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What is REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder?
REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder (RBD) happens when you sleep. It can lead to talking and shouting. It can make you move vigorously. You might have vivid, striking dreams as well. When this happens, people with RBD are seen to suddenly move or call out. They can look like they are acting out their dreams. The episode usually doesn't go on for long. Often you might be able to recall what your dream was about when you wake up.
RBD can be a danger to both people with it and their bed partners. This can be due to the person with RBD responding violently to an imagined attack or because of vigorous movement of their arms and legs.
What causes RBD?
There are several types of sleep that occur every night. One of these is called rapid eye movement, or REM sleep. This is the time when you have your most structured dreams. Normally in REM sleep, the muscles should relax totally. But if you have RBD, your brain sends the wrong signals to your body muscles so they fail to relax during sleep. This means that when you have dreams you can act these out with bodily movement.
There are two forms of RBD. The first often occurs later in life (over fifty years of age) and more often in males. The cause is unknown. People with this form of RBD should be checked for the possibility of the development of neurological conditions such as Parkinson's disease. The second form of RBD occurs as a side effect of medicines, such as a high dose of antidepressants.
RBD can be made worse if you also have another sleep problem, such as obstructive sleep apnoea.
How is RBD diagnosed?
The first step is to work out if the RBD is the side effect of a medication or if there is another obvious cause for it.
If no readily identifiable cause can be found, you need to see a sleep specialist for further investigation. He/she will check if you have any other sleep problems contributing to the RBD, for example obstructive sleep apnoea. Most of the time this assessment will involve an overnight sleep study. This is done in a hospital and includes a video recording.
How do you treat RBD?
This depends on the cause. If it appears to be due to a medication side effect, the drug responsible should be stopped if possible. If no specific cause is found there are drugs that can help, such as clonazepam which is generally effective in low doses. If you have been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnoea or another sleep disorder then treatment of this may help the RBD.
Where and when should you seek help?
If you or your bed partner has symptoms of RBD then you should discuss this with your GP. He or she is likely to refer you to a sleep specialist, who might suggest an overnight sleep study.


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I don't usually reblog posts. However, when I read this post from Beth Teliho, a woman who has been amazingly positive and supportive since I started blogging, it made my heart ache.
I know many women who need to hear this message and can't think of a more transparent way to say it.
Thanks to Beth for sharing.
Quick heads up, this post does talk about abuse and miscarriage.

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Sidney Nolan
Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (1917-92)
Most Famous Paintings
Death of Constable Scanlon (1946)
Kelly and Horse (1946)
Fremantle 1 (1970-9)
Burke and Wills Expedition (1948)
The epitome of Australian modern painting, Sir Sidney Robert Nolan is noted for his landscape painting, depicting the arid scenery of the Australian bush, in a variety of styles. But he is best known, for his naive-style history painting series on the bushranger Ned Kelly, whose instantly recognizable square helmet has become an icon of modern art in Australia. Ned Kelly imagery appears in many of Nolan's landscapes, as do several other figures of Australian folklore, including the explorers Burke and Wills, Mrs Eliza Fraser and the convict Bracefell. An omnivorous reader, influenced by the poet Rimbaud, as well as philosophers like Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer, and with a love of music but little formal training in fine art, Nolan turned to painting at the age of 21, following in the footsteps of abstract painters like Paul Klee and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Not unlike his Melbourne contemporary Russell Drysdale (1912-81), Nolan's mature style borrows heavily from expressionism and (very occasionally) from surrealism. His use of colour, however, is exceptional, from the vivid splashes in the early Ned Kelly series (1946-7) to the saturated brilliancy of his Fremantle pictures (1970-9). His style is also noted for its fluidity, which he emphasized through the use of enamel house paint (ripolin), polyvinyl acetate and acrylic painting. Unlike Drysdale, he painted extremely fast: producing in the end some 35,000 paintings. An inveterate and extensive traveller, he took numerous trips into the outback, and visited most of Europe, America, Africa, Antarctica and China. From 1955, he lived mainly in England, although he worked in Paris and elsewhere. In addition to painting, he explored printmaking and illustration (for Robert Lowell's poetry) as well as theatrical set design.
Knighted in 1981, Nolan's contribution exceeds that of Drysdale, and other 20th century painters such as Sir William Dobell (1899-1970), Noel Counihan (1913-86), Albert Tucker (1914-99), Arthur Boyd (1920-99), John Perceval (1923-2000) and William Robinson (b.1936), but it follows in the great tradition of the 19th century Heidelberg School of Australian Impressionism (c.1885-1900) and its pioneering representatives like Tom Roberts (1856-1931), Frederick McCubbin (1855-1917), Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) and Charles Conder (1868-1909).
Born in Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne, Nolan was the eldest of four children. Unlike Drysdale, whose father was a gentleman landowner, Nolan's father was a tram driver and sometime illegal bookmaker. Nolan first attended the Brighton Road State School and then Brighton Technical School, before enrolling in the Department of Design and Crafts at the Prahran Technical College. From 1933-8, while taking occasional night classes at the National Gallery of Victoria design school, he worked as a commercial artist and sign-writer, producing advertising and marketing displays, using spray paints and other industrial techniques. As well as absorbing the basics of drawing at night-classes, he also spent long periods in the Public Library reading room studying modern artists like Picasso, and other European expressionist painters.
Nolan started as a full-time painter in 1938, the same year in which he met and married his first wife, Elizabeth. In his drive to learn about visual art and establish himself as a painter, he was greatly encouraged by the solicitor and art patron John Reed (1901-81), and his wife Sunday Reed (1905-81), whose house "Heide" (now the Heide Museum of Modern Art) was a meeting-place for young artists. Nolan subsequently helped produce the radical quarterly arts journal Angry Penguins, founded by John Reed and the poet Max Harris (1921-96). The periodical provided a useful focus for a number of progressive young painters who were trying to create a form of Australian avant-garde art free from European dominance. As well as Nolan, they included Counihan, Tucker, Boyd, Perceval, Victor O'Connor and Yosl Bergner. He also joined the Contemporary Art Society, of which John Reed was President.
Nolan was initially attracted to abstract art - a form he returned to in the last decade of his life - in the manner of Paul Klee (1879-1940). His own minimalist abstract paintings, like Boy and the Moon (1940), consisting of a splash of yellow against a raw blue backdrop, caused some controversy among observers. In addition, using his experience as a commercial artist, he also designed theatrical sets and costumes for Serge Lifar's ballet Icarus, which opened in Sydney, in 1940. In the same year, he held his first solo exhibition at his Melbourne studio.
Nolan was conscripted into the Australian army from 1942 to 1945. During this period, while stationed in the Wimmera area of Victoria, he painted a series of landscapes - depicting the heat and desolate emptiness of the outback - that first signalled his true talent. By then he had largely given up oil painting in favour of ripolin, a fluid and fast-drying type of commercial enamel paint. In July 1944, after hearing that his unit might be sent to Papua New Guinea to fight the Japanese, he went absent without leave, thus becoming a temporary fugitive from the law. This experience quickly proved to be the key to his worldwide success as an artist.
After the war, Nolan lived for a period at the Reeds' home, outside Melbourne. It was here that he painted the first of his celebrated Ned Kelly pictures, reportedly with advice from Sunday Reed, with whom he was having an affair. Examples from the series - all in the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra - include: Ned Kelly (1946); Death of Sergeant Kennedy at Stringybark Creek (1946); Death of Constable Scanlon (1946); Constable Fitzpatrick and Kate Kelly (1946); Siege at Glenrowan (1946), and The Trial (1947). Influenced by the uncomplicated naive style of Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) and Nolan's personal identification with the fugitive outlaw, these Kelly paintings also represented Nolan's desire to create the story of a hero and fighter (a metaphor for mankind) who resists tyranny. Despite the inherent ambiguity in the story - after all, Kelly/mankind is destroyed by the tyranny - the series made Nolan's name. He was to re-use Ned Kelly imagery several times during his career, notably in works like Ned Kelly (1955, Private Collection) and the extraordinary Riverbend I (1964-5, Australian National University Art Collection, Canberra).
