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Shamrock's St. Patrick's Day celebration was the idea of Glenn Truax, a Shamrock bandmaster.
He envisioned the town of Shamrock capitalizing on its Irish name and producing an annual one-day celebration to draw thousands of visitors to the Irish City.
With the help of the Shamrock Boosters Club, the first St. Patrick's Day Festival was reeled off in successful fashion in 1938. The initial production attracted a few thousand people and 12 bands. The extravaganza continued to grow until World War II cancelled the annual celebration from 1941 until 1950.
The event was revived in 1950, when the American Legion and the Junior Chamber of Commerce co-sponsored the celebration. Then, the following year, the festival was cancelled due to the Korean conflict. In 1952, the Shamrock Chamber of Commerce took over the task and reactivated the event, which has since been held annually.
Most recently, on March 14th, 2013 – the 83rd Texas House Legislature passed HCR83, designating the Shamrock St. Patrick's Day Celebration as
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Infielder Wes Darvill joined the Cougars in time for Thursday's season opener after the parent Cubs made a string of transactions to bring the Cougars' roster to 25 players. A fifth-round pick of the Cubs out of high school in 2009, Darvill spent last season playing in the Midwest League for then-Cubs affiliate Peoria, batting .224 in 116 games. Kane County Chronicle sports reporter Kevin Druley caught up with Darvill for this week's edition of the Weekend Chit-chat, asking about Darvill's experience with the organization as well as the Langley, B.C. native's Canadian heritage. The following is an edited transcript:
What was the whole process of learning you'd be coming to the Cougars?
Well, I was kind of going to be on a bench role with [Triple-A] Iowa just for a couple weeks while [Cubs second baseman Darwin] Barney was on the DL. Just fill in, maybe pinch-hit a little bit. And then they signed a couple players off waivers, so they didn't need me anymore, so I came here.
Were you bummed, or is it that case of you just wanting to play ball?
Yeah, play ball. I mean, it would have been a great experience up there, but, you know, I probably wouldn't have gotten to play a whole lot, so I'll get to play more here. I think this is the better option for me, for sure. … You get to know all the guys in spring training, have laughs with them, and everyone's pretty close.
What's been said in the clubhouse about the proximity of this team to Chicago?
Yeah, I think it's going to be a lot of fun, for sure, the close proximity. I played here a little bit last year when I was with Peoria, and it seemed like whenever we came here, it was a pretty good crowd. So hopefully now that we're the home team here, it should be good, so I'm excited.
In Peoria, is there much bus talk or excitement when you're going to Kane County as opposed to elsewhere in the league?
No, I think it was more one of those things you just kind of get there. It's baseball everywhere you go, but it's always fun to play in front of a little more fans.
Tell me about your baseball background in British Columbia.
I started playing ever since I could walk and everything. So yeah, I've been playing since a really young age. I've always loved baseball. It's my first love.
How much do folks follow the sport there with the [Toronto Blue Jays' short-season] affiliate in Vancouver?
It's pretty followed. I think they do pretty well as far as crowds. I think baseball is a pretty big sport in BC. We have more of a mild climate than other places, so there's a lot of baseball played, and it used to be a Triple-A team back years ago [from 1978-99]. It's a real nice stadium, and fans love the game up there, too.
Do you and your countryman, [left-hander Brian] Smith, carry the Canadian flag in the clubhouse or anything?
No, we don't, but we played for the Canadian junior national team back in high school, so it was good to see when he got drafted by the Cubs. It's always good to have Canadians.
Being in Canada and playing baseball, how much did you know about the Cubs and the whole 1908 thing?
Honestly, when I was growing up, I really didn't know too much about it. But now I do realize how big of a deal it is to play for the Cubs. How they're not just trying to develop players individually, but also to develop them as winners, as well. And that's a very important thing.


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An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, "The Labyrinth," JESUS THE TEACHER WITHIN(New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 230-31.
Are we prepared to practice detachment from what we instinctively know is our most precious possession: our separate identity? Relationship with [Jesus] the teacher at this point is of supreme importance. It allows us to risk our own death. By now the discipline of the mantra has led to the fortifying sense of discipleshipwhich empowers us to let ourselves go.
Laurence Freeman OSB, "Spirit," JESUS THE TEACHER WITHIN (New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 186 87.
The joy of realizing the truth is the bliss of the Spirit. It erases the shame of all previous failures. Aware that this Spirit of truth is with us as a friend, we are better able to tolerate in others and in ourselves what has not yet reached fullness of being. . .Truth is tolerant because the Spirit is forgiving love. It allows the untrue to survive for the time being as a loving parent allows a child to make mistakes. Truth embraces rather than excommunicates its enemies.
Laurence Freeman OSB, "Letter Nine," COMMON GROUND (New York:Continuum, 1999), pp. 104-105.
John Main OSB, "Death and Resurrection," MOMENT OF CHRIST (New York: Continuum, 1998), pp. 68-70.
John Main, OSB, "God's Two Silences," THE WAY OF UNKNOWING (New York: Crossroad, 1990), pp. 6-8.
We live in a very unsilent world. We live in a world that is so full of bombarding foreground and background noise that we hear everything at once and listen to nothing. And yet each one of us is called into the state of prayer, of pure attention, of expansion of spirit in the eternal silence of God.
"The Silence of the Soul," by Laurence Freeman OSB in THE TABLET 10 May 1997.
Laurence Freeman OSB, "Meditation," JESUS THE TEACHER WITHIN(New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 212-213.
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus identified material concerns as our main source of anxiety. How can we make ourselves more comfortable and reduce personal suffering? This is the major preoccupation that obscures the present moment and disrupts true priorities.
Laurence Freeman OSB,"The Fear of Death," THE SELFLESS SELF(London: Darton, Longman, Todd, 1989), pp. 129-131.
John Main OSB, "The Wholeness of God," MOMENT OF CHRIST (New York: Continuum, 1998), pp. 83-85.
We have to learn, and it is absolutely necessary that we do learn it, that only one thing is necessary, because only one thing is. All of us must therefore address our own lack of discipline. We must bring our restless wandering minds to stillness. It is one of the first great lessons in humility we learn, when we realize that we come to wisdom and stillness, and we pass beyond distraction, only through the gift of God. . . .[A]ll we have to do is to dispose ourselves, and this we do by becoming silent, to the infinity of God. We learn to be silent by being content to say our mantra in humble fidelity.
From Fr Laurence Freeman, OSB: Dearest Friends, January 1997 WCCM International Newsletter.
To allow [the] pattern of daily meditation to take hold amid all the other patterns of our lives, not just imaginatively but actually, is a challenge to the best of us; to the best in us. It is a mundane introduction to the cosmic law of sacrifice. There is an Indian story which tells how Vishnu came every day to offer worship to Shiva by offering a thousand lotuses at her feet. One day, after a few thousand years of such worship, he discovered as he lay the lotuses down that were only 999 that day. (Such things happen occasionally). Without delay he plucked out one of his eyes, beautiful, shaped like a lotus and completed the offering with it by placing it among the 999.


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A living will and a medical power of attorney are types of
advance directives. These forms describe the kinds of medical care you want to
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I Have Another Blog, on... Climate Change
[NOTE: this has nothing to do with SEM and everything to do with climate change, so if that's not your cup o' tea, skip this post.]
