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What is tennis elbow and what are the symptoms? Tennis elbow causes pain on the outer side of your elbow. The medical term for tennis elbow is lateral epicondylitis. This is because the pain is felt around the area of the lateral epicondyle (the lower, outer, bumpy part of your humerus bone in your upper arm).For most people with tennis elbow, the pain only occurs when they use their forearm and wrist, particularly for twisting movements such as turning a door handle or opening a jar. However, for some people the pain is constant; it occurs at rest and can affect their sleep. The pain may travel down your arm from your elbow towards your wrist. You may find it difficult to hold items such as a knife or fork, a cup or a pen, or to straighten your arm fully. Some people also notice a stiffness in the affected arm.Golfer's elbow is the name given to a similar condition that produces pain around the inner side of your elbow.
Image from google images What is a prolapsed disc?A 'slipped' (prolapsed) disc often causes severe lower back pain. The disc often presses on a nerve root which can cause pain and other symptoms in a leg. In most cases, the symptoms ease off gradually over several weeks. The usual advice is to do normal activities as much as possible. Painkillers may help. Physical treatments such as spinal manipulation may also help. Surgery may be an option if the symptoms persist.
When you have a 'slipped' (prolapsed) disc, a disc does not actually slip. What happens is that part of the inner softer part of the disc (the nucleus pulposus) bulges out (herniates) through a weakness in the outer part of the disc. A prolapsed disc is sometimes called a herniated disc. The bulging disc may press on nearby structures such as a nerve coming from the spinal cord. Some inflammation also develops around the prolapsed part of the disc.Any disc in the spine can prolapse. However, most prolapsed discs occur in the lower back (the lumbar spine). The size of the prolapse can vary. As a rule, the larger the prolapse, the more severe the symptoms are likely to be.What are the types of low back pain?Nonspecific low back painThis is the most common type of back pain. The majority of cases of sudden-onset (acute) low back pain are classed as nonspecific. This is the type of back pain that most people will have at some point in their life. It is called nonspecific because it is usually not clear what is actually causing the pain. In other words, there is no specific problem or disease that can be identified as the cause of the pain. The severity of the pain can vary from mild to severe. This type of back pain is discussed further below.Nerve root pain - often called sciaticaThis occurs in less than 1 in 20 cases of acute low back pain. Nerve root pain means that a nerve coming out from the spinal cord (the root of the nerve) is irritated or pressed on. (Many people call this a trapped nerve.) You feel pain along the course of the nerve. Therefore, you typically feel pain down a leg, sometimes as far as to the calf or foot. The pain in the leg or foot is often worse than the pain in the back. The irritation or pressure on the nerve may also cause pins and needles, numbness or weakness in part of a buttock, leg or foot.About 9 in 10 cases of nerve root back pain are due to a prolapsed disc - often called a slipped disc. (A disc does not actually slip. What happens is that part of the inner softer part of the disc bulges out (prolapses) through a weakness in the outer harder part of the disc. The prolapsed part of the disc can press on a nerve nearby. See separate leaflet called Prolapsed Disc (Slipped Disc) for details.) Other less common conditions can cause pressure on a nerve to cause nerve root pain.Frozen ShoulderFrozen shoulder (sometimes called adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder) is a condition where a shoulder becomes painful and stiff. Shoulder movements become reduced, sometimes completely 'frozen'. It is thought to be due to scar-like tissue forming in the shoulder capsule. Without treatment, symptoms usually go but this may take up to 2-3 years. Various treatments may ease pain and improve the movement of the shoulder.What are the symptoms of frozen shoulder?The typical symptoms are pain, stiffness, and limitation in the range of movement of a shoulder. The symptoms typically have three phases:
- Phase one - the 'freezing', painful phase. This typically lasts 2-9 months. The first symptom is usually pain. Stiffness and limitation in movement then also gradually build up. The pain is typically worse at night and when you lie on the affected side.
- Phase two - the 'frozen', stiff (or adhesive) phase. This typically lasts 4-12 months. Pain gradually eases but stiffness and limitation in movement remain and can get worse. All movements of the shoulder are affected. However, the movement most severely affected is usually rotation of the arm outwards. The muscles around the shoulder may waste a bit as they are not used.
- Phase three - the 'thawing', recovery phase. This typically lasts between one and three years. The pain and stiffness gradually go and movement gradually returns to normal, or near normal.
Symptoms often interfere with everyday tasks such as driving, dressing, or sleeping. Even scratching your back, or putting your hand in a rear pocket, may become impossible. Work may be affected in some cases.There is great variation in the severity and length of symptoms. Untreated, on average the symptoms last 2-3 years in total before going. In some cases, it is much less than this. In a minority of cases, symptoms last for several years.What is the carpal tunnel?There are eight small bones called carpal bones in the wrist. A ligament (also called retinaculum) lies across the front of the wrist. Between this ligament and the carpal bones is a space called the carpal tunnel. The tendons that attach the forearm muscles to the fingers pass through the carpal tunnel. A main nerve to the hand (median nerve) also goes through this tunnel before dividing into smaller branches in the palm.The median nerve gives feeling to the thumb, index and middle fingers, and half of the ring finger. It also controls the movement of the small muscles at the base of the thumb.
What is carpal tunnel syndrome?This syndrome is a set of symptoms thought to be caused by squashing (compression) of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel. In terms of age, carpal tunnel syndrome is more common in:
- People in their late 50s, particularly women.
- People in their late 70s, when men and women are equally affected.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is more common in people who are obese and it often runs in families. It is more common in women who are pregnant.Causes of back painNon-specific - the cause in the vast majority of peopleIt is often impossible to find a precise cause for low back pain. Less than 1 in 100 people have a serious problem. It can be caused by an injury or sprain, but most of the time it isn't and may be due to poor posture, lack of exercise or stiffness. You may have heard your doctor, physiotherapist or nurse describing your back pain as 'non-specific' or 'simple' back pain. This means that after your examination, the clinician is not concerned that you have a serious medical condition. This is the type of back pain that is likely to get better over the next few weeks as you gradually return to normal activities and work.SciaticaThis is far less common and affects less than 1 in 20 people. It is most often caused by pressure or irritation of nerves as they come out of the lower back. The symptoms include pain, numbness and tingling that spread down the leg, sometimes reaching the calf or foot. Most people do recover from sciatica over time but often it takes longer than with non-specific back pain.ArthritisArthritisis common. There are many different causes of arthritis and so all agegroups can be affected. Some causes of arthritis only cause joint problems for ashort time and there are no long-lasting problems. Other causes of arthritis maycause pain and difficulties for a long period of time or even permanently.If you have any joint problems you should see your GP to find out the cause of thearthritis. You will often need some investigations, such as blood tests and X-rays.You may also need to be seen by a specialist, depending on the likely cause of arthritisWhat is arthritis?Arthritis means inflammation of joints. Arthritis is very common. There are many different causes of arthritis. Children and adults of all ages can be affected by arthritis.Arthritis may affect just one joint, a few joints or many joints. Each cause of arthritis tends to have a typical pattern in terms of which joints are affected and the age of people most likely to be affected.In the knee, there are areas of cartilage tissue which act like shock absorbers in the joint - these are called menisci. There are also areas of cartilage covering the ends of the long bones at the knee joint - these are called articular cartilages. Both of these areas of cartilage may become damaged causing significant problems for patients.The knee joint
The diagrams below illustrate the knee joint.Each knee joint contains an inner and outer meniscus (medial and lateral meniscus). These are thick rubber-like pads of cartilage tissue. They are C-shaped and become thinner towards the middle of the joint. The meniscal cartilages sit on top of, and are in addition to, the usual thin layer of cartilage which covers the top of the tibia. The menisci act like shock absorbers to absorb the impact of the upper leg on the lower leg. They also help to improve smooth movement and stability of the knee.When people talk about a cartilage injury to a knee, they usually mean an injury to one of the menisci. However, the knee also has cartilage covering the ends of the bones in the joint - this is called articular cartilage - and damage can occur here as well. The areas of articular cartilage can be seen in the side view of the knee joint in the diagram above.What is a sprain?A sprain is an injury to a ligament. Ligaments are strong band-like structures around joints, which attach bones together and give support to joints. A ligament can be injured, usually by being overstretched during a sudden pull. The ligaments at the side of the ankle are the ones most commonly sprained.A damaged ankle ligament causes inflammation, swelling, and bleeding (which shows as bruising) around the affected joint. Moving of the joint is painful. The picture shows a badly sprained ankle with fairly extensive bruising.
