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Fish & Brewis

Fish & Brewis was originally developed by sailors that were often at sea for weeks and even months where few fresh ingredients were able to withstand such lengthy trips. Therefore long lasting foods were a necessity and fish and brewis became the crew’s favorite. The idea that sailors called the hardtack or sea biscuit brewis (pronounced ‘brews’) because of their practice of bruising or breaking up the bread into bite size pieces is likely part of a contemporary legend, and it has been argued more convincingly that the word “brewis” dates back to Middle English.

Fish and Brewis (pronounced “brews”) is a traditional Newfoundland meal consisting of codfish and hard bread or hard tack. With the abundance of cod around the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador it became synonymous with many Newfoundland households as a delicacy to be served as a main meal.

The recipe may vary from community to community or even household to household but, the ingredients are always the same. The typical recipe calls for salt fish that has to be soaked in water overnight to reduce the salt content of the fish. The hard bread is broken into bite-size pieces and it too is soaked in water overnight. Next day the fish and hard bread are boiled separately until tender then both are served together.

The traditional meal is served with scrunchions, salted pork fat which has been cut into small pieces and fried. Both the rendered fat and the liquid fat are then drizzled over the fish and hard bread.

Fisherman’s brewis is the same as fish and brewis, but the fish and bread are chopped while hot and mixed together with the scrunchions, and often fresh cod is used instead of salt cod.

Drawn Butter is sometimes used instead of scrunchions. Drawn butter in this instance is a mixture of melted butter and chopped onions that is thickened by flour in a saucepan then served hot over the fish and hard bread. (Wikipedia)

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  • 4 cakes hard bread, broken in pieces
  • 1 lb salt cod, pieces or boned
  • 6 slices salt pork (3”L x ¼ “ thick)
  • 1 med onion, finely chopped

In two separate containers, soak salt fish and hard bread in cold water for approx 6-8 hours or overnight. In the morning drain and replace both with cold water.

For the fish; bring to a slow boil and let simmer for approx 20 minutes. Remove from heat and drain. Skin, bone and flake fish – set-aside.

For the hard bread; in a saucepan, place hard bread and cover with enough water. Bring to a slow boil and simmer for approx 5 minutes. Remove from heat and drain. Squeeze out excess water from the hard bread and mix in flaked fish. Blend well.

In a skillet, low heat, fry salt pork until all fat is extracted. Remove rendered pork. Add onions and cook until golden brown. Spoon fat and onions over fish and brewis. Garnish with scrunchions (rendered salt pork). This meal is excellent with a cup of good steeped tea and fresh homemade bread with molasses. Some Shockin’ Good, tell your mother…..

  • Drawn butter (see Sauces) can be used instead of scrunchions and onions
  • Onion gives a more favorable taste to pork fat

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For the past three years, Kate Hudson’s fashion company, Fabletics, has been using subscription services to sell its athletic outfits. The company has grown to $250 million from its inception. It has sixteen operating stores in Hawaii, Illinois, Florida, and California. In 2016, it opened additional physical stores. The company has adopted a unique fashion membership model that is giving major players in the fashion world like Apple and Warby Parker a run for their money.

Today’s fashion market is invaded by brand recognition and exclusive design, unlike the traditional one that concentrated on only quality and value. Fabletics’ director general, Gregg Throgmartin, says that membership service is what has contributed to personal interactions with customers. He says that the model has enabled the company to offer more in comparison to their competitors. Through browsing, Fabletics gets local market information concerning customers’ preference. Focusing on satisfying the fashion needs of its members has seen Fabletics register remarkable growth in the ever-competitive e-commerce landscape.

Fabletic Uses Digital and Physical Stores to Promote Sales

Fabletic has commenced on a journey of presenting real and impressive fashions both on the physical and digital stores. The company can do this through local data extraction on what the market needs but lacks. The company also tries to balance culture, customer education, and customer experiment. The fashion giant is proud of availing quality products at convenient prices all over the U.S. It has seen a consistent growth rate of 35 percent throughout the years.

Fabletic can outsmart its e-commerce competitors by creating physical stores. The company also embraces each and every customer regardless of the type of purchase.

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Fabletics was set up in 2013 by co-founder, Kate Hudson. This e-commerce fashion company has more than 21 million followers on Twitter. The company also enjoys a 2.1 million monthly membership. These members receive 50 percent discount on any attire they purchase. The member gets half the price on purchase according to their choices. When starting the Athleisure line, Hudson had noticed that the Yoga pants that existed were too costly. She decided to come up with a health conscious, high quality, and affordable activewear that would be worn in gyms and around the town.

Through her fashion career journey, Hudson has realized that identifying opportunities where others think is impossible is an essential factor in her success. Hudson also recalls the worthiness of taking risks as part of her success story. She is a lady who believes in working from zero and rising gradually. The Fabletics’ co-founder appreciates customers’ preference and relies on customers’ market information. She says putting on free, comfortable clothing is part of living healthy and encourages customers to invest in such.

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Oklahoma Senate Passes Direct Primary Care Bill

I just wanted to share a quick post about legislation effecting Direct Primary Care in the state of Oklahoma.   State Senators there passed Senate Bill 560 protecting patients from losing direct primary care membership agreements in the workplace or such agreements from being considered as insurance.  Next it goes to the house.  Rep. David Derby is quoted in the article from HeraldOnline.com as saying, “Widespread support is expected for this bill in the Oklahoma legislature, because it emphasizes individual responsibility for health care choices and payments, while it restores the patient-doctor relationship.”

