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Designer collars, leads and carriers, doggie dresses, pet luxury day beds, fresh salmon steaks for your kitty - you may love the novelties, but do your pets really need 'em? The money we spend on those little extras for our animal companions add up - and in fact, the Pet Product Industry is a multi billion € industry worldwide.
Still got visions of your dog gliding down the catwalk in a couture collar? Face it, your pet could probably care less whether she's wearing Gucci. "A good quality leash and collar with a nylon braid should last for years, you don't need to buy all the fancy stuff." Yes, your pets love toys and an occasional treat, but the best gift you can give to your furry loved one is your attention!
While it's great to pamper Fifi and Tinkerbell, it's also important to budget for the essentials. Otherwise, that couture pet carrier could leave you with empty pockets when the emergency veterinary bills come.
Bottom line? Stick with the basics, and remember - preventative measures are excellent money savers!
- Go to the Vet!
"A number-one money-saver is preventative veterinary care,". Annual veterinary exams can catch health crises early on and can save you a lot of time and money. This includes heartworm preventative treatment, flea and tick control, and a thorough check-up of your pet's gums, teeth, heart, lungs and internal organs. If it's been a year or more since your pet has seen a vet, make that appointment today!
- Give Your Pet Regular Check-Ups
Weekly home checkups are a great way to nip potential health problems in the bud.
- Check under your pet's fur for lumps, bumps, flakes or scabs. Check your pet's ears and eyes for signs of redness or discharge. Make note of any changes in her eating or drinking habits. If something seems off, call your vet right away.
- Learn how to clean your pet's ears, especially if your dog is prone to ear infections.
- Brush your pet's teeth regularly with a toothpaste formulated for pets, and check his gums. In some cases, this can help prevent the need for dental cleanings.
- Check your pet's breath. Bad breath can indicate a digestive problem that's better dealt with sooner rather than later.
- Vaccinate Wisely
"Veterinarians are now advised to assess each individual animal's risk of exposure when designing a vaccination program." So before your pets annual vaccinations, ask your pet's vet which vaccines he or she recommends.
- Spay/Neuter Your Pets
"Spaying and neutering your pet will have a dramatic impact on their health". "For females, it dramatically reduces the potentiality for breast cancer, and ovarian and uterine cancer disappears." Neutering also reduces chances of testicular cancer in males. Not only will spaying or neutering save you on future health care, but it will significantly diminish your pet's desire to wander - and will save you the surprise of an unplanned litter. Check out the DSPCA's information on Spaying and Neutering.
- Invest in Training
"A lot of people don't think about dog and cat training as a way to save money but a well-trained dog will be easier to walk, will be calmer in most situations and will be less likely to get into things he shouldn't." Teaching your dog to stay by your side and to come when he is called proves far cheaper than paying for expensive emergency care caused by his running off - possibly into the street - and eating items that he shouldn't.
- Consider Pet Insurance
"One of the reasons why medical care has become so expensive is the recent growth spurt of procedures your pet can undergo - MRIs, cat scans, cancer treatments.
Accidents, too, can be costly. Pet insurance is one way to take some sting out of the bill. See more information on Pet Insurance.
- Save Up for the Future
Pet Emergencies
Invest the money you spend on toys and extra snacks into a fund for possible emergencies, and deposit a fixed amount into it every two weeks. If no emergencies arise, you'll be all the richer, but if something does come up, money will not stand in the way of getting your pet the care she needs.
Elderly Pet Care
The great news is that pets are living longer, thanks to better nutrition and veterinary care. But this often entails more frequent trips to the vet, blood screenings tests, special food and medication. "Very often you see people bringing older pets into shelters because they are confronted with bills they can't manage". You can avoid an ambush of sudden bills by saving up while your pet is young.
End-of-life care
Caring for your pet at death can be expensive depending upon the services you choose. Some insurance policies cover the cost of euthanasia and cremation, but it is a smart idea to put aside a savings account that will cover those bills. This way you won't have to haggle when the time comes.
- Serve Healthy Food in Moderate Portions
Buy premium-quality food
"Buy a good, premium-quality dog or cat food, Don't go crazy but remember that cheaper foods will set you back in the end. They are full of less digestible filler material and artificial colors that offer no nutrients and can contribute to allergies and digestive problems. A high-quality, age-appropriate food results in a healthy coat, more energy and fewer costly trips to the vet.
Don't overfeed
This includes resisting the urge to spoil your pets with too many treats! "You don't need to feed your pets as much as people do, one of the things vets are confronting is a huge obesity problem. Serving moderate portions not only saves you money on food - it also reduces the likelihood of obesity."
- Shop Around
Veterinarians and Hospitals
When looking for a reliable, cost-effective veterinarian's office, check out a few before you settle on one. Ask for recommendations from pet owners you know. Most vets' offices also offer multi-pet or senior pet discounts. Compare fees and be sure to find out what is covered during a routine visit in each office.
Pet Supplies
Buy supplies online or in bulk. Just keep in mind that it's wise to get product recommendations from your vet first. Online or store-bought products that you know nothing about could prove to be harmful or of poor quality. And if you rotate your pet's toys, they'll stay interested without you having to buy new ones every few months.
- Groom Your Pets at Home
- Save the price of a visit to your groomer with regular brushings. While you're at it, you'll reduce the hair around your home and your cats will have fewer hairballs.
- Trim your pet's nails on a regular basis. It's not hard to do, and you'll likely save yourself the cost of new furniture and curtains.
Info courtesy of the ASPCA


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Guest post by David Levis, ChildFund Sponsor
In 2011, David Levis was the grand prize winner of ChildFund's Facebook promotion, the Experience of a Lifetime – a trip to visit his sponsored child. David chose to travel to Uganda, where he and his wife, Stacie, sponsor several children. A public school teacher from Citrus Heights, Calif., David opted to take the trip during spring break 2012. We'll be following his travels next week as he visits five sponsored children and ChildFund programs.
Soccer balls and pumps, check. Baby dolls, Hot Wheels cars and Frisbees, check. Pencils and solar lights, check—the list goes on. This is a very different kind of packing list. My wife prepared me a few months ago, when she turned to me and said, "You only need one pair of pants and a shirt, right? She laughed and I laughed, and then she said, "No, really."
We have been looking forward to this time since winning the "Experience of a Lifetime" last August. After months of preparation, both physically and mentally, the day of departure is almost here!
Over the last few weeks, so many things have come together. We have packed and repacked everything multiple times, and in multiple ways, trying to get as many small gifts for the children to fit in my luggage as possible without exceeding the 50-pound limit per bag.
As of tonight, we have to repack it all over again. A stuffed animal, medications and odds and ends from our latest Kmart trip has put us back at square one. Stacie is once again attempting to weed out my clothing!
In addition to meeting the children that we are blessed to sponsor, I will also be visiting a local school that ChildFund supports. Using Google Docs, my students and I have been making connections with the teachers and students in grade 7 of Buyengo School in Busia, exchanging questions and group photos. I look forward to visiting the school and meeting the students and teachers.
Meanwhile, I finished off all of my vaccinations, and started my malaria-prevention medication. I've packed multiple mosquito repellants, and a travel guide to Uganda so that I can brush up on the culture and the landscape. Using the itinerary that ChildFund has provided, I've also been using Google Earth to map out our trip. It's going to be an amazing experience.
I've also had incredible support from my family and friends, who are all preparing to follow our trip through social media, blogs and Skype. Our family has been featured in the local newspaper, and even our children have been involved in preparing gifts for the families we will meet.
As I leave California this weekend, I will not be traveling alone. I take my family, friends and fellow ChildFund sponsors with me in thought and in spirit. It is my hope that I will be able to share this experience in its entirety with everyone I can when I return.
I invite you to follow along as I travel across the world for a true "Experience of a Lifetime!"
Great post! I am very excited to hear about your big adventure! It is something I hope to do myself one day so I will be living vicariously through you for the next week. Travel safely and have an amazing time. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks SO much! We are so excited!
You will be meeting your children in person in a very short time. I am so happy for you. I love you so much. Son.
