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Here’s the short answer… USB 3.0 is 5Gb/s, USB 3.1 is 10Gb/s, and USB 3.2 is the fastest at 20Gb/s. You may have seen them branded as SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps/10Gbps/20Gbps. The only thing you need to pay attention to is the transfer speeds. Manufacturers with clever marketing can manipulate the naming schemes to make you think you’re getting a product you aren’t. Read more to find out the differences between USB 3.0 vs 3.1 vs 3.2! Data transfer speeds are rated in megabytes per second (MBps). Don’t confuse this with megabits per second (Mbps). 1 byte of data contains 8 bits. So 1 megabyte is 8 megabits. For perspective, phone camera photos in late 2021 are around 2 megabytes (MB). A little bit of math, 2MB transferring at a speed of 1MBps would take 2 seconds to transfer. Here’s a great article on Bytes vs Bits. History, Encoding, and Speeds of USB 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 In 2013, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) announced that they would be increasing the speed of USB 3.0 to 1,250MBps from 600MBps. Instead, they renamed the 600MBps USB 3.0 to “USB 3.1 Gen 1” and gave “USB 3.1 Gen 2” as the name to the faster 1,250MBps standard. This makes an easy differentiation between the old encoding signal, named “8B/10B”, and the new encoding signal, named “128B/132B”. Anything with the old encoding standard is listed as USB 3.0. Any of the newer encoding standards, even if the speeds are slower, are listed as USB 3.1. - USB 3.0 = 600MBps, 8B/10B signal - USB 3.1 Gen 1 = 600MBps, 128B/132B signal (Formerly USB 3.0 speed, new encoding signal) - USB 3.1 Gen 2 = 1,250MBps, 128B/132B signal (Faster speed, new encoding signal) When you are looking at a listing for USB 3.1 devices, make sure you check the transfer speed as well. Just because the label says USB 3.1 doesn’t mean you’re getting a faster flash drive or device. Manufacturers can advertise products with the slower speed (600MBps) as USB 3.1 and not specify which generation.EBS Helpful Tip USB 3.2 was launched in 2017. The new transfer speeds boast an impressive 2.4GBps making it almost 2.5x faster than USB 3.0. USB 3.2 is only available on USB-C connectors because it utilizes extra pins that were designed for the reversibility of USB-C. The USB family naming system was updated again which differentiates between the new transfer modes. - USB 3.2 Gen 1×1 = 600MBps, 8B/10B signal (Formerly USB 3.0) - USB 3.2 Gen 2×1 = 1,250MBps, 128B/132B signal (Formerly USB 3.1 Gen 2) - USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 = 2.4GBps, 128B/130B signal, Dual-Lane (USB-C Only) USB Connectors and Backwards Compatibility As mentioned before, USB-C is the only connection type that can carry the new USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 rating. But, USB-A, B, and micro B can all carry the USB 3.2 Gen 2×1 and prior versions. Although USB-C is backward compatible, it only more recently has been added to the hardware of newer computers and peripherals. So you may be in luck with your devices being equipped with USB-C and USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 I/O ports. Note that even if the cable and connector you use are rated at a certain speed, the host and receiver of the data must also be able to send or receive at that speed. The point with the slowest rating controls the speed of the transfer. There are very few computers that support USB-C at the highest speed. Most computers and peripherals are still only using USB 10Gbps cables and I/O connectors. Recommended Marketing Name and Logos The USB-IF recommends these more market friendly names to the USB standards: - SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps – USB 3.2 Gen 1×1 / USB 3.0 - SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps – USB 3.2 Gen 2×1 - SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps – USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 If you see these more friendly terms around, you know what speed you’re getting. The differences may be confusing but the key thing to remember is that the noticeable differences are in speed. As files get larger and larger make sure you have devices that can handle the media you are creating! Shop USB Flash Drives and USB External Hard Drives on our Shop page. When referring to “USB” remember that you are referring to a bus. A bus is the way data moves between parts of a computer. Although many cables and connectors have USB in the name, unless there is a letter following it, the USB is just a bus. USB can refer to more than just what’s on a flash drive. For example, an external hard drive, a webcam, and other peripherals use USB to interface with your computer. That being said, most of the scenarios in this blog are regarding USB flash drives with either USB-A or USB-C connections. Data encoding is the process of converting data into a string of 1’s and 0’s to be sent from a host to a receiver. Encoders use different ways to verify the information to protect it from errors. Sometimes this process can cause the data transfer to slow down. Encoding signals measure as a set of alphanumeric characters divided by a slash.

Sometimes in the Bible, to show that nothing is impossible with God, some amazing things happen. One of them is when a very old couple has a child. This happened for Zechariah and Elizabeth when John the Baptist was born. In today’s episode from Genesis, we read the beautiful story of the conception of Isaac, the child of the aged Abraham and Sarah. Then there’s a rather delightful story of a conversation between God and Abraham about what God intends to do to the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Notice the power of prayer of just a few people. There’s power in your prayer. Pray for those close to you who need more joy and peace in their lives. Imagine gently holding our dear planet earth and all its people in your hands as you lift it to God in prayer. The Saturday passages follow the reading list that Jewish people use in their synagogue worship throughout the world. They are taken from “The Torah,” the first five books of the Bible from Genesis to Deuteronomy that are read each year beginning with autumn. These Firestarters are from a new edition of The Bible Through the Seasons being developed for families with children. For the Firestarters in the original edition, I recommend the ebook. You will have the entire program of well over a thousand of these introductions with you on your phone or table! Check the menu options at the site for more information.

Almaty College of Communications was opened as an educational institution in September 1930 on the basis of the decision of the Board of the People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR dated July 15, 1930 (Protocol No. 43). The training period was set to be three years. Classes start on October 1, 1930. The technical school was organized in September 1930 on the basis of the second stage of school number 14. 130 students were recruited. It became known as the Alma-Ata Polytechnic College of Communications. The initial period of the college's activity was very difficult: there was no educational building, laboratory base. There were no dormitories for students. The teaching staff was small. Teachers of general technical disciplines mostly worked part-time. The first teachers: Baymut-Tsubina, Maslennikova, Obraztsov, Tugarin, Tolstoy, Nevsky, Polumiskov, Pavlov, Kopylov, Putkova. To read the special courses of the program, production workers were involved. Classes were held in different places of the city: at school number 14 (20 Yunykh Kommunarov Str.), at 24 Shkolnaya Str., at the Kazakh Communications Department (Vinogradov Str.) and in the basement of a Communications House under construction. They were engaged in the evening, when work at the school and institution ended. Often there was no electricity, they studied with kerosene lamps. In 1930-32, four two-story barracks were built as dormitories for students and staff. Only in 1973 the last of the barracks was demolished. In 1931, in July, the construction of the college's academic building was started behind the Head Ditch (now Abai Avenue). In March 1934, the first recruitment of 25 people for the evening department of the technical school was carried out. The first students are percussionists: Lunin, Skripko, Smakov, Bukaev, Vishnevetsky, Zvorygin, Petrenko, Ivanov, Konkushev, Smirnov, Dubrovin, Konilov, Lesnichenko, Metelsky, Kerzhintsev, Stoyanov. In 1937, classes began in an unfinished building. In 1938, the director of the technical school, Artur Petrovich Skene, took over the management of the construction. In 1935, the old post office building was transferred to the technical school, laboratories began to function: radio, telephone, telegraph, electric machine and physical office. In 1940, the construction of the academic building was completed. From the very first days, work was carried out at the technical school to improve the skills of communication managers, and in 1945, the advanced training courses were allocated to an independent institution. During the difficult years of the Great Patriotic War, the college continued to train specialists for the needs of the national economy and the front. In 1956, the correspondence department was opened. Over the years, the material base of the college strengthened, the teaching staff grew and improved. In 1976, the college building was destroyed in a fire, and new difficulties fell on the shoulders of the team. Classes began to be held in 2 shifts in various places: in the building of the Kazhydrosvyaz Institute, ATS-41, school No. 92, etc. Over the years, not only the buildings of the college have changed, but also its status. In 1980, the laboratory building was put into operation. Since this year, a branch has been working in Karaganda, which trained specialists in the correspondence form of education. In 1986, the academic building was put into operation. In 1994, the college received the status of a college. Since the establishment of the college, 66 full-time and 42 part-time graduates have been produced. In total, over 22 thousand specialists have been trained, who successfully and fruitfully work in the telecommunications system. The college employs 35 teachers, of whom 12 teachers have more than 20 years of teaching experience, 11 teachers have the highest qualification category, they share their rich experience with young and novice teachers. Since 1998, the college has been a member of the Council of Colleges of Almaty, and since 2001 the council has been renamed the Association of Colleges of Almaty. Since 1999, the college has been part of the Kazakh-American University. Currently, the college is training in 7 specialties of the VET. The teaching staff pays great attention to the diversification of curricula and programs, the introduction of innovative methods in order to improve the educational process for the transition in market conditions to a continuous (multi-level) education system. The ultimate goal of the teaching staff is to train competitive specialists who contribute to the development of the country's economy and are confident for their future. The association of the Almaty College of Communications and the Kazakh-American University allowed to open 4 specialties of higher professional education in communications.

- Engine Size - 350 V8 - Transmission Type - 700R4 Automatic - Body Style - Pickup Truck - Body Color - Interior Color COOL 66 3/4 TON PICKUP WITH MODERN DRIVETRAIN. GREAT COLOR & CLEAN BODY!! This 1966 Chevy K20 4x4 Pickup is a cool find. What you have here is the old school truck sitting on a Modern Drivetrain so it is a much nicer ride and much nicer handling as well. The truck itself came from Southern California and it had a super clean body that they put new paint on that looks excellent! They also put a new oak bed in the box. Porters Precision in California did most of the restoration on this truck. They left the interior pretty original but did recover the seat and added the wood steering wheel. The drivetrain on this truck is from a 1990 Suburban so it is much nicer to drive this vehicle than a true 66 would be. It drives down the road excellent and cruises 75-80 no problem. It is a 3/4 Ton with 14 Bolt Rear Axle and 10 Bolt Front Axle. The Transmission is a 700R4 Automatic and has B & M lockup Controller for the OD which makes it more fuel efficient. The Transfer Case is a NP241C. The engine is a crate 350 with a Quadrajet Carb. It has HEI Ignition, Headers with Dual Exhaust, and Edelbrock Aluminum Intake. Some other options include Power Steering, Power Front Disc Brakes, and Tilt. We pride ourselves in locating vehicles we would want in our own personal collection. We hand pick each vehicle, drive it, and make sure it is ready for you to enjoy! We drive what we sell so that we can give you a first hand and accurate report on how the vehicle runs and drives. Complete Pictures and Video at www.4-wheelclassics.com

I must first warn everyone that are pictures in this blog that may be upsetting to some, yet beautiful to others! So please keep this in mind while reading this post. I have always been so blessed to have wonderful pregnancy with my children. As many have told me, I was built to carry babies! Which I am not exactly sure what that means. We found out over the summer that I was expecting another baby! For us this news was shocking due to the fact we had a miscarriage earlier in the summer. After a few weeks of wrapping our heads around the idea we became excited, however we held off on spreading the news or becoming to excited due to the fact I had miscarried prior. For me I felt different about this pregnancy. I had my last baby at home and always new if I got pregnant again I would have that baby at home, but something was different this time. I was so nervous about having the baby at home. I had an uneasy feeling one that I couldn’t shake. After meeting with my midwife we found out she no longer took insurance so that forced me to make other decisions. After researching all my options, I decided to go with the midwives at a local hospital. I new this hospital was great for high risk pregnancy, but wasn’t so sure how they were for “normal” pregnancy. Finally I put my nerves and uneasy feelings aside and determined I must be having a boy, that’s why I feel this way! I begin to get excited and start pulling out all that old baby stuff. We started thinking of names me focusing on boy names! At my 18 week ultrasound we decided to tell our other children they were having a baby brother or sister. I was so upset when they couldn’t tell me the sex of the baby. I had worked my way into an earlier appointment so I would find this news out prior to thanksgiving so we could share our wonderful news with family and friends. On wednesday the day before thanksgiving we got the worst news we could ever get. We were told that our ultrasound came back abnormal and my amniotic fluid was low, they feared something was wrong with the babies left kidney. We would be referred to a specialist after thanksgiving. Rather than us get upset, I begin to do research on this information and pray that this was a mistake. We decided to hold off on telling our family and friends until we knew exactly what was going on. We enjoyed our Holiday as much as possible and remained optimistic that the ultrasound was wrong. The Wednesday after Thanksgiving we met with the specialist and found out the most horrifying news a parent can ever hear. Our baby had a fatal illness, and he would die either prior to birth or immediately after birth. He had multicystic dysplastic kidney’s, and I had zero amniotic fluid. I had never heard of this in my life. I was heart broken. They gave us all our options, and recommended that we induce my labor as soon as possible. I couldn’t breathe. I called some very close friends of mine and shared the news with them. I ask them to pray for a miracle that this diagnosis was wrong or that my baby would be healed. That following week we met with a neonatal specialist and discussed what a baby goes through that has this illness she gave us a life expectancy rate of 0%! There hasn’t been one baby that lives who has this illness. I broke down in tears, how could this be happening to me. I was known for having healthy pregnancy and healthy babies, what did I do different this time, what went wrong? The doctors assured me I didn’t do anything wrong this type of thing just happens they don’t know why. They scheduled us to be induced the following day. I had to have one more ultrasound one more opinion. I was still praying for a miracle. I could feel my baby move! I was 21 weeks. On December 10 we went in for our final ultrasound. The cyst had grown, and they couldn’t find my baby’s bladder nor stomach, the 3rd doctor urged us to deliver the baby again I cried. That night we went in for an induced labor. On December 11, 2009 at 6:55 am I gave birth to beautiful baby boy! I had no fluid during delivery. My heart felt heavy, my spirit crushed. I cried for my baby. At 9:30 they brought us our baby boy which we named after my husband and I held him in my arms as he slept peacefully with God and the angels above. He had all his features, and to me looked so much like his dad. We could see that he would have looked so much like our youngest daughter. My husband cried as he held his first born biological son in his arms. It was the most humbling, saddest moment in our lives and marriage. Our children arrived at the hospital and all held their baby brother. We talked about how he was in heaven with my granny and how she couldn’t escape babysitting one of her grandchildren. My oldest daughter was excited that he would he get to meet Michael Jackson! It was in that moment I felt peace with my decision. My heart was still heavy, but my spirit was light. We spent 3 wonderful hours with our baby boy, the hardest moment was when the nurse came to get him, and I kissed him one last time goodnight. I knew in that moment I would never hold my baby again, he wouldn’t come home with me, I wouldn’t breast feed him, he wouldn’t keep me up at night, I wouldn’t change his diaper. All these thoughts and emotions. I decided to go home that night so that I could hold my 4 children tight in my arms. Because I realized in that moment none of them had to come home with me. They are all BLESSINGS. So that night my three babies pilled in the bed with me and my husband and we held them tight. I will never forget my baby boy. The hospital was so great, and made our moment as special as possible. We will have him cremated and we will bring his remains home with his family. We took as many pictures of our baby as we could, because we knew that would be all we had to cherish of him. So today I begin the healing process. I will talk about him because it helps me heal, I will look at his pictures and smile at how beautiful he was at only 520 grams 18 inches long! This was the hardest decision I ever had to make in my life, but I know it was the best decision for my family and my baby boy. I thank God for the time I had with him, and I thank God for showing me early on that something wasn’t right and preparing me somewhat. I thank God for giving me peace with my decision, and I am praying to God for understanding and healing.

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Even though it has only been gone since February of this year, we dearly miss the iconic ALABAMA Theatre sign on 3rd Avenue North. Well, today, September 23, 2019, the first day of Fall, it is back. Bham Now captured on video this morning, the final A and L being attached to the iconic ALABAMA sign. A little bit old and a little bit new According to Larry Donaldson, a Birmingham Landmarks, Inc. board member and organ crew chief, the newly restored ALABAMA sign on 3rd Avenue North has a little bit of the 1957 sign and new and improved 2019 parts. For example the red border on the sign is from the 1957 sign. The green on the sign was steel. It has now been replaced with aluminum making the sign much lighter and safer. The structural steel that held the sign has been replaced with new steel. The letters were replaced in 2018, so of course they remain. And finally, the neon has been replaced with LED lights. How many LED light bulbs are contained in the sign…. 960 per side, a total of 1920. “The new LED is all around the letters plus going down the center. It is going to likely double the brightness than the one on 18th street – which it should be,” stated Donaldson. “The blade sign at the Alabama Theatre is iconic, not just in Birmingham but in the state,” added Glenny Brock, Outreach Coordinator for Birmingham Landmarks, Inc. “Whenever anyone does a story about anything happening in Alabama, many times the visual they use is the Alabama Theatre sign. It is iconic and we are very proud of it. The Alabama Theatre is the anchor of the Theatre District.” More restoration work inside Along with a newly restored sign Brock also outlined additional renovations occurring at the Alabama Theatre. - Completely re-doing the backstage area to make it more attractive and comfortable for touring artists and musicians from all over the world. - Putting in new carpet throughout the theatre. - Enhancing the sound and lighting system. - Adding 20 toilets to the women’s lounge downstairs. For 92 years there have only been 5 toilets in the women’s lounge! More than preservation, a working venue “We have never done preservation for preservation’s sake,” concluded Brock. “We have done preservation to make these working venues. The mission of Birmingham Landmarks is to preserve and protect these two theatres and historic buildings for the use and enjoyment of Alabama citizens and their descendents. We take that mission very seriously. This is not a fancy museum piece, we are making a vibrant anchor for this community.” How to support the Alabama and Lyric Theatres Want to support both the Alabama Theatre and Lyric Theatre? Become a Showplace Society member. Members receive exclusive pre-sale codes and other benefits. Or, even better, give to the endowment.

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My Saturday was quiet. As was Friday, the day before. Slowing down in my old age. I spent a part of yesterday afternoon continuing research for this week’s KONK Life column.The subject mater sand. The world is running out of usable sand. Comparable to the world’s water problem. So bad, a black market in sand already exists in certain countries. I look forward to writing the article this afternoon. Few are aware of the sand problem. Got out last night! Dinner with Donna and Terri at Hurricane Hole. Hurricane Hole is a hole. Therein lies its charm. A small marina on a small bit of water surrounded by mangroves. An open air bar and tables. Nothing fancy. Food good, however. Not easy to find. Hurricane Hole sits on US 1. Less than .2 of a mile outside Key West. Just over Cow Key Bridge going north on US 1. My ladies were tired. Getting ready to move. In a week. Still packing boxes. Their new abode will be in Bahama Village. At the corner of Whitehead and Petronia Streets. Terri is doing well and not so well. Her eyes get worse by day. She needs assistance walking. An arm on her arm. She has a walking stick. Uses it well. Some vision available for minor uses. Like eating. She wears two sets of glasses. One upon the other to get minimum vision. Soon, there will be no vision. They have had Bear to the seeing eye dog trainer to determine if he qualifies. He does. Soon, the training will begin. BOB an excellent learning tool, as well as informative. Bob and Ann Smith were having lunch at Road Kill Cafe. Before my time. Never heard of it. The waitress an acquaintance. She came up to Bob and asked if he had a smoke. He offered a cigarette. She was looking for a joint. A conversation ensued re the high cost of grass. The question arose as to why? Because of golf, Bob said. Bear with me. I am not sure even after reading the chapter several times how the two are interconnected. The story however interesting. Bob explained that when they lived in Buffalo, there was a lot of snow. Everyone carried jumper cables in their cars. In the middle of the night, Bob’s front door bell rang. It was the police. A passer by had seen someone steal Bob’s jumper cables. The police were able to quickly apprehend the culprit. They wanted to make Bob aware. Bob obviously was pleased. He asked the officer to hand him the jumper cables. The officer refused, explaining that the theft of jumper cables in New York was a Class A Felony and had to be retained for evidence. Two weeks later, Bob received a notice to appear in court. The notice further advised that if he failed to do so, a warrant for his arrest could be issued. Bob appeared. Directed to a large court room and told to take a seat. Bob estimates 300 people in the room. Bob was dressed suit and tie for the occasion. Most others, not. Soon several of the others began asking him about the proceedings. Bob explained he was not a lawyer. Merely like them. Which he was not. Most were defendants waiting to go before the judge. Bob had been directed to the wrong room. He went into the hall. Saw the public defender representing the man who stole his jumper cables and the arresting police officer. He went over and chatted with them. Bob was anxious to get out of the place and asked them what had to be done. They said the action was on the floor above. Nothing really moved on the floor they were on. So upstairs the three went. Into a maze of offices with a lone secretary sitting in the middle. Several assistant district attorneys plea bargaining cases. Bob described the scene as chaos. The public defender and police officer knew what to do. Soon the guy who stole Bob’s jumper cables case was resolved. Bob was free to leave. He asked how plea bargaining came to be. At first plea bargaining was used to get one defendant to turn on another in order to get a sweet deal. Flipping. The system worked well. Cases moved. One judge said, in effect, hey this works terrific! Why don’t we use it to negotiate sentences so a sole defendant will agree to plead to a lesser charge. His motivation was that judges could get out of work earlier and have time each afternoon to play golf. In fact, he thought they could be out by lunch. Plea bargaining born to provide judge’s with the opportunity to play golf. What all this had to do with the high cost of pot, I still do not understand. Children separated from parents at the border. Commonplace recently in the United States. We read and talk about the impact on the children. To hear about it first hand from a person it actually happened to impactful. The New York Times began an OPINIONS section this morning. It will run every Sunday. People writing about first hand experiences. Victoria Smolkin today a history professor at Wesleyan University and an author. Thirty years ago, 8 years old. She, her parents and family were escaping Communist Russia. They had necessary papers. They reached the crucial point at the border. Theirs bags searched. The mother’s contained an inexpensive broach that was a family heirloom. The Russian guards thought she was taking expensive jewelry out of Russia. The mother was taken away. The problem resolved two days later and her mother returned. Here it is 30 years later. Victoria recalls how she developed a huge bald spot on the right side of her head and wet the bed for two years. Trauma? You bet. Imagine what the immigrant children in the U.S. are experiencing and will suffer therefrom for years. Victoria wrote: “…..separating families at the border…..not about law and order…..about power, and the abuse of power – because if, in the collision between border and body, no one protects the body, the border always wins.” Enjoy your Sunday!

Anyone else utterly exhausted?! What with Imbibe Live and Junipalooza not only back but also bookending Negroni Week it’s been a busy old month, so it’s no wonder my gin monthly is (once again) rather late. But it’s also been just brilliant to see people again and catch up with gin pals old and new. It’s what we have all been waiting for and it definitely did not disappoint!Continue reading Anyone who knows me, or reads my blog, knows that I don’t just love gin; I love the stories behind gin too. Where, why and how it’s made. What first inspired its makers. I suppose you could call it the origin story. Today’s tale is a little different; for this time the gin has been created to enable the true story to take place.Continue reading Good grief. What a month it’s been. March may have begun normally enough but it couldn’t have ended more differently as we all find ourselves living in lockdown with the hospitality industry (among many, many others) facing unprecedented uncertainty.Continue reading If you’ve just completed Dry January than a huge congratulations to you! I opted for a slightly damper month but, when you see what I’ve been up to, I don’t think you’ll blame me for falling off the wagon!Continue reading What a year 2018 has been for gin! Sales have been rocketing and the bubble isn’t going to burst any time soon. We’ve seen, as a consequence, every ‘gin’ imaginable join the fray, from Hubba Bubba Bubblegum Gin to shimmering spirits and, of course, sugar-saturated pink gins galore! But, for now, let’s forget the ridiculous and focus on the sublime. Here are my top ten for 2018 and this year it was harder than ever to pick them! Keep reading for your chance to win a bottle of Brentingby!Continue reading Anyone who has even half an eye on the gin industry at the moment will know that small-batch limited edition gins are big news. As are gin subscription services. One Time Gin and Sipsmith’s Sipping Society have lead the way and now Batch Brew, Lancashire’s first gin distillery, are getting in on the act too with their monthly Batch Innovations subscription service. In 2010, John Savage-Onstwedder became one of the first UK recipients of a 350-litre still license, but it wasn’t until 2012 that the Dà Mhìle organic farmhouse distillery was opened in Ceredigion, Mid Wales. Having endured months, if not years, of building works and bureaucracy, success came to the distillery quickly as their first product, the organic Orange 33 liqueur, won a True Taste Award for its very first test batch! A brief glance at Mary Rose Gin, from HMS Spirits, conveys a sense of voyage and expedition. But it goes beyond the compass emblazoned on the back of the bottle, the sailing ships and the instruction to “Chart Your Own Course”. HMS Spirits began with one chap from the South Coast, Ben Maguire, who had a passion for travelling and also a love of gin (born of a desire to lose weight without compromising his social life!). Having been enticed by the art of distilling, Ben bought a 35 litre copper still on a trip to Hungary (as you do!) but it took four years of experimentation in his garage before he settled upon a recipe he felt would “respect the art of the London Dry whilst adding a new modern twist”. There was then a further year of researching bottles, labels and stoppers and building a brand that reflected his love of the sea, travel and enterprise. Charity gifts have been gaining in popularity since Oxfam’s first goat herds went up for grabs. Alongside this, we’ve seen an increase in brands that do good, and gin is no exception. There’s Ginerosity, the profits from which go towards helping young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds; One Gin, which funds water projects in the world’s poorest communities; and Graveney Gin, which gives 10% of its profits to conservation charity Gearing Up For Gorillas. But what if you’re looking for a gift that’s a little more generous or rather more tangible? Well, The National Trust for Scotland, the country’s largest conservation charity, have just launched the Love Gin Hamper and it could be just the thing you’re looking for for the gin-lover in your life.

The immune system-related disease affects about 1 in 100,000 babies each year A new gene-therapy treatment is showing promise in treating a rare and severe congenital condition that involves extreme immune-system deficiencies. “Bubble boy” syndrome, an X-linked condition, takes its name from a famous case in which an affected boy, vulnerable to infection, lived inside a plastic bubble that protected him from the world’s germs. Outside of such sterile environments, babies with the syndrome seldom live longer than a year, the Wall Street Journal reports. The condition has for decades bested medical researchers, despite occasional bouts of optimism — hope for one previous gene-therapy treatment was felled when some recipients developed leukemia. Gene-therapy treatment works, essentially, by replacing unperforming genes with functional ones. Dysfunctional cells are removed from the child’s immune system and exposed to a genetically engineered virus that can reprogram the cells to function properly, explains Reuters. Those cells are then reinserted back into the patient. In the earlier treatment, the virus to which the cells were exposed apparently activated a part of their genetic code that leads to leukemia, Reuters says. But initial results reported in the New England Journal of Medicine show that none of the nine babies from the U.S. and Europe who received the latest treatment are exhibiting any signs of cancer. Of the nine infant participants in the research — who were between 4 and 10½ months old when they began receiving the therapy — eight were still alive 16 to 43 months later, without living in a protective “bubble.” (The ninth child died four months after treatment began from an earlier infection he had been fighting.) Out of the eight boys still living, the treatment upped blood T-cell levels, rebuilding the immune system, of seven. In the case of the eighth child, the treatment did not rebuild his immune system, but a successful stem-cell transplant has kept him in improved health, Reuters reports.

Not sure if this is the right forum...so please move if that is the case. Thanks. I did not do EC with my son. I learned about it pretty late. I've always communicated with him about what his body is doing and reassuring him that everybody's body does those things. My son is almost 23 months old. He's had periods of wanting to pee on the potty ( his little Baby Bjorn), he has spontaneously pooped on the potty once when he was naked running around the house. This happened a few weeks ago. Since I was planning on being home today for the morning, I let him go diaper free, not something I do enough. He asked for me to put a diaper on and said pee pee. I thought I would encourage him to sit on the potty. Told him I needed to go and sat on the potty and went myself, he didn't want to sit on the potty, and even when he fianally did, he wouldn't pee. Well this went on for a while, and finally he started peeing in the middle of the floor. I moved him into the bathroom and put a diaper on so he could finish, since he wanted nothing to do with the potty. He then also pooped pretty soon after. Now I feel like I've damaged him forever :( He knows he has to use the potty, but he wants the diaper. I'm nervous and worried that this will be this way for a long time. How will he ever go in the potty if he's asking for a diaper to pee and poop. I feel like I've done this parenting/potty thing all wrong. I should have done EC. I don't want to put pressure on him at all, but that's exactly what I did this morning when he asked for a diaper! Bad Mommy Bad Mommy. Do kids who ask for a diaper to pee and poop, eventually ask for the potty to pee and poop? Should I put the potty away since he's having such a reaction to it? I definitely don't want this to be a power struggle, which I totally made it that this morning. You're not a bad mama! I did not know about EC with my first son (well I knew people back in Poland did a version of this but I was under the assumption that it was cruel and unnatural). My son did learn at about 34 mos. I knew about EC with my second daughter, but didn't do it (seemed like too much work, too overwhelming). She was potty trained at just over 2 years. With my third, I am doing EC part time and she's having a lot of successes. I am hoping that she will learn to potty sooner than her siblings did. But do I think I am a better mommy now than I was before? no! I did the best I knew how to do at the time. The thing to do now is to move forward. Perhaps he is not ready for potty training right now. Spring is usually a good time to start, less clothes, warmer outside. He will develop more, be more inclined to listen to what you say. Nothing is lost! I think firstborn siblings train slower than consecutive ones. I am sure he will learn though. They all do sooner or later. SAHM to one moody son J (06-27-03), one super-girly daughter M (02-23-06) and welcome Sophie! (05-23-10) expecting fourth in July I started with my daughter at 4 months, and she's now 26 months and while I see a light at the end of the tunnel, I can't possibly imagine her being "potty trained" (ie. trustworthy not to wet her pants) for quite some time yet. Yet my son is 5.5 months old, and he's already showing signs of communication. As development gets in the way though, I fully expect all of that to regress. Life's just too busy to stop to potty. Some kids are ready early without EC, and some start EC from birth and still struggle past 3 years old. It REALLY depends on the child. There's no way to know if you had done EC, if your child would be out of diapers or not. You're certainly not a bad mom. We're all on the same boat. We just have different oars. Oh, please don't feel so bad! You didn't do any damage! Even if you would have EC'd from birth, there is no telling how a 2 year old will react towards the potty. So often toddlers go through periods where they want nothing to do with the potty. We had lots of potty strikes around that age, and we EC'd since 5 weeks. I think you are doing the right thing by modeling using the potty. There are many other things you can do to make eliminating in the potty more enticing. We tried all sorts of things to have DS regain interest. Try different potties in different places or a brightly colored potty cozy perhaps.Try special toys he can use when on the potty; like a remote control or a flashlight. Of course many people read or make up stories or sing songs while LO's are on the potty. That way it can be a special time that they may look forward too. My DS loved going in a little potty that was in front of a full length mirror. Maybe model his little toys using the potty, and/or get books and videos that show kids using the potty. 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Prometheus Books, 2010 “God and His Demons is filled with sparkling insights, sly wit, and beautiful writing of a kind we have come to expect from Michael Parenti. He strips away the virtuous pretenses of self-proclaimed religionists throughout the world, and he does it with evidence and arguments that are historically and biblically informed. A riveting read that I recommend to all.” —Julia Scheeres, author of Jesus Land “In God and His Demons Michael Parenti spins a fascinating and compelling narrative.... ” —Tom Pollard, Professor of Social Sciences at National University, San Jose, CA The New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, Harper's, the Nation, and the Antioch Review are among the many publications that have praised Parenti's work. Michael Parenti brings his critical acumen and gifted writing skills to bear on the dark side of religion, the many evils committed in the name of godly virtue throughout history. This is not a blanket condemnation of all believers. The focus is on the threat posed by fundamentalists and theocratic reactionaries. Historically anchored and biblically informed, this eloquent indictment of organized religionís delusions and abuses will be welcomed by secular laypersons and progressive religionists alike. Parenti delves into a wide and fascinating range of subjects: - The harsh narratives of the Old and New Testaments, from the appalling accounts of violence, draconian justice, and moral turpitude in the older books of the Bible to the latent anti-Semitism in the New Testament. - Creationism and intelligent design in both laughably crude and sophisticated forms. - The duplicities of gurus, with a revealing scrutiny of such icons as Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa, various US televangelists, the Dalai Lama, and even Jesus himself. - The hypocrisies of "family-values" religionists and politicos, their rapacious financial schemes and frauds. - The sexual predation, pedophilia, and criminal cover-ups perpetrated under the cloak of religion. - The totalitarian theocratic goals of Christian and Islamic extremists, and the Shangri-La myths about feudal Old Tibet. - The growing strength of secular freethinkers and liberal theologians who are doing battle against the intolerant theocratic usurpers of public life. Table of Contents Part I All in the Bible 1. Up from Heaven Part II Divine Design? 2. The Great Exterminator 3. The Great Abominator 4. The Other Face of Our Sweet Savior 5. Who Killed Jesus and All Those Other Jews? 6. Working His Blunders in Mysterious Ways Part III When the Ethereal Becomes Material 7. Jiffy Creation, Dubious Design 8. Mother Teresa, John Paul, and the Fast-Track Saints Part IV Hypocrites, Reactionaries, and Vipers 9. Cashing In on Heaven 10. Moneyed Gurus and Cults 11. God, Left and Right Part V Theocracy, Past, Present, and Future 12. The Pious Predators 13. Politicos and Other Pharisees 14. Church in State 15. The Return of Totalitarian Theocracy 16. For Lords and Lamas 17. Goodbye Shangri-La 18. Secularism Rising?

Artists dive to show magic of our seas Thursday 14th March 2013 It all happens at St Abbs Head by Anna Kirk-Smith All five artists who have benefited from winning The Wildlife Trusts’ Underwater Art Award since its inception are staging an exhibition for the first time after taking the plunge to show the magic of our seas. The extraordinary creations of the winners will go on show in Dorset this month to highlight the urgent need for Marine Conservation Zones. The award, established in 2007, provides a bursary for an established artist to learn to dive and then to work underwater off the coast, recording the wildlife of the sea in art. The works created to raise awareness of the plight of our marine life from around the UK coast range from paintings to sculpture. Head of Living Seas at The Wildlife Trusts, Joan Edwards, said: “This is a unique chance to see our marine world through the eyes of five very different artists from their very different diving experiences; we are extremely grateful to them for supporting the cause of our sea wildlife at this crucial time. The Undersea Art Award funds diving lessons for artists with a passion for nature who want to find out more about the astonishingly varied submerged landscapes around UK shores. The idea is to create art inspired by the amazing creatures that live in our wonderful cold water coral beds, sponge meadows, canyons and sandbanks.” This is a unique chance to see our marine world through the eyes of five very different artists from their very different diving experiences Painters, Esther Tyson from Derbyshire, Kim Atkinson from North Wales and Antonia Phillips from Dorset dived off the Dorset coast for inspiration. Another painter, Anna Kirk-Smith dived off the Yorkshire coast, while Harriet Mead, sculptor and President of the Society of Wildlife Artists, discovered the wonders of the Norfolk coast. Harriet said: “The Wildlife Trusts’ Underwater Art Award was a tremendous opportunity to see the extraordinary life beneath the waves. The marine habitat is an environment that few people have the chance to experience so not only did the diving inspire my work it has also made me determined to spread the word about the precious world that surrounds the UK coastline” . Of 127 recommended Marine Conservation Zones, chosen after two years of hard work by stakeholders from all sectors of the marine environment, the Government proposes to designate only 31 this year. The Wildlife Trusts urge people to have their say and support a full network of protected areas by responding to the public consultation, which closes on Sunday 31 March, 2013. www.wildlifetrusts.org/haveyoursay The Underwater Art for Action Exhibition is open from Saturday 16 until Tuesday 26 March 10am to 4pm at the Fine Foundation Chesil Beach Centre, Portland Road, DT4 9XE. Free event, donations towards marine conservation. For more information, ring 01305 206191. Mead is widely acclaimed for her beautiful creations made from scrap metal (Mead's Padlock Cuttlefish above). For this project she has scavenged local beaches in search of interesting pieces to make sculptures of some of the inspiring creatures she met on her recent undersea adventures - such as the dragonet and crab. She completed three dives which enabled her to explore the extraordinary Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds. Some of the dive photos show Harriet examining an old rusting digger left on the beach as she searches for potential pieces, diving, and making underwater sketches (with freezing fingers in extreme conditions!) - taken by her dive-buddy Kate Risely here. Mead writes: “Being based in Norfolk it seemed a perfect opportunity to explore the Europe’s largest chalk reef, Cromer Shoal Chalk Beds off the north Norfolk coast. It’s one of 127 amazing proposed Marine Conservation Zones and is a really unique reef – the purple sponge found there last year is a species new to science and it’s also home to over 30 species of sea slugs, sunfish and basking sharks. “The dive training was pretty straightforward, although I was quick to learn that nothing involved with diving can be performed elegantly on dry land. I ended up feeling like a zombie with a toddler’s capacity for achievement. Straps, buckles and zips become major triumphs to undo or do up and movement with all the kit on is a mammoth task. Once under the water it is a different matter with the whole weight lifted by the water and everything that was a hindrance becomes a help.” Tyson studied at the University of Wales and the Royal College of Art. She did her diving in the rich waters of Studland, home to rare wildlife including undulate rays and spiny and short-snouted seahorses. An accomplished artist who achieves remarkable images with an economy of masterful brushstrokes, her work was selected for the cover of the SWLA’s catalogue and poster for its annual exhibition. Esther said: “I’ve inhaled more water than I’d have thought possible! There have been moments I’ve fought back tears and mental exhaustion, to moments of elation and everything in-between! On my first dive, with poor visibility I felt disorientated and claustrophobic but subsequent dives have revealed a wealth of weird and wonderful creatures in these waters. Diving at Studland has been an incredible privilege, the seagrass habitat enchanting and drawing underwater has become as natural as drawing above. I have been fortunate enough to see remarkable sea life in these waters.” Antonia is based in Swanage and specialises in work about the sea, bird flight and movement along coastlines. She says: “My work is about being near the sea; from walks in Purbeck along beach and cliff to the icy seas of the far north, this is a wonderful chance to see how the light and colour change under the water and a challenge to try out new ways of working.” Antonia sketched and painted from life as she dived under Swanage Pier, known as one of the finest places to see marine wildlife off the Dorset coast. She used transparent Perspex so that she could actually see through to what she was painting, and the sketching block was tied on to prevent it from floating away. Anna undertook dive training with support from Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, and completed her sea dives in the North Sea at Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, when she made sketches to form the basis for her works. Kirk-Smith said: “The scuba diving training was completed over five wet weeks, communing with rainbow trout and sturgeon in a flooded quarry before progressing onto the salty stuff. The sea dives were off Flamborough Head in East Yorkshire, a unique site known for its chalk reefs, kelp beds and partially submerged sea caves, which are inhabited by a diverse array of marine wildlife. “Drawing underwater proved to be one of the easier aspects, armed as I was with neat, little waterproof notebooks and pencils, tied down to stop them floating away. A more tricky issue was the field of visibility, or lack of it: an all-pervading brown sandy haze or shimmering greenish weed-filled fog are attractive in their own special way, but not so easy to capture with an HB pencil! “The detail, the closeness, and the intimacy of encounters with marine species in, what is after all their world, are very beautiful and strangely humbling. This experience has indeed changed my life and my intended course from here on. “I am already booked in to further my training as a diver, I shall work towards being able to volunteer for the very worthy Seasearch dives and I cannot even begin to tell you here how many ideas for artworks, interpretations, scientific collaborations and methods of working underwater have been flooding forth.” Kim lives on the coast of north-west Wales and trained at Falmouth, Cheltenham and the Royal College of Art. She learnt to dive and portray the underwater natural history in Dorset, at Kimmeridge and at Swanage. She writes: “To do this I used perspex which I drew on while submerged, with a mixture of graphite and oil pastels, to try to record the blennies, wrasse, anemones and beautiful seaweeds. “On returning to my studio in North Wales I cut a large piece of Chinese paper from a roll and initially painted with acrylic on it which sealed the surface, and then using a combination of printing and painting I applied oil paint. The idea was to try to get across the sense of turbulence and Coralline weeds at Kimmeridge, contrasting with still water under the piers at Swanage.”

Twenty-nine-year old Amanda Harmer from Oklahoma City is the only child of an accountant and a draftsman. In 1996, she graduated high school as a valedictorian and immediately pursued her art degree at the University of Oklahoma. Three years later, she met her husband Neill , whom Amanda married in 2004. Soon, she gave birth to her first baby boy, Aiden. Currently, she works as an art teacher at the Oklahoma Ciry Art Museum and the Fine Arts Institute in Edmond Oklahoma. During her free time, she immerses herself in painting, photography and eating. Amanda's New Year’s resolution is to get thin before Aiden realizes that she's fat. Amanda teamed up with her husband Neill on their mission to lose weight. The two have been married for more than three years, have decided to overcome a major challenge in their life together, as most couples do. Neill and Amanda comprised the White Team on NBC's The Biggest Loser 5. Amanda initially weighed in at 204 lbs. They were eliminated in week 3, with Amanda weighing 185 lbs. (Photo courtesy of NBC)

Re: firestone recall I had personal experience with defective Firestone tires on two Explorers, a '92 and a '99. In the early 90's this newsgroup was full of postings about problems with shaking. Various causes were identified, such as radius arm bushings. My '92 was about two years old when it started to have intermittent shaking problems. Around 55 the front end would begin to shake as if everything up there was loose. The Ford dealer blamed the tires, the tire dealer blamed the Ford. By this time, the shocks were ruined from all the shaking, so I installed Bilsteins. This did not solve the problem. Finally, I replaced the tires with another set of Firestones. Had the same problem. My Firestone dealer then replaced the tires with Michelin LTX M/S. The problem disappeared and stayed gone until I sold the vehicle last year. I now know the shaking was caused by the beginning of tread separation on the Firestones. When I bought the '99, I had the Firestones replaced with Michelins before I took delivery. However, the spare was not replaced. After about three years, during which time the spare had never been on the road, I looked closely at it and saw that there were significant cracks all around the tire at the edge of the belt. This tire was beginning to fail and had never been run. Obviously, inflation was not a factor. I got a free Michelin to replace the spare when Ford decided to recall all Firestones. As I recall, Ford spent around $2 billion replacing these tires before Firestone recalled them. The three biggest tire recalls in history were all Firestone and all involved tread separation. Of course there are other reasons for tire failure, such as under-inflation, but it seems obvious that there really was a severe problem with tires used on Explorers from '91 On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 01:52:27 GMT, Al Tsiemers >"Ulysses" <firstname.lastname@example.org> wrote in >> "stevie" <email@example.com> wrote in message >>> Now that some time has passed since the Firestone situation, I think >>> interesting that you don't hear or read anything about Explorer >>> As I recall, the Firestone company placed the blame on the Ford >>> Explorer; Ford said the rollovers were due to Firestone tire failure. >>> Now that the Firestone tires are have been removed, the press >>> doesn't report any >>> rollover accidents. Wonder who was to blame?? >>> I think almost any SUV would roll if the tires failed at a high >>> it seems that the Firestones failed at a much higher rate than most >>> tires. It's too bad that the Explorer got a bad reputation from the >>> At first I regretted my decision to purchase a 2000 Limited, mostly >>> of the Firestone situation. However, it has been a pretty good car. >>> But I believe that both Ford and GM have to improve their quality to >>> car sales in the US. >> They also don't tell you how many of them were raised or had oversized >> tires on them. It's just the media. They go on about something for a >> while and then pick something else. Sometimes it's high-speed chases, >> sometimes freeway shootings, and sometimes Explorers rolling over. >> Just as long as they get you to watch the show. Since the Explorer is >> the best-selling SUV it's a good choice for stories. >Most of the stories seemed to disappear fairly quickly after people >started pointing out to the media that the photos they were running on >the front page under the headlines about the killer Firestones showed an >unside-down Explorer wearing Goodyear shoes. >Look closely at the SUVs being driven today. Almost every other one has >at least one seriously underinflated tire. >If you don't think an underinflated tire overheats and falls apart, then >you probably still believe that those big chunks on the freeway are from

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Jaimal Kumar, 20, the Dalit whose dead body was found at Devsar-Kusambi road in Bhiwani on Wednesday morning was killed by Parveen alias Lala, 20 of Rajput community and his friend Kuldeep Kumar of Dalit community, was eliminated for opposing to stop the accused from meeting his sister. Both the accused were arrested on Wednesday evening, said Inspector Ramesh Kumar, from Bhiwani sadar police by adding that Parveen main accused used to like Jaimal's sister but victim had sparred him over the issue in past several issue. Police said: "With the motive to eliminate Jaimal and evade police action, main accused along with his friend Kuldeep had invited him for some job on the outskirts of Devsar-Kusambi road in Bhiwani and first drank liquor with him till late night and attacked him with sharp edged weapons". Bhiwani SP Simardeep Singh said in a press conference at Bhiwani on Thursday: "The accused who came in a car on Tuesday late evening first drank liquor with him and then stabbed him with sharp edged weapons which left him seriously injured and carried the victim in the car to throw it in a pond". He said : "But later they thought of portraying the incident an accident case and tied the victim with tree on the outskirts of Devsar-Kusambi village near Bhiwani town and rammed the car repeatedly on victim till he was dead". Their car broke down and they laid down the victim's dead body in the car and fled from the spot, he added. However, Jaimal's father Rajpal had alleged that the accused had been harbouring enmity with his son over an issue occurred during his marriage in 2012 over ferrying 'Gurchari' in the village. Upper caste members didn't allow Jaimal to sit on elephant as a part of marriage ritual. Based on his complaint, police had arrested both of accused after registering a murder case against them. On the motive of accused behind killing, DSP Bhiwani Virender Singh said: "The main accused Parveen alias Lala used to like the sister of Jaimal, both had a dispute over this in past also, which resulted in killing of victim on Tuesday night". Bhiwani SP said "Though Police is investigating the matter but 'Gurchari' row alleged by victim's father doesn't seem to be the reason behind the murder. Some old matter seems to the motive behind the murder of Dalit youth". The post mortem report found presence of alcohol and strangulation marks around the neck of deceased dead body. It may be noted that police found the dead body of a Dalit youth identified as Jaimal on the outskirts of Devsar-Kusumbi road in Bhiwani lying in a car on Wednesday morning.

