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Kansas farmer to be featured on Shark Week
by: Carly Willis
Posted: Aug 1, 2019 / 10:57 AM CDT / Updated: Aug 1, 2019 / 11:03 AM CDT
MARION COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) – A Kansas farmer will be featured on Discovery's Shark Week programming this week.
You read that right.
Marion County farmer Derek Klingenberg is known for making videos, serenading his cows with his trombone he played first at Peabody-Burns High School and then in the K-State marching band.
It was actually a video Klingenberg forgot he made that caught The Discovery Channel's attention.
"I went out last year right before Shark Week, and I made a video with my brother in a shark suit, and I'm trying to call 'em in with a trombone and he's trying to you know, eat one," Klingenberg said.
He reports the video did not get many clicks in its early days. Currently, it has just over 27,000 views on YouTube as compared to his other videos which boast millions of views.
"The internet is a mystery. I don't understand how things flow, but either way we're on Shark Week," Klingenberg said.
Watch for Klingenberg on The Discover Channel on August 3 at 7 p.m.
by Bob Thibault / Jan 22, 2020
Governor Laura Kelly today appointed David A. Weishaar as Adjutant General, to replace General Lee Tafanelli.
Weishaar currently serves as Commander of the Kansas Air National Guard and Assistant Adjutant General-Air.
by James Ryan / Jan 22, 2020
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - Rally For Life events are being moved due to the winter weather. The annual pro-life rally usually takes place on the south steps of the Kansas Capitol. The rally will now take place in the first floor rotunda inside the statehouse.
Despite the weather, the March For Life will go on as planned. The march will start at the Topeka Performing Arts Center at 12:30 pm Wednesday. Instead of marching to the south steps of the Kansas Capitol, supporters will march east down 8th Street into the Visitor Center.
by David George / Jan 22, 2020
A Winter Weather Advisory is posted until noon for the following counties: Anderson, Brown, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson, Lyon, Marshall, Morris, Nemaha, Osage, Ottawa, Pottawatomie, Republic, Riley, Shawnee, Wabaunsee and Washington
Monday was easily one of our coldest days of the season. Most spots in northeast Kansas had single digit lows with highs in the teens and low 20s.


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The 44-year-old son of the former Gambino family crime boss is to be arraigned Thursday afternoon on conspiracy charges that link him to three mob slayings, cocaine distribution and other crimes.
TAMPA, Fla. � Organized crime figure John A. "Junior" Gotti is scheduled to appear before a federal judge in Tampa.
Gotti and five other men were indicted in Tampa earlier this month. Federal prosecutors say Gotti was a chief in an arm of the Gambino crime family that operated in Florida and other states going back to 1983.
Gotti denies the charges. He's been held without bond since his arrest.
Gotti was released from prison in 2005 after serving more than six years for racketeering crimes including bribery, extortion, gambling and fraud.


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Here's a good article about buying foreclosed property. It is written by a reporter, Peter Hong, who sold his condominium in 2005 in favor of renting and recently snatched up a foreclosed property. For the full article click here.


The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK) is a non-profit private liberal-arts-oriented university in Hong Kong with five Schools (Business, Communication, Decision Sciences, Humanities & Social Science, and Translation) and around 5,000 full-time students.
Adopting the "Liberal + Professional" education model which incorporates the iGPS "desired graduate attributes" framework, HSUHK is a residential institution which puts quality teaching and students' all-round development as its highest priorities.
Aspiring to be a leading private liberal-arts-oriented university in the region, HSUHK features top-quality faculty members, award-winning green campus facilities, innovative degree programmes, impactful research on corporate sustainability, and excellent student support services, with the aim of nurturing young talents with critical thinking, innovative minds, human caring attitude, moral values and social responsibilities.


Join us for worship, prayer and teaching on this final week of Advent. This morning we welcome our Sunday Club (=School) members to show us how it's done, with a little help from Sue. It's an all-age service so there will be no separate activities for children but the service will be a bit shorter and probably a lot more lively!!
Christmas story, carols, chaos. Refreshments will be served afterwards.


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By TAI KHANDAKER | Oct. 23, 2002
In Dena-Kay Martin's article, "Anti-Semitism Prevalent On Campuses, ADL Says" (Monday, Oct. 21), UB student Garry Mikhailevich made comments on the religion of Islam and Muslims on campus that I found very troubling.
Baseball Ends Losing Streak with Home Victory
By TAI KHANDAKER | Apr. 26, 2002
The UB baseball team snapped a four-game losing streak and captured their 10th win of the season Wednesday as they outlasted cross-town rival Canisius 13-5 at the Amherst Pepsi Center Field.UB was propelled by three separate multi-run innings, including a five-run fourth and seventh, to keep them safely ahead of the Golden Griffins throughout the entire game.
Evans Pitches One-hitter as Bulls Take One of Three.
The UB softball team came back after their last unpromising series with strong play over the weekend, taking one out of three games against the Kent State Golden Flashes.Where before the pitching had been shaky, this weekend UB pitchers gave up only a combined four earned runs in three games, including a one-hitter pitched by freshman Stacey Evans.The Bulls won the first game of Saturday's doubleheader 5-0, before dropping the evening game by a slim 1-0 margin.
Mercy Rule Used Twice As Bulls Drop Three At NIU
Just when things started to look like they were turning around for the softball team this season, the Northern Illinois University Huskies - ranked second in the Mid-American Conference - came in and handed the Buffalo Bulls their third demoralizing sweep of the season.The Bulls played two games Saturday and one Sunday in Dekalb Ill., losing 9-0, 9-1, and 6-1 respectively.
Softball Sweeps Past the Bonnies
Former President Bill Clinton . was not at the UB softball game Wednesday afternoon. Had he been there, though, he would have witnessed a fine day of softball as UB swept St.
UB Softball Could Use a Break After a Winless One
By TAI KHANDAKER | Apr. 5, 2002
The UB softball team took to the road for the spring break, playing a demanding eight-game schedule involving three schools and three doubleheaders.
By TAI KHANDAKER | Mar. 1, 2002
It's amazing how fortune can turn on you so quickly. Last season the women's basketball team's fortunes turned on them in a heartbeat, on a last-second shot by Akron's Cheryl Bowles to end their season in the first round of the MAC Tournament.Fortune hasn't been too good to them this season either, as the Bulls enter the 2002 MAC Tournament the losers of eight straight games.
"To Dozier's Chagrin, Women's Basketball Tallies Fifth Straight Loss"
By TAI KHANDAKER | Feb. 15, 2002
UB women's basketball Head Coach Cheryl Dozier is not happy. But what coach would be after her team's fifth-straight loss to a team they should easily have beaten?The Bulls were held to an embarrassing 11 points in the first half of their 55-35 loss against the Marshall Thundering Herd Wednesday night at Alumni Arena.
Bulls Lose Fourth Straight While Cardinals Continue To Roll
For the women's basketball team it's pretty clear that this season has taken a turn for the worse.
Inconsistency Plagues Women's Basketball Over Break
By TAI KHANDAKER | Jan. 25, 2002
While most UB students were enjoying a nice long semester break, the women's basketball team had a full course load, playing a total of 10 games in our absence, including seven conference games.The Bulls went from being as hot as a Hawaii heat wave - scoring a stunning 55-43 upset over Big East powerhouse Seton Hall - to being as cold as a Buffalo blizzard in a 76-29 debacle at then-23rd-ranked Tulane.

