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I Just Love Some Log Cabins
I Just Love Some Log Cabins, the way they are nestled into the forest as though at some point they were just born right from the forest floor. They look so magical, so calming as if the land was never disrupted but instead the cabin happened organically to fulfill a dream. After the cabin came to life the foliage around continued to grow and the planter boxes on the front porch were seeded with geraniums as the wind blew. So much to be thankful for and sitting on the front porch of this cabin you will be reminded of so many of those blessings.
So you've decided to take the plunge, you know you love some log cabins but what features do you love, what items could you do without. It seems obvious to say, but serious considerations should be made regarding space management. While in the design stages do everything you can to facilitate conversations and gain insight into things that work and things that don't. There are many blogs online which will give helpful advice on not only living in a tiny house but ensuring your designing it appropriately. Living the tiny life is a huge change and it doesn't come without it's ups and downs. Let others influence your decisions by sharing their experiences.
As you embark on your adventure to embrace the tiny life, I'd like to make a few suggestions. First off, whether you live in a massive mansion or a teeny tiny house, your home should be a reflection of you. A tiny home is still a home and so you should decorate it as such. So take a moment to reflect upon your style and then let that be the basis for your new home. Around that style and those preference you can build a home that encompasses some tiny living features, but it all begins with being true to your style. Next, implement as many windows as possible, not only for natural light but also air movement. The addition of many windows can be a real sanity saver at certain times of the year. Thirdly, put your de-cluttering ambitions aside and create storage space in your new tiny house. No matter how good the intentions of downsizing you will need storage and a lack of storage can cause stress. Do it right the first time and you wont regret it. You'll never hear anyone complain they have too much storage, but if there isn't enough you'll here it at every family dinner, when you take Aunt Martha out to the pub, even walking through the grocery store.
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Explore the most popular nature trips trails near West Portsmouth with hand-curated trail maps and driving directions as well as detailed reviews and photos from hikers, campers and nature lovers like you.
The views was great, and the rocks are awesome!!
Absolutely amazing! Beautiful view! Highly recommend!
The climb was rough, and had to stop multiple times on the ascent (because I really don't hike often); but we made it! Be sure to take a walking stick, as it really helps. Also, I recommend wearing boots or old shoes, due to many mud patches.
The parking area is only enough space for 2, maybe 3, vehicles.
Another great trail to day hike to see the Spring wildflowers.l go out each Spring.
This was a nice hike for the mileage. If you start at the road as described, you basically have a decent hill climb, and then a ridge walk with moderate ups and downs. This was a good hike for getting in some longer miles without excessive elevation.
We put this loop together to take in the Copperhead Firetower and Camp 1 of the Backpack trail. Overall a scenic woods walk and not too steep. Several Creek crossings, and the bottom area of the bridle trail was a bit muddy. We startled a coyote just below the water source where the bridle trail and backpack trail meet. You could opt for more out and back instead of using the roads for a loop.
Completed the north and south loop in 4 days total. 40+ Miles all together. There is a lot of discrepancies between maps and mileage markers from camp to camp. Doing this is 4 days kicked our butts. Loved the challenge but 5-6 days would make the trip a little more enjoyable and less painful by the end. Definitely don't attempt to complete in 4 days if you aren't in decent shape. Just as the paper at the trailhead says, you will know just how in shape you are just a few hours into your hike. Beautiful views at all of the peaks, would definitely recommend.
This is a great hike to take in 2 great scenic spots in one day. There is a little more elevation gain on this route than some others, but it wasn't terrible. I look forward to doing this again in the future.
Great place! really enjoyed this place and can't wait to go back...
never a flat moment. topography changes every 20 feet. you're either walking up or down hill the whole time, steep inclines to. wild black berries around the 2.5 miles mark from the head. couple spots the trail was blocked by fallen trees and limbs. it down poured the whole 10 miles for us but we did it.
Christopher N. on Shawnee Trail
Backpacked with the Boy Scouts to prepare for our upcoming trip to Philmont. Started at Camp #3 and hiked up to Camp #1. This is a tough trail due to the elevation changes with no switchbacks. The trail after Camp #1 is currently closed due to logging activity. We chose to take the Rose Hollow Bridle trail back to the parking lot near Camp #3.
As mentioned below, this trail is a total of 40+ miles long. I started the north loop today (23 miles). Unfortunately I did not read this review until today, 12 miles into my hike. If I would have done so, I would have avoided the side trail as Matthew's review mentioned. I ended up on multiple trails, traveling about 6 miles out of the way.... But I'm really okay with that I guess. All part of the adventure. The trail has been a blast, campsites are great, water & latrine at each site. I haven't seen another person in 14 hours :)
Definitely not for first time hikers.
The trail in this app is trail head to camp 7 and back. After the first mile you follow the Buckeye Trail for the next 4 miles until you reach the camp. Overall a good challenging hike but not for a first timer.
Despite the description of Shawnee State Park as a 5.6 mile trail, it is far longer in reality. Depending on the configuration that you choose, you can either do one of the 20+ mile North or South loops, or a combined 45+ total loop. Additionally, the elevation change is significant (suggested by many to be the toughest terrain in Ohio) - over 5000 feet on the North loop alone.
My party completed the North loop over three days this past weekend. We had a great time - the placement of potable water stations and latrines near each campsite was a major luxury. The orange-blazed main trail is easy to follow, but be careful of the cutoff trail that bisects the North and South loop. The maps on the Shawnee park site, at the trailhead, and those at various sites (backpackohio.com, etc) are flat wrong - the day hike loop has been significantly rerouted recently, which added great confusion and mileage to that leg of our trip. We are contacting the park office about this omission, and hopefully they will update their maps soon. If anyone has any specific interest in this trail, I can provide much greater detail on how to stay on track. Just give me a shout.
Did it with the Boy Scouts. It kicked their butts, but it was a great learning experience. Awesome place to hear weird strange noises at night.
Tough trail.
did the 7.2 two weekends ago and loved it. not much to see but the water and the woods it is a great workout though.
This hike was interesting to say the least. Myself and two buddies hiked this trail last Fall and started late to do some night hiking which was pretty sweet. It doesn't take long to figure out this trail is intense though. All three of us are in good shape, but some of the climbs on this hike are ridiculous. There were sections where we would hike uphill for a solid 40 minute to finally get to the top and see absolutely nothing; then sure enough the trail was start to decline again then straight back up. This is how the entire trail is laid out so if you're okay with getting a good workout in, but not really having the opportunity to see anything then this trail might be for you. Definitely make sure to get water at each of the filling stations though!
Did the 7.2 mile day hike and it is a challenge but worth it.
I did a nine-mile portion of this trail yesterday ad I must say, despite how often I hike and how in shape I thought I was, this trail kicked my butt. It was all super-steep hills the entire way. I was disappointed that even with all the work I did to get high into the hills, there were very few overlooks and not much scenery. Overall, this trail would be very boring if it weren't for the physical challenge if presents. I would recommend it for those trying to train for something, but not for someone just looking for a fun, pretty hike.
