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Friday afternoon Awesome Wife dropped Twin A off at the office. He sat patiently while I finished up a call, and then we left the office, jumped in the car and headed South on I-15.
One of the things AW and I try to do is spend 1-on-1 time once in a while with each member of the Trifecta. It's tough because we have 3 kids, close in age, and we're always busy, and blah, blah… But we think it's important because when the kids are solo, outside of the Trifecta, you can focus on them and relate to them a little differently, maybe even a little better, than you can with them as a group.
At Spanish Fork we left the Interstate and headed Southwest up Spanish Fork Canyon*. As we climbed I noticed how quickly the Maples are already changing.
*How about those awesome windmills at the mouth of SF canyon? Are those cool or what? Twin A loved them. His other fun thing up that canyon is that we inevitably pass one of the coal trains, whereupon he always counts the cars. 102, if you were wondering.
Before you have kids, when you think of them in the abstract, you tend to envision them as little idealized/improved robot-clones of yourselves. They'd look sort of like you, but better, and they'd be interested in the same things you are, but better at them. They'd also be better in school, have more friends, and vastly more rewarding childhoods than you did, in no small part due to the exceptionally high-quality parenting you will provide.
Of course, none of that is the case. Kids appear with their own little personalities and quickly develop their own interests, preferences, passions and fears, while you flounder about, trying to figure out how your own parents made it look so easy.
Spanish Fork Canyon tops out at Soldier Summit, then drops sharply into Price, after which the road passes through the hamlet/speed-trap of Wellington and out into the desert, skirting the Book Cliffs on its path Southeast. As you approach I-70, the view open up to the left and you can see the La Sal Mountains far off to the East/Southeast. Moment later, at the other end of the horizon, the Henry Mountains peek into view to the South. We jogged West for 10 miles on I-70, then continued South on U-24 along the San Rafael Swell.
All About Twin A
Each of our kids has their own distinct personality, their own strengths and weaknesses. I love them all, but when I'm honest I have to admit that Twin A is the one I find myself worrying about most often. Much of this is physical. Alone of the Trifecta, he suffers from asthma, and takes daily medication. He's also- again alone of our children- allergic to eggs, nuts, shellfish and cantaloupe, adding an element of planning and caution to everything from road-trips to sleep-overs. Poke around long enough in the Watcher home or in the Watcher-vehicles, and you'll inevitably stab yourself with an epi-pen.
But my concern extends beyond the purely physical. Twin A is the most passionate and excitable of our children; as AW puts it, his emotions run very close to the surface. On the positive side this means he's often quickest to delight or indulge in humor or sheer zaniness. On the dark side it means he has a temper. Though he's well-behaved in school, no road trip with Twin A is complete without at least one full-blown tantrum/melt-down/freak-out.
Sometimes I worry about what this will mean as adolescence arrives and morphs into young adulthood. Will a grown, angry Twin A one day erupt and walk out, cutting me from his life? These kinds of long-term/what-if worries are pointless of course. But thinking for the long-term encourages me to spend 1-on-1 time with him now.
Side Note: This would be a good time to mention Twin A's superpower: he completely charms any adult female within 5 minutes of meeting them.*
*No, he did not inherit this power from me.
From Hanksville we continued South another 10 miles, then left pavement and started climbing up into the Henrys.
All About The Henry Mountains
The Henry Mountains are one of three "island" ranges framing the desert of Southeast Utah*. Each stands alone, and island of cool green forest above the hot scrub and canyonlands below. It's said that the Henrys were the last range in the lower 48 to be accurately mapped, though that may be urban (rural?) myth. In any case, they sure seem to be out in the middle of nowhere, which is ironic, because after you spend a couple of decades exploring Southern Utah, you gradually realize that the Henry Mountain are in the dead center of well, everything! Standing on Ellen Peak, starting due West and rotating clockwise you'll see the Waterpocket Fold (pic above, right), Powell Point beyond (same pic) marking the Southern end of the Aquarius Plateau, and, if it's very clear, the gentle rise of the Paunsaugunt in the distance. You'll see Boulder Mountain and the San Rafael Swell (pic left) and the Tushars and the Book Cliffs and the La Sals and Island in the Sky and Junction Butte, with the crumpled canyonlands of the Dirty Devil in the foreground (pic above, left). You'll see off to Needles and on a really clear day, maybe even to the San Juans in Colorado. You'll see the Abajos (pic right), full of old, big Aspens and Black Bears, and Elk Ridge and the Lukachukais down on the Big Rez. You'll see Navajo Mountain and then follow the Kaiporowits Plateau up above the Escalante and Hole In The Rock clear back to where you started.
*Other 2 = La Sals, Abajos
Really, it's a great view.
They're also cool geologically. Like the Pine Valley Mountains and the La Sals, the Henrys are a laccolithic range. I explained laccoliths back in February when I blogged about the amazing Geology of the St. George area, and you can read that post if you want the details, but basically a laccolith is a pool of underground magma which is forced up between 2 layers of sedimentary rock. The pressure of the magma forces up and bends the overlying sedimentary layers. When the magma cools it forms a solid rock mass that is typically flat on the bottom and dome-shaped on top. Unlike the massive laccolith underlying the Pine Valley Mountains, the Henrys are thought to possibly be the result of multiple interconnected laccoliths, perhaps up to 30 underlying Ellen Peak alone.
On the rough road up Twin A fell asleep and we arrived at the campground at dusk. The campground is set in well-forested Sawmill Basin. The forests of the Henrys are similar to those of the Wasatch, with a few differences. The Henrys for example have Ponderosa Pine Pic left, Twin A for scale), which we don't, and sometimes, in the better-watered drainages you can find huge old-growth specimens. Another interesting difference was the abundance of Blue Spruce, especially in Sawmill Basin. Here in the Wasatch Blue Spruce is almost always limited to alongside watercourses, but in Sawmill Basin it's all over, and many of the trees are really blue*.
*The really blue Blue Spruces you see in people's yards are cultivars, selected by growers for their bluish tint. Most Blue Spruces in the wild aren't all that blue. The bluish tint BTW is caused by wax build-up on the stomates (pores) of the needles. (pic right = cones in campsite, my honkin' big foot for scale)
Side Note: Decent informal campsites are sparse in the Henrys. The best is at Wickiup Pass, but it's often occupied, as it was this past weekend.
In the morning we awoke, ate and packed our gear. The campground was vacant except for a friendly older fellow, a bowhunter who was expecting his family to join him that evening. He had a gray beard, a kindly face, rheumy eyes, and an older guy-mumbly way of speaking that somehow reminded me of the snowman-narrator from the old Rudolph-clay-mation TV Christmas special. Except that he a) wasn't made out of snow and b) wore pants.
Tangent: As a child I was always bothered by non-human television/story characters- the snowman-narrator, Winnie-the-Pooh, Yogi-Bear- who wore partial clothing, but no pants. This always seemed very wrong to me. I felt like you can't have it both ways. Either you're a non-clothing-wearing animal, or you're a clothing-wearing humanoid; you can't mix and match. Or if you insist upon mixing/ matching/ species-bending the rules, at least start with pants, like Smoky Bear.
We drove up to Bull Creek Pass, at 10,500 feet, and parked. One of the really cool things about the Henrys is that the highest point- Ellen Peak- is such an easy hike. You start high, and gradually climb only 1,000 feet over a couple of miles to along an open ridge to the "summit", which is actually just the highest roll along the ridge. The obvious conical "peak" to the North is actually about 40 feet or so lower. For lack of a real name, I call it "Forward Ellen Peak."
New Shrub!
From the pass, treeline is almost already broken. The trail passes through a few stands of Spruce and Limber Pine before breaking out into the open grass and rock for good around 11,000 feet. Interestingly, the last real shrub to hang on, extending clear up to the summit, is a common shrub in the Wasatch: Wax Currant, Ribes cereum (pic left). Ribes is a genus of some 150 species including the various currants and gooseberries. Wax Currant leaves (pic right) have a shape vaguely similar to that of Ninebark, but they're not closely-related. Currants belong to Grossulariaceae, the Currant Family, and are more closely-related to things like saxifrages and hydrangeas. Probably the most closely-related thing to Currants we've looked at was the Woodland Star, back in June.
