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Today's report on my National Novel Writing Month project, Dixieland, which is now at 19,511 words. My protagonist couple Alvie and Edna Mae Ferguson are separated by Alvie's World War II deployment with the Army Air Corp. He will become a POW. But I didn't settle until today on how to depict his war experience. Tell me what you think.
Up until the first letter he writes from Stalag Luft I after being taken prisoner of war, his entire war experience is told in the letters he writes to Edna Mae. I thought it would be different, a unique approach, to tell more of their backstory — courtship, early life, etc. — in those letters. The setting for Alvie will shift to the German POW camp for the last two months of his time there, but until then the reader won't "see" through Alvie's eyes — only through his letters to his young bride.
This approach also presents a challenge for me to write Edna Mae's letters to Alvie. After all, I'm not a 26-year-old woman who pines for her husband. (Talk about writing outside the lines here).
The excerpt I'm providing below is Alvie's first letter from the POW camp, and it includes a glimpse into my creative process. As I write, I make notes to myself (see italics). The notes remind me that I'm foreshadowing, adding to earlier (so far unwritten) references, and making sure to bring some things to resolution, where the reader will say, "Aha! I remember that from back in Chapter Whatever when Alvie mentioned he was bringing his nephew a souvenir."
As always: unedited. Tell me what you think.
My dearest Edna Mae,
You probably know by now that I'm a guest of the German army and we are very well cared for. I couldn't eat better if I was made of cornbread. (THIS IS A SURE TIP-OFF THAT HE IS NOT EATING WELL. Earlier in the story, I'll have Alvie make a reference to a meal that one of Edna Mae's sisters made. Her sis will say, "Well, Alvie Ferguson, I'll swannie. I believe you must be made of cornbread." To which Alvie will whisper to Edna Mae, "If I was made of cornbread, I'd just soak this stuff up. Wouldn't have to taste it then." I'LL HAVE HIM MAKE ANOTHER "if I was made of cornbread" statement in reference to uncooked or spoiled food.)
I feel your prayers and I know it won't be long before we're staring at the same moon together, not continents apart. Tell my Billy that I've got him a souvenir. (IT'S THE SHRAPNEL lodged in his arm). Tell your folks hi. I've never loved you more. Your Alvie."
EDNA MAE'S LETTER to Alvie after learning he's alive:
Sweet, handsome Alvie, my Superman,
I'm writing this without even knowing where I shall send it, but if I don't write these words now I'll quite likely come unhinged. You're alive! My darling, I weep and shout in both sadness and joy. The WAAC sisters teach us and insist that we keep our chins up and not show a sign of sadness or weakness, but I just can't do it right now. So I might not send this. I do not desire to bring you low; just thinking of any of my words souring your handsome countenance is unbearable, but you can always see right through the platitudes. You know my heart, and that is why this separation is so powerfully unbearable.
My love, you have the most resourceful ways of taking care of yourself and bringing your thoughts to happy, gay times. I know how you care for and love your chums, and how they so look up to you and rely on your strength. Yet I cannot wait another second for you to let yourself be weak in my arms, and let me take care of you.
I simply cannot pretend with you. I truly know there was much more you wanted and needed to tell me. I am sure I have the motor mechanics in my brain well enough to build an engine, yet I now must learn how to build the fuselage and the wings. Yes, my love, if it takes me the rest of my years, if you are not here, I will build that airplane myself and come and get you. And if you return before I put in the last rivet, then you can fly our little airplane and show me something – anything away from the memory of these last months – where we can soar past this time.
You know I'm just silly. Do not fret over thinking that I am assembling a little airplane.
But if I could, my love, if I could …
It will soon be one year since your deployment. Perhaps our separation will end quite soon. I pray for you, my love. I still keep one side of the bed unslept and ready for you. And now that I lock that door, I cannot wait to lock us inside our nest. Oh, how I miss you, my Alvie.
I will stay strong. There is so much to tell you about my adventure to Kentucky and the tales of working at that little newspaper. I feel that I have become a woman in the truest sense of the word. Perhaps someday you and I will move away from here and start our own little newspaper. That would be grand!
I must sip some hot tea and say my prayers before I retire. Your caress, your strong shoulders, your mischievous grin and the boyish pranks that you play are always, forever on my mind. And in my heart.
Your bride, Edna Mae


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Chicken pox: Judy and Joshua
Joshua Brooks from Suffolk developed a brain injury four years ago following chickenpox when he was 2 years old.April 2015. Date of brain injury: 2011 (child aged 2 years). In rare cases like Joshua's the chickenpox virus infects the brain and leads to its tissues becoming inflamed which can result in brain injury. Here Joshua's mum, Judy, shares her family's experience in this Q&A.
What were your thoughts when you were given the news?We didn't get a firm diagnosis until the end of 2014 although our own personal research had already made the link. We're still trying to come to terms with the news; grief for the child who was changed forever, worry, fear and determination to get him the support he needs. And frustration at the lack of help.
In the early days is there anything you wished the doctors had explained that would have helped?I wish they had been more honest, that there was the potential for permanent injury. We were not told about acquired brain injury or told about any support organisations. We thought he was a miracle for recovering and everything would be OK.
Tell us a little bit about life since the brain injury.Everyday is a constant fight for diagnosis. Access to speech therapy in particular is appalling, much of the improvement in Joshua's speech is down to my work and the school. Joshua is in mainstream school. He has sensory processing disorder and I am learning about this now too. Lack of sleep is a real challenge for us all because Joshua doesn't sleep. It's frustrating when he point blank refuses to do something as mundane as get dressed because he'd prefer not to. Our other two children feel left out because Joshua needs so much extra time. There's a lack of money for things Joshua needs, things we all need.
What are people's reactions to Joshua's brain injury?Brain injury is an invisible disability. People don't understand the meltdowns and our family pretend it isn't happening which is isolating for us. Once Joshua came out of hospital people assumed he was well.
What are the remaining effects of the brain injury and can you share some of the strategies you use to help?Joshua has sensory processing disorder, speech and language problems as well as fine and gross motor skills problems. He also has short term memory problems.
We use a visual timetable and a Movin' Sit Cushion which is a special device which supports his posture and spine. I think it's important to try and keep bedtime routine structured then work with whatever happens. With only 25 minutes of speech therapy per fortnight term time, much of the therapy is done by me at home. Joshua also has no fear or concept of danger. He dosesn't have much understanding of emotions but he is very affectionate.


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(above Tim Ryan making short work of transporting an electronic drum kit that was donated to the Rock Camp by Michigan Tech)
The 2010 Rock Camp is getting under way. We spend the day loading our gear into the Rozsa Center and getting the numerous rehearsal rooms and practice spaces set up.
A big thanks to the boys of the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity, a number of our friends, and a few camp kids and parents for joining in the heavy lifting. Everything is coming together nicely. Let's get this camp Rocking.
Here are a few shots from our Rozsa load-in and set up….


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A couple weeks ago, at the tail end of an 18-day family reunion/beer vacation/work trip across Europe, I joined the London content strategy crowd for an evening of lightning talks covering takeaways from May's Confab conference and looks forward to September's CS Forum.
For five (in my case, very rushed) minutes each, eight of us made our way through narrative arcs ranging from data-driven content strategy to corporate communications' role to translating strategy to tactics to, of course, cake.
But being neither a presenter at Confab nor scheduled to attend CS Forum, I didn't have a talk to either summarize or preview. What I did have was some whiskey, and the dubious honor of going on first.
A place at the table
Standing in front of 100-odd Brits who had no idea who the hell I was, I decided to tackle something entirely impossible in a five-minute talk: how to earn a place at the table—to move content strategy from something we discuss amongst ourselves to something that's valued and incorporated amongst those who make decisions.
I chose this because, after my experience at Confab—where I heard countless people commiserating about still being left out until it's too late—I felt like plenty of content people were still fighting for their place in the process. I also chose it because it's something I've been relatively successful at attaining in my own organization, where I've learned a good bit about prying one's way into the important meetings.
You can watch the video of my talk, as well as that of Cleve Gibbons (whose thoughts on content architecture are still rattling around my head) here. I'd embed it, but I can't handle how rushed and awkward I sound, so I'm going to go back to pretending it doesn't exist. Other videos are going up as I write this, so be on the lookout on the CS Forum blog.
A sense of purpose
So what did I take away from the experience? Other than being bummed as hell that I can't make it to CS Forum, and pleased as hell to have amazing content strategist friends in other lands, I headed back to the states with a strong desire to do something meaningful for the field.
Interest in content, in all its ugly complexity, has exploded. It's already tough for me to keep up with the smart blogs, books, podcasts, and more happening in and around this discipline. But I don't just want to keep up; I want to contribute.
So, I'm giving myself a public challenge: Stop worrying about whether you're experienced or interesting enough, and just do something. Look for more of that here, soon.
And if you're still reading
You should know that CS Forum is in London this year, at the Mermaid Center where this event was held. The venue is pretty neat, the speaker lineup looks amazing—several of content strategy's "big names," plus a good mix of new voices—and the location couldn't be more fun. You should really go.
The only downside is that I won't be there. This time.


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The cliffs of Grosnez mark the north west corner of Jersey, and it is an area rarely considered as a coasteering destination. Fully exposed to the westerly swell and with virtually no escape routes, this is not an area for the inexperienced. Today's light winds and decaying swell drew us north in search of some watery entertainment.
We decided to travel west from Plemont to Grosnez, it meant that when we climbed up the cliffs we arrived at the cars, as opposed to having a 20 minute walk along the cliff path whilst wet.
This is a great section of the Jersey coastline for sea kayaking but today our progress was much slower but probably much more intimate as we scrambled along this remote section of the Islands coast.


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40 Days for Life starts one week from tomorrow ..... and you are invited to help save lives from abortion!
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It was a circus. He once again had all of his witnesses in order, prepared to publicly humiliate me as much as the courts would allow. I work in the field of domestic violence and when writing papers we generally conclude with how to prevent abuse and violence. So why, when so many of us are spending careers writing about how to stop abuse, does it continue at such an alarming rate? Because abusers are fantastic at becoming the victim in the story and making the victim the perpetrator. It would have taken a perceptive, well trained, person to see the real abuser, and in my case this did not happen until almost the end.
Sociopaths thrive on drama, chaos and refraction. They cannot spend too much time on any one point because it's so far from reality and untrue. They are on point D when the victim is still stuttering about how A, B and C are lies and then suddenly D is fact and D is truth. The sociopath is very regulated and very in control. Why not? They are puppeteers and they are dictating everything so they can just sit calmly back. They don't get anxious, don't flinch or waver; they look you directly in the eye and LIE. Meanwhile the perplexed and seemingly out of control victims become more deregulated. Listen, we do get "crazy" because orange is not green and no one will listen. They are extremely confident about point D being the truth, they are generally attractive, well dressed/groomed, poised, well-spoken… so… no one challenges them.
My attorney encouraged me to say nothing; we would have to wait for them to go through all of their antics and slowly prove otherwise. I would have to willingly be publicly re-victimized.
I sat back and allowed the abuse to run over me and thru me without saying a word; I would continue to do this for over a year. I became a stronger person; he underestimated me.
By 2pm on Friday I was allowed to have my son only three hours a day a couple of days a week and all day Saturday. I was paying $1,200 per month in child support, I was paying all court ordered therapy (over $1,000 per month) 70% of all the Guardian Ad Litem fees, my attorney, and, by this time, my daughters had turned completely against me. It was recommended that I attend weekly therapy, a weekly alcohol abuse program, and ordered to participate in a full family psychological evaluation. He had no individual responsibilities. Again…I was supporting a family of five with the same job for more than a decade (and health insurance, etc.), he was exremely underemployed, and he was given primary time share of our children! My value and worth to my family was monetary only.
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Overland is a small family owned business based out of Fairfield, Iowa. It was founded by Jim Leahy, who hand-crafted beautiful, high-quality sheepskin coats, hats, mittens, and slippers- cutting and stitching everything himself. He set up the first Overland store in a small shop near the Rio Grande Valley. Jim's popularity grew rapidly, and he employed local Taos artisans to help him craft his products. Today Overland has 16 store locations and a thriving internet business, all with a continued commitment to providing their customers with high-quality leather products. Overland uses Arqspin to provide their customers with interactive 360 spins of their purses, shoes and small leather accessories. I spoke with David Murphy, Overland's photographer, to find out how Arqspin sets Overland apart.
Using Arqspin gives Overland's customers a more in-depth experience of the product and allows them to see what they're actually getting. "With traditional product photography you're lucky if you get a front, back, and side view" says David. In addition to providing more views of a product, 360 photography also provides a sense of movement. David believes that movement is not only more fun and visually attractive for customers, but also shows the overall shape of the product better. This enhanced sense of the product and its details gives customers more confidence when purchasing online.
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(Fenton, MO) – Hillary Lawless opened the scoring for MSU at 3:12 with a hard shot inside the far post from the left side. Less than a minute later, Casey Bayliss made it 2-0 Bears by stealing an outlet pass and scoring on a breakaway at 4:20. Sacred Heart got on the board on the first career goal by Sarah Bergman (Blandon, PA), who deflected a penalty corner shot from Nikki Kimborowicz (Biddefored, ME) at 18:02. However, Missouri State closed out the half with three goals – a tally by Sarah Cusick at 24:29 and two more from Bayliss at 25:21 and 30:49 to complete a hat trick.
The Pioneers dominated the second half chances by outshooting the Bears 21-7, aided by 12 of SHU's 17 penalty corners for the game (MSU only had one penalty corner in the entire contest). However, Cusick's second goal of the game gave MSU a 6-1 lead at 40:25. Kate Boyd (Nottingham, NH) then scored for SHU at 43:00, knocking in a rebound. Lawless got that goal back for MSU, tipping a pass across the cage from Chelsey Medlock at 48:14. The Pioneers answered on goals by Alex Mellilo (Southbury, CT) at 50:11 on a penalty corner and Chelsea Carlson (Peterborough, NH) at 51:45 off a scramble in front of the cage, with Boyd registering an assist. MSU closed out the scoring at 67:23 on an unassisted breakaway goal.
Kelsey Cox (Monroe, CT) made three saves on five shots in relief of Kim Stow (Norwalk, CT).
The Pioneers next play Friday afternoon at Dartmouth at 2:00 p.m.


