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Being in the midst of a pandemic can bring on anxiety and fear, even among people who are not normally prone to feeling anxious or overwhelmed. It’s easy to see how the situation we’ve all been dealing with can make us particularly susceptible to believing falsehoods—especially when everything about this is new for most of us and even the truth can seem strange.
The spread of misinformation can exacerbate fears and anxieties. It can also lead to people making irrational decisions or being irrationally angry with others. Unsurprisingly, this can cause problems in and out of the work environment. Workplaces have reported an increase in angry behaviors toward others, and some myths have ended up creating negative sentiment toward employees who others wrongly believe may have the virus.
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- Provide reliable resources of factual information. Examples include the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These organizations even have portions of their webpages designated to COVID-19, including information on scams and myths. Providing accurate information gives employees resources to turn to.
- Communicate frequently about the virus, the situation in your location, and what your team is doing about it and why. Be a source of reliable information.
- Communicate that there’s a lot of misinformation being circulated, and encourage employees to fact-check information they receive.
- Encourage employees to think critically about what they hear and ask questions if they’re not sure about something.
- Remind everyone in the organization about your antidiscrimination, antiharassment, and antibullying policies. These did not get put on hold in the pandemic. Some people are prone to blaming others, especially if someone got sick on your team. This situation has even prompted some racist sentiments to come out.
- Communicate to employees the steps you’re taking to protect them and how these actions will make a difference. Explain the basis for the actions, such as information from the CDC that supports the decision.
- Review all communications that are to go to a wide audience before sending to ensure there are no biases or unverified claims. Word choice matters.
- Train the management team and all leaders on these points—they’re often the primary point of contact for employees.
- Have a plan for handling any cases of the virus that emerge in the workplace, communicate that in advance, and follow it if such a situation occurs. This can help reduce knee-jerk reactions in the moment that could be based on misinformation.
- Be clear in communications about the known and unknown risks present in the workplace.
As we begin to reopen workplaces over the coming weeks and months, what else is your organization doing to ensure factual information, rather than myths and misinformation, is presented to employees?
Bridget Miller is a business consultant with a specialized MBA in International Economics and Management, which provides a unique perspective on business challenges. She’s been working in the corporate world for over 15 years, with experience across multiple diverse departments including HR, sales, marketing, IT, commercial development, and training.

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As the Switch moves forward the period of uncertainty for the system's success seems to be passing over, so one can hardly call Nintendo's hybrid console unsuccessful. With more AAA titles being announced, we're constantly excited to see what else Ninty will sign up for.

The key thing to take away with this list is that the Switch is only six months old and has already built a strong catalogue of games with the number only growing. So far you'll be able to play DOOM, Skyrim, Super Mario Odyssey, and more at the show, and no doubt lots of exciting indie titles.

There is a melancholy feel to it, however, as you notice that from the 36 3DS games that were brought to the show in 2016 only nine are on the roster for 2017, and even fewer for the Wii U.

What are you most hoping to see more of this weekend? Let us know in the comments below.

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- Elisha Babad.
- New York : Routledge, 2009.
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- Routledge research in education 28.
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- Babad, Elisha Y.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. -254) and indexes.
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Seven planets in the Milky Way that have environmental conditions similar to Earth.
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IOS Users no longer need to envy the Android users who have been enjoying Angry Birds for free.
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PHENOMENON of Storms Sandy that hit the United States and around to make many people cringe and increasingly wary of the increasingly erratic weather. Natural conditions also makes a number of flooded social networking posts related to storm sandy.
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Sony seems keen to use Firefox operating system that was released recently.
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With days to go until Election Day 2020, former President Barack Obama stopped in Orlando, Florida, to campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday. While there, Obama hammered President Donald Trump for his failure to take the responsibilities of the presidency with the seriousness with the job demands. The United States has been grappling with the Coronavirus crisis for months, and what’s Trump been doing? As Obama pointed out, Trump has alternated between complaining about the media coverage that the pandemic has gotten and (yet again) bringing up the size of the crowd at his own 2016 inauguration, which Trump has claimed was bigger than the crowd that turned out for Obama’s inaugurations. (It definitely was not bigger than the crowd that watched Obama’s first inauguration.)
Well, full circle: Trump is now complaining about coverage of his inauguration crowd size, falsely claiming pictures only showed empty space because they were taken "five or six hours early."
This was what was making him angry during his first week in office.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 21, 2020
In short, it’s clear — as Americans struggle through crises that Donald Trump himself helped exacerbate, Trump seems to prefer to whine on Twitter about television news coverage that he doesn’t like. He’s failed this country.
Obama told the Orlando crowd the following:
‘Now, I’ve sat in the Oval Office with both of the men who are running for president, and just in case you couldn’t tell, they’re very different people. I didn’t think that Donald Trump would embrace my vision or my policies but I did hope for the country’s sake he might show some interest in taking the job seriously — but he didn’t. He hasn’t shown any interest in doing the work or helping anybody but himself and his friends or treating the presidency as anything more than a reality show that can give him the attention that he craves — and he does crave attention. This week, with everything that’s happening, you know what he brought up? He was fussing about the crowd size at the inauguration again — saying his was bigger. Who is thinking about that right now? Nobody except him. But the rest of us have had to live with the consequences.’
As Obama noted, those consequences include the steep human and economic tolls of the Coronavirus crisis. Some 225,000 Americans have died, millions have lost work at some point during the pandemic, and millions have been infected with the Coronavirus itself, leaving them with potentially lasting health consequences, even if they successfully avoid the most dire potential outcomes of the disease. Numerous dangerous Coronavirus side effects have been discovered among patients who have recovered — but a court case in which the Trump administration is arguing to throw out the Affordable Care Act without a comprehensive replacement plan ready to go is scheduled to come before the U.S. Supreme Court on November 10.
As Obama put it:
‘Florida, we can’t afford four more years of this. That’s why we’ve got to send Joe Biden to the White House — because we cannot afford this kind of incompetence and disinterest.’
Check out Obama’s comments below:
Trump whined about Obama’s Tuesday speech on Twitter. Trump called Obama’s speech “fake,” and he lied that Obama “could barely endorse” Biden “because he couldn’t believe he won.” That’s just unequivocally not at all true. Just like in 2016, Obama waited until after the Democratic presidential primary race was over before officially throwing his support behind a candidate, and this time around, it was days after the de facto end of the race that Obama endorsed Biden. It’s not as if Obama’s endorsement was ever seriously in doubt in any respect.
Now @FoxNews is playing Obama’s no crowd, fake speech for Biden, a man he could barely endorse because he couldn’t believe he won. Also, I PREPAID many Millions of Dollars in Taxes.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2020