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Milk Allergy Alert - Sam's Choice Beef Ravioli Products | Kids With Food Allergies
Milk Allergy Alert - Sam's Choice Beef Ravioli Products
KFA Food Alerts 6/26/1711:20 AM
The Wornick Company Recalls Beef Ravioli Products Due To Misbranding and Undeclared Allergens
Class I Recall
Release: 076-2017
Health Risk: High
Congressional and Public Affairs
Sarah R. Lichtman
Press@fsis.usda.gov
WASHINGTON, June 23, 2017 – The Wornick Company, a Cincinnati, Ohio establishment, is recalling approximately 61,538 pounds of beef ravioli products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The product may contain milk, a known allergen, which is not declared on the product label.
The beef wonton ravioli items were produced on Feb. 22, 2017 and March 28, 2017. The following products are subject to recall: [View Label]
14.5-oz. plastic bowl packages containing "Sam's Choice ASIAN STYLE BEEF WONTON Ravioli," with "BEST IF USED BY" dates of Feb. 22, 2018 and Mar. 28, 2018.
The products subject to recall bear establishment number "EST. 19076" inside the USDA mark of inspection. These items were shipped to retail locations nationwide.
The problem was discovered when the company received notification from an ingredient supplier that the beef ravioli the company received and used in the recalled products potentially contained undeclared milk.
There have been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an injury or illness should contact a healthcare provider.
Consumers who have purchased these products are urged not to consume them. These products should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.
FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks to verify recalling firms notify their customers of the recall and that steps are taken to make certain that the product is no longer available to consumers. When available, the retail distribution list will be posted on the FSIS website at www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls.
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Relatively mild
I don't like wearing a coat even in the middle of winter, as I dislike the feeling of suffocation as one enters the indoors.
Consequently, I opt to wear a T-shirt, and then only a sweater, which is full of small "holes" by their nature through which bitter winds would inevitably blow.
When I went to Hakata the other day, it was snowing and the temperature was very low. As I ventured out of the hotel to have supper, the bitter wind was blowing through my sweater onto my bare arms with an astonishing force. It was at then that I felt a "danger" for my life.
Undaunted, I just hurried on to the restaurant, with my arms gathered around the chest area to protect and shield.
Once I was in the restaurant, I was OK.
Unrepentantly, I go about in the winter Tokyo today with my T-shirt and the sweater. People are astonished to see me without a coat. It can certainly make you alert, reacting to the changing weather. And it is just great once you are inside, without the nuisance of having to get rid of the coat.
It is just the winter of Tokyo that I have to withstand, which is relatively mild compared to, say, one in Russia.
Nobel Peace Prize for Google!
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Out in the Open.
Google's recent decision and moves as regards their operation is laudable. I here pledge my fullest support.
The online manifesto by Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President of Google, "The meaning of open" spells out important ethics and philosophies for how to proceed with this important medium, the internet.
At issue is the competition between an open system and a closed system. When open and closed system co-exist, sometimes the closed system might seem to have an edge in the short run, as they are more efficient in the limited context.
As time goes by, however, an open and free system would win over the closed and controlled system, because a global optimum can be searched and found, as opposed to the suffocation of the closed and controlled system.
In the contingent universe, we must all be aware that it is impossible to control an organic and dynamical system, after all. The very idea of controlling information to the liking of the regime is childish and is bound to fail.
By putting oneself out in the open, one's spirit gets the freedom to grow out of proportions. Only then we can do justice to this precious thing, life.
Until I reached an intimidating speed
I am in Hakata now. My mother was originally from this region.
When I was a kid mother used to take me to the Kyushu Island. Summers in Kyushu had a profound effect on the buildup of my personality. The dialect, distinct and powerful, was a joy to hear and tickling to imitate.
When I look back on those trips on Shinkansen trains, which typically took hours, the transition itself was a joy, and I long for the breath of fresh air they brought.
Nowadays, it is less than two hours on the airplane, and the sense of transition has diminished.
Walking on the Hakata streets at night, I unconsciously looked for signs of change, both internal and external, and shuddered at the absence of the drastic. I needed to run, until I reached an intimidating speed. I've got it here inside still, the wind tells me.
The strange destiny of the Love Theme
It is quite fascinating how a particular piece of culture is accepted on a foreign soil. The Japanese have never understood, for example, how and why the Sukiyaki Song was so well received in the United States, compared to many other popular songs of the days.
The opposite is true, of course. The Japanese have embraced lots of foreign influences, in our own particular way.
The film "Godfather" was released in Japan when I was 10. Although many motifs of the film was beyond my comprehension at that age, the theme tune of the film Godfather ("Speak Softly Love (Love Theme from The Godfather)") struck a cord within me as a child. The powerful melody somehow sound similar to Japanese "Enka" songs, very emotional and full of life.
Through a mysterious process, youngsters in Japan who ride motorcycles as a group adopted the Love Theme as their marching music. These "Hells Angel" youths would use the opening melody of the Love Theme as a fanfare, by putting several music horns on the motorcycle.
Somehow, the image of the motorcycle gangsters dashing through the night streets, with the fanfare of the Love Theme played repeatedly, has entered the popular culture of this nation.
When I think of the strange destiny of the Love Theme thus played out, I cannot help but marvel at the rich and subtle way cultures on the planet are mutually connected and evolve as a organic whole.
Now out in the world
Mystery is generated and deepens when you can experience something at a particular place and time only. Misere, composed by Gregorio Allegri, was one beautiful example. It was only to be heard in the Vatican, at certain special occasions. The copying of the score was forbidden, with the understanding that those violating the embargo will be punished with excommunication.
Then, the young Mozart came along. He was 14. Listening to the Misere in the Sistine Chapel, he later wrote out the entire score from memory. As everybody now knows, Mozart's memories were extraordinary. Mozart had only to make minor corrections on a second visit to the Chapel. It would have been impossible for anybody else to accomplish this feat.
Through the genius of Mozart, the mysterious music of the Vatican was now out in the world. The Pope, after Mozart was summoned to Rome for investigation, praised his musical genius, instead of excommunicating the charming fellow.
Pondering the significance of this famous episode, I wonder if all creative genius is not like it. Bringing to the world a marvelous gem hidden jealously in some obscure corner of the world, only to be experienced by those who were fortunate enough to be in that location by chance. Genius is about highly strung sensitivities and prodigious memories.
Misere of Gregorio Allegri. Made open by the service of Mozart.
As is materialized on his belly front
My best philosopher friend Ken Shiotani is rather big, weighing 120kg according to his recent report. In this slim overconscious civilization, you might think that his belly is rather embarassing to exhibit and see. Actually, quite the opposite is true.
People love to watch Shiotani's belly. What is more, people like to touch it.
When we are chatting in a Tokyo restaurant, as I am a very good friend of his, I can poke Shiotani's belly at any time, in a casual manner. It is rather nice, the rubbery feeling. Shiotani also doesn't seem to mind as he is used to my doing that from student days.
When people observe me doing it, they would like to do the same, and eventually do so, with invariably satisfying results.
Apart from the issue of being politically correct, I strongly suspect that there is something about fat bellies that make people around happy. While naturally concerned about my best friend's health, I respect his way of living, as is materialized on his belly front as well as in his philosophy of time, and doubt, for one, the body fascism that seems to be so rampant today.
Ken Shiotani seen in the front.
In the back you see my another soul friend Takashi Ikegami.
This was on Taketomi island.
Strange dancing.
My body is stoutly built, and my legs are not that long. Therefore, I am not a good one for dancing in the style of ballet.
However, I quite like watching other people dance. Once I went to see Jo Kanamori dance. It was a wonderful performance.
Jo Kanamori leads the dance company Noism. I went to see a Noism performance in their host town of Niigata. I was so inspired by their dancing, that when I returned to my hotel room I began strange dancing.
I tried to imitate what I have seen, but of course my bodily movements fell short. In addition, my dance might have been less of a comic performance compared to the immortal silly walk. Conclusion: Mine was a physical activity without any meaningful purpose.
Undaunted, I keep doing the strange dancing from time to time. Nothing to show. Nobody to see. Just me and the air around me which receives the strange vibe.