Wax Currant is common across Utah and the Great Basin. Early in the season it blooms with tubular pink flowers that are pollinated by bees and hummingbirds. Now the fertilized flowers have morphed into red berries (pic left), which are edible, but not particularly tasty. Indians used to mix Currant berries (and Gooseberries) with dried meat into a mixture called Pemmican. Wax Currant also spreads clonally, via stem-layering, with branches dropping adventitious roots, and I suspect that under these harsh alpine conditions that's how it usually reproduces.
On up we climbed, spectacular views all around, the world almost laid out before us, over a first false summit, and then a second, and then up to the 3rd, highest point on the ridge. There on the summit was a rock pile holding down a little mailbox. I turned to Twin A: "I need to check my mail," I said. Twin A looked confused for a second and then laughed. At age 8, a child's BS filter is still developing. I bent down to open the box.
The route to Forward Ellen Peak is an out & back, meaning that a hiker passes over the high summit twice. So I'll hold off on the mailbox-opening, and pick up this part of the story again on our return.
North from the summit, the ridge drops 500 feet into a prominent saddle. Starting down the grassy slope we looked ahead to the saddle, and stopped.
Probably the only rule AW has for my solo trips with the kids is to bring the kid in question back alive and in good health. This means not wrecking the car or getting killed by exposure or struck by lightning, or, oh, I don't know… maybe getting trampled by a herd of Buffalo. And this last possibility entered my mind as we gazed down a ¼ mile ahead and 500 feet below at the herd of maybe 2 dozen Buffalo gathered in the saddle.
Here's something else remarkable about the Henrys: they're home to a free-ranging – and the nation's only hunt-able- herd of wild Buffalo.
Correction 9/17/09: The Antelope Island herd also is open for hunting* 12/7-09 -12/9/09. Thanks Co-Worker Sid for the correction.
*And a Utah resident bison hunting permit can be yours for only $1,105- ouch!
All About Buffalo
Buffalo, Bison bison, is the largest native land animal in North America, though- like Grizzlies, Moose and Wolves- it's a relative newcomer to the continent. Back in Eurasia the ancestors of Buffalo diverged from the ancestors of domestic cattle somewhere between 2 and 5 million years ago. More recently, around 700,000 years ago, Buffalo entered North America via Beringia and expanded and speciated throughout the continent.* Until recently there were as many as 7 species of Buffalo, but today there are just 2: the European Buffalo, or Wisent, Bison bonanus, and the American Buffalo, B. bison. The American Buffalo is further divided into 2 subspecies, the Plains Buffalo, B. bison bison, and the Wood Buffalo, B. bison athabascae.
*Actually the story may be more complicated than this. It looks as though there were at least 2 distinct migrations of prehistoric bison to North America. The first led to species such as the Giant Buffalo, which are all now extinct. Today's modern Buffalo appear to be descended from the second, later migration.
Side Note: Buffalo are still closely-related enough to domestic cattle to interbreed and produce fertile offspring. Both have 60 chromosomes. Most buffalo alive today have some "cattle blood" running in their veins.
By the time Europeans arrived, an estimated 60 million Buffalo roamed the continent. Pretty much everyone knows the story of how the Buffalo was nearly hunted to extinction, down to only a few hundred individuals by the 1880s. Through careful management and breeding they recovered to the ~350,000 animals living today.
In 1941 and 1942, a couple dozen Buffalo from Yellowstone were introduced to the desert East of Robber's Roost. These soon migrated to the grasslands at the North end of the Henrys, and in the early 1960s, migrated up into the mountains themselves. Today the herd is ~200 strong, kept in check by regulated hunting.
There's a natural tendency to think of Buffalo as cattle-like: slow-moving and dull-witted. They're not. Buffalo can sprint (up to 30 MPH), jump and are unpredictable. They're supposedly responsible for more human deaths in national parks than grizzlies.
Oo- know what? This is a good time for a tangent- my best Buffalo story ever.
Tangent: There's also, as most Salt Lakers know, a sizeable managed Buffalo herd up on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. Back in the late 90's in, on full-moon winter nights, some friends and I used to sneak out across the causeway (gate is unlocked, we drove it with headlights off) to go night mountain-biking on the island*. This was back in the days before any of us had decent bike-lights, so we rode by moonlight. We did this probably ½ a dozen times between 1996 and 1998 until we gradually started having wives and kids and other things that kept us home between midnight and 4AM.
*This was and is way, totally illegal. I am in no way suggesting that you try this for yourself, or implying that it was in any way remotely enjoyable.
One time, in February 1997, Coryalis and I were riding Antelope alone, probably around 1AM. We were riding the main loop counter-clockwise, and descending the long, fast double-track back to the trailhead. Zipping down in the moonlight at probably 20-25 MPH, the trail passed through a stand of low Junipers, several dozen of them.
And as we tore down the middle, the Junipers stood up and started running from us to either side. They were Buffalo, and as we flew down the trail, we parted the herd in the moonlight.
Had we known they were Buffalo, we would've reversed route, but once we realized what was happening, we tucked in and sped on through.
12 years later, Twin A and I regarded the herd ahead on the saddle. I decided we'd continue down and try to dip down below the saddle on the left, avoiding them.
I needn't have worried. Still far off, the herd picked up our scent and ran off (the wind was behind us.) I caught a bit of footage of them running across the slope.
We summitted, had lunch and Twin A napped. Rough roads, 11,000-foot peaks- the kid can sleep anywhere. We lingered until I saw afternoon clouds forming over scattered ranges and then started back. We descended the saddle without incident and started retracing our path along the ridge, climbing the long grassy, slope hand-in-hand*, and soon we returned where I left off the story 2 hours earlier- at the mailbox.
*Twin A- alone of the Trifecta- still likes to hold my hand when we hike.
One of the things I've gradually realized in recent years is that I rarely return to summits. When I'm on a high summit, I always think, "This place is great, I'll definitely come back here…" but when I think of the dozens of desert peaks I've climbed, I've returned to only a handful. And so when I planned the trip with Twin A, part of the appeal was that this would be a return, because I had in fact climbed Ellen Peak previously.
On Labor Day weekend, 1995, Arizona Steve and I summitted Ellen Peak. That was way, way back, only weeks after I'd moved to Utah, when Life 1.0 wasn't quite over, but Life 2.0 hadn't yet begun. It was the In-Between, a strange period in my life, terrible yet wonderful at the same time. Arizona Steve and I signed the register that day, and I had it in my mind that I'd check out our old sign-in. 14 years, 1 marriage, 3 kids, 3 houses and 3 jobs later, I opened the mailbox. As I opened the box and sorted through the tattered assortment of logs I had several thoughts, but foremost among them was this: was it really me who signed that register?
The Two Big Mysteries of Life
I really believe, deep down, that there are only 2 Really Big Mysteries in the universe. By "Big Mystery" I don't mean "things that people don't know." There are tons of things people don't know, and maybe never will know- the origin of life, the location of Jimmy Hoffa's grave, why some people ride singlespeeds, whatever. But there are only 2 things that I really can't even conceive of people understanding. The first is why anything exists. Whatever your beliefs or views or hopes, any way you cut it, wouldn't everything just be a whole lot simpler, and make a lot more sense if the whole universe never existed? No space, no time, no stuff. The fact that anything exists just doesn't make intuitive sense. Oh I know physicists are dinking around with particles in colliders and what-not that are supposedly going to explain it all, and I've heard plenty of logical-word-game-St. Anselm-type ontological-ish arguments for why god or the universe or everything exists, but still, will the human mind ever be able to conceive why anything exists?