During the late 1940s, Nolan travelled widely in north-eastern Victoria, Queensland - including Fraser Island, Cairns and Cape York - as well as Central, Far North and Western Australia. Examples of his work from this period, include: Inland Australia (1950, Tate Gallery, London), Burke and Wills Expedition (1948, Sidney Nolan Trust), and The Abandoned Mine (1948, Private Collection), which was noticed at a Sydney exhibition by the British historian Sir Kenneth Clark, who knew instantly that he had stumbled across one of the best landscape artists in Australia. In 1948, Nolan married John Reed's sister, Cynthia, after Sunday's refusal to leave her husband and marry him.
Nolan used numerous different themes in his painting, including series like: Gallipoli (1956), Leda and the Swan (1959), America (1958-60), Africa (1961-2), Antarctica (1964), New Guinea series (1965), Fremantle (1970-9), Miners (1972), and his Cezanne pastiches (1978). But his most powerful and recurrent imagery was his depiction of Ned Kelly. His simplified motif of Kelly's square-shaped armoured helmet is now an iconic Australian image.
In 1950, he won the Dunlop Prize, which facilitated his first visit to Britain and Europe. Following in Drysdale's footsteps, he attracted significant attention in England, where he settled in 1955, although he continued to travel extensively around the globe. He undertook a wide variety of projects involving different types of art, including: engraving and lithography, as well as book illustration (for Robert Lowell's poetry) and theatrical set designs for Stravinsky's opera The Rite of Spring (1962, Royal Opera House, London). In 1963, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to art in Britain. In 1981 he was knighted for services to art, and became a member of the Order of Merit in 1983. In 1988 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC). He was also elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts, and a member of the London Royal Academy of Arts.
Paintings by Sidney Nolan can be seen in
many of the best art museums in Australia,
including: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art
Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Queensland
Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National
Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art
Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; the Australian War Memorial,
Major retrospectives of Nolan's work have been staged in London's Institute of Contemporary Art (1962), Sydney (1967), Melbourne (1987, 1992), and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (1994).
In 2010, his painting First-Class Marksman (1946) became the most expensive Australian painting in history. The only one of Nolan's first series of 27 Ned Kelly paintings not owned by the National Gallery of Australia, it was purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales for a record $5.4 million. See also: Most Expensive Paintings: Top 20.
For biographies of other modern
Australian artists, see: Famous Painters.


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A security manager with depression entitled to long-term disability benefits will be allowed to appeal a tribunal that found his dismissal on the grounds of "medical incapacity" was not in breach of his contract.
Mr H Awan was dismissed by security contractor ICTS UK for incapacity. However, the EAT found the firm may have been in breach of TUPE regulations as Awan might have been protected from dismissal on the grounds of illness due to benefits included in a contract he had carried over from a previous employer when his job was transferred to ICTS.
Mrs Justice Simler re-submitted for consideration the question of whether, on a "correct construction of the claimant's employment contract", ICTS was prevented from dismissing Awan for incapacity as long as he was entitled to long-term disability benefits. She also cited a lack of evidence presented by the company.
She said: "The tribunal's conclusion that there was no such implied term means that both the conclusion that [Awan's] dismissal was fair and that it was a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim cannot stand. These conclusions are set aside and the question of fair/unfair dismissal and whether it was justified will have to be remitted."
Awan began work with American Airlines as a security agent at London Heathrow Airport in 1992. In 2005, he was promoted to the position of international security coordinator. American Airlines had a group income protection policy with Legal & General (L&G) for the provision of long-term disability benefits to its employees.
Section G of a company booklet – headed "Long-term disability benefits" – made clear American Airlines would meet all administrative costs inherent in running its pension plan and "will also bear the costs of the… long-term disability insurance."
The booklet, expressly referred to in Awan's employment contract, said: "Should you be absent from, and unable to, work due to sickness or injury for a continuous period of 26 weeks or more, you will receive a disability income of two-thirds of your base annual salary, less the state invalidity pension. The disability income will commence 26 weeks after the start of your absence. It will continue until the earlier date of your return to work, death or retirement."
On 28 August 2012, employees were told the security department would be outsourced to ICTS UK. They were told their employment would transfer under TUPE regulations and that their existing terms and conditions of employment and continuity of employment would remain protected by the regulations.
Awan was deemed unfit for work due to depression in October 2012 and remained absent until his eventual dismissal in November 2014. He said he was unable to consider returning to work before he had received further treatment. He had previously had 12 sessions of counselling, was on antidepressant medication and had received a psychiatric assessment.
By 20 December 2016, ICTS had set up a policy with Canada Life to cover payment of long-term disability benefit. However, Canada Life said it would not cover any employee who had been on sick leave on 1 December 2016 unless the employee subsequently returned to work and completed seven consecutive days' service.
On 26 June 2013, Awan raised a formal grievance about breach of TUPE regulations and unlawful deduction from wages. He said that under his contract of employment with American Airlines, he was entitled to a disability payment amounting to two-thirds of his salary after 26 weeks' sickness absence.
Following numerous meetings between L&G, Canada Life, American Airlines and Awan about his entitlements and who would provide them, a final meeting was held in September 2014. Awan's employment was terminated on 28 November 2014.
London Central Employment Tribunal had initially rejected Awan's case, and found that although Awan's dismissal for incapacity constituted unfavourable treatment because of something arising as a consequence of his disability, it was still a "proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim" after the business had not been able to agree on any adjustments that might facilitate his return to work.
Andrew Willis, head of legal at CIPD HR-inform, said the case reminded employers of the importance of considering all the circumstances and contractual rights of employees when they are looking to dismiss them.
He said: "Employers who operate these employment benefits will have to ensure their contractual terms are explicitly and properly drafted to provide them with the ability to end employment when it becomes clear the employee will not return."
A spokesperson for ICTS UK said: "We are disappointed with the judgment of the EAT. The facts of the case are particularly unique and, we feel, should be distinguished from the established line of cases that relate to long-term disability benefits (as did the Employment Tribunal at first instance). We are considering an appeal to the Court of Appeal."


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I was Queen Bee for September and requested an HST block using white, grey, black, and one orange. I used the following Kona colours in the block I made: Iron, Coal, Silver, Pepper, White, Charcoal, Shadow, and Tangerine.
Here is a close up of six of the blocks. Great shades of orange. Thanks to all my hive mates.
One hive mate sent me two blocks, and I'm waiting on two more blocks to arrive in the mail. On the advice of Dena @ No Frickin' Blog Yet, I think I'm going to make another four blocks so it ends up being square.
This is probably not the final layout, but I just love it!! I'm going to leave it on my design wall so I can look at it every day.
I hope you're all working on something fun this week.
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How to Make a Better You – Put Your Phone Down
Updated: Oct 19, 2018
by Nina Sabin - Healthy Tip
Do you know how often you are on your cell phone, tablet, computer, or watching videos a day? Technology is a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing because as my husband says "we have the source of information at our fingertips." However, it is a curse because it causes disconnection from relationships, it causes lack of exercise, and it can even cause accidents.
According to hackernoon.com, research has shown that the average American adult spends more than four hours on their smart phone a day and that number is on the rise. If you add in watching videos, using your tablet, and computer. That number increases to almost 12 hours per day stated by eMarketer. That doesn't leave much time for interaction with people or exercising which are important for your health.
Often people will try to multitask. They will try to hold a conversation with their significant other, friends, family, etc. while reading or texting on the phone. Unfortunately, our brains aren't designed to work that way. We can't truly focus on two things at one time. Brain Rules states the brain cannot multitask. So usually the person who we are conversing with is the one who doesn't get our full attention, becomes frustrated, feels hurt and neglected. This leads to discourse and often relationships can suffer.
Those of us whose jobs involve working on a computer suffer even more, as we are on the computer all day doing work, then come home and start surfing the internet and reading through social media. Before we know it, hours have gone by and we didn't go exercise or spend quality time with our loved ones.
Mobile phones can cause car accidents. People are so attached to technology that even when they are driving they are texting. This is called distracted driving. As I mentioned above, our brains can't multitask. Therefore, when driving you need to only focus on driving. According to Edgar Snyder and associates 'at any given time throughout the day, approximately 660,000 drivers are attempting to use their phones while behind the wheel of an automobile.' That potentially could lead to 660,000 accidents. The National Safety Council reports that cell phone use while driving leads to 1.6 million crashes each year. Nearly 390,000 injuries occur each year from accidents caused by texting while driving. So remember to put your cell phone away while driving. Your life and the life of others depends on safe driving!
Balance, that is what we need to figure out when using technology. For some of us using our phone has been such an integral part of our day, that it has become a habit and we don't know how to function without it.
Here are some ways to learn to balance between technology, exercise, and quality relationship time.
1) Before or after work set time (at least 20 – 30 minutes) aside to exercise. I would recommend not to bring your phone as it may be a temptation and distraction from the goal of exercising.
2) The time above could involve walking with your spouse, friend, etc. This will provide quality time and exercise.
3) Set aside a specific amount of time for surfing the net, reading and responding on social media. If you don't limit your amount it actually can become an addition and be bad for your health.
4) Establish time each day for quality relationship time with NO phone. Leave the phone in another room and just focus on each other. Ask about the others day, how they are doing, etc. You will be amazed how much this improves your health and the health of your relationships.
5) When spending time your quiet time with God, remember no surfing or texting. Unless of course, you are searching for more in-depth study to improve your relationship with God. This takes discipline, but you can do it!
6) Have someone to help you be accountable with helping you limit your time on your phone. As that person helps you, remember to be honest, open, and not become defensive. Many times, when you are defensive, it is because you know that what the person is saying about you being on the phone or not paying attention is correct.
Remember to "Make a Better You" learn to balance life with technology - put down your phone, tablet, and computer - and take time for relationships and exercise.


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Are you a man or woman who rides a bike and want your spouse to join you so they can join your world of bike riding? No matter if you tour ride, pleasure ride or ride just for the heck of it, you want to show them that they can do it too. My wife doesn't ride bikes so I tried to figure out how to get her on a bike so that I could say that I enjoy cycling with the spouse.
In this post, I am going to tell how I finally got my wife to take her first bike ride with me. And when she did she thought it was great. She let me know that she wasn't going to ride a lot like I do, but that is what I said when I first started. We will see!
Reasons She Wouldn't Ride
Believe it or not, most people feel that they physically won't be able to get out and ride for a period of time. They think that they will get out there and embarrass themselves when they go 5 blocks and have to throw in the towel. Then there is the thought that I would just ride off and leave her way back.
This is understandable when I have been riding for a spell now and I can put some miles in pretty quickly. I know from when I first started that you really don't know how to pace yourself at a good speed so you will get fatigued pretty quick. And if you are not mentally ready to take on the challenge it is pretty rough.
The Way I Got Her To Try It
Well, one day I asked myself, how could I convince her it wouldn't be as bad as she thought? Well, I have an e-bike that I use to pull my lawn service trailer in the neighborhood. I have ridden it to work sometimes and I know that because it is pedal assisted it doesn't beat you down.
But at the same time, you get the workout you would get if you were on a traditional bike if you ride it long enough and not rely totally on the motor. I would just hope she doesn't ride me too hard since she has the motor. LOL.
Well, she took it further than I thought. She actually did not use the motor until we were on a hill or got a little tired. She actually did pretty well. I was impressed and ask her to try to take one day out of the week for now to ride.
She said okay, but don't try to force me, let me go when I am wanting to go! What the heck, I can't push the issue at least I got a start.
My Riding Plan
Hopefully, I can get her to get up on Saturday or Sunday morning because she hates the heat, and take a small ride until she gets used to it. We have a very nice river here where we live that has a path on each side. You can ride to the end and turn around and ride up the other side.
I think this would be a good outing for us to start. After doing that a few times she probably will get bit by the riding bug like I did years ago and it will become just part of her weekend plans. There are plenty of other places where we can explore.
Our downtown area here in Oklahoma City is in the process of beautifying the downtown and they thought about cyclist as many other cities are doing. Maybe we can hit every route. This will ensure that I will be cycling with my spouse regularly.
You know, it is always a beautiful thing when you can find something that feels new and exciting to you when you have spent some years together and thought you might have done it all. So if you have someone you want to enjoy cycling with, think of why they might not want to try it.
Most of the time it isn't because they don't want to. It is likely they may feel that they physically can't handle it. So if you can come up with a way to show them even if you have to start them out on an e-bike, it will be well worth getting the riding partner that you love to join you. You can Click Here and then click on e-bikes to see a variety of e-bikes that might work for you.
Here is another option you can consider. Tandem Bike riding is a good way to get in sync with one another. Bicycles for two is a great way to establish communication between the two of you. Click Here to get more information on Tandem Bike riding.
I hope you enjoyed this post and that it will encourage some of you to Keep On Pedaling and this time with your spouse. Please leave any questions or comments or ways you got someone started below.


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Rabat, June 30 (IANS) Actors Meryl Streep and Freida Pinto joined US First Lady Michelle Obama and her daughters Sasha and Malia in Morocco as part of their tour to promote the 'Let Girls Learn' initiative, which is aimed at helping young girls around the world get a quality education.
After Michelle announced that the 'Let Girls Learn' initiative would be extended to Morocco, she, Streep and Pinto participated in a panel discussion with local girls about the importance of education, reports people.com.
"Every single person's story is different," Streep said, telling the girls in audience that she was the first in her family to get a university education.
"In my own life I know that losing heart is the most dangerous thing. You can put any obstacle in front of me and I will jump over it, but when you lose heart, you lose everything," she added.
Pinto advised the girls to seek out organisations like 'Let Girls Learn' that help young women complete their educations.
"It's important for girls to be able to stand their ground. It's important for you to not be shy to raise your voices," she added.


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I was thinking about that Joker while reading this comic, because he and Harley Quinn share a scene with Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles version of The Shredder and his mutant gang, and it is probably the highlight of this issue. I could hear Hamill speaking Joker's lines clear as a bell...although that might have had something to do with having rather recently heard Hamill performing President Trump's tweets as The Joker.
He seems to be in the midst of performing a somewhat hostile takeover of The Foot, and writer Matthew K. Manning seems to be saving The Joker and/or The Shredder for the end of the crossover series. In the meantime, the Turtles and The Bats continue to fight Bat-villains who have made their way into the TMNT's NYC. So this issue opens with the characters battling Poison Ivy and Snakeweed, before briefly resting at the Turtles' sewer lair (Splinter plays an oddly understated role, for plot convenience's sake) and then splitting up to tackle two more threats: One team finds The Scarecrow, while the other a Foot-bot with a Joker-grin painted on it.
There were a few missed opportunities, I thought--teaming Robin and Raphael without a gag regarding wearing a big "R" seemed odd to me, almost as odd as The Joker trying to pull a joy-buzzer gag on The Shredder, whose hand-shake would be so obviously dangerous giving the blades on his hand--but this has been a surprisingly effective story so far.
Artist Jon Sommariva's art, as I've probably pointed out before, blends all of the original designs under his style, which works fine, although I can't help but wonder if there wasn't a more interesting, metaway to draw a book featuring a crossing-over of characters from two such stylistically different cartoon shows, separated as they are by decades. With this iteration of the TMNT fresh in my head and the Batman characters a nostalgic memory, the most fun has been seeing such very specific version of the Batman characters rejuvenated and thrown into the TMNT milieu.
As with the previous Batman/TMNT crossover, this isn't the Batman/TMNT comic I would have made or wished for, but I really like how this limited, specific scope sort of immunizes it from such wishing, in a way that the original did not.
Sure, time travel is the easiest answer, but Parker and Andreyko don't go there...at least, not in the first twenty-some pages of the six-part series. In the "present" of 1966, Batman and Robin capture Catwoman (Eartha Kitt version) just after she robbed a man of a precious book and delivered it to her employer, a mysterious woman she knows only as Talia.
At the Batcave, Batman and Alfred tell Robin of the first time they encountered the purrr-loined book. It was back during the war, when Thomas and Martha Wayne were giving a charity auction at stately Wayne Manor. Some disguised Nazis and Ra's al Ghul and his League of Shadows had come for the book, and it was being protected by a trio of U.S. military officers, one of whom takes off her glasses, spins around and becomes Wonder Woman!
