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Peach and Blue Paperback – Picture Book, 14 April 1998
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- Publisher : Random House USA Children's Books; Illustrated edition (14 April 1998)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 32 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0679890955
- ISBN-13 : 978-0679890959
- Reading age : 3 - 7 years
- Dimensions : 20.32 x 0.36 x 25.4 cm
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This old-fashioned tale of friendship radiates warmth and authenticity. In every respect, this is a standout title. --Booklist A romantic tale of love and friendship, set off by exquisite artwork. --Family Life There couldn't be a simpler, more straightforward, or more touching love story than this. --Family Fun For fanciers of old-fashioned children's books...romantic, lushly colored illustrations. --Publishers Weekly
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Illustrated in full color. He is a blue-bellied toad hopping aimlessly through life. She is a sad peach yearning for escape and adventure. Then one remarkable day, Peach and Blue explore the pond that Blue calls home and awaken each other to a world neither has ever really seen before. Lush illustrations by the award-winning illustrating team of "The Salamander Room and "The Frog Prince, Continued perfectly complement this unique and graceful story.
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Nothing lasts forever. . . but for now you have me and I have you!!!13 June 2018 - Published on Amazon.com
My all time favorite book in the forty-two years of teaching. I used this book to teach writing craft: imagery, magic three, alliteration, simile, metaphors and so much more. . . even used it for math and cooperative learning activities. . . and social studies for friendship and family relations.Thank you Sara Kilborne!!!
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A sweet and sensitive tale about friendship and impermanence17 January 2018 - Published on Amazon.com
A sweet and sensitive tale about friendship and impermanence. A book loved by children and adults...with beautiful and evocative pictures.
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Peach and Blue16 February 2015 - Published on Amazon.com
I am teaching my class all about friendship and this book was the perfect reading. I also gave a copy to my husband as a Valentine gift. A reminder of how we all need a little of Peach and Blue in our lives. A very enduring book
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Love this one17 September 2015 - Published on Amazon.com
This is quite possibly my favorite kids book. I used to do a reading followed by craft class and I used this for it. I also took it to be the secret reader for the boy I nanny. I've found that the kids to whom I've read it, enjoy the story and understand the message behind it.
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Children Are a Gift to Us: Aboriginal-Specific Early Childhood Programs and Services in Canada
This article examines the intents and rationales of Aboriginal early childhoodprograms and services in Canada. Specifically, it explores the political and policycontexts in which they were developed, the historic and colonial narratives to whichthey responded, and the economic and community needs to which they wereaddressed. The article spans several decades of program development and ends with adiscussion of the most recent Canadian initiatives (and subsequent tensions) focusedon an integrated or single-window Early Learning Child Care initiative. Inconclusions and recommendations, the article reviews and advocates ideologies thatare shifting to a broader recognition of Indigenous ways of knowing and being asintegral to any programs or services in Canada for Aboriginal children and familiesthat seek to enhance their health and well-being.


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This may be considered the better venue in the Arusha area. The grounds are well kept. The rooms are cute, but feel only adequate. I think they try hard...
But, one gets the sense of it being a money grubby operation. It is gawndawful expensive...More
We spent our last 3 safari days in this resort on the outskirts of Arusha (30mins to the town center, 1h to Kilimanjaro airport) to unwind and regain our bearings.
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The Arumeru is somewhat off the beaten path, quite a bit outside the center of Arusha. The lodge is pretty close to Arusha National Park and Mt. Meru. The pluses of the lodge include: quiet, beautiful rustic setting, with lots of dik-diks and monkeys running...More
What a lovely place! A little oasis tucked in the middle of a garden. The staff were lovely and breakfast was great, especially when a velvet monkey stole my bread! Little diksdiks graze around you whilst you sunbathe round the pool.
We stayed at Arumeru River lodge for two nights to start our Safari.
The lodge is located in a very nice garden with great pool and the main building looks beautiful. The staff is friendly and nothing to complain about the food.
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Hi, there is lots of options in the area - check out local markets, learn something about coffee, you can go horse riding, there is even a golf course close by. Sure that the lodge will help you to organize. Arusha from my... More
Hi, there is lots of options in the area - check out local markets, learn something about coffee, you can go horse riding, there is even a golf course close by. Sure that the lodge will help you to organize. Arusha from my point of view isn't that pretty, typical African though!
If you were with a Safari company, they would pick you up and drop you at the lodge. If you're traveling on your own, you'll probably need to find transportation to the lodge from the airport. You might want to ask... More
If you were with a Safari company, they would pick you up and drop you at the lodge. If you're traveling on your own, you'll probably need to find transportation to the lodge from the airport. You might want to ask someone at the airport to help you with this so as to get a reliable driver. It's about a 30 to 45 minute ride, most of it on roads through the woods.
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Changing the Business of Golf: Episode 3
Episode three of the new docuseries Changing the Business of Golf is streaming now – and follows the greenkeeping team as they transform Stanedge Golf Club.
‘On Course for Change’ features Head Greenkeeper Christian ‘CJ’ Johnson as he oversees a major course upgrade while coping with new parenthood; Greenkeeper David Morgan renovates an overgrown par-three; and we meet new recruit James Wyatt, a pilot grounded by the pandemic, as he swaps runways for fairways.
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New research published in Nature has shown how genome sequencing can be rapidly established to monitor outbreaks.
