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Saturday, 6 February 2021

Happy Saturday friends!

Today's post was completely unplanned and unintended. Like seriously, I already had all my posts all scheduled up, in a nice neat 3-month schedule... but if there's anything I learned in 2020 it's that life rarely follows our neat little plans. So no, I didn't plan to write a post for today- but you're getting one anyway. So pour yourself a cup of tea, get comfortable, and click that 'read more' button because trust me you're not going to want to miss out on this post.

Have you ever wanted something so bad that everything else in your life takes a backseat?

If you're honest (and human), then I'd imagine the answer is probably yes x1000.

At least, it is for me.

I've lost count of the times that I wanted something so much that it's completely distracted me from the important things in life- whether that's my goals & ambitions, my values, or my loved ones. 9 times out of 10, the things that have distracted me... the things that I wanted so bad that everything else lost priority, weren't even worth it in the end.

And that's why I wanted to write today's post; because I've figured out how to avoid that ever happening again, and I want to share my secret with you.

For as long as I can remember, all I've wanted was to have the perfect, incredible, and romantic relationship. I read a lot of YA romance novels when I was in school, so I half-blame it on those, but honestly, I need to admit responsibility as well.

I think when it boils down, most girls just want to be loved... and there's nothing wrong with that, but I didn't just want to be loved. I was was obsessed with being loved. I had to have it, and I had to have it now.

I convinced myself that I would never be happy unless I was in the perfect relationship with the perfect guy. Do you see the flaw in that? See for me, the result of that kind of thinking was a series of seriously flawed decisions.

At 17 I dove into a relationship with a guy I barely knew, turned my back on God, and deserted my family in the midst of a tragedy when they needed me the most. When that relationship eventually ended (and thank goodness it did), it completely devastated me.

Along the road, I've learned that blindly chasing after romantic love isn't necessarily the best use of my time. There is more to life than that.

I've also learned that the danger of living in a space where you want something so bad that you can't see past it, isn't limited to a yearning for romance. Over the years I've had parallel experiences with all sorts of things; from my academic goals, even to certain friendships.

The common trend in all of these things is that I mistook my desire for 'X' as something I really needed, when in reality these were just things that I really wanted.

In his book 'Love Does', Bob Goff talks about a similar instance in his life. His words brought me a lot of comfort when I read them:

"In the bible, the people following God had the same problem I did. They swapped the real thing for an image of the real thing. We target the wrong thing and our misdirected life's goal ends up looking like a girl (or in my case, a guy), or a golden calf. All along, what God really wants for us is something much different, something more tailored to us.

Wow, right?

Over the past couple of months, I've come to two conclusions about all of this:

1. Sometimes when we chase after the wrong things, God allows us to do so in order to teach us... but he also gives us the strength to find a way out

2. Maybe instead of chasing after [instert relevant word here], I could spend my time and energy chasing after the God who has already written my story

What do you think?

  1. Everything happens because God allows, an He sometimes allows us to push Him away just for us to see how incapable we are without him, right?

    1. I believe so! It's not always easy to understand God's reasoning, but I know in my experience it has been the times that I have isolated myself from God that have made me realise just how much I really need him

  2. I feel everything in our lives happens for a reason. Whether it is to teach us something or help us towards our life goals. We may not always see it at the time, but as we get older, these things become clearer to see.

    1. I absolutely agree- challenges produce perseverance, after all!

  3. You've made a good point here - one that I believe could apply to any religion (or lack thereof). Instead of focusing on and obsessing over something like finding love from another, why not focus on finding your own self-love and happiness, including your spiritual well-being, whatever that may look like for you.

    1. Hey Britt! That's a really interesting perspective. Personally I think that even if I focus 100% on my own self love and happiness, I'll only end up messing up because my decision making is flawed! When I focus on finding my own self-love, I forget to look out for my friends and end up making choices that are rooted in selfisheness... but when I focus on finding God's will for my life, it ends up not only having a positive impact on my own life, but my ability to love others better too!

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Across Savage Mars

"This is just swell, guys. We're gonna end up with our own exhibit hall in the Museum of All-Time Screw-Ups."

I must admit, when the Vashanka trussed us and started marching us along the river's edge, my mood took me right off even the most generous possible scale of cosmic usefulness. The gnawing emptiness of my stomach and the rasping of alien vines against my wrists were like the lead violins in my personal frustration orchestra.

What a thought. My solipsistic Martian adventure serial, now with a private musical accompaniment. What would be appropriate to my situation? Something from a Looney Tunes short?

"Hardly likely," sighed Avila. "Since a visit to your world is next to impossible for any of us."

"Ain't a real place," I growled. "But if it were, there'd be statues of us. Big ones."

I knew, of course, that even eternal embarrassment would be a luxury compared to what was really looming. The All-Sovereign had broadcast my alleged death across his civilization in three dimensions; as soon as his goons had me back they'd grind me up for plant food, then burn the plants. As for Avila and Gathris...

"The good news is, we all have to die so quickly and quietly they won't have any chance to get creative," I said. I peered at our captors, their lithe shadowy shapes outlined by the luminescent threads of their mantles and the eerie jewel-gleam of jungle plants. I raised my voice. "In fact, since the All-Sovereign won't want to advertise the fact that I survived, you idiots are looking pretty ripe for the bump-off, too. Might be something to consider before you try to convince him I'm worth thirty pieces of silver."

"A provocative and compelling argument," said Azon Arazef. She was at the water's very edge, about ten feet to my right. I could see the telltale sheen of the pistol in her belt. "Your profound wisdom humbles me, blueworlder. I had given no thought to the most glaringly obvious aspect of your presence here. Please do continue lecturing me as though I were unweaned."

"Damn," I said. "You got yourself a sarcasm merit badge, huh?"

"If the All-Sovereign needs you hidden," she said, her voice languidly confident, "he needs you hidden from the mask-wearers. What we know is irrelevant. Keeping ourselves beneath his concern is part of our way of life."

"Seems a hell of a chance to take with the lives of... oh, all of you."

"It's a matter of finesse. We contact the mask-wearers circumspectly. We demand our price in goods easily supplied by one of their swarmships. We make it too attractive not to pay. Just weapons and tools."

"If staying beneath their concern is so important, you can't be serious about asking for weapons!"

"A trifling number. Something they can surrender without a care." She tapped the butt of her desiccator. "Ten of these would set my Moving Village above any in the Valley of the Emerald Night, and still it would be as nothing to the All-Sovereign."

"The servants of the All-Sovereign will cry with laughter," said Gathris, the sneer in his voice so palpable you could have hung a coat on it. " 'Much will you receive,' indeed! You hold the single most valuable thing on the planet and you'd trade it for sidearms and hand lights. Imbecile children begging for festival favors!"

"Let them laugh." Azon Arazef didn't sound rattled. "Our power on the river will be supreme, and still the All-Sovereign will never have to spare another thought for us. All is relative."

"Nothing is relative to the All-Sovereign!" yelled Avila. "He gives nothing! He takes as a matter of principle! You fools don't know what it's like in the City of the Sovereign Eye! The cruelty, the treachery, the sheer stupid--"

"You Thoraveds followed him up the mountain," said Azon Arazef. "You kissed his robes and let him unlock the halls of the Old Makers for you. You're the ones who put his hands on your throats, so don't cry to me if he tightens his grip."

"It's not just us," said Avila. "He won't spare anyone. He'll let you skulk here only while it suits his whim. Some day he'll decide there's something he wants in this valley, and he'll wipe you all out in an hour!"

