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Sushi at Ichikawa

This is the first of my sushi restaurant reviews, but I am hoping to add all my past experiences eating at other ones in Tokyo, Sapporo and elsewhere too!

Ichikawa Sushi is a fascinating 1* Michelin restaurant in  Nakamachi in Setagaya (Kaminoge Station), a pleasant suburb of Tokyo. The restaurant has been well-ranked in the sushi reviews in Tokyo. Personally I had seen a couple of different high end sushi restaurants that seemed interesting (and innovative!) and the chef’s past experience made me curious about his sushi style. It is located on the bottom floor of a residential building, and as soon as you step into the door, you see the large room with the beautiful wooden counter, light brown walls and only a couple of seats curved around the counter. The only chef – Ichikawa-san – trained at the famous kaiseki restaurant Kikunoi in Kyoto, and then followed on to apprentice at the 3* Michelin Araki in Tokyo (before it moved to London) before setting up his own sushi restaurant . He has a very quiet personality and he is definitely very focused on his work, and I couldn’t be more appreciative for the serene atmosphere in the restaurant as it lent more attention to those wonderful snowy-red piles of rice covered with perfect slices of the best fish in Japan.

You can see Ichikawa-san preparing the first course for our group of diners.

The first course was ‘くえ'(Kue/Longtooth Grouper) from Nagasaki, a nocturnal fish that is prized among chefs as being difficult to catch and expensive to buy. It had a pleasant firm flesh with a light taste and no oily aftertaste. Cut into four pieces, it was placed on the wooden surface before being lightly dipped in soy sauce (so as not to spoil the taste of the fish). Two servers moved seamlessly behind the diners, refilling tea and water, as well as bringing out the huge bottles of sake and pouring them into tiny flute neck bottles.

The next course was lightly seared/smoked  ‘かつお'(Katsuo/Bonito) which is usually smoked over hay giving it that blackened exterior, while keeping the flesh inside red and juicy. It comes from the same family as tuna and yet the taste is a bit more oily and smooth. This one was slightly thicker than sashimi style, cooked perfectly and the flesh was tender, sweet and fresh.

I did not take a photo of the next course (too busy marveling at the skill of the chef) however it was the best’あわび’ (Awabi/Abalone) and abalone liver I have ever had. This is usually a very common addition to high end sushi courses around this time, as we went in the summer and abalone are big and tender in season. Served side by side, the abalone liver was a new addition for me, and it had a pleasant richness that is compared to the ‘foie gras of the sea’ and it accented the mild abalone flavour well. So far no personal favourites, but the all the fish were of impeccable quality and the attention that Ichikawa-san brought to each slice truly showed his devotion to the craft. There may have been little-to-none conversation, but each taste just had to be individually appreciated.

A sushi course at a high end sushi restaurant like this one does not usually stick to simple sashimi and sushi for its courses. To bring out the skill of the chef and the best possible way of presenting the fish, some courses are lightly steamed, cooked, or smoked over hay like before with the bonito. I personally love this aspect of fine sushi courses as it varies the different courses and shows the knowledge of the chef in both raw and cooked preparation styles. This juicy, fatty part of the ‘のどぐろ’ (Nodoguro/Blackthroat Seaperch) was cooked lightly behind the chef on a grill using long metal skewers known as ‘ぐし’ (gushi) which were adequately splayed out to only pierce the smallest of sections of the fish. This thick, sweet oily taste would appeal to those who are used to more oily fish like mackerel, but would like something more unique. The fish was covered in a sweet light sauce of soy sauce and mirin (I believe).

Also, look how wonderful the plate is! Each utensil was carefully thought out and chosen (usually by the restaurant owner and chef) to accent the fish and the season.

Usually after a few courses showing the flair of the chef (not restricted to sushi) the chef will move onto the main event- those little mounds of rice and fish that the West has now come to adore. Many people don’t actually get to see the most impressive sushi techniques and variety of fishes available in Japan because they don’t go to places like these, and they really are missing out! Ichikawa-san’s skill and attention to fish is really incredible, and the following sushi courses only proved that further.

This was a repeat of the first course on the menu, only this time the fish was scored all across, placed on a bed of しゃり (shari/’sushi rice’ term) and gently placed onto the wooden surface before I swooped on it. The ‘Longtooth Grouper’ had a pleasant firm texture and a sweet, fresh taste that really showed how it is one of the best fish to have in summer. The chef also swept the fish with a light brushing of soy sauce which is only brewed for him. Most high end sushi restaurants prefer to choose or brew their own soy sauce and red vinegar (for the rice) so as to bring out what they believe to be the best taste in the fish.

The next was the ‘きすのこぶじめ’ (Kisu no Kobujime/ Japanese Whiting marinated in Kombu) which was light and fresh in flavour, again accented with soy sauce. This fish is especially good in the summer, and is usually a staple without kombu in edomae-tempura, however it is equally good raw. I had never tried it before and it was surprisingly sweet and light.

This lightly grilled perfection was ‘たかべ’ (Takabe/Yellow-striped Butterfish) and it was very flavourful and oily. Half of the flesh was raw and only the outer sections had been seared and broken, revealing the pink flesh inside. It had an interesting slightly bitter aftertaste which really brought out the flavour of the rice.

The next three courses are a staple in sushi courses and compromise of the crème de la crème of the Japanese fish world- ‘まぐろ’ (maguro/tuna). The sequence is usually the same and commences with the ‘あかみ’ (akami/lean tuna), followed by the most prized ‘ちゅとろ’ (chutoro/medium fatty tuna), and completed with the fattiest and most luxurious piece- おとろ (otoro/fatty tuna). Each chef chooses what kind of aspects of the tuna they would like to highlight, and Ichikawa-san’s was tuna pieces were all surprisingly light and fresh, melting on the tongue, with a briny flavour.

The best akami pieces are bright red in colour and are slightly firmer than their counterparts. There should also be no metallic blood taste for the fish- it should be flavourful and fresh. I have luckily never tasted any fish which tasted bad in Japan, however tuna elsewhere leaves a lot to be desired. This piece was savoury and the soft rice really brought a pillowy addition to the smooth, lean flesh.

This piece of chutoro was wonderfully soft and light, with barely any fatty taste. This was truly different, as most chutoro pieces at other restaurants taste slightly deeper and fattier, and are less savoury. This attention to the fresh fishy taste of the tuna was a nice addition, as the fattiness is sometimes a bit too much!

The otoro here is more similar to chutoro in terms of taste. It was wonderfully soft and fell apart in the mouth. It was so full of flavour! The picture really doesn’t do it justice- it was a marvelous piece of tuna and definitely one of the best pieces of sushi in this course.

The pattern on this ‘しろいか’ (shiro ika/ white squid) was literally the most visually pleasing in appearance. The chef sliced both criss-cross patterns all over the squid, and the rope-like pattern was so beautiful! It had a light citrusy taste from the lime and yuzu and was touched with just a hint of salt, no soy sauce. The ‘ねた’ (neta/sushi topping) fell apart as soon as you ate it, and the flavours were soft and fresh.

Some sushi pieces are not meant to be eaten with soy sauce or wasabi, and at Ichikawa-san’s there is no extra soy sauce on the table. This stops soy-sauce heavy people to overdip the sushi and ruin the fish.

This was the best course of the whole dinner! アじ (Aji/Horse Mackerel) is a common silver-backed fish that usually peaks in freshness during the summer. The criss-cross now emblematic, the mackerel melted apart in the mouth and was incredibly soft. All the rice pieces were very soft and were only packed in very gently, so that the sushi fell apart instantly.

This course was my partner’s- ‘うに'(uni/sea urchin) with rice and a touch of wasabi, as I chose not to have any. According to him it was very smooth and briny, and summer sea urchin is usually sweeter in taste. Uni is always something I choose to miss, preferring to go for other delicacies like ‘いくら’ (ikura/salmon roe) or whatever the chef recommends.

This was an unusual addition to the course- a fourth piece of tuna just for me! This ‘まぐろずけ'(Maguro Zuke/ Marinated Tuna) was very soft and lightly marinated, and tasted sweeter than the previous pieces.

The next piece proved to be a welcome part of interaction between guest and sushi chef, as the piece was so soft that it literally had to be handed to each individual diner. The ‘はまぐり’ (Hamaguri/ Common Orient Clam) is one of the shellfish usually served during a sushi course. It was soft and had some briny juices hidden in its whorls that were a welcome addition, sweetening the sushi.

The next two courses are a standard finish to the sushi meal as the courses come away from fishy, soy-soaked flavours to a sweeter, lighter end to the meal. The ‘あなご ‘ (Anago/Fresh-water Eel) was very fluffy and soft, more similar to a purée or a mousse, with only a lightly accenting sweet soy sauce. Eel served in rice bowls as part of ‘unagi-don’ are usually covered in a thick glaze, however the importance of the fish is highlighted most at Ichikawa by not putting on a thick sauce. Some sushi restaurants do serve eel with a stronger sweet sauce, but this was not the case here.

The eel glaze always covers the whole sushi and was only gently tinted here- the eel juice was already very flavourful and didn’t need additional sweetness.

Each sushi chef has a different technique when preparing the ‘たまご’ (tamago/egg omelet), usually learnt from their previous mentors. The egg omelet here was light, not too airy and spongy, somewhere between an Western egg omelet and a castella cake. It was a perfect finish to the course and I didn’t feel too full after the meal had ended.

As an extra addition to the course, the chef usually allows the customers to order more sushi, and most customers go for a ‘てっかまき’ (tekka maki roll). In this case the toasted nori was filled with chopped chutoro. It was savoury and lightly seasoned with wasabi, which gave it a welcome kick of heat.

To conclude this amazing meal- the chef was extremely courteous with the service of the sushi, and made an effort to translate nearly all the fish he served during the meal! It was also very intimate, as there were only a few other diners and the chef was the only one behind the counter, not counting the stealthy apprentice who handed certain pieces of fish or cleaned utensils to the chef without a word. Although the restaurant may be sparsely furnished, it has a very rugged beauty in its earthenware plates and cups, and the shiny surface of the counter reflecting the light (almost like the sea…?) gave it a harmonious look overall. I may be getting a little poetic over here, but what doesn’t good food make you do…

The chef waited for everyone to leave and personally said goodbye to them at the door. Truly incredible. I really do appreciate an exceptional meal (especially when so much of the food in Japan is incredible already!) and this was certainly one of these. A romantic walk back to the station ensued with the characteristic ringing of the cicadas in the trees.

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the-venetia-fair_ESDTWGIOBWhen the first pressing of The Venetia Fair‘s album, Every Sick, Disgusting Thought We’ve Got In Our Brain, was released, I missed out. The pressing was limited to a very small number of copies. They were insane. They had a spinning wheel on the cover designed by Dan Marter from Intheclouds Records. I’m super bummed I never got one.

Although the first pressing is sold out, it’s not impossible to get the album on wax. A second pressing has been released that is less fancy, but totally worth your buck. Really, at $15 (only $19 after shipping), you can get the record for yourself. It’s pressed on bone-colored vinyl with a standard sleeve, featuring album artwork designed by bassist Chark King.

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“The first pressing was pretty insane,” says singer Benny Santoro. “We think it was worth every penny and [even at $30 a pop] they sold out pretty quickly, but we know there are some people out there that don’t care about it being flashy; they just want a traditional vinyl experience at a traditional price. For this pressing we pulled the reins in a little bit in an effort to make it more affordable. It’s still very handsome and, of course, sounds exactly the same, it just comes in a slightly more modest package.”

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While I was away I committed to doing one thing at a time. One of those things was learning how to eat without external distractions.

Also coined mindful eating.

So often we find ourselves eating in front of the TV, with a magazine or book in hand or simply while we talk to someone across the table. I was BIG on multitasking while I ate, the TV, my computer, social media even while I trained people! What I realize now (after a month away from those distractions) is just how disconnected I was from my food! No wonder I ate copious amounts in one sitting or never felt like I really enjoyed my treats let alone remembered eating them!

Do you polish off a packet of biscuits in one go?

Do you remember exactly what your dinner looked like last night?

Do constantly feel unsatisfied with the food you eat?

Do you over eat?

If any of these ring a bell then you’re probably suffering from food disregard.

What are the benefits of Mindful Eating I hear you say?

I experienced the following –

Less cravings

Less consumption in one sitting

Satisfied with the food I had served myself

Sated by smaller servings of sweet treats

Never felt like I’d eaten too much

Remembered the meals I ate

Remembered the meals out that tasted like shit (vowing to never make the same mistake!)

This is the moment where I present you with a challenge!

The next meal after reading this I encourage you to try attentive consumption. I’ve broken it down into 5 steps below to make it easier to navigate.

  1. Get completely involved in making your food, limit distractions during the cooking process if you’re at home.
  2. Rather than hoeing in, allow your food to cool admiring the colours and arrangement on your plate (your taste buds actually pick up on flavours better when your food isn’t piping hot!)
  3. Pick a space away from technology or major distractions and loud noises.
  4. As you eat notice the smells, textures, colours, flavours and feelings that may come up for you.
  5. When you’re finished really savor the experience you had with what you just ate. Take a moment or 5 before you rush off to do something else.

It may drive you nuts at first to slow down, but be patient and try it more than once to really notice the benefits of being fully aware of what’s going in your mouth! You don’t have to do it during every meal, but more often than not can have a very positive affect on they way you relate to food.

After all enjoying our food is one of the best parts of being human 🙂

Check out the Food Diary, 4 Day Cleanse or Shopping List if you’re looking to improve your food selection or contact me for Meal Plans and Coaching.

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He Woke Me

One O’clock am I was pulled from a deep sleep. Not by my child, or by my dog. But by God himself. I felt my eyes being pried open and wondering what am I doing awake. I know just seconds before I was in a wonderful deep sleep. there was no loud noise that roused me, no dog or puppy whining to be let out, no cat nudging at me for the same purpose, no 7 year old climbing over me to get into the middle after a bad dream. No, I was drawn awake by God Most High.

He knows me well. He knows how I fret. He knows that I run scenarios around in my head till I can’t stand my self. But somehow I still slept last night. I think for some reason He just needed to wake me up to remind me that He is God. That in all the insanity that surrounds me, His peace is all encompassing.

As I laid there this morning knowing it was Him that woke me, I went to him directly in prayer, seeking to know what it is He wanted me to know, or what I may need to do to clear the way between us. I waited.

I prayed for my family, my friends, my church, and then it came to me.

