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They say that you always stay longer then you plan to in Luang Prabang. Michel and I originally planned to stay for 3 days and now, a week later, we don’t know when we will leave.
We arrived in Luang Prabang after a rough ride on a big bus. The travel time was about 8 hours of pretty slow going on mountainous roads. The view was spectacular! So many places we wanted to stop but the bus just kept going.
We seemed to have arrived in Luang Prabang before the rest of the crowd. After spending a few nights in an expensive hotel Lao Deum Nam Kahn View(60$) we moved to a comfortable hotel with a view on the Nam Kahn river for $25 (200000 kip). We are the only people in the hotel and loving our solitude. We were dreading Luang Prabang because of the crowds and expensive time we encountered here 6 years ago but we did not find them this time.
Soon after we arrived in Luang Prabang we met an old friend Jean Louis Dulaar who knows the area well. He was able to introduce us to a Luang Prabang would not have seen if just passing through. Jean Louis is an artist, although he might not tell you so, and is following his quest to find and create natural dyes. He uses them to paint fabrics. He has an energy that has inspired our own creativity. My words will not be enough to describe his work. You must see it yourself at http://dulaar.blogspot.com/.
We arrived for The Festival of Lights, this is the “Lai Heua Fai” Festival or the festival of the fire boat. Each family builds a boat made of bamboo and other material.
They cover it with lights and candles and then float it down the Mekong for good luck. The festival occurs with the full moon but preparations start days before. The children at the Luang Prabang Cultural Center practice dancing for the parade that will occur the night of the festival.
The monks in the temples prepare the lights and dragon boats with great care. They are happy for anyone to come and visit the temples to see their work in the evenings before the festival. The locals shops are all also adorned with hand made decorations filled with lights.
On the night of the festival it seemed like the entire town was there for the parade. There were hundreds of dragon boats.
Each dragon boat is being celebrated by the community who had created it.
The feeling in the town is magical and full of excitement as somehow these heavy floats are carried through town and down to the Mekong river and there released. The river carries them away as each family prays for a good planting season now that the rainy season has ended.
Along with the boats everyone floats there own individual wish down the Mekong. The wishes are made of colorful flowers and lit candles attached to a slice of buoyant palm tree.
There is also delicious street food everywhere. These pieces of lettuce are filled with a lovely sweet nut paste and herbs. All freshly prepared and sold everywhere at the festival. You won’t find these in the restaurants though. You must buy them in the street.
Somehow these small hot air ballons sneak up between power lines and trees as though heading straight for the moon. In a way that is similar to sending your wish for good luck down the river you may also wish for luck from the sky.
The full moon was surrounded by thousands of wishes floating up to the heavens.
Jean Louis arranged for us to travel to a waterfall called Kuang Si about 30 kilometers away from Luang Prabang.
There we were also invited to a lunch that would be prepared by the owner of the property Mrs. Vandara Amphayphone. Mrs Vandara is an important member of the Luang Prabang community. She has more than one guest house and has a silk weaving studio in town. http://www.vanvisaguesthouse.com or http://naturebag.org for more information.
Her kitchen and few guest bungalows are next to a downstream version of the waterfall that makes you feel like you have entered another world.
She and her helpers spent a few hours preparing our meal. Almost all of the ingredients were picked directly from her garden. The garden is full of avacados and fruit and all items were carefully selected by Mrs Vandara before she demonstrated her cooking techniques. The kitchen is outdoor and all cooking is performed over fire.
The dish made of crab and local herbs were ground into a paste come from a recipe once prepared for the king by her grandfather.
As part of the preparation, Mrs Vandara selected flowers from the garden which were used as garnish and as ingredients in the food.
It was as though we had been transported back in time. The surroundings were pristine. The food as fresh and natural as possible. The skill that was demonstrated during the cooking could only have been cultivated by recipes handed down for generations and years of perfecting each one.
We are grateful to Jean Louis for sharing the experience. We are happy to have Mrs Vandara as a new friend and know that we received an unique and very special day in her little paradise.
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Hi Claire and Michel, How extraordinarily beautiful the scenery is there. And you appear to be Giants there compared to the Monk in the picture. How fun for you! The mountains look so amazing like a painting. And the festival of lights…. oh my how wonderful it must have been to be there for that. I can only imagine what it is like to go through the day eating, seeing, enjoying, with hardly a care in the world. I looked at Jean Louis’ work/page…. very very beautiful. How wonderful to connect with him. So glad you are also making new friends. Look forward to hearing more and talking in person when you have some time.
Love and blessings,
What an incredible experience!
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful experience.
Great to hear from you. Best wishes to you and yours
May I have your permission to use some of your lovely photos for my Khmu Laos facebook page, and in my NatureBag.ORG features? I work for the JungleVine® Foundation (non-profit) and I find your images captivating and your expression of the Khmu/Lao people irresistible. The Khmu Laos Poverty Reduction Project sponsor, Bill Newbrough, spends much time in Laos and knows Mrs. Vandara.
Our Nature Bags are made in remote Khmu villages. The Project accomplishes three things.
1. It provides a source of income for Southeast Asia’s poorest people.
2. It preserves an ancient craft, handed down for generations.
3. It provides the world with a truly, 100% sustainable bag made from a wild growing ivy like weed (kudzu.)
May I use some of your images?
Earth’s Greenest Bag
Thank you for your interest in the photos and for your inquiry regarding using them. I took a look at your website and it looks like your organization is doing good work toward helping the Khmu Laos people. My husband is a professional photographer and plans to use many of his photos from Asia for his upcoming work. However, it may be that he will donate some of them to your organization. Would you please provide me with a list of the photos you would like to use. I will discuss the list with him and get his approval first.