I have a bunch of tiny blogs, one of which is Climate Varies, dedicated to expressing to all 20 of that blog's visitors that Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth is actually the opposite, a Convenient Untruth.
Since SearchQuant gets at least double the traffic, I'm posting the below so that folks know where I stand on the topic.
[Excerpt from my Facebook wall in the last 24 hours, consisting of a back and forth I'm having with a former colleague]
Status: Chris likens the green movement to the Church's Indulgences during the Middle Ages. Keep sinning, but no Hell.
Colleague: Intriguing notion, but I can't connect the dots. Can you elaborate?
Me: Whether it's sustainability or lowering CO2 emissions, fear motivates us more so than desire to do right for right's sake. If we *were* acting on ethics/honor and not guilt, we wouldn't commit the eco sin of living the way we do in the first place. We'd choose *lifestyles* that are green rather than try to erase every material step we take.
Identical to the Catholic Church's selling of indulgences 100's of years ago. The church turned the supply of guilt (collectively perceived thanks to centuries of religious indoctrination + shorter life spans) into a source of revenue. The church knew people couldn't live up to the Christian ideal, and so it offered Get Out of Hell Free cards that people bought out of fear - not because it was right.
Same with today's environmental movement. Hypocritical eco-priests like Al Gore & Holllywood sucking on our guilty bones.
Colleague: Are all pollution credits BS, or just carbon credits?
Me: We know pollution is bad for us in the here and now, so we deal with it because it affects us. That's a social contract. Carbon credits, on the other hand (me selling you a carbon credit so you can keep operating a coal-fired choo-choo train, for example) is an Indulgence because even though I know it will have zero impact on what global warming *might* exist, I sell it to you so I can fund the growth of my cause.
Colleague: Thanks for the explanation. I understand your point now. You see carbon-trading as a useless activity that can in no way help reduce global warming. All that it reduces is guilt--or, more likely, what it does is allow a corporation to advertise that it is clean, thus creating positive PR for itself.
Do you object to the theory behind carbon trading, or do you merely think that it is poorly implemented? As I understand it, the theory is that environmental costs must be built into the marketplace and, when proper costs are assigned, the market will then self-correct. Further, as I understand it, when a corporation purchases a carbon offset, the money they spend actually goes to reduce carbon emmisions elsewhere, so that the net will be zero.
Me: Yes, and yes. I object to the theory because it assumes a) that we know what causes the planet's temperature to vary; b) that our math can accurately model climate; c) that climate variation is bad; and d) that there's anything we can & should do about it. And I object to the implementation because it gives the new fires every chance to burn and ... Read Morefocuses on the naturally dying old fires.
I also object to it because it's a fantastic racket that I unfortunately didn't think up; but I *am* thinking about building a global warming carbon offset iPhone app.
Colleague: Yes, I understand that you question the underlying assumptions behind global warming. But, suppose those assumptions were true: namely, that global warming is occurring and that's it's bad for the environment. Do you think carbon trading would be an effective way to combat it?
Me: Supposing all you ask me to suppose, I very, very much do think carbon trading would be a horrible way to combat it, for the simple reason that it would give CO2 emitters a perfect & easy way to avoid reducing CO2 while passing on the fees they pay straight to the consumer in the form of higher prices. At first glance, that's exactly what seems to ... Read Morebe happening.
A better way - and I hate even talking about this since to me the notion of climate change being caused by humans is preposterous - would be to give citizens tax *rebates* as they lower their carbon footprint. Lowered taxes as an incentive would be way more powerful an incentive to achieve the desired ends, and it would avoid the gross ineffeciencies that always result when citizens let govt manage money.
Colleague: Ah, but if you're willing to believe for a moment that humans *are* causing climate change...and you believe in supply and demand...then passing the cost of CO2 emitters to their customers is precisely the right thing to do---increased cost->decreased demand->reduced CO2
Rebates (lowered costs) are just the flip side of increased costs. All the ... Read Moresame coin, so all the same result.
The difference being---it's easy to measure the emitters and increase their cost. It's exceedingly difficult to measure those who lower footprints.
Me: *If* I'm willing to accept anthropogenic climate change, then please don't add insult to injury and make me accept that ballooning the federal govt or the UN to try and manage it top-down is the best way to mitigate it.


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Bulldogs fall short against the Demons, 20-12
DUMAS-On Friday night, the Borger Bulldogs were able to rack up 120 yards and a touchdown in the fourth quarter against the Dumas Demons. Unfortunately, offensive struggles in the first three quarters proved to be too much for Borger to over come, as the Demons were able to hang on for a 20-12 win over the Bulldogs.The Bulldogs managed just 81 yards of total offense through the third quarter with the Demons doing a good job shutting down the Bulldog running game and putting pressure on the quarterback. But despite the offensive struggles, the Bulldogs' defense did a good job containing the Demon spread attack to just 209 yards of total offense that gave the Bulldogs a change for a potential comeback in the fourth quarter.Early on, a 33 yard run by Demon quarterback Clayton Baker put the Demons inside the Bulldogs' 30 yard line, in the first scoring drive of the game. Two passes from Baker to Andres Baskin placed the ball on the three yard line, setting up a short touchdown run by Alexio Phothisene to take a 0-7 score.On the Bulldogs' ensuing drive, Jacob Rendon connected with Max Lusk for a 11 yard pass. However, the Bulldogs could not get anything going and would be forced to punt. The Demons fumbled the punt to give the Bulldogs the ball inside the Demons' 20 yard line. But two plays later the Bulldogs gave the ball right back on a fumble at the Demon four yard line.The Bulldog defense made a great stand forcing the Demons to punt the ball inside their end zone. The Demon punter had trouble picking up the snap, setting up Dustin Clark to block the punt leading to senior Miles McKinney recovering the ball in the end zone to make it a 6-7 game.The momentum quickly went back to the Demons as Baskins took the hand off, on a reverse punt, 78 yards for a touchdown to make it a 6-13 game at the 9:15 mark of the second quarter.Throughout the rest of the second quarter and most of the third quarter, neither team could get anything going offensively.Towards the end of the third quarter, the Demons caught a big break when the Bulldogs fumbled the ball on their own 28 yard line. A personal foul placed the ball on the 11 yard line and the Demons needed only two plays to get into the touchdown off a three yard run by Tanner Hallford.Going into the fourth quarter, the Bulldogs' offense finally woke up with the team going on a ten play scoring drive. The offense did a good job mixing up the run and pass with Rendon connecting with McKinney and Austin Young for 50 yards in the air to get inside the Demons' 20 yard line. Rendon finally finished the drive with a one yard touchdown run to make a 12-20 score with 8:25 to go in the game.The Demons responded by going on a six play drive that reached the Bulldogs 18 yard line. However, Young came up with an interception in the end zone to kill the Demon drive and give the Bulldogs a chance to go on a drive that could tie up the ball game.The Bulldogs would go on a 13 play drive reaching the Demons' 30 yards. But the comeback just wasn't in the cards, as the Demons came up with an interception to end the Bulldog drive to hang on for the win.The Demons improve to 3-0 on the season while the Bulldogs drop to 1-3.Next up for the Bulldogs is a home game next Friday hosting the Graham Steers at 7:30 p.m..Game stats: First Downs-Borger 11 Dumas 9; Rushing yards-Borger 66 Dumas 77; Passing yards-Borger 135 Dumas 132; Total yards-Borger 201 Dumas 209; Turnovers-Borger 3 Dumas 2; Penalties-Borger 5/40 yards Dumas 4/28 yards.Borger stat leaders: Passing-Jacob Rendon 13 of 26 for 135 yards with 1 interception; Rushing-Adam Bumpus 16 carries for 46 yards; Rendon 12 carries for 7 yards; Receiving-Miles McKinney 2 catches for 41 yards, Max Lusk 4 catches for 32 yards, Tyler Ortega 4 catches for 24 yards, Austin Young 3 catches 38 yards.Defensive leaders-Lusk 6 tackles 2 assists, Young 5 tackles 1 interception, McKinney 5 tackles 4 assists 1 fumble recovery for a touchdown, Dustin Clark 4 tackles 3 assists 1 blocked punt.


