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Although she's a 'new' artist, Cheyenne Goss has already been on quite the journey.
Her life growing up, her American Idol journey, relationships she's had, the ups and downs life has handed her and every other little thing in between has shaped her into the artist and young woman she is today. I got the chance to sit down and talk with Cheyenne last week. It didn't take long for me to realize that this girl not only has the talent but she's got the personality and the heart that it takes to endure the road she's chosen to fearlessly run full throttle.
Cheyenne has been singing as long as she can remember. At first, she noted that she didn't really see the talent in herself the way everyone else said they did. However, after the consistent encouragement from others, she chose to see what she could do and really pursue music. She ended up competing in a nationwide singing competition (Kidd Kraddick In The Morning) which led her to the very popular competition our nation has grown to love called, American Idol.
Her American Idol journey brought Cheyenne so many life changing experiences. Some were more difficult to overcome than others, but what's admirable about Cheyenne is how she never let anything pass by, good or bad, without taking away something from it. "American Idol was the best and worst experience of my life so far. Being on Idol taught me that no matter what challenges I face, I always have to stay true to who I am." This show led Cheyenne to self-discovery that helped her realize who she is and who she wants to be.
During our talk, Cheyenne expressed how difficult moments were when she'd be faced with the difficult choice of reaching her career goal or remaining true to who she is. "I had to decide- Do I wear, sing, say, and act the way others want me to so that my dreams can come true now? Or do I stay true to who I am, my music, my style, my beliefs yet risk losing it all? At the end of the day, I had to choose to be Cheyenne and I don't regret that choice one bit."
Get to know Cheyenne a little more by continuing reading through our Q&A…
Who are your biggest musical influences?
"John Mayer is definitely my number one musical influence. He came into the business with music people had never heard before, and practically created his own genre. He speaks nothing but truth and does it in a way that doesn't only captivate people's ears, but their hearts. "
What is one experience you are most thankful for thus far in your musical career and why?
What does your debut single "Done" mean to you?
What do you want fans to take away from the new single ("Done")?
What is your number one goal? In life or in music?
"To me, they are two different things. In music – I want to be able to share my story with the world, give women more of a voice, and always stay true to who I am as an artist. In life – I want to be the best dang mom/wife in the history of ever."
**Attention guys, pay extra attention to this next one.**
What qualities are most important to you in a guy?
"First off, HUMOR. I'm a big jokester. Secondly, HONESTY. The whole truth and nothing but the truth. Yes, even when it hurts. Third, he has to be a GENTLEMAN. He should be able to talk about his feelings when we need to hear them and open a door once in a while, kind of thing, you know?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
"I see myself on the road, singing some songs I wrote about a boy who changed my whole life, for the worse and for the better. I see myself doing a couple cool things that I can't tell you about yet because then it wouldn't be a secret anymore."
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Armenian-Azerbaijan Conflict
Media Coverage of the Azeri Massacres by Armenians
The Ethnic Cleansing of Azeris in Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and the Occupied Azerbaijan Territories
Newsweek, November 29, 1993
Armenians occupy a quarter of Azerbaijan's territory, and they've displaced almost a million Azerbaijani civilians. Friends of Armenia's powerful lobby in Washington, including the U.S. Government are suddenly a bit aghast. 'What we see now is a systematic destruction of every village in their way' says a senior state department official. It's vandalism...
The Guardian, 2 September 1993
NOWHERE TO HIDE FOR AZERI REFUGEES: Armenia is pushing a new wave of displaced people towards Iran. Jonathan RUGMAN in Kanliq, south-west Azerbaijan, reports - On the main road south through Kubatli province, thousands of men, women and children are packed into trucks at an Azeri checkpoint waiting for permission to leave. Helicopters shuttle in and out with the wounded, while a group of women sit wailing at the roadside, tearing at their bloodstained faces with their fingernails in a frenzy of grief.
A new exodus of refugees is under way towards Azerbaijan's border with Iran as Armenia forces continue ignoring United Nations demands that they stop their offensive.
This week the UNHCR began distributing 4,000 tents and 50,000 blankets to those displaced in the recent hostilities. The organisation said about 250,000 Azeris have been displaced so far this year and about 1 million since the massacre began in 1988.
Newsweek, 16 March 1992
THE FACE OF A MASSACRE : By Pascal Privat with Steve Le Vine in MoscowAzerbaijan was a charnel house again last week: a place of mourning refugees and dozens of mangled corpses dragged to a makeshift morgue behind the mosque. They were ordinary Azerbaijani men, women and children of Khojaly, a small village in war-torn Nagorno-Karabakh overrun by Armenian forces on Feb. 25-26. Many were killed at close range while trying to flee; some had their faces mutilated, others were scalped. While the victims' families mourned.
The New York Times, March 3, 1992
MASSACRE BY ARMENIANS: Agdam, Azerbaijan, March 2 (Reuters) - Fresh evidence emerged today of a massacre of civilians by Armenian militants in Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan.
Scalping Reported - Azerbaijani officials and journalists who flew briefly to the region by helicopter brought back three dead children with the back of their heads blown off. They said shooting by Armenians has prevented them from retrieving more bodies.
"Women and children have been scalped," said Assad Faradshev, an aide to Nagorno-Karabakh's Azerbaijani Governor. "When we began to pick up bodies, they began firing at us."
The Azerbaijani militia chief in Agdam, Rashid Mamedov, said: "The bodies are lying there like flocks of sheep. Even the fascists did nothing like this."
Truckloads of Bodies -Near Agdam on the outskirts of Nagorno-Karabakh, a Reuters photographer, Frederique Lengaigne, said she had seen two trucks filled with Azerbaijani bodies.
"In the first one I counted 35, and it looked as though there were as many in the second," she said. "Some had their head cut off, and many had been burned. They were all men, and a few had been wearing khaki uniforms."
The Sunday Times, 1 March 1992
ARMENIAN SOLDIERS MASSACRE HUNDREDS OF FLEEING FAMILIES: By Thomas Goltz, Agdam, Azerbaijan - Survivors reported that Armenian soldiers shot and bayoneted more than 450 Azeris, many of them women and children. Hundreds, possibly thousands, were missing and feared dead.
The attackers killed most of the soldiers and volunteers defending the women and children. They then turned their guns on the terrified refugees. The few survivors later described what happened: 'That's when the real slaughter began,' said Azer Hajiev, one of three soldiers to survive. 'The Armenians just shot and shot. And then they came in and started carving up people with their bayonets and knives.'
'They were shooting, shooting, shooting,' echoed Rasia Aslanova, who arrived in Agdam with other women and children who made their way through Armenian lines. She said her husband, Kayun, and a son-in-law were massacred in front of her. Her daughter was still missing.
One boy who arrived in Agdam had an ear sliced off.
The survivors said 2000 others, some of whom had fled separately, were still missing in the gruelling terrain; many could perish from their wounds or the cold.
By late yesterday, 479 deaths had been registered at the morgue in Agdam's morgue, and 29 bodies had been buried in the cemetery. Of the seven corpses I saw awaiting burial, two were children and three were women, one shot through the chest at point blank range.
Agdam hospital was a scene of carnage and terror. Doctors said they had 140 patients who escaped slaughter, most with bullet injuries or deep stab wounds.
Nor were they safe in Agdam. On friday night rockets fell on the city which has a population of 150,000, destroying several buildings and killing one person.
