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The findings of CT images are compatible with epiploic appendagitis.
Epiploic appendagitis is a rare self limiting inflammatory / ischemic process involving an appendix epiploica of the colon, and may either be primary or secondary to adjacent pathology. It is an important diagnosis to make as it avoids unnecessary surgery.
- Singh AK, Gervais DA, Hahn PF et-al. CT appearance of acute appendagitis. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2004;183 (5): 1303-7. AJR Am J Roentgenol (full text) - Pubmed citation
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In the process of doing research for an essay touching on racism and Confederate memorials, I was reminded of the novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron. I had heard of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel but had never read it. I knew it was a fictional tale based on the life and death of a slave who had led a bloody revolt in 1830s Virginia.
Nat Turner was a religious fanatic whose faith led him to commit or facilitate many grisly murders in the name of freedom for the slaves. Styron's book makes clear the indignities and abuse suffered by slaves. The reader is led to believe some kind of action against the white populace is justified, but clearly not the rampage that Turner led. Turner gradually comes to see that a revolt is necessary, and that it is God's will that Turner lead it. I was reminded of how the religious fanaticism of John Brown led him to execute proponents of slavery, believing God was on his side, as well as how both the people of the Union and the Confederacy believing God was on their side in the Civil War.
Turner learned to read and write at an early age, but it is unlikely he was as eloquent as the first-person "confessions" in Styron's novel would suggest (and for which Styron has been criticized). Nevertheless, Styron tells a good story. While the narrative moved back and forth between the events leading up to the revolt and Turner's incarceration, I didn't get confused or lost. I don't always read a famous work and come away with a realization of why that work deserved the praise it received, but I did this book.


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09 June 2015 @ 01:33 am
So yeah, I know that this has been posted on before, but I'd rather get just a little extra information before I decide. I burned my Diva Cup just a tiny bit (as in really tiny). The water ran out when I boiled it because I got on the computer (Yes, dumb thing to do, I know...). My mom thankfully rescued it before it actually caught flame, but there's a whitish film on the bottom of the pot now. And then, my cup seemed to look a little powdery after I took it out and a couple of stained spots. After I washed it with a little mild soap, it looks fine, except for a tiny flaw in the silicone that's about a millimeter wide and two millimeters long. It's just on the surface. The silicone smells slightly burnt. I'm freaked out about putting it in my body again. My mom keeps saying it should be fine and that's it's only slightly scorched. I don't know what to do really.
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m03m on June 9th, 2015 08:22 am (UTC)
We can't tell you how to feel. If something makes you uneasy, it makes you uneasy, if it does not, it does not.
How can we help you with this?
How can we help you with this?
sylvaniae on June 9th, 2015 09:12 am (UTC)
Thanks. Just getting neurotic and didn't want to go ahead and have to get rid of my cup so soon after I bought the thing. But I went ahead and bought another one. You can bet I won't be boiling it without a timer again.
m03m on June 9th, 2015 10:23 am (UTC)
Well, I'm sorry about your cup and the extra cost! It was definitely a bummer thing to have happened.
kuradi8 on June 9th, 2015 01:03 pm (UTC)
I am one of the many who feels that boiling is unnecessary. Boiling does not sterilize. And it doesn't kill/remove any/much more microbes than washing with soap and water. My rule of thumb is "as clean as cutlery." How clean does a spoon have to be before you'll put it into your mouth? That's clean enough for my cup too.
momentaufnahme on June 9th, 2015 01:35 pm (UTC)
I'll second this cause my rule is "How clean is a penis before it enters your vagina?" You don't boil a penis before use :D
margalee on June 9th, 2015 02:01 pm (UTC)
Silicon is pretty clean and inert stuff. It doesn't harbor bacterial cultures the way tampons do. I've used cups for a solid 8 years, never once boiled-- never had any vaginal infection. I Just use some warm water and non-scented soap between cycles and let it air dry before putting it in the cloth bag until next month. Works for me! Never really had the privacy to boil, or waned to dedicate a cooking pot solely for cup use.
kuradi8 on June 9th, 2015 02:27 pm (UTC)
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EEEEWWWW!!!!! But a cup has VAGINA germs on it!!!!
(Said sarcastically, of course.)
kartos on June 9th, 2015 03:45 pm (UTC)
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One of mine is going on 9 years, and I've been bad and used scented liquid soaps since I ran out of the nice wash and haven't boiled it (same reasons you haven't). Granted, it wasn't super scented stuff with moisture beads and whatever in it, but nothing adverse happened!
margalee on June 9th, 2015 03:54 pm (UTC)
Confessions of Poor Menstrual Cup Hygeine ;)
Confessions of Poor Menstrual Cup Hygeine ;)
I've honestly had cycle I finished by popping out my cup in the shower and rinsing it under the hot water--and using it again the next month without any further cleaning. So many times. :)
kartos on June 9th, 2015 04:01 pm (UTC)
Re: Confessions of Poor Menstrual Cup Hygeine ;)
Re: Confessions of Poor Menstrual Cup Hygeine ;)
I do a smell test usually, and then this is probably awful, sometimes let it soak in the official wash+water for a month? Is that terrible? It usually cleans it better.
I do a smell test usually, and then this is probably awful, sometimes let it soak in the official wash+water for a month? Is that terrible? It usually cleans it better.
por_que_no on June 9th, 2015 03:16 pm (UTC)
Just wanted to say I actually lol'ed at the idea of boiling a penis before use...don't think my BF would find that so funny though :p
tkamockingbird on June 9th, 2015 07:49 pm (UTC)
I don't think there is anything wrong with boiling your cup if that's what you want to do. Next time, put your cup on In a whisk and that way the cup can never touch the bottom even if the water disappears! Fun little trick ;)
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Carol Davit is the executive director of the Missouri Prairie Foundation , a 51-year old prairie conservation nonprofit organization.
Davit oversees the Grow Native! program and also has edited the Missouri Prairie Journal since 1996.
Davit has worked for 20 years in the conservation and environmental fields in communications, development, administration, and leadership capacities. She has worked for private, nonprofit conservation groups, including Missouri Botanical Garden, and at the municipal and state government levels.