Hiked the north loop yesterday all in one day and am in bed recovering today. I am used to putting in big miles but when they built this trail they had in mind to challenge the hiker as much as possible. Down one hill and start the next three hundred foot climb. There are three designated camps along this section, camp 1 on top a ridge and two and three along creeks. I would have enjoyed staying at camp 2 the most camp three is much the same along a creek but a busy road is only a hundred yards away. In my opinion there needs to be switchbacks cut into some of the hills, I pulled something in my knee coming down a very steep section right above camp 2. Be sure to have some creek shoes for the multiple stream crossings
Did the North Loop with 9 yr old son last spring our first backpacking trip together. Was a difficult trip but very enjoyable at the same time lots of straight ups and downs and only a couple of veiws, but well worth the trip. Stayed at camp 1 and camp 3. Camp 1 was well secluded but camp 3 was right on the road. Woke up to rain on our hike out of camp 3, the trail had become very saturated and slick so we took the shortcut to the road after hiking in the rain for about an hour.
I did The North Loop two years ago. It was a challenging and fun climb. Campsite are spread out so you need to be prepared to walk for hours.
Did the north trail in early oct'11. Changeling climb up and down the whole trail. The fire tower was the highlight of the trip. No other good look out points the entire trail. 1st water supply was over a mile away from campsite A.
Campsite C is within 50yards of a paved well traveled rd. we found another campsite up the hill that was perfect.
If you want a hard hike in the woods it a great trail. If you like lite hike with lots of look out points and no rock formations.

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As a 501(c)3 public benefit corporation, the ALA Foundation provides a way for individuals and corporations to support the American Legion Auxiliary's charitable and educational outreach programs through endowed gifts, grants and sponsorships. It is a way to secure our legacy and heritage of Service Not Self, ultimately enhancing the quality of life for future generations of veterans, military and their families.
The monies of the ALA Foundation mission endowment fund will be permanently restricted so that future generations may benefit from ALA programs that support all of our veterans and promote education, good citizenship and outreach to veterans facing tough challenges. Your donation today will help ensure we're here to help veterans tomorrow.
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Linda Boone, Foundation President
Linda Boone of Vero Beach, Fla., served as President/CEO, of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, located in Washington, D.C., from 1996 thru 2005. The organization grew from a handful of members to nearly 250 community-based organizations, government agencies and businesses providing supportive services to more than 150,000 homeless veterans and their families every year. Boone is recognized as one of the nation's foremost authorities on homeless veteran issues and has had a significant impact on the development of and increased funding for many of the federal homeless veteran programs in existence today. Boone spent the first 20 years of her career in the high technology manufacturing environment before developing her own consulting and training business, working with multi-million dollar corporations to develop competitive management practices. She has held numerous leadership positions for the American Legion Auxiliary at the unit, district, department and national levels, including national president in 1992-1993.
Marybeth Revoir, Foundation Vice President
Marybeth Revoir, of Hickory Hills, Ill., is a lifelong member of the Auxiliary since joining at just 4 months old through the service of her father, Raymond Spano, a Korean War veteran. Revoir is the director of administration for the Peter Troost Monument Company of Hillside, Ill. Prior to coming to Peter Troost, she was vice president of Paschen Contractors Inc., a world-renowned, family-owned construction firm based in Chicago. Revoir has served in numerous leadership positions at the unit, district, and department levels including treasurer for the ALA Department of Illinois for the past 24 years.
Cathleen MacInnes, Foundation Secretary
Cathleen MacInnes, of Rochester, N.Y., has been an American Legion Auxiliary member for more than four decades. She has held numerous leadership positions at the unit, district, department, and national levels, including ALA Department of New York president. MacInnes has more than 25 years of managerial experience in healthcare financial services, with provider, payer, and contractor organizations. She has served on multiple boards, including 12 years on the Board of Visitors for the New York State Home for Veterans and the Wayne ARC Board of Directors and 30 years on the ALA Department of New York Executive Committee.
Marta Hedding, Foundation Treasurer, ALA National Treasurer
Marta Hedding of Indianapolis has served as American Legion Auxiliary's national treasurer since 1994. Prior to becoming national treasurer, Hedding operated a consulting business offering marketing, organizational development and accounting services to small businesses. She also helped start a non-profit charged with long-range economic development planning for the State of Indiana, where she served as vice president of business and public affairs, corporate secretary and assistant treasurer. Hedding has served in numerous leadership positions with her neighborhood association and at her church, where she has served on the children's ministry team, finance committee, executive planning committee, and as the administrative board chairman.
Gina Jimenez Callicotte, Elected Director
Gina Jimenez Callicotte, of Lawrenceville, Ga., is a 2014 and 2016 candidate for the Independent Georgia State House of Representatives District #102 where she advocates for mental health, veterans benefits, transparency, immigration reform, and welfare reform. She is also an independent contractor for multiple cosmetic companies and an independent trainer for Walgreens. Callicotte has served on the host committee for the Epilepsy Foundation of Georgia, Board of Directors for Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, and was a mentor for KIDS HOPE USA. Callicotte is a member of Georgia Unit 127.
Doris Hammeke, Elected Director
Doris Hammeke, of Stilwell, Kan., is a retired corporate executive with more than 30 years of experience in sales and client service. She is involved in many community service activities, including volunteer activities at her church and its elementary school. Hammeke and her husband created a scholarship at Fort Hays State University 25 years ago that has allowed more than 50 students to pursue college degrees because of this financial aid. Hammeke has been an ALA member for seven years where she has held numerous leadership positions at the unit, district, department, and national levels.
Anne Hathaway, Elected Director
Anne Hathaway of Indianapolis is the president of Hathaway Strategies, an innovative grassroots public affairs consulting firm where she works at both the state and national level providing government affairs, grassroots strategy and management and public relations support to state and national organizations, issue campaigns and Fortune 100 companies. Hathaway has a lifetime of experience and has built a record of success from the grassroots all the way to the very highest levels of American politics and government. She currently serves on the board of directors and as Development Committee chairman of the Julian Center; on the board of Stand for Children; the 4-H House Alumni Board at her alma mater, in addition to serving on the organization's 80th Anniversary and Fundraising Committees; and is a member of the National Association of Women Business Owners Indianapolis Chapter. In November 2014, she became a member of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors.
Shirl Hendley, Elected Director
Shirl Hendley, of Chesapeake Beach, Md., has held numerous positions in federal and local government for more than 30 years, including, auditor, accountant, administrative manager, assistant city manager, IT manager, project manager, and program manager. Hendley serves on the Calvert Meals on Wheels Board of Directors as publicity chair and as the North Beach Volunteer First Department Auxiliary publicity chair. She has a passion for helping veterans, frequently visiting the Washington, D.C., VA Medical Center psychiatric ward and fundraising for the VA Winterhaven Program and the Maryland Center for Veteran Education and Training. Hendley is an ALA member of Maryland Unit 206.
Terri Wallace, Elected Director
Terri Wallace, of Bloomfield, N.Y., has served as an educator in New York State for 31 years as a classroom teacher, professional development trainer/presenter, and administrator. She has served on the New York State Staff Development Council and Learning Forward New York Board of Directors for 25 years and the New York State Computer and Technology in Education Board of Directors for eight years. Terri joined the American Legion Auxiliary through her husband, Robert Wallace, a U.S. Army veteran. She has been an ALA member for six years, holding numerous leadership positions at the unit and national levels.