The Times, 2 March 1992
(ANATOL LIEVEN COMES UNDER FIRE WHILE FLYING TO INVESTIGATE THE MASS KILLINGS OF REFUGEES BY ARMENIAN TROOPS): As we swooped low over the snow-covered hills of Nagorno-Karabagh we saw the scattered corpses. Apparently, the refugees had been shot down as they ran. An Azerbaijani film of the places we flew over, shown to journalists afterwards, showed DOZENS OF CORPSES lying in various parts of the hills.
The Azerbaijanis claim that AS MANY AS 1000 have died in a MASS KILLING of AZERBAIJANIS fleeing from the town of Khodjaly, seized by Armenians last week. A further 4,000 are believed to be wounded, frozen to death or missing.
The civilian helicopter's job was to land in the mountains and pick up bodies at sites of the mass killings.
The civilian helicopter picked up four corpses, and it was during this and a previous mission that an Azerbaijani cameraman filmed the several dozen bodies on the hillsides.
Back at the airfield in Agdam, we took a look at the bodies the civilian helicopter had picked up. Two old men a small girl were covered with blood, their limbs contorted by the cold and rigor mortis. They had been shot.
TIME, 16 March 1992
M A S S A C R E I N K H O J A L Y: By Jill SMOLOWE -Reported by Yuri ZARAKHOVICH/Moscow - While the details are argued, this much is plain: something grim and unconscionable happened in the Azerbaijani town of Khojaly two weeks ago. So far, some 200 dead Azerbaijanis, many of them mutilated, have been transported out of the town tucked inside the Armenian-dominated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh for burial in neighboring Azerbaijan. The total number of deaths - the Azerbaijanis claim 1,324 civilians have been slaughtered, most of them women and children - is unknown.
Videotapes circulated by the Azerbaijanis include images of defaced civilians, some of them scalped, others shot in the head.
BBC1 Morning News, 3 March 1992
BBC reporter was live on line and he claimed that he saw more than 100 bodies of Azeri men, women and children as well as a baby who are shot dead from their heads from a very short distance.
been shot dead from their heads as close as 1 meter. Picture also has shown nearly ten bodies (mainly women and children) are shot dead from their heads. Azerbaijan claimed that more than 1000 civilians massacred by Armenian forces.
Channel 4 News, 2 March 1992
2 French journalists have seen 32 corpses of men, women and children in civilian clothes. Many of them shot dead from their heads as close as less than 1 meter.
Report from Karabakpress - A merciless massacre of the civilian population of the small Azeri town of Khojali (Population 6000) in Karabagh, Azerbaijan, is reported to have taken place on the night of February 28 bythe Soviet Armenian Army. Close to 1000 people are reported to have been massacred. Elderly and children were not spared. Many were badly beaten and shot at close range. A sense of rage and helplessness has overwhelmed the Azeri population in face of the well armed and equipped Armenian Army. The neighboring Azeri city of Aghdam outside of the Karabagh region has come under heavy Armenian artillery shelling. City hospital was hit and two pregnant women as well as a new born infant were killed. Azerbaijan is appealing to the international community to condemn such barbaric and ruthless attacks on its population and its sovereignty.
Boston Sunday Globe, 21 November 1993
By Jon Auerbach Globe Correspondent - CHAKHARLI, Azerbaijan -- The truckloads of scared and lost children, the sobbing mothers, the stench of sickness and the sea of blank faces in this mud-covered refugee camp obscure the deeper issue of why tens of thousands of Azeris have fled here.
What we see now is a systematic destruction of every village in their way, said one senior US official. It's one of the most disgusting things we've seen.
It's vandalism, the US official said. The idea that there is an aggressive intent in a sound conclusion.
The United Nations estimates that there are more than 1 million refugees in Azerbaijan, roughly one seventh of the former Soviet republic's entire population. Thousands who fled to neighboring Iran are being slowly repatriated to refugee camps already bursting at the seams. But because of the Karabakh Armenians' policy of burning villages, relief organizations say there is no hope that the Azeris could return home anytime soon.
At Chakharli, about 10 miles from Iran, more than 10,000 refugees are crammed into a makeshift tent city. Aziz Azizova, 33, arrived in the Iranian run camp about three weeks ago, after she and her five children were forced to flee their home in the village of Buik-Merjan.
I left my village with nothing, not even my shoes,she said. You see how our children are living? Some of them are living right in the mud.
Azizova, like thousands of others, escaped by fleeing across the Arax River into neighboring Iran. The UN estimates that around 300 Azeris,mainly women and children, drowned in the river's currents.
One of the people who did make it across was Samaz Mamedova, a 40-year-old accountant. Sitting with friends in tent No. 566 on a recent day, Mamedova explained how the Armenians seized her village in less than a half hour, forcing the entire population toward the river in a chaotic scramble for survival.
The Times, 3 March 1992
MASSACRE UNCOVERED: By ANATOL LIEVEN - More than sixty bodies, including those of women and children, have been spotted on hillsides in Nagorno-Karabakh, confirming claims that Armenian troops massacred Azeri refugees. Hundreds are missing.
Scattered amid the withered grass and bushes along a small valley and across the hillside beyond are the bodies of last Wednesday's massacre by Armenian forces of Azerbaijani refugees.
In all, 31 bodies could be counted at the scene. At least another 31 have been taken into Agdam over the past five days. These figures do not include civilians reported killed when the Armenians stormed the Azerbaijani town of Khodjaly on Tuesday night. The figures also do not include other as yet undiscovered bodies
Zahid Jabarov, a survivor of the massacre, said he saw up to 200 people shot down at the point we visited, and refugees who came by different routes have also told of being shot at repeatedly and of leaving a trail of bodies along their path. Around the bodies we saw were scattered possessions, clothing and personnel documents. The bodies themselves have been preserved by the bitter cold which killed others as they hid in the hills and forest after the massacre. All are the bodies of ordinary people, dressed in the poor, ugly clothing of workers.
Of the 31 we saw, only one policeman and two apparent national volunteers were wearing uniform. All the rest were civilians, including eight women and three small children. Two groups, apparently families, had fallen together, the children cradled in the women's arms.
Several of them, including one small girl, had terrible head injuries: only her face was left. Survivors have told how they saw Armenians shooting them point blank as they lay on the ground.
The Age, Melbourne, 6 March 1992
By Helen WOMACK - Agdam, Azerbaijan, Thursday - The exact number of victims is still unclear, but there can be little doubt that Azeri civilians were massacred by Armenian Army in the snowy mountains of Nagorno-Karabakh last week.
Refugees from the enclave town of Khojaly, sheltering in the Azeri border town of Agdam, give largely consistent accounts of how Armenians attacked their homes on the night of 25 February, chased those who fled and shot them in the surrounding forests. Yesterday, I saw 75 freshly dug graves in one cemetery in addition to four mutilated corpses we were shown in the mosque when we arrived in Agdam late on Tuesday. I also saw women and children with bullet wounds in a makeshift hospital in a string of railway carriages.
Khojaly, an Azeri settlement in the enclave mostly populated by Armenians, had a population of about 6000. Mr. Rashid Mamedov Commander of Police in Agdam, said only about 500 escaped to his town. So where are the rest? Some might have taken prisoner, he said, or fled. Many bodies were still lying in the mountains because the Azeris were short of helicopters to retrieve them. He believed more than 1000 had perished, some of cold in temperatures as low as minus 10 degrees.
When Azeris saw the Armenians with a convoy of armored personnel carriers, they realised they could not hope to defend themselves, and fled into the forests. In the small hours, the massacre started.
Mr. Nasiru, who believes his wife and two children were taken prisoner, repeated what many other refugees have said - that troops of the former Soviet army helped the Armenians to attack Khojaly. It is not my opinion, I saw it with my own eyes.
The Washington Post, 28 February 1992
Nagorno-Karabagh Victims Buried in Azerbaijani Town:"Refugees claim hundreds died in Armenian Attack...Of seven bodies seen here today, two were children and three were women, one shot through the chest at what appeared to be close range. Another 120 refugees being treated at Agdam's hospital include many with multiple stab wounds."
The Washington Post, 6 March 1992
Final Embrace - [Photo by Associated Press]: "Chingiz Iskenderov, right, weeps over coffin holding the remains of his brother as other relatives grieve at an Azarbaijani cemetery yesterday amid burial of victims killed by Armenians in Nagorno-Karabagh."
The Washington Times, 2 March 1992
Armenian Raid Leaves Azeris Dead or Fleeing: "...about 1,000 of Khojaly's 10,000 people were massacred by the Armenian Army in Tuesdays attack. Azerbaijani television showed truckloads of corpses being evacuated from the Khocaly area."
The Independent, 29 February 1992
By Helen Womack - "Elif Kaban, a Reuter correspondent in Agdam, reported that after a massacre on Wednesday, Azeris were burying scores of people who died when Armenians overran the town of Khojaly, the second-biggest Azeri settlement in the area. 'The world is turning its back on what's happening here. We are dying and you are just watching,one mourner shouted at a group of journalists."
The Washington Times, 3 March 1992
Massacre Reports Horrify Azerbaijan: "Azeri officials who returned from the scene to this town about nine miles away brought back three dead children, the backs of their heads blown off...'Women and children had been scalped,' said Assad Faradzev, an aide to Karabagh's Azeri governor. Azeri television showed pictures of one truckload of bodies brought to the Azeri town of Agdam, some with their faces apparently scratched with knives or their eyes gouged out."
The Washington Post, 3 March 1992
Killings Rife in Nagorno-Karabagh: "Journalists in the area reported seeing dozens of corpses, including one of the civilians, and Azerbaijani officials said Armenians began shooting at them when they sought to recover the bodies."
The Times (London), 3 March 1992
Bodies Mark Site of Karabagh Massacre: "A local truce was enforced to allow the Azerbaijanis to collect their dead and any refugees still hiding in the hills and forest. All are the bodies of ordinary people, dressed in the poor, ugly clothing of workers...All the rest were civilians, including eight women and three small children. Two groups, apparently families, had fallen together, the children cradled in the women's arms. Several of them, including one small girl, had terrible head injuries: only her face was left. Survivors have told how they saw Armenians shooting them point blank as they lay on the ground."
The Sunday Times, 8 March 1992
Thomas Goltz, the first to report the massacre by Armenian soldiers, reports from Agdam. Khojaly used to be a barren Azeri town, with empty shops and treeless dirt roads. Yet it was still home to thousands of Azeri people who, in happier times, tended fields and flocks of geese. Last week it was wiped off the map.
As sickening reports trickled in to the Azerbaijani border town of Agdam, and the bodies piled up in the morgues, there was little doubt that Khojaly and the stark foothills and gullies around it had been the site of the most terrible massacre since the Soviet Union broke apart.
I was the last Westerner to visit Khojaly. That was in January and people were predicting their fate with grim resignation. Zumrut Ezoya, a mother of four on board the helicopter that ferried us into the town, called her community "sitting ducks, ready to get shot". She and her family were among the victims of the massacre by the Armenians on February 26.
"The Armenians have taken all the outlying villages, one by one, and the government does nothing." Balakisi Sakikov, 55, a father of five, said. "Next they will drive us out or kill us all," said Dilbar, his wife. The couple, their three sons and three daughters were killed in the massacre, as were many other people I had spoken to.
"It was close to the Armenian lines we knew we would have to cross. There was a road, and the first units of the column ran across then all hell broke loose. Bullets were raining down from all sides. we had just entered their trap."
The Azeri defenders picked off one by one. Survivors say that Armenian forces then began a pitiless slaughter, firing at anything moved in the gullies. A video taken by an Azeri cameraman, wailing and crying as he filmed body after body, showed a grizzly trail of death leading towards higher, forested ground where the villagers had sought refuge from the Armenians.
"The Armenians just shot and shot and shot," said Omar Veyselov, lying in hospital in Agdam with sharapnel wounds. "I saw my wife and daughter fall right by me."
People wandered through the hospital corridors looking for news of the loved ones. Some vented their fury on foreigners: " Where is my daughter,where is my son ?" wailed a mother. "Raped. Butchered. Lost."
The Independent, London, 12 June 1992
Painful Search: The gruesome extent of February's killings of Azeris by Armenians in the town of Hojali is at last emerging in Azerbaijan - about 600 men, women and children dead.
The State Prosecutor, Aydin Rasulov, the cheif investigator of a 15-man team looking into what Azerbaijan calls the "Hojali Massacre", said his figure of 600 people dead was a minimum on preliminary findings. A similar estimate was given by Elman Memmedov, the mayor of Hojali. An even higher one was printed in the Baku newspaper Ordu in May - 479 dead people named and more than 200 bodies reported unidentified. This figure of nearly 700 dead is quoted as official by Leila Yunusova, the new spokeswoman of the Azeri Ministry of Defence.
FranCois Zen Ruffinen, head of delegation of the International Red Cross in Baku, said the Muslim imam of the nearby city of Agdam had reported a figure of 580 bodies received at his mosque from Hojali, most of them civilians. "We did not count the bodies. But the figure seems reasonable. It is no fantasy," Mr Zen Ruffinen said. "We have some idea since we gave the body bags and products to wash the dead."
Mr Rasulov endeavours to give an unemotional estimate of the number of dead in the massacre. "Don't get worked up. It will take several months to get a final figure," the 43-year-old lawyer said at his small office.
Mr Rasulov knows about these things. It took him two years to reach a firm conclusion that 131 people were killed and 714 wounded when Soviet troops and tanks crushed a nationalist uprising in Baku in January 1990.
Officially, 184 people have so far been certified as dead, being the number of people that could be medically examined by the republic's forensic department. "This is just a small percentage of the dead," said Rafiq Youssifov, the republic's chief forensic scientist. "They were the only bodies brought to us. Remember the chaos and the fact that we are Muslims and have to wash and bury our dead within 24 hours."
Of these 184 people, 51 were women, and 13 were children under 14 years old. Gunshots killed 151 people, shrapnel killed 20 and axes or blunt instruments killed 10. Exposure in the highland snows killed the last three. Thirty-three people showed signs of deliberate mutilation, including ears, noses, breasts or penises cut off and eyes gouged out, according to Professor Youssifov's report. Those 184 bodies examined were less than a third of those believed to have been killed, Mr Rasulov said.
"There were too many bodies of dead and wounded on the ground to count properly: 470-500 in Hojali, 650-700 people by the stream and the road and 85-100 visible around Nakhchivanik village," Mr Manafov wrote in a statement countersigned by the helicopter pilot.
"People waved up to us for help. We saw three dead children and one two-year-old alive by one dead woman. The live one was pulling at her arm for the mother to get up. We tried to land but Armenians started a barrage against our helicopter and we had to return."
There has been no consolidation of the lists and figures in circulation because of the political upheavals of the last few months and the fact that nobody knows exactly who was in Hojali at the time - many inhabitants were displaced from other villages taken over by Armenian forces.
The Independent, London, 12 June 1992
Photographs: Liu Heung / AP Frederique Lengaigne / Reuter - Aref Sadikov sat quietly in the shade of a cafe-bar on the Caspian Sea esplanade of Baku and showed a line of stitches in his trousers, torn by an Armenian bullet as he fled the town of Hojali just over three months ago, writes Hugh Pope.
"I'm still wearing the same clothes, I don't have any others," the 51-year-old carpenter said, beginning his account of the Hojali disaster. "I was wounded in five places, but I am lucky to be alive."
Mr Sadikov and his wife were short of food, without electricity for more than a month, and cut off from helicopter flights for 12 days. They sensed the Armenian noose was tightening around the 2,000 to 3,000 people left in the straggling Azeri town on the edge of Karabakh.
"At about 11pm a bombardment started such as we had never heard before, eight or nine kinds of weapons, artillery, heavy machine-guns, the lot," Mr Sadikov said.
Soon neighbours were pouring down the street from the direction of the attack. Some huddled in shelters but others started fleeing the town, down a hill, through a stream and through the snow into a forest on the other side.
To escape, the townspeople had to reach the Azeri town of Agdam about 15 miles away. They thought they were going to make it, until at about dawn they reached a bottleneck between the two Azeri villages of Nakhchivanik and Saderak.
"None of my group was hurt up to then ... Then we were spotted by a car on the road, and the Armenian outposts started opening fire," Mr Sadikov said. Mr Sadikov said only 10 people from his group of 80 made it through, including his wife and militiaman son. Seven of his immediate relations died, including his 67-year-old elder brother.
"I only had time to reach down and cover his face with his hat," he said, pulling his own big flat Turkish cap over his eyes. "We have never got any of the bodies back."
The first groups were lucky to have the benefit of covering fire. One hero of the evacuation, Alif Hajief, was shot dead as he struggled to change a magazine while covering the third group's crossing, Mr Sadikov said.
Another hero, Elman Memmedov, the mayor of Hojali, said he and several others spent the whole day of 26 February in the bushy hillside, surrounded by dead bodies as they tried to keep three Armenian armoured personnel carriers at bay.
As the survivors staggered the last mile into Agdam, there was little comfort in a town from which most of the population was soon to flee.
"The night after we reached the town there was a big Armenian rocket attack. Some people just kept going," Mr Sadikov said. "I had to get to the hospital for treatment. I was in a bad way. They even found a bullet in my sock."
Victims of massacre: An Azeri woman mourns her son, killed in the Hojali massacre in February (left). Nurses struggle in primitive conditions (centre) to save a wounded man in a makeshift operating theatre set up in a train carriage. Grief-stricken relatives in the town of Agdam (right) weep over the coffin of another of the massacre victims. Calculating the final death toll has been complicated because Muslims bury their dead within 24 hours.
Newsweek, 29 November 1993
For the past seven months Armenian troops and tanks have swept across Azerbaijan -- a land grab exceeded only by what the Serbs have accomplished in Bosnia in the past year...Last month they pushed south all the way to the Iranian border, driving more than 60,000 Azerbaijani civilians across the Araks river into Iran -- and looting and torching vacant villages in their wake.

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This weekend was the start of the 2013-14 Feederwatch season – and for anyone not familiar with this Citizen Science program, it is described at the Bird Studies Canada's website thus:
Project FeederWatch is a joint program of Bird Studies Canada and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It is a winter-long survey of birds that visit feeders at backyards, nature centers, community areas, and other locales in North America. FeederWatchers periodically count the birds they see at their feeders from November through early April and send their counts to Project FeederWatch. FeederWatch data help scientists track broadscale movements of winter bird populations and long-term trends in bird distribution and abundance.
We have been doing this for fifteen years (this is the 16th) and it is a lot of fun, not to say interesting and useful. This first weekend was split between one bright and cool day and one very, very wet and grey and cold day …. eleven species were seen, which were :
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The Carolina Wren was especially welcome. There have been a couple in the garden all summer that have served as a regular dawn alarm clock. We have had them in previous years during the winter but they are not regular feeder birds, preferring to forage in the leaf litter in dark corners for their food … though when it is deep snow they have little option but to take what they can get. This is by far the northern limit for the species and only the toughest individuals survive, helped by climate change. In fact we have seen them once or twice each winter from the 2002-3 season through to the 2007-8 season, usually in the coldest months of January and February) and then not at all from 2009 through to 2011. Last year we saw them for about half the weeks of the season and then they have stuck around all summer, as mentioned previously. It will be interesting to see how this winter pans out.
The White-throated Sparrows were good too, rummaging arouond in the grass below the feeders to collect the cast-offs.
We have not seen House Sparrows here at any time of the season for several years – in fact the only local colony we know of is down in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue where they make a living around the backs of restaurants but the new Feederwatch website makes it easy to look back at our earlier counts (a total of 43 species since 1999) and there was one day in ouor first year when we were visited by 24 House Sparrows in a flock. That will probably never happen again.
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Title: Until September
Author: Chris Scully
Publisher: Riptide
Cover Artist: Lou Harper
Genre: Contemporary, Gay, M/M Romance
As a teenager, Archie Noblesse clawed his way out of the poverty, heartache, and abuse of the reservation and left his family behind. Desperate to shake the shadow of his past, he reinvents himself as Archer Noble, an outspoken blogger and controversial author who lives only for himself. But when his beloved sister dies, Archer is saddled with guardianship of his niece and nephew.
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Until September Background
Until September has had a long and winding journey to reach this point. It was originally conceived (shortly after the US Supreme Court 2013 decision on same sex marriage) as a sweet and fluffy romance about a young man (Ryan) who wants to get married but falls for a guy who does not. I was fascinated by how many young gay men (in Canada anyway, where same-sex marriage has been legal for over a decade) now expect to get married and actually have "dream wedding" plans, and how that contrasted with previous generations' ideas of sexual liberation. It was going to be a battle-of-the-wills-type story, and to some extent that still remains, but as we all know, sometimes our characters have other plans.
From the beginning, I knew Archer had to come from a non-traditional background—he was going to be Ryan's opposite after all—but I was stuck on the details. In 2014 as I was writing, Canadian news was starting to report stories of missing and murdered indigenous women. A number of key reports on aboriginal issues followed. The whole period was a political and social awakening of sorts for me. It made me think about how we're shaped by our upbringing and our environment, and more specifically, what it would be like to grow up not knowing what had happened to your mother. In my own way, I wanted to shine a light on some of these things. That's when I decided to make Archer an aboriginal man struggling with his identity. It's not the focus of the novel, but it certainly shapes Archer.
From that point on, this became a more serious story. Soon I had two orphaned children (not part of the original plan) and a reluctant guardian. If it all sounds tragic and depressing, it's not. I can't guarantee you won't cry, but I hope in the end, readers take away an affirming message about love and loss, the nature of family, and overcoming the obstacles fate puts in our way.
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CHRIS SCULLY lives in Toronto, Canada. She grew up spinning romantic stories in her head and always dreamed of one day being a writer even though life had other plans. Her characters have accompanied her through career turns as a librarian and an IT professional, until finally, to escape the tedium of a corporate day job, she took a chance and began putting her daydreams down on paper.
Tired of the same old boy-meets-girl stories, she found a home in M/M romance and strives to give her characters the happy endings they deserve. She divides her time between a mundane 9-5 cubicle job and a much more interesting fantasy life. When she's not working or writing (which isn't often these days) she loves puttering in the garden and traveling. She is an avid reader and tries to bring pieces of other genres and styles to her stories. While her head is crammed full of all the things she'd like to try writing, her focus is always on the characters first. She describes her characters as authentic, ordinary people—the kind of guy you might meet on the street, or the one who might be your best friend.
Although keeping up with social media is still a struggle given her schedule, she does love to hear from readers.
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"I've changed my mind. I'll….wear the mask of an adult."
I cannot help but be slightly in love with Golden Time. Besides the fact that it has large Toradora shoes to fill and a rather disappointing animation direction (due to a lack of budget), it keeps managing to surprise me with new and interesting twists. A part of me enjoys it for being the weekly romantic comedy about relationships and falling in love, while the other half of me finds the introspective and often sentimental tones about the consequences of rushing your feelings to be much more appealing, even if there is a ghost love story involved (yes, you heard right).
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True love, right? Wrong, and even Golden Time seems to know it. Kaga is literally blinded by her love for Banri to the point where she's incredibly possessive of him. "Look only at me. Spend your days with me. Don't waste your feelings on anyone else." She rarely lets Banri spend time with Mitsuo, let alone friend (and ex potential lover of the past Ghost Banri) Linda, and when he does, she closes him off and becomes extremely insecure. At one point, when Banri spends some time with Linda talking about the past life he never knew, Kaga shuts herself in her apartment for a weekend, and eventually confesses to him that she is afraid of what will happen – that he will leave her, just like Mitsuo did. It's here where we realize that Kaga and Banri may be in love, but it is Kaga who is in love with love. An ideal form where she is the apple of Banri's eye; always beautiful, always perfect, and always there. But this love, as much as it brightly burns, cannot last forever. As much as these two may have sincere feelings for one another, Golden Time clearly shows us that the relationship is hogged by Kaga and is founded upon naive and somewhat false ideals that easily shake with miscommunication.
It's not just Kaga. Banri too has had his share of naive love with devastating consequences. Episode 9 shows us a scene where Past Banri – the memories of Banri that he's forgotten, but are narrated by the form of Ghost Banri – is in love with Linda and seeks a relationship with her. Linda and Banri at this point in high school are close friends to the point where they constantly rely on one another. However, things get serious when Linda finds out that her brother's fiancé is having an affair, she decides, with the help of Banri, to take pictures of the fiancé in her illicit relationship to destroy her life. It's only afterwards that she realizes how foolish and selfish she's been and deletes the pictures, choosing to talk individually with the fiancé instead. What follows afterwards is an emotional confrontation between Banri and Linda, where Banri promises that he will always be there for her no matter what – an ideal but foolish promise, considering how things really turn out.
Banri says he'll find a way, but instead, he falls (while waiting for a response from Linda after confession, ironically) and loses his memory, becoming the current Banri that dates Kaga. In one of the more heartbreaking moments of the series, Linda brings up her brother in a discussion, and Banri, having no knowledge of this trust and bond he shared with Linda at a point in his life, asks her who her brother is. Linda pauses for a moment, smiles sadly, and leaves, telling Banri nothing, and it's here where we realize that sweet love is sometimes an illusion for the short sighted and foolish. There are neither Prince Charmings nor Romeos in life, and both Banri and Kaga are examples of people who have treaded too quickly into relationships with the expectations of high schoolers, only to suffer tragic results.
Golden Time may be funny, sad, dramatic and a little supernatural, but its tale of souls who wander too fast in relationships is something I love dearly about it. I look forward to the ups and downs it chooses to take as it continues to explore the idealism and naivety we often stumble across in a love that's often too young, too tender, and too fragile.


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Isabella Augusta Persse (Lady Gregory)
Bright Dead Things: Poems
Ada Limon
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
Mark Manson
Desire: Poems
Frank Bidart
Selected Poems 1976-2012
Jorie Graham
An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry
Wes Davis (Editor)
I Am An Executioner: Love Stories
Rajesh Parameswaran
An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom
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Nearly 80% of the population is deficient in Magnesium. And we believe the reason is due to lack of education on what Magnesium does and its essential role in the body. So we've made it part of our mission to provide Magnesium "edu-tainment" — entertaining educational content.
Since 2005, Jigsaw Health — "The Magnesium People" — has been developing science-based dietary supplements with a focus on Magnesium featuring Sustained Release Technology (w/SRT®), which controls the release of active ingredients so absorption can happen over time.
Our EMF exposure today is extremely high. You cannot smell, taste or see EMF radiation but you are immersed in it all day every day. Many people feel immediate effects and many more are affected without realising it. Low energy, poor sleep, lack of concentration, headaches a feelings of being unsettled and/or stressed are experienced by a huge percentage of people but very few would link these feelings to their use of technology.
All of our much loved gadgets are EMF devices. energydots are EMF protection devices. They act as transformers. They harmonise or retune the electro-magnetic frequencies to a natural energy which does not affect the body in the same way. smartDOT is an essential element if you are looking for EMF protection. Many of us keep our mobile phones on us 24 hours a day. smartDOT has a self-adhesive back so you can stick it to your mobile phone and feel the benefits. Discover the full range from sleep mats to aqua dots
Dr Myhills's book Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
"It's mitochondria, not hypochondria!" Myhill's book won a Highly Commended Certificate at the British Medical Association Book Awards.
ACMAC – The Association of Community & Multibed Acupuncture Clinics
ACMAC is formed of qualified and highly experienced practitioners who wish to make acupuncture as accessible as possible to everyone. Multibed clinics are low cost and therefore a course of treatment is more affordable for patients. Find a clinic near you.
Dr. Jill Carnaham – Article on Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
Useful tips and information for M.E. and Fibro patients also managing MCAS symptoms
Ancestry – Genealogy and DNA Testing
There are many paths to finding your family story. Whichever way you choose—tracing your family generations back with a family tree or uncovering your ethnicity with AncestryDNA
For the USA site CLICK HERE
**DNA results are downloadable
Live Wello
Genetic raw data interpretation. Gene variance reports. Create health reports for your practitioner.
Buteyko Breathing Centre
The Buteyko Method is a set of breathing exercises developed by Dr K P Buteyko to develop healthy breathing patterns, which help to maintain the correct ratio of oxygen and carbon dioxide within the bloodstream. According to his research, some 150 diseases are linked to dysfunctional breathing. There is a home study DVD, plus Skype and face to face courses. In addition to helping asthma and respiratory or sinus problems, it can improve quality and depth of sleep, mental focus, reduce fatigue and help with anxiety too.
The Magnesium Advocacy Group
(MAG) was developed in response to a widespread lack of awareness about the prevalence and negative impact of Magnesium deficiency on our health and well-being. Download the FREE informative PDF "The Black Book" featuring articles by Guy E. Abraham, MD, Suzy Cohen, RPh, and Morley Robbins, MBA, CHC.
MAG is committed to restoring Magnesium's majestic stance in our environment — and our bodies — through innovative programs aimed at awareness, advocacy, and activism. Note** There are many forms of magnesium and taking the right one at the right time of day can make a difference. For example, the citrate form should be avoided. There are important co-factors that need to be taken alongside the magnesium. The Root Cause Protocol can reverse magnesium deficiency which can lead to:
- Muscle spasms, chronic pain, and Fibromyalgia
- High blood pressure, Metabolic Syndrome, and Heart Disease
- Sleep disturbances, mood imbalances, and Depression
- Poor concentration, anxiety, and ADHD
- And much, much more
Fiona Agombar – Yoga for Energy
Author of Beat Fatigue with Yoga and Endless Energy. DVD instructional version available. Yoga Therapy for Stress, Exhaustion and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Fiona has a deep understanding of ME/CFS.
Recorded yoga retreat session for download £2.50
The Yoga Nidra Network
Yoga nidra is a potent meditative resource for healing, insight, and empowerment. Online courses and free Yoga Nidra downloads.
Donna Eden's YouTube channel
Learn how to manage your pain and energise your body using simply daily techniques
Massaging the Gate Points – video by the Sussex Allergy Clinic
Sometimes when we start new health supplements or alternative medicine treatments, we can experience a period of detox and feeling worse before we feel better. This is called the Herxheimer reaction. Learn how to massage the Gate Points on the body to minimise reactions after health treatments, when detoxing, or for allergic reactions.
The Sway Test – video by Imaginal Health
Learn how to use the Sway Test to energetically test your foods, supplements and beauty products.
The Coca Pulse Test for Food Sensitivities
One of the easiest methods of food sensitivity testing without special training or expensive equipment is the Coca Pulse Test, discovered by prestigous immunologist Dr. Authur Coca. The test provides a free and accesible way to trace a stress response to the foods you consume. Download Dr Coca's free book.
The Tapping Solution
Learn how to use EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique for your health, wellbeing and more … FREE tapping meditation resources.
Massage by Heather Wibbles
Heather's YouTube channel. Learn how to use lymphatic drainage massage for self help. Marvellous help for congestion from colds, blocked sinuses, for detox and health maintenance.
Niki Gratrix
CFS and abundant energy expert. Take the online questionnaire and discover your ACE score. ACE is the abbreviation for adverse childhood events. Groundbreaking research shows that the higher your ACE score, the greater your risk of developing chronic major diseases.
Norman Clinical Lab
Norman Clinical Laboratory, Inc. (NCL) provides a means to test individuals through the mail for cobalamin (vitamin B12 ) deficiency. (International shipping offered). The urinary MMA/creatinine ratio (uMMA) spot test is more accurate than the blood test as it indicates tissue/cellular B12 deficiency.
Regenerus Labs
World leading laboratories that deliver the broadest range of functional, nutritional, genetic, autoimmune for diagnostic and research testing services. No GP or practitioner referal required. Includes Lyme tests, DIO2 gene test, comprehensive gut tests often hard to find elsewhere. Allows you the freedom to work with a natural health practitioner or integrative doctor of your choice, if you need the results interpreted and private treatment.
**See listing below regarding finding an endocrinologist to discuss your results and access treatment (even if your TSH is classed as 'normal').
Thyroid UK
Thyroid patients should have the choice to be treated according to their individual needs. Thyroid UK is a world leader in patient care and resources. Check out their useful directory of private medical testing companies. You can arrange Genova Diagnostics private tests via Thyroid UK without a GP or health practitioner referal. (Can use for other hormone panels not just thyroid test panels. For example the Rhythm Plus or salivary cortisol panels). Private Tests
See our Medichecks listing for our special 20% discount code to use with Medichecks thyroid and other health tests. Contact us for details of a UK endocrinologist that understands the DIO gene mutations and can prescribe T3, Natural Dessicated Thyroid and Low Dose Naltrexone with a private prescription.
Low Dose Naltrexone – how to get a prescription
LDN and LDXN is an off label/license treatment used for autoimmune disease such as MS, certain cancers and can be used for ME/CFS. It is generally only available privately. The online consultation costs £35 and is with a Medical Practitioner.
Find out more about Low Dose Naltrexone
Dickson Chemist stock LDN
Health Unlocked
The social network for health. Over 500 health communities. A caring place to ask your burning questions.
Genetic health and ancestry testing using a home kit. For interpretation of your results afterwards, we suggest using one of the many free or paid online services that offer 'raw genetic data interpretation'
Mercola article on maximizing vitamin D exposure safely
Find out the precise dates and times that vitamin D can be absorbed naturally from the sun in your town. Particularly useful for Europeans. Use the US Naval Observatory Azimuth table
Herbal suppliers since 1844. Buy raw ingredients or pre-packaged medicines. It's also a world class store for customers who create their own medicines, soaps, beauty products and candles. Find glass bottles and jars, empty capsules, unbleached empty teabags, moulds, base ingredients and unusual herbs that are hard to come by elsewhere.
FND Hope
Supportive resources for M.E. & Fibro patients also living with a functional neurological disorder.
Note**UK residents looking for referals; Prof Mark Edwards at St. Georges Hospital, London is the UK FND specialist. Both St.Georges and the National Neurology Hospital, Queen Square, London offer NHS in-patient intensive neuro rehabilitation programmes. **Update: their specialist in-patient 3-5 day program is going to be rolled out to several hospitals within the UK.
Queen Square Private Consulting Rooms
Private Neurology consultations for the full range of neurological conditions from MS to movement disorders, functional disorders and migraines. You don't always need a GP referal, it depends on the consultant. Located near the National Neurology Hospital London.
Upright MRI
Upright MRI scanner service in London, Leeds and Birmingham, UK. Self referals accepted. Useful if unable to lie down or suffer from claustrophobia.
Note**Some NHS hospitals now offer the more open Oasis MRI scanners. In Health at Croydon Hospital is one example.
Physiospect Scan
Available in West Sussex UK. The device scans each organ or tissue on a cellular level. Useful for complex conditions and those that evade diagnosis or recovery. Can provide insights into imbalances/disease that could potentially develop in the future.
NOI Group
Neuro Orthopaedic Institute (NOI) Australasia. Useful resources for brain retraining and pain management. Talks held worldwide. The biopsychosocial approach, or the merging of the biology of human pain, stress and performance with the psychological and social environment, is the basis of the NOI educational philosophy. Their vision is to seed 'healthy notions of self through neuroscience knowledge' worldwide.
Visit their page on Graded Motor Imagery and learn brain retraining techniques for movement disorders and impaired motor skills, which can be an issue for a minority of CFS and fibro patients with neuro complications.
Download the Recognise app
The Explain Pain Handbook brings the latest in pain science into an easily accessible book for patients and includes a groundbreaking pain treatment app – the 'Protectometer'
Standing Up to Pots
Supporting research for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and implementing POTS-specific solutions, resources, information, and programs while also increasing awareness about the disorder. A wealth of resources for anyone living with a disability or chronic illness. POTS can also be a secondary or tertiary health condition for those managing ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and adrenal fatigue.
Carers UK Creative Writing Competition 2018 – Deadline 31 July
A Course in Business Miracles
Are you an HSE (Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur)? Take the quiz and receive your free report. Classes, webinars, courses, community and mentoring by World HSE expert Heather Dominick.
Praxis Centre for Aesthetic Studies
Online school run by Brainard Carey and designed to build artists careers. Examples of courses include: how to get exhibited at a gallery, applying for funding, patrons and sponsors, tax, selling online and how to write artist statements. Personal feedback on your website, social media, letters and communications, and more…
Conscious Crafties
Handmade craft online marketplace featuring the work and talents of disabled and chronically ill crafters.
Opulent Mobility
A ground-breaking project and collaborative effort to re-imagine mobility, disability and access. See the gallery of wheelchairs, walkers, prosthetic limbs, crutches and other assistive technology custom designed and personalized. Submit your art, make an exhibit.
Play your way to learning a new language for FREE using the app.
Swipe and tap your way through 500 bite-size lessons that last just a few minutes (perfect for those with cog-fog). Plus conversational modules and an optional weekly quiz.
Accessible Arts Australia – Accessible Arts promotes and provides opportunities for people with disability to participate in arts and cultural activities either as audience members; through attending galleries, theatres, museums and festivals; or as participants in art, drama, music, dance and multimedia activities; and by developing as professional artists.
Disabled Entrepreneurs UK
UK Hub for disabled entrepreneurs. Download the free business guide.
Disability Grants
Directory and resources on grants and funding for those in the UK living with a disability.
Creative Future – We provide training, mentoring and the chance to publish or exhibit to talented people who lack opportunities due to mental health issues, disability, health, identity or other social circumstance.
Outside In – Providing a platform for UK visual artists who find it difficult to access the art world
Disability Arts Online – Sharing disability arts and culture with the world
Women with Disabilities Australia
Women with disabilities sharing experiences, to gain strength from one another and to work together on issues that affect them and to influence legislative, policy, and service development.
International Network of Women with Disabilities
Women sharing their knowledge, experience and creating a more just and fair world that acknowledges disability and gender, justice, and human rights
Disabled Womens Network Canada
DAWN Canada's vision is to end the poverty, isolation, discrimination and violence experienced by women with disabilities
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Fox has not released a lavish, uber box set for their re-release of Big on Blu-ray, but in order to cover up the repetition of the disc itself, they chose an awesome packaging to help it stand out. It's not only the nifty, light sensing musical slipcover, but the inside too which comes with a touch of Zoltar. Maybe you too can live out your Big fantasies.
Check out the SD version below or head to DoBlu's YouTube page for the HD version. Subscribers, as always, receive first notice of new videos.


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For anyone who makes a living by working aboard a barge, ocean liner, fishing boat or cruise ship; there are certain risks and dangers that are inherent to working on any water-bound vessel. Depending on the type of ship and nature of one's work, an individual may suffer injury or death due to a slip-and-fall, equipment failure, fall overboard, exposure to hazardous materials and being struck by a falling object.
How common are work injuries/illnesses among water transportation workers?
There are a wide range of different water transportation occupations. Examples of water transportation workers include: captains, motorboat operators, pilots, ship engineers, deckhands, deck officers and marine oilers.


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Herewith the facts.
10 December 2013 a colleague ordered Rope Lights etc. from the above company.
11 December 2013 this was paid for.
11 December I ALSO ordered Rope lights and paid for them.
NO delivery and LOTS of promises.
Since 12 December NO voice contact and son answers phone.
Since 13th December NO sms or ANYTHING.
NOBODY answers phones.
STILL NOTHING HEARD OR DELIVERED TODAY 15 January 2014.
My advice: I BELIEVE THIS TO BE SCAMSTERS AS I DO NOT HAVE ANY PRODUCT OR REFUND OR CONTACT.


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Sick of hearing about the red carpet at the Emmy's yet? Oh come on, you know you want to read just ONE more blog post about it.
I was overall impressed by the red carpet at the Emmys this year. A smidge too much of J. Mendel for my liking, and the fact that Carrie Underwood actually wore a prom dress thoroughly disturbed me, but besides that, I'll tip my cap to the stylists behind the stars.
So I was sitting on my couch with my cat, sweatpants, hair in messy bun, sans makeup … watching the red carpet and acting like I'm seeing my best friends strike a pose in couture. Yet let's be real, I don't know these people. I just know the roles they play on my fav TV shows. But I clear my schedule to endure two hours of them being asked inane questions by Ryan Seacrest and showing off everything down to their manicures in a weird little devil box known as the "mani cam." Seriously though … with the mani cam, E!?
So when I heard Sarah Silverman state that her dress happened to be off the rack and $60, my frugal, realistic side wanted to give her a slow clap. FINALLY, a star going against the mold and wearing something I could purchase. FINALLY, showing that a dress can be under $100 and still be fantastic enough for the red carpet. Because God help me if I was ever invited to the Emmys, with my luck I would run into Heidi Klum and she would be all, "I'm wearing Versace, who are you wearing?" And I would be all, "Phillip Lim … for Target … that I bought on a shady street corner … and I'm pretty sure it's fake :::backs away slowly:::."
But then I remembered something. These people make a ba-zillion dollars. Literally. I'm watching Ryan Seacrest babble and make people awkwardly walk their hands down an undersized red carpet because I want to live vicariously through them. I want to go to bed dreaming of Prada dresses and Roger Vivier stilettos. I want to salivate over Fred Leighton jewels. It's sad … but let's be real here. That's why we watch these silly shows. To escape our lives and pretend to live in the land of glitz and glam for just a mere moment. It is a night with waves of harsh judgement and critique, and a lot of "she looks a hawt mess," but my GOD does it feel good.
So, while I appreciate the statement Sarah Silverman made on the red carpet, I just kind of wanted her dipped in jewels and luxurious fabrics made by the God known as Marc Jacobs. Kind of … just a little. You're famous. You make good money. You're pretty … and even if you weren't, you probably could hire a team of people to make you pretty. Seriously … as disgusted as I am with myself for saying this, I just want you to make me hate my life a little bit because you look so damn good in a dress I could only afford if I sold my body on the black market.


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Now, you may think that this is going to be long, but it's really not; and the reason is because there was so little done and understanding of how to purify water that it was by happenstance that a lot of things came about.
Long long ago
The first record that we have of anybody distilling or trying to purify water were the Egyptians. Now, prior to this, we understand that safe drinking water was based on two basic principles: Did it taste good? What'd it smell like? Obviously, if it didn't taste good, they weren't going to drink it. And if it smelled funky, they weren't going to drink it, either.
Egyptians (1450 B.C.)
So let's get back to the Egyptians. Now, what they did was they used a series of brass basins and ceramic pots and siphons to move water around. Really, what they were doing was simply aerating it as well as allowing it to clarify. Now, they were dipping water out of the Nile. The Nile is typically kind of muddy. So they were just simply letting it settle, pulling the clean water off the top, and drinking that. Not really purifying, but at the time, they thought that's what they were doing.
Greeks and Romans
Hippocrates (460 – 370 B.C.)
Let's fast-forward about 1,000 years to Greece. Hippocrates wrote a treatise called "On Airs, Waters, and Places." Now, he was the first pioneer of medicine. He understood that there was a relationship between what man was consuming and how well he felt. And one of the things that he talked about was that . . . and he said, this is a quote from the treatise, he said, "Water contributes much to health." Now, he understood the importance of that, but really didn't understand how to purify water. So Hippocrates didn't really make any improvements in purification of water other than to draw a correlation between the fact that good, wholesome water was healthy.
Pliny (23 – 79 A.D.)
So now, let's advance a little bit in time, and let's go to the Romans. There was a guy by the name of Pliny. And about 500 years after Hippocrates, Pliny (this would make us about AD 23 to AD 79), realized that if you boiled water, placed it in glass, and then placed that or packed that in snow, it made the water more wholesome. Pliny didn't realize that he was actually purifying water. He thought he was just simply trying to make it taste better, not understanding that what was really required here to purify water was to remove the impurities: the solids as well as the viruses and bacteria that were suspended in water and that would cause health problems.
Sextus Jilius Frontinus (97 A.D.)
Now, let's fast-forward about another 30 years to another Roman by the name of Sextus Julius Frontinus, who, in AD 97, became the curator of aquarium. Now, his job and responsibility was to make sure that all those beautiful aqueducts (the ones that you see in all the old Roman pictures that moved massive amounts of water around), his job was to make sure that they worked correctly. Now, he tried several different things and was known for trying to become more knowledgeable in whatever his assignments were; so at a young age, this Sextus decided that what he was going to do is try to find out how he could clarify the water more and perhaps even remove some of the bad odors and tastes from it. So, in the aqueducts, what he would do is he placed pea gravel and then a fine sand, so as the organic material was passing through this pea gravel, it would pick up the solids, and then the smaller particles would be trapped using this sand filter. Now, this was extremely new. Before, it was just like a clarification process. But now, he's actually trying to come up with a way to filter it.
Age of Enlightenment (1600s – 1780s)
Now, we jump from AD 100 all the way to the Age of Enlightenment. And that, believe it or not, is all the way to the 1600s. There were a few things that came along, and different people and different cultures would have done different things, but for the sake of argument, not really much of anything changed. And then suddenly, during this Age of Enlightenment, there were just copious amounts of research done, and lots of people were using the new scientific method to discover how things worked. And by observation and being keenly aware of what was going on in nature, they tried all different kind of things.
Sir Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)
So during this Age of Enlightenment, we have a fellow who shows up on the scene by the name of Sir Francis Bacon, who lived from 1561 to 1626. Now, he had extensive writings and lots and lots of research during his lifetime. The year after his death, there was a book that was published with his name as the author, and the book was called "Natural History in Ten Centuries," published in 1627. And in that book, one of the things that Sir Francis Bacon comes up with is that there are three ways to purify water, and they're real simple: using filtration, boiling, and distillation.
Now, the filtration at the time would have just been with gravel and sand (some places used a very thick fabric of wool, and sometimes even flax or cotton), and then boiling, of course. And the distillation process is just a simple matter of getting a large basin, putting the dirty water in there, and letting it clarify – solids go to the bottom, the good water stays on the top, you skim it or siphon it off, and it's drinkable. The problem was that because of the difficulty of trying to boil large amounts of water, what ended up really happening was everybody just filtered it and let it sit for a while. Now, all of a sudden, it really changed a lot of perspectives for people who were trying in municipalities to make potable water for the people who lived there.
Modern times
Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895)
Now again, this Age of Enlightenment was all kinds of sciences. And as this came to a close, there were a few very notable people that came along. One specifically that we're interested in because of water was a Frenchman by the name of Louis Pasteur, who lived from 1822 to 1895. So this brings us really up to modern times. And around the mid-19th century, Louis Pasteur – and you'll notice that the name sounds like "pasteurize," and that's exactly what he did – he figured out, using the brand new technology of the microscope, that living in water were little tiny bacteria and viruses. He referred to them as "wee beasties." And the interesting thing is that as he figured out what these things were (giving them names and finding out that these were really the things that were causing the greatest amount of problem), he then proposed a way, through boiling, that we were able to remove these "wee beasties" from our water supply.
Then we have the advances that came along as municipalities began to grow, and the infrastructure of nations and communities began to grow, that the water processing plants started to come along. And they used a three-fold method of filters, and different elements of filters, particularly using organic materials like gravel and sand to the remove the solids from our water. Then they used separation tanks to get the really tiny solids that just made it look murky, and separate those.
And now, we use chemicals to clarify and purify our water.
And that is the history of water purification.


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Warwick Castle f.13
Artist: Blore, Edward
Medium: Pencil on paper
Date: 1800
Warwick Castle started off as a simple wooden fortification, erected in 1068 by William the Conqueror. Over the centuries, as it passes through the various lines of the Warwick earldom, it expanded to massive proportions to become one of the largest and grandest castles in England.
By the early 17th century, it had fallen into disrepair and was in urgent need of modernisation. Sir Fulke Greville, who had been presented with Warwick by James I, embarked upon an expensive regeneration programme. This was not done for purely aesthetic reasons. Greville was a staunch ally of James and it was becoming increasingly clear that plans were being hatched to depose James from the throne. The King sought protection here for a while in 1617. Unfortunately, Sir Greville met an untimely death several years later at the hands of one of his servants. Greville had recently drawn up his will and provoked accusations from his servant that he had overlooked him in recompense for all his loyal years of service. The servant pulled out a knife and stabbed his master before then killing himself.


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In January I rolled on 3 coats of Valspar chalkboard paint and let it dry for 24 hours.
I used 3 1/2 inch wide poplar for the frame and stained it with Minwax Early American stain. A few coats of wipe on polyurethane and it's good to go! The chalkboard is 62" tall by 38" wide.
HERE's the post about painting the chalkboard paint on the wall.
I want to wish a Happy Father's Day
to my wonderful husband and father to our boys!!
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text: Alexa is a San Diego native and a proud San Diego State Aztec. She attended SDSU on a Track and Field scholarship for the discus throw. She earned a B.S. in Public Administration with a minor in Television, Film, and New Media and finished her collegiate track career as an All-American discus thrower and 9th at NCAA Nationals. In 2017, Alexa earned her Masters in Public Administration with an emphasis in foreign affairs. Later that year, she joined the Prospect General Sales & Marketing team. Alexa previously interned with the San Diego Diplomacy Council and arranged diplomatic visits to the city and she coaches track part-time at a local high school.


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Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
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A widowed man's life turns upside down when he embarks on a journey to find a dying man's long lost love.


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Familiars and Companions
Main Game Concept, Journeys in the Dark
I - Rules
(see JITD, p. 14; FAQ, p. 4)
Familiars and Companions are not the same in terms of definition and in terms of rules. Is it not stated clearly but familiars are "magical" beings while companions are "non-magical animals".
Familiars obey the following rules.
- Familiars are represented by markers. The marker representing a familiar begins the game in the same space as the familiar's owner.
- Familiars move after their owner's turn is finished. They move up to a number of spaces equal to their speed, which is listed in their description.
- Familiars move like heroes, except that they can move through enemy figures and can end their movement in the same space as another figure.
- Familiars may occupy the same space as another figure, and figures may move through and trace lines of sight through familiars.
- Familiars cannot carry any items or perform any movement actions unless their description states otherwise.
- Familiars do not count as a hero for purposes of spawning monsters unless their description states otherwise.
- Familiars cannot be affected by any attack or harmed in any way.
- Familiars cannot jump over pits or use glyphs of transport.
The following Familiars can be granted by skill cards, heroes or treasures:
- Boggs the Rat
- Bottle Imp
- Furr the Spirit Wolf
- Mata and Kata the Ferrets
- Sharr the Brightwing
- Shadow Soul
- Skye the Falcon
The following Companions can be granted by skill cards or a hero: