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The development and designs of HB surfboards built in the 70's stand the test of time when three originals are pulled out of the bag and taken to modern day Jeffreys Bay. Thirty years later those same boards draw lines and find speed like the day they were first launched. Cape St Francis is bigger than ever filmed providing a finale for an epic adventure through time.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 139 diseños de 50 diseñadores freelance.
The Quigley Company, makers of Cold-Eeze and other products is getting a new name. The name may be Lifeworks. Our mission is to develop and market remedies that offer pioneering new options to improve treatment results. We address the root cause of illness with more power, speed and efficacy than other treatment options. We develop and acquire high performance homeopathic and allopathic compounds and offer unique methods to deliver those compounds. We innovate medical science and change lives. Currently Cold-Eeze is our #1 Product. It is a zinc formula lozenge which is clinically proven to reduce cold symptoms and duration.
The corporate name/logo will be important to investors (we are a public company), retailers, and eventually the consumer. Out logo will go on all brand packages. Currently the target market for Cold-Eeze is college educated women and moms.
We are conducting two other logo contests with other potential names. Feel free to enter all contests, but please do not put up the same logo for each. For the lifeworks name, we see something colorful (see pinnacle software logo), vibrant and universal. We are science based ... but we don't want beakers and test-tubes. We are all about remedies that work!
Be creative. We are redoing the packaging for Cold-Eeze, and eventually the logo will have to live in harmony on the Cold-Eeze box. I will attach some examples of possible boxes.
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Whether you are a first-time job-seeker or you're a veteran in your field, it is important that you take the right steps toward landing you ideal job. There's more to a successful job search than ironing your best suit and printing out extra resumes. Today's employers are looking for the best of the best, and one typo on your cover letter can can get you thrown into the "Do Not Call" pile. Avoid these common mistakes to score your dream job.
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Subject: Re: [ecasound] [OT}ecasound on dell laptop working
From: Francisco Oltra (foltra_AT_postmark.net)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 17:06:41 EET
De Clarke wrote:
> if other folks on this list could comment on what other tools they
> use with ecasound I would be very interested to hear about wav file
> editors, standalone noise filters etc. I built Gmurf but as yet I
> don't understand what it does.
You can start by checking out Dave Phillips excelent site,
and his very nice book (i have a copy myself :>).
Theres also the linux-audio-user mailing list, if you haven;t
checked out allready.
> could more experienced ecasound (and linux digital audio) hackers
> please recommend any good books and/or FAQs which would bring me
> quickly out of the analog realm and into this new world? topics
> I am particularly interested in are quality enhancement, i.e. how
See the documentation section on dave phillip's page,
you'll find stuff like the audio quality howto:
> to make the final mp3 sound good -- how to burn my own audio CD
> using linux -- how to use portable mp3 players -- how to make new
> multitrack recordings using ecasound -- how to mix down multi-wav
> multitracks to stereo master -- MIDI to wav and incorporating MIDI
> tracks into multitrack recordings -- what horsepower (MHz rating)
> CPU is recommended -- and if I decide to use a "real" machine
> instead of a laptop, what sound cards are the most reliable and
> best value for the $$.
the press release :)
> Greetings:
> After a rather long delay I've updated the pages. You can find
> them at
> the usual URLs :
> Europe:
> http://www.linuxsound.at/
> Japan:
> http://www.ymo.org/linuxsound/
> http://sound.condorow.net/
> The Japanese site should update by tomorrow, the others are >current.
> Btw, this month's mini-tutorial is on sequencing with MusE...
> Enjoy !
>Best regards,
>== Dave Phillips
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text: Show Hide image Politics 21 November 2012 Has Cameron realised that Tory government is not our default setting any more? To do better next time, the Tories have to overcome formidable obstacles. Sign-up Measured in general election victories, the only successful Conservative leader from the past quarter of a century is John Major. It must be sobering for David Cameron to examine the conditions that last produced a Tory majority and be transported back to April 1992, a time when most British people had never held a mobile phone. These days the Major administration is generally remembered for economic malaise and divisions over Europe that made the Tories look unfit for power. If the parallels with Cameron's predicament aren't obvious, Ed Miliband's aides will gladly spell them out. The Prime Minister, they say, has also governed haplessly through recession and lost control of Brussels-bashers on his own benches. To reinforce the analogy, Miliband has sided with Tory rebels in parliamentary battle over the EU budget, reviving the tactical collaboration that tormented Major during the passage of the Maastricht Treaty 20 years ago. Senior Tories prefer to dwell on an earlier chapter in the Major story – the squashing of Neil Kinnock. They interpret that result as proof of a British aversion to pious lefties bearing alarming economic manifestos. Downing Street thinks Miliband will trigger that allergy. Risky business Confidence that an opponent can be beaten doesn't in itself make a winning plan. Gordon Brown was supremely beatable and he obstructed Cameron's progress enough to produce a hung parliament. To do better next time, the Tories have to overcome formidable obstacles. Above all, they need the economy to look healthy enough that the idea of putting Labour in charge feels retrograde and risky. After the economy, the two items that Conservative strategists say would make the biggest difference to their chances of a majority are redrawing parliamentary constituency boundaries to address a perceived pro-Labour slant and overcoming suspicion among ethnic minorities that the Tory party isn't for them. The first of those objectives looks far-fetched. Nick Clegg has sworn he will thwart boundary changes in retaliation for Tory obstruction of House of Lords reform. (Sensitivity to his reputation as a breaker of oaths makes the Liberal Democrat leader ever more determined to uphold this particular pledge.) The second goal is only slightly less ambitious. Opinion polls show an irrefutable correlation between not being white and not voting Conservative. That holds even for second- and third-generation immigrants whose views might otherwise neatly align with Conservative policy. To address the problem, No 10 is taking advice from the Canadian Conservatives, a sister party that reversed a similar deficit in minority support through a concerted campaign of community engagement. It is a long process demanding discipline and consistency from all candidates. There is always the hazard that a rogue racist outburst undoes months of conciliation. An example of what such unhelpful incidents might look like is furnished in reports that Lynton Crosby, the Australian consultant newly appointed to run the Tories' next election campaign, when managing Boris Johnson's bid for the London mayoralty, rejected the idea of targeting "f***ing Muslims". Crosby says he doesn't remember the episode. His defenders point out that the campaign he ran for Johnson rejoiced in the capital's multicultural credentials. Crosby was also the architect of Michael Howard's 2005 campaign, remembered in senior Tory circles as well-run but misguided. Blunt messages on crime, immigration and tax appeared alongside the slogan "Are you thinking what we're thinking?" The formula suggested some secret, more extreme agenda. Those who still fret about rehabilitation of the Tory brand insist that Crosby's appointment is no threat. "Lynton will do what he's paid to do," says one insider at Conservative campaign headquarters. "His job isn't to write the message, his job is to deliver the message." Devising the election strategy remains the preserve of George Osborne. His great preoccupation, alongside boundary machinations and unbiddable minorities, is said by colleagues to be the UK Independence Party. Nigel Farage's anti-Brussels junta is feasting on the votes of ex-Tories who despise Cameron for his dalliances with metropolitan liberalism as much as his occasional bouts of Euro-pragmatism. Tory MPs used to see the Ukip vote as a midterm protest excursion by Conservatives whose underlying allegiance could be relied upon in general elections. Many now fear the fracture is permanent. It isn't just Tories who are losing support to Ukip. Faragism, as a kind of organised, anti-Westminster dyspepsia, speaks to disillusionment across the spectrum. It is, however, uniquely challenging for Cameron and Osborne because of the way it interacts with the collapse of support for Nick Clegg on the left. In marginal Tory seats where Lib Dem refugees are switching to Labour, it doesn't take many Conservatives to defect to Ukip for Miliband to chalk up a gain. Last hurrah The Tories' fear of Ukip, their difficulty in reaching out to minorities and their resentment of the current parliamentary boundaries – which is partly displaced annoyance at the shortage of supporters in densely populated urban areas – are different expressions of one big demographic discomfort. It is the painful realisation that conservative Britain doesn't automatically vote Conservative any more. The Tories have a self-image as Britain's natural party of power – a view made plausible by their dominance for sustained periods during the 20th century. The last hurrah for that soft cultural monopoly was April 1992. Affable and unpretentious, Major was able to rally a grand coalition of the cautious. If in doubt, his campaign seemed to say, stick with the Tories. Cameron's 2015 bid is shaping up to have pretty much the same message. Currying cosmopolitan favour alienates his party faithful, while pandering to grass-roots reaction sabotages his credentials as a moderate. That leaves only the assertion that Britain should vote Conservative because, well, in times of great uncertainty, that is the obvious thing to do. For people like Cameron and Osborne, it surely is. Yet there aren't enough of them to deliver a majority. The Tories are not the default setting for British government any more. It isn't clear the Prime Minister has noticed. Rafael Behr is political columnist at the Guardian and former political editor of the New Statesman Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 26 November 2012 issue of the New Statesman, What is Israel thinking? SUBSCRIBE More


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Imagine this: your cousin lends you $1,200 to start a little business and you have 42 years to pay him back, interest free, at $29 a year. No penalties kick in if you don't pay him each year and there's no interest on the debt.
In the 1990s, Congress arranged that type of deal with the U.S. Postal Service.


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Apple Ire Spreads to China's SOEs
Want to know who are China's most hated companies? All you have to do is hit out at one of its most beloved.
For the third consecutive day, the Chinese Communist Party's official mouthpiece, the People's Daily, has run articles criticizing Apple for its warranty policy in China and calling Apple's defense of its customer-service practices arrogant. Apple has declined to comment on the coverage.
It's still difficult to know whether the unkind official media attention will dull or polish Apple's shine if it has an effect at all. On China's social media there has been no shortage of grumbles about its customer service and warranty policies.
But one unintended consequence of the vitriol emerged Wednesday after the financial magazine Caijing polled its Weibo microblog followers for their response to Wednesday's article.
Playing on the title of the People's Daily article -- "Smash Apple's 'Incomparable' Arrogance" -- Caijing wrote on its account early Wednesday morning: "As a consumer, which arrogant company or companies do you want to smash? Please give specific names so that we can announce a top 10."
By Wednesday evening the poll had more than 600 comments, but Apple wasn't a top mention. Instead, hundreds of users repeatedly named a handful of state-owned monopolies. Among them were China's three largest oil companies, its three major telecom-service providers, and its four major banks, along with other government-run services like railways, electricity and water. Running just behind those companies was the People's Daily and other state-run media.
The companies are heavy-hitters internationally, grabbing headlines for making deals around the world, growing massive market capitalizations and posting eye-popping revenue. But most aren't known for their customer service.
Lines to address issues with mobile phone contracts or bank account can take hours in major cities. Customer-service offices are often riddled with bureaucratic redundancy.
One user, writing under the handle Planet Virus, said, "If we say Apple is arrogant, then most state-owned enterprises are shameless." Another user quipped that Apple was following the principle "when in Rome, do as the Romans do."
Although readers of Caijing and those commenting on the poll are likely more representative of China's educated middle and upper classes, the results nonetheless show how tired people are of the day-to-day frustrations caused by China's national champions. When discussing state-owned enterprise reform, regulators like the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission usually discuss operational efficiency and returning more cash to the government.
Many of China's banks and government offices offer electronic boxes that let customers push a button to rate their customer-service experience. But one can push "unsatisfied" only so many times before becoming less than harmonious to your bank teller.
---Paul Mozur, with contributions from Yang Jie. Follow him on Twitter @paulmozur
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With signs that the real estate market is heating up, house flippers are wasting no time as they buy, fix up and resell homes. This Spanish-Colonial home in Atwater Village, for example, was in need of major work when it went on the market in early July with a listing description that did not shy away from the many short-comings, including "urine soaked" floors and "questionable" plumbing and heating systems. But only about six weeks after, the 864-square-foot Silver Lake Boulevard home was sold to a buyer who paid $260,000 or $21,000 over asking price. Now, less than four months after changing hands, the same property is back on the market at an asking price of $429,900, according to Redfin.
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Oh France. How I love it. The nation of croissants and croque madames and crème brûlé. Also berets and the home of Sartre, but as neither of those things is edible (and one is a human man), I will mention them no more. One of the biggest cliches about the French is that -- when pressed -- they can serve up some major attitude. But hey, don't we all from time to time?
I've definitely noticed that my own patience can be in short supply. Especially when I'm in a rush and doing something like ordering a cup of coffee -- but because I'm civilized and rational, I keep it in check. It's easy to cave into our bad tempers and snap at the people helping us -- but just because it's easy, that doesn't make it right. One cafe in France was sick of rude customers, so they hit them where it hurt.
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After a glut of particularly rude lunchtime patrons started mistreating servers at this small cafe in Nice, its owner decided to make it clear that bad manners can only hurt. He changed the prices of his coffee to reflect how the customers behaved. If you just walked in and said "coffee," you were going to pay a hell of a lot more than the people who walked in and said, "Good day, may I please have a cup of coffee?"
The gentle and funny correction was really well-received by patrons. The customers all took the change in stride. Many of his regulars praised the owner for taking this step. The owner himself says he hasn't had to charge anyone more for rudeness -- so the message has been received.
While this is hilarious, it's kind of sad that people need to be reminded to treat each other decently. It's like Bill and Ted said: Be Excellent to Each Other. Sadly, I'd also know some folks happy to pay more to keep being rude. That said, I can think of at least eight places I go to pretty regularly that could definitely make a small fortune by implementing this change.
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Employees may choose coverage from a variety of Health Care plans offered and co-paid by the City of Minneapolis. A dental plan is also provided, with the City paying the full premium. Eligibility for health care coverage typically occurs the first day of the full month following 30 days of employment. For example, if an employees first day is March 27 th, they would become eligible on May 1st.
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The City provides each employee with a $10,000 policy at no cost to the employee. Employees may purchase additional coverage up to five times the employee's annual salary. Life insurance for dependents is also available.
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Employees who meet eligibility requirements contribute to a pension plan. Each pay period a certain percentage of your income goes to the pension plan through payroll deduction. The City matches that amount and contributes an additional percentage of your salary. While the City's contributions are not credited to your individual account, they are used to help fund your future pension.
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Bruce Springsteen, Another Pirate Remixer!
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We recently wrote about the fact that Michael Jackson copied the bass line for his famous song Billy Jean from Hall & Oates, who then admitted to having copied it themselves. Now, reader gort-o-matic points us to another legendary musician with a similar story. Bruce Springsteen, in his keynote address at SXSW, talked about how he copied riffs from his favorite bands, and encouraged young artists to do the same. (You can hear the relevant highlights at that link, or the entire keynote here)
For me, it was The Animals. ... "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" had a great bass riff, you know it had that—[plays riff on guitar]—and that was just a clock, a clock marking time. [sings the first few lines] That's every song I've ever written. "Badlands", "Prove It All Night", "Darkness" was filled with Animals. Youngsters, watch this one. I'll tell you how it's done right now. I took "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" [hums and strums the Animals riff, then transitions into his song Badlands]—It's the same fucking riff man. Listen up youngsters: this is how successful theft is accomplished.
Okay, so he calls it "theft" which it really isn't, but I'm less bothered by that when artists are using it as a playful term for copying than when they use it to try to give false emotional resonance to infringement. The point remains the same: artists (and I don't think anyone can argue that the The Boss is not a bona fide artist) copy and build upon the work of others. Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen are high-profile examples, but they are just a drop in the bucket. Every artist, big and small, does the same thing. It's not being unoriginal, it's just how art works.
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Here at FilmDrunk, we have a simple theory: John Goodman should be in everything. That's the beauty of it, dude, the simplicity. If there's one thing I learned in 'Nam, it's that if the plan gets too complex, something always goes wrong. Anyway, so it is that The Hangover 3 presents something of a conundrum for us. While I liked the second one more than… well, almost everyone, which isn't saying much (it was basically the same movie as the first, but the characters had a darker, assholish edge that they should've had in the first place, if the first one had been more honest with itself about the kind of people it was presenting), a third installment of a comedy seems like a universally bad idea. "Ooh, but what about Austin Powers 3?" said no one.
But, on the other hand… John Goodman. You can see a small glimpse of him in the international trailer:
That giraffe scene… ugh. And for another mark in the "case against" column, see this Ken Jeong poster:
Ken Jeong's best role is still as the doctor in Knocked Up, before everyone decided he was a human cartoon character. Though I respect his willingness to go full wang for our amusement. Not like Bradley "Mr. Serious Actor" Cooper, Mr. I'm-too-important-to-get-pantsed-by-a-semi-fan.


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BUTLER TWP — Township police are still looking for information about an alleged stalking incident at the Butler Commons Walmart.
Township police had taken a report from a woman, who said that two suspicious men were following her and her children around the store on Saturday, Dec. 2.
Four surveillance images, showing two individuals, in the parking lot of the store, were posted on social media by the Butler City Police Department Tuesday.
Pictured in the photographs are a white man with reddish-colored facial hair wearing a gray sweat shirt and a Philadelphia Eagles ball cap and a black man with a beard wearing a black hooded sweat shirt. The black man was described as having a teardrop tattoo on his face.
The woman told police that the men never spoke to her or the children while in the store. But when she left and got into her vehicle with the children, the white man approached and tried to open the vehicle's passenger side door.
The woman told police that the door was locked, and she "sped off" after the man tried to open the door.
They were driving a dark-colored Chrysler Sebring with a temporary registration tag on the rear windshield.
Police are still hoping to learn the identities of the two men, though no kidnapping or human trafficking is suspected, Detective Justin Welton said Tuesday.
Anyone with information about the men or the incident, is asked to call the township police at 724-285-9600 and refer to incident 17-06174.


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Devon Seaford, a 6-foot-0 point guard from Gastonia, N.C., has signed to play basketball for the Lipscomb Bisons.
Lipscomb Coach Scott Sanderson announced the signing of Seaford Wednesday afternoon on the national early signing day.
Seaford plays for Hope Christian Academy in Kings Mountain, N.C. He played the past three seasons for Gaston Day School.
In 2005 he was a First Team All-Conference selection averaging 14.3 points and 4.5 assists per game. He was also First Team All-Conference in 2004, averaging 14.1 points and 3.4 assists per game. In 2003 he was a member of the All-Conference Second Team averaging 11.1 points per game.
Seaford was selected by Seth Davis, the writer of "Hoop Thoughts" for Sports Illustrated.com. as one of his "Summertime Top 10" players. Seaford caught the eye of Davis in the finals of the Adidas Tournament where he led his Charlotte Royals to the finals. Davis was impressed with Seaford's "tenacity and smarts."
Devon's father, Rod Seaford, told rivals.com that his son was convinced Lipscomb was the place for him after making an unofficial visit.
"Everything about it just knocked his socks off," Rod Seaford said to Justin Young of rivals.com. "The facilities were great. The weight room to the locker rooms to the dorms to the classrooms, everything was nice. It was the whole package."
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Samsung is reportedly working on a new smartphone, running Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system.
According to a new app that has been published to the Windows Phone Store by Samsung, the manufacturer has a new phone on the horizon called the "Cronus", which could well be the next ATIV Windows Phone - Sprint is taking on the ATIV S Neo. That phone is due to hit shelves in the coming weeks.
Here's what the app description reads on the store listing:
MobileCare collects the log/minidump files and uploads to Samsung MobileCare server which is normally used in User Trial. The quality of the product can be improved by statistical analysis of the log/minidump
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and now we will use only for English.
Samsung is using the ATIV brand to group all of its Windows hardware, but it is unclear if 'Cronus' is just an internal name or the public one e.g. "ATIV Cronus". That would obviously make it a whole new phone, possibly for international audiences, rather than the inbound Sprint device (which is what we're leaning on).
We don't know what the Windows Phone will look like or what specifications it will feature. For now, be sure to take this lightly and while it's official with a Samsung app, there's still little to go on here.
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SAN FRANCISCO — More than 100 Lake County wines captured top awards ? including three Best of Class honors and three Double Gold awards ? at this year"s San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, the Lake County Winery Association (LCWA) announced this week.
Vigilance Winery & Vineyards won Best of Class with its 2010 Red Hills Lake County Petite Sirah. Additionally, Best of Class was awarded to Sol Rouge for its 2009 Lake County Cabernet Franc and to Writer"s Block (Steele Wines) for its 2010 Lake County Syrah.
Shed Horn Cellars received Double Gold for its 2009 Lake County Cabernet Sauvignon, Lavender Blue won Double Gold for its 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon and Chacewater Wine was honored with Double Gold for its 2010 Red Hills Lake County Malbec.
Results were posted following five days of tasting and evaluating more than 5,500 entries, according to the event"s website.
"Lake County wines and wineries truly stood out among the more than 5,500 entries at the SF Chronicle"s annual event," Monica Rosenthal, executive director of the Lake County Winery Association, said.
The Lake County wineries and varietals awarded gold medals were Cross Springs (2009 Cabernet Sauvignon), Dalliance (2010 Red Wine), Gregory Graham Wines (2009 Riesling), Guenoc (2012 Sauvignon Blanc, 2011 Sauvignon Blanc, and 2011 Petite Sirah), Shannon Ridge (2009 Petite Sirah), Shed Horn Cellars (2009 Napa Valley Petite Verdot and 2010 Zinfandel), Stymie (2009 Syrah), Shooting Star (2010 Barbera and 2010 Merlot), Steele Wines (2010 Cabernet Franc) and Vigilance (2011 Sauvignon Blanc).
Guenoc, Shed Horn Cellars, Gregory Graham and Cache Creek Vineyards all received silver medals for their 2011 Lake County chardonnay. Several Lake County wineries garnered gold and silver for their Lake County Petite Sirah in addition to the Best of Class awarded to Vigilance Winery & Vineyards. Red Lava Vineyards and Six Sigma Ranch & Winery each took silver medals for their Lake County Tempranillo wines, 2010 and 2009 vintages.
Many Lake County wineries were multiple winners, the competition results show. These included Cache Creek Vineyards (two silvers), Chacewater Wine (two silver, two bronze and a double gold), Cross Springs (two silver and a gold), Gregory Graham (two gold, three silver and three bronze), Guenoc (three gold, four silver and two bronze) and Rosa d"Oro (two silver and a bronze).
Shannon Ridge took six silver and four bronze medals in addition to its gold medal. Additional Lake County multi-medal winners were Shed Horn Cellars (three silver and two gold in addition to its double gold), Six Sigma (two silver), Sol Rouge (two silver and its Best of Class), Writers Block (two silver, three bronze in addition to its Best of Class), Shooting Star (two silver, two bronze and its two gold), Steele Wines (six silver, five bronze and its gold), Vigilance (two bronze, a silver, and its gold and Best of Class) and Wildhurst Vineyards (two silver and three bronze).
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Dogs rule! (and Happy National Vodka Day)
I admit that the whole "Blah, Blah, Blah Awareness Month/Day" thing is a little out of hand. I seriously wrote a blurb last week about National Vodka Day, not to be confused with the one I wrote for National Beverage Day or National Margarita Day. (See a trend here? I missed National Burger Day, otherwise I would've marked that too.) It's tough to keep track of all the myriad ways to make any given Tuesday a holiday, never mind all the actual holidays (read: occasions that come with a choice of greeting cards to send), but I confess, I love pageantry and will participate in any 'bration' I can.
ESPECIALLY a fabulous non-holiday like National Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, otherise known as October*. Not only does it give me a chance to talk about the Greatest Dog in the World, my mutt, Oliver, it also means maybe one of the 5 to 7 million animals that will be left at a shelter this year might go home this month. (Three to 4 million of those animals are euthanized every year, according to ASPCA.)
But first, Oliver's story.
Oliver joined our family at 9 months old. He had spent a portion of his young life on the road, being shuttled up north from Arkansas, where he'd been relinquished to a kill shelter. A nice lady at a shelter in Wallingford had taken charge of him and posted a very goofy photo of Oli to Petfinder. We'd been trolling around online, and my husband found Oli's photo one night.
My husband — Former Owner of Yellow Labs, who had been jonsing for a dog — says he was struck by the novelty of the strange breed noted in Oli's description and showed me his photo as a lark. (Petfinder called him a terrier/PBGV mix, and that's what we tell people, although we're not quite sure what Oli really is. It's all we can do to explain what PBGV — Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen — stands for without sounding like insufferable dinks.)
The true version of the story is my hubs was as enchanted as I was by the Fraggle-y, grey and white, smiling little dude in the photo. The jaunty bandana around his neck was a nice touch. Well played, Shelter Lady.
Part two of the true story was that my husband suggested we make a date to meet Oliver. (Subsequent transgressions by Oli have rendered my husband's memory hazy. He says I set the wheels in motion and that it's my "fault" we now live with a funny looking, disastrously cute, personality-riddled mutt who merely takes our commands under advisement.)
In what should have been an indication of that charming willfulness, on his first visit, Oli trotted into our house, flopped down on the dog blanket we'd placed on the floor, and smiled at us. He didn't quiver, he didn't bark, he didn't piddle, he didn't chase our cats. He made himself right at home, and Shelter Lady was delighted. We couldn't believe our luck at finding such a well-adjusted, friendly little companion.
That well-adjusted, friendly little companion has since put us through our paces. He wasn't as house-trained as Shelter Lady thought, he jumped on visitors, and he barked and whined whenever we left the house or put him to bed for the night. We reminded ourselves he was a young pup and battened down for a long-haul dog-rearing.
I'm pleased to report that Oli is house-trained, and, indeed, now rings a bell we've attached to the door when he needs to go out. He's an excellent traveler; he loves to sleep late now that we've moved his bed into our bedroom; and he is a good brother to the cats. (My childhood dog was a cat eater from day 1; I'm still amazed at how gentle Oli is with his kitty friends.) We talk to him more than I care to admit and I'm convinced he's the cutest thing on four legs, even after accounting for the strangely long body, frizzle-y fur, massive allergies, black-olive nose, and stubby but strong legs. (We fondly call him an R.O.U.S., because he kinda looks like one of those tough customer critters in "The Princess Bride," which, PS, is marking its 25th anniversary this year.)
I had been reticent to take in a dog. Yeah, I had a dog growing up, but this was to be my first dog, with me as parent. Who was I to take responsibility for a furry little life?
Don't sell yourself short like I did. Remember, many dogs still land in kill shelters. I've since encountered several other adopters of Odd-Looking Southern Dogs, and I cringe to think of all the other Olis waiting for a nice shelter lady to bring them to safety. If you suspect you have the means and disposition to adopt a shelter dog, consider it.
Here's why: While I thank my husband for teaching me to open my heart just a little bit more — to him and the dog — I thank Oliver for teaching me that love sustains a person through good times and bad — from mastering a "roll over" to pooping-in-the-house phases. Oli has countered my lifelong pessimism with regular doses of "Oh my god, will you look at what he's doing now!" joy. I had no idea that kind of happiness existed. It's a special breed — kind of like Oli himself.
I now suspect Oli could set world peace in motion. Whenever we meet people on walks, people exclaim, "Look at him! What is he? He's so cute!" He reliably makes people smile. They stop to say hello and get a load of him. He is a bringer of happiness.
Not bad for a little shelter dog from Arkansas.
Your local Humane Society office is in Quaker Hill. Read tons of information about shelter dogs and National Adopt a Shelter Dog month at www.aspca.org and www.americanhumane.org. Experience massive amusement at the pix of Oliver at the top of this blog.
AND, if you also adopted the World's Greatest Shelter Dog, send in a photo. If we get enough, we'll do a photo gallery and Daybreak page of photos. Send photos to Digital Dude Alex Nunes at firstname.lastname@example.com.
*Listen, I know it's also Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but I'm pretty confident the PR on that is covered. (Particularly here in New London. Anyone else love the pink yarn-bomb downtown?)
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"Our volunteers are the heart of Keystone," said Christine DeVore, director of volunteers at Keystone Care in Wyndmoor.
Devore said volunteers offer friendship and support to clients and their families during the most challenging times in their lives.
"They walk hand and hand with the person coping with terminal illness, and while doing so they experience a profound change in their lives," DeVore said. "It's such a selfless role being a hospice volunteer."
Mara Natkins, of Mt. Airy, has been volunteering at Keystone House, 8765 Stenton Ave., for about two years.
"One of the things I've learned here is the importance of listening," said Natkins, who became a hospice volunteer after some friends and family used hospice. "There is a value to talking, but there is a really deep value to listening."
Natkins said she believes that people are never at a point in their life where they can't start a new relationship. She added that she has learned that silence is okay.
"Sometimes, just sitting with someone in companionable silence can be very comforting and very nurturing.
Lisa Feix, of Mt. Airy, said since she retired from the federal government she has done a variety of volunteering, including working as a child advocate with Court Appointed Special Advocate Association.
"I think you end up receiving more than you give," Feix said. "It takes just a little bit of my time."
She recalled one woman, Mary, who had no family. Feix said although she only got to visit with her three or four times, she learned a special lesson from her. Mary was a big hockey fan who loved the Los Angeles Kings.
"One of the things she asked me was if I knew how the Stanley Cup Playoffs were going," Feix said.
"I am a huge sports fan, but hockey is not one of my sports. So, I said 'I will find out.'"
Feix said she went downstairs and she and an employee found out they were up three games to two.
When she returned a few days later, Mary was not awake and had declined dramatically.
"I was little taken back, even after having volunteered at hospice before, how quickly people can decline," Feix said. "I was so excited to tell her the L.A. Kings had won the Stanley Cup 6-1. But when I arrived, I was concerned because I didn't want to wake her."
Feix said she mentioned to one of the employees, Joe, that the L.A. Kings had won, and he said "Of course, we need to tell her."
He told her that Mary probably wouldn't make it through the night.
"So, he knelt down real close to her and said, 'Mary, I just wanted to tell you that Lisa came to tell you the L.A. Kings won the Stanley Cup,'" Feix said. Then he added, "So, if you've been waiting on that news, you've got it."
Feix said she went to her funeral service because the woman had no family. Feix, the priest and the funeral director were the only people there. The funeral director said she wanted a very simple funeral.
"It was the only service [of a hospice patient] I've ever been to," Feix said. "When I talked to her before she died, my heart ached for because she had no family. She was very matter-of-fact about it. And I certainly didn't dwell on it with her. I just internalized it."
Feix said Mary was a lovely lady, who desired very little.
"Most of us have an abundance of things," Feix said. "I think she was at a place [in her life] where she realized she didn't need very much – except for a little bit of my time and friendship."