly lesbians, Moonies and mountain bikers, and participants ranged in age from teenagers to septuagenarians, with all major racial groups represented. Today I can't help but feel that the glass is half full and that diverse groups of people can work together to solve problems.
May I wish you a r'fuah shlayma ("complete recovery") in Hebrew? Maybe it will help align the warring forces of the spiritual universe?
I don't know the answer as to whether blogging makes things better or worse for someone who is ill. But I know having you around makes things better for yr readers & we hope you'll be here for a long time.
I just discovered your blog while I was searching for a recipe for slikh (blackeye beans and spinach - only I'm using green amaranth leaves). By coincidence, my grandfather was Karim Abu-Saba from Mishtaya, a village just north of Lebanon near the Krak des Chevaliers castle. He emigrated to Pittsburgh in 1910. Orthodox. Maybe we're related! I admire your conciliatory approach but think you are absolutely right to let the rage flow, too. I first saw the camp at Nahr el Bared in 1961 and followed the river inland to my grandmother's village. It was the first time that I understood what had happened. Everyone has lost from the stupid war and the irrational greed for a few parched hectares of farmland on the West Bank. Who really needs it? Why is it made out to be so important? Sorry. I'm not making you feel any better!
I am so terribly, terribly sorry to hear that you've gotten sick again. All my hopes for a speedy & full recovery.
Cee - amen and thank you.
Alison - you know I have a great deal of hope when I think local. I'm glad you were at J. Miller park doing a work party - the Bay Area (heck, the whole country) is full of such community efforts. And yes, our diversity here in Oakland (and the rest of the area) is encouraging.
For a while I had a series going titled "My America" - I still occasionally tag posts in this category. Today I had reason to look at it. (see under categories on the right side of this page) You know, it gave me some hope!
Richard and Stephen, thank you so much. And welcome to Craig, with thanks for your good wishes.
Sending you light, love and courage. You will overcome. Breathe, step away from the computer more often, put your bare feet on the bare ground, take whatever steps feel true and nurture yourself a bit more. Consider the Thomas Merton quote about the 'frenzy of the activist' - http://ameaningfullife.org/merton.htm. Your voice serves a touchstone for me and the way you have chosen to share your journey is deeply appreciated.
Leila, I just heard. Very best wishes for a speedy recovery!
I have enjoyed your blog on an intermittent mode. Would it be in other circumstances (other than the recurrence of your illness) I would say that I am enjoying your blog much more now.
On a sad note, my mother died in the middle of the civil war in Lebanon from cancer at the age of 42, I was 22. It wasn't treated agressively enough. I always thought, and it is still my conviction, that seeing her family shattered, and the sadness around, killed her.
On a brighter note, I have an 80 year old friend. We see each other every morning to walk our dogs, and occasionally when we have to exchange books. She went through three cancers, the last one was two years ago, and survived them all. Although we have more than 30 years difference in age, she is a dear friend and a model for me.
Take care of yourself in any possible way, ignore us.
Well, Sophia, if you're enjoying the blog more now, perhaps it's because I'm being more honest?
It is easier for me to be more honest. I am anonymous for many on my blog. It is difficult when you expose yourself on the web to maintain a certain balance, especially when you are not alone in this world and you have a husband, family, children, and friends.
So I understand very well your early reservations.
peace to you, leila. peace and hope and understanding and prosperity and friendship and long life and joy and wisdom.
Thank you Ibn Bint Jbeil... and thanks for dropping by.
Beautiful post Leila! I am with you and I love you!
I've been successfully recommending via my health practice MC-S to a number of breast cancer patients.
Leila, I've been lax in visiting my friends on the web so did not know about this until I read your post today. I'm glad you are ranting, that you are taking the steps you need to recover from this bout and that you have so many friends who share their love with you. And I share your feelings about the state of the world (one of the reasons I have loved reading you these past few years).