Trump Says He Will Issue 'New Executive Action' Related To Travel Ban
- Author: Kyle Warner Feb 18, 2017,
Feb 18, 2017, 0:49
"The law makes it very clear that the president has discretion to protect the safety of the American people and our nation's institutions with respect to who can come into this country", Paxton said in a statement.
"I think that circuit is, that circuit is in chaos, and that circuit is frankly in turmoil", Trump said at his news conference today. Refugees were banned for 120 days, except those from Syria, who were banned indefinitely.
The immediate impact was chaos at airports nationwide as the order was implemented and subsequent legal challenges led to the federal judge in Seattle issuing a temporary restraining order halting the ban on February 3. Both sides were directed to file briefs by 11 a.m. Thursday with the San Francisco-based court arguing over whether a larger panel should review the issue.
"We can tailor the order to the decision to get just as much", he added.
The new immigration travel ban orders will protect the country immediately without allowing further more people from the list of Muslim Majority countries.
Trump also said on Thursday that he is struggling with a program President Barack Obama began to provide work permits to people brought to the USA illegally as children, called Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals.
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The three-judge panel, which consisted of two Democratic appointees and one appointed by a Republican, ruled that the states were likely to prevail on their due process challenge.
Trump said at the news conference that a new order would be issued next week. The panel unanimously rejected the administration's claim of presidential authority in the matter.
Trump's original order restricted immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and prevented Syrian refugees from entering the US indefinitely.
Trump gave no details about the replacement order.
Overall, only 28 percent of respondents thought that the Trump administration's implementation of the executive order was either excellent or good. The order banned travel from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Libya. Eighteen other states, including California and NY, supported the challenge.
Georgia Wralstad Ulmschneider, associate professor of political science, said the question of legality comes down to whether the ban is unconstitutional and/or unlawful.
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“Masons, when they start upon a building,Are careful to test out the scaffolding…” – Seamus Heaney (Scaffolding)
During the Trump presidency, asked whether his extremely popular wife will be the next Democratic nominee, Barack Obama would say that there were only three certitudes in life, death, taxes, and Michelle not contesting the presidency. Just as death is a fact of human condition, taxes, in some form or other, have been a fact of political condition. The first recorded tax goes as far back as 5,000 years to ancient Egypt, a levy on grain harvests paid in grain. The Caesars made full use of both income and wealth taxes. All those roads and aqueducts needed cash.
Cash and its absence; the October report by the IFRC, based on a survey in 11 districts, identifies food insecurity, health, livelihoods, and nutrition as main concerns, followed by deteriorating physical safety and security and violence against women and children. People are “borrowing heavily, eating less food and fewer times per day, pawning valuables and assets,” and using “other survival strategies just to scrape by.” Life turned nasty, brutish, probably shorter, and definitely unbearable. For these vulnerable men, women, and children a more effective safety net is a matter of life and death, in the most literal sense.
Cash again. Of course, one could just print money. As the Rajapaksas did; more than 2 trillion rupees in two and a half years. Asked about it in August 2021, Ajith Nivard Cabraal, then state minister of Money, Capital Markets, and Public Enterprise Reform, called it a ‘drastic treatment’ to a ‘major illness’ (a major illness caused by 2019 Rajapaksa tax cut with an estimated loss around Rs. 700 billion). Cabraal (who would soon become the governor of the Central Bank having changed the law to give himself cabinet status and a hefty pension), said the US printed money, so can we. Since the American dollar happens to be the international reserve currency, that ‘reasoning’ would be as deadly as dashing off to climb Everest in the same clothes one wore to climb Pidurutalagala because both are ‘tallest mountains’.
In the same Daily Mirror interview, Cabraal airily dismissed inflation concerns and assured there was no ‘alarming foreign exchange crisis’. “The torturers sleep soundly,” wrote, Zbigniew Herbert. So do fools.
So here we are, bankrupt, cashless. No way out but taxation. The real question is not to tax or not, but who should bear the burden of new and increased taxes in real terms.
Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) is aimed at analysing the impact of taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty in individual countries. According to The Commitment to Equity Handbook (edited by Prof. Nora Lustig, a pioneer in this field), in Sri Lanka, even the moderately poor (those who belong to the income category of 2.50 to 4 US dollars a day in purchasing power parity) are net payers to the fiscal system. In other words, the moderately poor pay more in terms of indirect taxes than they receive in terms of transfers, subsidies and other benefits.
According to the working paper, The Incidence of Taxes and Spending in Sri Lanka by Nisha Arunatilake, Gabriela Inchauste, and Nora Lustig, “…despite the improvement in the poverty headcount with the intervention of fiscal policy, as much as 8 percent of households that were above the US$2.50-a-day poverty line before fiscal intervention became poor in cash terms. This is because the benefits delivered through direct transfers and indirect subsidies are not enough to compensate for indirect taxes being paid by these households.” The paper finds that direct taxes are progressive and equalising while the VAT raises “PPP poverty headcount rate by 2 percent.” The research was done in 2010, before the 2019 tax cuts, and before the current calamity. The present picture has to be infinitely worse.
The travesty of the latest social security levy provides a salutary lesson. The CEB is passing the tax wholesale onto consumers, adding 2.5% to an already hiked electricity bill. For many vulnerable families, this would mean inability to pay, and the consequent loss of electricity. Incidentally, the CEB unions are silent about the matter; they probably insist on the transfer, rather than lose even an iota of their unearned privileges, like the political class.
The new tax proposals are not perfect. There’s much room for improvement. But they are a needed step in the right direction. Those opposition parties and trade unions intent on killing the reforms (instead of negotiating to better them) are no different from the Rajapaksas who bay for positions, perks, and privileges in a dying country.
The world and us
In his Capital and Ideology, Thomas Picketty places taxation at the centre of the West’s historical emergence as global powers. Using extensive data, he argues that a position of parity between Eastern and Western powers prevailed by the end of the 15th century. Leading Western nations took their first leap forward between 1500 and 1800, powered by an increase in tax revenues from 1 to 2% of national income to 6 to 8%. The second leap happened between 1930 and 1980 (despite the devastation of the Second World War) enabled by tax revenue increases from 8-10% to 30 to 35%. In this second period, revenue increases were driven by direct taxes and led to “economic development and historic improvement in living standards.” Chinese and Ottoman empires failed to keep pace with their Western rivals because their tax revenues remained low. Japan escaped the stagnation trap with the Meiji reforms, with taxation (including direct taxes) as a major pillar.
The story of Finland’s transformation from one of the poorest countries in Europe to one of the richest in the world in half a century, without colonies or oil is an interesting one. Having collaborated with Nazi Germany, Finland ended the war on the losing side, lost 10% of her territory, suffered severe economic devastation, and was saddled with a hefty reparation bill. Unwilling to antagonise the Soviet Union, Finland didn’t take part in the Marshall Programme either.
Within a dozen years from that nadir, Finland had made the turn, according to a paper published in 1960. “Many serious problems remain but they are very different from the stark issues of survival. Currently the central economic problems are how to share the national income and how to control inflation and not the life and death of the nation.” Fiscal consolidation played a key role, especially in laying the groundwork of free education and health systems that are among the best in the world today. And in the crucial early years, from 1945 to 1951, about one third of revenue came from income and wealth taxes. (https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10224/3553/pihkala26-47.pdf?sequence=1)
As Ilan Goldfajn, Western Hemisphere Director of the IMF pointed out during a recent Civil Society Policy forum, Winds of Change: The Future of Tax Reform in Latin America, “If we want to be sustainable, in fiscal terms, we also need to be socially sustainable. So both need to happen at the same time. Policymakers must recognise public frustration with inequality, especially post-pandemic and with rising inflation… Tax reform can only work if it is socially and politically sustainable.” In Sri Lanka, it’s practically impossible to create a solid safety net without more direct taxation, especially since the country must also bear the staggering losses of some state enterprises.
The GMOA is threatening that the new taxes will make more of their members leave the country. The irony is that many of them will go to countries where their tax bill will be much higher. The obscenity is that many of those doctors would not have seen the inside of a medical college had it not been for our free education system. Its quality has deteriorated over time, but it is still free, and must remain so for the future generations. For that, a tax reform with higher direct taxes is a sine qua non. As Claudia Sanhueza, Undersecretary of Finance in Chile’s new leftwing government pointed out at the Winds of Change forum, “Public spending depends on permanent income, not current income… For social protection/policy, we need to increase permanent income, through taxation. Fiscal consolidation and tax reform is the responsible way to make that happen.”
What is negotiable, and must be negotiated, are the specifics including where the increased revenue will go, According to Timo Viherkenttä, professor of law and taxation in Finland’s Aalto University, “Taxation – there’s two sides to the coin. It’s not a question of whether Finns are masochists and want to pay more. Finns get more social structure and safety with the higher taxes they pay. Nevertheless we have to be vigilant that our tax euros are being spent efficiently” (https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/high-taxes-higher-rewards-how-finland-ensures-a-high-quality-of-life).
Accountability and transparency.
Ensuring that tax money does not vanish into the depthless pockets of politicians or bureaucrats is the task of an enlightened citizenry as well. To prevent being hoodwinked, we, the people, must not only vote rationally but also remain watchful between elections. Finland provides another example. When a tabloid revealed that Finnish PM Sanna Marin and her family had been receiving breakfast items worth 300 euros from state coffers. Tax authorities and police launched immediate investigations. PM Marin explained that she was merely following arrangements already in place and paid back the money.
Perhaps that Breakfastgate and the absence of any kind of ‘gate’ in the paradise isle is one reason they are there and we are here. Accountability extends to us as well, for we elect and re-elect politicians who act as if the nation, even in extremity, owes them everything. And thinks it is a far greater crime to talk about malnutrition than to cause it. So Dr. Chamal Sanjeewa, who revealed the truth about malnutrition in Suriyawewa has been interdicted while many of the politicians who reduced Suriyawewa people to that state would be voted in again, including by the Suriyawewa people.
Yala vandalism: A metaphor for Entitlement Trap
The nation would not even have known about the recent Yala vandals had they not videoed their own lawless conduct and posted those videos on their social media.
Imagine the mentality of people who could break the law and boast of it. What made that happen? Stupidity? A belief in impunity rising from a sense of entitlement? A combination thereof? How many of these persons may end up as future legislators, given their family connections?
Perhaps the vandals were not being stupid at all. After all, many seemed to have evaded justice, the minister’s role is still shrouded in secrecy, and the entire affair may be swept under a carpet of official complicity and public forgetfulness, aided by the strange silence from oppositional quarters. In the meantime officials have rushed to ban an all girl band in Medirigiriya; and a man was reportedly arrested in Colombo for scolding the minister in charge of police with an entire police team busy investigating that heinous crime.
Sri Lanka’s entitlement trap is so inescapable because it’s of its multiple layers. When Britain’s Liz Truss slashed income and corporate taxes, the left, including the Labour Party and the trade unions, led the outcry against it. In Sri Lanka, the opposite happened. When Gotabaya-Mahinda-Basil trinity took a meat cleaver to the tax system in 2019, the trade unions made no hum. The outcry comes now, against the Government’s proposed hike in income taxes. The GMOA is screaming blue murder and various trade unions are threatening struggles unto death. Is there a real difference between doctors who earn millions from private practice yet oppose taxes, government employees of loss-making enterprises who demand freedom from taxes and parliamentarians who want their free insurance cover increased by 500%? Aren’t all of them looking to their own narrow interests at a time of unprecedented public distress?
It is one thing to debate the various aspects of the new tax proposals and suggest amendments that would bring it closer to those two main principles of a good tax system, economic efficiency and fairness. It is quite another thing to reject it wholesale.
The decision by the SJB and the JVP to support the 22nd Amendment (officially 21) was a game changer. It lessened President Wickremesinghe’s absolute dependence on the SLPP. The opposition’s backing would not have sufficed in terms of numbers but in terms of political impact, it was substantial. It reduced the SLPP’s bargaining power, and dealt a fatal blow to the Rajapaksa ability to impose its will on the party.
22 in that sense is a revelation. It hints at what might have been if Wickremesinghe and the opposition found a way to work together. Not an alliance, but a working arrangement around a specific time bound program of action. Had that happened, the three months since 9 July could have been less fractious and more productive.
The tax proposals provide an opportunity for the President and the Opposition to work together. Instead of rejecting the tax reforms wholesale, the Opposition can negotiate to make them less punitive on the lower middle class and more just, as well as insisting on greater transparency and accountability about how the monies are spent. Not doing so would be to be as criminally irresponsible and criminally stupid as the Yala vandals. Without more direct taxes there will have to be more indirect taxes and spending cuts, thereby making the unentitled masses (who will have to foot a greater share of every cost) poorer, angrier, and more open to extreme solutions.

