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The day had been hot, though the summer
was but young. A wealth of steady sunlight bathed
the western front of the house. All was notably
still, save for a droning of bees, a sound of wood-chopping,
voices now and again, and the squeak of a wheelbarrow
away in the gardens.
Richard lay on his back upon the bed.
He had drawn the blue embroidered coverlet up about
his waist; but his silk shirt was thrown open, exposing
his neck and chest. His arms were flung up and
out across the pillow on either side his gold-brown,
close-curled head. As his mother entered he turned
his face towards the open window. There was vigour
and distinction in the profile in the straight
nose, full chin, and strong line of the lower jaw,
in the round, firm throat, and small ear set close
against the head. The muscles of his neck and
arms were well developed. Seen thus, lying in
the quiet glow of the afternoon sunshine, all possibility
of physical disgrace seemed far enough from Richard
Calmady. He might indeed, not unfitly, have been
compared to one of those nobly graceful lads, who,
upon the frieze of some Greek temple, set forth forever
the perfect pattern of temperance and high courage,
of youth and health.
As Katherine sat down beside the bed,
Richard thrust out his left hand. She took it
in both hers, held and stroked the palm of it.
But for a time she could not trust herself to speak.
For she saw that, notwithstanding the resolute set
of his lips, his breath caught in short quick sobs
and that his eyelashes were glued in points by late
shed tears. And seeing this, Katherine's
motherhood arose and confronted her with something
of reproach. It seemed to her she had been guilty
of disloyalty in permitting her thought to be beguiled
even for the brief space of her conversation with
Julius March. She felt humbled, a little in Dickie's
debt, since she had not realised to the uttermost
each separate moment of his trial as each of those
moments passed.
"My darling, I am afraid Dr.
Knott has hurt you very much," she said at last.
"Oh! I don't know.
I suppose he did hurt. He pulled me about awfully,
but I didn't mind that. I told him to keep
on till he made sure," Richard answered huskily,
still turning his face from her. "But none
of those beastly legs and things fitted. He could
not fix them so that I could use them. It was
horrid. They only made me more helpless than
before. You see my my feet
are in the way."
The last words came to Katherine as
a shock. The boy had never spoken openly of his
deformity, and in thus speaking he appeared to her
to rend asunder the last of those veils with which
she had earnestly striven to conceal the disgrace
of it from him. She remained very still, bracing
herself to bear the while slowly stroking
his hand. Suddenly the strong, young fingers
closed hard on hers. Richard turned his head.
"Mother," he said, "the
doctor can't do anything for me. It's
no use. We've just got to let it be."
He set his teeth, choking a little,
and drew the back of his right hand across his eyes.
"It's awfully stupid;
but somehow I never knew I should mind so much.
I I never did mind much till just lately.
It began the minding, I mean the
day Uncle Roger came home. It was the way he looked
at me, and hearing about things he'd done.
And I had a beastly dream that night. And it's
all grown worse since."
He paused a minute, making a strong
effort to speak steadily.
"I suppose it's silly
to mind. I ought to be accustomed to it by this
time. I've never known anything else.
But I never thought of all it meant and and how
it looked to other people till Helen was here and
wanted me to show her the house. I I
supposed every one would take it for granted, as you
all do here at home. And then I'd a hope
Dr. Knott might find a way to hide it and so help
me. But but he can't. That
hope's quite gone."
"My own darling," Katherine murmured.
"Yes, please say that!"
he cried, looking up eagerly. "I am your
darling, mother, aren't I, just the same?
Dr. Knott said something about you just now.
He's an awfully fine old chap. I like him.
He talked to me for a long time after we'd sent
Winter away, and he was ever so kind. And he
told me it was bad for you too, you know for
both of us. I'm afraid I had not thought
much about that before. I've been thinking
about it since. And I began to be afraid that that
I might be a nuisance, that you might be
ashamed of me, later, when I am grown up, since I've
always got to be like this, you see."
The boy's voice broke.
"Mother, mother, you'll
never despise me, who ever does, will you?" he
And it seemed to Lady Calmady that
now she must have touched bottom in this tragedy.
There could surely be no further to go? It was
well that her mood was soft; that for a little while
she had ceased to be under the dominion of her so
sadly fixed idea. In talking with Julius March
she had been reminded how constant a quantity is sorrow;
how real, notwithstanding their silence, are many
griefs; how strong is human patience. And this
indirectly had fortified her. Wrung with anguish
for the boy, she yet was calm. She knelt down
by the bedside and put her arms round him.
"Most precious one listen,"
she said. "You must never ask me such a
question again. I am your mother you
cannot measure all that implies, and so you cannot
measure the pain your question causes me. Only
you must believe, because I tell it you, that your
mother's love will never grow old or wear thin.
It is always there, always fresh, always ready.
In utter security you can come back to it again and
again. It is like one of those clear springs
in the secret places of the deep woods you
know them which bubble up forever.
Drink, often as you may, however heavy the drought
or shrunken the streams elsewhere, those springs remain
full to the very lip." Her tone changed,
taking a tender playfulness. "Why, my Dickie,
you are the light of my eyes, my darling, the one
thing which makes me still care to live. You are
your father's gift to me. And so every
kiss you give me, every pretty word you say to me,
is treasured up for his, as well as for your own, dear
She leaned back, laid her head on
the pillow beside his, cheek to cheek. Katherine
was a young woman still young enough to
have moments of delicate shyness in the presence of
her son. She could not look at him now as she
"You know, dearest, if I could
take your bodily misfortune upon me, here, directly,
and give you my wholeness, I would do it more readily,
with greater thankfulness and delight than I have ever
done anything in "
But Richard raised his hand and laid
it, almost violently, upon her mouth.
"Oh stop, mother, stop!"
he cried. "Don't it's
too dreadful to think of."
He flung away, and lay at as far a
distance as the width of the bed would allow, gazing
at her in angry protest.
"You can't do that.
But you don't suppose I'd let you do it
even if you could," he said fiercely. Then
he turned his face to the sunny western window again.
"I like to know that you're beautiful anyhow,
mother, all all over," he said.
There followed a long silence between
them. Lady Calmady still knelt by the bedside.
But she drew herself up, rested her elbows on the bed
and clasped her hands under her chin. And as
she knelt there something of proud comfort came to
her. For so long she had sickened, fearing the
hour when Richard should begin clearly to gauge the
extent of his own ill-luck; yet, now the first shock
of plain speech over, she experienced relief.
For the future they could be honest, she and he, so
she thought, and speak heart to heart.
Moreover, in his so bitter distress, it was to her not
to Mary, his good comrade, not to Roger Ormiston,
the Ulysses of his fancy that the boy had
turned. He was given back to her, and she was
greatly gladdened by that. She was gladdened
too by Richard's last speech, by his angry and
immediate repudiation of the bare mention of any personal
gain which should touch her with loss. Katherine's
eyes kindled as she knelt there watching her son.
For it was very much to find him chivalrous, hotly
sensitive of her beauty and the claims of her womanhood.
In instinct, in thought, in word, he had shown himself
a very gallant, high-bred gentleman child
though he was. And this gave Katherine not only
proud comfort in the present, but cheered the future
with hope.
"Look here, Dickie, darling,"
she said softly at last, "tell me a little more
about your talk with Dr. Knott."
"Oh! he was awfully kind,"
Richard answered, turning towards her again, while
his face brightened. "He said some awfully
jolly things to me."
The boy put out his hand and began
playing with the bracelets on Katherine's wrists.
He kept his eyes fixed on them as he fingered them.
"He told me I was very strong
and well made except, of course, for it.
And that I was not to imagine myself ill or invalidy,
because I'm really less ill than most people,
you know. And he said you
won't think me foolish, mother, if I tell you? he
said I was a very handsome fellow."
Richard glanced up quickly, while his colour deepened.
"Am I really handsome?" he asked.
Katherine smiled at him.
"Yes, you are very handsome,
Dickie. You have always been that. You were
a beautiful baby, a beautiful little child. And
now, every day you grow more like your father.
I can't quite talk about him, my dear but
ask Uncle Roger, ask Marie de Mirancourt what he was
when she knew him first."
The boy's face flashed back her smile, as the
sea does the sunlight.
"Oh! I say, but that's
good news," he said. He lay quite still
on his back for a little while, thinking about it.
"That seems to give one a shove,
you know," he remarked presently. Then
he fell to playing with her bracelets again. "After
all, I've got a good many shoves to-day, mother.
Dr. Knott's a regular champion shover.
He told me about a number of people he'd known
who had got smashed up somehow, or who'd always
had something wrong, you know and how they'd
put a good face on it and hadn't let it interfere,
but had done things just the same. And he told
me I'd just got to be plucky he knew
I could if I tried and not let it interfere
either. He told me I mustn't be soft, or
lazy, because doing things is more difficult for me
than for other people. But that I'd just
got to put my back into it, and go in and win.
And I told him I would and you'll
help me, mummy, won't you?"
"Yes, darling, yes," Lady Calmady said.
"I want to begin at once,"
he went on hurriedly, looking hard at the bracelets.
"I shouldn't like to be unkind to her,
mother, but do you think Clara would give me up?
I don't need a nurse now. It's rather
silly. May one of the men-servants valet me?
I should like Winter best, because he's been
here always, and I shouldn't feel shy with him.
Would it bore you awfully to speak about that now,
so that he might begin to-night?"
Lady Calmady's brave smile grew
a trifle sad. The boy was less completely given
back to her than she had fondly supposed. This
day was after all to introduce a new order. And
the woman always pays. She was to pay for that
advance, so was the devoted handmaiden, Clara.
Still the boy must have his way were it
even towards a merely imagined good.
"Very well, dearest, I will settle it,"
she answered.
"You won't mind, though, mother?"
Katherine stroked the short curly hair back from his
"I don't mind anything
that promises to make you happier, Dickie," she
said. "What else did you and Dr. Knott settle anything
Richard waited, then he turned on
his elbow and looked full and very earnestly at her.
"Yes, mother, we did settle
something more. And something that I'm
afraid you won't like. But it would make
me happier than anything else it would
make all the difference that that can be
made, you know."
He paused, his expression very firm
though his lips quivered.
"Dr. Knott wants me to ride."
Katherine drew back, stood up straight,
threw out her hands as though to keep off some actual
and tangible object of offense.
"Not that, Richard," she
cried. "Anything in the world rather than
He looked at her imploringly, yet
with a certain determination, for the child was dying
fast in him and the forceful desires and intentions
of youth growing.
"Don't say I mustn't,
mother. Pray, pray don't, because "
He left the sentence unfinished, overtaken
by the old habit of obedience, yet he did not lower
his eyes.
But Lady Calmady made no response.
For the moment she was outraged to the point of standing
apart, even from her child. For a moment, even
motherhood went down before purely personal feeling and
this, by the irony of circumstance, immediately after
motherhood had made supreme confession of immutability.
But remembering her husband's death, remembering
the source of all her child's misfortune, it
appeared to her indecent, a wanton insult to all her
past suffering, that such a proposition should be
made to her. And, in a flash of cruelly vivid
perception, she knew how the boy would look on a horse,
the grotesque, to the vulgar, wholly absurd spectacle
he must, notwithstanding his beauty, necessarily present.
For a moment the completeness of love failed before
pride touched to the very quick.
"But, how can you ride?"
she said. "My poor child, think how
is it possible?"
Richard sat upright, pressing his
hands down on the bedclothes on either side to steady
himself. The colour rushed over his face and
"It is possible, mother,"
he answered resolutely, "or Dr. Knott would
never have talked about it. He couldn't
have been so unkind. He drew me the plan of a
saddle. He said I was to show it to Uncle Roger
to-night. Of course it won't be easy at
first, but I don't care about that. And
Chifney would teach me. I know he would.
He said the other day he'd make a sportsman
of me yet."
"When did you talk with Chifney?"
Lady Calmady spoke very quietly, but there was that
in her tone which came near frightening the boy.
It required all his daring to answer honestly and
at once.
"I talked to him the day Aunt
Ella and Helen were here. I I went
down to the stables with him and saw all the horses."
"Then either you or he did very
wrong," Lady Calmady remarked.
"It was my fault, mother, all
my fault. Chifney would have ridden on, but I
stopped him. Chaplin tried to prevent me.
I I told him to mind his own business.
I meant to go. I I saw all the horses,
and they were splendid," he added, enthusiasm
gaining over fear. "I saw the stables,
and the weighing-room, and everything. I never
enjoyed myself so much before. I told Chaplin
I would tell you, because he ought not to be blamed,
you know. I did mean to tell you directly I came
in. But all those people were here." Richard's
face darkened. "And you remember what happened?
That put everything else out of my head."
A pause. Then he said: "Are you very
Katherine made no reply. She
moved away round the foot of the bed and stood at
the sunny window in silence. Bitterness of hot
humiliation possessed her. Heretofore, whatever
her trial, she had been mistress of the situation;
she had reigned a queen-mother, her authority undisputed.
