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Choosing An Event Venue With The Best Conference Facilities
Choosing An Event Venue With The Best Conference Facilities
The wash conference facilities can draw on all the irregularity to your guests ' reality and nail down that commodity goes smoothly. Corporate meetings miss gigantic levels of professionalism on the apportionment of service providers. Most event venues transfer a number of conference facilities character terms of impression, locality infrastructure and customer service. Choosing An Event Venue With The Best Conference Facilities
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Choosing An Event Venue With The Best Conference Facilities
Staff and Services: Real is exigent that the staff is courteous and competent. Minus this, level the most elegant and flourishing vet conference centre will not be able to satisfy your needs. The staff will collaboration you in making arrangements as well as conduction sessions. If the staff is active, efficient and supportive, your conference will run smoothly, even if there are last minute changes that need to be made.
Extent of Stay: Sometimes conferences may span more than a day and it may not be feasible to travel to and from the event venue daily. Many conference centres are located in hotels or are near resorts.
Size does Matter: The event venue must be neither too large nor too small. The room layout will need to be flexible, depending on the purpose of your meeting.
Getting There: The conference centre must be easily accessible by road. If the guests are arriving from different cities, the city in which the conference centre is located should be well connected by road and rail.
Budget: Conference – centres are usually categorised as budget, prestige and premium. Factors like location, arrangements, services and amenities offered by an event venue will determine the price. However, always remember that prices are negotiable. You can also look for special and festival deals and packages offered by the conference centre management. You can get great deals when you plan and book in advance. If you require large group accommodation, you may be able to negotiate a discount or agree on a package that offers you great value for money.
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Supporting expat health through assistance programmes
Moving to another country, whether on assignment or independently, can be incredibly rewarding. Such a move offers the opportunity to experience a different culture, a new city, new people and an alternative working environment. However, international assignments present a unique set of challenges for the health and wellbeing of an expatriate and their family, who must cope with the emotional stresses associated with moving overseas.
For employers, global mobility provides the opportunity to expand into new and existing markets, while utilising and developing the skills and experience of their top talent.
International assignments are an expensive endeavour, often costing companies more than three times an employee's total annual compensation when compared with their remuneration package back home. With so much at stake, employers must consider how they can support their globally mobile employees.
By identifying the reasons why international assignments fail, they can help to ensure more successful placements in the future.
Employee health and wellbeing
Life as an expatriate can require significant effort to adapt to new social and cultural environments. The most common difficulties stem from adapting to these environmental changes while balancing taking care of themselves, their families and work responsibilities.
Some expatriates can be overwhelmed by the stress of living and working overseas. Securing suitable housing, meeting new people and settling in to a new job and way of life can result in emotional distress which impacts on physical and mental wellbeing.
This distress can leave expatriates and their families more susceptible to mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression, affecting the employee's wellbeing and possibly the success of their assignment.
One of the main stresses for expatriates is the lack of a support network due to separation from family and friends while away from home.
The absence of a support network can compound the feelings of stress and anxiety expatriates may feel in adjusting to their new environment. Emotional upset may also be heightened for those relocating with their families, especially if the employee's partner and children encounter difficulty adjusting to the new country.
Many expatriate spouses can suffer from feelings of isolation, putting relationships under strain. If a partner is having difficulty securing employment or has trouble establishing a social network or developing a sense of purpose, this can make matters worse.
Employees experiencing high levels of stress personally and/or professionally are less likely to perform at their best and may struggle to meet expectations and targets. Left unchecked, these stresses can result in assignment failure and premature repatriation.
The consequences for an expatriate when an international placement fails may reach beyond their current assignment.
Premature repatriation with their family may mean another period of upheaval, which in turn could affect their professional confidence and self-esteem. It is possible that they could also encounter dissatisfaction returning to work in their home country.
Employers need to manage the risks associated with international assignments from the outset. Implementing a comprehensive healthcare strategy which highlights and caters for the physical and mental wellbeing of their employees can help to mitigate these risks.
Employee Assistance Programmes
Taking responsibility for the wellbeing of expatriate employees benefits both the employee and the business.
Global assistance and wellness programmes help expatriates take positive steps to improve their physical and mental wellbeing, reducing the impact of stress, poor health and lifestyle choices while living and working overseas.
Aurélie, 43, a financial services employee, relocated from France to Singapore with her two young daughters. ''Initially the move went well, the girls were settling in their new school and I felt like I was adjusting to my new role.''
However, just two months into her assignment, Aurélie learnt that her mother had a serious illness, and she began to doubt her decision to move to Singapore.
''I felt guilty about not being there for my mother and father, and that my daughters were not able to spend time with them. I became increasingly unhappy, feeling isolated from my family and vulnerable.''
Aurélie considered moving back to France and contacted HR to discuss her options. ''HR advised me to access my employee assistance programme, through which I was put in contact with a counsellor.''
Counselling helped Aurélie to come to terms with her feelings and helped her cope more effectively. ''It really helped having someone to talk to. I realised that I could still support my mother, but that moving to Singapore was the right decision for us.''
The Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), powered by Allianz Care, helps companies support their employees in work and life abroad. Offering a 24/7 multilingual support service, this programme helps employees and their dependants address a wide range of challenges from work-related stress and relationship concerns to major life events like births and deaths.
Expatriates and their families may experience challenges in their new country, while also trying to address problems in their home country. The EAP ensures vital support is provided for local issues in their new country.
Service users can also choose to speak to a trained counsellor in their home country to support any issues they may have there. Services provided by Allianz Care's Employee Assistance Programmes include:
- 24/7 confidential professional counselling ‒ available face-to-face or via phone, video, email and online chat
- Critical or crisis incident support
- Legal and financial support services
- Access to our wellness website
Individual Expatriate Assistance Programmes
An Expatriate Assistance Programme, powered by Allianz Care, is also available to expatriates who may not be part of an employer healthcare plan.
Offering the same services as those provided to employees, to use this programme you have to purchase an international health insurance plan as an individual or as a family, through Allianz Partners.
International health insurance
Allianz Care understands the needs of expatriates and their families, when accessing healthcare away from home. Its international health insurance products are designed to cater for these needs.
If something does go wrong while living and working overseas, employers, employees and individuals must be confident that their health insurance provider can provide the right support.
For more details, please visit allianz-care.com

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Reward Points
Reward Points are the bonus that you receive in your account for buying products in the store. Each purchase you make earns Reward Points that you can spend like real money in our store.
You can choose to apply your points to your next eligible product purchase, or you can let your points accumulate.
Reward Points may be combined with any other discounts we may offer because they are not really a discount. Reward Points are a reward from us, thanking you for choosing to make your magic purchases at Rings N Things.
Your Reward Points will be updated with points earned from new purchases the moment that your order ships.
Earning Points
When products you purchase indicate a value in Reward Points, this represents how many points you earn from purchasing the product.
Your Reward Points earned are stored and reported in your Account.
Once you have signed into your account, you will see a link for My Points in the My Account menu. This link reports how many points you have available in your account. Clicking on this link will take you to the Reward Points Log. This log reports the points earned from each of your orders and the orders in which you redeemed your points.
Points won't appear for new purchases until your order has shipped.
Redeeming Points
When products you purchase indicate a Price In Points, this represents how many points you can redeem towards purchasing the product.
Once you have added a product to your shopping cart that can be purchased with points, and signed into your account, you will see a link for Point Payment in the shopping cart and on the checkout page. Clicking on this link will expand or compress the form for applying your points to your purchase. Click on the link to expand the form and it reports how many points you have available in your account and gives you an input field where you can enter a number of points to redeem.
Enter the number of points you would like to redeem.
Click the "APPLY" BUTTON and your order total is recalculated.
The number of points in your account will not change until you have completed checkout.
To view your redemption history, click the My points link in the My Account menu after signing in. The Reward Points log will report the orders that earned points and the orders in which you redeemed the points.
Remember, points won't appear for new purchases until your order has shipped.
Rings -N- Things wants your purchase to be worry-free.
The products we offer are in stock and available to ship immediately and we promise to ship your order the next business day whenever possible. Some of our products are bare metal and require their finish to be touched up prior to shipping. Those products many take one additional day to ship. In the rare instance that your order has not been delivered within 30 days of shipment, we will consider the order lost and replace the lost shipment as quickly as possible.
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Rings -N- Things will ship to all US states and territories. If you can select your state from the list when you are setting up your account's shipping address then we ship there.
- Shipping is calculated by weight and destination using United States Postal Service Rates and UPS Rates.
- Ohio state taxes are not included in our shipping rates. As an Ohio Limited Liability Corporation, we are required to collect and pay Ohio state sales tax if your order is being shipped to an Ohio address.
- First Class Mail is only available as a shipping method for orders under 1 lbs. If your order is over 1 lbs., this option will not be available to you. If you prefer First Class shipping and your order is over 1 lbs., consider dividing your order up into smaller separate orders. First Class Mail now includes Tracking for no additional fee.
- USPS Priority and USPS Express both include Tracking. When you purchase USPS Priority or USPS Express, you will receive a copy of the USPS Tracking number which you can use at USPS.com to track your order.
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- First Class International is only available as a shipping method for orders under 4 lbs. If your order is over 4 lbs, this option will not be available to you. If you prefer First Class International shipping and your order is over 4 lbs, consider dividing your order up into two separate orders.
- First Class International will usually only track to the border of the US via the US Customs Declaration number.
- Priority International and Express International both include order tracking that is usually updated all the way thru to delivery at your door.
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Get Sharky - by Christoph Borer
The magician explains that he is going to show a trick that was performed by a famous one-armed magician.
To demonstrate he places his right hand in his pocket. With his left hand he holds up a deck of cards and instructs the spectator to peek at any card he likes.
Without any suspicious moves the magician hands out the deck to the spectator and nonchalantly snaps his fingers. The spectator is now asked to go through the deck and find his chosen card. The spectator looks through the deck but the card has vanished!
The magician slowly removes his right hand from his pocket and shows the selected card! A miracle.
This is a great effect and can be performed on stage, parlor and closeup. Remember everything happens in the spectators hands. The deck can be examined and the effect can be immediately repeated with a different outcome!
Christoph Borer, the inventor of this trick, released this effect years ago but only in the German speaking countries where it gathered great reputation. Now it is available in an even more convincing version using Phoenix cards. We fooled all great names in magic in Atlanta, San Diego and at the Magic Castle, Hollywood. The method is so brilliant you'll love to perform it.
"I must have one for myself."
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"I have not been this fooled ever."
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"I love it when the method is as clever and cunning as the effect."
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"I usually hate card magic but this effect is awesome. It's a must have for everybody."
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Published in 2014, The uBuntu Girl is available in South Africa.
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Belgium seeks improved trade ties with Nigeria
Belgium has called for an improved business and trade ties with Nigeria.
This, according to the country would help cement the long-standing relationship between the two countries.
According to the Nigerian-Belgian Chamber of Commerce (NB) and the Nigerian-Belgian Commercial Information and Documentation Centre (NBCIDC), at a breakfast meeting, in Lagos, complimenting the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration, requires new economic initiative to diversify the economy and to strengthen Nigeria ties with European Union (EU).
At the meeting, which had its theme as "Why Do Business with Europe", stakeholders also discussed how the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) can be used by Nigerians to achieve increase exportation of non-fuel products to the EU.
The Ambassador of Belgium, Stephane De Loecker at the event, frowned at the situation that existed in 2013, and 2014, where Nigeria exported crude oil of low value-added worth $100 million and imported $1.2 billion of various refined oil products from Belgium.
He said his country gained 12 times more forex than Nigeria noting that while this may be good for Belgium, it was not good for Nigeria.
De Loecker said Belgium support Nigeria current drive to diversify the economy and is ready to help improve trade between the two countries. He said as a friend, Belgium was more interested in Nigeria improving its refining capacity which he noted will help save a lot of forex and open new market opportunities.
He therefore, advocated for a more open economy as he maintained that it does encourage innovation by eschewing protectionist policies adding that innovation is critical in accessing new markets.
He posited that an open economy is the most favorable to consumers noting that by encouraging competition among producers and distributors, prices are brought down to the benefit of the average citizen.
"That's what made Belgium wealthy, and is what will also make Nigeria wealthy if it refrains from protectionist measures", he said.
In her presentation, Trade and Economic Affairs Manager for West Africa, Ms Cristina Modoran, stated that Nigerians have not availed themselves much of the available opportunities to do business with Europe.
She revealed that oil made up of 90 per cent of the country export to Europe.
She also added that opportunities abound in agribusiness, which Nigerians can tap into. The agribusiness export to Europe she said is presently worth about N3.5 trillion.
According to her, the EPA can be the key to Economic diversification, integration to global trade, economic governance and investment.
She explained that EPA stands for a long-term bilateral preferential agreement between Nigeria and EU, which includes differentiated market opening, flexible rules of origin and cumulation of origin. She added that they also consist of large safeguards to protect sensitive sectors and financial, technical support to help meeting EU standards.
Explaining further, Modoran said the EPA works by facilitating 100 per cent immediate market opening for products from West Africa and 75 per cent gradual market opening over a 20 year period for product from EU.
According to her, a special EPA Development Programme of 6.5 billion Euro (about #1.4Trillion) will provide funding for project a linked to trade, industry, energy, and transport infrastructure in the West Africa region, institutional reforms and capacity building of relevant stakeholders.
Modoran said the benefits for Nigerian business, will be in the area of export duty-free, quota-free to the EU from day one adding that Nigerians will benefit from lower import prices.