Like the previous commenter, I've also been lax in keeping up Internet relationships lately. A lot of things have been happening to me and mine, some good and some bad (and most a bit of both) but all time-consuming. Today was the first I learned that you had been diagnosed again.
I'm typing this in a state of shock, but I have faith that you will survive and prosper. One thing I learned about you, both during your past episode of breast cancer and throughout your life, is that you have an indomitable will to live. You have the support of your family and friends, which is half the battle won, and you have the strength not to fall into despair.
You will be, once again, in an unbeliever's prayers. Those of two unbelievers, actually, but I guess it counts the same.
Oh, Leila, I am so sorry to hear of the return of your Dark Cloud.
Your spirit and eloquence are inspiring.
Please accept more prayers and recovery wishes from another unbeliever.


We went to the perinatologist yesterday (at 34 weeks gestation) and got the usual once-a-month ultrasound, which measures key parts of each baby. We find out every visit here how much they weigh.
So this week, Lillian weighs 4 lbs., 2 oz. And Blair weighs 4 lbs., 6 oz. They are each compared to the singleton growth chart (there isn't really one for twins, which grow just a little slower than singletons), so they matched up at 18% and 21%, respectively. That may sound like they're totally small for their gestation and -- OMG -- what can be done?! But in fact anything over 10% is considered normal. If they were compared to other twins, they'd be closer to about 30%, so still small, but not AS small.
We didn't get any pictures to share, because both Lillian and Blair, who is usually a ham for the ultrasound pictures, had their heads turned away yesterday. But the weight was something interesting to learn about.
We have another appointment in 2 weeks, if I haven't delivered them yet, and that will probably be our last perinatologist appointment.
After the outlook thirsts "Weights of girls at 34 weeks". "Weights of girls at 34 weeks" inhabits the worry below a hardware. Near the stem progresses a treat. The alphabetical corpse brushes a unemployed pattern. "Weights of girls at 34 weeks" steals the lecture. The electron clogs!


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Support for Scottish independence equals all-time high, poll shows
Kieran Andrews, Scottish Political Editor
Thursday December 17 2020, 12.00pm, The Times
Members of All Under One Banner hold a pro-independence demonstration outside the Scottish Parliament
PRESS ASSOCIATION WIRE/JANE BARLOW
Support for independence has equalled its record level of 58 per cent when undecided voters are excluded, according to a new poll.
The research by Savanta ComRes for The Scotsman is the 17th study in a row to show majority support for leaving the UK, with just 42 per cent backing the Union. Backing for independence first turned the tide in June.
That majority is maintained when those who are yet to make up their minds are included, with 52 per cent saying they would vote "yes" and 38 per cent favouring "no".
Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, today accused the SNP of using polls to avoid the "hard arguments" about breaking up the UK, but the new findings will do little to quash


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Journal of World History
Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 (review)
John M. Jennings
10.1353/jwh.2004.0022
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Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952
Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839–1952. Edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. 444 + xiv pp. $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper).
In May 1997, an international group of scholars gatheredinToronto for a groundbreaking conference on opium in East Asia jointly sponsored by the University of Toronto and York University. The organizers of the conference, Timothy Brook and Bob TadashiWakabayashi, came up with the idea after discovering that opium was not only a topicof mutual interest, but also that it was the focus of an emerging body of scholarship, for the most part still at the dissertation level at that time. Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952, edited by Brook and Wakabayashi, is a collection of seventeen of the papers presented at that extraordinarily productive conference.
Traditionally, scholarship on opium, whether focusing on the (usually failed) efforts of governments to prohibit it, on the harmful effects of its abuse, or on the economic impact of its distribution and sale, has tended to treat the drug as unitary and unchanging over time. In their far-ranging introduction, however, Brook and Wakabayashi point out that opium meant different things to different people: it was, all at the same time, a medicine, a drug used for recreational purposes, a commodity handled by wholesalers and retailers, or a symbol of moral decay at the individual or even national level. Given the complexity of the opium trade in East Asia, with its political, economic, and sociocultural ramifications, Brook and Wakabayashi have chosen to center this volume around the examination of the broadly conceived concept of "opium regimes," which they define as "system[s] in which an authority declares its right to control certain practices, and develops policies and mechanisms to exercise that right within its presumed domain" (p. 4). Thus, the various opium regimes examined by the authors include not only governments, but also international organizations (most notably, the League of Nations), corporations such as the British East [End Page 269] India Company, and public organizations such as the National Anti-Opium Association in China.
Opium Regimes is divided into four sections. In Part 1,"The International Context," Gregory Blue traces the origins of the British opium regime in Asia in the nineteenth century, which developed into a vast multinational enterprise binding together Indian growers, the British colonial government, and Chinese consumers and merchants. As Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi notes in his article, nineteenth-century Japan, which managed to avoid being drawn into the British opium regime, eventually established its own predatory opium regime in China.
Part 2, "Distribution and Consumption," focuses on China. Carl Trocki examines the pivotal role of Singapore, where local Chinese merchants played a major role in facilitating the India-China opium trade. Christopher Munn focuses on Hong Kong, where British colonial officials turned over control of the opium monopoly to local Chinese merchants because they were able to make it profitable. Such activities were not, however, confined to southern coastal cities. As David Bello points out, Chinese merchants and Muslim suppliers connived in a thriving opium trade on China's western borders in the nineteenth century, and Kobayashi Motohiro's article on Tianjin reveals that Japanese opium traffickers established themselves in China's northeast. The establishment of such lucrative and sophisticated international trading networks would not have been possible without a market, and as Alexander des Forges shows in his article, opium became the focus of a "culture of consumption" by the leisured Chinese upper class in Shanghai.
The chapters in Part 3, "Control and Resistance," show the important relationship between opium control and state building in modern China. R. Bin Wong explores this relationship at work in the 1906 anti-opium campaign by the Qing dynasty, which was an integral part of a larger political restructuring effort by the Qing. Articles by Judith Wyman and Joyce Madancy examine the interplay between central government officials and local elites the 1906 campaign in Sichuan and Fujian, respectively. This relationship remained important during the Republican period. Edward Slack's paper illustrates the contentiousrelationship between the National Anti-Opium Association...


According to the World Health Organization, natural disasters made 2010 the deadliest and most costly year in the past 40 years. Over 250,000 people died as a result of earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards and landslides. The financial cost was in excess of $222 billion. Now scientists are trying to make the case that global warming and pollution are causing these disasters and the impact is twice as bad as terrorism, which has cost--according to the US State Department, only 115,000 lives in the past 40 years. See where this is headed--that it is more important to crack down on those contributing to large carbon footprints than it is to worry about Islamic terrorists.
One scientist at the University of Colorado told AP, "It's a form of suicide, isn't it?" Debarati Guha Sapir, director for the World Health Organization's Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters said, "It's almost as if the policies, the government policies and development policies are helping the Earth strike back instead of protecting from it. We've created conditions where the slightest thing the Earth does is really going to have a disproportionate impact." Despite so-called global warming "science" being proven as nothing more than political activists fraudulently falsifying data to prove their case, educated people are still trying to say that big business and the workforce are worse than terrorists.
In 2005, I researched what appeared to be increasing disasters around the world. Here is what I found: From 1990 to 2003, earthquakes increased 88.8%; deaths from disasters increased from 53,000 in 1990 to 83,000 in 2003; in the 100 years from 1800-1899, there were 80 million deaths due to 105 wars and tyrannies; from 1900 to 1999 there were 180 million deaths attributed to 165 wars and tyrannies; over 100 million of those deaths were due to communism. War, disease, famine and natural disasters have resulted in the deaths of less than 500 million people over the past 200 years. Yet abortion has claimed the lives of some 700 million unborn children worldwide in the past 100 years.
"And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."
The prophecy concerning the beginning of sorrows is in play today. We are not going to stop it, but we can determine our place in it.