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Planning a Theme for Your Western Theme Party
Having a Party
Are you planning to have a party at your place? Or are you simply planning a party? If you are, then you should make sure that you will be able to prepare all the things needed in preparing for a party. Do you have your checklist ready? Or are you clueless on what you should do yet? If you do not have any idea on you are going to start your party yet, then you should start thinking as early as now, it is actually ideal to plan for a party months before, especially if the party is something that is really big and not just one of those unplanned parties.
Planning on Your Party
If you are planning a party, here are some of the things that you should consider and think of before going through with the preparations:
- The first thing that you should consider is to know your reason for wanting to have that party. Is it for business? Celebration of success? Birthday? Or a gathering? This is important because from here, you would know what type of preparations you need to make, the things you need to prepare, and the guests that you are going to cater to.
- The next thing that you should do after identifying your reason for hosting the party is to allot a budget for the party that you are planning. Budget is very important because, without this, you would not have any party to hold. Therefore, you should make sure that you have the right budget for the party.
- Another thing that you should consider is the theme of the party. Make sure that the theme of the party would go well with your target guests and of course yourself. the theme should be something that you would enjoy but will be appropriate for your reason for having a party. Although you can have a theme that would make your party unique, you should just know how to work it with the occasion.
Western Theme Party
If you have no theme for your party yet, you may choose a western theme party. So, what is this theme? Typically, this is a country-like type of party with cowboy hats and cowboy boots. There would be some sort of barn type decorations.
Food for Your Western Theme Party
Here are some of the food suggestions that you might want to serve when you are having a western theme party:
- Barbecue Baby Back Ribs. This dish is one of the signature dishes that you should not forget to serve when you are having this kind of theme. see, when you say western, barbecue baby back ribs is one of the things that would come to your mind.
- Home-Style Macaroni and Cheese. Mac n cheese is not only for kids, even adults would love this food. So, if you have young guests, then you can serve this dish for them to enjoy and even your adult guests.
- Honey wheat ropes. This will add to the decoration of your party, and at the same time, add to the food that you are going to serve. These are simply pretzel sticks that look twisty.
- Tasters. This is also called spuds. Basically, these are chips, that can add to your lines of finger foods and snacks when the guests are done eating the main dish.
- Country Fried Chicken. Just like the barbecue baby back ribs, this is also one of the classic foods in the west. These are made from the breast of chicken, which is cut into strips. These strips are then breaded and fried, then it is ready to be served to your guests.
- Hoedown Muffins. Basically, these are cornbread muffins. This can serve as a dessert or something that the guests can nibble on when they are done eating.
- Grilled Steaks. This is also a food that will be good for the theme. However, even if it does not go well with the theme, people will still love this dish. You should just make sure that you cook this properly so that guests will enjoy eating this. This, of course, will be part of your main dish.
- Quesadillas. You can serve the easy chicken and cheese flavored quesadillas. You are going to need a burrito sized tortilla to make this, and of course, the chicken and cheese. You may add this to your line of appetizers.
- Beverage. Of course, you should not forget the beverage, people who are eating will need a drink. You can add a western twist to their beverage to add up to the theme.
- Johnny popper. These are popcorns. You can add this with the spuds.
These are just suggestions, there are actually more foods that you can serve wherein you and your guests will truly enjoy.
Decorations for Your Party
If you are thinking on what decoration you are going to have, you can just research about how a western theme should look like. If you now have an idea on what you want the place to look like, you can buy the materials that you would need but you can also use some materials that are already available in your house. You can ask your friends in case you need help for decorating your house for your party.
Checklist for the Western Theme Party
Now, that you know what the important things that you should know in preparing for a party, I will share to you a checklist of the important things that you should do in preparing. Here they are:
- The place of the event
- The food that you are going to serve
- The decorations for the party
- Invitations for your guests
- Host (if applicable)
- Program (if applicable)
- Tables and chairs
Now you are ready, or you at least have an idea on the preparation of the party that you are going to hold. Those mentioned above are just suggestions, but you can still follow those things mentioned, it would surely help you.

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Rachel Jones of Noseweek in South Africa asked Landmark for a simple set of accounts detailing the costs of a Landmark Forum and its profits. She was concerned about the high costs relative to the actual cost of such a program. Needless to say she wasn't given the information, only threats and evasiveness by its executives.
Besides conning actual cash out of its acolytes, Landmark has one extraordinary trick up its sleeve--volunteering. They run something called the "Landmark Assisting Programme". An Australian woman, Jessica, living in London described her venture with this. Not only is it duplicitous but it is greedy and mendacious too. This is one of the reasons Landmark was thrown out of France and Sweden.
Landmark, a for-profit, company doesn't even want to pay the minimum wage. How cheap can you get? But people like Jessica, professionals in crisis as I've said before, are the prime suckers for this. There could be hope for her yet.
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Attention, Landmarkers. I am running a racket.
Attention, non-Landmarkers. Running a racket is top-secret (not really) Landmark Forum jargon for someone or something is getting on my nerves and I would like to whinge about it in three, two, one:
My Landmark Forum In Action seminar leader called me last week. I was at work, and rather busy, didn't want to talk to anyone at all, and especially not anyone Landmarky. Talking to Landmarky people means that I have to have things like integrity, energy and responsibility. Three things best left alone on a Monday morning.
"Hi, Jessica? It's ****. Are you interested in doing the Landmark Assisting Programme?"
"Um. What?"
"We really need assistants for some of the seminars."
"We're desperate."
"Oh. When do you need someone?"
"This Thursday night. Can you come? It would really help us out."
"Um. Sure. What time?"
"See you then."
"Oh, that's great! We'll see you on Thursday. Thanks!"
Actually, I'm not at all interested in the Assisting Programme. The Assisting Programme is for Forum graduates who want to climb the ranks of the Landmark elite, ruthlessly clawing their way up out of the writhing pit of volunteers with their endless stories of rackets, breakdowns, breakthroughs, transformations and all manner of jargony life moments they've experienced since the forum. In short, they want jobs.
But I like my seminar leader. She's sensible and intelligent, and she said she was desperate. So I decided I would go, because I told her I would, and because I have lots of Landmarky integrity these days.
Cut to 6:30 on Thursday night. I am prepared for a hectic night of running around the way I have seen assistants do on television. I march into Landmark Forum headquarters on Eversholt Street near Euston station to find a suspicious number of people milling around, all of them wearing name badges that say 'Assisting Programme'.
"Hi, I'm here to assist. What can I do?"
"Oh!" A look of bewilderment. "Great! Um… go see that guy in the grey shirt."
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I approach the guy in the blue shirt. "Hi, I'm here to assist. What can I do?"
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I look over. There is a girl writing a couple of sentences on a whiteboard in huge letters. She is taking approximately one minute to write each word. "Yes."
"Do you think you could read out the intention of tonight's session to her so she can write it without looking at it?"
A look of bewilderment. This time from me.
"Yes. I think I can do that."
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Mayfield Media Strategies' managing director Steve Monnington on the latest M&A activity, covering the period between issue 4 and issue 5 of EW
Non-core disposals from the larger organisers seem to be becoming more prevalent. Over the last few months I reported that Centaur Media sold its UK B2C Home Interest division to Future and Ascential has sold its 'heritage brands' to Metropolis. Since the last column, Informa announced its intention to sell Euroforum, the German/Swiss domestic conference business, to German media group, Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt.
Euroforum runs a large portfolio of small conferences across a large number of sectors and doesn't fit with Informa's vertical communities strategy. UBM also got in on the act selling Technology for Marketing (TFM), eCommerce Expo, Top 50 and the Care Show To CloserStill Media. Although this is only the second acquisition by CloserStill since Inflexion invested in March 2015, it's a strategic deal with a lot of upside potential.
The Care Show fits with its existing portfolio of healthcare events which includes Health+Care. For the three technology events, CloserStill have created a joint venture with Graeme Howe and Justin Opie who originally launched e-Commerce Expo in 2006 and sold it to UBM in 2010. All the UBM staff involved directly in the running of the shows have joined the CloserStill team. Historically, the larger organisers have been reluctant to sell their shows and, once they are in decline, are reluctant Buyer Business to increase investment thereby hastening their demise but the UBM disposal is part of their Events First strategy which has placed the focus firmly on the larger growing shows.
Often the sale to a smaller organiser breathes new life in to the show, as they bring new ideas and energy and can't afford to fail. Media 10 transformed Ideal Home show after buying it from DMG in 2009. Since then they have launched several other editions including a launch in China. They have also done a great job with 100% Design since they acquired it from Reed. UBM sold Ecobuild to the management team and it will be interesting to see if they can rebuild what was a rapidly declining event now they are an independent team.
A new area of business we at Mayfield Towers are looking at is music festivals. The M&A characteristics are reminiscent of exhibitions 10 years ago – fragmented private ownership, a few big acquisitive players such as Live Nation and AEG Live and now the first PE buy and build by Providence, who sold Clarion to Blackstone. Surprisingly, live music events turn out to be a lot more fun than machinery exhibitions (who knew?) but as Hunter S. Thompson once remarked: "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."


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Optical Hardware | Ostara 8x42 ED
Creating this website has given me some great exposure to top quality optical equipment, and I regard myself very lucky to be able to go out and test these products that enhance my hobby. When a new product like the Ostara ED binoculars come along - it really does make my nature viewing so much more pleasurable.
I've often strived to own the very best optics available on the market but budget has always been a major factor holding me back. So when Optical Hardware contacted me to tell me about a new high end binocular due later in 2009, I was filled with anticipation especially when I heard what the retail price would be...
The Ostara ED binocular will be the flagship model of the Optical Hardware range of optics, appealing to those who want the very best possible optics available.
When I first opened the packaging, the feel of the binocular instantly oozed quality and I knew then that these were going to be a serious bit of kit. The fully armoured, waterproof body is a lovely deep green colour and aesthetically they are a very simple, stylish design with a silver trim which really gives a feel of quality. They are very solid and it's obvious they will be a lifelong companion and stand the test of time and use out in the field. They were very comfortable in the hand, a nice weight and had a strange appeal that I just wanted to keep on holding them and not put them down.
Now on to the business end
The optics, the lenses are fully multicoated and phase coated (naturephase) with twin ED (APO construction) - I'm sure you will agree - this is spec to rival any top end German model.
Looking through this binocular is nothing short of joy to your eyes, the clarity is outstanding, ultra crisp sharp images that just leap at you, in my opinion - completely flawless, I offered these binoculars to various wildlife wardens out and about on my travels and everyone who looked through them were completely impressed. I did some comparisons with a top German model of the same spec and there was no difference what so ever in the optical quality. Truly amazing.
Now here is the interesting bit - the price tag!
These binoculars share the same spec and quality of their German counterparts but where they do differ is the price, Optical Hardware are suggesting a retail price of £600 for these models - not cheap for a pair of binoculars by any means but when you consider that you would normally have to pay over £1000 for optics of this quality from other manufacturers, the Ostara ED offer exceptional value for money.
If you're serious about your optics and want the best, then in my opinion you should consider the Ostara ED binocular. Forget about brand names and concentrate on the actual quality of the binocular itself - you won't be disappointed.
The Ostara ED binoculars will be available in an 8x42 and 10x42 later on in the year, check back soon for updates.
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Before her struggles with drug addiction, Latoshia Suzette Clark was a licensed nursing assistant who had lived in Houston, Texas, for almost all of her life. In September of 2011, 36-year-old Clark was arrested for drug possession, assigned a bail amount she could not pay, and consequently tossed into the overcrowded Harris County Jail, where she languished for nearly a month without medical treatment for her AIDS. Six weeks after being admitted to the Harris County Jail, Clark died.
Clark was just one of the thousands of victims of a Harris County policy to enforce so-called "trace" arrests—felony arrests made on the basis of the possession of less than 1/100th of a gram of drugs: basically, the residue on a crack pipe or one crispy leaf dangling in a baggie.
A substantial number of jurisdictions in America have come to the conclusion that the so-called "war on drugs" is costly and ineffective. Many conservatives, liberals, and medical experts agree that addiction should be viewed as a public health issue rather than a criminal one. President Obama called the war on drugs "very unproductive" and has commuted over 500 sentences for nonviolent drug offenses.
In Harris County, however, people of color like Clark are arrested and booked into the overcrowded Harris County Jail for the crime of possessing infinitesimal amounts of illegal drugs. Under Texas law, these stops and arrests are perfectly legal, but it looks like November 8's election for the district attorney of Harris County may come down to this vestige of the drug war: whether to bring Harris County in line with the rest of the country, or whether to continue a policy that has little to do with public safety.
Devon Anderson, the sitting DA for Harris County, was appointed to her position in 2013 after her husband, Mike Anderson, unexpectedly died. She then won the 2014 special election against her current opponent, Kim Ogg, in part based on her promise to maintain her husband's fealty to felony trace prosecutions and other tough on crime measures.
In fact, Mike Anderson brought back the trace prosecutions after his predecessor Pat Lykos (also a Republican) ended them. When Lykos decided to make possession of trace drugs a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine rather than jail, there were 50 percent fewer people arrested for felony drug possession in the county that year and the county saved money, no joke in a place where 70 percent of the budget goes to catching and punishing criminals. Contrary to some fears that reducing felony arrests would cause skyrocketing violence, crime in Harris County dropped. Lykos's logic was that officers were better off solving violent crimes than spending two days working a trace conviction. It was also just more fair—trace amounts are so small that they are used up in testing, so there's often no opportunity for the defendant to retest the substance in the case of faulty results.


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What is MARKET Depth ?? Market Depth is another name for Order book information. Order Book displays 5-10 levels of Bid and Offer Prices along with the volume sizes. this is very useful information for high frequency trading. Order Book tells us about what state the market is in. The amount of data is huge. Here I give some tips and useful information in how to combine the Order book Data with the Time & sales Tick Data.
CME usually provides 5 levels of information for futures contracts.
So, To construct a sequential price flow, we need to combine the Depth and Tick Data. By doing this, we can reconstruct the price action that has taken place in the market.
It is best to work with the Best Bid Best Offer and Time and sales data to reduce the memory requirement.
Always, Market Depth Updates first and then trade gets updated. If one is collecting the data, one needs to note down the Time stamps (upto msec level) and the corresponding Data.
For Example:
Depth Update 08:30:01.324 1925.50 1925.75
Trade Update 08:30:01.325 1925.75 500 (volume)
As you can see, one needs to see the time stamp for the last trade and see what was the best bid and best offer right before it and then combine the both into one row as follows:
08:30:01.325 1925.50 1925.75 1925.75 500
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Vicious attack on binman for not collecting rubbish
Two men who viciously attacked a binman because their rubbish was not collected have been jailed.
John McCann (32) and Craig Redmond (21) launched the assault after the bin was blacklisted for non-payment.
They also assaulted Gda Michael Hughes when he arrived at the scene.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard yesterday that Gda Hughes, who was a keen marathon runner, has been unable to walk unaided since the attack.
McCann, of Virginia Drive, Finglas, and Redmond, of Valley Park Drive, Finglas, were sentenced to three years by Judge Melanie Greally.
She suspended the final 18 months of McCann's sentence in light of his efforts to rehabilitate. She suspended the final year of Redmond's sentence after taking the view that he has made less effort to rehabilitate.
McCann pleaded guilty to assaulting both the binman and Gda Hughes at Virginia Park, Finglas, on May 8, 2015. Redmond pleaded guilty to assaulting the binman.
Gda Robert Griffin told the court that Redmond has struggled with addictions and has 30 previous convictions for offences including theft, assault, criminal damage, burglary and robbery.
McCann also has addiction issues and has 31 previous convictions for theft, road traffic offences, robbery, burglary, criminal damage and assault.
Sandra Frayne, for McCann, said he wished to apologise to Gda Hughes. He had €1,000 in court for the officer, who said he would accept it on behalf of a relative, a terminally-ill child.
James Dwyer, defending Redmond, said his client had €300 in court as a token of his remorse to his victim.
Gda Griffin said the victim and his colleagues were collecting for Greyhound West Re- cycling when they loaded a bin on to the truck that had been blacklisted for non-payment.
The men returned the bin and put a sticker on it to explain why it had not been collected.
Three men then came from a nearby green area and started giving out to the victim's coll- eague for not taking the bin.
Gda Griffin said the victim managed to call gardai before one of the men threatened to punch him.
The man moved backwards and fell over before all three attacked him, punching and kicking him all over.
Gardai arrived a short time later to find the man still being attacked.


