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We are planning a little tour of some major sites around the Arizona. It is a very diverse state and full of surprises. Oscar Casas will join us on the tour and give a short afternoon workshop most days before everyone relaxes and gets ready for dinner. We will have a small milonga almost every night with the group and locals.
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General preliminary schedule.
March 2, 2019 Saturday Arrive Phoenix
Tour Heard Museum and/or Phoenix Art Museum while every one gathers. Tour bus will be in the parking lot so you can get rid of your luggage.
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Please know that a (NEARLY) complete listing of all the articles to be found on this website appears at the bottom of this page, with links to each.
A different and perhaps easier way of perusing the contents of this site can be accomplished by clicking on any of the headngs that appear in the red bar that runs across the top of this page, left to right. It's probably a more reliable way than going to the bottom of this article for those listings down there. I don't get those updated with perfect regularity, but the "red-bar headings" are automatically updated. More reliable.
Just the same, you can scan this page for items of interest, and this page includes some call-outs and descriptions you might not find elsewhere.
On 12/29/2010 I transmitted Issue 4 of Something Solid e-newsletter. For a Contents page that supplies links to the articles featured in that edition, go here. Or you can pick from any of the following links, which take you to single, specific articles. The Contents page, though, has more descriptive text about the article offerings. To subscribe (free!) to the e-newsletter, and have it arrive in your email inbox hot off the presses, click here.
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On 8/17/10 I transmitted Something Solid e-newsletter, Issue #3. For the newsletter itself, go here. For a Contents page that supplies links to the articles featured in that edition, go here. Or you can pick from any of the following links, which cover the same articles.
For the study on The Biggest Misunderstanding About Jesus, click here. This is, for me, an important doctrinal exploration.
For the profile on author John R. Erickson, click here. Major profile on an important American writer. More than two dozen delightful, engaging photos. But the message is what matters most in this piece. If you have any interest at all in the culture wars, you'll want to know the penetrating views of this highly original, highly perceptive Heartland writer, humorist, rancher, and thinker.
For the commentary called Social Gospels to the Side, click here.
For my tongue-in-cheek bit on Chicken-Fried Bacon, click here.
I launched my Something Solid e-newsletter in March, and circulated the second edition in May. To view the debut issue, click here. To view the second issue, click here. When you have the newsletter on the screen, you can subscribe yourself by clicking on the "Join Our Mailing List" button on the right-hand side of the page. Or just send me your email address (I'm at jfm at jessemullins.com) and I'll add you to the list. Thanks.
On Sat., 5/29/10, I posted this essay: "One Nation Under God: What Does the Statement Mean?" For that piece, click here.
On 5/26/10, I posted this new opinion piece: "Atheism Gets a Facelift?" It is my response to an article I encountered online. Find it (my piece) here.
For any or all of the content of my most recent (second issue) e-newsletter (not the newsletter itself, but the stories that it announces), go here. There you will find links to these articles: "Though He Be Dead, He Yet Speaks," "Keeper of the Flame," and "The Gospel as Free Will, Part II."
After posting the article on artist Jon McNaughton ("Keeper of the Flame"), I defended the artist against a web-circulated criticism of his work. That article (posted 5/15/2010) appears here.
For any or all of the content of the the premiere issue (March edition) of Something Solid, go to this page. There you will find the "Getting Acquainted" content, and, below that, links to all other articles in that issue. Those articles are "The Gospel as Free Will - Part I," "About the Editor," "Coming Attractions," and "A Christian Writer's UnChristian Writings." Anyone can subscribe to the newsletter by sending me an email with the word "subscribe" in the subject line. If you care to share your name and some contact information, and a little bit about yourself, that is welcome too. Not required. Just welcome. Thanks!
To go straight to my series on "The Gospel as Free Will," go here for Part I and here for the concluding Part II.
Just to lighten the contents up a bit, I am posting a couple of humor pieces I wrote back when I was starting out as a writer. Here's the link for "In the Yellow Pages, Under 'Writers.'" Here is the link for "A Crossword Dropout Says His Buh-Bye."
Here's another "throwaway" piece - just a squib I tossed off about Chicken-fried Bacon. Yes.... Bacon. (7/27/10)
As an experiment, I am posting portions of my forthcoming book, tentatively titled Original Reason. For the introductory pages and the first three chapters click here. For chapters 4-6, click here. For chapters 7-9, click here.
For a list of topics to be covered in upcoming installments of the new Something Solid newsletter, see this.
There's been a long-running trend in journalism toward use of unnamed sources, and that practice is part of the ongoing deterioration of the fourth estate, a decline that was much on display in the national media's handling of the Tiger Woods scandal. If the traditional, mainstream media is going to give up its standards and get down on all fours with the tabloids, then is it any wonder that the tabloids and the blogosphere - neither of which are famous for stringent journalistic practices - are overtaking much of what's left of the mainstream media? For some analysis of the root of the problem, see this piece.
For a news release and some testimonials on my book Rightly Divided, click here.
For the preface, first two chapters, and selected excerpts from Rightly Divided, go here.
Probably the most amazing physical phenomenon I have ever witnessed—and ever will—occurred on Aug. 10, 1972, when I was yet a teenager and was working as a horse wrangler on the Heart Six Guest Ranch in northwestern Wyoming, a few miles from the settlement of Moran. I witnessed what has been called the nearest approach of an asteroid ever observed. It is now known as "the Great Daylight Fireball of 1972," and the details of its flight across the sky are well documented.
Here's a little observation I tossed off recently, a nature article I did on a confrontation between a tarantula and a toad. It's a story with a strange twist.
For a hodge podge of observations, wise and otherwise : - ), see these Passing Thoughts.
For a sampling of (just) the opening pages of my forthcoming book, Original Reason, see this page. This is a much-abbreviated version of what you would find if you linked to the various chapters (1-3, 4-6, 7-9) that are already posted (see item above).
OKAY: Now, just to be thorough, I will list all the permalink numbers for all my postings on the site. Yes, this means there will be some redundancy. But just know that this list below includes all the info on reaching ANY post on jessemullins.com
What's a permalink, you ask? It's a web address created in a formulaic fashion, like the one you see below.
If you visited that web address, you would find my humor article on crossword puzzles, titled "A Crossword Dropout Says His Buh-Bye."
The only differences in my permalinks are the concluding numbers of each. So if you know the number, you can insert that number into the web address and be taken to the article in question. For instance, my article on my ancestor John M. Lemmons ends with the numbers 413. Thus, the permalink (aka "web address," aka "URL") for that article is:
So... what follows is a listing of every permalink number for every posting on this site. To make things EVEN EASIER (!!!) I have turned all these lines into hyperlinks, so you can just click on them and be wafted to the article in question.
