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When I started SciFilms about this time last year, it wasn't really a change of direction so much as a narrowing of focus. I've always loved doing science and technology stories, and I really wanted to put my flag in the ground and say "this is what I want to do".
In the past few months I've been to Antarctica, diving in marine reserves, flying drones in regional parks and just last week, captured (with shooter Bevan Crothers) some beautiful footage of bottlenose dolphins which has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times around the world via viral sites like Mashable and BoingBoing. Here's that footage in case you missed it:
But as Summer draws to a close, one of the things I'm so glad we got done this year was a bat hunt with Ben the Batman. Ben and I had met up when I first launched SciFilms and I knew I wanted to do something about his work.
The lovely folk at the Weekend Herald thought my profile suggestion was a good idea, and the following is republished with permission. The icing on the cake as a proud Dad was the fact NZH chose one of the photos taken by my 5 year old Harry (you can see him clicking away in the Batman hoodie) as the main illustration for the article. And yes, I paid him for it. Have a watch and a read:
Batman has a name, and that name is Ben.
By day, and regularly at night too, this Batman goes by the full name Ben Paris, and he works at Auckland Council as a senior biodiversity advisor. But on social media, his regular radio appearances, and when he addresses our group of two dozen children and parents gathered at the Waitakere Ranges Regional Park on a Summer's evening, he's Ben the Batman.
In case you weren't aware, New Zealand has two species of native bat, the long-tailed bat, and the short-tailed bat. They're our only native mammal. There was a third species too, the greater short-tailed bat, but it's believed these became extinct around 1967 thanks to an invasion of ship rats on the two Southern islands they called home. The remaining lesser short-tailed bat is endangered too, in part due to its habit of crawling on the ground for food, rather than flying.
Harry's photo of the Batman.
On this particular Wednesday night, we're looking for the less endangered (but still at-risk) long-tailed bat. It's half an hour before sunset, and there are no bats, not yet. Batman Ben has advised us to bring insect repellant, and he's not joking. The sky is thick with mosquitos, searching out the one overlooked, unsprayed patch of skin. Tonight the tables will be turned on these blood-sucking parasites, as a cloud of bats shall emerge from the depths of Hell (or at least a nearby kauri) and descend to feed. Weighing between 8 and 12 grams, people have little to fear from the long-tailed bat, but each critter can devour a thousand mosquitoes in a night. And my already itching elbow says they're not going to have any problem finding their quota this evening.
Ben the Batman's not having any problems filling up his bat tours either. Running twice a week over Summer, they sold out quicker than an Adele concert, in no small part due to the guide's own enthusiasm.
"The bat tours book out within about two weeks, which is really amazing, basically they open around the 1st of December and they're gone, it's really, really popular and we really love that people in Auckland really love their bats."
In truth, most people in Auckland have probably never thought about bats, let alone know that the edge of town is bat country. That doesn't mean they're not keen once they find out – all my invitations to join the special bat tour put on for us are promptly snapped up, the adults just as excited as the children at the prospect of spotting these often-maligned creatures.
For Paris, it wasn't bats, but native birds that got him started in conservation. "I guess I'm a bird nerd," he explains, recalling how a school camping trip was his inspiration. "We went out to Pureora Forest down near Taupo, and they got us up at five in the morning. We were like 'what the hell, what's going on', sitting in the forest in the cold, but then hearing the kokako sing, the dawn chorus was just amazing. And that's when I realised, this is what I want to do."
After graduating from Waikato University with a science degree, one of Paris' first tasks was bringing tui back to suburban Hamilton, where rats attacking nests had wiped them out across the city.
"So we did some really intensive rat predation in a halo around Hamilton, and within two years tui started coming back. First of all we'd have one sighting of a tui, then ten sightings… now there's trees full of tui, and it's really exciting when I go back to Hamilton that my legacy is left behind."
Hamilton was also where Paris was introduced to New Zealand's native bats, and together with colleagues began bat tours in 2008. At the same time, a group of bats had been discovered in the Waitakere ranges by an Australian ranger, who being used to bats back home, didn't think much of his find until he mentioned it to his workmates. When Paris took a job at Auckland Council he saw the unusual species as a way to get communities interested in conservation, and the Batman was born.
"I used the bats as a flagship. I created my NZ Batman profiles on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram to try and get the word out there. When I first moved to Auckland I was talking to a few local schools in Henderson, then it grew to ladies' Probus Clubs, and it's been snowballing from there. They might not remember my name, but they know I'm the Batman!"
At the Waitakere Ranges our excitable group has walked a hundred metres into the bush, through a foot-spraying station to combat kauri dieback, and come to a halt near a thousand year old kauri tree. Paris directs the group to a dead branch with a small hole in it – this is where bats live. Necks strain upwards, eyes squint, torches search out the crevices, cameras click, but there's no sign of them yet.
The Batman gives the group a rundown of everything you might want to know about the long-tailed bat: Their body is the size of an adult thumb, with wings expanded they're the size of your hand. They have just one baby – or pup – each year. During breeding season, the male and female of the species move into segregated maternity and bachelor roosts, only visiting for "fun times", as Paris explains in a family-friendly manner.
What about being Auckland's answer to Batman? Does that help with the "fun times"?
"It doesn't work as well as it should," Paris laughs. He says it does result in a lot of bat-themed gifts from friends, most recently a Batman shower curtain. But he admits his partner doesn't share in this particular passion, and she's not alone.
"There seems to be this weird fear about the bats. They're just very different, they're very unusual. But when people see them, like we will tonight, they get very excited about it. I think it's the Batman folklore and things like that."
While he's fine with bats, there are some critters the Batman isn't quite so comfortable around. He admits giant centipedes can freak him out when he stumbles upon one unexpectedly. "Sometimes the cave wetas can give you a fright too when they jump out at you. But there's nothing in New Zealand that's going to hurt you too much."
So what is it about bats that see him invest so much time, including his evenings, raising awareness about these tiny beasties?
"I get excited when other people get excite about it," Paris says, and it's not only bats. "I get a real buzz off people learning and discovering new things.
Kids just buzzing because they've seen a spider, or a little native crayfish in the stream, that's really cool."
The excitement is certainly contagious. There's a mad scramble by the children when Paris asks the group "so who wants a bat detector?" The little devices, about the size of a walkie-talkie, are tuned into the echo-locator frequency the bats use to 'see' in the dark. In the case of the long-tailed bat, that's around 40hz. Wave the detector around the sky and if there's a bat in range, you'll hear a fast series of clicks as it darts about. (The detectors can be borrowed from the Council if you suspect there might be bats in your backyard).
However, as sunset approaches and then passes, there's a sense tonight might be a bat-less affair. For the adults it seems almost expected, like a fishing trip with no fish. The children's expectations are still set at 100% chance of bats. The non-appearance isn't for a lack of mosquitoes, that's for sure. And there are a few false alarms – the flit of a fantail at dusk seems remarkably bat-like.
It's hard to remember exactly what happens next. The bat detectors all clicking madly, or some sharp eye spotting a single bat dancing above the tree line. Our group is abuzz. Thirty seconds of circling, then it's off. Soon comes a second, then shortly after a sighting of another (or possibly one of the first two) further along the ridgeline.
For all of the guests tonight, it's our first confirmed bat sighting. Satisfied customers, happy Batman. But what happens to the bat tour when the bats are a no-show? How do you explain that to a crowd of over-tired children?
"Oh it gets really awkward," Paris shrugs. "We have to try and get them enthusiastic about glow worms instead!"
It's unlikely bats will be commonplace in the suburbs anytime soon, but after leaving his mark on Hamilton with tui, Paris has plans for a legacy in Auckland too. He's working with residents to develop a pest-free 'wildlife corridor' linking the Hauraki Gulf islands and the Waitakere ranges, encouraging birds to move between the two, and ideally settle in between, across the North Shore. All going well, in years to come, when the suburban backyards of Auckland are full of our native parakeet the kākāriki, the kea's cousin the kaka, and kōkako, the city's residents should look to the sky at night and give thanks to the Batman.


