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1 Tbsp. turmeric
1 ½ -2 cups pure water
1 quart whole milk or low-fat milk
2 Tbsp. plain yogurt (save some from your last homemade batch, or use commercially prepared yogurt as described above)
Bring water to boil with turmeric over high heat. They must boil together at least 8-10 minutes until forming a thick paste. Once it starts to thicken, stir constantly. When it is quite a thick paste, add the milk. Stir until smooth. Stir frequently until the milk just comes to the boiling point. Immediately remove from heat.
Immerse the pot of turmeric milk in a basin of ice water to quickly cool it and avoid that scald film forming on top. It must cool to about 118 degrees. I never use a thermometer! Put your clean finger into the warm/hot milk. If you can hold your finger in there for 30 seconds (it should feel pretty warm) and be able to hold it in without it feeling 'hot', it is ready. Now, to avoid grit, you can strain the warm/hot milk through a fine tea strainer. Or, just keep all that turmeric in there. Stir in the yogurt (I use a wire whisk to gently take out yogurt lumps). Pour this into a clean (sterile) quart size glass jar (or plastic container will do). Cover.
You need to maintain the warm temperature. You can do this several ways:
1. Use a heating pad set at LOW. Place one or two layers of towel over the heating pad. Put the yogurt container on that, and then wrap the towel around the container to maintain the heat.
2. OR, use your gas oven that has a warm pilot light on. (This only works in older ovens.) Turn the oven on for 5 minutes to get it hot in there. Turn the oven off. Wrap the yogurt container in several layers of towels or a blanket to contain the heat, and put on a rack in the oven. Close the oven door.
3. OR, use a yogurt maker! Pour the turmeric milk into the yogurt cups and follow the instructions that came with your appliance.
The yogurt needs to sit undisturbed and be kept warm for 6-8 hours. Once it is done, you can keep in the fridge easily for several weeks. For stronger acidophilus content, let the yogurt sit out at room temperature for 3-6 more hours (the longer it sits out, the sourer it will become). The liquid that forms on top will be rich in acidophilus. It will not go bad sitting out like this. Believe me, you will KNOW when yogurt has gone bad because it molds and smells disgusting. It is supposed to be at least a bit sour!


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Jig Journal: Bench Hook
Get hooked. Bench hooks make your handsawing safer and more accurate. After working with one for a couple weeks, you will wonder how you ever got by without it.
Owning a backsaw without owning a bench hook is like riding a bicycle without handlebars. This simple hand-tool appliance (three sticks of wood) uses the force of the tool and gravity to hold your work as you saw. And it helps guide your tool so your cuts are right on the line.
It also allows you to make cuts with ease that are terrifying (or should be terrifying) on a power saw. A bench hook also can serve as a shooting board for trimming the face grain and end grain of small pieces of work with the help of a handplane. Plus, building one takes minutes, not hours.
Now I wish I could tell you that I've cooked up a new design of bench hook that trumps traditional designs. I haven't. In fact, I think that's an unlikely thing to accomplish.
The only "improvement" that we moderns can offer is to make it with power equipment, which improves the long-term reliability of the bench hook. Here's what I mean:
All bench hooks have three parts: The bed, which is the flat part where you put the work; the fence, which is what you push the work against; and the hook, which lips over the front edge of your benchtop.
Early bench hooks were made from one piece of wood. The bed, fence and hook were all sawn from a single piece of thick stock. Later bench hooks were made from three pieces of wood, but the grain of the fence and the hook were at 90° to that of the bed, so your bench hook could self-destruct (thank you seasonal expansion and contraction) before the appliance got completely chewed up by your saw.
With the help of accurate, modern table saws, it's easy to make bench hooks so that the grain direction in all three pieces is aligned. And that's exactly what you should do. (Or even make it out of plywood.)

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Luckily lifestyle habits greatly influence your heart's health. A smoke-free environment and physical activity, for example, have a profound impact how whether you'll develop cardiovascular conditions later in life. The research on nutrition is equally heart warming. Not only does a sound diet enhance cardiac health, but evidence is mounting on how individual nutrients help prevent heart disease.
Food for the Heart
For years, medical experts thought malnutrition didn't affect the heart. This concept was based on an 1866 experiment that found when cats were starved their hearts didn't significantly shrink. Almost 85 years later, this information was disproved. We now know that a poor diet is as detrimental to the cardiovascular system as it is to any part of the body.
A pair of Cincinnati surgeons turned up numerous studies supporting the notion that your heart's health is linked very closely to nutritional status. One graphic example they cite are the deaths, many cardiac in origin, that resulted from an unnamed very low calorie, liquid protein diet popular during the 1970's. While some of the dieters had heart related problems before death, several did not. It's more likely that this nutrient-poor diet plan caused malnutrition; postmortem examination revealed hearts that were disproportionately smaller when compared to the victim's body weight.
"Adequate nutrition is important in maintaining normal cardiac function," insist the authors. When heart mass declines, so does its ability to pump blood throughout the body. Cardiac rhythm is also disturbed. Most heart problems, however, aren't a direct result of malnutrition. In this and other industrial nations, lifelong habits such as poor eating are more apt to cause heart disease.
A marginal diet probably won't create immediate heart problems, unless you need emergency cardiac surgery or hospitalization. One study found nearly half of heart patients nutritionally wanting. Not only is this a major risk factor during surgery, but an undernourished body is more prone to postoperative complications such as infection. (Immunity suffers without proper nutrition.) A hospital stay, with its restricted diets, institutionally prepared food, inactivity and medications, fuel poor nutrition. Ironically, one study found that the poorer a patient's nutritional status, the longer he remained in the hospital (4).
The Magic of Magnesium
While good overall nutrition is vital, specific nutrients have a place in preventing heart disease too. Magnesium, the second most prevalent intracellular cation in the body next to potassium, is one mineral that is taking center stage in heart research and treatment.
Nerves, muscles, protein synthesis and many of the body's enzyme systems require magnesium. Because death from ischemic heart disease is more common in regions with water and soil low in magnesium, the heart also seems to benefit from this mineral (5). Magnesium deficiency has also been linked to hypertension, arrhythmias and congestive heart failure. Electrolyte abnormality may also result when magnesium levels drop (6). Low electrolytes interfere with heart contractility.


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November 4, 2008 - Las Vegas, NV - Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. and Fender Musical Instruments Corporation have partnered to create the Matrix 6-String concept car with design elements created and inspired by the world-renowned Fender Custom Shop. With Matrix's appeal to independent males who are a little rebellious in nature and like to experience things first hand and Fender's rich rock-n-roll history and credibility with the youth market, this relationship was a natural pairing.
The Matrix 6-String's Austin Speed Shop-designed interior keeps in the classic style of Fender® while incorporating the modern lines and feel of the Matrix. Pearlessence Silver and Chatham Black leather by Garrett Leather adorns the front seats and doors panels. Austin Speed Shop's own Fat Lucky's Upholstery is highlighted by custom red stitching, mimicking the 1960's Von Dutch style pinstripe, embellishing the front seats in a theme that is carried throughout the vehicle. Reproduction 1960's black and silver carpet by Auto Custom Carpets further carries the classic theme to the floor of the concept while black suede covers the headliner, sun visors, and pillars. Color matched accents in vintage red pearl drum wrap add visual interest and enhance the musical ties within the interior.
The rear of the concept houses an extraordinary Panasonic audio/visual system that includes a 42 inch wide plasma screen HDTV, four amplifiers producing 875 watts, and a Fender® G-DEC® guitar amplifier. For extra flare, custom illuminated billet speaker rings with Fender grill cloth have been incorporated into the vehicle covering each of the 17 speakers. Additionally, an integrated Sony Playstation 3 allows enthusiasts to play the popular Rock Band™ music game from the back of the vehicle. Even the Rock Band guitar conveys the vintage theme with the same red pearl drum wrap treatment displayed throughout the vehicle.
The exterior of the vehicle boasts an aggressive body kit painted in House of Kolors Kandy Brandy Wine. A custom set of three-piece Klassen 22-inch wheels wrapped with Toyo Proxy performance tires, front mount intercooler and a one off stainless steel exhaust compliment the new look.
Accompanying the exterior modifications are JBT big brakes and calipers, braided stainless steel brake lines and a height adjustable coil over the suspension. Classic pinstriping paint by Dart Graphics ties the exterior to the interior of the concept.
The picce de résistance, a custom Fender Stratocaster® guitar built at the Fender Custom Shop will be played by Custom Shop Marketing Director Mike Eldred and amplified from the back of the Matrix 6-String during the show. The Fender Custom Shop® is where Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, John Mayer, Jeff Beck and many others go to get their instruments made. This special guitar will be displayed in a custom display case next to the Matrix 6-String during the SEMA event.