When this economic model of healthcare is examined closely, the benefits are obvious.  I pray that more leaders across our nation will come to recognize these benefits and provide protection for patients and their physicians.  A few states have done so… will Tennessee do so?

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Not knowing what to do with the information conveyed to me up to then, I returned to Asia to reactivate my trading business and set up a new Internet company. As I lined up all the legal and administrative elements to set up the new company, I wondered aloud why I was doing so, and the thought of abandoning the idea passed through my mind not a few times. As it turned out, when the Brotherhood approached me about setting up this website, I realized that that Internet company had served as a training ground for this present website.

One of my guides (I'll introduce him later because he is one of the most intriguing beings I have ever met) said this, "You may think you are an ordinary businessman in Asia but you stand tall among them." I did not know what he meant as the start up was certainly a small, modest operation, compared to the Internet fervor in Hong Kong. Our operations were far from being any tower. Yet my partner and I pursued and made a small success of it.

As the business got underway, I was still mystified about the path I should take. I knew deep down that the Internet business was temporary. I used the mornings to pursue my inward search. I seemed a far cry from being the Great and Holy Master's Amanuensis. I sought the advice of Asian clairvoyants to see if they could see my connection with Sanctus Germanus, but without success. In fact, none of the seers, monks or astrologers I contacted had ever heard of him.

I ordered the whole set of books from the St. Germain Foundation documenting Guy Ballard's encounter with the Master, the resulting I AM movement, his astral trips, and his lectures. These books provided me a view into the occult I AM movement, its foibles and weaknesses, and a little more about the nature of the Master. But the nagging question was this, if the Great and Holy Master St. Germain was indeed the growing hierarch of the New Age, why was there so much emphasis on America as the "chosen" country of sorts? Didn't the whole world belong to the New Age?

I pursued ways of initiating contact with the Master. With friends, we toyed with tarot card readings and table tipping. During the table tipping sessions, one spirit who called himself St. Germain would take over my body causing me to "shake and roll" in my seat while speaking. It was very much like the séances one sees in the movies and I was curious and thrilled with this "spiritual" phenomenon as it challenged all of my concrete intellectual thinking. As time went on, the being would tell me things, some wrong, some right. It would also make predictions for the people sitting around the tipping table.

In addition to the table tipping séances, I tried channeling from many beings posing as St. Germain, El Morya, the Lord Maitreya, Lady Nada and the like, many of whom I learned about in the Ballard series. These messages were posted on a website and covered various subjects.

During this time I began to fall or drop to the ground for no apparent reason. I would be walking down the street when, for no apparent reason, my knees would give and I would fall flat on my face. Each time I felt like someone had deliberately tripped or pushed me. A message came to me that I was tripping and falling because of table tipping and like "astral" games. At first the news was hard to accept. This would mean cutting myself off from the only means I knew to contact the Great and Holy Master.

After a while I began analyzing the channelings I was getting from the various beings. I had to admit they were repetitious and sometimes outright wrong. Sometimes the messages were quite accurate. But it became more and more obvious to me that I was not only dealing with deception but inviting it through table tipping and the like. When this realization finally sank in, I stopped all such activities and closed down the website of spiritual messages. I was left hanging. If these methods of initiating a connection with the other side did not work, how then could I ever fulfill my role? I was at a loss.

I was starting to get impatient. Being a businessman and used to controlling the elements to initiate and implement business projects, it was not my nature to wait patiently for signs or things to unfold. As things turned out, my whole training in the occult would be one of learning patience.

It would only be until the Masters of Wisdom put me through a systematic training to open my clairaudient and clairvoyant faculties for use in the right vein that I would look back at these experiences and identify them as "astral", by nature emotional, unstable, often deceptive, sometimes right and sometimes wrong. It would be as if I stopped anyone on the street to ask his opinion.

The Sudden Move:

After less than a year in Asia I received a very strong impulse to pack up everything and move to Canada. My impatience wanted action. I flew across the Pacific to Canada at the onset of winter to survey the situation and listen to my feelings. I was mainly worried about adapting to the cold.

When I arrived in Canada, I knew instantly it was the right move. I don't recall having this much rapport with Canada during my many trips there over the years. Such strong positive feelings came from the soul. I even knew exactly which building I wanted to live in.

All reason pointed to my business obligations in Asia. I just couldn't pack up and leave on a whim, so on my return to Asia, I filed a move to Canada for the distant future, with no specific date.

A few months after that trip, I began getting strong impulses to move to Canada. Pack up everything, dissolve the business, and move! It was time to fly to Hawaii for another consultation with the trance medium.

"Yes, indeed, a move to Canada is in a carefully worked out plan," he said. "The move will take place relatively soon, within the year at most."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle again appeared and gave me some important pointers in meditation. That was the way to connect with the masters. He reiterated his belief that the Christian prayers had little to contribute to my further spiritual advancement. Instead he suggested that I delve into techniques taught in raja yoga, the king of the yogas, and gave me some breathing techniques to practice.

I knew very little about meditation yet as I eventually learned, deep, systematic meditation is the key to connecting with the spiritual world. It was from this point on that I started to make progress.

After the reading, I returned to Asia. I practiced the techniques that Sir Arthur taught me daily. Then more messages started coming. "Move up your date of departure! Move to Canada." This time the impulses came from the heart and were so strong that I had to heed them.

The one-year leases for the apartment and office were about coming due. Finally, I did not renew them and within a week everything was packed into a sea container for Canada. The move in my mind was so right that I had no doubt as to what I was doing.

Within a couple weeks after I arrived in Canada, I purchased an apartment in the very building I had decided upon during my scouting trip. How that apartment suddenly became available is another story.

I contacted the representative of the St. Germain Foundation set up by Guy Ballard in the 1930's. I was gravely disappointed for she immediately threw up barriers. She said I could not take part in their activities unless I got more training. She herself was the only one authorized to teach in the area but she did not have the time to teach me until several months later.

Caught up in my new life, everything seemed right materially but I felt I was not making much progress on the spiritual plane and when it got down to it, why was I in Canada? I meandered through the New Age bookstores and boutiques, yet found nothing of substance that really satisfied me. It was time for me to consult with the trance medium again.

Key Role of the Deep Trance Medium:

My formal training in the physical and social sciences had conditioned me to search for verification of my feelings, intuitions, and messages. At times I would stop and wonder if I was not halfway to becoming a raving crackpot, dreaming up messages and flailing in the dark. In order to continue along the path of the occult where things are not necessarily observable and quantifiable as proof, I came to rely on the collaboration of a deep trance medium, in this case, the trance medium's integrity as a neutral party without question. The fact that the trance medium remembered nothing of what was said in trance only gave his sessions more credibility, without the bias or opinion of the medium involved.

Before accepting his mediumship for the Masters of Wisdom, the trance medium said he would only accept such an assignment, if he could be a deep trance medium. That way, people would hear an unadulterated version of the message without regard for the medium's background, education, or biases. Another caveat that the trance medium imposed was that any message coming through his body could not insult the intelligence of the listener. And I can say without reservation that whatever has been conveyed through his trance mediumship has only served to challenge me. At times the message is so cryptic and masterly constructed that it takes months to decipher its meaning. When the Great and Holy Master Sanctus Germanus communicated with me through the trance medium it was in poetic pentameters or verse. The odder and the more complex the form of the message only serves to lend it more credibility.

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Hang in there, then-second-year Santa Ynez softball coach Denicia Gills told her players in 2016 as they were mired in another winless season. Help is on the way.

A lot of help did come, several players from that 2016 squad delivered and the Pirates reached the CIF Southern Section Division 7 championship game.

They lost 7-4 to top-ranked Sun Valley Village Christian, but the Santa Ynez run was remarkable for a team that went 0-19 each of the previous two seasons.

After guiding the Pirates to a runner-up finish in Division 7, Gills is the 2017 Lee Central Coast Newspapers'  All-Area Softball Team Coach of the Year.

She was the unanimous pick among the LCCN sports staff.

"Absolutely, there was a time when the confidence kept increasing," Gills said by phone.

"These girls worked hard all year."

As the 2016 season wound down, "We told the girls, 'Hold on. The cavalry's coming,'" said Gills.

The cavalry did come. One 2017 Santa Ynez freshman, pitcher Armani Garcia, is the LCCN All-Area MVP. Another, Yesenia Vega, is on the All-Los Padres League First Team along with Garcia.

"We had five freshmen," on the 12-player roster, said Gills. "So when you're telling them about what they went through last year and how they're progressing this year, about half the team gets it."

Gills said that the travel ball connection was a big reason for the team's success.

"Most of our players play travel ball," said Gills. "Before, we only had maybe one or two players who did.

"With that level of experience, it's just very hard to compete with teams that have extensive travel ball experience, with teams that have players who have had hundreds more at bats than yours have. Most of the teams we played against had mostly players who had played travel ball."

Armani Garcia and her sister Stazia, who hit .400 for the Pirates in her senior season in 2017 (she was one of four holdovers from the 2016 team), have extensive travel ball playing experience.

Their father, Bennie Garcia, has extensive travel ball coaching experience. Gills convinced Bennie to help coach the team (in fact, he is listed as Gills' co-coach on the roster, though Gills seemed to act as the de facto head coach in multiple ways), and she said that was a huge boost to the program.

"At first, Bennie said no way," to coming on as a Santa Ynez coach, said Gills.

"He's a successful travel ball coach at the national level. Central Coast softball-wise, he's probably the most well-known coach there is. Then, at the high school level, he'd see our girls miss balls and get hit in the face with balls in warm-ups."

Finally, Denicia Gills said, Bennie Garcia decided he would help coach in 2016. "We joked that it was a one-year trial basis," Gills said.

After a winless 2016, Bennie Garcia stayed on and, Gills said, that provided the program with a huge lift.

"Every opponent we played, it seemed, had a player Bennie coached or coached against (in travel ball)," said Gills. "He's so well-known. All the umpires knew him."

Maggie Usher, a sophomore who went through Santa Ynez's winless 2016 as a freshman, hit .414 and led the team in RBIs (34) and home runs (seven) in 2017. She was the All-Area Team Offensive Player of the Year.

Jocelyn Castaneda, a freshman, hit .354. Alycia Lowery, a sophomore who Gills said is a transfer student, hit .329.

With that kind of contribution from their mixture of newcomers and vets, the Pirates' stock kept rising in 2017.

"At the beginning of the season we set one goal; finish fourth (in the Los Padres League) and make the playoffs," said Gills.

"Then we figured, 'Hey, we can do this. We have a chance to win the league championship.' That didn't happen (the Pirates tied Lompoc for second place), but we had an idea of what we could do.'"

Gill said, "Now that the hoopla (about the team's runner-up finish in Division 7) is over and things have settled in, we have an idea of what we need to do for next season."

There is a very good chance the Pirates will be able to build on what they did in 2017 in 2018. In 2017, Stazia Garcia was their only senior.

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TICAD May 2008 -lots of NGOs involved

This May NGOs are expected to take on a crucial role in the TICAD IV -
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the Africa-Asia NGO network has blog with some info in English about thier priorities and what issues they hope to tackle.

the TNnet (TICAD IV･NGO ネットワーク - TICAD 4 NGO network) also has info on thier work but this is in Japanese only.

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  1. Hi Sarajean,
    my name's Linda and I work for the international NGO ActionAid in Sweden. I've lived in Japan and I'm interested in returning. Can I somehow get hold of you via e-mail? There's a couple of questions I would love to be able to ask you :)
    Thank you.
    /Linda, linda.iliste@gmail.com

  2. Hello, How are you - I was feeling nostalgic and googling ex-SASU people. I hope all is well. Drop me a line - George Laughney

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AWSA supports UPES for the release of Mustapha Abd Daiem

The Australia Western Sahara Association (AWSA) expressed support to the Saharawi Journalists’ and Writers’ Union (UPES) for the release of the Saharawi prisoner of conscience and member of UPES, Mustapha Abd Daiem.

The Australian organization expressed concerns, in a letter to the Secretary General of UPES, about the injustice to which Mustapha was subjected.

Here is the complete text of the letter:
28 January 2009

Mr. Malainin Lakhal
General Secretary
Saharawi Refugee camps

Dear Malainin

Free Mustapha Abd Daiem Campaign

I am writing on behalf of the Australia Western Sahara Association (AWSA) to express our support for your campaign for Mustapha Abd Daiem, a Saharawi human rights activist, journalist and member of the Assa-Zag Branch of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights and the Saharawi Journalists’ and Writers’ Union.

We are aware that Mustafa Abd Daiem is currently serving a three year prison sentence in Ait Meloul prison in Morocco and has been on a hunger strike to protest his situation. AWSA is concerned about his recent trial which we understand was highly irregular and thus his current prison sentence is unfair and unjustified.

On 4 November, the Court of First Instance of Guelmim convicted him of offending the flag of the Kingdom of Morocco, rebelling and inciting an armed gathering, participating in the destruction of public property and participating in the contempt of public officials on duty. In addition to the prison term he was fined 50,000 dirhams (approximately US$6,220). The sentence also leaves him unemployed, as it included a prohibition of practicing teaching or working in any educational institution for a period of 10 years.

Mustafa Abdel Dayem and his lawyers insist that the record of his questioning by the Royal Gendarmerie (procès-verbal), on which his conviction was largely based, was falsified and different from the one he originally signed. He was also denied his right to be defended by legal counsel during his appeal trial.

We understand that Mustapha’s treatment is in response to his belief in Saharawi independence. This would appear to be another example of the abuse of the human rights in the occupied territory of Western Sahara, including torture, restriction of freedom of expression and unfair trials for those Saharawis who publicly express opposition to the Moroccan occupation.

For these reasons AWSA strongly supports the campaign run by UPES for the release of Mustapha Abd Daiem.

Yours sincerely

Lesley Osborne
AWSA Vice President/Secretary

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The New York Women Composers, Inc.

As I wrote in my first blog post, I have worked with many great organizations and composers in the past that I would love to see get more exposure. One such group is the New York Women Composers, Inc. (NYWC). I had the great fortune of working with this organization the past few years, particularly after they awarded me with one of their Seed Money Grants.

Founded in 1984, NYWC serves to hasten the incorporation of music by women composers into the concert scene around the world through the creation of opportunities for performing, recording, networking, and mentoring. The women at the helm of this organization are caring, kind, and great composers.

I was first introduced to this organization by one of its members, Mary Ann Joyce-Walter, whose songs “A New Theology” and “The Sweetness” I had heard at a concert of new music at Fordham University. I approached her about singing these songs on a recital I would be giving the following year and she happily obliged. It was following this recital that she encouraged me to apply for the Seed Money Grant.

The Seed Money Grant program awards grants of $750 to performers or presenters, for concerts or sound recording projects that include music by NYWC members. It is a great opportunity for performers or presenters to delve into the music written by the members of this organization, much of which is fantastic. The call for scores I put out for the recital I did with the seed money elicited many unexpected gems, so many that I was forced to turn away pieces that I plan to program later.

In exploring the music by the members, one will find that these composers span the gamut stylistically from neoclassical to atonal, from purely classical to that which is inspired by contemporary commercial music such as musical theater or folk. One can create a very diverse program using just the music of members in NYWC!

I encourage everyone to check out NYWC’s website and the music posted by its members. This is a challenging time for all musicians as the arts suffer from the financial downturn. That said, we all benefit from the performance of works by present-day composers – composers gain exposure, performers profit from being able to work with the actual composer, and audience’s ears are opened and exposed to a greater variety of musical material. Win-Win!

To learn more about this great organization please check out their website below:

New York Women Composers, www.newyorkwomencomposers.org

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Because We Just Thought It Would Be Fun To Act Like Marines and Explode Some Flash Bangs

More evidence of the overuse of SWAT Teams in our country:

Some 20 police officers, many of them members of the city's SWAT Team decked out in full battle dress, raided 61 Liberty St. yesterday afternoon in the Washington Heights neighborhood.

The police were executing a search warrant on the house, where undercover police had made marijuana purchases in recent weeks.

They weren't expecting armed resistance, and the pot house wasn't gang-related, said Det. Sgt. Bruce Campbell. "The SWAT Team had training in the city today anyway, so we thought we'd get them out there," said Campbell.

If they weren't expecting armed resistance, then why the hell did they employ a SWAT team? "Because they were there" is an absolutely horrible reason to do it. SWAT Teams use incredibly dangerous techniques, which if it's a high risk warrant, are neccessary, but otherwise escalate the potential of harm being done to people in the area more than it's worth. You know, like blowing off testicles with flash bang grenades, or killing unarmed men who are surrendering.

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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Hey! I Think I See a Way Out!

First things, first, announcements!

Don't forget to watch the new episode of Stargate Universe tonight on Syfy at 8 pm CST!!!

There's a new episode of Riese:  Kingdom Falling up today.  Check it out here.

Wow, I am having a hard time believing that it already the week of Thanksgiving.  Where did my November go?  Oh, wait, that's right, I spent it writing.   Mostly.  I mean, yeah, I sort of remember some other stuff sneaking in there, but mostly it was just writing.

Now that we're past the two-thirds point of the month, I thought I would give you a little "state of my novel" entry.  I remember saying after the first week that I thought I might be able to actually finish my story (or at least hit my 50,000 words) by November 20 or 21.  Well, clearly, that hasn't happened, but mostly because life kept getting in the way.  I have broken 40,000 words though, so I have no doubts that I will hit the 50,000 mark by or before November 30.  Whether I actually finish my story by then, well, that's another matter entirely.

Heh.  Remember when I was agonizing that my story might not even lend itself to 50,000 words?  Silly Past Me.  The more I wrote in this world, and the more I stopped to sit down and actually build this world, the more ideas I came up with for what was going on in the story.  I think I may have actually tried to do too much.  I've got about three possible big final conflicts, that, ideally, would all happen and play nicely off of one another.  In reality though, I think I am about to have to pick one and write towards that conflict and wrap up the story.  I would like to figure out a way to do that without those other plot points just fizzling away into nothingness though.  So right now, my primary goals with my story are:

  1. Start ending the story.
  2. Wrap up what can be wrapped up.
  3. Provide plausible reasons for why what was left hanging was left that way.

I have so many cool ideas that I have been kicking around that I fear I am just going to have to leave be.  But, I am making sure to take notes on them.  Maybe if I write another story in this world, I can work those in somehow, and provide resolution to the unresolved issues from this story.  As I am sure you can imagine, since I've come up with so many new ideas while writing, my story has started to stray a bit from that shiny outline that I sat down and hammered out back in October.  Granted, I tried to leave that outline slightly vague in the first place, because while there were some specific scenes I envisioned that needed to be included, I didn't have the entire story worked out beyond where I wanted it to more or less go.  So, I am not completely off the rails, but I am getting to that point where I haven't referred to my outline in a while, and I am just a teensy bit scared to look at it and see what I've totally left out and how much I've veered from my original plan.

Not that veering is a bad thing.  An outline is just that, an outline.  It's a set of steps, a path, if you will, for your characters to try to follow over the course of the story.  But just like any path, there are forks, and detours, and you can't always know where or when those will crop up.  Sometimes you just have to leave the established road and hope that you end up where you need to be, whether that's where you thought you were going or not.  I honestly have never really been big on using outlines in my story-writing in the first place, so I am really not surprised that this one has ended up not dictating my every scene.  Still, just having it has been more than helpful, especially when I would find myself stuck on where to take my characters next.

I do think I need to sit down and do one more review of my outline, and of my story notes, and then compare it to where my story is right now.  From there, I am going to make new,  retroactive outline of what has actually happened, and what there is left to do, and hopefully I can bring this puppy home.  As I've said before--starting stories is never something I've had a problem with.  Finishing them, well, that's my challenge.  That's why I am doing this.  But, that means that I have now officially entered the hard part of the process.  Whee!

I do have to say, I truly am really really glad that I decided to participate in NaNoWriMo this year.  The reason I started this blog back up was because, in not writing regularly, I really felt like I was missing some crucial element of me, and doing this, as stressful as it has been at times (self-imposed stress is still stress), has really made me feel so much better about myself than I have in a very long time.  I've learned something very important about myself this month.  Writing is in my soul, and writing stories, whether they are excellent, or complete crap, or even unfinished, is something that I need to be doing on a regular basis.

Of course, so is playing video games, apparently.  I am just itching to jump back into that particular part of my life.  Finding a balance between that and story-writing should prove an interesting challenge, but as we start to close the books on this year, I feel like it is one I am up to.

I have been debating with myself over which game to pick up and play once I finish my story, and I think I have chosen Kingdom Hearts.  It is the "great unfinished" challenge in my video game playing history.  I have started this thing so many times.  Seriously, I've been trying to beat it since 2002 or 2003.  (Look, I have never once said that I am a good video game player.  This game was actually one of my gateway drugs into the pastime, and I have leveled up considerably since then.)  I had already decided that 2011 was the year that I was finally going to finish it.  But, in the wake of setting a goal and finishing a story within a given period of time, I am wondering if it might not be possible to actually do the same with this video game.  If I could manage to beat it before the year is out?  Well, that'd just be the icing on the cake.

Word Count Update: 42,116 out of 50,000

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  1. It's a trippy journey, yeah? And just think, I was thinking I could do mine in just three novels...tsk tsk. ;)


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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Some may think that I'm behind on the news, since this was announced back in March. Others may think that I'm just plain crazy, since the Beijing Olympics aren't taking place until next summer. But, this weekend, I happened upon some pictures of the Beijing Olympic medals:

For the first time in the history of the Olympics, a mineral (jade), is being added to the medals. The darker green is for the bronze medal, while the whiter jade goes with the gold. I'd love to be able to see these things in person, but alas, I think this may be the closest I get to seeing them. =P

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Well, I finally fixed that damn banner at the top of my page. I know some people were expecting a .gif file with some vital life improving information but not this time folks. I'm kinda busy right now. So I'll change it after FINAL ROUND XIV.

