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When I was pregnant, I heard that becoming a mum meant losing your identity because it's just not about you anymore. I was equal parts cool with that and also on a mission to debunk that myth.
"I'm still a person," I thought. "I'm still me." Sure, I might be a tired, messy and mummified version of me but I am still in there, somewhere.
Truth is over the last four years I have kinda forgotten about debunking the myth and, as a result, kinda forgotten who I am. Turns out, it is all about Mr O. These days I'm a bit of a distant second. Third, actually, if you put my husband into the mix and fourth, if I put my work in there too. At this rate, I won't even find myself in the top 10 by the time Mr O starts school full time.
And, you know, I'm actually cool with that. I'm happy if Mr O is happy and if my husband is happy and my work is going well. Fourth, I can live with fourth.
But it has got me thinking in the lead up to my fourth Mother's Day next week, what would I be if I wasn't a mum? I'm asking because I actually can't remember my life before I had kids. How would I define myself? How would I identify to people I'd just met? What would my life be like? Would it be like it was before? Would it be better? Worse?
- Would I be a traveller?
- Would I ever get to stay in that over-water bungalow?
- Would I plan a holiday that involved JUST. DOING. NOTHING?
- Would I sleep in till midday?
- Would I sleep through the night?
- Would I wake up at 5am regardless of what time I went to bed and without an alarm?
- Would I be out at midnight on Friday, Saturday nights? School nights even?
- Would I ever go out to more than just the shops, the park, the school drop off and pick up?
- Would I spend my Sunday afternoons at the session and then paying for it at work on Monday and then all the next week waiting for payday?
- Would I know where all the latest bars are?
- Would I watch what I wanted on TV instead of Fireman Sam, Peppa Pig and Peter Rabbit?
- Would I be able to stay up past 9.30pm just to watch a movie? Would I even know what a grown up movie is anymore?
- Would I still have a nice house? A tidy house? Would it feel lived in?
- Would I wake up to find Elmo, fire trucks or blocks in my bed?
- Would I pick up the same toys each morning and then each night? Day after day after day?
- Would I sit in parks watching and climbing and running around?
- Would I slide down slides at least once a week? Jump on the swings?
- Would I be addicted to coffee?
- Would I look tired?
- Would I be so tired that I'd forget what normal feels like?
- Would I recognise the person staring back at me in the mirror each morning as I get ready?
- Would I clean up red paint off my kitchen floor before leaving for work?
- Would I change my outfit three times before leaving the house because it got kid-ified?
- Would I feel like I've lived an entire day before even walking into my office each morning?
- Would I get that promotion?
- Would I have pretty much the same thing for dinner each night, every week? {Tonight it's roast pork, roast veggies and corn}
- Would I find myself repeating myself all the time "put your shoes on, because I said so, do it now"?
- Would I find myself smiling at other mothers as we make eye contact, that knowing smile?
- Would I sing along to what's in the charts or the theme song to Fireman Sam, Peppa Pig and Peter Rabbit?
- Would I talk about current events instead of school lunch box ideas?
- Would I always feel rushed?
- Would I feel guilty? Guilty for working too much, or too little?
- Would I shower alone? Go to the loo without a witness?
- Would it take me over an hour to leave the house despite only taking 10 minutes to myself to get ready?
- Would I wear my hair pulled back for the third day in a row because I just can't be assed washing it or have run out of time for ME TIME?
- Would I buy myself new clothes or just recycle my fave work dresses week-on-week and then my mum uniform on my days off?
- Would I use my money spent on school fees and day care and kid stuff, all the thousands of dollars of kid stuff, on any stuff for me?
- Would I still have the same friends? My pre-kid friends?
- Would I have found new friends? My mum friends?
- Would I be happy? WOULD. I?
Make no mistake, mum life is hands down the best thing that's happened to me in the last four years but I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss parts of my old life too. Well, maybe not the hangovers but you get my gist.
Happy Mum's Day for next week, Mummas. How lucky are you that you get to celebrate all that is you {even if, like me, you don't quite know what "you" means anymore?} 🙂


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Parvo – a killer dog virus caused deaths in epidemic proportion in the Manuwatu during May this year.
There is only one way to prevent a dog catching Parvo and that is by vaccination. The mortality rate in puppies who catch Parvo is significantly higher.
Regular worming also helps a lot. The virus lies around and can therefore be picked up in many places like the park you walk your dog in.
The symptoms that might signal Parvo are:
- Lack of appetite
- Vomiting
- Salivating
- Depression
- Bloody diarrhea
Once symptoms appear it is best to get your dog to a vet, although it will not guarantee your dog will survive.
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Gmail is a superb email service in the sense it allows a user to get access of his or her emails of Yahoo or Hotmail account by integrating them with Gmail account. This makes certainly Gmail ahead of other email services and offers leverage for those who do not wish to access their Hotmail or Yahoo account, but desire to have the old contacts and emails coming in these mail boxes by some means or by applying a trick. Here, is the trick of forwarding your Yahoo or Hotmail emails to your Gmail account. The steps that you need to follow for the same are given below in brief.
Step 1: Get into your Gmail Account
The first step is off course to login into your Gmail account and then to go to settings. You will find the settings as soon as you click the gear tab in the right hand corner of your mailbox. Then go to accounts and import tab within the settings. Now, click Add POP3 email account that is present just beside the Check mail using POP3 option.
Step 2: Provide your Yahoo or Hotmail Email address
Soon a new window will pop up in which you need to enter your email address from where you want to fetch the regular Hotmail emails into your Gmail account. It should be noted that you can add only five different email accounts in this pop up box to direct your Hotmail or Yahoo emails into your Gmail.
Step 3: Provide your Yahoo or Hotmail Credential
The third step is to click at the "Next Step" tab within the same window. As soon as you will click this, you need to enter the other necessary information for accessing emails from Hotmail or Yahoo account into Gmail account. This means filling up information like password, checking the checkboxes given, etc.
Step 4: Validating your Email account
This is the fourth step and in this, as soon as you click "Add Account" after filling the information necessary, Gmail will start checking the mail and if it gets any new emails then it will get immediately directed towards your Gmail account. Getting Yahoo or Hotmail emails into your Gmail account is just this much simple isn't it?
Step 5: Confirm your changes
Now, this one is the last step and here, you have to return to the settings and then to "Accounts and Import" section of your Gmail account. Just choose the option "Send mail from another address". This will now onwards automatically direct your Hotmail or Yahoo emails into your Gmail account.
A recipient will not find out that you are replying from a Gmail account instead of the mail account in which he or she has sent the mail unless he or she is using Outlook. In case of Outlook usage, a recipient will be able to view an email head which specifies "sent on behalf of email@example.com".
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Cherbourg Tourisme director Guillaume Hamel reveals why you need to visit the Cotentin Peninsula.
Q. We hear a radical change is coming to the tourism industry in France. Can you shed some light on this and how is this going to work?
A. Yes, there is, especially to the Cotentin Peninsula or the Cherbourg Peninsula, as it is more popularly known.
At the moment, tourism is a bit of a paradox in France, because despite not having a tourism ministry, we are the most visited country in the world, with Spain coming in at a distant second. But we still need to build on this. At the moment France is simply a tourist destination, but we need to strike a balance and begin to pay a little more attention to revenue, if we want tourism to become a major contributor towards our economy.
Of course, Atout France is doing its best to make a difference. Customer service is one of our biggest concerns especially in the Paris region. However, the Cotentin Peninsula is more relaxed and so it also has much better customer service; people are friendlier and due to our proximity to England and the Channel Islands, most people here are happy to speak English.
