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Two new, co-located facilities will be central to the goals of WyCEHG :
(1) Facility for Imaging the Near- and Sub-surface Environment (FINSE). FINSE will comprise subsurface geophysical imaging instrumentation, encompassing a comprehensive suite of capabilities including acoustic, gravity, electrical, magnetic, ground-penetrating radar, and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. FINSE is managed by Brad Carr.
(2) Surface and Subsurface Hydrology Lab (SSHL). SSHL will house physical infrastructure to support surface and subsurface hydrological investigations, including equipment for monitoring ecological, hydrological, and geochemical parameters. SSHL is managed by Elizabeth "ET" Traver.
Both FINSE and SSHL support educational activities during the effort to bolster Wyoming's workforce in science. The facility instruments will support all research initiatives, including joint deployments in several watershed-scale study sites in Wyoming where key hydrological processes are expressed and critical hypotheses can be tested. The facilities will enable significant new ventures in environmental hydrology and rapid response to stakeholders who have identified water-resource issues that require the concentration of instrumentation and personnel otherwise unavailable in Wyoming.
(3) Cyberinfrastructure. Bryan Shader, team lead.
Data from field sites will help build and validate high-performance computational models of coupled surface and subsurface flow that will run on the new NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center.
Mount Moran is an IBM System X cluster that can be accessed and can provide up to 400 TB of raw storage.


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The 64 oz. Wander and Rumble Beer Growler is designed and finished with the craft beer drinker at the center of every detail.
Constructed of 23 gauge, 304 food-grade, single-walled stainless steel, our growlers are 100% toxin, BPA, phthalate and PVC free with a high-grade passivation process that assures fresh pours without any metallic aftertaste.
All of the painting, printing and passivation are completed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and a portion of every sale is donated directly to the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.
We use a deep-threaded cap to keep beer fully carbonated after filled and print the standard government warnings required by breweries on each one. Growlers ship in sanitary sleeve, inside sturdy burlap bag packed tightly in custom-sized box.
*All states do not have the same growler laws, check with your local brewery for details. We do not offer refunds due to local brewery fill policies.
Volume: 64 oz. (1/2 Gallon)
Dimensions: 5" x 5" x 10"
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Labels that turn blue when they get cold? What are we, 6 years old? When it comes to good, craft beer, what matters is the beer itself. Luckily for craft brewers everywhere, Richmond, VA native Jordan Childs has created a growler that celebrates that very fact and is designed to keep your beer of choice tasting exactly as the brewer intended. We give you Shine Craft Vessels, a purpose driven company founded to make better beer growlers and barware. "I wanted a reusable growler that had great functional and aesthetic design," says Jordan. "Something reusable that would be a source of pride to carry into a brewery or leave on the table at a dinner party. A vessel that was simple in design and let the real beauty remain with the well-crafted brews inside." Produced by local Virginia craftsmen in a wide variety of vibrant colors, Shine growlers are created with the same attention to detail and precision that a master brewer puts into his beer. Guaranteed to always keep brews fresh and carbonated (for up to a month!), these bad boys can go everywhere glass can't and will appeal to beer enthusiasts and design lovers alike.
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Shine only uses top quality, function-driven materials and high end finishes (free of toxins) to assure long term use. Their high grade passivation process means that the beer tastes fresh, pure, and free from any metallic aftertaste. Each stainless steel growler is handled multiple times by various craftsmen in and around the Richmond area to assure that each piece is constantly scrutinized. Shine uses small batch production to create a product differentiated from the competitors and maintain control and ownership over the supply chain. While they may pay a premium to support these local businesses, the result is something far more meaningful than your typical mass produced barware. (Just for the record; Lou handles powder coating and paint, Tom is the passivation tech and Mo is the printer.)
Shine Vessels have a proceed and product pledge to the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) with a percentage or every sale going to support local US farmers. They also produce an exclusive vessel for the NSAC in which all profits are donated directly.

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Robert Harris
Canadian (born in Wales), 1849–1919
Portrait of a Little Girl, c. 1885
oil on canvas
45.7 x 38.1 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds donated in celebration of the 75th Anniversary founding of the Winnipeg Art Gallery by Alice MacDougall Rait, in memory of her husband, William McGillivray Rait, a founder of the Gallery
Painting, Canadian Historical (1800-1910)
Robert Harris was one of the most sought-after portraitists in Canada in the final decades of the nineteenth century. His fame was largely a result of his famous painting The Fathers of Confederation, commissioned for the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. A founding member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1880, he was a great proponent of the development of art in Canada. Nonetheless, as a teacher he encouraged his students to follow his footsteps and to seek training in European academies. During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, countless young Canadian artists flocked to Paris especially, considered then the art capital of the world; consequently, the French academic style prevailed in Canada for decades.
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Discover how Headscape increased the sales of Wiltshire Farm Foods by 10,000% and how you can do the same for your site.
A 10,000% increase in sales over 5 years. Sounds incredible doesn't it. Just to make that an even more incredible, their average customer is in their 80s! Who said the elderly don't use the internet.
When we started working with Wiltshire Farm Foods their monthly revenue was a 100th of what it is today.
Of course in reality that success was not down entirely to us. Matt Curry, our client at Wiltshire Farm Foods has put his heart and soul into that website and as I say in Chapter one of the Website Owners Manual, it is the site champion who makes or breaks a site.
The organisation has recognised the importance and power of the web for their business and continually invested in it both for development and also in site promotion. If they had not had the foresight to do that then the site would have failed.
So what do I put the sites success down to? Well, honestly that is hard to say. There are so many factors. However below are 8 things that have without a doubt made an enormous difference.
1. Remove clutter
Too many ecommerce websites are overwhelming. Everything is screaming for the users attention. There are offers, deals and recommended products wherever the user turns. Amongst all of this confusion it is hard to find what you want.
Amazon is like this and so we all naturally presume it must be right. However, one of the first conclusions we came to when working on Wiltshire Farm Foods is that they are not Amazon. Nobody is. You cannot presume that what works for one will work for all.
The emphasis of the Wiltshire Farm Foods website was on helping users find and buy the products they wanted. It is not in anyone interest to overwhelm them with stuff that only we wanted them to buy. It has to be the customer first.
This meant simplifying the site. With so much content shouting for attention, users could not find anything. We had to remove distraction and focus them on key tasks.
Take for example the site's navigation. We actually hide away some of the ranges offered by Wiltshire Farm Foods. Insanity you might think. Surely this made it harder for users to find what they want? Admittedly for a small minority it did. However, hiding the less popular ranges (like soup) we could highlight the ranges that accounted for the vast majority of sales.
The same was true for product listings. Some users were interested in a lot of different information from dietary content to customer ratings. However, this additional information made life harder for the mainstream users who were only interested in a photo, description and price.
We therefore decided to move all of this additional information on to the product details page. That way it was accessible for those who wanted it without distracting the majority.
The final area we significantly simplified was the shopping basket and checkout process. As I explained in my post on ecommerce lies, once the user has made the decision to purchase you need to remove all distractions.
The shopping basket is not the time to up-sell or cross selling. It's not even the time to provide a navigation bar to other products. At this stage you want the user to do one thing and one thing only, proceed to checkout.
Talking of the shopping cart, we also focused heavily on getting it to stand out on the page.
2. Make sure the shopping cart stands out
Too many websites hide the shopping cart away. However, this is a crucial step in shopping and the first of the checkout process. In affect the shopping cart is an ecommerce websites primary call to action.
