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Managing Classroom iPads

Now that many teachers have a set of iPads in their classrooms, we are providing a number of improvements to the way iPads are managed.

Keeping iPads Organized

Icons and folders are now stuck in place and assigned to specific pages on the iPads. This will reduce the number of pages of Apps as well as ensuring that Apps are in the same place all time.

Installing Apps

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An extensive App Catalogue has been provided with over 100 of the best iPad apps for Elementary students. The catalogue also includes any Apps purchased by the school. Installing apps from the catalogue does not require a password. Simply tap the app to install it.
HINT: Leave the App catalogue open for several minutes to ensure that the App request goes through.

Deleting Apps

Deleting Apps has also be made easier. Students are still not able to delete apps by tapping an holding them. However, teachers can go in through the Settings App and delete apps from there. Here is the procedure for deleting apps>

Open Settings/General/Storage & iCloud Usage/Manage Storage. Tap on the App to be deleted. Choose Delete.

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To learn more about how you can use your set of classroom iPads, look for the Red Toolkit icon. Inside the Elementary Teacher Toolkit are ready-to-use lessons as well as an iPad Quickstart Guide.

Managing Your Classroom iPads from STaRT Education on Vimeo.

Refreshing SD34 iPads

The best method for improving an iPad’s performance involves erasing and re-installing all Apps and Settings. We refer to this as an iPad Refresh Procedure To perform a complete refresh of an SD34 iPad, follow the steps below.

  1. Ensure that the iPad is able to be erased. You may need to remove the restrictions profile in Airwatch. For more information, contact Gary Toews.
  2. Erase the iPad. Go to Settings/General/Reset/Erase all settings and content.
  3. After it restarts, go through the setup screens with the correct language (English) and country (Canada)
  4. Log into WIFI if it prompts you to.
  5. Tap to Enable Location Services
  6. Tap Next at the Configuration Screen
  7. Tap Get Started
  8. Go to Settings/General/Software Update and update the iPad to the latest version of iOS. And allow the iPad to restart.
  9. Leave the iPad for 15 minutes or more for Automatic App installs to complete. You should have the following Apps installed: Pic Kids, Calculator, Google Apps (Classroom, Docs, Slides, Drive), I-nima, Adobe Spark Video, and Skitch.
  10. If some Apps fail to automatically install, open the App Catalog and tap their install buttons. Then wait another 15 minutes to allow them to install.
  11. Finally, open the OU Profiles Find your school, (E – elementary, M – middle, S – secondary) and tap to install your School Profile. This will place the iPad into your School OU (Organizational Unit).
  12. Answer all the prompts including the last one that says Done.
  13. Leave the iPad for up to 30 minutes to complete the setup and App installation.
  14. Open the App Catalogue and tap to install any missing Apps. Remember to leave the App Catalogue open for several minutes afterward to allow the install requests complete.
  15. Note: If after several minutes Apps show they are still “Processing” this is likely inaccurate. They most likely have been installed. You can press the home button to check. If in deed they still have NOT installed, then repeat Step 11. If you are still not able to install an App, contact for assistance.

All About Updates

iOS Updates

Since iOS 9 iOS devices have a much more aggressive update procedure. Several days after an update has become available, Apple sends notifications that make it difficult NOT to update. There are very good reasons for this approach, including patching security holes and other issues that affect iOS device functions. So what to do at your school?

When the current user is presented with the Software Update screen, they should tap on the “Later” option, to which you’ll be presented with two options:

Choose “Install Tonight” – this will install the update automatically between 2AM and 4AM assuming the device is connected to wi-fi and a power source.

This will make a big difference in keeping your iPads running smoothly without the hassle of an interruption during the school day.

Automatic App Updates

Enabling iPads to update their Apps automatically:

  1. App Downloads needs to be ON in Settings=>iTunes & App Store

  2. Your iPad restrictions profile needs to Allow installing public apps.

NOTE:  I will be checking your school’s restrictions settings in the next few days, ensuring that this is set correctly. Just be aware of that it needs to remain ON if you want automatic App Updates to continue.

Installing New Apps

  1. Our current setup hides the App Store from Shared iPads which keeps students from accessing it. To install approved Apps, end-users can open the SD34 App Library and install any apps made available there. Please see the following article with regards to “Adding Apps to SD34 App Library.”

Five Tools for Sharing Portions of Videos

Online videos can be quite useful for reiterating a lesson to your students, for inspiring thought and conversation, and for introducing a new concept to your students. The struggle we have sometimes is finding a video that gets to the point quickly. And sometimes we don’t need students to watch all of a TED Talk or other lecture in order to get them thinking about a concept. That’s where tools for sharing portions of videos are useful.

In YouTube there is an option to start a video at a specific point. Under the sharing options on a YouTube video there is an option to select a start time for the video. Unfortunately, there is not an option to select an end time. See the image below for a look at the time-stamped sharing option in YouTube.

Vibby is a service for breaking YouTube videos into segments and inserting comments into those segments. To segment a YouTube video on Vibby simply grab the URL for the video and paste into the Vibby editor. Once inserted into Vibby you can highlight a segment on the video timeline. Vibby then play only the sections you’ve highlighted. Click on a highlighted section to add a comment to it. Videos edited through Vibby can be shared via email, social media, or embedded into a blog or website. Click here for a Vibby tutorial.

TubeChop gives you the ability to clip a section from any YouTube video and share it with others via a link or via an embed code added to your own blog or website. TubeChop lets you select a start time and an end time for an video that you share.

EDPuzzle is a neat tool that allows you to add your voice and text questions to educational videos. On EDpuzzle you can search for educational videos and or upload your own videos to use as the basis of your lesson. EDpuzzle has an online classroom component that you can use to assign videos to students and track their progress through your video lessons. Within EDPuzzle’s editor you can select portions of videos for students to watch. EDPuzzle offers the option to share your videos to Google Classroom. In the videos embedded below I demonstrate how to use the main features of EDPuzzle.

Vialogues is a free service that allows you to build online discussions around videos hosted online and videos that you have saved on your computer. You can choose to use all of a video or portions of a video. Registered users can upload videos to Vialogues or use YouTube videos as the centerpieces of their conversations. After you have selected a video from YouTube or uploaded a video of your own, you can post poll questions and add comments that are tied to points in the video. Your Vialogue can be made public or private. Public Vialogue’s can be embedded into your blog or website.


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Hello. My name is Melissa and I am into self-help.

You know growth and evolution. That warm, fuzzy, touchy, feely, get into your subconcious and dig deep, shit.

I wasn't always. I was probably in my early 30's before I picked up a self-help book or opened myself up that way. I used to think that self-help books and seminars were for weird people. People that whined a lot, sulked, and blamed other people for the fact that their lives weren't what they wanted them to be.

I was wrong. Self-help is for every literate human being with a pulse.

I admit. It is not comfortable to get that intimately acquainted with yourself. Growth forces you to look back, look within, get honest about your fears and self-limiting beliefs, to then evaluate those things and  try to grow from them. Becoming aware of your strengths, weaknesses, tendencies, short-comings, etc.... doing that changes the way you look at everything and it can make you WILDLY uncomfortable for a while.

It's much easier to go through life just kind of letting things happen to you. Pretending that most things are out of your control. It's actually more comfortable to bitch and complain than it is to change.

Don't believe me?

Look at your life.

How many people that you know personally are constantly complain about their shit-head partner, but never leave them? Who out there hates their job, but won't put the time or energy into building something that will help them leave it in 3-5 years? How many people resent the budget they have to live on, but put all of the pressure on their partner, spouse, or parents to make enough money to give them more financial freedom? Do you know anyone who is unhappy with their body, but refuses to move it or eat a damn vegetable? What about people who have crappy, gossipy, negative "friends", but they still spend all of their free time with them? Or, the friend of yours with a big dream; to become an artist, musician, designer, athlete, but instead of putting their time, energy and resources into their dream, they go blow their money, time, and energy at the bar? How many people wear their struggles as some sort of badge of honor instead of changing? Changing is hard, man. Change is HARD.AS.FK. That is why so few people do it.

It's a commitment. You don't change your life overnight. You take 2 steps forward and 1 step back. You have to (sometimes) change a lot of things you are comfortable with. You have to look in the mirror and get honest with yourself. It's lonely. Not everyone will get it. Not everyone will stay in your life. You may lose friends, partners, acquaintances, family members, and even go back on some things you used to believe yourself.

I get it. I used to be afraid. Of everything. It was easier to stay quiet than have to defend your opinion. Easier to be with the person that likes you more than you like them, because there is "safety" in that. MUCH easier to do what you need to do to get by, then to stretch yourself to make change. The bullshit story you tell yourself about why you can't do something is a much smoother "pill to swallow" than to try something and  run the risk of failing. We are SO friggin concerenced with what other people think of us that it paralyzes us. It's no coincidence that the greatest things you'll ever do in your life are on the other side of that fear though. At some point you have to stop giving your life to your past, to the voice in your head that says you're not good enough. You have to stop living in that space of mediocrity. That place where you don't ruffle feathers. No one speaks badly of you. No one doubts you.

The problem is that we all think that we have time. We tell ourselves that we will make changes when we.... "get finished with school... when we make more money... when the kids are older... when things aren't so busy at work... when I lose 20 lbs... after the wedding... after the divorce... once I have more energy... once I move out of this town... when it's warmer... blah, blah, blah."

But life goes by fast. Really FKNG fast. One minute you're in grade school, the next, you're 30. Then... your baby is in kindergarden, graduating from HS, you're an empty-nester. It goes by so fast that one day, God-willing, you're going to be 85 years old looking back on all of it. How do you think that will feel if you don't start going after what you want? Do you think you'll feel good if you have to admit that you spent 20 years with the wrong person? That you never made enough money to travel, live your dreams, help people in need, because you were too scared of what other people thought of you that you never even tried???

I got really sick in 2011 almost died. That was the best thing that ever happened to me. It is when I woke the FK up. It was when I committed to trying new things, committing to the insanely uncomfortable process of growth, self-love, and when I said FK it. I can't live a life so worried about what other people think that I never do what I want to. At the end of my life I want to be able to meet God and say that I used every ounce of what He gave me; able body, sound mind, caring heart. I didn't live small because I was too self-defeating and self-sabotaging to dare to deviate.

You may be reading this thinking, "Well, congratufuckinglations, Melissa. Good for you. You're not scared of change, you don't care what people think of you, BRAVO, bitch". That's not true though. I'm still scared of  a lot and I still care what some people think of me. It's a work in progress, but I can only speak from my own life, and the things that stand out in my life as making me the happiest and most proud of myself have been on the other side of REALLY hard changes.

Moving to Charlotte. Applying for new jobs. Breaking off relationships that were not right. Walking, alone, into a Pilates class (and then teacher training) where I was the largest, and least experienced person in the room. Distancing myself from "friends" who talked shit about me behind my back. Starting my direct sales business. Starting this blog. Putting myself "out there" and risking ridicule.

All of those things scared the shit out of me, but when I look now, every single one of them required me to be brave and to risk that something wasn't going to work out.

Safe is cool, until it isn't.
Safe is comfortable, until your at the end of your life and you look back on it with big regrets.
Safe is letting yourself off the hook.

I wrote this all in a tizzy. Super fast. I've been having a lot of these conversations lately I and thought that maybe someone out there needed to read this today. If you're into (or want to be into) self-help, growth and development, here are a few of my favorite books:

The Gifts of Imperfection - Brene Brown
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
The Secret - Rhonda Byrne
Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
Who Moved My Cheese? -  Spencer Johnson
Think and Grow Rich -  Napoleon Hill
Rising Strong - Brene Brown
Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert

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This memorial website was created to remember our precious sweet kitty, Molly MsFluff, born on November 24, 2001 and passed away on May 11, 2012 at the age of 10 1/2. You will live forever in our memories and hearts.

My precious sweet baby girl, I don't know where to start, but let me try.  Back in November 2006, I was browsing the Humane Society website and I saw this beautiful blue-eyed fluffy kitty.  I was really curious because they described the kitty as a calico mix, and I had never seen a blue-eyed calico.  So hubby and I went down to see this kitty.  The volunteer took you out of your cage and let me hold you.  Right away you purred and purred and put your face in my shoulder.  They said you were brought in as a stray and your estimated age was 5 years old.  Right then I knew you were coming home with me.  This happened on Black Friday.  They said they wanted to keep you there till Monday so you could be spayed.  I reluctantly agreed to let you stay there the weekend.

On Monday morning, they called me and said you had sneezed so to please come and pick you up as they couldn't spay you with an Upper Respiratory.  So we went right down and picked you up.  Next day I called my vet to have you checked out and when I took you in, the girls at the reception desk said that you were not a calico but a Ragdoll..  In the bottom of my heart I already knew that.. :)

You spent 5 1/2 years with us.  You were so sweet, lovable and very sociable.  Everyone that came into our home was greeted by you and you got all this attention which you absolutely loved.  I know that Tigger bothered you to an extent, I think he thought your fluffy tail was a toy and was constantly chasing you.  I don't think you minded that too much tho.  You loved to play the hiney wiggle and pounce, I know you tried that with Rusty a few times but he never responded to you and I feel so bad he didn't.  The other kitties responded to you and you all went back and forth and played together.  It was soo cute watching you.

I will always remember your sweetness, your head buts, your purrs, your beautiful crystal blue eyes, your soft fluffy fur, and you my precious girl.  I miss you  sitting here by my computer every nite.  Daddy will miss you too sweetie, I know that too.  I just can't wait to see you again, love you and miss you always... xoxoxoxoxox  =^..^=

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Friday, April 4, 2008

Cable can be such a pain!

Our internet has been having problems. It would connect, disconnect, connect again just long enough to tease me. Calling the cable company was as frustrating as the connection. After 5 no shows they finally sent out not one but two guys who ended up replacing everything only to find out the problem was elsewhere.
It's finally working-better than ever so hopefully I can keep my blog up to date now.
Thanks for dropping by.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

So, this is what failure means: "an instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success."

And that is definitely how I feel right now. Do you ever have that kind of week? Where it seems you can do nothing right? Yeah, I am in the midst of that.. and it's not every Friday yet!

Here are a few examples of why I'm feeling this way...

1. I was backing up and ran smack into my mailbox, and knocked it over. Wouldn't have been so bad except that is not the first time that thing has had to be put back up! AND I'm thinking the neighbors saw me, and I know they already believe I'm not that great of a driver :x

2. I was fussing at the kids, for not paying attention and getting their homework done faster. When in reality, it wasn't that big of an issue, just me being impatient.

3. I made a fairly nice dinner the other night, had everyone sitting down and eating it, and Arnold's plate got cold. To be fair, he WAS home later than usual from work, but I still felt bad. I try to time things out just right, and it doesn't always work.

4. Last night I was playing with Rachel and then was rocking her back and forth, just being silly. Caleb came up to me and said "why do you like her the best?" Oh wow. Have I been making it seem like I have a favorite? Because that is not the case at all! Sure, I react with my kids very differently. They are different genders and have very different personalities. But I didn't know Caleb was feeling left out. Need to work on that. Note to self: learn more about "boy stuff!"

5. Brooke has had to have so much dental work. Even thought we take care of all the kids' teeth the same way, she has been doomed with repeated cavities, fillings, crowns, and even extractions. On top of that, she has dealt with seizures in the past and now ADHD. She is only 7- why is she having to go through all this? It kills me to see her struggle. I don't want her to feel any pain. Part of her dental issues might be from thumb-sucking. She DID suck her thumb for a really long time, come to think of it. Should I have tried to get her to stop? Is it partly my fault her teeth and jaw are messed up? Sheesh. I thought I was actually escaping problems when none of mine would take a pacifier!

Anyway, I could go on, but I won't bore you. So that is what I'm dealing with lately. I just feel so let-down and un-sure of myself. It is hard to keep up with life. It's amazing how one day you can feel top-of-the-world and so confident in yourself, and then the next you feel like you are worth nothing.

But I guess I have to remember that to fail from time to time is human, but you have to rise up and try again. Sometimes again AND again. If you refuse to try, THEN you become a "failure." No one is immunue to failure and heartache, not even Christians. Not even those of us who feel we are "very close" in our walk with God. Sometimes it doesn't feel fair. But I know that God is there to help me get through those times. I looked up and found "let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us." That is Hebrews 12:1 in the Bible.

So I hope I am not the only who experiences these kinds of days (weeks??!) I'm sure I'm not. Thanks for letting me ramble. And for anyone else going through a tough week, remember that you always have someone on your side.

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I'm one lucky Momma!

I am so excited to share that because I've been a good girl, I will be getting a "JUICY DIAPER BAG" from a very sweet friend "Ms. Maya!"

She is the sweetest thing I know! We met way back in Vegas, she was one of the party people in the lounge, LOL! and since then we became very good friends!

This is actually our "little deal"
If my baby in my womb is a little girl she will get me this bag; luck was on my side this time, it'll be a little princess! That's why I'm getting this pretty little thing on the mail soon! Weeeeeeee!

I love you "mars"

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you again!

You're the best!

Oh, and thanks for my V-Cut too!!! ♥

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Game Resume: Doing Time

I started professionally in the game industry in 1998. The sad part is I didn't get to work on a game that actually shipped till 2003. Yup, five years of telling everyone "Yes, I really do work on games!" but having no proof.

I got my first industry job programming at Running With Scissors. This was back during the heady days when places like Panasonic were throwing money at any game with a snazzy character. RWS had just finished POSTAL and I came on during a time when martini hot tub parties in Vegas and leisurely, 3 hour lunches were part of the work week.
It was like a dream--this is how everyone thought the game industry acted--and it was really going on! Until... we had to make a new game.

We went through several iterations for the next game and even secured funding for a little while. At one point RWS artists were hand-painting intricate sculptures, photographing them, and scanning them into the computer to be used in a new adventure game. It was pretty cool in theory and totally insane from a development standpoint when you saw it in action. It would literally have taken years to see that vision through. RWS never got any versions of that game finished, but we did make a pretty sweet game a few years later.

After RWS slowly closed down in 1999, I moved to Orlando to work at n-Space just before the world was going to end. There, I worked on a Duke Nukem game for the PS2 and helped with an Austin Powers game to coincide with the new movie. Neither made it to Gold, but it was a pleasant, mediocre ride along the way. As the PS2 Duke game floundered and Take Two slowly distanced itself from n-Space, I decided to jump ship and head back toRWS for POSTAL 2. It seemed ridiculous to me that the game would go from top-down isometric to a first-person shooter, but I knew it would be more fun than what I was doing at the time.

Next update--a game that ships!

But before that, let's look at a picture from Weapon of Choice's past. Here's a very early version of Xerxe's Jet Engine gun in a old test level with a simple background.

The flames aren't quite as big now, but I promise it's even more fun to use in the current version!

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boydjakdsy said...

All children like pc games. It is at this time more well-known online games on net. Basically because flash games are totally free. Your own pc can work easily their. Presently there are a large number of online games on net. kids like more dirt bike games. My own popular games are motorbike games.


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Friday, April 2, 2010

PAX East 2010 Pics and Press

PAX East is finally over and boy was it a first show! By most estimates there were nearly 60,000 people in attendance and every single one of them stopped by Mommy's Best Games' booth!
At least we'd have liked that. We did get a lot of traffic though, and Shoot 1UP thoroughly convinced many reticent gamers they still *do* like shoot 'em ups and can still enjoy them!

I've been fortunate enough to have been to E3 and GDC for many years now, but being to a fun video game convention *before* everything is setup is a little disenchanting. Fortunately once the show starts the magic begins as well and everything actually turns out looking cool.

Pre-show forklifts scour the floors indiscriminately lifting boxes and eating grown pets. Beware!

Shortly after arriving, Amy begins to construct our booth. I'm sitting in our second blue chair, watching her work.

Now we're getting somewhere! The rental TV and computers are up and rental-dude Tyler is making sure things work.

Near-complete version of the booth. The Weapon of Choice sign was deemed "too much". We put that on the back side to face the lounge area. Believe it or not--and our games not withstanding--we do have our own limits of taste and decor.

Boston, 32 stories high, first morning of the show. The rain didn't dampen (Ugghh) our spirits!

Gamers trying out Grapple Buggy and Shoot 1UP. No the game won't ship with a 5' poster of Javeya (to the right). If we sold it in a box though, we could pack it in!

Crowds formed each hour as we held the Shoot 1UP High Score contest at the show. Guy standing on the left is watching Grapple Buggy in action and literally cannot believe his eyes.

Kotaku's Mike Fahey stopped by to gross us out by hanging a Grapple Buggy grabber off his nose piercing. F'ing hardcore.

I explain to Evil Avatar's "pwnophobia" how the Natal-powered, piano bar mini-game in Grapple Buggy will work.

Here's some of the media coverage for Grapple Buggy and Shoot 1UP from the show:

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Overall it was a great show--here's to next year!

Hunty said...

hooray! Looks like you had a great time!

Geichz said...

Wow... I looked at your video footage of the PAX East & wow Grapple Buggy is looking phenomenal. I am also glad to hear that you are going for an XBLA release, as GB is looking quite deserving of a bigger audience.

PS. couldn't help but notice the great rating Shoot1UP is accumulating. Good job


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Friday, November 19, 2010

Not good enough?

I was told that last Saturday, the parents teachers day was a private event. Only parents of top student were invited. Darwish van driver told me so (he is our informer so i believe him, all this while he is our reference other than the school blog or written message/notice). I did not get any invitation or notice from Darwish bag (i have to dig myself cos darwish hardly tell me anything), so i just waited, asked Darwish everyday just in case it was verbally informed in his class.

Since today was the last day, still no news until yesterday, cekpen asked the van driver again early this morning. Apparently, the parent teachers day was last saturday *Confious* . Maybe the "Not So Good Student's Parents " really no need to come.

So I decided to see his teacher today. I reached school around 10.30am, only to get cold treatment from the teacher who really (looked) disturbed with my presence and with a heavy voice telling me that darwish report card already filed away. She told me she had given to Darwish and other student on last *Friday (not sure if everyone or the not so good one), and told me that maybe Darwish has returned it back in the basket where the absent student file was kept. I was surprise that she didn't even bother to check whether the parents has signed it or not. Oh ... school holiday is around the corner rite!

*Last Friday Darwish did told me he received the 'blue file" but his teacher asked to return it back. So he returned it back without bring it back home....oh anakku!! After some interrogation that day, so i tought i will see the 'blue file' again during parents teachers day, well.....i'm wrong.

Then she told me to find another teacher(who keeping the report card), who will be his standard 2 class teacher (i guess), and by this time i was told that next year darwish will not be in the same class. Seriouslly i don't have the mood to ask the teacher (who is not interested at all to discuss my son performance) what is the class rating...her annoyed face really turn me off.

So i went to see this other teacher who give me the same unhappy face (maybe she annoyed with my presence) who told me that she's about to go for her break. I did apologize twice ....first, when i approach her, then when she mention " i baru nak pergi makan".

She dig up the file..passed it to me, give me a pen, ask me to sign and put the file back ..of course she did not wait for me. She left with her tumbler in her right hand and her handbag.

So there i was, looking at darwish result ...with broken heart...4A and 6B, (main paper 2A,3B) with average of 81%. Mid year was a lot better than the final exam... :(.

While i was fainted emotionally in that room, Darwish was still chirpy, running around bilik guru main kejar-kejar dengan Sarah.

  1. Sis, my son's school ada Communication Book just like when they were in kindergarten. All happenings and events of the school were usually printed for circulation and distributed to the students and they pasted it on the book.

    Maybe you can give suggestion to your kids' school about that method?

    And don't worry, a child's performance masa Std 1 tak semestinya forecast future success/failure. Darwish did quite well apa.... kan?

    And abt the teachers....hrmmmm.... sabar aje la...

  2. Tak baiknya the teacher do that! Masa me jadik substitute teacher dulu pon siap hold my lunch utk layan parents yang datang. Sigh! But thats reality kan, when people look down at teacher profession dorang memekak. tapi setitik nila inilaaa yg buat kacau!

  3. SHM - memang ada message book tu but darwish did not paste it there. Ada la 2,3 kali je dia buat. the rest mmg tah mana dia letak. Mmg tak boleh judge from his std 1 performance but sometime i mcm takleh accept. I know he's a late boomer but i yg rasa mcm i'm the one who's at fault...:(

  4. JD - itu lah hakikatnya. mungkin sbb last day of school so derang dah holiday mood kot.


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saling Monemvasia

Sailing southwards:

Seafarers heading south, under sail or motor power, should set a course for the 37th parallel and the northern reaches of the municipality of Monemvasia. The adventure begins!

About 30 nautical miles south of the island of Hydra (less than 70 from the marinas of Attica) is the Gulf of Kyparissi (36.58N – 23.00 E) with its long beaches and clear waters.
At first sight, you might be forgiven for thinking this was part of the Cyclades. White houses spill down steep slopes to the sea.

Whether you tie up at one of the two small moles or anchor offshore, one thing is certain. When you wake up next morning, you’ll be diving straight into the sea – the ultimate pleasure in a holiday afloat!

There’s a great temptation to linger here, but more pleasures await along the coast. Sailing boat crews will make good use of the northerly breezes blowing off the Aegean meltemi winds, raising spinnakers as they head south towards the fortress of Monemvasia.

Meanwhile, about 12 miles south of Kyparissi, is the entrance to a fjord-like inlet leading to the small port of Gerakas, which is invisible from the open sea even close to the coast. As you turn into the inlet, the first houses only appear after you have lost sight of the sea behind you.

No matter where you tie up you won’t be far from one of the seaside tavernas where you can rest for as long as you like. There is no rush – Monemvasia is just 7 nautical miles further south along the coast.
The imposing rock with its medieval ruins is a prominent landmark. Sail around it to the south for your first sight of the fortress itself. A marina lies to the left of the port, used by pleasure craft and fishing boats – an opportunity to get the freshest catch from the professionals. The modern town of Monemvasia as well as the fortress are not far off – the latter a little further to walk, but along a level road with a wonderful view.

The next stop is Neapoli, in the area known as Vatika. Don’t let stories about Cape Maleas daunt you. Just keep an eye on the weather report (as you would do in any case) and you’ll round the cape with no trouble at all, in company with merchant ships of all sizes. As you pass the cape, note the recently renovated stone lighthouse and chapels of Aghios Georgios and Aghia Irini clinging to the cliff face.
Neapoli is the southernmost town on Europe’s land mass. If the weather allows, tie up at the central mole in the heart of the waterfront. (Otherwise anchor a little further south in the bay of Paliokastro.)
At Neapoli’s seaside cafes, enjoy grilled octopus with an ouzo, a local speciality and a must for every visitor. The beach in front of the port has been awarded a Blue Flag, but the rest of the bay has plenty of clean, sandy beaches.

One of the most famous is Simos, on the island of Elafonisos, right opposite Neapoli. Drop anchor offshore and enjoy a scene that appears in tourist guides around the world.

Another 13 nautical miles further north in the Gulf of Laconia are the settlements of Archangelos and Plytra, both with Blue Flag beaches. On hot summer days, a cool breeze off the sea moves in around 11 a.m. to lower the temperature and fill sails.
At Plytra is a large port with a water supply. The seabed is visible no matter how deep you anchor your boat.  Just south of the port are the ruins of an ancient sunken city. Around the port within walking distance are all the amenities for enjoying a summer evening by the sea, and a number of clean beaches.

Our cruise around the waters of the municipality of Monemvasia, which has the longest coastline of any municipality in Greece, ends in the little port of Elia, a pretty fishing village that over the past few decades has rapidly been developing into a popular summer destination. If there is no room to tie up at the small fishing dock, drop anchor in the bay.  The Blue Flag flies here as well, and the beaches are clean, easily accessible and with a variety of amenities.

The long coastline of Laconia’s southeastern peninsula, with steep slopes on the Myrtoon Sea, rugged cliffs around Cape Maleas and pretty bays and beaches on the Laconian Gulf provide excellent conditions for learning seamanship skills.

In recent years several regional yacht clubs have been established where local children and summer visitors can learn to sail small craft and ocean-going yachts. They are the Vies Yacht Club in Neapoli, the Elia Yacht Club and the Monemvasia Yacht Club.

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Until They Cry “Uncle”…

Growing up, it was not unusual to find yourself in a harmless scuffle with a friend or sibling. Why the wrestling match started could be attributed to any one of a number of playground offenses or slights. Back “in the day” when such things were generally innocuous and the normal rite of passage for kids, the match would only end when someone said “uncle”. The word “uncle” was the universal sound of surrender. What it meant was that you wanted the match to be over. You were ready to let go of whatever it was that got you in this scuffle in the beginning.

I want to suggest that it is time for the Indiana GOP to say “uncle” with regards to pursuing SOGI legislation.

From the beginning of this whole legislative debacle, the GOP has taken its hits from the most loyal of constituencies, the conservative Christian community. It has confused many of us as to why the leadership would go out of it’s way to alienate a consistently solid support base.

To hear GOP leaders like Senators Long and Holdman, along with Speaker Bosma, quip flippantly that SOGI legislation is “inevitable” is disturbing for many Christian business people. Add on top of that, Senator Hershman’s view that we are “self-appointed experts and arrogant activists” is incredibly disconcerting and patronizing coming from those who are supposedly our friends.

All of this, mind you, was spoken after the Indiana Christian Community flooded the Statehouse with emails, voice mails, and large rallies. One would think that if these people truly were politically astute they would let this legislation go and move on to more important topics than trying to figure out who could practice their faith in their personal businesses and where that faith geographically could be expressed. One would think that after the backlash of their most energized base they would simply retreat and learn the lessons of this battle. Apparently, nothing could be further from the truth.

So, what are concerned Christian people to do about maintaining their Religious Liberty?

We maintain an unrelenting pressure on the GOP until they cry “uncle”.

We must maintain our vigilance in communication, primary those who seek to isolate our faith only to the church property, and refuse to vote for those who think they can dictate where and when our faith can be exercised. It is time for some of these politicians to cry “uncle”. It is time for them to take our concerns seriously and realize that SOGI legislation will be toxic to their political careers. It is time for them to apologize for betraying their friends and supporters. It is time for them to understand that we are not going away, but if necessary we will mobilize and multiply our efforts in an exponential way.

You see, what politicians are counting on, is that they can exploit and manipulate the Christian’s charitable disposition. They have, in the past, been able to convolute and twist what little Scripture they know to back us in a corner of thinking we are somehow “unloving” or “intolerant”.

That day is ending.

Pastors are becoming mobilized and activated to articulate the “whole counsel of God” and the “fullness of the Scriptures”. We are teaching our people to stand and not wilt under false accusation and twisted hermeneutics. We will be tolerant of all and maintain a right spirit and good disposition, but we will not yield an inch when it comes to the seriousness and passion of our faith. Government is not God and if our civic leaders force us to choose between the two, then these will indeed be tumultuous times.

This recent “win” we have experienced with regards to the removal of SB344 was indeed needed and an encouragement.

Enjoy the fruits of success.

Many of you deserve it. However, don’t think for a moment this is over. Don’t put your shirts or signs away. The sounds that I am hearing…2016 was only round one. We must respond for round two and this is the moment for our GOP friends to cry…”uncle”.

Dr. Kevin Baird is the Lead Pastor of Legacy Church in Charleston, SC and the Executive Director of the South Carolina Pastors Alliance, an alliance of over 500+ pastors seeking to influence public policy in matters pertaining to faith, family and freedom. Dr. Baird has over 35 years of pastoral and ministry experience as a lead pastor, college professor, academic dean, and conference speaker. In recent years, he has been a frequent speaker for various faith, family and freedom civic groups. Dr. Baird has been a cultural analyst and spokesperson for conservative, evangelical Christian concerns on radio, television, and print media in both local and national arenas. He is currently working at establishing the National Association of Pastors Alliances which will network state pastors alliances in order to bring national influence for the clergy. Dr. Baird has been married 33 years to his wife, Tracie, who has been an incredible partner in ministry as well as mother to three wonderful children and daughter-in-love who are all participating in the ministry.

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

"Faith" Lee Min-ho waits around for Kim Hee-seon

Actor Lee Min-ho became 'daddy long-legs'.

On the eighth episode of the SBS drama "Faith" on the 4th, Choi Yeong (Lee Min-ho) was imprisoned according to Ki-cheol's plot.

Choi Yeong suffered from the complications he felt about the death of Kyeong Chang-gun and Eun-soo (Kim Hee-seon) and took out the aspirin she gave him. Inside was a wild flower she had given him.

He escaped from the prison and went over to Ki-cheol's (Yoo Oh-seong) house where Eun-soo was captured and affectionately watched her talk to Ki-cheol from far and she also seemed to miss him.

Not only that, Eun-soo fell off the mountain while trying to escape from Ki-cheol when he wasn't looking. Choi Yeong held her from behind and saved her then disappeared without showing her who he was.

Previously, Choi Yeong had been protecting Eun-soo to send her back to where she came from and was looking for the right chance. He developed feelings for her while they spent time together.

Eun-soo also started feeling something towards him and it is expected for their love line to progress in the near future.

Meanwhile, King Gong-min (Ryoo Deok-hwan) struggled to save Choi Yeong.

Source: Hancinema

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Founded in 1984, Montessori Stepping Stones has been committed to providing a genuine Montessori program for over 30 years. We are committed to a high quality education for children using the proven philosophy and methods developed by Dr. Maria Montessori. Please click on the video to learn more about our school, our programs, Montessori philosophy, and more!

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February 17, 2009

Way to go Ree!

I know I've talked about this before: I really, really like blogs.

I like reading them. I like writing them. I like finding new blogs to follow. I really like opening my Google Reader every day to catch up with the most recent news.

I've followed Between Two Worlds by Justin Taylor for the longest time. His blog actually is the reason why I started following blogs. Justin pulls from so many sources of world news, product releases, pastor musings, etc. I feel like I get a well-rounded access to the Christian worldview through this blog.

I found Ree's blog, Confessions of a Pioneer Woman, a few months ago. I don't know how I went so long without knowing about her daily musings, recipes and photos. I spent one Friday evening reading all 42 of the entries about her journey from "Black Heels to Tractor Wheels", the story about how she met her Marlboro Man. She is hilarious, her recipes are uh-mazing, and she gives great advice about homeschooling, Photoshop and how to wrangle four farm kids!

Well, it was really exciting to see that one of my very favorite magazines, Time, listed Ree's blog as one of the Top 25 Blogs. WOW! Out of the thousands of blogs in the blogosphere, it's hard to imagine that a list for only 25 could be created. However, I could not agree more with Ree's being on the list - it's quite well deserved :)

If you've never really been a follower of blogs, now is a good time. Check out some of the blogs on Time's list - The Huffington Post, Got2BeGreen and Freakonomics are pretty good. Don't forget to check out my favorites Pioneer Woman and B2W as well!

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Happy 2nd Birthday Stinx

Two years ago I was stoned out of my tree in a hospital room. I might have been high as a kite, but I was extremely euphoric with the love for my baby boy. Sure, the birth didn't go as I had prayed for, or planned for, and sure, I get depressed thinking about that stuff, but that doesn't mean it wasn't the happiest day of my life. It doesn't mean I was joyless. I was thrilled to be a mom. I was thrilled to see the little baby that grew inside of me those 39 weeks.

It's hard to believe two years has flown by so quickly. I know, how cliche. But really, it's unbelievable. Stinx is truly a boy now, not a baby. He is running, climbing, jumping, dancing, talking.. and just surprising me every day with all the things he is learning. He is figuring stuff out all the time.

Here are just a few things I want to remember most about Stinx when he turned 2:
  • His love for buses, trucks, trains, planes, boats etc
  • His love of books and being read too
  • His growing vocabulary... like "fall down"... when mommy fell in the snow... lol.
  • How he likes to hold hands with his little pals
  • How he asked me for a hug this morning at 5am! lol...
  • The unexpected hug he gave me later in the am which was followed by a surprise kiss

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Circle of Light

It's that time of year - twinkle lights are up, Christmas music's on - when children get excited. I always did - not just for the gifts I'd get but those I'd give: bought or (more likely) made - usually, in our case, all through the night from Christmas Eve to Christmas morning. But I think even more I anticipated the Occasion, the Family Event of the year when I knew by our particular rituals, more than at any other time, that I belonged to a clan.

It's the time of year, though, too, that grown-ups can get the blues. I find that I usually do, a little. It's lonely to not be a child at Christmas. Now I'm the one creating the customs, and it can even make me shudder: on the one side I see my new little family around our own little hearth, on the other side Night, and between the two just Shep and me, rubbing sticks together to make a circle of light. There's no illusion here.

This year, though, it occurs to me, maybe it's not inappropriate to feel a little grieved. We await, after all, a haunting mystery brought forth in the dark of the year: a baby born to die. It takes your breath away - the generosity, the humility, the love, the grim necessity (since we'd be doomed without it) - and it makes your heart thud, to anticipate Beauty himself, defaced.

What's more, even as we prepare to commemorate that the Light has come, here we are still waiting in the dark, for the Light to come again, at last, for good. We're standing brave against the night. So maybe it's not too outrageous to mourn a little, to feel a little pathos now, even if it flies in the face of jingle bells and snowmen and reindeer and santa clauses. Those are the only illusions, really - just the jingles of the merchandise. Christmas is about what's real.

Advent is the beginning of the church calendar, and it makes sense to me for the year to begin this way, with the first rumblings of war: God made flesh, dropped down into the territory of his one ancient enemy. In the end, he'll emerge victorious, but not before that darkest dark day of shaking earth, blackened sun, bloody moon. After that he'll break out, and there's not a sad thought then on Resurrection Day, only triumph and the groundswell of spring. But here we are at the beginning, in cold silence in the dark of the year. It seems you can't understand any part of this plot-line apart from the whole: it all leads up to Easter. Right now, you have a tiny, tender baby, peerless in perfection. It gives you goose-bumps and joy and hope and awe, and longing and grief and wonder and suspense. Not the trivial spiel of a commercial Christmas, it's better, wrought with all emotions, the Story Unsurpassed. Embracing this, I don't feel so melancholy. I begin to take great satisfaction in rubbing these sticks together. I find they do make quite a glow.

  1. This catches my breath.....true....and beautiful... Mom


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Saturday, November 03, 2012

25th European Film Awards Nominations

A few minutes ago at the Seville European Film Festival the European Film Academy announced the nominations for this year. Most were expected but there is one huge surprise.

Please remember that the award calendar runs from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012 and is the reason why the nominations have films from last year. Also, the films must have a director who was born in Europe or has a European passport and Europe has a geographical definition.

European Film
Amour (Love), Michael Haneke, Austria, France and Germany
Barbara, Christian Petzold, Germany
Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die), Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Italy
Intouchables (Untouchable), Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, France
Jagten (The Hunt), Thomas Vinterverg, Denmark
Shame, Steve McQueen, UK

European Director
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)
Michael Haneke for Amour (Love)
Steve McQueen for Shame
Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani for Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die)
Thomas Vinterberg for Jagten (The Hunt

European Actress
Emilie Dequene in À perdre la raison (Our Children)
Nina Hoss in Barbara
Emmanuelle Riva in Amour (Love)
Margarethe Tiesel In Paradies: Liebe (Paradise: Love)
Kate Winslet in Carnage

European Actor
François Cluzet & Omar Sy in Intouchables (Untouchable)
Michael Fassbender in Shame
Mads Mikkelsen in Jagten (The Hunt)
Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Jean-Louis Trintignant in Amour (Love)

European Screenwriter
Michael Haneke for Amour (Love)
Tobias Lindholm & Thomas Vinterberg for Jagten (The Hunt)
Cristian Mungiu for După dealuri (Beyond the Hills)
Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano for Intouchables (Untouchable)
Roman Polanski and Yasmina Reza for Carnage

Carlo di Palma European Cinematographer Award
Sean Bobbitt for Shame
Bruno Delbonnel for Faust
Darius Khondji for Amour (Love)
Gökhan Tiryaki for Bir zamanlar Anadolu'da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)
Hoyte Van Hoytema for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

European Editor
Janus Billeskov Jansen & Anne Østerud for Jagten (The Hunt)
Roberto Perpignani for Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die)
Joe Walker for Shame

European Production Designer
Maria Djurkovic for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Niels Sejer for En Kongelig Affære (A Royal Affair)
Elena Zhukova for Faust

European Composer
Cyrille Aufort & Gabriel Yared for En Kongelig Affære (A Royal Affair)
François Couturier for Io Sono Li (Shun Li and the Poet)
George Fenton for The Angels' Share
Alberto Iglesias for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

European Documentary
Hiver Nomade (Winter Nomads), Manuel von Stürler, Switzerland
London - The Modern Babylon, Julien Temple, UK
Le thé ou l'électricité (Tea or Electricity), Jérôme le Maire, Belgium, France and Morocco

European Animated Feature Film
Alois Nebel, Tomáš Luňák, Czech Republic, Germany and Slovakia
Arrugas (Wrinkles), Ignacio Ferreras, Spain
The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists, Peter Lord, USA and UK

European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI
10 Timer Til Paradis (Teddy Bear), Mads Matthiesen, Denmark
Broken, Rufus Norris, UK
Kauwboy, Boudewijn Koole, Netherlands
Портрет в сумерках Portret V Sumerkhak (Twilight Portrait), Angelina Nikonova, Russia
Die Vermissten (Reported Missing), Jan Speckenbach, Germany

As we know the European Achievement in World Cinema this year goes to Dame Helen Mirren. To learn nominees in the Short Film category please go to this post.

The more than 2,700 EFA members will now vote for the winners who will be presented during the awards ceremony on December 1st in Malta. To read info about each film go here.

My biggest surprise is the total absence of Jacques Audiard film and Marion Cotillard not getting a nomination. Unbelievable. But as unbelievable are the many nominations the other French film got, yes that film, the film that is France submission to Oscar. Now seems will be easier to guess what could happen at the Oscars in the foreign-language category and beyond. Nevertheless, this Academy has always given us surprises that sometimes do not reflect what Oscar could do, like for example, last year Melancholia winning the top award.

Still, I hope that this is Michael Haneke's year and Amour sweeps the awards as is the film with the most nominations (6). In 28 days we will know if the Academy celebrates Haneke with well-deserved honors.

Last but not least I am pleased that some of my favorite and most admired directors are being honored with a well-deserved nomination including Haneke but also Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Cristian Mungiu; plus do not mind that Steve McQueen's excellent Shame got five (5) nominations, including one for Michael Fassbender. Somehow this year the Actress category does not excite me that much as really enjoyed Nina Hoss performance but know that probably Emmanuelle Riva will get the award. There is one movie nominated to the top award that I could not watch but maybe now will try to see it again hoping that I can see it up to the end; also will see the film (the other French film) I have been avoiding to see even when I know will like it as is a mainstream crowd-pleader. Sigh.

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Fellowships Abroad

Below is the initial choice of research institutions and universities where our PhD students were invited to spend the semesters of their Fellowships Abroad.

Universal Reformation: Intellectual Networks in Early Modern Central Europe

During the four years of the program, you will work on your dissertation at the University of Aberdeen (6 months), at the University of Oxford (6 months), and at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

At the University of Aberdeen, you will have the opportunity to take part in the research team project Frontiers of Faith: Conflict, dissent and toleration in the British Isles and Central Europe in Comparison, as well as in other seminars on confessional identity and intellectual cooperation between European and British networks ca. 1500-1800, including Enlightenment in Comparison (Prof. Friedrich), Witchcraft and the Rise of Protestant Culture in Early Modern Scotland (Prof. Naphy), Shakespeare and Renaissance Culture (Prof. Rist), Approaching the University Collections (Davidson), or Protestant Identities in the British Isles (Prof. Erskine).

A stay at the University of Oxford will allow Fellows to benefit from association with the Project ‘Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters’, a collaboration between the Humanities Division and the Bodleian Library which takes as one of its central themes ‘Universal Reformation: Intellectual Networks in Central and Western Europe, 1560-1670’ (to which a conference is dedicated in September 2010). You will take part in regular supervisory meetings with the Project Director Professor Howard Hotson, which will be supplemented by contact with other early modern scholars based at Oxford. You will also benefit from the unparalleled early modern holdings of the Bodleian Library, and the resources of Oxford University Computing Services (which offers a comprehensive range of courses designed to introduce researchers to the latest developments in information technology) and the Oxford University Language Centre (which offers training in modern languages, as well as in Latin and early modern palaeography). In addition, the Oxford Learning Institute and the Oxford University Careers Service offer practical seminars for researchers on teaching, managing staff, presenting research work, and writing research grants.

The Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Science in Prague offers a wealth of source material related to international intellectual networks around late Humanist and late Reformation circles in the Czech lands (the 1560s-1630s), Comenius and his network (the 1620s-1670s), and the intellectual exchange between the circles of Bohemian and Moravian exiles and intellectual milieus in Saxony, Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden and England. You will take part in Dr. Urbánek’s seminars at the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, and in other workshops related to your research. During your stay in Prague, you will have a chance to study secondary literature in Czech, Polish and major European languages related to your topic and discuss this literature with the specialists from the Department of Comenius Studies and other departments of the Institute.

Social Sciences and the Humanities in the Formation of National and Supra-national Communities in Eastern and Central Europe (19th and 20th c.)

Your four-year program includes 12 months of fellowships abroad, spent either entirely in Moscow or divided between Moscow (9 months) and Budapest (3 months).

At the Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (IGITI) in Moscow, under the guidance of Prof. Irina Savelieva and Prof. Alexander B. Kamenskii (the main expert on archival research at IGITI), you will be offered to choose among the proposed four directions of research those best suited to your topic:

  • Defining the avenues and the limitations of the circulation of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences between Central-Eastern Europe and the rest of the world.
  • Analyzing the achievements and the loopholes of the humanities and social sciences forced to serve particular national causes in the region.
  • Studying the role played by the humanities and social sciences in the process of modernization, namely the relationship between specialized scholarly and scientific knowledge on the one hand, and social consciousness on the other.
  • Studying the function of independent scholarly institutions (such as the universities) and learned societies in the formation of national and supra-national communities in the region.

Should your dissertation’s topic relate exclusively to Russia, you will have the opportunity to spend the entire 12 months at IGITI.

If your topic requires that you explore other Eastern-European sources, you will have the possibility of spending 9 months at IGITI and the remaining 3 months at Collegium Budapest in Hungary , participating in the program Gnôthi seauton! – Classics and Communism. The History of the Studies of Antiquity in the Context of the Local Classical tradition in Socialist Countries, 1944/45 – 1989/90 . This international research program regroups scholars from all formerly communist countries of Europe, including former Soviet republics.

Early Modern Skepticism and Humanist Epistemological Ambitions

Your four-year program includes a 12-month fellowship abroad, divided evenly between the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours (6 months) and the University of Cambridge (6 months).

The Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) in Tours, is the most important research center in Renaissance Studies in France. It hosts doctoral programs in History, History of Art, Literature, Languages, Musicology, and Philosophy through its International Doctoral College Renaissance: the Genesis of Modern Europe. CESR offers its considerable library resources, enabling you explore number of topics, e.g. the “evangelical” movement in the early French Renaissance, the Renaissance reception of Sextus Empiricus, the role played by Cicero and St. Augustine as vectors of the skeptical tradition in early-modern times. You will also appreciate the unique opportunity to consult on a regular basis with Prof. Demonet, building a solid base of knowledge on Renaissance semiotics and exploring the most recent critical trends in Rabelais and Montaigne scholarship.

The Department of French, of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Literature at the University of Cambridge, provides you with the opportunity to work on early modern epistemology and its literary and rhetorical expressions under the guidance of eminent scholars such as Prof. Neil Kenny or Prof. Philip Ford. You will take part in the regularly organized 16th-century French conferences, as well as in the Distinguished Scholar Workshops. This stimulating academic environment, as well as the rich library holdings of Cambridge will allow you to compare the Anglo-Saxon criticism in Renaissance studies (the work by Frances Yates, Michael Screech, Terence Cave and their disciples) with the French critical tradition previously studied at the CESR in Tours.

Humanist and Anti-Humanist Tendencies in Contemporary Philosophy: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture

Your fellowship schedule will take you for a full year to the State University of New York at Buffalo and for six months to the University of Central Lancashire in the UK.

While at the Department of English at the State University of New York -Buffalo, you will be trained in interpretation techniques combining literary and philosophical approaches to texts. Thanks to your participation in graduate seminars offered by Professors Krzysztof Ziarek, Joan Copjec, Tim Deane, Jim Holstun, Howard Wolf, and Max Wickert, you will acquire expertise in psychoanalysis, deconstruction and post-structuralism, Ricœur’s philosophical interpretation, de Man’s view of rhetoric, postcolonial criticism, and feminist criticism (Judith Butler); you will also benefit from accessing secondary literature unobtainable through Polish libraries.

During your fellowship at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Central Lancashire, you will be able to gain proficiency in analyzing visual culture, expand your knowledge on contemporary mass culture, and especially television and cinema (specifically works by directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Spike Lee, Michael Mann, Frederico Fellini, Orson Welles, Claire Denis, Ron Haward, Steven Spielberg, Alain Resnais, Wim Wenders and David Lynch). UCL offers a wide range of seminars on media criticism and media policy: European cinema - Profs. Ewa Mazierska, Liz Hart, Helen Jones; Indian cinema – Prof. Suman Ghosh; Representation of border-crossing – Prof. Fazila Bhimji, History of advertising – Prof. Anandi Ramamurthy, Representations of race and ethnicity in the media – Profs. Anandi Ramamurthy, Fazila Bhimji, Social movement histories – Profs. Anandi Ramamurthy, Fazila Bhimji.

The Humanist Vision of Roman Law (Mos Gallicus – Mos Italicus Iura Docendi) and the Formation of Ius Commune Europaeum

During your four-year program, you will have the opportunity of spending a full year in Italy, six months in Naples and six in Catania.

While at the University of Naples, you will be acquainted with the newest research into the history of Roman law and its medieval, as well as early modern reception, by attending seminars and individual consultations with Professors Labruna, Masi Doria and Cascione. University of Naples is a unique place to study the development of the European legal culture thanks to its team of over 20 specialists in legal history, as well as through participation in international conferences taking place on the Naples campus. You will work on primary and secondary sources at the specialized library of the Department of Roman Law, as well as at the library of the Faculty of Law and at the National Library of Naples.

At the University of Catania, you will participate in the seminars on the European reception of Roman law, and have individual consultations with Profs. Alessandro Corbino, Francesco Musumeci and Francesco Milazzo. The team of over 15 scholars working at the Institute of Roman Law of the University of Catania will be able to guide you in your research. You will conduct research at the superbly equipped library of the Institute and of the University.

Political Power in Times of Crises on the Peripheries of Europe: Spain and Poland in 17th and 18th centuries

This research topic is composed of two either autonomous or complementary parts:

Part I is entitled “Polish and Spanish Perspectives on Corruption in Public Life in Modern History”. It will be conducted in collaboration with Prof. Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra
Part II is entitled “Political Elites in Times of Crisis of Old Regimes. Poland and Spain in 18th century as Case Studies of Forced Transformations”. Guidance and collaboration for this part will be provided by Prof. Jose Luis Gomez Urdañez

This research field requires a total of 16 months of Fellowship Abroad which are divided into three periods of 2, 8, 6 months each, and which can be completed either at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales of the Consejo Superior de Investigationes Cientificas in Madrid or Departamento de Historia of the Universidad de La Rioja in Logroño. Depending on your topic (Part I, or Part II, or of a combination of both), you may devote the initial, 2-month long phase of your doctoral research, to familiarize yourself with the newest methodological approaches in Spanish Modern history, by taking part in the research seminars and reading the secondary literature inaccessible in Polish libraries of either of the partner institutions. This would take place in the first year of the four-year cycle. The next 8 months focus on intensive archival research in the Archivo General de Simancas, Archivo Historico Nacional, in the manuscript departments of the Biblioteca Nacional, Biblioteca Palacio Real, as well as in private and provincial collections. This would happen in the second year of the four-year. The last three-month period of the fellowship will allow you to present the results of your research in the specialized seminars of either one or both of the partner institutions and to get feedback from specialists in the field. This period is scheduled in the fourth year of the four-year cycle.

Cohabitation and the Collapse of Multiculturalism on the Iberian Peninsula between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

The fellowship abroad scheduled for this research field totals 12 months spent at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

In the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, you will study under Prof. Kennedy’s supervision the relations between state power and society on the Iberian Peninsula after the Muslim conquest and during the process of Reconquista. You will focus on the conditions of accepting the otherness and the pluralism in medieval outlook, with special emphasis on Islamic contribution (ideal visions of state and society)

The remarkable intellectual climate of SOAS, its library holdings as well as the wide choice of specialized seminars facilitates acquaintance with the recent trends in intellectual history of the Mediterranean as area of multicultural exchange and circulation of knowledge.

The Crisis of Humanism during the Wars of Religion in France

This research field requires an 8-months fellowship abroad divided between the University of Wisconsin-Madison (9 months) and the Sorbonne (9 months).

While in Paris you will read French political and religious pamphlets from the period 1515-1610 in the special collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève, and Bibliothèque de la Société du Protestantisme Français. You will also have the opportunity to get acquainted with the latest methodological advances of French history by reading secondary sources pertaining to early-modern French history unavailable in Poland. At the Centre Roland Mousnier, at the Sorbonne, you will take part in the seminars conducted by eminent French historians, such as the leading specialist in French Renaissance history, Prof. Crouzet.

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison you will read French political pamphlets from American collections, which are available at the Memorial Library and at the Newberry Library in original printed form or as microfilms. Graduate seminars lead by Professors Langer and Miernowski will train you in the newest methodologies combining literary studies and intellectual history. You will engage in team work in the research centers of the Madison campus in order to grasp the differences of approaches between French post-Annales historical research and the anthropologically-oriented American historiography.

The Reception of Classical Tradition as a Marker of Cultural Tansformations in Eastern and Central Europe (16th – 20th c.)

The scheduled fellowships abroad for this research field total 12 months which can be divided, according to your research needs, in the following way: 12 months in Budapest, or 9 months in Budapest and 3 months in Pécs, or 9 months in Budapest and 3 months in Moscow.

The program of the fellowships will vary accordingly to the chronological and thematic focus you choose. There are five options requiring different lengths of stay at the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, at the University of Pécs; at Collegium Budapest; as well as at the Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (IGITI) in Moscow. :

  • Option 1 allows you to conceptualize the cultural position held by the studied region within the realm of the Respublica litteraria Europaea, between the 16th and the 18th c., as well as the 19th- and 20th-centuries reception of these early modern cultural myths. This is scheduled during a 9-months stay at the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ITI) in Budapest, and a 3-months stay at the Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (IGITI) in Moscow. When in Budapest you will benefit from reading the manuscripts and early editions held at the National Library in Budapest; while in Moscow, you will do research within the framework of the program on European Culture from Antiquity to Modern Times lead by Prof. M. Andreev, and Dr J. Ivanov. There is also the opportunity to conduct archival research into the history of scientific institutions in Russia (18th-19th c.) under the direction of Prof. A. Kamensky.
  • Option 2 proposes to explore the subcultures generated by the reception of classical tradition in the realm of Saint Stephan’s kingship (16th-20th c.; Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, and partly Serbia and Romania) during a 12 months stay at ITI and participate in research teams preparing an edition of Latin texts under the supervision of Prof. Szörényi.
  • Option 3 involves the study of the role of the classical tradition in the formation of multiethnic and multiconfessional states built by Polish and Hungarian nobility. It invites you for a 12-month stay at ITI and offers the significant advantage of its databases.
  • Option 4 concentrates on primary source research on Hungarian humanism in the 15th century and its influence on Polish humanism, as well as on Hungarian Protestantism in the 16th and 17th centuries. The research involved will be conducted during a 9-month stay at ITI and a 3-month stay at the University of Pécs, focusing there on the Károly Kerényi and Ecole Normale Supérieure collections.
  • Option 5 consists of a comparative study of the communist state policies towards classical tradition and classical studies which will be conducted during a 9-month stay at the Collegium Budapest and a 3-month stay at IGITI in Moscow. While in Budapest, you have the chance to take part in workshops of the program Classics and Communism; while in Moscow, you will benefit from an introduction to the history of the humanities and research institutions in Russia and in the Soviet Union, with the guidance provided by Prof. I. Savelieva and Prof. A. Kamiensky. A particular emphasis will be put on the investigation of the communist management of scientific institutions.

Slavic Cultures between East and West: Linguistic Contact and Linguistic Contrast

The fellowships abroad total 12 months, divided in two stays at the Institut für Slawistik in Vienna.

While you are at the Institut für Slawistik, Universität Wien, you will have the opportunity to engage in a systematic study of research methodologies pertaining to the history of languages and in particular to linguistic contacts. Thanks to your participation in Prof. Moser’s seminar, you will be invited to focus on the following study cases: linguistic contacts between Polish and Belorussian languages; Ukrainian language in the 19th century, its contacts with Polish language in Galicia on the one hand, and with Polish language in Central Ukraine on the other. You will be trained in the linguistic and cultural aspects of micro-languages (the case study will be the Rusyn language). Your search of primary and secondary literature will provide you with an opportunity to explore the rich holdings of Viennese libraries.

The Mediterranean Seen from the Balkan Perspective: Greek, Roman and Byzantine Antiquity and their Adaptations to Slavic Cultures between the 18th and the 21th centuries

The fellowships abroad are scheduled in Skopje: 6 months at the Macedonian Academy of Science and Art (MANU), and another 6 months at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, for a total of 12 months.

While at the Macedonian Academy of Science and Art, you will be able to improve your knowledge of the Macedonian language and of the Church Slavonic Language during the first 3 months of the fellowship. The following three months are devoted to gathering documentation in the archives of MANU, in the State Archives of the Republic of Macedonia (the Grigor Prličev Collection), and in the Oriental Collection of the University and National Library. You will benefit from regular consultations with Prof. Dr K. Kulavkova, as well as other specialists (Prof. Gane Todorovski and Prof. Dr Georgi Stalev), including visiting scholars from outside of Macedonia.

While at the Department of General and Comparative Literature of the Faculty of Philology “Blaze Koneski” at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, your linguistic competence will be further improved. You will have the choice between Church Slavonic, Macedonian, Serb or Croatian Languages (first 2 months). During the rest of the stay you will gather documentation and primary sources at the Oriental Collection of the National Library of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, specifically the writings of “learned” history of 19th and 20th century literary texts. You will also contribute to the seminars directed by Prof. Dr K. Kulavkova.

Philhellenism in 19th-century Poland, Eastern and Western Europe. The Greek Ancient Humanism as a Pathway to European National Identities

The fellowship abroad associated with this research field requires a stay at the Institute of Neohellenic Research (INR) of the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Athens during two periods of six months each.

While at the Institute of Neohellenic Research (INR), National Hellenic Research Foundation, you will have the opportunity to study the perception of Greece and the travels of Europeans to Greece; to look at philhellenism as a political phenomenon and a concept from the history of ideas; to consider philhellenism in Greek and European literature (through specialized seminars and consultations with Prof. George Tolias, Prof. Loukia Droulia, and Prof. Anna Tabaki). The library collection of the National Hellenic Research Foundation and of other cultural institutions located in Athens, such as the Genadios Library will facilitate your search for the political, social and cultural aspects of philhellenism. Your fellowship in Athens will also offer you the possibility to increase your command of modern Greek as well as extend your general knowledge of Greek culture and history preceding the 19th century.

Women and Mediterranean Humanism

The fellowship abroad associated with this research field is divided in two 6-month periods and takes place at the Centre Dona i Literatura in Barcelona.

While in the Centre Dona i Literatura, you will get acquainted with the latest methodological advances through participation in graduate seminars and through reading secondary literature unavailable in Poland, such as the valuable series edited by Centre Dona i Literatura: Mujeres y culturas and "Lectora. Revista de Dones i Textualidad". You would also be able to use the vast library resources on women in Mediterranean history: Centre d'Estudis de Dones i Gènere (CEDDIG), as well as the Library of Philosophy, Geography and History on Juan Luis Vives and Spanish Renaissance. Parallel to your library and archival research, you will take part in the seminars of the interdisciplinary Research Group: Creación y Pensamiento de las Mujeres.


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General Tso's Pulled Pork Tacos

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Okay, this is going to be my last post about Mr. Schwartz and I being sick.  That being said, since we were both sick this week and we both consumed way too much soup, I had to make something a. easy and b. with enough flavor that we could taste it without our sense of smell.

I googled the heck out of things and as you know, when you are sick, nothing sounds good.  Except these, General Tso's Pulled Pork Tacos. Obviously modified the heck out of it... I think when we make these again, I will add a little more red pepper flakes...but honestly it is hard to tell if they were missing it since we couldn't taste much.

Overall these are a good change up from the typical stir fry with rice sorta deal.  I found these awesome whole wheat tortillas that were kind of sweet and they were perfection.  Also, you should know that I cut the recipe in half from the one I found online.  It was more than enough sauce so I would recommend that if you are making two pork tenderloins you still use the amount of sauce in my version.  It will be perfect.

Happy weekend everyone! Mr. Schwartz and I will be sanding the heck out of our dining set I found on Craigslist.  It should be interesting.

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 Start by getting your sauce together.  Chicken broth...
 Hoisin sauce.  I'm told this is basically Chinese BBQ sauce.  It's great, I really put it in everything.  It is readily available at your local grocery store (or should be).
 Vinegar.  I used white but rice would work as well.
 Soy sauce..I always try to use low sodium.
 A little corn starch...
 On medium onion...
 Fresh ginger. Oh I love the smell of fresh ginger...on the hunt for a fresh ginger candle. For reals, if you find one, let me know.
 Red pepper your taste.
 A little brown sugar, pictured super blurry here.
 Give it a little whisk and set aside for a minute.
 Pork tenderloin.  This is much healthier than pork butt or shoulder.
 Make sure to spray the crock pot before you put everything into it.  I don't know why I didn't think of doing this until late (ha) in my cooking career but it does save a lot of scrubbing.
 Since this is a smaller piece of meat, there isn't really a reason to cook it all that long but I put it in around noon on low and we ate it around 7:00pm.  It could have been in there for a while yet, it wouldn't hurt anything.  If you make two tenderloins obviously it is going to take a bit longer.
 Right before we ate the tacos I made a quick broccoli slaw to top them.  I like adding a little freshness when I make things in the crock pot.  This is a little cilantro, chop it up.
 Like I said, broccoli.slaw.
I used my grandma's recipe for cole slaw: just shy of twice as much oil to vinegar.  I used red wine but she always used white.  A little sugar, salt and pepper and its the best vinegar based slaw around.
 Poured that over the broccoli slaw and cilantro.
 Shredded easy, I just used my tongs to break it up a bit.  I really liked using a tenderloin too--no fatty parts to pick out.
 Assembled....we really liked the combination of the sweet, spicy, cold, hot, vinegary and fresh.
Fantastic and easy.

General Tso's Pulled Pork Tacos
1 cup chicken broth (I used low sodium)
1/4 cup or so, Hosin Sauce
3 tablespoons white vinegar
1/4 cup low sodium soy sauce
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons minced garlic
2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger
1 (or two) pork tenderloins
Tortillas, I used whole wheat

Broccoli Slaw
1 bag broccoli slaw
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped
just shy of a 1/2 of a cup of canola or vegetable oil
1/4 cup red wine (or white) vinegar
4 tablespoons white sugar
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
large pinch of salt

Mix all ingredients together to make a sauce.  Spray crock pot with cooking spray, place tenderloin in crock pot and cover with sauce.  Cook on low for at least 6 hours, but this can be cooked for much longer, it will be okay.

When you are ready to serve combine the oil, vinegar, sugar, pepper and salt.  Pour over slaw and cilantro.

Pull pork in the crock pot, stir in with the sauce.  Assemble tacos by putting pork in first, topping with the slaw.

Recipe adapted from here

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CTF151司令官 福田海将補は、オマーン（マスカット）にて英艦艇視察、現地日本企業関係者に対する説明会などを通じ、海賊対処行動の重要性を説明しました。

Maritime Security discussions with regional military leaders
As his visit to counties in the Arabian Peninsula came to a close, the commander of a counter piracy task force identified real maritime security benefits from the tour.
Rear Admiral Tatsuya Fukuda JMSDF, Commander Combined Task Force 151 (CTF151) and Counter Piracy Coordinator for the region, visited Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman, and Riyadh and Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, before returning to Bahrain, where CTF151 HQ is based.
At a time when the maritime community has seen an increase in piracy-related activity in the region, the Rear Admiral was also able to incorporate meetings to interact with merchant maritime industry leaders and representatives [See previous MEIVOM update by CMF dated 04 Jun 17].
While in Muscat, visits with the Commander of the Royal Navy of Oman, Rear Admiral Abdullah bin Khamis al Raisi, the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Major General Hamad al Hatmi, and Commanders of the Coast Guard and the Air Force indicated a shared willingness to work towards improvement of security at sea, whether from pirates or smugglers.
The UK frigate HMS Monmouth was undertaking a port visit to Muscat, which coincided with the Rear Admiral’s time in Oman, and the CO of the ship, Cdr Ian Feasey RN, prepared a capability demonstration and lecture on the occasion. As HMS Monmouth participated in CTF151’s exercises earlier in the year, this was an opportunity for the Rear Admiral to recognize the efforts of her ship’s company.
The Rear Admiral’s visit to Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia enabled an insightful meeting with the Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Lieutenant General Abdullatif bin Rashid al Zayani. He also had meetings with the Chief of General Staff, General Abdul Rahman al Banyan, and Commander of the Saudi Navy, Vice Admiral Abdullah S al Sultan, discussing maritime security issues.
Flying to Jeddah, the Rear Admiral met the Western Fleet Commander, Rear Admiral Saeed al Zahrani, and toured the facility including a ship visit to HMS Dammam, a Saudi destroyer. The Commanding Officer, Cdr Ahmed Assiri, welcomed the visitors and introduced his officers to the Rear Admiral.
As the tour moved through the region, this was an ideal occasion to share information about CTF151 and Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) with Japanese business leaders and diplomatic staff working in the Middle East. The talks presented by Rear Admiral Fukuda were well received by the audiences and elicited many questions.
Upon completion of his busy engagement schedule, Rear Admiral Fukuda said: “These visits were very important in enabling broad discussions with key leaders across the region.” He added: “Maritime security is important to all the nations we visited. CMF will continue to work hard in partnership with these and other countries to reduce smuggling, piracy and other risks to the freedom of navigation.”


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    -Parade down Main Street Saturday at 2pm
    -Mount Pleasant lights up the night

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Check out the events happening all weekend.

Well it's time to reach out and tell everyone about this years Glass and Ethnic Festival.All the entertainment is posted so everyone can see all the new and exciting entertainment that will be at the festival. You can find the schedules on Facebook and our website. You may need to come all 3 days because there is something for everyone everyday!!!! ... See MoreSee Less

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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Frommers India 4th Edition - Mumbai Magic

Frankly folks, I don't know whether to grin or blush or what.

You guys simply *have* to read this review that just appeared in the latest Frommers India guide!!

For those who want to know what the 3-star rating means - here's the guide to Frommer's ratings:

According their website: "the Frommer's star rating is meant to quantify the kind of intangible, experiential elements that help travelers make informed decisions.

The "baseline" recommendation is zero stars - every hotel, restaurant, attraction, shop, and nightlife establishment that Frommer's chooses to review is recommended; otherwise, we simply wouldn't include it."

I'm soooooooo very pleased with this review! Actually, even that's an understatement. At the moment, I want to twirl around and hug someone at Frommers (if only I knew who wrote this!). Unfortunately, after being labelled "super-sophisticated", twirling is out, so I am forced to offer a more sedate thanks.

Anu Karthik said...

congrats! i am sure you feel great reading it.

Deepa Krishnan said...

Hey Anu, being called multi-talented, yeah, sure, but super-sophisticated? With "delicious opinions" on everything? Woooohooooo!

anbohs said...

Makes me want to go through this experience - through 'magic' eyes!

Anu said...

This is just awesome!! Congrats and great going!!!

BabuS said...

Hi Deepa, for a moment, forget the descriptions, close your eyes and just let your feelings out,,,,scream...twirl.....hug.....just be yourself...Excellent review and obviously, excellent work by you and your team....Babs

Open Spaces said...

Hey D!

Even if they didn't name you or Mumbai Magic, I'd know that was you Frommer's were talking about... :)

Anonymous said...

Hi Deepa,

Congrats. I started reading your blog since last year. I love reading your blog. I love all small details you write about the city especially I love reading your mom's post office visit. Living in US makes me miss those times .

When everybody wants to visit europe and other exquisite places , Bombay is on my list. And it was on my list for a long time ever since I was a little girl. I really wished I had known this website before 2007 when I had all the time in the world.

I will defnitely contact you when I get a chance in future to visit bombay.

Keep writing about bombay.

your wannabe future customer :)

MuZiC iN vEiN ! ! ! ! said...

Hey Deepa

Hearty congrats.. Though I haven't taken the tour myself, I can say with 100% assurance that not a single word in this review is hyped!

God Bless You and your awesome team!!!

Hail Mumbai!

Meena Kadri said...

I think that you could manage a Deepa-fied super-sophisticated swirl (am imagining a suitable outfit to work well here!) Well deserved – I'm a fan from way back!

Kunal Bhatia said...

Hey, big congrats! Woo-hoo..

Prachi said...

Congratulations !!

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patsykona said...

congrats Deepa....hopefully i'll be doing another one of your tours soon - excellent work! :)

Meena Venkataraman said...

Congratulations :)..High Praise indeed

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

GAP Television Promo

Here it is Readers and its very nicely done.

The only thing missing is me! Bye for now - Murphy.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Hi Readers, a nice story from our sister group in NSW. In more exciting news, GAP Victoria will be advertising greyhound adoption on free to air TV soon. Talk about greyt news for us hounds. Bye for now - Murphy.

Saturday, September 3, 2011

A tiny large hound

Hi Readers, a lot of people think that greyhounds require a heap of room if you want to keep one a a pet. Nothing could be further from the truth. We are very quiet dogs (read lazy/bone idle - editor) that are happiest just lounging around with our families.

We do like a short walk once a or twice a day if we are in a unit or have no access to a back yard but 5 - 10 minutes is more than enough for us.

Sister Jess demonstrates the minimal needs of the hound as regards a place to sleep (To bad its Mum's chair but you can't have everything).

Anyway Readers, I see Dad has gone into the kitchen and I must now decide if I should a) pinch his chair b) follow him and hope for a treat c) both of the above. I think we all know what choice I will make. "Coming Dad", bye for now - Murphy.

Special Ed?

Hi Readers, let me introduce you to Eddie who is fostering with us at the house of hound.

Eddie is 11 months old and is expected to reach 40-45 kgs when he is fully filled out (thats 88-99 pounds for the non metrically inclined). He needs a good feed up at the moment and we have discovered he loves warm pasta with sardines mixed through it.  Given his love of  Pasta Con Sarde we suspect he may be an Italian greyhound with a thyroid condition!

As you can see, his interests include gardening and water conservation.

Oversized Iggy or not, he is a lovely boy who loves to cuddle and will make some two legger a great dog one day.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

George Steele on Why Savage and McMahon Had Heat

George "The Animal" Steele
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Via WrestleChat.Net

It wasn't a bar slap. It wasn't having relations with jailbait Stephanie. It was a feeling of betrayal that kept Randy Savage out of the WWE according to George "The Animal" Steele. On a radio interview with Busted Open on Sirius, Steele recounted Savage's jump to WCW and how McMahon felt about the whole ordeal:
That’s been said a lot of different ways, and there’s been a lot of different things said that are not true necessarily.

I think that what happened with Randy, when his career was winding down with the WWF, Vince McMahon just loved Randy. After all everything Randy had done and he took him under his wing, and he wantedRandy after the ring was over with for him, he wanted him to be our spokesperson. He was traveling with Vince all the time. Randy was almost like a son, they were really tight. And then one day, we were at a TV meeting, and we got word that Randy, without calling Vince, had left and jumped to the WCW. I had never seen Vince McMahon broken before, he was crushed. It hurt him big time and I don’t think he ever got over that. I think that’s the real problem to be honest with you. I heard all this other stuff that I think is garbage when it comes to Randy and relationships with daughters and all that stuff… I don’t think that’s anywhere’s close to the truth.
So yeah, just another case of wrestling rumors gone wild, because I think that if I were going to believe anyone, it'd be Steele. He seems like the honest type, and really, what would he have to gain about his candor?

Honestly, I think it's a shame that the two never fully reconciled if McMahon had that close a relationship with Savage at one time, but then again, it's not like McMahon never betrayed anyone. What could have been...

Remember you can contact TH and ask him questions about wrestling, life or anything else. Please refer to this post for contact information. He always takes questions!

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Motley Crue’s Vince Neil Charged For Assault That Led To Throwdown With Nicholas Cage

Written by Michael Carr on July 7, 2016

Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil has been charged with misdemeanour battery over that incident in April that saw Neil attack a female fan asking for an autograph before getting in a scuffle with the one and only Nicolas Cage. The charge carries a potential maximum sentence of six months in jail TMZ reports.

This of course all happened in Las Vegas outside the ARIA hotel, because where the hell else could anything this crazy ever occur?

Everything kicked off after the woman allegedly asked Cage for an autograph, with Neil then taking offence and allegedly attacking the woman before Cage interceded. Dragging Neil outside and into a rather unconventional headlock, his Cage-iness managed to calm Neil down and get him in a car.

This is all against the backdrop of Motley Crue playing the final show of their career earlier this year, finishing up at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Marking the conclusion of the band’s 34 year career, it came after the band signed a legally binding agreement to stop playing together two years ago before embarking on a 164 date world tour in July 2014.

Opening with Rodgers and Hammerstein song So Long, Farewell, and closing with Frank Sinatra’s My Way,  the theme of ending and goodbye pervaded the show. There was still plenty of Crue classics though of course, and even a cover of Sex Pistols’ Anarchy In The UK showing the band can still go hard.

In the meantime why don’t you check out the footage of Neil and Cage’s fracas here via TMZ.

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