Davit serves on the Missouri Monarch and Pollinator Conservation Steering Committee, the Conservation Federation of Missouri Grasslands Committee, OAKS (Missouri Outdoor Action Committee), and on MELAB—the Missouri Environmental Literacy Advisory Board.
She has been the editor of field guides and written on a variety of natural history and conservation topics for the Missouri Prairie Journal, the Missouri Conservationist, and other publications. She is the recipient of the Erna Eisendrath Memorial Education Award and the Plant Stewardship Award from the Missouri Native Plant Society.


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Monday, March 26, 2012
at Millard West this Saturday and more studio updates
You can find me in Omaha this Saturday March 31st at Millard West, from 9-4. It looks as if I am in Wildcat 1 Gym this time, instead of my regular spot in the furthest gym.
This is THE time in March/April for me to be in Omaha, next Omaha date will be at Rockbrook, May 5. Lots of pretty charms, silver and other mixed metals :)
I'm posting a series of photos of good Mother's Day/other fun ideas...
I made this silver medal from an illustration my son drew of his Confirmation saint.
♥ ♥ ♥ This week's Studio Give-Away ♥ ♥ ♥ a $10 gift certificate to be used at the Studio Open House April 12-14. To be eligible to win, comment on the studio FB page or blog. I'll be announcing the winner, chosen randomly, on Friday after 5pm, so check back to see if you're the winner and contact me :) I'll be posting lots of photos of great ideas for gifts or for YOU! But you only need to comment once to be entered!
I have SO many wonderful things I'm working on for the Studio Open House...I'll be showing a preview HERE and on the FB page, the week leading up to the show...can't wait :)
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Find me at Faith Lutheran...another give-away
We had a great time visiting and helping all of our shoppers at St. Mark's on Saturday. Lovely bracelets and necklaces full of glass and silver went home with many happy girls.
Remember that you can find us this week:
Faith Lutheran at 89th and Adams
Saturday March 17 from 9-4.
Gorgeous day (although Lucy is wearing her Uggs!), so Brown Dog took a little field trip!
Where in the world (Lincoln) are Sarah and Lucy, and what could Sarah be shopping for?
The answer will come soon!
This week's give-away prize will be a 1/2 sterling initial charm. Just add your comment to this blog post or to the studio Facebook page to get your chance to be this week's random winner, to be announced on Friday after 5pm on the FB page.
Last week's winner, Reba, came and found me at St. Mark's and picked out a cute map of Rome!
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Monday, March 5, 2012
At St. Mark's this Saturday...studio give-away...maps
Hooray, you can find me open this week, on Saturday March 10 at St. Mark's Craft Show.
The church is located at 84th and Pioneers, and the show lasts from 9-4.
I have a nice, large space and am taking new silver, bronze and charms. I also have some great new necklace designs. I'll be happy to work with you on custom orders for silver and glass.
I have oodles of special orders ready to take to this show. If you wonder about yours, send me an e-mail.
Because I have THIS show and one at Faith Lutheran the following Saturday, AND one in Omaha at Millard West on March 31st, I don't anticipate opening up the studio this month. There's just not time to set it up in between shows...so I'd love to see you while I'm out and about :)♥ ♥ ♥ Studio Give-Away...This week I've been working with more MAPS ♥To enter in the random drawing for a glass map charm, made for YOU, comment here or on the studio Facebook page...Tell me what city, state, country YOU would like to wear. Winner to be announced this Friday after 5, so check back to see if you're the lucky winner!
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On duty traffic police officials were beaten up publically by some local lawyers who were intercepted by the victims for violating traffic rules in Daska city's Kutchery Chow on Wednesday.
According to the FIR (No. 458/2014) lodged at Daska City police station by Sub Inspector Muhammad Arshad Under Sections 147, 149, 186, 225, 279, 353 and 382 PPC, he and other policemen were on official duty at Kutchery Chowk. When they stopped an accused for violating the one-way traffic system and inquired into the matter, the accused became infuriated and misbehaved with and abused the policemen. He introduced himself as a lawyer and called some of his other colleagues there by making them a telephone call.
The FIR revealed that five lawyers Suleman Sandhu, Asad Ishaq, Ali Qais, Aamir Bajwa and Agha Sehar armed with wooden sticks and hockeys, along with their seven unknown companions reached the spot and started beating the police officials including SI Arshad, Constable Zaheer Nawaz and others. The attackers bashed the officials and snatched official wireless sets and mobile phones from them. A police contingent was called in to rescue the traffic police officials.
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Hello, I'm Breanne but my friends call me B. I am a professional waterskier living in the sunshine state. While most days you can find me barefoot with wet hair out on the lake I still love to get dressed up for date nights. I am a free spirit girlie girl who enjoys waking up early with my husband. I enjoy shopping, yoga, surfing, coffee dates, kittens, wine, and travel. I get the wanderlust gene from my parents. They owned a travel agency for 20 years and recently retired so they could of course do what? Duh, travel more! : )
The Balanced B was inspired, designed and built from my love for waterskiing and living a healthy and active lifestyle. Here I will share with you what I've learned on my journey as an athlete on how to B Fit, B Healthy, and of course B Happy in your own life by creating and sharing inspirational content as I travel through this active lifestyle of mine.


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Steinway & Sons Luxury Swiss Watches has introduced a limited edition version of the famous Steinway & Sons Seconde Metronomique that features a unique metronome seconds hand complication. Besides the flashy complication, the watch also features a rather unusually shaped stainless steel body, which is not only peculiarly shaped but is also quite thin thanks to a hand-wound Swiss made caliber that powers the gadget.
Steinway & Sons, which is ahem mostly known for they high-end pianos, dived into the watch business only two years ago. To create their first collection, they hired a Swiss-based industrial designer Fabrizio Cavalca, who, inspired by the sensual curves of the musical instrument, created the easily recognizable case for the new luxury timekeepers.
At this time Steinway & Sons Luxury Swiss Watches offers three collections, all of them featuring the same elegant and simple body.
While the "M Collection" model with its 12 strings on the dial looks the most original, the C Seconde Metronomique Collection series is the most interesting from the technical point of view.
Unfortunately, I failed to find any reliable information regarding the "Steinway caliber C60" that powers the watch. However, judging by the official description of the caliber (it is built on 19 rubies, beats at 21,600 vph, is manual-wound and has a power reserve of 38 hours) I can assume that it is a pretty old ETA 2512 base caliber with Steinway's metronome seconds complication.
By the way, the complication is the main reason to buy this watch. What's interesting about this thing, is that it was long deemed technically impossible to create a retrograde second hand that would beat at a frequency of 60hz: the complication would demand just too much power to throw the hand back and forth and back again.
To overcome this problem, the Swiss master watchmaker Jean-Marc Wiederrecht (the one who, together with Roger Dubuis, invented and patented the retrograde indicator complication, which is now widely used throughout the industry) decided to use an optical illusion. He took a pair of three-armed second hands, put them on the same axis and forced them to rotate in opposite directions –one clockwise and the other — counterclockwise– with the same speed.
Since the rotation of hands is visible only through a tiny display window at 6 o'clock, there is a perfect illusion of the same second hand moving every second back and fro, like a tiny metronome. Perfect!
As usual, the watch will be issued as a limited edition. There will be only three hundred pieces: a 100 in rose gold, a 100 in yellow gold and a 100 in white gold.
Photos: Steinway & Sons
See also: Baume & Mercier William Baume Jumping Hour (ref. M0A08857)
Steinway & Sons Seconde Metronomique Limited Edition specification
Movement: Caliber C 60, hand-wound, 19 jewels, 21,600 vph, Swiss Made
Complications: Metronome second hand
Power reserve: 38 hours
Case: 18-karat Rose gold, Yellow gold, or White gold
Shape: Tonneau
Dimensions: 43.7 x 26.0 mm
Height: 10.0 mm
Dial: White gold, black or white enameled
Numerals: Arabic
Hands: Gold
Water resistance: 30 meters
Strap: Calibrated Louisiana alligator leather strap with custom solid buckle complimenting case shape
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Alcoa AA, +3.16% said late Thursday it expects to report third-quarter operating earnings of 30 cents to 35 cents per share. Analysts polled by Thomson First Call had expected 52 cents a share. The New York-based company said it expects results to be cut 7 cents to 9 cents per share because of a strike at its Quebec plant, a fire at Pennsylvania plant and the cost of closing of two other facilities. The company also said market softness and higher costs hurt several of its businesses. Alcoa said it will take a 2-cent-per-share charge in the quarter for the cost of selling a protective packaging unit. The aluminum producer also said it temporarily closed its Jamalco refinery in Jamaica, which can produce 1.25 million metric tons, due to Hurricane Ivan. Shares of Alcoa closed up 39 cents to $33.29 before the announcement.
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Tagged: Mythology
"Shake it a-baby!"
As a species, humans have a baffling obduracy to live wherever we darn well please on God's green earth as long as Antarctic estates aren't included in the realtor's docket. From nomadic tribes to big business promulgators, we seem determined to plant our roots in every plot that fills both this planet and extraterrestrial acreage beyond–just as soon as lunar engineering is up to mass-developmental snuff. To top off our hunger for property, we play this game of land seizure with little regard for the progenitors of mythology: natural cataclysms that the cosmos allotted to each region of this planet long before we staked our mortgage claims.
In this country alone, the North bears the brunt of inhuming ice storms, the East is pummeled by hurricanes, tornadoes ramshackle the Midwest as they bypass the amicable route to Oz, the Northwest lives in the shadow of eight active volcanoes, tsunami-watch spans each coast, and here in California earthquakes reign supreme. Quite frankly, the United States is a veritable smörgåsbord of Mama Nature's paroxysms.
In a country so tempestuous–even when we eschew the hailstorm that is bipartisan politics–finding invulnerable settlement means betting on a game of renter's roulette. If someone ends up sowing their seeds in Tornado Alley, I understand that uprooting their entire life and relocating to milder climes when the cyclones amass is no cheap feat, but I can't help wondering what convinced our nation's migratory predecessors to hunker down in different disaster zones in the first place. I suppose when you contend with 23-foot long Ripper Lizards and giant sloths scrambling all over Pangea, the occasional lava flow is a small price to pay for a plot of arable land.
Personally, I took up residence in Los Angeles knowing that its toothy, clawed remnants of the Holocene epoch reside in the Page Museum and the only risky natural business I'd be facing was the fact that this be earthquake country. Besides the slight desk tremors that occasionally pique the excitement of Oregon school children, the first bona fide earthquake I ever experienced occurred at 6:30a.m. Hollywood time when our bed staged its own Evening with Fred Astaire and my boyfriend awoke with an inhuman, deep-sleep yell that aided the tectonic plates in rattling me to the core. This wake up call only reached a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter Scale, but watching my Las Vegas memorabilia topple from the shelves and feeling the wall sway behind me was enough to instill an utter terror of bigger things to come.
And rumor has it in the scientific community that we SoCal residents ain't seen nothing yet. Based on the geophysical research of Stanford seismologists, apocalyptic tidings of a massive earthquake hitting Los Angeles sometime in the next 30 years have swept across the internet via scientific forums and volatile comment sections alike. Expected to exceed 8.0 on the Richter Scale, this prophetically minacious tremor is fanning the already voracious flames of Godzilla-esque destruction hypotheses–that is, if his latest film depiction hadn't been more aptly titled Hundreds of Humans and Their Tribulations, Two M.U.T.O.s, and Fleeting, Incessantly Interrupted Glimpses of Godzilla.
Some of the more imaginative voices of the online peanut gallery have taken these whisperings of catastrophic tectonics and ran with them until they've woven cautionary tales befitting Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Commenting on Tech Times' review of Ker Than's (associate director of communications for Stanford's School of Earth Sciences) take on the impending LA quake, one such doomsayer predicted that, "[a]fter only a few days the Los Angeles area will be like a war zone. Eventually it will become uninhabitable. Thousands will die not from the quake but from the aftermath… I have had a dream over and over of a very long mass of weary looking people walking east on the interstate up the grade toward Barstow and the refugee camps set up there by the government. When you look back to the west all one can see to the horizon is smoke rising up from what was once a modern civilization now destroyed by mother nature. It will happen. My dreams always come true."