The severity of a sprain is graded according to how badly the ligament has been stretched and whether or not the ankle joint has been made unstable. The joint can become unstable when the damaged ligament is no longer able to give it the normal support:
- Grade I - mild stretching of the ligament without joint instability.
- Grade II - partial tear (rupture) of the ligament but without joint instability (or with mild instability).
- Grade III - a severe sprain: complete rupture of the ligament with instability of the joint.
Shin SplintsShin splints is the name often given to exercise-induced pain in the lower leg, specifically along the front of the leg between the knee and the ankle - the area known as the shin. The exact cause of shin splints is not certain but they tend to be as a result of overuse and typically occur in runners. Rest is the most important treatment. Shock-absorbent insoles in your training shoes, graduated running programmes and regularly replacing your training footwear may help in prevention.What are shin splints?
Shin splints is the name often given to exercise-induced pain in the lower leg, specifically along the front of the leg between the knee and the ankle - the area known as the shin.Shin splints are really a symptom rather than a specific diagnosis because they are probably caused by a number of different problems. Shin splints are one of the most common problems in the lower leg in people who exercise or play sports.In typical shin splints, pain is felt more over the inner (medial) part of your shin. Pain felt over the outer (lateral) part of your shin may not be due to shin splints and may be due to a compartment syndrome in your leg.Shin splints are sometimes called medial tibial stress syndrome.Torticollis means 'twisted neck'. The most common cause is acute torticollis, often called 'wry neck'. This is a common cause of neck pain and stiffness. It is common to wake up with a 'wry neck'. It usually goes away on its own over a few days, sometimes longer. Painkillers may ease the pain. Gentle neck exercises are usually advised. There are various other less common causes of torticollis which are briefly discussed below.What is torticollis?Torticollis means 'twisted neck'. The neck becomes twisted to one side. The most common cause of torticollis is acute torticollis, also known as 'wry neck'. Most of this leaflet is about the common acute torticollis. Other less common causes of torticollis are mentioned briefly later in the leaflet.What are the symptoms of 'wry neck' (acute torticollis)?'Acute' means that the symptoms have developed quickly, over a period of hours, or often overnight. The twisting of the neck (torticollis) occurs when the muscles supporting the neck on one side are painful.The cause of acute torticollis is often not known. It can happen in people with no previous neck symptoms. It is a common cause of neck pain in young people. There is usually no obvious injury.However, it may be due to a minor sprain or irritation of a muscle or ligament in the neck. Some reasons for this include:
- Sitting or sleeping in an unusual position without adequate neck support
- Poor posture when looking at a computer screen.
- Carrying heavy unbalanced loads (for example, a briefcase or shopping bag).
- Allowing certain muscles of the neck to be exposed to cold ('sleeping in a draught').
It is common for people to go to bed feeling fine and to wake up the next morning with an acute torticollis.The pain is usually on one side of the neck and stiffness of the muscles in that area twists the neck to one side. Attempts to straighten the neck are difficult due to pain. Occasionally, the pain is in the middle of the neck.The pain may spread to the back of the head or the shoulder. The muscles of the affected side may be tender. Pressure on certain areas may trigger a 'spasm' of the muscle. Movement of the neck is restricted, particularly on one side.
What is a cervicogenic headache?
A cervicogenic headache is simply another name for a headache which originates from the neck and is one of the most common types of headache. It is important to note, however, that there are many types of headache of which cervicogenic is just one. Another common type is vascular (this includes migraines).The spine (neck) comprises of many bones known as vertebrae. Each vertebra connects with the vertebra above and below via two types of joints: the facet joints on either side of the spine and the disc centrally (figure 1).During certain neck movements or sustained postures, stretching or compression force is placed on the joints, muscles, ligaments and nerves of the neck. This may cause damage to these structures if the forces are beyond what the tissues can withstand and can occur traumatically due to a specific incident or gradually over time. When this occurs pain may be referred to the head causing a headache. This condition is known as cervicogenic headache.Cervicogenic headache typically occurs due to damage to one or more joints, muscles, ligaments or nerves of the top 3 vertebra of the neck. The pain associated with this condition is an example of referred pain (i.e. pain arising from a distant source – in this case the neck). This occurs because the nerves that supply the upper neck also supply the skin overlying the head, forehead, jaw line, back of the eyes and ears. As a result, pain arising from structures of the upper neck may refer pain to any of these regions causing a cervicogenic headache.Although cervicogenic headache can occur at any age, it is commonly seen in patients between the ages of 20 and 60.
About 8 in 10 people have one or more bouts of low back pain. In most cases, it is not due to a serious disease or serious back problem, and the exact cause of the pain is not clear. This is called nonspecific lower back pain. The usual advice is to keep active, and do normal activities as much as possible. Painkillers can help until the pain eases. In most cases, the pain disappears within six weeks but may come back (recur) from time to time. Chronic (persistent) pain develops in some cases and further treatment may then be needed.Understanding the lower backThe lower back is also called the lumbosacral area of the back. It is the part of the back between the bottom of the ribs and the top of the legs.Most of the lower back is made up from muscles that attach to, and surround, the spine. The spine is made up of many bones called vertebrae. The vertebrae are roughly circular and between each vertebra is a disc. The discs between the vertebrae are a combination of a strong fibrous outer layer and a softer, gel-like centre. The discs act as shock absorbers and allow the spine to be flexible.
Strong ligaments also attach to nearby (adjacent) vertebrae to give extra support and strength to the spine. The various muscles that are attached to the spine enable the spine to bend and move in various ways.The spinal cord, which contains the nerve pathways to and from the brain, is protected by the spine. Nerves from the spinal cord come out from between the vertebrae to take and receive messages to various parts of the body. Degenerative Disc Disease Degenerative disc disease affects the intervertebral discs that sit between the individual spinal vertebrae. They exist to absorb impact (like a shock absorber) and to prevent bone rubbing on bone. Each disc has a tough outer shell which contains a soft, often described as jelly-like substance, which is primarily made up of water. As the person gets older, the water content decreases and discs can become dehydrated making them more susceptible to injury.The outer layer of the disc can become thinner through wear and tear, or in some circumstances can even tear. These tears can cause the inner substance to leak out into the surrounding structures which may cause pressure to be put on the nerves, alternatively, the nerves may begin to grow in and around the tear of the shell and invade the inner disc space. Either can cause the nerves to become irritated and inflamed. Pain can be chronic with periods of heightened levels, and can usually be helped by keeping mobile so as to relieve pressure from the nerves. Long periods of sitting and standing can aggravate the nerves and increase pain. Lying down can help because the position relieves pressure from the spine.In the event of nerve interference, pain can sometimes be felt down the legs, with numbness or tingling experiences. Giving up smoking is essential if suffering pain from degenerative disc disease. Oxygen levels and blood supply to the area can be compromised with the incidence of smoking. As discs are already at risk of dehydration, reducing the oxygen and nutrients supplied to this area by smoking will exacerbate symptoms further.Osteoarthritis (OA) causes pain and stiffness in joints. Symptoms may be helped by exercises, some physical devices and treatments, and losing weight if you are overweight. Paracetamol will often ease symptoms. Other medicines are sometimes advised. Joint replacement surgery is an option for severe cases.What is osteoarthritis?Arthritis means inflammation of the joints. Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common form of arthritis in the UK. OA mainly affects the joint cartilage and the bone tissue next to the cartilage.Understanding joints
A joint is the term for where two bones meet. Joints allow movement and flexibility of various parts of the body. The movement of the bones is caused by muscles which pull on tendons that are attached to bone.Cartilage is a hard, smooth tissue that covers the end of bones. Between the cartilages of two bones which form a joint, there is a small amount of thick fluid called synovial fluid. This fluid lubricates the joint, which allows smooth movement between the bones.The synovial fluid is made by the synovium. This is the tissue that surrounds the joint. The outer part of the synovium is called the capsule. This is tough and helps to give the joint stability. Surrounding ligaments and muscles also help to give support and stability to joints.


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Stanly County Partnership for Children (Smart Start) is a non-profit organization with a mission to "make early childhood resources available to young children and their families that result in young children being properly cared for (healthy, safe, age appropriately educated) and enabled to enter school ready to learn."
The Stanly County Partnership for Children…
- administers Smart Start funds from the state legislature to support programs to benefit children age 0-5 and their families.
- is a catalyst for bringing different groups together for the sake of the children.
- educates the community on the critical needs of young children and helps develop solutions.
The ultimate goal of Smart Start is to ensure that all children enter school healthy and prepared to succeed. Programs and services are provided to meet the needs of all children birth through five years old (not enrolled in kindergarten). Agencies and organizations within Stanly County work collaboratively with Stanly County Partnership For Children to coordinate and provide leadership for many of the Smart Start Activities.
Find out more about our partnership's programs and services.

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Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE< > • Effective - 01 Jan 1991, see footnote
197.460. Exempt persons and religious organizations. — 1. The provisions of sections 197.400 to 197.475 shall not apply to individuals who personally provide one or more home health services if such persons are not under the direct control and doing work for and employed by a home health agency.
2. The provisions of sections 197.400 to 197.475 shall not apply to any person or organization conducting a home health agency by and for the adherents of any recognized church or religious denomination or sect for the purpose of providing services for the care or treatment of the sick or infirm who depend upon prayer or spiritual means for healing in the practice of the religion of such church or religious denomination or sect.
3. The provisions of sections 197.400 to 197.475 shall not apply to any person or other entity which provides services pursuant to subdivision (19)* of subsection 1 of section 208.152 or provides in-home services pursuant to subdivision (18) of subsection 2 of section 192.2000.
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Blame Paperchase. My affection for all things London is heightened once again. The UK retailer of fun, sassy greeting cards, decorations and gifts has a somewhat new collection of items all with a London motif.
Choose from notebooks, magnets, mugs... there's a little bit of London for all tastes. I'm partial to the laptop case. And the bunting. Oh, and the pencil cases are cute too. I currently use a Paperchase pencil case to hold all my iPhone accessories - the charger, earphones, etc. Hmm.. maybe it's time for an update.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
RATE IT! Paperchase London Collection
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
RATE IT! Travel Destinations for a Sugar Rush
Travel and eating go hand-in-hand ... well, in MY world they do...so it seemed only natural for my latest article to be about 10 Destinations to Indulge Your Sweet Tooth.
Dig in to my latest piece for Reader's Digest.ca. Best of all? No calories!
Dig in to my latest piece for Reader's Digest.ca. Best of all? No calories!
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Friday, November 4, 2011
RATE IT! Gingerdead Men Cookie Cutters
A little too late for Halloween, but early for Christmas, this comedic take on holiday nibbles has bite. GingerDEAD Men ... why not? Ghoulishly presented by the gang at Perpetual Kid.
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TEHRAN (Combined Sources)–The Islamic Republic of Iran has offered to mediate between Azerbaijan and Armenia to resolve the Karabakh conflict, an Iranian official said.
"Iran has proposed to mediate between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the resolution of the conflict," Iran's Ambassador to Azerbaijan Nasser Hamidi Zare' told Trend News. "Iran has held discussions on this issue with both parties of the conflict."
The Iranian mediation offer comes as regional powers Turkey and Russia have proposed their own plans to resolve the conflict.
"There are certain ongoing processes in this region. Iran and other neighboring countries are interested in finding ways out of the situation," said Zare.
The Iranian ambassador hoped that Azerbaijan and Armenia would soon express their opinion about Tehran's proposals.
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Sunday 6 January 2013
A very Happy New Year to you.
Already one week into the New Year - the days seem to whizz by so fast.
No new makes this time around - I have taken some time off to work on various other things.
I am in the process of finalising six card-making workshops: two for Valentine's Day, two for Mother's Day and two for Easter. The sessions will be two hours long, the first one will run 1.00 pm - 3.00 pm and the second, 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm on the same day, will be a repeat of the afternoon's session. I had originally thought of having workshops for just basic card-making for all/any occasions, but think a themed one to begin with will be easier to run and provide materials for. My cake-making friend is managing the refreshments and we are also offering homemade bread and soup mini-lunches and suppers. Once everything is confirmed, I will add details on my blog and website, but I can let you know the sessions will take place in Chilworth, Surrey.
No New Year's resolutions for me this year. I rarely stick to them so by not making any I avoid the disappointment. However, I do have plans (they are not resolutions, are they?). My aim is to be more structured and organised in my working life. I am a terrible time-waster and am amazed at how much time I can waste on the Internet - doubt I am alone in that though. This year I will make proper 'To-Do' lists on paper, not the mental ones I have relied on and conveniently lost, and I will stick to them and ensure everything gets completed - eventually.
Just a mini post today, but don't forget to visit the other blogs taking part in this week's Handmade Monday. I am looking forward to reading about the plans everyone has for 2013 - exciting times.
My Friday Guest Blogger spot returns at the end of January, so please get in touch with me if you would like 'book' a spot. Our new kitten, Milly, will also be back towards the end of January with her Wednesday blog post - this coincides with my return to kitten fostering, so Milly will have plenty to write about.
'See' you next weekend.
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Can't believe you mentioned Mother's Day and Valentines's Day - still recovering from Christmas :-)ReplyDelete
'See' you soon x.
Happy New Year, Jill! The workshops sound brilliant. You're going to be busy - workshops & lists - there'll be no holding you!ReplyDelete
How exciting to be starting your card making workshops! I think that making them for specific events is a great idea and providing yummy food too :) I'm sure they'll be an enjoyable venture for all involved! xReplyDelete
That sounds exciting I hope everythings slots into place. Good idea to be able to offer a light lunch as well.ReplyDelete
Isn't it really hard to stop and plan rather than just ploughing on? But it's amazing how good you feel when you know where you are going. So pleased to hear about the classes, I bet they fill up really quickly... and you did mention cake... what a great combo, craft and cake!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6 January 2013 at 11:26
I think you do have resolutions but I am with you about the formalising of them :)Your workshops sound very exciting. Hope they are as successful as they deserve to be.ReplyDelete
Good luck with your workshops and if you think positively I'm sure you will succeed with your 'plans' :)ReplyDelete
I made no resolutions either....Always break them. I might have to nick your plan to be more organised and spend less time faffing about online ;)ReplyDelete
So look forward to hearing from Milly!
Happy New Year
Sarah x
Good luck with your workshops - it sounds like going with a theme is a good one. I'm another guilty party at spending too much time on the internet unproductively so I'm hoping I can do something about that!ReplyDelete
Your workshops sound great, a theme is a great idea, some people are at a bit of a loss to what subject to choose.ReplyDelete
I don't do resolutions either, I always end up breaking them then feel guilty so now I just don't bother.
Have a great week
Jan x
ps.... I miss your 'green' x
Good luck with your card making workshops! show us please the photos and the creations afterwards :DReplyDelete
happy new year! hope your plans will come true.x
I think it's great your doing the card making workshops. Anything like that is always fun and everyone gets to take something lovely home. I hope they're a sell out.ReplyDelete
Have a lovely week.
Ali x
The workshops sound like they'll be fun. There will be no stopping you once you have your lists!ReplyDelete
Haha! My only NY Resolution was to start blogging again, regularly. So far so good! :) And thank you for reminding me about Valentine's Day Cards. I really thought I would try to do them this year. But I usually think about them in January, totally forget and remember them far too late to do anything about them. Maybe I should make a list. :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11 January 2013 at 03:10
Hi! Sorry I've not been around for awhile. Wow, you are so busy! I like the workshop idea. It sounds like great fun and a good way to network.ReplyDelete


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Posted in Architecture, Best pictures, Boats, Educational card, Famous battles, Historical articles, History, Industry, London, Politics, Prehistory, Royalty, Transport on Tuesday, 24 November 2015
We have selected three of the best pictures from our large collection of 19th and early 20th century educational trade cards.
The first picture shows Roger of Sicily capturing Palermo in 1072.
The second picture shows the Brewhouse of a London brewery in the 18th Century.
The third picture shows Prehistoric boats.
High-resolution scans of all educational cards can be found in the Look and Learn picture library.


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Category: babies
Opal – Eight Months Old
Baby Opal! One of my favorite babies in the world, for many reasons. She belongs to one of my best friends, Katie. She is also the first and only baby (other than my own) that I've ever experienced wa...VIEW POST
Patrick – Six Months
Patrick and his brother Luke are so sweet. I loved meeting them and their parents when I went to their house to take Patrick's six month photos. Patrick has the most gorgeous blue eyes! I loved all of...VIEW POST
Gannon – Newborn
Welcome to the world, sweet little Gannon!VIEW POST
Eliza – Six Months Old
Eliza is one of the smiliest babies I've ever met. Her brother Abe is pretty happy too, and they are so fun to photograph. I love the bond between Mary & Eliza ... some of my favorite photos from this...VIEW POST
Catalina – Six Months Old
Pretty little miss Catalina's six month session is here! She didn't seem to want to smile for the camera ... but I was able to catch the grin a few times. She is the sweetest. ...VIEW POST
Noah R. – One Year Old
Here are some of my favorites from Noah R's one year session. It was really fun to shoot his family on their bike.VIEW POST
Bella – Nine Months Old
Bella's nine month shoot last fall was filled with glittering sunshine and crunchy leaves, and of course her wonderful family. Cindy and Ben are good friends of mine, and Ben is a photographer himself...VIEW POST
Owen – Six Months Old
Oh, sweet Owen and his cheeks! This shoot happened in late September .... but I have to share it because I love Owen and this little family so much. Lindsay is my cousin, and we went to a special plac...VIEW POST
milo & mj – three months old
This is my lovely cousin Kate & her family! She wanted to do a three-month session for her twin boys, Milo & MJ (Michael James), and we spent most of the time just capturing them as they interacted wi...VIEW POST
eliza – three months old
sweet eliza and her family wanted to get some pictures taken this fall for their christmas cards, but after finding out about my baby package, eliza's mom was all for it! so now, you will get to see t...VIEW POST


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Country of origin: France
Year came to U.S.: 1800
Businesses: DuPont de Nemours (DuPont, 1802)
Headquarters: Wilmington, DE and Midland, MI
2021 revenue: $17.2 billion
U.S. employment: 28,000
Ranked 211 in the 2022 Fortune 500
DuPont was an early "transnational" business relying on knowledge, equipment and capital raised in France.
The company supplied as much as 40 percent of the gunpowder used by the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Eleuthère Irénée (E.I.) du Pont left his home country during the French Revolution and ended up supporting his new homeland in the American Civil War with the company he founded, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.
At age 14, E.I. du Pont wrote a paper on the manufacture of gunpowder and later gained a position at France's central powder agency. There, he studied advanced explosives production techniques. In 1791, as the French Revolution raged, he gave up powder making to assist in his father's small printing and publishing business.
The du Ponts held some strong and unpopular political views, however. This was a liability in revolutionary France. In 1797, a mob ransacked their printing shop and they were imprisoned. Two years later, when du Pont was 28, he and his family escaped and emigrated to the United States.
Within two years of arriving in the U.S. and using equipment and capital raised in France, du Pont formed E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. He broke ground on his first powder mill on Delaware's Brandywine River in 1802.
The company grew quickly and by the mid-1800's century became the primary supplier of gunpowder to the U.S. military, producing up to 40 percent of the Union Army's powder in the American Civil War. The Eleutherian Mills site has since been declared a National Historic Landmark and is now a museum.
E.I. du Pont had many interests beyond gunpowder. He enjoyed studying botany, and he became a director of the Farmers Bank of the State of Delaware and the Second Bank of the United States.
The company that bears his name, DuPont, has also expanded beyond gunpowder, transforming itself several times during more than two centuries of operation. In 2017, the company merged with another immigrant-founded powerhouse, Dow Chemical, creating the world's largest chemical company. DowDuPont announced in 2019 that they would be dividing into three companies and DuPont again became an independent company.
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Girls Inc. of Carpinteria's first-ever Chili Challenge left attendees with happy taste buds, full bellies, sore dancing feet, armloads of auction bargains and the satisfaction of helping to raise critical funds for an organization dedicated to empowering local youth.
Held last Sunday, the fundraiser featured 11 chili entries, from which a panel of five judges selected Jeff Havard's "Albertsons Big Country Redneck Chili" as the first-place winner, and the crowd voted chef Nirasha Holcomb's "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Farts Club" as the People's Choice Award winner. It also earned the Spirit Award for decor and theme. Sandi and Mike Prather took home third place with their "Carpinteria Lions."
More than 200 attendees turned out in their cowboy boots and 10-gallon hats to sample chilis and all the other offerings of the event.
To the twangy tunes of The Dusty Jugz, dancing queen Beth Schmohr led line-dancing throughout the evening. When they weren't dancing, attendees were bidding on scores of silent and live auction items.
Chili came in all flavors — vegetarian, meaty, with and without beans — and tapas from local restaurants rounded out the savory menu.
Beer from Island Brewing Company, tequila tasting from Carretta de Oro and California wines were served, and Rincon Events hosted a cupcake bar featuring three varieties, including the Firecracker Cupcake, a special chocolate and chili creation made just for the Chili Challenge.