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Friday, 20 November 2009 sorry about the absence here, and about missing corner view this week. work-wise i've got so much on my plate at the moment, i hardly know whether i'm coming or going. thought i let you know though, that two weeks ago i've finally settled for a DSLR, a nikon D3000. will take me a while to get my head round it properly, but it's exciting. i 'richter-ised' some old family photos: me 'n mum 'n dad; me in the bath very early in my life. you can kind of tell which decade i was born in, just by seeing the colours, don't you think? p.s.: thank you so much for all your kind comments recently. even though i've been very quiet, i've read them all and really appreciate every one of them. due to some spamming, i had to switch the comment moderation back on. what a bummer. hope you understand.

I am 27 years old I was diagnosed with Chiari Malformation 1 in January of 2012. Along with Chiari I have central vertigo, POTS, orthostatic hypotenston,EDS, neurocardiogenic syncope, fibromyalgia, Raynauds, cervical, thoracic and lumbar radiculopathy, a herniated L5 d [More]isk, mild levoscoliosis, pinched nerves in neck & back, lumbar arthritis, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, depression, photophobio, and chronic fatigue due to my other dx's. The picture is my daughter at 3 months when she was baptized. She is 3yrs old now and the joy of my life. I live with her and my fiance in NY. I am so glad I found this site because I no longer feel alone. This site is full of wonderful, nice people who are always ready to help <3 2 months into the SSD process...wish me luck got a lawyer to start the SSD process more diagnosis every time I go to the dr "Well if you go with a lawyer they will gather all of your medical records. You need that as well as a detailed list of all your doctors with phone numbers and addresses. It is also extremely important to keep all your dr appts on a list ..." Thank you for your kind words! I think it's easy to be positive when you can step back and see how strong of a person you have become from being challenged in so many ways! I would have never thought I could handle all these issues with a great attitude and be thankful for them in the end! I shock myself with my strength sometimes. And it's kind of humbling. I hope you find how strong you are, too! All you have to do is step back and look. I can't even imagine being a mother and having to trot through all these issues! Every night, try to think of one thing you are appreciative of (each night should be something different). Months later, you will get to a day when you have to repeat the same things and you will see how blessed you are! Anyway, keep hope alive! Copyright 1994-2016 MedHelp International. All rights reserved. MedHelp is a division of Aptus Health. This site complies with the HONcode standard for trustworthy health information. The Content on this Site is presented in a summary fashion, and is intended to be used for educational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended to be and should not be interpreted as medical advice or a diagnosis of any health or fitness problem, condition or disease; or a recommendation for a specific test, doctor, care provider, procedure, treatment plan, product, or course of action. Med Help International, Inc. is not a medical or healthcare provider and your use of this Site does not create a doctor / patient relationship. We disclaim all responsibility for the professional qualifications and licensing of, and services provided by, any physician or other health providers posting on or otherwise referred to on this Site and/or any Third Party Site. Never disregard the medical advice of your physician or health professional, or delay in seeking such advice, because of something you read on this Site. We offer this Site AS IS and without any warranties. By using this Site you agree to the following Terms and Conditions. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your physician or 911 immediately.

Concordia is the Roman Goddess of Harmony. Unlike many other Goddesses Who were deified qualities, Concordia was worshipped from early times in Rome. She especially symbolized peace and agreement between the two classes of Rome, the plebeians or commoners, and the patricians or nobles. In the early days of Rome the two classes had joined to drive out the tyrannical Kings and created a Republic; but it quickly became a Republic of the patricians who had all the wealth and power. The plebeians were barred from the Senate and other governmental and priestly offices, though they of course made up most of the army. In 494 BCE the plebeians had had enough, and, refusing to serve in the army anymore, deserted and camped out on a hill near the Anio River that they called the Mons Sacer, or the Sacred Mountain. The patricians, left defenseless, came to some kind of sense and reforms were instituted giving the plebeians To commemorate the compromises worked out between patricians and plebeians, a temple to Concordia was built in the northwestern end of the Roman Forum, backed up against the Capitoline Hill, near the Volcanal, a raised area that housed an altar to Vulcan. This temple was originally vowed in 367 BCE by the general Camillus and dedicated on July 22nd (which became Her festival) sometime afterwards. There was a statue of Victoria on its roof that was struck by lightning at one time; and the temple was restored in the 2nd century BCE. It was again restored by the Emperor Tiberius, who reopened it on the 16th of January, 10 CE, dedicating it to Concordia Augusta, the "Harmony of the Imperial Family". This temple was of somewhat unusual proportions due to the constraints of the site, but it was accorded one of the most beautiful in Rome, as it was finely made and entirely faced in marble. In later times it served as a museum of sorts, and many famous works of art were housed there. Besides Her great temple in the Forum, Concordia had another, smaller temple on the Arx, the old citadel on the height of the Capitoline Hill, which was within sight of the larger temple to Concordia below it. Its dedication date was the 5th of February, and had been vowed by the praetor Manlius (a praetor being a kind of consul in charge of the armies) in 218 BCE after a rebellion among his troops was averted. She had another small temple, credited to the Empress Livia, probably in or near her colonnade, the porticus Liviae. It is called by the epithet magnifica ("splendid", "magnificent", or "sumptuous") by Ovid, and even though it can't have been very big, it must have been richly decorated. A temple to Concordia Nova ("New Harmony") was approved by the Senate in 44 BCE, and was to have been built in honor of Julius Caesar, though his assassination kind of put the kibosh on that and it was probably never built. Concordia had a small bronze shrine near Her great temple in the Forum, set up in 304 BCE, but it is likely that it was demolished when the temple was expanded in the 2nd century BCE. It had been built by Cnaeus Flavius, an aedile who had published the very secret list of which days in the year were (ritually) acceptable for law cases to be heard. As cases heard on the wrong days were automatically dismissed, the fact that this calendar was jealously guarded by the patricians meant that plebeians submitting claims had a pretty good chance of having their claims denied out of hand. After Flavius published this calendar, the patricians were not at all happy with him, and he vowed the altar to Concordia to try to help smooth things out. The senate stuck it to him, though, by not requisitioning any funds to build it, and he had to use fines collected from money-lenders. Concordia had a place in the festival of the Caristia or Charistia (meaning "Pardoning") of February 22nd, a holiday celebrated by families in which it was traditional to reconcile differences and to mend quarrels or feuds within the family. Concordia was invoked for Her powers of bringing harmony and agreement, and other Deities invoked at the Caristia were Janus, the double-faced God of New Beginnings, Salus, the Goddess of Health, and Pax, Goddess of Peace. These four Divinities were honored with statues grouped together at the Altar of Peace (not the great big famous one built by Augustus, but a smaller one whose location is unknown). They were also said to be worshipped together on the 30th of March and the 30th of January, and Concordia was invoked by matrons on April 1st at the Veneralia, the festival of Venus Verticordia, along with Fortuna and Venus Herself. In the later days of the Empire, Concordia was worshipped as the bringer of marital harmony within the imperial family, and as such was called She was depicted as a matronly woman, veiled and heavily draped, holding an olive branch, emblematic of peace, and a cornucopia, to symbolize the abundance that can be achieved when people work together in harmony. She sometimes wore a crown and held a sceptre, caduceus, or patera, a small offering bowl from which libations were poured. She is associated with the stork, which symbolized family devotion to the Romans, and the dove, universally a symbol of peace and gentleness; and sometimes a star, as emblem of hope, is shown near Her. Another attribute of Concordia is the image of two clasped hands, both of which are right hands (like in a handshake), symbolizing two people agreeing. She is often shown on coins commemorating joint rule of leaders or the marriages of the imperial family. The so-called Temple of Concordia in Akragas, Sicily, is a Doric-style temple built by Greek settlers to the island in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. Though it is beautifully preserved, and the whole area is now in fact a World Heritage Site, the identification with Concordia is most probably wrong. Inscriptions on coins refer to different applications of Concordia; these were probably not epithets, but rather illustrations of types of harmony, but I list some of them here: Concordia Militaris, "the Harmony of Armies", Concordia Provinciarum, "the Harmony of the Provinces", Concordia Conjugalis, "Harmony of Marriage". She was identified with the Goddess Homonoia, the Greek personification

Federal prosecutors claim Joe Abed (ah-bed) is a danger to the community and a "flight risk." They also contend he lied under oath at his detention hearing last week. They say they will NOT present live witnesses this week in the racketeering case against Abed (ah-bed) and his "organized crime" family. A key element of the case involves extortion, threats, even murder. The Government is declining to put witnesses on at this point in the case. In its notice to the court the government points to ten earlier cases against Abed (ah-bed) family members that were dismissed in state court, because witnesses were intimidated. A Danville woman was hospitalized last night after being repeatedly stabbed. It happened at a house on Winslow Street. Danville police say 39- year- old Brenda Williams was stabbed approximately six times with a steak knife in the neck, face and shoulders. Police say Williams and another woman apparently got into a fight shortly before Williams was stabbed. Police are questioning a suspect but so far no charges have been filed. TAPE#Net (edit of 97-3) Roughly four-billion dollars, that's what the latest estimates from Wall Street say Norfolk Southern is paying for about half of Conrail's routes. Late last week Conrail signed a deal letting Richmond based C-S-X take it C-S-X and N-S have agreed to split up Conrail's assets to preserve competition in the northeast. SOT today tape 12:30:56 IN Q=The winners ((GEORGE BRAMMER/STOCKBROKER-A.G. EDWARDS: THE WINNERS IN THIS DEAL CLEARLY ARE THE SHAREHOLDERS OF CONRAIL. BUT I THINK NORFOLK SOUTHERN'S A WINNER TOO. Why's that? BRAMMER: WELL NORFOLK SOUTHERN'S GONNA GET VERY VALUABLE TRACK IN SUPER=01-George Brammer/Stockbroker-A.G. Edwards; OUT Q=in the northeast. The only ones losing out on the deal will likely be Conrail employees. Its workforce could be cut now that the railroad's getting carved up. The Senate votes today on a Republican proposal for an investigation into illegal fund-raising during the 19-96 presidential and congressional campaigns. The proposal is expected to pass. Meantime, the F-B-I says it placed no restrictions on a warning that China might try to influence U-S elections through campaign contributions. President Clinton said yesterday he was not warned about the alleged Chinese plot until eight months after other officials. TAPE#net (edit of 597-15) It's been lighting up the morning sky for more than a week now-- The comet Hale-Bopp is the talk of the astronomy world. This digital image of the comet was taken Sunday Morning at Virginia Tech's Observatory at Mountain Lake. IN Q=it has a ((IT HAS A VERY LONG PERIOD. A LITTLE OVER 2000 YEARS....2040 YEARS IS THE PERIOD OF THIS COMET. SO IF YOU DON'T SEE IT NOW, YOU WON'T CATCH IT AGAIN FOR A LONG TIME...YOU WON'T WON'T BE AROUND TO SEE IT.)) ((JOHN SEMONETTI/VA. TECH ASTRONOMER: DURING THE NEXT 2 WEEKS, IT SHOULD BE A VERY GOOD SHOW, FOR THE AVERAGE PERSON. AS A MATTER OF FACT, JUST ABOUT ANYBODY IN ANY LOCATION SHOULD GET A REALLY GOOD VIEW OF THE COMET.)) SUPER=01-Greg Topazna/Virginia Tech Astronomer; :00 SUPER=01-John Semonetti/Virginia Tech Astronomer; :13 OUT Q=of the comet. Until March 19th, the Comet is visible just before dawn to the east. And also just after dark, very low in the western sky. After eight years as Virginia's Lieutenant Governor, Don Beyer stepped into the campaign spotlight. Ellen Qualls has the beginning of Virginia's Gubernatorial race. IN Q=It is with SUPER=01-Don Beyer/(D) Candidate for Governor; :00 SUPER=01-Bob Holsworth/VCU Political Analyst; 1:01 OUT Q=news 7 Richmond ((IT IS WITH PRIDE AND HUMILITY, WITH DETERMINATION AND FAITH, THAT I ANNOUNCE MY CANDIDACY FOR GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA.)) And with a great deal of fanfare. Beyer started his four city kick-off tour in Roanoke. He had the kind of enthusiastic supporters a gubernatorial candidate can But he wants to be something different from the lawyers who've governed Virginia for four decades. SOT TAPE ONE 12:05:11 ((I BELIEVE I'LL BE THE FIRST CERTIFIED AUTO MECHANIC TO LEAD THIS STATE.)) He is, after all, the heir to his father's Don Beyer Volvo... where he worked his way up from the garage. SOT TAPE ONE 12:05:34 ((I BELIEVE VIRGINIA NEEDS AN EDUCATION GOVERNOR.)) He sets himself in opposition to George Allen and his actual opponent Jim Gilmore, who, he says... sot 12:18:08 T2 ((SUED TO BLOCK CLEAN WATER. SUED TO BLOCK VOTER REGISTRATION. TRIED TO BLOCK GOALS 2000. ON ISSUE AFTER ISSUE, THEY HAVE CHOSEN THE MORE EXTREME IDEOLOGICAL TACT. AND I THINK THAT'S NOT WHERE VIRGINIA IS. AND THAT'S CERTAINLY NOT HOW I WANT TO LEAD.)) ((BOB HOLSWORTH/VCU POLITICAL ANALYST: I THINK DON BEYER'S AN ATTRACTIVE CANDIDATE IN A LOT OF WAYS. I THINK HIS PERSONALITY, HIS AFFABILITY, HIS INTELLIGENCE ALL ARE GOING TO WORK VERY WELL IN THIS CAMPAIGN.)) What would NOT be attractive to many voters is a tax increase to pay for bold education plans. sot t2 12:14:46 ((IT'S TOO EARLY TO TALK ABOUT ANY OF THAT. I THINK THAT THE THINGS I WANT TO DO, THE THINGS I OUTLINED IN THE SPEECH THIS MORNING DO NOT REQUIRE A TAX But he won't close the door. SOT TAPE ONE 12:16:54 T2 ((I THINK TO TAKE A NO NEW TAX PLEDGE IS AN IRRESPONSIBLE POLITICAL GIMMICK.)) But take note, Republican Jim Gilmore has NOT taken that NO tax increase ((DON BEYER MAY HAVE BEEN RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR FOR FOUR YEARS. BUT HE'LL BE OFFICIALLY NOMINATED AT A CONVENTION HERE IN RICHMOND ON MAY 10TH. ELLEN QUALLS, NEWS 7, RICHMOND.)) In other Virginia politics, Another female member of the House of Delegates has decided not to seek re-election this fall. Lynchburg Republican Joyce Crouch announced yesterday she's retiring after eight years representing the 22nd District. Crouch's husband had served in the same post for twelve years before he died Crouch says 20 years of public service is enough for anyone. IN Q=I feel very ((DEL. JOYCE CROUCH/R- LYNCHBURG: I FEEL VERY GOOD ABOUT THE SERVICE OF MY EIGHT YEARS THERE. HAD GENERALLY PRETTY GOOD SUCCESS ON MOST OF THE PIECES OF LEGISLATION THAT I INTRODUCED, AND PRETTY MUCH GAVE FULL- TIME SERVICE TO THE SUPER=01-Del. Joyce Crouch/(R) Campbell Co.; :00 OUT Q=to the constituency. Two other women in the House of Delegates also may step down this year. Virginia HAD climbed to 40th in the nation for the number of female lawmakers this past year. The firm known for designing some of the landmarks that make the Star City unique is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The design firm of Hayes, (SEE) Seay, Mattern and Mattern is best known for area projects like the City Hall Annex and Center in the Square-- but yesterday it focused on the future. 50-years after it was founded, employees left a time capsule to be sealed for the next 50-years. IN Q=It was an opportunity ((TED PETOSKEY/VICE PRESIDENT, HSMM: IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO VISION WHERE WE MIGHT BE 5O YEARS FROM NOW AT HAYES, SEAY, MATTERN AND MATTERN, WHAT AREAS WE WOULD BE IN IN TERMS OF THE COMMUNITY, WHERE WOULD THE COMMUNITY BE 50 YEARS FROM NOW)) SUPER=01-Ted Petoskey/HSMM Vice President; OUT Q=50 years from now. Included in the capsule are designs and photos of current projects, plus mementoes of 19-97... such as a newspaper, a music C-D, and "post-it" notes. A daily trip to the mailbox turned tense for a Roanoke County mother and daughter last night. A 10- year- old girl jumped out of her mother's car when it rolled 150 feet down Carolyn Circle in Southwest Roanoke County. Police say the driver got out of her car to get the mail, then the car and finally resting... after hitting two parked cars. The child banged her head on the car door while trying to leap out. IN Q=THE GIRL WAS IN THE MIDDLE OUT Q=CAR HIT. The girl's injuries are NOT life threatening. Roanoke County police charged the driver with failure to set the parking Senate Republicans today are expected to easily win approval for a probe that will focus on illegal fund-raising for the 19-96 presidential and Meantime, the F-B-I is contradicting President Clinton's statement yesterday that he was never warned about a possible Chinese plot to influence American politics with illegal contributions. The President says he was kept in the dark at the request of the F-B-I. But the F-B-I says it placed no such restrictions on the information. The Citadel has taken action against ten male cadets accused of hazing and harassing two female cadets. Yesterday school officials said one male cadet has been dismissed, and nine others received lesser punishments. One cadet was cleared. In a sworn statement Jeanie Mentavlos and Kim Messer complained their clothes were set on fire and they were kicked and shoved while in a closet. Two male cadets had already been expelled, and another did not return for the second semester. They're prepared for the worst in western Kentucky and southern Illinois -- as the crest of the swollen Ohio River slowly makes its way downstream. Meanwhile, upriver it's a different story. Many residents of flood-ravaged towns are getting their first look at the Federal Emergency Management Agency Head James Lee Witt today is expected to tour flooded-out areas in southern Indiana. It's taken four months, but the battle between Norfolk Southern and C-S-X over control of Conrail ended last week. Len Besthoff is keeping track of the deal's highlights. IN Q=Now that SUPER=01-George Brammer/A. G. Edwards Stockbroker; :16 OUT Q=LB, News-7. Now that the bidding war is over, there are some interesting numbers that provide food for thought. For starters, how about FOUR- BILLION...as in dollars....that's what Norfolk Southern will reportedly dish out for the Conrail routes it receives. IN Q=It gives ((GEORGE BRAMMER/STOCKBROKER A.G. EDWARDS: IT GIVES THEM NEW MARKETS. NORFOLK SOUTHERN'S GONNA GET WHAT THEY'VE WANTED FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AND IT SEEMS TO BE AT A PRICE THEY CAN LIVE WITH.)) OUT Q=live with. Another number to remember is 60, as in 60- percent. That's how much Conrail shares have gone up in price since the original deal it had with C-S-X was announced last year. ((SABINA BARLOW: I'D LIKE TO HAVE GOTTEN A PIECE OF THE ACTION.)) OUT Q=the action. IN Q=I'd like to have ((JANE CANNING: I'D LIKE TO HAVE A LION'S SHARE OF IT, IT'D BE NICE. But it didn't happen? CANNING: NO IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. )) OUT Q=didn't happen. IN Q=One number (( A number everyone's still wondering about is how many Conrail employees could lose their jobs, now that the railroad is being carved up by two Virginia Pennsylvanians in powerful posts are keeping their eye on this, because if their hometown railroad takes too big a hit, they may blow the whistle on the Len Besthoff, News-7. )) OUT Q=LB, News-7.)) It appears there may be a bumpy road ahead for some Roanoke County They knew there were changes coming to Route 2-21 in Back Creek but not the kind V-DOT wants to make. Everyone agrees the road has dangerous curves... but residents thought engineers were going to straighten out the existing black top. Instead V-DOT is now examining the feasibility of wiping out one stretch of road entirely and building a newer, straighter portion over a nearby creek. IN Q=I feel there's ((JOE KEPHART/CONCERNED RESIDENT: I FEEL THERE'S DEFINITELY SOME POLITICS INVOLVED HERE. I THINK WE'RE BEING SHORTCHANGED. PERSONALLY, THIS IS KEEPING US IN LIMBO. WE CAN'T ADD ON TO OUR HOUSE. WE'RE NOT SURE IF THE ROADS GOING TO BE OVER HERE OR OVER HERE. )) ((CAROLE KEPHART/CONCERNED RESIDENT: EVERYTHING IS PERFECT ON THIS CREEK. WE HAVE TROUT THAT'S GONNA GO. THE BED OF THE CREEK IS BECOMING TOTALLY SHALLOW. WE JUST WON'T HAVE ANY OF THIS ANYMORE. )) SUPER=01-Joe Kephart/Concerned Resident; SUPER=01-Carole Kephart/Concerned Resident; :16 OUT Q=this anymore V-DOT officials say it will likely take months before a specific plan is INpatient care on an OUTpatient basis-- It's a growing trend in the health care industry across the country. To meet the growing demand, the Salem V-A has just opened its new Center for The 30- bed facility will include a day clinic to provide admission and recovery from outpatient surgery. A 23- hour clinic will offer short- term medical care, as well as observation and testing. IN Q=It's like a welcome ((DR. RAJIV JAIN/CHIEF OF STAFF: IT IS LIKE A WELCOME CENTER AND A CONTINUUM OF SERVICES FROM THE OFFICE, PRIMARY CARE, TO OUTPATIENT SURGERY AND DIAGNOSTIC CENTER, AND THERE IS FOLLOW-UP RIGHT AFTER THE PROCEDURE. SO, IT'S COMBINATION OF SERVICES. )) SUPER=01-Dr. Rajiv Jain/Chief of Staff; OUT Q=combination of services With the center's opening, officials estimate 70- percent of all surgery will be done on an outpatient basis. The Salem V-A saw more than 200- thousand outpatients during the last fiscal Surfing the Internet may exercise your mind... but it can't give the body much of a work out... or can it? That was one of the issues discussed during an educational conference at the Hotel Roanoke this afternoon. A Virginia Tech professor thinks children can get excited about exercising if they can learn about it via a computer. IN Q=We know ((GEORGE GRAHAM/VIRGINIA TECH PROFESSOR: WE KNOW KIDS ENJOY WORKING WITH COMPUTERS AND WATCHING TELEVISION, BUT WE'RE WONDERING IF THAT MEDIUM CAN'T BE ALSO USED TO EDUCATE YOUNGSTERS ABOUT GETTING OUTSIDE, BEING ACTIVE AND GETTING AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER. )) SUPER=01-George Graham/Virginia Tech Professor; OUT Q=the computer Graham says it's essential for youngsters to learn about their bodies. He believes if enough health- related web sites were created specifically for kids... it could have a positive impact on their physical development. (TOSS TO BUMP) Federal prosecutors are refusing to put on witnesses in the racketeering case against Joe Abed(AAH-bed) and his "organized crime" family. U-S Magistrate Glen Conrad last week implied he might be inclined to release Abed (AAH-bed) and his son, unless the government presents testimony from two or three of its "best witnesses." In its notice to the court declining to put on witnesses at this stage in the proceedings, the government says Joe Abed (AAH-bed) lied last week in court A key element of the case involves extortion, threats, even murder. The government points to ten earlier cases against Abed (AAH-bed) family members that were dismissed in state court, because witnesses were intimidated. "The very witnesses whose testimony would be most compelling," says the U-S Attorney, are those people who are most at risk in this case. A hearing is set for Wednesday afternoon. He's been second in command for eight years, now Don Beyer wants to be Virginia's number one. Yesterday in a four city tour that began in Roanoke, 46- year- old Donald Sternhoff Beyer, Junior kicked off what he's calling the greatest adventure of Beyer hopes to become the first non-lawyer governor in four decades. IN Q=my first SUPER=01-Don Beyer/(D) Candidate for Governor; OUT Q=national average But before Beyer was even out of the blocks, The Washington Post speculated he'd have to raise taxes to pay for his education plan. IN Q=Don Beyer stumbled SUPER=01-Bob Holsworth/VCU Political Analyst; :07 OUT Q=supporting tax increases. Beyer says he will NOT take a NO-tax increase pledge. But then neither will his likely opponent-- Republican Attorney General Jim It's a different milestone for a Lynchburg delegate,-- after eight years in the House, Hill City Republican Joyce Crouch says she will not seek another term this fall. Crouch first went to Richmond to replace her husband, Joe, who represented the 22nd district for 12-years before he died in 19-89. Crouch says she's proud of her family's record of service. IN Q=I feel very ((DEL. JOYCE CROUCH/R-LYNCHBURG: I FEEL VERY GOOD ABOUT THE SERVICE OF MY EIGHT YEARS THERE. I HAD GENERALLY PRETTY GOOD SUCCESS ON MOST OF THE PIECES OF LEGISLATION THAT I INTRODUCED AND PRETTY MUCH GAVE FULL-TIME SERVICE TO THE SUPER=01-Del. Joyce Crouch/(R) Lynchburg; :00 OUT Q=the constituency. Crouch hopes her retirement from politics will allow her more time with her A comet is adding a little extra light to the morning sky. Andrew Freiden tells us when to look for it. IN Q=a comet is a.. SUPER=01-Greg Topazna/Virginia Tech Astronomer; :00 SUPER=01-John Broderick/Virginia Tech Astronomer; :18 SUPER=01-John Semonetti/Virginia Tech Astronomer; :38 OUT Q=news7, blacksburg IN Q=a comet ((GREG TOPAZNA/VIRGINIA TECH ASTRONOMER: A COMET IS A DIRTY SNOWBALL, IT'S MOSTLY ICE, WITH BITS OF DUST AND PRIMORDIAL MATTER, THEY WERE AROUND WHEN THE SOLAR SYSTEM WAS FORMED )) OUT Q=WAS FORMED. Don't call it a meteor-- It's called the comet Hale-Bopp, and it's named after two amateur astronomers. IN Q=IT'S NO GREAT ((JOHN BRODERICK/VIRGINIA TECH ASTRONOMER: IT'S NO GREAT SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT TO HAVE DISCOVERED A COMET. SO YOU WON'T GET PROMOTED, OR A PAY RAISE, OR JOB SECURITY FROM THAT. SO AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS DO IT. AND IT'S AN IMPORTANT ROLE THAT AMATEURS PLAY. )) OUT Q=AMATEURS PLAY Folks have already begun sighting the Comet on their morning drive to work-- and the show is only going to get better. IN Q=when they come ((JOHN SEMONETTI: WHEN THEY COME, SOMETIMES THEY CAN BE QUITE SPECTACULAR-- SOMETIMES THEY ARE DUDS, THIS IS A SPECTACULAR ONE, I WOULDN'T MISS IT. )) SUPER=01-John Semonetti/Va. Tech Astronomer; OUT Q=miss it. For next week or so, The comet is visible right before sunrise, low in the After dark, the comet won't be as bright-- and will only be visible for an hour or so in the Northwest Sky. From March 20th to the 22nd, The comet will move higher in the twilight sky. And the best days to view the comet are from March 24th until April 10th. ON those days, the comet will be very easily found in the Northwest sky, just IN Q=IF YOU REALLY ((IF YOU REALLY WANT TO GET A SPECTACULAR VIEW, OR MAYBE SEE THE LONG TAIL. YOU WANT TO TRY TO GO TO A DARK LOCATION.)) But the Virginia Tech Astronomers say the comet is so big-- you have a front row seat from just about anywhere. Andrew Freiden, News7, Blacksburg.)) In the N-H-L, Darby Hendrickson scored with 42 seconds left in regulation to complete Toronto's 3-to-3 comeback tie against Dallas. For last night's scores, let's check the boards. GO TO SCORES SUPER=0096-/Golden State/106/j/L.A. Clippers/112///;

Evidence of China’s worse-than-expected slowdown has been piling up in the recent months. Perhaps it is still hard for many to believe this, but China is already on its way towards deflation, just like what we have started talking about earlier this year. We have already highlighted a couple of structural issues that is deflationary, and why some of inflationary structural factors such as demographics are not relevant. In short, the over-investment over the past many years, and particularly in the years after the financial crisis, has created massive over-capacity across the economy that no one is really able to quantify. We are also aware of the over-capacity and inventory build-up in various sectors like coal and steel. We have also just learnt that steel industry profits have fallen by 96.7% in the first four months of the year compared to the same period a year ago as demand falls and inventory build-up force producers to cut prices (demand is so weak that some producers are forced to sell pigs instead). Many of these are pointing to deflation, not inflation. Not to mention the actual CPI figures which are already in negative territory on a month-on-month basis. In short, deflation is already here for China, even though it only looks pretty mild at the moment. Source: National Bureau of Statistics We have already noted, on the other hand, that the Chinese government has already started their attempt to reflate the economy with some of the measures look downright desperate. For instance, we don’t really get the point of encouraging private sector investment in previously banned industries could be of any help as far as GDP growth is concerned, not to mention that the private sector is clearly deleveraging, thus we don’t see why the private sector would be really keen. Monetary policy in the forms of interest rate cuts and reduction of reserve requirement ratio, while should work in “normal” time, may not work now as debt deflation means the demand for loans going forward will be weak. Stimulating consumption is not an easy task as it has been shown time and again that you really can’t force people to spend. We do know that with a paper currency that the country has control over its issuance (that is if the PBOC ends the soft peg with the US dollar to allow for maximum independence of monetary policy on one hand while opening the capital account on the other), the government cannot run out of money. And as long as the government is willing to throw as much money into the money as necessary, it is at least theoretically possible for the government generate growth as it wishes (in local currency terms), never mind the negative impact on the currency, which has been falling against the US dollar, and will continue to depreciate if massive stimulus is on the table. We also know that in an environment of debt deflation, it is rather hard to generate inflation simply by creating money by the central bank (of course, one might argue that no central banks who are facing deleveraging have ever printed large enough amount of money to create enough inflation after the financial crisis). Throwing as much money as necessary for the sake of maintaining economic growth is not always politically possible elsewhere in the planet (think about the lunatics of the Republican Party in the United States). For China, this is how the government can throw as much money as possible into the problem, assuming that no one is going to oppose it. 1. Force banks to lend We have talked about this absurd option for a long time, and it seems like they are up to their old tricks once more. But lend to whom? 2. Local governments and state-owned enterprises to borrow As the private sector deleverages, there are only policy-driven entities that can take up the slack, and that means local governments and state-owned companies. Because banks are also largely state-owned in China, the combined result would actually be similar to US government increases spending to stimulate the economy while increase borrowing. Again, because the government cannot theoretically run out of money, the government can, at least theoretically, throw as much money as necessary. 3. Build more pointless stuff Just invest in whatever. Ten more Burj Khalifa, twenty more New York city replica, whatever. Just build something, so suppliers get paid and their overcapacity is now used, while the workers get paid to consume. 4. Bad debts? Where? Just pretend there’s none, ok? Hide them somewhere. 5. Problem solved The last time the Chinese government did it, the size of the package was RMB4 trillion. In reality, net new loans to non-financial companies in 2009 alone amounted to more than RMB7 trillion, and another RMB4.8 trillion or so was lent in 2010 to non-financial companies, not to mention that money supply has already been doubled. Of course, we have no idea what these figures would look like without the stimulus, or we can’t be sure about the actual lending that is directly associated with the stimulus, but the actual amount of money being thrown at the economy was probably closer to RMB8 trillion, rather than RMB4 trillion. In the eyes of the world excluding China, the RMB4 trillion stimulus on paper (or the RMB8 trillion stimulus in substance) appears to be the phenomenal success. Not only did it well surpass that 8% growth target, but also almost as if China saved the world economy. Within China, the stimulus has been largely regarded as a mistake. Perhaps this is why the consensus currently believes that the coming stimulus will not be of the size of RMB4 trillion, because the last stimulus is now regarded as unnecessarily large. This is mainly because of inflation that followed the massive fiscal and monetary stimulus, and because of the real estate bubble which makes new homes largely unaffordable to average workers. Worse still, in the eyes of average Chinese, the money being thrown into the problem benefit none other than real estate developers and corrupt officials, who are the winners for inflation and booming real estate prices. Indeed, as said previously, these corrupt elites who rule China are most concerned not about inflation, but lack of inflation. Without massive fiscal and monetary stimulus which enabled some of the most outrageous investment projects, corrupt officials and connected businessmen would have no chance to pocket huge amount of money in the process, and without inflation and persistently low interest rates, not only would these investment projects be impossible, it would also mean that corrupt elites of China could not have hoped to put money into the real estate market can pocket even more money. China currently has a massive amount of debt in private sector as well as the public sector. It is in the government’s interest to inflate the debt away. However, the problem of the Chinese economy has grown even larger over the past few years when the economy was on steroid. With debt deflation in sight, even more money has to be thrown into the problem for the sake of maintaining GDP growth and to generate sufficient level of inflation to make debt servicing easier (and for corrupt elites to pocket more money). Also consider the huge risks from Europe which could turn out to be disastrous. In that scenario, the kind of money necessary to reflate the Chinese economy will not be RMB4 trillion. It will probably be closer to RMB10 trillion (on paper). But then, if the previous RMB4 trillion stimulus was regarded as a mistake, will it make sense to try an RMB10 trillion one? This article originally appeared here: China in deflation, and how to reflate it at all Also sprach Analyst - World & China Economy, Global Finance, Real Estate Read more posts on Also Sprach Analyst »

At this point in Toby Keith’s career, he is most associated with a tough guy, ultra-masculine persona that he is usually all too happy to perpetuate. So, it is always a pleasant treat when he slows things down and reminds us that he actually has one of the better voices in contemporary country music. Furthermore, his strong vocals naturally wrap around a ballad better than many of his more ballad heavy peers, which is well demonstrated in his latest single, the jazz style “Cryin’ for Me (Wayman’s Song)”. As the parenthetical note suggests, “Cryin’ for Me” is a tribute to one of Keith’s very close friends, basketball star and jazz Bassist, Wayman Tisdale who died after losing his battle with cancer. Backed by a gentle jazz style production, including prominent saxophone (Dave Koz), the song opens with a recording of Wayman’s outgoing voice message, which is later effectively referenced: “I got up and dialed your number and your voice came on the line; That old familiar message I heard a thousand times. It said, ‘Sorry that I missed you leave a message and God bless.’ I know you think I’m crazy, but I had to hear your voice, I guess.” Instead of the typical generalities that are often in songs about the loss of loved ones, some of the lyrics of “Cryin’ for Me” are an insider’s look at the man about whom Keith is singing. Nevertheless, Keith’s palpable emotion is enough to make this song relatable to all who have lost. In one of the rare occasions that Keith abandons his typical macho swagger to expose himself in a more vulnerable way, we are privileged to experience a sensitive performance for a departed friend, as he acknowledges the truth that accompanies death for all of us: “I’m not cryin’ ‘cause I feel so sorry for you;/I’m Cryin’ for me.” Written by Toby Keith Listen: Toby Keith, Cryin’ for Me