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Especially since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ostap Slyvynsky’s poems have become translated and more accessible for English-speaking readers. The latest collection of his poems, Winter King, translated by Vitaly Chernetsky and Iryna Shuvalova, brings together verses from three of Slyvynsky’s earlier poetry collection. Allusions to war, rooted in references to Ukraine’s diverse landscape, permeate these sparse, enigmatic poems which strip away reality’s layers to examine the meaning of humanity and home.
“The Haiku of the Revolution” threads together a set of haiku, each an individual reflection about the events in Kyiv’s Maidan Revolution in 2014. The events unfold singly and carefully. In one moment, the crowds arrive “at the city square / They bring with them life.” In the next, “Time has collapsed,” and woman “carry provisions / to the warriors on the ramparts.” The images speak for the situation, and rather than overshadow each image, the silence inherent in what the speaker does not depict instead reveals language’s fallibility. Thus, the sparsity required by the haiku form empowers the poem by elevating images which readers might overlook if they appeared in larger sets of text.
“1918” is a powerful poem in which the power and persistence of memory are initially personal. However, the poem develops a more universal relevancy when considered in the context of Ukraine’s history and its current battle for independence and sovereignty. On January 22nd, 1918, the Tsentralna Rada broke ties with Bolshevik Russia and proclaimed Ukrainian independence. Less than one month later, the Red Army seized Kyiv. In Slyvynsky’s poem, the speaker makes no direct mention of 1918’s governmental or political happenings, but the poem’s opening lines allude to the events’ historical consequences: “Sometimes even an expanding bullet / leaves merely a dot-shaped mark.” The speaker continues, asserting that they only remember one of the year’s last days:
fell off a turning train, and there was no one
to come back and get it, no one
to move it from the slope,
the kids fed it grass
while it lay there.
The horse can be interpreted as a symbol of Ukraine, which, after 1918’s initial events, endured a series of socio-political tumults which continues to inform its modern-day identity. The horse lies with “its legs broken, its eye impenetrable,” left to the coming night’s uncertainty. The night, too, is symbolic, almost prophetic—of the impending uncertainty Ukraine and her people would continue to face, even after another declaration of independence in 1991 and into today.
Other poems, like “Autumn, an Improvisation,” are precise and compact:
The war still hasn’t
fully rustled away
in the former dwellings of leaves
ravens have settled.
In poems like this, nature plays a paramount role, and it stands in careful balance with the most vile of humankind’s actions—war. Phrases like “rustled away” and “former dwellings” establish an ominous tone. Solidifying the poem’s forebodingness is the final line—“ravens have settled.” Just as in the poem “The Night of Taras” by Ukraine’s national poet Taras Shevchenko, the raven is a harbinger of a coming evil. Thus, Slyvynsky’s incorporation of images of Ukraine’s landscape and wildlife with the brief mention of war creates the sense that the war is utterly inescapable, gripping everyone and everything.
The poem “Something Always Shone in Front of Us” testifies to the Ukrainian resilience and independence which has long-shaped Ukrainian identity and has awed the globe within the last two years. The speaker attests to “something / a solidarity with us when we’re at a dead end” that has formed within an unidentified, collective “we.” This spirit is “Unchanging in times of war and peace” and is “deaf to requests” but “anxious when / we stay silent for too long.” Three overwhelmingly powerful lines conclude the poem: “And not hope, for / sometimes there is no hope, / but it is still with us.” The author employs an interesting punctuation technique in the line “And not hope, for” by placing a comma between the words “hope” and “for.” The comma creates a pause; it also creates a quiet break, but more significantly, it helps the line form a duality that forms when one ignores or observes the comma.
Of course, Winter King bears another unique testament—to the power of collaboration. Like many of the other Ukrainian poetry collections brought forth by Lost Horse Press, Winter King’s translation is the collaborative genius of Odesa native and University of Kansas Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Vitaliy Chernetsky and poet, scholar, and translator Iryna Shuvalova, a current Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Oslo. Thus, Slyvynsky’s Winter King is a demonstration of humanity’s strength when it is adversely tested and an attestation to the magic, and the survival, that happens when individuals work together to uplift a common cause and a larger memory that informs today’s events.
Nicole Yurcaba (Нікола Юрцаба) is a Ukrainian American of Hutsul/Lemko origin. A poet and essayist, her poems and reviews have appeared in Appalachian Heritage, Atlanta Review, Seneca Review, New Eastern Europe, and Ukraine’s Euromaidan Press. Nicole holds an MFA in Writing from Lindenwood University, teaches poetry workshops for Southern New Hampshire University, and is the Humanities Coordinator at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College. She also serves as a guest book reviewer for Sage Cigarettes, Tupelo Quarterly, Colorado Review, and Southern Review of Books.


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I began my trip by flying First Class from San Diego to San Francisco via United Air Lines. There may be a better way to go, but I can't think of one. The service was great, the flight was uneventful (which is how I like my flights), and everything was on time. Of course I was not offered a meal, only a small bag of pretzels and a soda, but for an hour long flight, that seemed appropriate.
I always enjoy flying into San Francisco. People watching is a funny little habit of mine and San Fran certainly has an interesting mix of folks to watch.
I had already made arrangements for a rental car online with Budget so all I had to do was go pick it up and be on my way to my savvy little getaway in Tiburon, CA. I had done quite a bit of research on the available rental cars for type and price and other miscellaneous issues involved in renting cars, and decided upon Budget. Well, I think that most of the people arriving in San Fran that day had done the same research and come to the same conclusion and were standing in the same line waiting to pick up their rental car. Just my luck! What I did learn, while patiently awaiting my turn is that Budget offers a new system called FastBreak where you can reserve your car and drive away without any hassles. No paperwork, no waiting, no added expenses. Just fill out the enrollment form online and the next car you rent will be the easiest thing you've ever done while traveling.
We asked the rental agent the best way out of the airport to 101 North towards Tiburon. (The last time we tried to drive directly through downtown San Fran while following a map which didn't bother to tell us which roads were one way). We apparently like to learn things the hard way. The agent muttered something about a convertible only being an extra $15, would I like to upgrade? No, I would not like to upgrade, what is the best way to 101 North? His answer was some sort of jibberish that sounded like 380 - 280 - 19th street. So that is exactly what we did, and amazingly enough, it worked. Golden Gate Bridge here we come.
BTW- the extra $15 is per day not total, so don't think they are offering you any kind of deal at the last minute.


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Can a dog who had puppies get pregnant by their 1 year 4 month old puppy
yes, it is called inbreeding and the puppies can have serious health issues.
yes that is possible. it is likely to occur espesially if alwqys together. i suggest getting both fixed or seperating them.
Oh god... think happy thoughts...
Yes! I'm surprised it hasn't happened already!
Probably. It happens.
Why oh why wasn't she spayed?? How unfair to the in-bred puppies and mother and "son"!

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Inspired by traditional handwoven fabrics, Pharrell Williams–partner and creative director for BIONIC–provided the textile design for the brand’s latest collaborative release with Burton Snowboards. Built with a Burton-exclusive BIONIC fabric that combines recycled yarns with rugged waterproof/breathability, the Burton x BIONIC Bomber Down Snowboard Jacket is now available in three colors at Burton for $399.95 USD.
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A step toward European approval of the blood cancer drug Imbruvica will net Pharmacyclics Inc. a $50 million payment from partner Johnson & Johnson. The European Medicines Agency on Tuesday told Janssen-Cilag NV, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), that its application seeking approval of the drug is valid. That triggers the milestone payment to Sunnyvale-based Pharmacyclics (NASDAQ: PCYC).
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"Five years ago, Governor Rendell sold the people of Pennsylvania a bill of goods when he signed the slots legislation into law," Rohrer said. "At the time, Rendell and the gambling lobby falsely promised the bill would create thousands of jobs, spur an economic boom and provide property tax relief. Today, Pennsylvania's unemployment rate is higher, its economy is faltering and homeowners are still burdened with excessive property taxes. With this record of failure, the legalization of table games amounts to doubling down on a bad bet."
Gov. Ed Rendell threatened to lay off nearly 1,000 state workers if the table games bill was not approved by the General Assembly by the end of the week. Rendell falsely claimed the bill was necessary to fill a supposed $250 million hole in the state budget.
"If you could fill a $250 million hole by laying off 1,000 state workers, that would mean that each of them would have to be earning approximately $250,000," Rohrer noted. "Does the governor really have that many excessively paid staff working under him? I would note that of the 1,000 state workers the governor threatened to lay off, he only threatened one in the governor's office. By comparison, he threatened to lay off 112 people who work with the Pennsylvania State Police, 38 who serve our military veterans and 19 who work in the Department of Health."
Rohrer further argued that the $250 million in revenue the legalization of table games is expected to generate are just an estimate.
"We still have some casinos that aren't up and running five years after that bill was signed into law," Rohrer said. "Somehow, the governor blindly thinks these table games are going to be set up and raking in the money in the next five months before the fiscal year ends in June. That naive belief represents a detachment from reality."
Rohrer pointed out the faulty logic used by gambling proponents, who suggest the legalization of table games would generate new jobs.
"If a Pennsylvanian spends $20 at a blackjack table, he or she can't spend that money at the local diner," Rohrer said. "Sure, it might create a job in one area of the economy, but it will do so at the expense of a worker in another area. The blackjack dealer benefits at the expense of the waitress. Taking water from one end of a bathtub and dropping it in the other won't raise the overall water level. This law will merely benefit the well-connected gambling industry at the expense of other Pennsylvania workers."
Rohrer also chastised those who propagated the false belief that legalizing table game would somehow help homeowners struggling to pay their property taxes.
"Like slot machines before them, table games offer homeowners nothing but the false hope that their property tax burden will be reduced," Rohrer said. "The truth is, the governor is betting on table games to bring in more revenues to subsidize his spending habit. Make no mistake, legalized gambling has done little for homeowners, but it has been and will continue to be a boon for free-spending politicians in Harrisburg. Pennsylvanians are tired of these 'bait-and-switch' schemes where politicians promise them property tax relief but deliver something far different. The only way to truly deal with the property tax issue is by eliminating them. No tax should have the power to leave you homeless."
The bill now heads to the governor's desk for his signature.
"Whether you oppose legalized gambling based on economic or moral principles or because it fails to deliver on its overblown promises, today represents a step backward for Pennsylvania," Rohrer said. "The Commonwealth will take a further leap backward if and when the governor places his signature on this sham of a bill. Pennsylvanians deserve better than this."
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Rohrer: Doubling Down on Bad Bet
State Rep. Sam Rohrer (R-Berks), who voted Wednesday against a measure approved by the House to legalize table games such as poker and blackjack at Pennsylvania casinos, issued the following statement explaining his opposition to the Democratic-led expansion of gambling:


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LONDON • Walter Mazzarri admitted Watford are in a state of "total emergency" as his injury-stricken team fell to their sixth defeat in eight games, losing 0-2 to Stoke City in the English Premier League on Wednesday.
Goals from Ryan Shawcross and Peter Crouch enabled Stoke to cruise to their second victory in six weeks against opponents bedevilled by injuries to nine players - including Roberto Pereyra, Juan Zuniga, Nordin Amrabat, Isaac Success, Daryl Janmaat and Valon Behrami.
However, Mazzarri does not fear for his job as Watford's manager, because he claims there is a consensus at the club to build for the future.
Mid-table momentum can be everything at this stage of the Premier League season and, while Stoke won for the first time in a month, a fifth successive away defeat continued Watford's alarming nosedive.
"I don't feel under pressure, because I speak with our owner (Gino Pozzo) every day," Mazzarri said.
"We know our objectives and we are not here just looking at the next five or six matches, we are looking together for the next three years.
"The important thing is to keep fighting. Our fans understood the moment we're in and they supported us until the end and this is very important for us."
The Italian also admitted it was a gamble to recall Behrami from a hamstring injury but insisted: "Because of the total emergency we are in, I took responsibility to make Behrami play."
Mazzarri is the eighth manager to work at Vicarage Road under the club's Italian owner Pozzo, whose family took over in 2012.
Even though Stoke started a point worse off than Watford and were without a win in five matches, their approach reflected far better spirit.
Mark Hughes' side have now moved up to 11th on 24 points, two ahead of 14th placed Watford.
It ended a disappointing run for Stoke, after they conceded four goals to both Liverpool and Chelsea in their last two games and looked in danger of being sucked into the relegation battle.
"It wasn't a great game, but we had better quality because we took the game away from them," Hughes said.
"We have played better and been beaten in recent weeks, we got goals at good times and then saw the game out quite comfortably."
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Rembrandt and his connection to Amsterdam
Rembrandt van Rijn is definitely one of the most famous painters of the Dutch Golden Age. He is also one of the rare ones who lived in Amsterdam during most of his career. You can still find many spots in Amsterdam where he or some of his clients lived, or that were important to him.
Rembrandt in Amsterdam
Rembrandt lived and worked along the canals of today’s Red Light District and what was a Jewish district in his time. Unfortunately, most of the buildings he lived in are not there anymore. Some of the guilds that commissioned paintings from Rembrandt had their offices in that neighbourhood too. Here are just a few of the places where you can learn about Rembrandt in Amsterdam:
There are two museums in Amsterdam where you can learn more about the famous Dutch painter:
The Rijksmuseum is home to many of Rembrandt’s paintings. A lot of his self-portraits are there, so it’s a great place to get to know the painter. Many of the portraits he painted of wealthy middle-class people from Amsterdam are also there. However, the masterpiece of the collection is his famous “The Night Watch”, which is known for its large size, the use of light and shadow and the perception of movement.
Rembrandt House Museum
This museum is located in a house which Rembrandt lived in for nearly 20 years. It was extremely expensive, so Rembrandt had to take out a huge loan to buy it. That loan, together with his desire to collect expensive antiquities, rarities and paintings from other painters led him to bankruptcy after living in the house for two decades.
Today, the museum shows what the house looked like when the famous painter lived there. Although they don’t have many of his paintings, the museum is home to a majority of his prints.
Visit some of the locations you can see in Rembrandt’s paintings:
Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
When he was only 25, a young Rembrandt was commissioned to paint a group portrait of a guild of surgeons. It was a huge honour for him, so he went to their guild house and created the famous portrait known as the ‘Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp’. The anatomy lesson was performed in De Waag, located in the heart of today’s Red Light District.
The building wasn’t only a home to a guild of surgeons, but also to a guild of painters. Since Rembrandt was a member of this guild, he visited De Waag many times.
The Night Watch
One of the most prestigious commissions Rembrandt received was for a group portrait of the civic guards of Amsterdam. They were decorating their new great hall and commissioned group portraits by a few different painters. Rembrandt negotiated a great price for it and that job secured him and his family financially for a few years.
The civic guards of Amsterdam had their office where you can find hotel NH Collection Doelen at the Nieuwe Doelenstraat today.
Syndics of a Drapers’ Guild
Rembrandt’s group portrait of the ‘Syndics of a Drapers’ Guild’ depicts the group in their guild house on Staalstraat 7. Rembrandt showed them doing their work; examining the quality of textiles they received from their suppliers. This guild house still stands today and it’s a wonderful example of a building from the Dutch Golden Age.
The following churches in Amsterdam were important in Rembrandt’s life (and death):
Rembrandt’s beloved first wife Saskia died when she was only 29. She was buried in the oldest church in Amsterdam, the Oudekerk. Her grave can still be seen there, together with a small exhibition dedicated to Rembrandt. All of their children were christened there as well, so it was quite an important place for Rembrandt during his life.
After he went bankrupt, Rembrandt moved to a small apartment at Rozengracht 184. He lived there during his last years.
After his death, Rembrandt was buried in the nearby Westerkerk. Since he died as a poor man, he was buried in a rented grave, somewhere in the church. It is likely that after 20 years, his remains were taken away and destroyed. However, there is a stone memorial plaque on one of the pillars in the Westerkerk with his name and date of birth and death engraved on it.
Many important places from Rembrandt’s life can still be seen today in Amsterdam. By walking in his footsteps, it’s easy to feel the glorious past of Amsterdam and its Golden Age.


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‘You say a word, I say a word and we will make a sentence’. This game is the starting point for the creation of “Full of Words”, a new work created for AXIS Dance Company by Choreographer Marc Brew. About a week ago we asked our fans on Facebook to give us their word and we got many responses. Marc took the words into the studio and the dancers improvised to them.
Here are two videos in which the dancers and Marc improvise to the words.
I truly enjoy being in the studio and watching Marc work with the dancers. I can’t wait to see the piece grow and develop over the next few weeks and look forward to the premiere on Oct 7th!


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Search for hotels near Goteborg Intl. Airport and great attractions that will make your visit to Gothenburg much more enjoyable.
Tjolöholms SlottDistance from Goteborg Landvetter Airport: 38.2mi / 61.5km
Tjolöholms slott Pl 1220 , Fjärås , 430 33
+46 300 544 200
Businessman J.F. Dickson built this magnificent manor house/castle at the beginning of the twentieth century. The house is built in English Tudor style with extravagant and exclusive facilities dating from the turn of the last century; imagine for instance a vacuum cleaner with a 40-metre hose, and showers that spray water in a round motion. Tjolöholm has grand castle grounds on a peninsula in the Kungsbacka fjord.
The area includes a church built in Scottish style, popular for weddings. The old workers’ village attached to the castle is today used as holiday accommodation. Storstugan (the main cottage) functions as a conference and party hall. There is also a carriage museum on the grounds, which themselves are very beautiful to walk around in, on Dickson’s old riding lanes. If you want to go swimming, there is a small beach just at the foot of the manor, especially suitable for small children. There are a few cafés on the grounds too. Guided tours of the castle are arranged every hour.
To get there by car, take the E6 southbound to Kungsbacka.
AkvarietDistance from Goteborg Landvetter Airport: 19.0mi / 30.6km
Karl Johansgatan 1-3 , Gothenburg , 414 59
+46 31 612 900
The Gothenburg Aquarium is housed in the same building as Sjöfartsmuseet (the Maritime Museum). This is the place to go if you want to see poisonous, dangerous or simply colourful tropical fish, such as piranhas or dragon fish. Another room is dedicated to common Swedish species like cod and flatfish. But the most exciting part is probably the terrarium, where you can see boa constrictors, salamanders and a couple of alligators.
To get here, take trams 3, 4 or 9 to Stigbergstorget.
Alingsås TuristbyråDistance from Goteborg Landvetter Airport: 19.0mi / 30.6km
Stora Torget 1 , Alingsås , 441 81
+46 322 616 200
The Tourist Information Centre in Alingsås offers you the average service that you would expect. Information on the area, booking of accommodation, activities, guides and guided tours. They have the usual brochures about Alingsås, as well as information and leaflets on other regions in Sweden. This Tourist Information Centre also arranges somewhat different events, for example Potatisfestivalen (the Potato Festival) and Bullfestivalen (The Pastry Festival).
A local train will take you to Alingsås.
Alvsborgs Nya Fastning
Älvsborgs Nya FästningDistance from Goteborg Landvetter Airport: 23.4mi / 37.7km
Basargatan 10 A , Gothenburg , 411 10
+46 31 609 660
Älvsborgs Nya Fästning is located on an island at the harbour entrance. It was built in the 1600s, and completed in 1660. With a fortress in the harbour entrance and military batteries on Hising island, Gothenburg was very well fortified against enemy troops.
The fortress itself has a very interesting history. It has also been used as a prison, and there are old prison cells that you are allowed to visit. There is also a chapel on the island, very popular for weddings. To get here take the ferry from Lilla Bommen. The ride takes about 30 minutes. You buy the ferry ticket in Kajskjul 207 at Lilla Bommen. A tour of the fortress and island is included in the ticket price. For departure times, check the website.
Ticket prices: adults SEK75 (EUR8.85), children aged four to 15 SEK50 (EUR5.90), family (two adults + two children) SEK195 (EUR23.01).
ÄlvsnabbenDistance from Goteborg Landvetter Airport: 15.5mi / 25.0km
Folkungagatan 20 , Gothenburg , 401 26
+46 31 801 235
A pleasant and reasonably priced way to see Gothenburg from the water is to take the ferry Älv-Snabben. The ferry departs from Lilla Bommen and goes to Eriksberg and Klippan. It is a comfortable way to see the harbour all year round, as the ferry has both indoor and outdoor seating.
The ferry stops on both the northern and southern riverbanks. You pass Göteborgs Maritima Centrum, a floating sea and naval museum sporting the submarine Nordkaparen. On the city side, you pass Stena Line’s Denmark-terminal, the Maritime Museum with its outlook tower, and the Gothenburg fish harbour. Ferries depart every half-hour from Lilla Bommen. Price: SEK16 (EUR1.89).
AmerikaskjuletDistance from Goteborg Landvetter Airport: 19.0mi / 30.6km
Stigbergskajen , Gothenburg , 414 63
Amerikaskjulet is located by Stigbergskajen, just behind Stigbergstorget. The Swedish America Lines passenger ships started running in 1910, and Amerikaskjulet was inaugurated the same year. Passenger traffic continued until the mid-1970s. Nowadays, Amerikaskjulet is a quay for cruise ships. Until the late 1990s, the Sea Cat catamaran had its terminal here.
To get there take trams 1, 3, 4 or 9 to Stigbergstorget. Walk towards the Maritime museum, across the footbridge.
AnnedalDistance from Goteborg Landvetter Airport: 17.2mi / 27.7km
Brunnsgatan , Gothenburg , 413 13 , N/A
The district of Annedal was built in the 1870s by Arbetarbostadsaktiebolaget (the Workers’ Housing Association), with the help of donations from Oscar Ekman. The two-storey houses located on Carl Grimbergsgatan were seen as ideal prototype houses for the working-class people of Gothenburg. No lodgers were allowed. Whereas Haga and Landala districts both had a sordid reputation, the elite of Gothenburg’s working classes lived here. Arbetarnas Byggnadsförening (the Workers’ Building Society) created 24 co-operatives situated on what is now Carl Grimbergsgatan. There are a few redbrick houses still situated on the street reminiscent of that era. The street is within short walking distance of Övre Husargatan and Linnégatan, with their many cafés and restaurants. To get here, take tram 2 to Brunnsgatan.


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Cook the steak on a stovetop using a heavy skillet with high heat, searing each side for a few minutes until it reaches your desired level of doneness. Use a fan or open windows to increase ventilation and reduce smoke.
For those who require additional information
Cooking a steak without setting off the smoke alarm is a common concern for many people. To achieve this, it is important to use the right cooking method and equipment. Here are some tips:
Use a heavy skillet: A heavy skillet is ideal for cooking steak as it retains heat well and helps to achieve a good sear. A cast-iron skillet is a popular choice for cooking steak.
Preheat the skillet: Preheat the skillet on high heat until it is very hot, this will help create a nice crust on the steak.
Use the right oil: Use an oil with a high smoke point such as canola or vegetable oil. Do not use olive oil as it has a low smoke point.
Pat the steak dry: Patting the steak dry with a paper towel before cooking it will help prevent excess smoke from occurring.
Cook the steak on high heat: Sear the steak on high heat for a few minutes on each side until it reaches your desired level of doneness.
Use ventilation: Use a fan or open windows to increase ventilation and reduce smoke.
“A steak cooked rare or medium rare is juicy and flavorful, while a steak cooked well done may be dry and less flavorful,” says the American Heart Association. It is important to use a meat thermometer to ensure the steak is cooked to a safe internal temperature.
Interesting facts about steak:
- Steak comes from beef, which is one of the most popular meats in the world.
- The way steak is cooked varies depending on the culture. For example, some cultures prefer to eat raw or almost raw steak (e.g. carpaccio), while others prefer well-done steak (e.g. British).
- The quality of the meat can have a big impact on the taste of the steak. The grading system for beef in the United States ranges from Prime, the highest grade, to Choice, Select, and Standard.
- In Japan, a famous dish called Kobe beef is highly prized for its tenderness and flavor. It comes from a breed of cattle that is raised in a specific way and is considered a luxury item.
Table: Internal temperatures for cooked steak
Doneness | Description | Internal Temperature
Rare | cool red center | 120-128°F (49-53°C)
Medium-Rare | warm red center | 129-135°F (54-57°C)
Medium | warm pink center | 136-145°F (58-63°C)
Medium-Well | slightly pink center | 146-155°F (64-68°C)
Well-Done | cooked throughout | 155°F and up (68°C and up)
See a video about the subject
In the video “NEVER set off the FIRE ALARM AGAIN”, the speaker discusses the common issue of accidentally setting off fire alarms while cooking. The solution presented for this issue is using an air purifier, such as the Blue Air 211 Plus. By placing the purifier underneath the smoke detector, it not only circulates the air but also purifies it, allowing for worry-free cooking. While this specific air purifier may not be necessary for all kitchens, it was effective in the speaker’s personal kitchen and has multifunctional purposes.
Some more answers to your question
Start in a cold pan (no need to preheat). Flip the steaks every 2 minutes. Start with high heat, and then after a few flips, turn it down to medium. Cook until the exterior is well browned and the interior registers 120 degrees Fahrenheit (for medium-rare).
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Then, How do you cover a smoke detector when cooking? As an answer to this: Covering the smoke detector with a dishcloth can work. You could also use a shower cap or a rubber band and plastic wrap to temporarily disable the smoke detector. Once again, it is important to remember to uncover it when you are finished cooking.
Consequently, How do you cook without setting off smoke alarm? How to Prevent My Smoke Detector from Going Off Every Time I Cook
- Temporarily Disable or Reduce the Sensitivity of the Alarm.
- Relocate Your Smoke Detector.
- Replace the Batteries to Prevent False Alarms.
- Upgrade the Smoke Detector.
- Open a Nearby Window.
- Preheat Pans in a Clean Oven.
How do you sear without setting off smoke detectors?
In reply to that: You hope it does something. And you proceed to cook. So when the pan is hot you slap those steaks into the pan. And boom.
How to cook steak without setting off fire alarm reddit?
Answer: Yup. Patting the surface dry is the most simple and effective thing a bunch of people don’t know to do. Keep flipping it too if it’s a thick steak so you time the doneness level of the inside with the crust you want.
Considering this, How do you cook steak without smoking it? Answer to this: The less oil you have hanging out in your super hot pan, the less smoke there will be. Just salt your steak as you usually would, and blot off any excess moisture. Heat your pan over high heat, until a drop of water balls up and skitters around the its surface before evaporating.
Hereof, Can You Sear a steak at home without a smoke detector? You can sear a steak at home without the blare of a smoke detector going off in the background. Every time I’m ready to sear a steak, cook a stir-fry or grill chicken, I head to the hall closet for my long-handled broom — you know, the one long enough to reach the silencing button on the smoke detector.
Just so, How to smoke a steak in a electric smoker? Response will be: Rub the roast down with the sea salt and then rub the roast with the Montreal steak spice. Set up smoker for 250F using mesquite wood, or other wood of choice. Lay the roast on a smoker rack and smoke until 135, or until desired doneness. Remove the roast from the smoker and let rest for 10 minutes. Slice and serve.
Also to know is, Can you smoke a steak if you don’t have a vent? Response will be: A bit of smoke is unavoidable when searing a steak and, if you don’t have a vent over your stove, that smoke can linger, ruining the vibe of your otherwise excellent steak dinner. You can’t eliminate smoke completely, but you can dramatically decrease the amount produced by lightly oiling your steak instead of the pan.
Can You Sear a steak at home without a smoke detector? Response to this: You can sear a steak at home without the blare of a smoke detector going off in the background. Every time I’m ready to sear a steak, cook a stir-fry or grill chicken, I head to the hall closet for my long-handled broom — you know, the one long enough to reach the silencing button on the smoke detector.
Beside above, How do you smoke a steak in the oven?
The answer is: If you oil the whole pan, the whole pan will smoke, if you just oil the food, only the areas in contact with the food will smoke. Remove your preheated pan from the oven and immediately drop your steak on it. Turn the heat on your burner to medium or medium-high as the pan begins to cool to maintain the temperature of the pan.
How do you cook a steak without oil?
The secret: Placing the steaks in a cold nonstick skillet with no oil. This counterintuitive technique was developed by former Cook’s Illustrated staffer Andrew Janjigian, who discovered a well-marbled cut doesn’t need extra oil; enough fat comes out during cooking to help brown the beef. Andrew offers a few rules for his technique.
What is the best way to cook a steak?
Response: Pan-searing is hands-down the best way to cook a steak (it works wonders for salmon and scallops, too), and it also happens to be the easiest. When it comes to beef, the best candidates for pan-searing are boneless, quick-cooking cuts between one and one-and-a-half inches thick, such as NY Strip, rib eye or filet mignon.


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Thursday, January 2, 2014
42mm Samurai: Monk
First, I swapped in the head from the monk archer figure. Then I added a sash using green stuff. To give the illusion of a robe, instead of sculpting the entire robe over the figure, I simply added the two bottom flaps tucked under the obi/belt, and painted the flaps and the kimono top the same color (yellow.) The naginata was hammered from brass rod as usual, with the hand guard made from a little cured circle of green stuff.
I'd like to add a couple more monks, though, I'm not quite sure how I'll go about it. I'll probably use another multipart figure, but I'll look through Steve's catalogue to see what other monk-ish conversions are awaiting as my confidence with green stuff grows. I could do almost the exact conversion to Steve's peasant figures as I did with this figure, but I'd need to get some more archers from which to swap the heads. In any case, that's a project for later; I have a couple more rockets on their way!

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Helena Ameisen comes from a culturally and linguistically diverse background. She emigrated with her family from Poland to Australia at the tender age of five. She has won literature prizes for poetry and writing since secondary school.
Formerly a speech pathologist in human communication disorders and specialising in voice, she also worked in community theatre, film, television and did voice-over work for SBS and the ABC and presented film and theatre reviews on 2SER FM radio.
She has diligently diarised her travels to exotic destinations since her first solo trip to South East Asia in the early seventies.
On a yearlong trip abroad in 1981 she met her future husband and married life took her to Egypt for eighteen years from 1985 – 2003. Her poetry was published in the Language of Memory, a part of the Under a Quicksilver Moon series whilst living in Egypt. Upon her husband’s untimely death, she returned to Australia with her two children.
After resettling in Sydney, she completed the Unlocking Creativity and First Draft courses at the Writers’ Studio to begin her memoir and later joined a writers’ group (Write On!) at the NSW Writers’ Centre.
In 2013, she won a one-year mentorship from the ASA. She published a short story with That Authors Collective (TAC) in First Press and a short story ‘Conch in St Kitts’ was published in the paperback anthology ‘With Gusto,’ with members of the ‘Write On!’ group. The past year she has been attending a writers group at the Sydney School of Arts and Humanities and has completed Volume 1 of her memoir. She has presented her work at Balmain Institute and a reading, interview and Q&A at Woollahra Library, plus talks at women’s and writers groups and book clubs around Sydney.
She is currently completing her Volume 2 of her memoir about her tumultuous love affair and life in Egypt as a western woman of Jewish, Polish-Russian heritage married to a Muslim man seventeen years her senior. It focuses on cross-cultural differences and similarities experienced in her day to day life and the challenges of interfaith relationships. Focusing on what unites people rather than what divides them, it is a message of hope and testimony to the fact that religious, social and cultural obstacles can be overcome. With mutual love, tolerance and understanding, peaceful coexistence is possible.
Synopsis of the Reading, Interview by Robin Evans Dinh and Q&A at Woollahra Library -16 July 2017.
In July 2017, Helena gave a talk at the Woollahra Library in Double Bay about the background to her memoir “Maktoub – It is Written.” (Working title.)
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Questions such as ‘Did your experience in Egypt challenge assumptions you held previously about life? If so, in what way?’ opened a discussion about restrictions on freedom, especially for women including dress code, professional opportunities, communication and interactions with the opposite sex, personal and professional friendships, social etiquette, attitudes towards western women and how to navigate these and other situations in response to ‘What surprised you, where the opposite applied?’
‘What kind of challenges did you face and how did you deal with these?’ covered cruelty to animals and children, specifically children with special needs; the stigma of disability, lack of education and sheer ignorance about general health and safety leading to anecdotes about bottle-feeding cola to a 6 month old baby and driving with infants on their laps.
The mystifying terrain of time, the cost of things…how much to pay, how hard to bargain and how much to tip were never-ending realms of surprise and frustration that an intrepid foreigner had to wade through on a daily basis.
‘What would you like others to appreciate and understand about Egypt?’ … touched on the engaging, hospitable nature of the people and illuminated the paradoxical nature of this land of contrast and contradiction. Where there was cruelty, there were stories of enormous generosity from those with the least to give. It covered the fatalist attitude of ‘Insha Allah’ – if God wills’ and where personal responsibility sits; and the concept of ‘Al Humdullileh’ … ‘thanks be to God’ with humility and gratitude for one’s blessings; being grateful for whatever one has because it could always be worse. It could all be taken away from you in the blink of an eye or the sound of a word.
At the end of the interview, the talk was thrown open to the floor for Q & A which touched on many topics including Islamophobia, what happens when a muslim man takes more than one wife, how to negotiate bringing up children with two faiths, how open or closed one must be to retain respect and for personal security and questions about the future of Egypt …will it become a regime like Iran?
Helena plans many more talks of a similar nature once her memoir is published.