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Florence King, a columnist, author and professional misanthrope who was a constitutional crosspatch about all manner of things — in particular those things that smacked in the slightest of what she decried as touchy-feely late-20th-century liberalism — died on Wednesday at her home in Fredericksburg, Va. She was 80.
Her death, announced by the conservative magazine National Review, to which she had long contributed, took place not long after she had moved to an assisted-living community in Fredericksburg. It is reasonable to assume, however, that in moving there Miss King did not ultimately attain her stated goal of living "in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart,' " as she once wrote, "where all the young people leave and the rest sit on a porch with a rifle across their knees."
Read by conservatives and liberals alike for her arsenical wit, Miss King — to the end of her life, she was emphatically "Miss" — was known for "Misanthrope's Corner," the column she wrote for National Review for more than a decade until her nominal retirement in 2002.
She was also renowned for "Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady," a well-received, somewhat fictionalized 1985 memoir in which she plumbed the depths, and the shallows, of her genteel upbringing.
Miss King's body of work — she also wrote book criticism for Newsday, The New York Times and other publications — is an unalloyed testament to the aspects of modern culture that set her teeth on edge.
Reviewing her 1995 anthology, "The Florence King Reader," in The New York Times Book Review, for instance, Terry Teachout wrote: "This book contains enough cattiness per square inch to supply an entire city for at least three years. It is also snide, cruel, intolerant, insensitive — and very, very funny."
The cultural boils Miss King sought so vigorously to lance included:
Political correctness; feminism ("Feminists will not be satisfied," she wrote, "until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation for handicapped Indians"); environmentalism; the antismoking lobby; sentiment; intimacy; weakness; special pleading; lack of breeding ("No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street"); gay liberation; far rightism; far leftism; mild to moderate leftism; democracy ("I believe in a Republic of Merit in which water is allowed to find its own level, where voters, like drivers, are tested before being turned loose"); the Constitution; children ("In order to molest a child you must first be in the same room with a child, and I don't know how perverts stand it"); the human race.
Miss King, who defined herself by a much shorter, tidier list, was, in her own account (though in no particular order), a monarchist; a discreet, tweedy, long-celibate lesbian; an erstwhile pornographer; and "slightly to the right of Vlad the Impaler."
The daughter of an English father who was a mild-mannered dance-band trombonist and a mother who defied her genteel Southern socialization by smoking furiously and swearing even more furiously, Florence Virginia King was born in Washington on Jan. 5, 1936.
She earned a bachelor's degree in history from American University, whose campus, she later wrote, "resembled a swamp wafting deadly vapors of marriage fever." As a student, she had romantic relationships with both men and women; after college, she trained briefly for the Marines before entering graduate school at the University of Mississippi.
There, she wrote in "Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady," she had a deep love affair with a young woman who was killed in a car crash soon afterward.
Miss King left graduate school after she discovered she could earn $250 an article writing putative first-person stories for pulp magazines like Uncensored Confessions. (Her first: "My God! I'm Too Passionate for My Own Good!")
She wrote more than 100; later, with the waning of the pulps, she turned out erotic novels under a series of pseudonyms. In the 1960s, Miss King was a feature writer for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.
Her first book under her own name was the nonfiction title "Southern Ladies and Gentlemen" (1975), an astringent anthropology of the region for benighted Yankees.
"The cult of Southern womanhood," she wrote, endowed the Southern belle "with at least five totally different images and asked her to be good enough to adopt all of them. She is required to be frigid, passionate, sweet, bitchy and scatterbrained — all at the same time. Her problems spring from the fact that she succeeds."
Miss King made headlines in 1995, when, writing in The American Enterprise, a conservative magazine, she accused the liberal columnist Molly Ivins of having plagiarized passages from "Southern Ladies and Gentlemen" in a 1988 article in Mother Jones magazine.
"If we had the right kind of laws in this country, I'd challenge her to a duel," Miss King, a gun collector, said at the time.
Ms. Ivins apologized publicly, and no blood was shed.
Miss King's other nonfiction books include "He: An Irreverent Look at the American Male" (1978); "Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye" (1989); "Lump It or Leave It" (1990), whose jacket shows her cheerfully wielding a handgun; and "With Charity Toward None: A Fond Look at Misanthropy" (1992). As Laura Buchanan, she wrote the 1977 bodice-ripper "The Barbarian Princess."
From 2007 to 2012, she wrote a new column, "The Bent Pin," in National Review.
Miss King leaves no known immediate survivors, a state of affairs that may well have been Shangri-La for a woman who, as she once wrote, "cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment."
Over the years, some critics took Miss King's writing to task not for its ideology — the ideology, it was widely understood, went hand in glove with the work — but for its rhetorical excesses.
"She is sharp, no doubt about it," the novelist and journalist Mary Cantwell wrote in The Times Book Review in 1982, reviewing Miss King's satirical novel "When Sisterhood Was in Flower." "Too bad she tends to blunt her points by pushing them too hard."
But even a blunt instrument, Miss King made plain, admirably served her desired ends.
"I don't suffer fools," she once told an interviewer, "and I like to see fools suffer."


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1. If you want your hair done for free this weekend, the lovely and talented team from Jones & Payne are staffing a pop-up salon for Shu Uemura at BoxPark in Shoreditch until Sunday. You can choose from three hairstyles (and one for guys) and in a matter of twenty minutes, you'll walk out looking brilliant. I got the ponytail above on my visit – judge for yourself how awesome I look here!
It's not often you get your hair done for free and certainly not with products as high-end as Shu Uemura's – and with this weekend set to be super-sunny, I can't imagine much better than getting a quick updo en route to whatever social engagements you have planned.
Of course you can also buy Shu Uemura products at the pop-up (I recommend Touch of Gloss and Volume Maker) AND you can get eyelashes put on. They're basically encouraging you to sit in a beer garden and look amazing. Appointments are booking up fast (although you can just walk by and see if they'll fit you in) – call 0207 613 6553 to secure a spot.
2. Here's a genuinely interesting article about why Bill Cosby wore all those crazy jumpers. Clue: it's not just because it was the 80s.
3. And while we're on the Collectors Weekly blog, did I already post this link about why the latest film version of The Great Gatsby gets flappers wrong, again?
4. Why everyone secretly wants hair like Hanson. Who says it's a secret?
5. I didn't see much Glastonbury coverage because I was bent over a toilet vomming all weekend. Thanks, food poisoning, you make the festival experience so much more authentic. Still, I did take the time to catch up king Nick Cave acting like a prize madman during their set. Remarkable stuff. Also, nice to know he favours a redhead.

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When has need ever had anything to do with it?
Never looked at Matty as a preservationist but I guess he is. I do know one thing and that is, it will take literally tens of millions to bring the building back to it's former self. I would imagine that Fords will apply for and most likely get tax abatements and redevelopment grants. Gonna take a bunch of pickup truck sales to get that ship righted.Matt stated Matty's company had invested about 8 mill in the building since they acquired it.Wow, 110,000 square foot concourse and ground floor. That is just enormous. Just floor space, not height.I bet it will be at least 5 years to completion.I also liked to hinting about the Moriun family's new project, another new Ambassador bridge. I do wonder how that will play out with the current US / Canada relationship.Trump smoked Trudeau yesterday. Basically called him a liar and a piece of dog poop.


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Take the H30 Challenge – switch sugary drinks to water
Wyndham City is supporting VicHealth's H30 Challenge. The H30 Challenge asks people to make a 30-day pledge to replace sugary drinks with water. The aim of the challenge is to help establish healthier habits, with water becoming the main choice of beverage in the long-term. Sugary drinks include sugar-sweetened soft drinks, energy drinks, fruit drinks, sports drinks, ready-to-drink iced tea, flavoured water and cordial.
By making a switch from sugary drinks to water in the long-term, Victorians can:
- Help maintain a healthy weight
- Reduce their risk of tooth decay
- Reduce waste (by using a reusable bottle)
- Save around $1,460 over a year if they switch to tap water instead of a daily purchased beverage (based on the estimated price of a $4 per 600ml soft drink bought daily).
How to participate in the H30 Challenge
- Sign up at http://h30challenge.com.au/lga/wyndham
- Choose a start date that is convenient for you
- Switch sugary drinks to water for 30 days and reap the rewards
- Receive regular emails to keep you motivated along the way!
For more information or to sign up, visit the H30 Challenge website.