"The event was a huge success and a lot of fun," Girls Inc. board president Mary Crowley said. "Most importantly, it raised important funds to maintain programs supporting local girls and helping them to grow up strong, smart and bold."
The judges were James Sly, Head Judge; Clyde Freeman, Gail Persoon, Roxanne and Wade Nomura.
Girls Inc. is a nonprofit organization that inspires all girls to be strong, smart and bold. It provides programs for girls ages 5 to 18 that focus on science, math, and technology; health; financial literacy; sports skills; leadership and advocacy; and media literacy. All programs provide girls with the resources, structure and assistance needed to graduate middle school, high school and move on to a career, college or university.
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Author – Jennifer Anne Davis
Series – Knights of the Realm
Cliffhanger? - Yes
Publication Date – September 10, 2019
Genre – YA Fantasy
Rating – 4 1/2 out of 5 Stars
Complimentary copy generously provided by the author through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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Jennifer Anne Davis is one of my favorite fantasy writers and she is always my "go to" author when I'm in a fantasy funk and need to be pulled out.
And…she didn't disappoint with Realm of Knights. I was sucked into this story and couldn't put it down for the life of me. Yes, it is a bit predictable, but the story overall is enjoyable and you can't beat a book with the heroine who is strong and not fluffy/stupid.
Also, another selling point to this story is the cast of characters – it's not just Reid who wins your heart but the rest of them too! I can't stress enough that this book is like chocolate where you can't just read a page or a chapter! You will be hooked.
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In Ir?ne, Voltaire wrote, ?Shakespeare is a savage with sparks of genius which shine in dreadful darkness of night.? One of Shakespeare's sparks of genius was in his use of masks. These masks put characters in a sort of ?darkness of night,? allowing them to become someone else. They are used for imagery, so one can discover who a person is?the inside of the mask. Masks are used throughout Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to reveal character's true emotions, to carry the story and explain things to the reader, and to express the power of raw beauty. Shakespeare uses this imagery of a mask in many of his characters in the play, but mostly in two: Viola and Feste. Throughout the play the masks help the plot along. At the end, all masks are discarded for a great finale.
The perfect example of the use of masking imagery can be seen in Feste the jester. In the play, Feste shows his many personalities in the disguise of masks. Acting as a wise man contrary to his role of the fool, Feste develops one mask. He tries to ?conceal [himself] for what [he] is? (I.ii.52) because he knows that if the people realize his intelligence, he will not be called upon to work. These songs Feste sings serve as symbols of a well-formed conscience. People would stop coming to him for this sound advice he gives. Feste demonstrates a strong example of masking imagery because he shows what the play might be without masks. Later, the ?devil man? (IV.ii.122) in him surfaces when talking to Malvolio. This is a mask because not only is Feste intelligent, not only is he a fool, he is also conniving. These masks appear all over the play, developing from scene to scene. Feste plays the role of a chameleon; changing masks to become what the necessary character for the given situation. Feste acts as ?an ass? (V.i.16) for his acquaintances. This pleases the people and allows Shakespeare to say outrageous but true things that no other character would say. Although characters wear masks, their true identities are always revealed. Feste says, ?Eyes show [the] days?(II.iii.94). He demonstrates that one can remove a mask just as easily as one can put a mask on. Shakespeare develops all these different masks. Some are used only once or twice; others are used for nearly the duration of the play.
Near the opening of the play, when Viola adopts her male identity, she creates another self, like two masks. She may decide to wear one or the other while swinging between the two identities in emotion and in character. She decides to take on this identity because she has more freedom in society in her Cesario mask, which is evident when Orsino accepts her, whereas, in her female identity she would not be. The mask of Cesario develops throughout the play. Viola's mask pulls the comedy together. First, Viola's mask serves her in getting a job to get back on her feet after nearly drowning. This mask helps other people too. The mask gets Olivia back on her feet. She escapes the mourning of her dead brother. Olivia realizes she has something to live for after seeing Cesario's mask. Falling in love with the male version of Viola works out well. The mask turns out to be a replica of something that does exist. Sebastian is there, married to Olivia, when all masks are removed. The mask, growing on Viola, shows importance all over the play. It continues to develop, and this leaves the reader an even more omniscient point of view. While Olivia, Sir Toby, and Sir Andrew are clueless as to what is going on, we know about the masks. Shakespeare wanted his readers to stand by and laugh. Viola plays the right person at every point in the story to make a happy ending. She removes her mask at the perfect moment. Being both a ?maid? (V.i.267) and a ?gentleman? (V.i.269) makes this plot what it is. She carries out the functions of both genders, and she is judged from both. The masks deceive. Thinking that Viola is a man, even her brother Sebastian is confused about Viola's true identity. She makes her brother think he doesn't ?know [her] by voice or any other feature.?(III.IV.325) This shows that she can fool even the closest of kin thorough the mask. At the end of the play, when all tricks and treacheries are revealed and all masks are lifted, Orsino falls in love with Viola. He first forgives her of her duty to him then says that she shall be her master's mistress as soon as she completely reverts to her female form.
The imagery of masks in this play proves to be very well developed in both Feste and Viola. Developing the imagery created by the mask helps to make the whole play more understandable to the reader. Each mask is well developed and has a definite meaning to the reader. Masks are used to conform to one's own needs or to the needs of others, just as in real life. In the book, masks are used to hide something. Everyone eventually came out from that hiding. With masks removed, quality of life improved in the end and everyone became happy. Masks added a lot to Twelfth Night, but Shakespeare was trying to show his readers how much better the world could be if people took off masks.
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The news of ex-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick's crimes is deeply troubling for two reasons.
The first is that it is a serious blow to the church's moral authority. We suffered something like this in 2002, with the disclosure of priestly abuse in Boston and elsewhere.
There was a time when a word from the archbishop of Boston was enough to derail measures in the Massachusetts statehouse that were contrary to the church's teaching or harmful to its interests.
Now it has difficulty getting a hearing on issues of marriage, assisted suicide and abortion. In Boston and elsewhere, the church is now almost defenseless against measures aimed directly at harming it: adoption rules, statutes of limitations, evidentiary privileges and so on.
We parents understand this problem. When children become teenagers they inevitably learn the sins of our past lives. We can have no secrets from them. I remember vividly the day one of our boys found a tin of weed lodged in the attic. (I will say by way of extenuation that it was very old.) When that happens, how can you preach on the evils of drink and drugs without sounding like a hypocrite?
These are occasions, we learn, for practicing humility and honesty, and maybe modeling those virtues for the children, though we may have failed at teaching temperance. I think this would be the right course now for the bishops as well.
But the loss of moral authority is not the worst of it. This time, we may suffer a loss of faith as well.
Pope Benedict XVI was fond of saying that the saints are the living proof of faith — "an epiphany of God," as he once put it. I fear there may be a different kind of truth in the reverse of this — evidence that the church's leaders have feet of clay may, for some, disprove the faith in their own minds.
I have heard this said too often, at first and second hand, to discount it. Not just by those who might have been abused, but by those in their circle of acquaintance, and even devout seekers further removed. "How could this church be the body of Christ," they will ask, "when its bishops behave so shamefully?"
It doesn't avail to insist that most of its bishops are good and holy men, as they are. People just don't want to hear that now.
But there is another point that we need to keep in mind at times like this. The bishops of the church have had sinners among their number from early days. During the persecution of Diocletian, many of them, out of fear for their lives, succumbed to demands that they turn over Christian texts (hence the name "traditors" — the ones who handed over) and make offerings to the Roman gods.
Donatus, the bishop of Carthage, maintained that these lapsed clergy could not validly perform the sacraments anymore. This idea was carried further, to include any case of mortal sin — and the Donatists had quite a following in the fourth century.
The thing to keep in mind, as St. Augustine rightly argued at the time, is that the church is not holy because saints preside over it. God's grace makes it holy. The sacraments derive their power from the work of Christ, not from our own feeble efforts.
It doesn't ease the pain of our current distress to know that this isn't the first time people have left the church because some bishops have abandoned their posts. But by now, we should have learned the lesson of Psalm 146: "Put not your trust in princes," not even princes of the church. Rather, "happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God."
Garvey is president of The Catholic University of America in Washington. Catholic University's website is www.cua.edu.
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Indeed, trust not in princes, nor in university presidents posing as moral epigones. Garvey scandalously says here that the worst of these sexual crimes is that it's a blow to the Chuch's moral authority? This is enough to make one choke, and puke. No, Mr. Garvey, the worst is that children, like YOUR children, like YOUR grandchildren, by the THOUSANDS, were horrifically sexually abused. Period. The blow to church authority is many utilitarian rungs down any serious moral accounting of the matter, the kind of which you are clearly incapable. And good men who entered the priesthood were forced into sexual favors by their supposed TEACHERS and made complicit in a criminal syndicate. Please don't speak to us of the sad blow to the Church's authority. Such men have no right to teach anything, and you, John Garvey, in this sick defense of institutional power over victimary truth have no business running a university of teachers and researchers, least of all a Catholic one. The church is a victim here?! Absolutely obscene. In his recent statement on the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, Mr. Garvey defends Cardinal Wuerl as having done the right thing in "a number of cases", deflecting all the wrong and very deficient things the university chancellor did and didn't do. In his June article (http://catholicphilly.com/2018/06/commentaries/critics-of-paul-and-francis-forget-the-church-is-one-holy-catholic/) , Mr. Garvey wrote that unity in the church (which his misunderstands to be coercive conformity) is paramount, analogous to his father's subduing family division with an iron fist of obedience: "It was a reason for tolerating unfairness and even unjust treatment." Sound familiar? How utterly disgusting.
I believe this is the message we need to hear right now: our faith is in Jesus Christ, not in the men who lead the Church. Their role is important, but only Jesus is the object of our faith.


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It looks like this horrible prediction is forming, as ISIS now has the weapon Spirit discussed. However this is happening in Iraq not Turkey?
Notes on 9-24-14 I had a visual of massive smoke everywhere, nothing was in view except the smoke. (Smoke in the past represented destruction) I had a visual of terrorist holding a string of VX nerve agent, the visual showed small neon green gum ball sized spheres attached to a metal plate. They had several strands. They showed a man drop off a box in a busy city, there was a fountain in the background and then he put on a helmet and walked away, then smoke exploded everywhere. The visual switched and "Intelligent Agents" as spirit called them cleared a path of rubble.
The facts quoted by BBC on 3-12-15: "Iraqi officials have shown the BBC videos that they say confirm Islamic State militants are using chlorine gas in some crude home-made bombs."


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"Tower Records told me to shove this record up my ass. Do you know how it feels to be told to shove a record up your ass?" That's Steve Berman, real-life circa-2000 president of sales at Interscope, talking to Eminem on "Steve Berman," one of the skits from The Marshall Mathers LP. In that skit, Eminem's visiting his label's corporate offices, and Berman is telling him everything that's wrong with the new album that he's just delivered. Berman is heated. "Do you know why Dre's record was so successful?," Berman asks. "He's rapping about big-screen TVs, blunts, 40s, and bitches. You're rapping about homosexuals and Vicodin. I can't sell this shit!" (I don't remember any lyrics about big-screen TVs or 40s on Dre's 2001, but nevermind.)
Steve Berman, of course, did sell this shit. The Marshall Mathers LP is 77 straight minutes of death threats, virulent homophobia, ain't-I-a-stinker edgelord gags, language-drunk wordplay, and psycho-sexual rage-venting. To listen to it is to feel bad, even when you're thrilled. The Marshall Mathers LP sold nearly 2 million copies in its first week — more than twice as much as the Marshall Mathers LP guest and previous Dr. Dre protege Snoop Dogg, rap's previous first-week sales champ, had managed with 1993's Doggystyle. Before long, The Marshall Mathers LP had become the best-selling rap album of all time, a title that it still holds today.
When I first heard that line about Tower Records, it didn't quite take. I was sitting on a bus-stop bench somewhere in Lower Manhattan, head spinning, trying to process everything I'd just heard. "Steve Berman" had showed up on The Marshall Mathers LP a few tracks after "Stan," Eminem's breathless and riveting narrative about an obsessed and ultimately murderous fan. This was on May 23, 2000 — 20 years ago tomorrow. The Marshall Mathers LP had come out that day. I had the day off work, so I took the subway to the Tower Records in Soho and bought the tape. I don't remember what else I'd planned to do that day, but once I heard "Stan," all that was over. I couldn't even walk around with the album. I had to sit with this thing on my Walkman. I had to digest.
When I'd walked into Tower that morning, the store had a giant display of nothing but The Marshall Mathers LP — hundreds of copies of it. Tower Records had definitely not told Steve Berman to shove the record up his ass. They'd probably sent him a bottle of champagne. This was the height of the CD era, the final boom time before internet piracy would plunge the record business into the dark ages, and everyone could tell that The Marshall Mathers LP was an immediate blockbuster. But a huge part of the album's success was Eminem's eagerness to play the underdog victim. "Radio won't even play my jam," Eminem bitched, at a moment when radio played little else. "I'm not Mr. *NSYNC, I'm not what your friends think," Em insisted, when he was competing with fellow hair-bleach and bouncy-harpsichord enthusiasts *NSYNC for TRL-driven sales dominance.
On The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem talks about himself as if he's public enemy number one, as if he's the most hated person in the history of mainstream America. This is an act. He wasn't that — not yet, anyway. A little more than a year earlier, The Slim Shady LP had sold well and established Em as a shock-rap star. He'd been on arena tours — as opener, not headliner — and he'd rankled public-taste watchdogs like Billboard editor Timothy White. But his success wasn't a public crisis yet. Still, Eminem spends The Marshall Mathers LP speaking about himself as an inescapable pariah — the despised colossus who stands astride the world. As soon as the album came out, that's exactly what he became.
On The Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem's great superpower is an ability to magnify every perceived slight to absurd degrees. In an anodyne MTV segment, Christina Aguilera had mentioned that Em had married Kim Mathers, the woman who he'd rapped about murdering on "'97 Bonnie & Clyde." This was a tiny on-air moment, not some grand campaign that Aguilera was waging. But at the time, it wasn't public knowledge that Em had married Kim, so Em was furious. On "The Real Slim Shady," the ridiculously catchy first single from The Marshall Mathers LP, Em goes nuclear against Aguilera, imagining himself at the VMAs, sitting "next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst, and hear them argue over who she gave head to first." It's a wild, dizzy, indefensible overreaction — one of many.
