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Sunday 5:14 am – Part I

Since 4:14 back to train traveling – three stops to go. Approximated arrival at 8.12 am – if I get every single train right. Thank God to credit cards I could book all the tickets on the phone. Still Oebb is a complete disaster. I am sitting on the floor… in my Burberry Steadman Jeans – don’t they have any respect for high fashion?! S picked me up at the train station at 8.00 pm sharp and we went to his flat so I can take a shower and dress up in a whole new outfit (which is exactly the one I talked about above) and then he showed me the core of his city of studying and we got a few drinks (for me some double martinis with ice and a half slice of lemon) and then got back to his flat to get my stuff and get back to the train station. The fucking train should have actually arrived at 3:40 but hat a 34 minutes delay and therefore we waited over one hour to get he traveling Burberry back to traveling.

Outside it is raining as the train rushes through the station to the next stop – my first train change of three in the next upcoming three hours. At least I look good.
Burberry pieces of the moment – Trench colored Polo Shirt with the classic check on the collar and my Steadman Jeans – avec an Armani Belt and a Prada sleeve… and my black hot Dominici shoes. Good outfit for traveling. I feel confident. I am the guy in the traveling Burberry.

Hit of the moment: Bulletproof – La Roux – this track is so keeping me awake… everyone is sleeping and I am silently shaking myself into another dimension – who ever said sleeping is necessary is a liar, with the right tune and the right attitude your body handles any condition!

Update: 6:27 am
First stop successfully done. Train arrived too late but follow up train arrived late too – well, who ever said the oebb isn’t on time was right but at least no train is. Sun is shining slightly so I added a pair of Gucci shades to my outfit. Looks good, of course. I wonder if Burberry and Gucci are actual competitors or if they place themselves on different target markets and groups. Does anybody know anything about it?

Update: 7:06 am
Second stop successfully done. After my martinis, one beer, three coffees and two red bull I am actually not tired for I met people to talk to while being on this journey. But this stop was their end so I am on my own again. Still wearing the Burberry and my heavy trunk and a big brown bag – my MacBook feels heavier minute after minute. I should think about purchasing a MacBook Air for traveling issues.

Update: 7:26 am
Thank God the last train stop is done successfully too. I am in the last train to the scheduled meeting point and though two heavy delays I am perfectly on time. Just a little bit to go… ‘don’t get tired… don’t fall asleep… listen to the music and keep on moving a bit’ … I keep telling myself off the hook and it works.

8:12 am Ueberlingen, Germany. K and her boyfriend W pick me up from the train station – perfectly on time. We buy a small breakfast and then we fill the last few spaces left in the car with my luggage and my somewhat tired body. In the car I fell asleep for one hour and then I suddenly feel good and fine and not tired at all and I think – that is maybe just a trick my body plays because of my little power nap. Nevertheless, I welcome the fact of not being tired and we drive the last kilometers to my hotel to check in to room number 5 (a really pretty room I have to say and I feel a little bit like Carrie sitting here all wrapped up in my Burberry scarf and typing some of these lines – all the others are real time notes taken down on my iPhone or my MacBook while traveling in order to give you a little insight on my mental and physical condition) and then we are off to Europe Park.

Sunday: 9.37 pm – Part II

Europe Park was one of the most funny places I have ever been. Tomorrow we will be back there but now I think I will get myself to watch a dvd and to finally embrace a very comfortable bed and an even more comfortable sleep. K and W are staying at a near camping place because they love to camp. Well, I don’t. I never sleep on the floor… that is hardly an option. Never. K is done… finished… and tired – not done in a good way like being done by her beloved W the whole night through but like done because of a long day with a ridiculously switching weather and a tight schedule of riding every attraction with W and me. Burberry piece of the moment – just a Burberry scarf I am wrapped up in.

P.S. Knowledge of the Day – even I seem to be getting excited about some things like kids do. Nice to know. XO

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The articles in the September 2012 issue of the Friends Newsletter include:

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  • Premiere of John Muir in the New World
  • Bleachingfield Community Centre – Open Day
  • Dunbar and John Muir – A Conversation
  • Visit by Harold and Janet Wood
  • Sand Sculpture Competition 2012
  • All 50 US State Quarters At Once
  • Making Sense of Climate Change, Home, Community Engagement, and a Sensory Approach
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Warau Salesman New

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Each episode follows Fukuzou Moguro, a traveling salesman, and his current customer. Moguro deals in things that give his customers their heart's desire, and once his deals are made and their unhealthy desires are satisfied, Moguro's customers are often left with terrible repercussions, especially if they break the rules of his deals...

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Have you ever desired to deal with the devil? Countless stories throughout the past had tried to portrait the consequences of a deal. A fire tempting the fly.
The laughing salesman is another display of such. A salesman disguised as a helping hand with a sole purpose to take you into a deeper despair. Like "the man with big eyes and the man with big mouth" in Monster, you all sure remember.
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At first I liked this anime as the premise is really good. It strikes how normal, unsuccessful people are mentally weak, how they easily succumb to their desires. However, I was hoping the stories will each have different endings, rather than only one kind of ending. Not every human is the same.
It does show how easily one can be manipulated by the promise of something akin to paradise. However, some people are smarter at using the chance and continue to improve their paradise, rather than blow it all away. The only issue I have with this anime is how the plot always ends. It read more
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April 19, 2010

There was some gardening going on yesterday, but you wouldn’t know it by my photos!  Laurel got our potatoes planted — eight different varieties!  We removed three evergreens that were in the way of our food.  Earlier this week we scored three blueberry bushes and we needed a place to plant them, so out go the evergreens and in come blueberries and also some grapes that we’ll train up the lattice on the chicken pen.  Speaking of lattice, I also put up twenty running feet of lattice on our north fence to give our peas and beans something to cling to.  Thing of beauty, but not exactly photo worthy.  The camera came out today for chickens, natch.

The chicks are growing extremely rapidly, despite all the abuse they take from the elder hens.  Here’s a stunning profile that makes you think you’re raising a raptor, not a chicken:

Of course, that poor little chick is no match for this biddy.  Holy cow, can she be mean!  Seems to me like there are plenty of worms and Publican leftovers to go around, so I don’t know what the fuss is about.

I was nestled into a corner trying to take pictures when suddenly I became the center of attention.  All the chicks hustled over and climbed all over me — Ellen joked that I looked like the old guy in the park covered with pigeons!  I had to give the camera to Ellen and she did a great job capturing my little moment, don’t you think?  It’s kind of sweet to think they cared, but I’m sure I was just an exciting new perch!

photos by Ellen Malloy

The rhythm that seems to develop is that we work all day and then turn on the hose in the late afternoon sun and water our garden.  I love watering about as much as I like watching the light hit the water when someone else does it.

And believe it or not, with all this great stuff in the ground, we are still planting in the greenhouse for the next round.  Here’s a corn sprout peeking out of the soil:

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    April 19, 2010 8:02 pm

    Holy cow! Those chicks are HUGE!!!! Were they heavy much??

    Can they fly, too?? In one of the pictures, it looks like two were flying a little! Is that true??

  2. May 9, 2010 4:26 pm

    Can they fly, too?? In one of the pictures, it looks like two were flying a little! Is that true??

    • May 9, 2010 5:00 pm

      Michael: Yes, chickens can fly short distances. It’s more of a chaotic fluttering of wings and crashing around that is a cross between flying and leaping into the air…the word “flying” implies graceful movement, but they do get airborne!