For two decades now, the Fender Custom Shop has astounded players and collectors worldwide with achievements of creativity, ingenuity and guitar artistry. From humble mid-'80s beginnings in Fender's original Southern California home, the Custom Shop has grown to become the world's preeminent maker of custom "instantly collectible" instruments; a veritable dream factory that has made Fender's finest the world's finest.
Design by:
Street Image & Austin Speed Shop
Participating Suppliers:
Auto Custom Carpets
Dart Graphics
Fat Lucky's Upholstery
Garrett Leather
Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.
JBT Motorsports
Klassen id
Toyo Tires
Design by: Street Image & Austin Speed Shop
Exterior Modifications:
•Aggressive 4 Piece Body Kit with Replacement Bumpers
•Front Mount Intercooler
•Tinted Window Film
•Klassen K10.0 Wheel – Staggered Offset, Black Face with Polished Lip
Front 22" x 8.5"
Rear 22" x 8.5"
•Toyo Proxy 4 Performance Tires
Front 235/30ZR22
Rear 235/30ZR22
•Dual Tip Stainless Steel Exhaust
•Old School Pin-Striping Paint by Dart Graphics
Interior Modifications:
•Seating in Pearlessence Silver & Chatham Black Leathers by Garrett Leather
Front Seats with Fat Lucky's Designed Pinstripe Stitching
•Door Panels in Pearlessence Silver & Chatham Black Leathers by Garrett Leather
•Accent Upholstery in Black Suede
Headliner & Sun Visors
•Accent Lighting
•Color Matched Accents - Vintage Red Pearl Drum Wrap
•Reproduction 1960's Black and Silver Carpet by Auto Custom Carpets
Suspension Modifications:
•Height Adjustable Coil over Suspension
Brake Modifications:
•JBT Big Brakes
Front 15" Diameter
Rear 14" Diameter
•JBT Forged Calipers
Front 6 Piston
Rear 4 Piston
•Braided Stainless Steel Brake Lines
•Motul RBF 600 Brake Fluid
In Car Entertainment:
•Sony Playstation 3
•Rockband Video Game
•Panasonic Strada Head Unit - In-Dash Navigation with 7" Wide Screen Display and DVD Multi-Source Receiver x 1
•Panasonic I-Pod Adaptor
•Panasonic Viera Plasma – 42" Wide Screen 1080p HDTV x 1
•Panasonic 8 Channel Digital Signal Processor Amplifier x 2
•Panasonic 4 Channel Amplifier x 2
•Panasonic Titanium Tweeter x 4
•Panasonic 5cm Super Mid-High Speaker x 4
•Panasonic 17cm Super Dynamic Range Tweeter x 6
•Panasonic 10" Super Low Distortion Sub-Woofer x 3
•Fender G-Dec Guitar Processor
•Cascade APS90 Continuous Power Supply
•Custom Subwoofer Enclosure
•Custom Hatch Enclosure
•Billet Aluminum Speaker Finishing Rings with Fender Amp Cloth
•Illuminated Speaker Rings
•Reproduction 1960's Black and Silver Carpet Truck Area Upholstery by Auto Custom Carpets
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Our "Mother's Choice'" visiting policy is based upon each new mother's personal needs and wishes. At South Shore Hospital, you determine who visits and when.
Our "Mother's Choice" visiting policy supports a new mother's individual preferences regarding visiting hours. While our maternity staff welcomes family and friends, each new mother is able to determine if and when she wants to receive visitors, based upon her own needs and desires.
Often new mothers are exhausted, but too excited to sleep. Many mothers may find themselves torn between wanting to entertain visitors and needing time to get rest or concentrate on feeding and learning to care for their new baby.
Our maternity concierge is located on the unit to assure that visitors follow each mother's preferences. Please make sure that you know a new mom's wishes before visiting.
While families are important to us, siblings may not visit without a responsible adult, and are not allowed to stay overnight at the hospital, to assure that mothers receive adequate rest during their stay.
Visiting is restricted in the NICU to visitors above the age of 16. The NICU reserves the right to limit sibling visits.
You will have the opportunity, in consultation with your nurses, to make a plan for your hospital stay that includes time for rest and recovery, support for infant care and feeding, new parent bonding, and for introducing the newest member of the family to extended family and friends. We encourage you to prioritize your preferences during the first few hours of your baby's life.
We offer a maternity concierge service – available from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. – to assure that your visiting preferences are respected. Please call the concierge desk (ext. 4354) with your daily visiting instructions. You may request that no visitors be allowed during a designated time, or ask that the concierge call you when visitors arrive. For visits that are declined, we will provide the opportunity for the visitor to leave a brief note.
Family or visitors who have been exposed to or have manifestation of communicable diseases for which the newborn is at particular risk (influenza, cold sores, impetigo, rash, fever, active tuberculosis, acute respiratory disease, as well as vaccine-preventable diseases, particularly measles, mumps, whooping cough, and chicken pox) are not permitted to visit. - Massachusetts Department of Public health Law 130.615.D
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Of course, I got my comeuppance. Not only did I start cooing to my "suuuu-weeet baaay-beee" the moment I lifted her into my arms, I soon found myself singing every lullaby I'd ever berated, as well as one in German that mysteriously resurfaced from my own early childhood.
Then came the day we cracked open Eva's first jar of baby food. My husband pointed out that I gaped like an oxygen-starved guppy every time I offered her a spoonful. "Try it, buster. You'll see," I replied. Extend spoon, drop jaw: It's physically impossible to do one without the other.
Mercifully for those of us still clinging to some shred of dignity, researchers have begun to uncover what's behind much of our parental madness. And understanding why we do these things can help us maximize their positive impact. Likewise, it can be helpful to recognize when our well-meaning impulses become counterproductive.
Making faces
Of course, you don't have to turn on the volume to recognize a videotape of someone interacting with an infant. We open our mouths and contort our faces into wide-eyed expressions of surprise and delight, all within a few inches of a baby's face. Try this in-your-face mugging with anyone over 18 months and they'll think you're crazy, if not dangerous. Yet infants eat it up.
"Early on, babies have pretty crummy vision," says Colombo. "They start out very nearsighted." So getting up close and exaggerating your expressions can help an infant make out your features against the blur of the world.
Many researchers believe that cartoonish expressions help elicit what they call the mimicry response. "In our studies, we find we have to really exaggerate our facial expressions when we want babies to mimic something like opening their mouths or sticking out their tongues," says developmental psychologist Sybil Hart, Ph.D., of Texas Tech University, in Lubbock. This mimicry, in turn, may help babies learn to form sounds.
"A lot of the time that babies spend looking at our faces, they're actually focusing on our mouths and copying our expressions," she says. Which also explains why gaping like a fish encourages an infant to "open wide" for the next spoonful.
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Baby talkPerhaps the best studied -- though not altogether understood -- parental behavior is the way we speak to infants. "Parentese" spans virtually every culture and language. Its most conspicuous traits: elevated pitch (as much as an octave higher than normal), drawn-out vowels, and a general slowing of speech to at least half the rate of normal conversation. It's a speech pattern that tends to grate on older kids and adults who aren't parents. So why do infants love it so?
For starters, babies, especially newborns, don't hear well at low frequencies. "Babies are much better at picking out higher-pitched sounds from surrounding noise than lower pitches," says John Colombo, Ph.D., a developmental psychologist at the University of Kansas.
Even when infants can hear adult conversation clearly, they still show a preference for baby talk, says neuroscientist Patricia Kuhl, Ph.D., of the University of Washington. Nineteen years ago, Kuhl set up a now-classic experiment in which she allowed infants to control whether they listened to parentese or adult-style conversation. The babies consistently preferred baby talk. Moreover, experts believe this would hold true even if the baby talker spoke a language not heard in the infant's home.
Kuhl concluded that the universal exaggeration of vowels and slowing down of speech help babies learn the phonetic elements of speech, perhaps even the particular intonations of what will become their native tongue.
Researchers at the Temple University Infant Lab, in Ambler, Pennsylvania, have noted that parents (at least, English-speaking ones) imbue their parentese with a singsong quality that emphasizes the ends of sentences, and this may further help babies parse speech into its crucial elements, says Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., coauthor of How Babies Talk. "Anyone who's learned a foreign language knows that the greatest challenge is simply to separate out the words, phrases, and sentences. That's exactly what baby talk does."
Still, experts agree that teaching children how to use words is unlikely to be the whole story. Given that people regularly lapse into baby talk with pets and romantic partners, something about baby talk conveys warmth and caring. "Long before babies can pick out individual words, they pick up on affect," explains Hirsh-Pasek. "You can say something not at all nice to a baby in a friendly tone and that baby will smile and gurgle. Say something nice in an angry tone, and the baby will cry."
