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Shard Riverside Hotel, Bar & Restaurant, Lancashire (county)
- Free full breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
Main amenities
- 23 smoke-free guestrooms
- Near the beach
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Daily housekeeping
- Self-serve laundry
- Meeting room
- Free newspapers in the lobby
- Luggage storage
- Limited hour front desk
For families
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Sofa bed
- Private bathroom
- Daily housekeeping
- Laundry facilities
What's around
- In Hambleton
- Poulton-le-Fylde Golf Club (1.9 mi / 3.1 km)
- Thornton Little Theater (3.4 mi / 5.4 km)
- Wyre Estuary Country Park (3.5 mi / 5.6 km)
- Cleveleys Front (4.7 mi / 7.6 km)
- Warbreck Hill Government Offices (5.1 mi / 8.3 km)
Shard Riverside Hotel, Bar & Restaurant, Lancashire (county)
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $78
- Deluxe Double Room (Single Occupancy)
- Deluxe Double Room, Ensuite (Single Occupancy)
- Double Room, Ensuite (Single Occupancy)
- Superior Double Room
- Superior Double Room Single Use, Ensuite, River View
- Standard Double Room, Ensuite
- Family Room, Ensuite, River View
- Deluxe Double Room, Ensuite
- Signature Double Room, Ensuite, River View
- Double Room
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- This hotel has 23 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time 1:30 PM-9:30 PM
- Check-out time is 10:30 AM
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- Minimum check-in age is 18
- Minimum Spring Break check-in age is 18
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- Children (12 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets not allowed
Extra people
- Roll-away beds available, charges may apply*
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking
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- Smoke-free property
- Resort fee included
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In the hotel
- Free full breakfast daily
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- One meeting room
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
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- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Sofa bed
- Sofa bed size double
- Egyptian-cotton sheets
- Private bathroom
- Bathtub or shower
- Hair dryer
- Flat-screen TV
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Free local calls
- Daily housekeeping
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The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild (Paperback)Hannah Rothschild
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A Rothschild by birth and a Baroness by marriage, beautiful, spirited Pannonica - known as Nica - seemed to have it all: children, a handsome husband and a trust fund. But in the early 1950s she heard a piece by the jazz legend Thelonious Monk. The music overtook her like a magic spell, and she abandoned her marriage to go and find him. Arriving in New York, Nica was shunned by society but accepted by the musicians. They gave her friendship; she gave them material and emotional support. Her convertible Bentley was a familiar sight outside the clubs and she drank whisky from a hip flask disguised as a Bible. Her notoriety was sealed when drug-addicted saxophonist Charlie Parker died in her apartment. But her real love was reserved for Monk, whom she cared for until his death in 1982. The Baroness traces Nica's extraordinary, thrilling journey - from England's stately homes to the battlefields of Africa, passing under the shadow of the Holocaust, and finally to the creative ferment of the New York jazz scene. Hannah Rothschild's search to solve the mystery of her rebellious great aunt draws on their long friendship and years of meticulous research and interviews. It is part musical odyssey, part dazzling love story.
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I wish to know is there in Chinese language a single word for "無用"?
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if by 无用 you mean useless and by one word you mean one character then I would recommend:
废 it has a lot of meanings but specifically here it contains the meaning:
It depends why that thing is considered "無用".
For example, if it is considered redundant, you can say "贅".


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Editor's note: It is CL's policy to withhold the name of a victim of sexual assault.
The young woman was in trouble. Her father was on his way to Atlanta to pick her up and bring her back to their Fayette County home. He had just found out, through her roommate at Georgia Tech, that she'd been hanging out in her dorm room with her boyfriend. That wasn't allowed. More importantly, the woman's family deeply disapproved of him.
Once she was back in Fayette County, the woman got into an intense discussion with her parents. They wanted to know why she continued to see someone they didn't want her to see.
"My parents were asking me why I was acting that way," the young woman later told a Fayette County jury. "And I just told them because I felt like I wasn't worth anyone better. And they kept asking me why, until it finally came out."
She told her parents that her insecurity stemmed from another boy and an incident that occurred almost three years earlier, at the beginning of her junior year at Sandy Creek High School. The two had worked together at a local pizza place, and she admittedly had a crush on him. He showed up at their house one night, while her parents weren't home. She said at first, they were watching TV. Then, after they started kissing, he forced himself on her.
Upon hearing her story, her parents drove her straight to the police department, where she hand-wrote a statement, dated April 21, 2008, describing the events of that night in 2005:
"I told him that's enough, he should leave, and I'll talk to him another day," the young woman wrote. "But he ignored me and said, 'I'll take my pants off, and then you.' So he unzipped his pants and pushed them down. And that's when I froze, and I kept telling myself there's no way he's going to do that.
"Then he pushed me onto the couch and took my pants off, telling me that it's OK, that I'm going to like it, that he's going to show me how. Then he penetrated. And I just stared the whole time and felt like I was going to throw up."
Dylan Benson remembers the day his friend Zach Higgins, who Benson describes as "a big goofy punk-rock kid," was charged with rape. Benson and some friends were over at Higgins' house. Higgins wasn't home at the time, but word traveled fast.
"We found out that he got arrested, and we were like, 'What?'" Benson recalls. "We all thought, 'Oh, this will blow over.'"
Benson, along with a handful of other young people who'd known Higgins in high school, were familiar with the three-year-old incident involving the young woman. But when they first heard about it, they'd been told — some of them, allegedly, from the woman herself — that what happened between Higgins, who was 17 at the time, and the woman, who was 16, was consensual.
At Higgins' rape trial in late March, his defense relied on the testimony of four students who, like him and the victim, had attended Sandy Creek High School. The witnesses told the jury that the woman had laughed and smiled when her encounter with Higgins came up, as it sometimes did, during the ride to school from swim team practice, or in the hallway before the homeroom bell, or while sharing a music stand in orchestra class, or at the pizza place where she and Higgins continued to work after that fateful night.
Three of the four who testified went so far as to say that the woman bragged to them about having sex with Higgins.
In addition to the four former high schoolers and the young woman herself, there was only one additional witness who took the stand at Higgins' trial, a county investigator who testified for the state. At the prosecutor's request, Investigator Beth Suber merely read aloud from a court document that had been filed in 2002 — three years before the incident between Higgins and the young woman took place.
Suber's testimony, Higgins' lawyers would later claim, tore apart his defense. On March 24, Higgins was found guilty of rape and aggravated sodomy. For his crimes, the 21-year-old was sentenced to 35 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
Higgins' trial lawyer contends that the evidence in support of his client couldn't overcome a dark moment from his past — a prior sexual offense that the jury was allowed to consider because of a quirk in the law.
In the overwhelming majority of criminal prosecutions, a defendant's prior convictions, history of arrests and any other unsavory acts from his past can't be brought up at trial, because they can destroy his presumption of innocence. But under Georgia's "bent of mind" rule, evidence of past acts can be admitted if the evidence proves the defendant has a psychological proclivity to commit a certain type of crime — anything from DUI to child molestation.


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Skip to comments.Muslim student sprays teacher with tear gas after she describes al-Qaeda as a terrorist group
Posted on 03/11/2010 8:47:38 AM PST by george76
Lyon, France - A 15-year-old French schoolboy sprayed a teacher with teargas after she described al-Qaeda as a "terrorist group", she told reporters on Tuesday as prosecutors began their investigation.
"I had just explained that the attacks on September 11, 2001 were carried out by the terrorist organisation al-Qaeda, as is written in the text book," said the history teacher, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"He stood up and declared that al-Qaeda is not terrorist and that neither is the Taliban," she said, adding that the boy had then pulled out a spray can and doused her and a teaching assistant with teargas.
(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ...
France: 15-year-old Muslim student sprays teacher with tear gas after she describes al-Qaeda as a "terrorist group"
Another islamic pacifist heard from.
Shoot him back with spray laced with pig blood.
Proved his point, now, didn't he??
"al Qaeda is not a terrorist group and I will kill anyone who says they are... allu akbar"
I'm waiting for the pic of the student after the teacher kicked the s*....er, kicked the Mohammed out of him.
Multiculturalism is progressive! Our diversity is our strength!
"Don't call me violent or I will kill you."
HUMMMM, sounds like France is going to be the main target for awhile.
This A--clown carries tear gas with him to school?
Ah...the ROP....I wonder what the student would have done if they described Mohammed as a pedophile.....That student needs a good cane upside the head....
Everyone knows it is a MAN-MADE DISASTER....
I'm surprised that anyone in France has the courage to call a Muslim terrorist, a 'terrorist'; instead of calling them 'freedom fighter' who is 'striking back at the
Great Satan'.
How much you wanna bet the Mussies in France are going to protest in the streets if the boy is punished for spraying the teachers?
as is written in the text book
I wonder if that will be in text books of America?
Just another example of Man-Made Disaster....
I am guess mace.
Tear gas at close range is fracking painful.
This was grievous bodily harm and an attempt to blind.
Quick, get that boy an airline tichet. We need young fellows like that in the USA. Perfect immigrant material.
Well I guess he proved her wrong. /sarc
Angry Jihad Boy strikes again!
They will likely find the teacher guilty of insensitivity and she will have to find a new job.
Jihad junior in training.....
I'm assuming this young gent will be found not guilty in the French Sharia Courts...
The French will make sure the boy doesn't get properly punished, they'll do anything to prevent islamofacist pushback. They'll gloss it over and continue to ignore that Islam is a bloody, deadly cult.
Shoot him
back with spray laced with pig blood.
There... Fixed it.
Shoot him
back with spray laced with pig blood.
There... Fixed it.
It's not terrorism to muslims; they consider normal behavior.
We've already got plenty of immigrants like him, more than our fair share actually.
Im assuming this young gent will be found not guilty in the French Sharia Courts...
She was obviously racist.
Actually, he proved her point.
The little bast@@@ would not need punishing by anyone, dead Jihadist tell no tales........
Just Celebrate Diversity! No reason to complain, Madam teacher.
Celebrate diversity!
I don't do /sarc tags.
American kids can't have butter knives in their locked cars in the school parking lot but French yutes can spray their teachers with tear gas. I'm curious what his classmates thought or reacted.
WHEN will we WAKE UP??????
These people are NOT the Jews and Gypsies of Hitler's holocaust. They are not the Armenians of Turkey or the Native Americans of the western Indian Wars.
They are a cult of killers, a collection of ideological maniacs determined to reduce the level of western civilization to that of a savage clothed in rags who bundles his wife in a gunny sack from head to foot, beats her, curses dogs, pork, alcohol and dancing,wants to murder anyone who tries to leave his cult or anyone who tries to convince him to leave, and whose idea of culture is best exemplified by the situation in Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan or Yemen.
Any guesses on his first name?
This story should not have been posted. It's racist./s
Good lad!
THAT'LL show 'em you're not a terrorist!
muslims are animals, nothing more.
A good person who is a muslim isn't really a muslim...
The little yob was somewhat unclear on the concept of "don't prove your opponent's point for him."
But this can't be President Bush and President Obama said IslamE is a religion of peace. Yeah right, IslamE, what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right.
She's lucky he didn't chop her head off.
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News from San Antonio: The Linda Pace Foundation (or LPF, the umbrella foundation responsible for the artist residency ArtPace as well as grants, scholorships, public projects and other non-profit art-related initiatives) has appointed an interim executive director. The San Diego-based Kathryn R. Martin is Vice President of Arts Consulting Group, Inc. (ACG), an arts-group management services provider; Martin and ACG have been tasked by LPF's board to "provide interim management services" to the foundation while it launches an international search for a permanent director. Former director Maura Reilly departed LPF in April after serving for less than a year.
According to LPF, "Martin has over 25 years experience leading arts and culture organizations. Since joining ACG in 2003, she has helped numerous organizations strategically move through periods of transition; increasing their earned and contributed income by bringing clarity and focus to their efforts to advance their mission and goals."