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From one photography collector to another: a venue for thoughtful discussion of vintage and contemporary photography via reviews of recent museum exhibitions, gallery shows, photography auctions, photo books, art fairs and other items of interest to photography collectors large and small.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Photography Collecting and Twitter
But as the posts have piled up and this site has evolved, I've come around to thinking that Twitter can play an important role in broadening the reach of fine art photography. One of the dangers of a site like ours is that it gets too insular, that we end up talking mostly to ourselves and failing to get outside the bubble of insider thinking (and linking). One of the ongoing goals of our efforts here (one might call it a mission) is to grow the number of photography collectors actually out there and buying work; we want to encourage readers to become collectors. To do this, we need to reach more people who aren't already thinking of themselves as collectors, but have an intense or growing interest in photography; maybe they are contemporary art collectors who haven't yet bridged to photography, or maybe they are folks who have always wanted to buy a photograph, but haven't yet felt comfortable enough. While Google search and user to user recommendations have been excellent methods for introducing people to our blog, I think that Twitter might also be a viable alternative for giving a wider audience a glimpse of what goes on here.
Not all of our content can be boiled down to a pithy, one sentence remark, but after considering it carefully, a surprising amount of what we write can be delivered in a useful, condensed form. Museums and gallery reviews are where we have decided to begin, since they seem to be the most popular with the largest number of readers. Starting last week, we began to post a Twitter version of our reviews after the main blog post was published. The Twitter version has the artist's name and venue, the number of stars the show received (1, 2, or 3), a short description, comment, or summary, and a link to the main blog post for those who want more. That's it. (Given our use of the @ symbol as part of the titling convention for our blog posts, the first few tweets have some inadvertent random links; we're smarter now and have eliminated the @ in the titles.) These tweets are not auto generated somehow, but hand crafted by us to try and retain the feel of our voice. Hopefully, they capture the essence of the exhibit, while enticing readers to come over for a closer examination. Perhaps some galleries and museums may also find these tweets of use in communicating with their existing clients.
When auction season kicks back into full gear, summary auction results and top lots will also fit well into the Twitter format. For the moment, we've decided against summarizing our book reviews and longer magazine style opinion pieces and essays, as we just don't think they translate particularly well. That said, there may be other topics that we haven't found a good way to cover on the blog (note taking at openings or lectures, fair booths, etc.) that might work even better as tweets, so we may do some experimenting. We will not, however, ever force you to endure the minuscule details and random thoughts of our daily lives. We will only ever tweet about topics relevant to photography, art and collectors.
You can find our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/DLKCOLLECTION. Please follow us and share our tweets liberally, especially with those who might not already be active collectors.
By the way, we are currently following zero other Twitter feeds, entirely due to ignorance of where the quality really lies in the cacophony of voices. Please help us to find a small but carefully edited list of relevant feeds that are focused on photography, contemporary art and collecting, by adding your recommendations in the comments.
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- Anonymous said...
Is it 2008? ha.
You can and should import your RSS feed into Twitter. That's standard procedure these days because for many people Twitter is replacing RSS readers.
What I often see from people new to Twitter is that they try to force it to be exactly what they want instead of adapting to platform standards.
Believe it or not, the day to day random thoughts can add tons of value for your followers. It's not always about broadcasting information, sometimes it's about creating a dynamic personality for your brand...
Good luck!
- January 20, 2010 at 1:10 PM
- Joe said...
You can use http://twitterfeed.com to automatically post your blog feed to Twitter and Facebook. Great way to reach folks who don't use a feedreader or read blogs very often, without any extra work.
- January 22, 2010 at 10:24 PM


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carry (someone or something) along with (someone or something)
1. To intrigue or enthrall one. I know you think plays are boring, but I've heard that the lead actress in this one is fantastic and just carries the audience along with her.
2. To keep something in one's possession. I always carry a pen and paper along with me in case I get an idea for a song when I'm away from home.
3. To physically move someone or something. The lifeguard rescued Dan after he was carried along with the current.
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|Mission 2-12: Suburbs Strip Club
Over in the Misty Lane district is a strip club called Technically Legal. One of the girls there has complained that the Ronin are ignoring the no-touching rule, and the bouncers have been bribed to look the other way. It's the Saints to the rescue!
This one has two parts. The first is absolutely pure action, where you just shoot up everyone wearing yellow in the club. Head upstairs to the private rooms to finish them off and trigger the second part of the mission, which puts you on the roof. Thirteen Ronin members will come by as reinforcements, and you've got to take them out. If you're feeling brave, you can hop down to the smaller roof, then hop down again to the ground level and cut them down. Alternatively, you can walk through the strip club again and go outside. Either way, shred your enemies, and you'll take the hood.
|Mission 2-13: Humbolt Park Science Museum
Over in the Humbolt Park hood is the Science Museum, which contains several servers owned by the Ronin.
This one is another all-action mission. Bust into the museum, climb the stairs, and shoot up the servers. A helicopter arrives as backup, and you'll need to fight your way back out of the museum to hit it. Once outside, shoot it down, and you'll get the hood.
|Mission 2-14: Amberbrook Museum Pier
The final Ronin stronghold mission puts you in the Amberbrook hood, and you need to take down several groups of Ronin members from a distance. After accepting the mission, go into the building directly in front of you, and pick up the sniper rifle. Exit out the back door, and get ready to fight.
Ronin members will come in from all directions, but they're only backup. Let your followers take them out (unless you're feeling particularly bloodthirsty), and fight your way across the street to the railing. Whip out the rifle, zoom in with the indicated buttons, and cap your targets down in the amphitheatre. If you're having trouble, you can always just run in and take them out personally rather than bother with the rifle.
The next area you need to get to is past the amphitheatre, so you may want to jack a car to get there faster. The next group of targets are up on a museum elevated far above street level. To get there, circle around on the road to the east side of the building, and you'll see a set of streets that will get you up to the baddies.
Take 'em all out, then head back down to the street. (Don't jump off as you won't survive it... trust me, I know from personal experience.) Grab your car, drive north, and hop out once you get to the docks. Here, you'll have to destroy five Ronin boats total at two different docks.
You don't necessarily have to hop down to the docks to destroy the boats, but you may want to simply because it will be harder for the reinforcements to get to you.
With all the Ronin strongholds defeated, there's only one more step to take to eliminate them entirely... Be sure to load up on SMG and/or assault rifle ammo for this one, as well as four burgers from Freckle Bitch's!
