Completely obsessed with these dip-dye cups. I so need to try this one.
The laundry room over at YHL is looking so fresh and cute! Love the color scheme.
I just bought the most beautiful striped/ombre storage containers for only $14.99!
I can't explain why but the whole characters/franchize/marketing thing for kids freaks me out as well. Don't get me wrong, my kid is obviously allowed to be VERY girly. I was a girly-girl and proud of it. It's the branding that I'm talking about.
I can't wait til I can read chapter books to Violet. I've never read the original Wizard of Oz series (although I have read the Wicked series), but now I fully intend to.
And I think I may just have a girl crush - I swear she could make a paper bag look good!
Next week is guest blogger week I'll be attending a workshop with Joy Cho of Oh Joy! and working on opening my Etsy shop. Stay tuned for amazing posts from lovely people. Happy Friday!
I have that same ombre basket from the Container Store and I use it to keep the bags from flying all over my trunk after a trip to the grocery store. It works great for this!


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God calls us to pray about everything. The terms prayer, supplication, and requests are similar but not identical.
Prayer is a general devotion; the word includes worship and adoration. Supplication suggests humility. We are the supplicants in the sense that we make no demands; we simply offer humble requests. A request is exactly that — a specific petition. We tell God exactly what we want. We pray the particulars of our problems.
One would think the answer would be obvious. When a sightless man requests Jesus' help, isn't it apparent what he needs? Yet Jesus wanted to hear the man articulate his specific requests.
Now, go ahead as ask him for specific healing over any and every form of ailment, sickness or disease in your body.
It is a signed blank cheque to be whole and live long in sound health, don't let it go unused.
In Jesus Christ's name I ask amen.


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SUS vs MID Dream11 Prediction and Top Picks Sussex Vs Middlesex ENGLISH T20 BLAST
by Shreya Bose
The SUS vs MID English T20 blast is going to be a really tough set off for either of the teams and we expect both of them to perform really well. Both the teams are expected to have really good potential and with the teams being all set for the final face off, we expect them to give their best!
Sussex vs Middlesex Dream 11 preview
FeedTel says that there would be a double header in the English blast on this Saturday. The following match would commence on 24th August and we see the audience to be really excited about the same. Also, the very first match that will be played between Sussex and Middlesex will lead to a clash in between Glamorgan and Somerset.
Both the games will be south group games.
Saturday will witness a double-header in the Vitality Blast 2019. The first match will be played between Middlesex and Sussex followed by a pulsating clash between Somerset and Glamorgan. Being played between Sussex and Middlesex at the Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground in Uxbridge, this is going to be a happening match without any second thought.
Presently, the Sussex is the current leader of the south group with about 2 losses and 6 wins from a total of 11. Although Middlesex have got the same number of wins as them but the it has consequently got 4 losses from 11 matches.
The SUS vs MID match is expected to be played on August 24th at 07:00 PM IST in the Uxbridge Cricket Club Ground, Uxbridge.
Key players from SUS vs MID
From SUS, Reece Topley is recognised as one of the leading gamers in the entire chart. Apart from that, we have got Ollie Robinson who is another prominent name in the team. Next, we have David Weise as the all rounder in the team who have got a track record of scoring 233 runs from 7 innings. Again, we have got Tymal Mills and Danny Briggs. Having a record of around 277 runs from 9 innings, we have got Philip Salt as the leader of all batsmen in the team with all the skills required.
From MID, we have got Steven Finn and Toby Roland. Other than that, we have got Nathan Sowter with a record of scalping 16 wickets. David Malan and Stephen Eskinazi have consequently got some best records among them!
Nevertheless, our good wishes are with both the teams. Happy playing!
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Government moves to protect people's life
Minister and Chairman of the Government Office Nguyen Van Nen hosted a post-government regular meeting press conference in Hanoi on July 31 in the presence of ministry and sector officials.
When asked about the fighting in Libya and measures to protect the Vietnamese working there, Minister Nen confirmed that the Prime Minister and the Government gave special attention to the issue.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has assigned the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to work closely with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to watch over the situation and get ready to evacuate the workers and ensure their absolute safety, Minister Nen said.
Regarding the organisations and individuals relating to the repeated breakdown of the water pipelines linking with the Da river, Nen affirmed the Government has directed relevant agencies, including the Ministry of Construction and the Hanoi municipal People's Committee, to quickly fix the problem.
Meanwhile, Vice Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam Nguyen Dong Tien cleared queries concerning the Police Investigation Police's detention of several executives of the Ho Chi Minh City-based realty Thien Thanh Group with one of them being the ex-leader of the Vietnam Construction Bank. Police has commenced legal proceedings against the case.
Tien said the central bank has adopted support measures, including a plan to ensure the bank's operation cannot be affected.
People should believe in the measures taken by the Government and the State Bank, Tien said.-VNA
The Vietnamese tourism industry served 13 million domestic tourists in January, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
The Foreign Affairs Committee of St. Petersburg city hosted a conference in both online and offline forms to mark the 73rd anniversary of Vietnam- Russia diplomatic relations in Moscow on January 30.
☀ Morning digest January 31
The following is a list of selected news summaries last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
☕ Afternoon briefing on January 30
The following is a brief review of the day's events as reported by the Vietnam News Agency.
NA leader launches emulation drive, tree planting festival in Tuyen Quang
National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on January 30 attended a ceremony to launch an emulation movement and a tree planting festival in Yen Son district in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang.
PM inspects key transport project in Mekong Delta
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 30 examined the progress of key transport projects in the Mekong Delta.


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In July 2021, Ethical Consumer viewed Hive's website for information on how the company managed workers' rights in its supply chain. Nothing was found. The website of the company's parent, The Little Group, was also searched and a page displaying all of the company's policies was found. It showed a modern slavery statement, but it did not contain any other policies related to its supply chain management.
Given that the company did not appear to have any documentation on its policies surrounding supply chain policy, it received a poor score.
Given that the company did not appear to have any documentation on its policies surrounding stakeholder engagement, it received a poor score.
Hive did not appear to have any policies on its auditing and reporting practices and therefore the company received a poor score for this section.
Hive did not appear to have any policies on its approach to difficult issues and therefore the company received a poor score for this section.
Overall, Hive did not have any policies relating to its supply chain management and therefore received a worst score.
Hive website (12 July 2021)


Does parenting a child with ADHD stress you out? It does for me, at times. While I know it's hard to manage your anger when things feel like they're spinning out of control, the following tips will help you as a parent manage your anger and move toward a better outcome for both you and your child.
One way you can identify your child's lagging skills is by asking yourself the following question: "What is getting in the way of my child's success?" Start by trying to figure out what the overall reasons are for your child's inconsistency. Some kids freak out about timed events or tests. Some can't handle peer pressure. Some don't understand social boundaries. Some don't know what to do when they make a mistake, and they fall apart and blow the rest of the race, recital, test, etc.
People resist diagnoses and labels, but sometimes we need to reframe our thoughts. If the label says that the kid is not willfully being difficult, that he is doing his best but that he cannot boss his body. Then isn't that a better way to think of someone than to think of them as difficult or challenging?
If you are the parent of one of these unique kids, the negativity is probably starting to get to you. These criticisms may be making you feel stressed, frustrated, or even ashamed by your child's behavior. Even though, deep down, you understand that change and growth takes time, you wish you could do something that would make your child "fit in" now so you didn't have to watch your child struggle with the pain of being different.
I had seen this phenomenon work for some of my other ADHD clients as well. White noise helped them focus when nothing else worked. When I was prepping to talk about this subject on Attention Talk Radio, my co-host, Jeff Copper, said, "Oh yeah. That works for me too. I call it the white noise experience." Now, I use Copper's term to describe this tool I have used with my kids consistently over the last decade.
"If he could, he would." Children with ADHD don't always act rudely or awkwardly on purpose — sometimes, they simply lack the executive function skills to keep up with confusing social norms and fast-paced conversations. Here's how parents can reframe these social challenges and better bolster weak skills.
Being a mom with ADHD is already a precarious balancing act. But add a tween's hormone-fueled emotions and thirst for independence to the mix, and it may be harder than ever for Mom to manage her own symptoms. Take control of your child's behaviors — and your ADHD — with these strategies.