Researchers designed a “genome sequencing laboratory in a suitcase”, employing a novel DNA sequencer, transporting the equipment in less than 50kg of airline luggage. This was initially deployed in Conakry, Guinea in April 2015 where Ebola samples from patients could be sequenced as soon as new cases were diagnosed. This reduced delays shipping to traditional genome laboratories often located on a different continent. The team found that they could generate sequencing information in as little as 24 hours after receiving a sample, with the sequencing process taking less than an hour.
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The Ebola outbreak in West Africa was the deadliest occurrence of the disease since its discovery in 1976. Since the first confirmed case was recorded on 23 March 2014, over 11,000 people have died as the result of the virus.
The epidemic was officially declared to be over on 14 January 2016. However, just hours later, a new case was confirmed in Sierra Leone. New cases, when sequenced and linked to a database of previous sequences can provide important clues as to their origin. The sequencing laboratory, currently located in Nongo, Guinea, will continue to provide surveillance information until the outbreak is officially declared to be over.
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Executive design, Safety Coordination during the design phase
The service concerns the preparation of the executive design for the “Specialized technical support service for the extraordinary maintenance works for the replacement of safety barriers and expansion joints on the Carusa Viaduct on S.S. 626“. S.S. 626 della Valle del Salso is a major communication road that connects Caltanissetta and Gela, running predominantly within the territory of Nisseno.
For the project involving the removal of the existing barriers and installation of new ones, the selection of restraint devices was made in accordance with the provisions of the Ministerial Decrees dated 3.06.1998, 11.06.1999, 21.06.2004, 28.06.2011, taking into account the certification requirements. Regarding the destination (type of barrier to be installed), the selection was based on the test report (Crash Test) issued by accredited laboratories.
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Alaska Airlines emerged as No. 1 in customer satisfaction while Hawaiian Airlines finished dead last among the 14 domestic carriers in the first survey of the airline industry conducted by Consumer Reports.
The survey indicated a high correlation between the financial health of the airline and its ability to satisfy customers.
Honolulu-based Hawaiian, for instance, lost $121 million last year, while Alaska has earned a profit 18 consecutive years, including $15 million last year on operating revenues of $895.7 million.
Clustered just ahead of Hawaiian were Eastern Airlines, placing 13th, which went out of business in January; Pan American World Airways Inc., ranking 12th, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection six months ago; Continental Airlines, RTC placing 11th, which sought bankruptcy in November, and TWA, finishing 10th, which has said it may seek bankruptcy protection.
But not every well-rated airline is a financial star. America West Airlines, which filed for Chapter 11 protection last week, finished third, and Delta Air Lines Inc. was second.
In the survey, 140,000 subscribers to the magazine rated their last two flights in nine categories, including on-time performance, food quality, cleanliness, baggage handling and check-in service.
In all, they provided data on 250,000 domestic flights from January 1989 to May 1990, with each carrier rated on at least 1,500 flights.
Other publications rank airlines, but the Consumer Reports survey is receiving special attention within the travel industry because of the magazine's reputation for consumer advocacy. The flagship publication of the non-profit Consumers Union organization, the magazine carries no advertising.
"I think there is a correlation between an airline's financial condition and its performance," said Richard E. Livingston, chairman and chief executive of the Airline Passengers Association of North America, a consumer group based in Arlington, Va.
"Maybe not its on-time performance or safety record, but those extra touches. When you have to start watching the bottom line so closely, then good meals, good service and those other extras that make a flight enjoyable are the first to go."
Consumer Reports did not ask respondents to rate airlines on safety, although safety was listed as paramount by those who responded to the recent survey conducted among readers of Euromoney, the monthly British journal of world money markets.
In that poll, American Airlines, at No. 4, was the only United States carrier to finish in Euromoney's top 10. "We didn't ask about safety because we consider that to be a matter of expert opinion," said Mark Kotkin, the senior researcher for the Consumer Reports survey.
Alaska Airlines, founded in Alaska in 1932 and now based in Seattle, serves mostly the Western states. It also flies to four cities in Mexico, and last month began three flights a week to Magadan and Khabarovsk, in the Soviet Union. In October, it will begin two daily round trips from Los Angeles to Toronto.
The Consumer Reports ranking is the latest in a string of honors that have come Alaska Air's way.
"We were rated the No. 1 U.S. carrier in 1990 and 1989 by the Conde Nast Traveler, and Air Transport World's airline of the world last year," said Greg Witter, the airline's manager of media relations.
"But Consumer Reports carries with it a level of significance that's tough to match."
Not surprisingly, other carriers that finished low in the Consumer Reports rankings point to what they say are flaws in the survey -- especially the 10-to-30-month lag between the flights assessed and publication of the assessment.
USAir, the airline with the most flights out of Baltimore-Washington International Airport, finished ninth in the survey published in the July issue of the influential consumer-interest magazine.
A spokeswoman for USAir called the report "ancient history" based on information gathered when the airline was having operational problems caused by its merger with Piedmont Arlines.
Since then USAir has substantially improved its performance, she said, noting the line's first-place ranking in the May customer service survey done by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Germany has fallen into a recession due to a significant energy price increase that impacted consumer spending. Official data released on Thursday revealed that the production in the country’s largest economy dropped by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2023. This followed a 0.5% contraction at the end of 2022. The Federal Statistical Office revised its previous prediction of zero quarter-on-quarter growth in gross domestic product (GDP). A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of production decline.
The agency explains that “a sustained high price hike continued to weigh on the German economy at the beginning of the year.” The reduction in consumer spending was clear in particular in household expenditure, which declined by 1.2% in the first quarter of 2023,” said Klaus Wistesen, chief eurozone economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics. The spending shrank due to an “energy price shock.”
However, timely PMI survey data published earlier this week show that German business activity improved again in May, despite a severe downturn in manufacturing. This suggests that the recession may be brief. This is a developing story that will be updated as further details become available.


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Shanling’s new M9 improves upon the award winning M8 DAP with overall evolution being made to bring a higher level of sound performance, premium design, and user experience to audiophiles.
It starts with the design and build. While the M9 is made of CNC milled aluminium chassis similarly to the M8, what is different now is Shanling adopting a brand-new design approach which was inspired by their 25th anniversary edition HiFi line-up. The complex wave pattern running down the sidewall of the M9 contributes not only to the premium looks but also makes the M9 one of the best devices to be held on your palm.
A large 6-inch LCD screen of high pixel density spans nearly edge to edge across the device. Shanling even added a notch display at the top center of the screen which I am not a fan favorite of but does help to display additional information of the device. The removable headphone socket of the M8 is here to stay, making the M9 feel uncluttered by unused ports.
The M9 comes out of box with Android 10 operating system, it further extends the service life of the device for future updates of 3rd party applications. Taking advantage of the operating system is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 SoC processor flanked with 8GB of System Memory and 256GB worth of internal storage. Battery life is also excellent thanks to the built-in 8350 mAh battery which carries the M9 for up to 18 hours of continuous battery life off the single ended output.
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Uttarakhand floods: Bahuguna heckled in Joshimath
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Dehradun: Days after Uttarakhand got almost inundated due to flash floods and landslides, the state`s Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna on Thursday faced the wrath of locals in Joshimath.
Bahuguna was heckled by people in Joshimath, where he had gone to oversee rescue and relief operations.
According to reports, slogans were raised against the Uttarakhand CM. The loclas claimed that they have not received any relief from the government.
Bahuguna then assured help to the locals seething with anger and left in his chopper.
The Uttarakhand CM has said he was numbed by the magnitude of the tragedy, which has almost devastated the otherwise picturesque area.
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Visit Salmon, Idaho and Find Adventure
Salmon, Idaho is the home of Solitude River Trips, and is the base for our Middle Fork operations. We have grown to love this bustling small town and all of its quirks, and are excited to introduce visitors to the wide range of activities they can find here. We’ve compiled a list of things to do and see when you visit Salmon, Idaho. There is always more to do than meets the eye!
Walk the historic and picturesque Main Street and do some shopping at local stores. When you visit Salmon, Idaho make sure and check out Jaxonbilt for the perfect river hat, Arfman’s for stylish outdoor apparel, Mountain Harvest for local foods and gear, and the Salmon River Fly Box for all your fly fishing needs.
Take a hike – visit nearby Discovery Hill, offering 32 miles of trails for hikers and bikers. You’ll have amazing views of town below and the Beaverhead Mountains overhead. Visitors to the area can also walk portions of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail and experience a landscape largely unchanged since the Corps of Discovery passed through the area in 1805.
Visit the Lemhi County Museum on Main Street and learn the history of Salmon and stories from generations of river users and explorers alike. They also have a large collection of Shoshone artifacts, educating visitors about the people who came before us. There is a lot learn when you visit Salmon, Idaho!
Salmon is known as the birthplace of Sacajawea. After being kidnapped at age 12 by an enemy tribe and forced to leave her home, she was finally able to travel back through her birthplace with the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805. You can visit the Sacajawea Center in Salmon to learn more about her incredible resiliency and her immense historical importance. There are usually special events including indoor and outdoor concerts, annual historical events, dutch-oven cookouts, festivals, kids summer camps, and family historical programs throughout the months of summer and early autumn. Visitors can also enjoy the scenic walking trails of the beautiful 71-acre park.
The town of Salmon recently invested in a man-made surf wave located in the center of town where the Salmon River flows under the bridge of highway 93. Head out to Island Park in the middle of the river and enjoy the scenery and tranquility. You might be able to watch kayakers or surfers playing in the wave as well.
If you’re lucky and your time in Salmon happens to coincide with a show at the Sweet Water Hollow music venue, make sure you get tickets and check it out! Sweet Water is one of the most scenic music venues ever, nestled right along the Salmon River, with an eclectic bar, a variety of food trucks, and comfortable riverside areas to take in the music and the beauty.
If you’re hoping for some A/C and a comfortable place to relax back into modern life after your trip, you can see what movies are playing at The River Cinemas on Main Street. Prices are cheap and the popcorn is buttery!
Idaho is known for its abundance of wonderful natural hot springs, and Salmon definitely lives up to this reputation. Check out Sharkey Hot Springs, just 25 miles south of town. Man-made pools are filled with natural mineral hot springs in this modest but well-designed establishment. If you’re looking for something even more rustic, visit Gold Bug Hot Springs located 23 miles south of Salmon on highway 93. From the trailhead, it’s a two mile hike to the rock pool hot spring. The trail starts off relatively mellow, but definitely gets steep, totaling 1,325 feet in elevation gain. But of course, it’s all worth it once you’re soaking in some of the most fantastic natural hot springs in the state!