Q. So what is Cotentin? Why haven't we heard of it as much?
A. Cotentin is the untouched Normandy. It is completely different from the image the world currently has of Normandy. The Cotentin Peninsula is the North-West coast of France just across from the UK. Here we have some of the most untouched, almost savage, beaches in France – many of these are protected heritage sites so you won't find ugly constructions or sea walls built along them. They're natural and beautifully wild.
Q. What is the new tourism entity going to be all about?
A. We used to have 11 tourism offices spread across the Cotentin Peninsula, but in the coming months these will merge into one big entity. It will be known as the Cotentin Tourism Office and will become one of the most powerful tourism offices in the country. We will have a yearly budget of EUR4 million and of that we're hoping to spend up to EUR1 million on promoting the region by way of Familiarisation trips, participation in trade shows and other publicity events.
Q. Why would tourists include Cotentin in their itinerary?
A. So far Normandy has mainly been promoted as a historical war destination focusing on D-Day Landing beaches, war-cemeteries and World-War Museums. But this is just one aspect of what we have to offer. There is the immaculately preserved natural beauty of the peninsula with its protected heritage sites, middle-aged castles and unique food culture. It's the little things; the unique things that most travellers are looking for. Food tourism is a massive business today and here we have the freshest seafood and vegetables available all year round. For example, we would like tourists to experience Cotentin's famous Blue Lobster or oysters thanks to one of the longest coastlines in France; or Calvados – an apple brandy with apple sorbet that is to be had in the middle of one's dinner. These are all experiences that you won't get anywhere else in the world except here in Cotentin. You can follow CherbourgTourisme on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to see some amazing pictures for yourself.
Apart from food, tourists have the chance to step inside an actual nuclear submarine at the Cite De La Mer – a maritime museum built to showcase Cherbourg's nautical achievements.
Q. There's been a bit of a buzz about the Cruise industry in Cherbourg. Can you shed some light on this?
A. The cruise industry is getting bigger and bigger in Europe. Cherbourg-en-Cotentin has a long history since the 1900s when we were a transatlantic port. The port of Cherbourg used to receive almost 1000 calls a year, which works out to almost three ships a day, going to various places in the world – New York, Buenos Aires, you name it. Currently, we have 60,000 passengers a year and 40 cruise calls. This is one of the main aspects we are going to work on. We also have a fantastic range of premium shore excursions available from Cherbourg on a cruise ship for the day.
Guillaume Hamel's top 10 places to visit in Cotentin
Everywhere you go is a sight to behold, but some of my favourite spots include
1. Experiencing sunrise at Saint Vaast La Hougue and sunset at Carteret on the same day.
2. Getting lost in the wild Biville Dunes and then finding one of the most quiet beaches in France.
3. Feeling the spray of the rough sea during a winter storm in Cap de la Hague.
4. Hiking on the historical Smugglers Tracks along the cliffs and coastline off the Channel Islands.
5. Visiting Tatihou Island to party at the World Music Festival in August.
6. Climbing 365 stairs and 52 floors of the 18th century Gateville lighthouse – also third highest lighthouse in the world – for a stunning view of land and sea.
7. Kayaking with the seals in the Cotentin Marshes; a truly awe-inspiring experience.
8. Visiting Cité de la Mer and experiencing an adventure under the sea onboard a real nuclear submarine.
9. Enjoying the very French tradition of walking through the exquisite botanical parks and gardens of Vauville.
10. Feasting on oysters and fresh seafood at Barfleur, which has been awarded the title of 'one of the most beautiful villages in France'.


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San Diego Women's Week will provide inspirational keynote speakers, host breakout forums and provide unique opportunities for all who attend. Speakers at San Diego Women's Week will focus on a variety of topics, ranging from health and fashion to business and technology. More than 5,000 visitors from the San Diego region are expected to attend the event hosted at California Center for the Arts in Escondido.
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Beauty experts present an evening of skincare tips, mini facials, mini massages, brow designs, samples, hair care and style tips, appetizers and more.
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(in all honesty - this recipe came from the Keebler box of graham cracker crusts - we only added the tea infusing instructions to the recipe)
1 can sweet condensed milk
Pour 1 cup of cream into a glass cup and heat in the microwave for 45 seconds until hot. Add the 2 Tbsp of Valentine's Day Tea to the cream and let steep for 4 minutes. Strain out the tea leaves.
Chill your mixing bowl, beaters and the tea cream.
In a saucepan, add the sweetened condensed milk and chocolate. Cook and stir over low heat until melted. Remove from the heat and add almond extract. Cool, stirring occasionally.
In the chilled bowl, beat the cream and the tea cream until stiff peaks form. Fold the whipped cream into the chocolate mixture.
Spoon into crusts and refrigerate 4 hours until set.
Garnish as desired with fruit or chocolate.
1 cup flour
In a bowl mix together the flour and the tea leaves.
Using a grater, grate butter into small pieces and stir into the flour/tea mixture.
Mix in the maple syrup, working it very lightly with your fingers.
Add ice water 1 Tbsp at a time and toss the dough lightly through your fingers to mix. Avoid pressing the dough together; let pieces fall separately.
When all the dry flour is mixed in, press dough into a ball and flatten it.
Roll out on a lightly floured surface. Fold crust in half, slip it gently into a 10 pie plate, and unfold. Trim edge so that it overhangs pie plate ¼ - ½. Fold edge underneath itself and flute. If a top crust is to be added, wait to trim, fold and flute both crusts together.
1 ¼ cup flour
In a medium mixing bowl, combine flour, tea leaves and ¼ cup sugar. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in oats. Add egg. Stir just until combined. Shape dough into a ball. Cover with plastic wrap. Chill for 1 hour. Heat oven to 375°. Roll out dough to fit into a 9" tart pan. Prick the bottom of the crust several times with fork. Chill 15 minutes then bake the crust for 15-18 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely.
In a 2 quart saucepan heat the milk to just before boiling. Add the tea leaves, remove from the heat, cover and steep for 20 minutes. Strain out the tea leaves and return the tea-milk back to the saucepan. Add remaining ½ cup sugar, cornstarch and salt. Cook over medium heat for 7-10 minutes or until mixture thickens and bubbles, stirring constantly with a whisk. Remove from heat. Stir a small amount of hot milk mixture into egg yolks. Blend egg yolks into milk mix. Cook over medium-low heat for 2-4 minutes or until custard thickens slightly, stirring constantly (Do not boil). Cool slightly then stir in vanilla. Place sheet of plastic wrap directly on surface of custard. Refrigerate until completely cooled.
In a 1 qt saucepan, combine preserves and corn syrup. Cook over medium-low heat just until preserves melt, stirring frequently, about 1 minute. Cool. Set glaze aside.
Pour chilled custard into crust. Top with peaches, raspberries and blueberries. Spoon the glaze over the fruit. Chill tart until ready to serve.


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Monday, 17 April 2017
Pot of Spring Flowers
Today I feel like I'm beginning to get back to normal! Yesterday I still felt pretty rough but improved greatly as the day wore on and the antibiotics did their work!
After we had enjoyed a quiet relaxing dinner last night, I came up to my craft room and created today's card!
I cased it from a card I've seen in the new catalogue but I've used totally different stamp sets.
Three of the four stamp sets I've used for this card are being carried forward - the one that isn't is Circle of Spring.
Using Basic Black Archival Ink, I started by stamping the flower pot, which is from the Sitting Here Stamp Set, onto a piece of Whisper White Cardstock (CS).
After I'd finished colouring the first image I'd stamped, I painted a small Crumb Cake area around the base of the pot to ground it - so far, so good!
Then I felt I wanted to "edge" the main image so I painted around the image using my Soft Sky Marker Pen.
It looked OK but I didn't think it looked great!