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What a Switch! NIST-Led Team Develops Tiny Low-Energy Device to Rapidly Reroute Light in Computer Chips
Date 2019-11-14 CategoryNewsTagsNIST
"Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have developed an optical switch that routes light from one computer chip to another in just 20 billionths of a second — faster than any other similar device. The compact switch is the first to operate at voltages low enough to be integrated onto low-cost silicon chips and redirects light with very low signal loss.
The switch's record-breaking performance is a major new step toward building a computer that uses light instead of electricity to process information. Relying on particles of light — photons — to transport data within a computer offers several advantages over electronic communications. Photons travel faster than electrons and don't waste energy by heating up the computer components. Managing that waste heat is a major barrier to improving computer performance. Light signals have been used for decades to transmit information over great distances using optical fibers, but the fibers take up too much room to be used to carry data across a computer chip.
The new switch combines nanometer-scale gold and silicon optical, electrical and mechanical components, all densely packed, to channel light into and out of a miniature racetrack, alter its speed, and change its direction of travel. (One nanometer is a billionth of a meter, or about one-hundred-thousandth the width of a human hair.) The NIST-led international team describes the device in the journal Science.
The device has myriad applications, notes study co-author Christian Haffner of NIST, ETH Zurich and the University of Maryland. In driverless cars, the switch could rapidly redirect a single light beam that must continually scan all parts of the roadway to measure the distance to other automobiles and pedestrians. The device could also make it easier to use more powerful light-based circuits instead of electricity-based ones in neural networks. These are artificial intelligence systems that simulate how neurons in the human brain make decisions about such complex tasks as pattern recognition and risk management.
The new technology also uses very little energy to redirect light signals. This feature may help realize the dream of quantum computing. A quantum computer processes data stored in the subtle interrelations between specially prepared pairs of subatomic particles. However, these relationships are extremely fragile, requiring that a computer operate at ultralow temperatures and low power so that the particle pairs are disturbed as little as possible. Because the new optical switch requires little energy — unlike previous optical switches — it could become an integral part of a quantum computer.
Haffner and his colleagues, who include Vladimir Aksyuk and Henri Lezec of NIST, say their findings may come as a surprise to many in the scientific community because the results contradict long-held beliefs. Some researchers have thought that opto-electro-mechanical switches would not be practical because they would be bulky, operate too slowly and require voltages too high for the components of a computer chip to tolerate.
The switch exploits the wave nature of light. When two identical light waves meet, they can superpose such that the crest of one wave aligns or reinforces the crest of the other, creating a bright pattern known as constructive interference. The two waves may also be exactly out of step, so that the valley of one wave cancels the crest of the other, resulting in a dark pattern — destructive interference.
In the team's setup, a light beam is confined to travel inside a miniature highway — a tube-shaped channel known as a waveguide. This linear highway is designed so that it has an off-ramp — some of the light can exit into a racetrack-shaped cavity, just a few nanometers away, etched into a silicon disk. If the light has just the right wavelength, it can whip around the racetrack many times before leaving the silicon cavity.
The switch has one other crucial component: a thin gold membrane suspended just a few tens of nanometers above the silicon disk. Some of the light traveling in the silicon racetrack leaks out and strikes the membrane, inducing groups of electrons on the membrane's surface to oscillate. These oscillations, known as plasmons, are a kind of hybrid between a light wave and an electron wave: The oscillating electrons resemble the incoming light wave in that they vibrate at the same frequency, but they have a much shorter wavelength. The shorter wavelength lets researchers manipulate the plasmons over nanoscale distances, much shorter than the length of the original light wave, before converting the oscillations back into light. This, in turn, allows the optical switch to remain extremely compact.
By changing the width of the gap between the silicon disk and the gold membrane by only a few nanometers, the researchers could delay or advance the phase of the hybrid light wave — the point in time when the wave reaches a crest or valley. Even minuscule variations in the width of the gap, which the team accomplished by electrostatically bending the gold membrane, dramatically altered the phase.
Depending on how much the team had advanced or delayed the phase of the wave, when it recombined with light still traveling in the tube-shaped highway, the two beams interfered either constructively or destructively (see animation). If the light beams match up to interfere constructively, the light will continue in its original direction, traveling down the tube. But if the light beams interfere destructively, canceling each other out, that pathway is blocked. Instead, the light must move in another direction, determined by the orientation of other waveguides, or routes, placed close to the blocked pathway. In this way, the light can be switched at will to any of hundreds of other computer chips.
Scientists had once thought that a plasmonic system would greatly attenuate light signals because photons would penetrate the interior of the gold membrane, where electrons would absorb much of the light energy.
But the researchers have now proved that assumption wrong. The compactness of the device and a design that ensured that few photons would penetrate the membrane resulted in a loss of just 2.5% of the light signal, compared with 60% with previous switches. That puts the switch, although still a prototype, within reach of commercial applications.
The team is now working to make the device even smaller by shortening the distance between the silicon disk and the gold membrane. This would further reduce signal loss, making the technology even more appealing to industry.
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I have never thought of me principally as "Individual".
And while all of those titles are of varying importance and comprehensively part of me, they are no longer my defining factor. I am me. And that alone is enough.
Granted, I can not (nor do I want to!) separate those parts of me. This is the first time that I am acknowledging that being an individual is just as important as being a Mom and I don't have to sacrifice one for the other. I can do both. Growth is painful and difficult but I don't run from either of those. I meet challenges head on. Not without fear or anxiety or pain, just in spite of.
Most people live in self preservation mode. They see pain and they want to avoid it. Avoiding pain is avoiding the lessons that can be found within. So I will welcome the pain and in return I am rewarded with both the experience and the lessons.
So…I will continue to embrace vulnerability and wear my heart on my sleeve. I will dive head first into life and all of the experiences that are open to me. I will live with an open mind and an open heart and accept gratefully all that this life has to offer and teach me.
Authentically, unapologetically,vulnerably, joyfully, painfully, hopefully… me.
I stare at the blinking cursor willing the right words to come. They don't come. And I continue to put more pressure on myself and they get further and further away.
With only 3 days looming until the anniversary of Mae's death her mother Susan's words to me from the funeral haunt me. (She was comforting me when I should have been comforting her. But that is Susan. Generous and giving.) We clung to one another in the way that only grief can make you and she said "Never stop writing. Your words touch people. They matter." I promised. I have failed at my promise. But I keep trying.
Why though do we never talk about the dark side of hope? The nagging fear that we may be holding on to hope that is impossible? Should we temper our hope or let it run free even in the face of seeming impossibility? How do we hold onto it then? Do we try to balance it or indulge it blindly? When do we let go of hope for certain things so that acceptance and grief can change our direction and focus?
All of the questions. None of the answers. Just overwhelming sadness weighing me down as I get through one more day. Trying to grasp at hope and feeling hopeless anyway.
Because even in the darkness we trust that light will come. We don't have to see the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel to know that it exists.
Because nothing gives perspective like the ocean and the ever changing tides and shore line.
For months I couldn't write. Not a word. I called it choking on words. I was really choking on grief. The grief remains but the words came unlocked. Well. Maybe not fully. But enough to try again.
Last weekend we spent the day at a lake. Surrounded by family and love and all of the offerings that being together on a lake bring. Swimming and laughing and splashing and fishing and fun. I snapped photos of cousins whose love transcends the time between visits in that way that only exists between cousins.
Going through those photos I found one that took my breath away. Instantaneously. A gasp at the beauty of my daughter with her hand outstretched. I showed it to her and asked what she was doing. She replied "Catching Sunbeams". And my first thought was Oh how I hope you see your own radiance. The sunbeams that live within you. Because I do. My second thought was that's a damn good analogy for special needs parenting. Maybe even parenting in general. Maybe even life.
As special needs parents we think we know grief. We think that we are intimate with it on a daily basis. We think that it cannot surprise us anymore with its intensity and pain, and the vast chasm of loss. It can. It does. Every time.