The Salmon Valley Golf Course offers reasonably priced golf and rentals on an incredibly enjoyable 9 hole course. It’s a real treat for golf enthusiasts accustomed to high prices and busy tee-times. The course is simple yet engaging and features stunning views of the Beaverhead Mountains. There is also a pro-shop, bar and restaurant.
The Pins and Tips Bowling Alley offers four lanes of classic amusement along with a delicious restaurant and bar. Head there the evening after your trip with all of your new river friends for some good-old-fashioned fun.
If you want to get out of town and into the mountains by car, you can head to either Williams or Wallace Lake, both just outside of Salmon. To get to Williams Lake, drive 15 miles south on Hwy 93 and Forest Road 028. You’ll find a small and quaint resort, and also a picnic area and campground run by the forest service. Here, you’ll be amazed by the fantastic rainbow trout fishing in the lake as well as the inlet, with a backdrop of mountain vistas. There is also a trailhead for the Thunder Mountain National Historic Trail at the end of FR 028. Wallace Lake is more remote and slightly more difficult to access, but also offers amazing fly fishing and camping or picnicking opportunities. From Salmon, go 3 miles north on US 93, 14 miles northwest on Forest Road 023, and 4 miles south on FR 020. The forest roads are unpaved and rough. The drive on Salmon River Mountain Road offers fantastic views of the Salmon River Range and of deep pine forests. The lake itself is crystal clear and full of a variety of native trout.
As you’ll learn on your trip with Solitude, Idaho is chock full of mining history. If your interest in this rough and remote past-time continues off the river, you can visit some of the historic mining ghost towns in the area. The town of Gilmore is located a little over 60 miles south of Salmon. Silver miners in the 1880s settled in Gilmore. At its peak, there were 600 people in the town, but by the 1930s it had essentially been abandoned. Today, the town is a popular destination for those interested in exploring abandoned buildings and ghost towns. Leesburg is another remote ghost town located about 30 miles west of Salmon in the Salmon National Forest. Estimates of the value of gold removed from its mines are as high as $40 million. By the end of World War II, the last remaining residents of the town moved to more comfortable surroundings turning Leesburg into a real ghost town. Not much remains except a few decaying cabins and piles of boulders.
If you have ample time to explore the area before or after your trip, you and your group could embark on a backpacking trip into the Bighorn Crags in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area located 60 miles west of Salmon. The drive is a little over 2 hours on dirt roads that take you deep into the mountains. The crags are a unique area of high alpine lakes existing at or around 8,000 feet, with surrounding spires as tall as 10,000 feet. The main trailhead at Crags Campground offers access to dozens of miles of trails taking users to pristine lakes full of native trout. It is an anglers paradise, but anyone and everyone will enjoy the beauty of the relatively untouched wilderness. You might recognize the names of several of the lakes and creeks from your trip down the Middle Fork, such as Ship Island, Wilson and Waterfall. These waterways are all tributaries to the Middle Fork and flow straight into the canyon.
We are proud to call Salmon, Idaho home, and hope to support our community by bringing interested visitors through the many engaging activities here. We look forward to seeing you next time you visit Salmon, Idaho!

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You are a cultist that is trying to summon a demon, over time your insanity goes further, and in the end, you are the last sacrifice to the fictional demon since I don't have time for the jam I am giving this idea out!
I know I'm not in the jam but I did this every day for the past 2 jams. failing to finish the last jam and not being able to do this jam has made me sad, so I will be doing my best next jam!
so there is this thing, called logging in an account into construct 3. that gives you 50 events and that's more than 25. also, look on my page all the things on it(other than a mod for a game) were made with 25-50 events. mostly less
Many things I learned are from accidents. Some things are when I open a project and just go ham to try to do that thing. Art on the other hand is the hardest part for me. Other than the animation process, it is something I struggle with. Exploring hand drawing would be fun. Maybe you could make a Paper background for the black and white so it looks like it's a piece of paper?
Hello kkairos, all of these goals are very good! Judging by your positive attitude you will be very active in the game dev community. I did a quick look at your games, didn't play any but judging from the art the game will probably look good. Just a reminder, allows have fun. If you are working hard and not having fun then put what you're working on aside for a bit and work on something else.
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Richard Linklater’s latest crime film, known for its relaxed vibe and standout performances by Glen Powell and Adria Arjona, is emerging as a top contender at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
At the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday night, the typically unassuming Richard Linklater took the spotlight as his latest movie, “Hit Man,” had its world premiere on the Lido. This darkly humorous thriller, featuring the incredibly charming Glen Powell and Adria Arjona (who were absent due to the SAG-AFTRA strike), resonated strongly with the festival audience, garnering a six-minute standing ovation and enthusiastic cheers.
Adapted from a true-crime magazine article penned by Skip Hollandsworth, who previously collaborated with Linklater on the 2011 film “Bernie,” “Hit Man” narrates the tale of a seemingly ordinary psychology professor who leads a double life as an undercover hitman for the New Orleans police. However, when he deviates from the rules to assist a desperate woman escaping an abusive relationship, he begins to embody one of his fake personas, developing feelings for her and teetering on the edge of a criminal transformation.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter before the world premiere, Richard Linklater, the indie film pioneer behind works like “Dazed and Confused,” “Boyhood,” and the “Before” trilogy, shared that it was Glen Powell, the film’s lead actor, who played a crucial role in getting the project off the ground. Powell, who had previously worked with Linklater on “Everybody Wants Some!!” and gained mainstream recognition with “Top Gun: Maverick,” contacted Linklater during the pandemic after reading the article.