For the second attempt, I started by stamping the Whisper White CS first, using the splatter stamp from the Touches of Texture Stamp Set, and Sahara Sand Ink.
I stamped off three times, and this gave me the depth of colour I was looking for, and therefore I stamped a fourth generation image.
The amount of times you'd need to stamp off depends on how moist your ink pad is.
I suggest you do what I did to begin with, which is, stamp off on a scrap of paper and count how many impressions you need to get the right depth of colour you'd like.
I painted my flowers, leaves, pot and grounding using the following Marker Pens: Sahara Sand (pot), Crumb Cake (grounding), Old Olive, Rose Red, Pink Pirouette and Sweet Sugarplum.
I die cut the image using the second smallest circle Stitched Shapes Framelits Die, and layered it onto a scalloped circle die cut with size 5 of the Layering Circle Framelits Dies.
I adhered the two together using Tombow.
I took a strip of Whisper White CS and stamped a light Sahara Sand background on it in the same way I did for the main image.
Then I stamped the sentiment from the Balloon Celebration Stamp Set, using Basic Black Archival Ink.
I took a strip of Sweet Sugarplum about the same size and fishtailed both pieces.
To put my card together, I started with a card base of Sahara Sand CS, with a middle layer of Whisper White CS, and a top layer of Sahara Sand CS.
Using Basic Black Archival Ink, I stamped the wreath stamp from the Circle of Spring in a central position towards the top of the top layer.
Then I adhered the three layers together using Tombow, and then I adhered the main image using dimensionals.
I adhered the sentiment strips together wusing Tombow, and then adhered them to the card front using Dimensionals.
I added a bit if bling by adding three Rhinestones in a row along the bottom of the Sweet Sugarplum strip.
I stamped about a quarter of the wreath stamp onto a piece of Whisper White CS in the bottom right hand corner, and, after allowing it a few seconds to dry, I adhered it inside my card.
That's about it today. I hope you're enjoying thi wonderful Easter weekend. Until tomorrow, happy carfting.
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First of all, so glad you're feeling better! This card is just wonderful! I LOVE how you've framed your focal image with the lovely Circle of Spring wreathe in the Black Archival Ink ... so creative. Your colouring is just super, along with the c/s colour choices you have used. Really good job there, Jan!! TFS with us!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi, Geraldine. Many thanks for your good wishes. As this card has been so well received, I decided to make a video! In both other cards I made, I kept to Sahara Sand but changed the Sweet Sugarplum to Tempting Turquoise and then Perfect Plum. I think this will be published on Sunday! Tomorrow's video is different from my normal videos! Sorry to tease! ☺☺ Happy crafting, JanB.Delete
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Hi, Catherine. I decided to make this a card a video! ☺ Happy crafting. JanB.Delete


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Her moans could be heard from the street. Confused Nepali faces looked on as I rushed by, finally understanding why I had been so forcefully ushered back to the tiny guest house.
The owner, a graduate of the orphanage I had just come from and the only one who spoke any English, reached out and put his hand on my arm, concern in his eyes. "We tried to call you sooner; phones don't work."
Emma hadn't been feeling well the few days prior, so she had been staying home from our placement at the orphanage in Pokhara. She was still asleep when I left to help the kids get ready for the day, so I was confused when, upon my return from walking them to school, my pathway was blocked by one of the house mothers mumbling at me in rapid Nepali. "Go home – now," was all that I could make out.
When I opened the door to the tiny room Emma and I shared, I saw her curled up in a ball on the edge of her thin, straw mattress, clutching her stomach and letting out long, painful cries.
In the four years that Emma and I had been friends, I had never seen her cry. She had never missed a day at school, and she is one of the only people I know who never complained of physical ailments. Never once in four years had I heard, "I'm tired," "I don't feel well," or "my stomach hurts," while she had heard these words escape my own lips many times over. Unable to move or talk or do anything but moan was, for Emma, the ultimate form of weakness.
It was an all-consuming kind of pain. As I rushed around her, a blur of activity as I packed a small bag and tried, in a string of broken Nepali, to explain to our hosts that we needed a cab – now, Emma could focus only on the green and black flannel clutched between her fingers, growing moist as her fever took her farther and farther from reality.
It was July in Nepal, which meant monsoon season. While it was 98 degrees and sunny now, the night before had brought a torrential downpour, leaving the small dirt road that led to the guest house a mess of muddy puddles and potholes – and impassable by car. The closest paved road was about a mile away, and no taxi would come closer. We were going to have to walk.
Emma's eyes twinged with pain. I can't they seemed to beg. It felt like hours before we hit paved road, Emma's eyes squeezed shut, as though she were trying to block out the pain. When we finally met the taxi, she collapsed into the back seat, head against the window, like a last-place marathon runner diving over the finish line in exhaustion.
The first hospital to which we arrived looked almost like a movie set. An old chalkboard hung crooked on the wall with a haphazard chart of open beds scrawled on it. A torn, dirt covered sheet covered the doorway and sounds of misery emanated from within, but no one was in sight. The cab driver had Emma hanging over his shoulder, her body slouched over in a 90 degree angle and eyes shut, arm around his neck, as I pushed forward, looking for anyone who could possibly help.
I turned around to see the taxi driver pointing at the chalkboard, scribbled X's over all of the small rectangles.
"Kahi jane," go somewhere else.
Panic pressed on my chest, heavier with each passing moment that nothing was being done for my friend. Her face was ghostly translucent. When we walked into the second hospital, my panic was replaced not by relief, but by fear.
When you go abroad for an extended period of time, everyone tells you to be careful. Be careful not to be kidnapped, not to drink the water, not to get too attached. However, as you deboard the plane, stepping into a foreign world of new smells, sounds, air, and languages, danger feels remote and unreal. But that won't happen to me, you think. Until it does. The country that had stolen our hearts over the past four weeks suddenly felt profoundly unsafe. The strings of Nepali sentences that we had picked up suddenly went from impressive to useless. We couldn't communicate with anyone, couldn't read the labels on the IV's of mystery liquid medicine dripping into the arms of other patients, couldn't even get someone to see that we needed help.
They say that eyes are a window into a person's emotions. In that moment, I looked into Emma's eyes, bloodshot from being squeezed so hard, and saw that they had turned from her normal honey-brown to almost black, cloudy and distant from the reality in front of us. I saw my own fear reflected and then multiplied over in ways that only intense pain can do. "Thank god you're here."
The main hospital was one large room. One wall was either ruined in some natural disaster or abandoned mid-construction, leaving a gaping hole to the elements. Dirty cots lined the walls. Nepali families in tattered clothes gathered around different beds, while others stood anxiously by, with their own sickly loved ones, anxiously waiting for a bed to open up. When we finally got Emma onto a cot in a small, dirty corner, she lay there squeezing the circulation out of my hands for 40 minutes. Not a single one of the doctors wandering by the rows of beds stopped by our side. When I finally had pieced together a semi-correct sentence in Nepali, clumsily asking how we could get help, the nurse looked at me like I was an annoying small child, out of touch with the realities of the world.
"You need to pay," she said. After a confused look from me, she held her hand up and rubbed her fingers together in the universal sign for money. "Cash." I nodded and reached into my bag for my money pouch. It was empty.
Looking back, this moment feels dramatic, distant memories making a big deal out of nothing. But, in that moment, in that rundown hospital in the middle of an underdeveloped country, with no money and no one willing to help my moaning friend without cash on the table, and with no idea what was wrong, it felt like the world was spinning. Could I really leave her abandoned there to get money? I had to.
Emma clutched the green and black flannel between her fingers and looked at me when I told her that I had to leave, her eyes open wide for the first time that day. Another stab of pain hit and she squeezed them shut again, doubling over.
"I'll be back," I told her, trying to boost my voice with empty confidence, "as soon as I can. Everything is going to be okay." She nodded wordlessly, her eyes still shut. "I promise," I said feebly, my voice falling off at the end of the word, realizing that I couldn't truly promise anything of the sort.
As the cab wove through beeping cars and mopeds and cows and dogs in the lawless, traffic ridden streets, I scanned the streets for a big white sign with ATM written in red block letters, used by shops with a cash machine inside. It's impossible to know now how long I was gone, but each second that Emma was alone and in pain, no means of communication between us, felt like an eternity. After two failed attempts, I was finally able to find a store with a working cash machine. We rushed back to the hospital to join the mob of Nepali family members outside the window of the makeshift hospital pharmacy.
With cash in hand, a doctor glanced over Emma and moved his head right to left in a common Nepali gesture, similar to a head nod or shoulder shrug. He scribbled something on a small sheet of paper and handed it to me, pointing to the window outside.
As I got to the front of the line, the room behind the take-out window came into view. The aids rushed around inside, grabbing the slips of paper being waved in their faces by the company of the sick. They grab white boxes and bottles off the shelves, taking fistfuls of cash and coins, and handing over the unmarked medication. Newly equipped with a brown paper bag filled with a plastic IV bag of clear liquid, a box of small, white tablets, a bottle of red juice and some crackers, I sat down on an upside down bucket at Emma's bedside and watched as an aid hung the IV bag, took a needle out of her pocket, and inserted it in Emma's arm. She instructed Emma to take 1 tablet per hour with the juice and eat crackers, if she could keep them down, and left. I had Emma blindly follow the instructions, holding her head up as she swallowed the tablet, and holding her hair back as she immediately threw up into the bucket that had just been my chair.
After a few minutes with the IV, her body slowly began to uncurl, her muscles relaxed. Momentary relief had come at last. Emma looked up at me, seated on the windowsill next to her cot. Her eyes were still bloodshot from the crisis of the day, and there were small wrinkles in the corners of her eyes, red from the intensity of holding her pain all day. Her vision was foggy, and she looked at me with a question in her eyes, as though she wasn't quite sure where we were or how we got there. Slowly, her eyes shut and she drifted off to sleep.
The air in the large room was thick, but growing colder. I pulled a worn sheet up over Emma and wrapped her green and black flannel around my shoulders, looking down to find threadbare spots where she had grasped the fabric in her feverish hands. Seeing her at peace made the world feel just a little bit safe again, warmed by the false security of symptom-dulling medication. As I watched the mystery liquid drip into my friend's arm, I studied the label on the back of the tablets, and the scribbled doctor's note, hoping that the symbols would start to look a little less foreign and that the Nepali language would start to click in my head. Whatever the symbols, I knew they spelled relief. If only for the moment, we were safe.


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Aqueous Solutions – The solvent is always water.
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As an author, I find attending conferences invaluable. Not only is it a wonderful time to network with like minded people, but industry professionals are there to share their knowledge; the business of publishing, craft, promotion, branding and how best to use social media.
I pick several each year to attend, including the National Conference that's held every July. Big or small, each conference has something to offer.
Last weekend I went to the OWFI (Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc.) Conference in Oklahoma City. I've been going for several years, so it's always a pleasure to meet up with old friends, while looking forward to making new ones. Business cards are traded as we share stories of our own writing journey. Published authors hand out swag; bookmarks, postcards, pens, buttons and more. Easy and inexpensive ways to share our book titles and summaries.
This year our books were included in the bookstore, and the owners hosted three book signings, scheduled by genre.Thank You to BEST OF BOOKS, Edmond, OK for hosting us. And a special thank you to the ladies who set up, worked and managed the entire weekend - Nan, Elena, Julie, and Jessica!!! Great job, ladies!!!
I met a few interesting authors, new voices to add to my reading list, and I sold several books.
(Claiming a table for the Friday afternoon book signing. My group included the following genres: Women's Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, and Romance. We had a nice turn out.)
Besides the social aspect of the conference, there are a ton of workshops. I enjoyed several of them, the top ones:
The State of the Publishing Industry - It's A Golden Age, Especially for Dark Fiction by Richard Thomas. NO, he's not from the "Waltons". I don't write dark fiction, but I learned a few new things about the industry. No matter what genre you write, if you don't know how to broaden your appeal, and you don't understand the importance of social media, your work gets lost.
A Largely Untapped Source of Potential Sales - Libraries and Foreign Sales by Les Edgerton. Perfect timing on this one, because last Saturday I participated in an Author Shout Out at my local library. When we wrapped up, I learned the library planned to purchase copies of my books to add to their shelves.
Jerry Simmons presented several different workshops. I enjoyed them all.
Imagination Rules the World. Being a successful author is much more than writing, it's about creating content and challenging marketing traditions!
Anything is Possible. Book publishing today is truly an environment where anything is possible - IF - authors are willing to change! Hmm, sounds right. Isn't my brand "The heart of change is the change of heart."?
Never Say Never. In his final session, he discussed all aspects of building a successful career as an author. These included; branding, timing, positioning, strategizing, and mining older titles.
I flew home energized and ready to continue tackling the changes in this business.
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A record breaking 500 people registered for Bournemouth Hospital Charity's Twilight Walk for Women that took place on Friday evening (5 June).
The wave of pink went along the seafront after the start ribbon was cut by The Klaxons' bass guitarist and singer, Jamie Reynolds and charity patron Fiona Castle, who both joined the walk.
Fundraisers covered a distance of 1km, 5km or 10km to raise money for medical equipment for the new Jigsaw Building at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital (RBH). The building is due to open later this year and will include a state-of-the-art Women's Health Unit and Cancer and Blood Disorders Unit that will benefit thousands of patients.
Barry Wilson, Events Officer for Bournemouth Hospital Charity, said: "This year has been our best yet in terms of registrations and we're hoping this is reflected in the amount of money we raise.
"Sponsorship money has already started to come in and we'd like all walkers to submit their sponsorship by 10 July. Sponsor money can be dropped into the Charity Office in the main atrium at RBH, be paid by calling the Fundraising Team on 01202 704060 or online www.bournemouthhospitalcharity.org.uk
"A big thank you to everybody who took part and those who helped make the event possible, including our wonderful volunteers and our official sponsor The Village Hotel."
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Before we move on, let's circle back to
else if statements.
else if is a great tool for when we have a few different conditions we'd like to consider.
else if is limited, however. If we want to write a program with 25 different conditions, like a JavaScript cash register, we'd have to write a lot of code, and it can be difficult to read and understand.
To deal with times when you need many
else if conditions, we can turn to a
switch statement to write more concise and readable code.
To a computer, a
switch statement and an
else statement are the same, but a
switch statement can be easier for other humans to read. Part of being a good developer is writing code that both computers and other humans can read.
switch statements look like this:
let groceryItem = 'papaya';
switch (groceryItem) {
case 'tomato':
console.log('Tomatoes are $0.49');
case 'lime':
console.log('Limes are $1.49');
case 'papaya':
console.log('Papayas are $1.29');
console.log('Invalid item');
switch keyword initiates the statement and is followed by
( ... ), which contains the condition that each
case will compare to. In the example, the condition is
{ ... }, there are
case is like the
else if part of an
else if/
else statement. The word following the first
case is
'tomato'. If
groceryItem equalled
'tomato', that case's
console.log() would run.
groceryItem equals
'papaya', so the first and second
case statements are skipped. The third
case runs since the
case is
'papaya', which matches
groceryItem's value. This particular program will log
Papayas are $1.29.
break keyword. This keyword will prevent the
switch statement from executing any more of its code. Without adding
break at the end of each case, the program will execute the code for all matching cases and the default code as well. This behavior is different from
else conditional statements which execute only one block of code.
switch statement, there is a
default condition. If none of the
cases are true, then this code will run.


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3. Connect your Dreamweaver on your machine to live hosting space on a remote server using Dreamweaver .ftp. Setup to connect with the structure on your machine - explain 'local files' (as 2.)
4. Basic introduction to .ftp protocol - uploading files from your computer to hosting space and viewing in a web browser - explain the difference between 'local files' and 'remote files'
5. Preparing text and images (Photoshop and Fireworks) for the World Wide Web. When to use .jpg and when to use .gif and saving to their allocated space (image folder) as set up in your computer (as 2.)
6. Set up folders to hold you web site content ie www.yourname.co.uk/aboutus and explain folder name protocol.
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14. Write meta tags for Googlebot to read - explain why title tags and image 'alt' tags are important.
15. Show how the tags describe your site contents in the search engine and test them online.
16. Create the all important 'links' page and discuss use of a site index.
Finally do whatever is required for you get you a fully functioning, live and editable, web site online. Leaving you with all of your content online, or at the very least, enough knowledge and confidence for you to add further content and make alterations and amendments to your web site in the future.
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Enhanced Box Score: Cubs 1, Phillies 4 – July 21, 2009
Another day, another one run. If you're looking for consolation here, look no further than Rich Harden's now back-to-back excellent performances. Maybe he's turning things around.
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August 05, 2015 | by Gina
E-Cigarettes: Their Threat to Your General and Dental Health
The general public is getting wise to the multitude of threats to health that cigarettes and cigars pose to both smokers and those who inhale second-hand smoke. Over half a century of research has shown the detriments of the habit: heart and pulmonary disease, many forms of cancer, and the #1 cause of periodontal disease and tooth loss. However, while cigarette smoking appears to be on the decline, a new trend has rushed to the forefront: e-cigarettes.
The e-cigarette, or, "electronic cigarette," operates on battery power. They convert a liquid, containing nicotine and propylene glycol, to a vapor that can be inhaled and exhaled like a cigarette (the process is called "vaping,") but without the burning of tobacco. This "smokeless" aspect of the e-cigarette might give the general impression that they are less harmful than traditional cigarettes. Many e-cigarettes are sold under the guise of an alternative to cigarettes, as an aid to quit the habit. However, the detriments or benefits of e-cigarettes are as yet almost completely without study or review of any kind. No studies currently in existence show that they can help people to kick the habit. The long-term effects of inhaling either propylene glycol, or nicotine in this manner, as as yet unknown. The FDA is currently unable to regulate the devices (also known as ENDS - electronic nicotine delivery systems), and is moving forward very slowly to extend their control.
While government and research facilities have just begun to address the issue, the battery-powered devices - many of which are even rechargeable via USB port, making them strangely alluring to a tech-savvy youthful population - seem to be catching on at an alarming rate. The use of ENDS with the population under 20 has tripled or even quadrupled in less than five years. A third of the users are female, and most of those are under 17 years old. Most e-cigarettes also come with a flavoring added, and each flavored cartridge is packaged in a "candy-like" way that appeals to the younger population, who are in fact buying them at the fastest rate. Products are also being produced to help conceal the carrying of the device, such as e-cigarettes camouflaged as the ends of string in a hooded sweatshirt, and are almost certainly aimed at a younger market. Statewide, 40 of the 50 states have adopted laws to ban the sale of ENDS to minors, but the use continues to increase.
Nicotine has been proven as a carcinogen, even when isolated from smoke. The dental effects include gingivitis, periodontitis, and xerostomia (dry mouth, which increases dental caries risk). Nicotine is also highly addictive, and it is speculated that far from assisting habitual smokers to quit, they may help to bring more of the population into the habit. Additionally, formaldehyde is produced in the process of "vaping" - another known carcinogen - and inhaled by the user and by those in the immediate vicinity as well.
While the long-term effects of ENDS are unknown, these known pieces of the whole make it almost certain that detrimental effects exist from their use. Time and research will tell, not whether or not the products are harmful, but only the degree of harm they will incur.
For additional reading, see the article "Dangerous Liasons," AGD Impact, May 2015,
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August 15, 2018
September Orthodontic Savings
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May 02, 2018
Our Aim for Family Dental Care
This blog is different from other our blog posts. It's not about the latest dental topic, about a high-tech piece of dental equipment, or a lecture on how you should floss. It's about how we want to be your family dentist.
March 05, 2018
Road Construction on Monroe Street
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January 12, 2018
Flash Sale on Invisalign
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September 27, 2017
Erosion: What You Can Do
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July 19, 2017
Invisalign - Why the Time is Now
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April 17, 2017
Tips on How to Prepare Your Child for a Filling Visit
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February 13, 2017
Health History – Now Paperless
If you've been to our office lately, you may have noticed a change with our check-in process. We have introduced electronic health history forms.
January 15, 2017
How to Prepare for Your Child's First Visit to the Dentist
Dr. Farrow recommends children have their first dental visit after their first birthday. Learn how to prepare yourself and your child for their first visit to the dentist.
October 05, 2016
To Floss or Not to Floss?
Have you read the recent articles debunking the recommendations to floss daily? Read more about Gina's and Dr. Farrow's reflections and response to those articles.
August 15, 2016
Dental Implants
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July 21, 2016
Invisalign Promotion - Summer 2016
Monroe Street Family Dental is excited to offer an incredible package to help get you the smile you've always wanted!
July 06, 2016
Oral Care During Pregnancy: A Guide
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May 04, 2016
The Healthy Baby Exam
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April 11, 2016
The Early Orthodontic Evaluation
Many parents with young children have questions about orthodontics: Will my son or daughter need braces? When do you start? How much will it cost?
March 24, 2016
"No-Drill Dentistry" on NPR's Your Health
Is fluoride good for you and does Dr. Farrow recommend it? Read more...
March 02, 2016
Chicago Midwinter - What's at a Dental Convention?
Whatever your industry - everyone has a conference. What's at a dental convention and why does Dr. Farrow and his team attend? Read more to find out about their latest trip to Chicago for the Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting.
February 18, 2016
Managing Dental Anxiety
Going to the dentist can cause anxiety and this a normal reaction. Whether it is a specific fear (i.e needles, sounds, painful past experiences) or nervousness about the entire experience, we would like to know how you are feeling.
January 29, 2016
Preventing Overkill in Modern Dental Care
This past summer, I had the pleasure of reading an insightful article in the New Yorker by surgeon Atul Gawande, entitled "Overkill." Its central thesis is that our health care system is wrought with overtreatment and unnecessary care.
December 28, 2015
Changes for State of Wisconsin Employees
2016 brings big changes to State of Wisconsin employees who previously had Momentum as their dental insurance administrator.
December 07, 2015
End of 2015 News
The end of year is upon us and we hope 2015 has been a wonderful year for you and your loved ones.
November 02, 2015
Options in Orthodontics: Stick with Your Dentist
Have you considered Invisalign as an adult for a straighter smile. Learn why your dentist may be the best person to help you with orthodontic treatment.
October 19, 2015
Oil Pulling: Is the Benefit Real?
Have you heard of "oil pulling"? This natural health trend is being touted by many as having curative properties.
September 30, 2015
Insurance Open Enrollment
The month of October brings open enrollment for dental benefits, and we encourage you to review your options. Read more to review some of options that may affect you.
September 21, 2015
Athletic Mouthguards
For many students back to school also means participating in sports. A mouthguard is an essential piece of athletic gear that should be standard equipment from an early age.
August 05, 2015
E-Cigarettes: Their Threat to Your General and Dental Health
Learn more about e-cigarettes and how they can affect your health.
July 15, 2015
Probiotics and Your Oral Health
Several of our patients over the past year have asked about the probiotics and oral health.
June 24, 2015
Team Trip to San Francisco
Last week the entire team traveled to San Francisco for the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) conference and convocation for Dr. Farrow. Learn more about our trip!
March 06, 2015
Join Our Sustainability Commitment
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February 15, 2015
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March 17, 2014
Headaches and TMJ
Headaches are complex and can have many contributing factors. We have found that with careful diagnosis, we can relieve some headaches and improve patient's daily activities like eating and sleeping.
March 17, 2014
It's Not Just a Cleaning
Regular dental cleanings, with an exam, can do more than keep your smile attractive. Recent research suggests that the health of your mouth mirrors the condition of your body as a whole.


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|September 21, 2017, 12:58 PM
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Location: Lampasas Texas
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Looking for good advice on 800 yard shooting
Back story... Old guy, retired army, and used to be a good long range shooter out to 500+ yrds iron sites. Ha! ----now can't see my own Peter without glasses
Young 34 year old son won two local LR shoots with my Ruger 204 and cheap glass at 500yrds shooting store bought varmint rounds
BTW, for here, the top prize is a substantial $600 Gift Cert for the (shoot sponsor) gun shop
SO---next year--- to unseat him, a local butt head (with a 50 cal single shot) convinced the hardware store owner (gun shop) to up the range to 800 yrds
Target is steel, 12 wide by 24 tall with 10" center bull
Just bought my son a Remington 700 308 with R5 24" bbl 1:11.25 twist ( price was right)
Shot will be at 1100 foot elevation (our local) probably 80~90F air, and I suspect for time of year, wind will be left to right 8 knots, perhaps up to 12 knots
Problem is--- hill top to hill top shot....slightly down hill ( I estimate 75' drop) with 150' deep valley between rest and target...mid range wind is nearly impossible to gage .....no flags or trees... Texas crap terrain
I do reload, (45-70 and 45 colt) but not set up for 308 and prefer to not fuss with the testing
This one rifle will only be used for 500 to 800 yard shots
Store bought match grade ammo is prefered
I would like your opinions or advice on:
1: Good optics like Leupold VX-3I series or any others you think damned good
2: Wisdom of picking a factory load and getting a BDC retical or turret
3: Match grade store bought ammo thoughts...
4: Ideas and opinions for mid range dope, or is it even worth worrying about
5: Any hints or wisdom for barrel break in
6: Do I need to get the barrel re-crowned from the get go?
7: Any ideas on Remington's 40X trigger... or just get a Timiny and be happy?
|September 21, 2017, 01:14 PM
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The .50 BMG guy has a distinct advantage at 800 yards, particularly if he's using AMax or 822 gr solid (turned) bullets.
If your son won at 600 he has something going for him. Practicing at 800 with what he has is a good start.
But for comparison and to your questions, the .50 cal shooters often use Nikon or Nightforce high end scopes. I have a Steiner T5xi and believe it's as good as any. If funding is not an issue, look at the Steiner M5xi.
You'll need to use match ammo or handloads tuned to your rifle. Note the Ballistic Coefficient of the best .308 is ~ .55, about 1/2 that of and AMax or solid .50BMG round. That's a really big difference to overcome, as minor differences in your .308 loads will translated to inches more than the larger round. About 125" drop for the .50, about 190" for a high end match .308(Berger 200 gr).
Most of the .50 guys (shooting at 600, 1000 or 1 mile) don't seem to do a whole lot of barrel break-in, but spend more time on categorizing loads and performance.
Hope that helps.
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|September 21, 2017, 02:18 PM
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Not "too" worried about the 50 cal shooter...more money than good skills
Yes, with him, next years shoot will be a challenge ....
Mostly because, neither my son, nor I, have any real world experience... over 500 yards,
---BUT we are exponentially smarter (with some relative background and understanding) than the rich guy
I should have noted this is a rural community ---and none of the competitors are much more than coyote and deer hunters....the ...not well advertised ....long range competition shoot only draws the local guys who, like my son, are all working class with no training, experience, or practice
That Justen, my son, won the last two years was cuz his dad,(me) used to be Army and won a few ON Base Silhouette competitions -back in the day -cheating with 125Gr Sabot 30-30 ammo from a Winchester Model 94 and very good windage advice from "Real Sniper" (M24---) friends...that is until the club outlawed the sabot ammo
Bullet drop is mostly a given and easy to look up....windage can be a bear to figure...IMO
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Then shoot what you've got. And tell Justen to have fun, if he wins, great, if he has a good time, even better.
The real challenge will be the wind, which pushes 30 cal's around a whole lot more than a .50.
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|September 21, 2017, 03:41 PM
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Thanx TXAZ
and yes I did note the between the lines caution /warning that we may be out gunned
any advice on a good low cost 50 single shot BMG? a sort of bucket list wanna have item
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800 yards is a long way with a .308 and wouldn't be my first choice, but it is certainly doable. Depending on your ammo, it may be transonic at that point. Of course just like any rifle match, it comes down to making the correct wind calls which again, the .308 doesn't excel in the wind at 800 yards but it's doable.
I wonder how he came up with 800 yards as opposed to 1000 or 700 ?
The only factory "Match" ammo I have any experience with is Hornady and I have only fired a very few rounds of it in .308. But, I have shot a LOT of it in 6.5 Creedmoor and I am not sure my handloads shoot any better than it does. So that would probably be my first choice of factory ammo. There may be better stuff out there, but this is readily available.
Obviously the best thing to do is practice. Get out there and shoot at 800 yards and see if whatever scope/ammo/rifle he has is up to the task. Without knowing any of that, it would be difficult to know what needs improvement.
You know the rest. In the books you have read
How the British Regulars fired and fled,
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farmyard wall,
Chasing the redcoats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.
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My LR friend used to keep some Black Hills 175 .308s in reserve in case he got caught behind on his handloading. He loads the Berger 185 Juggernaught now, but I don't know anything factory in that class. 178 Hornady might be worth a look; as 444 says, their 6.5 is excellent, maybe the .308 is, too.
800 yards is the SHORT end of Palma competition, .308s required.
There is a ton of trajectory and wind dope to be had.
I have a couple of Leupold 8.5-25X from a decade ago. I am not thrilled with their side focus.
Said friend uses the Nightforce Benchrest scope with AO. Less tackytickle because it is not in easy reach while aiming but less expensive than their side focus, not much more than a Leupold.
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Thanks for the good advice and opinions
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"...mid range wind..." Learn to read the mirage. That's the heat waves rising from everywhere in Texas.
"...800 yards is a long way with a .308..." 800 yards is a normal distance for High Power rifle matches. Both NRA and DCRA. Most of which are .308's. Done with .308 M1 Rifles and iron sights in CMP matches too. Think 175 grain match bullets.
"...SHORT end of Palma competition, .308s required..." And 155 grain bullets only. Out of 14 or 15 pound, single shot, rifles.
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US Palma allows heavier bullets. International limit 156.
The AR 50 is a good entry level rifle.
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Well guys...It seems I should have just did what I normally do, and start way back on a forums thread(s) and read forward
I just spent two days and learned a lot especially from Zak Smith's good long range shooting series of articles
So, better than average skills...check
Pretty good rifle...check
Experience Zeroing at 100yrds....check
Black Hills 175 ammo....check
Knowledge to effectively use Factory, Computer ballistic, and chrono data...check
Practice range to 500 yards...not optimal but will help
Ability to dope wind dir and speed.....learnable
Several lower end long range varmint scopes...not optimal but will help decide on what ---in a price range ---might be better
The last is my thoughts....
Since this is a once a year deal...
IMO dedicated LR $$$ Target scope may not be needed if one of my Bariska or Simmons varmint scopes feels right for my boy.
I have three to play with, most are 50MM with 40mm tubes up to 32 power but with cross hair reticals
Recoil for the Rem 700 308 may be an issue cuz I tend to buy scopes with NOT much eye relief...mostly cuz they were intended for lighter recoil rifles like 22-250 or 204 Ruger
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I shoot 600 yds weekly, and have shot the Sig "reach for a thousand" several times. A 24" bbl .308 out to 800 yds is do-able but not a good choice as far as CONSTIANTLY reaching 800 yds . The wind will be an issue as will maintaining velocity. A 24" bbl will be an issue . You really need a 26" - 30" bbl to maintain higher velocities. 600 yds will be no problem with a 24" bbl 308. When I shoot 1K I use either my R700 in 300WM, or my R700 in .243. both rifles are equiped with 26" heavy Varmint contour barrels.my 300wm gets to 1k no problem launching 208 Amaxes at 2730 fps, but barrel heat and expensive rounds is an issue. My 243 is a dream to shoot, but the smallish projectile is very hard to spot at 1k even with a high end spotting scope.
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Tuesday, 3 February 2009
So and on to the snow, that is the citing bit of the title. Yes at last we have had snow in Cornwall so much so that the High School is closed, we had a text this morning to say so, I looked out of the caravan curtains and could understand why, a lovely winter wonderland. Great to see the kids faces and suddenly age doesn't matter the youngest daughter playing in the snow with her two brothers as if they were all under 10 - a lovely sight, great until the tears came, which happened when they sent snowballs her way I could see it from her point of view, she had straightened her hair for college this morning - did I tell you she will be 18 in June?
When we told her college was shut she cried - she is dyslexic, mildly but boy is she a creature of habit. She has to know the order of events every day of her life from getting up in the moring until bed time and if that routine changes for any reason god help the bearer of the news of the change ie his nibs said this morning, could you go and tell the Rottwieller that college is closed, so guess who got it in the neck, yup. The lovely Cornish man which works with us to bring our dream together turned up for work, in the truck, he only lives in the village but it was a dangerous journey, some would say foolish for trying but he couldn't stay at home I have never known a person so committed to work, then the chief builder arrived from the same village bringing in the chippy also the from the same village. So our man is working in the house to help with the plasterboarding! All hands on deck, last night the fitted furniture surveyor arrived 4 hours late and even with temporary lights couldn't survey all the house in the remaining light, so he drove off in a blizzard to find a bed for the night nearby. He said he would be back this morning which he was quite late, but lorries had skidded along the main road, cars were all over the place, so he took his time in his van and got here in one piece. As I sit in the laundry room looking out, the sun is shining and the snow is starting to melt, there is some more forecast but we shall have to wait and see, the danger is if it hasn't all melted it truly will be 'dancing on ice'.
The good news is that according to local radio February will be the month that people start looking at booking their summer holidays, so although we are beginning to get some cottage bookings, we could do with a few more, so fingers crossed, the caravan site is now in the new caravan club directory and we have had a lot of enquiries so much so that I turned someone away for an August booking! Hopefully with hubby getting us linked to different web site addresses folks will find out about us. In a way I don't want to be too busy the first year, last year it was just the 5 caravans, I thought people would be self sufficient, but it seems quite a lot of folk like to chat and of course check if they are allowed to walk around and see the animals which is fair enough, just as long as they are not stealing the eggs. Of which I will go and clean out their laying boxes. I might try to add some photos, you would think I would have got the hang of it by now!
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- claire p said...
Wow builders that come out in this weather!
Isn't it pretty though?
We could do with some more bookings as well, it's pathetic this year. Fingers crossed the credit crunch sends them all to Cornwall for their hols. Let's just hope they bring their brains with them this year, honestly the stories I could tell...as you'll no doubt discover.
- 3 February 2009 at 15:04
- Lane said...
Didn't you have a thief last year too? The flipping cheek of some people:-(
It's funny how snow brings out the kid in everyone. My 16 (soon to be 17) year old was playing like a little kid with her sister. Lovely.
Hope you're surviving the cold in the caravan and I hope the bookings come flooding in. I'm sure they will:-)
- 3 February 2009 at 20:57
- Frankies' Cornish Farmyard Ramblings said...
thanks Claire would love to read what folks get up to so we can be prepared!
Lane we had someone steal just the money last year. Rotten wet weather back again yuck.
- 4 February 2009 at 09:50
- auntiegwen said...
I too am a landlady, got a villa in Turkey and some people, like Claire says you would not believe it.
Lets hope we all have a good year bookings wise, I'm hoping the poor euro will make them want Turkey as it still has it's own currency the Lira xx
- 6 February 2009 at 09:59
- Frankies' Cornish Farmyard Ramblings said...
Dish the dirt on the guests, Auntie would like to be prepared.
- 7 February 2009 at 17:43
- Berthddu Suit said...
Sorry about your eggs an box Frankie, what a bummer!! Funny how the snow brings out different things in people, I turned into a big kid when I finally got to enjoy it with the girls!
- 12 February 2009 at 09:34
- Frankies' Cornish Farmyard Ramblings said...
thanks for comment, sometimes I feel I need to take life a little less serious. Sometimes it can be hard, hubby and I are trying to make a special effort. We got engaged 23 years ago on Valentines day, so takeaway and a quick glass in the pub tmorrow night!
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Jo Hamilton (musician)
|Jo Hamilton
Jo Hamilton performing at Union Chapel, Islington
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|Joanna Susan Hamilton
|Pop, pop rock, indie, electropop, alternative rock, jazz, folk
|Musician, composer
|Years active
Jo Hamilton is a Scottish vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Birmingham, England.[1] Her official debut album Gown was released in September 2009 by independent production company and label Poseidon to 4 star reviews in the UK from Mojo magazine,[2] The Independent,[3] and The Independent on Sunday.[4] In December 2009, she released an EP of Christmas songs which BBC Radio 2's Janice Long put on her Album of the Week list for the week of 14 December.[5] Nic Harcourt at KCRW Radio in Los Angeles chose Gown as one of his four picks for KCRW's 2010 Winter subscription drive.[6] In 2010 Hamilton became the first musician in the world to work with an Airpiano.[7]
Hamilton is the daughter of a Jamaican mother and Kenyan father, although both families trace their roots back to Scotland. The first decade of her life was spent in the Scottish Highlands,[8] Between stints abroad, Hamilton attended Gordonstoun School, near Elgin in Morayshire, Scotland, to which she was awarded a music scholarship aged 12. She went on to study viola at Napier University in Edinburgh, and then won another scholarship to read viola performance at the Birmingham Conservatoire, in the city where she is based.[9]
Music career[edit]
Hamilton has supported Damien Rice, Michelle Shocked, and Colin Vearncombe (Black). She also contributed viola to Kirsty McGee's first album, and was invited by Fairport Convention founder (and discoverer of Nick Drake) Ashley Hutchings to sing lead vocals and play guitar and viola with first the Albion Band and then his new bands the Rainbow Chasers and The Lark Rise Band on several European tours.
