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Some things stay with you. Back in 1952, Mrs Holland, who confidently asserted then, that by now she would be pushing up the daisies, was the form teacher for class 1A at Hexthorpe Junior Mixed School. She was a good teacher who etched a host of vivid traces in my memory, one of which is the description of her journey to Canada to visit a friend in Calgary. She spoke of crossing the Atlantic Ocean and whole days in a train passing through the endless prairies. At the time it seemed the most wonderful thing imaginable. Her ability to enthrall a young mind is not the only reason we made our journey, but I dedicate it to her.
Sixty one years later we find ourselves, in my case cushioned by the tranquillisers I have persuaded my GP to supply, in a few millimetres thick aluminium tube of death, crossing the Atlantic for the first time. My reservations concerning this mode of travel were amply justified when the pilots on this very flight were arrested before takeoff at Glasgow Airport for being drunk, a year or so later. The Transat flight on 18th September 2013 delivered us safely to Vancouver however, whatever state of inebriation the pilots had achieved.
We had set off for the airport at 03.00 took off at 09.00 and landed in Vancouver at about 14.00 local time, 23.00 back in Britain, feeling very tired. Our flat turned out to be located in the gay district of Vancouver, the evidence of which concerned us not at all, though I did enjoy the exuberant pedestrian crossings!
After an early night we found ourselves wide awake at about four in the morning and decided to explore Vancouver as the sun was rising. All the abiding memories and impressions of Vancouver were laid down during that beautiful first walk, along the coastal path around Stanley Park as the sun was rising.
A constant flow of very fit, Lycra-clad, good looking young persons passed or overtook us on their morning run, suggesting that this is a vibrant, health conscious city full of active young people.
The scenery was spectacular, a glorious combination of mature maritime forest and mountains enveloped by arms of the sea. There were reminders that the lithesome pale joggers that distracted me somewhat from the scenery, were not the first people to inhabit this land.
And always, the buzz of seaplanes, coming and going.
Four nights was not enough to do justice to Vancouver. All we could do was follow the tourist guides and visit a few of the listed attractions, such as China Town and the oriental gardens. Mainly we just wandered about enjoying where we were.
A bus ride and a ferry brought to us to Victoria, which we liked. It was completely different from Vancouver - more restrained, gentler, even a little bit English. Here we visited the impressive museum, dedicated to the First Nation's culture and history (references to "Indians" or "Natives" is now strictly taboo) As ever we wandered about a lot.
To get from Victoria to Prince Rupert where our trans-continental rail journey would begin, we had to cross the whole length of Vancouver Island to Port Hardy, a journey of 170 miles. There we would pick up the ferry that follows the Inner Passage northwards, one of the more spectacular parts of our journey. There are no scheduled bus services but we were able to book seats on a private coach which picked us up at our hotel. This turned out to be a large, powerful sixty seated machine, empty but for the driver and us. Another couple joined us and that was the full complement for the whole journey.
Memories from the journey include empty roads through forests and mountains, a depressed First Nation village with spectacular murals, having lunch at a restaurant with goats grazing on the turf roof and a friendly well informed driver who kept us amused as he drove.
Owing to our fellow passengers, who were excellent company all the way to Jasper, having left a couple of thousand dollars worth of camera equipment on a ferry, we were delayed for an hour or two while they retrieved it and our driver did not deliver us to our hotel in Port Hardy until well after dark.
There was no food! Every eating place within walking distance had long since shut and we resorted in the end to buying snacks from a garage. Even worse there was no alcohol to cushion these blows. No doubt as a result of these deprivations, I also managed to leave my iPad charger plugged in the hotel room when our bus driver picked us up next morning to transport us to the ferry terminal. Port Hardy, though undeservingly so, is not high in our affections.
The Inner Passage takes about ten hours to transverse. It varies in width from tens of miles to tens of yards and no point is without interest. We saw a school of humpback whales, First Nation settlements, sawmills, forests and always a distant view of snow capped mountains. It is not a journey one would choose to make at night! I leave a selection of images to prove the point.
Prince Rupert is the largest coastal settlement north of Vancouver because it is a railhead port. It was sufficiently developed for me to replace my lost charger, but retains some of the atmosphere of a tough frontier town.
Ninety five percent of the rail traffic reaching the port consists of empty containers on their way back to China and full ones in the opposite direction. The freight trains are enormous, up to a mile long and have priority over the occasional passenger train.
