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Baglio Oneto Resort and Wines

Contrada Baronazzo Amafi, 8, Marsala, 91025, Italy

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Baglio Oneto Resort and Wines

About the Hotel

Property Location
Located in Marsala, Baglio Oneto Resort and Wines is in a rural location and close to Mozia Line Ferry and Ettore and Infersa Salt Museum. This 5-star hotel is within close proximity of Riserva Naturale dello Stagnone and Mozia.

Make yourself at home in one of the 49 individually decorated guestrooms, featuring minibars and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and bidets. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.

Take advantage of recreation opportunities including an attached winery and an outdoor pool. Additional features at this Art Deco hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, babysitting/childcare (surcharge), and wedding services. Getting to nearby attractions is a breeze with the area shuttle (surcharge).

Grab a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, which features a bar and a garden view. You can also stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Relax with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge or a poolside bar. A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served daily.

Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a business center, express check-in, and express check-out. Planning an event in Marsala? This hotel has 5167 square feet (480 square meters) of space consisting of conference space and meeting rooms. For a surcharge, guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and a ferry terminal shuttle.

Hotel Facilities

  • Free self parking
  • Winery attached
  • Free long-term parking
  • Area shuttle (surcharge)
  • Number of buildings/towers - 1
  • Conference space size (feet) - 5167
  • Pool sun loungers
  • Ferry terminal shuttle (surcharge)
  • Safe-deposit box at front desk
  • Garden
  • Accessible bathroom
  • Outdoor pool
  • Multilingual staff
  • Conference space size (meters) - 480
  • Elevator/lift
  • Free breakfast
  • Wedding services
  • Roll-in shower
  • Rooftop terrace
  • Number of floors - 2
  • Business center
  • Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
  • Conference space
  • In-room accessibility
  • Meeting rooms 5
  • Free WiFi
  • Airport transportation (surcharge)
  • Year Built 2004
  • Luggage storage
  • Television in common areas
  • Poolside bar
  • Fireplace in lobby
  • Express check-in
  • Number of meeting rooms - 3
  • Express check-out
  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Free newspapers in lobby
  • Tours/ticket assistance
  • Restaurant
  • Laundry facilities
  • Bar/lounge
  • Pool umbrellas
  • Total number of rooms - 49
  • 24-hour front desk
  • Coffee/tea in common areas
  • Computer station
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Room Facilities

  • Satellite TV service
  • Bidet
  • Shower/tub combination
  • Minibar
  • Desk
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Flat-panel TV
  • Blackout drapes/curtains
  • Phone
  • Free toiletries
  • In-room climate control (air conditioning)
  • Hair dryer
  • In-room childcare (surcharge)
  • In-room safe
  • Room service (limited hours)
  • Individually decorated
  • Free WiFi
  • Private bathroom
  • Premium bedding
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Hotel Policy

Know Before You Go

  • All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport.
  • Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
  • This property offers transfers from the ferry terminal and airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 48 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
  • Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
  • Up to 3 children 2 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
  • Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.

The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.

  • Airport shuttle fee: EUR 20 per vehicle (one way)
  • Rollaway bed fee: EUR 20 per night

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

Mandatory Fees and Taxes

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property:

  • A tax is imposed by the city and collected at the property. This tax is adjusted seasonally and might not apply year round. Other exemptions or reductions might apply. For more details, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 2.50 per person, per night

We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.

A tax is imposed by the city and collected at the property. The tax is reduced by 50% for stays from January 15th to March 15th and from November 15th to December 15th; students on a school trip; groups of at least 40 people; and children under 14 years of age. Please note that further exemptions may apply. For further details, please contact the property using the information contained in the confirmation received after booking.

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Barone Bed & Breakfast

via Benedetto Croce, 34, Salerno, 84121, Italy

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Barone Bed & Breakfast

About the Hotel

Property Location
A stay at Barone Bed & Breakfast places you in the heart of Salerno, walking distance from Port of Salerno and Teatro Verdi. This bed & breakfast is within close proximity of Salerno harbor station and Villa Comunale di Salerno.

Make yourself at home in one of the 3 air-conditioned rooms featuring LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and bidets. Conveniences include desks, housekeeping is provided daily, and cribs/infant beds (surcharge) can be requested.

Make use of convenient amenities, which include complimentary wireless Internet access and tour/ticket assistance. The beach shuttle (surcharge) makes getting to the surf and sand a breeze.

A complimentary buffet breakfast is served daily from 8:30 AM to 10 AM.

Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include luggage storage and an elevator (lift). For a surcharge, guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and a train station pick-up service.

Hotel Facilities

  • Luggage storage
  • Elevator/lift
  • Tours/ticket assistance
  • Self parking (surcharge)
  • Free WiFi
  • Front desk (limited hours)
  • Free breakfast
  • Airport transportation (surcharge)
  • Smoke-free property
  • Beach shuttle (surcharge)
  • Train station pickup (surcharge)
  • Total number of rooms - 3
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  • Bidet
  • Free WiFi
  • In-room climate control (air conditioning)
  • Desk
  • Free toiletries
  • Private bathroom
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Hair dryer
  • Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
  • LCD TV
  • Shower only
  • Digital TV service
  • Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
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  • All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport.
  • Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.
  • This property offers transfers from the airport and train station (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 48 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
  • One child 3 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
  • Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.

The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.

  • Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 10.00 per night
  • Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

Mandatory Fees and Taxes

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property:

  • A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 13 years of age.

We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.

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Short messaging services versus instant messaging

Value versus volume

It might be supposed that the growth in MIM is coming at the expense of SMS and mobile carriers. However despite the burgeoning volumes of messages carried over MIM services, we expect SMS to generate more than $100 billion in 2014, equivalent to approximately 50 times the total revenues from all MIM services. So MIM services may win the battle for volume in 2014, but SMS will be victorious in revenue terms.

Executive summary

Text messaging’s heyday is approaching but in 2014 it should still generate significant margin for the mobile industry, and its importance should not be underestimated. There are several ways for operators to respond to the negative long-term outlook for SMS.

  • Try to create an operator-owned messaging service to rival existing providers.
  • Incorporate MIM-type features into SMS, such as group distribution lists and audio/video clips.
  • Encourage adoption of MIM services to drive take-up and usage of mobile data.
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fourth of July fun and ideas

Being the 3rd of July I thought I would share some Pinspiration for you all of quick patriotic fun you can throw together for tomorrow’s celebrations!

-how many ways do YOU know how to cut watermelon? Here’s about 10 more fun tips and tricks to add to your list!

-Firecrackers may be one of the best parts of the fourth, but in cupcake form? gimme gimme!

-There’s nothing I love more than a good printable, so this adorable USA banner is just the right thing to ring in the 4th!

-I scream you scream we all scream for printable ice cream cone wrappers! These things are seriously the cutest holy moly!

-cake is always a good idea, and cake with sparkles and fresh fruit in red white and blue is ALWAYS ALWAYS a good idea!

Hope you have a fantastic 4th filled with family, friends, and lots of yummy food! Let me know if you try any of these ideas in the comments or hit me up with your pictures on Instagram!

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Types Of Cement Dye That Helps Beautify Your Boring Cement Surface

Decorative concrete or we say colored cement is newest trends today. House owners are showing keen interest in trying new things and cement dye is the new project. For an average person, the word cement immediately evokes the idea of grey, cold, and sterile substance which is obvious however; with the changing of times the grey color has been replaced by many other which surely looks amazing beautiful when done on the surface.

The ever expanding concept of starting to challenge the concept transforming the greyish ideas into inviting decorative surfaces showing off the creative side in variety of colors.

Coloring the Cement

There are several things that plays role in making your cemented surface look beautiful. From pigment selection to water content to mixing to type of cement to color to finishing technique every bit of are the determining factors that are important and crucial to make you achieve the kind of look you desire.

Cement dye is just the starting point, there is lot more and beyond to that makes your surface look vibrant.

Different Types Of Cement Decorative Dying

Cement Stamping

This is perhaps the most popular decorative method that house owners love having. Colored natural stone and cement are picking up the trend and the concrete stamping offers completely new look to your surface than a regular one. Before the cement dries; a unique pattern in stamped gently on the colored cement hence enhancing the look which comes without stretching your pockets.

Acid Stain Look

These cement dyes are mixed with an alcohol, and a carrier and sprayed on to the cement surface. It is topped with the water based sealer that creates a dappled look, highlighting the unique characteristic of the concrete.

Water-based Stain Look

With time your surface shows the signs of pigmentation, to avoid your surface from ruining the look you can try using water based stain look which is one of the cement dye technique that lets your cement to breathe hence won’t chip away. To get dramatic effect, you can add multiple colors to the mixture and get the desired look for your surface.

Choosing The Color Scheming For Your Cement Surface

To evoke and illuminate your boring cement surface, you can choose various coloring options which are made available through cement dyes. There are several ways to beautify the surface such as:

Dry shake color hardeners

These dry shakes are hand broadcasted on the cementing surface of the wet concrete and colored only the top layers. Since; the color is concentrated, it tends to become more intense that usual coloring. It is said to be improving the density and the strength of the cementing surface along with enhancing it.

Surface applied colors

Here the layering of the colors gives natural looking color variants that we usually see in natural stone surfacing. The options available are:

  • Water based acrylic stain coloring
  • Tinted liquid release agents

Integral Coloring

In here, the cement dye penetrates deeply into the entire slab adding integral color pigmentation to the fresh cement surface. However, there are limited options available which are mostly pastel and earth stones. House owners prefer this one as it not only beautifies the surface but offers maximum longevity to it.

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Great Lunch @ Earth to Table Bread Bar

20131107-152742.jpg Once again the Earth to Table bread bar on Locke Street comes through with a fabulous fresh and healthy lunch.

The cabbage and smoked tomato soup was a light and tasty start.

I didn’t know I was a Quinoa fan, but the Quinoa, chick pea and black bean salad was excellent as it was so light, fresh and tasty. Which went well with the delicious Pizza Margherita!

We were too full for dessert. But we took the brownie to go and it was great at home, slightly heated with a cup of tea!

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It's my Edible Journey! I love food. I love love love chef tastings. Eating out inspires my home cooking. I’m passionate about sharing the foods I’ve tasted – made by someone else or me. I love sharing my journey through food, advising where to eat and what to eat. Sometimes it’s a homemade meal, a nearby restaurant, a culinary vacation or a food themed event. I love sharing food photos and their descriptions just as much as eating, but I also need to archive my foodie photos and recommendations thus far so that I don’t forget where I’ve been. Sometimes it is about eating the same thing twice – especially when you want to share that experience with someone or just relive it. “This is amazing, you gotta eat this”
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Rainbow Sampler Blanket [Free Crochet Pattern]

The Rainbow Sampler throw is easy. It needn’t be perfect, in fact it shouldn’t be. You simply crochet together every distinct type of crochet stich in a sequence of rows. It’s a good idea to experiment with the rows to see which sequence of textures and colors works best for you. The instructions are only general, but that is on purpose, because it’s up to you to figure out “how she goes”. As you follow the pattern, every once in a while you may need to adjust the stitching in order to match sizes and/or weave, but that is the fun of this project. For more free designs every day follow us on Facebook. Link to the free pattern is below.

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Hong Kong isn’t becoming an authoritarian state, no matter what the pro-democrats say

Hong Kong isn’t becoming an authoritarian state, no matter what the pro-democrats say

Take a step back and really assess the situation surrounding the banners being put up on university campuses, and the jailing of activists. Is it really the political persecution people claim it to be?

The fact that we can put up banners in the first place, and have “democracy walls” on university campuses, set us apart from countries where the government controls almost very aspect of public life.
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The recent jailing of three Occupy student leaders and the removal of separatist banners from university campuses has led to claims of “political persecution” by the city’s pro-democracy camp. But despite their rhetoric, Hong Kong is far from becoming an authoritarian state with no regard for the rights of its citizens. Such talk, other than warping the reality of the situation, threatens to undermine the integrity of our independent judiciary, and trivialises the struggle of those currently living in despotic regimes around the world.

While some better-informed critics have moved beyond claiming the judiciary has been “bought out” by the Central Government (it hasn’t), their contention that the Secretary of Justice’s decision to appeal was tantamount to political persecution does not hold water either. In many jurisdictions, including Hong Kong and Britain, both parties in criminal proceedings are entitled to appeal against the sentence if it’s deemed to be manifestly excessive or lenient. This has been done as recently as May in Britain, and Hong Kong’s Department of Justice has previously appealed against the sentence for a truck driver who ran over an elderly woman. The appeals are within the scope of ordinary practice, a point that former governor Chris Patten conceded to be true. While the crime itself was politically motivated in this instance, the reasons for seeking a lengthier sentence were based on that their actions endangered public safety, not politics, as outlined in the judgement.

We aren’t targeting the right issues

The problem with the allegations, protests, and the personal attacks against the judges that have risen from this case is that they ultimately undermine the integrity of the system. That judges are being personally attacked and threatened means that they face increased pressure to rule in favour of the opposition. Even with their robust training that helps them rule consistently, fairly, and in accordance to established legal principles, it is hard to believe that such threats would not place undue psychological burdens upon them. What’s popular is not necessarily right, and the judges have a duty to ensure that their decisions are fair and just, regardless of popular opinion. The attacks are no different from those lodged against Judge Dufton by the pro-Beijing camp in the Ken Tsang case and deserve to be condemned equally.\

Another issue with the baseless claims of authoritarian rule in the city is the way they devalue and distract from the fight against real authoritarian regimes elsewhere. By equating the jailing of the protesters and the removal of racist anti-mainland banners to the active repression of freedoms in places like Turkey and Russia, you tacitly undermine the struggles of those who do not have the privilege to make their opinions heard. That the opposition camps can host a lawful protest on national day and continue to speak freely is a testament to the protection of such rights in Hong Kong.

As the old saying goes, your rights end where mine begin. It is important to remember that our rights to expression are conditional upon us respecting the rights of others, and that consequences should be expected if such boundaries are overstepped. We need to respect our courts and our institutions in order for society to progress and improve as one.

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Josh's Halloween Pumpkin

Lay, Kathryn. 2008. Josh's Halloween Pumpkin.

Josh's Halloween Pumpkin is the story of a brother, Josh, and a sister, Callie, who find a great, big, giant pumpkin in their Grandpa Frank's pumpkin patch. Both love the pumpkin and think it must be magic because it is so big. Josh has plans for this pumpkin. And they don't include selling it along with the others in the patch. But when Callie becomes lost in the woods on Halloween, Josh sacrifices his giant pumpkin in a rescue effort: a jack-o-lantern big enough to light her way back home.

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Sermon: “Angels Witnesses Of Advent” from Luke 2

In our sermon series “Witnesses of His Advent,” we look at God’s messengers – His angelic host – to be reminded of the staggering awe of our salvation in Christ. Come with us to Luke 2 where we see the boldness, peace, and love of Christ emphasized by the angels’ presence.

Advent 2016: Witnesses of His Advent
“Angels Witnesses of His Advent”
Luke 2:9 – 14
November 27, 2016

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ZonaSun is a reggae project born in 2003 by the impulse of Tom Siddh, a partially blind singer, song writer, producer and keyboard player based in Locarno, Switzerland. Across the years, various musicians gravitating around Tom’s home studio (Wise Monkey studio), have been contributing to root, grow and bloom ZonaSun’s conscious, positive and dragging sound. The band grew up performing live (more than 250 gigs) in various venues and festivals in Switzerland but also in the nearest regions of Italy and France. Their live shows are always very powerful and mystic at the same time.