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The George Ashby Memorial Museum is housed in two rustic log cabins located next to the historic Copper Center Lodge. The first cabin showcases many historic photographs, documents, items from the Kennicott Copper Mine, treasures from ‘Old Alaska’ and Native cultural items. The second cabin is dedicated to the 1898 Gold Rush and is filled with photographs and artifacts of that time period. Within the museum are local hand-made items available for purchase, as well as books pertinent to the area’s history. The Copper Valley Historical Society is a non-profit group of volunteers that operates the museum, which opened in 1984. Museum Hours: Open 7 days a week from June 1 through September 15; 11am to 5pm. Admission is free, with donations welcome. An adjacent historic building known as the Chapel on the Hill was the first church in the area, built by Vince Joy in 1942 with the assistance of US Army volunteers.

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Veal Loin Chops with Tarragon and White Wine Reduction Sauce

Veal is one of those rich, delicious delicacies that PETA would have you believe is morally reprehensible to consume. And you know what? Maybe it is, but I’ll be damned if that’s going to stop me. So with some thick and succulent veal loin chops on hand, I decided to go with a relatively simple recipe that produces some pretty complex and interesting flavors, mostly due to the use of tarragon. On the side, I steamed some broccoli and made a simple risotto to round out this delicious gourmet meal. The risotto recipe is the same one I used for my seafood risotto, and you can make whichever sides you like, so I’ll only be detailing the process for cooking the veal below.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Apple Crumbles

Crumble desserts are great for any occasion. They’re quick and easy to make, and you can use pretty much any fruit you want. I chose granny smith apples for my crumbles because, well, I haven’t done a lot of baking with apples – my baked goods tend to deal in bread, chocolate, or berries. These turned out to be the perfect dessert for a recent family dinner, and I’m looking forward to trying them again with other fruit in the future.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Braised Chicken Breast (Or Chicken Stew)

I know what you’re thinking – “Braised chicken breast? What kind of sense does that make?” Admittedly, not a whole lot, at least not until you try it. If you think of it as a chicken stew instead, the concept becomes a little easier to grasp. It’s a technique I recently learned in class and I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to make some at home. That opportunity finally arrived in the form of a family gathering, and I’m pleased to report that this flavorful dish was a big hit!

It’s got a decent handful of steps to it, but in general it’s not all that difficult, so check out the recipe and give it a try!

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Dauphinoise Potatoes

I've been cooking with potatoes quite a bit these days. That's no accident - potatoes are what we've all been using in class to practice our knife skills. Rather than tossing away perfectly good potato, why not put it to good use? And speaking of class, that's where I learned about dauphinoise potatoes, the delicious dish you see here. It's similar to scalloped or au gratin potatoes, but a bit richer and made specifically using Gruyere cheese. It's fairly simple, doesn't use a ton of ingredients, and is incredibly tasty, so give it a shot!

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

It's been a few weeks since I did any hardcore baking. Between school and work, I just don't have the necessary prep time anymore most days. This past weekend, however, I decided it was time to bake something blog-worthy - something extravagant and complex. As you can see, I opted to bake profiteroles, a challenge in an of themselves, and something I've never attempted before.

Those of you who have been following SYD might have noticed I'm generally not content doing just one thing - and to that end, I also made the ice cream myself, even without an ice cream maker. It's a chocolate chip and Nutella swirled vanilla ice cream, and it was well worth the effort. You can find the recipes for the profiteroles themselves, as well as the ice cream, and the chocolate ganache topping below. Obviously, you don't have to make your own ice cream for this, as doing so extends the prep time considerably. I'll leave that up to you.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Honey Soy Sauce Chicken

Boneless chicken breasts kind of stress me out. They're so versatile, and there are so many different ways they can be prepared that I always have a very difficult time just figuring out which way to cook them. This time, I ultimately chose to adapt a recipe I'd used previously but never posted here on SYD. It uses a sweet and spicy honey soy sauce marinade, only the original recipe called for drumsticks, whereas I chose to cube some breasts instead and make a simple, delicious Asian-style dinner. Serve it with sticky rice and a vegetable of your choosing for a complete dinner that will blow your mind!

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Cornbread Muffins

This past weekend was my cousin's birthday party, and a good opportunity for me to cater to a group of 20 or so people. Most of what I provided is straight from this blog already - Smokin' Scovilles chili, dulce de leche brownies, and homemade pickles are among them. I also made a big batch of buttery and delicious cornbread muffins, because chili is never truly complete without cornbread. And these were, indeed, the perfect compliment to a steaming hot bowl of Smokin' Scovilles, so try them out!

As a quick side note before we get to the recipe, I made a double batch for the purposes of a decent sized crowd, but I'll be posting the recipe for a single batch since that will likely be more practical for most of you.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Homemade Pickles

As someone who grew up in a Jewish family, the 83% of my blood that should be water is actually pickle juice. I've loved pickles since I was very young, and a jar of them never lasts very long in my presence. Ever since I discovered my love of cooking, I've wanted to make my own pickles, but could never find a good time to start them.

I was finally inspired to make my own pickles by a very dear friend of mine named Jessie, from whom I also acquired this recipe. If you like your pickles crunchy, tart, and garlicy, this is the recipe for you!

