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This is a remarkable collection of poems about the Holocaust by a poet who himself survived horrific abuse during his childhood and adolescence (see The Endless Search: A Memoir in this database). "He had in mind a thousand year Reich," Ray writes (p. 16), but it has become "the thousand year Kaddish." But the grief of the Holocaust has begun to move away from us after only 60 years, and we turn our backs on continuing atrocity and death, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, for example, (p.22) and the Death Squads of South America.
While the author was a small boy in Mingo, Oklahoma, "Dr. Mengele was cutting girls in half, twins." (p. 28) This evil remains in the world. Ray celebrates the survivors and acknowledges the very real grief that exists in the world, but he also understands that evil is an inextricable dimension of human nature. In the words Ray attributes to Adolf Eichmann just before he was hanged, "Your world is full of me, I am all over the place . . . and whether you like it or not, what I have done will be done." (pp. 66-67)
Summary:Written in 1896 and originally a collection of poems that seemed destined to go out of print forever, A Shropshire Lad comprises 63 individual poems of varying meter and length, all dealing with the themes of adolescence, the rustic countryside of Shropshire, and premature death, usually by violence, war, e.g., I, III, IV, XXXV, LVI; homicide, e.g., VIII, XXV?; suicide, e.g., XVI, XLIV, XLV, LIII, LXI; and state execution by hanging, e.g., IX, XLVII. There are the deaths of young lovers (XI, XXVII), young soldiers (see war and XXIII, perhaps), young revelers (XLIX) and young athletes (XIX). The living and dying and, most of all, the remembering occurs in the pastoral setting of Shropshire.
Four soldiers with a similar wound--laryngeal damage after being shot in the throat--share a room in a German military hospital during World War I. Each of them has a tracheostomy tube, and they can only speak by covering the opening of the tube with a finger. Because every breath or laugh generates the sound of a little whistle, these men are dubbed "whistlers" and their hospital room is named after them. The injured soldiers are Pointner, Kollin, Benjamin, and an 18-year-old English prisoner of war, Harry Flint. They undergo a series of painful surgeries (without anesthesia) to dilate the narrowed and scarred air passage.
The surgeon, Dr. Quint, is a compassionate man with incredible physical strength. He holds the "whistlers" in high regard. They in turn venerate the devoted surgeon. Pointner and Kollin die. Surgery on Benjamin and Harry is successful and their tracheostomy tubes are removed. They can now breathe normally and soon discover their new voices.
Primary Category: Literature / Nonfiction
Genre: History
Dr. McKechnie begins his overview of the history of the practice of medicine in British Columbia with records of Coastal Native practices encountered by the first explorers of the Northwest Territory in the 18th century. This opening section of the work contains interesting folklore regarding some of the methodologies and medicinals utilized, and terminates in descriptions of the rites surrounding the initiation of a new Shaman.
Moving forward in time, the author explores the early naval medicine of the seamen and their captains, including the early intermingling of the explorers with the Coastal Indians. The plagues of smallpox, measles, syphilis, and tuberculosis attributed to the arrival on the western continent of organisms to which the natives were not immune are covered briefly.
The third portion of the book is devoted to the changes in medical practice on this particular frontier as the emerging science of the 19th century moved gradually westward. The final chapters cover the century of the great world wars and the progressive advances in medical science as they affected the residents and physicians of British Columbia.
A medical school graduate, E. A. Talbot, fails twice his qualifying examination for a position as British Army surgeon. He leaves England and vows never to return to Europe. He lands a job working for the Dutch government as the administrator of Halak-Proot, a psychiatric hospital that houses about 100 mentally ill officers and some colonists. It is located in the jungle of Java. The institution is a magnet for madness. Patients never improve and sometimes get worse there. The soldiers are more inclined to feign psychosis than return to battle.
When his father dies, Talbot inherits property. He sells it and uses the money to transform the psychiatric hospital into a luxurious estate. Cases of dementia soon plummet. The facility no longer accepts any patients except those who are indisputably insane. Soldiers somehow discover their sanity and are refused entry. Talbot grows old in his exclusive paradise that now has room for only him, a guard, and a custodian.
The narrator of this story, a wounded American soldier, is recuperating from his injury in Milan, Italy. He receives treatments delivered by machines each afternoon at the hospital. His doctor seems overly optimistic. "You are a fortunate young man," he tells the narrator, promising the soldier that his injured knee and leg will recover well enough for him to play football again.
The physician's prognosis for another patient, an Italian major receiving treatment for a shriveled hand, is also dubious. The officer was once a renowned fencer and is now angry and bitter. His invalid condition and the recent death of his young wife from pneumonia have sapped his will. He professes no faith in the machines treating his hand injury and does not believe in bravery.
Injury fosters camaraderie and the narrator socializes with four other young men undergoing treatment at the hospital. The narrator admits his injury was not the result of heroic action but merely an accident. The medals he received were undeserved. Life may be a series of random events but some people have it worse than others. The only certainty in the lives of these characters is the fact that "the war was always there."
Primary Category: Literature / Fiction
Genre: Novel
Manlius is a 5th C Roman patrician living in Provence who has studied with the wise, reclusive Sophia. He writes his understanding of her teaching in his essay, 'Dream of Scipio,' which trades on an essay by the great Roman orator, Cicero. Sensing that the Empire is gravely threatened, he makes a pact with barbarians, sells out his neighbors, slays his adopted son, and becomes a bishop of the Christian religion, which he has long despised. Late in this ruthless and doomed attempt to salvage what he values most in his world, Sophia makes it clear that he has misunderstood her teaching.
Olivier is an astonishingly gifted 14th century Provencal poet whose intolerant father tries to stifle his love of letters, among which is Manlius's 'Dream'; his father destroys the manuscript, but Olivier recopies it from memory. As plague advances on their region, Olivier finds a mentor in the high churchman, Ceccani, who is bent on keeping the papacy in Avignon. He plans to destroy Jews as symbolic expiation for plague, widely construed to be a form of divine punishment. Olivier befriends a Jewish scholar and falls in love with his beautiful heretic servant.
The 'Dream' and the imprisonment of his friends lead Olivier to question and then betray his mentor. Either because of his efforts to save them, or for his role in a murder, he is mutilated--his tongue and hands cut off to rob him of speech and writing. The brutal mutilation appears early in the book--it is not fully explained until the end.
Julien is a French historian who has studied the poet, Olivier, and the rendition of Manlius' manuscript. He finds solace in his erudition as his county falls to the Nazi occupation. An old school friend who is a collaborator, gives him work as a censor and tolerates Julien's Jewish lover, the artist Julia. In the end, Julien is forced to choose between saving either another school friend in the Resistance or Julia. He chooses Julia, looses her anyway, and commits suicide in a vain attempt to warn his friend.