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We at The Baltimore Sun Media Group dedicate this Breast Cancer Awareness month issue to our former editor, Mary J. Corey, who lost her long battle with the disease in February at the age of 49. As someone who fought the disease so courageously, Mary took a special interest in this annual section, including writing an essay two years ago where she shared her oncologist's advice: "Act and live hopefully. The rest will follow."
As we produced the section this year without Mary, we missed her thoughtful input and insight into what it means to live with this disease. With this issue, we remember her terrific spirit, her gentle laugh and her unending push for quality journalism at The Sun during her 26-year career here.
Mary was the first and only woman to head The Sun's newsroom in its 176-year history. In her honor, and in recognition of her nurturing spirit, we have created the Mary J. Corey Journalism Internship to help aspiring journalists. We currently are accepting applications and the first recipient will work in our newsroom this summer.
Like so many women who have left us too soon, Mary attacked her disease on many fronts. And she held a particular interest in ensuring that The Sun's readers were informed about breast cancer, its treatments, the latest research developments and issues surrounding the disease. We hope you find this section informative and thought-provoking. That's what Mary would have wanted.
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There is no sarcasm or pretense in Bonnie Clearwater's voice when she describes the pair of exhibitions opening at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale as "Basel bait."
The museum's new curator is referring to Art Basel, the tourism tornado that barrels through Miami-Dade County every December, and how exhibits such as "Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design," opening Saturday, Oct. 12, and "Roman Vishniac Rediscovered," opening Oct. 19, should pull a few highbrow art collectors across the county line.
"I think that the timing is great, and in the international art world, lots of people coming from [the Basel art fair] Design Miami have told me they're coming. We're promoting these two heavily," says Clearwater, who for 18 years was the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami. "Innovative design and architecture are a niche we can provide at the museum. It's a conversation worth having."
"Against the Grain" and "Roman Vishniac Rediscovered" are worth talking about. The first exhibit, composed of roughly 90 works, compresses more woodworking marvels into the museum's main gallery than an IKEA showroom. The choice to devote an entire exhibition to wood, an abundant art material "dating back to the cavemen," both appealed to and daunted curator Lowery Stokes Sims, who felt inspired after hearing sculptor Martin Puryear lecture at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
"Martin talked about the practice of sculptors having their own works prefabricated in a factory, as opposed to being more do-it-yourself. I liked the do-it-yourselfers," says Sims, curator of New York's Museum of Arts and Design, in a phone interview. "So then, I thought, 'Well, do I want to start with 20th century modernism, when woodworks turned away from all those fussy Victorian sensibilities. Or did I want to start with the year 2000, where wood artists began playing with utility and the notion of what pure sculpture is, the idea that the wood presents itself as one thing and masquerades as another?' "
"Against the Grain" is a whimsical and design-driven blend of the latter, featuring 57 top-drawer artists such as Ai Weiwei and Willie Cole, renowned sculptors in Ursula von Rydingsvard and Puryear. Cherry-picking through hundreds of contemporary wood artists to assemble the show proved less difficult to Sims than naming the exhibit.
"We thought of 'Philosophy of Wood,' which sounded weird, and then all the naughty puns on wood you can think of. We just went whole hog," Sims says with a laugh. "Then, we thought of hipster, cool, rap things we could do. And then, we hit on 'Against the Grain,' which is every cliche we wanted to avoid. But it made sense, because the show is nothing if not a pastiche of parody."
Sims is hardly joking, and a recent tour of the museum revealed wood creations both comical and mischievous. There is Mark Moskovitz's "Facecord," a dresser that resembles an innocuous stack of firewood when its drawers are shut; Thomas Loeser's near-unpronounceable, Tim Burton-esque dual-purpose-chair "LadderbackkcabreddaL," which begins as a rocking chair that can be turned over to form a dining seat; Yufa Ushida's "Sofa_XXXX," a latticework of 8,000 matchsticks that contracts into a chair and expands into an elegant sofa; and Cuban-born Maria Elena Gonzalez's "Skowhegan" series, in which birch strips are scanned into a computer and turned into musical patterns on rolls for player pianos.
The museum's upstairs gallery will carry the unrelated "Roman Vishniac Rediscovered," a display of 160 photographs, letters, contact sheets and post cards created by the late Russian-Jewish photographer, best-known for social documentary shots that charted the ominous rise of Nazism in Germany before WWII. Many are haunting and elegiac, documenting downtrodden Jewish villages in Berlin between 1933 and 1938, snapped when Vishniac worked for the relief organization American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Curator Maya Benton, whose International Center of Photography in New York loaned the Museum of Art the exhibit, says Vishniac shot street scenes in impoverished cities and market towns of Eastern Europe to provoke empathy, the same way Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans captured Great Depression-era poverty back in America.
"He wanted the images to resonate, and sometimes he would embellish history with the power of the photograph to effect social change," Benton says. "This isn't a justification. It's the context of what many social documentary photographers did throughout history. He wanted to capture the faces of a community he knew would ultimately perish."
A decade in the making, the show was built by Benton and Vishniac's daughter, Mara. The two hit it off in 2001, when Benton explained that her grandparents were Yiddish-speaking immigrants and Holocaust survivors. Although Vishniac's street images would be used by Steven Spielberg to inspire the Oscar-winning cinematography for "Schindler's List," the curators wanted to debunk the idea that Vishniac was strictly a photographer of anti-Semitic unrest in a pre-Holocaust world.
Benton and Vishniac's daughter pared down an archive of 30,000 artifacts, including 15,000 prints and 10,000 negatives largely unpublished before the photographer died in 1990. There are stark depictions of Jewish children wandering cobblestone courtyards in Berlin, anti-Semitic demonstrations by Polish right-wing nationalists and even solitary shots of a young Mara, shown against a backdrop of election posters bearing the portrait of a just-elected Adolf Hitler. But the exhibit also shows Vishniac's little-known later career, which features images of Jewish immigrants arriving in America, Berlin's postwar ruins and, later still, his fascination with American nightclubs and scientific microorganisms.
"He wasn't just a four-year photographer," Benton says. "He was much more accomplished in the 20th century than people realize, and he had a really long life reinventing his aesthetic."
Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design and Roman Vishniac Rediscovered
When: "Against the Grain" opens Saturday, Oct. 12 (reception: 6-8:30 p.m. Saturday, includes lecture by Lowery Stokes Sims); "Roman Vishniac" opens Saturday, Oct. 19
Where: Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, 1 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Cost: $5-$10
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The all-new Miramar Class A motorhome is heating up the market with a full basement design, according to a press release.
"It is exciting to bring to the market a new premium gas Class A motorhome. Many consumers are looking for luxury accommodations in 32- to 36-foot models and this new Miramar really delivers," said Joel Grimm, national sales manager for gas motorhomes.
The Miramar features four floorplans with designs and sleeping accommodations to "fit a consumer's needs," according to Grimm. An HD-MAX exterior with partial paint design is the standard finish, while full-body paint packages are optional. A wide open basement structure allows for multiple pass-through storage areas.
The Miramar is built on Ford F53 chassis supported by 22 1/2-inch tires and a 22,000-pound GVWR. A highly stylized front cap complete with LED accent lighting around the headlights sets off the front of the coach while the rear cap has an integrated fuel fill, allowing access from either side of the coach. High-mounted, halogen spot lights are also mounted in the rear to better illuminate surroundings in low light.
Other premium features on the Miramar include a three-camera monitoring system, power patio awning and 100-gallon fresh water tank.
The Miramar interior offers rich furniture fabrics while residential vinyl covers the entire floor of the coach for easy cleaning. Other features include two-tone furniture, blackout roller shades and an optional drop-down overhead bunk that increases sleeping space and stores out of sight when not in use. All floorplans feature the Denver Mattress sleep system with king-size beds in select models.
The galley is equipped with a solid-surface countertop, 30-inch over-the-range microwave and residential Whirlpool refrigerator. An 1800-watt inverter powers the refrigerator while the automatic generator start will fire up the Onan 5,500-watt generator if battery power runs low.
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BATON ROUGE – Two-time All-Southeastern Conference player Johnny O'Bryant III of LSU, who was taken with the 36th pick in the recent 2014 NBA Draft, makes his professional debut Friday night for the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.
O'Bryant III, from Cleveland, Miss., who completed his junior season at LSU, will begin with a Friday 7 p.m. CT game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, while the Bucks will also play Sunday at 9 p.m. CT against Phoenix and at 9:30 p.m. CT Monday against Utah. From there, the Summer League will go into a bracket competition beginning Tuesday to determine a Summer League champion.
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For Morningstar, efficiency and productivity are an organization-wide focus. When frequent issues undermined the performance of its monitoring systems, workflow, and automation tools, the company decided to move its SaaS applications to a private cloud. In this way, Morningstar could increase its own efficiency while enabling greater reliability and a better experience for its customers. Internally, an automated approach to service provisioning would help its developers build, test, and deliver new solutions more quickly at higher quality.
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Federal agents said they anticipated more attempts of illegal drug smuggling along San Diego's coastline after the recent discovery of a border "super tunnel" and on Friday, that prediction appeared to prove true.
The U.S. Border Patrol agents confiscated 878 pounds of marijuana from a panga boat spotted off Torrey Pines State Beach north of San Diego around 3 a.m. Friday.
A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Blackhawk helicopter helped sea-bound agents intercept the panga as it came ashore around 4 a.m. near 7th Street in Del Mar.
Inside, they discovered 41 bundles of marijuana with an estimated street value of $526,000. As the agents searched the area, they also found one box truck and another vehicle associated with the smuggling.
Ten people were arrested and taken to the Border Patrol station for processing. The drugs, panga and vehicles were turned over to the CBP's Office of Air and Marine.
Pangas are often used to smuggle illegal drugs and undocumented immigrants into the U.S. because of the number of them in Mexico and the boat's low draw in the water, making it difficult to spot from shore.
Earlier in the week, CBP predicted there would be more seaside smuggling following the recent discovery of a border tunnel linking an Otay Mesa warehouse with a similar warehouse in Tijuana.
Read: Go Inside Super Tunnel at U.S./Mexico Border
While federal officials haven't provided any confirmed information on the contents of the panga discovered Friday, workers could be seen offloading large blocks of goods that appeared to be wrapped in plastic.
The tunnel found near Drucker Lane in Otay Mesa stretched a third of a mile and was 35 feet underground.
Agents found more than eight tons of marijuana and 325 pounds of cocaine inside the tunnel, according to ICE.
Court documents obtained by NBC 7 show the group that built the tunnel stored illegal drugs in a Chula Vista warehouse almost 10 miles away.


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The site has clear, reliable information about medicines and your body, taking medications safely, and research to develop tomorrow's medicines. People age 65 and older take more prescription and over-the-counter medicines than any other age group. Older people as a group tend to have more long-term, chronic illnesses such as arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.
"Many older Americans owe their health in part to new and improved medicines, but using them may be riskier for older adults, especially when several medicines are used at one time," says Jeremy M. Berg, Ph.D., director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), which developed the content for the safe use of medicines topic on the Web site. "To help avoid risk, older Americans now can turn to NIHSeniorHealth for accurate, helpful information about how to take medicines safely and manage them wisely."
One of the fastest growing age groups using the Internet, older Americans increasingly turn to the World Wide Web for health information. In fact, 66 percent of "wired" seniors surf for health and medical information when they go online. NIHSeniorHealth, a joint effort of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM), was designed especially with seniors in mind. The senior-friendly site is based on the latest research on cognition and aging. It features short, easy-to-read segments of information that can be accessed in a variety of formats, including various large-print type sizes, open-captioned videos, and even a talking version. Additional topics coming soon to the site include shingles, problems with taste and smell, eye diseases, stroke, and osteoporosis. The site links to MedlinePlus, NLM's premier, more detailed site for consumer health information.
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text: Jazz Trumpeter Sean Jones as special guest with the Conrad Johnson Orchestra comes to Houston to set the jazz scene on fire! Jones is considered among the most expressive, versatile and gifted players of his generation. The Conrad Johnson Orchestra, under the leadership of Music Director James Williams, embodies the spirit and vision of the late jazz great Conrad "Prof" Johnson. Prof's music style contributed to Houston's rich musical heritage and continues to influence the Bayou City's Big Band Jazz sound.


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Mannish is a term used to refer to the languages of Men, as opposed to the Elvish tongues, or those of the other races of Middle-earth. By far the most prominent Mannish language was Westron.
Languages of Men started in Hildórien. When the Edain divided to migrate to the west. The groups that would eventually be known as House of Bëor and House of Marach, used one language. The third tribe, that wold be later known as the House of Haleth, used an unrelated tongue.
During the march, the tribes left behind various descendants in Eriador who continued their languages. In Beleriand the House of Beor quickly adopted Sindarin. However the language of Hador retained and was influenced by Khuzdul.[1]
The language of the House of Hador during the Second Age evolved into Adûnaic.[2] Meanwhile the descendants of the First Age in the Westlands became the Éothéod from whom ultimately derives the Rohirric language. The language of the House of Haleth also left descendants that were known as Pre-Númenórean languages.[3][4]
Early Adûnaic mingled with many words of the languages of lesser men and became a Common Speech that spread thence along the coasts among all that had dealings with Westernesse[4].
After the Downfall, the faithful considered Sindarin their mother tongue and used the Common Speech in their dealings with other folk and in the government of their wide realms; but they enlarged the language and enriched it with many words drawn from the Elven-tongues.[4]
- Languages of the First and Third Houses of the Atanatári
- Taliska (two dialects; Beor and Hador)
- Languages of Middle Men of Eriador during the Second Age
- Languages of Northmen
- Language of the Second House of the Atanatári (see Pre-Númenórean)
- Haladin language
- Dunlendish
- Drûg languages
- Language of the Drúedain of Brethil
- Language of the Woses of Drúadan Forest
- Many Haradric languages
- Many tongues of Easterlings
Tolkien used real-life languages and names to present Mannish. The most known example is Westron, which is always replaced with modern English.
This logic went one step further by also presenting all languages akin to Westron in languages related to English, so that their "understandability" by the protagonists is simulated to the English reader. Since English belongs to the Germanic family, most names Tolkien used are Germanic (Norse, Gothic, et cetera) with some Celtic exceptions.
- Ancient names related to Rhovanion (such as "Vidugavia") are Gothic,' indicating a relationship to Dalish but not recognizable by Westron.
- Rohirric, the language of the Rohirrim was replaced by Old English, as Rohirric is an archaic relative of Westron, much as Anglo-Saxon is an archaic relative of English;
- The Dalish, the tongue of Dale (from which came the names of the Dwarves of Durin's Folk), was translated into Old Norse, a language related to Anglo-Saxon and modern English as Dalish was related to Rohirric and Westron;
- The hobbitish names of the Stoors, Buckland as well as some Bree-land names are Celtic;
Mannish languages unrelated to Westron that sounded alien to the protagonists (such as Dunlendish), were left in their "genuine" form.
External links
- Helge Fauskanger, "Various Mannish languages", Ardalambion
- Andreas Möhn, "Etymologies of Atani languages", Lalaith's Science Pages
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "Of Dwarves and Men"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Sauron Defeated, "Part Two: The Notion Club Papers"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The Drúedain"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix F


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Madonna: 'MDNA' Tour in Tel Aviv!
Madonna kicks off her MDNA world tour with a concert at Ramat Gan Stadium on Thursday (May 31) in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The 53-year-old entertainer "emerged on stage in a confessional, breaking through its glass window using a rifle, which she then aimed at the audience. She wore a skin-tight black outfit to sing her first song, 'Girl Gone Wild,' accompanied by dancers dressed as monks," the Associated Press reports.
Madonna then sang "Give Me All Your Luvin'" followed by a mash-up of "Express Yourself" and Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" wearing a marching band conductor's uniform.
At one point, Madonna, who also rocked several different looks, wrapped herself in an Israeli flag and called the country the "energy center of the world."
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Miniature microscope can improve disease detection, diagnosis and treatment
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Miniature microscope can improve disease detection, diagnosis and treatment
November 3, 2009
New imaging technology using one of the world's smallest flexible microscopes enables physicians to look--at the cellular level--at living, moving tissue in the lungs and gastrointestinal tract so they can make a rapid diagnosis or carefully select tissue for biopsy.
With the probe-based, confocal, laser-endomicroscopy system known as Cellvizio®, which is used through a standard endoscope or bronchoscope, University of Chicago physicians can examine tissue in the gastrointestinal tract or look deep into the lungs to examine and assess early stages of disease.
With magnification 500 to 1,000 times that of a standard scope and 10 to 50 times that of a magnifying scope, the Cellvizio system, one of about 40 in the United States, can help doctors distinguish between normal and cancerous tissue without taking samples. If they do need samples, the probe helps them collect exactly the tissue they need for a biopsy rather than extracting multiple samples from the general vicinity of suspected disease.
"Until now, if we found suspicious tissue during a diagnostic procedure, we had to take out tissue almost randomly and send it to a laboratory for analysis," said Irving Waxman, MD, professor of medicine and surgery at the University of Chicago, the first center in Illinois to use the system. "This meant that cancerous tissue could be missed."
"With this scope," said Waxman, "we can pinpoint abnormal tissue during the initial diagnostic exam, remove it, and then go back to be certain that we got what we needed."
The tiny microscope, produced by Mauna Kea Technologies of Paris, France, (known as Cellvizio in the U.S.) is approved by the Food & Drug Administration for use in the gastrointestinal tract and lungs. It consists of a laser light system coupled with a miniprobe made of tens of thousands of individual optical fibers capped by microlenses. The scope is only 2.5 mm in diameter, small enough to pass through accessory channels on most standard GI or pulmonary scopes. Specialists worldwide have used the device for more than 3,000 procedures to date.
The tiny flexible device is inserted through a channel in a standard scope. The tip is placed on the tissue to be examined. It sends back 12 high-resolution video images per second. By adjusting the focus, the probe can also provide clear, detailed images of tissue slightly beneath the surface.
Recent studies have demonstrated the value of the technology in multiple areas. "We currently use it to identify precancerous areas in Barrett's esophagus (the major risk factor for esophageal cancer) for improved detection and targeting of minimally invasive endoscopic therapy," said Vani Konda, MD, instructor of medicine at the University of Chicago. "The technology can also be applied in the colon, bile duct and pancreas to try to differentiate cancer from inflammatory (benign) disorders."
The microscope does a good job of catching early cancers and diagnosing them immediately, without having to wait for a pathology report, according to Mauna Kea Chief Executive Sacha Loiseau. "It's especially useful in getting into tiny bile ducts," he adds.
"Detailed microscopic images of the esophagus or the bile ducts can help us reduce the risk of biopsy-related complications," said Waxman. "By identifying in vivo the area of interest we can move right then to follow with a therapeutic application."
"The tiny miniprobe can also be inserted through the bronchoscope and extended well into the lungs, even to the smaller branches of the bronchial tree," said pulmonologist Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP, assistant professor of medicine and director of bronchoscopy at the University of Chicago. "Better visualization could help us perform fewer, more-targeted biopsies," he said. "It lets us examine and sample tissues that were previously inaccessible without surgery."


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Seib & Wessel: Bumpy Road for China, World Economy
WSJ's David Wessel says the world economy remains bumpy and China's recent slowdown deserves a close look - and Europe is still problematic. Plus, WSJ's Kristina Peterson on how the economy is impacting Washington's budget talks.
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the ... meanwhile ... while the rest the world to chug along rest the world economy to chug along but not all that well ... the World Bank said the this week ... and ... the NSF my Lesotho is the time of year when the central bankers Foreign Minister small welcome to Washington International Monetary Fund as its updated the world economy ... and ... if you read the headline was ... deep sigh of relief ... we don't seem to be on the edge of catastrophe right now so that these days that passes for good news for the bad news is that they say the recovery's going to be ... bumpy ... and some of those bombs of the party has been has ... been a DVD of ... the debate oriented be conversational be about Europe ... I'm ... today every time they seem to be getting their act together ... they can come right up to ... doing something and then ... there's somewhat of a reason why they can't do it ... House of the Chinese saying you know folks to read or not grow at ten percent a year forever and were slowing down Rex Nutting Now absolutely ... and it is a lot of concern ... that some of the China slowing because that was inevitable particularly of ... China slowing in the right way ... less dependent on exports less dependent on building factories ... in industries that Ardi have overcapacity ... will more effort to get the quality of life for their people ... the thing is that China is an enormous economy that still to some extent ... has some central planning aspects to it ... I think anybody's for a company that they can actually control ... and it's so easy to get into too much or too little and end up with ... you know of credit exposure like we had the economy slows there's little congrats so that's why people ... than men this makes the budget debate during users as of this column was always at a budget box there would be open for a half percent annual growth of the lost revenues and a small similar these are but ... that's not gonna happen anytime soon were stuffed with stock with tough budget choices for a while ... yet and it ... just seems like you did and ... we actually had a little bit of a pond and the budget debate and the Senate ... no more on around the guy next year and now will be interesting to see if immigration and overtakes the Budget Sheila on and when we come back around if it's you know ... well before we had the next ten ceiling deadline are are not paved the way to carry you may be easier than Pluto because a ... the case for doing budget tightening now that we hear an address to the world is weaker than expected so ... and secondly ... the side effect of this is that the ... yield on Treasury bonds is very low ... whenever something goes wrong the world people buy Treasury bonds ... so even though we have this is a ten dollar federal debt and even though there seems to be very little prospect ... of a long-term budget deal ... the ten year Treasury's one point seven percent meant as a smaller arena when it was not even implicit in what the IMF said this week the sort of said ... a little too much austerity not enough growth in this world economy right now which is a buyer words the the third ring in a proper bomb is yours so ... don't look it was a ... bit ... couldn't ask for more ... a better endorsement is when ... it is a visit to the U S ... less austerity now ... for our plan for austerity ... it's so next week will be back in the budget question and back at the immigration question ... will be talking to are all here on side less oil add the beest dot com hope you can join us in the meantime you can turn the conversation on Twitter at WSJ online ... on Jerry Sithe ...


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Hi does anybody no how many tail feathers Dolapci officially have cheers.
Adana Man wrote:Great to hear Kurt i to had a brilliant Christmas also, my daughter will be 3 in May so this was her 1st Christmas she actually knew what was happening
Adana Man wrote:Thanks for the information on the eye colour i have only bred 2 young from the yellow eyed hen which also fly and perform very well i have not seen any of the faults you list in the 9 faulty moves but will no longer breed from the hen or her offspring.
I will just fly them and concentrate on the other birds, i was suspicious of the hen when i got her i could tell she was slightly different.
Adana Man wrote:I'm not 100% sure what Dolapci are supposed to do when they fly, but mine sure put on a show and fly very very high, ive seen them go beyond dots and vanish only to return spiraling down at great speeds with wings outstretched like airplanes ive also seen the odd bird spiraling what seems like out of control maybe 300 yards away from the loft and vanish into the houses only to reappear having not crashed. These birds are very entertaining for sure and i enjoy them very much i dont no of any dolpaci breeders in the UK so i cant compare my birds to any others but i will be visiting Germany in the new year and hope to see some birds fly.
Ive just read this after my post ive copyed it from your article...
This can be described like a long and wide spiral dive. It will show its spin as a response to dropper while flying in low or medium altitudes or if flying in high altitudes with out any dropper by it self. If shown a dropper while flying high it will respond with a loose but rapid and very long spiral dive. Even at these altitudes, air ripping sound it creates can be heard easily. It is most characteristic dives are done in the "sarkma" (90 degrees to ground) style and always with its wings completely open.
This is exactly what i have seen the birds do wide spirrals all the way down and very fast with the woossshhing sounds. Ive seen the old cock do this away from the loft giving me a full side view its amazing to see. Its like he enjoys doing it for his own pleasure.
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That's great news -- and lovely to see him enjoying a chew. I'm glad you were able to correctly identify what was happening and fingers crossed the treatment goes well and he will eventually be off the steroids or on to a very low maintenance dose.
That's great news -- and lovely to see him enjoying a chew. I'm glad you were able to correctly identify what was happening and fingers crossed the treatment goes well and he will eventually be off the steroids or on to a very low maintenance dose.
Cavaliers: Tansy : Mindy Connie Roxy Neasa Gus
In memory: My beautiful Jaspar Lucy Leo Lily Libby
One thought: you might try giving some probiotic yoghurt just before (like, 20-30 minutes) he gets his prednisone (maybe 1-2 tablespoons). Prednisone can cause stomach upset. Many of us who have been on steroids and share info about it have found yoghurt helps. Alternatively, something like omeprazole or cimetidine -- used for stomach upset -- about 20-30 minutes before. These are both used for cavaliers with syringomyelia. Sometimes omeprazole itself causes nausea in some dogs, but that's fairly unusual.
Is the prednisone enteric-coated (eg covered in a coating that prevents it being absorbed immediately in the stomach)? Enteric preds are generally tolerated a lot better and are easier on the stomach. Perhaps they would not dissolve within the right time in a dog's stomach as opposed to a human's, but it is just a thought.
Of course, check with your vet about using any of these things first (expect yoghurt -- unless he isn't allowed to eat dairy).
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Kate: I would love to offer the picture of Butters and the roses to Cavalier Matters. Let me know how I might go about that The only reason I didn't enter it for the calendar was it is in portrait format and not landscape
In terms of an update on Butters, last week was a pretty rough week. After further investigation into the best treatment for Butters' MMM, our vet decided that he should be on 10mg prednisone BID instead of daily in order to get him into the immunosuppressive range of therapy. Last week, Butters became terribly nauseous with the increase in dose. Our vet recommended famotidine and ondansetron as an initial attempt to get the nausea under control. We also tried the yogurt before meals, as Karlin recommended. However, from Mon to Fri, he progressed to dry-heaving with his stomach audibly gurgling continuously throughout the day. He still was holding down all of his meals, but clearly was not at all comfortable. This past Fri night, his symptoms became so terrible that he sat at the edge of the bed all night long, refusing to lie down because he was so nauseous in that position.
We took another trip to the vet on Sat to get this under control. Even though he has not been vomiting, he has lost 2 pounds since his diagnosis (likely from the added muscle wasting from the prednisone). He received an anti-emetic shot while in the office, and was started on a more heavy-duty belly protocol to help mitigate the side effects from the prednisone. We received several additional medications to try to get his nausea and acid reflux under control. Butters is now switched over from famotidine to omeprazole daily for his acid reflux. He is on sucralfate twice a day to coat and protect his stomach. Briefly, he will be on Cerenia daily (no more than 5 days on before he has to go off of it for at least 2 days) for the nausea. He was continued on ondansetron as needed for breakthrough nausea. We have been doing this in addition to his 10mg of prednisone twice daily, and are still giving him the yogurt before his meals.
Since he started this on Sat, he has been doing so much better. He finally was able to sleep after the vet visit, and no longer is having any evidence of nausea. We really have not needed ondansetron at all for breakthrough nausea. He is so much more comfortable. His energy level has increased, and yesterday we found him chewing a bone that he had taken out of his doggie bed.
My vet consulted with a specialist this week, with the recommendation to consider reducing the prednisone and adding on either azathioprine or cyclosporin for immunosuppression if he cannot tolerate the prednisone at its present dose. At this point, he has been doing so well now that we have the nausea under control. We have decided to try to pull him off of the Cerenia in the next couple of days and see how he does on the remaining regimen (the other medications are helpful anyways to protect his tummy from the prednisone). The other immunosuppressive drugs have their own host of side effects as well. Plus, he likely will only have to be on this pred dose another 2-3 weeks, assuming his blood tests at his follow-up visit confirm that the disease has responded to the treatment. We know that he better tolerates the lower dose, so we are reluctant to add on another drug at this point.
It continues to be an up and down battle, but we still are hopeful. His positive response in the chewing department give us hope that the antibodies are being eliminated and he will have a good long-term prognosis. Potentially, he could be off medications completely if we do it right the first time and get him into full remission. We will have to just wait and see.
Mommy to Butters (06/18/2011-4/20/2013) and Sawyer (6/08/2013)
You must be counting pills and measuring doses in your sleep! You could contact Tania Ledger via the Cavalier Matters website re the picture of Butters and the roses, or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com and attach the picture.
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I want to warn readers that this will be a difficult post to absorb... even writing it through the tears has been a difficult process for myself
I have to say I have been reluctant to post, because I have just been hoping and hoping for something positive to hold onto and report since my last post a month ago. But, I am sitting here 9 months pregnant with my terribly sick guy resting his head on my belly, feeling just awful for all of us. My husband is suffering too with the events for Butters of the last few weeks. I feel I need to write things down instead of continuing to focus on it between just the two of us.
