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Dawn McGee attended Villanova University and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and a minor in Psychology. She then went on to obtain her Master of Science degree in Genetic Counseling at Arcadia University. During her genetic counseling training, Dawn completed her thesis research on the experiences of caregivers living with a spouse diagnosed with Huntington's disease. After graduate school, Dawn worked for two years at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina. She worked primarily as a prenatal genetic counselor; however, she also provided genetic counseling services in the cancer center and the intensive care nursery. While in Charlotte, Dawn formed a monthly support group for families with Huntington's disease and became a board member of the North Carolina Chapter of the Huntington's Disease Society of America. She was the Director of the Alpha-1 Association Genetic Counseling Center up until 2012.
Robert "Sandy" Sandhaus graduated from Haverford College in Pennsylvania with a degree in molecular biology. He then received a PhD in cell biology and an MD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and a pulmonary fellowship at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He was then appointed to the UCSF medical faculty and subsequently joined the medical faulty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1981 where he founded the Alpha1-Antitrypsin Deficiency Program at National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver and remains its director. His research throughout his academic career has centered on the role of white blood cell enzymes in the prevention and promotion of lung disease. This work led to a special clinical interest in patients with the genetic deficiency of alpha-1 antitrypsin. In addition to his ongoing academic career. Dr. Sandhaus briefly left medical practice to work in research and development in the biopharmaceutical industry. He ran clinical development programs at Cortech, NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, and Gilead Sciences. Dr. Sandhaus has served on the Boards of Directors of the Alpha-1 Association, the Alpha-1 Foundation, AlphaNet, and the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation. For the past five years, he has been the Executive Vice President and Medical Director of AlphaNet and the Clinical Director of the Alpha-1 Foundation. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease, and critical care medicine. He lives in Bow Mar, Colorado.
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Sirius and Ganton Academy is a dynamic 21st century learning environment created to accommodate state-of-the-art facilities in Hull. It is also the UK's first academy to be constructed using Technal's revolutionary low rise glazing system.
Designed by Aedas and built by Balfour Beatty Construction, this £48m Hull National Academies Framework project has replaced Pickering High School and Ganton Special School.
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This visionary new education campus provides an inclusive, student-centred community that includes a 1,650-place academy, specialist support for 40 pupils with visual and hearing impairments, and a special school for 88 pupils with special needs.
Around 4,000sqm of Technal's MODAL aluminium low rise façade system have been used across the campus – the largest application of this innovative new product in the UK to date.
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Finished in grey with grey glass and contrasting white windows, MODAL features on every elevation of this oval-shaped building, both as fixed lights and with a slim integral opening vent to minimise sight lines. Vertical aerofoil caps provide shade from the sun and Technal's robust GXi balcony door which is fully integrated with MODAL, was also specified.
MODAL is a rapid-build façade system – and is the first in the UK to offer integral opening vents. It has an innovative modular design, which reduces work on site, installation time, and gives specifiers a much wider choice of configuration options.
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This member-submitted tip outlines the steps for partitioning your servers.
- For the first partition, just boot partition with either of Win95 or Win98 installed with minimum options installed. I mean just network card drivers to have network access, no video drivers no other softwares, not even Internet Explorer. The size of the partition depends on the size of the hard disk, but, for example, if you have 20 GB HDD, 1 GB should be enough for this partition. After installation, never touch this partition. The main purpose of this partition with Win95/98 is to keep it as a backup operating system. You should keep the dump of Win95/98 (whichever you install) and your LAN card drivers on the same drive.
- The next partition should be where you will install your primary operating system, for example NT server or Win2k server. Obviously, from the Win95 or 98 you should start installing the NT or win2k. The size depends on the number of applications that you will install on the server. This is for the additional files that the applications put into the system32 directory. And not for the applications themselves. The applications should be on a partition different from that of the OS. I think 4 GB should do for the partition of OS in most cases, and I recommend that it should be kept on FAT file system. The reason behind this is that in case the OS crashes, you can go back to the Win95 or 98. From there you can access the system files of your primary OS since it is on a FAT partition which is accesible from win9x. Security on system files can be maintained by NOT sharing that drive.
- The next partition should be for applications. All the applications should be installed on this partition, so the size depends on the requirements of your applications as well as future growth. This partition should be kept NTFS for applications performance to be first priority.
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The email in our school is IMAP. I really don't like it, because I want to delete some old messages and at the same time keep them in the local folder as the size of the mail box is not big. I just don't like synchronization...
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Our Mission at Portico is to honor diversity, build community and create a lifestyle that promotes the health and well-being of our planet. We bring integrity and trust into the real estate profession while creating tremendously satisfying and fulfilling lifelong relationships with the people in our community.
There are thousands of real estate agents in Montana, why choose one from Portico Real Estate? Portico is a small real estate firm that has goals beyond selling homes. We want to see Missoula and the world be a better, more peaceful place that celebrates diversity, love and living. All of us at Portico strive to give back to the community of Missoula by volunteering in numerous local organizations that maintain the health, beauty, quality of life and well being of this area and its environment. We all have vast personal and spiritual investments and attachments to this area.
Portico Real Estate agents make up a diverse crowd. We range in age, We come from the East, West, Mid-West and right here in Montana. We are single, married, with and without children. We are straight and gay/lesbian. We are artists, runners, hikers, progressive, activists, bikers, fishermen, environmentalists, skiers, kayakers, pacifists, animal advocates, singers and spiritual. We all have a vision of a better world where everyone is equally valuable. We live here because we love the strong sense of community that Missoula has to offer. Though we are diverse in our activities and skill levels, we all find it easy to get out and enjoy the great outdoors all year long. There is always an event going on and opportunities for you to become involved. We are a welcoming town.
So we would welcome you to find a home here and to bring what you have to offer to our community. Missoula has numerous types of property to offer. Whether you are looking for a house, ranch, farm, condo or townhouse; on a city lot or on several acres; residential, commercial, investment or recreational; old, historic or new; waterfront, riverfront or lakefront; little or lots of square footage, one or six bedrooms and bathrooms, we will do our best to help you find the home that you desire..
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I have been using so far for glide wax Swix Universal F4 (ironed). However, I have heard it wasn't hard enough for temperature below -10. I think the official range is -10 to + 10 or something like that.
While the range I am looking for is actually -5 to -15 (for my classic skis). If the temperature is above -5 deg C, then I do skate skiing (for which the Swix F4 should work just fine)
I am waxing my skis almost before every session, but 1-2 day before and from home. This is why I would a like a "universal" kind of wax with a wide range.