We think we know grief. We grieve for every missed milestone and every experience. We grieve every birthday party invitation that they don't get. We grieve the skills they fought so hard to achieve and lost overnight inexplicably. We grieve the childhood we thought we could provide. We grieve the loss of innocence and the distrust in their eyes as they look at you in surprise every time a needle is poked at them. We grieve the parent we thought we would be. We grieve the vacations we can't take, and the hospital stays that replace them. We grieve the loss of friends as one by one they drop off unable to listen to your sadness anymore, unable to relate. We grieve the missed experiences and the lost moments. We grieve the before. Then we grieve the after as the after continually changes.
We think we know grief. Because we grieve when someone far away loses their fight. We grieve from a distance along with other parents whom we've never met who experience the imperceivable loss of a child. We grieve as a community.
We think we know grief. Until a child that you've held in your arms, the daughter of a friend, is the one that you're grieving.
We think we know grief. Until a girl who snuggled up with you and shared her favorite blanket and special Froggy with you is the one that's gone.
We think we know grief. Until you wake up and find your own daughters hair wet from tears you cried in your sleep.
We think we know grief. Until you hold your child and cannot find hope or gratefulness in your heart, only guilt. Only guilt that your friend miles away has vacant, aching arms. Only guilt that there are so many other mothers like her. Too many mothers.
We think we know grief. I hope I never know the unimaginable grief of an empty bedroom with a rapidly fading smell. I hope I never know the grief of my daughters voice left only as an echo. We fear grief.
We think we know grief. Until it has our head hanging over the toilet trying not to vomit from the shock of it.
We think we know grief. Until we are on our knees wailing with it. Sobbing.
We think we know grief. Until we are clinging to another Mom on a cold windy overpass greeting the body of a child on her final journey home. Asking each other unanswerable questions like why? how?
We think we know grief but every time we find it surprising us, ravaging us anew.
What happens when you suddenly find yourself living the very situation that you were once grateful not to be in? When you look around and realize this is exactly what you once feared. This was at one time your worst case scenario. What do you do then?
I happened upon this comment from 2010. Haley was averaging 1 seizure/month and I was just learning that there are people that have seizures daily despite available treatments.
I had no idea that would become us. I had no inkling that the bottom could and would drop out at any moment. I had no idea how many times this "mild" case of epilepsy would land us in life threatening, emergency situations begging for my daughter to breathe. Please just breathe. Begging for her life.
Napping off a recent seizure cluster. Because even when you're determined to give all that you've got, it's important to refuel. Body and spirit.
So I sat here, stunned into silence as I wondered what do I do now that I've become that person that I was grateful not to be? I was so grateful to have a child who despite her diagnosis of epilepsy was still living a full, happy childhood. She was developmentally on track and we were adding therapies just as a precaution against risk of delays. I naively thought that this condition would remain mostly dormant.
And now 6 years later, coming off a scare where we were back to 50+ seizures daily for a few weeks, I don't even know where to begin. So I guess I begin with saying that even though we are exactly where I was grateful not to be I have still found a way to be grateful for what we are. Even at her worst, at constant seizures, and coping with the harsh realities of a child that turns blue and the agitation from rescue meds and the need for constant supervision and vigilant attention to everything she does… "Is her eye twitching? Did she just jerk her arm? Was that a blank stare?" I am STILL grateful. Wholly, simply, completely. Because I have her. I know too many parents with empty arms that ache to hold their child, even through a seizure, if it meant that their child was still here. That's not to say that I don't have my breakdowns. I sure do. But I can't live in them, there's too much life to vigorously explore to dwell there. Seizing Hope, even when it's hard.
So when I panic that we are bordering on feeding tube territory, and cognitive regression and losing skills like speech and she can't walk steadily I will not get bogged down by fear and frustration. I mean, I will. But I won't stay there. I will remember to be grateful. I will be grateful that I am strong enough to catch her as she collapses right now. As she grows older and bigger that may not always be the case. I will be grateful that despite the seizures she shows a tenacity and resolve and spirit that leaves me breathlessly in awe. I will be grateful for the friends and family who rally to support us. The ones who light the dark, and when they can't be enough light they pull up a chair and will sit with me there in the dark until I'm capable. The ones who let me beat my fists against the wall and wail at the unfairness.
And I have learned something incredibly valuable. I have learned that when what you thought was your worst case scenario becomes your life you still get the chance to live it. And somehow when you get there there will be new things to fear, new lessons to learn and new joys to be grateful for.
Haley, simply happy and excited that she lost a tooth, with no hesitation or care that the tooth was loose because of the clenching during so many recent seizures. Just grateful that the tooth fairy is coming.
Reflections…because the most precious thing we can offer another person is the reminder that they are not alone. Even when they feel like they are. And in those moments, those reminders that we are not alone, is the secret place where hope resides. Not fickle and fleeting, but lasting and true.
We walk hurriedly and excitedly through the Maine mall, more of a gallop really, Haley stopping to jump up and down every few feet. We are headed for the food court but more importantly we are headed for Rachel and Izabelle.
I strain my neck to the side, short as I am seeing through a crowd is no easy feat, worrying about whether I'll recognize this dynamic duo that I know only from online photos and messages. Only from tears shared 2 states apart. My eyes lock on 2 stylish figures with adorable hats. The recognition is immediate. I crouch to point them out to Haley so she'll know which way to head and we beeline for them!
Haley and Izabelle are both 9, both with uncontrollable seizures, both failed by pharmaceutical companies and both with Moms that would give the world for them. Hence this moment, this gift of giving them each a reflection of someone "like them". Someone else "with seizures".
Haley and I approach and I say her name like a question…Rachel? We embrace as the girls just look at each other. I am moved beyond words at the sight. They nearly instantly start pulling down their shirts to compare VNS scars. A mirror for one another of the pain and struggle that they both endure in place of childhood. And the emotion in Rachel's eyes mirrors mine. This moment is a gift for all of us. Understanding, empathy, reflection. No words necessary. We are bound by all that we have seen and done. Bound by the countless hours of holding a seizing child. Bound by the nights full of sobs and helplessness. Bound by despair and grief but also the innocent, untainted, unfiltered joy that these girls bring to our lives.
I have had other similar moments throughout this journey that has woven the fabric of our past 7 years. Seen this scenario unfold a few times now. It never loses its potency. It's value. A reflection. A clasping of hands that "get it", is a precious and rare gift. I hope to give and receive it many times.
Nearly 2 years ago walking next to my husband, I carried Haley through the parking garage at MGH. We arrived hours early for our neurology appointment so that we had time to meet a family. Lisa, Lonnie and beautiful Maddie. Again, so many parallels to our stories. Connected by the intangible, brought together by fate. Another moment of being overcome by the blessing of these people in our lives. Another gift to give our girls and each other.
As Lonnie, Lisa, Artie and I tried to visit, my words pouring out clumsily, tripping over themselves with the relief of yes! I understand! Haley fired off questions about Maddie. What's her favorite color? What does she like to eat? Does she really have "shesures" like me? I was transfixed by the way that Haley was drawn to Maddie, didn't need words to communicate, she just swam in the pool of her beautiful blue eyes and read her heart, blowing bubbles for her, handing her toys and snacks and fussing over her when she seized. Their friendship and my friendship with Lisa has brought us both much comfort. Haley talks about Maddie often. Struck by her sassy personality and the fierce spirit she inherited honestly. And I could be leveled to my knees by the strength of my friendship with Lisa. A mirror in so many ways. My reflection. One that I don't need to polish and clean because she sees the streaks and smudges of my heart.
During a hospital admission I sat in the playroom at the arts and crafts table. My eyes were only on Haley as she was seizing so often I couldn't take them off of her for a second. Sure enough I saw that blank gaze and pulled her to my lap to keep her safe until it was over. With her in my lap my gaze wandered, expecting to find the usual looks of sympathy and horror. Instead I found understanding in eyes that met mine and a soft voice that asked "How old is she?" That gentle soul and voice belonged to Kristine, whom I would get to know over the next few days, as our daughters are just a year apart both have epilepsy.
Her daughter Delia captured my heart as she finagled her way around playing vivaciously despite being tethered by multiple tubes. She and Haley became fast friends too. Bonding in that invisible way over hide and seek and bowling.
So when I sit in a doctors office for any one of the number of specialists that she is required to see, and I search the faces of other parents, I am not looking for sympathy. I am looking for a friend.
Finding even pieces of your journey in others is a heady, powerful, empowering thing. It's like a safety net always out. I have met many warrior Moms that have understood the pain in my eyes and the circles underneath them. We share sleepless nights and hard decisions. I am grateful to have the opportunity to provide our children the same outlet.
Reflections. Mirrors. Seeing pieces of yourself in someone else. Broken in all of the same places. Knowing always that you are not alone.


In this society with its hurly-burly pace demanding of our time, it is ever so easy to let life slip by. The process of simply existing is not necessarily meaningful. And yet, there is an unlimited potential for meaning and value in this human existence. The Seven-Point Mind Training is one eminently practical way of tapping into that meaning.
The central theme of The Seven-Point Mind Training is to make the liberating passage from the constricting solitude of self-centeredness to the warm kinship with others which occurs with the cultivation of cherishing others even more than oneself.
This mind training technique is especially well-suited for an active life. It does not require that we withdraw into seclusion, but that we re-examine all of our relationships — to family, friends, enemies, and strangers — and gradually transform our responses to whatever life throws our way.


Sunday 19 May, from 2 pm to 5 pm: join us for pond-dipping and green crafts; learn how to use microscopes and binoculars; and (at 4 pm) meet the winners of the Phil & Jim creative writing competition. All ages welcome, but children under 16 must bring a responsible adult. Wear wellies and old clothes.


text:
Bowerman, M. (1982). Reorganizational processes in lexical and syntactic development. In E. Wanner, & L. Gleitman (Eds.), Language acquisition: The state of the art (pp. 319-346). New York: Academic Press.
Bowerman, M. (1982). Starting to talk worse: Clues to language acquisition from children's late speech errors. In S. Strauss (Ed.), U shaped behavioral growth (pp. 101-145). New York: Academic Press.
Cutler, A. (1982). Prosody and sentence perception in English. In J. Mehler, E. C. Walker, & M. Garrett (Eds.), Perspectives on mental representation: Experimental and theoretical studies of cognitive processes and capacities (pp. 201-216). Hillsdale, N.J: Erlbaum.
Klein, W. (1982). Local deixis in route directions. In R. Jarvella, & W. Klein (Eds.), Speech, place, and action: Studies in deixis and related topics (pp. 161-182). New York: Wiley.
Klein, W., & Extra, G. (1982). Second language acquisition by adult immigrants: A European Science Foundation project. In R. E. V. Stuip, & W. Zwanenburg (Eds.), Handelingen van het zevenendertigste Nederlandse Filologencongres (pp. 127-136). Amsterdam: APA-Holland Universiteitspers.
Levelt, W. J. M. (1982). Cognitive styles in the use of spatial direction terms. In R. Jarvella, & W. Klein (Eds.), Speech, place, and action: Studies in deixis and related topics (pp. 251-268). Chichester: Wiley.
Levelt, W. J. M. (1982). Linearization in describing spatial networks. In S. Peters, & E. Saarinen (Eds.), Processes, beliefs, and questions (pp. 199-220). Dordrecht - Holland: D. Reidel.
The topic of this paper is the way in which speakers order information in discourse. I will refer to this issue with the term "linearization", and will begin with two types of general remarks. The first one concerns the scope and relevance of the problem with reference to some existing literature. The second set of general remarks will be about the place of linearization in a theory of the speaker. The following, and main part of this paper, will be a summary report of research of linearization in a limited, but well-defined domain of discourse, namely the description of spatial networks.
Levinson, S. C. (1982). Caste rank and verbal interaction in Western Tamilnadu. In D. B. McGilvray (Ed.), Caste ideology and interaction (pp. 98-203). Cambridge University Press.
Levinson, S. C. (1982). Speech act theory: The state of the art. In V. Kinsella (Ed.), Surveys 2. Eight state-of-the-art articles on key areas in language teaching. Cambridge University Press.
Van Wijk, C., & Kempen, G. (1982). Kost zinsbouw echt tijd? In R. Stuip, & W. Zwanenberg (Eds.), Handelingen van het zevenendertigste Nederlands Filologencongres (pp. 223-231). Amsterdam: APA-Holland University Press.


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Die Volkssternwarte Würzburg ist eine von einer amateurastronomischen Vereinigung betreute Sternwarte auf dem Gelände der Johannes-Kepler-Schule im Würzburger Stadtteil Keesburg.