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About Marianthi
With a stay at Marianthi Hotel in Chania (Agia Marina), you'll be minutes from Kalamaki Beach and close to Chania Lighthouse. This aparthotel is within close proximity of Agia Marina Beach and Agioi Apostoloi.Rooms Make yourself at home in one of the 18 air-conditioned rooms featuring kitchenettes with refrigerators and stovetops. Rooms have private furnished balconies. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Conveniences include safes and coffee/tea makers, and housekeeping is provided daily.Amenities Head down to the water and enjoy a day at the private beach, or take advantage of other recreational amenities, which include an outdoor pool. Additional amenities at this aparthotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, babysitting/childcare (surcharge), and a television in a common area.Business, Other Amenities Featured amenities include multilingual staff and luggage storage.
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Contest Begins Today! ** We have chosen a winner, please watch for October's giveaway!
Shabby Lane Shops is honored to present you our September Treasure Box Giveaway. This box of treasures is full of delightful items donated by our talented vendors listed below. In order to participate, you need to visit ShabbyLaneShops.com leave a comment on Shabby Lane Shops Blog with your name, state of residence, e-mail address and a note letting us know which is your favorite shop and why, follow our Blog & sign up for our newsletter. Shabby Lane Shops will make a draw by the end of the month, if you are selected you'll be contacted via e-mail so that you can provide us with an address to mail the Treasure Box to you. You will have 48 hours to respond or we will draw another winner.
Important Rules of Treasure Box Giveaway:
1. Participants must reside within the continental USA or Canada
2. Participant must enter name of their favorite Shabby Lane Shop and the reason why it's their favorite, name, state of residence and e-mail address
3. Participation is free and doesn't require a purchase
4. Shabby Lane Shops and it's member's are not responsible for damages of the box while shipped by the USPS. The box will be sent with confirmation of delivery
***** To enter & post a comment, scroll to the bottom of this post & it will say "add comment"
This is a round millinery hat full of wonderful products by the Shabby Lane Shops vendors!
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Vintage Inspired Jewelry & Notions. Wonderful art supplies, lovely jewelry & other cottage style treasures. Visit us often as we are constantly creating new pretties!
Mrs. Charlotte's Boutique - Green fabric purse
Ruby June's Cottage - Bird felt ornaments
Cottage & vintage flea market finds, hand sewn and/or embroidered items.
Wallflowers Art - Rose & Bee 4x5 painting on canvas & 20% off coupon
Wallflowers offers original handpainted and personalized designs on canvas for children. This is a special and unique addition for your child's room to be enjoyed and treasured for years to come. I paint each canvas with the same attention to detail as if it were for my own children. I occasionally offer one-of-a-kind original paintings for adults, also. I look forward to your visit!
Graceful Rose - Rose cards, checkbook cover and bookmark
At Graceful Rose you will find hand painted shabby chic romantic items for your home, lovely porcelain teapots and teacups, framed prints and stationery, as well as vintage treasures. In addition you will find original art including oil paintings of roses. I hope you will visit often as I am always running a special or having a giveaway. See you soon!
Sweet Kathleen's - Tea Time Journal
Sweet Kathleen's offers a beautiful selection of cookbooks, journals and memory books. Be sure to check out our yummy baking mixes, cookie cutter sets and our Holiday Shop too! We look forward to your visit.
Bags by Annie G - The most beautiful vintage apron you've ever seen!
I like to refer to my aprons, lingerie bags, and market bags as "practically beautiful", because they are not only very pleasing to the eye but also VERY practical. My main emphasis is on the fabrics themselves, and I do not use anything on my items that are not easy to care for. Throw them in the washer and dryer, give them a quick touch up with the iron only if you feel like it! To keep absolutely true to the vintage style, I use only vintage buttons and sometimes spend as much time picking them out as I do my fabrics. My main goal is customer satisfaction, and I achieve that by treating every single customer exactly the way I would like to be treated. Easy concept and it works!!
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Shabby Denim Rose - Tea Time Embroidered Kitchen Towel
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Teacups & Twigs - Scented Victorian Inspired Sachet
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Shabby Rose Boutique - Millinery Pen and a heart shaped trinket box!
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The Vintage Nest - A beautiful nest with pale blue speckled eggs!
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Noelle Garrett Designs - Special Holiday Coupon Offer
Altered Journals, Tags & Unique Gifts
Karen Berezin - A wonderful pair of Avon earrings & Mark catalog
Avon Products that are easily ordered online and shipping is always free!
The Scented Cottage - Lavender Soap and Bee Sweet Mist. Delightful
From our cozy cottage to your home "sweet" home!
Teacup Candles, Memory Mists & Special Gifts
B. Catherine Designs - Lovely candy dish & crocheted doily!
Specializing in Vintage Inspired & Romantic & French Country Home Decor & Gifts
Bella Rosa Designs - Romantic Rose hand painted soap!
Vintage Treasures & Romantic Home Decor. Including Original Designs by artist Cherie Perry
Shabby Cottage Designs - Set of beautiful and romantic cards
Art by Suzanne Davenport
Shabby cottage designs where unique meets chic!
Some Place in Thyme- Aromatic sachet and pink roses ornaments
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Amelie Jo American Baby Boutique - Baby Dry Goods Stylish Accessories & Necessities
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Monday, November 29, 2010
A Concord Crush Christmas
Good Monday Morning Peeps!! I hope you all had a great weekend and enjoyed your Thanksgiving.
I am back from my blog break with a Christmas card, made with a few challenges in mind. I started out to make a card for this week's LateNightStampers Challenge. Challenge 98 - Non Traditional Colored Christmas—no red or green. I had in mind to use some shade of purple and the new set I just got the Stampin' Up "Welcome Christmas". While surfing around I noticed Stacey's Curtain Call Color Challenge was for Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Whisper White, Basic Gray and Concord Crush! Perfect! I changed it just a bit and used some Brushed Silver instead of the gray, but still very close, and since she allows similar colors I went for it.
The base of my card is Concord Crush and I followed that with the Brushed silver and the DS paper is from the Lap of Luxury paper pack. I stamped the main image with Concord Crush ink onto whisper white card stock. The sentiment comes from the "A Cardinal Christmas" stamp set and is also stamped with concord crush ink. I matted this piece with brushed silver. I added some concord crush ribbon and a strip of crumb cake punched with the dotted scallop ribbon edge punch behind the ribbon. The main image piece is cut like a tag and I added a concord crush bow and and antique brad to the end. The image is added to the card with some foam tape on an angle. I added my basic black with three mini brads across the bottom. I added a tiny little silver star to the main image and it is popped up with a tiny bit of foam tape.
Well, that is all from me, Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!
14 comments:
- Wendy said...
Oh WOW! I think your blog break did you a world of good....this is gorgeous, Vicki!! I love your non traditional colors and that stamp set is so darn cute! You have my address, right? LOL
LOVE it and nice job on the challenge! :)
- November 29, 2010 at 6:26 AM
- Dawn Easton said...
Gorgeous, Vicki! Love the brushed silver you added in! Perfect!
- November 29, 2010 at 7:26 AM
- jaydee said...
Vicki, love the fact that you made Stacey's challenge into a Christmas card challenge and this is a beauty. The vintage brad is the perfect addition to the ribbon.
- November 29, 2010 at 8:18 AM
- Lesley from WI said...
Gorgeous card! All I can say is "WoW"
- November 29, 2010 at 9:10 AM
- 2Bis2DO said...
What a beautiful Christmas card. Love it.
- November 29, 2010 at 11:55 AM
- Teresa Kline aka va.sunshine said...
wow, this is gorgeous...great card...have a super week!
enjoy *~*
- November 29, 2010 at 6:51 PM
- Steph said...
I'm glad your back. I love seeing all your beautiful cards. You did a great job pulling all those colors together. Love it:)
- November 29, 2010 at 8:42 PM
- Wanda Cullen said...
Fabulous use of these colors...what a gorgeous Christmas card!!
- November 29, 2010 at 10:12 PM
- Vickie Z said...
Gorgeous Christmas card!! Love how you used these colors. Vintage brad is perfect on the bow and love the silver star on the tree!!
- November 30, 2010 at 11:19 AM
- Vickie Z said...
Gorgeous Christmas card!! Love how you used these colors. Vintage brad is perfect on the bow and love the silver star on the tree!!
- November 30, 2010 at 11:19 AM
- Stacey Schafer said...
love this! I have yet to ink this one up:) thanks for playing the Curtain Call!
- November 30, 2010 at 8:34 PM
- barb mann said...
Vicki This card is GORGEOUS!! Love it. I think I'll have to case this one with my Christmas Card Club. Hope that's okay with you...Thanks. Barb
- December 1, 2010 at 3:02 AM
- Christina said...
This silhouette image works so perfectly in these colors, Vicki! Beautifully done! Thanks for joining us at the Curtain Call!
- December 4, 2010 at 7:26 AM
- Sue Ann said...
Goodness this sure is BEAUTIFUL!!!
- December 4, 2010 at 3:52 PM


