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The Day You Find Out Your Uncle Was Gunned Down By Police
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The day you find out your uncle was gunned down by police is a normal day. Normal as it gets. Thursday. Perhaps the day before you were thinking about throwback Thursday photos. Planning what to post. This one. That one. You were definitely thinking about the dream where people kept telling you someone from the dead was trying to make contact. You were definitely thinking about that dream. Which is why you look your uncle up on the internet. With a cup of coffee in hand, no almond milk because you are lactose intolerant and too lazy to drive to Trader Joe's on Wednesday night. Remember, it is Thursday. The day you find out your uncle was gunned down by police.
It wasn't recent. The gunning down. That sucks. In the time passed you moved across the country. From the South to the North. To old battlefields and old wars. Old buildings with bullet holes still lodged in the brick. You picked up coffee in the mornings and drove across the battlefields to the first place that felt like home as an adult. You left a way of life that dominated every breath for years. You left. You walked toward a future. You moved. You married. You moved again.
When you hadn't heard from your uncle in a while you sent emails. He loved emoticons and cute little chain emails. There was no response. That worried you enough to send a simple email. One question. Are you okay? No reply.
When you finally have a moment from unpacking and turning in projects and moving and marrying and new schools and jobs and cities, you log in and realize you haven't heard from him in a while. A long while. He has children he loves. He doesn't need you to hover over his life micromanaging what he refers to as his senior moments.
But you are Southern and expect the worst so your internet search goes straight for the obituary. And there it is. His full name printed in the local paper where he lived. Lived. Past tense. In a single internet search his tense has changed. He's dead. There was a memorial. A funeral. A body. Suddenly you go from being a person to being a body.
He was older. Almost seventy. It could have been of natural causes. Must have been natural causes. Which sucks. But {shrug} it happens. You do another search to find your cousin's address. You have three of them. You will send one a card. Your families have never been particularly close but you liked them a lot.
When you were little, around nine, your uncle moved to California. You saw him years later when he returned for a visit bringing an AT&T phone system that had a built-in answering machine, a speaker phone, and a hold button that played canned Muzak. It was the coolest fucking thing you'd ever seen.
Except he was rude. He believed you should obey regardless of the request. You threw some rocks at your mailbox and he told you to stop. Except they weren't his rocks or his mailbox and you resented him telling you what to do. So you wait until everyone is gone and fill the sink basin with his shaving cream. A huge, carefully formed mound of splendid, squishy foam. Then you wash it down the drain, as if to say, that is how fast I can get rid of you, answering machine or not.
You don't see him again until five years later. When your grandmother dies. It's a mess. You are the only one who knew she was going to die because you'd been sneaking over to see her even though you were forbidden by your mother who was too high to actually enforce rules. So you weren't exactly in the habit of taking her bad advice. You'd seen your grandmother two weeks earlier and she couldn't get out of bed. You knew she was going to die. Knew she was going to do it on her own terms. And she did. No one ordered an autopsy. No one knows what killed her. No one ever will.
Your uncle arrived from California. Of the three uncles you started out with, you have two left. One disappeared years earlier. Went out to buy malt liquor and cheap cigarettes in an old flannel shirt and never came back. His truck was found on a Texas road, doors open, key in the ignition, engine idling, abandoned. Never seen again.
So now you have two.
You watch the adult family members fight over money. Your uncle is having sex with your mom's best friend. Which normally wouldn't generate much drama except she's married. The absurdity of family makes you pray for it to all be settled and over. Your uncle has a long history of not being able to deal with family and goes back to California.
You understand.
Even applaud him for his unwillingness to suffer through endless days of stupid.
Like stoopid.
The kind of stupid that is stoopid.
You don't know it then but when he boards that plane for California, that's the last time you will ever see him again in person. With your own eyes. The year will be 1988.
But let's get back to Thursday. There's a stack of work to do on your desk.
And your uncle's obituary. Survived by children. Grandchildren. And you try to find your cousin's address. What you find instead is a lawsuit filed by your three cousins against the city and the police department and having too many lawyers as friends you immediately know there is a summary and you scroll
and scroll
and scroll
to page six.
And read until your eyes and brain don't believe a word of what is typed on the page. For the first time all day you look away from the screen to a gray Pittsburgh morning unfolding outside the window. It is 10:34 AM. Your uncle is dead. He was killed by police serving a search warrant. You stand up. Get a cup of coffee. Drink some water. Stand in the kitchen. This is hard.
Realize that's why he never returned the emails. Realize there will never be any more emoticons. Realize you have no uncles left because the other one died in 2006 and your mother pretended he was still alive until 2009 so she could keep living in the house for free. Yeah, you're that kinda family.
Go back to your desk. Listen to the 911 call he made as the police entered his house. Go ahead. Lose yourself in that irony a moment. Calling the police to come save you from the police. Listen to his last words. It's not every day that a person's last words are preserved this way. The final minutes of his life play out. Realize that a TACT team came to his house to execute a search warrant. Go ahead. Luxuriate in that irony. Execute.
Your uncle was accused of having too many animals. All well fed and taken care of. The news report says so. But the neighbors didn't like it. And they didn't like him. The 911 dispatcher was the final call he made. Not an I love you. Or…I'll be home soon. A desperate plea for help to a complete and total stranger.
Listen to him yell, "I ain't committed a crime. Get the fuck out of here! What are you bursting in my house for?"
All true. He hadn't committed a crime. Because technically having cats that are taken care of isn't a crime.
Unless you live in a white, affluent community that objects to you having your back door open so the cats can go outside. Say that again out loud. Leaving the back door open. No, the other part. White affluent community. Fancy way of saying your neighbors can get you killed without getting blood on their hands.
An officer yells for him to come out with his hands up. 27 seconds later they kill him. A TACT team to issue a search warrant? Shake your head. Your hands are shaking. This tactical unit is trained to respond to barricade situations, hostage rescues, counter-terrorism, and high risk felony apprehensions and old white guys with too many cats. This is the exact thing your uncle railed about. People who give power to the police because they don't want to protect themselves.
You listen to him arguing with the police through a door. He sounds confused, almost childlike.
"Why are you breaking into my house?" he pleads.
You already know the answer. Supreme authority rules. And your rich, white neighbors want you dead because you are a nuisance.
You stop to think about why a TACT team waits until night to kick in the door of a 69 year old man who was never officially charged with a crime. You see your cousin crying on the news. He looks so confused, so hurt. His daddy is dead. His daddy is dead. He loved his dad.
The internet is full of news reports. Pages of hits. Scroll. Scroll. It's so overwhelming. Who do you tell? How do you tell them?
Instant Message your husband. It's the only sane thing to do. After shock and a few minutes, a message flashes on the screen: The guy who killed him ran Homeland Security.
"What?" you say, absolutely incredulous.
Then you search the cop who killed him and the first hit is a LinkedIn profile. There he is, smiling big for the world to see. The man who murdered your uncle. We act like it's not murder if the cops do it.
But it is. Taking a life. A life taken.
A grandfather. A father. An uncle. A brother.
He wasn't a saint. You grapple with this fact. But he loved those animals. And he was proud of you. So proud of you.
Go back to the profile. Investigator at the police department. Homeland Security/Counter-terrorism. He specializes in high-risk entry. That's a fancy way of saying he'll throw a flash bang into a room and shoot you three times with an M4 rifle.
At close range. High Risk Entry. Mutha fucka.
The high risk suspect begged 911 to send help. Who were they going to send? That part is kind of a joke, don't you think? No one was coming to help. Help was already there. Close your eyes and repeat that sentence until you believe it.
Your husband Instant Messages and says he just found out his stepfather was arrested for helping drug dealers launder money because he utlilizes the same method for dealing with his family that you use. Total avoidance.
He learns his step father served six months prison time, then six months house arrest. He's a former jailbird turned snitch. Served on the County Board of Commissioners. He had to wear a wire. Government officials and career criminals are cut from the same cloth.
Then the riots break out in Baltimore.
Really. Because you cannot make this shit up.
You sit stunned into heightened awareness, watching anger on display. The media calls it, "unrest." You snort and lean in close to the monitor like that hack reporter can hear you and whisper, "Burn that mutha fucka down. Burn it down."
It's a mantra. Repeated over the course of days. Burn it down. Not because you wish for people to lose their communities. Not because you don't think life is precious. You chant because the system is broken. Broken so far down the dirt is splintered. Bring that broken system to its knees. Bring it down. Bring it down to its broken, splintered parts and then crush them with your boot.
There's a guy in Baltimore dead. Your uncle is dead. Your husband's stepfather took a plea deal.
You write all of this down in a journal that you bought at the Louisa May Alcott house outside of Boston six months ago. You remember looking out at the ocean from the Boston shore. You think about when your uncle went back to Mississippi and found out his soon to be ex-wife wasn't taking care of the Arabian horses. Divorce was such a nasty word back then. God help us. Her name was Norma Jean.
You remember Boston. Remember the haunted inn where you had dinner. A quaint, charming New England town with squares and roundabouts. Think about how Mexico City is your favorite city in all the world. You're all ADD at this second. Someone has died. Someone is in the ground. You want to call your cousin. The one who told you that your grandmother never got a tombstone because your mom is an ex junkie liar. Liar liar, pants on fire.
The first time you were in Boston you talked to your uncle. Downtown near Chinatown. You saw a Mongol outside a noodle house. You bought a porcelain Buddha and thought about buying a tea set but how many fucking tea sets does one person need?
Suddenly, you realize that all of your childhood photos were in your uncle's house. The ones your mother left in the garage. You realize they are gone now. Carted out with the contents of his life to the city dump. Humans bury everything. Nothing sacred. Nothing gained.
You remember throwing a pin from Paris off a bridge in North Carolina. Down into the river it went. You were afraid to bury your pain back then. Afraid if you buried it, it would grow. Had to let it go. Let it flow.
A staggering numbness claims your insides. Inside every cell. You can't shake it off. You stare at the hysterical commentators in Baltimore. Watch how a city in crisis is reduced to sound bites.
Take away the jobs. Take away the men. Take away the balance. Gun down everyone who is angry. Your uncle was a Libertarian. He was angry. Thought the government was a dangerous joke. Turns out, he was right.
There's his face. Right there in the newspaper. In a moment of dark tinged snark you realize, like all good Southerners, you learn about what your family is up to on the evening news.
There's a curfew in Baltimore. Your uncle hated that marshal law crap.
You're pretty sure he killed a woman in Arizona and fled the state. You could never prove it. But you suspect it. He wasn't a saint.
Lay in bed with your husband and listen to the Baltimore police scanner. What a long three days. Long and hard. Dead is supposed to be hard. Supposed to wrangle us out of ruts masquerading as comfort zones.
Look at the face of the man who gunned down your uncle. He's right there. He kills people for a living. Hard to get around that fact. Licence to kill. Your uncle is consistently referred to as a suspect in every news report. Yet he was never charged.
Laying in bed listening to the riots in Baltimore you are suddenly grateful that in the last years of your uncle's life you talked to him constantly for hours on the phone. Your cousin offered to take you to dinner. You got to know him more and more. He admitted that he loved junk and wasn't particularly tidy. That he wasn't the greatest about cleaning up but he loved his animals. He told you his neighbors hated him because he didn't want his lawn manicured and he didn't want to lease an Audi.
The news reports claim there were raccoons and opossums living in the horse. It must have been those opossums that made it such a high risk entry.
You wonder what ever happened to your grandmother's house. The one that has languished into disrepair. You pull it up on Google Earth. There it is. Your childhood home. Emotion floods into your brain. You remember running up that front concrete walk a hundred million times. Maybe a hundred bazillion.
"That's where I grew up," you say to your husband, excited, pointing at the screen.
That was your childhood home. With your fingers you turn the view and travel that dead end street two houses down where a Chinese artist lived. You remember the time you and your best friend went down and knocked on his door and asked if you could see the inside of his house.
He looked at both of you like you were off your rocker and asked why.
"Because you're an artist," you said confidently because you were sure you wanted to know what the den of an artist looked like.
Because he was awesome and good natured and maybe even a little flattered he took you on a tour of his home while you ooohed and aaaahed at every tiny thing, especially the fact that his home looked lived in. He got paid for making art. Cash money. He was quite possibly the coolest dude on planet Earth. His house is still there. You have no idea what happened to him.
The National Guard rolls into Baltimore.
The last time you were in Baltimore was November, to see the Snowden documentary Citizen Four. The problems didn't start in one night. Everyone who loves Baltimore knows that. These riots have been a long time coming.
You go downstairs. Sit quietly at your desk. Listen to the 911 call three times. The last thing your uncle said in this world, in this life is, "I don't know if you shot my animals or not." And his voice quivers. And the tape goes dead. And does he.
It's true he should have lived in Montana on a huge stretch of land. So far out that he didn't have to see anyone. He didn't need the superficial comfort of waving to neighbors or home delivery of mail. He regarded humans as a lot not to be trusted.
That's how he came to live with cats, chickens, dogs, raccoons, and opossums. There were no raccoons and opossums. The neighbors made it up.
Your uncle rescued cats from the pound so they wouldn't be murdered in cold blood. He thought it was wrong. All that killing. So do you.
You could say his love of baby kitties got him killed. You could say it's about race but there is really only one color in the human race. Your true color. The news reports said the neighbors were saddened but relieved they no longer have to live next to him. He collected junk and put it in his backyard. He was a nuisance. Like a rat. His white neighbors are so relieved. After all, they got away with murder. Those zany white neighbors.
The man who gunned down your uncle has his own website.
His company's team is fluent in English, Spanish, and Hebrew.
He specializes in mitigating threats.
His birthday is December 28.
You can send him a request to connect.


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Ananda is located on a hill overlooking the ancient spiritual city of Rishikesh.
By Air
There are frequent flights from Delhi International Airport to Jolly Grant Airport, Dehradun. Flight time is 45 minutes followed by a 40 min picturesque drive to Ananda in the Himalayas.
Jet Airways, Spice Jet, Air India and Indigo operate daily flights from Delhi to Dehradun. Please check their updated schedules on their respective websites. (Jet Airways, Spicejet, Air India, Indigo)
By Train
Daily trains operate from Delhi. The train journey takes 4.5 hours from Delhi to Haridwar followed by a 90 minute drive to Ananda in the Himalayas. Please check updated train schedules on www.irctc.co.in
By Helicopter
Ananda in the Himalayas can organise helicopter transfers from Delhi and other specific locations to Ananda. The journey from Delhi to Ananda's private helipad (5 minutes away) takes approximately 2 hours. Please contact Ananda Reservations (email@example.com) for further information.
Drive From New Delhi
The drive to Ananda from Delhi takes approximately 7-8 hours depending on traffic conditions. Although a few of our guests do chose to come by road we do not recommend this as traffic is difficult to estimate.
Please note that the car transfers can be provided for pick-up or drop from the Railway Station or Airport. Please inform Ananda Reservations of your requirements and the respective transfer rates will be provided.
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Inspiration: C.K. A.R. A.A.B. J.R.
Monday March 2,1998
Everyday I pray
That God will keep you safe another day
And I thank Him I met all of you
The tides were great when in you it blew
You four minus the lost one
Give me the hope to face another day and from life not run
Your affection means more than My worthless life
What deeper darkness would shroud my heart
If your friendship I had not to pull me back from the dark
The pillars in my life are thee
Among you is my greatest love and the new one feeling's freed
Those eyes, Green and Blue
And colors true of the other two
What dark dreams do I dare dream
What emotions does my heart seem to see
Without you all I am the walking dead
Without each and everyone of you my heart would into bloody ribbons shred
You are my Best Friends
Stuff forged from legends
Ashley, Angela, Carrie, and Jean
Help me to see another days dawn
Each knows I would die for thee
Jehovah knows How I care for thee
Greatest friend Emerald
Fiery friend Blue of the hearts rebel
Companion of light hearted laughter
And blessed friend of Bravery, Brain, and Mate of master
Everyday I pray
That God will keep you safe another day
Best Friends Forever
Know I shall be there at anytime you need
Honored to help you in even the slightest deed
I call you friends and more
For all of you the future has a rich store
I live because, and through you
Never feel alone, my spirit flys with you in the deepest darkest hue.
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Norton Community Hospital's Black Lung Clinic offers the region's only program approved and federally certified by the U.S. Department of Labor for the Black Lung Program. This clinic offers disease screening/ diagnostic testing and pulmonary rehabilitation services.
Black Lung Disease
Black lung disease, or coal worker's pneumoconiosis, is a lung disease that results from breathing in dust from coal, graphite, or man-made carbon over a long period of time.
Your risk of getting it depends on how long you have been around coal dust. Most people with this disease are older than 50. Smoking does not increase your risk of developing this disease, but it may have an additional harmful effect on the lungs. If coal worker's pneumoconiosis occurs with rheumatoid arthritis, it is called Caplan syndrome.
Coal worker's pneumoconiosis occurs in two forms: simple and complicated (also called progressive massive fibrosis or PMF). Coughing and shortness of breath are symptoms of the disease.
If you have been exposed to coal dust and have these symptoms, Norton Community Hospital's federally approved Black Lung Program provides services that include:
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Miners awarded disability benefits through the Federal Black Lung Program will have a "miner's card" or a U.S. Department of Labor card.
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The idea and concept for Diaspora-Now, Inc. has been in formation since 1986. Our primary mission is to increase the awareness and appreciation of Caribbean Culture, through distribution of information and works of art.
To this end we have prepared a catalog of fine arts and crafts, and will coordinate a continuing series of exhibitions & workshops, featuring artists of the Diaspora.
Our intention is to grow into an organization with the necessary outlets to truly make an impact on the wider culture. These outlets will include an art gallery, gift shop and performing arts space. Eventually a periodical publication and teaching center will be added, to complete the cycle of our mission.
Since 1993 Diaspora-now Inc. has produced a series of critically acclaimed art exhibitions highlighting emerging African American, Latin American and Caribbean artists. January 1998 saw the official launch of the Diaspora-now Collection. This eclectic mix of Caribbean Arts and Crafts is tailored to a wide range of tastes and interests. This Collection is brought to you primarily by artists and artisans from the Caribbean island of Barbados.
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Eat Slowly and Lose Weight #94
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Here is the 94th in our series of 100 Weight Loss Tips articles. Each new article brings you a brand new top tip on how to successfully lose weight. So the last tip was all about the importance of including dietary fiber in your daily diet and this one looks at the actual volume of food that you are inclined to eat.
Let's face it, we were conditioned to eat as kids and most of us were made to sit there until we'd cleaned the plate, or we were threatened that if we didn't eat up all our meat and vegetables we wouldn't get any pudding! One of these little gems that I was conditioned with was "eat it while its hot" which translated into shovel that food down your throat before it gets cold! Well, eating that way is not a good way to eat, despite what you were told!
Eat Slowly and Lose Weight!
You have to remember that your fork is not a builder's shovel and your stomach is not a dustbin. Your diet program is there to help you improve your health. There are no prizes for finishing your meal first. In fact the booby prize for shoveling your food down at an alarming rate to beat everyone else at the table is a faster growing waistline than everyone else!
I know plenty of people do eat far too quickly, even if they're not hungry. They have gotten into the habit of throwing everything into their mouths as quickly as possible and then swallowing the half-chewed food in order to make room for the next shovel load! When you eat like this, your brain doesn't know that your stomach is full up until twenty minutes or so after it actually is. When this happens, it is possible to stuff yourself silly before the realization hits you that you didn't need to eat as much as you just did.
What's the solution to this problem?
This is a mind game and its one you will have to teach yourself by repetition. You have to be quite strict with yourself and start by only eating half of the food that's on your plate. Then wait ten minutes. Then you can continue to eat but only if you're still hungry. The trick with this way of eating is that you should never want to feel full up – ever.
When you feel full after eating, then its a sure indicator that you've eaten too much at that sitting. That means you probably just busted the bank with regards to your calorie count for the day and unless you have a rigorous weight loss exercise session planned for later, you are going to gain weight today!
Counter that by forcing yourself to slow down when you eat. To do that, play a game in your mind. Start by putting less food onto your fork to start with, then put the food in your mouth and start chewing slowly. Put the fork down and place both your hands either on your lap or flat on the table. Spend a little time chewing that mouthful of food and as you do, imagine the flavors you can taste in it. Maybe there was a certain herb that was used in the cooking that stands out and you can identify it. Or maybe its an ingredient of the food itself. Try identifying what it is as you chew and don't allow yourself to swallow until you have figured out exactly what that taste is.
If that's too tough, then an alternative is to count slowly up to 20 while you chew each mouthful of food before allowing yourself to swallow it. Always, and I mean always put your knife and fork down between each mouthful. That'll avoid the temptation to have the fork loaded with the next mouthful ready to cram in your mouth the second you have swallowed.
What does all this slowing down of eating do to help you lose weight?
Plenty. It allows your digestive juices (saliva) to pre-digest the food in your mouth, making it easier for your stomach to finish the job and get the maximum amount of nutrients from your food. It also ensures that your brain is informed that your stomach is full as it actually happens rather than sometime later, preventing you from over-stuffing it with more than it needs. This means you'll consume fewer calories, while improving you metabolic rate, which is the rate at which your digestive system converts the food you eat into energy and nutrients for your body to use. That means it will store less as fat, meaning a slimmer waistline. Which is exactly what you want!
Here's one of the really cool weight loss tips that help to curb hunger. Try taking an Omega 3 and Omega 6 supplement (EFAs) around twenty minutes before your meal. This will suppress your appetite and you'll be much less inclined to want to eat much, so you can give yourself a much smaller serving and feel satisfied with that. Hey presto! You just consumed half the calories you were going to and that means you get to lose some weight! Is that not cool?
Weight loss tips number 93 will follow in the next post!
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An outdoor junkie with a passion for cycling, kayaking and hiking ("Being outside in the sun under a blue sky and enjoying nature, well, there is nothing better in life to me," she says), Kim believes that results are the best form of motivation. She encourages her clients to track their workouts and food intake with a journal they receive during their initial consultation, and performs a re-evaluation every four to eight weeks to facilitate their transformation.
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African Vibes Magazine had a successful fifth anniversary event with African designers on the "I Wear African" Runway showcasing contemporary African fashions, special performances from DJ Oudy 1er and the Brown Family Group at its all white 5th Anniversary event which took place on May 1st at the Avalon in Hollywood, California.
#African Vibes Magazine shone a bright light on up and coming #African designers and performers at its all white 5th Anniversary event which took place on May 1st at the Avalon Hollywood. The event kicked off with a Pre-Show Glam Lounge where Beauty Sponsor, Milani Cosmetics glammed up guests while VIPs sampled some delectable desserts and sipped on complimentary champagne. Guests received exciting gift bag items including a selection of Milani's Passport of Color Spring collection items. The show kicked off with an opening dance act from renowned choreographer, #Titus Fotso along with members of his troupe (Wilfried Souly, #Michel Kouakou, #Rachel Tisby, #Malik Sow and #Soro Gnenmon). Other performers included #the Brown Family (#Somto Madu, #Samuel Dosumu and #John Paul Arabome) and Oudy 1er whose performance and dance moves had guests on their feet asking for an encore."
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Editor In Chief, Belle Niba and Actress #Tangi Miller who hosted the event kept the audience entertained throughout the evenings. As part of the event, the African Vibes Magazine African Diamond Award was given to #Senator Curren Price Jr. for encouraging trade and investment opportunities between Africa and California, #Dr Condessa Curley and #Anita Gent Williams for the work they do to help African communities through their Charity organization, Project Africa Global. The Awards were sponsored by Arik Air along with Supporting Sponsor, Gigi Jewelry.
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Manchester United beat Norwich City 1-0 in a closely contested Premier League match at Carrow Road.
The home side enjoyed their fair share of chances in the first half but were unable to capitalise, allowing second half substitute Danny Welbeck to win the game for David Moyes' club.
The main team news was the absence of Wayne Rooney, with the on-form United striker missing out due to a troublesome groin. Rafael and Antonio Valencia were also absent for the Champions after picking up an injury and suspension respectively midweek against Hull, though that blow was softened by the return of both Nemanja Vidic and Michael Carrick.
After a tempestuous start that saw both sides threaten, Norwich had the game's first major opportunity when Wesley Hoolahan couldn't quite reach the rebound after Russell Martin had forced the save from David De Gea.
From there on the Canaries – despite enduring less possession of the ball – dominated the chances column for the rest of the half, forcing a number of stops from De Gea before Hoolahan cut in promisingly from the left only to see his effort well blocked by Jonny Evans.
United – replacing Ryan Giggs with Welbeck – started the second half with renewed vigour, twice going close in the opening two minutes through Shinji Kagawa and Ashley Young. Norwich replied swiftly, with Nathan Redmond fizzing a fine effort inches wide of the upright.
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Barrier option is a type of financial option where the option to exercise depends on the underlying crossing or reaching a given barrier price. Barrier options exist in many forms. They are similar in some ways to ordinary options. There are put and call, as well as European and American varieties. Depending on the type of barrier option used, when the spot price of underlying asset hits the barrier (trigger) price, the option will either appear (be "knocked in") or disappear (be "knocked out"). The premium charged for the barrier option is usually lower than the premium charged for plain vanilla options. The existing barrier gives writer some kind of insurance that the final payoff won't deviate too much. The closer is the barrier to the strike price, the greater are the cost savings from premium, but also less likely that instrument will survive daily fluctuations.
"In" options start their lives worthless and only become active in the event a predetermined knock-in barrier price is breached. "Out" options start their lives active and disappear in the event a certain knock-out barrier price is breached.
Knock-out options are the most common type of barrier options. If the barrier (trigger) price is above the strike price, it is an "up-and-out" option and if the barrier (trigger) is bellow the strike price; it is a "down-and-out" option. The payoff of the knock out is the same as a standard option unless the underlying price touches the trigger price. In this case the option disappears. Up-and-out calls and down-and-out puts are automatically exercised when the underlying financial price reaches the trigger price; this serves to cap the gain on the option at the predetermined level.
Knock in options are the form of barrier options are the form of the barrier option in which the option appears only when the barrier (trigger) price is reached. Up-and-in calls and down-and-in puts are activated when the trigger price is reached, producing a standard contract.
[1] Smith, Clifford W.; Managing financial risk, Harper & Row, Ballinger Division, New York, 1989
[2] wikipedia.com
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US schooling – the land of hopes and dreams
During my time in Colorado and California, it has really struck me that the demographics of those studying at school (uni) in the US are completely different to the UK where most students are 18-21. In the US it is far more common for those in their 20s and 30s to be at school and it's so refreshing! Continue reading


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Frances Normandin's Bell Hanger
Frances Normandin, great-grandmother to our clients, designed and created the needlework bell hanger (ca 1930-1940) as a gift for her 15-year-old son, Fred Louis Normandin, Jr., or "Bub." Fred was named after his father, the first grocer in the Mount … Continue reading
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Frances Normandin's Beautiful Crewel Work, 2: Treatment, Colorwork
Continuing from our first post on crewelwork and cleaning Frances Normandin's beautiful crewel-worked textile circa 1930-1940: The textile is cleaned, but I want to step back to look at some images (before cleaning) to share some surprising comparisons and talk … Continue reading
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