And now it appeared her kingdom was in revolt, conspiracy
was rife. Richard's will and hers were in
conflict; and Richard's will must eventually
obtain, since he would eventually be master. Already
courtiers bowed to that will. All this was in
her mind. And a wounding of feeling, far deeper
and more intimate than this, since Katherine's
nobility of character was great and the worldly aspect,
the greed of personal power and undisputed rule, could
not affect her for long. It wounded her, as a
slight upon the memory of the man she had so wholly
loved, that this first conflict between Richard and
herself should turn on the question of horses and
the racing-stable. The irony of the position
appeared unpardonable. And then, the vision of
poor Richard her darling, whom she had
striven so jealously to shield ever since the day,
over thirteen years ago, when undressing her baby she
had first looked upon its malformed limbs Richard
riding forth for all the staring, mocking world to
see, again arose before her.
Thinking of all this, Katherine gazed
out over the stately home scene grass plot
and gardens, woodland and distant landscape, rich in
the golden splendour of steady sunshine with
smarting eyes and a sense of impotent misery that
wrapped her about as a burning garment. The boy
was beginning to go his own way. And his way was
not hers. And those she had trusted were disloyal,
helping him to go it. Alone, in retirement, she
had borne her great trouble with tremendous courage.
But how should she bear it under changed conditions,
amid publicity, gossip, comment?
Dickie, meanwhile, had let himself
drop back against the pillows. He set his teeth
and waited. It was hard. An opportunity of
escape from the galling restraints of his infirmity
had been presented to him, and his mother his
mother after promise given, after the sympathy of a
lifetime; his mother, in whom he trusted absolutely was
unwilling he should accept it! As he lay there
all the desperate longing for freedom and activity
that had developed in him of late all the
passion for sport, for that primitive, half-savage
manner of life, that intimate, if somewhat brutal,
relation to nature, to wild creatures and to the beasts
whom man by centuries of usage has broken to his service,
which is the special heritage of Englishmen of gentle
blood sprang up in Richard, strong, all
compelling. He must have his part in all this.
He would not be denied. He cried out to her imperiously:
"Mother, speak to me! I
haven't done anything really wrong. I've
a right to do what any other boy has as
far as I can get it. Don't you see riding
is just the one thing to to make up to
make a man of me? Don't you see that?"
He sat bolt upright, stretching out
his arms to her in fierce appeal, while the level
sunshine touched his bright hair and wildly eager face.
"Mummy, mummy darling, don't
you see? Try to see. You can't want
to take away my one chance!"
Katherine turned at that reiterated
cry, and her heart melted within her. The boy
was her own, bone of her bone, flesh of her flesh.
From her he had life. From her he had also lifelong
disgrace and deprivation. Was there anything
then, which, he asking, she could refuse to give?
She cast herself on her knees beside the bed again
and buried her face in the sheet.
"My precious one," she
sobbed, "forgive me. I am ashamed, for I
have been both harsh and weak. I said I would
help you, and then directly I fail you. Forgive
And the boy was amazed, speechless
at first, seeing her broken thus; shamed in his turn
by the humility of her attitude. To his young
chivalry it was as an impiety to look upon her tears.
"Please don't cry, mother,"
he entreated tremulously, a childlike simplicity of
manner taking him. "Don't cry it
is dreadful. I never saw you cry before." Then,
after a pause, he added: "And never
mind about my riding. I don't so very much
care about it really, I don't believe
I do after all."
At that dear lie Katherine raised
her bowed head, a wonderful sweetness in her tear-stained
face, tender laughter upon her lips. She drew
the boy's hands on to her shoulders, clasped
her hands across his extended arms, and kissed him
upon the mouth.
"No, no, my beloved, you shall
ride," she said. "You shall have your
saddle twenty thousand saddles if you want
them. We will talk to Uncle Roger and Chifney
to-night. All shall be as you wish."
"But you're not angry,
mother, any more?" he asked, a little bewildered
by her change of tone and by the passion of her lovely
looks and speech.
Katherine shook her head, and still
that tender laughter curved her lips.
"No, I am never going to be
angry any more with you at least, Dick.
I must learn to be plucky too. A pair of us,
Dickie, trying to keep up one another's pluck!
Only let us go forward hand in hand, you and I, and
then, however desperate our doings, I at least shall
be content."


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David Tyrie of Bank of America Merrill Lynch is on a mission. Since becoming head of personal retirement at Merrill in August 2010, he has focused much of his time on educating Merrill's financial advisors about the critical issue of including healthcare costs when those FAs conduct retirement planning for their clients.
"Investors, even the affluent," he said in a Thursday interview, "are confused about healthcare costs and are confused about how healthcare reform will affect them." They're aware of the competing budget proposals circulating in Washington, Tyrie says, and are concerned about what they can expect in terms of relying on income and healthcare coverage from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Beyond those shorter-term political worries, however, Tyrie argues that advisors are playing "a more and more important role" for their clients: "helping investors manage their income to last a lifetime." To accomplish that goal, and to make the connection between health and wealth, advisors must familiarize themselves with how healthcare can affect that income in retirement, says Tyrie, and protect their clients with a three-pronged investment approach to retirement income.
"The challenge is about the cash flow," Tyrie says. People are living 30 years longer than they were 100 years ago, he points out, so clients have "30 extra bonus years to deal with." it's easier to figure out what the assets are that a retiree has, "but with healthcare, you have an inverse relationship between health and age—you can't say with any certainty where healthcare costs are going," though he suggests that 'up' is a good guess.
When advisors enter into this healthcare discussion with clients, he says, they must be proficient about the nuances of healthcare coverage and costs, both government and privately supplied coverage.
What are the major drivers affecting healthcare access and cost for retirees?
The first driver is the kind of healthcare coverage the client has, Tyrie says. The income you can expect in retirement is the second factor. Your current state of health is third, and the fourth factor in planning for healthcare coverage in retirement is, surprisingly, geography.
"Those are the areas to focus on," Tyrie says, in order to build a "holistic plan to manage your income for a lifetime."
On healthcare coverage, says Merrill's head of personal retirement, David Tyrie, the advisor should be able to educate clients on their Medicare options and determine if they have health savings accounts or whether they should start an HSA. Advisors should factor in any chronic health conditions clients—and their children or parents might have.
"That's the kind of difficult conversation advisors have to have—about chronic medical condition," he says. It's important to understand the importance of long term care insurance—"70% of people over age 65 will need some kind of long-term care," Tyrie says studies have shown. If your client's "plan" for long-term care is to have their children or other family members take care of them, "have you considered the stress that puts on caregivers?"
The fourth driver—geography—is a factor because "different areas of the country have different lifestyles," which then affects health and longevity. Geography affects access to healthcare providers, for one thing. Studies have also shown that health and longevity—and happiness in retirement—can be affected when a retiree moves from one part of the country to another, an area where the retiree has neither long-time friends nor close family members,
To help its FAs be prepared to have those kinds of conversations with clients, Tyrie says Merrill has a "playbook" for each of those four areas, printed material supplemented by online resources that provides " coaching on how to have these kinds of conversations." This, Tyrie argues, "is what separates the Merrill Lynch advisor from other advisors."