Geschichte

Die Pläne für den Bau der Sternwarte gehen auf das Jahr 1960 und den Einsatz des Universitätsbunds zurück. Erste Beobachtungen machte der Arbeitskreis Sternwarte 1961 auf der Balthasar-Neumann-Kanzel in der Wolfhartsgasse 11. Ab 1962 wurde, nachdem das Ministerium das Angebot der durch Oberbürgermeister Helmuth Zimmerer vertretenden Stadt Würzburg angenommen hatte, im Zusammenhang mit der neuen Schule auf der Keesburg eine Sternwarte für die Universität zu errichten, der zehn Meter hohe Turm mit Kuppel im Pausenhof der Johannes-Kepler-Schule errichtet und nach seiner Fertigstellung im Jahr 1965 und der am 5. Mai 1966 erfolgten Übergabe des Sternwartengebäudes an den Rektor der Universität zunächst von der Universität Würzburg betrieben. Am 10. Juni 1985 wurde der Verein Volkssternwarte Würzburg gegründet, dessen Ziel Verbreitung und Pflege astronomischen Wissens in der Bevölkerung ist. 1987 mietete der Verein die Dachterrasse der Schule an und stattete sie als 140 m² große Beobachtungsplattform aus. Nachdem man ab 1992 bereits die Führungen durch die Sternwarte durchführte, übernahm der Verein nach dem Rückzug der Universität im Jahr 2000 den Betrieb der Sternwarte vollständig. Regelmäßig werden durch den Verein astronomische Vorträge und öffentliche Himmelsbeobachtungen angeboten.

Im Jahr 2005 wurden der Innenbereich und die Technik der Sternwarte mit den Mitteln des Vereins renoviert. Nach einem Wasserrohrbruch im Jahr 2009 musste das Gebäude unter anderem mit von der Stadt Würzburg bereitgestellten Mitteln saniert werden.

Instrumente

In der Beobachtungskuppel befinden sich auf einer gemeinsamen Montierung ein Schmidt-Cassegrain-Teleskop mit 35,6 cm Öffnung und 3,92 m Brennweite sowie ein Refraktor der Firma Carl Zeiss mit 13 cm Öffnung und 1,92 m Brennweite. Auf der Beobachtungsplattform werden bei Bedarf diverse transportable Teleskope aufgebaut. Auf dem Gelände befindet sich ein Radioteleskop mit drei Meter Durchmesser, das derzeit (August 2008) jedoch nicht betriebsbereit ist.

Weblinks

 Webseite der Volkssternwarte Würzburg

Einzelnachweise

Wurzburg
Schulsternwarte
Bauwerk in Würzburg
Bildung und Forschung in Würzburg

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Guppies have simple needs compared with other aquarium fish, but they still benefit from a high-quality diet. Preparing your own guppy food may not be a necessity, but it allows you to know exactly what is going down your guppy's gullet.
Brine shrimp are a nutritious and appealing source of live food for both young and adult guppies; their eggs can be stored and hatched as needed. Follow the supplier's instructions for hatching; typically you'll place them in a mixture of 2 liters water and 2 teaspoons kosher salt kept at 80 degrees Fahrenheit for two days. Once they hatch, you'll strain the brine shrimp through a fine net or mesh, rinse with fresh water and drop them into the guppy tank.
Order microworms live for feeding or raise them in a container as small as a shoebox, where they will reproduce and provide a continuous supply of food. Start with a scoop of cooked oatmeal in the center of a small plastic container and sprinkle a little bit of brewer's yeast on top. Add worms and wait a few days. Harvest the worms that crawl up the side of the box for feeding to the guppies. Replace the oatmeal mixture every two to three weeks. Microworms are good for fry and adults.
Baby guppies thrive on the protein in beef heart. Chop beef heart up as fine as possible using a blender or electric chopper. Place it in the freezer and scrape off fine shavings with a knife to feed growing guppies. Feed adults frozen beef heart that is not shaved as fine.
Nearly any type of meat can serve as protein for adult guppies as long as it is chopped or shaved into pieces small enough for a guppy to eat. Fish, bloodworms, shrimp, liver and earthworms are suitable for guppies. Other protein sources include fruit flies, mosquito larvae, Grindal worms and water fleas. Alternate types of food with each feeding; offer only as much as your guppies will eat in a few minutes. Uneaten food will dirty the water.
Guppies can benefit from a small amount of plants in their diet as long as it's rotated with live food and other sources of protein. Spinach, spirulina and algae are suitable. Chop spinach into very small pieces and mix it with a small amount of spirulina or dried algae. As with all other food, offer plant materials in small amounts, giving only as much as your guppies will eat in less than five minutes.


Attention Seniors: The guidance office has received information for applying for the Fray Family Charitable Trust Scholarship. Please see WC's website for more information. Deadline to apply is March 25th.
Debate Team – Please see Mr. Cheatham this week for your platform assignments. The next team meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, January 19th.
The January driving range is now FULL. Students selected to go should get their payment turned in to the Main Office as soon as possible. The next driving range will be in February. See Mrs. Martin if you have questions.
Creative Writing – The Creative Writing group will meet on Thursday, January 14th from 3:00-3:45. Students are reminded that the creative writing contest submissions are due to their English teachers by January 29th.
Forensics – Forensics team members participating in conference championships please see Mrs. Haertel this week.
Attention 10th and 11th graders who took the PSAT's: If you included an email address on your PSAT answer sheet your scores have been delivered to your email account. If you did not provide an email address you will receive your scores by paper in early February. Mrs. Dalton will meet with all students who took the PSAT's once the paper scores have arrived. See Mrs. Dalton if you have questions.
Attention 10th graders! Are you interested in Engineering? Does the idea of attending CVCC as a junior next year appeal to you? Consider applying to the STEM Academy! Students enrolled in STEM spend half of their school day attending classes at CVCC and return to William Campbell for 5th, 6th and 7th period classes. Earn college credits and possibly land a job at AREVA, BWXT, Centra Health and more, right after you graduate from high school!! You don't have to be a straight "A" student, but you do have to be a hard worker and enjoy math and science. Want to know more? Please see Mrs. Dalton by Wednesday, January 22nd to learn more about the program and qualifications and to pick up an application.
Attention College Bound Seniors: On Saturday, January 30th we will be helping families complete their financial aid paperwork for college (also known as the FAFSA or the Free Application for Federal Student Aid). The parent and student should attend since the parent will need to provide current tax documentation. Breakfast will be provided for the student and up to two parents. If you are attending college in the fall this is a MUST!! We will allow sign-ups until all spots are taken. Space is limited. Additional paperwork will be provided upon registration. Sign up in Guidance. See Mrs. Dalton if you have questions.
The CVCC English and Math Placement Test for sophomores and juniors who plan to apply for the Early College Program or STEM and for seniors planning to apply to CVCC in the fall, and for any student planning to do a dual enrollment class next year (such as Machine Shop) has been scheduled for Monday, February 1st. The test will begin at 8:05 a.m. in the Library. There is no cost for the test. *Very Important—Students need to sign up in guidance, apply to CVCC, and give your student number to Mrs. Maxey prior to testing day. If you have any questions, please see Mrs. Maxey.


We're happy to announce that we have just launched the project Teach at HOME I/O!
Teach at HOME I/O is a website built specifically for the French Educational System, showing teachers how they can use HOME I/O in their classes. We're also providing activities and tutorials for teachers showing how to use the software in a classroom.
If you are a French teacher, enjoy one of the two licenses we are offering per school. If you want to share an activity you created using HOME I/O, feel free to contact us.
Take a look at the project (in French) and give us some feedback.