Tangent: I suspect that it won't, and that although there may well be a logical explanation for why stuff exists, getting a human to understand it would be like getting a dog to understand how a diesel engine works. And when you think about it, this makes sense. The human brain didn't evolve to understand things as they really are any more than dog brains evolved to understand diesel engines*; it evolved because it helped hominids pass on more of their genes to the next generation, whether by helping those hominids survive better, or rear young better, or out-compete other hominids for mating opportunities or whatever. In so doing it developed an abstract simulation capability that enabled people to create diesel engines and iPhones and space shuttles and symphonies and the Mona Lisa, but that doesn't mean it can understand reality any better than your dog can repair your truck.
*To be clear, I'm not suggesting that the human mind evolved to understand how diesel engines work. The diesel engine is simply an expression of conceptual thinking made possible by a human brain evolved through natural/sexual selection. But I like the example, mainly because I get a kick out of imagining a dog sitting there with a wrench trying to figure out how to fix a busted engine.
The second mystery, and the one that really eats at me, is the mystery of self. Why am I me? And why am I me every single day? Why didn't I wake up today as you, or Madonna, or Mahmoud Ahmedinejad*? Isn't that the single weirdest thing ever?
*I plan to return to him soon in an upcoming tangent, and it will be a good one. The guy is rich, rich material.
Of course if you believe in a distinct, metaphysical soul, you can explain it away as "you" are just where your soul parked for 80 years or so when you were conceived. But if you're a materialist* who doesn't believe in things like souls or ghosts or multi-level-marketed nutritional supplements, then what you are is the physical stuff that comprises you. Or more specifically, your brain.
*By materialist, I mean someone who doesn't believe in supernatural/metaphysical stuff, but only in stuff that can actually be detected, measured, or reasonably inferred. I don't mean people who buy BMWs and Wiis and speedboats or whatever.
But the stuff in your brain changes. Though your brain is made overwhelmingly out of the same actual stuff that it was yesterday or last week, it's probably made out of largely different stuff than it was, say 20 years ago. You're eating and drinking and breathing and what-not. There's a common "factoid" floating around that every atom in your body is replaced every 7 or 8 years. But the reality is more complicated. Some parts of your body, like the atoms in the cells comprising the lining of your intestines, are probably replaced much more often. But the atoms in your molars and the lenses of your eyes are probably the same with which those parts were originally grown. For brains the timing doesn't seem to be entirely clear, but given that it's a fleshy organ with a very high metabolism, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the stuff comprising my brain is overwhelmingly different stuff than that which composed it 14 years ago.
Which means that it was a different guy, a different me, who opened the mailbox last time around. A guy whose memories I still carry around.
Tangent: This is why I squirm a bit when theists paraphrase my views as "you die and there's nothing after this life except your body rotting in the ground…" Though that's certainly what happens to a specific body, it implies what I suspect is a simplistic and terribly parochial view of "self". I've gone far enough afield in this post, but the idea of an ever-changing dynamic self opens up all sorts of possibilities for the nature of our past, present and future relationships with, and connections to, well, everything.
I don't know who or when decides to clean out old summit registers. When I climbed Pilot peak in 2002, there were entries dating clear back to 1963. On Ellen Peak, the oldest register dates back to 1999. Whatever happened to the register Arizona Steve and I signed, it isn't up there now.
Twin A and I continued down the long ridge to the trailhead, clouds building in the distance, and then drove back to the campground. Snowman-Bowhunter's family had arrived, and Twin A played with his 8 year-old granddaughter while I made dinner. We built a small fire, made s'mores, and when it got dark crawled in the tent, reading aloud* by headlamp before falling asleep.
*Watership Down. Thanks Fatty for the suggestion.
At about midnight I awoke, feeling stuffy. I popped my head out and saw that the sky had cleared, and the stars were fantastic. I pulled the fly off the tent and watched the stars for a bit, checking out the moons of Jupiter through binoculars.
Tangent: The 4 Galilean moons of Jupiter- Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto- are easy to spot with decent binoculars. Right now as Jupiter rises all 4 are visible on the planet's lunar/ equatorial/ orbital* plane, 1 to the left and 3 to the right.
*So which is it- the equatorial, lunar or (solar) orbital plane? Actually in this case, all 3. Most moons orbit their planet on a plane parallel with that planet's equator. A notable exception is our moon, which orbits on a plane roughly parallel with the solar orbital plane (which I mentioned in this post, and is why our moon is higher in the night sky in winter than it is in summer.) This-along with its insanely large size relative to the planet it orbits- makes our moon very unusual** in the solar system. But Jupiter has an axial tilt of only 3 degrees, meaning that its equator is almost parallel to the solar orbital plane.
**I almost said "unique", but held off due to the whole Pluto-Charon deal…
I went back to bed, and was awakened again, a couple hours later, by a raindrop on my face. The sky had clouded back up, and I jumped up again, replaced the fly, and went to sleep a 3rd time. This time I dreamed.
I was in my office at work, talking on the phone. The door was closed, but my office has a floor-to-ceiling window next to the door, and through this window I saw Wife 1.0 and her mother* approaching. I told the person on the phone I'd call back. Wife 1.0 walked in and I wondered for a moment what to say. I started to say, "You look just the same…", but then I realize she did look just the same, because it was the same mental image I had of her from when I last saw her, 14 years ago, and I realized I was dreaming, and I woke up.
*The dream wasn't exactly frightening, but with the appearance of my erstwhile mother-in-law, I suppose technically it qualified as a "nightmare."
In the dawn half-light I turned and saw Twin A sleeping beside me, and felt strangely relieved that now was still now, and I was still me.

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Topic: AIF - 3B - 8 LHR
8th LHR, AIF
8th Australian Light Horse Regiment
Roll of Honour
James Alexander Bell
James Alexander Bell
Service number: 878
Rank: Trooper [Tpr]
Unit: 8th Light Horse Regiment
Service: Army
Conflict: 1914-1918
Date of death: 7 August 1915
Cause of death: Killed in action
Cemetery or memorial details: Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey
War Grave Register notes: BELL, Tpr. James Alexander, 878. 8th Light Horse Regt. Killed in action 7th Aug., 1915. 6.
Source: AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army.
A brief military biography of James Alexander Bell from The AIF Project:
Regimental number | 878 |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Labourer |
Address | North Geelong, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 34 |
Next of kin | Brother, John Bell, North Geelong, Victoria |
Enlistment date | 1 December 1915 |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | 1 December 1914 |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 8th Light Horse Regiment, 5th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 10/13/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A56 Palermo on 7 May 1915 |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 8th Light Horse Regiment |
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Enlisted, 1 December 1914. Taken on strength, 8th Light Horse, 5 August 1915. |
Fate | Killed in Action 7 August 1915 |
Place of death or wounding | Gallipoli, Turkey |
Date of death | 7 August 1915 |
Age at death | 36 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Lone Pine Memorial (Panel 6), Gallipoli, Turkey The Lone Pine Memorial, situated in the Lone Pine Cemetery at Anzac, is the main Australian Memorial on Gallipoli, and one of four memorials to men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Designed by Sir John Burnet, the principal architect of the Gallipoli cemeteries, it is a thick tapering pylon 14.3 metres high on a square base 12.98 metres wide. It is constructed from limestone mined at Ilgardere in Turkey. The Memorial commemorates the 3268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea after evacuation through wounds or disease. The names of New Zealanders commemorated are inscribed on stone panels mounted on the south and north sides of the pylon, while those of the Australians are listed on a long wall of panels in front of the pylon and to either side. Names are arranged by unit and rank. The Memorial stands over the centre of the Turkish trenches and tunnels which were the scene of heavy fighting during the August offensive. Most cemeteries on Gallipoli contain relatively few marked graves, and the majority of Australians killed on Gallipoli are commemorated here. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 6 |
Other details | War service: Egypt, Gallipoli Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
Lest we forget
Further Reading:
8th Australian Light Horse Regiment, Roll of Honour
The Nek, Gallipoli, 7 August 1915
Gallipoli CampaignBattles where Australians fought, 1899-1920
Citation: 8th LHR, Roll of Honour, James Alexander Bell


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Carrie Underwood Reveals New 'Denim & Rhinestones' Album, Shares Cover
Carrie Underwood has revealed the upcoming release of a new studio album for 2022. The country superstar turned to social media early Thursday (April 7) to share the cover and release date for Denim & Rhinestones, which is set for release on June 10.
