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Once upon a time, there was a woman – beautiful, strong and yet as gentle as a person could be. A woman who was thrown in plenty of tumoil and hard times, of devastating blows and sickness, and yet she bore it all with a kind of quiet perseverance – a kind of endurance and perseverance I did not realize I owned myself until she was gone.
That woman had many names, but I was one of the two who had the privilege to call her a very specific name – mother.
To be honest, I feel like a broken record sometimes. i do feel like I mention my mother quite a lot. I refer to her often in these posts, but then again it makes sense. My mother was a creative force in her own way, she passed onto me the desire to explore and create. Without my mother, I would not be here writing this post, I wouldn’t have created everything you have seen on this blog.
My mother passed away in 2007 – an aneurysm that stole her from us so quickly we could barely process what had actually happened. She was 55, the epitome of gone way too soon. Of all the health problems my mother had at the end of her life, it was almost ironic that it was something that we were unaware of that gor her in the end. Yet at the same time I think about her often, even 8 years after that day. The wound her passing left on me isn’t closed and probably won’t ever be, but I’ve grown used to the pain. Maybe even numb to it, in a sense. It never gets better, but you go on. You survive. You don’t give up.
Yet the moment I went to highlight here is not that moment, but to understand it, you have to understand what kind of woman my mother was. Gentle, sweet, yet strong in a very strange way – especially for someone with the anxiety issues she had dealt with most of her life. It was like there was a little well inside of her, a little switch she could pull in her brain when she really needed it, a little power that made her go though things that would have seemed impossible. She miscarried two children in between my brother and me. My father crashed his car against a tree and for a time, we did not know if he was okay – couldn’t get any information at all. For all we had known at that instant, he could have had died on the spot. Yet in these two hours she was calm in a way that seemed superhuman. She lost her mother and then her father one year after the other. She very nearly lost me twice – once at my birth, and then 15 years later, when my PCOS medication misfired and I nearly hemorrhaged to death.
When the doctor said nothing was off with my blood samples and we needed to leave, she told the doctor, very calmly, that it would be his blood being drawn if he did not wheel me into the ER at this instant, moments before I passed out from blood loss.
My mother was a force of nature, but at the same time very fragile.A very strange contradiction, it seems, but that was how it is. It was only when I was 21, when she passed away, that I realized that I was exactly the same – I had this little well inside me, this little switch in my brain I could pull when I really needed it… I just hadn’t had a reason to need it before then.
Yet she had tried to tell me that I was like this. When I was 17, I was on my first year of post-secondary education. I lived in another town in an apartment during week days, and she worried. She had reasons to worry – I was freshly off anti-depressant for the first time in years as I seemed to be stable enough as my dosage deceased to finally bottom out into not needing it at all. Being out of my toxic high school life helped me immencely but even still, there were chances depression could catch up with me again. It’s a shady monster like that, depression – ready to strike when you are at your weaknest moment. I don’t feel like you can ever be cured of it. It’s always a shadow looming. I knew this, and so did my mother.
It was then that one of my friends from high school took his own life. A bad breakup took him to that extreme. We had lost touch a bit after high school graduation, but it was still a shock to me – and to my mother as well, who had met him plenty of times and cared for him deeply. We went to his funeral together, supported his devastated parents. When his mother took my mother aside for a moment, I thought nothing of it at first. But in truth, my friend’s mother knew me just as well as my mother knew her son. She knew all I had gone though, and she was worried the same would happen to me. My mother reassured her – that I had been off anti-depressant for months and was still followed by a psychiatrist – but whatever else they discussed, it led to what happened next.
We walked back home after the burial. It was a remarkably clear day, a bright blue sky with not a cloud in sight, in spite of the fact that a mother just had to bury her son all too soon. She held my hand all the while, looking up at the sky as we walked. We walked in silence for a moment, but eventually, my mother spoke. In french, of course – my mother barely knew any english, unlike my bother and I, but it went more or less like this.
“Audrey. I want you to promise me something.”
“What ?” I asked, looking at her.
Never give up. Not your life. Never surrender. You are stronger than you know, stronger than you might ever believe that you are. you have weathered so many storms already, and you will weather many more. No matter how dark things get, how hopeless, remember that there will always be someone who loves you. Maybe it is selfish of me to say this, but nothing will kill me more than having to do what she did today.”
And that was what I did. Even after she was gone, I still did exactly just that. Things arn’t always good, and sometimes there are dark storms rocking my life. Some days I feel the old depression monster gnawing at me again. But I hit him with a baseball bat. make sure he’s down for a little while, and carry on.
I promised not to give up, after all.
The bracelet itself came to me very quickly – the moment I got my bead in the mail, I knew which basic design I wanted to go with. I wanted a price I could see, something I could use as a reminder when things get hard. As you might notice, it is asymentrical – the bead sits toward me on my wrist, closed to my eyes, closer to my heart. I broke apart the bigger links from a commercial chain and used jump rings to make a new chain. It was really hard to do that, actually – the metal wasn’t very pliable and none of my pliers could quite cut it. I pondered changing my design, but the bead sat here, reminding me. You can’t give up, remember ? So I found a way. And I did what I wanted. This was my first test drive of a new wire, and I gotta say I quite love it and need more of it. It comes in antique tones, which was one thing that kind of annoyed me with my work – I use mostly antiqued findings, but was stuck with bright wire.
This piece was supposed to be much more complex initially, but any attempt to add more to it didn’t take – didn’t feel right at all. Eventually I decided to stop fighting the piece and just leave it as you see above.
The cause I am supporting is, as you might have guessed – depression and auicide awareness. No one should have to think death is the only way out, and yet too often it is the case. I thought exactly that for a long time, but I want you – all of you who read this – to remember : no matter how dark the storm is, you can weather it. If you need help to weather it, seek it – it is not shameful or weak, like too many seem to believe.
You are beautiful. You are loved. You are a star.
Never give up.
Well, this actually was the hardest part of the process, and kudos for making your way though that rather impressive wall of text. Please go see all the other pieces in the art of awareness blog hop, and as a thank you for getting to here and to hopefully put a smite back on your face after this pretty heavy matter, have some Feline Assistance In Photography :


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The Hadrianic Tondi on the Arch of Constantine

The Arch of Constantine, dedicated on 25 July 315 CE, stands in Rome between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill, at what was once the beginning of the Via Triumphalis. As described on its attic inscription, it commemorates Constantine’s victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge on 28 October 312 CE over the tyrant Maxentius who had ruled Rome since 306 CE. It is one of the largest surviving Roman triumphal arches.

