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Exposure to asbestos is the main cause of the cancer.
Mesothelioma develops when a person ingests asbestos, and it causes changes to a person's DNA.
Our genes, which are made of DNA, control how cells grow, multiply and die. Changes in our genes may cause cells to divide out of control and may lead to cancer.
Development of Mesothelioma
- A person inhales or swallows airborne asbestos fibers.
- The asbestos fibers become lodged in the lining of the lungs, abdomen or heart.
- The embedded fibers damage the mesothelial cells and cause inflammation.
- Over time, tumors begin to form on the damaged mesothelium, which is the lining of the abdomen, lung, heart and testes.
Tumors also can be benign (noncancerous). But when tumors are cancerous, doctors call the disease malignant mesothelioma. It is often shortened to mesothelioma.Read More About Mesothelioma Causes
Common mesothelioma symptoms include:
- Dry coughing
- Shortness of breath
- Respiratory complications
- Pain in the chest or abdomen
- Fever or night sweats
- Pleural effusion (fluid around the lungs)
- Fatigue
- Weakness in the muscles
These mesothelioma symptoms usually do not show until tumors have grown and spread. Mesothelioma latency is 20-50 years. That's how long it takes from initial exposure to accurate diagnosis. For that reason, many people with mesothelioma are in their 60s or 70s.
You should talk to a mesothelioma specialist soon if you have a history of asbestos exposure and experience these symptoms. An early mesothelioma diagnosis may improve your prognosis and life expectancy.Read More About Mesothelioma Symptoms
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Types of Mesothelioma
Oncologists name each type of mesothelioma by the location in the body where it develops.
The pleural and peritoneal types of mesothelioma are the most common. Pericardial accounts for 1 percent of cases. Another rare type is testicular mesothelioma. It represents less than 1 percent of all mesotheliomas.
Prognosis, symptoms and treatment options vary by type.
Pleural Mesothelioma
- Most common type
- Forms on soft tissue covering the lungs
- Best treated with a multimodal approach
Peritoneal Mesothelioma
- Less than 20 percent of all cases
- Develops on lining surrounding the abdomen
- Responds best to a combination of surgery and heated chemotherapy
Pericardial Mesothelioma
- Second-rarest type
- Forms on soft tissue around the heart
- Best treated with a multimodal approach
Testicular Mesothelioma
- Rarest type
- Develops on the lining of the testes
- Responds best to surgery
Who Is Most at Risk of Mesothelioma?
Asbestos use in the military was widespread from 1940 to 1980. Veterans from all branches of the U.S. armed forces were at risk of exposure. Navy veterans are most at risk. This branch used the largest quantity of asbestos products.
Occupational Exposure
More than 75 occupations have exposed workers to asbestos. Auto mechanics, textile workers, steel mill workers, construction workers and firefighters are among the most at risk.
Secondary Exposure
Asbestos workers unknowingly carried asbestos fibers on their body and clothing. This resulted in secondary asbestos exposure among residents such as women and children.
The factors that most affect prognosis are stage and cell type. But age, gender and exposure history also affect outlook.
For example, younger patients and women have a better mesothelioma prognosis than older men. People diagnosed with the peritoneal mesothelioma type also have a higher chance of survival. The life expectancy for most patients is about 12 months after diagnosis.
Those who can undergo multimodal therapy, which is a combination of two or more treatments, have an improved prognosis.
Patients can improve prognosis by eating a nutrient-rich diet, undergoing cancer treatments and staying healthy.
Cell types and their role in prognosis and life expectancy:
- Epithelioid
- These cells are the most responsive to treatment, which improves prognosis and life expectancy. They comprise 50 percent of mesothelioma diagnoses.
- Sarcomatoid
- These cells are the least responsive to treatment. Patients with this cell type have a poorer prognosis and shorter life expectancy. These cells comprise 10 percent of diagnoses.
- Biphasic
- A combination of epithelioid and sarcomatoid cells. This type is less responsive to treatment. But prognosis and life expectancy depends on the ratio of both types of cells. This type accounts for 30-40 percent of diagnoses.
The Four Stages of Mesothelioma
Stage 1
The cancer is localized. Surgery is most effective at this stage. Survival rate is higher. Median life expectancy at stage 1 is 22.2 months.Learn About Stage 1
Stage 2
Tumors have started to spread from the original location into adjacent structures. Surgery is still an option. Median life expectancy at stage 2 is 20 months.Learn About Stage 2
Stage 3
Cancer has progressed to a more advanced stage with spread into the regional lymph nodes. Surgery may still be an option. Median life expectancy at stage 3 is 17.9 months.Learn About Stage 3
Stage 4
Cancer has spread extensively in the area where it developed. Chemotherapy and immunotherapy control symptoms and prolong survival. Median life expectancy at stage 4 is 14.9 months or less.Learn About Stage 4
Importance of Finding a Mesothelioma Specialist
Mesothelioma is a rare cancer. It represents only 0.3 percent of all cancer diagnoses. Most doctors and oncologists have never encountered it.
A 2009 study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine states that cancer care "requires the technical knowledge and skills of specialty physicians such as medical oncologists, surgeons and radiation oncologists."
Specialty cancer doctors establish:
- Goals for treatment and prognosis
- Possible use of chemotherapy
- First type of treatment
- Possible participation in clinical trials
These are factors that impact a mesothelioma patient's survival. That's why finding a mesothelioma specialist is so important.