With this in mind we wanted to make the cart as prominent as possible. We achieved this in three ways:
- We made the shopping basket button visually different from the rest of the site using colour
- When items were added to the basket it was visually updated (see providing visual feedback video)
- We tethered the basket summary to the top of the screen so that it would always be visible even when the user scrolled (see below)
As you can see from the video below, the tethering proved particularly effective and makes the call to action obvious at all times.
3. Provide visual feedback
One of the primary questions in the mind of users when interacting with a system like an ecommerce website is "did I do that right?"
Whether it is adding an item to the basket or filling in a login and password, users are concerned that they are doing things wrong. This is particularly true with a more elderly audience who have not grown up using computers.
It is therefore important to reassure users as they progress through the site. This can be achieved by providing visual feedback when the user takes an action.
For example on the Wiltshire Farm Foods website when an item is added to the basket the user gets multiple types of feedback to reassure them the item has been added:
- The photo of the item is highlighted
- The 'add to basket' button updates
- The image of the item visually moves towards the basket
- The basket itself updates
As you can see from the video below, the user is in no doubt that the item has been added.
However, the visual feedback does not stop at the basket. When the user is confronted with a form they are clearly shown what fields are required, and which have been completed correctly or incorrectly. This information is updated without the need for page refresh.
4. The bigger the better
An image can say a thousand words. It is therefore unsurprisingly that the product shots on an ecommerce site are massively important. Even if your audience are not the elderly with failing vision, it is still important to have nice, big, clear shots of your products.
In the case of Wiltshire Farm Foods we have taken this principle to the extreme.
As we saw earlier the product list is essentially a grid of images with the addition of some basic product information. The image sells the meal in a way words never could, and the grid allows us to have large images. However, we did not stop there.
As you can see in the video below, clicking on a product listing displays an even bigger image in the product details. We also allow users to click on this larger photo and display an even bigger version that expands to fill the width of the page. This leaves the user in no doubt about what they are getting.
Of course this is dependant on having decent shots of the product. If you can only invest in a single thing for your ecommerce site this would be it. Spend money on getting the best photography you can. Its worth every penny.
5. Make buttons and links obvious
A continuation of the 'bigger is better' thinking can also be applied to buttons and links. Admittedly this might be exaggerated by the Wiltshire Farm Foods audience, but in my years of user testing I am constantly amazed how often users fail to spot important links and buttons.
You will therefore notice how ridiculously big some of the links and buttons on WFF are. However, size isn't everything (no innuendo intended).
We also gave a lot of attention to appearance and wording too. For example, notice in the image below how the link looks like a link. Also we did not rely on the link alone because the wording of the link doesn't communicate the action. We therefore added a button that communicates how clicking it will allow the user to 'view all of our beef meals'.
The descriptive nature of buttons can also be seen elsewhere on the site. We are very conscious that users do not always read copy explaining buttons and so the button itself needs to communicate all the information required.
Take for example the image below. If all you read was the two buttons you would know exactly what choice was available. The surrounding text is entirely optional.
6. Always be there to help
An ecommerce transaction raises a lot of questions in the minds of users:
- Is delivery free?
- What if I don't like the product?
- Is my credit card information secure?
In addition there are questions about the site itself and how to use it.
Surprisingly many ecommerce websites seem reluctant to help their customers. Delivery and return policies are buried. Reassurance about security is limited to a tiny badge or padlock. And most importantly you have to search high and low for a phone number.
We were determined to address these problems on the WFF website. In the end we settled on three approaches:
1. The one stop solution
Our first move was to bring together all help into a single section of the site that was prominently displayed in the navigation bar. This avoided the user having to hunt around for different pieces of information.
We then looked at the enquiries received by WFF customer support and used these to identify the top issues. These where then prioritised and presented on the help homepage.
As you can see the top question was "how do I contact you" so we prominently featured the telephone number. This was then followed by questions about ordering and the website.
2. The getting started guide
We also took an idea from the video games industry and provided users with a tutorial. However, the idea of the tutorial (which we called a getting started guide) was to guide users through their first transaction.
This is displayed prominently on the homepage and gives users who are overwhelmed by the site a starting point.
3. Context sensitive help
Finally, we also wanted to provide context sensitive help throughout the purchase process. These are small pieces of microcopy found throughout the site nudging users in the right direction.
7. Handle errors gracefully
No matter how well designed your site or how much help you provide, things will inevitably go wrong.
If you do not want to lose the sale, you must handle the error gracefully and reassure the user they can still continue.
This is particularly important when working with the elderly audience found on Wiltshire Farm Foods. However, it is always wise to give users as much help as possible and not make assumptions about their abilities.
Below are a couple of examples of how we handle problems on the site.
The first example is an error message that appears when the user fails to login. There are several such messages across the website. However, they all have two characteristics in common:
- The message is highly visible – This is achieved either by strong visual branding (as above) or by positioning the message next to field being edited (as in context sensitive help) .
The message tells the user what to do – It is important that messages clearly communicate how the user can overcome the problem.
The example above is probably a little wordy for most websites. Fortunately, our user testing has shown that a more elderly demographic actually reads instructional text! We can therefore take some liberties.
The second example of an error message appears when the user has entered a search term that returns no results. The danger in this situation is that users will conclude the site does not have whatever it was they searched for and so leave.
In reality there are number of reasons why no results might be returned. In such situations provide some guidance on searching. We also went one step further by including a phone number in case all else fails.
8. Communicate your value add
The final lesson we have learnt from working on WFF is the importance of communicating what extra you offer customers.
The problem is that there are so much choice for consumer. How for example could an organisation like Wiltshire Farm Foods compete with such a well known brand as Tescos?
Tescos sell frozen meals and a lot more besides. They deliver to your door and have a much broader range of products (although admittedly not frozen meals).
What enables Wiltshire Farm Foods to compete is their value added service. These include:
- Police checked delivery staff
- The option to pay cash on delivery
- The ability to place your next order with the driver
- Delivery staff will even unpack meals and place them in your freezer
When you are trying to each an elderly audience, these kinds of extra services are a real selling point.
Of course, these USPs are no good if users are unaware of them so considerable effort has been put into clearly communicating these on the site. In fact we are in the process of doing even more work in this area.
What are your USPs and are you clearly communicating them on your site?
Is that all?
So if you follow these 8 guidelines will you increase your sales by 10,000%? The answer is probably not.
In reality there is a lot more that affects the success of an ecommerce business than its website. There is the ongoing communications, customer service, fulfilment, and marketing to name but four.
The 10,000% increase makes a good title for a blog post! However, the percentage growth is not really the point. What matters is that by following the advice here you will be guaranteed to see growth and that is what matters.
However, if I could leave you just a single thought it would be this. Wiltshire Farm Foods looks a million miles away from the busyness of Amazon and indeed many other ecommerce websites. Do not just blindly follow the crowd (or even the advice in this post). Instead learn what your users need and give it to them. It really is that simple.
Of course, you might need some help doing that, but even the answer to that is simple. Give Headscape a call ;-)


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We recently purchased a van from you and I wanted to take the opportunity of thanking you for making it a smooth operation.
We needed a new van on the road asap. From my first phone call to you to taking delivery of the new van was approximately a week. This helped us to continue to do business for our clients with minimal disruption to our regular service.
