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Today was gorgeous, sunny with blue skies. Unfortunately it was COLD! Well, I guess it's still a good sign that spring is coming. The trees are all in bloom, there is a gorgeous, giant magnolia tree on the way from our house to church that is just awesome. I can't wait to be outside more - more trips to the zoo (we have a membership so we can go however often we want), to different parks, and playgrounds. I am really anxious for Sam to start walking. I am ready! I want him to be able to have more fun at playgrounds and parks.
Things have been crazy here for the last three days. First of all, we attended a new members class at our church on Friday and Saturday, and on Saturday morning we became members! We've been attending for about a month and Sam goes to the nursery. This is a very big change for me, and at the end of this update I'm going to post some things I wrote over the weekend. I invite anyone reading this to read about the little journey I've been on for the past few days. It's something really new for me, and I really want to share my feelings and thoughts with people. Justin is happy to be getting back into the church and starting to figure out what he believes now that he's an adult and his own person, and has been enjoying the sermons, so hopefully it's going to be a really great and supportive place for us. Justin is going to go with Dave and a bunch of men from the church on a mission trip to Mexico in June to build a house for people there!
Saturday after our class, we went straight to Brooke and Dave's for Lorelai's 5th Birthday party! We had a great time. The party was at an indoor playground and Sam had a lot of fun crawling around and playing. He especially liked this big Fisher Price tree they had and he crawled up inside it and made lots of noise and bounced up and down. I will be putting up pictures from the past couple of weeks in the next two days. After the party we were all so tired (we had to get up at 7:15 or so to get to the church by 9) we went home and Justin and Sam slept for almost three hours!
Sunday we went to church and then out to lunch at 'The Rock' with the Whalen-Robinsons for Lorelai's birthday, which was actually on Sunday. Then we came home and got Sam all packed up and Mom took him back up to Bellingham with her! That's right, Sam is at his Grandma's house until Thursday when we're going to go up to Bellingham and stay for a couple of days and try to visit with people and be back here for next weekend. It's a little weird not having him around, but I got SUCH good sleep last night! I got home from book club and we went to bed around 11 or 11:30 and I woke up this morning before 8:30 feeling totally rested! Today I've been playing Viva Pinata, and took a shopping trip with Brooke and went to the movies. There are certainly things I want to get done around the house, but I'm putting it off and I'll probably end up doing it all on Wednesday! For right now we are just hanging out and relaxing, and Justin is trying to rest up to beat this bad cough/cold he's had for almost a week now.
Sam has been doing really great. Every day it seems like he standing up a little better and being a little more confident. He's still struggling with his top tooth coming in, so we made sure to send some Tylenol up to Bellingham with him. He also did something exciting starting on Saturday and started waving! One of the other parents at the party waved at him and he waved back, it was crazy! Since then it's happened a few other times. It's funny, I was telling Brooke when you have a little baby you tell them things and repeat things over and over and you're never really quite sure if they're getting it at all, then one day they just DO IT and you realize that they really are absorbing things!
I also had a crazy moment with Sam on Sunday where we were sitting in the living room near the bookshelves and he likes to stand there and touch the books. But he is pretty good about not pulling them off the shelves. When he goes over, I tell him "Sam, no, those are Mommy's books. Mommy's books stay on the shelf", and he doesn't usually pull them off. I find that in itself pretty amazing, but he really showed that he understood on Sunday. He pulled one of the books all the way off the shelf and I took it and told him no and put it back, and then he was standing in front of the bookshelves touching the books and whining and bopping up and down. It was clear that he REALLY wanted to pull the books down but he knew he couldn't! It was really funny, but at the same time it's sort of a proud moment in a way. He's such a little cutie! He really is a wonderful baby.
Well, I think that's about all that's been going on around here! Since Sam's gone, I should be able to get on and upload pictures in the next few days from our camera. I'll get up pictures from when Maggie visited, random pics of Sam from March, and pictures from Lorelai's birthday party!
A Journey of Faith
Now I'm going to post a rather long addition, which is a couple of things I wrote over this weekend, and at the end, something that I'll add about how I feel right now.
Part One: Written Friday, March 30
Tonight we attended the new members class at the Lake Forest Park Presbyterian Church. We started going to the church every Sunday about three weeks ago and have been enjoying it. I have never had a religious presence in my life in any consistent or significant way. I have never said I believed in God or that I thought that Jesus was the Lord or the savior of all mankind. There have been many times in my life when I was unsure whether I would ever understand religion. I have had friends who were very religious or faithful people, and I looked at them with a little bit of envy and wondered what it would be like to believe in something so fully. Even though I've said that I kept my mind open, and that I was still deciding what I believed, I never truly thought religion or church would ever be a part of my life, let alone one that I might enjoy or that would really mean something to me.
So we decided to go to a new member class because I thought that maybe Justin would want to join and that I would just get a little more acquainted with the church etc. I knew that one of us would have to be a member if we wanted to dedicate Sam, which I think we do want to do. I want to provide Sam with the community and education that the church provides, because I think that way it will be easier for him to decide on his own what he believes when he gets older. Well, it turned out a lot differently than I thought...
When we got there, they gave us each a folder with some papers in it. I was looking through it and came to the sheet that to me signified the reason that I wouldn't be able to become a member of the church. The four questions. The questions they ask you in the Presbyterian church, and the answers you must give:
Who is your Lord and Savior?
Jesus Christ is My Lord and Savior
Do you trust in Him?
I do
Do you intend to be his disciple, to obey his word and to show his love?
I do
Will you be a faithful member of this congregation, giving of yourself in every way, and will you seek the fellowship of the church wherever you may be?
I will
We all introduced ourselves then went through a few exercises. We talked about what was the source of 'warmth' in our lives when we were kids, and most people's answers revolved around their families or mothers. My answer was my mom for sure. She was always there for us and provided us with everything we needed throughout the years. Then we moved to the question of when in your life did God become real to you instead of just being a concept? This was an amazing conversation that involved tears from several people, myself included. Listening to one of the group members talk about feeling like he wasn't alone and not worrying during his wife's c-section, and hearing another group member talk about praying for her daughter in the hospital when her daughter almost died and knowing that her daughter was going to be okay and make it. A few people said that they didn't think they'd really had a moment like that, one person said she felt she'd had prayers answered. I spoke up and said that the closest thing I thought I'd felt was feeling an intense love for my family and that one moment in particular I could think of was when I was pregnant with Sam and had a moment of absolute peace when I thought of the miracle that Sam was for me, thinking I would never be pregnant and then it actually happening and how I couldn't believe it.
It was very emotional in the room, but in a good way. It's wonderful to be in an environment where you feel completely comfortable and that it's okay to be open and to share, and I did feel that way. Then we moved on to the purple paper... We started with the first question - Who is your Lord and Savior? Mike asked us what it meant for Jesus to be your Savior? What is he saving us from? There were various answers. Jesus saves us from death. Jesus saves us from suffering for our sins. Etc. Justin said Jesus saves us from ourselves and from only thinking of ourselves, helping us remember to do things for others and for God. And something started in me... we started to move on to the Lord part, but in the meantime I wrote this down in my notebook: "[What it means if] Jesus is our Savior - Jesus saves us from each other and from pain. By following the things he taught, we save each other through generosity, love, kindness and charity. Jesus' example was love - he loved everyone enough to be crucified, beaten and persecuted because he thought it would make things better for us. If we all loved one another as much as Jesus loved us we could eliminate all pain and suffering. When we love each other we save ourselves." The funny thing is, it's not something someone told me. It's not me spouting off someone else's ideas. It's just my interpretation of what it means for Jesus to be your Savior. I didn't even know I had an opinion about that. Then we moved on to the part about the Lord. Mike asked, what does it mean for Jesus to be your Lord? Well, what is a Lord? Again, people had a few answers, but it's pretty straight forward. The Lord is the boss. What he says goes. I wrote down - "The Lord is our leader. Live by his example always. If you make a mistake it's okay because you will be forgiven as long as you keep trying."
We moved on then to the second question - Do you trust in him? What does it mean to trust in Jesus? I wrote down "Trust Jesus - Trust that it will be okay. Trust that if you are good, you will be rewarded with love and goodness returned to you. Trust that you are on a path and that you make life what you make it. Trust that the things he said made sense and that we have the strength to carry it out." Other people said things like, trust that he has a plan for you. Trust that even when you don't know why, things are happening for a reason. Now, I've always thought the idea that someone has a plan for me is a little ridiculous. But what if that's not what it means? What if it means that Jesus had a plan for everyone, and that plan was for us to be good people, to help people, to love one another, and that by doing that we would be fulfilling his plan? What if it means that he knew the best way to live and that will lead us to the futures we deserve?
The third question - Do you intend to be his disciple, to obey his word and to show his love? Well, that's an easy one. A disciple is like a student. By answering positively to this question, you agree to learn his word, obey it, and to follow his teachings, love one another, show charity to your fellow man. Whether you are a religious person or not I think that if you break it down the golden rule is something that really everyone should follow, no matter what they believe.
The fourth question - Will you be a faithful member of this congregation, giving of yourself in every way, and will you seek the fellowship of the church wherever yo may be? What do you agree to by answering that you will do these things? You agree to be a committed member of the community that is the church. Participate and support your fellow church members. Know that the church will be there for you no matter where you go, that you will always have a place when you are feeling lost and need comfort. Know that you can provide comfort in that way for other people as well.
Those are the base questions you must answer to become a member of the Lake Forest Park Presbyterian Church. And I can honestly say that I might be able to answer them the same way that other people who are members do. My interpretation isn't necessarily exactly the same. Even before tonight, I thought that if I said those words above, that I would just be totally lying. But now I'm not so sure.
I've never thought about any of this in this way before. I never GOT IT. I always thought that religion was something very strict and stiff. I thought that in order to be religious I would have to conform to someone else's ideas of what God is or who Jesus was, or what exactly it means to BELIEVE and to have faith. I didn't get it. Having faith doesn't have to mean that you agree to what someone else thinks exactly. You can have different ideas about the details of what God is or what it means to believe in Jesus and God. The bottom line is still the same! Not everyone has the same exact view, and that's okay. So, I don't believe that God is a dude sitting up in the sky telling us what to do and where to go. Maybe I believe that God is love. God is the love and compassion that lives within people, it's the positive spirit that is available to everyone if they choose to tap into it. God is what makes us love each other, care for each other, want to help each other and give everything for each other. God makes a mother love her baby. God helps us see how to work it out when we have problems with friends and family. God is the spirit of love. I know I might sound like a giant hippie here, but I never got it. I didn't realize that in a church full of 100 people, there could be 100 different ideas and beliefs and that is okay, because it leads to the same place. Loving one another. Doing good in the world. Helping people. I suddenly realize that I CAN have faith. I CAN believe. I CAN belong in a community, in a Church. My interpretations are just as good as anyone else's. I actually have interpretations! What?? I might believe in God. I didn't realize there were different ways to believe in God. I didn't realize that I might be able to do it... that mabye I have actually believed in God for longer than I realized. By the way, I could just go on writing about this... but I would just be repeating myself.
I am freaked out. Not in a bad way. I just can't believe that I never saw this before. I can't believe that I went to church and something clicked. I don't know what to think. I can't believe that it could be that I actually might find religion in my own way. I didn't know it was possible. In the car on the way home, I talked to Justin about what I'd written down and what I was thinking about. I felt emotional, charged and overflowing with a weird kind of wonder at all the thoughts in my head. I talked to Brooke after I got home. I wanted to call her even though it was late because we've had so many conversations about faith and because I know how happy she was when we decided to start going to her church. I told her that I had a moment at the group, and told her about what I'd written and what I'd been thinking about. This is when I came to the above realization that I hadn't gotten it before, and tears were streaming down my face. And I could feel how happy she was for me. I don't even know what is happening to me. It's all very new. I don't even know what it means. I told her that I felt freaked out and didn't know what I was even thinking. She told me she remembers feeling that way too.
Well, it's almost one in the morning now and we have to get up and be at the church at 9:00 for the 2nd part of the class tomorrow morning, and then at the end, the church elders are going to be there to help anyone become a member who wants to do it. And I am thinking about it....
Part 2: Saturday, March 31
Today I joined the Lake Forest Park Presbyterian Church. I am still amazed at the transformation over the past 30 hours. I feel happy. I am the kind of person who sometimes feels passionate or strongly about things at first, but then sometimes it fades. Sometimes things seem exciting to me and like a good idea, but I find that then a few days or weeks later that my opinion has gone back down to normal and I feel like a hypocrite because I spoke words that were strong and sort of have to take them back. Usually I trty to just never mention it again and hope people don't notice. There is a part of me that was scared over the past day that the feelings that I had last night and the things I feel like I've been discovering will leave me. That I will wake up one day and realize that I didn't find anything, that I just got inspired somehow by being at church, or that I was influenced by other people and just went along with what they were saying and it wasn't really my opinion. I have to let go of that. Part of having faith is trusting that the faith is not just going to abandon you.
This morning we went to the second half of our new members class at the church. Today we talked more about what it means to be Presbyterian, what they believe, how the church is structured, the two sacraments that they observe, and what their ideas about the bible are. We got a little history in there, and a little bit of information about the bible, and a tour of the church, which has WAY more staircases than I realized and several rooms I never knew were there! Towards the end of the class the active church Elders came in to meet us and vote on the new membership. At that time, we went around the room again and introduced ourselves, and I was able to share a little bit about the experience and discovery that I had last night. I got teary eyed, even just reading the above that I wrote last night out loud makes me cry a little bit. I even made Mike (the Associate Pastor) cry, but that's not hard because he cries at just about everything if it has to do with God. Then we answered the four questions out loud for the Elders, they motioned to let us join the church, and we all became members. Then we prayed together and I couldn't stop smiling. I could try to describe the feeling of being surrounded by joy and love, but I don't feel all that articulate right now and it really can't fit into words well. I was the only person in the class who has not been baptized, so I will have that done. I see it as the beginning of something new - living a life of faith in goodness and love. I am currently supposed to be baptized by sprinkling at church on the 22nd, but I am actually thinking about changing my mind and being immersion baptized in the lake when it gets warmer out in the summer time. I feel like it might be a powerful experience, and you only get baptized once, so maybe I should really go for it. So, I have a couple of weeks to decide.
After the class several people came up to me and thanked me for sharing and one person even said that I was articulate. I found that particularly funny because as I spoke to the group this morning I actually felt really unarticulate and like I was just blabbing out in a disorganized way. They gave me hugs and made me feel really welcome.