"When the shadow passes overhead, the prey moves or dies," said Azon Arazef. "A Line Mother must be persuasive and a First Huntress must be sly. If I can't be those things in dealing with mask-wearers, I and my people deserve to fall."

She was a hot-dogger, all right. It oozed out of her voice. Total self-assurance, like some of the fighter pilots I'd known during the war. Boys with little Japanese flags painted under their cockpits. I tried to plow through the haze of annoyance and exhaustion coming down over my brain, picking her words apart, looking for the lever points. She took a hell of a lot of responsibility for her people on herself. I wondered...

"Easy to shoot your mouth off when your audience has their hands tied," I said. "Big tough leader like you. Bet your people think you're pretty slick, honey."

"They deem me sufficient."

"Are you sufficient? Without that gun in your belt, without these vines around my wrist, without a dozen friends carrying spears for you?"

"Would you challenge me, blueworlder?"

"Hell yes! I'll face you any way you people do it." It was a Flash Gordon ploy, imaginary reader, and though I'd learned to my sorrow just how few citizens of other planets actually played by Flash Gordon rules, what choice did I have? I tried not to think of how tired and weak I was, or how it had felt to have that Thoraved guard in my prison cell bounce me off the floor. "Just you and me, First Huntress. Tell me how it's done. You can even have choice of weapons, if you like."

"I choose logic," she said. "On my honor, I can wager your freedom and the freedom of these naked mask-wearers. I can risk my position. Since I consider myself able in that position, I can also risk the safety and future of all my people. What can you wager that I don't already possess?"

"What about skills? I'm an aircraft pilot and mechanic. I could teach you and your people how to build flying machines."

"I assisted in building my first flying machine when I was a child," she said. "We use terrain-hugging flitters to scout the river ahead of our Moving Villages. Counter-rotating blades in a chassis suffused with buoyant gas."

"Damn. Well, I can show you something bigger and better than that. Fixed-wing flight."

"And that would put us in the sky, which the All-Sovereign jealously guards, and directly attract the very attention we're resolved to avoid. I'm amused that you seem to think I must be a simpleton," said Azon Arazef. "Is this a bargaining posture, or are all the blueworlders of your tribe so untrained in the employment of their brains?"

"Uh... it's a bargaining posture?"

"Of course."

Our trudge continued through the humid darkness. Things shuffled and howled and flapped unseen, but the size of our Vashanka escort seemed to cow anything that might have wanted to sample the buffet. Fungal perfumes drifted out of the jungle depths, warm exhalations carrying pale insects and spore-falls gleaming like tiny constellations. The thickly-threaded clouds and fog grew salmon-colored as we walked. Dawn was near.

By the time we reached the Vashanka landing site the sun was nestled in the eastern mists like a red jewel in cotton. The river ran pink, ludicrously warm and inviting pink, beneath the bobbing black hulls of angular boats that looked like the war-canoes of Haida Indians I'd read about at the library. These craft were fifty or sixty feet long, and guarded by another dozen Vashanka who came out to stare at us and gossip.

I had no fight left in me. In fact, I was having trouble keeping my eyes open as our captors pushed me the last few steps. To my surprise it was Avila who found a sudden burst of contrariness. He kicked, spat, shouted and swore-- oh, the blue-assed blasphemy that came out of his mouth! I'd have to explain some unsettling things about Martian reproduction, imaginary reader, to give you the full picture, but in the general sense they're a lot like us. Same song with all the lyrics changed.

Avila made so much noise they kicked him unconscious before throwing him into a boat with me. I maneuvered myself to rest his head on my legs, for what it was worth, as the Vashanka rowers chanted a cadence and pushed us off from shore.

A loud noise startled me awake. Hours had passed; the too-small sun was nestled in bright sky above the translucent wrapping-paper mists. Groggily, I realized that Avila had reversed our positions. My head was pillowed on the lean muscle of his leg, which was barely wider than one of my arms.

"She must have sustenance!" he was shouting. "Blueworlders will starve just as we do!"

"And take weeks, as we do?" Azon Arazef stood over us, casually gnawing on something that looked like waxy meat. "Assuming she has sufficient access to moisture, of course."

"I simply don't know," said Avila. I could see that his face was bruised, and his left eye half-swollen shut. "The All-Sovereign never worried about feeding any of his captives. We need to conduct experiments. Little bites, the tiniest possible quantities, to establish--"

"Out of the question," said Azon Arazef, swallowing the last of her meal. "Those of us who live in the valley know what a death-allergy is. There are a dozen plants and animals that kill by that means, and we're strengthened with the mycomatrix from youth. She's only just received it! One taste of the wrong food might burst her like a ripe seed-pod."

Hunger was in me like a living thing, a gut-chewing goblin, and still that ghastly image conjured fresh beads of sweat on my brow. Swelling up like a Violet-sized blister! Now there was a death that fell too far south of 'heroic' for my taste.

"The Vashanka has a point," said Gathris, speaking from somewhere behind me. "Even if we could conduct experiments with Violet's diet, this is hardly a clean, controlled environment for it. And we've no means of arresting anaphylaxis if it does set in."

"She's already tasted the water and breathed the air of the valley for some time," said Avila. "And she clearly hasn't exploded. I'd call that encouraging."

"Dead, she has some value to the All-Sovereign. Alive, she may possibly have even more. That's the only reason any of you are still breathing, and the reason I take no chances" said Azon Arazef. "I see you're awake, blueworlder. Tell me, does one of your hands serve you more adroitly than the other?"

"Uh... why do you ask?" I sat up as slowly as I could, and still the world wobbled around me in a way that had nothing to do with rowers or river currents.

"This is my weapon hand," she said, waving her right hand at me. "My tool hand. My mark-making hand. All Vashanka and Thoraveds favor one. I simply wish to know if blueworlders are the same."

I sighed and held up my own right hand, with one finger specifically extended in an undiplomatic fashion. "Guilty as charged."

"Excellent." She knelt, took firm hold of my left arm, and ran a scaled finger up and down it from wrist to elbow. "Then you can afford to lose this one. If sustenance becomes an issue, we'll sever it above the middle joint and prepare it for you. Your own flesh is the only substance on this planet guaranteed safe for your consumption."

"The hell you say!" I snatched my arm back, weak as a child and all the more petulant for knowing it. "Bitch!"

"Pragmatist," said Azon Arazef as she stood up. "And I'd guard my tongue, were I you. Once I've concluded my negotiation with the mask-wearers, the prospect of such a meal might be the last thing you'll ever have to look forward to."

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I sit in the peace of the dreary morning as the sun rises over the city, casting my gaze towards the sight of the open water and bridge. This site has quickly become my mental escape from the 10th floor. If I look straight out, my view is the city for as far as the eyes can see. However, if I snuggle comfortably into the corner of my sofa, I see a vision of tranquility and boats setting out to sea.

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As I am writing this well after July 21, and since the picture was snapped, Sammy has slipped outside on several occasions. He got out Friday morning (July 23) and managed to terrorize Ralphie, our neighbor's cat. High diligence is required at all doorways, since he quickly maneuvers around our legs.

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Having worked for some time with companies that are involved with communications and net security I came to understand esoteric things such as deep packet inspection, wormability and malcode—stuff that requires me to draw out my university algebra texts to understand the math behind the method. It is with some relief I managed to see a copy of a recent paper that clearly outlines the rules, by country, for Lawful Intercept.

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Berlin’s Best Bookshops

Paul Sullivan rounds up some of the city’s best English (and some German) language bookstores…

Another Country

Named as one of the top ten bookshops in the world by Lonely Planet, Kreuzberg’s Another Country is one of Berlin’s longest-running literary/intellectual salons for the English-speaking crowd. A good chunk of its 20,000-odd books are for loan, not sale (bring a book back and the purchase price is refunded, minus €1), while about ten percent of stock functions as a reference library, available only to read in-shop. The owners also run a second shop for events… Read more….

Riemannstraße 7, 10961 Berlin, T: 030 69401160

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In January 2015, Bildband opened its doors at Immanuelkirchstrasse 33. The shop’s main emphasis is on photography with the front of the shop devoted entirely to photo books;  a mix of classics, re-issued and new or contemporary titles as well as rare, out of print and sample books. Established favourites such as Vivian Maier and Robert Polidori are well represented as are works by emerging or less well-known talents.

A second room contains books on art, architecture and design. Bookseller Thomas Gust explains that new stock is arriving constantly and many of the books are discounted by 50-70%. The shop holds regular events such as book launches and monthly exhibitions, and presentations by the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie also take place here.

Immanuelkirch Straße 33, 10405 Berlin; T: 030 4737 7014

Curious Fox

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This friendly and well-stocked Irish-run bookshop in Neukölln sells new and second-hand books across a range of genres that includes children’s books, LGBTQ+ interest and Irish interest, as well as an ever-growing range of books published by Berlin-based authors. The shop holds a number of events throughout the year including the monthly poetry event, “Isn’t Everything Poetry?”, a quiz night, Bloomsday celebrations and author-readings. Check their website for more info.

Flughafenstr. 22, 12053 Berlin – Neukölln, T: 030 5266 4791

Do You Read Me!?

Founded by graphic designer Mark Kiessling and professional bookseller Jessica Reitz in 2009, the L-shaped space Do You Read Me!? stocks an international array of magazines as well as art books, coffee table tomes, lesser known periodicals, obscure zines and regular books, covering everything from art, culture and fashion to photography, design, architecture and politics. If you want to take a seat and glance through one of the journals in comfort you’re welcome to use one of the several white Eames chairs placed in the corners of the shop. Read More

Auguststraße 28, 10117 Berlin, T: 030 6954 9695

Ebert und Weber Buchhandlung

Ebert und Weber is a lovely little store that stocks mostly books from small and independent publishers that have experienced such a boom here in the past decade, but are nearly completely unrepresented in shops. Best of all, the shelves are organized by publisher, which will help you make sense of their various programs and understand the titles in their context. These young publishers’ striking, innovative approach to cover design means that a trip to Ebert and Weber is also always a visual treat. A back room offers a small but intelligent English-language selection. Read more

Falckensteinstr. 44, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg, T: 030-69 56 51 93

English Books

Originally called Buchexpress, English Books is found right next door to the English Institute of the Free University. Containing mostly new books, with around a third of the space devoted to second-hand, the intimate, characterful shop specialises educational books such as learning (and teaching) English, literary and linguistic theory and history, but also stocks a decent selection of general fiction and non-fiction and also children’s books. Owner Peter Michael Schuer was one of the store’s co-founders in 1977 and still works here, helping visitors out with advice and the store also offers English language courses.

Unter den Eichen 96, 12205 Berlin, T: 030 831 4004

Marga Schoeller Bücherstube

Opened in 1929 by the eponymous Frau Schoeller, this West Berlin shop was once a focal point for West Berlin’s burgeoning literary scene, attracting esteemed international writers like Beckett, Hesse, Mann, Eliot, Auden and the members of Hans Werner Richter’s famed Gruppe 47. Though Schoeller passed away in ’78, her son and colleagues have continued her good work. The shop still sells mostly German-language books, but still maintains one of the best English book selections in Berlin, located in an alcove on the left as you enter. Read more

Knesebeckstrasse 33, 10632 Berlin, T: 030 881 1112

Mundo Azul

Mundo Azul is a delightful Prenzlauer Berg store specialising in international children’s literature, mostly from small publishing houses from all over the world: German, Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, but also a small selection from countries like Korea, Iran, Poland, Russia, China, and Turkey. The shop also serves as a centre for activities related to intercultural awareness. Due to its unique selection of picture books from all over the world, Mundo Azul co-works with German and international schools, libraries, universities, festivals, book fairs and other cultural institutions.

Choriner Straße 49, 10435 Berlin, T: 030 49 85 38 34

Pequod Books

Pequod stocks used books in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Norwegian and Danish, along with a handful of books in other languages. The bright, orderly shop now has two rooms with over 12,000 books. The selection leans strongly toward traditional classics, in part because owner Álvaro Sendra González does not speak all of the languages he offers, but also because, an artist by trade, he is still learning about the book business, and is building his stock up from a solid foundation. In the spirit of our low-cost city, no book in the shop costs more than €6. Pequod will also buy used books, and you might even get to share the shop’s sofa with Pecorino, Alvaro’s book-loving cat. Read more

Selchower Straße 33, 12049 Neukölln, 0152 55130374

This large and relatively new (2012) bookshop, with its oak-panelled interior, is the dream-child of local designer Martina Zeyen. The books are a mix of the old and the new, and there’s also comics, graphic novels and tomes on design and art. There’s an English selection too, but it’s not quite as well-curated as the German stuff. There are also talks and concerts, readings and films – and you can order online on the store’s homepage. Best of all is to visit though, especially as there’s a cosy in-store café where you can enjoy a coffee and baked goods.

Brunnenstraße 181 10119 Berlin, T: 030 9789 4592

Otherland and Hammett

Photo by Camilo Diaz. Copyright Otherside bookstore.

Genre fans can draw up a seat and enjoy a glass of wine under the gaze of the inflatable dragons gracing the shelves in the backroom of Otherland, named for Tad Williams’s cyberpunk fantasy series. These two shops, just around the corner from each other, collaborate on events: crime and mystery authors, a mainstay of Hammett’s, sometimes read at the larger space at the sci-fi/fantasy-focused Otherland. Both keep a good stock of English books (around a third of the selection) and regularly host readings in English as well as role playing games. Recent readers include Cory Doctorow, Cixin Liu and S.A. Corey (Daniel Abrahams and Ty Franck) from the Expanse.

Otherland, Bergmannstraße 25, 10961 Berlin, T: 030 69505117

Hammett Krimibuchhandlung, Friesenstraaße 27, 10965 Berlin, T: 030 6915834

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Just off the Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, this bright and spacious store has an overt design aesthetic, with its minimal interior, floods of natural light and artfully arranged clusters of books and magazines. The store aims to present a sophisticated mix of international books alongside magazines and periodicals on architecture, urbanism and art, design and cultural theory. Half of the stock is in English, and regular book launches and discussions are held.

Almstadtstraße 48-50, 10119 Berlin, T: 030 2472 8520

Saint George’s

With around 30,000 books—80% of which are used—Saint George’s is one of the longest-serving and comprehensive English language bookshops in the city. Located in the near-Parisian Kollwitzkiez, the shop especially prides itself on its range of titles, and holds an impressive number of translations from German into English of the likes of Tucholsky, Sebald, Fallada and Thomas Mann. The philosophy collection is top notch, and new and used books can also be ordered as well as bought back. Read More

Wörther Straße 27, 10405 Berlin, T: 030 81798333

Shakespeare and Sons

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Shakespeare & Sons’ roomy new premises on Warcshauer Strasse offers entire vast walls of books, from Eastern European literature in English (including lots of titles from noteworthy Prague-based Twisted Spoon Press), a sizeable French-language selection, a respectable graphic novel/comic book section, and a substantial philosophy collection. It’s also home to Fine Bagels, and plenty of seating where you can thumb through your new purchase a with a delicious cup of coffee, cake or bagel. Events, concerts and readings take place each month too.

Walther König

Located right on the Museum Insel, this large, handsome store is one of the best of the locations set up by Cologne-based art publisher Walter König (most of the others are in museums). Fronted by generous windows the interior consists of several rooms offering shelf upon shelf of art history, architecture, photography, design and philosophy. There are also exhibition catalogues, coffee table books and some rarer publications too.

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Cafe Vux

A Brazilian-inspired café offering vegan treats in Neukölln…

Located on a tranquil street near the Bahnhof Neukölln, the red façade of Café Vux leaps out somewhat from the neighbouring grey buildings.

If that doesn’t grab your attention, the promises of ‘café, doces and salgados’ on the sign outside probably will.

Inside are two lounge-sized rooms, both smart and white like the exterior. The main room, illuminated naturally thanks to the large street-facing window, features an assortment of white and brown wooden tables and chairs, a wall covered with charming photos and paintings in a variety of frames, and a counter. The second room, just as bright, is slightly larger.

The first thing you’re likely to see when you walk in is the vitrine of cakes. Oh what handsome things they are! Colourful, fruity wedges, utterly devoid of eggs, milk or cream (and, in some cases, wheat) yet looking and tasting for all the world like ‘real’ cakes.

The cookies, brownies and waffles are similarly delicious, and coming here for a sweet treat and a latte (soy or rice milk only) or one of the many great teas is really justification enough for a visit to Vux.

The Brazilian-influenced exotica promised on the sign is found throughout the rest of the menu. There’s the fantastic bagels—which foam with fresh salad and sprouts and feature fillings like sun-dried tomato and hummus, seitan and lime, guava-jelly and – get this – ‘smoky-habanero-mango-sauce.’ And there’s the soups too, anything from sweet potato and pear, to pumpkin, manioc and coconut.

Still, that’s all fairly pedestrian compared to the café’s smoothie scene, where ingredients like açaí, maracujá, guava, cashew fruit, papaya and acerola cherry are combined to create the liquid equivalent to carnaval.

One of the best ways to try out a combination of these inventive dishes (and more) is at Vux’s notoriously delicious Sunday brunches (12-3pm).

Once you’re done, take a look around the area. The café is in the Böhmisches Dorf, or Bohemian Village area—a tiny town founded in 1737 that still stands relatively untouched in places.

You could continue the natural theme by starting your explorations in the pretty Körnerpark nearby, or the strollable Comenius Gardens, whose three-dimensional creations follow the work of Bohemian educationalist Johann Amos Comenius (1592 – 1670).

For more info, check out Vux’s website.

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Surprising Statistics about the World That Will Change the Way You Think about Life (24 pics)

Nearly 15% of them will commit suicide before turning 18
75% of the total deaths during World War II were civilians (nearly 50 million people)

22,000 kids die every day because of poverty

A typical cow in the European Union receives a government subsidy of $2.20 a day. The cow earns more than 1.2 billion of the world's poorest people

The United States now spends some $200 billion on the correctional system each year, a sum that exceeds the gross domestic product of twenty-five US states and 140 foreign countries

At least 10 times as many girls are now trafficked into brothels annually as African slaves were transported to the New World in the peak years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade

The amount the U.S. military spends annually on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan is $20.2 billion. That's more than NASA's budget

Both in rich countries and poor, a staggering 30-50% of all food produced rots away uneaten

80% of the world population lives on less than $10 per day

Studies at the University of Kent have shown that the majority of people donate to charity to feel good about themselves

According to a study by NASA engineers, it was found that 60 out of 1000 drivers would go out of their way to hit animals on the road (don't worry, they were fake, and yes, NASA engineers actually performed this study)

2 million children die of preventable diseases every year (diarrhea, pneumonia) because they are too poor to afford treatment

One fourth of humanity lives without electricity

1.2 billion people live in places without an adequate supply of water

1.6 billion live in places where they do have access to water, but they simply cannot afford it

Cargo ships and cruise liners dump 14 billion pounds of garbage into the ocean every year

34% of the homeless population in the United States is young people under 24

250 million children between the ages of 5 and 15 are working under forced labor conditions

There are 300,000 child soldiers around the world

Although most of the world has abolished the death penalty, 1591 people were executed in 2006. 91% of these took place in the US, China, Sudan, Iran, Pakistan, and Iraq

315,000 women die in childbirth every year because they were malnourished and lacked basic nutrients

805 million people go hungry every day, 98% of them live in underdeveloped countries, and the vast majority are children

And since this list is about depressing statistics, we'll end with the fact that 350 million people around the world are struggling with depression right now

There are nearly 210 million orphans in the world

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A shell and tube heat exchanger is a class of heat exchanger designs. It is the most common type of heat exchanger in oil refineries and other large chemical processes, and is suited for higher-pressure applications. As its name implies, this type of heat exchanger consists of a shell (a large pressure vessel) with a bundle of tubes inside it. One fluid runs through the tubes, and another fluid flows over the tubes (through the shell) to transfer heat between the two fluids. The set of tubes is called a tube bundle, and may be composed of several types of tubes: plain, longitudinally finned, etc.

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The Number of Transfer Units (NTU) Method is used to calculate the rate of heat transfer in heat exchangers (especially counter current exchangers) when there is insufficient information to calculate the Log-Mean Temperature Difference (LMTD). In heat exchanger analysis, if the fluid inlet and outlet temperatures are specified or can be determined by simple energy balance, the LMTD method can be used; but when these temperatures are not available The NTU or The Effectiveness method is used.

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What is a regenerative heat exchanger?

A regenerative heat exchanger, or more commonly a regenerator, is a type of heat exchanger where heat from the hot fluid is intermittently stored in a thermal storage medium before it is transferred to the cold fluid. To accomplish this the hot fluid is brought into contact with the heat storage medium, then the fluid is displaced with the cold fluid, which absorbs the heat.

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WACKY WEDNESDAY: Bad TV Shows, Worse Theme Songs

Before you start watching the videos of the bad television themes below, indulge me in a couple of creative musical exercises:

1) Think of the melody to "House of the Rising Sun." Now think of someone singing the Gilligan's Island theme to that melody. (Hey, it works better than "Stairway to Heaven.")

2) Now imagine The Pogues singing the theme, Shane MacGowan slurring all the lyrics,  to The Brady Bunch.

I apologize if you can't get those out of your head all day.

The point is, I'm a fan of TV themes, even, in a weird way, the bad ones. I think about them way too much.

The Too Many Cooks video that swept the Internet late last year was a wonderful satire of cheesy boob-tube theme songs, especially from the late '70s and '80s. (If you're one of the last six Americans who hasn't seen or heard this CLICK HERE.)

But here a bunch of theme songs -- from shows that mostly were flops -- that still haunt my nightmares.

First, I give you My Mother the Car, a Jerry Van Dyke vehicle (pun intended) that ran on NBC from late 1965 through the spring of 1966.

Many years ago, George R.R. Martin (sorry for the gratuitous name-dropping)  made me laugh out loud when he said that that the funniest thing about My Mother the Car was that serious men with briefcases and expensive suits at NBC had to have had several intense meetings to develop this show.

