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A new study estimates that the number of people with dementia is set to double every 20 years as the global population grows and lives longer.
After a systematic review of published studies on Alzheimer's, a panel of 12 international experts has estimated that 24 million people around the world suffer the brain disorder today. They predict this number will rise to 42 million by 2020 and 81 million by 2040.
The estimate was prepared by the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London and appears in the medical journal Lancet.
In terms of sheer numbers, developing countries are the hardest hit, and the situation will only get worse. The researchers found that 60 percent of dementia patients live in poorer nations, with the proportion set to rise to more than 70 percent by 2040.
To put it another way, the number of Alzheimer's patients is expected to increase 300 percent in China, India, and their southeast Asian and western Pacific neighbors during this period compared to 100 percent for the industrial states.
"When we think about developing countries, we think of children," said he report's lead author, psychiatrist Cleusa Ferri But these populations are aging. "It's not just that the population is very high, but the proportion of old people is increasing. People are living longer in these countries."
Although absolute numbers of dementia cases are expected to grow faster in developing nations, their prevalence rates, the proportion of the elderly suffering it, is still lower than in the rich countries. The authors speculate that this could be because of lower survival rates rather than lower incidence.
But they say it could also be because of under-reporting. Dr. Ferri says dementia is a hidden problem in developing nations.
"People think it is not a disease," he said. "They think it is aging, so they don't seek help, or even if they seek help, most of the countries don't offer services that meet their needs."
Dr. Ferri and her colleagues say they hope their projections will help policymakers plan health services in the future. They argue that governments should allocate resources to prevent behaviors and conditions that increase the chances for heart disease, a risk factor for Alzheimer's. These include smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol levels, and diabetes.

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1/2 cup chopped Red Onion
1 chopped Celery Stalk
1 chopped Avocado
1 diced Serrano Pepper
Hot Sauce
3 fresh Lemons
4 fresh Limes
1 pound of raw, peeled, tailed off, medium Shrimp
Nacho Chips
Ritz Crackers
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I bought a photo album with sleeves to hold 4×6 photos. I filled each sleeve with a blank 4×6 index card. Then I got out my trusty purple pen and a box of colored pencils and started recording my "greatest hits" recipes. Only the best of the best have made it into the book. There are recipes handed down from my mom and grandmother, recipes from friends, recipes I've made up, and recipes from book and magazines that I've tried and loved. I write them out and then draw a little illustration in colored pencil for each one.
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SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) — Lawmakers of three South Korean opposition parties held their first gathering to oppose the deployment of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) on its soil, Yonhap news agency reported on Thursday.
Members of three political parties, including the main opposition Minju Party, the casting vote-exercising People's Party and the minor Justice Party, held the first closed-door meeting to discuss how to launch a tri-partisan anti-THAAD gathering.
Participating in the meeting were four Minju Party lawmakers and three People's Party members. One Justice Party member was originally set to join the meeting, but he was absent as he visited Seongju county, where one THAAD battery is set to be sited by the end of next year under the Seoul-Washington agreement.
The People's Party and the Justice Party have demanded the retraction or re-negotiation at the National Assembly of the THAAD deployment decision, which will strain relations of South Korea with China and Russia and escalate tensions in the region.
The Minju Party has been divided into those clearly against the THAAD installation and members taking cautious stance ahead of the presidential election in late next year. About half of South Koreans are against the U.S. missile shield, while the rest half is in favor of it.
The ruling Saenuri Party claims the parliamentary agreement is not required in the THAAD deployment as it is a matter of national security, but opposition lawmakers demand an open debate as it causes serious effects militarily, diplomatically and economically.
As the ruling party lost its majority in the April general elections, it cannot win approval at the National Assembly for the THAAD deployment if the parliamentary ratification process is launched.
The tri-partisan anti-THAAD gathering is expected to be formally launched in September after one more preparatory meeting among the lawmakers, according to Yonhap. About 30 lawmakers are forecast to join the anti-THAAD gathering.


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When CalOptima CEO Richard Chambers announced his resignation earlier this month, he became the sixth top executive to leave Orange County's $1.4-billion health care plan in less than a year.
The primary explanation offered by insiders for this high-level brain drain is a strong national demand right now for leaders who understand complex health care systems coupled with instability at CalOptima caused by Orange County Supervisor Janet Nguyen's efforts in recent months to remake the organization's board of directors.
The departures come at a particularly bad time, for CalOptima will have to absorb a huge influx of new patients in the coming years if the new national health care reform law is implemented as planned.
Chambers will be leaving in April to become president of Long Beach-based Molina Healthcare California, a physician-owned firm that manages Medi-Cal and Medicare coverage for 350,000 people in five counties.
Chambers said he's leaving because "I had a wonderful opportunity."
Several CalOptima board members have already made it clear that they want to conduct a nationwide search for his replacement.
"Richard was a very strong leader," said board member Lee Penrose, president and CEO of St. Jude's Hospital, during a Feb. 17 planning session on how the board will fill the vacancies. "CalOptima has been a shining star in the world that we play in, and we have a lot to be proud of. Because we are as attractive as we are, we ought to aim high."
Whoever succeeds Chambers will take over a system that currently serves about 400,000 Medi-Cal and Medicare recipients and would take on 100,000 to 140,000 more in 2014 if new health care law is fully implemented on schedule.
The new requirements mean CalOptima will likely have a lot of competition from health plans everywhere for top talent, said Alwyn Cassil, director of public affairs for the independent, nonpartisan Center for Studying Health System Change.
"That [CalOptima] management expertise is probably quite specialized, and that makes that expertise quite marketable," said Cassil.
The center's most recent report cited 2009 figures showing that among metropolitan areas, Orange County has a higher-than-average percentage of uninsured — 17.8 percent compared with 15.1 percent.
Just how much hiring is going on nationally is difficult to estimate because "it's happening in real time," she said. "I don't think it's surprising at all that they're gearing up, because they're going to be bidding on contracts with states to get this [low-income plan] business."
The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled a week of hearings in March on the new national health plan. A decision is expected in June that will let health providers know exactly what to expect in new coverage for uninsured adults.
Chambers' exit comes soon after the departure of two other top executives.
In January, Dr. Greg Buchert, CalOptima's chief operating officer, left to become a principal consultant at Michigan-based Health Management Associates, an independent national research and consulting firm that specializes in health policy issues.
Margaret Tatar, CalOptima executive director of public affairs, moved to Sacramento to become head of the Managed Care Division of the state Department of Health Care Services. She will direct all California Medi-Cal programs, including CalOptima, for 3.5 million recipients. In addition, the Managed Care Division audits the performances of each county program.
Three other executives, including the chief administrative officer, also left for private industry or government-run health plans similar to CalOptima.
Some who know the dynamics of CalOptima say it is no coincidence that the organization is losing so many top leaders during a time when Nguyen has successfully pushed to remake the board while leveling generally unspecific accusations of mismanagement.
Nguyen was able to persuade a majority of the Board of Supervisors to increase the nine-member board to 11 seats and change membership requirements so the medical industry could potentially have five seats. And by getting a two-year term and adding another county department head to the board, Nguyen could be putting herself and the medical industry in a position to determine how CalOptima is run.
Under Nguyen's plan, one seat goes to the hospitals or a hospital trade association; one goes to doctors; one goes to an independent doctor's association or health network; one goes to a for-profit business; and one goes to a member of the public who doesn't qualify for any of the three consumer seats.
Some others who have left the agency recently, including a few below the ranks of top executives, said the turmoil created by Nguyen and efforts to revamp the board didn't directly cause them to seek other jobs. But, they said, when they were approached by other organizations, they took into account what was happening at CalOptima and weighed it against the new offers.
The hospital industry is holding a $250-per-person fundraiser Tuesday night as a "Tribute to Supervisor Janet Nguyen." Nguyen is the only supervisor up for re-election this year.
Nguyen's revamping of the board ended all current terms except hers and that of the director of the county Health Care Agency, a post that has been vacant since December. It added the Director of the county Social Services Department as a permanent board member.
Two of the old board members didn't seek board approval to finish out their terms. The remaining five, including Penrose, are from nonprofit organizations that provide services to low-income individuals, among their other work, or make grants to health-related groups.
Penrose said at the CalOptima board meeting that when selecting a replacement for Chambers, it is important for the CalOptima board to consider the impact of all the changes on the staff. "There's a lot of transitioning going on at CalOptima right now, and several [vacant executive] positions all at once must be pretty unsettling."
He urged his colleagues to "listen to the staff" and "understand the culture" it was recruiting someone to succeed Chambers. Other board members agreed and also emphasized the importance of a "transparent" process, using a "highly qualified" firm to conduct a national search and getting suggestions on what is needed from both providers and those who are covered by CalOptima.
The board is moving to replace Chambers as quickly as possible.
In a telephone interview, Chambers said he was leaving because of the new opportunity but added, "The last year has been difficult." He cited the leak to the Orange County Register of part of an audit that pointed to future problems that needed correction. When Chambers proposed a full management audit that would be publicly released, he was criticized by Nguyen.
"We get audited all the time," said Chambers in the telephone interview. "I'm not afraid of what comes out of an audit."
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A grotesque paedophile who admitted to a string of sex crimes against children has been jailed for more than a decade.
Adam Austin-Andrew, 38, was arrested by police in March in connection with recent sex offences involving children under 13 years old.
Following his arrest, officers received shocking details of historic sexual abuse dating back the 1990s on a child, who was aged under 13 at the time.
Austin-Andrew, from Harwich, came before Chelmsford Crown Court on Thursday (June 28) where he admitted to 12 vile crimes, including five counts of sexual assault against a child.
The charges admitted by Austin-Andrew
One count of engaging in sexual activity in front of a child;
Two counts of indecent assault;
Two counts of causing a child to watch a sexual act;
Five counts of sexual assault on a child; and
Two counts of taking indecent images of children.
He was sentenced to 10 years and nine months in total for his sickening acts.
Investigating officer detective constable Vicky Blackmore, of Essex Police's Child Abuse Investigations Team, said: "Austin-Andrew subjected young children to horrendous and sickening sexual crimes, which will have a life-long impact on them.
"I would like to praise the victims and their families for their courage throughout our investigation and subsequent court case.
"Austin-Andrew is a dangerous abuser and has received a lengthy prison sentence. I hope this outcome offers some justice to his victims."
NSPCC respond to Austin-Andrew's sentence
A spokeswoman for the charity said: "Offenders like Austin-Andrew pose a serious risk to children and it is right that he is now behind bars for the vile abuse he has perpetuated over the years.
"It's vital that all victims of sexual abuse know it is never their fault and are fully supported when they come forward and report it – the survivors in this case must be commended for their extraordinary bravery in speaking out against their attacker.
"We want young people to be able to recognise and report abuse, which is why the NSPCC visited 194 schools in Essex last year with our Speak Out Stay Safe assemblies and workshops."
Any child who needs help and support can contact ChildLine 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on 0800 1111 or by visiting www.childline.org.uk.


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These are my thoughts on the Hugo-nominated novelettes. If you're
planning to vote, you may wish not to read these notes until you have
done so.
Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex, by Stix Hiscock:
vaguely SF porn of the sort that might have been published by a girlie
mag in the 1980s. The plot is summed up in the title (and she has
laser nipples). This feels like a joke that I'm not getting.
The Art of Space Travel, by Nina Allan: the head of housekeeping at
a Heathrow hotel waits for some of the astronauts going on the second
Mars mission to pass through, and wonders about her missing father.
The emotional part is resolved in a very obvious way; the
science-fictional part isn't resolved at all, and ends up being just
pretty but irrelevant background.
The Jewel and Her Lapidary, by Fran Wilde: gruesome fantasy as a
small society comes apart. There's an interesting idea in the gems
that whisper horrors but can be usefully magical if cut and set, and
another in the relationship between gemcutters and rulers, but I never
felt engaged.
The Tomato Thief, by Ursula Vernon: fantasy Western that takes a
sudden turn into the strange ("Salt, flour, coffee, and sugar were the
only things Grandma Harken bought at the store, and the store could
only get them in because Father Gutierrez was on good terms with the
train-priests"); the plot is straightforward but the world and people
are fascinating.
Touring with the Alien, by Carolyn Ives Gilman: enigmatic aliens are
the excuse for a meditation on the nature and necessity of
consciousness, something I've seen done before but which still works
pretty well. Less good on the characterisation, but the plot mostly
makes up for it.
You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay, by Alyssa Wong: fantasy
Western with cosmic powers that don't really help much, written in
distancing second-person present.
Most of these do not strike me as good enough to be "Hugo-quality" (I
can't define it but I know it when I read it, and it's there in other
categories). I don't know what else was published last year, and these
may well be the best of the bunch, but while a Hugo is inevitably a
best-of-the-year award that doesn't mean that everything nominated is
good enough that I'm happy to vote for it. Still, two solid entries
Voting order:
Touring with the Alien sounds lovely, but I doubt I will ever read it because I don't do ereaders and very rarely by magazines or collections.
It's freely available on-line at Clarkesworld.
Yes, reading on a screen for enjoyment is a thing I find unenjoyable.
I do see your point, but… you could print it. It's not very long.
I could, but I don't have a printer. Now isn't that ironic.
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Jumping the Fence
MICHAEL LANGAN is a former performance poet, constantly struggling novelist, and current memoirist. He has lectured and taught creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University and Greenwich University London for fifteen years and now writes on visual art, literature, film and dance. He also works as a mentor and reader for The Literary Consultancy. He is lucky enough to live in Lisbon with the man he loves. Michael is also currently Arts Editor of Polari magazine, the online LGBT arts and culture review.
In his monthly column Notes Towards Uncertainty, he explores his decision to give up his secure teaching job to concentrate on his own writing life. He had achieved a lot of things in his academic career, but not the stuff of his dreams. Follow Michael over the coming months as he tells the story of how and why he took this leap of faith and the rewards and difficulties it presents.
Jumping the Fence by Michael Langan
Six weeks before I was due to leave for Lisbon my dad died suddenly. He hadn't been ill, but his heart just stopped, like a light going off. He'd gone through his usual routine of visiting the grandchildren before going home to make a cup of tea, light a cigarette, and read the newspaper on his laptop. My uncle and my sister found him sitting on the sofa the next morning, the computer still on his lap, his mug of tea on the floor next to him. My brother, who's a paramedic, sees this quite often – people who look like they've just fallen asleep in their chair. It's not a bad way to go, I suppose, and I'm glad he wasn't with any of the grandchildren when it happened, or behind the wheel of his car. Love and grief, as I wrote in my first column, have been the main catalysts to big changes in my life – if you can't be changed by these things what hope is there that change is possible at all? Even though the decision to live in Lisbon had already been made, my dad's death confirmed for me that I was doing the right thing in taking the risk.
For the past year or so I've been writing about my mum and dad, on and off, and my relationship to them now they're both gone. The writing was prompted by a number of things all coming together. I have a framed photograph from my parents' wedding that sits on my desk – it's my favourite picture of them – and I had started to make some notes on it before my dad died; a meditative interrogation on why I liked it so much and what it was saying to me. I had also been reading Roland Barthes' Camera Lucida, in which he meditates on a photograph of his recently deceased mother, and I found myself forming a deep connection with that text, not only in terms of what it says, but how Barthes expresses himself with a mixture of the personal and the theoretical.
I also found that, when I was writing about my parents, I had a strange and perturbing physical reaction, which was that I really wanted to go to sleep. I would sit at my computer fighting to keep my eyes open as they became heavier and heavier, fighting it and fighting it, and winning, usually, but it would exhaust me. I stumbled across an article in The Atlantic by Elijah Wolfson, in which he talks about his own impulse to sleep as a reaction to stress or conflict. He explains that it's an aspect of what is known in psychology as Learned Helplessness – a response to feeling a lack of control over a particular situation. Sleep, in such cases, is not necessarily an avoidance technique, but can also be a way of enabling the body to process difficult memories and emotions, but my own feeling was that my body was trying to shut me down in order to shut me up, and I had to resist that.
It seems odd that, in the face of fear, one reaction might be to lie down and accept whatever comes, rather than turning away from it or trying to change it. Theories of learned helplessness were developed in the 1970s via a series of experiments carried out on some dogs who, when a bell was rung, were subjected to electric shocks. After a while, the dogs accepted what was happening to them and became passive when the bell rang, lying down in resigned acceptance. All they had to do was jump over a small fence and they'd escape the shocks, but they wouldn't, or couldn't, do it. In his article Wolfson writes, '…many of the adults I spoke with all mentioned childhood anxiety stemming from uncontrollable situations…If, at a very early stage in development, a living thing comes to understand that it is helpless in the face of the world's forces, it will continue to perceive a lack of control, and therefore actually become helpless, no matter if the context changes.' This explained a lot for me about why I was reacting in this way to writing about my parents. It's also the case that writing about learned helplessness, writing the words you are now reading, actually brings about that same response. I can feel it now, trying to make me close my eyes, trying to shut me down…
…but I won't let it. I do many small things at this point: get up out of my chair and do a simple domestic task – washing the dishes, making the bed, sweeping the floor – each with a satisfying end point; walk around my study in circles; pick up a book and read something; go on the internet, Spotify, Facebook; take a quick trip to the local supermarket. All of these are meant to generate some energy that combats the sleepiness that I refuse to give in to. My writing gets done but it's strung out over a longer period of time because all of this activity has to be factored in. At the same time, the tiredness becomes a useful indicator of something important occurring – the emotion I'm feeling, the situation I'm in, must be significant if I'm swept up by a sudden wave of tiredness. I have to try to recognise where this feeling is coming from, what it's about. Creating a narrative, telling a story, is a form of taking control, of attempting to combat that learned helplessness and the fear underlying it, but it's only the first step.
Given that notion of learned helplessness stemming from childhood anxiety, the narrative I have created around my own experience goes like this: when I was a boy, I realised that I fancied other boys. At the same time, before I knew what this meant, or what to call myself, I knew this was wrong. I knew this was wrong because of what was going on around me at school, the things being said around me, about sissies and puffs and queers, even though I didn't understand what those things were. I was helpless in the face of this because I couldn't stop my attraction towards other boys, but what I could do was hide it in order to be accepted. I suffered the same things many closeted young people suffer, and at the root is fear. I can quite clearly remember telling myself, when I was a teenager, that I would never tell anyone my true feelings, that I would carry on pretending, that I could get married, have kids, be a dad, and ignore the desire I felt for other men. It was simply a matter of will, of control. It was another death that shocked me out of the closet, at the age of 23 – my friend Graeme, who'd faced much speculation about his own sexuality when we were at university, killed himself. I didn't want to go the same way as him.
Mourning: a cruel country where I am no longer afraid – Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary.
Our experiences of love and grief are both subjective and universal – I think that's how art works, how someone from the other side of the world, or from hundreds of years ago, can express for you exactly how you feel, right here and now. My experience of grief has been very different from that of Barthes for his mother; he was immediately devastated, he felt very deeply whereas I was numbed out of feeling and, as a result, it's taking a long time to process.
The dogs in those 1970s experiments could be cured of their learned helplessness if someone took hold of them and moved their limbs for them, physically walked them through the act of jumping over the fence. After a few times they'd eventually jump over it themselves when the bell rang, to escape the electric shock. Their learned helplessness was not so ingrained that it couldn't be overcome. I realise that, by using Roland Barthes' texts and his own experience when writing about my parents, he's effectively walking me through the process of feeling, of grieving, of writing – moving my limbs for me until I'm able to jump the fence on my own. Rather than being anxious about that, or worrying that I'm not feeling 'properly,' I can be grateful for the fact that I feel less alone, and, as a result, less afraid.
One thing about learned helplessness is that, while you can overcome it in particular situations, it may persist as a response to emotional difficulties. There are strategies that involve identifying the source of negative feelings and using positive affirmation to change those negative beliefs. It's hard work, a long-term project that entails conscious effort, and enduring setbacks. It's very like writing in that respect and can make you feel like a constant beginner – but I am learning. I've learned that I'm not helpless and have grown to recognise a strength in me that refuses to give in, that keeps me coming back to my work, and, in those moments when I am filled with doubt, I reassure myself of that. That resolve and my ambition for my writing wobbles sometimes, but is never extinguished.
I'm changing my writing practice to minimise distraction and increase my focus. This involves working less on my computer and much more on pen and paper, typing things up only as a later stage of editing rather than at the beginning of the process. I've always loved the physical act of writing, my biro looping and striding across the page; it feels very real, much freer and more playful. I like to think my whole body is involved in the writing this way, something I can visualise to keep my energy up if I need to. It takes me back to when I first fell in love with writing, the pre-computer days of my childhood and through to my time at university where writing meant re-writing, by hand, over and over again, polishing and editing as I went. I'm flexing those physical and mental muscles once more, and it feels good. I'm also increasingly working outside – in cafés or the park – and leaving my phone at home. After the initial separation anxiety passed I quickly realise how few emails and messages need to be addressed immediately and that sense of liberation has added to my energy reserves.
My experience as a frightened, closeted, gay boy, formed me, for better or worse, and created my learned helplessness. I can't change that and it wasn't my fault. The feelings it generates can be as much rocket fuel as quicksand. I am learning to let go of the things I can't control, by facing up to them and accepting them. When those negative feelings flash by you can take away their power to upset you, or annoy you, to obstruct and tire you, by sweeping them out of your mind with a positive, affirming statement (I talk to myself a lot when I'm working anyway, so I might as well put it to good use), which refreshes and re-energises.
Above all, it's in the writing that, for me, all of this gets thought through and sorted out. The forming, shaping, narrativising and articulation involved are all ways of taking charge. Issues may not get fully resolved, but you can take steps in that direction. The difficulty is in believing that, keeping the faith, showing up for work day after day when you feel no one cares but you. On good days, the best days, I feel like writing is my superpower, enabling me to leap over tall fences. The great paradox, I have discovered, is that writing is the answer to the problems of writing.
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The all-new 2021 Ford Galaxy is getting further refreshments. Ford clearly has a plan for its minivan, but definitely outside the United States. Whatsoever, Galaxy will continue with sales, but in Europe only. This MPV is based on the Ford Mondeo model. It looks very upscale, and it provides great comfort. The new-gen model is speculated for 2021, but that is unlikely to happen.
For 2020, Ford Europe provided mid-cycle refreshments to its large MPV. That includes a new front grille and bumpers. Moreover, styling is closer to models such as Kuga, Focus and Fiesta. On top of that, Vignale version is available. Ford also upgraded the mechanics. Thanks to that, new 2021 Galaxy will get a couple of exterior upgrades and interior improvements.
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This model continues to ride on its CD4 architecture. The same platform underpins the famous Mondeo sedan. Design-wise, Galaxy is closer to the Ford Focus model than Mondeo. For that reason, Galaxy borrows a couple of styling cues and exterior features from the smaller Focus model. The platform remains, so that means there will be no dimensional changes in 2021.
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Both units are using the same Powershift automatic transmission. A 2.0-liter TDCi Duratorq diesel is available in two different outputs. The first output is rated at 150 horses, and the second one delivers 180 horses. Moreover, diesel comes with better fuel efficiency, and it will use a 6-speed manual gearbox.
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The future of the Galaxy MPV is still uncertain. However, the 2021 Ford Galaxy is coming to the markets in Europe later next year. No one actually knows what will happen in years to come. The price of the all-new model will once again start slightly below $40,000.


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InterFaith Vision Foundation Cameroon (IVFCam) strengthens the capacities of top female leaders of the Grand North.
Within the frame work of the National project: "Building a Caucus of Cameroonian Women's Civic Rights Advocates" (CamWoCRA), funded by the Secretary's Full Participation Fund via the United States Embassy in Yaounde, aimed at strengthening the capacities and to build a caucus of Female leaders in Cameroon. The project implemented in the 10 regions of Cameroon, organized three inter-regional Conferences in three strategic towns in three regions of the country: Garoua for the three Northern Regions due to the Boko Haram terrorist activities; Betoua for the East, Center and South Regions as the host to many refugees from central African Republic; and Bamenda for the North West, South West, West and Littoral Regions, as the Political Hot pot of Cameroon).Garoua, the host city of this first inter-regional conference for Top Female Leaders (Ministers, Senators, Parliamentarians, Mayors, Civil Society Leaders) of the three Northern Regions of Cameroon became home to these leaders for two days, where the Female Leaders had their capacities strengthened on Civic Participation, Leadership and Good Governance, and brainstorm on possible ways of creating a caucus of Top Female Leaders from the 19th to the 20th of January 2017 at the Benoue Hotel in Garoua. This first of a series of a series of similar conferences organized nationally, brought out the common problem women faced peculiar to the grand North, and proposed resolutions on how to better addressed them. This conference was also a forum to inform top leaders on the role NGOs play, combining strengths of political institutions and CSOs in addressing women's issues.
At the end of this conference, the problems that hinder women participation peculiar to the three Northern Regions were identified, and recommendations adopted for harmonization to be transmitted to the Gender Network in Parliament for possible deliberations and policy revision.
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Still the best football game around on any system, though a WOrld Cup edition is apparently due later in the year. FOotie purists maintain the Japanese original - J-League Perfect Striker - is slightly better, but even at its now inflated price, International Superstar Soccer 64 is the ultimate example of the Beautiful Game. Another essential purchase.
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The best football game ever made is back with a vengeance. It's been 16 issues since we reviewed the last incarnation, the masterful ISS '98, now at long last we've got our sweaty hands on the next instalment in the series.
International Superstar Soccer 2000 is set to be the most refined version to date, with a fantastic RPG mode adding longevity to the one-player game, and the speedy football engine from J-League Perfect Striker 2 providing an even more fluid passing game. The RPG section is far from complete in the version we've all been playing in the office, but judging by what Konami promise will be in the finished cart, it's going to be superb. Starting as a talented but wayward young hopeful, you have to improve your skills and impress the scouts enough to win a contract with a big team. There are various training exercises you can practice to boost your rating in different abilities - for example, one exercise requires you to curl the ball into the net from increasingly more difficult positions. It sounds very much like an English version of the incomprehensible career mode from Perfect Striker 2, which is something we've been itching to get to grips with.
In Tim's Perfect Striker 2 review, the one thing he thought might improve the game was the addition of a hi-res mode. Well now we've got one, albeit at a very early stage. ISS Millennium uses the expansion paê to allow for ultra-crisp graphics. It's still a long way from being fully optimised at the moment, and there are some terrible drops in frame rate, particularly whenever the Sky TV swoosh happens before an instant replay, but don't worry - developers Major A pride themselves on the smoothness of their gameplay, and if they can't get a hi-res mode running properly, we won't be forced to endure it. There's currently an option to turn it off, but if it can't be done perfectly then it will just be dropped from the final version.
At normal resolution, it's a joy to play. As with Perfect Striker 2, ISS Millennium has the same basic core as the utterly breathtaking ISS '98. There are a couple of new moves to be found, including a neat step-over, and some new animations. The stadiums are better than ever, with flags draped around the running tracks and fantastic video replay screens in the showpiece arenas. As far as we can tell, the players have the same set of skills as they did in the '98 version but the goalies have been vastly improved. N64's office champion Tim actually had a little trouble in racking up his customary six goals against Martin. Hopefully we'll be able to get a better look at the RPG section next month. We'll also let you know how well the optimisation of the hi-res mode has gone, and whether it'll be included in the final version.
Football may be a funny old game. Saint, but it's also an essential genre for any new console to exploit - in both Europe and currently footy-mad Japan. Well, finally the N64 finally has the necessary balls! Those soccer supremos at Konami have taken the legendary payability of their Super NES blockbuster International Superstar Soccer and transplanted it, with extras and enhancements, into an polished polygon 3-D engine for the N64. Undoubtedly the star of the last Shoshenkai show when previewed there last autumn, J League Perfect Striker has a strong claim to the accolade of best football game ever, combining the elusive twin towers of skilful gameplay and highly impressive visuals.
The latter are surely the most detailed and realistic of any soccer sim. Never mind motion-capturing the polygon players' countless varied movements for supremely fluid animation - they've even done the same for their many authentic gestures. These include appealing for free kicks and penalties, helping a floored player up, squaring up to an opponent who's just fouled a teammate, and raging at the ref after being booked. The substitutes even Umber up before coming onto the field. Such incredible attention to detail really adds to the authentic big-match atmosphere, the 15 different goal celebrations proving particularly satisfying. The only aspects missing from the real sport are the ability to gob phlegm all over the pitch and make Nazi salutes to the crowd - probably a good thing then.
Instant Replay
Naturally, the 3-D graphics can be viewed from a choice of distances and vertical tilts. Although you can't rotate the pitch for an upfield view as in many next-generation soccer sims, it would have been detrimental to the skilful passing action anyway.However, you can rotate the view to watch goals and interesting incidents on the instant replay, complete with slow-motion and freeze-frame facilities.
The sole graphical flaw is the slowdown in the action which sometimes occurs when the penalty area is packed with men, particularly in four-player mode. It's a minor and occasional problem, though, which fails to mar the scintillating gameplay.
Choosing from the selection of real J League teams it's possible to play an exhibition, league season, cup tournament or one of several scenarios (eg one down with a minute to play). A whole netful of match options enable you to fine-tune the game. As well as toggling various rules, such as offside, on/off you can select from 16 stadiums and three different refs (including a card-happy one). A day or night game can also be chosen, along with weather conditions which do make a difference to the play: for instance, the players can slip on a snowy pitch when trying to turn quickly!
In The Dugout
Even more impressive is the tactical side of the game which features just about every formation and strategy any manager could dream of. You can even fiddle with individual player positions and defence/midfield/ forward zones to create your own custom tactics which can be saved to Controller Pak, along with edited players and teams. Up to four strategies, such as offside trap and pressing game, can be allocated to buttons for instant activation during the match - so if you're one down with a minute to play, you can easily switch to all-out attack without flicking through any menus. Individual players can also be assigned special roles such as sweeper and striker; or made to man-mark opposing star players. Strategic substitutions also prove vital as players become tired or are stretchered off after a bad tackle.
Don't worry if you're not a tactical anorak, though, as the arcade-style gameplay is simplicity to get to grips with. The controls are surprisingly instinctive, despite the impressive number of skills which can be performed. You name it, these players can do: Intricate passing, powerful shots, delicate chips, overhead kicks, shuffling dummies, heel flicks, and no less than three types of header. Aftertouch can also be applied to swerve shots and chips, although the effect is quite subtle. For once, decent one-twos are actually achievable in a football game, but the real star of the show is the through-ball facility, sending a defence-splitting pass for a forward to chase.
Not Perfect But...
The final result is a realistically varied game with no shortage of skilful play, five levels of CPU intelligence provide plenty of challenge, along with the same number of keeper settings. There are no easy sure-fire 'bug' goals scored here. Although many come from rebounds - leading to exciting goal-mouth scrambles as the defenders frantically try to clear - you need to string decent moves together to create chances in the first place. This is particularly satisfying In multi-player mode, requiring a good deal of co-operation from team-mates; although switching of control between on-field players can be perilously confusing when defending, resulting in silly mistakes and accusations of bung-taking!
Great-looking, supremely playable and brilliant fun with a group of friends, Perfect Striker has already set a league-topping standard which subsequent soccer rivals will find very hard to emulate.


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Field Pack, or buttpack, is a kind of equipment for soldiers carrying small amount of supplies, it has a long history in military use. If the supplies are too big for pockets of the clothes, and they are not enough to fill half the capacity of a backpack, buttpack is the perfect choice. This blog is about the story of GI Field Packs, or more precisely, the story about the field pack of the Vietnam War.
Author: Beta-TNT
English Translation: Kiven
Proofreader: Beta-TNT
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The Vietnam War Era (Canvas Field Pack): M-1956 / M-1961 Combat Field Pack
Although there have been similar functions such as M-1936 Musette Bag, the widely use of field pack was started from post Korean War with M-1956 Load-Carrying Equipment. The set of M-1956 was originally set up with a square field bag, which was the M-1956 Field Pack (Field Pack, Combat, M-1956).
At that time, the backpack type of fittings for soldiers for using is very limited: the World War II M-1936 Musette Bag has basically no longer use.The M-1945 pack system which issued at the end of World War II is rarely used at the end of the Korean War. While the mountain rucksacks only issued to the 10th Mountain Division, not ordinary infantries. As a result, most soldiers carry supplies mainly by using the Field Packs. When M-1956 still named as EX-54 during its test, once there was a prototype that close to the M-1945 Cargo pack which has a large size field pocket scheme, but in the end it was changed into small one as the Field Pack as we see today.
The most notable features of field packs in this period is the eyelets on the side of the flap, although there is no conclusive evidence, but I think this design is the evolution from the late M-1936 musette bag.
But after the M-1956 field pack issued, soon they found it was too small, so five years later, there is a larger field pack named "M-1961 field pack" (Field Pack, Combat, M-1961) as a substitute for M-1956 field pack. The early version of M-1961 field pack was still named "M-1956" in its stamp, but its FSN has updated.
The design of the M-1961 Field Pack has become a classic one. Its characteristics include the trapezoidal flap, webbing handle, tornado collar and a big compartment, mount webbing on both sides, and two binding straps on the bottom. Not only did the United States follow up the base version of the field packs, but it also affected the military equipment of many other countries.
As one of the results of the war, many M-1961 field packs were produced during the Vietnam War, which later became inventory. Even with the new nylon field pack became standard issue in 1976, the canvas M-1961 continued to be used in the army for many years.
The Vietnam War Era (Nylon Field Pack):M-1967 / M-1967 USMC
After the U. S. troops intervened in Vietnam, US Army soon found that the canvas webbing was not suitable for the jungle environment in Vietnam and began to seek new equipment. But I believe that all of you readers are tired of listening to this history, so here we focus on the field pack part.
In fact, long before the United States formally launched the army in Vietnam in 1965, US Army started a research on lightweight nylon webbing using in tropical environment. In 1962, the Natick Laboratory produced few sets of nylon webbing for conception evaluating, they were based on the M-1956 LCE. And in 1967, 550 sets was produced for further test. But "550" is not a big number for an Army, almost every set of them were depleted or worn out in the field test, and very few data or production left.
The point is: this nylon version M-1956 LCE INCLUDED a nylon field pack.
Those nylon M-1956 LCE later evolved into M-1967 LLCE (Lightweight Load-Carrying Equipment, not MLCE / "Modernized Load-Carrying Equipment"). As we all know, during the Vietnam War, all the nylon equipment specially supplied the Vietnam, and did not distribute the units in other areas. The army's M-1967 was formally issued in 1968, but nylon field pack was not included. What happened The answer is in the report.
This report was sent by ACTIV (Army Conception Team In Vietnam) on January 24th, 1968 to the U.S. Army Pacific Command, the content is reported that US Army Vietnam (USARV) no longer needs field pack (Field Pack, Combat) and intrenching tool carrier (Carrier, Intrenching Tool).
USARV's nonoccurrence is based on the following:
a. Action has been taken under ENSURE 106 to procure 120,500 Lightweight Nylon rucksack for issue to combat/combat support units in Vietnam. This new rucksack will be issued initially as a replacement for the standard rucksack and the standard Field Pack, Combat. The combat/combat support units in Vietnam will not require the Nylon Lightweight Field Pack, Combat.
Recommend that:
a. The Nylon Lightweight Field Pack, Combat, not to be procured for issue to combat/combat support units in Vietnam.
As we all know, the lightweight rucksack will cover the soldiers' whole back from the shoulder to the waist, which itself is also a kind of backpack equipment, the capacity is about three times bigger than field pack. So lightweight rucksack is completely covering the field packs, but larger capacity and more useful though. So USARV used lightweight nylon rucksacks instead of field packs was a reasonable thing.
Do you remember the theory mention before During the Vietnam War, nylon webbing were only made for Vietnam. So once a nylon equipment is no longer needed by USARV (and any units in the Vietnam), it will not be produced. This explains why there was no nylon field pack in the army's M-1967 LLCE equipment.
Of course, although there was no need to production nylon field pack because there was no need for USARV, there must exist some for test or engineering sample. There is a saying that this version of the nylon field bag produced only 500, which may be based on the production of nylon M-1956. The following photos are the suspected nylon version of the M-1956 / M-1967 nylon field pack.
By the way, the report said intrenching tool carrier was no longer needed, because in 1968, a new full-metal tri-folded intrenching tool was isseud, instead of the old M-1943 and M-1951 intrenching tool at the beginning of the year, and ready to start to a mass production instead of the old ones. And the "Lightweight Carrier, Intrenching Tool" mentioned in the report refers to the carrier for the old intrenching tool. As soon as the new intrenching tools are going to be issued, it is no longer necessary to supplement the carrier of the old.
Here, some one may ask that since you said that the M-1967 nylon field pack does not exist at first. So, what is the popular "M-1967 nylon buttpack" that every Vietnam War militaria collectors are pursuing now
Don't worry, the answer to this question is even more simple. The truth is in the stamp of "M-1967 nylon field pack" you said.
You see this Stamp clearly wrote as: Field Pack, Cargo articles; Nylon; (M-1967 USMC)
This indicates that this LCE is totally different from the Army's M-1967 LLCE, but the M-1967 USMC of the Marines. This is another long story.
During the Army's research and testing of lightweight nylon webbing, the Marines was actually doing the same thing. And in a sense, the Marines was facing a even more serious situation than the Army. M-1961 webbing is actually the continuation of M-1936 LCE during World War II, and has lagged behind the times. and the old M-1941 backpack sets were still in use. In 1964, the Marines tested a backpack set called XM1964, which is a small Nylon Backpack with two sub pockets. The brightest feature of XM1964 were the Davies quick release buckles on the shoulder straps. In form, XM1964 is still a continuation of the idea of the M-1941 backpack: the backpack shaped in small lateral rectangle with a high back position, leaving room for knapsack or field pack on the back waist.
M-1967 USMC is the finalized product of XM1964. It has four components: a backpack, a field pack, a pair of suspenders with quick release feature and two M-14 nylon magazine pouches. The backpack' quick release shoulder straps of XM1964 are separated into two pieces: pack main body and quick release suspenders. The M-1967 USMC field pack still uses the idea of the M-1941 backpack set, which is made up of the upper and lower parts: the backpack (haversack) is on the upper half of the back, and the field pack (knapsack) is in the lower waist. And this is actually reflected in the name of the harness. The M-1967 USMC's field pack is called "Field Pack, Cargo; Nylon; (M-1967 USMC)", and the name of the field pack for the M-1941 set group is also the "Field Pack, Cargo". But the difference is that according to the design of M-1967 USMC, the backpack and the field pack can be used alone, while the M-1941 knapsack must be used with the haversack.
Unfortunately, even the M-1967 USMC was a bit earlier than the Army's M-1967 LLCE on the assignment date, the M-1967 USMC was actually issued much more later. From the data I collected so far, the contract numbers of the M-1967 USMC were all 1970 dated. Considering the production and transportation period, the delivery will be at least six months later. However, the US Military began to withdraw from Vietnam in the summer of 1969. So, the design for the Vietnam War is almost useless, and the actual use of photos is few. That's why M-1967 USMC is so rare now.
Many Vietnam War militaria collectors regard the M-1967 USMC Cargo Pack (field pack / buttpack) as a part of the Army's M-1967 LLCE, and more people even simply think all nylon gears during the Vietnam War are "M-1967", which is totally wrong.
Tell a story I heard from the USMF, not guaranteed 100% true. It said that before 1990, M-1967 LLCE was very precious and hard to find in the militaria market, and most of the them were in bad shape, because the only source were the veterans who issued one in the South Asia. It was said that in the militaria market, M-1967 LLCE suspenders were at a price of $100 (and it was in bad shape since the hard field use) at that time.
However, M-1967 LLCE is, after all, a mass-produced equipment in wartime, not trial or experimental items. It is destined that her production is absolutely indispensable. One day in 1990, several containers were found in a military warehouse, they were all filled with brand new M-1967 LLCE gears . They were produced for the war but never shipped. It is said that the price of suspenders dropped to 1 dollar per set instantly.
If this is true, I wonder if M-1967 USMC is in the same situation, and where a few containers are hidden somewhere in the United States. And I have heard rumors that some Asia dealers traded large moument of brand new M-1967 USMC field packs. Something is fishy…
Post Vietnam War: Training Field Pack
The story of field pack is not over yet. The Vietnam War was only in the first half. Now let's talk about the second half.
In 1974, the famous ALICE started it's service, insteading of the M-1956 and M-1967, and became the standard equipment for all of the US Military personal. But the soon they found a problem: the two rucksacks of the ALICE were too big for daily training and duties, and even the smaller one (medium rucksack) has a huge volume of 50L, did not cover the demand for carrying small amount of supplies. In fact, the small rucksack during ALICE test was able to meet this demand, but it was deleted before it was finalized.
When the military reusing the M-1961 canvas field pack covering the demand of the basic units, they was also considering the new nylon field pack for ALICE. Then they suddenly remembered that there WAS such a thing already: The M-1967 LLCE field pack that was abandoned by the USARV. The army returned to the design of the M-1967 field pack, which was restarted in 1976. This is called Field Pack, Training (NSN: 8465-00-936-6825), which is commonly known as "ALICE buttpack".
Some people (like me, a nylon nerd) may notice that the assignment date of NSN for training field packs is July 1, 1968 — the date of assignment of many other M-1967 LLCE components. This also explains from another point of view that this field pack was originally actually a part of M-1967 LLCE, but was later reenabled and given a new name.
If you are lucky enough to get a brand-new training field pack, you will find that it has a separate instruction sheet. In some versions of the batch of training field packs, the stamp even keep the words like "M-1967". All the signs indicate that this thing, which is often called the "ALICE buttpack", is not a part of ALICE, it is a separated equipment.
After the Millennium, the training field pack was modified to IIFS (TLBV) style and became easier to use, but the name and NSN remain unchanged. This is the last version of their kind.


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A Magical Renovation
A Seacoast couple transforms a former summer retreat into an imaginative home whose style is inspired by rustic Adirondack camps.
Lynne Monroe and Frank Whittemore's Kensington home is accented with natural materials—such as curved branches and fieldstone—giving it the look of a fairytale cottage. Kensington artist Dan Dailey created the four-point compass rose on the walkway, seen in the lower portion of this photo.
Home is where the heart is, as well as memories. Sunny Knoll—the imaginative Kensington home of Lynne Monroe and Frank Whittemore—is filled with both.
Taking its cue from nature, the cedar-shingled home, accented with natural materials—such as curved branches, rustic tree trunks and fieldstone—looks like a fairytale cottage. Monroe, a historic preservationist and founder of Preservation Company, bought the home in 1984 and painstakingly researched, restored and re-imagined Sunny Knoll as an Adirondack Great Camp. It has been a labor of love, one that she says has been driven in part by the house itself.
"Everything in the house has a story," Monroe says. "It was a discovery process for me, but the house knew what it wanted to be—it helped me make decisions."
The Adirondack camp spirit—and whimsy
Sunny Knoll's story begins circa 1900, when a local tenant farmer, John Knight, built a home from pieces of timber-frame buildings from a nearby abandoned farm (his original rooms are now Preservation Company offices). In 1912, the home was purchased as a summer home by Dr. Leon Kenniston, a physician from nearby Exeter, and his family. "They were into 'rusticating' and gardening," says Monroe, who has old photos showing the home's lush gardens and arbors.
Renaming the property Sunny Knoll, Dr. Kenniston's wife Inez and daughter Faith created living space in the barn and ran a summer camp for young girls (Faith was married in the barn in 1919). A camp flyer notes that Sunny Knoll "combines the atmosphere of a home with camp spirit." That camp spirit appealed to Monroe. When she started renovating the property, she consulted regularly with Faith, at the time in her eighties, asking for her opinions and brainstorming ideas.
Honoring the home's summer camp past, Monroe envisioned remaking Sunny Knoll in the style of an Adirondack Great Camp. Built using natural materials and local labor, the Great Camps of the Adirondacks in upstate New York represented the Naturalist movement of the late-nineteenth century. The homes—built by wealthy families, such as the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts—were designed to blend in with their surroundings and embellished with natural materials like timber, granite and stone.
Sunny Knoll is filled with whimsical touchstones of Monroe's youth and family (her father was chief engineer of Levittown, New York, and Levittown, Pennsylvania, two of the country's earliest planned communities; her mother was a naturalist and mycologist). Monroe rented out half of the original home until the late 1990s, when she started renovating the property. As a preservationist and fine artist, Monroe became enmeshed in researching the home as well as incorporating work by favorite artists and the Adirondack style. "Every single piece of the house meant research," Monroe says. "It really became my life."
Lynne Monroe and Frank Whittemore on the stairs in the
great room.
She worked closely with her long-time friend, architect Paul Gosselin (now retired) of Salmon Falls Architecture in Biddeford, Maine, to develop plans for the home's addition and turned to Whittemore to implement those designs. Whittemore, a contractor and builder of timber frame homes, met Monroe when she had added a garage to the property in 1992. "Though this house wasn't the kind of project I'm used to," Whittemore says, "it was a lot of fun to work on." Monroe adds, "This project couldn't have happened without Frank." The house was under constant construction for three years; shortly after it was finished, Monroe and Whittemore married there October 6, 2001.
The original section of the house is Monroe's office, lined with floor-to-ceiling built-in bookcases. The airy two-story room features a high, blue ceiling sprinkled with gold stars, mimicking a similar ceiling at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, where she attended school. The original sun porch is now a sunny music room, where Whittemore can play piano and other musical instruments. The small, original kitchen has simple pine walls and floors. Floors in the older part of the house are native pine.
An imaginative interior with a sense of humor
Monroe's imagination and sense of humor are on full display in Sunny Knoll's primary living spaces. She hired Brooklyn artist Bruce Gundersen, who's also fascinated with the Adirondack Great Camps, to design Sunny Knoll's front hallway. Gundersen created three dioramas, set into the rough, white cedar bark walls. A humorous commentary on man's relationship to nature, each depicts humans and animals in natural settings. "He's brilliant," Monroe says. "I just left the design up to him."
Gundersen also designed the massive chandelier hanging in the great room. Inspired by elaborate hunting lodge chandeliers, the work is a mass of curved wooden branches, hung from the ceiling by tractor chains.
The two-story great room, with its exposed rough log beams, has two massive fieldstone fireplaces made from stones collected in Maine; the granite hearths are from cellar stones found in Exeter. The room is framed by a window seat and bookcases on one side, and—hidden behind a real tree with intact bark—there's a spiral staircase to a second-floor balcony. Banks of windows are set off by dark pine walls, stained to match the original barn's walls. A large, stained-glass window of a woman playing a medieval shaum is set in one wall. The comfortable furnishings, many of which belonged to Monroe's family, are anchored by a hooked wool rug featuring a mushroom motif, created for Monroe's mother.
The second-floor balcony overlooks the great room on two sides, with a railing made from rough cedar tree trunks; the railing with its elaborate bump-out was crafted by carpenter Larry Haas of Portsmouth, an important contributor to the building process. Haas created much of the twig work inside and outside Sunny Knoll. "Working with all that snaky wood was a great challenge and a lot of fun," he says. "I like projects that are outside the box and creative."
No camp-style home is complete without animals. Taxidermy creatures at Sunny Knoll are found in unexpected places: a beaver nibbles on a tree in the hallway; a gray fox peers from the branches of a tree in the great room; a coyote lurks by the piano; mice are hidden in the chandelier. Monroe even displays books on taxidermy on an end table.
A tangled grove of white cedar trees— complete with metal trail markers—screens the great room from the dining area. Monroe's inspiration was Marjorie Merriweather Post's boathouse in upstate New York. "It has a scramble of twig work that fascinated me," she says. The solid dining table was made by Haas from chestnut boards that were once the floor of the threshing room at Brookdale Fruit Farm, Whittemore's family farm in Hollis.
Thoughtful spaces
The large kitchen, with its dark-pine bead board walls, evokes a service kitchen in the style of Newport mansions or British manor houses. Casement windows line the curved walls, adding light to the space. The large service table in the center of the room is made from the same floorboards as the dining table. There's a sink on both ends of the kitchen: a Vermont soapstone service sink near where most cooking is done; and a stainless-steel sink for washing up. Monroe and Whittemore enjoy their morning coffee and breakfast in a built-in dining booth, overlooking the back yard. "I liked that detail from my parents' home so Paul and I designed a booth for our kitchen," she says.
Upstairs' spaces contain more details from Monroe's past, including her father's original drafting table as well as quirky collections of miniature animals that Monroe has been given or collected over the years.
The master bedroom, which she's nicknamed the Pennsylvania Room, contains more memories. A highlight is the large fireplace, faced with ceramic tiles from Moravian Pottery & Tile Works in Doylestown, Pennsylvania; Monroe and Whittemore's wedding date is inscribed on the fireplace and framed with ceramic tiles of flowers, woodland animals, farm animals and musicians. The tiles were created by ceramicist and scholar Henry Chapman Mercer (1856–1930), whose Pennsylvania estate, Fonthill Castle, is one of Monroe's "favorite places on earth." The bed is inspired by the furniture of Swedish artist Carl Larsson. Walk-in closets contain ample storage to eliminate the need for dressers and additional furniture. More of Monroe's miniature animals—deer, cats, dogs, geese—decorate the master bath, which is highlighted by a large built-in bathtub and an old-fashioned overhead cabinet toilet, built into a red pine cabinet with a bookcase.
Outdoor magic
Outdoors, Sunny Knoll is every bit as magical as indoors. The roof, windows and overhanging eaves are forest green, set off by brown shingles and elaborate gable screens made of curved, unpeeled cedar branches. Adirondack chairs grouped on the back porch welcome visitors to relax while watching squirrels snack nearby on pinecones. While the arbor and gardens from the original summer camp are gone, there's a large vegetable garden with birdhouses and a gazing ball connected to the house by a fieldstone retaining wall. A sculpture of rusted farm machinery by Kensington artist Harlow Carpenter stands in the yard near a small pond.
The couple have invested much time and energy into Sunny Knoll, and have no regrets. "It never gets old," Monroe says. "It's our home."
The two-story great room is filled with fascinating details, including an elaborate carved chandelier and second-floor balcony fashioned from tree limbs; a massive fieldstone fireplace; a stained-glass window; and taxidermy animals, including a coyote (lower right) that was an engagement gift from Frank Whittemore to Lynne Monroe.
Right: A detail from one of Gundersen's dioramas, depicting nature's control over man.
Right: The cozy dining room, accented by a large fieldstone fireplace, includes a table made of threshing floorboards with legs shaped from tree branches. The hickory chairs were purchased in the Adirondacks.
Right: On the upstairs landing is the drafting table that once belonged to Monroe's father, Clarence Monroe, the planner and chief engineer of all the Levittown projects, including the well-known neighborhoods in New York and Pennsylvania.
Right: The painted pine bed in the master bedroom was built by Donald Taylor of Lee. Built-in storage eliminates the need for dressers and additional furniture in the room.
Right: The fireplace in the master bedroom is framed with fanciful ceramic tiles of flowers, animals and musicians—and also includes Monroe and Whittemore's wedding date. The tiles were made by Moravian Pottery & Tile Works in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
With its forest green roof and elaborate wooden gable screens, Sunny Knoll is a natural extension of its lovely rural setting.


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