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Comma Rule #4 , we will be completing our charts on the exposition and motivation of characters and finishing to the end of act one.
Grammar Gambit and vocabulary. Reading the first Act of the Crucible, continuing from yesterday (starting at page 17 and reading to page 46). Looking at how a playwright establishes character and conflict. Finish charts on character background information to discuss motivation. For example:
Reverend Parris: He has been having trouble with the villagers. He believes that he has "enemies" that are seeking to destroy him. This paranoia pervades the opening section of the play as he believes that are people trying to "drive [him] from his pulpit". He is in his mid forties and said to have cut a "villainous path". He is a widower and has no interest in children. He has only been in the town for three years. He brought a black slave back with him from Barbados. Do the same for Thomas Putnam, Ann Putnam, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Reverend Hale, and Giles Corey Grammar Gambit - Commas. New Vocabulary words are on bigiqkids. Without exception we will finish our research presentations today and start reading Act I of The Crucible by Arthur Miller. The opening sets the stage for the action to follow but contains a lengthy discussion of the setting by the playwright. We will dissect this piece and set the stage for what is to come.
Grammar finale - last day of run-on sentences and your vocabulary words. Presentation day today. Each group will present their research to the class
Great Grammar Gambit - Run-on and Fragment sentences combined. Work on Vocabulary (last day as tomorrow is the Finale). We are completing our contextual research for The Crucible. You will be presenting in class tomorrow. Don't forget that you need to properly site all your information!! And you need to make it interesting.
Day two of the grammar gambit on run-on sentences. Take up questions on Walter Mitty and discuss. Look at rules for writing dialogue. Assignment: write a dialogue between two people who are civil to one another but hate each other's guts. This isn't easy! My message to you today about writing is:
http://www.upworthy.com/what-do-you-do-when-you-know-youre-not-good-enough-hell-tell-ya-2?c=ufb1 When we are done, we will be moving into contextual research for Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" (see assignments). We will switch up the groups as follows: Biography - Mackenzie, Danika and Paige; Witch Trials - Lane, Devlyn and Tiara, Puritans - Dawn and Cheyenne, Wiccans - Ashtyn and Bonnie, Joseph McCarthy - Brittany and Michelle, Modern witch hunts - Sydney and Megan Research projects are due on Monday. Grammar Gambit - comma splices/run on sentences - Go over annotation - things good critical readers look for: repetition (motifs), the title, diction (mood/tone, establish character, imagery), Changes (in point of view, character, tone), symbols and other literary devices. Finish the Walter Mitty questions.
We'll start class with our finale for the grammar gambit and a little work with our vocabulary. The we'll discuss the poem "Invictus" that you worked with yesterday and how you went about analyzing the poem. We'll view the view clips below from "Shawshank Redemption" and discuss how all of this relates to Arming the Spirit. We'll discuss the idea that "hope is a dangerous thing" and read the story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and complete the questions. We will discuss how dialogue helps to create character and then do some dialogue writing of our own. So...no buses running today. Check out the new vocabulary words (added to the old ones) on www.bigiqkids.com (remember that our login is [email protected] and our password is caroline). Read the poem "Invictus" located under readings. Go stanza by stanza and determine the meaning of the poem. In particular, what is " the horror of the shade"? What is the "menace of the years"? See if you can't identify literary devices used. You can find these under the literary terms in your introduction material. View the poem as it is recited by Morgan Freeman in the film "Invictus" (a biography of Nelson Mendella). It is located here |
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Monday, June 19, 2006
God Bless you, Matt ∞ Pelican Split
Matt is the greatest...I already knew that but I'm going to tell everyone:
I forgot Pelican was playing last night in Boston, we'd been trying to get tickets to see them together but all the nights in NY or boston were on off days...I knew it wouldn't end up working out, and really I forgot all about it.
But then he mailed me this morning...
"Spent last night hanging out with Pelican and Mono. The Pelican guys were really nice, they live in Chicago near where I used to live. The drummer from Mono was so excited when I asked for his signature that he got the whole band and brought them over. They were so nice. So I got some stuff, a split 7" Pelican / Playing Enemy signed by all 4 guys in Pelican. It's got a screen printed cover, and the track is a demo version of the song Sirius. They kinda signed it in the printed pattern so it's hard to make out, but very cool. "
I can't wait to see this, here's a place selling it online. The show was amazing, and now I am extra pissed I didn't just suck it up and take the chinatown bus back and forth yesterday.
This is now officially the most amazing 7 inch I have...
Matt, I really screwed up... Imagine I'm playing Pelican on a radio outside your house in my trenchcoat, holding it high high above my head.
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Early this morning, Jengish , Talant and I headed to the car Bazaar in Bishkek were we met up with Bucket, one of our drivers. Bazaar was a good description.. thousands of cars in the field , all for sale by owner.
We did lots and lots of haggling , but the car we liked the most, the owner was no where to be found. We got his number off the window, and kept trying to call him. The price of cars here has become outrageous Even the simple Lada I was thinking of was around $3500 . sure there were some that were in the 2000 range, but they were in terrible shape, not sure they would make it back to Tokmok.
Then I was about to give in and look at the only car we could afford.. the Mercedes wagon.. about $2500 could get me a 25 year old one in not bad shape... we called and the owner said he would be there in 10 minutes.. that was definitely a Kyrgyz 10 minutes, because an hour later we were still waiting around , occupying ourselves by looking at other cars .
Finally we decide to give up on him.. we decided we would walk back to Jengishes car , and along the way I would simply offer low ball take it or leave it prices for the cars we liked .. by the second car we were putting an offer on, we could see the owner of the first car we liked return.
The car was the pride of the Russian federation. The VOLGA got it's name after the Volga river because it was long , wide and smooth like the ride . we asked to take it for a test drive.. like any other car at the bazaar , they are so packed in that to test drive , you rev up the engine, bolt forward, and simultaneously, hit the breaks because you only have about 10 feet to complete this maneuver. If you can imagine, walking through a mine field of cars being "test driven". Well it passed the initial test drive, so we told them that we would only buy it if we could get it out on the highway and see how it did, as well we needed to meet up with Bucket and Talant to give it the once over.
Have you ever played the little plastic numbers slid puzzle.. you know the one that you push the pieces back and forth over and over until suddenly they are in the right order.. thats the way it was moving across a field of cars the size of about 6 foot ball fields. Boy we sure got to see the car manover.
Through all this we did notice that it needs the clutch adjusted, and the starter does not always grab the first time . so as they were working their way out the maze , Jengish was on the phone with a micanic friend booking to have the starter replaced and the clutch fixed.. estimate for both is in the $100 range.
Finaly we made it out of the bazaar and drove about 15 minutes to meet up with the guys. They gave it a very carefull once over, then the real haggling began.. 10 minutes later, they turned to shake my hand.
We are the proud owners of a 1999 Volga ... Moscows answer to the Sherman tank. A solid car, lots of space, you can sit 4 wide in the back with tones of leg room and the trunk is huge . I am told it will easily carry 6 people AND haul 500lbs of potatoes at the same time , and better yet, it was in budget. including the repairs that are scheduled.
I did take a bit of time to trade stories with the young owner. He finished dental school in the spring , and the car was given to him by his dad to sell to buy the dental equipment he needs to start his practice. We have agreed to meet in the next week or two to see about working something out that would see him travel around to our places to provide some basic dental care.
By 11:00 the adventure was over, and we were on the road back home.
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ALWAGHT- Iran's foreign minister emphasized the potential of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) to enhance relations among its member states.
Kazakhstan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alibek Bakayev, who is in Iran to attend an ECO meeting, met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Tehran on Sunday.
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There is a solution to keep away from these journey hassles and, doubtlessly, checked baggage charges charged by some airways. How? By touring with solely a carry-on bag.
Kabir Jaspal, who owns three Journey Fashion Baggage places, together with one at Mall of America, began seeing an uptick within the carry-on-only life-style when the pandemic started and prospects frightened about their belongings being touched.
A tougher journey setting — with delayed connections and understaffed airports — has solely fueled that desire. “It’s totally laborious to promote the larger luggage these days,” he stated.
After listening to reviews of final summer time’s journey nightmares, Kim Ehrick, supervisor of AAA Journey Retailer in St. Louis Park, took solely a carry-on bag for a current two-week journey to Italy.
“What we actually loved a lot about that was the benefit of it,” she stated. “It is simply so good to have your carry-on with you, particularly when you’ve got connections, and the benefit of not having numerous issues to tug behind you is very nice.”
We requested three specialists to share their secrets and techniques for touring with solely a carry-on bag.
CHECK CARRY-ON SIZE REQUIREMENTS
With regards to carry-on bag measurement, airways in america are sometimes extra beneficiant than in different components of the world.
Examine your service’s measurement and weight necessities and whether or not there are any location-specific guidelines.
Delta Air Strains, the dominant service at Minneapolis-St. Paul Worldwide Airport, enforces no most weight restrictions for carry-on luggage apart from flights to Beijing, Singapore and Shanghai, with every having completely different limits.
The Atlanta-based service permits a carry-on bag and a smaller private merchandise, which should match underneath the seat in entrance of you. Carry-on measurements should not exceed 22″ x 14″ x 9″ (56 cm x 35 cm x 23 cm).
Journey skilled Anne McAlpin of Packitup.com recommends a four-wheel suitcase and limiting the bag’s weight to 18 kilos so you’ll be able to load it into an overhead bin or carry it up stairs, if wanted.
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You are going to have a restricted wardrobe, so make a listing of what you are contemplating bringing, then edit out any extras.
Plan to re-wear garments. Think about a capsule wardrobe, a restricted variety of mix-and-match items that each one complement one another. REI recommends the 1-2-3-4-5-6 Rule: one hat; two pairs of footwear; three bottoms; 4 tops; 5 pairs of socks; and 6 pairs of underwear plus a bra. Then, customise with a swimsuit and different objects. Journey skilled Rick Steves provides a extra detailed guidelines with add-ons relying in your vacation spot.
“My rule is 3 to 1, three tops to each backside,” stated McAlpin, who additionally packs two pairs of footwear. “The utmost quantity is 9 tops and three bottoms.”
McAlpin attire round one primary coloration, like black. “I used to put on black and tan, the tan through the day and extra black at night time,” she stated.
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Rolling versus folding was lengthy the recent packing debate.
Now, packing cubes have gotten common purchases to maximise small suitcases. “When you begin utilizing the packing cubes, you are not going again,” Jaspal stated. “Two or three packing cubes can care for your entire journey.”
McAlpin swears by double-zipper compression cubes.
“You pack it large and then you definately zip, and also you zip it once more,” she stated. “It squishes it down.”
. McAlpin takes two medium-sized compression cubes and one bigger one for cumbersome clothes like denims in addition to an extended model for socks and underwear that matches by the wheels of the keep it up.
She rolls up garments that do not wrinkle and packs them in cubes. To maintain cotton objects wrinkle-free, McAlpin locations them on high of the cubes – a way she calls “inter-packing.”
For the airport, she takes a tote bag to carry her purse, snacks and some other objects to be saved underneath the seat throughout flight. She attaches this tote bag to her carry-on bag’s deal with.
One of many medium cubes in her suitcase is designated for a “care package” she will be able to put in her private tote bag in case her carry-on have to be checked on the final minute. For instance, if she’s happening a seaside journey, she’ll embody a swimsuit and anything she’ll want instantly upon arrival.
Ehrick did laundry midway by her current two weeks in Italy. Equally, McAlpin traveled for 21 days world wide with just one carry-on bag. “My secrets and techniques there have been to pack for per week and do laundry. That is the primary tip,” she stated. “Wash laundry within the sink or ship it out.”
McAlpin routinely fills a two-gallon Ziploc bag with cleaning soap — or shampoo in a pinch — and water, provides soiled socks and underwear, lets them soak, then rinses the clothes in a sink. She wrings out extra water from the objects in a towel, then hangs them to dry.
In any other case, go to a laundromat. Or, many inns provide laundry service. “Simply funds it in,” McAlpin stated.
Put on your heaviest objects to the airport slightly than cramming them in yourbag.
For leisure journey, go away your laptop computer at dwelling. “Truthfully, I can do every part on an iPhone,” McAlpin stated.
Convey a coat with a zip-out liner, particularly throughout spring and fall. Decorate however go away expensive earrings and necklaces at dwelling. Learn how dressy any particular events will probably be earlier than departing.