Running / Installing Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) on VirtualBox | Random Thoughts - Randocity!
No, no spam issues at all on this site. The WordPress spam engine does its job nicely. Thanks for asking, even though this question is completely off topic from the article.
ICH6 was not available in the dropdown box. Is there something I need to do to make ICH6 appear in the dropdown box? And does the ISO file (Boot Camp) that I created with ImgBurn belong in the controller tree? If not, how do I mount the ISO file to make my VM work?
*Also under Storage, click 'Empty' cdrom drive and set the Empire EFI disk to this drive using the Folder icon****.
Why am I no longer seeing 'Empty' cdrom drive?
When you say Empire EFI screen, do you mean the screen you get when you start your VM with the OSX86_ModCD ISO selected?
I can't proceed to press the F5 key, because it doesn't boot, which I can't understand, because I know that my Boot Camp ISO file exists in my directory and is selected. I got my Boot Camp ISO file directly from a Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.3 installation CD, so why won't my ISO file activate?
*The screen should refresh to show the newly inserted Mac OS X install media. Once it shows the install media, press the enter key to begin installation.
Note, if you start this process using the Empire ISO image, then you must use a Mac OS X Install ISO. If you want to use the physical media, then you'll need to burn the Empire ISO to a CD and boot from the physical media drive in VirtualBox. You can then eject that media and insert the Mac OS X install media.
When you say 'eject that media', do you mean go to Devices->CD/DVD Devices Menu, and select "Remove disk form virtual drive"?
If you are using ISO media, yes. Eject it from the menu as you described. If you are using physical media, you'll press the eject button on the drive.
This is absolutely perfect Thanks for putting this out there!
I managed to get the latest snow leopard patch up and running under virtualbox. However the problem I'm having now is — if I leave the vm idle, I will eventually get the dark gray popup from snow leopard that reads: You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button until it turns off, then press the Power button again.
This happens consistently for me when leaving the vm idle. Any suggestions?
Try disabling power saving features like screen blanking and hard drive spindown. It is likely to do with managing these drivers which isn't necessary on a VM. Let me know if this works.
Notebooks can be tricky to get Virtualbox + MacOS X running on. Depending on the chipsets used (especially if it's a recently released notebook), the CPU or graphics card may be too new for Nawcom or other MacOS X boot CDs. If you can't get it to work with what's listed on this doc, then you may have to wait until Nawcom or another boot CD creator updates their CD to support newer notebook models.
Note that this is a generalized statement and covers all notebook types. If you buy a recent notebook from the store and wish to install VirtualBox + Mac OS X Snow Leopard, your mileage may vary and this article may not work for you.
With havin so much content do you ever run into any issues of plagorism or copyright infringement? My site has a lot of completely unique content I've either created myself or outsourced but it appears a lot of it is popping it up all over the web without my authorization. Do you know any ways to help protect against content from being stolen? I'd definitely appreciate it.
Actually, I don't worry about it. My articles are generally so specific and not always necessarily current news that I've found no reason to try and protect my articles. Even if I could protect them, I'm not even sure how to make that work. However, were I to find an article plagiarized somewhere else on the web, I'm not sure what I would or could do about it were it a small insignificant site. However, were the New York Times or the L.A. Times to reprint one of my articles without permission, I'd probably seek legal help at that point. If you are producing high quality content on your site, though, you might want to contact a magazine or other site that's inline with your topics and see if you can write for them. Writing for a publication puts the weight of that publication behind your words legally. So, if someone steals your words from a published article, the consequences are a lot more severe than stealing from some random blog.
Mac is awesome wants to make me by a macbook pro! Just a few cleanups that worked for me. I switched my audio to my default intel hd audio and it worked great. I did not get the ac97 to work so I tried it before downloading and it perfect. Also, had to download flash for safari cause youtube kept crashing and now youtube is working. Really appreciate this blog thanks!
Thanks!! You where the first post out of 20 I read that explained why I could never get the iso file to work. As you stated I had to use the ".dmg" file and hit refresh i made the iso file with 10 different programs thinking that was the problem, and did not need to at all. wow I came to this post after googling "eject efi disk and hit f5" and I am so fortunate to read this blog. Good job and thanks!
Thanks. I'm glad you were able to get it working and this tutorial was helpful. Most of the information I have gathered from both experience and other sites. I tried to put together as complete a guide as possible. I know there are lots of pieces here and some of it does require a bit of personal trial and error. Again, I'm glad it helped you get it working.
You're the FIRST one ever (And i mean all popular Hackintosh sites!) who clearly outlines that it only needs to change BOTH at the same time: VirtualBox CustomResolution AND SnowLeopard Preferences/boot.plist -> AND NOTHING ELSE. No Nvidia, No Ati kext, – as there is no nvidia hardware emulated in Virtualbox (It's some strange kind of "generic"…).
After three days and nights of research i finally got it !
I used the instructions for Empire EFI (NawCon didn't want to play nice) and they worked perfectly. The only nit is that on my 2560×1440 monitor, OSX wants the whole screen (naturally) but it runs up against the pre-existing Win 7 borders. That means the dock only works on one position – LH side. It's a mild pain but other than that just seems fine. I'll be interested to see how the graphics fare running Adobe Premier Production suite. I may not be able to take advantage of all speed settings. We'll see.
Excellent tutorial. Very helpful to me.
So after reading this post and a few others I decided to go the iBoot route to install Snow Leopard on my x220 in Virtualbox as it seems to have better support for Sandy Bridge than nawcom's disk (10.8.0 kernel).
Everything is hunky-dory after doing the 10.6.8 combo update and running MultiBeast before restarting: networking is fine, sound works through VoodooHDA kext.
About This Mac and shutdown-restart do not work, but to my knowledge this is not fixable, right?
Video acceleration also does not work, but this is a function of Oracle not releasing Guest Additions for OSX, right? Because MultiBeast/chimera officially support Intel HD Graphics 3000 but I'm gettin' no video support, either in or out of the browser. I managed to change the resolution to 1366×768 using the instructions here.
Other notes- Security Update 2011-005 dmg installs without issue, but 2011-006 via Software Update (just released) doesn't work. Java Update 5 dmg works fine. Safari 5.1 will not work without 2011-006 and will hose your partition. Any sites that use flash will crash Safari unless you update to Flash 11. iTunes 10.5 works without incident.
Thanks a lot for this post; it was very helpful.
Hmm. Installing SecUpd 2011-006 works via a dmg installer; not Software Update. Ditto for Safari 5.1.1.
However, sound with VoodooHDA (with IntelHDA checked in VirtualBox settings) is terrible. I've uninstalled it, but the preference pane persists even though the associated .prefpane file you'd assume would exist isn't there under /Library/PreferencePanes or ~/Library/PreferencePanes.
Also: VirtualBox's efi *does* in fact work – other bootloaders are not strictly necessary – however boot times are quite slow, and custom graphics modes other than the 5 gops (e.g. anything other than a few fullscreen options; no 1366×768/1280×768/any other standard widescreen resolutions except for 1440×900) does not seem to be possible without being able to modify VirtualBox's efi implementation. On the plus side, 'About This Mac' doesn't crash and Shutdown/Restart works correctly instead of causing a kernel panic. I've kept a working 10.6.8 image for posterity, but don't expect to use it much.
Oh, and XCode 4.0.2 installs without issue, too.
Thanks for the update on your computer. I'll have to see if I get all of your suggestions working and update my article with the specifics.
Oh, and one other note.. the Pref Pane might have been dropped into a different location than those two. You might need to use 'find' to locate the file on your hard disk. It's probably in a directory where you wouldn't expect it to be. Either that or it's left some other information out there.
As for VirtualBox's EFI. It might work now. The problem is, I've never been able to get it functioning on my setup in previous versions. It's also not easy to explain how to use it as more times than not it doesn't work. Of course, the VirtualBox developers have probably recently fixed their EFI to boot desktop OS X. I already know it will boot Server OS X fine. It's just that the VBox developers were trying not to be rogue and abiding by Apple's wishes of preventing it from booting. That sentiment may have changed recently and they may have reversed that decision. Of course, the challenge is to get Lion working which is what people are going to want.
You can get SL booted on VirtualBox. You just have to get the correct CD for your CPU and have your CPU settings set up correctly in your BIOS. Specifically, hyperthreading turned on, virtualization support enabled, etc. After that, it should all pass through correctly to VirtualBox. Make sure, of course, to download the 64 bit version of VirtualBox. Snow Leopard and Lion both require a 64 bit CPU. So, unless you have virtualization support turned on in the bios with 64 bit pass through, you won't be able to run a 64 bit operating system. So, Snow Leopard won't load.
I'll explain this setting. This is the Virtualization setting that must be enabled in the BIOS. This is what allows 64 bit pass through to VirtualBox. Without this setting enabled, all VMs will run in 32 bit mode. 32 bit mode and 32 bit CPUs are not supported by Snow Leopard or Lion. So, you will see 'unsupported CPU type' and or kernel panics.
Assuming you have 64 bit correctly set up.. for unsupported CPUs, you need to use the Legacy EFI. Not all Core i5 CPUs are properly supported. I would suggest downloading the Nawcom bootloader or locate a newer EFI CD/DVD. There are several boot CDs out there. Note, however, that new CPUs aren't immediately supported by the boot CDs. So, you may have to wait until your CPU is supported. However, since it is a Core i5, I might suggest either the legacy EFI CD or Nawcom CD first.
If you can't run a 64 bit OS on your i5 or you don't have it installed, you won't be able to run Snow Leopard in Virtualbox. You will first need to reinstall Windows as 64 bit, then install 64 bit version of Virtualbox and finally (with the correct boot CD) boot Snow Leopard with the EFI cd.
Note additionally, if you are installing Mac OS X Server, you can use VirtualBox's built-in EFI. The built-in EFI will boot Mac OS X Server just fine. If you want to run the desktop edition of Mac OS X in VirtualBox, this is where you will need an external EFI disk.
Hi, when installing in virtual box it seems you need to install guest additions to get a fullscreen mode, is this the case with snow leopard because I can't find a way around this?
Under supported operating systems, you will install the Guest Additions. Because Snow Leopard is not a supported operating system, there are no Guest Additions available. You can, however, get full screen mode by following the procedure outlined in this article when using Chameleon boot loader. However, upgrading to later versions of Snow Leopard my break the Chameleon boot loader. If that's the case, then this may also break the ability to use higher resolutions. Note that the resolutions are dependent on the boot loader to support the resolution. That doesn't mean Chameleon won't be supported on later versions of Snow Leopard, it just means that those versions may not work properly until it becomes supported.
This worked astonishingly well on my Dell inspiron 1501 – AMD Turion 64X2 – 2GB Ram – Win XP host – ATI Radeon Express 1150.
Speed wise it's surprisingly quick. I used a retail OSX cd with the NawCom bootloader. Haven't bothered setting sound (not really interested in music applications :D ) or video because I'm happy with the low res for now, but this was awesome. Thanks.
The resources/links on this post are really useful also. Good job.
Thanks much for your post. Using it, and the updated version of the ModCD (http://blog.nawcom.com/?p=446) I was able to get OS X 10.6 installed in VirtualBox on my ThinkPad X220 (i5) and an external USB CD/DVD Drive (LaCie). The only thing that went a bit odd was that the install stopped at 10 minutes remaining and hung there for 30 minutes. It never resolved so I shut it down, started up the machine and it worked fine.
Yeah, the install can be a bit glitchy. Sometimes you may have to install it twice. Or, it may work fine as you have found.
What really amazed me is that I first tried installing OS X Server, which is supported by VirtualBox using their built-in EFI and that wouldn't even get to the install screen. I'd like to try the ModCD to do an actual install on this machine and see if that works as well.
I don't personally own any AMD Sempron systems, but it's possible that the chip in your system is just new enough that the AMD boot CDs don't recognize it. If you can get the Hazard distro to work, then I would suggest trying to locate the boot system that boots the Hazard disk. If it can boot Hazard, it can boot the OS. The trick, though, is that it may not be able to boot as standalone. So, you may have to settle for booting your system from a boot CD. You can do this easily enough by adding an extra CD drive to your Virtualbox system and leave that boot CD in that drive all of the time. This way, your system will always boot properly. As time progresses, your processor type may be fully supported and you may be able to load Chameleon or another boot loader to get it to boot standalone. I hope this helps.
After couple of days "fighting" with settings, I have working mac on my e-machine. It does have AMD. I am getting problem with sound. It is working, but when playing chess, the sound crackling. Beside that, everything else work.
Too bad that Mac can not see ntfs partition.
I'm glad you were able to get it working. As was stated, the sound is, at best, underwhelming. So, I wouldn't expect much here. Also, it can easily break if you update to a version later than 10.6.3, so don't get too tied to the sound part. If you're looking for high quality sound, I'd recommend getting a real mac or use the host OS for that.
As for mounting NTFS partitions, there are several ways to handle this.
1) If your base OS is Windows, mount the drive on Windows, share it out on Windows and mount it on the Mac as a shared drive.
You can create the raw VMDK drive connector with vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk. Note that this can be tricky to do on Windows as the raw device names on Windows aren't easy to guess. On Linux, you just make sure to choose device for the full drive when using createrawvmdk.
(the partitioning information in the MBR file is ignored).
The diskname is on Linux e.g. /dev/sda, and on Windows e.g.
Note that creating a raw drive connector can be dangerous as you're letting Mac write to the entire drive. I've never had issues with this, but it does allow you to give an entire physical device to a virtual machine.
One additional caution. While ntfs3g does a reasonably good job at maintaining the proper state with NTFS formatted filesystems, it wasn't written by Microsoft. Therefore, there may be times where ntfs3g doesn't properly manage the MFT table and can leave the filesystem in a state that needs to be repaired. So, if you decide to use ntfs3g, you may need to repair the drive on Windows from time to time.
If you want to use a physical drive on the Mac, I suggest using an HFS+ partition. So, create a raw vmdk image (like above) for the physical drive on the host and format the drive as HFS+ on the Mac or use FAT32 which both Windows and Mac can manage. Windows won't be able to read it easily. Linux may have a way.