Eminem has so many enemies on The Marshall Mathers LP: Parents, teachers, gay people, journalists, boy bands, girl groups, Insane Clowns, his own fans, his mother, his wife, himself. A couple of years before he made the album, Em had been a white-trash no-hoper in Detroit, a grown kid with a failed rap career and a daughter he couldn't afford to raise. Em had transcended his origins through sheer profane ingenuity and force of personality and a lucky connection to Dr. Dre, and he'd suddenly become a public figure. But he was still miserable. His wife was cheating on him, and he was getting into fights over it, getting arrested. His mother was suing him for rapping about her. He was going through it, and he was telling jokes about going through it: "Tell me, what the hell is a fella to do?/ For every million I make, another relative sues."
Trolling didn't exist as a verb in 2000, but that's what Eminem does all through The Marshall Mathers LP. He'd noticed that his homophobia on The Real Slim Shady had made people uncomfortable, so he doubled down on it, admitting later that he'd done it just to piss people off. Pissing people off had become his religion. This was a cruder time in American public history, when you could become a free-speech crusader just by saying fucked-up shit and daring uptight old people to react. (Lynne Cheney, another Eminem adversary, took the bait, complaining about his lyrics on the floor of Congress.) Em caught the same wave that the South Park guys did, riding shock-value infamy to towering mainstream fame. On the album, Em plays the villain — "I was put here to annoy the world, and destroy your little four-year-old boy or girl" — because he knows that this will make him a hero.
As irresponsible as Em gets on The Marshall Mathers LP, though, he also vents a whole lot of anxiety about his own success and what that might mean. Sometimes, he's outwardly offensive, as on all the moments where he raps about the Columbine massacre, "a whole school of bullies shot up all at one time." Sometimes, he's defensive, insisting that he's not society's problem: "What about the makeup that you allow your 12-year-old daughter to wear?" Sometimes, he's self-conscious, fretting about being "in rotation on rock 'n' roll stations" just because of his race. And sometimes he's piercingly, fearfully vulnerable. That's the power of "Stan," a nearly-seven-minute Hitchcockian horror story about the kid who takes all of Eminem's jokes the worst possible way.
"Stan" is a fascinating relic now — a genuinely cutting and absorbing story-song that entered the lexicon, changed the dictionary, and gave toxic fandom a name. Producer Mark The 45 King sampled a ballad from the relatively unknown British trip-hop siren Dido and briefly turned her into a star on American adult contemporary radio. (This was less than two years after the 45 King had sampled Annie for Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)." Has a not-that-famous producer ever had such a culturally impactful one-two punch?)
My colleague Chris DeVille just wrote a whole piece about the legacy of "Stan," but the song also served a function in the moment. At the 2001 Grammys, the same night that he famously lost Album Of The Year to Steely Dan, Eminem performed "Stan" with Elton John, making a feeble attempt to defuse all the homophobia accusations. The song choice was auspicious. "Stan" is the moment where subtext becomes text, where Eminem makes his vulnerability plain. Em wasn't just a spitball-shooting outrage magnet. He was also a smart and incisive storyteller. You couldn't hear "Stan" and believe otherwise.
If you're listening closely enough, that vulnerability is all over The Marshall Mathers LP. Em imagines himself in a nursing home at 30, or staying home with a 40 at 40, babysitting his daughter's kids while she's out getting plastered. He gives voice to his own worst impulses — to the worst impulses that anyone could have. The previous album's "'97 Bonnie & Clyde," where Em babbled lovingly to his daughter while disposing of her mother's body, was bad enough. The Marshall Mathers LP gave us the harrowing prequel "Kim" — six minutes of crying and screaming and, finally, murdering: "You were supposed to love me! Now bleed, bitch, bleed!"
I hated "Kim." It stressed me out, and made me sad, and exhausted me. So I avoided the song. I had the album on cassette, so I couldn't just skip the song. Most of the time, I just fast-forwarded the tape to the end of the second side, sacrificing "Under The Influence" and "Criminal" so that I wouldn't have to listen to "Kim" again. You couldn't endure "Kim" and think that Eminem was cool, that he was someone worth emulating. He sounds pathetic, unhinged, his own worst-nightmare version of himself. But even on "Kim," Em imagines himself as the victim, immune to whatever harm he may be inflicting on the rest of the world. It's a perennial Eminem problem. As much as he fumes about bullies, he can't process the idea that he might be one.
"Kim" plays out like a movie — dialog, sound effects, Em doing his own wife's death-scream voice. "Stan" works the same way, with pencil scratches and car-in-river splashes giving physical dimension to the stories that he's telling. The level of craft on The Marshall Mathers LP remains staggering. Where Dr. Dre only produced a few tracks on The Slim Shady LP, he and his proteges take over for much of Marshall Mathers, giving Em a tense, springy blockbuster-rap heft. And even when Em produces himself, as on the gothically pretty "The Way I Am," the music has scope.
In terms of pure rapping technique, The Marshall Mathers LP is almost peerless. On his more recent records, Eminem has turned rap virtuosity into an empty technical display. But on Marshall Mathers, Em shows urgency and personality even when he's speeding rings around his tracks. The album's maddening catchiness is almost a problem. Em raps in absurdist, transgressive nursery rhymes that remain permanently lodged in my brain decades later: "Skippity bebop, Christopher Reeve!" I have spent most of the time since 2000 working in the music media, and yet I can't see the word XXL without immediately hear Em's clowning echoing in my skull: "Maybe now your magazine won't have so much trouble to sell!"
The Eminem of 2000 was such a great rapper that he could make anything sound compelling — Tom Green catchphrases, UFO cockpit-radio chatter, intra-MTV gossip. A lot of it was terrible. The "Ken Kaniff" skit, wherein the two members of Insane Clown Posse give loud and slobbery blowjobs to Em's menacing gay sketch-comedy character, is probably the most uncomfortable thing to have playing on your stereo when anyone else walks into your room. In decades of pornographic sex-noise rap-album skits, I don't think anyone's ever made anything worse. And yet I still kept listening. So many of us did. Apparently, there was a million of us just like Em, who cussed like Em, who just didn't give a fuck like Em.
Twenty years later, I look at The Marshall Mathers LP the same way I look at a right-wing revenge fantasy like Dirty Harry — all this impeccable craft put in service of a self-pitying and repellant worldview. I love it, and I hate it. I admire Eminem's skills, and I empathize with him, but I also sneer at every aside about his own victimhood. If Tower Records really had told Steve Berman to shove the record up his ass, maybe society would be better off right now. But Tower sold it, and I bought it. Me and everyone else.


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Veteran Lego builder Chris McVeigh (well-known for his magnificent Commodore 64 and Classic Mac models) has started combining the best of many worlds by doing some comic sketch cards in Lego. In addition to the Batman above, he's also done an impressive Boba Fett and a menacing Wolverine.
He's even provided crayons made of the little plastic bricks. As they say, nice work!
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The Atlanta Opera is pleased to present Rabbit Tales, a world premiere Atlanta Opera commission, for the 2011-2012 season. Based on the Br'er Rabbit stories by Joel Chandler Harris, this production is a contemporary, light-hearted opera that combines several story lines from Native American, African and Cajun Folklore. Rabbit Tales is written and composed by Atlanta-based artists.
The Atlanta Opera is managing the production of "Rabbit Tales". If your ensemble would like to perform the opera or if you would like "Rabbit Tales" to perform at your school you must contact Nicole Chamberlain.


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Market Synopsis of the Global Corneal Transplant Market
Corneal transplant is a procedure to replace the damaged or diseased cornea which may be due to eye injury or eye disease. Two major types of corneal transplants are penetrating keratoplasty (full thickness cornea transplant) and endothelial keratoplasty (back layer cornea transplant). Need for corneal transplant may rise if the diseased cornea leads to blurred vision. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide.
