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That's a good point actually. Saying to her that you just want to see if she is okay might be an idea. I'm a big fan of letting people know that I am asking for my own feelings to be soothed as much as to give them a chance to sooth thier's. I often say things like, "you don't have to go into a a bunch of stuff but could you give me some idea that you have been thinking about things and where you are getting with that?"
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Like everyone else has said, give it time. My gut reaction is that her saying that she is going to move away and take your child with her is borne out of the fear of the unknown. It's wonderful that you have been honest with her. The 2 of you are doing all the right things by being honest and seeing someone who can help ask the questions for you to be able to move forward.
There is always the chance that non-monogamy will always be a deal breaker for your wife. In that case the focus will have to be on your son and how to best co-parent without being married anymore. It's way too early to say if that's the way it's going to go yet.
Is there a local poly group where your wife can meet some people who are poly and who's lives are going well? Maybe even meet the mono wife of a poly man? Sometimes seeing that it can be done and it can work for everyone involved can help. (It might be too soon for such a move though...although doing the research now for when she is ready might be a good idea).
Court your wife again. Take her out places that she likes to go and do things that the 2 of you haven't done together for years. Chances are she's feeling like you want to replace her for someone younger/hotter. She needs to feel that you cherish her. For a while that might really mean going above and beyond with the romance and dating.
Hope that helps a bit.
Everything will be ok in the end. If it's not ok it's not the end.
I think it's great that you've been honest with her. As for her telling you she'd leave and take your child, if he's in his early teens he already has the legal right to make that decision of who he wants to live with and she's not allowed to make it for him.
Well, it depends where you live. I'd check on that, but where I'm from it starts at 13, which is the earliest teen there is.
Otherwise, her "if you are going to be poly I'm going to leave you" in itself isn't blackmail. It's honest, just like "If I'm not allowed to be poly with your consent, I'll probably cheat without it instead" isn't blackmail but honest.
If you can't live without poly and she can't live with it, breaking up makes perfect sense to me. Of course in your case there is a child to think about, who hasn't asked for any of this, and it's very sad that it's turning out to be that way.
Personally I think that being honest is the best you can do. You cannot control your feelings and you have controlled your actions, which is the most you can do. You have told her about the way she felt, and what did you expect her to do? She was given the option to either stay with who you are or leave who you are, and it seems divorce is what she wants between the two.
If she doesn't want affection anymore and she doesn't tell you she loves you and doesn't want to say it either, it seems to me she's made her decision. You can try and make things better, but with what you know (that you aren't fundamentally compatible) is that really the best option? Wouldn't it just drag on a relationship that wouldn't work anyways?
I don't know, it seems that people are often on the side of "make the relationship keep going!" even when it seems that it would hurt everyone involved. In this case, your wife, you and your son. I'm certainly not in that case. I think some things can be worked around and compromised around, and polyamory sometimes is one of them, but right now only you are willing to compromise and meet her halfway, and she's going "walk the other half, sucker!" so I fail to see how it could get anywhere at all.
I'm not giving up just yet, though (boy, would that be stupid!). We're going to change from me seeing the counselor to us seeing the counselor, and see where that goes.
She broached the possibility of living as roommates instead of as husband and wife, for the sake of both of us being here for our son. I think she'd hate that (such self-sacrifice breeds resentment, and there is not one damned noble thing about that--it's more social conditioning that we should all put into the bin just as fast as we possibly can), and even if we cannot agree on how to live together, I don't want her to be miserable. I do, honest and truly, still love her. It's a hard problem, given that we both love our son and want the best for him. I could even see stuffing poly, as hard as that would be, for the remaining years until he's grown, but if my wife will not trust me, the marriage would still be a sham. I can potentially live mono for a few more years, but I cannot live without love, affection, and companionship.
Thanks for your thoughts, everyone.
Nothing made sense to me. I didn't trust her because I did not trust myself anymore. Our breakup destroyed my sense of self, who I was, what I understood to be my 'place' in the world, how I understood everything around me, how I understood my self to be. It is one of the most painful, most disorienting experiences of my life.
Your wife probably has had a very similar experience. I bet nothing makes sense to her. You don't make sense to her. She thought she knew you intimately. She thought she knew what marriage was, what your marriage was specifically. Now she doesn't.
She may be saying she does not trust you in part because nothing in her world makes sense anymore. I know I did not trust Beloved because my foundation was gone. Your wife may be in a similar place.
Beloved and I did get back together - it was really hard. I had to rebuild my sense of self and sense of what the world is and how I live in it. But we did it and while we still are challenged by all kinds of things (distance, managing poly, money), we are happy together.
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On that note, a promising development that set me aglow: this morning, as I was getting out of the shower, she came to me in tears, saying that she really wants us to work, and that she loves me, and we held hands and kissed. She's still very afraid of getting hurt, and it's on me to help her with that.
I'm very excited at the possibility that so long as I'm not a callous screwup, I'm not going to lose my wife!
I wasn't trying to say "give up and break up", just trying to offer a differing viewpoint.
I think your wife has been honest about the way she feels and what she's comfortable with or not at this point, and in my opinion it's better than if she pretended she was fine with in when she actually wasn't.
I think I differ from a lot of people by thinking that sometimes, staying together is bad for a relationship, and people are likely to stay n relationship past their expiration date and make things worse.
This being said, it's true that four days isn't much at all. I hope you guys get better, but I'm not sure what to suggest as I don't know your wife. I'm not sure what would get her to trust you, I expect your opening to her was a shocking experience for her and it's going to be harder for her to trust you than before, even though you've proven more trustworthy than you used to be (since you were honest instead of hiding it some more).
Maybe in time she'll understand that since you were honest with her, there is no reason for her to think you're going to go behind her back. That would be more likely of someone who did not admit they can develop feelings for others.
I understand that you don't want your son to go through that, of course. I was just saying that it's likely to be an empty threat from your wife and that I wouldn't take it at face value, but more try and understand what prompted her to say that. Maybe she felt you took something important from her and she wanted to get you back by doing the same and taking your son away (or threaten to do so) for instance.
I'm not sure how the roommate idea might work. I've known people for whom it worked, but they didn't love each other anymore and were friends more than anything.
By the way, her daughter reacted terribly when she learned they had stayed together for her sake.
I think it might be easier to be honest with your kid right away than have them learn in retrospect that because of him, you had to keep living together for years. Then again, I guess it depends on your kid, but I'm usually on the side of honesty. Things get figured out at some point and it's that much worse when you realise you've been lied to for years.
And I think it's obvious to all here that you are not a "callous screw-up."
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The book industry has been hit hard by the recession - very hard. (You know publishers are desperate when they start embracing online content curation.) And now there's even more news to raise the industry's blood pressure: One in every three people who download e-books on their digital readers do so illegally, according to a survey of 1,959 consumers conducted by a British law firm.
As the Guardian notes, publishers must be quaking in their boots - that's a ton of lost revenue, plus a quarter of users who admitted to e-book piracy said they would keep on downloading illegally. Record labels notoriously lost millions thanks to Napster (which was eventually ruled illegal), and now publishers are staring down the same tunnel.
Unlike the Napster fall-out, though, no one has attempted a lawsuit yet (and no specific illegal e-book sites had been named in the Guardian article), but there's little doubt that authors and publishers will be forced to sue if people keep downloading books without paying.
