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Explore St. Charles' unique history in the historic, 1928 McCornack Oil Company building. Museum features permanent, rotating temporary exhibits that tell the important stories about St. Charles' rich history. Visit our website for the Museum happenings.


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Railway users in Sheffield are not convinced enough is being done to fix the problems which caused chaos on the lines earlier this year.
New timetables introduced in May caused weeks of misery for Northern passengers, with up to 310 scheduled trains cancelled by the operator each weekday, as well as those using Thameslink services.
A report on the debacle, published today by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), concludes it happened because the fragmented industry set-up does 'not support clarity of decision making' and ultimately 'nobody took charge'.
READ MORE: Sheffield still waiting for cash promised by Government for improved rail links to Manchester
Network Rail, the operators and even the regulator itself were all found to be partly culpable for the fiasco, which in the north stemmed from over-running rail electrification work.
Transport secretary Chris Grayling responded by launching what he claimed would be the biggest review of Britain's railways since privatisation, headed by former British Airways supremo Keith Williams.
He said this would look at 'bringing train and track closer together' to reduce disruption and improve accountability, with the possibility of 'regional partnerships' being created to deliver smoother services and better value for money.
READ MORE: Anger and frustration at reliability of Sheffield rail services to London and Manchester
As part of the review, plans to award a new Cross Country franchise next year, covering trains from Sheffield to Edinburgh and Newcastle in the North and Plymouth and Southampton in the south, have been put on hold.
Rail passenger journeys across Britain have more than doubled over the last two decades, from 735 million in 1994-5 to 1.73 billion in 2016-17.
Peter Kennan, who chairs Sheffield Chamber of Commerce & Industry's transport forum, said this rapid expansion meant the network could 'no longer realistically cope, in parts, with what it is being asked to do', resulting in this summer's 'timetable meltdown'.
READ MORE: Transport masterplan could see new tram stops, train stations and rapid bus services across South Yorkshire
"So far as Sheffield is concerned, we have suffered a ripple effect resulting from delays elsewhere on the network, particularly in Manchester," he added.
He called the Cross Country postponement 'very frustrating', especially for commuters from Sheffield to Leeds, who he said would have to 'endure' the existing service 'without any immediate light at the end of the tunnel'.
Kath Aspinwall, who chairs the Hope Valley Railway Users Group, said: "The thing that strikes me from the report is how fragmented everything is, and how nobody's in charge.
"I think that encourages the different parts to blame each other rather than accepting they might be part of the fault. If nobody's in charge, it's no surprise things go wrong."
Referring to the summer's disruption, Chris Morgan, chairman of Friends of Dore & Totley Station, said the rail industry 'saw the headlights approaching but didn't know how to get out of the way'.
He claimed the big problem was that improvements to rail infrastructure had failed to keep pace with the extra services being added, meaning even a small problem could have huge knock-on effects for the wider network.
"Generally speaking, I think passengers are resigned to the fact that while we're getting improvements they're not being made quickly enough," he said.
Northern said it was 'deeply sorry' for this summer's disruption and while punctuality had improved, with 87 per cent of services arriving on time in the first two weeks of September, it wanted to learn the lessons from what had happened.
Network Rail's chief executive Andrew Haines, who also apologised, said: "A whole system approach to timetable planning must be the way ahead and we have already started on that path with the new winter timetable due in December that will see some modest improvements."
Transport for the North's chief executive Barry White said the ORR's report highlighted the need for 'radical change' in the way the rail industry operates'.
He described the appointment of Richard George to improve coordination across the industry, and the compensation packages for beleaguered passengers, as the first steps on a long journey of rail reform'.
The ORR's report is available to read in full here.

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Lord, my husband deserves a new job. God, my wife lost her job last week and we need a second income to help pay bills. Heavenly Father, my son lies dying in the hospital and we need you to heal him now. Holy Spirit, please protect my daughter as she continues to make wrong choices. Lord, I want a new car and I've got to have some new clothes. Father God, we lost our house; now what do we do? Jesus, my mother just received the news; it's cancer! Please God, don't let my Daddy die. Help us in Jesus' name!
Do any of those words ring true in your life? We've all "been there, done that" in some form or fashion. These pleadings for our lives and those of our "inner circle" are continually laid before the Lord (imagine receiving not only our requests, but the whole world's). Does He hear us? Is He going to answer us?
The Bible says "yes." He hears us and He answers us. Read the Scriptural evidence. In the morning, O Lord, You hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before You and wait in expectation. Psalm 5:3 (NIV) For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through Him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God. 2 Corinthians 1:20 (NIV)
So why don't we believe the proof given to us. The problem with the answers is they're not always in our time, not always what we want, or maybe "no" is the end result. Could it be our Creator knows us better than we know ourselves? Perhaps He knows what we need more than we do?
Consider His ways. He created us in His own image. He illustrates parenthood to us through fathers and mothers that love Him. Not every case is perfect, but most parents know how to take care of their children. They know what's best for their children because of personal experiences. They recognize the needs and wants of their children. Needs must to be met, but wants aren't always a priority. Is it possible God views our lives the same way? Journey with me as I provide an explanation.
Yesterday my granddaughter had a birthday party where friends and family celebrated her third year of life. We all brought gifts wrapped in beautiful packages. In the grand scheme of things, a little girl received many blessings from people who love her.
Now travel back in time with me as my husband and I shopped for the presents we selected for her. We love her and want to shower her with gifts, but we know we shouldn't overindulge her. Recently I asked her what she wanted for her birthday and she replied, "You could get me some M & M's." Well, of course, we granted that request. As she and I continued talking, I discovered she enjoyed wearing her mother's housecoat. Well, we bought a little robe as well. Then we thought about her age, the things she likes to do, and we bought accordingly. If she had asked for a car, we would have said "no" because that doesn't make sense at this time in her life. Had she asked for a puppy, we would have said "no" because she already has 2 dogs. Had she asked for knives to cut vegetables in her play kitchen, we would have said "no" because of the danger. Do you think God's reasoning for answering our requests is similar? Is it possible His timing is perfect?
Hear what God says about our gift giving and His gift giving.
"So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
"Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!" Luke 11:9-13 (NIV)
God hears our prayers and He knows exactly what we need, when we need it. He supplied redemption through His Son, Jesus Christ. After Jesus died and arose, He sent the Holy Spirit to empower us to live like Him. And He blesses us beyond our own reasoning. Read the list of benefits King David wrote about in this psalm.
Praise the Lord, O my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
Praise the Lord, O my soul,
and forget not all his benefits—
and forget not all his benefits—
who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
and heals all your diseases,
who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
and crowns you with love and compassion,
who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. Psalm 103:1-5 (NIV)
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. Psalm 103:1-5 (NIV)


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Carol Reiter: Just what is it that makes for a good dog?
What is a good dog?
Is it a dog that does everything you tell it? A dog that is easy to live with, doesn't eat bananas and yogurt (are you listening, Len?), a dog that protects you from harm?
A good dog is different things to different people. I've known some good dogs, I actually had a couple (present dogs totally excluded).
But how do those dogs end up to be good? Are they born that way? Or does it make a difference who their owner is?
I was thinking about good dogs the other night after Moss chewed the entire cover and first chapter of the book I was reading to shreds. Peg had spent the previous hour barking like a banshee because she was locked in a crate and I was outside without her. And Len had found an old bone in the yard and was guarding it like Fort Knox, growling at the other dogs and generally being a big grump.
I was thinking that night that the best dog I ever had was Mick. He was devoted to me, he minded, and he was easy to live with.