In 2006, the band took part in the final round of the “European Reggae Contest” at the Rototom Sun Splash Festival in Osoppo, Italy and in 2008, the crowd and the professional jury of the contest “Palco ai Giovani” in Lugano, Switzerland rewarded ZonaSun with the first place award. The band also won the “Let Your Sound Shine” contest on the site www.reggae.ch, earning the privilege of playing on the same stage with big artists such as Shaggy, Alborosie, Ce’Cile and Tiken Jah Fakoly at the Reeds Festival 2009 in Pfäffikon, Switzerland.

In 2008, ZonaSun released his debut album “Subliminal Love” and in 2011 the second one called “Shiny Red”. Both are auto productions and have been well received by the fan base. Various Swiss radios are still programming some tracks from those albums.

After the release of “Shiny Red” ZonaSun performed a lot. Then the live activity had a little drop to give Tom Siddh the needed time to recover his creative workflow after the increase of his visual disability. Finally in 2016 Tom Siddh met the producer Shamano, who already played the bass lines on “Shiny Red” album and they started a new musical partnership. Together they also renew Wise Monkey Studio.

Now everything is ready and some brand new productions are on the way to come, to touch the soul and move the body of the audience.

Let’s keep on spreading the Sunny Vibes all-around!

Tom Siddh ZonaSun
lead voice, piano, songwriter and composer

guitar, flute and sax

Morris Ze’Moreno

Mr. Xa

Giordana Boom
background vocals

Dreadless Cheu
dub master

Additional Musicians

Don Enrico: guitar and background vocals

Mattia Ratamaque: drums

Glenda CArruba: bass

Rob K. Lopez: percussions


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Rebus Absurd Logic Game Level 25 Answers

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Tips for Jutiful App Rebus Absurd Logic Game Level 25 Answers with picture explanation to find the correct word from the puzzle images. We know that some of the pic hint could easily represent inapropriate words, so if you’re looking for the correct jutiful game rebus solutions then find all of the guide here for ios itunes and android google play.

Rebus Absurd Logic Game Level 25 Walkthrough
Level 25-1 : GUI + dance = GUIDANCE
Level 25-2 : half of BE = BEHALF
Level 25-3 : Less ON = LESSON
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Level 25-7 : K + night = KNIGHT
Level 25-8 : F is missing (loss) = FLOSS

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(KTRH - Houston) -- Police say one person is dead following a shooting at a Houston airport.  Police tell KHOU-TV the man fired at least two shots from an AR-15 rifle at George Bush Intercontinental Airport before an air marshal shot at the man but missed.  The man then put a handgun to his head and pulled the trigger.  Terminal B was shut down while police investigated the apparent suicide.

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Monday, 21 May 2012

Sandtrooper - nearly done

VERY close now - all the armours done, lenses are in the helmet, belt is made and all i've left to do now is put the voice device in the chest and weather the Backpack. The orange Pauldron arrived today and i'm chuffed to bits with it as the quality is just superb. Thought i'd show you a finished arm, just so you can see where i'm going with the extent of the weathering. Hopefully, next pics you see of this build is me in it.

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Saturday, September 15, 2012

10 Grad School Lessons

Ben and I had a really intense end of the semester last May. During the final weeks of the semester, both Ben and I completed our grad school work, I organized our college's board of trustees meeting, Ben closed down his dorm, we traveled to Philly for our graduation, hung out with some great friends, and then got to experience a wonderful and utterly refreshing trip to Florida for some major resting and relaxing.

I thought I would take this time to share some of our lessons on graduate school:
  1. The first lesson is know that you will eventually want to read a book again. It took a few months for me, but Ben was immediately drawn into some great books that we had put in our "read after grad school" pile.
  2. Graduate school is hard. It is intense, overwhelming, encouraging, exciting, fulfilling, draining, etc. But at the end of the day, those two pieces of paper are something that you can smile at and be proud of. For those in the thick of it, all I can say is persevere.
  3. Working on master's degrees at the same time as my spouse was intensely tough. The divorce rate for people getting their masters and doctorate degrees is insanely high. It was not easy. We both were stressed and overwhelmed and never felt like doing housework. We operated for two years in our shadow modes and well, that ain't pretty. (For those of you unaware of what a "shadow" is, stay tuned to an upcoming blog post about personality types). Benefit to you both completing yours masters is that you each get to be called "Master Swihart" around the house and that is pretty great.
  4. If you have the opportunity to partake in a cohort based, residency program, we highly recommend it! We have made some solid, lasting friendship during our three weeks each of the two summers we spent in Uganda. I tried a limited residency in the US and while those friendship were great, they were not as strong as two solid years of working through the program together.
  5. Know that the pursuit of His work brings forth great blessings. The abundance of support and knowledge that we experienced was life changing.
  6. That being said, no, not everyone knew what it was like to balance work, being newlyweds, new jobs, full-time school, family, friends, etc. We heard the lines of "we miss you. Why aren't you guys ever around?" which I don't think our friends ever meant harm by saying, but it was tough not to feel guilty. We dearly wanted to hang out on the weekends, go out for dinner, have late night convos, but we honestly didn't have the strength. Not that school consumed us 24/7, but just the thought of our 25 page papers looming over our heads made life exhausting. We had to cut some things out of our lives in order to manage this short season of our lives, and after God, each other, and our work, our lives didn't have much energy left to give.
  7. You learn a lot about yourself in graduate school. For me, the course I was most afraid of taking (applied research and evaluation) was one that became one of my favorite. And coincidentally the one I was most excited to take, and part of the reason for switching to the Africa co-hort (advocacy and human rights) was not one of my favorites. Don't let your expectations get the best of you.
  8. Build relationships with your professors and classmates from the start. The support of your peers is like nothing else. No one knows where you are in the process like your classmates. They all understand your hatred of numbers during your practical finance management class and are there to talk you through it. They are the ones who can explain the confusing assignments, or better yet, vent with you on the unclear instructions that sometimes occur because of the online learning format where you have to converse questions over email not in person.
  9. A few months after you complete your degree, you may miss the intellectual conversations, books, challenging papers, etc. This is entirely normal and frankly, the sign that you did grad school the right way. If you reach this stage, connect with your fellow masters on Facebook or email chains. You can have a bond with these people for the rest of your lives, but it takes work. Send them encouraging TED talks, share troublesome areas, give them a chance to read a proposal your wrote. Give them a chance to get back "into" the knowledge fest and I am sure they will do the same for you.
  10. Be sure to save up money to take breaks and quiet vacations. It is hard to do knowing that your student loans are piling up, but we found it helpful to have a fun activity to look forward to at the end of an eight week class.
Overall, grad school is what you make it. And despite how it feels in the thick of it, time passes by so quickly. Savor it. Learn from it. Leave stronger and wiser.

The RedHead Did It

It was at a bachelorette party. It was a little odd. I was sort of a party crasher. My husband's two cousins (and also our great friends who we were in town visiting) were friends of the bride and invited me to tag along for the bachelorette party. The introvert in me was really tempted  to decline, but I knew the men wanted some "man time," and the party was going to include  getting pedicures, something I had never experienced. So, I tapped into my extroverted reserve and off we went to get our toes fancied up, eat some nice italian food and provide some fun lingerie to the bride.

During dinner, I was learning about these new people. Three of us were married, one was divorced, a few were single or had boyfriends, and then their was the lovely bride to be. Not that I typically focus on a person's marital status, but it is relevant to the post. As customarily happens at bachelorette/wedding showers, talk turned to marriage and giving the new bride some marriage advice. Then it happened... the red-head did it... with the candlestick... in the parlor... Or something like that. No, what she said was that she didn't understand why people said marriage was so hard. She said something along the lines that marriage between she and her husband is really great, that they never fight and are just "sooo" happy in the short years they have been married. AND WOW. All I could do was sit there in utter shock, picking up my jaw up off the table as this woman has just said everything I wish my marriage could be and never thought possible. Inside jealously stirred up and I just sat there thinking, "why can't my marriage be like that?!" And when she was asked why or how they could be so happy, she didn't have this great answer filled with wisdom. Rather, she just simply said, "we just don't fight" and all I thought in my head was you "lying *****. Is this possibly true? How is she so lucky!?"

