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A local news outlet ran with a story recently that said research had shown that increased alcohol consumption lead to increased mouth cancers.
The trail to try to find the supporting research lead back to a UK cancer body but a request for a reference went unanswered.
The report (SBS News) said that over the last 30 years alcohol consumption had gone up and so had the incidence of mouth cancers. Ergo, drinking increases your chances of mouth cancer. The stated increase was 25%.
Sounds scary. But what if the chance had gone from 1 in a million to 1.25 in a million.
Not quite so scary.
And what else has changed over the last 30 years with things that go into people's mouths?
The Western diet has dramatically increased its consumption of chilli, a known mouth irritant.
Much more processed food.
Much more junk food.
Many more novel food additives, such as artificial sweeteners.
Vegetable consumption has decreased.
Fruit consumption has decreased.
Oral sex has, anecdotally, increased. (human papilloma virus (HPV), is a known carcinogen.)
Beer consumption down, wine consumption up.
Genetically modified foods introduced.
To mention just a few.
I will take their survey just a little more seriously when they can tell me how they allowed for these other changes.
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A little bit of disappointing news for those who were hoping for a bit of custom engraving on their Moto X, at least initially. Motorola has confirmed to us that the option won't be available when the phone and its Moto Maker custom designer go live later this week. "We love this feature. We're going to make it happen," a Moto spokeswoman told us this evening. We'll just have to wait a bit. No ETA was given.
Moto X will be available on AT&T starting Friday, and the carrier currently has an exclusive on the Moto Maker customization. (Verizon will get it later this year, it says.) All the custom colors we showed you in our preview last week will be available, as will a custom boot message. If you want engraving, you'll have to wait.
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Your Self-fullness is as boundless as God's. Like His, It extends forever and in perfect peace. Its radiance is so intense that It creates in perfect joy, and only the whole can be born of its Wholeness (T-7.IX.6:7-9).
So we are restless. We are in search of that which will bring out search to a close. We perceive ourselves as journeying but it's an oddly incomplete image: from where did we take our leave? In what direction do we go? Upon whose word or promise does our faith in destination lie?
Everything that arises falls, while everything that falls, eventually arises. Over and over, again and again. The form changes – first moonlight, then cardinals, then a ruined tractor nobody has driven for years – but the rising and falling don't change. Good, bad, lovely, outdated . . .
We look for the one who perceives this flux of phenomena – the seer who must be the self – but it too rises and falls because we cannot perceive it apart from the rising and falling. We look for the first cause – the Source – the "the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End" – and find what? Only more images, only more ideas.
Everything that rises and falls – including the idea of God, including the idea of rising and falling – rises and falls within whatever it is that we are in truth. We can understand this in terms of the body, if we want: language and image window dressing on a corresponding neurochemical impulse. We can understand it in abstract terms like mind or spirituality: ideas arising within the one mind that is God's.
But however we do it, can we see – can we make contact with – that within which it arises? The suggestion I am making is that this "within which-ness" is very important, in the sense that it is all there is. It's it. It can't be literally seen or especially defined, but it can be felt or sensed, albeit mostly in a negative way. It is neither contradicted nor confirmed by science, and what we call religion or spirituality – like philosophy and psychology and literally all art – is merely a response to it.
We could vigilantly search for ten thousand years and never find it because our very looking obscures it. We could read every last word of the world's wisdom literature – that which is on our shelves now, that which existed only in the oral tradition and has since disappeared, and that which is tens of thousands of years down the road beyond the reach of even imagination – and we would still not know it for the very simple reason that the echo is not the voice, however lovely or alluring it might be.
And the thing is, the Voice is always speaking to us. That is the thing. We want so badly to hear it and we never see that our want is simply another form of resistance, cleverly disguised as sincerity and right effort. A kind of passivity is called for, a kind of letting go. It is a kind of resignation even. We quit – really and truly quit – and only at that moment does ever-present light finally reach our eyes.
And to want to quit is to keep going. Even to write "we quit – really and truly quit – and only at that moment does ever-present light reach our eyes" is to keep going. It's maddening: until we drop it, we're holding it, and we can't drop it until we hold it.
In you is all of Heaven. Every leaf that falls is given life in you. Each bird that ever sang will sing again in you. And every flower that ever bloomed has saved its perfume and its loveliness for you (T-25.IV.5:1-4).
In you . . .
"You" in this case does not refer to Sean or to the body with which "Sean" presently (and stubbornly) identifies. We really have to see this: the grace and peace to which A Course in Miracles points neither begins or ends in bodies, which includes thought and feeling and idea and perception. What is has –
Nothing before and nothing after it. No other place; no other state or time. Nothing beyond or nearer. Nothing else. In any form (T-25.IV.5:6-10).
Of itself, restlessness is perfect: it is simply another breeze passing over the open field. We don't have to bring it to peace. We don't have to search and we don't even have to stop searching: we simply have to notice the "within which-ness" that is always here, always present. We have to notice the emptiness from which form briefly arises and into which it returns.
To say it is a simple thing – possibly even a helpful thing – but it is still just foam on the salty waves we are all already surfing. What remains is joy: which is not the body's pleasure nor the mind's happiness but rather that within which those fleeting experience arise and fall to rise again . . .


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Glenwood moves to toughen pot shop rules
July 1, 2016
New marijuana businesses in Glenwood Springs will face a special planning review to make sure the proposed location is suitable, and will have to be separated by at least 900 feet.
Those are the new rules that won initial approval Thursday night on a 6-1 vote by Glenwood Springs City Council.
Council's action, which will be considered on second and final reading Aug. 20, would amend the city's retail and medical marijuana codes, adding the new land-use review and revised setback provisions.
Under the new special permit process, public hearings would be held before the Glenwood Planning and Zoning Commission for recommendation, but City Council would hold the final decision.
The location permit and license to do business would be dealt with as part of the same application, city attorney Karl Hanlon explained.
The more discretionary permit process would replace the current process of having the city license hearing officer review new retail and medical marijuana establishments. Annual license renewals would still be handled by the hearing officer.
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Currently, only marijuana cultivation facilities, which are limited to the city's single industrial zone district along Devereux Road, must go through a land-use hearing process.
In addition, council agreed to increase the required setback between marijuana stores or dispensaries, cultivation and manufacturing facilities from 325 feet under the current rules to 900 feet.
That change would allow all existing marijuana businesses in Glenwood Springs to continue as is and keep the door open for new establishments in the fringes of town, but would effectively prevent any new shops in the downtown core.
That was one of the concerns expressed by the public and other downtown business owners when council decided in late May to impose a 90-day moratorium on new license applications while the regulations were reviewed.
Council looked at three options for code revisions before settling on the greater setback and combined new review process.
"I think we would be setting ourselves up for what happened the last time if we don't combine them," Councilman Todd Leahy said in reference to a lengthy July 2 hearing when council upheld on appeal license hearing officer Angela Roff's rejection of two retail license applications.
That meeting dragged on until 1:30 a.m., well past council's usual 11 p.m. curfew.
"I don't want to have a repeat of that," Leahy said. "This does add another layer of bureaucracy, but it gives the town what it's looking for."
Council opted to reject a third option that would have banned new marijuana businesses altogether within the Downtown Development Authority boundaries, and render three existing businesses in that area as non-conforming.
One of those businesses would be the Green Joint retail store and Green Medicine Wellness medical dispensary located at 11th and Grand; a prospect that owner Dan Sullivan said was "not an option."
While existing businesses can continue even if they don't conform to newly adopted rules, any sale of the business or major modification to the premises would not be allowed.
"We have six years of blood, sweat and tears in this business, and to then face the possibility that we would not have a business? That's unacceptable," Sullivan said.
Sullivan also lobbied for the city to separately consider imposing an extra local sales or excise tax on recreational marijuana sales to help generate new revenues for the city. Any local tax on the marijuana trade would require a city vote at a regular election.
Council members reiterated that was not their intention in revisiting the rules to put existing businesses at risk.
"This is a really good option, and gives us discretion in what goes where while considering the needs of the neighborhood," Councilwoman Kathryn Trauger said.
"I also like that it's legally defensible," she said of a concern that has been expressed about the current marijuana license application and review process.
Councilman Matt Steckler objected to including the new permit review and voted against the amended ordinance, but said he could go along with the greater setback provision.
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The hammer throw isn't a glamorous event and rarely gets much publicity, but it got its day in the sun Wednesday when the U.S. Olympic trials hammer competition was contested in Hayward Field for the first time.The event usually is held at a separate venue to spare other competitors the hazard of being hit. But it was the only scheduled event Wednesday, eliminating safety concerns and giving participants a treat.
"I'm in the infield in Hayward. That's magic,†said Amber Campbell, who set a women's trials record with a throw of 74.03 meters (242 feet, 10 inches).Campbell, a volunteer coach at Coastal Carolina University, earned her third Olympic berth. "I competed in my first U.S. championships at the senior level in 2001 and I'm still here. That's kind of awesome and I'm really proud of it,†she said.
Gwen Berry, recently back from a three-month suspension for taking a prohibited medication, finished second at 73.09 (239-9). Deanna Price was third, at the same distance as Berry. Both are first-time Olympians.
The men's event was won by Rudy Winkler of Cornell, but his throw of 76.76 meters (251-10) was short of the Olympic "A†standard of 77 meters (252-7) and he didn't previously reach that mark. Because only 23 throwers in the world have met the standard and the Olympic field can be as large as 32, he and others might be invited to compete in Rio de Janeiro. "Hopefully, I'll get an invitation,†he said. "Winning is surreal, but it hasn't really sunk in that I might not go. I'm not too concerned with that because I'm going to keep competing. I'll be around for a while.â€Kibwe Johnson was second at 75.11 (246-5) and Conor McCullough third at 74.16 (243-4).New look for U.S. team
Through six days of competition, 37 of the 53 U.S. track and field athletes who have qualified for Rio are first-time Olympians. That excludes the still-uncertain men's hammer event."It's a changing of the guard,†said U.S. women's shotput record-holder Michelle Carter, who Thursday will vie for her third Olympic berth at age 30. "To me, since I've been the sport for so long, a lot of my friends are retiring. Sometimes they joke around and call me Mama Michelle."It's sad because you want the people that were there with you when you started to be there, but you understand that's the cycle and I'm not going to be there forever, either. But to see the young kids coming in and doing so well, it's awesome because you also want to see new talent and you want to see America stay on top.â€But triple jumper Christian Taylor, the reigning Olympic and world champion, isn't ready to for that change to come."I hope not,†said Taylor, who will compete in qualifying Thursday. "I'm happy for the newcomers, but I want to be among the returning athletes…It's going to be exciting to have our team meetings at the beginning and do the introductions and you see all these new faces. That's what it's about. You want to get fresh faces in and send the strongest team.â€email@example.com: @helenenothelen
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With everything going on in our world today, it's easy to lose focus of our mission to share the everlasting gospel with the world. Revelation 12:9 tells us that Satan deceives the whole world, and that includes us Christians, who are just as able to be led away from the purposes of God. Yes, Satan still today works behind the scenes to keep us from being the very people God wants us to be. How can we avoid falling to his deceptions?View Sermon
All Pray, All Power. No Prayer, No Power.
In Acts 1:9, we are promised power – the power of the Holy Spirit. But sometimes our desire for power can leave us with some wrong ideas about Jesus' intention in giving His people power. The power of the Holy Spirit wasn't intended to be merely a boost, a jump, a battery recharge, nor was the Spirit intended to be a means for power in the sense of wealth, prosperity, or prestige. No, the Holy Spirit was intended to give us to do even greater things than Jesus Himself, as scripture tells us. Power to do what? To witness and spread like wildfire the good news of Salvation to a world that desperately needs saving. Will you harness the full potential of the Holy Spirit today?View Sermon
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Heaven. Who hasn't thought of Heaven? We all have some idea about it. We all have wondered who might or might not be there. You may have even questioned whether you yourself will be there. But have you ever realized how much God wants you to be there? So much so that He gave His only Son that you, YOU could have a chance to be there in Heaven forever. So, how to get there? There is but one path, the Cross. Look to Jesus and be saved. Will you follow Him today?View Sermon
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When Dudi Sela took out Andy Roddick yesterday at the Aegon Championships, I considered taking full credit. I almost sent his coach a bill in the mail. After all, it's not everyday that his giant-slaying virtuoso performance just happens to coincide with a series that I just happen to be writing on giant-slaying. Of course I am just kidding. But really, Sela's performance fit right into any manual that I could consider developing on how to take down the best in their prime. I'm sure you'll agree that Sela seemed at times to be guided by the following principles.
Step 4: Attack his weaknesses, and his strengths
It goes without saying that any player hoping to take down a giant in his prime would necessarily go after the giant's areas of weakness. And truth be told, no matter how good you are at playing tennis, there is always going to be some area of weakness that your opponents can exploit. Mary Pierce would drive her opponents crazy by taking forever to fix her hair and pluck her eyelashes in between probably saying a complete rosary before she served the ball. Her opponent's increasing frustration with Pierce's unhurried pace of play then became something that could be exploited. I am not saying that Mary got up to these shenanigans just to drive her opponents bonkers. I'm just saying that it worked, and that in her day she could beat anyone at their best.
Which is all by way of saying that attacking a player's weaknesses does not only mean going after her technical flaws. Attacks can be completely psychological, or may be a combination of both. When Azarenka rushes in her matches against Serena, her strategy seems to be both to gain control of the pace of play, as well as to catch Serena mid-step, knowing that Serena is inclined to be lumbering and heavy at times. As a strategy this would work if Azarenka also had the ability to endure. Her problem is that this strategy takes more out of her than it does out of Serena, hence their lop-sided head-to-head.
But one of the biggest mistakes that would-be giant-killers make is the tendency to focus only on attacking the giant's weaknesses. One of the reasons why this is a bad idea is quite simply because repeatedly going after the same shot gives the better player a chance to develop and strengthen it in the middle of the match. Remember when Justine Henin's forehand used to be weaker than her backhand? Well after everyone and his sister kept pounding her forehand in efforts to beat her, guess what happened? Justine's forehand ended up just as lethal as her backhand.
The true giant-slayer has the guts to know when to catch the giant off-guard by also attacking her strengths. For example, a common strategy for attacking Venus Williams is to attack her relatively weaker forehand. As a strategy, this is time-tested and sensible. But the players who beat Venus actually do so by taking away the angles, driving balls straight up the middle of the court as Venus is sprinting to the other side, throwing her off-balance, and then pounding her backhand when she least expects it. The trick is to deploy the element of surprise.
Step 3: Into every life, some luck must fall
One of my grandmother's favorite sayings was, "everyday can't be Sunday". She said this whenever anything bad happened, either to herself or to someone she loved. By this she meant that everyday couldn't be perfect, that some days are just going to be rotten, and that that is perfectly OK because other Sundays would eventually come around.
But the opposite is also true. Everyday can't be Monday either. Sometimes you just get damn lucky. The best kind of luck is when you happen to be facing the giant on her off-day. I often wonder how tennis players deal with their menses. For me, that time of the month is a nightmare. I know that there are ways to shut the entire system down, and this is what I assume most professional sportswomen do. After all, you can't tell the Queen that you're not coming to Wimbledon because it's a bad time of the month to wear white.
Luck of course can take many forms. Federer insinuated that the weather conditions on that particular day at Roland Garros favored Söderling's game. Sometimes a Lucky Loser makes it deep into a draw. And sometimes fans interfere and root against the top-dog, giving the underdog the lucky break of a life-time. I've written before about my own participation in rooting noisily for the aging Italian, Gianluca Pozzi, in probably his last appearance at the US Open. I believe that crowd support alone buoyed Pozzi as he took Marat Safin to five thrilling sets. As much as I adored Marat Safin, I remember how much we all wanted to see the giant go down.
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- MML Dan said...
I take it you haven't watched BBC London tonight, then?
No surprises to us, but FGW have been announced as... yup, the most overcrowded train company. The DfT is drawing up a complaint against them - (despite many people saying it's the DfT's fault!).
- 10 July 2007 at 22:29
I know that some of FGWs failings get blamed on Network Rail or the Government, but if FGW can't issue a cheque for £12 you have to ask why were they left to run a railway.
- 11 July 2007 at 13:28
- MML Dan said...
I, too, find that comical - the fact that they've issued over £30 in RTV's yet still are required to refund £12!
- 11 July 2007 at 14:01
- petsco said...
I come from Streatley and the service over the last few weeks has been appalling. i'm in daily contact with alison forster - and the emails are now just 'another train, another delay'.
but i did like your running across reading station. I do the 'reading trot' most days...
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Blog Tour – Love Hacked by Penny Reid (Author Interview and More)
By now, I think you all know that I love to read as much as I love to knit. It's why I'm excited to share this book with y'all. Love Hacked is a contemporary romance novel with tons of sizzle, plenty of conflict, a stunningly hot hero and (of course) the love of a good knit group.
I'm participating in the Love Hacked Blog Tour as a way to both introduce this wicked awesome book to you AND to give you the opportunity to win amazing prizes!
You can read my review of the book here and buy it in the following locations:
Amazon (US)
Amazon (UK)
B&N Nook
Here are, in no particular order, some of my favorite quotes from and about the hero, Alex:
I KNOW, right? This book is bursting at the seams with sexiness.
Don't believe me? How about an excerpt? This is from Sandra and Alex's first kiss:
His hands gripped my waist—not my arms, which my pickled brain thought was noteworthy—and duly steadied and unsettled me with his nearness. His proximity and touch caused a zing—yes, a zing—from the back of my neck to my fingertips and heretofore neglected womanly pelvic region. The heat of his hands bled through the thin material of my dress, settled just above my hips, and this sensation paired with the zing sobered me slightly. I hadn't experienced a zing with a man—or a boy—or a man-boy—in a very, very long time.
"Well, h-hello." I stuttered, lifted my eyes and found his, once again, singularly focused on my mouth. A new zing sailed southward, past my female equipment to my tiptoes. Ah, how I missed the zing!
We stood silent, inches from each other, sharing the same breath. "Three years is a long time." He said, his voice achingly seductive.
I frowned because I was confused, but whispered, "Yes. And fettuccini noodles are too thick."
He frowned, but his attention didn't waver from my lips. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"I don't know. You said three years is a long time. I thought we were sharing random opinions."
Alex laughed—it sounded a bit nervous, but I couldn't be sure, and shook his head. "Sandra, what do you say? I think it's well past time you had a kiss." His eyes flickered to mine. I noted they were still guarded, wizened; but they were also heated and every shade of licentious lapis imaginable.
In a word, delightful.
I licked my lips, gathered a deep breath through my nose, considered the offer. He was maybe twenty-three; more likely he was twenty-two. That was six years younger than my twenty-eight. The six years between twenty-two and twenty-eight was a vast minefield of life experience and a thick forest of emotional maturity.
We were on different emotion planets.
I was looking for the guy. I was looking for my life partner. I wasn't looking for a dangerous yet delicious looking youngster waiter with a chip on his shoulder.
Then again…
Alex was manlicious in a way that I rarely encountered. And he wanted to kiss me. And he wasn't crying. Triple bonus.
Okay, I thought, psyching myself up, yes, let's do this. Let's go wild, just this once. Kiss the boy. Kiss the boy and round the bases. Look for your life partner tomorrow.
Before I lost my nerve, I kissed him.
It was brief, sudden; a drive by kiss and I savored his stunned soft mouth. Then I leaned just my head away and glanced at him. He had such a great mouth and he'd parted it slightly in surprise.
I nodded. "Okay, just one more." I kissed him again, fast but with more pressure this time, planted my lips to his and breathed in through my nose.
Then, reluctantly, I leaned away again and immediately said, "Just one more kiss after this-"
He interrupted my assertion by mouthlesting me; meaning, he affixed his lips to mine and kissed me good and thorough.
Thick, urgent tongue invasion; biting; sucking and stroking. As he assaulted me in the best way possible, I was vaguely aware that he'd backed me into and against the corner of the small alcove, just under the stairs. His feet braced apart and his body towered over mine, filled every inch of available space; his fingers dug into my side and back in a way that felt aggressive.
I approved.
Then, abruptly, he pulled just a centimeter away. Breathing hard he said, "One more meaning that kiss?"
I hazily blinked my eyes and opened my abused lips to respond; however, before I could, he pressed me against the wall with his imposing frame, rocked against me—center to center—and growled, "Or, this kiss?"
His every day voice was a thing of beauty; but his growly voice made me want to lick his face.
The mouthlesting moved from misdemeanor to a felony crime against all women other than me. He employed tongue, teeth, lips in a way that drove all thought beyond this kiss from my mind. We existed, just the two of us, in our kiss cocoon. In that moment, strangers though we were, I allowed him to take in a way I hadn't known I was capable of giving.
I'd lit the fuse and, God bless him, he'd provided the fireworks. Life was good.
I repeat – I KNOW, RIGHT?
Okay. So all of the stuff above is reason enough to buy the book (books, really, since you should own Neanderthal Seeks Human and Friends Without Benefits, too). BUT one of the best reasons is author Penny herself. I did a brief interview with her today and chatted about books, knitting, being your own boss, and more. We even hear the official release date of Neanderthal Marries Human, the next book in the Knitting in the City Series (I KNOW RIGHT?)! I will warn you that my voice is a little soft in comparison to Penny's (audio control issues) so be aware of that. Also – all the weird hand movements happening off camera are me petting my dog who was trying to bark. It was G-rated, I promise!
Watch the video here or click play below.
Isn't Penny great? In addition to being smart and hilarious, she's holding an epic giveaway. Which, if you watched the video, you already know. Enter the Rafflecopter contest below for a chance to win MEGA amounts of books and a fantastic signed bag to carry them all in!
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Thanks so much to Penny Reid and Indie Sage Promotions for allowing TFF to be a stop on the blog tour for Love Hacked. If you liked this post and would like to see more like it on TFF, leave me a comment to let me know!


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"Authorities are sounding the alarm about a new and deadly twist in the country's drug-addiction crisis in the form of a potent painkiller disguised as other medications.
"Tennessee officials say they've seen two dozen cases in recent months of pills marked as the less potent opiates oxycodone or Percocet that turned out to contain fentanyl, a far more powerful drug. One official likened the danger to users playing Russian roulette each time they buy a pill on the street.
"In San Francisco, the health department blamed several overdoses last summer on lookalike Xanax containing fentanyl, while Canada has issued warnings about multiple recent cases of lookalike oxycodone pills containing fentanyl.
"And in suburban Cleveland, federal agents arrested a man this month after seizing more than 900 fentanyl pills marked like oxycodone tablets.
"'These pills are truly a fatal overdose waiting to happen,' said Carole Rendon, acting U.S. attorney in Cleveland."
(Andrew Welsh-Huggins. "New twist in addiction crisis: Deadly painkiller impostors. The Virginian-Pilot. February 29, 2016.)
Lookalike Substances
Let's recap:
1. Fentanyl marked as oxycodone.
2. Fentanyl marked as Percocet
3. Fentanyl marked as Xanax
This deception = death. Fentanyl is fairly cheap to manufacture illicitly, so dealers are disguising it for higher return. What results? Abusers of opiates can get their hands on something much more lethal than they bargained for – lookalike substances containing fentanyl.
In Cuyahoga County, Ohio, lookalike pills were likely to blame for some of the 19 fentanyl-related overdose deaths in January, 2016, alone, according to Dr. Thomas Gilson, Cuyahoga County medical examiner. "This is all the more alarming because this is a much more lethal drug being dressed up as another popular drug abused by the same population," he said. Gilson added that lookalike pills point to the dangers of buying what appear to be pharmaceutical drugs off the street.
(Mark Gillispie. "Ohio officials say fentanyl pills being sold as oxycodone lookalikes." Nordonia Hills News-Leader. February 15, 2016.)
Fentanyl, typically used for treatment of chronic pain in end-stage cancer patients, is 25 to 40 times more powerful than heroin. Fentanyl produced for the illegal market comes from Mexico, while chemically similar components have been traced to China, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Make no mistake, fentanyl can be a deadly substance. The DEA says fentanyl-related overdoses killed more than 700 people nationwide between late 2013 and early 2015. Ohio experienced 502 fentanyl-related deaths in 2014, up from 84 the year before. In all, 2,482 people in Ohio died from accidental overdoses in 2014, an 18 percent increase over the previous year.
For some addicts, death by fentanyl is an unwitting mistake, as they often do not know the composition of what they buy on the street.
But, for others, something else drives the appeal to the substance.
Carole Rendon, acting U.S. attorney in Cleveland, told a tragic, unbelievable outcome of overdose deaths. She said, "When there is an overdose death, users do tend to flock to that drug dealer, because they think that he or she must have incredibly potent - either heroin or fentanyl or a combination thereof." What a sad, sad commentary on the devastating power of opioid addiction.
Nora D. Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse says, "The reason for this behavior is addiction, or one of its fundamental features: the ability to alter people's brains such that they can no longer exercise proper judgment or experience normal pleasures. Along with displacing natural "reinforcers" such as food, family, and friends, drugs of abuse also eventually lose their ability to reward, placing the addict on a compulsive quest for more drug and for greater drug potency as their reward circuitry becomes increasingly blunted and desensitized."
Some good news? China announced in October it would regulate the sale and distribution of 116 chemical compounds used in the production of synthetic drugs, including acetyl-fentanyl.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse says that fentanyl is a Schedule II prescription drug. It is a powerful synthetic opiate analgesic similar to but more potent than morphine. Like heroin, morphine, and other opioid drugs, fentanyl works by binding to the body's opiate receptors, highly concentrated in areas of the brain that control pain and emotions.
When prescribed by a physician, fentanyl is often administered via injection, transdermal patch, or in lozenge form. However, the type of fentanyl associated with recent overdoses was produced in clandestine laboratories and mixed with (or substituted for) heroin in a powder form.
"Combined with heroin and used in powder form, fentanyl represents an intersection of prescription drug with street drug and reminds us of the potential dangers associated with the abuse of both -- particularly as the abuse of prescription painkillers continues to grow in young adults and youth."
--Nora D. Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse


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Monday, 28 December 2009
Bath Abbey - 15 Minute Photo Challenge
17 comments:
- dzulnajmi said...
love it ... u made it look so easy ... :-)
- 28 December 2009 at 23:31
- Sylvie said...
I thoroughly enjoyed this, Gavin! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us!
- 29 December 2009 at 04:51
- Tiaan Nicholas said...
Another fantastic video!! I'd love to see some editing videos of these shots, maybe the one of the statue?
Thanks Gavin
- 29 December 2009 at 11:36
- Miguel Angel ROMERO said...
Cool.. you're back again!
- 29 December 2009 at 11:56
- Gary S. said...
Lovely new video. I enjoyed the part around 6:00 where other folk could see you taking photos then obviously thought "That chap knows what he's doing, I'm going to take one from there too!"
I would also like to see some editing videos if you have the time of the statue one as Tiaan said and maybe of the 2 people looking at the door as well.
All the best
Gary S.
- 29 December 2009 at 12:14
- Mike Fiechtner said...
I agree with the other posters. It would be nice to see your editing process. I saw some duotones and some other processed versions in the video and would love to know some of the things you're doing for PP. thanks for a great video! Awesome!
- 29 December 2009 at 23:35
- Gavin Hoey Training said...
Thank you for the kind comments. In answer to the Photoshop requests, have a look at these posts which should help.
- 30 December 2009 at 08:48
- Stefano said...
I have learned very much in this year i read your blog, thus i tankyou very very much and whish you a Happy Newyear. Sorry for my basic english. I'M stefano froma Verona (Italy) the town of Romeo & Juliet. If you come here for a 15 min photo challenge i'm glad of guide you trhow my lovely town.
Greeting Stefano.
- 30 December 2009 at 11:04
- Kitty said...
I've been a long time lurker here - just wanted to step out of the lurking closet and say thank you for all the posts of this year, and to wish you a very Happy New Year :-)
- 30 December 2009 at 12:18
- michel said...
I would like to add my words of appreciation for your work and for sharing your knowledge. Pleas accept my sincere wishes for a Happy New Year. May 2010 bring peace to the world and more beautiful images to our viewfinders... michel
- 30 December 2009 at 14:30
I'm a elements 7 user that didn't really get going until I started watching your videos. Thanks for getting me over that first hump and please keep up the good work, both photoshop and photography.
- 30 December 2009 at 19:24
- antwerpenR said...
great stuff - thanks
- 31 December 2009 at 17:28
- vexy said...
great blog. happy new year :)
- 31 December 2009 at 17:38
- Gavin Hoey Training said...
Thanks again to everyone who's commented.
Stefano: I made a short visit to Verona a few years back and hope to return again one day. It was a great place for photography.
- 5 January 2010 at 18:43
I love all of you'rs videos !
I'm from sweden and i have learn so much about photoshop and other things about photo thanks to you ! :)
I hope you never stop doing you'rs videos !
- 5 January 2010 at 22:05
Wow! This really makes me start thinking about how to choose shots. We pass by so many things in our lives without a thought or a second look at them. A photographer is always looking at the detail and how it will look framed.
Nice work :)
Marcus Hamaker
- 14 January 2010 at 03:36
- eliane said...
I love your work. I love photography. And I love to work Photoshop too. I have element 6 and I would love to know how you work on the picture of the couple in front of the door. Do you have a video explaining that.
Sorry about my english, I am from Brasil. Thank you very much for your help.
- 24 April 2010 at 13:16


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The main source of the National Nuclear Attack Warning would be Air Defence Operations Centre ( ADOC ) at Strike Command in RAF High Wycombe with a back up at the Preston U.K.W.M.O. Sector Headquarters, located at Langley Lane, Goosnargh, Lancs. This table mounted unit would be used to issue the message to the 250 Carrier Control Points (CCP).
- The operator would turn the safety interlock key switch.
- Press the large Red operate switch.
- The speaking clock would be removed from all the national distribution rings.
- A one second burst of two simultaneous tones of 1200Hz and 1440Hz known as P+Q tones would be sent to sound the incoming message alarm in the CCP.
- When the "Speak Now" light illuminated the operator would announce the message into the dual microphones. This would be conveyed to the injection exchange for distribution on all four of the speaking clock rings.


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Operation Ivy is back, sort of. Though it existed for just a few brief years in the late '80s, the ska punk band has long been considered one of the most influential acts to ever come out of the California scene. Is one and only LP, Energy, is still considered one of the best punk albums of all time. Though half of the quartet—Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman—went on to form Rancid, frontman Jesse Michaels joined some other bands and became a painter. He performed a few times with Rancid a few years back, but the group has always denied they'd ever reunite.
Never say never, though. Armstrong and Michaels have just released a new track together, which totally means (or totally doesn't) that Op Ivy is just seconds from getting back together. "Living In A Dangerous Land" is a pretty straightforward punk cut, and while, as Consequence Of Sound notes, "it comes nowhere close in quality to anything on" Energy, it's still pretty good. Take what you can get, Op Ivy fans.


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Very much inspired by this gorgeous quilt.
I love it, she loved it, it's always folded on the bed and when she's cold at night, she uses it and my grandfather does the same with his quilt and I love it.
It ended up at something around 54"x80" so it's pretty big.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to leave a comment or send me an email yesterday. I really appreciate it :)
I won't get into too many details but we talked for a while and it was nice.
I told him what was bothering me and he told me what he thought about all this and it was nice to say it out loud.
I found at least 3 reasons why I love him.
1. He lets me sleep on his side of the bed and he couldn't care less about it (I'm pretty protective of my side...)
2. He loves me just the way I am with all my emotions and fabric and sprituality and not wanting to eat meat and gluten.
3. He's the most patient man I know. If I had to be in a relationship me, I would have been gone a long time ago! I can be so annoying and yet, he's still there.


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You are hereCBS Study Group Inaugural Event 3/27/13 at Franklin Park Conservatory
CBS Study Group Inaugural Event 3/27/13 at Franklin Park Conservatory
Please remember that the Columbus Bonsai Study Group - inaugural meeting is Wednesday March 27, 6:30-9:00 PM @ Franklin Park Conservatory
Goal: By sharing bonsai knowledge collectively, each of us will end up with better bonsai.
Objective: Through a social setting, provide members the opportunity to work on one of their bonsai trees, improve its bonsai artistic quality.
How? By discussing such issues as; the best front, planting angle, branch movement, developing ramification, what its timely to do with the tree you bring, etc. etc.
What will you need to bring? A tree, questions, the interest to learn and willingness to share your bonsai knowledge. If you wish to implement changes to your tree, tools and wire. Initially we do not plan any repotting during the Study Group time, but if you're thinking of repotting, you may wish to bring the pot you are planning to use to facilitate discussion on position, placement, etc. related to considerations that arise when repotting.
If you can't be there at 6:30, its OK to join us in progress, just remember we need to be out of FPC by 9 PM.
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This conference is the annual platform and this challenging year the forum gathered more than 220 delegates from 16 world countries: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Romania, USA, Denmark, Belgium, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Among the conference topics:
- milestone projects of 2016, sharing experience;
- governmental regulation of the sector, what's new?
- new technologies of lifting and handling of super-heavy loads
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UPDATE: BPD Homicide Detectives Lodge Murder Warrant Charging Suspect in Connection a Death Investigation in the area of 511 Gallivan Blvd in Dorchester/
This morning, just days after the shooting death of 21-year-old Joey DeBarros outside of 511 Gallivan Boulevard on Thursday, April 13, 2017, Boston Police Homicide Detectives sought and obtained an arrest warrant for 29-year-old Deonarine Ganga of Dorchester, charging him with murder. Ganga is currently in custody at the Suffolk County Jail after his arrest by the BPD Fugitive Apprehension Unit on Friday April 14, 2017. Ganga was arrested on a warrant for assault with a dangerous weapon. That charge stemmed from an April 7, 2017 incident during which it is alleged that he used a firearm to threaten another person inside a Dorchester Avenue business. Thanks to a determined and detailed investigation by BPD District C-11 (Dorchester) detectives, Homicide detectives, and prosecutors assigned to the Suffolk County DA's office , bolstered by community tips and cooperation, detectives were able to lodge the murder warrant today.
At about 4:15 PM on Thursday, April 13, 2017, officers from District C-11 (Dorchester) responded to an outside scene for a person shot in the area of 511 Gallivan Boulevard in Dorchester. On arrival, officers observed a male victim, later identified as DeBarros, suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. DeBarros, suffering from life-threatening injuries, was transported to Boston Medical Center where he was later pronounced deceased. Ganga and DeBarros allegedly became involved in a traffic dispute that ended up with Ganga firing shots at DeBarros striking him as he was outside his vehicle.
"My detectives worked tirelessly on this case from the beginning. Their hard work and commitment to seek justice for this young man was matched by the cooperation of the public who offered assistance," said Commissioner Evans. "We are pleased that we were able to arrest and charge the suspect for this brazen daytime shooting and for his involvement in the earlier assault. We hope that these charges bring some peace to the DeBarros family during what is surely a most difficult time."
The Boston Police Department continues actively investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding this incident. Anyone with information is strongly urged to contact Boston Police Homicide Detectives at (617) 343-4470. Community members wishing to assist this investigation anonymously can do so by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1 (800) 494-TIPS or by texting the word 'TIP' to CRIME (27463). The Boston Police Department will stringently guard and protect the identities of all those who wish to help this investigation in an anonymous manner.


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Soon after the launch of the original vendor of digital type he teamed up with that other famous graphic designer, Neville Brody, and founded FontFont, which has since then become the largest independent foundry of original type designs. Not only does it produce some contemporary classics, but it also houses wildly imaginative designs, and spearheaded many innovations in digital type technology. His distribution of type on floppy disks soon became obsolete and FontShop moved their company to the Web and distributes fonts online.
Erik Spiekermann has created 475 typefaces to this day and all of them are readily available for purchase on FontShop.com and he continues to make more work to this day. Some of the typefaces that he created are Berliner Grotesk, FF Meta, ITC Officina Sans, and FiraSans.
He was founder of MetaDesign in 1979, Germany's largest design firm with offices in Berlin, London and San Francisco. He is responsible for corporate design programs for Audi, Skoda, Volkswagen, Lexus, Heidelberg Printing, Bosch and way-finding projects like Berlin Transit, Düsseldorf Airport and many others.
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Jaguar Car Gap Insurance by Click4Gap.co.ukIn 1950 the Mk7 featured the XK120 engine. It was the first saloon to be powered by the XK engine. To begin with, its production was stateside, due to the UK governments want of bringing in money from overseas to help the recovery of the British economy after the war. Production had expanded & a new site was required. An ex-Daimler aero engine factory was acquired & this is where Jaguar offices are still to this day. A Borg Warner auto box became an option in 1953, mainly following demand from US customers. In 1955 power was upped from 160bhp to 190bhp, and the model renamed the MkVIIM. More changes in 1957 came about with the MkVIII, an updated version of the MkVII, one being a single pieced curved windscreen. Two years later the last of the revisions were made, and the MkIX was born. This now had the 3.8 litre XK engine, power steering, and disc brakes front and rear. The Mk9 lasted for two more years, after which the Mk10 took place.
Also in 1950, Lyons and the new racing manager 'Lofty' England unofficially supported 3 privateer XK120s at Le Mans & discovered what the potential that competition successes could do for the road range. So a tubular spaceframe chassis was designed by Heynes, the bodywork by aerodynamicist Malcolm Sayer, formerly of the Bristol Aeroplane Company. For the 24 heurs du mans, three cars were entered, two retired, but the remaining car won, Road range versions of the C-Type had to be produced in order to comply with the Le Mans regs. In 1952 Jaguar fitted bonnets with a smaller air intake, all the cars retired with serious overheating problems. In 1953 Jaguar were back at La Sarthe. The cars now being built from lighter gauge tubing, and disc braking to all four corners. All three cars finished in 1st, 2nd, and 4th places. After this success, Heynes and co. started on a replacement for the C-Type. The new car would be based on the 3.4 engine in the C, upgraded to 240bhp, and featured a new aerodynamic bodywork, an integral cockpit & front subframe. Three cars entered the '54 Le Mans race, but were defeated by the 4.9 sports racer from Ferrari. Its power was increased to 270bhp in a bid to match the Ferrari, and the longnose bonnet fitted. It won the '55 race. In 1956 both works and privateer D-Types were back at Le Mans. Two of the factory D-Types crashed, another finished in 6th. The race however was won by a non-works D entered by Ecurie Ecosse of Edinburgh. After this result, Jaguar withdrew from competition, but provided unofficial backing for Ecurie Ecosse in 1957. These cars finished first and second, with French and Belgian entries in third and fourth. Jaguar had now made their mark for producing very successful, sports racing cars.


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For years enterprises have looked for silver bullets that would allow them to solve their data integration problems, and that search for such technology will continue for years to come, said George Gilbert, principal with Tech Strategy Partners, a consulting and research firm focused on enterprise software and service.
"Silver bullets are good for killing werewolves, but not good for solving your data integration problems," Gilbert said.
He recalled a time in the early 90s when object programming technology was going to provide a way to integrate data across heterogeneous data management systems. Object technology was the "pixy dust" that was sprinkled over everything to get applications to talk to each other.
Object technology didnt work as promised, Gilbert said, because objects written for one application were not readily transferable to a second application, even when developers tried to "force-fit it into another application," because it was like fitting a square peg in round hole, said Gilbert.
He suggested that the software industry is going through a similar phase, hoping that SOA (service-oriented architecture) will provide a comprehensive solution to application and data integration.
"We are going to see over the next five-plus years a very labor-intensive effort to get applications to talk to each other and liberate the data" thats locked in disparate applications and databases, Gilbert said.
"This is by no means an easy process, and there is plenty of room for startups" that can come up with innovative ways to solve this problem, he said.
Thomas Reilly, vice president of enterprise information management with IBM, referred to his own experience as the former CEO of a data integration startup, Trigo Technologies Inc., to illustrate what is going on in the current market. IBM acquired Trigo, which developed data management middleware, in March 2004.
One of the ways that Trigo, a small Brisbane, Calif., company that was founded in 2000, demonstrated its potential in the market was by building a data exchange hub that would allow Proctor & Gamble to introduce a new product to Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
"P&G wanted to introduce a new product to Wal-Mart, and we automated that process," Reilly said. "That is how a small company gained traction in this area."
A number of startups are investing in technology that deals with the problem of disparate structured and unstructured data within an organization and within different companies that want to do business, he said.
The key will be whether startups will be able to solve the problems in ways that differentiate themselves from their competitors, Reilly said.
Data integration and protecting the integrity of data will become increasingly important as new regulatory compliance legislation goes into effect, noted William Conroy, CEO of Initiate Systems, a data integration software maker based in Chicago.
Under the provisions of the Graham-Leach-Bliley Act, financial services and other companies have to know the location and status of customer data and how to securely link applications and retrieve it, Conroy said.
Another underserved industry is health care, Conroy said. Hospitals, insurance companies and other health care companies in the United States are "going to spend billions to catch up with the UK and Canada" in managing and securing patient data, he said.
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TITLE: Eclipsing Apollo
AUTHOR: Sasha Summers
INFO: Fiction, 219 pages
PUBLISHED: Sasha Summers, 2015
SOURCE: Received from Publisher for Review
FROM GOODREADS: Apollo is fond of many things. Music, poetry, physical prowess, truth, and love. The Pythian Games are in his honor and he attends, as a mere mortal, to enjoy the competition… and the women. Meeting the fair Coronis offers him his greatest delight. Her strength, her fearlessness, and her beauty clasp his heart with an irrevocable hold. But she wants none of him.
Coronis' duty is to marry, but she yearns for so much more. She is a fierce competitor, a hunter, skilled in strategy and reason. Those that would court her lack both the mind and the body to rival hers - she will settle for no less. As a mortal, Apollo was both infuriating and tempting. But Apollo the Olympian is terrifying. She fears giving him her heart might destroy her soul.
Demeter's need for revenge pits Olympian against Olympian, forcing Apollo into a darkness the God of Light must fight if he ever hopes to see his Coronis again.
Her fear increased, making it hard to breathe. Do not let him fall. She turned, her stomach tightening as her gaze met Apollo's. You must win. You must.
Apollo smiled broadly, his brow rising high.
She pulled her gaze from his, walking past him to the competitors' tent. He would follow her, she knew it. They had little time to prepare. She must help him bathe and anoint him with oil before he met Damocles in the ring.
Her champion. She shivered, pushing into the tent. She lit a lamp and drew in a steadying breath. She was not a fretful sort, so why was she so afraid? Why did he unsettle her?
She knew the answer but refused to address the ache… the yearning that tugged her heart.
No, no.
She poured water into a beaten copper basin, grabbed the bottle of oil, and turned to him. His gaze caught hers and he cocked his head, assessing her.
An amused smile wreathed his too-handsome face. "Do not fret Coronis. You've not broken your word to me. You said you would never ask for my help. And you did not." He moved forward slowly, towering over her. His smile faltered as he studied her, intently… possessively. "You will never have to. I give it to you freely. I always will."
She stared up at him, astonished. Her suitors flattered her with pretty words, poetry, even song. But no man spoke to her so plainly. Or dared to look at her as he did.
His gaze wandered over her face. He seemed to linger over every feature, tracing the arch of her brow, the curve of her forehead, the seam of her lips, and angle of her jaw—before pinning her gaze with his. "Do I frighten you, Coronis?" his voice was low, almost a whisper.
She stared into his eyes, fathomless and golden. What was he asking? Was she afraid of the depths of emotion he stirred within her? Was she fearful of how her body trembled, anticipating the moment when they might touch? Or that she dreaded his departure so that she could neither eat nor sleep. She shook her head, unable to answer.
MY TAKE: I've always enjoyed mythology, whether it be the Greeks, Norse, Roman or those from many other cultures. This was a fun and entertaining take on the story of Apollo and Coronis from the Greek side of things.
While Eclipsing Apollo is actually the third book in Sasha Summers' series: The Loves of Olympus, it is very much a stand alone read. Her writing style is light and colorful, bringing these mythological beings to life on the pages. Aside from the main characters, I liked the various gods and goddesses and their dramas being highlighted. I'm looking forward to reading many of their stories in the other books in the series.
Out of 5 JEWELS, I give it:
Sasha is part gypsy. Her passions have always been storytelling, romance, history, and travel. Her first play was written for her Girl Scout troupe. She's been writing ever since. She loves getting lost in the worlds and characters she creates; even if she frequently forgets to run the dishwasher or wash socks when she's doing so. Luckily, her four brilliant children and hero-inspiring hubby are super understanding and supportive.
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A funny, intelligent, artistic, creative, and spiritual look at writing, art, and life
Friday, February 8, 2013
Elbowing Your Way In: How You Can Make Time to Write
"It's the mental energy to write after a 12-hour door-to-door day I can't find."
It's hard to argue with a statement like that. After all, Derek is in the same shoes that I'm in, the same shoes that a lot of my other friends are in. We're working day-jobs, some of them hectic. We have lives filled with family, church, school, volunteer work... And after a full day of activities, we often feel tapped out. The energy to write or create anything artistic just doesn't seem to be there.
How do we find and renew our creative energy?
That's the question I'm parsing out on the blog for the next few months. And I think the answer is going to take several steps. It's not a single stop; it's a journey to finding that mental energy. But it begins with a decision to move toward what we want. A goal. In this case, I think the goal is to write more. Maybe to write enough to get good at it. Maybe to get good enough to be published. But setting the goal is step one.
Why? Because the bottom line is this: we have to choose to make time to write. It doesn't fall in our lap. We have to hunt the writing beast down and take it captive. And there must be tools we can use to make the hunt easier for ourselves. I'm on a search for those tools, and you're coming with me. Let's journey together to find ways to keep our creative selves vibrant and productive. We are worth it, don't you think?
The first tool we can use is a simple one, but it may be the most challenging to master. It's self-knowledge. You have to know what makes you tick, so you can fit your writing into your life. This may mean fitting it in. It may mean clearing out some of the obstacles that keep you from writing. It probably means both. But it's in knowing yourself that you can make the kinds of decisions that you can live with and stick with over the long haul.
The people I know elbow their writing into their life in many ways, depending on what works for them as individuals. Some have flat out told me: "I don't read much anymore." Or, "I don't watch TV anymore." It just takes too much time to do those things and write.
Personally, that doesn't work for me. That's not how I tick. I like reading too much to give it up. But I don't read as much as I used to. Many times, I skim books. And I read differently too. I read for technique more than I do for content. It's not often I can lose myself in a book anymore. Knowing that about myself helps me choose what I read and what I dump at the wayside. And that helps me have energy and time to write.
Fantasy author Peter V. Brett has shared publicly that he, too, had to struggle to make time to write, just like those of us who are writing but aren't published yet. Brett had a full-time job, a family, and friends, and he didn't have a lot of time to write. But he did spend one and a half to two hours commuting each day. So, he wrote during his commute.
He's obviously the kind of guy who can put in his earbuds and concentrate on writing in a crowded space, and he knew that about himself. That's why his decision worked for him. (Listen to him talk about it on the Speculate podcast here, starting around minute 10:00.) I don't have the same opportunity he had, because I drive to work. There are no trains here. But I can be at work early or stay late to write, and sometimes I do that, because I know that works for me.
Another friend of mine, Renee, has created a mobile writing style because as a grandmother helping out with the grandchildren, she loses writing time to driving the kids long distances to and from school. Rather than going home after dropping the kids at school, she stays nearby. Renee says: "I take my grandchildren to school, then set myself up at the park, typing in the car or at a table. (I now carry a table and chair int he care, so I can set up anywhere.)" Talk about being ready! She also uses a battery backup for her laptop, which helps her be mobile.
I don't have the free time in the middle of the day that Renee has. But I try to keep a notebook handy when I go out, so if I suddenly find myself with free time, I can write at the drop of a hat. Being mobile definitely works for me. In fact, it's often easier for me to write outside of the house, because when I'm at home, I get distracted. So I trick myself into productivity by going to a local bookstore or coffee shop with my laptop.
Obviously, the key here is to make the most of what you have to work with. This doesn't completely answer Derek's question about maintaining the energy to write. I'm moving toward that issue over the upcoming series of posts. But the first step to reclaiming the mental energy to write is knowing what works for you as a writer and, frankly, as a person. Not everyone likes mobile writing. Not everyone can concentrate during a commute. Not everyone can give up TV cold turkey. But there's something you can do, and you have to figure out what that is and do it. Only then can you make that first step toward freeing up your time, protecting your creative juices, and get some writing done.
Now, you share: What do you do to make time to write? How do you protect or revive your mental energy for creative activities? Have you ever given anything up to make room for your art? Share about it in the comments, and be sure to mention the tips you have, the things that work for you. And if you're doing the #writinghabit challenge, in which you write every day (even if it's just a word or two), tell me how that's going for you. I want to hear about it!
Copyright (c) 2013 by M.A. Chiappetta. All rights reserved.
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One thing you have to know is your bio-rhythms. Even if I have the time to write between 3 and 5, I've learned to do something else becase my brain is just 3 steps back during those two hours. Like anything, you have to do your best to establish a routine and think of crossing the finish line.ReplyDeleteReplies
That's a good point about biorhythms. We need to build a routine based on what works best for us individually. Personally, I envy people who can get up at 5AM and write for an hour or two before heading to work, but I don't write well at that time of day. But I do well at night, so that's when I try to do the bulk of my writing.Delete
When I've written at 5am, it's usually because I've been up all night, or couldn't sleep and up since 2 or 3am. I am also more of a night writer, except when it came to NaNo, and I wasn't working a job. I could write any time day or night then.Delete
That's the "best" way to write, isn't it? To have no other job. But of course, if you're not independently wealthy, then it's also the "worst" way to write. It's important to pay the bills, I'll tell you that. As for time of day... Well, I might be able to write at 5am if I'd been up since 2 or 3, but I still don't think I'd do as well as if I rested fully first. Did you find that true for you too?Delete
- AnonymousFebruary 10, 2013 at 3:30 PM
I made a commitment to write 750 words every day for a month, using the 750words.com website. It usually took me less than half an hour (I'm talking unedited, 'getting-words-on-page-not-worrying-about-content' writing) and I got up half an hour earlier to do it, just to establish a habit of writing every day no matter what. If I couldn't do it in the morning I made sure to get my 750 words done by writing later in the day. I have stopped using the site for the moment, and am writing slightly differently, but it was the kickstart I needed to establish an attitude of 'must write' every day, even when my brain didn't feel like it.ReplyDeleteReplies
I've heard many people mention 750words.com. Personally, I haven't tried it, but it seems like a lot of people like it. And I say, whatever works, do it! Here's to many happy days of consistent writing for you, Eve!Delete


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One of the arguments against the presence of undocumented and even documented immigrants in the United States involves the passionate and emotional issue of language: English, that is, and what some believe is an unwillingness to learn it.
The advocates who teach them say that argument is false. While some immigrants may never learn the English language for various reasons, including opportunity and age, many more seek out classes that are popular and crowded. Critics of the language argument also say, with some authority, that their children, whether born in the United States or not, become proficient in English.
In San Antonio, various profit and nonprofit organizations offer instruction. Academia America, for example, helps prepare immigrants for their citizenship tests, offering classes in English and U.S. history.
Many more immigrants go unserved, however.
A New York Times story today addresses the issue. As its public libraries face major cuts, librarian Adriana Blancarte-Hayward, manager of the New Dorp branch library in Staten Island, illustrates the need. She was once one of those who walked in the door of the same branch to take an English class.
The New York Public Library system, Queens and Brooklyn Public Libraries, the New York City Department of Education, the City University of New York and various nonprofit community groups offer English-language classes, the story says, yet "the need for instruction in English still seems to outpace the supply."
"Typically, many more people show up than there are spots available, and hundreds have to be turned away," the story says. "Spots are distributed by a lottery."
As New York libraries face a $37 million budget cut, even fewer people may be able to take classes next year.
For those who argue that their great-grandparents learned English on their own or without help, scholars beg to differ, noting that new waves of immigrants, much like the old, learn and adopt English in similar patterns.
A Princeton University study found that "immigrant children embrace English just as rapidly as those who came to this country at the turn of the century. Among today's newcomers, Italian and German have been replaced with Spanish or languages of the Pacific Rim, but the pattern is the same: By the time they finish high school, children of immigrants prefer English to their native tongues and often lose the ability to write fluently in the language of their parents."
The lamentable loss of their parents' or grandparents' first language aside, the anti-immigrant argument is dulled. The desire to learn English is there, even if the opportunity doesn't always present itself, especially given how hard immigrants work to provide for themselves and their families.
The New York library system may have to cut English classes from 117 to 48, the story says, and the number of seats from 3,000 to less than 1,300.
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AUGUSTA, GA (WFXG) - The Braves and the Greenjackets battled on the baseball diamond Saturday morning, but these teams were part of the Wilson Family Y's Miracle League.
Sports program director Rina White says the league helps children who may not otherwise get the chance to play baseball.
"The Miracle League is a special needs baseball league for all different kind of disabilities. We have a competitive and a non-competitive league," White explains.
The leagues started in 2010 and help children with disabilities ranging from autism to cerebral palsy to play and enjoy America's pastime.
Jocelyn Owens' son Jalen is diagnosed with autism, and started playing with the Miracle League back in 2010.
"We were just looking for sports that he could participate in, and it's just a very relaxing environment and each child participates at their own level," Owens says.
The non-competitive game is structured so there are no winners or losers, teaching the kids about team work.
"It's just a good environment, there's no stress, no pressure, and everybody is very supportive," Owens says with a smile.
"It touches their lives, and it feels real good to do something for someone like this," says White.
And even with a disability, Owens says her son doesn't feel any different.
"I think he already feels like a normal kid, he just is very positive and all he knows is that he's just a regular kid," says Owens.
And even though there were no winners or losers, the kids were just happy to get out in the beautiful weather and play ball.
For more information on the Miracle League and if you would like to help volunteer, click here for the Family YMCA of Greater Augusta website.
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Ibyang + Instagram = Ibyangram
While my instagram photos are shared on my twitter page and sometimes on my tumblr and fb page, I would like to have a monthly dump of ibyangrams on AWCL too. It is thru instagram that I share everyday moments and random finds. I use instagram as my real time mini-blog. Every end of the month, I'll be choosing a couple of photos from my instagram and share it here because I have something more to say about a certain ibyangram.
We had a great start to August as the Husband and I came out of our semi-hibernation. The weather temperature had gradually gone up and we had been blessed with nothing but good weather almost everyday. I have resumed my weekly de-cluttering sessions in different areas of our home. We're working our way towards having the guest room as neat as possible in time for my Mother's vacation in October. Although work has become more busy for both of us, I have squeezed in time and spent a day with girlfriends. Below are a few more things that made up my August.
Sunset at Petersham. Taken while I was inside the train on the way home. My train had a stop here and as I looked out the window, the light was just beautiful. Sydney's golden hour is always lovely.
Doing photography at home with the help of a step ladder. I sometimes wish I have a bit more height especially when I do photography. I've stepped on everything I could find whenever I do photography but at home this step ladder is so helpful to me.
Coconut Cupcake made and given by one of my workmates. I love her cupcake! It was so delicious. I'm not much of a baker but her cupcake was so good I asked for the recipe. Good luck na lang sa akin kung kelan ko yun magagawa haha.
Fur Friday. I've owned this (faux)fur jacket (thanks to my aunt!) since I've lived here in Sydney. I love how it's so warm and fuzzy.
Self-serve Area of Nespress Boutique in Sydney. Shopping's become easy for Nespresso Cardholders at the Nespresso Boutique! Just grab a bag and your choice of Nespresso grand crus and pay at the self-serve counters.
The IKEA Food Hall. There's the dining area, lounge area and they also have a kiddie area. They offer yummy and affordable food.
Our IKEA Brekkie. We got the regular breakfast but the Husband asked for some beans to be added to his. Then we each got dessert! His was some kind of pastry with peach and I had the Almond Butterscotch Pie. We like getting up early and start our day at IKEA because of the cheap brekkie and it's easier to find a parking spot in the morning.
The Little Moon Over A Lovely Sunset. Sydney's gorgeous sunsets are endless. What a blessing to come home to this. I'm so grateful!
Bejeweled Dessert Spoon From Korea. One of my many pretty finds from Seoul. Makes my coffee a little more dainty.
Another Lovely Dessert Spoon. Here's the second design I got. They're common in Seoul so it's really easy to find them.
MUJI Nail Files. I love them! While using them one night, I realized my nail thingy storage all matched! They're Pink!
I saw this when I was WAITING for my train. I like it whenever I see the ads of the Philippines' Tourism Department.
French Toast Brekkie on a Thursday Morning. I've got a day-off that day but I was getting ready to go out. To start a little calm on my day-off, I prepared a proper breakfast so I can sit down and savour my quiet time.
A Haircut After Four Months! Finally found the time to visit my Korean hairstylist. She brought back my bangs and layers. It felt so good to be taken cared of (yes that's how my hairstylist makes me feel). Made me feel human again.
Cherry Blossoms! Ahhhhh love is seeing cherry blossom flowers. I'm in love with them. I squeal in delight whenever I see them. More cherry blossom photos on my next blog entry.
My New Reading Partner. Thanks to the Husband for being my "fairy gadget father" for gifting me with my first e-book reader. I thought long and hard about having one and this year I've decided to go back to my love for reading books. Sure I have a table that I use for reading e-books but it's not as user-friendly as I hoped it to be.
Sushi Plate To Share with Husband. On days when we don't feel like cooking or don't have time to cook, we resolve to buying Sushi and eat at home. Rule of thumb though is to still sit on the table no matter what meal we eat. No eating on the sofa even if we're eating take away food.
On the last week of August, my boss gave me a bunch of Pink Tulips. It was a gift for the work I've done for the past few weeks. My work has tripled since the start of August due to the high demand for the training program I manage. I've weathered challenging days and I look forward to a busier September and October. The thought that my work is appreciated makes it all worth it.Just-because Gifts From the Husband. No special occasions this month but the generous Husband spoilt me with a two needs and a want: kindle, pink macbook sleeve and a tote bag.
Coffee "Me" Time. Last Friday of the month and I couldn't be happier ending my afternoon with some downtime. A cuppa, two macarons and an e-book kept me company for more than an hour. It was the perfect quiet celebration I needed.
That was a few snapshots of the month that passed. Hope you had a lovely month of August too!
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