The market for corneal transplant shows exponential growth due to high prevalence of corneal eye disease and rising number of corneal transplants in developed countries. High cost of corneal transplants may restrain the market growth. For instance, the cost of corneal transplant is higher in U.S. than other countries in the Asia Pacific.
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Some of the key players in this market are CryoLife, Inc. (U.S.), Exactech, Inc. (U.S.), Köhler GmbH (U.S.), Lifeline Scientific (U.S), LifeCell Corporation (U.S.), Medtronic (U.S.), and Organogenesis Inc. (U.S.).
The global corneal transplant market is segmented on the basis of type, indication, and end user.
On the basis of type, the market is segmented into penetrating keratoplasty, endothelial keratoplasty, descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK), corneal graft, corneal limbal stem cell transplant, and others.
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On the basis of end user, the market is segmented into hospitals, eye clinics, and others.
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Year: 2017 | Players: 1-4 | Minutes: 20+ | Ages: 13+
This Zephyr: Winds of Change review was made after playing the game six times.
What is Zephyr: Winds of Change?
Zephyr: Winds of Change is a thematic cooperative adventure game designed by Aaron Kluck and Jon Mietling and published by Portal Dragon. In Zephyr, you are airship captains in a post-apocalyptic world attempting to keep the skies clear of air pirates, which include tough commanders and, in some cases, warlords!
Zephyr: Winds of Change Gameplay
When you begin a game of Zephyr: Winds of Change, you'll get a ship of your own along with that ship's basic action cards and some starting scrap (money). You'll buy some starting items, including ship upgrades and crew, and then you're ready to begin a mission.
Each ship has a hull, which represents its health. They also have slots for ship upgrades, which add new cards to your deck that represent attacking abilities, tech, and evasive maneuvers. Even better, you can add crew members, which give you two new abilities – one from the faction and one from the crew member's personality – that you can use throughout the game. Every ship has a special ability, and they also have their own hull, ship system, and crew layouts.
Throughout each mission, you will be going on assignments, either by yourself or with members of your team. These assignments can include battles, reactions to events, or a mix of both. If you're able to complete an assignment, you'll usually get a nice reward.
You will be fighting in a lot of battles in Zephyr: Winds of Change. You'll be using your action cards to deal damage and evade incoming damage in hopes of defeating enemy ships. After you've chosen your cards, you'll roll dice to see what the enemy ships do. You and the enemies fight simultaneously, so you can receive damage even if you end up killing your enemy. If another player is on your assignment with you, you can both take on the ships in that area. When you defeat an enemy ship, you'll roll for scrap rewards.
It's not uncommon to fight commanders in these battles. When you see the commander symbol, you will place a commander card on top of an enemy ship, replacing its abilities. The commander will also usually bring additional ships to the fight. What's great about defeating commanders is that you can get better rewards, including the Epic upgrades!
The toughest battles come when you go up against warlords. These battles are similar to the others, but warlords have their own wave cards (ships and, sometimes, commanders) and abilities. You'll need to get past those waves of ships and take down the warlord's hull to defeat him.
As you go from assignment to assignment, days will pass by and you'll be moving to new regions and reaching higher tiers. With each tier come tougher enemies since each enemy ship will have more health and will gain crew members (more dice).
When you complete assignments, you'll have a chance to go back to the resupply to repair your ship and buy new upgrades. After going to the resupply you have the option of trading crew members, scrap, and/or ship systems with other players.
Each mission tells you what you'll need to do to be successful. If you aren't able to upgrade your ship well enough throughout the game, you could just lose on the final day of that mission.
If you want to play more than one mission with your ship, you can keep the upgrades you've bought and play the game's campaign mode.
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- Zephyr: Winds of Change is one of the best-looking co-op games we've played. The player boards are fantastic, the artwork on the cards is great, the look of the crew member cards on top of their faction cards is awesome, and even the dice add to the overall look of the game.
- The steampunk theme is extremely cool and it's the main reason why we'll be playing this game a lot. The game does a great job of bringing the theme to life with the ship boards, the text on the event cards, and all of those battles you'll be involved in.
- There is a ton of replay value here. You can set up your ship any way that you want to, there are a ton of crew member personalities to choose from, and you never know who you're going to have to fight.
- It also scales really well. I haven't played a three-player game yet, but it seems like the challenge and overall fun factor has been the same at one, two, and four players.
- The campaign mode actually works really well in this game. You become pretty attached to your ship after upgrading it over the course of a mission, so it's pretty awesome that you can continue using that same ship in future missions.
- The Zephyr: Winds of Change rulebook looks fantastic, but it's not formatted in the best of ways. I did learn the basics of the game by reading through the rulebook and the tutorial book (multiple times), but I had to get a lot of my questions answered at the game's BGG page.
- There can be some downtime in this game. You will run into situations where you've finished part of your assignment and you have to wait a while for others to go through their battles. It's not boring by any means, but you can grow a bit impatient when this happens.
- This is definitely a collaborative board game since you have a shared goal and you can fight in battles together, but you're often out doing your own thing. This is especially true during missions when you have to complete a bunch of assignments. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but some people might prefer co-op games that have players work together a bit more.
Final Thoughts
Zephyr: Winds of Change is a solid co-op adventure game that has a theme most people will be able to get into. What we really like about Zephyr is that it feels like a unique cooperative experience and it looks amazing on the table. It's also quite difficult to beat at times, which is always a good thing to us.
If the steampunk theme doesn't interest you, you might want to pass on this one since it kind of requires you to role-play a bit to get the most out of the experience. Also, there's less player interaction than in most other co-ops. If those things don't bother you, then we definitely recommend playing this one!
Zephyr: Winds of Change Links
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Lil Sonny Sky's book of the week...
This beautiful book My Friend, by Beatrice Alemagna, published by North-South books ,
is a wonderfully simple story with a simple message complemented with hand stitched illustrations that are both inspiring and engaging.
The detailed stitching and use of fabric, buttons and lace kept Skyla looking for such a long time , they seem very real and Skyla asked if she could sew another picture like this one, so they inspire Sky as well as me!
The message in the story is very similar to Bugs in a blanket ( see more here) another beautiful Beatrice Alemagna book. The message being, It doesn't matter what you look like, we're all different and that should be celebrated.
We have another book illustrated by Beatrice Alemagna by Claude Roy, L'enfant qu'on envoie se coucher......which I have no idea what the title says as it's all in French, and my year 3 french doesn't serve me well unless I want to buy a ham sandwich or ask where the bank is, but the words aside, the illustrations are gorgeous, so accessible and real.
You can buy Beatrice Alemagna's books here,
check out her website here to see more of her innovative work.
There's also a lovely interview at Fine little day which gives an insight into Beatrice Alemagna's inspirations and creative world.
Hope you get as much pleasure as I have looking at this very talented artist and author.
To see past books of the week put the kettle on then click here!


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Stevie J. Cole and BT Urruela joined forces and created a wildly intense, gruesome read. This kept me on my toes from the prologue through the cleverly twisted finish line. The mental intricacies woven throughout this tale are simply brilliant. Teaching suspense, while reading this beauty, left me in a deep book hangover and in desperate need of a debrief. Cole and Urruela dazzled me with the deep imagery of raw madness from the serial killer, to the purity and innocence expressed in their heroine. Wicked Little Words is masterfully written. Prepare yourself for a Poe and King on steroids read!
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