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Cloud-based video surveillance designed for the cyber-security conscious customer seeking maximum flexibility in their choices of cameras and locations.

The Eagle Eye Cloud VMS is a cloud security camera system which provides 100% cloud management, 100% mobile and web browser viewing, and if you want – 100% cloud recording. This cloud video system has been architected from the ground up to be all cloud all the time. You can click and add an analog or IP camera at any time. You can click and change how long you keep your recordings.

Eagle Eye Video API Platform

The Eagle Eye Video API Platform is a comprehensive REST-based API for recording, indexing, and storing video surveillance footage.

The Eagle Eye Video API Platform handles all of the heavy-lifting including interfacing to the cameras, recording video, securely transmitting it to the cloud, storing it, and making it available to use in your applications. All of the Eagle Eye Cloud Security Camera VMS user interfaces (web, iOS, Android) have been built using this API.

 Access Control & Intrusion

Combined Functionality of Video and Access Control:

  • Permanently log and store video from entrances any time the access control system is activated.
  • Protect valuables by identifying who entered your facility after hours.
  • Centralized management of all of a facility’s security operations.
  • Correlate video with events and activities from within your access control system.

Enterprise Analytics

Turn Video Into Powerful Business Insight:

  • Real-time alerts with video result in quicker, more efficient responses and resolution
  • Select specific parameters, such as time, activity, location, and review only the video that meets those requirements
  • Make smarter business decisions by dissecting video data with reports, charts, and graphs
  • Optimize operations and increase revenue by planning proper staffing and improving customer satisfaction

Point of Sale

Impactful Business Intelligence at Your Fingertips:

  • Provide visual verification of each transaction by synchronizing video and POS data
  • Monitor video that is tied to POS transactions to rapidly detect suspicious transactions
  • Reduce loss and fraud that may occur at POS terminal with video
  • Instantly search and view the video of specific transactions across single or multiple stores

Fleet Management

Software Focused on Smooth Operations:

  • Provide insight on dispatch times and job scheduling
  • Manage repair centers
  • Track status and asset lifecycles
  • Monitor the behavior of your drivers

Medical Facilities

Increase Security, Control Costs, and Improve Operations:

  • Use video to improve treatment and training applications in hospitals, trauma centers, surgical suites, etc.
  • Increase overall security and safety within medical facilities
  • Prevent dishonest claims and help resolve employee disputes
  • Provide digital storage where the surveillance video is easily accessible to authorized users
  • Receive notifications and see video clips when individuals enter restricted areas

Video Alarm Monitoring

View Live and Recorded Video Correlated with Events:

  • Provide higher level of service to your customers by granting video access to monitoring center employees
  • Increase recurring revenue and improve retention periods
  • Capture new business in municipalities that mandate video alarm verification before dispatch

Franchise Management

Connections Where it Counts:

  • Ensure brand consistency and cleanliness across multiple locations
  • Help franchise owners manage employees, equipment, and performance
  • View the live and recorded video for multiple locations on one screen
  • Video of customer incidents or accidents can be linked to details within your system

View Live and Recorded Video Correlated with Sensor Events:

  • Identify problems and quickly solve root causes
  • Improve business operations and provide more insight to your customers
  • Enhanced video notifications can be set to notify users of particular events
  • Synchronized video monitoring to review specific events after the fact

Warehouse & Robotics

Reduce theft and minimize incidents:

  • Instant alerts can be triggered in case of incident and video readily reviewed
  • View live video or recorded video to assess incidences
  • Remotely monitor footage from anytime, anywhere

Axis Network Cameras

Whatever you’re looking for, you’ll find an Axis network camera to suit your needs. From robust outdoor cameras to discreet products for sensitive environments, we offer it all.

Our cameras provide excellent HDTV image quality regardless of lighting conditions and the size and characteristics of the monitored areas. And they do it while minimizing bandwidth and storage needs to help you save energy.

Analytic applications developed by Axis and our partners transform our network cameras into business tools. They can alert you to developing situations and help you make smart decisions about operations and resource allocation. Data can also be integrated with your other systems.

A wide range of network video surveillance solutions including cameras and encoders, Video Management Software and recorders, analytics and applications. Our IP-based portfolio ensures scalability and simplifies integration.

Axis offer a wide range of Camera types

Panoramic Cameras

Panoramic cameras give you wide-area coverage with just one camera. You can use them to monitor activities and detect incidents in large areas, track the flow of people, and improve area management. And because just one camera plays the role of many, your installation and system costs are kept lower.

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PTZ Cameras

Axis PTZ network cameras use pan, tilt and zoom to provide both wide-area coverage and great detail with a single camera. Great image quality and the ability to zoom in make it possible to verify detected security events. The result is maximum protection and minimum costs.

The cameras are equipped with a variety of intelligent features and can move between pre-set positions and zoom in automatically in response to detected events. They can also be easily integrated into a system with other cameras.

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Fixed Box Cameras

Fixed box cameras from Axis send a powerful message of deterrence to potential offenders: Think twice. We’re watching. That’s because they provide a clearly visible, fixed angle of view, making it easy to see exactly where they’re pointing and allowing you to record a precisely defined area. Our fixed box portfolio includes CS-mount cameras with interchangeable lenses.

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Thermal Cameras

Thermal cameras create images based on the heat that always radiates from any object, vehicle or person.

A thermal camera is less sensitive to problems with light conditions, such as shadows, backlight, darkness and even camouflaged objects; and delivers images that allow operators to detect and act on suspicious activity – 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Specialty Cameras

Axis specialty cameras include specific features not offered by our standard products. For example, AXIS P9106-V Brushed Steel is a corner-mounted camera specially designed for installations in elevators where it can blend in seamlessly with any high-end interior design.

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Kantech-Onboard Integration

High Performance Video Surveillance and Access Control on a Single Server

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Powerful Access Control Software

  • Intuitive yet powerful full-featured software
  • Easily scales from controlling a few doors to thousands of doors and managing thousands of cards at multiple locations
  • Supports up to 20 workstations and up to 50 concurrent logins of EntraPass Web and/or EntraPass Go
  • Add an unlimited number of cardholders with up to 5 cards each
  • Standardize network administration with SQL/Oracle integration, redundant servers and AD/LDAP integration
  • Receive real-time e-mail notifications and quickly create reports
  • Automate integration with intelligent devices such as video multiplexers, HVAC systems, LCD panels, video matrix switcher through SmartLink

See and Control Access Control Events in exacqVision

  • Improve response time to critical alarms and events by monitoring and controlling doors from exacqVision while viewing associated cameras
  • Easily search video for specific cardholder names or numbers
  • Quickly find cameras and doors through map functionality
  • Monitor and control from Exacq Mobile, exacqVision Web, or exacqVision PC client or EntraPass Web or EntraPass Go mobile app

Reduce Complete Security Costs

  • Eliminate separate server for access control
  • Reduce power, cooling and rack space costs
  • Faster installation with pre-loaded software on a single server
  • Integrates with DSC PowerSeries Neo and MAXSYS intrusion alarm panels for a complete solution

6MP WDR IR Dome Network Camera

· 1/2.9” 6Megapixel progressive scan STARVIS™ CMOS
· H.265&H.264 dual-stream encoding
· 20fps@6M(3072×2048),25/30fps@4M(2688×1520)
· Day/Night(ICR), 3DNR, AWB, AGC, BLC
· Multiple network monitoring: Web viewer, CMS(DSS/PSS) & DMSS
· 7mm ~35mm 5X zoom lens
· Max. IR LEDs Length 100m
· Micro SD card memory, IP67,IK10, PoE+

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6MP WDR IR Mini Bullet Network Camera

· 1/2.9” 6Megapixel progressive scan STARVISTM CMOS
· H. 265&H.264 triple-stream encoding
· 20fps@6MP(3072×2048), 25/30fps@4MP(2688×1520)
· Smart Detection supported
· WDR(120dB), Day/Night(ICR), 3DNR, AWB, AGC, BLC
· Multiple network monitoring: Web viewer, CMS(DSS/PSS) & DMSS
· 2.8mm fixed lens (3.6mm, 6mm optional)
· Max. IR LEDs Length 80m
· Micro SD Memory,IP67,IK10, PoE

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6MP IR Eyeball Network Camera

· 1/2.9” 6Megapixel progressive scan STARVISTM CMOS
· H.265&H.264 triple-stream encoding
· 20fps@6MP(3072×2048), 25/30fps@4MP(2688×1520)
· Smart detection supported
· WDR(120dB), Day/Night(ICR), 3DNR,AWB,AGC,BLC
· Multiple network monitoring: Web viewer, CMS(DSS/PSS) & DMSS
· 2.8mm fixed lens (3.6mm optional)
· Built-in Mic
· Max. IR LEDs Length 50m
· Micro SD memory, IP67, PoE

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16/32/64 Channel 2U 16PoE 4K&H.265 Pro Network Video Recorder

· Smart H.265+/H.265/Smart H.264+/H.264/MJPEG
· Max 320Mbps Incoming Bandwidth
· Supports RAID 0/1/5/10
· Up to 12MP Resolution for Preview and Playback
· 2HDMI/2VGA simultaneous video output
· 1-8 PoE Ports Support 800m ePoE & EoC

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GV-Tower NVR System V2 RevB

The GV-Tower NVR System V2 (Rev. B) comes with 4 hot-swap drive bays for the storage of 40 TB. This system has Intel Core i5 and features the latest upgraded NVR system and 64-bit Microsoft Windows Embedded OS. GV-Tower NVR System V2 (Rev. B) supports up to 32 channels of GV-IP devices or third-party IP devices (license required). You can also bring the surveillance on the HDTV with a HDMI cable. It is a towering, affordable, and efficient NVR system that you have ever seen.

  • Powered by Intel Core i5 Processor
  • 64-bit Windows Embedded OS
  • Support GPU Decoding
  • 4-bay hot-swap data HDD
  • Maximum storage capacity of 40 TB
  • Pre-installed SSD for recovery
  • Dual Gigabit LAN ports
  • 2-monitor display with HDMI outputs
  • Support for 3rd party IP devices
  • Support for 32 channels (Pure IP solution)
  • All-in-one solution (Live View, Playback, Recording, Backup, CMS)
  • Video analysis
  • Fisheye Dewarping Function
  • Automatic connection to GV-IP devices
  • H.265 / H.264 / MJPEG / MPEG4
  • On-screen LED panel for HDD status
  • Smart device access
  • Multiple (31) languages

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GV‐Hot Swap VMS System V5 RevE-3U,16-Bay,8-Bay

The GV-Hot Swap VMS System V5 features a powerful data storage capacity. It comes with a selection of 4U (20-bay) or 3U (16 / 8-bay) and hot-swappable SATA mobile racks. Depending on HDD size, the GV-Hot Swap VMS System V5 can store up to 200 terabytes of recorded data. Support for hot-swapping makes data storage and management more convenient.

GeoVision Surveillance System empowers the GV-Hot Swap VMS System V5 with a maximum of 64 audio and video channels. Its networking capability makes remote access and control of the system possible. Additionally, its compatibility with other GeoVision accessories can cater to any kind of needs or budgets. By extending the compatibility to the third-party IP devices (license required), GV-VMS software provides a pure IP solution to GV-Hot Swap VMS System V5.

  • Powered by Intel Core i7 Processor
  • 64-bit Windows 10 IoT Enterprise
  • Support H.265 CPU and GPU decoding
  • Support up to 64 channels (pure IP surveillance)
  • Three-monitor display
  • Maximum storage capacity up to 200 TB (4U 20-Bay) / 160 TB (3U 16-Bay) / 80 TB (3U 8-Bay)
  • Hot-swap status LED panel
  • Dual Gigabit LAN ports
  • 4U (20-bay) or 3U (16 / 8-bay) hot-swap SATA HDDs for data storage
  • Built-in 4 inputs and 4 outputs
  • Extreme performance for GV-VMS software operation
  • Pre-installed SSD for recovery
  • Supported RAID type:0,1,3,5,6,10,00,30,50,60,100 Single Disk or JBOD (optional)
  • Redundant power supply (optional)
  • Compatible with full selections of GeoVision accessories
  • CE, FCC, LVD compliant

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GV-VMS is a comprehensive video management system that records up to 64 channels of GeoVision and/or third-party IP devices. The live view and playback layout can be easily adjusted with the intuitive drag-and-drop function. GV-VMS comes with a variety of intelligent video analytics to offer precise monitoring and to reduce the need for manual supervision. The built-in Webcam Server allows users to remotely access live view and recordings from anywhere using Web browsers, mobile app and Remote ViewLog. Compatibility with GV-CMS (GeoVision Central Monitoring Station) and interoperability with a wide selection of third party IP cameras through ONVIF make GV-VMS a versatile and effective surveillance solution.

  • Support Fisheye Dewarping (GeoVision and 3rd party fisheye cameras)
  • Support H.265 and Smart stream CODEC to reduce file size and bandwidth
  • Retail Video Analytic ( People Counting / Heat Map )
  • General Video Analytic (Intrusion Alarm / Crowd Detection / Scene Change Detection / Privacy Mask / Unattended and Missing Object Detection)
  • Advanced Video Analytic (Face Recognition)
  • Dual stream resolution for monitoring and recording to save CPU usage
  • Quick Search Method (Timeline Search / Object Search by Area)
  • Multiple monitor display for live view and playback on different monitors
  • E-Map / IO Device Control / PTZ Auto Tracking
  • Text alert using a PC / mobile device by motion detection / input trigger
  • GeoVision Dynamic DNS server to register domain name if no fixed IP address
  • Support Microsoft SQL and Access database type
  • Central password management integration with Windows Active Directory
  • Support GeoVision, 3rd party IP camera and ONVIF, PSIA, RTSP protocol
  • Support GeoVision central monitoring station software (GV-Center V2 / GV-Vital Sign Monitor / GV-Dispatch Server / GV-Control Center)
  • Mobile Remote Viewing (GV-Eye for Android Smartphone and iPhone / iPod / iPad)

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32CH 4K 256Mbps NVR w/ RAID5
The XRN-2011A is a 4K network video recorder that supports up to 32 channels, H.265/H.264/MJPEG, ARB & failover (N+1), 8 front hot swappable SATA HDDs (with a maximum internal storage capacity of 48TB), e-SATA/iSCSI storage, RAID-5, WiseStream compression technology, dual monitor video out, supports camera resolution up to 12MP recording/display and fisheye dewarping on web and CMS. Includes QR code for easy mobile app access.
Key Features:
  • Up to 32CH @12MP each
  • Supports H.265/H.264/MJPEG
  • Max 8 Hot-Swap HDDs (RAID 5)
  • HDMI/VGA local dual monitor
  • HDMI up to UHD (4K) resolution
  • iSCSI storage supported
  • ONVIF camera compliant
  • QR code for easy mobile app access

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6MP Vandal-Resistant Indoor IR Network Dome Camera
The Wisenet X series powered by Wisenet 7 network indoor vandal dome camera features a modular structure, 6MP @ 30fps, motorized vari-focal lens 3x (2.8~8.4mm) (114°~40.2°). 131 foot IR viewable range for low light/no light monitoring. Triple codec H.265/H.264/MJPEG with WiseStream II technology reduces bandwidth and storage requirements. Additional features include extreneWDR, USB port for easy installation, advanced video analytics, sound classification and business analytics, shock detection, audio playback, true D/N, dual SD card slots, hallway view, HLC, defocus detection, DIS (Gyro), 12VDC/PoE, IP52, IK10, white color, optional black skin cover. The modular design allows for easy installation of the camera case separately from the camera module. In addition, the camera module box includes a cutout for easy configuration without disassembling the camera/case. Advanced cybersecurity built-in.
Key Features:
  • 6MP (3328×1872) resolution
  • 2.8~8.4mm 3x motorized varifocal lens
  • 131 foot IR viewable range for low light/no light monitoring
  • 30fps@all resolutions (H.265/H.264)
  • H.265, H.264, MJPEG codec supported, multiple streaming
  • Day & Night (ICR), extremeWDR, Defog
  • Shock detection, Loitering, Directional detection, Fefocus detection, Fog detection, Face/Upper body detection, Audio detection, Digital auto tracking, Sound classification, Tampering
  • Motion detection, Handover, Audio event playback
  • Dual SD/SDHC/SDXC memory slots (Total maximum 512GB)
  • Hallway view, WiseStream II support, IP52, IK10,
  • LDC support (Lens Distortion Correction)
  • PoE / 12V DC, Bi-directional audio support
  • White camera with ivory skin included
  • 2 configurable I/O ports

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Q Series 6 MP Sensor 360˚ Indoor Fisheye Camera
The Wisenet Q series network Indoor fisheye dome camera provides a maximum resolution of 2048×2048 @ 30fps, with no blind spots. Capable of 360 degree coverage, featuring triple codec H.265/H.264/MJPEG with WiseStream technology, business analytics (heatmap and people counting), built-in SD card slot, PoE
Key Features:
  • 6 MP image sensor, 2048 x 2048 resolution output, 30fps
  • Fisheye lens 1.14mm (187°X187°)
  • Original fisheye view, onboard dewarding to Single panorama, Double panorama, Quad view
  • Lens rotation & analog video output for easy installation and adjustment
  • Triple Codec: H.265, H.264 and MJPEG multiple streaming
  • WiseStream II compression technology
  • WDR 120dB
  • Defocus, Tampering, motion detection
  • Heatmap, people counting business intelligence
  • SD card slot
  • IP42 rated, PoE powered
  • White camera body

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Security requirements vary. That is why Hikvision designs and tailors network cameras to meet various needs – from general video surveillance to video content analytics based on Deep Learning algorithms – and beyond.