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In the first half of this year, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration began to call for reform of the various agencies, offices, and programs that provide U.S. foreign assistance. In response, the foreign policy community produced several structural bureaucratic proposals. Organizations such as the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Center for Global Development, and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, as well as coalitions like InterAction and the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid all made various recommendations, ranging from the immediate incremental step of a multilateral foreign assistance review to a fundamental redesign that would integrate all smaller agencies into a single US global development structure.
If the United States wants to maximize the value of its foreign aid, it needs a fresh paradigm that supports the purpose of foreign assistance, acknowledges the aspects of international aid that it can alter through structural change, and acknowledges that there are global or market forces that remain beyond Washington's control.
The best way to approach the issue is to recognize that foreign assistance is an investment that sustains the United States' global leadership in the long run. Whether responding to international crises, encouraging positive economic and social change, or supporting growth in countries that share U.S. values and security concerns, money spent today is a down payment toward a future in which the United States remains a superpower because the benefits of its leadership are visible around the world. The future-oriented nature of foreign assistance makes it complicated to manage, but also suggests an organizing principle: in short, Washington should take an approach to its foreign aid programs similar to the way investors manage their portfolios.
Both U.S. foreign assistance and personal investment portfolios share the common aim to produce a specific long-term effect of great magnitude, the requirement of a small but regular inflow of resources, and the understanding that they are only successful when the portfolio is appropriately diversified. The logic of portfolio
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Oh Where, Oh Where has Memaw Been?
Sometimes I get really depressed about all the wonderful things I see others doing in their blogs. Some of you make really great pictures that are quite professional, some of you are really creative with crafts or needle and thread, knitting up beautiful projects and sewing aprons and bags. Many of you cook and bake and have such scrumptious recipes on your sites.
And I sit and think I used to do many of those things, however, I never could take a decent photo, it seems that anything I attempt to make turns out to be a mess, and if I made all the recipes I find, I'd be in a coma or weigh more than I already do.
So, all that being said, it's time I got off my duff, quit feeling sorry for myself and got back into the blogisphere.
Today is my youngest granddaughter's birthday. Her party is Saturday, and I'm attempting to make her a smocked sundress. I don't think it's turning out as good as I wanted it to, but hopefully I'll have it finished by Saturday. She's a cute little red haired girl like her mama, and I'm making the sundress in turquoise and white dots. It will have a pink heart in the center with pink rosebuds around it. If I can finish it, I'll post a picture of it.
Her party is at the park, I hope it's pretty and cool(this is Arkansas, cool is a relative term) and everything turns out ok.
Have a great day--what's left of it. Pray for our country. Love one another.
6 comments:
- Marge said...
I'm so glad you are back! I've been worried about you. And shame on you for saying you can't do anything! I've seen your smocked dresses. Beautiful beyond words. I'll be waiting to see a picture of the finished project.
Be blessed, my friend.
- Laura ~Peach~ said...
- Leslie said...
I have always wanted to learn how smock. It sounds like the sundress will be cute. Please do post a picture:)
- Robbin with 2 B's! said...
OH Shirley, here's a big old hug, just like you've given me plenty of times. Glad to see you back.
- Twisted Fencepost said...
Shirley, looks can be deceiving. I, too, suffer from depression. And everything I work at seems to go to pot. And it seems the harder I try, the worse it gets. You are not alone.
Here's a big ole bear hug for you. We all need them from time to time, just to pick up our spirits.
I am looking forward to seeing the little dress you are making. I just know it will be adorable.
- Amy said...
So glad you're getting back into the blogworld - I've missed you!
Can't wait to see pics of the sundress! I'm really envious of people that can smock - I'm very intimidated by smocking!


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Always Look Your Best, and Other Lessons From a T&C Woman
My grand-aunt Dolores Panlilio, aka Lola Loleng, passed away last weekend. She was 96.
We all wore bright colors with floral prints at her funeral because that's the way she would've wanted it. Exuberant and full of life. Just the way she had been.
Six things I learned from Lola Loleng, who from my childhood, was the epitome of the Town&Country woman.
1. Always look your best. You never know who you may bump into.
Lola Loleng was always pustura. That's the word her generation used to use. Always elegantly dressed and made up. She believed that looking good was being respectful to others too, to be pleasing to the eye of the beholder.
She loved being photographed for the society pages and had albums bursting with clippings from the time she was a teenager.
Even when she was sick, she had a hairdresser get her ready every day. Because she never knew who would come to visit.
Her casket was taken to her final resting place in a horse-drawn carriage. She would've loved that. She enjoyed making a grand entrance.
2. Elegance need not be expensive.
Lola Loleng loved a good bargain. She mixed and matched high and low. Many of her colorful, chunky accessories were from flea markets around the world. But she wore them all very well.
She also bought her accessories in multiples, so every time anyone complimented her on any of them, she would send them one of their own.
3. Reach out to people.
It was a running joke that Lola Loleng looked through the obituaries every morning to see who had died, and then she would go and condole with the families at their wakes. Even people she didn't know.
She believed that people who were grieving were at their lowest and needed to be lifted up and be surrounded by people who cared about them.
4. Never abandon your friends.
Lola Loleng stuck by her friends even when they had fallen from grace. She had friends who were first wives, second wives and mistresses. She was never judgmental. At her wake she had flower arrangements sent by politicians—and former ones—from different sides of the political fence.
5. Be nice to the people who work with you.
Whenever we had parties at her home, the household staff had a party spread of their own downstairs too.
I loved how at her funeral, when the priest called on her immediate family to bid their final farewell, it was her children and grandchildren, and then her nurses, helpers, and drivers who had been part of her family all through the years, who went up to her casket to pay their last respects.
6. Live life to the fullest.
Lola Loleng had celebrated happily with old friends and family members on the Wednesday and Friday before she slipped away on Saturday night. Even she had no idea she was ready to go.
Every Sunday for months before she left, we would have Zumba and dance classes at her house, and then mah jong and poker sessions too. And there would always be lots of spirits. Just because.
Life is good.


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If the election of Donald Trump isn't the surest sign of a deteriorating state of mental health in America, the substance abuse epidemic definitely is. The U.S. surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, even compiled a report this past November, the first of its kind, addressing the crisis, its consequences and the potential pathways to prevention and treatment. Like all matters political and social, Americans are, unsurprisingly, divided here too.
As reported in the Spokesman-Review, the Spokane County Behavioral Health Advisory Board's approach to addiction, called opioid agonist therapy (OAT), is par for the course in contemporary mental health care: fighting fire with fire. The board is pushing for $724,000 in state funds to fund a pilot treatment program using a synthetic drug called Suboxone, or "Box" as it's sometimes known on the street. Like methadone, Suboxone is itself an opioid, albeit one with more subtle effects than the narcotics it is designed to replace. Despite its good intentions, it is frequently abused.
On its face, treating addiction with addictive drugs (manufactured by supranational pharmaceutical conglomerates that, in turn, glean billions in profits from the suffering of their own customers) has the whiff of amusing absurdity, like a snake eating its own tail. It might taste alright at first, but is it a sustainable solution?
If a better way existed, a way to curb the cycle of dependency, would the medical and mental health communities endorse it? Proponents of a particular natural medicine hope so.
A new study by researchers at the University of British Columbia found cannabis to be a promising alternative in the treatment of opiate addiction. The plant is not an inherently addictive substance, has never been directly linked to an overdose and originated, of course, in the lab of Mother Nature, not those of Pfizer or Teva.
"Research suggests that people may be using cannabis as an exit drug to reduce use of substances that are potentially more harmful, such as opioid pain medication," said Zach Walsh, who led the study.
Studies by the University of California, Irvine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine have even found lower opioid-related death rates, by an average of 25 percent, in states with medical marijuana programs.
Even so, data from the Washington State Department of Health revealed a 78 percent increase in opioid overdose deaths in Spokane County from 2014 to 2015. Every generation has its social pariahs, but today's have found an escape hatch that frequently leads to a lethal conclusion. An official on the Spokane County Behavioral Health Advisory Board sees addicts as "the ones who are contributing to all the problems that society looks at." But what if their suffering is instead a symptom of a more profound sickness in contemporary American life? ♦


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I have a 2001 Mobius. At the end of last summer the rubber started coming off the platform. At the recommendation of the Dealer in Orlando, I tried different tactics to get it to stay but none worked. Finally he gave me a new peice of rubber to put on the platform. I cleaned it of all debris and put the new rubber matting on. Only one problem, after only one day on the water, it is already starting to peel off. What can I do to keep the rubber from peeling off?