I feel comfortable and confident in my choice of churches. There are several reasons that I am happy with my choice of denominations and of churches. This is the first church where I have felt really, unconditionally welcomed. Where I didn't feel like they were ultimately thinking of having a new member, pulling in someone new, having someone contributing to their church monetarily. In the congregation and also in the small group of the new member class, I feel comfortable in having my own opinions and ideas. I don't feel like I have to conform, that I have to feel the same way as everyone else or have exactly the same ideas that they have. That I feel loved, that people are just happy for me because I have discovered something new, they're just glad I'm there sharing with them in love and faith. This is also a church that is very family oriented. They have a wonderful nursery and a wonderful children's ministry with Sunday School all the way through middle school, then youth groups. They have lots of mission trips for the teens and the adults, they have vacation bible school in the summer and a lot of options for hands on ministry. They believe in worship plus two - growing faith and hands on ministry being the plus two. I don't feel judged. I feel comfortable with Mike, which is important to me because I usually feel somewhat intimidated by that kind of 'authority figure'.
As for the denomination, there are a lot of things I like about Presbyterianism. I like the fact that they believe in family and marriage. I like their views on the Bible, and that they don't necessarily believe that the Bible is the word of God and he just used people to write it like they were puppets, but that it was written by people who were inspired by God and understood what to write because of that inspiration. I like it that they are welcoming of people from other churches, recognize baptisms done at other churches, and welcome all people to take communion and don't exclude people because they aren't church members or were not baptized presbyterian. They gave us a pamphlet about what it means to be a presbyterian and the last page says that the presbyterian church is people. That's what I like. It's all people, and it's a community. Somewhere to belong and feel welcome and to be there for other people and have them be there for you.
So, here I am. Belonging somewhere that I never thought I would belong. Understanding things I never understood and never thought I would. Thanks for 'listening'.
Part 3: Monday April 2
The last few days have been really full for me, but in my time in the car or lying in bed I've done a lot of thinking. I am really happy. It's weird I feel a lot more relaxed in the past two days, and weirdly I feel more confident too, or maybe just... Well, I always worry about things that aren't worth worrying about. For instance, since it was the first Sunday of the month, they had communion at church. Beforehand I was talking with Mom and Justin and they both thought that I wouldn't be able to take communion because I'm not baptized yet, but I thought that it would be okay, but wasn't sure. Now, in the past, I probably would have been convinced not too because of experiences at other churches, and just sat there quietly and waited until after I was baptized, just to be safe. But instead of doing that, I told Justin I would be right back and went and ASKED Mike, and found out that it was totally okay for me to do it. Instead of just being scared or unsure, I just took care of it. Or yesterday when Brooke and I got to book club and we had the address but hadn't been to Ceci's in a long time and it didn't look familiar. Instead of going through the hassle of looking it up on my phone's crappy internet browser or calling Justin or Dave to look up the address to make sure, I decided we should just get out and knock. If it wasn't the right house, it wasn't. It's not like anything bad was going to happen. I know those are little things, but to me they do make a difference.
Attending church on Sunday was great too. Since it was Palm Sunday the church was more crowded than usual. We also had communion, and I was able to take communion for the first time. It was also interesting how things sounded so different to me. Listening to the songs parts that I wasn' sure about before made a lot more sense to me, and I understood how the words fit in to my faith and my interpretation! I just really like it there, and I'm looking forward to getting more involved.
I've also felt pretty happy the last few days. I feel really close to Justin and have been just enjoying spending time with him, and I'm glad that happened just before Sam was going to be gone because I'm really enjoying hanging out with him. So, that's what's going on with me. I know this was really long, so if you got this far, thanks for reading!


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Poet: Mary Szybist
Information about the poet.
Incarnadine: Poems
- 2013 NBA–Poetry winner
- Score: 10.63
The anticipated second book by the poet Mary Szybist, author of Granted, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
The troubadours
knew how to burn themselves through,
how to make themselves shrines to their own longing.
The spectacular was never behind them.
-from "The Troubadours etc."
In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places where meaning might take on new color. One poem is presented…[more]
- 2003 NBCC–Poetry finalist
- Score: 6.53
Using natural, biblical, and classical imagery, these poems explore the difficulties of faith and love—particularly the difficulties of their expression, their performance. Moving between dramatic and interior monologue, and moving through intersecting histories, the ambiguities of inwardness and the eros of wakeful existence, these poems search for relationships with self, others, the world and God that are authentic—however quirky or strange.
In Tennessee I Found a Firefly
Flashing in the grass; the mouth of a spider clung
to the dark of it:…

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Megaprojects knowingly have the console-mega. The implementation of such tasks spent huge sums (more than $ 1 billion.), resources (millions of person/hours) and time costs. Today we look at seven industrial projects that are currently in the construction phase.
1. Airport Beijing Daxing, $13 billion
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Can I cut down instead of quitting altogether?
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- Smoking in Pregnancy: Communication with Women Working Group (2015) Shared key messages
- Stocks, J., & Dezateux, C. 2003. The Effect of Parental smoking on Lung Function and Development During Infancy. Respirology, 8, 266-285
- Royal College of Physicians 1992. Smoking and the young. Fleming P, Blair PS. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and parental smoking. Early Human Development. 2007;83:721-725 RCP 2010, Passive Smoking and Children, Soc Sci Med. 2005 Mar;60(5):1071-85, https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/sites/default/files/documents/passive-smoking-and-children.pdf
- Petrou et all 2005, The association between smoking during pregnancy and hospital inpatient costs in childhood, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15589675
- NHS Choices [accessed 28/04/2016] Smoking wand pregnancy,http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/smoking-pregnant.aspx
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First Annual Poppy Walk and 5K Run
|April 2, 2011 from 7:45 am to 12:00 pm
Celebrate the Peg Taylor Center's 25th Anniversary on Saturday April 2, 2011 and support life saving daily health care with a lovely spring walk or 5K run. Families are welcome! Children 12 and under walk free with an adult. The race will take place at One Mile Recreation Area at Bidwell Park. Registration can be completed at Fleet Feet in Downtown, the Peg Taylor Center, or online at www.pegtaylorcenter.org. Race day registration from 7:30-8:15am. 5K starts at 8:30am, followed by the 1 Mile walk/run at 9:00am.


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- Emergency Multilingual Aid
- Health Services Intercultural Guide
- Guideline for Communication in Cross-Cultural General Practice Consultations
- Lost in Translation? Good Practice Guidelines for HSE Staff in Planning, Managing and Assuring Quality Translations of Health Related Material into Other Languages and insert.
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Attitudes to Fertility, Sexual Health and Motherhood amongst a Sample of Non-Irish National Minority Ethnic Women Living in Ireland
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Heaven on Tongue, a review…
…And Barbeque Sandwich
I have come across many cookbooks, got quite a few in my collection but the book 'Heaven on Tongue', the latest addition to my collection stands out for many reason. What do I like about the book? There are quite a few reason but let me highlight a few.


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Café society columnist and bon viveur Lucius Beebe (1902-1966) cut a swathe through 'crazy luxe' Jazz Age New York with all the swagger of a seasoned flaneur. Describing his magpie mind, Beebe said 'the Renaissance Man did a number of things, many of them well, a few beautifully. He was no damned specialist'. Like Oscar Wilde, he had a genius for aphorism and was entirely unacquainted with self denial. He believed 'there is no food or time of the day and night when the service and consumption of champagne is not both appropriate and agreeable' and said of parsimony 'nowhere is moderation so debilitating and destructive of character as in the expenditure of money'.
Born into Bostonian wealth, Beebe had the distinction of being expelled from both Harvard and Yale for his elaborate practical jokes. When the bearded Dean of Yale endorsed Prohibition, Beebe donned fake whiskers, heckled from a box at the theatre and lobbed an empty liquor bottle onto the stage. At Harvard he would sport full evening dress, a monocle and a gold-tipped cane to morning class and kept a roulette wheel and fully-stocked bar in his rooms. He was credited with introducing white linen plus fours to Yale.