But while I was thinking about good dogs, I realized that Ty, Mick's son, was the best dog I've ever known.
Why was he so good? He had some good breeding, but it was more than that.
It was his owner.
Yep, it's hard for me to admit it, but most of my dogs' badness is because of me. I didn't stop it in the beginning, and every time that Len eats something I don't want him to have, it reinforces his belief that he can eat anything he wants.
So why was Ty's owner the difference between Ty being a good dog or a bad dog? She loved her dog fiercely, and of course that makes a difference, but she also made him mind her. She took him with her everywhere, he partied with her, he slept where she crashed, and he rode proudly in the back of her little truck.
Ty was my friend's shadow. He got miles put on him when she was working for a horse trainer, and he was her shadow. And he learned to be a great cattle trial dog by only working sheep at home.
Ty got started in trials, where dogs have to move cattle from a pasture, into an arena, through a chute and into a trailer, when we met a great trainer named Al. He told my friend that Ty was a good dog, he listened to her, and he was tough enough to trial.
So she trialed him. And she did great. She was young, with long blond hair and baggy clothes, and she whipped the pants off of some of the best stock dog trainers around. Trainers who had been working and training dogs for years, the so called 'big hats' of dog trials.
One trial I will never forget, even though I wasn't there. There was a working dog clinic on a Saturday, and then a trial on Sunday. My friend entered Ty in the trial because Al had called from Northern California and told her he was coming and he wanted her to compete. So she did.
Then she took Ty to the clinic the day before.
The trainer who gave the clinic wasn't the sharpest tack in the world, and after Ty bit him when the trainer grabbed Ty by the scruff of the neck, that great trainer told my friend that her dog wasn't ready to work cattle in this trial.
So she told me she wasn't going to compete, even though she had entered her dog. I kept my mouth shut -- it was her decision. The day of the trial, she called and told me she was going, did I want to go. My sister was visiting, and I asked my friend if she was going to run her dog. No, she said. He's not good enough. I told her I was going to stay home and visit with my sister, and she headed off to the trial.
Luckily she took Ty. Al told her to enter, but she said no. Then the trainer, the man who had told her that her dog wasn't good enough, saw her sitting with Al and her dog. He stopped, and said 'You're not running him, are you?' She said no, and he said 'Good, that dog's no trial dog.'
That did it.
She put Ty in that trial, on a hot day when other dogs quit, and the only dog that beat her was Al's. She beat that trainer, his wife, and a bunch of other 'big hats'. She ended up second out of more than 20 dogs, winning money and the silhouette of a border collie, something I still treasure, for her second place finish. It gave her a huge boost of confidence, and she and Ty went on to trial many more times.
Unfortunately for us, dogs don't live as long as we do, and although Ty lived 15 years, it was far, far too short of a time. He was an indispensible friend, a dog that came to untold obedience classes and even won some awards at obedience trials. He and his father, Mick, were our go-to dogs for dog class, and no matter what, Ty never made a bobble.
And when my friend's son was born, Ty had a new best friend. One of my favorite pictures is of a little boy with a big smile and crinkled-up eyes, and a gray-faced dog. Both are sitting on a bright green lawn, and smiling at the camera. It was just a few years before Ty died, but he could still jump for a ball, and fiercely protect his little boy.
Ty has been gone for a couple of years, and I miss him every day. I miss his dad, and his mom, too, but Ty was such a fixture in our lives that he couldn't help but leave a huge hole in our hearts.
I know that Ty was such a great dog partly because of his breeding, but mostly because of his owner. She loved her dog, but she also trained him, and got after him when he was wrong, and made sure that he ended up a good dog.
And I think that's what most of us want. A good dog. For those of us who are lucky enough to have had one, it's a great feeling. There aren't a lot of dogs like Ty, or a lot of owners like his. But I was lucky enough to have both of them in my life, and for that I am blessed.
Reporter Carol Reiter can be reached at (209) 385-2486 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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Words by Sean Moeller, Illustration by Johnnie Cluney, Recording engineered by Mike Gentry
What's in a good sigh - one of the deep, deep ones that the band Buster Blue sings about? It's a lot of elements. It's a skinned night. It's the thought that we aren't going to be able to sleep well again tonight. The crows will be waiting in the morning. The booze still won't have worn off. The kids will be whining and crying.The adults will be acting like kids. The hours will feel just as long as they've been feeling.There is the pang of the stomach to think about. There's desire in there somewhere. Within those deep, deep sighs, there's intent and there's forfeiture. For pennies on the dollar we can find the forfeiture. The pure gold is the intent. It's getting those soul stirrings bad. It's when another's touch changes everything and perhaps that's what's thought of during those times.It's closed eyes and the hope to hang onto those wisps of sensation - the ones that are held at a premium. It's knowing that this is what we have - no more and no less. We sigh, with the help of Buster Blue, in the face of all the uncertainty that is so certain.


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Raising Apollo from the bottom of the sea
by brian lam
Jeff Bezos of Amazon has funded an expedition to try and find Apollo 11's Rocketdyne F1 engines, which after powering the moon landing astronauts past phase one using 7.7 million pounds of thrust, fell into the sea. He's found them.
I'm excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the surface, and we're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor. We don't know yet what condition these engines might be in – they hit the ocean at high velocity and have been in salt water for more than 40 years. On the other hand, they're made of tough stuff, so we'll see.


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URL shortening services provide some handy features, especially in today's world of 140 characters or less micro-blogging with Twitter. Plus with with need for tweaking for search engine optimization, good, strong URL strings are needed to make sure search engines get the message.
It will help if you're familiar with Bit.ly and Yourls.org before reading this since those are probably the top two, at least in my book, I've been using them for a few years now. I've tried some of the others. Recently, I was on Quora and someone asked what features are needed in URL shortening services. If I had a wish list, this is what I'd love to see:[unordered_list style="bullet"]
- Multiple campaign tracking for marketers with sophisticated update tools: When you're working on longer-term campaigns, you're going to be generating URLs to point from many, many sources that will need constant update over time. Now that process is manual.
- A/B testing URLs: http://Bit.ly doesn't really allow one to play with the after-slash details like Yourls.org. Being able to bundle and test to see which ones work better would be terrific.
- Multiple domain support. Right now, you can create only one custom domain for http://Bit.ly and Yourls.org to use. If you need to create others, that means other accounts. A single platform support would be great.
- Integration with Google Analytics. This allows finer details and support.
- Support for personalization with integration into mail tools, etc. The link appears like it's just for the consumer receiving the e-mail but it's behind-the-scenes coding sends it to the right location.
- Geo-location specification targeting: Both http://Bit.ly and Yourls.org uses by country results. It would be terrific to be able to send targets from those countries to specific pages.
- Update forwarding URLs. Of course, Yourls.org already does this. http://Bit.ly needs to catch up with this one.


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November 22, 2016
Communications Office
DNR awards a $50,000 grant for the city of Hallsville to evaluate wastewater collection system repairs
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has awarded a $50,000 Small Community Engineering Assistance Program grant to the city of Hallsville to evaluate wastewater collection system repairs.
"This grant provides an opportunity for small communities throughout the state to examine local infrastructure and to make the necessary repairs to ensure that it is working in a safe and healthy manner for both the local citizens and the surrounding environment," said Harry Bozoian, director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
The city will use the grant funds to develop an engineering report that will evaluate wastewater collection system repairs that are necessary to address inflow and infiltration issues. Inflow and infiltration can be groundwater, stormwater or drinking water flowing directly into the sewer system. This results in higher volumes of water being unnecessarily transported and treated which increases costs and energy usage. The engineering report is estimated to cost $62,500 and is expected to be completed in March 2018.
The Department of Natural Resources will administer the grant funds and is committed to working with communities to assist with water and wastewater infrastructure improvement projects. The department's Water Protection Financial Assistance Center assists with funding for communities with water quality, wastewater and drinking water infrastructure needs.
For more information, visit http://dnr.mo.gov/env/wpp/srf/.


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TONIGHT: A candlelit performance fit for a royal
What: Award-winning pianist Warren Mailley-Smith performs in the candlelit surroundings of St James's Church.
Where: St James's Church, 197 Piccadilly, W1J 9LL.
Why: Mailley-Smith has received over 30 invitations to perform for the royal family, so we reckon he probably knows his stuff. The award-winning concert pianist will perform romantic pieces from Mozart, Chopin and Liszt.
When: 27 June, 7.30pm
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Most Americans don't think or talk much about the way prisons in this country are funded or run. We want a vague, blanket assurance that our politicians and their appointees are being tough on crime. We pay attention to verdicts and to sentences but not to what happens afterward, to the experience that a convicted criminal has over the years before he or she most likely reenters society. We forget—or we simply don't bother to recognize—that the nature of this experience has an effect on whether the criminal breaks the law again. We want to feel safe, and yet we're utterly uneducated about, and inattentive to, a part of our criminal justice system that in fact has enormous bearing on our safety.
Tom Clements, who was the head of Colorado's prison system from the start of 2011 until his murder this week, made me realize that. A little over two months ago, on a reporting trip to Colorado, I happened to find myself seated a few feet from him at a dinner in Cañon City, about a two-hour drive from Denver. He happened to mention what he did for a living. And for the next 30 minutes, over bad steak and worse salmon, I sought, and got, a lively tutorial. It was fascinating enough and he was engaging enough that I tucked his card into my pocket and made him promise that we could talk again sometime. An approachable and affable man, he promised.
On Tuesday night, he was shot and killed by an unknown assailant as he answered the front door of his home in Monument, near Colorado Springs. He was 58.
I wish I'd taken notes during our conversation, so I could reproduce them here. I wish I recalled it in more detail. Because what was clear to me from those 30 minutes, and from a few additional exchanges we had at the table as the night wore on, was that Clements knew his business, cared about it and was someone to whom we owed a debt of gratitude. He wanted us safe. And in the service of that, he worked in a byway of the government that a great many of us pay insufficient heed to.
Prison chief doesn't have the media currency of police commissioner. It's not a glamour job. And Clements, whose actual title was executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, wasn't a glamour guy: unfashionable haircut, slightly shaggy moustache, a smile too genuinely easy and uncalculated to be that of a seasoned pol.
But he and others in his line of work deserve recognition, so I'd like to give him at least a measure of it here. It's too little too late, but it's something.
During my conversation with him, which I hadn't yet followed up on, we talked mostly about "administrative segregation," otherwise known as solitary confinement. It's used rampantly in prisons across the country, and according to Clements, it's used wantonly and unwisely, because it's an easy way to deal with prisoners who have caused trouble.
But there are downsides. It's expensive. And it's psychologically debilitating, which is worth caring about even if you feel that convicted criminals in prison deserve what punishment they get. In more than a few cases, Clements told me, prisoners being released are coming directly from months-long stints in solitary confinement, and they bear the mental and emotional scars of that.
That's not some bleeding-heart assessment; that's a situation and concern described just a few weeks ago in a column by the conservative commentator George F. Will, who wrote:
"Isolation changes the way the brain works, often making individuals more impulsive, less able to control themselves. The mental pain of solitary confinement is crippling: Brain studies reveal durable impairments and abnormalities in individuals denied social interaction. Plainly put, prisoners often lose their minds."
I talked this morning to John Hickenlooper, the governor of Colorado and one of Clements's biggest fans, and he said that Clements was in the process of a "transformation within the culture of the entire prison system away from solitary confinement into actual preparation for reentry into society."
Hickenlooper said that Clements was also "focused on how to have these individuals in prison"—meaning all of them, not just those in solitary confinement—"ready to hold a job and not just go back to prison, so that it's not a revolving door."
To that end, Hickenlooper said, Clements promoted initiatives large and small. At one penitentiary, female inmates are taught to train dogs, something that some of them go on to do professionally after they're released.
In fact, a puppy that the governor got for his son around Christmastime was sent away for two weeks of training in the prison, and then sent back for another two weeks when the first stretch didn't fully take. I met the pup, Sky, a mixed breed from a rescue shelter, between her two training sessions. Adorable as she was, she needed the latter, refresher course.
Since January 2011, when Clements assumed his post in Colorado, the state has closed two prisons, and there's another one that will likely be closed this year. That reduction partly reflects a desire to wrest control of spending, a challenge that the entire country faces right now. And what Clements talked about at dinner that night was the way in which a focus on rehabilitating prisoners—on trying to make sure that their time behind bars was more constructive than destructive—represented something of a twofer. It was morally right, he said, in that it exercised compassion and human decency. And it was fiscally prudent, because ex-convicts who don't reoffend are ex-convicts who don't have to be housed anew, at considerable taxpayer expense, in the corrections system.
He felt great compassion for inmates, and a lifetime of working with them—as a parole office in Missouri, and later as the second-in-command of that state's prison system, and finally in Colorado—had if anything increased that, Hickenlooper told me.
"He oversaw one of the coldest, toughest worlds with the warmest and most tender of hearts," the governor said.
Clements was a member of the governor's cabinet, which has frequent meetings and retreats. "We had a retreat about a year ago, and we were discussing the death penalty, which is obviously going to come up," Hickenlooper said, referring to a looming case in the state. "And he spoke about it. He's a bear of a guy, a big, formidable person, and when it came time for him to talk, he gave the most eloquent, restrained argument against the death penalty."
"Everyone assumed he would be for it, because he works with the worst elements of society day in and day out," the governor continued, using the present tense. "Everyone was dumbstruck."
But Clements had done the math, and it was costing governments more to execute someone, what with all the legal buildup, than to incarcerate him or her. Clements had also noticed a randomness in who got killed and who didn't: the executed weren't the ones who'd committed the most heinous crimes. And then there were Clements's religious beliefs.
"He believed," Hickenlooper said, "that only God can decide to take a life."
Clements and I didn't talk about religion when I met him. But we did talk about redemption. Giving people a shot at that, he said, was what the prison system should do—and what he was dedicated to.


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156 pages
This book bridges a gap between discussions about truth, human understanding, and epistemology in philosophical circles, and debates about objectivity, bias, and truth in journalism. It examines four major philosophical theories in easy to understand terms while maintaining a critical insight which is fundamental to the contemporary study of journalism. The book aims to move forward the discussion of truth in the news media by dissecting commonly used concepts such as bias, objectivity, balance, fairness, in a philosophically-grounded way, drawing on in depth interviews with journalists to explore how journalists talk about truth.
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Voting begins in South Carolina Democratic primary
Voters cast their ballots in Columbia, South Carolina, for the state's Democratic primary contest. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) Voters cast ballots for their preferred presidential candidate at Dent Middle School in Columbia, South Carolina on Saturday (February 27) for the state's Democratic primary. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is poised to win big over U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in the primary contest, in part because of her outsized support among the state's rural black poor - a bloc that Sanders has struggled to impress. Over the past several weeks, she has stumped in parts of the state that are off the beaten-path, reinforcing connections with audiences that stretch back decades, and peppering her speeches with the names of local leaders. Sanders, in contrast, has focused his visits on South Carolina's big cities and universities, rallying large audiences with his self-styled Democratic socialist platform, while relying heavily on surrogates to do his work elsewhere. Plans offered by Sanders to address wealth inequality and improve access to education and healthcare have attracted interest, but many complain they do not feel they know him well enough to vote for him.


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anna boden & ryan fleck - mississippi grind - 2015
some loser night/exterior shots from mississippi grind. second viewing of this off/almost-masterpiece. typical of all gambling films; the viewer (or this one more specifically) is very uncomfortable from beginning to end. even when they win they are losers in the most poetic sense.
reminds me of peter wright's tune song for the losers. this tune simply exemplifies something essential in understanding works like these: only losers can experience the dreary (3 film stills above) in a true sense. the way charles baudelaire's fleur du mal excites. the occasional shot of a loser bar or a dreary part of town has more meaning in this film than just connecting it aesthetically with 70s cinema. for this viewer, these shots tap into the vision of our two characters. they experience the world in a unique way. a life comprised of 80% depression/misery and 20% euphoria with 10% of that euphoria drowned out and forgotten from drink and the like.
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To the left is a commission for a lovely girl who has supported my art and commented for a long time... she is so sweet! She asked for a Talim sort of character, and this was SO fun~ I recorded the entire process of this so hopefully I can put it up on Vimeo at some point.
Lately my digital work has been less realistic, I think I've been using my realism fuel up during oil painting class, hehe.
I hope I have time to do some oil painting on my own soon.. I've been wanting to do some surreal-ish work with figures. I love paintings that don't have specific meanings, but are still harmonious and beautiful when viewed. I want to paint things that can send a different message to everyone who sees it...
I don't know if I'll have time this month. Nov. is packed with work, and next month I'll be travelling SO much, eek.
Anyway.. here is the new love of my life!!
I'm not sure if she is entirely pomeranian, or if she is a pom/chihuahua mix, but I know that she is ADORABLE. <3


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Natsuki Takaya's Fruits Basket Vol. 15 from Tokyopop was the best-selling graphic novel during one of the busiest weeks of the year at the nation's bookstores. In one of the strongest weekly performances by a graphic novel all year the latest volume of the most popular shojo series in both Japan and the U.S. sold over 12,000 copies for the week ending December 17th. To put it in perspective, it was good enough for only the number five spot on the BookScan list, which also includes comic art calendars (ICv2 does not) and which was topped by the 2007 edition of Gary Larsen's Farside Box Calendar that sold over 143,000 copies during the same week.
The latest volume in Viz Media's popular Naruto series, Volume 12, which topped the BookScan chart during the previous week, finished a strong second. Altogether there were four volumes of Naruto in the top ten including Volume 1, which sold over 2,700 copies (a good indication of how many new readers are joining the swollen ranks of Naruto fans) and came in seventh followed by Naruto Vol. 2 in eighth and Naruto Vol. 11 in ninth. Viz Media's Bleach Vol. 16, which finished in fifth place and Del Rey's xxxHolic Vol. 8, which came in tenth, were the only other manga volumes in the top ten.
Non-manga titles accounted for 16 of the top 50 spots on the charts (ICv2 does allow comic-related art books and manga and anime-related novels in our rankings). Thirty-two percent may not seem that high, but when you are talking about non-manga graphic novels selling in the manga-dominated bookstore market, it is an 'epic' performance and represents in considerable part the holiday-related sales of gift books including the Rejection Collection of would-be New Yorker cartoons, which came in third and DK Publishing's Marvel Encyclopedia, which finished fourth. Frank Miller's 300 graphic novel continues to sell well in advance of the March release of Zack Snyder's film adaptation and ended up in the sixth spot.
Houghton Mifflin's Best American Comics of 2006 anthology (edited by Harvey Pekar) finished 13th, followed by Marvel's Halo Graphic Novel at #14, a reprint of Charles M. Schulz's Happiness Is a Warm Puppy at 17 and the movie-related V for Vendetta (the best-selling non-manga graphic novel of 2006) at #19. Ivan Brunetti's Anthology of Graphic Fiction from Yale University Press, which retails for $28, finished at #25 due in part at least to a rave notice in The N.Y. Times (see 'N.Y. Times Does Graphic Novels'). A number of other pricy titles did very well (and would obviously be ranked much higher if we used dollar sales rather than unit sales) including DC's Absolute Sandman ($99) at #38, Scott McCloud's Making Comics ($22.95 from Harper), Publisher Group West's X-Men, The Characters and Their Universe ($75) at #45 and Cartoon Book's Bone: One Volume Edition ($39.95) at #47.


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Nothing tastes of childhood to me like a stolen strawberry, filched straight from the plant. My father used to grow them and we'd come in from the garden, faces smeared red, valiantly denying eating them.
So that's my excuse for an afternoon raiding the local Pick Your Own, where we went faintly mad and came home staggering under soft fruit. My son loved it, but in all honesty so did I.
I like picking my own fruit in the same way I like buying eggs at the farm gate: no middleman, just you and the person who produced it. I love the way the eggs come still covered in straw, with the odd wonkily-shaped one: I love that there's an honesty box for the money and that 'free range' means the chickens scratching about on the driveway in front of you. (And yes, farm eggs are even cheaper than Lidl's).
Living in the country offers a different relationship with food than we had in the city, and as someone who loves to cook and also frankly to eat, that's great. But is it, I dunno, really progress?
One rough measure of the intelligence of a species is how much of its time it spends looking for food: the more spare time it has to play, the more advanced it's likely to be.
So primitive man spent long days hunting mammoths and scavenging for berries. Then we invented farming to save us going out and finding stuff, and a few millennia later evolution finally reached its natural conclusion: the Ocado delivery. Short of having someone actually eat for you (and who knows, possibly Posh Spice does this) it couldn't be more convenient.
So how do the pampered middle classes respond? We start wandering farmers' markets, growing our own, and doing complicated things with celeriac. We watch/read/blog about food porn: as the cliche goes, we make food the new fashion.
And so we make our foodie life as timeconsuming and as difficult as we can. We're literally back to foraging for berries - though admittedly in more convenient surroundings (our local Pick Your Own has en suite kids' adventure playground, something I doubt early homo sapiens enjoyed).
In evolutionary terms, it makes no sense. On the other hand, I'm eating these strawberries as I type and they taste amazing. Does anyone know what I can do with about half a ton of blackcurrants?
Thursday, 29 July 2010
life on a plate
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Gaby Blackcurrants good as --> jam, fridge jam, jelly, syrup, vinegar, wine. Also great as cassis (like sloe gin except with blackcurrants and brandy - yum).ReplyDelete
Good books to have are: River Cottage Handbook No 2, Preserves by Pam Corbin; Preserving by Oded Schwartz and First Steps in Winemaking by C J Berry. All classics.
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The White House last week announced that President Trump has tapped David Apol to serve as acting director of the Office of Government Ethics. Apol has worked at OGE for the past three years as general counsel.
Apol will temporarily fill the slot vacated a week ago by Walter Shaub, who immediately upon leaving embarked upon an unusual round of interviews in which he called for enhanced powers for the office and warned that Trump has created an ethics "crisis."
In reaction to the announcement, Shaub told Government Executive, "There are likely employees that are going to be put off by Interim Director Apol's relatively loose view of ethics laws."
The Trump White House has continued to resist some of OGE's requirements for financial disclosure and conflict of interest waiver reporting. Separately on Monday, a transparency group announced that it had filed 31 new requests under the Freedom of Information Act to force disclosure of Trump's vast business interests.
Apol, who has 30 years in the ethics field including work as chief Counsel for administrative law at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, was promoted over Shelley Finlayson, the OGE's chief of staff and program counsel.
That prompted Shaub, from his post at the nonpartisan nonprofit Campaign Legal Center, to criticize the move by noting that under the 1998 Vacancies Reform Act, "the role of OGE's acting director automatically goes to OGE's highest-ranking career official, the chief of staff, unless the president overrides that designation."
Trump, Shaub added, is "playing politics" with the interim director. "If they have someone they like, they should formally nominate that person to be permanent director. This sort of political interference creates the appearance that the White House may be hoping to engineer looser oversight by reaching down and leapfrogging a career employee over his own supervisor temporarily." As general counsel, Apol can be acting director without going through Senate confirmation, Shaub added.
Trump's designation of an acting ethics chief came just days after Shaub gave a series of blistering interviews on CNN and to the New York Times (for which he also wrote an op-ed). Shaub argued that past presidents have cooperated with the OGE, which Shaub joined in 2001, because they "entered government with an appreciation for the importance of tone from the top," even though presidents and vice presidents are exempt from the conflict of interest statute.
"This tradition came to an abrupt stop with President Trump," Shaub wrote on July 18. "By continuing to hold onto his businesses and effectively advertising them through frequent visits to his properties, our leader creates the appearance of profiting from the presidency."
Despite occasional tensions, Shaub wrote, "White House officials always understood that OGE's only goal — and, indeed, my only goal — was to protect the integrity of the government's operations . . . That's why it is disheartening now to witness parts of the ethics program slipping away."
Shaub criticized Trump for traveling frequently to his own properties, which is a way of providing free advertising, he told CNN.
The White House issued a statement in response saying, "Shaub has been outspoken by leaking, tweeting, and writing letters to Democrat members of Congress, but since the president was sworn into office, he never once raised travel, passive holdings or other ethics issues involving the president in a single discussion with the White House counsel or deputy counsel overseeing ethics and compliance."
'A Kleptocracy In Action'
In the Times, Shaub laid out a series of reforms he recommends to Congress for strengthening the ethics process. Among them: requiring the 4,000 political appointees to prepare their own formal ethics agreements with their agencies; requiring all appointees to sign compliance statements; giving OGE limited subpoena power and authority to deal directly with Congress on its budget; and requiring presidential and vice presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns to the Federal Election Commission.
Shaub's aggressive critiques are unusual but not unprecedented, according to experts contacted by Government Executive. "I have seen it with both Republicans and Democrats," said Ed DeSeve, a longtime agency manager who chaired the National Academy of Public Administration's Transition 16 program. But it makes a difference that "Shaub was not appointed by Trump. If you were appointed by the same president, a code of silence would apply," DeSeve said. Merely disagreeing "with the president's policies or view of the agency mission presents no problem," he added. But rather than personalizing the issue by focusing on Trump himself, "I would have avoided that and taken the high road."
Paul C. Light, professor of public service at New York University, said, "You have to be careful to not create the outcome you oppose. OGE has always been irritating, and some people have opposed it from the very beginning" in 1978 because it "makes life difficult" for presidential appointees by asking lots of questions. "I admire Shaub for protecting his office, but to the extent that he is viewed as launching a highly focused attack on Trump, it becomes politicized."
Norm Ornstein, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, said, "Everybody I've seen over the years who worked with Shaub saw him as model public servant. But there's plenty of frustration among people having to go through the ethics process when they're coming in, plenty of which has nothing to do with OGE."
Yet the Trump administration, Ornstein added, "has basically given him the middle finger from the get-go. What I've seen is a kleptocracy in action, a complete unwillingness to take even the slightest steps" toward disclosure and addressing potential conflicts of interest. That, in Ornstein's view, "can be pretty scary" when it comes to secret deals between Trump's family members and Chinese businessmen, or domestic regulatory decisions that could benefit wealthy Trump appointees. Shaub's decision "to speak out volubly I wouldn't think of as sour grapes," he said.
Meanwhile, Trump's business holdings and those of his appointees on Monday became the target of a new transparency campaign titled "Defund Trump." The nonprofit group American Oversight filed 31 FOIA document requests for travel expenses for trips to Trump properties by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and Small Business Administration chief Linda McMahon. They also requested documents on related expenses at 18 agencies.
The group also seeks governmentwide guidance on the use of Trump properties as issued by the General Services Administration and the Office of Government Ethics. Finally, it seeks any reimbursements paid by agencies to Trump officials for staying at Michigan hotels owned by the family of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
American Oversight also sent letters to congressional oversight committees calling for action to challenge what it sees as the administration's conflicts of interest. "Rather than draining the swamp as he promised during his campaign, President Trump has created an entirely new quagmire where he and the first family luxuriate in the muck," said American Oversight Executive Director Austin Evers. "President Trump's self-dealing may be unsurpassed in American presidential history—never before has so much taxpayer money been diverted to the president's pocketbook as government business is steered to Trump properties around the globe."
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., on Monday introduced four amendments to a House spending bill that would "prevent Donald Trump from enriching himself at taxpayer expense by blocking the federal government from renting rooms at Trump brand hotels for official travel," a statement said.


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Mon Jul 25, 2011
Greater Evening moves into Charlottetown.
Yellow diggers going on in Charlottetown lately.
Over the years there have been many changes about our little Island and one of the fast changes that is visual is the number of house being built. I didn't see an increase in the population however we are watching an increase in construction and building new homes over the past 2 years in and around the Charlottetown area.
I spy on this development each time we drive to Charlottetown.
How can I help but spy on this, each time we pass the Island clay is moved from one end to another. Little piles are here then next day over there. A trench is square all around the outside. Ginormous pillars stack the inside.
I asked around to see what everyone thought of the new construction going on and just what is being built there anyway. Interesting enough, I got that Wall-Mart is going to move into this when it is built as they feel where they are now isn't large enough. Hum, another said that Cosco is being built there, "isn't it great." While others said, "This is about to become a large seniors living development." Then again," National Headquarters is being built in this location." So I don't think anyone knows but the adventure is upon us and there is this fine line of dirt and soil I look for each time I drive to Charlottetown these days.
This has been my little bit of Yellow Mellow Monday.
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Paris Attacks Suspect Refused End To 24/7 Jail Cell Surveillance :- A French judge rejected a request which was lodged by a lawyer for Salah Abdeslam, where his request that the jail guard ends the continuous on the video surveillance of the only recognized survivor of an organization of Islamist protesters who murdered 130 people in the Paris in the last November 2015.
According to the reports, Where the lawyer of the Islamic protesters Salah Abdeslam who killed the around 130 people in the Paris nation, who has been kept in separate control and watched 24*7 time by spy camera at tight security prison adjacent the Paris country and after that he was arrested in Belgium then he was transferred from the Belgium to France earlier in this year and also he present in France.
In the west of Paris, Where the judge at the Versailles court is refused the request of the 130 people killed Islamic protester Salah Abdeslam due to human rights.
Also, the lawyer of the Salah Abdeslam in a press conference, Where he said that Salah Abdeslam is not in a good condition to declare the subject of his privacy in the jail which is also under the human rights and respect his privacy in the jail to closed the 24/7 on cameras that surrounding him.
The French governments doubt him of presenting at least a portion in their logistical system.
130 people killed Salah Abdeslam was feeling out of France and final to Belgium, his nation of residence, by car in the moments following the multiple strikes by the protesters.
Also, Islamic protester Salah Abdeslam was transported to France some weeks before simply declined to speak to analysts in a first discussion about the shootings. The Versailles court's decision came moments following a Tunisian citizen of Nice killed at least 84 people via Exhaust a truck into Bastille Day circles.


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Barack Obama and the American dream (IV)
New leader of superpower ... a poster of Barack Obama as Superman on Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, a day after the election. Photo: AFP
A close colleague burst into the office on Thursday morning, the day after the world changed.
He got home from work on Wednesday and saw his children watching TV, rapt. They had been born in America when he was working there, many years ago, but they are of course Australians. They normally talk cars and sport and girls. But that night it was about Barack Obama - that he had won, that the American people had done the right thing, that it meant America would be better, and stand for the right things again - and that they could have more genuine respect and admiration for the United States.more
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V-O Day: Barack Obama is President-elect of the US
President-elect ... Barack Obama gives his victory speech to supporters in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois. Photo: Getty Images
Barack Obama has won a stunning, decisive victory and will be the 44th president of the United States.
A perfect storm of issues facing the country, and assets marshalled by this most formidable and charismatic political leader, have come together in exquisite fashion to forge one of the most historic election results in American history.more
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Obama to win more than 306 Electoral votes
Having a ball ... Barack Obama speaks to a prospective voter as he visits a campaign office in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo: Getty Images
Election day will dawn in the United States in a few hours. The good citizens of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, will be the first, just after midnight, to vote on the day, and John McCain will carry the hamlet, as the Republican presidential candidate has for decades. But Dixville Notch does not an election victory make.more
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Why Obama will win (II)
In high gear ... rock legend Bruce Springsteen introduces Barack Obama during a rally in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday. Photo: AFP
All evidence is that the vaunted Obama turnout machine is now in high gear and fully deployed.
White House '08 was apprised over the weekend of grassroots campaigning in Virginia; a full court press with Hispanic voters in Florida and Indiana (!) in an effort to boost the Obama vote by 2+ points in each state; a corral of early voters in Colorado, where turnout has already exceeded 40 per cent, with Democrats thought to have a healthy margin of the early voters, indicating deep enthusiasm in the Obama camp; and intensive activity in New Mexico.more
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Why Obama will win
Supporters listen to Barack Obama at a rally in Denver. Photo: AP
Barack Obama will win the presidency by a comfortable margin next Tuesday. It is not 1948 and Barack Obama is not Thomas Dewey. And if John McCain were Harry Truman he would change his tax policy.
We have also not seen - and it is not reflected in the polls - the vote-generating machinery that is the Obama grassroots campaign. By every indication, it is the most thorough exercise in overwhelming force devised for a presidential election and its true power will be evident only on election day.more
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Let's win one for the Gipper
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The three former presidents assembled for one last time in this campaign. The meeting was convened by Ronald Reagan. Gerald R. Ford attended and Richard Nixon was posted just outside the Pearly Gates.more
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Round three: a draw and Obama keeps his edge
A draw ... John McCain and Barack Obama shake hands at the start of the debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Photo: AP
So this is where the economic tsunami and two debates have got Senator John McCain:
- Trailing Senator Barack Obama badly in all major national polls.
- Behind in every major swing state: Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado.
- Challenged in solid red Republican states: Indiana, Missouri.
- Unable to pose a threat to Obama in any key blue Democratic state: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa.
- Forced to spend time on home turf, outspent by five and 10 to one in key states such as Florida, and unable to expand the map.
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Obama poised to win Electoral College
Locked in ... Barack Obama talks to residents in Holland, Ohio. Photo: AFP
On July 31, White House '08 projected an impending Obama victory in the Electoral College with 273 electoral votes.
This was premised on Barack Obama carrying all the states carried by Democrats Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004 - a safe bet even before the economic tsunami that is now dominating the campaign - with one key addition of Colorado to those blue states.
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Round two to Obama
Running out of time ... John McCain speaks as Barack Obama listens during the second presidential debate. Photo: AP
John McCain and Sarah Palin are in a deep, dark, tough corner and they did not punch out of it in Debate II.
The economic tsunami is placing the election further out of their reach as Barack Obama solidifies support in the Democratic blue states and is in the process of shifting the outcome in the Republican red states of Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina and Florida and maybe even Indiana.more
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No game changer
Sarah Palin is no babe in the woods when it comes to debates; she whomped her opponents in more than 23 of them in her 2006 race to become Governor of Alaska and showed steel, resilience, humour and most of all a terrific working knowledge of her state and its people, qualities she showed again in her first debate with Joe Biden.more
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Round one to Obama
Past and the future ... John McCain and Barack Obama shake hands after the debate. Photo: AFP
It took almost 90 minutes before John McCain finally got to the heart of his beef with Barack Obama. "I don't believe Senator Obama has the knowledge or experience [to be president of the United States]," McCain said.
Numerous times McCain lit into Obama on foreign policy issues with comments such as "what Senator Obama doesn't seem to understand ... " and saying that Obama was "naive" when it came to dealing with cunning adversaries such as Russia and evil enemies such as Iran. It was the strongest punch he could throw, but it was not enough.more
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On eve of debate, Nixon and Kennedy pay a visit
Ghosts from the past ... then presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon on September 26,1960, following their debate at a Chicago television studio. Photo: AP
It is an irony of history that it was on September 26, 1960, that the first televised presidential debate occurred between vice-president Richard Nixon and senator John F. Kennedy, in Chicago. Forty-eight years to the night, senators John McCain and Barack Obama will face off in Mississippi. As in 1960, it promises to be the most important moment in the campaign and may determine the outcome of the election.
The ghost of Nixon visited McCain last night.more
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McCain loses surge
On the attack ... Barack Obama. Photo: AP
A week ago, White House '08 outlined the fundamentals that continue to shape the presidential election towards Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and highlighted an early marker to watch for this week: "The McCain-Palin bounce is well under way, and an early indicator of whether there has been a structural shift in the race will be whether the bounce is sustained into the middle of next week."
The tracking polls have Obama today recapturing the lead (Gallup Tracking has Obama up by two after trailing for 10 days) and the comprehensive New York Times-CBS poll has Obama in front by 48 to 43 per cent over John McCain.
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Where the race is headed and why
Best of enemies ... Obama and McCain at a forum on national service at Columbia University in New York on September 11. Photo: Reuters
One Obama adviser said, "We're not running for American Idol here - ultimately we believe the country is smarter than this."
The Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2008
They are not panicked in Senator Barack Obama's headquarters in Chicago, but Democrats sure are across the country, and Obama supporters here in Australia are wobbly indeed.
Senator John McCain and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin are attracting thousands in rallies across the country - the biggest-ever McCain rally was in Virginia on Wednesday - and the polls have narrowed sharply.
Where is the race today, and where is it headed?
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End of Endo, Message from an Endo survivor
November 23, 2003
I want to share a valuable message with you today. This is a 'reply' message that was posted at the Message Board for EndoNatural, by Carol who is the 'owner' of the group. Carol stated in her introduction to her posting that she rarely replies to messages left on the board due to time constrains. But in this instance she felt almost duty bound to reply.
The original message that Carol replied to, was regarding one members thoughts and feelings of despair of gaining any relief from Endometriosis. In the message she went on to say that she felt the only way to gain any relief from Endometriosis was by having a total Hysterectomy.
What follows is the reply from Carol, which was posted at her message board for all members to read. Her message struck a chord within me, and her views also echo my own feelings - not only about hysterectomy and Endometriosis, but also the whole approach to healing and how to restore your health.
I wanted to share this message with you for a number of reasons. The more times you hear about the natural and alternative methods to restoring your health, the more you will grasp the validity of this approach; learning of other women's successes will boost your confidence; Carol also reiterates that using the natural approach to healing is not a quick fix. It has taken years for your body to become dis-eased, and it will probably take a few years to mend, but it will; just be patient. The slow, diligent journey back to permanent health is far better than temporary relief.
So here is Carols message……………………………………
Hysterectomy is NOT a sure cure to treat endometriosis, nor is Lupron, nor is synthetic estrogen and/or progestin, nor is Synarel, nor is laparascopy/laparatomy, or any other barrage of drugs or surgeries that Allopathic/ Western medicine provide as our choices of treatment.
Natural healing choices such as progesterone cream, herbs, vitamins, minerals, dietary changes, body work such as acupuncture, massage, chiropractic, etc., exercise such as yoga, pilates, meditation, visualization and any other natural, non-invasive forms of treatment are also not a SURE cure to treat endometriosis.
Truly healing the body, mind and spirit from this disease, and any other disease requires a different mix of help for each individual person. Some may get relief from using a combination of both Western medical healing and Natural healing. Some may find relief by using just one approach or the other. And what a myriad of choices in natural healing to mix and try; you can never run out of possibilities. While Western medicine is pretty limited in treatments for this disease, the world of natural healing provides limitless choices. One herb may not work for you, but combine it with another or several and all of a sudden you're getting relief...it's a fascinating (and I admit, sometimes extremely FRUSTRATING) journey to achieving good health.
I have been endo-symptom free for about 10 years now and I believe this is from using natural approaches to health. I had the total hysterectomy and removal of ovaries at the age of 30 to "cure" this disease once and for all (also did several laparascopies and the Lupron for 6 months before this point, plus many other allopathic approaches), and endo symptoms came back to me within 10 weeks of the surgery; I was also put on synthetic estrogen immediately after the surgery because the doctor said I "needed" it for by bone health and heart health, blah-blah-blah. It was a very low dose, and he said it wouldn't cause any endo to grow, and unfortunately I just didn't know any better at the time. Even without the estrogen, I'm sure the endo would've come back as my endo implants were on other organs like the bowel and bladder and I know that the surgeon did not remove it from those areas as it was "too dangerous". If there are any implants left in your body at all after hysterectomy, even microscopic ones that cannot be seen, your endo is most likely going to cause you problems again afterward.
Your whole body changes after such a radical surgery in ways that you don't even imagine before the surgery. I was in even worse shape after that hysterectomy, I had the endo worse than ever before and I also had to deal with all the extremely awful menopausal symptoms. I had to practice Kegel exercises for months before I was able to even somewhat "hold my pee", and even to this day I don't have the control I did before that surgery. I was always thin, never had weight problems, then all of a sudden after this surgery I started putting on weight very easily...another legacy I'm still trying to correct now, almost 12 years later...and the bulging tummy; another gift I can't seem to get rid of no matter what exercises I do. There were a lot of awful symptoms and health issues I got on top of the endo after that awful surgery that I have since corrected with natural approaches, but it did take time.
I can completely understand how we are led to "want" hysterectomies when we've been suffering for so long with this horrible disease; we just want RELIEF. We want someone to come along and take all of this pain and suffering away, we just want our lives back. Now with natural healing choices becoming more mainstream, it's very difficult to sort through all of the information and mis-information out there to know what choices we have for treating this disease. While many of us want to use more natural, non-invasive forms of treatment to help ourselves, it's hard to know what to use, and who to trust. I feel very blessed that when I started my own natural healing journey, I was fortunate to have a local herbalist (who had also suffered with endo and had gotten well by using natural approaches) who got me on the right track with a brand of supplements that was very high quality, and made some simple suggestions of products to start with. I was also fortunate that I started feeling better almost immediately which fuelled my own thirst for knowledge about natural healing choices, and I became my own healer very quickly. I did not get "well" overnight, but was able to get physical symptoms of endo under control within about a year's time, also helping some of the depression and other mental issues that sprang from coping with this illness for so many years.
I took a whole lot of supplements, made some dietary and lifestyle changes and read anything I could get my hands on concerning herbs and other natural healing approaches from every viewpoint. I learned more about endometriosis than I had ever known at that point from The Endometriosis Sourcebook by Mary Lou Ballweg of the Endometriosis Association; I can't describe how I laughed and cried reading through this book. How awful, but how wonderful to know that so many other women had suffered with this disease as I had, I had felt so alone in my illness up to that point. I started experimenting with aromatherapy blends and making my own herbal teas and that was when I knew I had found what I wanted to do with the rest of my life; actually getting my hands in the herbs and breathing their scents and the wonderful aromas from the essential oils made me feel I was "home", that this was my true calling at last.
It has not been an easy journey, this "new life" of mine since getting physically well from endo. I am still dealing with financial issues that started in the endo years (all the missed time from work, medical bills, buying supplements instead of paying bills, etc), have a body that will tend to age more rapidly because of the hysterectomy, so I have to make sure I'm supplementing and addressing these issues to retard that process, and hardest of all has been the inability to have children. I find that that is a process that just keeps processing! At certain times since the hyst and especially since getting well, I have thought that I was "over" those childlessness issues, but passing time just makes me realize I am probably going to be processing that all of my life in some shape or form. While both my husband and I have certainly come to terms with this change in our life plan for quite some time now, there are still moments that anger about it just comes up out of nowhere.
And anger has been another process that I continue to go through...anger at the doctors for putting me through hell, anger at God/Higher Power for getting this disease in the first place, anger at myself for having the hysterectomy...I can be logical and intellectually know that this anger hurts me and by holding on to this anger, it is not hurting anyone I'm angry at, just me, but oh, how hard to really FEEL that way!!! Something I practice constantly because I know how important it is to really internalize this and know this in my deepest depths. I can tell you that I have most definitely NOT been a positive person in many steps of my healing journey. I think that there is something strong within me that has kept me going somehow through all of the trials and tribulations and I call this the Great Spirit (my higher power). But at many times that strength is buried very deeply and I have felt (and continue to feel) that I just can't go on. Sometimes I pray and that helps, sometimes I'm too angry to pray and just let myself ride the wave of anger and other negative emotions until they're spent and gone and that helps, too. Sometimes I use Flower Essences, sometimes I get massage, sometimes I practice Reiki, sometimes I meditate...all of these things can be helpful, too. All I know is that I find my way back to peace somehow, and I think that it is indeed very important to feel these negative emotions (whether caused from endo and its hold on our life, or other problems we are facing) instead of trying to shut them out all the time; honey, don't I know, they just keep coming back when I try to repress them!!! I have learned so much about myself in this process of healing, and know I will continue to do so.
Since my journey into natural healing, I have not had to go to an allopathic doctor in about 10 years, I have been fortunate to be able to treat any illnesses that come up myself; what an empowerment this is!!! While I don't take anywhere near the amount or number of supplements I used to take when I was first getting well from endo, I still use a few things that address my immune system, glandular system, and intestinal/digestive system. I try to eat right, but I don't have that great of a diet these last couple of years, especially compared to the changes I had made when I first started healing from endo. This is caused by lack of money, not a lack of wanting to do so! I try to practice some forms of exercise and will do well with it for a while, then fall off for several months. I am not perfect, nor am I doing all of the "right" things, but I am still well. The aromatherapy helps a lot to ease the mental-emotional issues, along with keeping me healthy physically.
Since I have been a practicing herbalist for quite a few years now, I have certainly learned a lot about people and disease and the many paths to wellness. From my experience, the clients who get well the quickest are generally the ones who try to learn as much as they can about how their bodies work and what their illness is. They take a more active interest in finding their own choices for healing, and just seem to participate more in the overall process. The clients who take longer to heal are the ones who just want to give the responsibility for their health over to me, or to whoever they're seeing for treatment. This is not true in every case, but it seems to be the rule in the majority of people I treat. We have to learn that we are responsible for our own health; we can use herbalists, naturopaths, homeopaths, acupuncturists, medical doctors, etc. as TOOLS to attain our health, but we cannot give them the responsibility of our own individual health. This idea may seem like too much to take on when you're really sick and suffering, but the power to get well ultimately is within all of us. The hard part is figuring out what steps and choices to take, and I'm not kidding, this can be very difficult for a lot of us. But, I guess the things really worthwhile in life are never easy...that's what "they" say, anyway!
So, I hope that the EndoNatural list is a good place to start on that natural healing journey...so much good information has been and continues to be provided by other women who have suffered with this horrible disease, many of them well because of choices they made, sharing that info because they hope it helps someone else. Do y'all realize how much information can be gleaned from this list just by going through the archives alone? And then there's all the links to endo information and other natural healing information, the files where there's an incredible source of information about Homeopathy...I hope all members of EndoNatural are using these resources that are available on the homepage (that have been slowly added to throughout the years since I started this group. It takes time to read through all of these things, but well worth it and FREE!!!
Peace and Love,
Carols message is very candid, open and honest, and she expresses the total effect that endo has had on her life without glossing these issues over. The way Endometriosis manages to consume your entire life soon becomes evident to every woman who has this disease. As Carol said in her message, the anger stays with you even after you restore your health and Endometriosis is no longer an issue.
This is a subject I would like to explore further another time. I do feel the same anger myself at times, and have had many of the knock-on effects which have continued in my life. There have been long term effects on my career, my finances, my confidence, my relationships to name a few.
I feel that launching endo-resolved.com, and beginning to communicate with other women is helping my confidence to grow. I feel as though something positive is AT LAST coming out of my experience with Endometriosis. I am gradually receiving communication from my sisters around the world, through e-mail left at my site, and messages at my Guestbook, and I hope this increases. We need to share and support each other as much as possible. It stops the feeling of isolation, and practical ideas, hope and inspiration can be shared.
I am aware that the tone and theme of my website may seem somewhat up-beat or too positive for some women - almost a sense of disbelief in what I am trying to convey. But I do believe whole-heartedly in the possibility of you being able to regain your health. I have done it, Carol has done it, and so have many others.
I am resolute and unyielding in the message and overall theme of my website. It has been written in a way to give you a 'kick-start', to show you another view, and to provide a huge breath of fresh air. Stay with the positive and dismiss the negative.
If you wish to join the Message Group at EndoNatural, then Carol is more than happy to see new members join the group, who are interested in sharing news and views of the natural approach to combating Endometriosis. You can join at www.group.yahoo.com/group.EndoNatural
Yours with healing thoughts
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A wilayah (Arabic: ولاية) or ولایت (velâyat) in Persian, vilayet in Turkish or vilayat in Urdu, is an administrative division, usually translated as "province", rarely as "governorate". The word comes from the Arabic "w-l-y", "to govern": a wāli—"governor"—governs a wilayah, "that which is governed". Under the Caliphate, the term referred to any constituent near-sovereign state.
Use in specific countries
In Arabic, wilayah is used to refer to the states of the United States, and the United States of America as a whole is called "الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكية" (al-Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah) literally meaning "the American United States".
North Africa and Middle East
For Morocco which is divided into provinces and wilāyas the translation "province" would cause the distinction to cease. For Sudan the term state, and for Mauritania the term region is used.
- Provinces of Algeria
- Provinces of Oman
- Regions of Mauritania
- States of Sudan
- Governorates of Tunisia
The governorates of Iraq (muhafazah) are sometimes translated as province, in contrast to official Iraqi documents and the general use for other Arab countries. This conflicts somehow with the general translation for muhafazah (governorate) and wilāyah (province).
In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, nine prefectures take the name Wilayit (Uyghur Language) which is rendered as Diqu (地區) in Chinese, thereby demoting the term to a prefectural level, which is one level lower than the provincial level.
ئالتاي ۋىلايىتى
Altay Wilayiti 阿勒泰地区
تارباغاتاي ۋىلايىتى
Tarbaghatay Wilayiti 塔城地区
تۇرپان ۋىلايىتى
Turpan Wilayiti 吐鲁番地区
قۇمۇل ۋىلايىتى
Qumul Wilayiti 哈密地区
قەشقەر ۋىلايىتى
Qeshqer Wilayiti 喀什地区
ئاقسۇ ۋىلايىتى
Aqsu Wilayiti 阿克苏地区
خوتەن ۋىلايىتى
Xoten Wilayiti 和田地区
Kenya and Tanzania
In Kenya, the term wilaya is a Swahili term which refers to the administrative districts into which provinces are divided.
Malaysia and Indonesia
In both Malaysian and Indonesian, wilayah is a general word meaning "territory", "area" or "region".
In Malaysia, the term
- Wilayah Persekutuan, often shortened to "Wilayah" in colloquial speech, refers to the three federal territories under direct control of the federal government: Kuala Lumpur, Labuan and Putrajaya.
- Wilayah Ekonomi Pantai Timur, is translated as East Coast Economic Region
Ottoman Empire
Traditionally the provinces of the Ottoman Empire were known as eyâlets, but beginning in 1864, they were gradually restructured as smaller vilâyets—the Turkish pronunciation of the Arabic word wilāyah. Most were subdivided into sanjaks.
The current provinces of Turkey are called il in Turkish.
Central Asia and Caucasus
The Persian word for province (velâyat) is still used in several similar forms in Central Asian countries:
- Provinces of Afghanistan (Pashto: ولايت wilāyat, plural: ولايتونه wilāyatuna), subdivided into districts (Pashto: ولسوالۍ wuləswāləi or Persian: ولسوالی wolaswālī)
- Provinces of Tajikistan (singular: viloyat, plural: viloyatho), subdivided into districts (Tajik: ноҳия, nohiya or Russian: район, raion)
- Provinces of Turkmenistan (singular: welaýat, plural: welaýatlar), subdivided into districts (Turkmen: etrap)
- Provinces of Uzbekistan (singular: viloyat, plural: viloyatlar), subdivided into districts (Uzbek: tuman)
During the Soviet period the divisions of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan were called oblasts and raions, using Russian terminology.
In the Tsez language, the districts of Dagestan are also referred to as "вилайат" (wilayat), plural "вилайатйоби" (wilayatyobi). But the term "район" (rayon), plural "районйаби" (rayonyabi) is also used.
Caucasus Emirate, a self-proclaimed successor state to the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, is divided into vilayats.
In Iran, the word is also used unofficially.
South Asia
In Urdu, the term Vilayat is used to refer to any foreign country. As an adjective Vilayati is used to indicate an imported article or good. In Bengali, the term Vilayat and Vilayati further change to bilet and bileti (archaic bilaiti), referring exclusively to Britain and British-made. The British slang term blighty derives from this word, via the fact that the foreign British were referred to using this word during the time of the British Raj.[1]
- ↑ Stuart Thompson, Andrew (2005). The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact Of Imperialism on Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Pearson Education. p. 180.
Other Indian words include blighty ('one's home country', from the Hindi word 'bilayati' meaning 'foreign', whence 'British')


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