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Gone are the days when men and cars were inseparable, now women are just as [passionate about cars and having it in the best shape. There has always been much criticism about women drivers. However insurance companies have always given women a better deal and better options to choose from in car insurance. Does it not point out that women are indeed more careful and in control of their driving than men are? There are specific car insurance deals for women in the market and these are often much cheaper than car insurance for men. It certainly says a lot about women drivers being better at dealing with situations than their male counterparts.
Write offs in many cases for women drivers have been cheaper as women who are in accidents generally have been seen to have minor issues like minor dents, bumps and scrapes. In contrast male drivers are seen to have a totally wrecked vehicle in the event of a collision in more cases than not. Male drivers may complain that women are being unfairly offered a better deal as they tend to be more easily distracted by noises, conversation or even make up smudge, but the fact is that they tend to be in less scrapes and are mostly safe drivers.
There are of course ways by which men can also part take of this advantage. If you wish you can have the same privileges by taking the insurance account listed under your sister, mother or wide and get some leeway in terms of the insurance premiums. This may not work out always however as many women also have a higher premium charged as their credit ratings or credit scores are not too good. The man may as well be taking his own policy in such cases. Auto insurance for women has third party liability, collision insurance and comprehensive cover. There is also coverage for the child seat as women will be driving with their kids around a lot of the time. Additionally companies are also offering coverage for the hand bag and other content as these may often be lost in the event of a mishap occurring. There are also service cars offered whilst the car is being repaired by some firms.
Having additional and separate insurance cover for women is a very positive thing that is quite encouraging for many women drivers. This offers many benefits especially to women who are middle aged ad have very good driving records with no history of any violations on the road. Cheaper premiums are a reality if you know where to look and shop around for the right quote. There are also many updates on the internet about how women can work at lowering their quotes in various ways.
With a lot of additional coverage many women have a lot of options at hand when it comes to being insured and at some good rates. With so many exclusive options more women drivers are getting out on the roads with more confidence in their safety. There are many specialized companies offering deals specific to the needs of women drivers. Although they may be a bit more expensive than other regular deals available in the market. These companies often offer many benefits such as additional coverage for shopping items stored under the vehicle and so on which may make more sense to women drivers.


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After going to Y Not Festival for the first time at the weekend I was left wondering why I had never been before.
Now in its tenth year, Y Not, which takes place at Pikehall, has a great feel about it. So much so that I doubt I'll ever go any of the bigger mainstream festivals again.
We arrived on Friday, put up our tent (with the help of three strangers) and went to explore what Y Not had to offer. We dipped in and out of the tents, starting at The Quarry stage, where we stayed to listen to the act who were performing at the time.
A full reccy of the festival revealed a shisha tent, a roller disco, a big wheel, a lter skelter and saloon bar - there was loads to do if while waiting for your favourite band to come one as long as you don't mind spending a few quid.
The Super Furry Animals were on the main stage at 8pm, the highlight being them coming on in animals costumes for the last song. We then went The Allotment stage to kill an hour before Snoop Dog was due on the main stage. Lisbon where the band on at the time and they had some pretty decent tunes. I'll be listening out for them in the future.
Afterwards we headed back to see Snoop Dog, who in true celebrity style, was 15 minutes late coming on. Snoop is what many people at Y Not had come for and the crowd went wild as he performed his big hits including Drop it Like It's Hot, Sweat and What's My Name. He even smoked a spliff on stage, much to the crowds delight. Most of his best stuff is from years ago and I had forgotten just how many of his songs I actually like.
Snoop also gave a shout out to the ladies of Matlock, which made me chuckle. Snoop Dog performing in a field near Matlock, it doesn't get more random than that.
On Saturday we checked out the other stages, mainly to avoid the rain, before heading back for Ocean Colour Scene and headliners Basement Jaxx, who ended the evening on a high with their bright costumes and funky dance tracks.
That was the end of the festival for us. We packed up our tent, hangovers included, on Sunday morning and went home. It was a great festival and I'll definitely be back next year. Infact tickets are already on sale.


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Beliefs are not equal.
I had a discussion with a gentleman recently who refused to accept that someone could have no beliefs. This because I told him I had no beliefs. I personally don't like to use the word belief. I would rather refer to any position I hold as a model or approximation of the truth. These models are in turn built on assumptions of properties about this world that could change. It is easy to dismiss the difference between approximations and beliefs as mere semantics, but do keep in mind that semantics is the first thing you learn in a Philosophy 101 course, and ensures that everyone begins a discussion on the same page, instead of ending up talking about different things while referring to the same term.
Anyway, I see all views, opinions and theories as merely models that are built on assumptions. Nothing is based completely on evidence of course, as even the most basic evidence requires assumptions of the properties that the evidence is based on. For example, the colour red is not really seen by everyone in the exact same way. Our vision ensures that we all see the colour slightly differently, even if this difference is practically negligible. We still call it red though. This is an approximation. A generalisation. But there's more. We assume that the colour red, like other colours, exists as waves made up of photons. We don't know much about how light exists as energy, but we have created models that explain and exploit its properties to a degree that is useful to us.
Of course, none of this may be real. We may all be plugged into the Matrix. This could all be a dream. The colours may not exist. This universe may not exist. The properties of this physical world that we think we know about may only be a function of a dream world we inhabit and not part of whatever is really out there. But we don't know for sure if this world is fake, and so we act under the assumption that this universe and all the properties in it are real. Because this is the only practical way to live if our goal is comfort and happiness. We don't know if we exist in the way we experience. But it is best to assume that we do.
So in this sense everything is an assumption. But that doesn't mean that all assumptions are equal. There is a hierarchy. If there weren't then any view or model we created, no matter how crazy, could all be equally plausible. So what we do to maintain order in our world is assume that certain things are probably real like our universe and our existence. We then build the rest of our models on top of these basic assumptions.
Now we need to be really careful about how we construct these models, because a lot of them are based on questions that involve incomplete definitions and subjectivity. For example, do we have free will? Luckily, a lot of our models are objective, and built on physical laws whose properties we can approximate quite well. We use mathematical operations to build bridges. Mathematical identities themselves like Pythagoras theorem are perfect and exist for themselves with no exception, at least under the assumptions of the mathematical laws of this universe. We don't know why these identities exist, but we know that they do and how to exploit them. This is not an excuse for a belief in the supernatural. That is simply uncalled for given the evidence. We simply do not know why identities exist. That is all. Any models explaining why will need additional evidence.
You could of course make up your own inductive proof for a supernatural entity that exists outside the laws of this universe and space and time and matter but you would eventually have to face the fact that the properties of this proof are made up by you. i.e the proof works by induction, just like mathematical proofs work, because you assume all the properties needed for it to work, like we do in math. You don't know if these properties are real, you just assume that they are. A logically valid argument will still lead to a false conclusion if its premise is false. If your assumptions are unfounded, then no matter how good your argument, the conclusion you reach will still be only as good as your assumptions. This is why models for God's existence are both perfect and probably wrong.