Rendering high-quality images across a range of lighting conditions – while minimizing requirements on storage and bandwidth – and providing data-powered situational awareness to help you make smart decisions, our network cameras are the ideal choice for hundreds of application scenarios.

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The best smelling hand soap we've found. Top notes of marjoram, middle notes of palmarosa & rosemary and base notes of vetiver & lavender. Makes hand-washing an actual joy.

Made in East Anglia by father and daughter team Richard and Bessie with extracts of plants, grasses, seaweed and algae to moisturise and protect. With beautiful line drawing artwork by Christian Newby on the outer box and bottle, this makes an excellent house warming gift.

This organic Palmarosa & Vetiver Hand Cream by Austin Austin is created without GM ingredients, SLS, silicones, parabens, mineral oils, artificial colours or fragrances and is certified organic and vegan.

Size: 250ml

Notes: Suitable for all skin types. Made for men and women.

Austin Austin products are certified Organic by the Soil Association and COSMOS. Their products are tested only on people and all of their packaging is recyclable.

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When we have internet available, I have to say that I do get a bit addicted. I like to wake up, eat breakfast, drink coffee, and see what happened in the world since I last put the ipad down. I will also check while the girls are napping, and a few other points throughout the day. Eben has pointed it out to me a few times, but I like staying connected. It is not like I go through withdrawal when we cannot connect, but when it is at hand, I will confess that it will most likely be in MY hand. I spend my online time split between the blog, facebook, emails, and looking for apps for the girls. Yes I may have a slight problem but when you are so far from most friends and family, sometimes reading a simple status, even if it is a ridiculous as what your cousin ate for lunch, it can make you feel like you haven’t left it all behind.
   In both the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic we brought our ipad in to the local phone company and signed up for their 3G prepaid internet plan. This means that we have 3G internet connection even out on the sailboat. The best use we have found for this, outside of my social networking, is that when we are traveling around in land we can have internet for driving directions and the blue GPS dot on google maps to let us know where we are. To get these internet plans is generally very easy and not that pricey. The only hickup we found in the DR is that we needed a Dominican to put the plan under their name, as they needed their local ID card to sign up, but since it is a prepaid plan it wasn’t hard to convince a friend of ours to help us. The speed of it is decent enough for regular webpages, but it struggles sometimes with uploading videos or Pinterest, a conglomeration of a bizzilion pictures.
   A few other boats in the harbour have gone with a local wifi provider, which is extremely cheap, but we found that even with our wifi booster antennae, and with the placement of our boat at the entrance of the bay, we are just a bit too far to make the connection worth while. When I would try and do my blog stuff using this form of internet to upload pictures to the blog, it was so slow and frustrating that made me want to bang my head on our table. I usually had time to have a full drink before anything was up on the site.
   Our third option, when we have some serious interneting to do, is to go in to the local bars that have free wifi. They can also be touch and go, we are in a developing country where everything is very laid back, so you ca’t expect too much or get frustrated with the results. Also you have to take into account the amount of other cruisers that thought they would do their skyping and blogging at the same time, sucking up the bandwidth. But more often than not, the internet will be better here than anything we can get on the boat and you can actually get things accomplished faster than snails. (Even this blog was half accomplished on the boat and half in town).


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TPPA repeats Treaty of Waitangi injustices

Press Release – Green Party

New expert analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) shows that it will take power away from Mori, the Green Party said today.20 January 2015

TPPA repeats Treaty of Waitangi injustices

New expert analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) shows that it will take power away from Māori, the Green Party said today.

The analysis criticises a lack of consultation with Māori and shows how the TPPA limits the ability of tangata whenua to exercise control over their own affairs because it transfers power from the government, which has obligations to Māori, to multinational corporations, which don’t. It finds that the TPPA’s intellectual property chapter will ‘make it more difficult for Māori to achieve changes to New Zealand IP law that are necessary to protect rights and obligations of kaitiaki in relation to mātauranga Māori.’

“The Green Party supports international trade, but trade agreements need to preserve the right of tangata whenua to shield themselves and their taonga from exploitation by multinational corporations,” Green Party Māori Development spokesperson Marama Davidson said.

“It looks like the TPPA repeats some of the same mistakes made with interpretations of the Treaty of Waitangi, because the TPPA only accepts the Crown’s version of what’s important and side-lines Māori views.

“The TPPA locks in new rights for multinational corporations to challenge New Zealand laws, which goes against the rights Māori have under the Treaty of Waitangi and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

“The expert analysis is very clear that the TPPA’s Treaty of Waitangi exceptions aren’t strong enough and rely too much on the Government’s interpretation of its Treaty of Waitangi commitments. This isn’t good enough because often iwi Māori disagree with the Government about how the Treaty applies.

“The analysis also shows there’s no evidence that economic gains for Māori from trade under the TPPA will outweigh the costs.

“To add insult to injury, New Zealand will be hosting the TPPA signing just days before Waitangi Day.

“The damage the TPPA could do to Māori rights and the Māori economy are two more reasons to add to the long list of reasons why New Zealand shouldn’t sign the TPPA,” Ms Davidson said.

The expert analysis is available online and was prepared by Dr Carwyn Jones at Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University’s Associate Professor Claire Charters, Andrew Erueti, and Professor Jane Kelsey. It was peer reviewed by Moana Jackson.

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The Truth Shall Set You Free

I don’t even know where to begin. What happens when what you thought happened and what really happened, aren’t the same?

Been reading journal entries from 1992. Many entries were significant. However, this particular entry – written a few weeks before I left for basic training – hit me like a ton of bricks! Y’all, for almost 30 years I have been retelling this one particular story all wrong, very wrong. Well… maybe I have or maybe not. You decide. I do know that the way I remembered what happened has significantly influenced my life and decisions I have made over the years.

Here is how I have been telling it. How I remembered.

“Blue Eyes (y’all know I don’t use names) and I were sitting in the stairwell when I told him I had joined the Air Force. I could see he was disappointed. The words he said next have haunted me for years – ‘You’re just going to end up pregnant and alone.’ And he was right. I ended up pregnant and alone.”

Well… here is what I wrote on May 4, 1992.

“Blue Eyes said that I’ll probably end up married before I come back.”

Hmmm….. not pregnant and alone. Nothing about me getting pregnant or being alone. Did I really make it all up? Or at the time that I wrote the entry, was it not that significant? Could it be that I did not remember the rest of our conversation until I found out I was pregnant?

Well, for almost 30 years I felt like trash whenever I retold that story. I felt like he thought I was not worthy of love or marriage. As if I was destined to be alone. Did I project this on myself based off of something I thought I remembered? Why did I not remember the married part? Had I gotten married instead of pregnant, would I have remembered?

Sadly, I allowed one story, remembered incorrectly or partially, to control my life. Yes, it has actually controlled my life. It has controlled how I have perceived my worthiness. For years I have always seen myself as a single mother. Of course I eventually got married, but in my mind I was still a single mom. What is even more crazy is, I got married because I wanted to prove my worthiness. That I was worth more than being “pregnant and alone.” You know, sometimes it’s not the big things that happen to us that bothers us the most but the tiniest. Y’all, what I thought I remembered hurt me to my core.

Honestly, I really do believe he said it because I remember the pain from that conversation. It was not a good feeling. And to think that was the last conversation we ever had.

Today, I am releasing all of the remnants from that conversation. How I perceive myself today, and my worthiness, is not based on some conversation in a stairwell almost 30 years ago. From here on out I will no longer view myself as a single mom but as someone who is single with two beautiful children who is worthy of love and marriage.

Resetting my life. Feeling free!

Listen, you better get you a journal.

Feeling Drained

Life and death.
Death and life.
One thing I am learning about death, it either brings families closer together or push them further apart. It brings out the worst in some and the best in others. Some are only in it for recognition, while others truly care. So many egos. So many hurt feelings. It’s too much.

Y’all, I am physically, emotionally and mentally drained. Today, all I want to do is be alone. Disconnecting today and will pick back up tomorrow. I just need a minute to process it all.