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Chapter 6 – The Grim Producer meets The County Affair
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After 10 years as CEO of plant protein business Quorn Foods, Kevin decided to step down to focus on the band. Recounting this plan in an early-morning news interview on BBC Radio 5, little did he know that listening in that day was a top Abbey Road producer who was instantly intrigued by the story of a businessman returning to a musical life. Checking out what the band had already recorded, he was impressed enough to offer to help the boys develop their sound in the studio and inject his support into helping them get their big break.
In an intense preproduction process the boys worked hard whilst building a great bond with their new producer. The songs and sound was a reflection of decades of influences but the recent success of Jason Isbell and Chris Stapleton provided reassurance that there was a demand for the type of music The County Affair wanted to make. Soon their rather publicity-shy collaborator earned the friendly sobriquet of The Grim Producer. In reality he coaxed the best out of both lads and brought in the right session musicians to create he sound they envisioned
Sessions at Abbey Road Studios led first to the creation of a 13-track album, then later to recordings of a selection of unplugged acoustic versions, followed by a video shoot for a live stream performance with the band, filmed in the legendary Studio 2.
The album 'Off the Grid' was set for release in September 2021. Texas could beckon again yet.
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Book Blast and Giveaway: Christmas With You by Nan Reinhardt
This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Nan Reinhardt will be awarding a set of six handmade wine charms and a $10 Starbucks gift card (US ONLY) to 5 randomly drawn winners via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.
She's loved him all her life… but will he be there when she needs him the most?
Disheartened and adrift after being written out of a hit TV show, actor Aidan Flaherty returns to his family's historic winery, where he's invested some of the fortune he's made. As the holidays approach, Aidan becomes intrigued with the old showboat that's dry-docked just east of town… and even more intrigued with the daughter of his former mentor, who now owns it. He decides to buy the boat and restore it to its former glory.
Single mom Holly Santos is back in River's Edge after her divorce and she is over men in general and actors in particular. If she could only get rid of her father's old showboat, a source of fascination for her son, Mateo. She never expects her old crush to walk into her tea shop or the fireworks that happen every time they're in the same room. Can Aidan convince her that he is determined to restore their shared heritage on the showboat and that he's home to stay?
A knock on his car window jerked him back to the Mickey D's parking lot and he turned to see a young woman peering in. "Hey?" She tapped on the glass again. "Hey? Aren't you that cop? The one on TV? Pete At-Atwater?"
Aidan came within a second of simply shaking his head since she didn't even have the name of his character right, but another girl came up behind the blonde, a huge smile on her face. "It's him!" She gripped the blonde's arm. "It's Pete Atwood from LA Detectives!" Elbowing her way to the window of the little MG, she stooped down. "We love you, Pete!"
Pinning on his celebrity smile, the one that showed off his dimples and made hearts race all over America and Canada, Aidan rolled down the window. "Good morning, ladies."
They clutched each other and giggled, jiggling with excitement. "Can we get a picture with you?" the blond one asked while the other one bit her lip and sighed.
"Sure." Aidan opened the car door and got out, surreptitiously scanning the parking lot as he did so. Most of the cars were in the drive-thru and the people in line weren't paying attention to the activity in the corner of the parking lot, where he'd deliberately parked to avoid being recognized. How had these two figured out who he was?
Oh, crap, the California license plates on Pete's distinctive MG! A dead giveaway and it's no secret that the actor who plays Pete Atwood is from a small river town in southern Indiana.
At least ten pictures and a couple of autographs later, he was back in the car while the two girls scurried off. Aidan watched out of the corner of his eye as they high-fived each other before getting into an older compact car. No doubt they were both on their phones letting friends know that Pete Atwood was haunting the parking lot of the McDonald's on the highway, so heaving a huge breath, he buckled up and turned the key in the ignition.
Nan Reinhardt is a USA Today-bestselling author of romantic fiction for women in their prime. Yeah, women still fall in love and have sex, even after 45! Imagine! She is a wife, a mom, a mother-in-law, and a grandmother. Nan has been a copyeditor and proofreader for over 25 years, and currently works on romantic fiction titles for a variety of clients, including Avon Books, St. Martin's Press, Kensington Books, and Entangled Publishing, as well as for many indie authors.
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This year was the year I discovered JoJo Moyes. Moyes is a British author who has penned countless romance novels.
In the span of a few months, i've read three of her books and I've enjoyed each one more than the last. I like to describe her books as "chick lit with depth". Her books are the perfect summer reads – you know the kind of book that you pull up on your kindle while you're poolside sipping on a pina colada. There's quirky characters, engaging plots, and underlying deeper message that stays with you long after you finish the book.
Me Before You tells the story of a young sheltered girl who goes to work as a nurse for a man in a wheelchair. The man, Will, is now living a semblance of the life he used to live – one that used to be life will adventure, determination, and spontaneity. Together Lou and Will teach each other about life and love. While sometimes light-hearted and comedic, the book also touches on a darker medical issue which I won't go into because of spoilers. The book became so popular that there is now a movie in the works set to be released in 2016.
Moyes also published the sequel, After You, in September of this year. I devoured both books, but I must admit Me Before You was my favorite.
While waiting for the sequel, I read One Plus One, another Moyes book. One Plus One tells the story of a single mom living a busy, chaotic life trying to make ends meet. When her daughter becomes eligible for a scholarship at a prestigious university, the family embarks on a road trip where they meet a strange man who helps them out. What follows next is a comedic yet touching romance and look at what family really means.
If you're looking for an easy read that still stimulates the mind, stars a strong female lead, and makes you feel the warm fuzzies, then JoJo Moyes is your go-to author.
Have you read any of Moyes' novels? Who is your go-to author for a good read?
Ironically enough, as I approached my late 20s I became more and more interested in the young adult fiction genre of books. Growing up, all I would read was The Babysitter's Club and then I progressed onto Sweet Valley High. While they were fun books to read as a high schooler, they seem like nothing compared to the young adult books being written today. The Fault in Our Stars, Paper Towns, Eleanor and Park, and most recently, Fangirl are just some examples.
What I love about these books is that the main character is almost always a misfit or an outcast in their high school. Yet that doesn't faze them one bit. They are confident and fully embrace their quirks. Some come from happy families, and some not so much. It's quite a drastic contrast from the Wakefield twins and the world of Sweet Valley I was accustomed to as a teenager.
Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell (now one of my favorite authors), tells the story of twin sisters who are in their first year of college. Cath writes fan fiction for a Harry Potter like saga called Simon Snow and resists change, so adjusting to college life is a struggle for her. Meanwhile her twin Wren is having the time of her life, attending parties, and meeting many new people. Sad, confused, and feeling like she doesn't belong Cath continues to do what she loves to do: write. She doesn't change who she is to fit in and by the end of the book she's found like-minded people who care for her just as she is – a valuable lesson to learn no matter if you are 18 or 28.
As a 28 year old, books like Fangirl might be considered a guilty pleasure for me but I feel like that does them a disservice. These are the types of books I would encourage my nieces to read as they get older. They are genuinely well-written books, with engaging, well-liked characters, and a cozy, comfy plot. They make you feel those warm fuzzies; they make you cry and they leave you so engrossed you just might miss your bus stop (more than once).
Have you read any recent young adult books? Did you enjoy them or not?
I remember the first Desi lit book I read – it was Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier. From then on I went to read books like The Namesake and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri and Arranged Marriage by Chitra Divakaruni Banerjee.
Recently, I read The Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda which has been on my list to read for a while. I loved the book. It touched on many various and deep topics such as female infanticide, adoption, and cultural clashes. Despite that, the book felt like a very easy thanks to Gowda's simple writing style. I also loved that part of the book was based in the Bay Area.
I would definitely recommend people to read The Secret Daughter. I finished it over the course of a few days because I was really drawn to the characters and the story line. It got a bit emotional at certain points, at which I had to stop reading while on the train unless I wanted to be that awkward person on BART (no thanks).
Have you read The Secret Daughter? What did you think? What are you currently reading?
Yes, I admit it: I'm twenty five years old and I still love reading chick lit. My favorite authors of the genre are Emily Giffin and Sophie Kinsella, but I recently picked up Loved Walked In by Marisa de los Santos.
The novel opens up with a handsome, tall stranger walking into the coffee shop where Cornelia Brown works and changing her life forever. I know what you're thinking: the stranger and Cornelia meet, go on a few dates, some drama occurs, and they fall in love and have their happily ever after. Let me just say that no, that is not how this book goes.
Instead the readers get two parallel story lines of Cornelia and a young girl named Clare that intersect in a story about all kinds of love.
I found de los Santo's writing style to be incredibly engaging, poetic, and all the while an easy read. I look forward to reading her other novels: Belong to Me and Falling Together. Much like Kinsella and Giffin's novels, I can see Loved Walked In being easily translated onto the big screen.