Her first released album, Gown, got UK distribution in September 2009. In July 2009, in the lead up to this release, she was featured artist twice on BBC Radio 2 in the same week, performing a session on Janice Long's show[10] and featuring on Aled Jones' Sunday morning show.[11] Upon its release Gown received 4 star reviews in the UK from Mojo, Rock n Reel, The Independent and The Independent on Sunday. Simmy Richman from the Independent on Sunday wrote of Gown: "In a world of La Roux and Lady Gaga, this is an unashamedly grown-up record that dares to step out of the boxes we have reserved for our female singer-songwriters". In January 2011 a Special Edition version of Gown was released featuring additional tracks, an expanded booklet and revised artwork.[12]
In early 2013 Prince and his new band 3rdEyeGirl performed an instrumental cover version of Liathach from Gown as part of their North American tour set, with Prince playing piano.[13]
In 2014, Hamilton announced work was under way on her 2nd album, to be called 'Fractals'. Some of the new material was previewed at Fractal Sparks at Durham Cathedral.
Live work[edit]
The first launch concert for Gown was held on 20 April 2009 at the Glee Club, Birmingham, to mark the early fulfilment of pre-orders of Gown to her fanbase. A London launch was held in September 2009[14] at The Tabernacle in Notting Hill.[15] In December 2009 Hamilton appeared at the Union Chapel, London,[16] and then supported Scott Matthews at Birmingham Town Hall.[17] In January 2010 she performed an internet-only concert for fans followed in April 2010 by an intimate concert at the Slaughtered Lamb, London, which received a 4 star review from the Guardian's Caroline Sullivan, who called her 'a find'.[1]
In 2011 Hamilton played on the main stage at TEDGlobal as well as several festivals and smaller solo shows.
In 2012 following a significant uplift in her social media following, Hamilton launched a headlining tour entitled 'Always Heading West' with her band.[18] The tour took in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, London and Falmouth in the UK and Milan and Rome in Italy.
In 2014 Hamilton took over Durham Cathedral to create "Fractal Sparks", a one-off son et lumiere previewing some new work to appear on forthcoming 2nd album 'Fractals'. The show featured brass from The Band of the Royal Corps of Signals and 28 metre high projections of fire, waves and other natural phenomena. [19] This was followed by theatre shows in London, Lincoln and a small tour of Canada.
Work with the Airpiano[edit]
In April 2010, Hamilton revealed she was the first artist in the world to be working with a prototype Airpiano, a non-contact electronic instrument being developed by Berlin-based inventor Omer Yosha.[20] Hamilton had been looking for a way to recreate some of the intricate textures from Gown live without resorting to backing tracks, and had stumbled upon Yosha demonstrating a very early version on YouTube. She travelled to Berlin to meet Yosha and collect a prototype instrument from him which he'd made specially for her to experiment with it and give feedback to Yosha. The result was a short film entitled 'A New Instrument'[21] about Hamiton's trip to Berlin and her resultant work with the instrument. The film received over 30,000 views on YouTube in the first three weeks, and was eventually syndicated by over 200 technology and music websites worldwide. In September 2010 she appeared live with the Airpiano at the Apple Store on Regent Street in London, assisted by Gown producer Jon Cotton and bassplayer Chaz West, to demonstrate and talk about her work with the instrument.[22]
2011/12 appearances with the Airpiano included playing on BBC World Service's 'Click' January special to several million listeners,[23] appearing on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends, on Channel 5's Gadget Show and in the UK's Wired Magazine.,[24] and finally on the main stage at TEDGlobal 2011.[25]
As well as the Airpiano film 'A New Instrument', Hamilton has created a series of films to accompany Gown. These serve as both EPKs (electronic press kits) for industry use, and as visual extensions of Gown in their own right.
The first EPK film (now renamed Gown Film 1) was released as a teaser in December 2008, several months before Gown itself was released. It opens with a quote from Scott Matthews, followed by a succession of footage shot herself in Slovenia, Italy, France and the UK while on tour, set to the song "There It Is" from Gown. The second half of the EPK is a live performance of the song "Liathach", which was shot in a gatehouse in Birmingham, the home of artist and furniture designer Chris Eckersley. This features metal birdhouses made by Eckersley who after viewing the footage revealed that his inspiration for the birdhouses was in fact a video[26] by the 1960s group The Byrds which looked uncannily similar. Later in the song the footage cuts to another live performance shot in Teatro Circolo Fratellanza in Casnigo near Bergamo, Italy. The first EPK was later released as a limited edition on DVD, accompanied by animations by Jordan Cadby based on the Gown album sleeve.
The second EPK film (aka Gown Film 2) was released in September 2009. It features footage shot on tour in Scotland and Paris as well as footage of her performing in Birmingham, in the studio and on the Janice Long show on BBC Radio 2.[10] This is used as the backdrop to a series of press and radio quotes and is set to the songs "How Beautiful" and "Think of Me" from Gown.
- December 2000 – 'Palace Place' (unreleased CD album of early demos)
- December 2008 – Gown EPK 1 (DVD release, limited edition)
- April 2009 – "Winter is Over" (download-only single)
- September 2009 – Gown (download and CD Digipak)
- September 2009 – "Pick Me Up" (download and CD single)
- December 2010 – Gown special edition (iTunes-only download)
- January 2011 – Gown special edition (download and CD Digipak)[27]
- December 2011 – Gown illuminated (DVD)
- ^ a b Guardian review of Jo Hamilton gig at The Slaughtered Lamb, published April 2010.
- ^ CD Baby Archived 19 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine., CD Baby Album Notes.
- ^ The Independent The Independent album review for Gown.
- ^ The Independent On Sunday, Simmy Richman's review of Gown in The Independent on Sunday – 2009.
- ^ BBC Radio 2-albums of the week, – 14 December 2009.
- ^ Birmingham Mail, published 19 February 2010.
- ^ "Airpiano.de". Airpiano.de. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ The Scotsman, Most Eligible Women from Scotland article.
- ^ "Jo Hamilton Last FM page". Last.fm. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ a b Jo Hamilton performs an acoustic set, on The Janice Long Show on BBC Radio 2, taken from the official BBC Radio 2 website; published on 5 June 2009.
- ^ Aled Jones' Good Morning Sunday, featured Jo Hamilton in Sunday Spotlight 7 June 2009.
- ^ Southsonic review Gown special edition
- ^ "Prince Concert Setlist at Vogue Theatre, Vancouver on April 15, 2013". setlist.fm. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ Review of Tabernacle album launch by London Liked, published September 2009.
- ^ The Music Fix, Interview with Jo hamilton published 18 September 2009.
- ^ Jo Hamilton performs as part of a Daylight Music showcase, published in Songkick December 2009.
- ^ Jo Hamilton supports Scott Matthews at Birmingham Town Hall Archived 28 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine., The official Birmingham Town Hall website.
- ^ "Jo Hamilton announces Always Heading West Tour". News.johamilton.com.
- ^ "A Glimpse of Fractal Sparks".
- ^ "Website of Airpiano inventor Omer Yosha". Airpiano.de. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ "A New Instrument' on Youtube". Youtube.com. 17 June 2010. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ Somojo Magazine on Jo Hamilton and the Airpiano Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "BBC World Service – Click, 10/01/2012". Bbc.co.uk. 15 January 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ "Jo Hamilton – News | Jo featured in the December issue of Wired Magazine". News.johamilton.com. 5 November 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ "Jo Hamilton – News | Jo Hamilton to perform at TEDGlobal 2011". News.johamilton.com. 5 June 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
- ^ The Byrds' Mr Tambourine Man, footage from 1965, available on youtube.
- ^ 2010 Review of Gown [Special Edition] – South Sonic Published December 2010


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Here's the newly released trailer for Xenoblade:
The game looks great and the whole setting with the frozen giants on the ocean is really unique and interesting. Hopefully they`ll take proper advantage of this...
The graphics on the other hand are IMO not so great (technically; artistically it is still pretty nice to look at)!
The game looks good..but they didn't show a shred of gameplay...highly disappointed.
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