Do not overthink what you put on for Europe, the place many are adopting the athleisure development, stated McAlpin, who brings her Naturalizer sneakers.
For girls, a shawl will be helpful to zhuzh up outfits and in case you go to spiritual websites and are requested to cowl your head. If touring in a rustic the place modesty prevails, loose-fitting attire, with longer sleeves and hems under the knee, will be simply rolled to suit right into a suitcase.
Generally, pants are really helpful, even in tropical climate, as one other barrier from bugs. When unsure, do your analysis. International vacationers typically publish tips about YouTube.
No room for presents? Purchase on the airport. “Everybody loves chocolate,” she stated.
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The Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey 2007 has been released. Although the survey is limited to markets in the United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand it still contains a lot of interesting data and commentary.
The survey focues on the affordability of housing in each market, as measured by the ratio of average house prices to median household income in each market. The overall ratios per country are:
1.Australia 6.6 (meaning the average house price is 6.6 times the average income)
2. New zealand 6.0
3. Ireland 5.7
4. United Kingdom 5.5
5. United States 3.7
6. Canada 3.2
The survey states that a ratio of 3.1 or higher is "unaffordable" to some degree or other while a ratio of 3.0 or less is "affordable". Ratios of 4.0 or more were rare before the 1990s.
There are of course huge differences between different locations in each market with Los Angeles Orange County (11.4) being the least affordable market and Fort Wayne, IN being the most affordable (2.0).
The causes of the huge decline in affordability in many markets are largely attributable to increases in the price of land (90%) which has risen at roughly doubly the rate of general price inflation. The reasons for the increase in the price of land are largely supply side factors such as land use resrictions, planning regulations, time and other costs of approval processes and costs of related infrastructure.
The implications are obvious: lower rates of home ownership (especially for younger persons and lower income groups), lower quality housing, denser housing (smaller section sizes and more high rise developments) and a greater portion of household income going into housing (with less left for other forms of investment and consumption).
The survey made interesting reading.
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Mere weeks after Conservative Party MP Stephen Woodworth called for a renewed public debate on abortion, another bombshell has landed that has made the subject impossible to ignore.
Writing in an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Dr Rajendra Kale has warned that abortion for the purpose of sex selection is happening in Canada. He suggests it may be prevalent among Asian immigrants to Canada. It's a common practice in India and China, where parents prefer having boys over having girls.
Of course, the question that Kale is asking are forbidden on more than one count. Not only is he asking questions about abortion -- forbidden by those most invested in Canada's lawless abortion status quo -- he's also asking hard questions about multiculturalism.
That's what the far-left considers a double no-no.
What's bound to infuriate the far-left most is that the kind of Charter arguments they favour -- using the equality provisions of the Charter to attempt to empower their agenda on a Constitutional basis -- against the abortion-related status quo.
“It really works against everything we believe in Canada in terms of equality. It works against our Charter [of Rights and Freedoms],” explains University of Toronto bioethicist Kerry Bowman. “At very least, it would be fair to ask why a couple wants to know the gender of their child ... because that in itself is not directly linked to the health or well-being of the child, except in rare cases of sex-linked diseases or disorders.”
To make matters even more concerning, UBC economist Kevin Milligan has identified, via analyzing census data, an unnaturally high prevalence of male births in areas with large South and East Asian immigrant populations. And those pattenns of male births? Yeah, they're consistent with those in areas in Asia where sex-selection abortion is practiced.
Of course this isn't supposed to be happening in Canada. We aren't supposed to discriminate against women or girls in Canada, regardless of whether that discrimination is taking place before or after birth.
Of course, there are those who are going to insist that it's those who are now raising questions about sex-selection abortion who are being discriminatory. I fully expect to be called racist over this -- it's the typical impotent response offered by those who have nothing else to say.
But they'll have a far more difficult time making that argument about Dr Rajendra Kale. He was born in Mumbai.
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Friday, March 03, 2006
The Subway to Grandmas
Out the subway window
As a kid I remember wanting to look out the windows of the subway to see stuff whiz by. Maybe as a kid everything seems interesting, then as a weary adult things aren't that interesting. You seen it all or at least seem to have seen it all. What's the point of looking out the window? Have you ever noticed people walking around the city don't look up much unless they're new to the city?
As the Toronto subway is mostly underground there's not really a lot to see. Lights, tunnel and more tunnel. In the odd trek across town there might be the occasion where my youthful TTC subway adventures would take the subway (and me) outside. Years later, on the way to visit my grandmother, I notice I'm more busy just trying to stay awake I so don't miss my stop. The stuff going on outside the train usually goes by unnoticed. Today I made a point to look out. Yep not much has changed.
Interesting advertising (see anything geeky?)
In my boredom I did notice an Ad on the side of the subway car (see above). It's cheesy and normally I would have put it out of my mind but then I saw something and I thought "Are there any others that have noticed this?", followed by "Geez, I really AM a geek.".
If you draw your attention to the top left hand corner you'll see a post-it with a file number referring to the image of the women in her living room. You may have to double click on the image to enlarge it. Notice the serial number on the post-it is the same as the call sign for the Enterprise (of Star Trek The Next Generation). Oh yeah... I've got a lot of time on my hands.
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
The End of Days
In late August, Joyce and I returned from a vacation
at Disneyland and Oceanside with our kids and grandson. We had a great time
while I did research for my third Rick Cantelli, P.I. novel, titled Into the
Darkness. We visited The Nite Owl bar with our kids, where Cantelli hangs out
in my novels. It was a wonderful trip, but we loved being home again.
A couple days later, Joyce saw blood in her urine
with stabbing pains. An emergency room visit later with tests revealed Renal
Cell Carcinoma in her left kidney. It shot through her before it could be
halted or adequately treated, finally reaching her brain in this past week,
stealing away what little mobility she had. She and I had just spent eight days
and nights in the hospital with the inevitable torturous journey into our own
darkness; but with silly humor, prayer, and holding her in my arms. We shared
every moment together in these months past. I had closed my auto shop. Thank
God my writing allowed me to do so. She needed me with her, and I needed her
more than life itself. I brought her home. Joyce died in my arms on Monday
night with her Mom, sisters, and our kids with me.
I wrote this for her on our 37th wedding
anniversary this past January. She said it was her favorite one I had done for
don’t talk about love, because we own love.
don’t turn from trouble, because we own trouble
don’t need life examples - we are life examples.
don’t measure our success – we simply succeed.
don’t seek others’ blessings – we count our own.
don’t demand respect from others – we earn it.
don’t cry when denied respect – we settle for fear.
one of us needs help, we know who’ll be at our side.
we’re in danger, we know who’ll bring the shotgun.
danger ends, we know who’ll be at our side burying it.
don’t waste precious moments trying to turn back time.
spend what time we have left making precious moments.
kids don’t look for backup, because we are backup.
friends wonder how we’re still together – we don’t.
love you with all my heart. Happy Anniversary!
partner, Joyce Lynn Whitney DeLeo passed on to the Lord on October 13th,
2014. Through the decades we spent together - from the time she stopped me at
the Grants store in Warren, Ohio when she was sixteen in 1968, and said, ‘Hi, I’m
Joyce Whitney. I live up the street from you’, she had me from that moment on.
When trouble and hard times visited us over our many years together, I could
count on one thing: when everyone else ran in fear – at my side would be Joyce,
fists up, and game face on, feet dug in next to me. I needed nothing else. She
is here with me still. My brothers and sisters rightly labeled her Saint Joyce,
because she put up with me through the years. Amen to that.
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I was invited to spend a weekend with my mom and her cousins. They've been celebrating this tradition for about 13 years, so I was excited to join in on the fun! My second cousin's family has a lake house that we got to go crash for the weekend. We went on walks, slept in, ate, watched movies, and I worked on my Mixbook.
It was relaxing and went by way too fast. I thought I was going to have a hard time being away from my family, but I didn't realize how much I needed a break. My kids are great, amazing even, but when I got back after being away 2 nights I was SO excited to see them. I needed to be excited crazy about them. I feel like because I stay home with them that I take their young precious lives for granted. This week has been such a blessing. We are all feeling good, eating healthy, and able to enjoy each other.
I walked down to the lake to sit by myself for a little bit. A time I used to thank God for this break and the beautiful weather to enjoy while I was there.
It was refreshing to get to prepare a plate for myself that was ALL mine. No little hands grabbing ate my cheese 😉
A few of the women had their eyeliner permanently done. It looked amazing. I've been really down lately because I can't wear make up. Well I can but when I do I want to claw my face off. So this seemed to be a really neat option. The top example has her eyebrows down. They look great. Fortunately, my eyebrows are like black so I don't need those done. I'm seriously considering the eyeliner though.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Yelp is a fun and easy way to find, review and talk about what's great (and not so great) in your local community, or interesting places you have visited. You already know that asking friends is the best way to find restaurants, dentists, hairstylists, and anything local. Yelp makes it fast and easy by collecting and organizing everyday people's recommendations in one place!
Yelp is differentiated from other similar sites by their Yelp Elite members. The more reviews a member makes, the larger their chance to become an Elite reviewer. And reviewers also benefit from feedback and reviews of other members.
Yelp doesn't pay for reviews. Instead, the site motivates members through the praise and attention that their reviews receive from others. “Yelp is about the reviewing experience,” co-founder Mr. Stoppelman explains. “It is like a blog with a little bit of structure.” The site deliberately focuses on the reviewer's experience. “We put the community first, the consumer second and businesses third,” Mr. Stoppelman commented. (quoted from New York Times 5/12/08 article). Yelp boasts millions of viewers and a plethora of reviewers in major cities throughout the U.S. The opinions are as vast as their member community and really reflect the local personality of each area.
Whenever we are headed on a trip to a U.S. city, we take time to check out Yelp to get a feel for the scene ... whether it is restaurants, lodging, art, nightlife ... you name it, you can probably find an opinion. Of course, the next question is whether or not to trust that opinion!
Yelp started off in San Francisco (mais oui, bien sur!) and after the first year ... branched off to other major cities. Yelp is not limited to restaurant reviews, but focuses on the community at large. So you will find information on retail venues and service spots, in addition to restaurants and bars.
Yelp has now expanded to London, so I'm dreaming and hoping that Paris will be next! If so, I intend to go for Elite as I have much to share on the topic of Paris!!!
Mignonne is featured within the Yelp community and we currently have 14 reviews. If you'd like to read our reviews, or comment upon our store ... just click HERE.
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Photo credit: CultureMap Dallas |
Surrounded by the nation's largest Arts District, Museum Tower residents never have to go far to enjoy spectacular visual and performance art. CultureMap Dallas dishes below on the renowned Dallas art scene.
Dallas arts community gets another nod, this time for its theater prowess.
Time.com recently posted a list of "10 Reasons for Theater Lovers to Leave
New York in 2014." Included is The Fortress of Solitude,
a musical that begins performances at Dallas Theater Center in March.
Theater Center appears alongside such well-known and established theaters as
the Goodman and Steppenwolf in Chicago, La Jolla Playhouse in California,
Signature Theatre in Virginia, and Yale Rep in Connecticut. Heck, even rock
stars Sting and Billie Joe Armstrong appear on the list.
collaboration with Manhattan's Public Theater — which plans to include the show
in its 2014/15 season — Fortress
is an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's 2003 novel of the same name, about
two boys growing up in 1970s Brooklyn. The friends, one black and one white,
confront race, culture, gentrification and self-discovery through the bonding
agents of comic books and music.
title is a reference to Superman's headquarters, the only place the fictional
hero could truly be himself. And, as Time notes, it's not an obvious subject
for a musical, but these theater heavies are giving a try.
Fortress — directed
by Daniel Aukin (Bad Jews,The Winslow Boy) and
featuring a score by Michael Friedman (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson)
and book by Itamar Moses (Boardwalk Empire)
— is only the latest in a string of productions that have gone on to enjoy New
York runs. Among them: Lysistrata Jones
on Broadway (which ran under the title Give It Up!
in Dallas), Giant (which played the
Public Theater in 2012) and Fly By Night (which
will play Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons in May).
Catch Fortress of Solitude
at Wyly Theatre from March 7 through April 6.
By Lindsey Wilson, CultureMap Dallas
To read the original article on CultureMap Dallas, click here.
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The medical supplies, etc. that we mailed well over a month ago
have finally arrived in Freetown, delayed (we are told) by the volcanic ash which grounded air travel in Europe.
IV Potassium and other hospital supplies were received from NHA,
Vitamin A for Kamasorie Village, etc.
Betsy had asked for some baby care supplies and they have finally arrived for her.
James was relieved to receive something to help the neck pain
he still suffers from the wreck he experienced this past Winter.
Many of you have given so much to make possible for the people of Sierra Leone to thrive. We are very thankful.
We are grateful to the churches that have collected the o-t-c medications for us that made up this particular batch of supplies that arrived in the post this week - namely St. Alban's in Sun City, Arizona
and St. Mary the Virgin in San Diego.
as well as Kathy Nagy of Louisville who is keeping Kamasorie Village
supplied in Vitamin A;
Aleica Willis for sending us the left over Potassium bags, needles, etc from an illness in which she had homecare (the medical supplies she didn't use were left at her house so she sent them to us).
and Dr. Kern for their continual help
and SOS (Supplies Over Seas)
for the opportunity to purchase, at such a low price, the hosptial supplies we send.
We thank Liz Holt for various items she contributed to this shipment as well as packing the boxes up for us.
We especially thank all of your for your continued support in prayer, deeds and funding. What a wonder family Nazareth House has become - with such team work - living and loving together to give each other a hand.
Thank you all from our staff in Sierra Leone: James, Kadijah, Lucy, Ann Marie, Roo, Mako, Pa Foday and from the many other hands, arms & legs of NHA in Sierra Leone that are doing all they can to assist and make life happen for everyone - Sanu, Emmanuel (Stress),
Johnny, Betsy, Simithe, Albert....too many to name them all - but they, together with Seraphim and I, send you our perpetual gratitude for all that you are doing to change lives for the better.
God bless you all, keep up the fantastic work. You are what makes NHA so unique and so effective.
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Home sweet home! Check out this family home now for sale located on a large corner lot in Anaconda, Montana. The residence sits in a perfect location on Tammany Street. This 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom home has a complete basement with a bar and workshop, with all the tools to be sold with. The main level boasts new beautiful hardwood floors and the outside has an underground sprinkler system. Enjoy the short walk to Washoe Park, Warm Springs Creek, Dwyer Elementary School and Stokes Market. When you’re ready for recreational adventure hop in the car and make the drive over to Hearst Lake, Cooke Creek, Warm Springs State Wildlife Management Area, the Missouri River, Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests, or the Snake River. This home is move-in ready and the seller would consider selling most furnishings with. Deb Dauenhauer would love to show you this property’s charm give her a call at (406)239-5563. Perfectly priced at $210,000.
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Inspired by the World Social Forum, starting in November 2002, organizers in Boston began work on the first social forum in the United States to use the methodology of the World Social Forum. The event was held in July 2004 over 3 days and ran in tandem with the activism engaging and challenging the Democratic National Convention being held in the city at the same time.
This site is being updated to provide a record for the Boston Social Forum.
Posters & Web Photos
The celebrated historian David Green (UMass Boston) compiled a chronology of events, "A People's History of Boston and Massachusetts" for the BSF. We published it on June 20, 2004. At the time, the chronology did not extend the conversation to before the European invasion.
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THE FINAL RERUN UPDATE!
I had never actually shown Ruth’s grave before. I’d shown Dina’s. And nobody cares about Tony’s. But when it came to write The Last Roomies! Story Ever, Promise, I figured, look, let’s finally go there. And so we have a lot of our major Walkyverse players here, paying tribute to her on the fifteenth anniversary of her Heroic Act Of Integrity, looking all grown up and with children. Joyce, grow your hair back out again! Walky, try to age sometime, you still look twelve. Howard, feel free to stab Danny in the neck, it’s right there, you know you’ve got that shiv in your pocket, avenge your sister!
Machete’s just pooped.
Did you know this story is the reason Dina pops out of the Soggies Portal at the end of Shortpacked! instead of Ruth? I was thinking about doing Ruth, but then I remembered, whoops, this story happens, and I wasn’t sure if this happens AFTER the end of Shortpacked!, somehow (Soggies MAY rule), and so I went with Dina. I think Dina was the better choice, but it coulda gone the other way.
The important thing we’ve learned is that if you republish the entire non-Shortpacked! Walkyverse every day, it’ll run out in about nine years. Learning this trivia has made doing these updates every night worthwhile.
Anyway, this was it! Goodbye! You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here!
(you can stay here)
(read through again a few times, give me some adviews)
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After placing the nominal booking fee of RM1000 (not all developers have the same practice, some require 10% downpayment upfront), the developer gives you about 1 month to get your loan approved.
And so begins the arduous search for the best loan package. After going all out to find my choice property, I have to say I was a little more tardy about the loan package.
There are three types of banks in JB – local, Singapore based and international. You can approach any or all of them to get a loan quotation.
The list is not exhaustive of course but these are some of the more common banks buyers approach to get their loans. I specifically approached only the local banks as they tend to give better terms and rates.
There are pockets of commercial zones in JB where the banks tend to congregate for ease of public access. Some of them are in city centre Jalan Wong Ah Fook, Taman Molek, Permas Jaya etc. I did my hunting in Permas.
Interest on loans is determined by the publicly available Board Lending Rate (BLR) plus or minus a premium or discount offered by the banks calculated daily rest. Banks will offer better rates for loan amounts exceeding RM 300,000.
Historically the BLR used to be in the excess of 10% but has dropped to close to historical low of 6.6%. Depending on economic outlook, the government may raise or lower it.
Loan tenure is typically up to 30 years or age 70 whichever is earlier. In terms of margin of finance, the maximum banks offer to foreigners is 85% though some banks offer strictly only 70% for the first and second property. However if one of the loan applicant has registered income from Malaysia, the banks may offer even higher MOF.
Lock in period is 3 years so full repayment of loan during this period will incur a penalty fee. However the banks accept partial repayment with no penalties.
There are 3 types of loan packages that one can choose from fixed, semi-flexi and flexi loan. Fixed is the normal loan where borrower pays a fixed monthly repayment over the entire tenure at the slated interest rates.
Flexi loan packages come with an attached current account. Borrower can choose to deposit additional money into this account. What happens is that when computing the interest for the day, they will use the loan balance less current account balance to calculate the principal on which the interest is applied to. This effectively reduces the interest on loan and helps borrower to pay off the debt faster. In addition, the money in the current account can be withdrawn at any time should the need arise. This package requires a RM 200 setup fee and RM10 monthly maintenance fee.
The semi-flexi loan works like the flexi loan except that additional monies deposited goes directly into the loan account to reduce the balance. Everytime borrower decides to withdraw the excess money they have deposited into the account, they have to write to the bank to request for withdrawal. The money will be available for use within one working day. There is no set up or monthly maintenance fee for this package, however every withdrawal incurs a RM50 charge so this will require more cash flow planning.
Another feature of the home loan is taking up the mortgage reducing term assurance or MRTA. Some banks require minimal coverage to get better rates while others don’t require it at all.
What the MRTA does is that in the event of death or permanent incapacity of borrower, the insurance kicks in to pay the bank the share of the borrower’s loan. Any additional amount will then be paid to the borrower. The sum insured should mirror the reducing balance of your loan.
Borrower can choose to be covered for at least 5 years or for the entire loan tenure. Obviously with a shorter term coverage, you will not be fully covered for the loan amount as the sum insured reduces to 0 at a faster rate.
Another thing to consider is whether to buy 100% coverage for each co-borrowers or simply each borrower’s share of loan but the sum total should be equal to 100%. It really depends on your needs.
MRTA premiums for a RM 450,000 loan over 10 years for person aged 30 estimates to be about RM4,500, while a 30 year plan is RM 19,000.
Premiums are paid upfront and can be tagged to your loan if you do not want to pay for it upfront. Should you decide to sell your property or terminate your insurance before expiry, you get a pro-rated refund.
An alternative that one can consider is getting a MRTA from Singapore instead. Premiums are comparative surprisingly and pays to insured in cash instead of the bank direct. This gives you the flexibility to decide what to do with the lump sum payout. In addition, premiums are paid annually and in SGD.
I highly recommend that you take up some form of insurance on your loan. As this is a liability, if you are not around to assume the responsibility, you are unnecessarily saddling your dependants with debt.
Lastly, there is also legal fees attached to the bank loan. This legal fee is separate from the one you may need to pay at the developer’s end to prepare the Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA).
Make sure you enquire on the estimated legal fee to be paid. This amount is based on your loan quantum and you can also tag it to your loan if you do not want to pay upfront. For a RM450,000 loan, fees estimate to be RM 6,000.
You will need to produce some if not all of the following documents when applying for a loan –
1. 3 months payslip
2. CPF Contribution history
3. Salary bank account for 3 months to verify your pay quantum
4. Tax assessment from IRAS
5. Letter of employment from your employer
6. Credit Bureau records
7. NRIC and passport
You can always make the loan application first as this is essentially just paperwork and non-commital. After submitting the application, be prepared for a grueling wait of 2 – 3 weeks before the bank gets back to you on your loan application.
Given that developer gives you one month to settle the loan, you pretty much have to start submitting loan applications after placing the booking fee.
Once you have received the loan application status, it is then up to you to to choose the package with the best features or meet your needs most. Upon deciding, you will then need to sign the letter of offer, with which the lawyers will use for drafting the SPA.
Will update on the other documentary process again.
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...because I can never resist a challenge -- especially a challenge that involves insanely high numbers of small precision-pieced units, makes a big mess as I dig through scraps, and will require long hours, late nights and even further neglect of basic housewifely duties like cooking and cleaning -- I jumped into Bonnie K. Hunter's Orca Bay Mystery this week. This is actually my very first mystery quilt, and it looks like fun. At 10:30 of Thanksgiving Day evening, I had pieced over half of the 2 1/2" hourglass blocks required in the first clue. Which is actually pretty good considering I didn't really start until yesterday, and I've got a bunch more triangles cut and pieced into pairs. Tomorrow should finish it up, especially if I don't have to go shopping and everybody is happy with leftovers.
This clue has you make 224 hourglass units in blacks and neutrals that will finish to 2". You can use any method that works for you, but she suggests starting with 1 1/2" strips, layering a dark and light right sides together, then using a specialty ruler to cut pairs of QSTs and sew them together, then pair them with different pairs of triangles so your finished units all look different. I have a Fons and Porter flying geese ruler that works well for cutting the triangles, and this method seems to be a little more precise than the method I used to use, where you draw an X on a square that is cut 1 1/4" bigger than the finished measurement. There seems to be less pull on the bias this way, though you do have to be careful as you feed the units through that the points don't curve under or to the side. As you can see, I set up an assembly line when it comes time to press. I'm taking her at her word that I can use up some of those scraps that I'm not really in love with. The beauty of these kinds of quilts is that the pieces are small enough that even strange conversational prints blend in with the whole unless you want to look really close. If you do, you will see some pirate skulls, pretty flowers, dogs, cats, birdhouses, Kermit the Frog, maps, patriotic designs, chili peppers, musical notes, polka dots and plaids. I absolutely love a quilt where I can use all of those different elements and get away with it. This is going to be so fun!
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Polish online gamers remain in continuous contact with English, either while playing games, communicating with other gamers or using social media. Given the relative intensity of language contact, one may expect gaming sociolect to be a rich source of anglicisms of various type. Nevertheless, the influence that English exerts on the sociolect of Polish gamers has attracted little scholarly attention thus far. The present paper aims at investigating anglicisms occurring in the sociolect of Polish Minecraft gamers, basingon the corpus compiled from 21 YouTube gaming videos and 10 Internet forum threads devoted to the game. More specifically, the author seeks to analyze to which extent the loanwords are adapted into Polish in terms of phonology, morphology and spelling as well as to discuss the examples of calques and hybrids that have been attested in the corpus. Additionally, the paper tries to identify the meaning and function of borrowed elements. Overall, the corpus gathers 122 loanwords (simple lexemes, compound nouns and acronyms), 20 calques and 1 hybrid loan. The analysis has shown preliminarily that although a majority of loanwords is integrated into the Polish language in terms of morphology and phonology, nearly all elements retain their original spelling. Moreover, the corpus reveals a group of lexemes whose pronunciation is based on spelling, which indicates the fact that lexemes are transferred to the sociolect of gamers in a twofold way, namely graphic and spoken. As for the use of loanwords, the study exemplifies both anglicisms used exclusively in the Minecraft community as well as those constituting a universal part of the lexical repertoire of all gamers and thus points out the diversity of the gaming sociolect.
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You know those one dish meals people are always talking about? This was my attempt at one of those. At the end of the day, I think I prefer this recipe strictly spinach, keeping the meat on the side. Preferably with beef. Of course you know me, I’d eat beef every day of the week if I could. I guess that’s the other thing I was going for with this, a last ditch effort to hide the chicken from myself so I wouldn’t know I was eating it.
So if you want to make it simply a spinach au gratin, leave out the chicken and double the spinach. In that scenario, I’d omit the breadcrumbs as well. You could also use the chicken but skip a few steps by using shredded chicken from a grocery store rotisserie chicken.
One really really awesome thing about making this, is that I got to use the new microplanes I got for Christmas. If you haven’t broken down and purchased these yet, Go ahead. Do it. It feels exactly like when you buy new socks after putting it off for way too long. Only better. I’ve been coveting these for ages, and I’m seriously impressed I was able to hold out until Christmas. Just thing of all the grating 2010 has in store for you!
Chicken Spinach Au Gratin (serves 5)
3 chicken split breasts
4 tbsp butter
2 c. diced onions
4 tbsp flour
3 c. 2% milk
20 oz. frozen chopped spinach, defrosted and all water squeezed out
1/2 c. grated Parmesan Reggiano
3/4 c. shredded Gruyere
2 tsp kosher salt
8 turns fresh ground pepper
In a large pan, combine split breasts with 1 tsp of kosher salt and 12 turns of fresh ground pepper, cover with water. Bring to a boil, then cook boil chicken for 35 minutes. Turn off heat, and let chicken rest in water for 10 minutes. Remove skin and bones and shred chicken using two forks.
Preheat oven to 350. In a deep saute pan, melt butter on medium heat, add onions and saute 15 minutes, stirring occasionally and reducing heat as necessary to prevent browning. Add flour and stir until paste-like and combined, then cook for 2 more minutes. Add milk and stir to incorporate, raise heat to medium high and cook for 10 minutes to thicken. Turn off heat.
Add spinach, shredded chicken, Parmesan, Gruyere, salt and pepper. Stir until combined, then smooth surface with your spatula, and sprinkle just the surface with a teeny bit more Parmesan, Gruyere and breadcrumbs. Bake in oven for 25 minutes – or until bubbly and just lightly browned.
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The following study was funded in part by the DIPG/DMG Collaborative:
Diffuse midline glioma (DMG), including those of the brainstem (diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma), are pediatric tumors of the central nervous system (CNS). Recognized as the most lethal of all childhood cancers, palliative radiotherapy remains the only proven treatment option, however, even for those that respond, survival is only temporarily extended. DMG harbor an immunologically “cold” tumor microenvironment (TME) with few infiltrating immune cells. The mechanisms underpinning the cold TME are not well understood. Low expression levels of immune checkpoint proteins, including PD-1, PD-L1, and CTLA-4, are recurring features of DMG and likely contribute to the lack of response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). The unique epigenetic signatures (including stem cell-like methylation patterns), a low tumor mutational burden, and recurring somatic mutations (H3K27M, TP53, ACVR1, MYC, and PIK3CA), possibly play a role in the reduced efficacy of traditional immunotherapies. Therefore, to circumvent the lack of efficacy thus far seen for the use of ICIs, adoptive cell transfer (including chimeric antigen receptor T cells) and the use of oncolytic viruses, are currently being evaluated for the treatment of DMG. It remains an absolute imperative that we improve our understanding of DMG’s intrinsic and TME features if patients are to realize the potential benefits offered by these sophisticated treatments. Herein, we summarize the limitations of immunotherapeutic approaches, highlight the emerging safety and clinical efficacy shown for sophisticated cell-based therapies, as well as the evolving knowledge underpinning the DMG-immune axis, to guide the development of immunotherapies that we hope will improve outcomes.
Despite 50 years of research, survival for patients diagnosed with DIPG remains just 9-11 months. Patients diagnosed with all forms of DMG are told “there are no treatments.” IO strategies have shown great promise in extending survival for cancers of other origins, but similar benefit is yet to be realized in the DMG setting. The unique epigenetic landscape, inter- and intra-somatic heterogeneity, and immunologically cold TME of DMG, highlight areas of research that require focused attention if we are to exploit the potential of immunotherapeutic approaches for patients with DMG. We believe that although limited response to ICI has been seen thus far, combinations with precision therapies may prove to increase response rates. Furthermore, introducing active immune cells with a specific target to the vicinity of the tumor using ACT is proving to be more beneficial at the current time. Accordingly, CAR T cells, as well as vaccines and oncolytic viruses show promising early-stage results. However, there remains a considerable knowledge gap regarding the immune microenvironment of DMG, hampering the development of successful strategies for patients presently fighting DMG. Future work focused on elucidating the underpinnings of the cold immunological response in DMG is desperately necessary, as well as investigations to reveal the potential expression of other (targetable) immune checkpoints. The role H3K27M plays in immunosuppression, and the potential for immunopeptidomics studies using biopsy samples may arm us with novel CAR T-cell therapies that show greater efficacy and specificity. Finally, assessing what roles the various combinations of driver and passenger mutations (including germline) play in the DMG-immune axis is critical. These data will provide us with the potential to co-target these mutations in combination with immunotherapies, to improve response rates, and to better inform which patients will benefit from these sophisticated regimens. Harnessing this information in the development of combination treatment modalities is necessary if we are to improve the likelihood of achieving long-term patient survival for children and young adults diagnosed with DMG.
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Updating CMU’s Strategic Plan
Beginning in 2023-24, Carnegie Mellon has undertaken a process to assess and revise the university’s strategic plan.
Under the guidance of the Strategic Plan Update Steering Committee appointed by President Jahanian and Provost Garrett, this data-informed process aims to build on our accomplishments from Strategic Plan 2025 and fine-tune our strategic direction in light of a fast-moving higher education landscape. Based on this early feedback as well as peer benchmarking, the following six themes have emerged as areas of focus for our strategic plan update.
- Affordability & Access: Ensuring a CMU education remains accessible to top talent from all backgrounds, including low- and middle-income families
- AI & Emerging Technologies: Maximizing our leadership in technology in every sense — through our research, creative inquiry and policy impact, and by training the talent that will shape the digital revolution
- Brand & Storytelling: Further differentiating and elevating our unique brand and telling the CMU story of our impact in a more powerful way
- Organizational Agility & Effectiveness: Ensuring our complex organization is positioned for success, nimble in how we prioritize our resources and savvy in how we optimize their use
- Research & Innovation: Expanding investments and partnerships in research, energizing our culture of bold entrepreneurship and big bets, and continuing to grow our start-up and enterprise creation
- Student Experiences & Outcomes: Continuing to invest in a high-quality, hands-on and supportive student experience while maintaining the excellence that makes our students highly sought-after
We are keenly interested in broad stakeholder input, and we welcome our community’s feedback as we engage in this important process.
We plan to present our findings to the community in Fall 2024, following discussions with our Board of Trustees.
Members of the Strategic Plan Update Steering Committee
Becky Culyba, Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Chief of Staff to the Provost, co-chair
Amy Burkert, Vice Provost for Education
Gina Casalegno, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students
Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure, University Libraries
Mary Jo Dively, Vice President and General Counsel
Rhonda Fischer, Chief Operating Officer, Tepper School of Business
Theresa Meyer, Vice President for Research
Cindy Crimmins, Associate Vice President, Advancement Resources and Engagement Programs
Robert Ramirez, Head of the School of Drama, College of Fine Arts
Bill Sanders, Dean, College of Engineering
Henry Zheng, Vice Provost for Institutional Effectiveness and Planning
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Our study entitled "A novel functional mast cell assay for the detection of allergies" has been published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. This project has been conducted in collaboration with the fantastic group of Prof. Thomas Kaufmann from Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Bern and many other great investigators including Prof. Jean-Pierre Kinet from Harvard University. Congratulations to the first author Noemi Zbären who has done an amazing job in establishing this diagnostic assay from scratch. We are currently exploring ways to bring this new approach to the diagnostic allergy market. Stay tuned for more news to come soon.
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Ingrid Mattson is a professor of Islamic Studies at Hartford Seminary. She is Vice President of the Islamic Society of North America.
I spent a lot of time looking at art the year before I became a Muslim. Completing a degree in Philosophy and Fine Arts, I sat for hours in darkened classrooms where my professors projected pictures of great works of Western art on the wall. I worked in the archives for the Fine Arts department, preparing and cataloging slides. I gathered stacks of thick art history books every time I studied in the university library. I went to art museums in Toronto, Montreal and Chicago. That summer in Paris, “the summer I met Muslims” as I always think of it, I spent a whole day (the free day) each week in the Louvre.
What was I seeking in such an intense engagement with visual art? Perhaps some of the transcendence I felt as a child in the cool darkness of the Catholic Church I loved. In high school, I had lost my natural faith in God, and rarely thought about religion after that. In college, philosophy had brought me from Plato, through Descartes only to end at Existentialism-a barren outcome. At least art was productive-there was a tangible result at the end of the process. But in the end, I found even the strongest reaction to a work of art isolating. Of course I felt some connection to the artist, appreciation for another human perspective. But each time the aesthetic response flared up, then died down. It left no basis for action.
Then I met people who did not construct statues or sensual paintings of gods, great men and beautiful women. Yet they knew about God, they honored their leaders, and they praised the productive work of women. They did not try to depict the causes; they traced the effects.
Soon after I met my husband, he told me about a woman he greatly admired. He spoke of her intelligence, her eloquence and her generosity. This woman, he told me, tutored her many children in traditional and modern learning. With warm approval, he spoke of her frequent arduous trips to refugee camps and orphanages to help relief efforts. With profound respect, he told me of her religious knowledge, which she imparted to other women in regular lectures. And he told me of the meals she had sent to him, when she knew he was too engaged in his work with the refugees to see to his own needs. When I finally met this woman I found that she was covered, head to toe, in traditional Islamic dress. I realized with some amazement that my husband had never seen her. He had never seen her face. Yet he knew her. He knew her by her actions, by the effects she left on other people.
Western civilization has a long tradition of visual representation. No longer needing more from such art than a moment of shared vision with an artist alive or dead, I can appreciate it once more. But popular culture has made representation simultaneously omnipresent and anonymous. We seem to make the mistake of thinking that seeing means knowing, and that the more exposed a person is, the more important they are.
Islamic civilization chose not to embrace visual representation as a significant means of remembering and honoring God and people. Allah is The Hidden, veiled in glorious light from the eyes of any living person. But people of true vision can know God by contemplating the effects of his creative power,
Do they not look to the birds above them,
Spreading their wings and folding them back?
None can uphold them except for The Merciful.
Truly He is watchful over all things (Qur’an, 67:19)
If God transcends his creation, it is beyond the capacity of any human to depict him. Indeed, in Islamic tradition, any attempt to depict God with pictures is an act of blasphemy. Rather, a Muslim evokes God, employing only those words that God has used to describe himself in his revelation. Among these descriptive titles are the so-called “99 Names of God,” attributes that are recited melodiously throughout the Muslim world: The Merciful, the Compassionate, the Forbearing, the Forgiving, the Living, the Holy, the Near, the Tender, the Wise…. Written in beautiful script on lamps, walls, and pendants, each of these linguistic signs provokes a profoundly personal, intellectual and spiritual response with each new reading.
Deeply wary of idolatry, early Muslims with few exceptions declined to glorify not only God, but even human beings through visual representation. Historians, accustomed to illustrating accounts of great leaders with their images captured in painting, sculpture and coin have no reliable visual representations of the Prophet Muhammad. What we find, instead, is the Prophet’s name, Muhammad, written in curving Arabic letters on those architectural and illustrative spaces where the sacred is invoked. Along with the names of God and verses of the Qur’an, the name Muhammad, read audibly or silently, leads the believer into a reflective state about the divine message and the legacy of this extraordinary, yet profoundly human messenger of God.