Philippians 4. That’s all.

Thankful that I had no major sin I needed to confess, I thanked Him and said I would read it in the morning when I got up. He didn’t much like that and kept me awake until 5am. Why I just don’t listen is beyond me. I could have gotten back to sleep, but no I tossed and turned and finally when my beloveds alarm went off I sat up, finally grabbed my bible and read Phil 4.

He said, No in the Message. Which meant I had to go downstairs to get it. I did.

And I read:

Phil 4: 6-9 (from the Message) 6-7Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

8-9Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.

I smiled; told Him I knew all that. Then I got ready for work.

After dropping my little guy off at school, I started praying and may I tell you that I have never felt the spirit in prayer like I did today. Tears ran down my eyes for no other reason then that I was in total communion with Him. The power and peace that filled me as I prayed over this day and what was to come. I prayed using Phil 4:6-9. When I came to the end of praying, I felt so filled. So loved, so confident in Him.

Thank you God for waking me, for your persistent heart in seeking mine. For all that you fed my spirit.

Coram Deo

Coram Deo literally means “before the face of God”. It carries the notion of our living in the presence of God, under the authority of God and to the honor and glory of God. It is what each person was designed for by their Creator.

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Coram Deo captures the essence of the Christian life.”

This phrase literally refers to something that takes place in the presence of, or before the face of, God. To live Coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

To live in the presence of God is to understand that whatever we are doing and wherever we are doing it, we are acting under the gaze of God. God is omnipresent. There is no place so remote that we can escape His all seeing gaze.

To be aware of the presence of God is also to be strongly aware of His sovereignty. When we recognize that if God is God, then we will indeed know that He is sovereign. Living under divine sovereignty involves more than a reluctant submission to sheer sovereignty that is motivated out of a fear of punishment. It involves recognizing that there is no higher goal than offering honor to God. Our lives are to be living sacrifices, offered in a spirit of adoration and thankfulness.

To live all of life Coram Deo is to live a life of integrity. It is a life of wholeness that finds its unity and worth in the majesty of God. A fragmented life is a life that is constantly decaying. It is marked by inconsistency, disunity, confusion, conflict, contradiction, and chaos.

Integrity is found where men and women live their lives in consistency. Which means we are the same basic way in church and out of church. It is a life that is open before God. It is a life in which all that is done is done as to the Lord. It is a life lived by principle, and by humility before God, not defiance. It is a life lived under the teaching of conscience that is held captive by the Word of God.

Coram Deo . . . before the face of God. That’s the big idea. Next to this idea our other goals and ambitions become mere trifles.”

May I challenge you to live Coram Deo today and each day. To recognize that you are already before the face of God when you rise in the morning. A friend of mine jokingly stated: “The Holy Spirit doesn’t kick in till after my coffee” (I know she was joking).

My dear friends we are always in the presence of the Almighty God, God Most High. And if we are His, we don’t get to wait till after our morning coffee to submit our lives to the Holy Spirit. To live Coram Deo is to live “knowingly” before His face at all times.

Are you aware of Him at all times?
Do you work like He’s there?
Do you love like He’s there?
Do you resolve conflict like He’s there?
Do you give like He’s there?

Coram Deo, living face to face with God.

Sit with It

I am a fixer.

There I said it. Sitting still when I see a problem I could fix is one of the hardest things I do. My current profession requires that I be a fixer. In this arena of my life, my God given talent is well used and well appreciated. I am often commended for my “big picture” visionary skills. These skills have been useful in my ability to find problems, to diagnosis problems and to eventually fix the problems. That is all well and good in the work world. Even there sitting with the problem can frustrate me because I know I can figure it out.

In relationships or with people, fixing may not be so welcomed. This talent God has given me in the professional realm can be a curse in the relational realm. I still possess the talent. It can still be used for good, but there are times I am finding that I cannot rush in and fix things. As I learned from a dear friend this past week end there are times I just need to “sit with it”. I’m not good with “sitting” with anything. I want the problem solved, and I’m just as thrilled to work on it all night if I have to for it to be solved. I will let it whirl in my head until the wee hours of the morning. Running it through different scenarios until I find the one that fits just right and BAM I have it. I have the perfect answer for the imperfect problem.

I have been chewing on this new phrase “sit with it”. Lifting it up to God; how do I do this thing called “sit with it” you wired me God to fix things, you gave me this big picture kind of brain and gifted me to be a visionary. Show me how to sit with it.

• Psalm 46:10
“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

• Zechariah 2:13
Be still before the LORD, all mankind, because he has roused himself from his holy dwelling.

• Psalm 37:7
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.

• Exodus 14:14
The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.

In His word He tells us to be still, to sit with whatever calamity you are in, and He will fight for me.

He will be exalted as the one who fixes things ( not me).

He has roused Himself (my favorite visual) from His dwelling so to take care of the matter, I can picture Him shifting His weight, hearing the fire blazing wheels of His chariot throne pop and spark as He stands, with His right hand outstretched ready to speak into existence the true fix, the only fix that will be perfect.

Be still and wait for Him. He is never slow to respond, He is responding I need only to wait for His move, and to see if He asks me to join Him.

And it’s ok if I end up feeling empty, that I didn’t get to fix anything. As I sit with it, I need only to lean into Him with the wait. To lie at His feet, pour out my heart; even tell Him how I see it. He may just chuckle, but He’s big enough to hear my version as to how I would fix it, and still proceed with His own.

I may be able to resolve problems at the work place, but when it comes to relational problems, sometimes He asks me to wait, sit with it, to be still and know that He is God, not me, never me.


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Is it true  David Saker is off.  Who they gonna call?  Not Big Bob…

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Don’ think Bob Willis was in the best of moods today after the England result…

Beavis and Butthead live

I do hope that Ravi Bopara remembers to lock his door this tour…

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Just for Dan Singh on Twitter – our hero in bubble wrap…

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Tinker tailor

What’s Giles Clarke been up to lately?

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All new Downton Abbey

Crikey.  Cricketing saga hots up!   The new Earl of Downton is a ruthless, ruthless man….

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Is this an early release for a Christmas number one contender?  Thanks to a timely suggestion from Paul Frame ECB records are proud to present ….

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Lifetime Washer Necklace

$ 24.00

This is a Hand Stamped Lifetime Washer Necklace. Such an unique necklace is like your very own time capsule. We want to you completely customize each piece by adding some of the most memorable moments from your life all on one piece of jewelry. This is a truly unique necklace that would be a perfect Anniversary Gift! This is really a Great gift for anyone!

-Each washer is the size of a quarter, and will slide onto the necklace chain.
-Stamping can be all the way around each washer and fit about 4-8 words/dates(1 date equals 2 words). This will depend on the word and the font used. I can use multiple fonts to make them stand apart from each other, as well as adding some design stamps to help represent each special moment in your life!
-The Silver metal used is Silver Aluminum. Silver Aluminum is Light-Weight and Tarnish Free! it is also Hypoallergenic, therefore it will be used more through out the necklace! The Copper and NuGold(Red Brass) do tarnish and need to be polished to keep their shine or they will pick up a vintage look, whichever you prefer, we love them both!