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**** Note -- I added an important update at the bottom of this post on 6/1/16 ****
Most storm chasers count the number of tornadoes they see on any given day. The bigger the number, the more "impressive" a chaser you are, I guess. But many times, from a useful operational meteorological view, such "counts" are inflated.
Last Tuesday (May 24) near Dodge City is a good example. I've heard several storm chasers tell me they saw anywhere from 10 to 17 tornadoes on the prolific tornadic supercell that moved from near Minneola across Dodge City, thankfully missing any direct hits on towns.
My wife Shawna and I followed the storm starting from a distance (near Bucklin, Kansas) up to fairly close just south of Dodge City. I'm conservative regarding tornado counts, and we saw at least 4 "primary" tornadoes, each from its own mesocyclone cycle as new parent circulations developed north or east of each tornado, all fascinating to watch.
Any other tornadoes seemed to be brief and transitional, including a rope tornado in the inflow to the 2nd primary tornado. One of the mesocyclones just SW of Dodge City produced several visual "spin ups" with occasional multiple vortices before putting a fully condensed tornado on the ground. But from a practical viewpoint, I would count that as one intermittent tornado circulation (again, same mesocyclone) instead of several individual tornadoes.
Following is documentation of what we saw using video captures (some of these contrast enhanced to make it easier to see features). All views are toward the west-northwest or northwest.
Not counting any brief early touchdowns we couldn't see, here's the first primary tornado touchdown northwest of Minneola, viewed from near Bucklin (25 miles away!) around 6 pm CDT, along with a wide view of the storm (Bill and Anna Stromberg were in the vehicle ahead of us):
Here's the "rope-out" phase of this first tornado, followed by an image that shows where the 2nd primary tornado soon would form:
When the new tornado formed, a thin rope tornado was visible in its inflow stream (see 2nd photo below). Meanwhile, the primary tornado became large but was in poor contrast when viewed from the southeast:
Here's the "rope-out" phase of this 2nd primary tornado, which was on the ground around 15 minutes. Notice a new mesocyclone again to its north or northeast, with a new tornado forming. This new tornado was hard to see (again, poor contrast), did not appear to last that long, and seemed somewhat transitional in nature. So I don't know whether it would be considered a "primary" tornado:
During this phase after the "transitional" tornado dissipated, it was hard to tell if the associated mesocyclone was splitting or just elongating eastward closer to Highway 283. Here's a photo Shawna took:
As we drove closer, the lighting improved, and rapid rotation from this mesocyclone was evident, soon resulting in dust whirls and multiple vortices under a low ragged cloud base.
Fortunately, the elongating tornado moved west of Dodge, while the new mesocyclone dropped a new tornado (the last primary one) north of the town (notice Dodge City and the storm chaser/truck traffic in the foreground):
This last tornado appeared to be on the ground for 5-8 minutes or so, after which we lost sight of it as heavy rain from another storm overtook us from the south around 7:15 pm CDT:
So, based on what we could see with this supercell, there were 4 primary tornadoes on the ground for more than 5-10 minutes each, which seems to agree generally with the map NWS Dodge City put on their web site:
We also saw one peripheral tornado in an inflow band, and one transitional tornado during a mesocyclone evolution phase that was difficult to assess, making 6 total for my conservative count. I don't doubt that there were other brief peripheral or transitional tornadoes that one could count differently, but the 4 primary ones we saw appeared most significant. Sadly, the tornado that passed just west of Dodge City damaged several homes and resulted in 2 injuries.
This event was also notable for the circus of chasers, storm tours, and local traffic jamming up Highway 283 south of Dodge City. One tour van nearly ran over my wife when they abruptly pulled off the highway, even though she was standing well off the road. I'm pretty upset about that, and clearly the traffic issue continues to increase the danger of storm chasing.
If I get time in a few days, I'll post something about the meteorology of this severe event.
Jon Davies - 5/30/16
Update on 6/1/16:
After viewing responses and photos from several other chasers, I clearly need to update my observations/opinions above.
I'll use Dave Lewison's excellent images from Facebook to highlight the changes... here's his Facebook photo link that you should check out. He was farther north on Hwy 283 and in better lighting conditions than Shawna and I were. On a couple of his images re-posted and labeled here, I've inserted/referenced small images from my original post to roughly indicate the corresponding features and phases.
First, when the 2nd primary tornado was on the ground west of Hwy 283, the rope tornado I originally called an "inflow band" tornado was actually a tornado from a new mesocyclone:
Second, shortly after this image, 2 rope tornadoes or vortices were visible under this new mesocyclone northeast of the 2nd primary tornado (I missed these), suggesting that there might have been 3 tornadoes on the ground for a short time:
Third, these appeared to morph into a somewhat larger rope tornado northeast of the 2nd primary tornado that we could not see from farther south in poorer lighting conditions:
And last, when the 2nd primary tornado "roped out", this larger rope tornado became a sizable and probable primary tornado (not a "transitional" tornado as I originally characterized it) while yet another new mesocyclone was forming to its east or northeast:
I don't know how long this new primary tornado lasted because we were fighting traffic and dealing with Shawna's tour bus encounter. But it seems clear from Dave's photos that this was a separate mesocyclone/tornado cycle of its own starting with the earlier rope tornado(s) northeast of the 2nd primary tornado, and not a short "transitional" phase as I characterized it in my original post.
Given this new information, I'd probably update the number of primary tornadoes on the Dodge City NWS map to 5 as follows, changing the "?" to number 3, and moving what I'd shown as numbers "3" and "4" to numbers 4 and 5:
With the new information above, I would probably up my conservative tornado "count" (not that important, and only an opinion!) to 7 tornadoes, and maybe 8 depending on how one might view/interpret things. But certainly, I don't intend that to be definitive, and my original post wasn't meant to ruffle feathers. I only intended to get some discussion going about a fascinating event.
Thanks to Dave Lewison for his images, and for the responses and additional helpful information from several chasers on my wife's Facebook page!
Jon Davies - 6/1/16

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Hi all. How are you all doing?
I'm sorry I was so quiet for a while here.
Thank you so much for your lovely, thoughtful comments,
e-mails, and letters that always cheer me up!
I just needed a little break for some reasons,
but I am back now and am so super thrilled to finally
share with you guys this excitement!
Yeah! my handmade tote bag made the cover of the Fall
issue of Stitch magazine!!!! Hooray!!!!!!!!!
Had I ever thought about seeing my own sewn item
in my favorite magazine in a bookstore?!
I can still hardly believe this really happened.
I am so happy to be part of the crafty contributors
that I have been admiring for a long time like
Rashida of I heart linen. (Go check out her blog
if you love to stumble upon a place that inspires you,
although I doubt there are many of you who haven't
checked it out... her work is just incredibly beautiful.)
I would say that I am probably not the one that
was excited the most about this magazine coming out.
Joe was checking out the bookstore like everyday
since a week before it got published. When it became
available, he got overly thrilled and couldn't help telling
the bookstore staff that the bag was made by his girlfriend
and rushed back to work and showed it off to every
co-worker he encountered in the day. LOL.
I really think I am so lucky to have met this guy.
I thank all of you who have continuously encouraged me
to get crafty and to allow me to share my work
with you guys. Thank you, thank you, thank you all!!!!!!
Thanks for coming and reading!!


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Find an Elder law attorney in California. Lawyers that focus on Elder Law devote their practice to the needs of the aging and elderly.
Elder law is generally focused around the following types of matters: estate planning and asset protection, obtaining disability benefits or other types of benefits such as Medicaid, and conservatorship or commitment matters. Elder law attorneys also help protect the elderly from abuse, neglect and fraud.
National Elder Law Foundation - NELF is the only national certifying program for elder law attorneys. The purpose of the program is to acknowledge attorneys who have demonstrated the highest knowledge, proficiency and experience in the field of representing elderly people and people with special needs.
NAELA is both a professional association, assisting and educating elder law attorneys, and an advocacy group, that lobbies for policies and laws that protect the needs of the growing elderly population and people with disabilities.