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We like to think that we live in the light, or as the current phrase goes — “it’s all good ” — when in reality everything really seems to happen in the dark where angels are wrestled with. This came forcibly to mind when I caught the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra’s Restless Dreams concert on the June 13th at San Francisco’s Old First Church. The program — 8 pieces by 8 composers–also bore out music director Mark Alburger’s from the stage quip that it was Haydn’s “Farewell” Symphony in reverse — instruments were added instead of subtracted as it progressed. Restless Dreams also appeared to go from meditation to conflict, or light to dark. Philip Freihofner’s Obelisk, which the composer wrote over a long period and “finalized” for this concert, could be described as meditative and/or minimalist in gesture. We tend to think that only loud pieces are powerful , but Freihofner’s soft one, which Rova Saxophone Quartet’s Steve Adams played, backed by a repeating figure on synth with passion and point, hit home. Lisa Scola Prosek’s Voodoo Storm, performed clarinettist Rachel Condry, trumpeter Eduard Prosek, cellist Juan Mejia, and pianist Scola Prosek was delicate and expressive, with subtle yet highly individualized part writing — Condry giving way to Eduard Prosek and vice versa — and it ended, in mid phrase, as so much in life does. Read the rest of this entry » 4 Comments » It’s sometimes said that composers are either German or French, and American vanguard one Frederic Rzewski, with his much vaunted admiration for Beethoven, is clearly on the German side. But how could he not be when some of his composition teachers like Dallapiccola and Babbitt forsook a flowing lyric line for a jagged dramatic one, whose aim is not to seduce the ear, but to wow with intellectual rigor? But that doesn’t mean that Rzewski’s work is insincere, or lacks power — it has that in spades — but that it tends to be aimed at the mind and not the heart. It’s often confrontational, too. But that’s a good thing because any real musical interaction, like any real human one, has a built in confrontational element, and confrontations help us grow. Rzewski’s 1976 solo piano piece The People United Will Never Be Defeated (El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido) is certainly a work in which he confronted the musical possibilities of all kinds of things that had been appearing in his output until then. He was 38 at the time he wrote it and his discoveries here power lots of his subsequent work. I t’s as much as a watershed piece for him as Glass’ massive ensemble work Music In 12 Parts (1971-74) was for him. It’s also a kind of compendium of rhythmic, harmonic and coloristic approaches to Chilean composer Sergio Ortega’s song for Salvador Allende on which it’s based. There are 6 variation sets of 6 each plus a coda, and Rzewski seems to use every possible pianistic device in it. Read the rest of this entry » Comments Off on Force of Nature – Frederic Rzewski Solo Piano UC Davis Some people like to think that music is always somehow about something… usually them. My bad love affair, the world will never understand me, much less remember me. And lots of music — from the troubadours with their songs of courtly love to the meditations and dramas of the romantics to the skitterings and upheavals of the New Vienna School — have been a kind of narrative of this beleaguered self, or if you will, the audience’s identification with the composer’s ups and downs. But the New York School of Earle Brown (1926-2002), Christian Wolff (1936- ), John Cage (1912 -1992), and Morton Feldman (1926-1987) threw this book out the window. Like the abstract expressionist painters with whom they were friendly, they believed in the concept of art as abstraction, not a representation of something external. They wanted their listeners to experience music as sound unmoored from any story frame, an event in and of itself. Morton Feldman made a career out this approach and his focus on the specifics of sound was his calling card. FOR JOHN CAGE (1982), which violinist Graeme Jennings, late of the Arditti Quartet, and and Christopher Jones performed here in mid-September as part of the sfSound Series, has all the stylistic hallmarks of his late work. It’s ultra soft – down to ppp – has an evenness of color, and its duration –78 miniutes– is roughly the same as a Bruckner or Mahler symphony, or the Beethoven 9th. But what happens in that time frame is an entirely different story. Feldman isn’t after a logical dialectical continuity but an ahistorical present, and this can make his music, with its fragmentary gestures, seem odd, or even empty. But Jennings and Jones made that lack of “content “ convincing, and urgent. A slow steady sequence of quietly inflected piano chords sounded as if they were going somewhere, and Jenning’s playing of Feldman’s circumscribed violin gestures — cells, simple, spaced chords, harmonics -– was equally acute. And I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the composer achieved a kind of Brechtian alienation effect/affect by having the violinist use a leather mute, and the pianist play with the damper pedal half depressed so that the music appeared to disappear as it was being heard. Classic masters like Brahms meditated on the past in the solo movements of his violin sonatas, but that past existed within a kind of narrative frame, whereas here only a present past survived. Feldman’s music is both annoying –- when will it change, and where will it end ? –- and transcendent, and Jennings and Jones came down squarely on the side of the latter. And the music seemed to gain much of its poetry from the place where it was played. A big mirrored dance rehearsal studio, with a spic and span Steinway grand where each sound had its tenuous, and all too fleeting life. 6 Comments » We take so much for granted – the sun will go down , the sun will come up – that we never seem to realize that some day it won’t be there or we won’t be here to see it. Same thing is true of friends you could always count on. So when I got an e-mail from my composer-conductor friend Gerhard Samuel’s companion, Achim Nicklis, that Gerhard had passed away a few weeks ago, I was shocked. Sure, I sensed he wasn’t well – repeated e-mails saying he’d changed his address indicated as much. – but the sad fact remains. He’s not here anymore. One comes to know a person through what they say, or don’t say, do, or don’t do, and if that person’s an artist one gets to know them through their work. I first encountered Gary’s music when I was driving my sister Kathi’s car in Belmont Shore, Long Beach, and was so moved when I heard the La Salle Quartet perform his String Quartet # 1 (1978) on the radio, that I stopped the car until it was over. But isn’t that what art’s supposed to do, and isn’t its awareness meant to make us more aware? Other pieces had just as much impact. There was his original and very touching “gloss ” on Mondeverdi, Looking at Orpheus Looking (1971), which he wrote for the Oakland Symphony when he was its extra innovative music director, Requiem for Survivors and suddenly it’s evening (1974), which he composed as a memorial piece for his Oakland successor, Calvin Simmons, when he was Mehta’s assistant conductor at the LA Philharmonic; the chamber piece, Nocturne on an Impossible Dream (1980), which he wrote with his mother in mind; the 1998 chamber work with tenor and saxophone solo, Hyacinth From Apollo, to a poem by his frequent collaborator, Jack Larson, who was the original TV Jimmy Olsen; and the 1994 Transformations for chamber string orchestra and solo violin. And though these were all completely different in style and expressive intent, they couldn’t have been more of a piece with who Gerhard was – passionate, charming as all get out, refined, yet always full of surprises. Like that September evening in 1998 – the 19th, to be precise – when Tony Gualtieri and I presented him on KUSF-FM’s 3-hour Classical Salon, and he, during the time his music was playing, seemed completely at sea, and I said “ Don’t worry, “ as Tony looked across the room at us from “ Studio A”, to our perch at the little table which was “Studio B”, and then when our mikes went on rose to the occasion like the pro he always was. Which reminds me of a story he told me of what happened when he was conducting one of the Stravinsky ballets. The composer was backstage, hand cupped to his ear, listening intently as his wife, Vera, said “Why’s he doing that? He’s heard it a million times!” And Gerhard said “ Because he wants to hear it again!” which was a lot like him too– completely in the present, where everything is. 4 Comments » My dear late best friend Danny Cariaga, classical music critic extraordinaire of the Los Angeles Times, once observed that people went to Wagner’s operas when they were new because they had more time. But now, with the onslaught of e-mails, IMs, cells with text messaging, to say nothing of headsets, call waiting, call forwarding, numeric pagers and the like, time seems fractured beyond repair. Are we really that far gone? And if so how can we get back to the unalterable truths of life, like love and death? These questions came to mind when I caught The Met’s penultimate performance of Philip Glass’ 1979 opera Satyagraha on Monday 28th April. One of its subjects is time itself, and Glass’ mature music has always played with our perceptions of it. How long is short, and how short is long? Glass’ exquisite and utterly involving 3-act meditation on Gandhi – its subtitle is “M.K. Gandhi in South Africa (1893 – 1914)” – shows how he transformed himself from an ordinary barrister thrown off a train into one of the most seminal spiritual and political figures of the last century whose ideas continue to reverberate. A tall order, for sure, but one that co-director designers Phelim McDermott and Juilan Crouch’s Improbable Theatre made incredibly vivid and tremendously moving. Glass and his scenarist Constance De Jong, assembled their libretto from the Hindu holy book The Bhagavad-Gita (“Song of the Lord“), and the verses they culled from it pinpoint what Satyagraha is really about — self-mastery in the service of spiritual growth. Gandhi developed his non-violent passive resistance movement, satyagraha — it roughly translates as “truth force”, or even “the force of love” –during his work in South Africa, which Glass’ opera dramatizes in seven highly allusive and mysterious scenes. The composer cites his absorption in the Khatikali theatre of Kerala , South India, and the extended and abruptly short mosaic-like approaches in Brecht plays like Galileo, and ,of course, his with Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach (1975), as inspirations for Satyagraha though a “Western“ source, or point of reference, is Stravinsky’s from Sophocles via Danielou and Cocteau’s opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (1926-27) though their aim, like the ancients, was to provoke pity through terror. Glass’ aim is entirely different. His music and its staging strive to educate the audience in the most non-didactic way to what Gandhi and his followers were all about. And he and his collaborators here do this through slowly evolving sonic and visual images which provoke, distance – the Brecht, Lehrstuck and Stravinsky neo-classic tactic – and enthrall. Much has been made of Glass’ supposedly “simple “ music, as if his “poverty of means” translated into poverty of effect, and affect, but nothing could be further from the truth. Of course he fashions each scene as a series of ground basses or chaconnes, but his imagination is in full flower here, even through this is his first orchestral piece since his Juilliard days (1958-1962). And it really does show how he’s bent his pit band of 3 flutes, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 1 bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, strings 1 and 2, violas, cellos, and double basses, and a Kurzweil synthesizer, to his own deeply expressive ends.. Act 1’s opening scene, The Kuru Field of Justice, unfolded from its 2+3, 2+3, 2+3, 2+2… rhythmic structure, like a steadily opening flower, with Gandhi (tenor Richard Croft), in barrister suit and briefcase at the lip of center stage, being set upon – his valise rifled by the supers – as his solo’s joined by that of mythological figures Prince Arjuna, in blue face ( tenor Bradley Garvin ), and in Indian cap and white tunic pants Lord Krishna (bass Richard Bernstein), while warring parties, representing the internecine conflict of the Kuru clan, in Victorian and Indian dress, face off, and larger than life papier mache puppets, do battle. (Paragraph revised per Walter’s comment) The succeeding scene – Tolstoy Farm (1910) was just as imaginatively realized, as Gandhi, his wife Kasturbai (mezzo Maria Zicak), Gandhi’s German secretary Miss Schlesen (soprano Rachelle Durkin) , Mrs Naidoo (soprano Ellie Dehn); and Improbable’s co-workers built Gandhi’s ashram in miniature.A nd nowhere could Gandhi’s and Glass’simplicity of means be shown to more effect than in the long – 60 plus minutes, though 31 minutes in Christopher Keene’s CBS LP set – stretch of Act 3’s single scene, Newcastle March (1913) where the composer’s “limited means “ – roughly three themes / harmonies — seemed to burrow into the listeners’ psyches/hearts, until all was “released” at the final but not so final cadence/chord. Glass’ music has always trafficked in the down to earth and the mystical, and Satyagraha provides both as 2sides of the same coin. And it’s not for nothing that the third, and concluding scene of Act ii, Protesttextural, harmonic, and yes, melodic variety than all of Satyagraha combined The Met’s forces rose to its challenges as true “athletes of the spirit”, proving that it shares deep yet deeply contrasting familial resemblances to its other siblings in Glass’ portrait trilgy – Einstein, and Akhnaten (1983). And that his spectacularly moving 2005 opera of John Coetzee’s 1980 Waiting for the Barbarians – which Orange Mountain Music will release this June – continues even more difficult explorations of the human condition. ‘ A man lost in a cruel and stupid dream / But still I keep walking / Walking. “ Improbable’s production differed in many respects from the Bruce Ferden led – he’s sadly dead from AIDS in 1993 – version of the David Poutney/Robert Israel 1980 Netherlands Opera production which I caught twice – and once with Danny Cariaga – at the SF Opera in 1989. And its immersion in themes of social injustice – will they ever solved – continued in Glass’ SF Opera commission, Appomattox, which bowed here last November. What happened – and this went on in the mind, body, and dare we forget it – heart? – can only be sketched here. 2 Comments » The world has always been violent, hence the classical desire to restrain the beast within. But is this kind of art enough when the world seems to spin out of control more and more each day, with headlines soaked in blood, and anger and distrust every way you turn? Should art address disjunction/disconnection, or should it act like Bocaccio, who entertained his guests with stories while the plague raged outside his door? These are essential questions, and The San Francisco Ballet’s four- work Program 5, which I caught Saturday evening 15 March at the Opera House, seemed whether consciously or not, to be asking them. And all the music here was either modern or contemporary. Brit choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s Pas de Deux from After the Rain (2005), uses Arvo Part’s 1978 violin/ piano duo “Spiegel im Spiegel “, as its score, which was played here live by Roy Malan, and Bruce McGraw. Composed just after Part parted company with serialism, it’s not as interesting or as fresh as some of his 80’s and 90’s work which can be quite striking, and sometimes very affecting too. Sure, you can read it as meditative, or “spiritual”, but music that’s performed in the theatre had better have some dramatic juice, and Part’s piece didn’t. And Wheeldon’s dance for the alienated/struggling couple – Sarah Van Patten and Pierre-Francois Villanoba – made it sound like a kind of decorous décor. But the dancers brought lots of nuance to their parts which often depended on very slow lifts. Wheeldon’s Carousel (A Dance), which was first performed in Richard Rodgers’ centennial year–2002–at Lincoln Center, was an hommage to this wonderful composer. And while the choreographer studiously avoided using anything that smacked of Broadway, what he came up with was obvious – having the dancers move in a circle like a slowly gyrating carousel, or letting them become carousel horses with poles attached to an non-existent top – and trite. Recent revivals of Rodgers’ 1945 musical have apparently stayed closer to the dark tone of Ferenc Molnar’s play Lilom, which Hammerstein based his book on. But Wheeldon’s dance wasn’t the least bit dark, though Mark Stanley’s expert lighting was. The choreographer’s use of vernacular movement made it look contemporary, but in his heart of hearts he seems to be a let’s be a polite at all times classicist. Still, the 24 strong corps, who’d performed it six hours before, and soloists Dores Andre and Joan Boada, made it look almost effortless. A similar lack of connection to the musical material at hand undermined Helgi Tomasson’s 2008 dance – this was its premiere – to Rachmaninov’s 1934 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Why any choreographer would deliberately ignore this score’s variation structure is anybody’s guess, but this one defiantly did. Either the music inspires, or it doesn’t, and if it doesn’t what’s the point? Tomasson’s setting was so blandly unimaginative – ditto Martin Pakledinaz’s scenic and costume design – that I kept wishing I could see the orchestra, but my friend and I were parked on the ground floor. Music director Martin West and his band gave a serviceable and streamlined modern take on the score, with no string portamenti to give it extra expressivity. But piano soloist Roy Bogas, whose teacher Rosina Lhevinne exemplified the Russian romantic style, used rubato at several points to give it rhythmic variety, just as Rachmaninov did when he played this piece. Neither rhythmic variety nor textural subtlety figured in either music or dance in Wayne McGregor’s Eden/Eden, which the Stuttgart Ballet premiered in that city last year, and I think its point of origin says a lot about the final product. The Germans. after all, have never been big on giving their audiences unalloyed pleasure, but beating them up with “important “ messages, and this piece certainly tried to be important. Charles Balfour’s lighting made everything look deadly earnest, and McGregor’s choreography for nine, emphasized angularity, and a kind of physical dysfunction which had to be meaningful. Steve Reich’s aggressively monochromatic score sounded like the snare drum tattoos in Bolero on auto pilot. But what does one expect from a composer – what’s happened to this once vital artist? — who sits down with his wife and collaborator on this piece, vid artist Beryl Korot, to choose the most significant technological events of the 20th century, form THREE TALES (2002), of which this, Dolly, is the last? Dolly is of course the sheep cloned in 1997, and Reich and Korot’s talking heads, from MIT and Oxford – mercifully absent here – go on and on about this issue. The composer even dragged out a quote from Genesis – “ And G-d placed him in the garden of Eden, to keep it and to serve it, “ to give it mythical stature, and McGregor seemed to buy it. A white tree of the knowledge of good and evil descended from the flies, and some of the dancers came and went via a lift in the stage. McGregor and his game dancers produced some striking and even nightmarish images. But a piece that starts in the head, and stays there, can’t be anything but dead on arrival. Guest conductor Gary Sheldon and his musicians produced harsh, overly amplified, and badly mixed sounds, which assaulted the ear. Eden/Eden failed to say anything fresh, and will, I think, date quickly “like yesterday’s mashed potaotoes” in Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern’s song “ A Fine Romance.“ When you’re on you’re on, and when you’re not, you’re not. Comments Off on Where We Live Things happen when you pay attention. Resemblances line up, and disjunctions jar. These things certainly happened when I caught Word for Word’s theatricalization of James Baldwin’s Harlem-set story Sonny’s Blues, and Spain’s flamenco group Son De La Frontera on successive nights in San Francisco last weekend. Word for Word used every possible dramatic device, including fine actors, to make each syllable of the story come alive while the Spanish musicians produced a thoroughly non-verbal experience though there was lots of singing. The paradox was that both performances — even the wall to wall words of Sonny’s Blues — delivered language-free meanings, and that, whether we’re aware of it or not, art is always a fundamental emotional experience, even with words. And — it should get us where we live. Flamenco provides one of the rawest, purest, and most sophisticated musico-dramatic experiences on the planet. And the 6-member Son De La Frontera, presented by The Bay Area Flamenco Partnership at The Yerba Buena Center for The Arts Theater Saturday 1 March, are masters of this ancient form, which began in India with the gypsies who crossed North Africa, and settled in Spain’s Andalucia, where flamenco flourished in the intermingled soil of its Islamic, Jewish (Sephardic), and Christian cultures. Son De La Frontera delivered it clearly, honestly,and without regret. Virgil Thomson once declared that composers did everything but speak the language of the heart. 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And I was reminded of the late great Spanish mezzo Rocio Jurado, who sang on the soundtrack of Carlos Saura’s 1985 film of De Falla’s El Amor Brujo, when listening to Moi de Moron. You don’t have to know or even “hear” the words to feel whats he’s saying. It doesn’t get any better, or more real than this. Comments Off on I Left My (Spanish) Heart in San Francisco Dance is always about music, and music is, more often than not, about dance. But how does dance animate music, and music animate dance? This seemed to be the central question when I caught Program 1 of the San Francisco Ballet’s 75th anniversary season at the War Memorial Opera House February 9th. Classical ballet and modern dance sometimes plays against and even ignores the music’s rhythmic structure which would never happen in the deservedly popular Dancing With The Stars. But we rightly or wrongly cut the highbrow forms a bit more slack. Virgil Thomson’s music for SF Ballet’s founding choreographer Lew Christensen’s Filling Station (1938) brought these thoughts center stage. And though the composer has defined his score as a collection of waltzes, tangos, a fugue, a Big Apple, a hold up, a chase, and a funeral, one was barely aware of these disparate forms. Instead, what caught the ear and eye was the happy disjunction between these elements, not their literalness. But that’s odd when you consider how this ballet, to a story by Lincoln Kirstein, is routinely described as a pop piece. Well, maybe, but one which uses vernacular movement — way before the Judson Church crowd did it — in still fresh, even startling ways. The moves for James Sofranko’s filling station attendant Mac were exaggerated but somewhat naturalistic too. But the gestures Christensen devised for the other dancers, like the hilariously bombed Rich Girl Erin McNulty, tended to be more stylized, as Thomson’s music shifted gears — jubilant one moment, deadly serious the next — as in his viola-dominated tango for her, which didn’t make rational, but emotional sense. Thomson was always a subtle and sly composer, and his clever but utterly sincere moves were on full display here, and. Martin West’s orchestra made the music go on many levels. Thomson once told me that everybody’s after freshness and this score couldn’t have been more fresh, and perfectly modern because of that. Modernist choreographers have tried their hand at setting dances on Bach’s music, with Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco being one of the most famous. SF Ballet Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson, who’s sometimes been too much of a Balanchine acolyte, seemed to break free of the master in his 7 For Eight (200 ), to music from Bach keyboard concertos composed between 1729 and 1741, and the music’s mathematical lucidity and calmly ordered sequences seemed to make him go further and deeper than he usually does. Bach is regularly advertised as peerless and one certainly felt that here in Tomasson’s 7 sequences for 8 dancers which were as contained and deeply expressive as the music, with 3 duos alternating with 1 trio, 1 quartets, and 1 solo. Company star Joan Boada shone, but so did all the other dancers here who negotiated Tomasson’s from a classical vocabulary moves with both elegance and gravity. David Finn’s subtly modulated lighting scheme of mostly bluish greys and off blacks made the stage pictures both beautiful and highly suggestive ,which the costumes by Sandra Woodall — who dressed Kronos years ago — unobtrusively complemented The expert piano soloist here was Michael McGraw. Would that Balanchine’s 1967 mostly general dance, Diamonds, from Jewels, were as successful or interesting as the two dances which preceded it. Instead it came off as a kind of white on white version of Balanchine’s hommage to Sousa; The Stars and Stripes, with the stage almost always full of the 32 member corps executing endless formations and deformations with lots of chandelier-like port-a-bras, which though meant to look elegant ended up being cloying, with 4 of the 5 movements of Tchaikovksy’s 3rd Symphony serving as the score. Balanchine was as much as an entertainer as a high art guy–his long association with Stravinsky– but this just seemed like admirably danced fluff. Martin West’s pit band accompanied with effortless grace,well-judged tempos, and transparent ensemble throughout. And in none of the 3 pieces did he ever encourage his orchestra to push. This is a deservedly acclaimed company with a very fine orchestra. 5 Comments » Human behavior’s funny. The more we try to change the more we don’t seem able to. Are we cursed to repeat the same mistakes in our private lives — with lovers, friends — as well as in our public ones? Are we genetically condemned to disjunction, discord, and war, like Sisyphus trying to keep that enormous rock from crushing him each day? Philip Glass’ SF Opera commission, APPOMATTOX, which world premiered 5 October, and which I caught 16 October, seems to accept these things as givens. Its ostensible subject is Robert E. Lee’s surrender to U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on 9 April 1865, and its subsequent impact. But its central question seems to be how can we change history if we can’t even change ourselves? These are weighty questions, and Glass’ music addresses them with seriousness and point. The opening figure for double basses and wind mixtures is immediately affecting. Then Julia Dent Grant (soprano Rhoslyn Jones) emerges from a backlit alcove in Riccardo Hernandez’s umbrous metal set, her posture contained, “The spring campaign ___ In four short years I have grown to dread those words … ” She joins four other women — Mary Custis Lee (soprano Elza van den Heever), her daughter Julia Agnes (soprano Ji Young Yang), Mary Todd Lincoln (soprano Heidi Melton), and her black seamstress Elizabeth Keckley (mezzo Kendall Gladen) — in an almost Baroque lament on the sorrows of war — ” never before has so much blood been drained … Let this be the last time.. ” The women who stand behind their men and keep it all together are, of course, the unsung heroines of any war, and Glass’ immediate focus on them, signals this piece’s unwavering depth. Read the rest of this entry » 2 Comments » Americans like to sit on their hands. Even when they’re telling the truth you have to worry. Are you trying to take something from me, steal my identity, assault my assiduously guarded self-image? I may be feeling something, but you’ll have to read between the lines. God forbid I should tell you what and why, and if I do it will likely be too late. These curious thoughts came to mind when I caught Lebanese oud master-composer-singer Marcel Khalife and his ensemble for the second time — the first was at New York’s Town Hall in 2004 — at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater. Why? Because Khalife’s music goes straight to the heart, and never holds back, much less apologize for what it feels. Which isn’t to downplay its appeal to the mind. But its principal goal is to connect with the heart, and hearts and minds and bodies were certainly reached in this concert. Artists are people, after all, and wouldn’t you rather spend time with someone who can express than with someone who can’t? The American media likes to portray Arabs as unlettered savages, but that’s hardly the truth. Arabic music, after all, is one of the oldest, richest traditions on the planet, and Khalife has devoted his life to expanding and deepening these traditions. With about 80 maqamat, or scale /modes, this music is complex, sophisticated, and highly expressive. Khalife drew on these riches in his latest nearly hour long ensemble piece, Taqasim, where he was joined by his son, Bachar, on Arabic percussion, and guest bassist Mark Helias. Taqasim means improvisation, and this three-part piece is an instrumental evocation of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s work, which Khalife has set many times. It centers on the mid-lower range of the oud, and bass, with discreet, but colorful contributions from Arabic percussion like riqq ( tambourine ), and assorted drums. Lines coalesce and vanish, drones give way to unisons, the bass is sometimes played like a drum. The dream of Al-Andalus comes and goes. Another, perhaps pan-Arabic, dream also seemed to be conjured, in further largely Darwish settings, which Khalife sang on the second half of the program — the primeval My Mother, with its wonderfully built contributions from Khalife’s other son, Rami, on piano, and the very famous Passport, which had an even more brilliantly structured and stylistically varied solo from him. The nearly packed house was also big on audience participation — a Khalife concert specialty — and yet another indication that Arabs aren’t wont to sit on their hands. I Walk (lyric, Samih el-Qassim ), which is a kind of hymn of defiance and solidarity, got a call and response treatment from the balcony and main floor, while the closing O Fisherman, Haila, Haila ( lyrics by Khalife’s Al-Mayadine ensemble ), had a thick driving intensity from piano — hammered chords — Khalife pere, Helias, and Bachar Khalife’s Arabic bass drum. We in the West like to think that music is principally melody and harmony, though its wellspring has always been rhythm, which is something that Arabic music has never forgotten. Western musicians — and especially American ones — can learn lots from this music. And it isn’t afraid to communicate, and touch the heart, on the deepest possible level. Khalife is the first Arab to ever win the UNESCO Artist For Peace Award, and it’s easy to see why.His San Francisco stop is but one of many on his Taqasim Tour. Michael McDonagh is a San Francisco-based poet and writer on the arts, whose poems have appeared in several places, including Stanford’s Mantis 3: Poetry and Performance, which ran 3 of the 6 poems Lisa Scola Prosek set as the song cycle, Miniature Portraits. He has done two poem-picture books with SF-based painter Gary Bukovnik, and has wriitten 2 pieces for the theatre — Touch and Go,and Sight Unseen. McDonagh is a staff writer on the arts for the SF-based BAY AREA REPORTER. He is the sole writer for www.alexnorthmusic.com; and contributes to www.classical-music-review.org, www.21st-centurymusic.com; New Music Connoisseur; and www.sfcv.org. 4 Comments »

It’s a familiar scenario for every parent: The little ones will play with absolutely anything they can get their hands on. They’ll get into the pots and pans, tinker with the vacuum cleaner, and turn the walls into an artist’s canvas. But young design label NOtoys from Amsterdam has at least come up with a solution for the latter: The owners Diane and Joachim, who are parents themselves, design children’s furniture that can be drawn and painted on. The Any-mal series, consisting of a table and a stool, re-defines the concept of ‘functionality’ and encourages creative expression. In addition to the surfaces for drawing, the individual elements can be used as a table or bench, or cleverly integrated into imaginative children’s play. Whoever needs a bit of inspiration can check the website for creative drawing patterns. Here the old adage applies: There’s no such thing as impossible! Such a creative idea well-deserves our WE LOVE! Here’s the web-shop. Pictures: © 2011 – 2013 NOtoys

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Puerto Vallarta: Old and New Adventures (Part Two) by Linda Milks No trip to Puerto Vallarta would be complete without experiencing its amazing cuisine. Not only can you enjoy the traditional tacos and enchiladas of the area, but Puerto Vallarta is truly a food lover’s paradise. It is a region full of gourmet restaurants where the chefs use traditional Mexican spices and recipes but have tweaked them to add their own innovative takes on the traditional. Our group of culinary writers explored a variety of exceptional dining venues. Special Places to Eat Our hotel, Marriott CasaMagna, wowed us with a special dinner on the point of the property where many weddings take place. We were surrounded by water on all sides and tropical breezes encouraged the palm trees to sway as a greeting to this beautiful spot. Our meal consisted of a “Six Course Menu around Mexico,” a gastronomic tour of Mexico, starting with Tlayuda, a mini-quesadilla with pre-Hispanic roots from Oaxaca. This was followed by a Lime Soup from Yucatan, Crab Enchiladas from Veracruz, an Avocado Sorbet from Michoacan, Skirt Steak Borchette from Sonora, and a delicious dessert of Corn Bread with a Chiapas Coffee Sauce. A tequila pairing accompanied this creative meal. I enjoyed this meal so much that I am planning to prepare it for my gourmet dinner club the next time I host it. Café des Artistes is the setting for unique Mexican art inside a contemporary restaurant. Chef Thierry Blouet, head of Gourmet Festival International, sets the stage as a gregarious and charming host renowned for his creativity and passionate style. An example of his unique style was displayed in the amuse bouche of pineapple and orange foam over ceviche. Our main course was Confitted and Roasted Duck Leg with sautéed potatoes, baby fennel, and chilhaucle mole. The dessert tray we savored at the conclusion of this fabulous meal was the most spectacular and elaborate dessert presentation I have ever seen. Arrecifes Seafood and Steakhouse, the Westin Resort & Spa Puerto Vallarta restaurant, was the outdoor pergola setting for a dinner divided into seven chapters, each accompanied by a Mexican wine. Dishes ranged from Beef Carpaccio with Arugula, to Wild Mushroom Risotto with Black Truffle, to Braised Short Rib with Molasses Sauce. We enjoyed sipping our layered Sangrias atop a rock wall bordering the ocean, the perfect setting for a Puerto Vallarta dinner. Fireworks on the beach completed the magical evening. One of the newest and most interesting restaurants in Puerto Vallarta is Tintoque. Chef Joel Ornelas and staff prepared an artistic dinner amid a casual, contemporary environment. Chef Ornelas, a talented young chef, takes local recipes from his grandmother’s days and reinvents them with advanced techniques. Not to be missed is the Camaron Frito—shrimp coated with sesame seeds in a chipotle emulsion. Another dish loved by all was Sea Bass served with Smoked Pineapple Puree accompanied by a Celery Salad and Guajillo Pepper Salsa. We understood why Chef Ornelas is considered to be an expert at such a young age as we watched him and his team precisely plating each serving. Our last morning was spent on Vallarta Food Tours' Original Downtown Vallarta Tour. This three-hour food tasting and cultural walking tour offers a local's view into Mexican culture through its delicious and intricate cuisine, rich history, and stunning architecture. We experienced off-the-beaten path eateries comprised of taco stands with regional delicacies from places like El Guero and Mole Rosa as well as Robles Birria Tacos (a slow-cooked meat stew served on tortillas). We saw fresh produce stands as well as local vendors preparing tortillas and peeling the agave leaves. Where to Stay I highly recommend the Marriott CasaMagna in Puerto Vallarta. From the moment you walk through the open-air doors, there is a sense of relaxation and tranquility. The architecture is luxuriously casual with a beautiful infinity pool. Spa treatments are available and the hotel is set among the Sierra Madre Mountains right on a pristine sandy beach. The service was never disappointing—from checking into the hotel to meals and concierge service. Bus service runs right in front of the hotel. Rooms are filled with comfortable beds with fine linens and spotless marble bathrooms. Breakfast at the CasaMagna will set you up to tour or enjoy the pool for the rest of the day. A multitude of stations await you with every imaginable Mexican breakfast dish as well as traditional American fare and fresh fruit, juices, and pastries. To make reservations, use the following website: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/pvrmx-casamagna-marriott-puerto-vallarta-resort-and-spa/ Special Events Not to Miss The Ceviche and Aguachile Festival was held in January, 2017. This annual event is renowned for its international cuisine and flavors, and showcased the two most traditional dishes of Puerto Vallarta. This event is family-oriented with raffles and prizes as well as live music. Entry was free with restaurants offering tastes at around 15 pesos each. Some of the participating restaurants this past January were Restaurant Mauricios, Mariscos El Guero, Tuna Azul, and LaMara Fresh Seafood. Find information about next year's festival on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/Festival-del-Ceviche-y-Aguachile-PV-932499220174557/ Mexico's Festival Gourmet, held annually for 10 days every November, will be from November 12-November 20, 2017. Interested parties are encouraged to buy tickets early because culinary events sell out quickly. Cocktail parties, progressive dinners, cooking demonstrations, theme nights and gourmet buffets take place in the region's best restaurants, including Café des Artistes in Puerto Vallarta, Nicksan in Nuevo Vallarta, and Emiliano in Tepic. If you can't decide where to eat, book tickets for a Gourmet Safari. The progressive dinner includes transportation between restaurants for each course, with paired Mexican wines and drinks. You can buy tickets at: http://www.festivalgourmet.com/en/ Puerto Vallarta offers so much fun, sun, and great food in a romantic and friendly atmosphere with the feeling of traveling to an exotic destination. Remember, this was the place where John Huston filmed “The Night of the Iguana,” starring Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, because of its beauty and because the two were drawn to this enchanting place to vacation. Puerto Vallarta continues to draw stars such as Brad Pitt, Demi Moore, and Orlando Bloom to name a few. Why not follow in their footsteps and enjoy this magical spot. To read Part One of this article, go to this link: http://life-uncorked.com/travel/puerto-vallarta-old-and-new-adventures-part-one Photos by Linda Milks.

Naturally I woul like to thank all those who helped me through this particularly challenging time. So I thought I’d mention a few names: Dr E Pereira – who carried out the operation, so very expertly. I understand he was head-hunted by the Atkinson Morley from the John Radcliffe in Oxford as the former wants to become the UK centre for this sort of thing. Dr D Paviour – my Consultant Neurologist at the AM. Who put me up for this after my first visit and who’s help is ongoing Dr S Stapleton – One of the senior neurosurgeons in the UK. A thoroughly decent and nice chap. Who by co-incidence I knew from previous occasions as my last house, in Ockham, I bought from him. He was operating in another Theatre the same day and came in several times to check up on me Dr P Marazzi – My old GP when I lived in ~ Ockham. Who to say he is a very keen photographer would be a somewhat massive understatement. When he knew I was having this procedure was very keen to photograph it (on his day off – something of a busmans holiday). It was nice and resassurring to have a ‘friendly’ face there. Photo’s later Dr G Warner – my ‘usual’ consultant, who first diagnosed my Parkinson’s all those years ago and then sent me along to the AM to see how else they could help All of them lovely men Of course there are many, many others. But more of them later

Every day we are hearing at least ten or twenty new application name from the mouths of our children. At first we tried to learn what they are but as the time passed we gave up and thought we are now old enough the follow their pace. However, do you really think that all of these applications are safe for your children? Actually most of them are not! Teenagers always find a way to misuse and abuse them. That is why we need to have an eye on their online activities. Mobile spying programs are the best ways for families to be aware of their children’s online actions. However, if you do not want to use these kinds of applications for now until you are sure about something is going wrong, there some things which you can do for the safety of your children. Mobile applications are actually an industry for programmer to make some money from it. Therefore, they put some features to applications which the user can use it after he or she makes the payment. Be aware of these kinds of applications and never ever let your children to buy anything without consulting you. When they ask a permission to buy a feature now this will be your turn. You can get all the information from your children, for instance, what this application is for, what the feature will provide to them, why they need it while they can still using the application for free and so on. Do not hesitate to ask these questions to your children and try to understand their purpose.

So Columbus Day (or better fitting Indigenous Day) was this past weekend. Which means that I decided to indulge in some quintessential fall activities. Such as my first trip to Autumn Fest. For those of you that may not know about Autumn Fest it is an annual festival held in Woonsocket, RI. Now while Woonsocket is the neighboring town to Cumberland (where I currently live) I try to avoid it like the plague. Aside from the best coffee milkshake I’ve ever had the pleasure of drinking there really isn’t a whole lot going for this town. Although, Woonsocket briefly had its 15 minutes of viral fame when a video surfaced of two crackheads having sex next to a main road. I wish I could say I was joking people, but this is real life. I put my ill feelings aside and decided to meet my friends at Autumn Fest. Now this is where I have to confess something. I really only went to Autumn Fest for one reason…. That reason being that the Baha Men were performing. That’s right WHO LET THE DOGS OUT BAHA MEN. This 90’s baby is going to throw on my flannel and finish my episode of Hey Arnold and pretend that I’m not totally freaking out. That’s right, somehow someway, little old Woonsocket managed to get this ridiculous one hit wonder to perform a full blown hour long concert. But you know what, it was DAMN good. I swear that Baha Men are making a comeback and you can mark my words on that. Not to mention there was a portion of the show where one of the members of the group eagerly played a round of limbo with a stick that was on fire. I’m all for a performance that involves pyrotechnics and party games. All and all Autumn Fest was a pleasant surprise. I managed to dance way harder than I probably should have to some Baha Men and then stuffed my face over some delicious pierogis and shepard’s pie. It really doesn’t take much else to win me over. As if seeing the Baha Men perform in real life wasn’t the perfect throwback I decided to one up it. The next day I wrangled in some of my lady friends and we made the trek up to Salem, MA. That’s right people, my Sunday was filled with witches, goblins, and ghouls. NOW HERE COMES THE REAL ZINGER. It has recently come to my attention that certain parts of Hocus Pocus were filmed in Salem. Let me throw some embarrassing information in right here. I LOVE HOCUS POCUS. I MEAN I LOVEEEEE THAT MOVIE. I’m talking to the extent that the movie could be on and I could recite every word…with my back turned. So to say that I was filled with excitement would CERTAINLY be an understatement. Well to make a long story short, my girlfriends and I went hunting to see some of the locations where the movie was filmed. Such as the town hall where the famous “I put a spell on you” scene took place. Not to mention we found Max & Dani’s house. Yeah, remember that sweet tower at the top of the house that as a kid you wished was part of your room? SAW IT! In real life. Please excuse me while I give the biggest high 5 to my six year old self.

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Rogers (Professor of Geology in the University of Glasgow. Born in the United States 1809, died 1866.) to Huxley, in which he goes very far with us... CHARLES DARWIN TO J.D. HOOKER. Down, Saturday, March 3rd, . My dear Hooker, What a day's work you had on that Thursday! I was not able to go to London till Monday, and then I was a fool for going, for, on Tuesday night, I had an attack of fever (with a touch of pleurisy), which came on like a lion, but went off as a lamb, but has shattered me a good bit. I was much interested by your last note...I think you expect too much in regard to change of opinion on the subject of Species. One large class of men, more especially I suspect of naturalists, never will care about ANY general question, of which old Gray, of the British Museum, may be taken as a type; and secondly, nearly all men past a moderate age, either in actual years or in mind, are, I am fully convinced, incapable of looking at facts under a new point of view. Seriously, I am astonished and rejoiced at the progress which the subject has made; look at the enclosed memorandum. (See table of names below.) -- says my book will be forgotten in ten years, perhaps so; but, with such a list, I feel convinced the subject will not. The outsiders, as you say, are strong. You say that you think that Bentham is touched, "but, like a wise man, holds his tongue." Perhaps you only mean that he cannot decide, otherwise I should think such silence the reverse of magnanimity; for if others behaved the same way, how would opinion ever progress? It is a dereliction of actual duty. (In a subsequent letter to Sir J.D. Hooker (March 12th, 1860), my father wrote, "I now quite understand Bentham's silence.") I am so glad to hear about Thwaites. (Dr. G.J.K. Thwaites, who was born in 1811, established a reputation in this country as an expert microscopist, and an acute observer, working especially at cryptogamic botany. On his appointment as Director of the Botanic Gardens at Peradenyia, Ceylon, Dr. Thwaites devoted himself to the flora of Ceylon. As a result of this he has left numerous and valuable collections, a description of which he embodied in his 'Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae' (1864). Dr. Thwaites was a fellow of the Linnean Society, but beyond the above facts little seems to have been recorded of his life. His death occurred in Ceylon on September 11th, 1882, in his seventy-second year. "Athenaeum", October 14th, 1882, page 500.)...I have had an astounding letter from Dr. Boott (The letter is enthusiastically laudatory, and obviously full of genuine feeling.); it might be turned into ridicule against him and me, so I will not send it to any one. He writes in a noble spirit of love of truth. I wonder what Lindley thinks; probably too busy to read or think on the question. I am vexed about Bentham's reticence, for it would have been of real value to know what parts appeared weakest to a man of his powers of observation. Farewell, my dear Hooker, yours affectionately, C. DARWIN. P.S.--Is not Harvey in the class of men who do not at all care for generalities? I remember your saying you could not get him to write on Distribution. I have found his works very unfruitful in every respect. [Here follows the memorandum referred to:] Geologists. Zoologists and Physiologists. Botanists. Palaeontologists. Lyell. Huxley. Carpenter. Hooker. Ramsay.* J. Lubbock. Sir H. Holland H.C. Watson. (to large extent). Jukes.* L. Jenyns Asa Gray (to large extent). (to some extent). H.D. Rogers. Searles Wood.* Dr. Boott (to large extent). (*Andrew Ramsay, late Director-General of the Geological Survey. Joseph Beete Jukes, M.A., F.R.S., 1811-1869.

In 1696, the English Quaker Jonathan Dickinson (1663-1722) set off on a commercial venture from Port Royal, Jamaica for Philadelphia. His companions included his wife, their six-month-old son, commander Joseph Kirle, the mariners, ten slaves, and other passengers and merchants. Before reaching Philadelphia, Dickinson’s ship, the Reformation, encountered harsh weather and wrecked off the coast of present day Palm Beach island on the south side of present-day Jupiter Inlet. In the storm, the Reformation was separated from its accompanying fleet. Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal, first printed in 1699 and originally titled God’s Protecting Providence, Man’s Surest Help and Defense, In Times of the Greatest Difficulty, and most Eminent Danger, […] From the cruel Devouring Jaws of the Inhumane Canibals of Florida, is a narrative of shipwreck and captivity. Though originally written as a report to the Spanish governor, the account was published by the members of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, who believed the narrative exemplified God’s guidance, intervention, and deliverance. Dickinson and his companions spent more than seven months in captivity, suffering throughout from hunger, cold, and sickness, before arriving in Philadelphia. Many readers view Robert Barrow’s death at the end of the narrative as martyrdom. The following selection begins when the shipwrecked Reformation first struck the coast of Florida. Edited by Mikaela Perron, Univ. of South Florida St. Petersburg Andrews, Charles M., and Jonathan Dickinson. “God’s Protecting Providence: A Journal by Jonathan Dickinson.” The Florida Historical Quarterly 21.2 (1942): 107-26. Web. Dickinson, Jonathan. Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal or, God’s Protecting Providence. Eds. Evangeline Walker Andrews and Charles McLean Andrews. New Haven, New Haven: Yale U P, 1945. Print. Voigt, Lisa. Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the U North Carolina P, 2009. Print. Jonathan Dickinson. God’s Protecting Providence, man’s surest help and defence, in times of the greatest difficulty, and most eminent danger: evidenced in the remarkable deliverance of Robert Barrow, with divers other persons, from the devouring waves of the sea; amongst which they suffered shipwrack: and also, from the cruel, devouring jaws of the inhumane canibals of Florida . From Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal, edited by Evangeline Walker Andrews and Charles McLean Andrews. New Haven: Yale U P, 1945. The 7 Month, 23; the 4 day of the week. About one o’clock in the morning we felt our vessel strike some few strokes, and then she floated again for five or six minutes before she ran fast aground, where she beat violently at first. The wind was violent and it was very dark, that our mariners could see no land; the seas broke over us that we were in a quarter of an hour floating in the cabin: we endeavored to get a candle lighted, which in a little time was accomplished. By this time we felt the vessel not to strike so often but several of her timbers were broken and some plank started. The seas continued breaking over us and no land to be seen; we concluded to keep in the vessel as long as she would hold together. About the third hour this morning we supposed we saw the land at some considerable distance, and at this time we found the water began to run out of the vessel. And at daylight we perceived we were upon the shore, on a beach lying in the breach of the sea which at times as the surges of the sea reversed was dry. In taking a view of our vessel, we found that the violence of the weather had forced many sorts of the seabirds on board of our vessel, some of which were by force of the wind blown into and under our hen-cubs and many remained alive. Our hogs and sheep were washed away and swam on shore, except one of the hogs which remained in the vessel. We rejoiced at this our preservation from the raging seas; but at the same instant feared the sad consequences that followed: yet having hopes still we got our sick and lame on shore, also our provisions, with spars and sails to make a tent. I went with one Negro to view the land and seek the most convenient place for that purpose; but the wilderness country looked very dismal, having no trees, but only sand hills covered with shrubby palmetto, the stalks of which were prickly, that there was no walking amongst them. I espied a place almost a furlong within that beach being a bottom; to this place I with my Negro soon cut a passage, the storm and rain continuing. Thither I got my wife and sick child being six months and twelve days old, also Robert Barrow an aged man, who had been sick about five or six months, our master, who some days past broke his leg, and my kinsman Benjamin Allen, who had been very ill with a violent fever most part of the voyage: these with others we got to the place under the shelter of some few bushes which broke some of the wind, but kept none of the rain from them; I got a fire made. The most of our people were getting provisions ashore; our chests, trunks and the rest of our clothing were all very wet and cold. About the eighth or ninth hour came two Indian men (being naked except a small piece of platted work of straws which just hid their private parts, and fastened behind with a horsetail in likeness made of a sort of silk-grass) from the southward, running fiercely and foaming at the mouth having no weapons except their knives: and forthwith not making any stop; violently seized the two first of our men they met with who were carrying corn from the vessel to the top of the bank, where I stood to receive it and put it into a cask. They used no violence for the men resisted not, but taking them under the arm brought them towards me. Their countenance was very furious and bloody. They had their hair tied in a roll behind in which stuck two bones shaped one like a broad arrow, the other a spearhead. The rest of our men followed from the vessel, asking me what they should do whether they should get their guns to kill these two; but I persuaded them otherwise desiring them to be quiet, showing their inability to defend us from what would follow; but to put our trust in the Lord who was able to defend to the uttermost. I walked towards the place where our sick and lame were, the two Indian men following me. I told them the Indians were come and coming upon us. And while these two (letting the men loose) stood with a wild, furious countenance, looking upon us I bethought myself to give them some tobacco and pipes, which they greedily snatched from me, and making a snuffing noise like a wild beast, turned their backs upon us and run away. We communed together and considered our condition, being amongst a barbarous people such as were generally accounted man-eaters, believing those two were gone to alarm their people. We sat ourselves down, expecting cruelty and hard death, except it should please the Almighty God to work wonderfully for our deliverance. In this deep concernment some of us were not left without hopes; blessed be the name of the Lord in Whom we trusted. As we were under a deep exercise and concernment, a motion arose from one of us that if we should put ourselves under the denomination of the Spaniards (it being known that that nation had some influence on them) and one of us named Solomon Cresson speaking the Spanish language well, it was hoped this might be a means for our delivery, to which the most of the company assented. Within two or three hours after the departure of the two Indians, some of our people being near the beach or strand returned and said the Indians were coming in a very great number all running and shouting. About this time the storm was much abated, the rain ceased, and the sun appeared which had been hid from us many days. The Indians went all to the vessel, taking forth whatever they could lay hold on, except rum, sugar, molasses, beef and pork. But their Casseekey (for so they call their king) with about thirty more came down to us in a furious manner, having a dismal aspect and foaming at the mouth. Their weapons were large Spanish knives, except their Casseekey’s who had a bagganet that belonged to the master of our vessel: they rushed in upon us and cried Nickaleer Nickaleer. We understood them not at first: they repeating it over unto us often. At last they cried Epainia or Spaniard, by which we understood them that at first they meant English; but they were answered to the latter in Spanish yea to which they replied, No Spainia No, but all cried out, Nickaleer, Nickaleer. We sitting on our chests, boxes and trunks, and some on the ground, the Indians surrounded us. We stirred nor moved not; but sat all or most of us very calm and still, some of us in a good frame of spirit, being freely given up to the will of God. Whilst we were thus sitting, as a people almost unconcerned, these bloody minded creatures placed themselves each behind one kicking and throwing away the bushes that were nigh or under their feet; the Casseekey had placed himself behind me, standing on the chest which I sat upon, they all having their arms extended with their knives in their hands, ready to execute their bloody design, some taking hold of some of us by the heads with their knees set against our shoulders. In this posture they seemed to wait for the Casseekey to begin. They were high in words which we understood not. But on a sudden it pleased the Lord to work wonderfully for our preservation, and instantly all these savage men were struck dumb, and like men amazed the space of a quarter of an hour, in which time their countenances fell, and they looked like another people. They quitted their places they had taken behind us, and came in amongst us requiring to have all our chests, trunks and boxes unlocked; which being done, they divided all that was in them. Our money the Casseekey took unto himself, privately hiding in the bushes. Then they went to pulling off our clothes, leaving each of us only a pair of breeches, or an old coat, except my wife and child, Robert Barrow and our master, from whom they took but little this day. Having thus done, they asked us again, Nickaleer, Nickaleer? But we answered by saying Pennsylvania. We began to enquire after St. Augustine, also would talk of St. Lucie, which was a town that lay about a degree to the northward. But they cunningly would seem to persuade us that they both lay to the southward. We signified to them that they lay to the northward. And we would talk of the Havana that lay to the southward. These places they had heard of and knew which way they lay. At length the Casseekey told us how long it was to St. Lucie by days’ travel; but cared not to hear us mention St. Augustine. They would signify by signs we should go to the southward. We answered that we must go to the northward for Augustine. When they found they could not otherwise persuade us, they signified that we should go to the southward for the Havana, and that it was but a little way. We gave them to understand that we came that way and were for the northward; all which took place with them. We perceived that the Casseekey’s heart was tendered towards us; for he kept mostly with us and would the remaining part of this day keep off the petty robbers which would have had our few rags from us. Sometime before night we had a shower of rain, whereupon the Casseekey made signs for us to build some shelter; upon which we got our tent up and some leaves to lie upon. About this time our vessel lay dry on shore and the Indians gathered themselves together men and women, some hundreds in numbers. Having got all the goods out of the vessel and covered the bay for a large distance, opened all the stuffs and linens and spread them to dry, they would touch no sort of strong drink, sugar, nor molasses, but left it in the vessel. They shouted and made great noises in the time of plunder. Night coming on the Casseekey put those chests and trunks which he had reserved for himself into our tent; which pleased us, and gave an expectation of his company for he was now become a defender of us from the rage of others. The Casseekey went down to the waterside amongst his people and returned with three old coats that were wet and torn, which he gave us; one whereof I had. We made a fire at each end of our tent and laid ourselves down, it being dark: but hearing hideous noises and fearing that they were not satisfied, we expected them upon us. The chief Indian (or Casseekey) lay in the tent upon his chests. And about midnight we heard a company of Indians coming from the vessel towards us, making terrible shouts, and coming fiercely up to the tent, the Casseekey called to them; which caused them to stand. It seemed, they had killed a hog and brought him: So the Casseekey asked us, if we would eat the hog? Solomon Cresson, by our desire answered him, that we used not to eat at that time of the night: whereupon they threw the hog down before the tent, and the Casseekey sent them away. They went shouting to the sea-shore, where there were some hundreds of them revelling about our wreck. The 7 month, 25; the 6 day of the week. This morning having purposed to endeavor for liberty to pass to the northward, Solomon opened the matter to the Casseekey; who answered we must go to his town to the southward. This occasioned us to press him more urgently to let us go to St. Lucie (this place having a Spanish name supposed to have found it under the government of that nation, whence we might expect relief). But the Casseekey told us that it was about two or three days’ journey thither and that when we came there, we should have our throats and scalps cut and be shot, burnt and eaten. We thought that information was but to divert us; so that we were more earnest to go but he sternly denied us, saying, we must go to his town. About eight o’clock this morning the Casseekey came into our tent and set himself amongst us, asking the old question, Nickaleer, Nickaleer? directing his speech to one particular of us, who in simplicity answered, yes. Which caused the Casseekey to ask the said person, if another person which he pointed to, was Nickaleer? He answered, yes. Then he said, Totus (or all) Nickaleer, and went from amongst us. Returning in a short time with some of his men with him, and afresh they went greedily to stripping my wife and child, Robert Barrow and our master who had escaped it till now. Thus were we left almost naked, till the feud was something abated and then we got somewhat from them which displeased some of them. We then cut our tents in pieces, and got the most of our clothing out of it: which the Indians perceiving, took the remains from us. We men had most of us breeches and pieces of canvas, and all our company interceded for my wife that all was not taken from her. About noon the Indians having removed all their plunder off the bay, and many of them gone, a guard was provided armed with bows and arrows, with whom we were summoned to march and a burden provided for everyone to carry that was any ways able. Our master with his broken leg was helped along by his Negro Ben. My wife was forced to carry her child, they not suffering any of us to relieve her. But if any of us offered to lay down our burden, we were threatened to be shot. Thus were we forced along the beach bare-footed. We had saved one of the master’s quadrants, and seamen’s calendar, with two other books. As we walked along the bay (the time suiting) our mate Richard Limpeney took an observation, and we found ourselves to be in the latitude of twenty-seven degrees and eight minutes. Some of the Indians were offended at it: when he held up his quadrant to observe, one would draw an arrow to shoot him; but it pleased God hitherto to prevent them from shedding any of our blood. One passage I have omitted. Two of our mariners named Thomas Fownes and Richard Limpeney went forth this morning from our tent down to the bay where the Indians were, and viewing of them at some distance, an Indian man came running upon them, with his knife in his hand, and took hold of Thomas Fownes to stab him; but the said Thomas fell on his knees, using a Spanish ceremony, and begged not to kill him; whereupon the Indian desisted, and bid him be gone to the place from which he came. The said Thomas at his return acquainted us how narrowly he had escaped. After we had traveled about five miles along the deep sand, the sun being extreme hot, we came to an inlet. On the other side was the Indian town, being little wigwams made of small poles stuck in the ground, which they bended one to another, making an arch, and covered them with thatch of small palmetto-leaves. Here we were commanded to sit down, and the Casseekey came to us, who with his hand scratched a hole in the sand about a foot deep, and came to water, which he made signs for us to come and drink. We, being extreme thirsty, did; but the water was almost salt. Whilst we sat here, we saw great fires making on the other side of the inlet, which some of us thought was preparing for us. After an hour’s time being spent here at length came an Indian with a small canoe from the other side and I with my wife and child and Robert Barrow were ordered to go in. The same canoe was but just wide enough for us to sit down in. Over we were carried, and being landed, the man made signs for us to walk to the wigwams, which we did; but the young Indians would seem to be frighted and fly from us. We were directed to a wigwam, which afterwards we understood to be the Casseekey’s. It was about man-high to the top. Herein was the Casseekey’s wife and some old women sitting on a cabin made of sticks about a foot high covered with a mat; they made signs for us to sit down on the ground; which we did, the Casseekey’s wife having a young child sucking at her breast gave it to another woman, and would have my child; which my wife was very loath to suffer; but she would not be denied, took our child and suckled it at her breast viewing and feeling it from top to toe; at length returned it to my wife, and by this time was another parcel of our people come over; and sitting down by the wigwam side our Indian brought a fish boiled on a small palmetto leaf and set it down amongst us, making signs for us to eat; but our exercise was too great for us to have any inclination to receive food. At length all our people were brought over, and afterwards came the Casseekey. As soon as he came to his wigwam he set himself to work, got some stakes and stuck them in a row joining to his wigwam and tied some sticks whereon were these small palmettos, tied and fastened them to the stakes about three foot high; and laid two or three mats made of reeds down by this shelter; which, it seems, he made for us to break the wind off us; and ordered us to lie down there; which we did, as many as the mats would hold; the rest lay on the ground by us. The Casseekey went into his wigwam and seated himself on his cabin cross-legged having a basket of palmetto berries brought him, which he eat very greedily: after which came some Indians unto him and talked much. Night came on; the moon being up, an Indian, who performeth their ceremonies stood out, looking full at the moon making a hideous noise, and crying out acting like a mad man for the space of half an hour; all the Indians being silent till he had done: after which they all made fearful noise some like the barking of a dog, wolf, and other strange sounds. After this, one gets a log and sets himself down, holding the stick or log upright on the ground, and several others getting about him, made a hideous noise, singing to our amazement; at length their women joined consort, making the noise more terrible. This they continued till midnight. Towards morning was great dews: our fire being expended, we were extreme cold. The 7 Month, 26; the 7 day of the week. This morning the Casseekey looking on us with a mild aspect, sent his son with his striking staff to the inlet to strike fish for us; which was performed with great dexterity; for some of us walked down with him, and though we looked very earnestly when he threw his staff from him could not see a fish at which time he saw it, and brought it on shore on the end of his staff. Sometimes he would run swiftly pursuing a fish, and seldom missed when he darted at him. In two hours’ time he got as many fish as would serve twenty men: there were others also fishing at the same time, so that fish was plenty: but the sense of our conditions stayed our hungry stomachs: for some amongst us thought they would feed us to feed themselves. The Casseekey went this morning towards our vessel; in his absence the other Indians looked very untowardly upon us, which created a jealousy of their cruelty yet to come. This afternoon we saw a great fire nigh the place of our vessel; whereupon we concluded that our vessel and our boat were burnt: whereupon we were almost confirmed that they designed to destroy us. About sunsetting the Casseekey came home: we spake to him; he answered us and seemed very affable; which we liked well. Night drawing on and the wind shifting northward, we removed our shelter, and added the mats to it to break the wind off us, which blowed cold, and laid ourselves on the sand. About an hour within night came a parcel of Indians from the southward being all armed with bows and arrows and coming near our tent some of us espied them whereupon they squatted down. This seemed a fresh motive of danger, and we awakened those of us that were fallen asleep, and bid them prepare, for things seemed dangerous, we supposing they were come to forward our destruction or to carry us to the southward. They sat thus a considerable time; at length they distributed themselves to the wigwams. Thus would danger often appear unto us, and almost swallow us up; but at times we should be set over it, having a secret hope that God would work our deliverance, having preserved us from so many perils. Sometime before night Robert Barrow was exhorting us to be patient and in a godly manner did he expound that text of scripture: Because thou hast kept the word of my patience &c. Rev., 3 Chap., 10 ver., after which he ended with a most fervent prayer desiring of the Lord that whereas He had suffered us to be cast amongst a barbarous and heathenish people, if that it was His blessed will, he would preserve and deliver us from amongst them, that our names might not be buried in oblivion; and that he might lay his body amongst faithful friends: and at the close of his prayer, he seemed to have an assurance that his petition would be granted. In all which some of us were livingly refreshed and strengthened. The 7 month, 27; the 1 day of the week. This morning we again used our endeavors with the Casseekey, that we might go to the northward for Augustine. His answer was, [we should go to the southward: for if we went to the northward,] we should be all killed; but at length we prevailed, and he said, on the morrow we should go. Hereupon he took three Negro men (one of Joseph Kirle’s and two of mine) and with a canoe went up the sound. This day the Indians were busy with what they had taken out of our vessel, and would have employed all of us to do, some one thing, some another for them; but we not knowing the consequence endeavored to shun it, and would deny their demands. But some of our men did answer their desires in making and sewing some cloth together, stringing our beds, mending of locks, of the chests, &c. Whatever they thought was amiss they would be putting upon us to mend, still we wholly refused. At which time I heard a saying that came from one of the chief Indians, thus “English Son of a Bitch,” which words startled me; for I do believe they had had some of our nation in their possession, of whom they had heard such an expression: I passed away from the wigwam with much trouble. This day being the first day of the week, we having a large Bible and a book of Robert Barclay’s, some one or other was often reading in them. But being most of us sat together, Robert Barrow desired our people to wait upon the Lord: in which time Robert had a word in season unto us, and afterwards went to prayer, all the Indians coming about us, and some younger sort would be mocking; but not to our disturbance. The elder sort stood very modestly the whole time. After prayer ended, they all withdrew quietly: but some of them (especially the Casseekey’s eldest son) would take great delight in our reading, and would take the Bible or other book, and give to one or other to read; the sound of which pleased them, for they would sit quietly and very attentively to hear us. The Casseekey having been gone most part of the day with three Negroes (about the third hour in the afternoon we saw two of our Negroes) in our boat coming over the bar into the inlet. We rejoiced to see our boat, for we thought she had been burnt. Our Negroes told us, they went up sound with the Casseekey and landed near the place where our tent had been: the chief business was to remove the money from one place to another, and bury it. This old man would trust our people, but not his own. After that was done, they went to the place where our vessel was burnt; they launched our boat, in which the old Casseekey put his chests, wherein was our linen and other of our trade: also they got a small rundlet which they filled with wine out of a quarter cask that was left and brought sugar out of the wreck which was not consumed with the fire. But this time came the Casseekey and other Negro in the canoe. He told us, on the morrow we should go with our boat: this was cheerful news unto us. All the time some Indians had been out, and brought home some oysters, and the Casseekey gave us some, bidding us take what we had a mind to. A little before night the Casseekey opened his chests and boxes; and his wife came and took what was in them from him: but he seemed very generous to my wife and child, and gave her several things which were useful to her and our child. Our boat was very leaky; so we got her into a creek to sink her, that the water might swell her. The 7 month, 28; the 2 day of the week. This morning we waited an opportunity to get leave to depart, which was granted us: whereupon we asked for such things as they did not make use of; viz. a great glass, wherein was five or six pound of butter; some sugar; the rundlet of wine: and some balls of chocolate: all which was granted us; also a bowl to heave water out of the boat. But the Casseekey would have a Negro boy of mine, named Caesar, to which I could not tell what to say; but he was resolved on it. We got down to the waterside, and sent all our people over that were to travel: and Joseph Kirle, Robert Barrow, I, my wife and child with two of our mariners went in the boat, and rowed along shore northwards; but the Casseekey would have us to have gone with our boat up the sound. We supposed the sound was a great river; and therefore were not willing to take his advice, having no knowledge; but his counsel was good, as we found afterwards; for the conveniency of passage. The Casseekey and some other Indians went with our people towards our wreck, we rowing along shore, and our boat very leaky, that one person had employ enough to heave out the water. Just before we left the Indian town, several Indians were for taking the little clothes and rags we had got; but calling out to the Casseekey, he would cause them to let us alone. Solomon Cresson was mightily in one Indian’s favor, who would hardly stir from his wigwam, but Solomon must be with him, and go arm in arm; which Indian amongst his plunder had a morning gown, which he put on Solomon, and Solomon had worn it most of the time we were there; but when the time of our departure came an Indian unrobed him, and left only a pair of breeches, and seemed very angry. It was high noon when we left our wreck (she being burnt down to her floor timbers which lay in the sand) we setting forward, some in the boat, the rest traveled along shore; and a little before sun-setting, our people came up with abundance of small fish that had been forced on shore, as we may suppose, by the storm that drove us ashore (they lying far from the water, being much tainted), covered the shore for nigh a mile in length: of which our people gathered as many as they could carry. About sun-setting we put on shore to refresh ourselves, and take a small respite; also to take my kinsman Benjamin Allen into our boat: for this afternoon in his travel he was taken with a fever and ague, and we had much trouble to get him along, he having been sick nigh unto death (being first taken the day before we left Bluefields Road) until about a week before we were cast away. One of my Negroes had saved a tinder-box and flint, and we had reserved two knives, by which means we got a fire, though with much difficulty, for our tinder was bad, and all the wood salt-water-soaken: which being accomplished, we broiled all our fish, feeding heartily of some of them, and the rest we kept not knowing when we should be thus furnished again; for which some of us were truly thankful to the God of all our mercies. Having a large fire many of us got under the lee of it, and others buried themselves in the sand, in hopes to get a little sleep, that we might be somewhat refreshed, and thereby be the better enabled some to travel and some to row the remaining part of the night: but the sand flies and the mosquitoes were so extreme thick that it was impossible. The moon shining, we launched our boat I and my wife and child, the master, Robert Barrow, my kinsman Allen, Solomon Cresson, Joseph Buckley and the master’s Negro went in our boat; the rest traveled along shore. About midnight, or a little after, our people came by an Indian town; the Indians came out in a great number, but offered no violence more than endeavoring to take from them what little they had: but making some small resistance, the Indians were put by their purpose. They were very desirous to have us come on shore, and would hail us; but our people would have us keep off. We were got among a parcel [of] breakers, and so had much ado to get out to sea. The 7 month, 29; the 3 day of the week. This morning about sun-rising we stood in for the land, and looked out for our people, but could not see them, therefore we lay by for the space of two hours and at length saw them coming along with a great many Indians with them. When they came abreast with us, the Indians wafted us ashore; but we refused, perceiving they were wickedly bent; they would be ever and anon snatching one thing or another: at which time our people would point to us in the boat; but perceiving they could not get us ashore, in some few hours left them. This day noon Joseph Kirle having his quadrant and calendar, took an observation, being in latitude 27 deg. 45 min. About one o’clock we saw two Indians with bows and arrows running to meet our people; who when they saw them, at first they made a halt and afterwards retreated: at which the Indians let fly an arrow; which narrowly escaped one of them. Whereupon they stopped; the Indians looked strangely on them; but our people set forwards, and the Indians with them until they came to the Indian town. We saw our people go into the wigwams, but stayed a very short time; for the Indians were for taking those pieces of canvas they had from them. They got some water and set forward again; the two Indians still followed them. About this time we saw a sail to the eastward, and we supposing it at first to be a brigantine, agreed to follow her; but in a small time we made it to be a canoe or boat with two masts and sails. She stood in for the shore; but as soon as they espied us she bore away; and when she saw we made not after her, she stood ashore again for the Indian town; hereupon a jealousy got amongst us that she might go on shore and get strong with men, and then come after us; whereupon we rowed very hard and kept an offing for some hours; but finding they came not out, we stood towards the shore again. This day was extreme hot and we had no water since we left the Indian town to the southward of our wreck, called by the name of Hoe-Bay; therefore we were desirous to get on shore, but when we endeavored it, we could not; for the seas swelling very much, and came rolling from the eastward: so that the seas run very hollow, and broke almost a mile from the shore. Our master said it was impossible to get on shore alive: but I being under some exercise was desirous to be on shore, and thereupon did express myself to the rest of our people; they stated the danger; all which I was as sensible of as they, yet I could not rest but insisted on going ashore. The master and men said we should not save our lives; but I gained so far, that they attempted and were got within half a mile of the shore; but the seas came on us so large and hollow that one sea had liked to have overwhelmed us: we just got atop of it before it broke. There was then no persuading them to go further, but we stood off, and designed to keep off all night, our people being very weary and the sun setting; we divided one half to get some sleep, the other to watch and keep the boat’s head to the sea. The weather looked as though it would be bad, and the sea increased; whereupon I began afresh to persuade them to go on shore. All were desirous, but thought it impossible. At length we resolved to venture; and so committing ourselves to the protection of the Almighty God, we stood in for the shore, and made signs to our people that we designed it. And it pleased God to order it so that we went on shore, as though there had been a lane made through the breakers, and were carried to the top of the bank, where we got aged Robert Barrow, my wife and child out of the boat, before ever a sea came to fill us; which did, as soon as they were got out: but we got our boat up from the wash of the sea. The two Indians were for taking off our clothes, (which would not cover our bodies) but we not being willing to yield, they would snatch a piece from one and a bit from another, and run away with that, and then come again and do the like. These two Indians took away what was given to my wife and child which we knew not how to help, but exercised patience. We inquired how far it was from St. Lucie (one of them speaking a little Spanish) and by signs we understood it was not far. They made signs that when we came there we should be put to most cruel death but we hoped otherwise. At this place within the land, and over the sound our people said, before it was dark, they saw two or three houses, which looked white, though they were plastered with lime; which put us in hopes that there were Spaniards there; so we set forward as the Indians directed for St. Lucie. They made signs that we should come to an inlet of the sea, and on the other side was St. Lucie. We traveled about four miles and came to the inlet, but saw no settlement on the other side; so we concluded to lie there all night. We saw the track of a large bear and other wild beasts; whereupon we set to work to get wood and then a fire. Abundance of mosquitoes and sand-flies hindered our rest, to remedy which we digged holes in the sand, got some grass and laid it therein to lie upon, in order to cover ourselves from the flies, which most of us did; but it being extreme cold, and firing scarce, we had little comfort. About midnight we sent our people to see if they could get off our boat, and bring it into the inlet, that we might get over to the other side. They went and launched her, but the sea was so rough that there was no possibility of getting her off, for she was soon filled, and put to swim, and they, boat and all, were driven on shore again. Whilst our people were gone for the boat, we espied some Indians in a canoe with their torch a-fishing: we sent for Solomon (who was gone to launch the boat) expecting they would come, seeing fires, and we should not tell what to say to them; but they did not. Here we lay watching, for no rest could be taken. The 7 month, 30; the 2 day of the week. This morning by break of day we saw a small canoe from the other side put off shore with two Indians, in her going up the river (or sound) a-fishing. We hailed them in Spanish, and as soon as they heard and saw us, they made to the shore with all speed, and away to their town they run. We perceiving they were shy of us, began to doubt of their amity which we had so much depended on; whereupon we counseled our people how to deport themselves, especially our Negroes. About sun-rising we saw the Indians coming, running a very great number with their bows and arrows to the inlet; where having five or six canoes, they got into them as many as those canoes could hold. Others took the water, and swam over unto us; they came in the greatest rage that possibly a barbarous people could. Solomon began to speak Spanish to them; but they answered not, till they came ashore some distance from us; and then coming running upon us, they cried out, Nickaleer, Nickaleer. We sat all still expecting death, and that in a most barbarous manner. They that did speak unto them could not be heard: but they rushed violently on us rending and tearing those few clothes we had: they that had breeches had so many about them, that they hardly touched the ground till they were shaken out of them. They tore all from my wife, and espying her hair-lace, some were going to cut it hair and (all) away to get it, but, like greedy dogs, another snatched and tore it off. As for our poor young child, they snatched from it what little it had, as though they would have shaken and torn it, limb from limb. After they had taken all from us but our lives, they began to talk one to another, vehemently foaming at mouth, like wild boars, and taking their bows and arrows with other weapons, cried out Nickaleer, Nickaleer. Solomon spake in Spanish to them, and said we were Spaniards; but they would not hear him, and continued crying out Nickaleer, Nickaleer, withal drawing their arrows to the head. But suddenly we perceived them to look about and listen, and then desisted to prosecute their bloody design. One of them took a pair of breeches and gave it to my wife. We brought our great Bible and a large book of Robert Barclay’s to this place. And being all stripped as naked as we were born, and endeavoring to hide our nakedness; these cannibals took the books, and tearing out the leaves would give each of us a leaf to cover us; which we took from them: at which time they would deride and smite us; and instantly another of them would snatch away what the other gave us, smiting and deriding us withal. Robert Barrow with myself, wife and child were ordered to go in to a canoe to be carried to the other side of the inlet, being a furlong over, four Indians being in the canoe to paddle. When we came to the other side within a canoe’s length or two of the shore, a number of Indians with their bows and arrows came running into the water, some to their knees, some deeper, having their bows and arrows drawn up, crying out Nickaleer, Nickaleer; which they continued without ceasing. The Indians that brought us over leaped out of the canoe, and swam ashore, fearing they should be shot; but in this juncture it pleased God to tender the hearts of some of them towards us; especially the Casseekey his wife, and some of the chiefest amongst them, who were made instruments to intercede for us, and stop the rage of the multitude, who seemed not to be satisfied without our blood. The Casseekey ordered some to swim, and fetch the canoe ashore; which being done, his wife came in a compassionate manner and took my wife out of the canoe, ordering her to follow her, which we did some distance from the inlet-side, and stood till all our people were brought over, which in a little time was done. But the rage of some was still great, thirsting to shed our blood, and a mighty strife there was amongst them: some would kill us, others would prevent it. And thus one Indian was striving with another. All being got over, [we] were to walk along the seashore to their town: in this passage we most of us felt the rage of some of them, either by striking or stoning, and divers arrows were shot: but those that were for preserving us would watch those that were for destroying us: and when some of them would go to shoot, others of them would catch hold of their bows or arm. It was so ordered that not one of us was touched with their arrows; several of us were knocked down, and some tumbled into the sea. We dared not help one another; but help we had by some of them being made instrumental to help us. My wife received several blows, and an Indian came and took hold of her hair, and was going either to throat or something like it, having his knife nigh her throat; but I looked at him, making a sign that he should not, so he desisted: at which time another Indian came with a handful of sea-sand and filled our poor child’s mouth. By this time the Casseekey’s wife came to my wife seeing her oppressed, and they pulled the sand out of our child’s mouth, and kept by my wife until we got into the Casseekey’s house, which was about forty foot long and twenty-five foot wide, covered with palmetto leaves both top and sides. There was a range of cabins, or a barbecue on one side and two ends. At the entering on one side of the house a passage was made of benches on each side leading to the cabins. On these benches sat the chief Indians, and at the upper end of the cabin was the Casseekey seated. A kind of debate was held amongst them for an hour’s time. After which Solomon and some others were called to the Casseekey; and were seated on the cabin; where the Casseekey talked to Solomon in the Spanish language, but could not hold a discourse. In a little time some raw deer skins were brought in and given to my wife and Negro women, and to us men such as the Indian men wear, being a piece of platwork of straws wrought of divers colors and of a triangular figure, with a belt of four fingers broad of the same wrought together, which goeth about the waist and the angle of the other having a thing to it, coming between the legs, and strings to the end of the belt; all three meeting together are fastened behind with a horsetail, or a bunch of silk-grass exactly resembling it, of a flaxen color, this being all the apparel or covering that the men wear; and thus they clothed us. A place was appointed for us, mats being laid on the floor of the house, where we were ordered to lie down. But the place was extremely nasty; for all the stones of the berries which they eat and all the nastiness that’s made amongst them lay on their floor, that the place swarmed with abundance of many sorts of creeping things; as a large black hairy spider, which hath two claws like a crab; scorpions; and a numberless number of small bugs. On these mats we lay, these vermin crawling over our naked bodies. To brush them off was like driving off mosquitoes from one where they are extreme thick. The Indians were seated as aforesaid, the Casseekey at the upper end of them, and the range of cabins was filled with men, women and children, beholding us. At length we heard a woman or two cry, according to their manner, and that very sorrowfully, one of which I took to be the Casseekey’s wife which occasioned some of [us] to think that something extraordinary was to be done to us. We heard a strange sort of a noise which was not like unto a noise made by a man; but we could not understand what nor where it was; for sometimes it sounded to be in one part of the house, sometimes in another, to which we had an ear. And indeed our ears and eyes could perceive or hear nothing but what was strange and dismal; and death seemed [to have] surrounded us. But time discovered this noise unto us. The occasion of it was thus: In one part of this house where the fire was kept, was an Indian man, having a pot on the fire wherein he was making a drink of the leaves of a shrub (which we understood afterwards by the Spaniard, is called casseena), boiling the said leaves, after they had parched them in a pot; then with a gourd having a long neck and at the top of it a small hole which the top of one’s finger could cover, and at the side of it a round hole of two inches diameter, they take the liquor out of the pot and put it into a deep round bowl, which being almost filled containeth nigh three gallons. With this gourd they brew the liquor and make it froth very much. It looketh of a deep brown color. In the brewing of this liquor was this noise made which we thought strange; for the pressing of this gourd gently down into the liquor, and the air which it contained being forced out of the little hole at top occasioned a sound; and according to the time and motion given would be various. This drink when made, and cooled to sup, was in a conch-shell first carried to the Casseekey, who threw part of it on the ground, and the rest he drank up, and then would make a loud He-m; and afterwards the cup passed to the rest of the Casseekey’s associates, as aforesaid, but no other man, woman nor child must touch or taste of this sort of drink; of which they sat sipping, chatting and smoking tobacco, or some other herb instead thereof, for the most part of the day. About noon was some fish brought us on small palmetto leaves, being boiled with scales, head and gills, and nothing taken from them but the guts; but our troubles and exercise were such that we cared not for food. In the evening, we being laid on the place aforesaid the Indians made a drum of a skin, covering therewith the deep bowl in which they brewed their drink, beating thereon with a stick, and having a couple of rattles made of a small gourd put on a stick with small stones in it, shaking it, they began to set up a most hideous howling, very irksome to us, and some time after came some of their young women, some singing, some dancing. This was continued till midnight, after which they went to sleep. The 8 month, 1; the 5 day of the week. This day the Casseekey looking on us pleasantly, made presents to some of us, especially to my wife; he gave her a parcel of shellfish, which are known by the name of clams; one or two he roasted and gave her, showing that she must serve the rest SO, and eat them. The Indian women would take our child and suckle it, for its mother’s milk was almost gone that it could not get a meal: and our child, which had been at death’s door from the time of its birth until we were cast away, began now to be cheerful, and have an appetite to food. It had no covering but a small piece of raw deer skin; not a shred of linen or woollen to put on it. About the tenth hour we observed the Indians to be on a sudden motion, most of the principal of them betook themselves to their houses: the Casseekey went to dressing his head and painting himself, and so also did the rest. When they had done, they came into the Casseekey’s house, and seated themselves in order. In a small time after came an Indian with some small attendance into the house, making a ceremonious motion, and seated himself by the Casseekey, the persons that came with him seated themselves amongst the others. After some small pause the Casseekey began a discourse, which held nigh an hour. After which the strange Indian and his companions went forth to the waterside, unto their canoe lying in the sound, and returned presently with such presents as they had brought, delivering them unto the Casseekey, and those sitting by giving an applause. The presents were some few bunches of the herb they make their drink of, and another herb which they use instead of tobacco, and some platted balls stuffed with moss to lay their heads on instead of pillows. The ceremony being ended, they all seated themselves again, and went to drinking casseena, smoking and talking during the strangers’ stay. About noon some fish was brought us: hunger was grown strong upon [us], and the quantity given was not much more than each a mouthful; which we ate. The Casseekey ordered the master Joseph Kirle, Solomon Cresson, my wife and me, to sit upon their cabin to eat our fish; and they gave us some of their berries to eat. We tasted them, but not one amongst us could suffer them to stay in our mouths; for we could compare the taste of them to nothing else, but rotten cheese steeped in tobacco. Some time after we had eaten, some of the Indians asked us, if we were Spaniards. Solomon answered them, yes. Then some of the Indians would point to those whose hair was black, or of a deep brown, and say such a one was a Spaniard of the Havana, and such of Augustine: but those whose hair was of a light color they were doubtful of; some would say they were no Spaniards. About the third hour in the afternoon the strangers went away, and some small time after they having satisfied themselves that most of us were Spaniards, told us that we should be sent for to the next town; and they told us that there was a Nickaleer off, and we understood them “Englishmen off Bristol,” also the number six men and a woman: and that they were to be put to death before we should get thither. We were silent, although much concerned to hear that report. They also told us that a messenger would come for us to direct us to the next town, thence to Augustine. Night coming on they betook themselves to their accustomed singing and dancing. About the tenth or twelfth hour in the night before the singing and dancing was ended, came in a stranger armed with bow and arrows: the Casseekey and his companions entertained him with half an hour’s discourse, which ended, we were on a sudden ordered to get up and hurried away with this stranger, they not giving us time to see if we were all together; and a troop of young Indian men and boys followed us for about four miles, all which way they pelted us with stones; at length they all left us except two and our guide; but we missed Solomon Cresson, and Joseph Kirle’s boy, and Negro Ben; which was no small trouble to us. We had not traveled above five miles before our guide caused to stop; and at some small distance was an Indian town, which I suppose our guide belonged to. Four Indians came thence with fire and water for him, and with palmetto leaves they made a blast of fire. Here we stayed nigh two hours: the flies were very thick and the night very cold, so that our naked bodies were not able to endure it but with grief. At length we left this place; the whole night following were troubled with these two young Indians, who at times would be abusing one or other of us, singling them out and asking if they were not Nickaleer or English? If they said, nay, then they would hit them a blow or more with a truncheon, which they had; and said, they were. We traveled all night without stopping from the aforesaid place.

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Deuteronomy 34Complete Jewish Bible (CJB) 34 (vii) Moshe ascended from the plains of Mo’av to Mount N’vo, to the summit of Pisgah, across from Yericho. There Adonai showed him all the land — Gil‘ad as far as Dan, 2 all Naftali, the land of Efrayim and M’nasheh, the land of Y’hudah all the way to the sea beyond, 3 the Negev, and the ‘Aravah, including the valley where Yericho, the City of Date-Palms, as far away as Tzo‘ar. 4 Adonai said to him, “This is the land concerning which I swore to Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over there.” 5 So Moshe, the servant of Adonai, died there in the land of Mo’av, as Adonai had said. 6 He was buried in the valley across from Beit-P‘or in the land of Mo’av, but to this day no one knows where his grave is. 7 Moshe was 120 years old when he died, with eyes undimmed and vigor undiminished. 8 The people of Isra’el mourned Moshe on the plains of Mo’av for thirty days; after this, the days of crying and mourning for Moshe ended. 9 Y’hoshua the son of Nun was full of the Spirit of wisdom, for Moshe had laid his hands on him, and the people of Isra’el heeded him and did what Adonai had ordered Moshe. 10 Since that time there has not arisen in Isra’el a prophet like Moshe, whom Adonai knew face to face. 11 What signs and wonders Adonai sent him to perform in the land of Egypt upon Pharaoh, all his servants and all his land! 12 What might was in his hand! What great terror he evoked before the eyes of all Isra’el! Haftarah V’zot HaBrachah: Y’hoshua (Joshua) 1:1–18 (A); 1:1–9 (S) B’rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah V’zot HaBrachah: Mattityahu (Matthew) 17:1–9; Mark 9:2–10; Luke 9:28–36; Y’hudah (Jude) 3–4, 8–10 Hazak, hazak, v’nit’chazek! Be strong, be strong, and let us be strengthened!

(Admit it: you read that title and made it rhyme.) The BHE and I have talked about saving and budgeting and just managing our money better since, oh, the beginning of our relationship (we’re talking 2005, folks!). Sadly, as money is such a major factor in the average American’s life, it is something that ought to be regularly discussed with one’s significant other. Complete and open communication or any monetary goals will not be fulfilled. In the almost-decade we have been together, we have managed to pay off cars and credit cards, buy one house for cash and then mortgage it to buy another, put me through grad school, and start a family. We don’t miss payments, we rarely charge anything, and our debt is pretty small compared to the average American family. We have one mortgage for two houses, one smallish car payment but three vehicles and two trailers, minimal credit card debt (that we haven’t added to since September), and my ridiculous student loans. When we decided it was time for us to try to grow our family, there were many conversations about day care vs. one of us staying home to raise our children. No brainer: one of us stays home. At that time, we both made about the same amount of money per hour. Then I started grad school, switched jobs for a pay cut, and then got pregnant. No brainer: I would leave my low-paying, benefits-less job to stay home with our child once he or she was born. The hard part would be adjusting our lifestyle to accommodate halving our income and adding a whole new person. Let me be honest here: we didn’t change a damned thing until that first electric bill after Angel Baby was born. The whole pregnancy, knowing we had 9 months to clean up our act and start really budgeting and saving, we were tossing out money left and right. Y’know, we HAD to have a whole new bedroom suite for the baby. And that bedroom needed completely remodeled before the baby was born. And we needed the matching car seat, stroller, pack’n’play, etc. (Thank you, Aunt Jan, for the pack’n’play!!) That first electric bill was a doozy! We use cloth diapers, which means more loads of laundry. Lots more. We also had put in a dishwasher while I was pregnant. So there was even more electricity being used to clean things. I’ve got another blog post in the works about our indoor laundry line. Stay tuned! The BHE takes a quasi-voluntary layoff for 2-3 months every winter. Luckily, he receives unemployment benefits and has the peace of mind that comes with knowing he has a return-to-work date. Unluckily, those benefits change every year and can be so low it is almost comical. Almost. With that uncertainty, and knowing he will only earn his regular pay 9-10 months of the year, budgeting is a necessity in our household. Ok, let’s be honest: budgeting is a necessity in every household. Coincidental moment on our thoughtfully sought path through parenting: the day Angel Baby had her first solid food was the first day of the BHE’s layoff last year. Yay… adding one mouth to feed while subtracting regular income. Uff. Third and final straw We agreed to save X amount of dollars prior to the BHE starting his Winter 2015 layoff. In order to do so, we had to know where our money was going. Really, it is hard to say where you’ll start cutting back when you don’t know how much you’re spending. I gathered all receipts I could for September 2014 and thought, “Huh, not too bad.” But that wasn’t the whole story. We needed to keep all receipts in one spot so that I could really and truly see what was what. October was a different story. Not bad, just a more complete story. Without giving you too much, let’s just say we spent over $450 in October, $520 in November, and $760 in December. Ouch! Where did it all go? When I say “groceries,” I mean anything and everything bought at: Payless (Kroger), WalMart, Target, CVS, Walgreens, Fresh Thyme Farmers Market, Aldi’s, D&R Meat Market, and the like. So “groceries” can be food, alcohol, diapers, toilet paper, cat litter, candy, paper plates, etc. Knowing that, it is understandable that our December total was so high. There were gifts for the nephews bought at Target, there was our annual Christmas party to supply, and of course more food than normal was bought to feed us through holidays and my birthday. Still, unacceptable. Honestly, what in the hell are we doing with $450 or more in groceries? I create meal plans. I do our grocery shopping on 2 (or 3) days during the month. Typically, I do one major shopping day of four or five stores at the beginning of the month. Then about two weeks later, I hit one or two stores to get more milk, eggs, and fresh produce. If there’s another trip before the month is out, I kick myself repeatedly as I go get what we need. We live in the middle of nowhere so factoring time and gas for each trip, you can understand why I don’t want to shop more than a couple days a month. Plus, everyone knows that you buy more than you intend to each time you go to the store; going multiple times during the month means multiple times you will spend too much. Stick to your lists (yeah, that thing you tend to leave on the kitchen counter). Something needed to change if our monthly expenditures on groceries could fluctuate from $450 to $750 without us blinking an eye. Something really needed to change if I had no set limit for spending. My two favorite R words: reading and research Of all the books and articles, financial advice from experts to stay-at-home-mom bloggers sharing their experiences, I’d say the two most influential authors are Dave Ramsey and David Bach. (If you would like to know the books I’ve read or at least see the authors who have influenced the way I look at and deal with money, here’s my shelf. Both of these men are renowned financial advisors. Both have books and workshops read and attended by millions. In fact, if you haven’t read or attended something by either of these men, chances are you know someone who has. Ask your librarian to reserve a handful of their books for you. One of the ways to budget and save that I’ve read about and talked to friends about is Dave Ramsey’s “envelope system.” I’d never tried it myself but it sounded (a) logical and (b) straight-forward…which is, in my humble opinion, the best way to deal with ANYTHING money-related. One more try For the month of January 2015, with the BHE on his layoff, I decided to keep on with the mental budget I’d set for us. I decided we could live comfortably with $400 for groceries and $100 for anything for the house. (The BHE spends his layoffs working harder at home than he ever does at work. Our 110+ years old house has been a major project that is still going.) I did my shopping as I always do, but I would add on my smartphone the prices of the goods I would put in my cart. Then I kept a mental tally of what I spent at each store. At the end of January, I tallied up the number of days we went shopping, the number of stores we visited, and the amount of monies spent overall. We kept to our $100 house budget but went almost $120 over our $400 grocery budget. Not cool. Read the next Thoughtfully Sought blog post to hear about February 2015.

Thursday, 22 December 2011 All of the adult tuatara shed their skin at this time of the year, and we look ever so gorgeous after the old skin comes off. Our nice, new and fresh skin has much more colour than last seasons! Sometimes we have trouble getting the old skin off, Lindsay helps us by taking us into the laboratory, putting us in water and magically our skin just falls off! What a relief, if we can’t get our old skin off it is like walking or should I say, sitting around in a wetsuit. It is very hard to move!

I really don’t know what to say anymore. Finding the words to write into a blog about my experience here in Afghanistan has turned into an event of endless frustration and torture. Motivation has dried up in my personal drought. Being here is a mental and emotional daily beat down. Experiencing war first hand (from a surgeons perspective) is nothing like I thought it would be and something I was ill prepared for no matter how much effort I put in prior to this deployment. Trauma has continued to flow in a bloody river of sorts. Yes, I have made a difference in soldiers’ lives but I’m at my emotional whit’s end managing war ravaged amputations of our soldier’s limbs and death. When I’m overwhelmed with trauma my mind has a mental block to the situation I’m surviving in but when periods of monotony compose my days between the traumatic ones I find the only way to escape is sleeping. At least I can dream of my life back home; my wife, my kids and everything I love. There is no romanticizing the job I do nor the life I’m forced to live here in Afghanistan and the same could be said for the endless ravaged heroes I care for on a daily basis, their efforts far outweigh any I could bring to this table; that’s why we call them heroes. It seems these past few weeks have dealt the worse hand to the E.O.D. soldiers. The volume of IED’s that insurgents are placing has increased and their wicked tactics have worsened. Not only are the primary IED’s being placed to damage passing coalition vehicles but secondary devices are put nearby to maim or kill E.O.D. personal whose mission is to disarm them. One such incident our FST had to deal with is rather noteworthy. Four E.O.D. soldiers were on a mission to disarm a suspected IED. Prior to getting to the suspect position they encountered an unknown large IED that blasted the MRAP they were traveling in. The force was so intense it picked up the vehicle and flipped it end to end. When the rescue crew arrived it was determined the area was unsafe due to multiple secondary IED’s in the immediate area. The extraction plan was then changed. A medevac Blackhawk was used to hoist the injured soldiers to safety and they were then transferred to our forward surgical unit for treatment. When they arrived all four were brought into our facility. Only one of the four soldiers was able to drag himself in under his own power; the others were carried in on stretchers. It was apparent that the injuries were to the lower extremities. One of the soldier’s legs was covered in his own blood and he was withering in pain. It was not obvious what the injuries were to this soldier on my initial views. This soldier’s multicam uniform was quickly removed and one of our general surgeons began his trauma resuscitation while I focused on the effected extremity. Once his pant leg was removed there was an obvious open tibia fracture staring at me. I continued to use trauma shears to cut of his leather boot and was taken back at what I saw; his foot was amputated in the middle of its length. What amazed me was his boot was completely intact with no obvious signs of trauma. The force of the blast was of such a magnitude that it caused this level of injury. I later learned the haul of the MRAP was intact so it was the shock wave that propagated through the floor that caused this injury. I immediately had our radiology technician take x-rays to further assess the damage. The injury was worse than I could have imagined. Nearly every bone in the soldiers’ foot was severely fractures into pieces no bigger than an inch or less, and the end of the tibia was unrecognizable. This was among the worst lower extremity injuries I had ever seen. There was no chance of reconstructing his lower extremity, thus, I was forced to take the soldier to the operating room where I amputated his leg; one of many I have been faced with here in Afghanistan. Two days following the E.O.D. soldiers leg amputation lightning struck again; this time my emotions had a hard time controlling themselves. A young 19 year old U.S. female Specialist was on a mission in the rugged terrain north of Jalalabad with her fellow unit soldiers when they hit an IED. An extreme blast was encountered similar to the last group of soldiers we dealt with days earlier. A medevac Blackhawk was dispatched to their position and they were transferred to out FST. When the Blackhawk landed they were quickly transferred to our trauma bays for evaluation. Of the four soldiers sent to us for medical care a young female specialist and an American born translator fared the worst. My attention focused on the 19 year old Specialist. She was screaming from pain; tears drenched her face. Her leg was covered in blood and the bottom of her boot, which was ripped open, was slowly pouring out blood. A tourniquet which was ineffectively applied to her leg was failing. One of our general surgeons started the resuscitation while I focused on her leg. Her injury was severe to her lower leg and even though I had not seen x-rays or removed her boot I knew what was likely from the soldier I dealt with days earlier. Our anesthesia provider was trying to calm her down with sedation with minimal success. I was able to finally remove her boot on the injured leg; everyone in the immediate vicinity was taken aback by the extent of injury. I knew without a doubt reconstruction of this soldiers leg would be unacceptable based on the severity of the injury. Amputation of this young woman’s leg was the only option. My heart kind of dropped with this realization. This would be the first female amputation for our team and me personally from a traumatic cause. Time stopped within myself while my mind tried to comprehend the ramifications for this soldier that are about to take place. This soldier was young and just starting her life. She was a college student, not married and without children. Her life plans will now sail a different course that she or her family never anticipated. The young soldier was brought back to the operating room for her unexpected meeting with fate; and in the end mine as well. Our anesthesia team gently put her to sleep and then my work began. Once I finished she was extubated and transferred to the post-surgical area to recover. While I was completing my surgical records the young specialist asked for me, so I went over to her side to see what she wanted. Once by her side she looked me in the eyes and asked how everything went. My heart dropped with emotional discomfort and personal turmoil at that moment. I was taken off guard that she was not only so lucid this soon after surgery but the simple question she asked at a moment for me like this. Most times I have only good news to tell my patients; your knee replacement went wonderful, your shoulder is going to do excellent, but this soldier’s reality is different. I put my hand on her shoulder and told her what was done; her tired eye’s swelled and tears flowed and she grabbed my hand on her soldier. I immediately went into “positive mode” as I usually do in hard timed with patients. I explained the technological advancements in prosthesis design and that she will walk again. For men it’s an easier sell but for a female it’s not as there is nothing feminine about prostheses. The social ramifications seem much more negative for a female in these circumstances. I spent about 20 minutes compassionately discussing the soldiers’ situation with her and then she blindsided me with another request; can you tell my mom? Uneasily, I agreed. When injured soldiers come to our FST and they are stable we have a dedicated cell phone for them to call their families to let them know what happened and that they are ok. Soldiers and their families are always appreciative and it gives a noticeable relief to the injured soldiers. The young Specialist dialed her family and after one bad connection I could hear the phone ringing in the background, then “hello” from a woman’s voice. She slowly led her mom into the situation without any specific detail of the injury. After about five minutes of patiently waiting she handed the phone to me. The soldiers’ mom really did not understand the extent of the injury and now the stressful discussion lay on my shoulders. It was as hard to tell her mother the situation as it was telling someone their family member had died back in my surgical internship. Her mother did not take it well as would be expected; she and her husband nearby were sobbing profusely. She had a hard time excepting the reality of the situation and must have asked me the same questions 5 times over about a 10 minute conversation. I tried to be as insightful and positive as I could. Once I was finished with the discussion I handed the phone back to her daughter. Their following conversation was laced with crying, and words of love. My time here has been nothing short of an emotional and mental roller coaster; parts born from my Afghanistan experience and others from the stress of being separated from my wife and children. I’ve shed more tears in the last 5 ½ months than the last 15 years of my life, some related to the injured soldiers I’ve treated but most from the heroes our FST has lost. I was anticipating this experience would strengthen my personal fortitude but in reality it has taken my positive points of view and skewed them into jadedness. My days have been filled with unexpected emotional forecasts and over time this lack of control becomes overwhelming. The stress of family from a distance, the constant threat of attack, soldier’s injuries and demise, and the lack of an outlet to relax deteriorates your strength as a person over months on end. I’m not here to judge the grand reasons we are still within this theater of war. The only valid perspective I can give is my own, and can tell you on a personal level this environment is not for me. I feel like I’ve been locked in a cage of moral negativity and pushed to live a life not of my choosing. The army I signed up for in December of 2000 is not the army of present day. I don’t know how I will look back at this experience in 10 years and I hope I can gleam some positivity from it, but today I feel that is unlikely. I have a little over 3 more weeks here in Afghanistan before I start the long journey back to Kentucky. I may be leaving this war here in Afghanistan but I’ll be confronted with a different unfamiliar post war family reconstruction when I arrive home. My young boys are at war with me for being gone and don’t communicate with me at this point; although, they asked Santa for their daddy to come home from the army for Christmas. The newborn daughter I left 2 weeks after her birth does not know her father and my wife has learned to live without her husband in her daily life. I have learned to live without the responsibilities of a father and have become a self-centered personally indulgent individual. I have a lot of social reintegration myself waiting and it’s not going to be without a sizable amount of stress. Fortunately for me I have been able to maintain communication with my family. The soldiers who are isolated living on the Afghan mountainside are not so blessed. I can’t even begin to imagine the turmoil they will face with home reintegration. It seems many back in the U.S. individuals support the troops in various degrees. Some offer gratitude, nods and handshakes, and others are active in supporting our troops through their time sending care packages, writing letters, knitting hats, and making a difference in a soldiers world both in theater and back in the United States. I don’t want to rain on someone’s proverbial parade but if you aren’t going to take an active part in making a difference in our troops lives don’t bother with the handshakes, nods and superficial forms of gratitude; we know your happy in your comfortable world where you don’t have to risk everything for a nation that we as soldiers care so much for. The last thing freedom needs is to be cheapened by superficiality. Everyone has the opportunity to make a difference. You can shy away into your protected corner or spread your wings and let freedom ring loud and clear. The choice is yours. God bless America, and all individuals who seek freedom. Thanks for coming along for the ride. I’ll be home very soon Melissa, Turin, Talon and baby Myla. I love you more than you will ever know.

Presumably this Year’s Celtic Connections is the most successful yet, but a gig on a Sunday afternoon is what it’s all that about. Hazy Recollections showcases short sets from a number of artists back to back (with no discernible interval) in a chilled out, generally all seated, environment. From a personal point of view a rare appearance from Jacob Yates and The Pearly Gate Lockpickers and a headlining set from Emme Woods could not be missed. Opening proceedings Rhona MacFarlane takes to the stage with a three-piece string section, a folk/pop crossover from this talented singer-songwriter, whose intimate and personal songs go down well with what appears to be a pretty diverse audience. Although the setup sounds just right MacFarlane expresses her hope for “maybe one day with a full orchestra”. No sooner had MacFarlane et al left the stage when a three piece Jacob Yates and The Pearly Gate Lockpickers take the stage. Jacob Lovatt is only accompanied by an acoustic guitar and keys, but that is of little consequence as from the opening bars of ‘Dundee’ you realise that the vocals of Lovatt can all but fill the room themselves. Introduced as makers of “doomwop” the stripped back nature of this set demonstrate the storytelling ability of Lovatt’s songwriting underpinned by the emotion he puts in to his performance. A couple of oldies, a couple of new songs, an announcement of a new album, a more gentle love song without the usual darkness and a couple from the latest album, Goths!!!. Closing with a powerful rendition of ‘The Gospel According to The Selfish Gene’ and that is it; if we can only hold out now until the new music. Age-Otori is up next and warns us straight away about their potential for inappropriate comments; scaremongering me thinks! Age-Otori performs solo with a keyboard and sings of personal experiences with anecdotes and stories in between; mum was obviously in the audience and helps out with the forgotten first lyrics to ‘Honey’. A mix of fun, but with real emotion in some of the more personal songs such as ‘Pulse’ about the 49 people killed in the Pulse nightclub Orlando, or ‘Jo-Anne’ (about a stripper) whose “not what I’d like to be” and ‘Alaska’ – lets go to Alaska and escape everyone’s stupid ideal. An emotional performance with Age-Otori attempting to make light of the performance, but cannot hide the personal nature of their songwriting. Announced as the mystery guest Siobhan Wilson replaces Age-Otori and performs a masterclass touching on her back catalogue. A beautiful voice with the minimal of guitar accompaniment, as that is all that is required. Her set includes songs off the new album, There Are No Saints, and some oldies including ‘All Dressed Up’ with some lyrics changed “to make it more evil”. Wilson finishes with ‘Dear God’ from the new album before making way for Emme Woods. Emme Woods is one of the hottest properties in Glasgow at the moment and this appearance has the full band line up including Kitty on the keys. Arguably the strongest of their flexible line ups, but for Barrie-James O’Neill who makes the occasional appearance. There was a time when Celtic Connections would have been the natural habitat for Woods when her music was more influenced by alt folk, but that is no longer the case. With the full band set up the afternoon’s rock (and sassiness) levels are stepped up a gear. 2018 is likely to be a big year for Woods with plans for a new EP and the announcement of an appearance at the SXSW. With the recording of the new EP currently underway we were treated to a new song and the likely title track ‘It’s Ma Party’ as well as old favourites ‘Mother Doesn’t Love You’ and ‘I Was Running’. A brilliant bluesy rock performance where Woods’ vocals are the focus, our very own Janis Joplin. Apparently they had missed the soundcheck due to road closures coming from the recording studio, however this is a faultless performance (as usual). Words/Photos: Derek McCutcheon

September 23, 2016 My wife and I recently moved our home, auto, and life policies to Patrick O’Brien / American Family, and we have been impressed with their customer service and professionalism. My wife was involved in a collision last week, and they quickly took care of her claim, arranged for repairs, and put her in a rental car. Tom Coverdale was awesome to work with as well. I highly recommend. Review Rating: 5.0 CUSTOMER THANK YOU TEXT October 23, 2015 Thanks again for your insight with my situation. I can’t begin to tell you how refreshing you and Tom’s approach to your client’s care. You are up front and honest with your products which is why you have my business. Thanks again for your time today. CUSTOMER THANK YOU EMAIL Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 1:58 PM Subject: Re: Remodel / home policy Thank you both for reviewing our updates on the Fishers home. This has been on my to do list for some time and is a relief to have all under your care. Appreciate all you do. Don and I continue to be pleased with our American Family…family! CUSTOMER THANK YOU NOTE I would be remiss if I didn’t take this opportunity to thank you , Shannon and AM FAM Claims Adjuster – Doug Lawler for making us (i.e., The Pino Family) feel so comforted and worry free during the handling of our most recent auto claim. From your initial inquiry at 9:19 PM last night, followed by Shannon’s and your e-mail follow-up this morning – WOW … now that’s some excellent customer service. Then to put it over the top, we were fortunate enough to receive awesome claims adjusting services from Doug Lawler. He was extremely prompt, thorough and professional throughout the entire process! I feel so lucky as well as blessed to have you as my Insurance Agent, Shannon as our CSR and Doug as our Claims Adjuster. When my son’s car was struck by that deer last night, I knew we would be handled with extreme professionalism … but you three (3) are the Poster Child for demonstrating Superior Customer Service!! If there were a Golden Globe or an Oscar Award available for Insurance personnel, “y’all” would have it in the bag! Thanks for being so caring, supportive and encouraging to us. Our family is very happy with and appreciative of the AM FAM family, and are so glad to be a part of this pleasant experience during such a difficult situation. Gary K. Pino PEACE OF MIND We had a client arrive for a Personal Insurance Review to go over all of her coverages. She asked to see a summary of her scheduled jewelry (high value jewelry added to a home owner policy in order to have it covered). Upon review, NONE of her jewelry was scheduled. We were able to quickly update her policy to include the schedules (listed) jewelry and she left with peace of mind. The take away: Most policies only cover $1,500 per jewelry item. Hypothetically if you lost a $10,000 engagement/wedding ring that was not scheduled on your homeowner’s policy, and you called to file a claim, you would be asked to pay your deductible and you would only be compensated $1,500 for the lost ring. AUTO RATE CUT IN HALF Shannon recently spoke with a client by phone who called to add a new vehicle to his coverage. While Shannon was reviewing all of his coverage, she discovered the customer’s 20+ year old son was still listed as a driver on one of his vehicles. When Shannon asked about the son, the client confirmed the son had moved out of the home and was not driving the vehicle. By removing the clients son as a driver on his vehicle, we were able to cut his rates in half! The take away: #1 – Every year you should review your policies with your insurance agent and staff so they can ask the proper questions to determine if you are covered correctly. #2 – Whenever there is a change in your household regarding who is living with you and driving the vehicles you have insured, contact your agent to update your policies. You could be missing out on savings! A POTENTIALLY LARGE EXPENSE AVOIDED A client met with us and realized that his 17 year old daughter was not listed as a driver on any of his vehicles! She has had her license for almost a full year!!!! The take away: If the daughter had been in an accident, that accident would not have been covered by insurance because she was not listed as a driver on the vehicle. It would be costly for the client if there was an accident in which the daughter was driving should there need to be repairs to the vehicle or if it the vehicle was totaled.

