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In her last blogpost Trudy Duffy-Wigman, author of My New Best Friend published in Breve New Stories Issue Two, describes her experience on writing in her second language.
The fact that I am using a language that is not my own has a huge bearing on my writing. It brings challenges; like finding the right expression to convey a concept or an emotion. A benefit is that I am acutely aware of the workings of a language; the fact is that some words, feelings or expressions just cannot be translated. This has an effect on what you -what I- write. I find myself drawn to language that is pared down to its essential core- simple and sparse, devoid of flowery additions. Strangely enough, writing in Dutch is all but impossible nowadays. Though Dutch friends and family compliment me with the fact that I still speak Dutch without a trace of an accent and use the correct sentence structure I have found out that when I try and write something in my mother tongue, I throw it aside in disgust. Clunky and clumsy, not in tune with what I wanted to say.
Some twenty years ago I lived and worked in Russia for a while. Waiting for my part of the project to start, I filled the time with teaching Dutch conversation at the University of St Petersburg. One of the professors of Dutch of the university was incredibly accomplished in Dutch; not an easy language to learn. He had no trace of an accent whatsoever. The only way you could spot it was that he used archaic expressions; expressions not used for the last thirty years. He had never been abroad, which made it even more of an accomplishment (and indicated he had been trained by the KGB!).
It saddens me, not being able to be playful in my own language anymore. Perhaps you have to be surrounded and immersed by a language in order to be able to write in it.
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Writer's Blog: Trudy Duffy-Wigman – Notes of Inspiration
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Trudy Duffy-Wigman author of 'My New Best Friend' published in Breve New Stories Issue Two, talks about the authors who inspire her.
Being Dutch, I grew up with Simon Carmiggelt. Carmiggelt died in 1987, aged 74. He is famous in the Netherlands for his daily writings in the newspaper 'Het Parool'. His short stories, which he signed off with 'Kronkel' (Kink) are observations of daily life, often melancholic, sometimes sombre but always with a great insight in the human psyche. Like few others, he was able to sketch big ideas with a minimum of words. He wrote flash fiction before the genre was invented. Some of his work is translated but I doubt whether he translates well as he is so very, very Dutch.
Another inspirational author is Godfried Bomans. Bomans died in 1971, when he was 58. Hardly any of his works – and he was a very prolific author – have been translated. He wrote short stories, essays, criticism, fairy tales and political satire. As an admirer of Charles Dickens, he founded the Haarlem branch of the Dickens Fellowship and became its president. Bomans was very media savvy and appeared regularly on (black and white) television. Perhaps that is one of the reasons that his literary peers regarded him with a measure of suspicion and disdain: he never received a literary prize, nor is he mentioned in scholarly overviews of Dutch literature, despite the fact he was widely read. Like no other he could describe what a character was about in just a few words.
A more contemporary source of inspiration is the collection of short stories written by Jhumpa Lahiri. Her work possess a quality that makes me want to stop and contemplate what I've just read, rather than going on to the next page. Her prose is understated, her language quiet and precise, resonating long after finishing the story.
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Writer's Blog: Hamish McGee – The Idea Behind "Doubting Thomas"
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Hamish McGee talks about what inspired his short story 'Doubting Thomas' published in Breve New Stories Issue Two.
What inspired "Doubting Thomas"? Let me think. Mmm … In fact, that's pretty easy.
I was brought up in a small Scottish village where I met one of the most wonderful men God created. He changed my life in ways I am still discovering today. He is the inspiration. He was the village greengrocer and he did run the local Gospel Hall. He did give me my first Bible and he was truly wonderful.
When the time came for me to leave the village and make my own way in life, we corresponded throughout the years. No matter where I was, a few miles away or the other side of the world, no matter what I was doing, he was constant. Every letter I wrote him was answered promptly in his beautiful, handwritten script. I opened the envelopes slowly, prolonging the anticipation of the inner contents, reading each page so often that I could recite them from memory. Even if his descriptions of what was happening in the village were, to others, banal in the extreme, to me they were gold dust in my impoverished world, the sweetest wine in my desert life, a veritable feast sustaining and nourishing my lean existence. Every word resonated with beautiful imagery. I could all but hear that lilting accent.
Only once did he fail to reply. I knew immediately but refused to accept, that he had died. The mould was broken.
Hamish McGee
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Writer's Blog: Michael Bloor – The Love of Reading
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In his last post, Michael Bloor author of 'The Aberdeen Kayak' published in Breve New Stories Issue One, reflects on his love of reading and its roots.
I've loved reading all my life and ten years ago I found out why. The clue lay a few miles north from my home, in a building in the hamlet of Innerpeffray, in rural Perthshire. There you can find Scotland's oldest free public library: www.innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk, founded in 1680.
When last I saw it, on rare warm day of early spring, the ground of the little wood beside the library was smothered in snowdrops, and the last of the winter snow could be seen clearly, glinting on the hills above Crieff. Inside the lovely old building there are many rare volumes, but the real treasure within this house of treasures is surely the Borrowers' Register which goes back to 1747. Overwhelmingly, the readers are the rural poor: William Morrison – roadman, James Bronsler – cooper, Peter White – shoemaker, Ebenezer Clement – dyer, Peter Comrie – miller, John Drummond – mason, James McInnes – brickworks foreman, James McDiarmid – carpenter, and the rest.
Jethro Tull's 'Husbandry' and Hill Burton's 'Emigrants Manual' were popular items, but many borrowers seemed to read for more than self-improvement. On April 28th, 1859, Peter Comrie, the miller, borrowed 'Fable of the Bees' and 'Ship of Fools;' he was back on May 12th to borrow Scott's 'Witchcraft' and Middleton's 'Letters;' and he was back again on May 26th to take out Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy.' Shortly after that he was reading a history of the French Revolution. These readers were autodidacts, snatching brief hours of leisure, peering at pages ill-lit by primitive cruisie lamps. They trekked to Innerpeffray from tenant farms and servants' bothies to drink the sweet waters, to sample the only art and beauty that was available to them. They had fed on honey-dew and then would accept no other.
Me too, I've been feeding on that honeydew for sixty reading-years.
Michael Bloor
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Writer's blog: Barbara Stevenson – Writing in Orkney
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In her last blogpost Barbara Stevenson, author of Zuri Mtu published in Issue One, describes her life in Orkney, between history and nature.
I am lucky to live in Orkney, with the sea all around as inspiration. Not only that, there is five thousand years of history on my doorstep – from my front garden I can look down onto the neolithic village of Skara Brae. It is a natural step to imagine how the people there lived and I am currently working on a Stone Age whodunnit. With the ongoing archaeological dig at the Ness of Brodgar nearby, discoveries are constantly forcing historians to question what they knew about the time. I have been surprised at the sophistication of the artwork and decorations found there. Although the setting is important, I prefer writing stories about the people and how they deal with and overcome problems no matter where they live or what social circumstances they find themselves in.
Orkney has a vibrant community of writers, artists and musicians which can be a distraction from actually doing any writing, but it is also fantastic for bouncing ideas around and coming up with stories.
In my other life as a veterinary surgeon, I meet a variety of wonderful people and animals who say and do remarkable and funny things that wouldn't be believed in fiction. Unsurprisingly this proves to be a fantastic source for creative projects. My novel, The Organist, which will be launched in February with Yolk Publishers, is about a vet living in Edinburgh just before the First World War.
Barbara Stevenson
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Writer's Blog: Michael Bloor – Notes of Inspiration
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Michael Bloor, author of 'The Aberdeen Kayak' published in Breve New Stories Issue One, chose a few authors and stories that inspire him.
This is really tough – how can I neglect to praise Louis MacNeice's Autumn Journal??
Nevertheless, I'm just going to mention one old inspiration and one new inspiration. The old favourite is William Morris's The House of the Wolfings. Morris is my hero, just as he seems to have been a hero to everyone who knew him back then (except, possibly, his wife). The House of the Wolfings is the tale of a Gothic tribe menaced by a Roman invasion. It's an extraordinary achievement for a Victorian gentleman, raised on the classics (at Marlborough and Oxford) and subjected to endless Imperial rhetoric on Britain as the New Rome. He contrasts the Gothic folk society with the Roman Empire, always to Rome's disadvantage: on the one hand, the organic Gothic society, with its democracy of governance and manners, and its symbiosis of art and crafts; on the other hand, the authoritarian, war-mongering, slave-society of Rome, with a commodified art for the leisured few. Needless to say, the Goths win.
My new favourite is Island, the collected twenty short stories of Alistair MacLeod, all set in the Gaelic-speaking communities of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, where he grew up, where he returned to write every summer, and where he was buried last year. These are not heart-warming stories of an idyllic rural childhood, adorable animals and golden sunsets. They are unflinching accounts of hard lives in the fishing boats and the mines, of the divisions in families caused by education, emigration and economics. But there's a wonderful, spare lyricism about the stories (MacLeod spoke each sentence aloud as he wrote it): they are short, graceful and simply told; adjectives are rare but always evocative – he made every word count. Like Thomas Hardy, MacLeod has memorialised a people in a landscape.
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Writer's Blog: Barbara Stevenson – Notes of Inspiration
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Barbara Stevenson author of 'Zuri Mtu' published in Breve New Stories Issue One, talks about the authors that inspire her.
When I was about eight a friend gave me a copy of short stories by Oscar Wilde for my birthday. This included, among others, The Happy Prince, The Gentle Giant and my favourite The Remarkable Rocket. I was enchanted by the poetic language and also the sadness. Most of the stories involved at least one death. At the time I had no idea about Oscar Wilde's life, but being used to reading Enid Blyton, it seemed strange to enjoy a story where the hero died. I admit that nowadays in my own stories the hero doesn't always survive to the last page.
In my late teens, early twenties, my favourite book was Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. This is an inspirational book about a seagull, which in itself says everything. Jonathan is no ordinary seagull and the author encourages the reader to be no ordinary person. It's a short book and if you haven't read it, I would recommend you do.
My final mention is for a book I read fairly recently by the Scottish author Michael Malone (with Bashir Saoudi) called The Guillotine Choice. This gripping story reads like a novel, but when you realise it is based on the life of Saoudi's father, Kaci Mohand Saoudi who was wrongfully convicted of murder and sent to Devil's Island, it makes disturbing and emotional reading. With experience as a crime novelist, Malone is able to tackle the subject with frankness and understanding, without the need for an orchestra of violins.
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It's Rock & Rhyme at Huonville Library! Come along for some easy stories, nursery rhymes and sing along songs. Aimed at 0-3yos but all welcome.
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On Sunday night, October 7, Taylor Swift made a rare political statement on Instagram, endorsing the Democratic nominees for Tennessee's Senate and House of Representatives (Phil Bredesen and Jim Cooper, respectively). Soon after, her post racked up more than 1.7 million likes and started trending on Twitter.
"I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country," she wrote in the caption. "I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent. I cannot vote for someone who will not be willing to fight for dignity for ALL Americans, no matter their skin color, gender or who they love." Swift ended her post with a call to action, urging everyone—particularly her fans in Tennessee—to register to vote.
And now we might be seeing the effect of Swift's message. Vote.org is up 65,000 voter registrations in the last 24 hours, according to Kamari Guthrie, director of communications for the website. (Swift directed fans specifically to the site in her Instagram post.) According to BuzzFeed, 190,178 voters were registered in September and 56,669 were registered in August—so the fact Swift caused a 65,000 spike in just 24 hours is impressive.
Swift's home state of Tennessee also had a similar jump. "Vote.org saw [Tennessee] registrations spike specifically since Taylor's post," Guthrie told BuzzFeed. The website received 5,183 new registrations in Tennessee this month, and 2,144 of those came from the last 36 hours. Compare that to the 2,811 new voter registrations for all of September and just 951 in August. Vote.org even had a spike in traffic after Swift's post, with 155,940 unique visitors checking out the site in the past 24 hours, according to BuzzFeed. That's a new high for Vote.org, coming only behind the 304,942 visitors who went to the site on National Voter Registration Day (September 25).
Of course, not everyone is behind Swift's message. Conservative men came out in droves yesterday to criticize the singer. "What I used to love about Taylor Swift is she stayed away from politics," Charlie Kirk, the founder and president of Turning Point USA, said on Fox & Friends.
Former Republican Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee even took shots at Swift's fans. "So @taylorswift13 has every right to be political but it won't impact election unless we allow 13 yr old girls to vote," he posted on Monday morning. "Still with #MarshaBlackburn." The Swifties quickly hit back at Huckabee for his faulty logic. "I love how everyone thinks her fanbase is only 13 year olds," one wrote. "She's been in the business for 12 years, so a lot of her fanbase are in their 20s and 30s now. I'm 24."
Even President Donald Trump put in his two cents. "Let's say that I like Taylor's music about 25 percent less now," he said when asked about Swift's endorsements.
As an artist with a devout country fan base—many of whom are conservative—Swift is risking her popularity by speaking out. But it seems Swift isn't thinking about what's good or bad for business. She's thinking about the well-being of her legion of female and queer fans, who will be some of the people most affected by these midterm elections. As she wrote in her post, "In the past I've been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions, but due to several events in my life and in the world in the past two years, I feel very differently about that now."


