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Panchakarma is a series of treatments that activate the natural detoxification and rejuvenating processes of the human body and at the same time they eliminate the causes of diseases.
Panchakarma is one of the most important elements of the Ayurvedic healing system which consists of treatments and procedures that influence the organism in the gentlest possible way activating the self-healing mechanism of the body. The human body has its own self-healing and self-cleansing mechanisms but as a result of today's stressful and hurried lifestyle and poor, irregular eating habits, the body alone cannot cope with the high amount of toxic material we accumulate. The toxins stored in the body block the revival of the cells, lower its immunity, vitality and ojas (Sanskrit term meaning vigour) and reduce its resistance against external negative effects.
Panchakarma provides for the elimination of toxic waste and materials at the cell level.
Panchakarma is recommended in case of the following conditions:
Asthma and bronchitis;
Gastritis and colitis;
Rheumatoid arthritis;
Neurological disorders;
Cardiologic problems;
Vascular diseases;
Liver diseases;
Urinary problems;
Gyneacological conditions;
Chronic diseases.
Preparatory stage:
To ensure that each treatment of Panchakarma is successful, the body needs to be prepared for the elimination of toxic materials (including the release of toxins stored in the cells and tissues). This is achieved through the following two therapies:
Internal oleation of the body through the consumption of ghee through the mouth and herbal massages (Snehana Karma)
Herbal sweat therapy (Swedana Karma);
Five main steps in purification
The preparatory treatments are followed by the cleansing of the body in the following five steps:
VAMANA – a therapy that aims to remove the mucus from the paranasal sinuses, the stomach and the lungs with the help of herbal concoctions and through the cleansing of mucus and bile.
VIRICHINA –.a purgation therapy to remove the bile with the help of laxative.
VASTI –a purification treatment based on the induction of herbal medicinal decoctions and oils in the intestinal tract which leads to the removal of accumulated toxins and the regeneration of the intestines.
NASYA –a therapy that involves the instillation of medicinal oils or concoctions through the nostrils which cleanse the sinuses and improves concentration.
RAKTA MOKSHA – a blood letting process (in case it is needed).
The 5 keys to successful Panchakarma
The primary condition of a successful Panchakarma therapy is the appropriate environment:
1. Precise diagnosis – Ayurvedic doctors shall have the necessary knowledge which enables them to understand and diagnose the reasons behind the imbalance of doshas and thus recommend the appropriate treatments.
2. Peaceful, relaxed state - Panchakarma requires a calm, undisturbed environment free of stress and excitement.
3. Proper diet - it is imperative that you do not eat excess food but only the amount your body needs. With regard to quality, you should consume only those types of food that has a heating power and does not put any additional load on the body, especially by leading to their synthesis with proteins, bile and mucus.
4. Yoga therapy - Yoga improves the efficiency of Panchakarma through performing breathing exercises, practicing Asanas and meditation.
5. Medical supervision - Throughout the treatment medical supervision shall be ensured.
The length of the therapeutic program is normally 21 days to reach maximum effect but 7- and 14-day programs are also available depending on how healthy t lifestyle of the patient has been prior to the treatment.
Major Panchakarma treatments
Snehana, Swedana, Nasya, Vamana, Virichina, Vasti, Rakta-moksa, Abhayanga, Shirodhara, Pinda Sweda, Sarvangadhara, Katibasti, Shirovasti, Pichizhil, Uzhichil, Elekizhi, Nayvarakizhi, Urovasti, Dhayakizhi, Narangakizhi, Dasamulakshira Dhara, etc..
"Here the patient also needs to be willing to recover, you have to participate in the process and share the intention of those feeding you, massaging you and taking care of you in every possible way to restore your health.
Each staff member works hard and in unison to clean your body and mind in an effort to open the door for your full recovery. They act out of love and with the strong intention of healing you. I just cannot find the right words to express my deep appreciation for the power patients receive from each and every colleague at Calendula who does their best to ease your aches and pains and improve not only your physical condition but your whole life. It does make a difference when the people taking care of you are whole-heartedly committed to their profession instead of working only for a salary. Hence, you experience unparalleled results."
Csilla CSERNUS
"Dear Everyone,
It was about ten years ago that I came across the teachings and treatments offered by Ayurveda and that encounter took place within the walls of the Calendula Clinic. To be honest, I was highly sceptical at the time for two main reasons.
First of all, back then alternative, eastern medicine was lesser known than it is today. Secondly, here in Central Europe most people only know the methods of Western sciences so they are quite far removed from the ideas and approaches of traditional healing methods. The latter is in fact the one that primarily aims to discover the reasons behind diseases and then tries to alleviate the problem through specific complex therapies. Of course, this had all appeared to me to be some medical mumbo jumbo until I met Dr Dmitrij Szkopincev in person. By the time we met, I had got into a health condition which seemed to be impossible to change and Ayurveda was just the last desperate try in the hope of a very unlikely recovery. Based on my experience, this is what usually happens to many people, they only use this method as the last resort. However, it could be much more effective and cheaper if we used it for prevention…
It is of course needless to say that Ayurveda is not the plaster for all sores. The advice I can offer is that before the start of the therapy or even prior to the first consultation it is a good idea to do some reading on this more than four-thousand-year-old medicine. That will make us more open to accept the treatments and instructions prescribed by the physician. I know it is a cliché to underline the role of positive attitude and thinking but in this case it may mean a world of difference on the way of recovery. Like everything else, our health also depends on what we have in our heads. These treatments do not replace modern medical diagnoses and sometimes they require the combined use of modern and traditional methods.
I could also go on about the cosy atmosphere, the kindness of staff members let alone physicians who are more than willing to offer help in basically any matter. And a separate chapter could be dedicated to the fantastic kitchen as well. I am deeply indebted to the doctor and each of his colleagues who have made my life years longer than I had expected. Hereby I would like to wish them many more full recoveries of patients, they definitely deserve it."
Vali DITTEL
"Calendula Clinic is a truly patient-oriented institute where each person receives a treatment tailored to his or her individual needs and each patient receives the same care and effort.
Even the walls permeate an extremely strong intention to heal and every team member transmits a similarly positive, helping power. The Clinic is the centre of both ancient natural healing methods and modern medical science and technology. This twofold approach makes a strong combination that can cure almost anything. This of course does not mean that the patient just leans back casually waiting for miracles to happen. They need to take their active share in the treatments, they are supposed to work hard and fully identify with the therapies and they need to be ready to accept the help they are offered. I spent three weeks at the clinic, I had a wonderful time and left as a different person, rejuvenated both in body and mind."
Antónia BÁLINT
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This was my friend's choice for movie night, because they didn't have Spellbound in. My friend often shows me older movies that aren't really the interest of this site, so they often end up not being reviewed, because I have nothing to say about them. This one is a little like that, being essentially just a movie sitcom, but it ended up having enough to recommend it that I thought I'd toss it on.
This is adapted from a Broadway play, based on a French play, directed here by Gene Saks, of The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, and the Lucille Ball Mame, with music by Quincy Jones. We open with Goldie Hawn as Toni going downstairs to mail a letter in her tiny pink nightie with matching fuzzy pink slippers. She returns to her apartment, turns her gas stove on and lays down to die. She gets rescued by Rick Lenz as Igor, the struggling playwright next door, and they begin a friendship. She is killing herself over Walter Matthau as Julian, because he'll never divorce his wife and three kids to be with her.