Words, written and oral, are the primary medium by which the life of the Prophet and his example have been transmitted across the generations. His biography, the seerah, has been told in verse and prose in many languages. Even more important than this chronological account of the Prophet’s life are the thousands of individual reports of his utterances and actions, collected in the hadith literature. These reports were transmitted by early Muslims wishing to pass on Muhammad’s tradition and mindful of the Qur’an’s words: “Indeed in the Messenger of God you have a good example to follow for one who desires God and the Last Day” (Qur’an, 33:21). Eager to follow his divinely inspired actions, his close companions paid attention not only to his style of worship, but also to all aspects of his comportment-everything from his personal hygiene to his interaction with children and neighbors. The Prophet’s way of doing things, his sunnah, has formed the basis for Muslim piety in all societies where Islam spread. The result was that as Muslims young and old, male and female, rich and poor, adopted the Prophet’s sunnah as a model for their lives, they became the best visual representations of the Prophet’s character and life. In other words, the Muslim who implements the sunnah is an actor on the human stage who internalizes and, without artifice, reenacts the behavior of the Prophet. This performance of the sunnah by living Muslims is the archive of the Prophet’s life and a truly sacred art of Muslim culture.
I first realized the profound physical impact of the Prophet’s sunnah on generations of Muslims as I sat in the mosque one day, watching my nine year old son pray beside his Qur’an teacher. Ubayda sat straight, still and erect beside the young teacher from Saudi Arabia who, with his gentle manners and beautiful recitation, had earned my son’s deep respect and affection. Like the teacher, Ubayda was wearing a loose-fitting white robe that modestly covered his body. Before coming to the mosque, he had taken a shower and rubbed fragrant musk across his head and chin. With each movement of prayer, he glanced over at his teacher, to ensure that his hands and feet were positioned in precisely the same manner. Reflecting on this transformation of my son, who had abandoned as his normal grubbiness and impulsivity for cleanliness and composure, I thought to myself, “thank God he found a good role model to imitate.”
In my son’s imitation of his teacher, however, it occurred to me that there was a greater significance, for his teacher was also imitating someone. Indeed, this young man was keen in every aspect of his life to follow the sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad. His modest dress was in imitation of the Prophet’s physical modesty. His scrupulous cleanliness and love of fragrant oils was modeled after the Prophet’s example. At each stage of the ritual prayer he adopted the positions he was convinced originated with the Prophet. He could trace the way he recited the Qur’an back through generations of teachers to the Prophet himself. My son, by imitating his teacher, had now become part of the living legacy of the Prophet Muhammad.
Among Muslims throughout the world, there are many sincere pious men and women; there are also criminals and hypocrites. Some people are deeply affected by religious norms, others are influenced more by culture-whether traditional or popular culture. Some aspects of the Prophet’s behavior: his slowness to anger, his abhorrence of oath taking, his gentleness with women, sadly seem to have little affected the dominant culture in some Muslim societies. Other aspects of his behavior, his generosity, his hospitality, his physical modesty, seem to have taken firm root in many Muslim lands. But everywhere that Muslims are found, more often than not they will trace the best aspects of their culture to the example of the Prophet Muhammad. He was, in the words of one of his companions, “the best of all people in behavior.”
Living in America, my son’s role model might have been an actor, a rap singer or an athlete. We say that children are “impressionable,” meaning that it is easy for strong personalities to influence the formation of their identity. We all look for good influences on our children.
It was their excellent behavior that attracted me to the first Muslims I met, poor West African students living on the margins of Paris. They embodied many aspects of the Prophet’s sunnah, although I did not know it at the time. What I recognized was that, among their other wonderful qualities, they were the most naturally generous people I had ever known. There was always room for one more person around the platter of rice and beans they shared each day. Over the years, in my travels across the Muslim world, I have witnessed the same eagerness to share, the same deep belief that it is not self-denial, but a blessing to give away a little more to others. The Prophet Muhammad said, “The food of two is enough for three, and the food of three is enough for four.” During the recent attacks on Kosovo, there were reports of Albanian Muslims filling their houses with refugees; one man cooked daily for twenty people domiciled in his modest home.
The Prophet Muhammad said, “When you see one who has more, look to one who has less.” When I was married in Pakistan, my husband and I, as refugee workers, did not have much money. Returning to the refugee camp a few days after our wedding, the Afghan women eagerly asked to see the many dresses and gold bracelets, rings and necklaces my husband must have presented to me, as is customary throughout the Muslim world. I showed them my simple gold ring and told them we had borrowed a dress for the wedding. The women’s faces fell and they looked at me with profound sadness and sympathy. The next week, sitting in a tent in that dusty hot camp, the same women-women who had been driven out of their homes and country, women who had lost their husbands and children, women who had sold their own personal belongings to buy food for their families-presented me with a wedding outfit. Bright blue satin pants stitched with gold embroidery, a red velveteen dress decorated with colorful pom-poms and a matching blue scarf trimmed with what I could only think of as a lampshade fringe. It was the most extraordinary gift I have ever received-not just the outfit, but the lesson in pure empathy that is one of the sweetest fruits of real faith.
An accurate representation of the Prophet is to be found, first and foremost, on the faces and bodies of his sincere followers: in the smile that he called “an act of charity,” in the slim build of one who fasts regularly, in the solitary prostrations of the one who prays when all others are asleep. The Prophet’s most profound legacy is found in the best behavior of his followers. Look to his people, and you will find the Prophet.
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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues.
Today, there are two main items on our agenda: small businesses, and road quality and traffic safety.
I will begin with roads. Much has been done in recent years. We talk about it constantly, but a lot has also been done. Federal highways are being brought up to standard, and this work is funded almost in full.
Of course, roads are always a challenge, and we need to do even more in that area than has already been done. I will say more on that later. With regard to federal highways, the work is moving in the right direction. According to the Ministry of Transport, the financing of federal roads stands at about 91 percent of the amount of standard expenses involved in major overhauls, repair and maintenance.
Notably, a drop in the traffic-related death rate is the most important outcome of the upgrading of federal roads. By the way, we have not yet achieved the benchmark set for 2018 in accordance with the May executive orders. As you may recall, the goal is to reduce traffic-related deaths to 10.6 per 100,000 by 2018. We have witnessed a certain decline, but this figure has yet to be reached.
I would also like to point out that, when it comes to road safety, the law now draws a clear line between the responsibility of the federal, regional and municipal authorities, and that of the owners of private roads.
I would like to make one more point. As we know from the direct lines with our citizens, the condition of regional and local roads is often criticised. Many of them, even in cities with one million or more residents have remained without proper maintenance for a long time now. This problem needs to be resolved, and at a much faster pace than has been done until now. To do so, we need to fully utilise the resources of the regional road funds. All the more so, since we decided to allocate additional funds from excise taxes on petrol to these funds.
According to the Transport Ministry, this decision will make it possible to allot an additional 40 billion rubles to the regional budgets for further crediting of regional road fund accounts.
For your reference, I would also like to say that at present, financing of regional roads in the Russian Federation on average does not exceed 15 percent of the normative funding levels for major repairs, servicing and maintenance.
I also consider it important to ensure the maximum possible informational transparency with regard to road construction and the use of road fund resources. Citizens certainly have the right and should be able to see how the collected resources are spent.
I would like to reiterate that we should drastically improve the situation with regard to regional roads. As a first step, efforts could be focused on so-called agglomerations, where the largest number of the country’s citizens live.
It is necessary to set a coherent, clear task: by 2018, no less than half of the roads in these agglomerations should be brought up to standard, to a state that meets modern requirements, while by 2025, the share of such roads should reach about 85 percent, no less. In fact, these are feasible tasks, because at present, about 65 percent of federal and only 39 percent of regional roads meet the normative requirements. Generally, as I said, these are quite realistic tasks.
In this regard, I would like to ask the Construction Ministry to expedite the adoption of regulatory acts and standards, which will make it possible to build roads by using advanced technologies and materials.
Special attention should also be paid to road safety. There are dangerous road sections where, because of potholes and bumps, and a lack of guardrails, markings or warning signs, road accidents with serious and very serious, including fatal consequences happen time after time. It is necessary to eliminate such sections, including in large agglomerations, where traffic is especially intense.
At the same time, it is certainly important to continuously receive information about dangerous, accident-prone road sections from citizens, so that they can oversee what the authorities and road owners are doing to rectify the situation.
I will ask the Minister of the Interior to tell us in more detail about what is being done to enhance safety on the roads. It is a disaster. I do not even want to talk about it – I would rather hear from you – because there is so much rough stuff and it is such a mess. The authorities must respond to cases of such behaviour.
Colleagues, one more topic of our meeting is support for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs.
We have addressed this subject more than once and are implementing the decisions that have been adopted. The development of small and medium-sized businesses is effective and much in demand. During this year alone, purchases by natural monopolies and companies with public ownership increased more than ten-fold and exceeded a trillion roubles, which is a significant amount. As a result, over 110,000 jobs have been created in small companies. This is a good indicator.
By 2018 the number of peopled employed by small companies and individual entrepreneurs should increase to 20 million. In the long-term, the level of employment in small companies and their share of the GDP should catch up with those countries where business, primarily small and medium-sized, is the backbone of the economy. We must continue creating a favourable environment for business, focusing our efforts on supporting key small business sectors.
There is something I would like to add. First, we must primarily pay attention to the development of manufacturing, high-tech small business. Such companies should not only be guaranteed demand for their products and orders from large corporations with public ownership. It is necessary to help them supply quality and competitive products.
Today small companies often find it difficult to certify their products, as we said many times, and to get access to equipment, technology and loans. We must create a whole infrastructure of support for small-business producers, including a network of regional leasing centres that will be ready to provide entrepreneurs with modern equipment.
Second, it is necessary to take a large step forward in terms of developing business in rural areas, primarily by helping owners of household plots to sell their produce, providing them with guarantees and loan support and assisting them in organising production.
A number of areas, for instance Lipetsk and Tyumen regions, have successful experience in developing agricultural cooperation. I suggest elaborating mechanisms for spreading the best regional practices.
Third, services are a large niche for small companies. It is necessary to make greater efforts to expand throughout the country of the step-by-step support system for entrepreneurs who wish to work in this sphere.
The so-called “business navigator” that has already been launched should become a major instrument in this respect. It provides, free of charge, more or less complete information on what services are required in a city or village, how to set up a business faster and what assistance is available.
I would like to mention in particular those who work independently in different spheres – from small repairs and construction to auto care. As you may understand, I am referring to so-called self-employed individuals. We have millions of them. People are simply compelled to remain “in the shadows” so as not to deal with the red tape, exaction, constant inspections and pressure that are probably excessive for the type of work involved.
I think that self-employed citizens should be offered an understandable and convenient instrument for cooperating with the state in order to enable them to calmly and legally run and expand their small but private business and to earn a living honestly through their labour and abilities.
We have repeatedly discussed, and I have just spoken about this to Mr Medvedev, and at forums of the United Russia party and Russian Popular Front events the need to relieve the self-employed from taxes and mandatory fees for a certain period, for instance a couple of years, so as to enable them to get into a normal rhythm of legal operations without too many burdens.
In addition, of course, it is necessary to rule out any possibility of qualifying the work of self-employed citizens as illegal entrepreneurship. If need be, special amendments should be introduced in the legislation.
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by Jack Nelson
meanings figure into traffic streams
reds fade, trickle down the long ‘V'
another passing human ear; tall, tall
buildings paper poised on horizon.
situations gape in and out of seconds
corners turn to disappearance, witness
follows fingers wet to yellow paint, or
the mosaic of labels too blurred to read.
house windowed membrane, pulse green lawn
questions . . . No signs of life, No one at home
through the day, salmon stretches into burn
while the roof peaks hold for twitches
in the insulated lines.
moment of feathers, air the bird beats
points of a broken star, a burst of wings
from a tiny body cut through seams of air
on diagonal from the sleepy wire
to the courtyard green.
propaganda (drifts down) along the universal spines
to the hips of a saucer's incidental blue —
figures of family, wheat, slow circles,
the patina of veins, collapses of light
about a cup of the corner. half naked,
“I am without decree,” he says,
a hundred points of paper, plaster
the nuance of winter spills from the lampshade.
“Fuck condemnation,” he says, “I am fallen . . . “
shoots himself up in the corner while
thoughtless ‘Fiats' curl over the floor.
belief in our life of inertia
is a thief working the pockets
of the ridiculous.
thief, a celebration of crowds
whose movement is aetiology —
desire's hope for the lost.
thief, given into the imaginal
supposes bodies, truths
to further rummage.
bodies of their own ideals
antidotes even dreams
are fool to follow.
thief, in the waters of hysteria
our over-memory of those
who may have drown.
in the face of maps more lost —
our mouths soft screw to the
moments suspend in abort.
the auras of our weighted histories
erased by the indelible smallness
of a sonogram space.