Our occasional train is called "The Skeena", which runs every two days, and is named after the river it follows on leaving Prince Rupert.
The Skeena takes two whole days to reach Jasper but only moves during the daylight hours. No one takes this train to get from A to B but to experience the journey itself. Everyone on the train, including the crew, spend the night in a hotel in Fort George at the halfway point. Hint to fellow travelers: check which hotel the crew, who have tried them all, have chosen.
Our conductor also acted as a tour guide.
On the frequent occasion when The Skeena was shunted aside to allow a freight train to pass us, she allowed us to leave the train for half an hour or so, often in the middle of absolutely nowhere to see some attraction she had promoted.
She was also extremely strict regarding alcohol, on one occasion confiscating my lunchtime bottle of wine, which, it would seem, is not allowed in Canada. When in Rome...besides we were completely intoxicated by the scenery.
Jasper is a much larger town than Prince Rupert but I did not like it as much.
It revolves around the needs of tourists. Prince Rupert seemed more real, letting tourists take it or leave it - which all of them do quite soon as there is little for them to do except, like us, walk around - while it got on with its proper job of being a rail head port. All Jasper's attractions lie in its magnificent mountain setting and to access this we decided to take guided tour to Maligne Lake and gorge, despite the eye watering cost. Money well spent we decided later.
Our guide, a well informed half Indian with a passion for photography and rock climbing, picked us up and four others in a minibus. The highlight of the trip, which also included a spectacular gorge and a walk through woods where he pointed out the scratch marks made by bears, was the boat ride on Lake Maligne, a long glacial lake of a deep turquoise hue.
From the boat we were afforded views of three glaciers, numerous peaks...
...an intimate view of the world's most expensive toilet...
...and the experience of defending one's space against the Chinese!
The next day we enjoyed a more economical but equally enjoyable walk along the Athabaska River. This is a serious river, dark and roiling, powerful, almost sinister. You would not want to fall in!
That it flowed from where we stood, all the way to Hudson Bay was difficult to appreciate. We met no one on our walk and the slight hint of danger, we acquired from the river bank and swirling current, was enhanced by the sight of the same sort of scratch marks on the trees as we had seen the day before.
There was plenty of wildlife but fortunately it consisted of birds and chipmunks.
Next morning we boarded one of the world's great trains - "The Canadian" - which runs between Vancouver and Toronto taking four nights to do so. It is a beautiful train of stainless steel cars, all very "fifties" and art deco, and well over half a mile in length. We had no intention of depriving ourselves of any comforts on offer and we had booked a first class berth. This was a comfortable private compartment by day and an en suite sleeping cabin at night. In addition, breakfast, lunch and dinner were provided as part of the not inconsiderable cost, plus access to the observation car where coffee, fruit and other snacks were always on offer.
The timetable for "The Canadian" is aspirational rather than descriptive because even this flagship train must not impede the flow of freight,
so it was late arriving in Jasper. Happily the station waiting room was quite charming and a violinist booked to travel with us to entertain the passengers played to the waiting crowd.
Our eastward journey began in the late afternoon with time to enjoy the last of the Rocky Mountain scenery
before, quite abruptly, we emerged from a final tunnel to see an entirely different sort of landscape - the High Plains.
Friends of ours went on a cruise and, were seated at a table for with another couple they quickly realised they could not stand for a fortnight. This terrible fate is not allowed on "The Canadian". In the dining cars passengers are seated as they arrive, which results in different company at every meal and this proved very enjoyable and interesting, allowing me to share a vaguely amusing anecdote three times. The food was excellent and if the conversation flagged, Canada was rolling by outside, unchanging, hour after hour, because this was the Prairies.
My generation was able to attend university and emerge unencumbered by any debt, but the most rewarding thing and lasting treasure of the experience are the friends I made there. The small coterie of oddballs, around whom my undistinguished academic life revolved, have remained in touch for over fifty years and one of them, Geoff, lives in Winnipeg, our next stop.
We enjoyed a grand tour of Winnipeg over the next two days. This is the Red River, but not, I suspect, the one featured with its valley in the song.
I got the impression of a city turned in on itself. Everything happens inside or underground and from the outside it appears austere and unwelcoming.
This is of course due to its climate. A few weeks after our visit it was experiencing temperatures of -30C. Of the many places Geoff took us to, my favourite was his enormous train set.
Late at night, forty eight hours after we had got off it we boarded another "The Canadian" to continue our journey to Toronto, which would take us a whole day and two nights. The scenery slowly changed as we traveled east becoming more hilly and forested.
From time to time we were halted to let the freight trains through which allowed the passengers time to wander about and inspect the train from the outside.
Toronto was disappointing because I wanted to go up the big tower with the glass floor but at the relevant time, the top of the tower was obscured by low cloud. There were enough alternative attractions to keep us entertained though, including a superb museum and our first glimpse of Lake Ontario.
This might be the very locomotive that pulled Mrs Holland in 1950...
We crossed into the United States at Niagara but before doing so spent a couple of days inspecting this rather tacky resort's only attraction.
Our accommodation here was a bed and breakfast establishment which can be described as just about satisfactory. In the room next to us was a sauna whirlpool bath which made the most extraordinary noise and was used mainly around midnight. We had heard enough watery noises during the day!
Our first attempt at finding somewhere to have lunch was bizarre. Nowhere seemed to be serving proper food. At random we walked into a place and were somewhat dumbfounded to find it was a Playboy styled establishment. All the waitresses were on roller skates and dressed in tight low tops and extraordinarily short skirts. They were all of a certain age, I would guess eighteen to twenty three. I suspect elderly couples are not among their target clientele, but with good humour they made us welcome and the food was... actually I have completely forgotten what the food was like.
Niagara also showed me the advantages of the toys available in our new digital age. Downtown Niagara was not the sort of place we like to eat, so I used my Ipad which located for us a superb little bistro a couple of blocks away. Away from the commercial tourist centre, Uptown Niagara was quite charming.
For all our reservations about the town, the waterfalls are stunning.
But enough of waterfalls and grinding whirlpool baths! It was time to change country and take the short train ride to Niagara USA and introduce ourselves to Amtrak across the Rainbow Bridge.
At Niagara US, the border customs service take control of Amtrak's New York bound train for three hours to process the passengers. Since all concerned were blameless and of an amiable disposition, we found ourselves with two hours and forty minutes to pass before the train could depart. A schedule is rigid and no space would be available on Amtrak's network until the allotted time so we were able to take in our first impressions of the USA, but mainly I took photos of our waiting train.
Eventually we set off on a long and interesting ride which took us east along the Mohawk valley, until we reached Albany, then south following the Hudson to New York.
There is a great scene toward the end of the film "The Untouchables" that features Grand Central Terminal where I was expecting to arrive. Sadly all trains now arrive in Manhattan through tunnels and into the depressing and confusing Pennsylvania station which is all underground. We had to visit the scene from the film on a later occasion.
We enjoyed our time in New York, but found it exhausting and a little intimidating.
For very sound economic reasons we rented an apartment Brooklyn, in a lively cosmopolitan area where many West Indians lived. Police sirens were a permanent feature and on one occasion we watched copious amounts of blood being washed off the pavement. It was not an ideal environment for those of a timid disposition.
We spent most of our time in Manhattan, on one occasion walking across the Brooklyn bridge
but mainly using the Metro - an effective system, but old and becoming worn out and confusing to use for the first time.
Our visit coincided with a period when the US government had been unable to get its budget passed. The Republican controlled Senate and House was determined to frustrate any initiatives by the Obama Presidency. As a result all publicly funded services had shut down as the personnel were not being paid. No museums or art galleries were open. So we decided to take the spectacularly crowded Staten Island Ferry for a little trip - along with virtually every other tourist in New York. This did afford some fine views, if you were able to fight your way to the deck rail.
Perhaps the favourite moments in New York, apart from having supper in the excellent pubs of course, were when we left the bustling streets and found an oasis of calm in Central Park
After three days in New York we returned to the forbidding depths of Penn station and took a train to Washington. The US does not really do trains. The extensive network it once owned has decayed. There are few passenger trains and these cater more for tourists than people who need to travel and, like Canada, they have to fit in around the needs of freight trains. Only the lines between Washington, New York and Boston have been maintained for commuters traveling in fast modern trains.
Washington has everything that New York lacks. For a start it has an fine main station and the underground metro system is equally impressive. The space available and the clean lines of the design engender a sense of calm that contrasts favourably with our experiences in New York.