You and your team were on hand throughout the process with any questions that I had along the way answered and the paperwork side of things was made clear and transparent to me. The price was good and we will certainly be recommending you to our clients, acquaintances, friends and family.
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I can't praise David and Sue at Finance 1 highly enough for sourcing this car for me and taking all the stress out of the process, at a time when I was feeling overwhelmed. Their service was second to none. Thank you
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You then organised all of this for me and turned a situation I was dreading to have to sort out into a simple matter with a good financial saving! Many thanks again for saving me so much time and headaches.
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You and your team were extremely professional and I have and will continue to recommend your services to family, friends and clients.
From our first telephone conversation to when they were delivered you listened to all our requests ranging from the vehicle colours to the spec inside and manged them all and still kept within our price range.
You kept me updated throughout the process and were even kind enough to take delivery of the vans on our behalf at your office.
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In Order to keep our prices fair we offer free Delivery only on orders over MYR 10,000.00 (KLANG VALLEY)
Teak is a close grained hardwood with high natural oil content. It is highly resistant to rotting and almost impervious to the effects of sun, rain, frost or snow. These characteristics make it the ideal timber for all outdoor applications. Many other hardwoods are used for outdoor furniture and some are even marketed as 'teak substitutes', however, there is no substitute for teak and no other hardwood will perform to the same standard as teak in outdoor conditions.
A high quality teak is from sustainable plantation. Our teak are officially licenced.
Only premium grade plantation grown teak is used in PNZ furniture. The features of premium grade teak are consistent grain structure, the absence of knots, splits or cracks. All teak furniture comes in natural smooth finish.
Teak does not require any special maintenance routine. Left outside, the exposed surfaces of the furniture will become a soft silvery grey in color. Besides, weather will cause some surface erosion leading to slight surface roughness, possible mildew and checking. Checking is a natural process that occurs when teak develops small cracks in the end grain. However, this does not affect the durability of teak furniture.
All teakwood we use in our production comes from TFT supported teak plantations only. Even more, now we also implement SVLK (timber legality verification system), a series of ongoing processes aimed at generate the standards expected to provide legality and assurance for all parties. With this system, overseas consumers were not need to doubt the legality of wood from Indonesia.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fossils of two dinosaurs locked in a death match failed to sell at auction on Tuesday despite predictions they would fetch a record $9 million (5.5 million pounds).
The top bid for the dinosaur fossils was $5.5 million and did not meet the reserve price, Bonhams auction house said. Pre-sale estimates had been $7 million to $9 million.
The dueling dinosaurs, which were discovered in Montana in 2006, were two of the most well-preserved dinosaur remains ever unearthed and included pieces of skin, Bonhams said.
One of the skeletons belongs to a ceratopsian, which is similar to a triceratops, but there is debate about its opponent. Scientists are unsure if the second animal is a juvenile Tyrannosaurus Rex or a new species. The remains could help settle the question.
The most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold at auction is a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton named Sue, which fetched $8.3 million in 1997.
Thomas Lindgren, co-consulting director of natural history for Bonhams, said he is confident that the dueling dinos will sell in the future.
"I've had museums mention that they had difficulty coming up with the funds this quickly. But should the lot not sell, which of course occurred, they want us to be in negotiations immediately," Lindgren said.
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Of course, I have a hidden agenda here. The true reason is not twitter messages. It is being able to move data around. For example, wouldn't it be great to embed SPARQL results in wiki pages this way? Well, maybe there are better solutions, but the point is that this is technologically possible, and that we should think creatively in making mashups that help our scientific research.


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The tricycle is not commonly associated with instability and safety hazards. But according to an old article from the Milwaukee Journal, the Tricycle of yore was a blood and tears factory for the youth of America.
Citing a government study, which claimed that tricycles had been responsible for as many as 130,000 injuries, they got an agency spokesperson to speak on the manner:
Roy Rice, a Calspan spokesman, sad the problems included seats that were too high in relation to the width of the car axle, steering angles that were too great, excessive speed capability, and an unnecessary rear step. The study said the rear step caused the most serious injuries.
Moral of the story: tell your toddler to stop whining and learn how to ride a damn bike. [Google via Brendan Koerner]


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In Japan they have a tradition called hanami in which people gather and have picnics under blooming cherry trees to enjoy the fleeting beauty of the flowers in bloom. For years I've been celebrating my own version, which consists of scoping out blossoms and capturing their transient beauty with my camera. I've photographed cherry blossoms, but where I live we also have many other kinds of stone fruit, such as peaches, plums, and nectarines, and we have almond trees in great quantity. This year I wasn't up to seeking out blossoms as I'd hoped to (I happen to know of a beautiful spot in Modesto), but I was able to shoot the flowers from the mini-orchard in my aunt and uncle's yard.
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Season Four - Episode Descriptions
Episode 6 - "The Tailgate" (Airs November 15, 10:30 pm e/p) - Andre's plan to take the guys tailgating is thwarted when their high school nemesis Frank "The Body" Gibiatti and his gang have the same idea. Taco tries to sell knockoff merchandise and has a run in with Chicago Great Jim McMahon. Written by Nick Kroll & Paul Scheer; directed by Jeff Schaffer.


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Charles Fletcher Lummis
Charles F. Lummis (1859–1928), journalist and photographer, cyanotype, PM 63-22-10/9972.
Southwestern Portraits, 1888–1896
October 18, 2002–August 2003
Charles Fletcher Lummis, 1859-1928, was a journalist, historian, ethnographer, archaeologist, photographer, poet, Indian rights and historical preservation activist, and Harvard alumnus. Lummis devoted his personal and professional life to educating Americans about the lives, history, traditions, and beliefs of the peoples of the Southwest, particularly the Pueblo Indians and Hispanic Americans. Primarily a writer, Lummis's photographic work is diverse, evocative, and arguably among the most influential of his day. Over his lifetime, Lummis produced more than 10,000 photographs, most between the years 1888–1900.
Today, this body of written and photographic work remains a treasure trove of the ethnography and archaeology of the American Southwest. Much of his work continues to inform and illustrate serious works about the Pueblos and is considered an important resource by contemporary Puebloan people, as well.
Exhibited for the first time, the exhibit features a selection of Lummis's favorite photographs from two albums of cyanotypes (blue prints), which he prepared and sent in 1897 to George Parker Winship, Southwestern expert and librarian at the John Carter Brown Library, and later Widner Library at Harvard.
Curated by Pamela Gerardi.


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Attack of the Giant Art Gallery
As artists and wealthy collectors have gravitated toward ever-bigger art trophies, the galleries that serve them both have ballooned in size well beyond their typical townhouse proportions to something entirely more vast. Kelly Crow explains. Photo: Sarah Morris/White Cube Bermondsey.
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Brack is a traditional Irish cake baked at Halloween. The name comes from the Irish word 'breac', which means speckled. Fruit freckles every slice of this delicious cake or bread.
What makes this cake so much fun is the tradition of baking trinkets inside. I remember chewing each slice, hoping I would be the lucky one to bite into the ring. I wasn't interested in marriage at six years of age, but just fancied the ring. Each trinket had a meaning:
- Ring = marriage within the year
- Coin or bean = wealth
- Cloth or pea = poverty
- Thimble = continue to be a spinster
- Button = continue to be a bachelor
- Religious medal = join a religious order
There are two types of brack: barm brack and tea brack. Yeast is used as a raising agent in barm brack, while tea brack rises with the aid of baking powder.