Moving on, when you build a model, you identify a pattern and make predictions based on evidence. Sometimes, you use other people's models. You act on expectations that another from another model that you know very little about. For example, when you get sick and pop a pill. You don't know anything about what you're consuming. But you take it anyway expecting to get better. Is this a belief?
You could call it a belief, yes. Like the belief that the sun will rise tomorrow morning, given a normal solar system, or the belief that you will be able to walk or talk tomorrow, given no major changes to your body. You could call these beliefs, and they are all based on assumptions. But are they the same as religious beliefs? No, of course not. Because unlike religious beliefs, all these beliefs are verifiable. You cannot know for sure if a pill will cure you, but you know that you can look up the details of the pill if you wanted to. You can examine the skies or your body for patterns if you want to confirm the expectations you have for your model. In other words, these models are verifiable. Not a 100% verifiable of course. Pills do not always work. Solar systems and human bodies do not always work the way we expect them do. Errors abound. Things unaccounted for. The model is updated with new data. This is how critical reasoning works. Religious models are different. They rely, as I have said, on assumptions that are unverifiable. They might lead to useful but false conclusions. Religious belief may be useful, but it is also unverifiable.
So now we have not just beliefs, but levels of belief. There are verifiable and unverifiable beliefs. This allows for some degree of subjectivity, as what is verifiable depends on how good the evidence is, and all evidence comes down to further assumptions, which always comes down to our assumptions about this universe and our existence. But we can say for sure that some beliefs are more verifiable than others, because some evidence is better than others, assuming the basic laws governing this universe. Evidence that holds up to falsifiability and has predictive value will always be better than anecdotal evidence that relies false premise reasoning and confirmation bias. This is not to say that unverifiable assumptions are wrong. This is impossible to tell, but that's the problem.
We are mostly concerned with truth or falsity of assumptions based on the evidence we have. But since we can only examine the evidence in light of what we know about the universe, and since this is itself a series of assumptions that do not take into account what we don't know, then of course anything we postulate about God or a supernatural being could be true. Not probable, but possible. I wouldn't say that assumptions based on rules outside this universe are something we shouldn't bother to think about. But we definitely are limited in the ways we can verify them, given that all our means of verification exist only in this universe.
So yes, perhaps I do have beliefs. I suppose I do live my life along expectations of how the world should work even though I don't always understand why it works this way. These could be called beliefs. And they are certainly different from supernatural beliefs. My beliefs are based on assumptions that are verifiable, at least to a certain extent. I think is a more practical way to live for the moment, compared to holding beliefs that are unverifiable, because at least I can explain why I hold a belief. I can justify my beliefs with evidence. What about you?


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Are you tracking Santa's where-a-bouts? Here's the site we're checking often. Enjoy your night, folks!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Merry Christmas Every One!
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Monday, December 22, 2008
All I Needed For Christmas. . .
My girl received this lovely gift from friends at our Girl Scout meeting last Tuesday. She promptly came home and hung it on her wall. Last night before bed, I came in to find a message for me.
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Lovey. . .
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Friday, December 19, 2008
My Girl. . .
I was fooling around with this picture of SuperGirl on the PhotoShop website, and ended up with this. I love it!
I can't wait to get PhotoShop Elements. :)
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Happy Birthday to Me. . .
It was a pretty uneventful birthday for me around here. I actually had to remind my husband it was my day today. I've been needing a new driver's side headlight for about a week now, o.k.? Well, when SuperDad returned home from work at 11 a.m., I couldn't stand it anymore. I was going to go all day if I had to, to see who would remember my birthday without my prompting. I couldn't do it, so I asked him if he got me a new headlight for my birthday. He had the look in his eyes husbands on tv so often do, when they've been caught forgetting something very important. Know what he says? "Is that today?" Lucky for him, I had already received my camera for my birthday and Christmas present. It could have been so much worse. :)
A friend of mine teaches SuperGirl dance and offered to keep both kiddos for a couple of hours for me this evening as a birthday present. Boy, was that overdue. I don't believe we've had a "date" since late April of 04, shortly before SuperBoy's arrival. This hardly wualified as a date, but, hey! I'll take what quiet time I can get.
Hope you've had a blessed day where you are!
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Labels: birthday, celebration
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Orange Cat. . .What Orange Cat?
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Labels: pets
The Nutcracker. . .
Here are two pics of SuperGirl from the local Nutcracker Ballet she was in last night and tonight.
As a Spanish Chocolate. . .
As a flower in the Waltz of the Flowers. . .
Receiveing flowers from Daddy after the show. I needed to get a better shot, but it was so busy. He's not able to come to tonight's show, so I had him give them to her last night. I wanted her to (hopefully) remember that her first flowers came from Daddy.
Side note: That would be SuperBoy's jaguar SuperDad is holding. SuperDad doesn't usually carry it around, lol.
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Saturday, December 6, 2008
Our Christmas Parade. . .
It was a freezing 34 degrees, but it was still so fun! Here are a few of our pictures!
The kids were on the Dance Barn vehicle, so they missed many of the sites. Hopefully, they'll like these. I know SuperBoy will like the last one, a tow truck with Mater from the Cars movie on the side.
Some of the buildings were fuzzy, but I think they were my favorite. I'll try to get daylight pics of them some time. It was so cold, cameras were freezing up. Enjoy and have some hot chocolate for me!
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My Little Man. . .
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Friday, December 5, 2008
Playing With Our New Camera. . .
It's funnier when you drag the little dot a little faster. It's really funny if you know the kids. They're total hams. Looks like Christmas pictures will be interesting this year. Forgive the house. I hadn't planned on publishing this. :)
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Brain Surgery. . .
This is what I look like with long hair.
Alrighty. Where do we start?
Let's start in 7th grade, shall we? I was a whiz in math. I wasn't a prodigy by any means, but I really enjoyed math. I made straight As. In 8th grade I believe I made As and Bs. In 9th grade geometry, I started having terrible headaches. Very painful and only in math class. I think I was getting Bs and Cs as far as grades went. I'm guessing we attributed it to sinus issues, which we had enough of. In 10th grade Algebra II, I kept having headaches. I eventually started seeing double. Not fun when your lockers are 8" wide. Steps were interesting, too, lol. After telling one of my teachers I couldn't do the homework the night before because I was seeing double, he made fun and said he's seen every color in the rainbow and he was colorblind. Smartass, butI can see where he was coming from. It was a pretty original excuse for not doing homework. :)
I started throwing up shortly after and was treated for the flu. My mom and step-dad plied me with water to "flush" the germs out. Water was not my friend. :)
On December 2nd, 1987, I went back to my former pediatrician and he immediately ordered a CT scan. It came back showing a tumor the size of a tennis ball. We drove the 2.5 hours to the University of Virginia hospital and I was admitted through the ER. It was just my Mom and I and we sat there for HOURS.