In a way, it's easier to make the "this is clearly illegal" argument with books – in Napster's case, the argument was "oh well it's just 1 song, not an entire album." But with a book - a large body of work that's either downloaded in its entirety or not - this justification is much harder. The numbers who admit to illegal downloading indicate that people simply don't care that they're essentially stealing books - they aren't lifting physical objects from stores, so the distinction of taking something illegally isn't made. (Also an open question: just where are all these people getting their illegal book downloads? Is there a central site that could be shut down?)
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My daughter is 12 years old and has Type 1 diabetes. I heard on the news that in Europe they have an oral medication instead of injections. Is this true? If so, how safe is it and will the FDA approve this?
I have not heard of an oral medication for type 1 diabetes. We still also use insulin by injection. Perhaps an oral preparation will come some day, but as far as I know, no one has developed it yet.
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Red's ProRes is VERY flat, because rather than baking the color into to the clip like most cameras do, it saves the color grade as a LUT. So, the footage looks drab without the LUT, beautiful with it... so naturally, I end up loading this LUT for every clip... which is a major drag.
So I thought I could create a preset, rather than adding a LUT effect individually to each clip, then opening the LUT browser which never remembers the last location I went to, navigating to the folder with the LUTs in it, and loading a LUT.
But... when I right click on the LUT effect, there's no "create preset" option... what am I missing?
Have you right-clicked the LUT in the effects panel, or after applied to a layer? I think an effect has to be on a layer to create the preset?
If the effect WAS on a layer this is probably a question for staff.
It wasn't in a composite shot, just a regular one. It should be possible to create a preset without requiring a composite shot, maybe that's a feature request?
It's a common workflow in pro work to build a a LUT on set to pass on to editorial, so that the editor doesn't have to work with flat log footage.
@WhiteCranePhoto that's a feature request. Currently Effects Presets can only be created in Composite Shots (although they can be applied in the Editor Timeline). I only found that out myself a couple of weeks ago when recording my Import/Export EVERYTHING tutorial.
I'll add it to the wish list. Hopefully it's a relatively easy enhancement, because it's a biggie for a lot of workflows.
Even better would be handling Red footage elegantly; every clip whether it's recorded in raw, ProRes, or DNxHR live in their own folder, and they'll have the LUT built on camera saved with them. Ideal would be for the NLE of choice to handle the folders as clips (as Resolve does with Redcode clips), load the clips (and assemble the into one if it's segmented -- the camera file system is limited to 4GB chunks) and apply the LUT from the folder.
That is a recent change to 2017. You can create a preset from the NLE timeline in Express 4 and I presume Pro 4. In fact as I remember if you created a preset in the comp timeline you could not use that preset on the NLE timeline. It was "layer only", even if you did not use any comp timeline specific items. Therefore if you wanted to use a preset on the NLE timeline you had to create the preset from the NLE timeline.
I just tried this in 2017. If you create a preset on the comp timeline it cannot be used on the NLE timeline. In it layer only. This is a feature/ability that has been removed from the product Pro 2017.
The presets are easy to edit and change such that they can be used on the NLE timeline. I once did that on this forum for someone who posted some grading presets that could only be used on the comp timeline. I once suggested that if a preset is created that does not use any layer features, that it be saved in such a format that it can be used on the NLE timeline.
@WhiteCranePhoto @Triem23 @NormanPCN Not being able to create presets from the editor sequence was a bug in Pro 2017 and has been fixed for update 3.
I have logged the other two things mentioned for us to look at in the future:
Thanks for your feedback!
I did discover that each instance of the LUT effect remembers its last location. If you're cycling through a set of LUTs to find the best one it works ok, but every time you add a new LUT effect, you have to browse to the location again.
Being able to organize clips into groups would be a big help also for color grading.


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Isn't it nice to wake up to the singing of birds. Well, for the last few days, we've been waking up to the most sweet singing of the birds at dawn. Dawn, that little divide between the morning and night, when the world has not yet woken up….when the hustle and bustle of daily life has still got a few moments to start. You open your eyes, and, in your still half – sleepy state, your ears are greeted by the sweet singing of the blackbird or the robin or the nightingale or the thrush, to name a few… now, that is pure bliss. And that is what we've been experiencing, especially in the last couple of days. This dawn chorus, as it is called, especially in our local woodland, fresh water marsh or grassland, the passerines – or song birds – are living up to their name.
What is the dawn chorus?
Right now, between sunrise and mid-morning, wrens, robins, thrushes and blackbirds (to name but a few) are singing. In your local woodland, fresh water marsh or grassland, the passerines – or song birds – are living up to their name. But why, and what, are they singing?
In general, only the male songbird sings and he is communicating one of two messages – 'go away!' or 'come here!'.
Go away!
In order to attract a female to mate with him, a male bird has to obtain and defend a territory. This territory will help determine his breeding success by providing him, and his mate, with food. Males claim a territory by singing in it, which tells other males to stay away. They leave gaps in their song to listen to replies, so they can discover where any rivals are and focus their defensive efforts on strangers looking to take over the territory. Some species, such as great tits and chaffinches, have a large repertoire of choruses to convince other males that there are a number of birds in the area and that all the territory is spoken for.
Come here!
The second reason for the dawn chorus is to advertise for a mate. When doing this, males sing songs that are longer and more complex than the repetitive ones used for territorial defence. Singing is an honest indication to a female of the males quality and fitness because it is an energy intensive activity. If a male has the excess energy to sing a long, loud, complicated song after a night without food, he must be a good, strong forager and live in a productive territory. This is what the females want. A weak, hungry bird will not have the energy to sing such an impressive song. More on the dawn chorus here.
The international dawn chorus day falls on the 4th of May. All around the globe people will be rising early to greet the rising sun and enjoy nature's daily miracle. Events are organised by local bird and wildlife conservation groups…more info here…check it out…there could be an event near you.
And if the idea of going for a walk in the wee hours does not appeal to you , you can still tune in to the dawn chorus without leaving your bedroom, as we've been doing for the last few days…set your alarm very early, about 4 am and open the windows a crack(or open wide,if the weather's warm) and enjoy the chorus from the comfort of your bed!
After such a sweet start to the day, let's head back to the kitchen and see what's in store. I made these potato-cream cheese-methi (fenugreek) parathas (quite a mouthful, eh?) the other day, which we quite liked and so, am sharing with you .
The main ingredients , I must admit, were all leftovers…the cream cheese from here, the methi, from here and the potatoes were the last ones left, and which were ready to sprout any minute! But they all bonded together very nicely with the flour and we enjoyed these soft parathas for dinner. Without more ado, let me cite the recipe…so here goes…
What's needed-
4 small potatoes,boiled and peeled
2 c finely chopped fenugreek/methi leaves
5 tblsp of cream cheese
1 and 1/2 tblsp salt
3 tblsp oil
2 and 1/2 to 3 C wheat flour
How to-
- Beat together the potatoes and the cheese till smooth and creamy.
- Add the fenugreek leaves, flour, salt and oil and mix to form a dough ( it will be quite sticky)
- Knead the dough for a few minutes…a floured worktop and floured hands should help.
- Divide the dough into 15-16 portions (shape into balls and slightly flatten them, I did not make them too big) and roll out into discs of about a mm in thickness (note, roll the balls of dough in flour and also the rolling pin to avoid sticking to it) .
- Heat and grease( a non stick spray works great) a pan over medium heat and place a rolled paratha on it.
- Cook for about 11-12 seconds on each side and again for about 4-5 seconds on each side, or till dark brown spots begin to appear.
- Repeat for all the reast of the balls of dough and wrap in foil , if, for later use.
That's it! We have developed quite a fondness for these soft parathas and wouldn't mind making them again and again These parathas, accompanied by a dal and some homemade mango pickle ( courtesy: my aunt, all the way from India) were a nice and complete meal, and we rose from the table, quite happy with what we've just savoured
Just to let you know that this month's Think spice is being hosted at Easy crafts and she has chosen cardamom as the spice for this month. So during the month of May, Think spice-think cardamom. Click on the logo in my sidebar for the rules. Check out the round up of last month's Think spice…think cloves here.
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I believe in standing in the stacks.
Let me explain.
In the early 1990s, while I was a pimply-faced middle-schooler, my wife was a not-so-pimply faced high-schooler over a thousand miles away. She took a job as a concessions attendant in a local theatre and quickly developed quite a crush on her new boss. He was a short, hairy man with an intense gaze who gave the teenage girls that worked for him speeches in the box office, about literature, art, science, war, passion and creativity. His enthusiasm for his time on earth was contagious, and my wife's life was changed forever. This man set her on a course that lead to working in performing and visual arts, and eventually as a web designer and graphic artist in a public library.
A very short time after they parted ways, this man became a human resources director for a small chain of independent bookstores, and one day, a few years later, a no-longer-so-pimply faced boy entered his office for a job interview. The man had one question for applicants: "Tell me about your favorite book," he'd say and lean back in his leather chair, placing his thumb and forefinger on his chin and stroke his beard. The applicant listed a few books for the man, but concluded by saying that "all books are the same, really; there's really only one story ever told." The boy was trying to express something that he didn't understand, but desperately wanted to. The man hired him on the spot, and over the course of the next five years, this man and his equally inspiring roommate set the young man on a path to following his love of writing and reading, and eventually a career as a librarian.
I believe this man and his friend were standing in the stacks, directing people to the books they are writing about themselves without knowing it. I believe these people set the course of events in our world far more than the powerful, the rich, the faithful, or the ambitious ever could. They can work in theaters or bookstores, or be dishwashers or janitors. The people in the stacks uncover secrets for us, lead us to ourselves, empower us so that we may read our beliefs in our world, and follow them. And I believe that if we follow these people, we follow our true selves, and ultimately, we too learn to stand in the stacks. We learn to write our lives, as well as read them. We learn to lead our beliefs, as well as follow them.
I believe in the moment when our three year old son, browsing our stacks at home, just happened to take a copy of Sophocles this man had given me to my wife, and somehow accidentally pointed to a hand-written name on the inside cover. I believe in how she recognized that name. And I believe in her coming to me and asking, "Where did you get this book?"
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At New York Comic Con 2015 earlier today, during Marvel and Netflix's panel spotlighting their upcoming television series Jessica Jones and Daredevil Season 2, fans were given this awesome Jessica Jones Season 1 Production Concept Art Poster by Alex Maleev! The poster features Krysten Ritter's Jessica Jones giving out her business card for her Alias Investigations. At least they've kept the Alias in the name of her detective agency! While The Blot prefers my Alias covers and posters to be drawn by David Mack, Maleev did an excellent job with this New York Comic Con 2015 exclusive poster.
Marvel's Jessica Jones Season 1 will debut November 20th on Netflix, and The Blot can't wait!


text: DigitalNew Trump Mag Publisher: 'I Should Have Done Some More Research'By Noah Davis|September 26, 2007ShareBy Noah Davis|September 26, 2007ShareLast night at the Trump Towers, Donald Trump and Ocean Drive Media Group publisher Jerry Powers announced a partnership to publish the latest incarnation of a Trump magazine, TrumpTrump Magazine (our sources tell us Keith Kelly got the name wrong). The book will be "the coffee table, high-end book for luxury living," Powers told the assorted suits and journos. The first issue will hit stands Thanksgiving weekend, in time for the pre-holiday shopping spree. The mogul/billionaire/reality star won't write a column, but he did joke (we think), "I'm going to put my picture right on the front so we'll sell lots of magazines."We couldn't score an interview with The Donald (but thanks for trying, Becky), but Powers told FBNY that the magazine will be published from Ocean Drive's Miami offices and will succeed where other Trump magazine's have failed because "we're doing it." The publisher, who Keith Kelly reported has a five-year, $20 million agreement with Trump, admitted he wasn't sure what was going to happen to the staff of the current version of Trump magazine, published by Premiere. "This was a rush job," he told us. "I just started talking to Donald two weeks ago. I should have done some more research." For now, Ocean Drive editor-in-chief Glen Albin will pull double-duty as EIC of Trump Life. (Later, we overheard Niche Media's Jason Binn telling Powers, "We've got to make this work," to which the publisher responded, "I know.") Good luck, guys.Some pics after the jump The Trump clan and Powers Trump smiles, charms These people were not paying attention Sharehttp://adweek.it/2l3nyGs copy Adweek Adweek


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I'm often asked for this, so here is the latest. I will update this post over time, and as of this posting these are my VR settings for X-Plane 11.25b1 and the Oculus Rift.
My settings are primarily based on a YouTube video I'd found, which I have posted at the bottom of this post. It's worth watching the entire thing, although the last 10 minutes or so you can probably scan through as it, for the most part, just makes and extended case for the use of the 3jFPS plugin. Here's the list:
- Using the automatic overclock wizard in my BIOS I have overclocked my CPU. A 4.0 chip, it's running at 4.6 after the wizard, which I have manually upped to 4.7. DON'T OVERCLOCK YOUR CPU UNLESS YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT YOU ARE DOING AS YOU CAN PERMANENTLY DAMAGE YOUR PC.
- Based on the video below, in my BIOS I also:
- Turned Hyperthreading on
- Disabled power management
- Disabled CPU C states
- Disabled Intel Speed Step
- Using the NVIDA Inspector I overclocked by GPU by 80 on the clock speed and 200 on the memory speed. DON'T OVERCLOCK YOUR GPU UNLESS YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT YOU ARE DOING AS YOU CAN PERMANENTLY DAMAGE YOUR PC.
- Using Oculus Tray Tool I:
- Set the performance to Maximum Performance Plan
- Disabled USB Select Suspend
- Set SuperSampling to 0
- Left ASW alone — which is DIFFERENT from what he says to do in the video, because I prefer Oculus Debug Tool for setting the frame rate, as I can decide between fixing it at 45 FPS with AWS or without.
- Each time I load X-Plane I set Super Sampling to 1.7 and ASW to fixed 45 FPS with space warp off. This works best for me, and if you have performance problems you might turn down the Super Sampling to a lower number (maybe start with 1.3 and work your way up – at some point the increase in clarity is not worth the decrease in performance).
- As a result of the two points above, please note that (1) the Tray Tool changes are a one-time thing. I do NOT load Tray Tool each time I load X-Plane. I DO, however, load the Debug Tool each time I load X-Plane, and I am good with that.
- Using Project Lasso, I:
- Enabled Performance Mode in the overall settings
- With X-Plane and X-Plane VR running, in Lasso I:
- Set XP's priority to High
- Set its CPU affinity to use virtual cores 2-7 (all but the first two)
- Note: If you are not using hyper threading, run XP on all but your first physical core.
- I have not had great results moving other items, like the Oculus programs, to the first physical core and away from X-Plane. Rather I give X-Plane the last three physical cores and keep it of the first, and let Windows allocate the rest of what's running across the cores and threads as it sees fit given my performance and power management settings.
- In Windows Power Management (which is in the Windows Control Panel settings), I set the power management profiles to Bitsum Highest Performance (which is a profile created by Lasso). If you don't have Lasso, pick Highest Performance.
- In NVIDIA Control Panel, I:
- Set the overall 3D profile Energy setting to Max Performance
- With X-Plane running, in the 3jFPS plugin Advanced Settings I:
- Ran the wizard for a min FSP of 45 and max FPS to 46, and took the best FPS options in every other choice it gave me
- Then I went back through the advanced settings and:
- Reduced sliders in the LOD settings to the bottom of the green scale
- Reduced min and max sliders in the visibility settings to the bottom of the green scale
- In X-Plane graphics settings I:
- Set it to windowed mode as it seems to perform better minimized (meaning once I have the Rift on I minimize the XP window)
- Graphics to HDR (position 4)
- Textures to max (position 4)
- AA to FXAA (position 2)
- Objects to almost max (position 4) — while he runs at max objects, I found it hurt my frames too much in busy areas
- Shadows on if I'm using the latest 3JFPS with it's auto-shadow setting, otherwise shadows off, reflections off
- Finally, I did anything else I could do to reduce the CPU load while playing X-Plane:
- Turned off Windows auto updates
- Turned off NVIDIA Geforce Experience
- Set Oculus Server to run in administrator mode, which seems to keep it from loading the full Oculus window unless I specifically open it
These setting are working really well for me, with usually solid 45FPS, smooth performance, and few to no "grey flashes" or frozen views. I do think the changes to the power management settings throughout made a difference, for what that's worth. It's really a remarkably good experience, although your mileage may vary.


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Anecdotal reports of cannabis alleviating epileptic symptoms are plentiful and the substance is often used by epileptic patients who report gaining subjective relief from marijuana.[1]But placebo-controlled clinical data establishing cannabinoids' efficacy for this condition in adults largely remains lacking.[2] However, in recent years, clinicians have begun to focus specifically on the ability of cannabidiol to potentially mitigate symptoms associated with intractable pediatric epilepsy.
Media reports regarding the successful use of CBD by pediatric patients are widespread.[3] Parents of children with severe epilepsy have also reported successful experiences with cannabidiol-enriched cannabis in scientific surveys.[4-5]
Recently published observational data is also supportive of CBD's anti-seizure activity in adolescent patients. For example, a retrospective chart review of children and adolescents who were given oral cannabis extracts in a Colorado epilepsy center reported some mitigation in seizure frequency in up to 57 percent of subjects.[6] Additional benefits reported included: improved behavior/alertness (33 percent), improved language (10 percent), and improved motor skills (10 percent).
Israeli researchers in 2016 retrospectively evaluated the effects of CBD oil in a multicenter cohort of 74 patients with intractable epilepsy. Participants in the trial were resistant to conventional epilepsy treatment and were treated with CBD extracts for a period of at least three months. Extracts in the study were provided by a pair of Israeli-licensed growers and were standardized to possess a CBD to THC ratio of 20 to 1. Investigators reported: "CBD treatment yielded a significant positive effect on seizure load. Most of the children (89 percent) reported reduction in seizure frequency. … In addition, we observed improvement in behavior and alertness, language, communication, motor skills and sleep."[7]
They concluded, "The results of this multicenter study on CBD treatment for intractable epilepsy in a population of children and adolescents are highly promising. Further prospective, well-designed clinical trials using enriched CBD medical cannabis are warranted."
In the fall of 2013, the United States Food and Drug Administration granted orphan drug status to imported, pharmaceutically standardized CBD (aka Epidiolex) extracts for use in experimental pediatric treatment. Clinical trials assessing the safety and efficacy of the treatment in children with severe forms of the disease, such as Dravet syndrome, began in 2014.[8] At present, a consortium of 10 epilepsy centers is collecting prospective data on children and young adults prescribed Epidiolex.[9] Clinical trial results publicized in April 2015 at the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology reported that the administration of these extracts decreased seizure frequency by 54 percent over a 12-week period in children with treatment-resistant epilepsy.[10] Trial data reported in the fall of 2015 at the American Epilepsy Society's annual meeting further reported that the adjunctive use of Epidiolex was associated with long-term seizure relief in 40 percent of adolescent subjects.[11] Open-label trial data reported online in December 2015 in the journal Lancet Neurology also reported a median reduction in seizures in adolescent patient treated with Epidiolex that approached 40 percent. Authors concluded, "Our findings suggest that cannabidiol might reduce seizure frequency and might have an adequate safety profile in children and young adults with highly treatment-resistant epilepsy."[12] Phase III clinical trial data has also shown Epidiolex treatment to mitigate seizure frequency and be well tolerated in the treatment of Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, a rare and sever form of epilepsy.[13-14]Epidiolex/CBD treatment is also associated with improved symptoms and reduced prescription drug intake in pediatric patients with febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES), a devastating form epilepsy affecting normal children after a febrile illness,[15] as well as with seizure reduction in patients with Tuberous sclerosis complex-induced epilepsy.[16]
Separate observational data published in 2015 in the journal Epilepsia concludes that 70 percent children administered Epidiolex adjunctively with clobazam experience a greater than 50 percent decrease in seizure frequency. "CBD is a safe and effective treatment of refractory epilepsy in patients receiving CLB treatment," authors reported.[17] Additional clinical trials of Epidiolex, along with several state-sponsored trials using CBD extracts, are ongoing. Preliminary data from one such state-sponsored trial, provided by the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2016, reported that an estimated 90 percent of subjects with pediatric epilepsy showed "some improvement" following CBD treatment.[18] As a result of this growing body of evidence, the Epilepsy Foundation of America has resolved for "changes to state laws to increase access to medical marijuana as a treatment option for epilepsy, including pediatric use as supported by a treating physician."[19]
[1] Massot-Tarrus and McLachian. 2016. Marijuana use in adults admitted to a Canadian epilepsy monitoring unit.Epilepsy & Behavior 63: 73-78.
[2] Editorial. 2012. Marijuana for epilepsy: winds of change. Epilepsy & Behavior 29: 435-436
[3] Saundra Young, CNN.com. August 7, 2013. "Marijuana stops child's severe seizures."
[4] Porter and Jacobson. 2013. Report of a parent survey of cannabidiol-enriched cannabis use in pediatric treatment-resistant epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior 29: 574-577.
[5] Hussain et al. 2015. Perceived efficacy of cannabidiol-enriched cannabis extracts for treatment of pediatric epilepsy: A potential role for infantile spasms and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Epilepsy & Behavior 47: 138-141.
[6] Press et al. 2015. Parental reporting of response to oral cannabis extracts for treatment of refractory epilepsy.Epilepsy & Behavior 45: 49-52.
[7] Tzadok et al. 2016. CBD-enriched medical cannabis for intractable pediatric epilepsy: The current Israeli experience. Seizure. [E-pub ahead of print].
[8] Susan Livio, New Jersey Star-Ledger. December 6, 2013. FDA-approved medical marijuana clinical trial gets underway next month for kids with epilepsy.
[9] Friendman and Devinsky. 2015. Cannabinoids in the treatment of epilepsy. New England Journal of Medicine373: 1048-1058.
[10] American Academy of Neurology press release, "Medical marijuana liquid extract may bring hope for children with severe epilepsy," April 13, 2015.
[11] Dennis Thompson, HealthDay. December 8, 2015. Marijuana chemical shows promise for hard-to-treat epilepsy in kids.
[12] Devinsky et al. 2015. Cannabidiol in patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy: an open-label interventional trial. Lancet Neurology. [E-pub ahead of print].
[13] EpilepsyResearch.org. June 28, 2016. "Results of Epidiolex trial in Lennox-Gastaut Syndrone announced."
[14] "GW Pharmaceuticals announces second positive Phase III pivotal trial for Epidiolex (cannabdiol) in the treatment of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome," September 26, 2016.
[15] Gofshteyn et al. 2016. Cannabidiol as a potential treatment for febrile infection-related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES) in the acute and chronic phases. Journal of Child Neurology. [E-pub ahead of print].
[16] Hess et al. 2016. Cannabidiol as a new treatment for drug-resistant epilepsy in tuberous sclerosis complex.,Epilepsia. [E-pub ahead of print].
[17] Geffrey et al. 2015. Drug–drug interaction between clobazam and cannabidiol in children with refractory epilepsy. Epilepsia 56: 1246-1251.
[18] Al.com/Birmingham News. January 29, 2016. "Does medical marijuana oil work? UAB shares insight into Carly's Law study."
[19] Epilepsy Foundation of America press release, "Epilepsy Foundation calls for increased medical marijuana access and research," February 20, 2014.


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A One Direction performance almost gets scary, Timbaland apologizes to Jay-Z — in song, and 2013 MTV Video Music Awards nominee Demi Lovato hits us with her new video.
- With a string of recent public faux pas, Justin Bieber has decided to get a new tattoo. The giant eye on his elbow supposedly represents his wholesome mom's watchful gaze, but it may inadvertently end up drawing conspiracy theorists to the Biebs' Instagram page. [Perez Hilton]
- Yikes! One Direction's Harry Styles nearly stumbled near a pyrotechnic display during a performance, but Zayn Malik quickly stepped in to prevent disaster. These dudes truly have each others' backs. [E!]
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iZombie New Promo Releases. The CW has released a new promo for their upcoming adaptation of iZombie. The new promo gives us some more footage from the new show starring Rose McIver as Olivia "Liv" Moore, a medical student who leads her life as a zombie.
In the promo "Live to Tell", Liv's family and friends stage an intervention in order to get Liv to tell them what's with the sudden change in her. Liv's mother Eva (Molly Hagan) gets worried that her daughter is throwing away her life by working at the coroner's office rather than finishing medical school. Liv's best friend Peyton (Aly Michalka) thinks that she is suffering from PTSD. Her ex-boyfriend Major Lilywhite (Robert Buckley) thinks that Liv wants to hang out with him in order to get back together.
What her family and friends doesn't know is that she has become a zombie after a party she went to was actually a zombie feeding frenzy. The only person who knows her secret is her boss Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti (Rahul Kohli), who allows her to eat the brains from the deceased. However, eating them allows Liv to gain their memories that help her crack many unsolved cases with detective Clive Babinaux (Malcolm Goodwin).
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'Nigeria needs strategic partnership on broadband plan'
Stakeholders in Nigeria's $70 billion telecommunications sector are worried about the slow implementation of the country's National Broadband Plan (NBP 2013-2018).
They are worried that the benefits that should have been accruing to the economy, is being stalled by lack of proper direction.
The Broadband 2018 Coalition Group, a major stakeholder in the sector, yesterday, said Nigeria requires strategic partnerships between indigenously owned broadband companies and governments to actualise technology adoption leveraging the Yaba Innovation HeadQuarter (iHQ) blueprint.
The Yaba iHQ blueprint project saw Co-Creation Hub, Lagos State Government and MainOne come together to provide a haven for tech start-up companies around the axis.
Like the Broadband 2018 Coalition Group, industry stakeholders posited that the non-challant attitude been exhibited in the country towards enthroning a broadband regime posed grave danger for the economy, which aspires to be a force to reckon with in Africa by 2020.
Nigeria has all it takes to have pervasive broadband distribution across the country. The country currently has five submarine cables, which boast of 10+TBPS (Terabytes Per Second) bandwidth capacity.
While Africa is home to about 16 submarine cables system valued at over $20 billion, Nigeria alone has five, with current investments ranging between $1 billion to $7 billion.
Interestingly, the 2013-2018 NBP was an attempt to introduce new initiatives to address the importance of broadband towards attaining the country's developmental goal Vision 20:2020 and increase fixed broadband penetration to 30 per cent and 80 per cent Internet connections across the country by 2018.
Though, there are over 90 million Internet connections, mostly through the narrowband, amounting to about 47 per cent of the World Bank estimated 180 million people in the country, about 53 per cent of Nigerians are still offline.
Instructively, some 205 communities, which house about 40 million Nigerians, have not had access to basic telephony service.
Part of the NBP 2013-2018 was to ensure that both underserved and unserved areas of the country are reached with broadband connections through fibre deployment, among others.
Unfortunately, successive governments have been unable to follow through on this plan since it was unveiled by the pioneer Minister of Communications Technology, Dr. Omobola Johnson, who left office about 16 months into the plan
Worst still, experts opined that there have been lukewarm attitude in implementing the NBP.
Nigeria has experienced huge benefits from fixed broadband access. For instance, Yaba Innovation headquarter project is a project (between Co-Creation Hub, Lagos State Government and MainOne) that sought to provide a haven for tech start-up companies.
MainOne built over 30km fiber infrastructure in Yaba, because it was granted Right of Way (RoW) by the State Government, which has created Nigeria's first commercially sustainable ecosystem, spurring employment opportunities with at least 20,000 direct and indirect jobs created, with a stimulation of new sectors including eCommerce, ePayment and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the revolutionisation of established sectors including Financial Services and Media as a result of cheaper, faster Internet connectivity. It is modelled after Silicon Valley. Yaba's tech ecosystem has attracted the attention of global technology leaders including Facebook and Google CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai respectively.
Accordingly, having strategic partnerships between indigenously owned broadband companies and governments can help to accelerate penetration.
"This is why it has become highly important for the implementation of the National Broadband Policy now," Broadband 2018 Coalition Group stated.
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This weekend I will be participating in my first book fair, the Hockessin Art and Book Fair. I've been collecting tips from friends, blogs, and YouTube, and here are my favorites:
- Do a practice run. Set up your table at home and take a picture of the finished product. You do your fiddling, forgetting, and fretting at home at your leisure, and on the day of the fair, you simply look at your photo and recreate it. Saves time on the day of and helps ensure a nice looking table.
- Use props and vary their elevation. Flat paper and flat books do not a thrilling visual make. Props related to your book help draw attention to your table and stacking or propping items and books at different levels helps keep your table looking interesting.
- Come prepared to be paid. Test your credit card app to make sure it works, bring small bills to make change, and make yourself a small sign saying what forms of payment you accept. Have prices listed clearly and consider offering a deal or two.
- Take pictures of your table and yourself at the fair to use later in blog posts, newsletters, or book promotions.
- Have something people can take with them to remind them of you such as a business card, bookmark, etc. They might not buy your book today, but if they have something to remember you by, they just might purchase later.
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West Ham United boss Sam Allardyce has warned Winston Reid, who is returning after ankle surgery, that he will have to prove that he is deserving of a recall into a winning team. Allardyce said in The Sun: "I've got so many lovely problems. Winston Reid is chomping at the bit on the bench but there's nothing you can do when the team is winning.
"Take Joe Cole, an excellent player who did not even make the squad for the Norwich game.
"It's great for me, disappointing for them, but you can't really argue with a team that's winning can you? And my two centre-halves are playing ever so well."
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NTL drops bid to purchase ITV
EmptyU.K. cable firm NTL, fronted by Richard Branson, told the stock market in London on Wednesday that it is officially dropping its bid to purchase British commercial broadcaster ITV.
President and CEO Stephen Burch told an investor conference in New York later in the day that NTL already has initiated talks with new ITV executive chairman Michael Grade about potential commercial arrangements and relationships that would bring it at least some of the benefits his firm sought in the takeover play. He also said subscriber growth has improved in the current fourth quarter, which was part of the reason NTL felt it could move on to a content deal in the form of ITV.
With that transaction out of the picture for now, Burch and chairman James Mooney also vowed to continue looking for possible content acquisitions or arrangements with U.S. and smaller U.K. players.
NTL, listed on the Nasdaq, said Wednesday that "it has no present intention of making an offer for ITV as it believes a transaction between ITV and NTL is unlikely to be attained on terms acceptable to NTL."
The cable operator said it has abandoned its interest to "focus on integrating NTL, Telewest and Virgin Mobile, driving cost synergies, improving operational effectiveness and leveraging its content assets."
The change of heart comes less than two weeks after the cabler's initial £5 billion ($9.5 billion) cash-and-stock merger approach was unanimously rejected by the ITV board and U.K. satcaster British Sky Broadcasting snapped up a 17.9% interest in ITV (HR 11/21).
NTL's tabled bid valued ITV at £1.22 ($2.30) per share, with £1.05 ($2) in cash and the balance made up in new NTL shares. The bid fell short of the £1.35 ($2.56)-per-share price BSkyB subsequently paid for its stake in ITV.
NTL said it has "submitted its views on this purchase (of ITV shares by BSkyB) to the Office of Fair Trading and OFCOM because it presents serious competition and public-interest issues."
The cable operator also said it reserves the right to resurrect its interest within "the next six months" under takeover and merger rules. Such changes, NTL said, would include a decision by BSkyB to sell "all or a material part of its take in ITV."
NTL is clearly still smarting from BSkyB's share purchase and suggested in the statement that "the fact that Sky would spend nearly $2 billion to acquire its stake immediately following the mere announcement of NTL's proposed combination, before the ITV board had an opportunity to respond, highlights the magnitude of the competition issues involved."
Mooney expanded on that theme at the annual UBS Global Media and Communications Conference on Wednesday in New York, telling attendees: "Sky has finally overstepped their bounds," which has created some political opposition and concerns over potentially anti-competitive behavior. "This will ultimately help us," Mooney added.
He also suggested that BSkyB won't be able to strike the kind of commercial arrangements that NTL is now hoping to negotiate with ITV.
Burch also struck bullish tones, saying that "for the first time ever, Sky is concerned about us" and comparing the satellite TV giant controlled by News Corp. to "a cornered dog."
Mooney shrugged off investor and analyst concerns over NTL's bid for ITV. As key benefits, he mentioned synergies in the tax and advertising sales areas, savings from a headquarters consolidation, the chance to produce content for pay TV, mobile phones and the Internet as well as cross-promotional opportunities and the chance to use ITV's video-on-demand library.
He also said a deal would have leveled the playing field with BSkyB and enabled NTL "to compete for sports and movies."
Burch also vowed to keep a focus on content opportunities in the future. "This is not the end-all and be-all," he said. But it is "an arrow in our quiver" and remains important.
Stuart Kemp reported from London; Georg Szalai reported from New York.


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A Note from Sue Else
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Hi friends of NNEDV,
Today I became part of something amazing and I wanted to let you know. It's called NO MORE, and we're using a powerful new symbol to unleash national attention on an issue that impacts 12.7 million of us every year. That's 24 people every minute.
Many people think that domestic violence and sexual assault don't affect them, but they're wrong.
These are people that we know. They're our mothers, girlfriends, brothers, sisters, children, co-workers and friends. These issues are massive but they're still very hidden and misunderstood.
It's time to change that.
I'm saying NO MORE to domestic violence and sexual assault by using this symbol and sharing it with everyone I know. I hope you will too.
You can find out more at www.nomore.org. Take the pledge. Spread the word. Together we can end domestic violence and sexual assault.
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Kanya Bennett serves as a Legislative Counsel in the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office. In this capacity, Kanya advances criminal justice reform at the federal level. Prior to joining the ACLU, Kanya spent over three years at the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy as the Director of Policy Development and Programming where she focused on civil and criminal justice issues. Kanya also served as Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee from 2003 to 2011 and completed a year-long fellowship at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation immediately following her graduation from law school. She holds an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and earned her law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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CHICAGO (Nov. 3)
Vernon Walters, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, may take direct action to expunge the 1975 U.N. General Assembly resolution equating Zionism with racism.
"I am considering the idea of introducing a resolution that will repeal the 'Zionism is racism' resolution," he told 200 American Jewish community leaders attending the National Executive Committee meeting here of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
American policy at the United Nations is "never to leave a lie unchallenged, whether it is directed against Israel, the United States or other countries," Walters said.
The 12th anniversary of the adoption of the infamous resolution falls on Nov. 10.
The American envoy also predicted that by 1990, Israel's foes in the world organization will give up trying to oust Israel from the United Nations. He said the perennial attempts by the Arab states to deny Israel's credentials to sit in the General Assembly have been losing steam year by year. This year, it was rejected by a vote of 80-39, the largest margin ever.
Nevertheless, Walters noted that the United States has made it clear that if Israel were ousted from the General Assembly or the Security Council, this country "would cease to participate in those bodies."
In addition to Walters, speakers at the ADL meeting included Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel, who discussed "Jewish Priorities in These Changing Times," and Sen. William Cohen (R-Maine), who reported the results of the hearings of the Select Congressional Committee on the Iran-contra affair, of which he was a member.


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Novelist, poet, critic, human rights advocate Marjorie Agosin to speak at Ursuline April 11
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In celebration of Women's History Month, Ursuline College will host Chilean writer, critic and human rights activist Marjorie Agosín for a free, public lunchtime lecture on April 11, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. in the College's Mullen Commuter Lounge (in the Mullen Building).
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) as she considers the important role of women as keepers of memories, of lost languages, and of lost communities. In her writing, it is women who keep these communal remembrances alive, serving as the central figures in the struggle for human rights. She will touch upon the themes of exile and dictatorship, of the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) language, of family secrets, and of the power of poetry and literature. Her presentation will conclude with chance for an open discussion and Q&A.
Agosín was raised in Chile, the daughter of Jewish parents who fled Chile for the United States prior to the coup that installed Augusto Pinochet as dictator in 1973. In both her scholarship and her creative work, Agosín focuses on social justice, feminism, and remembrance. She has been recognized by the government of Chile with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor and nominated for the Neustadt Prize for World Literature in 2003 and 2005. In 1998 she was honored by the United Nations for her human rights work. Her writings about, and humanitarian work for, women in Chile have been the focus of feature articles in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Ms. Magazine.
She earned a BA from the University of Georgia and an MA and Ph.D. from Indiana University. She is a professor of Spanish language and Latin American literature at Wellesley College and the author of numerous works of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism. Her books include "I Lived on Butterfly Hill" (2014), "The Light of Desire" (2010), "Of Earth and Sea: A Chilean Memoir" (2009), "Always from Somewhere Else: A Memoir of my Chilean Jewish Father" (2000), and "An Absence of Shadows" (1998).
Agosín's visit is sponsored by the Ursuline Studies Program, a required series of writing-intensive interdisciplinary courses that serves as the liberal arts core of an Ursuline education. The program is the first of its kind in the country to specifically focus on the ways in which women learn.
"We are delighted that Marjorie Agosín will be speaking at Ursuline College," said Mary Frances Pipino, Ph.D., director of the Ursuline Studies Program. "Throughout her distinguished career, Dr. Agosín has used her voice to promote social justice. She embodies the values we seek to instill in our students."
Agosín's lecture is co-sponsored by Literary Cleveland, a Northeast Ohio non-profit, committed to creating a strong community of readers and writers in Cleveland through workshops, classes, readings and other events.
Her biographical statement on the Wellesley College website reads: "My creative work is inspired by the theme of social justice as well as the pursuit of remembrance and the memorialization of traumatic historical events both in the Americas and in Europe. I have written about the holocaust through the portrayal of Anne Frank as well as about the history of Bosnian women during the siege of Sarajevo. I have also researched and written about the role of women in Latin America during authoritarian regimes in the seventies and eighties."
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Work on warm gas clean-up is focused on testing and developing palladium (Pd) sorbents to capture the trace metals selenium (Se), phosphorus (P), arsenic (As), mercury (Hg), antimony (Sb), and cadmium (Cd) from coal-derived syngas. A laboratory-scale packed-bed reactor is used to test the capacity of the Pd sorbent for Hg, As, Se, P, and Cd from simulated flue gases at temperatures between 400 and 700 degrees Fahrenheit (°F). The performance of the Pd sorbents is being examined at larger scales via testing in bench-scale packed-bed reactors. Additional larger-scale tests using slipstreams of actual coal gas will continue at the National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC), and pilot-scale testing at NCCC will focus on the use of smaller loadings of Pd as well as longer exposures to slipstreams of dirty syngas. A detailed cost analysis for the use of Pd-based sorbents in trace contaminant capture has been developed and will be used for guiding the future application and development of the sorbents. Low-cost sorbents for trace contaminant capture will also be tested at laboratory through pilot scales.
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Superfamily: Noctuoidea
"Moon River"
However, Gabe Larrabee writes (August 15, 2005, "I have caught two specimens in one night so far in central Wisconsin, both males. They are actually common to abundant in certain areas of Wisconsin where sweetfern grows, as I have been told by Leslie Ferge."
Tom Middagh reports them from Minnesota.
The very dark grey, almost black, forewing ground colour distinguishes antinympha. There is some brown shading in the subreniform spot and also just outside the postmedial line.
The hindwing is amber to pale orange.
Catocala antinympha is the same as C. paranympha Drury, 1773; affinis Westwood, 1837 and melanympha Guenee, 1852
There is also the form multoconspicua Reiff, 1919 with a pale, almost white subreniform spot. Image courtesy of Cindy Mead, Michigan.
Catocala antinympha Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
In more southerly locales there may be multiple flights, but it is generally believed that all Catocala are univoltine (single brooded).
Moths come in to lights readily and also to bait.
The Catocala antinympha caterpillar shows a preference for Comptonia peregrina (sweetfern) and seems to be host specific.
Eggs are deposited on tree bark in the fall and hatch the following spring.
Mature larvae
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Monday, September 19, 2016
Reminiscing & Kindness
This is a quilt less post.
When we lived in Michigan, I had a part time job in the schools.
I was a teaching assistant working in PPI Kingergarten.
For 2 years, I worked with a young girl named Martha.
Martha was severely handicapped.
Inclusion was a relatively new concept in the school system.
Her mom, Mary, somehow managed to remain pleasant while advocating for Miss Martha with countless teachers, therapists and counselors.
In trying times of parenting, I would think of Mary and realize how small my worries were.
Martha's spirit was unbreakable.
She had a personality that was a kick!
Although she couldn't communicate like we do, she always made sure I knew what she was feeling.
And she loved being a part of the classroom.
She delighted in the other kids, especially the boys.
She didn't love some of the therapies, but she never held a grudge.
I always knew she was happy to see me.
After working with her for 2 years, she moved away.
I saw her once or twice after that, when she would come to A2 for appointments.
I remember one visit at my house in particular.
She was watching Eli, our labrador retriever.
Eventually, we lost touch.
I often wondered what ever happened to her.
A few years back, I found her on Facebook.
I've been following her journey, and she's quite remarkable.
She's riding therapy horses, going to dances and weddings.
And, she has a business making animal treats!
'Shoot for the Moon Animal Treats'
How perfect is that name?
Anyway, I commented on a post about peanut butter treats.
Mary sent me a message, offering to send treats for Frannie.
She wrote me a lovely note, telling me how important my work with Martha was to them.
It warmed my heart.
But that's Mary, positive & caring.
And, she sent a package of delicious treats for Frannie.
Needless to say, Frannie loves them.
I'm not sure why I'm feeling so compelled to write about this.
Perhaps it's because I want to acknowledge these special people.
Maybe it's because I'm overwhelmed by the kindness.
Or both.
Probably both.
I learned a lot from Martha & Mary.
I'm proud to have been a small part of her journey.
And I'm grateful for what they taught me.
A perfect example of the kindness we need in this world.
Saturday, September 17, 2016
I'm done collaborating for now.
Here's my efforts all ready to mail off to Gaily.
53 blocks, I got carried away and made too many.
Of course I did.Here's what it looked like on my design wall.
This quilt is going to huge.
Gail will add hers to the pot and then we'll go from there.
She will assemble it and I will quilt it.
We're having some serious basement work next week.
I'm glad these will be out of the house for that fiasco.
The dust will be monumental.
I'm figuring out how to protect my precious stash.
And my machines.
We need to move.
Last night we went downtown to Festa Italiano.
It was a beautiful night.
Primetime Horns were playing.
This was the band at John & Jenns wedding.
The lead singer was Jimmys gym teacher.
They're very good.
Twas fun.
Be kind!
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Inktense Pencils
Well, I've started yet another crazy thing.
Im going to try my hand at painting fabric with Inktense pencils.
I've got the zany idea of graffiti quilting on PFD fabric and then inking it.Tonight I made a sample piece.
You can't tell the color by looking at the pencil.
It needs the fixative to come to life.
So, I spent the evening learning the colors.
I also have Inktense Blocks.
I suppose I'll have to make a sample piece with those, too.
I need to get a life!
Here's the SLOW progress I've made on my collaboration quilt.
The shoo fly blocks are easy to piece, but those 54/40s are a bear.
It's worth it, tho.
The quilt has great movement.
Little Grace Vanderwahl won Americas Got Talent.
She's only 12.
She's very talented, and if Lincoln Bridge couldn't win, then I'm glad it was Grace.
I worked at Francis House today.
One of the residents, Harriet, is turning 100 tomorrow.
She's been with us a long time.
I hope to get up there again to wish her a beautiful day.
I'm rambling, must be time for bed.
Be kind....
Sunday, September 11, 2016
34 Years
9/11 is kinda a crappy anniversary day - celebrating feels wrong after the WTC tragedy.
Today marks 34 years of Murray & me.
Murray is kind and generous.
I'm a lucky girl.
We're just laying low today.
Golf this morning and it's the start of football season.
He has now taken his spot in his chair with the remote at his side.
My cup runneth over. (read sarcasm)
It's also grandparents day.
And it's our first anniversary as grandparents.
Speaking of my favorite little person...
Yesterday, we had a couple of hours with our Nugget.
She changed so much in 2 weeks!
(still teensy teeny tiny but she LOVES to eat)
She looks noticeably bigger and is blabbering on and on now.
Quite a change from the serious, quiet peanut she was 2 weeks ago.
I think it's the babysitter situation bringing her out of her shell.
The sitter has a 1 1/2 YO granddaughter named Ava.
She sounds adorable, and clearly It agrees with Nugget.
I can't explain what happens to my heart when I'm with her.
Labor Day golf in Binghamton was fun.
We went to the Colonial after golf for dinner.
It's always fun to be with Jimmy.
He's so entertaining.
Not too much studio time cause of nice weather & lack of motivation.
I've worked a bit more on my collaboration with Gail.
Here's what that looks like.
I thought I was going to hate the piecing, but it's a nice departure from my norm.
I think I'll make another of this pattern, only scrappier, for one of the guest rooms.
I think that's all I've got for now.
Be kind!
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Labor Day Weekend Quilts
I've been working on this since returning from FL.
I have had lots of distractions, so I've not gotten very far.
And peakies & spikes are tedious.
I decided I needed some instant gratification.
So I made myself a table runner today.
It's nice, but I still am blue missing Avy.
I had hoped for a visit with her this weekend.
Looks like it's not happening.
Soon I will be cheered up, tho.
Murray & I are going to the fair tonight.
And tomorrow to Binghamton to see Baby Boy.
We are going to play golf at Bing CC.
Well, they will play.
I will ride along and enjoy the sights.
Be Kind...
Monday, August 29, 2016
God Bless The Nugget
Yesterday was Avy's Christening.
She was absolutely perfect all day.
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takfam | 05/02/2000
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"I grew up in Hawaii in the '70s, and first saw "Five Summer Stories" in the old Haleiwa surf theatre on the North Shore of Oahu. I bought this CD a few years ago, and I was astonished and delighted to re-discover how good Honk actually was. Too bad Honk will remain unheard by most people. They were an excellent band, exquisitely capturing the essence of laid-back, California-Hawaii surf culture of the '70s. It's one of those mysterires how such an excellent, original band could remain so obscure to this day. Their arrangements and harmonies, as well as musicianship, on cuts like "Blue of Your Backdrop" and "Don't Let Your Goodbye Stand" are timeless. The instrumentals "Lopez" and "Pipeline Sequence" are masterful-- as good as anything else produced in that era. "Pipeline Sequence" received a lot of airplay in Hawaii in those days, and is still THE surf instrumental for us Hawaii surfers who came of age back then. Honk's music is light-years better than the frenetic, punked-out surf video music of today. So get this CD, relax, and remember (or imagine) what it was like to paddle out to Sunset Beach on a huge west swell, with no leash and a single fin, and Barry Kanaiaupuni, Jeff Hakman, and Gerry Lopez calling the shots out there!"
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takfam | 05/07/1999
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"Many of the tracks from this film soundtrack have become classics. Instrumentals such as "Pipeline Sequence", "Brad and David's Theme", and "Lopez" truly defined the "70's surf" music. In a genre spilling over with the frantic stylings of the early 1960's (and again in this decade), Honk's gentle-yet-intense trademark really took listeners into the barrel. Vocal tracks like "Don't Let Your Goodbye Stand" were not reminding anyone of Brian Wilson. The "Pipeline Sequence" still rests in the Pantheon of surf music, as this soundtrack (despite its occasional dips into country twang) has outdistanced even the immortal FSS films that it was created to back up."


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Yarmuth: Bevin's 'very devious attempt' to force the feds to disapprove Medicaid waiver
It's no secret that not everyone is a fan of Gov. Matt Bevin's plan to change the healthcare delivery model for those on Medicaid, but U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth says the Republican governor is actively trying to put forward a plan he's knows can't be approved.
Kentucky's lone Democratic Congressman is "furious" with Bevin's administration over the "very devious attempt" to change healthcare.
"What they've done is come up with a plan that cannot possibly be approved by [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services]," he said in an interview with Pure Politics. "They have poison pills in there … One is work requirement, you cannot have a work requirement in Medicaid that's the nature of the program — it's for the indigent or relatively indigent."
The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive think tank, agrees with Yarmuth that the point of the program is to match people with health coverage who would not normally be able to afford it.
"In fact, work isn't a requirement in any other health coverage program — individuals who get tax credits to help buy health coverage through the marketplace don't have to work, nor do people who enroll in health coverage that their spouse's employer offers," Jessica Schubel from CBPP wrote in May of 2015.
Bevin's plan for Medicaid is essentially to model health coverage for those on Medicaid after the state's insurance plan for public employees, minus dental and vision coverage.
Yarmuth says the changes he's put in place inside the plan will make it unacceptable for CMS to approve, and Bevin has already warned that he would repeal expanded Medicaid if CMS denied the state's Medicaid waiver application.
Gov. Steve Beshear expanded Medicaid eligibility via executive order in 2013.
"I think he just wants to blame the Obama Administration for forcing him to roll back the Medicaid expansion," Yarmuth said. "I think that is his ultimate goal. That's what he said he would do on the campaign. And this gives him a way to do it with less political push back.
"I hope that the people of Kentucky figure out what he's doing and don't let him get away with it."
Bevin's press secretary Amanda Stamper told Pure Politics that the administration is confident the federal government will approve their waiver.
"We are confident that CMS will approve this innovative Medicaid waiver that will set Kentucky on a path to improve the health of our citizens and encourage self-sufficiency," Stamper said in a statement sent to Pure Politics. "It's unfortunate that Yarmuth is politicizing the process."
One point that Yarmuth did compliment Bevin on was the proposal to use Medicaid dollars for pilot projects in 10 to 20 counties for drug addiction services.
Part of the project would also expand the eligibility for short-term treatment at institutions for mental disease to Medicaid recipients.
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