I was leaning toward the Swix Unviversal Cold. However, the ironing temperature is said to be 120 deg C. Which is fairly low (actually the same as the F4). So I am wondering if this is a decent a good cold wax ?
And how does it compare to CH6 or CH5 which require an Iron of 140-150 deg C (which is riskier and thus more technical to apply) ?
Do you think it will give better performance than F4 for this range of -5 to -15?
Do you know other good alternatives (from Start, Toko, etc) ?
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Rachel Bilson is the cutest thing ever. I love her style. (I have so many Pinterest inspiration clippings of her that I'm really surprised this is my first post with her in it.) I love the pairing of the coral color with the suit jacket and pumps. It's sophisticated and young at the same time. I would wear this to all sorts of dinner events from work to dates to meeting the in-laws – it works for a lot of different evening dining situations.
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At City Year, we believe education has the power to help every child reach his or her potential. However, in high-poverty communities there are external factors and obstacles students are faced with every day that can interfere with their ability to get to school ready to learn.
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In 1992, Marie-Louise Ramsdale, Harvard Law student, attended a City Year event. Inspired, she wrote a two-page proposal to bring City Year to South Carolina. The next year, her dream was realized. Since then, we've mentored more than 40,000 students in Columbia, and along the way, we measured our success.
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In Columbia, many children grow up in the midst of poverty, causing them to fall behind in school. But 24 highly skilled City Year AmeriCorps members are working to turn this around.
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An interesting ecotourism adventure is rafting down a river on a raft made of guadua. (The guadua is a thick bamboo cane very common in Colombia.) Become acquainted with this interesting tourism and adventure option in the center of the country, near the boundary of the Coffee Region with the department of Valle del Cauca.
This is where nature lovers can come into direct contact with water, since the region offers the excellent nature and adventure tourism option of river rafting.
The rafts, or (champalas (as the Indians used to call them), are the traditional means of transportation once used by the Quimbaya Indians who inhabited the area before the Spanish Conquest. They used them for transporting people and food.
The Name of the River
Legend tells us that many years ago there was a beautiful Indian queen by the name of Guacamarintia. The Indians used to flatter her and give her objects made of gold: armbands, necklaces, ear lugs, and ribbons, totaling in weight 800 castellanos (1 castellano equals 8.6 grams)
One day, a group of Spanish men stole her belongings and threw the body of the woman into the river. In great pain, the Indians asked nearby tribes for assistance in building rafts to navigate the river in her search. After several days, her wrinkled body was found in a site called Piedras de Moler. They named the river "the river of our old woman". In Spanish, it is known today as "Río de la Vieja".
Tour of La Vieja River
The tour begins at Puerto Alejandría, in Quimbaya (Coffee Region), where one arrives from Armenia in the famous 4-wheel drive vehicle used to transport coffee, the Willys Jeep. Tourists navigate about twelve kilometers down the river – about five hours. The tour ends at Piedras de Moler, between Alcalá and Cartago (northern part of the department of Valle del Cauca).
The region's flora may be observed along the entire route, especially trees like caracolíes (Anacardium), laurels, guamos (Crudia), ceibas (Bombacopsis), cauchos (Ficus), etc. White, blue, and black herons, hawks, parrots, ant-eaters, tigers, armadillos, panthers, and boas stand out among the fauna.
It is also possible to raft at night under the light of the stars and a full moon while listening to the songs of crickets and cicadas. Sometimes the guides invite musicians and story-tellers, depending on the interest of the particular passengers. However, they may prefer to travel in silence listening to the sounds of nature and relaxing in the river atmosphere.
La Vieja River
Photo by: Mario Carvajal
Rafting on La Vieja River guarantees a lovely afternoon amid the sun, the water, and the intense green of nature.
A raft is an excellent means of transportation for the relatively slow flow of the river. Some parts of the river have depths of eight to ten meters; others range between one and five meters. Still others may have depths of forty meters. In several places, the boga (the oarsman and guide) lets tourists swim in the rapids and whirlpools reminding them always that they must wear life vests.
Rafting is not only a recreational and adventure activity, but also a way to discover and explore the river.
The Rafts
The rafts of La Vieja River are a very safe means of transportation. They are made from guadua and reinforced by a pipe on each side. Passengers sit on wooden benches.
The safety of the raft is also guaranteed by the boga, who is always someone who knows the river perfectly – its currents, rocks, and shallow and deep parts – and steers the raft with a guadua cane several meters long.
Each raft is constructed with 17 guadua canes (depending on the number of people, canes are added or removed) and is 9 meters long and 2.5 meters wide. Maximum capacity is 12 to 15 people.
The traditional fiambre -a light lunch - consists of rice, cassava, boiled potatoes, and chicken thighs, wrapped in congo and banana leaves to impart a special taste.
Practical Information
- The price includes land travel by Willys Jeep from Armenia to Quimbaya, life vest, insurance, guide, and a light lunch.
- Passengers must be at least four years old.
- Please remember to wear light clothing and take swimwear, a water-proof jacket, water shoes, and a change of clothes for the end of the trip.
- Sun block, dark glasses, hats, caps, and extra clothes are also recommended.


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It looks like one of the boys from the group 'NSync can be called as a hero and this is a great thing when it comes for him to find a potential woman that could be called as J. C. Chasez girlfriend, because at the moment there is no one special in his life that he could share everything with. It looks like he has gotten a lot of attention because of one of his brave acts, because he saved a kids life and this was really heroic. It looks like he was hanging out in Miami in a beach on New Year's Day and he saw that there is a helicopter close to the ground and there sat a family together with a child. It looks like the girl was under a big umbrella so she did not see the trouble coming and this was when he stepped in so he has earned a lot of respect from media and people also for doing this thing and a potential J. C Chasez girlfriend should be happy about him as soon as he is going to find one.
And the current J. C. Chasez girlfriend is – Single
It looks like when he was on the beach and saving that girl he was together with J. C. Chasez girlfriend because firstly they were taking to this girl and her mother states that they were nice and polite people and that they enjoyed talking all together. The mother of that girl also stated that she is from Italy so she did not know who the singer was and he called her daughter nicely so he was really adorable just as J. C. Chasez girlfriend. It looks like he protected the girl, when a helicopter flied passed them it made a big wind and the umbrella that they were sitting under got in the air and almost hit her daughter but the singer got in the way and protected them so he is like a hero to them and they both are thankful for him.
Thus it looks like the former J. C. Chasez girlfriend was not impressed enough because he is single at the moment. Thus e has had plenty of women in the past and it looks like he has even been married and has a child, so he should be a perfect father for his child, because apparently he loves children and knows how to protect them.


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I am wondering what everybody MERV shock setup is? Which springs and oil weight do you use?
I run the Black & Tan springs with 60wt oil...it could use heavier weight oil in the back though but then again you gotta think the higher it sits the easier its gonna roll over
* "If it ain't broke, your doin it wrong" *
Thank Devildog.
The oil weight slows the chassis or stops it from slapping the ground, higher the # weight the thick and in turn stiffer the feel. The springs and adjustment ring decide how high/low the ride height and aids in the shocks rebound. So you find a sweet spot ....oil that's thick enough to stall the impact but still let shocks rebound matched by spring that lifts the truck to your hight with out adding bounce from to much rebound.
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So I am using the stock springs in my brushed MERV, tan and black I think. I have set my preload to acheive my desired ride height, but I noticed that when the springs are compressed they dont return my merv to my desired height. Do I need to get stiffer springs? Or change the oil? I do know that the cold weather does changed the viscosity of oil. I am also using long travel rockers. Any advice would be awesome.
U need stiffer springs if u have the stock springs they are green springs all the way around get some tan an black springs with 60 or 70 wieght oil an u should be at a good starting point on ur handling
I'm using the black springs all the way around with 80wt shock oil. The car will most likely never rebound to its maximum ride height, it's best for the suspension to sit at about 2/3 the max height. Shock oil will not affect the ride height, it's simply a shock dampener, but the spring/preload adjustment will affect the ride height.
What are the stiffest springs available? I've seen black and double black on ebay as well, what's the difference? thanks
Anybody got a link for a spring rate chart that is color coded?
You can get the summit springs, do a ebay search for '1/16 summit springs' i think they are 2.77-3.2 rate.
I'm know there are other stiffer ones but I have just never looked.e
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So correction, I only have a MER!!!! (Mini E Rev) So Im have tan springs in the front, and black springs in the back. So if Im understanding correctly, the oil helps to dampen any bumps, the springs raise the ride height back to 2/3 of the preload. But one thing I dont figure out is how the spring rate is figured out, and what the figures mean. If you want a higher number or a lower number. Im guessing it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. What is the stock oil weight in the springs?
Thanks guys,
i run ace hardware springs and 5000 wt diff oil
whats the benefit to "ace hardware" springs?


text: No recent wiki edits to this page. The conclusion to the 4-part "The Wolf Beneath the Tree." Lucifer, Michael and Elaine have pursued Fenris, god of destruction, to the roots of the world-tree to head off the end of all Creation - but their plans come to nothing when Fenris enlists one of them as an ally.At the roots of Yggdrasil, Charlie Gilmour stands, sword thrust into his only remaining hand, thoughts race through his head as he stares upon the wife and son he thought were dead. Fenris whispers into his ear, to kill them, just as he had nearly done before, Charlie is confused and wonders why he must do this. Fenris explains that the slaughtering of kin is Fyrir Haft, "the first and worst of all crimes, the breach through which nature bleeds." The Wolf continues to coax Charlie, ordering him to slaughter his family, being sure to spray their blood upon the roots of the tree so that the end of creation will be assured.The Trickster interrupts Fenris, alerting him to the presence of the angels they had seen earlier but The Wolf tells Abonsam he could already sense them, their sweat and their blood, for they had lost a lot of blood, the journey had taken its toll on them. So The Wolf turns from Yggdrasil, heading in the direction of the fallen angels, without looking back he speaks to Bet Jo'gie, ordering her to convince Charlie to slay his family, no matter what it means for her. He then calls Abonsam to come with him, for once, a long time ago, Abonsam had eaten the meats of The Wolf's table, drank his wines -the flesh and blood of Fenris- and Abonsam had done it, all of it, in preparation for this day. Bet Jo'gie than returns her attention to the one-armed Charlie, clasping his fingers around the hilt of the sword, as the two stand beside Sarah and Bobby, motionless as they rest in the roots of the tree, she speaks to him, "Come on, sweetheart. You've got work to do."Not far from the tree Elaine is poised over a heavily injured Lucifer, turning him over onto his back, she begs him to wake up for she is no longer able to see and needs him to tell her what to do or for that matter if they have even arrived at Yggdrasil. Fenris and Abonsam approach, needing no disguises for Elaine could not see them anyway, Abonsam calls out to her, "Your friends are hurt. Can we do aught to help?" Elaine wonders at their identity, as would anyone and asks for their names. Abonsam deceitfully identifies himself and Fenris as pilgrims heading to Yggdrasil who go by the names of Sceorfan and the holy man, Berumir and it is then that Elaine confirms her blindness by telling the two she is unable to see them.Abonsam and Fenris come closer until they are looking down on her and Lucifer from where they stand and once again The Trickster speaks describing the appearance of Lucifer to her and then telling her that the fountain just ahead has waters with healing properties. Elaine looks towards his voice and asks "Sceorfan" if he could please bring her some of the water for Lucifer could not die, he must reach the tree and so Abonsam says he'll go fetch it with his hands and as he and Fenris walk a little ways away from her, Elaine's begging for him to hurry follow them and Abonsam replies, "Doubt me not." With that the mighty Fenris slashes Abonsam's chest, opening several wounds with but a single swipe.Elaine than speaks up again calling out Sceorfan's name, questioning him for the identity of the sound she just heard, the sound of Fenris ripping The Trickster's body open. Abonsam replies, his voice with less power behind it, weakened by the strike, "Nothing. It was -- nothing." Still weak he walks up to Elaine and tells her to cup her hands and receive the water he has. She does so and the blood from his chest pours into them, at first Elaine seems surprised as she notices the water feels warm, like -- but before she can identify the substance she is interrupted by "Sceorfan" who tells her to quickly drip into into his mouth, lest he die right then and there. She does so without anymore questions, letting the blood fall as Abonsam collapses and lays face down beside her and Fenris simply watches.The blood spills onto Lucifer's chin, his throat, his lips, filling his mouth...and then, his eyes snap open, his body jerked to life. He begins to cough as he sits up, his eyes white, his wings outstretched, rage clearly seen upon his face, of course Elaine cannot see his face so she simply talks to him calmly telling him that she believes they are near the tree and that they only have to -- but once again she is cut off, but this time not by someone else speaking but by Lucifer's hand wrapping itself around her throat as pupils appear within his eyes and he stares into her face, blood and bruises all over his own.Back at the tree, Bet Jo'gie continues to try and seduce the one-armed Charlie as he holds tightly to the sword, by asking him if he thinks her beautiful, if he wants her. A frightened Charlie tells her to back away from him or he swears that he shall kill her. She replies undaunted, a smile still planted upon her visage as she tells him that with the sword he holds, he just may be able to, but that is of no matter, what she tells him that he needs to do is breathe in. Breathe in and taste the heat, the love that she feels for him, for she is Bet Jo'gie Etta Hi Ee, the goddess both beautiful and terrible. Charlie begins to lose it and as he says to himself over and over, "Oh god. Oh god." She whispers into his ear..."Kill your wife and your son -- and their bodies will be the bed we couple on."Charlie's thoughts than become the narration of the event, telling the tale in flashback form, of how once upon a time he was sick, really sick, sick enough to need medication, for he would get extremely confused, no longer knowing what was inside his head and what was out, and that feeling, that was the way he felt at that moment, holding the sword, as Bet used her charm upon him. Looking down upon his beautiful wife Sarah he loved her but taking a breath brought him more of her and he did stiffen with need, a lust. Playfully she smiles as she speaks, "Up to the hilt, Charlie. All the way in, smooth as silk. Won't that feel good? Won't that feel right?" A smile of pleasure widens upon his face as he gleefully shouts, "Oh yes! God yes!"Back in the fields surrounding Yggdrasil Michael groggily awakes, eyes opening weakly as he mutters, "L -- Lucifer?" Getting to his hands and knees he speaks again as he sees his daughter, choking for breath while Lucifer's outstretched arm suspends her in the air and Michael speaks again, louder this time, "Brother?" Swiftly he clambers to his feet and rushes to get between the two, trying to push Elaine away from his brother, warning Lucifer to stay away from Elaine. But Lucifer's only reply is, "Morningstar? I am Fenris. I am The Wolf!" With that, the maddened Lucifer thrusts Elaine's head into the side of Michael's face, taking both of them out.Abonsam is draped over Fenris, voice fading as he asks Fenris to speak of the tale of his death, of his final trick but Fenris has no pity, does not even look upon The Trickster. Rather he just speaks to the dying man, as if asking which trick he means, "What? That you joined the banquet of my enemies, when I parceled myself out like bread? That you took my essence into yourself -- not unknowing, as they did, but willingly. So that your blood, now pregnant with my thoughts, could infect Lord Lucifer?" Smiling the beast walks off, dropping Abonsam and leaving him behind as he finishes his speech, "I'll tell it if I remember it." Nearby Lucifer and Michael now fight, Michael holding back his brothers fists, apologizing for what is to come for his brother is not himself, and so, lying upon the ground, his wings flattened beneath his back, Michael raises his right hand and from it spews a white energy that begins to envelop Lucifer, taking its toll on him, causing him to cry out.Back at the tree, Bet Jo'gie is entranced by the display as Michael releases his power at point-blank rage on his brother and exclaims at the beauty of the event. Charlie however continues muttering to himself, her back turned to him as he tries to tell himself that none of what is happening is real. Finally his expression hardens and he speaks, "...but just in case." And with those words he uses his left arm to thrust the giant sword through Bet's midsection so that it protrudes from her stomach, bathed in blood. Her eyes show the shock she feels, than a madness sweeps over Charlie as he violently begins tearing the goddess to shreds, until himself, the sword, the soil, the nearby roots of the tree and the dismembered pieces of her body are soaked in her blood.Within a massive crater, Michael stands over Lucifer whose on his hands and knees, both of their wings are in tatters, what's left of their clothes torn, blood streaming over their bodies. Smoke rises around their bodies and although Michael is stronger, he makes one fatal error, he tries to reason with his brother, telling Lucifer that it is not he who acts. Michael tells Lucifer to fight it, to be himself, lest all their pain and effort be for naught and creation falls. But Lucifer, still possessed simply turns his head to the side, blood dripping from his mouth as he grins evilly at his brother, "Excellent." Than in a blur of speed he grabs his brother and Lucifer takes to the air, glowing with energy as he takes his brother higher into the heavens.As they ascend Michael still pleads with his brother, "Morningstar -- brother -- I don't want to kill you --" but Lucifer simply scoffs at these words as he points out that with his broken wings, Michael's strength is failing. His own rant thus begins, "I am the furnace in which you will be unmade. I am your death." But Michael remains stubborn and responds by telling Lucifer that he will be the death of all, and that it will all be his own doing and his alone. Lucifer heeds not these words in his madness and a massive expulsion of energy erupts from within him, engulfing both sons of Yahweh, leaving them both to plummet to the ground, burning as they fall.Michael and Lucifer crash through the upper branches of Yggdrasil, snapping them as they continue their descent, drawing the attention of the still shocked Charlie. Suddenly he is pulled out of this as he hears a voice call his name, asking him what is going on, he turns to see who is speaking and it is none other than his wife Sarah, holding their frightened son tight to her chest. Charlie does his best to calm her, telling her that it is only a dream, a bad dream they are all sharing...but this calm does not last as Fenris arrives saying that what Charlie says is the pity, for the bad dream they are having is that of their lives and when they wake it shall be to nothing.Fenris continues his approach, the blade used to kill Bet held firmly in his hand as he gives his speech, his speech of how the trees roots have been giving the blood they need, for brother slaying brother is still Fyrir Haft, and the end of creation is still imminent. Charlie, ever the fool, stands in the way of The Wolf, telling him that he shall not harm Charlie's family. But Fenris has no care for the family any longer, they have become irrelevant, however seeing as Charlie is what brought Fenris to Yggdrasil, he is also what holds him there. But with a single swipe of the sword, Charlie is beheaded and Sarah in tears, but before The Wolf does depart he shares his little bit of wisdom with the wife of the slain. "Do not mourn him, woman. In this time of endings, he is merely gone a little way before."A broken Lucifer stumbles over to the place where his brother lays in a pool of blood, at the base of the tree, his own leathery wings are naught but spines now, jutting from his back. Cleared of mind he weakly speaks his brother's name, but it is too late. Michael is dying, the fate of creation sealed, but the latter issue is not the current problem for Michael's death provides a problem in and of itself. And so he calls out to Elaine, asking her to come to him, the blinded Elaine follows the voice of her father until she is kneeling at his side.She promises him that she will stay by his side till he dies if he would like but he cuts her off, for that is not why he called her. Within himself he holds a power, Yahweh's power, the Dunamis Demiurgos, and should he die, this power would be released, overwhelming all of creation and destroying it. Elaine argues that creation will be destroyed anyways, but Michael ensures her