Nov. 14 (UPI) -- The United States Women's National Team wrapped up its unbeaten 2018 campaign with a 1-0 win against Scotland.
Alex Morgan scored the lone goal of the friendly on Tuesday at St. Mirren Park in Paisley, Scotland. The goal came on a long cross from Mallory Pugh in the 39th minute.
Morgan made a far post run during the sequence. Pugh picked her out while she was dribbling about 30 yards from the net along the right flank. The USWNT striker sent in a cross with her right boot. The pass bent in toward the incoming Morgan, who struck the ball for a right-footed volley into the far post netting.
The score was Morgan's 98th international goal. She has 25 goals in her last 26 games for the USWNT. Ashlyn Harris had her sixth career shutout in the victory.
"Hey fans, thank you for all of your support in 2018," Morgan said on the USWNT Twitter account. "Being undefeated is pretty awesome and coming away with a win in Scotland."
The USWNT begins its 2019 campaign with a game against France at 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 19 at Stade Oceane in Le Havre, France.


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Joseph Sassoon Semah, a Baghdad-born artist who now lives and works in Amsterdam, is about to embark on an extensive multi-site project, in Amsterdam, Jerusalem, and Baghdad. Berlin-based poet and author Mati Shemoelof talks with him about his years living as an artist in Israel versus being a Babylonian Jew and an artist in Europe. They discuss Judaism, diaspora, exclusion, and acts of concealment and building.
Conversation / Mati Shemoelof
Joseph Sassoon Semah, Joseph Beuys, Martin Luther, Judaism, Christianity, Amsterdam, Iraq, Talmud, Mordechai Omer, Sarit Shapira, Gideon Ofrat, diaspora, Babylonian exile, home, asylum city, deletion, exclusion, the Middle East, theology, Mizrahi
The artist Joseph Sassoon Semah has never before given an interview to an art publication in Israel. The Israeli art world has not adequately recognized his work. Although he showed in several important institutions in Israel and worked with key curators, it was negligible compared with the scope of his oeuvre, especially following his move from Israel to Europe. What would have happened had he stayed in Israel? Was he stumped by his diasporic state or was he ahead of his time in dealing with the Jewish component of his art? It is not merely an objective issue to be measured by the number of exhibitions, but rather the artist's subjective sense of his position in the art field. I gather from Semah that he has remained on the outside, beyond the walls of Jerusalem. In Europe, too, and especially in the Netherlands, his work is not widely known yet. This interview stems from my own interest in Semah's identity (we are both of a Jewish Iraqi descent) and his work, but also as an intra-European process of an artistic, inter-generational analysis attempting to formulate the role of Jewish culture in Europe.
Semah was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1948. His grandfather, Hacham Sassoon Kadoorie, was the chief rabbi of Baghdad's Jewish community until his passing in 1971, even after they had all emigrated. In 1950, Semah and his family were uprooted from Iraq, and they moved to Israel. He grew up in Tel Aviv. Traumatized by his military service in the 1967 and 1973 wars, he chose exile and has been living in the Netherlands since 1981. The grandfather's continued residence in Baghdad, along with some 20,000 more Jews, brings to mind Semah's own position in Amsterdam (his grandfather did not immigrate to Israel, and Semah emigrated from Israel – both had chosen a diasporic existence as a Jewish minority under a Muslim/Christian majority), where he now lives with his partner, Linda Bouws. She runs the institute they co-founded, Metropool – Studio Meritis MaKOM: International Art Projects. My grandmother, Rachel Kazaz, had also been among the displaced Baghdadi Jews. My acquaintance with the pain and the uprooting enabled me to write about the mysterious affair that drove the Jews of Iraq to abandon their property, their culture, and their way of life within just a year; the affair that involved bombing Jewish centers in Baghdad, including the synagogue of Semah's grandfather.1
ארץ אָהַבְתִּי – ארץ אותי לא אהבה 1979 קובץ קטן.jpg
Joseph Sassoon Semah, My Beloved Country – That Did Not Love Me, rug and black oil paint, 100X70 cm, 1977
Photography: Ilya Rabinovich
Courtesy of Joseph Sassoon Semah
The religious component is always present in Semah's art, in both form and content, as Judaism provides him with continual context. In some works, mostly those that look upon Israel as an object, he also addresses the Middle-Eastern identity. For instance, the work from the series My Beloved Country – That Did Not Love Me (1977) shows Israel as an alien white slice cut from a carpet of the Middle East. The carpet signifies an area, and also a place where Jews, Muslims, and others offer their prayers.2 The scholar Shlomit Lir wrote in the past year: "In My Beloved Country- That Did Not Love Me Joseph Semah demonstrates the binary perception and the Orientalist gaze by placing an outline of the map of Israel on top of a Persian rug. The virulent contrast created by the coupling of these two elements emphasizes an act of deletion where there should have been geographical continuity. The installation points to a place of conflict and unresolved dissonance between the Middle-eastern space, represented here by the brightly embroidered rug, and Israel, represented as a uniformly white cutout in the shape of the country's map."3
In the early 1990s, the well-known curator Sarit Shapira identified another central theme in Semah's art – the motif of the victim. She wrote about it: "…in his work, too, it is handled through linkage to a Biblical myth."4 Shapira discerns Semah's process of reversal: rather than a discussion by the Christian culture about the place of the Jew within it, the Jew is viewing Christian society as the 'other.' "The production of paintings and sculpture in the West, Semah argues, is tainted by this Christian lust. His treatment of the border line between Judaism and Christianity is a maneuver that allows him to observe, from a remove, from the position of the 'other,' both the culture and his own Jewish-Israeli one."5
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Joseph Sassoon Semah, My Beloved Country – That Did Not Love Me, metal clothes hanger and egg-shaped marble, 33 cm, 1977
If we looked closely at art that is being made in Israel today, we could detect the influence of Semah's work, like the influence of other Mizrahi émigré artists such as Meir Gal, who is also mentioned by Shlomit Lir in her academic paper.6 However, throughout his years in Israel Semah has always been considered a bird of a different feather. The few, select occasions on which he has exhibited in Israel include "Routes of Wandering" at the Israel Museum (1991), curated by Sarit Shapira, and the Israel Festival of 1986, under the directorship of Oded Kotler, when his work, Take Sand and its Shadow is Blue (As the Mountains Surround Jerusalem), was presented near Armon HaNatziv, the headquarters of the British high commissioner in the 1930s and 1940s, built on the what had previously been the border between Israel and Jordan. For this work, Semah installed a series of blue cocoons that marked the seam between east and west.7
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Joseph Sassoon Semah, Take Sand and its Shadow is Blue (As the Mountains Surround Jerusalem). Wire net covered in concrete and blue paint, 1986
Photography: The Israel Festival
Over the last forty years Semah has been preoccupied with identifying the strategy of the Western Imperium, to uncover its blank pages and through them to reveal that which is hidden, concealed – the universal Jewish narrative. His method is quite simple: he studies the canonical works of Western art by writing his interpretations of them. Sometimes, his artworks become footnotes in the text he is writing.
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Joseph Sassoon Semah, How to Explain Hare Hunting to a Dead German Artist, February 24, 1986
Photography: Olaf Bergmann
The 26th of November, 1965, Düsseldorf, Germany: Joseph Beuys is inside a gallery, an audience is watching him from outside. His head is smeared with honey and gold leaf, and he is holding a dead hare in his arms. He named the performance "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare." Beuys strolled along the walls of the gallery, which were hung with his Brown Cross (Braunkreuz) paintings– crosses painted with the hare's blood – explaining them in a language unintelligible to the hare. Beuys died on January 23, 1986. And on February 24, 1986, on his birthday, Semah put on a performance, How to Explain Hare Hunting to a Dead German Artist ("hare hunting" was a euphemism for killing Jews during the Holocaust). It was Jewish theological tradition's answer to Beuys, going back in time to Esau, who had come back from the hunt with a hare (a non-kosher animal) and thus lost his father's blessing to his brother Jacob. The image of Esau with the dead hare slung over his shoulder is featured in many paintings in major European churches.8
Mati Shemoelof: Have you met Beuys?
Joseph Sassoon Semah: I met him twice. Once in Berlin, at the National Gallery. He was a kind man, and he invited me to his home, but I didn't go. We met again, also in Berlin, and talked for half an hour. Yes, he was aware of my work, but he was the clean, pure face of Germany after WWII, and myself a young artist.
MS: Your work reminds me of the writing of the Babylonian Talmud, in the sense that the interpretations are independent creations, and of Jewish literature, which is inter-textual and gathers in the layered writings of sages from different times. And you created a piece on the subject of the Babylonian Talmud, which was banned.
JSS: I couldn't show An Introduction to the Principle of Relative Expression (1979), in which I have covered pages from the Babylonian Talmud in black paint. Moti (Mordechai) Omer, the late director of the Tel Aviv Museum, told me, in our last conversation, that he would "display these works at the Tel Aviv Museum over my dead body." The first and last to show it was the curator Gideon Ofrat, at the "Time for Art" (zman le-omanut) space in Tel Aviv, in 2002.
According to Semah, Omer's reaction, from thirty years ago, was a rejection of his symbolism and a result of the difficulty to understand his context as a Babylonian Jew. In the rejected work, he covered pages from the Babylonian Talmud in black paint intersected with white lines that marked entry and exit points to and from the Talmud. The same work was shown twenty years later in an exhibition curated by Gideon Ofrat.9 Perhaps Ofrat had understood the context and seen the work's artistic value, which seems obvious today, with the increased recognition of the Jewish component in Israeli art. Omer was not alone in declining to show Semah's works. According to the latter, Yigal Zalmona, of the Israel Museum, and Galia Bar Or, of the Mishkan Museum of Art at Ein Harod, rejected his work as well.
An Introduction to the Principle of Relative Expression, 1979, black oil crayon on pages from the Babylonian Talmud, 27X40 cm each
In 1979, the year Semah's father died, Israel has died for him too, he says, and he had been reborn as a Babylonian Jew. From within the canonical European art, Semah has discovered that he was a guest, the 'other.' The discovery created a hidden, delicate equilibrium between the new personal identity (a Babylonian Jew), and his position in the West, that is Europe – being a universal Jew.
MS: Do the Dutch accept your artistic critique of the Holocaust discourse?
JSS: Since I started the project On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) with Linda Bouws, in 2015, the art world and the Dutch in general begun to comprehend the research in its entirety.
The project Semah is referring to will manifest itself this year, 2019, under a double title, comprising two subjects: "The Third GaLUT - Baghdad , Jerusalem, Amsterdam - On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) III." He will reveal his full name for the first time – Joseph Sassoon Semah, the Babylonian Jew, of the third Exile (GaLUT). The project, created in collaboration with Linda Bouws, will be extended to Jerusalem and Baghdad as well. He will construct architectural models of the homes and synagogues and burial places of the Jews of Iraq, including his grandfather's Meir Tweig synagogue and the tomb of the prophet Ezekiel (which is located about 100 kilometers outside Baghdad). He will present these models in public and private spaces in Amsterdam. With the help of local activists, Semah is planning to build, in close proximity to the Meir Tweig synagogue, where his grandfather had served as chief rabbi, The Doubling of the House - a house in which the entrance and the window form the Hebrew letters for chai (ח"י) – the letters that represent the number 18, and also mean "living." The same structure will also be raised in Amsterdam. Today there are no Jews left in Baghdad. That is, Babylonian Jewry has been erased twice – once in Iraq, and for the second time in Israel. The very construction of the house opposite the synagogue proves that the Jews of Iraq are alive and present. Unlike works like Yael Bartana's …and Europe Will be Stunned, here there is no repatriation of Iraqi Jews to Baghdad; there is only an anguished howl.
Joseph Sassoon Semah, study based on the Meir Tweig synagogue in Baghdad, Iraq, from On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) III - The Third GaLUT - Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, pen and pencil and paper,42X30 cm, 2018
Joseph Sassoon Semah, study based on the the tomb of the Prophet Ezekiel, al Kifal, Iraq, from On Friendship / (Collateral Damage) III - The Third GaLUT - Baghdad, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, pen and pencil on paper,42X30 cm, 2018
"To begin with, GaLUT is neither Exile, nor Diaspora, nor an existing Place; GaLUT is simply a disciplined activity, an intensive vision, and it is what GaLUT proceeds to do - to transform each and every temporary MaKOM of shelter, into a perpetual search for a Handful of Soil. At this point, one can say that the depiction of MaKOM in GaLUT is an idea of a constant doubling; A double mirror-image of itself by itself. But behind all these, there is another reality, that is of an absolute Reading, to be defined in terms of the enduring action of Writing." (Joseph Sassoon Semah, 1986)10
MS: You make use of of the various meanings of the Hebrew words makom (place) and galut (exile), and find in their combination the term "city of refuge," or "shelter." This term resonates the public bomb shelters, which are non-existent in Europe but are part and parcel of Israeli epistemology, and also resonates to a place of escape – to immigration – and the search for a city of refuge. In biblical times, the six cities of refuge were in Transjordan.
Semah: We've served in the military, in addition to other things, and its business is to kill. We kill directly and indirectly. The army is not about dancing. In 1986 I made Amsterdam my city of refuge, and there I publicly confessed my past as a soldier.
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Joseph Sassoon Semah, MaKOM (The Doubling of the House), 200X200X200 cm, cement blocks, with entrance and window, 1979-2019
The correspondence between Semah and myself is not related only to identity, Mizrahiness, ethnicity, or Jewishness – it is also about place. We both are Jews living in Europe, conducting a dialog with Israel that had defined us as subjects, and with the European continent. We have no choice but to deal with the multiple states of mind that had established the Jewish identity as we know it, without us (Iraqi Jews in particular, and Arab-Jews in general) having ever taken part in this continuum of thought and cultural production shared by the those who established the three identities we are confronting – either the Jewish-Israeli identity, the Jewish-European, or the European one.
MS: Your criticism reaches far, as far as Martin Luther and his anti-Semitism. In 2017, you were permitted to present an intricate work in Nieuwe Kerk cathedral in Amsterdam. It contained your name, among other things, written above Luther's. It is interesting to me that you, as a Babylonian Jew, are reversing the figure of the Jew in the very heart of Christian culture, even though our ancestors come from a different culture. You assume a task of deconstruction that contains an element of masquerade.
JSS: We connected to Martin Luther in this project by way of the 500th anniversary of his achievements, but the research had been written already thirty years ago. I can explain the connection to Luther as a private investigation – going back to things I explored thirty years ago in Berlin. Let us not forget, there has been an exclusion of the Mizrahi Jews in Israel, and we hardly ever listened to Arab music or read Arab literature. Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust became our origins. The establishment and the education system erased the culture of the Babylonian Jewry. Although I had not been a part of the Mizrahi struggle, after many years in Europe, and through study, I returned to the identity I had lost in Israel.
1. Shemoelof, Mati, "We are Writing a Nation State:– the Case of the immigration of the Jews of Iraq." See: https://matityaho.com/2012/10/09/אנחנו-כותבים-אותך-מולדת-המקרה-של/
2. Lir Shlomit, "Black Panther White Cube: The Exhibition that Wasn't Shown," Visual culture in Israel: An anthology, Edited by Sivan Rajuan, Noa Hazan (Shenkar College: Ramat Gan and Hakibbuz Hameuhad Publishing: Tel Aviv, 2017), p. 322.
4. Shapira, Sarit, Routes of Wandering: Nomadism, Voyages and Transitions in Contemporary Israeli Art. (Jerusalem: Israel Museum), 1991, p. 163 (in Hebrew). This quote was translated by the translator of the current essay.
6. See Lir. p. 322.
7. This performance was restaged in 2007 at a church in Hildesheim, as part of a large project called Next Year in Jerusalem, which took place in 12 churches throughout the Hanover region in Lower Saxony, Germany.
8. See also: Gideon Ofrat, The Return to the Shteitel (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute. 2001)
9. See Ofrat's article about this work here, pp 52-53 of the PDF (in Hebrew)
10. From the manifest Joseph Sassoon Semah wrote for his the project City of Refuge (Epistemic MaKOM), created in Amsterdam in 1986.
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Chef Javier Ruiz Vargas has joined the team, bringing international experience and creativity to the kitchen of La Fructuosa.
Originally from Malaga province, Chef Javier is passionate about the region's exceptional produce and his dishes highlight the rich diversity and quality of the area.
This autumn enjoy seasonal specialities including local venison with genal valley chestnuts, with a mushroom and berry sauce. Or choose the suckling goat with pumpkin, chickpeas, caramelised onion, and Moroccan gravy. Of course, rice is an traditional dish in Spain, and here one can expect a generous and sophisticated red shrimp and cuttle fish rice that's perfect for sharing.
Gastronomy at La Fructuosa
The dining room is a delight. The original wine press, one of only three in the village remains, a striking, historical centre piece to the space. The garden terrace is a favourite too, shaded with quince trees and vines, and of course offering stunning Gaucin views.
Dining Terrace
In recent years, La Fructuosa has also established itself as a popular venue for live music, hosting a variety of local and international artists performing jazz, blues, classical, flamenco and pop. During summer, La Fructuosa is the place for balmy music evenings on the terrace; and in the winter, expect monthly tasting dinners in the dining room followed by concerts.
Art Gaucin
The village is renowned for its international artistic community of painters and sculptors and Catherine is an active member. Her studio is next door to the hotel, a fascinating space of colour, texture, and form. Yet this is not the only place where her art can be enjoyed.
Throughout La Fructuosa are pieces that bring vibrancy and creativity to the property.
A gourmet meal, a beautiful concert, time in the mountains, the reasons to come to Gaucin are compelling, so it makes sense to stay over. The hotel's 6 guest rooms provide welcoming and comfortable spaces, each with an ensuite bathroom. Design colour and style enhance the historic building and 4 rooms also offer remarkable views to where the Atlantic and Mediterranean meet, and where Europe also touches Africa.
La Fructuosa guest rooms
I really enjoyed my short mountain escapade to Gaucin. La Fructuosa immerses one into village life, and Daniel and Catherine are delightful hosts, offering genuine, heartfelt hospitality, supported by a small and caring team.
Owners Daniel (left) and Catherine (middle) with their team
Website: www.lafructuosa.com
Address: La Fructuosa, Calle Luis De Arminan 67, 29480, Gaucín, Andalucia, Spain