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Not all dogs enjoy water but this little puppy sure does enjoy taking a shower in the bathroom sink!
The two-week-old was close to death when he was found abandoned in a dumpster with his two sisters– but now it looks like his troubles are a million miles away. They were found by Dallas Animal Service and referred to the DFW Rescue Me animal shelter where volunteer Claire Fowler was tasked with looking after them.


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Following the Success of last years FREE have a go sports sessions, this year we have more for youngsters of all ages to try (I am sure if you grown ups fancy a go they will let you too!)
Rugby with Oakmeadians Rugby Club
Last year the Oakmedian rugby section was very busy with hundreds of boys and girls joining in a number of drills and games. Plus watch some of Bournemouth's best youngsters demonstrate their skills. For more information about how to get involved with Oakmedians visit www.oakmeadians-rfc.com
Cricket with Dorset Cricket Board
Test your batting, bowling and fielding skills with some of Dorset top coaches and young players there to give you a few tips. Suitable for all children of all ages, enjoy one of the great British games!
For more information about cricket in Dorset visit www.dorsetcricketboard.co.uk
Football with Littledown Juniors
Have fun learning about football with some of the top young coaches in the area. PLUS Have a go on GAZZA the Littledown penalty shoot out game!
For more information about Littledown Juniors click here
YBall at Littledown
YBall is an exciting new sport based in Bournemouth and Poole, Dorset. It's a low impact team game suitable for all ages, and is played to music to promote a fun, healthy, active lifestyle.
- A team game suitable for mixed gender and all ages
- Tests your hand-eye coordination
- Played to music, with the REF acting as an interactive MC – get your requests in!
- Play day and night using specialized night-vision goggles and reflective ball
Tennis is a sport that anyone can play and David Sanger, head coach at Southbourne tennis club is going to be on hand to show you how! If you have never played tennis before then tennis can be adapted for any level of ability, impairment or disability.
Bournemouth Netball Club aims to provide a club structure which supports the needs of everyone, from those wanting to reach for the stars but also for those who just want to have fun with their friends


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10th Muse: The Beginning (Preview)
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- Story by
- Marv Wolfman
- Art by
- Ken Lashley
- Cover by
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This is the 1st time these issues have been collected since it was the 6th highest selling comic book 10 years ago at Image Comics. Written by DC Comics icon Marv Wolfman and penciled by Flash artist Ken Lashley. This graphic novel has a forward by 10th Muse photo model Cindy Margolis. Greek mythology has documented the nine Muses, the inspirational daughters of the almighty Zeus. But history forgot one–the Tenth Muse. Emma, Brett and Dawn were the best of friends — until Emma disappeared, leaving only a note saying goodbye. Now, eight years later, Emma is back, without answers. What happened to Emma? What is her connection with Grayson Bishop, and, most of all, how did ordinary Emma Sonnet become the mysterious 10th MUSE?


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|The Miniaturist - Penguin jumper - dotty dressing gown
Christmas Eve candle - white Converse - house charm
With only a few weeks until Christmas, I felt like the time has come to post a wish list. As far as I'm aware, Joe hasn't started his Christmas shopping yet - which is bad news for me! It took me forever to create this wish list, as I'd already planned to buy myself some treats in the Boxing Day sales. However, I've been after a dressing gown for age and this Joules one is just lovely. It looks like it would be really soft and snuggly, and to be honest I don't own enough polka dots. Next on my list was the rather general 'books'. I've already been book shopping recently, and picked up four new books under the guise of some of them being on my uni reading list - well, one was, but it was the second in a trilogy, so I had to get the whole set! I'd love to own this beautiful edition of The Miniaturist, the cover would look fabulous on my bookshelf.
Christmas isn't the same without a novelty jumper, and it seems like penguins are in vogue this year. I love the mint colour, as it makes a nice change from the usual reds and greens. This one is from New Look, but they have so many different designs, I'm sure you'll find one you love. Another Christmas essential is a festive Yankee Candle! This year, I'd love to receive Christmas Eve - maybe as our traditional early present? That way, I could open it on Christmas Eve and enjoy the scent on the intended day.
Would you believe me if I said I'd never owned a pair of Converse trainers? It's true, I was always more of a Vans kind of girl. Anyhow, I really fancy a white pair, and love how these are completely white. I think Converse have had some sort of re-brand recently, and that's why they don't have the blue and red stripes along the bottom. I could be wrong on that, though. Last up on my list is this lovely little house charm from Pandora. I've wanted it since July, to celebrate us moving away from our awful last place. Of course, if Joe (or anyone else reading) would prefer to get me a different charm, I have a wish list as long as my arm on the pandora website haha!
Do you like any of my picks? What have you asked for this Christmas?
Chelsea xo


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Take things slow and do them right is what Donald Dixon believes more craftspeople and artisans should do. That philosophy prompted he and his wife, Hazel, to start an antique business that specializes in Scottish heirlooms. "Scottish antiques are extremely well-crafted,' says Dixon.
He jokes that his first export from Scotland was his wife and her Scottish way of rolling her r's offers proof of that. Together the couple travels to her native country about once every nine months and selectes pieces to ship back to their shop, Scots Corner Antiques.
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For it is proclaimed, by many a yoghurt weaver, that processed and canned foods have a frequency of precisely 0MHz, while fresh vegetables have frequencies in the range 20 - 27MHz, and the really high frequency foods are products like seaweed, wheatgrass, spirulina etc. that hippies have been telling us for years are good for us.
Of course, there are a lot of variations on this theme (an example is given in the illustration below) and a lot of different numbers bandied about, though for some reason they all seem to agree that the frequency of pure rose oil is 320MHz. Not that consuming rose oil is particularly healthy for you, but that's another story. The important message is that eating higher vibration foods will raise your body's own vibration, which will in turn make us healthier and happier. Oh, and cure cancer. And activate all 12 strands of our DNA. Apparently. What does all this really mean?
|Meat exhibits a rare phenomenon known as antivibrating, apparently.
So where do these numbers come from? It's almost as if someone has come up with a ratings scale for hippy food. There's no need for all these complex arguments about wether the president of Chick-Fil-A is a closet homosexual, or if organic food has more nutritional content than non-organic. You can just refer to the frequency of the food to decide wether it's suitable.
It makes me wonder why this sort of information is not publically available everywhere. I mean, food manufacturers in many countries are required to detail the nutritional content and calorific value of the product, so why not the frequency as well? Wouldn't food choices become so much easier?
So, lets take a step back. What does "frequency" actually mean? It's a hugely complicated subject and there are many different answers. Yoghurt weavers often use the term to apply to mystical, wishy-washy "vibrational energy" of the type undetected by science. The type you need to pay crystal healers and dowsers to help you read. I have written much about those types before.
Instead, this article is about the tangible, known-to-science kind of frequency. The type you can actually measure. Put simply, frequency is the number of times an event repeats itself per unit time. So, when applied to a periodic wave, for example, the frequency is the phase velocity divided by the wavelength. There are all sorts of different types of waves, which have different properties. Light and sound waves are examples. Pulses of electricity through a wire, nervous signals in the brain, and those wobbly things in the sea are others. Frequency is measured with the unit Hertz, which equals the number of cycles per second of the repeating event.
|A water molecule
Hopefully you are getting the point I'm trying to make. The concept of "frequency" when applied to a molecule is meaningless. Cells are made up of millions of hugely complex molecules in a dynamic, fluidic environment. Organisms are made up of millions of different cells of lots of different types. Therefore, the concept of frequency when applied to any type of food, or living tissue, is also meaningless. Furthermore, there are no methods of measuring it that are known to science.
(The one exception to this is the frequency of nervous signal transduction. But this too, has many complex local variables, and subject to change from one minute to the next.)
Put plainly, food and living tissues in general do not have a meaningful, fixed frequency of any description - whatever you measure, (with whichever quackery device you are using) is the sum total of thousands of different, fluctuating variables. So, returning to the original question, where do these numbers come from?
Researching this, I came across a lot of people who confused the issue of oscillating molecules with that of the frequency of light and sound, and more generally describing vibration as some amazing concept you can just apply to anything. Amazingly, Jesus had a score of over 1000MHz, a Tibetan singing bowl scores 615, and corn from the local market scores 80. One site proclaimed that cannabis has a frequency of 19, 500 MHz, I think it was called smokadaherb.com. Someone else was trying to convince the world that food comes in packets called "colloids" which can be as small as 0.1 Angstroms, apparently (smaller than a hydrogen atom!). These colloids have their own electrical charge which directly tops up the body's frequencies whenever you eat.
The less said about these fools, the better.
Dr Robert Rife was an inventor who came up with a device for measuring the frequencies coming from different types of body tissue. He was interested in using this information in medicine and claimed that disease only sets in to the human body when the frequency of body tissue drops below 62MHz. He then went on to invent a device for "beaming" certain frequencies at tumours to try and cure the cancers. This consisted of an anal probe typical of alien abduction movies rigged up to a car battery, and he had the same kind of measuring system, in MHz.
Several people died as a result of their abstention from medical treatment whilst undergoing this procedure. Rife claimed that his work was covered up and discredited in a conspiracy to supress cancer cures.
So it's almost tempting to come to the conclusion that there are no reliable ways of measuring the frequency of a food, or a body part for that matter, and these numbers that people ascribe are made up by the people who manufacter the health food products. These "superfoods" may be good for you because they have a good range of vitamins or fatty acids or minerals, because they are chemical free, or other tangible reason. But beware of claims that they have a higher frequency and don't listen to anyone who tells you that a food can cure cancer.


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For the last few days my heart has been heavy with sorrow for the city that I have grown up in and loved all of my life. Like many around the country, I hoped that such a thing would not happen in my city, that somehow we would not be touched by the racism and violence that has broken out around our nation. This was naive optimism - and unrealistic. So when the news broke of the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, my heart sank. It first came on the local news two nights ago. I saw it right before I went to bed and I prayed for the city I loved and for what was surely to come. In circumstances such as these, as Christians, we should lament.
This morning, I knew I was going to one of my stores that was near where the protests and rioting happened last night. There were those who asked me, "Are you really going to go there?" My answer was a resounding "Yes," not only because it's my job but, more importantly, I believed God wanted me to go there. There are people in that store I deeply care about and pray for. It is a predominately Hispanic and African American, so I prayed during my morning commute on how I could best be Christ-like in the midst of the hurt and anger our city is struggling with in terms of racism. I prayed that God would give me the right words to speak and, more importantly, the ears to listen.
The sky overhead was gray and melancholy, as if it reflected not only my spirit, but the spirit of this city right now. Driving up I-85, when I first saw Charlotte in the distance, I truly felt moved with compassion for this ornately beautiful city that so often gleams in the sunlight, but was now dimmer with the cloudy sky. Then Audrey Assad's gently voice came on and she began to sing the hymn "Be Thou My Vision."
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart
Naught else to save me, save that Thou art
Thou my best thought, by day or by night
Walking or sleeping, Thy presence my light
There is such healing in those words. I love hymns for the power and depth and richness they contain. As I listened to this one, I couldn't help but think, "What if we truly saw the world through the eyes of Christ, how much differently would it look to us?" If we could see each other with his compassion, mercy, tenderness, and grace then how much would we and those around us be transformed by it? If we did, there would be no "other," no "us" and "them." There is no love in otherness, only judgment. We cannot love in an "us' and "them" scenario. And we are called to love, to love as Christ loved: unconditionally. In the kingdom of heaven there is no "other," so is it any wonder we are then called to pray and strive for "on earth as it is in heaven?"
When I arrived at the store, sure enough, I was approached by people of another ethnicity who knew me and wanted to know what I thought about the situation. I spoke of my sorrow for both sides and how I hoped that, in the midst of this brokenness, we can find true healing and wholeness, that I hoped and prayed that this would lead to real understanding and reconciliation. Certainly I long, as the prophet Amos did, for "justice to roll down like a streaming river." But then I listened. I listened to what they had to say.
How much would our society changed if we stopped reacting and started listening? To hear another person, to know their story, to be present with them in their time of hurt or sorrow or anger. To hold that and to shed tears with them or an embrace is to be as Christ. He did not build bigger walls but a bigger table for all to come to. How then can I not do likewise if I claim to follow him?
It's not easy. It's not always comfortable. But it is compassionate. It is our calling.
I grew up in this "Christ-haunted South" and I have seen the racism that runs deep in it. I understood the protests taking place at Trade and Tryon in downtown where there were once slave auctions. I know the racism of the South I have grown up in. But I also recognize that it is also deep down inside of fallen me. And I must face that. Our country must face this. Because there can be no repentance and no healing for that which we do not recognize and admit is there.
For my city and my country, I pray daily for peace, justice and reconciliation. But that is not enough. I must also work towards it. And to teach me sons to do likewise. To see people as people with real stories and dreams and aspirations and sorrows and joys and brokenness. Christ has called us to love our neighbor - all of them. We cannot love what we fear. Yet what we fear is merely a projection of what we fear and do not like in ourselves. Thankfully, perfect love casts out all fear.
This week marked the anniversary of two men who I have never met but who have deeply impacted and shaped my faith: Rich Mullins and Henri Nouwen. Both men were highly successful in their fields (music and theology). Rich was a hugely successful Christian recording artist yet he gave away most of his millions and lived on only what the salary was for the average American. He also chose not to live in a mansion but left Nashville for New Mexico to work with impoverished kids on the Navajo reservation.
Something he once said that has stayed with me over the years was this:
Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche
in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and
your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where
you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you.
Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and
Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.
And Henri Nouwen was the same way.
He was a well-known and well-respected Dutch priest, theologian, author and speaker. In the course of his career, he taught at the University of Notre Dame, Yale and Harvard but he left all of that to work with the physically and mentally handicapped people of the L'Arche Daybreak Community. This was started by Jean Vanier in 1964 and they work with those who have special needs, many of them severely challenged. Many did not understand what would cause Nouwen to do such a thing. While he wrote about how hard this work could be, he also showed how he had never been closer to Christ than when he was taking care of someone who couldn't even clean or bathe themselves.
He was a well-known and well-respected Dutch priest, theologian, author and speaker. In the course of his career, he taught at the University of Notre Dame, Yale and Harvard but he left all of that to work with the physically and mentally handicapped people of the L'Arche Daybreak Community. This was started by Jean Vanier in 1964 and they work with those who have special needs, many of them severely challenged. Many did not understand what would cause Nouwen to do such a thing. While he wrote about how hard this work could be, he also showed how he had never been closer to Christ than when he was taking care of someone who couldn't even clean or bathe themselves.
Nouwen once wrote:
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into
the places of pain,t o share in brokenness, fear, confusion
and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with
those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely,
to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be
weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable,
and powerless with the powerless. Compassion
means full immersion in the condition of being human,
When I think of the legacy of both of these men, it is not one of selfishness and ambition, but of love and compassion and mercy and tenderness for the forgotten, the hurting, the broken, the lonely, and those who society pushes to the fringes, who we so often do not see because to see their hurts or their disabilities or their pains would be to recognize our own and we don't like doing that.
Healing in Charlotte does not start with those protesting, or with the police, or with the local government. It starts with me. Social justice, as I have seen so often in the Old Testament with the prophets, begins with the individual admitting their own sinfulness and then moves out to recognizing the sins of the city and the nation.
I pray. Constantly. For my own heart to heal. To see my own hidden racism. To see my own complicity with the broken and fallen world. I confess my sinfulness and cry out to God in lament for myself, my city and my nation. I pray that God removes that fear. I pray that I can truly see through the loving eyes of Christ. I pray that all of this is the first step toward my city's and my nation's healing when it comes to that sin or racism that has soaked this nation's soil from the backs of slaves to today.
I pray that the grace and mercy God has extended to me will be the same that I desire to extend to others. I pray that others can see that I am a follower of Christ by my love, that it mirrors his love. If I don't, how else will the world begin to change? I cannot change the world, I can only change myself through Christ. I pray that that change begins today and to those I have hurt, I offer this, "I'm sorry."