Love precipitates from an American family,
where there is no substance — no prior agenda
reducing ‘Family' to plaxic user-space,
through the alchemy of extraction: the inert
and the imaginal. A husband whose hate less than
belongs to the Other whose grain of generation
has fallen between what wants and what remains
to be had — an opportunist's collection, scored,
in part, to an aluminum rim set half-full
on the linoleum numb with flakes of gold.
No moral over waves of anesthetic,
no country of his seed pearls cast,
only a moment of inherited dysfunction.
You urge me where? you ‘Son of Danger'
You Buck-bitch ninny, you ‘Detroit Dan'
You innoculated whore, you urge me
where I can no longer see you.
We burned you up (though you mentioned the River);
the mother-bitch and I watched the old lamb jiggle
you into a hole amid the sprawls of pachysandra.
Fish, nearly a man's leg, lay on the floor
beneath the lattice of bay window frames.
Car passes the living room, an operculum
widens into sluice — red filigree arches
and gray fish mouth cleaves the heel of air —
and seals again within its glistened sleeve.
a corner of light crawls over the afternoon.
I am the fish in the hologram distance
whose initiate is the belly of the mother
I am the fish wearing the mosaic of imprint,
exposure and the jacket's truth of fashion
glitched from feathers.
The strophic rush of dis-equilibria
sketches away from fish to the sine/cosine
lengths of her beautiful umber hair
She is the bearer of water.
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Old writing. Experiential and an exorcism -- the time stamp is large. Until today, I've not looked at this 15 year old piece for at least five years. It's was locked in a drawer with other cryptic stuff. I simply keyed it in.
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And the Power of Silence
So that little curiously adorable thing with their heads that some animals do is not in fact a nod to curiosity at all. (Nor does it have to do with the intonation of how you say the word “treat” “walk” or “outside”. Those ears and eyes are dialing in the cues as they turn their head left, right, and left again. It’s adorable yes, and it is also a necessity to locate lunch down there under the snow. It is the power of being in the moment.
I took a detour yesterday with the sole intention to visit a favorite winter birding spot. I didn’t see a single bird in the field, but I was blessed with 5 minutes of silence amid the frore landscape. No traffic noise, no airlines whooshing overhead, not even a drop of wind…the only sound was my car. I immediately turned off the climate and let the apricity shower down on me. The sun reaches down into my bones I swear. If I listened long enough, perhaps I could have heard some movement of mice and meadow voles in their subnivean underworld, but likely my hearing is not THAT good. That is only a feat fit for a fox.
I adore the cold. There I said it. The blue sky, the chill that obliterates the skin heaving a blow straight to the bones. I find it refreshing. While it takes twice as long to get out the door and remember to cover all exposed extremities, the effort yields a peace in frozen air. What I love even more is the way a good snowfall silences everything. Each and every fallen flake an air pocket that sucks the sound waves away like the sea steals back away each crashing wave back into the ocean. Silence is not something we hear very often.
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Pants, skirts, or trousers are a piece of clothing which may have originally originated in Central Asia, predominantly covering the lower legs with pants, slacks, or jeans, with buttons for the closure of the front. Slacks were probably not adopted by the Asian societies in the way that they are today, as they are popular in the west with their more relaxed styles and relaxed fit. This is probably because the original pants were too tight around the leg, resulting in discomfort and even pain while wearing them. They have since evolved to become comfortable and fashionable.
The trousers were first translated and adapted for use in England where they became known as trouser suits (also known as hose, girdles, and hose, but commonly called just pants) after Queen Victoria adopted a style of dress which was originally called jodhpurs. However, it was not until 1855 that the word ‘trouser’ was first used in English, when men first used pants to replace their coats in colder climates, such as in the Arctic regions of the United Kingdom. English trousers are known to be stiff-fitting, owing to the heavy pleats of the textile used for making the cloth. But with the evolution of the manufacturing industry, trousers became less stiff and began to be made with stretchable materials, including various blends of cotton, linen, and khakis.
A more recently introduced word to the English language is ‘underpants’, which derived from the French term ‘abusuer’ (a cover for pants). The term underpants, as well as its derivatives, refers to a pair of pantyhose, tights, or underpants, that are usually made of spandex-like materials. Another related term is denim, which refers to loose-fitting denim. An English person, during a casual conversation, may interchangeably refer to underpants and denim. A third similar term, camisole, is another synonym for either pants or underpants.
Slacks (sometimes called slacks and trousers) are another term for pants, which comes from the Italian word for ‘loose’ -‘slack’. The word pants comes from the Italian word ‘pansa’ which meant a pair of trousers. And finally, oxford English dictionary defines pants as ‘a pair of trousers’. So we can see how the common term pants has evolved over the centuries from a generic description of pants to a specific label for particular kinds of slacks and trousers.
Historically, pants were always made from coarse fabric, such as wool, cottons, or coarse cotton. But with the development of industrialization, working conditions and standards increased, resulting in heavier, manmade materials being used for making pants. Today, while pants still come in a generic’man’s’ slacks design, they are available in various styles, designs, colors, and materials. Some manufacturers go to the extent of designing pants so that they match the dress code of specific schools and offices. In fact, some businesses use pants as their dress code, which is a trend that has caught on in many countries in Asia and South America.
English pants refers to any pair of trousers that are tight-fitting, comfortable, and don’t extend beyond the ankle. When applied to dresses, the word pants refers to a style of dress that consists of slacks with a tie-on flap at the front, and is usually pleated at the rear. However, the term refers to a generic category of garments that includes all types of slacks and trousers. Moreover, the term has also come to refer to any type of tight-fitting garment, which typically comprises of long-sleeved or double-breasted pants. And finally, the term trousers generally refers to loose-fitting trousers.
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Wow, I just read the Bolaño story in the most recent New Yorker—it’s here, and it’s called “William Burns”–and I loved it. First anything by Bolaño that I’ve loved. I had very mixed feelings about 2666. But this was great. It kind of reminded me of a Ligotti story, with the degrees of distance from the narrator, the surreal dread, the shifting perceptions of the source of danger, and the dreamlike progression. It feels like transcribed dream, which is of particular interest to me at the moment.
Similarly, I’m loving I. Fontana’s “UB” at Spork, just as I loved the Jean Harlow story from a while back. I’m interested in anything Fontana writes these days; he knows what he’s doing.
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Obsession is a complex condition that has an effect on the brain as well as body system. Fla rehab centers utilize scientific and evidence-based approaches to aid individuals eliminate element abuse. This write-up explores the scientific research behind addiction recovery, the a variety of therapy methods made use of in Fla, and also the value of long-term assistance. Florida center
Comprehending Substance Addiction as a Condition
Dependency is actually not simply an absence of willpower; it is a persistent disease that modifies human brain functionality. Drug dependence influences the human brain’s perks body, making it difficult for individuals to withstand cravings and sustain command over their usage. Lasting medicine use modifications neurotransmitter amounts, bring about dependancy as well as obsessive behavior.
Treatment Methods in Florida Rehabilitation Centers
Florida rehab focuses utilize a mixture of conventional, clinical, and also all natural therapy methods to attend to substance addiction. A number of the absolute most reliable techniques consist of:
Detoxification is the primary step in dependence recuperation. It includes safely taking out substances coming from the body while handling withdrawal indicators. Lots of Fla rehabs deliver clinically monitored detox to ensure convenience and safety.
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
CBT aids individuals determine and also modify adverse thought patterns that support dependence. This therapy is specifically efficient in protecting against regression and also developing problem management devices.
Medication-Assisted Therapy (MAT).
MAT is made use of to treat opioid as well as liquor dependency by blending medication along with treatment. Drugs including methadone, buprenorphine, and also naltrexone support decrease longings as well as drawback indicators.
A lot of Fla rehabilitation centers integrate holistic treatments such as art treatment, horse treatment, and mindfulness reflection. These approaches enhance mental recovery and stress and anxiety management.
The Usefulness of Aftercare and Long-Term Assistance.
Healing performs not finish after rehabilitation. Long-term help is important for stopping regression. Florida supplies extensive aftercare programs, featuring:.
Sober Living Residences: Transition real estate that provides a structured as well as supporting environment.
12-Step Courses: Groups such as Twelve Step Programs (DOUBLE A) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) use peer assistance and also liability.
On-going Therapy: Carried on therapy helps people work with rooting problems and also keep sobriety.
Florida rehab facilities use scientific and also all natural techniques to assist people cure coming from dependency. Through taking care of both the bodily and mental facets important maltreatment, these systems supply a detailed pathway to recovery.
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High-end rehabilitation centers in Florida supply a premium approach to substance addiction therapy. These resources give a special and comfortable environment, allowing people to pay attention to rehabilitation while delighting in premium features.
What Helps Make Luxurious Rehabilitation Different?
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By Shabana Tharkar, AVP – ICTPH
Set in what seems like the typical village ambience; both Alakkudi and Karambayam have become all too familiar to the ICTPH staff members, who travel frequently to these two villages. Both places share some common socio-demographic characteristics, which constitute part of the reason as to why they were chosen as field sites for our pilot. With a rich historic background and cultural heritage, Thanjavur district which was once part of the Chola kingdom, is also known as the rice bowl of Tamilnadu. The main occupation of the people in these villages is cultivation of cash crops like rice since it is the staple food in these villages. There is also evidence to show that rice is primarily consumed as the main course for all three meals a day- indicating little or no nutritional requirements from other grains. This could potentially result in acquisition of metabolic disorders, which in future, can be hypothesized and tested by the research wing of ICTPH.
The populations in both villages have high levels of literacy, with an average of above 80% who are able to read and write the local language (Tamil) – thanks to the Tamilnadu government’s education system- as well as incentivization by the noon meal scheme. In terms of health care delivery, Alakkudi has fairly reasonable accessibility and affordability- with services offered by the government sector (PHC) free of cost for minor ailments- as well as systematic referral to tertiary care centers located in Thanjavur for other complicated illnesses. Interestingly, despite free services offered by the PHC, our SughaVazhvu Rural Micro Health Centre (RMHC) is preferred by most local villagers. Clinical experience from the Alakkudi RMHC suggests that majority of cases at the outpatient department are diseases of infectious origin, deficiency disorders and geriatric illnesses.
Evidence from population studies suggests that the current epidemiological transition has resulted in escalation of chronic diseases not only in the urban metros but also in rural settings. The baseline survey conducted by ICTPH in these villages in the Thanjavur district, reported a crude prevalence estimate of 5% for diabetes and 14 % for hypercholesterolemia. These findings are suggestive of clinically submerged portions of an iceberg which may forecast a heavy disease burden in the future, due to chronic disease. Anemia was the most highly prevalent among the deficiency disorders, wherein one out of two women had hemoglobin counts below normal. Defective vision and musculoskeletal disorders were the other common problems pertaining to the villages of Alakkudi and Karambayam, as indicated in the baseline survey report. ICTPH’s initiative to conduct household surveys as well as to engage in active case-finding may largely contribute to reducing chronic disease burden through its interventions in health promotion and primary prevention activities.
It is interesting to note that in both Alakkudi and Karambayam, the daai system of home-based childbirth is outdated and virtually non-existent- as 99% of pregnant women (as indicated in our baseline survey) had antenatal check-ups and delivered either at the PHC or at a private clinic- largely owing to the decline in maternal mortality rate. The epidemiological data serves as a major source of information in understanding the population’s socio-demographic characteristics, their lifestyle changes, determinants of disease, trends, patterns, and distribution of communicable and non-communicable diseases and so on. The data additionally helps in designing preventive programs and planning intervention strategies with the objective of reducing the overall disease burden. With the availability of adequate information regarding the public health needs of the villages, ICTPH is set in establishing a fully functional clinic in Karambayam- with the dual target of providing healthcare at the clinic level (RMHC) – as well as in case detection and immediate referral for management at the population level.
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Capital monitoring is an essential economic field that enables organizations and people to preserve financial stability, make best use of profits, and obtain lasting growth. The effective allocation as well as use funds are actually necessary to making sure that an organization stays synthetic cleaning agent and also may exploit on investment options. Whether in the situation of services, companies, or individual finance, resources administration participates in a pivotal job in making sure durability, lessening threats, and also maximizing financial performance. entrepreneur
This article looks into the fundamentals of capital administration, its own value, and also the most ideal techniques for achieving economic reliability as well as development.
Comprehending Resources Management
Funds administration includes the strategic preparing, tracking, and regulating of money to guarantee their optimal usage. It covers different aspects like working resources control, expenditure selections, risk monitoring, and also financial planning. Successful funding management ensures that associations and individuals may satisfy financial responsibilities, put in intelligently, as well as maintain a superior equilibrium in between danger as well as perks.
Some of the primary goals of capital management consist of:
Making certain economic liquidity
Taking full advantage of roi
Reducing economic risks
Enhancing functional effectiveness
Maintaining organization growth
Key Elements of Resources Monitoring
Working Financing Control: Reliable monitoring of short-term resources and also responsibilities to sustain working performance.
Expenditure Organizing: Alloting resources to successful projects while dealing with dangers to make certain long-term gains.
Risk Administration: Recognizing monetary threats and also applying tactics to relieve prospective reductions.
Liquidity Administration: Keeping appropriate capital to comply with economic commitments without liquidity crises.
Financing Design Marketing: Harmonizing personal debt as well as capital financing to lessen prices as well as make the most of monetary adaptability.
Relevance of Effective Funds Administration
Effective financing monitoring possesses many benefits, including:
Financial Stability: Making certain that a service or even person carries out certainly not experience economic hardship as a result of poor funding appropriation.
Maintainable Development: Appropriate capital monitoring permits long-term growth through guaranteeing that financial sources are utilized properly.
Improved Success: With calculated assets and also operating funding marketing, organizations can enhance their success.
Boosted Decision-Making: Well-managed resources supplies much better knowledge for creating audio monetary choices.
Threat Decrease: A durable financing monitoring strategy lowers economic threats and preps companies for economic downturns.
Finest Practices for Resources Control
Normal Financial Analysis: Perform periodic assessments of financial statements to track functionality and also pinpoint enhancement places.
Maintaining Cash Reserves: Ensuring sufficient assets to handle unanticipated expenditures or even market slumps.
Maximizing Personal Debt Levels: Utilizing debt tactically to money development while keeping a workable monthly payment framework.
Transforming Investments: Allocating funds all over different property lessons to minimize dangers as well as take full advantage of returns.
Utilizing Technology: Utilizing economic monitoring software for correct tracking, projecting, and also coverage.
Budgeting as well as Forecasting: Generating in-depth monetary strategies to predict potential resources needs and costs.
Keeping Track Of Money Flow: Tracking inflows as well as discharges to guarantee the efficient use funds.
Funding control is essential for monetary security, profits, and also sustainable growth. Whether for businesses or individuals, carrying out effective tactics makes certain superior information allowance, relieves risks, and also boosts monetary efficiency. Through concentrating on good financial planning, regular analysis, as well as smart financial investment choices, businesses and also individuals may browse economical anxieties and also attain lasting success.
Funds Monitoring Strategies for Services: Making The Most Of Profitability and Lessening Dangers
Capital control is actually the structure of any sort of productive service. Properly taking care of monetary resources makes it possible for services to sustain liquidity, purchase growth, and also lower monetary dangers. Without a well-structured resources control strategy, companies might have problem with cash flow problems, too much personal debt, as well as unsatisfactory financial decision-making.
This article discovers essential funding administration tactics organizations can easily apply to enhance productivity and reduce financial threats.
The Part of Funding Control in Service Results
Funds administration plays a vital task in organization procedures through making sure that financial sources are actually successfully assigned. Secret advantages feature:
Ensuring Financial Security: Ample capital makes certain soft procedures and stays away from monetary trouble.
Sustaining Company Development: Funding supply enables organizations to check out growth opportunities.
Lessening Financial Risks: Proper monitoring mitigates threats connected to financial obligation, liquidity, and also market changes.
Enhancing Real Estate Investor Self-confidence: Clients choose companies that handle their funds effectively.
Improving Creditworthiness: Tough funds control increases credit history scores and creates borrowing less complicated.
Enhancing Functional Performance: Services can improve costs as well as information, guaranteeing stable profitability.
Key Financing Administration Techniques
Efficient Working Resources Monitoring
Improve stock monitoring to lower supporting costs.
Accelerate accounts receivable compilation to boost capital.
Handle profiles owed to sustain really good supplier relationships.
Strategic Investment Organizing
Determine successful investment possibilities straightened with service purposes.
Branch out assets collections to reduce danger.
Evaluate roi (ROI) to guarantee monetary viability.
Financial Obligation and Capital Marketing
Keep a suitable debt-to-equity proportion to prevent financial strain.
Use debt loan smartly while stabilizing capital assets.
Regularly assessment as well as restructure debt responsibilities as needed to have.
Assets as well as Capital Administration
Screen cash money influxes and streams to ensure monetary stability.
Create contingency plannings to take care of economic uncertainties.
Enhance cash gets to protect against liquidity shortages.
Risk Monitoring as well as Backup Preparing
Identify economic threats such as market changes as well as credit report threats.
Apply dodging techniques to protect against rates of interest changes.
Create backup strategies for economic slumps and also unpredicted dilemmas.
Cost Effectiveness Procedures
Simplify operations to lower needless costs.
Buy innovation to strengthen effectiveness and also decrease costs.
Display monetary KPIs to track efficiency and also change appropriately.
Efficient resources administration approaches are actually critical for business productivity and sustainability. Through implementing dependable operating capital administration, enhancing personal debt as well as capital, and also sustaining liquidity, organizations can easily improve security and also attain long-lasting development.
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A Medicaid Asset Protection Trust is a valuable tool that can be used to meet Medicaid's asset limit when the applicant has excess assets. These trusts are designed to protect Medicaid applicants' assets from being counted when assessing their eligibility. Simply put, if an applicant has excessive assets, they can be transferred to a trust, in order to guarantee the applicant's eligibility. This type of trust helps applicants who otherwise would not be eligible for Medicaid. This will help the applicants receive proper care in nursing homes or at home. The assets that are transferred to the trust are no longer considered owned by the applicant. Consequently, this Medicaid Asset Protection plan protects the assets for the applicant's children or for other relatives, making it a win-win for the applicant and his or her family.
There are many types of trusts, but not all of them are Medicaid compliant. For instance, revocable living trusts, also known as family trusts, are very different from MAPTs and are not Medicaid compliant. These trusts are not eligible because they are revocable, meaning they can be canceled or altered. Yes, the assets are protected, but Medicaid still considers the assets as belonging to the applicant. These trusts allow the money to be used for long-term care costs, so the applicant won't be accepted by Medicaid. If the applicant wants to meet Medicaid's requirements, the assets must be “spent down”.
This article will discuss how Medicaid Asset Protection works and the importance of having a Medicaid Asset Protection Trust. Keep in mind that there are also other trusts relevant to Medicaid eligibility, but they will not be discussed in this article. Let's start:
Why are MAPTs important for a senior citizen?
Every state runs its own Medicaid program, according to federally set guidelines. The program varies by state, but not a lot. There is wiggle room for each state to set its own rules. For instance, the general limit for eligibility purposes for an elderly person applying for long term care from Medicaid is $2,000. Keep in mind that this limit is general - many states have slightly different limits (some states have lower, while others higher limits). Not all assets are counted – some are considered exempt (uncountable) – for instance, the primary residence, the vehicle, personal jewelry, and others. Even in this situation, many senior citizens fail to meet this asset limit and cannot afford their cost of care. Therefore, it's very important to have a tool that can easily “spend down” the applicant's assets, in order to make him or her eligible for Medicaid.
How do MAPTs work?
To better understand how MAPTs work, it's important to understand the terminology. Here's a quick guide:
the creator of the trust – this is the person who creates the trusts and will apply for Medicaid; the person can be referred to by various names, such as grantor, settlor or trustmaker
the trustee – this person is the manager of the trust; the creator of the trust and his or her spouse cannot be the trustee; usually, the trustee is a close family member, for instance, an adult child or a sibling; the trustee must respect the rules of the trust, follow the guidelines precisely and manage the trust according to the rules set forth by the trust; for instance, the trustee can use the trust's funds only under special circumstances
the beneficiary – this is the person (or persons) who will benefit from the trust after the trustmaker passes away; in order for the trust to be Medicaid compliant, the beneficiary must be someone other than the creator of the trust; if the trustmaker is also the beneficiary, the trustmaker may have access to the assets, so Medicaid will reject the application (Medicaid would consider the applicant as available to pay for the long term care and support);
The Medicaid Asset Protection plan must also be irrevocable. This means that the trust cannot be altered, changed or canceled. As soon as the assets are transferred into the trust, they no longer belong to the creator of the trust, and no changes can be made to the ownership. On the other hand, if the trust is revocable, the trustmaker is the owner of the assets, according to Medicaid. This is because the trustmaker still has control over the assets held in the trust, so the assets will be counted towards Medicaid's limit.
The benefits of a Medicaid Asset Protection Trust
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Comparing a banquet pre- and post-CI
I went to a big benefit banquet Friday evening (for a school our church supports in Rwanda: link http://www.sonriseorphansministry.org/) and I could NOT believe how well I heard compared to the same event last year. I could hear my son when he was talking across the table; I could actually hear pretty much most of the conversation at our table--of TEN people! (using my noise reduction program than decreases the sensitivity of the microphone) God is so good! It's only been 5 weeks since activation, and I'm already sometimes doing so well that I forget I am even wearing the CI. Amazing. Just totally amazing. Makes me grin my little face off!!
And I could even understand Bishop John Rucyahana as he spoke, both at the benefit and at church this morning. He is an amazing man.
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Leaving the hustle and bustle of Ho Chi Minh City and start your trip to depart for My Tho, the town lies on the left side of the Mekong River. Boarding the sampan and cruising down the river around the four beautiful islands known as Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix and Tortoise islands.
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Have lunch at local restaurant. Break time.
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Plus Size + Curve Wedding Guest Dress Ideas
It seems like wedding season is year-round lately, but we all know there is a big surge in the Fall and Spring. Knowing this (and how much I love shopping) I wanted to pull together some wedding guest dress ideas for my plus size and curvy ladies!
As a plus size woman, the struggle is always finding a wedding guest dress that is exciting to wear (while being respectful to the bride, of course) that actually comes in my size. Majority of the time if I filter “special occasion” under the dress category of my favorite department store all that pops up are boring upon boring options. If I’m getting dressed up I want to feel fabulous! Yes, there is something to be said about a classic look, but at least give me the option to jazz it up!
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HOW LONG DOES A MAKEUP APPLICATION TAKE?
We care about your schedule as much as you do. After all your time is precious! Please expect to spend anywhere from 1 - 1.5 hours in the makeup chair. The word "rush" does not exist here. We want to make sure your makeup experience is an enjoyable and memorable one. If you get hungry or thirsty, enjoy anything from our complimentary snack cart!
HOW DO I BOOK AN APPOINTMENT?
A deposit and signed contract are required to secure any appointment. Once you confirm you would like to go ahead with booking, you will be sent an email with payment option information as well as your contract. Deposits can be made via Venmo App, Cash App and Zelle. Deposits are about 30% of your total service fee.
WHAT IS YOUR CANCELLATION POLICY?
Cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to cancellation for non-bridal and 1 week for bridal. Your appointment may be rescheduled for a future date with notice and will be valid for up to (3) months after your initial appointment. Failure to cancel before the grace period will result in a forfeit of your deposit for a future appointment - meaning your deposit will not be available for a future appointment.
CAN I GET A REFUND ON MY DEPOSIT IF I RESCHEDULE?
There are no refunds on deposits. In the event you need to cancel your appointment, your deposit may be transferred for a future appointment as long as it falls under the cancellation policy above.
HOW DO I MAKE A DEPOSIT TO SECURE MY APPOINTMENT?
Deposits can be made via Venmo App, Cash App and Zelle. Deposits are about 30% of your total service. Please note: deposits are non-refundable and non-transferable.
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You may bring your own pair of lashes if you would like for them to be applied for you. Please note: this will not change the total price of your service fee.
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If you have a known allergy to an ingredient commonly found in makeup please note it in your contract. We will take note of it to make sure it is not used during your application. Please keep in mind that each makeup product has a long list of ingredients and 20+ products are used during application. We are not liable for any reaction you may have to an unknown allergy due to an ingredient found in a product.
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Please make sure you have removed all makeup prior to arriving for your appointment.