The conversation went on as a few more people shared, but for many months now, the words of the red-head still fill my mind. The more I think about it, to me, she seems to be having an easy road...a way too easy and unfortunate road. Which has made me think and actually treasure my moments of conflict with my spouse. Why? Because I think conflict is productive. I don't run away from it. I am not inclined to avoid conflict. Rather, I am inclined to "talk about it" and sometimes to my fault, I spend much too much time talking and not listening to the other person. But yet, at the end of my long talks, I typically feel the Holy Spirit nudging me and revealing more about myself and how I can continue to become refined.

I utterly love my husband. And he drives me utterly crazy sometimes. But most of all, I am utterly thankful for the unconditional love that he gives me and his gentle nudges that show me how to a better person. And I hope I can become a little more gentle in my nudges too. Because without that gentle nudging, I don't think I will become a better person. At least not as quickly.

Maybe the red head and her husband have the gentle nudges figured out. And I really mean it when I say I hope she does. Because the beauty of marriage is having your best friend, the person who knows you so intimately, nudge you to become more like Christ each and every day.Marriage isn't easy. Marriage isn't always fun. However, to me, marriage is the best example of Christ's love on the face of this earth. It is a continual journey of growing and developing into a person worth of being called a Child of God.

Friday, August 31, 2012

The Unity of Togetherness

In the middle of the summer, I got to experience being a mother for a short week to the sweetest, most enthusiastic little tomboy girl. It was a completely different experience from my typical selfish, "I want to do when I want to do" moment. The husband's cousins, and some of our dear friends, allowed us to take care of their little one for a whole week. Yup, an entire week in the hands of some rookie parents.

The husband and I took turns taking care of her every whim and desire. Perhaps the husband took a few more turns as I was at work from 8-5 and well, this little one has had him wrapped around her finger since pretty much her first breath. Be they nightmares or simply, "I am in a weird place and can't sleep" moments, we were there, together, comforting her sweet little heart. We got a short taste of what it means to literally take care of another being who cannot fully take care of themselves. We had a few midnight wakeups, some awkward "this is not my kid, I'm not sure how to handle this moment!" moments, lots of laughs and plenty of smiles that came with living with one of the smartest five year olds I have ever met for an entire week.

I will never forget that first moment when that sweet little girl bent forward to give me a goodnight kiss smack dab on the lips. My heart felt confused. Doesn't this little one know that I am a selfish human unworthy of her apparent unconditional love? Doesn't she know that when she woke me up in the middle of the night, it was Ben's turn to get up with her? Doesn't she know that I missed getting to watch my TV shows when she put on Spiderman and his Amazing Friends? No, she probably doesn't know that. All I know is that to this is the sweetest little thing I have ever come across and that she is so loving and trusting of us. All I know is that she, in this moment, was freely giving me love. All I know is that in these little moments, she chose to tell me "I love you" and my heart literally felt like it was melting deep inside of my chest.

And at the end of the week when she and her family drove away, we realized that the only way we got through it was together. Each of us paying attention to our God given strengths (and our different weaknesses) meant a unique experience of learning how to grow in harmony with a small human life that is so utterly aware of life's hardships, pain, challenges and, most importantly, life's love. Together, we saw the unconditional love of a sweet little one with a crazy amount of strength and energy. Together, we experienced a much more exciting week. Together, we tackled living with a five year old for a week... and here we are on the eve of her brother coming to experience his turn at the Swihart House. At least this time we know the secret. The only way to survive is doing it together because two are better than one.

p.s. I am totally going to be one of those mom's that tells everyone how amazing their kids are or how cute they are. For instance, my favorite moment of our time together:
Me: (after find crumbs in her bed) "E, did you eat a cupcake in the middle of the night?!"
E: "Yes... But I was jumping on the bed while eating it!"
How do you not smile at this little one?

Monday, June 11, 2012

Hatred within our Christian Communities

I have recently stumbled upon Relevant magazine's social justice website "Reject Apathy.” As a student growing up in what I am calling my generation's social justice awakening period, Relevant was always a really great (and challenging) resource of progressive Christian culture. It also helped that their subscriptions only cost $14 a year which made it oh, so affordable for a 20-something year old. So when I stumbled upon their social justice publication's website, I was immediately hooked. Now, you may be wondering as a Relevant magazine fan, how could I have waited this long before learning of such a wonderful piece of the Relevant family? Well, all I can do is blame grad school and not being able to read anything that I wanted to read for the past two-and-a-half-years.

One of the articles I just found (and one that was ‘most shared’) is called "12 Hours with a Sex Tourist."  The article, written by Gaz Kishe, chronicles a conversation between two very different people on their way to Bangkok, Thailand. The first is a Christian, and the second, a sex tourist on his way to celebrate an anniversary of his divorce by visiting many of the Thailand's sex bars. This was his fourth trip to the area and the conversation between the two of them is just well, heartbreaking. Unbeknownst to the sex tourist, this Christian wasn't going to part-take in the bar scene. Rather, he was just there for a layover. The tourist's assumption that almost everyone on the flight was going to Thailand for the same reason make me cringe as I, myself, have been one of those passengers flocking to Thailand. However, my end goal was a bit different. The goal for my team and me was to spend time with the women to build relationship, be ambassadors of Christ's love and show them that they have other options for income, rather than selling their bodies to disgusting, perverted men.

We flew to the small island of Phuket where we spent our late evening hours on Bangla Road, the main strip or red-light district of the island. Reading this article, memories come flooding back of the heavy air filled with evil and pain…the nausea that I, and many others on my team, felt as we prayer walked… the hours of conversations as we went bar to bar talking to girls with their plastered smiles, the struggle to build relationships as we fought through the darkness (both metaphorical and actual)…the stench of sweat and beer mixed with heavy incense… and the pain in our hearts as we walked passed room after room knowing what sad horrors were taking place behind each door. I am proud of our team. Together, we grew in our understanding of the Lord. Together, our dependence upon Him was strengthened as we did our afternoon prayer walks in preparation for the evening "working" hours. Together, our hearts were broken for His children, both the women and their many customers. Together, I believe we did bring just a glimmer of light into such a sinister place.

Now, you may be thinking I am writing to discuss the horrors of the sex industry and how disgusting and utterly sad it is that people plan sex tourism trips, and while that is all true, I am not. I am merely drawing a contradiction by paralleling the degradation of humanity found in what most of the world identifies as extreme horror (sex tourism) to the shameful way we treat our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ on a day to day basis.

Gaz Kishe wrote, "For those of us who live in places where our fellow countrymen are booking sex holidays, we must re-sensitize ourselves to the humanity of these wonderful, beautiful and precious people. We must spread the word that these women and girls are someone's daughter, sister or mother. Let’s work to abolish myths that tell us they are less than worthy of our high regard and respect. Let's tell th
eir stories. Let's honor their lives. Let's sing and shout about their humanity."

I want to take Gaz's challenging call a bit further. I say "For those of us who live in places where our fellow countrymen Christians are booking sex holidays hurting each other, we must re-sensitize ourselves to the humanity of these God's wonderful, beautiful and precious people. We must spread the word that these men and women and girls are God's sons and daughters sister or mother. Let’s work to abolish myths that tell us they are less than worthy of our high regard and respect. Let's tell their stories. Let's honor their lives. Let's sing and shout about their humanity."
So in following Relevant's call to reject apathy, let us reject being apathetic to the hatred in our Christian community. Let us rather, do as we were commanded in Luke 10:27 - "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself." For the only way to fight against the true hatred is to realize that pain and hurt fills each and every inch of this world unless we actively fight using the best tool we have been given, God’s unconditional love.

Monday, April 16, 2012

Spiritual Formation Memoirs: Conclusion

Conclusion:  “What the Heck am I Doing Here, Anyway? A young girl’s journey down His road of Life complete with numerous missed stops signs, speed bumps, car crashes and airbags deployments.”

My calling and role in life has been one of little direction. Not that I haven’t been shown things by the Lord, but rather, I haven’t, as the colloquialism states, “kept my eye on the prize.” Unit 13’s directive to develop a mission statement and core values for my life was challenging. My husband and I are planning to develop something for ourselves. This directive will help move us forward in our lives and help us to not stay in complacent, easy places. Rather, it is my prayer that it will push us. Personally, I see that it will help me in my everyday life make decisions as I reflect upon the person Christ has made me to be.

In light of what I have learned in this course, I have concluded that I need to…write a mission statement for myself and my family as well as identify the core values that God has given me.

Spiritual Formation Memoirs: Chapter 4

Chapter Four: “Fasting: There Ain’t No Skinny about It.”

Most of what I gained from unit four was not what the workbook shared, but rather what my professor, Dr. Gittens, lectured to us about. This lecture was really comforting because he shared different ways for us to fast in different periods of our lives. He shared what fasting can do, as well as what fasting is not. Bottom line: Fasting is not an “easy” spiritual diet. Rather, it is a way to help us eat our way through the “meats and bones”and obstacles of this world through surrendering our fleshly desires for His heavenly touch.
In light of what I have learned in this course, I have concluded that I need to…pay attention to seasons of my life that are calling me to fast. What do I need to give up, in order to surrender myself more fully to the Lord and His ways? I need to prayerfully ask this question.

Spiritual Formation Memoirs: Chapter 3

Chapter Three: “Shut up and Listen: Hearing Aids the Christian Way.”
         The first unit that I experienced was with solitude and silence. During my late teens, early twenties, I was noticing the Lord’s gift of prophesy show up. I dismissed it as coincidences and often shrugged things off. However, it wasn’t until I went on a leadership retreat that had us spend time in silence and solitude, that I actually saw a real manifestation of prophesy and my role as one who has been given this spiritual gift. I am given the chance to be God’s messenger. I was given a vision that couple, who had struggled to become pregnant, was being blessed for their faithfulness and would conceive. It was only in “forced” silence that I realized how I needed to spend more time listening to God, rather than talking at/to God.
        In light of what I have learned in this course, I have concluded that I need to…keep shutting up. I still, to this day, get frustrated at my lack of using my spiritual gift only to be reminded of a simple lesson. The best way to hear God is by using His gift of silence simply because no one likes to yell to get someone’s attention. It is hard to listen to someone else when I keep talking. The best hearing aid comes from simply being quiet.


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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Where is God?

Of the thousands of pictures from the recent Japanese calamity, this one epitomizes great human (and animal) needs - the need to be comforted when one is afraid, the need to be cared for, the need to care, and the ability to express the need.

This is a panda in Japan being comforted by a man who has probably brought food (see the green plastic bin in his left hand).

When you were afraid, wouldn't it have been nice to be comforted? Didn't you ever want to just hang onto someone in complete disregard for what might be appropriate? And, haven't you ever risked yourself by offering comfort?

The universality of comfort is one of the reasons I believe in  God, Immauel (God with us). We humans need far more comfort than other species. We need that God With Us feeling a lot. We need to know that someone is walking beside us to comfort (and to guide) us as we journey through life.

Of course, I know how inappropriate this would be (and probably how smelly), but some days I would just love to curl up in the arms of that panda and be encased in warm fur. God with me in the form of a panda. And other days, I want to reach out and scritch someone's head just to let them know they are not alone; someone cares.

God cares mightily for all of us. God is with all of us. And, I don't know why bad things happen - like earth quakes and tsunamis and nuclear meltdowns. All I know is that God is with us all the time...whether in the man caring for the panda or the panda in need.

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Kelis Shares Her Thoughts On Nas’ Life Is Good Album Cover (Video)

blame it on JES7 June 24, 2012

NME TV sat down with Kelis while out at the 2012 Isle Of Wight Festival where she shared her thoughts on ex-hubby Nasir’s Life Is Good album cover, which shows Nas suited up in street clothes his wedding suit along side Kelis’ green wedding dress. She also speaks on tour life and her work with dubstep legend Skream.

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  • F A C T

    Next question Kelis…
    What the fuck is that hanging off your nose?

  • Tre

    I think it’s dope that she was able to be objective about it even though it was clearly about her.

  • Lame, I was expecting her to give a more personal answer to them, but if she doesn’t wanna talk about it, it’s fine.

  • dave

    kelis still fine.ill smash idk bout wife.if nas dipped gotta be something cuz thats a conscious smart nigga lol

  • Scourge McFuck

    hey kelis… if you are touring so much why does nas have to pay a month what i make a year in alimony!!!??

  • david

    dress was green coz she was with him for the money

  • flo

    this girls a cunt LOL

  • SheNa$ty

    Touring with their young boy for the last year? Probably why she’s robbing her baby daddy

  • fastflipper

    kelis = fail

  • LupeX

    Nas’ album title ‘Life is Good’ is on point. U know u doing good when yur eX is looking worse without u. Damn, she fell tha fukc off! She looks hella haggard!

  • Mike

    Glad she responded the right way and not disrespectful, and I’m glad she isn’t making music, thank you!

  • d-bo

    Fuck this bitch


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Thoughts & Musings

Mishunderschtandink on Speed:
Georges Feydeau’s The Ladies’ Man (1886),
translated and adapted by Charles Morey from Feydeau’s Tailleur pour dames

The Humanities Post-Show Talkback will be after
Sunday, October 2’s matinee performance.

© 2016 by Eileen Warburton

“Whenever two of my characters absolutely, positively under any circumstances shouldn’t meet, I put them in the same room together.”
-Georges Feydeau

Many winters ago, when 2nd Story Theatre performed over a bar on Long Wharf in Newport, I asked Pat Hegnauer her secret for directing comedy. Pat, who’s been my dear friend now for 30-some years, was the co-founder of the theatre company with Ed Shea. In a single season I had decided she was the best comedic director I’d ever come across. “What’s your secret?” I asked. “Speed,” she grinned, “You have to move the action along so fast that the audience is always laughing and never has time to even consider whether the line is actually funny or not.”

If ever there was a genre that proves Pat’s observation, it’s farce, specifically French farce and, in particular, the 60 farces that made Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) the unchallenged master of the stage farce in the late 19th century and pre-World War I period. Feydeau studied and perfected the ideal form to present an exaggerated, irrational, hugely funny version of what happens when the appetites and follies of some stuffy bourgeois people—usually men—lead them into a net of lies, disguise, and mistaken identities.  Terrified of the loss of a starchy middle-class social reputation and the unquestioning respect of one’s spouse, characters in French farce wade into lunatic deceptions and silly deceits, until they are buried in unnecessary complications that could do them in indeed. In serious drama, the arrogant guy who can’t be wrong (King Lear? Juliet Capulet’s father? Torvald Helmer?) can become a tragic figure. But in farce—with misnamed characters in bed with the wrong partner, narrow escapes, doors opening and slamming shut, double entendre exposing the depths of naughtiness, and double lives exposed by innocent stumblebums—and all ticking over with the meticulous precision of a Victorian pocket watch– he’s only the hilarious butt of our laughter.

In the case of The Ladies’ Man, Dr. Moulineaux, our newly-wed, middle-aged husband, fears losing his sexual edge with Yvonne, his very young, very pretty wife. This simple, quite honest, embarrassment leads him to, first, to isolate himself from her, then to try to doctor himself by a little fling with a sexually predatory patient. But, no. All he can think of is how he loves Yvonne. The one thing monogamous Hercule is not is a “ladies’ man.” By pretending to be one, then covering up his stupidity, Hercule unleashes all the suspicions and obstacles of a gorgon of a mother-in-law, a pair of frisky servants, a seductive cougar patient and her explosively jealous husband, and a friend with a marvelous lisp that twists dialogue and foments misunderstanding.

Georges Feydeau was born in Belle Époque Paris when it was the cultural center of the western world. He thrived in the edgy tensions of fin de siecle France, a time that gave the world the Decadent Poets and the Symbolists, Escoffier’s cooking, the ugliness of the Dreyfus Affair, the Eiffel Tower and the Moulin Rouge, and the exuberant romanticism of Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. After his first stage success in 1886–Tailleur pour dames (The Ladies’ Dressmaker, here renamed The Ladies’ Man) Feydeau married the daughter of Society portrait artist Carolus-Duran. Marianne’s money supported his playwriting until he was dominating the Paris stage with hit after hit after hit. Sixty-plus in all! With his matinee idol good looks and his jaunty moustache, Feydeau rapidly became the most popular playwright of the boulevard theatre. His plays were so successful abroad that some were performed in foreign translation before they were produced in French.  He lived the high life, kept a table reserved for himself at Maxim’s, collected art, gambled heavily, and dressed in sartorial elegance.

Like so many clowns in all times and all places, Feydeau was a melancholy man. Trouble haunted him. His marriage failed, he separated from his wife in 1909 and divorced in 1916. He moved to a hotel. His gambling left him with enormous debts that even his dramatic successes could not cover. In 1918 he contracted syphilis and descended steadily into madness. In 1919 he entered an insane asylum, where he died in 1921. As in Feydeau’s great farces, the anarchy within finally conquered the success of the exterior. The talented adaptor of Feydeau is Charles Morey. With more than forty-five years of experience in American theatre, Morey is the playwright of eleven produced plays, adaptor of many classics, director of hundreds of productions, and veteran director of regional American theatre coast-to-coast. When he finally retired in 2012 as Artistic Director of the Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, his last gig, Morey was the longest-tenured sitting artistic director in any regional American theatre. He continues to write and direct for theatres around the country.

Did you know how the comic stage form, swiftly timed, using horseplay, buffoonery, disguise, social satire, and sexual innuendo came to be called a “farce”?

When farce first appeared in English, it had to do with cookery, not comedy. In the 14th century, English adopted farce from Middle French, retaining its original meaning of “forcemeat” or “stuffing.” Like sausage or turkey stuffing. The comedic sense of farce in English dates from the 16th century, when England imported a kind of knockabout comedy already popular in France. This dramatic genre had its origins in the 13th-century practice of augmenting, or “stuffing,” Latin church texts with explanatory phrases. Predictably, listeners and lay readers eventually became irreverent and satiric. By the 15th century, the practice had arisen of inserting unscripted buffoonery into religious plays. Such farces – which included clowning, acrobatics, reversal of social roles, and ribald indecency – soon developed into a distinct dramatic genre and spread rapidly in various forms throughout Europe.

So, now you know.

The opinions expressed in this essay are not necessarily those of 2nd Story Theatre.

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Monday, May 19, 2014

You Might be a Charlotte Mason Homeschooler if....

  • You have a bookshelf full of classic stories in every single room of the house and you have actually read most of them.
  • You also have a library card for every member of the family and have maxed them all out on loans.
  • You know what the word 'twaddle' is.
  • Your child is in fourth grade and has never read out of a textbook.
  • You carry a field guide and a notebook with you every time you go to the park just in case you want to sketch and study a bit of nature.
  • The first sentence your child ever wrote was copied from a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
  • Your children have never completed a worksheet.
  • You have created a timeline every single way imaginable.
I love the Charlotte Mason method. I have been using it since Skittles was in Kindergarten. It just makes sense to me that kids will retain information more when they can relate to it. I admit that I have been overwhelmed by the amount of reading that I do each day. I read a chapter of classic literature, a chapter from a history book, and a chapter from a science book. It is worth it though when I see that my kids are really learning the stuff we are reading. And not just learning it but enjoying it.

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carrie-fisher [Remembering Carrie Fisher]

Carrie Fisher

About Aren

Aren likes big movies and he likes small movies. He'll sing the praises of the latest Hollywood sci-fi epic while simultaneously lambasting people for not getting into Hong Kong cinema. He detests egotism in film and film criticism, but is a sucker for earnest spectacle. While he tends to skew more modern in his viewing choices, he thinks film looks best in black and white, especially when directed by Akira Kurosawa. His favourite genres are science fiction and animation, but he'll watch anything so long as it's interesting. He's a prairie boy, born and raised. When he's not writing about movies, he's making them. You can watch his 2013 sci-fi short QUANTOM here: His email is His favourite movies are 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), BEN-HUR (1959), BLUE VELVET (1986), THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001), MINORITY REPORT (2002), PSYCHO (1960), RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981), SEVEN SAMURAI (1954), SPIRITED AWAY (2001), and STAR WARS: EPISODE VI - RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983). His favourite directors are Hayao Miyazaki, Akira Kurosawa, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, James Cameron, David Cronenberg, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Terrence Malick, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, and Johnnie To.


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Friday, July 23, 2010

summer funk

It seems I'm in a little summer funk. I'm hot and tired and can't seem to shake it. I spend my days bumming around trying my darndest not to feel grumpy and then once the boys go to bed and the heat breaks I am bursting with energy.

Here's what's helping:
- mini lemon cheesecakes. I made these cuties last night and have declared myself "Mini Cheesecake Queen". I plan on making these everyday for months. Ok. Not everyday. But frequently. Love these cool bites of goodness.
- the Glee soundtrack.
- after school trips to the aquarium. We live near it and my folks gave us a pass again this year so, why not? Standing around next to giant tanks of water is strangely calming.
- Blueberry Beer.
- So You Think You Can Dance (I have a crush on Jose. Man, what a Cutie Pie).
- neurotically cleaning.
- looking at Christmas craft supplies online.

Here's what's not helping:
- Isaac rummaging in the fridge whenever I turn my back. Baby gates don't even slow him down anymore. Yesterday when I was cleaning the bathtub (neurotically), Isaac brought me the jar of pickles. That kind of thing happens all day long.
- the urban, summer stench of sun ripened garbage.
- Andrew's consistent need to tackle his brother. I've got to remember to wrestle Andrew a little every day. It really helps. Though, I must admit, there are plenty of times Isaac initiates.

Here's hoping the goods outweigh the bads today.

erin said...

Ooo, I wish I could come over and help you with those cheesecakes. I'm also down for the aquarium and tackling. But Jose? I'm rooting for Kent now that the ballet dancer is gone (sniff)

Susan said...

I hear ya, Robyn. I'm so sick of the heat. I remember when I was so sick of the cold. I don't know about your blueberry beer but those cheesecakes look awesome. Don't be surprised if I show up in Bay Ridge one of these evenings ;)

Susan said...

For some reason I always have to leave two comments if I want follow up comments to show up in my e-mail. But you love comments, right?

MandiCrocker said...

Oooooh, you had me at cheesecake & blueberry BEER. That just sounds wrong in the BEST way.

And Don't Stop Believin, Robs! Don't let the Sue Sylvester-esque sun bring you down. ;)

Tara Whalen said...

Hang in there. Enjoy your cheesecakes. Yum!

We are enjoying baskin robbins ice cream cake. Yeah Dillon! He decided on it all by himself. =)

bookaddict4real said...

I am tired of the heat ,too. Those cheesecakes look like my kinda relief
My kids do the tackle thing quite a bit (much to my irratation,also)

Goes On Runs said...

i'm with erin.... i have a little crush on kent... but seriously, jose's smile is infectious!!! my personal goal is to see how much we can consume w/o turning on the oven....

Amy said...

I'm impressed you bake anything at all in the heat - I try to avoid the oven at all costs during the summer!


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New to 4MLinux?

If you are a new 4MLinux user, you should jump here

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Opera (web browser).

Opera is one of the five downloadable extensions, which are available in each version of 4MLinux (the other ones are: CalmAV, Partition Wizard, SMPlayer, and LibreOffice). Once installed, Opera becomes a default web browser.

1) Choose Opera from the Internet Menu:

2) You must confirm the installation:

3) Now 4MLinux will download and install the newest Opera for you:

4) You must agree to the License Agreement:

Note: read this post to learn how to install Firefox with Flash Player in your 4MLinux.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

TheSSS (The Smallest Server Suite) is a lightweight server suite distributed as a live CD. It is designed for system administrators who need a very tiny set of server software for small local area networks. The supported servers are FTP, HTTP, SFTP, SSH, and Telnet. A proxy server (Polipo) with the Tor anonymizer is also included. The main security components are a 4MLinux Firewall (based on iptables) and Clam AntiVirus. TheSSS tries to follow the KISS principle as it was shown in this post.
Notes: TheSSS boots in the same way as 4MLinux does (this was described here).

1) Boot your copy of TheSSS:

2) After executing 'help', you will see the following screen:

3) Let's try the 'server' command now:

There are some links at the bottom of this page. Follow them to learn more about particular servers included in TheSSS.
If you need to configure your Internet connection, you should run the 'netconfig' script (the procedure is very similar to the one described here).

4) Additionally, TheSSS provides antivirus protection, which works in the exact same way as it was shown in this post.

5) The installation of TheSSS to a hard disk drive can be performed by running the 'install2hd' script (have a look at this guide).

6) TheSSS has Midnight Commander (file manager) and Links (text-based web browser), which can be very helpful in some cases:

TheSSS is able to make a backup of your data (and to send it to a remote FTP server if desired). Just try it yourself by executing 'backup' and 'fsbackup'  commands!
TheSSS is also able to display a huge number of information about your system. You can view them after executing the 'nmonitor' command.

Further reading:

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Proxy server

This is a short guide on how to use a proxy server (Polipo with Tor), which is available in 4MLinux Server Edition, 4MLinux Allinone Edition, and TheSSS.

1) Open your terminal and execute the 'proxy' command:

2) Let's start the server ('proxy start') and check if it really runs ('proxy test'). After you execute these two commands, Links web browser will be opened:

3) Open /etc/polipo/readme.txt to get essential info about your proxy server:

4) The operating mode of Polipo ('memory', 'disk', or 'tor') can be set in its configuration file (i.e. /etc/polipo/polipo.conf):

5) By default, none of 4MLinux servers is started automatically during the boot, but you can change this by setting 'proxy' to 'yes' in the /etc/server/autostart.conf file:

Further reading:

Friday, March 1, 2013

Monitoring software

4MLinux includes a wide set of small monitoring programs using the ncurses interface. These are powerful tools, which are especially useful as a part of your server software. This is why they are included in 4MLinux Server Edition and TheSSS.

1) Execute the 'nmonitor' command in your terminal. The following menu screen will be opened:

2) General system info via nmon:

3) Top running processes via htop:

4) Disk usage via ncdu:

5) Network activity via netwatch:

6) Traffic data via iptraf:

7) WiFi interface via wavemon:

8) Bandwidth usage via iftop:

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Day by Day

Saturday, December 23, 2006

That about sums it up

Classical Values on the Broken Media.

The last time I discussed "Jamil," the details were still hotly debated, and I was reminded of my relatively meaningless battle over "George Harleigh" (a fictitious professor science professor who had worked for both Nixon and Reagan, and who could always be depended on to sound off about the horrors of Bush).

I soon noticed that there's a downside to debunking fraudulent people or claims. The people who make them up -- and most of those who agree with them -- simply don't care. Because the characters and claims are invented to support what they already believe fervently, debunking them does not "count."

Lies presented in furtherance of a greater "truth" are not really considered to be lies, at least not in the moral sense. The idea is to persuade people, and if fictional people or incidents have to be used, that's OK, as long as it's in the interest of the greater truth.

The problem I have with this approach is that I don't like being lied to. Even when I agree with the cause the lie is intended to support. I don't find lies emotionally fulfilling because they pollute the process of thought. When lies are presented as "news reports," it's even worse, because it makes me distrustful every time I pick up the paper or turn on the television.

The Broken Media's handling of the Jamil Hussien scandal has highlighted everything that's wrong with them. A fake source that they can't produce, lies built upon lies, the inability to distinguish right from wrong, and the unthinking defense of everything they've done when the facts are clearly not on their side. CV also has some delusional Leftist writing a defense of the AP that shows how far from reality the Left is.

despite the hundreds of stories AP files from Iraq each week, and the thousands posted annually since the invasion, warbloggers can only find fault with a single story, yet insist that one is enough to tarnish the AP's Iraq reporting and all mainstream news reporting from Baghdad.

It's not going to work. If warbloggers want to prove that cowardly American journalists are being duped by local Iraqi stringers pushing a terrorist agenda, or that the AP is guilty of chronically manufacturing bad news, they are going to have to do more than flush out Jamil Hussein.

Check out what this goober says. We can only find fault with one story? How myopic can you get? It's not one story, it's one source that has been used to make up hundreds if not THOUSANDS of stories, and damn near each story has been used to hammer against the US presence in Iraq.

The fact that this source cannot be confirmed should bring shame upon every reporter who works for the AP. This isn't just a few crazy warbloggers going off on one story, this is a trend of the AP using fake people to make fake stories that are damaging to the US, and from what everyone can see it's been going on for YEARS!

Not ONE story out of thousands, not a few mess-ups in a month, this is the systematic deception of the American People by a lying media that is pushing it's own agenda! Why is it that every time we "crazy warbloggers" turn around, we're finding yet MORE evidence that the Broken Media is lying it's ass off in the pursuit of it's agenda? If it's not Jamil Hussien then it's the fouxtography scandal. If it's not the fouxtography scandal, it's Green Helmet Guy. If it ain't Green Helmet Guy, then it's the media frenzy over Palestinian funerals that turn out to be fake! Every time we turn around, there's yet ANOTHER LIE pushed forward by the Broken Media that's debunked, and every lie is used to discredit either Bush in particular or Conservatives in general.

Jamil Hussien isn't just ONE story that we have a problem with. The growing Hussien scandal is just another chapter in a book of lies, half-truths, deceptions, falsehoods, and agenda pushing that we've come to expect from the Broken Media. And yes, it's a big deal. Fake sources presented as the gospel truth is a big deal. Lies and agendas pushed forward as "news" is a big deal. And all of this is just one more reason for me to never believe anything that comes from the AP.

When you have to triple-check the "facts" that come from a news report, then the news report isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

Friday, December 22, 2006

I know what I want for Christmas!

I want one of these!

I'll take the "Mariner" version, Santa.

Yeah. Santa would probably be shot down by the cops here if they knew he was packing one of those things for me.

Found via the Geek.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Tell me when there's a problem

Dutch women. With large breasts. And the percentage of Dutch women with larger breasts is growing.

I'd blame the Democrats American Communist Party, but this is one thing I don't want them taking credit for.

If I were single, I'd be heading to Europe as soon as possible.

And somewhat related to the post below....

My wife has a sourdough pot. For those who don't know, sourdough requires it's own special bacteria in order to get that taste that's so famous. Normal bread just uses yeast and that's it. Sourdough uses yeast AND the special bacteria.

For those who are now going "EEWWWWWW!", stop it. Bacteria isn't just something that gives you an ear infection, OK? Have you ever had yogurt? Bacteria. Bread? That's yeast, which is a bacteria. Beer? Wine? Whiskey? Any other alcohol?

Yep. That's created by bacteria.

So anyways, back to the sourdough pot. Unlike regular yeast, which can be dried and stored for months at a time, sourdough requires a nice warm wet environment in which to live. You can't dry it out, so you have to have a container of live active cultures if you want to bake any sourdough bread. That's what the wife has.

