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ESPNcricinfo has teamed up with the Cricket Foundation (the charity behind Chance to Shine and StreetChance) to give a class of children the opportunity to win a very special prize - a junior coaching session with two Professional Cricket Association (PCA) Masters and a coach at the Home of Cricket.

On Friday 10 May 2013, the lucky winners will receive a morning's coaching session (9.00 am - 12 noon) followed by a tour of the famous ground. The session, run by a professional cricket coach, will cater for children of all cricketing abilities.

For your chance to win this fantastic prize, just answer the question below. Submit your name, school/club name and your phone number and you will be entered into the competition. The competition closes on Sunday 31 March 2013 and the winners will be announced the following Tuesday 2 April 2013.

PLEASE NOTE:The competition is only available to residents of the UK and the winner must have parental and teacher consent. The winning class/club will need to arrange their own transportation to Lord's Indoor School.

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Bill Haley and The Comets

I became a teenager in the early 1950’s. Becoming a teenager is probably exactly the same today, it’s like jumping into some kind of exotic pool of dreams and aspirations, you’re right on the brink of becoming an adult, and it’s super exciting. And what makes it more exciting is those incredible sexual feelings going on in your brain. It’s hard to turn your brain off long enough to sleep. Of course one of these many  incredible experiences going on is popular music, you feel like it’s your personal soundtrack, tailor made for your life. When I was becoming a teenager, rock music was just being born. How lucky for me!! Those guys in the picture above, ushered it in with style with the hit song ” Rock Around the Clock”. That song made us crazy, and all we wanted to do was dance.

Holy cow, the music industry exploded with all kinds of really cool performers. Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Little Richard, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Little Willy John, and more. Who could forget those awesome groups like, The Platters, Ike and Tina Turner, The Four Freshmen, The Kingston Trio. The list just goes on and on. There was nothing like it before or after. It was the birth of Rock.

Drive In Romance

Another major stroke of luck, Drive In movies were the big thing, and I was getting my first car, a 1946 Ford sedan. This could have been me on any given Saturday night. A lot of steamy windows. Man, what a great time to be a teenager. What made it even more exciting, along with the really cool music, Hollywood was pumping out movies about teenage life, you felt like you were in every movie, especially “Rebel Without a Cause”. I had my James Dean signature jacket with the upturned collar, and well oiled ” duck tail ” hair style. Levi’s worn low on my hips and a whole closet of white t shirts. Of course I smoked the signature ” Luckies “, kept ’em rolled up in my t shirt sleeve. That was my “greaser” I.D. Every day was style day. Everything was about style, the way you dressed, the way you walked with a swagger, the way you held your cigarette, even the way you exhaled the smoke. Everything had to be done exactly according to code if you wanted to be cool, and I knew the code.

1957 Chevy

Man, the cars were crazy cool. They just kept getting faster and better looking every year. Back then, Detroit was pumping out new body styles every couple of years, bigger engines, more chrome, and we couldn’t wait to see what was coming next. September was a big deal, when we got to see the new models and drool. But, I was a poor boy from the working side of town, I couldn’t afford that new iron. I had to make my 1950 Ford two door look cool, you wouldn’t be caught dead an a stocker. My ’50 was lowered, lake pipes, aluminum racing discs, twin pipes, and the mandatory Hot Rod Club plaque swinging from the rear bumper. I’m gonna let you in on a secret. People hang those fuzzy dice on the rear view mirror thinking that’s what was cool. No baby, what was cool was a shrunken head that looked just like the real deal, long black hair and stitched up mouth. That was cool. Go try and find one of those today.

Like all good things, they don’t  go on forever. That fateful day arrives when you leave school and have to join the work force and become a card carrying adult. But what matters, is even though you became a responsible adult, you don’t have to give up being cool. However, it’s recommended you give up the crazy stuff. Leave that for the next generation. But you always have one consolation, if you grew up in the fifties, ain’t nobody gonna be as cool as you were…. ever. That’s the truth.

Elvis Presley

  1. Great memories. I loved the fifties although was younger. My parents owned your cars. I have the 45’s of most of your favs. I would say I was Beatles generation since I saw them twice at Cow Palace. But I do miss the drive-in movies, car hops, and my transistor radio. I was a Ricky Nelson fan.

  2. I met Rick Nelson at a Hollywood event called ” Actors and Others for Animals”. It was held at Hollywood High School. He was in a classroom set up as a meet and greet area. I took my young daughters in to meet him and he was a very well mannered, and cordial guy. We had a fun conversation with him. Great memory. I have heard great things about his brother David as well. Thanks for reading my blog, I enjoy reading yours.

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  3. I had an interesting thing happen a few days ago. I wrote a blog called ” The Demozombie Apocalypse. I got a little too rough I guess, the site would not allow it to be published. Has that ever happened to you?

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“He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sunrise.”

William Blake

This poem by William Blake is a beautiful reminder to notice how we relate to experience, how we perceive it, whether we react or respond, and if we can hold it in an open embrace, so lightly that we can indeed kiss the joy as it flies.

Many of us habitually chase joy, grasp at it, clutch it so tightly we can’t enjoy it, and then we mourn it, having never really known it. So we set our sights on the next shiny joy on the horizon.

This unsatisfying cycle shows up in relationships, career, and life experiences of all kinds. I am most familiar with this phenomenon when it comes to food, in particular a sweet treat. I tend to sabotage the experience and am left feeling like I missed it. The best treat I ever had was a simple gingerbread cookie fresh out of the oven on retreat at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. I was doing some cleaning in the kitchen at the time the cookies came out of the oven, so was offered one. I was fully present with the experience of my yogi job, so the experience of eating the cookie was met with that same awareness. Because I had been meditating for seven or more hours for days, I could taste, smell, touch, and savor every aspect of that experience of eating a cookie. I’m sure I’ve eaten many delicious foods, including deserts, since then, but none could match the memory of that cookie. But it wasn’t the cookie that was unusually good; it was my ability to be simply present to experience all aspects of eating it.

Are we what we crave?
Another way we can destroy joy is to claim that what we crave is who we are. For example, I might define myself as having a sweet tooth. Does this label give me a pass? Or does it further distance me from the joy? I did go two years without eating any sugar and felt no sense of deprivation or difficulty. Sweetness held no sway with me after a five-minute exercise of ‘Feeding My Demons’, as taught by Lama Tsultrim Allione who shared it with us as a guest teacher in the weekly class I managed at Spirit Rock decades ago. Two years without craving sweets released me from an identity that had caused me no joy, only cycles of reactivity and remorse. I don’t remember why after two years I reintroduced sugar into my diet. Perhaps I didn’t want to be a party-pooper? Or perhaps I felt I could safely indulge without falling back into old patterns. But those patterns did come back and continue to this day, with time out when I recognize what’s happening and remind myself to be more aware. Otherwise, some part of my mind is imagining the joy, being caught up in desire, etc. Still, I no longer define myself by it, and that is progress. Because when we do that, another set of painful patterns arise: we chain the joy down and defend it against anyone we think might take it away. We build fortresses around our precious joy, and in the process of defending it, of binding it to us, we destroy “the winged life.”

Blake was not the first to identify this tendency. Over 2500 years before, the Buddha identified it as one of the three causes of suffering. He called it tanhā, thirst. Like most people in the western world these days, I hydrate at the least hint of thirst, but I remember the experience of thirst from a time when we were hiking and underestimated how much water to bring, how far we would be going, and how hot the day was. I remember how painfully desperate I was for water. Maybe you have a similar memory you can draw from.

Now let’s imagine that sense of extreme thirst as a way of life, a desperate craving for possessions, experiences, status, power, compliments, and anything else you can think of that we humans tend to chase after, grasp at, and cling to. But unlike simple physical thirst quenched with water, tanhā is never satisfied. Whatever joy we capture and cling to never meets our expectations. We assume it’s a failure of what we are chasing, but really it is the way we are in relation to it that keeps setting us up to fail. So we keep craving, grasping, and clinging to the next one and the next, all the time suffering an impossible thirst. It’s like there are water bottles ever available but we don’t know how to open them. We blame the bottles and toss them away, looking around for one that will quench our thirst. But the bottles can’t deliver on the promise of water until we learn how to open them.

Good news! We can learn how to access what we thirst after. With the regular practice of paying attention, life opens like a gift. Even the difficult painful times can be held in an open and loving embrace, lifting off like a butterfly after we have let it rest in our palms. We can begin to notice how much suffering we experience when we grasp and cling, killing off the possibility of joy.

With practice we can expand our awareness to notice not just what is happening but how we are perceiving it, what filters we are looking through. We can see the fear at the core of our blindness and unskillfulness. We can live in a way that allows us to be fully present with whatever arises, neither grasping nor clinging, but able to ‘kiss the joy as it flies.’

What does this bring up for you? Where in your life are you grasping and clinging? How might you kiss the joy as it flies?

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Computer Teacher

The Computer Teacher’s job is to teach computer and life skills to rural and migrant students in Stepping Stones’ partner schools and community centres located in Shanghai and Jiashan (Zhejiang province). The Computer Teacher will also assist the Stepping Up Project Leader to develop the curriculum for the project.

Stepping Up is a Digital Literacy Program established by Stepping Stones in 2016, inspired by Orphan Impact’s digital literacy program in Vietnam. Stepping Up helps disadvantaged children to be better prepared for their futures after leaving school. We do this by teaching digital literacy skills common to the modern workplace. Our learning environment is designed to unleash creativity, encourage communication, develop critical thinking, and increase each student’s confidence while helping them look toward their future with excitement.

The Computer Teacher reports to the Stepping Up Project Leader.

Main Responsibilities are as follows:

  • Teach 2-4 computer lessons per day 4-5 days per week to primary or middle school students;
  • Work with the Project Leader to develop and plan the annual student curriculum;
  • Develop lesson plans and teaching resources;
  • Work with the Project Leader to recruit, train and schedule volunteers, and work with the volunteers in the classroom;
  • Set up the classroom equipment before class, allowing plenty of time for proper set-up and preparation;
  • Clean-up and put away the equipment after class, ensuring the safe-keeping of the classroom equipment and the security of the classroom before leaving;
  • As necessary, complete routine maintenance on equipment, including cleaning, anti-virus, software updates, operating system updates, software installation, etc;
  • Prepare classroom reports and make necessary adjustments in curriculum and lesson plans;
  • Maintain weekly activity log with schedule, goals, results.

Other Responsibilities:

  • Participate in Stepping Stones team activities as appropriate;
  • Occasionally assist with Stepping Stones’ other projects if required, subject to availability.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • University-level education or equivalent;
  • Strong ability and interest in I.T. and teaching, with related work experience an advantage;
  • Strong oral and written communication skills in Chinese as well as English;
  • Ability to work independently as well as within a team, multi-task, stay well-organized, learn quickly and adapt in an ever-changing sector/environment;
  • Strong commitment to social work / teaching the under-privileged;
  • Excellent work ethic with a positive attitude.

Other Requirements:

  • This is a full time position (40 hours per week);
  • We require a commitment of at least one year, with the potential to extend the term of employment upon mutual agreement.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation will be at local market levels in the non-profit sector and take into consideration the skills and experience of the successful applicant. Stepping Stones will provide all statutory benefits, plus 12 days annual leave in the first year of employment.

Start Date

The candidate should ideally be available to start working for Stepping Stones in July 2017.

Work Location

The Computer Teacher will be based at Stepping Stones’ office at 12F, Asionics Building, No. 6, Lane 1279, Zhong Shan Road West, Shanghai, but will travel most days to partner schools and community centers, which may be more than a one hour commute from central Shanghai. Occasional working from home may be possible.

To apply for this position, please send your resume to by 23 June 2017 with a cover letter to explain your suitability for this job position, and why you are interested in it.


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5.28.13: Ravenna Italy

actually this is a review of the 26.5.2013 in Koeln (Cologne), Germany, but how the heck am I to post a review when the next day the item is closed, ie not present on the page any more?? Like a Cinderella, must see to it that I come home before midnight? :) But to the Cologne review: Wonderful show, as always with Steve. "Medicine Show" was brilliant. The show started actually at 22h and was uncharacteristically short, 23:15 was already time for encores, no pause. The supporting act from Sweden was also quite good. Cheerio and we love to see you Steve, come soon to Germany!