that that process will take days or even weeks but that he is dying NOW and she must act now. Seeing as she is the only other Demiurge, it is her duty to take the Dunamis Demiurgos from him. Lucifer interrupts by saying that Elaine is too weak, that she cannot do it and so draws Michael's attention to the Morningstar. He asks to exchange apologies with his brother, as he never thought it would have to come to this but Lucifer tells him, that Michael is not at fault, that he himself is to blame.This being said, Michael than returns his attentions to his daughter, explaining to her that she must not only let his power flow into her, but she must contain it as well but in fear she tells him she knows not how to perform such a feat. Meanwhile not far from the blood-covered father speaking his last words to his daughter, Sarah holds Bobby in her arms and begs Lucifer to take them away from Yggdrasil but he tells her there is no need to do so at the moment, for if she waits a little longer, it may become meaningless anyway. Close by Michael and Elaine are becoming more panicked as Michael tells his daughter that should she survive she will find herself with a great many duties, though he believes in her ability to rise to them. But Elaine simply has last regrets on her mind and begins apologizing to her father, for not trying to talk to him, for not coming to him. Than it is that her father utters his last words, proving that he can acknowledge his own faults "It would have done no good. I was proud, and stubborn. I could have sought you out. I could have --" and so he dies, Elaine hovering him, a scream ripped from his throat as his nigh-uncontainable energy bursts forth from his body, engulfing Yggdrasil and all within its perimeter.As for Charlie's fate, he found himself no longer within the world he was, for as he reached out for his family instead his grasped red-brown dust. A dust drier than any dust could ever be, kneeling in this dust, unclothed he wanted to exclaim that he was not finished, that he needed to ensure his family's safety, but it was not to be. Instead a demon appeared, speaking unto him that it is no longer a time for regrets, that now he is no longer one of the living. The demon delivers him the message his master ordered him to give to all of the Damned. "Welcome to your death -- and our army." With that the demon waves his arm as if to bring attention to the masses standing silently behind himself in the sands of Effrul. 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We were looking for a warehouse or a storefront building for our offices. We found a cave. Add caves to the list of odd things people find on EBay.
It happened to be exactly what we needed, even though we didn't know it until we saw it and realized its potential.
To give you a little background, we were living in a starter home that we had outgrown long ago, and our business was on its path to recovery in the wake of the events of 9/11/01. Several years earlier we had moved our offices to a 10,000 square-foot rental space on the fourth floor of a building in downtown St. Louis. Early in 2001, business was booming. We were developing software for a couple of amazing clients—Compaq and American Airlines. The space worked perfectly for our team of thirty-six programmers. Later that year Compaq began its merger with Hewlett Packard, putting all projects on hold, and after 9/11, American Airlines stopped all projects as well. By April 1st, 2002, we let the last of our programming team go because we could no longer afford their payroll. (By the way, April 1st is a poor choice of dates to fire or lay off staff members. Half of them will think it's a joke and show up for work the next day.) Down to just the partners and a few staff members who stuck around hoping things would improve, we set out to re-build.
Fast forward to December of 2003. Business was improving, but the previous two years had shown us a need for more flexibility within our office space, and for diversification of our income sources. Our lease would be up for renewal in April of 2004. Rather than continue to pour thousands of dollars into rent every month, it made more sense to purchase a small building, build equity, and generate rental income on any portion of the space we didn't need. As we began our search, we hoped to find a small warehouse or storefront building, perhaps even one that needed a little work, but that would meet our needs while we continued to grow.
A couple of years earlier, there had been a plethora of small-to-medium-sized warehouses available in St. Louis, often with very low per-square-foot price tags. This time around, conventional searches turned up nothing. Very few were on the market, and those that were came with high price tags and in need of major structural repairs.
We knew that EBay listed real estate, and although we hadn't shopped for property there before, it occurred to Curt that it was worth a look. Quite frequently we had found things on EBay that we couldn't find anywhere else.
Surprised by the first result on the page, he called out, "Deborah, there is a cave for sale and it's only 30 miles away from here!"
"The Cave" was listed as residential/commercial, about thirty miles south of St. Louis, and had a history as a popular public venue for roller skating and concerts. We had to see it, if nothing else, out of pure curiosity and amusement!


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My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Cormac McCarthy has been one of my favourite authors ever since I read All The Pretty Horses back in 2012 (I read The Road first, but it was The Border Trilogy that won me over). So, after having buzzed through four McCarthy books in under half a year, I decided that - in order to preserve/lengthen the magic of reading the rest of his oeuvre - I would have to establish a "Cormac McCarthy Reading Plan" and pace myself with his novels in order to always have some new McCarthy to return to whenever I need the bare honesty, dark beauty and astonishing landscapes he delivers with such stark detail. According to my CMRP, the summer before college would be reserved for reading Blood Meridian, so that I'd have plenty of time to digest it (or recover from it in case of nightmares). And that's just what I've done! I finished Blood Meridian two days ago and it's been haunting me since. (warning: it is not for the faint of heart).
The novel is a bildungsroman, but the most violent one that McCarthy has written yet. It takes place in the brutal Wild West, during the mid-1800s, a time when savage "scalp hunters" would murder Indians along the Mexican and American border and then - quite literally - collect their scalps as evidence of the massacre. Our protagonist, "the kid," runs away from home at 14 to become "a solitary migrant" and a worker in a diptheria pesthouse before finally ending up with the scalp-hunting "Glanton Gang" - led by none other than the enigmatic and terrifying Judge Holden.
The judge, who is "close on to seven feet in height," "bald as a stone," adept at coin tricks and exceptionally knowledgeable about geography/history/science, belongs on an inaccessible tier. As he says, "Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent." Yet it is only at the end, when he is dancing, young as ever, vowing that "he never sleeps" and saying "he'll never die," that readers believe he may be supernatural. And perhaps it is true that only a demon could have done the things he did - doom the innocent (even a preacher!), commit brutal murders, abduct children. At one point in the novel, the kid asks this about the judge: "judge of what?" For this is a 'judge' that does not subscribe to standard, legal laws, but rather believes in bloodshed through war:
"This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god."
"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."Such an acceptance of war echoes the 'normalcy' with which the horrors of the novel are portrayed. The following sentence, for example, is delivered so casually despite all its terrifying implications: "They passed through small villages doffing their hats to folk whom they would murder before the month was out." Moreover, McCarthy describes the Glanton Gang parading through a town with human heads on splinters while their arrival is celebrated by a "fantasy of music and flowers" (amazing juxtaposition). Even more chilling is how the children, accustomed to this culture of violence, eat "pastry skulls" at the parade while the judge tries to tempt them with his pockets full of "little candy deathsheads"(CHILLLLSSSS).
The language of the book itself accounts for much of its appeal. And I don't just mean McCarthy's delightful use of arcane plant terminology ("golden grounsel and zinnia"), but also the form of the prose itself. In the opening chapter, for example, the unforgettable and monosyllabic opening words introduce us to the kid: "See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt." Blunt, stark and brilliant. As with his other novels, McCarthy also beautifully weaves the darkness of the times with the landscape his characters trespass: "in the long red sunsets the sheets of water on the plain below them lay like tidepools of primal blood." They pass the "blackened bones of trees." Amazing.
As mentioned earlier, Blood Meridian is a bildungsroman. At the beginning, "the child's face is curiously untouched behind the scars, the eyes oddly innocent," but he is shot below the heart on page two and then "finally divested of all that he has been." There is a poignant moment near the end of the book where the kid sees an old woman bent over in the desert, speaks to her for a long time, tells her that "he would convey her to a safe place," but then realizes that she had been "dead in that place for years" and is nothing but "a dried shell." The hopelessness of the place hits home right there.
"The kid" is not a child for long, even though he is called "the kid" until the end of the novel. Indeed, despite all the fighting he engages in, he never reaches the level of violence that the men around him do. He cannot shoot the judge and he cannot leave the ex-priest to die (by the way, this is the ~2nd ex-priest I have come across in McCarthy's works. Brilliant symbol of loss of faith.) The judge even says that he loves the kid "like a son."
So that brings us to the end of the novel, where "the kid" becomes "a man." The ending is terrifying. And, given all that the judge is capable of doing to children and men, I am going with the worst-case scenario regarding the kid's fate. The judge "gathered him in his arms against his immense and terrible flesh." That carnal imagery suggests at much, although we never know what truly happens to him, except that whoever sees him at the end can only comment, "good god almighty."
Blood Meridian is stunning, especially as so much of it is historically backed (scalp hunting, the Glanton gang, even Judge Holden himself). Reading it was like living in a trance - in some chapters, nothing seems to be happening except moving through barren terrain (thankfully, the synoptic chapter headings help one keep track of the plot). I think this is the main shortcoming of the novel. In other chapters, evil is described so explicitly, you don't want to believe what you read (I swore outloud so many times while reading this book).
But regardless of how shocking and horrifying the story becomes, McCarthy's magic never diminishes - the sheer beauty of his prose, his ability to etch out bygone landscapes with stunning believability. Blood Meridian is a book that will leave you speechless, restless and astounded.
Rumor has it that McCarthy's The Passenger may be out next year. Yes!!!
"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others."
The smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth."
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
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DevCamp second time this year, the 5th time altogether and counting
The autumn development trip took place in the heart of Šumava, Hojsova Stráž. 12 brave developers, 5 days, 5 projects.
In the second half of September, one Saturday till Wednesday, we threw another edition of the traditional DevCamp. Our mission was to develop "proof of concepts" in pre-selected areas. The aim was to find out if the given solutions are applicable in every day projects.
We worked hard on the below topics:
Electron & Cordova
Team: Ondra Kopal, Martin Fejes, Oliver Mrázik
The goal of this task was to transfer a standard web application to a native iOS web application and a desktop platform. For desktop platforms we did this with a development tool called Electron, and with Apache Cordova for iOS. We got into a state where we made a simple DevStack allowing us to automate some of these applications. The DevStack runs in a virtualized Docker environment.
ClickStream at SDP platform
Team: Lukáš Matějka, Aleš Rybák, Josef Krcho
"We followed up the previous DevCamp, where we set up the base of Stream Data Platform (SDP). The aim of this year's camp was to create a system prototype that will be able to track user behaviour on Liferay DXP portal, and distribute this raw data to SDP platform, aggregate data, and then display it with the means of a graphical tool. Having managed to virtualize the architecture during the DevCamp is surely its strong point. Now the platform can be run in a fully virtual environment - in Docker containers."
Team: Tomáš Konrády, Václav Jančařík
Build Automation
Franta Herein
"I gave myself the goal of setting standards and automating the work with "docking", both in the server environment and of the applications themselves. Eventually, we managed to successfully create a containerized environment to run the server applications, both on PHP, Java and NodeJS. I worked on the options of wrapping the individual applications into image for easier automated installation and subsequent management by our ICT team."
Basic DevStack for Coders and New Projects, to be used with Vue.js
Team: Tomáš Plecháč (sadly he supported DevCamp only remotely), Jakub Mišenko, Lukáš Kukel
"We resolved to create a starter DevStack (Coding Starter Pack - CSP) for Lundegaard coders, primarily based on coding conventions that were made at the previous DevCamp. CSP defines the basic SCSS architecture (Sassy CSS: Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets CSS) and modular UI component design, using jQuery or Vue.js and automates basic coding operations. CSP is used to create static templates for multiple platforms: CMS LARS Vivo, jQuery, Vue.js, Angular and React based applications. The newly created CSP will serve not only to speed up and simplify starting new development, but also mainly to unify the coding conventions, i.e. to improve the quality and sustainability of the code. We went on to explore the popular library of Vue.js. This brought us to making a reactive calculator for loan calculation using Vue.js library, so we created the calculator with jQuery –and compared the resulting codes. The winner for its clarity and flexibility is Vue.js for us."
In addition to talks about work, programming and coding, there was no lack of fun playing PS games, relaxing in sauna and Jacuzzi (no one felt like going to the outdoor pool as it was already a bit cold); and we also had some good food and beer. A new toy in the house was a board game called Pukec, which made even the quiet ones frolick.
And what's next? We will continue to develop the innovations and bring some extra value to our clients.


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So I recently came across a great article by Jeff Gaudette called, If you run slow, who cares and it really was the inspiration I was looking for to get me through Sunday's half. I already said in my last post that I was aiming for 3:30- To me this time is slow, but really, who does care? If I finish, I finish and I will get some sweet bling for finishing, whether it takes me all 4:00 or under my planned time. I am always hesitant to consider myself a runner simply because of the fact that I am slow but does your time determine if you are a runner or not? Last time I checked, it doesn't!
I have been keeping up with my April Challenge and already am up to 57.8 miles for this month (that does include walks here and there with my little stroller buddy) The awesome part is that the month is not even over yet! It is amazing what you can get done when you actually make time to get out and do something, whether it is one mile around the neighborhood or a nice 5 miler! I have already found my May challenge thanks to another blogger that I follow, Mom's Little Running Buddy. This challenge is from JoggerMom who has organized a virtual marathon for the month of May. All you have to do is log 26.2 miles throughout the month of May! You do have to pay a minimal fee and you can win some really awesome prizes. As much as I would LOVE to win some of the prizes, I am registered simply to keep myself accountable. I do know my energy level will probably start to decrease as my belly continues to grow but I know 26.2 is doable.
My next post will be post-half marathon! Here's to 13.1 through D.C. and who cares how long it takes me to finish!!!


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The Floor to Floor conveyor is specially designed to move passenger car and light truck tires up to 60 degree inclines.
Price includes Up/Emergency Stop / Down Switches at each end of conveyor. Lengths available 10' to 23' on 1'-0" increments.
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NORTH Yorkshire Police have said a 17-year-old Chinese girl who was reported missing from Scarborough has now been found.
Mei Chen, who went missing from Scarborough on Monday (Dec 17) has been found safe and well, police said today (Thurs Dec 20).
She has been studying at the International School on the town's Stepney Road since she arrived in the UK on October 21.
North Yorkshire Police launched a national appeal for information after Mei Chen's host family in Scarborough reported her missing on Monday afternoon.


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Watch and listen to six feet tall living legend Empress Victoria when she tries on three different pairs of plateau heels. With these shoes on her divine feet she becomes tall like a giantess. You better go down on your knees and worship this blonde German goddess. Today you are allowed to take a closer look at her incredibly sexy feet. Empress Victoria is going to degrade you verbally and slap your face. What an privilege for such a mindless foot and heels freak like you!
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This shameless 5´10" (178cm) tall hottie shows on cam the way she likes to get nasty. You can expect authentic non scripted action, just spontaneous play by a model that knows exactly how to tease the perverted audience out there on the internet. Knowing that guys get a boner by whatching her act like this makes her wet.


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An Esoteric Essay by Clive Justice, PhD, FCSLA
Landscape and Plant Historian
Forbes Robertson does a right fine job of bringing to the light of day and presenting Patrick Neill's horticultural works, writings and travels that occurred during the closing and immediate post war decades of the Napoleonic Wars. This period from the turn of the century to end of the war, (1800 to 1815) has unfortunately been lumped in with the Victorian era. When Victoria came to the throne in 1837 it was the rebirth of gardening and horticultural practices that helped build the British Empire. What had gone on horticulturally prior to her ascendency had been building during the wars through the efforts of Sir Joseph Banks. When Banks died in 1820, he left a legacy of exotic plant discoveries — the first with his own plant findings on the Capt Cook voyage to the Antipodes. The Scottish Surgeon-botanists, John Houston with his Caribbean and Southern US plant discoveries, and introductions of Archibald Menzies' plant discoveries with Capt Vancouver in the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands, New Zealand and North America's North Pacific Coast.
Banks charge to Sir William Jackson Hooker to send out plant collectors to find new plants for Queen Charlotte's garden at Kew [to make it into the world's greatest garden and the repository for the world's plants both living and dead.] It is no wonder that Patrick Neill's work lay unpublished in the university of Edinburgh with rival University of Glasgow's William Joseph Hooker at then Kew's helm and busy writing his classic Flora Boreali-Americana. This description of the plants of Northern Parts of North America would be made up largely from these plant collections made by the ex-navy surgeon-botanists /naturalists Hooker had trained for the navy at the university of Glasgow. Robertson's complaint that Patrick Neill's horticultural writings and other works were not published in his lifetime and some are now lost, seems to pale a bit in comparison to the work two of his contemporary Lothian plantsmen: Navy Surgeon- naturalist Dr John Richardson who was a member of the Wernerian Natural History Society in Edinburgh which Patrick Neill had founded and was also a keen gardener so they must have known each other. Richardson was on the first Arctic overland Expedition under Captain Franklin, 1820-22 and the second, also overland down the Mckenzie River in 1825-27 but fortunately when Franklin departed on the ill-fated voyage by ship to find the Northwest Passage, Richardson was not with them. He led the second search for Franklin overland with John Rae in 1848-51.
David Douglas met Richardson at Cumberland House at the time of early summer of 1823, they were preparing for the voyage home after returning from the First Franklin expedition. David Douglas made by far the largest contribution to botany through his plant discoveries and seed introductions; Richardson to natural history, ecology, geology and zoology. Their contributions and discoveries (particularly those of David Douglas) helped Hooker to assemble and publish his Flora Boreali-Americana, in 1840. Neither of their Journals were published in their lifetimes. Journal kept by David Douglas 1823-1827, not until 1914, by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and John Richardson, not until 1984 with C. Stuart Houston's, Arctic Ordeal, The Journal of John Richardson. Surgeon-Naturalist with Franklin 1820-1822.
On a personal note, in the 1980s while on an American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboretums (AABGA) tour, hosted by the Devonian Botanical Gardens of Edmonton, Alberta, one of our tour guides talking about the prairie ecology brought up the name of a little prairie animal called Richardson's Squirrel. Naively not knowing, I asked, who was Richardson? Thinking of plant names bearing the names of their finders like Douglas-fir not the discoverer Archibald Menzies but the introducer, David Douglas (also discoverer of many prairie grasslands plants). Not one member of the tour group or the tour guides could tell us who Richardson was. This prompted me to consult David Douglas' Journal as I remembered his mention of meeting a John Richardson whom he much admired at some place during his botanizing and collection as gentleman guest of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC)North American territories.
David Douglas (1788-1834) not yet thirty had been collecting in HBC's New Caledonia, territory from Fort George on the Fraser in the north to Klamath Falls in the South from his base at HBC Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River. Working from the fort he botanized extensively in northern New Caledonia (BC), lost all his collection when his canoe overturned shooting the Fraser River rapids, south of Fort George. His collections in future BC coastal areas, Washington, Oregon, and northern Spanish California made it home in company ships in sealed tin boxes. These were provided by the HBC on the instructions from the newly formed London, later RHS secretary, Joseph Sabine.