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Q: Why object required error is showing in vbscript? I am using vbscript for automating excel. I know to use excel i need to create object of Excel application.
I have created an object of Excel but still its throwing an error Object required.

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Object required Error

Here's my code :
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pathCBS = setInputPath & "Input\Makuri\" & todayDateAsFolder & ".xlsx"
pathIB = setInputPath & "Input\iBank\" & todayDateAsFolder & ".xlsx"
pathMM = setInputPath & "Input\MobileMoney\" & todayDateAsFolder & ".xlsx"
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I tried creating new excel object for every sheets that i am working on which is working but not as expected. I am using VBs from 3 months never ever i encountered this error.

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July 12, 2018 by J. Caleb Mozzocco
Review: 'Marvel Comics Digest #7'
July 12, 2018 by J. Caleb Mozzocco Leave a Comment
Marvel Comics Digest #7
Writers: Stan Lee, David Michelinie, Joe Caramagna and others
Artists: Jack Kirby, Don Heck, George Perez and others
Archie Comics; $6.99
It was a team-up that was at least as unexpected as that of Superman and Spider-Man in 1976, when they joined forces against Lex Luthor and Doctor Octopus: Archie Comics, the unrivaled masters of newsstand comic book penetration in the 21st century, announced last year that they would be designing, packaging and distributing a new digest series collecting Marvel comics. While also sold at some direct market comic shops, the goal of the reprint anthologies—which are in the same size and style of the Archie Comics digests that are often the only comics still sold in newsstands—was to get Marvel comics into big box retailers, book stores, grocery stores, and all the man places that don't sell the publisher's usual serial offerings.
The alliance has apparently been a successful one, as it's ongoing, and the latest of the bi-monthly digests features the Marvel heroes who currently have a movie in theaters: Ant-Man and The Wasp. While perhaps not the absolute best Ant-Man and Wasp comics currently available, even if one qualifies ones specifically targeted to younger or newer readers who aren't invested in the ongoing Marvel Comics mega-narrative, Marvel Comics Digest #7 is definitely the easiest and cheapest way to get a few hundred pages worth of Ant-Man, Wasp, and Avengers comics into a kid's hands.
If you're familiar with the Archie digests featuring the Riverdale teens, then you're familiar with this format: The 4.75-by-6-inch digest is a bound collection of comics, with a thin, magazine-stock like cover and thinner-still newsprint pages that will likely prove nostalgic for most adult readers…and suggest to younger readers that comics are, in fact, a bit more disposable than they might think if they're used to original graphic novels or fancier, glossier serial comics from the local comic shops.
The contents span 52 years, from the first appearance of The Wasp in a 1963 issue of Tales To Astonish by her creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby to comic book "adaptations" of the Avengers Assemble cartoon, wherein images taken directly from the TV show are re-purposed as panels, the last of which is from 2015, the same year the first Ant-Man movie was released.
While the movies feature two generations of Ant-Men and Wasps—originals Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne mostly via flashback, and title characters Scott Lang and Hope Pym—the digest includes both Ant-Men but just one Wasp. More often than not, the size-changing heroes are in the company of The Avengers, and there's at least one story where all three of them are together.
From 1963 and '64 are some stories written by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby and/or Don Heck, including the origin of The Wasp, The Avengers' first battle with Kang (by which point Pym has already gone from Ant-Man to Giant-Man) and a rematch with Kang that also features Spider-Man.
Then we jump ahead to 1979 for the introduction of the second Ant-Man, Scott Lang, by David Michelinie and John Byrne, in a story that tracks somewhat with the story of the first film—and artists Byrne and Bob Layton really demonstrate the size-changing "shrink fu" fighting tactics that were central to many of the action scenes in the first and especially the second film.
Michelinie then teams this new Ant-Man with Pym, now going by "Yellowjacket," and The Wasp in a two-part Avengers story that also introduced villain The Taskmaster, and that's it for the Marvel Universe stories. The rest of the book is filled up by a quartet of stories based on the rent-ish Avengers cartoons, one of which doesn't feature The Wasp or any Ant-Men (although the cover does say that this issue stars "The Avengers featuring Ant-Man and The Wasp, so I guess they've allowed for that).
Given the amount of time, the number of characters and different continuities covered in the book, not to mention the variant styles, it is naturally not too terribly cohesive, and it honestly wouldn't have been too terribly difficult for Archie to better curate the contents to make a better funnel into the characters and the Marvel Universe…and/or Marvel trade paperback collections. On the other hand, the grab-bag nature of will provide questions for kids to pursue, if they are so inclined, and it's not a bad introduction to some of the superhero genre's all-time great artists.
The digest size probably isn't the best way to encounter art from the likes of Kirby, Byrne, or Perez, but given that the stars of this issue have as a super-power the ability to get really small, Ant-Man and The Wasp are definitely the ideal subjects for the so-much-smaller-than-usual format.
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About J. Caleb Mozzocco
J. Caleb Mozzocco is a way-too-busy freelance writer who has written about comics for online and print venues for a rather long time now. He currently contributes to Comic Book Resources' Robot 6 blog and ComicsAlliance, and maintains his own daily-ish blog at EveryDayIsLikeWednesday.blogspot.com. He lives in northeast Ohio, where he works as a circulation clerk at a public library by day.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated a $663 million judgment, concluding that the Supreme Court's opinion in Escobar doomed the plaintiff's FCA claims on the issue of materiality.
Trinity Industries, a manufacturer of highway guardrail systems, faced FCA allegations brought by a former competitor based on the theory that federally subsidized purchases of Trinity's guardrail systems resulted in false claims as a result of unapproved design modifications. Prior to the filing of the relator's qui tam lawsuit, the relator met extensively with Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) officials during which he presented his allegations regarding the design modifications and his assertions that those modifications rendered Trinity's guardrail systems ineligible for federal reimbursement. FHWA met separately with Trinity to discuss the relator's allegations. Following those meetings, FHWA confirmed that state purchases of the Trinity guardrail system were eligible for federal reimbursement notwithstanding the design modifications.
Despite FHWA's statement that the guardrails always had been and continued to be eligible for reimbursement, the district court denied Trinity's motion for summary judgment, and the Fifth Circuit denied Trinity's motion for a writ of mandamus. After the first trial resulted in a mistrial, a jury returned a verdict for the relator and entered the $663 million judgment. Trinity then renewed its motion for judgment as a matter of law.
In light of the jury verdict, the federal government conducted independent testing of the modified guardrails that had been installed across the country. In March 2015, FHWA issued a press release again confirming that the government's approval of the guardrails remained in place. Despite the results of the post-trial testing, the district court denied Trinity's renewed motion and entered a final judgment for the relator. Trinity moved for a new trial, and the district court again denied the motion.
Though the Fifth Circuit acknowledged that continued payment is not dispositive, at least facially embracing Escobar's holistic, multi-factor approach, it is evident that the Fifth Circuit focused heavily on the government's actual conduct in the face of the relator's information and allegations: "[G]iven FHWA's unwavering position that [the guardrail system] was and remains eligible for federal reimbursement, Trinity's alleged misstatements were not material to its payment decision." Despite the Supreme Court's instruction in Escobar that the question of materiality is to be evaluated holistically, continued government payment despite knowledge of omissions or misstatements very well may come to be the prevailing factor for courts to consider. While the FHWA was very outspoken about its payment decision in this case, courts will likely have a harder time applying this type of retrospective analysis where the government is less forthcoming about its payment decisions.
For more information about issues arising under the False Claims Act, contact a member of Bass, Berry & Sims' Healthcare Fraud Task Force.