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Now I know this may be shocking to some of my 3.5 readers, mostly because you are all single and/or newly married and not yet contemplating the giant, insane leap into parenthood at this moment in time, but I feel it is my sworn duty to scare you with the truth before you partake in it yourself and cry foul at the horrendous nature of what befalls you post-pregnancy. It's my pleasure, my sisters did it to me and I honestly thought they were being dramatic. Ha HA HAHAHAHAHA. How oblivious I was. Here's how it goes: A. You get knocked up. (You're all, YEAH! This is so fun!) B. You travel through pregnancy and it goes really well. (You're all, what are these people bitching about, this is great!) C. You have the baby. (You're still, this is still amazing! Everyone is exaggerating the pain and etc.) D. You try to breastfeed. (This doesn't go so well, but you're not horrible at it, so you're okay. YEAH!) E. Your "milk comes in". (This should be called, "Your breasts swell to the size and weight of giant bowling balls, they're hot and sore as hell, and whatever progress you made with your baby convincing him that they are for nourishment and contain lots of yummy milk goes flying out the window when he takes one look at them and tries to run back into your uterus for fear of suffocation by mammary gland".) F. You try every trick in the "Breastfeeding Your Baby" 2 page guide they give you in the hospital. Yeah, thanks for teaching me where my breasts are located, aside from that, you are completely useless. G. You call lactation consultants, La Leche League, your neighbor's best friends mother, anyone who has breasts and might be able to help you. All turn up empty. H. You start negotiating with your baby, "If you learn to do this, you can eat anytime you want, for as long as you want, anywhere you want, until you're old enough to enter a retirement village if you'd just meet me halfway here." I. You finally reattach your brain to your nerve endings and get a breast pump to relieve the pressure which has quickly achieved 'Erupting Volcano' status. J. You give in and meet with the scary Australian Lactation Consultant. K. And voila! She's got him breastfeeding faster than Michael Phelps can win 8 gold medals. L. You quickly take back everything you ever said about Australians. In fact, you're nominating Australia for a non-existent 'Country of the Year Award' and contemplating moving the entire outfit Down Under in support of Aussie Lactation Consultants.

“Do You Mind If I Don’t Put My Boob On?” or Why Your Furnace, Boiler, Heat Pump, A/C Repair or Installation is Fighting Breast Cancer in Memphis by Kathe Stewart “Kathe, do you mind if I don’t put my boob on?” This may sound like a strange way to start a conversation about your air conditioning and heating. But, these were the first in-person words one of our FAVORITE clients spoke when I went to her home for the first time some years ago. We ended up chatting like two old friends for a very long time. Of course, Shirley was talking about her prosthetic “boob” (the one she wore sometimes to replace the one she had lost to breast cancer). Because of that memorable conversation starter, I scheduled my own mammogram after I left her home that day, and every year since. We’ve had many phone chats about life, friendship, her battle with cancer – which became a footnote to all the health battles that followed. Her philosophy of maintaining an upbeat and optimistic attitude, not wasting her time worrying about things she could not change, putting one foot in the front of the other and even the loss of her sister to metastatic breast cancer were topics of conversation and inspiration – often while scheduling her HVAC repair and maintenance calls over the years. As it became more difficult to live alone, she moved to assisted living. Last month, we connected about what she has been up to and our desire at Precision Air Conditioning & Heating to help raise awareness about and a cure for breast cancer. Plus, especially after losing my mother this year (whose spirit in the face of serious health challenges was similar), I wanted to make sure she knew what an amazingly positive impact she has and continues to have on MY life. I told her that whenever I face something tough, I think of her, her indomitable spirit, her willingness to live full out, her courage and yes, the boob comment that propelled me into taking action for myself. That is how we came to support the Memphis-MidSouth Affiliate of Susan G. Komen. 10 Reasons Precision Air Conditioning & Heating Donates For the Cure and for Breast Cancer Awareness in October & November - Shirley’s spirit and example inspires us to do what we can where we can (and she SURE inspired me!) Everyone pays attention in October because it is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We add in November too – to extend the conversation a bit longer. Especially as the female co-owner of Precision and 47 years old myself, I am all too aware of the increased risk of breast cancer after 40. Most of the women we serve are 40+. - As a family owned business for 41 years, we think of our clients as a part of our family. We do it for every person in our own family and the greater Precision family and beyond who might see OUR participation and decide to take a step toward action for themselves and/or their loved ones. YES!!! It is okay to drag your sister, mom, friend, co-worker, daughter or grand-mother to her mammogram. - Talking about and raising awareness about breast cancer matters. It helps on every level from education, prevention, screening, diagnosis, support, treatment, choices and even a cure (to name a few). Awareness and action are not the same thing. However, more focus on awareness helps lead to more action. In fact, since 1990, breast cancer mortality has decreased by 34 percent. Experts attribute this to improved treatments and early detection. - For all those women (and men) who are or will be fighting, living, thriving and/or in remission with this disease. 1 in 8 women will get breast cancer in her lifetime and 1 in 1000 men in his lifetime as things stand now. 25% of ALL cancer in women is Breast Cancer. - For all those we’ve lost to this disease and the voids their passing left behind. - For everyone who loves someone with this disease. Including those in our family. - Supporting Susan G. Komen Memphis-MidSouth means that 75% of the funds raised stay in our community. As a LOCALLY run affiliate of Susan G. Komen, they have their own Board of Directors and are very transparent about where there fundraising goes. In fact, by scrolling to the bottom of the link above, you can see a pdf list of exactly what organizations they are supporting financially. This means more LOCAL women can have access to education, screening, support and treatment. - Supporting Susan G. Komen Memphis-MidSouth means that 25% of the fundraising goes to global and national breast cancer research. Komen is the 1 private provider of research funds in the nation. - Sadly, Memphis is 1 in the NATION for deaths from breast cancer for African American women. - Early diagnosis is key for the best long term outcomes for most types of breast cancer. Although risks vary with type and stage of breast cancer, there is a 99% relative 5-year survival rate for early-stage breast cancer. For the Months of October & November, When you choose us for your heater, boiler, heat pump, furnace, air conditioning or water heater repair we donate $10 to Susan G. Komen Memphis-MidSouth. For every new air conditioning and heating system installation we donate $50.

Prepare to alter alot of baby diapers! Your package of joy will certainly require around 6000 nappy changes prior to finishing to underwears. That’s a great deal of unclean nappies and, depending on which ones you use, either a lot of waste or a lot of washing! There’s the poo variable– that nappy has obtained ta be up to the work. The things we provide for love. A stitch in time conserves 9 … mins of rest Getting a nappy strategy in position before child goes along will certainly save you time, money as well as power, and also will have a large effect on your environmental footprint. Having claimed that, it’s never too late to switch nappy groups or blend it up a little bit depending on your worry for the setting versus your worry for your peace of mind … and your demand for rest. First of all, allow’s be familiar with nappies. Great ol’ disposables. With truly only one design, they absorb moisture promptly to prevent leakages and also ‘secure it in’ to maintain your bub fairly dry; are very easy and also quick to attach; keep closed during use; and also fit numerous shapes and sizes. As well as they’re extremely practical, specifically when out as well as around– particularly so due to the fact that they’re available in every grocery store and also corner store. They do not call them convenience stores for no factor! Multiple-use contemporary fabric nappies Modern fabric nappies (MCNs) are ending up being much more prominent as well as, to be clear, we’re not chatting the old terry-towelling squares. MCNs are the brand-new whiz-bang variation including a waterproof cover, watertight elasticised leg openings and also absorptive cushioning as well as lining. The various designs There are more than 200 brands– the majority of which are made by work-at-home mums that sell them over the internet on stores like Etsy. All-in-ones have a moisture-resistant outer layer stitched with an absorbent inner to develop the nappy– they could take a little while to completely dry. All-in-twos, additionally called snap-in-ones, contain a lined water resistant external layer as well as absorptive internal layers, which “break in” with press studs. They could be uncoupled for laundering, so they dry faster compared to all-in-ones. Pocket nappies have a water resistant outer layer stitched with a soft inner cellular lining, which forms the shell. In between these two layers there’s a pocket for the absorbent inserts. These are gotten rid of for cleaning then replaced, which could be a bit fiddly however on the bonus side they dry rapidly. Antique terry-towelling square nappies are also still offered. They can take a little practice to fold up and also fit right, yet they are a cheaper multiple-use choice than MCNs, as well as modern-day fasteners indicate you don’t also should use safety and security pins. I can see there are benefits to both– how do I choose in Millersburg Iowa? There are a variety of considerations, so let’s take a look at them. The upfront price of multiple-use nappies is fairly high, however in the future it’s potentially cheaper than disposables– decreasing in expense tremendously with every kid. Towel nappies do need a little bit more work, as well as might be a pain when you’re out. Much like a worn out bub. Good quality, well-fitting nappies– whether fabric or disposable– will certainly keep infant dry, and won’t cause nappy rash. Disposable nappies really don’t have the very best environment-friendly reputation, yet there are choices to minimize their impact: Some brand names are eco-friendly, though problems in landfill make this degradation hard to take place. Some have compostable or recyclable product packaging. Purchasing locally-made nappies, as opposed to imported, reduces transport carbon expense. Regardless of the environmental expenses of material production and also nappy laundering, fabric nappies that are dry-pailed and also primarily line-dried still come out in advance of disposables. Disposables come in various dimensions to suit your growing bundle-that’s- now-turning-into-a-handful, and ultimately you can removal right into pull-up pants from a few of the same brands. MCNs are available in fixed dimensions, or a one-size-fits-most (OSFM), which has extra attachments for changing the nappy as your infant grows. Fixed-size nappies means purchasing new collections as your infant expands bigger, so it might set you back more. On the other hand, if you’re having more than one kid, you’ll make use of the grown out of ones once more. You’ll just require one set of OSFM nappies, but their longer use suggests more deterioration, and also they may only last through one youngster’s infancy. The sort of fabric made use of impacts drying time. Natural fibres usually take longer to completely dry than synthetics, and you’ll want to make certain you have enough nappies to obtain with a few days of wet climate if you do not have a clothes dryer. Paper or textile nappy liners make your washing life simpler by keeping solids off the nappy. Flushable ones make clean-up a cinch! The absorbing products (covering liners, pads as well as boosters) include bamboo, cotton, hemp or fleece, with breathable polyurethane laminated material (PUL) or lanolised woollen often used for covers– if you have an interest in that kind of thing. I desire a judgment– which nappy is best? For ecological and financial factors, you can not pass by MCNs. For ease-of-use as well as benefit, disposables are the method to go. Naturally it doesn’t need to be one or the various other: you can make use of cloth nappies in your home during the day, and disposables when out and about, disappearing, in the evening, at day care, and also throughout long periods of rain when you prefer to not make use of the dryer. If you’re unclear: Buy a solitary nappy of each type that piques your rate of interest. Some MCN firms market test loads with samples of the different styles. Hire a trial pack from a nappy collection, a service used by nappy firms and also area groups: browse the web for ‘modern-day towel nappy library’ to find one near you. Exactly how do I recognize I’ve selected the appropriate nappy? Whatever you have actually picked, here’s the list for an excellent nappy: No dripping around the legs. No liquid permeating via the cover. Not too tight or too loosened around hips as well as legs. No massaging or chafing from the nappy or bolts around the legs or hips. 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I tend to slip into conspiracy theories pretty easily…….anyway I read a few interviews with Evan Spiegel one of the founders of Snapchat and its CEO, an interesting guy who essentially developed the app with Bobbie Murphy and Reggie Brown, all Standford University students, as a project for one of their design classes. Interesting – one of the most popular apps started out as a university assessment. Maybe we should do that in our program? Set a “design an app” task for students – design an app that could be used in teaching or learning? Pretty challenging, and considering Reggie Brown was brought in to work with them since he is an expert coder, well……it kind of puts this type of assessment task out of the realm of the normal type of skills needed. Got me thinking though, assessment needs to be real and for us in pre-service teacher program, that means it needs to be teachable content or teaching related. 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This got me thinking, is the internet slowly replacing one-by-one each of the different technologies in our lives? Are we going to be totally web-based in the near future? Will television and cable disappear? All of this is exciting on one hand, as our mobile devices are internet ready, so there is no limit to what we do, where we do it or when. But imagine if the internet went down………imagine a world with no alternative. I know that when I have left my phone at home, or if the battery goes flat (horror of horrors) I barely cope, but its usually only for a short period of time. Imagine an extended period of no internet……..worrying. So are we overly reliant on it? Yes. Should we be wary of committing 100% of our lives to it? Yes.

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Well, it seems I’m going to be in a play. My playwright/producer friend called me up yesterday, asking me to help him out of a bind. An actress walked out of his play and he needs to someone to step up to the plate pretty darn quick. Opening night is in three weeks, so I’ve got a lot work ahead of me. It’s a fine little play; one hour in length and it has a comfy down home feeling to it. I first met John when we did Our Town together about six years ago. This play has the same feeling of family and old fashioned, small town values. I know I’ll like playing this part, even if it is a bit of a stretch for me…age wise. The character, Hattie, was written to be 65-70, but John will work to make it 55-60, which of course, is still a stretch. People will have to willingly suspend their disbelief at the theatre door ;-) I wasn't going to take the part, as I really don't like spending time away from my son. Then I looked at a calendar and saw that most of the performances will be when he's with his dad, sooo...I better stop blogging and start memorizing.

MY EXPERIENCE WITH SPORTS Since I was little I have tried a lot of different sports but not all of them were good for me. I remember when I was four or five years old I tried swimming, at first I liked it but as I grow older I only like swimming in summer. Also I have tried a lot of team sports like tennis, which I don’t like to play but I like watching it on TV; baseball, which I like playing but I’m so bad at batting the ball; volleyball, which I love playing but after playing my hands arms hurt so much. And I have tried football too but I don’t like playing it and I don’t even like watching it on TV. Now I’m doing yoga, I started doing yoga three years ago and I love it! I totally recommend it because it is relaxing at the same time you are doing exercise. I think everybody should do some sport at least twice a week because it helps your health a lot. I have already tried a lot of sports but sports are so important and I need to try more sports until I find the one for me.

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I Am True to the Aesir! My Oath is sealed with blood! The underneath has been written in answer to the various comments through the years that I, Freya Aswynn am not Asatru but Wiccan. I was Wiccan from 1980 to 1983. I was Rosicrucian from 1972 till 1979. no-one accuses me of being Not Asatru but Rosicrucian. Why??? What is it about ‘Wiccans’ which invoked the red rag in some Americans who adopted a Native European Religion as their own? Traditionally the religion of the Aesir was very tolerant and we still see this expressed in the Nordic countries, but more on a social and cultural level. It’s part of the Northern European Folk Soul. Hence we have a caring welfare state. And why this hatred towards a ‘sister’ pagan religion? It’s almost like a Southern Baptist raging against Catholics, both being Christian of course. Perhaps they themselves did not divest themselves of the baggage of their earlier religion, something I have been accused of (wiccatru). In ’83 I dissolved my coven in order to devote full time to my Native gods: the Aesir and by inference the Vanir and other wights of Light. I am therefore Asatru i.e My Troth is to the Aesir; and yes I was ‘professed’ in June 1984,in my turn I professed people as well, Heimguest for one. Apart from the Gods themselves, the attraction to the Norse system was first and foremost the Runes, and what ever little bits of the Lore was available in either English or Dutch, in the early eighties. Being true to the Norse/Germanic gods is living according certain values. Being true to the Aesir does not mean that I can’t respect, cooperate with, or appreciate ‘others’. However I couldn’t ‘worship’ them. Without exception these comments questioning me being Asatru are all from men across the pond. Usually by people who rant against ‘universalism’, hiding behind internet anonymity of course. These people often being of ambiguous genetics themselves, need to prove to themselves and their peers how ‘Nordic/Germanic’ they are. They prove that not by showing their worth, but by denying another’s’ worth. Again I have not found this attitude in native born Northern European . However they are a dwindling but vocal minority, probably just starting out. Young and wet behind the ears, I wager. The vast majority of Asa folk across the pond have done incredible work in reconstructing and redefining the religion as well as ensuring the preservation of old crafts and arts, keeping the old ways alive, and publishing their interpretations and lore, putting enormous amount of effort and funds into their studies. and sharing. These are the ones who will be remembered as the first generation Asa folk outside Europe. Being Asatru is open to every one, the Gods will accept the Troth of a sincere person of whatever genetic or cultural origin. It’s insecure people who will question and dispute this and – guess what? They need this kind of security from their peers, they have to feel part of a crowd, a club. They derive their self-worth from the opinions of other people! Propping each other up, swilling beer and talking shite! I am North lander I was born and raised in a traditional tolerant Dutch culture, I also look the part. I don’t depend on others opinion whether I am Asatru or not, this is between me and the Aesir. Nor would I ever question an other’s Troth to the Aesir, certainly not on the basic of race or any prior spiritual paths walked.

Anderson v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Railway Co. Anderson v. Atchison, T. & S. F. Railway Co. , 31 Cal.2d 117 [L. A. No. 20037. In Bank. Dec. 12, 1947.] DORIS ANDERSON, as Administratrix, etc., Appellant, v. THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY (a Corporation), Respondent. Hildebrand, Bills & McLeod and Louis H. Brownstone for Appellant. Jennings & Belcher and Louis E. Kearney for Respondent. In this action plaintiff administratrix seeks damages under the provisions of section 51 of the Federal Employers' Liability Act (45 U.S.C.A.) for the wrongful death of her intestate, L. C. Bristow. When the matter came on for trial, defendant objected to the introduction of any evidence, on the ground that the complaint fails to state a cause of action. The objection was sustained, judgment was entered in defendant's favor, and plaintiff appeals. The issue presented is forthrightly defined and the pertinent authorities are helpfully collected in the excellent briefs of counsel for the respective parties. After careful consideration of the briefs and arguments, and after independent research which has disclosed nothing persuasive to a contrary result, we have concluded, for the reasons hereinafter elucidated, that under applicable legal principles the judgment must be affirmed. A motion to exclude evidence by reason of failure of the complaint to state a cause of action is in the nature of a general demurrer and may be sustained only if the allegations of the complaint, deemed true for this purpose, are totally insufficient to support a judgment in plaintiff's favor. (See Rannard v. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (1945), 26 Cal.2d 149, 151 [157 P.2d 1]; Calhoun v. Calhoun (1947), 81 Cal.App.2d 297, 298-300 [183 P.2d 922].) Section 51 of the Federal Employers' Liability Act (45 U.S.C.A.) provides, so far as here material, that "Every common carrier by railroad while engaging in commerce between any of the several States ... shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such [31 Cal.2d 119] carrier in such commerce, or, in case of the death of such employee, to his or her personal representative ... for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier. ..." Plaintiff's complaint, as amended, alleges in material part that on November 24, 1942, at about 5:30 a. m., the deceased, L. C. Bristow, who resided at Clovis, Curry County, New Mexico, was employed as a conductor on defendant's passenger train which was then "westbound from Amarillo, Texas, to Belen, New Mexico, at a point approximately opposite defendant's station at Gallaher, Curry County, New Mexico"; that as one of his duties deceased was then "checking a certain train order signal at said station from the rear vestibule of said train" and while so doing fell from the train and suffered injuries which "made it impossible" for him to secure help; that defendant's train "then proceeded on past defendant's stations at St. Vrain, Melrose, Taiban and Ft. Summer until said train arrived at Yeso, New Mexico; that at each of said stations said train was caused to come to a stop and at each point defendant, acting by and through its agents, servants and employees, other than decedent, carelessly and negligently failed to ascertain the whereabouts of decedent, notwithstanding the fact that certain employees of defendant on said train made note of the absence of decedent; that at Yeso the regular conductor of said train finally directed a wire to be sent to other employees of defendant asking such employees to ascertain the whereabouts of decedent and decedent was subsequently found lying alongside defendant's right of way adjacent to the point where he fell off the train. That when said message was finally transmitted to certain employees of defendant, at defendant's station at Yeso, defendant, its agents, servants and employees, carelessly and negligently failed to transmit said message to Clovis, or any other station of defendant's [sic], for an unnecessarily long period of time; that when said message was transmitted to Clovis, defendant, its agents, servants and employees at said station, carelessly and negligently failed to institute and pursue a search for decedent within a reasonable period of time. That as a direct and proximate result of the carelessness and negligence of defendant in the premises, as aforesaid, and the exposure in very cold weather occasioned thereby, said L. C. Bristow was caused to die on the 27th day of November, 1942." [31 Cal.2d 120] Plaintiff states that on this appeal the issue presented is whether or not a railroad company "that has notice of the absence of an employee from a moving train is under a duty to use ordinary care to ascertain his whereabouts and render aid to him." No allegation or claim is made that the deceased's original injuries resulted from any negligence on the part of defendant, or its officers, agents or employees. (Nor, it is noted, does plaintiff allege that the train was moving at the time the deceased fell from it. The allegations in respect to the circumstances of the fall are, as previously set forth, that while the train was "at a point approximately opposite defendant's station at Gallaher ... [deceased was] checking a certain train order signal at said station from the rear vestibule of said train" and while so doing fell from the train.) There is no allegation that defendant company had notice or knowledge of the injuries of deceased in sufficient time to have rendered or procured aid that would have saved his life; there is not even an allegation that defendant had notice or knowledge that decedent had fallen from the train or had left it otherwise than intentionally while it was standing at the station mentioned. Plaintiff argues "that under the law, as it stands today, from the moment that the master has notice of an injury to his servant and of the fact that the servant is unable to aid himself, and whether or not the injury has been caused by any negligence of the master, the master is under a duty to use ordinary care to obtain medical and surgical aid for the employee. If, as a result of a breach of that duty, the injuries to the servant are aggravated, or the servant dies, recovery is allowed," and "that the time has come to expand this doctrine one step further and to impose a duty upon the employer to use ordinary care to ascertain the whereabouts of a missing employee who is employed on a moving train so that care may be given to such employee in the event that he is injured." (Italics added.) The rule of law (as to duty of an employer who has notice of injury to his servant) from which outpost plaintiff asks us to take the one step further, has been announced in some jurisdictions (see Hunicke v. Meramec Quarry Co. (1914), 262 Mo. 560 [172 S.W. 43, 54, Ann.Cas. 1915D 493, L.R.A. 1915C 789]; Troutman's Admix. v. Louisville & N. R. Co. (1918), 179 Ky. 145, 156 [200 S.W. 488, 494]; cf. Carey v. Davis (1921), 190 Iowa 720 [180 N.W. 889, 12 A.L.R. 904]), but cases in other jurisdictions, including [31 Cal.2d 121] California, have taken the opposite view (see Hackelberry v. Sherlock Land & C. Co. (1919), 39 Cal.App. 764, 767-768 [180 P. 37]; Voorhees v. New York C. & H. R.R. Co. (1909), 129 App.Div. 780 [114 N.Y.S. 242, 244] (affirmed in 198 N.Y. 558 [92 N.E. 1105]); Allen v. Hixson (1900), 111 Ga. 460 [36 S.E. 810]; Denver & R.G. R.R. Co. v. Iles (1898), 25 Colo. 19 [53 P. 222, 225]; Matthews v. Carolina etc. Ry. Co. (1917), 175 N.C. 35 [94 S.E. 714]; Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Co. v. Odle's Admr. (1920), 128 Va. 280 [105 S.E. 107]; Stager v. Troy Laundry Co. (1901), 38 Ore. 480 [63 P. 645, 648, 53 L.R.A. 459].) However, in the present case we do not pass on that rule, for even if we assume for purposes of this decision that we should, if the question were again presented, disapprove the Hackelberry case and adopt the contrary view, we are satisfied that we should not take the "further step" urged by plaintiff. It is not, we think, the province of a state court, in an action brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, to "expand" the doctrines of negligence to impose on the employer a duty unknown at common law and neither defined in the act nor recognized by federal court decision. It has been often pointed out that "the rights and obligations of the parties to an action arising under the Federal Employers' Liability Act depend upon the terms of that Act and the federal decisional law. ... The question of negligence ... must be determined not by the decisions of state tribunals ruling on questions of negligence arising under the laws of the states but by the decisions of the federal courts interpreting the Federal Employers' Liability Act." (Jacobs v. Reading Co. (3d C.C. 1942), 130 F.2d 612, 614.) "The rights which the Act creates are federal rights protected by federal rather than local rules of law. [Citations.] And those rights have been largely fashioned from the common law ... except as Congress has written into the Act different standards." (Bailey v. Central Vermont R. Co. (1942), 319 U.S. 350, 353 [63 S.Ct. 1062, 87 L.Ed. 1444, 1447]; see, also, Haskins v. Southern Pac. Co. (1934), 3 Cal.App.2d 177, 183 [39 P.2d 895]; King v. Schumacher (1939), 32 Cal.App.2d 172, 177 [89 P.2d 466]; Southern R. Co. v. Gray (1915), 241 U.S. 333, 339 [36 S.Ct. 558, 60 L.Ed. 1030, 1034]; Sadowski v. Long Island R. Co. (1944), 292 N.Y. 448 [55 N.E.2d 497, 499].) Thus, in an action brought under the act in which the intermediate appellate court of Ohio, on a question of defense [31 Cal.2d 122] of assumption of risk, had followed decisions of the Ohio Supreme Court rather than those of federal courts, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the judgment, and observed that "in proceedings under [the Federal Employers' Liability Act] ... the rights and obligations of the parties depend upon it and applicable principles of common law as interpreted and applied in the federal courts. [Citations.] "The Court of Appeals acted upon the erroneous theory that it should follow the views of the Supreme Court of the State rather than those of this Court in respect of questions arising under the Liability Act. That statute, as interpreted by this Court, is the supreme law to be applied by all courts, Federal and State. [Citation.] Where this view is not accepted, as in the present cause, it is within the power of this Court to determine and apply the proper remedy." (Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. Kuhn (1931), 284 U.S. 44, 47 [52 S.Ct. 45, 76 L.Ed. 157, 160].) So far as we have discovered, the point here in issue has not yet been presented to a federal court, and the highest courts of the only two states in which it has arisen have decided adversely to the position of plaintiff in the present case. In Batton v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. (1936), 210 N.C. 756 [188 S.E. 383], an action brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, plaintiff alleged that while he was performing his duties as a flagman on defendant's train at Weldon, North Carolina, he fell from a platform and suffered injuries which rendered him helpless; that he was not discovered until approximately five hours later; that defendant was negligent in not discovering plaintiff's absence and locating and assisting him promptly; and that as a result of such alleged negligence plaintiff suffered from exposure to the cold and inclement weather and his injuries received from falling were greatly aggravated. It was also alleged that it was plaintiff's duty as flagman to give a signal to the engineer at each stop; that without such a signal the engineer started the train from Weldon in violation of instructions and custom; and that even after the train left Weldon, the other members of the train crew should have discovered plaintiff's absence inasmuch as they were instructed, and it was their custom, to get his signals at each stop, and in the absence of such signals they should have known he was missing and have taken prompt steps to discover his whereabouts and condition. On demurrer the trial court, as here, held the facts alleged insufficient to constitute a cause of action and rendered judgment [31 Cal.2d 123] accordingly. On appeal the Supreme Court of North Carolina, affirming the judgment, stated (pp. 387-388 of 188 S.E.): "In the absence of a statutory or contractual obligation, there is, as a general rule, no duty resting upon the employer to provide surgical or medical attendance or medicine for an employee who is injured or becomes ill while in his employment, except perhaps in a case in which the employee gives service without compensation. "However, there is a tendency upon the part of the Courts to hold that where in the course of his employment a servant suffers serious injury or is suddenly stricken down in a manner indicating immediate and emergent need of aid to save him from death or serious harm, the master, if present, is bound to take such reasonable measure or make such reasonable effort as may be practicable to relieve him, even though the master is not chargeable with fault in bringing about the emergency, and in some jurisdictions it is said to be the duty of the employer to provide medical or surgical assistance in the case of an emergency where it is imperatively demanded to save life or prevent serious bodily injury. ... "In the instant case, it is not alleged in the complaint that any of the employees of the defendant was present at the time the plaintiff fell from the platform at Weldon, or that the defendant had actual knowledge of the condition of the plaintiff as the result of his fall. Nor are facts alleged in the complaint from which it can be held that the defendant had constructive knowledge of such condition. At most, the defendant knew when and after its train left Weldon that the plaintiff while engaged in the performance of his duties as a flagman on said train had disappeared from the platform and had not returned to the train. This knowledge did not impose upon the defendant or any of its employees the duty to make an investigation to discover the cause of plaintiff's disappearance from the platform or failure to return to the train. The plaintiff may have disappeared from the platform and failed to return to the train, while it was standing at the station at Weldon, voluntarily. No facts are alleged in the complaint which imposed upon the defendant or its employees the duty to presume to the contrary. "Conceding that if the defendant had known that the plaintiff had fallen from the platform at Weldon, and had [31 Cal.2d 124] thereby suffered injuries which required immediate attention, medical or otherwise, the law would have imposed upon the defendant the duty to exercise reasonable diligence to provide such attention, we cannot hold that in the absence of such knowledge such duty was imposed upon the defendant. We therefore find no error in the judgment dismissing the second cause of action alleged in the complaint. The judgment is affirmed." (Italics added.) Haggard v. Lowden (1943), 156 Kan. 522 [134 P.2d 676], was also brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, and an appeal was taken "from an order sustaining a demurrer" to plaintiff's complaint. There plaintiff administratrix alleged that her intestate Haggard was a conductor on a freight train; that while inspecting the train at Topeka, Kansas, as his duties required, he "was rendered unconscious by a blow on the head" from an unknown source; that the blow itself was insufficient to produce death; that the other members of the train crew, who had been at an eating house, upon returning to the train failed to see Haggard at his accustomed place on or along the train, failed to "exercise ordinary care of prudent persons in determining" his whereabouts, and, although Haggard was the only person authorized to order the movements of the train on its journey, continued the run without knowing where he was or what had happened to him and without attempting to locate him or determine the reason for his absence; that he was left lying unaided for approximately two hours, until discovered by police, and suffered loss of blood and from exposure and lack of prompt medical care which proximately caused his death but which could have been averted if defendants' employees had promptly located and aided him or reported his absence; and that the acts and omissions of defendants and their employees were the proximate cause of his death. The Supreme Court of Kansas, citing the Batton case, supra, affirmed the order appealed from. In so doing, it stated the issues and the applicable principles of law as follows (p. 678 of 134 P. 2d): "Where a conductor in interstate commerce is seriously injured from an unknown cause, while performing his duties at a stopping point, and under circumstances where he could have been found and his death prevented by the exercise of care by other members of the train crew, does their failure to so discover him constitute actionable negligence under the federal employers' liability act; and, under [31 Cal.2d 125] such circumstances, where the other trainmen, in alleged violation of company rules, started the train without making any effort to locate the injured conductor, and without discovering his predicament or reporting his absence, thereby delaying securing of medical care until too late to prevent his death which would not have otherwise occurred, does the violation of the rules constitute actionable negligence under the above act? ... (P. 679 [134 P.2d].) "[I]t is conceded by the appellant, that the original injury sustained by Haggard was not occasioned by nor due to any negligence of the appellee. The substance of appellant's contention is that appellees owed a duty to render aid to an injured employee, regardless of the cause of his injury; that the violation by their employees of company rules was the legal cause of Haggard's injuries not being sooner discovered so that aid could have been rendered, and that it was not necessary to liability that appellees have actual knowledge of Haggard's injuries at the time they were received by him. "Without exposition, we think it may be said the appellees would be liable, both under the law and under the company's rules, for failure to render aid, adequate under the circumstances, to an employee injured in the course of his employment, from the time they had actual knowledge of the injuries. We need not pursue this rule further for under the allegations of the petition it cannot be said the appellees had such knowledge. On the contrary, the allegations are that after Haggard received his injuries, through appellees' negligence he was not found and was permitted to be unaided and without attention, his death resulting from his exposure and lack of medical care. ... (P. 680 [134 P.2d].) "Appellant contends that in order for the company to be liable for negligence, it was not necessary the train crew have actual knowledge that Haggard had been injured, and that the appellees' contention that duty to extend care and aid did not arise until their employees knew of the injuries is too narrow, and that if the train crew knew or should have known that Haggard was in a position of danger, there was negligence in failure to assist him. In support of her contention, appellant does not cite any authority specifically in point, but she directs our attention largely to decisions dealing with injuries sustained in switching cases. ... None of the cases cited support the contention that under circumstances [31 Cal.2d 126] similar to those here involved, notice of the injury is not necessary. ... (P. 681 [134 P.2d].) "We are of opinion that, under the circumstances of this case, the company was not negligent in not extending aid to its injured employee, when it was not aware of such injuries." (Italics added.) Although, as above stated, we are aware of no federal decision upon the issue here involved, we note that in Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line (1932), 287 U.S. 367, 371, 377 [53 S.Ct. 173, 77 L.Ed. 368, 371-374], the court in discussing the liability of shipowners under the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (41 Stats. at L. 1007, ch. 250, § 33; 46 U.S.C., § 688) and the bearing of the Federal Employers' Liability Act and decisions thereunder upon the liability of an employer whose negligence had caused personal injury to a seaman declared (speaking through Mr. Justice Cardozo); "The question then is to what extent the ancient rule has been changed by modern statute ... [p. 372 U.S.; 371 L.Ed.] We are to determine whether death resulting from the negligent omission to furnish care or cure is death from personal injury within the meaning of the statute ... [p. 373 U.S.] So, in the case at hand, the proper subject of inquiry is not the quality of the relation that gives birth to the duty, but the quality of the duty that is born of the relation. ... [p. 376 U.S.; 372 L.Ed.] The failure to furnish cure is a personal injury actionable at the suit of the seaman during life, and at the suit of his personal representative now that he is dead. ... We are warned, however, that in giving this content to the statute we are omitting to give heed to its reference to the act regulating the remedies of railroad employees, and are ignoring the standards of duty thus carried over and adopted ... [p. 373 L.Ed.] True indeed it is that a common carrier by land is not subject to a duty, except in special circumstances, to give maintenance or cure to sick or disabled employees ... [p. 377 U.S.; 374 L.Ed.] We do not read the act for the relief of seamen as expressing the will of Congress that only the same defaults imposing liability upon carriers by rail shall impose liability upon carriers by water. The conditions at sea differ widely from those on land, and the diversity of conditions breeds diversity of duties. ... There is doubt, and that substantial, whether the administrator of a railroad engineer who by misadventure has fallen from his locomotive while the train is on a bridge has a cause [31 Cal.2d 127] of action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act because of the failure of the crew of the train to come to the rescue of their comrade. [Citation.] There is little doubt that rescue is a duty when a sailor falls into the sea, United States v. Knowles (D.C.) 4 Sawy. 517, F.Cas. No. 15,540, and that a liability to respond in damages is cast upon the shipowners if he is abandoned to his fate. [Citations.] "The act for the protection of railroad employees does not define negligence. It leaves that definition to be filled in by the general rules of law applicable to the conditions in which a casualty occurs. [Citation.] Congress did not mean that the standards of legal duty must be the same by land and sea. Congress meant no more than this, that the duty must be legal, i. e., imposed by law; that it shall have been imposed for the benefit of the seaman ...; and that the negligent omission to fulfill it shall have resulted in damage to his person. When this concurrence of duty, of negligence and of personal injury is made out, the seaman's remedy is to be the same as if a like duty had been imposed by law upon carriers by rail." Here it does not appear to us that the pleaded facts from which, if the plaintiff is to recover, the breach of duty essential to the cause of action must be derived, disclose any pertinent duty either defined by the act, recognized at common law, or declared by federal decision. As to whether, as urged by plaintiff, "the time has come to expand ... [the] doctrine [of employer's liability] one step further and to impose a duty upon the employer to use ordinary care to ascertain the whereabouts of a missing employee who is employed on a moving [but sometimes standing] train so that care may be given to such employee in the event that he is injured," we express no view. We are of the view, however, that until and unless such duty is declared by the federal courts we should not, in Federal Employers' Liability Act cases, undertake "expansion" of the common law doctrines of negligence through annexing, by our decision, to an old relation a new quality of duty and thus to impose liability where it is not clearly created by the act in question; the urged innovation in federal law, if it is to come at all, must derive from a federal source. The judgment is affirmed. Gibson, C.J., Shenk, J., Edmonds, J., and Spence, J., concurred. [31 Cal.2d 128] The legal issue here is whether an employer owes a duty to his employee to render aid when he has been injured in the course of his employment or, under appropriate circumstances, to take preliminary steps to ascertain whether or not his employee is in need of assistance, and if so, to render such aid as may be reasonable under the circumstances. Stated another way, the question is whether the employer is guilty of negligence when he fails to exercise ordinary care to ascertain if his employee has suffered an injury in the course of his employment, and if so, to render aid to him. The "appropriate circumstances" in the instant case consist of the chief member of a train crew (a conductor) being missing from the train to the knowledge of the train crew while it is traveling through and over isolated country, and the duties of the conductor require him to be active both on and off the train; the train passed several stations and no report of his absence was made. The majority opinion declares that no duty whatsoever is owed by the employer, at least until he has actual knowledge that his employee has suffered an injury. It would apparently find no such duty where a member of the crew, in the course of his duties, was last seen climbing to the top of a train traveling at high speed through an uninhabited country during a violent snowstorm and failed to return. No duty being present, there could be no liability, though the only steps necessary to save the absent man would be to look for him. The majority opinion is founded upon two basic fallacies: First, it is held that because there is no federal court case involving the precise situation here presented, then the state court is helpless to fasten liability on the employer even though reasonable minds might differ as to whether its conduct constituted negligence. For illustration, it is said: "It is not, we think, the province of a state court, in an action brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, to 'expand' the doctrines of negligence to impose on the employer a duty unknown at common law and neither defined in the act nor recognized by federal court decision." And later in the opinion: "As to whether, as urged by plaintiff, 'the time has come to expand ... [the] doctrine [of employer's liability] one step further and to impose a duty upon the employer to use ordinary care to ascertain [31 Cal.2d 129] the whereabouts of a missing employee who is employed on a moving [but sometimes standing] train so that care may be given to such employee in the event that he is injured,' we express no view. We are of the view, however, that until and unless such duty is declared by the federal courts we should not, in Federal Employers' Liability Act cases, undertake 'expansion' of the common law doctrines of negligence through annexing, by our decision, to an old relation a new quality of duty and thus impose liability where it is not clearly created by the act in question; the urged innovation in federal law, if it is to come at all, must derive from a federal source." [Emphasis added.] The majority opinion is patently inconsistent. It holds that this court cannot declare the federal law to be that defendant owed a duty of care to investigate the employee's absence from the train because no federal court has so held. Neither, as it admits, has any federal court held there is no such duty. There is, therefore, no declared federal law on the subject. That being the case, under the theory of the majority opinion, the only course open to this court is to declare that it does not know what the federal law is--that this court is powerless to state, on its own initiative, what the federal law should be. That necessarily requires a dismissal here of the action without prejudice and leaving the employee to his redress in the federal court, all because of the impotence of this court to declare the federal law. But the majority opinion does not do this. It first states that this court cannot apply the federal law because there is none. Then it proceeds to announce the federal law by concluding that no duty was owed by defendant. Certainly, if this court cannot decide there is a duty, neither can it decide there is no duty. The absurdity of such a position is manifest. It gives substantiality to the frequent occurring criticism by laymen of the court's inability to solve the problems presented to them in a manner that accords with common sense and simple justice. In Meredith v. Winter Haven, 320 U.S. 228, 234 [64 S.Ct. 7, 88 L.Ed. 9], under the rule of Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 [58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188, 114 A.L.R. 1487], the lower federal court refused to decide the case because it felt it could not ascertain the state law. The Supreme Court of the United States declared that it must determine the state law, stating: "But we are of opinion [31 Cal.2d 130] that the difficulties of ascertaining what the state courts may hereafter determine the state law to be do not in themselves afford a sufficient ground for a federal court to decline to exercise its jurisdiction to decide a case which is properly brought to it for decision. "The diversity jurisdiction was not conferred for the benefit of the federal courts or to serve their convenience. Its purpose was generally to afford to suitors an opportunity in such cases, at their option, to assert their rights in the federal rather than in the state courts. In the absence of some recognized public policy or defined principle guiding the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred, which would in exceptional cases warrant its non- exercise, it has from the first been deemed to be the duty of the federal courts, if their jurisdiction is properly invoked, to decide questions of state law whenever necessary to the rendition of a judgment ... denial of that opportunity by the federal courts merely because the answers to the questions of state law are difficult or uncertain or have not yet been given by the highest court of the state, would thwart the purpose of the jurisdictional act. ... "Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins, supra, did not free the federal courts from the duty of deciding questions of state law in diversity cases. Instead, it placed on them a greater responsibility for determining and applying state laws in all cases within their jurisdiction in which federal law does not govern. Accepting this responsibility, as was its duty, this Court has not hesitated to decide questions of state law when necessary for the disposition of a case brought to it for decision, although the highest court of the state had not answered them, the answers were difficult, and the character of the answers which the highest state courts might ultimately give remained uncertain." Conversely in the instant case it is this court's duty under the Federal Employers' Liability Act to decide the federal law. No one questions that the federal court cases are controlling on the question of whether there is negligence at common law in the particular case under the Federal Employers' Liability Act. But where there are no federal cases on the subject, then the state courts must declare the law. It is only where there are such cases on the subject that the state courts are left with the sole course of following them. It is to be noted that the state courts are expressly [31 Cal.2d 131] given jurisdiction over cases under the act. (45 U.S.C.A. § 56.) If the majority opinion is correct, then every time a set of circumstances is presented upon which a federal court has not passed, the state court must deny relief. The innumerable factual backgrounds that may be the predicate for negligence and the countless changes and constant growth in the conception of the duties owed by one person to another, compel a recognition of the rule that in the absence of a controlling federal rule on the subject the state courts must perform their duty and arrive at a conclusion that is just and in harmony with current conditions. There is a close analogy in another field of law. Since Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, supra, the federal courts must apply the state law when the cases are there by reason of diversity of citizenship. If the state law on the subject cannot be ascertained because of lack of state court decisions, the federal court must state the rule. (See MacGregor v. State Mutual Co., 315 U.S. 280 [62 S.Ct. 607, 86 L.Ed. 846]; Meredith v. Winter Haven, supra; Concordia Ins. Co. v. School Dist., 282 U.S. 545 [51 S.Ct. 275, 75 L.Ed. 528]; Henry W. Putnam Memorial Hospital v. Allen, 34 F.2d 927; 92 U.Pa.L.Rev. 330.) Conversely in the instant case, there being no federal cases to follow, this court must decide what is the federal law on the subject. The question therefore is to ascertain the common law as it would be declared by the federal court. In making that determination we must consider the scope and meaning of the term negligence in the Federal Employers' Liability Act, and the mode of ascertaining whether it exists. Second, the majority opinion erroneously holds that no duty rested upon an employer to ascertain the whereabouts and condition of decedent conductor though it knew through its crew that decedent was missing while the train was traversing an isolated area. It should be observed at the outset that the old common law notion that the employer owes very little, if any duty, to his employee, is and has been for many years outmoded and unsuited to modern employer-employee relations. It is aptly said: "The extent of the master's responsibility, although it was said to rest upon the understanding of the parties, undoubtedly was fixed by the courts upon the basis of industrial conditions, and a social philosophy and an [31 Cal.2d 132] attitude toward labor, which are long since outmoded. The cornerstone of the common law edifice was the economic theory that there was complete mobility of labor, that the supply of work was unlimited, and that the workman was an entirely free agent, under no compulsion to enter into the employment. He was expected therefore to accept and take upon himself all of the usual risks of his trade, together with any unusual risks of which he had knowledge, and to relieve his employer of any duty to protect him. The economic compulsion which left him no choice except starvation, or equally dangerous employment elsewhere, was entirely disregarded. The employer's responsibility was limited to certain rather specific obligations, which it was felt that any workman had the right to demand. Even as to these obligations, the employer was not an insurer of safety, and was liable only for a failure to exercise reasonable care; and in addition, he was not responsible for the negligence of fellow-servants of the injured workman, as distinguished from the employer's own misconduct. The result was that for the great majority of industrial accidents there was no recovery, either because no lack of proper care could be charged against the employer, or because the workman was taken to have assumed the risk." [Emphasis added.] (Prosser on Torts, p. 506.) The principle that the master owes a duty to his employee is recognized in the Restatement. "(2) If a servant is hurt and thereby becomes helpless when acting within the scope of employment in an isolated place, or in a dangerous activity from a risk arising therefrom, and this is known to the master or to a person having duties of management, the master is subject to liability for his negligent failure or that of such person to give first aid to such servant and to care for him until he can be cared for by others. ... Not only does a master have a duty to a servant when a danger to him becomes imminent or when a risk has resulted in harm to him, but he may also have a duty before the existence of such imminence of risk or harm to provide means of rescue or relief. Thus, in a dangerous business where accidents are likely to happen frequently, the employer is under a duty to make provision for some means of taking care of employees who are hurt. This does not necessarily have to be furnished by him, but some provision must be made for its being furnished by some one." [Emphasis added.] (Rest., Agency, § 512.) Under the italicized sentence the employer [31 Cal.2d 133] undoubtedly owes a duty to investigate the absence of an employee under the circumstances present in the case at bar. The overwhelming weight of authority supports the proposition that the duty at least extends to first aid for an employee known to be injured. (See cases collected 7 Cal.L.Rev. 312; 17 Corn.L.Quarterly 505.) It has been recently held that there is such a duty under the Federal Employers' Liability Act. (Szabo v. Pennsylvania R. Co. (1945), 132 N.J.L. 331 [40 A.2d 562].) The term negligence as used in the Federal Employers' Liability Act is to be given a broad meaning. As said in Jamison v. Encarnacion, 281 U.S. 635, 640 [50 S.Ct. 440, 74 L.Ed. 1082]: "The act is not to be narrowed by refined reasoning or for the sake of giving 'negligence' a technically restricted meaning. It is to be construed liberally to fulfil the purposes for which it was enacted and to that end the word may be read to include all the meanings given to it by courts and within the word as ordinarily used. ... 'Negligence' is a word of broad significance and may not readily be defined with accuracy. Courts usually refrain from attempts comprehensively to state its meaning." It is therefore not an unjustified extension of the rule requiring the employer to give succor to an injured employee to demand that he at least make an endeavor under the proper circumstances to ascertain whether an employee has been injured or is in danger. At most, it is only giving, as it must, a liberal construction to the term "negligence." He need only make such inquiries and effort as would a person of ordinary prudence to find what has happened to his employee. He must assume, under facts like we have here, that the employee has not voluntarily abandoned his duties. It is presumed that "a person is innocent of ... wrong" (Code Civ. Proc., § 1963 (1)), that "the ordinary course of business has been followed" (Code Civ. Proc., § 1963 (20)), and that "things have happened according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life" (Code Civ. Proc., § 1963 (28)). Thus, it must be assumed in the instant case that the conductor was not voluntarily absent from the train. That being true, it was incumbent on the employer to determine what had happened to him. The employer should anticipate that in all probability the employee was the victim of some accident. Accidents to railroad employees are far from uncommon. The employee [31 Cal.2d 134] has no one else upon whom he can depend. The matter is cogently set forth in Hunicke v. Meramec Quarry Co., 262 Mo. 560 [172 S.W. 43, Ann.Cas. 1915D 493, L.R.A. 1915C 789], where the court was discussing the reason for the employer's liability for failure to render aid to an injured employee when he knew he was injured. The language is clearly equally applicable where the employee was missing and no effort was made to investigate. The court said (p. 54 [172 S.W.]): "... that duty, in my opinion, grows out of the fact that, when we get down to the real facts in all such cases, there is an unexpressed humane and natural understanding existing between them to the effect that, whenever any one in such a case is so injured that he cannot care for himself, then the employer will furnish him medical or surgical treatment as the case may be. This is common knowledge. There is not an industrial institution in this country, great or small, where that practice is not being carried on to-day; and that has been the custom and usage among men from the dawn of civilization down to the present day, and will continue to be practiced in the future, just so long as the human heart beats to aid suffering humanity. The same principle underlies all other avocations of life. Even armies, while engaged in actual warfare, observe and obey this rule when possible. The soldier who refuses to tender surgical or medical aid to the victim of his own sword is eschewed by all decent men, while, upon the other hand, all who administer to the wants and necessities of the sick and wounded are considered as God's noblemen and as princes among men." As hereinbefore stated, the legal issue here is whether the employer owed a duty to investigate the absence of the employee under the circumstances here presented. In my opinion, it should be declared to be the law of this state and also the federal law that it owed such duty. This being determined as a matter of law, the question of whether such duty was violated in this case is for the trier of fact. The degree of care required by railroads toward their employees is commensurate with the known dangerous character of railroad operations. Under such circumstances the question of negligence in this case should have been left to the jury. In Blair v. Baltimore & O. R. Co., 323 U.S. 600 [65 S.Ct. 545, 89 L.Ed. 490], the United States Supreme Court was considering a case under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, after a jury had found negligence but the [31 Cal.2d 135] Supreme Court of Pennsylvania found none. The court held the issue to be one to be decided by a jury, stating at page 602: "To deprive railroad 'workers of the benefit of a jury trial in close or doubtful cases is to take away a goodly portion of the relief which Congress has afforded them.' Bailey v. Central Vermont R. Co., 319 U.S. 350, 354, 87 L.ed. 1444, 1447, 63 S.Ct. 1062. ... We think there was sufficient evidence to submit to the jury the question of negligence posed by the complaint. The duty of the employer 'becomes "more imperative" as the risk increases.' Bailey v. Central Vermont Ry. Co., 319 U.S. 350, 352, 353, 87 L.ed. 1444, 1446, 1447, 63 S.Ct. 1062. See also Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., 318 U.S. 54, 67, 87 L.ed. 610, 617, 63 S.Ct. 444, 143 A.L.R. 967. ... We cannot say as a matter of law that the railroad complied with its duties in a reasonably careful manner under the circumstances here, nor that the conduct which the jury might have found to be negligent did not contribute to petitioner's injury 'in whole or in part.' Consequently we think the jury, and not the court should finally determine these issues." We find language to the same effect in Tiller v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., 318 U.S. 54, 67 [63 S.Ct. 444, 87 L.Ed. 610, 143 A.L.R. 967]: "No case is to be withheld from a jury on any theory of assumption of risk; and questions of negligence should under proper charge from the court be submitted to the jury for their determination. Many years ago this Court said of the problems of negligence, 'We see no reason, so long as the jury system is the law of the land, and the jury is made the tribunal to decide disputed questions of fact, why it should not decide such questions as these as well as others.' Jones v. East Tennessee V. & G. R. Co., 128 U.S. 443, 445 [9 S.Ct. 118, 32 L.Ed. 478]. Or as we have put it on another occasion, 'Where the facts are in dispute, and the evidence in relation to them is that from which fair-minded men may draw different inferences,' the case should go to the jury." And in a footnote the following: "It appears to be the clear Congressional intent that, to the maximum extent proper, questions in actions arising under the Act should be left to the jury." See, also, Bailey v. Central Vermont Ry. Co., 319 U.S. 350 [63 S.Ct. 1062, 87 L.Ed. 1444].) Thus in the instant case it cannot be doubted that the question of negligence is at least a "close" one. Being such, under [31 Cal.2d 136] federal law it must be submitted to a jury and not decided as a matter of law as does the majority decision. The cases of Batton v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., 210 N.C. 756 [188 S.E. 383], and Haggard v. Lowden, 156 Kan. 522 [134 P.2d 676], relied upon by the majority opinion fail to consider the factors heretobefore discussed. With little discussion they merely state a contrary rule, making no endeavor to ascertain or apply the federal law. No application for review by the Supreme Court of the United States was made in either case. Hence they do not even indirectly stand for the common law as declared by the federal courts. Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, 287 U.S. 367 [53 S.Ct. 173, 77 L.Ed. 368], is not in point. The most that appears is that there may be doubt that the rule of rescue of an employee applies other than to ships at sea. As before seen under those circumstances the plaintiff is entitled to have the issues decided by a jury. But in a very recent case (decided November 24, 1947) the Supreme Court of the United States by an unanimous decision reversed a federal district court and Circuit Court of Appeals decision which held that a railroad company was not liable under the Federal Employers' Liability Act for injuries to an employee as the result of a felonious attack by a third person, not an employee of the company. The only reference in the opinion of the Supreme Court to any common law on the subject was a comment contained in the Restatement of Torts promulgated by the American Law Institute. (Lillie v. Thompson, Oct. Term, 1947, 332 U.S. 459 [68 S.Ct. 140, 92 L.Ed. 115].) I do not cite this case as authority in support of plaintiff's position in the case at bar but simply to illustrate that the common law applicable to cases arising under the Federal Employers' Liability Act may be found elsewhere than in the decisions of the federal courts. My position is that since there are no decisions either by the federal courts or courts of this state to the contrary, this court should decide what the law should be. There is nothing new or unusual about this. We do it quite often, and when we do, we are announcing a rule of law which becomes the common law of this state. When a cause of action arises under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, and we find no federal cases laying down a contrary rule, we follow the rule which we have adopted. Otherwise, no action could be brought in a state court under the Federal Employers' Liability Act involving any [31 Cal.2d 137] legal question which had not already been decided by the federal courts. If such were the law, the provision in the act providing for concurrent jurisdiction would be of little value to an injured employee who desires to bring his action in a state court under this provision of the act. In announcing such a rule of law, all that is necessary for the members of this court to decide is that the complaint in this action alleges a factual situation which shows a violation of a duty by defendant. In such case plaintiff has stated a cause of action. In determining whether or not defendant owed such duty, we take into consideration the relationship of employer and employee which existed at the time of the accident, the nature of the employment, the duties of the employee and whether or not it is consonant with modern concepts of justice, fairness and ordinary human impulses that the employer should take sufficient interest in the welfare of his employee to investigate his absence from the train under the circumstances alleged in the complaint. If the court concluded that reasonable consideration for the safety of an employee would justify such an investigation, then we would conclude that the employer owed such a duty, and that would be the common law rule of this state. Let us assume that on a stormy night when the snow was several feet deep in the Sacramento Canyon in Northern California, a brakeman who got on a train at Dunsmuir was observed missing after the train had left Dunsmuir half an hour and before it had stopped at any station; that although the other members of the crew knew that if he had fallen off the train in that locality he would be apt to perish from exposure within a few hours, they nevertheless failed to send word back to Dunsmuir or make any report of his absence until the train arrived at Sacramento some ten hours later, and that they could have reported his absence within half an hour after he disappeared; that when he was found, he had only minor injuries due to the fall from the train but he was dead as the result of being exposed to the elements for several hours. In view of the provisions of the Federal Employers' Liability Act abolishing the defenses of assumption of risk and negligence of a fellow servant, could we say that under the state of the facts narrated a railroad company did not owe a duty to that employee to investigate his absence and render such assistance [31 Cal.2d 138] to him as might have been necessary to save his life? If such a case were submitted to this court, a decision holding that such a duty existed would be the common law of this state. That is all there is to this case so far as the law is concerned. So far as the facts are concerned, it would be a question for the trier of fact to determine whether or not the duty was violated, and if it was, whether such violation constituted negligence for which the defendant would be liable. This would not be adding a new duty to the relationship of employer and employee, it would be simply recognizing a duty which should have always existed, but which had not been the subject of a judicial proceeding so far as this state or the federal courts are concerned. If this court or the Supreme Court of the United States had held that such a duty did not exist under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, I would agree with the majority opinion that there is no liability on the defendant in this case, but it admits that there are no such cases either of this court or any federal court and that any decision which we render will be the first of its kind in this state. It should be remembered that when the so-called common law rule referred to in the majority opinion was evolved, the defenses of assumption of risk, negligence of a fellow-servant and contributory negligence were available to an employer in an action brought by his employee for personal injuries or by his heirs under wrongful death statutes, and that the Federal Employers' Liability Act completely abrogates and abolishes the first two of these defenses and modifies the third, thus completely changing the philosophy upon which the employer's liability for injury or death of his employee was based at common law. In other words, the common law rule which should be evolved in view of the philosophy enunciated in the Federal Employers' Liability Act should be based upon the modern concept of the relationship between employer and employee rather than the more conservative and outmoded concept of the common law relationship antedating the adoption of the Federal Employers' Liability Act and other similar acts by national and state Legislatures which extend greater protection to employees than was accorded under the conservative philosophy upon which the so-called common law rule was based. For these reasons I am convinced that a railroad company [31 Cal.2d 139] should be held liable under the Federal Employers' Liability Act for the injury or death of its employee under the circumstances presented in the case at bar and the judgment rendered by the trial court in this case should be reversed. Traynor, J., concurred. |Fri, 12/12/1947||31 Cal.2d 117||Review - Civil Appeal||Opinion issued| |1||DORIS ANDERSON, as Administratrix, etc., Appellant, v. THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY (a Corporation) (Respondent)| |2||THE ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY (a Corporation) (Respondent)| |Dec 12 1947||Opinion: Affirmed|

"EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED" And so says the tagline of the movie that I've waited since the last year. Many locations around the world has already screened this movie before it finally arrived on Malaysian shores (with minimum cuts; I hope?? NOTTTT) Before I head into some bits and bytes about the movie, I would like to thank fellow blogger Missburunghantu again for sharing the tickets for me to catch the movie before everyone else!; in Malaysia though. =( *Tickets were distributed by Nuffnang* I've been waiting for this movie for months ever since I saw the trailer around 6 months ago. A mixture of sci-fi, drama and philosophical statements are blatantly shown in the trailer to induce the eagerness and curiosity of the viewers wanting more. And with free tickets to its movie premier, THAT, I couldn't miss! The following contents may contain SPOILERS and "steam killers" (POTONG STIM! =p) for movie goers~ Cloud Atlas is first introduced to the world back in 2004 as a science fiction novel written by David Mitchell with 6 nested story arcs. With great reception and a budget of approx US100 million for the movie, the stakes are as high as EVER! A great cast with noticeable accolades does help in bringing a great story to life. A young American lawyer, Adam Ewing (Jim Sturgess) crosses the pacific to the Chatham Islands to seal a business engagement for his father in-law. Subsequently he has fallen ill due to a supposed parasitic worm infection. In fact, he is slowly poisoned by a scheming Dr. Henry Goose (Tom Hanks) who has eyes on his gold. There he too met a slave, Autua (David Gyasi) who came aboard to the sailing ship. An aspiring musician Robert Frobisher(Ben Whishaw) bids goodbye to his partner Rufus Sixsmith (James D'Arcy) to work along side a great composer in the form of Vyvyan Ayrs (Jim Broadbent) in Edinburgh. With a telling talent and resilient work horse attitude, Frobisher scripts his masterpiece in the form of the Cloud Atlas Sextet. A courageous journalist Luisa Rey (Halle Berry) tries to find evidence regarding the safety of a new nuclear reactor run by Lyold Hooks (Hugh Grant) with deathly consequences in California. There too she meets an older Rufus Sixsmith with compelling evidence to the nuclear reactor. With Hooks plans under treat, Rey is hot on the heals of a hitman, Bill Smokes (Hugo Weaving). London, publisher Timothy Cavendish (Jim Broadbent) is tricked by his brother Denholme (Hugh Grant) and sent to a nursing home with a fiendish Nurse Noakes (Hugo Weaving). There, Cavendish and few of the "inmates" plot their escape from the "nursing prison". Old Seoul (Korea) is devoured by rising sea levels which leads everyone to live in Neo Seoul. However, life in Neo Seoul is not like it's used to as the people are heavily monitored by the "Unanimity". Clone fast food worker Sonmi-451 (Doona Bae) soon discovers the will to freedom and escapes the vicinity with Union rebel Hae-Joo Chang (Jim Sturgess). After "The Fall", life on earth has turn back to a primitive state. In this timeline, Sonmi is regarded as a goddess. Zachry (Tom Hanks) lives in "The Valley" and is visited by a technologically advanced human (Prescients) named Meronym played by Halle Berry. Zachry is not alone in this era as he is constantly haunted by "Old Georgie", a devil who constantly wispers in his ears and affects his judgments. Both Zachry and Meronym heads to the mountains to find a communication station called, Cloud Atlas. With the various story arcs with its sometimes vague but equally telling connecting plots, Cloud Atlas is a movie that convey messages. Different people might have different opinions, but I will leave mine short. The workings of life remains the same even though we are in a different time, space and settings. Some things never change but everyone can make a difference! That said, Cloud Atlas is definite must see, however do prepare some snacks and refreshments as it will take up 3 hours of your life. HAHAHAHA! A trailer just to beef up one's interest~~ Till the next post!!

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Getting in a rut is easy to do. You find yourself sitting on the lounge watching rubbish on TV or at the dining table eating boring food or worse still, catch yourself talking rubbish. It’s easy enough to do. Here are a few things you might want to consider doing to help jolt yourself out of that rut. Listen to ‘Common at the Whitehouse’. Just type that into YouTube. This extraordinary performer will give you an insight into his world in a gentle explorative music genre. Just four songs performed at the Whitehouse in the last few weeks of the Obama’s term in the House. NPR recorded this. NPR also do an amazing series of music samplers called Tiny Desk. I hope you have heard some of these. Depending where you up to in your music journey, you could try The Crossrhodes or go old school with The Blueman or Randy Newman (sublime four songs) or if western swing is more your thing try Lyle Lovett. Perhaps something pretty and intimate like the extraordinary Laura Mvula will work for you. (The only person I have seen play a Rhodes electric piano and sing, standing up.) The story behind this show is to take musicians and ask them to play in an office with very little technology. They just roll back a desk, throw a couple of microphones into the mix. Some artists cope wonderfully, others really struggle. Think about it for a moment. Imagine standing up at your workplace and belting out a couple of tunes. If you can’t find something on NPR Tiny Desk that speaks to you and lifts you out of the rut, you are not trying. The diversity is staggering. The depth and richness of the musical offering is unequalled. If the visual is more your thing, you could try Omeletto a YouTube station that presents short films. There is some very disturbing stuff, it will jolt you out of your rut. I have deliberately stayed away from book here, I could list a hundred for you. But if you are a reader already, you are probably not in a rut.

2014 was an especially eventful and newsworthy year in the Cayman Islands. In the following month-by-month retrospective, we revisit the stories that made the major headlines in the Cayman Compass. Police commissioner foils armed robbery The New Year’s news year got off to an early start when Police Commissioner David Baines personally foiled an armed robbery of the Diamonds International at 8 a.m. New Year’s Day. Commissioner Baines had chosen Diamonds International as the rendezvous place with friends who were coming in on a cruise ship. Upon arrival at the shop, Cayman’s top cop noticed the robbery taking place, and when the three masked suspects attempted to flee on foot, Commissioner Baines headed them off in his Chevrolet Trailblazer SUV, pinning two of them against the fence and one under the car. Although nearly all of the stolen jewelry: estimated at more than US$800,000 – was recovered, the would-be robbers caused tens of thousands of dollars of damage to the store. Since one of the suspects was severely injured when Mr. Baines’s vehicle ran over him, an investigation was conducted into the commissioner’s actions. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions ruled on May 29 that no charges would be brought against Mr. Baines. Women’s CONCACAF football The Cayman Islands played host to the CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 championships with an eight-team tournament that started Jan. 9 at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex and included teams from the United States, Jamaica, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Trinidad & Tobago and Costa Rica. The U.S. defeated Mexico on Jan. 20 to win the tournament. Cayman’s team failed to score a goal in any of its three games, losing all three. Statutory authorities lack accountability A report released by the Auditor General’s Office on Jan. 22 indicated that Cayman’s statutory authorities often operated without accepted governance rules, without defined output goals, and with board members who had clear conflicts of interest or no experience in the relevant field. The report, which reviewed statutory authorities and government-owned companies for the period between 2011 and 2012, was based on a survey issued by the Auditor General’s office. Eight of the entities, including Cayman Airways and the Civil Aviation Authority, failed to even respond to the survey. Joey Ebanks pleads guilty Former Electricity Regulatory Authority Chairman Joey Ebanks reversed his not guilty pleas, admitting to 17 charges of obtaining property by deception, making documents without authority, and forgery during court proceedings on Jan. 24. In addition to other charges, Mr. Ebanks admitted to using ERA funds to make $67,000 worth of purchases at the Cayman Mac store. He also admitted to having a problem with cocaine dependency and pleaded guilty to illegal drug charges on Jan. 28. Mr. Ebanks, the former managing director of the Cayman Turtle Farm when it was known as Boatswain’s Beach, ran unsuccessfully for the Legislative Assembly on the People’s Progressive Movement ticket in 2009. He was named the “Man of the Year” in 2008 by the now-defunct newspaper Cayman Net News. He also hosted a radio talk show on VIBE FM in 2013. He was sentenced on April 3 to serve 27 months in prison. Syed found, arrested The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service announced on Jan. 30 that Hassan Syed, the former president of the University College of the Cayman Islands, had been arrested in Switzerland in November 2013, and faced extradition. The Auditor General’s Office found irregularities in UCCI’s accounts during a financial audit in 2008, and shortly afterward Syed left the country, saying he had a severe illness. On May 28, Syed was extradited to the Cayman Islands to face charges relating to the use of his UCCI credit card for personal gain. The Cayman Islands Airport Authority announced on Feb. 7 that Albert Anderson would become its new CEO, replacing acting CEO Andrew McLaughlin, who succeeded the previous acting CEO Kerith McCoy while the latter was on annual leave the previous December. Chairman of the Board Kirkland Nixon confirmed in early February that Mr. McCoy had formally retired after being replaced. Nichelle Anna-Kay Thomas, a 21-year-old Jamaican national who worked as a domestic helper, became Cayman’s first homicide victim in 2014 when she was stabbed to death on Feb. 9 in the Lookout Gardens, Bodden Town house in which she lived. Devon Campbell, 39, also from Jamaica, was found hanged from a tree outside the home. Police suspected Campbell of killing Ms. Thomas in a domestic dispute. The police later ruled out other possible explanations for the deaths and continued their investigation on the basis that it was an apparent murder-suicide. ‘HARDtalk’ with the Premier While visiting London on official business, Cayman Islands Premier Alden McLaughlin appeared on the BBC World News interview show “HARDtalk” with presenter Stephen Sackur in a segment that was filmed on Feb. 4 and first aired on Feb. 11. Key elements of the 24-minute interview centered on the possibility of Cayman establishing a public registry of beneficial ownership of companies and investment funds, and whether the Cayman Islands is a tax haven. For the second time in two months, the George Town Landfill caught fire on Feb. 12, spewing clouds of putrid, gray smoke over parts of George Town, including the southern Seven Mile Beach area. That evening, the foul-smelling smoke inundated neighboring Camana Bay and blanketed the nearby roadways. The blaze, and the fact that the smoke hung closer to the ground than it did with previous fires, caused the closure of two schools and the offices of Caribbean Utilities Company. The fire ultimately burned for three days. Sail-cruise ship visits Brac Cayman Brac had a rare visit from a cruise vessel when the four-mast, 16-sail MS Star Flyer called on Feb. 14. The ship’s 114 passengers were greeted at Scott’s Dock by an entourage of Cayman Islands tourism officials, including Deputy Premier and Minister of Tourism Moses Kirkconnell. The visit was part of an initiative to attract smaller cruise ships to Cayman Brac. Telecommunications company LIME, formerly known as Cable & Wireless, announced on Feb. 17 that it had laid off 39 staff members and outsourced some of its installation, repair and maintenance work to the multinational Sweden-based firm Ericsson. Those laid off included 37 Caymanians, who were to have an opportunity to apply for roles with Ericsson, which was required to hire Caymanians under the term of its operating license. LIME said the outsourcing was necessary to stay competitive. Health City Cayman Islands opens Phase one of the Health City Cayman Islands project officially opened on Feb. 25. Dr. Devi Shetty, the Indian surgeon whose idea it was to establish the project, said at the opening that it was his intention to build a hospital that would become a standard for the best hospitals in the world to follow. The first phase of the facility includes 140 beds and 17 Indian doctors. The second phase of the project, a 300-bed unit for specialties such as neurology and oncology, is expected to begin in late 2015. Eventually, a 2,000-bed facility with a university and assisted living center is envisioned on the campus. West Bay Road challenge dismissed In a judgment published on Feb. 27, Justice Alexander Henderson dismissed a challenge filed by four West Bay women objecting to the closure of a stretch of less than a mile of West Bay Road. They claimed the deal that paved the way for Dart Realty to build a new hotel violated their constitutional rights. Justice Henderson never considered the merits of their case, ruling instead that the women’s challenge was brought too late. In November, the Court of Appeal upheld Justice Henderson’s ruling. Government split on OMOV Although Independent MLA Arden McLean’s private member’s motion asking the government to implement 18 single-member voting districts failed, there was dissension among the Progressives-led coalition government. Two of the back-bench MLAs joined four others, including Mr. McLean, in voting for the motion, resulting in a 6-6 draw among the legislators present. Speaker of the House Juliana O’Conner-Connolly broke the deadlock by voting against the motion. New Pines opens The new three-story Pines Retirement Home officially opened on March 7. The $7.5 million project, which incorporated elements of the old building, has space for 50 residents and will serve as a hurricane shelter, foregoing the need to evacuate residents. The old building, which opened in 1983, was mostly destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Talk show host arrested Rooster 101 radio talk show host Austin Harris was arrested on March 10 on suspicion of assaulting a woman the night before. Mr. Harris was immediately suspended from his position as host of the morning talk show “Cayman Crosstalk” and replaced by former legislator and radio talk show host Ellio Solomon. However, with the case still pending, Mr. Harris was reinstated as host of the program on May 12. On June 9th, Mr. Harris was formally charged. After entering a not guilty plea in September, a trial date in May 2015 was set. Financial services professionals arrested in U.S. Two Cayman Islands financial services professionals, Eric St-Cyr and Joshua VanDyk of Clover Asset Management, were arrested on March 12 in Miami by undercover U.S. Internal Revenue Service agents and charged with attempting to launder the proceeds of criminal conduct and other funds for the purposes of tax evasion. Both men ultimately pleaded guilty. Mr. VanDyk, an American, was sentenced to 30 months, and Mr. St-Cyr, a Canadian, was sentenced to 14 months. Wyndham chooses Reef Resort The Reef Resort in East End, Grand Cayman, signed an agreement to join the Wyndham Hotels and Resorts brand in the first quarter of 2015, it was announced on March 14. As part of the agreement, the Reef will undergo more than $1 million of renovations over three years as it implements the high standards of the luxury brand. Bryce Merren arrested Caymanian businessman Bryce Merren appeared in a Puerto Rico court on March 21 after he was arrested by U.S. Homeland Security investigators earlier in the month. He was charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics, money laundering and attempting to sell, distribute or dispense cocaine. A probable cause affidavit from one of the Homeland Security undercover agents involved stated that Mr. Merren sought “to purchase 3,000 kilograms of cocaine and establish a U.S. bank account in order to deposit drug proceeds and make an initial payment for the transportation of narcotics.” After initially pleading not guilty at an arraignment in April, Mr. Merren pleaded guilty in December to one of the three charges – conspiracy to distribute narcotics – as part of a plea agreement. A date for sentencing had not been set by Christmas. Lord Blencathra’s contract terminated The $14,000-per-month contract of House of Lords member Lord Blencathra, formerly known as David MacLean, was terminated. The contract to serve as the director of the Cayman Islands London office and as a lobbyist in the U.K. on behalf of the Cayman Islands was ended on March 31. The decision came after it was again suggested in the U.K. that Lord Blencathra broke parliamentary ethics rules by trying to influence members of the U.K. parliament and government as part of his duties for the Cayman Islands. In July, Lord Blencathra was required to apologize to the House of Lords for Code of Conduct violations in relation to the contract he signed with the Cayman Islands government in December 2011, even though there was no evidence he had acted improperly in the contract. With respect to the director of the London office position, efforts to replace Lord Blencathra were fruitless through the end of the year. Criminal suspects’ detention Cayman Islands Governor Helen Kilpatrick ordered a commencement date of April 1 for a new law passed in the Legislative Assembly earlier in the year limiting the amount of time police can detain criminal suspects without charging them. The law allows suspects to be held for 48 hours from the time of their arrest, in most cases, and up to 72 hours with the court’s permission. At one time, Cayman police could hold uncharged crime suspects up to nine days without having to go to court for approval to hold them even longer. Derek Haines off and running Long-time Royal Cayman Islands Police officer Derek Haines ran his first of six marathons to raise $1 million for HospiceCare on April 6, when he completed the 26.2-mile Paris Marathon in just over four hours. During the year, Haines also ran marathons in Pamplona, Spain, London, San Francisco and Chicago, before finishing up with the Cayman Islands Marathon in December, when he topped his fundraising goal. Dead chickens mystery solved A post-mortem examination of one of the more than 400 feral chickens that died suddenly in Bodden Town showed that they died of botulism poisoning. Since chickens are scavengers, it was assumed the Bodden Town chickens had eaten on a dead animal that was contaminated by the toxin. The Department of Environmental Health collected the dead chickens from a site near the Mission House and disposed of them. Governor Helen Kilpatrick issued a statement at the end of April stating that within 20 months, four murderers serving life sentences would be released from Northward Prison. Under provisions of the Prison Law, governors in Cayman have the authority to order parole of any prisoner serving a life sentence. Less than three weeks later, Owen Barrington Bruce – whose death sentence for the 1986 murder of Charles Ranking was commuted to life in prison in 1991 – was released and deported to Jamaica. Wedding dress kerfuffle An incident between a groom-to-be and an H.M. Customs Department officer in the arrival hall at Owen Roberts International Airport came to light on May 1. Former resident Scott McLean from the U.S. was bringing in a wedding dress for his fiancée, who still lived on Grand Cayman. After being married and then honeymooning on the island, the couple planned to return to the U.S. permanently. The Customs officer first tried to assess import duty, but eventually charged a deposit equal to 30 percent of the dresses value, refundable when the dress left the island. However, when the groom spoke to the Compass and story became public, the government scrambled to review the policy. By the end of the month, the government announced that it had eliminated the import duty charge on visitors traveling with wedding attire for anyone who was part of a wedding party. SafeHaven Marina reopens SafeHaven Marina, which closed for extensive renovations in 2012, reopened in May. The $3 million renovation project included paved parkin g, 21 boat slips and restrooms. The project faced a legal dispute between the developer and boat owners at one time, but that was resolved. The Port Authority, which owns the property, agreed with boat owners on a $350 per month lease price for the dock space. The Londoner opens The grand opening for a new luxury property at Morritt’s Tortuga Club and Resort, called The Londoner, was held on May 16. The event coincided with the timeshare property’s 25th anniversary celebration. With the addition of the 20-unit Londoner building, Morritt’s topped 200 vacation ownership units. Strategic Outline Case presented for the dump The George Town Landfill problem will take five years and at least $100 million to resolve, according to a Strategic Outline Case released by the Cayman government on May 23. The report, which was prepared by the government waste management steering committee, recommended a comprehensive national solid waste management strategy be developed for all three Cayman Islands as a first step in addressing the issue, which has been problematic for more than a quarter century. Guilty verdict in Bise murder On May 19, a jury found Chad Anglin guilty of the murder of Swiss banker Frederick Bise, whose body was found in the trunk of his burned car outside of his residence in February 2008. Anglin, who was already serving a five-year sentence for indecent assault and wounding at the time of his murder conviction, was sentenced to life in prison. In December, Leonard Antonio Ebanks, who was also charged with the murder of Mr. Bise, was found not guilty of murder, but guilty of being an accessory to the murder. Ebanks was already serving a life sentence for the 2010 murder of Tyrone Burrell at the time of his trial in the Bise case. First Caymanian priest Joseph Kirkconnell was ordained as the first Caymanian priest at St. Ignatius Catholic Church on May 24. Father Kirkconnell, 30, conducted Mass at the church the next day. After serving in Cayman for two months, he was posted to a parish in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, in August. Cellphones banned from schools Education Minister Tara Rivers announced during the Legislative Assembly budget session on June 2 that cellphones would be banned from all public schools in the Cayman Islands starting in September, in a bid to stamp out cyber bullying. The ban was just one of several measures adopted to deal with bad behavior and bullying issues in the schools. Alexander Hotel closes The owner of the 31-room Alexander Hotel in Cayman Brac announced on June 5 that he would close the property indefinitely on June 15 because of the stench emitted by a neighboring natural pond. Owner Cleveland Dilbert’s plan to build a canal from the pond to the ocean and create a marina basin met with opposition from the Department of Environment. Although government officials had expressed their support for the marina project, no agreement was reached, leading to the closure. Government travel costs A value-for-money audit by Cayman’s Auditor General’s Office released on June 9 revealed nearly $8.6 million in Cayman Islands central government travel expenses between July 1, 2009 and June 20, 2010. Based on the findings of the audit, Auditor General Alastair Swarbrick said there was “the high likelihood that the government mishandled significant amounts of public resources” and that “monitoring and reporting of these transaction by management was virtually nonexistent.” The audit focused on two particular ministries, one headed by former Premier McKeeva Bush and the other headed by former Deputy Premier and current Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Juliana O’Connor-Connolly. Cayman film festival announced Plans for an international film festival in the Cayman Islands were outlined at a gala at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman on June 13. The launch of the Cayman International Film Festival, which is called CayFilm for short, included a celebrity cocktail reception and a screening of “The Two Faces of January.” Spearheaded by local photographer Tony Mark, who worked in film and television editing in Hollywood, the inaugural Cayman film festival is scheduled for June 18 to 21, 2015. Shelved education report revealed The original draft of consultant David Moore’s 2012 report that stemmed from a review team’s inspections of Cayman’s public schools was tabled June 23 during Finance Committee proceedings at Legislative Assembly. The report highlighted a number of severe behavioral problems in Cayman’s schools, particularly John Gray High School. The original report bore little resemblance to the final report, which was tabled simultaneously. It suggested, among other things, that a small minority of John Gray students influenced by criminal intent and drug abuse were having a disproportionate effect throughout the school and that some of the staff were fearful of potential physical and verbal violence. The report recommended firing bad teachers. Ministry of Education Chief Officer Mary Rodrigues said the report was altered because of serious quality concerns. However, a string of emails among ministry staff in late 2012 concluded that the draft report was “disproportionately negative.” The Ministry of Education said the report was then “finalized” by Favourita Blanchard, the deputy lead inspector on the locally based review team that assisted Mr. Moore. In August, Ms. Blanchard issued a statement through the Barbados Consulate saying she had not altered the report in any way. The ministry never responded to inquiries about who did alter the report. Cayman under chikungunya alert Less than a week after Cayman’s Medical Officer of Health Dr. Kiran Kumar said that the Cayman Islands was on high alert for the mosquito-borne virus chikungunya, the first suspected case of the disease was identified at the Cayman Islands Hospital on June 22. It was later confirmed that the George Town resident did have chikungunya, a debilitating disease that causes high fever, headache, nausea and severe joint pain. By the end of June, there were 4,600 confirmed cases and more than 160,000 suspected cases throughout the Caribbean region. Through Dec. 20, there were 43 confirmed cases of the disease in the Cayman Islands, with 15 of them having been transmitted locally. Clifton Hunter High School costs almost double In the first year of its operation, the $110 million Clifton Hunter High School on Frank Sound Road incurred $6 million of repair costs and an additional $2.4 million in operation expenses, it was revealed. The high school cost nearly double the contracted price of $56.7 million and took four years to complete – twice as long as anticipated. Construction on Clifton Hunter started virtually simultaneously with construction on John Gray High School, a $59.9 million project which also had huge cost overruns and has never been completed. Minister of Education Tara Rivers said John Gray would be completed in phases over several years. New customs codes cause hassles A new tariff system implemented by the Customs Department that expanded the number of codes needed on declaration forms from 300 to roughly 5,000, resulting in a much longer process for those importing goods, especially businesses. Some business owners said what used to take 20 minutes was taking them several hours. After a review of the system, the government announced in August that it would reduce the number of codes to about 2,500 and offer a service for a $5 fee for those who needed help filling out the declarations. HSBC sells business to Butterfield Butterfield Bank (Cayman) Ltd. announced on July 8 that it was acquiring some of the corporate and retail banking business from HSBC Bank (Cayman) Ltd. valued at US$800 million. HSBC said the decision to sell most of its retail and corporate business was made after a strategic market review. The sale was finalized in the fourth quarter of 2014, and HSBC closed its retail doors in November, although it did maintain other parts of its business in Cayman. New tourism and weather chiefs In July, Rosa Harris, a seven-year veteran of the Department of Tourism, was confirmed as Cayman’s new director of tourism. She had served as the acting director of tourism since the departure of the previous director, Shomari Scott, in December 2013. Chief Meteorologist John Tibbetts, a 30-year veteran of his industry, was promoted to director general of the Cayman Islands National Weather Service, succeeding Fred Sambula, who retired in May. Dump on fire, again An underground fire at the George Town Landfill burned and smoldered for several days before the Fire Service Department was able to extinguish it. After the fire started on the morning of July 19, firefighters worked around the clock on shifts to put out the blaze. Property sales up After several years of dismal market conditions, Cayman’s real estate market took a sharp upturn in the first six months of the year. A press release issued by the Cayman Islands Real Estate Brokers Association on July 21 said the number of real estate transactions between Jan. 1 and June 30 were up 45 percent over the same period in 2013. In terms of dollar amount, sales weren’t up as much, but still saw a significant 18.7 percent increase. Logic buys WestStar Bermuda-based KeyTech Group of Companies announced on July 28 that it was going to purchase the parent company of WestStar, the Internet and cable television provider that also operates Cayman 27, Cayman’s first and longest running television station. Logic was already operating on Cayman as an Internet, cable television and telephone service provider. The Information and Communications Technology Authority approved the sale in August. Catboat Club reopens Almost 10 years after it was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in September 2004, the clubhouse of the Cayman Islands Catboat Club at Whitehall Bay in George Town had a grand reopening on Aug. 2. The construction project was helped by sponsorships and a cash grant from the Dart Group and donations from a number of local building supply companies. Dump on fire, again… and again Firefighters had to return to the George Town Landfill on Aug. 3 to put out another underground fire. Chief Fire Officer Roy Grant said the fire was not related to the one in July and was “in a totally different area.” The fire was extinguished the following day, although Mr. Grant said that he could not be sure if it was still smoldering deep below the surface. Two weeks later, on Aug. 17, firefighters were again called to the dump to put out a fire. Credit card expenditures Requests made under Cayman’s Freedom of Information Law revealed that government credit cards were used for a variety of personal expenses by Cabinet ministers and chief officers dating back to 2005. The charges were highlighted in a series of news articles published in August. Former Cabinet Minister Arden McLean used his government-issued credit card to buy a US$3,500 watch on Christmas Eve 2007 and for $2,896.45 worth of purchases at a variety of Miami-area stores and restaurants during an October 2008 shopping trip. Mr. McLean later produced proof that he had repaid the sums. Other details shown on the records included exorbitant charges for travel expenses, particularly by former Deputy Premier Juliana O’Connor-Connolly, who traveled with her executive aide or personal assistant on many of her trips. The records also showed late fees accruing on more than 28 percent of the statements obtained, and large charges for dining out, both in Cayman and overseas. In the wake of the revelations, the government announced it would begin publishing credit card and travel expenses as a matter of policy. UK regulator rates Cayman high risk It was learned in August that the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority had published on its website in July a list of countries that were at high risk for financial crime and that the Cayman Islands was on the list. The financial services regulator said the list categorized countries according to the risk they posed to financial crimes linked to money laundering, sanction systems, terrorist financing, bribery and corruption. Cayman was the only U.K. overseas territory and the only major offshore financial center on the list. After representations made by Cayman Islands Financial Services Minister Wayne Panton, the FCA withdrew the entire list in September. Mr. Panton later categorized Cayman’s inclusion on the list as a “misunderstanding” caused partly by the FCA having “old, inaccurate data.” First artificial heart Albert Seymour, a 48-year-old Caymanian, was the first recipient of a successful artificial heart implant surgery at Health City Cayman Islands. The procedure by chief surgeon Dr. Binoy Chattuparambil in early August took nearly nine hours to complete. Mr. Seymour received a left ventricular assist device, a mechanical pump that supports heart function. Miss Cayman pageant postponed again Although 10 contestants were chosen to participate, the Miss Cayman pageant scheduled for November 2014 was postponed until January 2015. The last Miss Cayman pageant was in 2011. The pageant was scheduled and then postponed twice in 2012 due to budget constraints. Canover Watson arrested Former chairman of the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority, former Young Caymanian Leadership Award recipient and leading Caymanian businessman Canover Watson was arrested on Aug. 28 on suspicion of breach of three sections of Cayman’s Anti-Corruption Law. In addition, he was also arrested on suspicion of money laundering contrary to the Proceeds of Crime Law. Although details weren’t released, it was known that the Auditor General’s office and the Anti-Corruption Commission were looking into the contract with a company that ran a swipe card payment system called CarePay, which secured a contract during Mr. Watson’s time as HSA chairman. CarePay had been the subject of controversy during the Finance Committee sessions of Legislative Assembly in June because of its costs and failure to provide the expected benefits. Mr. Watson was charged with five separate corruption, fraud and money laundering offenses on Nov. 20. Nearly 12,000 square feet of coral reef in George Town harbor was damaged when the cruise ship Carnival Magic dropped its anchor in the wrong place. The ship had been mistakenly guided by a Bodden Shipping Agency pilot to anchor 650 feet outside the designated public port anchorage. No sanctions were imposed against the cruise line or the shipping agency by the end of the year, and repair efforts were largely carried out by private sector dive operations and volunteers. One man, one vote reversal Reversing his stance in comments made earlier in the year, Premier Alden McLaughlin announced on Sept. 3 that the Progressives-led government would implement single-member constituencies and a “one man, one vote” system by mid-2015, well ahead of the next general elections. Currently the number of Legislative Assembly representatives in each of the country’s voting districts differs based on population of the district. Electors in multi-representative constituencies get the same number of votes as there are represent atives, creating a system where people in some districts have more votes than people in other districts. The proposed changes would split the Cayman Islands into single member constituencies where every voter only votes for one person. Special Olympics athlete murdered Solomon Webster, who won a gold medal in bocce at the 2010 Special Olympics in Puerto Rico, was shot in the upper leg near his home in West Bay on Sept. 7. He died shortly afterward from his wound. Three men were later arrested and charged: Jose Sanchez on a charge of murder, and Graham Lauer and Blake Barrell for allegedly being an accessory after the fact. The charges against Mr. Barrell were later dropped. McKeeva Bush trial starts On Sept. 8, McKeeva Bush, Cayman’s first premier and current leader of the opposition, formally entered pleas of not guilty on 11 charges, including six relating to misconduct in public office and five relating to the Anti-Corruption Law. At the core of the trial were allegations that Mr. Bush used his government-issued credit card to get cash advances to gamble in U.S. casinos. The trial started with opening statements on Sept. 15 and ended with not guilty verdicts on all counts on Oct. 9. Grand Cayman observed the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Ivan’s rampage on Sept. 11. In addition to government pronouncements commemorating the event, a photographic exhibit at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands depicted the aftermath of the hurricane. EY report released The long-awaited Ernst & Young report, undertaken at the request of the Cayman Islands government, was released on Sept. 9. The report made a number of recommendations, including selling $65 million worth of government property and outsourcing public sector medical operations. Former Ministry of Education Chief Officer Mary Rodrigues was chosen in August to head the team that would implement the recommendations. However, in the weeks after the release of the report, the Progressives-led government said they would not implement several of the key recommendations. Yacht Club opens Dart Realty completed a two-year, $7-million renovation of the Cayman Islands Yacht Club and celebrated with a reopening ceremony on Sept. 24. Governor Helen Kilpatrick officially launched the new facility by smashing a bottle of Champagne off one of the dock’s entrances. In addition to upgraded boat slips, the renovated Yacht Club features a general store and a new restaurant, which opened on Dec. 21. Kenneth Bryan arrested Premier Alden McLaughlin’s political assistant, Kenneth Bryan, was arrested as a result of an incident outside of a local nightclub on Oct. 11. Mr. Bryan, who ran unsuccessfully for a Legislative Assembly seat in George Town in 2013, worked as a Cayman 27 television news reporter prior to that. On Dec. 5, police formally charged Mr. Bryan with assaulting police and using threatening and abusive language. Shortly afterward, Mr. Bryan was placed on “required leave” from his government position until the disposition of the case. Armed robberies in restaurants Two armed robberies at restaurants frequented by tourists occurred in October, the first at Da Fish Shack in George Town on Oct. 13 and another at Coconut Joe’s in the southern Seven Mile Beach corridor on Oct. 16. In both cases, customers were robbed as well as the establishment. In addition, more than a dozen homes were burgled in the George Town area between Oct. 14 and Oct. 16. Another George Town eatery, Paradise Restaurant, was robbed by a gunman on Nov. 10 With the Ebola virus scare in the U.S. at its peak, the Cayman Islands Cabinet approved a travel ban on Oct. 21 to prevent anyone who had recently been in the affected region of West Africa from entering the country. The same day, Health Services Authority CEO Lizzette Yearwood said two modular field hospital units that could quarantine a total of 16 patients had been ordered. Over the next month, the HSA announced it would spend a total of $2.9 million on the field hospital, 500 protective hazmat suits, associated equipment and staff training. On Oct. 27, an ill female tourist who arrived at the airport was tended to by medical personnel dressed in hazmat suits, but health officials confirmed the same day that she did not have Ebola. Child slain, mother arrested Six-year-old Bethany Butler, a Year 2 student at Savannah Primary School, was found dead on Oct. 27 in the passenger seat of a vehicle parked in the bush off the Queen’s Highway. She had been stabbed multiple times. The child’s mother Tamara Butler, 37, was arrested and formally charged with murder on Nov. 14. More than 1,000 people attended the child’s funeral service on Nov. 9. Squatters arrested, buildings demolished The standoff on Shedden Road, which occurred when several families – including the children of missing George Town landfill worker Anna Evans and their caretaker – refused to vacate homes earmarked for demolition, came to an end on Oct. 29 when police arrested four people and the buildings were torn down. A large crowd gathered on the cordoned-off section of Shedden Road to watch as the homes on the property of Kent “Biggie” Rankin were demolished. Mr. Rankin, who bought the property from other relatives of the Evans family, had been trying to get the tenants of the ramshackle houses to leave the premises for more than a year through various court processes. The Department of Children and Family Services found alternative housing for Mrs. Evans’s children and their caretaker in one of the new affordable homes in Bodden Town. Kadi Merren-Pentney tops YCLA Kadi Merren-Pentney, 28, received the 2014 Young Caymanian Leadership Award on Nov. 1. The annual televised award ceremony, which was started in 2000 as a way of celebrating Cayman’s rising stars who could serve as role models for youth, was held at The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman. Other finalists were Michael Lockwood, Katrina Jurn, Chevala Burker and Lydia Warren. Landfill consultant named The government announced in the first week of November that it had engaged the U.K.-based company AMEC to help develop a 50-year waste management strategy. The Cabinet minister with responsibility for the dump at the time, Osbourne Bodden, also revealed that it was unlikely that the new landfill plant would begin operations in 2017 as he had earlier stated. Cayman cop convicted of murder in Jamaica A Jamaican police officer serving with the Royal Cayman Islands Police was fired after he was convicted of murder in Jamaica on Nov. 19. Tyrone Findlay was sentenced to 25 years after a jury unanimously found him guilty of the Jan. 1, 2010 murder of a man in Manchester, Jamaica. Findlay had argued that the shooting was self-defense in the line of duty. After this information was revealed, calls for the resignation of Police Commissioner David Baines ensued. Mr. Baines did not resign. Contracts for Jamaican police officers applying to the RCIPS were put on hold in December. RBC Wealth Management exits RBC Wealth Management, an arm of Royal Bank, announced that it was discontinuing its private wealth management business in the Caribbean, including in the Cayman Islands, on Nov. 20. However, RBC said the move would not impact its retail banking operations in Cayman. Treasure Island Resort in receivership The Treasure Island Resort on southern Seven Mile Beach was placed in receivership on Nov. 22. The 280-room resort has had financial difficulties off and on since its construction in the early 1980s, despite having se veral different owners. Two partners from Zolfo Cooper were named receivers of the company Restoration Cayman, which is the legal owner of the property. The receivers said the property would continue operating as normal. Cayman squash team members Cameron Stafford and Marlene West won the mixed doubles gold medal at the XXII Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, Mexico, on Nov. 26. The duo defeated players from the host nation in the final, but also defeated the top-ranked Columbian pair in the semifinals to win a surprising gold medal. Immigration chief suspended Chief Immigration Officer Linda Evans was suspended with full pay on Dec. 1 due to a number of allegations of misconduct. The Ministry of Home Affairs said it would conduct an investigation into the matter. Three weeks prior, on Nov. 7, the Immigration Department’s director of boards and work permits, Kimberly Davis, was suspended with full pay while an investigation into an alleged breach of law was conducted. Complaints Commissioner resigns Complaints Commissioner Nicola Williams submitted her resignation on Dec. 4, effective January 2015, seven months before her contract was to end. Ms. Williams, who was appointed to the post in August 2009, was given only a one-year extension when her five-year contract expired in August 2014. Ms. Williams has been appointed as U.K. Service Complaints Commissioner, a position she will take up upon returning to the United Kingdom in 2015. Minister’s profane tirade Cabinet Minister Osbourne Bodden spewed a profanity-laced tirade at his chief officer, Jennifer Ahearn, on Dec. 10, calling her “f%&king driftwood” and telling her he could make her life “a living hell.” Outrage over the incident led to calls for his resignation. Premier Alden McLaughlin announced on Dec. 19 that he was shuffling Cabinet ministry duties, with the Ministry of Health – including responsibility for the George Town landfill – transferring to him, along with the Ministry of Culture. Mr. Bodden is to retain the Ministry of Sports and the Ministry of Youth responsibilities, and take on the Ministry of Community Affairs as well. As part of the arrangement, Ms. Ahearn is now Mr. McLaughlin’s chief officer, and Dorine Whitaker, the chief officer of Community Affairs, is Mr. Bodden’s chief officer. Captain Marvin dies The Cayman Islands lost a tourism pioneer when Captain Charles Marvin Ebanks died at age 98 on Dec. 20. Captain Marvin ran the watersports company bearing his name for more than 60 years. He first started running tours to the North Sound in the early 1950s and was actively involved in the operations of his company into his 90s, running a boat until he was 93.