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First, I would like to present photographic proof that all those people with 3 and 4 kids who find time to sew obviously do not sleep, because this is a regular sight in this house with just one baby.
In that last picture you can just make out the 12″ Habitat blocks for donation quilts. Which were made when I should have been asleep. They ended up inside a weeble treehouse just a few moments later.
speaking of treehouses… oh heck, there just isn't a good segue-way for this, oh well, plunging in;
My vegetable gardener husband grew birdhouse gourds from seed . After we picked them we put them in a milkcrate and stored them safely in the garage to dry out. Fast forward five years. I have been telling anyone who will listen that I want birdhouses for my birthday. I have 6 or 7 birdhouses currently and they are mostly occupied and I have a totally illogical urge to invite more squawking poopers over to our yard. Anyway, it came to me in a dream that I have moved that damn milkcrate around the garage umpteen times and it was high time to make my own birdhouses.
I won't bore you with the construction details (just put it in google, folks). But the whole reason I am posting the pictures is I wanted to share how much I LOVE the patina on these gourds before they were painted. People pay big money for granite that looks like that! But I am too lazy to go all the way to the store for varnish, so, white they are.


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Scientists detect high-energy neutrinos, using the IceCube observatory!
Neutrinos are particle in the size of electrons, but without charge. We know that they have mass, but we haven't measured it yet. Although they are everywhere (our bodies are hit by about 100 trillion neutrinos every second), neutrinos cannot be detected since they rarely interact with matter. Scientists now managed to spot one of them and trace its origin, a blazar located 3 billion light years away from us!


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After he was given community service last Thursday at Banbridge Magistrates Court a 21-year-old man was warned if he breached the order he would be facing a possible prison sentence of eight months.
Scott Mayne, Barban Heights, Dromore, admitted stealing a pair of pliers from the Supervalu store in the town on August 30 last year.
The court heard he had removed the packaging from the item before leaving the premises. The pliers were not fit for re-sale.
Mayne was identified by police on CCTV and when interviewed admitted it was a 'stupid action'. Sentencing had been adjourned from a previous court to obtain a specific sentence report.
A barrister representing the defendant said just five days before this offence Mayne had been given a suspended sentence for an identical offence.
He explained that this was the anniversary of the death of one of Mayne's friend from drug abuse and he wanted to visit his grave.
However, he added, his bike was broken and he needed the pliers to mend it.
The lawyer said Mayne was very keen to do community service to get some structure into his lifestyle.
District Judge Eamonn King said the defendant had 17 previous convictions including burglary, assaults and theft and had received a four month suspended sentence just four days before this offence.
He added that Mayne had indicated to the court and the probation service that he was ready and able to work.
"Let's put him to the test," said Judge King.
He gave him 200 hours community service with the warning that if he breached the order he would be facing at least four months in prison or a possible eight month term.


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PHOENIX (Dec. 1, 2009) — More than 20 meeting professionals representing over $30 million worth of annual meeting and convention business will spend the three days considering the possibilities in Greater Phoenix, the only destination they are holding this event in 2009.
Representatives from SmithBucklin, the world's largest association management and professional services company, will be the guests of the Greater Phoenix Convention & Visitors Bureau and downtown hotels today until Friday. These specialized visitors will get a firsthand look at the new Phoenix Convention Center, downtown Phoenix's major hotels, and more than a dozen resorts throughout Greater Phoenix — all of which present versatile venues for conventions and meetings.
"It is also important to recognize that Greater Phoenix hosts hundreds of meetings each year related to industries targeted by the economic development community, a value added opportunity for those efforts as well," said Steve Moore, President of the Greater Phoenix Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Founded in 1949, SmithBucklin provides full-service management services to trade associations, professional societies, corporations, government agencies and nonprofit organizations. It annually manages 815,000 conventions, events and meeting attendees, and has offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., St. Louis and St. Paul, Minn. These cities serve as the headquarters of thousands of corporate and government associations — most of which, per their bylaws, hold annual meetings that can be potent economic stimuli for the cities chosen to host them.
"SmithBucklin is sort of to meeting planners what Microsoft is to software engineers," said Kevin Kamenzind, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at the Greater Phoenix CVB. "They are a major player in the meetings industry, and getting the chance to show them our new convention center and meeting-friendly hotels and resorts is a real coup for the Valley."
The 20 SmithBucklin professionals who are in Phoenix this week manage associations and meeting groups that boast more than 21,000 potential meeting attendees. These attendees could occupy nearly 12,000 guest rooms and spend over $30 million during their stays in Phoenix.
The SmithBucklin group will be treated to a 2-hour, behind-the-scenes tour of the Phoenix Convention Center, which recently emerged from a $600 million expansion that tripled the size of its meeting and exhibit space. The new convention center's architecture is inspired by the colors and angles of the Grand Canyon, and its LEED-certified environs include rooftop solar panels, chairs made of recycled car batteries and seat belts, and a water-harvesting garden that converts condensation from the building's heating and cooling system into water for landscaping.
The meeting planners will stay at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix and Wyndham Phoenix Downtown, and attend a function at the 1,000-room Sheraton Phoenix Downtown that opened in October 2008. Beyond downtown Phoenix, the planners will explore the meeting facilities at 13 full-service resorts in the mountain-shrouded metropolitan area.
"Meeting and convention business is an economic driver for our community, and this is an excellent chance to showcase Greater Phoenix's attributes to some of the top meeting planners in the country," Kamenzind said. "We can't possibly show the SmithBucklin folks everything we have to offer, but we're certainly going to give them lots to think about."