Kathy Dungan, Designated Director, ALA National Vice President
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Mary "Dubbie" Buckler, Designated Director, ALA National Secretary
Mary "Dubbie" Buckler of Indianapolis has served as American Legion Auxiliary's national secretary since 2009. Prior to becoming national secretary, Buckler was CEO of Y-ME Breast Cancer Organization of Indiana where she increased the support base and outreach of the volunteer-based organization by more than 500 percent and exceeded fundraising targets by raising more than $1.5 million. She also held the Marion County treasurer position for nearly 10 years. Committed to civic leadership, Buckler continues to serve on the board of the Butler University College of Business Administration as well as on many nonprofit boards and commissions. Her service has earned her many awards, including the Greater Indianapolis YMCA Woman of the Year, Network of Women in Business honoree, and a Girls Inc. National Resource Center honoree.
Sharon Conatser, Appointed Director, ALA National Finance Committee
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Diane Duscheck, Ex-officio Director, ALA National President
Diane Duscheck, of Whitefish Bay, Wis., joined the American Legion Auxiliary through her father, Roland Duscheck, a WWII veteran. Duscheck has held numerous leadership positions in the organization at the unit, district, department, and national levels. She retired in June 2014 after a 34-year career teaching seventh and eighth grade science in both parochial and public schools. Duscheck was her school's union representative for 12 years. Besides her volunteerism with the American Legion Auxiliary, she also donates her time at the Mitchell Park Horticultural Domes and Easter Seals Society's camps for physically handicapped children and adults.
David K. Rehbein, Honorary Director, Past National Commander, The American Legion
Dave Rehbein, of Ames, Iowa, has held numerous positions at the post, district, department and national level, including The American Legion National Commander in 2008-2009. Rehbein, a retired physicist after spending 34 years with Ames Laboratory, specialized in non-destructive evaluation, testing parts while they're in use to determine if they should be pulled or remain in service. Rehbein was drafted in 1969 and stationed in Germany, where he served with the 4th and 1st Armored Divisions. He currently serves as the President of The American Legion of Iowa Foundation which has a $2 million principal. He brings a deep knowledge of The American Legion family and critical thinking skills acquired during his years in scientific research.
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Associate in Science Degree
This curriculum is designed to prepare students to perform effectively in a human service setting and/or to transfer to a baccalaureate program in human services, social work, psychology, counseling, or other fields in the helping profession. Emphasis is on the empirical and theoretical aspects of the disciplines of psychology, sociology, social work, counseling, and group work, with application through practicum experience in community facilities and settings. Students are trained to work with specialists in psychology, social work, community services, anti-poverty programs, mental health, mental retardation, gerontology, juvenile justice, substance abuse, education, and advocacy. Certificates in Juvenile Justice, Therapeutic Recreation, and Substance Abuse Education may be taken concurrently with the Human Services Associate Degree.
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A Graduation Checklist is a printable list of course requirements you will use when you meet with your academic advisor each semester. The checklist helps you keep track of your progress from when you first enter MxCC to when you are ready to graduate.
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Cosmetic dentistry procedures such as teeth whitening and clear braces have become more popular among women looking to gain the perfect smile, an expert has claimed.
An increase in celebrities such as Justin Bieber and Tom Cruise spotted wearing clear braces appear to have removed the stigma surrounding the idea that only children should wear braces, with more people than ever opting for the method of teeth-straightening, according to orthodontist Dr Robert Rudman.
Recent figures have shown that the number of female patients seeking correctional procedures has increased in the US, with the American Dental Association reporting to the Digital Journal that 25 per cent of all patients are adults.
Dr Rudman recently acknowledged the increase in adult patients receiving oral treatment in present times, and stressed the benefits of braces and the boost to the patient's confidence.
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Other celebrity brace-wearers include actress Dakota Fanning, Gwen Stefani and Australian songstress Delta Goodrem.
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Leeds West Point flats remain without water
Residents in a Leeds apartment block, which has been without water since Wednesday, fear it could be another two days until supply is restored.
Water to all 353 apartments in West Point, in the city centre, was turned off about 09:00 BST on Wednesday because of a fractured pipe.
Resident James Dodsworth said it was understood the supply would not be restored until later in the weekend.
Mainstay Residential said it was working to fix the pipe.
In a letter sent to residents on Wednesday, Mainstay Residential said the pipe repair could take up to 72 hours as it was waiting for delivery of a part and would then have to wait 36 hours for the adhesive to set.
Mr Dodsworth, who is self-employed and works from home, said it was understood the part had now arrived.
He said: "That means we're looking at about Sunday until we get the water back on.
"It's a really grim now. I've got business meetings and I'm having to drive 20 miles to go to my parents' house for a shower. It's just not good enough."
Residents have set up a blog detailing comments from people living in the apartment block.
One comment said: "This is beyond a joke now. We are three days without water.
"I cannot believe Mainstay have not supplied us with portable toilets, there are families and professionals that live here.
"There are over 300 apartments in this building, it's disgusting that they can just let us live like this."
Another said: "Disgraceful. The flats are completely unliveable. Unable to wash up properly, shower, or even use the toilet flush."
A spokeswoman for the company said it could not comment further.


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Baptist Health began serving Arkansans in 1921 with a mission to respond to health care needs with Christian compassion. Just as it is today, providing innovative, exceptional care was the primary focus. And in doing so, we became leaders not just in medicine, but in the community, too.
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Baptist Health Center for Clinical Research is one of the leading clinical research organizations in Arkansas. We perform Phase I-IV clinical research in a variety of therapeutic areas and our primary concern is always patient safety. Medical research studies are vital in healthcare because they advance the progress of new medications reaching the market.Learn More About Current Trials
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Baptist Health is the only adult hospital in the state with a MedFlight air ambulance. Our reason for providing this service is wonderfully simple: it saves lives. Whether responding to the scene of an accident or transporting live organs for transplant, MedFlight has been imperative for thousands of Arkansans and their loved ones.Learn More About MedFlight
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Baptist Health is the only healthcare provider in Arkansas to offer the advanced technology of an eICU® care command center. Continuous monitoring of critical care patients means better patient outcomes, overall.Learn More About eICU
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Exceptional care starts with exceptional people. Baptist Health College Little Rock began training highly skilled nurses in 1921. Since that time, the school has become a model for nurse training nationwide. Today, the nurses that graduate from Baptist Health College Little Rock contribute to the finest care in the state.Learn More About BHCLR
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Baptist Health Physician Partners is a clinic integration program that ensures you receive greater consistency of high-quality care through better and more efficient communication and coordination among physicians, clinic staff, patients and the hospital. Granting physicians access to data across the full continuum of care allows an opportunity to provide the best possible care to their patients.Learn More About Physician Partners
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Baptist Health's care extends beyond the hospital walls, serving Arkansas' underserved populations through health education, awareness and risk factor identification screenings. Whether it's providing free immunizations in a church setting or partnering with schools to provide hot lunches during the summer, Baptist Health continues to meet the needs that arise in our communities.Find Outreach Programs
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Leadership often requires that you blaze the trails that others will follow. In 1989, Baptist Health was the first hospital in Arkansas to perform adult heart transplants. Since that time, Baptist Health has transplanted more than 200 adult hearts.Learn More About Transplant Programs
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Baptist Health is stepping to the forefront of advanced quality care by bringing the first health care accelerator to Arkansas as we continue to strive not just to lead the state in health care innovation but also be among the leading health care systems nationally.
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Most lovable robot from Star Wars series, a R2-D2 (Artoo or R2 for short) can be turned into a awesome PC mod case. This PC case mod is made for "Science Fiction Case Mod Contest" by Frenki Janse . Best part about it was that the budget for this was low and Frenki spent only $120 in making this case. He said he got inspiration when he saw a R2-D2 Pepsi coolers on the gas station, he was not amazed how they were made, so he decided to make a great PC case mod. R2-D2 PC doesn't make noises, and contains web cams, fan control and blue lighted feet. R2-D2 was played by actor Kenny Baker in 5 of the 6 Star Wars movies, (but he was credited with appearing in "Revenge of the Sith", even if he never filmed any scene of that movie) with many scenes recorded using mechanical and CGI techniques.
For all hardware "geeks" out there, these are the components of this PC case: P4 3.2Ghz w/HT @ 3.71Ghz , 2GB (4 x 512MB) of DDR400, 120GB Hard drive, Radeon 9800XT 256MB, Creative 7.1 surround sound, Asetek Vapochill Phase Change cooling @ -38C.


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PANORAMA CITY, LOS ANGELES --The search is on for a hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a man in a crosswalk in Panorama City over the weekend.
The incident happened at Parthenia Street and Orion Avenue Saturday night. Police said the 36-year-old victim died at the hospital.
According to investigators, the vehicle may have been a Chevy pickup truck with orange racing stripes.
The truck would have front-end damage and a shattered windshield on the passenger side.
Anyone with information was asked to contact police at (877) LAPD-24-7.


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This page is a printable version of: http://www.iow.nhs.uk/news/Trust-Board-to-meet-on-6th-September.htm
Date: 14 August 2018
The next meeting of the Isle of Wight NHS Trust Board, is to be held on Wednesday 6th September 2017 at 09:00 a.m. in the Conference Room, School of Health Sciences, St. Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road, NEWPORT, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG.
Members of the public are welcome to attend and the papers are available on the Trust's website at www.iow.nhs.uk under the 'about us' section. The direct link is http://www.iow.nhs.uk/about-us/our-trust-board/2017-board-papers.htm.
Items on the agenda include:
Maggie Oldham, Interim Chief Executive Officer at Isle of Wight NHS Trust, said: "We warmly welcome Trust members, the public, staff and anyone with an interest in the Island's health service to attend our Trust Board meetings. Whilst the Board meeting is not a 'public meeting' in the conventional sense we do welcome questions. It's helpful if these can be submitted in advance so we can give a more detailed answer and manage the limited time we have at these meetings."
The next meeting of the Isle of Wight NHS Trust Board to be held in public is on Wednesday 4th October 2017 in the Conference Room, School of Health Science Building, St. Mary's Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG.
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A stage of the Biathlon World Cup in Tyumen was canceled. This was a decision of the executive committee of the International Biathlon Union, which became known on Thursday evening.
At the moment, it is unknown where it was moved, this decision will be made later. The competitions were supposed to be held in Tyumen in March 2017.
Russian Biathlon Union has notified the International Biathlon Union about the decision to cancel the stage of the Biathlon World Cup, and Youth/Junior World Championship in Ostrov of the Pskov region.
On December 22, a meeting of the executive committee of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) was held in Munich, dedicated to the problem of doping in Russian sport. Independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) headed by Richard McLaren provided IBU with information about 31 Russian biathletes, who are suspected of violating anti-doping rules.
A group of five experts delivered a report to the IBU Executive Committee and proposed disciplinary measures in accordance with the anti-doping rules. Among these measures is deprivation of the right to receive prestigious competitions for countries whose athletes were suspected of violating these rules.
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The Best USB 3.0 Flash Drive
After more than 14 hours of new research and testing, we found that the 64 GB SanDisk Extreme CZ80 USB 3.0 Flash Drive is still the best flash drive for most people—while you can get it. With both PCs and Macs, the SanDisk Extreme CZ80 offers the best combination of speed, price, capacity, and usability of any thumb drive we've found.
The SanDisk Extreme CZ80 is the same flash drive we've recommended for years. SanDisk has given it several quiet speed boosts since we first tested it, and the current version, the 64 GB Extreme CZ80, hits the sweet spot for price and capacity. Unfortunately, SanDisk is discontinuing the Extreme CZ80, but we'll continue to recommend it as long as you can still buy it for a good price.
If you can't find the Extreme CZ80 or it gets too expensive, its successor, the SanDisk Extreme Go USB 3.1 Flash Drive, will suffice. In our testing its read speeds were close to the CZ80's, and while its write speeds in benchmarks were lower than we expected, in our actual file-copy tests it outperformed drives with better benchmark results, and it was more consistent in maintaining high transfer rates.
If you care more about capacity than speed, or if you want a drive that barely protrudes from a USB port, get the 128 GB Samsung USB 3.0 Flash Drive Fit. It has a thumbnail-sized design that's perfect for keeping on a keychain or plugged into your laptop as semipermanent storage. It isn't nearly as fast as our pick or our runner-up, but it is less than a quarter the size and around half the price.
If you own a device that has only USB-C ports, such as a MacBook, but still regularly work with computers that have Type-A USB ports, get the Lexar JumpDrive C20c, which has both ports—one on each end. (It can even double as a charging cable.) It's not as fast as our pick or our runner-up, but its versatile design will come in handy if you move data between USB-C and USB-A devices frequently.
If you already have a flash drive you like, pick up a USB-C–to–USB-A adapter so you can use it with your new device. (We like this one.) If you're looking for even more speed and storage than our main pick offers, pass on an expensive flash drive and get a portable solid-state drive like the 250 GB Samsung T3 SSD instead—for just a little more money than you'd pay for a fast 128 GB flash drive, you get much better read and write speeds and twice the storage in a device around the size of a credit card.
The research
Why you should trust us
Patrick Austin has spent over six years covering consumer technology and news for sites such as Ars Technica, Consumer Reports, and PCMag, and was the technology editor for business magazine Black Enterprise.
Ray Aguilera was the reviews editor at Mac|Life, where he oversaw all product reviews for four years. He's also an avid music fan and DJ, and he frequently uses USB drives to shuttle media between different devices.
Who should get this
A flash drive—aka thumb drive or memory stick—still offers one of the easiest ways to move large amounts of data from one computer to another locally. Unlike with online cloud storage services, you have no need to worry about dealing with email-attachment restrictions, struggling with slow connection speeds, losing your Internet connection during a transfer, or having someone snoop on your activity. You can just walk from one computer to another.
For the occasional data swap between computers, you don't need a fancy new high-speed flash drive. Just dig around in the bottom of your laptop bag for one of those generic freebie drives you might have picked up somewhere, or grab a cheap one online. (You can buy a 32 GB USB 3.0 drive for under $10 now.)
If you're going to buy a flash drive, don't buy a USB 2.0 drive—they're too slow and won't save you money. Our budget pick, the thumbnail-sized Samsung USB 3.0 Flash Drive Fit, is the same price as the best-selling USB 2.0 drives on Amazon, and it's so small, you could even leave it plugged in as semipermanent storage. Next to the speediest USB 2.0 drives, it's five times faster reading data and twice as fast writing.
If you regularly move large sets of data from one device to another—say, complete seasons of TV shows, or large media files like raw photos and video—and you have a USB 2.0 drive, you should upgrade. The time you save waiting for large copy jobs to complete is well worth parting with a few dollars. A file transfer that takes half an hour with a USB 2.0 drive can happen in under five minutes with our pick.
On the other hand, since flash drives are best used as temporary storage—and they seem to disappear like cheap pens—it makes sense not to spend too much on one. Plus, price isn't always the best indicator of performance, and expensive drives aren't always worth the money: If you need ultrafast write speeds or more than 128 GB of storage, you're better off with a portable solid-state drive.
How we picked
All flash drives incorporate solid-state memory and a USB plug. Good flash drives have fast sequential read speeds (for accessing data on the drive) and sequential write speeds (for copying data to the drive). Of the two, write speeds are almost always lower and can vary wildly based on the type of memory and controller a drive uses. Flash drives should maintain consistent performance during large file transfers.
Also important are a flash drive's ease of use and its size. Too bulky, and you're liable to block other inputs with it, or slowly damage the drive or USB ports as you squeeze the drive in next to an occupied port.
For this round of testing, we considered a fresh dozen USB drives (in addition to the hundred-plus we've looked at for previous editions of this guide), eliminating drives that were obviously slower or way more expensive than the SanDisk Extreme CZ80, our current pick. This process knocked out pretty much every "rugged" drive, as well as most models with hardware encryption—unless you really need those features, such drives are just too expensive for most people. (Plus, most flash drives are pretty durable, and software encryption can easily protect all the data on your drive.)
Although more and more laptops (including all of the models in Apple's current MacBook lineup) are shipping with only USB Type-C ports—no traditional USB-A ports—we didn't consider USB-C–only flash drives. Few people have only USB-C devices, and most devices still lack USB-C entirely. We instead looked at dual-port drives, which have both USB-A and USB-C connectors. These designs maximize compatibility while ensuring you can plug the drive into future devices. (We also tested our USB-A picks with a cheap USB-C adapter.)
How we tested
We used CrystalDiskMark to benchmark each drive on Windows and Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on a Mac. We also tested real-world read and write speeds by copying 14 GB of media files from one drive to another. We performed each test three times and averaged the results. Although we chose drives based on computer use, we tested them for compatibility on a MacBook Air, a Dell XPS 13, an LG television, and a Sony PlayStation 4.
Our pick: SanDisk Extreme CZ80
Our pick, as long as it's available, is the SanDisk Extreme CZ80 USB 3.0 Flash Drive. A version of the SanDisk Extreme has been our pick four years running thanks to its impressive performance and ease of use. It's easy to handle, and it has a smooth sliding mechanism that clicks into place when the plug is fully extended or collapsed. It also comes with a lifetime limited warranty. Unfortunately, SanDisk has discontinued the CZ80 in favor of the Extreme Go, our runner-up pick, but the CZ80 is (for now) still available, and you should get it unless it's more than $5 pricier than the Extreme Go.
In CrystalDiskMark, the Extreme CZ80 had an average sequential read speed of 206 megabytes per second and an average write speed of 146 MB/s, ranking higher than all but the expensive SanDisk Extreme Pro and the Lexar P20, our previous runner-up. When we formatted the drives for Mac and used Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, the CZ80 reached an average read speed of 254 MB/s and an average write speed of 170 MB/s. Transferring 14 GB of media took an average of 2 minutes, 29 seconds, the second-fastest transfer rate we've seen in our tests.
Flaws but not dealbreakers
The Extreme CZ80 fits nearly everywhere, but its oblong shape means it's a bit snug in closely spaced ports like those on Apple's pre-2016 MacBook Pro and Air models.
Because nothing gold can stay, SanDisk is discontinuing the Extreme CZ80 and replacing it with the Extreme Go USB 3.1 Flash Drive, which looks nearly identical to the CZ80 but has slightly slower read and write speeds. For now, the CZ80 is still available, and as long as it's not more than about $5 more expensive than the Extreme Go, you should get it.
If our main pick goes away: SanDisk Extreme Go
If you can't find the SanDisk Extreme CZ80 or it gets too expensive, the SanDisk Extreme Go USB 3.1 Flash Drive, its replacement, shares the CZ80's smart design and is the next best thing. Even though SanDisk advertises the Extreme Go as a USB 3.1 model, it's not any faster than its USB 3.0 predecessor, because it's USB 3.1 Gen 1, which is the same thing as USB 3.0. Indeed, in our tests the Extreme Go didn't do especially well in artificial benchmarks: CrystalDiskMark showed an average read speed of 181 MB/s and an average write speed of 58 MB/s. Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on our Mac showed average read and write speeds of 182 MB/s and 106 MB/s, respectively. However, in our real-world file-copy tests the Extreme Go was both faster and more consistent in performance than every drive except the CZ80 and the much more expensive SanDisk Extreme Pro, maintaining a consistent transfer speed and writing our 14 GB media folder in an average of 3 minutes, 35 seconds.
Like the SanDisk Extreme CZ80, the Extreme Go comes with a limited lifetime warranty.
The tiny budget option: Samsung Fit
If you care more about storage than speed, the 128 GB Samsung USB 3.0 Flash Drive Fit offers double the storage of our main pick for about the same price. It's also tiny, making it ideal for semipermanent storage. It's not great for fast transfers between devices, though: In our 14 GB file-copy test it had an average result of 10 minutes, 4 seconds, four times as long as the SanDisk Extreme CZ80 on the same test. The Fit gets warm to the touch during file transfers, but not unusually hot, unlike our previous pick, the very similar SanDisk Ultra Fit. Like the Ultra Fit, the Samsung Fit comes with a five-year limited warranty.
If you need USB-C: Lexar C20c
If you work with a computer that has only USB-C ports but you still regularly use computers with USB-A ports, consider the Lexar JumpDrive C20c dual-port drive. It's essentially a 6-inch USB-C–to–USB-A cable with a built-in flash drive, which is a pretty good idea. You can plug it into either type of port and use it as a flash drive, or use it as a tiny charging cable to charge a USB-C device (such as an Android phone) on a USB-A port. If it's plugged into two devices, both devices can see the flash drive's storage (assuming the devices are configured correctly). In our tests it was slower than our top USB 3.0 picks, but it was the fastest dual drive we tried, with average read speeds of 121 MB/s and write speeds of 75 MB/s.
The C20c's housings for both the USB-C and USB-A connectors are metal and feel solidly constructed. Though the C20c has a clip for folding the short cable on itself to save space, we don't recommend doing this regularly—the tight curve deforms the cable and could eventually damage it. And Lexar's one-year warranty, like the cable itself, is pretty short.
If you don't need an extra USB-A–to–USB-C cable, if you want faster transfer speeds, or if you already have a decent flash drive like our main pick, consider instead a USB 3.0 A-to-C adapter—we like this model from Aukey. Our tests showed no difference in transfer speeds between having a flash drive plugged directly into a USB 3.0 port or connecting the drive through the adapter into a USB-C port. For the same price as you'd pay for the C20c, you can get our main pick plus two adapters, and you'll have faster transfer speeds than with the C20c.
The competition
In the past four years we've researched and eliminated more than a hundred USB 3.0 flash drives. Most will do a fine job of moving data from one computer to another, but most just aren't worth buying. They won't set your computer on fire or eat your data; they're just too slow, too expensive, or both. Our picks stand out for their combinations of speed and price.
The 128 GB SanDisk Extreme Pro is the fastest flash drive we tested. With its write speeds averaging 289 MB/s, it outstripped every competitor. Its read speeds averaged 300 MB/s, and it cleared our 14 GB file-copy test in 1 minute, 23 seconds, taking half the time our top pick did. It's a great flash drive, but most people shouldn't spend $80 on a flash drive. If you need that much fast storage, an extra $15 to $30 will get you the even faster 250 GB Samsung T3 portable SSD, which offers twice the capacity plus hardware encryption in a body about the size of a credit card.
We dismissed our previous runner-up, the Lexar JumpDrive P20, due to the introduction of SanDisk's Extreme Go. During benchmark testing, the P20 offered an average read speed of 318 MB/s and an average write speed of 176 MB/s, outperforming the CZ80 and Extreme Go, but in our 14 GB real-world file-copy test it took more than five minutes, nearly twice as long as the CZ80 took and a minute and a half longer than the Extreme Go required. And unlike SanDisk's fluid sliding mechanism on the CZ80, the P20's mechanism was difficult to use and required enough force to leave an impression of the engraved arrow in our fingers.
The SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive USB Type-C Flash Drive is a dual-connector flash drive. We found its finicky sliding mechanism frustrating to use repeatedly, and its slow file-copy test results made it easy to dismiss.
The 128 GB PNY Pro Elite USB 3.0 Flash Drive looks good, but the sliding mechanism was a literal pain for us to use owing to its slippery metal body; sliding the USB connector into position required a pretty hefty amount of force. More important, in real-world writes it took three times as long as our pick.
The SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 Flash Drive was our previous budget pick, but the Samsung USB 3.0 Flash Drive Fit's faster write speeds and lower operating temperature made it a logical replacement—many owner reviews for the Ultra Fit complain about overheating, while the reviews for the Samsung Fit don't.
The 64 GB PNY Elite X USB 3.0 Flash Drive is a few dollars cheaper than our main pick, but in our tests it had write speeds as low as 5 MB/s. We suggest you avoid it.
What to look forward to
At CES 2018, Western Digital debuted a new version of the SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 flash drive. The plug-and-play device is tiny, has 130 MB/s read speeds, and has hardware encryption. The Ultra Fit USB 3.1 will come in a 64 GB version for $60 and a 128 GB version for $120, and both will include a five-year warranty when they're released later this spring.
Chris Woodford, Flash memory, Explain that Stuff, July 20, 2015
Caring for your Flash Memory, Kingston Technology
Sam Byford, USB-C has already won, The Verge, June 2, 2015
Mike Wuerthele, Examined: Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 gen 2 on the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, AppleInsider, October 28, 2016
Seth Colaner, All Things USB 3.1 And USB Type-C: An Explainer, Tom's Hardware, August 27, 2015


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I was doing my grocery shopping when I noticed a lady who had busted out her recipe box in the seat of her cart. She'd refer to it and take things off of the shelves. That is something that I never, ever thought of. I just had my raggedy list in my hand (and a photocopy of it in my purse for when I inevitably lay the original down somewhere and have no clue what else to buy or where to locate said shopping list).
My categories include a tab for:
- Blog posts that need to be written.
- Blog posts in the works but require one or more materials to complete.
- Blog posts that need photos.
- Blog posts that I need outside assistance (e.g. power tool work).
- Craft ideas that I think will be quick & easy projects.
- Craft ideas that I think will be more involved and time-consuming.
- Pattern ideas for embroidery, freezer paper printing, sewing.
- Blog posts that have made it through everything and are published.
- Completed blog posts scheduled for the current week.
- Completed blog posts scheduled for the next week.
Each card has written in large letters in a bright color on the front the name of the project. Then on the back I make notes about my progress, what I need to purchase, exactly what I need assistance with, what day I've scheduled the completed post for, etc. So, if Russell is really bored and keen to bust out a power tool, but I'm not around, he can get into my box and see exactly what I need his help with.
Plus, I can take my pimped out box with me down the aisles of hobby stores and while thrifting to help keep tabs on good purchases. After all, nothing ticks me off more than starting a project that I have been planning and knowing that the materials I needed were 50% off the week before. BUT, I didn't buy them. Now I can look through things and compare to what I see on sale or clearance at the stores!
So far this little baby has been priceless to me. I'm not naturally the most organized person. I really, really have to work at it. Now that I'm crafting for two blogs and still making personal things that I don't intend to put online, I really need to get my act together. A huge notebook with 47 (yes, I have 47 pages of craft ideas) was just not cutting the mustard anymore.
Wanna make your own box? I say get creative but, if you want a box like mine, I'll walk you through it.
You will need: index card box, spray paint in two colors, masking tape, strong glue (like E-6000), rhinestones, wooden skewer
To make your own dividers you will need: heavy paper (I used file folders), colored paper to differentiate tabs, Mod Podge, cheapie foam brush, scissors
STEP 2: Spray paint your box the base color. I used navy blue and it took about 6 coats to cover the Campbell's bright colors.
STEP 3: Tape up some crazy jaggedy lines and use paper to completely seal off the top portion. My lines were totally random; I just had to work a bit to make the last and first peaks match up… Spray paint with your secondary color – mine was gold.
STEP 4: Squeeze a little bit of heavy duty glue onto a piece of scrap. Use a disposable wooden skewer and dip into the puddle to get a tiny bit on the tip. Toss your rhinestones on your workspace. Some will come out with the bottom facing up. Use your glue to pick one of those up. Roll the skewer to spread the glue on the backside. Turn over, place the rhinestone where you want it and pull the skewer out. Apply a little pressure to fully attach the stone. Continue placing stones in lines randomly placed around the box.
Allow to dry fully and toss your organizers. You can start making your index cards prepare for a much easier life of crafting… Happy Hump Day, I hope all things go fantastically well for you today!


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(Reuters) - The coach of the United States women's soccer team, Scot Tom Sermanni, was relieved of his duties after a 2-0 victory over China on Sunday, US Soccer has announced.
The 59-year-old former coach of Australia's Matildas lasted just 15 months in the job after taking over in January 2013, leading the team to an 18-2-4 record during his tenure.
"We want to thank Tom for his service over the past year and half, but we felt that we needed to go in a different direction at this time," U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati said in a statement.
U.S. Soccer Director of Development Jill Ellis will serve as interim head coach as the team searches for a replacement.
(Writing by Jahmal Corner in Los Angeles, editing by Nick Mulvenney)


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Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said Wednesday that the conglom will "have an announcement soon" regarding the question of whether Jeff Zucker will be taking the reins of CNN.
Bewkes, asked about the prospect at the Business Insider's Ignition conference, didn't speak further to Zucker's potential role but defended CNN, praised its election-night coverage and said it's not just in business for ratings.
"We don't try to win the night. … Like HBO. It's not what we're after when we're trying to pick a show for HBO," Bewkes said at the conference in Gotham.
"Did you just say you don't care if no one is watching it?" asked moderator Henry Blodget.
"As a matter of fact a lot of people are watching it," said Bewkes.
He acknowledged the net needs to improve but at the same time keep faith with its mission.


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The Tonys Pass 'Glory Days' By
It only took a day for the Tonys to brush 'Glory Days' off.
…In the wink of a young girl's eye, to reuse a joke. It took only one day for Broadway's Glory Days to close, and it took just another day for the Tony Awards Administration Committee to rule that the ill-fated musical is ineligible for Tonys in all categories. That answers our question, we guess. It's a sad end for the musical, which transferred from Washington's Signature Theater Company with high hopes that its stripped-down, loose aesthetic might help it fit in in a Broadway season featuring a number of similarly offbeat musicals. Instead, the producers lost their shirts, Signature and especially director Eric Schaeffer suffered a significant black eye, and the two 23-year-olds in question — librettist James Gardiner (now 24) and songwriter Nick Blaemire — must feel pretty crappy, despite the fact that most reviews tried to be as gentle with the pair as possible.
In the end, moving this show to Broadway was a terrible idea. We're not trying to pile on but instead to offer some helpful advice when we say that when we saw the tagline on the show's poster — "What if two 23-year-olds wrote a musical about four 19-year-olds?" — our simple reply was, "Then it would be a great Off–Off Broadway show."
Tony Rulings: Glory Days Not Eligible for Nomination But Gypsy's Laurents Is [Playbill]


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The play is troubling and even disturbing. On one level, it's a comedy of love, with the ups and downs of courtship, a theme excluded from the casket story and taken up again at the end when the affair of the rings allows the wooing to start afresh. On another level, it's full of deep hatred, with Shylock's grisly demand of repayment in the form of a pound of flesh, and a play that asks searching questions about the value of things, with Portia at the centre of a plot about a grubby battle for money and life. Oddly, Antonio (a merchant in Venice) has a very small role, given the title of the play. Portia has by far the largest part. It's certainly a play that speaks to the contemporary world and seems very modern in its concerns about religious intolerance and conflict, as well as money, commercial exchange/trade, and conspicuous consumption. It's a rather disturbing play. The lack of humanity with which Shylock treats Antonio, and the corresponding lack of humanity with which he is then treated by the Venetian establishment, seem to me to be evidence of a deeply fractured society. It is a difficult play to warm to but it falls into place when you realise you don't have to like Portia just because she is the notional heroine. She is clever and eloquent but she has a cruel streak-look at the way she puts the boot into Shylock (going far beyond her original brief which was to save Antonio) and torments her husband about the ring before the marriage has even been consummated. But to be fair, he is a shameless fortune hunter. I don't think their marital bliss will last very long.
I always liked the "The quality of Mercy is not strain'd" dialogue by Portia in the court scene. It suggests that the only way to confront racism or jealousy is to be merciful, the act of mercy can have bigger effect than violence.
Mercy is indeed the best way to disarm bigotry of any kind. Today we feel more sympathy with Shylock, but he was as religiously bigoted as the Christians around him (perhaps with greater cause though) and he mourned the loss of his gold as much as of his daughter. In Shakespeare's day, they might have thought that the court was doing him a favour by making him convert to Christianity. His daughter had already converted willingly for love.
Re-reading over the play now, I realised that there is a deeper conversation going on in it about the Old and New Testaments. The Old Testament says that one is subject only to the Law and that the slightest deviation from the Law will lead to your loss of your inheritance in God's Kingdom - Shylock represents the Old Testament. In the New Testament, God's justice (which would condemn us all) is tempered by mercy, by which we are saved, though we be undeserving, and by which we then inherit everything. Portia represents God's mercy - available to all - and she repeatedly asks Shylock about his position. By his answers he insists on being judged by the law and eschews mercy. Hence all he has is forfeit.
I loved Act 1 scene 2, where loved Portia's summing up of her suitors. This is Shakespeare describing national stereotypes that still hold up today! Definitely a bit of light relief before the introduction of Shylock whose first three words introduce his obsession with money: "Three thousand ducats." I think it would work in a modern reading if we substituted 'jew' with 'banker'! I rather like the idea of, 'and you spit on my banker's gaberdine'. Sorry if there are any investment bankers reading this review...
Some marvelous speeches, and complex issues to be considered. As I was reading it, I kept thinking of the negativity of hatred which stems from Antonio's previous attitude to Shylock and Shylock's resentment of this treatment. During his life it would have been unlikely that anybody would have had any mercy with him. Own property? No. Be part of the community? No. Now, this one chance, for him, for the other Jews in Venice, his one chance of justice or fairness. Gone. Poof. In the blink of an eye. And even worse: All his life, his beliefs, he as a person with his rituals and everything: Gone. They might as well have killed him.
This play is a satisfying one as it resolves so neatly. It all seems to turn on Antonio - the title character, the Merchant of Venice (really?) - Portia, and the lead casket. Antonio, an older, unmarried man, loves Bassanio dearly. In fact he is the only character in the play who can comply with the inscription "Who chooses me must give and hazard all he hath". For Bassanio's sake, Antonio is prepared to sacrifice all his money and his life too. Antonio is no saint, but his unlikable traits only serve to make him all the more human and his sacrifice the greater. Bassanio, unwittingly, picks the right casket, but only because he has rejected the other two. In doing so, he releases Portia from the dead hand of her father so that she can go and rescue Antonio by using equity, a tempered and enlightened form of legal process associated with mercy. Shylock cannot show mercy and therefore has only basic law to fall back on. Finally, as everyone has held steadfast and true in love, even Antonio's missing ships come home to harbour. The only one left out is Shylock who could not show mercy, the sign of love. How can this happy-ending play not be a comedy?
After having seen the BBC version with Jeremy Irons and in the first scene, the play says Bassanio is a noble kinsman of Antonio. Gratiano also says he loves Antonio, so I don't think there is a homosexual relationship implied on the part of the younger men, but certainly Jeremy Irons as Antonio seems to indicate there is some homo-erotic desire on his part, but it's maybe seen as a version of 'agape' Greek love between an older man and a younger one. There seems to be a long standing enmity between Antonio and Shylock which is more than just that between Jews and Christians. I think Antonio finally demanding that Shylock converts to Christianity is the essence of cruelty - to deprive a man of his religion, to make him an outcast among his own people, particularly the Jewish religion in the city of Venice with its ghetto, does make me sympathetic towards Shylock. On the other hand, in Pacino's film, Antonio is much older than Bassanio, and he looks and behaves more like a father than a friend .There is no mention of a family and his resolution to put his wealth in the service of his friend is really touching (Act 1, scene 1). Shylock bears a grudge to Antonio and Christians in general for ill treatment and defamation. When reminded of past offense Antonio will persist in his arrogant and abusing attitude, although he has come to ask for a favour. Had he changed his approach, who knows, maybe Shylock's hatred of him had been contained and never given vent to (Act 1 , scene 3). The prince of Morocco considers Portia a true gem and in his mind no other box than the golden one is suitable to hide her portrait.. He is a wealthy man, used to having the best in everything and this very way of life will prevent him from seeing things beyond appearances (Act 2. scene 7). Shylock's heart is wounded and wisdom is lost on him now that he has heard about Antonio's bad luck. Revenge dominates his thoughts and he is all the fiercer in his desires now that his daughter has eloped and taken with her an important part of his wealth (Act 3, Scene1). I found this play powerful, shocking and - with reference to Act4 Scene 1 - horrible! I last encountered it nearly 30 years ago but can only recall the casket scene.
While I doubt that Shakespeare was completely above the prejudices of his times, I think his portrayal of Shylock is sympathetic and moving. Our reactions are shaped by recent history to some degree, but no doubt Shakespeare would have been aware of events such as the massacre of the York Jewish community at Clifford's Tower in 1190. I feel his portrayal was made in the same spirit as Milton's Satan, an enormously sympathetic figure.
I find the psychological depth of many of Shakespeare's characters fascinating and never fail to be impressed by the complexity and breadth of the issues his plays raise. Money, compassion, "worth", prejudice - all so relevant today.
And "So shines a good deed in a naughty world." I read Act IV Scene 1 three times over and gained more wisdom from it each time. The argument is brilliantly crafted: first as the Duke attempts to appeal to Shylock's better nature and then, when that fails, Portia leads him on, arguing cogently and increasing the pressure line by line, until he's hoisted by his own petard. As the saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for." Reading it out aloud brought home to me the relevance of Grattiano's interjections, repeated like the chorus a refrain, in mocking imitation of Shylock's own "O upright judge, O learned judge," as a sort of "Well you said it, Mate!"
We impose our own values and likes and prejudices on any work of art we interact with. It's inevitable, we can't help bringing the influence of our time and place. Writer's too are tied by the tide of opinion of their own times and only the greatest can think beyond these confines and produce the shock of the new. Modern artists are sensible if they refuse to discuss their work and remain enigmatic. Bob Dylan had the right idea, people of my generation were able to imprint our own meaning on his lyrics and personalize his songs. We live in post Freudian times and are still influenced by the notion we secretly love our mothers and want to kill our fathers. That any malady of the mind can be cured by analysis, counselling and discussion of the failings of our nurturing.. The Psychologists are inventing new complexes and syndromes every day, well it keeps them all in work, and perpetuating the idea that any cast of mind is due to the influence some past event. They will never accept that some things just are.
Re-reading this play in 2016 it also made think it'd be interesting to know a little more details about Venetian Law at the time. I find it absurd for the Duke and the others to sit back while Shylock holds Antonio's life at ransom, all contented that the law was in support of Shylock in endangering Antonio's life. I think that for every law in every country and in every era there is inevitably some loophole that had not been considered when the law was made and which a canny person can exploit for nefarious purposes - like Shylock - and everyone is bound by the law. It does seem ridiculous, but everyone works on the principle that if you begin to pick and choose which bits of the law you will follow at any one time, the entire legal edifice falls down, to everyone's detriment. The best we can do is review and amend the law after the event when a loophole has been exploited. One has only to think about some modern Mormon sects in America who practice polygamy, claiming freedom of religion, and get the US government to pay maintenance to finance their wives and children (though they curse the government as evil) and leave one wall of their house unfinished to avoid paying rates or taxes - and they still call themselves righteous.
It is interesting fact that Spanish and Portuguese Jews pursued by the Holy Inquisition left their countries and went to other places, including England, where they resided and started new life. It means that Shakespeare was able to have acquaintances or just occasional meetings with Jewish money lenders in London. The Jews represented the figure of Other in medieval Europe: different traditions and different religion, books with bizarre letters, etc. even their clothes was different (off-topic: David Liss represented a Portuguese Sephardic Jew in London in his "financial" novels).
It's interesting to also note that Shakespeare was influenced by a contemporary source in Marlowe's 'Jew of Malta'. Shakespeare brings more humanity to his Jew Shylock, maybe because he brings his reading of Montaigne's Essays to bear. Shylock becomes an almost tragic figure after the court judgement scene. He ends up as an outsider in Venice, miles away from his homeland, forced by Antonio's counter-revenge to renounce his own religion in favour of Christianity and so he is barred from Synagogues and at the same rejected by the traditional Christian community too. He is totally isolated, even from his own daughter Jessica too. It reminds me of "King Lear". In some ways, Shylock is a man more sinned against than sinning... He's not entirely blameless, and clings too strongly to extracting his pound of flesh. But ultimately he suffers disproportionately badly at the hands of Antonio. Who is the Merchant of Venice really here? Again, these are not clear-cut issues.
An also interesting aspect of the play is the various father and child relationships. It would appear that Bassanio's parents are dead. Antonio is a kinsman and perhaps a surrogate father figure. Shylock would see his daughter dead. Antonio would die for his "son". Portia's father actually is dead but is trying to control her from beyond the grave. Even Lancelot Gobbo's father puts in a brief appearance. This play was probably written around the same time as Henry 4.1, where the king feels he hasn't the son he deserves, Hotspur definitely doesn't have the father he deserves, and there is the surrogate father Falstaff, who has the tables turned on him in the "play extempore". This theme of father-son pairs is revisited in Hamlet. I can imagine that Hamlet senior might have wished that Fortinbras was his son. It would have been a short play though. Claudius is Hamlet's "uncle-father" (and maybe his real father). Then there are Polonius and Laertes. So my current theory is that this play is also about children separating themselves from their parents. Antonio's duties as a parent are over, but his world hasn't ended. He hasn't lost everything after all, neither metaphorically nor literally. He can move on.
I really hope someone finds a sequel in their attic, "The Merchant of Venice II: The Merchants of Venice" where Antonio and Shylock have the same business interests and Shylock stomps round the place muttering darkly about people undercutting his prices for silk and Jessica rolls her eyes and tells people to ignore him. But then maybe Shylock meets a nice lady at church and they get married and then he's quite happy doting on his grandchildren and is only really enraged by the pet monkey which nicks all his fruit and pulls the plants up in his garden. I hope he gets his happy ending!
As for the "riddle" about who is the Merchant of Venice, even here, Shakespeare makes us wonder. I prefer to believe Antonio is the Merchant of Venice. He is the good guy. Shylock is the Wonga.com of his day. If he wasn't a Jew many of us would probably agree that Antonio was right to bail out people before they defaulted on Shylock's loans. Would an Elizabethan audience have thought Antonio went too far in physically and verbally abusing Shylock though? I don't know. Shylock has to be stopped from taking his pound of flesh, doesn't he? When Portia offers him the chance to be merciful, which he declines, is she just setting a trap? I don't believe that it was Shakespeare's intention, but I don't know. I like Stephen Greenblatt's idea that Shakespeare just couldn't write Shylock as simple villain, even if it meant "spoiling" his play. Whether for the sake of realism or out of sympathy, he cannot make Shylock a monster:
"Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor:
I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys."
I think Shakespeare mitigates Shylock's pursuit of his bond by making him swear an oath at the height of his grief. That is why he cannot go back in the court scene:
"An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven:
Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?
No, not for Venice."
Antonio represents the system, who is prepared by all means to preserve his status by calling on favours from his fellow nobility and a judicial system, in the famous scene with Portia, which is designed to benefit the Venetian establishment. The play represents two types of commerce, the unyielding, tough outsider Shylock and Antonio who plays the system and ultimately comes out on top. Shakespeare does not signal which of these characters he prefers, he presents them as characters and it is the audience who decides which one they most identify with. In a sense Antonio is the 'insider'/insider trading. Maybe Shylock represents today's financial traders working outside the traditional banking system??? Intriguing. One has to read "Time magazine" in the May 23, 2016 edition: "Saving Capitalism" by Rana Foroohar page 23-28 to see how Shakespeare can still look so modern to us.
Shakespeare's plays are ever relevant. Our modern world is always changing and the changes ask of us that we should re-examine our attitudes to one another, question our values and what we consider to be important, to reassess our positions in the world and the positions of others, and to put ourselves in the positions of others. Shakespeare's multifaceted characters and his posing of questions that he does not glibly answer for us helps to provide the start of many a necessary conversation within and between ourselves.
NB: All pictures taken from my Rowse.
NB: All pictures taken from my Rowse.