So the bulk of this issue is set in the original, 1940s setting of the Wonder Woman TV show, when Batman was just Bruce Wayne in prep school short-pants, Talia was a little girl he was going to show his toys too, Alfred still had black hair and there were Nazis running around the grounds of Wayne Manor. It's a real blast, and Andreyko and Parker are able to maintain the TV shows' spirit (although this rightly feels more like an episode of Batman than Wonder Woman, in turns of tone and sense of humor) while pulling off the sorts of things you could never have seen on either show.
I really like all of the creators involved and the main characters, so I was expecting to enjoy this, but I was really surprised that I liked it as much as I did.
At least, that's what the subject matter appears to be from the cover, featuring as it does The Creeper fighting Deathstroke and the tagline "The Creeper Lives Again!"
The actual subject matter? Gun violence in America...specifically, the city of Chicago, as this apparently done-in-one story is entitled "Chicago." What is interesting about Priest's approach to the politically thorny (or, at least, politically thorny-if-you-listen-to-politicians-talk-about-it) issue is that this isn't exactly a "message" comics, like, say, Batman: Seduction of The Gun. Super-comics might lend themselves to messages, and while the title character does give his own, two-word solution when asked point-blank "What is th e solution to Chicago's gun violence...?", it's pretty clear that his dark, pithy reply is his of view, rather than Priest's. Many points of view are articulated by various characters throughout the issue, really.
In terms of the plot, Jack Ryder is now acting as something of an investigative journalist, and he is in Chicago following a peculiar story. It seems that a bunch of mothers who have lost children to Chicago's gun violence pooled their resources and managed to scrape together enough to hire Deathstroke in order to avenge the deaths by, you know, killing all their killers (Which is a lot of Chicago gang-members). A couple of things about it just don't strike Ryder right, however, and he's the character who essentially collects the viewpoints. This is a superhero comic that mediates upon American gun violence, rather than offers a serious prescription.
Notably, Deathstroke is sticking to knives and other weapons, rather than shooting his victims with guns, "it's like he's sending a message," one character says (Which made me think of the Taran Killam-written contribution to the recent Love Is Love anthology, in which Deathstroke is so sickened by the Orlando shooting that he throws all his guns away and says he's sticking to karate).
Ryder figures out exactly what's going on, but not without getting shot himself, which summons his yellow-er half. Priest is pleasingly coy about what's up with The Creeper these days, having him exposit aloud, "I've been...going through some changes... ...Don't understand them all... ...But I feel more like myself than I have in years!"
Great story--complex, relevant, challenging, efficient--and great art, as is usually the case, equals a great comic. Given that basic formula's simplicity, it's weird how infrequently publishers manage great comics.
The superhero stuff is all pretty rote, and the origin business has the unfortunate task of having to be compared at point's to Batwoman's previous origin, which took place during 52, a series co-written by a handful of the genre's best writers. I quite enjoy Bennett's work elsewhere, most notably DC's Bombshells and Archie's Josie and The Pussycats, but those indulge in humor to varying degrees, while this business is as dour as usual.
Ben Oliver handles the art, and it's fine, but not interesting.
Given that this arc was supposed to lead in to Batwoman, and that the book is going to cost $3.99 instead of $2.99, I'm actually actively worried about the new book's prospects.
Despite my affection for yeti and sasuquatches, that is not the sole reason that I would declare this the best single issue of Lumberjanes I've read in pretty much ever, maybe since the first arc. It is just an all-around much more sharply-written issue than most of those that have preceded it, and there were a good half-dozen, maybe eight gags or panels that just really landed just right. Co-writers Shannon Watters and Kat Leyh might blow it in future issues of course--as I've noted repeatedly before, most Lumberjanes arcs seem to go on about one issue too many--but this issue at least is the strongest, and most promising, in a while. If you're a lapsed reader, or have yet to give Lumberjanes a try, this is probably a good issue to try (Despite the high number on the cover, all one really needs to know about Lumberjanes before starting any particular arc is that there is a group of girls at an all-girls summer camp in a woods where weird things are always happening there).
Hell, in this issue alone there are three on-panel deaths from fairly significant characters, plus the implication of many other characters dying. Only one of those three I would say I was particularly fond of personally, but nevertheless Vaughan and Staples render one of those deaths in perhaps the bleakest, most horrifying circumstances imaginable. It wasn't my own investment in the character or the character's fate that made the end of this issue so incredibly devastating, but the relative innocence of the character, and the futility of the character's final words and actions to stave off the eternal blackness, which they illustrate over the course of some seven minimally constructed, maximally effective pages (counting the inside back and back covers.
I may have read a more depressing comic book not based on true events before, but I'll be damned if I can remember it now.
More suspicious still, certain images repeat in obvious fashion, and others look like direct lifts from other cartoons: There's Godzilla from Hanna-Barbera's Godzilla, for example, and there's the pterodactyl from the opening of Johnny Quest. Late, a wolfman rather randomly shows up, and it's one from Scooby-Doo. Rather than drawn the art seems constructed on a computer, using samples of Hanna-Barbera cartoons. On the one hand, that's actually kind of clever, as it recalls the notoriously cheap studios always obviously cheap animating style (think of the background in any indoor scene of Fred Flinstone running for a moment), but I can't imagine that Alvarze means it as a sort of critique or homage, and eve if he did, the comic still feels oddly lifeless.
The premise of the episode is that Scooby and his human hangers-on are at an Impossibles concert when Frankenstein Jr. attacks, directed to do evil by one of he and Buzz's enemies. The Impossibles show up in their superhero identities to help Buzz regain control of Frankie, and everything gets sorted out by the end. Fisch has a decent gag in the middle here regarding the fact that the rock group The Impossibles and the superhero team The Impossibles each have three members that look like one another and one shows up right after the other leaves, but Fred and the girls ultimately conclude that they can't possibly be the same, as that's just too obvious.
I mean, take this weird-ass, I-can't-believe-they-even-published-this miniseries, which is a sequel to his Section Eight, which was a spin-off to his Hitman. Paired with artist Russ Braun, Ennis returned to both a handful of the weirder characters from his Hitman run (and/or his earlier Demon, where Baytor originally hails from and, as the recently-released Demon Vol. 2 makes clear, was seemingly named simply for a single, climactic dirty joke) and John Constantine, who he wrote for a time in the pages of Vertigo's Hellblazer, as all comic book writers from the United Kingdom most apparently contractually do.
The title characters here are a delusional alcoholic and maybe the single most fucked-up character in mainstream comics (created with John McCrea and the late, great Steve Dillon), whose deal is that he welds dogs to people's faces. And, during the course of this series, the character finally gains the power of speech by--ugh--shoving his head up the ass of a dog's corpse and working it like a grotesque hand-puppet. So that's the kind of crass, junior high humor we're dealing with here and, in fact, this final issue even opens with a scene involving Constantine having just "copped off" with Guts, a sentient pile of organs, while Bueno Excellente does...whatever exactly it is he does (I never understood exactly what his fighting crime through the "power of perversion" meant, but then, I generally try not to think too hard about it, or to at least accept the euphemisms applied as literal, rather than actual euphemisms).
And yet Ennis still managed to make me care about these characters, or at least the title ones, and to even choke up a bit when one of their members gives his life to save the universe by welding the dog stars together (guess which one of the two does that). Seriously, when Dogwelder speaks his last words to Sixpack over the radio while going about his weird-ass cosmic work--"But you and I...were joined...on this journey...through life...Sixpack...You and I...were welded"--well I'll be damned if my heart didn't break a little for these guys (I suppose the knowledge that one of Dogwelder's creators recently passed away might have contributed).
If the fact that Ennis can make a reader as jaded and cynical as me feel actual emotions about characters like Dogwelder isn't evidence of the man's brilliance, then man, I don't know what is.
It's my understanding that Section Eight didn't sell great, and this sold even worse--I blame the weird spelling of the title and the asterisks as swear words, personally--so I can't imagine this will lead to Section Eight: Rebirth #1 or another six issues of Ennis taking the piss out of the current DC Universe, but hell, I would buy whatever DC publishes from Ennis next. Given how regularly the publisher has relaunched their John Constantine title in the last five years, maybe DC should hire Ennis to write the New 52/Rebirth Constantine for a while, with a particular focus on parody and piss-taking, rather than the serious drama of his original Constantine comics. Like he does here, where Constantine wears an astronaut helmet and carries a flying surfboard and laser gun with him at all times, only maybe with the parody dialed down from 111 to say, 9.