We will be praying for you on your amazing journey. We know it will be the most rewarding experience and we know you will be spreading your positivity to everyone you meet. Have a wonderful trip David. God Bless and congrats again on winning this grand prize! 🙂
Love, Kristy & Kevin
Am ready to be part or you
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Family: Lycaenidae, Gossamer-wing Butterflies view all from this family
Description The Leptotes cassius, commonly known as the Cassius Blue or Tropical Striped Blue, is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in Florida and the Keys, Texas south through the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America to South America. Strays can be found in New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri and South Carolina.
The wingspan is 20–35 mm.
The caterpillars feed natively on Fabaceae. Foodplants on record are Amorpha crenulata, Woolly Rattlepod (Crotalaria incana), Galactia regularis and Lima Bean (Phaseolus lunatus). It can also successfully develop feeding on Cape Leadwort (Plumbago auriculata) or Doctorbush (P. scandens), which (among the eudicots) are not closely related to its usual foodplants.
Dimensions 1/2-3/4" (13-19 mm).
Habitat Meadows & fields, Cities, suburbs & towns, Forests & woodlands.
Range Plains, Florida, Texas.


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With echoes of Gregory Maguire's and C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia, author John Connolly introduces us to a cast of not-quite-familiar characters - like the seven socialist dwarfs who poison an uninvited (and unpleasant) princess and try to peg the crime on her stepmother. Or the Loups, the evil human-canine hybrids spawned long ago by the union of a wolf and a seductive girl in a red cloak.
As war rages across Europe, David is violently propelled into a land that is both a construct of his imagination, yet frighteningly real - a strange reflection of his own world composed of myths and stories, populated by wolves and worse-than-wolves, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a legendary book...The Book of Lost Things.
©2006 John Connolly; (P)2006 Recorded Books, LLC.
"For Those Who Enjoy Playing with Fairytales"
This is one of those books that appeal to a specific listener. If I know my friend has a fondness of fairytales and enjoys rather warped retellings, I'd suggest this book.
The ending was satisfying in its resolution, but it was perhaps a little too "tidy" for a book that was "out there."
His agility with regional accents from the UK is admirable.
David's delicate state after his mother's death was heartbreaking and disturbing. John Connolly did a great job engendering pity for the boy's plight, particularly in the scene at the psychiatrist's office when David has a meltdown.
The Crooked Man stands out as a particularly menacing bad guy. Towards the end of the story, the author pushed a little too hard with an overabundance of gory details and sickening anecdotes about the character's misdeeds. My finger hovered over the fast-forward button because the gratuitous detail became irritating. We already got it: he's a really bad dude.
The Book of Lost Things portrays the healing power of stories and books.
It's simple really, I am just a guy looking to enjoy the writing and reading talents of others while raising my family the best I can, just Like most everyone else!!!
"What a great story!"
I have read this book several times, I have 2 paper copies, 1 cd and now I downloaded it from Audible. I got it from Audible so I could bookmark it and so it would take up less room on the mp3 than the cd does. Anyway on to the review. How do I tell you how great it is without telling too much? Hmmmmm, well, I think I will try to tell you just a few of the things that I loved about it. This story grabbed me from the first page, yes the first page! No joke at all about that. The way the words spoke to me was different than most books, it was special. The stories pace was detailed but fast, to me it was just the right mixture to make me want to keep going without many breaks. As the story starts it is about an older boy whose Mom dies and he has to accept a new mom and a new half brother. Somewhere around there he starts to hear books talking to him, a "crooked man" starts coming around and he finds a door to a secret land/world.
When he enters the new world he finds one of the greatest and worst adventures that anyone could imagine. He meets some of my favorite characters that I have ever read in one book. Some of them befriend him while others scare him, lie to him, try to kill and even try to steal his soul. It is a coming of age book but also so much more. It is an adventure for some older teens but mostly for adults. It has a good ending so don't worry about that. All in all I believe most readers will find a reason to like this book. I usually read Koontz and Stephen King type of books but I now find this book among my all time favorites. The only thing that upsets me is that John Connolly has yet to write another story like this one! I will patiently wait.
I hope you give it a try.
Thank you for reading my opinion!
Gen-Xer, software engineer, and lifelong avid reader. Soft spots for sci-fi, fantasy, and history, but I'll read anything good.
"Enjoyable dark fairy tale"
A bit like CS Lewis's Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe series and a bit like the movie Pan's Labyrinth, in that a child is pulled from the troubled real world into a dark, parallel fantasy world. This book, though, finds a middle ground between the preachyness of the former and the creepiness of the latter, paying tribute to a few other classics as well.
Connolly is imaginative, and I enjoyed his subversion of familiar fairy tales. Most are dark, but there's some Monty Python-like humor in a revision of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and I found a tale involving a not-quite-typical knight in shining armor to be moving in its simplicity.
Unfortunately, the book gets caught up in its episodic structure, and the larger plot arc is less satisfying. David, who begins the novel in World War II Britain as a standard everyboy, other than for an odd ability to hear books talk, has little more personality by the end. Still, Connolly creates an atmospheric world that's as foreboding but fun as the grim, old-fashioned tales of magic, wolves, and wicked tricksters that we loved as children, and it's a fine place for a visit, though perhaps not multiple reads.
"Absolutely loved it!!"
Set in England at the start of WWII, the 12-year-old main character, David is struggling with the death of his mother after a long debilitating illness. After his father quickly remarries and has another child, David feels abandoned and resentful. Always a reader, he turns to his books for solace and they in turn begin to talk back. He escapes into a secret world of fairy tales and embarks upon a quest to learn the truth about what really happened to his mother. This book is a mixture of coming of age story interspersed with fairy tales turned grisly. It is rare to find a book with truly creative concepts, but Connolly manages to take what could have been a fairly common format and make it unique. I will definitely be reading/listening to more of his work. I also thought the narrator was perfect for this story and added to the overall experience.
Writing reviews is work. Therefore, I need to be really happy or really unhappy with a book to write one.
"An ugly "shaggy wolf" story"
I enjoyed Connolly's "The Gates", which had an energetic protagonist and a reasonable premise, and fell for the good reviews for this book. After 2+ hours of hearing about the problems of a depressed and depressing young boy, the action finally started. Some of it was inventive; much was ugly; some was related to fairy tales but other bits seemed like just an opportunity to bring in grotesques. There was an almost complete lack of humor, and what there was was heavy-handed and soon over. Since it was set in WWII, I kept looking for parallels, but, trust me, Tolkein did it a lot better. But obviously, given the reviews, a lot of people have like it. Go take a look at a hard copy before you decide this one is for you.
"Really wanted to like it but quit with 25% left"
not really.
I hated the chracter for a while because he was so whiney until I realized that a lot of it had to do with the way the narrator was reading the dialogue and putting a high-pitched whiney lilt to the voice.
The story was interesting enough to listen to while I worked but the stories were supposed to be a new spin and it all felt tired to me.
"Loved it"
Stories want to be told, and this is a good one -- twisted fairy tales intersperse the larger story of David and his trip into his own story. I found the narrator to be excellent; the story was suitable for both adults and young adults. This was such an enjoyable book, I could not put it down. If you like fairy tales with a twist of darkness, you will like this one.
"Beautifully dark and magical "
This was one of those tales that you never want to end. I just wanted to crawl inside it and stay. It was dark and creepy and lovely all at the same time. Beautifully written and read.
Mad for Westies
"A wonderful tale masterfully narrated"
John Connolly's central character in this book is similar to the boy hero/protagonist in his Infernals series -- a young man going through the trials and tribulations of determining who he is and his place in the world. The story tell is rich and at its heart is the triumph of good in a boy's soul over the forces of evil. Terrific narration brings the characters to life, and the ending was very satisfying. Well worth a listen.
"Kept me listening."
I really enjoyed this book. It started a little bit slow, but once the little boy disappeared into the other world, I couldn't stop listening. You couldn't help rooting for him, and understanding how he thought. The people he met were as interesting as he was.