Finding a mesothelioma specialty center with experienced mesothelioma doctors is crucial to survival.
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Treatment Options
Mesothelioma treatment helps patients live longer lives. But not every patient is eligible for each type of mesothelioma treatment.
The most common treatments for mesothelioma include:
- Surgery
- Offers greatest chance of survival. Usually used for diagnosis, tumor removal or palliative care to reduce pain. Patients with strong health and limited cancer spread are good candidates.
- Chemotherapy
- More than 70 percent of patients undergo chemotherapy. It uses powerful drugs to shrink tumors and kill cancer cells.
- Radiation Therapy
- Used to reduce pain from growing tumors. When combined with surgery and chemotherapy, it reduces risk of local recurrence. It can be used at any cancer stage.
- Immunotherapy
- This experimental treatment boosts the immune system to fight the cancer. Primarily used in clinical trials.
- Multimodal Therapy
- A combination of two or more treatments. Clinical studies show this approach improves survival rates.
- A multimodal treatment for peritoneal mesothelioma patients. Surgery is first used to remove as many tumors as possible. Heated chemotherapy is then applied to the abdominal cavity to destroy remaining cancer cells.
- Palliative Treatments
- May include surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or HIPEC. The purpose is not curative care. Instead, the goal is to reduce pain and improve quality of life. Good for any mesothelioma patient.
Clinical Trials and Emerging Treatments
Clinical trials offer mesothelioma patients access to experimental therapies. They also provide scientific and medical information for researches to develop new treatments. Patients in clinical trials also receive excellent medical care.
Alternative Treatments
Herbal medicines, mind-body therapies, holistic healing and other complementary therapies may benefit patients.
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Mesothelioma Lawsuits and Financial Assistance
Why Should You File?
Many companies that produced, distributed or used asbestos products knew it was deadly. But they neglected to warn their employees. Filing a lawsuit can help mesothelioma patients cover lost wages, medical expenses and other costs.
Who Can File a Lawsuit?
A person with mesothelioma can file a personal injury lawsuit. Mesothelioma lawyers file these against companies responsible for their client's asbestos exposure. Families can file wrongful death claims when a loved one dies of mesothelioma.
How Do I File a Lawsuit?
Qualified mesothelioma attorneys can help you decide when to file a lawsuit. They can also guide you through the process. Time is of the essence because statute of limitations may expire. A mesothelioma lawyer will review your case so you receive the highest compensation.
Learn How to Hire a Qualified Mesothelioma Lawyer
Other Types of Financial Assistance
- VA Claims
- Military veterans can file asbestos-related claims through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Government aid for older patients or those with limited income.
- Workers' Compensation
- Financial help may be available to people exposed to asbestos on the job.
Compensation for Asbestos Exposure
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Mesothelioma Support
Support is available for mesothelioma patients, survivors and loved ones in many forms.
- Mesothelioma Support Groups
- Offer patients and survivors a safe place to share experiences.
- Grief Support
- Counseling sessions and grief support groups can bring peace of mind. They can also provide the coping skills needed to grieve for the loss of a loved one.
- Medical Support
- A complete medical team with a mesothelioma specialist, dietitian, patient advocate and others can improve prognosis.
The Mesothelioma Center's monthly online support group meets every second Wednesday. Licensed mental health counselor Dana Nolan runs the support group. Patients and survivors can share their experiences with others on a similar cancer journey.
Common Questions and Answers
What are the first signs of mesothelioma?
The first signs of mesothelioma include shortness of breath, cough and chest pain. Other initial symptoms include wheezing, weight loss and fatigue.
Can mesothelioma be cured if caught early?
While there is no cure for any stage or type of mesothelioma, some early-stage patients have gone into remission for years after treatment. Remission means the cancer has stopped growing and spreading. Patients diagnosed early enough to qualify for surgery have the best chance of achieving remission.
Why was my stage 4 mesothelioma not detected during my regular checkups?
Unfortunately, a number of stage 4 mesothelioma cases do not produce symptoms that clearly indicate a diagnosis of mesothelioma. The symptoms of mesothelioma lead most general practitioners to a diagnosis of pneumonia or another pulmonary condition. In most cases, mesothelioma is diagnosed in stage 4 at a hospital or cancer center by an oncologist and not by general practitioner.
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A Grand Surprise
Bass with sores...
A crooked fish....
Mourning Cloak Butterfly
Fishing for smallmouth bass in a favorite spot on the river, I caught a little smallmouth with big sores on its body. Any broken spot in the scales on a fish can be a spot targeted by a fungus, and it usually will kill the fish in time. The sores I saw might have been the result of a gig back in the winter, or perhaps of a larger predator like an otter.
Sometimes a great blue heron will stab at a fish and leave such wounds. Whatever does it, I always catch several in the spring with those open sores, and every smallmouth I see any more is filled with a parasite, a small worm known as a yellow grub. They do not affect humans of course, but those grubs are a good reason to return the smallmouth bass you catch to the stream.
This smallmouth bass species is hard pressed, and bigger ones, the fish above 17 or 18 inches in length, become fewer each year. I caught a real oddball fish that day, a 10 or 12-inch brownie with an S-curve in its lower body. Who knows what caused it? At any rate, he swam away just fine, but he sure did look strange.
Walking through the woods a few days ago, doing some deep thinking, I was surprised to see a beautiful butterfly flutter along beside me and then drop down into the brown leaves before me, situated there as if to boost my spirits and add beauty and color to the brown landscape of late winter. I don't know if I ever saw one before. One of its common names is the Grand Surprise butterfly, and for me it certainly was a surprise.
You don't expect to see a brightly colored butterfly in mid-March. It is more commonly known as Mourning Cloak, and it is about 3 inches across, with velvety purple or burgundy wings, with yellow borders and blue spots just inside the border. I am trying to get a photo of one on my blogspot, so you can perhaps see it there, along with the two fish I was talking about. That is
Probably this is a good place to point out that we are trying to create a new website, where you can go to order my new book or any one of my books or the Journal of the Ozarks magazine we publish. I shouldn't say 'we' as I have nothing to do with it. I know nothing about computers, and what I know is all I want to know. But it is wonderful that there is so much information about nature and wild creatures so readily available.
I see nothing wrong with knowing all you can know from books, but I firmly believe you do not become an authority in the outdoors without being out there to see the things books cannot tell you. The idea of people calling themselves 'master naturalists' from a week of classes and reading books or referring to Internet material is pure silliness.
If you want to be a naturalist, live with nature, go out and spend years in the woods and on the waters and watch and listen and learn. You will be surprised how many times the books are giving you information which do not precisely go along with what you learn through your own experiences.
It is a problem I see with outdoor writers today. Too many live in suburbs and try to write about a world that they only occasionally visit. It is easy to write about the outdoors from what you have read in books, but if you can't walk the walk and live the life, what you write gets stale, and just repeats the same thing others have written.
That is so evident when you see the turkey hunting experts in the pages of outdoor magazines, and read much of the pure baloney they write about turkey hunting. Few of them are out in the woods in February and March chasing wild turkeys. But now is one of the best times to take a camera and a turkey call and get some great photos. In doing so, you see and learn about everything living there awaiting spring. There are birds being hatched, baby animals being born, already.
And you may be walking along and happen across a Mourning Cloak butterfly, which isn't even suppose to be here, according to those who write about them. They are supposed to be common in Europe, Canada and in the U.S. north of Iowa, but not in the Ozarks.
If you want to learn while in the woods, don't forget we are taking another trip via pontoon boat to a very isolated and natural area on Truman Lake on April 4 and again a week or so later, where we will take a good long hike before dinner and after, and maybe we will see something you and I have never seen before. If you want to join us, just call my office for details. My executive secretary, MS. Wiggins, will help you if you call 417 777 5227
I hope to see many of you readers at our swap meet this coming Saturday. We still have 45 tables filled now, and I am really looking forward to it. Out here all alone on Lightnin' Ridge, I don't get to talk to anyone but my Labrador very often. I could talk to Ms. Wiggins on occasion if I didn't try to avoid her while she does her nails. And all she wants to talk about is her Mexican boyfriend and how close he came to getting caught lately!
I will sell the very first copies of my new book that morning at the swap meet, just off the press, and inscribe them for you. But I think people are going to be amazed to see several hundred old 1930 and 1940 Life magazines there, selling for about half what you can find them on the internet for. They are amazing looks at history.
If you have an old gun or an item or two you want to sell, we will place it for you and maybe you can sell it. But remember that if you think you have antiques lures or fishing gear, we will have an extremely knowledgeable person available at his own table to tell you what it is and what it is worth.
I was watching the news the other evening when a young lady reported that someone had caught a 140-pound paddlefish, said to be the biggest fish ever caught in Missouri. Then she said that she was surprised to hear it had been caught on a hook with no bait whatsoever. And she wasn't even blonde!!!
All over the Ozarks that night there were fishermen laughing as heartily as I was.
I am sure those T.V. people would think I am the dumbest person in the world when it comes to their computers, technology and life in the city. At such things, I'll bet that young lady and her associates are marvelous, but they know nothing of the outdoors, and it so often shows when they try to report on conservation and the natural world.
Why would you reckon a paddlefish that large might be caught on a hook with no bait? If you know, then you have a familiarity with the outdoors they need at that station.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
An Excellent Job
Someone sent me editorials from both of the two largest Ozark newspapers castigating legislators who are trying to pass legislation restricting the heretofore unstoppable spending by the Missouri Department of Conservation. Both editorials say the department is "doing an excellent job".
Keep in mind that such editorials are written by people who sit in offices and never venture into the outdoors, never see a wildlife conservation area the MDC manages.
So I just want to invite them, any or all of them, to go with me to take a look at the real "excellent job" that is being done.
Put some boots on fellows, and take a little trip with me and let me show you where there use to be coveys of quail and rabbits which now are gone because of the MDC's excellent job.
If you are a reader who wants to learn, you can come too.
Come and go with me and let me show you where the forests that belong to all of us have been stripped of trees by private logging companies contracting with the MDC.
Let me show you what a den tree is, let me show you what pileated woodpeckers are, what flying squirrels are, what a screech owl looks like.
I will assure you, those editors praising the MDC's excellent job have never seen any of those creatures.
They have never seen one of those public areas.
The editors who boast of the MDC's excellent work, how many of them actually came from Missouri?
I am betting none of them grew up outside some major city suburb in another state.
A few years ago when I was simply trying to get a letter published in the Springfield News Leader about the MDC concerning an attempt by that agency to take land from three landowners in Wright County, I was refused by an editor who said he came from a city in the Pennsylvania. They would not use the letter.
And this column cannot be published in any form in the larger newspapers of this state.
It is taboo to criticize the great MDC.
Now I do not mind them becoming a spokesman for the Conservation Department, but I only ask that they do what newspapers were once known for…show two sides of the story.
I wrote for many years as an outdoor columnist for the Springfield News Leader when it was a local newspaper. In 1999 it was purchased by the very liberal Gannett company from back east, and shortly afterward I received from the new editor who told me her name was Kate Marymount.
She told me that the newspaper and the Missouri Department of Conservation had met that week in the News-Leader offices and made a deal in which the MDC would supply material consisting of photos, columns and features completely free.
She said five words I will never forget… 'We have made a deal'.
It was followed by the statement that the newspaper would publish no criticism of the MDC from that point on, unless it was Okayed by the 'editorial board'.
That policy continues.
Think of one thing you may have seen in that newspaper since that time which spoke of something the MDC might not have approved of.
It became clear that dissenting views could not even be placed in the 'letters' section.
So I ask one simple thing.
You editors who think you must publish praise of the MDC, come go with me and look at what they have done, what they are doing.
Let see if there is a big pay raise the director has given himself, and what the salaries are for those who sit in Jefferson City.
Lets look at the commissioners, what they do for a living, and how they got appointed.
Let's look at some of those million acres the MDC manages for all of us who own those acres and are suppose to be able to use them to enjoy.
Lets take a look at the quarter million dollars the MDC gave to a judge for his personal use.
Take a look at the tax payments they make annually and 'in perpetuity' for a few of their friends.
Maybe they will agree to pay your property taxes too.
Lets go look at the Bass Pro Shop land which is privately owned by one of the countries richest billionaires and ask the MDC why they would do days of work on those lands completely free of charge, work that all of us citizens paid for.
Lets go out and talk to people who have been victims of conservation agents who trampled on their constitutional rights.
Lets go talk to the ex-agents who have much to say about what they saw.
Let's find out why one agent sued the MDC for a million dollars and won, just because he was fired for reporting illegal activities by other agents, one of whom is today an MDC supervisor.
Why did a story like that never make one single newspaper?
Let's just go do what newspapers are supposed to do… show another side.
Lets talk to some of those legislators, and hear what they have to say.
Recently I got a call from a lady who works for the MDC and she was so frustrated because in March, her department goes out and buys equipment like four-wheelers which are not needed or used, just to use up the budget money.
"If we do not use all of our budget," she said, "then we may not get all the money we ask for next year.
So we waste it, we just give it away."
The only way the Missouri Department of Conservation can fool, and keep the support of, millions of Missourians who live inside major cities is through the complicity of major newspapers like the Gannett-owned News-Leader in Springfield which help them suppress the truth.
While I am volunteering my time to take their editors or reporters out to really see and report on another side, I know good and well they will not do it.
I want you to reread this column.
What have I said here that you might find unfair or untrue? I grew up in the Ozarks, and have written outdoor columns for fifty years. I have published hundreds of articles about conservation and the outdoors in national outdoor magazines and dozens of major newspapers, with a degree in wildlife management from he University of Missouri.
I have been awarded 'conservation communicator' awards in two states.
I am a conservationist, the same kind of ranting raving lunatic that John Muir and Aldo Leopold were.
All I want is to see the truth known.
I want to see all conservation departments stand for wise use… for preservation, for the management of our areas for all creatures besides just the deer and turkey which in this day and time require no management at all.
Non-game mammals and birds, many of which are in decline because of the destruction of their habitat, are worth something too.
I want the rampant corruption I have seen in the Conservation Department controlled and corrected, because no matter who you are, where you live in this state, even if you do not partake of any outdoor activity, you pay the Missouri Department of Conservation one-eighth of a cent in tax on your ordinary daily purchases.
It is our money and it shouldn't be wasted.
Our conservation department receives somewhere around 175 million dollars a year.
Why shouldn't our legislators try to stop the waste and the wild spending going on there? Why shouldn't questions be asked?
Why shouldn't the other side of the story be given a space in our newspapers?
Maybe you editors and reporters think there is no 'other side'.
If so, come go with me and lets take a look, far from your carpeted plush offices that you never leave.
Come with me to interview the director… come talk to the chief of the enforcement division with me, and just listen.
Put on the boots and lets go outdoors to see just what they are doing.
If you won't do that, just put a sentence inside the next editorial that reads… "There may be another side to this MDC story but we refuse to print it.
Years ago
'we made a deal'."
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Monday, March 2, 2015
A Cardinal in the Snow
Photos by Lightnin' Ridge Editor Sondra Gray
It snowed eight inches up here on Lightnin' Ridge last weekend. This is supposedly the highest point in the county, and it seems like we always get an inch or two more here on this timbered ridge than the weather people predict.
It was only about 20 degrees that morning after the snow ended, so I put on some boots and my duck-huntin' coat and went out to survey the beauty of it. But I couldn't help but feel a little bit of a lift to hear cardinals singing their song of 'good cheer' just like it was April.
They should sing, because on my back porch I have bird feeders I keep full. Yesterday there were seven or eight species out there making the most of it, one of them a Carolina wren.
The corn feeder down behind my office, above the pond, is a great attraction for doves and squirrels and deer and turkey, but I was amused yesterday to see a cottontail rabbit sitting there. Many people do not realize that a winter blast coming in February or March is much, much worse than the same situation in December.
That's because wild creatures go into the winter fattening up in preparation for it. In the early half of winter, there is far more food than there is in late winter. Right now is the real bottleneck, the most difficult time to survive for wild creatures. Food is at its lowest level, and wild birds and mammals at their weakest, with less ability to resist cold ice or deep snow. So it is indeed the time you want to feed birds and keep corn feeders full.
It might be that the month of February just past, is the only month of February I can remember in which I didn't catch a single fish. Because of that, I figure there will be more fish out there in rivers and lakes in March than ever before, so I intend to take advantage of it. While the late snow wreaks havoc on water temperatures, I think it makes it more likely that we will have a bumper crop of mushrooms in late April.
I don't know why, but it seems that snow puts more nitrogen in the soil, and I think that must be the thing that mushroom seeds need the most. When I hear those cardinals singing like they have been, it really makes me think of mushrooms and poke greens and freshly fried fish. Don't anyone write me this year trying to buy mushroom seeds! I sold all of them last year and had all kinds of problems with folks who couldn't get them to grow wanting their money back. What happens so often is that mushroom seeds, which are so tiny you can't see them with the naked eye, are often spilled before the buyers get them to the woods where they want them to grow. And when you spill a pack of mushroom seeds, you don't have a chance in the world of finding them and picking them up!
When you see wild turkey in late February and early March, they are usually in huge flocks, because in numbers there seems to be a greater ability to survive. But the largest flock of turkeys I have ever seen in the Ozarks numbered about 75 or 80 one winter in a field along the river above Truman Lake.
I never thought there would ever be any flock like that one. But Gloria Jean, who does that facebook thing, called me in to look at a film on the computer showing what I believe was a wild turkey flock numbering 200 to 250 birds. They were an ever-moving mass of turkeys, going across a Nebraska field, coming out of a tree line like a stream flowing from a spring.
I can't tell you how to find that, but if you are a computer person you know how. Those Nebraska turkeys are not the eastern gobblers we hunt here in the Ozarks. Most of them are Merriams gobblers, and perhaps they are crossed in some parts of that state with Rio Grande gobblers which are prevalent to the south in Kansas, but they are a different bird up there, not nearly as wild, and much much easier to call in. They have white or beige tail bands usually. I have called them up in the fall of the year, gobbling and strutting just like it is spring.
Several times in Kansas I called up eight or ten Rio Grande gobblers in the spring. And when they come to a call, they don't fiddle around much. That's why I have so long joked about those turkey hunters who boast of 'Grand Slams' in hunting wild gobblers. All anyone needs to get their 'Grand Slam', which includes the four best-known species of wild turkeys, is to have the time and the money to travel to where they are. If you can't call in and kill a Rio Grande or Merriams gobbler in the spring, you aren't where one can hear you.
I never thought I would see the day though, when there would be greater flocks of turkeys in a state like Nebraska or Kansas than flocks of pheasants or coveys of quail. Truthfully, I would much rather see the numbers of quail like they once were.
A word of caution to those turkey hunters about to buy shotgun shells for spring hunting… I got a hold of some bad shells last fall made by Federal Ammunition, with the 'turkey thug' logo on the box. They weren't properly sealed and were leaking shot out into the box. I looked at about 20 boxes on the shelves of a local sporting goods store and found four or five with defective shells inside.
The store manager said they could not take back any returned ammo, but she let me have a new box of shells. From this point, after seeing what I have seen, I will buy Remington or Winchester ammunition, and I recommend you do the same thing. How are you going to be a good turkey thug with shells that have leaked their lead shot into your pocket?
Well we are less than a month away from our outdoorsman's swap meet. You can still get a free table on that last Saturday of March if you want to contact us. You just need to be selling outdoor gear or related stuff that outdoorsmen would use, whether new, used or antique. We anticipate having some good buys on boats and motors and canoes and that kind of thing, so bring them if you have them for sale. We have a place set up in the parking lot for those to be displayed. If you can put up a few flyers in your area letting people know about this completely free event, I will send you some.
I have also had a great deal of interest in the daylong wilderness trip and fish fry in March, and even more interest in the mushroom hunting trip in April. If you want to find out the cost and details and get your name on our list to call, write or call us at Box 22, Bolivar, Mo. 65613 or call 417 777 5227 where my executive secretary Ms. Wiggins will be glad to help you.
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Tonight is the eve of the feast of Ascension Day, so today's broadcast of Choral Evensong explored this theme, coming from Lincoln Cathedral.
The anthem was Patrick Gowers' Viri Galilaei, and regular readers of this blog will know of my love for this piece, having written about it on a number of occasions. It's a superlative work, beginning shrouded in mystery and obscurity (and listen out for what sounds like the use of a highly appropriate zimbelstern stop tinkling away above the voices); at the first, rather soft, mention of the word "Alleluia", the whole tone of the anthem shifts, quickly building up to a coruscating series of loud Alleluias from the whole choir. A toccata paves the way for the work's climax, a vast but brisk chorale punctuated at each cadence with further Alleluias—it's difficult to listen without tears forming, joy is etched into every note of this piece. The choir performs this challenging piece superbly, clearly enjoying themselves, as well they should; it's pleasing to see that Gowers' anthem has finally supplanted (or, at least, provided an alternative to) Finzi's over-performed God is gone up.
The voluntary was Messiaen's well-known 'Transports de joie', from his organ suite L'Ascension. So much of Messiaen's music still sounds as fresh as when it was first written; 'Transports de joie', certainly, must have been a shock and a revelation when first composed in 1934; it makes for a brilliant conclusion to a truly wonderful evensong from Lincoln Cathedral.


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Shagaya remains laid to rest in Langtang
The remains of late Sen. John Shagaya were on Friday laid to rest in his home town, Langtang.
Shagaya, who passed on in a ghastly motor accident along Langtang – Panskhin road on Feb. 11 was buried at Kuswang, Langtang town after a funeral service at COCIN Central, Langtang North.
President Muhammadu Buhari, represented by Interior Minister, retired Gen. Abdulrahaman Dambazau, said the news of shagaya's death was sad and shocking not only to him but the entire nation.
The president described Shagaya as a ""true soldier and detribalised Nigerian."
"Gen. Shagaya was a true soldier and detribalised Nigerian, whose interest was the welfare of his people who he successfully served as a senator."
""His people and nation will greatly miss such a great man, who had given his all for us in spite of all odds," the President said.
Buhari prayed for the repose of his soul and for God to give the family and Plateau people the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
Dambazau said he had benefited from the benevolence of Shagaya having worked under him at One Division in Enugu where he tapped from his knowledge.
"As a minister I have always reached out to him for assistance and his wise counsel."
Also speaking, Gov. Simon Lalong described Shagaya as a leader and mentor who helped in the formation and rise of APC in Plateau as well as his emergence as governor.
Lalong said that with the great impact the late general had on Plateau and Nigeria, the state government will very soon honour him as a mark of appreciation.
Earlier during the funeral service, the officiating clergy, Rev Obed Dashan, COCIN Deputy President, cautioned on careless living warning that death is inevitable.
Dashan, who took his text from Genesis 5:11-24, admonished the people of Nigeria to draw near to God to have a place in heaven after death.


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The Town Players of New Canaan's announced its lineup of shows for the 2014-15 season.
"A Time to Kill," adapted for the stage by Rupert Holmes and directed by Julie Bell Petrak, will be performed from Oct. 24 to Nov. 8.
"Scrooge," an abbreviated version, with book, music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and directed by Sheri Dean, will take place from Dec. 5 to 14.
"Dearly Departed," by David Bottrell and Jessie Jones and directed by Chris Peterson, will take place from Feb. 20 to March 7.
"Olympus on My Mind," with book and lyrics by Barry Harman and music by Grant Sturiale and directed by Tom Butterworth, will be performed from May 1 to 16.
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"The art of finding in poetry is the art of marrying the sacred to the world, the invisible to the human" (Linda Gregg)
Saturday, 10 January 2015
'Prayer Before Birth' by Louis MacNeice: "I Am Not Yet Born..."
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In another dark week for the world, I was thinking of Louis MacNeice's 'Prayer Before Birth', which you can read on the link below - or even listen to MacNeice himself reading it to you, in the rather stentorian tones of the time.
This was, among other things, an anti-fascism poem reflecting the fears of the 1930s and 40s, but I think MacNeice would have recognised that in the future, old horrors might take on only somewhat new faces.
PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH (Louis MacNeice)
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- Anonymous18 January 2015 at 07:07
I'll be teaching this poem next week (a text set by the examination board for study by 16 year olds). I taught it last year as well, and it didn't grab me as much as some of the others also set. However, it's a grower. Do you have any views on the layout?ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for stopping by and asking!Delete
I have a couple of thoughts about layout. One is that in fact the layout is not well done on the Poetry Archive website. I put this poem in an anthology I was working on recently and in typesetting I was very anxious about them getting the layout right. The second stanza, for instance, should look like this:
I am not yet born, console me.
I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me,
with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me,
on black racks rack me, in blood-baths roll me.
So the suggestion is that each stanza actually contains only two lines. The second line is just very long and so it is progressively inset down the stanza to indicate that the line is continuing. It's a shame they didn't get that on the Poetry Archive site - it does seem to be the correct way to lay out the poem as I have seen that way in books.
The two lines in each stanza, one short, one long, sets up a sort of incantatory quality which is suitable for a formal type of prayer. What I really notice, though, is in the second to last stanza, where the second line is very long indeed. In terms of both sound and appearance on the page, there is a kind of forward rush to it which feels catastrophic to me. The words seem a little less controlled - it is almost as though the speaker is starting to panic. On the page it looks like an avalanche. Something is happening that can't be controlled. Then the last stanza has that abrupt, shockingly short final line: "Otherwise kill me." It could be resigned, or hopeless, or brusque...
Well, unfortunately my above comment didn't get the layout right either - I think that was too much for the Blogger comment formatting! Essentially on that stanza, "with strong drugs..." should be slightly inset, and then below that "on black racks..." slightly inset again.Delete
Really best if you can get hold of a book where it has been properly laid out!
Trying this once more: using .... instead of spaces, here's what that stanza should look like:Delete
I am not yet born, console me.
I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me,
....with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me,
........on black racks rack me, in blood-baths roll me.


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Hello we would like to invite your participation in our 9th event in Milan during the Salone del Mobile this April.
This year after exploring the possibilities of many different locations we have confirmed a venue in Zona Isola, North East of Stazione Centrale.
It is an area that we have produced shows in previously when we first started working in Milan in 2001 2002 and 2003. Now obviously it's not Tortona and it will not be so busy. We looked into venues there and the prices are crazier than they were last year, 35,000 for a car park with no power etc. That said we know we can get good people along. Feedback from last year is that Isola was an area with some of the most interesting shows and that it's generally regarded in Milan as up and coming. In 2001-2003 when we were there we had alot of visitors.
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Last week we had gale force wind up to 80 mile per hour in Northern Ireland. It's been quite cold too.
kale (nero di toscana),
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Day 004-013: Queensland and Back
Didn't get sick of daily diet
To get to Queensland you have to visit the bustling tourist and backpacker wasteland that is Cairns. It may not a bad town, but it presents itself as a diving board to the rest of the beautiful north eastern region of Australia constantly pressuring you to eat, drink, and sign up for a dive. My hostel was welcoming, and I found my way to Woolworths aka Woolies the grocery store chain. Lamb is a big deal here, and much more affordable. I bought 4 baby chops for $6.50 a good deal and a big treat for a lowly traveller. Despite the hostel's pathetically low gas flame I managed to cook them to perfection. I only had an appetite for two. I shared the rest with others backpackers who were surprised and hesitant to indulge in the lamb.
Lamb chops and broccoli rabe a superior meal made a backpackers hotel
I loaded my grocery bag before heading further North to Cape Tribulation with breakfast and lunch foods. Avocados, mango, apples, oranges, dried fruits, nuts, hard boiled eggs, rolls, lettuce, and salami, and Timtams. A good healthy regimen that worked out well and saved me at least $25 a day.
Hills, vines, palms and beach on the way to Cape Tribulation
Cape Tribulation is located next to the Daintree rain forest. It is the world's oldest rain forest, and the only place where the great barrier reef touches the beach. It's a little hard to get to, full of salt water crocodiles, and stingers (summer only) but magnificent. Everyone I encountered on my way up and on vacation there was dedicated in love with the area. But it is the jungle, and resources are few. The kitchen at my hostel did not offer any cups, plates, cutlery, knives, pots or pans. I did keep my stuff in the fridge. Until I nabbed some plastic ware, I actually used my hands to open mangoes and avocados for sandwiches. I was happy to have brought my food with me, the grocery store was limited.
Mackay Reef and sand cay at the Great Barrier Reef
After plenty of full days swimming in water holes, hiking around the self-guided trails in the jungle, snorkeling the reef, and swimming in the ocean I treated my self to prepared meals from my resort. All the food was delicious, and I stuck to pizzas though kangaroo rump an kangaroo lasagna made appearance on the local menus. On my last night in Cape Trib a young girl came by and requested my pizza box. Little girl was fire crazy, and using the boxes to pump up her camp fire. We watched as she enjoyed her pizza box fire momentarily jump.
Pizza fueled fire Cape Tribulation
Next stop Mission and Wongaling Beaches. This area has seen some hard times since being hit by a hurricane/cyclone in February. Damage is still around, but can't keep stop the beach from showing off its beauty. I continued my avocado, fruit, bread, nut diet here. The first night I arrived was Saturday, and indulged in sausages on white wonder-like bread at the backpacker hotel's free Saturday night BBQ.
Damage evidence Mission Beach
After Mission Beach it was already time to head back to Cairns. Europeans (Germans, English especially) gravitate to Australia where they can get working holiday visas. They stay for over a year only needing to work a few months and travel in similar paths. Cairns is backpacker capital of Australia. Hostels/backpacker hotels can hold up to 500 at time, and are all competitively modeled in "resort" style with pools and palms. The real benefit is that breakfast is often included. Toast with jam, butter, vegemite, and peanut butter, cold cereal, coffee, tea, and milk are laid out.
For kilos of toast
I was elated to leave backpacker land for the real world in Sydney. After 9 days I was ready for my own bathroom, kitchen and quiet bed in the apartment my friend is sharing with me. An even bigger benefit is a kitchen attached to your living space. I spent an entire joyful afternoon cooking a meal from scratch. Beet salad with garlic and parsley, sweet potatoes with cinnamon, chili, and cumin, and tofu soaked in soy plum sauce.
Return to cooking back in Sydney: beet salad, roasted sweet potatoes, and tofu.


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The decision to allow two more eliminated acts to re-enter the competition means there's still hope for Etienne and Low to make it back in for the semi-finals at the start of next week's show. Howard Stern and Howie Mandel each have their wild card picks available for next week. Stern, according to insiders, is the best shot to pick Etienne based on conversations he's had on his satellite radio show.
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1. What Swedish word used to describe a representative for claims against the government was adopted into the English language?
2. Which Irish poet's middle name was Bysshe?
3. What was the most common name among Henry VIII's wives?
4. What color are psychadelic mushrooms?
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8. What movie features this quote: "Excuse me while I whip this out"?
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By Dustin Rowles | Film | May 15, 2006 |
Like every other goddamn thing in a world limited in creative possibilities, the motion picture industry is generational. And in each generation, a particular genre starts out subtle and clever enough, as did Scream, Pulp Fiction, and When Harry Met Sally, in their respective genres. Unfortunately, in seeking to duplicate their successes, the next guy comes along and ratchets it up a bit, until eight or 10 years have passed and there's nowhere left to go. In 1998, for instance, the Farrelly brothers introduced hair-gel ejaculate and zippered scrotum in There's Something About Mary, and eight years later, we have that to thank for Date Movie, in which a cat takes a dump in the family lavatory before fucking a corpse, a bit that's criminally unfunny in its inability to shock and leaves the next guy with absolutely nowhere left to go short of a necrophiliac menage a trois that none of us really cares to see.
And, unfortunately in a decade characterized by the buffoonery of our commander-in-chief and America's obsession with reality television — and, by extension, the collective idiocy of our populace — it seems that our reality has actually already hit that tipping point. I mean, when your President exhibits the IQ of a grinder monkey and 40 million people tune in each week to watch amateur singers vie for stardom by whoring themselves out in Ford Escort bits, there is no repository for debasement left. People, our culture has gone as low as it can get and, short of simply holding up a mirror to ourselves (as Jon Stewart does so well four nights a week), there is nothing left to ridicule. We're living the goddamn punchline, folks. We can't get any fatter, stupider, or more oblivious than we already are, short of metaphorically pulling out a few cadavers and enjoying a one-night stand with the late Grandma Jones.
And that is the predicament that American Dreamz faces. Paul Weitz — by choosing George Bush and "American Idol," (and by extension, a populace that put that man in office and plunks its collective [huge] ass down every Wednesday night to watch a half-hour results show that by rights should take no more than 45 seconds) — has backed himself into a creative corner from which there is no way to get out. I mean, c'mon! You can't mock a man that does all the work for you; and you can't ridicule a culture with its head so far up its own ass that it wouldn't recognize it anyway.
And that is why American Dreamz falls so completely and utterly flat, because it's not satire inasmuch as it's a toned-down depiction of our reality; it's a fictionalized CSPAN of the current American zeitgeist, only instead of holding that mirror up to us, it's asking us to look in that mirror and pretend to see someone else's reflection, some other culture, some other world in which we are not the participants. And if that sounds overly cynical, then I apologize, but I think it's better than sugarcoating that cynicism with Hugh Grant's witticisms, Mandy Moore's embittered cutesiness, and a Middle-Eastern terrorist who loves motherfucking show tunes.
Anyway, where was I? Ah, yes. American Dreamz consists of several plot strands that struggle to converge on the event of the fictional "American Dreamz" finale. First, we have a dimwitted President (Dennis Quaid, who is quite good in the role) who — despite just being reelected — is battling with low poll numbers after he picks up a newspaper, has a crisis of consciousness, and disappears from the public eye for several weeks, leaving everyone to wonder if he's just had a nervous breakdown. Meanwhile, Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant), the Simon Cowell-like host of "American Dreamz," is a preening egotist dealing with his own self-loathing as he prepares to launch another season of the most popular show on television. He's sick to death, apparently, of the same, bland Carrie Underwood-type contestants, so he latches onto Sally Kendoo (Mandy Moore), a cheerleading All-American Girl from Padookie, Ohio, who just so happens to have her own bouts of jaded self-loathing and is trying to cynically manipulate the system and transform her self-hatred into Clintonian ambition so that she can become the "American Dreamz" victor. When Tweed suggests that "one can become detached from reality when famous," Sally is the type of girl to exclaim, "That sounds so cool." And, for the record, Mandy Moore is actually pretty remarkable in a part that is somewhat self-parodying; I'm not sure who her agent is, but since her roles in "Entourage" and "Scrubs," I've gained a newfound respect for her (How to Deal notwithstanding), as she attempts to distance herself from her A Walk to Remember-type characters and reposition herself as the anti-Duff.
Elsewhere, Tweed has also become fascinated with the William Hung-like novelty act, Omer (Sam Golzari), who just happens to be an Iraqi terrorist (by way of Orange County) with a penchant for Donnie and Marie and mass-consumed trendiness. After the President agrees (on the advice of the Cheneyesque chief of staff, played with craggy creepiness by Willem Dafoe) to guest-host the finale in an attempt to boost his poll numbers, it is Omer who is recruited by his terrorist cell to blow up the President in an act of campy martyrdom.
Unfortunately, American Dreamz never displays any of the subversiveness that the premise seems to promise. Besides being almost an entirely joke-free series of loosely held together scenes, it's completely shallow and empty to boot. Indeed, the best that could be said for American Dreamz is that it's satire for the simpletons who don't really understand what satire means. I admit myself that I haven't missed an episode of "American Idol" in a good five years, but I'm self-aware enough to recognize this as a character flaw, partially motivated by pressures to keep up with our contemporary culture and partially driven by my own guilty fondness for mind-numbing, vacuous television after a hard day watching mind-numbing, vacuous films. But American Dreamz is firmly targeted at those people who lack that brand of self-awareness, real-life Michael Scotts and David Brents, who offer up high-fives for little or no reason. And to those folks, writer/director/producer Paul Weitz seems to be saying, "Don't laugh at yourself, man. Laugh at people just like you." And I'm guessing they probably will.
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All of our team members here get the SOTW questions (just some basic questions) from our Team Leader Jen Kuebrich & Sandy has turned one of our questions into a fun twist. Here is how the conversation went...
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Sandy: "Say that 10 times fast!! I think being a part of the Etsy Twitter team has really taught me how to be a good tweeter. It's all about community. Sure, tweet when you list a new product or have a special sale, but I truly believe you'll have more success if people get a feeling for WHO you are, not just WHAT you do. And the nice thing is that it doesn't have to be too deep...it's only 140 characters after all!"
(to tell you the truth Sandy and fellow readers she did say it 1oX fast-it was not pretty;)
PunkyJane's favorite thing about her craft is : "As a graphic designer, I always had my undo button. It saved me all the time! With stamping, there's a finality to it. I've had to completely change my thinking about how to create. It's taught me that perfection isn't possible, and for me, that's a great lesson to have learned."
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