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St. Germaine of Pibrac

The life story of the “Cinderella Saint”

statueGermaine was born in the remote French village of Pibrac in 1579.  Unlike Joan of Arc or Therese of Lisieux, she was unknown during her lifetime outside of her own village, and was a practical outcast there.

She endured a wretched life as an unwanted child of the prosperous Laurent Cousin family.  There is not even proof that she was entitled to the name of Cousin, for what true parents would allow their own child to be consigned to a stable and literally starved to death?  Physical and mental abuse were part of Germaine’s daily routine.

Germaine was a frail, sickly child, afflicted with scrofula, a terrible disease which caused  abscesses about the neck.  Her right arm was deformed and partially paralyzed.  She was a prey to every illness of the time due to the unsanitary conditions in which she lived.

Laurent Cousin’s wife beat Germaine savagely.  The child’s body bore livid testimony of her cruelty.  She was dressed in cast-off rags and never given a pair of shoes.  Her feet were frost-bitten in winter and bloody in summer as she led the Laurent flock to pasture and back.

Germaine lived with the animals, had a mattress of hay and twigs in a corner of the barn.  She was given little food and was often so hungry she ate what the dogs and pigs left behind.  She was never sent to school, merely instructed briefly in order to make her First Holy Communion.  Her only refuge was her parish church, where she attended Mass every morning, and found strength and comfort in her faith.

Her daily work was to shepherd the Laurent’s flock of sheep.  It is told that while her sheep were grazing, she would teach catechism lessons to the local children and share stories of the saints that she learned at Church.

Germaine endured daily suffering and humiliation without complaining.  Perhaps the most celebrated incident in Germaine’s life occurred shortly before her death.  One wintry day the village people saw the stepmother pursuing Germaine as she drove her flock down the road.  The woman was screaming and shrilly accused Germaine of having stolen a loaf of bread and concealing it in her apron.  Threatening to strike the girl with a club, she demanded that Germaine unfold her apron.  The girl did so, and fragrant flowers, of a kind unknown in the region, cascaded to the snow-covered ground.

On the night of her death, two monks traveling from Toulouse lost their way in the forest and sought shelter for the night in the ruins of an ancient castle.  At midnight they were awakened by music, and witnessed a luminous vision of ghostly forms escorting a young woman, garlanded in flowers, to heaven.

Upon reaching Pibrac the next morning, the monks inquired if anyone had died during the night.  Only a poor shepherd girl, they were told.  Germaine Cousin had been found dead in her family’s stable.  She was 22 years old.

In accordance with the custom of the day, Germaine’s body was interred in the village church, consigned to a grave under the flagstone floor of the church opposite the pulpit, without marker or inscription.

Forty-one years later, when a relative named Edualde was to be buried at the same site, the grave diggers found a beautiful girl beneath the flagstone.  Her body was in a state of perfect preservation.  The older residents of Pibrac identified the corpse as that of Germaine Cousin.  The scrofula scars were evident, as was her deformed arm.

A series of astounding miracles through the succeeding seventeen years attracted the attention of Monsignor Jean Dufour, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Toulouse.  He came to investigate on September 22, 1661, and found Germaine’s body still perfect sixty years after her death!  Msgr. Dufour began the process of her canonization, but that course was to prove as painful and full of obstacles as her life had been.

By 1700, a voluminous of official documents and testimony was entrusted by the Archbishop of Toulouse to a Capuchin monk, Father Constantin de Figeac, to deliver to Rome.  The file, however, was mislaid and forgotten, having never reached its destination.

Nevertheless, there was great devotion to Germaine at Pibrac, which was offensive to the leaders of the French Revolution.  The local revolutionaries decided that “superstition” should be stamped out there.  A tinsmith named Toulza was sent with three assistants to destroy the body of Germaine.  They dug a hole under the sacristy floor, dumped the corpse into it, spread a large quantity of quicklime over it and drenched the lime with water.  The lead casket was confiscated to be melted down for bullets for the revolution.

When the Reign of Terror subsided, the citizens of Pibrac reopened the lime pit.  Germaine’s body was brought forth, still in perfect preservation, more beautiful than ever.  She was returned to the sacristy of the church.

In 1765, Abbe Francis, a priest of the village of Auriac near Pibrac, published a book relating the story of Germaine.  The book inspired interest in the shepherdess throughout France.  In 1843, Cardinal Paul d’Astros, Archbishop of Toulouse, officially reopened the cause of Germaine for canonization.

Pope Pius IX was equally fascinated by Germaine, but political events of the time once again intervened, and prevented her beatification until May 7, 1854.  Germaine was finally declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on June 29, 1867, 266 years after her death.

On that day the little girl with a withered arm, whom no one wanted, was given to the world to love and cherish as a glorified saint of God, and inspiration for all who suffer.

Prayer to St. Germaine

Blessed Germaine, you knew poverty and hunger:
protect those in need.

You knew handicaps and illness:
watch over the handicapped and sick.

You knew rejection and loneliness:
be a friend to those who are alone.

You knew the pain of being an abused child:
guard all children from such hardship.

You knew what it meant to trust in the Lord:
help us all believe, and hope, and love.


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McGrath to Design/Build $5 Million U.S. Paint Warehouse

U.S. Paint, a developer and manufacturer of high-quality customized automotive and industrial paints and coatings, has contracted McGrath & Associates to design/build a new $5 million warehouse at their facility in downtown St. Louis.

McGrath will work in two phases to replace an existing warehouse with a 33,000-square-foot building while the manufacturing facility remains operational. During phase one, McGrath will erect a new pre-engineered metal building to provide new office space, a maintenance shop, a battery charging area and storage for raw materials. A connecting link will tie the new building into an existing manufacturing building to allow covered access for forklift truck traffic.

During phase two, the existing raw materials warehouse will be demolished and a new building erected to provide space for a quality control lab and liquid materials storage.

U.S. Paint, which employs 70 people, was the first company in the U.S. to sell urethane coatings and has developed new technologies for resins and multi-coat application. The company was acquired last year by the Japanese company Kansai Paint.

McGrath & Associates is a 100 percent employee-owned general contractor and construction management firm specializing in commercial, health care, industrial, institutional and pharmaceutical construction projects since 1983.

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Make Your Email Marketing More Effective

Posted by: Dana Gulick 04/23/2020

There are plenty of reasons to run an email marketing campaign. They’re inexpensive, relatively simple to execute and an effective way to communicate directly with your customers or prospects.