Planning for healthcare coverage is just the start of the process, Tyrie says. Another critical choice comes with Social Security: "When to take it; how to maximize it."
The third of the four drivers is the actual investment plan to provide sufficient income in retirement. Merrill's suggestion is to split a retiree's portfolio into three major sleeves. The first is a low-risk, high income-producing portfolio that can provide at any time enough income to handle living expenses for five years. The second sleeve is a growth portfolio, while the third sleeve is a portfolio into which the retiree can place extra assets that can eventually be passed on to heirs.
Any such plan must build in flexibility, Tyrie says, to account for the unforeseen changes that could be brought about by changes in legislation or the tax code.Tyrie said that the response from Merrill advisors to the playbooks so far has been "overwhelming."
"People are looking to advisors to help them live well longer," he concludes. That requires an advisor to plan the investment portion of retirement, but to address these other issues as well. It's the advisor's job, he says, to get "the really hard dialogue started."
(See a previous interview with David Tyrie from the January 2011 issue of Research magazine, focusing on the findings of the Merrill Lynch Affluent Insights quarterly survey on redefining retirement.)


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Irish Travellers have again staged their annual version of The Gathering – and descended on the Limerick town of Rathkeale.
The travelling community regard Rathkeale as their spiritual home according to a new report in the New York Times.
The paper says that hundreds of families return to Rathkeale every Christmas from all across the globe.
Some use the trip home to stage fairytale weddings and christenings.
Others, according to the report, say that old scores have to be settled as armed police patrol the streets in a bid to prevent outbreaks of violence.
The town's population of 1,500 will swell to 4,500 for the Christmas holidays with expensive cars and trailer homes on view.
The report says: "A long history of violence between clans hangs like a cloud over the travellers. When they congregate at Christmas, brawls involving knives, cudgels, iron bars and screwdrivers have been known to erupt, and traffic violations multiply. Last year alone, the police seized 30 vehicles for various offenses."
Many of the travellers have bought or built houses in Rathkeale in the last decade.
The majority of the houses remain boarded up during the year but burst into life over the festive holiday season.
The New York Times alleges that some of the property deals have been funded by money laundering schemes.
One resident told the paper: "People won't say a bad word against them in public because they're afraid of getting a bottle through the window or something a lot worse.
"Who really believes tarring driveways or fixing gutters gets you those massive houses or flashy cars?"
Travellers with links to Rathkeale have been involved in major news stories in recent years including the recent jailing of four men and a woman in Britain for enslavement.
British police believe the family involved own property in Rathkeale.
The New York Times says that others with Rathkeale connections have been jailed for various offenses from Australia to Iceland, including smuggling and handling counterfeit goods. In 2010, two men were caught trying to buy illegal black rhino horns from undercover federal agents.
Edward Grace from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service told the paper: "The agency expects more indictments of members of the Rathkeale Irish Traveller group.
"These Irish Traveller gang members are the middlemen in the operation that also involves Chinese and Asian gangs.
"They have access to large amounts of cash to buy the horns, and they have the network to sell them on at exorbitant prices. Some people will say, 'What's the harm here? These animals are already dead.' But they are fuelling an illegal trade and that means more incentive to kill endangered species."
Grace added that rhino horns fetch about $5,000 a pound in the United States but are worth $25,000 a pound by the time they get to Asia where they are ground down to make potions with unproved medicinal benefits and perceived aphrodisiacal qualities.
Two years ago Irish customs officers seized rhino horns worth an estimated $700,000 at Shannon airport while the pan-European police force Europol has identified a network of gangs it calls the Rathkeale Rovers in a variety of crimes, including the smuggling of rhino horns.
A statement from Europol said: "Significant players within this area of crime have been identified as an Irish and ethnically Irish organized criminal group, who are known to use intimidation and violence to achieve their ends.
"Elements of this group are also involved in a variety of other serious crimes across the European Union such as drugs trafficking, organized robbery, distribution of counterfeit products, tarmac fraud and money laundering."
Not all residents are concerned by the influx of travellers at this time of year.
Butcher and boxing club coach Joe Williams told the New York Times that the police presence is 'overkill' and claimed that many of the travellers have been unfairly stigmatized.
Williams said: "You would get the impression it's not safe to walk out your door, but it's simply not the case.
"The vast majority of travellers are very good people. There are a few bad apples, but that's the same in every part of society."
Businessman John Dinnage insisted that relations between the travellers and the other residents of Rathkeale are largely cordial.
He said: "They're good for business. They're the only ones who seem to have any money. It's the media that gives this town a bad name, not the travellers."


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Monthly Update - April 2004
If this seems like a photo taken in paradise then you are not far wrong. This is a photo of the sunset over the Tambopata River just below its confluence with the river Candamo. It was taken from our campsite on the last night of our expedition into the world- famous Tambopata- Candamo Reserve in front of the world's largest macaw clay lick. The clay lick, or Colpa, is a large clay cliff where parrots, parakeets and macaws all come to feed on the earth to aid in their digestion of unripe fruits. All year round, and especially during the dry season (May- November), these birds are forced to feed on fruits that cannot ripen due to a shortage of water and/or light. Such fruits have a high level of potentially harmful toxins that in high concentrations could even prove fatal. This problem has thus lead to the evolution of the phenomenon whereby the birds feed on clay. The clay does not in fact aid in the digestion of the toxins but as it passes through the digestive tract it binds the poisonous compounds to it and hence they are excreted without being absorbed into the blood where they could cause a lot of damage. The photo (left), taken on this trip, shows Blue-and-Yellow Macaws (Ara ararauna) and Blue-Headed Parrots (Pionus menstruus) feeding on the clay.
Thus in the second week of April we set off from the Taricaya Research Centre with our two canoes laden with 22 volunteers and camping gear. After a full day's travel in the boat we spent the first night with a farmer whose land overlooks a waterfall known local as El Gato. Everyone quickly changed and spent a leisurely few hours swimming and setting up camp. The sunset was spectacular as ever and after a further swim the following morning we headed off and passed in to the Tambopata-Candamo Reserve. That morning on our way upstream we were fortunate to stumble upon a large family of capybara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris), see left, which let us manoeuvre the canoes to within just a few feet and everybody happily started clicking away with their camera. The second night we camped on the banks of the river Chuncho near a smaller Colpa also famous for the flocks of colourful macaws and parrots. However, the following morning our luck changed and we awoke to rain and cloudy skies. At most we heard a couple of macaws fly disconsolately overhead and we resigned ourselves to some fishing before packing up and heading on to our final destination in the world largest clay lick the Colpa Colorado.