“When I read the original article, I thought this material would be a great place for a dark comedy to take place,” Linklater remarked. “I had a few meetings about it over the years, but it just didn’t take off as a full story — until Glen Powell called me up during the pandemic and said, ‘Hey, I just read this great article about a hitman.’” The two then collaborated intensely during the pandemic to co-develop and co-write the screenplay.
Linklater also expressed his concerns about the current challenges facing independent filmmaking in the United States, likening it to something that has disappeared or succumbed to algorithms. He reflected on the differences in the filmmaking landscape compared to the 1990s when he began his career, acknowledging that today, certain projects would be difficult to bring to fruition. While recognizing the advantages of having been part of a vibrant filmmaking era, he remains hopeful for a brighter future in the industry.


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In our culture we are incredibly attached to the idea of falling in love and meeting Mr (or Miss) Right. There is something mysterious and hugely powerful about the process of falling in love with someone.
But we don’t realise that a more authentic, deeper love only comes once we’ve had to let go of that initial romantic experience.
It would be so nice, we may think, if that feeling of excitement, passion and bliss could last. But inevitably the honeymoon period comes to an end.
That’s when we can start to question whether we’re with the right person. After all, they’re not quite as affectionate as they used to be and maybe we don’t find them quite as irresistibly attractive as the early days. We also start to notice little things about them that we once found endearing but which now get on our nerves.
At this stage many people decide to throw in the towel, persuading themselves that their soul mate must be somewhere else ‘out there’. Others, especially couples with children, decide to stay together but may feel inwardly disappointed and resentful that their partner no longer makes them happy.
But how would it be if we viewed these relationship problems, this disillusionment, as potentially teaching us something about ourselves and our expectations of relationship?
As a therapist I’ve seen, again and again, how painful it is for couples to acknowledge the disappointment they have come to feel in each other and in the relationship. It is important that each partner voice these feelings in a compassionate rather than blaming way, and takes responsibility for their feelings.
The paradox is that once those disappointments are named, something can shift in the relationship. Both partners may recognize, for example, that they share similar disappointments and that these feelings may in some way relate to earlier, childhood disappointments.
We may learn that, in some ways, we have been treating our partner as a parent who can make everything right for us.
Gradually letting go of these unconscious expectations, and taking the risk of allowing the other to see our pain, can mean we are able to emotionally connect at a deeper level. That can lead to greater intimacy.

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A small brush fire in the Santa Clara River wash sparked a huge response by firefighting units Thursday around lunch time.
It burned an area just 40 feet by 40 feet, but prompted a response by two fire battalions that included eight fire engines, six water-dumping helicopters and a bulldozer.
The small spot fire near the intersection of Soledad Canyon Road and Bouquet Canyon Road — snuffed out before they could name it — was first reported at 1 p.m.
Firefighters dispatched at 1:01 p.m. arrived on the scene four minutes later, Inspector Joey Marron of the Los Angeles County Fire Department said.
The fire, which was near a bike path, was promptly extinguished, freeing up units called to the scene.


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Champion, Michael W.: Explaining the Cosmos: Creation and Cultural Interaction in Late-Antique Gaza. Oxford University Press, 2014. First edition. 8vo., pp. x, 241. Hardback: black cloth, silver-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, as new. In the series 'Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity'. Ref: 53381
Chardri: (Cartlidge, Neil, trans.:) The Works of Chardri Three Poems in the French of Thirteenth-Century England: The Life of the Seven Sleepers, The Life of St. Josaphaz and The Little Debate. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2015. 8vo., pp. 164. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Volume 462 in the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and Volume 9 in The French of England Translation ACMRS series. Ref: 53709
Chillingworth, William: The Religion of Protestants 1638. A Safe Way to Salvation. Menston: Scolar Press, 1972. Facsimile (Original Size). Folio. Small smudgy mark to title-page, otherwise very clean within. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine, small gilt centrepiece to upper board. Fading to spine and to boards towards edges, no dust-jacket, very good overall. Ref: 37560
Chin, Catherine M.: Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. First edition. 8vo., pp. 272. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unread, a hint only of shelf-wear: almost as new. In the Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Ref: 53628
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: (Mai, Angelo, ed.:) De Re Publica. Impressum Romae. Denvo Impressum Londini: impensis J. Mawman, 1823. 8vo., pp. LVI, 349, [i] + engraved frontispiece and 1 folding plate. Toned, heavy foxing to first few leaves, fore-edge of folding plate tattered. Presentation copy, contemporary brown calf heavily tooled in gilt and blind with gilt dedication to centre of upper board, marbled edges and endpapers. Recently and very sympathetically refurbished. To centre of upper board: 'St Paul's School / 1826 / Frederick Grueber Lugard / Quoesitum Meritis.' Pencilled inscription 'Lugard' to preliminary blank. Dibdin writes of the edition published in Rome the year before: 'A newly discovered work; which the Discoverer and Editor has published on paper of four sizes [?] The great strength, or most interesting portion, of this volume consists in the 2nd book: of which however much is yet wanting. The Somnium Scipionis forms the 6th book, of which fragments were known before.' (Dibdin I 4th ed, 463-4). This London edition contains two of the plates Dibdin lists for the Rome edition (the group of figures and the facsimile palimpsest), but was issued without the bust of Pius VII found in the latter. Colophon reads 'T. White and Co. Printers, 14 Bear Alley, London.' Rev. Frederick Grueber Lugard (1808-1900), British Army chaplain at Madras, was the father of Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (1853-1945), British soldier, mercenary and colonial administrator who served as Governor of Hong Kong and of Nigeria. Ref: 54127show full image..