Thanks for your interest in Volusion Website Reviews! I’m currently working on a detailed video to get you the latest information on this… But in the meantime… Checkout the best ClickFunnels offers, benefits, and features below. In this day as well as age, the way your service runs online could make or break you. Exactly how do most businesses presently have a visibility online? The fact of the matter is, nevertheless, that web sites have considerably evolved over the past years – and the techniques of old are no longer useful for contemporary organisation. In the past, it would be adequate to have an easy web site with a home page, services, rates, regarding us, and also call web pages. A prospective customer would certainly most likely to your site, scroll about, see the various web pages and consume content as they please. However, if you are an organisation investing any money on advertising and marketing, you intend to control just what customers are discovering on your site, present offers at the right time, as well as maximize the revenue you make from each person. Exactly how does one attain this? Making use of sales funnels. ClickFunnels is the most convenient method to earn high transforming sales and marketing funnels. It is a distinct device created specifically to transform potential clients right into purchasers. It really is an all-in-one remedy to produce sales funnels and consists of touchdown pages, email assimilation, invoicing, webinars, subscription sites, and so a lot more. No surprise it has rapidly come to be a favored tool for marketing experts. Below is my detailed ClickFunnels Testimonial, including favored attributes, rates, pros/cons, and also contrasts against competitors. Volusion Website Reviews: However First, Just What Is a Sales Channel? Sales funnels (likewise called advertising funnels) are multi-step projects that are developed to relocate prospective leads with your sales procedure, as well as turn them right into purchasers. Photo a real-life channel. At the top, you pour fluid in, which narrows down to one dealt with location. In sales, a comparable occasion happens. On top, site visitors get to your internet site, however not all who go into make it out of the various other end as buyers. Lots of things have to take place from the moment a visitor enters your funnel, to the time they take action and also successfully complete a purchase. By breaking down the customer’s trip right into smaller steps, you could be extra accurate regarding how when you offer an offer to your audience. The thorough steps in a channel may look something such as this: - Unqualified lead gets to landing page - Page connects the initial offer (something free to accumulate an email). - Once email is collected, major offer is pitched. - Lead becomes a paying client. - More email interaction providing consumer value. - Further partnership structure - Persisting sales. ClickFunnels likewise has a graphic that describes this in a straightforward means:. Just what is ClickFunnels? As mentioned earlier, ClickFunnels is the most effective sales channel software around today. The company makes the vibrant insurance claim of giving you every little thing you should market, sell, and also supply your items online – as well as they absolutely supply. A standard funnel will make use of an opt-in page (to collect e-mail addresses), an e-mail car -responder (to send out e-mails to your customers), plus an extra sales page with some content and also an order type, potentially adhered to by extra material, a subscription website, etc . Previously, you would certainly have to use different platforms and also devices to achieve all of these tasks such as: - Produce an internet site - Find Hosting - Discover an autoresponder solution - Find subscription website software - Discover split-testing software program … and so on However ClickFunnels takes care of everything with their platform. You not only conserve a lots of loan by not needing to acquire various products/services, yet you likewise avoid the technological mess of needing to establish every little thing up, and also could concentrate on exactly what’s actually important – expanding your business. ClickFunnels offers a Complimentary 14-Day Test, so you reach discover the tool and also really see if it’s right for your business. * Promptly Produce Pages Using Themes and also Components *. Prior to getting too much, it’s important to understand that a channel is a collection of pages put together in a tactical order, with the objective of converting as several potential customers into clients. And a web page is simply a collection of numerous components designed to obtain somebody to take a particular action. ClickFunnels uses more than 50 various aspects to help you construct the excellent page. The editor is incredibly easy to use and all you have to do is drag and also go down various elements on the web page, as well as upgrade the message and appearance to fit your requirements – no coding abilities needed! ClickFunnels additionally makes your life easier by offering you with a ton of free design templates. In fact, ClickFunnels supplies over 37 kinds of pages for you to blend and match with. These are damaged down into the complying with 10 categories: - Presell Pages: Study Page, Short Article Web Page, Presell Web Page, Clickpop Page - Optin Pages: Squeeze Web Page, Reverse Capture Web Page, Lead Magnet, Discount Coupon - Thank You Pages: Thanks Page, Deal Wall Surface, Bridge Page, Share Page - Sales Pages: Video Clip Sales Web Page, Business Letter Page, Item Launch Web Page - OTO Pages: Upsell Page, Downsell Web Page - Order Forms: Two Action Order Web Page, Typical Order Page, Video Sales Letter Order Web Page, Sales Letter Order Web Page, Item Launch Order Page - Webinar Pages: Webinar Enrollment Web Page, Webinar Confirmation Page, Webinar Program Room, Webinar Replay Room - Membership Pages: Gain Access To Page, Participant’s Location - Associate Pages: Gain Access To Web Page, Affiliate Location - Other Pages: Application Web Page, Ask Web Page, Store Front, Home Page, Hero Web Page, Hangout Page, Live Demo Page The pre-built design templates are completely personalized, as well as are just what most users utilize. You are able to choose a template, edit or replace the elements with your personal, and your brand-new page prepares to go. You can also connect any funnel you produce with your personal e-mail advertising service (if you do not utilize the one consisted of in ClickFunnels), and also use the ClickFunnels constructed in invoicing system. This is additionally a fun time to state that ClickFunnels supplies really helpful as well as easy to understand training video clips when you first subscribe. I extremely recommend experiencing those because they promptly enable you to make use of the device at its full capability, as well as you’ll have much more fun playing around. Volusion Website Reviews * Produce One-Click Subscription Sites *. Among the very best features with ClickFunnels is the capacity to easily create subscription sites and supply material to your audience in one area. Your subscription site will certainly come full with enrollment pages, subscription access pages, and also material pages which you can easily lock or leak feed to your clients according to acquisitions they made in your funnel. ClickFunnels subscription sites permit you to send e-mails, conveniently handle your emails, and also develop a community all while eliminating the stress and anxiety that’s connected with other remedies such as Kajabi, or WordPress platforms. It’s really helpful to not have to purchase a separate software application or plugin to create membership sites. * Email Integration & Actionetics *. With every funnel comes e-mail list structure chances. ClickFunnels sustains email integration with all the significant email automation platforms such as: - Active Campaign - Constant Contact - Get Response - Mad Mimi - Market Hero - And others However, ClickFunnels also has their very own powerful automation tool called Actionetics. Although you could develop, schedule, and supply e-mails just like other e-mail advertising platform, Actionetics is a lot a lot more. I like Actionetics due to the fact that it not just replaces your email advertising and marketing but carrier marketing and SMS marketing softwares also. This takes automation to an entire new degree and also assists you connect the best message to your consumers, precisely when they need it. A video overview of Actionetics will certainly be given further listed below. * Invoicing as well as Repayment Assimilation *. An amazing attribute within ClickFunnels is the ability to accumulate every one of the invoicing information from your customers right on your sales page. Offering is made a lot simpler when consumers do not need to leave your site. ClickFunnels integrates with major payment portals such as PayPal, Stripe, and also InfusionSoft, among others. While you could begin with the Free 14-Day Trial, there are 3 various prices choices with ClickFunnels: - $ 97/month. - $ 297/month. - $ 997 bulk price cut strategy (advised). I’ll go into detail for each and every of these plans listed below. 1. ClickFunnels Standard Strategy – $97/month. The typical strategy includes every one of the attributes you would certainly require within ClickFunnels, but with constraints on the variety of funnels (20) and also web pages (100) you can have in your account, as well as the number of site visitors (20K) could view your pages per month. You additionally do not obtain sophisticated functionality such as ClickFunnels own e-mail advertising as well as affiliate monitoring tools. 2. ClickFunnels Etison Suite – $297/month. This plan consists of all the bells as well as whistles of the basic strategy, with no limitations. It also comes with two extra products generated by ClickFunnels called Actionetics (email advertising and marketing) and also Knapsack (associate monitoring platform). In Actionetics – you could manage all your contacts that sign up for your listing, send e-mail programs, as well as create a host of various other automations. Volusion Website Reviews The difference in between both strategies really is the limitations, and also Actionetics/Backpack. If you are a basic user and do not anticipate to utilize greater than 20 funnels in your account – the Criterion Strategy need to suffice. However, if you intend to have an affiliate program or intend to keep your email marketing within ClickFunnels as well as not utilize a 3rd party software, the Etison Collection is for you. You could constantly begin on the lower strategy and also upgrade if required. 3. Funnel Hacks System – $997 For any individual that’s major concerning their company, the ClickFunnels Funnel Hacks System is the deal of the century. The $997 Funnel Hacks System consists of robust training programs packed with 6-month access to the ClickFunnels Etison Collection. This is an amazing deal given that outside of this program, 6-months of Etison Collection alone would certainly cost you $1782. Not only are you saving $785 yet you’re obtaining a ton of trainings and also overviews of help you get one of the most out of ClickFunnels! ClickFunnels Advantages And Disadvantages - Producing funnels is very easy, very easy, and also quick - All-in-one platform with whatever your business should win - Split testing as well as conversion monitoring consisted of - Email combination with all of the major email autoresponder systems - Settlement processing capacities within ClickFunnels - ClickFunnels is always adapting as well as upgrading to the moments - There is always sustain readily available (whether online or not). - Exceptionally energetic Facebook Group Area. - Free 14-Day Test – enables you to attempt it run the risk of complimentary. - As incredible as ClickFunnels is, it absolutely is not an economical service as well as requires a constant membership to utilize - Assistance isn’t constantly the fastest and also may extract from 1 minute to 24 hours depending upon the issue. ClickFunnels versus Everybody Else. Many people ask how ClickFunnels compares with other landing page building contractors such as Leadpages, Unbounce, and also Infusionsoft. Generally it’s not actually a fair comparison because each of these tools stands out is one area or the various other. The graph above provides a complete analysis – but I’ll highlight a few of the major comparisons below. ClickFunnels vs Leadpages Before ClickFunnels, Leadpages was the big dog. Leadpages is simply a lead capture software – absolutely nothing more. You can produce touchdown pages, lead boxes, gather leads … that’s basically it. In addition, the Leadpages layouts are also restricted on modification. ClickFunnels is far more versatile – it’s much easier to utilize as well as does so far more compared to develop lead capture pages. Basically, Leadpages is truly simply a touchdown web page home builder, while ClickFunnels is focused around developing extremely incorporated funnels. ClickFunnels vs Infusionsoft Infusionsoft is not a touchdown page or sales web page building contractor. It has some of that performance built it, however that’s not just what it’s known for. At it’s core, Infusionsoft is a CRM platform – one that permits you to manage your entire consumer data source. ClickFunnels has this capacity with Actionetics, however it’s not almost as progressed as Infusionsoft. Infusionsoft is also exceptionally expensive and pressures every brand-new customer to pay $2000 for a necessary kickstart training bundle simply to learn how you can make use of the intricate system (which is notoriously difficult to utilize). ClickFunnels Affiliate Program There are 2 primary paths people go down as ClickFunnels customers. Those that prefer to utilize the device for their service – in hopes of eventually attain the Two Comma Club (over $1M in revenue). And also those that want making passive income as a ClickFunnels Associate as well as winning the Desire Cars and truck Competition (where they pay $500/$1000 in the direction of your desire automobile if you reach 100/200 active regular monthly signups, specifically). With a whopping 40% month-to-month recurring compensation, ClickFunnels easily has among the best affiliate programs of any type of system around. That’s right – you earn money a recurring 40% payment on every associate signup you make via the ClickFunnels Associate Program. But, just what does that really relate to? The basic strategy is a $97/month investment as well as the Etison Collection plan is a $297/month investment. therefore you make $38.80 each fundamental strategy and $118.80 each Etison Collection plan … every month! Generally, every 100 signups will generate $4000/month in affiliate payments (more or less depending on the amount of Etison Strategy customers remain in there). All-time Low Line ClickFunnels is hands down the best system if you are planning to quickly develop high converting sales funnels. Since it was constructed from scratch to be the most effective sales funnel home builder, it vanquishes all the competitors in that regard. Externally, it might not be the cheapest item available – however if you utilize it to its complete ability, your service will certainly become much more rewarding and you will save loan from not needing to make use of other tools. Volusion Website Reviews If you’ve read this far into my ClickFunnels Testimonial, I advise you see for yourself with a Free 14-Day Trial below.

Birth & Family Life A blog about pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, parenthood & everything in between... parenthood & everything in between... Pregnancy and exercise, the words don't really seem to fit together right?Wrong! You need to keep your body moving during your pregnancy and here are my top 4 ways to WORK IT OUT! Note: please talk to your care provider before adding or changing your exercise program. 1. Prenatal Yoga OMG. I used to look forward to my weekly prenatal yoga sessions. Being with other women with gorgeous swelling bellies was always a way to catch up and be surrounded people who understood me. Our teacher had many great tips to share and always was helpful for adjusting us into more correct positions. Savasana was (and still is) my favourite position due to the stillness. I especially loved my prenatal yoga class when pregnant with baby number two. It was a time for me and me only. We've some listed Calgary prenatal yoga classes on our Resources page! As the pregnancy weight increases, swimming allows your body to forget about gravity dragging down on your growing shape. Slow laps or prenatal water workouts are great for cardio. Check out the listings at the local pool to see if they have specialized prenatal classes or ask the instructors if they can modify them for you. And laps, just head to an open lap time and float away! If you were a runner before pregnancy, you can probably be a runner for most of your pregnancy. Anyone, however, can be a walker. Head outside, count your steps, take the stairs; whatever gets you moving. My friend and I would walk the neighbourhood in the evening to catch up and focus on us. Outside, inside, up stairs or down, just do it! 4. Birth Boot Camp I didn't have this program when I was pregnant, but lucky you!! Part of the Birth Boot Camp mandate is to help you to stay low risk and we have an exercise program within the course! Starting from week 2 and onward, you'll receive new stretches and exercises to incorporate into your daily routines straight from our advisory board! Have you heard of foam rolling? We'll show you how to massage yourself with a foam roller! We start the second class in our series next Friday June 12 and can send you class 1 online to catch up; perfect for couples that are due in August, September or October! Can't make it? We offer private classes in your home or an online class! What is your favourite way to exercise during pregnancy? Please share it below in the comment section! With Love and Light, The birth of my second child was an awesome moment; not only was she here and healthy, but she was my natural birth. I thought I had it all figured out with my first babe, but it wasn't until I met some wonderful new friends, my doula and several amazing books that I truly realized what my body was capable of doing. Birth Boot Camp is running a contest right now called Why I Loved My Natural Birth. The video with the most "thumbs up" on YouTube will win $100 towards gear, books or training. I'd love to win and stock up on some extra prizes for my students! You can watch the video below and then make sure to give it a thumbs up! You can view all the great entries here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWBimSYVrJcOzD8TQRYGgIJyN4wIyHOwx. Women and couples sharing why they loved their natural births with a wide variance of experiences of VBACs, HBACs, hospital births, home births, birth centre births and more! Warning, watching these videos may increase your oxytocin levels! Your turn!! Leave a comment below about why you want a natural birth or why you loved yours! With Love and Light, Something happens when we see that first plus sign (or double line, depending on your test) and it seems like all our money goes to the new baby!Last post I talked about why it was important to save or set aside money to attend a childbirth class like our Birth Boot Camp. Now let's talk about HOW! 1. Stash the Cash Before we talk about how, let's talk about where to put that extra savings! Open up a Tax-Free Savings account and call it your Baby Fund, or something a little more fun. A separate account like this will make you think twice before removing funds for something frivolous. Or go old school with a piggy bank that you need to beak open! Even a mason jar can help make it easy to keep the extra money separate. Trade Lunch for SavingsIf you work outside of the home, it's easy to get into the habit of eating lunch or grabbing that snack or daily coffee at the place close by. Sadly, its an expensive habit! You can cut your costs by packing your lunch with leftovers or easy fixings. Not only will your wallet thank you, but your body will too as many to go type meals are high in salt and bad fats. You can increase your protein, good fats and good carbohydrates with your made at home (and with love) meals. We love (happy) chickens in our home. In order to save money, we purchase whole chickens in bulk (10 at a time). Roasting a whole chicken is super easy and makes several meals worth of chicken all ready to go! Stir fries, sandwiches, fajitas, soups...just added the already cooked meat! Plus, make your own bone broth with the bones for extra health and savings! 2. Used is the New Cool There are a number of items that you can pick up on the local Facebook swap groups, Kijiji or from friends that will save you big money and still be safe. Strollers, baby carriers, cloth diapers, clothing and toys can be found at great prices. Inspect EVERYTHING before you buy and be safe when meeting up with strangers. The one item I would never recommend you buy used is a car seat. But maternity clothes...head to the consignment shop! Baby & Me in Calgary has an awesome selection of consignment maternity for all sizes! 3. Less is More There are so many cool gadgets and STUFF on the market for babies and new parents. Are these things really needed? Not really. Talk to your mommy and daddy friends about what stuff they actually used and scope out the minimal homes blogs for ideas. 4. Baby Clothing: Minimize The strangest thing happens with baby clothing...they never wear half of what they have. Check out your local second hand kids store and see the numerous baby sets still with tags. Sure, you end up changing baby frequently (especially with poo-numis and disposable diapers), but expanding beyond the usual repertoire of a sleeper or onesie (weather dependent) is rare. Take the hand-me-downs your friends offer or hit up the second hand stores. 5. Nursery Games Hold onto your hats, this is going to get real...what if you didn't set up a nursery? What if baby didn't have her own fancy and decorated room? What if you didn't have a change table or you set a used one up in your living area? What if there was no crib and you co-slept with baby? There are so many alternatives to the traditional and expensive baby's room. Pinterest has some amazing set-up ideas for inspiration to think outside the box. 6. Register with Meaning Finally, take advantage of a registry for your babe, but do it with purpose. If you are going to use one, try one of the many online versions that you can input from many local stores the EXACT items you would like. Do not put silly or not truly needed stuff on it!! If you want to be taken seriously, use it properly. Direct people to use it and ask repeatedly that they do use it to select a gift if you have one. You can even add your birth class (select it early enough) to the registry for a great group purchase! I hope these few suggestions will inspire you to save money for your new baby and ensure you are putting the cash down for the priority items. What items are a priority for you and your partner? How have you saved money creatively? Please share with us in the comments section as it may help someone! With Love and Light, Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

I’ve been messing with this and the truth is that I liked it a lot. To start with the installation I have not had any problems, which happened in previous versions and has certainly been the fastest I’ve ever seen. Then I adapted the page to see statistics in both SlimStat and Google Analytics I’ve been playing a bit the theme that I installed, translating it because it came in German and English :-p I fixed a couple of bugs in the theme, the same thing was done for a previous version of wp. I have also customized the page, especially the bar on the right, it is very simple thanks to the wp functions that you can use wherever and however you want. Finally I added a plugin to be able to insert videos from youtube, google, ifilm … in the news, since by default in wp you could not. Well in the end it seems that I’m going to give wordpress a chance, despite my leaving my own CMS for maintenance reasons, since it was getting harder and harder to have everything ready. I hope it meets all my expectations. About the content of the blog I will try to give a change of orientation towards the topics that I like the most, which are computer security and web programming. I said “I will try”: p These days I am examining but between rest and rest I will try to change and improve some aspects of the blog so that it is to my liking, I will also collect some news from the old blog that are worthwhile. Has not happened to you that some component of the computer starts to fail and you are left with a huge desire to stamp it against the wall? Well, look what this boy does with the HP printer because the technical service did not tell him how to fix it and apparently it does not work :-p There is every element in the world … The Swedish bank Nordea has suffered the biggest Internet robbery in history, having managed to steal cyberladrones about 880,000 euros from their funds. Around 250 customers of Sweden’s largest bank seems to have downloaded the “haxdoor.ki” Trojan over the past three months. This virus sneaked into computers when users registered online with the bank. The software stole the information before displaying an error message asking the client to resend the data. The hackers, believed to be located in Russia, thus obtained the two access codes needed to transfer money from the accounts. The Swedish police have a list of 121 suspects, and the investigation was aimed first at America, before arriving in Russia. More than tricks are curiosities put by the programmers to record them. The truth is that almost all projects have their Easter eggs included in operating systems, some ROM memories, or even the well-known Excel and Word. about: If you type the word about in the browser bar followed by the colon, the browser will display information about the browser: partners, license of this product, used compilation settings. about: buildconfig How your own name indicates will show information about the platform, configuration and other parameters. about: cache It will show information and statistics of the cache used in disk, directory and list of cache entries that you can find on your hard disk. about: config How much information, be careful if you are going to change something because your browser may not be the same after playing with these variables. about: plugins What would Firefox do without the extensions? This information will show details about the plugins we have installed. about: credits What would a work without its credits … to all of them thanks. about: Mozilla Of course it’s the weirdest of all, it’s worth seeing

TURN off the sound and you might be watching a video blog by a fixie-bike riding, avocado-munching hipster—an environmental campaigner or a music journalist, perhaps. But Martin Sellner is no liberal. The Vienna-based 27-year-old uses social media sites—YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram—to promote the “identitarian” movement of which he is a leader. The identitarians are Europe’s answer to the American “alt-right”, which helped carry Donald Trump to the White House. What Germans call the Identitäre Bewegung (IB) first emerged in France in 2003. Boosted by the refugee crisis and Islamist terrorist attacks, it has spread across northern Europe in recent years. Its local groups all sport the same yellow-and-black websites and anti-migrant, anti-Muslim, anti-media messages. Like its transatlantic counterpart, the IB exercises an outsized influence in two ways. First, it connects the traditional far right to populist politicians on the national stage. Second, it helps both groups by repackaging their ideas for a younger audience. Its professed mission is to preserve national differences. “Human rights include the right to a homeland” is a typical mantra. Where others see European nations as the products of centuries of exchange and interaction, identitarians idealise a mythical past in which borders were absolute and clear (even in Germany, where they have historically shifted as often as the gears on a BMW). Clear borders allowed those inside them to establish religious and cultural norms, identitarians argue. They speak of a “great replacement” (of white Europeans by immigrants with higher birth rates), “ethno-pluralism” (which, confusingly, means something close to the opposite of “pluralism”) and the need for a “reconquista” (a reference to the Christian recapture of Spain from the Moors). Mr Sellner cites Greenpeace as a model. Like that outfit, the “IBsters” deal in stunts and direct action. They have hung a banner reading “secure borders, secure future” from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, blocked roads in Calais to oppose a migrant camp, disrupted theatre performances in Berlin and Vienna and occupied mosques in Leiden and Poitiers. They have smartphone-friendly websites and sell T-shirts and tote bags bearing their logo: the Greek letter lambda, which appeared on the shields of the Spartans who held off the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC. They also adore the local, rail against “McDonaldisation” and idealise the pastoral. A recent video by their Bavarian chapter shows rolling hills and sprightly young men boxing in woodland dells. The movement has a deft way of making xenophobic causes seem palatable to moderates. Mr Sellner uses the Twitter hashtag #remigration to “encourage” African and Asian immigrants to reverse the brain drain by returning to their homelands. He frames insinuations that Muslim immigrants are chauvinists and rapists as a defence of women’s rights. An IB group in Paderborn, near Hanover, recently distributed cans of tear gas to female pedestrians; in the current political context, the message was clear: German women need protecting from those beastly foreigners. This relative subtlety opens doors to respectable society that remain shut to the traditional skinhead right. The likes of Mr Sellner and Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, a leading French identitarian, are invited to speak by the mainstream media. They are thus useful to the anti-immigration parties advancing in much of the continent, like the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and the National Front (FN) in France. They promote (and sometimes provide) candidates for their parties and heckle their rivals. The politicians repay the favour. “I understand their concerns,” says Marine Le Pen, the FN leader (and Marion Maréchal’s aunt). Heinz-Christian Strache, the FPÖ leader, shares their videos and defended the Viennese theatre occupation. Local FN politicians have even hired identitarian activists as press advisers. Beyond all the mumbo-jumbo about “ethno-pluralism”, the old racist tropes and practices are still there. In Germany identitarians describe immigration as “nation death”; in France they speak of “pureblood Frenchmen”. They have marched alongside skinheads at anti-Islam rallies in Dresden and put a chain-lock on a Muslim school in Rotterdam. In August Germany’s constitutional watchdog put the IB under formal observation—hardly surprising, as the NPD, a German neo-Nazi party, has circulated the movement’s videos as examples of good technique. Pepe hops the pond Compared with America’s alt-right, identitarians are less web-centric—they tend to meet in person, in local groups—and less openly race-obsessed. But the affinities outnumber the differences. Breitbart, the American alt-right’s favourite website, covers the IB in gushing tones and is planning to launch its own European division. Mr Sellner hosted a pro-Trump party in Vienna on the night of the American election. This points to the movement’s most curious trait. Its activists may preach love for the homeland and its unique character, but in practice they are impeccable internationalists, mixing and exchanging ideas like other millennials. Austria’s identitarians borrowed their look wholesale from counterparts in France (as Mr Sellner, speaking good French, admits in one of his YouTube appearances). Alt-right activists on both sides of the Atlantic treat a cartoon frog, Pepe, as a sort of mascot. From Indianapolis to Innsbruck, they share the same open-source politics, fume over the same grievances and chortle over the same in-jokes. Their movement is a howl of anguish at the integration of different peoples. It also epitomises that process. This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "Wolves in skinny jeans"

Aruba is an incredible country. I honestly did not know much about it until I went, but now I understand why people return so often and love Aruba so much. Here are some fast facts about Aruba that I thought were interesting: - Aruba’s weather fluctuates between the upper 70s and mid 80s ALL.YEAR. - Aruba is outside of the hurricane belt so it only rains a handful of days per year and is sunny most of the time. - On top of the above, Aruba is constantly subject to a cooling trade wind. This country’s weather is the definition of perfect. - Do you get tired of laying at the beach? Aruba is the place for you. 20% of the country is a national park so there is ample opportunity to hike and explore. - Aruba is one of the best places on Earth to practice windsurfing! - Many natives speak 4 languages: Dutch, Papiamento (the native language), English, and Spanish (Aruba is only 15 miles from the Venezuelan coast). - Locals learn in school about the importance of tourism to their economy and are taught to be helpful and kind to tourists. It definitely pays off because Arubans are some of the nicest people I have encountered in my travels. They are enthusiastic about their country and excited to have you visiting! I’m going to post about Aruba a little bit differently than my usual format because I think it will be easier to share recommendations this way. In this post, I’ll share recommendations of the restaurants and bars that we enjoyed during our Aruba trip. The next post will cover some of the activities and hikes that we did. Restaurants and Bars: Bugaloe on the DePalm Pier – This is a great beach bar on the pier right by the Radisson resort that serves casual, fresh seafood. I highly recommend the ceviche and the shrimp salad. Bugaloe has live music on Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday. Alex and I went on Sunday and the band was awesome! We had a great time watching the sunset with Balashis (the local Aruba beer) and getting our groove on! Zeerover– This is a great place to get an authentic Aruban seafood meal. At Zeerover, fisherman prepare the catch of the day right there on premises. The menu consists of the catch of the day, shrimp, and a handful of sides like plantains or Aruban cornbread. You place your order by piece or weight and they pick out the fish and fry it and serve it to you in a plastic basket. The seafood is the freshest and Zeerover comes highly recommended by locals! Moomba– This is a really fun beach bar/restaurant. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner with great cocktails and live music Friday/Sunday. Also has rental equipment to play beach tennis. Scott’s Brats– This is a great place to stop for lunch if you want something other than seafood. It is fast and right on the beach so great for a beach day. It is owned by a retired couple from Wisconsin and the walls are covered with Green Bay paraphernalia. The food is good and the drinks are cold! If you’re a bloody mary fan, they have a make it yourself bar as well. Balashi Brewery– On our last day in Aruba, Alex and I went here for a few beers. The bar area was empty, but that might be because it was a Thursday in the middle of the day. In any case, the beer was cold! The Beer Garden and Restaurant has some sandy areas to play Bocce so it might be a lot of fun with a group. You can also take a tour, but they are only offered once a day (I think at 10:30) and we got there too late. Bread Basket– This is the perfect place to stop for breakfast. Alex and I loved it so much that we had breakfast there twice. It’s a quick little cafe to pick up breakfast sandwiches or coffee near the high-rise hotel area. Their smoothies are also delicious. The Aruba Watersports Center is located here so you can rent bikes and diving/snorkeling equipment rentals as well. Gelatissimo-Delicious gelato right near the high-rise hotels. It is open late so save your appetite after dinner to go here! Flying Fishbone– Although this is a fine dining seafood restaurant, people were dressed at all levels of formality since it is a beach restaurant. The tables are right on the beach and some are actually in the water. This was probably my favorite restaurant! The service was fantastic and the sunsets are phenomenal. When you arrive, you are brought a stand to hang your shoes and hold your wine bucket. When you leave, you are directed to a footwash to rinse the sand off your feet. Special touches like that always win me over. The only complaint I have is that the wine menu was very pricey, especially compared to other comparable restaurants on the island. Passions was another of my favorite meals. It’s a little more romantic with tiki torches by the tables and live music. Tables are right on the shore and sunsets were beautiful. The seafood was amazing here too! West Deck– We didn’t go here, but we drove by it the last night were in Aruba and thought it looked like a really neat venue right on the water. It seems to have good reviews so it might be another place worth checking out! Old Man and the Sea– This was another place that we didn’t go but we saw a sign for it and thought it looked unique. You can eat in a private cabana on the water so if you’re looking for an uber romantic dinner, this might be the place for you. It is located near the Flying Fishbone in Savaneta. There are plenty of great options in the high-rise hotel area, so I’m not going to spend a ton of time on this recommendation. If you want to stay somewhere else, there appear to be plenty of homes and condos available for rent. As far as location though, the high-rise hotels can’t be beat. We stayed at the Radisson Aruba Resort, Casino, and Spa. The rooms and views were superb. We didn’t spend much time at the hotel, but the facilities appeared to be well-maintained. We did use one of the resort’s cabanas at the beach so we could get some shade. There are a few pools, a spa and gym, and a casino. The resort has several restaurants on premises. We had lunch at Gilligan’s Beach Bar and Grill on our first day in Aruba and shared a grouper sandwich with plantains. It was excellent! Have you ever been to Aruba? I’ve heard that people who go tend to go back because they love it so much. What were some of your favorite restaurants? I can’t wait to finish telling you about all of our adventures in Aruba next time! Lots of pretty photos of the breathtaking scenery at Arikok National Park coming at you next week!

St. Augustine Beach is just over the bridge from Historic Downtown St. Augustine, but once you’ve crossed over, it feels like you’ve entered a completely different city. Gone is the Spanish architecture and landmarks, traded for a quiet little beach town that embraces the slower way of life. Nonetheless, the area boasts its own notable historic stops interspersed with miles of white sands, beachside eats and tropical cocktails for those who want to unwind, and a state park offering a bevy of adventurous activities for those that want to explore the picturesque outdooors. Situated in between Anastasia State Park and the St. Augustine Beach Pier, this gorgeous oceanfront resort makes you forget you’re only a 10-minute drive from Historic Downtown St. Augustine. If lounging by the pool is on your list, the resort’s spacious pool overlooks the beach. The poolside bar, Castaway Cantina, will deliver you drinks poolside, or relax in one of the plush cabanas (additional charge of $50 for half day to utilize the cabana). Beachgoers will love the seclusion of having a private stretch of beach to themselves. Each room reservation includes two free beach chairs and towels. You can also rent an umbrella for $15, which will be secured for you at your desired spot on the sand. There is a complimentary Evening Reception daily from 4:30-6:30pm at the resort’s bar, Rhum Bar, offering complimentary apps and several beverage choices. You have the option to either enjoy the drinks at the bar, or enjoy them by the pool in a plastic cup. The resort’s on-site dining option is Harvest & Reel, a fantastic date night dinner destination. Our dinner began with a charcuterie board, and for the entree, I opted for the Joyce Farms Chicken, served with broccolini. For dessert, the creme brûlée caught my attention immediately, though the salted caramel cheesecake also seemed like a tasty choice. Additionally, if you crave a snack or need toiletries, Provisions of Ponce is open 24/7 and is located in the lobby, along with a Starbucks which is open 6am-6pm daily for your caffeinated pleasure. TIP: If you plan to purchase Old Town Trolley Tour tickets to explore Historic Downtown St. Augustine, your ticket also grants you access to the St. Augustine Beach Bus. The bus makes stops at the Embassy Suites at 16 after the hour, starting at 9:16am and continuing until 4:16pm. One of the stops is the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum. FOR NATURE LOVERS Another perk of the resort was a complimentary 2 hour bike rental included with each stay. There are a number of bikeable places you can venture to. Anastasia State Park borders the resort and is about a mile away. The park offers a multitude of activities ranging from paddleboarding to hiking along the Ancient Dunes Nature Trail. Anastasia Watersports is located in the state park and offers rentals of kayaks, canoes, and paddleboards with prices starting at $20. Two paddleboard experiences are available to enjoy with your honey: a 90 minute Full Moon Paddle and a 2 hour Dolphin Paddle on Salt Run. Prices for both (including gear) range between $35-40. If you’ve been wanting to try stand up paddleboarding or yoga, The Salty Paddle offers both. You can choose to take Stand Up Paddleboard lessons, take a Stand Up Paddleboard Yoga class, or simply take advantage of their board rentals. Additionally, you can book one of their sightseeing tours, one of which takes you up close to the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument. Or, you can also Paddle around on your own for 2 hours (equipment included) for $50. Prices start at $40 FOR MUSIC LOVERS Originally built back in 1965, this award-winning music venue was restored in 2002 and now hosts popular concerts, festivals and special events throughout the year. Upcoming notable acts include Elvis Costello & the Imposters and The Doobie Brothers. Visitors can also stop in on Saturday morning from 9:30am-12:30pm for the weekly Farmers Market to shop for goods from local growers and artisans. In addition, there is a Night Market held every second and fourth Tuesday from 6-9pm, which features art, food options, a full bar and live entertainment in addition to over 90 local vendors. Both markets are free to attend, and updated information can be found on their Facebook page. FOR HISTORY LOVERS For an activity that doubles as a workout, climb the 219 steps up the lighthouse tower. Once you’re back on the ground, you can enjoy fruity popsicles from local favorite Hyppo Pops before heading in to the maritime museum or hiking the pretty nature trail. A variety of demonstrations take place daily, and you can also tour the keeper’s house. The cost is $12.95/person. TIP: To up the romantic factor, visit during one of the monthly Sunset or Moonrise Tours! These are open to a limited amount of guests, allowing you to enjoy hors d’oeuvres and champagne at the top of the tower. Cost is $30/person. Similar to the Castillo de San Marcos monument in Historic Downtown St. Augustine, Fort Matanzas was built by the Spanish to guard the “back door” to St. Augustine against the British. The fort, constructed out of Coquina, has since been restored but still contains two of the original cannons. Visitors who wander inside can view soldier’s quarters and get a beautiful view of the water. To reach the fort, you’ll hop on a 5-minute ferry ride over to the monument. Boarding passes are required to ride the ferry, and are issued for free in the Fort Matanzas Visitor Center. The ferry to the fort carries 35 people at a time on a first come, first served basis and leaves the Visitor Center dock (weather permitting) every half hour from 9:30am to 4:30pm. After you explore the fort, hike the 1/2-mile nature trail or enjoy a day by the water to sunbathe or fish, or bring food and drinks for a romantic picnic. Bonus: admission is free! Day trip to Historic Downtown St. Augustine After exploring the beach, you’ll likely want to venture into the city for a dose of history. The Lightner Museum was once the upscale Alcatraz Hotel. Built in 1888 by Henry Flagler, the hotel welcomed over 25,000 guests fleeing the winter cold of the north during its peak in the 1890’s. The impressive structure not only provided lodging, but also countless recreational activities for its guests. A bowling alley, gymnasium, tennis courts, steamroom, sulfur baths, and the world’s largest indoor swimming pool were all enjoyed by guests staying at the Alcazar. The hotel eventually became the Lightner Museum, containing a collection of 19th century fine and decorative art including furniture. paintings and Tiffany glass. Admission is $15. Alternatively, take a drink from Ponce de Leon’s Spring of Eternal Hope at Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth Archeological Park or check out our recommendations for spending 9 Hours in St. Augustine. - Check out all of the unique animals at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park DINE & DRINK Tacos are an ideal lunch after hitting the beach, and Osprey Tacos comes through strong with fresh flavors, made to order tacos and house made chips and guac. You can turn any taco into a bowl, and there are vegan and gluten-free options. We tried the Carne Asada and Pollo Asado tacos, and we were delighted at how much meat they had! A trip to a local taco spot isn’t complete without trying out the chips and guac, and these did not disappoint. Don’t forget to try all their sauces! Conveniently located directly accross the street from the hotel (and a short walk from the beach if you’re staying elsewhere) is Salt Life Food Shack. The lively eatery boasts a rooftop area, live music, and an atmosphere that is laid back and fun, as beach life should be. The lower level bar is lit up in bright blue neon lights at night, and the menu has a wide variety of options from sushi to poke bowls and fresh fish. As expected, there was also a large cocktail menu, and if you’re in town during the week, take advantage of the weekday happy hour special ($1 off liquor drinks, house wine and drafts) offered from 4-6:30pm. For dinner, we decided on the Pan Seared Chicken Pasta and the Crunchy Chicken Thai Bowl. Both dishes were flavorful and offered a very generous portion. We were too full for dessert, but we will definitely try the Captain’s Rum Cake next time we visit. I make it a personal mission to find a great local coffee shop in any city I visit, and in this case it was easy since one of my favorite coffee shops in St. Augustine, The Kookaburra, has a beachside location only about a mile away from the resort. We took advantage of the resort’s complimentary bike rental and rode over to the coffee shop on a Saturday morning for a caffeine fix In addition to espresso drinks such as cappucinos and lattes, there were several specialty lattes that caught our attention. The PC (with Caramel and a hint of Vanilla) was my buddy’s favorite, and I couldn’t get enough of the Honey Badger (with Honey, Cinnamon and Vanilla). There is a Turbo Window located on the side of the building for those who want to simply grab a coffee and go, as well as some seating inside and on a welcoming side deck. Located in the former FP&L Ice Plant in Historic Downtown St. Augustine, the building was preserved and now operates as a locally owned and operated craft spirits distillery. Rum, Vodka, Gin and Florida’s first bourbon are produced inside using local ingredients, and their quality spirits can be found in countless craft cocktail bar menus. Free tours of the distillery are offered every half hour and include the opportunity to sample a few different spirits inside the tasting room. Upstairs you’ll find the Ice Plant, a bar and farm-to-table eatery serving up brunch, lunch, dinner, and craft cocktails. They place an emphasis on the importance of quality ice and the role ice plays in perfecting a cocktail. Also, they prepare all cocktails using house-pressed juices. The industrial feel of the original warehouse combined with perfectly made cocktails make for a splendid date night. More notable eats: Disclosure: Embassy Suites by Hilton St. Augustine Beach Oceanfront Resort provided a hosted stay at no cost to the writer. All photos by Arlene Laboy unless otherwise stated. Arlene Laboy is a professional brand photographer based out of Orlando, Florida. A wife and a mother, Arlene shares her love for adventuring around Florida and her professional work through her Instagram account, @arlenemlaboy. Find out more about Arlene here.