After publishing several volumes of florid poetry, Beebe found his metier in journalism as a social columnist. His dispatches from booths at New York's fashionable nightspots Sardi's, Quo Vadis, the Colony, 21 and Chasen's would become legendary. He judged the performance of Manhattan café society like a theatre critic taking great delight in the new social order in which stripper Gypsy Rose Lee was feted more than 'poor little rich girl' Barbara Hutton. In 1929 he was hired by the New York Herald Tribune. His column This New York ran until 1944 and was read by 1.5 million New Yorkers every morning.
Lucius Beebe was one of the few columnists who became as famous as the social circle he examined. At noon he could be found in the Oak Room at the Plaza ordering his first gin martini of the day and would close the Stork Club or El Morocco before retreating to a Broadway dive with Noël Coward to devour chopped chilli beef with beer. Like Coward, Beebe was a fixture on Cunard's trans-Atlantic liners travelling with a wardrobe that would shame a Maharaja.
Beebe rightly said 'no woman can stand seeing a man as well or painstakingly dressed as herself' while blithely doing just that. His wardrobe consisted of forty bespoke suits, two mink-lined overcoats with sable collars, numerous silk top hats, doeskin gloves and a collection of evening canes and gold cigarette cases. He favoured Henry Poole suits, shoes made by John Lobb and Charvet ties. In a lengthy paean to Poole in The Holiday Magazine, Beebe wrote '(Henry Poole) is to tailoring what Rolls-Royce and Cartier are to automobiles and diamonds respectively'.
In 1944 Beebe attended a dinner held by Evalyn Walsh McLean, a lady famed for owning the Hope diamond. Also in the party was a square-jawed, handsome photographer called Charles Clegg. Clegg and Beebe became lovers – or partners as Beebe preferred to say – and would remain so for the rest of Lucius Beebe's life. They shared a passion for railway trains that would result in numerous co-authored books on the subject and the purchase of two private railroad cars. Unusually for the times, Beebe and Clegg made no secret of their relationship even when, in 1950, they quit New York to live in Virginia City, Nevada.
Of the move from New York, Beebe said 'the last part of every party is not the best'. He described aging as 'high blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof spirits at cocktail time without falling over the fire irons all suggesting dark wings hovering overhead and the impending midnight croak of the raven'. Together Beebe and Clegg bought the Territorial Enterprise newspaper and built its circulation up to being the best-selling weekly in the West.
The Territorial Enterprise's editorial policy was wryly described as 'pro-prostitution, pro-alcohol, pro-private railroad cars for the few and fearlessly anti-poor folks, anti-progress, anti-religion, anti-union, anti-diet, anti-vivisection and anti-preparing breakfast food'. Beebe actively campaigned when a city brothel was threatened with closure because of its proximity to a school. His headline? 'Don't move the girls: move the school!' But any antipathy between he and his neighbours was deflected when Beebe bought Virginia City a fire engine.
Beebe and Clegg were inseparable and travelled extensively in Europe and across America in their private railroad cars The Gold Coast and The Virginia City accompanied by their 185-stone St Bernard T-Bone Towser. The Virginia City was decorated by Hollywood set designer Robert Hinley in a style Beebe christened 'Venetian Renaissance Baroque'. The antique furniture that wouldn't have shamed Versailles cost half a million dollars. There was a 23-foot observation drawing room, a dining room for eight, a fifty-bottle wine cellar, three state rooms, staff quarters and a small Turkish bath on board. When film director Cecil B. DeMille clapped eyes on The Virginia City he said 'tell the Madam I'll have a drink, but I'm too old to go up the stairs'.
In 1960 a new column, This Wild West, was offered to Beebe by the San Francisco Chronicle. By now he had written over thirty-five books and was a familiar presence in the New Yorker, Town & Country and Playboy as well as being honoured with a top-hat-and-tails front cover of Time magazine. He and Clegg sold the Territorial Enterprise in 1961 and bought a house in San Francisco. He died of a heart attack aged sixty-three. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote 'Lucius Beebe, who was larger than life, is dead. The famous author suffered a heart attack shortly after his ritual morning Turkish bath'. Charles Clegg committed suicide in 1979.
Though largely forgotten by all but railway enthusiasts for whom his books are bibles and the young dandies who revere him as a hero of British bespoke tailoring, Beebe was in his day celebrated by the likes of Cole Porter and Lorenz Hart in musical lyrics. 'Luscious Lucius', as fellow columnist Walter Winchell called him, wrote arguably the finest ode to Henry Poole & Co in the 1960 Holiday Magazine profile entitled 'London's Fanciest Tailor'. He lived by his own maxim 'if anything is worth doing, it is worth doing in style'.


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August 18, 2013
ARC will soon introduce SP20, a new preamplifier combining a tube line stage with a tube phono preamplifier and a headphone output. This will be the first time Audio Research brought together these three formats into one chassis.
July 14, 2013
ARCDB recently bought a few lots with sales literature on eBay:
Additionally, some of the material was already available on the site, but having the originals made it possible to create higher quality scans:
May 6, 2013
Just announced, the two-chassis tube phono preamplifier REFERENCE PHONO 10.
April 21, 2013
Paul Wethe in Minneapolis is an audio historian and a great contributor to the site. Through his contacts within
ARC he got a chance to visit the ARC Museum last year and I am proud to be
able to present his story!
April 15, 2013
Jack Anderson sent in some photos of a rare Equipment selector.
April 2, 2013
ARC announced a new integrated amplifier, the VSi75.
December 31, 2012
Back in black!
ARCDB is back after a long break with almost no updates. Apologies to all of you who has tried to make contact but didn't get any reply back. Thanks to all who sent in pictures or information. The site will be continuously updated the coming weeks.
I am saddened to report that Bill Johnson passed away on 12-10-11. His obituary as it appeared in a local newspaper:
William Zane Johnson
Johnson, William Zane age 85 of Edina, MN, died 12-10-11 in California. Founder and president of Audio Research Corporation for 38 years. Preceded in death by his parents, Floyd and Alma; and sister, Trula. Survived by his wife, Nancy E.; children, Clayton Johnson (Audrey), Kathie Oriet (Greg), Karen Johnson, Lila Standlee (Mike), Glenn Johnson (Shawna), Judy McCaul (Jay); ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral service Sunday (12-18-11) 2:30 PM at Oxboro Ev. Free Church www.oxoboro.org, 9431 Nicollet Av. S., Bloomington, MN. Family and friends may call at the church after 1:00 PM. Interment (private) Pleasant View Memorial Gardens. Memorials preferred to Northwestern College, Roseville, MN or Oxboro Ev. Free Church. www.albinchapel
ARC announced two new products:
- DS450M solid-state mono power amplifier
- REFERENCE 150 tube stereo power amplifier
Both models are already in production.
Check out this video where ARC's Dave Gordon (Head of North American Sales) shows and talks about a prototype to what will become the REFERENCE 150:
ARC's President Terry Dorn captured on video speaking mainly about the REFERENCE ANNIVERSARY:
From High End 2010 in Munich, Germany, which was held May 6-9 2010:
From CES2011 in Las Vegas, held January 6th-9th 2011:
|ARC recently announced the new PH8. Shipping starts in early January.