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When I'm on my knees I'll still believe,
And when I've hit the ground, neither lost nor found,
If you'll believe in me I'll still believe
whew, it's been a while, hasn't it?
life has been a roller coaster the past month, in pretty much every way possible, and i'm not sure where to start--so i guess i just will.
ben's dissertation has (again) taken its sweet time in becoming anything except the back-and-forth of one approval after another, leading to his school giving him a deadline to be officially approved by the court he's working with in texas for his project by this thursday--yes, in two days--or else he will have to wait another year before he can apply for residency. we have both been so frustrated with this situation that sometimes i feel we might explode with it. it is so much out of our control and it's difficult to leave our fate in the hands of another. so, all signs are pointing to another year on hold in arizona, with ben now job-less by the end of november. we will be floating, waiting.
however, we were talking last night about this and have observed that:
it could be worse.
we're both grateful we moved to the bigger home that provides the ability to stretch out, and have guests while not killing our nearly-empty pocket books. we are happy and comfortable here, in this home and neighborhood, and feel for the first time we have roots. neighbors, friends, and schools we know and love. as much as we want to move forward with school, and finish it for crying out loud, it would be hard on all of us to leave. this has been the longest place we have lived in 11 years.
i just wish so fervently the torture for ben would be over. because honestly, that is what school has become for him--and consequently, me--and the longer it continues, the further i feel away from that finish line, and i know he feels the same. i trust it will happen though. i hope.
we have talked about other options, as far as him going to another school, or just accepting a master's degree and working within it. both of us feel unsettled about those ideas; whether it's because we have come so close that change now would feel like giving up, i'm not sure. i'm guessing that is part of it, but not all. there is something bigger in this for us, i feel it in my deep-down squiggly parts that are my compass to tell me what is Truth. there are things at work here and in this arduous process i do not understand yet, but can sense them.
and so, we have concluded that:
we will continue to bloom where we are planted. and be happy.
surrendering control is easier here for me than it is for ben. accepting another year of his idea of a hellish state means battling his demons that whisper "you're just not good enough, and you never will be" which have been his constant companion since 2008. can you imagine hanging on for that long? i guess we all do, in some form. but he is choosing this battle, instead of running from it, like i believe the majority of us would. he squares his shoulders and walks through those doors every time with decades of memories of being called stupid and lazy that flash before him and nauseate him and attempt to stop him in fear. somehow he has twisted this to say he is a glutton for punishment--because who in their right mind would choose this? what dyslexic, attention-deficit, high school drop out would actually attempt a doctoral program? yet he does, and calls himself insane for it.
but i call him the opposite; the very essence of the word courageous.
i do know that if he gives in, this process of school has the potential to be the undoing of him. i don't know how he's holding on right now, but he is. we are. and somewhere along the past couple of months, our love and bond has become even stronger. i look at him with so much admiration in my eyes and pray to God there will come a day when that admiration will not just sit on the surface of him, while he sets it aside with the "of course she has to feel that way about me, she's my wife" nonsense. some day it will pierce through his skin to help him feel what i do--that this world is chock-full of men who are giving into those demons, letting themselves be swallowed whole in shame and self-hatred, or lust or whatever it is that haunts them. these soul-wrenching decisions that can break apart a family with one moment of letting their guard down. but he carries on, with weary shoulders and his eyebrows furrowing. with the tiny, daily choices he makes, he stays on the winning end of the fight.
i'm so proud of him, i get tears in my eyes just typing about it and full-on weep when i let myself really process it.
he (we) will get there. even if we have to wait another year. i can feel it.
there is more to write about--from surgeries to miscarriages, to work trips and relationships...but this will have to do for now.


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Delivery of National Flag
As part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme, the National Flag was delivered to Sandy Lane in September. We were one of the first schools in the country to receive the flag. Two people from the army came to tell us all about the National Flag. We learned a lot about the protocol attached to the flag. We also learned about the 1916 rising and we listened to and read the proclamation. We were given a copy of the proclamation for our school and will have to create our own proclamation for the 2016 Centenary Celebrations in March. We will raise the national flag on the 15th March 2016, along with every school in Ireland.


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The heat is formidable. The guide even more so. The veld grass shimmers in a wave of gold as our boot-clad weary feet stumble over another hidden log.
The "Don't run! Don't run!" chant has been taunting our brains for the past two hours – designed to remind bush-happy campers that we are in fact infringing on numerous territories of many organisms with big teeth – and has now become so stale that it might be worth the risk to run.
A booming grunt suddenly breaks the monotony and the guide stops abruptly. Like a line of dominoes, the remaining seven of us bushwhackers duly crash into him. Not all roads lead to Rome, and not all grunts lead to lions. There, standing before us, blinking with spider-like eyelashes, is a fine example of a Bucorvus leadbeateri – a southern ground-hornbill.
At first it looks as if this mighty specimen (the largest of the two species of ground hornbill) has stabbed an unsuspecting alien life form with its large, fearsome bill. But upon closer inspection we realise it is, in fact, gripping a 'bird buffet' consisting of a snake, a dismembered frog and a family of insects.
It is, of course, brave and honourable (and important!) to spend one's life trying to save the African rhino, the mighty polar bear and the whales for which our conservation hearts continuously mourn. However, what about the other, lesser-known species? What about the southern ground-hornbill?
In Africa, southern ground-hornbills are classified as 'vulnerable' by the IUCN, however, those in South Africa are classified as 'endangered' on the Red List of Threatened Species as only about 1500 individuals live within the country. Loss of habitat, loss of nesting trees, electrocution from transformer boxers and even, in some cases, killed for use in traditional medicine, have all contributed to the rapid decline of these majestic birds.
In the wild, group sizes of the southern ground-hornbills vary between 2-9 birds that form cooperatively breeding groups that consist of only one alpha male and one breeding female, with the remaining individuals helping with nest-building and protecting the territory.
Much like some other birds of prey, the eldest chick always out-competes its younger sibling for food and the younger dies of starvation within a few days of hatching. Data from the Kruger National Park shows that, on average, one chick is raised to adulthood every nine years, with the average adult lifespan being 50 years.
Efforts to conserve the species are being undertaken by various conservation projects, such as the Mabula Ground-Hornbill Project that has been running since 1999 within the Mabula Game Reserve. Conservation of the ground-hornbills often involve the harvesting, and hand-rearing, of second-hatched chicks that would usually die of starvation in their wild nests. Provision of artificial nests where there are none and reintroduction of these birds back into areas where they have become locally extinct form the basis of these projects.
Without a doubt, conservation education and awareness campaigns aimed at the public and rural communities is essential. With the above in mind, we hope that you will spare a thought for some of those species that we sometimes forget.
Find them, enjoy them, conserve them!
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Rene Hell Vanilla Call Option
Emerging from the subterranean murk of American underground cassette culture sometime around the end of […]
Emerging from the subterranean murk of American underground cassette culture sometime around the end of last decade, Rene Hell (a.k.a. Jeff Witscher) has demonstrated a remarkable ability to shapeshift and transform his sound since making the move to Type for his 2010 album, Porcelain Opera. For his latest sideways step, the producer/musician has moved to label-of-the-moment PAN in order to release his notably more minimalist new full-length, Vanilla Call Option. Allegedly inspired by the weightless, placeless experience of travel, the album constitutes a decisive break from Witscher's increasingly elegant, classically leaning string- and synth-based compositions. Instead, Vanilla Call Option opts for an uncompromising musique concrete sound palette, one that's heavy on digital scree, wildly oscillating modular synth tones, and an occasionally suffocating sense of dynamics.
The album was primarily composed in airports, performance spaces, and public libraries, and seems to offer a reflection of those transitory spaces. Vanilla Call Option's production is marked by a crisp fragility, one which seems on the verge of shattering at any moment and evokes the impersonal, alienating design of such public, functional spaces. The album's first track, "Smile Models," has a restless dynamic that is indicative of the release as a whole; opening with harsh, high-pitched noise and the guttural moaning of abused instruments, the piece then shifts into much more ambient territory, which is in turn sporadically interrupted by stuttering synth arpeggios. It's undeniably difficult to get a grip on, but the track nonetheless makes for compelling headphone listening. Another thematic element running through Vanilla Call Option is its interesting deployment of the human voice. On "Unpack; glue," for example, Witscher weaves imposing walls of white noise around muffled, chattering voices, which, barely audible, are rendered mute and asphyxiated. "Var_len" offers a different approach, layering choral vocal gasps alongside oscillating synths and scattered low end. Either way, the results are never short of unnerving.
The processed digital noise found on Vanilla Call Option is an interesting retreat from Witscher's previously warm, often faintly nostalgic sound. However, what Vanilla Call Option lacks in terms of the eminent listenability of the gloopy synth drones and deconstructed techno that characterized previous Rene Hell releases, it makes up for in a compelling conceptual framework and a rich attention to sonic architectures. Witscher has some serious conceptual ambitions, and while there are moments when the album feels slightly undercooked, this dynamic, disorienting record proves that he remains an artist with a considerable degree of promise.