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Shrimp and Lobster Risotto

If there's one thing I am sure of in life these days, it's the fact that I'm making good use of the education I've been receiving at Le Cordon Bleu for the past 2 weeks. After witnessing a demonstration in class on how to make perfect risotto, I knew it was something I'd have to try on my own time. Not only had I never tried making risotto myself, but I was already quite fond of risotto's particular texture and creaminess.

Of course, this wouldn't be Screw Your Diet if I didn't add some extra flair to the dish. To that end, I added half a pound of grilled shrimp, lobster tail, and broccoli into the mix. The result was as delicious and rich as you might expect. One thing to note, however, is that exact measurement were not used, so many of them will be approximate measurements rather than being more precise. Savory cooking is mostly done "to taste", so the exact proportions for spices and the like will pretty much be left to your own discretion.


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XS::APItest::KeywordRPN - write arithmetic expressions in RPN

        use XS::APItest::KeywordRPN qw(rpn calcrpn);

        $triangle = rpn($n $n 1 + * 2 /);

        calcrpn $triangle { $n $n 1 + * 2 / }

This module supplies plugged-in keywords, using the new mechanism in Perl 5.11.2, that allow arithmetic to be expressed in reverse Polish notation, in an otherwise Perl program. This module has serious limitations and is not intended for real use: its purpose is only to test the keyword plugin mechanism. For that purpose it is part of the Perl core source distribution, and is not meant to be installed.

RPN expression syntax

Tokens of an RPN expression may be separated by whitespace, but such separation is usually not required. It is required only where unseparated tokens would look like a longer token. For example, 12 34 + can be written as 12 34+, but not as 1234 +.

An RPN expression may be any of:

A sequence of digits is an unsigned decimal literal number.

An alphanumeric name preceded by dollar sign refers to a Perl scalar variable. Only variables declared with my or state are supported. If the variable's value is not a native integer, it will be converted to an integer, by Perl's usual mechanisms, at the time it is evaluated.

A B +

Sum of A and B.

A B -

Difference of A and B, the result of subtracting B from A.

A B *

Product of A and B.

A B /

Quotient when A is divided by B, rounded towards zero. Division by zero generates an exception.

A B %

Remainder when A is divided by B with the quotient rounded towards zero. Division by zero generates an exception.

Because the arithmetic operators all have fixed arity and are postfixed, there is no need for operator precedence, nor for a grouping operator to override precedence. This is half of the point of RPN.

An RPN expression can also be interpreted in another way, as a sequence of operations on a stack, one operation per token. A literal or variable token pushes a value onto the stack. A binary operator pulls two items off the stack, performs a calculation with them, and pushes the result back onto the stack. The stack starts out empty, and at the end of the expression there must be exactly one value left on the stack.

These are the operators being added to the Perl language.

This construct is a Perl expression. EXPRESSION must be an RPN arithmetic expression, as described above. The RPN expression is evaluated, and its value is returned as the value of the Perl expression.

This construct is a complete Perl statement. (No semicolon should follow the closing brace.) VARIABLE must be a Perl scalar my variable, and EXPRESSION must be an RPN arithmetic expression as described above. The RPN expression is evaluated, and its value is assigned to the variable.

This module only performs arithmetic on native integers, and only a small subset of the arithmetic operations that Perl offers. This is due to it being intended only for demonstration and test purposes.

The RPN parser is liable to leak memory when a parse error occurs. It doesn't leak on success, however.

Devel::Declare, "PL_keyword_plugin" in perlapi

Andrew Main (Zefram) <>

Copyright (C) 2009 Andrew Main (Zefram) <>

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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  my $loader = Bio::Graphics::Wiggle::Loader->new('/base/directory/for/wigfiles','wibfilename');
  my $fh = IO::File->new('uploaded_file.txt');

  my $gff3_file   = $loader->featurefile('gff3',$method,$source);
  my $featurefile = $loader->featurefile('featurefile');
  my @features    = $loader->features();

This module loads Bio::Graphics::Wiggle files from source files that use Jim Kent's "WIG" format:

Several data sets can be grouped together in a single WIG source file. The load() method accepts the path to a WIG source file, and will create one or more .wib ("wiggle binary") databases of quantitative data in the directory indicated when you created the loader. Call the featurefile() method to return a text file in either GFF3 or Bio::Graphics::FeatureFile format, suitable for loading into a gbrowse database.

$loader = Bio::Graphics::Wiggle::Loader->new('/base/directory' [,'my_data'])

Create a new loader. The first argument specifies the base directory in which the loaded .wib files will be created. The second argument specifies the base name for the created .wib files, or "track" if not specified.

Load the data from a source WIG file opened on a filehandle.

$data = $loader->featurefile($type [,$method,$source])

Return the data corresponding to a GFF3 or Bio::Graphics::FeatureFile. The returned file will have one feature per WIG track, and a properly formatted "wigfile" attribute that directs Bio::Graphics to the location of the quantitative data.

$type is one of "gff3" or "featurefile". In the case of "gff3", you may specify an optional method and source for use in describing each feature. In the case of "featurefile", the returned file will contain GBrowse stanzas that describe a reasonable starting format to display the data.

@features = $loader->features

Returns one or more Bio::Graphics::Features objects, which can be used to create Bio::Graphics tracks with the wiggle_xyplot (and related) glyphs.

If allow_sampling() is passed a true value, then very large files (more than 5 MB) will undergo a sampling procedure to find their minimum and maximum values and standard deviation. Otherwise, file will be read in its entirety to generate those statistics.

Several extensions to the WIG format "track" declaration are recognized.