Cicero, Marcus Tullius: (Nobbe, C.F.A., ed.:) Opera Omnia. Uno Volumine Comprehensa Curis Secundis Emendatiora et Adnotationibus Indicibusque Auctiora [...]. Lipsiae [Leipzig]: sumptibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii, 1850. Small folio. pp.v, [iii], vii, [i], 1460 + portrait frontispiece with tissue. A little faint staining to frontispiece, tissue foxed with light transfer to title-page, very good. Contemporary calf rebacked with original spine retained and one raised band repaired, blind tooled, school arms to centre of each board, marbled endpapers, cloth joints. Spine rubbed and sunned, quite scuffed, rear endpapers foxed, good overall. To front pastedown: Honour Prize bookplate from Edward VI Grammar School, Norwich to J.C. Rust dated June 1856; small booksellers' label of Galloway and Porter, Cambridge. To head of title page ownership inscriptions of J. Cyprian Rust and H.W. Moule. Karl Christoph Traugott Tauchnitz (1761?1836) founded his publishing house in Leipzig in 1798, having begun a printing business there two years earlier. Dictionaries, Bibles, and stereotyped editions of Greek and Roman Classics were Tauchnitz specialities. Ref: 54192show full image..
Clarke, Samuel: A General Martyrologie containing a Collection of All the Greatest Persecutions which have Befallen the Church of Christ [...] London: Printed for William Birch, 1677 Folio. 3 parts in 1, pp. , , 544, , 214, 217-315, 318-483, , plus frontispiece with engraved author's portrait, 11 engraved plates, 11 half-page engraved portraits of theologians, decorated initials and ornaments. Light browning, blank recto of frontispiece, title, verso of last leaf and upper edge of last two gatherings dust-soiled, upper margin lightly waterstained and softened or a trifle frayed in places, long tear without loss from lower edge extending to blank margin of L2, another from fore-edge of last leaf, ink splash to N3 and 3L2-3, minor repair to lower blank margin of frontispiece and 2L4, Y4 printed on separate leaves pasted together (cancels?). 18th-century half calf over marbled boards, rebacked to style, a.e.r., corners and extremities worn. A few 18th-century bibliographical annotations (some in shorthand) to frontispiece blank recto and elsewhere, autograph John Sale to frontispiece recto, another Josiah Lewis April 6 1767 to upper blank margin of frontispiece verso, 19th-century armorial bookplate of Trustees of William Coward Esq. (ms. note Brown Bequest 1881) to front pastedown, two labels of New College London Genera Library to front endpapers. A handsomely illustrated history of Protestant martyrs, written by the English Puritan preacher Samuel Clarke (1599-1682). Despite his strong Puritan views and harsh attacks against 'scandalous' religious in London, he was among the signatories against the execution of Charles I. First published in 1651 (here in the fourth edition), his 'Martyrologie' is an encyclopaedia of religious persecution from the foundations of Christianity to the 17th century. The general section includes persecutions mentioned in the Old Testament, proceeding with the 'primitive' persecutions, others in Persia, Africa, France, Bohemia and other areas of Europe (including the Baltic territories), those of Waldenses and Albigenses, and a last part on the more recent ones, with the martyrdom of William of Nassau, St Bartholomew's night, La Rochelle, Scotland and Ireland. The English sections comprises persecutions during the rule of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Danes, with special attention to the Tudor period. There are also biographies of major English Protestant theologians. The engraved plates, divided into smaller scenes, illustrates the torments of martyrdom, with captions: 'Chistians Braines Beaten out with Clubbe', 'Som broided upon Gridiron', 'Some were sawed asunder in the midle'. A very interesting and learned work. ESTC R14425. Ref: 52060show full image..
Classen, Albrecht (ed.): Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2004. First edition. 8vo., pp. 374. Hardback: green cloth, gilt-lettered. Dust-jacket. Unread: edges slightly dusted, otherwise as new. With a Commentary by the translator. Ref: 53394
Classen, Albrecht: Reading Medieval European Women Writers: Strong Literary Witnesses from the Past. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016. First edition. 8vo., pp. 236. Hardback: laminated decorative boards. Unused, a hint of shelf-wear only otherwise as new. Ref: 53849
[Claudian] Claudianus, Claudius: CL. Claudiani quae exstant Ex emendatione Nicolai Heinsy Dan: F. Venetiis [Venice]: Apud Nicolaum Pezzana, 1716. 12mo. pp. 261 , last blank, including engraved titlepage. Woodcut initials and ornaments. Title a trifle dusty. 18th-century vellum over boards, author's name inked to spine, raised bands, edges sprinkled red. Very minor loss at head and foot of spine. Bookplate of Ashmolean Library Oxford - Bequathed by Sir John Beazley 1970; early 18th-century inscription 'Libro di Lorenzo Pananti costo 3-5' to ffep; small stamp of Ashmolean Library to I4 and verso of last. Excellent, clean copy - in well-preserved vellum and clearly intended for use in schools - with the uncommented text of Claudianus's works, based on the Heinsius variorum first published in Leiden in 1650. The copy of Sir John Beazley (1885-1970), a major historian of ancient art at Oxford. Dibdin I, 211. Ref: 53289show full image..