This isn't to say that parents who somehow resist the urge to baby talk will produce language-disabled children, says American University linguist Naomi Baron, Ph.D., author of Growing Up With Language: How Children Learn to Talk. "Refusing to talk in a high voice is harmless enough," she says. "What's crucial is that parents and caregivers talk and listen to babies as much as possible, because that's how infants learn how we communicate."
Mommy see, Mommy doAttentive parents and caregivers often mimic their babies as much as, if not more than, the other way around. Some may snicker at the sight of a big, burly man "goo-gooing" and "wuu-ahhing" with an infant on his lap, but child-development experts couldn't be more pleased.
"It's a characteristic of a responsive parent to realize that a baby has the skills to drive interactions and then allow that infant to take the lead," says Colombo. "When a baby makes a sound and that sound comes back to her, it provides her with a sense of control over her environment." Similarly, following the lead of a baby's actions -- smiling when she smiles, touching an object she touches, pointing where she points -- lets her know that she has the power both to communicate and make things happen.
Rocking out
Even more universal than oogling and goo-gooing is the instinct to sway while holding a fussy or sleepy baby. It appears that, in part, gentle motion activates a baby's vestibular system -- the innate sense that lets us know where we are in space.
Although most people picture rocking a baby as something done side to side (the way a child rocks a doll), at least one study shows that an up-and-down motion proves more effective, especially with newborns. "We find that the best way to console a crying newborn is to hold him upright on your shoulder, then bend and straighten your knees so he moves in a vertical direction," says Colombo.
Singing lullabiesIt feels only natural to murmur a soft lullaby as we walk and sway with our babies. Something about an infant in arms elicits song in even the most musically challenged. "There's been a lot of research on music and babies," says Hart. "We know they love it, are soothed and comforted by it, and that they generally prefer a simple melody to something overwhelming like a full orchestra or hard rock."
There's also something about trying to calm an infant that brings back what calmed you when you were small. Perhaps singing mimics the rhythmic sounds of a beating heart and whooshing blood heard in utero. "All we know for sure is that babies need a rich sensory diet -- a wide array of input to all their senses," says Roni Cohen Leiderman, Ph.D., associate dean at Nova Southeastern University, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Ready to fight
Far deeper than any amusingly quirky behavior lies the fierce protectiveness that our children evoke in us. I can vividly recall the night I stood in a neonatal intensive care unit, blocking a six-foot-tall pediatric resident who'd been ordered to learn how to insert an intravenous line using my newborn's tiny veins. The image that comes to mind is that of a lioness standing over her cub. The ferocity of my protectiveness took me by surprise. The same instinct positions us between our children and any real or perceived danger (traffic, strangers, relatives with colds), and motivates us to spend hours covering electric outlets with plastic doohickeys and safety latching every drawer in the house.
In this realm more than any other, something about a baby induces truly primal behavior. Certain aspects of a baby's appearance -- large eyes, large head relative to the rest of the body, button nose, receding chin -- trigger both an instant attraction and a sense of protectiveness. It's an instinct that both advertisers and wildlife crusaders exploit to catch our attention and melt our hearts.
It's also what might lead an adult to risk her own safety for that of a baby or small child. On a less dramatic scale, it ensures that parents get up for 3 a.m. feedings despite their mind-numbing need for sleep. Evolutionary biologists point out that an otherwise helpless human baby depends on such self-sacrificing behavior for survival. To we parents who are doing it, though, self-sacrifice is hardly the issue: For us, tending to our babies in the wee hours, babbling to them, singing, and swaying are all expressions of the most important parental instinct: love.


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Kate Gosselin appeared on the Today Show this morning for her first interview since filing for divorce from husband, Jon Gosselin, back in June. Kate spoke out on a lot of issues, including the reason she continues to wear her wedding ring and what she things of Jon's many recent flings.
When asked about the fact that Jon has admitted to starting a relationship with 22 year old Hailey Glassman in May, well before the reality show couple's June 22 divorce announcement, Kate said, "I was shocked." She added: "It's very hurtful. To be very honest the most hurtful part is when his decisions directly affect the children."
Kate also denied a rumored affair with her bodyguard, Steve Neild, and attacked her brother who has criticized her publicly.
As for the reason she continues to wear her wedding ring, the Jon & Kate Plus 8 mom said she keeps the ring on to make the divorce transition easier for her children.
Kate said, "Sorry, I don't want to upset them (the kids.) I don't want to shock them."


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Thank you Meadowlark Homes for a wonderful year of allowing us to be near my parents. Maxine loved the games, decorating for holidays, movies/popcorn parties and the chatting times in the living room with the employees and other residents. Maxine Spitler, born May 5, 1922, passed away on February 24, 2014, after spending her last 17 days at Syringa Hospital. We want to thank the nurses, aides and physical therapists who lovingly cared for her. At Maxine's wishes, her granddaughter, Sarah Hollopeter, MD arranged for her body to be taken to Pullman, Washington for the University of Washington's WAMI Medical School Human Anatomy Lab. Her husband, Gail, is so happy to have his "family" at Meadowlark to share his remaining time with.
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Many of these things they are addressing in the feedback area. Simple enough to post actual legit comments there.
They are letting users know what can and can't be resolved.
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Brazil is preparing to woo producers by offering at most a 30% take for developing its largest oil field. Analysts say it's enough to spur interest.
The oil regulator is preparing a road show to the U.S., Europe and Asia in late June and early July to market Libra, the largest oil discovery in Brazil that is up for auction in October, Magda Chambriard, the head of the National Petroleum Agency, said yesterday. The quality of the oil and the size of the reserves have lured the interest of all major companies from Chevron Corp. to China Petrochemical Corp., or Sinopec, she said.
Brazil is competing for investments at a time producers are using new technologies to extract crude from shale beds across the U.S. and explorers are expanding activity off the coast of Africa. The country is counting on the so-called pre-salt region where Libra and its biggest finds are located to double crude output by 2020.
"In my mind it is impossible to consider less than 70% as a government take," Chambriard said in an interview yesterday. "When the field is larger, when it has more volume, the government percentage is more."
The government take includes taxes, a signing bonus and so-called profit oil that companies must pledge to win a stake in the field, she said.
'Very Unique'
Companies could wind up handing the government about 80% of returns from the project because drilling has confirmed the high quality oil at Libra, compared with most oil auctions that offer unexplored tracts, said Bob Fryklund, vice president of energy consulting firm IHS CERA.
"It's a different kettle of fish," Fryklund said by phone from New York. "My gut is you're looking for something in the 80% range. This is very unique, there hasn't been anything like it."
State-controlled Petroleo Brasileiro SA and Chevron declined to comment. Sinopec didn't respond to requests for comment.
The prospect can "easily" reach a million barrels a day, double the output of OPEC member Ecuador, when 12 to 18 production platforms are eventually anchored across the field, Chambriard said. The field will start producing as soon as five years after it's sold, she said.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., -- August 5, 2002 -- Artisan Components, Inc., (Nasdaq: ARTI), a leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) today announced that Jazz Semiconductor, an independent high-performance mixed-signal and radio frequency (RF) silicon wafer foundry, has adopted Artisan's industry-standard design platform to support Jazz's mixed-signal, RF CMOS and silicon germanium (SiGe) (BiCMOS) process technologies. The Artisan-Jazz relationship combines Artisan's widely used design platform with Jazz's advanced mixed-signal and RF processes to enable a true mixed-signal system-on chip (SoC) solution for customers' high-performance communications applications.
The relationship will enable Jazz to provide its customers with access to Artisan's products that include a comprehensive offering of memory generators for single- and dual-port SRAM, one- and two-port register files and diffusion programmable ROM. Artisan's SAGE-X™ Standard Cell and I/O libraries are also included.
Artisan's suite of products are optimized for Jazz's 0.18-micron design rules and characterized using the latest electrical models of Jazz's process. The products include support for Artisan's extensive set of views and models of the industry's leading EDA tools.
"Providing proven design components to our customers is a key part of our strategy to become a leading mixed signal and RF wafer foundry," said Paul Kempf, chief technology officer at Jazz. "Artisan's design platform has driven standardization in foundries, and will enable re-use of communications circuits in our SiGe BiCMOS technology."
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Xanthocyparis vietnamensis
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Xanthocyparis vietnamensis Farjon & Hiep
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|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Farjon, A. 2010. A Handbook of the World's Conifers. Koninklijke Brill, Leiden.
|Taxonomic Notes:
|See Farjon et al. 2002. New genus and species in Cupressoid clade of family Cupressaceae, apparently closely related to one species in North America now placed with it in the new genus (X. nootkatensis, syn. Chaemaecyparis nootkatensis).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered B2ab(iii,v) ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Thomas, P.
|Farjon, A. & Xu, W.
Xanthocyparis vietnamensis has previously been assessed as Critically Endangered on the basis of its very restricted extent of occurrence (EOO), area of occupancy (AOO) and continuing decline. The new localities that have been discovered since 1999 (Cao Bang, Tuyen Quang in Viet Nam and Guangxi in China) have extended its known EOO to about 16,000 km2 which is beyond the threshold for Endangered but within that for Vulnerable. However, while the new localities have increased its AOO beyond the 10 km2 threshold for Critically Endangered, it is still much less than the threshold for Endangered (<500 km2) . Although X. vietnamensis is now known from 5-6 locations, it is still considered to be severely fragmented. There is an ongoing decline in the quality of habitat and probably the number of mature individuals especially within the smaller subpopulations in Viet Nam. On this basis an overall assessment of Endangered under the criteria for B2 is warranted. A new assessment may be required if further subpopulations are discovered in China or Viet Nam.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Xanthocyparis vietnamensis was originally discovered in the Bat Dai Son Mountains of northern Hagiang Province in Viet Nam. Since that discovery, very small subpopulations have also been found in two other provinces in northern Viet Nam (Cao Bang and Tuyen Quang). More recently a single tree has been reported from the Mulun Nature Reserve in Guangxi, China (Wei Bin Xu, Guangxi Institute of Botany, pers. comm. April 2012). The true extent of its distribution in China is currently unknown. Based on current information the extent of occurrence is estimated to about 16,500 km2. The area of occupancy is uncertain but it is assumed to be more than 10 km2 but much less than 500 km2. There are 5-6 locations and the subpopulations are severely fragmented.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:China (Guangxi); Viet Nam
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|Surveys within Viet Nam indicate that the total number of mature individuals is probably between 500 and 1,000 with the majority in the Bat Dai Son area. To date, only a single tree has been recorded from Guangxi although it is highly probable that there are more. The overall population trend is thought to be declining.
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|This small to medium sized tree (10-15 m) grows on the ridges and summits of karst limestone formations (very steep mountains) in elfin forest (cloud forest). In Guangxi it has been recorded from an altitude of 720 m a.s.l whereas in Viet Nam it generally occurs between 1,000 and 1,600 m a.s.l. It occurs together with other conifers (the dominant species is Pseudotsuga sinensis) and small-leaved angiosperms, numerous epilithic and epiphytic orchids, ferns, mosses, etc.
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Use and Trade:
|Locally used for house construction.
|Major Threat(s):
|Wood cutting is the main threat. The wood of Cupressaceous conifers, as well as its foliage, is sought after in eastern Asian culture. The lower slopes are being heavily deforested for the expansion of agriculture, but this is unlikely to reach the ridges. But firewood cutting and cutting for other purposes (this species produces a fine, yellow-brown very hard, fragrant timber) evidently does occur in some areas. Due to the lack of transport facilities and other factors, most of the timber has been traded locally. Estimates of population decline cannot be made at this stage given our current knowledge.
|Conservation Actions:
|In Viet Nam the majority of the national population occurs with the Bat Dai Son and Na Hang nature reserves. This species has also been added to Group IA of the National List of Rare and Precious Flora and Fauna which prohibits any exploitation. An ex situ conservation programme has been initiated and some restoration work undertaken in the Bat Dai Son area. In China, this species is only known from one nature reserve.
|Thomas, P. 2013. Xanthocyparis vietnamensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T44028A2991576. . Downloaded on 21 September 2018.
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When school's not in service, what better way to spend the day than at the zoo?! Join us for a WILD morning as we explore how The Brandywine Zoo cares for the animals that live here. Learn about animal nutrition, training programs, and enrichment; then meet some live animals that live here at the zoo. This program is designed for parents and their school-aged students, or home school groups. Preregistration strongly recommended, as space is limited. Walk-ins welcome if space is available.
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NORTON, MA- Eleven Wheaton College student-athletes were named to the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Academic All-Conference team for the fall of 2009. Student-athletes receiving the award must maintain a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or better upon completion of the 2009 spring semester, attain at least a sophomore year standing and be a competing member of a varsity team for the entire season. Women's cross country led the way with four honorees, while two programs added two apiece.
Four sophomores earned accolades from women's cross country, as the squad set a program record for academic all-league nods. The team last had as many as three qualify in 2006. Monica Black (North Kingstown, RI/North Kingstown), Savannah Geasey (Portsmouth, RI/Portsmouth), Kimberly Nash (Tempe, AZ/McClintock) and Taylor Wills (Kinderhook, NY/Ichabod Crane) each drew their initial college honor.
Both of the men's cross country team's captains picked up laurels, with senior Miles Souza (Norton, MA/Saint Sebastian's School) and junior Nick Kacher (Waltham, MA/Waltham) earning honors. It marked the fourth straight season that at least two of the program's athletes qualified, as Souza was lauded for the third consecutive fall and Kacher for the second time.
The women's volleyball program extended its streak of having at least two academic all-league members to nine consecutive seasons, as senior Lauren Kraus (Westboro, MA/Westboro) and sophomore Emily Davisson (Carpinteria, CA/Laguna Blanca School) were honored. Davisson earned her first award, while Kraus qualified for the third straight season after also landing on the ESPN The Magazine Academic College Division All-District I first team this fall. In leading Wheaton to an 18-15 mark, Kraus was first on the team in hitting percentage and second in kills, aces and blocks, while Davisson paced the squad in digs while dropping in the fifth-most aces.
Women's soccer senior Kathleen Carroll (New Paltz, NY/New Paltz Central) was honored for the third straight year, netting one game-winning goal with two assists in helping the Lyons go 17-3-2 and qualify for their 10th straight NCAA Tournament. Field hockey junior Julia Atwood (Concord, MA/Brooks School) was honored for the second time, tying for second on the team with seven goals for the 6-12 Blue and White. Sophomore Pablo Mena (San Salvador, El Salvador/American School of El Salvador) of the men's soccer team drew his initial laurel, scoring twice while helping Wheaton finish 18-4-1 and advance to the NEWMAC Tournament final.
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9 Treated After CO Problem at SCSU Sorority House
ST. CLOUD (AP) — Elevated carbon monoxide levels at a St. Cloud State sorority house sent nine people to the hospital this week.
The house had to be evacuated until the problem was fixed.
Police and firefighters were called after a doctor at St. Cloud Hospital detected elevated carbon monoxide levels in a tenant who went to the emergency room.
St. Cloud Fire Marshal Mike Post says rescuers went to the house early Wednesday and found potentially dangerous carbon monoxide levels.
Post says the fire department was called to the same house about a week earlier on a report of a gas smell but couldn't find anything.
A clogged vent line in a water heater may have been the source. The house owner replaced the water heater Thursday.
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Growth with inclusion, a four-point plan for Africa | Abdoulaye Mar Dieye
03 Feb 2014 by Abdoulaye Mar Dieye
Avoiding conflict and reducing poverty in Africa will require sustained efforts to promote inclusive development.
First, the continent faces the challenge of building economies that can create jobs and more equal opportunities for all. In many countries, better managing revenues from extractive resources holds the key to economic diversification and investing back into communities through quality infrastructure and social services. In addition, developing agriculture, which employs up to 60 percent of Africa's workforce (most of it women), can be another effective way to reduce poverty in rural areas, where many marginalized groups live.
Second, securing equal political representation for disenfranchised populations is critical to ensuring they can participate in key decisions and enjoy the same levels of development at the national and the local level. When elections take place, political inclusion can also prevent vote-rigging, "winner takes all" politics and electoral violence, while involving youth is particularly important-to-avoid conflict. In Kenya, for example, the principles of equality and non-discrimination are now enshrined in the Constitution, attempting to eliminate the ethnic and regional tensions which fuelled the post-election violence of 2007.
Third, countries in Africa must equip themselves with effective national and grassroots mechanisms to build social cohesion and prevent conflict. Such mechanisms have been experimented with in countries such as Ghana, where the National Peace Architecture has promoted community dialogue and raised early warning alerts since 2005. Others have successfully promoted recovery through cash transfers or local development schemes to build trust among local communities, across ethnic and religious divides.
Fourth, social protection, for instance through public works, school-feeding programs or insurance schemes, can play a key role in ensuring that poor and marginalized groups can recover from crises, absorb economic shocks and lift themselves out of extreme poverty. Social pension initiatives in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia have been successful in that regard.
Horizontal inequalities in Africa can have debilitating effects on human development and economic growth. In 2012, UNDP's inequality adjusted Human Development Index (HDI) revealed losses of approximately 35 percent in levels of human development for most African countries, due to inequality in life expectancy, education and income across the population.
Making sure people from all backgrounds in Africa can lead equally long, healthy and productive lives is not only a human right but also a smart economic and development measure.
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The UAF Faculty Senate has appointed this ad hoc committee to address policies and regulations for hiring and evaluation of faculty with joint appointments. In the reference document is the UAF Faculty Appointment and Evaluation Policy and Regulations, aka Blue Book, sections regarding joint appointments are brief and leave details unspecified. In the absence of official procedures ad hoc solutions have developed. In many cases these solutions have worked well for individual units and may be considered as possible models for the system as a whole. In other cases, the procedures have been reported to be unsatisfactory and confusing, particularly in units where joint appointments are less common.
The committee's charge is to:
- Recommend formal policies and regulations for hiring and evaluation of tenure-track and research faculty with joint appointments. These recommendations will go to the Faculty Senate and the Provost.
- Draft new sections on these policies and regulations for the UAF Blue Book.
- Advise the Faculty Senate on any other issues related to joint appointments that the committee wishes to raise.
Committee members:
Perry Barboza, CNSM Bio & Wildlife / IAB
Bill Bristow, CEM / GI - Chair
Doug Christensen, CNSM Geol & Geophys / GI
Roxie Dinstel, CES
Javier Fochesatto, CNSM Atmospheric Sci / GI
Patricia Holloway, SNRAS
Gordon Kruse, SFOS Fisheries (Juneau)
Patrick Marlow, CLA / SOE
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- Friday, November 8, 2013
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM
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- Friday, October 4, 2013
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- Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013
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2nd Global Conference: Monstrous Geographies (May 2013: Prague, Czech Republic)
2nd Global Conference
Monstrous Geographies
Wednesday 15th May – Friday 17th May 2013
Prague, Czech Republic
Call for Presentations:
What is the relationship between the monstrous and the geographic? From 'Aristotelian' spaces – as containers of monsters and the monstrous – to 'Leibnizian' spaces, where the monstrous emerges from the topological relation between events and localities, monstrous geographies have always haunted the human cultural imagination. From the Necropolis to the Killing Fields and from the Amityville Horror to the island of Dr. Moreau, geographical locations may act as the repository or emanation of human evil, made monstrous by the rituals and behaviours enacted within them, or by their peculiarities of atmosphere or configuration. Whether actual or imagined, these places of wonder, fear and horror speak of the symbiotic relation between humanity and location that sees morality, ideology and emotions given physical form in the house, the forest, the island, the nation and even far away worlds in both space and time. They may engage notions of self and otherness, inclusion and exclusion, normal and aberrant, defence and contagion; may act as magnets for destructive and evil forces, such as the island of Manhattan; they are the source of malevolent energies and forces, such as Transylvania, Area 51 and Ringu; and they are the fulcrum for chaotic, warping energies, such as the Bermuda Triangle, Atlantis and Pandemonium. Alongside this, there exist the monstrous geographies created by scientific experimentation, human waste and environmental accidents, creating sites of potential and actual disaster such as the Chernobyl nuclear plant, the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the BP oil disaster, and the devastated coastline of Tohuku, Japan. These places raise diverse post-human quandaries regarding necessities in the present leading to real or imagined futures of humanity and habitation.
Encompassing the factual and the fictional, the literal and the literary, this project investigates the very particular relationships and interactions between humanity and place, the natural and the unnatural, the familiar and the unfamiliar, and sees a multitude of configurations of human monstrosity and evil projected, inflicted, or immanent to place. Such monstrous geographies can be seen to emerge from the disparity between past and present, memory and modernity, urban and rural and can be expressed through categories of class, gender and racial difference as well as generational, political and religious tensions.
Presentations, papers, reports, performances, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:
Monstrous Cartographies:
~Terra incognita
~Real and Mythic lost lands: eg., Atlantis, D'yss, and Shangri-La
~Utopias/Dystopias, future cities in time and space
~Malevolent regions: eg., Lemuria, Bermuda Triangle, Transylvania
~Sublime landscapes
~Bodies as maps and maps as bodies, eg. Prison Break
Monstrous Islands:
~As sites of experimentation. Dr. Moreau, Jurassic Park etc As a beacon for evil: eg., Manhattan in Godzilla and Cloverfield
~As site of ritual evil and incest: eg., Wicker Man, Pitkin Islands, Isle of the Dead
~Imperialist intent and construction: eg., Prospero's Island, Hong Kong, Hashima
Monstrous Cosmographies:
~Evil planets and dimensions
~Comets, meteorites and beings from unknown worlds
~Worlds as dark reflections/twins of Earth
~Planets and alien landscapes that consume and mutate earthly travelers
Monstrous Environmental Geographies:
~Polluted lakes and landscapes
~Landfills, oil spills and mining sites
~Melting icecaps and landforms at risk from global warming
~Land impacted by GM crops and associated experimentation
~Sites of starvation, disaster and pestilence
~De-militarized zones and no-man's lands
Monstrous Religious Sites & Ritualistic Monstrosity:
~Armageddon, Apocalypse and final battlegrounds
~Hell, the Underworld and Valhalla
~Eden, Purgatory, Paradise, El Dorado, Shangri La
~Sites of religious ritual, sacrifice and burial
~Houses and haunts of murderers and serial killers
Monstrous Landscapes of Conflict:
~The land of the enemy and the other
~Sites of attack and retaliation.
~Sites of revolution and protest
~Concentration camps, prisons and other sites of incarceration
~Sites of genocide, battlefields and military graveyards
~Border crossings
~Ghettos, shanty towns and relocation sites
~Urban and rural, cities, towns and villages and regional and national prejudice
~Minefields and sites of damage, destruction and ruin
~Arsenals, bunkers and military experimentation
Uncanny Geographical Temporalities:
~Old buildings in new surroundings
~Buildings with too much, and those without, memory
~Soulless Architecture
~Ideological architecture, palaces, museums etc
~Places held in time, UNESCO sites and historical and listed buildings
~Old towns and New towns, rich and poor
~Appearing and disappearing towns/regions, eg., Brigadoon, Silent Hill.
Monsters on the Move:
~Contagion, scouring and infectious landscapes
~Monsters and mobile technologies: phone, video, cars, planes, computers etc
~Fluid identities, fluid places
~Touring Monstrosities, dreamscapes and infernal topologies
Architectural Monstrosity
~Mazes and labyrinths (with or without the Minotaur)
~Unsettling/revolting geometries (E.A. Abbot's Flatland, H.P. Lovecraft's City of R'lyeh)
~Monstrous/abject building materials (bones, concrete, excrements, the corpse in the wall)
~The architecture of death (hospices, death row, funeral homes, slaughterhouses)
What to Send:
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 30th November 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 15th February 2013. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f0 up to 10 keywords
E-mails should be entitled: Monstrous Geographies 2 Abstract Submission
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
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The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume.
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Gunmen injure man during Manchester home invasion
June 21. 2013 9:38PM
MANCHESTER — Two gunmen targeted a Lake Avenue apartment for a home invasion Thursday night, city police said.
An apartment at 455 Lake Avenue was invaded by two men armed with handguns at about 7:20 p.m. Thursday, according to police.
Three residents of the second floor apartment, two men and a woman, were at home at the time of the attack. One man was chased from the apartment by the armed intruders, but police say they gave up the chase when the resident sought refuge in another apartment.
Police Lt. Maureen Tessier said that the target of the attack appeared to be a 32-year-old man who is the boyfriend of a woman who lives in the apartment. He suffered facial injuries but refused medical treatment.
The attack was a block away from the scene of a fatal shooting that investigators said was related to another home invasion.
In that attack on June 9, Michael Larocque Jr. of Derry was shot to death, allegedly after he kicked in the door to an apartment at 430 Lake Avenue.
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A representative of the nation's largest cattlemen's group says it's "really no surprise" that Canada and Mexico have asked the World Trade Organization to again review the U.S.' mandatory country-of-origin meat labeling regulation.
The two countries asked the WTO last week to set up a compliance panel to discuss the U.S. Department of Agriculture's revised labeling rule, which was unveiled in May and requires labels to identify where the animal was born, raised and slaughtered.
The changes were made after a WTO appellate panel partly sided with the U.S.' two neighbors in a dispute over the labeling law, which was called for in the 2008 Farm Bill and has sparked divisions within the American livestock industries.