Roman Villa Borg

Ruins of a grand Roman countryside villa (villa rustica) were discovered by a local school teacher at the end of the 19th century outside the village of Borg in the municipality of Perl (Germany). The villa consisted of three wings covering an area of more than 7.5 hectares. The complex was excavated in the late 1980s and a plan to reconstruct an authentic representation of the buildings as they originally appeared in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD began in 1994. The project was completed in 2008 although further excavation work is still undergoing.

Italica: Roman city in Santiponce

Italica is a well-preserved Roman city located in modern-day Santiponce, 9 kilometres north of Seville in Spain. The city was founded in 206 BC during the Second Punic War (218-202) when the Roman commander Publius Cornelius Scipio settled his Italian veterans on this site following a victory at the Battle of Ilipa. Although the nearby town of Hispalis (Seville) would always remain a larger city, Italica became an important centre of Roman culture and was awarded the title of colonia. The name Italica reflected the veterans’ Italian origins. Coordinates: 37° 26′ 38″ N, 6° 2′ 48″ W

Happy Birthday Rome!

Felix dies natalis, Roma! (Happy birthday, Rome!) This week on the 21st of April is the traditional date given for the founding of Rome. According to Roman mythology, the founders were Romulus and Remus, twin brothers and supposed sons of the god Mars and the priestess Rhea Silvia. The twins were then abandoned by their parents as babies because of a prophecy that they would overthrow their great-uncle Amulius, but were saved by a she-wolf who nursed them. Romulus killed his brother after a vicious quarrel and went on to establish a city which he named after himself.

Roman Villa Nennig

Located in the village of Nennig in the delightful Upper Moselle Valley, the Roman Villa Nennig (German: Römische Villa Nennig) houses a richly illustrated gladiatorial mosaic, one of the most important Roman artefacts north of the Alps. Protected by a dedicated building built about 150 years ago and covering an area of roughly 160m2, the mosaic vividly portrays musicians, hunting scenes and gladiatorial contests.

Marguerite Yourcenar and Hadrian in Bavay (France)

Last year, the Forum Antique de Bavay, located in northern France, hosted a small exhibition devoted to the book Mémoires d’Hadrien (Memoirs of Hadrian). The exhibition sheds light on the genesis of Mémoires d’Hadrien and presents archaeological objects and ancient texts. It provides insight into the meticulous work behind Marguerite Yourcenar’s historic novel, compiling postcards and photographs of works and places relating to her subject, studying all the ancient sources with a passionate and serious enthusiasm. On display are books, manuscripts, statuary, portrait busts, and coins, as well as different artefacts from the time of Hadrian and the Antonines. Fifty works are on loan from the Louvre, the British Museum, Hadrian’s Villa, the Museum Ingres in Montauban, the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon and the Musée Saint-Raymond in Toulouse. It is the first exhibition in France about Mémoires d’Hadrien.

Art from Hadrian’s Villa: Three Mosaic Panels with Bucolic Scenes

This month’s masterpiece from Hadrian’s Villa is a series of heavily restored mosaic panels depicting bucolic scenes with animals. The first panel depicts a rocky landscape with a flock of goats peacefully grazing by a stream. A standing bronze statue dressed in a long tunic is standing on a rock. It holds a bunch of grapes in its right hand and a thyrsus in his left hand. The statue is probably an image of the god Dionysos meant to evoke a sacro-idyllic landscape. Dionysus was also considered to be a god of fertility and there seems to be a human phallus represented on the tablet next to the statue. The phallus was a symbol of his power, the ability to create new life.

Ankara’s Cuirassed Statue of Hadrian

Hadrian and his travels have often served as the guiding thread for my own travels. However, my recent trip to Turkey had a different focus, the Hittite civilization, with one of the highlights being a visit to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. After dazzling at the magnificent artifacts on display on the main floor of the museum, I discovered that there was also a section dedicated to the Roman period in Ancyra which featured, to my big surprise, parts of a statue of the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

5 Key Sites Of The Hittite Empire

Although mentioned several times in the Biblical texts, the actual existence of the Hittites was largely forgotten until the late 19th century. With the discovery of Hattusa in 1834, the city that was for many years the capital of the Hittite Empire, the Hittites were finally recognized as one of the Great Superpowers of the ancient Middle East in the Late Bronze Age.

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Fenix International’s Lyndsay Handler relates how the ENGIE-owned solar energy company overcame barriers to introduce an employee share ownership scheme

Fenix International, a pay-as-you-go solar home system company that serves markets in East Africa, became the first company to make a pay-out under a unique inclusive employee ownership programme in the region earlier this year.

Under the scheme, which we introduced at Fenix in 2016, all employees received "Fenix Flames", or shares, according to their seniority and length of service. These Flames were designed to represent a level of ownership and guarantee a pay-out in the event of acquisition or public listing. When we finalized our acquisition by global utility giant ENGIE in spring 2018, we were able to distribute the financial benefit to over 350 employees based in Africa. Some of the longest-serving members of the team have received two to five times their gross annual salary.

Getting to this point, where all our employees were given a stake in the company, was by no means an easy road

Getting to this point, where all of our employees – from cleaners, cooks and guards to sales managers, call centre staff and data scientists – were given a stake in the company’s growth, was by no means an easy road. Our belief that it would have a transformative effect on all areas of our business is central to the story of how we extended inclusive ownership to all our employees in a market where the idea is all but unheard of.

When Fenix first came to Uganda in 2009, privately owned companies did not commonly implement broad-based employee ownership programmes. In addition to the belief that they were not valued or understood, the discussion in most boardrooms was that there were many tax, legal and accounting challenges that came with giving equity to all employees. While many members of our leadership team believed in inclusive ownership from the early days, we decided this was not a battle we could immediately fight.