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|Welcome to the Pevensey Bay Sailing Club.We are a friendly, family orientated club, about a mile to the east of Eastbourne's Sovereign Harbour. PBSC offers first class sailing water with an unspoilt beachfront location allowing easy access to the water. Pevensey Bay Sailing Club is run by its members and offers general sailing, training at all levels and regular club racing supplemented by a healthy series of social events. We welcome beginners and experienced sailors alike and a variety of dinghy classes are sailed at the club. Our clubhouse offers hot food and a bar at the weekends, often enjoyed by members using our sun terrace overlooking the stunning views over the bay and on towards Bexhill and Hastings. Do come and have a look round the club at any time and for more info click here. If your looking for a venue for your regatta on the Sussex coast, perhaps this review will help. Want to learn to sail? We can take you step by step from an absolute beginner through the RYA pathway. Find out more here
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An Acquired Taste
By TARAS GRESCOE
Published: February 15, 1998
AFTER two weeks of dining at fine French restaurants in Montreal, I had to face it: my palate was getting jaded. At Toque!, the tartare de saumon a l'avocat et ciboulette hadn't been daring enough for me; the next day I'd had to go to Les Caprices de Nicolas and order the poelee d'escargots. At La Marivaude, the calf's brains and quail pie left me unperturbed. When a plate of frogs' legs and a tournedos de cheval raised a yawn, I was about ready to concede that I'd seen -- and eaten -- it all.
Fortunately, a waiter, noticing my torpid reaction to a plate of boudin of wild boar, slipped me an address. The location was problematic, he admitted, the ambiance hardly better than that of a college cafeteria. But the chef, an energetic Malagasy, was the only man in town working with truly original ingredients. ''If Monsieur finds this place boring,'' he added, by way of a guarantee, ''then he must be bored with life.''
After a long metro trip to the Viau Station outside Montreal's immense Olympic Park, however, I was concerned that Monsieur had simply been taken for a ride. Except for a couple of tourists in a funicular rising toward the top of the Olympic Stadium's inclined tower, and the sloth just visible behind a snow-covered skylight in the Biodome's tropical rain-forest habitat, the place was deserted. But then I spotted a long queue outside a cicada-shaped building on the edge of the Botanical Gardens. A poster of a grasshopper pressed into a cream-cheese-covered cracker made it clear that I'd found what I was looking for: Croque-Insectes. Judging from the number of parka-wrapped Montrealers gathered at the threshold, it was also clear that Jean-Louis Themis's kitchen -- open for only nine days a year, in late February and early March, and then only for three hours every afternoon -- was no longer a well-kept secret.
In choosing Montreal's Insectarium, North America's only freestanding museum solely devoted to bugs, as a setting for his gastronomic experiments, Themis has insured that he'll attract only the most adventurous clientele. Who but the daring would dine amid cages filled with live scorpions and walking sticks, with only the hissing of oily-skinned, two-inch-long Madagascar cockroaches as background music? There are no reservations at Croque-Insectes: patrons line up to pay a $4.70 fee that covers a visit to the Insectarium and the prix fixe lunch menu. Nor are there tables: Themis's establishment is more akin to a free-style cocktail party, but here the guests drop crumbs on the Costa Rican tarantula's cage rather than the carpet.
In spite of these idiosyncrasies, Croque-Insectes has been drawing crowds for six years now. Standing behind an apprehensive couple in the line leading to the hors-d'oeuvres table, I pass the safari-jacket-clad founder of the Insectarium, Georges Brossard, who is allowing a cockroach the size of a cocktail sausage to crawl over his knuckles. Eighteen years ago, Brossard, now 56, gave up a thriving career as a notary to pursue his childhood love of insect collecting. He explains that while watching a woman in a Bangkok market tossing live locusts onto a barbecue, something clicked: he realized that he could actually eat many of the insects he'd been shipping back to the Insectarium. ''This one, for example,'' he says, pinching the squirming cockroach between two fingers, ''is delicious with vinegar.'' The couple in front of me, I notice, have quietly left the queue.
It's Brossard who insures that Jean-Louis Themis has a steady supply of insects, shipped frozen from Mexico and Madagascar or raised live in the Insectarium's breeding lab, for his culinary innovations. At the hors-d'oeuvres table, Themis, chubby-cheeked and wearing a toque, presents me with a criquet a la mexicaine. Lightly fried in peanut oil, then sprinkled with oregano, salt and Tabasco, the locust has all the appetizing redness of ground achiote seed. After a moment's hesitation, I ask Themis whether I should eat the head as well as the thorax. ''Tout, tout, tout!'' he insists, so I pop the bug in my mouth, antennae first. Once past the exoskeleton and the fibrous hind legs, the locust is surprisingly creamy and firm, reminiscent of a slightly runny omelet that's been spiked with hot sauce. I notice, however, that the boy next to me, after gravely contemplating the oil stain spreading over his napkin, has surreptitiously let his locust drop onto the floor. Oh well: chacun son gout.
I join a crowd gathered around a maitre d' dressed in a yellow-and-black vest with butterfly wings on the back. As I gnaw on a samosa aux larves de tenebrions -- mealworms in flaky, deep-fried pastry -- he points out that a can of African Mopane worms meets an adult's daily requirements of calcium, phosphorous, iron and vitamin B2 . Holding up a container of formic acid lemonade, he explains that the Chinese eat ants to fight asthma, hepatitis and arthritis.
It takes a bit of courage to approach the next table, where the meal's main course is simmering over a can of Sterno. ''My mother used to make these for me in Madagascar,'' says Themis with a provocative grin, as he drops a few more silkworm nymphs into the wok. Somehow, it's no help knowing that Zanadandy Miendy is an old family recipe, or that the women who work in silk factories in China and India casually eat the chrysalids as they fall out of their unraveling cocoons. Undisguised by pastry, these are clearly, unmistakably, bugs.


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Hard to believe, but it's been 16 years since Michael Phelps put the swimming world on notice by becoming the youngest male to make the US Olympic team in nearly 7 decades.
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Much to the chagrin of Michael Phelps and many of his most rabid fans, Taylor Lianne Chandler seems to have no intention of fading back into obscurity.
Last time we checked in on Taylor Lianne Chandler, she was lashing out at Michael Phelps on social media, even going so far as to compare the Olympic legend to Charlie Sheen.
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Michael Phelps and Nicole Johnson announced today that they're expecting their first child!
Last week, our exclusive interview with Taylor Lianne Chandler provided an insider's perspective on the hotly-debated and often confusing relationship between Chandler and embattled Olympic legend Michael Phelps.
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Novels from fantasist Sean Stewart resemble icebergs: four-fifths of their content is hidden, adding psychological mass that is felt, even if not seen. His seventh novel is his best yet.
Galveston, Texas, is an island already rich in history and eccentric characters when, during Mardi Gras in the year 2004, sudden magic floods the streets. The world is changed--divided between the real city, where technology and its products become unreliable and scarce, and the city doomed to endless carnival, where it is always 2004 and there are still such wonders as cigarettes, cold beer, and aspirin. Twenty years later, three major figures hold the city in precarious balance: Momus, the king of carnival and god of magic; Jane Gardner, ex-lawyer and unofficial mayor, fighting to maintain essential services in the real city; and Odessa, angel and arbiter. When Gardner develops Lou Gehrig's disease, her daughter, Sloane, strikes a desperate bargain with Momus, and the delicate balance is destroyed; cataclysmic change ensues.
Stewart is at his considerable best when he focuses on character. He is able to make metaphor concrete using symbols that, in lesser hands, might be considered simplistic and clichéd. The author is less sure, however, when he attempts to paint a grander canvas: the hurricane towards the end of the book is not strictly necessary, and it flings the novel around a curve that it was perhaps not meant to follow. Despite this, the book has much to offer, with tips on poker, herbal medicine, and island survival to augment the powerful themes of loyalty and luck gliding beneath the surface. --Luc Duplessis --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The return of magic to the world at the dawn of the 21st century split the city of Galveston into two parallel worlds--a "normal" city of survivors and a perpetual Carnival town of magic-touched creatures. When Sloane Gardner discovers how to cross between the two Galvestons, she becomes a link between a father and son whose destinies hold the key to the survival of both worlds. Stewart's (Mockingbird) brand of magical realism combines psychological drama with otherworldly images to create a rich tapestry that lingers long after the end of the tale. For most fantasy or modern fiction collections.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I read this book in an absolute frenzy, even a feverish one. However, as the last 40 pages came up, I began more and more to fear an unsatisfying ending. There were simply too many threads in the air to tie them up right. As those pages dwindled, a whirlwind of events bring things closer to satisfaction, but not enough to begin the stirrings of anger when 10 remained. By the last line, however, he had managed to bring the tale to an understandable close, if not a beautiful finale. I was mad enough that I tossed the book down in disgust, but captivated enough to run back through the pages for minute upon minute after I completed it. I still don't know whether it was the best way to go, but I know that the book as a whole was brilliant, it seriously deserved the WFA, and I just can't stop thinking about it. Please read it, but not if you're looking for the feel-good book of the year.
I'm a great fan of Stewart and his previous works, having been lured into the fold, as it were, by Nobody's Son, and falling in love with his realistic, yet fantastical style of writing. From pure fantasy in Cloud's End and Nobody's Son, to sci fi futures in Passion Play and The Night Watch, to my favorites, these real worlds sick with magic, he's held my imagination and attention.
Galveston, stylistically, is one of the best he's ever written. I cringe as Josh and Ham are stranded on the peninsula, surviving heat and bugs and snake bites, and can almost feel the decaying artificial cool of Sloane's big mansion. The story, like most of his works, is very dense, and will take you a while to read, but is VERY worth it.
Galveston is my second favorite of Stewart's works, right underneath Ressurection Man, and I advise any fan of fantasy or magic-realism to pick it up. It's worth it.
The unpredictable, nonlinear plot kept catching me by surprise. And Stewart's style emphasizes the unpredictability all the more by having crucial, often tragic, events take place in an instant, with little or no warning that a turning-point has arrived. There is no such thing as foreshadowing in this book, or forewarning.
But by giving up foreshadowing--admittedly a powerful literary tool to sacrifice (I'm not sure Stephen King could ever do it!)--Stewart instead creates an odd realism. The reader is always in the moment with all the wonderful characters and their strange environs: various gods, angels, revellers, living dolls, apothecaries, ghosts, prawn men, cannibals,and human citydwellers spread out amongst two versions of Galveston...one all too real and steeped in disaster, and one a place of pent-up fantasy. Sloane and Josh, the two main characters, give the book its human side; most of the rest is intriguingly dangerous or magical, or both.
Based on this and several others I have read by him, Sean Stewart is one of those authors whose book I will buy just from seeing his name on the cover-- I don't even have to read the plot blurb, I know I will like it. You will too if you enjoy a complex look at magic realism with a Southern twist.
This is a story of class distinctions as much as a compelling fantasy. The main charaters Ham, Josh, Sloane and Ace - among others - are people you really want to see surmount the problems they face. It's not just the magic they must deal with. Perhaps the most malevelant forces at play are the old money Galveston residents, members of the Krews (Mardis Gras societies). Many of these folks want to keep things, and people just the way they are and will play dirty, very dirty, to keep the status quo.
This book has it all. Weird creatures, humor, heroes who get banished from Galveston Island only to be confronted with cannibals, and plot twists. The writing gives you a flavor of the land, the sky, the sea. You can almost smell it and taste it.
Other than some information which would have helped "flesh" this out . . . such as what happened to the rest of the world . . . this is quite fanatastic an imaginative. Sean Stewart has done a wonderful job.
Buy this book and enjoy it.
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I like what one of the other reviewers here said when he remarked that this book doesn't end, it just stops. Read morePublished on Jan. 30 2003 by frumiousb
I'll be brief...This book is a sublime experience for any fan of fine dark fantasy. This book is not, however, for the faint of heart. Read morePublished on June 18 2002 by Kindle Customer
Sean Stewart came to my attention with Nobody's Son, and the fresh, adult look that it offered at Fantasy (Hey, I just found a magic sword.... Read morePublished on June 13 2001 by Warren R. Printz, Jr.
Stewart is one of the greats and this is his best book to date. Forget all those hobbit clones. Like Carroll, Gallagher, Mieville and a few others, he is bootstrapping his... Read morePublished on April 30 2001
I've liked all of Sean Stewart's other books, but this one disappointed me. All the usual elements were there, but somehow they didn't fit together right. Read morePublished on Jan. 23 2001
So magic has leaked out into the real world and must be held at bay by a few unlikely heroes: So what? Read morePublished on Jan. 17 2001 by Penner
_Galveston_ is set in the same world as two of Sean Stewart's earlier novels, _Resurrection Man_ and _The Night Watch_, though all three books are set at different times, and... Read morePublished on Oct. 26 2000 by Richard R. Horton


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Leave It Where It Lay
|Complete the level "Two Betrayals" on Legendary difficulty without picking up a new weapon.
This is another one of those good/bad situations. Good news is, you start with a shotgun. Flood problem solved. Bad news is there's a severe shortage of ammo for the weapons in this level and shotguns really aren't that great against the Covenant. Again, you want to let them two factions fight each other and you pick off stragglers whenever possible.
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|Average Rating (Based on 7 votes)
|Comment #1 by xGallade
Friday, October 14, 2011 @ 10:09:21 PM
So we can only use the Shotgun and Plasma weapon throughout the entire mission?
|Comment #2 by Poisonheadcrab
Saturday, October 15, 2011 @ 12:02:04 AM
Oh snap, on Legendary?
...hmm, they actually decided to give us a couple challenging ones, didn't they?
|Comment #3 by zctSIXstring
Saturday, October 15, 2011 @ 03:49:42 AM
Banshee ftw
|Comment #4 by DRNoob
Saturday, October 15, 2011 @ 07:43:55 AM
I hope I don't run out of ammo LOL
|Comment #5 by Darkforce412
Saturday, October 15, 2011 @ 10:44:23 AM
dam some of these achievements are just bullshit.
|Comment #6 by Apendix Nine
Saturday, October 15, 2011 @ 12:27:37 PM
My memory is a bit foggy, but I think you could just play it in co-op. Doing so, you should be able to just kill yourself whenever you need ammo. Or you might get returned to the latest checkpoint, as I don't remember what happens when just one of the co-op players dies on ledgendary.
|Comment #7 by Dave viking
Saturday, October 15, 2011 @ 01:04:56 PM
Cool achievement, this is a tough level, one of my faves though because it has everything. Love the last covenant group that kick the crap outta the flood before the end with two wraiths, hunters, elites with swords woop woop.
|Comment #8 by Spartanwarninja
Saturday, October 15, 2011 @ 07:41:52 PM
This will be a bitch on solo.
|Comment #9 by OclaviusMaximus
Friday, October 21, 2011 @ 10:54:53 AM
Good thing the shotgun is anti-everything. If memory serves me correctly, the hardest part should be getting to the first banshee, past the wraith guarding them.
|Comment #10 by Gen Fire Dragon
Monday, October 24, 2011 @ 10:50:21 PM
@7 Yeah you could kill yourself in co-op and respawn with plasma pistol/AR combo, but then you would have lost your shotgun. Why would you want to lose your shotgun? It was a power weapon in the first Halo.
|Comment #11 by Kaiyo
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 @ 10:35:57 PM
Bandanna Skull will make it easier by alot.
|Comment #12 by faolchu_scath
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 @ 10:12:14 PM
Hardest part is defiantly the last banshee, eventually just ran through and grabbed it ignoring everything else
|Comment #13 by Kuljack
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 @ 11:46:00 PM
Who needs co-op respawns, when they give you the bandana skull. Go-on get your gangsta cheif on with a shotty.
|Comment #14 by furtim elite
Saturday, November 19, 2011 @ 11:02:22 AM
looks like bandanna time =)
|Comment #15 by King Latifah
Saturday, November 19, 2011 @ 11:44:22 AM
Does this mean you can't pick up grenades?
|Comment #16 by Emelious91
Saturday, November 19, 2011 @ 04:34:28 PM
I don´t know why guys are writing, that you could die for ammo. The moment you have another weapon in your hands the achievement disables (friend tried the bug and achievement didn´t pop at the end. Bandana skull would be an easy way to get this.
Until now me and my mate did all achievements on legendary together without a skull and this one is also possible. I think only the challenge makes this game interesting, otherwise you could "cheat" with the skulls and sell the game after 1-2 days^^
|Comment #17 by MoneyFCMike92
Saturday, November 19, 2011 @ 07:12:15 PM
The only thing fucking me up right now is the final battle. I really want to grab a sniper and rocket launcher, and make it a whole hell lot easier, but I guess I'll wait and pray that the rocket-weilding flood takes out the wraiths (maybe even the hunters), and the covenant take out those rocket whores.
|Comment #18 by PackNCheese
Saturday, November 19, 2011 @ 08:59:09 PM
@16 of course you can pick up grenades
@17 wrong, you can die and still get it
@18 get a ghost, use the A button "wheelie" to get over that lip and make a run for the banshee
|Comment #19 by MoneyFCMike92
Saturday, November 19, 2011 @ 10:54:39 PM
@PackNCheese, yeah, I've tried that. I finally got a little lucky and managed to get the banshee without getting killed by the wraiths. I know that a guy did a speed run of this level and got the banshee in decent shape, but I got out of the wraiths and shade turret with only one health bar left. Maybe I could've done that a whole lot cleaner, but I finally got this achievement.
|Comment #20 by SN1P3R VIPER
Sunday, November 20, 2011 @ 01:09:27 AM
Solo = bandana and lots of death but achieve is in the bag.
|Comment #21 by MasterZ
Sunday, November 20, 2011 @ 11:17:29 PM
damn...even with bandana this is gonna b super hard if not nearly impossible to solo. in my personal opinion this is the hardest level in the game
|Comment #22 by HereticZombie
Monday, November 21, 2011 @ 09:54:29 PM
easy with bandana, and co op
|Comment #23 by HereticZombie
Monday, November 21, 2011 @ 09:55:29 PM
easy with bandana, and co op
|Comment #24 by Jaker12587
Wednesday, November 23, 2011 @ 06:58:03 PM
Any suggestions for getting through the last portion of the level to get the banshees? The wraiths and hunters are making it impossible for me to get in one before I die.
|Comment #25 by Rafter88
Saturday, November 26, 2011 @ 02:20:54 AM
Turn on 2 skulls
Infinite ammo
Extra explosive damage =
Lob frag grandees the entire time and unlimited shotgun ammo.
|Comment #26 by TheJolle
Saturday, November 26, 2011 @ 02:33:54 AM
At #25 To get trough the last part, with bunch of elites, wraiths, hunters... Make sure you have full health, then backtrack and grab a Ghost. Then just speed past all the enemies, hop onto Banshee and fly away. Might take few tries but it's the easiest method by far.
|Comment #27 by Evokyr
Saturday, November 26, 2011 @ 07:20:48 PM
lol, i tried it and wow... this achievement is the worst one of the entire game
i play on solo with banadana and boom skull, and even then it´s impossible.
i made it to the 3rd "blabla" thing... was so hard to get to there but it's getting
harder every thime you get a little closer to the end. thanks bungie for making me
do all this bullshit for just 25G :)
|Comment #28 by baboulas
Sunday, November 27, 2011 @ 05:07:02 AM
-Guide to succeed-
Get a second controller, sign in a guest or other profile.
Use bandana skull. Ammo is important in this mission.
Play through the entire level with you guest/other profile, and on your main, commit suicide at certain points to get closer. Use ghost at two points to speed run the elites, grunts and flood, and try to get some help from a person around you, in the second generator room, as it is a pain in the as even with respawing, you'll see what I'm talking about. Anyway. Do this and the achievement will be yours.
|Comment #29 by BadGrunt67
Sunday, November 27, 2011 @ 06:02:41 PM
I just did this legit solo and somehow did not get anything. Sad
|Comment #30 by Veetzs
Friday, December 02, 2011 @ 03:44:27 AM
At #28 you do realise it wasn't Bungie who made this remaster, nor the achievements.
At #26 I always found boom too powerful if you're not careful in the in-your-face areas.
At #29 You don't even need to die, if you use the tunnels between rooms where you can teleport the other player.
|Comment #31 by Tammy Tee
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 @ 02:06:12 PM
Does anyone know if you die and it respawns you with the AR does that take the achievement away from you? It's a new weapon but technically you didn't "pick it up" Lemme know please if you can. :) Thanks!
|Comment #32 by MasterZ
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 @ 10:16:10 PM
holy crap hate this level sooo much. for me this is by far the hardest level in halo ce, being like twice as hard as library.
|Comment #33 by GC328
Friday, December 16, 2011 @ 11:11:05 AM
Guys, I need help with Halo CE co-op on Legendary together with other achievements. I got the bandana skull so it'll be easier. Let me know if you want ot coop with me. My gamertag is GC328. Message me on Xbox Live. I'm free most evenings after 7pm (Central)
|Comment #34 by Xynthoan
Sunday, December 18, 2011 @ 04:53:17 PM
19: You can do that? Sheesh; and I just tried getting there on foot and died a bunch (still made it via solo).
Okay, I did this on solo and it took me only three days. Method: bandana skull and for those of you who got the pre-order game should also use the Grunt Funeral.
Grenades are one key tactic to use; mainly frag. Throw a bunch to attempt to hit enemies far off in hallways and bridges.
For the first Wairth, try taking that out with your plasma pistol. It takes a while but it'll give you something less to worry about when going for the first Banshee.
I'd say the two hardest parts I had with the level was the second generator, getting the second and third Banshees.
Getting those two banshees can be difficult because the enemies are concentrated in the area; even when you get the
|Comment #35 by Xynthoan
Sunday, December 18, 2011 @ 05:00:39 PM
*even when you get the banshee you have to get out fast as the enemy will still fire at you (third banshee I got out with only one health bar left for the ship).
When doing the second generator you willencounter the flood. Orfourse eliminate them but before you go into the generator, infection forms (the little ones) will appear in the back. Take them out first. When you disable the generator, run to the back of the room as flood will come out of the exit door (one has a rocket). Let your shields regenerate and use grenades, but have your shotgun out if some combat forms charge you.
After that fly your banshee, fly below the peak of the island and take out any banshees that may be slying around and proceed through the tunnel , still flying. (for those of you who may not have thought of t
|Comment #36 by Xynthoan
Sunday, December 18, 2011 @ 05:09:58 PM
*still flying. (for those of you who may not have thought of this strategy).
When going for the last banshee, stick to the right wall of the canyon. Do not attack any enemies except for the ones that will attack you after the first big rock (the wraith will take too long so you may as will just avoid it's fire).
Your shields will likely be low when you get to the banshees, so hide behind the big rock next to the banshees to regenerate. Run to the banshee and fly away as fast as you can.
If your banshee is low on health when you get out, know that sentinals will come out of the door leading to the third generator. If that's the case then just land your banshee next to the door and avoid the sentinals by running into the door; they will not follow once the door closes.
After all that, th
|Comment #37 by Xynthoan
Sunday, December 18, 2011 @ 07:24:50 PM
*After all that, there are not more enemies, you watch the cutscene, and the achievement is yours.
|Comment #38 by Banana Smurfer
Sunday, January 01, 2012 @ 07:58:44 AM
If anyone is able to run this on Legendary with me, I'd like to knock this and Look Out For The Little Guys out at the same time. I have all the skulls if needed. Gamertag is Banana Smurfer.
|Comment #39 by FLAMINGDOG2000
Monday, January 02, 2012 @ 12:29:57 AM
I need help with this achievement and a couple more so if u need help or u want to help me send me a meesage and we will do it right away
|Comment #40 by Downfall360
Monday, January 02, 2012 @ 10:08:34 PM
the sniper rifle in the beginning of the level just pisses me off because of this achievements.
|Comment #41 by friedeggs069
Tuesday, January 03, 2012 @ 12:09:27 PM
To make it clear! If you die on co-op it DISABLES the achievement! but im not sure if you DIE on solo u can still get it! Im still trying to confirm it! But for now dont die on co-op if your trying to get it!
|Comment #42 by friedeggs069
Tuesday, January 03, 2012 @ 01:36:11 PM
confirmed!! just got achievement!!! the hardest part in my opionion was the part where you cross a bridge and there is another bridge across from it w/ flood on it and 2 banshees circuling around it! you can die on solo!
|Comment #43 by combustible lemon
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 @ 11:36:18 AM
on solo with infinite grenades and every death you spawn with a shotty is easier imo than co op where once you are dead you have to make do with that piece-o-crap assault rifle that is next to useless on legendary
|Comment #44 by Distractor08
Saturday, January 14, 2012 @ 02:08:40 PM
Well I just got this done. Bandana is a MUST and i decided to use boom as well. The good part about boom is it will take out the elites very quickly. The bad part is the wraith's blast range becomes huge and destructive. To avoid this I use a ghost and bypass it (had to kill the first one though, everything else can be passed).
|Comment #45 by Mr BOND 3535
Sunday, January 15, 2012 @ 10:09:01 PM
Looking for somebody to do the grunt one with but I'll help on this one as well. I have all the skulls GT Mr BOND 3535
|Comment #46 by Noob in the Sky
Sunday, January 22, 2012 @ 01:41:35 PM
I'm pretty sure they meant for everyone to use Bandana on this one. Plasma pistol is perfect for the sentinels at the start and finish, shotgun brings the flood down with ease, the covenant mainly get blown up by grenades. Once you take care of the first Wraith and board the banshee it's all downhill from there.
|Comment #47 by KennedyENG
Wednesday, February 08, 2012 @ 07:09:40 PM
just use 2 controllers
|Comment #48 by Pelo
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 @ 09:09:29 PM
@ #41 Thank you, I was going to try this co-op and wasnt sure if we'd have to reload the checkpoint if one of us die.
|Comment #49 by Jake12137
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 @ 09:39:46 AM
I managed to do this solo without changing. Hurrah for infinitive grenades from a distance. Took me about an hour and a half (I think, kinda lost track of time)...
|Comment #50 by Selvil
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 @ 08:46:59 AM
Infinite grenades makes this one a cake walk.
|Comment #51 by Diabologey
Saturday, July 07, 2012 @ 12:37:53 PM
Looking for help with these Achievements:
That Just Happened
Speed Reader
Look Out for the Little Guys
Leave It Where It Lay
Tying Up Loose Ends
Message me on Xbox and we can knock these out together.
Gamertag: Diabologey
|Comment #52 by Zylost
Sunday, July 22, 2012 @ 11:44:12 AM
Hard To Get This One... Im A Newbie
|Comment #53 by E vee dub
Wednesday, August 08, 2012 @ 10:04:43 PM
Not very fun, even with the BANDANNA skull on.
Challenging for sure.
But achievement unlocked.
|Comment #54 by Masterwonka
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 @ 11:56:42 PM
Activate the grunt skull, infinite ammo and explosion multiplier and have fun getting this. Im on it as I type this (This time not getting my ass handed to me)
|Comment #55 by GDX
Saturday, September 08, 2012 @ 05:13:09 PM
I solo'ed this using the following skulls:
Grunt Birthday Party
At the final battle I've used the ghost and stucked to the right wall. I flew behind the right wraith to the rocks behind the bungies (if u fly straight to the bungies, you are most likely going to get killed by a wraith). I got out, jumped through the small V-shape between the rocks, entered a bungie and got out with 5 health bars remaining on my bungie.
I've tried killing the wraiths but I declared it impossible.
|Comment #56 by Squishyfishyum
Saturday, October 20, 2012 @ 09:43:46 PM
Picking up a weapon automatically disables the achievement even if you die or go back to the last checkpoint.
|Comment #57 by xxhiddenxx
Saturday, November 03, 2012 @ 08:50:21 AM
i need help with this too GT: hidden assasin6
|Comment #58 by El3ctricBac0n
Friday, November 23, 2012 @ 11:29:30 AM
i think wraiths have a weak spot in the back of them where the circle thingy is just try to sneak up on them and shoot them with the shotgun there
|Comment #59 by Vicousvern
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 @ 03:53:16 AM
Tried this yesterday solo, completed the level and didn't get it because of that turned over Warthog at the bottom of the spiral slope nearing the end. I went to flip it and picked up a rifle, still not the hardest achievement ever, will try again soon enough.
|Comment #60 by BlazingNoble
Tuesday, April 09, 2013 @ 06:40:26 AM
did the 2 of these today on my 3rd try. if you are strugling the hard part is done, you should know the lay of the level. now put it on legendary and kill everything on controller 2, at certain points you may need controller 1 (your profile) to grenade suicide so he catches up to controller 2. took me an hour or so. very do-able just stick at it keep killing everything with bandana skull infinate ammo and the 2 achievments for this level are yours
|Comment #61 by BlazingNoble
Tuesday, April 09, 2013 @ 06:42:15 AM
btw keep sniper you get up the tower at the start for the whole time to make life way easier for you, if you die and lose it go back to your body and get it or its gone
|Comment #62 by Portense
Monday, May 27, 2013 @ 08:28:18 PM
Looking for someone to partner up and get this achievement, will help with other achievements - Gamertag: Portense
|Comment #63 by D86
Monday, January 27, 2014 @ 03:43:44 PM
lookin for someone to help with this gt: xD86x
|Comment #64 by narukirageta
Thursday, January 30, 2014 @ 12:22:47 AM
does anyone know if your partner picks up a weapon does that null and void the achievement?
|Comment #65 by Micky1991
Thursday, April 24, 2014 @ 09:37:41 PM
Can sumone help me with this
|Comment #66 by Micky1991
Sunday, July 13, 2014 @ 10:55:26 PM
Need These 2 Done On Legendary
343 Guilty Spark and Two Betrayals
and I Would Be Graveful If Someone Will Help me With These Achievements
That Just Happened
Look Out for the Little Guys
Leave It Where It Lay
and Last Skull On Maw Add Me GT : SLAY3R2014
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This research was carried out under project number MC2.05235 in the research program of the Materials Innovation Institute M2i (www.m2i.nl). The authors are grateful to Marc van Maris for his assistance in conducting experiments.
An In Situ Experimental-Numerical Approach for Characterization and Prediction of Interface Delamination: Application to CuLF-MCE Systems†
Version of Record online: 8 AUG 2012
DOI: 10.1002/adem.201200110
Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Advanced Engineering Materials
Special Issue: Nanostructured Materials
Volume 14, Issue 11, pages 1034–1041, November 2012
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How to Cite
Kolluri, M., Hoefnagels, J. P. M., Samimi, M., van Dommelen, H., van der Sluis, O. and Geers, M. G. D. (2012), An In Situ Experimental-Numerical Approach for Characterization and Prediction of Interface Delamination: Application to CuLF-MCE Systems. Adv. Eng. Mater., 14: 1034–1041. doi: 10.1002/adem.201200110
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Publication History
- Issue online: 2 NOV 2012
- Version of Record online: 8 AUG 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: 25 JUN 2012
- Manuscript Received: 15 MAR 2012
- Abstract
- Article
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Prevention of delamination failures by improved design calls for accurate characterization and prediction of mixed-mode interface delamination. In this paper, a combined in situ experimental-numerical approach is presented to fully characterize the interface behavior for delamination prediction. The approach is demonstrated on two types of industrially-relevant interface samples – coated copper lead frame-black molding compound epoxy and uncoated copper lead frame-white molding compound epoxy, – for which the delamination behavior is characterized in detail using a miniaturized in situ SEM mixed-mode bending setup and simulated using a newly developed self-adaptive cohesive zone (CZ) finite element framework. To this end, mixed-mode load-displacement responses, fracture toughness versus mode angle trends, and real-time microscopic observations of the delamination front are analyzed to determine all CZ parameters. The various simulation results are found to be in agreement with experiments for the range of mode mixities accessible, demonstrating the ability of the characterization procedure to accurately obtain the cohesive properties of different interfaces, as well as the stability and efficiency of the self-adaptive CZ framework.


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Full name Trevor Frederick Cox
Born October 9, 1954, Taplow, Buckinghamshire
Current age 61 years 294 days
Nickname Cox'y
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The two journals Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, physique théorique and Helvetica Physical Acta have merged into a single new journal under the name Annales Henri Poincaré - A Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics edited jointly by the Institut Henri Poincaré and by the Swiss Physical Society.
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Understanding Levels of Evidence
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Adrenal Problems
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Keeping Malpractice Allegations at Bay
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Discovery: Finding Insights and Each Other in Different Disciplines
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Romantic Love
Sleepless nights, anxiety, mood swings, euphoric energy bursts, obsessive thinking, and a strange feeling in his chest. That is what Matt was experiencing when he first entered my practice. Rather than being concerned, he was loving every minute of it.
A Different Way of Looking at It
The way you and your chiropractic colleagues access information has changed over the past decade. According to a recent survey conducted by Dynamic Chiropractic, almost half (48 percent) of DCs read online articles on their personal computer or laptop daily.
With Low-Back Pain, Sometimes Little Things Matter
Typical treatments for low back pain involve large muscles like the quadratus lumborum, iliopsoas, and piriformis. However, there are situations when a very small muscle, the multifidus, can play a significant role in the diagnosis and treatment of low back muscular or spinal injury.
Building Bridges with Discipline
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Distal Style Treatment of Neurogenic Pain
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Finger (Pad) Pointing: Repetitive-Use Injury Waiting to Happen
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Living Well: Lessons From Our Oldest Old
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A Whole-Body Approach to Chronic Tension Headaches
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Gestational Diabetes: Does She or Doesn't She?
By Elaine Stillerman, LMT
Nearly every pregnant woman is tested for gestational diabetes (GD) (or gestational glucose intolerance - GGI) at some point during her second trimester. But what constitutes a "normal" blood glucose level during pregnancy and when maternal or fetal morbidity occurs is controversial.
What is evident in cases of confirmed gestational diabetes is that babies grow larger, weighing over 4000g at birth (fetal macrosomia) or are in the 90th percentile for large-for gestational-age (LGA). And that often increases the likelihood of a surgical delivery and newborn monitoring for hypoglycemia. In the long term, these elevated levels appear to contribute to obesity and diabetes later in the child's life and an increase in the risk of the mother developing type 2 diabetes. On average, however, the rate of confirmed glucose intolerance is small and varies among different ethnic groups. Caucasian women are affected 1% to 2%, Afro-Caribbeans 2% to 3%, and Asians 4% to 5%.
The etiology of defining GD as a medical condition began in the 1950s with a study on women with high sugar values during pregnancy. It was "validated" in 1964 when Drs. O'Sullivan and Mahan, medical researchers, performed a 100g 3-hour oral glucose tolerance test on more than 700 pregnant women who were already hyperglycemic. Their study was to determine if these women were at greater risk of developing diabetes in the future. To no one's surprise, they were. And that led these two men to conclude that the "metabolic stress of pregnancy" exposed women to a "pre-diabetic status." But keep in mind, their research subjects had preexisting high blood glucose levels.
They also made an erroneous correlation that since insulin-dependent diabetes is a known risk to developing babies, this "pre-diabetic status" was as well. But their theory is unfounded. Diabetes types 1 and 2 are completely different in their manifestations and dangers than GD (GGI). For instance, both type 1 and 2 may result in blood vessel and kidney damage, the sequelae of which could be hypertension, insufficient circulation to the lower extremities, possible limb amputation and kidney disease. GD carries none of these risks.
Vacillating levels of high and low blood sugar during early pregnancy in type 1 diabetes might cause congenital malformations or miscarriage. Again, none of these serious complications are caused by GD. The only thing diabetes 1 and 2 share with GD is that the excess glucose goes directly to the babies, making them larger than they would be without the elevated blood sugar levels.
During pregnancy, the pancreas usually produces adequate amounts of insulin to regulate blood sugar levels. However, the hormone HPL (human placental lactogen) inhibits the maternal body's ability to transport the insulin properly out of the bloodstream and into cells, where it is used as fuel, resulting in elevated levels of glucose in the blood - or GD. So, in essence, there is more circulating blood sugar which the baby uses to grow and develop. And as pregnancy progresses, this delicate balance between adequate insulin levels and circulating blood sugar becomes trickier. After eating, blood sugar levels rise and by the time the third trimester comes, blood glucose levels are higher after eating than a woman who is not pregnant. (After a night's sleep, excess insulin goes to work to balance out the extra blood sugar, so morning levels of glucose are actually lower during pregnancy than in nonpregnant women - hypoglycemia.)
But there is a difference between elevated blood sugar levels and diabetes. And current research has not determined when high blood glucose levels, just shy of diabetes, cause harm to mothers and their babies. So screening for GD should come with an understanding, by both mother and her care provider, that the results may or may not be an indication of a serious problem.
Women can actively participate in their health during pregnancy by eating healthy, wholesome foods. They can avoid or control GD by consuming a diet rich in whole foods, high protein and high complex carbohydrates. They can start by eliminating empty calories - soda, white flour, white sugar, fructose and limit sweet desserts. Any food with a sugar content of more than 6 grams (read the label) should be accompanied by a protein source. Milk, often recommended by care providers for the necessary calcium it provides, and yogurt are filled with (milk) sugar and lactose is known to increase blood sugar levels. So consuming excessive dairy products might be contributing to high glucose values.
When eating cereals, the protein and fiber content should be more than 5g per serving and there should be less than 10g of sugar. One third of protein should come from complex carbohydrates. A glycemic index will help some women make healthier choices. And think color when it comes to food choices - the more varied and deeper the pallet, the healthier meals will be.
Clients with GD can still enjoy the benefits of massage. However, it is important to remember that massage, in general, lowers glucose levels. So you have to make sure your client's blood sugar level doesn't get too low, which can lead to impaired judgment and potential accidents. By providing your clients with a nourishing snack, it will raise their blood glucose level enough to get home safely where they can enjoy a healthful, wholesome meal.
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