Pro Tip: use your toothbrush and cold water to brush your lips in circular motions. It will remove dead flaky skin and provide blood flow to your lips - leaving them smooth and plump. Remember, makeup sits on top of skin. It will look its best depending on how well your skin is taken care of.
Please come with a makeup free face ready for glam!
ANY SKIN TREATMENTS YOU SUGGEST I DO BEFORE MY APPOINTMENT?
Dermaplaning is an exfoliating treatment that removes the outer dermis of your face that contains peach fuzz and dead skin cells. It is done using a light scrape of a thin scalpel and can be done in most spas. The immediate result is fresh new skin that looks and feels smooth. This helps create a fresh smooth surface for makeup application.
DO YOU HAVE A LATE FEE POLICY?
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Four lane road and tramway bridge overcrossing the river Wertach and the Wertachchannel. Additional turning-lane at the eastern abutment. Two tramway lanes are situated in the middle of the bridge section. The total length is 100 m.
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The Snake Pressure Cup Insert for A10 Cyclone attachment might feel a bit sci-fi but there's no doubting the pleasure levels. The soft big bump will rub the sensitive part of penis, and if continuous rotational movement of A10 starts, an eternal pleasant sensation will be obtained.
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Recipe for drumsticks in the North Indian style, cooked with an onion, tomato, ginger, and garlic mixture. The drumstick pods are also referred to as saijan ki phalli, and another recipe for them is a straightforward stir-fry with some mustard seeds, turmeric, and salt.
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March 25, 2007
WHAT A NIGHT! Normally before the Raptor games I go to Carlyle Brewing company to do some tailgating since you aren’t allowed to tailgate in the city limits. Yesterday since we decided to go to the Raptors sponsored tailgate party. They had a VIP section for season ticket holders. Since they were going to do something nice for us, I figured I should go check it out. Well we did and to be honest I wasn’t all that impressed.
When we arrived at the park we had to go through the security shake down. Fine, I can understand that, but they really should get a security guy that is familiar with what Illinois licenses look like and their renewal processes. He was completely thrown off by Ktreva’s and my license. To quote him, “I’ve never seen a renewal sticker for a license before.” Which is sad, because I got my renewal sticker 4 years ago.
You couldn’t just buy beer or food; you had to buy tickets in order to get beer or food. Depending on what you where getting depended on how many tickets you needed. Well, I don’t know how much I’m going to need in advance, and there is only one place to get tickets, which wasn’t by the beer or food tent. Thus many trips back and forth to get tickets.
They stated the tailgating was going to start at 4:00 with food and drink. Well they had Bud, Bud light and Bud Select (Bleh to all three). The food wasn’t ready until almost 5:30. The VIP section was supposed to have it so we didn’t need to wait in line with everyone else to get food and drink. The drink wasn’t a problem, food however caused quite a bit of commotion.
They had a live band for everyone to enjoy, the band was name Ten Times Better. Well to steel a line from Ktreva, “Just about any other band would have been ten times better”. It may have been the sound system they where using or the mixing board, but they didn’t sound good at all. All in all I pretty much decided I’m not going to back to their tailgating party again unless there is a band I really want to here. IE I know someone playing in the band.
The game itself rocked. Unfortunately we lost. But I did get another game ball. My favorite player, Jeremiah Thompson scored a pair of touchdowns. After his second touchdown he came over and threw me the ball he scored with. Then after the game I stuck around to get him to autograph it.
And that’s how I got kicked out of the MetroCentre. They set up these tables for all the players and the Dynomites (Cheerleaders) to sit at. They had a line for people to walk down the row of tables so each person can autograph something. Well I didn’t want everyone’s autograph, just Thompson’s and he was in the second to last spot. After waiting for 30 minutes just to get onto the field, and the line was moving slowly, I asked a guy if I could just run over and get Thompson’s. He told me he couldn’t let me do that and then he said we probably won’t get anything signed anyway because they have to close in 20 minutes and the line wasn’t moving fast at all.
When he walked away I turned to Ktreva and Boopie. I told them to stay in line, I was going to go get Thompson’s autograph when a break in the line got to him. Quickly I ran over handed him the ball and said, “Thompson, sign this before they kick me out.” As soon as he started signing it, two security guys came running over, “Sir, we can’t have you cut in the line like this we’re going to have to ask…” Me, “No problem, I just wanted his autograph on the ball he scored a TD with. I’m out of here.” Thompson gave me the ball back and I was escorted off the field. Ktreva and Boopie left the line and we headed home.
I did have a great time and I’m looking forward to the next game in a couple of weeks. This morning I have no voice. So for those of you expecting a phone call from me today, it’s not going to happen.
Posted by Contagion in Football at March 25, 2007 09:12 AM | TrackBack
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When I started dating Joe, I was new at the whole dating thing. I guess I’d always figured that when you date someone, you’re their biggest fan, all the time. It never really registered completely that you can love someone and still absolutely hate what they’re doing in some moments.
In hindsight, I should have known that was the case. I have parents and they’d been married for fifteen years or so at the time, so you can bet there were some things they didn’t much care for about each other. I remember in particular my mom being beside herself on more than one occasion that my dad would read the newspaper and then get newspaper fingerprints all over everything.
With Joe, it was Prayer Voice.
I met Joe in church, so prayer was, at some point, going to be a part of our relationship. It might have been sooner rather than later, except that Joe wasn’t what you’d call a regular church attendee until he and I started dating in the fall. So I’d known him for months the first time I heard him pray out loud.
Ok, praying out loud in front of other people is weird anyway. I’ve always thought so. I mean, it’s like you’re asking people to eavesdrop on your conversation with God. Or you’re performing this private ritual in public so that other people will know how tight you are with the Big Man. I know that’s not why everyone does it, but it just gives me the yucks.
So let’s add on to that the fact that I was 14 years old at the time, pretty much terrified of any public speaking (and public praying totally counts), and was also prone to dying of embarrassment on behalf of other people. I assumed that everyone did or should feel a little weird about praying in public.
You know how some people have “I’m Actin’ Here” voice? When they’re playing a role, they affect a pseudo British accent and enunciate things a little differently and add in pauses and flourishes in strange places. You know, right?
Joe did “I’m Actin’ Here” voice when he prayed. His voice got lower and louder and he aspirated his t’s more, in a not-subtle way.
The first time I heard him pray, I almost expired on the spot. I’m not sure if I was more embarrassed that: a) He wasn’t embarrassed to pray in public; b) He was using “I’m Actin’ Here” voice to talk to God (quelle sin); or c) Everyone else would know he was using a voice that wasn’t his real one and they would somehow know that he was being insincere. It was a very uncomfortable two minutes or so.
After that, I pretty much just tried to avoid situations where I’d have to hear him pray aloud. I couldn’t always do it, because, you know, it was church and all. I never got used to it, though. To this day, even remembering the sound of those aspirated t’s makes me squirm and wish for death, or at least a quick end to the memory.
Loved the guy. Couldn’t stand to hear him pray out loud.
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My White Laundry Room: Ideas and Organization
Updated Jul 18, 2024
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I finally got the first room done in my new condo, and it’s the laundry room! No surprise, as I often make a mess with cooking and have to wipe up lots of spills (welcome to the life of a food blogger and YouTuber).
Welcome To My New Laundry Room
I can’t believe I’ve been in my new condo five months as of this week. It’s been a whirlwind past few months and I feel like I’m sooo far behind on decorating my space (at least according to the calendar in my brain). If you follow my social media, you know I’ve had six trips already this year (it’s been bonkers!), which meant I didn’t even unbox most things until this past month.
But, I’m finally coming up for air. And with that, the first room is done – woohoo! Or at least done enough for now. I may go back and paint the walls or add wallpaper in the future, but I wanted to wait until the rest of the condo comes together first. Thus, I’ve kept things simple, modern, minimalist, and clean, but with lots of plants! If you know me, you know I love my plant babies.
The Washer and Dryer
Given that my life and work revolves around food, it’s probably no surprise that I often make a mess in the kitchen. And somehow, that mess often ends up down the front of me (it’s a talent I tell ya). So my first order of business was getting a large and powerful washer and dryer. I polled the community of Downshifters on Instagram, and by a landslide you guys recommended LG Electronics.
And now, after four months of use, I couldn’t be happier with them! It’s a small thing, but the intelligent pairing of cycles between the two machines is wonderful. And I love the cheery, upbeat music that plays after my drying cycle is complete. But most importantly, they do a fab job of washing and drying my clothes (priority number one, right?!). So if you’re in the market for a washer and drying, I can definitely recommend this setup:
- Washer: The large 5.0 cu. ft. capacity means I can do large loads without stuffing it too full. And I’m obsessed with the automatic dispenser, which means I can do 18 loads before having to add more detergent. That’s months of laundry!
- Dryer: I got the 7.4 cu. ft matching gas dryer (though it comes in electric as well). I love the black steel color on both machines, which contrasts with the white cabinets.
Watch the installation of my washer and dryer here:
Laundry Room Ideas and Organization
After the washer and dryer, I knew I needed a few things for organization and decor. And of course several plants! Here’s what I got:
- Wall Drying Rack: This is great for air drying delicates, sweaters, dresses, etc. And I love that it folds right up against the wall when not in use!
- Artwork: Given the cool grey tones of the room I wanted to warm things up with a gold frame that “popped” and matched the wood tray on the counter. This budget floral artwork was perfect!
- Glass Detergent Bottle: I decided to keep the detergent on the counter for decor. So I transferred the detergent from it’s not-so-pretty plastic container into this glass container.
- Detergent: I always use a “free and clear” detergent, either Tide or Seventh Generation.
- Stain Remover Bottle: I also transferred the stain remover from it’s plastic container and put it into this amber glass spray bottle.
- Stain Remover: I use a standard supermarket brand, as I’ve found more natural options are not as good at getting out stains. But if you’ve found one you love, let me know in the comments!
- Bamboo Scrub Brush: When I do get stains, I’ll spritz the stain remover on the clothing item and gently rub it with this scrub brush.
- Glass Container for Dryer Balls: This glass container is the perfect size for storing the extra set of dryer balls I keep on the counter.
- Dryer Balls: I have not used dryer sheets in over seven years! I love these non-toxic 100% organic wool dryer balls. And of course, I always get these ones from New Zealand (the motherland).
- Bottle Labels: I saw someone on Instagram use these waterproof labels and I thought they were so cute! I got mine on Etsy, but afterwards I found similar ones on Amazon.
- Woven Tray: I knew I wanted to add some wood tones to warm up the room, and this tray was perfect. Here’s a similar one on Amazon.
- Faux Aloe Plant: I had this little faux aloe plant in my apartment, and it adds a touch of green in an otherwise fairly dark corner. I also love this faux jade plant as another option.
- ZZ Plant: This is a real plant that I got from a local nursery, and it came pre-potted in that black pot. I love ZZ plants as they’re fairly no-fuss and do well in low-light conditions. I have a much larger one in my new office, which used to be in my old bedroom.
- Hand Vac: This small hand vac is perfect for vaccuming up small things when you don’t want to break out a larger vaccum. Love the sage green color too!
- Hanging Planters: If these hanging planters look familiar, it’s because they’re from my old bedroom. I did however plant new baby pothos plants in them. And I know they’ll thrive in front of that window! My old planters are no longer available, but I do love this one, this one, and this one.
- Gold Chain: The chain that came with my planters wasn’t long enough for my tall ceilings, so I bought extra chain to lengthen it. I got my MacGyvering skills from my mom!
- Ceiling Hooks: Make sure to get sturdy drywall hooks if you’re drilling into drywall. Water in the planters can add a bit of weight, though I’ve never had any issues with these.
It feels so good to finally get one room done! I might be on a roll now, so stay tuned for more decorating and organizing fun in the future. The next room will likely be a toss-up between my bedroom and the guest bedroom (aka mom’s room!).
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[Review] Bark Ave
I can’t think of better way to start the new season than to gear up with some new dog collars from Bark Ave. The collars are both affordable and well-made. With 4 different collections, ranging from classic to wild, it’s easy to find the right collar personality for your pup! We personally loved the Bad Ass Collection for it’s spikes and rock star quality but can also see Remix dawning something more tame for his dapper side. 😉
The bow tie is attached to the collar and we love the chevron zig zags and vibrant colour! It also came with a matching leash. Unfortunately, this style no longer available on their website but you can definitely find similar styles in the Classic and Beverly Hill Collections.
Let us know what you think — do these collars hit the mark?
Jenn + Remix
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