We will be back in Luang Prabang September of this year for 3 months and are always interested in meeting people who have taken a personal interest in Laos has we have. If you are going to be in the area during that time let me know. I would like to hear a our your experiences with the Laos people.
i will to come back here again and check this out. Was there in 2012 with my eldest daughter but never had the chance of checking out this guest house
Hi thanks for your article. what kind of leaf used to make this container for the Khao nom kook, coconut and rice dessert


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Grow Your Own Fruit Tree
Instead of buying fruits and vegetables from the market, it would really be great if you are able to grow them in your own backyard or farm. In growing trees you can be assured that you know how the fruit was taken cared for and safe to eat. However, it is indeed not easy to grow any trees in your backyard without worrying about different aspects in growing trees. Maintaining trees can be tough task to do but it can be very rewarding which is why some people would still love to grow their own trees.
For people who are just new in growing fruit trees like pear, they will be faced with different types of issues because growing trees is a bit trickier that growing vegetable plants. Keeping the tree healthy and free of diseases varies from one tree to another. One of the things the person has to understand when he is growing pear tree is the times of the year to trim the tree and how to prune it so it would keep growing in a set pace in a healthy condition.
Types of Pear Tree Diseases
Among the many aspects a person has to take into account in growing pear trees is how to keep the tree off the many types of diseases. Yes, trees do get diseases too. To make the task a bit trickier, there are several types of pear tree diseases that are to watch out for. These pear tree diseases will make your tree-growing more challenging.
One type of pear tree diseases includes the pear tree scab, canker and fire blight.
The scab is considered a fungal disease that can attack your pear tree. This disease will show some brown-scab-like marks on the fruit and mostly leaves some black marks on the leaves. As time progress, the blotches in the leaves will turn browner. But it is observed that the taste of the pear would still be the same even with the unsightly blotches.
The disease known as canker shows some deformed patches of bark that will eventually be cracked and bent inwards. This disease becomes noticeable at the start if autumn as a type of swelling of the tree’s bark.
Another example of pear tree diseases is pear tree fire blight. Pear trees are considered susceptible to this type of disease. What becomes noticeable is how the leaves will start to turn black. Then swellings will appear on the tree and ooze bacterial.
Everything Will Be Fine
Even with these diseases, everything is still not lost since there still something that can be done about it. Common ways of treating pear tree diseases include pruning, spraying fungicides that has copper and applied on the leaves and bark.
There are also other ways to keep your pear tree safe from diseases and treat leaf and fruit conditions.
Keep Your Pear Tree Healthy
If you are interested in having a healthy pear tree growing in your backyard then always make sure that you do your research and learn different ways to keep your tree from pear tree diseases
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According to a recent funding solicitation for research grants by the National Institute of Justice, “applications that include cost/benefit analysis will be given priority. NIJ views cost/benefit analysis as an effective way to communicate and disseminate findings from evaluation research.” The state of Washington has mandated that programs that do not pass a cost-benefit test will not be funded. Yet, to date, cost-benefit analysis has not yet become a mainstream of the criminologists’ toolkit.
Is cost benefit analysis a useful tool for criminologists and policy analysts – or is it just “voodoo economics” - and another attempt by the dismal science to rule the world? This seminar will provide a basic understanding of the use (and misuse) of cost-benefit analysis to help you make an informed judgment about the efficacy of cost-benefit analysis and how you might begin to incorporate this tool into your research agenda. Among the questions to be addressed: (1) What is the underlying rationale for cost-benefit analysis in the criminal justice context? (2) Where do the numbers come from and what do they mean? (3) What are appropriate (and inappropriate) uses of cost-benefit analysis? and (4) What do the critics say?


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Two of Newark’s southernmost blocks could become home to dozens of additional residents.
Lusa Enterprise, Inc. has submitted plans to the city’s municipal government that call for the construction of nine new houses in the South Ward, west of Newark Liberty International Airport. Each house would include three units.
The North Arlington-based company’s application covers 20-22, 24-26, and 28-32 Garibaldi Avenue along with 39-41 and 43-53 Pershing Avenue. The document notes that the tracts are currently vacant lots and includes a disclosure statement identifying Lusa Enterprise’s president as Eduardo Albuquerque.
This section of Newark is distant from other neighborhoods of the city, separated from them by train tracks, parking lots, industrial buildings, and major roadways. However, these properties are situated just a few yards north of the edge of Elizabeth’s street grid, with the North Elizabeth train station located less than a mile away.
The Newark Central Planning Board is scheduled to hear Lusa Enterprise’s request for preliminary, final site plan, and major subdivision approval along with a number of variances during a virtual meeting on Monday, April 5, at 6:00 p.m., according to an agenda.
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Ash Is Purest White
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The latest from critically acclaimed writer/director Zhang-ke Jia (A Touch of Sin, 13) is a crime melodrama about China’s aspirational gangster-classes.
Zhao Tao stars as Qiao, the daughter of an old militant, but also a child of the new China. Qiao ends up going to prison to protect her minor gangster boyfriend Bin, but upon her release five years later, discovers that he has abandoned her. Seeking revenge, she sets out to track him down.
Jia uses a three-part story set in different time frames, to portray what it means for ordinary people to live through extraordinary epochal social, economic, and cultural changes. Ash Is Purest White illuminates what it takes to keep love from burning out.
Dublin Film Critics Special Jury Prize, Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival 2019
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Josh Lasky joined the Center for Green Schools in October 2013. In his role
as Community Green Lead, he manages a national network of volunteers to
engage community colleges and support sustainability activities on their
campuses and in their classrooms. Josh supports a range of additional
programs throughout the Center for Green Schools, bringing extensive
experience in campus sustainability management, higher education
administration, and curriculum development and instruction.
Most recently, Josh served as Assistant Director for Sustainability Education
in the College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental
Sciences (CAUSES) at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC). Within
that capacity, Josh held a joint faculty-staff position, developing
sustainability-focused community education programs and teaching an
undergraduate seminar in urban sustainability. Prior to his appointment in
CAUSES, Josh served as UDC’s first Sustainability Manager and created the
university-wide sustainability initiative. Before joining UDC, Josh worked as
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Sheffield man jailed for breaching domestic violence protection order
A Sheffield man has been put behind bars for breaching a domestic violence protection order four times in just two weeks.
Adrian Adnett, of Deer Park Road, Stannington appeared before Sheffield Magistrates Court yesterday (Tuesday 28 February), charged with breaching his domestic violence protection order (DVPO).
The 31-year-old was sentenced to 28 days in prison, for breaching the order for the fourth time since mid-February.
PC Freddie Le-Billon Payne, investigating, said: “Adnett has repeatedly breached his DVPO and I hope that this sentence serves as a warning to others that breaches of DVPOs are taken extremely seriously.
“Anyone found to be breaching his or her DVPO can and will go to prison if they continue to put someone at risk.
“South Yorkshire Police are absolutely committed to protecting victims of domestic abuse and we will continue to do everything we can to protect vulnerable victims.”
When officers are called to a domestic incident and there is evidence that a perpetrator has been violence towards the victim, and any other associated person, officers can seek to issue a DVPO.
A DVPO gives immediate protection to the victim and anyone else believed to be at risk of domestic violence from the perpetrator.
Under a DVPO, the offender is given specific conditions to adhere to, therefore offering the victim protection from violence.
This in turn allows them some time to consider seeking help or advice from a wide range of support agencies.
Anyone wishing to report domestic abuse or have any concerns, should call police on 101.
For additional support, call the National Domestic Violence Helpline on 0808 2000 247, Women's Aid on 0808 2000 247 or Victim Support on 0845 3030900.
In an emergency, always call 999.
Further information about the support available to victims of domestic abuse in South Yorkshire can be found on the police's website at: http://www.southyorks.police.uk/help-and-advice/z-crime-types/domestic-abuse

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Sandy Creek will play at Griffin in 4A semifinal
The Sandy Creek High School Patriots traveled to Thomasville last Friday for a state quarterfinal football game with the Thomas County Central Yellow Jackets and brought a large and vocal crowd with them.
Those who made the trip witnessed history as Sandy Creek advanced to the Class AAAA state semifinals with a 31-17 win but fans that couldn’t make the game followed it either on the web (www.thecitizen.com, www.thecitizensports.com, twitter.com/citizensport) or by radio listening to 92.5 FM The Bear, either on the radio or the web.
This reporter got word that someone out in Las Vegas was following the “tweets” as Sandy Creek shocked football prognosticators all over the state.
This week, they’ll have to do it all over again. Sandy Creek will play at Memorial Stadium, home of the Griffin Bears, the top ranked team in Class AAAA, at 7:30 p.m. at The Battlefield. The winner of this game will meet the winner of Rockdale County and Clarke Central at 8 p.m. in the Georgia Dome on Friday, Dec. 11.

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SLIDELL, La (WGNO) –– Two men are dead after a standoff with St. Tammany Parish deputies Monday evening.
Detectives say 48-year-old Richard Sanderson and 67-year-old Eric Costello were both pronounced dead.
The St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office reports around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, a SWAT team was dispatched to a home in the 300 block of Lake Village Boulevard in Slidell.
According to the parish coroner, Costello was listed as a resident of the location. Sanderson was listed under a Mandeville address.
Deputies say they received a 911 call from someone in the home. When responding officers arrived, detectives attempted to communicate with someone inside the home, but the subject barricaded himself inside. The SWAT team was then dispatched.
Negotiators made contact with one male inside the home after arriving on the scene. He told them he had exchanged gunfire with another male acquaintance inside the home.
The SWAT team entered the home and discovered two deceased subjects. They say one appeared to have self-inflicted gunshot wounds, however, the coroner continues to conduct an official autopsy.
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President John F. Kennedy performed a public service last week when he reminded
his press conference audience that 150 Southern cities have started the integration
process in their schools. This fact has been overlooked by many Americans who
have been discouraged at the slow progress of the campaign for equality.
The Negro still is far from his goal. In fact, he is probably a decade away
from full acceptance as a legal equal and perhaps 50 years from the point where
he will not be conspicuous at private clubs, in political councils and in labor
Why try to deceive ourselves about the speed of integration? It was not until
1960 a Roman Catholic could be elected President of the United States. Many
private clubs still are closed to Americans of the Hebrew faith. How many years
passed before a Greenfield man of Polish ancestry could win appointment to a
sergeancy in the local police department?
Segregation is not based on color alone. Massachusetts has communities where
no "foreigner" from Southern or Eastern Europe is socially or politically
acceptable. It has wards- and even cities- where a Yankee has as much chance
of election as a snowball's survival in Hades. And the same is true of many
other states north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Chicago is a patchwork of racial and nationality neighborhoods. So is New York
City- and Detroit- and Los Angeles. They have their Chinatown, their Little
Italys, their Yorkvilles, their Black Belts and their Hamtramcks All are based
on colors, Old World languages, customs and a feeling for association and protection
Changing times are breaking down the barriers, however. No longer can an Irish
or French ward boss "deliver" an overwhelming majority vote. No longer
can an Italian padrone bargain with construction firms for unskilled labor or
with political leaders for support at the polls.The yeast of change has been
working with increasing strength for the past 30 years: both cities and suburbs
today reflect the striving for equality and betterment in the hearts of all
men- whatever their skin pigmentation.