The entire premise of this clunker is explained in the theme song.

Phyllis (1975-77) has the distinction of being the worst of the Mary Tyler Moore Show spin-offs. (Hey, I liked Lou Grant!) The opening theme actually was kind of clever. But still ... Phyllis.

The mid '60s hit series Batman had one of the coolest theme songs in TV history. Written by Neal Hefti, this instrumental was covered by The Ventures and even Iggy Pop, who did a live version. But that makes the theme song of Batman's far-less successful spin- off Batgirl even more deplorable. For one thing, they gave it lyrics -- lyrics like "Are you a chick who fell in from outer space? Or are you real with a tender warm embrace?" Holy crap on a cracker, Batman!

Besides Batgirl,  Batman's success, inspired other superhero shows on network TV. NBC's answer was a bad comedy called  Captain Nice. At least Batgirl was easier to look at than this mercifully short-lived series. And the theme song was nearly as terrible.

F Troop's stereotypical treatment of Native Americans would never fly today. Just ask Adam Sandler. Of course the only people dumber than the Hekawi tribe, for the most part, are the white soldiers at Fort Courage.

I have to admit, I kind of liked this show when I was a kid. It was better than My Mother the Car anyway. Still, the mock-heroic theme song from the first season is pretty clunky.

B.J. and The Bear was an NBC comedy about a truck driver and his chimpanzee. It debuted in 1979, a year after Clint Eastwood's Every Which Way But Loose, a comedy about a truck driver and his orangutan.  (It was not a rip-off. Chimps and orangutans are completely different animals.)

And yes, the theme song sucked. "New dreams and better scenes/ And best of all I don't pay property tax," the show's leading man, Greg Evigan sang.

I don't know, but I think even Grover Norquist would rather pay property tax than to be stuck in the cab of a truck with a damned chimpanzee day in and day out.

The song loses even more points when you compare it with the theme of an earlier NBC truck-drivin' comedy Movin' On, -- which was written and sung by Merle Haggard.

All parents make mistakes, but I can proudly say that I never inflicted Lamb Chop's Play-Along (PBS, 1992-97) on either of my children. But I must admit, the theme song is a showcase for one of the pioneers of Caucasian hip-hop: Shari Lewis.

And I agree with this next one. Eight IS enough of these horrible tunes.

But may you spend your Wacky Wednesday like a bright and shiny new dime!

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Garden Party - Planning Where It All Will Go

Green gardening for St. Pat's Day!

So how does it all fit together?

I made some pretty diagrams for you today.  We're going to combine what we've learned in Square Foot Gardening and the Louise Riotte books.

Let's say, for sake of example, that you've made a true Square Foot Garden, which is 4 feet x 4 feet.  You've built the boxes, and even gone so far as to fill them.  Here's how you can combine the two principles, easily I might add.

Here's example one - a tomato bed.  Everyone loves to grow tomatoes.  They are easy to grow.  Everyone eats them, and when grown in your own backyard their flavor is so superior to what you'd buy in a store.  By the way, if you've never gardened before, this is a bed I would HIGHLY recommend starting with.  These are all plants that are pretty easy to grow.
This looks almost like a pizza, doesn't it?!  Allow me to explain what you see, and put things in perspective for you.  The big brown box is your Square Foot Garden.  The smaller squares within it are 2-foot sections, roughly halves.  Tomatoes need a lot of space and sun, and they are the big red circles.  Cage them.  You'll thank me.  SFG recommends trellising them.  Cages are easier and cheaper.  Cage your tomatoes the day you transplant them (these plants all prefer transplanting over direct seeding).  Put a tablespoon of epsom salts in the bottom of the planting hole because tomatoes love the extra magnesium.  Then, we have the dark green circles.  These are peppers.  Stick to either sweet or spicy - don't do both.  They will cross-pollinate each other and you will have all spicy.  Our pretty polka-dot border is where we are getting some natural pest protection.  The gold circles are marigolds, which keep pretty much anything out of the garden (there are a few exceptions, but VERY few).  To add interest, and to maximize our space, the bright green circles are basil.  You can also do parsley instead, or do both.  Think of how beautiful this will look mid-July!

So here's another one.  These are brassicas - the cabbage family.  You'll notice that it looks pretty similar.
The large, dark green circles are head cabbages.  The smaller green circles are collard greens (which are so healthy for you and easy to grow).  Our pretty polka-dot border is alternating onions and zinnias.  The zinnias keep out cabbage worms.  I watched this happen first hand at the community garden.  The beds that had zinnias in or near them had practically no worms.  No zinnias - stalks.  Like almost to the ground stubs.  Really.

So here's what we do with our beds when they are potato beds for a season.  Remember our beds are 4 feet x 16 feet.
The brown ovals are the potatoes.  The pink dots are geraniums.  Now here's the really neat part about this bed.  While the geraniums are growing up, the potatoes are growing down.  When the potato plant starts getting really tall, it's usually the dead heat of summer, and the geraniums are glad to have the shade to get a break.  To thank the potatoes, the geraniums scare away the Japanese beetles, which also seem to appear nearly the same time.  See how this works?  And isn't it so cool?  Direct plant your potatoes, but transplant your geraniums.

So let's make you a bed that you can start with in Northern Illinois, in early spring.  Just remember - be ready to cover at a moment's notice!!!!!
Wow - that'll get your attention!  So many colors!  Here we go:  the red dots are beets.  Most beets finish by 60 days, so if you plant them mid-April, you will have beets by mid-June.  You can do  16 beets a square foot.  The purple dots in with the beets are kohlrabi (we grow purple kohlrabi, so the dots are purple).  They require roughly the same spacing as the beets.  The neat thing about the kohlrabi/beet interplanting is that the beets bulb below the soil, while the kohlrabi bulbs above the soil.  Ok, moving on.  The magenta dots are chard. Rainbow, Swiss or green - you choose.  We eat a LOT of chard in my house when it's in season.  It requires about the same spacing as the beets.  The bright green squares are snow peas.  Grow them in a tomato cage.  That will contain the vines.  When you consider a standard tomato cage that has 3 posts that go into the dirt, you can visualize this a bit better:  plant 6 sets of peas/cage.  One set of three goes next to each post individually.  The remaining three go between the posts.  In early June, when these babies start to put on pods, we eat them for breakfast.  They are that sweet and delicious and healthy. Last, but not least, those little white dots are radishes.  Now, I'm not a huge radish fan.  But Bubba is.  And so is Grandma.  He takes her radishes that he grows.  They crunch away contentedly and bond.  Life is wonderful.  Before I forget - all the plants in this configuration prefer direct seeding.  Also, in an early spring bed, you can start spinach and lettuces - direct seed.

Did I set your head spinning with ideas?  Well, the best rule to remember is to only plant and grow what you know your family will eat.  Start there, then look for ways to interplant to conserve space and benefit the plants.  Start seeds now for planting in your summer garden, and in a few weeks you can start your early spring garden right in the dirt.  When your summer is hitting its peak, start thinking about what will enjoy the cooler weather of fall before frost.  Spinach is a good choice, and so are lettuces.  Both will grow quickly because of the warmer soil, but the cool nights and shorter days will keep them from bolting (going to seed).

Here's your fancy word of the day:  succession planting.  That's what it's called when you follow this type of crop rotation.  You can now impress all your neighbors and co-workers by telling them you are developing a crop rotation schedule for your garden.  And trust me, they'll be impressed!