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Nature's Goodness are an Australian owned and operated manufacturer of health and beauty products, with over 20 years experience using natural ingredients to improve your health, beauty, and wellbeing. They are also a leading maufacturer of honey bee products, and always maintain the highest level of product standards. Nature's Goodness products are manufactured from the finest ingredients, collected from remote, pollution-free areas of the Australian bush. All products are extensively tested for quality and effectiveness.
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Due to its peculiar design and semantics, the standard smart pointer class auto_ptr was incompatible with other Standard Library components and was eventually deprecated. Shared_ptr
was added to C++ programming in 2003 and has since replaced auto_ptr
as the default smart pointer. However, it incurs noticeable performance overhead both in terms of size and speed. The C++0x Final Committee Draft (FCD) recently introduced another smart pointer called unique_ptr
that combines the best of both worlds, it's very efficient (even more than auto_ptr
), and yet it's fully compatible with the Standard Library, as is shared_ptr
. That's not all, did you know that unique_ptr
supports arrays too?
Performance Issues
The first question you'd ask yourself is probably: "Why do I need to learn how to use another smart pointer class when shared_ptr
fits the bill?" In one word: performance. Shared_ptr
uses reference counting to allow the sharing of a single resource by multiple objects. Additionally, its destructor and other member functions are virtual. These properties facilitate the customization of shared_ptr
. However, the size of a typical shared_ptr
object is 40 bytes, which is 10 times bigger than the size of a raw pointer on a 32-bit platform. The presence of virtual member functions means that in many cases, calls to member functions are resolved dynamically, incurring additional runtime overhead. These issues may not concern you if you're using shared_ptr
sporadically. However, in time critical apps, or if you have containers that store a large number of shared_ptr objects
, the performance overhead might be overwhelming. Unique_ptr
gives you a safe and reliable smart pointer alternative that can compete with the size and speed of raw pointers. Here's how it's used.
Using Unique_ptr
Although unique_ptr
is not a 100% source-compatible drop-in replacement for auto_ptr
, everything you can do with auto_ptr
, unique_ptr
will do as well:
#include <utility> //declarations of unique_ptr using std::unique_ptr; // default construction unique_ptr<int> up; //creates an empty object // initialize with an argument unique_ptr<int> uptr (new int(3)); double *pd= new double; unique_ptr<double> uptr2 (pd); // overloaded * and -> *uptr2 = 23.5; unique_ptr<std::string> ups (new std::string("hello")); int len=ups->size();
releases the owned resource and optionally acquires a new resource:
unique_ptr<double> uptr2 (pd); uptr2.reset(new double); //delete pd and acquire a new pointer uptr2.reset(); //delete the pointer acquired by the previous reset() call
If you need to access the owned pointer directly use get()
void func(double*); func(uptr.get());
lets you install a custom deleter if necessary. A deleter is a callable entity (a function, function object etc.) that the smart pointer's destructor will invoke to deallocate its resource. Unique_ptr's
default deleter calls delete. If the resource isn't an object allocated by new you'll need to install a different deleter. For instance, a pointer allocated by malloc()
requires a deleter that calls free()
#include <cstdlib> int* p=(int*)malloc(sizeof(int)); unique_ptr<p, free> intptr; //initialized with a custom deleter *intptr=5;
exchanges the resources and deleters of the two objects:
unique_ptr<double, std::free> up1 ((double*)malloc(sizeof(double)); unique_ptr<double> up2; up2.swap(up1); *up2=3.45;
has implicit conversion to bool. This lets you use unique_ptr
object in Boolean expressions such as this:
if (up1) //implicit conversion to bool cout<<*up1<<endl; else cout<<"an empty smart pointer"<<endl;
Array Support
can store arrays as well. A unique_ptr
that owns an array defines an overloaded operator []
. Obviously, the * and -> operators are not available. Additionally, the default deleter calls delete[]
instead of delete
unique_ptr<int[]> arrup (new int[5]); arrup[0]=5; cout<<*arrup<<endl; //error, operator * not defined unique_ptr<char[], std::free> charup ((char*)( malloc(5)); charup[1]='b';
Compatibility with Containers and Algorithms
You can safely store unique_ptr
in Standard Library containers and let algorithms manipulate sequences of unique_ptr
objects. For containers and algorithms that move elements around internally instead of copying them around, unique_ptr
will work flawlessly. If however the container or algorithm uses copy semantics for its value_type
you'll get a compilation error. Unlike with auto_ptr
, there is no risk of a runtime crash due to a move operation disguised as copying:
vector> vi; vi.push_back(unique_ptr (new int(0))); // populate vector vi.push_back(unique_ptr (new int(3))); vi.push_back(unique_ptr (new int(2))); sort(v.begin(), v.end(), indirect_less()); //result: {0, 2, 3}
In conclusion, unique_ptr
is the safe equivalent of auto_ptr
. Its small memory footprint and runtime efficiency make it a useful replacement for raw pointers. If you don't need to share resources, unique_ptr
is the right choice for you.


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Merchants can use the Omnichannel API to request and accept payments from customers through Google Pay by requesting a single identifier (like a phone number) in their purchase flow. This API provides a server-side interface for merchants to initiate a payment call to Google and complete the payment process for a purchase, making it compatible with various platforms.
Requesting and accepting payments from your customers using the Omnichannel API generally involves the following steps:
- Merchants pre-populate the user's phone numbers (or ask for input) on their app or website.
- Once the user confirms the populated information, the merchant makes a server call to request payment
- The Google Pay app directs the user to complete the payment.
The merchant verifies the payment status with their PSP before proceeding to confirm the purchase. The merchant can also poll on the transaction status from Google to confirm the status.


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Hometown: Buffalo, NY
Position: Software Engineer with BoldGrid
InMotion team member since September 2009
How did you get started in this field?
My interest in technology started as a kid. I would take apart electronic devices to see how they worked, and of course put them back together. Soon I would be helping friends, neighbors, or anyone who asked, setup their computers and helped manage them.
Pretty soon, I took an interest in software and learned to code. I would build applications for people who needed something that didn't exist — which is something I still enjoy doing.
Do you prefer working with hardware or software?
It's hard for me to put one in favor of another. I enjoy hardware because I like building systems to move data. Whether over cable, Ethernet, satellite, or even radio. I really just like the challenges of setting these systems up.
With software, I get to take the hardware systems I built and create programs that use the data. I learned php fairly early, and it's a language I understand pretty well.
Favorite online application?
There isn't one application that I would say is my favorite. I'm not on social media, and I don't use online applications all that often.
I would much rather build my own.
Coolest gadget?
Droid Razr Maxx HD. Fast. Thin. Has a Kevlar back. It's a computer, TV, phone, all in your pocket.
Favorite thing about working at IMH?
You never know what you're going to run into. With IMH, there are always new challenges and situations that need to be taken care of. Sometimes we get an issue that no one has dealt with before, so there is no answer because no one has found one yet. I really enjoy this part because I get to work with the customer to find the answer and get it working for them. I think it's pretty cool that I get to be a part of the process.
Also, getting to work with new applications and the latest hardware is a lot of fun.
Fun Fact:
Along with the many projects that he helps to develop, Joe also takes the time to be one of the organizers of the Hampton Roads Meet Up Group. Check out Joe's WordPress presentation on Plugin Development for Beginners.


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Life in Louisiana.
There's only one way to live it.
Satellite & AT&T Ch. 32 // Charter Ch. 11 & 711 // Cox Ch. 14
Go Coast now airs Fridays at 9:30pm, Sundays at 8:30pm,
and Mondays at 1:00pm on WLAE-TV New Orleans
GO Coast: Louisiana's Host Wins Emmy For
Second Consecutive Year!