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Benny The Butcher Reflects on His Celebrity in "Famous" Music Video
Taken from the Griselda titan's Hit-Boy-produced album, 'Burden Of Proof.'
Music Nov 29, 2020
Benny The Butcher has shared a music video for "Famous," a cut from his latest full-length release Burden Of Proof.
Directed by The Wizard, the accompanying visual sees the Griselda staple celebrating at the launch party of his latest album. He's surrounded by family, friends and, of course, the media, but all the glitz and glamor of his success still doesn't make him feel like he's a celebrity. "Three Rollies, two cribs, six figures / And I still don't feel famous," he raps, even begging the question, "What's fame to a n***a like me? You gotta think / Cause I'm from the cocaine era, we extinct."
The visual arrives shortly after Benny The Butcher suffered a gunshot wound during an attempted robbery in Houston, Texas. Reports state that the rapper was waiting inside car at a local Walmart parking lot when another vehicle with five people pulled up next to them and demanded for their chains at gunpoint. Westside Gunn shared a much-needed update with fans a few days later, confirming that his cousin was back home and is recovering well.
Watch Benny The Butcher's "Famous" music video above.
Elsewhere in music, Lil Wayne's highly-anticipated No Ceilings 3 mixtape has finally arrived.
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Daniel Arsham Links With Toraichi For Workwear Collection
Celebrating the one year anniversary of Tokyo-based store 2G.
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Nelly's Custom 'Dancing With the Stars' Sneakers To Go To Auction
Expected to fetch around $50,000 USD.
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Kanye West Joins SAINt JHN for New Single "Smack DVD"
"Could you talk to the mayor about Breonna Taylor?" Ye asks during his verse.
PORTER Celebrates 85th Anniversary With Archival Book
Offered with a book cover made from the same fabric used in the TANKER series.
Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. Competitive Exhibition Match Ends in a Draw
"Iron Mike" says that he will step into the ring again.
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Jhené Aiko Was "Born Tired" in New Visual
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21 Speeches That Shaped Our World
The Speeches
21 SPEECHES
THAT SHAPED
The people and ideas
that changed the way
we think
In this thought-provoking book, Chris Abbott takes a close look at twenty-one key speeches that have shaped the world today.
Drawing upon his expertise as a leading political commentator, Chris explains how our current understanding of the world is rooted in pivotal moments of history. These moments are captured in the words of a range of influential – and occasionally controversial – figures, from Winston Churchill to Osama bin Laden. The speeches in this book are arranged thematically and each transcript is accompanied by an insightful commentary that explores how the speech relates to modern society.
This is a fascinating tour through the tides of events that have shaped the last one hundred years. By examining different worldviews and exploring how they have developed, Chris shows how we can come a step closer to understanding others and avoiding the mistakes of the past.
Fresh and relevant, this is a book that will make you stop in your tracks and think about what is really happening in the world today.
Available in hardback and paperback and for Kindle and published in English, Korean, Japanese, Russian and Portuguese.
Read an extract...
"Chris Abbott introduces and pulls together a fascinating gallery of speakers and turning points in recent history... Interesting concept, well executed." New Internationalist
"An interesting selection of speeches... Throughout, Abbott provides a thorough historical context and argues convincingly for the relevance of the ideas expressed." Financial Times
Copyright © Chris Abbott, 2010-19. All rights reserved.