Specify a transform to be performed on all numeric data within this track prior to loading into the binary wig file. Currently, the following three declarations are recognized:

 transform=logtransform y' = 0          for  y == 0
                        y' = log(y)     for  y >  0
                        y' = -log(-y)   for  y <  0

 transform=logsquared  y' = log(y**2) for y != 0
                       y' = 0         for y == 0
 transform=none        y' = y   (no transform - the default)

Specify a trimming function to be performed on the data prior to scaling. Currently, the following trim functions are recognized:

 trim=stdev1           trim to plus/minus 1 standard deviation of the mean
 trim=stdev2           trim to plus/minus 2 standard deviations of the mean (default)
 trim=stdevN           trim to plus/minus N standard deviations of the mean
 trim=none             no trimming

Example entended track declaration:

 track type=wiggle_0 name="example" description="20 degrees, 2 hr"  \
       trim=stdev2 transform=logsquared

Bio::Graphics::Wiggle, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::wiggle_xyplot, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::wiggle_density, Bio::Graphics::Panel, Bio::Graphics::Glyph, Bio::Graphics::Feature, Bio::Graphics::FeatureFile

Lincoln Stein <>.

Copyright (c) 2007 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

This package and its accompanying libraries is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL (either version 1, or at your option, any later version) or the Artistic License 2.0. Refer to LICENSE for the full license text. In addition, please see DISCLAIMER.txt for disclaimers of warranty.

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

A Personal Shrine Project - homage to my mother

I've been fascinated with the idea of personal shrines ever since I got the book Crafting Personal Shrines by Carol Owens. After my mother died, I decided to make a personal shrine in her memory. Of course it took me a year and a half to be able to do it.

My idea was to include images and items that remind me of my mother. For example we drove from Texas to New Mexico with Mom years ago. Every time she saw cows, she would cry out, "Cows!" It was the first time I knew how much she loved cows - makes sense growing up in Texas. Now my daughter and I both say "Cows!" whenever we see some.

When the urge to make this project NOW came over me, I looked around my studio to see what I could use as the basis and found this vintage cigar box.

Then I got out my newest toy - this small Dremel bandsaw. I love this baby and I got it for next to nothing. I was at a huge church yard sale near the end of the morning. They announced that a bag or boxful would cost $5. I had been eyeing this saw that was priced at $20. I wasn't sure whether this would be allowed in my box, but I filled a box with some great books, a cool necklace for my daughter, a vintage wooden sign from a ferry, the saw, and a coffee maker with built-in grinder (which couldn't begin to fit in the box). Walked up to checkout and asked how much - $5!!! So I basically got the saw for free. Love it.

I used it to cut up the lid and make internal dividers for the shrine. Since these are things that my mother loved, I thought I would call this 'Chambers of Her Heart'. And the box has four chambers, get it?

Here's the piece after the first day. Aren't you impressed by my fancy clamps? I have chambers about:
  • Learning, language, dictionaries, and Shakespeare
  • Wildflowers and insects
  • Texas and cows
  • Beauty, grace, and elegance

 I am very ambiguous about the piece right now. In general, I find that when I am creating something I get very unsure about my results when I am midway in the project. I usually find that if I keep adding elements, it will all work out in the end. So I am going to try that. But I am unsatisfied with the colors in the upper right chamber. They look too cold to me.

Recycled materials I have used so far:

Pages from a vintage textbook
1940's letter that I marbled
Pages from my mother's college English notebook
Cigar box
Vintage dictionary pages
Vintage yardstick
More vintage book pages

I will be adding lots more recycled materials when I add the three dimensional bits inside each chamber.

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Title:  Stranded (Alaskan Courage Book #3)
Author:  Dani Pettrey
Pages:  352
Year:  2013
Publisher:  Bethany
Shattered and Submerged are the titles of the first two novels in this action-packed, suspense-filled thriller series written by Dani Pettrey.   Some might conclude the later novels would be boring or the story thin, but nothing could be further from the truth!  Here, the McKenna family is once again running their adventure business in Alaska.  Gage’s heart was broken years ago by the loss of his son and more.  Then, Darcy St. James enters the area and Gage’s life starts to get interesting.  However, progress can only happen if Gage lets go of his anger toward God, turns to the Lord and allows his heart to love again.
While the McKenna family works, plays and worships together, they each have unique personalities that blend well to make life interesting.  Abby is Darcy’s best friend from her past who calls and asks her to join her on a cruise in Alaska because of something Abby has discovered.  While Darcy loves writing, even though she has left undercover reporting, she finds the cry for help one she cannot resist.  As Darcy uncovers more information, what comes to light is far more than first perceived in the investigation.  The danger, risks and clues increase exponentially, bringing characters face to face with where their walk with the Lord is and Who is responsible for salvation.
Since I began reading this series, there has always been anticipation for a possible sequel to be published.  The suspense, romance, faith, thrills and chills that are some of the elements in the book kept me up late each time I began a book.  Alaska has always held my interest and someday I hope to visit the area.  With the scenes described in the writing, my heart really desires to see the land and meet the people.  The characters are in many ways representative of people I have known in various places with their seeking Him, returning to Him or coming to Him.  The joy of seeing faith, scripture and praying characters makes the novel rich in meaning.
All I can say is read all three of the novels in order to gain the richness of the plot that begins in Shattered, continues in Submerged and now resides in Stranded.  I think readers will enjoy reading any of them without reading the others, but for me it was a richer experience since starting at the beginning.   I sure wonder what the author is going to do next.  I would be ecstatic to read another novel in the Alaskan Courage series.  Don’t miss the fun!
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