"I can't wait any longer!!" the singer writes. "I have a new album coming June 10! Get ready for #DenimAndRhinestones! Pre-order beginning at midnight ET!"
The news comes just weeks after Underwood revealed her latest single, "Ghost Story," in March. She performed the new song for the first time live at the 2022 Grammy Awards on Sunday night (April 3).
Underwood hinted in March that the upcoming new album might be a turn in a new direction for her.
"It's fun. It's a lot of fun," she tells Kelleigh Bannen from Today's Country With Kelleigh Bannen on Apple Music Country.
Underwood also told Bannen that she co-wrote much of the project and co-produced it with David Garcia, beginning with the mindset that they should prioritize making music they love above everything.
"Yeah, it's a lot of fun, and I feel like people are going to hear everything and just going to get some warm fuzzies and just, I don't know, hopefully it'll just make people happy to listen to," Underwood says. "It's a very like sing into your hairbrush, in your house, in your room kind of album, which I think it's going to translate well. I think people are going to like it."
*Update: Carrie Underwood revealed the full track list for her Denim & Rhinestones album on April 8.
Carrie Underwood's 'Denim & Rhinestones' Track List:
1. "Denim & Rhinestones" (Carrie Underwood, David Garcia, Josh Kear, Hillary Lindsey)
2. "Velvet Heartbreak" (Underwood, Garcia, Lindsey)
3. "Ghost Story" (Garcia, Kear, Lindsey)
4. "Hate My Heart" (Underwood, Garcia, Michael Hardy, Lindsey)
5. "Burn" (Underwood, Garcia, Ashley Gorley, Lindsey)
6. "Crazy Angels" (Underwood, Garcia, Lydia Vaughan)
7. "Faster" (Underwood, Garcia, Lindsey)
8. "Pink Champagne" (Underwood, Garcia, Gorley, Hillary Lindsey)
9. "Wanted Woman" (Underwood, Garcia, Josh Miller)
10. "Poor Everybody Else" (Underwood, Chris DeStefano, Miller)
11. "She Don't Know" (Underwood, Garcia, Hillary Lindsey)
12. "Garden" (Underwood, Garcia, Miller)


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Mountain Laurel
A rheumatic remedy. Pains shift rapidly. Nausea and slow pulse frequently accompanying. Has also a prominent action on the heart. In small doses, it accelerates the heart's action; in larger it moderates it greatly. Neuralgia; pains shoot downwards, with numbness. Fulgurating pains of locomotor ataxia. Protracted and continuous fevers, with tympanites. Paralytic sensations; pains and aching in limbs accompany nearly every group of symptoms. Albuminuria.
Head.–Vertigo; worse stooping. Confusion of brain. Pain in front and temporal region from head to nape and to teeth; from cardiac origin.
Eyes.–Vision impaired. Stiff, drawing sensation when moving eyes. Rheumatic iritis. Scleritis, pain increased by moving the eye.
Face.–Neuralgia; worse right side. Stitches in tongue. Stitches and tearing in bones of jaw and face.
Stomach.–Warm, glowing sensation in epigastrium. Nausea; vomiting. Pain in pit of stomach; worse by bending forward; relieved by sitting erect. Bilious attacks, with nausea, vertigo, and headache. Sensation of something being pressed under the epigastrium.
Urinary.–Frequent, with sharp pains in lumbar region. Post-scarlatinal nephritis.
Heart.–Weak, slow pulse (Dig; Apoc can). Fluttering of heart, with anxiety. Palpitation; worse leaning forward. Gouty and rheumatic metastasis of heart. Tachycardia, with pain (Thyroid). Tobacco heart. Dyspnœa and pressure from epigastrium toward the heart. Sharp pains take away the breath. Shooting through chest above heart into shoulder-blades. Frequent pulse. Heart's action tumultuous, rapid and visible. Paroxysms of anguish around heart.
Female.–Menses too early, or suppressed, with pain in limbs and back and inside of thighs. Leucorrhœa follows menses.
Back.–Pain from neck down arm; in upper three dorsal vertebræ extending to shoulder-blade. Pain down back, as if it would break; in localized regions of spine; through shoulders. Lumbar pains, of nervous origin.
Extremities.–Deltoid rheumatism especially right. Pains from hips to knees and feet. Pains affect a large part of a limb, or several joints, and pass through quickly. Weakness, numbness, pricking, and sense of coldness in limbs. Pains along ulnar nerve, index finger. Joints red, hot, swollen. Tingling and numbness of left arm.
Sleep.–Sleepless, wakes very early in morning.
Modalities.–Worse, leaning forward (opposite, Kali carb); looking down; motion, open air.
Relationship.–Compare: Kalmia contains Arbutin g v. Derris pinuta (of great service in neuralgic headaches of rheumatic origin).
Compare: Spigelia; Pulsat.
Complementary: Benz acid.
Dose.–Tincture, to sixth potency.


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text: The nice thing about most IgG's is that they can undergo denaturation, and renature spontaneously. Try solubilizing in a chaotrope like potassium thiocyanate (~2M) and then dialyze it away. Guanidinium may alos work. > From: ChenHA <hzhen at freeuk.com> > Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts,bionet.molbio.proteins > Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 17:27:01 +0100 > Subject: Re: Mysterious case of IgG precipitation: Imidazole+glycine+freezing > = insoluble ppt ??? > > > > Dima Klenchin wrote: >> >> I am pulling all my hairs out over it!!! Never came accross >> something so seemingly simple yet something I have no >> idea how to explain. This is not about science or my ruined >> prep anymore. I just want to *understand*! >> >> I purified some rabbit IgG on Protein A column. Elution >> was with 50 mM Glycine pH 2.5. Extremely clean and efficient. >> Because Tris is highly inibitory for the assay I was going to >> use these IgG for, I decided to neutralize with harmless base, >> imidazole (to avoid dialysis and sample loss). >> 100 ul 2.0 M Imidazole, pH 9.0 + 1 ml 50 mM Gly, pH 2.5 = >> = pH ~ 7.1. The final prep was perfectly clear solution of >> 2.8 mg/ml IgG. Then I aliqioted and froze the thing >> (150 ul in eppies stuck in -80C) >> >> Upon thawing, huge proteinous ppt formed! Over 90% of >> the total protein was not in solution anymore. Since nothing >> I know suggest that this might happen, and since the prep >> is quite valuable (serum source is limited), I started little >> investigation hoping to get the IgG pellet back into solution >> (nothing worked): >> > <snip> > > Protein precipitating on freeze/thaw is not an unknown problem, and > has little to do with the buffer I think. If you want to freeze > protein, you should always snap-freeze in liquid nitrogen before > putting them into freezer. There is the phenomenon of cold > denaturation in which protein becomes denatured at low temperature > which could well leads to aggregation, although I can't say if this is > the case with your protein. > > > >> - Dima


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Many people today struggle to maintain their waistline. There have been a significant number of studies that correlate our weight, or rather, excess weight, to shortened lifespans, reduced quality of life and an increase in various diseases. People are often focused on the newest fad diet or exercise routine to help them reduce their body fat percentages and maintain weight loss, but a visit with your chiropractor will add another layer to your ability to fight the battle of your expanding midline.
At the beginning of each January, weight-loss fads and gym membership applications skyrocket, only to taper off during the next few months. People often focus on one aspect of their lifestyle to reduce their weight, but these aspects by themselves don't focus on an overall healthy lifestyle. If you can change your focus to living better for the rest of your life, you may start to find that you can bring some balance to your future weight loss endeavor. When used as a part of your weight loss routine, people who receive chiropractic care tend to see faster and longer-lasting results.
Chiropractic adjustments aren't considered a cardio workout in themselves, but patients who are maintaining a healthy diet and getting regular exercise can really benefit from routine adjustments. Chiropractors can help to keep us free from injury, reduce fatigue, and help keep our digestive systems working properly which allows our bodies to readily process the foods that we eat to properly fuel a workout while disposing of waste.
Athletes at any level are at an increased risk for injury. The physical movements that we make when we work out can place additional stress on all our joints, making movement more difficult. When we feel pain in our joints, we tend to reduce the workload. Chiropractic adjustments help to keep your joints in their best physical condition and everyone knows, that when you feel better, you can work harder. Your increased output will result in more calories burned which when paired with proper nutrition, can result in big losses on the scale.
Many chiropractors are specifically geared to work with weight loss. In addition to specialized techniques that help keep you in the best shape possible, they can offer additional exercise and nutritional information. If you're considering pairing your weight loss plan with chiropractic, please talk to your chiropractor. They are a wealth of underutilized knowledge.
When we think of building lean muscle, we often think about lifting barbells and dumbbells, but studies show that the act of getting an adjustment can lead to better muscle tone. And as our bodies build muscle, the fat that we consume isn't immediately placed into stores which means that it makes it harder for the body to gain additional weight.
Additionally, properly aligned joints, as well as the adjustments themselves, can lead to reduced muscle fatigue and more rapid healing than rest alone. Chiropractic adjustments allow your muscles to relax which puts them into the best state to be healed.
Chiropractors are experts at spotting issues with our joints and alignment. As they work through your appointment, they may find issues before they become more serious. This allows you to take precautions before you really hurt yourself and sideline your weight loss plan. If you can recognize the injury early, it takes less time to heal, and you have a better chance of a full recovery.
If you are getting serious about fighting for your health, then it's time to cut out the extra weight. While you should consider a multi-faceted approach, you should also work with your chiropractor to identify the best plan for you. With their ability to keep your body in top operating condition, their advice on exercise and nutrition can also be an invaluable tool to help you reach your goals.


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One-of-a-kind dog collar for your best friend. Share the lively spirit of your pet friend with this original collar that will tell the other dogs who is the real good looking boss.
Inspired by: colors, patterns, and textiles from Mexican indigenous communities. When a person works on a collar piece, he/she creates new color combinations and patterns, it is freely chosen by their inspiration on each one of the pieces they handmake. This makes the process even more rewarding and that is why you won't find another one that looks the same.
Technique: sewn by hand.
Produced in: different states of Mexico.
Material: Vinyl synthetic leather, stainless steel buckle.
Measurements: 32-60 cm.
Product care: hand wash in cold water. Water resistant.
Handmade with care in Mexico.
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Mariana, a young entrepreneur with a passion for Mexico, its culture, and its people, as well as a decisive athlete, decided to develop Makán. When she was involved in making handmade decorations for cellphone covers she got inspired to develop a product that could show the beauty of Mexican arts. And the best way was to put together Mexican artisan work with your pet friend's accessories.
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I LOVE cooking curry, its so much better when you make it yourself. And it also means you can use an ingredient I don't think you see enough of in menus and that's paneer.
Better still paneer is really easy to make yourself so you can feel super smug home-made curry AND home-made paneer.
So last time I fancied curry I decided I'd do some paneer. I got a bargain carton of proper whole milk in the supermarket reductions and I was away.
Paneer (makes enough for 1 main dish curry for 2-4 depending on what else you serve)
2 pints whole milk
2 tbsp lemon juice
1. Heat the milk in a pan until it comes to a boil. stir it to prevent it burning.
2. Turn the heat right down and add the lemon juice stirring as you add it. Turn off the heat.
3. Continue to stir off the heat whilst the curds form.
4. When the curds have separated leave to stand for 10 minutes.
5. Carefully spoon the curds into a muslin lined colander or sieve. Fold the muslin over the top and weigh down with a plate a tin.
6. Leave to drain and firm overnight.
7. Unwrap and store in the fridge covered until needed. It will keep for two weeks.
If the curds don't separate properly initially then add a little more lemon juice and reheat.
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Naomi doesn't put much stock in Christianity anymore, but when Micah makes a supernatural reappearance in her life, she's forced to rethink her faith. Suddenly, unfathomable decisions loom before her and, according to Micah, she has only three days to figure it all out.
Micah's reappearance seems like a chance to heal unresolved questions about life and God, but the salve itself requires a choice between this life and the next.
Is Naomi ready to turn her back on everything her life could be? Or can she accept the pain of moving on in the hope of something better to come? As she seeks answers from a God she thought had abandoned her, readers are propelled on a journey to the edges of heaven and back.
A spiritual reflection on the personal growth that comes from tragedy, Imani's third novel will resonate with fans of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and The Shack.


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Topiramate treats certain types of seizures and is used to prevent migraine headaches. Topiramate can make it difficult to find your words when speaking.
Topiragen Overview
Topiramate is a prescription medication used to treat certain types of seizures in adults and children. It is also used to prevent migraines in adults and in adolescents ages 12 to 17. Topiramate belongs to a group of drugs called anticonvulsants, which decrease abnormal brain activity.
This medication comes in tablet form. Swallow tablets whole. Topiramate is also available in sprinkle capsules (regular and extended release capsules).
Common side effects of topiramate include tingling of the limbs, decrease in appetite, and nausea. Topiramate can cause vision changes, dizziness, and drowsiness. Do not drive or operate machinery until you know how topiramate will affect you.
How was your experience with Topiragen?
Topiragen Cautionary Labels
Uses of Topiragen
Topiramate is a prescription medicine used:
- to treat certain types of seizures (partial onset seizures and primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures) in adults and children 2 years and older
- with other medicines to treat certain types of seizures (partial onset seizures, primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures, and seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome) in adults and children 2 years and older
- to prevent migraine headaches in adults and in adolescents ages 12 to 17
This medication may be prescribed for other uses. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
For more information on this medication choose from the list of selections below.
Topiragen Drug Class
Topiragen is part of the drug class:
Side Effects of Topiragen
Topiramate may cause serious side effects including:
See "Drug Precautions".
- Metabolic acidosis. Metabolic acidosis can cause:
- tiredness
- loss of appetite
- irregular heartbeat
- impaired consciousness
- High blood ammonia levels. High ammonia in the blood can affect your mental activities, slow your alertness, make you feel tired, or cause vomiting. This has happened when topiramate is taken with a medicine called valproic acid (Depakene and Depakote).
- Low body temperature. Taking topiramate when you are also taking valproic acid can cause a drop in body temperature to less than 95°F, feeling tired, confusion, or coma.
- Kidney stones. Drink plenty of fluids when taking topiramate to decrease your chances of getting kidney stones.
- Effects on thinking and alertness. Topiramate may affect how you think and cause confusion, problems with concentration, attention, memory, or speech. Topiramate may cause depression or mood problems, tiredness, and sleepiness.
- Dizziness or loss of muscle coordination.
Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any of the symptoms above.
The most common side effects of topiramate include:
- tingling of the arms and legs (paresthesia)
- not feeling hungry
- nausea
- a change in the way foods taste
- diarrhea
- weight loss
- nervousness
- upper respiratory tract infection
Tell your healthcare provider about any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away.
These are not all the possible side effects of topiramate. For more information, ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects.
Topiragen Interactions
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take including prescription and non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Especially tell your doctor if you take:
- other medicines for epilepsy (phenytoin, carbamazepine, and valproic acid)
- birth control medicines taken by mouth (oral contraceptives)
- metformin
- lithium
- other carbonic anydrase inhibitors (zonisamide, acetazolamide, dichlorphenamide)
- CNS depressants (medicines that impair your thinking, concentration or muscle coordination). For example:
- medicines for anxiety
- medicines for insomnia
- pain medicines
- alcohol
This is not a complete list of possible drug interactions with topiramate. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Topiragen Precautions
Topiramate may cause eye problems. Serious eye problems include:
- any sudden decrease in vision with or without eye pain and redness
- a blockage of fluid in the eye causing increased pressure in the eye (secondary angle closure glaucoma)
These eye problems can lead to permanent loss of vision if not treated. You should call your healthcare provider right away if you have any new eye symptoms.
Topiramate may cause decreased sweating and increased body temperature (fever). People, especially children, should be watched for signs of decreased sweating and fever, especially in hot temperatures. Some people may need to be hospitalized for this condition. Call your healthcare provider right away if you have a fever or decreased sweating.
Topiramate can increase the level of acid in your blood (metabolic acidosis). If left untreated, metabolic acidosis can cause brittle or soft bones (osteoporosis, osteomalacia, osteopenia), kidney stones, can slow the rate of growth in children, and may possibly harm your baby if you are pregnant. Metabolic acidosis can happen with or without symptoms.
Sometimes people with metabolic acidosis will:
- feel tired
- not feel hungry (loss of appetite)
- feel changes in heartbeat
- have trouble thinking clearly
Your healthcare provider should do a blood test to measure the level of acid in your blood before and during your treatment with topiramate. If you are pregnant, you should talk to your healthcare provider about whether you have metabolic acidosis.
Topiramate may cause suicidal thoughts or actions in a very small number of people, about 1 in 500.
Call a healthcare provider right away if you have any of these symptoms, especially if they are new, worse, or worry you:
- thoughts about suicide or dying
- attempts to commit suicide
- new or worse depression
- new or worse anxiety
- feeling agitated or restless
- panic attacks
- trouble sleeping (insomnia)
- new or worse irritability
- acting aggressive, being angry, or violent
- acting on dangerous impulses
- an extreme increase in activity and talking (mania)
- other unusual changes in behavior or mood
Do not stop topiramate without first talking to a healthcare provider.
- Stopping topiramate suddenly can cause serious problems.
- Suicidal thoughts or actions can be caused by things other than medicines. If you have suicidal thoughts or actions, your healthcare provider may check for other causes.
Watch for early symptoms of suicidal thoughts and actions.
- Pay attention to any changes, especially sudden changes, in mood, behaviors, thoughts, or feelings.
- Keep all follow-up visits with your healthcare provider as scheduled.
- Call your healthcare provider between visits as needed, especially if you are worried about symptoms.
Topiramate can harm your unborn baby (see "Pregnant Section").
- Do not drink alcohol while taking topiramate. Topiramate and alcohol can affect each other causing side effects such as sleepiness and dizziness.
- Do not drive a car or operate heavy machinery until you know how topiramate affects you. Topiramate can slow your thinking and motor skills, and may affect vision.
Topiragen Food Interactions
Medicines can interact with certain foods. In some cases, this may be harmful and your doctor may advise you to avoid certain foods. In the case of topiramate there are no specific foods that you must exclude from your diet when receiving topiramate.
Inform MD
Before taking topiramate, tell your healthcare provider about all your medical conditions, including if you:
- have or have had depression, mood problems, or suicidal thoughts or behavior
- have kidney problems, have kidney stones, or are getting kidney dialysis
- have a history of metabolic acidosis (too much acid in the blood)
- have liver problems
- have weak, brittle, or soft bones (osteomalacia, osteoporosis, osteopenia, or decreased bone density)
- have lung or breathing problems
- have eye problems, especially glaucoma
- have diarrhea
- have a growth problem
- are on a diet high in fat and low in carbohydrates, which is called a ketogenic diet
- are having surgery
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant
- are breastfeeding. Topiramate passes into breast milk. It is not known if the topiramate that passes into breast milk can harm your baby. Talk to your healthcare provider about the best way to feed your baby if you take topiramate.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and non-prescription medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements. Topiramate and other medicines may affect each other causing side effects.
Especially tell your healthcare provider if you take:
- Valproic acid (such as Depakene or Depakote)
- any medicines that impair or decrease your thinking, concentration, or muscle coordination
- birth control pills. Topiramate may make your birth control pills less effective. Tell your healthcare provider if your menstrual bleeding changes while you are taking birth control pills and topiramate.
Ask your healthcare provider if you are not sure if your medicine is listed above.
Know the medicines you take. Keep a list of them to show your healthcare provider and pharmacist each time you get a new medicine. Do not start a new medicine without talking with your healthcare provider.
Topiragen and Pregnancy
Topiramate can harm your unborn baby.
- If you take topiramate during pregnancy, your baby has a higher risk for birth defects called cleft lip and cleft palate. These defects can begin early in pregnancy, even before you know you are pregnant.
- Cleft lip and cleft palate may happen even in children born to women who are not taking any medicines and do not have other risk factors.
- There may be other medicines to treat your condition that have a lower chance of birth defects.
- All women of childbearing age should talk to their healthcare providers about using other possible treatments instead of topiramate. If the decision is made to use topiramate, you should use effective birth control (contraception) unless you are planning to become pregnant. You should talk to your doctor about the best kind of birth control to use while you are taking topiramate.
- Tell your healthcare provider right away if you become pregnant while taking topiramate. You and your healthcare provider should decide if you will continue to take topiramate while you are pregnant.
- Metabolic acidosis may have harmful effects on your baby. Talk to your healthcare provider if topiramate has caused metabolic acidosis during your pregnancy.
- Pregnancy Registry: If you become pregnant while taking topiramate, talk to your healthcare provider about registering with the North American Antiepileptic Drug Pregnancy Registry. You can enroll in this registry by calling 1-888-233-2334. The purpose of this registry is to collect information about the safety of antiepileptic drugs during pregnancy.
Topiragen and Lactation
Tell your doctor if you are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. Topiramate may be excreted in human breast milk. The effects of this exposure on infants are unknown.
Topiragen Usage
- Take topiramate exactly as prescribed.
- Your healthcare provider may change your dose. Do not change your dose without talking to your healthcare provider.
- Topiramate Tablets should be swallowed whole. Do not chew the tablets. They may leave a bitter taste.
- Topiramate Sprinkle Capsules (regular release) may be swallowed whole or may be opened and sprinkled on a teaspoon of soft food. Drink fluids right after eating the food and medicine mixture to make sure it is all swallowed.
- Topiramate Sprinkle Capsules (extended release) can be taken without regard to meals. Swallow capsule whole and intact. Do not sprinkle on food, chew or crush.
- Do not store any medicine and food mixture for later use.
- Topiramate can be taken before, during, or after a meal. Drink plenty of fluids during the day. This may help prevent kidney stones while taking topiramate.
- If you take too much topiramate, call your healthcare provider or poison control center right away or go to the nearest emergency room.
- If you miss a single dose of topiramate, take it as soon as you can. However, if you are within 6 hours of taking your next scheduled dose, wait until then to take your usual dose of topiramate, and skip the missed dose. Do not double your dose. If you have missed more than one dose, you should call your healthcare provider for advice.
- Do not stop taking topiramate without talking to your healthcare provider. Stopping topiramate suddenly may cause serious problems. If you have epilepsy and you stop taking topiramate suddenly, you may have seizures that do not stop. Your healthcare provider will tell you how to stop taking topiramate slowly.
- Your healthcare provider may do blood tests while you take topiramate.
Topiragen Dosage
Take topiramate exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully. Your doctor will determine the best dose for you. For most patients, the dosage is gradually increased until the minimum effective dosage is reached. This occurs over at least four weeks.
The recommended dose for topiramate monotherapy in adults and children 10 years of age and older is 400 mg/day in two divided doses. For children ages 2 to 9 years of age, dosing of topiramate is based on weight. The dosage range is 250 mg to 400 mg/day in two divided doses. Patients receiving other medicines for epilepsy in addition to topiramate (adjunctive therapy) may require a lower dose of topiramate.
The recommended total daily dose of topiramate as treatment for prophylaxis of migraine headache is 100 mg/day in two divided doses.
Topiragen Overdose
If you take too much topiramate, call your local Poison Control Center or seek emergency medical attention right away.
Other Requirements
- Store topiramate Tablets at room temperature, 59°F to 86°F (15°C to 30°C).
- Store topiramate Sprinkle Capsules at or below 77°F (25°C).
- Keep topiramate in a tightly closed container.
- Keep topiramate dry and away from moisture and light.
- Keep topiramate and all medicines out of the reach of children.


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More and more people seem to be benefiting from cutting lactose out of their diets – but what exactly is it?
Lactose is the natural sugar found in milk. It's a complex sugar that requires the enzyme lactase to digest it. People who are lactose intolerant can't produce this enzyme, meaning the undigested lactose causes gut problems like nausea, cramps and indigestion.
Good news for the lactose intolerant! There are loads of lactose free recipes to choose from. Although ghee - clarified cow's butter - is usually used as a cooking oil, this is easily replaced with other oils like rapeseed or vegetable. My personal choice is coconut oil because it has many similar properties ghee.
There aren't many other dairy products used in Indian cooking. Paneer - a curd cheese - is the other one to worry about, but it's easily substituted with tofu.
Desserts are a bit tougher because many Indian desserts are made using milk powder or condensed milk. I've not managed to find a decent alternative for either of these yet, but there are some lactose free recipes out there.
Discover more lactose free Indian food below.


text: Kalpokhri is a scared lake located at an elevation of 3170 meters. It is found enroute to the famous Sandakphu peak of Singalila Range from Gairibas. The local people believe it to be the home of the formidable Kalnaag or the huge slithering black snake. Pokhri in the local language means lake and Kaal is derived from Kaalnaag and hence Kalpokhri. The Kalpokhri contains black water and is a rare presence at such an elevation. During spring the region surrounding the black lake is full of the magnificent rhododendron and orchids. The lake doesn't freeze even during winter because the water is muddy.


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About my most recent book
Shane K. Bernard is a historian and the author of five books:
• Teche: A History of Louisiana's Most Famous Bayou (2016, chosen as a Book of the Year for 2017 by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities)
• Cajuns and Their Acadian Ancestors: A Young Reader's History (original English edition, 2008; French translation issued in 2013 as Les Cadiens et leurs ancêtres acadiens: l'histoire racontée aux jeunes)
• Tabasco: An Illustrated History (2007)
• The Cajuns: Americanization of a People (2003)
• Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues (1996)
Bernard holds degrees in English and History from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and earned a Ph.D. in History from Texas A&M University.
He serves as historian and curator to McIlhenny Company — maker of Tabasco brand products since 1868 — and Avery Island, Inc., on Avery Island, Louisiana.
Bernard has been interviewed about south Louisiana history and culture by numerous media outlets, including the BBC, CNN, NPR, The History Channel, the New York Times, and the National Geographic Society.
In 2015 he was chosen as a Research Fellow at UL's Center for Louisiana Studies.
Bernard is married, has two children, and resides in New Iberia, Louisiana, near the celebrated Bayou Teche.
• Listen to NPR's Morning Edition interview Bernard about his book The Cajuns: Americanization of a People.
• Listen to NPR's Morning Edition interview Bernard about his research into the history of Tabasco sauce.
Banner image based on "Sugar Plantation on the Bayou Teche, Louisiana," Harper's (1866).
Copyright © 2021 by Shane K. Bernard. All rights reserved.


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The course is named after Annie Palmer, the notorious "White Witch," who was mistress of Rose Hall Plantation in the early 19th Century. She was purported to be beautiful and beguiling—and to have done away with three unsuspecting husbands.
Locals are quick to say that Annee Palmer still haunts the Rose Hall Great House and the grounds of the estate — and maybe she does you have to go there and see the candle light tour.
I certainly blamed her for several wayward putts when I played her namesake golf course, the White Witch.
Play begins with an eye-opener — a 550-yard, par-5, which drops abruptly off the tee to a canted fairway, then climbs steeply past a succession of huge bunkers on the right to a small tabletop green tucked out of sightly off to the right. It is the most daunting hole on the course from the tee, and one of the prettiest I have seen.
The 10th hole is as deceptive as Annee herself, a 621-yard, par-5 doglegging around bunkers on the edge of a ravine. Fortunately it's downhill off the tee. Cutting the corner, while risky, can pay off with a ball on the green in two if your lucky, despite the hole's length.
The 164-yard, par-3 14th hole can be as tough as it looks, depending on the wind. The shallow peninsula green lies more than 100 feet below the tee, on the far side of water. The elevated tee provides a great view of the dogleg 15th hole, as well as the fairway of the difficult par-5 16th.
The par-3 17th hole is 161 yards slightly downhill to a small green surrounded by sand bunkers. Unless the wind throws a tantrum, this is not a hard hole. But it is among the most memorable for its beauty — white sand sharply contrasting with rich green turf and the blue backdrop of ocean. A windswept tree silhouetted against the sky provides just the right finishing touch.
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I caught the last episode of William Boyd's three part series on PBS, Any Human Heart. I missed the first two episodes but had read the book years ago. I remember two things about the book. One, I didn't want it to end. Two, I couldn't believe Logan Mountstuart wasn't real in what was a book of fiction.
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CBNSports.com Denver Broncos Tim Tebow made his mark in college football as a University of Florida Gator with his strong arm and gritty play. He also turned heads by his unwavering and bold Christian faith. The son of Christian missionaries, he's become one of the most influential athletes in college and professional sports. Tim's journey began with a life threatening decision his mom made before he was born.
Shawn: "Your mother is pregnant with you there are some complications. Can you tell me a little bit about those complications?"
Tim: "I have a very courageous mother, who in front of a lot of doctors telling her that she needs to have a an abortion with me, for saying that it's not wise to keep this baby/tumor uh is what they thought I was, and come to find out after I was born that they found out that it was just a tiny piece of placenta was attached uh, for the whole pregnancy. So it really was um, just god that pulled me through."
Shawn: "Your mom, she had a choice to make."
Tim: "But at the end of the day, it wasn't a choice for her. It wasn't a choice. She was never going to choose not to give me a chance. She was always determined, no matter what the outcome was, that she that she was going to give me a chance because it was already predetermined in her mind, the grace and the amazingness of God and how he can do anything and she was going to trust him with it."
He was born Timothy Richard Tebow. When Tim was three, his parents moved the family to Duvall County in Florida. While his dad continued in ministry, his mom homeschooled Tim and his four siblings. Tim says growing up in a full house was fun, but also challenging.
Shawn: "Talk about the homeschooling experience and what it has meant to you and your family."
Tim: "Well, homeschooling was wonderful for us. Mom was so amazing keeping all the kids, especially when you had five kids in the house at one time. She just did an amazing job just keeping everybody focused and doing his or her schoolwork. And sometimes there were things that were more important than learning math or writing another essay. And that was learning character, learning strength, learning honor, learning to do the right thing, learning to treat others the way you wanted to be treated. And that was something huge for us. It was huge to read the Proverb of the morning. It was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning. And get that in us to get our day going before anything else started."
Tim accepted Christ when he was 7 years old.
Tim: "I had been going to church and talking to my mom and dad and I wanted to trust Christ with my life. And I was thinking, you know, if I get in a car wreck the next day and we get in a car crash and I die, I don't think I'm going to heaven. And I was scared. And so the next morning I woke up and I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said mom, I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart and forgive me of my sins an make me a child of god. And from that instant I knew I went from darkness to light."
As Tim grew up, he says he became extremely competitive. He played baseball, basketball, and football. But it was something about playing football that he couldn't get anywhere else.
Tim: "I knew I loved football before I even played it. Uh but the first time I stepped out on the field playing for the Lakesore Redskins, I knew that I loved this game. I knew that this was something I wanted to do. And I was only 6 years old, but I loved it. And it wasn't because it was easy or it was fun or it came easy to me, but it was just something about the position, about when you're in the huddle, all of those ten guys are looking at you. And when you go to the line of scrimmage, everybody's depending on you. And it's your responsibility. And if you fail, it's on you, not anyone else. And I just kind of like that pressure about it. And just what the quarterback position brings. Either you're the hero or the goat. The pressure is on you. And every situation, I wanted that, the ball in my hands at the end of the game, because I wanted that pressure."
Tim's desire to want to be the hero is what eventually led him to the University of Florida, and he says that's where football became his platform.