ARCDB recently bought another nice collection of vintage literature on eBay! This time I am proud to present the following:
D-52 - Marketing flyer
The all-new KT120 power output tube manufactured at the New Sensor factory in St. Petersburg, Russia, is a new design specifically targeted to the music market. Allegedly, it offers better sound quality, improved reliability and longer service life and with a dissipation rating of 60 watts, the KT120 is capable of higher power output than the 6550C. Measured with a 120V 60kHz power line, the output power of the current amplifiers when switching from 6550C to KT120 increases as follows:
REF610T: from 610 Watts to 840 Watts
The KT120 has the same pin configuration and is a direct replacement for the 6550C in current models. It also biases to the identical 65 mA value as the 6550C. However, because the KT120 is slightly taller than the 6550C, it may not physically fit all older ARC amplifier models, and it will not fit under the cage of the current VS60 and VSi60.
The KT120 will only be used as a driver and output tube. ARC will continue to use the 6550C as the power-supply regulator tube in the REF CD8, REF PHONO 2, PH7, REF5, REF ANNIVERSARY, REF210 and REF610T. Because of its beefier construction and higher performance, the KT120 tube is also slightly more expensive. Suggested US retail price is $100 per tube.
After months of testing, new amplifiers started to ship with KT120 tubes installed during the first week of November. However, beginning November 22, US retail prices will increase on the following models in response to both the cost of the new tubes and other material increases:
REF610T: from $19,995
each to $21,995 each
The VS60 will be discontinued and a replacement is not planned.
LS26 is replaced by the new LS27.
ARCDB acquired a collection of vintage literature from eBay last year, and now this rare material is available on the site just in time to celebrate ARC's 40th anniversary! The collection consisted of the following documents:
Press release from April 20, 1970
|ARC recently announced three new products:
|ARC will be debuting the second product in their Definition Series, the DS450 stereo power amplifier at CES2010 Jan 7th - Jan 10th, 2010. This will be available in the last week of January.
|Paul Wethe sent in some recently taken photos of the two first locations that Electronic Industries/Audio Research occupied. You can see them here. Thanks a lot!
|ARC will introduce the integrated solid state amplifier DSi200 in August/September 2009.
|Paul Wethe, Minneapolis, sent in some very interesting details about the mysterious DUAL 400. Thanks!
To commemorate the REFERENCE 3 amazing four-year-run, ARC decided to designate the last approximately two dozen units the "Limited edition". When these units are gone, there will be no more available.
|The silver handles introduced on the REFERENCE PHONO 2 will be available as an option on all products at no extra charge after June 8th 2009. US retail prices will remain the same for either silver or black; $50 each for medium handles, $55 each for large handles (REF110, etc.). Small silver handles for older products (SP-7, BL-2, LS9 etc) will not be available.
|ARC is incorporating a running production upgrade to the power supply of the PH7.
|The new line stage REFERENCE 5 replaces the REFERENCE 3 and will start production in the middle of June 2009.
|The new phono stage REFERENCE PHONO 2 will start production at the second half of May 2009.
|The new CD player/transport REFERENCE CD8 will start shipping end of November 2008. This unit is replacing the REFERENCE CD7.
|The new VS60 and VSi60 will be introduced in September 2008. They replace the VS55 and VSi55 which are already out of production.
Bernard Bartzen sent in some scans of the following vintage marketing flyers:
Thanks a lot, Bernard!
Some interesting news:
- CD3MKII is discontinued and a new solid state model (probably named CD5) will be introduced in May.
- VM220 is discontinued. No replacement model has been announced.
- A USB DAC will be introduced next May. Inputs: USB, AES/EBU, BNC coaxial, RCA coaxial, Toslink optical. Chassis size will be like the current preamplifiers and it will come with a remote control. The price will be around US$3,495.00.
- Tube prices will increase shortly.
|ARC has been acquired by the Italian private equity firm Quadrivio SGR on January 25! Read more about it here.
Thierry Martin in France contributed with some great high-quality scans of the following marketing flyers:
Thank you very much, Thierry!
|An interesting interview with William Z. Johnson published in Vol. 17 No. 8 (1994) can now be enjoyed online here.
|The new VS115 will be introduced in January 2008. It replaces the VS110 which is already out of production.
Lars Hansson in Sweden found a very interesting picture in the Swedish publication "Radio&Television" Nr.3, 1974. It's a photo of the DUAL 400. Is there anybody out there who knows anything about this amplifier?
Thank you Lars for spotting this ultra rare amp!
Emile de Vlieger in the Netherlands contributed with some very interesting scans:
Marketing flyers for:
Thank you very much, Emile!
|ARC has introduced a new preamplifier: the SP17. It replaces the SP16 in the product line-up.
Paul Wethe, Minnesota, who previously contributed with details about the PAS-2 preamplifier and the ST-70-C2 amplifier, sent in some very interesting information and pictures on the Electronic Industries J-Z800 loudspeaker. Yes, Bill Johnson did manufacture a loudspeaker back in the sixties!
Thank you, Paul, for this nice addition to the vintage gallery.
|has been visiting ARC's demo room - check it out here.
Mike Barney sent in a new batch of scans. This time it's some very
interesting newsletters from the early days:
Thank you Mike!
|The new solid state stereo amplifier SD135 will soon be introduced. For a description, see SD135.
Mike Barney sent in a really large batch of scanned material:
Marketing flyers for D-150, EC22, M300, SP-9 and SP-11
Great stuff, Mike! Thanks a lot!
|ARC has replaced the 6550EH Electro-Harmonix tubes with the 6550C Svetlana output tubes in both the VS55 and VSi55 models, as they did previously with the VS110, in 2005. The output tube bias of both the VS55 and VSi55 is now set to 55mV, providing better sonics and improved reliability. No other models in the ARC line of production are set to 55mV.
|The 300.2 and 150M amplifiers are out of production from last May, due to Tripath (manufacturer of power amplification modules) has declared bankruptcy. Therefore, at this moment, ARC is unable to obtain more modules for production of said models. A new model substituting the 300.2 will be announced soon.
|The new hybrid stereo amplifier HD220 was shown at CES2007 in Las Vegas. For a description, see HD220.
Marc Ehrenström sent in yet another contribution - a high-resolution scan of the marketing flyer for the legendary SP6-B to add to the collection of vintage literature.
Thanks, Marc!
The editorial for January 1, 2007, written by Marc Mickelson, selects the entire ARC Reference line as the Editor's Choice for 2006. Please note that he honors not just one of the Reference products, he honors all of them: Reference 3, Reference CD7, Reference 610T, Reference 210 and Reference 110.
Here is the link: Soundstage
Marc Ehrenström in Geneva, Switzerland, sent us a great collection of scanned material:
The product brochure from 1983 (now in the literature section), marketing flyers for D-100A, D-350, D-79, D-79C, MCP-2, SP-6 and schematics for D-79C.
A big "Thank you!" to Marc for this fantastic contribution. If anybody else have material similar to this; put it in the scanner and send it to ARCDB!
The following price changes will take effect from January 1st 2007:
150M - $3,995 (chassis only)
We got a link to a great little collection of reviews of ARC equipment from James Leahy of "Dr Hi-Fi Housecalls" in Australia. Reviewed models are the D125, VT100MKIII, VT200, VS55, VS110, SP15, LS15, LS26 and PH5.
Thank you, James!


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Hope it's a fun Black Friday! A few fab links to peruse while you snack on that leftover turkey and stuffing...
---Cheapskate Princess has some charming paper dolls inspired by the Pixar Paperman short. I have no doubt Meg would have a stylish wardrobe like that! :) ---
---Loved this concept art Eating WDW shared for a new gingerbread creation at Disney Grand Californian Resort in Disneyland.---
---I've seen plenty of fancy custom Mickey ears on etsy, but these upcycled ears Mouse on the Mind found may be some of my favorites yet. Love the Tower of Terror!---
---The Kid Snippets guys do Thanksgiving in typically hilarious style. My family can't stop watching those videos - so good!---
---It's not too early to start listening to Christmas music, right? Michael Buble and Idina Menzel have a new version of Baby, It's Cold Outside, and the music video is very sweet.---
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Brilliant American born star is the second child of Cheryl (mother) and Seth (father). Her mother worked as a beautician while her father was a set designer. When she 2, her parents divorced thereby her mother grew her up till 14. Afterwards, she began living on her own. For formal education, she attended Public school in LA but suspended from there after sometime. She then homeschooled and receive high school degree. Once, her mother's friend called her to assist her in script writing. After working hard, these two finished the script well for, a semi-autobiographical movie. Due to certain reason, producer offered her to present the role. After the film release, she was notified in the industry as a screenwriter and as well as an actress. The film won a 'Spirit Award'. Followed by the success of the movie, she was invited as a guest in a top television show.
She was also rose to prominence from a Film series as Rosalie Hale. Besides this, Reed has hosted various award ceremonies.
- Nikki Reed Boyfriend in 2017: Ian Somerhalder (He is her Husband to)
Reed is married twice till now. Her first marriage was with Paul McDonald. The pair first sees each other on the premier of a movie. Thereafter, the couple began dating immediately. After a year, the couple got engaged and then in same year they shared the marriage vows in Malibu. But UN luckily four years ago, the news of their separation confirmed due to their busy schedule. The divorce procedure was finalized in one year.
When divorce procedure was finalizing, she began her associations with Ian Somerhalder. Soon they got engaged and in very next year of engagement they tied the nuptial knot in California.
The couple has no children.
Six years ago Reed's musical career begins when she released a song with the collaboration of Paul (her ex-husband). Afterward, Paul and Reed launched their first EP to. No doubt her first marriage helped her in professional life, but this was not only lasted for four year. Over all they ended up this relation with out any controversy, and currently both spends happy lives.


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Tired of losing your keys, wallet and phone? Attach the coin-sized XY4+ to any item and use the free XY Find It app to find it in seconds. It's easy to setup, easy to use and starts finding items in seconds! XY does not have real-time GPS location information, but you can find out where your XY beacon was synced last via Bluetooth and retrace your steps. It comes in eight stylish colors that are all water resistant and comes with a replaceable battery. You can send a signal out to make it beep and make finding items easier with XY.
An early-morning hassle for finding your keys before leaving your house seems to be really annoying if you don't use an accurate keychain tracking device. This tracker is not bigger than a standard key chain and in fact smaller in some cases – these Bluetooth devices get connected to your mobile through Bluetooth LE for alerting you when you lost or don't find your keys.
Are you the owner of a cute and lovable dog? If yes, then you must be familiar with the continuous stress of making sure that your adorable dog does not get lost anywhere. You definitely want to keep your dog safe and healthy as well. In fact, when you are very busy in your work, you want to assure that the pet is having sufficient rest and exercise. And getting the best Dog GPS Tracker only can be an end to these miseries.
Isn't it amazing to have the latest gadgets at your home? All the remote-controlled equipment makes the life as easy as it can get. Along with the modern amenities, you need a personal touch at your home, which makes it a better place to live in. The warmth can only be provided by the kids and the pets. They are your best friends. But, when modem equipment comes in contact with these bundles of joy, a massacre is likely to happen. They love to hide the remotes, keys, and sometimes your precious wallet.


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If you live in the warmer parts of America there are many colorful trees and shrubs that you can grow – but Red Rocket Crape Myrtle is one of the best. Not only does it have beautiful vivid red blooms all summer long, but it also grows rapidly into a full-sized shrub or screen. Crape Myrtles come in many sizes, so the wrong choice may leave you with a baby plant where you wanted a full-sized tree. Red Rocket is a full, tree-sized Crape Myrtle, quickly passing 12 feet in height. It is perhaps the fastest-growing Crape Myrtle you can buy; but you don't have to give up beauty for speed, because this tree is a real beauty.
It will grow 5 feet each year, so it quickly develops into a dense, beautiful flowering screen in just 2 or 3 years. It is drought tolerant and any pests it gets are minor so they will give you no problems. It is also deer resistant, so it can be planted virtually anywhere. In humid states it may develop a little mildew on the leaves, but this is harmless and will disappear over winter so your plants will come back fresh and green in the spring. This is such an easy plant to grow that if you allow enough space it won't even need to be pruned, but will produce a profusion of stunning red flowers all summer long, year after year.
Growing Red Rocket Crape Myrtle Trees
Red Rocket Crape Myrtle quickly grows into an upright small tree or large shrub 12 to 15 feet tall, with glossy leaves and enormous clusters of beautiful red flowers produced all summer. The bark is an attractive light-brown and naturally peels off to reveal fresh new bark below. The leaves turn a lovely yellow in the fall and the twigs are attractive all winter.
Red Rocket Crape Myrtle grows in zones 7, 8 and 9, from Virginia throughout the South, and from Texas across to California and right up the west coast. It needs full sun and does well in all kinds of soil except those that are often wet, where it will not grow well. So don't over-water or plant in a low-lying, wet spot. We have lots of other choices of plants for those locations.
Planting as a Screen
Red Rocket is more upright than many crape myrtles, so when planting a screen they should be planted 4 feet apart. It is important when planting crepe myrtles not to plant any deeper than the containers they are in and not to cover the roots with a lot of soil. So dig a hole or a trench two or three times wider than the pot, but no deeper. Place your plants in the hole, replace most of the soil and firm it well down. Then water thoroughly and replace the rest of the soil, being careful not to cover the roots with any extra soil.
Sun Exposure and Watering
Red Rocket Crape Myrtle needs full sun, both for the health of the plant and so the flowers will develop their proper red color. It will take just a little shade, but the more shade the fewer flowers. Once established it is very drought-hardy and rarely needs water, so this is an easy tree to care for – in fact it cares for itself. If you want the maximum growth this tree is capable of, then water regularly and give fertilizer regularly, but this is not needed for mature plants.
Pruning and Maintenance
They need no special pruning, but they can be shaped during the winter. Prune while young, since it is best not to cut branches thicker than 3 inches across, and if plants are cut hard they will produce lots of growth but fewer flowers. If you have a specimen tree you might want to remove old flowers to encourage more new ones, but Red Rocket will continue to bloom even if you do nothing at all. This is truly a low-maintenance plant.
History and Origins of the Red Rocket Crape Myrtle
The common Crape Myrtle (Lagerstroemia indica) was first brought to Charleston, South Carolina around 1790 from its natural home in China and Korea. It thrived in the warm climate there and has long been a symbol of summer in the South, with its vivid blooms. From those original plants many forms have been bred, but Red Rocket is without a doubt one of the best, combining strong color with rapid growth and sturdy form. The original crape myrtles were white, lavender or pink and it took until 1997 for Dr Carl Whitcomb, a famous professor, to produce the first and then others, of which Red Rocket is considered his best and certainly the most popular.
Buying Red Rocket Crape Myrtles at The Tree Center
Red Rocket is such a special plant that only the exact plant will have the right color and growth rate. It must be produced directly from trees absolutely known to be right. Our trees are grown the correct way, from branch cuttings of these special trees. That way every tree is identical to the original so they will produce a very uniform effect when planted in a row. However, these take longer to produce so avoid cheaper, seedling trees that will only be a disappointment. Crape Myrtles labelled 'Red' will definitely not be this famous Red Rocket.
We sell only trees that are true to the original form and we have a wide range of sizes to give you the best plant for your purpose. However we are constantly renewing our stock so our customers get fresh, healthy plants, so supplies of this tree may be limited. To avoid disappointment order now.