The final leg of the trip was incredibly exhilarating because as we headed back down the tributary (Chuncho) and joined the main Tambopata river it soon became apparent that it had indeed been a stormy night in the foothills as we were confronted with a fast flowing torrent bearing freshly uprooted trees. Still we finally made it to a small clearing just upstream from the Colpa and started to pitch camp. Fortunately the weather improved and it was a spectacular sunset (see above) with good omens for the following morning. We were not disappointed as we headed off early across to a hidden marsh in front of the Colpa and before long the skies were filled with parrots and macaws wheeling and screaming overhead. The experience was truly amazing and I had forgotten how many of these wonderful birds flock daily to these giants wall of clay. The show lasted for almost two hours before we headed back to our camp and packed up for the long ride home.
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LOS ANGELES -- Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw was scratched from Sunday night's start because of an inflamed teres major muscle, which stabilizes the upper arm near the upper back.
Kershaw underwent an MRI on Wednesday that showed the inflammation. A Dodgers news release indicated that Kershaw complained of discomfort playing catch at Tuesday's workout. He wouldn't say if he felt the discomfort while throwing 102 pitches in the season-opening win in Australia.
"Whatever Donnie said is what we'll go with," said Kershaw, referring to manager Don Mattingly, who said the first the club heard about the injury was Tuesday.
Kershaw will miss Sunday night's game with the Padres.
"I really wanted to pitch," he said. "I just had to admit I don't feel right. When they laid it out to me, we have guys who can fill in the spot, and with off-days, I'll just push back a few days and not miss a start."
That indicates Kershaw intends to pitch the Dodgers' home opener against the Giants on April 4, which also could mark the return of Matt Kemp from the disabled list.
"It's probably nothing I'm too worried about; it's frustrating more than anything because of the timing," he said. "If I had to pitch tomorrow, I'd do it, I wouldn't feel great."
Mattingly said he was concerned "obviously enough to be careful. It's the beginning of the season. Reason to be overly cautious. We don't want to let it turn into something longer."
Kershaw said he "didn't think" the compressed Spring Training, necessitated by the trip to Australia, "had anything to do with" his injury, nor did the long flight.
"I don't know how I did it," he said. "It's better each day, better today than yesterday. I think it's progressing well. I hope with an extra day it's good to go."
He said he did not receive an injection and that the primary therapy is "just rest." He said he would resume playing catch Friday.
He said he feels the discomfort when he brings his arm forward "accelerating."
One of the key reasons the Dodgers were willing to sign Kershaw to a seven-year, $215 million contract this winter is his durability. He's never been on the disabled list. He has missed a start because of a sore hip, but otherwise has been an iron man, making at least 30 starts each season since 2009. The only significant injury he's had is a separated right shoulder, incurred slamming into the fence shagging flies during batting practice in 2009.
But having pitched deep into October last year, including once in the playoffs on short rest, there had been internal concern about how much Kershaw should pitch this soon into the year. It was conceivable that, because of days off and travel, he could have started three of the club's first six games, but Mattingly repeatedly cautioned that it wasn't likely. He made 86 pitches in his final Cactus League start March 15. Mattingly indicated that Hyun-Jin Ryu or Dan Haren were the most likely candidates to make that start. Ryu reported improvement from the torn right big toenail, which was partially removed in a procedure Tuesday.
Kershaw is the latest Dodgers starting pitcher with an ailment. Josh Beckett, who threw a simulated game Wednesday night, is on the disabled list with a bruised hand. Chad Billingsley is recovering from Tommy John surgery. Ryu has the torn toenail, and Zack Greinke had a strained right calf muscle.
Mattingly said Greinke would start Tuesday night's game against the Padres. Monday is an off-day. Greinke will pitch Thursday in an exhibition against the Angels and will be pitching on normal rest against the Padres.
Ryu, who suffered his injury running the bases in Sunday's win in Australia, said he was dramatically improved after undergoing the procedure Tuesday to remove half of the nail. He practiced his delivery on the bullpen mound during Wednesday's workout and told the club he believes he will be able to land on the right foot by Sunday night.
If Ryu is unable to start Sunday night, it likely would be Haren, with Paul Maholm available to start in place of Haren on Wednesday.
Ryu predicted that his toe will heal quickly based on the improvement from the procedure. Because a Sunday start would be only eight days after his previous start, Ryu said he probably wouldn't need to throw a bullpen session. He rarely does when pitching on normal rest.


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Once was enough for Super Bowl in New York
NEW YORK — The NFL gods kept the snow away from their wintry Super Bowl experiment until the morning after. Now the league needs to stay away from letting New York/New Jersey host the game.
The stars may have aligned for the weather during the week and throughout the Seattle Seahawks' dominant victory over Denver Broncos on Sunday. It was good that a colder, northern city with an outdoor stadium got its chance, opening the door for other occasional similar hosts.
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But for the NFL's largest market itself, once is enough. New York and New Jersey did their best to be gracious states. They simply can't make up for the fact they are just too big and, in a way, too small for the Super Bowl.
It doesn't help this is the biggest apple of the bunch New Jersey Transit had many issues with getting fans out of the game at MetLife Stadium. An estimated 1.5 million people checked out the week's overrated Super Bowl Boulevard, making Times Square a different kind of tourist trap.
Crowding an overcrowded city where everything is already tight is the reason other huge conventions and sporting events don't flock here. The ideal Super Bowl host is a town deemed big enough to be metropolitan, but with everything in close proximity yet with ample space. See Indianapolis and New Orleans the past two years.
Everyone in a wide metro area such as New York-New Jersey also wants a piece of the revenue action. The result is that are spread out everywhere, inconvenient to fans, and yes, the media, who do add much to Super Bowl week's success and bottom line.
It happened in Arlington-Dallas-Fort Worth and it will happen again next year in Glendale-Phoenix-Tempe. The difference is those hosts still have the game indoors, and the latter doesn't need to worry about the cold at all in slowing anything down.
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Worst of all, New York is the kind of place that renders a beast such as the Super Bowl insignificant. It may be the only game in town, but it's just another typical week and Sunday for the locals. It might as well be a neighborhood block party. Take a stroll a few blocks away from Midtown, and any Super Bowl buzz faded behind trains buzzing and taxis honking. Even the Super Bowl parties felt like just another weekend night of lounging and clubbing.
Commissioner Roger Goodell was right to praise the efforts of the many New Yorkers and New Jerseyites who made this happen. From hoteliers to volunteers, security guards to shuttle bus coordinators, everyone did their job welcoming the Super Bowl throngs with a smile.
But those people can't help a combination of good population and bad geography. That's logistics, the most important thing in considering a Super Bowl host. If the weather had turned frightful as it was on Monday, there was potential for a major disaster instead of the mild success.
New York, I love you, but you just brought down the Super Bowl. Can't wait until it goes back up (along with temperatures) in Arizona next year.


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The Right to Choose
Home Education in Brazil
Julio Severo
Jornal Hoje, a news program from Globo Television Network in Brazil, reported:
A disappointing and perturbing performance. Brazilians revealed the worst results in a test that evaluated students of public and private schools from 32 countries. The results reveal that reading is not really the Brazilian adolescents' strong point. In a private school in São Paulo, most of the students read by obligation. Even so, some try to escape the task. There is a justification for so much disinterest. "I prefer to practice a sport". They are an example of what happens to the most of the Brazilian students. Four thousand and eight hundred students from 15 public and private schools participated in the International Program of Evaluation, responding to Sciences, Mathematics and Interpretation of Text matters. The Brazilian performance was very bad. The reading test was the most important in the general evaluation. The results revealed that more than 40% of the Brazilian students who participated in the tests were not able to understand what they were reading. [1]
The principal reason for the existence of a school institution is its ability to educate. In that ability, as the Jornal Hoje report says, Brazilian public schools — and even private schools, that are usually much better than public institutions — are failing — losing the reason for their existence. But, as if that were not enough, there are also other serious issues. Violence in the Brazilian schools has increased so much that it has drawn attention from the United Nations, that prepared the book Violência nas Escolas (Violence in the Schools), a paper written by UNESCO in 2002 to address exclusively the serious problems in the schools of Brazil. The book addresses everything that is happening at the Brazilian schools: violence against children, fights, sexual violence, use of weapons, robberies and thefts, assaults and other kinds of crimes. The study included public schools in several states of Brazil.
However, the threats to the children in the public education are not limited only to serious violent acts. Other factors indicating dangerous signs for the children's emotional and psychological health are an environment saturated with anti-Christian teachings and practices and wantonness in the public schools.
That negative tendency in the educational institutions is becoming general in many places in the world. Concerned parents seek alternatives. In the USA, Australia, England, Mexico, Japan and other countries, many evangelical parents decided to take the personal responsibility to educate their own children, becoming members of the respected homeschooling movement.
Those parents have the freedom and right to educate their children at home, for the national laws of their countries protect their natural right to choose in the education area. The public and private schools are also options, but only parents can make the final decision.
However, even if public schools were able to produce satisfactory results in the educational performance of the students, such results could not be used as an excuse to remove from the parents their right to decide the best education for their own children.
If the government really had a genuine interest in the children's education, its interest would be properly demonstrated through the unmistakable attitude of supporting and defending families in their natural and legitimate right to choose the best education for their children. If the government were in reality worried with the children's well-being, its main reaction would not be to defend its right to decide the children's education, even to the point of pursuing, oppressing, humiliating and imprisoning innocent families.
Actually, behind the argument defending supposed democratic principles of the children rights is the reality: a properly camouflaged language defending the state interests and monopoly on the children's educational formation. With that argument, the government defends intransigently the children's best interests — that is nothing more than defend the state interests!
However, home education was not, in the past, a strange experience in Brazil. The constitutions of Brazil protected and respected the parents' priority role in the children's education, without removing from them their right to choose where and how to educate. Following are some excerpts of past Brazilian constitutions:
Constitution of 1937:
Article 125. The integral education of the children is the most important duty and natural right of parents. The State will get involved in that duty, collaborating, in a main or subsidiary way, to facilitate its execution or supply the deficiencies and gaps in the private education. [2]
That constitution recognized that the function of the State is to collaborate with parents in their educational choices for their children, instead of trying to substitute them or usurp their right to choose.
Constitution of 1946:
Article 166. The education is right of all and it will be given at home and in the school. It should be inspired by the principles of freedom and in the ideals of human solidarity. [3]
LDB (National Education Guidelines and Bases Law) revoked, of December 20, 1961:
Article. 30. The family man or the guardian cannot exercise public function, nor occupy employment in society of mixed economy or company concessionary of public service if he has presented no proof that his child is enrolled in a school, or that the child is being supplied home education.[4]
Dr. Rodrigo Pedroso, a Brazilian jurist, comments: "This attests that the article 166 of the Constitution of that time was interpreted as allowing the education so much in the school as exclusively at home. Therefore, home education is, strictly speaking, a Brazilian juridical tradition that, for some unknown reason, was abandoned without anyone expressing a protest in the National Assembly for the elaboration of the new constitution in 1987".
Constitution of 1967:
Article 168. The education is a right of all and it will be given at home and in the school; being guaranteed opportunity-equality, the education should be inspired on the principle of the national unit and on the ideals of freedom and human solidarity. [5]
Then, it is evident that the constitutions before the Constitution of 1988 guaranteed freedom for the parents to choose the education at home or in the school. The Constitution of 1988 came, allegedly, as a better, more democratic document, but only very later is that Brazilians woke up for the fact that that modern constitution, elaborated with the help of many leftist parliamentarians, instead of expanding the parents' rights quietly turned off the home education option. Parents' right and freedom were usurped by an assumed "right" and "obligation" of the State. The State literally swallowed the rights of the families.
Undeniably, the most important allegation for the elaboration of the Constitution of 1988 was the supposed need to create a national document giving more freedom and rights than the past constitutions. Since the family is the foundation of the society, it was hoped that the family would be more protected in their natural rights. But it was not what happened. By pure irony or tragedy, the hardest measures against the families who want to exercise their right of educational choice did not happen in the past, not even in the military period: they happened in the Constitution of 1988. With the elaboration of that constitution — in which a number totalitarian leftists took part — parents' rights in the education were weakened in favor of the interests of the State. That new constitution declares what no Brazilian constitution had ever considered, "The Government has the power to take a census of elementary school students, call them for enrollment and ensure that parents or guardians see to their children's attendance to school". (Art. 208, paragraph 3.)
Strangely, that paragraph places the State as the exclusive responsible for the children's educational choice, demanding that all of them to attend an institutional school, if their parents want or not. Concerning that imposition, Dr. Pedroso comments: "As far as I know, ours is the only Constitution in the world dealing with call for school enrollment".
Later, some senators tried to introduce again in the Constitution the freedom in the education. In February 1996, there was an effort to recover that right, and the Federal Senate itself approved the following text in the National Education Guidelines and Bases Law:
Article. 7 — Parents' and guardians' rights are:
I — to enroll their children in the obligatory education and the children and adolescents under their guard, seeing to their school attendance and efficiency, or to assure a satisfactory alternative.
However, cunning minds were able later to suppress the term "or to assure a satisfactory alternative", eliminating an important freedom that the Brazilian families always had in the past. It is not known how liberals were able to eliminate that alternative, and it is hard to understand the reasons for such a radical attitude, because the practice of home education is not new nor unknown in the Brazilian history, but what is totally new is the radicalism of the tendency that is systematically mutilating and suppressing that natural right of the parents.