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Frida Fest! 1/21-2/2 Two-week fiesta celebrating the life of artist Frida Kahlo in the Naples Art District! In collaboration with Arte Viva!
ARTFUL ARRANGEMENTS: Original Artwork Re-Imagined in Floral Designs
Discover the working studios of over 80 local artists to see creative floral interpretations of unique, original art.
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This article was originally published in Spanish by Revista Común.
Translated by Liza Schmidt.
The long fight for democracy in Mexico has been filled with contradictions. The debate around the AMLO’s reforms to the National Electoral Institute are no exception.
When President Andrés Manuel López Obrador first proposed reforms to Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE) in November 2022, tens of thousands protested in dozens of cities around the country. On February 22, the Senate approved reforms that will reduce sanctions for candidates who don’t report campaign spending and decrease funding for local elections offices, INE salaries, and training volunteer poll workers. AMLO has long criticized the organization, calling it corrupt, inefficient, and a tool of the elite. Critics say that these measures could lead to overspending on campaigns and miscounted votes, making the institution less independent, undermining democracy, and giving President AMLO’s party an electoral advantage in next year’s elections. But others say such claims are overblown—that although the reforms aren't perfect, INE is indeed guilty of excesses and has historically failed to foster a robust democracy.
Although Mexico’s electoral institute was originally created as part of struggles for democracy, it has now become, paradoxically, a center of support and mobilization for the neoliberal bloc. Curiously, calls by the institute’s first president Lorenzo Córdova (2014-2023) and electoral counselor Ciro Murayama (2014-2023) to “defend the INE” have been answered not by those propelling the fight for democracy, but instead by the most entrenched supporters of the neoliberal bloc: the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), the National Action Party (PAN), the corporate media, and big business owners like Claudio X. González Laporte, longtime president of Kimberly-Clark México.
This raises key questions: Why is the neoliberal bloc the main support base for the current electoral institute? Why these actors and not others? And why is the defense of INE today being waged by the Right and not the Left, the heir of the struggles for democracy of the late 20th and early 21st centuries? The answer lies in the fact that the INE went from being the product of democratizing struggles to becoming a guardian of the neoliberal Mexican state.
The INE’s precursor, the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), emerged in 1990 out of the fight for political democratization against the national-developmentalist state, led at the time by the PRI. The popular democratizing struggles that led to IFE’s creation began in 1968 with the student movement, which called for the democratization of the political regime. After the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, the movement split into multiple organizations that pushed for democratization on many fronts, including in labor, urban, and campesino movements. In the face of ongoing repression, some of these organizations even turned to armed struggle and faced the state’s dirty war for the majority of the 1970s.
Since then, a democratizing project has been outlined and sustained by left parties like the Mexican Communist Party (later the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico), the Mexican Workers’ Party, the Patriotic Revolution Party, the Popular Socialist Party, the Revolutionary Workers’ Party, and others.
At the same time, big business began getting involved in politics, demanding the creation of limits to the national-developmentalist authoritarian state and greater openness to corporate demands with the goal of gaining political ground and the ability to lobby for policies. This political activism led big business to join forces around the PAN.
In the early 1980s, as the global economic crisis hit Mexico and the Mexican government turned towards neoliberalism under President Miguel De la Madrid (1982-1988), a nationalist faction of the PRI led by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Ifigenia Martínez, and Porfirio Muñoz Ledo rebelled against the new hegemonic trend in the party. Allying with Left organizations and parties, they created the National Democratic Front (FDN) with the goal of making democratic changes to the political system and walking back state neoliberalization. In 1988, elections that were widely considered to be fraudulent demolished these hopes and imposed the continuation of neoliberal politics with the de facto presidency of the PRI’s Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
In response, both the parties of the left and the party of corporate lobbying briefly and partially converged in protest, demanding democratic openness. This alignment across usually conflicting opinions forced the Salinas government to yield to the pressure, leading to the creation of the IFE in 1990.
For some years, to prevent the PRI-led state controlling the organization, the IFE’s Citizen Council included a wide range of intellectuals and prominent figures representing right-wing business interests and left-wing organizations. However, over the years, this equilibrium was disrupted for two reasons. First, big business and the PAN established an alliance with the PRI to consolidate and expand the neoliberal state. Second, the IFE became increasingly technocratic, deepening the neoliberal ideology that had developed in social and political science programs in universities around the world.
When Salinas formally consolidated the neoliberal state in Mexico through widespread privatization, approving the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and making huge concessions to transnational and financial big business, the Mexican bourgeoisie and the PAN allied with Salinas. Evidence of this alliance could be seen in the Chamber of Deputies, where the leader of the PAN bloc, Diego Fernández Cevallos, offered unconditional support to Salinas. Big business associations also took supportive positions, including the Business Coordinating Council (CCE) and the Council of Mexican Businessmen (CMHN), whose president, Claudio X. González Laporte, became part of Salinas’s advisory council.