Primary Category: Performing Arts / Film, TV, Video
Genre: Film
This film is based on the true life story of Lucille Teasdale, one of Canada's first female physicians. She received many refusals for positions in Canadian hospitals so she joined an Italian colleague to work in a Catholic mission hospital in Uganda. She and her colleague later married and continued their work at the hospital where they trained nurses and doctors, sheltered refugees, and gradually modernized their facilities. They spent their lives caring for the lost, sick, and dying in a world of poverty, tribal conflict, and civil war.
A daughter was born to them. The child resented her mother's commitment to the patients in the hospital. After being sent to Italy for school, she finally recognized her parents' dedication and became a physician herself, working in Italy and helping to support the hospital. Dr. Lucille contracted AIDS from surgical injuries but continued to work until her death in 1996.
Primary Category: Literature / Literature
Genre: Anthology (Mixed Genres)
The title The Body in the Library suggests medicine (the body) as seen through literary eyes. True enough, this collection of stories, poems, essays, and excerpts from longer works is subtitled "A Literary Anthology of Modern Medicine." However, as Iain Bamforth points out in his introduction, nowadays we are more concerned with "the library in the body" (p. xxiv); that is, we believe the truth of human illness can be found by biochemical tests and positron scans, rather than by storytelling. In this anthology Bamforth uses literature itself to document this change in perspective. Beginning with "The Black Veil" (1836), an early sketch by Charles Dickens, Bamforth recounts the recent history of medicine as seen by poets and writers, many of whom were (and are) physicians themselves.
Part of the anthology consists of material already annotated in this database. This includes stories (e.g. Conan Doyle's "The Curse of Eve" from Round the Red Lamp, Kafka's A Country Doctor, and Williams's Jean Beicke); excerpts from novels (e.g. "The Operation" from Flaubert's Madame Bovary, "The Fever Ward" from Camus' The Plague, and "Doctor Glas" from Hjalmar Soderberg's novel, Doctor Glas); and essays (e.g. Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill and John Berger's "Clerk of Their Records" from A Fortunate Man).
However, most of the selections have not previously been noted in this database, nor do they appear in other recent anthologies. Iain Bamforth has discovered some wonderful "new" material on the medical experience. This includes several poems by the German physician-poet Gottfried Benn (pp. 151-153); and a brief piece by neurologist-writer Alfred Döblin ("My Double," pp. 177-179), in which the physician Döblin and the writer Döblin describe their respective "doubles" in rather detached and negative terms.
Another delight is the series of selections from Miguel Torga's diary (pp. 256-278); Torga (1907-1995) was a provincial Portuguese medical practitioner for 60 years. Among the other pieces are short excerpts from plays by Georg Buchner, Jules Romains, and Karl Valentin; and poems by Weldon Kees, W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, Dannie Abse, Robert Pinsky, Miroslav Holub , and Thom Gunn.
This is the second collection of poems by international health physician Norbert Hirschhorn. The first poem, "Number Our Days," is a meditation based on a verse from Psalm 90, "Let us number our days / That we may get us a heart of wisdom." The poet reflects on his mother's escaping the Holocaust ("my blond head sucking her breast"), her subsequent depressions, and eventually the day when the adult son was faced with the decision whether to dialyze his dying mother.
This poem sets the stage for the whole collection: an inquiry into the meaning of family and love and memory. Hirschhorn doesn't take himself too seriously, as in his description of adolescent lust ("Donna, Oh Donna"), the compelling "Self Portrait, "Growing up in New York / with skull caps and spittle, I felt demeaned to be Jewish / and fled to the Ivy league," and the wonderful "New Old Uncle Blues."
There are three major clusters of poems: one that deals with the poet's family and childhood; a second cycle of love, distance, divorce, and renewed love; and, finally, an engaging set of poems that focus on his experience in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. In "On a Guesthouse Veranda in Surakarta, Central Java," Hirschhorn writes, "What matters here? Nothing. / Never has life been / so sweet." And "A Non Believer Wakens to the First Call to Prayer" ends with these beautiful lines, "The men who pray raise up their palms. / Soon the sun will warm the stones."


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Vaginas have been getting so many unnecessary attentions recently. Especially with the treatments like steaming, vagacials, vaginal lightening, tightening sticks, and herbal detox pellets. However, in reality, the vagina may look after itself most of the time. Furthermore, it is also self-pH regulating and self-cleaning. Nonetheless, there is this one particular are that sometimes need your help and attention. What is it –the lubrication! Read on through this article and learn more facts about vaginal lubrication.
Facts about Vaginal Lubrication: Who needsit?
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- Menopause –half of those who are post-menopausal women at the age of 51-60 may suffer from vaginal dryness. This is all due to the lower production of estrogen.
- Chemotherapy –may cause some damage in the ovaries. Further, it inhibits the production of estrogen.
- Hysterectomy –a condition that's caused by low estrogen levels.
- Following the use of tampons.
- The use of chemicals, as well as products like punitive soaps, swimming pool chemicals, as well as medications like cold treatments.
- The lack of sexual arousal.
- Vaginal dryness may affect all the ages of women, and may be due to several factors.
Why is vaginal dryness more of a problem at menopause stage?
The reason for it is that it may take you longer to lubricate during your sexual intercourse. This can make your lovemaking feel so uncomfortable, or even excruciating.Furthermore, not just that vaginal dryness may cause bleeding and pain during sex, it may also increase the risk of developing a certain infection that may worsen the problem.
Vagina's Natural Lubrication: How does it work?
One of the most significant facts about vaginal lubrication for you to know is how it works. The body may produce two kinds of lubrication, one for the daily maintenance, and the other during the sexual enjoyment.
In order to keep the vaginal tissue moist and supple, the glands nearing the cervix may produce somewhat acidic moisture that moves down into the vagina. This keeps it much cleaner, removing dead skin cells, and preventing any infections. When it finally leaves the body, it shows a visible white discharge.
During a sexual intercourse, the two glands (Bartholin) at the vaginal entrance produce an extra moisture. This is to minimize the friction during sex.
How to Apply Vaginal Lubrication?
Now that you already know how it works, another facts about vaginal lubrication that you must know is how to apply it.
In the actual fact, lubricant does not only ease the friction during a sexual intercourse. You may also use it in making the insertion of tampon much easier. You can also use it in your smear tests.
On the sexual side, other than using lubricant to enhance the sexual sensation for the vagina, you can use it on the nipples and clitoris. You may also try it on the penis, or put some drops of it in the condom before you put it on. This will definitely increase the pleasure!
Vaginal Lubricants you Might Want to Try
There are actually three major types of vaginal lubricants that you may use, these include the following:
Oil-Based Vaginal Lubricant
Due to the fact that oil does not dissolve in water, these are ideal for use when you are in water. If you're using the common type of condoms that are polyisoprene or latex-based, don't use petroleum jelly or oil-based lubricants. This is mainly because they might make the condom weaker and may cause them to burst or tear. You can safely use the oil-based lubricants with the polyurethane condoms. Furthermore, you may also take a do-it-yourself approach with the vegetable oils.