Perhaps because the government was still paralysed by the intransigent Republican Party and less people were working, it seemed very quiet - at least compared to New York - and so we found it much more relaxing.
Although our original plans included a visit to the Smithsonian, which was closed, we found plenty to do and walked for miles.Washington gave us a strong feeling of deja vu, as though we were walking on a familiar film set or taking part in a news bulletin. And here, photographed for the millionth+ time are some of the places our feet took us.
We noticed during a stroll through Georgetown that Halloween is taken very seriously.
Perhaps the most powerful image is the Vietnam War Memorial. It consists of a wall of black polished stone inscribed with the names of all the fallen. So simple yet so moving. Even thirty years after the awful, unnecessary tragedy that it commemorates, there are still many people that come to touch the name of their missing loved one. We felt we were being intrusive and in a somewhat sombre mood, moved on.
We spent our four nights in Washington in a comfortable flat, eating out during the day and in at night. Shopping for food introduced us to a new phenomena. In Washington super markets aisle after aisle is devoted to cooked prepared food - salads, sauces, pasta dishes, hot and cold meat prepared in umpteen different ways, rice, curries, Mexican...Is the skill of cooking raw ingredients to create a meal at home dying out in America?
We now retraced our steps with a nine hour train ride through New York to Boston. Here we were to crown our wonderful journey by sharing the last two weeks with part of our family who we were to meet at Boston airport.
Just off the Red Eye service from London and somewhat jet lagged, we picked up a car and drove to Chatham where we stayed in this house for five nights.
Chatham is lovely, with beautiful beaches and excellent fish restaurants.
We used it as a base to explore the Cape Cod area and historical settlements such as New Plymouth and Province Town on Cape Cod.
Much of the fishing community here is of Portuguese descent.
We have often wondered what happened to Aunt Beulah!
All too soon it was time to leave this most genteel and civilised part of America, but not before it afforded us one last treat - a farewell stroll along the beach as the sun was setting and the ebb tide flowing powerfully.
The plan for the second half of our New England tour was to drive north toward Mount Washington, visiting various attractions on the way, the first of which was Deerfield. The vehicle we were using can be described as a big beast. It easily accommodated six, with copious amounts of extra space for luggage. It had a 3,000cc engine and probably did about eight miles to the gallon, but it made our driver happy...most of the time...
Deerfield dates back to the seventeenth century, the earliest days of the American colonies, when the settlers were still intermittently fighting with the indigenous people. Two interesting museums tell the stories of this violent past as well illustrating aspects of social history.
My main memory of Deerfield though is how beautiful it looked in the autumn sunshine.
The furthest point we reached on our tour of New England was Killington, a ski resort that was barely functioning at this time of year. But it was an attractive drive through mountainous scenery.
From Killington we took a slow meandering drive towards Portsmouth, a substantial port, stopping off here and there. Part of the original idea was to experience the colours of the New England Fall. I suspect we were a week or two late for the best of it, but every now and then...
Our stay in Portsmouth, where this lifting bridge is located, was enlivened when my family decided, for some reason, that I might enjoy our evening meal in a pub, locally famous for its range of real ales. It turned out that they were right.
The final leg of our New England experience was Boston where we stayed for three nights. On the way we visited Salem and witnessed a performance of a recreation of the witch trials.
Our lodgings in Boston were booked through Airbnb. It turned out fine, our accommodation was very comfortable, but I had not realised until then that Airbnb meant that we were sharing part of someone's home.
Boston is much like any other major American city with busy streets and tall buildings, but there is a lot of history here and while elsewhere, old buildings tend to get torn down and redeveloped, here there has been more of an effort to preserve things, sometimes leading to odd juxtapositions
This church featured in the events leading up to the War of Independence. the rebels met and made their plans inside.
Paul Revere supported the Boston Red Sox...apparently...
This is the memorial to the Battle of Bunker Hill, an early skirmish in the War of Independence, when the rebels attempted to challenge the English occupation of Boston. Although they were eventually driven off they inflicted serious casualties on the English forces.
Parts of Boston reminded us of Georgian town centres back home.
All good things come to an end. Our lovely family had a plane to catch, and for us it was time to return to New York on a fast train
and then head home also... but more slowly...and much more expensively...
At this point in my life, I had never entertained the idea of "a cruise", (an affectation long since discarded) But this was not a cruise - it was a passage, New York to Southampton and with style!
Our ship was moored in Brooklyn and required a private limousine journey over the Brooklyn Bridge to check in. We had been due to sail in the afternoon, but a large group of passengers had gone adrift and it was dark before we began our voyage to Southampton.
From our cabin veranda we had splendid views across the harbour to Manhattan and beyond. We spent a magic hour or two here, pinching ourselves from time to time to confirm the reality of the situation, watching the sun go down.
The Queen Mary is a finely tuned machine designed exclusively to separate passengers from their money. The system does this very effectively but the experience is so pleasurable that somehow we did not care. The next seven days were the most indulgent of my life. Life settled into into a pampered routine which involved more food than we could eat, regular walks around the deck, bridge every afternoon, some exciting rough seas and, after such a long time away, an increasing appetite to be home again.


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This is a great one. What Skin Needs Cracked Skin Cream, £8.99 (whatskinneeds.co.uk) is a little misleading as it does more than relieve and soothe cracked skin. Power-packed with aloe vera and healing oils and nutrients, it can be used to protect skin – such as on the plane when air conditioning dries skin out – to relieve itching, comfort sensitive, irritated skin, and even on cuticles, the ends of frizzy hair, and definitely on the soles of feet.
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As you may have gathered, photography is something I have been interested in for some time. In this modern world where we leave so many different kind of traces of our existence i.e. trash, pollution, clear cuts, and on and on, and, of course, actual footprints in the grass, it's a welcome time when we can produce something beautiful, intriguing, or at the least capture a moment that it provokes a thought later on. In that spirit, I carry around my trusty Minolta X-370N (which, though it is another story, is the probably the best birthday present I've gotten in recent years) and snap what peaks my gaze. Of course, this means lots of developing and, as I am without a dark room at this time, thereby monies. So, I try to be a bit more conscious of what I am shooting and attempt to use the camera more like an artistic implement than a documentary tool. With all that, here are a few shots from my recent travels in the Pacific Northwest.
—This one I took while up in Vancouver a few months ago. My friend Tony and I travelled up to catch the last regular season NHL game between the Vancouver Canucks and the Minnesota Wild. Though that night it was a rout for the Canucks... well, we all know how that turned out. In the meantime, we wandered around and about the city during the day.
No trip to Vancouver is complete without a visit to Gastown. It happened that we ambled by just before the top of the hour so we loitered for a few minutes in anticipation of the chiming of the hour.
While we waited, the inner workings of the steam-powered clock provided ample entertainment. Watching the slow march of the weights as they make their way up to the top of the clock only to slide down into the recesses at gravity's slightest beckoning. And so the clock keeps turning time..
On another weekend adventure not long after my trip up to Vancouver, I ventured down to the Chambers Bay area in Steilacoom, Washington. This area actually has an interesting history as it used to be a sand and gravel mine which was sluiced and wasted away to be used to build up grounds elsewhere in the world. What remains, besides the green grasses nicely tended by municipal workers, an off-leash dog patch, and one of the only links-style golf courses in Washington (Chambers Bay Golf), is a number of concrete relics of the industry that shaped this land for nearly 50 years. There is a short write-up of the history on the Pierce County website. Check it out here if you're curious.
As I was saying, some pretty cool relics to be seen around there. This shot is probably my favorite, though I have some black and white shots in process so there could be some gems there as well. I'll keep you posted.
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Wauseon advanced to the Division II state championship game with a 42-35 victory over Columbus Eastmoor Academy on Thursday morning. The Indians outscored Eastmoor 18-10 in the fourth quarter.
"We haven't seen that type of length or athleticism all year. You just don't know how your kids are gonna respond," said Wauseon coach Chad Burt after the game. "I thought early on we came out and obviously weren't intimidated. I thought we took it to them at the offensive end. Maybe didn't finish as well as we would have liked, but man are they long.
"Defense never sleeps and rebounding never sleeps. I don't think we shot it real well. And thankfully, they didn't shoot it real well either."
The Indians extended their lead to 8-4 at the 2:56 mark of the first quarter, then an Isaiah Hairston putback for Eastmoor and Austin Rotroff's open dunk for Wauseon kept the margin at four at the quarter break.
Eastmoor tied the score 3:25 into the second stanza on a pair of hoops from Central District Player of the Year Taevion Kinsey, the second a thunderous slam off a steal.
However, the Indians bounced back.
First senior Carter Bzovi split a pair of free throws, followed by another Rotroff dunk with an assist by Brooks Gype, putting Wauseon on top 13-10 at the half.
After Wauseon got a bucket on a drive to the hoop from Gype to begin the second half, the Warriors answered back with six straight points.
Stanley Williams converted a putback basket, Tariq Brown scored on a dribble penetration, and Williams' jumper made it 16-15 at the 5:47 mark of the third.
The Indians would build a 23-19 advantage on a pair of Gype free throws with 1:25 left in the frame, but yet again the Warriors made a run.
Kinsey buried a three to get them within one, then a steal and three-point play for Brown gave Eastmoor a 25-23 lead. Bzovi split a pair from the foul line with two ticks left as the Warriors clung to a one point lead through three.
A pair of effort plays by Wauseon's Owen Newlove helped the Indians reclaim the lead in the opening minutes of the fourth. He got a pair of putbacks on consecutive trips down the floor to put it at 28-25 with 6:35 to go, and they never relinquished the lead the rest of the way.
Kinsey followed with a hoop for the Warriors, however, Bzovi converted a drive to the hoop and then added two free throws to push their lead to five with 3:15 to go.
"We've had that before in the districts and the regionals where a team has taken the lead on us," said Bzovi. "We made winning plays, all of us. That was the key. We weren't afraid to make a play."
Gype had a pair of big plays later in the quarter as his three-point play gave the Indians a 35-31 lead with 2:05 to play. Kinsey responded with a putback, but after Rotroff fell short on the front end of a 1-and-1, Gype picked up the loose ball and stuck it back, keeping the difference at four with 1:22 left.
"Their length kind of bothered us around the rim," said Gype of the Indians' offense in the fourth. "We just had to keep taking it to the hoop. Do what we do best – getting it to the hoop. Things started going our way."
Wauseon made 5 of 6 from the line around a Kinsey bucket in the final minute to close it out.
Gype and Bzovi led the way offensively for Wauseon, scoring 14 and 13 points respectively. They were each strong from the free throw line with Bzovi hitting 6 of 8 and Gype sinking 6 of 6.
The Indian defense clamped down on Eastmoor, holding them to just 32 percent shooting from the field. Wauseon on the other hand, shot 42 percent from the floor.
"I thought we did a great job defending ball screens. That was a major worry for us coming in. With their big bodies and ball screens, and the way they can get to the rim and distribute," said Burt of the Indians' success on the defensive end.
"Again, that's nothing new. We've done a great job this year of taking a defensive gameplan and translating it into a game."
Overall, Wauseon made 13 of 19 from the foul line, while Eastmoor made 4 of 7.
Wauseon will take on either Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary in the state championship game on Saturday at 10:45 a.m.
"A great accomplishment," said Bzovi, one of three Wauseon seniors on the roster. "I get to end my career at the state finals. Happy to do it with these teammates. It's been great all year."
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Obama will release some, but not all of the Reagan files which Bush had illegally kept under lock and key. The more damning files will continue to be hidden from the light of day.
The Obama administration is about to release 244,966 pages of documents from the Reagan White House that the Bush administration had held back for years during a review of whether to assert executive privilege.
Historians and advocates of government transparency have complained strongly about the Bush backlog, which Obama ended with an executive order signed the day after he took office that limits the review period to 30 days in most cases.
In a letter obtained by Politico, White House Counsel Gregory Craig informed the National Archives and Records Administration that President Obama "has not asserting executive privilege over any of this material," opening the way for their release.
According to a press release from the National Archives, "On Monday, April 13, 2009, the Ronald Reagan library will open 244,966 pages of records processed in response to hundreds of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. These records include the Presidential Briefing Papers collection, Office of Speechwriting research material and approximately 13,000 pages of declassified records on numerous foreign policy topics."
Another 797 pages of documents from President George H.W. Bush's administration on the topic of Saudi Arabia will be released at the same time.
President George W. Bush had held these documents back under an executive order signed on November 1, 2001. According to the New York Times, "The order, drafted by Alberto R. Gonzales, then the White House counsel, gives either an incumbent president or a former president the right to withhold the former president's papers from the public. It was issued to block the release of 68,000 pages of records from the Reagan administration, which contain confidential communications between President Ronald Reagan and his advisers, including Mr. Bush's father, George Bush, who was Reagan's vice president."