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Exploring Terrebonne Parish, Go Coast's host Tom Gregory discovers it's easy to pass a good time with the good people of this area named "the good earth".[+]
Adventure is in abundance in the land where the continent's largest swamp meets the America's Third Coast and host Tom Gregory wants to experience it all while he's in St. Mary Parish.[+]
In this episode of Go Coast: Louisiana, Emmy Award winning host Tom Gregory explores the cultural treasures, the scenic beauty and the bountiful world-class fishing of New Orleans' most historic neighbor—St. Bernard Parish.[+]
New Orleans, La.- Go Coast Louisiana is "Going Coastal" this Sunday, July 21 this special episode, host Tom Gregory takes a "walk on the wild side" of the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Pirates, cannons, hot sauce and various forms of wildlife are only part of this look back at some of the people and places that make this area so unique. Go Coast's host Tom Gregory gets up close and personal with a few alligators, reenacts a Civil War Battle, discovers the heat of the Tabasco factory, and walks the plank at The Contraband Days Festival…and that's just a few of the adventures in this episode. [+]
New Orleans, La. (March 23, 2013)—WLAE-TV will premiere the Lafourche Parish episode of the Emmy Award winning program Go Coast: Louisiana Sunday April 21 at 8:30PM. Go Coast's Host Tom Gregory treks down Bayou Lafourche, "the longest street in the world" and rediscovers the people, the places and the culture of this Louisiana treasure. From Thibodaux's history to kayak fishing out of Bobby Lynn's Marina in Leeville, Tom goes back to the bayou; back to Lafourche Parish where his broadcasting career started 20 years ago. [+]
Airing Friday, March 29, 10:30 pm on LPB, Saturday, March 30, 02:00 pm on LPB, Sunday, March 31, 08:30 pm on LPB2, and Monday, April 1, 12:30 am on LPB. Host Tom Gregory travels to "The Most Cajun Place on Earth". In Vermilion Parish, Tom discovers the history about how the Cajuns came to Louisiana. While there, Tom revels in Abbeville's Giant Omelette Celebration and witnesses firsthand the return of the endangered Whooping Crane to Louisiana. Also after catching musicians D.L. Menard and Michael Juan Nunez play live at an old livestock auction house, Tom hits the stage at a Cajun Music Jam in Erath. And if you are in Cajun Country, there will be food! [+]


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Angela has published nine novels, one novella, and a nonfiction writing book. Her books have appeared on national, regional and local bestseller lists. She has won several writing awards, including Best Multicultural Romance from Romantic Times magazine and the Best Contemporary Ethnic Romance from Affaire de Coeur magazine. She was also a finalist for the 2000 Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award in Multicultural Romance.
Awakening Mercy is the first book in her Genesis House series from Tyndale House Publishers. Awakening Mercy was a finalist for both the RITA Award given by Romance Writers of America (RWA) and the Christy Award for Excellence in Christian Fiction. The second book in the Genesis House series, Abiding Hope, was published in September 2001. Abiding Hope was awarded the Emma Award for Best Inspirational Romance presented by the Romance Slam Jam. The third book and final book of the series, Enduring Love, is not yet scheduled.
BET Books, now Harlequin's Kimani Press purchased the mass market rights to Awakening Mercy and Abiding Hope in 2000 and released mass market editions of the titles in June 2002 and June 2003, respectively.
Angela's first hardcover title, The Amen Sisters, was released in September 2005 by Walk Worthy Press. The Essence bestselling title won the Emma Award for Best Inspirational Romance. The trade paperback edition was released in November 2007.
Up Pops the Devil, published by HarperCollins (Avon A) in August 2008, is Angela's tenth novel.
Angela has a diverse education and work history. She majored in mathematics at Spelman College and Industrial Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), and worked for fifteen years as an engineer in the telecommunications industry. She holds Masters degrees in operations research and human resources development. Her most recent degree is a doctorate in instructional technology from the University of Georgia. Dr. Benson is now an associate professor of educational technology at The University of Alabama.
This is the story of Wilford "Preacher" Winters and the four women—his fiancee' Tanya, his sister Loretta, his old girlfriend Serena, and his new friend Natalie—who complicate his re-entry into society as a law-abiding Christian man after being incarcerated for two years for drug trafficking. Two hard years in prison have changed Wilford "Preacher" Winters for the better. He did his time, now he's going to "do the right thing." But the women in his life have other ideas.
Tanya, the sleek and sexy mother of his two kids, is much too comfortable with her pearls-and-Porsche lifestyle, and she'll do whatever it takes to maintain it. His sister, Loretta, kept "the business" running smoothly while Preacher was inside, and she can't believe he'd trade Easy Street bling for a nickel-and-dime dead-end job. His one-time girlfriend Serena, now married to his main man Barnard, is hiding a secret—and if past sins come to light, they'll ruin several lives and a very new, very precious friendship between Preacher and Barnard's beautiful-inside-and-out sister, Natalie.
With his world about to explode all around him, Preacher's going to need every ounce of his new-found faith to remain strong. Because it takes a lot to become a new man, sometimes even a miracle.
If you would like to read the Prologue and first chapter of Up Pops The Devil, go HERE


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BMX, the third Olympic cycling discipline of the London Games schedule, concluded today with the semifinals and gold medal finals for both men and women. Maris Strombergs (Latvia) was successful in defending his men's title, while Colombia's Mariana Pajon completely dominated the women's competition. Canada's only BMX competitor, Tory Nyhaug, did not make it past yesterday's quarterfinals for the men.
Pajon was clearly the strongest racer in the women's 16 rider field, winning all three of her semifinal runs. In the final, she took the lead by the first corner and held off New Zealand's Sarah Walker in the single gold medal race. Laura Smulders (Netherlands) took bronze. Pre-race favourites Caroline Buchanan (Australia) and Shanaze Reade (Great Britain) both had good semifinals, but each had a poor start at the gate in the final, and were out of contention by the first turn, finishing fifth and sixth, respectively.
Mariana Pajon out front on final corner
Pajon's Olympic gold was the second ever won by a Colombian.
"I'm very happy and proud. I won't believe it until I wake up with my gold medal after going to sleep with it. This is a very strong moment for Colombia cycling, there's been a lot of support in recent years and that's beginning to give results."
"I believed that I would win three years ago when I wanted to be here. I had a good gate in the semifinals and the final. I wanted to be here and I did it. I can't believe I did it."
"I started gymnastics when I was five, but I started BMX when I was three. I was doing gymnastics, BMX and cart racing. However BMX wasn't at the Olympics and I wanted to be here, then BMX was introduced in Beijing and I started training. I started racing when I was three and I realised I could do this and do it well. I started winning at four with the boys and won my first world title at eight."
"Off the track I'm all woman, but on the track I change completely and I become aggressive and I race like a man. Then at the end of the race I become a girl again and of course I cried. I didn't believe it. I cried lot of tears. This a dream come true."
In the men's semifinals, Strombergs seemed to be holding back, finishing fourth, fourth and second in his runs to qualify third [of four] in his group for the final. Meanwhile, American Connor Fields and Sam Willoughby (Australia) were dominating their semis, each with two wins. However, in the godl medal race it was different story, as Strombergs surged to the front after the first corner. Fields got squeezed out on the first straight, finishing a distant seventh, after he was later taken down in a crash by Andres Jimenez (Colombia). But Strombergs was clear by this point, easily winning while Willoughby made a late move to take silver ahead of Carlos Oquendo (Colombia).
Maris Strombergs leading on final corner
"For myself, is just gets tougher against these young kids," commented Strombergs. "I can see myself out there. I'm one of the old guys in BMX and I'm just 25. When you get older you start thinking more. I think yesterday and today, during the races, the nerves got the best of me but deep down I was still confident and I'm happy that I was able to put together one good race. This one means a lot more to me [than Beijing]. When you grow older you start (to) appreciate things more. So this one is more special."
"When I started BMX, I was crying to be honest. I was five years old when my father took me to the BMX track and when I saw all those big guys jumping those big doubles, I started crying. I said 'No way dad'. But after another month I said to my dad, 'OK, I'll go again' and that's how I started."
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104 Fascinating Social Media and Marketing Statistics for 2014 (and 2015)
In response, marketers are producing an increasing amount and variety of content to support all stages of the decision process. They're distributing and promoting this content through all channels in the web presence optimization (WPO) model, to maximize their opportunities to be "found" online when buyers are looking.
Looking at marketing surveys and studies from the past year, a few trends are clear, among them that buyers are firmly (and increasingly) in control of the purchase cycle. They prefer searching to being found, and will often be close to their final decision point before talking to a salesperson.
In response, marketers are producing an increasing amount and variety of content to support all stages of the decision process. They're distributing and promoting this content through all channels in the web presence optimization (WPO) model, to maximize their opportunities to be "found" online when buyers are looking.
And although digital is taking an increasing share of marketing budgets, the move to online is paradoxically making some old-school tactics even more valuable.
What do buyers say is the most important signal of vendor credibility? What type of content is most effective? What do marketers rate as the single most valuable SEO tactic? What are the top barriers to adopting social business practices?
Find the answers to these questions and many others in more than 100 social and online marketing stats from 20+ different sources.
1. People want to be in control of the content they receive:
- • 86% of people skip TV commercials.
- • 44% of direct mail is never opened.
- • 91% of people have unsubscribed from company emails they previously opted into.
2. 72% of marketers think branded content is more effective than advertising in a magazine; 69% say it is superior to direct mail and PR. (NewsCred)
3. Nearly half (46%) of people say a website's design is their number one criterion for determining the credibility of a company. (NewsCred)
4. 71% of companies planned to increase their digital marketing budgets this year, by an average of 27%. (Econsultancy)
5. 67 percent of marketers say increasing sales directly attributable to digital marketing campaigns is a top priority this year. (Forbes)
6. Internet advertising will make up 25% of the entire ad market in 2015. (Social Fresh)
7. Despite all the hype about online, 67% of B2B content marketers consider event marketing to be their most effective strategy. (Social Fresh)
8. Videos on landing pages increase conversions by 86%. (Social Fresh)
9. As one would suspect, Facebook is the most popular method for sharing interesting content. Surprisingly though, the fifth-most popular sharing method is offline (print) shares. (Heidi Cohen)
5 Online Demographics Stats
10. The Google+ platform has 67 percent male users. (Rocket Post)
11. There are 76 million millennials (born between 1981 and 2000) in the U.S. — 27% of the total population. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
12. 63% of millennials have at least a bachelors degree. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
13. 63% of millennials say they stay updated on brands through social networks; 51% say social opinions influence their purchase decisions; and 46% "count on social media" when buying online. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)
14. 89% of 18-29 year-olds are active on social media, as are 43% of adults 65 and older. (Jeff Bullas)
13 Content Marketing Stats
15. B2B content matters. 57% of a typical purchase decision is made before a customer even talks to a supplier. (Corporate Executive Board)
16. By 2020, customers will manage 85 percent of their relationship with an enterprise without interacting with a human. (Target Marketing)
17. Not all content has to be original. 48% of marketers curate noteworthy content from third-party sources weekly (this post is an example). (Design & Promote)
18. 62% of companies outsource their content marketing. (Iconsive)
19. $118 billion was spend on content marketing last year. (NewsCred)
20. 70% of consumers say they prefer getting to know a company via articles rather than ads. (NewsCred)
21. 90% of organizations market with content. 86% of B2C marketers and 91% of B2B marketers use content marketing. (NewsCred)
22. Or maybe 93% of B2B marketers use content marketing. (Iconsive)
23. And yet…54% of brands don't have an onsite, dedicated content director. (NewsCred)
24. There are 27 million pieces of content shared each day. (NewsCred)
25. Companies will spend $135 billion on digital marketing collateral this year. (Social Fresh)
26. Customer testimonials have the highest effectiveness rating for content marketing at 89%. (Social Fresh)
27. 17% of marketers plan to increase efforts on SlideShare this year. (Forbes)
7 Blogging Stats
28. 34% of Fortune 500 companies now maintain active blogs – the largest share since 2008. (Forbes)
29. Each month, 329 million people read blogs. (NewsCred)
30. 37% of marketers say blogs are the most valuable content type for marketing. (NewsCred)
31. Companies that publish new blog posts 15+ times per month (3-4 posts per week) generate five times more traffic than companies that don't blog at all. (NewsCred)
32. 17% of marketers plan to increase blogging efforts this year. (Forbes)
33. Blogging increases web traffic by 55% for brands. (Rocket Post)
34. B2B companies that blog generate 67% more leads than those without blogs. (Social Fresh)
7 Visual and Video Marketing Stats
35. Pinterest grabs 41% of the ecommerce traffic compared to Facebook's 37%. Food is the top category of content on Pinterest with 57% of its user base sharing food-related content. (Rocket Post)
36. 16% of marketers plan to increase efforts on Pinterest this year. (Forbes)
37. The use of video content for marketing increased 73% this year; use of infographics grew 51%. (Digital Marketing Philippines)
38. Articles with images get 94% more views than those without. (NewsCred)
39. Posts with videos attract three times as many inbound links as plain text posts. (NewsCred)
40. 62% of marketers use video in their content marketing. (NewsCred)
41. Two-thirds of firms plan to increase spending on video marketing in the coming year. (Heidi Cohen)
5 SEO Stats
42. 81% of B2B purchase cycles start with web search, and 90% of buyers say when they are ready to buy, "they'll find you." (Earnest Agency)
43. More than half (53%) of marketers rank content creation as the single most effective SEO tactic. (NewsCred)
44. 57% of B2B marketers say SEO has the biggest impact on lead generation. (NewsCred)
45. Organic search leads have a 14.6% close rate, compared to 1.7% for outbound marketing leads. (NewsCred)
46. 33% of clicks from organic search results go to the top listing on Google. (Social Fresh)
15 Social Media Marketing Stats
47. 85% of B2B buyers believe companies should present information via social networks. (Iconsive)
48. And yet – only 20% of CMOs leverage social networks to engage with customers. (Marketing Land)
49. Marketers will spend $8.3 billion on social media advertising in 2015. (NewsCred)
50. "Interesting content" is one of the top three reasons people follow brands on social media. (NewsCred)
51. 87% of B2B marketers use social media to distribute content. (NewsCred)
52. 17% of marketers plan to increase podcasting efforts this year. (Forbes)
53. As consumer use of social media for brand comments and complaints continues to increase, brands are having a hard time keeping up. Only about 20% of consumer comments generate brand responses, and the average response time is over 11 hours. (eMarketer)
54. Nearly three-quarters of US marketers believe customer response management on digital channels is important (so…25% think it's okay to ignore consumers?); however, just one-third say their company does a good job at this. (eMarketer)
55. Social media marketing budgets are projected to double over the next five years (Social Fresh)
56. 66% of marketers claim that social indirectly impacts their business performance but only 9%t claim that it can be directly linked to revenue. (Forbes)
57. Over 70% of US online adults use some form of social media networking. (Heidi Cohen)
58. 72% of all internet users are now active on social media. (Jeff Bullas)
59. The top two barriers impeding adoption of social business within organizations are lack of overall strategy and competing priorities. Just 11% of marketers cite legal or regulatory concerns. (i-SCOOP)
60. 78% of companies now say they have dedicated social media teams, up from 67% in 2012. (i-SCOOP)
61. By department, companies most often have dedicated social media staff (not surprisingly) in marketing (73%), communications/PR (66%) and customer support (40%). At the other end of the scale are legal (9%) and market research (8%). (i-SCOOP)
7 Facebook Marketing stats
62. Facebook accounts for 15.8% of total time spent on the Internet. (Rocket Post)
63. 71% of online adults use Facebook. 63% of Facebook users visit daily and 40% visit multiple times per day. (Heidi Cohen)
64. More than a third (36%) of online adults use only one social networking site. Of these, 83% use Facebook. 8% use LinkedIn. (Heidi Cohen)
65. One million web pages are accessed using the "Login with Facebook" feature. (Jeff Bullas)
66. Nearly a quarter (232%) of Facebook users login at least five times per day. (Jeff Bullas)
67. 47% of Americans say Facebook is their #1 influencer of purchases. (Jeff Bullas)
68. 70% of marketers used Facebook to gain new customers. (Jeff Bullas)
3 LinkedIn Marketing Stats
69. LinkedIn is the top social network for B2B marketing (not a shock). 83% of marketers say they prefer to use LinkedIn for distributing B2B content, and more than half of vendors say they have generated sales through LinkedIn. (Real Business Rescue)
70. The average time spent on LinkedIn per month is 17 minutes. (Rocket Post)
71. 91 of the Fortune 100 companies use LinkedIn for candidate searches. (Rocket Post)
7 Twitter Marketing Stats
72. The average time per month spent by users on Twitter is 170 minutes. (Rocket Post)
73. Only about half of the people who log in to Twitter once a month are actually taking the time to tweet. The rest are lurkers. (Rocket Post)
74. Ironically, the most-followed brand on Twitter is…Facebook, with more than 13 million followers. Google is #3. (AllTwitter)
75. eBay is the most engaging brand on Twitter. Starbucks is the fourth-most-engaging, and also has the fourth highest number of followers of any major brand. (AllTwitter)
76. Not a shock: retailers and restaurants are the most engaging industries on Twtitter. Surprising: apparel brands are the least engaging. (AllTwitter)
77. Twitter now has over 550 million registered users, and 215 million active monthly users. (Jeff Bullas)
78. 34% of marketers use Twitter to successfully generate leads. (Jeff Bullas)
3 Google+ Stats
79. 18% of marketers plan to increase efforts on Google+ this year. (Forbes)
80. There are now over 1 billion Google+ accounts, and that figure is growing 33% per year. (Jeff Bullas)
81. Google+ has 359 million monthly active users. (Jeff Bullas)
13 Email Marketing Stats
82. There are nine times as many marketing emails sent each year as direct mail pieces delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. (Mark the Marketer)
83. Email marketing delivers the highest ROI (about $44 per dollar spent, on average) of any digital marketing tactic. SEO is #2. Banner ads have the lowest ROI. (Mark the Marketer)
84. 66% of consumers have made a purchase online as a result of an e-mail marketing message. (Mark the Marketer)
85. Email subject lines matter. Really. 64% of people say they open an e-mail because of the subject line. (Mark the Marketer)
86. Personalized subject lines are 22.2% more likely to be opened. For B2C emails, the words "Alert," "New," "News," "Bulletin," "Sale," "Video," "Daily," or "Weekly" (though not "Monthly") all increase open and click-through rates. (Mark the Marketer)
87. For B2B companies, subject lines that contained "money," "revenue," and "profit" performed the best. (Mark the Marketer)
88. Timing is important too. 76% of e-mail opens occur in the first two days after an e-mail is sent. E-mail open rates are noticeably lower on weekends than on weekdays. (Mark the Marketer)
89. Only 8% of companies and agencies have an e-mail marketing team. E-mail marketing responsibilities usually fall on one person as a part of her wider range of marketing responsibilities. (Mark the Marketer)
90. 72% of B2B buyers are most likely to share useful content via e-mail. (Mark the Marketer)
91. Still, the average click-through rate for B2B marketing e-mails is just 1.7%. (Mark the Marketer)
92. Emails with social sharing buttons increase click-through rates by 158%. (Social Fresh)
93. 64 percent of marketers say increasing email click-throughs and open rates is among their top priorities this year. (Forbes)
94. 67 percent of marketers say that email is ke3y for attracting and engaging prospects, and the best path to increase marketing ROI. (Forbes)
10 Mobile Marketing Stats
95. 94% of CMOs plan to use mobile applications within the next 3-5 years. (Marketing Land)
96. 75% of smartphone owners watch videos on their phones; 26% at least once per day. (NewsCred)
97. Over half of all mobile searches lead to a purchase. (Rocket Post)
98. 78% of Facebook users are mobile-only. (Rocket Post)
99. E-mail is the most popular activity on smartphones among users ages 18-44. (Mark the Marketer)
100. 64% of decision-makers read their e-mail via mobile devices. (Mark the Marketer)
101. Almost half–48%–of all emails are opened on mobile devices. Yet 39% of marketers say they have no strategy for mobile email, and only 11% of e-mails are optimized for mobile. (Mark the Marketer)
102. Mobile is the channel of choice for keep relationships with existing customers alive because it cuts through the clutter of email and social. (Forbes)
103. 71% of users access social media from a mobile device. (Jeff Bullas)
104. 50% of millennials use their smartphones to research products or services while shopping, and 41% have made purchases using their phones. (leaderswest Digital Marketing Journal)


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A gruesome flu has hit Nashville - worst I've ever had. It starts in the ear and ends in the stomach. When it hit me, I was certain someone had made a Lonesome Liz Voodoo Doll, especially considering each body part it hit was accompanied by stabbing pain strong enough to merit at least Tylenol 3. Without insurance, or even with it, (since it's a virus and antibiotics really don't address the issues), what to do? Here are some home remedies I tried that truly did work. Hope they help some of y'all who have the misfortune to catch this, (or anything else like it), too.
Chicken Soup
It's not an old wives tale, chicken soup really does help. Not only because it's hot and easy on the stomach but it contains powerful, illness fighting stuff. Here's my recipe, learned from an old, Jewish grandmother, (the ones who know best of all how to make it). Easy and contains minimal ingredients but tastes like it came straight from a 5 star restaurant.
1 whole chicken
1 whole onion
Heart of celery (the yellowish, smaller stalks inside the crunchy green ones)
1 bay leaf
White pepper (it really makes a huge difference in taste to use white rather than black)
All you do is put all of the above in a large stew pot, cover it with water, turn burner on to high and boil for about an hour or until the onion is very soft. (Use the thyme, salt and pepper to taste - starting with about a 1/2 tablespoon of each, then, in the last hour of cooking taste it to make sure it's how you like and add more if desired.)
When the onion is soft, remove it and the celery, set aside (you can chop them up and add back to the soup when it's done but if you leave them in there too long they'll break down to nothing and wind up adding a bitter taste to the soup). Add more water to again cover the chicken, bring back to a boil.
Cook until the meat is falling off of the bones, (this may require poking the chicken around a bit to see if it falls apart easily on it's own), and the broth reduced to about 1/2 up the pot. Turn to low heat. when cooler, taste to see if more salt or pepper is needed. remove bones and skin.
You can add rice towards the end of cooking (bring back to a boil,adding some water first b/c rice will absorb a lot of the broth), chopped carrots, diced potatoes (again, add these in the last hour of cooking and add water first/bring back to a boil to cook the vegetables) -- add them AFTER you've removed the bones and skin. You can also make biscuit dough (below), break it in pieces and drop in boiling soup at the end for dumplings, (this is best with vegetables omitted). Dumplings are done when they float to the top and are slippery.
For cream of chicken soup, whisk in 1/2 cup heavy cream and 2 1/2 tsp dry red wine after cooking.
For Earaches
My ear hurt so much it literally woke me up at 2 am and had me in tears from the pain. Yes, tylenol helps but this pain was so relentless it would require 2 every 6 hours round the clock to manage. Problem is, you can't take that much tylenol. what you can do, however, is alternate taking tylenol and asprin. That way you still get (in this case semi-adequate) pain management without risking making yourself ill from too much of one or the other, (which will happen).
Since just that didn't begin to truly eliminate the seriously crippling ear pain here are two home cures that really did help massively.
1. Heat -- Heat REALLY took the remaining pain away. Sucks because you have to lie or sit with something hot on your ear but sucks a lot less than lying there unable to sleep from the pain. If you don't have a heating pad or hot/cold pack, you can make one by filling a sock with rice and then microwaving it in short bursts till it's hot enough. It smells kinda ewwwww but if you're in this much pain that doesn't really matter much. I just kept putting on perfume so I didn't have to smell the rice, lol.
2. Onion -- Boil or bake a quarter of an onion until soft. Then you can either squeeze some of the juice into your ear or take a small piece of it and insert it in your ear. Sounds weird, I know, but it really does take away the ear pain. Between this and the rice bag I was joking that I was like a stew myself. But they worked.
3. Steam -- a humidifier helps relieve pressure by moistening the air, a hot shower definitely does the same. It won't work by itself but, along with the two above will work as part of a triple threat to the issue at hand.
For Sore Throat
Unfortunately, the cures for sore throats don't eradicate the pain the way the ones for earache did but they did help considerably.
1. Gargling with hot salt water --- My grandmother used to swear by this and constantly tell me to do it to which I constantly replied ewwwwwww and refused. But it works, My throat hurt so much I could hardly swallow and it didn't completely eliminate the pain but it made it go down enough for me to sleep and swallow. I cover the bottom of a cup with salt (the more you use at one time the fewer times you'll have to gargle), let tap water get as hot as it can, then fill the cup about 1/2 way, Gargle till gone. Repeat about 3 times. It's gross but it works. Repeat when it gets so bad again you can't swallow.
2. Alcohol --- As above, salt really helps, (it kills germs for one - hence the old 'salt in a wound' adage), so does alcohol, (in small amounts, getting drunk lowers your immune system). Lemon is also known to be helpful with throat issues. So, even though I abhor tequila - I hate to admit that the quickest way to hit a throat with a 3 way attack is a shot of it. With salt first, followed by lemon. Repeat no more than 3 times. The alcohol will, of course, also help you sleep and make you a little less acutely aware of the pain.
You can also launch a 3 way attack with a hot toddy - Put 2 tablespoons of honey in the bottom of a glass along with a few slices of lemon, add a shot of bourbon and pour about a cup of boiling water over all. The honey coats your throat, again, lemon helps it as well, the bourbon helps kill germs and the heat + the sugar in the honey intensify it's effects to promote sleep.
3. Hot sauce --- This may have helped more than anything else - if your throat hurts too much to eat even a chip or two with raging hot salsa (and I mean raging hot - this is like add the hottest hot sauce you can find hot) or guacamole then add some to the chicken soup. Maybe put some on the lemon your chasing the tequila shot with. However it is you can take it, it'll help.
For Stomach
Unfortunately, there's not much you can do with a stomach flu except let it get itself out of your system.
1. Heat will help some with the pain, (which in the case of this flu was absolutely stabbing and had me crying out),. A hot bath or shower, (stay in as long as possible) will also help while you're in it.
2. The pain can also be cut down a little with tylenol, (if you can keep it down and in this case it diminished it enough for me to sleep but didn't eradicate it). Asprin can aggravate stomach lining so stay away from that/you unfortunately can't do the alternation for this that you can do for ear and throat pain.
3. Chamomile tea doesn't cure it but it does help a little - I found peppermint more helpful than anything else so add a little oil of peppermint to plain chamomile tea. You can drink it as often/as much as you like and, combined with the above two, with this variety of stomach bug anyway, it will lessen the ordeal.
Main thing is to just keep as little on your stomach as possible while this phase moves on. Very cold soda, clear popsicles, jello - the usual things your mom probably gave you when you were sick, all provide slight comfort on their own and help with the throat part too.
I wish I'd had this list when I first woke up crying from my ear hurting! Hope it helps some of you too. Hang in there. It only seems to last a few days at worst.
More Sickroom Recipes
Creamed Chip Beef
1 jar dried beef
1/4 cup butter (real butter, not margerine)
1/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tsp salt
2 cups milk
Melt butter in saucepan. Mix flour with salt and pepper then blend gradually, stirring continuously over medium heat until thick and caramel colored. (Careful so that it doesn't burn). Stir in milk very gradually, letting thicken a little as you stir, (and downside is you do need to stir continuously) until it thickens. Reduce heat to low. Shred beef and stir in. Serve over toast or biscuits. (White bread will be much easier on your stomach than wheat.)
Lonesome Liz's Biscuits
2 c self rising flour
1 stick margerine or 8 tbsp shortening (shortening is better) cut into pieces
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/2 c milk
Sift flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Cut in margerine or shortening with a knife (doing it this way truly does produce the best result) until it looks like cornmeal. Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture and pour in milk then stir. Turn onto floured board and kenad very lightly until it's not sticky. Roll and cut with glass or cookie cutter.
Place biscuits close together on greased pan, sprinkled with flour. Towards end of baking brush with a mixture of milk and melted butter to brown. Bake at 450 about 10 min.


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Trinity College Dublin
The Book of Kells
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Guinness Storehouse
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National Museum
Christchurch Cathedral
Kilmainham Jail
You will travel through Dublin City to see historic buildings such as Trinity College, where the Book of Kells is housed; rows of Georgian houses and the new buildings around the Financial Centre beside the River Liffey. Hit the Guinness Storehouse for a pint of the black stuff and pull your own pint! Why not take a tour of Dublin Castle, which was the seat of power and government for many centuries and today plays a leading role in European Union activities.
Blarney Castle
Blarney Woollen Mills
Cobh Heritage Centre
Cork City
Kinsale fishing town
Old Midleton Whiskey Distillery
Depart Dublin and travel through the midlands of Ireland, which has some of the best farmland in Ireland. You will be itching to stop for photos at the majestic ruins on the Rock of Cashel, rising high above the surrounding countryside where you will fall in love. You will continue your drive south and, just a few miles outside Cork city, you will want to visit Blarney Castle to kiss the famous "Stone of Eloquence." We recommend you stop at the Blarney Woollen Mills where you can find quality Irish made goods of all types to take back home with you.
The Ring of Kerry
Staigue Fort
Killarney National Park
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Today you will experience one of Ireland's most stunning scenic drives – the 100 miles long Ring of Kerry. You will inhale the breathtaking sights of the Macgillycuddy's Reeks as well as coastal views of beaches and cliffs. Learn about the off-shore islands where early Christian monks lived in austere conditions and how they were used as one of the locations for "Star Wars VII" movie. Stop for a stroll around Sneem, with its brightly-painted houses and again at Moll's Gap for panoramic views of Ireland's highest mountains and deepest valleys. You will stop and get a flavour of farm life with a sheepdog demonstration of herding flocks, a shearing demonstration and see different breeds of Irish sheep with the Irish farmers at their farm house.
Bunratty Castle & Folk Park
Cliffs of Moher
The Poulnabrone Dolmen
The Burren
Doolin Village
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You will continue your journey to Clare, and drive north to Tarbert for a 20-minute ferry ride across the wide River Shannon Estuary, the longest river in Ireland or the UK. You will want to continue along the Clare coast to the Cliffs of Moher, a spectacular wall of sandstone that reaches to almost 700 feet above the Atlantic Ocean. Head onto the marketing town of Ennis and then hit Bunratty, visit the Bunratty Castle and Folk Park and maybe stop at Durty Nelly's to grab some great traditional Irish food.
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Athenry Castle
Travel northwards to Galway City for a real treat and take in the unforgettable views. Take some time to look around the city before travelling out along the famous Galway Bay to Spiddal where the locals still speak the Irish language. You will head across the rugged boglands of Connemara to Moycullen to visit the Connemara Marble Factory. You will see how locally-quarried marble is made into attractive products and enjoy the good auld tea and scones. Then you will travel across the country to Dublin and check in to a different hotel.
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Hill of Tara
Trim Castle
Travel to the mysterious County of Meath known as the Royal County which derives its name from the Second Century AD as a territory for the High Kings of Ireland.
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The student strike is not over in Quebec. Yet we may take advantage of the summer respite to assess this extraordinary upheaval; a mobilization that became both social and political in Montreal and in many urban centres throughout Quebec. In order to make a proper assessment, we must acknowledge the gains, but also pinpoint the defects. We must identify those actors who did not heed the call, and try to understand why not. We are speaking here of the large union centrals of Quebec [the Quebec Federation of Labour (in French, the FTQ), Confederation of National Trade Unions (in French, the CSN) and the Central of Quebec Unions — NSW]. Our intent is not to create divisions within the Quebec Left but to initiate a debate surrounding the labour movement's absence in the social struggle in Quebec.
It is safe to say that, during the whole strike period, the labour movement did not come out in full force. There was no strategic dialogue between the union centrals and the student movement. This dialogue could have begun two years ago given that the student movement had already by then expressed its intention to mobilize against the Liberal government. Neither did the union centrals make links with the popular movement after public sector negotiations in 2010. Yet a Coalition Against Fee Hikes and the Introduction of Fees for Public Services was already off the ground and managed to organize a protest that drew more than 15 000 people in 2010 against the Liberal budget. What did the union centrals do in the face of this mobilization? They created another coalition called the Social Alliance. The decision to create another coalition when one with the same objectives — to stop the privatization of public services and the introduction of user fees — was already off the ground created a lot of confusion in the Quebec Left. After all that, we still cannot say that this confusion has cleared up. Of course, the Social Alliance held press conferences in support of the student movement, but these media interventions did not translate into concrete struggles.
We were even more confused when the top union officers announced their intention to intervene in the negotiations between the student movement and the government at the beginning of May. Their role was unclear: would they act as mediators? Or would they act as supporters of the student movement? Not only were their intentions unclear, but the deal that came out of these negotiations was convoluted and far from satisfactory. On May 5th, Louis Roy [president of the CSN — NSW] was saying on television that the deal was very good news for the people of Quebec. But this agreement was not good news for the student movement, which was not ready to end an historic struggle, the largest since 1972 [the year of the Common Front strikes].
What left us all baffled was an article penned in La Presse by journalist Michelle Ouimet the following week (May 12, 2012). According to her, "the Liberal government asked the union bosses to act as facilitators." In the same article, Michel Arseneault explains: "when you're the president of the FTQ and the Prime Minister summons you, you answer… especially when he appeals to the greater good" (my italics). During this meeting, explains the article, "Jean Charest explains to them (the union leaders) that the crisis is harming Quebec and that a solution must be found."
Now let's pull back for a moment. The Prime Minister asks the top union officers to act for the greater good of Quebec. Then, the Prime Minister says this crisis is harming Quebec and that a solution must be found. What we can understand is how both the neoliberals and the top union officers have failed to understand this social struggle. A spirit of solidarity guided this meeting between the state and the union officialdom. They understood each other very well, but they could not understand what was going on in society. What we are witnessing is not a crisis that is paralyzing Quebec society. Instead, we are witnessing an upheaval of citizens who want to change the social order. The massive rejection of the May 5 deal by the student movement in the weeks that followed is an indication of the failure of both the state apparatus and the apparatus of the union centrals to understand society.
The inertia of the union centrals
Right now, we may speak of the deplorable missed encounter of the student and labour movements. There seems to be no change in direction for the union brass. Where can we find the union centrals on the political map of Quebec in 2012? This is the question everyone inside and outside the labour movement should ask. In fact, we need a political sociology of the Quebec labour movement to explain what's at stake and why it has been incapable of creating or supporting the current social struggles. While we are still formulating a sociology of the labour movement, we can still forward a few hypotheses to explain why its mobilization is lacking:
First hypothesis: there exists a disconnect between the union officialdom and the union membership. The primary mandate of this officialdom is to help union members defend their social and union rights. But the union officialdom has become so powerful that it can afford to ignore the views of its members. The noisy debates in certain public sector federations when the broader public sector settlement was reached in 2010 speaks to a disconnect between the understanding of what's at stake for unions and what's at stake for society.
Second hypothesis: the union officialdom pretends as though union members do not want to mobilize. We have heard it time and time again from national and regional union leaders: "It's difficult for us because the members do not want to mobilize." Yet there is no space for union discussion in workplaces about the student strike and the importance of a "greve sociale" [a "social strike," or what in English is often called a political strike — NSW]. Instead, many union members expressed their rage in the casserole protests in the months of May and June.
Third hypothesis: fear of legal repercussions. It is a well-founded fear. The special law enacted by the Liberal government in response to the student movement can really put a chill on social movements in Quebec. However, we cannot say we are refusing to send our members to the dogs without consulting them and gauging their determination and sense of combat.
Although these hypotheses are a start, they call for a larger debate on the inertia of the labour movement in this historic period of mobilization. During this tumultuous period, we have seen new forces joining the struggle against the government. For example, networks such as Profs Against the Hike, CEGEP Profs Against the Hike and even Angry Mothers in Solidarity Against the Hike have emerged to support the students. It is interesting to note that we have put in place flexible structures that help us quickly respond to the immediate needs of the struggle. But one question remains: are these spontaneous initiatives not symptoms of the inability of the labour movement to intervene in Quebec society today?
Rene Charest is an activist in the CSN and Quebec Solidaire. Translation by Zac Saltis, with David Camfield.


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After the Living Legends event in Beverly Hills, I was able to hitch a ride out to Salt Lake City with aviation supporter Tracy Forrest. He let me fly his Citation Mustang out of Santa Monica to Salt Lake City where I was going to kill some time before the Quail Hunt the following weekend at my family's ski condo.
The Mustang is a great entry level jet, very economical to fly, and has the same Garmin 1000 radios I used in the Cessna 172 I got my Instrument Rating in. The weather was great until we got close to SLC and we then went on instruments, picked up some light ice, and shot the approach. Having just got my Instrument Rating, this was a great experience for me!
I used the quiet in the mountains to catch up on my blog and never made it out to the slopes! I'll talk about that in a later blog post. I was happy to be invited back to the Quail Hunt and headed off to Dallas/Ft. Worth five days later by airline to hook up with my ride out to the Ranch.
Last year I got to fly a Cessna Citation Jet out and back and this year was no different. Since I now had my Instrument Rating, I had all sorts of questions. And lo and behold . . . guess what supplies they picked up for me for the weekend? My current favorite rum!
After the Living Legends event, I was beginning to notice a subtle pattern forming! People were going out of their way to supply me with some great tasting rum. At least . . . until my Naked in Jamaica rum comes out! (I feel the need to insert a disclaimer here – I love to drink socially with friends and don't do this on any kind of regular basis. The only problem I have with drinking is when all they've got is that nasty white rum available! I won't name the label.)
Everyone was kind enough to let me fly up front in the right seat so we headed off to pick up Dick Cole about halfway. Dick was Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot on the "Thirty seconds over Tokyo" raid and the beginning of WWII in one of sixteen B-25 Bombers that launched off the deck of the aircraft carrier Hornet!
Two people are really responsible for Quail Hunt. John Agather organizes it and is the son of Vic Agather. Vic ran the Boeing B-29 program in WWII for America and was responsible for getting the B-29 Fifi for the CAF. Herb Kelleher is the other and is part-owner in the 200,000 acre ranch we explore in west Texas. Herb is one of the principals behind the success of Southwest Airlines. John and Herb together have created a great event to bring together aviation notables together for a weekend of fun and camaraderie.
If you remember, last year, country music star Aaron Tippin was my roommate. He showed up late this year so I bunked in with a new fun guy named Perry out of Reno. He brought a load of guns for everyone to play with and we literally had a blast! The next picture pretty much sums up the whole trip!
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Marwan Kenzari gives a stunning performance as Majid, the second son of a Moroccan immigrant to the Netherlands. Having recently been released on parole, he is trying to make ends meet by working in a warehouse during the day and committing smash-and-grab robberies at night. He cares about his family, especially his little brother, with whom he now shares a room. His family's living conditions are impoverished because of mounting health bills brought on by the eldest son's cancer. Majid wants a better life.
The one skill in his favor are his fists. A trained martial artist, Majid hopes to train with a respected gym near his home to compete in fight tournaments. His skills are also noticed by a local Turkish mob. As the head of that family begins to allow Majid to get closer, he's gotta figure out what he will and won't let himself get away with. With a cousin whispering in his ear to take the easy money and a father that feels nothing but contempt for him, Majid has few places to turn for any real guidance.
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