Racial integration has been the most pronounced form of this social, economic
and political evil. Therefore, it is only realistic to expect its correction
will take the longest time and be accompanied by the most violence. Like the
others, the process of change includes pressure, argument, civil turmoil and
Progress is apparent- even though it is painfully slow and opposed with almost
incredible fanaticism. This fact, stressed by President Kennedy last week, proves
the effectiveness of united effort short of violence. Those who have followed
the history of other minorities know the pace will quicken now the breakthrough
has been established.


Many of the rifles captured by the Finns were in at least good condition and in some cases in like new condition. The old phrase of only dropped once comes to mind here. As this was the case a large number of these rifles were sent directly into Finnish service during the Finnish wars of 1939-40, 1941-44, and 1944-45. It was not at all uncommon to see M91/30's in the hands of front line Finnish troops, although the M91/30 was not seen in the same numbers as the M91 rifle. A number of these issued rifles were nothing more than standard Soviet versions, as there was no need for the Finns to rework or take action to repair these rifles.
Finnish capture Mosin Nagant fitted with replacement Finnish two piece stock with sling swivels which is in excellent condition.
Standard Arsenal mark on the butt & the "boxed
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Dr. Robert Sullivan had the ultimate mountain top experience last year—he spent 30 minutes standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world.
It is 29,000 feet above sea level and the air is so thin at that point that you would die if you stayed there too long without oxygen. The temperature is -71F and winds blow at 50 mph.
This is not a climb for a novice and Dr. Sullivan, who is 45, is an experienced climber and has climbed a number of tall peaks, including Mt. Rainier, in Washington.
“When you see the steam come out, you think ‘Maybe it [climbing the mountain] is not such a good idea,” he commented. Steam comes out of Mt. Rainier because it is an active volcano. But volcanoes give advance warning, through earthquake activity, so climbers would be warned days before an actual eruption.
Mt. Everest is not a volcano. It’s just very tall and the altitude, along with the difficulty of the climb, makes it dangerous. Dr. Sullivan said that as many as 6 percent of the people who attempt the climb die. Nevertheless, many try it and there were multiple climbing parties making their final push for the summit when he was there. Four climbers were killed that day. A total of 10 died during the short climbing window that year. The corpses of people who die in the process of climbing Everest are still there. Dr. Sullivan said that the altitude and the difficulty of the climb make it impossible to bring them down.
It takes a long time to make the climb. Dr. Sullivan spent nearly three weeks above 10,000 feet, moving to progressively higher altitudes — moving up 1,000 feet higher each day — to acclimatize. This gave his body time to make adaptations to the thin air so that his blood could carry more oxygen.
Even getting there was an adventure. They had to fly into Lukla Airport, which is considered the most dangerous airport in the world. There is no safety margin if something goes wrong.
“A foot off the runway it drops off 5,000 feet,” he said.
The actual climb up Everest begins on a glacier, at an altitude of 19,000 feet, and proceeds up what amounts to an ice fall, the glacial equivalent of a waterfall.
“For me, personally, it was the scariest part of the expedition,” Dr. Sullivan said.
Their last base camp was at 25,000 feet.
“We slept there overnight without oxygen,” he said.
Then the final push to the summit began. At that point, they donned down suits and carried oxygen. That’s because the “death zone,” the point at which bad things start happening to you if you don’t have oxygen bottles with you, begins at 26,000 feet.
“I felt really good up there,” Dr. Sullivan commented.
One thing he noted was the sky, particularly when looking up.
“It’s very, very deep blue,” he said. “It’s almost black.”
That’s because he was at a point where most of the Earth’s atmosphere is below him.
Then came the climb down. Dr. Sullivan said that it is more difficult coming down than going up because you’re tired.
His next climb will be a father/daughter expedition. He and his daughter, Mattie, who is an E. C. Glass High School student, plan to climb Mont. Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps. It rises to nearly 16,000 feet.
Dr. Sullivan told 258 Forest Middle School students about his experience last week. He was wearing a medal that the Nepali government awards to everybody who makes it to the summit — and then makes it back down.
According to Nancy Young, the school’s librarian, all of the students who heard Dr. Sullivan completed a reading challenge. They read “Peaks,” a fictional book about a boy who climbs Mt. Everest and then they passed a comprehension quiz.
“It just provided reading and gave a real life connection,” said Young.
The real life connection was hearing from a local man who actually did it.
“It really did motivate the kids to read,” she said.


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Carson Boothe has been honing his engineering skills since he was a boy growing up in Lavalette, Wayne County.
“I’ve always been interested in engineering,” Boothe explained. “I remember as a child always building things with my brother such as a remote-controlled car from repurposed parts and a pulley system to hoist things from the first floor to the second floor of our house.”
At Wayne High School, Boothe immersed himself in competitive VEX Robotics, part of a team that built, programmed and maneuvered robots in various competitions, including the State Qualifying Tournament sponsored by the Robert C. Byrd Institute (RCBI). His team’s efforts earned 20 awards in a single season and advanced four times to the World Robotics Competition, winning two awards.
Today, the electrical engineering major at Marshall University is gaining real-world engineering experience as an RCBI intern, assisting clients with a variety of projects, creating computer-aided designs, programming computer-controlled equipment, operating advanced technology to manufacture components, even repairing 3D printers when they malfunction.
“Some of the cooler projects I have worked on are a drone landing system for the U.S. military, an infectious disease control helmet and, my favorite: a mobile drone launching pad that wirelessly charges the drone,” Boothe said.
Along the way, Boothe has learned to operate computer-controlled mills and lathes, expanded his computer-assisted design (CAD), programming and layout skills and engaged directly with manufacturers and entrepreneurs who are taking advantage of RCBI’s advanced technology and expertise. And there’s an added bonus: “My RCBI internship gives me the opportunity to network with possible future employees,” Boothe said.
The junior expects to graduate from Marshall in fall 2024. He hopes to find employment in his field here in West Virginia. “I’m also thinking about getting my master’s degree in either computer science or electrical engineering while I work.”
Boothe is just one of several engineering students to serve paid internships with RCBI through the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences Co-Op Program. Mentored by experienced engineers and technicians, RCBI interns provide valuable assistance on a variety of manufacturing projects.
“We’re proud to partner with Marshall’s Co-Op program to ensure that students in the engineering program have resume-building practical experience in manufacturing that better prepares them for employment,” said Derek Scarbro, RCBI deputy director.
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"Tama tu tama ora, tama noho tama mate"
(To stand is to live to lie down is to die)
This whakatauaki has been the catch cry
for many of us living here in Moerewa.
It is about standing up and taking our place,
and not being swept away by the tides of change.
He mihi nui, he mihi aroha kia koutou katoa.....
Where are we....
We are in Aotearoa (New Zealand)
We live within the mountains,
that form the pillars of the house of Ngapuhi.
We are in the far north of the north island
Who are we....
We are the decendents of Rahiri
Moerewa is a Contemporary Maori experience, we are unique, and the many visitors that have come here have enjoyed the easy generosity of the people. We are a town that is 90% Maori and a few years ago went through a real hard time, we suffered like many rural communities all around the world from restructuring and loss of rural services.
Moerewa now has a new lease of life one that is in balance with the things of the past, and in the present is taking up the challenge to create an exciting future for our children. We have in the past been in the shadows now we are emerging into the light,we are celebrating our beauty, our diversity and enterprise as "21st century Maori"

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My husband and I are expecting our first child in April of next year, and would like to get away on a 'babymoon' in mid to late November. We are from Toronto, Ontario and are flexible to travel across the United States. We are looking for a 4+ star resort that has GREAT food, a beautiful spa and ideally is set in nature setting or large property where we can go for hikes, walks and just enjoy the fresh air. I'm sure there are some nice places in Vermont, NY state, Colorado - but don't really know where to start. We aren't too worried about the weather, and understand given the trip is in November we are likely going somewhere that ranges between 10 and 20oC. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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Finnair announced on Thursday the cancellation of all flights to the US between March 19th and April 12, 2020, due to new US Government travel restrictions. Additionally, the carrier will cancel flights to Delhi India between March 15th and April 14, 2020.
Today, as a result of newly imposed US travel restrictions, Finnair announced the cancellation of all flights to the US from March 19th through April 12, 2020. The carrier will also cancel service to Delhi, India between March 15th and April 14, 2020 due to recent visa restrictions. Finnair will fly between Helsinki and New York until March 18, 2020 in order to repatriate customers. Schengen Area passengers will be prevented from entering the US from midnight March 13, 2020 and U.S. citizens and legal residents who have visited a Schengen Area country in the last 14 days will be subject to additional health screening. Finnair will operate their March 12th flight to Miami, as well as their flight to Los Angeles on Sunday, March 15, 2020. Finnair guests affected by flight cancellations will be contacted directly.
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Kaarsild’s sound and lighting installations to be showcased this week
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17 October / At 19.00 on 20 October, the sound and lighting installations of the newly renovated Kaarsild will be showcased.
The installations authored by master's students from the New Media Department at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
Each of the five of the spatial works created for the bridge during this stage will be viewed and listened to during the presentation.
The sound and lighting design of the newly renovated Kaarsild represents a unique and one of a kind public space project in Estonia, since the technical possibilities allow for the creation of a complete solution that changes in space and time.
Works are presented on the bridge on a daily basis, but always with slight variations. The bridge is illuminated at night, with a different tone for each day of the week. In addition, the works of five composers, accompanied by a corresponding lighting design, sound each day from the bridge in sync with the playing of the Town Hall’s bells.
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Entertainment One’s Secret Location said it will adapt Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Great C” into a cinematic virtual reality (VR) narrative.
The VR animated film will premiere today at the Venice Film Festival and debut in the fourth quarter of 2018. It features a poignant storyline, a beautifully animated environment, and a moving soundtrack.
The Great C will transport viewers to a post-apocalyptic landscape in which the remnants of humanity are ruled over by an all-powerful supercomputer known as the Great C. Each year, the nearby village is forced to send a young person on a pilgrimage to appease the mysterious machine — a journey from which no one ever returns.
The story follows Clare, a young woman who finds her life upended when her fiancé is summoned for the annual pilgrimage. Forced to leave the safe confines of her village, Clare has to decide whether to accept the rules of this harsh society or fight against the oppressive reality of her world.
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“Philip K. Dick’s wonderfully forward-thinking stories have always felt primed for telling in equally forward-thinking media. Secret Location is highly focused on ushering in the future of storytelling, so pairing The Great C’s provocative themes with our VR development prowess is helping us redefine how we consume sci-fi stories,” said Ryan Andal, president and cofounder of Secret Location, in a statement. “Authors have long adhered to the ‘show, don’t tell’ technique. We’re hard-pressed to find a better way to ‘show’ a story than in VR — adapting Philip K. Dick’s The Great C only makes our ability to ‘show’ even stronger.”
With The Great C, Secret Location wants to push the boundaries of cinematic experiences by utilizing film techniques in areas such as editing, composition, and story structure and adapting them for a new medium, making VR feel visceral. This cinematic language is melded with real-time, room-scale characters and environments to engage audiences in a storytelling style tailor-made for VR.
Dick is the author behind stories such as The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — the latter of which inspired the classic movie Blade Runner. The Great C will be the first-ever adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story into VR.
The Great C will debut at the Venice Film Festival. Following the premiere, it will be offered as a timed exclusive at select location-based venues beginning this September.
The title will be available for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR, with an expected release in Q4 2018. Toronto-based Secret Location produced The Great C with the support of the Canadian Media Fund. Secret Location was founded in 2009 and acquired by Entertainment One in 2016. Entertainment One has a movie library valued at $1.7 billion.
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The now widely employed CCP2 assay, which detects circulating autoantibodies to a panel of synthetic, cyclic citrullinated peptides, carries a positive predictive value of 0.93 for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) among early undifferentiated arthritis (UA) patients, 1 thus providing a cornerstone of recently evolved scoring systems that predict and classify early RA. 2 However, approximately 80% of newly presenting UA patients are anti-CCP2- negative 3 and a quarter of these evolve into RA within 3 years, 1 thus experiencing diagnostic delay. The peptides used in the CCP2 assay do not necessarily correspond to in vivo generated proteins, yet citrullinated antigens of putative pathophysiological relevance have recently been described in association with specific circulating autoantibodies in RA. 4 Therefore, we hypothesised that the detection of one or any such autoantibodies, as well as those against filaggrin components of the CCP1 assay, 5 IgA or IgM rheumatoid factor (RF), might add to the diagnostic utility of CCP2 testing alone in predicting RA progression among early UA patients.
Author(s): Pratt AG, Charles PJ, Chowdhury M, Wilson G, Venables PJ, Isaacs JD
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Well, I didn't want to deal with the pain of getting a real sleeve done so I bought these. Interchangeable. There was a couple that I did lose right away, not because of the product but because said "nice tat's where'd you get it done" and I just took it off and gave it to them. Only slight problem is.....if your pale as a ghost or don't wear a watch or shirt, they'll be easy to tell that they're fake. Why do I say this? Let's break it down...I'm 6'1, medium build with decent sized arms. I wear a XL sized shirt. These went from my wrists almost up to the end of my arms. Down by the wrist part is where it ends so you have to fold it under "if your looking for the real look". That poses a small problem with overlap, so to take care of that, put on a watch and wah-lah...problem fixed. They are nylon, obviously and have somewhat of a dark color to them, but not dark..it's more tan. In your hands are white as an albino, obviously...up close, they know they're fake. All in all, great product; no complaints.
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The shapes that are chosen in each design mean something different. The tetrahedron always represents fire while a cube will represent the earth. If you choose designs that have icosahedron’s that signifies your water while octahedron’s represent the air you breath. Your spirit always comes in the shape of an dodecahedron. Many people believe that if you have these symbols tattooed over your body that they will bring health and healing to your body. The symbols balance things out bringing perfect harmony to your body. No surprise then that these types of tattoos have been used like amulets to the body. People believe that geometric tattoos have magical qualities to them that can be used to heal. By putting it on the body you are becoming closer to the spirituality that you are looking for. These ideas have been brought into contemporary times and are becoming an interest for a lot of people.
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When you decide to remove your tattoo, laser tattoo removal works to break up pigment for permanent removal of the ink.During your tattoo session, your artist slowly inputs pigment one bit at a time. With laser treatments the process is essentially reversed as laser energy works to slowly break up and release the pigment from the skin.With each treatment your tattoo will slowly fade away. After a course of treatments, your tattoo will be virtually unnoticeable, without harm to your skin.
Cambodia has a rich history and very ancient temples, it also has beautiful looking characters and words. As such it has become quite popular for people to get tattooed when they travel to Cambodia. It became even more in the last decade since Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie went under the gun with a Khmer style tattoo on her back and since then many have copied this style.


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It was my birthday recently and I woke to a big dump of snow together with the information that I smell like poo. This news was sung to me over the phone by a gleeful Amy. It made my snowbound day.
So wrapped in layers of clothing and huddled around a candle - there's no heating in my flat - I spent the day reading Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec.
Perec, who died aged 46 in 1982, was a French novelist, filmmaker and essayist, as well as a member of the Oulipo group.
Founded in 1960, Oulipo, Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, continues to bring together intellectuals and masochists who enjoy making the art of writing even more difficult than it already is. They bind themselves with constraints so tight their vowels bleed. For instance, in a lipogram, the writer will deliberately exclude using a number of predetermined letters; in one variation, the prisoner's constraint, the writer will not use any letter with a descender or ascender, the letters b, d, f, g, etc.
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Perec, who among his many accomplishments compiled exacting crosswords for Le Point, once wrote a univocalic novella, Les Revenentes, in which 'e' was the only vowel he permitted himself. In contrast, his novel, La Disparition, was written without once using the letter 'e'.
You could say he was an eccentric. Or an ccntric.
La Vie Mode D'Emploi, or Life: A User's Manual, is his best known and most admired work. Needless to say, Perec did not make the work of writing his novel simple but an exercise in lexical acrobatics
I read somewhere the claim that Perec was a structuralist. Having studied the subject, I am less than sure, unless the writer is referring to the structure of the novel in which case Perec is less a structuralist and more an architect.
In Life: A User's Manual, Perec takes as his starting point the imaginary elevation of a building with rooms, including the stairwells, that form a ten by ten grid. The whole is imagined as existing in a single moment, as if a painting. The book travels around the building in a series of chess moves known as the Knight's Tour with one chapter devoted to each room. The stories relating to each are constructed by the use of a mathematical device: over the ten by ten grid of the building Perec lays a Graeco-Latin bisquare. From the little I understand, Graeco-Latin bisquare is an instrument whereby from a given number of elements or themes all possible combinations are revealed on the different squares without any repetition. To quote from Frieze:
Each box in which the knight landed gave coordinates referring to the ‘schedule of obligations’. These lists provided the objects, emotions, places and periods in time which would feature within each chapter.