Something else to remember - add plenty - as in lots and lots - of organic matter (i.e., compost) to the soil between plantings.  You can also use organic fertilizers, applied per package directions.  Here's why:  your beets will "eat" the nutrition from the soil, and whatever they use up is now on your plate.  The plant going in the soil behind those beets or snow peas or lettuces needs that nutrition, too.  Be sure to work it in thoroughly so you get good production from those that come behind.

To make your own garden plans, use some graph paper and a PENCIL (have an eraser handy).  Think about how much space each plant needs, then sketch it out.  Read the books to determine which plants will play nicely with others.  Add visual interest and pest protection with flowers and herbs.  Put larger, taller plants in the center, then work down and out.  Have fun with it - embrace it as a creative challenge, not a chore.

So instead of dreaming tonight in black and white, or in color - dream in dirt!

Linda said...

Loved the information and it is going to be very helpful. You covered so much and so precisely. Thank you for doing this.

Amanda said...

This is great! My garden is not quite that well thought out... Maybe next year I will actually plan it out better!! Thanks for the inspiration. :)


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Tents Camping being a Scottish website likes to publicise other Scottish companies.  Vango Tents is a company based in Scotland which specialises in outdoor equipment and in particular tents sleeping bags, rucksacks.  Their range of tents have been specifically designed with comfort, reliability and safety in mind.

The Vango Tent – Range

There are 9 ranges of tents in the Vango Tent collection.  This wide selection of tents means that no matter your demands of a tent you’re bound to find one which will meet your strict requirements.

Vango Tents – Pitch & VanGo

The Pitch & Vango range of tents have selection of six pop up tents to choose from.  These tents offer immediate shelter or a home from home in a quick and simple pop up way.  These tents are great for festival goers and families on day or weekend trips or even just camping out in the back garden.  The six tents in this range are the Dart, Dart DS, Swift, Junoo Tepee, Peace Tepee and Karakum.

Vango Tents – Adventure

The Adventure range of Vango Tents has 6 tents in it range.  This range of tents are built using  Protex 2000 which offers 2000mm of hydrostatic head (measure of waterproof) which means it will deal with almost any type of British weather conditions thrown at it.  All tents have a handy lantern point and are fire retardant and come in a variety of different colours and designs, tunnel, dome and geodesic dome-style.  These Vango Tents come 2, 3 and 4 man tent sizes and are easy to use, light and very portable -ideal for festival goers, first time campers and cycle campers.  The tents in this range are Alpha, Zetes, Sigma, Beta, Delta and Milano,

Vango Tents – Weekend

Vango Weekend Tents have five tents in their range.    The 5 man Apollo is spacious and has a versatile porch area idea for cooking or storing poles and wet boots.  The Icarus comes in a 4 man tent and a 5 man tent size.  It has a large living area which offers great protection from the weather.  All tents in this range tents are made from fire retardant Protex 2000.  These tents are ideal, as the name suggest for family weekend camping trips when you don’t really bring too much stuff and there don’t need the same amount of space.   The tents in this range are  Apollo, Icarus, Solero, Tamur and Venture.

Vango Tents- Family

Vango family tents offers a great blend of living and sleeping areas all wrapped up in lively looking tent.  There are 7 tents in the range, Orchy, Tigris, Colorado, Sungari, Kura and the Vango Diablo and Verona.  The Family range are made from fire retardant material and have a waterproof rating of 3,000mm which is more than enough for the British weather.

Vango Tents – Premium

Vango Premium Tents are truly home from home tents.  These Vango Tents offer enormous living areas ideal for long family holidays as they both have enough space for storage and living in.  There are three tents in this range, Colombia (4 and 6 man tent), Amazon (6 and 8 man tents) and Nile (6 and 8 man tents).  Vango’s Premium range of tents is made from fire retardant Protex 5000 which offers 5000mm of hydrostatic head, which means it is more than 2 twice as waterproof as their Weekend range and able to withstand heavy downpours.

Vango Tents – Classic Tents

The Vango Classic tent are not a hark back to the old canvas soggy tents.  These Vango tents are spacious and offer a great level of comfort for the weekend fair-weather camper or European summer camping.  There are three tents in this range Sumatra (6 man tent), Carrera (4,6 8 man tent) and Zanibar (6 man tent)  all are made of Protex 1500 and are retardant material and have various feature which make them ideal summer camping tents.

Vango Tents – Lightweight Tents

When you’re out walking with a tent on your back only two things are important, weight and comfort.  This is where Vango Tents Lightweight range excels.  Not only are these tents very light but they offer a tremendous amount of comfort and shelter to boot. These tents are very capable of withstanding the worst of British weather and the 3000 hydrostatic head means you’ll stay dry.  The 5 tents in this range vary in size (2 man or 3 man tents) and shape (tunnel and dome) and are ideal for those who like backpacking or cycling.  The tents in this range are Banshee, Tempest, Spectre Shadow, and Omega.

Follow this link for more information and our thoughts on the Vango Tempest 200.

Vango Tents – Ultralight

These specialised Vango Tents are at the cutting edge of tent technology.    The three tents in this range, Storm Shelter, Ultralite and Spirit offer a degree of comfort to those who enjoy mountain marathons and lightweight adventures who only want the lightest of shelters on their backs.

Vango Tents – Mountain Tents

One of the key features of a mountain tent is its stability key.  The Vango Tent Mountain range offers this in spades.  These tents are strong, robust and superbly styled with the mountaineer in mind.  There are five tents in this range, Typhoon, Tornado, Equinox Hurricane and the Alto.   All are made from Protex 3000mm which certainly keep you dry have a number of design features which obviously been made by ex-mountaineers who understand how awkward it can be in a tent on a mountain.

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One of the most challenging yet dangerous jobs is working with electricity. Your local electrician in Brisbane Northside is very much aware of the consequences if and when negligence or human error prevails while working with a live wire installation. A lot of lives were lost in the past even if safety measures were taken into consideration prior to the performance of a particular job. The probability of getting electrocuted is high, and the possibility of falling from an elevated area due to an overlooked grounding may pose certain risks to those who are still learning the craft.

Despite the dangers of the profession, electricians in Brisbane Northside are committed and dedicated to serving you better with the following line of services:

Domestic Services

When a family decides to add another bedroom or maybe upgrade the kitchen or bathroom to a whole new level, the services of an electrician becomes a dire need. The plan will surely require tapping of new wires to make way for electrical sockets or outlets. Additional lights will also be needed to fully light the rooms, and other electrical appliances should be placed orderly so as not to cause disturbance or obstruction in the house.

Business or Commercial Purposes

Owning a coffee shop or a laundry service centre should not only satisfy the owner, but also the customers. Every business-minded individual would think about a reliable person to call when services are needed especially during an emergency. Any interruption in power would affect the overall operation of a business and not to mention the idea of losing your customer’s satisfaction rating. From time to time, an on-call electrician should be around to fix things before everything is too late.

Industrial needs

Aside from electrical engineers who are responsible for preparing an electrical plan or layout for an industry, electricians must also be present on the scene to carry out the necessary job assigned to them. Experienced or seasoned electricians are fully aware that they will be dealing with more significant electrical machinery and or equipment. Thus it does not require only pure knowledge, but also analysis of a more complex procedure in order to make things work like making an elevator go up and down or allowing an indoor crane to move swiftly and precisely on the factory’s ceiling to lift extra heavy objects during an operation.