Since our goal is to pack and ship out orders as quickly as possible, orders can only be cancelled within 12 hours of purchase. To cancel your order, please use our contact form at the bottom of this page and select the 'Cancel order' subject. It's also important to provide a correct order number, otherwise we can't process your request to cancel. Requests without a correct order number will not be processed! Any payment for the order will be refunded to your original payment method. If you paid with a credit card, your card will be issued a refund. If you paid through PayPal, your PayPal account will be refunded. Important: Please keep in mind that if you cancel an order, the funds may have a hold on them for 1-3 days by your bank or credit card issuer. Please understand that these holds are completely out of our control.
How do I make changes to my order (e.g. change the address) ?
The easiest way to make changes to your order is to cancel it within 12 hours (see instructions above) and place a new order.
You can request a refund or reshipment for ordered products if you do not receive them within the guaranteed time (45 business days, not including 2-5 day processing), if you received the wrong item (see instructions below), if you do not want the product you have received (you must return the item at your expense and the item must be unused) or if you cancel your order within 12 hours of purchase (see instructions above). We do not issue the refund if your order does not arrive due to factors within your control (e.g. providing the wrong shipping address), your order does not arrive due to exceptional circumstances outside our control (e.g. not cleared by customs, delayed by a natural disaster) or if you cancelled your order after 12 hours of purchase. You can submit a refund request by filling out our contact form at the bottom of this page and select the 'Refund order' subject. It's also important to provide a correct order number, otherwise we can't process your request to refund. You can submit refund requests within 15 days after the guaranteed period for delivery (45 business days) has expired.
Please note the estimated delivery time is 10-30 business days to most countries, after shipment. However the maximum delivery time is 45 business days. Usually our delivery partners will ship the products like expected (10-30 business days). You will receive an email with a tracking number once your order is shipped, but sometimes due to free shipping tracking is not available. For logistical reasons, items in the same purchase may be sent in separate packages even if you've specified combined shipping. We are not responsible for any custom fees once the items have been shipped.
Tracking numbers are assigned to packages when they ship. Once they've shipped, you'll receive an email which includes a tracking code. Sometimes due to free shipping tracking is not available unfortunately. The best website to track your order is http://global.cainiao.com. Please note that the current status may not be the actual status. so if a package is not moving, it could be in your country already and not be updated yet. The maximum delivery time is 45 business days.
I received the wrong product or my order doesn't match the picture/description. What do I do?
If you believe what you have received is not what you expected or as described on the product detail page, please check the order confirmation in your mailbox. Sometimes we did send the correct product, because there are several product variations you can choose on the product detail page (often with different prices). It is possible you picked the variation you received, instead of the 'main' product shown on the product page. If you still believe we sent the wrong product, please fill out our contact form at the bottom of this page and select the 'Wrong product received' subject. You will need to upload one or more clear photos showing the incorrect item(s) you received. It will also help if you provide us a detailed description on how the item differs from the product information listed on our website. It's important to enter a correct order number as well when you submit the contact form.
What should I do when I have received damaged goods?
Please fill out our contact form at the bottom of this page and select the 'Damaged product received' subject. You will need to upload one or more clear photos showing the damage and provide us a detailed description. Our team will review your email and contact you as soon as possible.
I ordered multiple products but I have only received one/some of them?
For logistical reasons, items in the same purchase may be sent in separate packages even if you've specified combined shipping. So please be patient until the other item(s) arrive.
You can select the currency you prefer on top of our website. All product prices will be automatically converted into the selected currency according to Google Finance converter. Most of the time all transactions will be handled in EUR, this means you will see the total order amount on the order confirmation in EUR. If your credit card account is in a currency other than EUR (e.g. USD), you may be charged at a different exchange rate than what is quoted on our website. You may also be subject to a foreign currency transaction fee. Please consult your bank or credit card provider if you are unsure. We are not responsible for the exchange rate of any charges your bank or issuing credit card company may charge you.
Why doesn't your customer service offer phone support?
We don't offer phone support because we truly believe it wouldn't be possible to provide the same effective assistance over the phone. We offer 24/7 online support via email. All customer service agents are real, friendly and experienced humans working from our headquarters in Europe.
Response times may vary because of the different time zones. They are also based on the support volume we are currently experiencing. We try to respond as quickly as we can within 1-5 days, but it may take longer for more complex questions/issues that require investigation. During holidays, we are receiving a large number of incoming emails which leads to longer than usual waiting times. We thank you for your patience and will get back to you as quickly as possible.
Order confirmations and shipping notifications are sent to the email address you provided when placing the order. If you don't see the verifications email in your inbox, please check your Junk or Spam folders. Also verify any firewall or anti-spam software you have installed is not blocking our emails. If this is not helping you may have entered a wrong or invalid email address during the order process. Please contact us by filling out the contact form at the bottom of this page and select the 'Not receiving notifications' subject.
I have a general question about a product before purchasing it?
Please contact us by filling out the contact form at the bottom of this page and select the 'Presales' subject.


I was recently contacted by F&F, the clothing brand stocked in Tesco stores, and challenged to style a denim focused look from their latest collection to celebrate the launch of the AW13 range. Now denim is something I love, but with this being a challenge I wanted to push myself out of my comfort zone and try something I've never done before – Double Denim! I've seen so many people pull the look off so well, but it's always been something that scared me a little when it came to wearing it myself, so I picked out a denim jacket and a pair of high waisted jeggings and embraced the double denim trend whole heartedly!
I stuck to a similar shade when it came to the denims, going with a dark wash, which again is something I don't wear very often! Personally I wouldn't wear denims that were too different as I prefer the whole illusion of the two pieces being almost like a suit! I broke up the blue with a gorgeous pale grey chunky knit jumper, that I went up a size in so that it was slightly oversized, and picked out some lovely ankle boots with gold detailing. I was inspired by a stunning coat that I saw on the site too, which features a faux fur collar, so I decided to dig my collar out from last winter and add it to complete the look!
I'm really please with how this outfit turned out, and can confirm that I'm now a double denim convert and will definitely be experimenting more with the trend!
What do you think of the double denim trend? Have you checked out F&F's new collection?


A before and after look at the bearded R&Mer's supporting No-Shave November. Along with our family and friends, we donated just over $600 to the American Cancer Society to help raise cancer awareness. The funds go towards preventing cancer and aiding those fighting the battle. Thank you for giving up daily shaving to bring attention to a great cause!