The king (82) will meet citizens and launch development projects in northern areas including Waad al-Shamal industrial city, state news agency SPA reported on Tuesday.
President Recep Erdogan said at the weekend he would give new details in a speech on Tuesday about the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.
Trump dispatched Pompeo to Riyadh for what the State Department described as "face to face meetings with the Saudi leadership."
Donald Trump dispatched Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet King Salman over the case that has strained the Americans' relationship with the Saudis, carefully cultivated by the US president.
Donald Trump said meanwhile he had spoken with King Salman about Khashoggi, a critic of the kingdom's policies, and that he was sending Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to meet the king immediately.
The call comes days after the US president criticised OPEC for high oil prices and called again on the exporting group to boost crude output to cool the market ahead of midterm elections in November for US Congress members.
The king also emphasised the need to advance the peace process in a phone call with US President Donald Trump on Monday night.


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Relief work under bombardment
IHH teams are continuously carrying out aid work under heavy bombardments in Misrata, Libya. 5.3 million Turkish lira worth of material in an aid ship has been distributed to those in need. However, p
Algeria 30.04.2011
Intense clashes after the people's revolution continue. A human tragedy is being lived particularly in the western part of the country and in Misrata ,which has been under siege for months.
The besieged city is being bombarded intensively by Gaddafi forces. In the city, where electricity is not supplied during nights, clean drinking water is about to run out, and aid material is not allowed into the city from land, people are trying to hold on to life with only aid coming from the sea.
The IHH, which has carried out aid operations in the region from the first days of the clashes, sent 682 tons of aid material by ship to Misrata two weeks ago. The ship, which could arrive in the intensively bombarded city of Misrata in a week, took three days to be unloaded because of security issues. After unloading the ship, IHH teams managed to distribute the aid material to those in need in a very short time. However, the people of Misrata, trying to hold on to life with help coming from the outside world, carry on living in misery. While the bombardments of Gaddafi's forces continue, their food stocks are about to be exhausted.
Serkan Öktem, who organises the work in Misrata, stated that workers there carry on relief work under intense bombardment and gunfire. Mr. Öktem, who noted that Misrata is still under an intensive siege, gave his impressions as follows: "Together with the last ship, we have been carrying out aid operations for almost ten days. The clashes of the first days in the city turned into bombardments after insurgents fought Gaddafi forces out of the city. Misrata, which is positioned between Gaddafi forces' bastions Tripoli and Sirt, is being bombed indiscriminately from 30-40 kilometres away . People here are starving. As IHH, we accomplished the distribution of basic commodities that came with our aid ship. However, the humanitarian crisis is growing more and more every day.''
Laid mines in the port of Misrata
IHH officer Serkan Öktem, who noted that transportation to Misrata is only available by sea, reported that Gaddafi troops laid mines in and around the Misrata port. Mr. Oktem continued as follows: "Yesterday, the coalition forces found mines in small fishing boats. The investigation showed that these mines were laid in and around the port of Misrata by Gaddafi forces. Demining works began immediately. The people here are in need of material assistance of all kinds. About 500 thousand people are trying to survive under the blockade and bombardments."
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ABT 2013 Swan Lake at the Met
By pbl,
June 7, 2013 in American Ballet Theatre
I saw three of the SLs this year (Murphy/Whiteside, Kochetkova/Cornejo, Kent/Gomes). I agree with most of what has been said, and add just a few more points:
Murphy: I saw her in SL a year ago with Gomes and thought she was not quite 100% this year -- balances not quite as sustained, turns not quite as fast. I don't know if that was the new partner (Whiteside) or the brief illness that took her out of the Ratmansky a few weeks ago. She added one detail to the fouettes I don't remember seeing before: on a couple of the rotations, she fluttered her arms up and down in swan arms! The physics of making that happen while turning are mind-boggling.
Kochetkova: I look forward to seeing her again in SL. Sparkling technique, speed, elevation.
Kent: This was exceptionally moving and dramatically appropriate, as others have noted. I don't have a problem with simplifying some of the choreography, but she's really pushing the envelope at this point. Some of the fun of SL is seeing how different dancers execute the famous "bits" of choreography, and she has dropped much of it -- the schooching backward arabesques in Act III replaced by a small circle of pique turns, e.g. I only counted 24 fouettes (all singles), but that might be my mistake. In II, I noticed an example of the vaunted Gomes partnering: she was in arabesque, on pointe, let go of his supportive hand, but lasted only a second or two - she started to learn forward and his hand was at her waist in a nano-second to support her.
Cornejo: Wow! What a debut! I saw him in Mercutio and Puck last year and the speed, height, precision, energy were all there in his Siegfried. I can't wait to see him in this again. He also seemed to have worked out all the detailed acting throughout very effectively. One odd thing in his variations in Act I: he almost always looks straight at the audience, rarely the party-goers. Isn't he supposed to be entertaining his subjects in this? (Gomes does this a little, but not as noticeably.)
Gomes: Along with his luxurious dancing -- never rushed, always in perfect form, I loved his detailed characterization. He lived this character start to finish.
Kent and Gomes: A very nice touch during the second all-stage curtain call: They walked to opposite corners, stage front, turned their backs on the audience, and gave long, sweeping gestures to acknowledge the corps. It was so coordinated that it looked like they had done this before (has anybody seen this before?) or had planned it beforehand. Gomes does a gesture like that himself during curtain calls, but I haven't seen both principals do this. Both came up through the ABT ranks themselves, of course.
Vasiliev: This was painful to watch. He threw in his usual tricks and the audience loved it, but he seems such a mismatch size-wise. Perhaps they need to make some alterations in that costume for him, so he looks more like an aristocrat and less like a jester.
Matthews and Whiteside: I thought they were both very effective as Aristocratic Rothbart -- menacing, sinister, manipulative.
I agree with everything said about the Kent/Gomes performance. It was for me a MAster Class is how these roles should be performed. Her port de bras are so far and away the finest in recent memory, and her acting of both characters was simply on a whole other plain than the others this week. Gomes needs no further praise from me. He is the the finest example of a male dancer going today. No one comes even close. I don't mind the choreographic changes one bit. At this level it's purely academic if she does or she doesn't do the backward hops in arabesque. My question is: how does she dance at this continued level? (as an aside, she was my favorite Juliet also this year. Pure poetry) One can only hope that if and when she does retire she will stick around to show and coach the younger dancers.
A few other comments. Stella is the only female dancer that I notice who is capable of doing "sixes" in the pas de trois. Someone commented, not since Erica Cornejo. My question is, why not? Someone is not telling the ladies how they are done!
MAthews was great as Rothbart. Big improvement.
Jos. Gorak gets my vote for a promotion and soon.
Vasiliev as Rothbart was a total embarrassment. Not only did he not fit the costume (oh, those over the thigh "Kinky Boots"!). But his dancing was just pathetic. Clumsy and awkward. His toes were un-pointed. His thighs looked even larger than ever! His preparations and landings rough and without any semblance of any training whatsoever. He looked like a cross between a thug and a purple troll. Why did he get three performances of this role? Oh yeah, he sells tickets. This is so sad.
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On June 20, Gillian Murphy was incandescent. jim
Yes, Murphy was wonderful on Thursday. She grows as an artist every year. Her current interpretation of SL is much richer and deeper than the one that was preserved on DVD some 10 years ago. Her physical, technical power is probably the strongest of anyone in the company. She always blows me away when she adds the swan-flap arms while she's doing triple fouettes in Act III. Whiteside had a very successful debut in the lead role. Based on what I've seen he is a valuable addition to the ABT roster.
Maria Kochetkova posted this photo of a curtain call with Cornejo to her Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151558508483547&set=p.10151558508483547&type=1&relevant_count=1
pherank
Looks like the link has been changed (don't you just hate that?). I think this must be the one:
https://twitter.com/balletrusse/status/350115966539157504/photo/1
New NYT profile of Daniil Simkin. I hadn't put 2 and 2 together before, but given his completely private training with family as a child - where he learned all his "tricks" and then took them to competitions - suddenly the partnering complaints make sense.
The older boys in school get technical training on how to partner, so it's not a new concept when they join companies. Also, in schools attached to companies, they are more aware of the expectations of joining a company (rehearsing multiple ballets in one day).
Is he really 5'8"1/2"? (174 cm) Somehow I figured he was as short as Baryshnikov's 5'5" (165 cm). Tall or short, if he doesn't have the upper body strength or plenty of experience partnering - this is going to continue to be a problem. I wonder if it would be helpful to do an exchange with the Bolshoi or Mariinsky for 6 months, so he could be intensively coached on partnering.
Still, if his parents had been on top of it, they could have brought in dancers (both male and female) to help Daniil with the partnering in his earlier years. Surely, as dancers themselves, they should have recognized the need for a comprehensive training program if he was to go on to joining a company. It can't all be about the tricks. (or can it?). No dancer should have to learn about partnering in front of an audience. Unfair to the dancer and certainly unfair for any partners and the audience.
This discussion reminds me of interviews with Marcelo Gomes, who started working on partnering at an early age in Brazil. Here's an interview from 2003 that discusses that: http://balletalert.com/dancers/interviews/Gomes.html
One of the things that is so noticeable about your dancing is your partnering. Could you talk about that aspect?
I actually started partnering very early, in Brazil, when I could barely lift, so I have been trying to put girls on their feet for a very long time! We also had a lot of partnering work at Harid. Surprisingly, partnering wasn't that important in Paris. They waited until the last year in the school to give partnering class, so I was really much more advanced than the other boys.
Elsewhere, I've seen discussions of the fact that, at least in many (most?) American ballet classes, there are so few boys that they learn how to partner many different types of girls. As others have noted, it seems strange that Simkin's dancer parents didn't anticipate this during his "homeschooling" in ballet.
I just want to say that for some reason the Gomes interview says interviewed by Marcelo Gomes. In fact, I did the interview, he wasn't talking to himself! Mary Cargill
Thanks for correcting that - it did seem odd.
Is he really 5'8"1/2"? (174 cm) Somehow I figured he was as short as Baryshnikov's 5'5" (165 cm).
Yes. It is perhaps Daniil's slightness that makes him appear shorter. Baryshnikov has been reported to be 5'6", 5'7", and even 5'8". Since I've never stood next to him, I don't know his actual height, but I think it's more than 5'5".