 Electrical repairs, maintenance and installation

The electrician in Brisbane Northside will be happy, willing and able to offer additional services like:

  • Assurance of a stable power connection and installation of an appropriate lighting system.
  • Proper and convenient installation of electrical outlets especially for a telephone or a television.
  • Upgrade of switchboards which includes a master switch that particularly turns off appliances when not in use or a panel switch which allows the brightness of lights in a particular room.
  • Installation of lighting that is environment-friendly and energy efficient.
  • Proper placement of different kinds of fans whether stand fans, ceiling fans or even wall fans.
  • Conduct an ocular visit periodically to ensure that all electrical appliances and equipment is working correctly and to find out about substandard electrical fixtures in the home which needs replacement or disposal.
  • Installation of safety switches and smoke alarms.
  • Putting up a connection to a home warmer or installing a water heater.

A lot of these and more can and will only be available from electricians in Brisbane Northside including all places in Australia and to the rest of the world.


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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Thrift Envy.

I frequent blogs that talk about all of the whos-its and whats-its on how to double up on coupons, BOGO, combine them with extra care points, carry the one, add your first born child and Bam! Get a free car. I'm not that talented, and yes I consider it to be a talent to be able to put all of that into action. I just don't have it in me, not to mention it really does need to be a free car to entice me to haul all 3 kids around in this heat, to 5 different stores in order to take advantage of the deals that each store offers. I'm completely in awe if those that have mastered this talent.

I'm not by nature a bargain hunter and have to psych myself up just to rummage through the racks at a TJ Maxx or Consignment sale, but this past weekend was a different story completely, and I couldn't let the opportunity pass without bragging about the deals I walked away with.

My sister lives in Lexington, there is a Gap Distribution Center (reject center if you're a glass half empty kinda gal) about an hour from her. I had been looking forward to this trip for weeks and I was totally prepared to sift through hundreds of t-shirts, and jeans in order to find a good deal. I racked up for Munchkin, but not so much for the twins. Finding a good reject is hard enough without having to find 2 of the same thing, in the same size.

So, without further ado, my findings....

Boys Converse - $9.99 (I did a little shopping for my BFFs kids, couldn't help it)
Gap Socks - .25 a pair
Gap Jeans (Kids) - $6.99
Banana Republic T-shirt $4.99
These little dresses, $4.99 each

This one, $4.99, regular $34.50

$9.99 each, regular $54.99

A few more little odds and ends, some more dresses that were $4.99 and shorts for $6.99. All in all, I felt like a thrifty little shopper. Yay, me!

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Michelle said...

There is a Gap outlet near my new house and I found a bunch of great stuff last weekend. For $120 I got two pairs of capris for me, a dress, leggings, a shirt for FiFi, two shirts for Wyn, and a shirt and shorts for B. Not too bad :-)


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Leadership Training – The Leaders Map Explained (Part 2)

logo - CopyIn our last newsletter, we promised that we would answer some frequently asked questions about our brand new program – here they are!

Q: What do I get from the program?
A: Participants engage in a series of discussions and activities specifically designed to deliver unique leadership training with impact. The training occurs “on the trail” allowing participants to not only experience unique leadership training but also enjoy some beautiful countryside.

Q: How many people can attend a trek?
A: To maximise the learning experience group sizes are limited to a maximum of 16. Larger groups can be accommodated on request.

Q: How do I join a group?
A: Currently we offer our program to corporate clients and they provide participants. However we have had a lot of interest from individuals and smaller organisations so we are now taking expressions of interest to put together a public group.

Q: What do I need to bring?
A: That depends on the trek.  Some equipment is provided and participants will receive a detailed list of what to bring on each trek. All meals are provided for the duration of each trip.

Q: How fit do you have to be to attend?
A: Participants need reasonable fitness & be medically fit to carry a backpack weighing approximately 20 kgs, to walk on varying terrain, eat basic rations & sleep in basic protection from the elements.

Q: Is it dangerous?
A: Every care is taken to ensure safety, however bushwalking & camping pose inherent risks.

If you have any other questions you would like answered feel free to email us. The best question received (as judged by our panel) by 12th May 2015 will receive a $50 Myer voucher. The winner will be notified via email.

We also promised to tell you more about the MASTERY and AWARENESS components of our M.A.P. & C.O.M.P.A.S.S. program, so here’s a little more detail on the first 2 legs:

The Mastery leg of the program is all about you, exploring what makes you tick. On this leg of your leadership development journey we explore the following areas:

  • Your personality – participants complete a personality profile
  • Your values, attitudes, beliefs and ethics – what you stand for as a leader
  • How you view the outside world
  • What motivates you and how you go about getting it
  • Your reward system
  • Your personal “style” when it comes to leadership, communication and conflict resolution
  • Your coping & relaxation strategies
  • Your strengths and weaknesses

This leg is a vital starting point in the program. In order to lead others effectively, we must first better understand ourselves.

The AWARENESS leg of the program focuses on others – those that we lead and with whom we interact. On the second leg of your leadership development journey we unpack the following:

  • Other personality types and the impact of our personality upon them
  • How perception can affect attitude
  • Gaining commitment and engagement from the team
  • Creating a sense of team
  • Generational, Cultural & Social diversity
  • Thinking styles and Emotional Intelligence
  • Incorporating strategy, vision and mission into the team
  • Goal-setting

This leg is about creating a deeper awareness of others and how perception will influence behaviours in others.

Our program is designed to be flexible, to meet your organisation’s needs. And if you don’t need the entire program, we can tailor a solution for you!

In our next newsletter, we’ll answer some more frequently asked questions and take a look at the Planning leg of the program. In the meantime, click here to “Like” our Facebook page.

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Perfect Harmony Ordered by NBC

Comedy pilot Perfect Harmony has been ordered to series by NBC. The pilot focused on a rural church choir that gets an Ivy League music professor as their new director. Bradley Whitford and Anna Camp top-lined the pilot.

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Pest Control Chatswood

At pest control Chatswood we are dedicated to providing our clients with the services they need to keep them as safe as possible. These services include in house pest management, telephonic, and online pest management support, advice on controlling nuisance insects, adhesion control (trap/chip/oil) and long-term prevention.

At pest control Chatswood we can provide you with advice and services for long-term and preventive insect control. Whether you require a full service or just a one off application, if you have a pest problem that needs to be solved then we are the professionals to help you.

Our pest control business is committed to providing you with the best service to exterminate any pest infestation that may be in your home. At pest control Chatswood we also offer preventive pest management services.

It is essential that you use a company that has a history of expert knowledge and experience in handling and eradicating any pest infestation that you have. If you choose to utilize the services of an in house pest management company such as a Professional Pest Control Company, there are many questions that need to be answered before it is time to eliminate pests.

A professional in pest management will know what it takes to get rid of pests safely and humanely. Whether you need a specialist company to keep pests at bay for a month or more, an exterminator who can take down an entire nest or even a commercial exterminator who can take out all the pests in an entire establishment, an exterminator will help ensure that your home is kept pest free, while leaving it looking nice and clean.

Whether you require a pest control for a one off or ongoing basis, an exterminator is the most suited for your pest control needs. Many companies who offer an in house pest management service will only treat certain areas, whilst others will treat a whole office building at one time.

A pest management company will make sure that you and your family are keeping safe from any unwanted pest infestation. Whether it is an infestation of mosquitoes that cause nuisance bites, or a plague of cockroaches, exterminators know exactly how to take care of each situation.

If you have discovered an infestation of cockroaches, cockroach infestation can be a nightmare. An exterminator can remove these pests quickly, efficiently and humanely.