We next meet Julian, a dentist, with Ingrid Bergman as Stephanie as his receptionist. She has worked for him for over ten years, and is described as a wife who organizes everything for him, makes him lunch, and caters to him all day then goes home at night. Julian tells a patient that he has a girl—that's Toni—but has lied and told her he is married with three kids so she won't get too attached. When he learns that she attempted suicide, he tells her he will divorce his wife and marry her. Toni is extremely wide-eyed and naïve with a big moral streak, and hates lies, feels awful about breaking up Julian's marriage, and wants to meet Julian's wife to assure herself that everything is on the up-and-up.
Already you might be shaking your head in wonderment that in some world Walter Matthau as a dentist might be a playboy who needs to adopt a lie in order to handle all his hot ladyfriends. Also, that a hot babe like Goldie Hawn, less than half his age, would be into him to the point of suicide, and that we're supposed to believe in this marriage that is obviously based on nothing but her good looks. I have recently been watching season one of Mad Men [and am soon going to give it up], but this movie gave me that Mad Men feeling of "Wow, women truly were considered nothing but their looks and bodies and the idea that they might have lives and thoughts of their own was truly alien." These thought will continue to occur throughout the film.
Along these lines, we are to accept that since Stephanie is unmarried and over the age of 30, she is a terminally-lost old maid. Julian asks her to pose as his wife and meet Toni, which, after much hugger-mugger, she does. This occurs in a record store that offers us lots of old album covers in the background to look at. By the way, the movie has also offered a small but very potent amount of late 60s Manhattan footage, including some great East Village street scenes. Anyway, Stephanie meets Toni, who thinks that she is a wonderful woman who is still in love with Julian.
As you can imagine, complications ensue. Julian's small lie spirals into many others and requires the involvement of several additional characters, often at this swingin' 60s nightclub which becomes a character in itself, especially looking back from the present. It is brightly lit, has stained glass windows, plays funky 60s music, including an instrumental version of the Monkees "I'm a Believer"—twice. Regardless, these scenes are filled with a bunch of people in crazy late 60s getups and doing late 60s dances, and it's really something to see.
The plot is not something that will shock anyone—I could tell who would end up with whom from the first ten minutes—but it's done well and is charming. Everyone is good—Hawn won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for this role—but it's noticeable how Bergman outclasses everyone when she's onscreen. She just has a presence and elegance that the others don't. So if you're in the mood for a genial 60s sitcom that plays on swinging and sexism and has decent writing and good performances as well as 60s nightclub and footage of Manhattan in the late 60s, well here you go.
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Alex Mariano NMU EEGS Senior Capstone Project
Posted by Gisele Duehring on May 15, 2017
A big thank you to Alex Mariano, an NMU student who did his undergraduate presentation on bird-friendly glass options for the BotEco Center!
He did a lot of research on the different solutions to avoid bird collisions on the enclosed design. He presented to our board at our monthly meeting last night and we were all very impressed.
We will strive to be "bird-friendly" by the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and will consider your recommendations in the future design process.
Check out his Powerpoint presentation below!


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CARROLL COUNTY, Ga. - The family of an 8-year-old Carroll County student said she was bullied so severely she had to be taken to the emergency room.
Dorris Bearden told Channel 2's Carl Willis that her granddaughter's hair was pulled so hard that her scalp ripped.
"They kept pulling it and pulling it, especially on the playground," said third-grader Aolani Dunbar. "Everybody got a chance, and I was in the gazebo sitting there crying because I have no friends to play with that will protect me."
Now, there is a gaping wound on the crown of Dunbar's scalp, and her head was shaved bald to avoid infection.
Her family said her schoolmates picked on her for two straight weeks because she got hair extensions.
Bearden said Aolani wanted long hair she could brush like the other girls.
"She steps in the door of that school and the first thing they do is attack her and start ripping her hair out," said Bearden.
Aolani's family told Willis that the girl suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, and that may have kept her from confiding in an adult earlier.
Bearden said she reported incidents to the principal as soon as she discovered the injury.
"When I saw just the horror of it, I just started to cry," said Bearden. "I cried as I unbraided her hair and the hair fell out in my hands."
Bearden said one child received an in-school suspension, but she said that punishment sends the wrong message.
Doctors said the little girl may never grow hair on the injured part of her scalp again and may need skin grafts, according to Bearden.
Aolani's mother and even strangers who learned of the story on Facebook have shaved their heads so she doesn't feel alone.
They're also asking people to donate hair to Locks of Love so that they can make a wig for Aolani and other children in need.
"It's not only a temporary effect," said Bearden. "It's something that could scar for life."
She urged parents and school officials to take reports of bullying seriously.
The Carroll County School District sent Willis a statement Tuesday saying:
"On or about October 8th, Roopville Elementary School administration was notified of an issue with an 8 year old female student who had long blonde and pink weave extensions. The complaint was that a couple of students had pulled her hair extensions.
The administration immediately investigated and dealt with the students who had engaged in the behavior and appropriate disciplinary action was taken against them. In addition, the incident was investigated by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office and it is our understanding from the Sheriff's Office that no criminal charges have been sought regarding the matter."

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One and the Same: Adena v. Hopewell
The same old bugaboo continues to plague Ohio archaeology circles, namely the two false categories "Adena" and "Hopewell," as invented by Warren Moorhead and William Mills under the influence of the Book of Mormon and the fraudulent Walam Olum. It should come as no surprise that the division of a single civilization from Ohio prehistory into two arbitrary and changing taxonomic terms has produced innumerable confusions, both within the profession of archaeology and in public understanding.
Indeed it has become so confusing that it becomes impossible to sort out the empirical reality without first undertaking a cognitive cleansing of both these terms as they have been used, so that we can approach the prehistory of the valley without the initial presumption that there were two separate peoples or cultures or whatever, and all the poisoned fruit that has come of that presumption.
Toward that end of cleansing the taxonomic vocabulary, the most prominent archaeologists of the Ohio Valley collaborated on a volume published in 2005 titled Woodland Period Systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley (here abbreviated as WPS). I strongly advise reading it in its entirety for anyone seriously involved with the subject. But for those not willing to immerse themselves in turgid archaeological jargon, I will here provide a summary of the book with some poignant quotations that can and should be used as ammunition.
Archaeologists justify their wages by employment of a technical vocabulary by which they classify sites and artifacts under the age-old human delusion that if you have named something, you've explained it. In reality, the naming process is frequently an enemy of knowledge, and there is no better example than that of Ohio prehistory. The general public now understands the prehistory of the valley less than did the general public of the 19th century, precisely because most people nowadays have been led to the false idea that there were two different competing peoples or cultures in the valley during its "Golden Age."
Archaeologists have compounded the problem by applying the false category names Adena and Hopewell not only to demographic or cultural units (it's never been clear which) but also to artifact classifications. So professionals now speak of Adena v. Hopewell styles of ceramics, textiles, jewelry, tools, burials, and earthworks – types that have virtually no correspondence to each other in terms of time and place, but that also do not correspond to the larger "culture" unit names.
Thus, as recounted in gory detail in WPS, named "Hopewell" jewelry has been found at "Adena" sites, while named "Adena" ceramics have been found at "Hopewell" sites. Yet other sites are full of both "Adena" and "Hopewell" artifact styles but the sites themselves fall outside the range of either "culture" (such as in the Tennessee Valley). And despite terminological salvage efforts to define Adena as "early" and Hopewell as "late," both Adena and Hopewell style types have been found at various locales spanning exactly the same time period, from 400 BCE to 400 CE.
Thus, the chronology of "Hopewell" following "Adena" as determined by styles holds only for the "core," which in this case is limited to the confines of Ross County, Ohio, and perhaps its satellite in Licking County, Ohio.
The PR undertaking to label Chillicothe as the "Epicenter of the Hopewell Golden Age" (with new glossy brochures) is thus a total circularity – "Hopewell" only makes any sense as a category in and around Chillicothe, so of course it is the "epicenter" of that fictional entity. But imagine the disappointment of tourists from Europe or China who travel to Chillicothe to see a real civilization's epicenter, only to learn the Chillicothe "style" was a late variant of the civilization whose epicenter was located between the Kanawha Valley and Portsmouth.
The PR undertaking to label Chillicothe as the "Epicenter of the Hopewell Golden Age" (with new glossy brochures) is thus a total circularity – "Hopewell" only makes any sense as a category in and around Chillicothe, so of course it is the "epicenter" of that fictional entity. But imagine the disappointment of tourists from Europe or China who travel to Chillicothe to see a real civilization's epicenter, only to learn the Chillicothe "style" was a late variant of the civilization whose epicenter was located between the Kanawha Valley and Portsmouth.
For other localities throughout the general range that extends from western Pennsylvania to Illinois, and from Michigan to Tennessee, completely different chronologies of styles are observed in the artifact record. This phenomenon should be expected as applying to any diffusion of styles in a large and complex civilization that is decentralized. In the Mayan lands, some styles moved from the highlands to the lowlands, while others moved in the opposite direction. If the two divisions of Mayan territory had been given two different "culture" names attached to some fixed period chart implying that "Lowland" came before "Highland," it would have produced exactly that kind of confusion now rampant in Ohio Valley archaeology.
The distinction between Adena and Hopewell originally relied on the assumption that there were three distinct types of earthworks in the valley, each with authorship by a different people, assumed to even be racially distinct. Conical burial mounds were called Adena, suspected of being Mayan colonists, while "advanced" geometric enclosures were attributed to the "advanced" Hopewell, long thought to be some offshoot of the "Caucasian" race. Irregular hilltop "fortifications" like Fort Ancient in Warren County, Ohio, were attributed to the "primitive" eponymous "Fort Ancient Culture," hypothesized to have sought refuge on the hilltops from Hopewell invaders – an account lifted almost verbatim from both the Book of Mormon and its parody, the Walam Olum.
All of this quickly unraveled under the weight of empirical evidence. "Fort Ancient Culture" artifacts were found in the uppermost layers at numerous sites (especially at the Harness Mound in Ross County), meaning that culture could not have been earliest. This required a rejiggering so that the hilltop enclosures were attributed to the Adena, but this was a losing shell-game bet also since radiocarbon dating demonstrated that Fort Ancient and other similar sites were built during the Middle Woodland Period, meaning under the standard definition that they were Hopewell. Since no revision of earthwork purpose was attempted in the absence of any plausible theory, the "Hopewell" people were now presumed to have built fortifications next to their own bottomland astronomical sites in order to protect themselves from themselves. Perhaps they were early Pogo enthusiasts – they had met the enemy and it was them.
Aside from other remarkable traits of the fictional Hopewell, they remain the only "advanced" astronomical culture to have built their so-called "observatories" in the valley bottoms instead of on the nearby hilltops, even though they did build elaborate structures on the hilltops. Why any astronomers would do such a monumentally stupid thing remains not only unexplained by the archaeologists but also unexamined. (The answer is readily apparent but not within the current non-paradigm.)
And perhaps most importantly, genetic testing of remains from sites attributed to all three "cultures" has confirmed that none were Mesoamerican or "Caucasian," and that the so-called Adena and Hopewell constituted a continuous undifferentiated population ancestral to modern Central Algonquians including the Shawnee, the Miami, and the Ojibwe.
The discovery that the geometric enclosures and adjacent hilltop "fortifications" were built by the same people at about the same time removed the original justification for positing two different groups of earthwork complex builders in the Ohio Valley. At that point, roundabout the 1970s, the explicitly racist and offensive Hopewell name should have been jettisoned in favor of the more established Adena, who traditionally had been accorded a longer tenure, from 1000 BCE to 1 CE.
But this wasn't done. Instead, archaeologists in the different microregions each devised their own local "culture" chronology and taxonomic system to enable archaeologists to sell locally-justifiable jargon-based reports to paying clients, each one dependent on some different way of mixing "Adena" and "Hopewell." Thus, the high-status Ohio archaeologists adopted the standard misclassification by which Hopewell neatly follows Adena as a succession of "cultures" implying a succession of different peoples. Meanwhile, in Kentucky, where so-called Adena styles predominated, virtually all sites of the period are labelled Adena, with occasional "Hopewell" styles making guest appearances at those sites. West Virginia archaeologists of the Kanawha Valley, operating with Ohio status envy, took a third track and label everything of the period "Hopewell," including even the emblematic conical burial mounds that are called Adena everyplace else. The West Virginians south of Charleston have no "Adena" period at all – the "Hopewell" period picks up directly from Archaic cultures around 400 BCE, about three or four centuries before "Hopewell" starts in Ohio, even though Ohio is assumed to be the birthplace and "epicenter" of Hopewell.
What actually happened in the region is very clear, but only if we dispense with the mambo-jumbo of the archaeologists. A continuous transition from the Algonquian Glacial Kame culture from the north penetrated the principal river valleys of the region, including the Scioto, the two Miamis, and the Kanawha, gradually shifting from kame burials to artificial mounds between 1000 BCE and 400 BCE. This same Algonquian civilization expanded throughout the region, building both hilltop and bottomland enclosures (and effigy mounds) between 400 BCE and 400 CE, the two types of enclosures determined by the different functions that they served, not for living people but for the migratory birds believed to carry human souls in Algonquian cosmology. Throughout this period, different artifact styles diffused in different directions from different points of decentralized origin. This grand civilization merits a unitary name, which has nothing to do with archaeology – that naming job should be left to Native Americans and historians.
From an overall Ohio Valley perspective, the current archaeological taxonomies are a total mess of incompatibility, a mess that the WPS book project was intended to address, but the depth of the problem clearly overwhelmed the editors and authors.
Archaeologists classify trait clusters into a variety of different "classes" called cultures, phases, horizons, and traditions. The validity of these classes depends on the associated trait lists and whether or not a given class designation has a trait list that is definitive and exclusive.
The chapters of WPS detail how the standard class names Adena, Hopewell, and Fort Ancient Culture (and a few others) fit none of the technical requirements as either cultures, phases, horizons or traditions, despite numerous attempts to define them as any of the four (or, indeed, as peoples). Attempts to develop coherent and supportable trait lists for Adena and Hopewell have consistently failed, except as those terms are used within small microregions. But the terms as used within one microregion, like Ross County, are incompatible with the way those same terms are used for other microregions, like the Kanawha Valley.
The chapters of WPS detail how the standard class names Adena, Hopewell, and Fort Ancient Culture (and a few others) fit none of the technical requirements as either cultures, phases, horizons or traditions, despite numerous attempts to define them as any of the four (or, indeed, as peoples). Attempts to develop coherent and supportable trait lists for Adena and Hopewell have consistently failed, except as those terms are used within small microregions. But the terms as used within one microregion, like Ross County, are incompatible with the way those same terms are used for other microregions, like the Kanawha Valley.
This led the editors, Robert Mainfort and Darlene Applegate, to recommend highly constricted use of the terms Adena and Hopewell (to within microregions) if not their abandonment, a position that should be taken as representing a consensus of Ohio Valley archaeologists. Darlene Applegate concludes her introduction to the volume by saying:
"the concepts of Adena and Hopewell, as currently conceived by most archaeologists, should not be used as part of unit designation when classifying assemblages from non-ceremonial contexts or testing hypothesis about non-ritual behaviors such as settlement." [page 18]
That is, certain behavior types might be classified as Adena or Hopewell in accord with certain theories about ceremony (I disagree that the terms are even useful there), but should not be used to label material objects such as sites or artifacts.
Mainfort is much more forceful in his concluding chapter:
"The subsequent inclusion of numerous, complex sites within poorly conceived taxonomic units, Adena and Hopewell in particular, created a taxonomic morass that continues to bedevil researchers to this day." [page 221]
"The subsequent inclusion of numerous, complex sites within poorly conceived taxonomic units, Adena and Hopewell in particular, created a taxonomic morass that continues to bedevil researchers to this day." [page 221]
Mainfort then argued that the terminological mistake of Adena and Hopewell does "really influence our conception of the prehistoric archaeological record," leading even the most highly trained professionals to think that there was really some divergence between two peoples, when there had been only the continuity of one civilization.
Regarding the Ross County aristocracy (I mean of archaeologists, not Indians), Mainfort wrote:
"[N'omi] Greber neatly demonstrates that 'Adena' and 'Hopewell' are useful taxonomic entities in Ross County, Ohio. Outside this area, their utility diminishes, and new taxonomic units to encompass local expressions of Adena and Hopewell would be more appropriate." [page 224]
Mainfort repeats the observation of James Brown in the volume that taxonomic terms can be "gerrymandered to fulfill certain cultural-historical expectations," a process we witness currently with the UNESCO nomination under the "Hopewell" name leading to a concomitant effort to subsume all that was once labelled Adena to Hopewell.
Berle Clay, a Kentucky archaeologist and distant cousin to Henry Clay, makes no bones about the need to ditch these terms (puns intended), even in the title of his chapter: "Adena: Rest in Peace?" He means the name, not the bones, though he would have no objection if the name were repurposed to apply to the entire civilization rather than just one "phase" or "horizon."
Mainfort is explicit:
"They are not classes, as the members do not share a unique set of traits. Nor or they groups, since the members of a phase cannot be judged to be more similar to each other than to any member of another phase." [page 227]
And as to the conundrum of the names Adena and Hopewell being attached to both artifact types and site types:
"If artifact types inexplicably linked to Adena by their very names are found at a site, how could the site not be Adena?" [page 228]
But it happens all the time using the current nomenclature. Likewise, the Amburgey and Camargo mound sites in Kentucky and the platform mounds at Marietta, Ohio, were clearly built by the same people responsible for "Adena" and "Hopewell" earthworks, yet they fit the style types of neither Adena nor Hopewell. Portsmouth is now being called Hopewell, but it certainly contains elements built during the early part of the Early Woodland Period, if only by virtue of its location at the most crucial river confluence of the region. No self-respecting Adena would have failed to build at the confluence of the Scioto and the Ohio.
Mainfort concludes:
"If our taxonomic units do not contribute in some way to explaining variability in the archaeological record (the only justifiable reason for creating and retaining such units), they should be abandoned." [page 229]
Yet, having produced a volume of articles that document the failures of the "Adena-Hopewell" taxonomy, the editors ultimately wimped out and failed to propose a replacement vocabulary. That is probably for the best, however, as the important job of naming the unitary civilization that constructed the major earthworks of the Ohio Valley is not a job that can be entrusted to archaeologists.
Mainfort and Applegate did not envision that a nomination of eight earthwork complexes to the UNESCO World Heritage List would enshrine the lousy vocabulary of Ross County archaeologists for the sake of confusing all of humanity. But now that nomination is upon us, it is essential that the "Hopewell" name not be the one to create global offense.


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Smoothies are a weekly occurrence at our house. And why not? Fruit, grains, protein and greens all packed into one tasty treat- everyone agrees!
It's important to get in your greens. To avoid packing them all in at one time, spacing them out is a great way to nutritionally enhance each meal and snack. So, I always add a little something to our smoothies. In addition, I like using frozen berries over fresh. It really thickens the smoothie up and you don't have to add additional ice. I found a bag of frozen berries with frozen kale all mixed into one. I use it for all of our smoothies. The boys love it. In addition, I use plain Greek Yogurt for the boys (for protein) and either almond milk or orange juice (depending on what we have on hand) for the liquid. I generally do not like using protein powder with my little guys. Too much protein can cause a stomach ache and gastric problems, so I stick to 7-10 grams of protein (found in the yogurt). For my shake, I use whey protein- vanilla flavor. Lastly, I like to add in some whole grains, nuts and seeds to both smoothies for a great carbohydrate and some healthy fats. The "Love Grown" foods blend I use contains oats, chia seeds, almonds, quinoa, amaranth, pumpkin seeds and flaxseed. SO many tasty ingredients for mamas and kids (and dads)!
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Dash of cinnamon
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Universal Music Group solves the "how are we ever going to sell music again" riddle: Just find a starlet who spends equal amounts of time in trouble and in the tabloids. And make sure -- this part is actually important -- she makes music people like.
Vivendi's music label says that Amy Winehouse's "Back To Black" album sold an additional 2.2 million copies worldwide in the last quarter, bringing total sales past the 8 million mark. In the good old pre-Napster (1.0) days, 8 million albums sold worldwide would be good but not amazing: These days that's extraordinary -- all the more so because the album has now been selling for a couple of years. (A kind soul with access to SoundScan numbers points out that Amy has sold most of the albums abroad: She's sold 1.9 million copies of the album in the U.S. to date.)
Vivendi doesn't break out much detail on UMG, because it doesn't have to, so not much visibility into these numbers: Q1 revenues grew 0.6%, to about $1.6 billion, while EBITDA grew 95% to $172 million. Given that UMG absorbed music publishing heavyweight BMG in the last year, those top line numbers should be significantly higher, so that's worrisome. But not surprising.
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This is a walkthrough for the level Uplift Reserve. It is written for the Legendary difficulty, with notes for lower difficulties.
For this mission, you play as Dutch. You start out with an SMG and a Spartan Laser. With this mission you can play it three ways: slow, fast, and really fast. If you're playing really fast skip to the bottom and read the Really Fast Walkthrough. If you actually want to play the mission then just keep going. Good skulls for this mission are Tough Luck and Grunt Birthday Party.
If NASCAR had Guns (Or, Safari, Marine Style)Edit
When the mission starts switch to your SMG and head up the path. Once you reach the top, turn left and head behind the boulders to come up behind the Brutes and Grunts. Grenade and shoot. With help from the Marines, this is a quick, clean, kill group. From here you have two choices on how to proceed and it's simply a matter of preference. Both ways work, and they both share equal risks:
- Slow: Flip the Warthog and DRIVE! Let the Marines shoot, and give the Marine riding shotgun your Spartan Laser. If it has low charge when you give it to him and he dies, it'll be back up to around 60%, then you can give another Marine the Laser. There are a few other Warthogs around but don't follow them. Drive counterclockwise (turning left) around the clearing at full speed, dodging when you need to and never slowing if you can help it. This gives you the long view coming at the Wraiths and the shortest amount of time with your back to them. Keep going until the Wraiths and Choppers are dead and you get your checkpoint. You don't need to worry about the Choppers so much, except for ramming. The other Warthogs are pretty effective at killing them. There may also be a Ghost or two for you to kill. Clean up before proceeding. A downside to this method is that the time it takes is long enough that eventually something is going to hit you. Whether it kills you or not is a matter of luck and skill.
- Fast: Before you get in the Warthog, move right until you have a clear line of sight to the Wraiths. Smoke them with the Spartan Laser. Then get in the Warthog and clean up. This method is much faster but you're exposed for a bit and Choppers are fast and deadly, not to mention the Marines in the other Warthogs could hit and kill you too. After cleaning up here head down the path and grab the medkit from the station before the tunnel if you need it.
Why didn't I get the Extra Insurance? Edit
After the tunnel go right and quickly head up the hill on the left running over everything (Brutes, Grunts, Jackals). Once you're clear hop out, find and pick up the Fuel Rod Gun one of the Grunts was carrying. Give it to your passenger Marine as he'll go nuts firing fuel rods at everyone instead of charging up a laser. Drive down and through the puddle towards the beach, keeping an eye out for the Banshees and a Chopper. Just keep driving in circles and don't advance until you've killed the Chopper and the Banshees are dead or have given up. Next is just fast driving and lots of ramming. Head up the path. Let your passenger with the Fuel Rod Gun do most of the heavy killing but feel free to ram the Shades he misses. It's better than letting them shoot at your back. Watch for the Ghost that's going to start speeding away. Charge it and kill it before it makes it up the path. Once you get your checkpoint, stop for a second and wait for the Phantom in the next area to clear before going forward. Your Warthog is going to be pretty beat up here so take it easy before you rush in to the next area.
I Always Get Stuck in Traffic at the Bridge (Or, You thought your toll takers were rude...)Edit
When you get into this area you are once again faced with the choice of Fast or Slow. Both have their risks, and advantages.
- Slow: Head down the path and into the back of the building swap out for a new Hog and once again, drive in Counterclockwise (Turn left) circles until all the little enemies are gone. Drive fast and hard, don't stop and don't worry about anything else. Once you're clear drive around and kill the Wraiths. The advantage here is that you're always moving, so you're harder to hit, the problem is that it's easy to miss someone who will kill you when you're trying to get the Wraiths and the high ground Shades are difficult to kill without engaging the Wraiths to get up the hill.
- Fast: When you first come out into the area hop out of the Warthog. Try to not leave it very exposed, but let the Marines have enough room to shoot. Go to the right side and swap your SMG for the Sniper Rifle, and if you can, swap the Marine's Fuel Rod Gun for a Rocket Launcher as it is faster and more powerful. Take out the Brutes ONLY at the top of the hill, don't waste your ammo on the Grunts near the Shades. Then move on to the other Brutes on the ground. If you have ammo left and you're a good enough shot, shoot out the Chopper Brutes. Move as far to the right as possible and swap in your Spartan Laser. When you see the Wraith (this is a 50/50 chance) you can kill the first one and it will draw out the second one to kill. If you have any ammo left take out the nearest Shade. If you can't see the Wraith you can either move back to the Warthog and lure them out and kill it with your Marines or try tossing some grenades (it's really tricky to get them out far enough) to draw them out and use the Laser. The disadvantage to this one is if you can't headshot this method is pretty useless, and then the Wraiths shoot at you from behind the hill. Once you've killed the Wraiths, clear out any remaining Covenant forces before you head on to the bridge.
Feeding time at the Zoo (Or how a Zebra killed the Lion)Edit
As your head over the Bridge, change rides. Your beat up Warthog won't last so take the fresh and shiny one on the Bridge. Hopefully you still have Marines, preferably with the Rocket Launcher. If so, your life just got easier. If not you're in for some chop, but it's not unmanageable. Coming off the bridge, stay to the right of the path and avoid the fight. Drive up the path and ram the Shades. It's easier than any other option. When you see the Warthog husk and rest station you should get a checkpoint. Take a second and formulate your plan. Again you're going to have two choices. Both are dangerous and risky, and only skillful evasion and good aim will help you. Neither one is really faster than the other so it's a matter of preference, do you trust the Marine AI or not?
- If you like your AI drive up to the landing platform and head to the left side ramming the Shade. Drive in circles clockwise until everyone is dead. This can take a while but if you still have your Rocket Launcher-er, he'll make short work of the Wraith and let the Gunner concentrate on the landing pad. While you're doing this, and trying to avoid Brute Shots and grenades, try splattering Jackals. Gets it done faster.
- If you don't trust your AI (or you don't have any Marines left) drive up and ram the Shade but instead of driving around, drive over into the gully after and get out. Swap out for a new Spartan Laser on the ground and kill the Wraith. Work your way around the area and clear it out.
When you're done grab the fresh Warthog from the gully and get some new Marines if you need them. There's a Rocket Launcher wielding Marine around so you can think about letting her go for a joy ride. Hop in and start up the next path to the top of the hill.
Wait..What? You want me to drive where? (Or why I don't listen to Passengers)Edit
You've made it this far, so now you've got a few turns and you enter the final arena. There barriers on either side of you with Grunts and Brutes behind shooting at you and a Wraith at the top waiting to kill you and to top it all off, a War Chieftain with a Fuel Rod Gun waiting to strike. Two choices here, drive around until everything is dead and drive over the edge of the cliff. Or just skip past everything and drive over the cliff. Either way you've just finished Uplift Reserve.
Really Fast Walkthrough (AKA the Speed Run, Coward's Path or MOMMMY!)Edit
When the mission starts pull out your SMG and head up the path. Once you reach the top, turn left and head behind the boulders to come up behind the Brutes and Grunts. Grenade and shoot. With help from the Marines, it just takes a few seconds. Flip the Warthog and jump in. Don't wait for the Marines because you're not going to need them. Speed past the Wraiths and down the path until you reach the tunnel. Ditch the Warthog for the Ghost and start boosting. At the end of the tunnel go left and avoid those enemies. Keep boosting through the next area, avoiding any confrontation up to the next clearing with the Wraiths. Swing around the ground and use a little maneuvering to get around them and onto the bridge. Once over the bridge, either boost over the cliff, or boost through the next set and then take a second to rest up real quick before you get to the platform. Go up to the landing platform and sharp turn right to speed past the enemies and Wraith here. Boost past everything and over the cliff.
Notes for Legendary Play Edit
- Staying in your vehicle is often a recipe for disaster. Warthogs are grenade magnets, big Fuel Rod targets and chew toys for Choppers. Sometimes your best option is get out and move around a little. It saves your 'Hog from some pounding.
- Marines here are accurate and deadly, and they will follow you in groups distracting the enemy. Keep your seats full and well equipped, and if you can save enough for another Warthog, you'll often find it behind you, backing you up for a while.
- Your Spartan Laser will kill any ride in one shot, if you hit it right. Aim at a Wraiths cockpit, just below the main gun, or low at the engine in back. Take an extra second and get it right the first time.
- The Vidmaster Classic Achievement is most easily accomplished on this mission. Just skip the first line of the Really Fast Walkthrough, and don't, whatever you do, DON'T honk the horn on the Warthog.
- Never drive over the landing pad near the end of the mission, it's a recipe for disaster.
Notes for Lower DifficultiesEdit
- Doing this level without a vehicle is very difficult. Ammo is hard to find and health packs are few and far between. It's not impossible, but certainly not your best option. If you do end up walking for a bit because you lost your ride, don't worry, there are plenty of spares, and alternates (Ghosts and Choppers) around.
- Your Warthog is nearly indestructible, and with a little care, you'll never have to switch vehicles, finishing more quickly.
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Lauren worked as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor and Case Manager for 3 years, while also tutoring middle school children. While she no longer wishes to pursue addictions counseling, the knowledge and experience has had an invaluable impact on her ability to mentor and counsel the students she has taught and tutored. She decided, instead, to fervently pursue the occupation that never seemed like work at all, which was education, of course! She pioneered the Houston-Galleria campus, the first campus in Houston. As a fellow Fusionite, Lauren taught math and science for over a year, before accepting her current role of Director of Student Development at the Sugar Land campus. She is temporarily doubling as the Director of First Impressions as well.
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Reid's Deliverance (The Song #2) by Nina Crespo
Contemporary Romance
Released: March 15, 2016
Lyrical Press
Reviewed by Sheena
Lauren isn't looking for love when she spends a scintillating night with Reid, the sexy keyboardist of Thane's Redemption. While their passion may be off the charts, her trust issues–and Reid's secret life as a time-traveling covert agent–makes any chance for a relationship impossible.
When operatives involved in a mysterious project begin dying, Reid defies orders and travels alone into the future to find the cause. But when things go dangerously awry, it takes all of his strength to get himself back to safety–and directly onto Lauren's doorstep. While neither of them remembers their night of passion, their intense connection leads Lauren to help him. But as Reid's memories reignite, will he be forced to sacrifice everything to finish his mission–including the woman he loves?
Favorite Quote: "Sorry. Girl-code solidarity trumps fate."
Time travel is not usually my cup of tea, however, rock star romance appeals to me and Nina Crespo writes drooly, good sexy, so there I was, ready to bear witness to Deliverance. (Interrupting review to say: Bad cover- seriously, avert your eyes!).
Fed up, disappointed and disillusioned, Lauren is on a self-imposed man hiatus. Believing her battery-operated friend is a far more reliable and fitting companion, she is not prepared for the attraction and irresistible draw she has toward Reid. Reid is a time traveling, secret agent, rock band keyboardist (yeah…don't…just don't think about it too closely) who lays eyes on Lauren and is done for. Their chemistry is off the charts-each time they came together, I was mentally searching for the nearest bed…wall..counter-top…you name it!
Reid is a fantastic hero, very, very sexy, yet very warm and kind. Alpha,but not the jerky kind. Authoritative, yet gentle. He is secret agent on a mission and can not- should not be diverted by love, but you know what thy say about best laid plans… Lauren was interesting. I connected with Reid right away, but it took me a while to invest in Lauren as a heroine. Primarily because she felt a little flat, so much went into legitimizing Reid's character to protect against him coming across as absurd, that I think a little umph, was missed crafting Lauren. About 60% in, I began to warm toward her, especially when she was vulnerable and not trying to protect herself with a cocoon of "girls rules" designed to protect her heart. Rules, might I add, which were hilariously broken far more often than followed (darn you Reid and your irresistible charm)!
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Reid's Deliverance is a departure from the sexy contemporary comfort zone that I assumed I would be cradled in. I was pleasantly surprised, nothing at all felt corny or contrived. Genuine characters, clever intrigue and fierce action were secret ingredients to make this novel a winner. Absent were any elements that slowed the plot down or burdened the light nature of the story. To put it plainly, I enjoyed the ride. There is much you will have to actually experience for yourself that I shall not spoil, for substantiated fear that Reid would surely phase into my living room and give me hell. Reid's Deliverance is the second in the series and can be read as a stand alone without incident.
Grade: B
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2011 Sierra Madre Vineyard Pinot Noir
Working closely with Sierra Madre's owners Doug and Jan Circle, Rob and Diana Jensen and Director of Winemaking, Bill Brosseau have created a special Pinot Noir from this great vineyard. The Sierra Madre Vineyard is the most northern estate in the Santa Maria Valley. Only fifteen miles from the coast, the unique marine influences here make for an exceptionally long growing season. Originally planted in 1971, the Sierra Madre Vineyard is home to sixty-one acres of Pinot Noir, eight of which have been designated as Testarossa's. Clones are Dijon 667 and 777. The site sits on sandy, garry soil at 215 feet elevation. The vineyard is certified Sustainable for its conscientious viticultural practices by CCVT.
The 2011 growing season at Sierra Madre was one of the coolest and wettest on record. The Santa Maria Valley was spared much of the fall rains that hit other growng districts; Pinot Noir was picked fairly early, once full phenolic ripeness had been achieved. This 2011 release is our fourth vintage from this exceptional property and reflects the cool year in its complex bright fruit, spice, and acidity profile.
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Fernando Ghia, a prominent Italian film and television producer known for his tenacity in bringing the award-winning 18th century-set drama "The Mission" to the screen, has died. He was 69.
Ghia, who had cancer, died June 1 in Rome, the London Independent wrote. The paper reported that Ennio Morricone's memorable score for "The Mission" filled a packed church in Rome at Ghia's funeral and was a fitting tribute.
A native of Rome who launched his movie career in the late 1950s, the dashing Ghia worked briefly as an actor and had a stint as an agent with the William Morris Agency before launching a working partnership with his mentor, Italian producer Franco Cristaldi.
As head of production for Cristaldi, Ghia made numerous films, including Federico Fellini's "Amarcord," Marco Bellocchio's "China Is Near" and Francesco Rosi's "The Mattei Affair," the last a docudrama about the death of an Italian industrialist. Among Ghia's solo credits as a producer is "Lady Caroline Lamb," a 1972 period drama written and directed by Robert Bolt.


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Monday, February 10, 2014
Humpty Dumpty's PFATT Marketplace Debut Today... oh and the chicken as well...
On Humpty Dumpty I did some research, and it seems that no one really knows just how old he is! So I've decided to have a party for him as he is waaaay past due. He truly is excited as you can see, and hopes that you will throw him a party as well. Don't let the party start without him!
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How valuable are baseball cards?
Collecting baseball cards is a popular hobby. Naturally, whenever one collects anything one must be aware of the value and/or prices of the item being collected. It's no different with baseball cards.
While baseball cards may have sentimental value all collectors also need to be concerned about how much they spend on the cards they buy and for how much they sell them as well. Just like stamps, coins, comic books and anything else people collect—baseball cards are only really worth what someone else is willing to pay for them.
When it comes to learning the value of a baseball card on has choices. You may consult a reputable dealer, consult various online sources or—as many collectors have done for years—consult one of the major baseball card price guides. The two most well known guides are published by Beckett and Tuffstuff.