Water-Based Vaginal Lubricant
The natural, water-based lubricants are typically made from the gel of aloe vera. It has a slippery quality and are easy to remove. Not only that, it is also safe to use with all kinds of condoms.
It also has a range of plant-based, natural lubricants.
Silicone-Based Vaginal Lubricant
The skin doesn't absorb the silicone-based lube. Due to this fact, it is essential to last much longer. Furthermore, it is also good to use it in water. Whether you use it in swimming to the sea or pool, hot tub, shower, or bath, it's fine.
Do not use it with sex toys, which contain silicone, as it may damage them. However, it is safe to use with all kinds of condoms. Furthermore, you will also need to clean it up thoroughly after using. This is since it stays slippery and may stain the surfaces.
Lubricants are truly essential for the betterment of the sex experience. But not because it enhances the experience, you will just the lubes that you see out there. You need to know what really is suitable for you. I hope you learn a lot through these facts about vaginal lubrication. So the next time that you will have a sexual intercourse, choose what really suits you!


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Isle of Bute. May 2018.
Helen Rose Outdoors Diary
Club Outing
The Glasgow HF Walking Club runs two low level walking weekends every year at different locations; this year the first one was on the Isle of Bute. The group was based in the famous Glenburn Hotel in Rothesay. Rothesay has many childhood memories for me as a summer holiday resort and was affectionately known by Glaswegians as 'Goin Doon the Watter'. In other words, sailing down the River Clyde. Bute is 33 miles from Glasgow as the crow flies and is only 15 miles long by 4 miles wide. It is renowned for its glorious gardens and grand architecture including Mount Stuart House, which is a wonder of Victorian engineering and had the world's first house indoor swimming pool! I have previously visited it to see the celestial ceiling and art works. Stella McCartney got married there so it must be tasteful!
Rothesay is the largest village on Bute. Our walks were planned for the West Island Way, which was Scotland's first official island long distance footpath and was opened in 2000 to celebrate the turn of the millennium. We walked 12 miles a day and did most of the Way but we were dependent on local buses and had to fit in with timetables. Stephen planned the walks well taking in all the Island's attractions.
West Island Way North
On the first day we took the bus to Port Bannatyne and walked over to Ettrick Bay passing a derelict church with an interesting three dimensional cross. Ettrick Bay has glorious sands and views over to Arran and its majestic mountains. A great place for a coffee break to soak up the scenery. We continued our walk to Rhubodach with some rough walking due to recent inclement weather. We had a diversion to a lookout shelter from World War Two facing North West with lovely views out to sea. Spring has been late here this year but there were some lovely violets and primroses in full bloom. When we reached Rhubodach, we saw the bus coming across on the ferry from the Dunoon Peninsula which is only a five minute crossing!
West Island Way South
On the second day we caught the bus to Kilchattan Bay in the south of the island and walked over to Stravanan Bay stopping for coffee on the beach after passing the local airfield, basically a field with a large windsock and a picnic table which we joked was the check in desk! We walked on to a little top for lunch with views again over to Arran where there was a bench. We were approached by a man wanting to take a photo of people sitting on the bench as he was responsible for maintaining it from the Dorothy Marshall Trust . He was the local joiner so well placed to provide us with interesting information on building and maintaining teak benches. . The walk continued through avenues of brilliant yellow gorse and we came to a field where some sheep were in a pen watched over by a farmer. Kathleen could not resist asking the farmer about a black lamb in a field of white sheep we had seen earlier. We noticed the two lambs in the pen were big and a strange grey colour. He explain that they were January lambs and it was the first time they has been out due to bad weather. Their coats had become waxy and turned grey as they had been inside so long. So now you know! Many lambs were lost this year due to late winter snow.
Every night we had entertainment in the Glenburn Hotel including an Elton John Tribute Night on Saturday. On Monday, we took the boat back to Wemyss Bay in glorious sunshine. In fact, we were very lucky the whole weekend had been great weather. Bute is even better than I remembered in my childhood.
Thanks to Stephen for planning the weekend and leading the walks.
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- Helen Rose's Outdoor Diary: Strathpeffer. October 2019
- 'Creatures as Natural Hunters' Damian Henry Glasgow Print Studio
- Helen Rose Outdoor Diary: Languedoc
- Young Talent, ProjectAbility
- Norway, Rondane. August 2019.
- Freed Spirit : The Paintings of Maria Spadoni (1928 – 2014) RGI
- Harris. July 2019
- Summer Time, Summer Place Thistle Gallery
- Melrose. June 2019
- Fashion Design Students Showcase Degree Show 2019
- Colorado and the Rockies. May 2019
- Patrick McAlindon at The Glasgow Guild
- Rhona Mühlebach Loch Long Solo Exhibition GFT
- Glasgow Contemporary Art Fair 2019


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The Round Rock City Council and the City Planning and Zoning Commission will begin meeting in regular sessions at 6 p.m. starting this October. Previously, both boards met in regular session beginning at 7 p.m.
The earlier start time is intended to make the meetings more accessible to the public.
The Historic Preservation Commission, which had been meeting in regular session at 5:45 p.m., will also move to a 6 p.m. start time.


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Since 1998, the philosophy of Höllinger and the uncompromising quality of our organic products is characterized by this motto. To us, the authentic naturalness of our products and their regional origin are not just a current trend, but are rooted in decades of tradition!
Every successful business starts with a good idea. This idea came to me in 1997, when directly pressed fresh fruit juices ("NFC" – Not From Concentrate) became available for the very first time in the cooling shelves of Austrian supermarkets. However, a particularly important and very typical Austrian product was not among them: apple juice! So I developed the first organic, naturally cloudy NFC apple juice for Austrian food retailers. And moreover, this juice was sourced exclusively from regional Styrian apples!


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In this five-day event you will learn some of the key skills and processes from Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and Restorative Circles (RC) that are essential for building resilient relationships and reconciling communities. NVC & RC offer practical skills and processes to reconcile and to build peace at all levels of society (individual, organizational, communal, and systemic). These skills and processes have been utilized around the world in a variety of cultures and settings where they have proven to be very effective in numerous situations; they are simple, practical, yet often quite powerful.
"My passion for reconciliation lies in the courage of conflicted communities to go from violence to understanding to peace – this transformation is holy ground."
Duke is a Certified Trainer with the International Center for Nonviolent Communication since 2000. He leads reconciliation trainings in many conflict & post-conflict regions of the world and has facilitated hundreds of dialogues between conflicting groups & communities. Some of this work has included supporting peacebuilders & civil rights advocates in giving voice to victims in Sri Lanka's 25-year civil war; facilitating the building of dialogue skills in mixed Moslem – Christian communities in Nigeria; leading a series of restorative dialogues between Ukrainian army and a pro-Russian community near the war front; and helping build the reconciliation skills of two commissions working for Truth and Reconciliation in Nepal after 10 years of civil war (see the documentary In The Eyes of the Good for a look at this work).
Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a specific approach to communicating – thinking, speaking and listening – which guides us in transforming old, habitual patterns of relating into new, compassionate ways of acting, expressing ourselves and hearing others. It is founded on language and communication skills which step outside of judgment, criticism, blame, and humiliation, and enable people to connect with the life in themselves and others in ways that inspire a compassionate response. Through the NVC model of communication, relationships, be they intimate or international in scope, become a dance between honest and clear expression and respectful empathic attention.
Restorative Circles (RC) is a systemic response of community self-care that directly addresses a community's sense of relatedness, belonging, cohesion and connection. It invites us into a whole new way of understanding and experiencing being in community, engaging in justice, and living interdependently. RC does this by creating a structure and forum through which people can dialogue with respect and understanding in order to reach agreements that sustain effective and nurturing relationships, both personally and within our larger society. RC, as developed by Dominic Barter, has rediscovered and adapted ways for communities to promote responsibility and healing, and recover power on profound levels. It enables us to rethink justice, and to engage with the challenge of consciously building whole system responses to community well-being. This has opened up revolutionary possibilities for furthering a culture of peace. www.restorativecircles.org
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The workshop will be held in Zagroda Ojrzanów which is located near Warsaw in beautiful surroundings. It is an amazing place with a small lake for swimming, bikes to rent, forest to walk in, and great food. Due to remote location, the internet access is very limited. It takes half an hour by car from Warsaw Airport Okęcie (WAW) or central train station and an hour from Modlin Airport (WMI). We are willing to support you concerning transport arrangements.
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Marta Kułaga
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You gotta love a product recall and as they say, the bigger the better. Toyota in the US is recalling 3.8 million vehicles due to faulty floor mats. Seriously. When I first heard about the recall I initially thought it was another one of those jokes you hear about Americans like how when cruise control was invented the Americans thought it meant the car steered itself.
Basically the floor mats are being recalled because they are removable and could cause the accelerators to get stuck. Check out the story here. It got me wondering. How come for so long we've been buying floor mats for our cars and all this time it has been a safety risk? And whenever you watch Police 10-7 the speeding culprits never tried the excuse that their floor mats were stuck under their accelerators when explaining to the cops. I guess it's because the culprits were too stoned or drunk to think straight or speak coherently.
This isn't the first time Toyota has come across a problem with their loose floor mats. In 2007 the US the company had to recall a number of their accessory all weather floor mats for their Camry and Lexus models. And they still haven't learnt. But who hasn't learnt? Surely we all know how to use a floor mat and make sure the top isn't crumpled up near the pedals, surely not everyone is stupid.
What will car manufacturers have to recall next to safeguard them from litigious Americans? Power windows that don't provide power and have no power socked to plug things into? Sunroofs that don't let the sun in on cloudy days? Sure I'm being facetious but when a chance to make a quick buck is involved, people will think of anything. It's like that Seinfeld episode when Kramer tries to sue because his coffee is too hot. Or that other Seinfeld episode when Kramer tried to sue because he smokes in his unventilated apartment and his skin begins to deteriorate. Those episodes aren't just jokes, they're almost a biographical piece on money hungry losers.
Pretty soon everything in America will have a warning label. "Don't watch your new TV for any more than thirty minutes at a time", "This recliner is best suited for ultimate comfort and relaxation, but we advise you do 10 minutes of exercise after every hour of sitting" and "Don't do this jigsaw puzzle if you suffer from poor eye sight, arthritis or RSI".
I just hope the recall doesn't happen during the car races down at this end of the world coz we all know crashes are what make a good car race and anything that increases a car crash can only be good.
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Cobb Island is located in Maryland. Cobb Island, Maryland has a population of 1,075. Cobb Island is less family-centric than the surrounding county with 28% households with children. The county percentage for households with children is 36%.
The median household income in Cobb Island, Maryland is $58,395. The median household income for the surrounding county is $75,662 compared to the national median of $49,877. The median age of people living in Cobb Island is 45.6 years.
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Lymestone Brewery has breathed new life to the Quiet Woman, one of Leek's oldest and most historic pubs. The Bradford Family invite you to come along to enjoy the ambience of the pub while they tell you about their journey through the notoriously challenging brewing industry and the continued growth of their business.
At this breakfast event they will tell you why they chose to bring the brewery to Leek and explore some of the challenges and triumphs they have faced since they came to the town, their aspirations for the future and plans put the pub at the heart of the community.
They're definitely doing something right as they've just bagged the coveted Staffordshire Moorlands CAMRA Pub of the Season award for Spring 2018!
Most importantly they will answer the question on everyone's lips since they took over the pub - have they seen her?
Don't miss out on this fascinating insight into a growing family business putting down roots in the Moorlands!
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Date: Wednesday 9th May 2018
Time: 8:00am - 10:00am
Location: The Quiet Woman, 73 St Edward Street, Leek ST13 5DN


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What's a selfie? It's a photograph you take of yourself! And everyone wants to take the perfect selfie!
The perfect Coinmama selfie starts with three things:
The ID you've already uploaded + A piece of paper on which you've handwritten "Coinmama" and today's full date + You 👋
Now you just need to take a photo of all three things together.
A few notes:
- We need to be able to read the information on your ID and on the piece of paper
- Make sure the whole date is written, including the year
- None of the text on the ID can be covered
- We want to see your entire face
- You have to be holding both the ID and paper yourself
- The photo has to be clear
Here are some tips to make it work:
- Webcams sometimes take low-quality pictures, so grab your smartphone for this one.
- Take the photo in a well-lit room or in natural lighting.
- Hold the ID at its corner to make sure you're not covering any of the information written on it.
- Write "Coinmama" and the date at the center of a full sheet of paper. That way your ID won't block it.
- Don't forget, you can always recruit a friend to take the photo.
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Fond du Lac Area United Way helps residents achieve financial stability
In Fond du Lac county, 41% of residents are living below poverty levels or are one financial disaster away from poverty. The Fond du Lac Area United Way is working to ease the financial burdens for families by supporting community programs that provide assistance with everything from homeownership to basic needs.
Basic Needs & Financial Stability agency partner programs:
- ADVOCAP - Economic Stability
- Badgerland YFC Fresh Start Juvenile Justice - Mentoring, counseling, and support for at-risk youth
- Badgerland YFC Parent Life - Mentoring and resources for teen parents
- Consumer Credit Counseling - Financial education and budget counseling
- Family Connections - Childcare Scholarships
- Habitat for Humanity - Homeownership program
- Solutions Center - Emergency shelter and domestic violence support
- Salvation Army - Basic needs services, Warming Shelters
- YMCA - Childcare scholarships
Additional Basic Needs & Financial Stability resources:
How You Can Help
By donating to the Fond du Lac Area United Way, your contribution can be designated to any of our program partners. Use our impact calculator to see what your donation can provide for families in need! When we improve the financial stability of our neighbors, we improve the financial stability of the entire community!