Now, she's going to be baking for Christmas. Lots and lots of bread and rolls, and since she's got the sourdough pot, it'll all be sourdough bread. So she's getting the pot ready to use. You have to take part of the sourdough culture out and put it in the bread mix in addition of yeast, so you have to replenish it, right? Or, in my wife's case, built that sourdough pot up to the point where you can use up 75% of it and still have enough left over to keep it going.

So it's at this point that I point out that an exploding sourdough pot does not a clean stovetop make.

Nothing quite let's you know that there are living things in there like watching the flour and bacteria mix actually bubble like it was a boiling pot. That's the by-product of the bacteria, after all. CO2 and alcohol. When it's just a small pot, like we normally keep, you see a few bubbles suspended in the pot, but until we got this thing growing I have never seen it actually boil.

Not that I'm bothered by it, other than having to clean the stovetop. No, I'm more just amazed at what we as humans are able to to with our food. Bacteria, folks. Cool as hell.

I guess the whole point of this post is to just let you know that my wife kicks so much ass that she keeps a sourdough pot in the kitchen in order to bake fresh sourdough bread. Yeah, I'm bragging. I admit it. Whaddyagonnado?

I'm insulted!

Many moons ago, I gave out several recipes, including my chioppino, and I don't get included in this book?

Sandy Berger STILL not in jail

More info has come out about former Security Adviser Sandy Berger's stealing and destruction of Code Word Classified documents. I'm amazed that he's not in jail. I'm amazed that he's not locked up in a dark cell for the rest of his natural life.

Look folks, this isn't a partisan issue. I have a security clearance, as do most if not all of the NCOs and Officers in the military, no matter which branch. If you're given a position of authority in the military, the military does a background check on you. I needed a Secret clearance when I became a Military Policeman. Now that I'm a Quartermaster, I don't need the Secret, but I still have it. You need at least a Classified clearance once you attain a certain rank.

Now, they don't just hand you your security clearance and say "Have a nice day!" They make sure you understand just what will befall you if you screw up and mishandle classified information. And they don't just do it once. We have OPSEC briefings at least once a year. We are constantly warned about what could happen if classified information that we have was stolen, destroyed, mishandled, ect.

Now Berger wasn't a military officer, he was the NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER! He's supposed to be in charge of the information security for the ENTIRE COUNTRY! And yet, here he was, stuffing documents of the highest level of classification down his fucking PANTS, walked out of the National Archives, and DESTROYED THEM!

And he's STILL not in jail!

Look, if I take classified documents from a file and destroy them, I don't get a slap on the wrist. I spend years and years in Ft. Leavenworth breaking big rocks into small rocks, and those small rocks into smaller rocks. And that's for Secret classifications.

But the top level? Berger steals and destroys documents that are the HIGHEST LEVEL OF CLEARANCE, and he gets.....

PROBATION?!?!?!?! I would spend the rest of my life in lock-up, but Berger gets probation?

Things like that are the reason why I say that all the politicians in Washington D.C., all the hanger-ons, all the syncophants, all the lawyers, every person who might possibly be in a position of power in D.C. needs to be taken out behind a barn and shot.

They're broken, folks. It's not just the system, it's the people in the system to have had their way for too long. The favoritism, cronyism, hell, all the -isms that are in use in D.C., the waste, the pork, the earmarks, the corruption (and let's be clear, damn near every single fuckstick on Capitol Hill is corrupt), they all need to be removed from the American gene pool. Send them to France, where spineless, parasitic, money-grubbing shitstains are welcomed. Send them to Iran, because so long as they are there, ain't NOTHING gonna happen. Not the way they talk and talk and talk with a complete lack of any kind of meaningful action. No matter who is in Congress, nothing will change because the people who are there are BROKEN, and they need to be removed.

Gah. Piss on Berger. He was hiding something for his boss, 'ol Slick Willy Clinton. And he's only going to get probation. Justice ain't blind, folks. When it comes to Washington D.C., Justice is a used-up whore with her legs permanently in the air, just waiting for another Congressional John with some cash to come along. Berger should be in jail for the rest of his life. The fact that he isn't proves that everyone who has dealt with this case is worthless.

The Anchoress gets a wee bit ticked off

Of course, if I had a newspaper reporter misquoting me, I'd be ticked off as well.

But let's be frank; we don't actually expect the Broken Media to tell the truth these days, do we?

I know I don't.

Tis the season

Where I get to run my ass off helping people get the holiday spirit. And then having a wee tip 'o the bottle to put myself into the holiday spirit. You catch my drift?

What this doesn't leave much time for is blogging. To put it bluntly, I'm preoccupied with family and friends, so I don't have much time left for anything else. And since my co-bloggers have vanished into the great beyond, ne'er to be seen again, that means that you won't get getting much in the way of blog-o-rama here at the home of the Right Wing Wacko until the Christmas season is done. I'm not saying that I'm not going to blog, but it's not going to be a normal amount.

But hey, have I mentioned that we have an awesome blogroll?

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

I think I've posted this before

Perhaps a few years ago, but it's worth re-posting every now and then.

It's a school test from Salina, Kansas, circa 1895. And if you didn't pass this test, you did not graduate from the Eighth Grade.

Go look at that test and tell me how it compares with the education YOU received in the 8th grade. It's scary just how far our education establishment has fallen. An eighth-grade education used to mean something. Now?

Now, we're lucky if kids graduate from the 12th grade able to read and write in English.

Found via a military forum I visit quite often.

But remember,

they "support the troops!"

Yeah, right.

At this point, they lie so easily that proving them wrong almost never takes any effort. But why should they bother to tell the truth? Their lies have gained them the US Congress.

Pardon me while I get sick.

Found via Michelle Malkin.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Ain't got nuthin today

We're on a light schedule today, which means that I'm taking it nice and easy. I've got just a wee bit of shopping left to do, and then I'm done. Plus, I've got a lawn to mow later today.

So unless one of my fellow bloggers manages to pop out of the woodwork and post something, may I suggest hitting the blogroll?

DANEgerus is always good.

Kim du Toit has a few good discussions going on, plus there is always his forum.

Cap'n Jim
is back blogging!

And all the others that are there. Enjoy!

UPDATE: And by the way, check out Drumwaster's Rants, which recently had a member return from DSL meltdown. Drumwaster also has links to a war that America is losing, more bias by the New York Slimes, a question about Ramadan, and all the pithy Fact-Bot blogging you could ask for!

(Drum, I'm nothing if not helpful!)

Monday, December 18, 2006

More Good Advice

From Victor Davis Hanson.

Putting Iran and Syria on notice that we will bomb terrorists flocking across their borders.

Give an ultimatum to militia heads, especially Moqtadar Sadr, to disband or face annihilation from the United States.

Expand the rules of engagement in all matters dealing with IEDs, with a shoot on sight rule concerning anyone found implanting or aiding such efforts.

Enlarge the planned Iraqi security forces to near 400,000, and embed far more Americans in those units.

Recalibrate the ratio of support to combat troops, so that we don’t simply create bigger compounds to facilitate larger troop levels to end up with more stationary and more numerous targets—and ever more enclaves of Americans behind thousands of acres of bermed reserves.

So spell out the mission, the new rules of engagement, and then, and only then, surge—if need be— more troops.

Given the fact that our "leadership" in DC currently consists of weak, spineless, money-grubbing, corrupt parasites who care more about lining their pockets rather than actual men or women who want to protect this country, I expect this advice and all advice like this to go unheeded.

Gee, what media bias?

Check out this headline from the AP: High School Military Recruiters Busted in FBI Cocaine Sting

The header:

TUCSON, Ariz. — A dozen Army and Marine recruiters who visited high schools were among the personnel caught in a major FBI cocaine investigation, and some were allowed to keep working while under suspicion, a newspaper reported Sunday.

And lower down comes the meat of the story:

So far, 69 members of the military, prison guards, law enforcement employees and other public employees have been convicted of accepting bribes to help smuggle cocaine.

So, less than one-fifth of the people listed are in the military, and yet what's the only group named in the headline?

Oh, THAT media bias!