Long story shorter, I had most of that tumor removed and it was found to be benign. Just after graduation from high school in 1990, I had surgery June 29th for the removal of a golf-ball size tumor in the same spot. I'm assuming it sprouted from the original.
I was then off to college at Wheeling Jesuit in the fall of 1990. Shortly after arriving, I discovered my forehead/temple area was a little squishy. After checking in with my aunt's neurosurgeon, we discovered I had an infection from the previous surgery in June. I immediately (same day) traveled back to UVA from Wheeling, WV to have surgery again. The docs cleaned me out and left a 3x3" or so piece of bone out and I had to wear a helmet. College kids aren't near as kind as I'd assumed they would be, so I had to write "SURGERY VICTIM" across the front to keep from getting odd looks. I think they all thought I was missing my bike or something. :) It made for fun tricks with my brain though. I could put my hand over my softspot and hang my head upside down. This created a sinking of my brain into that spot, which grossed out many a fellows. In early January of 1991, I returned to have the bone put back in place.
Fast forward 7 years and a new surgeon in Roanoke, VA, 3 hours away. I was sick of seeing residents at UVA and getting rude remarks as far as radiation exposure. My now-husband and I were moving in to this house and I had called my doc to let him know I'd been feeling this needle-like sensation in the top of my head. He tells me to get down to Roanoke ASAP. I was in the-hold-your-horses-doc mode, but relented and headed to Roanoke anyway.
This would now be surgery number 5. Turns out UVA must have wired me back together with twisty ties when they put my bone flap back in. Bone flap. Doesn't that sound awful? Seems like there should be a hinge or something on there. Seems a twisty tie was poking through my scalp, creating the needle-like sensation and poking into the top layer of my brain. Anywho, my new doc took the bone flap out again and left another sink hole for a few months. Again. I went back and he put in a piece of methomethacrolate (sp?), which he said could survive an atom bomb. Which does me how much good? Here's another possible spelling and definition. After inserting my new jack-o-lantern (to prevent shifting) shaped faux bone flap in out-patient surgery, he tied it and my skull back together with silk, to prevent it from poking into my brain/scalp again.
After the last one was an out-patient surgery, I asked him to just install a zipper for office visits. He wasn't going for it.
I still have MRIs every 2-3 years as a precaution in case anything decides to turn malignant. I've been very blessed so far, and not had anything more than surgery. As much as I would love to grow my hair out, I keep it short. I'm sort of superstitious about it, since it seems like I get it all shaved off if I try to grow it out, lol.
I hope this explains some of what you may have been wondering. If you have any questions feel free to ask. I'm an open book.
As for the math mentionings earlier, it turns out that was a sign. I wasn't able to process the math problems as I had before with a tennis-ball size tumor taking up residence. Who knew?
Hard to believe it's been 21 years and a day.
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
21 Years Today Since My First (of 6) Brain Surgeries!
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Today's Garfield. . .
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An interview with renowned cancer specialist Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of national best seller, Love, Medicine & Miracles. (28 min.)
Hosted by Bernie Seigel, M.D.
"There is no false hope in the individual who has an illness. It is real, it is physiologic, and I have no trouble giving it to people. Within the body is this incredible power. The body and mind communicate, so why not stimulate that?"
--Hope & A Prayer
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"The brain is a powerful organ, whose limits have not yet been established. In some cases, Hope & A Prayer may make the difference between life and death. A provocative interview. Recommended."
-- Video Librarian Magazine
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-- Hugh Riordan, M.D., Past President
American Holistic Medical Association
"Cancer Treatment is hard on the body and tough on the spirit. Bernie Siegel puts heart into cancer care. His Hope & A Prayer adds a new front to the war on cancer."
-- Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D.
Former Secretary
New Mexico Health and Environment
Author, Vital Signs
"Bernie is the conscience of the medical profession. He speaks to the human side of the doctor-patient interface."
-- Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N.
New York University


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Lake Lyndon B. Johnson
Lake Lyndon B. Johnson
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By Daniel Diner '14
Daniel Diner '14
Major: Philosophy
Member: Amherst College Emergency Medical Services
Were someone assigned to keep daily tabs on me, their first observation would concern my sharp fluctuations in dress. I prefer to wear smart casual: Stafford wingtip shoes and oxford cotton button-downs. Of course, some days I'll wear sweats, pretending that I will finally make it to the gym. Still other times I adhere to no coherent style convention at all. In fact, my last shopping outing came after a friend noticed me in suit pants with sneakers and a ski jacket.
But what unifies my wardrobe is a blue, horribly baggy windbreaker that I wear at least three days each week. This is my uniform for ACEMS, the student-run, student-staffed volunteer emergency medical corps that services Amherst College throughout the academic year. And while I might wish to be noticed for my collection of ties or for my prized leather jacket, I know that it's this ill-fitting windbreaker that ultimately catches people's attention.
Usually my temperament leans toward diffidence, but when I'm in the uniform, I feel a higher level of significance, a small sense of having authority. The ACEMS logo—the group's name underneath a Star of Life banner—is stitched onto the front of all our apparel. The design is easily recognizable; my peers have surely noticed it on the back of an EMT pushing his way through party crowds late on a Saturday night, or on the side of an oversized medical bag being carried by an exhausted-looking ACEMS member trudging into Val on a Sunday morning.
The nature of my social interactions also changes when I put the jacket on. Other students see it and know that, should they ever need medical help, mine is the face they may see within minutes of calling the police line. Every now and then they offer a gesture that legitimizes this alien feeling of authority: a smile or nod from a former patient, an anonymous thank-you note, a phone call asking for medical advice. These signs of recognition and appreciation, however subtle, make me feel valued, respected and justified in this role. It shows me that my skills and efforts are remembered even after the call has ended.
Since my freshman year, I have held the rank of med-10, the top of the ACEMS crew hierarchy. This means that in an emergency (which may involve anything from alcohol intoxication to a respiratory attack), I am responsible for both the patient and the other two crew members. It becomes my job to manage an evaluation and decide on a treatment plan. During the course of a call, I enjoy near-complete authority. I forget any awkwardness that plagues my non-uniformed life. Any personal relationship with the patient becomes irrelevant.
For that moment, I am yielded that patient's agency; my identity is based on how I handle that responsibility. The patient and I exist only as the manifestations of our roles. These periodic instances constitute the most intimate and rewarding experiences of community service in which I have ever taken part. There exists no more personal a method of helping someone than physically taking on the responsibility yourself.


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Small Chrome Deep Sea Diver Helmet on Wooden Base
Vintage deep sea diver's helmet Mark IV as worn by US Navy from the 1840s. These helmets were designed to protect and allow deep sea divers to breathe under water.
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Uses: Decor, Gift, Popular Corporate Gift
Product Dimensions: H 25 cm x DIA 15 cm
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War Junkie
Combat becomes an addiction in this archive story
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War Junkie
Combat becomes an addiction in this archive story
Morning. Jan. 27, 2005. Baqubah, occupied Iraq. A hundred surly Arabs and a bunch of bemused GIs gather in a musty provincial government building. It's a chance for known insurgents to sign a pledge against violence in exchange for amnesty from arrest. They call it Peace Day.
Yeah, right.
The lights go down. The Arabs take their seats. The media — a CNN crew, correspondent David Pratt from the Scotland Sunday Herald and me, from the Columbia, S.C. Free Times — pick up cameras, tap microphones and pull out notepads, just in time to record the chaos as a suicide bomber in a compact car blows himself up outside.
The building shakes. Windows shatter. Yours truly takes a tiny sliver of glass in the hand. Everywhere, there's the heavy thunk-thunk-thunk of gunfire. Arabs, GIs and reporters hit the floor.
Well, not all of them: One insane CNN cameraman hops out of a broken window with his camera rolling. And a handful of soldiers race outside to pile into a Humvee.
I follow them, and slide into the Humvee's one empty seat feeling like John Wayne and looking like a terrified child. My voice cracks when I say, "Mind if I tag along?"
"Not at all," says Sgt. Kim Snow, an Army journalist from the 1st Infantry Div., famous for braving firefights in Fallujah to get the hot story.
All around us, gunfire rattles. A thick pall of smoke curls skyward. And there's this smell—burned flesh and rubber—that I just can't describe. Soldiers dart this way and that. Into this pandemonium we drive.
"So what's the plan?" I yell over the Humvee's gurgling diesel as we pull onto the street.
Snow laughs. "The plan," she says, "is to get closer."
She floors the accelerator and points the Humvee at the street, where a hundred soldiers and police are converging on a bloodbath.
Correspondent's course
I was in Iraq to report on the S.C. National Guard and on the country's first democratic elections in half a century.
That's the official line, anyway. The truth is a little more complicated. And even now, a month later, sitting in a military library at Camp Doha in Kuwait, waiting for my flight back home, I'm only beginning to understand my own motivations.
When I ask myself why I volunteered — Hell, fought tooth and nail — for an assignment to a war zone, I recall a day last fall when, trawling for untapped story ideas as a staff writer for this paper, I sifted through a long list of war headlines in other alternative newspapers:
• "Veteran Stars of Bush's Inauguration Have Scars," The Village Voice
• "Military Outreach Center Helps With the Burdens Soldiers Carry," Rochester City Newspaper
• "Military Reservists Reluctant to Seek Mental Health Help," Louisville Eccentric Observer
• "Military American Soldiers Returning From Iraq Are Heroes and Victims," Charleston City Paper
I was puzzled. The same day, I'd seen a poll in the independent Army Times newspaper that indicated most soldiers supported the war in Iraq.
Far be it for me to question my colleagues' journalistic integrity: I had to assume both the alt news stories and the poll were accurate, and that many soldiers could remain enthusiastic for a war that had physically and psychologically scarred so many of their comrades, and maybe even themselves. But there was something going on here, something the alternative press — overwhelmingly and perhaps blindly opposed to the war — had neglected to examine, something I thought I understood.
I guess I just wanted to be sure. So, I convinced my editor to green light my trip, lined up some freelance work, begged the Army for room and board, then packed my bags for Iraq.
I started with the 1052nd Transportation Co., a unit of the S.C. Guard based at Camp Anaconda near Balad, a city between Tikrit and Baqubah.
It was cold and wet when I arrived at the 1052nd's enclave on Jan. 21, almost a year after the unit had deployed here. There was a gloomy pall in the air and it wasn't just the weather.
"There are a lot of people planning on getting out [of the Army]," 2nd Lt. Ross Sparks, a narcotics officer in South Carolina, says of his soldiers.
Spec. Justin Segres, 22, answers more directly when asked how he feels about the war. "What's the point?"
"Bringing democracy to Iraq?" I say.
Segres laughs.
Staff Sgt. Willie Williams, 44, a hospital employee back home in South Carolina, says morale is actually higher now than it was a few months ago. "It was worst when Sgt. Lemon died."
Staff Sgt. Jerome Lemon, 42, a convoy commander with the 1052nd and a cop back home, died right outside Camp Anaconda's gate on Oct. 27 when insurgents exploded a bomb alongside his flatbed truck. The blast knocked Lemon's head clean off his shoulders and onto the floorboards. Dozens of 1052nd soldiers witnessed the attack and some were badly traumatized.
Now, four cold months later, after some 1052nd soldiers have completed more than 100 convoys totaling more than 20,000 miles combined, most of the unit's 115 soldiers are ready to come home.
With two exceptions.
The strange case of Willard and Abney
On the night of Jan. 21, I'm waiting in the rain between long rows of idling flatbeds — waiting for the start of a convoy mission to Tikrit, watching tracer rounds illuminate the sky over Anaconda's gate — when someone grabs my arm.
"You press?"
He's a tall black soldier with teeth that reflect the truck's yellow headlights. He's wearing sergeant's bars and his nametape says "Abney." Later I learn his first name is Jerry. He's a 41-year-old from Saluda.
"Yeah, I'm press."
He sidles closer. "You gotta help us. Me and Robert Willard are trying to extend."
I draw a notepad from my pocket. Like everything else in Iraq in January, it's soaking wet. "Uh-huh. And what does that mean?"
Abney stomps the muddy ground. "Everyone else is leaving in two weeks, but we want to get permission from the National Guard to stay."
"You don't want to go home?"
All around us, soldiers are climbing into their trucks with their M-16s. Everywhere there's a hum of excitement as the convoy gets ready to move out. Abney looks nervous. "Look, I gotta go." He grabs my notepad and scribbles his email address. "Email me, OK?"
I don't have to.
A couple of days later, I'm lounging in my hooch — a heated trailer the 1052nd generously provided me — when there's a knock on the door. I open it to the grinning visage of a stocky soldier. He tells me his name is Spec. Robert Willard, from Columbia. He's 28 years old.
"I have something to show you," he says.
Across the camp we go — one scruffy reporter, one squat specialist grinning like the Cheshire Cat. En route to his hooch, he points out his "art" — a couple of spray-painted concrete barriers. One—an eagle against an American flag—is dedicated to Lemon. Another appears to be Japanese writing. "Means sex," Willard says, grin growing ever wider.
His hooch is like a set from Oliver Stone's Platoon: slathered with posters, heaped high with colorful junk, sweet-smelling and populated by spaced-out, half-naked soldiers. "Sit down," he says, clearing a bag of Doritos from a folding chair.