In a scholarly paper, Memory and Oulipian Constraits, Peter Consenstein identifies '42 themes [that] were divided into ten groupings of four each, leaving room for two extra "themes." He goes on to suggest that Perec employs the constraints he imposes as the means to create the themes, 'In essence, the constraint determines the novel's themes; the theoretical consequences of working under constraint are such that the novel is "constraint-driven" not "theme-driven."
This may make the Life: A User's Handbook sound as joyous to read as John Harrison's Principles of Mr. Harrison's Time-Keeper, but joyous it is. To quote Paul Auster, who reviewed the book for The New York Times shortly after its English publication:
To read Georges Perec one must be ready to abandon oneself to a spirit of play. His books are studded with intellectual traps, allusions and secret systems, and if they are not necessarily profound (in the sense that Tolstoy and Mann are profound), they are prodigiously entertaining (in the sense that Lewis Carroll and Laurence Sterne are entertaining).

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The musical revue is a strange and quirky hybrid. Many that pay tribute to celebrated composers and lyricists, such as Lyric Theatre's “Some Enchanted Evening,” offer dozens of certifiable hits, but usually do so without any kind of supporting narrative. Others tend to devise a sketchy story on which to hang the familiar tunes. Neither is a fail-safe method that guarantees success.
As its title suggests, “Some Enchanted Evening” honors the 17-year partnership between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, one of the most productive and lucrative of the 20th century. They produced five unqualified hit musicals, but even their flops contained a few musical gems.
Director Ashley Wells assembled a cast of five singers for this expansive survey, one that featured more than 50 musical numbers. If that many songs were performed in their entirety, this would have been a three-hour production. Instead, this musical sampler zips by in 90 minutes.
Created by Jeffrey B. Moss 30 years ago, “Some Enchanted Evening” offers a constant reminder of Rodgers and Hammerstein's incredible musical talents. Its construction, however, hasn't aged well. No sooner do we hear a familiar musical hook or a snippet of a lyric than Moss yanks us into another melody, more often than not from another show.
The speed at which these musical numbers fly by rarely allows the performers to create a mood, much less a sense of character. Is that even a necessary component of a successful revue? It depends on your perspective.
Those who know the shows in which these songs originated may be disappointed by the lack of characterization. One simply can't divorce “Maria” from the scene in which the nuns prattle about their postulant's flightiness. Here, a tenor uses it to contemplate which of two girls he prefers.
Another recasts the Liesl/Rolf duet “Sixteen Going On Seventeen” for two women, an approach that fails to capture the saccharine charms of the original. And yet, such concerns will scarcely matter to those whose familiarity with these tunes isn't connected to the shows that produced them. After all, countless popular singers covered these songs during radio's heyday.
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My mother in law passed away Sunday night. As a consequence we find ourselves in Phoenix, Arizona to mourn her death where she died with family. She was aware that she was dying, having been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer some six weeks back. She was expected to live four to six months but obviously did not make it that long. There will be no funeral as she was cremated, but there will be a gathering of family and friends to remember her life. I am not sure if I will be asked to say anything about her life or not, so this may end up here only. I will do my best to communicate these thoughts in person if they cannot be done publicly.
It would seem, as a son in law, that my relationship with Mom should have been largely superficial and meaningless. Yet it certainly was not meaningless to me. She was the mother of the woman I love, so I had an inkling that time spent with her would be well spent. If nothing else, it would help me better understand the woman I married. In fact, our relationship spanned nearly thirty years, an extraordinarily long time. And I felt we had a relationship of some depth.
I first remember meeting Mom in Arlington, Virginia a couple of months after my wife and I began dating and long before she had become anything more than a new girlfriend. The location was The Orleans House, a steak house in Rosslyn known for its prime rib and tuxedoed waiters. Mom was in town basically to check me out. Was I good enough for her daughter? I never really found out, but I got the sense that I met her seal of approval, which should have surprised me. In 1983, I was not a terrific prospect. I had little inkling of my future career in information technology, and eked out a modest living as a production controller for the Defense Mapping Agency. At the time I could not even afford to live independently.
There is a big difference in being nurtured by a mother and acquiring one as a result of marriage. My own mother, who passed away in 2005, I found to be a challenge to love sometimes. We loved each other but our relationship had rocky spots. With Mickey there was no baggage. The woman I found I liked.
From the start she was not Mickey but simply Mom to me. This was because to me I sensed nothing but mom vibes from her. Moreover, I wanted a mother relationship with her and I sensed she wanted a son relationship with me. In some ways, our relationship was ideal. It did not have the baggage that I carried with my own mother. The same I think was true with her. We both got to enjoy the fruits of a nurturing mother-son relationship without any of its downsides. It was win-win. I sensed she truly enjoyed knowing me and including her in her life.
Mom was always uniformly kind and loving to me. In fact, it would be hard to have asked for a much better mother in law. She remembered my birthday with cards even when sometimes my own mother did not. (Well, she did have eight of us.) I enjoyed talking with her on the phone and often asked how things were going in her life. She often wanted to hear things about my life as well. She was very generous of her time and energy. Whenever we visited, she insisted on hosting us, and the spare bedroom wasn’t good enough. She vacated her room and we got her bedroom.
My only real regret is not having spent more time with her. In truth, over thirty years I saw her quite a bit, just not as often as I would have liked. Mostly it was hard for her to visit us, so we had to visit her, and we couldn’t do it every year. But I have come here enough over thirty years to still feel very attached not just to her, but to you all and to the Phoenix area. With every trip here I carry back wonderful memories of our time here, mostly with you. I remember bringing Rosie here when she was just over a year old and reveling in a traditional Hamilton Thanksgiving. It was such a change from Thanksgivings that I remember, full of good food, good company, and lots of laughing. To me, Phoenix is like a second home that I visit from time to time, and when I am here I always feel very much at home, loved and included. What I get from all this is that the Hamiltons are a close and loving bunch. You were raised right and a lot of that rubbed off on Mickey, and thus on my wife. In some ways I envy Terri because you all stay so close to each other. I love my siblings, but we will never be close in the way all of your are close. I think the intimacy you share is neat and special.
