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V/H/S/2 ¬ Review
Some of the best sequels aspire to be bigger and crazier than its predecessor and that point could not be more on the nose when it comes to V/H/S/2. The original found footage anthology was a mixed bag of horror shorts that in retrospect I may have ranked higher than I should have- but that's only because the sequel makes it pale in comparison. Where V/H/S clocked in with maybe two very solid entries and the rest cause it to drag quite a bit, V/H/S/2 is shorter and each short moves like a freight train of balls to the wall horror and even some fun laughs.
Tape 49 (Director: Simon Barrett)
This short is the wraparound segment that follows two private investigators sent in to the apartment of a missing college student to find clues of his whereabouts and inside they find a room full of static screen TVs, a laptop and a stack of VHS tapes. The investigators start watching the tapes (which are each of the other shorts we watch throughout) and find that there might be something a little freakier going down than just a run of the mill missing persons case.
This time around the wraparound works immensely more than it did in the first film and actually hints at why its important that we are watching these tremendously messed up tapes. The acting leaves a little to be desired, but overall it works as a means to hold the film as a whole together.
Phase I Clinical Trials (Director: Adam Wingard)
Wingard also stars as a man that gets an experimental prosthetic eye implant that has also been fitted with a camera to record data for the folks responsible for making it. The problem with the new eye is that it is prone to glitches, which sounds simple enough, except the glitches in this case are visions of dead people that are becoming increasingly violent the more he sees them.
Aside from the wraparound this was actually a great opening for the anthology. The weakest part of it is the acting, which I can overlook thanks to the quick pace and really creepy imagery. The idea is solid, the execution is pretty great, it's really only the performances that drag it down a bit- but at the same time there are even some decent laughs in the midst of the creepyness.
A Ride in the Park (Directors: Eduardo Sanchez & Gregg Hale)
Eduardo Sanchez returns to the woods with this little short that has a different take on the zombie genre as a young man straps a camera to his bike helmet to capture his wicked bike skills only to unwittingly get caught in a burgeoning zombie apocalypse. When he's bit the camera then switches from sweet bike tricks to showing a zombie on a killing spree.
I'll say right now this is my least favorite of the bunch- not to say that I didn't like it though. For the most part it felt pretty silly to me and there seemed to be some unintentional comedy in the first few scenes of people turning from just plain dead to zombie. I did like how the found footage aspect of it captures a new zombie going through learning to be a zombie, by realizing they can't just eat their own flesh, or other objects they can't eat. The last little twist is what I think stretches what exactly zombies can and can't do, but it was kind of effective for me.
Safe Haven (Directors: Gareth Evans & Timo Tjahjanto)
This wicked little short follows a group of investigative journalists interviewing a man known as Father, the leader of an Indonesian cult that believes he holds the key to immortality. During the interview the journalists convince Father to let them visit the compound where he and his followers live in order to give a fair perspective of their way of life.
Don't want to give too much away on this one, hence why I cut the synopsis short. This is easily the gem of V/H/S/2, yet there's still a moment right at the very end that I wasn't in love with. This short builds so spectacularly that once sh*t hits the fan its one WTF moment after another. The scope for this short is so wide that it almost doesn't seem like it should work, but it works so well that there are moments of the final act I can't get out if my head.
Slumber Party Alien Abduction (Director: Jason Eisner)
The final segment follows a group of friends having a sleepover while the parents are out. In the midst of pulling pranks on the oldest sibling of the house their fun is interrupted when they begin getting stalked by aliens looking to, like the title says, abduct them.
My second favorite segment of the bunch- could have really had the potential to compete for a top spot had the aliens not been shown near as much, been a little shorter and the final shot been omitted. It builds beautifully with really quick and ominous shots of aliens lurking in the background, but once we get about halfway in there are way too many shots of them giving more time to kind of dampen the mystery of the threat and look a little too much like people in bad grey body suits and rubber alien masks. The seams do show a bit which knocks down the quality a bit, but the visceral thrills of the chasing and the sound design are more than enough to make me forgive my complaints for the most part.
Each short has the do it yourself spirit that I love about found footage movies, but shorts like Safe Haven take it that extra step to really make the experience incredible. There's plenty of cheese and humor dispersed through all the segments to offset the more splatter heavy moments. This is a sequel that improves mightily on the structure the original built and also comes out feeling less like a snuff film and more like a fun haunted house type of horror film.
Compared to the original this is leaps and bounds above what that film was aiming for. Watched back to back there'd have been no way I could rate V/H/S quite as high as the sequel- the segments in V/H/S/2 are more thought out, funnier and overall just of higher quality. Granted that I am acknowledging the two of them have their flaws, but when the stories within are operating on all cylinders the films can really pack a punch. V/H/S/2 is a cinematic horror heavyweight that's more than ready to knock audiences on their ass.
Rating: 9/10
Written By: Luke (@CrummyLuke on Twitter)
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TLM Bible Studies & Groups
Various Bible Studies are currently offered at TLC in addition to our small group studies.
Monday Mornings - Coffee & Christ meets at 9:30am at Ryan's Restaurant in Grass Lake, MI.
Tuesday Mornings - Life Light Bible Study at 1:00pm at Carolyn Liechti's Home
Wednesday Afternoons - Erber Bible Study Group meets at 1:00pm at TLC in the "Narthex".
Evenings - Women's Study at 7:00pm at the Frustis' Home
Thursday Mornings - Early Riser's Bible Study meets at 7:00am at TLC in the "Board Room" and are studying Psalms.
Saturday Evening - Adult Bible Study meets at 5:00pm at TLC prior to worship in "Emma Stowe Hall".
Sunday Morning - Adult Bible Study meets at 9:15am at TLC in "Emma Stowe Hall".
- PK3 - 3rd Grade meets at 9:15am at TLC in the "Blue Room".
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This luxury event at Hotel Cala di Volpe in Sardinia is a masterpiece by top event designer Vincenzo Dascanio. The party, a bar mitzvah on the shore of the exclusive Hotel Cala di Volpe. 200+ guests from New York take the hotel for their celebrations. The structures where the festivities are held are built on the sand. So, when you look at the pictures you need to imagine that beforehand there was nothing there but sand and scrubby grass.
Three days events take place in different locations. Including, a cool beach party in Sardinia and an elegant lunchtime pool party. The images only show the settings, decor, and environments in order to preserve the client's privacy.
Hotel Cala di Volpe is a stunning location. It offers privacy and luxury and is right in the middle of the Costa Smeralda, an incredible stretch of beautiful Sardinian coastline.
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The Grosseto is in southern Tuscany in the area known as the Maremma. It forms and is the capital city for the province of Grosseto. The small historical center is surrounded by massive walls built by the Medici in the 16th century and which are still in very good conditions. While not high on the list of many visitor's itineraries, we do suggest visiting the small town and it's main Piazza Dante where you'll find Palazzo Comunale, the Palazzo Aldobrandeschi and the cathedral known as the Duomo, dedicated to San Lorenzo.
The province of Grosseto offers many beautiful landscapes and destinations, many tied to the sea and its coast but many inland charming villages also dot the region and merit your time. Close to Grosseto, if you love history, we suggest a visit to the well-preserved archaeological area of Roselle, then spending a day of relax at the thermal baths of Saturnia (either outdoors in the waterfall or in the luxurious spa establishment), or heading to the towns of Castiglione della Pescaia and Sorano for some time along the coast and shopping.
Grosseto offers a wide variety of places, something for everyone - read the more in detalied description on the right column to read more about what to see and do in Grosseto.
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Villa IsabellaOnline
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- Location: Marina di Grosseto (Seaside)
- Daily price: From € 57 to € 115
A lovely casale in Marina di Grosseto from which you can reach cycling the seaside, the bikes are offered by the structure. The countryside is all around and in the air you can enjoy the smell of the sea. 10 minutes to get to Castiglione della Pescaia.
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- Location: Marina di Grosseto (Seaside)
- Daily price: From € 81 to € 254
This simply beautiful hotel is located a few km from Maremma Natural Park and offers modern, air-conditioned accommodation with in-room TV and a private beach. At guests' disposal, a marvellous wellness center with indoor and outdoor swimming pools.
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- Location: Marina di Grosseto (Seaside)
- Daily price: From € 96 to € 250
This hotel, very close to a private beach that guests may benefit of (at special rates), offers air-conditioned rooms with balcony and free internet connection, an Italian buffet breakfast and a typical Tuscan restaurant for tasting local dishes.
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- Location: Grosseto (Seaside)
- Daily price: From € 80 to € 440
- Weekly price: From € 420 to € 2800
Charming resort nestled in the natural setting of the Maremma in Tuscany, a few kilometers from the sea and Castiglione della Pescaia. Exclusive apartments and rooms offering all of the best comforts, including swimming pool & golf practice green.
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- Location: Marina di Grosseto (Seaside)
- Daily price: From € 47 to € 180
Camping Le Marze offers seaside accommodation and pitches for tents between Marina di Grosseto and Castiglione della Pescaia. All lodgings are air conditioned and provided with all modern comforts. Pool, restaurant & playing area for children.
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Close to Roccastrada, this welcoming farmhouse offers a refreshing pool, landscapes full of vineyards and olive trees and a small lake where fishing. Here guests can taste the products of the farm and reach the sea of Follonica in 30 minutes.
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A camping on the Tyrrhenian Sea, 3km from Castiglion della Pescaia. A holiday at the sea in indepentent cottages and private beach. Not far from the Natural Park of Maremma and Saturnia Thermal Baths, they also organize trips to the main tuscan cities.
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Surrounded by the smell of flowers and aromatic plants, the B&B located in Maremma 25 km from Grosseto, embraces a whole valley from which you can discern the Mount Argentario in the distance. Charming furnishings and a mosaic pool to cap it all.
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Set in an ideal position to discover both the seaside as well tourist cities, the farmhouse is in Gavoranno only 12 km from Follonica. Here the staff organizes riding tours to explore the surrounded countryside.
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This resort boasts welcoming bungalows and a comprehensive host of leisure and sports facilities in an enchanting context of pinewoods, just a five-minute walk from the beach. For your relax massage facilities and a swimming pool.
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- Location: Scarlino (Countryside,Seaside)
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This typical Tuscan village offering independent and fully equipped apartments is set in the Maremma countryside, at a short distance from Scarlino beach. It features an amazing garden and a restaurant serving local dishes and overlooking the pool.
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Wooden bungalows, private beach with shuttle service, restaurant, pizzeria, pool and many more. The camping is located in Scarlino 6 km from the beaches of Puntone and only 15 minutes from Follonica and its beautiful blue sea.
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A villa in the very countryside of Maremma, 5 minutes from Cinigiano. Here all the relax you need, you can get fresh by the pool or hike through the all around vineyards and green hills. Just 35 km to get to the lovely Val d'Orcia!
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A characteristic accommodation set in a 12th century monastery in Massa Marittima. Perfect for living an authentic tuscan stay: typical restaurant, pool, wooden furnishings and bike rental, only 25 minutes from the beaches of Follonica.
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Located in Scarlino, only 9 km from the lovely beaches of Follonica, this vacation home offers 3 apartments with kitchen in country style, surrounded by a huge garden. Here guest spend a stay dedicated to relax, a few steps from the seaside in Maremma.


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From DOTS to the Stop TB Strategy: DOTS coverage and trend of tuberculosis notification in Ebonyi, southeastern Nigeria, 1998 – 2009
From DOTS to the Stop TB Strategy: DOTS coverage and trend of tuberculosis notification in Ebonyi, southeastern Nigeria, 1998 – 2009
Ukwaja Kingsley1,2,&, Alobu Isaac1,2, Ifebunandu Ngozi3, Osakwe Chijioke4, Igwenyi Chika1
1Department of Internal Medicine, Ebonyi State University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria, 2National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Program, Ministry of Health, Ebonyi State Nigeria, 3Department of Medicine, Federal Medical Centre Abakaliki, Nigeria, 4World Health Organisation, Southeast zone, Nigeria
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Ukwaja Kingsley, Department of Internal Medicine, Ebonyi State University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki, PO Box 06, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading infectious cause of death amongst adults in Sub-Saharan Africa. The situation is fuelled by extreme poverty, weak political will, inadequate human resource, weak health systems, inadequate financing of control measures, poor laboratory services, drug-resistant TB; and, in the last two decades, due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic [1]. In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared tuberculosis a global emergency and introduced the directly observed treatment, short course (DOTS), strategy for global tuberculosis control [2]. Achieving the DOTS strategy is believed to be the most effective route to TB control. Thus, the total number of countries implementing DOTS increased steadily from 1995 to 2003, and has since remained stable at around 180 countries [3].
Studies from resource-poor settings in Asia had demonstrated that DOTS is effective for TB control [4,5]. But, DOTS strategy has produced variable success in Africa with some experts worried that the strategy has failed [6,7]. With estimated new cases of TB at 460, 000 in 2009, Nigeria ranks fourth among the 22 high TB burden countries in the world [8]. The Nigerian National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme (NTBLCP) have adopted the DOTS strategy and 99% geographic coverage had been achieved by 2008 [8,9]. Existing data on the population-level notification rate for TB in Nigeria are lacking, those available are derived largely from hospital data [10,11]. Such data are often incomplete and do not define the relationship within individual populations bearing the brunt of disease. Insights on the performance of the DOTS strategy in populations can be derived from case-notification dynamics in well-defined populations [7].
Although DOTS has been implemented in Ebonyi State, Southeast Nigeria since 1996, its performance, including trends in TB cases notified has not been evaluated. Also, although The WHO – African Region: Strategic plan for TB Control for the African region: 2006 – 2010 [1], recommended that the trend of tuberculosis disease be determined in high burden African countries by 2010, we found no population-based study on the trend of TB notification in Nigeria. We therefore, investigated the impact of the implementation and expansion of DOTS on the epidemiological changes in TB notifications in Ebonyi state, during 1998 – 2009. The study objective was to document the case notification and type of TB dynamics following DOTS expansion, and to examine age- and sex-specific trends in TB notification rate in the state. Such information may provide a scientific basis for any modification of present TB – control strategies.
Study setting
Ebonyi state is located in the southeast geopolitical zone of Nigeria with an estimated population of over 2.5 million people [12]. The state has 13 local government areas (LGA) with 130 health care facilities currently providing DOTS services. All treatment units have standard unit registers from the NTBLCP. Each LGA have a Tuberculosis and Leprosy (TBL) control supervisor responsible for managing and coordinating TB and leprosy control activities as well as keeping up-to-date and accurate record of activities of TB and leprosy control activities in the LGA. They also provide monthly report to the State TBL control officer whose responsibilities among others include collection, collation and analysis of data on leprosy and TB activities in the state and dissemination of reports to the Federal Ministry of Health as well as other organizations as appropriate.
The NTBLCP uses the WHO-recommended recording and reporting guidelines and forms for monitoring and evaluation of programme activities. Briefly, patients' with clinical features suggestive of TB are screened for confirmation of the diagnosis and initiation of treatment. Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) suspects submit three sputum samples (spot-morning-spot). Smears are graded according to the guidelines of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and to the recommendations of the National Workers Manual [9] Patients with at least two positive smears are considered smear-positive and those with three negative smears are treated with antibiotics and then re-evaluated. The diagnosis of extra-pulmonary TB (EPTB) is usually made clinically by a medical officer [9].
Design and data collection
We undertook a retrospective trend analysis of case notification data notified by each of the LGA to the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme office, Ministry of Health, Ebonyi State during 1998 - 2009. The quarterly reports reviewed contained basic information such as patient´s age, sex, treatment category, and TB type.
Statistical analysis
The collected data were recorded and analysed using Microsoft Excel Templates for the analysis and presentation of tuberculosis epidemiologic data provided by the WHO TB Epidemiology and Surveillance Virtual Workshop [13]. Denominators for rate calculations were based on extrapolations of the 2006 population census data, assuming a linear trend in age- and sex-specific distributions over the study period. The outcome variables were DOTS coverage (number of DOTS centre), number of cases and type of TB notified yearly, the case notification rate, and the age- and sex-specific trends in TB notification rate.
Ethical Approval
Ethical approval was not required as the survey was based on retrospective data and this report is part of standard public health practice. Permission to publish this report was granted by the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme office, Ministry of Health, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.
Over the 12-year period from 1998 to 2009, 24 475 patients with all forms of TB were notified. Of these, 66% were smear-positive, 31% smear-negative and 3% EPTB. Although the proportion of smear-positive and smear-negative cases overall varied during the period; the proportion of new smear-positive cases decreased consistently from 67% in 2003 to 48% in 2009. And, the proportion of smear-negative cases increased from 23% in 2003 to 40% in 2009 (Table 1). The proportion of extra-pulmonary TB notified remained consistently below 3% but during 2007 to 2009 it has risen to 4 – 5%. Similarly, the proportion of relapses, treatment failure, return-after-default, and others remained below 5%.
Although the case notification rate varied initially; there was a mean annual decline of 3.1% for all TB cases notified (falling from 123/100 000 in 2000 to 77/100 000 in 2009) (Table 2), and of 5% for smear-positive patients (falling from 80/100 000 in 2000 to 32/100 000 in 2008) (Table 2). Also, although the total number of TB cases notified yearly varied during the period (1809 – 2312), the increase in TB cases notified correlated with the decentralisation and expansion of the DOTS services to more health facilities, which increased from 17 in 1998 to 102 in 2009 (R2 = 0.63).
Comparison of national census data from 1988 with data obtained in 2006 showed that the age-sex composition of the population had not changed significantly. Subsequent analysis of the age-specific distribution of TB notifications showed that the rate of smear-positive TB was low in the 0–14 age groups, but increased in the 15–24, and 25–44 years age groups. However, in the group of 65-year-olds or over, the rate leveled off (Figure 1). Age-dependent TB rates also showed a decline over time, but with a constant relative peak in the 25–34 years age group (Figure 1). In 2008, the 25–34 and 45–54 years age group had the highest notification rates.
Overall, more smear-positive cases were notified in males than females with peaks in 1998 of 277/100 000 (male population) and 115/100 000 (female population) respectively. In males, the 25–34 years age groups had the highest smear-positive notification rates, but in 2008, smear positive notification rates were also high in the 45–54 years age group before a decline in older patients (Figure 2). Similarly, in females, the 25–34 years age groups had the highest smear-positive notification rates before a relative decrease over time in older females (Figure 3).
One of the major aims of a TB control programme is to notify as many cases as possible. Implementing the DOTS strategy is believed to be a key strategy to achieving this goal [14]. The present study shows that, with the expansion of DOTS services, there was an overall increase in the number of TB cases notified. The State Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme (STBLCP) and the German Leprosy Relief Association initially introduced DOTS in only a few LGAs following this by systematic scale-up, introducing more LGAs and public health facilities into the programme every year. Full LGA coverage was achieved in 2005 – nine years after the creation of the state and introduction of DOTS in the region. Although some newly constructed clinics and most private health facilities in the state are yet to be reached by the programme, this stepwise scale-up is critically important in ensuring judicious utilization of scarce resources and incorporating lessons learnt from the challenges that emerged in the course of expansion [14].
Unlike previous report from other African countries [6,14,15], as well as National figures for Nigeria which shows an increasing trend in all and smear-positive TB notification rate [3,8], we observed a decreasing trend in all and smear-positive TB notification rate in Ebonyi since 1998. Much of the decrease probably reflects real changes in the incidence of TB in the region. But, this is surprising as the presence of the current HIV epidemic and other well-known factors influencing TB trends (poverty, malnutrition, and management failures in the treatment system) [16] in the state did not seem to alter this dynamics. This may be due to the usual problems of underreporting of TB because of problems with diagnosing TB in children, pregnant women, missed smear-negative patients and those with extra-pulmonary disease as well as systemic factors associated with access to TB care [15].
Also, in 2007, the WHO documented regional differences in the case notification rate for all and smear-positive TB in Nigeria [3]. The most likely reason for this variation is, the DOTS strategy was introduced in most states in the southern region more than a decade before it reached the northern region [17]. However, with the introduction and expansion of DOTS services in northern Nigeria from 2002, the region currently accounts for 55% to 65% of total TB cases notified annually in the country [17]. This systematic scale-up of DOTS services recently in northern Nigeria most likely accounts for the increasing trend in TB notification rate in the country. The 2007 case notification rate for all TB cases of 86/100,000 population observed in this study falls within the range (61/100,000 to 167/100,000) estimated by the WHO for the region where Ebonyi state is located in the same year [3].
In our study, we observed a progressive increase in the proportion of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) during 2003 to 2009. This was associated with a concomitant continuous reduction in the proportion of smear-positive PTB. This trend in PTB cases had recently been documented nationally [18], and similar findings had been observed in Ethiopia [19]. The increasing number of smear negative PTB cases might be due to high proportion (about 32%) of HIV infection in TB in Nigeria [3]. Because of their compromised immune response and lack of formation of cavitations [20], HIV infected patients are twice more likely to have a smear-negative but culture positive PTB [21]. The trend in the proportion of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) observed was lower than in other studies [14,20,22], but the proportion has gradually increased over the 12-year period. This might suggest that more cases of EPTB are being managed in specialist centres and it also indicates that the control programme should strengthen the reporting of these cases.
A key epidemiologic observation associated with a decreasing incidence of TB is usually an increased proportion of cases in older patients [22].This was particularly dramatic after the introduction of chemotherapy in the 1950s, when transmission of the Mycobacterium to the young was significantly reduced [22,23]. As previously documented in Turkey [22], we observed a low incidence in smear-positive TB in children (<14 years). However, consistent with previous findings [7,22], the incidence then increased to peak in the 25-34 year olds before a subsequent decline. This indicates that in our region, there is a pool of infectious TB cases in young people. Thus, the programme should target this group for early case detection and treatment in order to interrupt transmission, reduce morbidity / mortality and prevent the emergence of drug resistance.
Furthermore, smear-positive TB cases commonly infect children and the young in populations with a high risk of TB infection. Since they have been infected before; the middle- age and older-age groups, are protected against exogenous infection. Thus, following infection with TB, the risk of developing the disease within 5 years is high, leading to accumulation of cases at 10–15 years of age [22]. Our study suggests that most of the infection of our patients occurred during late childhood and early adolescence. When TB disease and transmission are controlled, age at disease occurrence increases first to middle-aged, then to the older individuals [22]. Therefore, it could be indirectly said that the risk of TB infection in our region remains high.
Compared to males, the proportion of female smear-positive cases notified was found to be consistently low, and it was exceptionally lower among patients older than 45 years. This may indicate a genuine gender differences in TB epidemiology. The reasons for these differences have been issues for discussion and debate, and are likely to result from various factors, including access to care, ethnicity, the influence of the HIV co-epidemic, as well as other biological, social and cultural variables [24]. Probable reasons attributed to lower TB infection, and hence notification in women include higher immune responses which have been found to be more vigorous in women, resulting in greater antibody production and increased cell-mediated immunity after immunization [24,25]. The role sex hormones play in the modulation of immune responses needs to be explored in further studies. Nevertheless, a recent Pakistani study showed that after adjusting for demographic and socio-economic differences; more female smear-positive cases were notified in poorer districts than males [26].
Some limitations of our analysis should be kept in mind. As our review was based on quarterly reports retained at the State Ministry of Health, we cannot exclude the possibility of poor recording and reporting systems. However, this has been reduced via several recording and reporting training and re-training organized by the State TB and Leprosy Control Programme for staff working in the public and private health sectors. Internal quality assurance of the data collected over time has been maintained by ensuring that all the LGAs collect their data using standardized TB report forms and registers from the WHO/NTBLCP. Similarly, external quality assurance have been maintained via monthly field visits by the State TBL control officer to DOTS sites in the LGAs to collate the data and monitor data collection in the site. The collected data are further verified during quarterly meetings of the State TBL control officer and all the local government TBL supervisors. Also, due to systemic factors associated with access to care, it is possible that the case notification rates of TB in the state are underestimated.
In conclusion, TB case notification rates tend to decrease in Ebonyi state. A characteristic epidemiological feature associated with this decrease has been a concomitant increase in the proportion of smear-negative cases compared to smear-positive PTB patients. Infectious smear-positive PTB patients remain highest in the young age-group irrespective of gender but notification rates in females are consistently lower. Available data concerning trends in TB are very important in Nigeria for detecting changes in epidemiological patterns. The NTBLCP should target the young age-groups in improving case finding and interrupting transmission of TB. Also, efforts should be made in improving the recording and reporting of smear-negative TB and EPTB cases in the region.
There are no competing interests to declare.Funding: None
UKN and AI conceived the study, AI, OC, INA contributed to the design and collected the data. UKN, IC, OC, INA participated in data analysis and interpretation. UKN, IC and AI drafted the manuscript. All authors read, commented on and approved the final manuscript for submission. UKN is guarantor of the paper.
We acknowledge the contributions of all Staff of the NTBLCP Ebonyi State and all health workers who participated in the meticulous data collection and reporting.
Table 1: Trend of tuberculosis cases notified by type and proportion in Ebonyi, Southeast Nigeria from 1998 to 2009
Table 2: Case-notification rates for all new; and new smear positive tuberculosis cases in Ebonyi, Southeast Nigeria, 1998 to 2009
Figure 1: Notification rate for all new smear-positive tuberculosis by age-strata, 1998 - 2008, Ebonyi Southeast, Nigeria
Figure 2: Notification rate for new male smear-positive tuberculosis by age-strata, 1998 – 2008, Ebonyi Southeast, Nigeria
Figure 3: Notification rate for new female smear-positive tuberculosis by age-strata, 1998 – 2008, Ebonyi Southeast, Nigeria
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Phuket real estate attracts investors who are looking for a combination of lifestyle, yield and capital appreciation. With the island's resilient tourism industry, improving infrastructure including extended international airport, property owners can combine return, especially with holidays rentals and perosnal occupancy..
Phuket real estate also offers one of the most varied offers in property, with real estate options suited to the vast range of vacationers that find their perfect break here.
The real estate market is mostly concentrated on the west's coast of the Island, from pristine Mai Khao, high end Laguna Surin Kamala Kalim, popular Patong, Karn and Kata and south with Rawai and Chalong. Ranging from seaview condo, to luxury pool villas the real estate market in Phuket can satisfy every type of investor. The island is big enough to have different range, as it attracts several profiles of tourists.
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Moving documentary from Rex Miller sheds light on intersectionality in athletic achievement
HANCEVILLE, Ala. — The Evelyn Burrow Museum at Wallace State Community College presents Althea as part of the South Arts Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers at the Burrow Center Recital Hall on Thursday, April 14, at 9:30 a.m. Following a screening of the film, sports journalist Sam Crenshaw will engage the audience in a discussion about the film and Althea's impact on the world of tennis and beyond.
The screening is scheduled as an activity for students in the Learning Communities courses at Wallace State, as well as an activity for the Diversity Committee. Admission is free and open to the public.
Althea, which premiered at New York's Documentary Festival in 2014, tells the story of the first African American tennis player to ever win Wimbledon. Althea's life and achievements transcended the world of tennis and made her a notable figure in American History.
Cinematographer Rex Miller who is a visual storyteller with an extensive background as a photographer and filmmaker directs the film. His work has appeared on HBO, PBS National, and has been screened at major national and international film festivals. He has been a part of two, Peabody Award-winning projects and was recently nominated for an Emmy for cinematography.
The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. South Arts, founded in 1975, is a nonprofit regional arts organization building on the South's unique heritage and enhancing the public value of the arts. Their work responds to the arts environment and cultural trends with a regional perspective, through an annual portfolio of activities designed to address the role of the arts in impacting the issues important to our region, and linking the South with the nation and the world through the arts.
The Evelyn Burrow Museum is the home of the vast collection of delicately crafted porcelain, pottery, glass and bronze pieces primarily from the Victorian era to modern times donated by Ottis and Evelyn Burrow. The museum continually displays some of Mrs. Burrow's most treasured pieces while also bringing in artwork and collections that span many interests.
Currently, the Evelyn Burrow Museum features a collection of more than 400 Nike Air Jordans and other Nike memorabilia on loan from Cullman businessman Robin Cummings. The collection was started by and is a tribute to Cummings' late wife, Charlotte. Also on exhibit is a collection of photographs by Australian photographer Antole Zurrer.
The Evelyn Burrow Museum is open Tuesday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.burrowmuseum.org or call 256.352.8457.


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A Rhum is Born
From a working mother of two young children who created gourmet flavored rhum in her home kitchen, to the devastating tragedy that took the lives of their friends and business partners who helped grow the company, the taste and story of Topper's Rhum is extraordinary. Unlike most spirits, Topper's Rhum was not created by a corporation, and our company is not run by some huge conglomerate with no personal connection to the brand. Instead, it is family owned and operated. Topper's Rhum is about celebrating loving families, wonderful friendships and triumph over tragedy. It's about transforming dreams into realities so that legacies may live on forever.
Topper and Melanie Daboul live on the Dutch or southern side of St. Maarten where they own two restaurants, Topper's Restaurant & Bar and Topper's by the Sea. They started making all natural flavored rhums (the French spelling of rum) for their restaurants so that they could give a complimentary after dinner drink to their guests. These rhums are based on Melanie's concoctions that she has been perfecting since 1994. The customers fell in love with their creations. They constantly asked if they could bottle their world famous rhum so that the patrons could take it home and share it with their friends. They quickly went from fulfilling individual requests to producing a supply for the restaurants and local stores out of their home kitchen.
Early in 2012 a discussion with their good friends Mike and Thelma King led to the formation of a partnership. Their vision was to build a distillery to produce Topper's Rhum and to distribute the products throughout the world. They also had a common goal that involved giving back a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the rhum to help underprivileged children and battered women.
Working as a team, everything was in place and was proceeding as planned, when tragically, on September 19th, 2012, just before the distillery became operational, Mike and Thelma were killed during a random robbery in their home. Fortunately, within a few days, their attackers were caught and have since been prosecuted. Their surviving siblings, who reside in S.C. and N.C., decided as a family that Topper's Rhum should carry on in honor of Mike and Thelma's legacy. Along with Topper and Melanie, they are all determined to see that their dreams become a reality.
One of Mike's brothers, Todd, took over his role in the company, and it wasn't long before the first bottle of rhum was produced in the distillery on November 1st, 2012. It was a triumphant moment that was filled with tears and quiet joy. On every bottle of Topper's Rhum, there are two signatures: one is Topper's, which represents his family, and the other is Mike's, which represents him, Thelma and their families.
On November 9th, 2012, the Mike & Thelma King Foundation was established to benefit citizens of the United States and St. Maarten whose families experience similar tragedies as well as underprivileged children and battered women. On December 15, 2012, Topper's Rhum became St. Maarten's only exported product. By January 2013, Topper's Rhum appeared on store shelves in Charleston, South Carolina, Mike and Thelma's hometown. It is now being distributed throughout the United States and other countries.
Topper's Rhum was submitted to three of the most prestigious rum tasting contests in the world and won Gold in all the competitions as well as winning more medals than any of its competitors.
When you taste Topper's Rhum, we hope that you'll become a special part of our family, one that is dedicated to celebrating the lives of friends and family while helping others who are in need. Please spread the word and share Topper's Rhum with your friends and families so that others may have the opportunity to experience its uniqueness. Our families thank you for your continued support and for helping to keep the dream alive!


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Happy Friday y'all.
It's one of my favorite weekends of the year – Halloween Weekend!
Yes, Halloween may be on Monday, but that just means the festivities are going down this weekend and with pumpkin carving + Halloween party #2 on the social calendar, I'm dancing around the apartment to Thriller like a boss.
I'm also extra stoked about my Halloween costume this year. Keep an eye on Instagram to see my reveal!
And now, here is this week's C list!
1. Canada Named Best Travel Destination In 2017 By Lonely Planet (via Forbes) In case any of you non-Canadians needed any more reason to come visit us!
2. How to Edit Your Pics So You Can Stop Relying on Instagram Filters (via Brit + Co.) Bookmark this for always.
3. Nautical Pumpkin Carving (via Canadian Living) Really regretting I didn't buy white pumpkins this year.
4. Injured Tortoise Receives World's First 3D Printed Shell (via BoredPanda) Here is your weekly reminder that sometimes, humanity can be awesome.
5. A sloth Photoshop battle is the only thing better than a sloth (via Mashable) And speaking of cute animals….
Whatever you are doing this Halloween weekend, I hope it's spook-tacular! To follow my Halloween festivities, make sure to check our my Insta stories (i'm all about the insta stories) and add me on Snapchat 👉🏻 @crystalcrichard 👻
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Penn Valley Park is an urban park overlooking the downtown of Kansas City, Missouri.
The 176-acre (0.71 km2) park was developed in 1904 on land through which the Santa Fe Trail had passed. It contains several famous landmarks: The Scout and the United States' official World War I museum with its Liberty Memorial. The grounds also feature such commemorative statues as the Pioneer Mother Memorial and The Hiker. The park has a large lake, a fitness trail, tennis courts and ball fields and is a popular spot for concerts and festivals during the summer months. Also features Kansas City's first off-leash dog park and is the host park to both the Penn Valley skatepark located in the southwestern corner of the park and the Just Off Broadway Theatre.[1]
The Federal Reserve's new regional headquarters building is located just east of the park.
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You may have missed it in the pre-Christmas rush, but another former Labour MP was jailed this week as a belated consequence of the 2009 parliamentary expenses scandal.
Denis MacShane got six months from judicial tough guy Mr Justice Sweeney after pleading guilty on the advice of his lawyer to fraudulently claiming £12,900 in expenses. No jury would acquit a politician in the current climate of public opinion, he was apparently told.
That figures. Just look at Friday's Guardian/ICM poll which found that 47% of respondents are "angry" with the political class and 25% chiefly "bored". Only 46% of 18- to-24-year-olds actually vote, many saying it makes no difference. Yet they are the same people who complain that oldies (76% of whom vote) are treated better than the young. How about a new word: Kidiots?
It's the same outraged climate of distracted opinion which demanded a new regime to police MPs' expenses and new rules that are now, predictably, pushing costs up, not down. It's the same clamour to have an independent arbiter of MPs' salaries but howls with anger when the arbiter proposes, as it recklessly did this month, that they get a 9% pay rise in 2015 (or 11% as the media inaccurately prefer to call it). It's never the right time to pay MPs more – which is why they were encouraged to beef up their expenses.
Truly, politics is a mug's game for addictive masochists. Just read the abuse in the comments of this article. Just read the uncynical John Harris's interviews with apathetic and ignorant young voters in Manchester. Or Rowena Mason on the kidiots who may never vote.
"So what?" you may murmur as you munch another mince pie. "Those politicians had it coming to them. Everyone hates them and they are all volunteers. As for that MacShane, he put himself on the wrong side of the law in forging signatures for expenses claims for travel and hospitality, research and translation fees for trips to Europe he continued to make after Tony Blair replaced him as Europe minister in 2005."
Correct. But it is a glib summary and a dangerous one. For all their (much exaggerated) faults, elected politicians in a country like the UK are still a barrier that protects us from the rising power of unaccountable oligarchy and rampant plutocracy which clearly threatens the democratic gains of the last 200 years.
Who do you think whips up much of the voter anger against MPs? Why, the oligarch-owned press whose owners and their lapdogs rail against wasteful use of taxpayers' money without paying too much themselves – even as they seek to convince us that plutocracy is good for us all. Check out Priyamvada Gopal's excellent piece about the cult of the super-rich.
Or check out MacShane, multilingual son of post-war immigrants, passionate pro-European, Tiggerish in his enthusiasms, sometimes daft but not apathetic or a cynic if respected colleague and justice campaigner Chris Mullin can still write an admiring piece about him. It ought to give pause for though to the kidiots and their disaffected mums and dads, but probably won't. Hey, the sales have started!
MacShane is an odd case, even by the rough-justice standards of the expenses scandal unleashed in a highly efficient but distinctly one-sided way before the 2010 election by the Daily Telegraph, owned by the Barclays brothers, two Sark-loving, quasi-feudal plutocrats. Remember, their paper tried (and failed) to stitch up such suburban puritans as Gordon Brown and the hair-shirted Vince Cable – twice in Vince's case: expenses and the constituency surgery sting which backfired over Murdoch and his BSkyB bid.
Consider this comparison: shortly after David Laws became George Osborne's Treasury deputy (introducing the first bout of cuts in May 2010), the Telegraph went through its capacious files and ended his cabinet career by revealing the minister had claimed £40,000 in second-home costs between 2004-09 on property owned by his partner – in breach of the rules.
At the time I had some sympathy for the Yeovil MP on the grounds that the partner was a man and Laws had not told his Catholic mother he was gay.
Reading the parliamentary commissioner for standards' subsequent report I realised I had been generous. Never mind, Laws said he could have claimed much more but paid back an agreed £13,000 and was suspended for seven days. He is now back in ministerial office.
Here's the Telegraph's summary of the four (now five) Labour MPs and two Tory peers who have been jailed. You may notice that some of the sums involved are considerably larger. MacShane repaid £12,900 in false claims, though the report of the parliamentary commissioner, John Lyon, on his case – generally hostile in tone, albeit it in the obsequious way often deployed by retired civil servants – conceded that £5,400 of the then MP's claims were probably within the rules for foreign travel. Rough justice, as I said.
Former Tory MP Derek Conway was ordered to repay more than £16,000 paid to his sons for alleged parliamentary research work just before the main expenses scandal broke. There are plenty of examples of lesser penalties, the most conspicuous to my mind being that of Michael Trend, Tory MP for Windsor (1992-2005), who made a false claim for a second home and was ordered in 2003 to repay £90,277 before retiring quietly at the next election. In fairness I should add that Labour's Lady Uddin, suspended from the Lords for 18 months in 2010, was ordered to repay no less than £120,000 in dodgy housing claims, the highest sum I can find.
Is there a pattern in this? A distinguished Tory columnist once suggested in print that it shows Labour is keenest to milk the taxpayer's udder. I privately challenged him, suggesting that all it showed was that Tories had a better cultural understanding of accountancy and fraud. They know enough not to forge bills or signatures, and that there are more subtle ways to maximise advantage. To his credit, he later wrote back to say that a former Tory cabinet minister with whom he had discussed the point agreed with me.
But apathetic and angry voters should know who they are dealing with. MacShane was shopped by an ex-copper turned BNP candidate, and again by Guido Fawkes, the rightwing ("libertarian") Tory blogger. The police dropped his case after a 20-month investigation, but reopened it after Lyons' report based on the same evidence. They or the Crown Prosecution Service briefed the press that the by-then-ex-MP tried to use parliamentary privilege to block them, something he has repeatedly denied. No one has suggested that MacShane was lining his pockets (or his sons' or partner's), merely claiming expenses he was not entitled to.
But if I were forced to choose (thankfully I'm not) between the BNP, Guido Fawkes or Nigel Farage (if Ukip is the answer, we are asking the wrong question) and MacShane and Chris Mullin I know whose side I'd be on. As for Russell Brand and Simon Cowell with their don't vote, anti-education cynicism, they're on the plutocrats' side too – though poor Russ probably doesn't realise yet.
The current pay regime at Westminster is likely to reinforce a return to more oligarchical habits – the days a century or so ago when most politicians were rich enough not to need a salary (MPs were first paid £400 a year in 1906). It's called the law of unintended consequences and would suit the plutocrats just fine.
There is much about which voters can get cross with politicians. The failure to solve London's airport needs or the HS2 controversy are two examples. The looming crisis over energy supply – wind? gas? coal? nuclear? – is another instance of dither. But these situations arise not because politicians don't listen to voters, but because they listen to their conflicting demands and a cynical press too much – and are afraid to act.
It's what we pay them to do on our behalf (though not enough).


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The above from a show of caricatures at the Metropolitan Museum called "infinite jest". Rowlandson and a caricaturists by the name of Henry Wigstead ( probably pictured above) toured Wales in August 1797 and had a miserable time — constant fog and rain, rough roads, poor lodging, spartan food, and wild country folk. They were probably inspired by William Gilpin's book "Observations Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty (1786), an influential romantic movement book. It was impossible for English artists to get to the continent because of the protracted Anglo-French conflict (1792-1815) which got them out doing what we would call "plein air" paintings (but the French term would probably be considered unpatriotic.) In any event it's interesting to see the "Gloucester" easel type and the standard studio palette.
Here's an interesting setup for watercolor from long ago. It's by Winsor Newton but the cloth that holds all the stuff was called by the name of Colonel Gunter whom ever he was. The tin palette went into the pocket between the brushes and notice the little pocket for an eraser. The pocket next to it is for a sponge. The tin holder in the lower left corner was for water.. The flaps folded over and were buttoned. The whole thing was folded again and there were leather buckles and a handle. The point is it wasn't a pochade box. It was specifically designed for the needs of the watercolorist out of doors. It went for over $500 on Ebay the summer of 2012.
A pochade box was designed to do a color oil sketch in the field and ONLY an oil sketch. The best review I've found of these wonderfully crafted boxes is here. This post is about designing a watercolor specific traveling/outdoor equipment/box for the watercolor artist.
For an artist using oil or acrylic there is a need to make compromises and reduce what is carried predominantly because of the weight of the paint tubes and the sturdy photography tripod used to hold the beautifully crafted wooden pochade boxes that are currently marketed for upwards of $300. The question that must be asked is do these compromises apply to the watercolor artist who wants to paint outside. Compromises, of course, must be made if one is traveling very light and for some particular circumstances that requires a very small kit like camping in the wilderness for weeks on end. But this is not a common occurrence and doesn't apply if you are leaving home specifically for a day of watercolor painting "en plein air".
For some unfathomable reason the sellers of these granted beautifully crafted oil/acrylic-specific boxes think that by placing a plastic watercolor palette in the box it makes it useful for the watercolorist. What they do not seem to understand is that the palette is not and has never been the weight problem with working out of doors in watercolors, and the flat palette they have designed to lay in their boxes doesn't resemble the most sophisticated watercolor palettes. In fact, it is generally agreed that watercolorist do not use a palette. They have a tin for holding pans of paint (dry or tube paint) which also serves as a palette. The plastic palette sold with pochade boxes is only a contrivance to make the box sell to naive watercolor artists. What they don't seem to know is that there is a vast "literature" on equipment specifically for the use of watercolor out of doors. Watercolor was for centuries the predominant outdoor medium used by surveys, explorers, naturalists, and travelers centuries before the oil paint tube and the ferruled paint brush were invented (the tube in the 1840's by John G. Rand, an American portrait painter living in London) that allowed outdoor oil painting.
Sun Eden here supplies an arm that can clamp a watercolor block and attach to a tripod and a shelf that can also be attached. They have other accessories like umbrellas. It seems more appropriate for watercolor than the pochade boxes.
There are several sites on the internet explaining how to convert a cigar box or a candy/cough drop box into a watercolor specific pochade box of some sort. These turn out to be cheap versions of the old pochade box with a plastic palette in them. They all seems to repeat that a pochade is "quick sketch" which it is not. It is a color study made out of doors to use in the studio for a big painting. In the Metropolitan Museum there is a big Corot (Hager in the Wilderness) which is next to his pochade study of an oak outside of Paris. The fact that he put this oak into a dessert scene in the Middle East has amused quite a few critiques. Here's
his sketch. It ain't a quick one. I have an additional post on the derivation of the term pochade and how it fit into the French academic process of making a studio oil painting here.
More to the point, these sites don't ask the question I am asking here which should be considered before making cheap pochade boxes or buying expensive ones.
A watercolor palette can be easily held in one's non-dominant hand and is more comfortable and convenient there. In fact most of them are designed with this in mind because they come with thumb loops on the bottom (I actually use my index finger) to help balance them on the hand. They are used, ironically, just like the big wooden oil palette is used in the studio (in the hand) but are much smaller and lighter with all the advantages of having the paints close and easy to see at the same level as one's painting instead of looking up and down all the time.
Since you can set, carry, and use in the hand a palette with many paints (see above) a limited palette which is usually forced on the plein air oil painter is not necessary for the watercolorist. Want to take along some turquoise just in case there some tropical-looking water or because it makes an interesting green? Go right ahead.
The equivalent of the $300 and up oil pochade box in the watercolor field is Craig Young's beautiful brass palettes see here. They are expensive ($300-400) and there is a one year delay in getting them, but as Charles Reid has remarked, they are no more expensive than a fancy tennis racket. Joseph Zbukvic has designed a portable table available as far as I know only from Australia where he lives. See here for picture and price (about $400). There are camping tables for considerably less money. The very lightest is here and might be all you need in addition to a chair to paint outside.
Here is a very well received handheld palette for watercolor that has specially large wells that hold a 15ml tube of paint.
It is specially useful if you use big brushes like the Susie Short brush:
It is used extensively by Spanish watercolorists because it is made in Spain (or is it China, see comment). However you can order it from Spain here (it helps if your e-mail is in Spanish):
See this post for more detailed information about it. here.
The bottom-line is that adding a plastic palette for the paint to the current crop of pochade boxes does not address the real, serious problems of doing a watercolor painting en plein air, and shows a remarkable lack of knowledge on the part of these suppliers. I can't see how they can be recommend for the watercolor artist even if they are some of the most beautiful boxes made today.
There is another post on this blog describing a pochade box for watercolor sold in France and England and probably made by cigar box makers in China. which suffers from all the pochade box problems here. There are several other posts on pochade boxes here
There are also some plastic covered palettes usually designed for acrylics that have a cover and a sponge covered with palette paper in them that help prevent acrylics from drying. See here. This is necessary because once acrylics dry they can not be reconstituted like watercolor. These also don't address the watercolor problem. Homer and Sargent, both of whom worked out of doors most of the time, preferred dry pans of paint and would add water as necessary.
There are also some recent watercolor palettes that have an air-tight seal which I don't think serves much of a function. The problem, again, is not that the watercolors dry too fast and become unusable. I have found them very useful at the beach where the tight seal is excellent for preventing sand getting into it and the heat from drying the paints out when they are stored. I usually spray the paints to wet them before going out to the beach and they are moist when I eventually settle down to do a painting. In the old days (Victorian times) I understand that watercolor pans tended to be rock hard and required a lot of work to dissolve. So the issue has something to do with the quality and technique of making the paints. I made some genuine vermillion from pigment and couldn't dissolve it no matter what I did — even leaving in to a glass of water overnight. ( I have no idea what I did wrong.) If you have a paint that doesn't wet easily, you should probably try another manufacturer. Most watercolors made today have water holding additive (humicants) and can be rather gummy to the touch, but they don't dry out for a long time (earth colors excepted like Burnt Umber).
Finally many of the up-scale watercolor paint manufacturers sell a palette already set with their paints that sometimes have some bells and whistles on them like a place for brushes or in one case a small plastic water bottle. The problem is that the emphasis is on making these items small rather than useful. It's not common for someone to be on a public transportation, at work, or walking down the street and suddenly get the urge to make a watercolor. In this case, it would be useful to pull something out of your back pocket (but what would you do for paper?) This is a different problem which I have addressed in the blog post about absolute minimum palettes make from cough drop boxes, etc. here
The real palette problem for watercolor artists is that, if the palette designed for watercolor is stored on the side when the paints are very wet (like when you're done and heading home), they will run into each other . This is particularly a problem with a palette that folds and has paint wells on both sides, top and bottom. There is no way that you can store it except open until the paint dries enough not to run. It is a particularly dumb idea and should be avoided. One work around, mentioned by Charles Reid, is to have only earth colors on one side because they dry faster. However, there are canvas bags that have a double bottom making a separate flat section in which one can store one's palette flat.
There is a system somewhat like a pochade box designed specifically for watercolor. It's called pleinairpro. The website is here. The pink object in photo below is a collapsible plastic water bucket.
So what are the real problems for using watercolor out of doors?
1. Water is the heaviest thing one has to carry. (Paint is the heaviest thing for the oil/acrylic painter because he carries big tubes.) The watercolorist "sets" his palette before he goes out and usually doesn't carry tubes unless he sneaks in a gouache white somewhere. (Traditionally the oil painter could also set his palette before he left the studio, but I've never known anyone to do so with the exception of Marcia Burtt, an acrylic artist. See here.)
So how to carry water is a significant question particularly if you use a lot and want to work with very clean brushes. One can often find water on location, but it can be difficult. I have been experimenting with a cheap, generic water bladder replacement insert used for backpacks.
2. You need to transfer your water supply from where you store it to carry it to three smaller water containers (ideally) to keep your brushes clean. Some of these containers fit inside each other and there are some single ones that are made with a fabric-like plastic that can be squashed down flat making it convenient for traveling.
3. You need a support for your paper to rest and be stretched on. When full, juicy washes are laid down on anything less than 300 lb. paper cockling (English word for it) or buckling will occur. The wash will accumulate in the valleys and run off the hills. This is avoided by stretching wet paper beforehand often by using gummed packing tape on all four sides. Gummed tape often doesn't seem to hold, so people add staples. There have been several designs recently for stretchers. One that is at the high end of the expense range but well designed can be see here at Dick Blick. A much less expensive one by an order of magnitude is available from Arthur Brown in England via e-bay is here.
This problem has also been solved in the past by the use of watercolor blocks, but some slight cockling or buckling can occur with them. Homer and Sargent used blocks, and one is tempted to say, "If it was good enough for them . . . ." It is easy enough to make a block yourself with Elmer's glue or pad binding glue which is widely available (like here from Amazon) if you're one of those people who buys rolls or large sheets of paper and cuts them up.
4. Watercolor has to dry between washes. In the studio one can use a hairdryer. What would help out of doors? There is actually one portable, battery run hair dryers but it is expensive. See here . However, small portable personal fans can cost about $7 and might be helpful. I think that more absorbent paper might also dry faster, that is paper with less sizing, which is usually a less expensive even student-grade paper.
6. As already discussed, at the end of an outdoor painting session closing a palette and carrying it on its side may cause the paints to run into each other with the attendant saturation costs (muddying of the paint). What are the solutions here?
7 If the palette has wells which slant, water tends to pool at the bottom and keeps the paints wet which can cause running when stored. It can also make the paints a bit too wet so that it is hard to pick up a color with a brush that has not been completely cleaned without polluting the first color too much. The obvious answer is to only buy a palette with flat wells.
8. Some watercolorist want to mix large puddles of paint or use very large brushes which requires a larger mixing area that some of the smaller hand-held palettes. If you have a table there's no problem.
9. Then there's the question of whether you want to work on your lap which requires a chair or standing up which requires and easel or tripod and attachment. (I sometimes sit in a chair AND use a tripod). It really isn't much of a problem to carry a well-made and light roll up chair and table (but beware of the cheap ones. They are made with heavy metal rods and are much heavier than the better ones.) The one I have and like very much is made by Camp Time with special aircraft aluminum. See it here. If I work while sitting down, I tend to hunch over and eventually my back complains. Still I like the option. However, the Sun Eden (see reference above) has a clamp for watercolor blocks that is for traveling in the sense that it comes apart for storage. It's plastic and therefore too heavy. It should probably be made from aircraft aluminum like the chairs and tables. Instead of using that I've tried just cutting a piece of thin plywood the size of my watercolor block, cutting a hole in the middle, and hammering what is called a "t nut" that accepts the tripod's camera attachment bolt on what is called the post. Remember the t-nut has to fit the "screw" on the post. You can take the post by itself to a hardware store.When done, I have a table on which to put the block. For a steadier system see Judson's hardware specifically for this purpose here.
You would need a tripod. My advice would be to NOT buy a "head". That's the piece that attaches to the tripod that allows lots of repositioning of the camera attached to it. It is often expensive. You can do that by changing the length of the legs. I would, however, spring for a quick release attachment and put it on the plywood. This allows you to just pop it on the tripod without having to screw it on (most are under $10).
Perhaps you've been wondering about that picture at the top of this post. It is by Sargent and is of his sister Emily, who was a painter as well, giving a lesson. You will notice that she had a board attached an easel with a hand-held palette. I can't find the water supply, but that's artistic license. She's sitting on the ground. She's using more or less the equipment I just discussed. It's nice to have an assistant hold the umbrella. (Sargent actually had a man servant to set things up and a huge umbrella). it's a great painting, indicating rather than illustrating. I love the background.
10. There can be a need for an umbrella or something else to shade the palette and the paper. For any sort of consistency in judging color the palette and the paper should be the same color to start with and in the same light (both shaded by the umbrella if it is used.) Dick Blick has a collapsible plein air umbrella here for $45.66. It us also sold by Judson's Art Outfitters (the Guerrilla Painter guys) for what is probably list price of $59.99 . It weighs less than a pound and folds to 12″. It opens to 36″ canopy and 34″ high. It is vented to avoid wind lifting it and the fabric is silver on the outside to reflect heat and light and black underneath to reduce glare. Most non-collapsible umbrellas as just too long to store. You have to have a long umbrella bag for it. This one doesn't need that. It works well, but its light weight seems to have been achieved by using very flimsy metal, and being rather heavy handed I worry I'm going to bust it. If it gets popular enough as I think it deserves, perhaps it can be made from aircraft aluminum.
I'm going to post this as is and develop it some more as I experiment with various ideas.
One of the first critical decisions is whether you want to stand to paint or sit to paint.
If you stand to paint, you can use larger paper and step back to see what you're doing. You need a tripod and a flat surface that attaches to it like the pleinair pro system mentioned above. You hang a water container from the flat surface. You have to hold your paints in your hand and that determines the size of the palette you use. You are in general more conspicuous. It's harder on your feet.
If you sit to paint, you need a portable chair and you can work with a block of paper. Your handheld palette can be larger. You're less conspicuous. It is easier on your feet.


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|By Matt Kane
So, it is set. The Indianapolis Colts will meet the Chicago Bears at Super Bowl XLI (that's 41 for those of you who prefer to count with numbers) inside Dolphins Stadium in south Florida.
It has been a longtime since either team has played for the right to raise the Lombardi Trophy. The Bears hoisted the 7-pound, 22-inch tall, sterling silver, Tiffany & Co., handcrafted, pedestalled football Jan. 26, 1996 after stomping on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX. Indianapolis, on the other hand, has never hoisted the Lombardi Trophy.
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Namath and the New York Jets won Super Bowl III, also played at the Orange Bowl, 16-7, but they did not get to raise the Lombardi Trophy.
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Compare the players at several positions. Linebacker: Brian Urlacher Mike Singletary. Nose guard: Tank Johnson William "The Refrigerator" Perry.
Defensive end: Adewale Ogunleye Richard Dent.
DEE-FENSE (clap, clap), DEE-FENSE (clap, clap). The names I just listed ignited the chant.
The Colts versus the Bears is the ultimate battle of offense versus defense, which makes Sunday's game a difficult game to predict. When comparing Indianapolis' offense to Chicago's defense, I give it a push, which means the game will probably come down to special teams.
It is a well-known fact the Bears have a dangerous return game, with rookie Devin Hester catching the ball. Hester has five total touchdowns (three on punt returns and two on kickoff returns).
I can definitely see Hester breaking a return open for six points, but I honestly believe the game will come down to Mr. Clutch, Adam Vinatieri.
The Colts no longer have the "Idiot kicker," Mike Vanderjagt, lining up for important field goals, they have Vinatieri, who has 19 game-winning field goals with less than one minute to play in the game, including two in Super Bowls. Look for number 20 Sunday.
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A half frame here shows a computer, and tack wall.
There's a lot in just this photo and the next one to narrow down the date.
Most importantly on the tack board is a calendar that says March, but I can't make out the year. However, it starts on a Wednesday, which could indicate 2006.
There are masks, photos, and other stuff but I can't quite make it out.
For some reason she has a tonne of scissors.
One of these two might be the photographer.
Her, shirt says "taylor University College, which is in Edmonton, Alberta. You can also see knitting, some multicoloured pens and a contact lens case.
The book is called "The Lineage of Grace" by Francine Rivers, and was published in 2002. I think the photos belong to the girl in the glasses.
You can see the young woman with the glasses wearing these slippers in the shot with her friend reading the book.
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