Political Correctness: Its Cause and Its Cure 1158
Book Review: Alive in the Spirit 1156
Book Review: Christianity in Crisis 1152
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Repentance is Always Possible 1148
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A Study in Salvation, Part II 228
A Study in Salvation, Part III 693
Going Places (Welcome, Issue 2) 628
Gospel as Free Will, Part I 234
Gospel as Free Will, Part II 552
Though He be Dead, He Yet Speaks 413
Lighter Slice of the Writing Life 398
Getting Acquainted (newsl. Issue 1) 295
Christ's Humanity: A New View 214
The Biggest Misunderstanding About Jesus 168
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Media Release and Testimonials for Rightly Divided 97
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The stars of Duke University, led by their famous coach Mike Krzyzewski, will take on the UAE national team in a friendly at Al Wasl club on Thursday, 25 August.
Duke, named "the most prestigious NCAA Division I men's basketball program of the modern college basketball era" by ESPN, have won four national championships and played in 10 championship games.
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Ph.D. Classical Philology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015)
Teaching Certification in Latin, grades K-12, Illinois Council on Teacher Education (2012)
M.A. Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009)
B.A. Classical Languages, Marquette University (2007)
After completing my graduate work at the University of Illinois, I came to Truman State University in 2015. At Truman, I teach classes in Latin language and culture at a variety of levels, and I serve as advisor to Eta Sigma Phi, the undergraduate Classics Honors Society. I currently oversee a service learning project in which a group of advanced Latin students teach Latin and study skills to local fourth grade students. Our group was awarded a Missouri Campus Compact grant for AY 2017-2018. My research interests include Augustan Age literature, Roman satire, reception and film studies, and Classical pedagogy. I am currently revising my dissertation, a study on Horace's Satires and its employment of imagery of the physical body and sensory aesthetics, especially within a satiric medium. I have also organized a panel for the Classical Antiquity section at the 2017 Film and History conference on the Classical traditions of horror films, in which I will present on the 2016 Puritan horror film, "The Witch."
Additionally, I serve as Missouri's state representative for CAMWS. If you have any questions regarding CAMWS membership, or the teaching of Classics at any level in the state of Missouri, please do not hesitate to contact me at email@example.com.
Courses taught at Truman:
CLAS 352: Roman Civilization
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LATN 250: Intermediate Latin I
LATN 350: Petronius and Apuleius
LATN 450: Latin Prose Composition
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The Reread Reviews — Ultimate Human
Yes, so soon after the monstrous blogathon, I have returned to write a reread review. Well, actually, I wrote this on Friday and scheduled it for today, but, still, that's a lot of comics-related writing in a short period of time. This week, I continue my journey through the Ultimate universe with my absolute favourite Ultimate title. Spoilers, of course.
Ultimate Human by Warren Ellis and Cary Nord is my favourite Ultimate title for a number of reasons. One, it features two of the best 'Ultimate-ised' characters, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner. Two, it introduces another fantastic Ultimate character in Pete Wisdom (aka the Leader). Three, it's just a lot of fun. It reads like the sort of book that the Ultimate line was meant to be: straight foward; witty; clever; some good action; something you can jump right into without having read anything before it. It's a very simple premise: Bruce Banner wants Tony Stark to cure him of the Hulk, while Pete Wisdom wants Stark and Banner's altered blood to cure him of his enhancement, which has him confined to a wheelchair. Bam. Let's go.
I've read Ultimate Human three times now (once when it first came out monthly, sometime after I had all four issues, and for this post) and I've always enjoyed it quite a bit. Warren Ellis seems a natural fit for these characters, putting together Stark and Banner, who both represent the two types of artificial human evolution in the 21st century, biological and mechanical. One is a success, the other a failure — but we'll learn that they're results have various elements in common, like non-military uses (assuming you can get rid of the mindless HULKSMASH! element of Banner's formula). In The Ultimates and The Ultimates 2, Banner was often paired up with Pym since their areas of research were very close, but to pair up two men whose areas of expertise cover a broader base makes more sense.
Not only that, but can Stark and Banner be more different in personality? Outgoing, handsome, brilliant, hard-drinking Tony Stark; introverted, 'Steve Buschemi-looking,' supposedly brilliant (but mostly failure), sober-livin' Bruce Banner. It's a natural odd couple buddy comedy in the making. Stark sees a man just as brilliant as him who just hasn't been as lucky — no one knows why Banner's work has failed and he's the best and brightest in his field… that could easily have happened to Stark. More than that, eliminating the Hulk is for the good of the planet.
I love Tony Stark, drunk. I love that he's a functioning alcoholic. Why? Because that goes against the norm. Regular Tony Stark is kind of boring with his 'I've admitted I'm powerless' lifestyle; a man who doesn't do anything except drink and is still gets shit done? That's interesting, because you're waiting for it to turn on him. It doesn't here. There's a kind of shock in seeing Stark guzzle vodka the way he does and still function… it reminds me of Da Vinci's Inquest, a fantastic Canadian show about a Vancouver coroner who regularly attends AA meetings and goes out and gets drunk. I don't know, it just seems a bit more real, because it's not what you expect, it's not typical, it's not easy. It's not easy to root for Stark here, because he's obviously got a problem… except it hasn't affected him yet.
Ellis redefines Ultimate Hulk without altering anything really: the Hulk adapts to any new stress. They need to run tests on Banner while he's the Hulk so they can see how his cellular structure changes and when they alter the environmental conditions in the sealed room from one planetary condition to another, the Hulk grows extra muscles and bones so he can survive like on Venus. It's great — and capped off with one of Stark's assistants uttering the fantastic line "I don't think I like it when he's angry."
Pete Wisdom here is easy to relate to. He's the Director of Operations at MI6 and is a strong advocate of a British Enhancile Program, while it looks like the Service will back the European program headed by Dr. Bradock. Wisdom strongly disagrees because that program will not put Britain's security first, nor will it be run up to his standards — and the means by which MI6 will back it (namely the Deputy Chief supporting it so he will get a good job upon leaving MI6 — since the only higher position is that of 'C,' the Head of Service, and that is always filled from outside the Service, usually by a seasoned diplomat, someone to keep things in perspective and under control). To prove his point, Wisdom undergoes the BEP treatment himself and turns into a telekine/telepath whose cranium is so large that his neck can't support it. He is promptly fired. Now, he wants Stark's nanoblood and Banner's supersoldier/Hulk blood to perfect the treatment to cure himself and prove that Britain needs him.
I love this version of Wisdom. He's easy to root for, because he's surrounded by corruption and people who don't know better. And, you know, Tony Stark is a drunk and Bruce Banner is a mass murderer, so fuck 'em. Ellis clearly indulges in his own personal brand of cynicism and interests here. Pete Wisdom was always an Ellis stand-in, but here he's an insane Ellis stand-in and that's a little bit better.
In the end, Wisdom is killed, Banner is no longer cured (as Stark had to disable the nanites that cured him in order to save them both from being bled to death), and nothing has really changed, but it's a nice little story. Full of great one-liners, fun science, British politics, and the pinnacle in superhuman existence being a big-headed freak.