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WAYE MASON: Market alone will not solve the housing crisis
Published: Nov 26, 2020 at 12:29 p.m.
Updated: Nov 28, 2020 at 6 a.m.
Coun. Waye Mason: "In 2018, Halifax voted in favour of my motion asking the province to give the responsibility for housing back to the municipality. That discussion is still being had." - Contributed
WAYE MASON • Guest Opinion
That Halifax and Nova Scotia have an affordable housing crisis is not breaking news, and it is good to see the province announce the formation of an Affordable Housing Commission, with a mandate to recommend strategies and actions within six months.
While this process plays out, Halifax needs to continue to take rapid actions where it can, while demanding new and long-delayed tools from the province. The province needs to either get back into building new units or give housing and funding to Halifax and get out of the way.
Halifax has experienced five years of unprecedented population and economic growth. While this is welcome, it has increased stress on an already expensive housing market.
COVID has made this bad situation worse, with impacts ranging from distancing rules, halving capacity in homeless shelters, to an already in-trouble housing market made worse by the great many people choosing to move here, perceiving safety.
The 2015 Halifax Housing and Homelessness Partnership study showed 20 per cent of residents cannot afford market price rental housing. Halifax's population has grown nine per cent over the last five years. The number of people who need below-market housing continues to grow with the population, and the number of affordable units has not grown with demand. The market will not solve this problem.
Unlike many municipalities in much of the rest of the country, housing in Nova Scotia is delivered by the province. Many other provinces chose to fund municipalities to deliver housing, but that has not been the case in Nova Scotia since 1996.
As a result, the Metro Regional Housing Authority is a provincial entity and new affordable units are almost exclusively built at the direction of the province while most federal money goes to the province, not to Halifax.
Halifax and Winnipeg are the only two major cities in Canada that do not deliver housing directly. In 2018, Halifax voted in favour of my motion asking the province to give the responsibility for housing back to the municipality. That discussion is still being had.
Despite not directly delivering housing, Halifax has been trying to effect change where it can, following its Affordable Housing Work Plan. Halifax has approved a program for affordable housing built by not-for-profits and funded by developer-paid "density bonus" money. HRM has waived "municipal construction fees" for non-profit affordable housing, and worked to reduce red tape by removing barriers on the development of secondary suites.
The municipality has also improved regulations regarding single-room occupancies while working to ensure programming in vulnerable neighbourhoods. The municipality is also starting to identify appropriate surplus municipal lands for use in affordable housing projects, such as the recent sale of lands in North Dartmouth for $1 to the Affordable Housing Nova Scotia society.
By April, the work plan should be complete when council removes barriers to the development of special-care facilities and implements policy for registration of residential rentals.
Halifax has identified other lots for affordable housing that are the right scale for not-for-profit groups. Larger lots like St. Pat's High or Bloomfield are too big for quick and successful affordable developments and have instead been sold for development. This will capture significant density bonus funds for investment in affordable projects.
Halifax could do more if the province provides the necessary tools the municipality has long asked for.
Most important among these tools is inclusionary zoning, which would allow the municipality to require that most new and some renovated residential developments include some affordable homes. Without this, the municipality cannot influence or control any rental pricing.
Other tools that have been requested include asking the province to complete the enforcement regulations for the affordable-housing provisions in the Halifax Charter. Without this, the municipality cannot hold developers to any commitment to include affordable housing in a development.
There are other tools the province could provide, such as simpler mechanisms to ensure affordable housing stays affordable, like targeted rent control on designated units, the ability to require a developer covenant affordability on deed, and no-net-loss provisions that require maintenance or replacement of affordable units. The current reverse-mortgage model for guaranteeing affordability is too short and complicated to be tenable.
While the recently announced temporary measures for rent control are important, we need a long-term strategy. Who really thinks rent increases of 20-100 per cent in one year is ever fair?
The province needs to ban these unfair practices and provide financial incentives to avoid renovictions.
Most importantly, the province must increase Income Assistance rental rates which have not kept up with inflation and are nowhere near meeting the costs of rent and basic necessities.
With provincial support, we can have more shelters, more supportive housing, and build more housing for people requiring below-market housing.
Together, one way or the other, the province and Halifax can rapidly develop and implement programs that will improve the quality of life for so many vulnerable citizens. It's time to stop talking, and start building.
Waye Mason is a Halifax regional councillor representing District 7 (Halifax South Downtown).
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Coraline 10th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
By Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illustrator)
This edition of New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman's modern classic, Coraline—also an Academy Award-nominated film—is enriched with a foreword from the author, a reader's guide, and more.
"Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house...."
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.
But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
Neil Gaiman's Coraline is a can't-miss classic that enthralls readers age 8 to 12 but also adults who enjoy a perfect smart spooky read.
Neil Gaiman is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of books for children and adults whose award-winning titles include Norse Mythology, American Gods, The Graveyard Book, Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), Coraline, and The Sandman graphic novels. Neil Gaiman is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR and Professor in the Arts at Bard College.
Dave McKean is best known for his work on Neil Gaiman's Sandman series of graphic novels and for his CD covers for musicians from Tori Amos to Alice Cooper. He also illustrated Neil Gaiman's picture books The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The Wolves in the Walls, and Crazy Hair. He is a cult figure in the comic book world, and is also a photographer.
"Gaiman's tale is inventive, scary, thrilling and finally affirmative. Readers young and old will find something to startle them." — Washington Post Book World
"A modern ghost story with all the creepy trimmings…Well done." — New York Times Book Review
"Coraline is by turns creepy and funny, bittersweet and playful…can be read quickly and enjoyed deeply." — San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"A magnificently creepy story. Coraline is spot on." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Gaiman's pacing is superb, and he steers the tension of the tale with a deft and practiced narrative touch." — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, rise to your feet and applaud: Coraline is the real thing." — Philip Pullman, The Guardian
"The most splendidly original, weird, and frightening book I have read, and yet full of things children will love." — Diana Wynne Jones
"It has the delicate horror of the finest fairy tales, and it is a masterpiece." — Terry Pratchett
"An electrifyingly creepy tale likely to haunt young readers for many moons." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
" Walk through the door and you'll believe in love, magic, and the power of good over evil." — USA Today
"So wonderfully whimsical that readers of all ages will hungrily devour itCoraline is destined to become a classic. — Globe and Mail (Toronto)
"Chilly, finely-wrought prose, a truly weird setting and a fable that taps into our most uncomfortable fears." — Times Educational Supplement
"A deliciously scary book that we loved reading together as a family." — Orson Scott Card
"Beautifully spooky. Gaiman actually seems to understand the way children think. " — Christian Science Monitor
"A frighteningly realistic fantasy. Lean crisp prose adds to the suspense and propels the story, and the eerie black-and-white illustrations by Dave McKean heighten the nightmarish quality of the tale." — Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)
"Kids will hang on every word. Coraline is a character with whom they will surely identify, and they will love being frightened out of their shoes. This is just right for all those requests for a scary book." — School Library Journal (starred review)
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This page displays sold house prices for Pardown in Basingstoke.
Pardown in Oakley, Basingstoke consists predominantly of detached houses. Properties on Pardown typically have values around £500,000 - £650,000, but larger detached houses can command upwards of £900,000.


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Grand Ivy Online Casino
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The center of the screen displays the background images of popular slot machines. It is enough to choose a slot by moving the cursor to its name and clicking on "Play". There are names of categories on the left. Information about the winners and the amount of winnings is right under them. The jackpot amount can be found at the bottom of the display. There is a second menu with the names of additional sections. These are the terms of the user agreement, privacy policy, information about the RTP rate.
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Owners of iOS must first create an Apple ID account. After clicking on the link sent, they will be automatically redirected to the appropriate App Store page. There you will see detailed instructions on how to download the app. Authorization is performed with the existing credentials (password and login). Access to the personal account is available even when the official website is unavailable.
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How to Deposit in Grand Ivy?
The Grand Ivy casino review describes the payment methods available to deposit funds. It is worth choosing an option that is suitable not only for deposits but also for the withdrawal of winnings. Most often personal bank cards – Mastercard/Visa – are used. Their scanned copies are sent to the support team during verification (part of the number can be blacked out). During replenishment. the CVV code is entered
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New players receive a Grand Ivy bonus after registration. The welcome package consists of two parts. The first part is a bonus to the deposit of up to 1,500 EUR (or equivalent in another currency according to the exchange rate). The second part includes 100 free spins. The offer is applicable to the first three deposits. The minimum deposit amounts (in euros) to activate the starter package are indicated below.
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There is an interesting special offer in 2022. The prize pool is 10,000 EUR. Only registered players are allowed to participate in the promotion. Each of them has to make a deposit of 500 euros. Three promotion periods are scheduled:
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