The Fenix Uganda team - employees have a stake in the company's growth. (Credit: Fenix Int)

But we were shaken out of this view at a team meeting in 2015, when one of our original employees in Uganda stood up and asked a simple question: could Fenix employees buy shares in the company to help the business grow? He said the team believed in the company, wanted to help with fundraising efforts, and to become shareholders in the company they had helped to build. That moment was powerful – and somewhat unexpected – to see in a young start-up company in Uganda. Yet his sentiment was loudly echoed by the team, and by the end of the meeting there was widespread enthusiasm to grow the company by turning employees into owners.

Over the year, we spent countless hours designing a model for inclusive ownership that we could present to the board of directors. We faced challenges on all fronts. Executives, partners, advisors and investors told us that employee ownership would not be understood; lawyers told us there would be numerous insurmountable legal challenges; accountants said that there would be prohibitive tax issues and that the costs of administering the programme would outweigh the benefits of giving equity to hundreds of employees across multiple countries around the world. Even some mentors questioned our belief that giving ownership today would lead to value creation tomorrow.

We firmly believe that employee ownership programs like this increase the total returns to shareholders

But in 2016 after reviewing countless proposals, excel spreadsheets, legal opinions and tax analyses, we presented the proposal to our board of directors. Given the passion of the leadership team, the feedback from the broader team and our conviction that this would drive value for our investors, the board approved it.

Following the years of hard work to carefully craft the Fenix Flames programme, we have witnessed first hand the many impacts it has had. Most notably and against common wisdom, we firmly believe that employee ownership programs like this increase the total returns to shareholders. This sense of ownership often leads to employees being more willing to contribute ideas and feedback, from developing new products to identifying new markets, anticipating challenges and seizing new opportunities.

Several customer service representatives have made suggestions on how to improve the efficiency of our call centre; sales team members have made proposals to increase the quality of our new customers and reduce the cost of sale. We have seen significantly increased employee loyalty, attraction of further talent, and exceptional employee performance. Six months before launching the programme, our retention rate was 90.04 percent; six months after announcing Fenix Flames, it had risen to 95.49 percent.

Employee ownership schemes, such as at John Lewis, are unheard of in Africa. (Credit: pxl.store/Shutterstock)

Although more common in the West, with about 20% of private sector employees in the US owning company stock, and 32% of British employees involved in some form of employee ownership scheme, these programmes are largely unheard of in Africa. We were implementing this scheme in a country where benefits such as employee health insurance are unusual; communicating something as unprecedented as ownership was a challenge.

So, creating a version of employee ownership that works in Africa was not easy, but we hope it stands testament to the possibility that companies in every market can create a version of the idea that suits their business – and can then benefit from its impact. We are investing time in the year ahead to learn more about other employee-ownership models, and to work with interested companies who are looking to create their own. The results we have seen since implementing our Flames scheme have made all of the effort worth it. But more than that, it has validated the power of employee ownership wherever it occurs in the world.

Lyndsay Handler is CEO of Fenix International.

Main picture credit: Fenix International
employee share ownership  solar energy  Fenix International  ENGIE  Uganda  shared value

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Adventures & Misadventures of an EV in the Country (Part 5)

Jun 08, 2015

There are limits to what you can do with a Nissan, Leaf. Ordering a charging station shouldn't be one of them.

Things have pretty much fallen into place with the EV in the country. There have been some misadventures while ordering a charging station, and we did decide that we were going to use a petrol powered vehicle for a trip to a nieces soccer game because the distance was too far to get there and back on a single charge. The closest charging station to the school where she was playing was too far to walk.

The routine for using my Nissan, Leaf in the country has become to use it for as much as possible and only when we can't use the EV such as when hauling a load of lumber or when going to places outside its range where there aren't any charging stations that would make the journey easy. This week gave me two instances where the Nissan, Leaf would have been particularly pressed to to do those tasks. So, for convenience sake, we used our SUV for those tasks.

The frost and erosion have conspired to pull to pieces the lumber that made up the retaining wall that was anchoring my dock to the shore of the river that flows behind my house in the country. I now have to build a new anchor and transition deck at the waters edge to make getting onto my dock comfortable and safe. The freezing and thawing that occurs in the lumber there is proving a challenge to keep the transition in place for more than just a couple of years. My solution this time is to put in a bulkhead where the timber retaining wall used to be. I will start by putting in four 4x4 posts that will act as the piles for the bulkhead. The first four feet of the posts/piles will be covered in thick plastic sleeves and capped with heavy aluminum caps. I will then instal the posts/piles cap and sleeve side down into the ground. The plastic sleeves and aluminum caps and good caulking should keep water from penetrating the wood below the water line and freezing inside the wood in winter tearing the wood apart as it did to the retaining wall. Hopefully this will make the posts last longer and anchoring the posts/piles well below the frost-line should keep them from heaving through freezing and thawing cycles as well. On top of these posts I will build an 8 x 8 foot transition deck from dry land to the posts/piles, and on the water side I will attach the dock to the posts/piles. On the land side of the posts I will attach wales and drop plastic 1” x 6” x 4' center matched boards to hold the shore in place where the retaining wall used to be. The piles will also be anchored to the shore with metal rods or pipe to dead-man boards under dry land. So, this means that I have to purchase and haul home from the big box store 20 miles away 18 clearance 4 foot plastic boards, 13 1" x 6" x 8' deck boards, seven 2” x 6” x 8' boards for the frame of the deck, four 4x4 posts, four clearance plastic sleeves and 4 thick aluminum caps. All of the above description in this paragraph was to say that to bring all that stuff home with the Leaf would have meant several trips and recharges with hundreds of pounds of wood sticking way out the back hatch. We took the SUV and made it in one trip with the wood completely inside the vehicle.

Hopefully, someday, a major automobile manufacturer will make a rough and rugged electric SUV or pick-up truck that I wouldn't mind hauling lumber in. For now, my Nissan, Leaf is the beautiful new baby in the family, all clean and nearly scratch free. I don't want to make it a totally utility vehicle just yet. After I have owned it a while and it no longer has that luster of “new” car glow about it in my eyes I should be more willing to haul stuff in it. Right now I just can't emotionally do that.