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- 50g (2oz) Farmhouse Cheddar cheese, grated
- 50g (2oz) Double Gloucester cheese, grated
- 250g (9oz) plain flour
- 1 level tablespoon baking powder (use a proper measuring spoon!)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 level tablespoon caster sugar
- 1 level tablespoon chopped fresh chives (optional)
- 1 medium egg
- 240ml (8fl oz) milk
- 90ml (3fl oz) vegetable oil
Preheat the oven to 190°C, 375°F, Gas Mark 5. Put 10 paper muffin cases into a muffin tin.
Mix together the two cheeses on a plate. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar into a large mixing bowl. Stir in about three-quarters of the cheese and all the chives (if using).
Beat together the egg, milk and vegetable oil in a separate bowl. Add to the dry ingredients, stirring until just combined. It is very important not to overmix the ingredients - the batter will be quite lumpy but there should be no dry flour visible.
Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases, then sprinkle the reserved cheese on top. Transfer to the oven and bake for 20 - 25 minutes until light golden brown. Cool for a few minutes, then serve whilst warm.


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Looking for a lawyer that handles Injuries to Children in Austin?
Most of the time, parents are unsure if they are eligible to file personal injury claims on behalf of their children. If your child sustains an injury that results from the negligence of another person, then you are indeed entitled to make such claims for them.
Until the child reaches 18 years of age, parents and/or guardians can file for a compensation claim that is rightfully deserved based on the injuries caused to the child. The parent or guardian will then be referred to as a 'litigation friend.' This litigation friend must be an independent party who was not involved in the accident that caused the injury. For example, a mother who is driving with her child rear-ends another vehicle, resulting in the child being injured, cannot be the one to file for the claim. In this case, the litigation friend may be another parent or guardian, and it will be most likely the insurance company who will cover for the damages sustained both by the mother, the child, as well as the vehicle.
Moreover, the child has up to 3 years by the time he reaches 18 years to make the claim himself, provided that no such claim had been filed previously.
There are several instances wherein a personal injury claim can be filed on the child's behalf:
- Car accident, with the child as a passenger
- Bicycle and motorcycle accidents
- Pedestrian accidents
- Accidents incurred in school, nursery, or at college
- Accidents in amusement parks
- Escalator and elevator accidents
- Product defects that cause injuries
- Dog bites
- Slips and falls
- Swimming pool accidents
- Negligence in the hospital
If such accidents occurred because of the negligence of others, where they did not place proper attention and care which caused the accident, the child's parents and guardians can stand as litigation friends and are legally eligible to make claims for the child who was injured. With the proper compensation received for the damages, any pain and suffering can somehow be alleviated and lifted off the family's shoulders. To file for a claim, it is best that the litigation friend file the case while evidence is still fresh and presentable, and while witnesses can still vividly recall the circumstances surrounding the accident.
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Our children are perhaps our most precious treasures, and we here at The McMinn Law Firm believe that it is never a light matter when our children are injured and harmed just because other parties failed to do their responsibilities. We understand that as parents and guardians, you will do everything just so they can have a life that is comfortable and happy, and that these injuries are not at all acceptable, no matter what the cause may be. We recognize that there are no excuses allowed for such negligence – especially to our children. We can understand how devastating it is to see your child in pain and maybe even traumatized, which causes great agony and sorrow to you and the rest of your family.
Here at The McMinn Law Firm, we have been helping families who are experiencing a difficult time because a child is suffering from an injury. In the rare yet unfortunate occurrence of a wrongful death, all the more we know that there is no amount of compensation or reprieve that can replace the love and presence of a child. But we will still do our best to ensure you seek justice and that liable parties are penalized. Furthermore, we want you to receive the proper compensation to at least help with the other burdens that are bothering you.
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When it comes to our children getting hurt, no offense – light or grave, is a light matter. We work hard to give the best to them, and if it takes one negligent act from another that causes them pain, then it is a battle that should be fought aggressively. We here at the McMinn Law Firm would like to fight this battle with you. To discuss your case, we'd appreciate if you contact us so we can fight this battle together.


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Ontario Highway 5
Highway 5 Route
Current Highway 5 Route Former Highway 5 Route 400 series highways
|Route information
|12.7 km[1] (7.9 mi)
|Major junctions
|West end
|Highway 8 – Dundas
|East end
|Highway 6 – Waterdown
|Major cities
|Hamilton (Waterdown)
|Highway system
King's Highway 5, commonly referred to as Highway 5 and historically as the Dundas Highway, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The east–west highway travels a distance of 12.7 km (7.9 mi) between Highway 8 at Peter's Corners, north of Hamilton, and Highway 6 at Clappison's Corners. Prior to several sections being downloaded to the municipalities in which they reside, Highway 5 served as bypass to Highway 2, connecting with it in both Paris and Toronto, a distance of 114.3 km (71.0 mi).[2]
Highway 5 followed a significant piece of Dundas Street (also called The Governor's Road), one of two routes constructed under the orders of John Graves Simcoe during his short tenure as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, the other being Yonge Street. The route was adopted into the provincial highway system in 1920 and numbered as Highway 5 in 1925.
Route description [ edit ]
Highway 5 serves as a short connector between Highway 8 in the west and Highway 6 in the east, essentially a continuation of Highway 8. This configuration comes as a result of the truncation of both highways by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO). The removed sections were transferred to the jurisdiction of the City of Toronto, the City of Mississauga, the Regional Municipality of Halton, the City of Hamilton, the County of Brant, and Oxford County on January 1, 1998. Until then, Highway 5 followed a large portion of Dundas Street between Toronto and Paris.
The current route of Highway 5 is almost entirely straight and rural. It passes immediately to the north of the Niagara Escarpment, a World Biosphere Reserve. South of the escarpment is the town of Dundas, once a separate settlement that has recently become a suburb of Hamilton. Both lie on the western tip of Lake Ontario.
It begins at the southern end of Highway 8 in Peter's Corners, next to the junction with former Highway 52. To the west, the road is known as Hamilton Regional Road 5 and proceeds towards Paris. Proceeding east, it passes several houses before crossing a ravine. The highway divides a forest, then becomes surrounded by farm fields on either side. It crosses Spencer Creek as it approaches Brock Road. Spencer Creek plunges over the nearby escarpment at Webster's Falls. Continuing, Highway 5 passes north of several new subdivisions and returns to a farmland setting. It passes through the rural hamlet of Rock Chapel, and then curves to the left on its final approach to Highway 6. East of Highway 6, the road becomes Halton Regional Road 5, but is more commonly known as Dundas Street.
History [ edit ]
Original construction [ edit ]
Highway 5 was constructed as northern alternative to Highway 2. The highway's eastern terminus was the intersection of Danforth Avenue and Kingston Road (formerly Highway 2), in the city of Toronto. The highway ran west from that point, along Danforth Avenue and Bloor Street in the city of Toronto and Dundas St. through Etobicoke, Mississauga, Oakville and Burlington. The western terminus was at the intersection of the former Highway 2 in Paris, Ontario.
Original route [ edit ]
From the western terminus in Paris, Ontario, through to the western boundary of Mississauga, the highway was largely a multi-lane rural road. Through Mississauga, the former Highway 5 is named Dundas Street, and is one of the busiest east-west routes in the city of nearly 700,000.
Highway 5 took on a very different description through most of Toronto. It has been described as Toronto's other "Main Street" (with Yonge Street being the primary "Main Street" of Toronto). With a very urban feel, the former highway, through most of the city, is traced underground by the city's main east-west subway line (Bloor-Danforth).
Shift of responsibility [ edit ]
In 1997, responsibility for portions of the highway were transferred from the province to the corresponding municipalities resulting in its current route. The former sections of the highway are now managed by the individual cities, towns, and counties they run through.
Recent development [ edit ]
In September 2012, MTO completed the reconstruction of the three-road junction at Peters Corners, the western terminus of Highway 5, as a roundabout with separate traffic signals for the northern (Westover Road) and southeastern (Hamilton Road 8) arms.
Major intersections [ edit ]
The following table lists cities historically associated with Highway 5 on Ontario's official road maps. Distances are based on the 1930s route.
|mi [3]
|Highway 2 – Windsor
|Peter's Corners
|Highway 8 – Kitchener-Waterloo
|Original 1920s maps list a route via Hagersville and Caledonia, now on Highway 6.
|Clappison's Corners
|Highway 6 – Burlington, Guelph
|Highway 10 – Port Credit, Brampton
|Mile 57.3 on the original 1920s route.
|Highway 11 – Barrie
|Highway 2 – Montreal
|Mile 73.6 on the original 1920s route.
Hwy 5 ended in Toronto, 7.0 miles (11.3 km) east from Bloor/Yonge.
|1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
Only the portion between Highways 6 and 8 remains part of the provincial highway system.
The following table lists the major junctions along Highway 5, as noted by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario.[1] The entire route is located in Hamilton.
|Peter's Corners
|Highway 8 – Cambridge
|Middletown Road
|Brock Gardens
|Regional Road 504 (Brock Road)
|Rock Chapel
|Regional Road 505 (Sydenham Road)
|Regional Road 505 (Millgrove Side Road)
|Rock Chapel Road
|Clappison's Corners
|Highway 6 – Burlington, Guelph
|1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
References [ edit ]
- ^ a b Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (2008). "Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) counts". Government of Ontario. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
- ^ Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (April 1, 1989). Provincial Highways Distance Table. Government of Ontario. pp. 14–15. ISSN 0825-5350.
- ^ 1933 Ontario official road map, Queen's Printer for Ontario, distance chart.
External links [ edit ]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ontario Highway 5.


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The Karaoke Channel was released in December of last year and somehow I totally missed it.
I didn't really become aware of the existence of the game until I saw some Raptr tweetage of "I'm playing Karaoke (360)" from one of my friends. I had to go googling around to find out what it was and talk to some of my other friends who play karaoke style games.
After learning what it was and working to get it downloaded on my xbox (which turned out to be a real pain of trying to find it first of all), I gave it a shot and decided instantly that I really wanted to be able to upload videos from the game. I also have been wanting to write about the game since having played it, but due to recent events (that I honestly am happy for, so I won't complain about it), I haven't really had the time to sit down and write a blog about games as I had/have other priorities.
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FLIGHT, JANUARY 1, 1932 ^Ke hdq/trcj PETRO-FLEX TUBING 'ill \ ARLY experience with internal - IH _^ combustion engines soon III J showed the necessity for a new " conduit " for fuel, that would not be affected by constant vibration. Aircraft fuel systems re quire a tubing with many virtues, in cluding light weight, flexibility, dura bility, strength, and, while permitting an unimpaired flow, it has to remain impervious to any detrimental action of fuel. Petro-Flex tubing has obviously met these conditions if judged from its extensive adoption in aircraft alone. No rubber or rubber-treated material is used in this flexible tubing. It is constructed with an external armour ing, an outer wall, an inner armouring, and a core lining. Thus there are two walls. The inner wall, which carries the fluid, con sists of a natural product chemicallv treated, and is fitted in tubular forma tion, thereby eliminating lateral and transverse joints. The layers are of varying thicknesses to meet pressure and volumetric conditions. A canvas, specially woven, treated and proofed, is used for the outer wall, fitted longi tudinally to eliminate transverse joints. The texture and composition of the internal lining is such that the internal wire which forms the helicallv-wound armouring has practically to be em bedded in it, giving a smooth bore and unimpaired flow. This wire is true, to gauge and solid drawn to give the complete wetted surface a minimum of hydraulic resistance. For the external armouring the wire is of a similar nature, but is so fitted that, while lying well-housed in the tube convolution, it sits proud of the outer canvas, thus forming a protec tive armour against the possibility in service of damage from lough usage or chafing. As the internal and external armour ing are mechanically wound through gearing they are true to pitch, and there is no possibility of unequal stress or local binding when flexed in service. There are over 20 different sizes of Petro-Flex and two classes—Aircraft and Commercial. The inner petrol- resisting lining is similar in both classes, but the outer covering differs in specification and colour. Petro-Flex tubing is manufactured by Petro-Flex Tubing Co., Ltd., Cassiobury Works, St. Albans Road, Watford, and the OUTER WALL 2£!L^Jif °f aeril' nhoto£raPhs for mura» decoration is admirably demonstrated in this view of the new showroom of Aerofllms, Ltd., at Heston Air Port. These photographs are of course their own work. INNER ARMOURING sole selling agents are Hobdell, Way & Co., Ltd., 20, St. Clare Street, Minories, London, E.l. AN AUTOGIRO BULLETIN '"THE Cierva Autogiro Co., of Bush House, Strand, W.C.2, now issue a monthly bulletin which is very in teresting, and contains a large amount of informative matter concerning their products. All those who are in touch with this unorthodox machine should write for a copy, mentioning FLIGHT. MOTHS FOR BRAZILIAN ARMY "THE de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., have recently concluded a contract with the Brazilian Ministry of War for 15 " Moth " type train ing aircraft for their 1932 programme. This has particular significance in the fact that these " Moths " are the first British aircraft to be placed in the Brazilian Army, and were allotted after comparison with seven other types put forward by four different nations. The new military training type " Moth " fulfils all the desideratum of economical training. The light and economical Gipsy engine of 120 h.p. EXTERNAL ARMOURING has a world-wide service organisation behind it, as the de Havilland over seas factories and agents hold adequate stocks of spare parts. The programme of Brazilian train ing includes night flying, " blind " flying, wireless operation, gunnery practice, bomb dropping and photo graphy, all of which duties may be accomplished on the 15 machines to be supplied by fitting the various military gear, as alternatives, when required. The machines will be equipped for inverted flying, which will be carried out also during display work, similar to the Royal Air Force at Hendon. It will, therefore, be seen that many new British units of equip ment also will be introduced into this important market, as, apart from the actual machines, cameras and wireless gear, etc., will be supplied from this country. The de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., have also supplied similar machines recently to the Governments of Por tugal, Sweden, China, Iraq and Egypt. A.S.T. DEVELOPMENTS 0T CORE LI M INI C A TYPICAL OF PBTRO- SE-CTION FLEX |UT of the ordinary in brochures is the new issue by Air Service Training, Ltd. (of Hamble, Southamp ton), which gives very full details of all the courses of flying instruction to be had. Just published, it contains details of the Air Ministry flying tests under all categories. The type of in struction given at a school like this is probably unequalled anywhere in the world, and this view is borne out by the large number of pupils who have come from abroad. Particularly in teresting are the courses of instruction in night and blind flying, and those for flving instructors. 17
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Connect is an easy to use Electronic Point of Sale EPoS system for independent retailers.
It is built to incorporate multichannel sales, so if you also sell online or on marketplaces you can manage stock centrally with multichannel EPoS software.
Explore the versatility of Connect EPoS now.
Connect EPoS system has these benefits built in to help you, the independent retailer, make the most of your business.
Anyone who has worked in a shop and operated a cash register can use the Connect EPoS till. Yet you get powerful features like management of special orders, deposits, and back orders. With instant visibility of stock at any location (even on back order), and bar-coded receipts to reduce theft from returns, Connect converts a till into a great tool for your staff.
Most retailers say that an EPoS system makes the store look more professional and gives customers greater confidence in the business. Connect EPoS also helps your staff sell more as the visual stock tree makes it quick to find information on items, as well as locate products and find alternatives.
Promotions give your customers another reason for coming back. Varieties of promotions are available in a couple of clicks. They keep the shop vibrant and make the shop an interesting place to visit and to work in. Staff and customers will be happier. You can also run customer loyalty programs direct from the EPoS till. As well as improving loyalty, a customer list is a valuable asset in your business.
Thomas and Lucia is a successful retail shop based in the New Forest, they have a beautiful shop and comparable eCommerce website selling products for every room in the home and garden. This video shows why Matthew and Sue chose Connect multichannel retail system to run their shop and website from the start, and have not looked back.
Since starting Connect 2 years ago, we have seen our highest ever recorded growth.
In the four months since we have had the system it is already keeping costs down, it's fantastic.
We are so impressed with the Connect Retail system, we all think it's brilliant!
Many retailers have grown their businesses with us, some from 1 to 3 and some from 5 to 35 plus stores. You can add on features to our EPoS system to help manage your multiple store retail business more easily.
If you do intend to run a website alongside your shop, Connect EPoS makes eCommerce easier. Designed as an EPoS eCommerce platform you can control your own Connect website or link in an existing website. We also have support for popular platforms like Magento or WooCommerce via a web service link. Want to sell on marketplaces eBay and Amazon? These can be controlled via your EPoS as well. Connect Multichannel EPoS helps you manage all your stock from one place using simple 'drag and drop', making it easier.
The most common reason for buying EPoS is stock control and sales reports. Connect has the innovative 'Visual Stock Tree' to give you instant visibility of stock and powerful sales reports whether you need to see a single item, a group, a department or your whole stock!
Stocking the right products at the right time is essential for all retailers. With Connect you can set minimum and maximum levels but most of our retailers also use the built-in 'Intelligent Sales Analysis' to see which products are performing best… and worst. This helps them order the right products at the right time, and keeps money tied up in stock to an absolute minimum.
The Connect EPoS System calculates VAT on a product level. At the end of each financial period just click a button and the accounts information is provided for you to send to your accountant or use in any accounts package. This saves hours so you can get on with something more useful!
Simple financial operations and a simple 'paper' trail for your store and website all in one system. Your 'X' reports can be produced for any period. For example, for the Day to Date, Week, Month or Quarter. 'Z' reports are produced by category and payment type along with a VAT breakdown ready to be given straight to your book keeper. These can be done across all channels, separately or together.
In Connect, stock replenishment is designed the way smaller retailers really want it to work. Quick and simple yet flexible. Connect has an intelligent reorder engine that analyses sales flow as well as minimum stock quantities to suggest a reorder profile for you. Then you can print off orders for each supplier in a click. It's that fast.
All your customer information is held in one central place, whether they buy via the till, mail order or via your website. It is so easy to search and locate a customer. Also it is very easy to add a new customer with Post Code lookup facility.
Use filters to create marketing lists and email or mail your offers out to them. Demographic information is available with marketing opt-in for data protection. This is useful for supporting mail and email campaigns.
Many retailers sell to some trades or businesses. In Connect you can set them up with the right level of VAT, you can give credit terms and set a customer discount. You can also sort the customer list by; balance outstanding or debt age for accounts purposes. These can then be run as reports to chase debts, direct from your EPoS.
A wide variety of reports are available in the EPoS software. The clever and unique thing is that you can run them from any part of the Visual Stock Tree, so drill in to a specific area of your business, or zoom out for a more general look at performance. There are also reports that are vital for a retailer, like shop floor replenishment, stock holding reports and supplier league tables. Each report can be run over a specific time period. All results can be printed in a PDF or Excel spreadsheet format.
Flight deck is an instant, visual look at business performance. Just select from the drop down list of what, when and who and a graph or list will appear in one of the four consoles. Options include profitability, revenue, staff or product analysis by individual location, staff or the whole business.
Manage all aspects of your product from one simple area. Add an image and Connect will size it for your Retail system and your website, so you can see the image anywhere.
Connect makes managing groups of products easy. In the Visual Stock Tree is a filter which allows you to select groups of products fast. For example, select a supplier from a drop down list and only their articles will be displayed. You can add to this a word to refine the list further. Once filtered you can manipulate just those selected articles for example; run reports, apply discounts or do a stock take. Connects Mass Price Changer allows you to alter costs and prices in a couple of clicks.
With Tags you can give characteristics to your items and customers. You can then report on these characteristics giving you a highly flexible way to view your business.
Connect supports features for large stores or warehouses including 'Location' for each item as well as barcode tracking of all items. The Connect Fulfilment Centre has a suite of functions specific to warehousing.
Having been in retail systems for over a decade, we believe that the architecture of Connect is second to none. Taking advantage of the Internet for real time communication means you can get up to date reports and manage the business from anywhere with a Connect license in Glasgow or London. On the other hand, the tills are self-contained so they do not rely on the Internet to work, making them highly reliable.
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Omni Hotels & Resorts is excited to unveil the rooms for the Atlanta Braves-inspired Omni Hotel At The Battery Atlanta! The luxurious property, scheduled to open early 2018, will be a full-service hotel and serve as a cornerstone of the mixed-use community adjacent to SunTrust Park, future home of the Atlanta Braves.
The Omni Hotel at The Battery Atlanta will have 264 finely appointed guest rooms, inclusive of 28 luxurious suites, and will have more than 12,000 square feet of meeting and event space. The property is currently taking future reservations for meetings and events. Interested parties may visit www.omnihotels.com/hotels/atlanta-battery for more information.
Upon room entry, guests will notice the large headboard and bench, both with tufted upholstery inspired by the materials used in baseball gloves. Crisp white bedding with clean horizontal red lining at the foot of the bed – similar to the Atlanta Braves color scheme. In addition, each guest room will feature one of two pieces of artwork:
- A deconstructed baseball outlining the state of Georgia, or
- the quote, "The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting," from the legendary Hank Aaron.
This project is the latest in a long line of unique partnerships Omni has forged to develop high-profile mixed used developments adjacent to iconic attractions. The partnership is a 50-50 venture between Omni and the Atlanta Braves organization.
Some other unique partnerships include:
• Omni San Diego Hotel / PETCO Park
• Omni Frisco Hotel / The Star
• Omni Nashville Hotel / Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
• Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center / College Football Hall of Fame