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Well known industry figure Terry Crawford has joined EFI's Asia Pacific sales team.
Terry Crawford has a 26-year history in the offset printing industry, including 12 years' experience in senior national and specialist sales management roles. He gained a reputation in high-value imaging equipment, CtP, workflow and colour management system sales environments catering to commercial, magazine and newspaper printers.
Prior to joining EFI, Crawford worked for Fujifilm Sericol, where he represented the wide-format, narrow web flexographics and screen printing division.
"Terry's experience and wealth of knowledge make him a welcome addition to the EFI team," said Eric Holtsmark, director of sales, EFI Asia Pacific Operations. "He has a deep understanding of how printing technology can be used to increase productivity and improve quality as well create new opportunities for profitability."
Crawford will be responsible for sales development in Australia and New Zealand for EFI's VUTEk range of superwide format printers and solutions as well as the EFI Fiery technology.
"EFI has an outstanding reputation for innovation and cutting-edge digital printing technology. The company is renowned worldwide for helping customers achieve business success," said Crawford. "I'm looking forward to contributing to EFI's continued growth and success with customers in the region."


We successfully quoted to supply, manufacture and build a five-tier mezzanine structure for Shurgard, a self-storage company that rents out units (referred to as 'bins') by the square metre to the public.
We were asked to design, manufacture and install a mezzanine structure with two five level tower staircases that was both connected to an existing building structure and self-supported. It was what is known as a 'muffin top design', which means that the ground floor footprint is smaller than the top levels (in this case, the second third and fourth levels).
As the mezzanine structure needed to connect to the existing building, we needed to work closely with the main and building contractors during their design phase. So eight months before we started work on site, we coordinated with them to ensure that our designs aligned perfectly, and that everything was in the right place and ready to take our installation.
We also needed to allow for the design and location of the project. The building runs alongside the River Brent, and as a result the sub soil and slab wasn't strong enough to support the weight of our lifting and access equipment. So we sourced a specialist crane to build the columns for the five tiers and level 4 steelwork. We completed level 4 decking so whilst the installation progressed down level 3, 2 & 1 the 5th tier built off level 4 in a safe and controlled manner.
No business can afford to have a building sitting empty, so we worked to a tight programme, and were able to complete all five floors (a total of around 8,000 square metres of mezzanine) in just 12 weeks.
The main contractor was very impressed with the way we approached the job, and the overall build. Particularly as some of the restraints of our build only became apparent two weeks before we started on site - and in that time we were able to change our methodology, the machines we were using and our manning levels to ensure the programme was completed on time and to budget.


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No 'Green Wave' as Voters Reject Ballot Measures on Climate Change in 3 States
Michael Bastasch	/ @MikeBastasch / November 07, 2018 / Leave a comment
Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer, pictured Aug. 2 in New Orleans, finds success in Nevada but defeat in Arizona with his ballot questions on green energy. (Photo: Jonathan Bachman/Reuters/Newscom)
Not only did a Democratic "blue wave" fail to materialize on Tuesday night, the "green wave" of major global warming and energy-related ballot measures largely failed to get voter approval, as well.
Voters in Arizona, Colorado, and Washington rejected measures aimed at fighting global warming, despite two of those states being in Democratic hands.
The "Green New Deal" pundits gushed over in Washington state went down in flames, with voters overwhelmingly rejecting a state ballot measure to tax carbon dioxide emissions, despite its support from Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee.
Washingtonians voted against the carbon tax initiative 56 percent to 43 percent, according to state election officials.
"The voters have spoken," Tom Pyle, president of the free-market American Energy Alliance, said in an emailed statement.
"It's time to listen to them and focus on policies that expand the availability, affordability, and reliability of energy, rather than on policies that makes energy more scarce, more expensive, and less reliable," said Pyle, a former Trump transition team leader opposed to carbon taxes.
Environmentalists argue the oil industry's $30 million cash influx into the ballot measure campaign tipped the scales, compared to the more than $15 million spent by carbon tax supporters.
"Democrats did not quite get the blue wave they wanted, but it was even worse for environmentalists," The New Republic's Emily Atkin wrote on Wednesday, before blaming, in part, spending by energy producers. "There was no green wave whatsoever."
However, Washington voters rejected a similar carbon tax measure in 2016, and Inslee was forced to admit defeat earlier this year trying to pass a carbon tax through the state Legislature.
In Arizona, voters rejected liberal billionaire Tom Steyer's campaign to increase Arizona's green energy mandate from 15 percent by 2025 to 50 percent by 2030. Steyer's campaign group, NextGen Climate Action, spent about $23 million backing the ballot measure.
Utility groups, including the owner of the state's largest utility, spent nearly $31 million opposing Steyer's effort. Nearly 70 percent of voters rejected the ballot measure, with only about 30 percent supporting it.
Steyer, however, was successful in getting Nevada voters to support a similar measure that was on the ballot in Arizona. Nevadans voted nearly 59 percent to 41 percent to increase the state's green energy mandate to 50 percent by 2030.
NextGen pumped more than $10 million into the ballot campaign, but there was no group registered opposing the ballot—the group, the Coalition of Energy Users, did work against the green mandate increase, but its spending was not registered on Ballotpedia.
Environmentalists also saw voters overwhelmingly reject a measure that would have effectively banned new hydraulic fracturing operations in most of the state. Voters rejected the measure nearly 57 percent to 43 percent.
In that campaign, the oil and gas industry led opposition forces in spending more than $30 million to defeat the anti-fracking initiative, which would have required a 2,500-foot buffer between drilling and "vulnerable" areas.
Environmentalists only spent about $1.2 million in support of the anti-fracking measure, but the spending failure could stem from the fact Democrats were divided on the issue. Prominent Democrats, including former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and former Gov. Bill Ritter, opposed the de facto fracking ban.
"Proposition 112 would have hurt more than just the natural gas and oil industry, as seventy-seven percent of the 43,000 jobs it would have eliminated in year one would have come from outside the energy sector," said Colorado Petroleum Council Executive Director Tracee Bentley in a statement.
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Budget-Saving Tips & Tricks for Indie Musicians
Budget-Saving is super important as indie artists and if you're not careful, the costs can add up pretty quickly. So today on my YouTube Channel, I decided to share some of my tips & tricks for saving money. There's a lot of golden nuggets in there with some great gear recommendations as well so make sure you watch til the end!
Don't forget to leave me a comment as well. I'd love to hear from you!
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Jonathan Miller Announces New Single, "You'll Find Love!"
"You'll Find Love when you least expect it..."
Independent Singer/Songwriter JONATHAN MILLER🌙 announced today via his Instagram that his new single, You'll Find Love" is arriving soon! The inspiring dance pop song comes out July 5th, 2019 but fans can pre-save the single already on iTunes now!
Miller has been teasing fans about working on new music ever since his grandpa's death back in early March of this year.
"Music has been my escape during a not-so-easy past few months. This song in particular has helped me heal in a lot of ways. I hope it will help my fans who might be experiencing the darkness that comes with a sudden loss of a loved one cope with all of the ups and downs. You're not alone and I hope this song can make you smile for a little while." Jonathan Miller has said about the new single.
"You'll Find Love" is available now for pre-order on iTunes. Click here to save it!
How to Stay Motivated to Make Music
Hey there!!
Just letting you know that my latest video on How to Stay Motivated to Make Music has been posted on my YouTube Channel! There's some great tips in there especially for those of you who may have no support! I hope you enjoy it!
PS: I've got a SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT coming this Saturday so make sure you follow me on INSTAGRAM to learn more about it!
How to Choose Singles from an Album, EP, or Mixtape
Happy Wednesday!
Today I'm sharing some of my best tips for how to choose singles from an Album, EP, or Mixtape! There's a lot of good information in there for independent artists so make sure you watch all the way til the end!
PS: I have a special something coming very soon. Keep your eyes peeled and make sure you're following me on Instagram as well. 😉
Apple Music vs. Spotify - Who Pays the Most to Stream Your Music?
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5 Underrated Movies on Amazon You Might Have Missed
By Jacob Kienlen	 August 7, 2020
There are more and more great movies on Amazon Prime every day. With such a massive catalog of films, Amazon is a great place to find things to watch when you've exhausted your list of Netflix movies. If you're anything like me, though, you've already burned through all of the highest rated movies on every platform and find yourself waiting for something new.
Luckily, there are plenty of underrated movies out there you might not have seen yet to help fill the void. So to ease the pain of waiting for new movies to arrive, I've gone ahead and rounded up some of the best underrated movies on Amazon Prime right now.
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
r	110m
Genre	Comedy, Crime
Stars	Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson
Directed by	Martin McDonagh
Seven Psychopaths is one of my favorite films that I'd never heard about. With a star-studded cast and a ridiculous storyline, this crime movie strikes the perfect balance of stress and comedy. The plot follows a struggling screenwriter (Colin Farrell) who accidentally becomes entangled in the criminal underbelly of Los Angeles. This only happens after his buddies kidnap the Shih Tzu of a well-known gangster.
Hot Rod (2007)
pg-13	88m
Genre	Comedy, Action
Stars	Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Bill Hader
Directed by	Akiva Schaffer
I was introduced to this comedy movie by a friend in college who said it was his, "favorite movie ever". To his satisfaction, I thoroughly enjoyed it and my love for Andy Samberg has only grown since then. The plot follows a self-proclaimed stuntman (Andy Samberg) as he preps for the biggest jump of his life — 15 buses. This is all in an attempt to raise money for his abusive stepfather Frank (Ian McShane), but only because he wants to be the one to take him down.
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A Simple Favor (2018)
Genre	Crime, Thriller, Mystery, Comedy
Stars	Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding
Directed by	Paul Feig
If you like Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, you're going to like this movie. Stephanie (Anna Kendrick) is a single mother with an unsuccessful parenting vlog. After befriending a secretive upper-class woman named Emily (Blake Lively) who has a child in the same elementary school, Stephanie gets surprisingly close to this new friend. And when Emily goes missing, she decides to take it upon herself to track her down.
Odd Thomas (2013)
pg-13	100m
Genre	Mystery, Thriller
Stars	Anton Yelchin, Addison Timlin, Willem Dafoe
Directed by	Stephen Sommers
Though I never got into the books, Odd Thomas is based on Dean Koontz's novel of the same name. The story follows a small-town cook (Anton Yelchin) who can see the spirits of the deceased. Odd's desire to live a quiet life with his girlfriend is thrown into turmoil when a stranger arrives in town accompanied by a host of sinister entities only Odd can actually see.
Genre	Action, Thriller, Crime
Stars	Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich
Directed by	Simon West
What list would be complete without one of the best Nicolas Cage movies of all time? If you haven't already seen Con Air, I don't want to ruin it for you. Basically, Nic Cage is a good guy convict on a plane full of convicts and he is absolutely ripped in this movie.
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At the session of the Kharkiv Regional Council the Deputy Chairman of Kharkiv Regional State Administration (KRSA), Evgeniy Shahnenko, stated about the transition to an alternative heating of 83 major Kharkiv facilities.
"In the last year or two the work concerning gas replacement with alternative energy sources was activated in the region. In 2015, 40 major facilities adopted the alternative heating, in 2016 we are going to transit another 83 objects," Shahnenko said.
He noted that the list of objects is coordinated, the approval from the district administrations for the projects have been already negotiated, and now the documents are passing the final expertises. "The projects covered almost all the districts and towns of the regional importance, and at the first session of 2016, we will adopt them" the deputy chairman of KRSA added.


The festival ran successfully with almost 60 children participating in the activities, and learning about achieving healthy lifestyle habits for a better future.
Representatives from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Internal Affairs also attended the festival to deliver social messages on healthy living, child protection, and inclusion. The children learnt about the dangers of excessive sugar intake and the harmful effects caused by maintaining a physically inactive lifestyle.
At the end of the hour-long activities the children were tested with some refreshing questions asked by project manager Michelle Paiti.
"I was impressed that the children were listening in on the sessions and had grasped the essence of the messages surrounding our theme for this week-that is Diabetes.
The huge turnout at the festival came as a good surprise as well for Paiti who noted the significant increase of children who attended on Tuesday.
The festival was held in coinciding with World Health Day which was last Thursday 7 April, 2016.
Just Play would like to thank its local partners and sports associations for their continued support towards its community initiatives and working together to bring the programme to communities of the Cook Islands.


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Okay, so I've just watched this documentary, sort of.
I downloaded it. Partially because I'm cheap, partially because I'm lazy, and partially other stuff like I'm not sure where you were actually supposed to go and see this thing in a theater anyway.
I've never really gotten the hang of downloading things. My husband usually does it, and he's out of town. And it's not like he never makes a mistake either. I seem to be getting a lot of things with subtitles or just in other languages. Hey, if I accidentally get something spoken in English with Spanish subtitles, that's annoying, but it is still English so I'll probably watch it anyway, cause if I download another one for some reason I often end up getting the same thing again.
So, my husband is gone, I haven't seen the documentary, and my husband isn't that interested so I might as well watch it now if I can find it. And it did not seem that hard to find.
Okay, so there's a lot of people who were in the documentary who were not American, and a lot of people who were not British either. So half the time someone is saying something not in English (I think French, German, and Spanish). And there were no English subtitles, so I just missed a lot of what people were saying.
Surely this is not the way other people saw the film.
Okay, do you think I missed a lot and should go look for another version that has English subtitles, or do you think I got most of it and it doesn't matter?
Also, if anyone just wants to talk about whether or not we really missed out not having this movie made, or whether it's just as well cause then those people just went off to make movies that we probably liked better, you can do that.


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This section contains near 350 letters from the fans who wanted to show their support toward Jet for his birthday on April 26. Enjoy them and if you have any questions or thoughts to share, please express it through our Message Boards.
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Here is Jet's personal thanks for our birthday gift.
Hi to everyone who has sent me birthday greetings, poems, and artwork for my birthday. I am overwhelmed and flattered. Thank you very much for your support, and of course thank you very much to Shadow and Stan for creating this site. I promise you all that I will use the same enthusiasm, dedication, and devotion to my future projects; to make them as entertaining and enjoyable as possible. Once again my heartfelt thanks.


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Presidents have declared emergencies 60 times since 1976 – but Trump's is unprecedented
No modern president has used a national emergency to appropriate funds when Congress wouldn't.
Author: Jordan Fischer
Published: 2/14/2019 11:21:49 PM
Updated: 3:23 PM EST February 15, 2019
WASHINGTON — Friday morning, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the nation's southern border. It was the 60th time a sitting president had used the National Emergencies Act since it was passed in 1976. However, he used the law in a way no other president has before.
The law was passed during President Jimmy Carter's administration as an attempt to rein in the powers presidents can exercise by declaring an emergency. Carter was the first to utilize the new law in November 1979, when he declared an emergency to freeze assets of the government and Central Bank of Iran amid the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Since then - not counting Friday's latest announcement - presidents have declared 58 other national emergencies, 31 of which, including Carter's sanctions on Iran, remain active to this day.
RELATED: Trump declares national emergency for border wall funding
Far and away the most common use of national emergencies has been to place sanctions on foreign individuals, groups and governments. Seventy-six percent of all national emergencies were declared to block property or prohibit trade. President Ronald Reagan used the law to impose sanctions on Nicaragua, Libya and South Africa, and his successor, President George H.W. Bush, declared national emergencies to issue sanctions on Iran and the Haitian military.
President Bill Clinton was the most prolific user of national emergencies. He declared 18 during his presidency, including emergencies to block new investments in Burma, to issue sanctions on the Taliban and, just days before he left office, to block the import of rough diamonds to the U.S. which were being used to fund the Revolutionary United Front during Sierra Leone's civil war.
State of Emergency: Which Presidents Declared Emergency the Most?
On Thursday, Congress passed a funding bill to keep the government open and avoid another shutdown. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders released a statement Thursday afternoon saying Trump intended to sign the bill, but that he also intended to take "other executive action, including a national emergency" to secure the southern border.
READ MORE: Congress OKs border deal; Trump will sign, declare emergency
When he did so Friday, Trump used the power of a national emergency declaration in a profoundly different way than his predecessors – as a means of appropriating money without the consent of Congress.
Sanctions, Sanctions, Sanctions: Presidents Use National Emergencies to Block Trade, Tie Up Funds
Trump campaigned heavily on the need for a wall spanning the southern border, and shut down the government for more than a month in a bid to extract $5.7 billion in funding for the wall from Congress. The shutdown ended with no additional appropriations for border security, and the funding bill passed by Congress Thursday contained only about $1.4 billion for border barriers.
Democrats, and some Republicans, have said they will oppose any attempts by Trump to use a national emergency to side-step Congress on wall funding. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) issued a joint statement Thursday afternoon calling any such attempt "a lawless act" and a gross abuse of the power of the presidency.
VERIFY: Yes, Congress could pass a joint resolution to repeal a national emergency declaration
Below, see each national emergency declared since 1976:
EO 12170 - Blocking Iranian Government Property (ACTIVE)
EO 12211 - Further Prohibitions on Transactions with Iran (ENDED)
EO 12444 - Continuation of Export Control Regulations (ENDED)
EO 12513 - Prohibiting Trade and Certain Other Transactions Involving Nicaragua (ENDED)
EO 12532 - Prohibiting Trade and Certain Other Transactions Involving South Africa (ENDED)
EO 12543 - Prohibiting Trade and Certain Transactions Involving Libya (ENDED)
EO 12635 - Prohibiting Certain Transactions with Respect to Panama (ENDED)
EO 12722 - Blocking Iraqi Government Property and Prohibiting Transactions with Iraq (ENDED)
EO 12775 - Prohibiting Certain Transactions with Respect to Haiti (ENDED)
EO 12808 - Blocking Yugoslav Government Property and Property of the Governments of Serbia and Montenegro (ENDED)
EO 12735 - Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation (ENDED)
Proclamation 6867 - Declaration of a National Emergency and Invocation of Emergency Authority Relating to the Regulation of the Anchorage and Movement of Vessels (ACTIVE)
EO 12865 - Prohibiting Certain Transactions Involving UNITA (ENDED)
EO 12934 - Blocking Property and Additional Measures With Respect to the Bosnian Serb-Controlled Areas of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ENDED)
EO 12947 - Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process (ACTIVE)
EO 12957 - Prohibiting Certain Transactions with Respect to the Development of Iranian Petroleum Resources (ACTIVE)
EO 12978 - Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions with Significant Narcotics Traffickers (ACTIVE)
EO 13047 - Prohibiting New Investment in Burma (ENDED)
EO 13067 - Blocking Sudanese Government Property and Prohibiting Transactions with Sudan (ACTIVE)
EO 13088 - Blocking Property of the Governments of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, he Republic of Serbia, and the Republic of Montenegro, and Prohibiting New Investment in the Republic of Serbia in Response to the Situation in Kosovo (ENDED)
EO 13129 - Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions with the Taliban (ENDED)
EO 13159 - Blocking Property of the Government of the Russian Federation Relating to the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted from Nuclear Weapons (ENDED)
EO 13194 - Prohibiting the Importation of Rough Diamonds from Sierra Leone (ENDED)
EO 12868 - Measures to Restrict the Participation by United States Persons in Weapons Proliferation Activities (ENDED)
EO 12938 - Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (ACTIVE)
EO 13303 - Protecting the Development Fund for Iraq and Certain Other Property in Which Iraq Has an Interest (ACTIVE)
EO 13222 - Continuation of Export Control Regulations (ACTIVE)
Proclamation 7463 - Declaration of National Emergency by Reason of Certain Terrorist Attacks (ACTIVE)
EO 13219 - Blocking Property of Persons Who Threaten International Stabilization Efforts in the Western Balkans (ACTIVE)
EO 13224 - Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism (ACTIVE)
EO 13288 - Blocking Property of Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Zimbabwe (ACTIVE)
EO 13338 - Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting the Export of Certain Goods to Syria (ACTIVE)
EO 13348 - Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting the Importation of Certain Goods from Liberia (ENDED)
EO 13396 - Blocking Certain Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in Côte d'Ivoire (ENDED)
EO 13405 - Blocking Property of Certain Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Belarus (ACTIVE)
EO 13413 - Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ACTIVE)
EO 13441 - Blocking Property of Persons Undermining the Sovereignty of Lebanon or Its Democratic Processes and Institutions (ACTIVE)
EO 13466 - Continuing Certain Restrictions With Respect to North Korea and North Korean Nationals (ACTIVE)
Proclamation 8443 - Declaration of a National Emergency With Respect to the 2009 H1N1 Influenza Pandemic (ENDED)
EO 13536 - Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in Somalia (ACTIVE)
EO 13566 - Blocking Property and Prohibiting Certain Transactions Related to Libya (ACTIVE)
EO 13581 - Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations (ACTIVE)
EO 13611 - Blocking Property of Persons Threatening the Peace, Security or Stability of Yemen (ACTIVE)
EO 13617 - Blocking Property of the Government of the Russian Federation Relating to the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted from Nuclear Weapons (ACTIVE)
EO 13611 - Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine (ACTIVE)
EO 13664 - Blocking Property of Certain Persons With Respect to South Sudan (ACTIVE)
EO 13667 - Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in the Central African Republic (ACTIVE)
EO 13692 - Blocking Property and Suspending the Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Venezuela (ACTIVE)
EO 13694 - Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities (ACTIVE)
EO 13712 - Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Burundi (ACTIVE)
EO 13818 - Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption (ACTIVE)
EO 13848 - Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election (ACTIVE)
EO 13851 - Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Nicaragua (ACTIVE)


When writing a resume, many jobseekers tend to simply state what their duties and responsibilities were at their previous jobs, but tend to forget one important factor: How are they a value to a potential employer?
Features: Individual traits such as schooling, languages and countries you have worked in, past employers.
Accomplishments: What have you done that sets you apart from all the other candidates?
Decreased lateness and sick calls in your department?
Increased the amount of an average check?
Use bullets when describing accomplishments, which are easy to understand, and are to the point.
Employer, Title, Seating Capacity or for Hotels, number of rooms.
Benefits – What's in it for the Company?