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Good morning, English students! I hope you all had a good night's sleep.
So..a bit later on today I'll be posting a new Improve Your Accent! quiz and a CT quiz so stay tuned, or turn your notifications on! Or follow my Facebook page.
In the meantime if you want to practise your English right now, have a go at describing the photograph below. Tell me what you see, how it makes you feel. You can post your description underneath. Looking forward to reading them!
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Fitch Ratings on Friday revised its rating outlook on Clorox Co. CLX, -0.11% to negative from stable. The agency also affirmed certain ratings on the Oakland, Calif.-based household products company, including its A- issuer default rating. The revision was due largely to Clorox's declining profit margins and weakened cash flow from operations, the agency said. The company has done a solid job in meeting cost-savings goals and achieving top-line growth with latest the 12 months revenues of $4.6 billion, Fitch said. However, the accelerating commodity cost environment has negatively impacted margins more than expected, particularly when coupled with the increased leverage from the Henkel transaction, the agency added.
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Energy crisis and its environmental impact
Energy may be defined as any property, which can be produced from or converted into work. In today's world for any development and for all industrial operations, energy is a prerequisite. Life is unthinkable without energy. Energy production and energy utilization are the indicators of a country's progress. Heat, light, electricity are different forms of energy. While energy drives the world, the energy generated and utilized affects environment on a phenomenal scale. More population, rapid industrialization, increased energy generation, over production, uncontrolled consumption and damages to environment are all inter-linked issues. Major issues are slowly being converted into crisis threatening our survival.
Background history of energy usage:
Fire was probably the first human energy technology. Charcoal from fires has been found at sites occupied by our early ancestors. Wind and waterpower have been used early as long. Muscle power provided by domestic animals has been important for agriculture. The invention of the steam engine, together with diminishing supplies of wood in industrializing
countries caused a switch to coal as our major energy source in the nineteenth century. Coal in turn, has been replaced by oil in this century due to the ease of shipping, storing and burning liquid fuels. Recently electricity and gas (petrol) has changed the economic prosperity and lifestyle in many countries.
Renewable and non-renewable energy sources
Energy sources that are being made available continuously are known as renewable energy sources. (Eg). geothermal energy, wind energy, tidal energy, solar energy, ocean currents, nuclear fusion, gobar gas, biomass and vegetable refuse etc.Non-renewable sources of energy – those sources, which are being accumulated in nature from a very long time and cannot be replaced if they are exhausted. (Ex). Coal, ores, petroleum, timber, natural gas, electricity
etc. Fossil fuels like petroleum, natural gas and coal are now providing about 95% of all commercial energy in the world.
Energy crisis
Energy crisis is due to the increase in population accompanied by rapid urbanization and industrialization. Our resources of petroleum and natural gas are dwindling day by day. We can hardly expect the oil industry to operate at full capacity until the last drop is removed from the ground. It appears that we will run out of petroleum and natural gas by about 2020 unless domestic supplies are extended by taking one or more of the following steps.
Steps to be taken to resolve energy crisis
1.Reduce the consumption of fuels : The principal target areas are heating and transportation, which account for about 18% and 25% respectively, of our total energy requirements. The consumption of fuel in these areas can be reduced by (a)proper insulation of existing buildings and design changes in new constructions (eg. using less plate glass), (it saves about 33% of energy) (b)improving the fuel economy of automobiles, (c) using more efficient means of transportation.
2. Develop new sources of energy: The energy crisis has prompted the development of alternate energy sources (alternatives to fossil fuels) other than the heat available from the combustion of fossil fuels.
(a)Wind Energy :
In India, the wind power is of great significance as there are large coastal, hill and desert areas where wind energy can be usefully exploited for generation of electricity and water pumping.
The harnessing technology of wind energy is simple. The strike of the blowing wind on a specially designed blades of a windmill's rotor causes it to rotate. This rotation, which is the mechanical energy, when coupled to a turbine, drives the power generator. The wind energy thus delivers on the spot small quantities of energy. The Indian subcontinent is a high wind zone
with energy potential estimated at about 20,000 MW. Wind farms are already located in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, and Andhra Pradesh. Advantages of wind power : i.Power generation is cheaper. Power is procured at 40 paise per unit ii. free from pollution and environmental degradation, iii. Since generation is continuous unlike in diesel power, investment is never idle.
(b) Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy is fast emerging as a significant source of electricity in several island nations, mainly in the Indian oceans and the Pacific regions. Geothermal plants make use of naturally heated steam drawn to the surface through a series of boreholes.
Hot Rocks for energy generation
The Hot Dry Rock (HDR) technology is especially suitable for countries like India, where the geological pattern favours easy exploitation of this source. Tapping of energy involves drilling of holes several km deep into the earth where the temperature of rocks ranges form 200 – 250oC.
Water is pumped into these bore holes and allowed to circulate through the source rock's fracture net work, which may have fissures barely a few millimeter wide. This water is then ejected under pressure from a second hole in the form of steam. The steam is used to power turbines for electricity generation, after which it is condensed back to water that can be used again.
(c) Mini hydel generation
Energy generation from small water source is probably the most cheapest and reliable of all renewable energy sources. It can be harnessed conveniently from nearby canal or stream in a most environmentally benign manner. Nature has been very generous and bounteous in providing a vast hydro electric potential to the Indian subcontinent.
(d) Ocean energy
The various methods of extracting energy from oceans are as follows. 1.Ocean winds, 2.Ocean waves, 3.Ocean tides, 4.Ocean currents, 5.Ocean geothermal, 6.Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), 7.Salinity gradient and 8.Bioconversion of sea weeds. India's first power plant generating electricity from ocean energy is commissioned at Vizhinjam fishing harbour in Kerala to provide energy of 150 MW in a year.
Tidal energy : Ocean waves and tides contain large amount of energy. Tidal energy is important because it is renewable, pollution free and more stable in comparison with hydroelectric power which is dependent on monsoon cycle. Tidal power plants are being designed in the Bay of Canada, Kutch in India etc where tides have been found to be in the right range. (e) Solar energy:
Solar energy is another energy source. Each year the earth receives from the sun an enormous total of 5 × 1020 k.cals of energy. Solar energy, which is the primary source of all energy forms on the earth, is the renewable form of energy.
Advantages of solar energy:
(a) Solar energy is a kind of universal, decentralized and non-polluting energy (b) it helps considerably in maintaining the ecological balance through the process of photosynthesis and green house effect. (c) it has none of the disadvantages found in the combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil or gas.
(f) Nuclear energy :
Nuclear energy is the only energy source, known to be economically feasible in the present and for the near future. It can replace fossil fuels. In nuclear fission, a heavy atom splits under neutron bombardment into smaller fragments, with the evolution of huge amount of energy. In spite of this advantage the problem of disposal of nuclear wastes remains. Nuclear fusion is expected to be an ideal energy source for the future. In nuclear fusion, light nuclei such as deuterium (2 1H) and tritium (3 1H) combine to form heavier stable nuclei. Moreover, the products of fusion are not radioactive and so safety hazards associated with fission reactors are greatly reduced. The light isotopes needed for fusion are sufficiently common to supply all of our energy needs for hundreds of years. Unfortunately, the above fusion reaction has not been perfected to sustain flow of energy.
(g) Bio gas or Gobar gas:
Gobar gas plants are based on anaerobic fermentation of organic wastes in the absence of air. Through gaseous stage the heating efficiency of the cattle dung increased production by about 20%. There is a production of an organic manure which is about 43% better than dry cattle dung itself. This manure can also reduce pressure on naptha-based fertilizers. It has been estimated that 10m3 of biogas has energy equivalent of 6.0 m3 of natural gas, 3.6 litres of butane, 7.0 litres of gasoline or 6.1 litres of diesel fuel.
(h) Hydrogen – Source of power for future
The hydrogen has been found to be a good choice among all the alternative fuel options. It can be produced in virtually unlimited quantities with on hand production technologies. It has been established that hydrogen can meet all the energy needs of human society, including power generation more efficiently and more economically than petro fuels, and with total compatibility with the environment. In addition, hydrogen is non-toxic, reasonably safe to handle, distribute and use as a fuel. Hydrogen has the highest mass energy content – its heat of combustion per unit weight is about 2.5 times that of hydrocarbon fuel, 4.5 times that of ethanol and 6.0 times
that of methanol. Its thermodynamic energy conversion efficiency of 30-35% is greater than that of gasoline (20-25%).
Environmental impacts
1. Thermal Power
The air, water and soil pollution caused by these plants in terms of fly ash, CO2, SO2, NO2 and particulates etc. is becoming unacceptable in the environmentally conscious society.
2.Hydel power
Hydro-electric power generation is associated with displacement and resettlement of human population from the site of hydel plant to other places. This leads to considerable human problems causing considerable delay in the implementation of the project and escalation of its cost. New dams built may affect the ecosystem of the locating sites.
3.Nuclear power
Radioactive pollutants released form nuclear power plants are chronically hazardous. The commissioning of boiling water power reactors (BWRS) have resulted in the critical accumulation of large number of long lived radionuclides in water. Environmentalists argue that thermal effluents from nuclear reactors have acutely affected the aquatic eco system. The dangerous radioactive waste cannot be buried in land without the risk of polluting soil and under ground water. Several well publicised accidents (Ex. Chernobyl disaster at former U.S.S.R.) and radiation episodes have given a lot of fear in the mind of general public regarding the radiation hazards.
4. Solar energy
The use of solar energy, from the environmental viewpoint, is a completely safe operation. However, the sites for larger installations of solar power plants should be selected without reducing the forest cover. Cadmium, used in fabricating thin film solar cells, is both poisonous and a possible carcinogen. Carbon dioxide produced while forming silicon from silica may increase the atmospheric temperature causing green house effect. Silicon dust is also an important occupational hazard.
5.Fossil fuels
The burning of coal, oil, wood, dung cakes and petroleum products would cause environmental problems. (1)The increase in CO2 concentration is largely responsible for green house effect and global warming, while (2) disposal of fly ash requires large ash ponds and may pose a severe problem (3)The smoke produced by burning of wood, agricultural by-products or animal's dung cake causes respiratory and digestive problems and may also lead to eye and lung diseases. (4) Nitrous oxide, Sulphur di-oxide and CO2 can cause acid rain.


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Can the TV be fixed?
In most cases the answer is yes.
The hard truth is (whether it's an LCD, LED, OLED or plasma TV) a cracked or shattered TV screen cannot actually be repaired - it can only be replaced. Fortunately, replacement display panels can be ordered from TV parts suppliers, depending on the make, model, and age of the television. To find a supplier, see TV Replacement Parts. To see what's involved in replacing the panel, read How to Replace a Plasma Display Panel, or How to Replace an LCD or LED Panel.
Is the TV worth fixing?
Most people would simply get rid of the TV and replace it with a new one. But if you really like the one you've got and you want to salvage it, replacing the panel would be a viable option (provided there is nothing else wrong with the TV).
It's going to require a bit of effort to make the right decision. You will need to weigh the cost of a new TV against the cost of the replacement panel plus the time and effort it will take to order the part and replace it. Nevertheless, there is money to be saved by replacing the panel yourself. For more things to consider, read Is My TV Worth Fixing?
How do I know if the screen is cracked?
Sometimes it is obvious, and sometimes it is not. One way to find out is to observe what happens when you turn on the television.
If you have an LCD, LED or OLED TV, a shattered screen will usually display a kaleidoscope of disturbing, multicolored, orthogonal lines and shapes in the area where the damage occurred. The picture in the rest of the screen may look perfectly fine, or it may be dim, or it may show no video at all.
Plasma TVs will have a more varied behavior with a damaged screen. Some may work just fine with a simple hairline crack. If the crack is more severe, the screen may not even light up. Some may produce a loud buzzing noise. And other TVs may not turn on at all.
There is a common misconception about plasma TVs having an invisible crack, that is, one having no visible sign of damage when the TV turned off. Because the screen does not look cracked, some people will argue that the damage must not have been caused by an external force, but instead by an internal defect. This is not necessarily true. The reason it looks this way is because the screen has a protective outer surface made of a durable, scratch-resistant material. This outer surface can sustain a physical impact without producing a visible scratch. Yet beneath it there are very fragile layers that can easily be damaged by the same blunt impact. You can read Plasma TVs - Myths vs. Realities? for more information on that.
If you decide that the panel needs to be replaced, but you would rather have someone else replace it for you, then schedule a service call and have a TV service technician come to your home and give you a free cost estimate.
Damaged Goods
It is important that you inspect any newly purchased TV once it arrives in your home, especially if the store or online company provided the delivery service. Plug in and test the TV to be sure that it is in good working order before the delivery people leave. It is more believable when shipping damage is reported within 24 hours of a purchase, and if it can be corroborated by the delivery team.
Manufacturer's Warranties
When dealing with the manufacturer, be prepared to thoroughly plead your case. Since it is more difficult to prove that the cause was not your fault, it would be a good idea to call a technician first, because they can do the leg work of contacting the manufacturer for you. Otherwise, you'll have to correspond with the manufacturer yourself. You would have to send them an email with your name, address, date of purchase, place of purchase, model number, serial number with attached pictures and copy of your sales receipt. You would also have to take pictures of the damage, the front cabinet showing the crack and the manufacturer's insignia, and the back of unit showing the product sticker.


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Asia & the Pacific
Australia's relationship with its regional neighbours has constantly changed over the last century. The early introduction of restrictive immigration policies put Australia at odds with some of its neighbours, tainting relationships for decades. World War II and later regional conflicts further strained these relationships. However, Australia emerged with a much clearer sense of its place in the region. Mutual economic and cultural interests between Australia and its Asian neighbours have come to define this relationship.
Our unique relationship with Britain is reflected in the records. A shared monarchy, our allied status, and our place in the British Empire defined our international relations for decades after Federation. However, Britain's role as our defender was called into question during World War II, and since that time the exclusive links between us have been severed.
Immigration from Britain has always been favoured, especially when integration and homogeneity were considered important criteria for successful migration. Hence at a personal level, the close ties continue between Britain and Australia.
North America
Our relationship with the United States has been cemented over two world conflicts and several regional ones where the two nations have fought side by side. There is also significant ongoing commercial and cultural exchange and migration between the two countries.
The exclusion of Asian people under the White Australian Policy by default encouraged the immigration of Europeans. But even here there was a hierarchy of desirability. After World War II, refugees from many European countries were accepted as a gesture to ease the plight of displaced people, but also to satisfy a very real need for labour and skills in the postwar economic boom.
Cold War
Meanwhile the 'new world order' after World War II included hard-line communist countries with which Australia did not have formal relations. Political stand-offs, spy rings and defections became part of the political landscape in the 1950s and 1960s.
Global citizen
How do we relate to the rest of the world? How do they see us? Are we good citizens in the new global village?
Australia's relations with Africa date back to Federation when Australian troops were committed to the Boer War. Since then the relationship has shifted to concerns with Commonwealth affairs, trade, aid and immigration.


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With psychology and nutrition sciences education and extensive experience working in rehabilitation, I see myself as wellness-oriented. Every part of the human body and existence connects - mind, body, and spirit. Having ... +Read More
After struggling for years with being overweight during my younger years, I was motivated to make a change within myself. Via a newly adopted workout regiment and healthy eating habits, I was able to lose weight, gain mus... +Read More
My name is Angel Guerra, I am a baseball player and Bachelor in Sports Sciences, I specialize in high competition sports, sports rehab, fitness and health improvement through exercise and sports. I strongly believe that d... +Read More
I am a former gymnast,studied all aspects of sports and training at the University (Master in Physical Education),completed 2 years of High Level Coaching School program,1 year of Sports Massage School.I am a professional... +Read More
As a professional Personal Trainer, Founder and Owner of ANEW Fitness of Texas (DFW), my main passion is guiding people towards a healthier lifestyle my any means necessary. My experience in training comes from years play... +Read More
I specialize in women's fitness and weight loss. I believe the relationship between client and trainer is very important to ones success in meeting their personal goals. At one time, I was the overweight client and I know... +Read More
I began my fitness journey over 10 years ago when I was 40 pounds overweight and was diagnosed with metabolic syndrome (high risk for diabetes and heart disease). I changed my diet, and my fitness routine, and my success... +Read More
I am a Personal trainer in the Dallas metroplex area I currently hold 3 different certifications (Personal Trainer, Nutritionist, and Corrective Exercise) with over a years experience in big gym facilities and self ... +Read More
Performance Training/Strength and Conditioning/Sport-Specific Training-Developing comprehensive and integrative training platforms geared to strengthening the athlete as a whole-Providing sport-specific/position-specific ... +Read More
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I am a Personal trainer in the Dallas metroplex area I currently hold 3 different certifications (Personal Trainer, Nutritionist, and Corrective Exercise) with over a years experience in big gym facilities and self employ... +Read More
Hey everyone, my name is Peter ashton, I was a former D1 and Professional Football Player from 2011-2016, I turned private trainer in the midst and trained over 25+ college and pro athletes as well as over 12,000 training... +Read More
I design exercise programs based on your goals, including weight loss, resistance and strength training, cardio fitness, balance and flexibility, and tennis specific conditioning. I go to your preferred location (home or ... +Read More
I love helping people change their lives for the better! I will push you harder than you push yourself, but I am no bully (kind of like a Bob Harper). I will make your workouts as fun and enjoyable as possible. I have exp... +Read More
Hello! I'm Taylor Reckers and I am a Certified Personal Trainer as well as CPR certified. I've been in love with fitness/ nutrition since I was 15 and decided to get certified when I was 17. I was always the go to person ... +Read More
We will focus on correcting muscle deviations by strengthening your core and activating individual muscles in isolated exercises. Together we will help prevent future injuries as well as set and achieve your goals. Not on... +Read More
I began my journey as a trainer 10 years ago, as I was overweight, out of energy, and self conscious about my appearance. I was diagnosed as high risk for diabetes. I decided to change my lifestyle, eating healthy, work... +Read More
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I had made monoprints of gum leaves at the workshop.
For this collage, I did a lot of cutting up and cutting out. I stuck down some of the printed paper to make a background layer. I cut out the prints of the leaves and drew around them to create leaf shapes on a variety of hand painted and printed papers I had in my stash. I cut out the leaf shapes and stuck them down in another couple of layers. For the top layer, I added the monoprints and some feathers. I coloured any white spaces left with wax crayon. I felt the collage needed a point of focus so I added the sequins to complete the work.


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It's a pervasively positive outlook on life, really; one that begs you to be free. The most unique thing you can be, really, is yourself, and no God or society should hold that against you. It's your right.
It is a philosophy embraced by millions around the world, and a magic realist way of living that has influenced countless art forms in the last century; most especially music, with Crowley being a inspiration to The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, and countless numbers of heavy metal rock groups.
It's a doctrine as old as time itself, really, and with the re-release of Crowley's Original Wax Recordings by Mr. Suit we felt it to be the perfect inspiration for a little vintage photographic inspiration- {PHOTOBLAST}, as we like to call it here, at The Eye of Faith.
After all, it's been a long while since we've featured one of our timeless collages of vintage musings on the site, and just thought- you know what, you guys are worth it!!
So, please, whatever you do- ENJOY!
And, always remember
"Do What Thou Wilt",
whatever you do.
Don't forget to check out all our other {PHOTOBLAST}s using the category sidebar on your left!
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We've learned there is a lot of crazy cool stuff on ETSY, but this one has to take the cake as the find (at least of the week)! Does he look familiar to you? He should. He's a pretty steady regular here for us, at The Eye of Faith; after all, he is the one and only King of being bad, of embracing that rebel spirit and never letting go – JAMES DEAN.
That's right, kids. This is a death mask of the true blue American icon, and idol of style for millions around the world, both during life and after death. Reminds me of the Elizabeth Taylor mask, Lanier Smith shared with us in the past, but this is, as I said – JAMES DEAN!!!
Described here by the seller:
They were selling for $900 in California in 1955. That was quite a lot of money. Dean was beloved by many and right now still wildly popular among all generations. This mask was considered unusual because J. Leslie painted it, eyes and all by hand.
It is quite stunning and yes, these absolutely are James Deans features. They were made from the first mask created.
These are becoming much harder to find, it comes with a license plate that went with the plaster mask.
It states California-James Dean-1931-1955.
Incredible, huh ?! Sometimes you just have to take that search a little further, turn that corner to the next page, and bona fide gems like this are just waiting to say 'Hey' to their new owner.
At $395, it's a little bit our of our league, and maybe a bit frivolous, but God I'd love to own it. As the seller also mentions: "This is a must have for a true fan, it is as close as you are going to get to a dead man."
Perhaps that's creepy, but at the risk that James Dean's death mask will start talking mysteriously one night, I'd be willing to take those chances!
James Dean is our rebel icon. Live Fast. Die Young. And Always Look Your Best – Even in Death.
{You can check out more listings from the dealer, FIVEHANDS CURIOSITIES here. They have a really great selection of unique and bizarre items from all decades of the past. And while you're browsing, don't forget to visit our own hand-picked selection of men's eclectic finest}
DON'T FORGET TO TWEET, TWEET, TWEET! #vintage #theeyeoffaith @theeyeoffaith
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As we spend our waking days on the open road, we come across so many new faces any given sunday. Each with a story, and a depth of compassion unique to each individual.
If one common thread runs true, it's the restraint one can take to fit the 'norm'. We're constantly encouraging our readers to do away with this mask of normality, and craft a new facade, mirror'd in your own image. With qualities unique and true.
Time holds no barred, because this is a tale as old as time. Make your mark, and proudly wear the mask of yourself while starring back at your own destiny. Head no fear, temptation will be near. The strength you have in diversity will always stand beside you in your courage.
Old photographs tell the oldest tales perhaps the loudest. With mystery behind the eye's, story's we'll never truly get to hear, yet an expression of a mask telling every detail.
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
-Oscar Wilde
So head our words, the world is full of so many pressures today, and it seems like everyday the numbers are growing, so the last thing you need is adding yourself to the equation! JUST DO YOU!
Find what makes you happy, and what sets you apart, then just let the freak flags fly. For two thousand years we have been obsessed with being unhappy with ourselves, and it's about time we start to change that!
The best fashion is timeless, so no surprises here at the Eye of Faith we are always trying to reinvent the classic's through modern interpretations of the best basics! We love to pick out different era's and reference those 'era-descent' influences in our current looks. We are so happy to see the latest runway shows from around the world are straight up our alley!
From London-town, to Paris and Milan, there is an undeniable 80s influences in most of the shows from this coming Spring 2013 Season.
Weather it's through unconventional Metallics or lace, or acid washed hair, dyed to perfection. We love when we can see the past turn it's cheek and rock it's way into a jagged-edged future.
A wise man once said "Everything's already been done", but we hate to think there isn't room for anything new at all! We aren't talking about reinventing the wheel here, but we do miss the days of David Bowie's gender bending orange head of hair, and Billy Idol's undeniable sexual swagger.
The greatest idols of the 80s are back in a big way, and all their razzle and dazzle is back on display though the Spring 2013 Menswear season (Through you'd swear this might be 1983).
Staring with one of our all-time favourites, Burberry Prorsum is always classic at it's finest, with Christopher Bailey at the helm, we are always captivated by his modern spin on tradition. Described as an exercise in contrasts, this Spring collection has a bit of everything—matte versus shine, traditional versus tribal, strict versus oversized. Mylar-esque metallic trench coats and shiny silk shirts play off the brand's fitted wool suiting. Classic outerwear pieces evolve as well, with Bailey interpreting mac jackets in the new fabrications and turning the classic bomber into a cropped cocoon, worn over a business suit. Bailey explores new territory, while keeping one well-burnished foot firmly planted in the house's heritage.
Anne Demeulemeester always kills it for us, with a spin at modernist edgy, and classic vampire fashion. What's more nostalgic of the glam decadence of the 80s than gothic-chic suiting, and lush fabrics fit for Royalty. Running the gamut from solids to stripes to prints, and relaxed silhouettes, Ms. Demeulemeester's spring collection seethes with a dark-prince edge—indeed. From Prince to Keith Richards, any rock star, past and present, would rock these looks on stage.
Comme des Garçons always has been an absolutely innovative brand season after season, so no surprises here that they would take influence straight from the Laboratory. So maybe the nod to 90s cartoon Dexters Laboratory isn't so totally 1980s, but you can't deny us the bold black and whites and orange coloured hair are straight out of a 80s hair catalogue in the best possible way (Annie Lennox anyone?!). Every look included matching trouser-and-shirt combos with topcoats: in sterilized white, pinstriped, with toggles, or with doodled print panels, with a slender silhouette billowing down below the waist. Menswear at it's finest, Dexter's Laboratory's eponymous kid genius would be proud.
After that, we want to run out to the nearest vintage store, and try to scrounge up some pieces that will elevate us to an 80's icons level! If you need us we'll be Dancing with Ourselves, and watching every season of Jem and the Holograms.
We hope you've found inspiration in our recap of the latest show's, with a touch of the past. Remember even if it's 'been done', we know it can be done better! The 80s wouldn't of been possible without the emblematic era's that came before. Honour the past, present and future!


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By Barry Fox Video cameras concealed behind mirrors could help to personalise arcade video games by allowing the machine to remember each player. Interval Research of Palo Alto, California, proposes using a pair of video cameras behind a two-way mirror to capture a 3D image of unsuspecting gamers (W0 99/6940). When they come back to play again, the image is compared with recorded images. This, say the inventors, lets a player pick up a game where they left off. But, they warn,


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Synonyms: Turraea brownii C.DC. APNI*
Description: Shrub or small tree, ± deciduous in spring; new growth ± pubescent.
Leaves ovate to ± elliptic, 3.5–10 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, apex shortly acuminate, base obtuse, margins ± entire, upper surface usually glabrous, lower surface pubescent to ± glabrous, hairy domatia in vein axils; lateral veins and midvein yellowish; petiole 8–10 mm long. Inflorescences usually 1–3-flowered clusters; pedicels 8–12 mm long. Calyx c. 3 mm long. Petals 5, 25–35 mm long, white, glabrous. Stamens 10–12. Ovary 5–10-locular. Capsule ± globose to ovoid, c. 15 mm long, woody, ribbed, glabrous, 5–7-valved; seeds oblong, somtimes narrow-winged. Flowers spring, while plant ± leafless. Grows
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NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld