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Good skin runs in my family – not saying we have perfect skin, but good skin as in resilient, smooth, pretty much wrinkle-less and soft.
I was checking out the skin of my aunt, who is turning 40 this year and has a young 18 month toddler – she doesn't have ANY crows feet at all (dark circles, yes!). Even my Nana who is 75 has the same amount of crows feet I see on some boozy 26 year olds!
However, when it comes to my skin, a bad bacon rich diet and the total, complete lack of sleep shows – my skin looks tired, I get spots, I'm getting fine lines.
So I've been making a conscious effort to look after my skin recently (and the routine is getting unexpectedly complicated!) but its starting to pay off.
When its close to perfect, I'll share the routine with you, until then I'll reserve judgement!
At the moment I am ADDICTED to face scrubs, masks and oils.
So this is the first part of 5 face scrubs I have used for the last few months that I think are fab – and I've used quite a few! My skin is quite sensitive and dry at the moment and the following didn't break me out.
My Picks
1. Oskia Skincare – Micro Exfoliating Balm
I was sent a few products from Oskia to try quite a few months ago and I have been duly using them – and it really is such a LOVELY range, both to look at and to use.
This Micro Exfoliating Balm is one of my favourites because when my skin is dry, the hydrating element of the balm soothes my skin and leaves some moisture behind.
The exfoliating grains are super fine so its good for delicate skin:
It smells rosey too which is nice – if you like the balm type/hot cloth cleansers you'll like this. Its quite a luxury product but I only use a small amount 2-3 times a week.
Price: £46
Verdict: Hydrating with a fine grain, dense scrub, excellent for delicate skins
Next pick!2. Soap & Glory – The Greatest Scrub of All
I've suddenly got a crush on Soap & Glory, ever since I got that amazing Hat Box from Boots!!! I've been working through the items one by one.
This scrub, The Greatest Scrub of All, I really like – it has such an unusual smell – I can't put my finger on it (without looking at the ingredients!).
Its sort of minty but also sweet. Smelling it, I thought it would bring me out in a rash but it didn't and I also liked popping the little spheres which smelt a bit orangey to me.
This is not a proper scrubby scrub – if you want something refreshing with a mild scrub effect this is the one to go for. Once again its 2-3 times a week, less if you are sensitive.
Price: £8 (bargain!)
Verdict: Refreshing and slightly tingly, not incredibly scrubby.
3. Rosette wAsHA Apple Scrub
This Rosette face wash is also a scrub – personally I treat it as a scrub as it contains AHA's which I can't use on my skin every day as it irritates it.
The texture is very cream – there are tiny very very fine particles in there (hence it could be used as a daily wash for some people). It foams nicely and leaves my skin super duper clean.
Price: About £4 (or $6) from Adambeauty.com. Comes in 2 other flavours, Peach and Mango (I bought all three!)
Verdict: Quite a creamy scrub, its tingly and has AHA so use sparingly on delicate skins, but feels lovely and smells great afterwards.
4. Dr Lewinn's Facial Polishing Gel
I'm totally new to the Dr Lewinn's skincare range – I am trying out more products from the range and REALLY liking it. In a sea of non-descript 'Dr-so-and-so' skincare, Dr Lewinn's is standing out.
This face scrub I like because it has a cooling gel base. It reminds me of what an old school face scrub should be!
This has quite a liquidy gel (not thick) with fine grains in the scrub. You only need a small amount to cover the whole face. It smells – zesty!
This is one I have using quite a lot because it works quite well on delicate skin (the grains are very fine) and its kept my skin quite blockage free so to speak.
Its also RE-FRESH-ING!
Price: £25 but its just £20 from Lookfantastic.com
Verdict: Refreshing light textured gel with a fine scrub – great for every day use!
5. Dove Spa Porcelain Pore Reduction Scrub
Love the idea of this scrub being a pore reducing one because its also ridiculously soft and creamy.
Quite often "pore reducing" scrubs are a little too menthol-y for me, giving me dry patches and the itches. This has the most unusual creamy texture that I haven't felt in any other scrubs.
Having said that, it does still contain Witch Hazel and I find that it works best around the t-zone. I once left this on my cheeks for too long and it started to tingle a bit too much.
The grains (rice grains!) are medium sized, not too rough.
Price:I was sent this from PR but on the site it £19.
Verdict: Smells like pears, very creamy texture and medium sized scrub, quite comforting to use!
Because I have quite a few scrubs, I tend to use them VERY GENTLY in the shower every other day. If my cheeks are dry I use a hydrating one on my cheeks then something stronger on my t-zone.
Its especially good if you get blackheads and also for removing flakies from the cheeks and forehead. But choose your scrub type wisely!
What are your favourite face scrubs?
Do you bother with exfoliating?


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Carlos Tevez claims he is a different man to the one that walked out on City to return home to Argentina last season, but admits he still has work to do in winning back the club's fans.
Tevez has re-established himself as a regular in Roberto Mancini's side this season, something that was almost unthinkable last year as he went on unauthorised leave in his homeland for several months, apparently ready to quit the game.
"I knew it wasn't going to be easy to come back," Tevez told the Sunday Times. "I'd left City and you could almost say I'd left through the back door. But it is almost like there are two Tevezes. There's the Tevez before, who had a problem, and there's the Tevez now, who no longer has problems."
Tevez said the key has been getting his family back together. Tevez had requested a transfer from City prior to his walkout when his wife and children returned to Argentina, but now they are all back in England Tevez said he has a different perspective on his football.
"It totally changes everything, your disposition, your humour, just having them close," he said. "If I wasn't selected in the past I'd be in a terrible mood. Now I'm still gutted but I go home, see my daughters, it takes my mind off it and I feel better."
The 29-year-old has 11 goals in 33 appearances in all competitions this season, not quite matching the outstanding return of his pre-walkout days but still a highly valuable part of Roberto Mancini's strikeforce.
Despite that, a sizeable number of City fans still bear a grudge after last season, with Tevez's goals often met with a more muted celebration than those of his team-mates.
Tevez can understand that, but is still working to win them over with his new attitude.
"I knew it would be difficult for the fans to accept me again," he said. "But I hope, little by little, match by match...you give everything for the shirt and win them over through hambre de gloria (hunger for glory). I was once a real idol for these fans, they were so supportive of me. I hope I'm able to win them back."
While his standing with the supporters still needs work, Tevez is adamant he and Mancini are now "fine", their once fiery relationship "a lot calmer now".
"It might be down to maturity," he added. "Maybe, before, I was under a lot more pressure. I was a leader of the team. People would often say, 'If Carlos has a bad day, City have a bad day'. Maybe you just reach a point where there's worse things in life than disappointment in football.
"If I come off the bench and score but I'm not in the next starting line-up I'm a lot more accepting."

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British electro-pop group Depeche Mode kind of sounds like The Beatles — at least on one track from their new album.
"It's a bad thing to say this because everyone is going to say, 'What are you talking about?' But it reminds me of The Beatles or something," chief songwriter and founding member Martin Gore said with a laugh, referring to the bluesy song "Goodbye."
He added: "That's a dangerous thing to say."
But Gore doesn't want fans to confuse the message of Depeche Mode's newest album. Their signature electronic grooves are all over "Delta Machine," the trio's 13th release.
"We had a clear-cut vision in our heads on what the album should be," Gore said.
Depeche Mode has released albums since 1981. Their hits include "People Are People," "Enjoy the Silence" and "Policy of Truth."
The band, which also includes singer David Gahan and multi-instrumentalist Andy Fletcher, launched a world tour on April 5 in Nice, France. They will perform Tuesday at Ak-Chin Pavilion in Phoenix.
In a recent phone interview with The Associated Press, Gore, 51, talked about his family, the new album, the state of electronic music and collaborating with Frank Ocean.
Q: Does making music ever get old?
A: I love being in the studio. If I'm at home, I will go to the studio pretty much every day anyway. It's just something that I like to do. If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.
Q: Do you ever feel pressure to match the success of your previous releases?
A: I don't think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write naturally and organically and try to write from the heart. When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, 'God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.
Q: What are your thoughts on the dance and electronic sound blowing up in the U.S. in recent years?
A: (Laughs.) It's definitely phenomenal. I find it a little bit strange that someone like Deadmau5 plays huge shows and huge audiences. I went to see him play a fairly small show compared to some of the others that he's been doing. I find it odd seeing a DJ playing to huge audiences. I know that people have been doing it for a while, but the fact that it's been embraced so much in America now and it's become like this new, big thing, I find it slightly odd.
Q: You collaborated with Frank Ocean recently. How did that come about?
A: The last day I think it was that we had in the studio in New York, we were just recording some live sessions, a bonus thing for our deluxe CD, and Frank asked our engineer if he could come in and have a listen. So, he came in and started talking to us and said he had a track that he would like us to work on. He came up later and brought his track up, and the following day we stayed an extra day in the studio and just did a few bits and pieces, and I have no idea what's happening to that track. It's a great track.
Q: What was he like?
A: He seems like a nice and funny guy. He came in, he was very at home coming into our environment, playing us his track. He went off and then we worked on it.
Q: What advice would you give to young bands?
A: I don't want to be pessimistic, but times have changed so much. I'm not saying it was easy when we first started out, but at least there was a healthy record industry and record companies were looking to sign bands and there was money flying around. It's really difficult now. I even have nephews who make music, my daughter makes music. I don't know what advice to give them these days. It's really a tough industry to break into.
Q: How old is your daughter?
A: My middle child, she's 17 now.
Q: What kind of music is she performing?
A: She plays guitar and she sings and it's more kind of folky really than anything else. ... All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
Q: Do you listen to music together?
A: We all have slightly different tastes, but sometimes we listen to music together.
Q: That's good. You can drive in the car together and there isn't anyone complaining.
A: Oh, there will probably be someone complaining.
Depeche Mode in concert. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8. Ak-Chin Pavilion, 2121 N. 83rd Ave., Phoenix. $29.50-$99.50. livenation.com


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That said, they really could have come up with a better name.
Because my kids came home today with lunchbox stickers for the program that say "FUTP!"
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Look on the bright side, it could have been "Football Ultimately Cancels Kickball".
"Footballers Usually Can Keyboard"?
"Feels Ugly Causes Ketones"
I dunno.
What is with the firearms and body armor ads on your site now?
No idea. I have no control over what goes up.
Yes, Grumpy. Thought you were going postal after a few of those customers. ;->
Nobody said those NFL folks were acronym geniuses!
I'd rather see the body armor and firearms ads! I see an ad for slippers and one for male breast reduction lol. :)
Hahaha, I don't see firearms or body armor ads, I see crap for cribs and baby stuff because that's what I've been looking at online. Maybe the other anonymous uses a shared computer.
Wait. There are ads on this site? Never see them. Adblock is your freind.
I was on linked in before coming here so I am getting stuff on "are your goals aligned with strategy" and High speed internet. Very dull.
Poor Grumpy. Schools get so enthuastic and much of the time, administrators have their snark senses turned off. The teachers, on hte other hand ...
SNAFU on the kid thing.
The way the ads work is they pop up in response to your google history. For instance I have been googling 1 person backpacker tents so the ads that appear are for Campmor. Those googling Bushmasters are getting the gun ads. The babes in T Shirts and the Viagra ads (which I am not seeing) are for those who....
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That's funny. I just asked an IT guy here at the hospital if my computer was FUBAR. Apparently it is because he couldn't fix it but it did make him laugh. Making an IT guy laugh isn't easy, you know.
FU Toilet Paper? WTF?
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CINCINNATI -- Through one week of the regular season, center fielder Shin-Soo Choo has given the Reds something they hoped he would bring -- someone who gets on base, a lot.
Considering Choo had reached base in more than half of his plate appearances over his first six games, and at least once in every game, he has been more than just successful. Besides having an on-base percentage of .516, he is batting .375 (9-for-24) with three home runs and three walks.
"If I get on base, I have a lot of confidence I'm going to score. That's my job," said Choo, who had scored a team-high seven runs.
Last season, the Reds had a .208 average and .254 on-base percentage from their collection of leadoff hitters. That was the catalyst for acquiring Choo in a December trade with the Indians.
"If I walk, get a hit-by-pitch ... there are a lot of options to get on base," Choo said.
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"As long as they hit him in the legs -- those big tree trunks he has. You just don't want him to get hit in the hand or the elbow or anything. You shouldn't get hit there if you're moving out of the way properly, unless one gets away from you and you don't see it."


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If its not asking too much i would like to have a sound effect for a gock shot on snare drum. If there already is one then someone tell me how to get the drumset sound for it.
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If its not asking too much i would like to have a sound effect for a gock shot on snare drum. If there already is one then someone tell me how to get the drumset sound for it.
When I'm writing for any ensemble that contains the MDL instruments i always experience a glitch that happens after i stop playing the score. I will usually click the stop button and when it does a huge bang of all of the instruments in MDL being used come at unison and full volume. This will happen a few times and after so many MDL will start glitching and it will make the velocity go all over the place. It makes it sound almost corrupt. I know it isnt corrupt because after restarting the platform everything is fine. Then the sound happens again and it goes haywire and i have to restart the program once again. I've experienced this before but only now has it become extremely prominent. This is my main issue however the problem with shots also bothers me. The unaccented taps are louder than a rim shot. I can get around it by using a ping shot (which is slightly louder but it is still a bit quieter than an accented note) however i still prefer to use a rimshot. Thanks for listening! Hope you can figure out the problem soon.Reply
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So, you know how I have been working on the 50 follower special composition right? Well, I am 2/3 of the way through it and even include a short bit of canon in the composition. But after this canonic moment, I can't seem to make further progress. I know that I want to go back to G major by means of a plagal cadence(which would require me to substitute C major for C#°) and that I want to end the piece with a plagal cadence.
I have been having this composers block for about a week now. I usually embrace it and just move on to composing something else, but this is a 50 follower special composition that I have been working on.
Articulations have completley stopped working on MDL instruments. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
After installing the recent version of musescore 3, when ever I open it it closes before I can do anything. Any solutions?
I reached the 50 followers milestone. Now just to finish my 50 follower special composition. I can't promise when it will be done but right now I'm halfway through it.
Did any of y'all create horrible pieces of music the first time you joined Musescore?
I'm currently in the middle of writing a movement for an indoor drumline program, and I have a few voiceovers that need to go into a few certain measures. Does anybody know how to achieve this?
Hello! I am trying to add muted cymbal crashes to my marching cymbal part but there is no sound in MDL for this. Would I be able to add it myself or is this simply not possible? Sorry, I'm not very savvy with this program.
Edit: I've been trying to edit the .sfz, and it's quite difficult. Is there an easy way to do this with Polyphone or is there an easier program to use?
Hi everybody,
I'm searching for the Marimba Concerto n.1 by Ney Rosauro for Solo Marimba and Piano reduction. The original composition is for Solo Marimba and String group, but I want the piano reduction one. Can someone help me finding (in PDF or Musescore filetype) this brilliant concerto? Thanks
If you don't know already, I am now almost at 50 followers. Currently I have 39 followers so just 11 more and I will have reached the 50 follower mark. I had maybe like 4 followers 2 years ago. So clearly, I'm doing something right. My most recent score called The Storm just brought me 2 more followers. I suppose they followed me hoping to someday see the entire suite that I plan on The Storm being a part of. That suite I call Weather Music. Maybe I should compose another part of the suite for that 50 followers mark, upload it when I reach 50 followers, and then whenever I have finished the suite, upload it in its entirety.
If you want to listen to what I have so far of The Storm, here it is:
It just so happens that I have been getting rain for 3 days straight here in Ohio.
Update 1: 6/18/2019
Oh my goodness, 4 followers in a single day. That is a record for me, I am now at 43 followers. I don't know if the follower milestone or finishing the composition will come first. If the follower count does come first, that's fine. I'm not pushing myself to finish the 50 follower composition.
Update 2: 6/19/2019
Wow, 5 followers in 1 day. I don't think I will finish my 50 follower composition before I reach 50 followers. Often my composition process is slow, so don't be surprised if a week has passed and I still haven't finished the composition yet. I will get it done when I get it done. I emphasize quality over quantity with my compositions.
Update 3: 6/24/2019
I'm just 1 away from reaching the 50 followers mark. As for the composition, I'm about halfway through composing it.
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Group is created today! Woohoo! *confetti and stuff falls from sky*
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Eek! I forgot to do this yesterday. The group is already dying, so uhh… :o
@Jaybird1 is one of the first truly active members, I told him I would give him a shoutout here, so here you go :P
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I haven't updated this in a while, this group is blowing up now...
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Holy cow, this group is blowing up. 8 members in 4 days, wow...
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Hmm...Starting to die again...
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Welp...I was wrong...
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I was very wrong, this group is really blowing up, welp
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Again, welp
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So I had to kick a member (Indy500) for spamming a link to an unsecure website. Sorry, but spam for no purpose is not tolerated.
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Okay then, I don't know what to say
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Okay then, I started a discussion trying to get to 1k comments, and I thought it would fail. As I am writing this, Lizzapie, Mnmwert, Vash Hartman, and myself are spamming to get it to 1k. It's already at like 150 or something (every 2 minutes I refresh and I have 10+ notifications lol)
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So this group is now closing in on 100 members, but we need more discussions!
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Wow, 5 more members till 100!
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Woohoo! 100 Members!
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This group is starting to die
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Now the member count has capped out at around 1 member per day, BUT this is a random group, and I didn't really expect it to be this active.
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I'm just going to leave this group alone for a while, only update this discussion every once in a while.
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Well, I spammed a bunch of discussions, and I actually updated this.
Does anyone know a way to get a good sounding suspended cymbal roll in Musescore? I've tried almost everything and it all sounds like garbage lol. Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated!
pleaz spam discussions
I had a perfectly good MuseScore 3 working program, after upgrading to the latest version 3.0.5. There was a link to download MuseScore Drumline, which I clicked and installed the extension. Now I can't get MuseScore to load at all!
I've re-downloaded it but Windows 10 refuses to open it. All I get is increased CPU and Memory usage and eventually I have to close the unopened app.
Any suggestions?
Is there a way for me to write snare splits without having to add another snare part in completely
So, I have been planning out my first symphony. I gave it the nickname "The War Symphony". It still isn't flushed out yet but I have decided to have it be a programmatic symphony with this movement structure:
First Movement:
Key: Bb major
Aspect: Battle
Form: Sonata Form
Second Movement:
Key: F minor
Aspect: Death
Form: Not decided on yet but I'm leaning towards ternary form
Third Movement:
Key: Not decided on
Aspect: Battle again
Form: Scherzo and Trio
Key: Bb major
Aspect: Victory
Form: Sonata-Rondo Form
The first movement is what I have flushed out the most out of all the movements so far in my plans so obviously, that will be the part I work on first. But I'm wondering, since I can't really afford a Pro membership(maybe a few years down the line I will be able to afford it but I can't currently), should I make a separate account to put my symphony score on once it is finished? And if so, should that account be just for my symphonies if I happen to want to compose more than 1 symphony?


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What beauties!
Dude you guys, the weather in Switzerland is turning nice...like enjoy a beverage at a cafe along the river in the sun type of nice. My favorite!
P.S. The winner winner of the Pop Pop Portraits Giveaway is Christianna from The Girl with the Blue Bow. Congrats lady!
And thanks everyone for your awesome comments and enthusiasm for Pop Pop, Helena is truly talented and I'm sure appreciated reading all of the comments!
BTW, you can still get 20% off prints at the Pop Pop Portraits Etsy shop with the code "HURRAH"! Prints range from $9-$50 (avg is $9).
- Brissa said...
i love that weather. and lucky girl!!!
- April 2, 2012 at 8:48 PM
- ellie said...
Lovely ear-rings..Here in Nebraska..its almost too hot.
- April 2, 2012 at 9:26 PM
- ivy's closet said...
Sweet! Yes, that time of year for a smoothie of some sort..outdoors.
- April 2, 2012 at 9:27 PM
- lucy and sarah said...
These look great!
Feels like summer here!
- April 2, 2012 at 9:27 PM
- Claire Kiefer said...
Those really are GORGEOUS earrings. I love them, and they're reasonably priced, too! Congrats to Christianna. :)
- April 2, 2012 at 9:31 PM
- jeanette from everton terrace said...
Weather like that just changes everything doesn't it? I'm glad you are getting to enjoy it. Ours is like that right now but it is on its way out as our summer is very hot. We are enjoying the outdoors as much as we can right now.
- April 2, 2012 at 9:49 PM
- Gloria said...
I'm obsessed with AMM - those earrings are so pretty!
- April 2, 2012 at 9:56 PM
- Sara Szatmary said...
how flipping cute are these!?
- April 2, 2012 at 10:22 PM
- Dancing Branflake said...
Oh, these are fabulous! A little difference and a whole lot chic, just like you!
- April 3, 2012 at 1:54 AM
- alli/hooray said...
LOVE those sweet earrings!
- April 3, 2012 at 4:39 AM
- ilene @ muchloveilly said...
i have a feeling i've either been missing your posts in my feed or they haven't been showing up - so it made me super excited to see a blog post from you!
the weather here in SC has been fabulous! makes me so happy - as long as the pollen doesn't mess with me. :)
- April 3, 2012 at 5:04 AM
- Carrie said...
i'm more of a stud earrings kinda girl. LOL. i think the only time i wear dangling earrings are on special occasions. these earrings are really nice. simple and sophisticated.
Shoetopia Giveaway -- 3 winners. Come and join! :D
10% off discount code to Vantage Point Vintage
- April 3, 2012 at 6:00 AM
- Christianna said...
I'm so excited that I won! Her art is amazing! I'll be e-mailing you back tomorrow.
P.S. those earrings are pretty awesome too!
- April 3, 2012 at 8:09 AM
- Ola said...
they are super!
Life and travelling
- April 3, 2012 at 10:17 AM
- Kristina said...
ach, I really miss the spring in switzerland. here in australia autumn is coming slowing but surely, the days are getting shorter and shorter. first day i went running in the dark today. that sucks... enjoy your spring!!! and pick up your camera and take some pictures! miss seeing them!! xox
- April 3, 2012 at 12:48 PM
- Tine said...
Oh my such adorable earrings!
- April 3, 2012 at 2:02 PM
- Nanne said...
I like them, altough I usually go for hoops:) Would you believe that we've had like 8 inches of snow for the past few days?! Oh well I'm going to Oslo for easter to visit my sister, at least there won't be any snow there.
- April 3, 2012 at 2:11 PM
- Statements in Fashion said...
Cute earrings!
- April 3, 2012 at 4:45 PM
- polkadotpeticoat said...
I just pierced Mimi's ears...maybe Mom needs them done....
- April 3, 2012 at 4:56 PM
- Josie said...
These are so simple and pretty -- I love!
xo Josie
- April 4, 2012 at 3:27 AM
- thais said...
sweet earrings ;) and congrats to super lucky Christianna !! I want summer, even spring, over here too ;(
- April 4, 2012 at 10:33 AM
- Julie-White Tapestry said...
I like those, into gold lately. The weather here has been so temperamental, never sure how to dress!
- April 4, 2012 at 5:05 PM
- Blicious said...
thos earrings are so pretty! love!
- April 4, 2012 at 5:41 PM
- Punctuation Mark said...
these are super cute... miami is already getting humid... UGH!
- April 5, 2012 at 4:30 AM
- BellaGetsREal said...
My kind of weather! Seattle is still raining but at least the sun has poked out a bit this last week.
- April 5, 2012 at 5:29 PM
- Louise said...
Those are pretty! I wish the nice weather like that would stay here, it was nice, then it went away again and my toes are COLD!
- April 5, 2012 at 8:51 PM
- v o j a c q u e said...
Lovely earrings -- simple and classy.
- April 5, 2012 at 11:35 PM
- Jamie said...
So, so cute!
- April 7, 2012 at 4:21 PM


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Ferrari's thirteenth
GT & Sport Cars
Maranello, 4 December
Thirteen in eleven years; that's how many awards Ferrari has had from Top Gear, one of the most authoritative motoring magazines in the world, published by the BBC. This year it fell to the 458 Speciale to get not just one, but two awards, being crowned "Supercar of the Year" and taking the "Car of the Year" prize from James May, one of the presenters of the famous TV programme that goes by the same name as the magazine.
Among the thirteen awards that have gone to the Maranello marque in just over a decade, highlights include a run of four wins in the supercar category: before the Speciale, the F12berlinetta (2012,) the 458 Italia (2009) and the F430 (2005) all took this prestigious title.
"I loved it, and what I loved was that I was still driving a 458, which is already my favourite car," said May, referring to the Speciale. "But it was as if someone had gone over my sensory receptors with a whetstone and sharpened them up a bit." As a previous owner of a F430 coupé and a current owner of a 458 Italia, James May is well placed to understand the technical innovations introduced on the 458 Speciale – including the unique Side Slip Control system which makes it easier to achieve car control on the limit, thereby greatly improving the driving experience.


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Grains started the day stronger but came well off their highs by the close. March corn finished 3 ¾ cents lower, March beans 9 cents lower, and March wheat 5 cents higher.
Export inspections were out this morning and showed a decline from last week in corn and beans, but an increase in wheat. Today we saw heavy bear spreading in grains which is likely due to the fact Goldman is currently rolling positions. Outside markets were mixed with equities making new highs and crude oil having a large break. The energy market weakness poured over to corn and soybeans, helping push them lower on the day.
The USDA WASDE report will be out this Wednesday at 7:30 AM. The average analyst estimates for corn, beans, and wheat carryout are as follows:
Estimate Range
Corn 736 645-795
Soybeans 135 105-150
Wheat 810 751-889
There is a potential to see a decrease in US and world corn carryout expectations in this report. For US carryout, stronger ethanol production may be the number one reason for this. For world carryover, the decrease would likely come from a lowered Argentine corn production. The last USDA report projects Argentine production at 23.5 MMTs, we could easily see that reduced by 2 Million from the weather problems they have had. Brazilian production is expected to remain strong.
Not much else has changed fundamentally and so the path of least resistance is still pointing higher. The latest commitment of traders report shows the funds increased their net long positions in grains as follows:
+25,748 net long contracts of corn
+13,805 net long contracts of soybeans
+4,582 net long contracts of wheat
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Penelope Fitzgerald's perfect short story is about imagination. The setting is mid-19th Century Hobart, the scenery is dominated by the church, the rectory and the convict prison house, the story by the encounters between the local community of dignataries led by Alice, the clergyman's daughter, and an escaped convict. In that sense it represents a distillation of the early history of Australia: this is the world that Mr Micawber goes to at the end of the David Copperfield and there his daughter meets Magwitch. The isolation is there- you get the real sense that Alice and her family live at the ends of the earth. I love how Fitzgerald brings this out in the first paragraph- giving you a distilled history of Hobart's church- as if to imply that this is a hamlet isolated from the history of the world. To understand mid-century Hobart, you do not need to know about Peel's repeal of the corn laws, the demise of the slave trade, the American war, the revolution in Belgium or the industrial revolution- but you do need to know about the construction of the local church.
Loneliness breeds the imagination- as does youth. Alice is an intelligent young girl- very conventional as we learn throughout the story. Her world is a lonely one, formed by conversations with her friend Aggie. I found this little paragraph so perfectly apt as a description of Alice that I think I need waste no more words:
They had settled on the age of forty five to go irredeemably cranky. They might start imagining anything they liked then. The whole parish, indeed the whole neighbourhood, thought they were cranky already in any case, not to get settled. Aggie in particular with all the opportunities that came her way in the hotel trade.
The community of course are as Fitzgerald's story points out entirely wrong. But there is something about that paragraph that stands out- it expresses the tragedy of these two young women's lives perfectly but also with its first sentence captures a witty and affectionate attitude to the solitude of their inner worlds which Fitzgerald invites us to share.
Of course imagination leads on to romanticism. When Alice meets the convict in the church late at night- she imagines that she has fallen in love. The twist at the end of the story reveals that Alice's idea of love and what love is are different things- I do not mean to give away here what that twist is- but it reveals Alice's fantasy to be a fantasy. The interesting question about Fitzgerald is whether the revelation hurts Alice: she leaves the question open. But I think if you follow the lineaments of the story, you can see an answer. Fitzgerald is like Austen in that she can describe illusion whilst alluding to reality. Alice's life is dominated by fantasy- but the fantasy has no reality- the question for the reader is what kind of disappointment is worse, the disappointment of the door not opened or the dissapointment of the reality falling short.
This is a fine short story- more happens in it than happens in most novels. What is so amazing about it is the way that it captures the world of early colonisation- the isolation and the way that fuses with teenage girlishness to endow every moment with romantic possibility (and the way that the community, as ever, fails to understand that a longing for romance is not a refusal of life). We are left on the brink of something that happens- again I will not break the suspense- but this is a writer at the peak of her art and what she expresses is timeless.


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Invictus Games Cyclist Draws Motivation From Family
By Shannon Collins
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
ORLANDO, Fla., May 12, 2016 For medically retired Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Ronnie Jeffrey Jimenez, competing in the hand cycle H4 disability category time trial and criterium cycling competition was more about finishing than medaling at the 2016 Invictus Games this week at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Walt Disney World here.
More than 500 wounded, ill and injured service members from 14 nations are competing in 10 sporting events, cheered on by family members, friends and other spectators.
Jimenez was accompanied by his wife, Patrice Jimenez; mom, Mary Ann Jimenez; and father, Ronnie Gomez Jimenez, who all wore homemade, red Team Jimenez shirts with photos of Ronnie riding his hand cycle. He had a lung biopsy in January, but as soon as the doctors said he could go back to training, he was back in the gym and back on the bike, he said.
*Severe Injuries*
Jimenez suffered spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injuries during a deployment to a combat zone. It took him years before he admitted to having post-traumatic stress and back issues, he said. His family said that once he did, his smile returned.
For nine years, I wouldnt admit I had any problems and wouldnt talk about it, Jimenez said. I didnt want anybody to know that I was dealing with certain things and couldnt talk about them. Id just start crying. I finally came to the reality that with dealing with PTSD -- its not an anchor. I went through dark times. Ive gone through a lot of treatment, and Im still going through treatment, but its nice just being able to smile. The doctors remind me that my smile is contagious.
I love when I hear people tell him, I love your smile or I love that smile, Patrice said. I love hearing people say that.
*Invictus Games*
Jimenez said the race was tough -- faster than he thought it was going to be, but fun. I looked at my odometer, and it said I did nine miles; it didnt feel like nine miles, he said. When we first started, it was pretty nice, but then the street started heating up, and it started getting a little unbearable. It started getting hot, and I cant regulate my body temperature.
Jimenez said hes enjoyed the camaraderie at the Invictus Games. Its been pretty awesome, he said. Despite where youre from or the language, everybody knows everybody. Ive been talking to a lot of these different guys -- especially the guys from Jordan. We give each other the thumbs-up, and everythings fine.
Adaptive sporting events are vital to the recovery of disabled veterans, Jimenez said. When I first got injured, I didnt know where I was. I lost my self-identity, he said. I didnt know what direction to go in. It wasnt until a buddy of mine brought a hand cycle to the hospital and said, Look, the same thing you did with your legs, you can do with your arms, and it put a smile on my face, and here I am now.
*Family Support*
Having been through so many things -- PTSD, the surgeries, the hospitalizations-- adaptive sports and his family have kept the smile on his face, Jimenez said. I wouldnt be able to do a lot of things without them, he said of his family. Theyve been a big part of my recovery.
His mother said shes very proud of him. With all his injuries and stuff going on with him, he still came out here and crossed that finish line, thats all I care about, she said. Hes just so happy, and it makes us happy. The old Ronnie I knew is coming back.
Patrice Jimenez said that when her husband is on his bike, it takes him away -- its his happy place, and when hes with athletes from the other countries, its like theres this brotherhood of athletes sharing common injuries and a common hobby. She also said she also enjoyed Britains Prince Harry and former President George W. Bush highlighting the importance of invisible wounds such as PTSD in a symposium earlier in the week.
Its a serious injury my husband suffers from, and it really knocked him down for a long time, she said. He hid from it for years. He also highlighted that you shouldnt be ashamed. That was beautiful, too.
She wouldnt be who she is without her husband, she added. We make each other stronger, she said. We balance each other out.
*Encouraging Others*
Jimenez encourages other disabled veterans to give adaptive sports a chance. You can do anything your heart desires -- anything, he said. I wanted to do so many things for so long, but I was afraid to, or just didnt want to. Now, I couldnt be any happier.
Jimenez said he also wants people not to give up. Despite your injury, disability, sickness, whatever you have, you can still be whole again, he said.
Related Links
2016 Invictus Games [ http://invictusgames2016.org/?source=GovDelivery ]
Special Report: 2016 Invictus Games [ http://www.defense.gov/News/Special-Reports/0516_invictus-games?source=GovDelivery ]
Special Report: Warrior Care [ http://www.defense.gov/News/Special-Reports/1015_warriorcare?source=GovDelivery ]


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he morning of March 15, 1781, was clear and cold. A light frost had disappeared under the first rays of the sun, but the ground underfoot was soft and spongy from long winter rains and snows. In the damp woods of what had been an isolated farming community in the Piedmont on a major east-west road through North Carolina, some 4,400 American troops, in various uniforms and country clothes, waited for battle.
This backwoods county seat of Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina, was the site of a pivotal battle in the Revolutionary Wars decisive Southern Campaign. The engagement set the stage for the regions liberation from enemy occupation and impelled British general Lord Charles Cornwallis to take the ill-fated road that led him to final defeat at Yorktown, Virginia, seven months later.
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, the nations first national park established at a Revolutionary War site, preserves the 220-acre heart of the 1781 battlefield. Among the 28 monuments raised on the battlefield is a memorial containing the graves of two of North Carolinas signers of the Declaration of Independence, William Hooper and John Penn. Although Guilford Courthouse is 600 miles south of Philadelphia and Independence Hall, it is appropriate that this monument stands at the site of one of the most important battles of the Revolutionary War. It was the sacrifices of American patriots on this and scores of other battlefields that gave substance to the bold statements of principle contained in the Declaration of Independence.
About This Lesson
Getting Started: Inquiry Question
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
Locating the Site: Maps
Determining the Facts: Readings
Visual Evidence: Images
Putting It All Together: Activities
How the National Register
Guilford Courthouse
Teaching with Museum Collections: The American Revolution, a Revolution of Possibilities: Politics, Economy, and Society
American Revolutionary War:
This lesson is based on the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, one of the thousands of properties listed in the National Register of Historic Places.


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Best result: never qualified
Coach: Lars Olsen
Leading scorers: all-time – Rógvi Jacobsen (10); current – Fródi Benjaminsen (6)
Most appearances: all-time – Óli Johannesen (83); current – Fródi Benjaminsen (79)
Association formed: 1979
Nickname: None
Where they play: Tórsvøllur, Torshavn
A member of UEFA since 1990, the Faroe Islands recorded the most famous result in their history in their very first competitive match, defeating Austria 1-0 in a EURO '92 qualifier played in the Swedish town of Landskrona. The islands had no suitable grass pitches at that time, but since then they have regularly hosted UEFA European Championship and FIFA World Cup matches on the home turf of Torshavn and Toftir. Just three of their 12 qualifying campaigns have yielded more than one win, although only once, on the road to UEFA EURO 2008, have they lost every match.
EURO pedigree
Matches played
Overall: P58 W4 D6 L48 F34 A165
Final tournament: P0 W0 D0 L0 F0 A0
Qualifying: P58 W4 D6 L48 F34 A165
After introducing themselves with a bang in 1990 as Icelandic coach Páll Gudlaugsson guided them to that famous victory against Austria and a creditable 1-1 draw away to Northern Ireland two games later, the Faroes lost their remaining five games, conceding 21 goals without reply. They finished bottom of the group, as they have in five of their six campaigns. The exception came in EURO '96 qualifying, where home and away wins against San Marino left them fifth in the six-team section.
It was 38 games before they managed another victory in the competition, beating Estonia 2-0 in 2011 under Irish coach Brian Kerr as UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying yielded four points. It could have been better had Kerr's side not conceded two added-time goals to lose 2-1 in their opener at Estonia. They drew at home against Northern Ireland and pushed Italy all the way – twice hitting the woodwork – before the Azzurri escaped Torshavn with a 1-0 win.
Memorable EURO matches
07/06/2011: Faroe Islands 2-0 Estonia, UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying
The Faroes claimed their first EURO qualifying win in 38 attempts to stun in-form Estonia.
25/05/1995: Faroe Islands 3-0 San Marino, EURO '96 qualifying
Two goals in the opening eight minutes set up a record EURO win for Allan Simonsen's side.
12/09/1990: Faroe Islands 1-0 Austria, EURO '92 qualifying
Torkil Nielsen's second-half strike earned a shock victory as the Faroes made a dream debut.
Did you know?
The Faroe Islands have won two matches in the qualifying stages of three separate competitions: EURO '96 (both against San Marino), the 1998 FIFA World Cup (both against Malta) and the 2002 World Cup (both against Luxembourg).
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Yes, I meant to thank you for these also, KLD.
Yes, I meant to thank you for these also, KLD.
So what's a likely prognosis for someone with a "unable to stage" pressure sore on their butt? I mean wouldn't the likelihood of death be pretty real given that situation?
Last edited by doingtimeonmyass; 03-12-2007 at 12:15 PM.
No, not necessarily. We see "unable to stage" pressure ulcers all the time. The may be a DTI (deep tissue injury) or a pressure ulcer that is covered with slough or eschar. Until the slough or eschar is removed, you cannot stage it according to the new guidelines. An unable to stage pressure ulcer is at least a stage III, but you cannot tell if it is a stage IV until it is debrided.
thank you for showing the photo's on Pressure sores, my friend as had one for 5 months & it is in the crack of his buttocks, i have never saw one before & now i understand more since reading & seeing the photos on this tread, so i thank you for that.
He is in a wheel chair as he is paraplegic but trys to stay in bed which he as a mattress from the health service but trys to stay on his sides a lot.
Can you please tell me the best cusion that i could buy for him so he cauld sit in his chair more though out the day instead of being in bed most of the time.
Any help you can give me will be great.
Many thanks in advice for any help.
Please don't post specific wound care questions on this thread. Please start a separate message. This thread is specifically for discussion of pressure ulcer staging. Thanks.
I am chipd's nurse. Try covering heel with Mepitel. Dressing is porous and wound can be cleansed right through without disturbing wound base with dressing change. leave Mepitel in place for 1 wk. then change. use reg dressing, gauze or foam over mepitel. lynn rnOriginally Posted by lynnifer
wow..........Originally Posted by SCI-Nurse
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Stage 4 pressure sore with the butt and the theigh....omg it would take a year and they would have to cut your leg off to use the muscle for a flap......shit just shoot me if it gets that bad.....omg........Art
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 4, by Edward Gibbon, [1788], at sacred-texts.com
About two years after the last victory of Belisarius, the emperor returned from a Thracian journey of health, or business, or devotion. Justinian was afflicted by a pain in his head; and his private entry countenanced the rumor of his death. Before the third hour of the day, the bakers' shops were plundered of their bread, the houses were shut, and every citizen, with hope or terror, prepared for the impending tumult. The senators themselves, fearful and suspicious, were convened at the ninth hour; and the praefect received their commands to visit every quarter of the city, and proclaim a general illumination for the recovery of the emperor's health. The ferment subsided; but every accident betrayed the impotence of the government, and the factious temper of the people: the guards were disposed to mutiny as often as their quarters were changed, or their pay was withheld: the frequent calamities of fires and earthquakes afforded the opportunities of disorder; the disputes of the blues and greens, of the orthodox and heretics, degenerated into bloody battles; and, in the presence of the Persian ambassador, Justinian blushed for himself and for his subjects. Capricious pardon and arbitrary punishment imbittered the irksomeness and discontent of a long reign: a conspiracy was formed in the palace; and, unless we are deceived by the names of Marcellus and Sergius, the most virtuous and the most profligate of the courtiers were associated in the same designs. They had fixed the time of the execution; their rank gave them access to the royal banquet; and their black slaves 65 were stationed in the vestibule and porticos, to announce the death of the tyrant, and to excite a sedition in the capital. But the indiscretion of an accomplice saved the poor remnant of the days of Justinian. The conspirators were detected and seized, with daggers hidden under their garments: Marcellus died by his own hand, and Sergius was dragged from the sanctuary. 66 Pressed by remorse, or tempted by the hopes of safety, he accused two officers of the household of Belisarius; and torture forced them to declare that they had acted according to the secret instructions of their patron. 67 Posterity will not hastily believe that a hero who, in the vigor of life, had disdained the fairest offers of ambition and revenge, should stoop to the murder of his prince, whom he could not long expect to survive. His followers were impatient to fly; but flight must have been supported by rebellion, and he had lived enough for nature and for glory. Belisarius appeared before the council with less fear than indignation: after forty years' service, the emperor had prejudged his guilt; and injustice was sanctified by the presence and authority of the patriarch. The life of Belisarius was graciously spared; but his fortunes were sequestered, and, from December to July, he was guarded as a prisoner in his own palace. At length his innocence was acknowledged; his freedom and honor were restored; and death, which might be hastened by resentment and grief, removed him from the world in about eight months after his deliverance. The name of Belisarius can never die but instead of the funeral, the monuments, the statues, so justly due to his memory, I only read, that his treasures, the spoil of the Goths and Vandals, were immediately confiscated by the emperor. Some decent portion was reserved, however for the use of his widow: and as Antonina had much to repent, she devoted the last remains of her life and fortune to the foundation of a convent. Such is the simple and genuine narrative of the fall of Belisarius and the ingratitude of Justinian. 68 That he was deprived of his eyes, and reduced by envy to beg his bread, *_0043 "Give a penny to Belisarius the general!" is a fiction of later times, 69 which has obtained credit, or rather favor, as a strange example of the vicissitudes of fortune. 70
If the emperor could rejoice in the death of Belisarius, he enjoyed the base satisfaction only eight months, the last period of a reign of thirty- eight years, and a life of eighty-three years. It would be difficult to trace the character of a prince who is not the most conspicuous object of his own times: but the confessions of an enemy may be received as the safest evidence of his virtues. The resemblance of Justinian to the bust of Domitian, is maliciously urged; 71 with the acknowledgment, however, of a well-proportioned figure, a ruddy complexion, and a pleasing countenance. The emperor was easy of access, patient of hearing, courteous and affable in discourse, and a master of the angry passions which rage with such destructive violence in the breast of a despot. Procopius praises his temper, to reproach him with calm and deliberate cruelty: but in the conspiracies which attacked his authority and person, a more candid judge will approve the justice, or admire the clemency, of Justinian. He excelled in the private virtues of chastity and temperance: but the impartial love of beauty would have been less mischievous than his conjugal tenderness for Theodora; and his abstemious diet was regulated, not by the prudence of a philosopher, but the superstition of a monk. His repasts were short and frugal: on solemn fasts, he contented himself with water and vegetables; and such was his strength, as well as fervor, that he frequently passed two days, and as many nights, without tasting any food. The measure of his sleep was not less rigorous: after the repose of a single hour, the body was awakened by the soul, and, to the astonishment of his chamberlain, Justinian walked or studied till the morning light. Such restless application prolonged his time for the acquisition of knowledge 72 and the despatch of business; and he might seriously deserve the reproach of confounding, by minute and preposterous diligence, the general order of his administration. The emperor professed himself a musician and architect, a poet and philosopher, a lawyer and theologian; and if he failed in the enterprise of reconciling the Christian sects, the review of the Roman jurisprudence is a noble monument of his spirit and industry. In the government of the empire, he was less wise, or less successful: the age was unfortunate; the people was oppressed and discontented; Theodora abused her power; a succession of bad ministers disgraced his judgment; and Justinian was neither beloved in his life, nor regretted at his death. The love of fame was deeply implanted in his breast, but he condescended to the poor ambition of titles, honors, and contemporary praise; and while he labored to fix the admiration, he forfeited the esteem and affection, of the Romans. The design of the African and Italian wars was boldly conceived and executed; and his penetration discovered the talents of Belisarius in the camp, of Narses in the palace. But the name of the emperor is eclipsed by the names of his victorious generals; and Belisarius still lives, to upbraid the envy and ingratitude of his sovereign. The partial favor of mankind applauds the genius of a conqueror, who leads and directs his subjects in the exercise of arms. The characters of Philip the Second and of Justinian are distinguished by the cold ambition which delights in war, and declines the dangers of the field. Yet a colossal statue of bronze represented the emperor on horseback, preparing to march against the Persians in the habit and armor of Achilles. In the great square before the church of St. Sophia, this monument was raised on a brass column and a stone pedestal of seven steps; and the pillar of Theodosius, which weighed seven thousand four hundred pounds of silver, was removed from the same place by the avarice and vanity of Justinian. Future princes were more just or indulgent to his memory; the elder Andronicus, in the beginning of the fourteenth century, repaired and beautified his equestrian statue: since the fall of the empire it has been melted into cannon by the victorious Turks. 73
I shall conclude this chapter with the comets, the earthquakes, and the plague, which astonished or afflicted the age of Justinian. I. In the fifth year of his reign, and in the month of September, a comet 74 was seen during twenty days in the western quarter of the heavens, and which shot its rays into the north. Eight years afterwards, while the sun was in Capricorn, another comet appeared to follow in the Sagittary; the size was gradually increasing; the head was in the east, the tail in the west, and it remained visible above forty days. The nations, who gazed with astonishment, expected wars and calamities from their baleful influence; and these expectations were abundantly fulfilled. The astronomers dissembled their ignorance of the nature of these blazing stars, which they affected to represent as the floating meteors of the air; and few among them embraced the simple notion of Seneca and the Chaldeans, that they are only planets of a longer period and more eccentric motion. 75 Time and science have justified the conjectures and predictions of the Roman sage: the telescope has opened new worlds to the eyes of astronomers; 76 and, in the narrow space of history and fable, one and the same comet is already found to have revisited the earth in seven equal revolutions of five hundred and seventy-five years. The first, 77 which ascends beyond the Christian aera one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven years, is coeval with Ogyges, the father of Grecian antiquity. And this appearance explains the tradition which Varro has preserved, that under his reign the planet Venus changed her color, size, figure, and course; a prodigy without example either in past or succeeding ages. 78 The second visit, in the year eleven hundred and ninety-three, is darkly implied in the fable of Electra, the seventh of the Pleiads, who have been reduced to six since the time of the Trojan war. That nymph, the wife of Dardanus, was unable to support the ruin of her country: she abandoned the dances of her sister orbs, fled from the zodiac to the north pole, and obtained, from her dishevelled locks, the name of the comet. The third period expires in the year six hundred and eighteen, a date that exactly agrees with the tremendous comet of the Sibyl, and perhaps of Pliny, which arose in the West two generations before the reign of Cyrus. The fourth apparition, forty-four years before the birth of Christ, is of all others the most splendid and important. After the death of Caesar, a long-haired star was conspicuous to Rome and to the nations, during the games which were exhibited by young Octavian in honor of Venus and his uncle. The vulgar opinion, that it conveyed to heaven the divine soul of the dictator, was cherished and consecrated by the piety of a statesman; while his secret superstition referred the comet to the glory of his own times. 79 The fifth visit has been already ascribed to the fifth year of Justinian, which coincides with the five hundred and thirty-first of the Christian aera. And it may deserve notice, that in this, as in the preceding instance, the comet was followed, though at a longer interval, by a remarkable paleness of the sun. The sixth return, in the year eleven hundred and six, is recorded by the chronicles of Europe and China: and in the first fervor of the crusades, the Christians and the Mahometans might surmise, with equal reason, that it portended the destruction of the Infidels. The seventh phenomenon, of one thousand six hundred and eighty, was presented to the eyes of an enlightened age. 80 The philosophy of Bayle dispelled a prejudice which Milton's muse had so recently adorned, that the comet, "from its horrid hair shakes pestilence and war." 81 Its road in the heavens was observed with exquisite skill by Flamstead and Cassini: and the mathematical science of Bernoulli, Newton *_0044 and Halley, investigated the laws of its revolutions. At the eighth period, in the year two thousand three hundred and fifty-five, their calculations may perhaps be verified by the astronomers of some future capital in the Siberian or American wilderness.
II. The near approach of a comet may injure or destroy the globe which we inhabit; but the changes on its surface have been hitherto produced by the action of volcanoes and earthquakes. 82 The nature of the soil may indicate the countries most exposed to these formidable concussions, since they are caused by subterraneous fires, and such fires are kindled by the union and fermentation of iron and sulphur. But their times and effects appear to lie beyond the reach of human curiosity; and the philosopher will discreetly abstain from the prediction of earthquakes, till he has counted the drops of water that silently filtrate on the inflammable mineral, and measured the caverns which increase by resistance the explosion of the imprisoned air. Without assigning the cause, history will distinguish the periods in which these calamitous events have been rare or frequent, and will observe, that this fever of the earth raged with uncommon violence during the reign of Justinian. 83 Each year is marked by the repetition of earthquakes, of such duration, that Constantinople has been shaken above forty days; of such extent, that the shock has been communicated to the whole surface of the globe, or at least of the Roman empire. An impulsive or vibratory motion was felt: enormous chasms were opened, huge and heavy bodies were discharged into the air, the sea alternately advanced and retreated beyond its ordinary bounds, and a mountain was torn from Libanus, 84 and cast into the waves, where it protected, as a mole, the new harbor of Botrys 85 in Phoenicia. The stroke that agitates an ant-hill may crush the insect-myriads in the dust; yet truth must extort confession that man has industriously labored for his own destruction. The institution of great cities, which include a nation within the limits of a wall, almost realizes the wish of Caligula, that the Roman people had but one neck. Two hundred and fifty thousand persons are said to have perished in the earthquake of Antioch, whose domestic multitudes were swelled by the conflux of strangers to the festival of the Ascension. The loss of Berytus 86 was of smaller account, but of much greater value. That city, on the coast of Phoenicia, was illustrated by the study of the civil law, which opened the surest road to wealth and dignity: the schools of Berytus were filled with the rising spirits of the age, and many a youth was lost in the earthquake, who might have lived to be the scourge or the guardian of his country. In these disasters, the architect becomes the enemy of mankind. The hut of a savage, or the tent of an Arab, may be thrown down without injury to the inhabitant; and the Peruvians had reason to deride the folly of their Spanish conquerors, who with so much cost and labor erected their own sepulchres. The rich marbles of a patrician are dashed on his own head: a whole people is buried under the ruins of public and private edifices, and the conflagration is kindled and propagated by the innumerable fires which are necessary for the subsistence and manufactures of a great city. Instead of the mutual sympathy which might comfort and assist the distressed, they dreadfully experience the vices and passions which are released from the fear of punishment: the tottering houses are pillaged by intrepid avarice; revenge embraces the moment, and selects the victim; and the earth often swallows the assassin, or the ravisher, in the consummation of their crimes. Superstition involves the present danger with invisible terrors; and if the image of death may sometimes be subservient to the virtue or repentance of individuals, an affrighted people is more forcibly moved to expect the end of the world, or to deprecate with servile homage the wrath of an avenging Deity.
III. Aethiopia and Egypt have been stigmatized, in every age, as the original source and seminary of the plague. 87 In a damp, hot, stagnating air, this African fever is generated from the putrefaction of animal substances, and especially from the swarms of locusts, not less destructive to mankind in their death than in their lives. The fatal disease which depopulated the earth in the time of Justinian and his successors, 88 first appeared in the neighborhood of Pelusium, between the Serbonian bog and the eastern channel of the Nile. From thence, tracing as it were a double path, it spread to the East, over Syria, Persia, and the Indies, and penetrated to the West, along the coast of Africa, and over the continent of Europe. In the spring of the second year, Constantinople, during three or four months, was visited by the pestilence; and Procopius, who observed its progress and symptoms with the eyes of a physician, 89 has emulated the skill and diligence of Thucydides in the description of the plague of Athens. 90 The infection was sometimes announced by the visions of a distempered fancy, and the victim despaired as soon as he had heard the menace and felt the stroke of an invisible spectre. But the greater number, in their beds, in the streets, in their usual occupation, were surprised by a slight fever; so slight, indeed, that neither the pulse nor the color of the patient gave any signs of the approaching danger. The same, the next, or the succeeding day, it was declared by the swelling of the glands, particularly those of the groin, of the armpits, and under the ear; and when these buboes or tumors were opened, they were found to contain a coal, or black substance, of the size of a lentil. If they came to a just swelling and suppuration, the patient was saved by this kind and natural discharge of the morbid humor. But if they continued hard and dry, a mortification quickly ensued, and the fifth day was commonly the term of his life. The fever was often accompanied with lethargy or delirium; the bodies of the sick were covered with black pustules or carbuncles, the symptoms of immediate death; and in the constitutions too feeble to produce an irruption, the vomiting of blood was followed by a mortification of the bowels. To pregnant women the plague was generally mortal: yet one infant was drawn alive from his dead mother, and three mothers survived the loss of their infected foetus. Youth was the most perilous season; and the female sex was less susceptible than the male: but every rank and profession was attacked with indiscriminate rage, and many of those who escaped were deprived of the use of their speech, without being secure from a return of the disorder. 91 The physicians of Constantinople were zealous and skilful; but their art was baffled by the various symptoms and pertinacious vehemence of the disease: the same remedies were productive of contrary effects, and the event capriciously disappointed their prognostics of death or recovery. The order of funerals, and the right of sepulchres, were confounded: those who were left without friends or servants, lay unburied in the streets, or in their desolate houses; and a magistrate was authorized to collect the promiscuous heaps of dead bodies, to transport them by land or water, and to inter them in deep pits beyond the precincts of the city. Their own danger, and the prospect of public distress, awakened some remorse in the minds of the most vicious of mankind: the confidence of health again revived their passions and habits; but philosophy must disdain the observation of Procopius, that the lives of such men were guarded by the peculiar favor of fortune or Providence. He forgot, or perhaps he secretly recollected, that the plague had touched the person of Justinian himself; but the abstemious diet of the emperor may suggest, as in the case of Socrates, a more rational and honorable cause for his recovery. 92 During his sickness, the public consternation was expressed in the habits of the citizens; and their idleness and despondence occasioned a general scarcity in the capital of the East.
Contagion is the inseparable symptom of the plague; which, by mutual respiration, is transfused from the infected persons to the lungs and stomach of those who approach them. While philosophers believe and tremble, it is singular, that the existence of a real danger should have been denied by a people most prone to vain and imaginary terrors. 93 Yet the fellow-citizens of Procopius were satisfied, by some short and partial experience, that the infection could not be gained by the closest conversation: 94 and this persuasion might support the assiduity of friends or physicians in the care of the sick, whom inhuman prudence would have condemned to solitude and despair. But the fatal security, like the predestination of the Turks, must have aided the progress of the contagion; and those salutary precautions to which Europe is indebted for her safety, were unknown to the government of Justinian. No restraints were imposed on the free and frequent intercourse of the Roman provinces: from Persia to France, the nations were mingled and infected by wars and emigrations; and the pestilential odor which lurks for years in a bale of cotton was imported, by the abuse of trade, into the most distant regions. The mode of its propagation is explained by the remark of Procopius himself, that it always spread from the sea-coast to the inland country: the most sequestered islands and mountains were successively visited; the places which had escaped the fury of its first passage were alone exposed to the contagion of the ensuing year. The winds might diffuse that subtile venom; but unless the atmosphere be previously disposed for its reception, the plague would soon expire in the cold or temperate climates of the earth. Such was the universal corruption of the air, that the pestilence which burst forth in the fifteenth year of Justinian was not checked or alleviated by any difference of the seasons. In time, its first malignity was abated and dispersed; the disease alternately languished and revived; but it was not till the end of a calamitous period of fifty-two years, that mankind recovered their health, or the air resumed its pure and salubrious quality. No facts have been preserved to sustain an account, or even a conjecture, of the numbers that perished in this extraordinary mortality. I only find, that during three months, five, and at length ten, thousand persons died each day at Constantinople; that many cities of the East were left vacant, and that in several districts of Italy the harvest and the vintage withered on the ground. The triple scourge of war, pestilence, and famine, afflicted the subjects of Justinian; and his reign is disgraced by the visible decrease of the human species, which has never been repaired in some of the fairest countries of the globe. 95
65 They could scarcely be real Indians; and the Aethiopians, sometimes known by that name, were never used by the ancients as guards or followers: they were the trifling, though costly objects of female and royal luxury, (Terent. Eunuch. act. i. scene ii Sueton. in August. c. 83, with a good note of Casaubon, in Caligula, c. 57.)
66 The Sergius (Vandal. l. ii. c. 21, 22, Anecdot. c. 5) and Marcellus (Goth. l. iii. c. 32) are mentioned by Procopius. See Theophanes, p. 197, 201.
Note: Some words, "the acts of," or "the crimes cf," appear to have false from the text. The omission is in all the editions I have consulted. - M.
67 Alemannus, (p. quotes an old Byzantian Ms., which has been printed in the Imperium Orientale of Banduri.)
68 Of the disgrace and restoration of Belisarius, the genuine original record is preserved in the Fragment of John Malala (tom. ii. p. 234 - 243) and the exact Chronicle of Theophanes, (p. 194 - 204.) Cedrenus (Compend. p. 387, 388) and Zonaras (tom. ii. l. xiv. p. 69) seem to hesitate between the obsolete truth and the growing falsehood.
*_0043 Le Beau, following Allemannus, conceives that Belisarius was confounded with John of Cappadocia, who was thus reduced to beggary, (vol. ix. p. 58, 449.) Lord Mahon has, with considerable learning, and on the authority of a yet unquoted writer of the eleventh century, endeavored to reestablish the old tradition. I cannot acknowledge that I have been convinced, and am inclined to subscribe to the theory of Le Beau. - M.
69 The source of this idle fable may be derived from a miscellaneous work of the xiith century, the Chiliads of John Tzetzes, a monk, (Basil. 1546, ad calcem Lycophront. Colon. Allobrog. 1614, in Corp. Poet. Graec.) He relates the blindness and beggary of Belisarius in ten vulgar or political verses, (Chiliad iii. No. 88, 339 - 348, in Corp. Poet. Graec. tom. ii. p. 311.)
This moral or romantic tale was imported into Italy with the language and manuscripts of Greece; repeated before the end of the xvth century by Crinitus, Pontanus, and Volaterranus, attacked by Alciat, for the honor of the law; and defended by Baronius, (A.D. 561, No. 2, &c.,) for the honor of the church. Yet Tzetzes himself had read in other chronicles, that Belisarius did not lose his sight, and that he recovered his fame and fortunes. Note: I know not where Gibbon found Tzetzes to be a monk; I suppose he considered his bad verses a proof of his monachism. Compare to Gerbelius in Kiesling's edition of Tzetzes. - M.
70 The statue in the villa Borghese at Rome, in a sitting posture, with an open hand, which is vulgarly given to Belisarius, may be ascribed with more dignity to Augustus in the act of propitiating Nemesis, (Winckelman, Hist. de l'Art, tom. iii. p. 266.) Ex nocturno visu etiam stipem, quotannis, die certo, emendicabat a populo, cavana manum asses porrigentibus praebens, (Sueton. in August. c. 91, with an excellent note of Casaubon.) Note: Lord Mahon abandons the statue, as altogether irreconcilable with the state of the arts at this period, (p. 472.) - M.
71 The rubor of Domitian is stigmatized, quaintly enough, by the pen of Tacitus, (in Vit. Agricol. c. 45;) and has been likewise noticed by the younger Pliny, (Panegyr. c. 48,) and Suetonius, (in Domitian, c. 18, and Casaubon ad locum.) Procopius (Anecdot. c. 8) foolishly believes that only one bust of Domitian had reached the vith century.
72 The studies and science of Justinian are attested by the confession (Anecdot. c. 8, 13) still more than by the praises (Gothic. l. iii. c. 31, de Edific. l. i. Proem. c. 7) of Procopius. Consult the copious index of Alemannus, and read the life of Justinian by Ludewig, (p. 135 - 142.)
73 See in the C. P. Christiana of Ducange (l. i. c. 24, No. 1) a chain of original testimonies, from Procopius in the vith, to Gyllius in the xvith century.
74 The first comet is mentioned by John Malala (tom. ii. p. 190, 219) and Theophanes, (p. 154;) the second by Procopius, (Persic. l. ii. 4.) Yet I strongly suspect their identity. The paleness of the sun sum Vandal. l. ii. c. 14) is applied by Theophanes (p. 158) to a different year. Note: See Lydus de Ostentis, particularly c 15, in which the author begins to show the signification of comets according to the part of the heavens in which they appear, and what fortunes they prognosticate to the Roman empire and their Persian enemies. The chapter, however, is imperfect. (Edit. Neibuhr, p. 290.) - M.
75 Seneca's viith book of Natural Questions displays, in the theory of comets, a philosophic mind. Yet should we not too candidly confound a vague prediction, a venient tempus, &c., with the merit of real discoveries.
76 Astronomers may study Newton and Halley. I draw my humble science from the article Comete, in the French Encyclopedie, by M. d'Alembert.
77 Whiston, the honest, pious, visionary Whiston, had fancied for the aera of Noah's flood (2242 years before Christ) a prior apparition of the same comet which drowned the earth with its tail.
78 A Dissertation of Freret (Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom. x. p. 357-377) affords a happy union of philosophy and erudition. The phenomenon in the time of Ogyges was preserved by Varro, (Apud Augustin. de Civitate Dei, xxi. 8,) who quotes Castor, Dion of Naples, and Adastrus of Cyzicus - nobiles mathematici. The two subsequent periods are preserved by the Greek mythologists and the spurious books of Sibylline verses.
79 Pliny (Hist. Nat. ii. 23) has transcribed the original memorial of Augustus. Mairan, in his most ingenious letters to the P. Parennin, missionary in China, removes the games and the comet of September, from the year 44 to the year 43, before the Christian aera; but I am not totally subdued by the criticism of the astronomer, (Opuscules, p. 275 )
80 This last comet was visible in the month of December, 1680. Bayle, who began his Pensees sur la Comete in January, 1681, (Oeuvres, tom. iii.,) was forced to argue that a supernatural comet would have confirmed the ancients in their idolatry. Bernoulli (see his Eloge, in Fontenelle, tom. v. p. 99) was forced to allow that the tail though not the head, was a sign of the wrath of God.
81 Paradise Lost was published in the year 1667; and the famous lines (l. ii. 708, &c.) which startled the licenser, may allude to the recent comet of 1664, observed by Cassini at Rome in the presence of Queen Christina, (Fontenelle, in his Eloge, tom. v. p. 338.) Had Charles II. betrayed any symptoms of curiosity or fear?
*_0044 Compare Pingre, Histoire des Cometes. - M.
82 For the cause of earthquakes, see Buffon, (tom. i. p. 502 - 536 Supplement a l'Hist. Naturelle, tom. v. p. 382-390, edition in 4to., Valmont de Bomare, (Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Tremblemen de Terre, Pyrites,) Watson, (Chemical Essays, tom. i. p. 181 - 209.)
83 The earthquakes that shook the Roman world in the reign of Justinian are described or mentioned by Procopius, (Goth. l. iv. c. 25 Anecdot. c. 18,) Agathias, (l. ii. p. 52, 53, 54, l. v. p. 145-152,) John Malala, (Chron. tom. ii. p. 140-146, 176, 177, 183, 193, 220, 229, 231, 233, 234,) and Theophanes, (p. 151, 183, 189, 191-196.)
Note *: Compare Daubeny on Earthquakes, and Lyell's Geology, vol. ii. p. 161 et seq. - M
84 An abrupt height, a perpendicular cape, between Aradus and Botrys (Polyb. l. v. p. 411. Pompon. Mela, l. i. c. 12, p. 87, cum Isaac. Voss. Observat. Maundrell, Journey, p. 32, 33. Pocock's Description, vol. ii. p. 99.)
85 Botrys was founded (ann. ante Christ. 935 - 903) by Ithobal, king of Tyre, (Marsham, Canon. Chron. p. 387, 388.) Its poor representative, the village of Patrone, is now destitute of a harbor.
86 The university, splendor, and ruin of Berytus are celebrated by Heineccius (p. 351 - 356) as an essential part of the history of the Roman law. It was overthrown in the xxvth year of Justinian, A. D 551, July 9, (Theophanes, p. 192;) but Agathias (l. ii. p. 51, 52) suspends the earthquake till he has achieved the Italian war.
87 I have read with pleasure Mead's short, but elegant, treatise concerning Pestilential Disorders, the viiith edition, London, 1722.
88 The great plague which raged in 542 and the following years (Pagi, Critica, tom. ii. p. 518) must be traced in Procopius, (Persic. l. ii. c. 22, 23,) Agathias, (l. v. p. 153, 154,) Evagrius, (l. iv. c. 29,) Paul Diaconus, (l. ii. c. iv. p. 776, 777,) Gregory of Tours, (tom. ii. l. iv. c. 5, p 205,) who styles it Lues Inguinaria, and the Chronicles of Victor Tunnunensis, (p. 9, in Thesaur. Temporum,) of Marcellinus, (p. 54,) and of Theophanes, (p. 153.)
89 Dr. Friend (Hist. Medicin. in Opp. p. 416 - 420, Lond. 1733) is satisfied that Procopius must have studied physic, from his knowledge and use of the technical words. Yet many words that are now scientific were common and popular in the Greek idiom.
90 See Thucydides, l. ii. c. 47 - 54, p. 127 - 133, edit. Duker, and the poetical description of the same plague by Lucretius. (l. vi. 1136 - 1284.) I was indebted to Dr. Hunter for an elaborate commentary on this part of Thucydides, a quarto of 600 pages, (Venet. 1603, apud Juntas,) which was pronounced in St. Mark's Library by Fabius Paullinus Utinensis, a physician and philosopher.
91 Thucydides (c. 51) affirms, that the infection could only be once taken; but Evagrius, who had family experience of the plague, observes, that some persons, who had escaped the first, sunk under the second attack; and this repetition is confirmed by Fabius Paullinus, (p. 588.) I observe, that on this head physicians are divided; and the nature and operation of the disease may not always be similar.
92 It was thus that Socrates had been saved by his temperance, in the plague of Athens, (Aul. Gellius, Noct. Attic. ii. l.) Dr. Mead accounts for the peculiar salubrity of religious houses, by the two advantages of seclusion and abstinence, (p. 18, 19.)
93 Mead proves that the plague is contagious from Thucydides, Lacretius, Aristotle, Galen, and common experience, (p. 10 - 20;) and he refutes (Preface, p. 2 - 13) the contrary opinion of the French physicians who visited Marseilles in the year 1720. Yet these were the recent and enlightened spectators of a plague which, in a few months, swept away 50,000 inhabitants (sur le Peste de Marseille, Paris, 1786) of a city that, in the present hour of prosperity and trade contains no more then 90,000 souls, (Necker, sur les Finances, tom. i. p. 231.)
94 The strong assertions of Procopius are overthrown by the subsequent experience of Evagrius.
95 After some figures of rhetoric, the sands of the sea, &c., Procopius (Anecdot. c. 18) attempts a more definite account; that it had been exterminated under the reign of the Imperial demon. The expression is obscure in grammar and arithmetic and a literal interpretation would produce several millions of millions Alemannus (p. 80) and Cousin (tom. iii. p. 178) translate this passage, "two hundred millions:" but I am ignorant of their motives. The remaining myriad of myriads, would furnish one hundred millions, a number not wholly inadmissible.


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KIEV, Ukraine, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Ukrainian prosecutors say they're seeking seven years in prison for Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is on trial in Kiev for alleged abuse of power.
Tymoshenko is accused of abusing her office by signing a 2009 natural gas deal with Russia that cost the government $195 million in damages.
Prosecutors say Tymoshenko should also be required to pay restitution, RIA Novosti reported.
Her defense attorneys say they're confident she will be acquitted.
"Considering that we believe that Tymoshenko did not commit any crime, even if the prosecution had asked for a one-year suspended sentence, this would have been too much," defense attorney Oleksandr Plakhotniuk told Interfax-Ukraine after Tuesday's hearing. "We view the indictment itself and naturally the sentence that the prosecutors asked for as unlawful."
Radio Free Europe said the European Union and the United States have suggested the case against Tymoshenko be dropped.