Today, I am going to share a recipe for tea brack. This version is a little lighter than the tea brack of my youth. The end result is just how my kids like it.
Here are the ingredients you will need:
- 1 and 1/2 cups raisins
- 1 cup golden raisins
- 1 cup soft brown sugar
- 2 cups black or orange flavored hot tea
- 3 and 1/2 cups cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon grated orange zest
- 1/4 cup orange marmalade
- 2 tablespoons fresh squeezed orange juice
The key to tea brack success is soaking the dried fruit in tea overnight. The night before you plan to make your brack, put the raisins in a glass bowl that can handle high heat.
Add the brown sugar to the fruit.
Make a pot of tea and let it brew for a little while. You can use a strong black tea such as English Breakfast Tea, or I chose to use an orange infused tea to add flavor to the fruit.
Add 2 cups of hot tea to the fruit and sugar. Stir it well at this stage to dissolve all of the sugar. Cover the bowl and leave it overnight. It is best to leave it at room temperature to maximize soakage. The fruit tends to contract a little in a refrigerator.
On baking day, preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Grease a 9-inch round cake pan. In olden days, it was necessary to butter the pan, and then line it with parchment paper to avoid sticking. I just use a non-stick, quick-release pan, which I spray with flour infused oil. I love this stuff for baking.
Next sift the flour, baking powder and pumpkin pie spice into a bowl. In Ireland we use mixed spice, which has a very unique combination of cinnamon, coriander, caraway, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, allspice, and mace. It adds a very distinctive flavor to Irish and British baking. The best American alternative is pumpkin pie spice mix.
In another bowl add two eggs, the orange juice and orange zest. Beat them together.
Next, add the marmalade and beat it all together.
You are now ready to add the soaked fruit to the egg mixture and blend all the wet ingredients together.
Next step is where wet meets dry. Add about one third of the flour mixture to the eggs and mix it together. Add the next third, and mix well before adding the remainder of the flour.
The batter is a fairly gloopy mess. If you plan to add trinkets to your cake, now is the time to do it. First wrap them in parchment paper. I did not add any, this year. I don't fancy any choking hazards for my trio of four-year olds. Make sure you don't use anything plastic or toxic that might melt.
Pour the batter into the cake pan. Sorry this photo is a little out of focus. I was trying to hold the bowl, pour and take the picture all at the same time.
Here's how it looks in the cake pan before cooking. Place it in the oven for 90 minutes. The cake is cooked when a tooth pick is inserted and comes out clean. Cool it in the pan for one hour after removing it from the oven. Then transfer it to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Here is the finished product. It can be sliced up and buttered to accompany a cup of tea or coffee, or it can be stored in an air-tight cake box.
Slices of speckled brack – absolutely delicious.
The printable recipe is outlined below.
Irish Tea Brack
|Prep time
|20 minutes
|Cook time
|1 hour, 30 minutes
|Total time
|1 hour, 50 minutes
- 1 and 1/2 cup Raisins
- 1 cup Golden Raisins
- 1 cup Soft brown sugar
- 2 cups Black or orange flavored hot tea
- 3 and 1/2 cups Cake Flour
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- 2 teaspoons Pumpkin Pie Spice
- 2 Eggs
- 1 teaspoon Grated orange zest
- 1/4 cup Orange marmalade
- 2 tablespoons Fresh squeezed orange juice
|Step 1
|The night before you plan baking this brack, put the dried fruit and brown sugar into a large bowl. Pour the hot tea over the fruit, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Cover and leave overnight to allow the fruit to soak in the tea and swell.
|Step 2
|Grease a 9 inch round x 3 inch high cake pan. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
|Step 3
|Sieve the flour, baking powder, and pumpkin pie spice together in a bowl.
|Step 4
|Beat the eggs, marmalade, orange zest and orange juice in another large mixing bowl. Add the tea-soaked fruit and mix well.
|Step 5
|Add the spice and flour to the wet raisin mixture in portions (about one third at a time). Mix the flour with a large spoon after each addition.
|Step 6
|Pour the cake mixture into the prepared cake pan. Smooth the top and bake in the preheated oven for 90 minutes.
|Step 7
|Leave to cool in the pan for about 1 hour before turning the cake out onto a wire rack to fully cool. When it is cold it can be cut in slices to serve, or stored in an airtight cake box.
Wishing you all happy baking days and a very happy Halloween.
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Slan agus beannacht leat!
(Goodbye and blessings)
Irish American Mom


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Legendary pop and rock stars in their seventies are to show today's young acts how to really rock on - they have just announced a 67 date UK tour .
The Sensational 60s Experience - including dates in our region - will feature 76-year-olds Mike Pender, the original voice of Needles and Pins stars The Searchers, and Chris Farlowe, best known for his chart-topper Out Of Time.
Also on the bill and are some of the original veteran members of Herman's Hermits, whose hits include There's A Kind Of Hush, The Fortunes, famed for You've Got Your Troubles and The New Amen Corner, whose hits included Bend Me Shape Me.
And on the subs bench, a relative youngsters standing in for Pender on three shows and Farlowe for two of them, is 73-years-old Mike D'Abo, the former lead vocalist of Manfred Mann and composer of hit songs including Handbags and Gladrags.
Full tour list and details below.
Dates include Victoria Theatre, Halifax, on Saturday, October 7; Opera House, York, November 11; Opera House, Buxton, Tuesday, November 21; Sheffield City Hall, Saturday, December 2; City Hall, Hull, Saturday, April 7, 2018; The Auditorium, Grimsby, Saturday, April 21.
The Sensational 60s Experience is now an annual tour of some of the greatest acts of the Sixities, performing some the most unforgettable pop and tock songs of all time.
Promoters say the latest line-up, with a brand new show, promises a night never to be forgotten iwith hit after hit.
"There's a definite feel good factor about this show wth lots of legendary names from the decade. Their songs have stood the test of time, becoming household favourites permanently on playlists everywhere," said a spokesman.
Mike Pender, one of the greats to have come out of the Liverpool Beat Boom, is the rich vocal talent evident on many of the hit recordings that have become classics by The Searchers.
With over 50 years of success in the business he is still performing million selling hits such as Sugar and Spice, Sweets For My Sweet, Don't Throw Your Love Away , When You Walk In The Room and Needles and Pins - regarded as one of the greatest pop records of all time.
Many other hit recordings feature not only his vocals bu his equally distinctive 12-string jangly guitar sound, that became a feature of The Searchers' recordings.
Chris Farlowe, who originally performied as Chris Farlowe and The Thunderbirds, started out in the late Fifties. His hits include classics like Out Of Time, Handbags and Glad Rags, which was also released by Rod Stewart and later The Stereophonics, Let The Heartaches Begin and Reach Out I'll Be There.
Herman's Hermits have sold 75 million records and throughout the mid-Sixties they were a dominating force of the music scene worldwide. From 1964 the band chalked up over 23 top 20 singles, 10 hit albums and three major movies.
Their chart breaking hits include, There's A Kind Of Hush, Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter, Silhouettes, Henry V111, Something Is Happening and I'm Into Something Good
The Fortunes produced classics such as, You've Got Your Troubles, Here It Comes Again and, continued into the Seventies with more successful releases such as Storm in a Teacup and Freedom Come, Freedom Go.
The New Amen Corner promise to entertain with classics such as If Paradise Is Half As Nice and Bend Me Shape Me.
