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Claire Fisher sat across the kitchen table from her 1-year-old daughter, Victoria, who was feeding herself yogurt.
"Can you say, 'I love you,' Victoria?" Fisher asked her daughter, while holding up two fingers and her thumb to make the "I love you" sign.
Victoria held up her hand with only one finger and thumb, forming the familiar Texas Tech "Guns up" sign instead.
Fisher laughed.
"She's getting there," she said, smiling at her daughter.
Fisher said she first heard about Baby Sign Language when she worked at the Child Development and Research Center at Texas Tech. Now she and her husband, Geoff, use the new parenting trend with their daughter.
Melinda Corwin, associate professor in the department of speech, language and hearing sciences at Texas Tech, said Baby Sign Language takes vocabulary words from American Sign Language and simplifies them so infants and toddlers can use them to communicate.
However, Baby Sign Language, or BSL, is not an attempt to teach babies American Sign Language, explained Cindy Bruington, an instructor of human development at Tech. Rather, it is a tool used by parents and caregivers to communicate with children, she said.
"It helps the adults and the children to kind of become in tune to each other because you're using that non-verbal language," Bruington said. "In the end, it just helps meet those needs because you do learn those cues, and they're able to respond effectively when they don't have the words to tell you."
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Baby Sign Language with all infants, but she said parents should never force their child to use it. She said parents should use signs for certain "key words" while speaking or reading to their child.
Bruington said some common signs children use are words like: eat, finish, please and thank you, stop, wait, hello, good-bye, inside and outside. Babies can also use signs for simple objects that are familiar to them such as baby, ball or car.
Bruington teaches an infants and toddlers class at the Child Development and Research Center at Tech. In her classroom, she said, she incorporates signing into the songs they sing. She also signs to the children while reading them books.
According to Corwin, a speech and language pathologist, there is a common myth about Baby Sign Language that recent research has proven to be untrue.
"People thought that if you taught kids to sign that they wouldn't talk," Corwin said. "What we've actually found is the opposite. If you teach kids to sign, they'll begin talking sooner. So it's a myth that it will stunt the growth of speech.
"We know that the muscles on the hands develop a little more quickly than the tongue and throat muscles as far as sign motor control," Corwin said. "So it's actually easier for babies to make gestures with their hands and arms before they're able to get the words out through speech.
"They'll talk as soon as their little tongues can," she added.
Bruington, who has been teaching infants and toddlers for 22 years and also has three children of her own, said she has never seen any drawbacks, only positive progress, from using Baby Sign Language. She said BSL helps meet basic needs such as eating, sleeping, feeding and diapering.
"It helps with self-regulation," Bruington said. "It helps teach them how to cope with their own emotions as they're learning to regulate."
Lubbock resident Genevieve Durham DeCesaro, the mother of a 1-year-old daughter, said using BSL to communicate with her child has been a very positive experience overall.
"I think even for a child as young as she is, that's exciting for her," DeCesaro said, "She gets really, really happy when we know what she's wanting."
"It seems to calm her down," DeCesaro said. "I think she understands that she can communicate with us."
"And it's fantastic. It's really fun," she added. "If she's sort of antsy or maybe cranky and I don't quite know what's wrong, and I, for example, give her the 'eat' sign and go, 'eat?' she'll go, 'eat,' and it's really nice like, 'Oh, I figured it out.' "
Bruington said she has used BSL for as long as she has been teaching, but she has noticed a difference in the popularity of it within the last seven to 10 years.
"I think the Baby Sign Program has helped in that regard, just to get the word out," Bruington said. "They have books and videos on it, so it has truly become more popular. And not that it wasn't popular back then, we just didn't hear about it so much."
Corwin said she believes the key influence of the recent popularity of using BSL as a communication tool is parenting media such as Signing Time Company and Baby Einstein.
"I think it has increased the public's awareness and increased popularity," Corwin expressed. "As far as the media goes, to me those are the two big things that have happened in the last few years that have really gotten people interested in this and gotten people doing it."
Corwin said she has noticed many parents express interest in it, but few parents actually take the time to order a DVD or a book to learn it or try it out.
"Fewer people take action than act interested," she said.
"It would be worth your time or effort to invest," Corwin stated. "The payback or the reward would be worth the investment."
(Brittany Nunn is a reporting student in the College of Mass Communication at Texas Tech.)
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Weaver unfurled a large banner of black cloth, emblazoned with a fork of lightning splitting the Tower of the Crown in white, and hauled it to the top of the mainmast. Behind them, the Sea Wolf and the Witch's Promise flew their own banners of unadorned black.
Wycke looked back at the gunships gaining on them from behind. He wondered how Pike and William had found them. Both were experienced captains, but neither one had struck him as particularly creative or insightful. More importantly, neither one had been assigned a patrol anywhere near the Skate, let alone together.
Something had drawn them here, he thought. He wondered if it was something on the ship, or if the princess had signaled them somehow. He realized it had to be on the Skate for them to have found them all the way out here. Some spell or device on board had alerted the other captains and drawn them straight here. He wondered if they even knew where Aurora was, or if she was still alive.
"Attempting to determine if a rescue might be part of their plans?" asked Phaedra.
He hadn't heard her rejoin him at the aft rail.
"Actually, Your Majesty, I was thinking about your sister."
"Wondering if they know or care whether she's aboard?"
"Wondering why you broke her nose. She was quite intent on a peaceful resolution."
"Which is why she was given command of a warship."
"An interesting point, although not a direct answer."
"Ah, but then neither did you ask me a direct question," she said.
"I would not presume, Your Majesty."
She gave him her cryptic smile again.
"And what of Masters William and Pike. Were they on board with my sister's peaceful intentions?"
"I had only limited interaction with either man before our launch, but they voiced no reservations that I heard."
"Nor would they, if they value their necks."
"However, if I were forced to speculate as to their temperaments, I would say they were not convinced that the Princess' plan would work. In that, at least, I suppose they can take some comfort in having been correct."
"They can at that."
Wycke tried to read her expression as she watched their pursuers drawing nearer, but her face betrayed no hint of her thoughts.
"Your rebellion is the subject of much speculation at court, Your Majesty."
"Rebellion," she said, sounding surprised. He wondered if it was genuine. "Is that what they're calling it?"
"Everyone has an opinion or theory, but no one seems to know for certain. Although that does not prevent their expression in any way."
"No, I imagine not. A lack of anything to say poses no impediment to the chatter of monkeys now does it, Mister Wycke?"
"Indeed, Your Majesty."
"And my mother? She says nothing?"
"Her Grace has not seen fit to take me into her counsel, Your Majesty. But my understanding is that, despite the popularity of the topic in Queensport, it somehow never manages to arise in Her Grace's presence."
"I would imagine not," she said. She looked at him again with those piercing green eyes. "And what of you? Have you no thoughts on the subject?"
Before he could answer, large puffs of smoke appeared at the bows of the ships chasing after them. A few moments later, a concussive thud reached their ears, followed by a screaming sound that ripped through the air above their heads. A pair of fireballs erupted in the seas ahead of the Skate.
"I believe you have an answer about that rescue, Mister Wycke."
"Indeed, Your Majesty."
Two more shots tore overhead and exploded in front of them, closer this time.
"Your clever little inventions seem to be performing nicely," said Phaedra.
"Indeed. I'm feeling particularly proud, at the moment. Warning shots, or bad aim, I wonder."
Rain began pelting down on them in thick sheets, and soon even the Sea Wolf and Witch's Promise were difficult to make out behind them.
"Either way, they'll need to be much closer to target us now. If you would light your boilers please, Mister Wycke, and then man your station."
"Aye, Admiral," he said, and headed below decks.
As he descended from the quarterdeck, a wave broke over the bow, washing past the galvanic cannon and down the deck at chest height. It slammed into him like a wall of stone, lifting him off his feet and knocking him back into the ladder. He thought the wave was about to sweep him overboard until he felt a thick hand grasp his wrist, holding him fast until the water washed past.
"You die when the Admiral say you die," Kahoor said, laughing. "Not before."
Kahoor set him back on his feet and let go. Wycke descended the narrow companionway, through the gun deck and the berth to the orlop, where his bottled daemon engine lay. Two tank-like bulges, one on either side of the ship, were attached to the inner hull. Outside, twin vents in the hull below the waterline allowed the sea to pass through the tanks, and then flow out the aft end, passing over the rudder.
Wycke put his fingertips to tanks and began tracing out runes on the surface, speaking the words of an Itascan summoning as he did. His missing finger made drawing the containment runes difficult, but as he finished the spell he felt the water daemons he'd called forth pop into existence.
Trapped within the tanks by the runes, the daemons quickly boiled themselves into a fury, feeding on the seawater flowing in through the forward vents and ejecting it as high-pressure steam out the aft vents, producing thrust. Through the design of the tanks, and the energy of the containment runes, Wycke could now control the speed of the ship. As there was one on either side, he could conceivably control the direction as well, but he was not ready to try and wrest control of the ship from Phaedra yet.
To work, the engines required elementals of a minimum size and power. Wycke felt them throb against their imprisonment as they heated up. These were especially powerful, and he felt the Skate accelerate as they engaged. He hoped his runes would hold as well. He said a quick prayer to that effect, and headed back up.
As he passed through the gun deck, he realized the starboard gun ports were open just as the deck sergeant ordered the crews to fire. The concussion of all twenty guns firing simultaneously hammered into his chest nearly as hard as the bow wave had hit. He continued up to the weather deck just in time to see a blinding flash of lightning split the sky.
He gasped to see the size of the beast next to them, a hundred yards off the starboard rail, illuminated in the flash. The breeching hump of the sea dragon dwarfed the Skate. The finned crest of the creature reared almost to the height of the mainmast, yet only part of it was exposed above the waterline. If the cannonade had injured the Leviathan, he saw no sign.
He felt more than heard Phaedra's sea voice shouting at him from the helm to man his post. Near the mainmast, Kahoor pointed toward the forecastle and moved his lips as though speaking, but all Wycke could hear was the ringing of the guns and the thunder. He struggled toward the bow, rain lashing at his face.
Mounting the forecastle, he ran for the galvanic cannon and strapped himself into the turret seat. Another lightning bolt, this one sickly green, lit the sky ahead, and he reeled as he began to comprehend the Leviathan's true size. Three more massive humps of the creature crested through the sea before them. The great storm serpent rolled through the water with a corkscrew motion, generating massive waves.
He heard the starboard guns fire again and realized the ringing was receding. This time he saw the barrage strike the creature, penetrating the flesh, though to what depth he could not tell. If it felt the shots, it gave no indication.
"Charge your weapon and fire, Mister Wycke," shouted Phaedra, her voice loud and nearby. "Let's get its attention."
She had come ahead to join him at the gun.
"Aye, Admiral," he said, his voice almost lost in the howl of the storm.
The broadside cannon were powder guns capable of firing shells and shot of various types, propelled by a high-powered mix of alchemical powders in pre-measured bags. Developing the recipe for the powders was nowhere near as difficult or dangerous as refining the metal of the guns themselves. They represented the height of technology out of the Arsenal's foundry.
His galvanic cannon was of an altogether different design. Six elemental daemons, permanently fused into the body of the weapon, powered the gun. It fired bolts of magical energy, and it too was capable of different kinds of shot for various purposes. He had intended it to be the primary weapon for bringing Phaedra's rebellion to a peaceful resolution, though it could be quite deadly at need.
Now it and he were in the hands of a madwoman attempting to kill a god. Wycke spoke a brief incantation to charge the gun before aiming it at the creature and pulling the firing lever.
A crackling burst of energy leapt from the muzzle of the gun to strike the Leviathan, penetrating deep into its hide. The thick flesh of the creature erupted, boiling and sizzling and lit from within by an actinic glow. This time the serpentine body reacted, thrashing away and diving below the surface.
"I think it noticed that one," shouted Phaedra, as a series of massive waves, generated in the creature's wake, crashed into the ship.
She threw herself around him as the water broke over the rail, clinging to him and the turret chair in a tight embrace to keep from being washed away. For a moment, he thought they might swamp and capsize. Indeed, the Skate heeled hard and was almost submerged, but she soon righted herself. As the water surged over them, all he could think about was the pressure of her body wrapped around his as she clung to him, her face pressed to his neck.
"Come about, hard to port," she shouted back to the helm, releasing him and stepping away.
As the ship began to turn, he gave it an assist as a test of his own ability to control the ship. He increased power to the starboard daemon bottle, adding thrust to that side of the ship. The Skate wheeled about in a tight arc, reversing direction.
As they turned, Wycke saw the enormous beaked head of the sea dragon emerge from water and rise into the air to regard them. Most of the elders at the Conclave had agreed that the Leviathan was a mindless beast, a wild and uncontrolled force of nature. What Wycke saw was instead a terrible intelligence, alien, and unfathomable. And they had caused it pain.
Ahead, a brilliant red flash blossomed. The Typhon had found them in the storm and was firing upon the Sea Wolf. The larger, triple-decked gunship was struggling in the maelstrom, riding low and running on storm sails. The smaller, faster clipper had come alongside her and was firing at her broadside. A deadly fireball from their deck gun had missed and exploded in the sea beside her.
Only the Skate was outfitted with the galvanic cannon. The Typhon and the Borea had been given different weapons, to grant a decisive edge should combat be unavoidable. Their main guns used alchemical propellant like other cannon, but they fired magical charged primed for maximum effect.
He could see the thaumaturgist in the turret seat correcting his aim as the gun crew reloaded the weapon. He wondered why the Sea Wolf wasn't returning fire. The Typhon's deck gun fired again and hit, striking the Sea Wolf amidships. The resulting fireball was far bigger than it was supposed to be, entirely consuming the gunship in an explosion that engulfed the Typhon as well.
Wycke realized Phaedra was using the Wolf and the Promise as fire ships. That's why they were riding so low. That was how she'd intended to kill the Leviathan. And now one of them had been destroyed. Whatever she had packed them with, the force of the resulting explosion shattered the Sea Wolf into splinters in a fiery instant.
Behind them, the head of the Leviathan crashed into sea, close to the ship, and dove beneath the ship.
"Full speed, Mister Wycke," said Phaedra. "Give me everything you can."
With a thought, Wycke turned up the heat on both daemon bottles and the ship accelerated forward, crashing through the waves. Ahead, the Typhon emerged from the dwindling fireball with her deck still aflame. The rigging, rails, and stowed sails had caught fire, along with most of the crew above deck. Men leap into the sea, screaming, to douse themselves. The thaumaturgist burned while strapped to the turret chair.
This is suicide, Wycke thought. This madness will kill us all.
He had to get them away from this chaos. Surely Her Grace would prefer her daughter brought in alive. Perhaps even enough to reward her captor generously. He pushed the engines as hard as he could, hoping to take them far away from here.
As they sped forward, another fireball bloomed off their starboard side. The Borea had engaged the Witch's Promise.
"Intercept them," Phaedra shouted toward the helm. "We can't lose the Promise."
The helmsman spun the wheel to adjust their course, but Wycke reduced the thrust on one of the daemons to counteract the turn. He felt the elementals fighting against their magical bonds. He could sense the runes on the portside bottle, the ones he'd traced with his maimed left hand, were flawed and were weakening under the strain.
Steering the ship under strain, fighting against the rudder, was difficult. He overcorrected against the turn, and the Skate began to circle around the other direction. The helmsman looked baffled by the ship's failure to respond to his commands.
"No, toward the Promise," Phaedra shouted. When she saw his confusion, she turned to face Wycke.
"What are you doing," she said, drawing her sword. "Let go of my ship."
He tried to concentrate on correcting the ship's course as he unstrapped himself from the turret seat.
"We have to get out of here, Your Majesty, before we all die."
"Traitor," she said, charging him.
He rolled out of the way as she thrust her blade at him, the point of her sword missing him by inches. He spun around in time to catch her wrist as raised her sword to slash at him. As he grappled with her, her strength surprised him. Outmuscling him, she slammed him against the deck rail and began forcing her blade closer to his throat.
With all the strength he could muster, he managed to roll over and gain the upper hand. With her now pinned against the rail, he tried to slam her hand against the rail to knock the sword out of her grip, but her resistance was too much to overcome. Amidships, he saw Kahoor running for the forecastle to come to her aid.
Something sharp punched into the back of his shoulder, knocking his breath from him. The strength ran out of his limbs and he collapsed to the deck, reeling with the pain. Piper stood over him, a bloody dagger in her hand.
Kahoor mounted the foredeck as Phaedra placed the point of her sword against his chest. The Sunlander looked ready to twist his Wycke's head off with his bare hands. In his mind, he felt the containment runes failing as his control was overwhelmed by pain.
"No, you don't understand," he tried to say, but he couldn't draw a breath.
Kahoor's expression turned from anger to confusion as a bloody cutlass blade sprouted from his belly and then withdrew. His face turned ashen and he collapsed to the deck. Behind, Thrumm stood with a sword in his hand, and a look of anger twisted on his face.
Piper screamed and charged, dagger upraised. Thrumm drew a pistol with his free hand and fired at her point blank, striking her in the chest. She fell to the deck on top of Kahoor. Thrumm turned to face Phaedra.
"Die, Harridan," he shouted, and attacked.
She raised her blade in time to parry his slash, but she found herself backing away under the savagery of his blows. Her foot caught on the turret mounting and she fell backward. Thrumm raised his sword and was about to deliver a killing blow when a shock wave ran through the ship and knocked him off his feet.
The ocean swelled around them and the hull creaked as it was lifted from the water. The Leviathan was breaching underneath them. The Skate heeled hard to one side and began sliding down the creature's side, back toward the water.
They hit hard enough to crack the keel. Wycke could sense the magic in the hull unwinding. In his mind, he felt the containment runes on the engine fail and the elementals burst free from their tanks. Water rushed into the hold of the ship.
Thrumm stood up on the canted deck over the still stunned Phaedra and drew his small-bladed knife. She reached for her sword lying on the deck, but before she could grab it, Thrumm slashed out at her face, tracing a ragged red line along her right cheek. She gasped in shock as blood poured out of her face.
Wycke summoned what strength he could and staggered to his feet. Thrumm reached down and grabbed her hair, pulling her head back to reveal her throat.
"For the Queen," he said, and raised his knife.
Wycke grabbed his wrist and said a quick incantation, marking Thrumm and drawing the elementals near. He let go and backed away as the twin steam clouds swarmed over the surgeon. He screamed as the daemons blistered his skin, seared his lungs, and boiled him alive. Spent, Wycke fell back to the deck.
His breath ragged and shallow, he felt himself slipping toward unconsciousness. High above, the Leviathan's head reared over them, its cavernous, beaked jaw open wide as it descended toward the sinking ship. He was wondering what his death would be like when he felt Phaedra dragging him to his feet and toward the aft rail.
The last thing he saw before she plunged over the rail, dragging him with her, was the Witch's Promise sailing straight for them, her crew abandoning ship off the quarterdeck. The Leviathan's jaws closed around the Skate as the Promise rammed them broadside.
The concussion blast hit them as they hit the water, driving them deep below the waves. The glow of the fireball lit the waves above him, and he felt himself slip from Phaedra's grasp and sink into the darkness.
His next sensation, much to his surprise, was a burning itch where Piper had stabbed him. Sunlight warmed his face, and he heard the sound of waves lapping against the shore. Groaning, he tried to sit up, but found himself to weak yet to do so.
"Welcome back, Mister Wycke," said Phaedra. "I didn't want to leave you here unconscious and unattended."
"I'm alive," he said, his voice croaking.
"Yes, you're alive, though there was some doubt, briefly, on that matter."
He opened his eyes, squinting against the sun, and found the strength to sit up slowly. They were on a long stretch of sandy beach on some unknown coastline. Offshore, the Exocet sat at anchor in the lagoon. Just up the beach, dense underbrush grew quickly to a thick tangle of jungle that spread into the distance. The trees were alive with the chatter of monkeys, birds, and all manner of other animals.
"Where are we?" he asked.
"Unknown," she said. "We found it after we exited the storm."
As he looked around, he saw that the surviving crew had built a large bonfire. The burnt skeleton of another sat beside it.
"How long was I unconscious?"
"A couple of days. Between the stab wound and almost drowning, we nearly lost you."
He looked closely at her face. A line of stitching ran down the slash in her cheek where someone had tended the wound.
"What about the Leviathan? Did we kill it?"
Phaedra shook her head and grinned, wincing at the pain in her cheek.
"I think we only gave it a bad day. Apparently even legendary pirate princesses sometimes fail to slay the dragon.
"Can you stand," she asked, holding out a hand for him.
"I think so," he said, taking it as he stood.
At the waterline, the crew that had come ashore were loading into rowboats and casting off into the lagoon. Further out, the Queen's Lament was pulling crew and provisions aboard form a second rowboat.
"Did you say something about leaving me here," he asked as they walked toward the beach. A small pile of supplies and provisions had been piled up near the fire.
"Yes Mister Wycke, the punishment for attempted mutiny is usually severe. However, seeing as you did save my life, I thought marooning was more appropriate."
"That is very generous of you, Your Majesty. I'd hoped to escape with you as my prisoner, so you are not the only one who failed in their plans."
"Indeed," she said, wading out to the rowboat and climbing aboard. "I'm leaving you in better straights than I left my sister."
"For which I am grateful."
"Cheer up, Mister Wycke," she said, as the boat rowed away. "There's a whole new land to explore. I may do a bit myself, while we're here. Who knows, we may see each other again.
"Besides, I've left you with a whole flock of courtiers with which to gossip about me."
The chattering of monkeys filled the air.
To Be Continued…
Sean Kozma has spent the last decade working in theater and live sound in Los Angeles. He has been developing his voice as a writer for several years with the Eclectic Voices writer's group, and he has written several short fiction pieces for the Eclectic Voices online magazine. He is working on a handful of short stories for publication, as well as his first novel.


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So, did Mayflower Curry just become even easier to make? Oh yes, it did! Smiles all round. Have you checked out my Mayflower Curry recipe? The original recipe is here which includes the ingredients if you would like to have a look. Go on, do yourself a favour and embrace the world of mayflower curry. It really is tasty and delicious and the number of times that I have made it is now countless.
Now, in many of my blog posts and YouTube videos, I have talked about the fast pace of life and how many of us try to be as swift as the wind in getting things done. As Mayflower Curry is such a staple of my weekly menu, to help things along, I have found an even quicker way to create this recipe. This then leaves us with extra time to do other chores whilst a deliciously speedy (speed foods) curry develops in the background.
A point to note with this recipe is that cooking the ingredients for this length of time means that the liquid absorbs more of the vegetable flavour so for a stronger curry flavour, you will need additional curry powder. 7 grams of powder is 1 syn. I chose to use 105 grams of curry powder which means the whole batch of curry is 15 syns. With such a large amount of beef, this will easily serve 4 making it around 4 syns per serving. If you have syns spare then why not add an additional 28 grams of powder for greater flavour at just 1 syn per person.
You will also need a stock cube for this recipe.
So, as you'll see from the original recipe, you can use any vegetables you like. I usually like to include baby corn but today, sadly, I don't have any. Instead, I am using red onion, white (or is it brown?) onion, and then red & green bell peppers.
I decided to make this a chunky curry and used 700g of lean diced beef that was pre-chopped. Chop the onions and peppers into chunks and add everything to the pot.
Crumble a stock cube over the top and add the Mayflower Curry mix.
Mix together 105 grams of Mayflower Curry powder (15 syns) with 300ml (ish) of water and stir until the powder dissolves.
Add the Mayflower Curry mixture, stir everything together thoroughly and pop on the lid. Heat the mixture for 2 hours on high or 4 hours on low.
Serve with syn free plain boiled rice for an easy, tasty and satisfying meal.
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What is the main difference between visual translation & text translation?
When we say text translation it is what we call communicating or telling someone what you would like them to understand using the simple language of text or letters and even numbers. It is a great tool to make your reader understand what you are trying to inform them but sometimes no matter how good text translations are, there are instances that your reader might get bored reading the same things over and over again. So comes in the visual translation. Now this is one of the best tools of all when you are trying to reach your readers to make them see what you are trying to tell them like a picture of a garden for example. It is easy to say that this garden has a lot of flowers and trees with birds and butterflies everywhere. But if you add a picture to it to help your readers' imagination it will be more exciting for them and more interesting. All in all, text translation and visual translation comes hand-in-hand in reaching the readers' mind.


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Continued from yesterday.
Soon after landing at JFK from Tel Aviv Friday afternoon, I'm greeted by my tearful mother who can take her first deep breath in nearly two weeks. I'm relieved to learn that my family is en route from Tel Aviv, an hour into their flight as scheduled. But when we reach the parking garage, a call from my father-in-law informs us that the flight has been turned back due to electrical problems.
What! Back to Tel Aviv? Back to the airport targeted by Hamas earlier that day? If there's any consolation, I guess it's that we'll only have to wait an hour and a half before the flight takes off again.
My instincts as a screenwriter, so engaged during my five-week work stint on Dig in Israel, must be on hiatus for me not to know that this will probably get worse before it gets better.
I am still in the car, sitting in the driveway at my mom's house in Connecticut for what was to have been a weekend of rest and togetherness, when I manage to get on the phone with my wife after several failed attempts. It's 2:30 a.m. in Israel, but she and the kids are no longer at the airport: they're on a bus headed for a hotel in Tel Aviv because the flight has been cancelled. The airline has told her the earliest they can fly out is Sunday at noon, a day and a half away.
A day and a half of air sirens and bomb shelter runs. This isn't happening.
"Daddy?" my oldest daughter says between tears when my wife passes her the phone on the bus to the hotel. "I want to come home." Thankfully it isn't fear as much as exhaustion that I hear in her voice, as we had only made the children partially aware of the situation.
"I know, sweetheart," I tell her from the safety of my mom's car, assuring her that she'll be home soon.
On the phone with United Airlines in my mom's kitchen a short time later, I tell them that Sunday at noon is unacceptable. "Find me another flight on another airline, right now." Delta 469 on Saturday at midnight is the best they can offer. My wife, who is on the other line, says they could use the rest Saturday anyway, and will lie low at or near the hotel. They'll be fine, she says. Delta 469 it is.
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After four hours of fitful sleep, I wake to a text exchange between my brother and my wife that he's forwarded to me. In response to his loving concern, she replied:
I am feeling joyful to be alive actually, the mid flight power outage thing was kind of hair-raising, and we are in a nice hotel here, about to go find one more fantastic felafel, we are so looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
Power outage? I'd only heard the words, "electrical problems." She never mentioned a full-blown power outage when we spoke. As in, the plane went dark? Holy shit. Gulp. At least that kind of thing can't happen twice in one trip.
Saturday passes without incident, until Hamas announces at 8:00 p.m. that they will be launching a new round of attacks at 9:00 p.m.—just when my family is due to head back to the airport. I receive a photo from my wife of the girls eating burgers at Ben Gurion for the second night in a row. They look so tired, so ready to come home. Please, God, get them back to me safely.
After tracking their takeoff from my brother's porch, I head to my sister's to continue the vigil. All looks well nearly two hours into the flight, until it's posted that the plane has been delayed four and a half hours.
My first response is terror because it doesn't make sense: How could a flight I've been tracking suddenly be delayed? For a split second I assume it has crashed. No, my sister learns upon calling the airline—but it has been sent back to Tel Aviv due to mechanical problems.
What the hell is going on? This isn't happening!
Oh, but it is. The plane is on the ground before I learn that its troubles were a news story while still in the air: Delta 469 was headed back to Tel Aviv for an emergency landing with ambulances and emergency vehicles parked on the runway. Had I known that before the plane touched down safely, I might have been the family member who didn't survive.
No sooner does my wife reclaim their baggage at an ungodly hour in Ben Gurion than I find them an Alitalia flight leaving at dawn. Four one-way tickets through Rome and seven thousand dollars later—an equally unaffordable and trivial debt—I sleep for two hours until the third vigil in two nights resumes.
Begin Montage:
The happy, teary reunion with flowers and balloons at JFK.
My repeated viewings of the photo my wife took of our three kids sleeping on the second flight while the plane flew in circles for an hour dumping gas before its emergency landing.
Repeated wonderings if my prayers had ultimately been answered like Jonah's, or if I had just gotten lucky in the face of odds beyond all reason.
My own imagined tragedy has come to life horrifically for other parents and loved ones when the soaring children's death count in Gaza combined with the downing of Malaysian Air Flight 17 plunges me into a pit of PTSD despair at the world.
End Montage.
I step back out to the edge of this precipice on which I was perched for two days straight like the frailest bird. It's no wider than a knife blade, and just as sharp. Push me off and I can't be sure I would have the faith to ever fly again—despite my wife's rejoinder when I say as much to her in a precoital embrace after her return.
"You would, too, make it," she says with a brusque touch of admonishment. I'm glad she's so sure, because I'm not.
Fade to Black?
Yes, but perhaps only to end where it all began: when darkness was on the face of the deep.
Bradford Winters is a screenwriter/producer in television whose work has included such series as Oz, Kings, Boss, and The Americans. His poems have appeared in Sewanee Theological Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Georgetown Review, among other journals. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.


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text: Christopher Chatfield was fatally injured during an incident at his home in Puddock Road on April 21, which prompted an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive. A funeral was held at the Fenland Crematorium on May 8 and heartfelt tributes have since been paid to the 58-year-old engineer, who was a member of Ramsey Agricultural Club, the Warboys Christmas Lights Group, and the Warboys Sports Field Trust. Mary Bucknell, on behalf of Warboys Christmas Lighting Group, told The Hunts Post: It was a privilege for the Warboys Christmas Lighting Group to have known Chris and like so many others they were so proud to have worked alongside him. As a parish councillor he, as a result of a personal village lighting survey, co-founded the Christmas Lighting Group in 2004. From that time, his skill and ingenuity was demonstrated every year on the Warboys clock tower with the curtain light displays secured purely by tension on the listed building. In subsequent years decorating The Weir with garland displays and erecting a large Christmas fir tree. However, one of his most notable achievements was in 2012, when, to celebrate the Queens diamond jubilee, Chris designed and built the magnificent jubilee crown that, regularly displayed, will be his joyful legacy for many years to come. Chris Newton, chairman of the Warboys Sports and Social Club, also paid tribute to Mr Chatfield. He said: Chris was a true unsung hero of a thriving community that strongly benefited and grew with him involved with the sports field. A community champion who was friendly and supportive of all causes he came in contact with, a man who could simply not do enough to help others, the village has lost a true ambassador and gentleman. Our thoughts and condolences go to Wendy, family and all who know him. An inquest into Mr Chatfields death was opened by the deputy coroner for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough on April 26 at Lawrence Court, in Huntingdon. His cause of death was recorded as a severe head injury. The inquest was adjourned and will be reopened on October 12. The Health and Safety Executive is expected to deliver a conclusion into its investigation in the coming weeks.


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The Langley, BC Auto Show, Part 1
Saturday, September 10, 2016 – Larra surprised me this morning when she asked if I wanted to go to the car show in Langley, one of the largest in North America. I'd read about it in the news, but hadn't bother asking her because I assumed she wouldn't be interested. We had a great time.
These photos are just a few of the 1500 cars on display; I think we saw about half the show.
Talk about easy to work on the engine! LOL
Check out the roof of the car.
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The Most Unconventional Summer Camps
List Rules Vote for the coolest-sounding summer camps!
The most unconventional summer camps don't waste time with silly activities like arts & crafts and canoeing. These unique camps teach business classes, zombie slaying, and PHP, among many other out of the ordinary activities. Thanks to these unusual and often pricey summer camps, kids now have the chance to immerse themselves in their niche of choice for learning and fun rather than just spending the summer complaining about bugs and the mystery meat in the cafeteria.
While there are plenty of plain jane summer camps that provide fulfilling and fun experiences, the new trend among the top summer camps around the world is to specialize in a specific interest or experience and take it to the next level. Simple horseback riding camp is replaced with the lavish Equestrian Teen Tour of Russia. Gymnastics camp is replaced with Hollywood Stunt Camp. Computer camp is replaced by Tech Camp, where kids learn Flash development and how to make iPhone apps.
As one would expect, these unusual summer camps are a wee bit more expensive than the standard summer camps. These camps are for the richest families. Social Enterprise Camp, conducted in New York, teaches kids of rich people basically, how to be rich. Business practices, working with non-profit organizations, and weekends in the Hamptons are all taught to these rich kids for just $25,000 for a six-week program.
While some camps cater to the children of the richest people on the planet, other summer camps allow children to explore their current favorite interest. Space Camp is an old favorite for both children and adults. Now there's even Shark Camp, Fashion Camp, and even Zombie Camp, allowing campers to focus on their interests while enjoying the classic summer camp experience.So whether your child is looking to follow in the footsteps of Natalie Portman and attend a prestigious drama camp or simply wear some really big shoes at Circus Camp, all of the camps on this list of the weirdest summer camps offer one-of-a-kind experiences that children will never forget.


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Downtown Host vs Hosting24
Why successful business owners think Hosting24 is a bad choice. Here is our hosting comparison.
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However we only compared their prices if you pay yearly, not for more years or less. Do not be fooled by the unrealistically low prices advertised by the hosting companies or by other untrustworthy web hosting review sites. Some low prices advertised are for payment periods that are a longer period. If you ask us, we have heard too many horror stories about hosting company who went downhill after the first year. Why risk your hard-earned money because money paid to these companies can be well spent elsewhere. Based on our research, yearly hosting payment is the optimal length.
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Перевод песни De Heideroosjes – NIMBY (not in my backyard)
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Hey Mr. Politics! How come you don't care of the homeless? Hey Mr. Politics! You keep them far from your place, so you don't sleep restless Hey Mr. Fiddlesticks! No railway traffic, across your own street Hey Mr. Fiddlesticks! How many dirty junkies do you ever meet? Not in my backyard That's how you play cards Not in my backyard Don't sell me your facade Not in my backyard Game over, wrong card Hey Mr. Politics! You live far away from the red light district Hey Mr. Politics! Your neighbourhood is never a stake in a conflict Hey Mr. Fiddlesticks! We are to ones who elected you Hey Mr. Fiddlesticks! Did you forget who pulled you through?


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Top SearchITChannel.com stories for August 2010
The hottest news on SearchITChannel.com in August 2010 dealt with HP CEO Mark Hurd's departure and Oracle cutting the channel out of Sun hardware renewals.
Last month, news about Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd's surprise exit from the company and Oracle's plan to take more Sun hardware renewal deals direct struck a chord with SearchITChannel.com readers. A lack of SMB VARs in the VMware universe and the expanding channel role in Cisco UCS sales were also popular news stories in August 2010. Here are the top five stories for last month.
1. HP VARs stunned by Hurd's exit
News of Mark Hurd's sudden resignation as Hewlett-Packard CEO rocked the company's partner community. Hurd was credited by many clients for nurturing HP partners, but others said his management made HP a very unpleasant place. His departure distracted and alarmed many HP VARs.
2. Oracle to take more Sun hardware renewals direct
Sun hardware resellers took another one on the chin as they learned of Oracle's plans to take their hardware renewal business direct as of Oct. 15. Some Sun hardware VARs are part of the "Sun Manager Program," allowing them to offer first-line support for Sun products. But the October deadline leaves the rest of the Sun partners in a tough position.
3. VMware support still lacking among traditional SMB VARs
No one can doubt VMware's place in the virtualization software market, but many SMB VARs are flocking to Microsoft's Hyper-V. Some solution providers remain unconvinced that VMware's addition of live migration technology to vSphere 4.1 Essentials Plus and Standard editions will outweigh Hyper-V's cost efficiency.
4. Cisco UCS makes channel inroads
Cisco's Unified Computing System is becoming more popular in the channel as Cisco authorizes more partners to sell the hardware. Because UCS is fairly new, networking VARs may be unfamiliar with the server and storage components so selling Cisco UCS remains complicated.
5. VMware turns up the volume on discounts
Details on the new VMware Volume Purchasing Program (VPP) were published in August. Before the VPP, volume discounts were given at the discretion of the VMware partner or distributor.
Check out the top SearchITChannel.com stories from July 2010.


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Cybils Award Winners for 2010 (with a few comments)
The 2010 Cybils Award list was announced this morning. I wasn't involved in the judging, unlike past years, because of a big writing deadline. But I'm pleased to see the judges liked some of the books that struck me over the past few months, whether or not I got around to writing about them. And I'm delighted to have the whole lists of winners and nominees to consider in the months and years ahead.
And the winners are…
Fiction Picture Books
Interrupting Chicken, by David Ezra Stein
Nonfiction Picture Books
The Extraordinary Life of Mark Twain (According to Susy), by Barbara Kerley
Easy Readers
We Are in a Book!, by Mo Willems
Short Chapter Books
Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off, by Jacqueline Jules; illustrated by Miguel Benitez
Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse, by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Josée Masse
Nifty. Singer uses our familiarity with classic fairy tales to sum up some of those stories in "reversos," free-verse poems that read the same whether from first line to last, or last line to first. As a bonus, the reversos usually provide a new perspective on the tales: from a different character, or a different point in time. Masse's illustrations expand on the themes of mirroring and symmetry.
Graphic Novels
Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3856 Story Possibilities, by Jason Shiga
I wrote about Shiga as a "math cartoonist" back here, and about the possibilities of branching paths in traditional comics here. Meanwhile has gotten most of its attention for its algorithmic structure. However, the crazy scientific devices that the hero encounters also leave readers with interesting logical questions. For example, if you have a machine that wipes everything out of existence, can you ever experience having pushed that button?
Fantasy & Science Fiction
The Shadows: The Books of Elsewhere, Vol. 1, by Jacqueline West
Middle Grade Fiction
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, by Tom Angleberger
I admire any author who can find fun in middle school. Another interesting aspect of this novel is the notion, raised by some readers, that one crucial character has Asperger's syndrome. The past decade has brought a number of fine books touching on that condition, some with "Aspie" protagonists figuring out the world and others with protagonists living with "Aspie" relatives. Here the character, if indeed he qualifies, is simply one of many quirky kids in the quirky middle-school culture.
Young Adult Non-fiction
The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing, by Suzanne Jurmain
Young Adult Graphic Novels
Yummy; The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, by G. Neri, illustrated by Randy DuBurke
My still-somewhat-in-shock review here, and remarks on how Randy DuBurke worked with his collaborators here.
Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction
Rot & Ruin, by Jonathan Maberry
Young Adult Fiction
Split, by Swati Avasthi


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The Senate ushered in the rules reform era by confirming Patricia Millett and Nina Pillard, two nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Senate is expected to confirm President Obama's other D.C. Circuit nominee, Judge Robert Wilkins, before the December recess. This is great news for our federal judiciary and the administration of justice, but Republicans and conservative commentators are still trying—cynically and disingenuously—to make you believe otherwise.
Once the Senate changed its rules, the D.C. Circuit nominees were all but assured confirmation, and their extremist opponents were left with little recourse. So they're getting desperate. One tactic has been feigned concern over the "judicial emergencies" that exist in various federal courts around the country. Courts have "judicial emergencies" when, because of vacancies, there simply aren't enough judges to handle the caseload. There are 38 judicial emergencies as of this writing, 17 of which do not have a pending nominee. So why, the Republicans ask, are the Democrats "wasting" time on D.C. Circuit vacancies when there is more of a need elsewhere? Just yesterday, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., took to the Senate floor to deride Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., for making the "choice to spend the week on nominations that are not emergencies."
The right-wing Judicial Crisis Network (formerly known, when it was created during the Bush Administration, as the Judicial Confirmation Network), has been a principal peddler of this view. Its Chief Counsel Carrie Severino has argued further that blame for these emergencies cannot be levied on Republican obstruction, because any use of the filibuster has "had nothing to do with perpetuating judicial emergencies."
But this argument ignores the fact that obstruction begins long before a nominee reaches the Senate floor, and therefore before the filibuster—the very last hurdle before a confirmation vote—could even be used. Crying foul on judicial emergencies in this way is as absurd as shutting down the government to protest affordable healthcare, and then accusing the Democrats of denying funds to cancer patients when NIH can't open its doors. (Of course, the Republicans did that too.) Republican Senators have used every delay tactic at their disposal to prevent the President from appointing federal judges in their home states, and the unsurprising result is a growing list of judicial emergencies for which Republicans turn around and blame the President.
Consider the 17 judicial emergencies for which there is no pending nominee. At least 10 of those emergencies can be traced directly to obstruction by home state Republican Senators.
● Six of these emergencies are in Texas—one, in the Western District, is five-years-old—where Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, (and before Cruz, Kay Bailey Hutchison) neglected vacancies for years before finally convening a selection committee that has yet to name finalists.
● In Georgia, Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson are holding Eleventh Circuit nominee Jill Pryor hostage, and demanding a ransom of Republican nominees to fill three emergency vacancies. Pryor would fill a judicial emergency herself if Chambliss and Isakson simply gave their OK.
● In 2010, President Obama nominated law professor Victoria Nourse to fill what is now a judicial emergency on the Seventh Circuit. Nourse had been selected by a Wisconsin selection commission and approved by Wisconsin's senators at the time. But then newly-elected Republican Sen. Ron Johnson declined to give his support, and her nomination died in 2011.
It's enough to make you wonder: Why are these Republican Senators spending so much time opposing D.C. Circuit nominees while so many judicial emergencies fester unattended?
There are also 21 judicial emergencies for which a nominee is pending right now, so there is no question that the president has done his duty to put forth nominees for the Senate to confirm. But in eight of these cases, Republican Senators are obstructing by withholding their "blue slips"—a signal of approval—for each nominee. By Senate tradition, a nomination can't proceed without a blue slip. One of these emergencies is in the Eastern District of North Carolina, which has the single longest district court vacancy in the entire country—the judgeship has been vacant for 2,904 days.
Finally, the Republican judicial emergency argument relies on the false premise that confirming D.C. Circuit judges and filling judicial emergencies are mutually exclusive. In fact, there are eight nominees for judicial emergencies pending on the Senate floor right now, waiting for a vote. Reid filed cloture petitions on three of them Monday night, rendering McConnell's claim about "spend[ing] the week on nominations that are not emergencies" patently false. If the Republicans were genuinely concerned about judicial emergencies, they would agree to immediately confirm the nominees already on the floor. Instead, they are using every minute of debate time allowed for every nominee Reid wants to confirm before the December recess. This led to a confirmation vote for Nina Pillard at about 1:00 a.m. this morning, and will likely keep the Senate in session through the night, into the weekend, and maybe even through the holidays. The confirmations are all a foregone conclusion, but the Republicans do not care. They are stalling for spite, and for revenge.
It's clear who really doesn't care about judicial emergencies
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Spotlight for Submerged or Surface use 7604
$668.00 AUD inc GST
Submersible spotlight in natural cast brass with plain bezel. Fitted with brass stirrup bracket and base plate for freestanding uses. Pre-wired with 6 meters of cable for direct connection to a suitable remote 12V transformer.
Product Information
- Brand: DAVEY LIGHTING
- Product Name: Spotlight for Submerged or Surface use, Brass Plate, Brass
- Colour: Brass
- Material: Brass, Glass
- Height: 140
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- Type of Fitting: GX5.3
- Number of Lamps: 1
- Lamp: MR16
- Maximum Wattage: 35/50
- Type of glass: Clear glass
- IP Rating: IP68
- Dimmable: Yes
- Transformer: Required
- Lamp Supplied: No
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Clearly Love Sand Ceremony Shadow Box
Compartment holds 2 bags of sand and the top has a piece that slides in and out to keep sand secure. Colored sand and pouring vases sold separately.
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Personalize with a monogram/initial and optional lines of text for an additional $8.00 fee.
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Long Term Consequences Of the Gulf Oil Spill
The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is so huge that it may slow and stall the gulf stream which in turn could result in an ice age. The following scenario addresses this potential problem and ways the world could change, perhaps forever!
American Refugee Camp, Mexican Border
Christmas Eve 2014
We got word today US troops were clearing out Mexico City and within a few more months we will be able to move in and take over the available housing. I wonder what happened to the people who once lived there? Where did they go? What happened to them? No one is saying anything about that. And no one is asking anymore either. This is the price we will have to pay for survival.
Looking back, the year 2010 was the beginning of the end for me. People were talking about something big happening in 2012, and of course it did, but even if you talk to the people on the street today, they will tell you 2010 was the year it all started to unravel.
First, a huge earthquake hit Haiti followed by another powerful earthquake in Chile. That quake actually altered the rotation of the earth. Scary stuff, but of course, life went on, and people never dwell on stuff like that, they just want to get back to normal again.
And, life was getting back to normal, the world was fairly quiet when CNN told us that a huge oil leak was turning the Gulf of Mexico into the largest oil spill in history. Americans took notice, but not for long. People went on with their lives, the oil leak was a problem, but certainly our vast array of technological resources would take care of it.
Two months passed, then three more and the oil leak was still belching forth oil at an alarming rate. Nothing helped, everything was tried, because of the great depth, it became just about impossible to get the leak under control. And then, one day in early winter, the oil simply stopped! The well ran dry for some unknown reason. It was quickly capped and most Americans thought nothing more about the oil leak which would impact their lives for years to come in ways they could not even begin to imagine.
The Gulf of Mexico was simply filled with oil, it was everywhere. It was at every depth. Scientist warned that if the gulf streamed slowed, we could end up with a very cold and nasty winter. Within a week after that statement our worst fears came true.
Scientist confirmed that not only had the gulf stream slowed, the gobs of thick ugly oil had virtually shut it down. The gulf stream stopped, completely stopped! The world held its breath at the news, and when President Clinton appeared on TV, she was also in a state of shock, defeat in her eyes.
In spite of all the frantic efforts to clean up the oil, it was all for nothing. That giant conveyor belt in the ocean was now stalled and not only were we in for the worse winter of our lives, we were in for an ice age that might last for thousands of years into the future.
That first winter was brutal. All across north America and Europe people froze to death in their homes…looking back, they were the lucky ones.With the average temp at –10 below, there was no way to get in out of the cold. If people wanted to live they would have to flock to the south, and so it began. Millions of people were migrating to the southern climes with nothing more than the clothes on their backs and no idea what they would do once they finally got there. Of course there were plenty of others who just stayed put. People like my family who had resources that the others did not. We had acres and acres of wood for our wood burning stoves, we had enough money to fill our LP tanks every other month if we had to.
And so we made it through that first winter and waited for spring to come, praying that it would. Scientists warned us that perhaps it would not, not with that stalled gulf stream. People prayed for a miracle. None came.
The summer of 2011 was the year without a summer. I remember it snowed on the 4th of July! We built a green house that summer and raised food that way. If worse came to worse, we could probably eke out a living somehow. It would be tough, but we felt we could do it.
Lots of other people felt the same way, and for a while, there was wild hope that our lives were going to get back to a normal state again. Somehow the US government would get the gulf stream moving again and all would be well.
The winter of 2011-2012 was even more brutal that the winter before. However, there was a huge difference, and that was the massive amounts of snowfall. Amounts never heard of until now. Storms dumping 6 feet of snow at a time were common place. Snows fell as far south as southern Mexico and there was not one warm place left in the northern hemisphere.
The great ice age had begun, and that first winter millions upon millions of people died when the heavy snows entombed their homes. They probably died peacefully lying in their own beds, beside those they loved the best. The cold seeped into their homes and they simply fell asleep never to awaken again.
At least people did not starve to death, and that was something. Starving to death is a bad way to go. Most had food, the government made sure of that. Even if it was only rice and beans, no one complained. For the first time in a very long time, Americans did not worry about losing weight. All those concerns seemed to be from a life lived in another place and another time, perhaps, it never even was. It was easy to think that all that went before was simply a wonderful dream. A dream world where there was the warmth of the sun and plenty of fattening food!
When spring broke again we decided that we would have to move south. We had all we could do, just to dig out of the snow that was piled on our house. With the roof caved in from the massive weight of the snow and ice, we were lucky to even be alive at all.
We waited and waited for spring to break, but it never really did. Finally on June 1st, we got in the Suburban and headed south. We left our farm behind, buried in a snow pack now close to 30 feet deep. The great glacier of the ice age was born! With each snowstorm adding more weight to it, it would grind to dust everything in its path, including the farm we had loved so much. The farm my great, great grandfather had started all those long years ago. I know the house and barns are no longer standing. Yet, they exist in my heart, and always will.
We traveled from one refugee camp to the next, all set up by the US government, but even the government would not be able to feed us forever. At first things were orderly and organized, but once people figured out things could only get worse, that they were never going home again, it became every man for themselves. Just about everyone on the road was armed to the teeth.
This crisis brought out the worst in people and the best, and very little in between. Our day to day life on the road was not all that bad. We were not hungry, and we were warm, we still had plenty of things to barter for gasoline. The suburban became our home on wheels. The thing I missed most was a shower. Americans are used to being clean, but now I saw people who looked worse than the homeless that once dotted the streets of big cities. The refugee camps had hot showers and a place to do laundry, but there were thousands of people, all waiting for the same facilities.
One day, I could not take the greasy feel of my hair anymore. We heated water over a campfire and washed ourselves and our clothes. We ended up shivering in the cold air, but we felt so much better. We pressed on, even though it was the middle of June, there were huge snowdrifts in the road, and below temps at night. I would sometimes dream of flowers and butterflies, and I wondered if I would ever see something like that again.
Like so many other people, we did not have a plan, we were simply trying to find a warmer place where we could live again. We never thought about going to Mexico until we heard the news that the US was sending troops into Mexico and that Mexico would soon be open to American citizens.
So, just like that, we were at war with Mexico with the intent of taking it over! Incredible! A day later we watched President Clinton on the television. She stated that Mexico was now annexed to the USA and that it would be open to American citizens within a few months.
People just sat there in stunned silence!
We looked at one another with the question in our eyes and hearts, where are the people of Mexico to go if we are taking over their country, their homes, their businesses, and their farms? The government assured us that the citizens of Mexico would move south, closer to the equator, closer to warmth. We were told they could not take the cold weather that enveloped their country and they were leaving in droves, just as we were leaving our homes and businesses.
That seemed to make sense to some people, and someone started cheering. We could have a normal life again! We could work hard and reinvent America! Soon the entire refugee camp was thundering with the desperate voices of the displaced. Don't ask, don't tell, just do it!
And so we got into line and waited for the great land grab of Mexico. With the putrid smell of oil blowing in off the Gulf of Mexico, we waited. With hope and dread in our hearts, we waited. With the knowledge that this could go down in history as a very negative thing, we waited. More than anything, for our lives, we waited.
And so here, we are March 15th, 2014 the Ides of March. When I was home on the farm I would cut branches from the willow tree and bring them inside and put them in a vase to watch them burst into green. Those days feel like a different lifetime now.
Even this far south on the Mexican border, the cold breath of the glacier, now a half mile high and growing higher by the month, can be felt. The crisp air makes sound travel farther, and I hear a baby cry, people singing and lovers quarreling. Tomorrow, we go into Mexico. There US troops will escort us to our new homes, and we will try to start our lives over again.
How will it all turn out? I don't know, and I don't want to know. Life goes on, it simply goes on, and we are here for just a little while anyway. We take one day at a time, and hope we will live to see the next morning. After all, isn't that all anyone has? Who would have ever thought that an oil spill could create something as mind boggling as another ice age? Who would have ever thought that we would take over Mexico because that was the only place we had left that was suitable to life?
Indeed, truth is stranger than fiction by far!
Great hub. It is saddening that our attention span at disasters such as this is very limited. Who knows what effects this oil spill will ultimately result in.
WOW Mags. 96! I am SO jealous. In an attempt to copy your winning plan to garner readers, I've posted a Hub on "why I want to be a Socialist." I was trying to channel braniac.
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Hub On, girl!
The only reason we saw any tarballs at all is because 5 miles off the coast, in all reality, is VERY close to shore. If you look at a map that shows the whole Gulf, 5 miles off shore is the right at the landward edge of the line separating land from water.
I'm writing a Hub that discusses oil spills, and the roughly 650,000 gallons that seep naturally out of the sea bed every year, just around the USA. Globally it's probably 5 times that number.
Oil is a natural part of the Earth. HUMANS are a natural part of the Earth. We are easily the most beneficial species the planet hosts: We fight her fires, curb her diseases, and pull all those nasty hydrocarbons out of her skin and burn them off, releasing beneficial CO2 for the wonderful plant-life to breath in deeply and become more green. (I'll bet you never heard CNN tell you about how higher concentrations of CO2 are directly linked to greener plants, which in turn create more oxygen than less green plants.)
Magz! Neat handling of the subject matter, dear lady. I also love the way you depict people like yourself: Competent, capable, and able to deal with catastrophes that crush people in other cultures.
Ice ages DO come on much faster than we thought, just 20 years ago. Will you forgive me if I correct a few of the inaccuracies, though?
For purposes of scale, fill your bathtub to the brim, to represent the total water volume of the Gulf. Now get a colored push-pin, like you find in every cork message board in the world. Dip the metal part into some used motor oil and let the excess drip off. Now swish the oil off into the tub.
If that scale is too small, imagine any of the largest sports arenas in America filled with water. Now pour in a 24oz can of beer.
The Gulf is the 7th largest body of water on the planet. Vast and deep, it holds 660 quadrillion gallons of water (660,000,000,000,000,000). This terrible oil spill (for all the time-wasting regulatory paperwork it took those buffoons to wade through, before it could be capped), leaked a high-end estimate of 100.8 million gallons of naturally occurring crude into the Gulf.
1 part per 6.6 billion. If that was all it took to halt the Gulf Stream or the Oceanic Heat Conveyance, the natural oil seepage from ocean floors all over the world would have killed us 1000s of years ago. Hell... Saddam Husein's 500 million gallon self-induced oil spill into the Persian Gulf at the start of the first gulf war would have destroyed the planet.
Truth is, Earth is far more resilient than we give her credit for. There are systems and exchanges maintaining our seasons and mean temperatures that we've yet to even plumb, let alone factor.
Our environment is not a spinning coin on a pinhead, that the lightest touch will upset. It is a heavy ball in a deep bowl. Push it too far in any direction, and it will quite naturally return to it's proper spot, all of its own accord.
We're still thriving, and it was 95 degrees here in Reno, today. A delicious dry heat that purrrs in the sweetest voice possible "go jump in a lake".
Great hub here. I have been telling people the effects if this oil reaches, or when I should say, it reaches the gulf stream. We are in big trouble. Thanks for this great hub here, keep up the good work.
I agree with you on the delicate balance of the gulf stream it would cause havoc on other countries as well. British Isles and parts of Europe. Yes we would pack our skis and snowshoes and head south as well just like the Snobirds we are. lol. Yes put that Hub back up please. You will give a lot of fellow hubbers a laugh for sure. Nah, my ears are use to being singed, bring it on:0)
Well being from Canada it appears you wrote us off. Heck we are survivors here to EH in the great white North:0) some of us would find a way, we might even think about coming south to, but knowing the US Customs friendly nature they would probably not let us enter the land of the free:0)) But how free is anyone at this point in the game? It's going to come down to everyone for themselves, it's will be a Global disaster for sure. Great hub, I hope your wrong, but all indications from what I've been reading, it doesn't look promising at all. We are all in for the ride of our future lives. Peace and hugs..Keep warm.
Your imagination has been hard at work although I shudder to think that it may not be your imagination at all. You know, they say that often great fiction writers are fairly accurate in their predictions of the future. No offense but I hope you are wrong! I did like the reference you make to the way we here in America quickly grow tired of a subject and move on with the assumption that everything is going to be all right for the future because it was all right in the past. My only consolation is that it happened on Hilary's watch! LOL! Thanks for a great hub. WB
If I understand this right.....then oil could be the answer to "global warming?" How ironic!
Where did the inhabitants of Mexico City go? Arizona! They've been there for years.
Give them some shinny beads and tell them to hit the road ... always works with the natives!
Very good writing Magnoliazz. I certainly hope that it does not come to that, but no one really knows what is coming in the future.
I myself am feeling ill from it all, we must stay strong, and positive, but it is all like a bad dream right now.
An interesting hub. An all American view hidden inside, deny the Mexicans America, then kill them off and take their country. I prefer Revelations 1/3 of the sea life and the world ships, as it will be apocalyptic marking the beginning of Jahshua's reign and perhaps the finality of a clinton nightmare.
Wow this is so wired because I just wrote a hub were I talk about the oil spill could be what the Bible is talking about when it says the oceans will turn to blood...https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/The-comin is the location of that hub and I would be interested to know what you think! Good job!
Hey, it snowed here in Idaho on may 22 and 23.
A gem of a hub.
Spectacular hub. I knew the shit was going to hit the fan. Thanx.
magzz: This is one of your best hub!! How well you narrated what only few can envisage!! Told in the way of how practical life will unfold makes it awesome!! Above all, you highlight a big environmental problem mankind is facing!! Hats off to you!!
I absolutely love this hub Magnoliazz, I think you are mastering your grasp of making fictional and factual lines blurr with your topical fiction / reality work. I think that would be a proper way to describe it...if not, I will repeat this is great writing. Fine art indeed. Love and Rockets Baby!!! Keep on Hubbing. Blake4d