Tim: "What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as football player, you have a platform. And its so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people. And my dad told me at an early age, he said you know Brett Favre can go into any school and share any message he wants around the country, around the world. He said when you're in that position, you can go and you can share your message anywhere. And that was something that really hit me and its something he shared with me a lot."
Shawn: "Do you hear you father's voice saying, 'that's going to be you one day going into the high schools and places speaking,' do you hear your dad?"
Tim: "Yes, without a doubt, absolutely. And it's something we still talk about. He would always share with me about the platform I have to make a difference. And something that was awesome that I did in college was I had such a great relationship with Shand's hospital there. And I could go every week, mostly on Wednesdays, and go in to the hospitals and visit every kid in the hospital, and it was something that I could do because I was the quarterback at the University of Florida. I had the opportunity to go into the hospitals and talk to kids and see a kid and make him smile. Why? Because I'm a special person? No. It had nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with me being the quarterback at the University of Florida. And to not take advantage of that is a shame."
From 2006-2009, Tim had a stellar college career. Within those four years he won the Heisman, helped lead the team to 2 SEC Championships and 2 BCS Championships. Then in 2010 he was selected 25th overall in the NFL draft by the Denver Broncos.
By the end of the season Tim was named the starting quarterback. As he approaches his sophomore season in the NFL, you'll probably find in him the gym or working for his charity the Tim Tebow foundation. He's also written a book entitled, Through My Eyes. He says that while fans may see him as the quarterback for the Denver Broncos, he hopes they also see reflection of God's love.
Tim: "Well, when people meet me, I hope that they say this-this is a guy who, number one, loves the lord, but he also loves people and he wants to make a difference in people's life. And he wants to help everyone he comes in contact with and he is genuine, he is real, and he cares about people. And it's not about the scoring touchdowns, or being famous, or anything like that. But its about relationships, its about making a difference in people's lives, and at the end of the day it's about glorifying God."
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President Bush's successful reelection effort owed much to the support he received from highly religious voters, especially white evangelical Protestants. But what has been largely overlooked is Bush's success with less religious voters. In fact, compared with four years ago, Bush made relatively bigger gains among infrequent churchgoers than he did among religiously observant voters.
Voters who say they attend church at least once a week backed Bush at the same high rates as in 2000. But he made inroads among those who seldom if ever attend religious services, although John Kerry maintained a sizable advantage among these voters.
Trends in the religious vote in this election defied the conventional wisdom in other ways as well. Bush's support among white evangelical Protestants, already quite substantial, increased markedly from its 2000 level. However, there is no evidence that evangelicals comprised a larger share of the vote this year.
Moreover, while Bush drew more support from evangelicals, he increased his share of the vote among other religious denominations as well. Bush fared better among Jews and Catholics especially Catholics who do not attend church frequently than he did in 2000.
Bush Gained Among Evangelicals
According to the National Election Pool exit poll, Bush received 78% of the vote among white evangelicals, up 10% from 2000, according to Pew's final pre-election poll that year. (The 2004 exit poll cannot be directly compared with the exit poll in 2000, which did not include a measure of evangelical identification).
Although voter turnout was up generally in 2004, there is no indication that white evangelicals boosted their level of participation more than other groups in the population. According to a comparison of exit polls and Pew surveys in 2000 and 2004, white evangelicals constituted the same percentage of the electorate in both years: 23%. Overall, there was remarkable stability from 2000 to 2004 in the religious composition of the electorate. The size of other religious groups, and the balance of frequent churchgoers and those who attend infrequently was nearly identical in the two election years.
Still, the election underscored the importance of white evangelical voters to the GOP. In 2004, they constituted 36% of Bush voters. By comparison, African-Americans the most loyal of Democratic constituencies constituted only about one-fifth (21%) of Kerry's voters.
But Others As Well
President Bush increased his share of the Catholic vote by five percentage points (52% in 2004, vs. 47% in 2000). His gain among white, non-Hispanic Catholics was four points (52% to 56%).
But the similar size of Bush's gains among Catholics and his gains among other groups suggest that the impact of conservative bishops who spoke out against John Kerry was relatively limited. During the campaign, several Roman Catholic bishops vowed to deny Communion to lawmakers who support abortion rights. But voter support for Bush increased slightly less (three points) among Catholics who are regular churchgoers, and thus who might be more apt to hear about and be influenced by the bishops' appeal, than among those who attend less frequently (up seven points). Indeed, a Pew poll in August found widespread disapproval of the bishops' action among Catholics, with 72% of Catholics saying that it was inappropriate.
Bush also registered a larger-than-average gain among Jews, winning 25% of the vote up from 19% in 2000. In the key swing state of Florida, he received 20% of the Jewish vote, up from 12% four years ago.
Kerry registered significant gains relative to Al Gore's performance among two groups: seculars and those who do not identify with the major Christian or Jewish traditions. Kerry received 74% of the vote among those who identify themselves as something other than Christian or Jewish, up by 12 points from Gore's total in 2000. And 67% of seculars voted for Kerry, compared with 61% who voted for Gore. Bush's share among the seculars was about the same in 2000 and 2004, but in 2000 7% of seculars voted for Nader. This year only 1% did so.
Conservative Turnout Rises
The electorate of 2004 was more Republican and conservative than the electorate of 2000, with Republicans matching Democrats 37%-37% this year (compared with 39% Democrat, 35% Republican in 2000), and the percentage of self-identified conservatives rising four points (from 30% to 34%).
Conservative gains were about the same among less frequent churchgoers (up 2%) as among those who attend church at least once a week (up 1%). Similarly, turnout among Republicans who do not attend church weekly was up at least as much as among those who go less often.
Evangelicals Trend More RepublicanThe rising political clout of evangelical Christians is not the result of growth in their numbers but rather their increasing cohesiveness as a key element of the Republican Party. The percentage of the population who are white evangelicals has changed very little (19% in 1987; 23% now) and what growth there was occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
However, in 1987, white evangelical Protestants were divided in their partisan attachments, with 34% identifying as Republicans and 29% as Democrats. Today, Republicans outnumber Democrats within this group by more than two-to-one (48%-23%).
This shift toward Republican identification among white evangelicals came in two stages. In the late 1980s, white evangelicals in the South were still mostly wedded to the Democratic Party while evangelicals outside the South were more aligned with the GOP. But over the course of the next decade or so, the GOP made gains among white Southerners generally and evangelicals in particular virtually eliminating this regional disparity.
The second stage began in 2000, coinciding with Bush's election. Since then, there has been rapid growth in Republican identification among both Southern and non-Southern evangelicals. Nationwide, Republican identification among white evangelicals increased from 39% in 1999 to 48% today. In 2004, white evangelicals made up 23% of the population, and 37% of the Republican Party.
Bush Voters: Faith Matters, Leadership Matters More
Bush voters placed much more emphasis on a candidate's religious faith than did Kerry supporters. Among those who voted for Bush, 14% cited a candidate's "strong religious faith" as the single most important quality in their vote; just 1% of Kerry supporters cited that as a major factor in their vote.
Nonetheless, significantly more of Bush's supporters mentioned leadership (29%) and a clear stance on the issues (27%) as the candidate qualities that mattered most. In addition, a candidate's honesty was mentioned about as often as personal faith as a major factor for Bush's supporters.
For Kerry supporters, by contrast, the desire for change trumped all other candidate qualities. Nearly half (47%) cited that as the most important factor; far fewer cited a candidate's empathy (14%) and intelligence (13%) as the qualities that mattered most in their vote.
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The data for this analysis are drawn from the 2000 VNS and 2004 NEP Exit Polls with one important exception. While the 2004 NEP Exit Poll included a measure of evangelical identification ("Would you describe yourself as a born-again or evangelical Christian?" [Yes, No]), the 2000 VNS Exit Poll did not include this question. As a result, trends are drawn from the Pew Research Center's November 2000 election weekend survey of 1,677 likely voters conducted November 1-5, 2000, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Results of the 2004 Pew Research Center election weekend survey of likely voters are consistent with the 2004 NEP exit poll figures shown here for both the number of the evangelical Christian voting and the proportion voting for George W. Bush.


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