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Medical Negligence Solicitors Portsmouth No Win No Fee Claims Guide
If there is one place whereby we completely put our trust in the hands of professionals, it is when we go to hospital. When we are feeling unwell or have been involved in an accident, we turn to doctors and nurses to get to the bottom of what we are experiencing so that we can get our lives back on track. This is usually what happens. However, there are occasions whereby the action or inaction that a healthcare professional has taken leads to further problems. When this happens, you need the best medical negligence solicitors in Portsmouth has to offer so that you can build a strong case and bet the compensation you deserve. In this guide, we will reveal everything you need to know about working with medical claims lawyers, including information on how to find the best solicitor, the types of medical negligence these solicitors assist with, and what the No Win No Fee service entails. So, read on to find out more.
Finding Medical Negligence Solicitors In Portsmouth
When launching a claim for medical negligence, you are only going to get one chance to secure compensation. There is no room for error. This highlights why it is imperative that you work with a leading solicitor who can give you the best chance of getting the compensation you are entitled to. There are many solicitors in Portsmouth, but not all of them are experienced enough, nor do they have the relevant expertise in the field of medical negligence. You need to search for professionals that have worked on many medical negligence claims against the Portsmouth hospitals or medical services time and time before.
Checking Reviews Of Medical Negligence Solicitors
One step to take when sourcing the best medical negligence solicitors in your area is to read reviews that have been left by previous customers. This can give you a good insight into the level of service provided. You can also ask your family and friends for any advice they have. Most importantly, though, you should use a professional service like the one Legal Expert offers. We have connections with all of the best solicitors, and so we can assign you to the best one based on the specifics of your case.
Does Your Solicitor Need To Be Based Close To You?
In today's modern society, it is not essential to work with medical negligence solicitors specifically in your area. With so many communication options – from phone to email – it is easy to keep in touch with a solicitor based anywhere in the UK for updates on your case. This means that you are not restricted to location and instead you can base your decision on important factors like track record and experience.
What Medical Negligence Compensation Claims Do We Handle?
There are many different types of medical negligence claims that can be filed, and our medical negligence solicitors deal with them all. You can find out more information below regarding each claim type.
Medical Negligence Compensation Calculator
Of course, you will probably want to know how much compensation you will receive. All cases are handled on an individual basis, and so it is not possible to give anyone a definitive figure. You may have come across a medical negligence compensation calculator online. Please note that these tools only ever provide a rough estimate, so you should not pin your expectations on the 'quote' you have received.
You can find more information regarding the number of claims made in Portsmouth and the surrounding area below:
|Number of Claims
|Number of Incidents
|Payments made by the trust
|Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
|Solent NHS Trust
Hospital Negligence Compensation Claims
These are probably the most common claims that medical negligence solicitors will have to deal with. There are many different types of negligence that can take place in a hospital environment. This includes surgical mistakes and poor hygiene. No matter the situation, we can assist.
Dental Negligence Claims
Medical negligence does not only cover hospital environments, but it also covers dental environments too. From the wrong tooth being taken out to incorrect diagnosis, there are many types of dental negligence. You can read our guide on dental negligence claims by clicking here.
GP Negligence Compensation
When unwell, the first person you usually turn to is your GP. If your GP has not acted quickly enough or has misdiagnosed your condition, this could lead to the issue getting worse. We can handle both private and NHS medical negligence claims against GPs.
Cancer Negligence Claims
The impact of cancer being diagnosed too late or incorrectly could be fatal. It could lead to preventable loss of life. It could also mean that someone has to go through extensive treatment that they otherwise would not. If you or someone you love has experienced this, you need to make a claim through an experienced legal team. Read our guide here for more information on claims for the misdiagnosis of cancer.
Nursing Home Compensation Claims
When someone you love moves into a nursing home, you expect them to be looked after and cared for. If this has not happened, and someone you love has not received the basic level of care that is expected, or they have been mistreated by the staff, you should launch a claim for compensation on their behalf.
Birth Injuries Medical Negligence
The medical negligence team which we can provide you with can also assist with birth injuries that have happened due to negligence. If a staff member's choice of action or inaction has led to you suffering during birth or your baby suffering during birth, you will be entitled to compensation. You can also claim for the psychological injuries you have sustained, as well as the physical.
No Win No Fee Compensation Claims For Medical Negligence
When working with medical compensation lawyers, it is vital to choose an expert that works on a No Win No Fee basis. You may have heard of the term No Win No Fee before. Some companies claim to provide this service, yet they will still charge you if you do not win your case. This does not happen with us. Our No Win No Fee approach is genuine. So when we say that you do not pay for a lost case, we truly mean it. Under the No Win No Fee system, the solicitor will take a percentage of the compensation as their legal fees. This percentage will be agreed on before the service begins. This means you are not going to be required to make a substantial payment upfront to begin the process of claiming, and so anyone can claim, no matter their financial standing. It also means that you are never going to find yourself out of pocket, as you only pay if compensation is secured, and your payout will cover the costs. Furthermore, you will never find any no win no fee medical negligence solicitors that waste your time. There is nothing for them to gain by taking on a case that has no chance of compensation.
How Legal Expert Can Help You
Not only do we provide free legal advice, but we can provide you with a specialist solicitor for your claim. We have many years of experience and an excellent track record to back it up. For more information, and advice with no obligation, please give us a call today on 0800 073 8804. Our lines are open seven days per week, from 9 am until 9 pm. If you would prefer, you can use the call back feature on our website. You can also send us an email to firstname.lastname@example.com, and we will get back to you as quickly as we can.
Helpful Links
We hope you have found this guide useful on your quest to find the best medical negligence claims service covering Portsmouth has to offer. However, we know that you may need some more information, and so we have sourced some helpful links for you.
For more information on the No Win No Fee approach, you can take a look at our comprehensive guide
Local hospital in Portsmouth
If you need to make contact with a local hospital in Portsmouth, you can find the contact details for several of the main health centres, dental practices and hospitals below:
Queen Alexandra Hospital
Tel: 023 9228 6000
Web: www.porthosp.nhs.uk
Locksway Road
Web: www.nhs.uk/Services/hospitals/Overview/DefaultView.aspx?id=R1CF2
Spire Portsmouth Hospital
Bartons Road
Tel: 02392 800 337
Web: www.spirehealthcare.com/spire-portsmouth-hospital
Hampshire Terrace Dental Care,
4 Hampshire Terrace,
Tel: 02392 823779
Web: https://hampshireterracedental.co.uk
University Surgery
The Nuffield Centre
St Micheal's Road
Tel: 023 9273 6006
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As a diehard pop music fan (a "stan," if you will), one of the most frustrating things I encounter in the realm of pop music-dom is when people sing the praises of today's hottest artists yet seem surprisingly unwilling to recognize the artists that paved the way for them.
Case in point: Madonna.
Especially in recent years, whether as a result of her Super Bowl appearance or her more recent performance at the Grammys, the mere mention of Madonna's name often seems to elicit a collective groan among a substantial proportion of our generation.
To me, this is extremely disappointing. Yes, artists like Beyoncé and Katy Perry are doing some pretty awesome things in music right now, but there is little doubt they would have nearly as much of an impact on the public without Madonna being such a trailblazer for pop music in the past. And especially in comparison to Madonna's impact in the '80s, quite simply: there is no comparison.
Of course, as trend-setting millennials, I know that the readers of RPM aren't exactly going to jump on the chance to add a song from the mid-80s onto their playlists (even if there are some pretty flawless bops from that decade to consider). So instead, I decided to take the approach of reviewing one of Madonna's more (semi-)recent albums you may have missed which is, in my mind, the best "fit" for the RPM readers of today.
Confessions on a Dance Floor, Madonna's 10th studio album, was initially released to widespread critical acclaim (some even called it superior to her work in the '80s) and pretty impressive sales figures—it sold 6.3 million copies in less than a month in a half. However, why you should care about the album is its unique concept: far removed from consisting of 12 separate tracks, the entire album is actually structured like a DJ set, with each track transitioning flawlessly into the next to form one consistent hour of electronic euphoria (in fact, there are even some traces of EDM to be found in several of the tracks … not bad for an album released nearly 10 years ago!).
With that said, reviewing Confessions on a Dance Floor track-by-track is a bit like reviewing a movie scene-by-scene; you can give definite highlights, but breaking it apart like that takes something away from the body of work as a whole. So instead, I'm going to point you in the direction of a few tracks to sample with the hope that you'll check out the album for yourself and discover that this is not your mom's Madonna of the '80s.
"Hung Up" is the lead single from the album—meaning it is the song you are most likely to have heard from this album. Simply put, it is one of the best dance tracks Madonna has ever released, bar none.
"Sorry," the second single from the album, is probably my favorite out of all the tracks on Confessions on a Dance Floor.
"Jump" is a female empowerment anthem I simply had to include here solely because the parkour-infused performance of the song from Madonna's Confessions tour (above) is absolutely not to be missed.
Finally, in the true spirit of RPM's focus on music to power the YoPro within you, "Push" is a non-single that is nevertheless a staple of my motivational playlists, so I figured it was worth a mention here.
Like I said, breaking this album apart is extremely difficult to do, and the tracks I've highlighted above are just that—highlights of an album that is viewed much better as one cohesive unit. Whether you are a pop music fan or just looking for a good dance-y playlist to jam to at your desk, there is no excuse for you not to check out this album—because I think you'll find that Madonna's Confessions are ones worth listening to.
Whether you're a pop music fan or just looking for a good, dance-y playlist to get you through your Thursday, Madonna's Confessions are certainly worth listening to.
Final Verdict: Still "hung up" on this amazing album even after all these years.
Essential Tracks to Check Out: "Hung Up," "Sorry," "I Love New York," "Jump," "Push"

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What 40k Shares Taught Me About Blogging
Before jumping head first into blogging here for my website design studio, I ran a travel blog for 2 years. Rather I should say I wrote a 'I don't know what the hell I'm writing about, this is stuff I like' blog for 1 year and then narrowed to write a travel blog the next.
(All new bloggers do it. Narrowing focus and niching is a lesson we all must learn with time.)
As any blogger begins to notice, some blog posts receive crickets while others receive a roar of attention. I enjoyed having a number of posts shared thousands upon thousands of times. I'm going to let you in on what I took away from my most shared post.
40,300 shares as of mid August 2016 to be precise.
It was a post about sorority paddle designs. (I wasn't joking that I literally wrote about anything that popped into my head in the beginning).
I'll break it down to the two most important lessons, along with lots of details on how this info can help you and your blog.
However, before we go any further, we need to get clear on shares.
Shares are the highest form of blog love.
Shares aren't a count such as page views, where people show up to your post and may or may not stick around for a while to read the entire thing.
When someone shares, they love that post. They find it helpful and they want to share your stuff to say 'I'm all about this' to all their social media friends/frenemies.
Lesson 1: Be Where Your Audience Is
Let the Where's Waldo blog reader hunt begin.
This post did extremely well because I shared it in places that those interested in the posts would be.
Ground breaking right?
It's such common sense, but ask yourself, when you hit publish on your latest post, did you go hunt down your ideal reader and get it in front of them? Or did you post to your current followers on Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram saying 'new stuff is live!' and leave it at that?
So of course my target reader for my sorority paddle design post would be sorority girls. Let's think, where would a sorority girl hang out online?
Mostly sorority girls hang out on Pinterest, Facebook and TotalSororityMove.com.
So where did I share my post? To Pinterest boards, my own as well as college-centred group boards with massive followings. I also shared my post and pins with those who had large followings of sorority girls on Pinterest.
I shared it to Facebook groups loaded with thousands of sorority girls (This Is Not A Cooler But, Sorority Connection, etc.).
The one thing I could have done to push the post to the next level would have been to share them via Twitter, email and Facebook with major other sorority bloggers, sorority websites, etc. Though at the time as a newer blogger this didn't occur to me.
So the lesson here is, find your people and get in front of them. But how exactly do you do that? I'm so glad you asked. Here's some questions to get you started.
Grab a pen friend. No seriously you need to write your answers down. Go grab a pen... Okay good.
Who is your ideal reader? How old? Life stage? Interests? Single/married?
Where does that person hang out? What websites do they frequent? Which social channels do they spend their lunch break browsing?
Time to get even more specific. Saying your person hangs out on Facebook doesn't really get us to far. Dig deeper. Where on Facebook? What groups are they in? What do they use Facebook for? What pages do they follow?
Do the same for any other social platforms you listed.
Okay. Now, do you know where your person is? Yes? Good.
The second you hit publish get your stuff exactly where you mentioned your person hangs out.
Lesson 2: Be Timely
Another reason my post did well was because it came at prime sorority time, the time when bigs make paddles for their littles. So of course they're researching online for inspiration.
Here's another example to show you how this is relevant and how it applies to you.
Let's say you blog about festivals. La Tomatia in Spain is coming up and you're going. Wahoo!
There's thousands of other first-time festival goers heading there as well. They'll be researching about the festival days, weeks or months before to hear tips on what shoes to wear, where to stay and where to consume the best post-festival sangria.
What will they be doing after the festival? Cleaning tomato out of the crevasses of their ear.
They're not going to be searching for info after the festival has ended. So of course, if you post about the festival after the fact, your recap, top tips or fabulous festival video, it's not going to be helpful and timely for your target readers (the festival goers) and it won't do nearly as well.
The people who needed the post don't need it anymore.
If they would have found your Top 10 Tips For Visiting La Tomatia pre-festival they would have shared it with their festival-going buddies to discuss your tips and plan their trip.
When you're writing your fabulous post, think about prime time for the post to go online.
For bigger events, travels and festivals people plan these things months in advance, so a couple months before whatever is prime season in a location or the event/festival happens is best. For National Dress Your Dog Like A Panda Day people don't tend to plan so far in advance. You could post that a couple days or week prior.
An editorial calendar is a perfect tool to plan your content in advance and notice the holidays, festivals and events coming up. You can then plan your posts to go live at the most prime time.
Tell me, what is your most shared post? Why do you think it was shared so much more than the others?


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Swedish Arch Bishop Antje Jackelen raises Prince Nicolas during his christening ceremony, at the Drottningholm Palace Church, near Stockholm, Sweden, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015. The son of Sweden's Princess Madeleine and New York banker Christopher O'Neill has been baptized near Stockholm. Prince Nicolas Paul Gustaf, also to be known as the Duke of Angermanland after a province in northern Sweden, is the first grandson of King Carl XVI Gustaf, who has two granddaughters. Nicolas was born on June 15 in Stockholm. (Jonas Ekstromer /TT News Agency via AP) SWEDEN OUT
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HELSINKI (AP) — The sixth in line to the Swedish throne, the newborn son of Princess Madeleine and New York banker Christopher O'Neill, was baptized Sunday near Stockholm.
Prince Nicolas Paul Gustaf, also to be known as the Duke of Angermanland after a province in northern Sweden, is the first grandson of King Carl XVI Gustaf, who has two granddaughters. He was born on June 15 in Stockholm.
Some 150 guests — mostly family, friends and some political leaders — attended the ceremony on a sunny autumn day in the chapel of Drottingholm Palace just outside Stockholm.
Nicolas, nearly 4 months old, howled as Archbishop Antje Jackelen baptized him, though he stopped crying as she raised him in her arms in front of the congregation. It was the first royal baptism for Jackelen, the Scandinavian country's first female archbishop.
Nicolas is sixth in line to the throne after his sister, Princess Leonore. Their mother, Madeleine, is fourth in line to the Swedish throne, which Carl XVI Gustaf inherited 41 years ago. She is the youngest of the king's and Queen Silvia's three children.
Sweden is a constitutional monarchy in which the royals primarily serve as figureheads. The current dynasty was founded in 1810 when French marshal Jean Baptiste Bernadotte was elected as successor to the throne.
The royal family has only ceremonial duties, such as attending award ceremonies, promoting Swedish businesses abroad and supporting charities. As head of state, the king also receives foreign dignitaries on formal visits to the Scandinavian country.
This story has been corrected to show that the prince is nearly four months old, not five months old.
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'Men in black' become the 'Men in orange' – Rapha – Condor – Sharp take victory in round one of The Halfords Tour Series
The Halfords Tour Series Round One Canary Wharf The 'men in black' became the 'men in orange' as Rapha – Condor – Sharp powered to victory in an exciting opening round of The Halfords Tour Series at Canary Wharf. The Series kicked off in spectacular style beneath the skyscrapers of the world famous business and shopping district, with the home team of Rapha – Condor – Sharp coming out on top after an hour's exciting racing to pull on the Halfords leader's jerseys. CyclePremier.com – Metaltek's London racer Tony Gibb crossed the line first to take individual victory, making it two home victories in an evening at Canary Wharf. Despite Gibb being crowned the first individual winner of the 2010 Halfords Tour Series, his team could only come seventh, as Rapha took the win and the Series lead. The action was frantic from the start, with the peloton immediately stretched out into a long line as the pace immediately hotted up. Riders from various teams took the initiative to attack off the front of the bunch, with Yanto Barker in particular enjoying a brief spell of freedom before the speeding peloton once again swallowed the lone escapee. A typically nervous, opening round peloton though didn't want to let anyone out of their sights for long, so each attack was shortlived. Several frantic attacks in the final laps saw the peloton split, as first six riders from the likes of Endura Racing, Motorpoint – Marshalls Pasta and Rapha – Condor – Sharp, went clear, before the group swelled to fifteen, but still they couldn't make their advantage count as they were reeled in. This set up a high-speed final five laps, with Gibb edging Motorpoint – Marshalls Pasta's Malcolm Elliott in the sprint to take the win. Behind Elliott, Dean Downing led home teammates Dean Windsor (fifth) and Graham Briggs (sixth) for a comfortable win for the Rapha – Condor – Sharp team. Liam Holohan of the Raleigh team becomes the first rider to lead the Boardman Bikes Sprints Competition, taking second, fifth and first in the three Boardman Bikes Sprints to score ten points and lead the way from Gibb and Graham Briggs who lie one point behind. The Boardman Bikes Sprints Competition proved to be a hotly contested competiton, with fastmen Holohan, Briggs, Gibb and Australian duo Dean Windsor and Casey Munro all featuring strongly at the various hot spot sprints. In the curtain raising Canary Wharf Corporate Grand Prix presented by NYSE Euronext, the team from Barclays Capital, assisted by Rapha – Condor – Sharp's British Champion Kristian House, took the victory from Credit Suisse in the Pro-Am relay that helped raise money for The Prostate Cancer Charity. To re-live all the action from Canary Wharf, tune in to ITV4 on Wednesday evening at 7pm for an hour's highlights show. The Halfords Tour Series is back in action with Round Two from Durham on Thursday night, for more information visit www.tourseries.co.uk or follow the action via Twitter at www.twitter.com/TourSeries The Halfords Tour Series and The Tour of Britain are proud to be partnered with The Prostate Cancer Charity. Round One Results Team 1) Rapha – Condor – Sharp 2) Endura Racing 3) Motorpoint – Marshalls Pasta 4) Team Raleigh 5) Pendragon – Le Col – Colnago 6) Sigma Sport – Specialized 7) CyclePremier.com – Metaltek 8) Kuota – road.cc 9) Team Corley Cycles 10) Team Ireland Individual 1) Tony Gibb CyclePremier.com – Metaltek 2) Malcolm Elliott Motorpoint – Marshalls Pasta 3) Dean Downing Rapha – Condor – Sharp The Halfords Tour Series Standings 1) Rapha – Condor – Sharp 10pts 2) Endura Racing 9pts 3) Motorpoint – Marshalls Pasta 8pts 4) Team Raleigh 7pts 5) Pendragon – Le Col – Colnago 6pts 6) Sigma Sport – Specialized 5pts 7) CyclePremier.com – Metaltek 4pts 8) Kuota – road.cc 3pts 9) Team Corley Cycles 2pts 10) Team Ireland 1pt Boardman Bikes Sprints Competition Standings 1) Liam Holohan Team Raleigh 10pts 2) Tony Gibb CyclePremier.com – Metaltek 9pts 3) Graham Briggs Rapha – Condor – Sharp 9pts
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Sanders Family Farms - 07/25 Shores End, Clinic, The Mustang
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North For Ranch hasn't always been the warm welcoming place it is today. For years the ranch sat abandoned, lonely and ghostly looking when passed by along the old dirt road. The ranch had been a horror house for any animal that came through it's front gate, the men who owned it before me were unkind, and that is putting it nicely. They were killers, horses that came to the ranch met a horrid end, either from being starved or over-bred to being sent away to kill houses. Cattle, pigs, dogs and even cats were all treated the same way. When residents of the community got overcome with their emotions towards the men, the state came in and hauled them away...but the ranch sat and went to rot. People claimed the ranch was haunted by the poor souls of the animals these men had tortured, some said if you stepped foot on the property all you could hear is the begging sounds of animals wanting to be rescued. The property was for sale for an ungodly low price of 10,000$ which caught my attention from, despite the warnings from locals and the realtor who said if I wanted it it was mine just don't blame him for any shortcomings or mishaps.
I'll admit, the 100acres of rolling pastures and wooded areas was a little unnerving, you could feel and smell the death that once called this place home. I didn't let this scare me away though. I saw a chance, a second chance to redeem this lovely properties name, to make it something good and restore it. Which is exactly what I did. My staff and I set out early the first morning after purchase, the old barn we decided to burn down, this included the ground under it. Why burn it you ask? Death and torture happened there, I refused to bring new animals into a barn where they could tell what had happened before, even though it was years ago. Animals knew. The new barn was built between two large trees away from the burn patch where the grew was working to till the burnt ground and rubble away for good growing ground, apple trees sounded like a nice idea. The new barn held 20 stalls, however 5 were seperate from the others as I wanted to turn this place into a rescue, a full turn around from what it was before a horror house. My home was built a few yards from the barn, but where I rest my head isn't important. The staff house was placed where they wanted it, right by the creek, I let my staff choose where they wanted to live on the property.
While we continue to build, my horses reside on a wide range in Wyoming. They're a few simple horses some paints and appaloosa's with one or two few mustangs. When my wife left, I decided it was time for a change. That and my father had called and told me Dallas, my younger sister, was having troubling times there in New York and it was send her out to me to work on the ranch or end up in juvi. Which I couldn't allow for her, so she was on her way here as well. However, Dallas brought along her own horses. Horses I had no idea how to tend to....warmbloods. We all have to learn something new at times right? Haha.
I bet you're wondering who I am? I'm Dean, Dean Howell. I grew up on a large cattle ranch in Wyoming and met my wife Kandace. However, that soon fell apart when I came home to her and a good friend of mine doing unmentionable things. This led to divorce and I let her and her hound (yeah, you can say I'm still bitter towards that man) keep the ranch it was falling down anyways. I told them the horses would be gone from the property as soon as North Fork was completed in construction. I'm 28 years old, was the quarter back of my high school team, a bit of a gamer nerd there too. Not really much else to tell you for now.
Galileu Stud is situated in Chelan, Washington. We are right outside of the small little tourist and about 10 miles from Lake Chelan. The moutnians and rolling hills are to die for! It took me some time to get used to not being near my dad but that's just how things go. We aren't that far, he's in Wyoming and we're in Washington, both start with W close enough right? We have eight barns in total, a fully staffed private vet clinic, 6 different arenas, more pasture land then I can even begin to tell you about, a full fledged eventing course that can be changed at the snap of a finger. Yep, it's Equine Paradise! All horses have a person stafff team some might overlap here and there for one reason or another but that's about it. GS has been around for maybe a year, actively that is, my mother...whom I wont really speak of...let it go to the dogs so to speak. The horses were skin and bones and going feral...the barns were falling apart. It was time for a change, I managed to convince my dad to allow myself and my husband to buy it off him, well we traded two stock horses, a trailer and season ball tickets for it. It's come a long way from a horror-house to a grand thriving lively Equine Paradise. We have a small team of horses but are always expanding and looking into new lines. Stick around for awhile, there's a lot to do a lot to see and plenty of horses begging for treats!!!
-Dallas Smith
Bay River Park started only a year ago, we had found a lovely yearling filly at the back pen of an auction. She was covered in mud, skin and bones, and her starting price was only 50$. This came as a shock to us as she had an excellent color under all that mud and legs for miles! When she moved though is when we noticed she was a little clumbsy! Oh well! We fought a kill buyer for her and came out on top at 250$. Red Light District was her registered name...and it stuck. As time has gone by she has grown into a beautiful filly and a very achieved racer. Wehave brought in several other horses and expanded from simple flat racing...to endurance. We are situated right along the river in Washington, just down the road from Galileo Stud.
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○ Meet some new faces - 01/09/2017
○ Horses & Ponies at play - 01/09/2017
Hello everyone! Dallas of GS here!
Galileo recently obtained several new faces! Some are from breedings some were imported from other members to add new blood to the stable! A few are older faces that well...have just never been seen! Shall we start with some of the new horses?
This lovely stallion comes to us from Kathrine A. of PSS, he is a breeding request between her stallion Pss Alfie and our lovely mare AKS Foxxy Cleopatra! Both sire and dam are proven in the Show Jumping ring and as such as hope that Chance here will do the same. His name suits him well as our first day here he nudged his nose into his riders, Rena Johnson's, pocket and ended up eating all of her Cinnamon Jolly Ranchers. Needless to say she now keeps the flavored candy on her for a treat after any training or ground training they do togehter!
This pretty boy came to us from Lidja R. We wanted something drafty...something big at our stable. Not to mention our newest rider, Scarlett Annalise, was used to working with Irish Draughts in her home town. When we hired her she was rather disappointed that we had no ID so we went out in search. We told Lidja to surprise us and she didn't fail! Silver is a tempermental sweetheart, an oxymoron if I do say so myself! Unless its time to brush and get attention he doesn't want to move! He's stubborn and onery! Hopefully we can work this out of him before he begins showing!
Ziggy! He's one of our pony team! He will be working with my daughter Abby. We hope to have him into halter shows and possible show jumping as time goes on and Abby gets a little better at riding. He's a welsh highland grade pony and a sweetie. Abby is able to run under his belly, play with his tail, stand on his back and overall do what she wants with him!
This is kitty, she's our only spotted warmblood here at GS and acts like she runs the place (Lilly our big ol' lustiano founding mare doesn't like her much). Kitty is a diva, if its muddy she refuses to work, if it involves anything other then a sand arena...she'll try to refuse to work. Of course this behavior isn't tolerated and leads to many many sessions of ground work in these type of arenas just to try to get her out of the habit. Her rider Louise S. Wilson is almost exactly like her and I have come close to firing her on many occassions simply because she wont groom or saddle her mounts without argument!
Kira Kita
Great album so far, love all the photos of your horses! I love the spooky story, was actually interesting to read and I usually get bored so easily ahaha.
Dallas again!
We decided to let some of the horses out to pasture to play and to get random photo's of them not under saddle. The horses being shared in this update are(in order of appearnce):
AKS The Cats Meow
RFE Silver Emblem
Carisma d'Arete VH
Gate's Tiger Lilly
Northfield's Primrose
AKS Foxxy Cleopatra and offspring Pss Fat Chance Cinnamon
Galileo's Flight Risk
Danielle Maddox PR Committee
Loving the way everything looks so far! I think Flight Risk may have stolen my heart though
Dalton here, with a small update from Sliding K Ranch. As many know we had a young filly, for those that missed the story you can re-visit it here, that was left at our mailbox on a stormy night. Some time has now passed and she's grown into a gorgeous young mare. As she grew we noticed she was still skittish of loud sounds and didn't much like trailers or even the mailbox, but we believe she will grow out of this fear. She's not very keen on the snow either but will have to bear with it. She is finally named RK Risen From Ashes
Speaking of snow, I recently took HMR Hot N' Spicey out for a snow ride. It was the first time I'd backed the little mare and was very pleased with how she was doing in her training. She recently placed first in her very first reining show, making her sire and dam proud and already proving herself in the arena! While I was out Calico came up for attention, though why he wasn't stalled at the moment I'll never know let alone understand how he got out.
I had him follow us back to the barn but rather then going back inside like he was supposed to...I caught him once again sneaking out of the stable like the proud stud he was...oh well. He was a good horse and didn't cause trouble ever. My only worry is him getting lost. He's used to the lower stable and pastures. This was his first time being up on the mountian lot and I worried he would find himself in trouble may it be stuck on a ledge or meeting one of the wild mountian horses we've been dealing with!
Adam Lavoie
Calico is gorgeous!
Dallas here!
Recently we have been hard at work getting all the horses out of their month long slumber and lazyness. In doing so we have started up training again and even began showing the new horses the ropes in their areas. We have another new face that we found for sale at an amish auction! A beautiful gypsy vanner mare that we have named, Drama Queen. She got her name simply for the fact...if its not her getting attention she raises a fuss! She has already broken down her stall door, one pasture gate, and six lead-ropes all because she saw a member of staff giving another horse attention. We haven't decided just yet what she will be trained in but we hope she will calm down with her attitude long enough to train easy and show hard! We have put her in a pasture with TLM Mistique, a gypsy vanner mare we purchased some time ago. We will be transitioning Misti over to dressage from team driving.
Tiffany Tieman
Such pretty gypsies! I have a couple that I will be introducing soon too So hard to resist all the pretty floofs
@Tiffany-Tieman said in Howell Family Farms - Gypsy Vanners:Such pretty gypsies! I have a couple that I will be introducing soon too So hard to resist all the pretty floofs
Thank you,
Im sticking to these two until they're higher then 2 titles before breeding and bringing more into the stable lol keep them something special at GS ^_^
Kayla Albright
Aww my baby Mystique, she looks great. So happy she is doing well
Erin Cooke
Giant fluffies
Good morning everyone,
This morning we have a small update but with spring approaching at Sliding K Ranch my daughter April has decided she wants to work some of the horses, one of which has been left in the barn for some time while recovering from an injury. RAHS Justice is Aprils big Criollo stallion, he competes openly in Reining. When I went down to the arena I snapped a picture of them getting ready for the Reining Challange, hopefully once she's done putting him through his paces and the vet checks him over he will be 100% ready to go!
Cascabel's Rattlesnake Rein-Off
First up into the arena was our big PRE NF Capricorn, we told the photographer to get him during a circle and we believe the photographer did just what we asked!
Next up we have our big appaloosa stallion RL Abbadon's Gold Cash, Cash is known for his spins and how easy he makes it look, not to mention how graceful!
After the show we were untacking Cash and the show grounds photography captured this image, can say that Cash is very photo-genetic.
Kira Kita
Stunning horses and love the photo of Cash
Cole Tieman
Cash is gorgeous
Thank you both ^_^
He hasn't had his photo taken in a longggg time so I'm glad to get him back out and active
Ian Salvatore
good luck for the entry in the Challenge
Blind Import Service ResultsReverse Brindle TB Stallion for @Lena-Hetting
Chestnut/Bay Chimera APH Stallion for @Freya-Valkyrie
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Sakuran is a puzzle, it is chaos, it is sound and music…
it is research into the heart of the acoustic matter,
it is about the organisation of sound in time
it's about telling a story
it is about time
to make it
As a composer I try to do exactly the same as when I am in charge of the sound design. I try to tell the story.
But at the same time everything is different off course. As a composer you can do much more, follow the story in a more emotional or psychological way. The composition can, but doesn't have to be sync with the on screen action. And one can use the audiences vast knowledge of music to help your composition along.
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Dickens - part two
Dickens part two (of three)
What makes the style of Charles Dickens so individual and recognisable? Shortly stated, it is surely its academic yet whimsical intensity, is it not? Absurdity set forth in graceful language is irresistible. Even his little boys are under all circumstances polite. David Copperfield taken in by the greedy waiter, and little Pip tilted upside down upon a table tombstone till he sees the church steeple under his feet, never forgot their company manners. Pip addresses as 'Sir,' the terrible convict who threatens him so fiercely and handles him so unceremoniously, and David is abashed in the presence of the cormorant waiter, and answers him with propitiatory courtesy. The contrast of their innocent helplessness, put upon as it is, with the unscrupulousness which abuses it, is enhance in its pathos by the gentle politeness of the little men. This urbanity is a distinguishing note of Dickens's style.
Dickens himself attributed the basis of his powers to Attention. He had, much in the manner of his own little Paul Dombey, observed closely an thought long analytical thoughts about everything that interested him. It is claimed for him, on the strength of a statement of his own, that his memory went back to things he had noticed in his cradle. One has heard this statement called in question: but to doubt it seems gratuitous scepticism. It would be interesting to compare notes with individuals as to when their conscious observation or observant consciousness began. Such an inquiry would be quite in keeping with the celebrated investigations into human faculty conducted by Francis Galton.
It would be a pity to spoil such an inquiry by self-complacent exaggeration and there would be a tendency to do that; but, speaking for myself , I have a great many definite recollections of infantile activities, adventures, and speculations that must have begun not later than the age of three. My people removed from the house in which I was born when I was at the age of 4 ½ ; and I went to school very tearfully and rebelliously just after the removal; but vivid memories of summers, winters, exploits, and day-dreaming ante-date this period by what seem so long a stretch that it does not appear at all to be difficult to believe that so exceptional an observer as Dickens might begin his critical, speculative, analytical stocktaking even in his cradle.
Baldly stated, attention as a recipe for mental achievement may not seem to take us far; but let us not rest satisfied with the bald statement of it; let us see in some detail what it means. The admonition of the French preceptor, Attendez vous – pay attention – is the most fruitful good advice that an instructor can give. One of the best technical pupils I have had was the daughter of a poor labourer who sometimes said, 'Will you do that again, please?' when she had not quite followed the manual trick of an operation. She seldom needed a third repetition, and the very look of her quiet grey eyes bespoke special attentiveness.
A Hopeful Theory.
That we may do more or less what we wish to do if we are only sufficiently in earnest to attend to the means of success if obviously a hopeful theory; and the more it is examined the more feasible it does seem. It appears to place achievement within the compass of all who can attain to the moral quality of sincerity, in art as in any other branch of human service. When we use the word 'genius' in ad captandum fashion as covering something not to be accounted for , something to be set apart as beyond explanation, we may be ignoring or ruling out a whole process of preparation in the mind, studies, and pursuits of a person whom we suppose to have achieved a certain result by some inexplicable tour de force, without preparation, and without the concentration which is itself a preparation. It is common to find men who excel in music, poetry, eloquence, painting , or sculpture defective to the extent of disorderliness on the side of business, figures, and general attention to the requisites of personal material prosperity. What does this mean except that the genius is so pre-occupied with his art that he has no thought for the small change of general social commerce?
The artist can reproduce scenes or figures by the closeness with which he observes them. Attempts at drawing reveal in line and perspective the degree of notice which the draughtsman has taken of appearances. As the artist has an attentive eye for appearances, for form and colour, so has the actor for the sound of spoken words, the tone, gesture, and facial expression of the speaker. The musician has a closely-related attention for tune, time, and musical enunciation. But to reproduce form and colour by line and pain, to imitate sounds by other sounds, whether spoken words or notes of music – these are comparatively simple processes as contrasted with the reproduction of sounds, scenery, speeches, atmosphere by means of the totally different medium of words. Yet this last is what the author does. And as such art at its best is the most difficult of all, a corresponding degree of attentiveness is required for mastery in it.
To say that musical, scenic or verbal artists produce their effects by having given specially close attention to the thing to be produced may not seem much of an explanation. The artist must, of course, feel that the thing to which he gives attention is supremely worthy of his attention, or he may just have a turn that way without having consciously theorised in justification of his state.
Genius is the capacity and the will to give attention to trifles, an infinite patience for taking pains, and the more or less conscious belief that the trifles are worth taking pains with. This it is which marks him off from the average man, who is apt to let a job go with 'It will do well enough.' Simple people, savages, and children take the most marvellous work of the human hand and brain as a matter of course. They have little curiosity. Perhaps they despair of being able to understand. Those who know nothing of machinery give it up: in the case of women they have little attention for it. But a boy, and still more a man who already knows something of mechanics, is interested at once, and will try to master the principle of a machine. The man who reads is more or less interested in all books, and will glance over the titles of a row of volumes even if he has no time to look inside them. But the illiterate give books no thought. they are as incapable of giving them attention as the woman is with the machinery for which she has no use. I was surprised to find that a clever teacher, herself something of a draughtswoman, had never noticed that the stones or bricks out of which a wall was composed were not laid exactly on top of one another, but were set so that the middle of one stone fell on top of the joining of the two stones below it, one course thus locking another.
People who tell a joke, but leave out the point of it, simply have not attended to the story properly. People who cannot tell one tune from another, have not listened properly, are perhaps incapable of listening properly, to musical sounds. That such people can nevertheless reproduce subtle shades of pronunciation would seem to show that they are not so much destitute of 'ear' as that they do not consider music worth listening to. We can note that in which we are interested. Dull men who forget important facts the moment after they have heard or read them can nevertheless remember small sums that are due to them, and men can often give a prolix account of all the minor circumstances in connection with a matter while forgetting the essential features of what happened.
There is ordinary photographic perception, and there is the selective, didactic perception which we call art. Zola takes down everything. Dickens, or any other true artist, selects, transposes, shortens, heightens, and rejects. Zola was a literary photographer; Dickens a literary artist.
But farcical humour is a thing by itself – one of the rarest human gifts. The comedian is always popular, irrespective of the precise value of his talent, because his talent has what economists call a 'scarcity value.' That we take the humourist to our hearts, is because, for every thousand writers who can make us shudder, weep, or just follow a plain tale with mild interest, there is but one who can make us laugh. Mark Twain in America, Dickens and Shaw in England are not merely writers among thousands: there is no arithmetic to express uniqueness.
In many readers and hearers the faculty of laughter is so much a minus quality that unless they are warned beforehand that they are expected to laugh, they fail to do so, in this reminding us of deaf people who laugh too soon or in the wrong place, because they have been told that So-and-so is 'a funny man.' The white face and red nose of the clown are part of the warning, a sign that jokes may be expected. A perception of the grotesque is so little to be counted upon with all individuals that if one wishes a jest to be taken it is safest to put the saying in the mouth of a some character, real or invented, with a change of voice to indicate that the remark is intended to amuse. Many worthy people need to know a joker for years ere they realise that his every remark is not to be taken seriously, and one has heard the drollest sayings accepted by those to whom they were addressed as if they were ordinary matters of fact.
Attention to trifles makes the genius: but must one be a genius in order to consider the trifles worth attending to and working out? Often one has heard a laugh raised by the saying of something that had occurred to oneself and probably to others present, but that the joker alone had thought worth giving expression to. Even then, there are trifles that are essential and trifles that are not, and genius is required to distinguish the one from the other. Much of the success of Dickens as a humourist lies in the patience, born of keen personal enjoyment, with which he elaborates an absurdity some features of which had occurred to ourselves, though we had not dwelt on it long enough to get the full flavour of its farcical suggestion. This is not to say that Dickens's humour has not mostly the charm of the perfectly unexpected.
The Charm of the Unexpected.
The following passage from 'Great Expectations' (which happens to be the latest of these novels I have re-read) takes one quite suddenly. It is not introduced by Dickens merely for the sake of fun, but is a necessary part of the narrative. Pip has to hide a portion of his bread for the benefit of the escaped convict, and this is how the humourist turn the necessity to account: -
The effort of resolution necessary to the achievement of this purpose, I found to be quite awful. It was as if I had to make up my mind to leap from the top of a high house, or plunge into a great depth of water. And it was made the more difficult by the unconscious Joe. In our already-mentioned freemasonry as fell0w-sufferers, and in his good-natured companionship with me, it was our evening habit to compare the way we bit through our slices, by silently holding them up to each other's admiration now and then – which stimulated us to new exertions. Tonight Joe several times invited me by the display of his fast-diminishing slice, to enter upon our usual friendly competition; but he found me, each time, with my yellow mug of tea on one knee, and my untouched bread-and-butter on the other. At last I desperately considered that the thing I contemplated must be done, and that it had best be done in the least improbable manner consistent with the circumstances. I took advantage of a moment when Joe had just looked at me, and got my bread-and-butter down my leg.
Joe was evidently made uncomfortable by what he supposed to be my loss of appetite, and took a thoughtful bite out of his slice, which he didn't seem to enjoy. He turned it about in his mouth much longer than usual, pondering over it a good deal, and after all gulped it down like a pill. He was about to take another bite, and had just got his head on one side for a good purchase on it, when his eye fell on me, and he saw that my bread-and-butter was gone.
The wonder and consternation with which Joe stopped on the threshold of his bite and stared at me, were to evident to escape my sister's observation.
'What's the matter now?' said she, smartly, as she put down her cup.
'I say, you know!' muttered Joe, shaking his head at me in a very serious remonstrance. 'Pip, old chap! You'll do yourself a mischief. It'll stick somewhere. You can't have chewed it, Pip.'
'What's the matter now?' repeated my sister , more sharply than before.
'If you can cough any trifle on it up, Pip, I'd recommend you to do it,' said Joe, all aghast. 'Manners is manners, but still your 'elth's your 'elth.'
By this time my sister was quite desperate so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him; while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.
'Now perhaps you'll mention what's the matter,' said my sister, out of breath, 'you staring great stuck pig.'
Joe looked at her in a helpless way; then took a helpless bite, and looked at me again. 'You know Pip,' said Joe, solemnly, with his last bite in his cheek, and speaking in a confidential voice, as if we two were quite alone, 'you and me is always friends, and I'd be the last one to tell upon you, any time. But such a' – he moved his chair, and looked about the floor between us and then again at me – 'such an uncommon bolt as that!'
'Been bolting his food, has he?' cried my sister.
'You know old chap,' said Joe, looking at me, and not at Mrs Joe, with his bite still in his cheek, 'I Bolted, myself, when I was your age – frequent – and as a boy I've been among many a Bolter; but I never see your bolting equal yet, Pip, and it's a mercy you ain't Bolted dead.'
My sister made a dive at me, and fished me up by the hair; saying nothing more than the awful words, 'You come along and be dosed.'
Some medical beast has revived Tar-water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence. On this particular evening, the urgency of my case demanded a pint of this mixture, which was poured down my throat, for my greater comfort, while Mrs Joe held my head under her arm, as a boot would be held in a boot-jack. Joe got off with half-a-pint; but was made to swallow that (much to his disturbance, as he sat slowly munching and meditating before the fire), 'because he had had a turn.' Judging from myself, I should say he certainly had a turn afterwards, if he had none before.
It was no wonder if Mrs Gargery was exasperated at her husband; and Pip had a grievance against him too.
If we speak of the charm of the unexpected, what could be less expected than the suggestion in the conclusion of this passage?
'You look very well, Mr Barkiss,' I said, thinking he would like to know it. Mr Barkiss rubbed his cheek with his cuff, and then looked at his cuff as if he expected to find some of the bloom upon it.
There is a remark that lingers in my mind from the first boyish reading of 'Nicholas Nickelby': these things will never hit us again with the original laughter-raising impact. Round the area door of Arthur Gride, notorious miser, there gathers the human flotsam of a city street, attracted by loud knocking to which there is no response. Some held that old Gride's housekeeper had fallen asleep, some that she had burnt herself to death, some that she had got drunk. The atmosphere would be ominous of tragedy except that the life of the street relieves the gloom. At any rate, tragedy is effectually turned to comedy when a very fat man in the little crowd suggests that Peg Sliderskew, the miser's old housekeeper, has seen something to eat, which has frightened here so much (not being used to it) that she has fallen into a fit!
A General Characteristic.
Dickens's style is not simple. It is, for one thing, a Latinised style. We could not fancy him writing 'cheap' – he writes 'inexpensive.' When the ironmaster is announced to Sir Leicester Deadlock he asks that 'the ferruginous gentleman' be shown in. Mr Pumblechook's shop is described as 'peppercorny and farinaceous.' The humourous effect is heightened by some of these rather stately locutions. Thus Joe Gargery's reference to a certain sum as 'a cool four thousand,' gives rise to the comment : - 'I never discovered from whom Joe derived the conventional temperature of the four thousand pounds, but it appeared to make the sum of money more to him, and he had a manifest relish in insisting on its being cool.'
The slight stateliness there – and it is but slight - was inseparable from the thought, and these reflective interludes, which are frequent in Dickens's books, are the more effective when they follow the broad illiterate speech of humble characters out of whom the novelist secures his best comic effects.
In this banter about the transferred epithet 'cool' as applied to money he reminds us of how he makes Mr Dick puncture a similar expression about there being no room to swing a cat in his apartment. 'But I don't want to swing a cat,' says Mr Dick, with the wisdom of folly, which refuses to accept more or less inappropriate tags which pass current with the more sophisticated. 'How old would you be?' asked the lady. And the half-wit answered: 'It's not how old I would be, but how old am I?' Perhaps someone will yet give a really effective flick to such overworked clichés as 'exploring every avenue' and 'leaving no stone unturned.'
These whimsical analyses belong to a leisurely style which has gone out. The old-fashioned novel was much longer than the stories of today. There was more writing up, and less concern for getting ahead with the story. The fairly long-drawn preliminaries of 'David Copperfield,' in which the caul with which he was born, and the views of the old lady who bought it for five shillings, of which she was twopence-halfpenny short, are given at length, probably represented rhetorical sparring for an opening; though there, as always with Dickens, the rhetoric is not wasted, but sparkles and coruscates and gets charmingly and definitely somewhere. William de Morgan is the only latter-day writer of fiction who gambles with his pen in the same leisurely and sportive way.
Even in the relatively short 'Christmas Carol' Dickens opens with a characteristic whimsical aside:
Old Marley was dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know of my own knowledge what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile, and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it… You will therefore permit me to repeat emphatically that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
The Rhetoric of High Spirits.
Besides illustrating his turn for whimsical reflective asides, the passage is also an example of that quickness of observation which lets nothing be taken for granted or held as read. In its continuation it also reflects that rhetoric of high spirits which is one of the chief marks of Dickens's style.
Scrooge knew he was dead. Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and mourner.
This is the garrulous circumstantiality of one who is happy at his desk, who thoroughly enjoyed playing verbally with his theme. He is in no hurry to get on with the story. The preparation, the creation of the atmosphere, had to be complete.
The mention of Marley's funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come from the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot – say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance – literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
The best styles are always Latinised, if regard be had, not merely to the music of language, but still more to its content. The English Bible is not at all Latin in style, and it is very beautiful, but not at all subtle. The Biblical writers did not argue, did not discuss. They announced. Shakespeare as a stylist is beautifully balanced and copious, and still, after fourscore years, the most delightfully humorous writer in English, both in sudden suggestion and sustained comic analysis. This would hardly seem worth mentioning if so many people did not find that they 'can't read him.'
Personifying the Impersonal.
He has this in common with Shakespeare, that he is much given to personifying the impersonal. Indeed, he carries this further than the dramatist did. When Shakespeare makes the reeds 'lackey the dull stream' he is giving a human attribute to the mere rushes. But he does it in one word. Whereas Dickens resorts to personification of things more freely than Shakespeare does, and he stretches the personification to greater lengths. Thus of a dirty newspaper he says 'It had taken the measles in a highly irregular form.' And he says: 'Occasionally the smoke came rolling down the chimney as though it could not bear to go out on such a cold night.' And again; 'The day came creeping on, halting and whimpering and shivering, and wrapped in patches of cloud and rags of mist like a beggar.'
These examples are taken more or less at random from the nearest novel to hand. They will at once be recognised as examples of Dickens's habitual trick, sometimes pursued at great length and with powerful imaginative ingenuity, of giving human attributes to insensate things. It is this breaking into sudden passionate soliloquy that caused Dickens to be classed as of the 'spasmodic' school. It is quite likely that matter-of-fact, donnish people will not follow him in fanciful speculations say over a dull and gusty morning. But such fancies are in the true line of imaginative writing if we are to accept as exemplars the Psalmist who makes the mountains dance, and the Dramatist who causes the sun to 'flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,' and that later poet who figured the torrents of Mont Blanc as 'fiercely glad.' These devices of personification are with Dickens dramatic pauses which immensely enhance the effectiveness of the situation that follows.
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Did I do timeout de white way?
Let's be honest. There are a lot of big feelings in our house these days. A lot of big. loud. fierce. feelings. And most of them end up coming from the red time out chair tucked into the corner of Oliver's bedroom.
And the thing about life in the South Bay is that our windows are open most afternoons.
Which means our whole neighborhood is privy to the big. loud. fierce. feelings coming from the red time out chair.
Also, Target may or may not have gotten a dose this morning.
So that's humbling.
And here I am this afternoon, as my toddler and all his big feelings are finally at peace and at rest... wondering about the work that we are trying to accomplish in our tiny person and in ourselves.
I've watched him fight and wrestle with himself to tame those big feelings.
I've watched him shudder and give himself over to those same big feelings.
I've heard him on his long march down the hall to time out, assure me that "I'm going to do time out de white way."
I've heard him on that same long march, shriek "No!!! I NOT!!! I NOOOOTTTT!" in a tailspin of anger and frustation.
And I've felt that same push and pull well up in me... often at the very same moment that he is losing his mind.
The tension between who I am called to be and all the anger and frustration that wells up in my chest when I see those tiny fists clench... again... and angry tears well up in those blue eyes.
And here is the gym where Oliver and I are building muscle together. On the treadmill of his frustration, both of us are learning and practicing and succeeding and failing at mastering our big feelings.
There is a temptation, have you felt it too? That urge to give myself over to my big feelings. To let go of the reins, and free fall with my anger.
And I can literally see it in Oliver's eyes, those moments where he resigns his self-control, and lets himself go, and we are left picking up the pieces together when that anger is spent.
On so many afternoons in our house we are working that treadmill together.
Strengthening those muscles.
Those muscles that chose not to give ourselves over to big. loud. fierce. feelings.
Those muscles that resist the lie buried so deeply that we often don't even realize we believe it.
The lie that says, "You are a victim of your feelings. You are the puppet and your feelings pull the strings."
It will not be so in our house, buddy.
And I am praying it will not be so in my heart.
And daddy and I are praying it will not be so in your and Milo's hearts either.
And so we are waging war on this lie together, with you and for you.
So many of those battles are won or lost in less than a second. That breath of a second, where we decide that we will either give ourselves over to anger or stand and fight. The rest is merely fall out from the decision made in a blink of an eye.
Sweet boy, I want you to hear the truth. You are not a victim of your feelings. That is not how or who you were made to be. And it is an ugly lie. You are so much more than that. You, with the blue eyes, and the silly cowlicks, and the fierce determination... You were not made to be subject to your big feelings. You, my brave boy, were made to feel deeply and passionately, and to wield those big feelings in such a way that people feel safe and loved and protected by you.
It is a daunting task, Love. Taming those feelings. Learning to wield the sword of anger in a way that is protective, rather than violent. And you were not meant to do it on your own. Buddy, here is what the Bible says... "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you... (John 14:26). He's not violent, He won't force his way in, Love, but if you invite Him to, He can teach you. And you know the things he teaches? The fruit that comes of all those lessons? "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."
And Buddy, God's given you to us as well. And we are going to give you every tool that we can to empower you and strengthen you and give you the courage and the skill to tame those feelings. To use them. To wield them.
We love you Buddy. You and all your big feelings. We are fighting for you and alongside you.


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In a sign that it is making significant headway in the fight against Ebola, Liberia on Thursday said it would not renew a state of emergency imposed in August over the deadly disease, Reuters reported.
A night curfew would remain in effect, however.
The emergency, which allowed authorities to curb movement in the areas worst affected, officially expired earlier this month.
Meanwhile, Mali announced tougher health checks at border crossings after registering its second outbreak of the disease, the report said.
A nurse died of Ebola in Mali on Tuesday, and on Thursday a doctor at the same clinic was also revealed to be infected.
More than 90 people had already been quarantined in the capital Bamako after the nurse's death, just as a group exposed to Mali's first case completed their required 21 days of isolation.
"The president of the republic has asked the prime minister to look urgently at the entire system put in place to fight Ebola and to strengthen health controls at the different frontier posts," a government statement said.
But officials said there were no plans to close the border, even though the nurse had been infected by a man who arrived from Guinea, according to the news agency.
The world's worst ever epidemic of the hemorrhagic fever has infected more than 14,000 people and killed at least 5,160 since it erupted in March in West Africa. It has ravaged Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea and spurred a global watch for its spread.
The World Health Organization said there are indications that the incidence of new Ebola cases is declining in Guinea and Liberia.
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Pret A Manger has 39 per cent profit leap
While UK sandwich chain Pret A Manger has not broken out details of its Hong Kong business, it had a 39 per cent jump in global pre-tax profits to a record £75.5 million (US$99.6 million) overall for its latest year.
Total sales were £776 million as it capitalised on consumer eating trends, including a demand for dairy-free food. It says coconut is its most popular new ingredient, with coconut porridge selling particularly well.
Research firm Kantar Worldpanel reports that flatbread, avocado, halloumi and spinach were among the fastest-selling foods last year.
Pret A Manger says hot breakfast pots have been popular as well as its refreshed soup range, all gluten- and dairy-free and less than 250 calories.
Meanwhile, there have been reports the chain is preparing for a partial listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Owner Bridgepoint is believed to want to continue to hold a stake in the company rather than cashing out completely, reports The Telegraph. The European private equity firm bought a majority stake in the business for £500 million in 2008.
More recently, Filipino fast-food restaurant owner Jollibee expressed an interest in buying Pret A Manger.
The chain added 31 stores in the UK during the 12 months, including a vegetarian-only shop in London, taking the national total to 329. It has a further 110 branches overseas.


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There are no shortcuts to making money though and it does require time and effort. I spend many hours online every day but it does afford me the luxury of being self-employed and working around my family's needs. Many refer to this as having a portfolio career. The idea that you have different income streams and make money in a number of ways.
I started working this way before I left teaching. This enabled me to build up some regular work and regular clients. Once the balance tipped in favour of making money online I left teaching.
The most lucrative ways of making money online for me has been blogging, however, there are lots of other ways that I have tried over the years. Now I stick to just a few that work well for me because of time constraints.
The real ways that you can make money online and beyond include:
- If you can write then a blog is another way of making money. This is certainly not as quick as survey sites and does require far more effort. To make money blogging you first need to build a brand and write unsponsored content. Brands often start collaborating with bloggers once they are established and have a good DA. To find out more about making money from blogging, buy (or add to your Christmas list) Blogging Your Way To Riches which gives the secrets to making money from blogging. Building a brand requires creating a blog that stands out and looks professional. There are ways to do this on a budget though without paying for expensive designers. Using Logojoy allows you to create a bespoke logo that can be used across social media accounts and your blog. This will really help elevate your online presence and the logo below is an example of what the software can do.
- Taking part in surveys and online signs ups with Swagbucks is a very easy way to collect points which are redeemed into vouchers. This can all be done from the comfort of your sofa. Many make £100 a month easily and there is still time to earn ready for Christmas spending.
- Another lucrative survey site is opinion outpost where you are paid for filling surveys.
- If writing is your skill then there are sites like Elance Uk and People Per Hour. Both are ways that you can find hourly jobs that you can bid on. The work is home based and perfect for those looking for small jobs. The work is varied and it is worth siding up with these sites.
- Matched betting is a risk-free way of making money. It really does work and is tax-free. This is a quick way to make money and the software actually does the Maths for you. I know many people making at least £1000 per month with profit accumulator.
- Finally, if you are a mum consider sites like Talk to Mums. They work on a sampling basis and if you are selected you hand out samples to other mums and record their thoughts online. This work is infrequent but well paid.
Making money online can be done but it requires effort and time. One thing I now recommend is not putting all your eggs in one basket. Try to diversify how you make money in case one of the income streams dries up.


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Now this is more like it. The very welcome and excellent return of the Ice Warriors (well, one of them anyway). A serious villain, with serious power and strength in a smart setting with a great bunch of supporting characters. Definitely the best episode since Xmas, and only a smidge behind The Snowmen and Asylum of the Daleks.
What's to like?
The setting – in the midst of the cold war, and trapped on a Soviet, nuclear submarine, with the Tardis deciding to do a bunk just as the sh*t hits the fan. The submarine is suitably claustrophobic, and also starting to come apart. Water is sloshing everywhere and reminding everyone of just where they are – trapped a kilometer or so underwater.
Supporting characters – the Captain, played by Liam Cunningham and fresh from a great role in Game of Thrones, is superb. He's loyal to the motherland but also fully aware of the threat that his vessel represents. The second in charge is far more ideologically driven and you know he is bound to be the one who will be plunging the situation towards a full-on nuclear war.
And of course the GREAT David Warner – playing a cynical Soviet scientist with a love for Western 80's syntho-pop. Warner is someone that would play a superb Doctor (and has on the "Unbound" Big Finish audios). He's on good form here, although it would have been better to have more of him.
Smith is, as usual, terrific. Clara is warming up nicely – stepping up to face the Ice Warrior alone (shades of Rose and the Dalek) but there's no cozying up to the monster here.
The Ice Warrior – Skaldek is his name and he's apparently a 5000 year old Martian legend. The Ice Warrior design is subtly updated, and retains its bulky power and strength. Skaldek has character too – he has warrior's code of honour, he's smart, devious and brutally murderous when it's called for. A great touch was letting us see a full Ice Warrior's face for the first time (and was it slightly Silurian-ish? But then, both species/ races are reptilian – maybe a distant evolutionary connection?).
Cold War is a terrific nod-wink to the old base-under-siege of Troughton's time – but has enough additional oomph to make it solid 21st century Who.
Next time – "Hide" – hmmm, haunted house....
And on with the flash-fic/ fan fic:
Consequences of Time – Episode 3
"We're going to the Frozen Terror?" asked the Doctor.
"Yes," the terrified man replied. "We must go. Sacrifices are needed to keep the Terror from consuming the world." The other, scared people nodded.
The Doctor checked his sonic screwdriver. It would be easy to stop the truck. Probably not hard to disable the guards, turn around and rescue the "sacrifices". But that wouldn't stop this terror thing.
"Is it much further?"
The scared man checked his watch. "Should be any time now."
The truck lurched to a halt. A howl, that made the steel walls vibrate, screeched through the air.


text: Meet the humble and extremely kind hearted Grace, Grace is a Senior at Grapevine High School. She is a member of Student Council, National Honor Society, Redefining Beautiful, PALS, & Best Buddies. On top of all of that she also works at a local country club in her time off from school. When she's not busy with school and work Grace loves spending time with friends and family. She is super down to earth and easy to talk to! I had so much fun on her session exploring the city and just chatting with her about school, church and life. We even got to watch a pretty amazing sunset from the roof top the evening of her session. Grace thanks so much choosing me to document your senior portraits. I had such a great time working with you and getting to know you! I am honored truly to have gotten to work with you. Wishing you the best senior year filled with lots of momentous memories! Looking forward to working with you in the spring on our team mini sessions. Lots of hugs sweet girl ~ Angela


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Thanks to the Matchbox instagram page we get little teasers every now and then.
What are your thoughts on these:
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What I like doing with all the different liveries and colours of a casting is drilling them and putting them onto a real rider base. I ...


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Dear Players
Here are the new updates i hope you guys enjoy them:
- Perfected Hitqueue where all queued hits will do damage.
- The damage/accurecy is calculated before you hit. (exp drops will take place a little before you hit) like on rs.
- The Combat damage/accuracy formulas have been completely rewritten everything should be more balanced now.
- Fixed ranged and magic hitsplat appearing too quick after projectile fire.
- Bolt's should not get triggered on every hit for their special.
- Pathing alsos received a improvement again.
- Nerfed the blood necklace a little.
- Magic almost every staff was adding damage to the maxhit. (now it only adds 15% if player is using staff of light/Toxic staff of the dead)
- Arcane stream necklace add 15% to the max damage.
- Slayer helmet bonus now only works on npcs.
- Took the delay off the home teleport button.
- New smithing location actually teleports you there.`
- Armadyl crossbow had the speed of a shortbow
- Removed tons of null drops from the droptable still got tons to go! (nulls+red vine worms is what causes this in the droptables):
- Protect/Deflect Magic no longer works against dragons.`
- Kalphite queens 1st phase used to give loot which made the second phase useless this has been switched around.
- Fixed the ugly animation that in combat made it look like your legs were tied together.
- Removed alot of npcs from the droptable that weren't even ingame.
New items added:
- Infernal Cape.
- Infernal Mastercape.
- Occult Necklace.
- Amulet of Torture.
- Malediction Ward.
- Odium Ward.
- Master Skill capes (require max exp in a skill they look a little buggy since it are rs3 items)
- Elder Maul.
- Dihn's bulwark.
- Dragon sword.
- Dragon Harpoon.
- Dragon trownaxe's.
- Kodai wand. (Suppreses the cost of water runes but somehow won't showup client sided).
- Twisted bow. (issue with the shooting animation)
- Heavy Ballista. (real powerfull but it doesn't have a animation/graphic)
- Anecstral Hat, Robe top, robe bottom.
- PolyPore Staff.
- Ganodermic Visor, poncho, leggings
- Super Combat Potions
- Karambwans (perfected the food delay)
Client Feature:
- Item name overlay, you will see they items and amounts on the floor, can be toggled off in the settings tab.
- New Teleportation interface it's not working 100% yet but should do the job.
- If you have a bankpin set you will you will now have to enter it before trading staking gambling or accesing your pos/money pouch.
- This also brought a packet error to the attention of the developer this has been fixed.
- Our client/server RSA components were changed to prevent other client's from logging in.
- Started out with a small raids minigame.
- Inferno Boss Wave is added to obtain the infernal cape.
- Started out with the bloodmoney shop.
- Exp Rates / 5 to make the game more challenging.
- Wednessday's Bonus is changed to Double Blood Money.
- Made the well of goodwill cost 250m and now grants 50% of bonus exp for 2 hours
Let me know what you guys think, your feedback is very much appreciated. If you find any issue, please report it here


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Date: spring 2016
Categories: product design, interaction design, visual design, UX wireframing, front-end web development
Tools used: Adobe CS, Balsamiq, HTML, SCSS/Sass, JavaScript/jQuery
Spokehub is a design studio and hub based in Berlin. After going through several designers, they brought me on to finish the project of redoing their website. I ended up starting most of it from scratch, while sticking to some of the elements in the existing visual design comps.
The website functions both as a portfolio of Spokehub's case studies and a branding document that gives viewers a sense of Spokehub's identity. This is accomplished through several main components: case studies, a mission statement, a live feed showing Instagram and Twitter posts from members of the hub hashtagged #spokehubNOW, and a social media forum where hub members can log in, ask questions, and generate discussions with visually driven responses. Thus, this project was unique in that it was both product design, due to the social media app component, and brochure design.
The first step was generating wireframes. The client wanted the design to be innovative and experimental. I stressed the importance of keeping it navigable and straightforward at the same time.
The existing design concept was a one page website that used fancy JavaScript effects to navigate from section to section. Since the site was supposed to include login, forum posting and profile creating functionalities, I dismissed the concept as impractical, and created my own wireframes from scratch.
I created a sitemap, wireframes, and user flow diagrams, mainly focusing on the login, forum posting and profile creation processes. For the full Balsamiq wireframe set, please click here.
The biggest challenge was considering every minor detail and edge case. For example, what happens when a user wants to edit or delete a question they posted? What if a user wants to change their email or password?
Initially I designed the responses section for each question to mimic a forum posting format. However, the client requested them to follow a format more similar to Pinterest. The results are shown below.
The case studies on the work (portfolio) page have sample images displayed in a slideshow format side-by-side with descriptive text. The images are swipeable on touchscreens.
The website is also fully responsive.
I paid careful attention to the user-facing functions of the website. Clean interface design and an intuitive user experience go together hand in hand.


text: Share: Comments Print June 7, 2009 at 6:00 AM Referendum 71 Posted by Seattle Times staff Divisive tactic is the wrong invitation to dialogue I am a registered voter and a member of the gay community. I care deeply about domestic-partnership rights being upheld. However, I am also disturbed by WhoSigned. org's plan to publish the names of those who sign the Referendum 71 petition ["Group wants to name names," NWTuesday, June 2]. This is an inflammatory action regarding a highly emotional topic. It attempts to intimidate people by making them think twice about exercising their legal right for fear that they may have an uninvited visitor at home or an unwanted conversation in line at the grocery store. This is not the sort of invitation to dialogue our community should be promoting. Common justifications — it's all public record anyway; it's being done elsewhere; we just want to talk; our intentions are harmless — mean nothing balanced against the gravity of condoning political intimidation as an acceptable tool. I urge WhoSigned. org to find a less divisive way to encourage discussion between the gay community and our neighbors. Our community is commonly accused of holding values detrimental to the well-being of society. To Brian Murphy of WhoSigned.org I say: Do not bless our critics with an act that appears to justify that conclusion. — Christen F. Kaufman, University Place Naming signers a move typical of uncivilized thugs So members of WhoSigned.org and KnowThyNeighbor.org want to publish Referendum 71 signers' names, eh? I say bring it on. I hope they have enough money to handle all the bullying, harassment, trespassing and similar lawsuits that will be filed against them. What they are doing is nothing less than what Nazi/Gestapo/KGB groups did to silence dissent. Remember, while the First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees "freedom of speech," it does not guarantee the "freedom to be heard" or the "freedom to silence those you disagree with." Simply put, WhoSigned.org wants nothing less than forced censorship of views and opinions they don't like, which is what Third-World tyrants, dictators, despots, spoiled brats and similar unsavory individuals and groups do. These groups instead should sponsor a competing referendum for their side and let the Washington voters determine the issue. Is it because they know their side may not win at the ballot box that they behave like uncivilized, Third-World thugs instead? — Ken Simmons, Auburn Comments | More in Gay rights


text: Hey, all. Had a rad time up in Seattle for Short Run. Met some rad people, had some of my stuff stolen, and traded a buncha zines. I just put my newest zine, a tiny guy for some tiny dudes, in the shop. Check it out. Now to switch outta party mode, back to work mode.


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Our Kids Video Book About Whales
Interesting Music Video Book For Kids About Whales
All About Whales
Whales are awesome. They are some of the biggest mammals on the planet and are a wonder to see when we can catch of glimpse of them in their natural habitat.
Even if you have never seen a whale, you should know that they are not a fish. Fish have scales, breathe oxygen through a set of gills and lay eggs for their young to emerge from. Whales, on the other fin, have to surface to breathe, give birth to their young live and have a rubbery feel to their bodies. They are also warm-blooded and move their tails in an up-down motion to propel themselves through the water.
The whale's body is extremely streamline, regardless of its size or species and are well-adapted to living in the ocean waters. Whales also have very powerful tails and use them for not only swimming, but also for breaching, spyhopping, lobtailing and logging.
Breaching is when a whale jumps out of the water and returns with a huge splash. Spyhopping is when a whale peeks its head up and looks around. Lobtailing involves the whale slamming its tail down on the surface of the water and logging is when the whale is quietly floating just under the surface.
Whales can be found all over the world, from the chilly waters of the Antarctic all the way down to the tropics. Different types of whales, like the Orca, will migrate from one ocean to the next. They do this to return back to their birthing waters where they will find a mate and have their own calves. The Humpback whale begins its trip from the colder polar regions to the warm tropical waters. During this time it hardly eats and focuses on getting from one area to the next. Killer whales (orcas) pretty much never stop eating and will always move to where the food is plentiful.
Since whales spend all of their time in the water they have developed a haunting sense of communication. Whale songs are "music" this mammal uses to let others know where it is or to alert others of intruders. Once again the humpback whale is used as an example. Its beautiful song (and the whale) has been referred to as the, "composers of the sea" – this is because its voice is very similar to human music. Humpbacks may use this music to lure females into thinking he is the most physically fit of all her suitors.
The whale truly is one of the most fascinating beings on our planet. Some are gigantic in size, yet they seem to possess a gentle nature about them. If you ever have a chance to see them in their natural habitat you will be astounded at just how large these mammals really are. Check them out, as it could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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You can download all 365 Irish proverbs as an album from our bandcamp page for just €1.99.
Listen to them on your smartphone or MP3 player - It's a great way to learn more Irish!
The album includes a PDF with all the proverbs and their translations. And if you've got an iPhone or iPod, you can even view the Irish and English lyrics while you play the album.
Is é seo Seanfhocal an Lae:
Today's Proverb is:
I ndiaidh a chéile a thógtar na caisleáin.
Seo ciall an tseanfhocail:
The translation or meaning is:
Castles are built one after the other.
(Rome wasn't built in a day.)
An bhfuil a mhalairt de thuairim agat maidir le ciall an tseanfhocail seo, nó ar mhaith leat an t-aistriúchán s'agatsa a roinnt linn? Déan caint ar seo thíos.
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