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Flight strike in France
Today a large part of the air traffic controllers in Brest, Bordeaux and Marseille go on a strike that will last until Friday 19:00, writes Travel News (in Swedish).
Air France has guaranteed that the airline will accomplish all its long-haul flights, 99 percent of their middle-distance flights and 80 percent of domestic flights. However, there may be delays, according to the airline. Easy Jet has chosen to cancel 38 of their Monday flights.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, the crew and some of the pilots from Air France plans to go on strike. Also Air France's cabin crew plan to go on strike from Saturday March 18th.
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I am sure many of you are aware of the small details of the Shape of Training (ShoT) review, however many of you probably are not, therefore I though I would write a brief piece to summarise the key issues in training, how the review has gone about their business and the many issues that have been left completely unanswered.
Firstly medical training was subject to huge structural reform less than ten years ago in the form of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC). It is worth remembering that history proved MMC was a covert and dishonest attempt by the Department of Health to force through a 'subconsultant grade' through the back door. This was never admitted before or during MMC, I obtained documents after the event proving that the DH and senior medical leaders had misled doctors and patients by claiming the review was just about 'better training', it clearly was not, it was dressed up as something that it overtly was not. This context of government dishonesty is hugely important.
The ShoT review was led by a Professor of economics with no medical experience and supported by the GMC, it gathered 'evidence' over 2013 and released its final report at the end of 2013. It is currently in the process of being implemented by Health Education England and others including the GMC, of note not a single trainee is involved in implementing this reform, ironic that. Now let us consider the review from a series of angles that any sensible individual would see as vital, let us examine the need and rationale, the evidence, the consultation, the review's recommendations, the views of professional bodies and the future.
The rationale and evidence for major structural change. Firstly it is necessary to move forward and back, the review claimed from the start that it would not necessarily lead to major structural changes, but this is precisely what the review has recommended, major structural changes, and very soon after MMC. It is clear from the evidence reviewed by the ShoT team that there was no solid evidence to justify major structural change, it is this simple. Not only that but the evidence gathering appeared biased and the opinions on the evidence predetermined. The argument from some Shape proponents that 'reform is needed' is bogus, reform is always needed as reform is improvement, but this does not justify the negative destructive proposals of Shape. The current system needs gentle tweaking in some areas, minimal change in others, what was not needed was blanket reform of a major structural nature. Verdict: inadequate evidence to justify major structural change.
The consultation. The consultation was poor in many ways. Firstly the consultation was extremely biased and leading in the way in which questions were asked to respondents. Shape deliberately tried to push people into certain boxes with their answers on the future of training, in a way that appeared they wanted a certain answer even before the evidence had been gathered. The consultation was also extremely poor in terms of the total number of responses, less than 200 responses were gathered from doctors. Interestingly the majority of opinion was also ignored on key issues such as time to train:
"most individuals and organisations argued that generalists would require a longer training period or reconstruction of training to capture the breadth of experiences needed to provide competent general care"
Verdict: poor quality consultation which ignored majority of opinion on key issues.
The review's key recommendations. Much like MMC many of the vague comments of the review appear reasonable at first glance, more 'flexibility', 'quality training' and 'generalism'. Sadly when one takes the time to analyse the practical reality of the review's key recommendations then not only are some of the ideas extremely vague, but some of the clear points are quite frankly unsafe for patients. The two most reckless and harmful recommendations are to reduce training time for hospital specialities and to move full GMC registration to the end of medical school. It is of key importance that these two dangerous ideas are not justified or even explained in any sufficient detail within the review's text. It is also key that there was significant majority of opinion against shortening training time. The reality of shortening training time is a less skilled consultant grade, this is to all intended purposes a 'sub-consultant grade', and something that many professional bodies have argued strongly against, based on some very strong evidence I should add.
The review does not justify why it is necessary to dumb down the consultant grade, and it introduces the highly bureaucratic idea of post CST (completion of specialty training) 'credentialing'. Hence 'sub-consultants' may well not be able to do some things unsupervised as they are not proper consultants as the public would understand, but they would also not be guaranteed training to the proper consultant level, this would be left up to individual employers via the 'credentialing' pathway. Another problem with this development of responsibility of training to employers is the lack of ability to plan the shape of the workforce in the long term. The RCP/RCS/BMA have all spoken eloquently about the dangers of these key recommendations. The review also fails to address the really key problems in training today such as reducing experience levels. Verdict: valid patient safety concerns from several professional bodies regarding key recommendations remain unaddressed and key recommendations inadequately justified.
The future. The one positive thing about the review is that it has not yet been implemented, it is currently in process. If I briefly try to sum up the review, it would be that it's proposed aims are inconsistent with the practical reality of its recommendations. Shape claims one thing but does another, much like MMC before it. The reality of the review is that unless aborted it will reduce training standards, create a far less skilled and demoralised sub-consultant grade. Not only will it have direct negative impacts on care quality and patient safety but it will likely lead to more recruitment crises, as intelligent able young doctors are not going to be keen at being trapped in a service providing sub-consultant grade for life. Do not be conned by the eloquent claims Shape makes of 'excellent patient care', the reality is the opposite, and the highly cynical would see the changes as creating a compliant new service grade doctor to be putty in the hands of an ever expanding network of corporate NHS providers. The Francis report highlighted huge problems with HCA training, something that has been left to employers, and Shape pushed the training of doctors further towards this disastrous position in which quality will be sacrificed for the artificial financial imperatives of employers. I shall leave you with a quote that sums up the reality of Shape as things stand:


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Conditions of Mediation. Phenomenological Approaches to Media, Technology and Communication, a conference held at Birkbeck Institute in London on 17 June 2013, was a special assembly of people bringing together a multitude of at the moment disparate threads of research in and around the experience of the digital. The conference was divided into a plenary morning session composed of six keynote talks, and three parallel streams of afternoon paper sessions. Owing to the limits of mechanical physics (partially overcome by the twitter activity of the attendees), and since the lines of thought delineated in the talks moved along many vectors, I am able to recount only a very limited portion of the whole.
Graham Harman starts off from the tension between depth and surface, as Kant first sketched it. Harman reconnected it with the problem of the background (medium or ground) and foreground (content or figure) in Marshall McLuhan's theorisation of medium. Contrary to what is current thought, McLuhan is, according to Harman, a thinker of the background, not surface. Something is always withdrawn from the medium, in a way not dissimilar to the casual perception of any object in Heideggerian phenomenology. But there are at least two ways of moving background to the foreground, even if temporarily. The first one individuated by McLuhan is 'retrieval', operation of bringing to the forefront a layer of the medium which has been concealed previously. This, in Harman's view, is something that artists working with media try to accomplish, they attempt to raise the spectator's awareness of the mediation as it takes act. Another figure/ground inter-change is 'reversal', which takes place when the medium overheats and then reverses its function or content. Harman makes an example of the highway, which, when saturated with cars, instead of a frictionless travelling surface turns into chaos. At this point, the medium is revealed, similarly to the Heidegger's famous hammer.
Not highways, but another type of infrastructure is the matter of concern of Lisa Parks. Her analysis approaches the U.S. Broadcasting system from the map of the network of radio and TV antennas. That highly technical knowledge is now a click away today, available as a mapping layer called FCCInfo on Google Earth. The layer is dazzlingly rich, it not only maps the locations of transmitters, but astoundingly the microwave connections between them as well. But, even at this extremely high resolution of detail, it remains a cartographic knowledge, something unmoving and flat. Thus, Parks proposes a more complex methodology of infrastructural reading, which she calls 'creative mediation'. It starts with the map, then extends into landscape, with excursions onto the actual sites of transmission. On field Parks encounters fences, barriers, warning signs, and limits to access. The antennas carrying medial access are not as accessible on foot. One of the paradoxes of the mediation. Although the infrastructural knowledge might seem distant from the mediation in itself, it is important because of the politics of knowledge, as Parks clarified in the Q&A session that followed.
Paddy Scannell looks at the everyday world as it is interwoven with media, and how this contributes to the experience of everyday life. This lifeworld, or 'everyday world' is a "working world that works all-day continually, yesterday, today, and tomorrow". It is made of structures and operations of "unfathomable complexity", which seamlessly work together, and this gives us "the trustworthiness in the everyday world and its things". Thus, we take it at its face value, for granted, without ever noticing it, and we only worry about it "when something goes wrong". What makes this everyday world 'workable' and 'working' for us are the "care structures", "the relational totality of the hidden layer around everyday useful usable things". Looking at media, and here Scannell refers specifically to television, we again observe the previously mentioned background/foreground double movement. The care structures that produce the television are withdrawn beneath the surface of the apparatus and the medium during the process of production. This applies both to the TV as a technological artefact (which lies in our living rooms) and its content, transmitted programme. As Harman, following McLuhan, points out, mediation works in the deep background but at the same time also allows communication.
The figure / ground reciprocation explicates itself in the today very present feeling of puzzlement caused by the 'tool reversibility' of the medium, something which Nick Couldry treated in his talk. Namely, as Couldry explains, it is not only us who simply use the medium, but, at the same time, the medium uses us for others' (mediated) interests. This bewilderment is experienced daily by phenomena as common as 'information overload', as Couldry vividly exemplified with a phenomenon as diffused as the all-too-full e-mail inbox. More in general, an unease in front of the digital tools derives from the fact that they operate through distant and inscrutable processes. Since they cannot be perceived at all, this induces the sensation that they cannot cannot be challenged.
The question of orientation was put to the fore in Shaun Moores' talk in which he analysed how our fingers are central to the experience of lifeworld, even in a digitally mediated environment. Following Tim Ingold's description of the operation of sawing a wooden plank, and David Sudnow's description of learning how to play jazz on piano, Moores extends these processes of cognitive orientation onto the use of computer keyboard, and, now, touch-screens. Thus, in his view, these surfaces of mediation with the digital constitute ways in which we inhabit the environment. Importantly, the surfaces of keyboards or screens are not inert backgrounds, but grounds of quotidian performance and in this way they become embodied relations and skills. Through this interaction, in Moores' view, we closely replicate the dwelling in Ingold's conceptualisation, thus the knowing "as we go" through the environment.
The imperceptibility of the medium is thus only relative, and the operations of 'retrieval' of the medium are possible even starting from the medium's surfaces. Scannell proposes the analysis of everyday things and care structures, Lisa Parks looks at the 'failures' of the infrastructure, and Couldry suggests a reflexive approach to 'social analytics'. Mediation operates in such way to create a "seamless workability of everyday world", but it also fails all the time. In these moments of everyday failure, the medium comes into the foreground, it ceases to be the ground or the infrastructure. In my view, even Moores' approach, in appearance with difficulty compatible with the analysis of the digital mediation, may have interesting implications in the study of interface as process or performance, and thus by extension even algorithms, but we will come back to it later.
Infrastructure is a continuum of visibility and invisibility, meshing together architecture of the network and its computational operativity, as Lisa Parks notes, but what performs the passages between the two realms is the code or the algorithm. Phenomenologically speaking, what is the computational or 'computal' operativity made of? David Berry in his talk explained that the contemporary computal paradigm renders the world in form of streams. They are transformed either into coded objects, or into abstract stream data types. Streams contain the whole spectrum of temporality at once, the past is stored in the archive (memory), the present works inside the short-term or working memory, and the future is calculated as a "probabilistic spectrum of incoming data". Therefore, in Berry's reading, the intentionality of digital data streams is oriented towards the future, which they aim to process.
This architectural ontology of the 'computal' has in the later years become one of the dominant forms in which users experience the internet. Today, the streams are the interface paradigm for many platforms, ranging from news sites to social media. As Sam Kinsley analysed in his talk, streams or timelines through social media platforms influence the experience of time in everyday life. The ordering in streams "does not precede, but does predetermine the nature of events according to their recordability, the interface of the platform, [..]". The way in which these platforms are programmed and operate actually changes the nature of what is considered an event in the quotidian life. As Kinsley argues, drawing from Bernard Stiegler's critique of Husserl, social media today engage with the "industrialisation of memory" through a sorting and scheduling of life. Thus, this algorithmic timelining reaches way further than the plain web interface, and overspills into the ways we engage with the lifeworld.
Daniel Knapp and Sebastian Kubitschko explore "the limits of agency in algorithmic infrastructure" by looking at the limits of the interface. Even thinking about the algorithms is fuzzy, since, according to Knapp and Kubitschko, algorithms do not possess a formal definition, only a series of characterisations. This conceptual difficulty bears upon the practices of data visualisation or 'tracings' of data streams. These representations cannot be but partial because of the performative nature of the algorithms. Although they are made of lines of code, the algorithms are always in the way of becoming, they even make the becoming, as seen in Berry's talk. As Knapp and Kubitschko emphasise, "algorithms are made to disappear", in a similar way as conventional infrastructures, but on another scale and layer of withdrawal. This poses challenges to the sight as a preferential way of inquiry, and thus questions the limits of the interface level, which is grounded in visuality, and through which we prevalently engage with the media today.