Since some guides disagree on the value of specific cards you may wish to go with what is currently being used the most. As this goes to press, the Beckett guide is the most commonly used guide. Guides such as Beckett provide both a high and low book value for each card. At present you can even subscribe to an online version of the guide although a physical copy is certainly best for using when going out to buy cards.
As always, collecting baseball cards is an enjoyable hobby and not necessarily something meant to make you "rich". That being said you should always remember to check a price guide, check store prices as well as online auction prices before buying or selling any card. Prices per card will vary from pennies to dollars so a collector must make informed decisions when buysing, selling or even trading baseball cards.
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Number 444, November 18, 2007
"November 19th is National Ammo Day,
described as a BUYcott of ammunition."
It Might Be Too Late To Wake Up
Special to The Libertarian Enterprise
George Bush and Dick Cheney were and are oil men. Their friends and business associates were and are oil men. When these two came to office, gas sold for $1.66 a gallon. Today I filled up, and it was $3.19 a gallon.
Big oil and big business put up the money to get George and Dick in office, and it has paid off big time. It doesn't matter to them that hundreds of thousands, maybe over a million innocent humans have lost their lives because of the wars that these two have started. It even seems like nobody, at least nobody in America even cares that over four million Iraqis have been forced out of their homes, with two million forced out of their country, because of the terror and destruction America has brought there.
The same can be said for Afghanistan, although the numbers of innocent killed and displaced are in the hundreds of thousands there.
It seems like every week Washington takes a little more of our freedom. I know it is old news, but it still bothers me that the FBI can and does look at our library records, and when they do that or some other investigation (like your medical or financial records) it is a crime if the people giving them the records tell you they did.
If he wants to, President Bush can throw you or me in jail for as long as he wants. You get no lawyer, no charges, no trail, and the government doesn't even have to tell your family that you have been picked up. That does sound like the Gestapo to me.
Sad to say, I don't know what we can do about it. I look at those running for president, other than Ron Paul and Dennis Kuninich, and I see no one who would try to protect us or our Constitution. Other than these two, I think everyone else is bought and paid for, and has been for years.
I like Doctor Paul, and think he would put our country in the right direction, but I know the international corporations will never allow him to be elected. You can already see how the corporate media treats him at the debates.
I am afraid the "fix" is in for America, and about the only thing I see working is for the people to rise up like they did in 1776. At the rate we are going now, in about 25 years, Americans will have had enough of big money controlling us, and like every country before us, the United States will have a new form of government.
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Firefighters tackle Elm car fire
PUBLISHED: 10:50 04 February 2014 | UPDATED: 15:20 04 February 2014
Firefighters tackled a burning car in Elm last night.
A crew from March was called to a car on its side off Graysmoor Drove at 11.30pm.
Two firefighters wearing breathing apparatus used two hose reels to extinguish it and returned to their stations by 12.30am.
The fire is thought to have been caused by a road traffic collision.


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Charlotte Wood
author of Animal People,
The Children and more…
The 5 best novels I read this year are…
The Transit of Venus
by Shirley Hazzard
Charlotte: People have been telling me about this novel for decades, yet I only just read it this year. As soon as I did I wanted to shout Why did nobody tell me about this? It is completely dazzling, daring, stupefyingly good writing.
Blurb: Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope.
The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparently happy marriage. But as the decades pass and the characters weave in and out of each other's lives, love, death and two slow-burning secrets wait in ambush for them.
Charlotte: The voice of this novel is a pearler – wild, loose and exhilarating. I reckon it's Knox's best work to date, and is to be lauded for returning the magnificent word 'brang' to the Australian idiom.
Blurb: Daring, dazzling, funny and heartbreaking, this is a story about fame and ambition, surfing and pine-lime Splices … a superbly written and ambitious novel by one of Australia's rising stars. The Life will simply blow you away.
He looked into the Pacific and the Pacific looked back into him.
The Life tells the story of former-world-champion Australian surfer, Dennis Keith, from inside the very heart of the fame and madness that is 'The Life'.
Now bloated and paranoid, former Australian surfing legend Dennis Keith is holed up in his mother's retirement village, shuffling to the shop for a Pine-Lime Splice every day, barely existing behind his aviator sunnies and crazy OCD rules, and trying not to think about the waves he'd made his own and the breaks he once ruled like a god. Years before he'd been robbed of the world title that had his name on it – and then drugs, his brother, and the disappearance and murder of his girlfriend and had done the rest. Out of the blue, a young would-be biographer comes knocking and stirs up memories Dennis thought he'd buried. It takes Dennis a while to realise that she's not there to write his story at all.
Daring, ambitious, dazzling, The Life is also as real as it gets – a searing, beautiful novel about fame and ambition and the price that must sometimes be paid for reaching too high.
The Forgotten Waltz
by Anne Enright
Charlotte: Enright's writing is so sharp it hurts – I was overwhelmed by the truth and clarity of this book about a woman's extramarital affair. Enright refuses easy answers – a very gutsy book.
Blurb:Anne Enright's tour de force, a novel of intelligence, passion and real distinction
The Forgotten Waltz is a memory of desire: a recollection of the bewildering speed of attraction, the irreparable slip into longing. In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, in the winter of 2009,it has snowed. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for 'the love of her life', Seán Vallely. As the city outside comes to a halt, Gina remembers the days of their affair in one hotel room or another: long afternoons made blank by bliss and denial. Now, as the silent streets and the stillness and vertigo of the falling snow make the day luminous and full of possibility, Gina waits the arrival on her doorstep of Seán's fragile, twelve-year-old daughter, Evie – the complication, and gravity, of this second life.
In this extraordinary novel, this opening book of secrets, Anne Enright speaks directly to the readers she won with the success of The Gathering. Here, again, is the sudden, momentous drama of everyday life, the volatile connections between people; that fresh eye for each flinch and gesture; the wry, accurate take on families, marriage, brittle middle age. The same verve and humour and breathtaking control are evident; the ability to merge the ordinary and the beautiful.
With The Forgotten Waltz Enright turns her attention fully to love – you might even call it romance – as she follows another flawed and unforgettable heroine on a journey of the heart. Writing at the height of her powers, this is Anne Enright's tour de force, a novel of intelligence, passion and real distinction.
That Deadman Dance
by Kim Scott
Charlotte: Don't be put off by how many prizes this novel has won (I always am). It is a masterpiece of storytelling, humour, optimism, lyricism, joy in the use of language and a deep humanity. I utterly loved it.
Blurb: Big-hearted, moving and richly rewarding, That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades of the 19th century in the area around what is now Albany, Western Australia. In playful, musical prose, the book explores the early contact between the Aboriginal Noongar people and the first European settlers.
The novel's hero is a young Noongar man named Bobby Wabalanginy. Clever, resourceful and eager to please, Bobby befriends the new arrivals, joining them hunting whales, tilling the land, exploring the hinterland and establishing the fledgling colony. He is even welcomed into a prosperous local white family where he falls for the daughter, Christine, a beautiful young woman who sees no harm in a liaison with a native.
But slowly – by design and by accident – things begin to change. Not everyone is happy with how the colony is developing. Stock mysteriously start to disappear; crops are destroyed; there are "accidents" and injuries on both sides. As the Europeans impose ever stricter rules and regulations in order to keep the peace, Bobby's Elders decide they must respond in kind. A friend to everyone, Bobby is forced to take sides: he must choose between the old world and the new, his ancestors and his new friends. Inexorably, he is drawn into a series of events that will forever change not just the colony but the future of Australia…
The Great Arch
by Vicki Hastrich
Charlotte: I re-read this gorgeous novel this year – it was deplorably overlooked when published a couple of years ago. Hastrich is one of the most beautiful writers Australia has, and this portrait of a blundering rector and his enduring passion for the engineering of the Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of my favourite books ever. Arch, witty, poignant, with writing that will take your breath away.
Blurb: In 1924 the planned and long-awaited Sydney Harbour Bridge represents an impossible ideal – to span the great waters of the harbour and take a war-scarred nation into a dazzling future. No one is more enthusiastic than Reverend Ralph Anderson Cage of Lavender Bay, whose imagination is seized by the scale of this thoroughly modern vision.
Ralph is a grand dreamer with all-too-human failings and in the Bridge, which he can see under construction from his Rectory verandah, he finds an obsession to last a lifetime. Sermons become paeans to the creative will of God – and the beauty of girders and pylons – and his parish papers wax lyrical about rivets and granite. But as he urges his long-suffering wife Stella, his children, his parishioners and the phlegmatic housekeeper Mrs Pessey to dream as big as he does, Ralph fails to notice those left behind by the bridge: the dispossessed families whose houses are destroyed in its path and the workers who lose their lives in accidents on its precarious heights.
The Great Depression wears on, and the Bridge becomes a bitter reminder to his hungry parishioners of a promised prosperity that never comes. As Ralph invests everything in his obsession, the great arch he so loves and admires threatens to become his undoing.
Inspired by true people and events, and as open and colossal as the bridge itself, Vicki Hastrich's deeply moving novel links two centuries, two world wars and two generations. By turns wickedly funny and breathtakingly poetic, this is the story of an ordinary man, and an ordinary life, made grand.
By the way, did you know Charlotte's new novel Animal People was one of my personal picks for 2011:
Animal People by Charlotte Wood
I read Charlotte Wood's novel Animal People twice. I think it's one of the best contemporary novels I have read. But I cannot review it. I tried a number of times and failed each time. I only recently realised why this is. I don't want to review Animal People. I want to recommend it.
The trouble is, I can't recommend it to just anybody.
Sure, some part of me wants to help encourage complacent book club readers the world over to read it. I would like to think it would do them good (and Charlotte Wood's bank balance good). But, if the truth be told, I don't want them to.
If they read it they may want to discuss it, as few people these days can understand a book without first discussing it with their peers. They may take the central character of Animal People, Stephen, and compare him with people they know. They may debate whether he is a sympathetic character or not. They may ask what the significance of the dog might be, what the title means, what the ending means. I don't want them to do any of these things. I want them to wander away from the safety of the group. I want them to let their guard down. I want them to be smacked in the face by Animal People. If they're not willing to take a few hits, I don't think they deserve to read Animal People.
So who can I recommend it to? Read the full review here…
You can order a copy of Animal People from Booktopia here
Who can you buy it for…? Hmmm… Someone who needs a helpful kick up the bum.
About the Contributor
John Purcell
While still in his twenties, John Purcell opened a second-hand bookshop in Mosman, Sydney, in which he sat for ten years reading, ranting and writing. Since then he has written, under a pseudonym, a series of very successful novels, interviewed hundreds of writers about their work, appeared at writers' festivals, on TV (most bizarrely in comedian Luke McGregor's documentary Luke Warm Sex) and has been featured in prominent newspapers and magazines. Now, as the Director of Books at booktopia.com.au, Australia's largest online bookseller, he supports Australian writing in all its forms. He lives in Sydney with his wife, two children, three dogs, five cats, unnumbered gold fish and his overlarge book collection. His novel, The Girl on the Page, will be published by HarperCollins Australia in October, 2018.


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Dr. Pratip Banerji, Co-Founder and Deputy Director of Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation, has brought scientific approach and international standards to allow verifiability of research data. The process of data accrual and documentation according to the highest international standards was introduced by him. This has made the research of PBHRF acceptable to the international scientific community.
His vision into the future of "Banerji Protocls of Treatment " has greatly encouraged PBHRF in its research collaborations with premier international scientific estanlishments.
He is a consultant physician and tuns a clinic, with an attendance of 300-400 patients a day at PBHRF India, which is an institution by itself.
Dr. Pratip Banerji: At A Glance
- Pratip is the only son of Dr. Prasanta Banerji and great-grandson of Pundit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - Sanskrit scholar, educator, reformer, writer and philanthropist from Bengal, who was considered to be one of the greatest intellectuals and activists of the nineteenth century.
- Pratip is a fourth generation physician carrying on the legacy of providing affordable alternative treatments for serious ailments for the needy people of West Bengal as well as from around the country.
- Pratip did his BHMS(CU) from the D.N.D.H. Degree Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata.
- He was placed 2nd in the University with Honours in Pathology and Materia Medica.
- He is a Posy Graduate from the LCCH(UK), and was awarded PG.LCCH with Diploma in Teachers Training.
- Pratip was awarded Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from the JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth (Deemed University), Udaipur , India
- Along with his father Dr. Prasanta Banerji, Pratip practices regularly at the PBHRF Clinic at Elgin Road.
- Pratip also runs a charitable evening clinic in Kolkata, where patients are treated for free.
To know more about the PBHRF and the Banerji Protocols, visit www.pbhrfindia.org.


text: Vinyl LPs still played, and framedThursday, April 14, 2016In honor of National Record Store Day, April 16, I followed a colleague's tip and checked out the vinyl-record frames currently being sold by Urban Outfitters. I've long been amused by vinyl's staying power. In the 1990s, just when I thought CDs and MP3s had killed LPs forever, I saw a consumer segment stubbornly cling to its preference for vinyl, despite vinyl's fragility and tendency to scratch, causing skips in the music. Some artists never stopped distributing their music on vinyl. Most notable for me is Neil Young, a longtime favorite. Neil is known in part for his disdain of low-quality digital recordings, which spurred him to found Pono, his high-quality audio player. When my colleague Derek told me people now decorate their homes with framed LP jackets as forms of art, I had to chuckle. I decorated with LPs in 1968. Ignoring my mom's protests, I covered an entire wall of my bedroom with record jackets, fastening them with thumbtacks. The website promoting National Record Store Day features a release from The Electric Prunes, a delightfully named band from that 1960s psychedelic era when quirky names thrived. To honor National Record Store Day, I offer some of my favorite band names (and album covers) from the flower-power days when vinyl ruled. I'll skip the better-known choices like Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, and Led Zeppelin and instead share:Strawberry Alarm ClockFever TreeIron ButterflyMoby GrapeVanilla FudgeBuffalo SpringfieldVelvett FoggBlues MagoosBubble PuppyNew Riders of the Purple Sage…and, of course, Creedence Clearwater Revival. There were Northwest bands with quirky names, as well: Fragile Lyme, Crome Syrcus, Daily Flash, Magic Fern, Mirkwood Slowcoach. Perhaps you wonder, in this post-Tower Records era, where can one buy vinyl LPs these days? Aside from online, choices include stores like Silver Platters, Easy Street Records, Golden Oldies Records, and Everyday Music.