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Many of us would love undeniable proof that evolution is a lie. We soak up the evidences for a young earth and a young universe. We thrill to strong arguments for God's existence. We dream of the day someone finds a dinosaur living in some remote jungle. We just know that the right evidence will silence Christianity's critics once and for all.
There is no excuse for denying creation's witness.
But there is no excuse for denying creation's witness (Romans 1:18–21), and in fact, more solid proof is already in our hands. God's Word, the Bible is living and powerful (Hebrews 4:12). As would be expected from a holy God, His Word has stood the test of time. It has been proved reliable again and again—in its historical accuracy, fulfilled prophecy, and the revolutionized lives of Christ's followers.
If the goal of our apologetics is somehow to silence all skeptics with proofs outside the Bible, we are on the wrong track. God has given the world a witness with unmatchable power to convict hearts, His Word; and the Holy Spirit is at work convicting sinners of their disobedience to that Word. The sinner's problem is one not simply of the head but also of the heart. We don't have within ourselves the power to change hearts; the strength comes from God. Our most important line of argument is the Bible itself. And all the logic in the world won't convict a willful sinner unless the Holy Spirit works in his or her heart.
So why even bother with apologetics? Apologetics is God's chosen tool for His children to help others recognize the truth of Scripture. As we follow the biblical command to be ready always to give a defense of the faith (1 Peter 3:15), God can use our words to help others see the blinders that Satan has put on their minds (2 Corinthians 4:4; Acts 17:19–34). God meant for the truth about the Bible to be shared in person (Acts 2:14–41; 16:29–33).
Salvation is supernatural. If we count on our reasoning ability to convince skeptics, we will be discouraged. That applies to our own hearts as well. If we depend on evidences outside the Bible to strengthen our faith, we can be shaken every time another argument comes along that seems to undermine the Bible. We need to make sure our trust rests in the God who gave us Scripture, not human arguments that question His Word. Knowledge begins with the fear of God and His Word (Proverbs 1:7). A person who knows the risen Christ as Creator and Savior does not need a constant stream of scientific evidence to keep his faith. Are you trusting in Jesus Christ or in your own reasoning?


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Can a Tiny Weatherproof Solar Light Bulb Replace Kerosene Lights?
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One small solar lightbulb is looking to be the solution to replace billions of polluting kerosene lamps. According to the Nokero Solar Light Bulb manufacturers, over 1.6 billion people still use fuel-burning devices to get illumination, most of that in the form of kerosene. Fuel lanterns emit 190 million tons of carbon dioxide into the air each year. Yet this little bulb with four small solar panels attached purportedly provides five times the light of kerosene lamps while using 1/200th the energy consumption. It could be a very interesting solution, if it weren't for two substantial problems with the design. First off, we love how compact the bulb is, and how it incorporates solar panels. It can easily be hung from a hook outside the house for daytime charging and then hung anywhere it is needed inside. It also uses five LEDs, which offers plenty of light even from this small bulb. However, there are a couple issues.
Unpluggd writes, "The Nokero solar light bulb isn't going to win any design beauty contests, " and while that's true, it's not the main problems.
First, the bulb only provides two hours of light for one typical daily charge. It can offer as much as four hours of light for a full charge, but that's only if you're letting it charge for two or more days. Two hours of light might be enough during the summer, when there are plenty of hours of natural light, but during the winter or in places that get less light, families would need to have a handful of these just to have a light through the evening. That isn't really a replacement for fuel-burning lanterns.
Also, the bulb only offers "two-plus years of battery life." A light that only lasts around two years? For people living in developing nations? That is definitely not long-lasting enough.
The concept for the bulb is fantastic. We adore designs that are intended to provide sustainable solutions for significant problems, like burning dirty fuel for lighting. But this one kind of misses the mark in some important ways.
However, if you like the idea and think that this could be handy for you on camping trips or other situations, they're priced at $15 each and go down to $10 when you buy in bulk.
UPDATE: Tom Boyd from Nokero wrote in with some extra facts that bolster the argument for the usefulness of this little bulb. He states:
The average use of a kerosene lantern is 1.5 hours according to a study for the United Nations, available here: http://light.lbl.gov/pubs/tr/lumina-tr5.pdf (page 20 footnote). Therefore a solar light lasting 2 hours should be sufficient to replace, if not severely reduce the use of, a kerosene lantern.
The battery is replaceable and inexpensive, which means the light can last much longer than 2 years ... the solar panels are rated to last 10 years and the LEDs last between 50,000 to 100,000 hours. So the life of the bulb is something more like 5-10 years.
If true, then perhaps this Solar LED bulb from Nokero can replace kerosene lamps in a viable way. And that is a very, very good thing.
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Mark Schneider is one of the co-founders of The Elator in 2008. Mark was not only instrumental as the driving force to the growth of the company but also instrumental in the development of all the video's, brochures, manuals and promotional materials. Mark is passionate about natural health and providing an all natural ED device for those couples who have tried other products and found them to be risky or ineffective.
As CEO, Mark is leading The Elator transformation to become a world class Erectile Dysfunction solution company. Mark is very comfortable talking about sexuality and positive effects of staying sexual even in our later years. Mark has been interviewed by various TV and Radio stations including Playboy Radio and HBO. Mark is happy to answer any questions you may have... feel free to call him anytime.
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Lisa Schneider is one of the co-founders of The Elator in 2008.
Lisa has over a decade of sales leadership experience in managing sales channels and niche product sales in various industries. Lisa is instrumental to the success of The Elators global sales, including strategic sales, direct sales, and channel sales. She has a contagious positive spirit with extensive knowledge, experience, & relentless determination in building trusting business relationships. Lisa holds a Bachelor in Business Communication from California State Fullerton.
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Calvin has been with The Elator since its inception. Calvin has proven to be not only an excellent customer service representative but also a passionate spokesperson for health, happiness and the importance of intimacy among couples.
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Aaron Morgan joined the Elator in 2009. Aaron is The Elators key resource to ensuring our customer's shipment of goods are spot on 100%. This means that orders are shipped without errors and packages are delivered in perfect condition with each and every delivery. This is why Aaron is was appointed for the day to day operations of our shipping and receiving departments including packaging, freight schedules, and deliveries. Aaron oversees communication with trucking and other shipping companies for efficient and timely pickups/deliveries. Aaron is critical to the success to ensure that accurate inventory cycles counts are maintained and that our customer's needs are met. Aaron is exceptional at being at the forefront of our productive shipping department.
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Carol Yaji brings over 20 years of accounting and human resource management expertise to The Elator. Carol joined the Elator team in 2009 as Manager of Accounting. Carol is responsible for The Elators accounts payables and receivables. She is a leading strength for The Elators financial transactions for our Vendors, Partners, and Customers.
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I was extremely depressed at the lack of intimacy I could offer my wife (we had a very good sex life for 30+ years of marriage) and the possibility that things would never be the same again.
Your product, literally, saved me and us. Regardless of whether I can obtain any kind of erection The Elator WORKS. My wife and I both cried the first time I used the device and we were able to have intercourse for the first time in 3 years!
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Thank you for helping me find the huge part of our relationship again!"
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I have tried the Elator for the first time a few days ago, I have found that this Elator is wonderful and worth its cost, It deserves 5 stars rating. It has solved all my problems, Life now is better than before. I will leave all the medicines I used to use before. I also used the premium silicone it is wonder full too and it lasts a very good period with a better performance.
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I would just like to say that i have explored most of the possibilities of a cure for ED. i do not like the drug option because of expense and potential health risk. i am at risk for cardio vascular disease and thus heart attack because of my family history. in fact, my brother had a heart attack which was partially due to taking viagra. so one day, several years ago i accidently discovered the elator as a result of a online search via google. i decided to order the elator and give it a chance. i was not disappointed with the results. not only does the elator cure e.d. but it also allows a man to last as long as necessary in order to bring his partner to MULTIBLE orgasms. also, the elator allows a man to have sex with his partner as many times as her heart desires!! basicly, the elator transforms an average man into a super stud! i kid you not folks. any man who is having difficulty in the bedroom owes it to himself and his partner to aquire the elator. it is a life changing device. the look in your womans eyes after you fulfill her needs in the bedroom with use of the elator is priceless! the most importent thing when ordering the elator is proper sizing...it is critical. so be sure to order the measuring kit from theelator.com. good luck and happy trails.
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I suffer from Peyronie's condition (quite a marked curvature of the penis once erect) after a prostatectomy operation undergone several years ago. The Elator not only rectifies this condition, but my wife says she feels no discomfort while I am using it.
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Mahodand Lake is a lake located in the upper Usho Valley at a distance of about 40 km from Kalam, Swat District and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwestern Pakistan. The lake is accessible by a four-wheel drive vehicle, and is often utilized for fishing and boating.
During the winter, the Mahodand lake freezes and is covered by heavy snow. In the summers, the basin of the lake is surrounded by a sheet of alpine flowers like geum, blue poppy, potentilla and gentian. Apart from it, the lake is encircled by diverse pinus species which serves as abode for wild birds. Similarly, the lake contains abounding trout fishes, which furnish ideal opportunity for angling, but catching is allowed only to the licensed anglers.
The Mahodand Lake lies at the foothills of Hindu kush mountains at an elevation of (9,603 ft), surrounded by the meadows, mountains and dense forests. Similarly, the banks of Mahodand Lake are covered by pines and pastures that serve as a camping site during the summer.
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Not coincidentally, Gov. Haley Barbour is currently on tour to promote the book he co-wrote with Democratic strategist Jere Nash.
While Barbour apparently calls the Port of Gulfport the "one that got away," the truth is, the project stands with other shining beacons of the "Haley Barbour Victory Tour"—Silicor, Kior, Twin Creeks, HCL Cleantech—as corporate-welfare projects that failed to deliver on Barbour's empty trickle-down promises of jobs and prosperity.
Hurricane Katrina offered Barbour (and others) a real opportunity to lead on housing, education and opportunity in the so-called opportunity zones; with his stronghold on Mississippi politics, he could easily have creating stability and opportunity by fully funding public education and expanding health care to the state's citizens during his eight-year political career.
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Instead, he spent that time crafting his reputation as Mississippi's Corporate Welfare King, writing checks to business buddies that were payable by the Mississippi treasury. (Oh … and getting the coast casinos back open on dry land.)
As we celebrate the heroes of Katrina and remember those who lost a great deal in its wake here and in Louisiana, let's remember to put Haley Barbour in his correct slot in history, even if it's not the one he's trying to write for himself.