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Most of our local orchids flower in spring, but there are a few exceptions. Hyacinth orchids do it in high summer, usually after rain, as with this one which I saw yesterday.
The common name of this plant seems a misnomer to people who know other hyacinth orchid species as well. They are all blotched!
This one is more blotched than the others, though. Notice that the blotches extend to the flower stem (the pedicel and ovary) which doesn't happen with the others.
It's always a pleasure to find a hyacinth orchid, as they can't be grown. They occur only where they've planted themselves, and I've never heard of one choosing to come up in a garden.
This plant was living in the typical habitat of the species, which is open eucalypt forest with a light grassy understorey. Most of its life is spent completely underground. It only puts up flowering stems once a year, when it's time to try for babies. A flourishing plant might put up three or four stems.
This flower has its "tongue" hanging out, hoping for a native bee or wasp to be tricked by its bright colours into thinking it will find nectar here so it can be roped into the job of pollination. Like most orchids, it's a cheat. It has evolved to look like a nectar-producing flower, but doesn't make any. It takes a lot of energy to make nectar, and this plant is a miser where energy is concerned. As for which nectar-bearing plant it is imitating - your guess is as good as mine. You do just need to keep in mind that the bees and/or wasps that pollinate this species can't see red.They can, however, see ultra-violet very well, and to them it would look like another colour - something we humans don't have the equipment to imagine. So if we are pondering which look-alike flower the orchids are imitating, the flower shape is probably a better guide. Orchids also often seem to out-compete the flower in question by being larger. Bluebells, perhaps?
Hyacinth orchids don't do leaves in any very effective way, from the point of view of being equipped to photosynthetise. (Look closely - they are there, but can't be doing much.) These plants are often described as parasites or saprophytes - the latter meaning plants that get their nutrition and energy from decaying matter under the ground, rather than by photosynthesis.
Saprophytes are not the same thing as parasites. Parasites live on other living organisms. Saprophytes live on plant material which is already dead. They are usually bacteria and fungi, and are an important part of the growth and decay cycle of their ecosystem, breaking down dead material and making it available for re-use by other plants.
Strictly speaking, hyacinth orchids are neither parasites nor saprophytes. They are myco-heterotrophs, which means that they attach their roots to a mycorrhizal fungus which is the true saprophyte, living on dead eucalypt roots. Most myco-heterotrophic plants live in partnership with their fungi. They take some nutriment from them, but also photosynthetise, making carbohydrate which they share with their fungus hosts. Despite their lack of leaves, hyacinth orchids do photosynthise. Those green stems are doing the job. But considering the short life of the flowers, on what is a perennial underground plant, I suspect that the fungus is the partner that does most of the work.
(A few plant species of myco-heterotroph are 100% parasitic. These are the ones that have no green on them at all, such as our local bootlace orchid, Erythrorchis cassythoides.)
To grow hyacinth orchids, all we need is some land with an open eucalypt forest ecology (complete with its cycle of growth and decay), some relatively open grassland, and the right species of fungus. Nature does it without apparent effort, but we humans have not managed to copy it.


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Hadiza Bala Usman, managing director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), says the agency might declare a state of emergency on roads leading to and from the port.
In an interview with CNBC Africa, the director said the ports authority might take on the construction of these roads if the ministry of works does not consider them priority.
"We even believe that we might need to declare an emergency on port access roads because what is going on now in the Apapa Tincan Island is an emergency," she said.
"The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has provided funds to reconstruct roads on the Apapa port axis and it is really not our responsibility. We provided N1.8 billion for the reconstruction of Wharf road last year.
"Port access roads are not our responsibility but because of how important it is to us, we are providing funding for something that is not our responsibility. We have sustained our engagement with the ministry of works to ensure that the roads are rehabilitated.
"If the ministry of works does not consider these roads a priority, the Nigerian Ports through the ministry of transportation can take on these roads and reconstruct them."
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Eleanor and Franklin cronicles the evolution of Eleanor Roosevelt from an insecure girl and young woman into a woman who would impact the lives of many, many people. When visiting US installations during WWII, more than once she heard soldiers cry out "Hey, there's Eleanor!" She radiated warmth and compassion with a down-to-earth style that made people feel like she belonged to them in some way. In many ways she did belong to them. She lived her life in service of others because she truly cared about the condition of human beings and wanted to make their lives better.
Very few people if any will argue that Eleanor Roosevelt was a remarkable person. However, it is easy to think that remarkable people are born that way. That plucked down in history at any time, they would have lived a similar life of accomplishment. This might be true, but I think often the difficulties in life are what bring out the best qualities in people. Mr. Lash takes the time to show us the circumstances in Eleanor's life that shaped and formed her into the remarkable woman she was.
Lash takes considerable time explaining the dynamics of Eleanor's childhood. Her father Elliot was the brother of president Theodore Roosevelt. Her mother Anne Hall was decended from the prestigious Ludlow and Livingston families. They were the darlings of society when Society was small and intimate. Anne along with her sisters were celebrated beauties and Elliot had a vibrant and out-going personality. Eleanor, a serious child, was not a beauty and was made aware of this by her mother and her aunts. She worshipped her father who was fun-loving and the light of her life. But her childhood was short-lived. Her father was an alcoholic and unstable emotionally. It eventually became necessary for Anne to leave him and take Eleanor and her brother Hall. As difficult as this was, it was compounded when both of her parents died leaving Eleanor and Hall in the custody of Anne's mother. Here she grew up in the shadow of aunts and uncles who had there own problems.
When Eleanor married Franklin, she was an insecure young woman eager to please. Although Franklin loved Eleanor, she always longed for a depth of intimacy that he was unable to meet. Her mother-in-law Sara Delano Roosevelt was very domineering, and although she was always very nice to Eleanor, she was determined to have her way and direct the course of her only son's life if at all possible. She would be a constant presence in their lives, always in the background criticizing and trying to direct until the day she died. Eleanor gradually broke free of this, but it wasn't until they were in the White House that she really started blossoming.
Eleanor and Franklin covers Eleanor's childhood, her life as a young wife and mother, her role as Franklin emerged as a leader in politics, and their life together at the White House. Lash uses Eleanor's correspondence and published writings to show how she dealt with becoming a public personality, raising her children with her mother-in-law constantly in the background, Franklin's infidelity, and finally the difficult years in the White House where she made the "office" of First Lady something it had never been before.