Please give us all the details for what you would like on each washer, as well as any designs, or notes if you would like us to figure out what Designs to add to each washer. Please also include the metal that you want each washer to be. If there is no specifications for the metal or designs left from you, we will only stamp the words/dates you have indicated, and we will choose the colors for you. Washers will be set from back to front! *FEEL FREE to message me Exactly what you want on each Washer if you would like us to help figure out what will fit best, the way you would like it!

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BooB’s and Battles, What’s Hot in Dungeons and Dragons

Dungeons And Dragons Has alays been the front runner when it come to the showing of Flesh. It’s how we grew up, its what we like but is it right In this modern world.

This has come about through the years and years of How the Sexes are  portrayed in fantasy , Art mainly but it has a strong hold in Role Play Gaming.

We see as a whole that it is the woman who is the one on show. that it’s not fantasy if her tits aren’t out for all to see, but surely a male hero with his top off and a rippling chest is just the same.

I am not going to go any farther than this as I can not handle confrontation.

Recently I had a very short Tweet with Tracy of the Darkmagics over on twitter and I asked if I could draw one of her characters @sarahDarkmagic gave me a short description (barbarian woman with flintlock pistol) and so with a minor adjustment concerning a region  of flesh that was on show, I came up with this.

I hope I captured exactly what Tracy was after and she shows exactly enough of everything.

If given the opportunity, yes of course I would draw for Tracy again. It was an honour to get this chance.

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Desperate Situation! Beast Tamer Mohji vs Luffy!

Mohji and Richie show up for revenge after Buggy’s humiliating defeat in the previous episode, and Luffy meets a small dog guarding his master’s store, even though he knows that he is long dead.

Dec. 29, 1999

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Warmachine An Undead Journey Part One

So my Undead journey is beginning with the new Cryx Battlebox which has everything inside that you need to play.

This set has rules, background and hints on where to go next, all in the written materials in the box are great fun to read through and although the whole force composition is still a little hazy for me, its definitely starting to make a bit more sense after just one read through.

So the Starter Battlebox comes with four figures, the Warcaster Bane Witch Agathia, a Deathripper Light Warjack, a Slayer Heavy Warjack and a Reaper Heavy Warjack, these are all coloured plastic and need a bit of work to smooth down the injection points from the plastic, but they go together reasonably quickly, even if there were no instructions. I have already supplemented these with a Skarlock Thrall which I managed to pick up off ebay, mainly because the model looks really cool in a grim reaper meets a zx spectrum kind of way, all in this gives me a nice starting point of 4 points. This was a bit unexpected but after reading the rules again each warcaster comes with Warjack points which are on top off any point limit. So the starter Box sets look like they are all 0 points although buying a second and not using the warcaster looks like it will net me another 29 points, seems a really weird way of starting off with force composition, but apparently, so I have been told Warjacks were a bit neglected in the past so the rules were changed to get more Jacks on the table.

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Report: Despite Efforts To Overcome ‘Sin Of Recusal,’ Sessions Still In Doghouse

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Despite his best efforts, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has not yet found a way to overcome the “sin” of his recusal from the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

The Washington Post reported, citing two unnamed White House advisers, that Sessions has tried to regain President Donald Trump’s good graces by asking aides to make sure Trump is aware of policy decisions that advance his agenda.

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, White House counsel Don McGahn and former staffers Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus have also pitched in on Sessions’ campaign to re-ingratiate himself with Trump, according to the report, and the Department of Justice has also begun to examine subjects that Trump has publicly touted as possible matters of interest.

Sessions’ efforts have been unsuccessful, according to the Washington Post. Four unnamed White House officials and advisers cited in the report said that Trump remains angry about Sessions’ decision to recuse himself from the investigation.

According to the report, Trump privately calls Sessions “weak,” considers him unloyal and says that “he should have never recused himself.”

“He’s one of the most active Cabinet secretaries there is,” one unnamed White House official told the Washington Post. “He’s done a fine job. Does it wash away the sin of recusal? I don’t think so.”

According to the report, Trump’s own efforts to force Sessions out by publicly humiliating him have been equally fruitless, though White House officials have privately guessed about who might replace him as attorney general.


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Food Links, 23.05.2012

Can slow cooking save lives?

Tasting spoons.

Can GM crops reduce food insecurity?

The FAO on the link between hunger and poverty.

Supermarkets and bananas.

Russian softdrinks explained.

Recent developments in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

How to grow and use herbs.

Why Britain needs to beat Big Food.

An analysis of the concept of food deserts.

Cooking – guacamole and spaghetti – as you’ve never seen before. (Thanks, Mum – and happy birthday!)

Why is bread Britain’s most wasted food?

A review of Alex James’s memoir All Cheeses Great and Small.

How to make fauxreos (or home-made oreos).

The invention of brunch.

A Kansas farmer argues in favour of GM crops.

How to shop for olive oil.

The politics of ice cream.

A brief history of the bagel.

Where to eat Polish food in London.

The potato revolution in Greece.

How to make your own yogurt.

Dan Lepard’s Short and Tweet.

Fake chicken worth eating?

Lucky Peach vs. Gastronomica.

A culinary tour of Rome.

How to make your own fruit leather.

Beautiful fast food restaurants.

Gorgeous gougères.

Five of the best restaurants in Warsaw.

How to improve airplane food.

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Among those represented by the Erin Murphy Literary Agency, Luke Reynolds is known as the *real* Ryan Gosling (you had to be there). Although, I happen to think Luke is cuter, don’t you? Just look at that dimple! And I happen to know he’s a heckuva lot funnier.

He’s also smarter than my Ryan Gosling when it comes to publishing, writing and living.

Luke is the author of KEEP CALM AND QUERY ON: NOTES ON WRITING (AND LIVING) WITH HOPE. And he’s here today to give you that: HOPE. (Plus a copy of his book, plus a query critique, plus a personal “pep talk” phone call!)

Half of Luke’s book includes some reflections for writers on perseverance, hope, humor, gratitude, and work ethic, while the other half includes interviews with writers like Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), Katherine Erskine, Jane Smiley, and 11 other authors.

Without further Ryan Gosling references, take it away, Ryan! Erm…I mean Luke!

Making a Life

by Luke Reynolds

There are two places where fast, easy manoeuvres and accomplishments are both warranted and worthwhile: 1) In a snowball fight, when your opponents are slinging well-packed cold stuff at you faster than re-runs of Friends episodes appear on TBS; and 2) In getting the kids to bed when they’re already overtired after a long day of snowball fighting.

Most other pursuits in life don’t lend themselves to easy success. And at the top of a very, very long list of Stuff That Takes Forever comes the pursuit of writing. But that’s a good thing—a terribly hard, but fantastically good thing. Because deep down, none of us who love writing want it to be easy anyway. That’s not why we fall in love with something in the first place.

When we were children, people asked us, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Very few of us, I’m guessing, responded, “I’d really love to find something easy—something that requires little skill, almost no perseverance, and happens fast.” Instead, most of us said we wanted to fly into outer space wearing massive white suits; or we said we wanted to sing on stage in front of a roaring audience; or we wanted to be pilots or race car drivers or scientists who found cures for every kind of disease or explorers who found distant lands.

Or we wanted to be writers.

Novelist John Dufresne writes in his Foreword to KEEP CALM AND QUERY ON the following: “Writers want to write, not to have written.” Even though the manuscript of Keep Calm had been finished and proofed and was ready for publication, that line from John’s Foreword hit me hard and fast—much like a well-packed snowball or like a child screaming wildly that he isn’t ready for bed. The line speaks so loudly because it captures the essence of this pursuit we’ve chosen: a creative calling that is about making a life, not a living.