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Dreamspell
Dreamer (10 February 2011) © by ~zinaart / Zina Nedelcheva (see her Facebook page). Image Source: deviantART. Reproduced with kind permission.
The blog is on a break until the Mayan calendar turns over on 21st December 2012. See you then!
Labels: Blog, Dreams, Visual Arts
The Evolution of Remembrance Day
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Ottawa, Canada. Image Source: Globe and Mail.
In the Commonwealth and elsewhere, Remembrance Day or Armistice Day marks the moment when fighting stopped at the end of the First World War. The day now also commemorates the dead of the Second World War and subsequent wars. More recent conflicts have inspired the invention of brand new memorial 'traditions.' This is one way that conflict reclaims the past in the present time.
Labels: Afterlife, Cold War, Memory, Meta-Metahistory, War, World War I, World War II
Dreams in Japan's Battle Memories
Still from "The Tunnel," Dreams (1990). Image Source: Collin County Community College.
In Dreams (1990), Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and Ishirô Honda produced a fourth dream, "The Tunnel," which looked back on Japan's ghosts from the Second World War. This is a tricky sequence because Kurosawa began his career in 1942. Then and later, he produced war narratives which attracted criticism. The segment was remade recently in a student effort (see it here), which shows how the bland Millennial dilution of World War II washes away controversies. All the same, the original chilling excerpt reveals how survivors remain suspended between the realities of conflict and the unrealities of civilian peace that follows. A defeated officer, shamed by his survival, trails home after the war; as he enters a tunnel on the road, he is greeted by an anti-tank dog. Soon he confronts his whole dead platoon ...
Labels: Afterlife, Dreams, Film, Ghosts, Immortality, Memory, Metatime, War, World War I, World War II
Let No One Say These Things Were Never Real
The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. Image Source: Cnet via Inocuo/Flickr.
One of the clearest and most sobering signs of the Millennial anti-reality malaise is the upswing in Holocaust denial. When a British prince can show up at a costume party dressed as a Nazi, you know there is a softening around the whole memory of the Second World War and of that war's genocidal underbelly. Specific denial comes in many forms. It criss-crosses through wild anti-Illuminati and anti-Masonic chatter, which sometimes revives and updates the Protocols of the Elders of Zion for online doom cultists and 9/11 conspiracy theory buffs. There is a whole contingent which views the present politics in the Middle East through a meta-Holocaust lens. There is a blandly expressed, but equally nasty, anti-Zionist political discourse floating around, notably in highbrow circles. This last viewpoint either takes the Holocaust skeptically or obliquely challenges the Holocaust's continued historical relevance.
The Holocaust remains relevant for all the historical reasons that it became a bloody watershed in the past; for the reasons that it plugs into troubles today; and for one more reason related to both, which ties the past, present and future together. That last relevance is the fact that the Holocaust was so horrible that it made, and still makes, us question reality. Even survivors from the death camps repeatedly echoed the sentiment expressed by Harry Herder, a liberator at Buchenwald: "We see it, but we don't believe what we see."
Labels: 9/11, Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation, Dystopias, Freemasonry, Illuminati, Informatics, Memory, Meta-Metahistory, Politics, Silent Generation, Tech Revolution, War, World War II
The Blitz in Millennial Media
London during the Blitz, September 1940. Image Source: Guardian.
Last year, a 70-year old film with colour footage of London during the Blitz resurfaced:
Previously unseen colour footage of London during the Blitz has been discovered, after lying in an attic for almost 70 years.The amateur footage includes images of bombed-out landmarks such as the John Lewis department store - on Oxford Street.The 20 minute film was shot by the wartime mayor of Marylebone in west London, Alfred Coucher. The film was used as part of a US government propaganda film entitled "Why We Are At War."
For images, sounds and records of London during the Blitz (which lasted from 7 September 1940 to 16 May 1941), see a Channel 4 report and a Guardian article below the jump.
Labels: Memory, Metatime, Time Capsules, Time Warps, War, World War II
Time Capsules of World War I
Last year, BBC reported on found aerial footage of France just after World War I, kept in a Paris vault for nearly 100 years. In this rarely seen film (below the jump), you can see what the countryside looked like after the guns stopped. The BBC juxtaposed those images with shots of what the same landscape looks like today.
Another report, here, similarly this year uncovered a WWI-era camera with undeveloped film. The camera, stored in a chest in France, had photographs of Australian (and other nationalities) soldiers just behind the front lines of the Somme. The camera belonged to a French couple who offered to take and develop photographs of resting soldiers, so that the latter could use the pictures as postcards home.
For more images and films, see British Pathé's WWI Archive. Included among them are the films and photographs of shell shocked soldiers, who reflected modern battle horrors and psychological injuries never before seen.
WWI: 10 Telling Images
Click on the image to go to a WWI photo gallery. Image Source: British Pathé.
Labels: Memory, Time Capsules, War, World War I


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Heart of the World
in Photography, Tibetan Buddhism
I'm still in Tibet. Although I'm sitting on the stairs in front of Bodhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, when I meet Tibetans here it feels like saying hello to relatives. What I know about Tibetan people and culture is close to nothing, but Tibet still felt like home. In the short time we were there, both the scale of the land and openness of its people challenged and reaffirmed my perspective on what it means to be human. Tibet has my heart and mind.
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Comparable Mattress to the Westin Hotel Heavenly Bed and Topper.
Home → Mattress Protectors → Danican Waterproof Mattress Protector → Comparable Mattress to the Westin Hotel Heavenly Bed and Topper.
What is the comparable mattress, on your website, to the Heavenly Bed offered at the Westin Hotel?
The mattress was a Simmons Beautyrest, and also had some sort of separate topper.
The topper is the key to longevity…and long lasting surface comfort.
We often recommend a Simmons Beautyrest/Latex Topper Sleep System Combination.
The result is firm contouring spinal alignment, a soft sleeping surface, and lasting enough years to get your money's worth out of it.
Here is the link to the Simmons Beautyrest Silver series Great Lakes Cove mattress in Luxury Firm, which would be the comparable to the mattress you slept on at the hotel.
AND, the link to the EverEden Pure, All Natural Latex Toppers. The 2″ Soft Talalay Latex is the most comfortable and most popular of them.