Now that I have owned the EV for over a month I find myself wanting to use it more and more, just not yet for hauling lots of lumber. However, after long trips where I have depleted a significant amount of the charge in the battery I find myself plugging in and waiting for the next day before taking the EV out again. Even though it is not absolutely necessary to have a level 2 charger, level 1 being what I am doing, which is to plug into an ordinary household outlet, I had planned on getting a 6.6 kw battery charger to match the upgraded level 2 charging on the 2013 model of the Nissan, Leaf. Before 2013 model year the Leaf's on-board charger could only charge at 3.3 kw. Now, armed with a charger that can charge at 6.6 kw, the Leaf could be up and running fast even after long trips. That would make it more available for me to use more often.

I wish I could say that I researched what was the best electric vehicle charging station and bought that one, but I didn't. I thought since my Leaf is used a used charger should be just fine and I could save money to boot. I thought that the safest bet for getting a good charger was the one made to be sold along with the Nissan, Leaf. I had looked at them before I purchased my Leaf and came across a bargain for a used one online. Unfortunately I waited to purchase the Leaf before purchasing that one and it had been sold when I went looking for it again. I looked at another company's chargers and found one online that seemed reasonable, but then I read a story of a Leaf catching fire from one of those, so I didn't go for that one. Then a big box home improvement center was selling a particular brand of charger for far less then they were previously advertised. To my surprise they were now selling them for below the prices of the used chargers I had been looking at. I jumped at the sale price, ordering so fast that I failed to look at the address they were going to ship the charger to. In the next few days another major electric component company beat that price, but I have no regrets. The charger I purchased is a very good one and the company that sells them has a solid reputation, plus the charger I chose was the new and improved 2nd generation of that charger.

I hope you caught that I had ordered so fast that I didn't take care to make sure the shipping address was correct on my order. I only realizing that they were shipping my newly purchased charger to my old address after I had looked at the email that came into my email box of the order a few minutes later. First, I tried to correct the address online, but couldn't. I then called the big box company. They claimed that I had caught the error on-time and that they could correct the shipping address error. I was relieved that is until a day later when I received another email from the company letting me know that the order had shipped. When I checked the shipping address on the email it showed my old address again. Again I called and the company and the representative then told me that they couldn't fix the address. I told them that I no longer lived at the address and couldn't receive the charger to return it. The person over the phone told me that I must reorder the item again if I wanted it and he could cancel the original order. Hopefully the delivery service would return the item once it reached its destination without disturbing the new owners of my former home. He also told me that they would charge me for the new charging station and wouldn't give me a refund until the original charging station was received back at its original shipped from destination. I told him to cancel the order and then proceeded to reorder the charger online making sure this time my old address didn't show up on the “ship to” destination.

I am going to rant a little here since the process seemed completely screwy to me. First, the address on this big boxes online shopping site that they had for me on file was my current address. So, why did they ship it to my old address? It was the paying service that injected my old address into this ordering process. When I looked up my address on the paying service site it was also my current address. So, again, why was it shipped to my old address? This paying service kept a record of old “ship to” addresses and since my old address had been my default shipping address for all the previous time I had been using this service, it automatically assumed that it was that address that I wanted my charger shipped to. It, on its own, transferred that information to the big box store as the shipping address. I am rubbing my face and doing a closed lip exhale. I have since asked the paying service to remove my old address from any internal files they may keep on me. Mind you my old address was no where in my accessible profile on either site where I could have corrected it. Also, the order placed electronically didn't ship until the very next day, nearly 24 hours after the order was placed. How is it impossible for them to change a shipping address before the item even goes out the door? However, all is well that ends well. I did finally get my charger. I now have to get an electrician to install it and that is going to be another adventure worth telling you about.

Something else that I am looking forward to telling you about is that a local senior living center is having a classic car show as a fund raiser. What does a classic car show have to do with futuristic electric vehicles, you might ask? My wife, sensing that I wanted to talk to people about electric vehicles, took it upon herself to call the organizers of the classic car show to see if they would accept a Nissan, Leaf in the show. This is a small town so worried about having enough vehicles to attract potential donors they said yes to the Nissan, Leaf. My wife then proceeded to volunteer me to show off the electric car.

I am happy to go. This will be like much of the work I did a decade ago to promote electric vehicles, bringing my converted Fiero to every place I could around Washington, DC to tell everyone I could about my experience owning an electric vehicle. I am once again looking forward to answering lots of questions about driving electric. However, this is a classic car show. I have a feeling my newish Nissan, Leaf will stick out like a sore thumb. I wish I could bring my Fiero to the show. It would be a classic car and electric to boot, but it doesn't currently run and it is dirty both inside and out. It will need a thorough cleaning. It is also in serious need of repair. It is missing its batteries, there are a lot of broken and dismantled parts inside the motor compartment and under the front hood. My wife and son think that it would hurt people's impressions of electric cars if I were to take it. What do you think I should do?

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Such voluminous data can come from myriad different sources, such as business sales records, the collected results of scientific experiments or real-time sensors used in the internet of things. Data may be raw or pre-processed using separate software tools before analytics are applied.

Data may also exist in a wide variety of file types, including structured data, such as SQL database stores;  unstructured data, such as document files; or streaming data from sensors. Further, big data may involve multiple, simultaneous data sources, which may not otherwise be integrated. For example, a big data analytics project may attempt to gauge a product’s success and future sales by correlating past sales data, return data and online buyer review data for that product.

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Our aim is to impart those technical skills to students right from level zero to advanced level such that, by the end of the program the student is developed as the finished product, ready to join industry. Team EXACKT try and put all efforts to provide best Big Data training to our students.

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Amir Mohamed el Khalifa — better known in circles that appreciate good beats and raps as Oddisee — represents Washington, D.C., lives in New York City, and spent the afternoon in Rexdale, ON chilling at his aunt's place at Martin Grove and Finch before he and his live band wrecked a show for an enthusiastic Toronto crowd. Late on a Sunday night, no less. Though Oddisee, a wise artist equally adept with a pen or behind the boards, has roughly 15 projects with his name on it, he considers 2012's People Hear What They See his debut album. We talked about his unique approach to the self-produced record, one of 2012's best you might have missed, as well as a gang of other stuff: Obama, museums, graphic design, and why autumn is the best season ever.

Do you ever go record shopping in Toronto?
I don't go record shopping, period. I used to back in the day, but I don't get an opportunity to anymore. Plus, I don't like carrying the vinyl with me.