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No K-1 Until at LEAST July, Maybe
- Written by Dave Walsh
Amidst all of the talk of the possibility of Sakikabara, formerly of PRIDE, involved in one of the biggest yakuza scandals in Japanese MMA that led to the death of PRIDE and the Zuffa purchase, returning to promote MMA again, there is some news on FEG's future.
Daniel Herbertson spoke with FEG USA's Mike Kogan, and by the looks of things, FEG is planning on still hosting K-1, K-1 MAX and DREAM events in 2011, as long as things pan out. The voluntary shut down was supposed to last until March, and with March fast approaching, it looks like the new target date is May.
|FEG USA's Mike Kogan this week confirmed to MMA Fighting that the leading Japanese promoter's internal restructuring will not be completed until at least May and no FEG events are expected until at least July.
At the moment, FEG is planning to continue all three of its major events (K-1, K-1 MAX and DREAM), although that is obviously subject to change and it is clear that the events will be scaled down.
The financial state of FEG is still uncertain and Kogan was unable to confirm whether Chinese backer PUJI or any sponsors are still involved in FEG events. It seems as though Dynamite, K-1 MAX and DREAM broadcaster TBS has not signed on for 2011 yet, all signs are indicate that a new contract will be discussed after FEG's restructuring process is complete.
Dan's awesome Nippon Weekly has lots of information about Sakakiraba and what's new in Japanese MMA, so check that out. [source]


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quote:You think her lady parts are burning?
quote:I want to have a love child with Manziel
quote:Friday night drinking seems agreeable with her.
quote:My lady parts are burning now!
quote:I'm this way when I have time to post & am around people who are not being ugly to me. I love to laugh & genuinely am a happy person IRL
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By NEMS Daily Journal
OXFORD – A 75-year-old Starkville man faces one federal count of possession of child pornography.
Clifford Gray Ryan was indicted Dec. 17 and the document was unsealed Tuesday when he appeared before Magistrate Judge David A. Sanders.
His arraignment is set for Jan. 11. Ryan remains jailed until then.
Ryan is accused of possessing images of child pornography shipped across state and foreign commerce.
If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 fine.


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CrackTheSky wrote:Doubt it'll make a bit of difference, but I hate hate HATE it when sites go through total redesigns. It just really bugs me, but that's just my personality. Small changes (for which I have no ideas currently) would be okay with me, but...well, whatever.
Just thought I might as well throw my two cents in.
If it was possible, we'd go for it, but currently it's not possible. It would be possible to fix stuff more and more, but at some point it would just all fall apart.


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Feb 9, 2012
SunFeast Dark Fantasy Choco Fills Cookies - A Review
25 comments:
That looks soooo good! I tasted something similar..the 'chips ahoy! Middles' cookies which also had the chocolate filling in the middle. It tasted incredible!ReplyDelete
It is quite yummy..there is another brand called Chocolate Kiss, i guess.. u should try that too..is almost on similar line!ReplyDelete
I love the chocolates that are available in India, they do taste very delicious. I will try them during my next visit.ReplyDelete
Good one, now you're tempting me! :)ReplyDelete
lovely review...yummy cookies.....ReplyDelete
Luv the new luk of ur site...
Dear Aarthi, Very delicious looking cookies. Blessings my dear, Catherine xoReplyDelete
Nice review, will try this as soon as I can get hold of one, like the goey chocolate filling..ReplyDelete
chocoalte looks yumm...nice review.ReplyDelete
I love any cookie that is filled with chocolate!!ReplyDelete
Yummy Review.Luv itReplyDelete
Excellent review of the Dark Fantasy cookies.ReplyDelete
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really.. hmm i havent tried though had seen the ad. anything with chocolate and i forget my weight gain.. i guess i would give it a tryReplyDelete
wow...very nice...will try when i go to India....ReplyDelete
fabulous...new look of blog is also fabulousReplyDelete
fabulous...new look of blog is also fabulousReplyDelete
good recco...it is totally worth itReplyDelete
my fav too ! good reviewReplyDelete
Ya, I have tasted these..and I found them a tad too expensive. You might also want to try Lotte ChocoPie for a similar taste. Dark Fantasy is good to taste but scanty in its filling.ReplyDelete
wowww.. the cover snap itself is too tempting..surely i will by it today..Love anything with chocolate :0ReplyDelete
my daughter love these cookies ...its definately worth trying i agree with the review !ReplyDelete
Wow, just look at the choc oozing out of the cookies! Nice review, Aarthi!ReplyDelete
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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:40 PM GMT on May 06, 2011
The Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois continues to fall today, with a level of 59.3', 2.5' below the all-time peak of 61.8' set on Monday night. On Monday night, the Army Corps of Engineers was forced to intentionally destroy a levee at Birds Point on the west bank of the Mississippi, just downstream from Cairo, Illinois, in order to relieve pressure on the levees in Cairo and save that city from a billion-dollar levee breach. The destruction of the Birds Point levee also helped slow the rise of the Mississippi River just south of its confluence with the Ohio River, but the river is still rising slowly, and has now set all-time records at New Madrid, Missouri, Tiptonville, Tennessee, and Caruthersville, Missouri--a 70-mile stretch of river downstream from Cairo. Currently, the Mississippi is expected to reach its 2nd highest level on record at Memphis on May 10, cresting at 48.0'. The all-time record at Memphis occurred during the great flood of 1937, when the river hit 48.7'. Downstream from Memphis, flood waters pouring in from the Arkansas River, Yazoo River, and other tributaries are expected to swell the Mississippi high enough to beat the all-time record at Vicksburg, Mississippi by 1.3' on May 20, and smash the all-time record at Natchez, Mississippi by six feet on May 22, and by 3.2 feet at Red River Landing on May 23. Red River Landing is the site of the Old River Control Structure, the Army Corps' massive engineering structure that keeps the Mississippi River from carving a new path to the Gulf of Mexico. I'll have a detailed post talking about the Old River Control Structure next week. Its failure would be a serious blow to the U.S. economy, and the great Mississippi flood of 2011 will give the Old River Control Structure its most severe test ever. Also of concern is the forecast for the Mississippi to crest at 19.5 feet in New Orleans on May 24. The levees in New Orleans protect the city for a flood of 20.0 feet--that is not much breathing room. Fortunately, only 0.5 - 1.5 inches of rain are expected over the Missouri/Illinois region over the next five days, which should not raise flood heights significantly.
Good links to follow the flood:
Summary forecast of all crests on Lower Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.
Wundermap for Cairo, IL with USGS River overlay turned on.
National Weather Service "May 2011 Mississippi River Flood" web page
Figure 1. Flooding of the farmland along the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway due to the intentional destruction of a levee along the west bank of the Mississippi River in Southeast Missouri is obvious in this pair of before and after photos. Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory.
Lake Champlain hits highest level since 1869; record flooding in Canada
The Governor of Vermont declared a state of emergency yesterday in Vermont due to flooding along Lake Champlain. Heavy rains over the past ten days, combined with snow melt have combined to push the lake ot three feet above flood stage, and the lake has now broken its previous record high, set in 1869. The flooding has caused numerous road closures but no evacuations in the U.S. The story is different in Quebec, Canada, where flood waters from Lake Champlain coursing down the Richelieu River have created a 150-year flood, forcing the evacuation of 1,000 people and the flooding of 3,000 homes and businesses in the Richelieu Valley, just south of Montreal. The lake level is expected to crest Saturday morning, then slowly fall. Lake Champlain is 120 miles long with nearly 600 miles of shoreline, making it the sixth largest natural lake in the U.S., trailing only the Great Lakes in size.
Figure 2. Five to eight inches of precipitation has fallen over much of the Lake Champlain watershed over the past two weeks. Image credit: NOAA/AHPS.