Connor - the youngest of Oma's "Blue Boys"
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Baba Ganoush is a vegetable dip that's very popular in the Arabic Middle East and other Mediterranean countries. It's a simple, inexpensive dish, and there are probably as many versions of it as there are kitchens in those countries. I don't mean to confuse the issue by posting yet another, but I wanted to record our family version of the dip in a spot where my girls can get to it when they need it. My version has a smoky flavor because it's grilled over an open flame, rather than being baked or broiled in an oven, as is the custom in some homes. This recipe also has some zip that comes from a fairly substantial addition of fresh lemon juice. There are several acceptable ways to garnish this dish. I tend to use what I have on hand, so, more often than not, I'll drizzle it with olive oil or sprinkle it with chopped flat-leaf parsley. When they are available I also love to use pomegranate seeds. I used to serve the dip with pita bread, but I have recently started to use still warm, freshly fried tortilla chips in their stead. It is not authentic, but it is delicious. Without further ado, here's the recipe for a dip or spread that is a wonderful accompaniment to a Middle Eastern or Mediterranean meal.
1) Prepare a charcoal fire or preheat a gas grill. Puncture eggplant in several places with a fork. Grill for 20 minutes, turning occasionally, until skin is charred and eggplant is soft.
Cool until it can be handled. Cut eggplant in half and scrape pulp into a sieve. Hold under cold and gently running water. Squeeze as much liquid as possible from pulp.
2) Combine pulp, garlic, lemon juice and salt in bowl of food processor. Process until smooth. Add tahini and process just to incorporate. Adjust seasoning if required. With processor running, add olive oil, cumin and pepper. Transfer to a small serving bowl, cover and chill for at least 30 minutes. Baba Ganoush can be refrigerated for up to 2 days. Garnish and serve. Yield: 2 cups.
Sounds wonderful Mary and perfect for a drizzle of olive oil with warm tortilla chips!
Mary, your baby is darling; I love that head of hair!
I love new dip recipes, Mary.
I love the baby, he is so cute!
Your Baba Ghanoush is just like mine, I only use one clove of garlic though and I add a tsp of plain yogurt if I have it.
I love baba ganoush and what a little cutie he is!
I've heard the name before but never tried it. Going by the ingredients it sounds very nice.
I love baba ganoush. The little baby is cute ;-) Happy Blue Monday.
Connor is really sweet, lovely click.
Baba Ganoush, sounds really delicious.
Baby looks choo chweet...baba ganoush is one of my fav dip, just love with some bread..
Lovely ganoush mary...and your kid is so adorable and very very cute..
The baby is so cute and looks so HAPPY!
Never made eggplant dip myself...looks very smooth and creamy.
Mmm, one of my favourite, favourite things to eat! The baba's pretty edible looking too!
And I love the sound of your baba ganoush! I bet that grilling the eggplants adds wonderful flavor. It is about 20 years since I have made baba ganoush and you've put the taste in my mouth!
This recipe sounds fantastic and so appetising and little Connor is so gorgeous!!!
There's a little hole-in-the-wall Egyptian place near Knoxville that serves baba ganoush and we've wanted a good recipe for it. Thanks for sharing this one, it sounds delicious.
And such adorable little one.
The baba ganoush looks delicious but is seriously upstaged by adorable Connor! What a joyful age he's at--all smiles and cuddly. Thanks for sharing him!
Mary-Your "blue boy" could not be any cuter! I love anything with eggplant and have never tried this. I just love the sound of the name :). I'll be trying this! Thanks.
Good morning Mary, I have been so busy with my grands including getting ready for them. Today, quiet is suddenly just fine with me. Smile.
Did I ever tell you the cherries were fine and I pitted them and put them in the freezer. This morning I am making cherry preserves, finally. My daughter and I made black raspberry preserves yesterday. The black raspberries grow wild on the side of the mountain which is my yard. Delicious!!!
Your dip sounds awesome. I have eaten it but making it is another world to me. It is no wonder you have so many followers Mary. You are an amazing cook.
Your little guy is adorable Mary. I miss having babies around. I am waiting for great grands. Smile.
Baba Ghanoush looks so delicious. I love it.
Excellent recipe! I so want some! You never fail to amaze me with your beautiful photos, thanks!
I love a good baba ganoush. So funny about the pomegranate addition. I was JUST talking to my friends about making a pomegranate version of hummus. We weren't sure the flavors would work together, but since you've mentioned making something similar, I'm way more confident in it!
Yum! My mouth is watering as I write this. Thanks for a great recipe!
I love Baba Ganoush, but have a hard time finding really good ones. This looks easy enough to make and I love that you do it on the grill!
Oh, Connor is precious! Look at that adorable little blue boy! Mary, he's a heart stealer for sure. The recipe is nice, but Connor steals this show!
Oh that Connor is just tooooo cute!
I love love baba ganoush!
You shoudl try to make Kashke Bademjun ( it is a Persian dip also made with eggplants). You will love it!
I named my dog Mulligatawny (Molly for short), and the next animal to get stuck living with us just might get the handle Baba Ganoush. (Maybe call him/her Bobby Joe for short.) Cheers!
I've had Baba Ganoush once at a restaurant many years ago and did not care for the bitterness. However, your recipe sounds delicious so maybe it is time to try it once again and see if my taste buds have evolved.
Such a cute little boy! And that dip sounds exotic! Must be delicious judging from the ingredients though some of it are not very familiar to me.
I love baba ganoush! I need to make it for my girls next year and get it on our salad bar...they love hummus, I know they will enjoy that too!
I adore hummus, and we make our own often, but I also love Baba Ganoush. I can't wait to give it a try!
Everything you make looks perfect!
Oh my gush, he is so adorable!!
I made flatbread on the grill last week that coulda used some of that baba ganoush. Looks great!
Oh my, Connor is such a cutie! Your Baba Ganoush sounds fantastic!
Baba, humus, tabbouleh and falafel- one of the most ordered meals in a restaurant I worked in Mary--that's exactly how we made it.
Look forward to trying the dip...love dips.
I've always wondered what that was!
awww connor is so cute!!! I love Baba Ganoush, so rich and creamy!
Oh Mary, I love baba ganoush, but never tried to make at home...thank you so much for the recipe :-) The baby is adorable!
I love baba ghanoush. I love the idea of your pomegranate seeds too! How inventive. Thanks and have a great week.
I just got back from vacationing in Turkey and Greece and had tons of this stuff. It's so delicious. And this recipe is reminding me of the wonderful time I had.
I love that you don't need to salt the eggplant. AND the amount of lemon juice - always a good sign in any recipe. I am planning a mediterranean menu for a Texas summer night soon. And I will be making this!
It is so nice when you take a dish and just add your own personal touch on it. That's what creativity in kitchen should mean. Your version looks great!
Connor is such a little cutie! I'm glad you shared this, the smokiness sounds like it adds so much to this dish.
I love your "Blue Monday" recipe too. What a good idea to substitute tortilla chips!
Bonjour Mary, that sound so delicious and I like the idea of the more smoky flavour.
That picture of the baby is so sweet and cheerful. Just lovely.
Lovely recipe- and great pictures, both of them! I know this dip here as melitzanosalata...but it is the same thing! I love your posts- so informative.
Love that dip. I'd probably eat it with a spoon, no chips/pitas required.
In answer to your question about mamey ice cream. I used mamey sapote from my father in law's yard. It grows in South Florida. I don't think mamey is widely available. Maybe you can get frozen pulp in the frozen food ethnic section.
When I was growing up, in the 50's and 60's this was a party staple in our house. Other kids had that dip made from sour cream and onion soup mix, but my exotic mother made baba ganoush, tabouli, humus etc etc - we were so lucky!
It's been a while. So good to see you again. Your Baba Ganoush looks delicious. I love hummus. I notice this features tahini like hummus and I'm wondering if the taste is similar?
I'll definitely be making this very soon. Your use of fried tortilla chips to serve with it also sounds fabulous.
P.S. What a precious little cutie pie!
hmmm, will have to try this one. Not sure about eggplant, though.
Love the dip, but REALLY love that last photo!
Baby!! Thats what my little person just yelled when he saw him. Very cute.
I spent three years living in Bahrain and I LOVE Baba Ganoush! I will give your recipe a try. Thanks!!
Do not know with what I fell in love more- the baby or the dish! Superb!
Dear Mary Im in love of Connor!! Is the most sweet boy I seen in times!! aah, mine twins are so big (have 16) I adore this baby, May adopt him?? (Im kidding!!) I know he has a Mom.
Yum!! That's my kind of recipe. And your grandson is scrumptious!!
My friend Wilson was asking me if I knew how to make baba ganoush after eating at a Turkish restaurant. Thanks for posting, I'm excited I can share your recipe with him.
OMG, thank you so much for sharing this beautiful picture of your darling Connor! He's so adorable. Isn't it fun for having him here with us. <3 muakkk.... Btw, your baba ganoush sounds great as well. Have a nice day.


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Portland Head-On Crash Caused by Drunk Driver Results in Injuries
Names: Ian L. Beyers, Alisha Fuzi
A head-on car crash between two vehicles resulted in one of the drivers being airlifted to the hospital, and the other criminally charged in the accident. An investigation by the Marion County Traffic Safety Team resulted in Ian L. Beyers, 18, being charged with driving under the influence of intoxicants (DUII), reckless driving, and assault.
The investigation resulted in a finding that Beyers, of Canby, was heading south in his 1994 Jeep Cherokee when he lost control of his vehicle as it started up an incline on the gravel road. He crossed into the northbound lane and crashed head-on into a 1996 Nissan Sentra being driven by Alisha Fuzi, 23, of Newburg. Ms. Fuzi was airlifted by helicopter to Portland's Oregon Health & Science University Hospital. Fortunately, it appeared that her injuries were lessened because she was wearing a seatbelt at the time of impact and the driver's airbag had deployed. The hospital did not release an official report of her condition.
We certainly wish Ms. Fuzi a full and speedy recovery. Beyers and his passenger were not injured.
In the wake of a tragedy like this, each person must deal with it in whatever way works best for them. We would never try to talk someone into taking legal action. It is an individual decision that can only be made by the family. When a drunk driver causes an injury car accident in Oregon, there is a possibility of suing the person or bar who served the alcohol. This must be done correctly, and quickly. There are strict time limits for filing a lawsuit in Oregon, and where alcohol is involved, the limits get even stricter. A Dram Shop Notice must be received by the server within 180 days of the incident, pursuant to ORS 471.565.
Why sue a bar for serving a person alcohol? Well, the bar must have done something. Bars are regulated strictly by the OLCC, and if they serve to minors, or serve to a person who was visibly intoxicated, they have violated regulations and they should be held responsible for that. But the rules only work if the bartenders are well-trained and supported. If anyone is at fault, it's not going to be the clerks and bartenders – it's going to be the owner. If an investigation finds that the owner of the bar did not train the bartenders properly, hired the cheapest people and then underpaid them, routinely told the bartenders to serve as much as possible to increase profits, faked bartender's OLCC licensing tests, and routinely served minors, then a lawsuit could prevent another similar accident in the future. If there were honest, well-trained, hardworking bartenders and clerks who made a single honest mistake, then a lawsuit would do no good. But, the family at least gets to rest easy knowing that they investigated, and found out the truth of the matter.
We encourage people to educate themselves on the law of drunk driving in Oregon, and we provide free information to help you settle your lawsuit without an attorney. But when a drunk driver is involved, the law becomes very tricky, and you should contact an experienced Oregon injury attorney.
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Andrarums församling var en församling i Lunds stift och i Tomelilla kommun. Församlingen uppgick 2002 i Brösarp-Tranås församling.

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Församlingen har medeltida ursprung.

Församlingen var till 1962 moderförsamling i pastoratet Andrarum och Eljaröd. Från 1962 till 1992 var församlingen annexförsamling i pastoratet Ravlunda, Brösarp, Andrarum, Eljaröd och Fågeltofta. Från 1992 till 2002 var den annexförsamling i pastoratet Brösarp, Tranås, Onslunda, Spjutstorp, Andrarum, Eljaröd och Fågeltofta. Församlingen uppgick 2002 i Brösarp-Tranås församling.

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Vid brand i Andrarums prästgård den 5 juli 1875 förstördes större delen av arkivet som innehåll församlingsinformationen t.ex. födelse, vigda och döds/begravnings information.

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4.- Look at your hand holding the mouse, without moving it away from the mouse.
You'll be shocked at what you see.
I was expecting one of those pop up screamers, but the other thing was bizarre.
Works fine to look between the legs too if your a male, Ivé been searching for something like this,:) I think I´ll let my dates look at that screen for a while before showing something else.
Wow, nearly as weird as the experience I had on Ketamine at the hospital on the night of my car accident.


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Trump upholds promise to Kim, suspends military exercises with South Korea
The US and South Korea announced that they will suspend the Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise that was scheduled for August. No decision was taken on other joint-exercises yet, as both nations are waiting for Kim to deliver on his promise of complete denuclearization.
By : IBT News Desk
In an official announcement, the United States and South Korea have decided to suspend the Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) exercise slated for August, as part of Trump's promise to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
During the Singapore summit between the two leaders on June 12, the US President spoke about his plan to stop "provocative, inappropriate and expensive" war games at Kim's request. Pyongyang has long seen these war games as an invasion rehearsal, it was a bone of contention for North Korea.
"Following close cooperation, South Korea and the US decided to suspend all planning activities for the UFG, the defensive exercise slated for August," Seoul's Defence Ministry said. "The South and the US plan to continue consultations over additional measures."
The ministry also said that there is no decision yet regarding other allied training exercises. The US Department of Defence also made the same announcement.
"Consistent with President Trump's commitment and in concert with our Republic of Korea ally, the United States military has suspended all planning for this August's defensive 'wargame' (Freedom Guardian)," Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement late Monday.
Donald Trump shows the document that he and Kim Jong-un signed at the Singapore summit acknowledging the progress of the talks and pledge to keep the momentum going.Reuters
"Those conversations are ongoing at this point. As long as North Korea continues to act in good faith, then we expect those things to be on pause[sic]," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters on Saturday.
The UFG is a command post exercise based on computer-simulated war games centered around the scenario of an all-out war with the pariah state.
In 1954, the US-led UN Command started the Focus Lens exercise. It was later combined with South Korea's Ulchi exercise, which was launched in the wake of a North Korean infiltration in 1968. The combined exercise, which was called the Ulchi Focus Lens (UFL), was renamed the UFG in 2008. In 1990, the allies temporarily halted the UFL due to the US' participation in the Gulf War.
Amid dialogue with the North in 1992, Seoul and Washington also cancelled their Team Spirit exercise, which resumed the following year.
[With inputs from IANS]


The Remote Dimmer for SpectroLED (120V/12V) from Genaray is a handy accessory that allows you to control the intensity of light from the SpectroLED 9 and 14 from 10-100%. It's great for controlling hanging fixtures or SpectroLEDs placed in tight spaces where you might not have access to the control panel. It's also ideal in a small studio for controlling several fixtures from camera position or other central location. The Remote Dimmer is compatible with both AC and DC power sources. Its 12.8' cable has a proprietary connector for the SpectroLED series.
Box Dimensions (LxWxH) 5.9 x 5.2 x 2.1"
Remote Dimmer for SpectroLED (120V/12V) is rated 4.5 out of 5 by 4.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Motolyric from Has it's Purpose Although there is a dimmer on the actual unit of t he SpectroLED this allows help when your LED light is raised higher than you or in a location remotely away from a distance to where you are not close enough. Prevents more actions than needed, so it's a must if you want to be efficient. 4 Stars because if it was wireless it would have been better but I can live with the wire for now.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Matt E. from Remote dimmer, dims remotely. Super easy to use and can be useful in certain situations. It came in the Genaray bundle I purchased. I don't know if I would have gone out and bought the dimmers if they hadn't be included but if you know you'll need them they work great with the SpectroLEDS.
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Can a single remote control multiple Genaray lights? I'd like to have a pair of them in sync.
Unfortunately, no, it cannot. The Genaray Remote Dimmer for SpectroLED is a wired remote and must connect to the remote input terminal on the rear of the Genaray SpectroLED-9 Light and Genaray SpectroLED-14 Light fixtures. As it is a wired remote, it can only be plugged into one light fixture at a time.


One assumption many people make is that if they learn CPR, they will be able to perform it when the opportunity presents itself.
According to Bob Trenkamp, President of slicc.org: "the amount of force required to compress a human chest to a two-inch depth depends upon the stiffness of the victim's chest."
A rescuer's ability to compress that chest depends upon the rescuer's weight and weight distribution, and the method of compression used (hand or heel). Those who were taught to crunch their abdominal muscles during the down-stroke can generate some additional force, but I've never seen anybody be able to do that for more than two minutes."
The average adult chest stiffness requires 130 pounds to get a two-inch compression. The average rescuer has to weigh somewhere about 25% more than the victim's chest stiffness, if performing compression manually - a bit less if performing compression with the heel of the foot - to get a two-inch depth.
About 70% of all cardiac arrests occur in a private residence. Two-thirds of arrest victims are male. A study by Trenkamp and Perez presented at the AHA Q-COR conference in Alexandria, VA in the spring of 2017 suggested that the percentage of all homes with two adults where each adult could perform a single two-inch compression on the other was zero percent. The cohort was assembled from zip code 31411. Households responding with data for only one person were excluded. The age distribution was significantly biased toward people in their 70's, probably due to (a) where the sample was recruited, and (b) people who took the time to fill out the response and return it.
By this point in the discussion, someone has usually said "But ANY CPR is better than no CPR!" Let me offer two other considerations: (1) with sufficiently shallower than guideline compression depth, there is an enhanced chance that the after the heart is re-started, the victim will not be able to handle the activities of daily living without assistance. (2) Dr. Vadebancoeur et al in Resuscitation 84 (2014) 182-188 reported on chest compression depth and survival in 593 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. The survivors received 2.11 inch depth compression, on the average. The non-survivors received 1.92 inch depth compressions.


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Chapman Johnson Letter
Identifier: UA 5.038
The letter dated May 18, 1800, from Chapman Johnson to College of William and Mary alumnus David Watson provides a detailed account of an "unfortunate disturbance," a student revolt at the College the previous winter. Chapman reported on a student's rude treatment of the postmaster, its witnessing by Professor Bracken, the expulsion of the student, the resulting student meetings and protests, faculty-student negotiations, consultation with Bishop Madison and St. George Tucker, student threats against the latter, etc.
The letter is four pages on two sheets. The final page or pages were lost sometime between 1921, when the complete letter was published in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, and 2007 when the letter was acquired. A typed transcription is also available.
Johnson, Chapman, 1779-1849 (Person)
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Chapman Johnson enrolled at the College of William and Mary in 1799 at the age of twenty-one. Chapman was a lawyer, state senator (1815-1831), University of Virginia governor (1819-1845) and rector (1836-1845). Additional biographical information about Johnson is available in the Dictionary of American Biography and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography v. 29 no. 2 and v. 35 no. 2 & 3. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: https://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Chapman_Johnson_(1777-1849).
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College of William and Mary--History--18th century
College of William and Mary--Students
Guide to the Chapman Johnson Letter
Finding Aid Authors: Special Collections Staff.
Chapman Johnson Letter, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Chapman Johnson Letter, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary. https://scrcguides.libraries.wm.edu/repositories/2/resources/7630 Accessed January 28, 2023.


Using Flash in your website is not as popular as it once was.
One big reason is the lack of support by Apple devices like the iPad and iPhone.
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Big Picture on Biblical Morality
Atheists are always getting us to lose slight of the big picture. They put so many little knit picking arguments like "in Passage X God commands them to kill so and so,and so and so didn't do anything that wrong."
They will present a massive profusion of such passages, most of which (thinking of the OT now) are based upon the fact that people over 2000 years ago looked at things very differently and had different standards of what constituted morality, truth, compassion and brutality. So naturally a great deal ancient world morality will seem very brutal to us.
But the atheists always distract us form the big picture. Every time I try to demonstrate one or two major principles that over sweep the whole field and tie up all the problems into one neat little point that can easily resolved, they just go "Yea? well about here, where x got stoned for blowing his nose?" "what about about where God tells them to wipe out the Pedestriakites and kill even the bacter…
Is Religion LItterally a Metaphor?
I saw Salman Rushdie on PBS, having a discussion with Bill Moyers. Rushdie is an atheist, he referred to himself as "total atheist." But, he is one of hte most enlightened people I've ever heard speak about religion. Yet .Rushdie is nothing like the atheists I encounter on the Internet. He actual reads real theologians. He's not negative toward religion, he says nothing to imply religious people are stupid or religion is bad.In fact he seems to think religion is basically a good thing. He says, paraphrasing, if you want to believe that there is some organizing principle to unites and hold together the physics of the university with morality, and call that God, why should I object? Not only does he seem so insightful because is positive toward religion but because his criticisms of are fair minded and not insulting.
One such criticism he made in the interview with Moyers (8/23/06) is that religious people tend to think that one cannot be moral without an overarc…
Answering Four of Ten Questions for Christians
By BK - September 22, 2008
While strolling through the scenic byways of the Internet, I came across an article by Austin Cline at atheism.about.com entitled Ten Questions to Ask Christians. I was intrigued. After all, I am a Christian. Mr. Cline opens with a statement:
Sometimes it seems like every Christian with an internet connection thinks that they are have the skills and knowledge to become evangelists to religious skeptics.
To a small extent, I agree with him. Certainly, there are some Christians who are doing apologetics on the Internet who haven't taken the time to aquire the knowledge needed to be good apologists to Internet skeptics. But then, many of these Internet skeptics who are out there evangelizing for their atheistic belief system have also failed to do their homework beyond acquring a few simplistic objections that they wrongly think end the discussion. Be that as it may, Mr. Cline continues:
I know this isn't literally true, but my email suggests that it almost could be. It might help t…
Problem With Materialists Understanding of Physical Laws
On the one hand you tell me that laws of physics are just descriptive and they don't determine anything. On the other hand you say that there is natural world that extends beyond our space/time, presumably to anything physical? So you see the dichotomy of nature/spirit as physical, tangible, visible vs "in" and "un" and "non" versions of these, intangible, invisible, non physical.
But how can it be that "nature" extends all over existence beyond the realm of all we know to all other realms anywhere and yet there are no prescriptive physical laws? It seems to me that to be able say that you would have to have a set of laws that delimit what can happen. Otherwise how can you possibly know there is not a universe in which all existence is immaterial?
Here are some quotes about Big bang cosmology. They are from major physicists and some obscure physicists and the major upshot of them is we have no physics to explain the big bang.
No Physics to expl…
Miracles and Epistemology
a poster to the comment section (Anon) says:
(quoting me)"After, I say AFTER the medical guys do their thing and determine that they can't explain it naturalistically."
You're confusing "I can't find it" with "it doesn't exist".
A typical churchie mistake.
He/she is saying that I am confusing the inability to find a naturalistic explanation with the idea that there is none. But the problem with that argument is that to make it one must assert an ideological assumption that there must be one. Thus if a naturalistic assumption is not found, it only means we must keep looking, even if we must keep looking ad infinitum.
The problem is event the materialists have given up on the concept of a naturalistic cause for every effect. The Metaphysicians of modern cosmology, I mean people like Hawking who are the avaunt guard of materialistic thought, have abandoned the idea that the universe needs a cause. They use QM particles apparent lack of a cause (…
Is Dr. Richard Carrier Wrong about the End of the World? (Part 1)
By Layman - September 14, 2008
The Universe and Our Bodies
No, this is not a Discovery Channel special. In my series of "Is Richard Carrier Wrong ...." posts I have focused on his arguments in support of the theory that Paul believed in a two-body "resurrection" of Jesus -- and by implication, Christians. Although this post is somewhat tangential, it fits the series. The subject is the end of the world, or rather how Paul envisioned the end times. This is relevant to his views on the resurrection because in Romans 8 Paul compares what happens to the universe to what happens to our bodies. In verses 19-21, Paul discusses the universes' desire to be free of corruption and its liberation from bondage:
The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the c…
ABC News Fumbles the Religion Football
Governor Sarah Palin is, by news accounts, an evangelical Christian. To many in the media, this makes here somewhat akin to a martian in cultural understanding. Many in the media look at her religious views with suspicion and misunderstanding. It as if they cannot rise above their cultural prejudices to look fairly at what -- in their view -- is an exotic oddity of a throwback belief system.
Exhibit A the first interview of Gov. Palin since she became the VP Nominee for the Republican Party. The interview was taken by Charlie Gibson of ABC News. Various left wing blogs have been posting pieces claiming that Gov. Palin believes we are in a Holy War against Islam and that she said in church that sending troops to Iraq is part of God's plan. This is not a matter of small consequence to the Governor personally, as her son deployed to Iraq last week. I think this is obvious fair game for an interview and Gibson asked her about it:
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, &…
Supernatruer and the Rise of Science in the Middle Ages
The medieval Christian doctrine of the supernatural has long been misconstrued as a dualistic denigration of nature, opposed to scientific thinking. The concept of supernature, however, is not a dualism in the sense of dinigrading nature or of pitting against each other the "alien" relams of spirit and matter. The Christian ontology of the supernatural bound together the realm of nature and the realm of Grace, immanent and transcendent, in a unity of creative wisdom and purpose, which gave theological significance to the natural world. While the doctrine of supernature was at times understood in a dualistic fashion, ultimately, the unity it offered played a positive role in the development of scientific thinking, because it made nature meaningful to the medieval mind. Its dissolution came, not because supernatural thinking opposed scientific thinking, but because culture came to value nature in a different manner, and the old valuation no longer served the purpose of scienti…
Super Nature and Rise of Science part 2
Augustine's scale of values, plus Pseudo-Dionysius' hierarchies of being combined with the great chain of being to form the basis of the Medieval synthesis. The natural world was valued in its relation to supernature, and contemplated as a symbol of the transcendent (fire symbolized the soul's longing to rise to God, for example). The world was the fallen world of sin, a proposition which leads some historians to see dualism at work. Nevertheless, it was not a metaphysical dualism. The world was not sinful because it was alien to the spirit, but fallen from grace through human will. Moreover, it still stood in relation to and derived valuation from its ontological relation to the divine. An elaborate sacramental system grew out of the need and desire to "have a society which is guided by the present reality of transcendent divine character." Boethius (d. 524), Cassiodorus (d. 580), and Bede (672-735) laid down the principle of nature as a consistent system obeyin…
Supernature and the Rise of Science in the MIddle Ages part 3
While rising from Purgitory, toward the heaven of the moon, Dante wonders how they can enter the pearl-like substance. It is a mystery, "like the union of divine and human nature in Christ." Dante than asks how it is that the moon, a perfect heavenly body, has spots. Beatrice answers that the distribution of the intelligence which governs each body varies in different places. She then gives him an experiment to perform which confirms this revelation. The important point is that here knowledge is coming from both faith and reason (revelation and experiment). Since this is an occasion in which sense data will suffice, experiment will confirm what faith has already taught. Beatrice praises experiment as the fountainhead of the arts, "From this objection may experiment deliver thee, if thou its virtue try, (Source where from stream the arts that you invent)." (Paradiso, Canto II. 4-6. Thus, Dante forms the perfect bridge between medieval and early modern, he forms perh…
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Jáder Romaña (Apartadó, Antioquia, Colombia; 22 de junio de 1992) es un exfutbolista colombiano.

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 Segundo futbolista con más partidos disputados en el Bogotá Fútbol Club solo por detrás de Omer Escalante.

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Nacidos en Apartadó
Futbolistas de Colombia
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Futbolistas del América de Cali