I’m going to miss Mom. She filled in those parts of my own mother than I wanted filled. Particularly after my own mother died in 2005, I found I appreciated Mickey even more. I thought that Mothers Day would be sad, but it was not because I still had a real mother in my life, and I could pick up the phone and wish her a happy Mothers Day, and send her a Mothers Day card too. Having her around made dealing with the loss of my own mother much more bearable.
The irony is that I did not tell her most of these things when she was alive. One thing I did say to her, mostly on the telephone, but in person when I had the chance was simply, “I love you, Mom.” And of course she would tell me, often unsolicited, that she loved me too. So I guess that says it all. I am sorry though that I never shared these particular thought from my heart with her. But I think she felt them.
I leave you with thoughts I echoed at my mother’s memorial service that may be of comfort to you. I find six years later these thoughts are not only still a comfort to me, but still ring true. It is simply this: she is still alive inside of you. She is not here in the flesh, but she is with you in spirit. Moreover, there is no getting rid of her. She is absorbed and integrated inside of you. She is in every step you take and in every breath you take. You were changed forever simply because you have known her. She remains, literally, a heartbeat away.
To Jesse: my deepest condolences on the loss of your wife. To Bill, Fran, Peggy, Jim and Bob: I don’t know what it’s like to lose a sister, but I am devastated for your loss. To Dave, I have walked in your shoes and know what it is like to witness the decline of your mother up close. You have my deepest empathy and I am so sorry for the heartache, stress and your enormous loss. To all of you: I hold you and your sorrow closely in my heart. I can only wish I had the opportunity to have known Mickey like you have known her.
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Ann Aspden grave monument in Layton (section G) Cemetery, Blackpool, Lancashire, England
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Margaret Ellen Patton
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|09/11/1899||19||1880||grand son of Ann Aspden||son of late Ralph and Maria|
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All Australian states and territories have lifted mandatory five-day COVID-19 quarantine requirements.
The decision to end the rule was made by the National Cabinet at its September meeting.
Victoria was the first state to lift mandatory quarantines on Wednesday, followed by others on Friday.
Residents of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria will also no longer be required to report a positive rapid antigen test online.
The government continues to encourage people who have tested positive for COVID-19 to stay home if they feel unwell and wear a mask if they need to leave their homes.
We also encourage workers in high-risk settings, such as healthcare and aged care, to stay away from work for seven days if they are COVID-positive, if possible.
New South Wales Prime Minister Dominic Perrotet said the country was moving towards a system of ‘good faith’ where people look out for and care about each other.
“There could be another wave of COVID in the future. In fact, we probably expect it. It means that by doing the test, we can take care of ourselves and our families,” he said. told reporters.
South Australia’s chief health officer, Nicola Spurrier, said she believes communities have individual responsibility.
“A lot of the time we didn’t have a legal mandate, but people were still doing it. I’m sure it will continue next month.”
Perrottet said it was the right decision and lobbied for all separation rules to be repealed.
“It’s time for Australia to move forward. I believe in freedom… I believe in freedom.”
Australia scales back pandemic response, except for Western Australia
Most states, including Victoria, which had the world’s longest lockdown in its capital Melbourne, ended their emergency powers after deciding further extension was inappropriate.
However, Western Australia appears poised to pass legislation for ‘continued management’ of COVID-19 that gives law enforcement broad powers.
This includes the power to “break and enter any place or vehicle” to enforce health orders.
Labor MP David Templeman, leader of the House of Commons, said the new proposal should allow for a “temporary fit-for-purpose legal framework” to manage COVID-19.
“The reason why it is important that the bill is processed as soon as possible is to allow COVID-19 to be managed outside of the emergency and these arrangements to expire after two years,” he said in September. said in parliament. . twenty one.
National Party leader Shane Love said the state was out of step with the rest of the country.
“These states have made dramatically different decisions than this government on these measures and how to transition to the next phase,” he said. “I hope the government doesn’t jump up and take the easy way out and say, ‘Look how they manage everything else.'”


Question about Samsung SCX 4521F All-In-One Laser Printer
My Samsung SCX-4521F is making a terrible grinding noise everytime I power it up or run a print/copy through it (It still print/copies but with a lot of noise).
If I pull the paper tray out there is a black toggle/finger that I can press and the machine goes through as if the paper tray was there (including the grinding noise).
The black toggle/finger is to the left of a "black rubber thing", which is positioned dead center inside the paper feed cavity. This "black rubber thing" has one white wheels on each side of it.
Now if I press the "black rubber thing" it clicks up, and then when I got to press the black toggle/finger there is no more grinding noise :-)
... but then I load the paper tray back, run a copy and the print now displays a "PAPER JAM 0" error.
I hope my not very technical description explains my issue (either grinding noise and print OR no noise and no print plus a paper jam :-)
Please help before I unleash my ninja fury on the "black rubber thing"
Lub rails front and back. Make sure ribbon isnt seized.
Posted on Oct 30, 2012
If you are not a technical person best thing to do is to show it to an expert. grinding noise means some part in the machine is running with the friction. and might brake something or scratch something. Find out persons who work on photocopiers in your area either samsung or Xerox. as this model comes with both the companies and Xerox people are generly better than samsung people.
Posted on Jun 07, 2008
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Posted on Jan 02, 2017
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