A third tornado from the April 27 Super Outbreak rated an EF-5
Yesterday, the Jackson, Mississippi office of the NWS upgraded the violent tornado that hit Neshoba, Kemper, Winston, and Noxubee Counties in the northeast part of the state to EF-5 status, with top winds of 205 mph. This tornado continued into Alabama and had a total path length of 92.3 miles. Three people died in the tornado, which was so powerful that it dug out the ground to a depth of two feet over an area 25 - 50 yards wide and several hundred yards long. This is the third tornado rated EF-5 from the April 27 outbreak; tornadoes that hit Smithville, MS and Hackleburg, AL also received EF-5 ratings.
Figure 3. EF-5 damage from the April 27, 2011 Neshoba tornado in Mississippi. The tornado was so powerful that it dug out the ground to a depth of two feet over an area 25 - 50 yards wide and several hundred yards long. Image credit: NWS.
Rare EF-2 tornado hits New Zealand
A tornado ripped through New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, on Tuesday, killing one person at a shopping mall and injuring at least fourteen others. The damage was rated EF-2, making the tornado one of the strongest in New Zealand's history. Below is some footage of the twister, showing why it is dangerous to be in a car during a tornado. (Note also the clockwise rotation of the tornado--this is the Southern Hemisphere, where storms rotate clockwise.)
Figure 4. Footage of the May 3, 2011 New Zealand tornado that passed through the Auckland suburb of Albany.
I'll have a new post Monday.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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|Worldwide Flyfishing Discussion Talk flyfishing with members around the world!
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|October Caddis
RE:Christmas Island Fishing Trip
You are going at a great time of year. Seems to be less pressure from May thru August. Our winter months can bring out some real stuckup flyfishers to the Island. Guess they go trout fishing from May on. One thing to remember about May through August is that it's winter far to the South and that means big south swell moves northward. If you surf bring your board it's great, a surf and fish vacation. The Patagonia executives go at this time of year because they do both.
Good luck and be prepared to eat so much lobster it will come out your ears by the time you leave.
I've had friends that bring heavy surf rods for night entertainment and have caught Trevally close to 100 pounds while enjoying a beer or two.
RE:Christmas Island Fishing Trip
Awesome report Greg! My turn in the carribe with a flyrod is next winter. It's been a few years since my annual trips to the Keys.
RE:Christmas Island Fishing Trip
Hi Nate,
I had the great fortune of going to Xmas Island thanks to the generocity of my father. I didn't see any mention of who you booked your trip through or with. We went through Kauffmans, whose is associated with frontiers. We stayed at the Capt Cook hotel, an old british army headquarters I'm told. Kauffmans provided and excellent written list of considerations and recomendations. The staff was great and the food was good considering the adverse conditions there. They gladly cooked some of the fresh yellowtail caught perfectly for the group to enjoy, it was great!
I found walking the flats and casting at the bonefish to be exciting and challenging. After spending considerable time with a guide on the flats and catching some 14-27 inch bonefish I decided it was time to look see what I could observe and do to find larger fish.
In general the fish seemed quite spooky on clear water days, and some would clearly refuse the flies on occasion. Naturally this appeared especially true if conditions were in shallow water, calm and clear. You could chew up alot of time stalking them on the flats and catch just a few fish.
Yet if it was windy the water got murky and you could practically step on the bonefish before they would notice you if you where down current. Downside is the sharks would pop up around you without warning and in waist deep water it was enough to send my barefoot guide dragging me off to a shallower fishing spot. During the trip I had several encounters that required me to go on the offensive to redirect 4 to 5 foot shark away from me. On the western point (mouth of the bay) I was fishing with at least 25 or so little sharks milling around became to much to watch your backside and cast at the large bones and trevally cruising around, felt much better standing on a dry sand bar [img]http://www.flyfishingforum.com/images/flytalk/Happy.gif" border="0" align="middle">.
I found using typical structure and current analysis technics far more interesting to locate Big fish or schools of bones. I observed some Big bones cruise on the flats and quickly back off a number off times. Which naturally lead my to the edge of the flats. My favorite and most productive was fishing off the sandy beach bayside, with schools of bonefish cruising along shore. Or feeding in the current in troughs during the outgoing tides although they weren't as large as those hanging off the flats IMHO.
I preffered working along the edge of the flats typically on whatever side the current flowed of the or either side working my way there. I then began suffering very high breakoff rates, perhaps due to using 10 or 12 pound test leaders! 10 to 12lb test is great for limiting the size of the bonefish to say 35 inches or so. They get bigger than that there I'm told, and I lost quite a few before I finally moved up to 15Lb test and got my drag adjusted alright. Even then I still couldn't keep my flies or fish on. Whether I found the giant trevally or others with a mouthful off teeth is debatable, But the fish where certainly bigger for me most of the time. I never consistantly keep those fish or flies on, and lost some seemingly very large fish.
A gentleman from the Seattle area held the record single day catch of 40 bonefish in one stop the week I was there. He wasn't chasing fish on the flats with a floating line. He was using a sink tip and fishing deeper water working in the longshore current along shoreline using a 20LB tippet! After hearing this I decided my insistance on using a 10-12lb tippet was actually very limiting in my opinion. After all the first fish I caught gave me a good fish relative to a schooly striper only the bonefish was only 9-10 inches long . At that point I relized why the bonefish is so reveared as a gamefish. And when I finally got into a 30in class I couldn't believe how many times I heard the scream of the drag and the backing rolling off with one fish.
Logistically speaking the Capt Cook Hotel isn't really close to the flats. And I hardly consider the fishing very good out front of the motel. It's treacherous on the slippery growth on the coral and waves pushing you around with ease. Around high tide you can wade along the coral on the water covered beach, fishing for cruising bones and trevally. The
place in New London is located right at the departure point and if you where so inclined could likely walk to good fishing around the flats in the bay.
I saw a suggestion to purchase flies tied from the locals, I had to I lost so many and didn't have enough of the guide preffered types. I found some to be very poorly tied with dull and brittle hooks. But compared to nothin they catch fish <img src="http://www.flyfishingforum.com/images/flytalk/Happy.gif[/img].
Don't drink the Water unless it's clean bottled or you bring one of those backpack filter bottles. The groundwater is quite contaminated courtesy of the US military and the Brits leaving acres of 55 galoon drums of fuel, oil and other chemicals leaching into the soil over the years. I got really sick when the island ran out of bear and I switched to Mixed drinks. The Ice cubes or food from the leuaui did me in, imodium helped alot.
The Sun was brutal, numberous people wore shorts only to be fried and miserable the rest of trip. I wore long pants and long sleeve shirt. Still my neck, hand, ears, nose and any other exposed part was pretty fried. A handkerchief came in really handy to pretect my neck, Flats hat I'd consider mandatory and some good aloe and sunscreen of course.
Don't leave the door to your room open unless you don't mind crabs with an attitudes coming in to visit. The laundry service destroyed our clothes. Beer or your favorite beverage should be hoarded if you want a guaranteed supply, good to do when the supply ship is overdue for 3-6 months (typical I'm told).
The Karabati people have so little, it would be greatly appreciated by the guides if you tipped them with flats boots (11-13X) or Sneakers. They all appeared to be large footed people. Toys for the kids are good tips for the family men. After you see some guides walking barefoot all day stepping on the razor sharp coral you'll see why they would be so highly valued.
If you dive like I did you may swim with Giant Mantas, spinner porpoise or what little of the reef fish remain. Not many left after commercial divers catch them all for sale to american pets stores. Say hi to Kim at Dive Karabati for me if you see him.
I'm sure it will be a trip you'll never forget and want to come back and get them another time. I hope to go again with my father again someday.
Sorry to be so delayed in my post, this took me a while to type, I had problems posting, working too much etc...
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Tibor reels all of a sudden looked like a real bargain after I sprung for my wifes ring.
Call my friend Josh @ Leland Fly Fishing Outfitters: 415-781-3474. He went a few months ago and would be happy to answer your questions. I will tell him you might call. This is going to be a great trip. Eddie
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Nate, there was a slide show at last month's NH CCA meeting about Christmas Island, too bad you missed it. The main things the presenters emphasized were sun protection- you're on the equator- and sparse flies. They actually said that the store on the island had flies that were tied by the locals for very reasonable prices.
In addition to the bonefishing and the trevally there is also offshore fishing for tuna and wahoo, so i'd recommend a stout rod.
One other thing I gleaned from the slide show was that the outfitter that is affiliated with fronteirs is the way to go, the presenters said that all their boats had nice new outboards, but they saw folks from some of the other camps broken down on more than one occasion.
I just checked the CCA NH page and it was Capt Dave Gittens that did the slide show. his website is www.maineflyfishing.net and i'm sure he'd have some great info for you.
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Most effective flies were in smaller sizes - #6s and #8s. Variations on the crazy charley and gotcha theme in different colors/shades and weights. Yellow/gold and white/orange produced in the past. A quick look through any of the catalogues will show a number of so called Christmas Island specials. I would definitely take along fly tying gear and be prepared to experiment.
Flies for Trevally should include big deceivers and poppers. They're generally not too fussy. There's some useful info at the following site. This is the operation we're going with.
http://www.castawayflyfishingshop.com/Xmas1.html
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I am jealous Nate! Hope you have the trip of a lifetime. GregD recently went there with his wife and parents. That way the guys could fish and the ladies had company Sounded like a good plan to me.
I have a friend who used to run a lodge down there, I am not sure if he is still into it so will look before I leap with his info...
BTW - Adrian, you are a wealth of information, glad to have you on board!
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No this has nothing to do with the wedding. Actually this is the last big purchase that I won't have to ask permission for.
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If this is a honeymoon trip I hope she likes to fish -there's not much else to do there other than drink, read, birdwatch .....
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I'm making a return trip with friends this coming March. I was there in '96 and it was our introduction to saltwater flyfishing - and what and introduction!
For a first bonefishing trip it's about as good as it can get. There are simply so many fish there that you can screw-up time after time until you get it right and there will still be more fish to hone your skills on. Expect to be fooled by Milkfish. They look just like bones in the water, often swim with them but feed mostly on algae. The thing I like most about the place is it's remoteness and it's all wade fishing on firm coral sand flats which seem to go on forever. I love the Bahamas and the Carribean as well, but I've had many days there where opportunities are thin on the ground.
In addition to bones, there are also three species of Trevally which will really put a bend in your rod. If you haven't had enough at the end of the day, you can wade out to the edge of the reef in front of your hotel and cast for Trevally and who knows what else. This is great fun but don't go out there alone. - the surf can easily turn you upside down and the next ladnfall is over 1000 miles away! Most evenings one of the locals would come down to cast a 12" pencil popper with an ancient looking fixed spool reel and 100lb class big game rod from the 1960's era. He went home with a 20 to 40 pounder most evenings. I only managed one hook-up which ripped half the line of my reel until it jammed and the line snapped like rifle shot.
Take at least two of everything you think you'll need. The nearest town is 1200 miles away and the local tackle shop didn't have much in it. What was there was ludicrously expensive.
Antibiotic cream is a good thing to have. We were ignorant of the fact that the polyps in the tropical waters hold considerable amounts of bacteria and the tiniest cut can become quite painfully infected. Fortunately I had taken some TCP ointment and it did the trick.
I'll be writing up a report on our trip but if you need any other info. drop me an email.
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Nathan, does this have anything to do with a Honeymoon? I knew you were getting married. That is very sly, booking a honeymoon and finding a place to fish. I take it your wife to be has seen these posts?
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I decided to go for the gusto and go to Christmas Island rather then to the Bahamas. I booked the trip yesterday for May. Has anyone else been there? If so what are your thoughts.
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What's the appeal?
Boxing Day sales are an ingrained part of Kiwi culture.
That's the view of consumer behaviour expert and senior marketing lecturer at Auckland University, Dr Denise Conroy.
Shoppers can already get lots of good deals throughout the year as there are regular sales, she says. Online shopping also offers cheap prices, especially as many outlets provide free shipping to New Zealand.
But despite this, people still flock to the shops on December 26 in search of cut-price appliances, cheap clothing and clearance stock electrical goods, Conroy says.
"It's a tradition here the same as it is in Canada, Australia and the UK. And it's the tradition thing and the hype around it that keeps us going."
Are the deals really worth it?
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"Most of the promotions will last through to the end of the week," chief executive John Albertson says.
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Albertson says Boxing Day sales enable shops to get rid of leftover Christmas stock.
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Award-winning poet Brenda Shaughnessy assigns introductory students poems dealing with love, grief and heartbreak to inspire them to take bold, emotional risks in their own work. "I want students to know that their own experience is valid and useful in poetry," she said. "This helps them understand that their own strong feelings are great material, ideal stuff to use in their writing."
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In recognition of National Poetry Month, the University home page features stories from the April 6 Princeton Weekly Bulletin on two faculty members who represent some of the many creative approaches to the study of poetry at Princeton: Brenda Shaughnessy, an award-winning poet who asks young writers to tap into their strongest convictions; and Susan Wolfson, a scholar of British literature who urges students to closely read every word when studying poetry.
- Shaughnessy teaches aspiring poets to 'risk something big'
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Shaughnessy teaches aspiring poets to 'risk something big'
Brenda Shaughnessy offers aspiring poets in her classroom a simple reminder: All poets essentially begin the same way.
"Every writer, whether he's the greatest living American poet or a total novice, has to start with a blank page," said Shaughnessy, a lecturer in creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts. "You have your experiences, your reading, your passion, your intelligence and things you know about the craft, but in terms of getting all that on the page, you still have to start where everybody else starts — with nada, with nothing."
That blank page is both daunting and thrilling, said Shaughnessy, an award-winning poet who came to Princeton in 2007. She teaches Princeton students to tackle the empty page by showing them how veteran poets transform deep emotion and sometimes strange ideas into poetry and then asking her students to risk uncertainty, trust intuition and take leaps, she said.
For her "Introduction to Poetry" class, Shaughnessy likes to assign love poems.
"Love poetry helps young poets understand, 'I can write about the feelings closest to me, with intimate subjectivity,'" she said. "I want students to know that their own experience is valid and useful in poetry. This helps them understand that their own strong feelings are great material, ideal stuff to use in their writing."
Shaughnessy (right), who has taught at Princeton since 2007, urges students to take advantage of their opportunities to write poetry. "I try to remind them that this is their voice, this is their shot," she said. "Are they going to take a stand? Are they going to say something powerfully?"
Shaughnessy gives students love poems by Pablo Neruda and e.e. cummings, as well as works that address difficult emotional states such as grief and heartbreak. She hopes that reading poetry on those themes will get her students to "cut loose on the page, risk something big," she said. "I try to remind them that this is their voice, this is their shot. Are they going to take a stand? Are they going to say something powerfully?"
In her own poetry, Shaughnessy writes about love, loss and rejection with tenderness, wit and emotional precision.
"Brenda Shaughnessy's work is jaunty, jestful, jiggy, joyous, juicy — and I've not gone beyond adjectives beginning with the letter 'J,'" said Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who is the chair of the Lewis Center and a professor of creative writing.
I could be an eel in whirled stillwaters,
the semiotic blue of trick quicksand,
meaningless and true.
In my room, ordinary yellow objects
like lapel labels and plates
smile like similes,
caressed like air in movies,
the texture of froth. I need sugar.
Need it like a right, so sugar
is given. A river of high
minutes rising to a horizon,
only ever seeing my double eyes.
I'm so really truly enough
that I should save myself for later.
Later, don't come now.
Don't turn me back into that seventh
grader in a human ring around the gym,
certain I'm not in the circle.
Now I'm slinging room-darkness
to sun. Swelling hips
incredibly undone,
my blind blood singing,
"qua aqua aqua,"
with this song's cologne,
a silk ribbon of paint
driven through nature.
Fun, who knew? Spinning
with nothing, like earth does,
I flew more than I could lose.
Oh god of ether, god of vapor,
I could use one of either of you.
Take me like a swan would.
Take me, wing me up and make me
dance, impaled on a hooked
prick of cyclone.
Sightless. Wind my limbs, digits
clutching feathers, around you,
and disappear.
I won't fall. I know how to do it now.