Former White House Counsel John Dean pointed out at the time, "The Executive Order suggests that President Bush not only does not want Americans to know what he is doing, but he also does not want to worry that historians and others will someday find out. Certainly that is the implicit message in his new effort to preclude public access to Presidential papers — his, and those of all Presidents since the Reagan-Bush administration."
It is not yet known what documents are to be released. However, the fact that both the elder Bush and a representative of Ronald Reagan approved the releases suggests that papers relating to the most controversial issues of their administrations, such as Iran-Contra, will not be included.
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the section of a band or orchestra composed of woodwinds
Often, woods
(used with a singular or plural verb) a large and thick collection of growing trees; a grove or forest:They picnicked in the woods
a club with a wooden head, as a driver, brassie, spoon, or baffy for hitting long shots
Compare iron (def )
As adjective
made of wood; wooden
used to store, work, or carry wood:a wood chisel
dwelling or growing in woods:wood bird
As verb (used with object)
to cover or plant with trees
to supply with wood; get supplies of wood for
As verb (used without object)
to take in or get supplies of wood (often followed by up):to wood up before the approach of winter
As Idioms
have the wood on, Australian Slang
to have an advantage over or have information that can be used against
knock on wood, (used when knocking on something wooden to assure continued good luck):The car's still in good shape, knock on wood
Also, especially British, touch wood
out of the woods, out of a dangerous, perplexing, or difficult situation; secure; safe
no longer in precarious health or critical condition; out of danger and recovering
As noun
a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc
, for holding or displaying items:a curio cabinet; a file cabinet
a wall cupboard used for storage, as of kitchen utensils or toilet articles:a kitchen cabinet; a medicine cabinet
a piece of furniture containing a radio or television set, usually standing on the floor and often having a record player or a place for phonograph records
(often initial capital letter) a council advising a president, sovereign, etc
, especially the group of ministers or executives responsible for the government of a nation
(often initial capital letter) (in the U
) an advisory body to the president, consisting of the heads of the executive departments of the federal government
a small case with compartments for valuables or other small objects
a small chamber or booth for special use, especially a shower stall
a private room
a room set aside for the exhibition of small works of art or objets d'art
Also called cabinet wine
a dry white wine produced in Germany from fully matured grapes without the addition of extra sugar
New England (chiefly Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts)
a milk shake made with ice cream
a small room
a small cabin
As adjective
pertaining to a political cabinet:a cabinet meeting
private; confidential; secret
pertaining to a private room
of suitable value, beauty, or size for a private room, small display case, etc
:a cabinet edition of Milton
of, relating to, or used by a cabinetmaker or in cabinetmaking
designating a method of projection (cabinet projection) in which a three-dimensional object is represented by a drawing (cabinet drawing) having all vertical and horizontal lines drawn to exact scale, with oblique lines reduced to about half scale so as to offset the appearance of distortion
Compare axonometric, isometric (def ), oblique (def )
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Native and Polynesian-introduced plants that were used in traditional medicinal treatments such as niu (coconut palm), hala, ko (sugar cane), ti, and 'awapuhi kuahiwi (shampoo ginger) are planted throughout the gardens to emphasize the feeling of lokahi with nature.
Private individual and couple's thatch roof hale are located amidst lush, tropical landscaping. Each hale features a secluded garden for privacy, lava rock shower garden, and spa. The open-air yoga/cardio pavilion includes an adjacent lawn area for stretching and exercising.


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New House in Okura, Auckland
John and Denise chose Trinity to assist them in choosing the complete interior scheme for their new masonry home to be built in Okura. This included every conceivable element from paint colours to flooring to lighting and AV systems and finally through to the finishing touches including window treatments, furniture and accessories.
All of this was managed by Trinity and the details updated and communicated to both our clients and the construction company throughout the course of the project.
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Vaginal Skin Tags - Skin tags develop on the different parts of your body. Most of the time, there are skin tags which occurs in your facial and neck part. But there are also skin tags which happen to develop at the vagina of women. This is called vaginal skin tags. For you to be aware of this condition deeper, you need to know the information regarding vaginal skin tags, causes, symptoms and treatments.
Vaginal Skin Tags' Causes
Experts state that the most probable root cause of the development of vaginal skin tags is because of skin friction. Particularly, vaginal skin tags are developing because of the usage of tight clothing and underwear. The presence of vaginal skin tags is even more evident to women who are overweight. The main root cause of this is because of the excess adipose tissues causing folds in the skin. When there are folds in your skin, this promotes friction and later on, facilitates development of skin tags.
Hormonal imbalance is also considered as another possible cause of skin tags. During menstrual cycle and pregnancy, women suffer from imbalance in such hormones. Progesterone and estrogen, for example, cause increased development of adipose tissues. Thus, women with this kind of hormonal imbalance will increase in weight and adipose tissue folds will develop in the vaginal region. Thus, friction and weight gain which are two of the main causes of vaginal skin tags.
Vaginal Skin Tags Symptoms
As you take a look at the vaginal skin tags, they appear to be fleshy to grayish colored bumps. If you will compare vaginal skin tags to warts, these appear softer. Aside from that, vaginal skin tags are not that formed, unlike warts. The elevation on the skin surface is longer in vaginal skin tags as compared to warts. Groupings of vaginal skin tags appear to be like a cauliflower. Vaginal skin tags in some cases are also extending up to the skin going to the anal area of the patient.
Vaginal Skin Tags Treatments
There are various options of skin tags treatments available for you. There are surgical interventions available that you can try. These create small area of incision and can stimulate pain sensation.
On the other hand, there are there are also other means of treating the condition, like the use of organic or all natural products. Dermisile For Skin Tags is an example of this all natural product. This is formulated with the use of all natural products like mushroom blend. Mushroom blend is proven to boost your immune system. The mechanism utilized by Dermisile For Skin Tags is to stimulate your own immune system in order to attain vaginal skin tag cure.
Specifically, Dermisile For Skin Tags focuses in awakening your T-cells. These cells are the prime part of your immune system which is responsible in killing unessential adipose tissues. Thus, you can expect that using Dermisile For Skin Tags will provide you solutions from vaginal skin tags in a very comfortable and less risky way, unlike the surgical interventions for vaginal skin tags.


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May 17, 2018
Listen to part one of the first ever LIVE Psych Central Show, recorded on location at HealtheVoices 2018, an annual event that brings together online advocates from across various health conditions for an opportunity to learn, share and connect. In this show, you will meet four advocates who join our hosts on stage for a panel discussion on a variety of advocacy issues, including lupus, irritable bowel disease, HIV, and breast cancer. You'll hear about how being diagnosed affected their lives in ways they didn't expect, and what made them become advocates. The second half of this show will be posted next week!
[2:50] Meet Marisa Zeppieri, lupus advocate.
[4:00] Meet Rasheed Clarke, irritable bowel disease advocate.
[5:25] Meet Daniel Garza, HIV advocate.
[6:30] Meet Annmarie Otis, breast cancer advocate.
[8:45] Annmarie talks about breast cancer as the "popular" illness.
[12:19] The panelists tell how it felt being diagnosed and how it has impacted their lives.
[18:07] The panelists discuss what made them become advocates.
Hosted by Gabe Howard and Vincent M. Wales. Previous episodes can be found at psychcentral.com/show or on your favorite podcast player.


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I started to blog this yesterday, but it sat in my draft folder until I could finish it.
What are your thoughts on a 16 year-old girl dating a 36-year old man. I know that some of you are probably thinking the same thing I am. What kind of 36 year-old would date someone that young?
Does it matter what the age difference is in a relationship?
It is certainly different for a 16 year-old girl to be dating a 36 year-old man than it is for a 32 year-old woman to be dating a 52 year-old man. A 20 year age difference isn't so bad when the two involved are adults.
My father was 18 years my mother's elder. Both had experienced life and thus mature enough to enter a relationship together.
When a 16 year old girl dates a man 20 years her elder there is much more that we have to look at then simply an age gap. A teens' life is just starting while a 30 + years olds' life is in full swing. Many young girls, have a unique view on reality and an older man can seem very exciting when in reality it isn't. While older guys can seem glamorous to a younger girl, these relationships can lead teenage girls into risky situations.
A 36 year-old man has had life experiences that a 16 year-old girl would not have even begin to experience. I would assume a man of 36 dating a girl of 16 is preying on a younger more naive person. The 36-year old man is not her peer, therefore she will be exposed to a more older lifestyle then she may be ready for.
What do you think about younger girls dating older guys? How would you feel about your teen dating someone older? Please share your opinions here on age differences in teen dating.If you liked this post, why not buy me a coffee?