Douglas' botanizing collections with the returning fur brigade up the Columbia and over the Athabaska Pass down the River of the same name to Jasper House where they joined the northern northwest fur brigade out of Fort George. The combined brigades continuing down the Slave to Fort Vermillion to collect the furs from the western Arctic and return back up with all the furs to Edmonton House, on the North Saskatchewan River. Douglas and a small party left the fur Brigade to Portage overland by horseback over the thawing wetlands that lie between the Peace and Fort Edmonton. Here Douglas sent his botanical collection to date in a sealed tin box onto Vancouver for shipment back to London. The box arrived at the London LRS before Douglas did.
His adventures with the combined fur brigade flotilla in York boats, canoes and pole barges on the North Saskatchewan were not all botanizing. On the Upland Plains before Fort Carleton, the hunting party from the brigade stampeded the herd of bison they were hunting. One of the party, his friend Mr F. McDonald was found badly gored and lay bleeding from his left thigh, broken ribs, dislocated wrist and severe bruising.
From Douglas' Journal, Pg74 " Poor Mr. McDonald was so placed for two and a half hours bleeding and at the point of death, and that under cloud of night, which gave us scarcely any opportunity of rescuing, for the animal was within a few paces and we were fearful to fire lest a shot should take him. By the activity of Mr Harriott and my assistance he was saved. I bound up the wounds and afforded all the assistance a small medicine chest and my slender knowledge could suggest. We passed hastily on, in hope of finding Dr Richardson, but on our arrival found the doctor had gone to Cumberland House. At Carleton House I had the pleasure to meet Mr Drummond, of Captain Franklin's party, who spent the greater part of his time in the Rocky Mountains, contiguous to the sources of the Rivers Athabaska and Columbia.
Douglas was wary of the older Drummond as he was infringing on Douglas' territory. His journal continues: Mr. Drummond had a princely collection. I had intended to cross the plain from this place (Carleton House) to Swan and Red Rivers, but from the hostile disposition of the Stone Indians deemed unsafe. [largely a figment of Douglas' fear of the unknown] I descended [the Saskatchewan River] to Cumberland house, and found there Dr Richardson, who kindly showed me parts of the princely collection of natural history made during the expedition. This part of the of the country has been well described in the former narrative of Captain (now Sir John) Franklin that it leaves me no room; I shall therefore only notice my stages.
Douglas was fully aware of the rigid British hierarchical system in place in Britain at the time as he was younger and a better Botanist than the other two older men, Drummond and Richardson, but was low man on the totem pole in the hierarchy and not even on it in regard to the British Navy order. Douglas was also paranoid about keeping his plant discoveries secret and was bent on besting others in plant collecting. So he took off south via Lake Winnipeg to the Red and Assinaboine Rivers in Lord Selkirk's settlement. He botanized along the lake's west side getting there, all through the settlement, and all the way back down the lake on the east side to Fort York and onto the Nelson River and down to Hudson's Bay where he took the HBC supply ship back to England. The botanical collection from his botanizing from Fort Edmonton along the Saskatchewan River to Hudson's Bay and the Manitoba lakes and along the Rivers in the Selkirk settlement consisted of 288 species many of which were new to me, . . . and had I stayed with Mr Drummond and Dr Richardson on the Saskatchewan, these would have been omitted. Douglas had won a round for his patron Sir William Hooker and Kew Gardens.
And yes, the ground squirrel. There are four species of them in the Arctic namely: Parry's, Franklin's, Richardson's and the Thirteen-lined [striped] ground squirrel in the Genus: Spermophilos Parryi, S. Franklinii, S. Richardsonii, and S. tridecemlineatus. We know them today as Marmots. Why another British Navy Captain got his name attached to the Arctic marmots scientific name is another story too long to tell here. All four are known to dig tunnels in the Canadian Arctic tundra.
Talking about tunnels and tunnellings brings up horticulturist Patrick Neill's home place 'Canon Mills' in the Midlothian hills south east of Edinburgh. The Leith /Newhaven Railway Company wanted to tunnel a rail line under his garden. Neill fought it through the Edinburgh Court for many years but finally lost out to the Railway. The tunnel is probably still in use but the garden that was above the Railway Tunnel is probably long gone.
The conversation continued around this subject and we came to something completely different: They say there is a connection between everything in nature. so here goes ! The surgeon botanist connection brings about an interesting read. There were other accounts of their healing works on the journey beside the one relate above with the Bison, and also some intriguing stories within these adventures:
It all started with a quote from Arctic Ordeal (the Journal of John Richardson, Surgeon-Naturalist with Franklin, 1820-1822, Editor, C. Stuart Houston, Illustrator, Albert Hochbaum, 1984, McGill University Press, Kingston and Montreal) Chapter 8 Rescue and Recovery-Section Commentary, Indexed as Breastfeeding by Males, pgs 187-8 "Richardson with great medical interest reported Wentzel's story of the Chipewyan Indian man who had raised his infant after his wife had died in childbirth, feeding the infant meatbroth (perhaps one of the earliest records of meat based formula) and suckling it successfully at his breast. The editor continues Macleod and Glover, in Franklin's first expedition, may not be justified in claiming that Richardson was a gullible victim of a Wentzel hoax (it wasn't). Editor Stuart Houston continues. We now know that males as well as females, have the hormone prolactin and can produce milk (inappropriate galactorrhea or inappropriate lactation are the technical terms). In some parts of Africa, it is common for grandmothers, up to 50 years of age to put their grandchild to the breast.1 There are a few well documented cases of men successfully nursing infants, including that of a negro male wet nurse who was displayed before a medical class in Maryland in 1827; milk from the male breast is nourishing. (1. Robert Greenblatt Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality 1972; see also Cecil Slome 1956; 2. John Knott 1907 and R.C. Creasy, JAMA vol.58, 1912; and Alexander Von Humboldt of the electric eel and the Humboldt current, in Travels and Researches of Baron Humboldt, 1833, p79
Robertson, Forbes W. , Patrick Neill , 1776–1851: Doyen of Scottish Horticulture, 2011, Whittles Publishing Ltd. Dunbeath, Caithness KW6 6EG, Scotland, UK
For a different perspective see REVIEW BY SALLY EVANS on the same book.


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