She was criticized as much as she was loved. She often felt that it was her duty to tell Franklin things that others around him would not say, in a way to be his conscience. Many thought she was butting in where she didn't belong. By the time Franklin was president, they no longer had the traditional marriage. She said to intimate friends that she was no longer in love with him, but she served him in love. It was a role that many women couldn't have tolerated. There were other women in his life that gave him space to relax and laugh. Eleanor couldn't give him that, but she gave what she could, a view to the world that he didn't have. She was an advocate for women, African-Americans, youth, soldiers, anyone who asked. There were times when she was taken advantage of. She knew this, but had to help if she could.
The book is dense. It is filled with details but is very readable. Expect to give it some time. It is a must read if you want to understand Eleanor Roosevelt, but also gives you a different perspective of FDR's presidency. Eleanor and Franklin ends with Franklin's death in the spring of 1945. Mr. Lash has written a sequel Eleanor: The Years Alone. I haven't read it yet, but you can be sure I will.
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Would like very much to take my boys to the Western Idaho Fair.
Angela Ryan 16/08/2013 at 2:07 pm
My four year daughter can't stop talking about the 4H animals (especially the baby chicks that hatch), every year we take her to see the animals and this year she will be big enough to ride a few rides. My one year old son loves the farm animals!! He just runs around growling at his farm animal toys! My husband just loves that fact that he has the best excuse in the world to eat what ever he wants! It has always been tradition to go to the fair every year, but with school starting around the corner and some other unforeseen circumstances, this year it might not be able to happen. Unless, we win some tickets!!!! 🙂
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I would love to be able to take my children to see all the festivities at the fair this year, they are finally old enough to really enjoy all the fair has to offer.
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Help me Help you! (= Family of six would love to go spend tons of money on concessions and toss hundreds of dollars in to glass dishes…oh, must shoot and make the nearly impossible basketball shot with huge over inflated ball into undersized rim! I can do it…give me a chance!(=
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Grandma and Grandpa taking 4 grandkids – could really use a little help with tickets – since Grandma rides the rides too – especially with youngest one.
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I really want to go see Pat Benetar I love her !!!
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Grama would LOVE to bring her special 5 grandjewels to the fair. I have never done that. Three of them never go due to the expense. We would make great memories together and enjoy those Idaho potato icecream treats! YUM. Of course sweet Potato fries are very yummy. It would be my privilege to give their parents the day off. A huge blessing to all 10 of us. 🙂
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FREMONT, Calif., June 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Asterias Biotherapeutics, Inc. (NYSE MKT: AST), a biotechnology company with three clinical-stage development programs focused on the emerging field of regenerative medicine, today announced that a review of its AST-OPC1 (oligodendrocyte progenitor cells) spinal cord injury program will be presented during an oral session at the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Annual Meeting, being held in San Francisco, CA from June 22-25, 2016.
Jane S. Lebkowski, Ph.D., Asterias' President of R&D and Chief Scientific Officer, will be one of the presenters during the 'Road to the Clinic" session scheduled on Saturday, June 25th at 1:15pm (PT). Dr. Lebkowski's presentation, titled "Clinical Assessment of hESC-derived Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells (AST-OPC1) in Patients with Sensorimotor-complete Thoracic and Cervical Spinal Cord Injuries," is expected to begin at 2:30pm (PT).
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During the same ISSCR annual meeting, Katy Spink, Ph.D., Asterias' Chief Operating Officer will participate on a Focus Session titled "Tools for Basic and Applied Stem Cell Biology." This session is organized by Stem Cell COREdinates, a consortium of human pluripotent stem cell-focused shared facilities that have joined forces to share experiences, expertise with protocols and reagents, and to establish "best practices." The session runs from 9:00am to 12:00pm (PT) on Wednesday, June 22nd. Following a series of presentations Dr. Spink will sit on a panel discussing pluripotent stem cell-based therapies, which begins at 11:00am (PT).
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Bond on Bond: There's no romance in a love scene watched by 60 crew... even if it IS with a gorgeous girl called Chew Mee
It is 50 years since James Bond first burst on to cinema screens with Dr No. Today, it has been suggested that more than half the world's population has seen at least one of the films in what has become the world's longest-running movie franchise. The 23rd, Skyfall, is due out in October.
In that time, 007 has got to know more than 50 Bond Girls, has fought with 130 villains and femmes fatales and has been armed with more than 100 gadgets and guns.
We've seen six incarnations of Bond himself: Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig and . . . oh yes, me!
A tough job: Roger Moore on the set of 1977's Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me with Caroline Munro, left and Barbara Bach
I was the oldest actor to play Bond – I
didn't start until the age of 45 – but I went on to make seven movies:
Live And Let Die (1973), The Man With The Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved
Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy and A View To A Kill
It was in October 1972 that I first reported for duty. Back then I could leap out of a chair without fear of my knees cracking; could chew a toffee without fear of losing a tooth; could admire my flowing locks and my bronzed, slim torso.
Ah yes, with a twitch of the old eyebrow I set pulses racing across the world, they say. These days it's my pacemaker that keeps my pulse racing. Sean Connery had completed You Only Live Twice and stated that it was to be his last.
I had clocked up seven years as Simon Templar in The Saint. By 1971 contracts were signed. It was weeks before producer Harry Saltzman called to say that he and co-producer Cubby Broccoli felt I was 'too fat' and my hair was 'too long'. I said I'd get a haircut and lose weight.
007: Roger in Live and Let Die
I told my dear friend Lew Grade that I was to be the next 007. With tears in his eyes, he shook his head and said: 'Roger, don't do it. It'll ruin your career!'
But he could not have been more wrong. I had such fun with James Bond – the girls, gadgets and high jinks...
All Bond girls are beautiful, more often than not sporting a suntan. Their eyes are usually blue, but in Goldfinger, Pussy Galore has the only truly violet eyes Bond had ever seen.
They have exotic-sounding names too: Suki, Vesper, Honey, Tatiana, Solitaire, Chew Mee, Bibi, Octopussy . . . suggestive, sexy and very Bondian. They were sexually experienced by the time they met 007, which was probably a good job.
Jim rarely limits himself to just one conquest. The pattern, still honoured to this day, usually sees anyone sleeping with Bond in the first reel bumped off before the end of the second.
Roald Dahl summed it up best when he wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice (1967): ' "You put in three girls," the producers told me.
"Girl number one is pro-Bond. She stays around roughly for the first reel of the picture, then she is bumped off by the enemy, preferably in Bond's arms.
' "Girl number two is anti-Bond and usually captures him, and he has to save himself by knocking her out with his sexual charm and power.