I watch as he fires up his laptop computer and begins a slideshow of graphic images. Burning trucks, maimed Iraqis, bits and pieces of dead bodies. He pauses on one image of a scorched flatbed.
"Lemon's truck," he says. "That was one rough day for everybody."
"And you still want to stay?"
He shrugs. "It's an adventure."
I give him some email addresses that might help: Gov. Sanford's, Sen. Graham's, some others. I tell him to plead his case at the highest possible level. And then I go outside to clear my head. A siren sounds. Soldiers run for cover. A helicopter banks overhead.
It's a mortar attack.
A couple of days later, I leave Abney and Willard and the rest of the 1052nd and make my way to Tikrit, where I meet David Pratt, the Scottish reporter, then link up with Sgt. Snow and other members of the 1st Infantry Div.
On Jan. 27, Pratt, Snow and I attend Peace Day, which is anything but peaceful. On and around election day on Jan. 30, I get shot at, mortared and scowled at by the full spectrum of Iraqi malcontents, insurgents and terrorists.
With a 1st Infantry Div. Patrol led by Staff Sgt. Joshua Marcum, 25, I chase down rocket-wielding wackos, shifty-eyed smugglers and gun-happy Baathist thugs. I sleep in trucks, outposts and primitive camps — and some days, I don't sleep at all. I briefly lose hearing in one ear from all the gunfire. I watch people kill and die.
And it's never less than exciting. Fun, even. I begin to understand why Willard and Abney want to stay. Mortal danger's a small price to pay for the thrill of combat.
But there's another explanation, according to an Army psychologist I meet under unusual circumstances at a besieged Army camp in downtown Baqubah on a Monday night.
Fear and loathing at FOB Gabe
Behind concrete and barbed wire and nervous and heavily armed guards it hides, this enclave, this bastion of civilization in the seedy, mangy wild of Baqubah. Forward Operating Base Gabe, named for a sergeant who died here, is home to 2,000 engineers and artillerymen from the 1st Infantry Div. who patrol this lawless city of 200,000, mostly Sunnis.
Out there, there are bombings and gas and medicine shortages and legless beggars in streets running ankle-deep with human waste. In here, there are showers and heated hooches, Internet access, a fine little chow hall, a chapel and a library.
In between, there's a great deal of animosity. Every couple of days, some mad Iraqi makes a move on the front gate — throws a grenade, explodes a bomb or takes a potshot, usually dying in the process. Once in a while, the insurgents get their act together, relatively speaking, and manage to lob a mortar round or two over the wall. There's a flash, a puff of smoke and a bang. Then the Army mortar team on Gabe fires back.
And so on, the deadliest show in the world for the most jaded audience. Exhausted and unimpressed by all these attempts to kill them, the soldiers at Gabe slouch through their transplanted domestic routines in their little transplanted America, awaiting their next missions, when they'll shed their practiced sloth, stand taller, talk louder and move like the professionals they sometimes pretend not to be.
Life at Gabe is a strange charade — you do your best to relax when you can so you'll be at your best when you need to be. But, let's be honest, you're tense all the time. And even 1st Lt. Kai Chitaphong, 29, a psychiatrist from New York specializing in "combat stress" (the Army's term for post-traumatic stress disorder), a soldier with a mission to help other soldiers cope with being soldiers, feels the strain. He adopts two itinerant reporters as his temporary confidants.
On Jan. 31, the Monday after the elections, after two days of exhausting fighting, I awake from a nightmare to find Pratt and Chitaphong conferring over non-alcoholic beer on Pratt's bunk in the hooch that we share.
"Combat's like a drug," Chitaphong says. "The biochemical effects of stress — of fear — are actually addictive."
Pratt nods thoughtfully and eyes me over the top of his near-beer. I recall election day, when we both went out on separate missions, both got shot at quite a bit, then met for battery-acid coffee in the Gabe chow hall: the 25-year veteran Scottish correspondent who once lunched with bin Laden, and his young American protégé. Wincing from the coffee, he asked how I felt.
"All right," I said, and I think I meant it.
"So what are you going to do when you get home?" Pratt knows that I've burned a lot of bridges on my way to war.
I shrugged. "What I used to do, I guess. Cover county politics somewhere."
He shook his head. "No way. You're hooked."
He would know. In 1995, after a decade of covering conflict all over the world, Pratt was in war-torn Bosnia with two local reporters when the three were kidnapped by drunken Croat thugs. They killed the two Bosnian reporters, beat Pratt to a pulp and dragged him to a mass grave, where one of the Croats put a gun to his head. He pulled the trigger.
Nothing happened. So the gunman knocked Pratt unconscious and left him lying in the grave atop the corpses of the less fortunate. He came to some hours later and dragged himself to safety. Ten years on, his coffee cold on the table between us, Pratt smiles and says, "It nearly did me in." And he's not talking about his mortality. He's talking about his career.
But with a short convalescence and the love of a good woman, he pulled himself together and — within months — was in Gaza covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, back in the thick of the thing that almost killed him, a helpless addict to a lethal drug, just like Willard and Abney.
And just like Sgt. Marcum and his crew.
Toward the sound of gunfire
This is the worst weather Iraq has seen in months: intermittent freezing rain driven by a stiff wind turns the dirty, dusty, sewage-covered streets into a morass of cold yellow mud the consistency of diarrhea. It's miserable, but it's not enough to chill Marcum's passion, even after a year of combat with only a few days off. Driving down the muddy streets of Kanan near Baqubah on the evening of Jan. 27, Marcum waxes enthusiastic about all the firefights he's been in. He calls them a "pretty good time."
"But we don't get into enough firefights. We really like those."
And why not, when they're so good at them? Marcum carries an M-4 carbine with a thermal sight and an infrared laser aimer. His driver, Pvt. 1st Class Timothy White, 23, is similarly armed. With their sights and aimers — not to mention their rigorous training — they can kill insurgents from hundreds of yards away in the dead of night. "It still amazes the Iraqis how we shoot them at night," Marcum says, laughing.
Marcum's patrol continues down the road as the sun sets, casting a red glow through the haze of smoke and pollution that blankets most of Iraq whenever it's not raining. It's a filthy country: trash litters roads, raw sewage pools behind homes and mangy wild dogs run in snarling packs. At an Iraqi Army checkpoint in Kanan, White and two Iraqi soldiers make friends with one good-natured wild dog. It rolls playfully on its back as White pets it.
"He's crazy," Marcum says of White, who with only a few months in the Army is already under consideration for a bronze star medal for valor for treating six wounded Iraqis while under machine gun fire. But White says the same thing of Marcum, who has the unnerving habit of running toward gunfire while everyone else runs away.
Near a polling place just a few hours later, heavy gunfire erupts just a couple of hundred yards away. "Let's roll," Marcum barks — and White hits the accelerator. Then the call comes from 1st Lt. Joe Valintis to hang a right.
Marcum is floored. "What the fuck? The fight's not that way." But he obeys and follows the lieutenant to a dead end. When they finally get oriented to the true source of the gunfire — a polling place at a school guarded by Iraqi police — the shooters are long gone. Marcum angrily confronts Valintis, his superior. "Couldn't you hear it? I could hear it."
Marcum tells me he hates to miss a firefight. And it's not because he likes killing, necessarily. Believe it or not, he's a pretty sensitive soul. And in a quiet moment later that night, he tells me about the worst thing he's ever seen.
It happened last summer, just a few months after he arrived at Gabe. A jumpy National Guardsman guarding Gabe's walls opened fire at some Iraqi civilians he mistook for insurgents, killing a 14-year-old girl.
"They were just scratching in the dirt, looking for food," Marcum says of the victim family. His face contorts when he recalls the scene. "I was the one who had to clean up the mess. I carried the girl past that guy and showed him: 'Look what you did, dumbass.' It was the worst thing I've ever seen. And nothing ever happened to that guy [the shooter]. It was just an accident, right?"
Nine months later, the incident still haunts Marcum. But it doesn't slow him down. And when gunfire erupts outside an Iraqi Army outpost in Kanan, Marcum leaps from his Humvee to chase down the shooters — on foot, into the darkness, through the cold and the mud, scared of only one thing: that if he's not fast enough, he'll miss the fighting.
I'm not just guessing when I describe what he's feeling, because I feel it too, mucking behind him with my notepad in my pocket and my camera clutched to my chest, thumping in 4/4 time with my racing heart.
Maybe the alt news stories about scarred, traumatized soldiers and the Army Times poll are both right — and about the same soldiers. Maybe it's possible to love a war that breaks you. Maybe, like a drug, war feels good even when it's close to killing you.
Or maybe it feels good because it's close to killing you.
Back in Baqubah, at the scene of the suicide bombing, there are Iraqi cops and American soldiers everywhere, screaming orders, waving guns, firing straight into the air, throwing open car trunks to search for additional bombs. It's chaotic.
Spilling out of Snow's Humvee with my camera raised, I head straight for what appears to be the epicenter of the blast — a black streak on the ground surrounded by smoldering hunks of meat and debris. All over the ground and nearby vehicles there's a fine spatter of blood. And on my hand, streaming from the cut from the shattered glass, more blood. Bigger pieces of the bomber draw crowds of cops and soldiers. I shove through one crowd to reach the attacker's torso. It's scorched and limbless and oozing blood and bile.
It's a portrait of death — and it's beautiful.
This is it. This is what I've been afraid of all my life. And this is how it feels to stare it in the face and live. This is what it feels like to survive. It feels … good.
I snap some photos. I get quotes from some of the soldiers milling around. And as I put the bloody death behind me and push through the crowd toward Snow's Humvee, I decide that there's more to combat addiction than biology. There's an almost spiritual aspect to combat, when you stand up to your greatest fear, death, and find that it's not so scary when it's in plain sight and your eyes are open.
It's an epiphany. And it's the kind you find yourself craving more after you've tasted it. No wonder some soldiers have a hard time readjusting to life back home. Home is calm. Home is peaceful. Home is safe.


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From static "point, radius, diameter"
is but one step to harmonic "volume, vortex, resonance":
between two energy fields
in their orbits of navigation.
In man-made rectangular dimensions,
three is the root of the diagonal in space.
In nature-made spherical shapes,
three is the volume of a radius
of One, multiplied by wondrous p –
simplified and demystified in later tomes.
Three is the level of completion
for the sphere of circulation,
the double spirals in motion
and the culmination of rotation and circulation
in their vortex of energy,
the resonance of their fields.
The light of the sun
creates matter in motion
which begets form
through their fields of attraction.
The form of a sphere,
the matter from spheres,
along waves of movement as energy:
three states of existence,
three notions for being.
In man-made mathematics
three counts dimensions
and symmetries:
pairs of direction.
It counts operations
as well as their symmetrical opposites.
But the ultimate trinity
is man as god, goddess and human,
Heracles, Ulysses and Christ,
Adam, Eve and God.
Created in unity,
we create duality in thinking and language,
but integrate in trinity,
on the third higher level,
in the erect third dimension.
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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: shorter file names
From: Matthias Wächter (matthias_at_waechter.wiz.at)
Date: 2002-08-14
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> I have a different idea for the same problem. Imagine your file names to be
> or perhaps, as in most cases you know the artist already based on the
Yeah, let's bring REGEXPs into the firmware :-)
Of course, we can try this (maybe in addition to), but the battle is won
Or we could introduce a self-compressing directory listing: If you have
aaa - t1.mp3
We could show it as:
>aaa (remaining on top of the display)
Sehr Wus,
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The blue sashing and border fabrics are all from Barbara Brackman's 1862 Battle Hymn line, and the cream and red floral sprig print on the inner border is from an older Civil War collection not by Barbara Brackman that I temporarily borrowed from my mom's stash.
So now this baby needs quilted and bound. I am very inclined to hand quilt it but let's remember that my first quilt still isn't finished 8 years later because the hand quilting isn't done. But I really like (love) Park Ranger Boyfriend, so we might do it anyways. He very nicely asked if it would be done by the time he is done working at the park for the season and back at home working on a book for the winter. I can totally picture him reading history books over the winter with this thing.
Have you ever undertaken a time-consuming/difficult project for someone you love???


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Amazon's Jack Ryan is a great show, plus Zatoichi (1989) finally shipping & three new Blu-ray reviews
Today is obviously a holiday here in the States, so there's very little news to report.
We do, however, have a trio of new Blu-ray reviews for you to enjoy...
Tim's taken a look at the To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story documentary from Dread Central Presents.
David has given due consideration to the epic 2017 Russian historical actioner Furious from Well Go USA.
And Dennis has checked out Stephen Brio's horror film Song of Solomon from Unearthed Films.
Do give them a look, if you're interested.
The only bit of home video news we have today is that Media Blaster's Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally (aka Zatoichi 1989) Blu-ray finally seems to be shipping from Amazon. I expect to have it in hand in the next couple of days, so I'll let you know if it's actually a real thing and what the quality is like in a full review soon. [Read on here...]
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This annual program is aimed at recruiting young scientists of exceptional ability with the potential to do outstanding research in our department. The appointment includes 2 years of support with a competitive salary, benefits and $5,000 to cover research expenses, and is open to both theorists and experimentalists. Research fields of interest to the department include but are not limited to: Atomic & molecular physics; biophysics; condensed matter and materials physics; imaging & imaging instrumentation; photonics & applied optics; quantum systems & engineering; theoretical & statistical physics.
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