In recent years, more and more business has migrated from desktops and laptops to phones and mobile devices, and with COVID-19 keeping the vast majority of your audience under stay-at-home orders, email marketing is a great way to keep your target engaged with a singular voice and message.

But there’s lots of competition for your audience’s attention, not to mention lots of noise. And now more than ever. So how do how do you make sure your message rises above the rest? Here are six tips.

1. Have a clear objective

Like any marketing tactic, you need to have a clear goal in mind before you execute. What is it you want the email campaign to achieve? Awareness of a new product? Leads for sales follow up? Nurturing of existing contacts? Download of a coupon to drive sales? Whatever the objective, make sure you know why you’re using email, what you hope to achieve with the campaign and then let that drive the rest of your decisions.

2. Use the right list

Reaching the right people is critical, otherwise your efforts are wasted. But not every email should go to everyone. Make sure your list of recipients makes sense for the campaign objective. In most cases, you should have this list in house. But sometimes you may need to buy a list. Be sure you understand the demographics of your target audience so that your list is as clean and targeted and possible.

3. Craft a compelling subject line

Emails allow for longer-form content that some other tactics, so you’ll be able to tell a deeper story when you send emails. But the content of the email won’t matter if no one opens it and reads it. That’s where the subject line comes in and why it’s so important. Without a compelling subject line that breaks through all the other noise in someone’s inbox, your email will get lost and overlooked. Be sure your target has a strong reason to open your email and get the message you are trying to deliver. You have about 2 seconds of their eyes before they decide to click or move on.

4. Include calls to action

Every email should include clear calls to action. Multiple calls to action are okay and in fact encouraged. Give email readers a couple of ways to respond to you. Want someone to download a coupon? Add that as a CTA. Want someone to download white paper? Add that as a CTA. Your calls to action should be structured to support the objective of your campaign and written to speak to the target audience. Be sure that every link embedded in an email is trackable so that the CTA’s can be measured for effectiveness.

5. Drive to a landing page

Landing pages are a critical component of many digital tactics and the same is true for email marketing. While you want the audience to click on your email and read it, when they engage with a CTA, you need to send them somewhere that pays off their efforts. Your landing page should tell more of the story and provide deeper details while being easily navigable and visually impactful. Sounds like a tall order, but it doesn’t need to be. There are plenty of simple landing page templates out there that can be used to develop an effective landing page. Make sure your conversion points are easily found and that it’s clear what you’re asking your visitors to do. Remember, multiple conversion points, like multiple CTA’s, are best.

6. Measure and assess

When set up correctly from the start, you should have some good measurement points after your email campaign, including opens, click throughs, landing page conversions and even shares. The key here is knowing what you want to measure and then making sure the html is set up to track each engagement correctly. At the end of a campaign, you should be able to see how many people the email reached, how many people opened it, how many emails bounced, how many engaged with the email CTAs, how many visited  your landing page, how many converted and if anyone shared the email with others. By assessing these numbers, you can draw conclusions about how effective your email has been and then make adjustments for the next email.

One great aspect of email marketing is that it offers a lot of learning. There are many variables that can be tweaked to improve upon the emails that you are sending. Based on measurements, you may decide to A/B test messages and subject lines, add downloadable content and/or visually enhance your landing page. But if you follow these six basic ideas to get you started, you’ll at be on the right path for reaching your customers or prospects directly with your marketing message.

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0.2mg 2
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Natural Spring Water, Collagen Peptides (Bovine), Natural Flavor.

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Egypt 2013 AA

And here we go for Round 3.

The live cattle trade to Egypt was suspended in February 2006 after footage emerged showing Australian cattle having their eyes stabbed and rear leg tendons slashed to incapacitate them; the suspension was lifted in May 2009 after the construction of a state-of-the-art "closed loop" feedlot and abattoir and iron-clad assurances that animals would be well-treated.

In May last year, trade was suspended again after footage was supplied by an Egyptian vet, showing Australian cattle being stabbed in the eyes and having their rear leg tendons slashed to incapacitate them. There was also horrific footage of cattle being slaughtered in incorrectly operated full inversion slaughter boxes - these boxes are banned in Australia, USA and the UK because of the pain and trauma they cause the cattle.

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A BILL to ban live animal exports will be reintroduced in the Senate this week by the Australian Greens as the party ramps up calls to replace live ex with a boxed meat trade.
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Alison Penfold says they are “doing everything they can to put the assurances in place” – they most certainly are doing a lot of assuring of the Australian public that animal welfare is of the utmost importance, and they have voluntarily suspended trade to Egypt, but if THEY are doing everything they can, why is it never the industry – the exporters, the suppliers or DAFF that is exposing the cruelty and abuse – why are there no spot inspections, or monitoring of the facilities? How do they KNOW what standards are being met and how good the animal welfare is, if they’re never there to catch the breaches?

By Alison’s very own admission, they have suspended trade to a country to which we haven’t exported cattle in about 10 months; a country with which the live cattle trade is estimated to be worth $25 million – not a huge sacrifice in the scheme of things, but yes, it does make them sound pro-active, when in fact they are being very REactive.

No one is suggesting the trade be banned overnight – anyone who has a basic knowledge of the industry knows the kind of horrific domestic animal welfare problems and financial impact for producers that would arise with an overnight ban. We are calling for a phase out of live exports over a three to five year period – with assurances that the money, the work, the infrastructure, the labour – everything that is required to process locally is in place before shutting down this trade.

As for supplying a demand “While ever the customer demands live animals for their own protein needs, surely it's Australia - surely Australia should be doing what it can to service those needs.” The “if we don’t do it someone else will” is a lame argument to justify a trade that is intrinsically wrong and inherently cruel. If we don’t make money out of supplying drugs to schoolchildren, someone else will… the analogies are endless. What about saying “if we don’t set an example and say we do not accept this treatment of animals during their slaughter, we are in fact condoning it" – by continuing to supply animals for slaughter to markets that continue to abuse those animals, we are sending a message to the world that Australia condones this treatment.

It’s wrong on so many levels – YES, Australia has the space, capacity and the expertise to grow top quality animals for human consumption – why then would we cram then on a ship for two…three… up to five weeks, and send them off to countries which struggle to meet and often fail to meet even the very low OIE standards that we have mandated for the handling and slaughter of those animals? Why would we ship offshore all the jobs and value adding that is associated with the supply of those animals? Why would producers NOT want to see their animals they claim to care about so much, slaughtered in Australian abattoirs, to Australian standards, in the most humane way possible and where there are at least SOME measures in place to try to minimise their suffering, and see the profits and jobs stay in Australia?

The sheep prices fell in the West and the flock numbers rose because of the loss of Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and any other traditional markets for the Dorpas and Damaras that refused to, or did not meet ESCAS requirements – this is why we would say that a chilled only trade supplies the producer with a much more reliable and consistent market – it is not influenced by the red tape of having to meet handling and slaughter standards in importing countries, it is not hampered by the whims, vagaries, egos, political processes or corruption of importing countries

How can a chilled meat trade worth $7 billion possibly not absorb a live trade worth less than $1 billion if the time, effort and money is put into developing viable domestic processing for the animals that are currently exported live? Yes – importing countries can have all the Australian animals they want, but they MUST go on the hook and not on the hoof.

In the end, the fact is, there can realistically be no control over the handling and slaughter of animals once they leave this country - we owe them more than this. How many isolated incidents make up an epidemic?

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Alison Penfold of the Australian Live Exporters Council's interview on ABC's LateLine - interview here.

How do you enforce any welfare standards for beeeding stock in a country with no animal welfare laws, when those animals may realistically have up to ten years of 'use'?

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Both heavily pregnant Australian cows and calves died from malnutrition and heat strokein temperatures up to 50 degrees C in Qatar last year. Photo: Animals Australia

God forbid we offend the Saudis with a silly request for higher animal welfare standards. What does it say about an oil-rich Gulf country like Saudi Arabia when it indicates that it doesn't want to comply with supply chain assurances Australia is demanding before supplying, or that it doesn't want to be forced to comply with the requirements to meet the very low OIE standards which also makes up part of the ESCAS?

Saudi Arabia is already a member country of the OIE so what's the problem? Ego? Eliminating their ability to on-sell live animals if so desired? Or is it that animal welfare just isn't high on their list of priorities and they don't like that being pointed out?

We understand and appreciate that ESCAS is causing welfare issues for animals and hardship for producers, particularly in WA, but that could have been avoided had the government not rolled it though without consideration of the ramifications back here.

The solution is not to scrap ESCAS, the solution is for the government to more actively pursue alternative markets in the interim, whilst pursuing solutions to the reasons why producers currently have little-to-no domestic processing options. ESCAS is currently not protecting all animals exported from Australia, but it IS weeding out markets, which have a particular aversion to controls on the handling, slaughter and on-selling of animals... that's something at least.

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ANTI-live export lobby group Vets Against Live Export have released a media statement this morning claiming recent reports of cruel treatment of Australian animals overseas have deflected attention away from conditions aboard live export ships.

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I thought this would get easier. When the quarantine started, I thought I would settle into the new routine without too much difficulty. After all, it wasn’t all that different from my life before coronavirus. In the beginning I didn’t feel particularly anxious – I had moments where I worried about my husband’s and our children’s health, but I wasn’t terribly fearful of getting ill myself. I was doing what I needed to do, spending more time cleaning and cooking, streaming more movies and t.v. shows, getting out to exercise. I thought, as time wore on, I would get used to it. I am surprised to be finding it harder and harder, even as restrictions are easing.

I’m thinking about why and I don’t have an answer. I have some possible explanations. Though we saw our daughter on Monday, which was wonderful, the ache of missing our kids gets deeper. Not seeing our two-year old granddaughter for three months is beyond painful. Though we FaceTime, I worry that she won’t be comfortable with us when we finally do see each other in person. When I think about it rationally, I don’t believe there will be long term damage to her or our relationship. But, that doesn’t ease the heaviness I feel.

I haven’t seen my mom in months either. On Tuesday the independent living community where she resides began a phased reopening, which is great news. Other than getting outside on her own porch, she has been confined to her one-bedroom apartment for the duration. I can’t imagine how I would have coped with that! Now she will be allowed to walk the grounds in accordance with a schedule (to maintain social distancing). I worry about the toll this has taken on her physical strength and mental acuity. It saddens me that I haven’t been to visit. Now that she can go outside, it is more practical for me to take the 3.5 hour drive to see her. I feel some relief knowing that, but again, we don’t fully understand the damage done or what the future holds. We aren’t out of the woods yet.

Before this happened, we were in the midst of planning our daughter’s wedding in December (2020) – a joyous occasion; an event I take great pleasure in helping to plan. We have not changed the date or arrangements, yet. I so want things to go off without a hitch, she deserves a great, festive celebration. Even if we didn’t have to deal with coronavirus, I would be worried about it all falling into place. Now with the specter of postponing or making major adjustments, all the unknowns weigh on me.

Perhaps more than anything, though, I am troubled by the news; I can’t tune it out. Whether it is the recent reminders that racism is alive and well or the latest effort by Trump to distract from the pandemic, I am sincerely worried about the fate of our country. I know there are good people – many of them. They may, in fact, outnumber the ignorant, ugly ones. But it seems that the latter have more power than their numbers should allow. Our president represents that ignorant, ugly strain of America. While it might be wrong to assume all of Trump’s supporters are of the same ilk, it hard for me to not think the worst. I am aware of Republicans who are ‘never Trumpers,’ but they aren’t in office and wield little power.

If all a Republican can say is that they wish Trump would ‘tone it down,’ as one person I know said recently, then they are blind to the damage being done. Toning it down doesn’t begin to undo the harm. They are unwilling to acknowledge the erosion of the rule of law, ethics and honesty. People may have been cynical about politics before his election, but after 3.5 years of Trump, the idea of virtue in public service appears to be almost dead. Can faith in public institutions be reclaimed?

I want to believe in the potential of our country, in the bedrock values that I thought were at the heart of our founding. Though we may not have fully realized those values – liberty and justice for all – I thought that the vast majority believed in those principles. I find myself asking if ethics, honesty and integrity aren’t part of the foundation of liberty and justice, then how do we achieve those ends?  We seem to have forgotten that the ends do not justify the means.

Just a couple of weeks ago, as I was walking with a friend, keeping an appropriate social distance, I was offering her optimism. She was feeling doubtful. I told her that science will triumph. A vaccine and/or treatment would be found, and we would emerge from the darkness. I still believe that scientists will find a solution to Covid-19, but I now fear that will not be enough. We are at a point where we seem to live in different realities, depending on where you get your news and your own predispositions. If a vaccine is found, will people believe in it and consent to take it? Will it be viewed as a hoax? Will it be made available to everyone?

The inequality, the inadequacy of our health care system, the vulnerability of our economy has been laid bare by coronavirus. Do we have the will to face these deeper issues? Do enough of us even see those issues? I never thought I would come to a point where I would ask these fundamental questions.

I need to reclaim my optimism. I’m not sure how to do that, other than to wait for election day and hope for a blue wave. The only thing to do is to keep on keeping on – writing, looking for constructive, productive activities, and caring for family and friends. Hopefully the gloom will lift long before November.

I took this photo on my walk yesterday. Though I appreciated the beauty, it didn’t lift my spirits. That’s how I know I’m not in a good place.

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  1. beautiful said linda i too long for november and hope and pray our country can getback to where it once made people believe we were a true democracy and sane society wishing everyone in your family well

  2. You always manage to find the words to describe my heart. I feel like I live in a weird personal zone caught between the beauty and optimism of the spring photo you included and the unmitigated sadness of the news. I am both of these people.

  3. Linda, you always capture how I, as well as many others, feel! I’m lucky to have my son, daughter-in-law and grand daughter with us and will be throughout the summer. I haven’t seen my daughter and her fiancé since early February. We really miss them!
    I,too , can only hope Trump will be voted out of office! I just keep asking how people don’t see what a horrible human being he is. I keep asking how the republicans in Congress keep letting him get away with all this nonsense. Where are their morals? I guess they lost them along the way!
    Keep writing! I really enjoy and look forward!
    Stay well!

    1. Thanks, Carole! Lucky you! Your granddaughter is adorable (thank you, Facebook – one good thing about it!). If there are enough of us who get out to vote (or mail in our ballots), hopefully we can turn the tide. Stay well! And, thank you for reading!

  4. As you know, I feel very much the same way. I so admire how you can express these feelings and thoughts so beautifully.

  5. Despite the stress associated with going to the office and seeing patients, I know I am actually lucky to have this semblance of normality during this very abnormal time.
    I really think it’s much worse to be home.
    Thank you

  6. It’s so hard not to be swept away by the tsunami of sad that envelops is every time we check our newsfeeds or turn on the TV. Although I am old enough to remember seeing the carnage of battle in Vietnam on the news as a kid, somehow what’s going on now – the unknowns surrounding a possible Covid-19 vaccine, and the fallout surrounding George Floyd’s murder – is more frightening because it indicates both the fear of a deadly virus, and the ongoing fight for racial equality are exceeding our grasp, at least right now.
    Other points you made, especially those involving separation from family, the malaise and depression that set in from too much isolation, weigh heavily on us all. Trying to find the happy has been elusive.
    Ethics, honesty and integrity appears to be in short supply among the DC power brokers these days, to be sure.
    You always manage to create such thought provoking pieces. Two in one week, impressive!

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Following the government’s plan to ease covid restrictions and re-open schools, we are delighted to announce that St Peter’s will be re-opening for public worship, on Sunday 7th March.

In terms of what we are allowed to do, there are still considerable restrictions in place: we need to keep social distancing and wear masks, we can’t do coffee or socialise after church yet, and we can’t sing or operate children’s groups or a creche. So to help spread numbers more safely, for the time being we are planning to hold Family Worship every Sunday at 9 am, and Communion every Sunday at 10.30 am, at least until Easter. For those who are not able to attend in person, the 10.30 Communion Service will be streamed live on St Peter’s YouTube channel.

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New Construction Tip: Have Your Builder Plan for Water Management

Water management at the exterior of homes is critical.  Most people know this and I probably sound like a blow-hard when I keep repeating the same message… but too bad.  The message bears repeating over and over.

Reuben's BeefMy latest beef with home builders is poor water management at the exterior of homes, which is mostly about three different things done at the same time: concentrating a lot of water to one location, an anti-gutter policy, and no consideration for gutters in the future.  Let me explain.

Concentrating a lot of water to one location

A common design for new houses is to concentrate rain water from several roof surfaces to a small area, which greatly increases the potential for foundation and basement water problems. I marked up the images from some recent new construction inspections to help highlight where a lot of water gets concentrated.

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Installing gutters would certainly help in all of these situations, but it usually doesn’t happen. Home builders are typically opposed to installing gutters, which is unfortunate. They give poor excuses such as “gutters cause more problems than they fix”, but I suspect the real reason is always about cost savings. Gutters prevent a lot of problems with houses, and they can help in almost every situation.  I’ll admit that if a home is properly designed for no gutters, it will function fine without them, but that situation is a rare exception.

Planning for gutters

Even if a builder doesn’t install gutters, it hardly costs any money for them to plan for gutters; all they need to do is toss a twenty foot section of corrugated yard drain at the front of the house, so a downspout can drain under the front walkway.

This never happens though.

Instead, builders do what you see below. Click on the photo below to see a large version of it, so you can really see all of the wood chips washed away.  This happened after a very light rain.

Downspout next to house

After a decent storm this will be a big mess.  This was a new construction home in Eden Prairie with nearly a seven figure price tag… and that’s how they dealt with the downspout.  In my opinion, the only acceptable fix for this situation is to install a yard drain with a receptor for the downspout; the same thing I blogged about last week.  This could have been done very easily with about $5 worth of material before the walkway was poured, but now it’s going to be a much bigger project.

If you’re having a new home built, be sure to cover this stuff early on in the home building process. Even if your builder has a policy saying they won’t direct the downspouts to a yard drain / underground, at least have them bury the tubing for it.

Author: Reuben Saltzman, Structure Tech Home Inspections

11 responses to “New Construction Tip: Have Your Builder Plan for Water Management”

  1. Jeff Carter
    August 13, 2013, 8:23 am

    Biggest problem with gutters: maintenance. If you have trees nearby, you have to clean the gutters or they are worse than ineffective. Clean them monthly or even weekly. Forever. Can be a real problem. The higher they are, the bigger the problem. If the lot is properly graded, and the roof drainage planned, water dispersal is not a problem. Seems like a better way to go, if you can.

  2. Reuben Saltzman
    August 13, 2013, 11:29 am

    Hi Jeff – you’re certainly right about keeping gutters clean. The one thing that’s different for new construction is that there are rarely any trees. Every once in a while we’ll inspect a new construction house in an inner-ring suburb where a house was torn down and another built in it’s place, but most new construction homes are in areas with no trees.

    Gutters should definitely slope towards downspouts, and they usually do. The slope doesn’t need to be anything dramatic; just enough to prevent water from sitting.

  3. Jeff Carter
    August 13, 2013, 8:26 am

    And while we are talking about gutters, a question for Reuben: do you think gutters should be pitched to drain to downspout, or? Seems like installers don’t pitch, or even pitch away from downspout. My feeling would be pitch toward downspout, eliminating standing water, but maybe there are other considerations? Thanks for the column and the forum, Reuben.

  4. Glitch Cowboy
    September 10, 2013, 7:29 am

    I used to clean gutters as a part of my job. I hate gutters passionately. They seem to be clogged more than they actually move water and in my experience even the ‘Guaranteed Super Gutter’ solutions (any and all) aren’t worth their money — Especially after one home that I cleaned: They spent $12k on some Super Gutter and then paid us $75/hr to clean them the next year because they were clogged. So, I’ve thought about this a lot.
    Then I bought an old house with no gutters. I rejoiced. And then I cleaned up a wet basement. And then I installed gutters.

    I wish there was a cure-all solution for water management and I’m all ears for a better solution.

  5. Mike Baker
    September 10, 2013, 8:29 am

    Great information! We deal with water management issues A LOT! It seems many homes are built asking for failure whether it be from poor gutter installation or relief, poor grade or poor location of rockbeds/landscaping that allow water to run back at the foundation. Keep up the good work, I always enjoy your blogs and newsletters.

  6. Cougar Land
    October 13, 2013, 10:51 pm

    1. Sump pumps in cities connect to STORM DRAINS not sewer lines, so don’t know why you talked about that.
    2. Regarding the idea of “don’t connect downspouts directly to yard drain”: If their is ice at the end of the line, what does it matter if downspout is directly connected or not? That water is going to back up no matter what to where ever it can get out…and in your case it comes out of the grate next to house. The inspection you did of that house leaking water in shows a problem with the foundation, not with downspouts and yard drains.

  7. Reuben Saltzman
    October 14, 2013, 3:47 am

    @ Cougar Land – 1. there is no mention of storm drains in this post. I don’t know what you’re referring to.
    2. If there is ice at the end of the yard drain and ice backs up a downspout a story, then builds up with ice along the house, it will probably cause problems. The leaking water I showed in different blog post had water leaking in at the deck connection because of a blocked yard drain. This had nothing to do with the foundation.

  8. Cougar Land
    October 13, 2013, 10:54 pm

    I should have mentioned in #2 of last post…. it’s a problem with the foundation AND the drainage system surrounding the house….

  9. Cougar Land
    October 13, 2013, 11:15 pm

    One additional thing. If you really want an air gap for a downspout, you can simply install one of those leaf diverter adapters at end of downspout. It has the open area built into the adapter.

  10. Sarah
    November 1, 2013, 10:02 pm

    Reuben, great site!! Found it searching for deck heave fixes. I had a contractor here today to give me a bid on regrading near a footing that has heaved. Need to fix water issue before we can fix post.

    The heaved footing is at the bottom of a sloped hill…we have a walkout and the deck stairs are on the side of the house so the heave is also warping our stairs.

    Hubby wants to put in a drain tile that directs water to the drain tile around our foundation. I asked landscaper for bid that directs water away from foundation, so a small retaining wall w a drain tile at the bottom of it leading toward a swale in yard was proposed.

    Can you help resolve our unpleasant marital spat? He thinks its ok to channel the water into the foundation drain tile bc it is below our basement floor and bc we have a sump pump. (Which is on the opposite corner of the home). Our home is 5 yrs old.

    Thanks in advance for any help you can lend to resolving our fight!

  11. Reuben Saltzman
    November 2, 2013, 5:39 am

    Hi Sarah, either one of those solutions would probably work. It’s certainly preferable to deal with water at the exterior (your solution), but I’m sure it’s also a lot more money, and dealing with it the way your husband suggested would probably be just fine.

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This is a 3-hour class for beginners, and your pets will already be sketched out on all canvases! No experience is necessary, and all supplies are included with artist instruction & sketch. For time constraint, we allow only 1 pet per canvas, and 1 painter per canvas. Our stretched canvases are 16″x20″.

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT YOU WILL HAVE THE FREEDOM TO CHANGE THE COLORS AND PAINTING TECHNIQUE, SO THE BELOW EXAMPLES ARE JUST SHOWING HOW THE ANIMAL WILL BE PRE-SKETCHED ON THE CANVAS (their head positioning, etc). These colors are expressive, but you may use actual colors for a more realistic painting if you wish. We will help guide you in the direction you want to go with your specific painting.

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The choice of beaches within easy reach of Calisto & Destino Carvoeiro Rentals is remarkable, all beautiful and each one with its own individual appeal. Carvoeiro Bay itself is a haven of sheltered golden sand that nature has carved Algarve 1into the rugged cliffs. All along this stretch of undulating coastline, the ocean has sculpted the rich red rock into a honeycomb of unique caves and tunnels which are a delight to explore. Many can only be reached at low tide – adding to their mystery – and it is worth investigating some of the smaller beaches, such as the Vale de Covo Beach. A little further east is Praia de Carvalho or take a boat from Benagil Beach – there are so many fascinating coves, the list is a long one.

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Splendid Spoon Meal Service Review

I’ve written before about trying meal delivery services like Blue Apron and Hello Fresh. I really love the concept of these services because I don’t love cooking, and often find myself with a lot of waste when I buy ingredients to cook for one.

I am pretty budget conscious, so when I spend extra money on something like a meal service, I want it to be worth the money. I found that I wasn’t really happy with the variety of vegetarian options or the healthiness of the services that I had tried, and I ended up cancelling both of them.

After feeling like I was in a food rut and eating the same thing for dinner most nights, I started looking for something new. I had seen a few ads for a plant based meal delivery service called Splendid Spoon. I had looked at it a long time ago, but decided to check it out again. I love when companies have introductory offers that you can try without a long term commitment, so when I saw you could get your first shipment for a discount, I decided to give it a try.

The plan that I decided to do was 5 smoothies and 5 bowls, which is $95 a week. I loved that you could pick from a lot of options for both the smoothies and bowls/soups, and that you could double up if you wanted more than one of a certain kind. It was nice to be able to pick any option that I wanted since everything was plant based. Since I was ordering the meals as dinners, I tended to pick options that were more of a mixed bowl than soups, but the soups looked really great too!

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The meals came in a 100% recyclable package, that was much easier to recycle than other services. I was really happy to see that. The meals can be refrigerated or frozen to last longer, which I also appreciated. The smoothies that I received had to be consumed within 2 weeks. The meals can be cooked on the stove top or in the microwave, which made them even more convenient, and there was 0 prep time.

One thing I didn’t realize was that one meal or smoothie is actually 2 portions. Since I’m not worried about calories, I didn’t mind eating or drinking the entire thing, but it did feel a little misleading if you were glancing at the nutrition facts of the item. For me personally, I would have to eat the entire bowl or eat half with a side!

The meals were delicious I am happy to be getting a greater variety of healthy foods in my diet. The smoothies all seem to have pea protein in them, which sometimes upsets my stomach, but they didn’t seem to bother me which was good. I didn’t end up eating everything the first week, so I cancelled the second week delivery. I think going forward I will only do the service every other week at most.

$95 breaks down to $9.50 for each bowl and smoothie, which does feel a little expensive to me. Like always, I will continue to evaluate if it still feels worth what I am spending! I do like that you have the flexibility to cancel any week’s delivery, so you’re not committed to buying it every week. I think it will be nice to have on the weeks that I just can’t get my life together to grocery shop and cook!

You can read my reviews of Blue Apron and Hello Fresh at the links below!

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American Remakes of Korean Dramas

So, this weekend I sat down and watched some experimental television… aka, some American attempts to remake Korean Dramas.  There were pros and cons.

First up was The Good Doctor.  The ABC remake stars that cute, odd kid who played Norman Bates (to perfection) on the Bates Hotel.  I figured he could pull off the role and I was correct.  He’s a believable savant.  The first episode has promise, though personally I didn’t feel the emotional connection to his tragic backstory quite as much as I did in the original.  The drunk father, the trauma of loosing the pet rabbit, the horror of finding himself without his only lifeline – his brother – at such a young age… we got the same backstory, more or less, with a few new embellishments that seemed unnecessary.  The doctors seem great, so far, and they’re the most important thing.  I really liked the casting of the female doctor – she’s gorgeous and has the wide eyed innocent face required for the part.  Her boyfriend, the current top dog, is also excellent with his confidence and capabilities currently unchallenged.  And I’m willing to watch more to see how it plays out.

Will we get those same super-sweet, painfully sincere moments that the original gave us?  Will there be piggyback rides and drunken confessions?  There better be my favorite character -the lovable male nurse who always had the new doc’s back and took care of all the kids in the hospital… I can’t wait until he’s introduced.

Honestly… there’s a lot to look forward to.  The dude who remade this was also responsible for HOUSE, the only other medical show I actually liked in the history of medical shows… so I have all my fingers and toes crossed.  I’m hoping he won’t be too jaded to see how important the sincere and kind moments were in the original and try to crop them out of this remake.

UPDATE:  A few weeks in… and I’m not in love with the American version.  It just feels like another generic medical show… somehow they’ve stolen the skeleton of medical plotlines from the original but left the heart far behind.  Eh.

Next, and also by ABC, was the remake of God’s Gift: 14 Days.  Retitled Somewhere Between.  It started out pretty strong – with the first two episodes moving along well… but then started dragging its feet and I admit I didn’t finish it.  They stuck to the story line, however, almost exactly, which was a pro.  Unfortunately, the intensity required for the roles was somewhat lost on our American actors.  Especially in certain scenes… when our male cop-turned-investigator was supposed to show us real sorrow, regret, or pain… eh, didn’t pull it off.  He seemed really uncomfortable.  When our lead female, the wide-shouldered mom with the awkward bangs is supposed to be frantically searching for her daughter, near desperation to save her, and running wild… she came across as wild, but I didn’t buy the fear.  The daughter was delightful, the political husband great as the conflicted man with secrets.  Supporting cast was all decent.  But without the fire under their asses, it’s hard to keep running through the plot with these actors when you feel like you could just slow down and walk.  The editing was somewhat awkward with the crime/action scenes as well, making them feel unthreatening and unsuspenseful… murders are happening!  I should be biting my nails off, not somewhat confused.

For me, the most noticeably enjoyable thing was the diversity of the cast members.  We’re talking a rainbow of colors, and I loved it.  But not enough to actually watch the whole show, mind you… it just wasn’t good enough to devote hours to.

Still – here’s hoping they keep trying.  Why?  Cause there are more unique plotlines happening in Korean dramas than American dramas, for one.  Cause American’s need to practice their acting skills and start stepping up their game with giving us believable emotional range.  And cause, if nothing else, it may cause people to seek out the Korean versions… and become K-Drama fans.  We could always use more, honestly.

P.S.  Super NOT excited to learn that there are several American shows getting K-Drama makeovers… though who knows.  I will reserve my judgement until I watch the K-Drama version of The Good Wife and tell ya then.

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  1. I haven’t seen the American adaptation of The Good Wife. But was the K-Drama any good? I think I may settle into watching Somewhere Between today and see how it is. I personally loved Gods Gift, it had me on edge the whole time.

    • I never saw the K-version of the Good Wife. Anyways, I really enjoyed Gods Gift but never even finished Somewhere Between… maybe you’ll like it more than me, though.

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This poem was written in response to Carpe Diem #1230 glass sculpture (R.Loy, The Netherlands), another great prompt from Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. All of the poems in the link-up can be read here. And, to finish, here’s Blondie –

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  1. This makes me feel so conflicted … erotic … and creepy … and erotic again …nicely done!

    I must admit … the video makes me oddly fascinated with Blondie’s nips ….

    Great .. um … pairing! Love this.

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      Erotic – creepy – exactly what I wanted 🙂

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