Anyway, read this in trade if you missed it serially. It will honestly answer every question you've ever had about Dogwelder...although I suppose chances are you don't actually have any questions about Dogwelder, given how self-explanatory his name is.
Rustam, one of the handful of threats loose in the DCU due to Waller's machinations in the crossover, threatens Waller's family, in his own bit of overly-complicated, manipulative revenge. It's convenient for Waller that he doesn't just kill them, or kill her, but I suppose it's more convenient still for the writers. Regardless, this is mostly a pissing match between Waller and Rustam, with a few panels of Deadshot, Harley, Boomerang and Killer Croc...and maybe one panel of Rick Flag...?
I can see the wisdom of taking a breather issue after a big event, but, at the same time, I wonder if this isn't too low-key, as it doesn't seem likely to hang on to any new readers who might have started reading Suicide Squad simply because of the event. The unusual format, featuring about 12-pages of a serially-told stories and then eight pages or so of origin stories as back-ups, has made this a very weird book since the beginning though, so this and the previous issue's return to full-length stories make the issues feel weird...by not being as weird as usual.
At this point, writer Greg Rucka has completed the first arc of his story set now as well as his "Year One" arc, but the plan going forward seems to be that alternating issues will continue to jump back and forth between the two time periods. To that end, Dr. Minerva here mentions a groups she used to be a part of a long time ago that may have something to do with Wondy and the gang's current troubles, and it seems that the next issue will be dedicated to telling that story. In other words, Rucka is intertwining two narratives separated by years, to the point that one rather directly informs the other. It's pretty clever, really, and it will be interesting to see how he meets the plotting challenge he's setting up for himself.
One unfortunate aspect, however, is that we're 15 issues into the series, 16 if you count the Rebirth one-shot special, and we still don't know what Wonder Woman's real origin is. That is kind of important, if for no other reason that DC launched Odyssey of the Amazons this week, a miniseries about some Amazons set long before Diana's birth/creation...but isn't the whole point of Rucka's current Wonder Woman that no one, not even Diana, knows which parts of her many origins are really true? Given that her origins involve alternate histories for her people, it's weird for DC to be doing an in-continuity story featuring Amazon history when it apparently hasn't yet been settled.
*Who, thanks to the background art in a panel of Brian Michael Bendis' Fortune & Glory I still can't think of without also thinking of a bit of the human body and of two particular adjectives applied to it.


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Testamonial: "My god, you people are depressing."
Every year, thousands of medical doctors and other members of the "Anti-Smoking Inquisition" spend billions of dollars perpetuating what has unquestionably become the most misleading though successful social engineering scam in history. With the encouragement of most western governments, these Orwellian lobbyists pursue smokers with a fanatical zeal that completely overshadows the ridiculous American alcohol prohibition debacle, which started in 1919 and lasted until 1933. Nowadays we look back on American prohibition with justifiable astonishment. Is it really true that an entire nation allowed itself to be denied a beer or scotch by a tiny group of tambourine-bashing fanatics? Sadly, yes it is, despite a total lack of evidence that alcohol causes any harm to humans, unless consumed in truly astronomical quantities. Alas, the safety of alcohol was of no interest to the tambourine-bashers, for whom control over others was the one and only true goal. Americans were visibly "sinning" by enjoying themselves having a few alcoholic drinks, and the puritans interceded on behalf of God to make them all feel miserable again. Although there is no direct link between alcohol and tobacco, the history of American prohibition is important, because it helps us understand how a tiny number of zealots managed to control the behavior and lives of tens of millions of people. Nowadays exactly the same thing is happening to smokers, though this time it is at the hands of government zealots and ignorant medical practitioners rather than tambourine-bashing religious fanatics. Certain governments know that their past actions are directly responsible for causing most of the lung and skin cancers in the world today, so they go to extreme lengths in trying to deflect responsibility and thus financial liability away from themselves, and onto harmless organic tobacco instead. As we will find later in the report, humble organic tobacco has never hurt anyone, and in certain ways can justifiably claim to provide startling health protection. Not all governments around the world share the same problem. Japan and Greece have the highest numbers of adult cigarette smokers in the world, but the lowest incidence of lung cancer. In direct contrast to this, America, Australia, Russia, and some South Pacific island groups have the lowest numbers of adult cigarette smokers in the world, but the highest incidence of lung cancer. This is clue number-one in unraveling the absurd but entrenched western medical lie that "smoking causes lung cancer." The first European contact with tobacco was in 1492, when Columbus and fellow explorer Rodriguo de Jerez saw natives smoking in Cuba. That very same day, de Jerez took his first puff and found it very relaxing, just as the locals had assured him it would be. This was an important occasion, because Rodriguo de Jerez discovered what the Cubans and native Americans had known for many centuries: that cigar and cigarette smoking is not only relaxing, it also cures coughs and other minor ailments. When he returned home, Rodriguo de Jerez proudly lit a cigar in the street, and was promptly arrested and imprisoned for three years by the horrified Spanish Inquisition. De Jerez thus became the first victim of the anti-smoking lobbies. In less than a century, smoking became a much enjoyed and accepted social habit throughout Europe, with thousands of tons of tobacco being imported from the colonies to meet the increasing demand. A growing number of writers praised tobacco as a universal remedy for mankind's ills. By the early 20th Century almost one in every two people smoked, but the incidence of lung cancer remained so low that it was almost immeasurable. Then something extraordinary happened on July 16, 1945: a terrifying cataclysmic event that would eventually cause western governments to distort the perception of smoking forever. As K. Greisen recalls:"When the intensity of the light had diminished, I put away the glass and looked toward the tower directly. At about this time I noticed a blue color surrounding the smoke cloud. Then someone shouted that we should observe the shock wave travelling along the ground. The appearance of this was a brightly lighted circular area, near the ground, slowly spreading out towards us. The color was yellow. "The permanence of the smoke cloud was one thing that surprised me. After the first rapid explosion, the lower part of the cloud seemed to assume a fixed shape and to remain hanging motionless in the air. The upper part meanwhile continued to rise, so that after a few minutes it was at least five miles high. It slowly assumed a zigzag shape because of the changing wind velocity at different altitudes. The smoke had pierced a cloud early in its ascent, and seemed to be completely unaffected by the cloud."This was the notorious "Trinity Test", the first dirty nuclear weapon to be detonated in the atmosphere. A six-kilogram sphere of plutonium, compressed to supercriticality by explosive lenses, Trinity exploded over New Mexico with a force equal to approximately 20,000 tons of TNT. Within seconds, billions of deadly radioactive particles were sucked into the atmosphere to an altitude of six miles, where high-speed jet streams could circulate them far and wide. The American Government knew about the radiation in advance, was well aware of its lethal effects on humans, but bluntly ordered the test with a complete disregard for health and welfare. In law, this was culpable gross negligence, but the American Government did not care. Sooner or later, one way or the other, they would find another culprit for any long-term effects suffered by Americans and other citizens in local and more remote areas. If a single microscopic radioactive fallout particle lands on your skin at the beach, you get skin cancer. Inhale a single particle of the same lethal muck, and death from lung cancer becomes inevitable, unless you happen to be an exceptionally lucky cigarette smoker. The solid microscopic radioactive particle buries itself deep in the lung tissue, completely overwhelms the body's limited reserves of vitamin B17, and causes rampant uncontrollable cell multiplication. How can we be absolutely sure that radioactive fallout particles really cause lung cancer every time a subject is internally exposed? For real scientists, as opposed to medical quacks and government propagandists, this is not a problem. For any theory to be accepted scientifically, it must first be proven in accordance with rigorous requirements universally agreed by scientists. First the suspect radioactive agent must be isolated, then used in properly controlled laboratory experiments to produce the claimed result, i.e. lung cancer in mammals. Scientists have ruthlessly sacrificed tens of thousands of mice and rats in this way over the years, deliberately subjecting their lungs to radioactive matter. The documented scientific results of these various experiments are identical. Every mouse or rat obediently contracts lung cancer, and every mouse or rat then dies. Theory has thus been converted to hard scientific fact under tightly controlled laboratory conditions. The suspect agent [radioactive matter] caused the claimed result [lung cancer] when inhaled by mammals. The overall magnitude of lung cancer risk to humans from atmospheric radioactive fallout cannot be overstated. Before Russia, Britain and America outlawed atmospheric testing on August 5, 1963, more than 4,200 kilograms of plutonium had been discharged into the atmosphere. Because we know that less than one microgram [millionth of a single gram] of inhaled plutonium causes terminal lung cancer in a human, we therefore know that your friendly government has lofted 4,200,000,000 [4.2 Billion] lethal doses into the atmosphere, with particle radioactive half-life a minimum of 50,000 years. Frightening? Unfortunately it gets worse.
All mice and rats are used one-time-only in a specific experiment, and then destroyed. In this way researchers ensure that the results of whatever substance they are testing cannot be accidentally "contaminated" by the real or imagined effects of another substance. Then one day as if by magic, a few thousand mice from the smoking experiment "accidentally" found their way into the radioactive particle experiment, which in the past had killed every single one of its unfortunate test subjects. But this time, completely against the odds, sixty percent of the smoking mice survived exposure to the radioactive particles. The only variable was their prior exposure to copious quantities of tobacco smoke. Government pressure was immediately brought to bear and the facts suppressed, but this did not completely silence the real scientists. Tongue-in-cheek perhaps, Professor Schrauzer, President of the International Association of Bio-inorganic Chemists, testified before a U.S. congressional committee in 1982 that it had long been well known to scientists that certain constituents of tobacco smoke act as anti-carcinogens (anti-cancer agents) in test animals. He continued that when known carcinogens (cancer-causing substances) are applied to the animals, the application of constituents of cigarette smoke counter them. Nor did Professor Schrauzer stop there. He further testified on oath to the committee that "no ingredient of cigarette smoke has been shown to cause human lung cancer", adding that "no-one has been able to produce lung cancer in laboratory animals from smoking." It was a neat answer to a rather perplexing problem. If government blocks publication of your scientific paper, take the alternate route and put the essential facts on the written congressional record! Predictably, this hard truth drove the government and quasi-medical "researchers" into a frenzy of rage. By 1982 they had actually started to believe their own ridiculous propaganda, and were not to be silenced by eminent members of the scientific establishment. Quite suddenly they switched the blame to other "secret" ingredients put into cigarettes by the tobacco companies. "Yes, that must be it!" they clamored eagerly, until a handful of scientists got on the phone and pointed out that these same "secret" ingredients had been included in the mice experiments, and had therefore also been proved incapable of causing lung cancer.
Many people ask exactly how it is that those smoking mice were protected from deadly radioactive particles, and even more are asking why real figures nowadays are showing far more non-smokers dying from lung cancer than smokers. Professor Sterling of the Simon Fraser University in Canada is perhaps closest to the truth, where he uses research papers to reason that smoking promotes the formation of a thin mucous layer in the lungs, "which forms a protective layer stopping any cancer-carrying particles from entering the lung tissue." This is probably as close as we can get to the truth at present, and it does make perfect scientific sense. Deadly radioactive particles inhaled by a smoker would initially be trapped by the mucous layer, and then be ejected from the body before they could enter the tissue. All of this may be a bit depressing for non-smokers, but there are probably one or two things you can do to minimize the risks as far as possible. Rather than shy away from smokers in your local pub or club, get as close as you can and breathe in their expensive second-hand smoke. Go on, don't be shy, suck in a few giant breaths. Or perhaps you could smoke one cigarette or small cigar after each meal, just three a day to build up a thin boundary mucous layer. If you cannot or will not do either of the above, consider phoning Michael Jackson to ask for a spare surgical mask!


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Bulgaria Approves EU1.5 Billion Eurobond Sale Before VoteViews on BG | June 7, 2014, Saturday // 15:51| views
From Bloomberg
Bulgaria approved a 1.5 billion-euro ($2 billion) Eurobond sale, the first in almost two years, as the ruling coalition announced it was preparing the way for early parliamentary elections.
Lawmakers in the capital Sofia ratified the borrowing agreements in a 109-33 vote, with 3 abstentions. The bonds may be sold in one or several tranches, Deputy Speaker Aliosman Imamov said in Parliament today.
"The funds will be used to repay about 1.1 billion levs ($698 million) in international debt due January 15 and about 1.3 billion levs in domestic debt maturing this year," Finance Minister Petar Chobanov said in parliament today. "Part of the proceeds will also cover the planned budget deficit."
The Finance Ministry declined to give information about the maturity or timing of the sale, which will be managed by Citigroup Inc., HSBC Bank Plc and JPMorgan Securities Plc. The government also hired the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. as fiscal and payment agent under accords signed on May 21, Imamov said.
The European Union's poorest country in terms of per-capita economic output last tapped global markets in July 2012, selling 950 million euros of five-year Eurobonds. The 4.25 percent coupon bond had a spread of 320 basis points over mid-swaps and re-offer yield of 4.44 percent.
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Bulgaria's sovereign debt is rated BBB by Standard & Poor (SPY)'s, even with Spain, and Baa2 by Moody's, on par with Brazil. With end-April public debt at 18 percent of economic output, Bulgaria has the second-lowest debt-to-GDP ratio after Estonia in 2013, according to Eurostat. The country also had a fiscal reserve of 6 billion lev, according to the Finance Ministry.
The yield on Eurobonds maturing in July 2017 fell three basis points, or 0.03 percentage point, to 1.372 percent at 1:34 p.m. in Sofia, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The cost to insure Bulgaria's debt against non-payment for five years using credit-default swaps fell 1 basis point to 120.6, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
The Socialist government of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski came to power a year ago after anti-austerity protests forced out his predecessor, Boyko Borisov, triggering early elections. Oresharski's minority cabinet is under pressure to resign after a poor showing at May 25 European Parliament elections.
Early Ballot
The Socialist party, which rules in a coalition with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, will discuss with other political forces when to hold early elections, its leader Sergei Stanishev told reporters today. Support for the government has declined, and "elections should not be postponed for long," Stanishev said.
The opposition Gerb party of former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov, introduced a no-confidence motion in parliament over the cabinet's financial policy, saying this year's tax collection fell short of planned budget revenue. The vote will be debated and voted on next week. Oresharski's cabinet survived a previous vote over energy policy on May 30.
The economy expanded 1.2 percent from a year earlier in the first quarter, the same pace as the previous three months, according to the statistics office.
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Gorbachev to Meet With Iraqi Foreign Minister
Soviet envoy Yevgeny Primakov and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein agreed in Baghdad that Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and President Mikhail Gorbachev would meet in Moscow on Monday. A spokesman for Gorbachev said Wednesday that results of the talks in Baghdad between Gorbachev's envoy and the Iraqi leader gave ``cause for hope.''
The Soviet Union was Baghdad's main supplier of arms and military aid for decades. Moscow joined in UN sanctions against Iraq after its Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait. But Moscow has maintained diplomatic contacts and expressed a desire for a political solution.
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A Return to France
So many of my friends in Canmore love to travel to the Far East. Riding elephants in Thailand; bathing in the Ganges; trekking the Himalayas. It all sounds magical and made of the dreams of our youth...... the mountains touching the ceiling of the world and strange curries and maniac drivers on scooters.
It likely has lots to do with the wine and the food especially in Provence. I could visit this area every year and still find new and exciting things to experience. This is my third visit to France and my third visit to Arles for the Fetes des Gardians, a celebration of a way of life in the Camargue that goes back hundreds of years. These French cowboys and their beautiful women have an annual festival every May 1st with parades, benedictions and then a Roman amphitheatre in which they have many equestrian games plus get some bulls really pissed off. They don't kill the bulls, they just tease them and then apologize over wine. One has to love the French.
The morning of the parade was wet and gloomy.... it had rained most of the night and a wet arena floor meant that the games might be cancelled. Slippery footing for these horses. But somehow, between the parade and the church, things changed. One felt a warm breeze taking away the chill and then the clouds parted above the ancient church and the sun started to make an appearance. By the time the benediction of the Gardians finished, the sun was out and the afternoon's festivities were a success.
The image of the men carrying a statue of St. George slaying a dragon reflects the roots of a fraternity dating back 501 years.