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Camping on an organic farm in northern Spain: one of our favourite weekends during this summer's house-swapping adventure!
A little research before leaving the UK introduced us to Vinyols Camp – an organic farm just a couple of hours south of Barcelona. A family business, the farming consists in the main of harvesting fruits and nuts. The camping is done under the trees, in tents, mobile homes or wooden chalets, with 90% of the guests from the city.
Only one hour and a half to set up our tent and famished, we made our way to the pavilion, which is the hub of the site. A great hall was being swept clean of the day's activities, whilst a television showing the latest World Cup game attracted the attention of a few male guests. The dining hall was mostly empty, with coffees being served on the terrace.
Farm Produce Vegetarian Restaurant
Joan Mas laughingly assured us that 10pm was relatively early for dinner in Spain and after a brief discussion over likes and dislikes, he offered to just "bring us food". As I write this it was almost 2 months ago and I'm sure over time my memory has played tricks, but I recall every member of the family delivering platters of delicious vegetarian food in steady succession. I knew I was going to love this place…
Guests are free to roam the farm, pet the horses, sit by the (essential for bio diversity) pond and – most fantastically – pick produce from the veg garden to cook. To be honest, cooking wasn't really on my agenda – I was on holiday this weekend!
There was an attractively designed swimming pool to offer much needed respite from the blazing June sun and although it was lively in the morning, there was certainly plenty of space for everyone to enjoy. The free WiFi attracted us all to the pavilion, where we greedily consumed ice lollies – I wish they were natural home-made creations, but alas, Nestle had infiltrated even this small organic oasis.
That evening we were entertained as a by-product of some ladies who visited the camp to chant whilst playing some mysterious instruments. They didn't mind us gawking at them in wonder.
Rosa, the mother of the business – whose forward thinking eco & spiritual philosophies ran through the very heart of the enterprise – came and went from the hall to the kitchen, with a kind word for everyone and by this time I was aching to speak to her, but alas, we had no shared language, other than lots of smiles and hugs.
Our next meal was, to borrow from Ruaridh's vocabulary, awesome and we were already thinking how we could arrange to stay longer – but we were due to arrive at our next swap the next day. Perhaps we could come back – and bring some workshops with us?
Expanding Into Eco Tourism
Vinyols Camp has expanded into the eco tourism market not only to spread the word about organic agriculture, but to survive. It's a tough economic climate, and the produce alone doesn't fetch enough money to support the venture, so the camping is used to generate much needed revenue.
Because it was high season, the site was occupied by families in the main. Mostly down from Barcelona for a quiet, safe and natural holiday – we noticed that those guests didn't seem to be participting in the 'organic' activities: the hall was quiet and the restaurant wasn't full.
Joan Mas (Rosa's son – in situ for a 5 year long development project) was generous with his time and explained that a campsite full of kids probably wasn't conducive to a lot of quiet meditation or Tai Chi workshops. That accepted, we didn't understand why more of the eco nature wasn't on offer. The shop inside the hall was limited to only a few organic products and although there was an abundance of literature dotted around, the message wasn't inherent in everything – case in point, the Nestle full freezer!
However, the Catalans were the forerunners of the organic movement in Spain – many spurred on to diversify after Spain was allowed to join the European Union, but exports were still restricted. All of these years later and the Catalans alongside the other inhabitants of Spain were still not consumers of organic produce – the majority of what they produce is exported to us folk here in more northern climes.
Swimming Against The Tide
This was an amazing family who were battling against a culture that was slow to adopt what is a fast growing movement elsewhere, in the US and UK. A family who were prepared to stand up to the harsh economic climate where bookings were lower than forecast and later than usual. And where an unfavourable municipal environment was doing its best to usurp them and their desire to live organically and share it with the holidaymakers.
An oasis of wellbeing in a natural environment where, enhanced by some magically healing wholefood, I felt completely at peace. I'll let you into a secret : I've never camped in a tent before. Never, not even when I've been at festivals. I was always the girl who bagged the caravan, or the mattress in the back of a van, or slept in the car. And here I was, willing to exchange my next home swap for a few more nights in a tent, just to absorb the life force of a family I've just met and a farm where the frogs croaked day and night.
And so we have a mind to return to Vinyols Camp. Perhaps we can learn how to farm? Perhaps we can learn some new some skills and share some old in the pavilion? We're not quite sure what or when – but you're welcome to join us when we do. And if you can't wait on us to decide, then you can always book yourself a natural holiday in the meantime. Reus airport is only 30 minutes away. And the beach only another 10. I really couldn't recommend it more than to say I was in tears when I left … but then again some places just get to you, don't they?
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Violin Reportedly Files to IPO
Violin has raised at least $172 million in venture backing
By: Maureen O'Gara
Oct. 19, 2012 08:00 AM
Violin Memory, the high-speed flash memory array maker, quietly filed its papers with the SEC last month to go public according to Bloomberg, which was quoting "two people familiar with the matter."
It puts Violin's possible valuation at near $2 billion. At least that's what Violin's apparently negotiating for.
It's all kinda hush-hush because Violin, like Workday, which IPO'd brilliantly last week, is making use of the recently enacted Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act that lets wannabe public companies keep their plans and financials secret until three weeks before their roadshow - hence no prospectus.
To qualify under the JOBS Act companies have to have annual revenues of less than a billion dollars. Violin is understood to have sales of about $100 million.
Violin has raised at least $172 million in venture backing and when it took in a massive $80 million D round earlier this year the seven-year-old concern was reportedly valued at over $800 million.
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank are supposed to take Violin out.
Violin's customers include Cisco, Oracle and VMware. It is led by Don Basile, the former CEO of flash memory house Fusion-io, which went public last year and has done quite well.
Violin's backers include SAP Ventures Toshiba, Highland Capital Partners and GE Capital Management. It's going to have to face competition from IBM, which is buying Texas Memory Systems, and EMC, which bought Israeli start-up XtremIO for $430 million before it put out a product.
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Pittsburgh Penguins forward Conor Sheary 'week to week'
CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — Pittsburgh Penguins forward Conor Sheary is out indefinitely with a lower-body injury.
Coach Mike Sullivan says Thursday that Sheary is "week to week" after getting hurt in a 5-2 win over San Jose on Tuesday.
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The world of business was dominated by men, but women have become a force to be reckoned with over the last forty years. A woman has to dress for that success, ans promo coupons can help do that without devastating her wallet at the same time. There are many successful business women whose style and grace can be emulated to help you get a little higher up the ladder in your chosen career.
The way a woman dresses says a lot about her self esteem and confidence in her ability to do the job she has been hired to do. A coupon code can help buy that perfect briefcase to accent her position and attire. We all know that women love to shop, and shopping for those perfect business outfits can be a little daunting the first time. It never hurts to ask for help from a friend who has a similar business style to what you need. Getting feed back from the friend who always dresses "flirty" is probably not the best idea.
Make sure to check the dress code very carefully before you purchase an expensive blouse that may not be acceptable, for your job. There are many companies these days that have "casual fridays" or just a more relaxed atmosphere. This does not mean you can wear your most comfortable pair of "holy" jeans and flip flops. That is a definite mistake to avoid. Even on casual Friday's, you should be dressed neatly. Khaki's or Capri's are always a good bet and can still be worn with either runner's, sandals or heels. We women are versatile, if nothing else.
Piercings are a great way to express your individuality, but they can hinder you from being hired or for advancement within a company. It is always best to wear the least amount of jewelry possible, and it should always be relatively small. Makeup, should always be worn with the less is best motto. A natural look gives a more honest impression. You shouldn't go to work looking like a circus clown (unless you ARE a circus clown, of course).