My life.
My world.

Facebook Memory: August 27, 2019 – Success

Here is a Facebook post I shared on August 27, 2019. Y’all, I actually took the leap and ventured out on my own. I am no where near where I know I will be some day, however, I am on my way! #NotGivingUp

August 27, 2019

Here’s today’s social media find. DO NOT GIVE UP! Success does not happen overnight. We refer to some as “overnight” successes; but in reality, they’ve been working on their craft for a while. Think about social media celebrities. Most of us saw them when they first started making videos. They didn’t give up. They practiced their craft until it was so good that others wanted to share it.

If you have an idea or vision that’s been nagging you for years, do it. Maybe all of the pieces aren’t in place, and you feel like making a move is pointless. Believe me, it’s not! Do something. Work towards it. Just don’t sit idle and one day wish you would have tried. The road to success will not be easy. DON’T GIVE UP! (This isn’t just for you, it’s for me too!☺)

Y’all, I just love how I write things for my future self. Two years ago, I was not prepared for where I am today, nor am I prepared for where I will be. But as I said before, I am not giving up. Go Shaun/LaShaundreaB!!

Wednesday Writings

Starting a little late, today. Decided not to rush things. Months ago I added “LaShaundreaB’s Wellness Wednesdays” to my calendar. I added it to ensure I did something just for me at least once a week. Whatever I wanted to do. Whether that was pampering myself, reorganizing my closet, watching a good movie, reading a book, or just relaxing. I knew I would need time to slow down and breathe. So today, I am sticking with my schedule. I am taking care of Shaun, first. No rush. Everything else can wait.


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REVIEW: “Dad’s Army” – The Apollo Players

The Apollo is gaining a reputation for ‘blockbuster’ productions at Christmas – a good alternative to the traditional pantomime for a festive family treat. Last year ‘The Vicar of Dibley’ proved immensely popular and this year ‘Dad’s Army’ became the first Apollo Players’ show in history to sell out every performance before the curtain had even risen on opening night.

For those lucky enough to bag a ticket (there may possibly be a few returns if you’re very lucky) this stage show comprising three full episodes plus a sketch originally performed for a Royal Variety Show fully deserves a packed and appreciative audience.

All the old favourites are there, with a full supporting cast and some actors taking multiple roles across the episodes, making for a large number of actors onstage, every single one of whom was completely immersed in the world of 1940’s Warmington On Sea.

With such a cast it is difficult and maybe unfair to single out specific actors, but special mention must go to Peter Gale who captured the very essence of the pompous Captain Mainwaring, his character the backbone of each episode, yet showing a tender, vulnerable side in his encounter with Mrs Grey, ably portrayed by Ginnie Orrey, and of course his fear of the unseen Mrs Mainwaring.

Paul Gwinnett was a suitably suave Wilson, and David Stradling was superb as the bumbling Corporal Jones – his reaction to having what he thought was a loaded grenade put down his trousers was hilarious – and again he showed another side to his character as he feared his relationship with Glenys Lloyd Williams’ delightfully flirtatious Mrs Fox, was under threat.

The rest of the platoon were just as we remember them from the TV show – the cantankerous Scottish Fraser (Danny Carmichael) vying with spiv Walker (Nick Turvey) and vague, elderly Godfrey (Colin Ford) provided great foils for each other and for Robbie Gwinnett’s Pike, who provided one of the funniest moments from the TV show as he taunted a German U-boat captain and was threatened with his name going ‘on the list’. Paul Stevens effortlessly played both the German and in other episodes the vicar, while other cast members also doubled roles to present familiar storylines.

Staging was imaginative, with a set comprising the village hall and office, which swiftly and with minimum movement became a café, a railway station and a street as required. Pauses between episodes on the opening night were perhaps a tad prolonged, but this did not detract from the audience’s enjoyment. Lighting and effects supported the action, and costumes and wigs betokened the period perfectly.

Fans of the TV programme will be more than familiar with the stories portrayed on stage, while anyone -is there anyone? – who has never seen the show will be prompted to find episodes on YouTube having sampled the very very funny delights of the Apollo’s version of ‘Dad’s Army’.

To find out if there are returned tickets for any performances please contact the Apollo Box Office on 01983 210010.

[Photos: Paul Jennings]

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The iFanboy.com Comic Book Podcast is a weekly talk show all about the best new current comic book releases. Lifelong friends, Conor Kilpatrick and Josh Flanagan talk about what they loved and (sometimes) hated in the current weekly books, from publishers like Marvel, DC, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, BOOM! Studios, IDW, Aftershock, Valiant, and more. The aim is to have a fun time, some laughs, but to also really understand what makes comic books work and what doesn’t, and trying to understand the craft of this great, often under appreciated art form. Sometimes they agree, and sometimes… they don’t. With decades of experience talking about comics, interacting with comic book professionals, this is all about the love of an art form. If the names Brian Michael Bendis, Amanda Conner, Geoff Johns, Gene Luen Yang, Donny Cates, Jason Aaron, Kelly Thompson, David Marquez, Kelly Sue de Connick, Kieron Gillen, Charles Soule, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Scott Snyder, Tom King, Mitch Gerads, Esad Ribic, Rick Remender, Nick Spencer, John Ridley, Skottie Young, Chip Zdarsky, Jöelle Jones, David F. Walker, Grant Morrison, and Darwyn Cooke get you excited, then this is the place for you. This podcast is so good, you don’t even need to read comic books or graphic novels to enjoy it, but it’s a lot better if you do.

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A Whole Mood

Filled with positivity , A Whole Mood brings motivational and inspirational quotes, thoughts and words of wisdom and experiences to readers. Don’t forget to like, follow, and subscribe for your weekly uplift and other self-help blogs.

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That’s the secret of life.

Charlie Brown

Mindful Parent

Parenting isn’t easy, but where there is a will , Parents like you, come to places likes these, to uplift, encourage, and find resources to make a way. The JaeTalks Community embraces positive parenting, and encourages friends to become family and lend a helping hand. Feel free to join our talks by leaving positive comments and advice. I’m always open to new ideas. Any questions can be left under my Dear Jae page. Don’t forget to always like and subscribe.

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Relationship reads on healthy and unhealthy experiences and insight. From self-love to romance and intimacy. Love Love covers it all.

There’s no other way to enjoy the many blessings of life than to explore and experience it through traveling. JaeTalks gives you an inside look at some of those travels you’ve been wanting to experience with your friends and family, providing real down-to-earth reviews. Vlogs coming Fall 2020! Go follow my children’s travel page on IG @Its_JojoSarai for their take on our journeys’.

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”

Robyn Yong

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February 24, 2020

Hubert is always skeptical. About everything.

NOT A DOODLE: Posting a Portrait of a Poet Pal

August 4, 2016

CAMERON smallMy friend and co-worker, Cameron Lawrence, for the November-December 2016 issue of In Touch magazine.

SORT OF A DOODLE: Making Faces

January 23, 2015

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So, “why is it ‘sort of a doodle’?”, you might ask.

What? You didn’t ask? Well, I’m gonna tell ya anyway, Mister Fancy Pants!

It started as a meeting doodle. No, really. I know you’re shocked. But then it was just sitting there on my desk, minding its own business, when… BAM! I watercolored the daylights out of that sucker, thus elevating it from mere “doodle” to the lofty status of “sort of doodle” for all eternity. I’m sure it’s grateful; you can see it in his eyes.

ENVELOPE DOODLE: I’m daydreaming of a white pencil

December 28, 2014

Lots of Christmas card envelopes lying around the house, just waiting to be doodled upon.

NOT A DOODLE: Co-workers

September 9, 2014

Three of eight portrait illustrations I’m doing of some of my co-workers for an upcoming article in the December 2014 issue of In Touch magazine. I get all geeky over the cool layers of color and texture watercolors create, and the way that contrasts with the pen-and-ink line art.

All images © In Touch Ministries.

DOODLE: Headroom

March 28, 2014

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Not a Doodle: COACH

November 20, 2013

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Concept sketch and finished illustration for an ad to run in March 2014 issue of In Touch magazine.

lunch bag lion

October 30, 2013

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I know I’m a little late to the “lunch bag art” party, but for the past eight years my kids have used lunch boxes. Kind of hard to draw on those. But, last night, I finally got my chance. My daughter is going on a field trip to the zoo today, and they requested that the kids bring there lunches in bags that could be thrown away. So- voila!– lunch bag lion!

Mister Beardsley, hirsute hat-lover

October 15, 2013

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Pen and ink on moleskine sketchbook.

Kevin Kodiak loves him some good trash can grub.

March 27, 2013

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Meeting doodles are the main reason I will never have a true sketchbook full of my doodles. I don’t take sketchbooks to meetings, so I draw on whatever is handy. This big guy was doodled on the back of our magazine grid for the August 2013 issue of In Touch.


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Ode to the Ramgarh Reservoir !

“Someone needs to tell those tales and go to an era that you never got to see.

Where people would take walks to the very tops of hills

And can see the water rushing over the stones on the bottom of a stream.”

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Weekends are special, for a reason: one, you are totally detached from the materialistic world, and two, you are free to explore, look for adventure, discover new places and to get lost. Travelling to new places is always a beautiful experience but taking the road to unearth the forgotten history, is an altogether different experience because without looking back you do not find what you left behind.
Around 32 kms from Jaipur is one famous destination, The Jamwa Ramgarh Dam. Many of us, must be aware and have been to this place for a long drive at least once in their lifetime. So, we at Jaipur Beat thought to explore this old glory of our city.
Why Ramgarh?
There is no dearth of heritage places to visit and explore in Jaipur but of all these there are ample spots that are drifted somewhere in the pages of history. One such lost gem was The Ramgarh Reservoir.
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The Jamwa Ramgarh reservoir was one of the oldest man made lakes, the reservoir has been constructed by damming the river Banganga which originates in the midst of the Aravalli ranges. The Lake, which once overflowed in abundance, now has a story to tell about its decay.

Those who were born before 1980s would still remember Ramgarh as an ideal picnic spot during monsoon. Back then people used to hop on their scooters/bikes and zoom off just to check out the water level while passing through numerous anicuts, waterfalls and lush green forest patches.
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Then- Reservoir brimming with water
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Now- No trace of water just vast green fields
The Ramgarh reservoir shot to international fame in 1982, when the world witnessed rowing events of the Asian Games here. The same year the Government of India declared it as a Wildlife Sanctuary. Unfortunately, the romantic picture once painted is gone forever. Today this man made lake that once hosted the water sports has dried up beyond recognition leaving no trace of water and what you see now is the vast land of agricultural fields, dense forests, some odd concrete structures, few ancient temples (a temple of Jamwai Mata, which is temple of ‘kuldevi’ (Goddess of Clan) of ex-Kacchawa rajput rulers of Jaipur), temple of Bhairon Baba and some relics. The row of structures made during Asian Games today can only be recognized with the mention of भारतीय खेल प्राधिकरण , नौकायन सेण्टर, रामगढ झील etched in faded blue colour.
No doubt, this will make you instantly depressed as not every time you can romanticize the past. The place, which was once full of life, is now filled with silence.
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The deserted look of the structures made during Asian Games
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Even today it is no less than a hill station with abundance of natural beauty.
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Still standing tall this decades old dam structure

The once lifeline Ramgarh Lake was an artificial lake commissioned by Jaipur king Madho Singh II as an embankment on the forested hills and got completed in 1903, situated near Jamwa Ramgarh in Rajasthan, India. Unlike today when Bisalpur Dam is the major water supply point, at one point of time it was The Ramgarh lake which was the main source of water supply to Jaipur city. The last time the lake-received water was 1999 and it has been dry since.
Excluding the wild green growth on the bed and a few odd concrete structures, the century-old lake is mourning its glory.
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Stamp released during 9th Asian Games in 1982
When the lake was filled to brim, many tourists facilities were also developed around this area, including these hotels –
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Old boat kept at the entrance of RTDC Hotel
RTDC Tourist Village Resort- Jheel, a hotel with beautiful hut shaped accommodation is still functional here but is slowly on the verge of dying. Not many years ago, tourists and locales cherished it due to it’s location on the hill. Today, it’s more haunted with monkey crowd. The boat lying at the entrance takes you back to the days of glory when the Rowing event was held and boating was the regular feature.
The Gateway Hotel Ramgarh Lodge- The Gateway Hotel Ramgarh Lodge, designed by Sir Swinton Jacob was once the favourite getaway for Maharaja Man Singh and Maharani Gayatri Devi. It is still favoured by tourists those who want to relive the glorious kingly life that once was lived by the Maharaja’s of Jaipur.
If you’re a nature or history lover this is one place to explore. Endless rolling green hills, the Aravali view, and the old Dam construction beside the floating monsoon clouds that still dramatizes the entire panorama will leave you thinking about the sad state; destruction & decay of our heritage, architecture and history.
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If not for the dam, remember it for its amazing number of monkey/langoor population.

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Front Cover

“I say again, and I will say again and again: No American boy will be sent to Europe to fight in a foreign war.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1940 re-election campaign. [I may not have recalled FDR’s words precisely but the meaning and the spirit, mendacity, is intact. – The Editor.]

WRITING last month about the president’s “war on drugs” reminded me how hard it is to believe anything the government says about drugs. I can recall the period when marijuana was said to transform its users into “drug fiends” who were likely to attack the first person they met on the street. When heroin became popular, this description was moved to that drug, and also the danger of death to the user was publicized to the point where one would believe that an addict could not survive more than a week or two.

I had no reason to disbelieve this until I became aware that this person was confessing that he had been a heavy heroin user for 19 years or some such, and there he stood, looking as healthy as the next person. The present line is that crack is very likely to kill a user instantly; yet we are again hearing people (Bill Cosby’s daughter, for example) say they have been heavy users for two years and seem to show little effect. If crack were as dangerous as the government claims, there would be no crack problem – the users would simply be self-eliminating.

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I was reminded that the president, himself, seemingly any president, doesn’t hesitate to lie to us whenever it is convenient. In a speech from the White House, President Bush held up a bag of cocaine which he said was purchased in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House. In a few days, the newspapers reported that the purchase had been written into the president’s speech in advance, and that the Drug Enforcement Agency had been given 24 hours to fulfill the prophecy. That agency then lured a drug seller to the park specifically to provide the president with his example.

The drug seller was arrested and just recently appeared at his trial. It turned out that the informer used by the DEA to lure him to the park had difficulty doing so, mainly because the drug seller did not know where Lafayette Park was or where the White House was and finally had to actually chauffeur the seller to Lafayette Park. The DEA tried to film the purchase of the drug but the cameraman was attacked by a homeless woman who was occupying a bench in the park and who thought he was trying to photograph her.

Thus the intended incriminating pictures merely showed the seller entering the park and leaving the park. Another DEA agent’s microphone did not work so they missed the audio recording of the sale. Further the seller handed the drug packed to the government informer instead of the DEA agent. According to the newspaper, the jury at the trial was in stitches, and the judge said that it sounded like an episode from the Keystone Kops. Perhaps President Bush did not know these facts when he gave his speech, but he certainly knows them now, and he has made no apology. It is plain that he is an accessory, either before or after the fact, to an attempt to flimflam the American people.

It is also interesting that if he wanted to point out an actual phenomenon in Lafayette Park, he could have said that a homeless woman found what refuge she could on a bench there in clear sight of the White House, but this reality is not what the president had in mind for us.

As this is being written (December 1989), the Washington Post reports that the trial of the above-mentioned drug seller resulted in a mistrial because of a hung jury. It was reported that the jury voted 11-1 for an acquittal because they felt the seller had been set up by the government. A DEA official said after the trial that he saw nothing wrong in the DEA’s actions. I am not surprised.

Before the echoes from this had died down, we learned the president had sent a secret mission to China. In the furor over this, Secretary of State Baker said that it was the first visit since the protesters were murdered. Almost immediately we learned that it was the second visit – that a group had gone shortly after the massacre. And that happened in spite of the administration’s announcement, just a few days before, that it was ending all exchanges with Chinese leaders because of the bloodshed in Tiananmen Square. Baker said he was sorry to have misled “some” people – “some” being about 250 million Americans.

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Then on the outbreak of war in Panama, we learned that President Bush had broken his campaign promise not to plea bargain with Noriega and had offered to forget the drug charges if Noriega would leave Panama. And then we heard that Noriega had, through seven presidential terms, been on the payroll of the CIA. And on and on.

When President Eisenhower was caught in a public lie in the Gary Powers case where he maintained the U-2 spy plane was a weather observation plane, he was obviously embarrassed at getting caught. You could see it in his face. Nevertheless he did it knowing that the Russians already knew the truth, and that the only people he was attempting to deceive was the American people who trusted him. (It was common for people to say that whatever one might think about Eisenhower that he was at least sincere.) He is the last president to exhibit any public discomfort when caught in an outright lie.

It was President Reagan’s habit to give, in every public speech, concrete examples to support whatever argument he was making. It became routine for the media to investigate these examples and find out that whatever he said happened had, in almost every case, not happened that way. This seemed not to embarrass the president, nor did it inhibit him from doing the same thing in his next speech. Nor was there ever any public outcry about his habitual lying. Do we now expect our presidents to lie to us routinely?

This Christmas we learned that even the button President Reagan pushed to turn on the lights of the Christmas tree on the Ellipse was a fake; it had no connection with the tree lights. It makes one wonder why President Bush’s people bothered to have the actual drug purchase take place. If they were going to falsify it, why not just baldly lie about the event in the first place?

I can understand President Nixon’s lies, including his famous one: “I am not a crook.” He had something to lie about. But I don’t understand the routine lying that has become the custom. What is the purpose of it when it is certain that it will be exposed shortly afterward? Surely any president today knows that nothing discussed in the White House is going to remain secret, and that there is thus no chance at all that his lies will not quickly become public knowledge. It looks to me as if presidents are spending a valuable resource, their supposed veracity, for nothing.

It is a bit discomfiting that we have to depend on the incompetence of the DEA or some leak in one or another government agency to protect us from the lies of our presidents.

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I doubt if many people could be shocked by any comedy produced by the DEA in Lafayette Park. If the president wanted to shock the public, there are better stories available. Recently in Prince George’s County, the police detained two girls, ages 13 and 9, for suspected shoplifting. In their possession was found cocaine worth about $10,000. The 13-year-old girl said the cocaine had been given to her by her boyfriend. Even the police were stunned. A police spokesman said that they were now accustomed to young boys, 11 or 12 years of age, being involved in the drug traffic, but they had not suspected that little girls were also in it.

The spokesman said: “There are often several little girls standing around in the open-air drug markets; I guess we’ll have to start considering them as part of the market instead of them being the innocent bystanders we had assumed they were.” That two little girls could be wandering around with $10,000 worth of cocaine graphically depicts the prevalence of drugs in our society and surely demonstrates the easy money available in the drug trade.

Or if the president wanted to point out how ubiquitous drugs have become in our society, he could have used the results of a test performed by Lee Hearn, chief toxicologist, Dade County Medical Examiner Department. He examined 125 money bills ranging from $1 to $100 which had been obtained from 10 U.S. cities and found that 121 of them showed traces of cocaine. Cocaine users sometimes roll up bills into tubes through which to snort cocaine. Not all of these bills had necessarily been so used since a cocaine contaminated bill can contaminate other bills in a cash register drawer. The four bills that showed no traces of cocaine were brand new.

The vast amount of money to be made in the drug trade makes it hopeless to deal with the supply side since there will always be instant replacements for those removed from it. Washington’s largest drug distributor was arrested and recently sent to jail for life, but the police say that his removal caused no perceptible difference in the local drug market. The rewards to the supply side are simply worth the risk.

The vulnerable link is the drug user. It is not exactly clear why this is being almost completely neglected. It is reminiscent of the street prostitution problem where centuries of harassing, arresting, and fining prostitutes has no noticeable effect on the prostitution business. The reason is simply that prostitutes, being already desperate, have little to lose, and the police actions are simply considered a part of their overhead. The vulnerable customer is almost never bothered in any way by the police. It is the seller and not the buyer who is seen as the problem.

This attitude seems generally to have been assumed also in the drug traffic. An important distinction is made between possessing drugs for one’s own use and possessing drugs for sale. In many cases the law defines exact quantities which differentiate between these purposes. Yet it is obviously the user who creates the market and is responsible for the drug traffic.

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Furthermore it is the user who is vulnerable to police action. In the open drug markets in the city, the customers drive by, stopping at the curb to make their purchases, and long lines of automobiles have been observed as customers awaited their turn. It would be a relatively simple matter to arrest the customers. Their automobiles used to transport their purchases could easily be confiscated. Also recall that these buyers are the American middle-class citizens who have positions, reputations, and sources of incomes in their communities, and they cannot afford to be known as jailbirds or criminals.

Governor Schaefer of Maryland recently proposed a plan that would punish drug users by stripping them of any state license if they were convicted of any drug offenses. This would include all professional people licensed by the state: doctors, lawyers, hair dressers, plumbers, real estate brokers, and dozens of professions. He also wants to suspend for one year the driver’s license of anyone convicted of a substance abuse crime. It is expected that the governor will have difficulty with getting the General Assembly which meets in January to enact some of his plans into law. His stand on users’ responsibility is stronger than any I’ve heard of, and certainly much stronger than the federal stance.

My argument for legalizing drugs is really based on the near impossibility of enforcing a law that the bulk of the people do not support. I cited the prohibition of alcohol as one that could not be enforced. A more benign example can be found in our speed laws. I don’t know what the violation rate is, but it’s certainly high. I can drive all day on the open road at, or very slightly above, the speed limit and not pass a single car but be passed very often by cars exceeding the limit by 10 to 20 mph. People simply do not believe that the speed limit is reasonable, and therefore they will not abide by it. The only real hope that I can see in ending the drug traffic is to convince the middle class, who is responsible for funding the drug business, that their drug buying is harmful to them and to our society and is not socially acceptable. I do not see much effort in this direction.

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Hand set in Deepdene; display type is Stymie Medium and the initial is Homewood. Edited and published by Jake Warner who printed 380 copies on an SP-15 Vandercook; cover was printed on a 10×15 C&P.

The Boxwood Press
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New England State of Mind

Long time, no update! I write this post in Berlin, New Hampshire and I’ll soon be crossing into Maine, the 14th and final state of the trail. I’m unsure if my brain has yet to fully consider the feat. The White Mountains have been as challenging as expected, especially with a body that has its share of wear and tear. The stunning views are well worth the effort. I highly recommend visiting Franconia Ridge and Mount Washington in particular if you’d like a workout and want to appreciate the natural splendor of our country.

This post is going to be less about my day to day hiking experience and more about where I’m at in my personal journey. I feel overwhelmed at the prospect of breaking down my thoughts on each state I’ve passed through with the limited amount of time I have on this computer (top notch keyboard clacking sounds, by the way) and to be honest, things like terrain info and state-to-state comparisons are a quick Google search away if you’re so inclined. I’d much rather focus my blogging time on where I’m at in my head and in my life.

For LOTS more pictures and bite-sized updates, I finally created an Instagram account. You can follow me @jaketreks. You can view my profile even if you don’t have an account at This is a far easier and less battery-draining means of getting more exciting stuff posted on a regular basis.

The reality that this grand adventure is drawing to a close sinks in deeper each day. In recent weeks, hikers seem to either be charging toward the finish line or actively choosing to slow their pace. I’m still averaging daily miles in the upper teens (less so in The Whites due to the relentlessly steep and rocky terrain), but I fall firmly in the latter camp. I’m going to soak up every ounce of this experience, through to my final steps. I want to finish alongside close hiking friends, even if that means putting on the brakes to let others catch up. There are aspects of my “front country life” to which I look forward to returning, namely petting my cats, having easy access to a toilet in time of need, and not eating Pop Tarts for breakfast every morning. But these things can wait.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about momentum, on the trail and in my life. Once I passed through Pennsylvania, the New England states really started to fly by, sometimes faster than I was able to truly ascertain the qualities that made each unique. The hundred mile markers seem to smack me in the face before I’m even aware I’m approaching them. As the remaining number of miles dwindles (less than 300!), I feel myself being inexorably being driven forward. I feel as though I’ve become a hiking machine. My legs soldier me past every obstacle and ache with a fortitude and assuredness that only comes from hundreds of hours of continued practice. My eyes and feet coordinate to navigate the terrain with a swift grace that has become so second nature that I only notice how deflty I’m moving when something causes me to halt my pace. Half a day will pass in the span of what seems like a couple hours. My body has whittled itself down solely to the musculature that will carry me to Mt. Katahdin. It struck me the other day that I am self-identifying as an athlete for the first since I was in high school, and although my feet and hips are battered to shit, my overall physical feeling is that of confident strength and power.

My AT Thru Hike is the single most significant experience of my first 30 years. No question. It is going to end in less than a month, though, and I don’t want to avoid this fact. In the larger scope of my life, little of this grandeur will matter if I cannot find ways to bring this invigorating momentum home with me. My life was a trainwreck this time last year. I was beginning the emotionally and financially draining proceedings of divorce, feeling unable to create my art and utterly disconnected from my career, living in a place I didn’t want to be without a clue as to where I wanted to go. It was the worst period of my life; struggling against quicksand for an inch of forward movement.

Thanks to the AT, I am no longer in this place. I am still several hop-skip-and-jumps from where I need to be but a path is finally showing through the trees. When I’m finished with my hike I’m ready to sprint down it without hesitation, self censoring, or self doubt. I know who I am and what I want and, most importantly, what I’m worth. I couldn’t say any of that in 2016. I feel whole in a way that is frankly intimidating because my potential is so clear to me now.

Every day on the trail I spend time thinking about short and long term goals. Finishing a play (the best thing I’ve ever written) that I’ve been working on for years and has been hovering at the 95% completion mark for far too long. Training for my first triathalon, a vague goal I’ve had for as long as I can remember that now seems incredibly doable. Acting, after several years away from the game. Creating art that pushes people outside of their comfort zone. Finding ways to be more politically active. Making a concerted effort to spend more time with my wonderful friends and avoiding relationships that take make than they give. Arranging events for my loved ones to spend more time outdoors and in the wilderness.

In short: Ensuring that my 30’s are the most fulfilling, challenging, and productive decade yet.

Thank you for reading and for being patient with my infrequent updates (again, lots more activity on Instagram). Even though my hike is coming to a close, the fullness of the experience will continue to develop long after my final steps and I’ll continue to share my thoughts. I’ll even be able to type on a computer instead of this damn phone keyboard. Imagine that!

Talk to ya later!

5 thoughts on “New England State of Mind

  1. Wow. I am so, so happy for you, and continue to be inspired. Thank you for putting all those feelings into words, it was really great to read. I really can’t imagine what it must be like to be on the brink of accomplishing what you are accomplishing. Godspeed.

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  2. Jake, this is amazing. I feel so inspired by you, I’m already looking into the trail myself! Keep it up! You’re doing exactly what you need to do.

    1. Jeremy, I SO hope you keep looking into the trail. It’ll change your life (or lives if you and Molly tackle it together)! Can’t wait to answer any questions that may pop up!!

  3. Jake,
    I, for one, am amazed at what you have done! (and slightly envious too) My college buddies and I always had these half baked plans of great adventures after graduation and of course, like 99.9 percent of us, they were either forgotten about or purposely never talked about again. You had to fight your way (and still are I imagine) through some rough shit to get to this place in your life and I can tell in your writings you are feeling pretty good about the future. That is pretty cool! You are a true phoenix!

    1. Thank you so much for the kind words John. I’m incredibly happy that I gave myself the present of following through on this seemingly crazy plan. You should treat yourself to a weekend hike on the trail sometime if you have any interest. I was out there with people in their 70’s in not the best physical shape and still making it happen! I’d be happy to recommend some sections that might be a good fit!

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soup of the day: spaghetti smiles by margo sorenson and david harrington (+ a pasta recipe)!

Ciao a tutti! Hello Everyone!

Today we’re happy to be celebrating the official release of Spaghetti Smiles by Margo Sorenson and David Harrington (Pelican Publishing Co., 2014).

This playful, lip-smacking story has been cooked up with just the right ingredients: a book lovin’ boy, a crazy-fun uncle, lots of savory, tomato-y, kiss-your-fingertips Italian food, the joys of reading with family, and the importance of a close-knit community.

But more about the book in a minute.

First, a few party accoutrements. 🙂

Please put on this spiffy pizza hat:

and these oven-warmed pizza socks:

Now, if you’re not into socks and like to walk on the wild side, slip your footsies into these spaghetti stilettos (bite me!):

Finally, to keep things neat, Mr. Cornelius would like you to wear this wee bib:

Please keep yourself thusly attired for the duration of this post. If you like, nosh on mini pizza while you’re reading. 🙂

via Favorite Recipes

Lookin’ good, bambini! Party on!

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A Very Good Book

There’s nothing young Jake loves more than to pop over after school to his Uncle Rocco’s Italian Restaurant to read stories together, chow down on delicious food, and play crazy food games like spaghetti pick-up-sticks, bowling with mozzarella balls, and juggling ravioli.

But one day Uncle Rocco tells Jake they may not be able to read together anymore. The business next door has moved, and if a new tenant isn’t found soon, Rocco will have to close his restaurant.

Jake volunteers to help Uncle Rocco find a new neighbor for his “crazy, mixed-up restaurant.” He stops in at the bank, post office, and gas station, hoping one of the owners would be willing to relocate.

But though Ms. Cash, Mr. Stamply, and Mr. Pumper all love eating and playing at Rocco’s (“his spaghetti is still the greatest!”), they’re afraid the craziness might interfere with business as usual (“rows of pizzas baking in the bank vault,” “pepperoncini on envelopes instead of stamps,” “gas pumps would pump tomato sauce instead of gas”).

Jake thinks it’s hopeless until he spies a new bookstore. Can he convince fun-loving Mrs. Page to move her store to the middle of town, right next to Uncle Rocco’s?

Hungry readers will likely crave their favorite Italian dishes after seeing David Harrington’s bold and vivid illustrations of pizza faces, drippy tomato sauce, airborne ravioli and slurpy spaghetti. The cartoony caricatures of the townspeople with their flabbergasted expressions ramp up the humor and will elicit gastronomically induced giggles with every page turn (I wonder where Mrs. Page gets her hair done). 😀

Kids will wish they had an uncle like Rocco, who loves food, playing and reading stories just as much as they do. And it would be fun to live in Jake’s neighborhood, where people are approachable and friendly, and whenever you like, you can bowl with mozzarella balls or anticipate piles of pasta on bookstore shelves. Don’t miss this tasty read. Fantastico!

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Margo Sorensen especially enjoyed writing Spaghetti Smiles, not only because she’s a big fan of Italian food, but because she lived in Southern Italy between the ages of 3 and 7.

In addition to a favorite family recipe, she also sent along some interesting personal photos. I especially like the pic of Margo holding a book she received for her 6th birthday. Do you think she dreamed of becoming an award winning writer and educator back then? 🙂

Margo (age 5) driving a little car in the port of Bari
Schoolroom in Rome, Italy (2004)
Margo’s favorite plate from Positano
Margo’s cooktop with the Bialetti “Little Man” Moka Espresso
Margo (age 6) holding her birthday book.
Margo’s favorite villa view in Tuscany (2004)
Italian farmers market in Alba.

Cheese lovers, rejoice! Wouldn’t a plate of Margo’s pasta with Fontina, Asiago, Parmigiano Reggiano and Pecorino Romano taste good right about now? Buon Appetito!

(serves 3 or 4)

  • 3/4 cup Fontina cheese, shredded
  • 3/4 cup Asiago cheese, grated
  • 1/3 cup Parmigiano Reggiano, grated plus more for adding at end
  • 1/3 cup Pecorino Romano cheese, grated (or 1/2 cup Ricotta Salata, grated)
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream plus more if needed for creamy consistency
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • Pennette 8 ounces
  • freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • 2 tablespoons Italian parsley, chopped

Pour heavy cream into a large pan over medium heat. Add butter. Add cheeses and simmer until they are melted, about five minutes. Set aside. Bring a large pot of water to boil. Sprinkle some coarse salt when it boils and add pasta to boiling water. Cook for 10-12 minutes or till al dente. Drain the pasta and immediately add it to pan and mix well. Transfer to a serving platter and garnish with parsley and black pepper. Sprinkle freshly-grated Parmigiano on top.

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Now, please join me in congratulating Margo and David on their deliciously playful book. Feel free to slurp loudly in your best Italian accents, or if you like, dive directly into the bowl for a few backstrokes. Keep your bibs about you, but mind you don’t eat your spaghetti stilettos.

Today’s Special: Felice Pastina Alfabeto (liberally seasoned with love, joy and laughter)

Did you think I’d forget dessert? Spaghetti and Meatballs Cupcakes for everyone!

via Sweet Little Thang

After you’re thoroughly sugared up, sashay on down to your local indie or click through to your fave online bookseller to score your very own copy of Spaghetti Smiles.

If you go to a bricks-and-mortar store, I think it best to wear something red, white and green, and if it’s warm where you live, a top with spaghetti straps would be totally de rigueur. Do I even have to tell you to wear a bushy mustache like Uncle Rocco’s?

Singing a few bars of “O Sole Mio” in the checkout line or talking the book up to other customers while wildly waving your hands is good too. If you’re hoping for a discount, mention the secret password “Ravishing Ravioli” to the cashier. 🙂

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written by Margo Sorenson
illustrated by David Harrington
published by Pelican Publishing Company, 2014
Picture Book for ages 5-8, 32 pp.
Cool themes: cooking, food, restaurants, relatives, books and reading, learning, humor, town life.

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♥ Margo Sorenson’s Official Website

♥ David Harrington’s Official Website

♥ More Soup of the Day posts here.

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wkendcookingiconThis post is being linked to Beth Fish Read’s Weekend Cooking, where all are invited to share their food-related posts. Trot over in your spaghetti stilettos and join the fun. 🙂

* From Spaghetti Smiles by Margo Sorenson, illustrated by David Harrington, text © 2014 Margo Sorenson, images © 2014 David Harrington, used by permission of the publisher, Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.

**Giovanni Baby Bib “Mangia” via Italian Children’s Market

**Pizza Socks via Foot Traffic

**Pizza Hat via Costumes of Nashua

**Spaghetti Shoe Sculpture by Robert Tabor (Sole Sensations)

Copyright © 2014 Jama Rattigan of Jama’s Alphabet Soup. All rights reserved.

57 thoughts on “soup of the day: spaghetti smiles by margo sorenson and david harrington (+ a pasta recipe)!

  1. Spaghetti Smiles looks like a delicious, joyous book! I can imagine kids wanting to read it over and over. Little Margo has a great smile.
    What is on the top of those cupcakes? I’m wondering about the meatballs specifically. Also, tomato bowling is genius! Especially with those breadsticks.

    1. It’s definitely a fun, delicious and joyous book :).

      If you click the spaghetti and meatballs image, it’ll take you to the recipe. The “meatballs” are actually hazelnut chocolates covered with strawberry preserves, and the “mozzarella” is actually grated white chocolate.

  2. Such a fun book and post, Jama! The spaghetti stilettos are outrageous and must be worn before the dessert shoes from yesterday’s post! I’m going to check out this title ASAP! Bravo to Cornelius for his mad bowling skills, too. =)

    1. Yes, you’re right — spaghetti stilettos before the cake ones. One could conceivably have an entire bakery shoes meal. I know that french bread slippers exist. Now all we need are salad shoes. 🙂

  3. Jama, grazie mille for posting such a meraviglioso review! I loved your creativity and whimsicality — as always! Reading your blog is such a treat; being subscribed means I always have something memorable and meaningful to read. I’m honored to be back here with you. Aloha!

  4. Ha!!! Loved this post. And really want those socks. The shoes?? Not so much, but what a hoot. What a fun, fun book!!! And that pasta looks amazing.

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  5. I enjoyed this post so much!! The book looks adorable as do the socks and especially the stilettos. Liked the photos of Margo too!

    1. It’s so much fun to read everyone’s comments on Jama’s post; she is truly an artist in both words and pictures, isn’t she? Grazie mille for your very nice comment on the kidlet pics, Vicki! *blush* An older friend from that era just emailed me the little car picture was taken in front of the Albergo di Nazionale in Bari. I didn’t know that, being only five and having forgotten!

  6. I am thrilled with the email I just received! Not only is Margo a talented writer but a lovely lady so looking forward to buying several of her new book I too love pasta!!!

  7. Dear Margo, thank you for thinking of me and sending me this post. I love the idea of mixing reading and food. As a Board member, I will be involved in a reading program this Friday with the Health Clinic. The clinic tries to provide age appropriate reading material for all children seen at the end of their exam. Again, thanks for thinking of me. Keep up the good work!! Lydia Buckley

  8. Jama,

    I left a comment on the wrong page, so I am writing this again to let you know how very creative you are and what a wonderful job you did to help show of Margo’s Spaghetti Smiles. Love the pictures. Great post! So much fun! I will mention you next week on my blog. I will be doing a post about the book and I think a book give-a-way.

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It’s been a bit of a while since I’d made a post so I thought I’d put together an update of my upcoming plans and also put up a little bit of media coverage I’ve had in the last few weeks :).

Firstly my next interesting trip is now only 6 weeks away. I’ll be travelling to Iraqi Kurdistan, an autonomous region of Iraq at the top end of the country that borders Turkey and Iran. Whilst travelling to Iraq may sound like a dangerous ordeal this area of the country has maintained an air of calm to it managing to mostly avoid the Shia/Sunni civil war due to the population consisting mainly of people of Kurdish ethnicity. There has been some ramping up of suicide bombings and conflicts in the Southern part of the country recently but hopefully this will not affect the trip. I’ve been reading a few books on Iraq and would highly recommend the following to anyone interested;

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I’ve had a few people suggest I start one of these travel blogs due to the slightly uncommon nature of a lot of the trips I make. I’ve got a bit of a habit of visiting off the beaten track places such as North Korea, Svalbard, Chernobyl, Palestine etc. and there tends to be a lack of information on trips to these places. There are blogs about all of them but very few cover how to go about visiting these places yourself.

I’ve always felt that a lot of people don’t travel because they are intimated by it, I know I certainly used to be. Thanks to the internet we have swathes of information available to us when planning a trip, but this presents the problem of having to sift through all of it.

So what to do? Well I thought I’d start by posting about trips whilst I’m planning them, distilling down the useful information I find and then discussing the decisions I’ve made based on that to put together a trip. Hopefully people will find my approach to the problems I encounter helpful.

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Crystal Ball Hi there! My name is Amber Powers and I’m going to take you on my journey to intuition for the next 11 months (12 including today.) I’m going to share it all. My doubts, my skepticism, my fears, my obstacles, my joys, releases and celebratory moments. So, where to start…. the beginning is always a good place! Let’s take a trip back to my birth. I don’t remember that moment (as most of us don’t) but I do know that I was born and one of my first car rides was to church. I was dedicated as a child. My parents, pastor and congregation prayed over me and dedicated themselves to doing their best to be a role model to me as I grew into adulthood. While this church dubbed themselves as non-denominational, it was about as Pentecostal as it gets. I remember hearing a lot about the devil or Satan from the pulpit. This character intrigued me and scared me to death simultaneously. Witches were grouped right there in with Satan when it came to the evil clan. Next to witches and Satan were “fortune tellers” or “soothsayers.” If you tell a kid to not think about a purple elephant sitting in a tree, what do you think they’re going to do? OF COURSE they’re going to think about a purple elephant sitting in a tree. They’ll likely giggle. They may even start drawing pictures of said elephant. So it was for me with all of these so-called “evil” practices I was warned against. From the time I was around 8 years old, I would sit in the B. Dalton book store in the Greenwood Park Mall. Mom and dad would leave me there while they did their shopping and the books would babysit me. It was normal back then – and mostly safe. I promptly plopped down in the theology section. I remember picking everything from Hal Lindsey to the Satanic bible. Well, I didn’t really pick up the Satanic bible. I tempted fate and touched it and was pleasantly surprised when I didn’t burst into flames. Burning in hell Most of us know the reality of having our minds inundated with limiting and fear based beliefs. We can delve into the conspiracy theories of it all, but the truth is: Either you stay in that place or you step outside of your comfort zone and step into your power. After converting to Catholicism about 6 years ago to move into a form of worship that involved more stillness and mysticism, I started having more and more ah-ha moments. I was waking up to the world around me and how it all worked. One night, a few months ago, I was startled awake. I had been receiving messages that I would dismiss or put off for a year prior to this. I’d discuss these messages with my husband, but he and I both were on the same page. Essentially, we both continued to say the same thing: If you explore and develop your gifts, you’re going to welcome evil into our home. I think deep down, we both knew that thought pattern was completely bogus, but it served us for a long time. The morning I was startled awake, I went to my husband and said, “Babe, I know how you feel about me exploring my gifts, and I’m afraid too, but it has to be done.” I began to explain that in my dream, my ancestors were all standing around my bed. They had tubes leading from their brains into mine, but the information they were trying to download kept being rejected. They were growing impatient with my spiritual stagnancy. I began asking around to see whom I should work with. I live in Florida and have a strong network down here, but I spoke with 3 people about this and all 3 people mentioned Janyelle’s name. Three times in a row. That’s more than a coincidence. I couldn’t deny it any longer, so I scheduled my introductory session with her. It was only 30 minutes, but that was long enough for me to sense if she was “for me.” Without a doubt, my intuition was right and we began our journey together. I asked her if I could document our journey through this blog so I could read it back over and over so not to forget the steps of my journey. I’ll reveal next month the clarity received through working with Janyelle and some really powerful experiences I had after just the first session. Big things are happening in my world and I hope you’ll take the first step in reaching out to her to discover your introductory session as well. You won’t regret it!


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What’s Your Location? is a group exhibition curated by Antonio Da Silva, Jassim Alnashmi and Ruth Jones. It was first exhibited in Porto Alegre, Brazil – where Antonio Da Silva grew up – in August 4th 2015 at the Centro Cultural Erico Verissimo and was then brought to the Contemporary Art Platform in Kuwait on May 3rd 2016. It started as a group exhibition of 10 artists from Kuwait, Brazil, UK and Belgium and grew to 16 artists to include artists from Scotland, Syria and Australia.


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