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Friday: March 26, 2010
- Some answers to some very common 3D television questions.
Can I use my current TV? Um, no. You'll have to buy a new 3-D television. In fact, if you bought a 3-D-ready TV in recent years, you're not ready. You'll still need a Mitsubishi 3-DC-1000 converter box. The technology has evolved. The converter boxes run about $100.


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Daily Archives: Thursday, June 8, 2017
NVDA and DAN
Last night's free video…
Lots of crazy numbers being thrown around. Dan sure got this one right a few weeks ago when he said it would take out 150 pretty quickly. I think my new plan for my 170/150 inverted strangles will be to reverse roll the ITM calls out to a put position while they're still reasonably rollable. A couple possibilities are:
Jan 2018 140 puts @ even
Jan 2018 150/110 Bull put spreads @ 1.50 credit
This will allow me some management room for the nearer term puts. Hopefully could close those soon and then let the 2018's decay stress free while keeping a big bulk of the nice premium received so far.
YM Trades after 5pm
The UK event spooked the mkt at the 5pm open..gave me a chance to go long at the low of a 100 gap down..
Long at 21080, on the knee jerk reaction…
Exit at 21145 for a 65 point win
Long at 21128, off the S1 PP
exit at 21163, at the 34ma
35 pt win
a Nice headstart for friday..
Closed out /CL strangles
BTC Jul 41.5/53.5 strangle at .59, .60, .61 and .62. Market makers kept making me go up a penny each contract.
BTC Aug 39/57 strangles at 0.62.
Loss of $550 on 8 contracts. It would have eventually worked out, but I forgot I am on vacation next week, will have limited computer access and don't want to babysit positions while kiteboarding at the beach.
Maybe try again when the next series comes out in 2 weeks or if we get some vol restart my /ES strangle ladders. They are easier to manage because of weeklies but each contract requires $6000 to support it.
Now have some margin to play with for trades tomorrow.
Just saw this…interesting video on defending against an outlier move in something like NVDA.
TAP #FallingKnife I just noticed…
TAP #FallingKnife
I just noticed that I got a fill on this trade.
Sold $TAP Jan 19 70 puts @ 1.30.
BTC $EWZ Jun 16 37.5…
BTC $EWZ Jun 16 37.5 calls @ 0.03, waiting to sell again for next week


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Newsletter of the Los Angeles County Beekeepers Association
November 5, 2012 Volume XII, Issue 10
Next Meeting: December 3, 2012, 6:00pm
Pickwick Gardens Conference Center
1001 Riverside Drive
Burbank, CA 91506
Topic for December Meeting:
Beekeeping in Italy!
Minutes from the November Meeting: Attendance: 30, 28 members, 2 guests
Contents in Brief:
Old Business
New Business
American Bee Journal –subscription discount – grab a voucher from Stacy or contact them at 1-888-922-1293 and tell them you're a LACBA member to get 25% off
Bee Culture subscription discounts – simply contact them at 1-800-289-7668 and let them know you're a LACBA member to get a discounted subscription
Buzzings – if you're not getting a copy, let Stacy McKenna know (email@example.com) so we can update your information
Don't forget to grab your nametag and keep it in your glove compartment or such so you have it handy for meetings.
If you want to be listed on our website for honey sales or bee removals, contact Eva Andrews at email@example.com
Old Business:
Paul DuPont has purchased Laura Rockwell's donated extractor – big thanks to both of them for their contributions to the club's funds!!
Election of officers – Jim Lindsay confirmed he will be able to progress and serve as our president this year. Keith Roberts confirmed his acceptance of last month's nomination and no further nominations were voiced. The assembled moved/seconded, and approved the following officers for 2013:
President: Jim Lindsay
VP: Keith Roberts
Secretary: Stacy McKenna
Treasurer: Bill Rathfelder
New Business:
Birthdays! Happy birthday to Bill Lewis and Robin Mitchell this month!
Show & Tell – Clyde's wife came back from a trip with a sample of the Brown Palace Hotel bee products. Premium prices for simple, familiar items wrapped in premium packaging. $15 for 6oz of honey, $12 for a bar of Bee Royal lavender soap
CSBA Convention November
Nov 13-15 at the Morongo Casino in Palm Springs – about 20 of our members will be there, and the first gathering is a President's reception the Monday evening before the convention starts. The breakout sessions for small scale beekeepers were a hit last year - there's a schedule for them, they'll be on Wed and Thurs.
Clyde is also hoping we'll elect Bill to be the new VP of CSBA while we're there…
Lenore also exhibited for us her contribution to their raffle – a quilt titled "The Fruits of Her Labor" it represents farmer's market table and is composed of squares of fabric representing all of the produce listed on the annual CSBA pollination survey (and then some) bordered by fabrics of wood grain, honeycomb, and wildflowers. Still just a top at our meeting, she expects it to be fully completed in time for the convention. [Ed: Not only was it completed, it was the highest priced raffle item of the event. Clyde's generous offering was outbid in nothing flat. Lenore was the only one surprised by this, really…]
If you aren't going – do you have questions? Let us know so we can get them answered for you!
Christmas dinner – 6pm Monday December 3 (dinner at 7pm)
Pickwick Gardens Convention Center
1001 Riverside Drive, Burbank, CA
Outback Catering will provide entrees, appetizers and desserts are potluck.
Our coffers are comfortably full this year and we should have a cushion of funds after the dinner to help finance our insurance, education, website, etc. until next year's fair.
Entrance is free if you worked the fair, bring food, or bring raffle items. Otherwise, $15/person.
Clive will be discussing his experiences with beekeepers in Italy, and Clyde will be awarding the Golden hive Tool to another lucky recipient.
Website – Eva reports there were 3,400 new visits in September – our presence is growing and her prolific postings of news and articles keep things fresh and interesting. Thanks for all the hard work, Eva!!!
Russ Levine's handy tip – Russ has been helping set up an apiary for the beekeeping club at Pitzer College. To help instruct them, he was out in the yard doing a hive inspection without a veil. With the lid off, and his brand new hooked hive tool in hand, he went to adjust his glasses… and ripped open his ear. He proceeded to give the rest of the class with one hand cupped over his ear while another student did the "heavy lifting" in the hive. When he finally got to the hospital, he needed 9 stitches, though the anesthesia shots apparently had NOTHING on bee stings. Key take-aways: 1) don't keep your hive tool in the same hand you use to adjust your glasses, and 2) when bees smell blood, just stay cool…
BASC is planning to bring in Dr. Malcolm Sanford from FL to speak soon.
Keith Roberts went to the UK and brought back some Welsh honey for us to try from Snowdonia. He was hoping to meet some beekeepers, but they don't hold meetings between October and March on account of the weather. As Keith recounted: "I don't think America makes anything that can deal with Welsh weather" was met with "Sure they do, son - submarines." Apparently the heather honey is so thick is can't be extracted – it has to be squeezed out of the comb.
John Reese brought in some hive beetles for us all to see. Several of our beekeepers are seeing them in cooler, more humid areas, though they're still not as big an issue as they are in The South and HI.
Kodua's 2013 calendar is coming out, and she's included quotes from most of the big names she met on her recent travels. They're available for $13 to club members.
What are you seeing in your hives?
No growth and little brood – weak queen? Plenty of honey, spotty brood pattern – get a new queen. "Shotgunny" eggs and larvae right next to each other, or empty spaces in between? Nothing. Any sign of deformed wing virus? Could be mite stress. They haven't treated for mites in 2 years and have not done any mite testing. [The room collectively groans – almost guaranteed it's mites.] Reduce the entrance to help them stay warm and protect their food reserves, and treat for mites. Eugene Covalschi swears by thymol, he buys crystals and dissolves them in alcohol to apply. He applies right about now, along with essential oils of wintergreen, lemongrass, some peroxide, and vitamin C in the feed.
The Jensens have about 20 hives in alfalfa right now, another 10-20 in La Tuna Canyon are not doing anywhere near as well and are needing feeding. Those in the high desert are doing well on rabbit brush.
Has anyone tried oxalic acid? Very few had.
Fermented sugar water – my bees found some and loved it anyway. Just not sure any of them actually found their way home afterward.
ANTS – Keith has had a HORRIBLE time with ants, even with hive stands to help keep his hives away from them. How do you guys on pallets do it?! Bare dirt lots… Bill sees ants more at night than during the day. The last time they had a problem, he still had some diazinon around and used that to control them. Moving the bees frequently does a fair bit to help, too. Diatomaceous earth can help (be careful to use the organic version – the other kind can kill bees). A rag with vinegar used to wipe down the ant trail helps eliminate their scent markings and make it less likely they'll return. Windex can also help with this. Dr. Mussen's newsletter had a recommendation for Orange Power orange oil cleanser, but Walt could only find it for sale in Australia.
Ticks? – not really a problem IN the hive, but if you're exposed to them getting to/from your hives be sure to invest in any of the anti-tick options available commercially.
Fruit trees – what should be used against leaf borers that won't hurt the bees? Try applying any insecticides at night when the bees are all inside to minimize exposure
This has been Bill and Clyde's worst year so far. The wax moths are AWFUL this year because the mites were heavy. Some of the treatments they tried didn't work well enough or weren't applied often enough, and the mites took over. They tried a ¼ dose of MAQS (not enough), tried HopGuard (only affects adult mites), and ultimately went back to Apistan because they hadn't used it in 4-5 years and this did help thanks to the break in resistance breeding. DOUBLE CHECK YOUR EFFICACY!!!! Don't just apply and assume! (Eugene says he spends about $14 on thymol crystals to treat about 500 hives, just for financial info on options.) Chip over at Bennett's lost about half his hives. He used Amitraz and some Taktic (Amitraz) he got from Australia (not technically legal here for bees – it's off-label usage) a couple weeks ago, after the honey flow was over. Many commercial guys have been known to use illicit chemicals because there are so few options available legally that resistance builds up quickly. What are the legal ramifications/consequences? Among beekeepers that's not generally discussed. At most it's usually been heard to be a citation and/or fine.
Russ' bees in Pomona are doing ok, those in Claremont have been feeding since July and have seen about 40% losses.
The NYCBA had most of their bees wiped out in the latest hurricane. Over 1 million bees were lost, and boxes were found up to a mile away. They had a breeding program for locally adapted bees, and they strapped the master hive down and shipped it to another state for the duration of the storm. Clyde is wondering how Dave Mendez and other big commercial guys on the east coast are faring with their bees. The breeders in places like GA may have a significant impact on our local breeders if the storm takes them out or significantly drops their inventory.
Bill's lab results – he finally got answers out of Dr. Frazier's lab at Penn State, and the answer was that there were no hits on the 170 compounds they tested for. They didn't test the samples until August, so he has no idea if the samples were adequately collected and stored. So far, all of the hives have recovered.
Citrus psyllid – local municipalities are treating the trees and the ground with neonicotinoids to help control them. Will the pesticides move through the trees and wind up in the nectar? Will we see a persistent bee effect? Applied pesticides could impact pollen stores so it could have a prolonged impact through that alone. Bill experienced a similar situation with eucalyptus trees and saw no reall effect. Proving that a chemical is killing the bees is HARD – this is why beekeepers are having a hard time getting certain pesticides banned. In the EU, companies have to prove that the chemicals are safe, the process is entirely the opposite of how it works here. Walt points out that analysis of research/results is very much a "follow the money" process, much like with the GMO products.
All prizes are donated, so the group spends no money on this endeavor. Thanks to all for helping support our group's works through this fundraiser!
Placemats – Bill Strait
Necklaces – one to one of our new members/guests, and another to Clive Segil
Tote bag – Cyndi Caldera [who then took it straight to the convention!]


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For this week's Magazine Monday Event, hosted by Retorte, I have a very old recipe I've been saving to try for the Holidays. I finally used it and I highly recommended this bread pudding recipe found in 2005 issue of Food and Wine Magazine.
When I came across this recipe years ago, I new I had to give it a try during one of these Holiday seasons. Who doesn't like Krispy Kreme right? I love bread pudding and what better time to make this than during the colder months. Though this is the first time I ever made bread pudding, I did find this recipe easy to follow but a bit time consuming after each step to complete it. Unfortunately nobody believed me during Thanksgiving dinner when I told them this Bread Pudding was made out of Krispy Kreme donuts. If only they lived in my house to smell the donuts cooking in the oven. What I love about these donuts are the really nice soft texture, even though all bread puddings are of that consistency, this one keeps a really nice firmness as well. The Espresso Cream topping takes the cake, if you love coffee don't skip this step it really is the cherry on top. It was a beautiful finish to an already tasty dessert.


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A resort with a yard of the hill with a soothing natural plant and completed by white sandy coastline on its front yard mingled with lovely waves ripple as its view.
This website has been unimaginable in helping me choose a location for my vacation spot wedding. Jamaica, right here we come! The hot spring resort even have chairs and tables product of pure wood. I'm undecided if it is made kind Narra or Melina tree. A number of the extras Ash Grove Resort supplies! Trails, playground, horseshoes, and more! – Click on the thumbnail photographs to make them bigger! This particular resort was just lately given a makeover, furnishing the visitor rooms and suites with luxurious mahogany furnishings and comfortable new linens for the beds (plus far more!) Spend time on their famous rooftop Jacuzzi,enjoying the amazing view of the bay.
Moon Dance Cliffs is a lately opened Boutique lodge in Negril that options 18 ocean view rooms, 4 beautiful suites and four massive personal villas. The villas range from 1 bedroom to five bedrooms, so if you're wanting a destination marriage ceremony with plenty of choices on your family and friends, it is a wonderful selection! This was our first trip to Walt Disney World with our daughters, three and 5 (my oldest turned 5 whereas there!) and we had been thrilled that we selected to stay at the Fort Wilderness cabins; it was an exquisite expertise that we'll at all times remember and look forward to doing again.
At this point, I believe Disney ought to take a touch from the Gaylord National Harbor. Just like the Contemporary, it's primarily an enormous atrium towards a glass wall, several stories tall. Most hotel resorts won't wish to take responsibility for stolen or lost gadgets. Subsequently, lock your valuables (cash, passport, jewellery, airline tickets, etc.) in your suitcase or in the provided room secure.
The lodge befits its salubrious environment – tropical inexperienced wilderness, cheerful and lively. Discover accommodation at Bandhavgarh Nationwide Park that is your dream – to be a one with nature. The amazing biodiversity of the park – wild cats, deer, birds and butterflies resides moreover us – the resort compliments the environment. Siburan is the biggest tract of lowland forest known on Mindoro. This forest is contiguous with the patchy forests on the limestone ridge working north from Malpalon.


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MFA impressions: 11.29214VR (11.29214, 11.40828a-b), 11.44233a-c The actor later known as Jitsukawa Enjaku I used the name Onoe Baikô from 1/1859 to 2/1863 but is not considered a formal member of the lineage; he falls between the official Baikô IV and Baikô V.
Toyokuni ga, in toshidama cartouche (on each sheet) 豊国画(年玉枠)
Censor's seal: Goat 1 aratame No blockcutter's mark 改印: 未正改 彫師: なし
By 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005) NOTES: [1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
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Japanese, Edo period, 1859 (Ansei 6), 1st month
- Artist Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III), Japanese, 1786–1864
- Publisher Maruya Jinpachi (Marujin, Enjudô), Japanese
Vertical ôban triptych; 36 x 76.7 cm (14 3/16 x 30 3/16 in.)
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I am about at my wits end. I will be as brief as possible in describing my delima. I met my husband in Jan 2010, at that time he had just gotten out of prison and was in the process of "changing his life" (I was 43 and he was 39). I am a professional (Engineer) and have never even been in any kind of trouble with the law. He was a really nice all around guy. And I liked him right away. After seeing each other a few time we were together as much as possible. He shortly moved in with me... and we started our romance. He was very open and honest with me about his history and told me that he didn't want to ever go back to that. He was TOO old and didn't want to go though being in prison ever again... hence the "changing his life". We had a great time together... and he seemed to be very laid back and enjoying his life. He worked and LOVED his job. It was a while before I even saw his anger. It was around May 2010. We were entertaining out by the pool when my friends wanted to leave because her husband's stomach was upset. So they left. My... I guess... boyfriend at the time got MAD!!! He said that they left because they didn't like him or his friends. I assured him that they liked him just fine and thought he was a GREAT guy... and also LOVED the fact that he treated me great. I ended up going inside with my son because he couldn't calm down and was yelling at me. Had me in tears by the time he was done. So, a little while later... after much more drinking... he came into the house and told me that my son had said that my boyfriend and I had a bad relationship. I told him that my son would NEVER say that... so he called my son into the room and confronted him. My son said that he never said that and my boyfriend called him a liar. After a while of more yelling my boyfriend left the house with his brother and his friends. I was somewhat relieved. And by then he was pretty much living with me, and I didn't know what I was going to do. The next day he called me and told me how sorry he was and that he loved me and didn't want to lose me... asked me to please forgive him and that he would apologize to my son because he knew that we was wrong. So, I let him come back. He was mostly good for a while...
In September of 2010 I got transferred to another state for work. I asked him to come with me, but that meant him quitting his job and selling his car. After we talked about it a lot... he said that he wanted to come with me. We moved and started a new life in another state. When we moved here we were living in a hotel till we could find an apartment to rent that we liked. So, we were in the hotel for almost a month. He started drinking HEAVILY while we were in the hotel... keeping me awake at night sometimes yelling at me for no reason... or if I'd tell him to stop drinking. It affected me at work. I would go tired... and with my eyes swollen from crying all night long. One night he got so drunk that he passed out on the floor and ended up throwing up in his sleep. I had to stay up ALL night long to make sure he didn't choke. It was terrible... and I didn't understand why he got so mean when he drank. But the other times he was the best person in the world.
We moved into our apartment in Nov. 2010. At that time we decided that he would be a stay at home husband. He would do all the house work and I would go out and make the money. Seemed to work just fine, but I didn't know that when I would go to sleep at night that he was sneaking out drinking. After a while... probably around March of 2011 I noticed that the anger was coming back with a BANG! Everything would set him off. It was terrible. Then one night in May of 2011 he got so drunk that he was telling me that he was going to go out and do some illegal drugs. He has done all kind of illegal drugs, but not since he had gotten out this last time. I begged him not to go. After I finally convinced him to stay... we sat and talked. He THEN told me that he had Hep-C, most likely from drug use. I never knew this before... one would think that would have been something he would have let me know. I asked him why he kept it from me and he said that after he fell in love with me that if he told me that I would leave him. Of course, I was in love with him... I was upset that he kept it from me... but I wasn't going to leave him over it. So, we both knew at that point that he was going to have to get on my insurance and get check to make sure he hadn't done too much damage to his liver. We also talked and he told me that if he could get his medical marijuana card, and could smoke... it would make it much easier for him to quit drinking. I told him that the most important thing to me was that he stop drinking because the would do A LOT of damage to his liver. So, I agreed with the smoking. I don't smoke myself... but I hadn't heard any really terrible things about it... and I though... well, it's supposed to mellow people out. So, maybe it'd also help him with his rage. Shorty after, in November 2011 we got married and he got on my insurance and got a complete check up.
His Hep-C seemed to be under control and doesn't need treatment at this time. But during his check up he found out that he had major back issues (which he had never complained of before). But as soon as he found this out... his back hurt BAD! He started going to pain management and was prescribed Hydrocodone. He is now up to the highest does of hydrocodone 5 time a day AS NEEDED. But he doesn't pay attention to the as needed part... he takes them 5 times a day no matter what. Says it keeps his pain "in check". Said that the doctor told him to do it that way. He doesn't run out of his pills early because I was giving them to him everyday so that he didn't take too many. I do not have control of them anymore. He has been on the pain pills for over a year now.
He also during all of this thought he was depressed... went and got depression meds. They were "the best thing that ever happened" to him. But they would only work for a couple of months and he was back at the doctor getting different antidepressant meds.
On December 1st of this year, I had my company holiday party. He met a co-worker of mines husband who was also a stay at home husband. He was talking with my husband about his depression issues. He told my husband that he totally understood what he was going through, but didn't think he had depression but that he thought he had anxiety and that xanax was a GREAT med for that. My husband, being for former drug addict who has taken xanax and liked it, agreed. Felt like the doctors weren't treating his symptoms right. So, the Monday after the holiday party my husband met up with his NEW friend and he gave him some xanax "to try". He said it would help calm him down and help him sleep at night. I knew that my husband had abused this drug before so he didn't tell me that he had gotten a hold of some. I could tell right away he was on SOMETHING, but I didn't know what, and I didn't know he had gone and hung out with my co-workers husband either. That night I was surfing the web, and I saw a little pill on the floor. I had NO idea what it was so I started searching. Finally found out it was xanax. The next morning I asked him about it. He denied it. Saying that it was a vitamin. I told him that I looked it up and I knew what it was and asked him where he got it. He finally told me... but after a lot of rage.
I talked to the girl at work and told her what had happened. Explained to her that my husband had a very addictive personality... and that supplying him with xanax wasn't in his best interest. So, I don't think he gave him anymore, but I do believe that he started buying it from some guy that he sometimes gets his marijuana from. All this time I knew he was on something because of his rage and him not being able to sit still. He was constantly moving. The next week, he went to the doctor crying... saying that he was having a panic attack. The doctor prescribed him 100 1mg xanax 1-2 6 times a day as needed for anxiety. Again, AS NEEDED... but my husband would take them weather he needed them or not. This was on December 10th. He has HUGE rage when he is on this med... and if I say anything about it the flies off the handle and threatens to leave me. He went back to the doctor a week later for a check up, doctor asked him how the xanax was working and my husband told him that he had never felt better in his life. So, doctor wrote him ANOTHER prescription for 60 1mg xanax 1-2 6 times a day as needed for anxiety. My husband has a VERY low tolerance to these pills. He can take a little chip and his speech will get slurred and he forgets EVERYTHING. He cannot sit still to watch even ONE show on TV and is constantly cleaning out drawers and cabinets. He has also since made me give him back all his meds and he "controls" them now because he said he was tired of my controlling EVERYTHING. That all I did was nag and him and control his life.
Last Friday I made him an emergency doctor appointment because his rage was out of control, and I was starting to get scared. He told me that if they even tried to take his xanax away that he was going to walk out. That was the only drug that helped him. I called the doctor's office a head of time and told them this. So, the doctor came in and handled it very professionally. Told him that he thinks that he had bipolar disorder and not anxiety and that they were going to take him off his antidepressant and put him on a bipolar med... and that he was going to eventually take him off his xanax. My husband started crying... the doctor then assured him that he wasn't going to do it yet, but that he wanted to in the future, and that on this new med that he probably wouldn't even need it anymore because it would help him with his anxiety. We left the doctors office and my husband was SO mad at me... that is when he said that he wanted ALL his meds back and that he was going to control them himself.
He has been taking his new meds every night, but he is still taking up to 5 hydrocodones a day, and he is taking his xanax. And not on an as needed basis. He doesn't consider it abuse because he's not taking more than his "prescription" says, but he forgets about the AS NEEDED part.
This bipolar diagnoses is new, and he's been on the new meds for 6 days now... but with him still taking all the other meds... he still has really bad rage... and I'm afraid that with his addictive personality he may already be addicted to not only the hydrocodone, but to the xanax now too. Oh, and he does still smoke marijuana and it has increased greatly since he started taking the xanax. On the way to work yesterday morning (we only have one car and I vanpool so he takes me) he said, "was I supposed to get up in the middle of the night and put stuff in your stocking?". This was on Jan 2nd, Christmas was over, and we had already taken all our Christmas decorations down. I said... no Christmas is over... then he said, "Oh yeah, but I do need to go shopping today for your birthday present." I said, "My birthday isn't till May." he said, "Oh yeah, I thought it was in March." He was thinking that we were still in December and in March at the same time.
I just need some advise, I've never dealt with something like this before. And the rage is killing me. I don't believe in giving up on my husband... I love who I KNOW he is... my heart and mind are playing a tug of war.
I know this is a long read... but I did want to relay as much info as possible.
Thank you!


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A stark reminder that peace has not yet come for those directly affected by Nepal's 11-year conflict. The film brings us the voices of those whose relatives were killed or disappeared, or who were disabled during the conflict. Suffering and pain reside in individuals and individual bodies, which we often forget under the collective 'people'. The film excavates individual stories while accompanying a traveling exhibition of A People War, which in 2007-2008 traversed the country for more than three months and was seen by more than 300,000 people. The film also reminds us that public acknowledgement of what happened is a precondition for healing.
Alampu is a beautiful and exceedingly remote village in Nepal. The majority of the settlers there are Thami people, one of the indigenous groups of Nepal. More than 90 percent of them are involved in the slate production at Alampu. This film includes technical details about the slate production in the mountainside mine, and how the slate is worked prior to distribution. In the film we see the social relationships, co-operation between the miners, and the intimacy of the mining families.
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Three years ago, if you'd asked me what I might want to change about myself, I would have been able to give you a whole list. Height, weight, body shape, hair colour, laugh, scars, facial structure. You name it, I was unhappy with everything in some way.
If you ask me that same question now, I might say add an inch onto my height and give me a more defined waist, or I might just say 'nah, nothing'.
Now let me just say, it is okay to feel unhappy with your body. Although I'm here to try and promote body positivity, I'm not here to say that it's wrong if you don't feel confident. It is okay not to be body confident. If you do feel this way and you want to work on becoming more body confident, then keep reading and hopefully I can help you, even if it's only in some small way.
The quote above explains one of the main reasons why people might feel self-conscious or unhappy. When everyone is posting their best selfie on Instagram and only tweeting about the perfect parts of their life, it's a highlight reel. They're not showing you the bare-faced look they had when they rolled out of bed, or the baggy, unflattering clothes they wear on a lazy day. Most of the time, it's these behind-the-scenes moments that people compare to other people's highlight reels.
My journey to feeling more body confident wasn't an easy or a quick one. It was hard, and just when I thought I was making progress, something would happen to push me right back to square one. It's a constant process that requires determination and persistence, and there is no final destination. Once you get to a point where you feel body confident, it doesn't mean you're done. The way you feel can change daily and there's good days and bad days. When the good days outweigh the bad, that's when you're making progress.
Finding your way to feeling body confidence comes in two major parts; you have to get over other people's opinions, and you also have to get past the negative things you might think about yourself. One of these is a lot more important than the other.
One of the hardest things is moving past the worry about what other people might think of you. Once you realise that a stranger's opinion of you doesn't matter, you've passed the biggest hurdle. Nobody else should dictate your life – it's your mind and your body.
Then the most important part is learning how to love yourself; how to see yourself in the mirror and think of a positive comment, rather than a negative one; how to see clothes in a shop and think 'I'd look great in that'; how to see a beautiful celebrity on social media and carry on scrolling, without stopping to compare your looks. Getting to this stage is worth the work, because I promise you that you'll feel so much happier.
Here are some things you can do that might help you to improve your body confidence:
1. Unfollow those people on social media who always look beautiful. If you always find yourself scanning their pictures to find comparisons, get them off your timeline. They aren't inspiration, so don't try to become another version of them. You need to work out how to be you and how to be happy about it. Instead, try following some body-positive accounts and celebrities who post unedited pictures. (I wrote about my favourite body positive accounts here. Celebs like Giovanna Fletcher and Fearne Cotton are also great because while they do post when they've had their hair/make up done, they're not ashamed to show how their lives are not always like that!)
2. Stop looking at your flaws. Easier said than done, I know, but when you find yourself picking things out step away from the mirror. Don't stand there long enough to find a list of things about your body that make you unhappy. If you can, try to find something (even just one thing) that you like about your reflection. Once you've found it, stop looking. Practice this each time you're looking in the mirror and never let those criticisms pop into your head. It requires restraint, but if I can do it, so can you.
3. Find things that make you feel happier – that could be anything from eating your favourite meal to wearing an item of clothing that makes you feel good. Surround yourself with happiness and and do things which help you feel relaxed. Take a look at my post about self-care for some ideas.
4. Make the simple changes, if it's what you want. I'm talking things like hair colour or clothing choices, but only if it's what you want – not what other people might be telling you to change. If it's going to help you feel happier and more confident then why not? You don't have to learn to feel happy with what you've got, if you really don't like it. You are allowed to change things. The end goal is to feel happy and confident – how you get there is up to you.
5. Listen to podcasts, watch videos and read articles that talk about this kind of thing. Know that you are not the only one who feels this unconfident and find out how other people have taken that same body-positive journey – like me! BBC Radio 1 have recently had body image specials on their Wednesday night show, The Surgery. During the hour, they listen to people's worries and concerns and give them advice. During their body image specials, they've been promoting the exact messages they should be – positivity and self love. Have a listen here.
6. Fake it till you make it. Most of my journey involved faking my confidence until it became true. If you tell yourself things enough, you will start to believe them. Just make sure they're positive things, and not criticisms.
Remember that it's not an easy journey and it's okay to have bad days, but when they're over, pick yourself back up and push that confidence to the surface. You will get to a point where you can feel body confident – because you are all, of course, amazing.
// Beth
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