James Ash analyses how digital objects are experienced phenomenologically via the interface. Drawing on Alexander Galloway's recent Interface Effect, Ash moves away from the idea of interface as a threshold between the digital and the real. Interface is not a thing, but a "process of translation". Through interface, and specifically, the resolution, digital objects "encourage us to approach them". To work out this point, Ash employs Harman's conceptualisation of resolution from Guerilla Metaphysics, and asserts that digital objects tend towards an "optimum resolution", which would be a pre-condition for fluent interaction with users. But, the resolution is never a constant, it is more or less discreet because of the coding of the interface, thus the objects "phase in and out" of the resolution. On the users' side, this demands continual shifts in perception and interaction. Importantly, the equation is far from linear, Ash stresses, as a higher resolution does not necessarily imply a better user experience. Sometimes even the contrary. "The higher the resolution of an object in the interface, the higher its autonomy as the object", thus, in terms of OOO, the higher digital object's own agency is, it might induce a higher level of confusion or dissatisfaction in the interface users. Ash exemplifies this in the case of a first-person shooter video game, where the gamers felt disoriented and frustrated by the inconstant behaviour of the weapon they were supposed to control. This is clearly another example of the tool revealing itself, this time at the level of digital interface, which nevertheless causes certain discomfort in the people's experience.
Daniel Sutko takes intellectual property (IP) as a means for understanding the inherent potency of the medium. Although the IP might seem as an external social structure grafted onto the medium, it actually conditions and tries to govern the medial "will to power". The problem, according to Sutko, is that the regulations "never fully capture the radical autonomy of technological culture: there are always secretions, escapes, and surprises". In this perspective, more liminal practices of manipulation of media, such as piracy, provide good analytical paths to scrutinise the materiality of the medium. Sutko quoted an example of Bureau of Inverse Technology's BitRadio, a pirate radio station programmed to interfere at determinate time intervals with radio channels within its range by broadcasting the noise of gunfire. In his reading, this intervention is paradigmatic because it operated across several dimensions of mediation: perceptual (the listening of the radio), political economy of the media, and the technological by actively interrupting the normal broadcast. In general, oppositional practices of piracy closely align Deleuze's call to "become imperceptible" with Assange's claim for the right and need to encryption, because data today can be considered part of our expanded subjectivity. But, these strategies do not intend to withdraw the medium into greater background, as it may seem at a first glance. On the contrary, according to Sutko, they aim to recognise and bring to critical attention the "medial will to power". In doing this, these practices underscore that it is not humans who simply do something by using technology, instead humans and technology work together. Later in the Q&A session, Sutko recognised that it would be a true challenge to think up a regulation of IP taking into consideration medium's inherent autonomy and agency.
The present entanglement of digital media with the urban space is a fertile field for phenomenological inquiry, bringing it back into spatial experience of the environment combined with digital mediation. Joel McKim traces the history of the architecture's concern with the creation of habitus, an all-encompassing experience of place which tries to move away from the modernism's primacy conferred to the visual. Drawing on, among other authors, Jorge Otero-Pailos's Architecture's Historical Turn, McKim sketches a trajectory parallel to that of high modernism, a line of architectural thinking that looked at ways of placemaking which would reproduce or create topologies either of history or of nature within the urban environment. This is clearly an opposite stance from that of modernism, which treated (urban) space as a tabula rasa to be inscribed upon. As McKim notes, referring to Kenneth Frampton's 'architectural regionalism', these lines of thought were inclined towards the tradition and were dismissive of technological advancements. Overall, these quests for the "sense of place" or Norbert-Schulz's "genius loci" resonate closely with Heidegger and Arendt's concept of "bounded dwelling", and thus propose a re-orientation towards tactile and kinaesthetic experience of the built environment. McKim singled out the activity of Jean Labatut as someone who in practice bridged the disconnect between this placemaking sensibility and more technologically imbued ambient architecture. Labatut started his career as a camouflage artist, drawing patterns for military ships, to move towards architecture later on. His major project for the New York World Exhibition in 1939, the Lagoon of the Nations, was a multi-sensory experience powered by the latest technologies of the moment, creating a "symphony of light and water". As McKim observes, Labatut's approach is not dissimilar to the present situation of public space installations which employ new media. Very often contemporary designers and artists using new media end up competing in spectacularity with other visual attractions, such as shining LED ads, which often use the very same new media, too. Ideas for an ambiental convergence of new media with architecture to jointly create a new 'sense of place' are thus still being explored.
Scott Rodgers reads the media city from the point of view of journalism, understood as a practice of making the city. The starting question is: "why has locality emerged as a central format for contemporary media?" In Rodgers' view, the contemporary entanglement of urban space with mediated information can be analysed through Bourdieu's concept of 'field'. In this conceptualisation, fields are: a) competitive arenas, a "game worth playing"; b) autonomous, relatively irreducible to each other; c) social spaces: predisposed/presupposed conditions of possibility. In Judith Butler's interpretation, fields are produced through "performative interpolations", through involvement with others in the field. Further, Rodgers argues, this perspective is consonant with Heidegger's notion of "lived space", which encompasses three dimensions: a) experiential (space made through practical action), b) equipmental (tools and objects made present through practice), and c) temporal (threefold dimensionality of past, present and future). In Rodgers' view, these conceptualisations of urban space provide a good prism for the understanding of opportunities and limitations of "hyperlocal media", the current impetus of journalism to provide ever more location-specific information.
Location-based services are mobilised to enhance Stranger Sociality Online through apps such as Grindr, which was the topic of Bryce J. Renninger's presentation. He critically approaches this web platform which was developed to facilitate homosexual encounters among men by geo-locating possible "dates" in the surroundings. Renninger scrutinised what he calls the "myth" of "0 feet away" which Grindr promotes, the promise of a smooth erasure of physical (and social) distance. However, in this translation from online interface to face-to-face encounter, Renninger identifies a series of difficulties, among which: the imprecisions in the actual localisation via GPS, since in dense urban environments trilateralisation is not very precise; the structure of the interface which orders potential 'dates' in a hierarchised list; relevancy of the dates etc. Thus, the idea of encounter at every log-on "that comes without worry" is very far from reality, and the mediation is as present as ever and needs to be taken into account. Renninger's unpacking of the digital-actual transition in this case study indicates still emerging ways of negotiation of this experiential gap.
To briefly draw some conclusions or propositions, several rich threads seem to emerge from this variety of perspectives. First is the concern with the perceptibility of the medium itself, that is the interplay between visibility and invisibility of the digital, the characteristic which might indicate its political, economical and social transparencies and opacities. There is not an entirely transparent or entirely opaque process of mediation, at each and every passage between mediators a perceptual reconfiguration takes place. Sometimes these passages are materialised in physical points of access and non-access, and sometimes they move deep in the code layer. Seams or fault lines of mediation run across the surfaces of technological objects situated in our everyday environment, crystallised in gadgets, but also in infrastructures that enable their functioning. At first glance, the performativity of the algorithms seems to operate through the very bowels of the digital and to be very distant from surface. Their mode of agency asks for different tools of analysis, tools that are connate or even identical to the objects of their analysis, thus algorithmic, such as in case of Couldry's proposal to use 'social analytics' in a reflective manner. Where the algorithms can be captured is another seam line, that of the interface, as emerged from Ash's and Knapp & Kubitschko's talks. I would argue that both infrastructural and the software-oriented phenomenology can accomplish McLuhan's reversals and retrievals, pushing the medium into the states in which it reveals more than it usually does. Moreover, maybe a synthesis of these methodologies can be thought up, starting from fingers or feet and extending into digital and back. In my view, there is a deep affinity which transpires between what interface in its purely digital sense means on one side and the infrastructure in its architectural sense. This is best observed in the materialisations of the medium in urban space, with its "resolutions", but also in the everyday use of gadgets. Extending this concept from the realm of the screen, "resolution" might never be fully resolved, medium is never fully withdrawn, but phases in and out between the figure and the ground, in similar fashion on the level of the user interface or within the public space. The tracing of these phasings can be a phenomenological question.


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Every Harry Potter fan's biggest dream- to be a student at Hogwarts!
Well, that dream is becoming a reality for peeps in the UK where a Hogwarts-style school is opening in East Sussex, England this summer. Check this out.
For 3 days between 11-13 August of this year,Herstmonceux Castle will host a Live Action Role Play (LARP) event that'll include being assigned a house, taking lessons, attending banquets, and exploring the grounds and meeting "weird and wonderful creatures."
The castle staff will provide robes, a wand and good humor. All you need to do is show up and the door, get into character and have a great time! But it doesn't come free though- you will have to fork out Rs 37,000 approximately.


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The Logan County Dive Team was called to O'Kane Park on the Arkansas River north of Paris last week to locate a truck boat and trailer so it could be pulled from the water, according to Logan County Sheriff's Department reports.
Robert K. Farnam, 67, of Delaware, was going fishing around 9 a.m. on Monday, April 8. He parked his truck and set the parking break to lower the boat into the water, according to incident reports. Farnam told deputies that when he exited his truck it started rolling backwards into the water. Farnam told deputies he couldn't get the truck to stop.
Farnam told deputies the boat, trailer and truck entered the river and floated downstream. The truck eventually went out of sight, according to reports.
Farnam called a friend who reported the incident to the LCSD.
After speaking with Farnam, the deputy summoned the drive team. At that time, only a portion of the boat and trailer could be seen above the water. The deputy could see the part of the boat above the water about 150 feet north of the boat dock, according to incident reports.
Once the dive team arrived, divers entered the water and eventually located the truck in about 15 feet of water. A hook was then placed on the vehicle and the truck, boat and trailer were pulled from the water, according to reports.


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A traverse of the Benarty Hill (Sleeping Giant) ridge combined with a circuit of Loch Ore.
Distance: 13.5 km / 8.5 miles
Ascent: 380m / 1170 feet
Start / finish: Lochore Meadows Country Park
Facilities: Parking, toilets and cafe at the Park Centre. Public transport to Crosshill.
Other walks in the area:
This walk could equally well be started from any of the car parks around Lochore Meadows Country Park or the small parking area at the foot of the Benarty Hill steps. Starting from the Park Centre has the advantage of access to the park facilities. At the time of writing (Summer 2017) the Park Centre is being rebuilt and temporary facilities are available in the Outdoor Centre. Contact Fife Coast and Countryside Trust if you need more information.
If visibility is poor and the hill is shrouded with cloud you may wish to keep this walk for a better day unless you are confident of your navigation skills. The paths themselves on the open hill are very easy to follow but some basic navigation would be advisable in poor visibility.
From the Park Centre/Outdoor Centre start your walk by walking clockwise around the loch via the southern shore path (if you want a slightly shorter walk, use the north shore path instead). This is a well made path with a few "easy open" gates along its route. There are good views across the loch to Benarty Hill where you are headed. Follow the path around the western side of the loch until you meet a tarmac road after passing through a gate.
Turn left onto this road which is the access road to the Benarty Bay (North West) car park further in to the park. After 450m turn right up a private road towards some new build houses. Go past the houses into woodland on a track that is a continuation of the road. The track will take you gently uphill through the woods to join a public road, the Hill Road, at the entrance to Benarty House. Turn left on to the road keeping an eye out for cars as there is no pavement. After about 180m you will reach a gate on your right hand side leading into a field.
The gate is locked so you will need to climb it (please do so at the hinged end so as to cause the least amount of damage) to reach the rough track on the other side. There may be cattle in the next two fields so if you have a dog keep it close to you. Follow the track across the field and up the hillside to reach a communications mast. At this point the track comes to an end. Go right away from the woods passing around the back (north side) of a hillock aiming for a fence junction. There is an unlocked gate in the fence taking you into the next field.
From this point head up hill alongside a fence to your right. Note the signs to your left regarding the rifle range. As you get higher up the hill you will find yourself walking between a wall and the fence. Cross the wall at a convenient point so that it is to your right and keep following it as it turns right and takes you downhill to a dip.
From the dip a path follows the fence line over a number of lumps and bumps and you can enjoy the views across Loch Leven and ahead of you to Benarty summit. You will need to cross a fence in front of you as you follow this path along the ridge line. After some lumpy bumpy ground you reach a fence junction at the site of a hill fort. At this junction cross the fence to your right so that it is now to your left. Descend steeply to a dip (there may be sheep in this area) and continue to follow the fence to a viewpoint close to the summit trig point.
If you want to include the summit make a short diversion to the trig point and then return to the fence. Continue eastwards on the rough path that runs alongside the fence. Keep on this path for about 1km all the way along the ridge (ignore a path that branches off to your right) until you reach another fence in front of you. Turn to your right to follow this fence a short distance until it reaches the conifer tree plantation. Cross through broken fences into the trees and make your way steeply down the slope at the edge of the trees. A rough path is starting to form here and is likely to become more obvious over time.
At the bottom of the slope is a new surfaced "road" which if you turn left will take you to Vane Farm. However, you should turn right and go uphill a little bit to skirt round the edge of the conifer trees. The road then joins an older forest track which takes you back down the hill in the direction of the Hill Road. However, before reaching the road, the forest track bends sharply to the left. At this point on your right hand side is a rough grassy track leading into the trees in a westerly direction. Follow this track for about 500m to reach a bench on your left hand side.
From the bench, keep left to go down wooden steps to reach the Hill Road. Cross over the road to enter Lochore Meadows Park. At the next junction keep left on the track known as The Avenue (it's marked as Ladath Stripe on OS maps). From this point follow The Avenue for about 1km. At a point where an old high fence appears on your left start looking for a field gate on your right hand side with a pedestrian gate obscured by trees to the right of it. If you reach Balingry you've gone too far !!!
Go through this gate into the field. There is a very feint path across the field which may be hard to spot. If you walk roughly south to reach the other side of the field you shouldn't go far wrong. At one point you will cross an old low wall. There is a gate at the other side of the field for you to aim for. Go through the gate, cross the road (Pit Road through the park) and pick up a signed path on the opposite side through the woods. Very quickly you will be back at the Park Centre where you started your walk.
View / download this route from Ordnance Survey.
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© 2017 Fife Walking. All rights reserved. If using this route for a group or organised walk, or as the basis for publishing a route elsewhere please credit Fife Walking as being your source of information.


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Lorna Ream, 1930-2010
In the fall of 1965, I was a restless 17-year old growing up in Spokane, Washington, and trying to find my place in a tribe of outdoor people known as the Spokane Mountaineers. They had a chalet halfway to the summit of nearby Mt. Spokane, and one Saturday night in the late fall I barged into this Mountaineers Chalet unannounced with a couple of rowdy friends in tow. There at the door was a tall, slender, vivacious woman who introduced herself as Lorna Ream. Lorna immediately took charge of us boys, made sure we ate a proper dinner, stayed away from beer, gave us a place to lay our bags, and made us feel welcome. My first impression of Lorna as a take-charge lady never waned until her passing in 2010.
In 1959 Lorna joined the Spokane Mountaineers at the suggestion of her husband, Joel. From that time onward, while raising her two children, she became very active as a climber, scaling dozens of the peaks in the western United States and British Columbia. A few of peaks she managed to climb while raising her family were Baker, Shuksan, Glacier, Bonanza, Stuart, Rainier, St. Helens, Adams, Hood, Shasta, Middle Sister, Borah, Trout Mountain, the Grand Teton, Athabasca, and the first ascent of Mt. Cooper in British Columbia, in 1962.
Few people loomed larger in the history of the Spokane Mountaineers than Lorna Ream. Beside her considerable climbing skills, Lorna was the organizer and leader of all types of events and committees in the group from the early sixties until her death. On weekends she provided climbing instruction and leadership. More importantly, Lorna was politically active as a leader in the community, offering behind-the-scenes guidance on many of our area's conservation and wildlife issues.
One of the most important projects of our region was the proposed Spokane River Centennial Trail. Long before the Centennial Trail became a reality, Lorna Ream helped lay the groundwork while working at the Spokane County Engineering Department. When the trail was finally constructed, it immediately became one of our area's most beloved accomplishments. Another dream was a trail from the Spokane Valley over the local mountains to a huge cluster of climbing rocks called Big Rock. Lorna worked tirelessly providing leadership and devotion to the Dream Trail Committee, which led to the purchase of this important climbing and hiking area. For anything that required action involving trail building, climbing, and wilderness issues, Lorna found the time. She inspired not just with her voice, but with her pocketbook too.
Lorna Ream's dedication to wilderness was unwavering, and she walked her talk. She changed our landscape for the better. I will miss her great enthusiasm, her laugh, and her happy smile.
Excelsior Lorna!
Chris Kopczynski


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David Tennant, the latest actor to portray the Time Lord in the BBC's Doctor Who has been voted the coolest character on television.
Tennant beat the previous Doctor, Christopher Eccleston, who failed to make it into the top ten of the poll conducted by the Radio Times.
A spokeman for the magazine said: "David looks like becoming a bit of an icon. There are surprises on the list, like the top ten is all male.
"It's amazing an old-timer like Columbo is higher than current stars like Russell Brand, who narrowly missed out at 11."
The top ten cool list is as follows:
1. Doctor Who (David Tennant)
2. Jack Bauer in 24 (Kiefer Sutherland)
3. The Fonz in Happy Days (Henry Winkler)
4. Mr Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth)
5. Cat in Red Dwarf (Danny John-Jules)
6. DCI Gene Hunt in Life On Mars (Philip Glenister)
7. Dermot O'Leary
8. Columbo (Peter Falk)
9. Dylan in The Magic Roundabout
10. Sawyer in Lost (Josh Holloway)


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