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Jason Langer’s Twenty Years pursues a solitary journey through the nocturnal streets and dimly lit rooms of a dream like world. Spanning 20 years of his career, this aptly titled book is the first survey of Langer’s work. Included are many previously unpublished images, surrealist experimentation and figure studies, as well as his singular investigation of the city of Berlin. Langer’s photographic language has been variously described as cinematic and poetic, haunting and romantic. Best known for his noir visions of contemporary urban life, Langer has photographed not only some of the world’s great cities, but intimate scenes as well, ranging from male and female nudes to inanimate objects captured in moments of lifelike feeling. Langer’s beautifully crafted images, rich with lush, black tones, strive to always capture the unanticipated or chance moment, layered with timeless drama and dynamism.
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The cute cat theory of manuscripts?

At IAS I went to a postgrad masterclass on ‘publishing and getting published’, which, strangely, seemed to be mostly about why you should leave academia for publishing careers.1 And at this session, the speaker from Boydell and Brewer endeavoured to impress upon us the fit-for-purpose nature of hardcopy books. They’re portable, and often have their own inbuilt search engine, called the ‘index’! If we had no books, she said, and someone came up with the idea of printing things out, binding them, and putting indices and contents pages in them, everyone would be standing around going “oooh, what a clever idea! Clearly it is the way of the future!”

In other news, I have been particularly enjoying Got Medieval’s series on Cute cats in Harley 6563.

I would like to propose that the Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism applies to books.

Specifically: Book 1.0 was created to allow people to share research papers intellectual content of some sort. Book 2.0 was created to allow people to share cute pictures of cats (or monkeys2).

OK, that’s clearly not the *sole* purpose of Book 2.0, wherever you want to draw the boundary, but there is a clear increase in cute pictures in manuscripts over time, yes?

Consider also the porn part of the Cute Cats Theory:

Hypothesis: Sufficiently usable read/write platforms will attract porn and activists.

If there’s no porn, the tool doesn’t work.

If there are no activists, the tool doesn’t work well

Now, by this logic, the book doesn’t work at all until 1748, which is clearly not true. But consider that Charlotte of Savoy liked naked people alongside her daily devotions. I’m sure we can stretch the definition of ‘porn’ to include titilating marginalia, yes?

And from there, can we draw a long bow and say that the use of books in popular activism increases at the same time as the amount of titilating marginalia increases?

Also, cats.3

I rest my case.

1. Apparently I am a prime candidate for this, because I was able to identify Stephanie Meyer as the only author other than JKR who could probably get away with a Pottermore-style self-publishing venture. I’m actually not sure that SMeyer *is* the only such person – there are smaller-scale YA authors with particularly net-savvy audiences, like Tamora Pierce.
2. Speaking of monkeys, how cute is the monkey in The Lady and the Unicorn? VERY CUTE, is how cute. I resisted the urge to buy a throw cushion with the monkey on it, and was rather disappointed that you could buy cuddly toy unicorns but not cuddly toy monkeys.
3. Got Medieval reckons the BL are anti-kitteh! Clearly not. They published a whole book about kittehs in books. How recursive.

To help remember all your kings, I’ve come up with this song…

Another instalment in the annals of funny things I promised to show Jon:

All due thanks to my housemate K, who must have a good reason for watching this over and over again.

Also, unrelated: at the IAS I was given a copy of this book. Acroyd’s ‘The Death of King Arthur’, a modernisation and slimming down of Malory. It’s readable, and, well, I would’ve liked it a lot at fifteen, but these  days, if I must read Malory I have the Oxford World’s Classics translation and I ought to read the original. This one strikes me as good for non-specialists and especially teenagers, but my Dad’s already got a translation and no one in my family has suitably-inclined teenagers.

If anyone in England would like this book, for themselves or teenagers (even pre-teens, if they have high reading levels) they know, lemme know. It’d save me carting it back to Australia, after all.

Another note – to whomever it was who entered this post in the Down Under Feminists Carnival, ta muchly. Sorry I didn’t say anything about it before – I was in transit when the carnival went up. 🙂

Just in case you were thinking of taking the discipline seriously…

remember: history is made by stupid people.

[Visuals are pretty crappy, but there doesn’t seem to be a music video for it. Lyrics here.]

Speaking of history, my housemate concludes that history is, essentially, gossiping about dead people. This, she reasons, explains the fantastic propensity of medievalists to gossip about anyone and anything, living or dead. [Number of conversations I’ve had this month speculating about CS Lewis’ sex life: three.] In my observation, it seems like we Australians are *particularly* good at disciplinary gossip – which I think has less to do with our training than it has to do with having fewer chances to meet and talk to those scattered across the globe.

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Stuff, it’s happening! On the internets.

For example, archaeologists in Iran have discovered a thirteenth-century observatory.

And RicaManuscript image - a piperrdo Chao created (and uploaded) a new computer font based on 12-th century Spanish chancery script. It’s shiny. Probably too shiny for anything but headings, and not all headings at that. But shiny. [This link and the preceding came via News for Medievalists]

U. Michigan have an online exhibition on Late Antique magical doodads: amulets, gems, recipes, aggressive magics, and something called a Demon Bowl.I <3 nerds

Here are a stack of pictures of medieval and renaissance dancers. Sadly, some of the links are borked.

Wickedday, in a laudable exercise of linguistic geekery, created an Old English scrabble set – and has instructions on how to build your own.

And [I think this was also via News for Medievalists]: renovations on a church in Berkshire have uncovered Britains’ oldest working window. It’s tiny. And adorable.

A week or so ago, Lesboprof posted a handy-dandy list of practical, professional advice for administrators and teachers (at tertiary level, although possibly applicable at other levels) on how to be actively queer-friendly on campus. I I'm in ur history - emphasizin your queerzassume by now you’ve all seen the flurry of blogging and social networking arising from the recent spate of well-reported suicides by queer youth in the US, and carrying on into (US-based) National Coming Out Day. I read a lot of the resulting material, and Lesboprof’s advice is that which I found ‘best’, by the arbitrary standards of ‘things Highly likes’. I urge you to read the post and consider applying some of her suggestions if you are in a position to do so.

Finally, in case you missed it, historians admit to inventing Ancient Greece.

In honour of the abysmal mess I made of my Latin test today…

Kennedy discovers the gerund and leads it home to captivity.

Strangely, this didn’t help me very much under exam conditions.

An entire day of medieval jokes!

So, I shall be attending – and presenting at – a symposium at ANU next month. Said symposium is promisingly titled The Lighter Side of the Middle Ages (link goes to the CFP, now closed).

As can be expected, the draft program includes many entertaining and some groan-worthy puns. I myself can take claim for the (completely terrible) title “Tournaments and Tweens”, which is my idea of a snappy way of talking about Sir Gawain and the adorable small girl. My colleagues from USyd are set to talk about humorous vegetables, seriously merry men, and jokes against the English, while an enterprising researcher from ANU proposes to answer the question “What Have the Middle Ages Ever Done For Us?” Also on the program are fools, pilgrimages, satires, monastic humour, and – of course – Beowulf.

An entire day of medieval humour! And an entire day of medievalist humour. Oh dear. Also, a lovely chance to spend some time in Canberra – they have an academic remainders bookstore there, you know. I shall report back after the event, hopefully with an answer to the question of “What Have the Middle Ages Ever Done For Us?”, and, failing that, with humorous vegetables.

Death! Misery! Despair! Belly-laughs!

I’ve been coordinating Middle English Reading Group this semester (so much fun!), and, after adventures with Sir Ywain and King Horn (lessons learned: when you marry a lady, stay with the lady. Wandering off and leaving your wife behind can only lead to disaster), we were reading some lyric poems the other week, and I found this charming example:

Evermore, wher-so-evere I be,
The drede of deeth doth trouble me.

As I went for-to solace
I herde a man sike and seye, ‘Allas,
Of me now thus stondeth the cas:
The drede of deeth doth trouble me.

‘I have ben lord of tour and toun;
I sette noght by my grete renoun,
For deeth wol plukke it al adoun:
The drede of deeth doth trouble me.

‘Whan I shal deye I am not seur,
In what contree or in what houre;
Wher-fore I sobbyng seye to my power,
“The drede of deeth doth trouble me.”

‘Whan my soule and my body departed shullen bem
Of my juggement no man can telle me,
Nor of place wher that I shal be:
Ther-fore drede of deeth doth trouble me.

‘Jhesu Crist, whan that he sholde suffre his passioun,
To his Fader he seyde wyth greet devocioun,
“This is the cause of my intercessioun:
The drede of deeth doth trouble me.”

‘Alle cristen peple, beth ye wyse and ware,-
This world is but a chery-feire,
Repleet wyth sorwe and fulfilled wyth care:
Ther-fore the drede of deeth doth trouble me.

‘Whether that I be myrie or good wyne drynke,
Whan that I do on my laste day thenke,
It maketh my soule and body to shrynke,
For the drede of deeth sore troubleth me.’

Jhesu us graunte him so to honoure
That at oure ende He may be oure socour
And kepe us from the fendes power,
For than drede of deeth shal not trouble me.

Now, not only is this little lyric kind of hilarious, it’s also *useful* to me, since lately – in mostly unrelated contexts – it’s come to my attention that some people think death was particularly scary in the Middle Ages (as opposed, perhaps, to death in Ancient Rome, which was a solemn and noble undertaking?).

I can sort of see why one might think that. I mean, if you were picked up and dumped in the year 1066, your primary concern would be NOT DYING of ALL THE DEATH, wouldn’t it? The Horrible Histories school of popular history might have something to do with it, as well.

Nope. Death: not really any scarier in the middle ages than it is now! There was, of course, a lot of death in the middle ages, including all the nasty Horrible Histories stuff: wars and plagues and famines and people impaling you up arse*. But there is an awful lot of scary death today: wars and plagues and famines and assassinations still happen. We just handle death through different social and cultural frameworks from our forebears (different from our forebears a mere century ago, let alone the better part of a millennium).

Which is where this poem comes in handy. I like it because it neatly illustrates the ever-present consciousness of death which it seems people expect of the middle ages. There’s this whole complex here, about how death is something to be feared; that whatever worldly pleasures one might accrue, they’re all overshadowed by the fear of death. The unknown seems to be an important factor in the speaker’s drede of deeth: he doesn’t know when he’ll die, or what his fate will be, and thus he lives in perpetual fear of death.

But wait. This poem is funny. It’s stuffed full of hyperbole: the speaker’s fears grow more and more overblown, to the point where he justifies them by explaining that Jesus himself feared death! At that point, you know something’s up: this fear-of-death literature isn’t exactly original,** and the audience, hearing the line Jhesu Crist, whan that he sholde suffre his  passioun, must surely be expecting the neat resolution; must surely expect to hear that they are saved from the drede of deeth by said passion, and so on and so forth. But the poet withholds the expected conclusion for another couple of stanzas, building up more and more frenzied exclamations on the topic of the drede of deeth.

At this point it’s worth noting how the poem began: As I went me for to solace, I herde a man… This isn’t the poet directly uncovering his soul to the audience; nor is he directly exhorting them to the fear of death. He, or conceivably she, presents the entire excursus on the topic as the words of a man whom the poet heard when seeking to amuse*** him(her)self. The way Stevick’s punctuated the text, our speaker finishes up on the second-last stanza, and the poet (and presumably we, the audience, who may well know the tune and be singing along), breathe a sigh of relief and remind ourselves that thanks to Jesus, we do not in fact need to be in drede of deeth! Everyone have another beer!

Even if Stevick’s punctuation misrepresents who’s speaking in the final stanza, the death-fearing man is still a comic object: perhaps even more so, since the final stanza, with its neat formula about honouring Jesus for than the drede of deeth shal not trouble me, is completely at odds with his previous characterisation of his fears.

The composer of this lyric; the (presumed) audience who heard and sang it; the scribe who wrote it down; the owner of the manuscript which preserved it: all these participants probably shared some common ideas about death, at least as for as long as it takes to read this poem out. That death, and the unknown, could be scary. That one need not live in drede of deeth, if one honour’s Jesus in one’s life.

… And taking death too seriously makes you look like a bit of a twithead.

*Not in the fun way. In the King Richard sort of way.

**In fact, the textbook I got this from – Robert D. Stevick’s One Hundred Middle English Lyrics, prints a very similar poem before this one, with the refrain Timor mortis conturbat me.

*** Stevick glosses “solace” (reflexive verb) as “delight, amuse”, and I can’t see any reason to argue with him.


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Eye Contact is the Morse Code of Love

15 Nov
Author: Bagande

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I’m a people watcher.  I love going into restaurants and watching couples interact. It’s often a telltale sign of the type of relationship they have.  For instance couples that hardly speak a word to each other during the entire time that they are eating, I often wonder how long they’ve been married.  Or when I see a couple that when seated at a booth, choose to sit next to each other rather than across from each other, I wonder if they just started dating.  One of Dr. B’s favorite sayings is, “that’s an outward sign of an inward condition.”  Which I truly believe holds true for married couples.  Have you ever been at a party or social gathering and know that a couple came together, but they limited interaction doing the entire event?  Do you pick up on those types of signs?  I often wonder if as time goes by, do most couples lose the fire, or do the sparks begin to fade?  Maybe they just aren’t in love with each other anymore…

A study that was published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 1970 titled: Measurement of Romantic Love determined that the way to tell if a couple is in love is to watch their eye contact.  It was stated that:

Normally two people in conversation give each other eye contact anywhere from 30-60% of the time, but couples who are in love look at each other 75% of the time during conversation and are slower to break their look away from each other when interrupted.

Speaking from past experience, it makes perfect sense. If you don’t like someone, much less love them, you surely don’t want to be around that person and you’re not going to staring into their eyes.  Things like eye contact, holding hands, packs on the cheek, pats on the butt… those little things hold a lot of meaning in a relationship.  Each couple has their own little’ intimates’, which is what I call those physical interactions that keep you feeling connected to your loved one.  Your own Morse code of sorts.

What signs or ‘intimates’ have you witnessed in a short-lived or lasting relationship?  Do you and your loved one have a Morse code?

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A House Divided… iPhone 4S VS Samsung Galaxy S II

7 Nov

I’m a the #AppleFanGirl4Life.   Apple can do no wrong in my book.  In the 4 years since I’ve switched from a pc to a Mac, I’ve never gotten a virus, and the only time my laptop has crashed was when I was in Barnes and Nobles, and I accidentally spilled hot green tea on it 😦  I’m the proud owner of the iPhone 4, iPad, and Macbook Air.  They are the air that I breath, and the wind beneath my wings.  So… imagine my horror, when Dr. B (a supposed Apple devotee) decided to switch to the Samsung Galaxy S when it was time to upgrade his phone.  My first thought was, “who is this man I married?…I don’t recognize him anymore.”  Mr. Steve Jobs, I apologize if my husband has offended you, he knows not what he does.

I ordered a white iPhone 4S on Sunday!!!!  I cannot wait to get my hands on this phone.  The first thing I’ll ask Siri is, “is this my husband, or has he been replaced with an Android powered alien?”  Only Siri can help me now.  I feel sorry for Dr. B, he actually likes his big ole phone Samsung.  Oh well,  just wait until he hears me and Siri chatting it up…someone’s gonna be jealous… 🙂

Who has the ‘better’ phone in your house?

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Meltdown Avoided

9 Oct

I almost had one today.  Thankfully, Mrs. Burch and Mr. Run came to my rescue.  For various reasons I was feeling frustrated, and out-of-sorts.  I’m not sure if it had anything to do with it raining for two days straight, good old hormones, or just plain craziness, but I wasn’t in a great place today….not horribly bad, but not great either.  Defense is the best offense, so I went shopping and then for a short run.  Thanks to 25% off at Tory Burch I brought the Amanda double snap wallet.  I saw it last month while searching for a new wallet.  Today I figured I couldn’t pass up the 25% off since the sale ends tomorrow.

Cheery Cherry Red!

When I returned home, I was still feeling somewhat antsy, so I went for short two miler.  It felt good to get outside after two days of rain . During my run I listened to the Millionaire Next Door (great book, if you haven’t read it).  I normally read books on my iPad, but I’m starting to jump on the  Audio Book craze that my husband is sooo hooked on. I hardly ever listen to the local radio station anymore, so the Audio Book app fills that void.

Thanks for listening to my rant, I feel much better now…have a great Sunday evening.

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Are We Still Newlyweds?

5 Oct

What time frame constitutes being a newlywed? 1 year, 2 years, 1.5 years?   Dr. B and I have been married for 1 year and 5 months.  Are we till considered newlyweds…or is the honeymoon – over?  For whatever reason I’ve been thinking about how much longer we have before our Newlywed status runs out.  When it does, I will have to change the name of my blog.  Am I late already in that regard?  I’m not one to mislead readers, and hold faux claim to a title that I’m no longer eligible for.   When does one said couple transition from newlywed status to just being – married?

Marriage is Like Running

3 Oct

As long as I can remember I’ve been a runner.  As a child I loved running and racing, and now as an adult I couldn’t imagine enjoying anything more except for being married.  Running is hard, very hard a times.  It’s much more mental for me than most would believe.  The night before, I mentally set precedence for the mileage I will run the next day.  If I’m feeling tired, then I mentally calculate how I will feel the next day during my run, and thus set a mileage goal.  The same goes with being married.  I decide if I want to get an attitude about something, or if I want to approach my husband as an adult and tell him what’s bothering me…it’s all mental.

Sometimes, I will have my mind-set on something, like what I think we should or shouldn’t do as a couple.  Then a funny thing will happen, just like during a run I realize, I have sold myself short.  Instead of only doing 3 miles, I feel good enough to continue and push through to 5 miles.  Instead of being one tracked and thinking I know best all the time, I realize I have actually limited our growth as a couple because I was too stubborn to see past me.  During those times, I reset my thinking to that which is essential to our goals as a couple and my growth as a wife.

So you see, for me running/marriage are both very similar.   They are repetitive, pleasurable, and with practice you get better over time.  Running/marriage feel great on good days, sometimes painful on those occasional ‘not so good’ days, and just right on those ‘in between’ days.  But I stay focused and continue to progress as a wife and as a runner, because they are a part of who I am, what I love, and what I believe in.

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Back to Blogging

8 Aug

When blogging began to feel like a job, meaning I began to stress about finding subjects talk about, comments counts, and track backs, I decided to ‘quit’.  During my blogging hiatus there have been several events that have occurred, that have altered the course of this newlywed’s life, such as: selling our house, the death of my father-n-law, and our decision to become debt-free by year-end. These events, culminated with other, others have opened me up to many different experiences, for which I will forever be thankful.

Life as Mrs. Williams has been wonderful!  We celebrated our one year anniversary on May 28th, and it was (for lack of a better word) awesome!  My husband is the best! He continuously inspires me to be the best wife I can be.  He encourages my latest obsessions and passions with genuine interest and enthusiasm.

I want to thank the many people who reached out to me via email and or Facebook to make sure all was well in my life.  I really appreciate your thoughtfulness and kind words.  How cool it is for people you have never met to show care and concern?  Wow! has the world changed…for the better.

I’m looking forward to blogging about my latest adventures, projects, and passions, so stay tuned….

Facebook “Friends” and Divorce

1 Feb
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A few weeks ago for class assignment, I was researching the percentage of divorces that were attributed to Facebook.  I was designing a study to measure the correlation between divorce and Facebook use.  I found several articles here and here about the link (or possible link) between Facebook and divorce.

The article in the Telegraph states:

The most common reason seemed to be people having inappropriate sexual chats with people they were not supposed to.

Flirty emails and messages found on Facebook pages are increasingly being cited as evidence of unreasonable behaviour.

I was wondering if this is actually true?  Is the average Joe or Jane actually using FB to cheat?  If I were putting together a web-survey here are a few questions I would include:

Do you know anyone that divorce or even broke-up because of Facebook?

Was the inclination to cheat already present, and Facebook added fuel to the fire?

Are women more likely to cheat using FB as opposed to men?

Is there a link between the number of “friends” and the cheating? (ie. the more friends a person has, the more likely that person is to cheat)

What do you think, what’s your opinion on this topic?

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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Q&A: Curly Afro (Part 2)

Q: thanks a lot for the suggestions. I think I am going to keep
twisting. But I did have a question. How do you make your own hair

~ Holly

A: Your very welcome, and...

I developed my own recipes from researching into herbology and basic
'homemade' body care product recipes. From looking at the results of the
recipes and tweaked it to my own standards.

A basic shampoo recipe is:

~1/2 cup of organic castile soap
~ 10 drops of essential oils (your choice)
~ 1 cup of water.

I looked at that recipe and realized that it wouldn't have enough base
or body for my kind of hair. So I researched into different types of
plants that would give my hair nutrients, body, and keep it

A great research starting point is...

"Beauty By Nature" by Brigitte Mars

She teaches you details about how your body works and techniques on how
to care for it. She also analyzes different herbs that are good for herbalist beginners (like, general herbs that you can find in grocery stores, local herb shops, etc). And shares some basic recipes.

The best hair care products that you could ever use, are ones that you make yourself from your own sun-infusing kitchen. Everyone has their own expectations on what a hair or body care product should do.

But here is another basic recipe:

* Hair food:
3/4 cup shea butter
10 drops of your choice of essential oils
add a cup of herbs (of your choice) to infuse into the oil mix. (then drain them before placing mixture in a container.

(Melt butter on the lowest heat, until butter is liquefied. Add in
essential oil. Then place mix in a container, put in fridge to harden)

At this time, I am not going to post up my recipes that I have been developing. But if you ever have any more questions, feel free to ask.

** Another tip, is to keep your products vegan and chemical-free for better results.

On a slightly other note...

If you are in the Seattle Area, in September. There's a Natural Hair Meet Up Group getting together
on the 20th. I'll be there and I will be giving a
presentation on things that I found out... if you want to come along, you can
holla at me

My AOL name is:
Pinky White01

and another good book is " the herbal spa" by Breedlove

Hope that I helped.

Natural and Nappy

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Last night as Mini-me and Blue-eyed boy were getting ready for bed I started having a chat with my lovely girl about what would prove to be a momentous day – for all the wrong reasons.

It went a bit like this…

“Tomorrow when you wake up hopefully something amazing will have happened?”

“What? Will it be about chocolate Mummy?!”

“Um, no, better than chocolate. If things go the way we’d like and all our friends would like you’ll be going to school with a woman having gained the most powerful job in the world. That’s really great isn’t it.”

“Why Mummy?”

“Well it means that if you work very hard and treat people with kindness and respect you can grow up to be literally anything you want to. If you wanted you could be Prime Minister of this country.”

“Um, okay… Can I have the iPad for 10 minutes before I go to sleep?!”

Well, it would be a bit hard to expect a five year old to fully grasp the importance of what was, until a few hours ago, a seemingly very real possibility.

The terribly sad thing though is that now Mini-me may not grow up knowing Hillary Clinton’s name, or body of work, or 30 years of service to the American people.

She will of course be all too familiar with a certain orange-hued idiot who whipped up the entire globe into a frenzy over joking about sexually assaulting women, made highly questionable comments about women and people of different races in general, and appeared on a national debate stage without, to my mind anyway, saying much of substance at all.

Unless of course you think the best way to defeat Isis is to have a ‘really good, effective policy plan’ but not tell anyone any of those all-important finer details because then you’ll be, what was it, giving the game away.

Oh and immediately getting rid of affordable healthcare for everyone in your country.

And building a wall to keep out ‘rapists’, and banning an entire religious people from your shores etc etc

Today I, and many, many people we know, feel as despondent and despairing as we did months back on June 24. But it’s even worse than that.

Instead of telling my girl that Hillary Clinton has achieved the near impossible, I can only tell her that it was, in fact, impossible.

I could tell her about the ‘victory’ of the politics of hate, division and fear. I could tell her that America apparently isn’t ready for a woman to run its country. I could paint the picture of a man who got into office in all probability on the basis of promises he now can’t keep and a nation of people irrevocably and violently pitted against each other.

But I’m not going to.

Instead I’ll choose to tell her that sometimes we have to take a different path than the one we hoped for and thought would happen.

I’ll tell her about the woman who, whatever your view of her, tried her best to be a symbol of hope against a vision of hate and isolationism.

I’ll show her videos of Michelle Obama speaking eloquently and with passion and pride and hope with her that maybe she will stand in four years’ time.

I’m still hopeful that when Mini-me is nine she can watch, like I did back in 2008 when Barack Obama made that amazing speech, history being made for all the right reasons.

Because yes we can, we still can, if we keep on believing.


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Coming up Roses by Rachael Lucas

I truly loved Sealed With A Kiss by the utterly gorgeous Rachael Lucas and couldn’t wait to dive into the pages of her new book Coming up Roses. Rachael asked me if I would like to review her book so of course I said yes!

Would be gardening expert Daisy can’t believe her luck when her parents announce they’re off on a midlife crisis   gap year, leaving her in charge of their gorgeous garden.

From the minute I started reading I knew where Daisy was, I could hear her speak every word she said and see the garden and such is Rachael’s charming and believable description of everything I could well have been there myself!

Having just emerged from a horrible break-up, some peace and quiet is just what Daisy needs.  Only, village life turns out to be anything but ……..

Anyone who has ever lived in a village will appreciate this and anyone who yearns to live in a village will long even more for village life.

With gardens bursting with life and the summer months stretching out in front of us I can wholeheartedly recommend Coming up Roses.

Well done Rachael on yet another fabulous book which I know many will enjoy.


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February NTIO Bracelet

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Traditionally, a birthstone is associated with each month of the year. There are also numerous legends and myths about birthstone healing powers and their therapeutic influence. According to these legends, wearing a gemstone during its assigned month heightened its healing powers. For the full effect, individuals needed to own all twelve and alternate them monthly. The gemstone for February is Amethyst.

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The Blood That Boils NTIO Heart and Bat Blood Vial by Ash Costello

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Notice to selfish, upper-middle-class boomers: It’s time to pay more for Medicare.

No later than the first year of the next presidential term, we’ll have to find a way of coming together around a plan to restore long-term fiscal sustainability. There are three principal impediments to agreement: the president’s health reform law; Medicare and Medicaid; and taxes. I don’t mean to suggest that other issues—such as defense and Social Security—are trivial, but only that the gaps on these issues seem easier to bridge.

Of the three most difficult issues, one—the health reform law—will have to wait until 2013, because it will be a focal point of the 2012 presidential campaign. Obama will defend it staunchly, while the Republican nominee will demand its repeal. (If Mitt Romney is his party’s candidate, it will be interesting to see how he frames the argument.) If Obama wins, the law will go into effect and become part of the fiscal baseline; if he loses, it probably won’t.

I’ll focus today on one of the remaining issues—Medicare—reserving the others for future columns. I’m leading off with it because I have some skin in the game: This January, I had the sobering experience of signing up for Medicare. (Note to fellow boomers: make sure you’ve set aside a good bottle of wine to get you through the period of mourning that follows.)

As I filled out my form, I began thinking about my situation. My wife and I are both professionals. While neither of us is paid lavishly, our combined income is enough to place us in the upper-middle class. For us, Medicare’s major advantage is guaranteed issue regardless of preexisting conditions. (And you don’t reach my age without accruing some.) If we had to pay the full actuarial cost of our insurance, we could. Yes, we’d probably have to make some adjustments elsewhere in our budget. But we’d still be more comfortable than most working Americans, even after we retire.

There’s an obvious rejoinder: Haven’t my wife and I already paid into the system for the benefits we’ll receive over the next two or three decades? Answer: Yes, but not enough. A few months ago, Eugene Steuerle and Stephanie Renanne of the Urban Institute put out a very useful summary, “Social Security and Medicare Taxes and Benefits Over a Lifetime,” calculated for different retirement cohorts. While I’m no methodologist, their assumptions seem straightforward and plausible. Applying them to our own case suggests that the value of my contributions falls short of the actuarial value of our benefits by at least $100,000. And if my wife and I were younger professionals scheduled to retire in 2030, the gap would be far greater.

So who’s going to make up the difference? Answer: today’s workers, many of whom are already struggling to raise their children, pay the mortgage, and save for college. Worse, workers as a share of the total population are declining. A recent analysis of BLS data showed that share declining in 2010 to only 45.3 percent, the lowest since 1983. Yes, part of that decline represents the effects of the Great Recession. But longer-term trends are also evident: our population is aging, the share of women working outside the home has plateaued, and men have been dropping out of the labor force for more than a quarter of a century. A generation ago, more than 80 percent of working-age men were employed. Today, that figure stands at 66.8 percent.

One of the large demographic developments of the past generation is the emergence of a mass upper-middle class, a new meritocracy of credentialed professionals whose family incomes reflect the compounding effects of assortive mating. While we are not rich, our lives differ quantitatively and qualitatively from those of today’s hard-pressed middle class. Our lives are rich with choices; theirs are driven mostly by necessity. It’s just not right for us to make their lives even harder. Nor is it sustainable. Over the next decade, our country can’t afford the tax cuts the Republicans insist on giving us. Nor can it afford to subsidize our retirement—certainly not to the extent of current law.

My fellow boomer-professionals, fiscal responsibility begins at home. Didn’t the young president who inspired so many of us fifty years ago have something to say about this? Are we still capable of responding?

William Galston is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor for The New Republic.

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      The Syrian Civil War Is a Toxic Catastrophe in the Making

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      The Syrian Civil War Is a Toxic Catastrophe in the Making

      By Samuel Oakford

      The Syrian civil war's colossal destruction of infrastructure and years' worth of spent ammunition and discarded weaponry will likely leave a lasting and dangerous environmental legacy in the country, which could sicken its citizens for years to come, according to new research.

      In a report released Wednesday, the Dutch non-profit PAX said the conflict will in all probability "have a disastrous impact on the environment and public health," but cautioned that determining its ultimate toll will require a concerted effort to track the devastation.

      The report's author, Wim Zwijnenburg, compiled data remotely, using satellite imagery and existing reports from the United Nation and social media. The majority of the country's housing stock, he said, has been destroyed, leaving ruble that could be contaminated with hazardous substances including heavy metals and asbestos, in addition to what is left of the explosives and munitions that obliterated them.

      The researcher said an unknown number of factories producing bullets and rudimentary explosives are known to use child labor — and those young workers may be especially susceptible to poisoning. Pregnant women, he added, were also particularly vulnerable to the war's toxic remains.

      "If you look at a lot of domestic fire ranges of militaries, there's been a lot of pollution problems because of accumulation of heavy metals and the substances in explosives, which leak in to the environment," he said, predicting similar results, but on a much wider scale, in Syria.

      But Zwijnenburg added that there was next to no monitoring of the environmental toll of the war, and noted that even in neighboring Iraq the long term ecological and health consequences of the American invasion — including use of depleted uranium munitions — was far from determined.

      The report described a total breakdown in environmental services in Syria, an absence it said could lead to long term groundwater pollution and the mixing of industrial and medical waste. Attacks targeting critical infrastructure, oil wells, and industrial sites likely have and will continue to lead to leaks of dangerous chemicals, with unpredictable consequences.

      Prior to the outbreak of war in 2011, the vast majority of Syria's pharmaceutical industry, for instance, was centered in three areas — Aleppo, Homs, and the rural outskirts of Damascus — all of which have been epicenters of fighting. Airstrikes, which now include Russian sorties in addition to Syrian regime and American coalition attacks, could continue to spread contaminants if they are directed towards infrastructure sites like manufacturing plants and power stations.

      While the threat of pollution from the Islamic State's small scale oil productions — and their frequent destruction — is smaller relative to the oil fires set in Iraq during the first Gulf War, PAX reported that Syria's heavy crude oil is higher in potentially noxious substances, making it "a particularly problematic soil and water contaminant."

      Practically none of the parties involved in the conflict, either directly, or politically, have raised concern about the long term environmental impact of fighting.

      In September of last year, Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby, when asked about the ecological dangers of strikes on oil installations responded by saying, "I am not an environmental expert," but conceded "the possibility that there might still be some oil fires burning."

      Zwijnenburg compared the mixture of debris spread across Syria's populated areas to the ruble left behind in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in New York. Many first responders and those who dug through the rubble of the World Trade Center towers have developed severe health problems, including cancer.

      "In Syria, it could lead to long term exposure to toxic particles that are part of the conflict rubble, especially if it's fine dust, which is easily inhaled," he said.

      The security vacuum across the country leaves sites open to looting, which could further disperse contaminants. On a more immediate level, destroyed waste management systems have already led to deadly outbreaks of disease, including cholera. If Syrians burn their waste — as they do in many situations — the noxious smoke can lead to further health problems, wrote PAX.

      Zwijnenburg called on all groups with any involvement in Syria to begin tracking environmental data as part of their work. He also said the Syrian regime should provide information on where potentially hazardous sites are located.

      "Basically what we are looking at is the need for an international monitoring body that could collect all this information and disseminate it," he said. "Nothing has been shared so far."

      Follow Samuel Oakford on Twitter: @samueloakford

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Women's History Month

"I used to always hate my body and hate the way I looked," said junior mathematics education major and women's and gender studies minor Paige Hageman. Like a lot of girls, Hageman grew up reading magazines and comparing herself to the models she saw on the glossy pages. "I was always like, 'Why can't I just be this stereotypical girl and fit into all this?'"

That was before she learned about feminism. "When I found feminism, I just gained an unbelievable amount of confidence," said Hageman. "I felt like I didn't need to live up to someone else's standards. That was really powerful."

Feminism is both a movement and a set of beliefs that aim to empower women and establish gender equality. UNI Feminist Action League (FAL), UNI's feminist student group for which Hageman serves as group facilitator, raises awareness of these issues and empowers women at UNI.

Additionally, UNI's Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) Program gives students the opportunity to learn more about women's history and feminism through the WGS undergraduate minor and graduate programs, as well as through hosting regular events.

The WGS Program will partner with groups on campus, including FAL, to host a number of events throughout March in celebration of Women's History Month. According to Catherine MacGillivray, director of WGS, Women's History Month has been celebrated at UNI for many years. The theme of this year's events is Feminisms & Diversity Inclusion.

"One of my goals as director is to build coalition here on campus with other diversity, inclusion and social justice programs and organizations," said MacGillivray. "We decided on this theme as a way to sort of put our money where our mouth is and say, 'Let's everybody do diversity and inclusion events together.'"

This year's Women's History Month keynote speaker is Latina author and journalist Daisy Hernández, whose work often focuses on gender, sexuality and other issues that affect young women of color. Her lecture, "Feminists, Comadres and Maybe Beyoncé: Models for Leadership Today," will empower future leaders, a goal MacGillivray is particularly passionate about.

"The young generation really needs to step up," she said. "Whether you want to take to the streets or the Internet, it's your generation's turn."

One way the next generation of activists can step up is by getting involved at UNI, whether it's through attending Women's History Month events, going to FAL meetings or joining other activist groups.

"If the big picture overwhelms you, pick just one issue," said MacGillivray. "It doesn't have to be big, but find one thing you feel you can honestly commit to."

Hageman echoed this sentiment. "You don't have to march on Washington to be considered a feminist," she said. "I think it's all about your beliefs and what you think of the world."

For more information about WGS and FAL, as well as a complete list of Women's History Month events, visit


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We’ve created this DWI Legal Information Center because DWI cases are a complex intersection between criminal justice and science.

No other crime has a purported scientific test that supposedly tells you automatically whether you are guilty or innocent.  No other charge is more frequently leveled against otherwise completely law abiding citizens.

Our DWI clients comprise some of the most successful business people, professionals and artists in the world.  They are not criminals and very often have not done anything wrong.  Simply stated: A DWI arrest can happen to anyone.  If you have a glass of wine at dinner and do not stop completely for a stop sign, you can be arrested and charged with a DWI in New York.  Because of this very scary fact, you need a team of lawyers that understands and studies DWI law and practices at the highest level of the bar.

We care deeply about providing the highest quality representation to our clients.  We look forward to the privilege of helping you too.

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Rejoice! It is a Satisfying Saturday Morning!

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Father, I woke to the voice of the Psalmist crying out, “Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good; sing praises to his Name for it is lovely.” Indeed we are! For it is in your righteousness that you deliver and set us free! Turn your ear to us this Satisfying and Joyous Saturday morning and strengthen us through Your Grace!. We are no longer toss around by the evil winds the world may throw at us. We stand strong in the power of The Name You have given us and through the Grace that we live with and enjoy!

We do thank You for this day You have made (although some of us would prefer it warmer, you know), but all of us are grateful that You have given it to us and everything that it holds. We commit our day into Your hands and trust that You lead and guide us for good and not for evil. In fact, guide and direct each step we take today. We ask for the wisdom in every decision we make and the grace to impact everyone around us with love, encouragement and courtesy. That includes any cashier, bagger, other drivers and most importantly, those we live with. We admit (and confess) that we are more inconsiderate and ruder to our family members and roommates. Forgive us and change us. Show us how to be more loving and kind. Change us! Open our eyes to know You, Your will, Your ways in everything we do, today.

We do thank You for your Word which is bringing about these changes. Please allow it to continue to penetrate our hearts by the power of Your Holy Spirit. We yield to Your will and every instruction you speak to our hearts. Because this is the day that You have made, and as an act of our wills and our desire to honor You, we WILL rejoice and be glad in it! Amen! ~Nickolas Hiemstra

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“Is it possible to get enough iron on a plant based diet?”

You’ve heard this before if you are a vegetarian.

When you think of iron, you likely think of red meat. It’s true that red meat is one of the best, most well-absorbed forms of iron, but a plant-based diet can deliver iron too. Iron is essential for transporting oxygen to the body’s tissues and is also essential in helping enzymes produce energy for cells.  It is no surprise that symptoms of iron deficiency includes fatigue and weakness.

  1. Lentils: 7 mg per 1 cup
  2. Cooked Spinach: 7 mg per cup
  3. Dried Prunes: 5 mg per 1/4 cup
  4. Instant Oatmeal/All-Bran Cereal/Raisin Bran: 4-5 mg per 1 cup
  5. Tofu (firm): 4 mg per 1 cup
  6. Edamame: 4 mg per 1 cup
  7. Blackstrap Molasses: 3.6 mg per 1 tbsp
  8. Pumpkin Seeds: 3 mg per 1/4 cup

  • Try to eat your iron-rich foods cooked, sprouted or fermented, as iron in plant foods are often bound to phytates, which make block some of the absorption of iron. The above mentioned preparation methods release iron from the phytate bond.
  • Add a source of vitamin C at every meal, as vitamin C enhances non-heme iron absorption. The acidity of the vitamin converts iron in a good into a form that’s ready for absorption. Kiwi, bell peppers, mango, tomato and citrus fruits are excellent sources of vitamin C.
  • Drink tea between rather than during meals; tea contains tannins, compounds that inhibit iron absorption. If you prefer to drink tea with meals, add a little milk or lemon to your tea to inactivate the iron-binding properties of tannins.
  • Cook with a cast-iron pan to increase iron absorption. This is especially beneficial if you are cooking with a vitamin C rich food such as tomato sauce.

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U.K. Portraits for Profit Workshop

15 May

Recently awarded ‘UK Environmental Portrait Photographer of the Year’, Uzair Kharawala will demonstrate how you can run a profitable and flourishing ‘Home Studio’ business. Using minimal equipment and shooting on-location, you will learn how to produce images in a variety of lighting conditions including indoors and outdoors. Creating simple yet appealing images which will sell, you will learn all you need to begin marketing yourself to your target audience. This workshop will deal with all aspects of ‘Lifestyle’ Portraiture’. You will learn how to use diffusers, reflectors, available ambient light, artificial lighting and off-camera flash photography. You will shoot using your own camera indoors and at a chosen nearby external location. Returning to the classroom, you will learn how to edit the images and how to best make them ready to present to clients. Oz will introduce you to some software tips & tricks and discuss designing albums that appeal to a wide range of customers.To view Oz’s portfolio, visit http://www.sfdigital.co.uk

To book, visit www.nikon.co.uk/training

25 Jun08 – Kingston, FULL
02 Jul 08 – Poole
09 Jul 08 – Cardiff
16 Jul 08 – Manchester, FULL
10 Sep 08 – Glasgow
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Malaga 0 Atlético Madrid 0

It was a good point against a good side, but Malaga made no ground on their rivals for fourth place last night as Valencia and Real Sociedad also drew. I’m trying not to think of it as an anti-climax. Malaga’s next game is on Saturday March 9th at Valladolid, currently in 11th place.

When we’re in Spain we buy Marca, the daily sports newspaper. It’s good practise for our Spanish reading skills, and we get all the Spanish football gossip. Marca is also online, and there is an English-language option too.
5 to remember
el anticlímax – anti-climax
el or la rival – rival
empatar – to draw [a game]
ganar – to win [a game]
perder – to lose [a game]

Malaga v Atlético Madrid

La Rosaleda

La Rosaleda [photo: www.malagacf.com]

We will miss going to the football match tomorrow night. Malaga FC faces Atlético Madrid at home in a league match at La Rosaleda stadium. The game is a six-pointer against the second-placed side. Las Malaguistas are currently fourth in La Liga, 10 points behind Real Madrid and with Valencia and Real Sociedad hot on their heels. Malaga manager Manuel Pellegrini has been connected with a possible vacancy as Manchester City manager this summer, but he’s shown loyalty to the seaside club owned by Qatari businessmn and royal Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani who reportedly put the club up for sale last year.

Going to the football at La Rosaleda is a fantastic experience. We’ve learned to double-check the date and time of kick-off before leaving home, as the matches are prone to very last minute changes. It’s good to get there early and sit outside one of the bars, soaking up the atmosphere while eating pescados fritos with a cool cerveza. The noise inside the stadium is overwhelming, it’s about the size of Stoke’s Britannia Stadium and just as loud. The food is different too – no burger or hot dogs, no frying onions. The main snack is nuts and seeds bought from one of many stalls outside the stadium. We’ve found the best atmosphere to be at the summer night matches, either the first or last matches in the season, kicking off at 10pm in the heavy heat.

Tomorrow it will be difficult for Malaga to focus on Atlético given its return home Champions League tie against Porto on March 13. Malaga is 1-0 down from the first leg after failing to score an away goal. The team will be determined to get as deep as possible in the Champions League this year, as the club is banned from playing in Europe in 2013-2014 for failing to fulfil financial obligations. This casts a shadow over the success at Malaga FC, which has been good for the town and for Andalucía. This season there are four Andalucían teams in La Liga: Real Betis 7th [before kick-off today] Sevilla 12th and Granada 15th.

My husband and I are pretty football mad, but it does seem a little strange that we get excited about Malaga FC’s games while our Spanish neighbours are most likely watching basketball or bull-fighting on television!

5 to remember
el partido de fútbol – football match
el estadio – stadium
el gol – goal
soy malaguista – I am a Malaga FC fan
el delantero – striker


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What i read

Im not a book/newspaper person. I had mentioned that earlier. (need to read news more). I prefer online sources. (thats why gotta get myself a tablet, no?)

But here i list down the sites i went to which i find very interesting for the past 2-3 years being active in interweb and check on ’em almost in a daily basis

1. Cursing Malay

2. Kereta Mayat

3. Ah Yap

4. Obefiend- FOA or Blogserius

They had given me different perspectives of certain issue. Mostly current issue in Malaysia.

ps: just got back from PAC at Intim, very interesting i must say.I’ll give full review on that later.

Selamat hari Raya Aidiladha. Dont forget of the bountiful blessing of 1st 10 days of Dzulhijjah.. Jom grab together.

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NV Energy Announces Agreement on Price Reduction for Northern Nevada Electric and Gas Customers

Oct 20, 2016

Reno -- NV Energy has reached a settlement agreement with the Regulatory Operations Staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Northern Nevada Industrial Electric Users, Northern Nevada Utility Customers, a coalition of local governmental entities, Nevadans for Clean Affordable Reliable Energy and Vote Solar, to lower prices for customers in northern Nevada starting January 1, 2017.

The agreement follows the June 2016 filing of NV Energy's required triennial general rate case and is subject to Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUCN) approval. The amount of money needed from customers to fund the company's core electric operations will be reduced by $2.93 million or 0.44 percent, and by $2.40 million or 2.16 percent for its natural gas operations.

"I sincerely appreciate the willingness of all parties to reach a compromise that allows us to reduce prices for our customers and would like to highlight efforts of the Bureau of Consumer Protection and PUCN Regulatory Operations Staff," said Paul Caudill, president and CEO of NV Energy. "This result is also due to the hard work of my colleagues at NV Energy, who have embraced the challenge of improving operations and our focus on customers, all while reducing our costs to serve.

The PUCN is expected to vote on the agreement later in the year. If the agreement is accepted, new general rates will become effective on January 1, 2017 and remain in place for three years. NV Energy's northern operations revenue requirement will be lower at the end of 2019 than they were in 2008, providing more than a decade of stability and predictability.

"As we negotiated the agreement, it became clear to us that our goal - that all customers be treated fairly and to obtain certainty - aligned with the goals of the Regulatory Operations Staff, the Bureau of Consumer Protection, and the other parties," said Shawn Elicegui, senior vice president of regulatory and strategic planning for NV Energy. "This settlement provides certainty that our customers will enjoy fair and reasonable rates for the foreseeable future."

Residential customers' monthly bills are on average lower today than they were in 2008. A report issued last month from the Energy Information Administration in the U.S. Department of Energy showed that Nevada now is also the lowest of all the Intermountain West states for residential and commercial customers.

"As we look toward our mandated rate filing for southern Nevada customers in 2017, we are targeting a very similar result," said Caudill.

The PUCN will still review separately two other areas of the original general rate case filing. These include the appropriate value of excess energy credits provided to private rooftop solar customers and approval of new optional time of use rates. A decision on the general rate case proceeding in its entirety is expected in December.

NV Energy, Inc. provides a wide range of energy services to 1.3 million customers throughout Nevada and more than 40 million tourists annually. NV Energy is a holding company whose principal subsidiaries, Nevada Power Company and Sierra Pacific Power Company, are doing business as NV Energy. The company is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Information about NV Energy is available on the company's website, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube pages, which can be accessed via

For further information: Sarah Polito, NV Energy 775-834-3891,


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Enable a KMS Host for Windows 7 and Office 2010 Volume Activation

In order to simplify licensing and activation for Windows clients and servers on you network, you can set up a KMS host to automatically activate these machine with Microsoft, rather than having to install license keys individually on machines.

There are two types of license keys with Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008, which are KMS and MAK. MAK (Multiple Activation Keys) are more like your traditional license keys, which you can use to manually license a product. Once the key is installed, that product stays licensed on that machine indefinitely. If you have multiple machines that you want to license using MAK keys in one go, you can use the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT 2.0).

The second option is to use KMS (Key Management Service). When using KMS you set up a server on the network to act as a KMS Host. This host collects licensing information information about client computers on the network, and then activates them in bulk with Microsoft’s activation servers, at regular intervals.

When you install Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 from Volume Licensing media, these machines will be installed as KMS clients by default. This means a fresh installation using volume licensing media will install a KMS license key on the client during the installation. Once the machine is installed and joined to your domain, if a KMS host is available on the network the new machine will report in to the KMS host, and the KMS host will in turn activate the client. There is a caveat to this. You need to have at least 25 KMS clients (for Windows 7 and Vista), or 5 KMS Clients (With Windows Server 2008) on your network in order for the KMS host to activate these machines with Microsoft. So in summary, for small deployments of less than 25 computers you will need to use MAK keys, but for larger  deployments, you can take advantage of the simplified activation process, by using a KMS host on your network.

So how do we set up a KMS host? Actually the process is pretty simple, especially if you set up a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine as your KMS host. You will need to obtain the ‘Server 2008 R2 Std and Ent Volume:CSVLK (KMS_B)’ KMS license key from the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center. To be sure that I was using the correct key, I verified it using the product key verify function using VAMT 2.0. The good thing about using this key, and indeed setting up your KMS host on a Server 2008 R2 computer is the fact that it will license and activate Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 KMS clients! Once you have the key handy you need to run up a command prompt using elevated privileges on the host that you want to set up as the KMS host.

At the command prompt type in the following to install the KMS_B key on your KMS host, where YOUR_KMS_B_LICENSE_KEY is the license key that you obtained from the Microsoft Volume Licensing Center:

slmgr.vbs /ipk YOUR_KMS_B_LICENSE_KEY

You should get a message like the following:

Installing the KMS Host license key

Next you need to activate the new license key by typing:

slmgr.vbs /ato

After a few seconds you should get a confirmation message like the following:

Successful activation of the KMS Host key

Next there are a few other checks you can make to ensure that your KMS host is enabled successfully. Firstly run the following command and review the output:

slmgr.vbs /dlv

Displaying detailed licensing information about your KMS host

You can use the output from this command to see the number of licensing requests that have been received by the KMS host. In the example above a single request has been received, and the current count is 1. As mentioned earlier in order for the KMS host to activate Windows 7 clients, the count must reach 25 i.e. 25 computers on the network must all have sent license requests to the KMS host. The command slmgr.vbs /dlv is an easy way to keep track of the progress of the current count in the early stages of your KMS deployment. If you want to obtain this infomation from a remote client machine you can use the slmgr.vbs KMS_HOST_NAME /dlv, where the KMS_HOST_NAME is the name of your KMS host.

A second useful check after enabling your KMS host is to make sure that the relevant DNS SRV record has been created, in order for KMS clients to discover the location of your KMS host. In the DNS console on one of your DNS servers look for a record called _VLMCS._tcp.YOURDOMAINNAME

Finally, check that tcp port 1688 is enabled incoming on your firewall in the domain profile on the KMS host to allow clients to make licensing requests.

Verify the Key Management Service (TCP-in) rule is enabled

After that your KMS host should happily pick up licensing requests for Windows Vista, 7, and Server 2008. In the early stages of our deployment we had set up a few clients using MAK licensing keys, until such time as we had 25 computers available on the network. Once we had enough Windows 7 machines available we converted them back to KMS clients, using the default KMS client keys listed here, and the VAMT 2.0 to install these keys on the client computers.

Next up, setting up the Office 2010 KMS host. In our environment it made sense to use the same server that was already acting as our Windows KMS host. Firstly we downloaded the Microsoft Office 2010 KMS Host License Pack. On Windows server 2003 other steps are required to install this (outlined in the system requirements), but on Windows Server 2008 R2, just run the downloaded KeyManagementServiceHost.exe file.

Accept the license agreement, and the file will run. You will receive confirmation that the license pack has installed correctly. Next you will be asked to enter your Office 2010 KMS Host license key, which you can obtain from the Volume Licensing Service Center. Enter your key and click OK, and you will receive the following confirmation:

Office 2010 KMS host activation success message

You can verify that the computer is activated, as a KMS host for Office 2010 by running the following command :

slmgr.vbs /dlv bfe7a195-4f8f-4f0b-a622-cf13c7d16864

The long code shown in the command is the Office 2010 activation ID. Running this command will give you a similar summary to the slmgr.vbs /dlv command for Windows Clients. It will show you the current count for Office 2010 KMS client installations as well as the number of license requests. With Office 2010 the current count must reach 5 before the KMS host will activate your Office 2010 installations i.e. there must be at least 5 computers running Office 2010 with a KMS client product key installed before the KMS host will activate these clients. More information on Deploying Office 2010 using KMS can be found here.

As a final note, you will notice in the above example that the output of the slmgr.vbs file is directed to a popup dialog box. If you would prefer to direct the output of the slmgr.vbs script to the command window that you are working in you can use cscript to run slmgr.vbs. To do this firstly navigate to the C:\Windows\System32 folder using the command:

cd C:\Windows\System32

You can then run slmgr.vbs using cscript as shown below:

cscript slmgr.vbs /dlv

As you can see below, the output will display in the command window rather than a pop up dialog box. I mention this for completeness as I have seen slmgr.vbs run both ways. It doesn’t really matter which you choose.

Running slmgr.vbs using cscript