Meanwhile, in the 1990s, a huge ideological earthquake shook the world. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, it seemed like the era of great utopias and the fight between socialist and capitalist forces had come to an end. Capitalist hegemony established itself as the only political, economic, and cultural option around the world.
The free market doctrine—which later became known as neoliberalism—became the dominant ideological position, taking over schools of economics, finance, business, and administration, but also appearing in schools of social and political science. The fundamentalist idea that capitalist free market democracy is the only possible and true democracy took hold, with the democratic model of the United States as the unrivaled archetype. The United States pushed this idea tirelessly, financing grants, colloquia, symposia, postgraduate degrees, and projects that promoted the ideological project of neoliberal capitalist globalization as a quasi-scientific truth. Thus emerged the neoliberal conception of democracy, whose central tenet is electoral competition between political parties to access state power.
Neoliberal democracy brought free market economic theories into politics by conceiving of political parties as companies that should compete in a framework of absolute freedom to earn votes, as if voters were consumers. It worked like this: the citizens/consumers could acquire a political product, or candidate, through voting/money. This product was offered by parties/companies in a free competition environment. This arrangement reproduced concepts like buying and selling, supply and demand, and free competition in the political sphere, ignoring the problem of economic inequality created by capitalism, failing to propose an alternative for popular direct intervention in decision making, and refusing to disrupt the oligarchic organization of the neoliberal state. For this reason, the neoliberal idea of democracy was narrow, focused on electoral competition and rules, without any concern for social inequality.
When José Woldenberg became president of the IFE’s General Council, he applied a neoliberal democratic approach to running the institution. Disguised as an effort to increase citizen participation, the organization grew increasingly technocratic, where access to leadership roles required the highest credentials and postgraduate degrees from the most prestigious universities in Mexico, the United States, and Europe, the very birthplaces of neoliberal democracy. As in any technocratizing process, the guiding principle for selecting decision makers was technical expertise, which supposedly ensures that decisions are made without any political influence. Thus, presidents of the electoral institute boasted degrees from universities like the Universidad Anáhuac, El Colegio de México, University of Turin, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, or Columbia University.
When PAN candidate Vicente Fox won the 2000 presidential election after 71 years of PRI rule, Woldenberg promised that Mexico would achieve “the transition to democracy.” But in the 2006 presidential elections, there was fraud. Under the leadership of Luis Carlos Ugalde, the IFE played a crucial role in favoring the neoliberal bloc: it declared Felipe Calderón the winner, refused to carry out a complete recount, hired PRI-aligned mapaches electorales (Mexican slang for architects of electoral fraud), minimized thousands of inconsistencies in the vote count, and dismissed data-based studies by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México that showed anomalies as soon as the official vote count began.
In the 2012 presidential elections, the IFE turned a blind eye to massive vote buying by the PRI which, together with the private bank Monex and supermarket retailer Soriana, distributed prepaid gift cards as a means to win the presidency. This time, the IFE did not defend their own tenets of multiparty free competition.
Despite being the product of democratizing struggles at the end of the 20th century, the IFE’s turn towards technocracy and the general consolidation of neoliberal democracy sparked a silent radical reconfiguration of the electoral institute, converting it into a guardian of the neoliberal Mexican state, as clearly seen in the 2006 and 2012 elections.
In 2014, thanks to the neoliberal “Pact for Mexico” agreement between the PAN, PRI, and PRD (recently incorporated into the neoliberal bloc), the IFE was restructured as the National Electoral Institute (INE). The Pact for Mexico elected as INE president Lorenzo Córdova, who to this day has refused to reduce his disgraceful salary, has made racist comments against Indigenous people, and has undertaken a fierce fight to defend the INE as a defender of the neoliberal state. It is no coincidence that the INE’s main defense comes from the PRIANRD coalition—a combination of PRI, PAN, and PRD—and the neoliberal bloc: these are the same actors that elected Córdova and so it is natural that they would defend their creation.
The current conflict is ultimately between two distinct concepts of democracy: the neoliberal view that refuses to accept change under the slogan “don’t touch the INE” and the view that seeks to curb the extravagant spending of public resources and proposes that the organization be financially restructured.


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Breaking down and analyzing the 2018 Minnesota Golden Gophers football schedule.
2018 Minnesota Golden Gophers Football Schedule Analysis
– The Gophers don’t exactly extend themselves in non-conference play without any battles against Power Five programs, but the Fresno State game is a whole lot nastier now than it appeared to be a few years ago.
They get the newly-independent New Mexico State to start things out, and Miami University to close out the run of pastries – they’re not exactly cupcakes.
– The date with Iowa is a must-win as the lone home date in a rough stretch of three road games in four dates. At least there’s a week off before dealing with the Hawkeyes, but that’s it – it’s a two-month run the rest of the way.
The Nebraska and Wisconsin games are on the road, but Northwestern and Purdue have to come to Minneapolis in back-to-back Novembers weeks.
– The good: Minnesota misses Michigan, Michigan State and Penn State from the East. The bad: It has to go to Ohio State right after the Iowa showdown and just before the trop to Nebraska. On the plus side, having to deal with Maryland and Indiana in interdivisional play isn’t bad.

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