This one starts with Superman heading back in time to do a favour for Professor Lang. Coincidentally, Superboy (years in the past) is heading forward in time to go visit the Legion. Superman and Superboy both encounter the same strange time storm during their trips and they both try to rush right through it. But the storm is stronger than they thought and they actually end up colliding with each other and being catapulted back to their respective time periods … except they’ve switched minds. In the Smallville of the past, Superman—in Superboy’s body—is so out of it his parents have to look after him. (His part of the story was apparently told in a concurrent issue of Superboy, which I won’t be reviewing since I don’t have it.) In Metropolis in the present, Superboy (I’m going to refer to him as Superboy, but keep in mind he’s in Superman’s body) quickly realizes he’s not in Kansas anymore, and when he catches a glimpse of himself reflected in a skyscraper, he’s shocked to see that he’s now in an adult body. Elsewhere in the city, a guy is getting ready to jump off a building ledge. One of the crowd below tells him to go ahead and jump, earning a punch in the mouth from Jimmy Olsen. Before the despondent guy can jump, another man appears on the ledge and tosses a rope around the jumper, tying it to his own waist. The new guy talks to the jumper and somehow draws the man’s pain and despair into himself. Across town, Superboy saves some people from a falling girder and contemplates his new status quo. He heads to his apartment to think things over. How does he know where the adult Clark Kent lives? He just felt “drawn” to the place. Okay, whatever. Meanwhile, Lana Lang is talking to the ex-suicide jumper, whose encounter with the stranger not only took away his depression, it filled him with renewed hope for the future. The stranger has disappeared, but Jimmy figured he’d slip away and was waiting for him. At Clark’s place, Superboy has familiarized himself with his adult life by going through scrap books and newspaper clippings. He’s surprised to find out his co-anchor at WGBS news is Lana Lang … and she’s a total babe. At the Galaxy Building, Perry White is feeling like shit because his dog got run over, and Lana’s down because her career is great but her love life is non-existent since Vartox left. Jimmy brings in the guy who saved the suicide jumper (his name is Euphor), who uses his empathic aura to help Perry and Lana. Perry realizes he can always get another dog and Lana figures there are other men in the universe besides Vartox. Euphor says he isn’t interested in a print interview, but wouldn’t mind appearing on TV for a few minutes that night. Lana decides to call Clark to invite him to dinner, but he’s not home. Superboy is flying around Metropolis again, stopping high-tech bank robbers and catching petty thieves. He happens upon a guy trying to steal a chain from a woman’s neck, but this woman is no pushover … it’s Lois Lane, and she kicks the guy’s ass. Superboy recognizes Lois from Clark’s scrapbooks, but obviously has no idea that she and Superman have a more intimate relationship. He treats her like any other person, which makes her suspicious right away. Later outside Clark’s apartment, Superboy saves Dwight Decker, the kid who visited WGBS last issue, from getting run over. Dwight still wants an interview with Clark Kent and is disappointed when Superboy tells him Clark isn’t home (after supposedly checking with his x-ray vision). Superboy decides to check out Clark’s job at WGBS and runs into Lana, who invites him to dinner. He’s blown away by how hot she turned out to be, so he accepts right away. Downtown, a crowd has gathered and everyone in it is feeling blissfully happy, thanks to Euphor. But he’s apparently not as altruistic as he seemed; he’s wearing a goofy costume and it turns out that his absorbing all the negative feelings from people is giving him power of some kind. He plans on absorbing all the bad emotions in Metropolis and gaining even more power; we’ll see if he succeeds next issue. Last issue in the Middle Ages, Syrene apparently killed Superman by using his body as a filter so she could absorb ultra-powerful magical energy through a Runestone. Superman had previously been split into two halves (each of which ended up in different time periods) by Lord Satanis, Syrene’s ex, who also wants the power of the Runestone. When Syrene tried to use her new powers to eliminate Satanis, he took refuge in Superman’s body, which retained its invulnerability. Satanis figures his magic coupled with Superman’s invulnerability will be enough to bring Syrene down, but her power level is immense and she’s confident she’ll win. In the present, the other half of Superman seemed to have died as well, and since he was in his civilian identity at the time, everyone thinks Clark Kent is dead. But just as they’re about to do an autopsy, Clark wakes up. He’s pretty freaked out and wants to leave, although the doctors would prefer he stick around for some tests. With help from Lois, Lana, and Jimmy, Clark leaves and ends up at Lois’s place where she insists he get some rest. Lana is glad Clark is alive, but she has to get to WGBS to do the news. Lois can’t help wondering at the coincidence of Superman losing half his powers and Clark almost dying, so she asks Clark straight out if he’s Superman. He denies it, figuring it’s technically not a lie, since he certainly isn’t the same Superman he used to be. In the past, the fight has shifted into an interdimensional limbo, where Syrene and Satanis keep trying to blow each other away with magic. Syrene hasn’t quite assimilated her new powers, but she’s a fast learner and begins to get the upper hand. Satanis tries to reach any shred of consciousness that might still live inside Superman, knowing they’ll need to work together to overcome Syrene. She grows to gigantic proportions, conjures a huge snake that swallows Satanis alive, and balls the snake up in her hands, preparing to destroy it. In the present, Clark has a nightmare about the fight and realizes it’s really happening to his other half in the past. He knows he needs to get back there and rejoin the two halves of his body, but Satanis has blocked every possible time-travel path. Clark decides to ask Perry White for some vacation time so he can ponder the problem. While at the Daily Planet, Clark overhears Lois talking about a story she’s working on about some “Forgotten Heroes”, including Rip Hunter, the so-called Time Master. Clark figures Hunter might be able to help him travel back in time, so he heads out to Hunter’s base in California. He’s surprised to find Hunter (and the other Time Masters) are quite old. Hunter is pretty bitter and doesn’t think Superman can help him with his problems. Superman feels a bit guilty asking, but tells Hunter he needs help. In the past, Superman’s consciousness aids Satanis, enabling them to burst out of Syrene’s snake ball. They push her out of Limbo to limit her power, and Satanis starts pounding her with rocks. Superman tells him to stop, since he doesn’t want to be a party to murder, but Satanis keeps going. He blasts Syrene with a combination of his magic and Superman’s powers, blowing her away. Superman hopes she isn’t dead, but Satanis is sure she is and says he now has all the power. His gloating is interrupted by the arrival of Rip Hunter’s time machine, from which steps Superman’s other half. I know I’ve been saying this for the last couple issues, but it looks like we’re finally going to see the big confrontation and Superman getting back to normal next issue. - When Lois is talking about the Forgotten Heroes, she mentions not only Rip Hunter and Cave Carson, but also the Sea Devils, Suicide Squad, Vigilante (presumably the Earth-1 version), Ragman, and B’wana Beast. This is setting up a future story where Superman meets some of those old-timers. - Gil Kane’s art is a little weird here (and last issue); his mystical stuff is fine, but his civilians look really off-model. Clark looks kind of androgynous in some panels and there was one panel last issue where Lois looked like the Dragon Lady from Terry and the Pirates. I really liked Kane’s Spider-Man stuff in the 70s, but this is a little too loose for me. This one starts with Metropolis undergoing a smog alert. But this is no ordinary smog, it’s so thick visibility is basically zero and people are being warned not to go outside at all for fear of choking on the noxious fumes. Naturally there are people who don’t listen, so Superman is on duty, helping an ambulance get to the hospital and putting out a fire before heading to WGBS to do the news as Clark Kent. Meanwhile, Star City is having the same smog problem and Green Arrow has to stop some looters trying to take advantage. Arrow heads to the National Weather Service, where he’s told the smog is blanketing half the country, even places that normally don’t have smog. Put that together with the fact that natural weather patterns can’t seem to affect the smog and it looks like there’s something sinister about it. In Metropolis, Superman discusses the situation with Jimmy Olsen and notices trouble in Star City with his telescopic vision. He and Jimmy head to Star City, where Superman finds a weird energy storm in the skies. He suspects it’s not normal and gets confirmation when one of the energy bolts actually hurts him. On the ground, Jimmy runs into Black Canary and Green Arrow, and the trio is soon joined by Superman. Superman tells them the energy is being drawn to Earth from somewhere else and it’s creating an inversion layer in the atmosphere that’s trapping all the smog. Superman has traced where the energy is being pulled to on Earth and says he doesn’t believe there are evil intentions behind it, but Green Arrow’s not so sure. Superman takes them to the Rocky Mountains, to a secret base guarded by soldiers. After convincing the soldiers who they are, they meet a scientist named Selinger, who admits his project is responsible for the smog. Selinger says they’re privately funded but cooperating with the government, hence the soldiers and the old Army base. Selinger shows them his top-secret project (Z Project) which draws a new form of energy from the deepest reaches of the cosmos. The Zeta energy is supposedly beyond anything discovered before, even quarks, quasars, and pulsars. Superman wonders how they can possibly control energy that even he can’t handle and Selinger admits they can’t really control it … yet. But in a year or so, he figures they’ll have it beat. Green Arrow says the country will have choked to death on the smog in a year, not to mention what might happen if the energy got loose. Selinger says the smog will clear eventually, and it’s a small price to pay for a source of clean, nearly unlimited energy. Arrow is ready to deck Selinger but Canary holds him back. Superman says he agrees with Arrow’s concerns and tells Selinger he’ll be reporting all this to the government and keeping a close eye on the project. They’re ready to leave when they realize Green Arrow has disappeared. Yeah, he’s gone crusading again, looking for a way to shut down the project. He runs into some guards and their stray bullets knock out the safety devices containing the Z energy. Arrow is locked in a storage room while the facility prepares to deal with the energy breach. Superman flies up to try and contain the breach but gets knocked back. (For some reason, the breached energy is taking a vaguely humanoid form and seems to be quasi-intelligent.) Arrow soon escapes and improvises a bow and arrows so he can start pounding guards. Superman heads for the ultimate source of the energy, billions of light years across the universe. (He uses a space warp as a shortcut.) He finds where the energy is being drawn from, but he’s afraid that just plugging the hole might screw up the cosmic energy balance (or something), so he creates a supernova in a nearby star which is just enough to push the energy source slightly out of synch with Earth, cutting off the energy supply. He warps back to Earth and realizes as long as the Z energy collectors are operational, the “energy monster” will still exist. So Superman trashes the entire facility, making the monster vanish. Selinger freaks out, bitching about losing his precious energy source. Superman says the energy source is just slightly out of alignment and things will line up again in a century … when humanity will hopefully be able to harness the energy properly. Selinger says Earth might not last a hundred years and any price is worth it for unlimited energy. Superman points out that destroying Earth in order to save Earth is pretty damn stupid, but Selinger just doesn’t get it. - Right before heading to Star City, Superman says he spotted trouble “to the north” and Star City is said to be several hundred miles from Metropolis. I always thought Star City was on the West Coast, not far from Coast City … maybe that’s post-Crisis only? Last issue, Rostov and Shakira went back in time to the Age of Wizard Kings and ended up meeting a centaur (Erin Shadowstalker) who took them to Mongo Ironhand’s castle for help getting home. Mongo has been hanging out with Mariah (who is Rostov’s ex) and Machiste, who thought the newcomers were agents of the Evil One. That led to a classic misunderstanding fight, but before it could get too intense, Jennifer Morgan and her father (Travis Morgan, the Warlord of the title) came through a magic portal to break up the brawl. Jennifer impresses Mongo with her sorcery and uses her magic to keep Rostov from killing Machiste. Morgan explains things to Mongo and introduces everyone. (Including Shakira, who Mongo thought he’d turned into a cat with his magic; he’s relieved to learn she’s a shape-shifter.) Mariah and Rostov (who’s lycanthropic condition is a surprise to her) go outside to talk. Jennifer tells Mongo she and her father came back in time to stop the Evil One, and that if they don’t end his reign of terror now, it’ll have profound implications for the future. Mongo gives Morgan his old sword (the Hellfire Sword), but the gem is missing from the pommel. Too bad, since the gem protected the wielder against magic. Rostov tells Mariah how he became a werewolf and how he tracked her to Skartaris, hoping to rekindle their love. Mariah says whatever they had is over and admits she and Machiste are an item now. It looks like Machiste and Rostov might square off, but Morgan says everyone needs to work together against the Evil One. Jennifer suggests they bring all the surviving wizards together, but Mongo figures they have no chance against the Evil One’s power, especially while he has the Necronomicon. Jennifer says she can prepare a spell to get through his defenses, but they’ll have to draw him out of his stronghold in the heart of a volcano. The Evil one cares most for gold and power, so Jennifer figures if they can cut off his supply of gold, he’ll come after them. The wizards bring a vast hoard of treasure together and seal it inside a pyramid. That brings the Evil One to recover the gold, but he can’t get through the mystical barrier around the pyramid. Meanwhile, Jennifer and the others have teleported to the Evil One’s stronghold to look for the Necronomicon. Jennifer finds it by detecting the protective aura around it, but before they can grab it, the Evil One returns. He’s too powerful for them (even Morgan’s gun can’t hurt him) and he imprisons them all in force fields. He wants the key to the pyramid so he can get all the gold and Mariah pretends to help him, tricking him into stabbing himself with the spring-loaded dagger in her sword hilt. But even that isn’t enough to stop him and he uses his magic to screw with their minds, implanting the thought that they’re dying … which will make them actually die. But Skartaris’s moon is shining through the volcano cone and Rostov changes into wolf form. Having an animal’s mind lets him break free and attack the Evil One, who blasts him with magic. Rostov turns human again, but the distraction is enough for Jennifer to break herself (and the others) free of the force fields. She and the Evil one engage in a magical duel and they’re pretty evenly matched. Morgan knocks the Necronomicon off its stand and Mongo pushes it into the volcano. Losing the book’s power makes the Evil One change from his demon form back to his original body, which looks like Gollum. He scuttles off into the caves below the volcano and everyone takes off right before the volcano erupts. Morgan wonders why Jennifer didn’t kill the Gollum-creature, but she says it’s Evil so you can never really rid the world of it.

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I don't think anyone could argue that Leica's first forays into interchangeable lens digital photography went quite to plan. The Digital Modul R, which was a 10-million-pixel back for the lovely R9 and R8 SLR bodies, was a good idea, but with a Kodak sensor that was full of silly mistakes it failed to take off when it was launched in 2004. It also cost somewhat more than the host bodies themselves. The M8 was the company's first stab at creating a digital rangefinder, but with a similar sensor to that used in the Modul R, and no lessons learnt, it failed to produce the quality that Leica users, rightly, expected. It was also a little over-sensitive to infrared (as was the Modul R, though it went largely unreported), so users had to resort to the less than satisfactory solution of using IR cut-off filters over their lenses. Since then we've had the M8.2, the M9, the M-E and the black-and-white-only Monochrom, as well as Leica's series of S medium format cameras. Each has (mostly) been an improvement on the last, as one would hope, and the new-fashioned M (Type 240) promises to be a more significant step again – from its specification sheet at least. While the company has been catching up with the rest of the industry it hasn't made an allowance in its prices, and when you pay what you pay for a Leica body you really are entitled to expect something special. Buying a camera that doesn't live up to our expectations is painful enough, but that pain is doubled or trebled when that camera costs as much as a Leica does – they make expensive lamentations that pride can keep unspoken for years. There are plenty of new features on this version of the M, and the most significant of those has to be the new sensor. It is some time since we had a chance to discuss the benefits of CMOS over CCD, as most brands switched to CMOS years ago, but this is Leica's first adventure with CMOS technology in an M body. The obvious changes it brings are an ability to record video, and the streaming function required for the provision of Live View. The 24-million-pixel 'Leica Max' 36x24mm sensor outputs images of a maximum size of 5976x3992 pixels in DNG raw mode, slightly smaller in JPEG, and is, according to Leica, a design heavily influenced by the company's own engineers. If this is the case, it is good news, as historically it was the components that Leica brought oven-ready from third parties that let its previous models down. I'm still not sure how important video (HD or not) is to a Leica rangefinder user, but the introduction of Live View, with focus peaking and up to 10x zooming magnification, could make a massive difference to the Leica user's life. Previously M models have had viewfinders designed to operate with a collection of specific focal lengths, as long and wide lenses need different magnifications in the viewfinder window so we can see what we are shooting. With Live View, of course, all that is done away with, as we can see on the rear screen exactly what the lens is projecting – and that view will always fill the screen. We can also now use lenses from the Leica R 35mm film SLR system (via an adapter of course) and can focus them using peaking, and for the first time we can work in macro without having to guess focus or manually measure the camera-to-subject distance. I now regret selling my old M bellows unit, which seemed at the time impossible to use. And now perhaps the door is open for mount adapter manufacturers to add Leica M bayonet to the range. Despite the new sensor, the M's ISO range is a modest 200-6400, with ISO 100 as a 'pull' option. In practical terms the top ISO setting is about as high as most people will want to go, given that Leica lenses tend to have very wide maximum apertures, but on the other hand you might expect this kind of documentary camera to be operated in very low light. The most visually impressive feature though is easily the new rear screen. Having suffered the ancient technology of the Monochrom's screen recently, the 920,000-dot, 3-inch panel on the M 240 makes a very welcome change – and a very significant improvement.

The new version of Workshop on the Web is here at last – the book is ready and the members’ club on the WOWbook site (www.wowbook.d4daisy.com) has its doors wide open. It seems to have had a very long gestation period – how long is it for elephants? We all feel that it has been so well worth it – the book is great and the site is looking good, too. I would like to say a big thank you to all our artists in the book and in the members’ club (you will all love Sherrill Kahn’s article here). The chance to have videos to expand the techniques in the book is a whole new series of opportunities. In the book, I think we chose the contributors well and all the sections have something different to offer. Hilary Beattie writes as only Hilary can – so much information, delivered in such a generous fashion. Laura Edgar covers both hand and machine stitching and lots of it without buying expensive materials. Caroline Bell demystifies eco-dyeing and I love the results on paper, wonderful when combined with simple stitch. Amo House gives a concise article on water-solubles of all sorts – and there is this Maggie Grey person who has had great fun with a vessel (there will be more on the latest version of this in future blogs). To pick one article in a random fashion to demonstrate that there are so many alternative avenues to explore: Angie Hughes covers everything from transfer painting to glitzy fabric shedding – with a side trip through machined cords that is worth an article on it’s own. In the pic below you can see her machining her transfer dyed felt. Then there is the lovely effect of the shredded organza. Here is a detail of one of the cords. That is just one of the sections – so many ideas. I am already preparing the course that I will be running in the members’ club. This will carry on through subsequent books and I expect to post two or more sections for each book. It seems the ideal way to run a course – I will be able to take time with it and I hope everyone will join in, showing results and experiments on the Members’ Facebook site. See you in the members’ club when you get the password , which is contained in the WOWbook. Or should that be beginning of an era? I can’t believe that we are saying farewell to Workshop on the Web and hello to the WOWbook. We started WoW so many years ago and I am so chuffed that so many of our original WoWies are still with us. I do have to say that big hugs and thanks are due to Sam Packer, Amo House and most of all Fiona Edwards because without their help it would have disappeared long ago. I have been looking through the back issues and there are so many highlights. Here are a few from recent issues: Isobel Moore caught everyone’s imagination with her spirals in March this year. She also has a piece of work in the Gallery on this site. In March 2015 Ann Small wrote about the bone people. I really wanted to try this but a serious incident was narrowly avoided when Smudge found my boiled bones. Luckily I caught him in time. Still love these figures though. I have written so many articles over the years but the last one, playing with shadow work using stencils and Lutradur, is one of my favourites and I am still exploring these techniques – now using my die cutter for the shapes. At the time, Fiona and I were trying to finish the final issue of WoW, building up the new website and finishing off the book. I think we both had serious doubts about our ability to get it all together. I expect I will be writing another article on the ‘trapping’ technique for one of the online workshops in the new members’ club I was very taken with this article by Sarah Waters and I did make a collar, which I liked. I used the embellisher machine to add a bit of decoration and one day, when I find it in the workroom (terrible mess), I will show you. So many workshops – so many techniques. So many more yet to be explored with the new venture – very, very soon. I have received a request for a photo of Smudge – star of so many of my blog posts in times gone by. Smudge and I considered the request and he agreed, as long as it was an action shot. As this is the closest he gets to action (note the tongue having a workout) it will have to suffice. As you can see, he still goes in for a bit of boxing – note shape of ears. We had a rare day off on Saturday and went to an exhibition in Shaftesbury (Dorset) to see a good mix of artists, including Workshop on the Web’s own Amo House. It was a lovely show – I do enjoy the chance to see artists of different disciplines all exhibiting together. Loved the metal flowers. Amo was showing some of her delicious fat books. You can see them on the front page of this site. They are real works of art. I also loved her ‘scrolls’ which were jumbo-sized spools with the most wonderfully decorated lengths of embroidery cascading down. That girl has some seriously good ideas. After a spot of lunch we headed off to Myakka in Wincanton – a warehouse version of the ethical mail order furniture brand. Bought the little chap below. He looks really good in my ‘Moroccan’ hallway but I must get another table lamp, to fit the theme. Well, there you are – a very personal blog with hardly a mention of the wow word. I did find, with my last blog, that it was extremely useful to be able to look back on this sort of stuff. I hope you don’t mind putting up with it – back to art proper in the next edition. We have been working so hard on the WOWbook and the new site that I thought we might risk taking a day off. So, while Clive disappeared into the garden to do some long overdue tidying up, I got the sketchbook out and started planning some new work. It’s not a new theme as it is on Books of Hours – something that grew out of work for my Long Diaries and Tall Tales book. Clive and I enjoyed working together on that and his calligraphy skills came in handy, not only for the writing but for forming Latin-ish place names that I cut out on the Scan’n’Cut machine. We went on to make this piece. I photographed it in stages as we went along. On a background of Vilene, scraped with gesso and tea dyed, I started building up the piece using computer printed silk to translate my design of astrological symbols. The central boss was formed from water-soluble paper and a metal boss that Clive made for me. A strip made from mountboard and curled wire (yup, Clive again) and a piece of machine embroidered cotton from the bit box competed step 1. The next stage was to add more cut strips of painted mountboard to define the space and some kozo paper leaves painted with Pebeo Prisme paint. Clive drew me a Celtic looking shape and some roman lettering. I cut these, using the Scan’n’Cut. The next step was to add Clive’s calligraphy in the bottom panel and to make a fancy initial letter from Prisme paint. The final touch was to find a suitable sample in the bit box – this one of machine embroidered squares with wrapped curtain rings looked very Celtic. Our plan for the new work is to do more along these lines but make smaller, book-sized pieces which won’t take up so much space. We might bind them all into a book.The theme of this one was magic story about a wonderful tree in the New Forest, called the Knightwood oak. The forest is very near to where we live so this might develop a life story of its own. I’m really getting into this blog thing again and it’s good to have such a response from old and new friends. We have had lots of favourable comments on the new site but it will really come into its own when the WOWbook is published on 1st December. In addition to the wonderful workshop from Sherrill Kahn, you’ll find a workshop by Paula Watkins on Altered Books (there will be a video to go with this) and a review of Jan Beaney’s and Jean Littlejohn’s amazing new DVD. We were so lucky to be able to arrange an in-depth interview with Jan and Jean. And we are the first to show their latest work. Sam Packer is really good at interviews and in the past, she brought us a WOW feature on Michele Carragher, the embroiderer responsible for the ‘Game of Thrones’ costumes, and with the Victoria & Albert Museum team behind the amazing Opus Anglicanum exhibition earlier this year. In addition, she pulled off one with Anthea Godfrey who led the Embroiderers’ Guild and Royal School of Needlework collaboration on making the Hardhome Embroidery of the ‘White Walker’. For a small person, she has the cheek of the devil and WOW has benefited from it. We were as keen as Jan and Jean to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Julia Caprara’s death. In the interview, they talk about their friendship with her and we will follow this up on the Members’ Club page where we will have some previously unseen pics of her work. Her D4Daisy book, ‘Exploring Colour’, was published just in time for her to see it (she loved it) and it was a great privilege to be part of that. The photo shows one of her colourful pieces, a detail of ‘Flying Dragon in the Heavens’. Meanwhile, I am off to put the finishing touches to the first lesson of my online course. It will be in the Members’ Club on the website in mid-January – just when we need to get over the after-Christmas blues. This course will loosely follow the syllabus of the old one-year City & Guilds course that I used to teach, beginning with simple but effective (and I hope exciting) methods of recording ideas for textiles which will lead to the making of stitched pieces. The pic below shows the beginnings of one of my pieces for the ‘Long Diaries and Tall Tales’ book (www.d4daisy.com) which was based on illuminated manuscripts. I’ll be running at least two modules of the course in each WOWbook and it will build up in subsequent books. We can share our pics and have discussions on the Members’ Facebook page. I’ve just found some photos of my first attempts with a die cutting machine. This one is a lettering and I put a very thick piece of card through so that the die would only cut part way through and just leave traces. Must play with that again sometime. Well – a new blog, who would have thought it? My old blog at magstitch.blogspot.co.uk is still there and has some useful information, especially on imaging programs such as Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop Elements. I feel that this is a new beginning and the excitement that the WOWbook is creating is inspiring me to get down to some serious blogging again. I hope you like the spanking new website. We are indebted to Fiona Dix of lovefibre.com for holding our hand and putting up with us during our ‘training’. I think old dogs and new tricks is the phrase that comes to mind. The day we’ve all been working towards, here at WoW Towers, is getting very close. The last online issue of Workshop on the Web is now live (if you want to purchase it, go to www.workshopontheweb.com and click Subscribe) and we’re expecting the printers to deliver the new WOWbooks in the next week or so. The WOWbook is looking even better than we’d hoped and there are some cracking workshops and articles. Read how Hilary Beattie puts together her delightful collages and this is not just a ‘how to’ article that covers stencilling, printing and painting. I think that her design guidelines will give a firm foundation for putting together many a future piece of work. Laura Edgar’s work is so beautiful that it seems impossible that so many of her materials are sourced from the ‘bit box’. Mind you, I think she has a very up-market bit box. They are just two of the impressive artists in our WOWbook. I think that the benefits of the Members’ Club (free to join when you buy the book) will continue to inspire you. We have an amazing online workshop from Sherrill Kahn, which uses chalk pastels in a completely new way. I have had to have a go already and the results are impressive. I am also excited about the ongoing course that I am going to run as part of the Members’ Club. The first module will be about design without drawing and we will go on to use what we make in small works of beauty, made from paper and fabric. In the meantime, I’m going to dash off to deconstruct a vessel or two. You’ll find an explanation of this concept in one of the later free online classes that are part of the WOWbook experience. A further thought. If you buy someone the WOWbook as a Christmas present, they will benefit from all the extra online content for a whole six months. It really is the gift that goes on giving.

This week Pro-Team member Arthur Greenwood talks us through 'The Green Peter Evo 4' Well, the season’s almost over and I’ve been looking through the diary for my most successful pattern on the salmon and sea trout loughs of Ireland in 2016. It came as no surprise to find that my Green Peter variant came out tops once again. Originally it was tied as a dry fly to represent the big speckled sedges (Phryganea varia and P. obsoleta) which hatch on our big Midland lakes such as Lough Owel and Lough Sheelin. There, it is usual to see boats and anglers setting out at dusk on August evenings to meet with the big browns which feed greedily on the natural insects in those places, often well into the night. The pattern evolved into a wet fly and many years ago it was Peter O’Reilly who tipped me off about its effectiveness fished wet on the top dropper for salmon and trout in the West of Ireland. Peter, if pressed, would nominate the Green Peter as his Number One lough fly for brown trout and grilse which in itself speaks volumes. I have to confess that, in common with many Irish fly dressers, I am an inveterate tinkerer with old patterns – we can’t just leave well enough alone! The first evolution was the adoption of a red seal’s fur butt. I’m not sure who came up with this idea but it certainly added to the fly’s usefulness. The second innovation was the substitution of the original hen pheasant wing with a folded bronze mallard version. Thirdly, I added a few knotted pheasant tail legs. When tested, this led to a huge increase in my lough sea trout catch rate - and grilse also find these additions very attractive. Finally I experimented with a bushy speckled brown hen hackle at the front of the pattern, which I think enhances the fly’s mobility in the water and also enables the soft entry so desirable in a good wet fly pattern. I’ve always been an admirer of that doyen of Irish authors, the late T.C. Kingsmill-Moore and have tried to follow his thinking on fly design. Today, his Bumble series of flies is as popular and successful as when they were first developed in the early and middle years of the last century. This quotation summarises his thoughts when the Bumbles and Kingsmills were completed to his satisfaction: “When [my] flies were examined against a northern light the Irish assortment came into its own. British patterns, because of their opaque construction, lost their hues and became almost silhouettes; but with the Irish, the light found its way through the ragged wings, trickled in and out of the gleaming seal’s fur, was reflected back from the hidden tinsel and turned the whole body into a haze of colour.” Now, there was a master tinkerer! Hook: Partridge G3A/L Wet Fly Supreme, size 8 or 10 Thread: Black 8/0 Rib: Oval gold tinsel Butt: A pinch of red seal’s fur Body: Green olive seal’s fur Hackle: Red game, palmered Wing: Bronze mallard, folded or rolled Legs: Two pairs of double cock pheasant tail fibres Head hackle: Brown or ginger speckled hen

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If you combined London, New York, ancient China and Bladerunner, you would get a city almost as incredible as Hong Kong. Gleaming towers, full of shops that sparkle, red double-decker buses passing you on the main streets. Modernity like a decorative lace edge to a complex brocade of vast history. Glass towers next to decades old buildings, both surround spectacular temples. The narrow streets and alleys, tucked between those shining towers, lure you into a different, yet just as wonderful world. Even when the alleys are packed with people streaming from one destination to another. Market streets overflow with bargains, treasures, junk, essentials and baubles. Restaurants set up under umbrellas and tarps, on sidewalks, dimly lit by street lights and the glow of your cellphone. You’ve had to wait in the shelter of a nearby door way, or under your own umbrella, for a seat to become available. But the crowded tables tell you the food is worth the wait in the rain. Chinese bakeries, almost hidden, are running out of stock as you stand outside. You realize if you don’t get in there RIGHT NOW, you won’t get any of the coconut mango mochi. Not getting freshly made coconut mango mochi, when you knew you had the chance, would make you cry yourself to sleep that night, and kick yourself for days. So you walk in, point to the glorious pillows of coconut mango mochi, and politely let the shop keeper know that you will take all that remain. All of them. To appreciate my deep and abiding love for coconut mango mochi, imagine a food item you ADORE. You love it so much, that you kind of want the world to know about it. You want your friends and loved ones to taste the glory of that exquisitely delicious morsel. You love your friends and family – you really do! But, if you gave one of your precious morsels away, it would be one less experience of your precious….So, If you are ever with me when I buy coconut mango mochi, and I give you one, you will know that I really do consider you a true and worthy friend. People ask “Where is your favorite place you visited?” It is always a hard question to answer, but Hong Kong may be my favorite. I got all of the above amazing experiences, plus made some beautiful friendships. There is just something about friendship that makes every experience that much more powerful and fulfilling. I really do feel as if I have a brother and sister in Hong Kong…but that is a subject for a different post. Back in 2014, in May, I spent a couple of amazing weeks in Hong Kong. I recovered from “The Best Italian Pizza, from a Mexican Restaurant, in all of South East Asia” – (This will turn into a link as soon as I write the post!) Most of the time I felt like I was swimming through the streets, it rained so much. I walked for days through the rain. I learned that I had to have a different definition of self beauty in 100 percent humidity. I was humbled by my flipflops. I was raised up by beautiful friendship. My heart is full when I think about Hong Kong. The last photo of my post is of my HK metro pass…it is so freakin cute, and I’m saving it for the next time I get to HK.

Welcome to 2020: the year we spent at home! Or at least it feels that way, right? On the bright side, I’ve fallen in love with our house- especially the porch our two littlest ones love so much, and the view of those iconic Pennsylvanian rolling hills out our windows… But just like you we haven’t had too many opportunities to get out. Do you feel you could use a little more space to stretch out? During our busy summer build season at Martin, Vern is always talking with homeowners about additions. But staying home this year has brought more people through our doors looking for a way to stretch their space without investing in a full-out integrated build. After all, home additions have their own challenges. If your home hasn’t been built in the last few years, matching materials isn’t easy if you aren’t budgeting for a full exterior overhaul. Not to mention the floorplan of your existing home can limit the size and scope of what you can add. I’ve got the perfect solution for you to dream about today, wrapped up in an unexpected structure you might not have thought about before: The detached garage. What Makes Modern Detached Garages Different Growing up, my best friend’s house had a small 2-car garage- the kind you don’t use for much else but keeping the snow off your truck and storing a spare chest freezer. At some point, they added a tiny detached garage that, in theory, could’ve stored another car? It was more like a nice tool shed with a poured concrete floor. As a kid, all I remember was that I liked how small it was…and how the concrete was perfect for sidewalk chalk. Looking back? It wasn’t anything special. That’s probably why when homeowners outgrow their house, adding a separate garage isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But today’s detached garages are so much more than a place to store the riding lawn mower- they function as full living spaces beyond our home. Let me give you some examples… - #WFH Ready: Working from home? Find your in-home office constantly under siege from your kids? Solution: How about building a studio in a detached garage? The separate space gives you boundaries and brings balance your “work” and “home” life….especially in times like this where they overlap more than ever. - Hobby Heaven: Has quarantine brought with it the growth of a new hobby? Is your spouse wondering when they’ll ever have their kitchen table or mudroom back? A detached garage is perfect woodworking, crafting, guitar-building, furniture refurbishing, and more. - Give Mom Some Room: Don’t have a good space to host guests? Need a little privacy when your mother-in-law comes to visit? A detached garage frees up space in your house and host a cozy guest room. In fact, the biggest advantage of building a detached garage over a traditional addition to your home is flexibility. With a home addition, your options are limited by what works within the existing structure of your house. But when you build a detached garage? You have the freedom to design around what you need. So go ahead and dream a little. Here are a few of my favorite trends for separate garages this season. When You Need A Workshop Sometimes the things we love really need a separate place. Especially a messy hobby… Staying at home has given a lot of us a chance to rediscover something we love. I’m seeing friends and family doing everything from chainsaw sculptures to furniture building to finally fixing up that old 1970’s VW Karmann Ghia. The creativity is great! But tracking sawdust into your kitchen or leaving oil spots in your driveway? Not the best long term solution. Enter: The Workshop Garage. A compact two-bay garage like the one above, something with a little pull-down storage above? It’s the perfect place to host your hobby. …..a place where instead of hunting around with an extension cord, the outlets are right where you need them!… ….where you aren’t worried about someone sticking their fingers in the varnish you just laid down…. ….a perfect workshop where the workspaces are well lit, your tools in reach, and everything stays where you put it… The detached option is perfect for this. And bonus: If that hobby grows into the ‘next big thing’? You can join the ranks of entrepreneurs like Hewlett & Packard, Bezos, and Steve Jobs by saying you also built your empire from the garage. Storage for Your Recreational Equipment Is your family cabin seeing more use than ever? Running out of space for your RVs, sea-doos, ATVs, pool floaties, lifejackets…? The list goes on! It’s great you’re spending so much time on the water, but you need a place to keep things out of our Pennsylvania rain. I love it when customers come to us with the challenge of building spaces that look perfect on their property… which is why I really love these rustic cabin-inspired detached garage designs. Separate structures can complement your existing home (or cabin) and emphasize the look you want for your property as a whole. You can design your detached garage to look like an old farmhouse barn, a log cabin, a beautiful countryside cottage. Design should always take into account the utility of the space. That means if you have a big asset, like an RV, we can create a structure that makes storage and maintenance easy. The Man Cave (or She-Shed!) of Your Dreams Did the pandemic put a damper on your Father’s Day plans? Here’s possibly the best Christmas/Birthday/Father’s Day/You’re Awesome gift ever: A built-for-you retreat. We all have keepsakes that don’t fit into our homes (or…our spouse’s style). Show your love by creating a place that brings those treasures out of the basement and into a space of their own. There’s something wonderful about having a space designed just for you. And we’re not just talking about the guys who want to hang up the neon signs and display their collegiate trophies… I’ve flipped through plenty of beautiful design magazines knowing some of my favorites are completely impractical for family life (white rugs and toddlers? nope.) or, a little too much for my husband (I love cute cottage style). What about building a detached garage/studio as your “she shed”? Your own private getaway? I’d love a sweet little office in a place like this to catch up on bookwork and enjoy a little peace and quiet. Especially if it could double as a place to host family when they come to town. Speaking of which… A Private Retreat for Guests Detached garages offer the perfect opportunity to build out a guest room for visitors. While yes, you can go all out and add a restroom or a shower- you don’t have to. Just having access to a small bedroom can make your home less chaotic during the holidays. A simple framed and insulated room above your detached garage (like this one below) can be transformed from office to guest room to recreational room in no time: If the thought of having more space has crossed your mind, we’d love to help. We’re more than a great construction company- we also love great design. Schedule a call here to talk to us about what your challenges are in your current home- and we’ll help you find a solution that fits into your timeline and budget. Keep up with the latest in home building trends, smart homeowner tips, and more! Subscribe to our email list below!

Saturday was a bleak and stormy day, the kind that usually encourages people to stay inside if at all possible. But at the A-Frame, a concert venue and event center just north of campus, the rooms were full of vendors and shoppers for the second-annual Bartering with Babes event. Held the day after International Women’s Day, women from the area set up booths and sold the goods they’ve created–– from art to clothing to ice cream. Bartering with Babes gives residents a chance to buy local and support the creative community, but it’s more than just a marketplace to pick up some locally-made items. “I just really wanted to focus and make it all about women, because I feel like we need to be recognized a little bit more for what we contribute to the community,” organizer of the event, Shkala Smith, said. The first annual event was held in November of 2017 but Smith said she switched the date to March this year in order to coincide with Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. “We have a really wide variety of the types of people who vend here and shop here.,” Smith said. “It appeals to a lot of different people.” Local artist and gallery owner Courtney Davis sold her acrylic portraits along with some abstract paintings at Saturday’s event. Davis is an owner of Ingen Art Gallery & Studio in Bowling Green and a self described “artist at heart”. She said she enjoys painting because it gives her something she can focus on. “I think being a woman really inspires you in one way or another,” Davis said, gesturing to a portrait of Frida Kahlo she has on sale. “It’s always nice to just appreciate us for us.” Artist duo, Debbie Apple and Cindy Houston were situated in adjacent booths in a corner of the front room. Apple creates wool on her farm, and Houston dyes the wool as well as dyeing fibers and clothes on her own. “I can’t imagine my life without thinking about things to make,” Houston said. “Because I make a lot of things, I have to sell a lot of things so I can make more things.” For her part, Apple is excited about the growth in the fiber arts. “I’ve been knitting for 50 years, and it’s really exciting to be able to take something from my sheep and then see it through the whole process and then watch people use the end product,” Apple said. Houston and Apple both said they consider themselves to be perfect examples of the way the local creative community works together. “I grow indigo, and Cindy has expertise on dyeing, and this summer we’ll harvest my indigo together,” Apple said.”I get goosebumps just thinking about it.” “I think it’s a lot about the people,” Houston said.. “I just meet the most interesting, wonderful people. And it’s a real giving community.” Laila Crowe, 15, and Elizabeth Howell, 12, sell ice cream made of locally-sourced ingredients, along with Laila’s mother, Carol Crowe. Carol Crowe homeschools her daughter, and as Laila Crowe gets ready to graduate from high school, she said she’s looking for something to do next. Having made ice cream at home for years, Laila Crowe decided to turn it into a business and began working with Howell, a long time friend. “We went to church together 10 years ago, and we’ve always been really close,” Howell said. “I really like helping out with them.” The Crowes rent a commercial kitchen on the Howell’s property, making the venture a team effort between the two families. “I know a lot of the people here just from being a part of the community for a while, and it’s just really fun to see what everyone does,” Carol Crowe said. “All the jewelry I’m wearing is from one of the ladies in the area, I like it a lot.” Walking through the building, vendors laughed as they chatted with shoppers and other vendors alike, and many faces lit up as they recognize old friends. The importance of uplifting women creators in the community was not lost on the shoppers. “All these are artists, and I just want to support them and encourage more people to do that sort of thing,” April Gregory, an attendee of the event, said. Janice Keith, Gregory’s friend who attended the event with her, noted that Gregory is also an artist. “She’s an artist herself, and she likes to be supported,” Keith said “She makes cakes.” While discussing why she sees supporting women creators specifically as important, Gregory offered a simple response: “Because I’m a woman!” she said.

Items like pizza boxes, plastic bags, styrofoam and food wrap are some of the most-searched on the City of Edmonton’s WasteWise app. … Conventional plastic bags like grocery bags, bread bags, produce bags, dry cleaner bags and sandwich bags can all go in the recycling. Can pizza boxes be composted Edmonton? Yes. You can put food-soiled pizza boxes (dried-on cheese, food chunks, sauce splatters etc.) in your green cart to be composted. What Cannot be recycled in Edmonton? Improper items can jam machinery, damage equipment and increase the risk of staff injuries. - Metals (no loose lids, trap inside can or discard) - Glass (empty and clean, remove lids and put in garbage) - Plastics (empty and clean, remove lids and put in garbage) Can you put takeaway boxes in recycling? Takeaway boxes (plastic and cardboard) cannot be recycled using your local council’s kerbside recycling bin, bag or box or your local Household Waste Recycling Centre. What do you do with Styrofoam Edmonton? Large amounts can be taken to Edmonton Waste Management Centre (Clover Bar Landfill): 250 Aurum Road SE, Edmonton. Call 780-442-5311 for rates and hours of operation. What bin does a pizza box go in? Takeaway pizza boxes can be ripped up and placed in your green/brown bin. Aerosol cans (ensure aerosols are empty, do not crush or pierce) antiperspirant deodorant cans, airfreshner cans. Can soiled pizza boxes be recycled? Pizza boxes are made from corrugated cardboard, and when soiled with cheese, grease and other foods – they become a recycling no-go. … Typically only the top half of the box – the part that’s not soiled with grease, cheese or other food – can go into your curbside recycling bin. Are cardboard food containers recyclable? Paper or Cardboard Containers and Clamshells: These are often made from recycled materials and can be recycled themselves. Some are even biodegradable and compostable as long as they are thoroughly cleaned and haven’t soaked up any grease. What can go in recycle Edmonton? Paper, newspaper, boxes, tin cans, glass jars and bottles, plastic containers and bags are all acceptable items for any of our recycling programs. Note: Please do not put shredded paper in your blue bag or apartment blue bin. Take it to a Recycling Depot or put it in your garbage. What plastic containers can be recycled? Which Plastics Are Recyclable By Number? - #1: PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) - #2: HDPE (High-Density Polyethylene) - #3: PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) - #4: LDPE (Low-Density Polyethylene) - #5: PP (Polypropylene) - #6: PS (Polystyrene) - #7: Polycarbonate, BPA, and Other Plastics. What can you do with old takeaway containers? Plastic takeaway containers can be re-used to store food or other items. If you can’t re-use them, they can be recycled in your yellow lid bin. Just make sure they’re clean – empty food and liquids. Are Chinese takeout boxes recyclable? If it’s a plastic container labeled #1 or #2, you can recycle it. … None of these can go into your recycling bin. Try to skip these items and materials in your next order and you can drastically cut down on the amount of trash you make. Those brown, red, and white paper takeout containers aren’t recyclable either. Are Chinese takeout boxes compostable? Chinese Food-Style Takeout Boxes They should go in the compost, so you don’t even have to wash them out. (Just remove any metal wires.) Is Styrofoam recyclable in Alberta? Only a handful of Alberta communities accept Styrofoam for recycling, said Christina Seidel of the Recycling Council of Alberta. Unlike glass, there’s definitely a market for it, and you can sell it if you can make it dense enough to transport. Can you recycle Styrofoam in Alberta? We are expanding Polystyrene (EPS/Styrofoam) recycling throughout the Province of Alberta. We have recently purchased a Foam Recycling Compactor Machine that a like to GreenMax. We use a specialize machine that densifies EPS so it can then be recycled into manufacturing beads. Are toothpaste boxes recyclable? Paperboard Products: Recyclable Paperboard products are recyclable as cardboard. These include: Soap boxes. Toothpaste boxes.

Raring to Glow entrant completes walk 3 weeks early While most walkers are gearing up for the Raring to Glow event, one supporter has already completed the 7 mile route! A former cancer-sufferer from Oswaldtwistle completed the Raring to Glow walk more than 3 weeks early – when she realised she would be on holiday when it takes place. Sixty-nine year old Carol Ratcliffe has completed the East Lancashire Hospice Starlight Walk twice before, one of those was just months after major surgery to remove cancer found in her bowel discovered during a routine screening. This year she discovered she was on holiday when she received her registration pack – but was determined to do the walk as family and friends had already pledged sponsorship money. So Carol and her husband Michael, a retired vicar walked the exact route – following the hospice directions to complete the 7 mile circular. They started from their home in Stanhill Road which is on the route. To complete the feeling of doing the hospice walk, the couple even made sausage sandwiches as a well-deserved supper, just like the Raring to Glow participants will receive. Carol, who works as a practice manager said: “When I realised I couldn’t make the date, I didn’t want to miss it. I decided I would do the walk anyway and decided on a Friday evening. I set off from my house which is on the new route with my husband Michael and we kept going all the way. We were excited about doing it and chatted all the way round which kept me going. When we got to the bottom of the hill at Shadsworth it looked quite steep, but we just took a deep breath and went for it! I always enjoy the hospice walks as it feels good to be walking for a purpose.” She added that although she and her husband haven’t needed hospice care, they are aware of many that have: “Having worked in Pathology for 36 years in a hospital setting, I feel the need for the hospice. We’ve had friends that have passed away there. I doesn’t matter a person’s faith, or what money they have, the hospice exists to care for those who need it. It’s such an important place and so peaceful. It’s an asset for this area.” But Carol has a routine bowel cancer screening programme to thank for her being able to complete the walks. After signing up for the Starlight Walk in 2013, she was diagnosed after her third routine screen and had no symptoms. She underwent a 5 hour operation and is under now under 5 year review after the successful procedure. Walk in Carol’s footsteps on 4 July and join the hundreds of ladies who will light up the night in aid of the hospice. Click here to sign up now – the £10 registration ends this Friday.

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Patients benefit from being educated in a supportive manner about relapse risk situations, thoughts, or emotions; they must learn to recognize these as triggers for relapse and learn to manage unavoidable triggers without resorting to substance-using behaviors. Social skills training is targeted at improving individual responsibility within family relationships, workrelated interactions, and social relationships. During the early recovery phase, it can be helpful to encourage patients to seek new experiences and roles consistent with a substance-free existence. Facilitating treatment of co-occurring psychiatric and medical conditions that significantly interact with substance relapse is a long-term intervention for maintaining sobriety (119121). Therapeutic strategies to prevent relapse have been well studied and include teaching individuals to anticipate and avoid substance-related cues. Behavioral techniques that enhance the availability and perceived value of social reinforcement as an alternative to substance use or reward for remaining abstinent have also been used (124). If relapse does occur, individuals should be praised for even limited success and encouraged to continue in or resume treatment. For chronically relapsing substance users, medication therapies may be necessary adjuncts to treatment. Providing education about substance use disorders and their treatment Patients with substance use disorders should receive education and feedback about their disorder, prognosis, and treatment. Clinicians are responsible for educating patients and their significant others about the etiology and nature of substance use, the benefits of abstinence, the risk of switching addictions. When appropriate, psychiatrists may provide education about the effects of alcohol and other substances on the brain, the positive changes that occur with abstinence, substance-related medical problems. Education on reducing behavioral harm may include advice about the use of sterile needles, procedures for safer sex, contraceptive options, and the availability of treatment services for drug-exposed newborns. For example, public health services for the treatment of nicotine dependence are offered free of charge and are available by telephone. This is particularly important for patients lacking resources or the capacity for self-care because of a psychiatric or medical disorder. In treating an individual with significant comorbidities or treatment-resistant disorders. In some cases, it may be necessary to place patients in a highly supervised setting to protect them and society from their dangerous behaviors associated with substance use. 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Because of its poor bioavailability from significant hepatic firstpass effects, naloxone is typically administered intravenously, but it may also be given intramuscularly, subcutaneously, or endotracheally if intravenous access is unattainable (126). The dosing of naloxone varies depending on whether the patient is known to be opioid dependent as well as on the extent of respiratory depression. Shaping (reinforcing approximations of the behaviors) and prompts to guide better approximations are key blood pressure 8555 buy 2.5mg bystolic. If behavior is not changing or is not being performed consistently hypertension 14090 purchase bystolic 2.5mg amex, one of the first lines of attack is to examine the use of antecedents that can increase the likelihood of the behavior prehypertension blood pressure chart buy discount bystolic 2.5mg. Setting events consist of more contextual influences on behavior that set the stage pulse pressure limits order bystolic 2.5 mg without a prescription. 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There usually is no good reason (in relation to the goals of the program) to begin with stringent demands or to be stingy in delivering the reinforcers (praise, tokens). This goal is accom- 204 Parent Management Training plished by ensuring that the initial criteria are met and the consequences are provided, as implied by the first question in Table 7. For example, at the beginning of the program, we may not want homework for 1 hour, or bedtime at the new time of 2 hours earlier than before, or all the toys picked up every day, and so on. Shaping suggests that some slight improvement will be reinforced and that after this level of performance is reasonably consistent, the criteria will be extended a bit. It is not necessarily the case that demanding large leaps in performance and making stringent demands speed up the goal. A common statement from parents is "I know she can clean her room [set the table, do homework, pick up her clothes] because she does it once in a while. The question for a behavior-change program (and for life in general) is whether the person does the behavior and does so consistently. For example, in a nonclinical context, one father wanted his 12-year-child to practice a musical instrument (trumpet) between weekly lessons. Currently practice was 10 minutes at most, with little of this time actually spent playing the instrument. He told the child that he could play a new computer game for up to an hour if the child practiced for 45 minutes that day. This program might be effective, but it has a few weaknesses that could readily lead to failure. Among the salient weaknesses, too much behavior is being asked (a leap from 10 to 45 minutes on the first day), a single reinforcer is used (interest in the computer game may wane quickly and not be present on any one day), and consistent performance. The parent did this on his own and asked for assistance because the program was not working. After, say, 5 days of this, whether consecutive days or not, the parent might add to the program in the following way: 15 minutes still earns x, but 30 minutes earns more time or some addi- Critical Issues in Applying and Implementing Treatment 205 tional reinforcer. Any week in which there are 2 days over 15 minutes or over 30 minutes of practice, depending on how the child progresses, might earn some other reinforcer. This latter reinforcer might be delayed a bit (given at the end of the week), just to make the program manageable to the parent. One can see the advantage of using points or tokens: the points allow for back-up reinforcers that have different values so that some can be earned immediately (are inexpensive) and others are delayed (and are expensive). Eventually, the final behavior could probably be obtained but only after gradually shaping the behavior and reinforcing on several occasions the desired behavior at small durations. 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Hairstylists never forget their first. “Her name was Anne Brooke, and I cut her hair with bad, bad kitchen scissors in the Botanical Gardens where we would hang and smoke cigarettes,” recalls Australian David Mallett. “She thought the cut was marvelous and I thought it was marvelous, and my career began.” The Parisian hairstylist whose salon includes Natalie Portman and Charlotte Gainsbourg as clients, became Schwarzkopf’s Hairdresser of the Year at 21. The prize involved moving to Dusseldorf, but he also traveled. “I always thought I’d go back to Australia after visiting all the great museums,” says Mallett (whose name rhymes with ballot). “But after seeing Miró and Picasso and eating real cheese and drinking real wine, I never went home.” A shoot with Jean Baptiste Mondino and Emmanuelle Alt for French Vogue sealed the deal that Paris would be his home. More editorial work followed, and in 2003, he opened his first salon. Four years later, he launched Hair Serum #DM027. “It was an easy-to-use light oil that everyone could use. We sold it only in the salon, and you had to be a client to buy it,” he recalls. “Then Sarah Andelman asked if she could sell it at Colette, and Giambattista Valli asked if he could sell it in his boutique, then Bon Marché called and the entire thing just took off.” In 2016, David Mallett au Ritz Paris, his second salon, opened as part of the iconic hotel’s renovation. “I really enjoy the one-on-one of the salon,” he says. “The happiness levels — both my own and my clients — excite me a lot more than doing a show and wondering how the whole world sees me. I’m either not interested or too fragile to bear it. But I don’t want to swim in that pool anymore. I feel much richer doing this.” He’s recently started doing “this” at his boutique salon in the Webster in Soho on the fifth floor, dividing his time between NYC and Paris, while also expanding his product line, whose upcoming Styling Cream and Vitamin Gel will make 22 products, total. Product development aside, the chair will always be his first love. “Each client is like an apéritif. By the time the drink is finished and you’re still fascinated with the bubbles, they’ve left. A month later, you’re happy to see them again. There’s always something new to do and someone new to talk to.” Mallett spoke with the Cut about his aversion to socks, his respect for Elnett hair spray and the Clash member he wanted to emulate. Bath or shower? Bath, with Oilatun Bath Formula. Shampoo/Conditioner of choice: My color shampoo and my color mask because I love the texture. What is your daily uniform? A three-piece suit by Officine General, Marni or Berluti. 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