I broke the window with god's ball.
I am smoothly used
and honeyed, self-twinned, fearless,
a wineskin emptying
into a singing stranger.
© 2008 Brenda Shaughnessy. Reprinted from "Human Dark With Sugar" with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, Port Townsend, Wash.
Her first book, "Interior With Sudden Joy," was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1999, when Shaughnessy was 29. It was a finalist for the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, which recognizes the work of a new poet, and the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award.
Writing poetry is as much about being tough as it is about being sensitive, Shaughnessy said. She tries to help students develop the ability to accept criticism of their writing.
"I want them to care enough about their writing to see it from a distance, so that they can hear when someone in class says, 'That's convoluted,' or 'That doesn't make any sense to me,'" said Shaughnessy.
Despite her early success, she has learned to take her share of criticism, especially when it was difficult to place her second book with a publisher.
"Several publishers rejected the new book," Shaughnessy recalled. "It made me understand that this kind of disappointment is part of being a poet. In a way, I had to believe in the book even more fiercely because it was so hard finding a home for it."
Eventually Copper Canyon Press accepted the book, "Human Dark With Sugar," which went on to win the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, given for an outstanding second book by an American poet, and to be selected as a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.
Shaughnessy has been writing poetry since childhood, drawn to it because "it was short and dramatic and it seemed romantic," she said. "It seemed to offer the simultaneous and attractive possibility of being deeply understood and completely misunderstood."
She finds Princeton students are much more open to poetry and its possibilities than many people she encounters, even fiction writers.
"There's a fair amount of anxiety and mistrust around poetry," she said. "I know magnificent prose writers who can write huge novels with multiple characters and interwoven subplots, who will say, 'I don't understand poetry.'" To that sentiment she responds, "It's language. It's language stripped of a narrative scaffolding that you're used to, but you're a reader and a writer, so get into it."
For Shaughnessy, poetry offers one of the most important tools for coping with life, one that she hopes to pass on to her students.
"It's helped me tremendously to know that pretty much any state I might find myself in, no matter how dark it is, no matter how difficult it is, a great poet has probably written something marvelous about it," she said. Poetry provides "a sense of connection, a sense that you're not alone. That's one of poetry's greatest gifts, and whether my students become poets or not, I want them to always have that gift."
Susan Wolfson, a professor of English who specializes in Romantic-era writers, uses poetry as a way to teach students how to analyze language in any setting.
Wolfson helps students see what's at stake in language
To help her students dive into the study of 18th- and 19th-century poetry, English professor Susan Wolfson often has them scrutinize contemporary language that is not part of any poem. This semester, for example, her students discussed the difference between calling an economic program "a stimulus package" or "a bailout."
"These are not random, off-the-cuff pieces of language," said Wolfson. "They're carefully crafted metaphors being used to create a narrative."
By drilling down to the agenda behind political language, Wolfson hopes to foster the skills for close reading of great works of poetry, she said.
This technique "gets students excited and empowers them as readers," said Wolfson, who specializes in teaching Romantic-era writers such as William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Mary Wollstonecraft. "I want them to pay attention to what's at stake in words."
Poring over John Keats' odes and William Shakespeare's sonnets during her freshman year at Brown University inspired Wolfson to switch her major to English. Up until then she had planned to be a physics major. She made close reading the basis of her 30 years of scholarship in British literature, during which she has published edited editions of works by Keats, Mary Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as written books about gender and the shaping of poetry in British Romanticism. After earning her Ph.D. at the University of California-Berkeley, Wolfson taught at Rutgers University for 13 years before coming to Princeton in 1991.
Wolfson mainly teaches courses on the Romantics and their contemporaries, British authors writing between 1780 and 1850. She finds that students sometimes approach poetry, especially poetry of another century, as if it's a foreign language. But to read the poetry of Lord Byron or Keats, as the students in her course this semester on "The Later Romantics" are doing, Wolfson maintains that "all you really need is time and a dictionary."
Honing in on a single word can demonstrate to students the payoff of reading closely. When guiding her students through a study of William Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge," for example, Wolfson has drawn their attention to the poet's use of the word "smokeless" to describe the air in London at dawn.
In her course this spring on "The Later Romantics," Wolfson impresses upon students the value of close reading of classic works of poetry. "I want them to pay attention to what's at stake in words," said Wolfson, who joined the Princeton faculty in 1991. She has made close reading the basis of her 30 years of scholarship in British literature.
What does Wordsworth's choice of "smokeless" tell the reader? It reveals that the poet had seen the air when it was full of smoke, which occurred when people woke up and lit their fires. The choice of "smokeless" indicates the fleeting nature of that moment and its preciousness for Wordsworth, said Wolfson.
Looking at that juncture in the poem demonstrates the way in which "poetry is a kind of a concentration of language that rewards the reader's careful attention," Wolfson said. "It's packed with information that is often subtle or disguised, and it comes alive under this kind of attention."
Eric Paulson, a junior who is taking her course on "The Later Romantics" this semester, said Wolfson brings great dynamism to the poetry being studied. "She has a real talent for enlivening the texts she presents," he said. "She has taught me that the Romantics were a rowdy bunch."
The close readings that students undertake in her classes sometimes have given Wolfson new insights into poems she has studied for years. When she taught a course on John Milton's "Paradise Lost" a few years ago, Wolfson asked students to select a word that appears in the poem and trace its use throughout the work. One student analyzed the word "undelighted," which is used by Milton to describe Satan's reaction when he finally gets a look at the Garden of Eden. The student discovered that Milton invented the word "undelighted" for that moment in the poem, something Wolfson had not known. "A lot happens in a room full of sharp readers," she said. "I learn things from my students."
And students learn reading skills that they put to use in other disciplines, they tell Wolfson.
"What they learn from a close reading of poetry they take with them to political science classes and history classes," she said. "It makes them a more careful reader of documents they had assumed were just providing information. They've become analysts of how language is organized, and how it can organize your thinking."


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Recently, when I was in the Sarasota, Florida, area for two speaking engagements, I stopped by the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art on Ringling Plaza.
This area was literally the world headquarters for the circus. The Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Started in 1870 by a gentleman named Ringling, in Wisconsin, the circus eventually became a worldwide phenomenon. He had seven sons. His youngest son was John Ringling.
The other sons all participated in the circus. John was the one with business sense and he built the circus into a worldwide attraction.
In the winters, in nearby Venice, Florida, is where the circus had its winter home. John Ringling and his wife Mable brought a lot of culture to the Sarasota area. They built an art museum, which to this day still attracts many visitors. Behind the art museum is their incredible original home in the area. They had several other homes around the country. But, the one in Sarasota was magnificent.
The reason I want to talk to you about the circus is that all of us, these days, at one point or another, feel like our lives are like a circus.
There are three rings all around us. There are all kinds of challenges. We may feel like a ringmaster, trying to deal with all of the stress.
We have financial challenges, health and work challenges, and challenges with relationships. Sometimes it's just a little too much as we try to keep all of those plates spinning.
What if we could focus on the most valuable thing first? Would that help us to ease up on the feeling of being in the middle of a circus? I think so.
When we think of too many things at one time, the mind goes around in circles and we're not affective in any one direction. I want calm and peacefulness for you.
Declare the affirmation below, the first thing every morning and the last thing each night, and see how productive it can be. Let's let the term "circus" mean a fun evening under the big top instead of too much stress.
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April 2008
Owing to the recent concerns of lead (Pb) leaking into tap water, one of our female patients is concerned about the effects of Pb exposure to newborns while breastfeeding. How should I advise her and should she switch to formula feeding?
Lead exposure through drinking tap water while breastfeeding is not associated with any serious concerns in most available studies. There is currently no safe level of Pb exposure, but environmental exposure within Canada is low. At present, Pb levels in drinking water are carefully monitored by Health Canada and are not likely to be of concern to breastfeeding mothers. Switching to formula feeding is not necessary and not recommended, as improperly prepared formula can have higher Pb levels.
À la lumière des récentes inquiétudes à propos de la présence de plomb (Pb) dans leau du robinet, une de mes patientes sinquiète des effets de lexposition au plomb chez les nouveaunés qui sont allaités. Quels conseils devraisje lui donner, et devraitelle plutôt donner du lait maternisé?
Dans la plupart des études publiées, on ne parle pas dinquiétudes sérieuses à propos de lexposition au Pb dans leau du robinet pendant lallaitement. On na pas encore établi de taux sécuritaires dexposition au Pb, mais lexposition environnementale au Canada est faible. À lheure actuelle, les taux de Pb présents dans leau potable sont étroitement surveillés par Santé Canada et ne devraient pas causer dinquiétudes aux mères qui allaitent. Il nest pas nécessaire ni recommandé de donner plutôt du lait maternisé, parce que si on le prépare mal, le lait maternisé peut contenir des taux plus élevés de Pb.
Lead (Pb) is ubiquitous in our environment. Because of the concern of Pb in drinking water, urban cities are replacing Pb water pipes, which were used during house construction before the 1950s. Other sources of Pb exposure include industrial pollution and hazards through occupations related to mining, household renovation, battery or automobile manufacturing, and the production of plastics, ceramics, paints, and pigments. 1
Lead accumulates in bones and remains in the body for a long period of time. Owing to the increased demand for calcium during pregnancy and lactation, calcium from bone is released along with Pb 2; this mobilizes Pb stored in the bones, resulting in higher Pb levels in the blood. According to a study, 3 Pb redistributed from tissues into blood might have a greater effect on blood-Pb levels than dietary intake does, unless Pb is directly consumed. Currently, there is no safe level of Pb exposure; however, the World Health Organization established provisionally tolerable weekly intakes of 3.75 µ/kg daily. 4 The World Health Organization also reported 2 to 5 ng/g to be acceptable Pb levels in breast milk 5 and 10 µg/L as the safe limit of Pb in drinking water. 6 Health Canada enforces this restriction through routine monitoring of tap water. However, some researchers have suggested that the acceptable Pb levels should be lowered to 1.2 to 1.3 µg/kg daily in young children and pregnant women.7
Lead poisoning is known to adversely affect neuropsychologic development. 8 According to a study from Boston, Mass, blood-Pb levels greater than 10 µg/dL were associated with lower neurobehavioural performance, as measured by the Bayley Scales of Infant Development at 6 to 18 months of age. 9 Several studies have concluded that Pb in breast milk does depend on the level of maternal exposure, but that the absolute degree of transfer is controversial. Comparison of blood and breast milk samples in northern Ontario indicated a low milk-to-blood ratio (0.09), 10 which suggests that the mammary gland barrier is effective in maintaining a low transfer between maternal blood-Pb levels and breast milk. Although studies indicate a low milk-to-blood ratio, samples of breast milk-Pb levels vary extensively.
At present, most studies agree that Pb poisoning through breast milk is only a concern if the mother has high blood-Pb levels. A study conducted in Toronto, Ont, showed that pregnant women had average blood-Pb levels of 2.9 µg/dL and only 1 in 95 women had blood-Pb levels greater than 9.9 µg/dL. 11 Lead levels that are sufficiently high for concern (>10 µg/dL) are rarely exhibited in urban areas in Canada. Levels of Pb contamination in drinking water from Pb pipes are not sufficiently high to greatly increase Pb levels in breast milk and are typically lower than the tolerable range of Pb exposure. While there are reports of Pb poisoning caused by drinking water, 12,13 there are currently no reported cases of Pb poisoning in infants attributed to breastfeeding mothers who have been exposed to Pb through drinking water. Therefore, continued breastfeeding is recommended for mothers whose blood-Pb levels are not excessively high.
Airborne lead
Employees who are exposed to airborne Pb levels above 30 µg/m 3 are required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to have their blood-Pb levels measured every 6 months and routinely complete a zinc protoporphyrin (ZPP) test. Zinc protoporphyrin levels increase exponentially above 40 µg/dL (400 µg/L) blood-Pb levels, but a paucity of data on the blood-Pb-ZPP correlations and ZPP levels associated with adverse health effects limits its usefulness in determining Pb toxicity. 6 Although the normal range of ZPP is 32 to 69 µmol/mol of heme, 14 ZPP is relatively higher in preterm neonates or in those suffering from hypoxemia. 15 Moreover, while ZPP levels do correlate with blood-Pb levels, there is considerable individual variability of ZPP measurements and poor sensitivity to Pb exposure at low ranges.16 The pediatric reference range for ZPP is 16.6 to 73.6 µmol/mol of heme in females and 15.6 to 63.5 µmol/mol of heme in males, from birth to 12 months old, 17 when most breastfeeding is completed. However, little research has been completed regarding the accuracy of ZPP tests in determining Pb poisoning, so this test should only be used in conjunction with a blood-Pb measurement.
Mothers who have a history of Pb poisoning or who are sustaining high levels of occupational Pb exposure might have high blood-Pb levels. These mothers should be routinely monitored. If maternal blood-Pb levels are excessively high, the breastfed infants should also be observed.
Switching to formula feeding is not recommended as a method to avoid urban Pb exposure. Cow's milk, the most utilized source of milk in diets of non-breastfed infants, can be a source of Pb due to the bone meal used for cattle feed 18 and can increase risks of iron deficiency. 19 Furthermore, during preparation, infant formulas also tend to be overconcentrated, which can further elevate Pb intake.20,21 In summary, is recommended that unless maternal blood-Pb levels are excessively high, breastfeeding should continue.
- Dorea JG. Mercury and lead during breast-feeding. Br J Nutr 2004;92(1):21-40. [Medline]
- Gulson BL, Mahaffey KR, Jameson CW, Mizon KJ, Korsch MJ, Cameron MA, et al. Mobilization of lead from the skeleton during the postnatal period is larger than during pregnancy. J Lab Clin Med 1998;131(4):324-9. [Medline]
- Manton WI, Angle CR, Stanek KL, Kuntzelman D, Reese YR, Kuehnemann TJ. Release of lead from bone in pregnancy and lactation. Environ Res 2003;92(2):139-51. [Medline]
- Lead, cadmium and mercury. World Health Organization. Trace elements in human nutrition and health. Geneva, Switz: World Health Organization; 1996. p. 195-216.
- World Health Organization. Minor and trace elements in human milk. Geneva, Switz: World Health Organization; 1989.
- World Health Organization, Volume 1: recommendations. Guidelines for drinking-water quality. 3 ed. Geneva, Switz; 2006. Available from: www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/gdwq0506.pdf. Accessed 2008 Mar 10.
- Müller L, Dieter HH. [Lead in drinking water-determination of a new limit value and the problem of lead pipes]. Gesundheitswesen 1993;55(10):514-20. [Medline]
- Sanín LH, González-Cossío T, Romieu I, Peterson KE, Ruíz S, Palazuelos E, et al. Effect of maternal lead burden on infant weight and weight gain at one month of age among breastfed infants. Pediatrics 2001;107(5):1016-23. [Abstract/Free Full Text]
- Bellinger D, Leviton A, Waternaux C, Needleman H, Rabinowitz M. Longitudinal analyses of prenatal and postnatal lead exposure and early cognitive development. N Engl J Med 1987;316(17):1037-43. [Medline]
- Hanning RM, Sandhu R, MacMillan A, Moss L, Tsuji LJ, Nieboer E. Impact on blood Pb levels of maternal and early infant feeding practices of First Nation Cree in the Mushkegowuk Territory of northern Ontario, Canada. J Environ Monit 2003;5(2):241-5. [Medline]
- Koren G, Chang N, Gonen R, Klein J, Weiner L, Demshar H, et al. Lead exposure among mothers and their newborns in Toronto. CMAJ 1990;142(11):1241-4. [Abstract]
- Costa RA, Nuttall KL, Shaffer JB, Peterson DL, Ash KO. Suspected lead poisoning in a public school. Ann Clin Lab Sci 1997;27(6):413-7. [Abstract]
- Watt GC, Britton A, Gilmour HG, Moore MR, Murray GD, Robertson SJ. Public health implications of new guidelines for lead in drinking water: a case study in an area with historically high water lead levels. Food Chem Toxicol 2000;38(1 Suppl):S73-9. [Medline]
- Hudák A, Kiss G, Náray M, SÜveges E. Evaluation of delta-aminolaevulinic acid excretion in random urine samples of children. Eur J Pediatr 1994;153(3):187-9. [Medline]
- Lott DG, Zimmerman MB, Labbé RF, Kling PJ, Widness JA. Erythrocyte zinc protoporphyrin is elevated with prematurity and fetal hypoxemia. Pediatrics 2005;116(2):414-22. [Abstract/Free Full Text]
- Martin CJ, Werntz CL 3rd, Ducatman AM. The interpretation of zinc protoporphyrin changes in lead intoxication: a case report and review of the literature. Occup Med (Lond) 2004;54(8):587-91. [Medline]
- Soldin OP, Miller M, Soldin SJ. Pediatric reference ranges for zinc protoporphyrin. Clin Biochem 2003;36(1):21-5. [Medline]
- Akayezu JM, Hansen WP, Otterby DE, Crooker BA, Marx GD. Yield response of lactating Holstein dairy cows to dietary fish meal and bone meal. J Dairy Sci 1997;80(11):2950-63. [Medline]
- Ziegler EE. Adverse effects of cow's milk in infants. Nestle Nutr Workshop Ser Pediatr Program 2007;60:185-99. [Medline]
- Shannon M, Graef JW. Lead intoxication from lead-contaminated water used to reconstitute infant formula. Clin Pediatr (Phila) 1989;28(8):380-2. [Abstract/Free Full Text]
- Lucas A, Lockton S, Davies PS. Randomised trial of a ready-to-feed compared with powdered formula. Arch Dis Child 1992;67(7):935-9. [Abstract/Free Full Text]


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News about Gloria Estefan, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Gloria Estefan Congas Her Way Through a Night in Her Honor
The Cuban-born singer, featured in the Broadway musical "On Your Feet!," is celebrated along with her husband, Emilio Estefan....
May 8, 2016, Sunday
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'On Your Feet!' and 'Fiddler' Are Strong at Broadway Box Office
Despite efforts to emphasize its relevance, the musical "Allegiance" is not faring as well....
December 14, 2015, Monday
MORE ON GLORIA ESTEFAN AND: Estefan, Gloria , Broadway League , Immigration and Emigration , Theater
Medal of Freedom Awarded to 'a Class Act' Group of 17
Among those honored were such iconic figures as Willie Mays, Barbra Streisand, Itzhak Perlman and Steven Spielberg....
November 25, 2015, Wednesday
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Estefan and 'La Bamba' Cover Only Part of America's Latin Culture in the 1980s
The Estefans' musical "On Your Feet!" and the HBO documentary "The Latin Explosion" overlook what else was going on with Latinos in pop at the time....
November 18, 2015, Wednesday
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With a Presidential Boost, 'Hamilton' Tops Broadway Box Office
The musical played nine performances, one of them a fund-raiser for the Democratic Party....
November 9, 2015, Monday
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Review: 'On Your Feet!' Rides the Rhythm of the Estefans
This musical about Emilio and Gloria Estefan tracks their career and marriage, including the accident that threatened her life....
November 6, 2015, Friday
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Sergio Trujillo Realizes His Dream of Salsa on Broadway
In "On Your Feet!," a musical take on Gloria and Emilio Estefan's rise to fame, the choreographer has found his most personal project yet....
November 1, 2015, Sunday
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Celebrity-Filled Show to Precede Pope Francis' Mass at Madison Square Garden
The archdiocese announced that the pope's Mass next week would be preceded by prayer and music, with performances by Harry Connick Jr., Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Hudson and others....
September 15, 2015, Tuesday
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This Broadway Season, Diversity Is Front and Center
Tales of race and immigrants open doors this fall in shows like "The Color Purple," "On Your Feet!" and "Allegiance."...
September 13, 2015, Sunday
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DiCaprio Just the Latest Celebrity to Join the Hotel Business
Francis Ford Coppola, Richard Gere and Andy Murray have also broadened their portfolios (and their brands) with properties around the world....
April 8, 2015, Wednesday
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The 10th annual A Night in the Valley features a four-course dinner paired with elegant wines and exciting auctions benefiting student scholarships and academic programs at Trident Technical College. Come celebrate and support education while experiencing first-hand the talents of the Culinary Institute of Charleston. The College Center at Trident Technical College, 7000 Rivers Ave., North Charleston. Friday, 6:30pm. $250. (843)574-6693, www.tridenttech.edu


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Designed specifically around the vehicle's body lines, this Stealth Base Rear Bumper offers the ultimate in form, fit, and finish. Road Armor bumpers are designed to handle up to a Warn and Superwinch 9k non-integrated winch. Recessed light pods for reverse lights. Tough 3/16" outer steel shell. Internal mounting brackets and gussets. Includes shackle mounts. Manufacturer's lifetime guarantee against breakage.


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Colonial-style shuttered windows filter out the scorching sunlight from tall, lush tropical plants. Beautiful and striking animal paintings grace the walls. Dark wood furniture completes the authentic, sub-Saharan atmosphere, in this stylish bar. Our resident pianist offers a fine choice of music during the evening.
Visit during the evening for some great live acts of tribal and folklore themes.
The ubiquitous poolside bar is an essential part of any holiday. No need to dry off and move indoors, as you can sit directly by the pool. You can even stay right in the pool and enjoy a drink while seated on one of the in-water bar stools.
This bar continues to be a very popular evening haunt for our guests. Waterfalls cascade over the sides and into the surrounding pools. The bar is sunk just below this water level, creating the ambience of a subterranean aquatic hideaway. The famous Oriental water pipe – the shisha – is also available.
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I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
I'm referring to stores actually selling out (which is remarkable--that whole TPM wave is a batch of pegwarmers, and it might not've been if it had actually been released with the movie in 3D), then replacing the figures with more Clone Wars or, uh, what's that other line called this week? Movie Heroes?
That's my jacket!
Felt restless at 830 tonight, so I went on a toy run. It was fruitful. Found and picked up three Marvel 2-packs: IM/Mandarin, Colossus/Juggernaut, and Hulk/Wolverine. There were more, as they were part of a go-back cart in the toy section minutes before closing. PM if you want to know where to be at opening tomorrow, when they should be back on the pegs. Found absolutely nothing SW related that was even remotely new today or yesterday. If it wasn't for Amazon and BBTS, I wouldn't know that the SW brand was still up and running.
Chaddymac -- thanks for the heads up.
JT - PM sent.
I travelled to SEVEN TRUs today in search of the FF Dr. Doom comic pack. Not one sighting. I did, however, find a MM Catwoman, so that helped. I must find that Doom. At the various Targets I also visited, I couldn't the Thanos comic pack, either.
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Pan. city wally had their excl. Avengers 6" Iron man and Capt. America. Their SW sucked and absolutely no transformers anywhere in the toy section. Maybe theyre doin a reset? Sh. oaks Target had the newer waves of TF prime deluxes, but no vehicons. For SW, they had a tvc Capt. Fordo & the usual glut of TPM, Aotc & other older waves clogging the pegs.
The Dark Knight Rises was magnificent. Highly recommended, esp. if you enjoyed the first 2 (Nolan) films!
I liked TDKR, but I wanted to like it more. I don't want to post spoilers, but I'll say that I felt disappointed in the Alfred/Bruce relationship and the reasoning behind Bruce's pre-movie decision. That's not how I've always understood Batman to be. This said, I was pleasantly surprised by Anne Hathaway. Very pleasantly.
More searching today: No Doom, no Thanos. They will be found. At Bell Gardens TRU, two cases of TDKR MM were brought out, both missing the Alfred. Not shocked. I'm sure he'll turn up. I think I want to build the Bat Signal, though I didn't at first. It might be a cool piece for my desk at school. I'm sure the kids will get some fun out of it.