Since my last post, Butters has had just a terrible time with the prednisone. Even with the medication combinations for his tummy (to include Cerenia, Pepsid, Omeprazole, Zofran, Sucralfate) and trying him on a variety of bland diets (we have tried many variations of recommend chemotherapy diets with combinations of chicken, rice, mixed veggies, etc), he has continued to be just terribly sick. There are nights, especially for the 2 nights a week he is off his Cerenia to keep him from becoming immune to its effects, that he is literally up all night gagging with nausea and spitting up. There are many nights that I stay up all night, just trying to hold and comfort him, because he is shaking so badly with his symptoms from the tummy discomfort.
Two weeks ago, we made the transition to cyclosporine to try and more quickly taper the prednisone, on recommendation from the specialist. This allowed us last week to go from giving him 20mg of prednisone a day to 15. However, with the cyclosporine, he now has had on and off severe diarrhea in addition to the continued nausea and tummy upset. We already have had one emergency vet visit, after he started to have blood in the stool. His labwork looked ok, and he did a bit better for a while with an improvement to just soft stools. But, today the diarrhea came back full force. I had left him in his ex-pen to run to the store for some groceries, and came back with him just covered in it. The nausea has also seemed to be worse, not better. Now, even the relief from the Cerenia seems to be waning. The days on the medicine are looking more like the terrible days off... pretty much continuous salivation, nausea, and tummy gurgling.
The hardest part has been seeing how he has been changing with the terrible side effects of this regimen. My husband and I cry together because it feels like we are slowly watching him die. He no longer can jump up on the couch or bed (even has trouble with the little stairs we got for him) because he has lost so much muscle. Food, something that he used to enjoy so much, now is starting to not interest him at all, as there are more and more foods that come off the list of his interests (today, his all-time favorite - peanut butter - was crossed off the list too). He has no interest in playing or toys. The crate, which used to be his safe place, is turning into a place he dreads. All of the special moments that we have shared with him seem to slowly be slipping away, as the things he used to enjoy no longer give him satisfaction. Even cuddling, his all-time favorite activity, seems to be becoming difficult. The little spot he used to snuggle between my husband and I now is too hard for him to get into, as it makes it hard for him to quickly get up when he has a bout of nausea come on. He still wants to be close to us, but he finds it is easier for him to go to the end of the couch where he can quickly get up than snuggle up too closely. Our friends have been amazing at helping us with Butters, continuing to help us watch him during the day during this difficult time. But we are starting to question if it is fair for him. That little spark in his eyes is starting to fade. How much longer can he and we live like this? Will it ever get better?
The only thing that has kept us going these last few weeks were the positive test results, with the positive response from his jaw, that he received last visit. He had regained 50-75% of jaw function, with his CK now down to 400 instead of 16,000 and his antibodies 1/100 (borderline positive for the disease) down from the highest reading >1/1000.
The hardest part about this experience is the dilemma we are in at this moment. If we stop treatment, he will most certainly relapse (he is not yet in remission) and will be guaranteed death at his young age of a year and a half, as his jaws will rapidly begin to no longer function. If we continue treatment, it is quite possible that we will slowly watch him die, bit by bit, in front of our eyes... painfully seeing all the things we have grown to love about this amazing little dog continue to torturously slip away. I just want more than anything our son to grow up with special little dog... to know and love him the way that we do.
My husband and I are both physicians, so we are used to dealing with difficult life and death issues. We are used to helping families make hard decisions, and being faced with terrible dilemmas. We have stood with families as they fight terrible illnesses, and sat with others as they decide the time is to rest and no longer battle. We haven't yet been able to find the right answer for our Butters
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Oh my................I don't even have words to tell you how sorry I am to read this update. I have no advice no opinion about what I would do if I was in your shoes. You and your husband are Butters' parents and I trust you can and will do what is right for you and him. He's very lucky to have such good parents who are working as hard as possible to care for him, just think of other dogs going untreated or unloved in his condition.
Please keep us posted......Poor Butters, I hope his beautiful little body can rally and he starts feeling better soon.
"If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life."
-Roger Caras
I am so very sorry for what you are having to go through. I will keep all of you in my thoughts and hope for the best for Butters. After reading his good test results, is it possible that his symptoms get worse before they miraculously get better. I know when my husband was undergoing radiation for throat cancer, they took him to the brink of death, that was 13 years ago...just a thought.
Please keep us posted.
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I am just gutted and tearful on reading all this about poor young Butters. Life can be so awful sometimes, but how I admire you for the loving and devoted care that you are lavishing on your sweet young boy. I can only watch and feel your pain with you. You are, as before, in my thoughts and prayers.
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I am so sorry you are having to deal with this. I can only say that I hope and pray that Butters will show an improvement. You and your husband are doing an amazing job taking care of him and he is so lucky to have you both.
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Turns out not every bride wants to look dreamy and frothy like a cupcake on her wedding day.
While strapless gowns, princess ball gowns and an abundance of material were on display during the past spring and fall bridal runway shows, some designers threw in nontraditional looks for the iconoclastic bride. Oscar de la Renta outfitted his models in skinny pants and a fur vest for rocker chic. Another model on his runway paraded a silk embroidered peasant blouse and a silk floral brocade skirt, fit for a girly prairie aesthetic. Melissa Sweet showcased an ultra-short sheath in tiered feathers for the sassy bride.
Retailers say the looks are pushing the bridal gown envelope into a more modern direction.
"We're less fussy," says Michelle Depoali, owner of Swoon … A Bridal Salon in Reno, Nev., which carries Amy Kuschel, Lazaro and Ivy & Aster. "I sold a lace pantsuit to a bride three years ago. They're not typical good girls. They want something sexier, interesting and edgy."
Whether retailers will bite on the looks is up for debate, but they say the avant-garde styles do serve a purpose.
"We're here to show an edited selection of great things out there," Depoali says. "We want artful, fashion-forward pieces to give our stores flavor and to show brides possibilities."
Melissa Albert, owner of Belltown Bride in Seattle, Wash., who is still sussing out her buys for the 2012 season, agrees that the looks are "fun to have in the shop," but can border on the costumey. She plans to spring for a Jane Wang gown with a detachable skirt and colorful sequins.
Some bridal observers say the unexpected looks can suit certain weddings. A bold bride may have no problem wearing Oscar de la Renta's floral silk caftan over a floral embroidered bikini for a beach wedding. A more whimsical bride would feel comfortable in the vintage-inspired gowns from BHLDN. But, the jury is deadlocked on the fall 2012 collection of Vera Wang. The designer of Kim Kardashian's wedding gown spun a web of bewitching fashions for some and perhaps, macabre, for others depending on the eye of the beholder. Her mostly black and nude dresses, with asymmetrical draping, unusual laddering details and dramatic and often raw-edged hems, worn by models styled with pale make-up and loose, indistinctive hair may have challenged the notion of a picture-perfect innocent bride. "I thought the Vera Wang show was a bit bizarre," Depoali says.
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Rachel Weisz & Darren Aronofsky Catch A Cab
Rachel Weisz and estranged partner, Darren Aronofsky hail a cab together on Thursday (February 17) in New York City.
The 40-year-old British actress and the 42-year-old director first announced their split back in November.
Rachel recently finished working with Daniel Craig in the upcoming mystery thriller Dream House, where they play an on-screen couple. They have since been spotted together frequently holding hands.
Earlier this week, Rachel spent Valentine's Day with Daniel at NYC hotspot The Box.