'She gets killed in an original (usually grisly) fashion midway through the film. The third girl will manage to survive to the end of the film." '
Normally, for a kissing scene, you never actually go in for the kiss during rehearsal as it tends to smudge make-up and ruffle hair. You just go through the motions. In The Spy Who Loved Me I rehearsed one such scene with an Italian actress, and it all seemed to go rather well.
Director Lewis Gilbert leaned over and said: 'Can we have a sample of the kiss, dear?' Suddenly from across the stage floor, this long snake-like tongue shot at me at the speed of light, worked its way around my teeth like dental floss and plunged deep into my throat. I was quite taken aback.
There is certainly no romance in a love scene, save that for the dressing room, if you're lucky. Far from being a romantic moment of intimacy, a film love scene is often witnessed by 50 or 60 crew members, many being hairy-a***d technicians in the rafters clenching fists and shouting, 'Go on, Rog! Give her one for us!'
It does rather put one off one's stride. And if there's mention on the call sheet of a love scene, or one of at least partial nudity, it always amazes me how the crew size swells.
The ladies' man: Roger with Maud Adams at the set of Octopussy, left, and surrounded by Bond's girls in The Spy Who Loved Me, right from 1977
Many girls, particularly in the early films, were cast because of their ravishing good looks. If they happened to have rather large busts, that certainly sealed their involvement as far as Cubby was concerned.
Though he also once remarked, on set, while looking at one of the beauties wandering about, that she had a 'particularly lovely derriere'. The lady also had particularly good hearing, as she turned, pounced and told Cubby he was a 'sexist, misogynist swine'.
Not all the girls were experienced in screen acting technique, and I recall a sequence when cigarette smoke (or actually a 'stun gas') had to be blown into my face.
For smoke, talcum powder was substituted, and instead of blowing it slightly to the side of my face the lady in question blew it straight into my eye – not just in one take, but in four. It wasn't one of my favourite days.
Behind every successful action hero lies a talented stunt team. In A View To A Kill, you might count 100 or more drivers, skiers, acrobats, horse riders – and sex doubles. Well, would you expect me to get into bed with Grace Jones? There are only so many girls an ageing actor can kiss without looking like a perverted grandfather.
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Ex-Bond: Roger writes about his favourite 007 gadgets
Bond's never-before-seen devices were supposedly supplied by gadget master Q, played by Desmond Llewelyn from 1963 to 1999. Off screen, Desmond was a complete technophobe who struggled to operate his own video recorder.
While many of Q's gadgets – highly charged magnetic watches, remote-control cars, a signature gun, underwater cameras, wrist-triggered dart guns, GPS tracking devices, fake fingerprints and acid pens – seemed outlandish and improbable, Q always maintained that they were 'prototypes' and forerunners of things that would eventually make it into commercial production.
In fact, the highest powers in the land weren't averse to phoning through to the Bond production office for insights.
In 1965, the Royal Corps of Engineers, having seen Thunderball, asked the then art department draughtsman Peter Lamont: 'How long can a man use your underwater breather device for?'
His answer was: 'How long can you hold your breath?'
In Goldfinger a brilliant set of homing beacons was presented to Jim. The first, larger, one was attached to the villain's vehicle and its early GPS-type technology used to locate his Swiss base.
The second, smaller one, concealed in Jim's shoe, allowed MI6 to track him. It really was a prototype of GPS as we know it today – and very useful for jealous wives.
More lovely toys were to come when yours truly stepped into the role in 1973. Apart from the bug sweeper, a clothing brush communicator, and a shark gun that fired special highly pressurised air pellets there was a lovely Rolex Submariner given to Bond by Moneypenny.
This was no ordinary watch. It featured a powerful electromagnet that was said to be able to deflect a bullet. More importantly, it could be used to unzip a lady's dress.
That's not how it works, Mr Bond: Roger Moore was disappointed to learn that the Rolex that could unzip a ladies dress wasn't for real
I was so disappointed when I learned it didn't really work, and that the special-effects designer Derek Meddings would instead have his hand up Maddy Smith's skirt, pulling the zip down using a piece of wire. Lucky old Derek.
Ah, if only I could find a working prototype of that watch today . . .
Then there was a Seiko Quartz watch that allowed MI6 to send important messages to Jim. The Seiko was back in Moonraker, though this time with the added bonus of a high explosive charge.
It accompanied the wrist dart gun, capable of firing both cyanide-coated and armour-piercing darts. I was also armed with a safe-cracking device concealed within a cigarette case; a mini-camera imprinted with 007, and a laser gun.
Oh, and I stole a poison pen from CIA agent Holly Goodhead's toys. Bond used it to dispose of Hugo Drax's pet python. When you have to act alongside a 12ft rubber snake – and try to appear more animated than it is – you know you've cracked this acting lark.
Why Blofeld's cat relieved itself on its evil master
Bad kitty: Blofeld, played by Donald Pleasance with his nervous cat
I always wanted to play a Bond villain as they have the best dialogue – describing their complex, evil and sinister schemes – whereas 007 just walks around saying his name and ordering Martinis.
In several of the books and early films it is SPECTRE – the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion – that supplies the criminal masterminds. Its evil head is Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Jim was to meet Blofeld in person for the first time when You Only Live Twice commenced filming.
Czech actor Jan Werich was cast in the part, but Cubby Broccoli and Lewis Gilbert were anxious when he arrived at Pinewood because he resembled a 'poor, benevolent Santa Claus'. Within a few days, they recast the role with Donald Pleasence.
Pleasence experimented with humps, lame hands and a beard before it was decided the now-distinctive scar would best convey the character's almost Himmleresque quality of villainy.
Whoever was in Blofeld's chair, one somewhat unexpected occurrence came as a result of all the explosions on set: Blofeld's white Persian cat didn't take too well to them, and frequently relieved itself on its master!
Auric Goldfinger was named after Ian Fleming's neighbour, Erno Goldfinger, an eminent architect and furniture designer.
It was said that some of his less endearing character traits were borrowed from him too.
When the book was published in 1959, Erno Goldfinger was unhappy and consulted his lawyers, prompting Fleming to suggest renaming the character 'Goldp***k', but Goldfinger eventually settled out of court in return for his legal costs, six copies of the novel and an agreement that the character's first name 'Auric' would always be used.
When Jim is captured by Goldfinger, he's spread-eagled on a table, with a laser rising between his legs. Bond: 'Do you expect me to talk?' Goldfinger: 'No, Mr Bond. I expect you to die.' Ah, classic lines.
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In fact, the laser beam was added later on and the cutting effect was achieved by engineer Bert Luxford lying underneath the table with a blowtorch.
He slowly cut up towards Sean Connery's groin having only a chalked line to tell him where he should stop. Sean was, understandably, rather anxious.
I loved Casino Royale and Daniel Craig. He is a wonderful actor, certainly the best actor to play Bond.
I have never been guilty of method acting, or even acting if you want to argue a point. Craig, right, also has the best build of any Bond.
I believe that Skyfall is going to have a lot more humour in it than Quantam Of Solace did, something I'll be pleased to see.
Of course, we had executives breathing down our necks when I was playing Jimmy, but I never took them seriously. In fact, I don't think I took anything seriously.
Except making sure I got paid on Friday. For me, going to work with Cubby Broccoli and his team was like going on a family outing.
It was hard work, but there were a lot of laughs. It was a true pleasure.
Every good villain has a good henchman. Goldfinger is aided in his crimes by his manservant, Oddjob, a mute, monstrously strong Korean.
The most memorable of all, however, has to be Jaws, sidekick to the evil Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me.
Jaws was played by my good friend Richard Kiel, who stands 7ft 2½ in.
Jaws got his name from the ominous, glinting steel teeth he wore, of course.
Poor devil, they were so uncomfortable to wear – Richard could only keep them in for about half a minute at a time.
In The Man With The Golden Gun, Scaramanga is assisted by the diminutive Nick Nack, as played by Herve Villechaize.
Dear Herve was sex mad! I asked him how many girls he'd had while we were shooting in Hong Kong.
'Forty-five,' he replied in his squeaky French voice.
'Ah!' I said. 'But it doesn't count if you paid them.'
'Even when I offer to pay sometimes they refuse me,' he added sadly.
He trotted up to Maud Adams, who was playing Andrea Anders, in the lobby of the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, tugged on her knee-length skirt and looked up to say: 'Maud, tonight I am going to creep into your room, climb under the duvet and make mad passionate love to you.'
Unfazed, Maud replied: 'If I find out you have, I'll be very cross.'
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I would be happy to accept the premise that the speaker offers, however, I don't believe the politicians would be willing to give up their perks that the present system allows. Call me cynical, but why would a political animal in office and imbued with the attitude associated with that office give up the perks from big business and allow the population a chance at competitiveness? The political animal's instincts would know that simplifying the tax code would reduce the power they have over the population and power over population is the only reason to have a tax code three times the size of the Bible. Also, I am reminded of consequences of missing taxes being harsher than that for murder – excepting if you were the head of the committee deciding tax law.
Compare this and this. Don't forget our friend Charlie to see how they treat their own.
The point is to maintain control, not raise revenue and allow citizens to operate as they see fit. That is why this concept would be DOA in Washington. Consider how they treated the millions opposing obamacare. The goal was to increase control, not help the citizens or even follow the oath they swore upon taking office.
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31 December, 2010
An interesting VideoPosted by nurseinbox under government, politics
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I would be happy to accept the premise that the speaker offers, however, I don't believe the politicians would be willing to give up their perks that the present system allows. Call me cynical, but why would a political animal in office and imbued with the attitude associated with that office give up the perks from big business and allow the population a chance at competitiveness? The political animal's instincts would know that simplifying the tax code would reduce the power they have over the population and power over population is the only reason to have a tax code three times the size of the Bible. Also, I am reminded of consequences of missing taxes being harsher than that for murder – excepting if you were the head of the committee deciding tax law.
30 December, 2010
These Past Three MonthsPosted by nurseinbox under culture, government, politics, Society
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have left me with a bit more experience on medical procedures. Being on the receiving end that is. I have previously mentioned taking Norco for pain control and am glad to be able to reduce my dosage. Without pain med, my knee hurts. I have to think of the questions I do to all my patients: where does it hurt? On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being little pain and 10 being take me to the hospital, where is your pain level? How would you describe the pain? This last one receives many diverse replies, many of which don't match my acceptable response list, but now that I'm on this side of the equation, let's see. It's about a 3 without pain medication and goes up to 5 or 6 when I have been walking about 20 min. As to the quality of pain, I guess ache with a bit of stab thrown in for good measure. This exercise is used to decide pain medication efficacy as well as pt response and comfort levels. This experience was due to moving many heavy objects in the early part of October and after a month of not being able to use the stairs, or leading exclusively with the left leg, I decided it was not going to better on its own. Medical attention needed. This is the point I am reminded of this cartoon.
My left knee had a similar problem about 10 years ago, with the addition that it was a total menesectomy where this one was a partial. I couldn't put any weight on that leg and remember many details of the experience.
That time had three months off work, weeks of waiting for MRI, and then surgery. There was an aspiration a month post surgery and I found out that Darvocet was a friend. I mention this to say that this time was seen through the lens of experience. I could anticipate pain medicine with its side effects, moving with crutches, brace to the leg, pain and swelling at the site and the needle aspiration afterwards.
Once it was decided the meniscus was damaged, the initial consultation ended with the admonition that I let the doctor know if the leg either caught or started hurting worse. (it wasn't as bad a rip as my previous) I had a chance to take a week to consider things and talked with some physical therapists and my insurance representative from work. This experience led me to understand that my leg wasn't going to get better, and if I put off surgery until after the new year, I would have to pay the deductible again.
The decision was down to: I would have to get surgery and experience the pain, swelling, restricted movements, side effects of pain meds, and possibly aspiration. Being a nurse, I also knew about the intubation, IV, and surgery prep that was going to happen. The only difference that waiting would make is that I could experience a bad knee for a bit longer and pay another deductible.
This logic is applied to the country in a couple of places:
is a little flavor:
"Nothing favors Big Business like Big Government. The occasional forays against specific targets in the private sector — mostly, companies that have been slow to bend the knee when the State commanded it — are mere flea bites, compared to the many ways the legal environment has been biased toward giant businesses." Read the rest.
Out the comments I will paraphrase. It's going to hurt. Let's get started. Waiting will only increase the deductible amount required to get to the other side of the procedure. Our country is headed into a financial meltdown driven by the political animals inhabiting each legislature in the country. These are being cheered on by their ideologically driven supporters as well as the businesses expecting to receive largess as long as it's available. Well, we are out of other people's money. Let's begin.
30 December, 2010
American Freedom Preserved this way…Posted by nurseinbox under culture, family, Society
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From Self-defense: a basic human right
These lead to the last one:
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29 December, 2010
Further along the "Underground History of American Education"Posted by nurseinbox under family, school, Uncategorized
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I am near the end of this compelling book and recommend all read a copy. It is by John Taylor Gatto and the following section is from pg 382:
School curricula are like unwholesome economies. They don't deal in basic industries of mind, but instead try to be "popular," dealing in the light stuff in an effort to hold down rebellion. That's why we can't read Pain's Common Sense anymore, often can't read at all. Only one person in every sixteen, I'm told reads more than one book a year after graduation form high school. kids and teachers live day by day. That's all you can do when you have a runaway inflation of expectations fueled by false promissory notes on the future issued by teachers and television and other mythmakers in our culture. In the inflationary economy of mass schooling–with its "A's" and ogld stars and handshakes and trophies tied to nothing real–you cease to plan. You're just happy to make it to the weekend."
I read this and thought of the popular culture songs like "it's five o-clock somewhere" where the singer can only get through the day thinking about a drink at the end. Or how about "working for the weekend" which I have heard in many quarters. I was even at fault in an assembly job where I decided to ruin my fellow workers' day and announced, "Only 92 hours until the weekend." This was met with a "shut up," and cold stare.
In that job, I never felt so much like a robot. The same body movements were required every minute for the entire day. No thought was required. In his book, John Gatto made the point that to get a population to accept this kind of mindless labor, they had to be trained at an early age and also trained in the rewards required of that force behavior. The gold stars (I received a couple of those paper rewards) all start in school.
I was looking over headlines and ran across the thought that Big Government is required by Big Business. Which seemed like a timely thing to read.
Further into the book on page 385:
"But here is a warning: should we ever agree to honor the singularity of children which forced schooling contravenes, if we ever agree to set the minds of children free, we should understand they would make a world that would create and re-create itself exponentially, a world complex beyond the power of any group of managers to manage. Such free beings would have too be self-managing. And the future would never again be easily predictable."
This is the exact reason the elites in power presently desire no personal accountability and growth. One responsible for themselves is less likely to be lead as a dhminni or lower caste which our feds are in the process of establishing.
29 December, 2010
On to brighter newsPosted by nurseinbox under family, medical
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I have had an improvement, as of this morning I made it through a night without pain medication. Yea. That's not to say there was a good night's sleep involved. However, the bridge has been crossed and improvement is on the horizon.
On a subject associated with the body part in question, I was asked multiple times about what the surgery would be and where it was. The surgeon even came in and initialed my leg with a sterile marker. A sterile marker, on an unsterile leg. I'm thinking a regular sharpie for a buck could have done the same job for a lot fewer dead presidents. Anyways, the nurse came back in and requested the surgery description again and I obliged her request with "right medial partial menesectomy." This was met with "actual terminology," and a surprised face. I always found using proper terminology with the medical folk, as a patient, causes an interesting reaction. I am reminded of a doctor who asked if my son had had any previous surgeries. I replied yes, an orchidoplexy. He paused for a moment, and I could almost see the wheels turn until he wrote something on the paper.
26 December, 2010
Welcome to post Christmas grope…Posted by nurseinbox under government, politics
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"I told them, 'No, I'm not going to have my breasts felt,' and she said, 'Yes, you are,'" said Hirschkind.
When Hirschkind refused, she says that "the police actually pushed me to the floor, (and) handcuffed me. I was crying by then. They drug me 25 yards across the floor in front of the whole security."
From here.
We are supposed to feel safer when citizens are treated in this fashion. Descriptions like this, I thought, were formerly reserved for the USSR. Continuing:
"The TSA did release a statement Wednesday that said in part, "Our officers are trained to treat all passengers with dignity and respect. Security is not optional."
We are supposed to believe the stage show and intimidation of individuals. In reality:
"The videos, which have since been deleted, show that thousands of airport employees are allowed to skip security every day at San Francisco International Airport. Here's the full report from the San Francisco ABC affiliate and the station that broke the story, News 10 in Sacramento."
From here.
From the same report we see that it is not security, only a show they want and if anyone challenges it…
"Perhaps the most disturbing part of the report comes when aviation consultant Ron Wilson, a former SFO employee, admits on camera that the whistleblowing pilot is right. All a terrorist needs to do to penetrate security is to get an ID, which is relatively easy, he suggests.
"I still have mine," he says, brandishing his old ID.
The pilot's attorney, Don Werno, says the feds sent six people to the pilot's house to send a message.
"And the message was you've angered us by telling the truth and by showing America that there are major security problems, despite the fact that we've spent billions of dollars allegedly to improve airline safety," he told ABC."
The additional links are available at the links. My point is this is to establish the dhimmitude of the population as the "leaders" are exempt from this kind of treatment. We are in the process of being trained in a new formation of culture that has an established caste and we are on the lower level. They want us to know – experience – our station. Think about that next time through the airport. Picture Pres 0 and Harry R, or Pelosi squeezing our "stuff". That is the concluding picture that this year in congress allows.
25 December, 2010
Merry Christmas from NurseinboxPosted by nurseinbox under family, Uncategorized
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I had a thought from last night, but was under the influence of Norco, so didn't blog then.
There was a project I was trying to finish for spouseinbox and while being able to move, kept moving until last night when the knee was swollen and decided to yell enough that it couldn't be ignored further.
There's my explanation for not telling this sooner.
Kidinbox was over for Christmas and watching one of the Christmas shows about Santa. As related by spouseinbox, kidinbox noted that he would have to be asleep for Santa as the Santa tracker came on the tv and said Santa was close and to get to bed. He quickly lay down and noted, "I know it's you two." and lay down again. Sleep was fast coming, before the show even ended. Wow.
If only that could have been done years ago.
Spouseinbox and I were having a discussion about stocking issues from growing up and found a major disparity. I had permission to tear into the stocking and leave parents in bed, while spouseinbox had to wait for the parent pair to rise and observe the proceedings. As of this writing, the stockings are still intact and kidinbox is lying observing the proceedings as breakfast progresses.


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I pride myself on the classroom management routines & procedures that I have come up with. This my lovelies is vital to new teachers & even veteran teachers. We always pray that we will not get the class that puts us in the looney bin but we always don't get that lucky.
I don't have children so the students are my children for 9 months. Some I would love to take home & some I would like to move to another class. We all have them.
The first day is always scary for any teacher. We are just as nervous as our little nuggets & their parents will be. I always get scared that I am going to make someone cry, send them home on the wrong bus, lose them in the hallway or just plain lose them. This is natural friends even for the most experienced teacher.
Being prepared is VITAL! Trust me, I am the queen of procrastination & I swear I have ADD....I can't keep focused especially with internet connection! Even when I was at school getting my classroom ready this week I was aimlessly walking around from pile to pile & would forget what I was doing. It's either turning 40 is giving me short term memory loss or I in fact do have ADD.
Regardless, if I am writing their names on 500 different things the night before school starts, I am prepared. I just hope nobody tries to open up my closets or looks in my storage closet because I will throw anything that is not put away in it's place in either one of my hiding spots.
I do it to myself...really..I do. I like change & I like changing things up from year to year. As I learn how to do more things with technology & all the ideas I get from the fabulous network of teachers in blogland, it's inevitable that my classroom will change.
I will give you some tips to keep you on track starting with the very first day of school. The first few days of school are THE MOST IMPORTANT time in your classroom & how it will operate for the entire year! I'm not kidding.
I made this sign to use on our first day of school. It's just a piece of wood made into a #1. I will put each student's name on it & snap their picture. I do have a separate classroom blog where I post all the photos I take of them throughout the year. If you want to see some of the photos I take check out this post here.
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* I earn 5 times less than Julia, but still manage to invest a third of my income. Here's how...
Regular listeners of Bruce Whitfield's The Money Show will be familiar with Julia, the young savings superhero.
Although Julia earns about R1 million per year she drives a very modest Toyota Etios.
She invests a third of her income and, already a multimillionaire, is well on her way to achieving lifelong financial freedom.
As her salary increased Julia saved and invested more. She could afford to, but refrained from moving into a big house or buying a fancy car. She avoided the trap of meeting her improved income with increased expenditure.
"What sets Julia apart from most middleclass South Africans," says Galileo Capital Financial Advisor Warren Ingram, "is that she doesn't feel the need to buy a new car every three years and she's happy to rent a very modest house."
Listen to the audio (scroll down) for Whitfield's latest interview of Julia who talks about her growing nest egg.
I'm still driving the Etios. My husband is now driving my old Corsa Lite.— Julia
2008 was a very scary time for me, but I continued to invest. In hindsight; I should've invested even more back then.— Julia
I had a lot of different investments. Now, I'm trying to consolidate a bit.— Julia
I've invested about R2.6 million. Investing a third of my income has become a habit. I am now worth R3.7 million.— Julia
I'm seven months pregnant! I also bought a house; a black-hole for money! I'm opening a tax-free savings account for the little one which I'll use for education. I'm cutting down on travelling. I'm going to try and continue investing a third of my income.— Julia
My husband has recently made his first investment. After a day he was worried because the stock market was down! He needs to learn patience.— Julia
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Ann Arbor, MI — November 25, 2014 — The University of Michigan's Transforming Learning for the Third Century (TLTC) program has just announced an unprecedented $3 million award to support interprofessional education in the health sciences. Dentistry will be a prominent driving force throughout this progressive initiative designed to transform the learning environment for students in the health professions. The Steering Committee for Interprofessional Education (SCIPE), chaired by Dr. Carol Anne Murdoch-Kinch, submitted the winning proposal, Interprofessional Health Education and Collaborative Care: A Transformative Model for the Health Sciences.
In addition to the $3 million TLTC award, the Health Sciences Deans have generously supported this project through matching funds of an additional $3 million.
The Interprofessional Health Education and Collaborative Care grant is designed to change how the health sciences are taught to students in the seven units by breaking down the traditional "silo" approach to education and, instead, emphasizing collaborative learning among students and faculty with the goal of enhancing patient care.
Murdoch-Kinch notes that "with this incredible support to health professions education, student learning will be enriched by the diversity of perspectives students and faculty will experience in this interprofessional approach to learning." Read more about the School of Dentistry's project and the projects of the two other U-M projects.


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If a Welfare operation is not listed when a search is made who do I contact to let them know it needs to be added?
mcmillandm wrote:If a Welfare operation is not listed when a search is made who do I contact to let them know it needs to be added?
There used to be a more obvious feedback link. Now it's much harder to find, except on the popup for an existing location. Of course, that doesn't help you much when the problem you want to report is that a facility is not on the map at all!
But you can place a marker (the first green option on the control panel on the map) at the desired location (where you think the operation should be). Then you can click on the marker, which will have a feedback link where you can explain what you thought you should find there.
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Looking back on 2015, the 'Ed stone' seems to sum up the state of British politics during the year…it seemed like a good idea at the time. Whether it was the attempt thwarted by the House of Lords to reduce the scale of tax credits or promising a referendum on the EU or the election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party 'by an overwhelming mandate' (as we are continually and increasingly boringly being told), it has been the year of the political cock-up…yes I know most years are but this has been one of spectacularly bad ideas. Take tax credits. If the Chancellor had introduced his changes in a finance bill, then he would still have faced opposition in the Lords but the legislation would have passed as it would have been a 'money bill'. Given that he knew the Conservatives no longer had a majority in the Lords, it beggars belief why an individual with the Machiavellian skills of George Osborne tried to get the measure through as a Statutory Instrument…it is true that the Lords normally nodded through secondary legislation but there is no convention saying that they could not reject them…a case of poor advice and vaulting hubris I suspect.
I suspect that many of those who 'lent' Jeremy Corbyn their nominations so that there was a left-wing candidate on the ballot paper are kicking themselves now. No one expected that he would win… I do wish I'd placed £100 on him to win when the odds were 100/1!!! But clearly it was a case that 'The Force was with him' aided by an electoral system where anyone who paid £3, whether they were Labour party supporters or not, could vote in the election. Having lost the 2015 General Election because of Ed's perceived left-wing credentials, the Labour Party then took a leap to the left with the beginnings of 'ethnic cleansing' of those no longer seen to have the populist purity of the party's historic principles. The problem with this is that when Labour has elected leaders with openly oppositionist principles in the past—I'm thinking of George Lansbury in the 1930s, Michael Foot in the 1980s—it had proved electorally disastrous and exposed the ideological divisions within the Party.
Something that is also evident within the Conservative Party over Europe. Having already enshrined in law that there would be a referendum over future treaty change, under the perceived threat posed by UKIP and his own Euro-sceptics, David Cameron decided that a referendum over changes he proposed to negotiate with the other EU states. With the continuing crisis over the Euro and the massive migrations of peoples into the EU in the summer and early autumn—neither of which have had a significant impact on the UK—you might have thought that David would be in a strong position. Well no. There is no likelihood of changes to the central tenet of the free movement of people within the EU or over discrimination of EU citizens by imposing a four year ban on in-work welfare benefits. The Prime Minister's hope was that if he could get agreement on his 'four points', he could sell this to an increasingly sceptical public—the poll published today gives 47 per cent in favour of Brexit.
Jeremy Corbyn and the referendum will remain central political issues throughout 2016. Although EU Council President Donald Tusk has called for a 'serious debate with no taboos' about Mr Cameron's demands, it is clear that unless the ways benefits are paid to British citizens is changed to take account of the ways they operate in many EU countries he will not get agreement across the EU for benefit changes. This will inevitably weaken what he will achieve and what he will be able to present to the country. What politicians seem not to acknowledge..and this was something that was evident when I campaigned for a 'Yes' vote in 1975 and in my experience has not changed…is that people's views of the EU are emotional as much and arguably more than political. The problem for those who want to stay in is that those leading the campaigns have little credence amongst ordinary voters…in fact what you need is a single campaign with a single charismatic leader who can get the message across in straightforward terms…and that is not what is currently the case.
For Jeremy, the current situation is unsustainable. Although Labour claimed victory over tax credits and maintaining police numbers, there is little to suggest that the Labour leadership in the Commons had much to do with this. It was the Conservative minority in the Lords that led to victory over welfare payments and the massacre in France that made reducing police numbers politically unsustainable. There is little or no opposition in the House of Commons and little evidence that Jeremy had any significant control over his own MPs. In the short term, this may not matter as the next election is over four years away. But, there is a strong sense of a rudderless party increasing buffeted by left-wing pressures beyond the hallowed halls and, despite the rhetoric, of increasingly vicious and internecine struggles at constituency level. To be effective, political parties need to be led, not a discussion group for weighing contrary arguments. In both the referendum campaign and within the Labour Party, what is needed is effective leadership, something that both currently lack.
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Diaries Down Under – Part 3!!!
When I heard the above song from Namaste London in 2007, I loved the music and the way it has been sung. But somehow lyrics didn't make any sense to me and I termed them as meaningless.
Yesterday during my trip to The Great Ocean Road, when I head this song, I understood each and every word of this song and was so much moved by them that I requested to change the song – it was evoking homesickness. Sometimes you need to be in the mould to understand things that are designed for some purpose.
The trip was fantastic. We had rented out a car. Thanks to GPS and driving expertise of the friend who was driving, we reached the destination without many hiccups, if not any.
There was a minor hiccup for me though.
My biggest worry about travelling out of India was food – being a vegetarian and spoilt by home cooked food for ages, you really struggle out of your comfort zone when it comes to food. Luckily it hasn't been a problem in the city – thanks to many Indian restaurants in the city and amazing hospitality of the friend with whom I am staying.
But I knew there could be a few problems whenever I go out of the city. While we stopped by on our way to 12 apostles to have lunch, I couldn't get many options in vegetarian. Somehow I located a shop, explained the shopkeeper about what exactly I was looking for, bought the spinach wrap and had it as my lunch. It was tough to swallow but swallow I did.
Within a few miles, I was returning the wrap to The Great Ocean Road. Such was the reluctance of my body to digest the wrap that I ended up throwing out last night's dinner too. Just in case you happen to visit 12 Apostles via The Great Ocean drive, it is the Hitchcock Memorial at Mount Defiance near which I left my mark. I hope you know what I mean.
Drive on The Great Ocean Road is amazing. All along the drive, you have mountains on one side and beautiful ocean on another. The road you are driving on seems to be the only separator between the two of them. If drive isn't enough, view of 12 apostles will surely sweep you off your feet.
Just in case you have got bored by reading this piece, there is no need to get. This is not a boring travelogue but description of incidents which made us feel like Naseeruddin Shah and Vivek Baswani who spend an entire night in an attempt to put a dead body in a safe place in the movie Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron. Don't worry; there wasn't a dead body with us. It was the car we had rented out – we had to park somewhere during the night and return it next morning.
One of the conditions car renting agencies here have is about the fuel – you get the car with full tank and you return the car with full tank.
We had to get the tank full, park it somewhere for the night and return it next morning. Best way would have been to fill up the tank before entering the city because locating a petrol pump in the city which has more traffic rules than its population, wasn't going to be easy.
One of us is staying in a hotel. He enquired at his hotel and was informed that parking was available. One third of our problems were solved. As we entered the city, in an event of extreme good fortune, we somehow drove directly to his hotel. Two third of our problems were solved. Although we wished if this bit of problem was solved after the remaining one third – getting the tank full.
More than an hour later we learnt a big lesson in life. Solving problems in life is important, but the order in which they are solved is also important. It is a challenge to become a father but one must solve the problem of searching for the right girl and marrying her before solving the problems of parenthood. I hope you know what I mean.
Before I write any further, let me try and explain some of the traffic rules in Melbourne.
One needs to follow the lane discipline. But being a democratic country, there is space of individual freedom. You can choose not to follow as well. All you need to do is break the rule and be ready to pay a minimum fine of AUD 300 – no questions asked. Hence, one must follow the lane discipline.
Right most lanes are for trams. One can drive in them but cannot overtake the tram from left. So if you need to overtake the tram, you need to go to the designated lanes for overtaking the trams.
There can be a scenario when you need to take right on a crossroad while the tram is on your right. There is a way to do it. When on a crossroad, you should to go to extreme left, wait there at the middle of the crossroad (there is a space to wait) and then turn right to cut the tram from right. You need to look for Trams' traffic lights, pedestrians' lights, cyclists' signal lights, school signs, no parking, no left, no right and signs for kissing bikini babes – if you see a sign, you must go find a chic roaming around in a bikini, take her autograph hand it over to a cop, take the receipt and only then you can move.
Okay, I made up the last one. BTW, did you find abovementioned a bit overboard and difficult to understand? You have just read them. We had to drive. Compared to that, driving in India is lot simpler. All one needs to do is drive. Everything else is other's worry.
Parking too has multiple rules which are not easy to understand. There are places you can park for five minutes, there are places can park for hours after paying. There is a whole lot of world somewhere in between – parking for five minutes, parking for not more than an hour, parking if your car is not lengthier than 2 meters, parking 2 meters right and 3 meter left of the parking sign, parking for just one car, parking while you either sit at the roof of the car or sit inside the bonnet.
Okay, I made up the last one. It is so simple in India. Parking signs come with just one sign – "P". Even if it is a "No Parking" sign, it is only for the first car. Once a maverick musters courage to park his/her car there, others simply follow the suit.
Coming back to last night, we started our hunt to the petrol pump. While entire India was getting ready to submerse itself in the glitter of Diwali, we were getting lost in the glitter of traffic lights. There were so many of them of so many different kinds. To assist them, there were cameras installed almost everywhere. If that wasn't enough, speed limits varied frequently. Even if that wasn't enough, we didn't understand half the traffic signs. We had no
Just to make sure we don't miss a turn, we had two GPS systems running – one in the car and one in the phone. Not surprisingly, both the systems were telling different directions at one given time. What we were doing, we weren't doing anything. Confusion was driving us towards another direction.
After roaming around for more than half an hour within the city in which we wouldn't have covered more than five kilometers, we managed to locate a petrol pump. We were punching fists in the air, like a Rohit Sharma does, as soon as we managed to enter the petrol pump. I don't remember if I have ever been happier after seeing a petrol pump.
We came out of the car and picked up the tube to fill up the tank. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a question emerged out of thin air – "Is it petrol or it's a diesel car?"
Question was valid. Plus, we didn't want to take any chances. Filling up the wrong fuel may well have resulted in losing a month's salary for paying the damages. Alas, insurances don't cover of ignorance or negligence.
We tried looking any signs at the tank. No luck. We tried looking any signs at the car. No luck.
I smelt the fuel tank. It smelt like petrol but then, I was too confident of my nose which was already suffering from severe cold. If there was a way to find out if it was a petrol-car or diesel, it wasn't visible.
I even asked an Indian cabbie, "Bhaiiya, humko pata karna hai ki humari car diesel wali hai ya petrol wali. Kaise Karen" (Mate, we need to find out if our runs on petrol or diesel. How can we do it?)
I know I sounded dumb but the cabbie trumped me with even a dumber reply – "Lete time nahi poocha tha kya?" (Didn't you ask when you took it?)
I felt like telling him, "No I did ask and know. I just want to check if cabbies in Melbourne know the difference between diesel and petrol so that I can report it to Arnab"
Soon one of us said, "Let's look at the manual"
It was a brilliant idea. We searched for the manual, found it in the dashboard and started to search in it. Well, three thirties something standing beside a car, in a petrol pump which is deserted, around 10:15 in the night, frantically going through a few booklets and looking for something is a sight not seen every day or night. But it was one of such nights.
Soon we discovered that it was a petrol driven car, filled up the tank and started driving. The rut of GPS telling us to go right, right displaying "no entry" sign and us going nowhere continued. Amidst this confusion, we committed a cardinal sin. We drove in the rightmost lane (the one meant for trams), missed the designated lane to overtake the lane and stopped at a red light. It was a two way lane and we had some company. Car on our left was full with a few drunkard who were laughing at us like any drunkard would and taking our pictures – maybe to put on facebook's funny pics gallery. We had no entry facing sign facing us. Only way to go was to turn right which we did. But the most interesting company was coming from behind.
It was the tram.
We had stopped the car right on its way. All my life I have had one complaint about trams – they are so slow, I wonder if running them has any use.
That very moment, I didn't complained one single bit about tram's speed. In fact I wished if it could run any slower. I was just imagining the scenario of a tram honking for us to clear its way.
Thankfully, we got lucky. The traffic light turned green before tram could hit us.
We survived.
Then we took a wrong turn and again had to take a full circle. As our roundabout at the circle ended, we realized to have encircled the wrong circle. When we wanted to be in the left lane, somehow we managed to find ourselves in the right lane. Need I tell you that after the tram incident, we just didn't wanted to be in the right lane.
Chaos, chaos and chaos.
It was nothing but chaos.
There came a point when we could have simply climbed the stairs and entered the hotel we were looking for. Alas, car wasn't designed to climb stairs. Hence we had to keep driving and looking for right roads.
All we wanted to do was get rid of the car – somehow, anyhow but without paying any fines.
Finally, we managed to find the parking and returned the car next morning without many hiccups.
Now the suspense.
Did we get lucky or we were caught.
If we were, how many places. How many tickets did we get? If we did get some tickets, shall we have enough money to pass rest of the month after paying the fines? Or more importantly, do we have enough money to pay the fines whenever we get to know about them. Although I am sure we did not break any rules but then, driving in an unknown territory always gives you some jitters.
The long wait begins.
*Work of fiction.


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Pre-recorded on Friday, this episode is a bit of a grab-bag, though it certainly is an hilarious grab-bag! Your friends in podcasting spend the first half of the show discussing their ambivalence about this year's Academy Awards, with some predictions of who will win Oscars, including those likely victors that disappoint or even disgust them, and which victories might please them, and why. Then, Dean and Phil switch gears by welcoming two guests via Skype. Brandon Marsh and Alina Brazdeikene are on the team that created the game "The X-Files: Deep State" and they file a live report from the green room at X-Fest, the 25th celebration of "The X-Files". Finally, Dean and Phil wrap up with two rounds of their new game-show rendition of "Celebrity Deaths". This week Dean is quizzed about a jazz great (and legendary anti-Apartheid figure) who Dean does not recognize and a female icon of World War II that Dean DOES get right!


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JEFFERSON - Linda Jeanette Stancil Rossi, 67, passed away on Wednesday, July 4, 2018.
Mrs. Rossi was born in Commerce, the daughter of Ruth Jackson Stancil of Jefferson and the late Emory Stancil. Mrs. Rossi was a teacher/bus driver for Headstart and a member of the Bethany United Methodist Church, where she was a Sunday school teacher for the children's ministries for many years. Mrs. Rossi was preceded in death by her son, Thomas Duane Rossi.
Survivors in addition to her mother include her husband, Thomas Rossi, Jefferson; daughters, Melinda Christian and her husband Dennis, Maysville, Kelly Howington and her husband Charlie, Carnesville; grandchildren, Carlie Howington and Cale Howington; sister, Janice Weaver, Winterville; brothers, Johnny Stancil, Redstone, Herman Stancil, Jefferson, and Dennis Stancil, Maysville; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, July 6, at 11 a.m. in the Chapel of Evans Funeral Home with the Rev. Ross Wheeler officiating. The burial will follow in the Jackson Memorial Park with Glen Baxter, Ronnie Fain, Johnny Stancil, Herman Stancil, Kenny Poe, Donald Jones and Marvin Poe honored as pallbearers. The visitation will be held on Thursday, July 5, at Evans Funeral Home from 6 to 8 p.m.
In lieu of flowers please make memorials to the Bethany United Methodist Church for the Children, Middle and Youth Department, 4659 Brockton Road, Jefferson, GA 30549.
Evans Funeral Home, Jefferson, is in charge of arrangements.
Online condolences at www.evansfuneralhomeinc.com
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