We write because we love the small giddy feeling that rises up like regurgitated food after we’ve eaten too much and then laughed too hard. We write because we like the problems (deep down) that our characters encounter, and we like the fact that there is no easy way out—either for our characters themselves or for us as we make plotting decisions. We write because we know that hearing no enough times and going back to our desks, reworking material, forging new work, and venturing back out into the wild, beautiful possibility of publishing makes our hearts beat fast.

So, deep down, we know it’s not easy. Nor do we want it to be. That’s not why we love it in the first place.

Why do we love films and stories about underdogs? Why—for instance—does Atticus Finch inspire me to no end? It’s not because he took an easy case that guaranteed a sure-fire victory with no obstacles. I love Atticus because he took an impossible case that guaranteed a loss but his conscience demanded it and his soul echoed the call.

You love the books and characters and films you do, I believe, because you know that triumph is only beautiful when the journey is difficult, that getting the story right is profoundly moving only because you’ve known the story has been so stubbornly wrong—however slightly—in its previous lives.

The MG novel that my agent, the lovely Joan Paquette, signed me on was originally entitled ATTICUS AND ME. It was a story that came down my arteries and out through my fingertips. The first draft, though, would have guaranteed a speedy rejection from Joan. So she didn’t see Atticus until his fourth revision. And then Joan continued to revise Atticus into a character who was more authentic, more real—a character whose story meant more. Joan raised the stakes in the novel. And after quite a few rounds, Atticus is still growing, still changing.

And various picture book manuscripts are in their own worlds of revision, each entering a fifth, ninth, and eleventh or more incantation of their possible lives.

We write because we want to write, not because we want to have written. As writers, we start to accept the fact that—much like us—the characters that people our stories are going to need second-chances, harder obstacles, higher walls, deeper pain—and that all of this, eventually, leads to greater love. In the writing, for the writing, and through the writing.

So, then, the question remains: if we don’t want writing and publishing to be easy, what do we really want? I’d venture a humble guess: we want support. We want somebody—anybody, the mailman, Grandma, our children, our students, and maybe one day an agent and editor—to tell us that we have what it takes. We want support. We want to know that our work is worth it. That ninth draft of an MG novel or our twentieth time through a PB manuscript that has changed completely and become almost an entirely new book are both pursuits for which support is not only helpful, but essential.

In short, we need someone in our corner, shouting in a voice of accountability, conviction, and faith to keep going. You have what it takes. Get through this draft. Try it from a different POV. Try it from a different character’s perspective. Try the story in present tense. Throw in a cow who believes he is Ryan Gosling. Throw in a turtle who eats books. Throw in a kid who thinks it’s over, until—

Until that voice. Listen it to it clanging inside the damn-near defeated walls of your heart. That voice confirms what you and I already know: we don’t want it to be easy. It’s hard. We know that. What we want is the pluck and the nerve and the faith to keep going—to make a life with our pursuit of writing and the way we embody it, rather than simply a living.

We want more than a contract and some cash. We want to craft the words that get us excited—that get readers excited. Or, as John Dufresne put it, we want to write, not to have written.

So: a toast. (I wish I had wine, but coffee feeds the writer in me more). To the very act of writing—in all its difficulty, stubbornness, painstakingly slow but remarkably beautiful worth. May we all, as writers and as people, keep calm and query on.

Thanks, Luke! Very inspiring. I need a tissue now. *sniff*

And you folks need to comment! Luke is giving away THREE PRIZES!

1. A signed copy of KEEP CALM AND QUERY ON.
2. A query critique.
3. A personal phone call and pep talk to discuss your writing career.

Your comment counts as one entry. You get an extra entry for each mention on social media: Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, etc. Just mention it in your comment. Comments close the end of April 1 and winners will be randomly selected on April 2.

Now keep calm and comment on!

Luke Reynolds is editor of the forthcoming book for teens and tweens BREAK THESE RULES (Chicago Review Press, 2013). He has also co-edited BURNED IN: FUELING THE FIRE TO TEACH (Teachers College Press 2011) and DEDICATED TO THE PEOPLE OF DARFUR (Rutgers University Press, 2009). His newest books are KEEP CALM AND QUERY ON: NOTES ON WRITING (AND LIVING) WITH HOPE (Divertir Publishing, 2012) and A CALL TO CREATIVITY: WRITING, READING, AND INSPIRING STUDENTS IN AN AGE OF STANDARDIZATION (Teachers College Press, 2012). He loves garlic bread with passion, and loves children just about as much. He has taught grades 7-12 and he’s now a nightschool teacher and home-dad by day. His writing for children is represented by the formidably wise and oft-inspiring Ammi-Joan Paquette of the Erin Murphy Literary Agency. Keep calm and visit on at


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Create Talking Avatars with Voki

 Voki makes easy customizable avatars which you can upload to your website or blog. They have a really easy interface and have a nice array of avatars to choose from. After chosen, you can change features like hair, skin and having a talking head seems to connect more than a podcast.

I think this might be a nice option for narration of a student project or portfolio at the end of the year.

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Samsung makes Galaxy Note 8.0 official

Posted by: Brett

Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 8.0 today at MWC 2013 and it’s everything we expected it to be. Samsung had a display showing off the Note 8.0 which was spotted prior to the announcement confirming it’s existence and Samsung’s Mobile Head JK Shin even confirmed rumors of the device last month.

The Galaxy Note 8.0 has an 8-inch 1280 by 800 resolution display, a 1.6 GHz Exynos 4 Quad quad core processor with 2GB of RAM, Android 4.1.2, a 5 megapixel camera, and the S-Pen which the Note line is known for. The international version will be able to make and receive phone calls, while the US version will be WiFi only.

Samsung says the phablet will launch in Q2 of this year internationally and they’ve yet to provide a date for a North American launch.

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Teela Hart

Surviving Domestic Violence

One Day

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Befalling freedom from my abuser was taxing; the road paved with falling rocks and repeated avalanches of emotion. I had unchained my physical body from his grasp. I was fortunate to have escaped with my life and the lives of my children. We enjoyed a stress free, perpetual vacation to various places, taking pictures and producing videos of our excursions for a solid summer season.

Upon our return home, we were evicted due to the loss of an income, but that was ok, I told my children. The end of one thing always means the beginning of a new thing. And in our case, it meant the beginning of a brand new life, uncontrolled by bitterness and anger. They seemed to be happy with that.

Move number one:

We moved into a four-room house with my mother . It was painful, but I felt semi-safe. She lived at the end of a dead end road and my heart raced at every car that headed our way. I was nervous and jittery with every door slam or horn blow or any other random noises I couldn’t identify. The phone rang and my heart sank…every time.

No worries, I told myself. I have a restraining order, mace, a bat, a knife, a phone, and I never slept when everyone else did. Someone had to stand guard. My hands shook with every minute movement, breathing was shallow and rapid, but that was no problem. I could handle that compared to what I had to reckon with prior to my escape.

Move number two:

Enthusiastic to find a new home, we searched until we found the perfect home; the last house on the left, on 13th street. (I think there are horror movies about this but I’m not superstitious) I purchased an alarm system, dolled up the house, brought a little of the old into the new, the mace, the bat, the knife, and the phone and lay claim to our new home.