The request by Canada and Mexico for a new panel to consider whether the U.S. was abiding by the world body's earlier ruling was expected, said Chase Adams, spokesman for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
"It's kind of the next step for them to move forward in their complaint," Adams said. "We've said all along the rule doesn't meet … our trade obligations under the WTO. The amended rule did absolutely nothing to further the cause. If anything, it only made their case stronger."
Canadian officials said in a statement Aug. 19 that the revised COOL measure will further hinder the ability of cattle and hog producers in that country to freely compete in the U.S. market. Canada has threatened to impose retaliatory tariffs on more than three dozen American commodities, including beef, pork, rice, corn, apples, cherries and wine.
The international maneuvers come as the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., heard oral arguments Aug. 27 on nearly a dozen meat industry groups' motion for an injunction to stop the labeling rule from taking effect in November. A decision could be issued by the end of this week, said Jess Peterson, the U.S. Cattlemen's Association's executive vice president.
The injunction request is part of a lawsuit filed last month by the American Meat Institute, the NCBA and other livestock-related groups, claiming the labeling regulation violates the U.S. Constitution by compelling speech and that it exceeds the scope of its statutory mandate. The lawsuit names as defendants the USDA and the Agricultural Marketing Service.
The court last week granted a petition by farm groups that support the labeling rule to intervene in the lawsuit on the government's behalf. Those groups were the USCA, the National Farmers Union, the American Sheep Industry Association and the Consumer Federation of America.
Four additional groups, including the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America, petitioned the court on Aug. 23 for the ability to help defend the labeling program. The groups assert the labeling rule benefits U.S. cattle and sheep producers who can differentiate and promote American livestock in an increasingly international supermarket meat case.
"This is truly a livestock producer and meat consumer-oriented filing and we have raised many issues that the court has not yet heard regarding COOL," R-CALF chief executive officer Bill Bullard said in an email.
Bullard said R-CALF would be stepping up its fundraising activities to take part in the case, which he expects to cost $60,000 before it is through.
R-CALF petition to intervene in COOL lawsuit: http://www.r-calfusa.com/COOL/130826-intervenerDocuments.htm


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When the college football playoff arrives next season, the hope is we will see fewer weeks like this one.
There are no nonconference games matching a ranked team with an opponent from one of the big five conferences. Five ranked teams face FCS opponents, although admittedly some of those games have proved tricky.
The still-to-be-named playoff selection committee will be charged with closely scrutinizing strength of schedule. Many hope that will mean a reduction in the number of games that are basically college football's version of Shark Week.
The guarantee games pay the bills for both sides by giving the big teams, the sharks, a home game to fill their stadiums and coffers. The opponents play the role of chum but take a fat paycheck to perhaps fund a new football building or maybe counseling for their players after their horrifying afternoon being shredded by sharks. We have an ocean full of such games this week.
But let's not obsess on college football's great whites gobbling up snacks. Keep your eye out for teams that could prove themselves to be bigger and hungrier fish than originally thought.
Arizona State takes a swing at Stanford in Saturday's only game matching ranked teams. The Sun Devils are ranked but not regarded as being of Stanford's ilk, especially after the chaotic, gift-wrapped finish last week against then-No. 20 Wisconsin.
It's good to be lucky, and Arizona State was.
The officials erred in the waning seconds. It's clear Wisconsin should've had time to spike the ball and try a field goal. Although the umpire (Douglas Wilson) deserves a lion's share of the blame, Arizona State deserves some credit.
The Sun Devils thought the ball was a fumble, so a guy jumped on it. That sparked the confusion. It was an awkward play by Wisconsin QB Joel Stave. He didn't clearly and decisively go down then hand the ball to the official. By the way, some teams planned to work on doing just that this week in case they're faced with similar situations.
Although the rules say it's allowable to simulate taking a knee; at live speed, it looked to me, initially, as if he just put the ball on the ground. A Wisconsin player even reached for the ball initially.
I don't point this out to blame Stave, and certainly not to defend the officials. We trust officials to clean up odd plays under the rules to ensure the game is decided fairly. They should be decisive and employ a sense of urgency, particularly when faced with an expiring clock. They did neither in this game. It's too late to fix that now, and that is most unfortunate for Wisconsin.
It is quite fortunate for Todd Graham, who said he firmly believes the best team won the game. His Sun Devils are undefeated, but they are not unblemished in the eyes of many after the controversial finish.
The best way to put makeup on that blemish is to knock off the No. 5 team in the country.
For the 23rd-ranked Sun Devils, Saturday night is an opportunity to make a jump. Marion Grice is one of the more underrated running backs in the country. He's also a big-play threat as a pass-catcher. Will Sutton is disruptive on the D-line, but he looks too heavy at 305 pounds. He was 30 to 40 pounds lighter last year and was unblockable at times. If Sutton wants to throw his weight around against Stanford, he'd better do it before the Cardinal reach the red zone.
Since Kevin Hogan took over at quarterback last season, Stanford has scored on all 22 trips inside the 20-yard line. Seventeen of those scores were touchdowns. Getting Grice some space and disrupting Hogan's efficiency are Arizona State's best chances of validating its fortunate "signature" win with one that doesn't need quotation marks around it.
I got a kick out of all of the people in the preseason saying "nobody is talking about LSU." So many people were saying that nobody was talking about the Tigers that it seemed as if everybody was talking about the Tigers. Rightfully so, as new offensive coordinator Cam Cameron seems to have turned Zach Mettenberger from a cannon-armed project into a bona fide quarterback. His QBR in ESPN's new system is 91.6. That's eighth-best in the country and the biggest improvement in our ratings for any quarterback over the past two years.
Everybody knows about the No. 6 Tigers from Baton Rouge. Nobody knows yet about the Tigers visiting LSU on Saturday night. Auburn is 3-0 after pulling out tight wins over Washington State and Mississippi State. But no one will mistake Wazzu and the Stark-Vegas Dogs for the Bayou Bengals. Auburn hasn't won in Baton Rouge this century, dropping six straight.
Gus Malzahn's team is brimming with confidence after snapping a 10-game conference losing streak Saturday night. Auburn has already matched its win total from last season. Nick Marshall has been both erratic and electric at quarterback, but he has provided life to the offense. Like Mettenberger, Marshall started his career at Georgia before off-the-field issues led to a departure. That led Mettenberger to dub this "the Georgia outcast game."
It's also a game in which Auburn could prove to be accepted with the in crowd in the SEC West, but it isn't likely to find Les Miles' team snoozing.
"We're a team with real designs on the back end of the season. The time to work is now," The Hat said.
Translated, that means Miles thinks LSU can win the SEC and isn't likely to be cooperative in Auburn's search for a rep-building win.
Michigan State is undefeated heading to No. 22 Notre Dame. Sparty's defense stymies opponents. Sparty's offense stymies itself.
Save for some predictably good numbers against FCS member Youngstown State, the offense has been horrific. Michigan State's offense managed only 19 points in games against FBS opponents Western Michigan and South Florida. Shilique Calhoun scored 18 points by himself in those games. And he's a defensive end. There's no question Michigan State's defense is good enough to contend in the Big Ten, but can the offense find a spark against an Irish defense that wasn't stellar against Big Ten foes Michigan and Purdue?
This is a game in which neither team yet fits the shark role. But the loser is going to feel like chum.
Take note of a few other games.
Clemson goes to NC State on Thursday night. As an unranked team, the Wolfpack beat undefeated, third-ranked Florida State in Raleigh last year and No. 7 Clemson the year before that.
I know what you're thinking. The stage is set for the Tigers to "pull a Clemson." Because I'm a bold sort, I'm going to declare "pulling a Clemson" and "Clemsoning" defined as an inexplicable loss at the most inopportune time as archaic usage. The Tigers are one of seven teams to be ranked in every AP poll of the past 33 weeks. They haven't lost to an unranked opponent since a 2011 loss to … NC State. Don't expect that to come full circle this week.
Boise State at Fresno State on Friday night. The Broncos are the spoiler team this time. This is the toughest game on Fresno State's schedule. Win this and begin the BCS bowl push.
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A well furnished, roomy apartment with lovely views in an area with beautiful countryside. Good walks, interesting places to visit. Great for 2, steep steps to access.
A well furnished, roomy apartment with lovely views in an area with beautiful countryside. Good walks, interesting places to visit. Great for 2, steep steps to access.
- Off road parking
- Smoke-free
- Garden / Patio
- Pub/shop < 1 mile
- Washing machine
- Dishwasher
- Broadband / WiFi
The property
A light and airy first floor apartment, above the owner's house and with independent access, on the edge of the attractive North Dorset village of Pimperne, a short drive from the lovely Georgian market town of Blandford Forum.
Furnished and equipped to a good standard, this Pimperne holiday apartment boasts super views across neighbouring fields from the lovely large decked balcony, and makes an excellent base from which to explore this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and only half a mile from the Jubilee Trail - ideal for walkers!
Within easy reach of this Pimperne holiday apartment can be found majestic Salisbury Cathedral and Milton Abbey, as well as the stunning Jurassic Coast.
A great holiday base at any time of the year.
All first floor. One spacious double bedroom. Bathroom with bath, shower over bath, basin and WC. Fitted kitchen. Light, airy eaves sitting room with dining area, futon sofa bed and doors to balcony.
- Oil central heating
- Electric oven, halogen hob, microwave, fridge, small freezer, washing machine, dishwasher, TV with Freeview, DVD, WiFi, books/DVDs
- All fuel and power inc. in rent
- Bed linen and towels
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- Off road parking for one car
- Large decked balcony with furniture and steps down to shared lawned garden with pond
- Steps down to parking area for one car
- One well-behaved dog welcome
- Sorry, no smoking
- Shop 6 mins walk, pub 5 mins walk
- Note: Property accessed by wooden steps up from garden
- Note: This Pimperne holiday apartment has its own private access and is completely separate from the owner's accommodation.
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Blandford Forum 1.5 miles.
Pimperne is a thriving little community only 1.5 miles from the attractive North Dorset market town of Blandford Forum. To the north of the village lies Cranborne Chase, an area of outstanding natural beauty, where you can find Larmer Tree Gardens, a wonderful collection of ornate buildings and secluded arbours. Set on the banks of the River Stour, the Georgian town of Blandford Forum is well worth a visit. There's a market here twice a week, and lots of boutiques, antique shops, galleries and restaurants to enjoy. Also within the town, the Cavalcade of Costume museum is well worth a visit, or you can take a tour around the local brewery, a must for real ale fanatics, while the Royal Signals Museum at nearby Blandford Army Camp provides a fascinating insight into the world of espionage! An easy drive takes you to Dorset's stunning Heritage Coast, as well as Thomas Hardy's beloved Dorchester. In fact, there's so much to do in this lovely area at any time of the year, you're spoilt for choice!
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This property offers the following short breaks:
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Bachelorette couple, Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski, are still going strong based on their latest interview with PEOPLE magazine.
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Doctor Schiwago meets Adam
Added Oct 3, 2012
by Ralf Schmitz
Berlin, Germany
After a very long time of trying hard to upload a new project, i finally changed my internetbrowser and it seems to work again!
So I proudly present to you my newest version of the Adam-coat-pattern. Completly overworked and more modern and lean. Last but not least much shorter and slimer and with a fur trimming.
The outside is again with cashmere, the inside is this time with a thickly quilted silk lining. Most of the seams are finished by hand and i tried my best to give it that special look, i love on selfmade projects.
I hope you like this very warm and cosy version of the Adam coat as much as i do!
Material Notes
Cashmere outside, silk quilted inside, buttons, thread
- Season
- Winter
- For
- Men
- Garment Type
- Coat/Capes
- Style
- Casual, Classic
- Material
- Cashmere, Leather/Fur, Silk
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Sep 13, 2018, 03.10 PMby LouisJimenez
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Jan 18, 2018, 06.43 AMby MickySingh
Beautifully dress up
Jun 9, 2013, 08.36 PMby katya katya
I love this jacket an I have some checked wool :) you inspired me to use it to sew a jacket for me! Thank you!
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Jun 10, 2013, 07.07 AMby Ralf Schmitz
thank you very much for your kind comment! hope to see your jacket soon here on burdastyle
Feb 19, 2013, 11.44 PMby Gabriele Yorlano
love the fabric and color. Great fit. Again, love it!
Dec 3, 2012, 08.09 PMby Jodi Wade
It looks so nice and warm! I imagine Berlin is pretty cold already (Budapest sure is. Brrrrrr).
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Dec 4, 2012, 05.51 AMby Ralf Schmitz
oh YES i am wearing the jacket almost every day! thank you for your kind comment!
Oct 24, 2012, 08.19 PMby Vanessa Leigh
This is amazing! And perfectly executed. I love that the fur collar is actually a part of the coat. Genius. I am so glad you were able to post.
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Oct 25, 2012, 06.25 AMby Ralf Schmitz
thank you so much vandessa! now it gets really cold here in germany, so this coat has soon its premier :-)
Oct 9, 2012, 06.23 PMby elguanche
Great work!!! You did a great job with this padded lining….. :-)
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Oct 10, 2012, 05.43 AMby Ralf Schmitz
thank you very much!
Oct 9, 2012, 03.47 AMby Adriana Orozco
My darling friend!!!! I love this jacket!!! the way that you have worked on those plaits at the back, is just wonderfull!!! now, the fur makes it very chic, and I am sure it is a delight to wear and touch!!!!! the fabrics that you used are extraordinary!!!! Please this is the one I shall borrow if I go to Berlin in winter!!!!! much love to you, from me……….all the way from the rain forest!!
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Oct 9, 2012, 06.03 AMby Ralf Schmitz
my love! i would make you your own version of this jacket and we would walk together in the cold :-) ……….sometimes it is sad, that we all live so far away from each other. much love and kisses from berlin
Oct 5, 2012, 04.17 PMby leokadia
Lieber Ralf, du wirst es vielleicht nicht glauben, aber dieser Ostwind incl. der fast sichere Schnee fehlt mir hier ein bissel. DAS ist doch dann richtiger Winter. Liebe Grüße aus dem milden Unterfranken von leokadia
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Oct 9, 2012, 06.03 AMby Ralf Schmitz
liebe leokadia! ja, das kann ich mir vorstellen. aber glaub mir, wenn es wieder mehrere tage (oder wochen) so kalt ist, wünscht du dich in wärmere gefilde :-)
Oct 5, 2012, 12.14 PMby leokadia
Ein wunderbare Jacke mit vielen sehr schön und liebevoll gearbeiteten Details. Dem exquisiten Material wird die gelungene Verarbeitung mehr als gerecht. Herzliche Grüße in die Nähe meiner alten Heimat. leokadia
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Oct 5, 2012, 03.00 PMby Ralf Schmitz
liebe leonkadia!
vielen lieben dank für deinen lieben beitrag! ich freue mich, wenn dir die jacke gefällt. nach langem hin und her bin ich nun auch zufrieden damit und freue mich nun doch tatsächlich auf den ersten kalten ostwind. liebe grüsse aus dem verregneten berlin von ralf
Oct 4, 2012, 06.38 PMby caramia-made
OMG another amazing coat! I just love it – and it would be perfect for a chilly autumn day (like today!). Looks awesome Ralf! :)
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Oct 5, 2012, 05.44 AMby Ralf Schmitz
dear caramia! thank you very much. in berlin, the cold has only just arrived and it would still be too warm, to wear the coat, but soon the day will come :-)
Oct 4, 2012, 12.10 PMby flowergirl22
sorry I am replying so late,, arbeit arbeit arbeit,,, aber ist ja toll die jacke,, das futter ganz geil, tolle farbe, ow wow woooow wowowowowo
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Oct 4, 2012, 04.16 PMby Ralf Schmitz
dearest flowergirl! danke viel viel mals! i am so happy that you like my jacket as much as i do. it is the first time, that i can not wait until it is winter :-)
Oct 4, 2012, 10.47 AMby Lillyella
Wow awesome piece of work! Love the fabric-it suits you very well. Thumbs up for the lining-i am currently working on a fully lined dress and it's driving me insane ;D.
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Oct 4, 2012, 04.15 PMby Ralf Schmitz
dear lilyella! i know, lining projects is allways a bit of a nightmear, but if it is done, it is SO revarding! wish you all the best for your dress and thank you very much for your kind comment!
Oct 4, 2012, 01.50 AMby jorth
Niiiiiice! Love the slim line cut!
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Oct 4, 2012, 06.11 AMby Ralf Schmitz
thank you jorth, that is too kind!
Oct 3, 2012, 10.12 PMby quiltsewsewsue
Absolutely gorgeous – you have hit the mark with this one – great fabric choice, love the cut and the fur trim is wicked! Did you quilt the lining yourself?
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Oct 4, 2012, 06.11 AMby Ralf Schmitz
dear quiltsewsewsue! thank you very much for your compliments. i found the quilted lining in my favorite fabric store, so this one is not made by me. the rest of this coat is absolutly made by me :-)
Oct 6, 2012, 11.30 AMby quiltsewsewsue
Ralf – interesting lining fabric – you are lucky to be able to access such lovely quilted fabric.
Oct 3, 2012, 08.02 PMby domestic-divaonline
Ralf; your workmanship really shines in this project. Love the fur! The details, especially on the pockets are impeccable. This garment should keep you warm and cozy as you say, plus proud that you created it with your own hands.
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Oct 4, 2012, 06.10 AMby Ralf Schmitz
my dear! i have been missing you A LOT!!! thank you very very much for your kindness and that friendly comment. i will be around here now more frequently again and look forward seeing your projects! warm regards from berlin.
Oct 3, 2012, 07.40 PMby jacquipardue
very beautiful coat! Well done, and the fabric is really lovely. enjoy!
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Oct 4, 2012, 06.09 AMby Ralf Schmitz
thank you very much for your compliment dear jacquipardue!
Oct 3, 2012, 07.30 PMby antony chauvin
The winter comes, and we want heat, The fabric seems very pleasant, good job ralf, As usual
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Oct 4, 2012, 06.08 AMby Ralf Schmitz
merci beaucoup cher antony! très gentil!
Oct 3, 2012, 02.29 PMby Bartas DubLinski
Cool! You did great job! Perfectly details, coulor… I like a lot! Best wishes!
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Oct 3, 2012, 04.03 PMby Ralf Schmitz
dear bartas! thank you very much for your kind comment! that is so kind of you!
Oct 3, 2012, 02.02 PMby martinK
hi Ralf, very nice project!!!!! I like the fabric very much. wish I would have the time to do some new creations, too. But I have to wait until next summer :-( greatings from Rotterdam
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Oct 3, 2012, 04.03 PMby Ralf Schmitz
dear martin! i would die if i could not sew until next summer. that would be far too long for me. why do you have to wait so long??? thank you very much for your kind compliment! take care!
Oct 3, 2012, 04.11 PMby martinK
hi Ralf, now I am in my third year of study and I have a very busy studieprogramm now. besite the regular programm I follow the honours class and have a little researchproject at a museum. So my 200 m of fabric have to wait :-(
Oct 3, 2012, 01.46 PMby orchiddream
I agree with everything everyone has already said! Rich looking and perfectly fitted. You'll feel great wearing, I have no doubt. Can't wait for your next creation. BTW: congrats on figuring out the posting problem.
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Oct 3, 2012, 04.02 PMby Ralf Schmitz
dear orchiddream! the guys from burdastyle have been extremley helpful with my problems and now, with a new browser everything works even faster! great to have such a welcome back from you out there! thank you very much!
Oct 3, 2012, 01.40 PMby Timea Schmidt
Gosh, so good to have you back! The coat is beautiful! The color, the fabric, the lining, everything is just luxurious. Love the fur touch and the hand finishes. You rock as always:)
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Oct 3, 2012, 04.01 PMby Ralf Schmitz
thank you timea! i love the fur as well. it is so nice and soft and warm round my neck! it feels great to be back here and i will start posting now again more frequently! promised!
Oct 3, 2012, 12.39 PMby joost52
What an amazing finish! Great job Ralph :)
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Oct 3, 2012, 04.00 PMby Ralf Schmitz
thank you joost! that is too kind of you!
Oct 3, 2012, 12.16 PMby klotto
All these small and perfect details make this jacket a piece of art!
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Oct 3, 2012, 04.00 PMby Ralf Schmitz
dear klotto! :-)) my coat as a piece of art??? thank you soooooooo much! that is too kind of you!
Oct 3, 2012, 10.13 AMby Adrienne Hendrix
Have missed seeing your great creations Ralf!!! Glad you fixed your browser and are back in business. The coat was worth the wait to see, it is extraordinary!!! Wonderful for the cold weather ahead and I love the changes you made to the original. Welcome back Ralf and can't wait to see more!!!! Happy Sewing!
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Oct 3, 2012, 03.59 PMby Ralf Schmitz
dear adrienne! here i am! back again and thank you so much for your lovely words. it feels great to have such a nice wellcome back here at burdastyle and i hope to show you soon (in december) pix of me and the coat in snow and ice :-) kind regards from berlin
Oct 3, 2012, 07.25 AMby janene
Hoorraaaayyyyy!!!! Welcome back Ralf. I was about to start a petition to 'Bring back Ralf'! And this is exactly what we have been missing! Such an amazing jacket. I am very much inspired by the quilted lining. I am just finishing up a jacket and I wish I had thought of that!
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Oct 3, 2012, 03.58 PMby Ralf Schmitz
dear janene! you are such a star and so lovely to write me that comment. i feel so much better, beeing back in the family now. wait until you see all my other projects! soon to be posted! thank you again for beeing such a lovely friend! warmest regards from sunny berlin.
Oct 3, 2012, 07.10 AMby urbandon
Looks great Ralf! Stylish AND warm. Indeed, beautifully made once again. So nice to meet you in Berlin and see your studio! Best wishes.
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Oct 3, 2012, 03.56 PMby Ralf Schmitz
dearest friend! it was so great finally meeting you in person and i wish we would not live so far away from each other, but thank you very much for your kind words, and i promise, australia will be on my list for 2015!!!
Oct 3, 2012, 07.07 AMby schnui
Ralf, your Adam coat is great and looks so warm and stylish. I really like the Cashmere fabric and the fur collar. How I wish to be able to have a need to sew with such lovely materials. As usual, you have crafted this coat beautifully and it is such a pleasure to see such great workmanship. Enjoy keeping warm in this great coat!!!
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Oct 3, 2012, 03.55 PMby Ralf Schmitz
Dear Schnui! thank you so very much for your kind words and the first comment on my coat! it is funny, how much you want to do warm cloth and how much i do not like the cold weather upcoming. But it will feel less horrible in that warm coat :-)
Oct 4, 2012, 12.21 AMby schnui
Ralf, you are right. We are never happy with the weather we are given. As I head for the really hot weather we experience here in an Australian summer, I am busy sewing up some beautiful cotton voile's which are such a pleasure to sew. Take care and stay well.
PS: Have you got a new cat yet to fill your home with joy?
Oct 4, 2012, 05.14 PMby Ralf Schmitz
dear schnui! YES we have two new cats: brother and sister named Greta (grey / white) and Jacob (red / white). they are 5 month old now and full of joy and ready for action at any time of the day (and night!) and we love them :-)
Oct 4, 2012, 08.43 PMby schnui
Good news!! I am sure Greta and Jacob are the luckiest cats in the world.
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by David Roberts
The Blue Fairy and Other Tales of Transcendence by Ernest Dempsey consists of twenty-five intricately crafted short stories that explore a topic generally uncomfortable for many in society: death. Each story represents a powerful thought-provoking excursion into a variety of subjects related to the subject using a variety of different true to life characters and scenarios. Taking this journey with Dempsey will not only teach us more about death but about life as well.
For example, in Ally Wells' Birthday Secret, the power of ritual and ceremony to keep the spirits of our loved ones alive is deftly portrayed. Tears for Blood illustrates how one person's obsession with to avenge her father's murderer led to a greater understanding of compassion and perhaps forgiveness. The Fourth Attempt compassionately navigates the sensitive areas of suicide and the right to die.
Other themes related to death that Dempsey explores are: when does death truly begin, do we survive death, and death as a teacher in life. His stories will also engage his readers as to thoughts about the existence of an afterlife, or reinforce the perceptions of those who believe in an afterlife. The protagonists in his short stories are realistic and come to life through his descriptive and conversational writing style.
Dempsey does not attempt to interpret the experiences of his protagonists; he allows the reader to interpret their challenges based on their beliefs about life and death. In this way, Dempsey empowers the reader to find his/her own truths.
The Blue Fairy is a refreshing change from the typical memoirs or how-to books on navigating grief and loss. It will inspire in-depth discussions about the many layers and facets of death and how they are intertwined with life. I also see Dempsey's book as being a valuable resource for college professors with specialties in literature, psychology, and end of life issues. I look forward to more books from him.
The Blue Fairy is published by Modern History Press.
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David J. Roberts, LMSW, CASAC, became a bereaved parent after his daughter Jeannine died of cancer on 3/1/03 at the age of 18. He has been employed in the addictions field for 24 years and is an adjunct professor at Utica College. Dave is the owner of Bootsy and Angel Books, LLC (www.bootsyandangel.com) whose mission is to provide resources on grief for bereaved individuals and professionals. He has co-authored two books on navigating through grief during the holidays and pet loss and has presented at national conferences of The Compassionate Friends and Bereaved Parents of the USA. Dave is also a contributing writer for the Open to Hope Foundation (www.opentohope.com). Dave lives in Whitesboro, New York with his wife of 28 years, Cheri and Jeannine's two cats, Bootsy and Angel. They have two sons as well.


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Ashburn and Roseland each recorded a homicide in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found.
In Roseland, a 72-year-old man was shot to death Saturday in the 9500 block of South Eberhart Avenue, police said.
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