Whether or not this commenter was film director Roland Emmerich posting under an alias is yet to be verified.
Unfortunately for us Angelinos, the aptly denoted "Big One" bodes more substantiated probability than the portentous theories that mankind will perish at the hands of bath salt zombies. According to Ker Than's article for Stanford News, scientists have found a way to predict a future quake's ground movement and shaking hazards by examining the ambient seismic field, or pressure pulses generated and projected through the earth's crust by colliding ocean waves. While these ambient waves are notably "billions of times weaker than the seismic waves generated by earthquakes," scientists like Marine Denolle have now learned how to mathematically compare these surface measurements to the temblor waves that occur deep within the earth.
By examining these "virtual earthquakes," scientists verified a supercomputer's prediction from 2006 concerning the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, northwest of Los Angeles. This prediction suggested that if said fault should rupture, the seismic waves produced by an earthquake would be "funneled toward Los Angeles along a 60-mile [sedimentary] conduit that connects the city with the San Bernardino Valley." To make matters worse, Los Angeles is a sitting duck atop a large sedimentary basin that study coauthor Eric Dunham compared to a jiggly dollop of gelatin in the midst of a plastic foam bowl. This means that if you're lucky enough to have set up shop in the plastic foam terrain that circumvents Los Angeles, you might not have to hold on as tight as we Gelatinites strike vogue poses in our doorways to fend off falling furniture. Other cities unfortunate enough to have been founded upon these suicidal basins of sediment include Tokyo, Seattle, and parts of the Bay area, all of which simultaneously stand on the tectonically fruitful circum-Pacific seismic belt. Home to 75% of the world's active and dormant volcanoes and 81% of the world's largest earthquakes, this horseshoe-shaped calamity hotbed is a natural exemplar for a sequel to Pacific Rim: Pacific Ring of Fire.
I guess the moral to this disastrously consequential story is hire some scientists to dig in your dirt before inspiring 10 million people to come inhabit your city, you technologically ill-adept Chumash, Tataviam, and Tongva tribes, Spanish explorers, and gold prospectors of yesteryear. That, or just relax all you internet harbingers of doom. For no matter how many Essential Survival Kits-in-a-Can we accrue from California Surplus Mart, Mother Nature is going to do her thing, and because we'll be a part of that natural ebb and flow no matter where we reside, there's little point in toiling our lives away in premature fear. After all, a major quake hasn't occurred along the San Andreas Fault in more than 150 years, and if that's not enough to smooth out your apprehensive gooseflesh, we still have a supposed grace period of three decades to decide whether volcano, blizzard, tornado, or hurricane territory would be a more suitable habitat for relocation.
- Doomsayer. "Dystopian Dream." Tech Times, Comment Section, 28 Jan. 2014. Web. 24 May 2014. <http://techtimes.com/articles/2967/20140128/los-angeles-brace-yourself-for-a-bigger-earthquake-scientists-predict.html>.
- Than, Ker. "Stanford scientists use 'virtual earthquakes' to forecast Los Angeles quake risk." Stanford News, 23 Jan. 2014. Web. 24 May 2014. <http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/january/la-quake-risk-012314.html>.
- "Is it true that scientists are predicting a really big earthquake will sink western California?" How Stuff Works, 7 Feb. 2001. Web. 24 May 2014. <http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/question567.htm>.
Big, Big Fish
When I was still a tiny little thing small enough to lift my weight doing every last pull-up you'd dared me to, I lived in the mountain town of Oakridge, Oregon, an equally tiny city where the only activities beyond whittling bear statues and getting pregnant included mountain recreations and mingling at the local Dairy Queen. Coming from a family that spent most of their time alfresco, secretly avoiding people, outdoor recreation proved to be the obvious choice, and merrymaking ensued around winding dirt trails, up the sides of snow-peaked mountains, to the tops of waterfalls, and down the medium-level ski slopes where six-year-old girl pile ups only got in the way of real skiers. One of our favorite hobbies was venturing to bodies of water, as if the Moon in us was trying to get back to overseeing the tide. We spent the majority of our recreational time vacationing on the Pacific, donning on water socks to trapeze our way across the crystal clear Willamette (before it cascaded down the mountains into the city sludge that comprises the Portland waterfront), doubling up on jet skis at my uncle's houseboat to ride the wake of speed boats and inevitably flip over three times, distracting ourselves from the nude old fogies at the hot springs by squishing sulphuric mud between our toes, and spending the day paddling around Oakridge's many reservoirs, our skin getting browner and our locks bleaching in the sun.
One of our favorite spots on the reservoir, just a few winding, cliff-side miles from town, was CT Beach, a little inlet that looked upon an enormous picturesque lake where fishermen could deposit their boats and outdoorsy families like mine could lay out a picnic and then dive in. On one such outing, my family towed in a big inflatable raft and oars from my dad's rowing days, and we set sail against the slight chop the wind picked up across the water. A beautiful day beamed down on the Moon-Wood family as the two little daughters paddled themselves in circles, when all of a sudden my dad–like all young dads before their children hit puberty and refuse to be amused–decided to shake things up and flip the boat.
Everybody flew from the raft shrieking through mouthfuls of water, angrily splashing my dad, and groaning, "Daaaaaaaddy!!!," but I was far from able to unleash my juvenile wrath on anyone because I was accidentally tied to the boat. Upside down, fully submerged, and struggling against the little bounds I'd gotten myself caught in, I stared down into depths I would later discover looked like a cavernous mud vortex winding down to the center of the earth (that you could hike!) when they drained the reservoir. I couldn't see far at the time because the water here was always thick with green silt, but I could imagine the life flourishing just out of view. Looking up was no better, as I beheld summer sunlight pirouetting across the undulating surface, reminding me that I was down below, in this dark, oppressively silent world.
This story clearly has a happy ending, as young athletic dads with a penchant for peevishness also tend to be very good at saving kids from overdramatized accidents, but a life experience like that changes a girl, and soon, little water baby Emily Moon was terrified of the element that had previously brought her so much joy. But that didn't mean I immediately holed myself away in a desert trailer, turning on faucets with my eyes closed. When you're an older sister, your entire life revolves around maintaining a facade of bravery for the little one's sake, even when "the little one" is twenty years old and your "bravery" is put to the test simply catching the spider she's screaming about.
With this sense of faux strength inflating my sails, I spent the next sixteen years approaching large bodies of water with a weird amalgamation of terror and domination, eager to beat back the aquatic threat that had done me no greater harm than instilling my irrational phobia. There were times when I almost lost the battle against the big blue drink–like the numerous times the stormy Pacific waves tried to beat me into a pulp against the sand below; the time a deceptively beautiful river in Westfir began to drag my wild-eyed, fervently paddling Shoobie away in its current and my dad–ever the aquacade hero–had to dive in and rescue her; and the time my cousin Mahina tried to leap from the houseboat deck to to my uncle's boat, undershot it, and I experienced the cinematic cliché of gripping her hands while she begged me not to let her fall into the black, nighttime river below (fortunately, everyone's parents came running before my clammy little hands resulted in Willamette folly). But in my relentless crusade to save face, I usually win, engaging in daring stunts just to thumb my nose at fear. Included in these reckless behaviors are swimming far out from shore by myself in Kauai, to the depths reserved for surfing the combers that break over the encompassing reef; swimming for hours on end at night, off of Tybee Island, when the world is black and the fish are feeding one state up from shark-beset Floridian waters; and pausing on the shore to listen to the sound of something big and lumbering, splashing through the water only feet away on a strange southern night when the beach fog was so thick you couldn't see six inches in front of your face. While I'm none too eager to repeat the idiotic behaviors of my past, at least I can rack up the points against my phobia, limbs still wholly intact.
I don't make the fight against fear easy for myself though. While harboring nightmares of the deep, I've always been incredibly fascinated by bodies of water: researching aquatic creatures–pelagic or otherwise, exploring multicultural mythologies bent on explaining away the sea, writing numerous stories that enveloped seafaring in some way, and squirming through every episode of River Monsters I could get my hands on, too distracted by the idea that freshwater's teeming with terrifying things like pallid, Spanish river dolphins to admire my oldest man-crush to date: extreme wrangler Jeremy Wade.
Thus, it's a strange, masochistic love affair I've got going on with water. On the one hand, water has chaperoned most of my life and provided me with some of the fondest memories I can summon to this day. Sure sharks feed at night, but lying there in a black bed of oscillating seawater while staring up at an enormous white moon was one of the most serene moments of my life. And declaring Monkey Head Rock officially seized while the tide swiftly began to close in was exhilarating. On the other hand, all this risky business I conduct to prove my "might" may very well lead to me straight down to Davy Jones' locker on the Flying Dutchman Express.
Perhaps if I can surmount this fear of mine though, that wouldn't be such a bad thing… At least there's always the Bill Dance bloopers my dear Greta James introduced me to to get ya rootin' for water!
The F!@# Crutch
When I first started watching True Blood, it was at the recommendation of a friend while attending school in Savannah, Georgia. If the timing hadn't been so specific, I doubt I would have been beguiled into tuning in, but living under a garnish of Spanish moss that bedecks the lantern-lit, cobblestoned deep south in a magical humid haze made watching a show about Louisiana juju irresistible. My lifelong fascination with cryptozoology didn't hurt either.
So I watched on while sitting in friends' freshman dorm rooms where the closest thing to a couch was a thin mattress whose springs all but emerged from the upholstery; under the covers in bed both out of fear of the lurking, bicorned monster in season 2 and to keep from waking Michelle, the first of many nightmarish college roommates; and back home in Portland (in a real bed), where I introduced the show to my sister and giddily critiqued the episodes away, Moon sister style. Soon, my eager engagement with the show morphed into an enjoyable hobby, and then into a mere outlet for expelling stress. Today, I only watch the show as an homage to the nostalgia of new beginnings in a reputably mystical city that now resides on the opposite side of the country.
But why have I steadily deviated from the crux of the show's target market, gradually exhibiting less interest in watching at the same rate that the expanding tour bus industry is causing Savannah's quaint charm to diminish?
The answer's quite straightforward actually: the show went bad like milk that sours before the sell-by date in any state south of the Mason-Dixon line. Not that True Blood was ever phenomenal television with the same notoriety attributed to programs like Breaking Bad and The Wire, but after season 2's mythological shenanigans, the quality of each season spiraled faster and faster down your standard concrete drain. Fortunately for the show's ratings, True Blood hosts a horde of vampires, werewolves, fairies, shape-shifters, were-panthers (…?), and HBO's signature obsession with boobs: everything Pavlov would employ to have a contemporary pop culture groupie salivating at the mouth in seconds. And although the plot has grown increasingly convoluted, one can't deny that the show is ever lacking in excitement–even if we caustic viewers find the excitement incredibly ridiculous.
But what gets my goat is the writing. Having dated a screenwriter for the past year and a quarter (and having met nothing but screenwriters and Michael Sheen's next assistant since moving out to L.A.), I feel just in saying that a major responsibility involved in developing a script is manifesting characters through their dialogue. In the first couple seasons of True Blood, the dialogue served just that purpose: defining the wholesome, southern belle-with-a-strange-ability archetype of Sookie Stackhouse as an entirely different character than the traumatically inured Tara Thorton–both of whom are extremely different than the endearing, distinctively idiomatic Lafayette.
As the seasons progressed, however, the action began to take precedence over the characters (possibly because the writers had all that aforementioned convolution to try and weave into coherence), and all the individual attributes that typified one personality from the next began to dissipate until, come season 6, we seem to have been left with one overarching character. And that character likes to say "fuck" in response to absolutely everything.
Somehow, this character-melding phenomenon merely spritzed the male ensemble before emptying its whole crop-dusting load on the female line up. For instance, even though their dialogue wasn't spared from the show's new favorite word, gargantuan wolfman Alcide is at least decipherable from backwater sheriff Andy Bellefleur, even if Alcide has diminished to nothing more than Batman-esque rasping and growling and a completely useless subplot. The ladies on the other hand are a catastrophe of incessant cursing as a means of normal conversation, perpetual reduction to tears (both of the saline and sanguine variety), and snidely defensive retorts that ooze with melodrama.
For example, the once child-like Sookie whose outcries used to involve phrases like "tits on a turtle" and "you no-account backwoods trash!," recently replaced Grandma Adele's polite influence with the truncated, adult argot of seasoned vampires like the ever brazen Pam De Beaufort. Even Pam, however, who didn't have to change a smidgeon of her dialogue to fit into the "upgraded" ensemble, lost her luster when she catalyzed the next chapter in Tara's storyline and tears and endless expletives ensued. Unfortunately, the writers didn't stop there, combining Jessica Hamby, Luna the shifter, Nora the surprise sister, Willa the girl who clearly doesn't curse in reality, Sarah Newlin the zealot, Nicole the activist, those masculine, huffy werewolf chicks, and almost all the other female characters into this steadily amassing, tear-strewn, "fuck"-fixated conglomerate with the most limited vocabulary I've seen since Stephenie Meyer books were big.
From a writer's perspective, one of the greatest things about the art form is the ability to imagine up individualistic characters driven by backgrounds sui generis in nature and complete with their own relevant vernaculars. Even though the author's voice will always be preeminent, designing a narrative with multiple characters creates the opportunity to personally inhabit different psyches and explore the various memories, motives, and reactions that create a versatile cast of individuals in reality.
Perhaps I'm being too harsh and ignoring the possibility that the writers puppeteering these True Blood characters are slaves to the f-word themselves and thus take their dialogue seriously, but coming from a network that brought us the linguistic poetry of shows like Boardwalk Empire, Sex and the City, and Game of Thrones, can I be blamed for expecting dialogue that transcends fuck?


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Sometimes, for various reasons, we have to leave people. And there is always that last goodbye that we have to bid to them. These are the very words that the person will have as the last memory of you. So, choose your words carefully. Whatever you say to that person will have an effect on her. Once those words are out of your mouth, you can never take them back. The damage is done. Think about what you are going to say. The wayof saying goodbyedoes matter.
You know, there's a girl who seems to be pretty normal from the outside. But is she? Some think she is beautiful, smart, and funny. Some don't. Some people think she is good enough and others do not. But what about her? Does she think she's good enough? No, not anymore at least.
I'll tell you why this happened. Can you imagine how it would feel to be ignored by someone you love, day after day? When you put someone at the very top of priority and that person doesn't even care, you might start getting voices in your head saying you're not good enough. That's what that girl faced frequently. She constantly gave all her love to someone who didn't give it back, who never cared about her feelings. That's when she became such a broken person.
She feels as if she has no control over life.
She dreads waking up each morning and being attacked by her thoughts. She wants to be normal, but she doesn't know how to. It's not easy to overcome everything that brings you down if the things you do are inadequate.
She isn't strong enough to deal with trouble anymore.
Everything seems to go wrong for her now. Nothing happens like she wants it to happen. After being pushed down by life continuously, she doesn't have anymore strength to pick herself up and fight again. She just lets things go.
She thinks it's her fault that people leave.
If she did things differently, maybe he would've stayed? She keeps thinking about what exactly she did wrong, that made them leave. She blames herself every day.
She doesn't remember being anyone's priority.
She has always given all the love she has, all her kindness and priority to people, but has never received any of it back. She gives so much, but gets nothing in return. Nobody cares to realize that she is the one who deserves the love.
She can't overcome this by herself.
Everyone needs some help at times. We can't do everything by ourselves. She needs someone who will make her realize that she is indeed good enough. All that she is thinking is in her head. That extra support always helps a lot.
She needs to be reminded that she's definitely good enough for that right person. Some people will think that she's not that great, but she must realize that it's alright. When she finds that perfect person, she will be more than just enough for him. She will be his world.
Someone must remind her that in life, bad things never stop happening. But if you let them happen, when will the good come? She needs to stand up to the adversities and face them like a fighter. She must remember that behind the black clouds, the sun is happily shining. Bad times will pass.
She needs someone to tell her that whoever she likes, might not be a great person. Good people tend to be attracted to harmful people.
Be the person to help her realize how amazing she is. Remind her of all the things she's good at, her good qualities and her nature. Give her the kindness and support she deserves. She just requires some motivation every now and then to recharge herself. Help her through her bad times, and you'll get to see the person she truly is. You'll see that she's worth all the fight.


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Set the machine regulator to position 1, pulling it outwards and turning it so that the two smooth rollers are completely open (approx. 3 mm).
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yes i know it's boring to look at again clif bar, even like the same flavor which is banana nut. but what's in my mind was that the chocolate chips amount was different in every bars i ate in four days, twelve banana nut bars.
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Boeing President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg said Tuesday his company was "humbled" and "learning" from an Ethiopian airlines crash that killed 157 people more than two weeks ago.
In a statement published Tuesday, Muilenburg said Boeing is resorting to all the resources it has to cooperate "tirelessly" with the Ethiopians to "understand what happened and do everything possible to ensure it doesn't happen again."
The Boeing was responding to Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde GebreMariam's statement on the tragic crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 earlier this month.
GebreMariam said that despite the air crash, Ethiopian Airlines still holds trust in Boeing and pledges to work with the top U.S. aircraft manufacturer to make air travel even safer.
"We hold ourselves to the highest standards of safety, excellence and integrity in our work because the stakes could not be higher," Muilenburg said, echoing GebreMariam's statement.
"Boeing stands together with all our customers and partners to earn and strengthen the flying public's trust and confidence in us every day," he added.
He said that the Ethiopian Airlines, with a history of over 70 years, is "a pioneer and a leader" that launched Africa into the jet age.
Boeing has been under intense scrutiny of U.S. federal regulators since a Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft crashed near the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa that killed all 157 passengers and crew on board in early March.
It was the second fatal disaster involving a 737 MAX airplane in less than five months after Indonesian Lion Air Flight 610 crashed and killed 189 people in October last year.
Many countries and airlines across the world have grounded 737 MAX aircraft after investigations found similarities between the two crashes.


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Criminals continue to advance their techniques through technology, as well as skate the edge of legal loopholes, taking advantage of non-existent or loosely-defined laws. You'll find the issues related to criminal justice span the globe, entering the homes and business of its residents in a physical and virtual manner, threatening homeland security, and demanding immediate policy changes to protect the innocent and prosecute the guilty.
Whether you desire to help change and support the justice system to reflect modern times, prevent crime, catch criminals, or rehabilitate offenders, Utica's BS in Criminal Justice offers a specialization to support your career goals with focused industry knowledge taught by expert-level faculty.
With the Online BS in Criminal Justice- General Specialization, you can create your own specialization to deepen your understanding in a criminal justice area that meets your personal and professional goals. Select any four 3-credit electives based on course selection guidelines for completing a specialization within the BS in Criminal Justice program.
Program taught in:
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On January 31, 2018 we have a Total Lunar Eclipse in Leo that is full of SO many different elements! It is a Super Blood Blue Moon. But what does that even mean? I've got a 12 min video for you today to explain!
A Super Moon is when the Moon is closest to the Earth making it appear larger.
A Blood Moon is a Total Lunar Eclipse, in which the Earth goes in between the Moon and the Sun, casting a shadow, sometimes red, on the Moon.
A Blue Moon is the 2nd of two full moons in one month.
With this Total Lunar Eclipse in Leo, you can step into your inner Queen of the Jungle and lead your life with confidence and pride! This Eclipse is also uniquely tied to the feminine on two sides with Venus and the Moon in opposition.
Want more deets? Get an insider's look at my 12 min video that I made for the Self Care Collective which describes this Eclipse!


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The Ole & Steen all day menu offers a local take on Danish classics. Each dish- from smørrebrøds to salads- features thoughtfully sourced seasonal ingredients designed to showcase the breads and whole grains Ole & Steen is known for.
Our breakfast menu marries bright simple ingredients with comforting earthy grains. Enjoy dishes like spelt & rye berry porridge with honshimiji mushrooms and Danish port salut cheese or poached eggs with roasted butternut squash and kale pesto on Ole & Steen Chia rye.
Enjoy colorful, creative salads, soups, and sandwiches, like our heirloom carrot steak sandwich with artichoke, harissa, cured olive, rocket, and soft Danish cheese. Ole & Steen is the perfect place to gather in the evening over a glass of wine or Danish beer.


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Chicago luxury interior design & architecture for authentic personalities
Our team is proud to have completed projects ranging from sleek city penthouses and stately suburban estates to high-powered corporate offices and boutique hospitality spaces.
Wherever you're at in your design journey, our team of seasoned professionals can help transform the way you live, love, work, and function.
Our approach is simple, transparent, and tailored towards each client's unique style and needs.
The discovery phase of our comprehensive interior design process begins with getting to know our clients and their lifestyles as if we're reading an enthralling biography. We take into account each client's past, present and future — where and how did you grow up; what are your current living circumstances; what are your dreams and aspirations? These singular traits for each person are the guiding forces that see us through the entire design process — from the acquisition of your home to the installation of magazine-ready interiors.
Our staff is on hand and on site to continue our relationship throughout the interior architecture development phase of each project. First, we craft a set of blueprints that guide the overall curation of the space. Once decided upon, we secure contractors to execute every detail to our specifications, managing the work so that it meets within your expected timeframe and budget. We are there every step of the way to ensure our collaborative design vision is carried thoughout the entire process.
The production and implementation phase includes the procurement of all materials and furnishings in a timely and efficient manner so that you're able to move into your new dream home as soon as possible. Our partnership continues through the installation phase, where we are able to select each piece that lives up to your expectations and your budget. We arrange delivery and set up and then meticulously attend to every detail, from the placement of your coffee table and bedroom furniture to the final fluff of each pillow.
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Come join Concrete Jungle and The Atlanta Cycling Festival for a fruit tree tour on bikes!
For this bicycle tour, Concrete Jungle has curated some of their favorite Atlanta fruit trees. This 10-13 mile bike ride will take you through some of Atlanta's most historic neighborhoods, filled with all sorts of tasty hidden goodies.
Free coffee + minor tune ups care of Velofix Atlanta and snacks from Roadtrek.
Ride includes guided tour from fruit tree docents, CLIF bars, BAI drinks and one free beer post ride! Bring an extra bag to pick some in-season goodies.
Ride will start and end at Eventide Brewery. Pre-registration is $15-$20. Day of registration is $25.


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McGill sends a Baker's dozen to XC championships
McGill sends a Baker's dozen to XC championships
Nov 06, 08 Cross Country (W)
By Earl Zukerman, McGill
MONTREAL -- The McGill University cross-country running team, headed by head coach Dennis Barrett and his assistants Mike Babb and Catherine Megias, are sending six men and seven women to Ste. Foy, Que., for the CIS national championships this weekend.
In the midst of a rebuilding year, the Redmen finished third of four teams at the Quebec conference championships, held at Parc La Baie, in Mandeville, Que., (Oct. 27) and are attempting to become the second Quebec university team to capture a national cross-country title. McGill's best finish was a bronze medal in 1996 championships, when they hosted the event atop Mt. Royal.
The six Redmen competing at "Nationals" include senior Graydon Snider of Guelph, Ont., fifth-year senior Ryan Ouckama of Cobourg, Ont., junior Kenneth Douglas of Montreal, plus three freshman --Daniel Kramer of Salem, Mass., Maxime Bellemare of Sherbrooke, Que., and. Alexander Duhault of Calgary, who earned rookie of the year honours in the Quebec circuit.
A young Martlets squad also had a disappointing season, finishing second to Laval at the Quebec conference title meet. It marked the end of their long, 20-year reign as Quebec women's champions. The McGill women are attempting to become the first QSSF team to capture a national cross-country title. They are the only Quebec school to medal at Nationals, with a silver (2006) and a pair of bronzes (1996, 2001).