Parents have the right to choose the kind of education that they want for their children: public school, private school, religious school or home education. Public schools are, as reported in the Jornal Hoje, failing and leading children to a failed school performance. But even if that serious deficiency were not reality in the public education, families still deserve to be respected in their natural right to choose in the area of the education. In fact, if such deficiency existed in the home education movement, certainly the government would demand the complete elimination of that educational option. However, its attitude toward its own failures — because public schools are the government's direct responsibility —is always indulgent! The failure of the public education is the failure of the State itself.
The essential purpose of the education has always been the training of the children's mind in the basic academic disciplines. However, the humanists are increasingly twisting the essential purpose of the education. They affirm that the institutional schools are important because they are the place where the children learn — they learn from humanists a hedonist sex education; they learn from humanists that the man's origin is ape, not God; they learn from humanists that aberrant abnormalities as homosexuality are normal sexual preferences. Now that it is proven that Brazilian children have had less ability to read thanks to those schools, humanists created a strategic and purely imaginative excuse, properly introduced in the laws: the purpose of school is socialize! So, if your son is not able to learn how to read and write satisfactorily, do not worry: At least, he will learn many "things" from his schoolmates!
If then public school is failing in the academic area, at least will it produce results in the area of socialization? From the humanist educators' point of view, yes, because grouped children receiving the same values eventually live according to their group values. So, for example, in a group of 60 students learning that homosexuality is just an alternative lifestyle, one or two children with biblical education contrary to homosexuality are isolated or eventually they conform to the values of most, transmitted by the teacher.
From the parents' point of view, the socialization in the school environment puts innocent children in contact with children with problems of drugs and violence. However, the greatest effect of the school socialization is that the parents' values are explicit or implicitly rejected by the new values from the classroom. Students tend much more, in the group assimilation of the values absorbed in the school environment, to retain what they learned at the school than what they learned at home. So, the new discards the "old".
From the humanists' point of view, the greatest benefit of the public school socialization is that that social contact unavoidably distances the students from the sphere of their parents' values to put them under the sphere of values of the school group, that in a way or another is under school authority, that on the other hand is under state guidance.
If the government really recognized that socialization is important, then it would respect the children's social contact in the mini-society that is the family. No socialization is as important as the family union. No system of values is more important for the child's well-being than the family itself. The system of values of the family is more than enough to educate the child in the essential bases. Differently from what state humanists preach, home-educated children will not go without a future.
Following is a list of famous people who were taught at home[6]:
Leonardo da Vinci
Claude Monet
John Singleton Copley
Andrew Wyeth
Jamie Wyeth
Irving Berlin
Anton Bruckner
Felix Mendelssohn
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Francis Poulenc
Fred Terman (Stanford University President)
William Samuel Johnson (Columbia University President)
Frank Vandiver (Texas A&M University President)
John Witherspoon (Princeton University President)
Stonewall Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Cyrus McCormick
Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright
John Quincy Adams
William Henry Harrison
Thomas Jefferson
Abraham Lincoln
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
John Tyler
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
John the Baptist
William Cary
Jonathan Edwards
Phillip Melanchthon
Dwight L. Moody
John Newton
John Owen
Charles Wesley
John Wesley
Brigham Young
George Washington Carver
Pierre Curie
Albert Einstein
Blaise Pascal
Booker T. Washington
Konrad Adenauer
Winston Churchill
Benjamin Franklin
Patrick Henry
William Penn
Henry Clay
John Jay
John Marshall
John Rutledge
Hans Christian Andersen
Pearl S. Buck
Agatha Christie
Charles Dickens
Bret Harte
C.S. Lewis
Sean O'Casey
George Bernard Shaw
Mark Twain
Mercy Warren
Daniel Webster
Phillis Wheatley
Richard Basset (Governor of Delaware)
William Blount (U.S. Senator)
George Clymer (U.S. Representative)
William Few (U.S. Senator)
Benjamin Franklin (Inventor and Statesman)
William Houston (Lawyer)
William S. Johnson (President of Columbia C.)
William Livingston (Governor of New Jersey)
James Madison (4th President of the U.S.)
George Mason
John Francis Mercer (U.S. Representative)
Charles Pickney III (Governor of S. Carolina)
John Rutledge (Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court)
Richard D. Spaight (Governor of N. Carolina)
George Washington (1st President of the U.S.)
John Witherspoon (President of Princeton U.)
George Wythe (Justice of Virginia High Court)
Abigail Adams (Wife of John Adams)
Ansel Adams (Photographer)
Clara Barton (Started the Red Cross)
John Burroughs (Naturalist)
Andrew Carnegie (Industrialist)
Charles Chaplin (Actor)
George Rogers Clark (Explorer)
Noel Coward (Playwright)
John Paul Jones (Father of the American Navy)
Sandra Day O'Connor
Tamara McKinney (World Cup Skier)
John Stuart Mill (Economist)
Charles Louis Montesquieu (Philosopher)
Florence Nightingale (Nurse)
Sally Ride (Astronaut)
Bill Ridell (Newspaperman)
George Rogers Clark (Explorer)
Will Rogers (Humorist)
Jim Ryan (World Runner)
Albert Schweitzer (Physician)
Leo Tolstoy
Martha Washington (Wife of George Washington)
Knowing then that home education has produced great leaders and knowing that home education was always an experience and right existing in the history of Brazil, what to do then to recover that right? Firstly, to modify some articles of the current constitution. The article 205 should receive the following composition:
Article 205. Education is the right of all and it will be ministered at home or at school, with a view to the full development of the person, his preparation for the exercise of citizenship and his qualification for work. Sole paragraph. The integral education of the children is the first duty and a fundamental right of the parents. The State will get involved in that duty, collaborating, in a main or subsidiary way, to facilitate its execution or supply the deficiencies and gaps in the domestic education.
Secondly, to replace the ridiculous paragraph 3 of the article 208, which declares, "The Government has the power to take a census of elementary school students, call them for enrollment and ensure that parents or guardians see to their children's attendance to school".
The new text should integrally protect the freedom in the education:
"Article 208, paragraph 3. The obligatory fundamental education can be supplied at home by parents themselves, or by teachers contracted by the parents. The law will just define the annual proof of the educational performance, giving freedom for the choice of curriculum or its elaboration, without any political or ideological imposition".
And as a measure to respect the efforts of those who studied a lot, at home or not, add a sole paragraph to the article 207:
"Art. 207. (…) Sole paragraph. Higher education will be accessible to all, with base in the performance, independently of a previous education at school or not".