Cary Nord's art is coloured directly off of his pencils, but it works. Nord's pencils always include a lot of shadows and softness that I think lends itself to direct colouring like this. His Hulk is huge and monstrous. His Pete Wisdom is freakish. He's given a lot of room to work with as pages are almost exclusively either six- or three-panel grids. It's a wide-open, loose sort of story and he nails it.
Ultimate Human isn't a grand, ambitious story that will change lives, but it's highly entertaining, and the sort of book that I'd feel comfortable handing over to someone who's sole knowledge of Iron Man and the Hulk comes from the movies.
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What is hysterosalpingography (HSG)?
Hysterosalpingography (HSG) is an X-ray procedure that is used to view the inside of the uterus and fallopian tubes. It often is used to see if the fallopian tubes are partly or fully blocked. It also can show if the inside of the uterus is of a normal size and shape. All of these problems can lead to infertility and pregnancy problems.
HSG also is used a few months after some tubal sterilization procedures to make sure that the fallopian tubes have been completely blocked. HSG is not done if a woman has any of the following conditions: Pregnancy, Pelvi...
FAQ128, August 2011
What is thyroid disease?
The thyroid gland is located at the base of your neck in front of your trachea (or windpipe). The thyroid gland makes, stores, and releases two hormones—T4 (thyroxine) and T3 (triiodothyronine). Certain disorders can cause the thyroid gland to make too much or too little hormone. Women at risk of thyroid disease include those who have or have had an autoimmune disease (such as diabetes).
FAQ162, May 2011
What are menopause and perimenopause?
Menopause is defined as the absence of menstrual periods for 1 year. The average age of menopause is 51 years, but the normal range is 45 years to 55 years.
The years leading up to this point are called perimenopause. This term means "around menopause." This phase can last for up to 10 years. During perimenopause, shifts in hormone levels can affect ovulation and cause changes in the menstrual cycle.
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
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Temporary political censoring: Due to the U.S. progressive left's irrational hysteria, political groupthink, and excessive moral signaling I have temporarily removed links to sites that have decided to erode their worth with offensive off-topic tantrums and SJW hatred. (Jan 2017)
General computing resources
- Stack Overflow — The ultimate question and answer site for programmers. Part of a larger StackExchange set of Q&A communities.
- GitHub — The largest home to open source software projects and people.
- Hacker News — News for all things computing, updated frequently. Best read with a feed-reader; I enjoy Feedly.
- Linux Weekly News (LWN) — News from the world of Linux, as well as original articles.
- Lambda the Ultimate — Technical community for programming language design and theory.
- The Jargon File (aka Hacker's Dictionary) — Computer technical jargon explained. Maintained by Eric Raymond. Jump to the lexicon glossary.
Must-read articles for programmers
- How to Ask Questions the Smart Way by Eric Raymond
- Your Password is Too Damn Short by Jeff Atwood — Lots of information, but as he concludes even if your password is perfectly random, "Unless your password is at least 12 characters, you are vulnerable."
- Text and Unicode (also see my Unicode links page):
- The Absolute Minimum Every Programmer Should Know About Unicode by Joel Spolsky
- What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets To Work With Text by David C. Zentgraf
- Dark Corners of Unicode by Lexy Munroe — Finally think you've mastered Unicode? Think again.
- Real-world data:
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names by Patrick McKenzie — If you're about to write yet another program that has two fields asking for a First Name and Last Name, then please read this first.
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time by Noah Sussman
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Addresses by Michael Tandy
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Geography by Matthias Wiesmann Thias
How not to — learning from mistakes
- Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns by Steve Yegge — A classic satire of what's wrong with Java and "enterprisey" architectures.
- Citation Needed by Mike Hoye — You may think you know why most programming languages use 0-based array indices instead of 1-based, but you probably don't know the real story.
- X.509 Style Guide by Peter Gutmann — This is a satirical, yet factual, description of arguably the worst widely-used file formats ever: the X.509 Certificate file, that is still universally used to secure all SSL/TLS web connections. This is essentially a "how not to" warning. It's highly technical, but humorous.
- International Obfuscated C Code Contest — The grand-daddy of all obfuscation contests.
- The Underhanded C Contest — Write simple-looking code that appears to do one thing, but secrectly does something bad, while remaining undetectable even by experienced programmers looking at the code. Incredibly educational.
- The Daily WTF — Funny stories and folklore of working the IT industry; so bad they're good. A favorite is the Error'd series with screenshots of some of the stupidist software you've ever seen.
Blogs and e-zines
- Personalities:
- Eric Raymond — A promenent leader of the "Open Source" movement.
- Jeff Atwood — Co-founder of StackOverflow, very informative if infrequent articles.
- Paul Graham — Founder of Y-Combinator and a leader in the Venture Capital world for computing start-up companies. Thoughtful, if sometimes provacotive, essays on starting and running software companies.
- Joel Spolsky — Co-founder of StackOverflow, Trello, Fog Creek, etc. Infrequent yet informative posts especially on creating productive work environments.
- Martin Fowler — Maintains a catalog of software design patterns.
- Tim Bray — A co-author of XML and general technology leader.
- Steve Vinoski — An expert in distributed computing.
- Steve Yegge — Unfortunately no longer being updated, but here you'll find the finest collection of rants ever; well thought out and exquisitly written, even if lengthy, and you'll learn a heck of a lot along the way.
- Projects and organizations:
- Bit Twiddling Hacks by Sean Eron Anderson. — Tons of programming shortcuts and tricks using the power of bit-manipulation. If you like these I highly recommend the book Hacker's Delight.
- Bit permutations — Lots of information about bit manipulations, including code, from simple bit shifting to butterfly and Beneš networks.
Security, privacy, and freedom
- Bruce Schneier
- Krebs on Security
- Risks Digest
- Project Zero
- Google Online Security Blog
- Red Hat Security Blog
- Ubuntu Security News
- Software freedom:
- Freedom to Tinker
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
- Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- Software Freedom Conservancy
- Software Freedom Law Center
- Lumen Database (previously Chilling Effects)
- GrokLaw — Operated from 2003 to 2013 with no new content being added due to the oppressive US surveilence environment (e.g., NSA spying). But the archived content is still a worthy read on some of the more important legal fights for software freedom. You can also read more on the wikipedia article
- A List Apart — Articles for web designers.
- Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) — Comprehensive documentation of HTML, CSS, DOM, etc. Good cross-browser reference, not just for Firefox.
- Can I Use? — Shows what web features are supported by what web browsers.
- W3 Schools — Good documentation on HTML, CSS, and other web tech.
- WHATWG — The working group for advancing HTML. Also see their blog.
- W3C — The standards organization for almost all web technologies.
Emacs editor
- Emacs homepage
- Emacs wiki
- Emacs rocks — prepare to be awed.
- Emacs horrors — prepare to be shocked.