SENSTIONAL 60s EXPERIENCE TOUR DATES 2017-18
Thursday 5th The Opera House, Manchester Tel: 0844 8713018
Friday 6th The Castle, Wellingborough Tel: 01933 270007
Saturday 7th Victoria Theatre, Halifax Tel: 01422 351158
Sunday 8th The Kings Theatre, Glasgow Tel: 0844 8717648
Monday 9th The Playhouse, Edinburgh Tel: 0844 8713014
Tuesday 10th Concert Hall, Perth Tel: 01738 621031
Friday 13th *Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes Tel: 0844 8717652
Saturday 14th *Churchill Theatre, Bromley Tel: 020 32856000
Sunday 15th Playhouse Theatre, Weston Super Mare. Tel: 01934 645544
Friday 20th Princess Theatre, Torquay Tel: 0844 8713023
Saturday 21st The Queens Theatre, Barnstaple Tel: 01271 316063
Wed 25th Civic Theatre, Chelmsford Tel: 01245 606505
Thursday 26th Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury Tel: 01743 281281
Friday 27th The Cresset, Peterborough Tel: 01733 265705
Saturday 28th Corn Exchange, Kings Lynn Tel: 01553 764864
Sunday 29th Lighthouse Theatre, Kettering Tel: 01536 414141
Thursday 2nd Hall for Cornwall, Cornwall Tel: 01872 262466
Friday 3rd Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham Tel: 0115 9895555
Saturday 4th Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth Tel: 08445 763000
Sunday 5th New Victoria Theatre, Woking Tel: 0844 8717645
Friday 10th City Hall, Newcastle Tel: 0844 8112121
Saturday 11th Opera House, York Tel: 0844 8713024
Sunday 12th Wyvern Theatre, Swindon Tel: 01793 524481
Wed 15th The Hawth, Crawley Tel: 01293 553636
Thursday 16th White Rock Theatre, Hastings Tel: 01424 462288
Friday 17th Ferneham Hall, Fareham Tel: 01329 231942
Saturday 18th Embassy Theatre, Skegness Tel: 01507 613100
Sunday 19th The Charter Theatre, Preston Tel: 01772 804444
Tuesday 21s tThe Opera House, Buxton Tel: 0845 1272190
Thursday 23rd Leas Cliff Hall, FolkestoneTel: 0844 8713015
Friday 24th Southport Theatre & Convention Centre Tel: 0844 8713021
Saturday 25th The Grove Theatre, Dunstable Tel: 01582 602080
Monday 27th The Orchard Theatre, Dartford Tel: 01322 220000
Wed 29th Palace Theatre, Redditch Tel: 01527 65203
Thursday 30th Palace Theatre Redditch Tel: 01527 65203
Friday 1st Venue Cymru, Llandudno Tel: 01492 872000
Saturday 2nd City Hall, Sheffield Tel: 0114 2 789 789
Sunday 3rd Marina Theatre, Lowestoft Tel: 01502 533200
Thursday 7th Forum Theatre, Great Malvern Tel: 01684 892277
Friday 8th New Theatre Oxford Tel: 0844 8713020
Saturday 9th Victoria Hall, Stoke Tel: 0844 8717649
Thursday 25th *Empire Theatre, Sunderland Tel: 0844 8713022
Saturday 3rd *The Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton Tel: 01902 429212
Friday 9th *Cliffs Pavilion, Southend Tel: 01702 351135
Friday 23rd Beck Theatre, Hayes Tel: 0208 5618371
Saturday 24th Baths Hall, Scunthorpe Tel: 0844 8542776
Friday 2nd Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham Tel: 0844 8713011
Saturday 3rd The Regent Theatre, Ipswich Tel: 01473 433100
Wed 7th St Davids Hall, Cardiff Tel: 02920 878444
Thursday 8th Theatre, Swansea Tel: 01792 475715
Saturday 10th The Concert Hall, Stevenage Tel: 01438 363200
Friday 16th Cliff Theatre, Clacton Tel: 01255 433344
Saturday 17th Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool Tel: 0151 7093789
Thursday 22nd City Hall, Salisbury Tel: 01722 434434
Friday 23rd Alban Arena, St Albans Tel: 01727 844488
Saturday 24th The Hexagon, Reading Tel: 0118 9606060
Friday 30th Royal & Derngate, Northampton Tel: 01604 624811
Saturday 31st Royal Spa Hall, Bridlington Tel: 01262 678258
Friday 6th De Montfort Hall, Leicester Tel: 0116 2333111
Saturday 7th City Hall, Hull Tel: 01482 300300
Tuesday 10th The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Tel: 01227 787787
Friday 13th Forum Theatre, Billingham Tel: 01642 552663
Saturday 14th Forum Theatre, Billingham Tel: 01642 552663
Tuesday 17th The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Tel: 02476 553055
Saturday 21st The Auditorium, Grimsby Tel: 0300 300 0035
Saturday 28th The Sands Centre, Carlisle Tel: 01228 633766
Saturday 9th Central Theatre, Chatham Tel: 01634 338338
*Mike D'Abo to replace Chris Farlowe on 13th /14th October 2017
*Mike D'Abo to replace Mike Pender 25th January 2018, 3rd and 9th February 2018


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Perdomo looks to be the first Crimson singlehanded national champion since Vincent Porter '07 in 2003 (photo courtesy Ken Legler).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the first time in six years, a Harvard sailor will vie to be crowned the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Men's Singlehanded National Champion when freshman Juan Carlos Perdomo takes the water in Providence, R.I., Nov. 8-10. The 11th-seeded Crimson coeds are also in action this weekend, at two team races: the Hap Moore Trophy and the Michael Horn Trophy.
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Last Time on the Water
On a weekend where New England was plagued by light and variable sailing conditions, the Harvard sailing teams faced the elements and competed in three regattas. The freshmen class highlighted the Crimson's performance as it took third at the Nickerson Trophy, the New England Freshmen Championship. The No. 11 coeds sailed to a 15th-place finish at the 73rd Erwin Schell Trophy while the women took 16th at the 48th Victorian Coffee Urn Trophy.
Related Link: Sailing Takes Third at NE Freshmen Championships, Falls Short at ACC Qualifiers
About the ICSA Singlehanded Championships
In his fourth collegiate regatta, Juan Perdomo looks to bring the Glen S. Foster Trophy to Cambridge for the third time in the 50-year-old regatta's history. The trophy honors Foster who was a singlehanded sailor, renowned for his success in the Finn Class.
Eighteen sailors from 16 schools will race on Narragansett Bay in Lasers, a small one-manned dinghy, racing for the honor of national champion. The runner-up will be awarded the George Griswold Trophy, an award bestowed upon the second-place finisher since 1995.
Perdomo is the 10th Harvard sailor to qualify for the regatta and first in six years since Kyle Kovaks '08 did so in 2007 where he finished fourth. The last Crimson to win the title was Vincent Porter '07 in 2003 while Robert Doyle '71 brought Harvard its first singlehanded national championship in 1969. The Crimson have earned the Griswold Trophy on three occasions with the most recent being Clay Johnson '08 in 2005.
How He Qualified
The freshman punched his ticket to nationals with a third-place finish at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) Singlehanded Championships, Sept. 27-28.
Related Link: Perdomo Shines at NEISA Singlehanded Championships; Sailing Coeds Take Second, Women Claim Fifth
About the Team Races
The Michael Horn Trophy, Harvard's final home regatta of the fall, will be raced in three divisions on the Charles River. Last season's event was cancelled because of Hurricane Sandy.
The Hap Moore Trophy is a team regatta hosted by Coast Guard featuring 12 teams representing two conferences. The race will be sailed in FJs on the Thames River. The Crimson last competed in the event in 2011, where Harvard took ninth.
Related Link: Harvard Sailing Competes in Two Team Regattas
Hosts with the Most
In each of Harvard's own coed regattas this autumn, the Crimson has come out victorious. In the first weekend of sailing the coeds claimed the Harvard Invitational while two weeks later the coeds did it again at the Charles River Invitational. This weekend the coeds will attempt to sweep its home regattas when it hosts the Mike Horn Trophy.
Massachusetts waters will feature winds of 5 to 10 knots with gusts up to 20 knots on both days of competition. Conditions at the national championship on Narragansett Bay will have west winds of 5 to 10 knots with gusts up to 20 knots shifting to 10 to 15 knots on day 2 of the regatta. Breezes on the Thames River mirror the weather on Narragansett Bay on Saturday, but shift to northwest winds of 10 to 15 knots on Sunday.
For up-to-date forecasts, click here.
Coming Up
Harvard closes out its fall sailing schedule next weekend when the coeds sail at the Atlantic Coast Tournament at Connecticut College.


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By the Canadian Press
LONDON – Fergus native Patrick Anderson scored 34 points to lead Canada to the gold medal at the Paralympics Saturday.
Anderson added 10 rebounds and eight assists as Canada defeated the defending champion Australians 64-58.
Canada, which also included Kitchener's Tyler Miller, former Cambridge resident Abdi Fatah Dini and Kitchener-born Brandon Wagner, concluded the tournament with a sterling 8-0 record.
The victory marked Canada's 31st win since 2000, improving their overall record to 31 wins and 1 loss in the last twelve years.
Anderson had a superb tournament, averaging 25 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists a game.
Canada got off to a slow start in the gold medal game, and had trouble hitting buckets early on. They took their first lead at 4:12 of the second quarter and were shooting just 41 per cent from the field. Similar to their semi-final victory over Great Britain, the third quarter proved to be Canada's best.
They outscored Australia 20-15 in the third frame, before sealing the victory with stout defending late in the fourth quarter.
Canada was unable to add any medals in the wheelchair marathon events, however.
The men's event was won by Paralympic superstar David Weir of Britain, who was already household name in the host nation after winning the 800 metres, 1,500 metres and 5,000 metres. He blazed to the win in a time of one hour, 30 minutes, 20 seconds.
Josh Cassidy of Guelph placed 12th in a time of 1:33:06.
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Marty Williams, an internist in Danbury, Connecticut, had always been close with his son Greg. He was a coach for the boy's baseball and basketball teams, and loved skiing with Greg on family trips. So Marty wasn't alarmed when he found a marijuana pipe the 16-year-old had hidden in an old stove in the basement, even though his wife, Micheline, also a doctor, was quite upset. "I thought she was overreacting," he says. "After all, kids experiment." But Greg was way past experimenting. He had started smoking pot when he was only 13—and got hooked before he knew it. "I'd wake up every morning wondering how I was going to get high," he says. "I'd smoke in the woods after school and at parties on weekends. I didn't have that shut-off switch. I would use up everything until it was gone."
By the time Marty and Micheline found the pipe, Greg was abusing not only pot but also alcohol and prescription meds. Sensing a growing problem, his parents took away the car keys at one point and banned friends from the house after things started disappearing. Greg agreed to outpatient drug counseling, but he only grew more distant and defiant, paying lip service to therapy while still getting stoned behind their backs. The summer after graduating, Greg landed in the emergency room when he wrapped his car around a tree in a drug-induced haze. For Marty, it was a terrifying and humbling moment. "Greg was all bloody, but still so angry and difficult. He was like a monster," says Marty. "Looking back, I wished I had intervened sooner. But my daughter, Natalie, who's older than Greg, had smoked pot and never had a problem."
The Williamses' nightmare is a cautionary tale for all parents unsure of how to talk to their kids about marijuana, where to draw the line, and what to do if they cross it. I have four children, ages 15 to 22, and it's something I've worried about since their early high school years. Whether we like it or not, there's an excellent chance today's teen will smoke up. A 2017 government study found that daily marijuana use exceeded daily cigarette use among high school students (between 9th and 12th grade).
"There's been a rapid erosion of anti-marijuana attitudes in our society," says Tom Hedrick, a founding member of Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA). "A lot of what kids hear today is not to worry." Eight states and the District of Columbia have passed laws legalizing marijuana for recreational use. Twenty-nine states have legalized medical marijuana. From movies like Hot Tub Time Machine to TV's Weeds to Michael Phelps' marijuana moment, there's a constant message being sent to teens: Everybody must get stoned, and it's all right. "This is the perfect storm that could lead to a tremendous explosion in marijuana use," says Hedrick. "Parents have reason to be concerned." All this, plus the fact that pot is nearly three times more potent than the herb I inhaled decades ago.
While I never smoked or drank in high school—and that's the standard I unsuccessfully tried to hold my children to—the twentysomething me did use marijuana in college, and I'm here to tell you I never fell victim to reefer madness. I've spent most of my energy trying to steer my kids away from alcohol, which was their drug of choice in high school, and which I consider a bigger threat. At the same time, the fiftysomething me shudders when I hear stories in my little suburb of teens like Greg for whom pot was a gateway to self-destruction.
My children aren't totally out of the woods yet, but I hope I've done some things right teaching them the importance of moderation in all things—including partying. Most experts agree that whatever your personal feelings about weed, parents need to know the facts and get past the hype and hysteria. Keep talking to your kids, and keep an eye out for warning signs. Even if they do light up, you'll increase the odds that pot won't be a serious problem for them, but merely a rite of passage.
Fear Factor
One reason many people have such a hard time discussing marijuana with their kids is that the case against it—at least compared with other drugs—isn't so clear cut. Pot is the least addictive of substances most often abused by teens, considerably less so than alcohol, cocaine, or heroin. Even parents who strongly disapprove of weed may put up with it because the effects on their kids are fairly benign. "Marijuana calms most people down and puts them to sleep," says Ken C. Winters, professor at the University of Minnesota Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research. "Alcohol makes people more violent and aggressive, and creates far more havoc."
On the other hand, pot can be extremely habit-forming, even among so-called casual users, according to Liz Jorgensen, a substance abuse therapist in Ridgefield, Connecticut. "In my decades of practice, I've found that very few kids will drink every day, but there's a considerable minority who will smoke every day," she says. And while it's a myth that marijuana users inevitably progress to hard drugs, studies have shown that very few teens develop serious drug habits without trying pot—and alcohol—first.
So how worried should parents be when they stumble across a pipe or other paraphernalia—or, like my wife and me, see a butane lighter fall out of their son's pocket? (Note: We knew he didn't smoke tobacco.) If there's a history of addiction, depression, or bipolar disorder in your extended family, you need to worry. Research has linked dependence on pot to genetic factors. If your child is hyperactive, anxious, or a compulsive risk-taker, you need to worry. Drugs are often a way for troubled teens to self-medicate. In a landmark California study of 100 kids who were tracked from ages 3 to 18, those who became the heaviest pot users had suffered from behavioral problems for years. Even in early elementary school, they coped poorly with stress, had low self-esteem, made few friends, and were often ostracized by classmates. In other words, dysfunction led to drug abuse, not the other way around.