So how do you dig for samples? Strictly on the internet?
I have a lot of friends who collect a lot of records. A lot of them don't make music; they just have records. And they'll put it on their hard drives, and I'll come through when I'm low and re-up. So I have a record store on my hard drive. I've got so much music I haven't even gone through, I don't need to go digging anymore.

When did you first fall in love with hip-hop?
Whew. I was young. My cousins would go up to New York and come back with mixtapes and records. I would sit in their room when they came back and listen to records with them. I come from a city that wasn't a hip-hop type of city. Sitting listening to my cousins freestyle, and they were very New York-minded when it came to music. They're ten years older than me. I must've been like seven or eight years old at this time.

How long did it take for you to go from being a listener to someone who knew this is what you wanted to do?
It was a long time. I was just a fan. I was deep into illustration and drawing growing up. I wanted to go into graphic design. My last year of high school, my friend Sean Born used to hear my freestyling around school, and he said I should come through: "I'd like to record you." So I said, "OK," and I came through his studio. He didn't have any instruments. He just had this box and a whole bunch of records. And I started making beats. Nothing serious; I just messed around. Prior to meeting him, I grew up next-door neighbours with Gary Shider, the bass player for Parliament-Funkadelic. His son's my age, and we'd play around jamming. So that's how I thought music was made. I didn't know hip-hop came from samples. He changed my world when I went to his basement, and he said, "This is how you make hip-hop." He played a lot of the original samples to rap records I grew up listening to, and it blew my mind. I was like, "You have to teach me how to do this." He taught me, and I never looked back. I knew that's what I wanted to do.

Is D.C. a supportive city? Some guys are breaking through now, your crew and Wale…
No. I wouldn't say D.C. is a supportive city. We're so hungry to be recognized and to have a star, that it's a crabs-in-a-barrel mentality. That's not exclusive to D.C. Any city that's not fortunate enough to birth a lot of superstars early on are all starving to put themselves on the map first. It's supportive in the sense of making music. It's an amazing place to make music — you can get up with artists, producers, find tracks, band members. I honestly wouldn't want to make music anywhere else. But as far as putting it out and getting a local support system when it comes to venues, marketing, radio… forget about it.

Where are you living now?
I moved to New York a year and a half ago, but it wasn't because I wasn't getting love. Quite the opposite: I think I'm one of the few artists when I do a show in D.C., people turn up and have a good time and show love. But the industry that surrounds my industry is nonexistent in D.C. There's no journalists, graphic designers, photographers, videographers, publicists, A&Rs, managers — those things that just walk around New York don't exist in D.C.

Do you still mess around with graphic design?
I haven't. I just cold-turkey'd on it. It's the strangest thing. It's the same part of the brain as music, but there wasn't room for both. Every once in a while I'll buy pencils and a sketch pad, and it sits and collects dust.

Your most recent project is described as a debut CD, but you've been around for years. How can it be your debut?
If you look at my catalogue, I have never released a solo album. I've got group efforts, cameo features, instrumental albums, compilations, mixtapes… but there's never been a full-album of all-original music where I've produced and wrote everything and it's featuring me.

Why did it take so long?
It wasn't a conscious decision. Over the years I would just hear a track and put it in a folder and continue working on [other] records. One day I realized I had a lot of tracks set aside and I started recording. Most of the tracks on my album are four years old.

And you wrote all of your lyrics outdoors for the album. Describe that process.
It happened organically. I found that when I tried to write in my studio, I would be too distracted by the yearning to make beats or check my email or surf the web or something. Too many objects in my room. So when I go outside and I'm walking around, it forces me to just do that and not divide my attention. Then while I was doing that, what I was observing was finding its way into my music. What better way for an artist who wants to reflect reality than to write in that environment.

So were you eavesdropping on stranger's conversations?
Oh, yeah. All the time. Super creep. Couples fighting, people on the phone screaming at each other, guys walking by joking, making fun of someone in the corner, guys trying to pick up girls and being rejected or being successful, going into a shop and hearing an employee be rude to someone, whatever. There's so much to go off of when you're just walking around.

Not often enough do MCs force themselves to write from other perspectives. It's often me, me, me.
That's something I'm really trying to change. I think hip-hop's the only genre that's restricted to its reality being about the artist themselves. It holds back the potential of what a hip-hop artist can do, because it's the greatest form of modern-day poetry we have, but it's so self-oriented that so much of what we experience isn't being touched on. What happens is, you get a lot of generic material because you're only covering your life — and your life involves imitating someone else. So we end up hearing the same track about the same cars and the same girls and the same drinks because you're not living life. You're not riding a bike or walking down the street or really experiencing things. I really want to change that. Just because it's not my reality doesn't mean it's not real.

What's your favourite season?
Fall. Autumn, definitely.

I like the briskness of the air. I like the balance between warm and cold. I like the colour palette of the season in general. I like the reminder that the year is coming to an end and to look back on what you've done. I don't need a birthday to do that, I don't need a Jan. 1 to do that. I think the seasons alone tell you time is passing, whether you want to admit it or not. And as things start to fall to the ground, it makes me wonder, "What have I done this year?"

As a kid you spent a lot of time at the Smithsonian.
Yeah, my mom wasn't really wealthy [and] museums in D.C. are free. So that was one way to occupy me, take me out for a nice day without having to spend money. So she took me to museums a lot.

Was there something specifically you were into?
I fell in love with natural history and religion. The Air and Space Museum was one of my favourite ones. The portrait gallery, the art museum, was a favourite. I love surrealism. That made me want to draw and paint myself when I saw surrealism and impressionism.

When was the last time you were in D.C.?
Two or three days ago.

Does the vibe change around election time?
There are three D.C.'s. There's the black, local D.C.; the young professional D.C.; and the transient D.C. The black, local D.C. is pretty unaffected by everything else that goes on. The others don't get a glimpse of our D.C. They moved from the Midwest and got a good IT job or they're lobbyists. They hang out in a specific part of town. I think the temperature in the air changes for them, but for us, it doesn't really change.

You voted for Obama, but do you agree with all of his policies?
I don't like the fact that Guantanamo Bay is still open. I don't like the rocket shot at the moon. I don't like that we have soldiers in Iraq. I don't like that the health care hasn't been reformed yet. There's a lot of things I don't agree with, but the lesser of two evils is important. I'm a firm believer that he needs two terms in order to undo the damage Bush did. He may not have done it now, but hopefully he'll change it.