Therefore, all those who were educated will be treated in a same way before the law, independently of the place where they received their education. After all, the important and indispensable thing is education, not the institution.
Acknowledge: I should thank Dr. Rodrigo Pedroso publicly, of São Paulo city, for his disposition to help researching for me the past constitutions of Brazil in the issues regarding home education and offering valuable suggestions for a new text for the current constitution.
© Julio Severo 2005. www.juliosevero.com.br
[1] http://redeglobo.globo.com/cgi-bin/jornalhoje/montar_texto.pl?controle=2637
[2] https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/Constituicao/Constituiçao37.htm
[3] https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/Constituicao/Constituiçao46.htm
[4] https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/Leis/L4024.htm
[5] https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/Constituicao/Constituiçao67.htm
[6] http://www.christianhomeschoolers.com/hs_famous_homeschoolers.html
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There has been an increased interest recently in formaldehyde, among many WDMA members. In large part this renewed interest has been prompted by the Proposed Regulation Order, AIRBORNE TOXIC CONTROL MEASURE TO REDUCE FORMALDEHYDE EMISSIONS FROM COMPOSITE WOOD PRODUCTS. This proposal is part of Section 93120, Title 17, California Code of Regulations. The Preliminary Draft was issued on May 1, 2006.
What is formaldehyde (H2CO)? Formaldehyde is a gas with a pungent odor. It is the simplest aldehyde. Formaldehyde readily results from the incomplete combustion of carbon-containing materials. In the atmosphere, formaldehyde is produced by the action of sunlight and oxygen on atmospheric methane and other hydrocarbons. Formaldehyde does occur naturally in fruits and some foods, and it is formed endogenously in mammals, including humans, as a consequence of oxidative metabolism of many xenobiotics. Urea formaldehyde is coming under the most scrutiny.
How is formaldehyde manufactured for industrial use? Formaldehyde is most frequently produced by the catalytic oxidation of methanol. The United States produced 11.3 billion lb in 1998 (ATSDR 1999), and imported another 62 million lb in 2000 (ITA 2001). This production volume places formaldehyde as 25th overall for USchemical production (IARC).
What are the primary uses of formaldehyde? Formaldehyde is primarily used in the manufacture of resins: urea-formaldehyde (23%), phenolic (19%), polyacetal (11%), methylene disocyanate (6%), melamine (4%), and the balance other chemical compounds and applications. The aforementioned resins are used extensively in the manufacturing of some wood composites.
The stated purpose of 93210 "is to reduce formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products that are sold, supplied, offered for sale, used, or manufactured for sale in California." Therefore, fenestration companies that do business in California, with products that have wood composite substrates, that utilize formaldehyde resin systems, could be impacted by this regulation. The "composite wood products" have been defined in three categories: Hardwood Plywood, Particleboard, and Medium Density Fiberboard.
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Friday morning, the day after a celebration of thanks known as Bronxgiving, I boarded a plane at LaGuardia carrying two cats in a bag.
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I never would have made it to the airport without losing my mind or committing a felony if it weren't for my girl Reebs who got her ass up before 7 a.m. and took the 1 train all the way to Times Square to help me wrangle two kittens into a single carrier. Even with four hands between the two of us, that shit wasn't easy.
It became quickly apparent that we'd need to bag the cats in the bathroom. Unfortunately, Goat caught on quickly that he was about to be corralled, so he did what any smart cat would do, he shrunk under the couch and hid.
And there he stayed. I tried treats and pleading, then demanding that he come out, but no dice. The clock was tearing off loud ticks reminding me that the airplane would leave without us, so Reebs and I did what anyone would do: we picked up the couch and shook the cat out.
Poor Goat, who had never been shaken from a couch in his life, tumbled from between the fabric and the frame and began sprinting hard in whatever direction he was pointed. Unfortunately for him, that was right at the refrigerator. He ran head first into the freezer door, bounced off, then looked at me with one eye half open, dazed, like, "Why?!?!?"
That's when Reebs made the mistake of looking at me and asking, "Are you okay?" Which, of course, made me lose it.
I started crying and blubbering, and Reebs did what all good friends do, and told me to shut it up.
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She was right, but I just felt so guilty. I was moving and making the cats come with me, despite cats really, really liking where they are already.
Still, she was right, and the clock continued to count down, and so we went back to it, trying to get Goat into the bathroom. Apparently a cat concussion makes that easier, and on the next try we were all four in the bathroom.
However, the bathroom is not the SWA-approved cat carrier, and so the daunting task of getting two cats in a single bag still loomed. Reebs held open the carrier while I picked up the girl cat and tried placing her into the bag, but she had all four legs extended, along with her claws, and with a single body thrust she was out of my arms, and I was bleeding profusely from a crease in my palm.
Again with the waterworks. I was stressed and sweaty and crying and bleeding, and basically repeating to the animals as if they understood, "You have to go in the bag. You have to go in the bag."
Sheer force and determination saved the day, and finally, both cats sat defeated, pissed off and silent in their cross-country crate.
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8 tips for surviving grocery shopping with kids
Whether you try to avoid it or not, there will always come a time where the kids will join you on your grocery shop run. But don't fear – there are some tips and tricks that may even make this experience an enjoyable one. Here are our top eight ways to get you out of those grocery shop doors with happy kids and a trolley full of all the things you need.
1. Food and then shop
Feed the kids lunch or give them a snack before you head down the aisles, to reduce the risk of them asking you to buy them every food item on the shelves. Hungry kids are not usually happy kids, but a hungry parent doesn't lead to happiness either, so fill all of your bellies first and then attack the shopping.
2. Pack a toy or three
Toys are the best distraction, especially for the kids young enough to sit in the trolley. If they spot something they want and a simple "no" doesn't suffice, pull out a toy from your bag (preferably one they haven't played with in a while). Use it as a distraction while you keep pushing the trolley to the next aisles.
3. Grocery list
What's worse than having a bad trip with the kids to the shops? Forgetting what you went there for. Make sure to always take your grocery list with you to make the trip as efficient as possible. For older kids, it can also be a great way to get them involved by getting them to tick off the items that have been put in the trolley and counting how many items left to go.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA) - Marking Veterans' Day 2012 in a special way, the Washington Humane Society (WHS) is saluting and saying thank you to those in service by increasing its discount on pet adoptions for all members of the U.S. military.
Starting Thursday, November 8, U.S. military members showing military ID (active, reserve, or veteran) are eligible for a 50% reduction on adoption fees for all pets. This discount expands the previous 10% reduction under the Pets for Patriots program.
Any potential adopters who choose a new animal friend that meets one or more of the following criteria are also eligible for the Pets for Patriots program: A cat or dog over two years old, a dog weighing more than 40 pounds, or a cat or dog with special medical needs.
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