I triple checked the windows and doors to be sure they were locked and set the alarm. I lay on the couch with my various weapons listening intently to every noise the house made in order to be at ease when heard repeatedly. I was as someone “hopped up” on crack, peeking out windows, walking the halls repeatedly checking on the kids. Nevertheless, that was ok I could handle it.

It took about three weeks before finally resigning to sleep in my bed. My nightly ritual of checking windows, setting the alarm, strategically placing the mace, the bat, the knife and the phone in the place my abuser would have slept continued. However, that was ok I could handle it.

It has been an entire year now yet still the ritual continues. The phone rings; my heart stops. A knock at the door; my heart stops. The sound of a car pulling into my driveway; my heart stops. A noise in the night; my heart stops. A flashback dream; my heart stops.

The question that really governs my mind is this. When will my heart stop stopping?

New beginnings are wonderful. Added anxiety of constant emotional, verbal, financial, mental and physical abuses are no more. Instead of the wonderment I expect, continued fear is what I receive.

My former life once filled with independence, freeness of heart, fun, spontaneity, and always on the go no longer exists.  I find myself now bound to the solitude of my new home.  I grieve deeply for that part of me that is now a stranger. My soul traverses between bargaining, anger, depression, and denial. However, I cannot make the leap to acceptance. One day maybe. One day.


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eBay Wins #30

Topps Chrome is shiny. Refractors are shiny, but in a little bit different way. Chrome Refractors are therefore the ultimate in shiny. So, how could I afford not to drop 16 cents on this card?

2010 Topps Chrome - Refractor #19 John Lackey

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eBay Wins #185

I'm getting ever-closer to the present day with my eBay penny cards. I'm up to 2008 Topps now, with 2 cards. It's now been so long since I resorted my cards that I have no idea if I got these at the same time or not.
2008 Topps
#51 Erik Bedard
#143 Willie Harris
I've got 286 unique cards out of the 660 or so from 2008 Topps, which I mostly got in discounted old packs. I wasn't collecting in 2008, so this set is in the gap I'm still sort of filling in. These two cards both added to my set.

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Tennessee Department of Health Announces Requirements for Hospital Reporting on Drug Overdoses

Tennessee Public Chapter 959, which was passed in 2016, requires the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) to establish a method of collecting data from hospitals on substance abuse and misuse, and nonfatal and fatal opioid overdoses. The law was passed in response to a lack of current, timely data to understand the opioid epidemic.

Over the past year, a workgroup of hospitals assisted the TDH in the development of a pilot reporting system with three health systems piloting the system over the past several months.

The TDH now is ready to expand reporting to all acute care and critical access hospitals. All hospitals will be expected to successfully report their data by March 2018. The department launched a dedicated website with resources this week.

TDH Commissioner John Dreyzehner has written a letter to hospitals statewide, encouraging them to provide contact information to ensure a smooth onboarding process for both hospitals and emergency departments. In addition, the state has drafted a Drug Overdose Reporting Manual and a DOR REDCap guide to enable resource planning.

The new opioid reporting website provides instructions for the data reporting process, as well as a variety of related materials and information, including:

Training materials and technical assistance
Frequently asked questions
List of state and federal partners
Patient education information for specific populations, including surgery/injury patients, teenagers, parents of teens and the elderly

On Tuesday, THA hosted a webinar with TDH regarding the launch of the department’s new opioid reporting requirements.

A recording of the joint webinar is available here.

Hospitals and clinical staff are encouraged to review the website and materials, as well as identify their organization’s key contacts for reporting.

Please direct correspondence to TDH.Informatics@tn.gov and use the subject: “Drug Overdose Reporting.”

For additional information, contact Chris Clarke, 615-401-7437.


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A Gathering of Demons

Boston 1989

“It is certain now”

“The actions of the Nosferatu would be consistent. Why else take the risk?” Said with the certainty of the investigator.

They look up at the last gathering of the New England chantries, a mystical design appearing in a fountain wall, executed by Tabitha the image moves subtly over the hours, demonstrating the kindred’s skills, showing them in dispute and ritual.

Almost eighty kindred appear in the image, with their associated familiars and favoured apprentices.

Standing to the side, almost out of the picture, distracted by the heavens, are the Concord chantry. The smallest grouping, they cluster round the animated Prescott. He appears fascinated by a cloud formation like an Indian peace pipe.

Moving between two groups, some new apprentices, including Tyrone, mill around. An in-joke from Tabitha over the fact her ‘brother’ had not yet found his niche. He appears to be escorting a guest, a striking woman with sable hair. On closer inspection she is guiding him. The woman is Hardy, Slaine’s first childe.

The next group, standing around Flood, represented the Providence chantry. Whilst they appeared as a group of studious academics, the light around them flickered, the water beat faster or slower, a dim mist circulated around them, appearing to drift from Flood’s cigar.

The Portland chantry stand around their permanently cocky head Aitken. They look on as their newest member, Soames, releases a conjured dove.

The central group, dominated by Wymer, represent the Boston chantry. He stands proud, a man surveying his works. Behind him in the background, a red substance distils through scientific apparatus, a crucible and Bunsen flame beside.

The Manchester contingent are standing by a memorial to those martyred at Salem. A dark comment on her works by the artist. The foliage around them grows verdant.

Moving across, the tall statuesque Nordic woman. Ahlstrom, Tabitha’s first childe. She seems to be disputing with a scarred soldier, Sexby of Burlington, over the importance of a table of numbers, whilst a group of apprentices looks on.

Slaine of Bridgeport, surrounded by his apprentice, looking nothing less than an eastern opium fiend and his harem, and their menagerie of familiars. His crow familiar pecking from his hand. His other childe, Keele, fawns on his every word, swathed in a scarlet cloak.

The last member of the group, Corey, leans a hand on a memorial plaque. By his demeanour and clothing, he has only just arrived, and by the looks of it late. Another subtle joke.

“Which one betrayed us?”

“Wrong question, how many?” The first speaker’s face lost what little colour it retained. “After all, House Goriatrix were never subtle…”

Boston 1952

“Damn him for his stubbornness!” Even covered in gore, or perhaps more so because of that, The full force of a brujah in a fury is a stirring sight.

“Lady Dyer, are all of our forces accounted for?”

“No, that Gevolloos Noten of a Scourge is still trying to fight free. " with these words a smouldering figure in shadow falls through the portal, rolling himself on the ground to put out the flame. “He’s the last!”

The two figures attempting to follow are blasted back by the shafts of lightening thundering from his staff. A guttural language, long dead, issues from Flood’s lips as Tyrone scribbles at the face of the portal to dispel it.

Tyrone’s features are seared by the blast of superheated air that comes from the diminishing portal. He stands up, only then realising a Gangrel’s claw had clasped into his collar. The rest of the gangrel must have been caught in the portal.

“A fine trophy Declan! " Flood turns to the others, “Tabitha?”

“The ritual has worked as expected. The chantries at Portland, Burlington, Manchester, Bridgeport and Providence have all been destroyed.”

“We counted over a hundred sabbat at the Providence chantry. Most were cannon fodder, but at least one in ten were experienced” the blonde man looks up at mirrors on all sides.

Dyer stills him with a hand to the arm, “a sensible precaution Lord Flood.”

“Just John Flood now, a Tremere is no lord without a chantry.”

“No more than being a Prince makes one a lady. I will not forget your sacrifice, or your warning my Lord.”

“I would offer you hospitality, but I fear we are being summoned to a council of war. We have only delayed their assault on Boston’”

Boston 1990

“The other clans can never know. The pyramid was weakened in the war, we must retain this secret. Were they to find it was one of our own..” It goes unsaid, that the chantries to the north may not have fallen, but instead were corrupted by the Sabbat.

“Or worse, that we can’t be certain the rot was contained…” It goes unsaid, a number of the Tremere placed to Boston were embraced by the heads of those chantries.

“Enough – they will never find out. Stay close to the new Prince, you will be cast from the deliberations of our clan. In this way the pyramid will know you are clear of any corruption. You will ensure that we are the first to hear of any disloyalty. We will take action before the three stooges can…”

“So say we all” he rises from the chair in the sanctum and turns into the cold evening.

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Macross: Do You Remember Love?

a.k.a. Chojiku Yosai Macross: Ai Oboeteimasuka

Genre: Action
Company: Toho
Format: 1 movie
Dates: 7/7/1984

An alien race known as the Zentraedi traveled from galaxies afar to Earth. With an army of millions, this technologically-superior species looks to quickly overwhelm mankind and retrieve one of their ships that crashed there. The humans are quickly running out of options, and decide to place the inhabitants of Macross Island in the belly of the foreign vessel; they leave earth and depart for the outer rim of the solar system. With the alien forces hot on their trail, only time will tell if they’ll ever see earth again.

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Reviewed: 11/30/2001 by
Grade: 63% av-Kain

Highs: Macross, abbreviated; story flows smoothly

Lows: Fans of the series will balk at change; sloppy animation; music overwhelms scenes

I remember clearly how excited I was as a kid when I heard a movie version of my beloved Macross was to be released. Even compared to today’s anime, the Macross story is well conceived and epic in scope. A timeless work of art, I call it.

Do You Remember Love? instead turned out to be more of a companion piece rather than a condensed version. It’s contained in the same timeline, but to make it fit in a movie format, some drastic changes were made. Too drastic for my tastes. Those unfamiliar with the original may view it differently, but I was absolutely appalled by the fate of some of the characters, in particular Roy Fokker. I always abide by the adage “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, and Macross was certainly not broke.

Cinematography was also a nagging problem, as if the director had no idea of what theme and style to stick with. Even taking into consideration the year it was produced, the animation just really seems subpar. On top of that, the symphonic pieces of music, though done well, just simply took over the scenes rather than back them up.

And yet, this is still Macross. The same captivating soap opera remains intact, for the most part. Ichijo Hikaru is still a naive, egocentric cockpit jockey, Hayase Misa is still the emotion-retaining, by-the-book type, and Lynn Minnmay is still annoying as hell. The movie somehow makes it work, but it just can’t compete with its Macross brethren. Think of it as the black sheep of the family, and you have a clear picture.

Macross: Do You Remember Love? can be downloaded legally in the United States HERE.

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As before, Kurds find themselves on the outside

February 05, 2016
Supporters of Syrian Kurds protesting in front of United Nations offices during Syrian peace talks

LONDON - The UN-sponsored Syrian peace talks got off to a late and shaky start in Geneva on January 29th in the absence of one of the key parties to the 5-year-old, multisided conflict, the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).
The PYD and its People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia have become the dominant political and military forces in much of northern Syria bordering Turkey and Iraq.
Despite that, a Turkish threat to boycott the Geneva talks if the PYD attended won the day. Ankara makes no distinction between the Syrian Kurdish movement and its banned ally, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) against which the Turks are waging a renewed war.
PYD Co-President Salih Muslim had hoped to attend but he cannot have been too surprised to have been left out. The position of the Kurds at international gatherings to decide their fate has traditionally been outside the conference hall.
As he cooled his heels in the Swiss lakeside town of Lausanne awaiting an invitation, Muslim must have recalled that it was there that the infamous 1924 treaty was signed that spelled the end of Kurdish aspirations for statehood as the Ottoman empire broke up after the first world war.
The victorious allies went back on promises of independence in the carve-up of territory between emergent Arab states and Kemalist Turkey. Whenever Kurds refused to accept this new reality they faced suppression. In Iraq, Syria, Iran and most notably Turkey, there have been attempts to write the Kurds out of the historical script.
In the Arab states, the failure of the Kurds to be subsumed into Arab-dominated polities has earned them a reputation for being unreliable, duplicitous and even treacherous as well as underdeveloped, even where such underdevelopment has been deliberately engineered by the governments under which they have had to live, such as the Syrian “Arab” Republic.
As far back as 1930, a high-handed British government memorandum summed up a view of the Kurds that persisted among some of their regional neighbours: “Their mode of life is primitive and for the most part they are illiterate and untutored, resentful of authority and lacking in sense of discipline and responsibility.”
The Kurds did not fit into the narrative of Arab and Turkish nationalism that emerged in the post-colonial era. To a greater or lesser extent their numbers were underestimated and their culture and language suppressed.
In the past, successive Iraqi governments paid lip service to the theory of Kurdish autonomy without allowing it in practice. Saddam Hussein had his own units of Kurdish tribal militia to combat their more rebellious fellow Kurds.
Such in-fighting and divisions, both across and within national borders, have been a recurring curse among the Kurds since before the modern era. Yet when they have combined to fight for specifically Kurdish rights, they are invariably accused of putting their own interests first.
In the Syrian context, this has encouraged distrust among potential Arab allies and prompted the Turkish accusation that the PYD is in league with Damascus. It is true Syria’s Kurds have taken advantage of the chaos in the country to pursue their own agenda, filling a security vacuum in areas vacated by government forces and establishing de facto autonomy in predominantly Kurdish cantons while successfully fighting off the Islamic State (ISIS) and other jihadists seeking to annihilate them.
But to cast the Kurds as stooges of Syrian President Bashar Assad is to ignore a history of rebellion against the regime, as in 2004 when a short-lived revolt was met with disdain and even hostility from potential allies in the Arab opposition.
The same prejudice exists in the current conflict. In March 2012, a year into the war, Kurdish delegates walked out of opposition unity talks in Istanbul because would-be Arab partners refused to acknowledge any Kurdish autonomous rights or even mention the word Kurd in a putative agreement. As usual, the Kurds were expected to fight but not await any reward for doing so.
The Kurds know that the measure of de facto self-rule they have gained in Syria and more formally in Iraq is fragile. As the Kurdish Regional Government in Erbil is once again talking of possible independence, it remains aware that it could face conflict with Baghdad if it seeks to extend its control beyond those areas of Kurdistan narrowly defined in the Saddam era.
In Syria the Kurds are similarly aware that they can count only on themselves if they are to preserve and enhance the steps already taken towards self-rule.
Speaking before a second abortive round of Geneva talks in 2013, Salih Muslim demanded separate representation for the Kurds and told an interviewer: “We will not allow for a second Lausanne. They’re trying to play the same game but Kurds will not be deceived as in 1923… The Kurdish people are obliged to none but themselves. While there still remains one Kurd in Kurdistan we will fight for our freedom.”


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Martial Nobility, Stubborn Commons

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and constitution-page1collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince.

On the reign of Antoninus Pius, Gibbon said:

His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

…and also that this period was “possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.”

Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1, Chapter 3.

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Stomping Grounds

It has come to my mind a lot lately that this town is memory soaked. Every corner, every trail, and every building has a story stuck to it. Every person, every face, has a name that rings bells in your head and flashes images through your mind.

Where are your stomping grounds? Recently, mine seem to be growing. It seems that every exit off the highway has a beacon to a place I’ve momentarily considered home.

Drive north. Chattanooga street art and photographs of my best friend are the glue that holds the “Clumpies Icecream” sticker on to the back windshield of my car. Pura Vida juice bottles sit on my nightstand and ferment, because I’m too scared to loose the memories. They’ll always be there.

Drive east. Find the place that I’ve spent my summers in the Georgia heat. The Camp Christian lake begs us to jump in and maybe one summer we will. I’ve walked this path a thousand times and each time a new memory was made. Megan chipping her teeth. The night that I was sure there was a wolf prowling. So many midnight sneak-outs and games of truth or dare hidden in the dark. The place where I found God’s glory and I felt His grace.

Fly west. Seattle and Tacoma nestle the city of Puyallup where I spent that week senior year. A thursday night high school football game and friends I’ll probably never get the chance to meet again still soak the jacket I bought at the Tacoma mall. The henna from the state fair has washed away, but the memories never will.

Stay here. Marietta, Roswell, Atlanta: my true stomping grounds. As moving out edges nearer, more and more ancient memories swarm me. Land of a Thousand Hills still feels like french presses with Banter Squad. The Beltline and Kennesaw Mountain still remind me of Noah’s video camera. The Krispy Kreme in Marietta still makes me choke back the tears when I remember Jacob messing around, parking his car on the first night I truly met him. The one in Roswell is a reminder of free donut night after babysitting a wedding. Driving the roads here have a soundtrack that ranges from Bryce Vine to ODESZA.

They say you shouldn’t live in the past and that what has already happened doesn’t define you. I think it should. No, not your faults, but the memories. The memories that make you throw your head back laughing and the ones that bring tears to your eyes. That is who you are. That is what you’re made of.

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Four free copywriting workshops

Yes, you read that right. This summer you’ll have four (count ’em, four) chances to see me embarrass myself by trying to tell human beings how to write good. And we won’t even charge you for the privilege.

Places are booking up pretty fast, though, so you’d probably get yourself over to Eventbrite or you might miss out on all the hilarity.

The idea is that each workshop is short, sharp… and basically a grab-bag of hints, tips and advice that you can take away and occasionally dust off when you’re bored with writing stuff your way.

They’re at the wonderful Tremough Innovation Centre, the first Thursday of the next four months. And they are (somewhat demurely) entitled as follows:

4th June                      Kung Fu Secrets of Business Copywriting

2nd July                       How to Write Badass Web Content

6th August                  Nail Your Press Release the Lungfish Way

3rd September            A Smash-and-Grab Guide to Voice and Tone

Hope to see you there. Unless, you know, you’re miles from Cornwall. Or you have something better to do…

How to write a quote (that the press might actually use…)

For the last few years, I’ve collected quotes from businesses lucky enough to be nominated for the Cornwall Business Awards. I’d then package these up by local area, send them off to their local press… and most of them wouldn’t get used.

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Hiring a PR agency: what to expect…

Speaking with a brilliant PR friend the other day, the conversation turned – as it often does – to  clients.

Everyone who has ever worked in PR has at least one anecdote about client demands. Crazy changes that killed a story. Secret, apologetic phone calls to journalists. Extended email arguments over grammar.

The problem, we agreed, was managing public relations clients’ expectations. Explaining right at the outset what PR is, how it works and what it’s for. Because if an agency says this stuff to its own clients, it looks like it’s making excuses… Continue reading

Public relations: 3 good ways to really annoy a journalist

A few months ago, I had the opportunity to give a group of local business people an introduction to the basics of PR.

To start them off on the right foot, I thought I’d ask my journalist friends on Facebook whether they could think of any common howlers a PR newbie might want to avoid.

You might say it touched bit of a nerve.

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Four overused words that kill good marketing and PR copy

“If Stephen jumped off a cliff, would you jump too?”

When I was at school, that’s how my Mum used to point out that just because everyone else is doing something, it doesn’t make it a good idea.

I hated to hear it, of course… but all these *cough* years later, at least some of Mum’s wisdom must have stuck. Following the crowd feels like the lazy option, and I look around me sometimes and just think… “really?”

Lately, it’s a bit like that with marketing and PR copy.

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Fnord Alert!!! Another “23” Connection At Ariana Grande Concert

On May 22, 2017, another horrific event occurred involving the number 23. A suicide bomber killed 19 people at an Ariana Grande concert. There is an Illuminati connection here, that cannot be ignored. The fact that it was her concert was not a coincidence at all. I believe Ariana Grande was targeted because she is an Illuminati monarch mind control slave, who draws in thousands, upon thousands of fans to her shows. A perfect setting and location for a terrorist attack…OR…this was, yet again, another staged an event to distract the public from something much bigger.

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This is a very old-school and technical method we learnt in secondary school. However, many students are unable to do it accurately still. The trick of completing the square is realising that it depends on our (even older) (a\pm b)^2=a^2 \pm 2ab + b^2 formula. We are always introducing the -b^2 after we complete the square to ensure the expression is kept the same.

Students should know the completing the square is a technique, not confined to just quadratic expressions.

For example,
5-4\sqrt{x}+x=(\sqrt{x}-2)^2 +1

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Cooking With Spring Vegetables

It’s that wonderful time of year again! Spring has sprung! Spring is quite an extraordinary experience. It would seem as if the whole world comes alive after the cold blistery months of winter have ended. The world that seemed so gloomy, dull and cold is once again becoming filled with color! Little did we know beneath our feet, under the cold hard ground, plants and trees were preparing for a revival. What is also quite wonderful about spring is the crop of fresh, sweet, versatile vegetables that can brighten any and all meals! This week we will discuss the best ways to utilize those fresh spring vegetables! All recipes brought to you by

Glazed Carrots with Tarragon:

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Celery Root, Celery Heart, and Celery Leaf Salad:

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Spring Vegetable Ragout with Fresh Pasta:

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Peas and Carrots with Lemon, Dill, and Mint:

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Salad of Roast Chicken & Spring Vegetables with Lemony Dressing:

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These recipes are just a few of the ways you can utilize fresh spring vegetables. We’d love to hear about your favorite ways to brighten up your meals with fresh vegetables! Enjoy this wonderful season! til next time!

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[Deal] Fitbit Flex wearable now available for $59.99

Fitbit Flex

The #FitbitFlex which usually retails for about $80 can now be yours for just $59.99, courtesy of a deal over at eBay. This is a brand new unit of the fitness band and will come with free shipping as well.

What makes the Flex a lot more versatile compared to its competitors is the fact that it comes with replaceable bands, letting users swap them out according to their convenience. Barring this, the Fitbit Flex can do pretty much everything that a standard wearable + fitness tracker can do, so you’re not in for a lot of surprise in that area.

It can give you a good measure of your sleep, the number of steps you’ve taken in a day and some other crucial data to keep your health in check. We’re not sure how long this deal will last, but it makes sense to snatch the wearable on the cheap while you still can.

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