The seven Martlet qualifiers include Margaux Pontoreau-Bazinet, a third-year nursing major from Montreal, plus sophomores Arielle Beatty of Newmarket, Ont., and Cristina Lo Basso of Montreal, in addition to three freshmen -- Melanie Myrand of Pointe Claire, Que., Brittany Therrien of Victoria, B.C., and Charlène Puel, a native of France, whose father Claude Puel, is head coach of the Olympique Lyonnais soccer club, seven-time champions of the top league in France.
Earl Zukerman
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Dept. of Athletics & Recreation, Room 225 B
McGill University
475 Pine Avenue W.,
Montreal, QC H2W 1S4
514-398-7012 (Tel.)
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Currently, in Early Access, Howard Phillips Lovecar is the sort of crazy game that you're just so happy someone is making. It's experimental, utterly non-conventional, and completely unfinished.
But for all its rough edges and randomness, HPL manages to tap a seriously rich vein of nostalgia and to know why, you have to go back to the late part of last century, and the birth of the Grand Theft Auto franchise.
Far from the vast open world cities, top-notch voice acting and immersive storylines which now characterize the series, OG Grand Theft Auto was a top-down action whose closest relative nowadays would be retro indie titles such as Hotline Miami and Mr. Shifty. Back in 1997, GTA was a mega hit, and through many years of equal amounts of success and controversy, the game evolved into the monolithic franchise we have today.
But now, with its huge online community, cutting-edge graphics and living open-world, there is still one thing longtime fans tend to pine for from those old top-down days. Something that GTA did incredibly well even then when the perspective certainly didn't exactly lend itself to excellence.
Yes, the series has always put its driving right at the forefront of the experience.
There was just something incredibly satisfying about boosting one of the game's nippiest sports cars and putting your foot right down, the screen zooming out to give a better sense of what was coming up on the road ahead, the feeling of speed palpable as you gave the cops the slip.
But there was something more satisfying even than escaping a five-star rating in your newly acquired supercar.
The game lets you mow down hundreds of unlucky civilians in a most unsavory, but highly entertaining fashion, even rewarding the player with meaty points multipliers in the form of combos when you took down a load in one go. Hours could be spent just flattening the general public, leaving naught but a bloody stain on the sidewalk. If only that cathartic, almost therapeutic experience could last for ever…
Well, now it can. Howard Phillips Lovecar posits the idea that a whole game could be based around GTA's top-down, pedestrian flattening vehicular carnage.
There's not an innocent civilian in sight this time, though, just hundreds upon hundred of ominously chanting cultists. You must take the wheel of your pick-up truck, and splatter as many of these evil worshippers under its wheels as possible. And if you can't run them down, well, you'll just have to blow them away, with either your machine gun or shotgun, fired from the driver and passenger side, respectively.
You better keep those enemies' number down, because if you don't, then Lovecraftian cultists gonna do what Lovecraftian cultists do best: summon huge, disturbing mega-monsters, from putrid jumbles of pulsating tentacles to giant screaming disembodied heads. They're procedurally generated, so you never know quite what you're going to get, but one thing's for sure. That screen's gonna get full, and it's going to get weird.
Feel like revisiting those classic GTA memories? Well, now you can! (with added eldritch horror).
Andy is a freelance writer for Game With Your Brain. You can follow him on Twitter.


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First Subtraction: Seems and all its homophones
Ander Monson
I wish I could say the boring things go first
but apparently they don't. While I can't be sure
the good stuff disappears before the rest:
the Christmas flickers, the liquors, the baubles,
the hottest search results, both seams and seems,
it seems. Everyone's pants fell off, it looked like,
because they did. Soon everything
that looked like something was and nothing fuzzy
lasted before resolving. One-pieces became
an increasing thing. We got back into cloaks and belts.
Without our errors we weren't less sure but more.
It wasn't good. No would, no should: all was. All our
human dramas got less dramatic. No more foolin,
no more funnin, no more runnin around on each other
secretly. Gone was plausible deniability. That wasn't bad
but lies got a lot less white and white guys had to own
their various bullshitteries. No one would deny
it meant improvement on a larger level, but still
we had to fill the silences that resulted somehow.
Without them talking, pantsless, it took a while
before someone else began to speak. We read less.
Stopped reproducing. Everything was getting thinner anyway
—at last. It was hard at first: you get used to a certain tone
of voice, my boy, a Foghorn Leghorn modus operandi.
Some could not adjust. You could see them in their telling stances
assuming something into the distance. It was funny, then sad,
funny, sad, and then it just stayed sad. We called our dads
to make sure they enjoyed their newly flowy clothes, their new gender roles,
and understood literalism. Some wandered off or died.
Even I got lonely then. I started getting into fights.
The thing I like the most about the lights is that they go out.


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Psalms from the Hive
by Jeannie Saum
Keeping my distance
From bees and hive.
But learning is calling me
Honey on the brain.
Clover, Bee, and Revery
Reverie (revery) –(n.) state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing; a fantastic, visionary, or impractical idea.
During Steve's first summer of beekeeping, he and the Dotsons each tended one hive at home, and visited the OSU bee yard about once a month for some hands on training. Occasionally, I would go, too, mostly for the dinner out! But man, was I learning a lot and getting more and more interested.
At home, I watched from a distance and kept the notes. We saw the colony grow and put up honey stores. We knew that we could not harvest honey this first year, as the bees would need it all to make it through the winter. It's hard to wait. Beekeeping can be a delayed reward endeavor.
And I kept reading. I found a book called The Healing Powers of Honey by Cal Orey, and devoured it! It was an easy read, and told about the healing benefits of honey. Honey for insomnia! Honey to heal burns and wounds! Honey for acne and headaches! Honey to help with heart disease, diabetes and cancer! AMAZING!! This book also had lots of recipes for honey foods.
I'm still not interested in doing the beekeeping thing, but this book got me started on my next research journey – honey for health and healing.
Jeremiah 17
12 But we worship at your throne — eternal, high, and glorious!
13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who turn away from you will be disgraced and shamed. They will be buried in a dry and dusty grave, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.
14 O LORD, you alone can heal me; you alone can save. My praises are for you alone!