 a dissertation on the traditional and modern psychotrauma care in the post-conflict setting of Northern Uganda she finished the Master after Master programme on Cultures and Development at the Catholic University of Leuven. Since February 2010 she works at the Department of Orthopedagogics at Ghent University. There she works as a doctoral researcher studying the psychosocial well being of minor victims of sexual violence. For CCVS she supervises the project and team of CCVS RDC in Eastern Congo (Bunia, Ituri) where a psychosocial support centre offers sensitization, training and psychological counseling to Eastern Congolese children and adolescents and their environments.
All CollaboratorsThis was the second year in a row that we spent Thanksgiving at the beach. It is a new tradition that I plan on keeping for a little while.
The picture above is me with my receipt from CVS on Thanksgiving morning. I spent $32 and got $30 back in Extra Bucks. Same thing at Walgreens too. (It makes me sick to share this but I had looked at the date on my Walgreens bucks back wrong and let them all expire. It was $29 worth of free money to use there and I lost it all. UGH!)
We ate Thanksgiving dinner at K&W Cafeteria (for the 2nd year) and it was so yummy. It's really nice because everyone gets to pick exactly what they want.
A family picture minus my younger brother Jeff. He went on a cruise over Thanksgiving.
My aunt and uncle and cousin Amanda. Their younger son was at home because his best friend came in from Minnesota where he goes to college.
The girls... before changing to clothes to go out for Black Friday shopping.
The first place we hit up was Target. We stood in line for 2 hours before they opened but we were able to get 3 tv's, a hairdryer, a couple of movies, and the Christmas shirt I wanted.
We also went to the Tanger Outlets, the mall, and then back to the outlets.
We were able to make it to the beach just in time for the sunrise. I love these pictures that I was able to capture with my phone. I finally got in bed at 7am.A way to help traffic move in this province is to start enforcing the rules of the road.  Left lanes are for passing.  Not to sit in and slow everyone down. Right lanes are driving lanes.  Enforce it!!!      Mandatory retest and take driving test where you live not in a smaller center.  Stay off the phone and pay attention to the road and drive in the proper lane!!!This is a terrible way to look at it. Without financial pressure at all, there's little reason not to drag your feet.  Not quick.

Perfection is the enemy of progress. And by the sounds of it, CR's perfectionist attitude is why the project is still stuck... You don't need a product that's 100% perfect when a 99% perfect product will meet the needs of 99% of the people.<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: Configurable Navbar
username_0: As as pipeline-user I want to see a navbar on which I can see  useful links (e.g. switch between meta pipeline and release pipeline, external buildtools like gatekeeper,...). those links should be configurable be the using pipeline.
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1: {url: "https://...", 
      name: "some name for url"},
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"Rooms without street noise are in the right side of the hotel, the windows are insolated and have air..."Be the first informed if we receive new tickets for École nationale de l'humour. You will than get a priority choice in our tickets inventory.
Enroll yourself to our priority waiting list for École nationale de l'humour to be alerted when new tickets are available. Filling this form doesn't engage you to any purchase.One of the best things about blogging is interaction with readers who share their stories, comments and their own travel experiences with me. Of course, I especially love hearing stories of their literature-inspired travel. Sometimes authors send books they’ve written that fit into that category for a review or a mention.
I recently received a couple of volumes from a former TV journalist
and travel writer, Walt Christophersen. In A Temporary European and By Ship, Train, Bus, Plane and Sometimes Hitchhiking he recounts his adventures as a journalist in the 1960s and 70s and includes some of his articles from that period.
What I enjoyed most about Walt’s books is the look back they provide to a time when traveling seemed much simpler. Remember what traveling was like before 9/11, TSA screening and all the other hassles we now endure? The books made me think back to the days when flying was actually glamorous. I remember traveling as a child with my parents to visit my grandparents in Florida. I wore a spiffy little knit suit, my dad wore a suit and tie, and mom was glamorous in her mink stole, which was much more useful on the return trip to Michigan than trotting around Florida’s east coast. We had actual meals served to us—with cloth napkins and silverware! We had leg room! We checked our luggage—for free!
Walt’s books are a refresher on the days when adventurous travelers could go to places such as Afghanistan and Syria without too much danger, though as he reports, not without discomfort. (If you’re a freelance writer, the really depressing part is that from his account it appears that the wages for writers, particularly freelance travel writers, haven’t changed much since the 70s.) Still, his stories remind us of the lure and fascination of travel to exotic places.
In a lot of ways, those days of air travel weren’t as idyllic as they seem in my memory. People travel all over the world now, much more than in the 60s and 70s, despite the hassle. I ran across a fun article in Fast Company that compares travel in the 50s and 60s with the present. As it turns out, the skies weren’t quite as friendly as I remember.
For example, airfares were 40 percent higher, adjusted for inflation, with the average person in the 1950s paying up to five percent of his or her yearly salary for a chance to fly. There were no movies on long flights, but plenty of smoking, drinking and, ultimately quite a bit more vomiting en route. Stewardesses looked great but had to retire when they got married. I never saw a female pilot.
Despite the ups and downs of air travel, Walt certainly enjoyed the adventure and his readers do, too.
He says, “To borrow a modern cliche, it was a great ride.”From
Simcha Groffman
For parents to give over to the children at the Shabbos table
This week's Kinder Torah is dedicated to a Refuah Shelayma for
Chana Shaindel Bas Tova Tziporah and
Tovah Tziporah Bas Ita
"And you shall take trumah for Me" (Shemos 25:2). The posuk uses the word lekach, which means take or acquire. Shlomo HaMelech in Mishlei (4:2) uses the same word lekach to describe the Torah. "A good acquisition I have given to you, My Torah, do not abandon it." When we go to the store, we want to buy something good. We see, kinderlach, the best acquisition that a person can make is Torah. The Medrash Tanchuma tells the story of a talmid chochom who was on a ship with a number of wealthy merchants. They asked him where his merchandise was. He told them that his wares were far better than theirs were. They searched all over the ship and could not find his goods, so they began to laugh at him. Shortly afterwards, pirates came and looted the ship, taking all of their valuable merchandise. The ship landed, and they were all very poor men with not even enough food to eat or clothing to wear. The talmid chochom went to the beis hamedrash and began to learn and darshen. The people saw that he was a wise man and they respected him greatly and provided for all of his needs. The former merchants, who were at the point of starvation, saw this and begged him to persuade the townspeople to help them. He said to them, "I told you that my merchandise was greater than yours. Yours is lost and mine is with me. Not only that, you do not profit every minute that you do business. Even when you do profit, you sometimes lose that profit. But the Torah is never lost, not in this world, and not in the next world." Let us all grow up to be smart businessmen, kinderlach, and put our resources into Torah, der beste schorah (the best merchandise).
In this week's parsha, Moshe Rabbeinu begins to gather the materials for the M