How hard is it for you to sell beats?
I don't shop. I tried that early in my career. If you don't come to me, I don't come to you. I don't need the pressure. I don't like working under those constraints. "Oh, my God, such-and-such is working on an album. I want to deliver. What should I make?" I want them to come to me for my sound. And it's starting to happen.

A snowball effect.
The more I release, the more people are interested. It gives them a wider scope of what I can do. Because when you just submit tracks, it limits them. They think that's all you're doing.

Most of your catalogue is streamable for free on Bandcamp, the entire records. What was the thinking of that?
We want a really transparent business at Mellow Music, and we believe in the understanding that people no longer buy music because they have to; they buy music because they want to. If they see that their dollars go to us making more music for them to listen to, we build a closer relationship with our fans. It's not about bait to get the purchase; it's about insurance. We assure you that your dollar is worth it. They're going to steal it anyway, so why not centralize our fans to one place where we can use those stream numbers to get bigger distribution deals, to get bigger interest. Information is where the biggest dollars come from now. The info we get from those streams translates into bigger things.

What does your mom think of your music?
My mom loves my music, man. She read a lot of poetry to me. She was the first person to introduce me to double entendres, plays on words, metaphors, similes. She read a lot of Edgar Allen Poe to me, who was a master. Robert Frost, stuff like that. My mom can rhyme, man. In a more poetic way. She'll call me up and say, "Listen to this play on words," because she likes to write poetry. She listens to my music from a poetic standpoint. I'll come over and recite my rhymes to her, and she'll pick up all the metaphors. She loves it.

Was she ever worried about it not being a financially successful endeavour?
To this day she is, because she comes from that school where if you're not on radio or television, then you're not successful. She recognizes the skill in my work, but she doesn't feel like I'm getting the benefits of it. She's like, "Oh, I met someone who can get you on the radio." I'm like, "Mom, I'm on the radio that counts in my world. That online radio. My listeners are there. My listeners don't listen to mainstream radio, and I have a lot of listeners." She can't comprehend that, and I'm not mad at that.

"Another's Grind" is a personal favourite. What was your inspiration for that song?
I like to admit my humanity in my records. I don't mind being called a conscious rapper because I'm conscious of my hypocrisy. "Another's Grind" is the duality of being self-oriented but also I'm being about my community and my peers, so if you listen to lines in the verse where the hook is, "I don't care about another's grind/ It's all about mine," but then the second verse I say, "Handle biz with my partners like the Beretta spray 'cause everybody fuckin' with me's in a better place." It's the duality of looking out for my team, but also knowing that I'm really out for myself at the same time. And I'm OK with that. You can't help others until you help yourself. So I don't try to preach this false idea of unity and everybody help everyone; I don't believe in that utopia. It's not real. But the whole go-go-go-for-self, fuck-everyone-else I also don't believe in. There needs to be a balance. So I attack that balance from a human state as opposed to preaching.

So what's next? Diamond District?
Diamond District album, March on Washington; a compilation called Good Company; another instrumental album; and I've already started on my second solo album. All of that in 2013, for sure.

Anything you want to add or let people know?
Thank you for listening. That's it.


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Time: 4.4.2009 11 am
Place: Outside my home, Pihlajamäki
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Neighbours stopped and wondered what I was doing. My answer "melting snow" didn`t seem to give an accepting answer. In Tromsø, my home town in Northern Norway, all of our neighbours will every spring go out and melt snow in order to get rid of it. I guess two meters snow in the beginning of May justifies it.

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RE: Self Defense

From: Chuck Kuecker (
Date: Sat Jan 20 2001 - 13:31:32 MST

At 08:10 PM 1/20/01 +0100, denis wrote:

>One day, in a thousand years, we might find that the only way to live
>properly is to enclose oneself in a robotic outfit some 3 meters tall and 3
>meters in diameter, with the robot's external sensors attached directly to
>one's spinal cord. No need to move the body - move the robot. Thus, you are
>protected against virtually anything modulo an atomic bomb.
>Don't see it happening anytime soon, though...

This would result in isolating people from one another. It might be useful
for exploration of hostile environments, or fire-fighting...I don't see
anyone wanting to live this way full-time.

>I think you're stretching it a bit. Speaking for myself, I would be very
>interested in ENABLING the average person to any kind of self-defense that
>is not likely to be used for aggressive purposes. But firearms aren't a
>defense mechanism, they're an attack weapon.

People keep doing this! Guns are neutral devices. You can use them to
attack or defend, to hurt or to help. Like any other tool, they can be abused.

Perhaps in the future there will be self-defense mechanisms available that
will prevent attack without harming the attacker. At present, a handicapped
person or a weak person is better served by either a sidearm or a bodyguard.

Chicago, for instance, has outlawed guns, knives, brass knuckles, personal
defense sprays, "tasers" and all other means of equalizing the relative
strengths of attacker and victim. Of course, only the victim will heed
these laws. Every day i read of fresh attacks, rapes, robberies, and
murders using these devices in offensive mode. Successful defenses using
any such device are rarely reported, not in the least because admitting to
use of defensive aids is likely to get you arrested and thrown into a jail
full of the very creeps you sought to defend against.

It might not be a "conspiracy", but it sure is a disturbing trend.

Chuck Kuecker

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A few miles inland, a plume of smoke can be seen rising like a serpent into the sky above. The order is given and the ships are pulled ashore. Could this be the smoke of a campfire of Erik the Red and a welcome to a new world?

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January 05, 2012

This article is part of a series of articles that explains how to create a framework with the Symfony Components. It is OBSOLETE but an up-to-date version can be found in the Symfony documentation.

Before we dive into the code refactoring, I first want to step back and take a look at why you would like to use a framework instead of keeping your plain-old PHP applications as is. Why using a framework is actually a good idea, even for the simplest snippet of code and why creating your framework on top of the Symfony2 components is better than creating a framework from scratch.

I won't talk about the obvious and traditional benefits of using a framework when working on big applications with more than a few developers; the Internet has already plenty of good resources on that topic.

Even if the "application" we wrote yesterday was simple enough, it suffers from a few problems:

First, if the name query parameter is not given in the URL query string, you will get a PHP warning; so let's fix it:

Then, this application is not secure. Can you believe it? Even this simple snippet of PHP code is vulnerable to one of the most widespread Internet security issue, XSS (Cross-Site Scripting). Here is a more secure version:

As you might have noticed, securing your code with htmlspecialchars is tedious and error prone. That's one of the reasons why using a template engine like Twig, where auto-escaping is enabled by default, might be a good idea (and explicit escaping is also less painful with the usage of a simple e filter).

As you can see for yourself, the simple code we had written first is not that simple anymore if we want to avoid PHP warnings/notices and make the code more secure.

Beyond security, this code is not even easily testable. Even if there is not much to test, it strikes me that writing unit tests for the simplest possible snippet of PHP code is not natural and feels ugly. Here is a tentative PHPUnit unit test for the above code:

assertEquals('Hello Fabien', $content);

If our application were just slightly bigger, we would have been able to find even more problems. If you are curious about them, read the Symfony2 versus Flat PHP chapter of the Symfony2 documentation.

At this point, if you are not convinced that security and testing are indeed two very good reasons to stop writing code the old way and adopt a framework instead (whatever adopting a framework means in this context), you can stop reading this series now and go back to whatever code you were working on before.

Of course, using a framework should give you more than just security and testability, but the more important thing to keep in mind is that the framework you choose must allow you to write better code faster.

Going OOP with the HttpFoundation Component#

Writing web code is about interacting with HTTP. So, the fundamental principles of our framework should be centered around the HTTP specification.

The HTTP specification describes how a client (a browser for instance) interacts with a server (our application via a web server). The dialog between the client and the server is specified by well-defined messages, requests and responses: the client sends a request to the server and based on this request, the server returns a response.

In PHP, the request is represented by global variables ($_GET, $_POST, $_FILE, $_COOKIE, $_SESSION...) and the response is generated by functions (echo, header, setcookie, ...).

The first step towards better code is probably to use an Object-Oriented approach; that's the main goal of the Symfony2 HttpFoundation component: replacing the default PHP global variables and functions by an Object-Oriented layer.

To use this component, open the composer.json file and add it as a dependency for the project:

# framework/composer.json
    "require": {
        "symfony/class-loader": "2.1.*",
        "symfony/http-foundation": "2.1.*"

Then, run the composer update command:

$ php composer.phar update

Finally, at the bottom of the autoload.php file, add the code needed to autoload the component:

registerNamespace('Symfony\\Component\\HttpFoundation', __DIR__.'/vendor/symfony/http-foundation');

Now, let's rewrite our application by using the Request and the Response classes:

get('name', 'World');

$response = new Response(sprintf('Hello %s', htmlspecialchars($input, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')));

The createFromGlobals() method creates a Request object based on the current PHP global variables.

The send() method sends the Response object back to the client (it first outputs the HTTP headers followed by the content).

Before the send() call, we should have added a call to the prepare() method ($response->prepare($request);) to ensure that our Response were compliant with the HTTP specification. For instance, if we were to call the page with the HEAD method, it would have removed the content of the Response.

The main difference with the previous code is that you have total control of the HTTP messages. You can create whatever request you want and you are in charge of sending the response whenever you see fit.

We haven't explicitly set the Content-Type header in the rewritten code as the charset of the Response object defaults to UTF-8.

With the Request class, you have all the request information at your fingertips thanks to a nice and simple API:

// retrieve GET and POST variables respectively
$request->request->get('bar', 'default value if bar does not exist');

// retrieve SERVER variables

// retrieves an instance of UploadedFile identified by foo

// retrieve a COOKIE value

// retrieve an HTTP request header, with normalized, lowercase keys

$request->getMethod();    // GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD
$request->getLanguages(); // an array of languages the client accepts

You can also simulate a request:

$request = Request::create('/index.php?name=Fabien');

With the Response class, you can easily tweak the response:

setContent('Hello world!');
$response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'text/html');

// configure the HTTP cache headers

To debug a Response, cast it to a string; it will return the HTTP representation of the response (headers and content).

Last but not the least, these classes, like every other class in the Symfony code, have been audited for security issues by an independent company. And being an Open-Source project also means that many other developers around the world have read the code and have already fixed potential security problems. When was the last you ordered a professional security audit for your home-made framework?

Even something as simple as getting the client IP address can be insecure:

It works perfectly fine until you add a reverse proxy in front of the production servers; at this point, you will have to change your code to make it work on both your development machine (where you don't have a proxy) and your servers:

Using the Request::getClientIp() method would have given you the right behavior from day one (and it would have covered the case where you have chained proxies):

getClientIp()) {
    // the client is a known one, so give it some more privilege

And there is an added benefit: it is secure by default. What do I mean by secure? The $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR'] value cannot be trusted as it can be manipulated by the end user when there is no proxy. So, if you are using this code in production without a proxy, it becomes trivially easy to abuse your system. That's not the case with the getClientIp() method as you must explicitly trust this header by calling trustProxyData():

getClientIp(true)) {
    // the client is a known one, so give it some more privilege

So, the getClientIp() method works securely in all circumstances. You can use it in all your projects, whatever the configuration is, it will behave correctly and safely. That's one of the goal of using a framework. If you were to write a framework from scratch, you would have to think about all these cases by yourself. Why not using a technology that already works?

If you want to learn more about the HttpFoundation component, you can have a look at the API or read its dedicated documentation on the Symfony website.

Believe or not but we have our first framework. You can stop now if you want. Using just the Symfony2 HttpFoundation component already allows you to write better and more testable code. It also allows you to write code faster as many day-to-day problems have already been solved for you.

As a matter of fact, projects like Drupal have adopted (for the upcoming version 8) the HttpFoundation component; if it works for them, it will probably work for you. Don't reinvent the wheel.

I've almost forgot to talk about one added benefit: using the HttpFoundation component is the start of better interoperability between all frameworks and applications using it (as of today Symfony2, Drupal 8, phpBB 4, Silex, Midgard CMS, Zikula, ...).


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Pop star Rihanna is due to appear at a high-level summit in Senegal today but a group of thirty different religious associations have declared her persona non grata.

Rihanna is billed to visit Senegal with French president Emmanuel Macron as part of a charity that provides funding for girls’ education. But the group known as No To Freemasonry And Homosexuality’ is protesting her visit claiming that she’s a member of the ‘Illuminati’.

Rihanna will be visiting the West African nation in her role as an ambassador for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). The organization aims to help fund the teaching of millions of children and young people in developing countries.

However, Senegal's interior minister has been quoted as saying he will ensure the safety of all conference attendees.

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Faithful Families Resources December 27 2015

Weekly Inspiration
Resolution One: I will live for God.
Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
~ Jonathan Edwards

Family Closeness
Mute Spelling
This game is suitable for al family members as long as they can spell. Each player begins with a score of "A". The first person is given a suitable word for them to spell but they can only say the consonants. Vowels must be spelled using the following hand actions.
    "A" - raise your right hand
    "E" - raise your left hand
    "I" - point to your eye
    "O" - point to your open mouth
    "U" - point to any other player.
For example, the word "APPLE" would begin with the player raising their right hand (A) then saying P-P-L before raising their left hand (E). The score of any player who makes a mistake goes from "A" to "E" and so on through the vowels (I, O, U) until they get out on their fifth mistake.
Questions for stimulating discussion in your family.
  • What was the hardest thing about this year?
  • What is something that you achieved this year?
  • What is something you want to give thanks for this last year?
  • What are your hopes for next year?
  • What do you hope to do, experience, discover or be next year?

With your family read Luke 2.41-52
(for a way of explaining/talking about this reading with children look at

Questions for Discussion:
  • How do you think Mary and Joseph felt when they couldn’t find Jesus?
  • What surprises you about this story?
  • What do you think Jesus words meant?

Prayer and Celebration
People like to celebrate New Year’s Day in many different ways. Some people like to stay up until the clock strikes midnight – others like to go to bed so they can be up fresh for the first day of the year. Whatever you like to do, may you be encouraged this New Years to think about how God might be honoured, remembered and shared in your family. Pray together, either at midnight or on getting up on the first of January. Give thanks for the year ahead. Ask God to guide you and your family in all you do…and dedicate yourselves to serving Christ in the year to come.

As a family discuss how you might service your community and world in 2013. Talk about some of the things happening in the world you would like to change and decide how to make a difference. Make a commitment to give a certain amount of money to a charity or cause. Work out how your family might raise money or give time or talents to help a local charity.

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Big Dreams 2016

One day an expert was speaking to a group of students and on time management and he used this illustration. Firstly he took out a wide mouthed jar, then he produced about a dozen large rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar.
When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, "Is this jar full?" Everyone in the class said, "Yes."
Then he said, "Really?"  He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel.  Then he dumped some gravel in and shook  the jar  causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the spaces between the big rocks. Then he smiled and asked the group once more, "Is the jar full?" By this time the class was onto him.  "Probably not," one of them answered. "Good!"  he replied.  And he reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand.  He started dumping the sand in and it went into all the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel.  Once more he asked the question, "Is this jar full?"
"No!"  the class shouted.  Once again he said, "Good!"   Then he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim.  Then he looked up at the class and asked, "What is the point of this illustration?" One eager beaver raised his hand and said, "The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard, you can always fit some more things into it!"
"No," the speaker replied, "that's not the point.  The truth this illustration teaches is this: If you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all."

I wonder…what are the big rocks you wish to fit into your family life next year. Sit down with your family and dreams some dreams and make some plans for 2016. What things would you like to do? What places would you like to see? What habits would you like to make together?

(This material is based on and draws from earlier Faithful Families emails by Stephen Harrison & Richard Browning: An Unless Ideas Production.) Unless otherwise noted all material on this blog is copyright Stephen Harrison and Richard Browning

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The Noctilucent Clouds are back!

Hurrah! I get a lovely feeling when these return. It's almost like the Gods are happy. I didn't see any last year, which is unusual for a night owl like me. This was a pretty display blocked somewhat by some lower cloud drifting past the northern horizon. I stepped out of my urban abode after midnight last night (June 25) to check out the twilight in the north, and saw a wispy glow. I put something warm on and drove out just north of the city with a camera and tripod and took a few shots. I could see an intense but small column to the NNE, that dissipated slightly just before the tripod was up. This shot was 5 seconds at ISO 800. I could also see Saturn and Spica setting in the south west over the airport, and Sagittarius in the south, with a hint of Milky Way running upwards into the Summer Triangle. I popped out at 2:30 to see a much brighter display in the stronger twilight where wave structure was very evident. Doing a bit of cloudbusting, it looked like three symbols, with the first one a 'Y'.

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Drink responsibly… But don’t be afraid to get into the holiday spirit!  Thankfully, there are lots of festive vegan holiday drinks at Starbucks for veg-heads to enjoy.  Bring on the red (green? blue? whatever) cups!  (PS: watch out for three delicious “secret menu items” below… they are some of the best ones!)

1. Chestnut Praline Latte

My personal fave.  Ask for soy, coconut, or almond milk!

2. Peppermint Mocha Latte

Again– get it with your favorite nondairy milk!

3. Caramel Brulée Latte

Pick your milk, say no to the caramel brulée sauce, then add toffee nut AND caramel syrups. Note: The brulée sprinkles are plant-based!

4. Holiday Spice Flat White

Ask for soy milk!

5. S’mores Hot Chocolate

This secret menu item (!) adds the chestnut praline syrup (and sprinkles) to your hot chocolate. So good!

6. Gingerbread Latte

Pick your dairy-free milk and make sure to skip the whipped cream.

7. Candy Cane Frappuccino

Another pick from the secret menu!  The vanilla bean crème frap with peppermint syrup is heavenly.

8. Apple Cider

Ask for steamed apple juice and add the Oprah chai syrup.

9. Christmas Cookie Frappuccino

Another secret menu item!!  Basically, you get the vanilla bean crème frappuccino, then add peppermint and toffee nut syrup, and lastly sprinkle a raw sugar packet on top.

There you have it!  I hope you try these vegan holiday drinks at Starbucks. Whoever says that being vegetarian or vegan is “limiting” has no idea what they are talking about… It is almost 2017, and there are wonderful options everywhere you look.  Please pass this post to anyone you think might be interested in exploring a gentler, more plant-based lifestyle… Make it easy for them!  And if you want a list of bomb Starbucks drinks (not holiday drinks, just year-round ones) that are vegan, you can find that info HERE.

Thank you for caring about your health, the environment, and animals!

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