Greg Williams was a case in point. He was diagnosed with hyperactivity as a toddler. His parents believed he'd outgrown it; after all, Greg did well enough in school and his instructors never complained. But inside, he says, "I was crippled with fear. I felt separate and disconnected from everyone else. I don't know why—there was no big trauma in my life. But there was always this spinning in my head, and pot was the only thing that stopped it. I liked what it did to me. It numbed the pain."
Age Matters
If there's one ironclad rule for parents when it comes to pot, it's this: Do everything you can to postpone that crucial moment when your kid takes his first hit. Research shows that the earlier children start smoking marijuana, the greater the likelihood of addiction down the line. "Over half of adult addicts had used pot by 15," says Hedrick. "That's why parents need to keep your children away from it for as long as possible."
The fact that more kids are starting younger is particularly worrisome when you consider the stuff they're inhaling. Potency has hit an all-time high: The average concentration of THC, marijuana's main psychoactive ingredient, is now more than 10 percent, compared with less than 4 percent in 1983, and experts believe the numbers will likely rise over the next several years. At the University of Mississippi Potency Monitoring Project, where thousands of samples of seized marijuana are tested annually, THC levels have already exceeded 30 percent.
There's also growing evidence of a toll on the adolescent brain. Yale researcher Alecia Schweinsburg, PhD, has done the first scans comparing the brain function of two groups of 16- to 18-year-olds—those who have abstained from pot and heavy users (kids who smoke at least every other day) who stopped for one month. While both groups performed similarly on memory tests, scans show that chronic smokers had to utilize far more areas of the brain to get the same results. Schweinsburg intends to follow up when the subjects reach 20, and the prognosis doesn't look good. Similar studies on alcohol that have already been completed show that by the time they turned 20, heavy drinkers were unable to retrieve as many memories as they could just two years earlier.
Sandra Carcamo, a member of PDFA's parent advisory committee who lives in Davidsonville, Maryland, knows the research well. Tenacious about keeping her children away from pot, Sandra's method has been to get in their faces early and often. When her oldest daughter skipped classes in 10th grade, Sandra personally introduced her to the school police officer so he'd have a better shot at catching her the next time. Sandra warned her daughter that if it happened again, she'd take vacation time and spend a week following her to each and every class. And for good measure, she insisted on meeting the girl's friends whenever she went out with them, making the girls come into the house, interviewing them, and taking down their cell phone numbers. "I met with resistance, but I told my daughter she had to play by the rules or stay home," says Sandra. "So far, we've had no problems."
Jorgensen recommends that parents stop and listen to their tweens' and teens' music and use that as a starting point for discussion. "This hip-hop they love is a lot about ganja and weed and running from the cops," she says, adding that it's a parent's job to counteract those messages. Not long ago I walked into the kitchen and found my 15-year-old doing her AP history homework while humming along to a tune on the radio, "Smoke Two Joints" by Sublime. ("I smoke two joints in the morning/I smoke two joints at night/I smoke two joints in the afternoon/It makes me feel all right.") She's a very good kid, and unlike her three older brothers, she's had no pot or alcohol issues. But I still felt I had to say something. I asked her if she knew that Sublime's front man had died of a heroin overdose. "I know, Dad," she said, rolling her eyes. Discussion over, but point made.
Talk. Listen. Repeat As Needed.
Trying to teach moderation to my kids has been the toughest challenge I've faced as a parent. If I'd had my way with the boys, there would have been absolutely no pot while they were in high school. I didn't start until college and smoked my last joint well before they were born. I have, as the experts say, modeled the right behavior, and while I'm confident it's the best defense in the long run, I've certainly had my moments of doubt. Though they're good students, awesome athletes, and hard workers with part-time and summer jobs, my guys love to party. Too much teen testosterone. Whenever my wife and I found evidence they'd broken the rules, we'd confront, lecture, lay down the law. "We get it, Dad. We're sorry. Honest." Then it would happen again and the cycle repeated, an endless war of attrition. And even though they're legally adults, I know I can still turn up the heat if necessary—maybe take away the car or refuse to pay auto insurance, lock up the savings account or balk at the tuition bill for the next semester of college. "They may seem like harsh measures," says Jorgensen. "But the real message to your kids is, 'I love you so much.'"
I believe my children are getting the message, despite that telltale lighter. For me the most crucial finding in the California survey was that the healthiest teens weren't those who had never smoked pot. Abstainers were found to have almost as many problems as serious abusers, and were described as "anxious," "emotionally constricted," and "lacking in social skills." The happiest and least stressed group were those the researchers called "experimenters," teens who'd smoked pot anywhere from a few times to as often as once a month.
But how to tell whether your kid is an experimenter or a hard case? The Web is full of sites describing the symptoms of chronic abuse. The PDFA, for example, lists 63 of them. Some parents find such lists helpful; to me, they're often so long and generalized they could describe almost any teen (the 16th item on the PDFA list is "loud, obnoxious behavior," the 21st is "silent, non-communicative behavior"). While all three of my party-hearty sons worried me, one worried me more, and I worked harder with him, talking, punishing, grounding, getting him into counseling. For months I'd wake up at 4 a.m., fearing the worst. And then he found something he loved, something that gave him purpose, and all the mess we'd been mired in receded, almost overnight. Suddenly, he was too busy acting on his dream to waste time on nonsense.
The same thing happened to Greg Williams, although he needed a rehab program to clean up and start over. The day after he totaled the car in July 2001, Marty and Micheline got him into an inpatient hospital for substance abuse before sending him to the Caron Treatment Center, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. "Of course I didn't want to go," he recalls. "But what changed my mind was when Natalie turned to me and said, 'Greg, I'd rather you go to jail than come back home, because at least that way I'd know you were safe.'"
After a monthlong stay, he went on to attend Quinnipiac University—where he graduated with a 3.75 grade point average—and started living life in full. "I used to say there was all this stuff I was going to do, like snowboarding, bungee jumping, or going to Europe, which never happened because I was too stoned to get up off the couch," he says. "Now I've done it all, and more." At 26, Greg's found his calling as co-director of Connecticut Turning to Youth and Families, a statewide organization strengthening prevention, treatment, and recovery support services. Using peer-to-peer support, they help adolescents and families with drug and alcohol problems connect with others who have lived through and recovered from the nightmare of addiction. "I'm grateful beyond words for what my family and friends did to help me when I was finally ready to listen," he says. "I owe everything to them."
Originally published in the July 2010 issue of Family Circle magazine.
Read Greg Williams' firsthand account of his marijuana addiction and recovery
To learn more about Connecticut Turning to Youth and Families, go to ctyouthandfamilies.org.


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One of the ways to keep your marriage going strong is to take a few days, leave the kids behind, and fly somewhere warm. I've never really thought much about Jamaica, what with the Bob Marley and the ganja and the reggae and the no problem and the mon it seemed like perhaps something I wouldn't be so into.
But what I AM into is not paying anything for a trip, so when I realized I was going to be stuck with 3 expiring nights at a Hyatt I found that they were opening a new resort in Jamaica with free nights available. Jamaica was now something I would be so into.
We dropped the kids off with friends on Friday morning of MLK weekend and went to grab a taxi. As the cab pulled up another woman came over and said she was hailing the cab and it was, in fact hers. But before I could even start an argument she saw me looking at my phone.
"Is this an Uber," she asked?
No, it's a cab.
"Yes it is – I ordered it," said me.
"Oh, I'm sorry about that…"
And like that, one tiny tiny lie out of the way, we headed to JFK.
I haven't flown JetBlue in years. And years. Free TV and extra legroom are most definitely in my wheelhouse, but I'm a slave to the United miles, making JetBlue an airline pariah for me. In my mind, though, JetBlue is still all about new planes, great free TV, and free snacks.
And the reality is that there is TV and there are snacks, but incredibly, just 15 or so years after they launched, their original A320s are showing a wee bit of wear and/or tear. Their seatback TVs on these older planes are notably smaller than the United 737 seatback TVs (which do cost $5.99 or $7.99, neither of which is free), and their leather seats are a little dinged up. The snacks are still great, and crew was perfectly lovely. But it really is amazing how quickly the once-cutting-edge free TVs now seem, if not exactly a relic, a 19" Sony Trinitron to the United 4K Samsungs (or whatever – you know what I'm saying). I guess my point is that I see why JetBlue has stagnated a bit over the past few years – sure, their Mint service is an innovation, but their 15 year old product is a bit long in the tooth vis a vis their competition.
As with so many arrivals in the developing world, passport control at Montego Bay was a free-for-all (international arrivals at JFK are terrible, but an orderly terrible; Montego Bay is a disorderly terrible). There are nearly 20 gates at the airport, making it much larger a) than I was expecting; and b) than the arrivals hall can handle. People are coming from every direction, converging on 2 uniformed women who were checking our immigration forms.
"What color pen did you use here?"
"Excuse me?" responded my wife.
"What color pen did you use? You can only use blue or black. This looks like purple."
"It's blue," answered the Mrs., confidently.
"It looks purple to me."
"It's not."
"OK, you can go ahead."
Free and clear, we continue walking to the actual arrivals hall where we are once again scrutinized by another uniformed woman who will not listen to us about the color of the pen, and tells us we have to fill out the form again because "they won't accept that with the purple ink."
"It's blue."
We fill out the form again, except when we show it to get by the troll she tells us we didn't fill out all of it, and tells me that I need to write down what countries I've been to in the past 60 days.
"I haven't been to any." (That's not technically true, but after I saw people in front of me sent to a medical line after they said they had been to Argentina, I thought it best to be circumspect regarding my recent travels.")
"You need to write that down."
"Write what down? I wrote a line through the space indicating I have been to no countries."
"You need to write the countries."
"There are no countries."
"Then you need to write that."
"Write what?"
"No countries."
When my daughter Scarlett was 2 ½ she would ask my wife for gum, and when she responded she had no gum, Scarlett would say, "let me see it, no gum." And we would get into an argument about how you show that something isn't there.
I wrote "no countries," and continued.
Passport control all done, we get into the customs hall and there are roughly 317,000 people in the "nothing to declare" line while there are literally zero people in the "something to declare" line. With nothing to declare, I declare to my wife that we will go to the "something to declare line."
"What do you have to declare?"
"This is the line for people who have something to declare – like alcohol or cash."
"I don't have anything like that."
"Then you can't be in this line. You can just go over to that line over there." (points to the 317,000 people.)
"Oh, I can't go in that line. There are too many people."
"But that's your line."
"I'm going to stick with this line."
With that, the customs agent asks me all of the questions on the back of the form regarding declarations ("I have no livestock to my knowledge, no ma'am….") she ushers me through, and we head off to the hotel.
We stayed at the Hyatt Zilara Rose Hall, which some of you may remember as the Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall. The resort had been closed for 2 years for a massive renovation, where they added 2 additional buildings on to the original structure. It reopened a few weeks back. I shall now tell you a few things about the property:
The resort is divided into 2 sections. The Zilara is adults-only, with a beautiful quiet pool, lovely cabanas (that are free, though it's first-come-first-serve), and a couple of restaurants, one of which was so empty the entire time we were there that we became obsessed with figuring out why no one was there. The appearance of Goat on the dinner menu may have had something to do with it. I have other theories about the constant emptyness of Flavorez, but I will not share them with you here.
The other section is called Ziva, and is basically the same thing, only families are allowed. There are constant activities at the pool, a show in the evening, and a generally pleasant vibe which made life enjoyable both for the adults and the children who happened to be staying in that section of the resort.
Both are all-inclusive, which includes all your drinks and meals at a wide range of restaurants. We found the food ranging from perfectly acceptable to quite good (breakfast buffet) to excellent (pizzas at the Italian restaurant). And it was on the honor system, meaning there were no bracelets, beads, cards, or whatever — you just ate, drank and left.
If you read the reviews on Tripadvisor you will note that the hotel opened on Christimas week and was an epic disaster. You should just skip those reviews. You will also note a series of complaints about the "original building" vs the "new building." The rooms in the original building have been renovated absolutely beautifully. 400+ square feet with large bathrooms, balconies, and a light airy feel. Neither the elevators nor hallways have been renovated yet so the original carpeting is still in place, a fact that bothered some reviewers on Tripadvisor. Those people are nuts.
We spent one evening in a room in that building with a partial ocean view on the 5th (top) floor. We were moved to a junior suite (600+ square feet) in the new building on the 2nd night, and it, too, was beautiful. Brand new, with a huge tub, an amazing shower, incredible bedding, and a balcony. It was only on the second floor and we decided that we actually preferred the smaller room a bit higher up. To each his own.
Here is the portion where I note how much it costs to stay at the Hyatt Zilara Rose Hall.
Low level rooms during the season are nearly $1,000 for 2 people per night. The junior suite was more than $1,200. You read that correctly. Yes, it's all-inclusive, but it's a Hyatt (it's not even a Park Hyatt). We had the rooms for free because we each had the Hyatt credit card, making it quite possibly the best use of those rooms anywhere (the rooms are more expensive than those at the Park Hyatt Vendome in Paris and the Park Hyatt Tokyo, which every blogger blathers on about, though breakfast at those places is an additional $75 or so, but really you don't deserve to go to Paris if you eat breakfast at the hotel instead of going to grab a croissant and baguette from a local place, but that's for another day).
We spent a chunk of our time on the vacation discussing who is spending $1000+ for a room at a Hyatt resort. Mind you – this is an absolutely beautiful, beautiful property. The staff could not have been more wonderful; the pools are incredible; the grounds, when they are finished –they are not yet fully landscaped – will be gorgeous. The beach is OK – if you are a beach person, you will not love the beach.
That aside – it is probably the nicest chain hotel in the Caribbean (Four Seasons aside, since you can't use points there), and I would argue the best use of Hyatt points anywhere (sure – the Maldives proprerty blah blah blah, but I'm not going to fly for 60 hours for a 3-day weekend). 25,000 Hyatt points gets you a night for 2 people at the hotel, all-inclusive. Additional people are another 12,500 points each. You can use the free credit card nights at the hotel, but you only get 2 people for that.
But I still wonder – who is spending that kind of money at a Hyatt-branded resort? Again, no disrespect. And once we were there, we were, on every level, blown away. It had none of the stuffiness that I find at the Four Seasons, but didn't suffer from the slow service you find in so many other places in the region. For us the most impressive aspect was that they made what is actually quite a large resort feel like a boutique. Bravo.
If you're considering going – I'm happy to answer any questions.
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