And what is truly beautiful is the participation of young and old in keeping these traditions both alive and also an integral part of their lives. I especially love the image of the mother with her baby in the church. For me, it reinforces my belief that family, friendships and a love of beauty are what makes the world go round.
Now I must add some photos and get ready for an afternoon at a ranch..... met a lovely young woman driving a taxi and am invited to the family ranch. I think that is what she said ????? Then again I may have agreed to harvest turnips for the afternoon...... report to follow.


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Fancy friday is back. Yep, finger to casual friday and we dress up for the day. This outfit is actually quite tame considering my usual Fancy Friday getup. Basically I was looking for an excuse to take my new wingtips out for a walk. Also, truth be told, the festive season has been a little … Continue reading #Fancy Friday – Blue and Olive
Plaid gingham & green – GQ Style Diary Day 1
So, for those who don't know, I was lucky enough to be asked to do a 2 week personal style diary with the guys over at GQ.co.za To quote that crazy cat girl on YouTube, I was nervous and excited at the same time. It's one thing starting this blog and having people coming to you, … Continue reading Plaid gingham & green – GQ Style Diary Day 1
Floating with pink
Who says white men cant jump? The last time I wore this tie I felt it would have worked better with a pink shirt. The red is very bright and so I thought the pink would help tone it down a bit. I also decided to go ultra preppy, but college type preppy, with the … Continue reading Floating with pink
Swinging 20's for Great Gatsby
So Misha had been invited to the premiere of the Great Gatsby at Spier event and, it was a dress up theme. Yesssss. Now, I don't need a lot of convincing to wear a bow tie, in fact I need no convincing at all. I know you know this. One of the comments from Misha' … Continue reading Swinging 20's for Great Gatsby
Navy gingham and green
I may have to call this summer, my green pants period. I now counted no less than 4 pairs of different green pants in my closet. Different shades and fits, but still? That's a lot of green. None the less there I was with the misses fetching a morning coffee at our favourite local Deluxe … Continue reading Navy gingham and green
Red. Green plaid and red
I wasn't particularly thrilled with this outfit! When I left home, I felt like I had dressed for Christmas. I should of worn a pink shirt which would of helped soften the red tie. Because mainly, all I wanted to do was ear that red tie and micro houndstooth pocket square! Either way, I left … Continue reading Red. Green plaid and red
#Fancy Friday – Turquoise and Navy
Ive been doing a little bit of shopping. But on a super tight budget. I get a lot of "jeeeez you must spend a lot of money on clothes"! And, it's kind of annoying, because, well I just don't, I cant afford to. So I made a mission last weekend to get some super fun … Continue reading #Fancy Friday – Turquoise and Navy
#Fancy Friday – Burgundy and Blue
New burgundy blazer. That's whats up. Was very excited when I picked this guy up, though admittedly I had to force myself to put down the blue one I had in my hands. Believe it or not I'm quite conservative, that's why all my details are bright but my basics are generally grey's and blues! … Continue reading #Fancy Friday – Burgundy and Blue
#Fancy Friday – Brogues and Khaki
Still loving the response were getting on #FancyFriday and it really is quite a fun thing. It's cool to think that different people all around the world are just getting dressed up, because they can. My big thing this friday was my new pocket square and tie purchase from Heywood, it just goes so perfectly … Continue reading #Fancy Friday – Brogues and Khaki
Black And Blue
And just like that, winter came back with a tiger uppercut to the face. Kinda leaving me black and blue. I wasn't too distraught as I do love to layer. I love how when you wear a scarf you're practically wearing 2 outfits, and sometimes 2 looks. Indie rock vibes with a scarf and then … Continue reading Black And Blue


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Losing it all . . . and getting it back!
Let me start at the beginning . . .
Monday was a very bad day. Very bad. Nate and I decided to go for a walk/bike ride so I threw our small D bag into the little storage compartment of his trike. We walked a mile to the park, played for a while and walked back. I walked and he rode his trike. He is fast! He rides that thing like he is on a mission. Hello - Phil Southerland --- watch out!
I did a bg check before we left the park and carbo'd him up for the ride home.
I was getting tired -- my pace was more of a slow run keeping up with him which was ok because we needed to hustle back to pick up Soph from school but I was getting a little tired. We were almost home. Did I mention we had the dog too? Yea - I was running while maneuvering around Pancake and Crazy Nate. Anyway, we were almost home when my phone came flying out of the storage compartment on Nate's trike and that is when I realized his D bag was gone. HOLY CRAP! I had a tired, on the low side Nate and an exhausted pooch that had plopped down and was not going to budge. I turned around and ran back, I ran as fast and as far as I could but Nate and Pancake were done! Done. So, I ran home, pushing Nate on his trike and pulling Pancake on his leash. We jumped in the truck and backtracked. I felt confident it would be there. Somewhere. It had only been maybe 5 minutes. Ten at the most. What the crap - where is it? I could not find it. I called my mom, she raced over and we were both looking. It was just gone. And then it hit --- the mother of all storms! A serious, severe thunderstorm! No hope left now.
I was slightly freaking out. Ok, I was really freaking out at this point but I had to go pick up Sophie from school. Panic. Panic Panic. Everything was in that bag - I VLOG about it here. I had to give Nate a shot to cover lunch. Whaaaaat? Huh? What's his I:C ratio for lunch again? We made it through lunch, I got Nate down and was ready to focus. Luckily, we had a back-up PDM and OmniPod was great about making sure I got it all set up. Double lucky, I had uploaded about 2 weeks ago and I had only made 1 basal change since then otherwise I would have been in a world of hurt. I started making phone calls --- police station, fire station, country club, HOA and neighbors. No luck. I asked the HOA to send out an email blast to everyone in our neighborhood with a description of the bag and the importance of getting it home safely. Fortunately, the company that manages our HOA also manges the HOA where I felt I had lost the bag so they (after much persuasion) sent out an email to that neighborhood too.
The next day, Mom, the kids and I hung 20 flyers throughout the neighborhood. I waited. I stared at my phone. Nothing. No one called. I wanted my bag back. Have you seen my bag - - - it's perfect. Well, it is perfect for me. I've had it since Nate started pumping last March (2010) and it really felt like I had lost a part of me. As far as I have come getting past my depression over Nate's diagnosis here I was mourning the loss of my most perfect D bag. It sounds ridiculous but I rely on that bag to keep me organized and sane and that in turn keeps Nate safe and happy.
I just have to say that everyone was so great! People were praying for me, offering up supplies and really empathizing with my situation. Again, friends, family and the DOC lifted me up! I called Children's Hospital and they sent us a new ketone meter and a new multiclix. Our OmniPod rep brought over a Freestyle meter from his own supply because he knew ours was in that bag. I was so grateful for everyone helping us out. It is amazing how 1 little bag can carry so much. That one little bag had everything I rely on every single day to keep my son alive. There was no way I could just go out and replace it all -- it was overwhelming just thinking about it so again, I am so thankful for all of the support that we received.
By Wednesday I had given up all hope. I started trying to put together another bag but nothing was working for me. I had everything in Ziploc bags and just felt so unorganized. I started looking for a new bag.
TODAY! Oh Today . . . Today was a good day. Well, actually it was a really crappy day. Nate was high all night and after 2 corrections I had to give him an injection at 4:30 AM and then another one to cover breakfast at 6:30 AM, he had large ketones (at 4:30), Dexcom had had the triple ? for 6 hours straight and we were running late for school. I had to do a pod change and a Dex change so I had one pissed little boy and one grumpy mommy. It was a full day, we took lunch to Emma at school and let the kids pick out books the book fair, then home for naps and then just enough time to get back out the door for tennis lessons.
BUT then my phone rang . . . and I answered it (my peeps know this is an exception - not the rule for me). It was him. He had my bag. We will call him Anthony (Patron Saint of Lost Things).
So, here's what happened. We were walking home, the bag fell out, and this guy and his buddy were walking to the country club (they were have a tournament on Monday) saw the bag, picked it up and rescued the bag from the impending storm. The buddy was going out of town so Anthony took the bag home.He lives about 20 miles away!! He went through the bag thoroughly hoping that he would figure out a way to contact the person that lost it but there was nothing. Finally, today his buddy gets home from his trip and sees the email from the HOA and forwards the imformation to Anthony. An hour later my mom and I met him 1/2 way and *WA - LA* all is right in my D world again.
|I have my bag and my head!
Yes, there were a lot of lessons learned ---- I'm pretty sure everyone on Facebook has already labeled their pump remote and bag now as well as uploaded pump settings. I know I have. If you haven't GO. DO. IT. NOW.
|Old PDM with New PDM which now has my contact info on the back
|Love every part of this bag - even the blood stains from Nate's little fingers
|Everything in place!
|All is right in my world - organization has returned
|Contact Information in the bag - Go me!
|Nate's name on the back and another card between the skin and the pod. Overkill. Maybe!
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WAHOO!!!!!!!!!! Thank you to those guys for taking care of it. GOD BLESS THEM!
I'm so happy it's all home safe and sound ;)
Yay!!!! I am so so so happy!! And my god youre such a milf!!
I have our # and diabetes written on Js bag but Ima add some more info. Thank u! Also..umm..where can I get a lil bag like that!?!
Did you give him a big ol' kiss???
Oh, Laura!!! I am so glad it found its way back to you...and what a great story to share! I love that bag too...
I saw your status earlier today- so glad he wasn't a creeper!
So, so, glad your bag made it home safe and sound!
What a story!!! There are good people in this world! So happy for you! That bag is awesome, by the way.
So glad you got your bag back safe and sound! It's nice to know that there are good, caring people in this world!!!
Btw, that bag is awesome....everything fits so nice and organized...and it's super cute too!!!
I am SOOOOO releaved you got the bag back! I can only imagine the stress losing it caused you :( ((HUGS))
Oh I am so thrilled your bag has been found, it has been in my prayers! And I still love that little ole bag - where can I get one? I don't likey the camo one with the pink... hmmmm.....SO very glad you got it back!!!
Yeah you got it back yeah !!!that bag looks awesome where can I get one like it ? Glad those ppl were so nice and returned it .
RELIEF!!! I am so happy for you Laura. That had to be such a bummer. And, you are SO organized!
I knew it would come back! It had to! So much love deserves a little favor by the cosmos. Happy day!
Very happy for you that your D bag returned safe and sound. I will definitely upload and label everything. The real take-away, though, is to put a Jolly Roger on the PDM. Loved it.
Huge sigh of relief!!
I can't imagine (well, I can, but don't want to!!) what those few days were like. UGH!
So glad everything is back to rights!!
Yay! What wonderful news! :)
This is wonderful NEWS!!! YAHOO!! Am I the only one who wants to know what kind of bag is this? I love it!
That is AWESOME!! I love that bag too! : ) I'm sure you will sleep tonight, so happy for you! (and that guy needs a hug!) : )
And your *Love* necklace? I have it too-love it!! Brighton is my best friend. : ) I met a girl at a furniture store today asking about my yellow flower purse-we got to talk Brighton! (you either love them...or not.) : )
and share about that super-cool gingham bag too, please!! : ) Holly
My heart was pounding reading this! So glad you got the bag back! I need to go write down Addison's basal settings now...
I don't usually reply to posts but I will in this case. WoW big thumbs up for this one!
Many thanks for the amazing article.
Oh my goodness, I'm so glad your bag found it's way home - but I'm sorry it took so long. :( It is great that you've used this as a learning experience too. Besides labeling all my stuff (which I'm going to do today) maybe I'll make sure I have a spare of everything too.
Heart Stopping! Putting our contact info in William's D-bag as we speak! Egads! <3 Mo
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St Paul's Church, Yelverton has also commemorated those who lost their lives in the war. There is a framed parchment that names eight people from Yelverton who lost their lives during the Second World War. However one name that appears on the Buckland Monachorum Memorial at Crapstone has been omitted from the parchmenmt—namely Russell James Weeks. His widow lived at Willowby Lodge until she died in 1989.
There is also a separate framed document to D C Roe (see page 14). The East window, designed by Phillips of Plymouth, was dedicated to the preservation of the church and loved ones during the Second World War.
|The framed parchment in St Paul's, Yelverton
|The East window in St Paul's Church, Yelverton.
The bottom of the window reads:
To the glory of God and in thanksgiving for
the preservation of our church and loved ones
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SUU Athletics Strategic Communications
The Thunderbird women's tennis team is heading to Colorado Springs this weekend to compete in the Air Force Invitational. They are coming off of a 3-19 record last season and are look to improve upon that this year.
The Thunderbirds have the advantage of some veteran leadership this season. They are led by seniors, Mikala Lowrance, Terese de Enrique Schmidt, and Laura Martin Lozano, and. Along with the experience from those three seniors, three freshmen also joined the team in the offseason adding some exciting new talent to the roster.
Junior, Charity Sagiao, has the most wins from last of any active player. She had a 9-13 record along with going 3-7 in conference play.
This will be Rose Ketmayura's second year as head coach. She is looking forward to seeing her team's efforts going into their first tournament of the season.
"I'm really excited to see how our new players perform in a college tournament," Ketmayura said, "it'll also be great to see the continuing improvement from our returners."
Match play will begin at 8 a.m. MT both Friday and Saturday and the tournament is hosted by Air Force. Unfortunately, there will be no live stream or stats for any of the matches this weekend, but follow us on social media to stay updated on the action.
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Detente couples also have an added advantage: we teach you dynamic communication techniques that allow you to talk to and understand each other!
Deciding to divorce is a serious step. Divorce is the second highest stressor behind death of a loved one, and it can wipe you out financially. If you can have a healthy marriage, then do everything in your power to save it! If, after you have done everything you know how to do and the marriage is still toxic, then be smart. End it conscientiously with Detente mediation in a way that honors each of you, lets you land on solid financial footing, and paves the way for cooperative co-parenting.
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Windswept Tree - Brushed, Metal Wall Art
Windswept Tree - Brushed, Metal Wall Art
The beautiful windswept tree will look stunning on any wall of your house. As a stand alone tree or paired with one of our other trees.
Piece is made from 1/8" aluminum and finished in a brushed texture.
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Spruce, White Pine, Red Pine
Small 18" wide x 17.5" high
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Large 26" wide x 25.5" high
OUR MATERIAL - BRUSHED ALUMINUM (For indoor use only)
All our artwork is made from Aluminum! We us a 1/8" material which is approximately 3mm thick or similar to an 11-gauge steel. Aluminum offers you a high-quality product that will not rust. It is also lighter and therefore easier to handle and hang on your wall, while still maintaining its strength and rigidity. Each piece has a brushed finish to give you a bright and beautiful piece of art.
While aluminum is rust free, it can oxidize in its brushed state in an outdoor setting. If you would like a brushed finish for the outdoors, we recommend stainless steel which we would be happy to give you a quote for.
Orders will be shipped via Canada Post, Unites States Parcel Service (USPS), UPS, Canpar or Purolator. If one of these services does not work for you, please add a note to your order so we can best accommodate your shipping needs.
Pickup location is in Cambridge, ON, Canada. A message will be sent when item is ready for pickup.
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I am new to machine learning and data science. I apologise if the question seems very basic. I have a requirement where I need to verify information submitted via a form with the corresponding official document. My approach till now has been to use google vision to extract text and use regex to extract necessary fields and compare with the form information. This is not always reliable because of the image quality and vision captures the noise as well.
Previously, I was thinking of just comparing each data file and search it in the text extracted and provide a metric of certainty.
I talked to one of my colleagues and he suggested using some for of supervised learning algorithm to process the documents, so that they automatically extract the key fields.
I want to ask would this method be simpler than my current approach. I am also worried about the scalability of my approach in event of minor changes in document formats.
I am looking for links for some articles or books related to this and answer to why using my own model will be better than just searching each word in a text.
Edit: The data can be imagined as a visiting card which contains the name of person, his office address, his contact number and the company's name. The problem here is different visiting cards can have different formats. Moreover the information is repeated twice: Once in English and the second in another language. For example , NAME : JANE DOE is followed by नाम : जेन डोए in next line. I only need the English name. The number of formats are constant but are high. Moreover, the address is not read together by Google Vision in most cases and using regex can become too complicated and case specific. I need to verify employee identity cards as proof that they are working for the company they claim to.