Always keep an extra pair of panty hose with you in case of runs. You never know when you will get called into that important meeting and you want look your best, rather then worried that someone will notice the run. Neutral colors for your hose are better then loud, flashy or sexy hose. You don't want people to get the wrong impression.
Well-fitting clothing is very important. They should not be too tight to be called sexy or ill-fitting, and not so relaxed that you look like a slob. Above all they should be comfortable, because you will be in them for eight to ten hours a day and comfort is important. If you are not comfortable in your clothing, you cannot concentrate and do your best work. You will only to leave for the day and not come back.
Keep a smile on your face when you are at work, because it is part of your attire. Smiling people tend to stay in a better mood throughout the day and it helps keep your co-workers in a good mood as well. A good mood will help make that day fly by much faster and you will enjoy your job a lot more as well.


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Dungeon Prompts: Role Models and the Molding of Personality
This week's prompt is: Role Models and the Molding of Personality
"None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots."
– Thurgood Marshall
"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
– John F. Kennedy
Two weeks ago, Ordinary Girl wrote her Motivation piece on Role Models and I thought that this would be a great subject for a prompt. It's very hard to continue to expect perfection in a world where mass information gives everyone's secrets away. That being the case, who do you look to when you need some direction?
Suggested Prompts:
*What is it that you look for in a role model? Do you hold politicians, teachers, and religious leaders to higher standards than others? Who has changed the way that you look at, and interact with, the world?
*Write a short story, poem, or share a picture or song that talks about your feelings on role models.
*Any inspired offering that somehow relates to the idea of the molding of your personality.
Dungeon Prompts are meant to open up the abandoned rooms inside ourselves and dust them off a bit. Explore the recesses of your mind and get back with a poem, story, essay or creative offering. Link your post to this specific prompt page and I'll share your link back with our readers.
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3. Dive deep within and give us a glimpse of your soul!**
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This week's contributors are:
Bittersweet Heroes – MarthaOstout
Role Models? – Every Day Another Story
Models and Molds – Bastet and Sekhmet's Library
Role Models – Your Mind in Bloom, LLC
Life Mentors – Traces of the Soul
Role Models and Changing Perceptions – Human in Recovery
Positively Perfect – Dream Cloud Diaries
The Simple Role Model – Hell on My Heels
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Free Fall – Dream Cloud Diaries
Political Message – Every Day Another Story
The Price is Right? – MartaOstout
The Disease You Were – The Arkside of Thought
The Endless Well – Traces of the Soul
Earth Grief – Stardreaming with Sherry Blue Sky
Disequilibrium – Follow Your Shadow
The Cost of Being Civilized – Human in Recovery
I Came to Win – The Seeker's Dungeon


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Pain advice: Epsom Salt Bath
I want to share one of my favorite treatments when I have pain. Having endometriosis (or another illness for that matter) is often not the only problem you have. With my illness I also have other issues. Though my endometriosis symptoms are pretty good, I can still have other issues sometimes, especially if I feel stressed or have an infection in my body. That can be pain located in my hips, lower back or neck and sometimes IBS. For me dealing with this, yoga and diet always come first as a way of handling things, but sometimes that is not enough. What has helped me a great deal when pain shows up is Epsom salt baths.
Many of us are deficient in magnesium nowadays. Of course there can many reasons for that: poor diet, poor digestion, poor soil so plants don´t have enough magnesium etc. But also if you have an illness or are in high stress your magnesium supplies in your body will be used in a higher speed. You simply don´t have enough magnesium to handle your condition. The same is it with sulfate. It is a very important nutrient that is often deficient.
One great way of handling pain and get more magnesium and sulfate is to have an Epsom salt bath. It is absorbed through the skin.
What is Epsom salt and what is it good for?
Epsom salt is a salt that consists of magnesium and sulfate.
Many studies have showed that Epsom salt bath helps and also is an easy and safe way of increasing magnesium and sulfate in your body.
How to do it
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Have you tried Epsom salt bath or do you have other ways of handling your symptoms?
Listen to your body
One thing I have learned since I started with yoga is to listen to my body. Listen to the signals and try to figure out what it (me of course, I´m a part of my body ☺…) is trying to tell me. That has been a learning process during the years, it didn´t happen overnight. The body has an amazing potential of sending you signals when something is not right or telling you your needs. You just have to listen to the signals and feel what is going on. This also of course has to do with listen to your inner voice and also having some knowledge about your body, emotions and external impacts like food, lifestyle etc. "Easy" right?
A couple of days ago I all of a sudden woke up with a terrible cold. I have not had that for some years. And at the same time my IBS showed up a couple of times. Something was "wrong". Maybe that's not a big deal having a cold, but what came up in my mind automatically was a kind of analyzing mode, especially since other symptoms started to show up at the same time: "So, what´s up now? Why does this come to me right now? Is there any reasons why it is happening now and is there anything I can learn from this?" So I started to think what has happened lately. If my diet maybe could have been better, my exercising have been too poor, spending too little time with my inner self, doing things I didn´t want to do etc. "Ok, so I got a little too brave in my diet, ate stuff that was not good for me, it probably made my immune system weaker my intestine going nuts, I thought I could handle it. Now I know I should be more careful what I eat...I did things that I in my heart really didn´t want to do, nothing big just saying yes instead of no a couple of times, instead of following my inner voice and feelings and act after that. Next time I will listen to my inner voice more carefully and follow it. Or maybe I needed some time off to rest so I got this cold ☺." Ok, analyzing mode: off.
And here comes an important thing in this analyzing mode: not to judge myself for it! It´s so easy to do this, when you start to think about what your actions have caused, especially if you are on a healing journey, a spiritual journey or another personal journey of some sort. But life is like this: not a straight road to the goal you want to reach. It can be a bumpy road, which goes up, down, back and forth. Slowly, fast or all of a sudden stops. I try to learn from the signals my body is sending me instead of blaming myself. Blaming and guilt is not a part of sending positive signals to yourself and does not help in your healing process. (Unless you learn something from them of course…)
For me it is all connected. Your emotions affect your body and mind. Your lifestyle including food, exercise, social activities, spiritual practice and stress management etc affect your body and mind.
The best way to be able to listen to your body´s signals or your inner voice is to be in a relaxed state or/and in silence. It is so easy to forget to include this in the daily life. But I think it´s important to stop and go inwards for a while and become aware of your body, feelings and thoughts. That´s a good start in a healing process. How you do is of course personal, the important thing is that you do it. And at the same time you´ll also have other health benefits doing this! There are many ways to do that and here are some suggestions you can try:
There are so many things you can do to become in that relaxed state, just use your creativity and imagination. The important thing is to take the time to do it.
Be gentle with yourself. Don´t judge your actions, learn from them. Listen to your inner voice and the signals your body sends to you. Observe what your body is telling you and do things that help you in your healing process. Take care of yourself.
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Most states in the U.S. currently permit non-medical exemptions for childhood vaccinations based on philosophical, personal and religious beliefs. Proponents of non-medical exemptions maintain that disease prevention is an individual responsibility, and that vaccinations are not completely safe or effective. Exemption opponents counter that mandating vaccinations protects the public's health by decreasing the incidence of preventable disease, hospitalizations and deaths. This webinar will examine the legal and ethical basis for vaccination requirements, review a recent assessment of how non-medical vaccination exemption laws impact the annual incidence rates of vaccine-targeted diseases, and explore how states are changing their vaccine exemption laws.
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