If you have found roaches in your attic, garage, or cellar then an exterminator will be able to handle these areas as well. If you have found noxious mites such as mites or mealy bugs then it is a simple matter to kill these pests using chemicals.

If you have discovered that you have cockroaches, rats, or mice then pest control Chatswood can provide you with the services that you need to help to reduce the infestation. There are also many services that we offer that can help to take care of other problems that you may have in your home.

We understand that a pest control expert can control the effects of pests so that they do not reach your family. No matter what pests you have in your home, if you have children that live with you, or elderly relatives that live with you, you can be assured that our Pest Control Services will assist you in taking care of these troublesome neighbours.

Pest control companies will also deal with pests that come from outside your home, for example birds, bats, bees and snakes. Whatever pest you might have around your home, Local Chatswood Pest Control will be the team to make sure that you are kept safe.

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Private Practitioners at the TS Center for Spiritual Studies

The Theosophical Society invites you to use our facilities to see clients in your private practice.  Located in Arlington Center, this former private residence offers a comfortable, quiet space with off-street parking and first-floor accessibility for people with disabilities. Boston public transportation is readily available and we are just a few miles from Cambridge’s Harvard Square.

Our Facilities. Our affordable space is ideal for one-on-one client work, such as massage, reflexology, craniosacral therapy, energy work, and counseling. Three treatment/therapy rooms on the second floor are equipped with healing tables, comfortable chairs, and a desk/chair. There is waiting room space and parking.

To Be a Practitioner with Us:

(1) Membership:  You must first become a member at the annual rate of $100. Then, you must maintain your membership in good standing.

(2) Rental Structure: As part of a one-year commitment, practitioners pay $30/month on the first of each month for up to three hours of space use. Additional hours cost $10/hour for one-on-one treatments payable by the end of the month in which the time was used. Time cannot be carried over from month to month.

(3) Pay-in-Advance Incentive: If you pre-pay the monthly rental minimum (currently, $360), we waive the $100 membership fee.

(4) Scheduling Your Hours: Upon membership approval and receipt of signed contract, you will be given access to our practitioner scheduling calendar. There, you will see room availability and be able to reserve your desired room and times.

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TURING a staged case history

Thought, life and work of Alan Turing, presented through his original documents, interviews, historical and critical in-depth analysis collected for the creation of the show TURING a staged case history, performed in Italy at Piccolo Teatro of Milan during 2012.

2014, London. Maria Elisabetta Marelli and Massimo Marchi present the genesis and development of the show at the Goldsmith University of London at the Symposium “The future of Art and Computing: A Post Turing Centennial Perspective” during the AISB-50 the Annuary Convention of the “Society for Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour”. Download del Paper

2016, Manchester. ESOF 2016 - Exploring the Turing myth - Maria Elisabetta MarelliRoberto NataliniFrancesca Riccioni, Tuono Pettinato and Richard Elwes explore the Turing myth at Euro Science Open Forum.

2017, United Kingdom. The show is quoted in  THE TURING GUIDE edited by Oxford University Press in the chapter “Turing’s Legacy” by Jack Copeland and Jonathan Bowen.

2017, Milan. Turing a stage case history wins the prize at the multimedia festival MIBART PREMIO MIBART MULTIMEDIA FESTIVAL. From the motivation: “Not only avant-garde. Rather, a new horizon of expression”.


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Kitchen - living/dining room - living room - 5 double bedrooms - 2 twin bedded rooms - 6 bathrooms

Beautiful modern villa that sits on a hillside offering spectacular countryside views. Access to the villa is by way of a private dirt road in the woods that leads to the villa driveway. The road continues down to another private Villa where it ends. The grounds surrounding the villa are very well kept and offer furnished garden spaces, a private 5 X 13.5 meter swimmingpool, fruit trees, a stone barbecue, and a covered parking area. The village of Vagliagli with basic shops, pharmacy and restaurant is about 2 kms away. Castellina in Chianti and Siena are both at 11 kms and Firenze is at 65 kms. There is a regular bus service connecting Vagliagli with Siena.

Private entrance is from the garden up a covered staircase into the entrance hall. Glass doors in the hall provide access to a spacious open-plan living/dining room with monumental fireplace, satellite TV, stereo with CD player and bar. Portable fans are available for use in summer. Panoramic glass windows and doors surround this room, providing wonderful natural illumination and also access to a furnished terrace that runs along two sides at the rear of the villa. One part of the terrace faces the sunset and is quite romantic. Through the dining area is the kitchen which is complete with mixed range, oven, dishwasher and fridge with freezer. A door in the kitchen leads down a few steps to the garden.

Near the bar, up a few steps are doors to a hallway that leads to the sleeping section of the villa. At the end of the hallway are doors opening onto a beautiful wooden staircase that leads down to the villa entrance hall. The hallway and the entire sleeping section have parquet floors. One side of the hallway is dedicated to wardrobes. The various doors open into two double bedrooms, a complete bathroom with shower stall, two twin bedded rooms, a spacious complete bathroom with shower, and a third spacious complete bathroom with bathtub. The rooms are well furnished, very comfortable and quite luminous.

Near the bar is a staircase leading up to the mansard with living room that is ideal for children to play in. There are three doors in this room: one is to a double bedroom, one is to a bathroom with washbasin, shower stall and WC, and one remains closed. The bedroom and the living room both have doors opening onto a rooftop terrace.

Back in the entrance hall, a door opens onto a flight of stairs that leads down to a landing. The landing has doors to two double bedrooms and to two complete bathrooms with shower stall. This section of the house is only offered in the version for 14 people. In the smaller version, the door at the top of the stairs remains closed.

The entrance hall is also connected to the kitchen by a short corridor, where the telephone is located. The villa offers a washing machine, baby cot, maid service on request and central heating. Gas is payable on consumption during heating season together with firewood. The house offers WIFI and and the bedrooms are provided with ceiling fans for ventilation.

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Over the past 60 years, almost 150 specialised anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) have been established all around the world. Nearly every country nowadays has an ACA. Some, such as the Hong Kong Independent Commission against Corruption, have been hailed as successes, whereas others have been dismissed as failures in the fight against corruption. This article reviews their achievements and failures. It argues that their ‘operational independence’ is the quintessential requirement for effectiveness and success. It proposes a set of twelve principles to ensure their independence from government and a mechanism to monitor compliance, analagous to the international experience with national human rights institutions (NHRIs).
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Regional Workshop on Political Ethics and Conflict of Interest

Arab Region - Monday, February 8, 2010

The Arab Parliamentarians against Corruption (ArPAC) organized a regional workshop in Beirut (Lebanon) on 18-19 February 2010, with the support of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) in the framework of a joint project between the two organizations.The regional workshop was attended by parliamentarians and activists from Jordan, the occupied Palestinian territory, Bahrain, Algeria, Kuwait, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, and Yemen in addition to the British Ambassador to Lebanon and a number of regional and international experts. The workshop focused on ways to utilize the Guide on Parliamentary Ethics and Conduct Systems which was developed last year by the Global Parliamentarians against Corruption (GOPAC) in cooperation with WFD. The Guide provides clear and useful guidance to parliamentarians advocating reform with a view to enabling them to lay down the foundations of effective ethics and conduct systems that correspond to their countries’ political and cultural circumstances, while fully respecting related fundamental international standards. During the workshop, participants were informed about best ways to use the Guide. They also discussed corruption challenges in their countries and exchanged views and suggestions on how to empower Arab parliamentarians in their legislative and oversight duties, using the standards put forward by the Guide.
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