Python language
- Official Python language:
- Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
- Planet Python
- Graham Dumpleton's blog
- Armin Ronacher's blog
- The History of Python
Ruby language
- Official Ruby language:
- Ruby Weekly
- Ruby Gems
- Ruby on Rails:
About: These are my own curated links to sites and blogs that I have found most useful or interesting. It is not meant to be comprehensive. Sometimes links may disappear; if you find one that no longer works feel free to email me. You can sometimes find dead sites from The Internet Archive.
Adding links: I do not receive any compensation for these nor do I practice "link exchange". If you want me to add a link to your site, be aware that I generally don't link to anything I don't read or use myself; especially if it is a commercial entity. But if you think I might really like something, send it to me.


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Shooting Drill: The Humbler
This drill can bring any shooter to his knees.
Every so often, even the best shooters need to be brought down a notch or two. Everyone needs to be defeated in some way to learn from their mistakes. Unfortunately, sometimes finding a drill or target that can do that can be hard, but this may be the one that does it for most people. The Humbler lives up to its name.
Designed by instructor Kyle Defoor, it is a 70-shot, 700-point monster of a drill. Rumor has it that no one has ever shot this with a perfect score. That's an impressive record if that is the case and I can see why this one is almost impossible to do. At 25 yards, an 8.5 in x 11 in piece of paper is SMALL!
This may be a daunting drill for most shooters, but it at least lets you reach out a bit and have some fun shooting at long distances with a pistol. Shooting at distance is something that not all people practice on a regular basis, but it can be a skill that will help improve your shooting. If you can hit a target at 25 yards, you can hit the same size target at a closer range with no problem.
The Drill
This drill requires you to be able to draw, kneel and go prone on the range, so you will need to check with your local range to see if you are able to do those things. This may be a drill better left to an outdoor range because of that.
For this drill you will need:
- A B-8 or an NRA 25-yard Rapid Fire Target
- 70 rounds of appropriate ammunition for your gun
- A shot timer of some sort
Concealment is not required for this drill, but you will be drawing so pay attention to that.
All stages are shot at 25 yards.
- Stage 1 – 10 rounds, slow fire, in 10 minutes
- Stage 2 – 5 rounds, from the draw, in 20 seconds (repeat)
- Stage 3 – 5 rounds, from the draw, in 10 seconds (repeat)
- Stage 4 – 5 rounds, slow fire, strong hand only, in 5 minutes
- Stage 5 – 5 rounds, strong hand only from the draw, in 20 seconds
- Stage 6 – 5 rounds, strong hand only from the draw, in 10 seconds
- Stage 7 – 5 rounds, slow fire, weak hand only, in 5 minutes
- Stage 8 – 5 rounds, kneeling, with both hands, in 5 minutes
- Stage 9 – 5 rounds, going from standing to kneeling with the draw, in 20 seconds
- Stage 10 -5 rounds, prone, in 5 minutes
- Stage 11 -5 rounds, going from standing to prone with the draw, in 20 seconds
As you can see, this is a monster of a drill that lives up to its name. Don't be surprised if you get a very low score when you first try it. This is a drill that will take time and patience and work to master, if it can ever be tamed. Remember, a perfect score is 700 so don't worry. Not everyone can get a 700 even after a lot of practice.
If you are a bullseye shooter, you might find this drill a little easier than the average defensive shooter. Typically this is out around your range and timing. With some of the other elements thrown in for defensive shooters, you may find it keeps you enough off-balance to make it challenging.
If you want, start working with this drill and over time, your score will improve as well as your overall shooting skill. Remember, if you can hit a target at 25 yards, you can hit it in closer.


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I'm pleased to share with you my latest guest post for my friend and writing coach, Lauren Sapala. http://laurensapala.com/writing-progress-not-always-equal-word-count/ Happy Monday to you! AMO
Spirals, Not Lines or Circles
My whole life, I've tried to adapt myself to what was expected of me, and to be honest, like many people who deal with perfectionism, I struggled for many years with my own expectations of myself. Holding on to these patterns kept me stuck for many years - stuck not writing my story, stuck in … Continue reading Spirals, Not Lines or Circles
Memoir & Magic
When I started writing my rock n' roll memoir, I searched for answers as to why I was having such a hard time with it. I had the story neatly laid out in my mind, but when it came time to write, it was a jumbled mess. I've been an intuitive, sensitive person my whole … Continue reading Memoir & Magic
Gap Work
December. I love this time of year, when darkness lingers a bit longer, and cooling clouds visit our blue Arizona skies more often. It's perfect writing weather. I'm going to hold off on starting a big new writing project, though. I didn't do NaNoWriMo this year, but I did reach a milestone with my writing, … Continue reading Gap Work
How to Write a Good First Draft in Five Short Years
I've had the idea for writing this memoir for a long damn time - it's been germinating since 1992. 11 years later, after hearing part of my story, a professor of mine expressed interest in the material. I was just starting my career as a librarian - writing a book seemed insurmountable. But it kept … Continue reading How to Write a Good First Draft in Five Short Years
Updates & Progress
I don't even know where to begin. The last time I posted to this blog was June. JUNE! It's easy to beat myself up for it, because according to every writing rule I've read, I should be doing a bunch of stuff to further my writing career. Blogging, Twittering, Facebooking, e-mail lists, etc. That's all … Continue reading Updates & Progress
It's June 1st. I'm supposed to start rewriting, today. I gave myself a couple of weeks to read through my draft and make notes and edits and sit with the work, convinced that I'd have a clear map and a new understanding of where this book was going. I've had moments and flashes of terrific … Continue reading Juggling


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New year, new job, new career? Are you looking for a new challenge in your career? Maybe a complete change of career? Have you thought about a recruitment job?
Recruitment industry is a lager sector in the UK but was hit badly by the recession. The good news is that recruitment businesses are the first to pick up after a recession.
Hilton-Baird's biannual SME Trends Index reveals that 70% of recruitment businesses reported increased turnover in the six months to the end of October last year. Across all sectors, only 41% of the survey's respondents recorded an increase.
Half of the recruitment businesses surveyed said they had now entered new markets. They have also needed to make tough strategic decisions and plan efficiently to take advantage of new opportunities. 54% of recruitment businesses took on additional staff during the period.
High remuneration
So, it is a good time to think about a career in recruitment. However it is a tough environment. It's a sales driven environment where the remuneration can be very attractive. However you need to excel to achieve the large pay packets that recruitment companies offer.
A must have trait for success in your recruitment job is 'discretion'. You can't call people at work to discuss new opportunities. Finding candidates is a detective operation, so knowing where to look and how to approach people is a skill that has to be learnt.
Is it for you?
On the positive side a recruitment job can be very rewarding both from a job satisfaction point of view as well as from a salary point of view. The environment of most recruitment companies are fun and a joy to work in. So if you are up for a challenge, can turn your hand to sales, enjoy talking to people and want to earn a high salary then a Recruitment job could be just what you are looking for.
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Attorney Comforti
- Member of the Juvenile Review Board in the Town of Montville adjudicating criminal matters for first time offender youths.
- Served on the Advisory Board for the St. Patrick's Cathedral School in Norwich for 8 years.
- Taught Paralegal Studies for UCONN at Avery Point.
- Lectured on various areas of law for the People's Law School.
- Lecture various Unions regarding workers' compensation matters.
- Arbitrator for the New London Superior Court.
- Enjoys sailing as a Member of Frostbite Yacht Club, Essex, CT, Essex Corinthian Yacht Club, Essex, CT, and Pettipaug Yacht Club, Essex, CT.
- Heads the Italian Night fundraiser for St. Patrick's Cathedral School in Norwich.
- Supports local Norwich Police DARE and No Driving & Texting programs.
- Supports local Special Olympics programs.
Attorney Conley
- State Representative for the 40th Assembly District, which covers parts of Groton and Ledyard.
- Served as a member of the Groton Representative Town Meeting which approves the budget as well as supplemental appropriations.
- Served on the Golf Advisory Board for Shennecossett Golf Course
- Arbitrator for the New London Superior Court.
- Enjoys golf at various courses in Connecticut and Rhode Island.
- Lectured on various areas of law for Bay Path College.


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July 6, 2010
Eating My Way Through the Taste of Chicago: Part 1
This weekend, I visited the Taste of Chicago with a couple of friends. My goal was to try out as many strange and exotic foods as possible, and I think I was pretty successful! Read more to check out the bizarre and delicious foods I ate! Read the rest of this entry »


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The Cardiovascular & Specialty Solutions (CSS) Group, part of the Medical Devices sector within Johnson & Johnson, is recruiting for an Electrical Staff Engineer aligned to Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP), division of Ethicon , located in Irvine, CA.
The CSS Group consists of six diverse businesses including Acclarent, Advanced Sterilization Products (ASP), Biosense Webster (BWI), Codman Neuro, Mentor, and Sterilmed. The CSS Group serves a diverse base of customers in Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT), Infection Prevention, Electrophysiology (EP), Neurovascular and Neurosurgery, Surgical and Non-Surgical Aesthetics, and Reprocessing.
ASP (Advanced Sterilization Products), a member of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, is a leading designer and developer of innovative instrument sterilization, high-level disinfection and cleaning technologies. The company is dedicated to providing infection prevention solutions that create the safest possible environments for patients, healthcare providers and communities. ASP is based in Irvine, California with offices around the world. For more information, please visit www.aspjj.com or follow us at www.Twitter.com/aspjj.
The Electrical Staff Engineer will plan and execute development studies for development of new products or support of a current project. The position plans and conducts design/development engineering assignments generally involving projects of major magnitude and scope, estimates human resource needs and schedules work to meet completion dates and technical specifications and may coordinate and direct Engineers, Designers and Technicians assigned to projects. Responsibilities also include developing proposals and cost estimates, evaluating progress and results and recommending major changes in procedures or objectives. The position will focus on design/development engineering assignments focused on electrical and electromechanical systems used in medical devices.
The position will independently perform most assignments with instructions as to the general results expected, receive technical guidance on unusual or complex problems and supervisory approval on proposed plans for projects and plans, schedule, conduct, and coordinate detailed phases of engineering work in part of a major project or in a total project of moderate scope.
The Electrical Staff Engineer will perform work that involves conventional engineering practice but may include a variety of complex features such as conflicting design requirements, unsuitability of conventional materials and difficult coordination requirements. Work requires broad knowledge of precedents in the electrical specialty area and good knowledge of principles and practices of related specialties and may technically supervise or coordinate the work of Engineers and Technicians and others who assist in specific assignments.
The Electrical Staff Engineer practices company safety, quality policies and procedures, actively requires conformance, is responsible for ensuring personal and company compliance with all Federal, State, local and company regulations, policies and procedures for Health, Safety and Environmental compliance and responsible for performing design reviews and pre-validation assessments to ensure the safe and environmentally sound start-up of new processes.
Be VITAL in your career. Be seen for the TALENT you bring to your work. Explore opportunities within the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies.
Johnson & Johnson Companies are equal opportunity employers.


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So we lived for many years on the road in trucks or on the ground in tipis, as a part of a group consciousness process. We started making yurts in 2003, and set up Spirits Intent, making yurts and other nomadic tents in 2005, and at that time there were only a handful of other yurt makers in the UK, and the word 'glamping' didn't even exist. We focused more on the canvas sewing side of things, as that was what seemed to be missing in the UK— our clients included other yurt makers, and obviously campsites, who need replacement tent covers, which we do from afar using measurements, whilst also supporting them with ongoing canvas care.
We always had an idea to build a new kind of campsite, with a focus closer to the origins of these tents, and as a base for the group consciousness process which we have part of for many years. The cost of land in Britain was prohibitive, so fast forward to 2015 when we packed up and left the little valley in Wales, where we had been living and working, and headed to Italy.
Who doesn't have romantic ideas of La Dolce Vita in Italy: good food, a rich history, beautiful language and great climate. As we crossed the border into the Abruzzo region of Central Italy, we were welcomed by a magnificent double rainbow, so knew that this was going to be our place. We had never ventured this far south in Italy, and were amazed at the extraordinary variety of the land, with dramatic peaks over 3000 m just a short drive from the beaches of the Adriatic Coast, hardly any big industry, and hilltop villages with spectacular views.
Abruzzo is a land of mystery, who has never forgotten her history and origins: traditions, folklore, festivals and ancient varieties of grains and vegetables have stood the test of time. It still stands like a stronghold against the mainstream of Italian culture, like it did when the Samnites, its nomadic people, fought with Rome and is now known as the Green Heart of Europe with rich vegetation, forests and wild life: wolves and bears, deer and wild boar, magnificent birds of prey.
We found 12 hectares in an old abandoned farm with an old stone house, as we found that having a building on the land helps considerably with any project. The farm is called La Difesa, an ancient term that comes from its prior land use, where the feudal lord had a parcel of land, defended (difesa) for the grazing of large animals, feeding on the acorns under the massive oak trees, which were not allowed to be cut. As well as oak forests, it is abundant with fruit orchards and olive groves.
It stands on the doorstep of the Majella Massif, known as the 'Mother Mountain', whose views are so jaw dropping we still can't believe we live here. It's a wild powerful land, lying between two rivers and the nature is strong — the mountain has a rhythm of its own and it's not unusual to have intense storms, interspersed with endless sun, never mind the myths of old goddesses lying asleep next to sulphur springs that are hidden in a grove 500 meters away.
To begin with, alongside our UK canvas work, we just focused on building Heartland, our site: clearing the land, restoring the orchards, making yurts, renovating the house, and running small non-profit events with a theme of well-being and sustainability. The local people were curious and overwhelmingly welcoming, coming to meet us and bring us gifts of their produce, the local priest even came to bless the house, and recently, the mayor of the local commune came and sat around the fire and joined in the singing.
We soon realised we couldn't just focus on our project as we could help the local region, which like much of rural areas in central and southern Europe suffers from the disease of depopulation with outlying areas of villages being abandoned as the farmers compete with big industry on the plains and youth leave the villages for jobs elsewhere, taking with them ancient knowledge of the region. We realised that we could design glamping sites as a tool for famers and land owners to diversify and supplement income and bring energy to the area in a sustainable way. Glamping in Italy is no where near as established as it is in the UK, and still in its infancy in Central Italy, so a Glamping Revolution was born: GlampItalia. It started promoting Glamping products in Italy, and got names like Featherdown Farm, Outstanding Safari Tents, and others on board.
We started sitting in meetings with famers and local bodies, eventually gathering a whole network of small eco-projects and farms in Abruzzo, for the creation of an integration between sustainable tourism, and organic farming that has roots in the rich farming tradition of the area. Abruzzo is a well kept secret, and doesn't need an invasion of mass tourism, but a slow tourism which supports the local culture. There is an opening to put together a methodology based on a concept that has transformed the hospitality industry in the UK, but here it can actually save villages from ruin.
Meanwhile we started hosting more events: yurt-making, healing arts, green building, with personal transformation work always an underlying theme. Living as a group around the fire in the quiet of wild, abundant nature is a profound experience. We intend to host two events every year, Spring and Autumn, and this Autumn we plan to raise the central canopy of our Zodiac Tent. We have always had a passion for tent palaces and, over the years, have made or been part of making several of the grandest. This tent is a reproduction of a court tent of the Mogul emperor Humayun: a grand 20 metre central tent (representing the celestial sphere) surrounded by 12 yurts in a circle (for the 12 Zodiacal signs) – a micro cosmos, and will form a magical venue for events for all over Europe but with a base on our own site – Heartland.
The site now has 4 yurts, a tipi, a kitchen area, compost toilets, outdoor wood-fired bathtubs and a Shepherds Hut under construction. As well as running our own events, we intend to open the campsite, including the Zodiac Tent, for groups of people to run independent events such as team-building workshops, bushcraft courses, and holistic health events.
Bureaucracy in Italy is agonising and about 20 years behind the UK, but the legendary red tape for planning permission has been surprisingly not so red, and can be as easy as liasing with the local Commune. Obviously the nature of permit is defined also by the activity, but there are options that do not exist in the UK, where tents can be pitched on agricultural land, or the commune can bypass a need for a change of land use with a simple declaration from the mayor.
The Italian tax system is more prohibitive than in the UK, but like many people that have moved here, the sun, food, culture and warm hearted people by far make up for it. It is important that a place inspires your love strongly and we advise people moving over to allow two years for the leap, and to work with a solid local team of commercialista, geometra, lawyer and architect. There are an endless amount of rural properties at a fraction of the price of land in the UK, and some villages in Italy are even giving away houses to reverse their abandonment. If you have a dream of moving out to Italy to start a glamping site or similar project, it is a good time now before Brexit as who knows what will be possible then? We are happy to offer advice and bring more projects onboard to create a sustainable tourism network throughout Central Italy, and a movement of visitors between them.
Abruzzo is unbelievably beautiful, and we are finding a balance between reversing the abandonment yet loving the quiet it produces – living in a myth of ancient Italy, on the verge of a new dawn of sustainable redevelopment. It's a full, fulfilling life and a good cause to live by.
Tag Archives: Travel
Back to Nature
Thor Heyerdhal is one of my favourite writer explorers. Fatu Hiva is his first adventure, when at age of 22 he decided to live his childhood dream, leave modern life and go back to nature. The line "Back to Nature" has become so embedded in our awareness, prevalent especially in our line of business. I like the fact that he was the one to coin it though, his journey taking place before Second World War.
I'm a great believer in holographic maps, so the first thing has the seed of the whole. I believe that there is an awareness that communicates with us, and I see Thor Heyerdhal as a pioneer on that level, someone that lifted the flag of going back to nature, as the remedy to the white man's disease. That was his message, although along the line he discovered the great voyages and ancient man, the voyages of Kon Tiki, the Sun God, in ancient rafts across the sea. I love those too, but that's another story.
The book takes him to Fatu Hiva, an island in the Marquesas Group in the South Pacific, where he and his young wife isolated as the only place they can truly go back to nature. On arrival they find that the interaction with society is killing the population and even there, halfway across the globe, civilisation has killed the natural way…….. But on the other side of the island they meet a link to a world gone, in the figure of the last cannibal on the island. They live with him, like a living manifestation of Thor's Ideas, being healthy and living the old way, whilst the native population the other side of the island is dying off, from living like the white man and eating his food.
The visit to Fatu Hiva ignites Thor's obsession with the idea that the Polynesian islands where populated from Peru and not from Asia like previously believed.
This great book comes across to me as a message, a personal one, a guiding blueprint.
Yeah its all so clear, back to nature is the way onward, everybody has been saying it, we are saying it, but there is a force in being in contact with the original messenger, and his message.
How did it turn from going back to nature to totally change ourselves and reclaim our ancient self, to going back to nature for "glamping" (no offence to our campsite customers!) with a bottle of wine, and an iPhone?
Having just got a place in the Wilds of Abruzzo, Italy had me thinking about all this, the sheer contrast of the times when I'm on that land, where we don't even have electricity, to the the time I'm at the Gatehouse, a mile away, with wifi and power. It's like civilisation stops a mile before the land.
Also in my work, there is such a contrast sometimes: I make tents for my customers using power tools and machinery, but make them for us using hand tools only. I make door posts out of tree trunks, knowing the scorpion that crawled by the tree. I know it will be the Scorpio yurt, because the tree spoke to me.
The message is clear: we have found a place where the italian country side has been reclaimed by nature, it is only half a century ago that the fields were cultivated, and the olive trees amazingly have survived it all, the wells are still full of clear water, but the land has gone back to nature.
It's an ancient place, but it has been abandoned and has gone back. I'm working to re-open it up, but the truth is that I don't want to take it back away from a nature, I want to let it take us back to it.
Once upon a time when I was young, in another life it seems, I was a part of a family of quarry men. I used to live in a hidden lake in the north of Israel, a quarry that filled itself up with water. I remember seeing how it was that the grandfather was the one who dug the hole, the father the one that made the profit, but the son, the son he has gone back to nature. The quarry filled up with water, and I lived next to it. It was a secret, they called it the hidden lake, so I feel close in being to Thor Heyerdhal, renouncing modern life for that connection with the elements again.
This comes back to me now. I have my own digger and I feel like one of those quarry men of Israel. It's strange the line that runs inside of us, like a split inside our being, those ancestors that mined the land, and me, that lived on it. I use my power tools, so I can live without them, that to me is so funny.
So yes I have a digger, but I make the road with it. I feel strange sometimes as I push oak trees out of the way. Those power tools are too strong, but I guess this way, the oaks can grow by the road instead of being cut, and all those power tools are making that road back to nature: we call it Heartland, the place that nature re-took, the place where our wild nature will reclaim us at.
Ode to the Road
Life on the road cannot be overrated
Where the scene is ever being updated
One day mountain, next day sea
What a wonderful way to be
Fresh from a world within the grid
It's all there whatever we did
Amazon, Asda, and of course Ebay Earplugs to trucks just a click away
We need to find the next place to Park
That won't be so easy after dark
Somewhere quiet would be good
Better if it has water and wood
No more rhymes seem to be coming so I will carry on in prose. It can still be an 'ode' can't it'?
Anyway it is very refreshing to change the whole reality once in a while and adapt to a new way of living. I had forgotten the magic of this way, where everything becomes more precious and one appreciates the little things more.
Somehow living in a house with mod cons, it's very easy to get lazy and take things for granted, like getting clothes dirty because you can just throw them in the washing machine.
And one needs to be much more conscious of water use, with a limited amount of water on board. You put a bucket of water on the stove to heat up then use it to wash your body, then wash clothes then the truck floor. When it rains we put buckets out to collect rain water dripping from the truck.
"God made a song when the world was new. Water's laughter sings it through. Wizard of changes, teach me the lesson of flowing. "
Food is more interesting with changing availability and local delicacies. You can't always get those avocados so it is especially nice when you do and there is ediblr, wild food everywhere, although not so much at this time of year. Making juice is a more involved process as the juicer needs to be got out and packed away, the generator started and stopped and this somehow makes the juice more delicious.
As you may have read in earlier entries, we continue to run the sewing side of the business when on the road, meaning we have to adapt to the terrain and work with the weather.
We also have a fully functioning mobile office, thanks to mobile Internet and the Smartphone.
I do sometimes miss the days before the phones and the Internet when we would hear gossip along the grapevine and receive rare letters at Poste Restante addresses, the news of which would last us for weeks. For meeting up we would have to rely more on the Inner-net and guidance, and if we needed to get a part for the vehicle or directions to somewhere, we would actually have to ask the locals.
We used to rate Park-ups on a sliding scale from one to ten according to facilities. A 'ten' would be in a beautiful place miles from nowhere with water, wood and one could stay there as long as you want. We have since discovered the magic of a 'minus seventeen' Park-up, which can be something like overnight at a motorway truckers stop or a yard at the edge of an industrial area, and sometimes these sort of spots are the quietest because there is no attention from people and you don't have to defend anything.
There is a lot of room for personal growth in sharing such a small space with others. One learns tolerance and an awareness of other's personal space in the constant dance of who is cooking, who's on the bed, who's doing yoga on the floor, whose coat is hanging by the door, where you put your shoes when you come in etc etc. And the refreshing feeling of having only a few personal possessions.
All too soon we will land again in the next place for the next adventure, but for now the road is shining us on.
The junk yard of infinity
It's been a busy few weeks on the road looking up places in the wilds of Italy, speaking with owners,
And the authorities, looking at excavators for making roads to inaccessible isolated places, to create places that are very isolated.
Sometimes on the road there is a little un expected gem, you turn a corner and viola it's there, a little spot of magic.
This time we stopped to get something from one of the road side stalls, and because things were a little hectic after town I took one of the girls for a walk, we turned a corner under a bridge and found a little spring.
It had a real nice touch, all decorated from rubbish thrown before, it was a work I art! we found out it was a church initiative, they made nice little art out of all the rubbish that has been thrown.
Although under a busy bridge, it felt so tranquil.
Having worked at the alternative edge of the leisure industry, helping campsites make retreats and sites for people to enjoy being away from it all, I was overwhelmed how simple it has been to create magic here, a place that felt so gentle and magical, with old statues an discarded posters, with little plants and of course the old spring.
How much better it felt to some attempts we have been part of by campsite owners to create the same magical atmosphere.
There is this tendency when you travel to give good spots names, this one was christened "the junk yard of infinity".
There is a story about a Mexican shaman who led his group of sorcerers in journeys to other worlds.
But his greatest love was to travel to the outmost corners of infinity, he would go to unvisited corners and would experience wonders.
The story states that not only he seen wonders in his other worldly travels to the junk yards of infinity, he would come back and re-create some of the wonders he saw.
At other times he would wonder into the other attention unseen and would bring the things he viewed there back with him, he had a collection of those "inventions" and this is what this little place reminded us of.
It was a refreshing contrast to speaking with the authorities about campsites, and dealing with buying land and surveyors, reminding me that actually it takes so little to make us "feel that magic", in fact it's probably the less there is, the more the magic.
Europe's best mountains
I have been travelling for almost 20 years, mostly in Europe, but elsewhere too, I have a love for the mountains because people tend to be more open and hospitable, and much simpler, so I have traveled through quite a few ranges over the years.
Driving through the Apennines was a real voyage of wonder for me, here was a long range of mountains going through my favourite country in Europe and they are….. amazing, and I never new about it, thinking them to be a little range of hills.
We drove into the mountains just after Assisi, famous for St. Francis,
Instead of going up to chiusi della verna (where he got his stigmata wounds), like we did last time we came here.
We chose to continue down the road a little and enter into the mountain there.
Reaching the mountain top I was amazed by some of the scenes, like the grand plane (piano grande) in the south of the monte sibilini national park. The scenery looked as if it could be in Mongolia, with horses roaming free and open grassy planes with Shepards walking their flocks, although the distinctive hill top village was looking like something out of the Middle Ages and very European.
We left Umbria at Forca di presta, another amazing mountain overlooking the hills, covered with hardwoods.
We entered Abruzzo by Lago di campotosto, back in the UK this would be a tourist hot spot, here it is quiet and on it's own, the snowy cap of the gran Sasso mountains can be seen and one starts to appreciate the diversity of Abruzzo, with it's high mountains and national parks it is becoming one of my favourites, very slow and very spectacular.
All in all the mountains here are such a wealth, it's Northern Europe nestled inside the meditarenian, so one can walk through beech forests one minute and be next to cane and fennel the other, from broad oaks to fig trees, it's got it all, with wild goats, and deer, and even a few bears, and of course plenty of wild boar.
Thaw by Thor Truck
This has taken me a few days to get to and the recent snowstorm feels like a distant memory as Spring now begins to lift her pretty head. But somehow out of Jack Frost's latest dream emerged a new vehicle…Thor. The story goes like this..
It is maybe our connection to Jack Frost or Angel's not wanting to leave, but somehow this little Welsh valley got the most snow in the country. Snow snow snow. The first night the front door blew open and there was a pile of snow on the doorstep, and it was all quite pretty and white.
The next day we awoke and it was DEEP, and as there snow time like the present, The Heart suggested we go forth with the Land Rover to have breakfast in town. We got to the top of the hill out but got stuck in thigh-high drifts which had blown from the fields either side of the track, so had to dig our way back. It was very exciting being snowed in, like a siege until we got down to the last carrot and then Ivian, the farmer, managed to get his 4×4 tractor in to tow the Land Rover out. We thus avoided the challenges of scurvy.
We then went on a wintry mission across the country to meet the new truck, a Mercedes 814D 4×4. There seems to be a bit of a snow theme and a yellow theme with our vehicles, as the 1820 was a road gritter in a previous life, and was yellow but is now in the process of being resprayed, although it is taking a long time whilst waiting for a dry day in Wales.
And when I first went to get the (yellow) Land Rover there was a spectacular hail storm, then the sun came out when she drove towards me.
So we knew that we were onto a winner when we got to the guy's house through the snow, and he turns out to be a polar bear fanatic with pictures of polar bears, stuffed polar bears and polar bear cushions etc (and the truck is yellow).
We then re-drove across the country and made it to Hereford, where the cap of the Land Rover's fuel filter fell off stranding us at a Cash and Carry car park with an unhappy boss, on a closing Saturday afternoon. No new fuel filters were to be had, then The Heart came up with the idea of putting a bolt in the old filter. Great…but I had only bought 10 litres of diesel, not enough to go through the system, so back to town for more diesel, then back to the car park…where the Land Rover battery is flat, so we jump started….and we made it out with 15 minutes to go on the closing gate….
So…we got back to the farm with the dark already descended, but a full moon behind the clouds. The farmer drove us up the steep hill in his Isuzu, and despite there being little snow left elsewhere, somehow our track was still knee deep in wet snow. He has good tyres, and a sense of adventure, and after getting stuck a few times, drove some tracks through the mush,….then the Land Rover and the new Mercedes made it up the hill in one go.
The minute we got home, there was a big flash of lightning, a roar of thunder (the first since we got to this little valley), and a torrential storm started which washed all the snow away….and brought the thaw with the promise of spring.
Thor is the God of thunder and lightning (and 4×4 trucks).
A Beginning
My name is Lucia, and this here is the story of the Last Act on Earth, a story of a journey into a living myth, and to a place where the inner and outer dreams join together.
Today is the day to begin this level of telling the story, as there is a strong idea and intent in the collective mental field that tomorrow, the winter solstice 2012, will be an end and a beginning of sorts. And today is 20.12.2012
The story is of the way a particular group of people come together in a formation, and so doing, form a greater body, more than the sum of its parts: a group body. This meta-being then travels to create a free land, a place that has freedom at its core, not the idea of freedom as licence, the commonly held belief in these times, that freedom is about 'doing what you want', but freedom of perception.
In this place, awareness is unmodulated, and the people that dwell there are free to further it beyond the confines of society and across the borders of perception itself. It is called by one of our collaborators "The Republic of the Imagination", and we believe that it is more than that, this process making it more than just imagination.
As we have been working with this concept for some years now it has become more and more obvious that it is not our personal story, but an impersonal story that is out there at large calling us all to go beyond the usual, or even unusual, definitions of the world, to find that free state with the free people, to find out what freedom is.
I have decided that it is time to share this voyage with the collective that is being called. And in doing so converse with that being who is inviting us all to journey and explore, hoping to convey not just the invitation, but also to catch a glimpse of the spirit itself which calls the shots.


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... asymmetrical facet arthropathy at L3-4 level. Pl let me know the problems in simple words and also suggest what to do?
MRI findings are suggestive of moderate posterior mediolateral disc extrusion at L4-5 level and?
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You have a herniated disc between the 4th and 5th lumbar vertebrae and your facet joints are not meeting up as even as they should be and have some degenerative arthritis in them. A few days of rest might help but no more than 2 days then gentle physical therapy and walking. The Dr may give you some mild analgesics or anti-inflammatory, a muscle relaxant and/or possible a short course of mild steroids. If this doesnt help they may try some injections and/or radiofrequency ablations. It is usually a non surgical issue unless the herniation is very large and is causing progressive weakness. If you get progressive weakness in your legs or you lose control of your bladder or bowels you should seek emergency help. Try to avoid actions where you have to twist like mopping and vacuuming and especially avoid lifting and twisting at the same time.
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I know this is a strange request, but I'm hoping some of you hounds might have an idea or two! Thanks!


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Brazilian defender Santana joins Schalke
Brazilian defender Santana joins Schalke
May. 28, 2013
GELSENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Schalke has signed Brazilian defender Felipe Santana from local rival Borussia Dortmund.
Schalke said Tuesday that the 27-year-old Santana is joining on a three-year contract. His signing comes after former Germany defender Christoph Metzelder retired.
Santana joined Dortmund from Figueirense in 2008. He played for Dortmund, Schalke's bitter local rival in the Bundesliga, in 95 league matches and 10 Champions League games.
Dortmund earlier Tuesday announced the signing of Greek defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos.


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Mentoring a Generation
by Heather Carlile, MA, LPC
1. Mentoring a Generation for Marriage
Deep Friendship
Romantic Intimacy
2. Mentoring a Generation for Parenting
Identify the OuchRage: Counterwill and Crisis
Commitment to Meaning
2. Mentoring a Generation for Healing
Understand the Addiction: Love, Lack, Lifestyle
Heal the Wounds: Connect, Grieve, Stop the Trauma
2017 is my year for sharing the results from my career of writing, mentoring and healing.
Today, I announce the seven categories of my works. Through the weeks and years in private practice and in teaching my colleagues, I've produced materials for homework and for education. Last year I shared the substance of my methods for working with couples in a workshop with my colleagues. That really is the beginning for goodness. I am convinced that home, deep friendship and adult intimate bonds are the foundation for good in the world.
- Couples & Relationships
- Parenting & Mentoring
- Anger, Grief, Trauma, Addiction
- Psychology, Emotions, Personality
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By Karen Brooks
(Reuters) - Police are holding a convicted sex offender in the murder of one of seven women whose bodies were found in northwestern Indiana in what one mayor said may be the work of a serial killer.
A 43-year-old man from Gary, Indiana, was arrested Saturday in the strangulation of Afrika Hardy, 19, whose body was discovered the day before in a Motel 6 in neighboring Hammond.
While being interrogated, the man confessed to that murder and told detectives where three other bodies could be found, said Lieutenant Richard Hoyda of the Hammond Police Department. Police found those on Saturday, he said.
The bodies of three additional women were found on Sunday, according to Lake County coroners.
Hoyda did not provide other information about the deaths or the confession by the man, whose identity was not released.
Gary Mayor Karen Freeman said the suspect is a convicted sex offender in Texas and has an unrelated conviction in Lake County, and may yet lead police to more victims.
"We do know he continues to talk to the police and it is quite possible that there may be more victims," Freeman said in Monday in an interview on CNN.
Three of the bodies were found in the same abandoned Gary home, according to a report in the Times of Northwest Indiana newspaper.
Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr., referred to the suspect as a "serial killer" in comments on his Facebook page.
But Hammond police and coroner's officials have declined to confirm whether they believe the seven bodies are connected, pending a news conference Monday. Gary police could not be reached for comment.
(Reporting by Karen Brooks in Austin, Texas; Additional reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington; Editing by Doina Chiacu)