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The Cannibal of Guadalajara
by David Winner
224 pages. Gival Press, 2010
Don't let the lurid title fool you; it's well-chosen, but not for the reasons you might think at first. David Winner's debut novel, The Cannibal of Guadalajara, has only a slight and quite oblique concern with the consumption of human flesh, and although the story eventually takes us to more exotic locales, much of the significant action takes place in and around New York City.
Mercifully, Cannibal is not a horror book but a charming, laugh-out-loud comedy in which increasingly absurd plot twists mount up in four tightly-structured parts (very much like the acts of a play) following the trajectories of three lonely New Yorkers: Margaret Heller, middle-aged and newly divorced; her unlikely lover, Dante Herrera, a young upper-class Mexican-American from Brooklyn; and her ex-husband, Alfred Heller, a public defender and aficionado of Latin American culture.
Winner has a gift for making the most absurd situations seem utterly plausible and even inevitable.
The novel opens with Margaret unhappily attending a singles mixer at a nightclub where everyone is much younger than she is. "Too young," she thinks, "to have any interest in her that was not mercenary." But within moments of this world-weary observation, she finds herself approached by a dark and handsome young man who promptly buys her a drink.
An awkward and slightly alarming conversation ensues but is leavened by the young man's extraordinary physical beauty. Margaret finds herself gazing into his "large almost Asian eyes" where "deep black pupils…swim in luminescent eyeballs, which verge on the leaking of inexplicable tears." She soon picks up on some unsettling quirks in her young companion (his impatient mannerisms suggest "a frustration bordering on fury") and winds up feeling more baffled than seduced. Observing that he seems "to have plenty of money," she wonders what he can possibly want from her, "a woman in her fifth decade."
Although Margaret is not the only point-of-view character in the book (we spend some time inside each of the three main characters), she is nonetheless the central one, the narrator with whom our main sympathies lie, and her self-possessed ironic observations serve to ground us in a comedy that will take us in many unexpected directions. Margaret is highly educated, cultured, and (though strangely passive) seems mostly capable of looking after herself. We are not surprised — not too much, anyway — when we learn that she is a successful businesswoman. But underneath all that competence and coolness burns a lonely and passionate nature: Margaret is capable of astonishing us, and perhaps herself as well. When the young man at the bar — whose name is Dante — abruptly asks Margaret to leave with him, she throws caution to the wind, and brings him back to her apartment.
Ignoring one's passions can lead to a sterile, unfulfilling life, but impulsiveness exacts a price of its own. Margaret discovers almost immediately that Dante harbors a pathology that could fill a psychiatry handbook. If the mild-mannered and introspective Margaret occupies the cerebral viewpoint of the book, it is the childish and tormented Dante who drives the engine of the plot. Dante lurches from mood to mood with little provocation, oscillating wildly between sulky passivity and uncontrolled rage. Like the proverbial bull in a china shop, he quickly makes a shambles of Margaret's quiet, orderly life, and Winner wrings out some of the most exquisite comedy in the book from his heroine's desperate attempts to regain control of her life and her dignity.
Dante is a cipher, a Caliban-like creature of pure id who seems driven almost entirely by primal urges. The underlying source of his torment, however, remains a mystery. Margaret believes she will discover the answer when Dante finally invites her (with great reluctance) to dine with his family in their Brooklyn home.
But here the mystery only deepens, for on arrival she finds herself surrounded by a host of wealthy, urbane Mexicans who welcome her with a gracious warmth that stands in puzzling contrast to Dante's decidedly antisocial tendencies. With her usual perceptiveness, however, Margaret detects an underlying desperation among the Herreras — especially during dinner as Dante works himself up towards another tantrum. (Mealtimes, Margaret has discovered, seem to be a particular locus for Dante's hair-trigger temper.) Although Margaret feels some anxiety about meeting Dante's mother — who is approximately Margaret's age, and enviably beautiful — it is Mrs. Herrera who seems eager to please, apparently grateful that her difficult son has found someone else to look after him.
In spite of the strong suggestion of ulterior motives, Margaret finds herself genuinely charmed by the Herreras. Her thoughts suddenly turn to her ex-husband, Alfred. With his deep love of foreign culture — especially Latin American culture — Alfred would have been delighted to dine with this exotic, sophisticated Mexican family. Indeed, it seems to Margaret that Alfred has long been searching for exactly such a family: the Herreras come awfully close to Alfred's romanticized ideal of a warm, colorful Latin household — with wonderful food and cosmopolitan conversation — in contrast to the bland sterility of his own mid-western background.
The introduction of Alfred sheds some light on a riddle that may have been puzzling the reader thus far: why on earth would a woman like Margaret tolerate a sulky, enraged man-child like Dante for more than half a minute? But it appears that Margaret has some prior history with passive-aggressive men.
Alfred first appears as the author of a series of long, pretentious, and increasingly disturbing email dispatches from South America. His divorce has apparently freed him, in middle age, to indulge his life-long obsession with Latin American culture and pursue youthful fantasies of the ex-pat-as-writer. Well, not quite an ex-pat. Alfred's lonely journey through Latin America takes place in the short window of a vacation from his job as a public defender, a fact that renders his pith-helmeted, mosquito-plagued correspondence all the more ludicrous.
Alfred's pompous, affected emails describing his "dark Latin wanderings" are one of the great pleasures of Cannibal, with passages that satirically echo Hemingway, Theroux, Chatwin, and other practitioners of the genre, and which are well-written enough — as in the best satire — to make the reader begin to uncomfortably reconsider the value of the source, i.e., the entire travel-writing canon. I am watching the rain pounding the beach as bloodied mosquitoes lie splayed against the fading yellow wallpaper, runs a typical passage. Pecking away at my battered laptop, I only sip at my bottle of cachaca at controlled intervals to avoid sinking into melancholy.
Alfred's melancholy, alas, is no mere travel-writing trope. Slogging through his florid descriptions of grimy hotels, impoverished streets, and desolate beaches, we quickly surmise that Alfred's correspondence is a thinly veiled attempt to win Margaret back (he frequently invokes past trips taken together during their long marriage) as well as evoke her pity. The letters churn with longing for Margaret but any romantic potential is undermined by Alfred's resentful digs (in the midst of the most seductive passages, he liberally scatters allusions to Margaret's age, weight, and general dullness as a human being). Furthermore — in convulsions of overblown prose that are in turns both hilarious and cringe-worthy — Alfred sees fit to relate highly detailed narratives of his drunken, admittedly pathetic attempts at local whoring and seduction, culminating in one of the most astonishing and uproarious scenes in the book.
But soon Alfred is on a dreary flight back to New York, set inexorably on a collision course with his ex-wife and her psycho lover, pushing the already zany plot into even higher gear. In the hands of a less agile writer, the story would thereafter be in great danger of degenerating into slapstick, but Winner has a gift for making the most absurd situations seem utterly plausible and even inevitable. This is because Winner takes his characters seriously. He may have saddled them with a host of outlandish appetites and defects, but he never gives in to that great temptation of comic writers: to play one's characters for mere laughs. Instead, Winner offers us fully fleshed-out, rounded human beings, who — like all of us — are not always in full control of their actions, but compelled to do what they do by mysterious forces within. The realistic treatment of his characters complements the often ridiculous circumstances of the comedy: when his characters behave absurdly, we understand why, and the unlikely situations into which they push themselves reveal surprising new aspects of who they really are, and new opportunities for growth and change.
All of this makes for more than just a hilarious page-turner. In a well-written book full of delightful surprises, perhaps the most delightful of all is that Cannibal is a genuine (if bizarre) love story — a strangely moving tale of three lonely, alienated people who hunger for companionship, love, and a sense of belonging, and who do their best to find these worthwhile things wherever they can. Winner's debut novel is that truly rare thing — a comedy with heart.


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hi is sunday a good choice for a day trip from prague,
at what time I will leave prague by bus 6:30 or 8:30
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hi bus or train
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can we get unblocked mifi so it we insert sim of country i can catch wifi?
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hi if i reach by bus from prague what station will bus stop &how to proceed for sightseeing using public transportation as hop on off is croweded as our colleague mention on his post
hi any advise will come from prague in the morning by bus to dresden &back at 7pm to prague
what i can see & how to proceed the start
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We will be in Dresden from Dec 4 to Dec 9 . Can anyone provide information on music venues (jazz or holiday music) during that time? Thanks
We will be in Dresden, Germany December 4 to 9 prior to leaving on a river cruise on the Elbe. Can anyone suggest places to stay for those five nights that is close to the main sites (we won't have a car) and easy to get to the boat dock?
We would prefer a "pension" , B&B or a small hotel. Any help/advice is welcome. Thanks
Hi There ...I will be in Dresden for a week or so. Where is interesting to visit?....from museums to parks to restaurant's/Bars. Any help appreciated :)
Hello everybody!
Im planning my Trip to Dresden, Germany for a few days now, being stucked at finding a good, not too cheap, Hotel to stay. I found one hotel now, which actually fits best to my needs:
Is there anyone who already visited this place? Or does anybody know, other locations, worthwile to stay, in Dresden?
I've been at this for over a month and I'm tired of it :) It's almost impossible to find a good place to rent in Dresden. I've had enough of the Immobilliens and Internet searches. I prefer to find a place through a real person. Not the internet or an immobilien. If anyone knows of a place to rent (70-90 sq. met.) near a park or forest that is available now please let me know :)
Once I find a place I'm ready to partner with a German Makler and go into the immobilien business for expats. The competition is ridiculous :)
Are there any outdoor fitness parks in Dresden, Hellerau region?
Hi, I intend to visit Dresden the last week of this month. I read that Dresden was affected by the recent flood. Is everything alright now ? I will probably stay in Cologne and visit Dresden for a day. Thanks in advance.
Hi all, iam interested in the area of Weißer Hirsch. Are there some nice places for shopping? I heard about an old and very nice shop Dresden Grünschnabel there with old tiles, very nostalgic anyone been there already? I found some pictures in the web but would be pleased if its worth to go there? Thanks!
I will be in Dresden for two days in early June and want to buy some small lace items. Can anyone recommend me a good place to buy, preferably in the Altstadt where we will be staying or easy walking distance across the river in the Innere Neustadt?
Have been looking at the Saxon Switzerland rock formations. We are traveling mid-December, so not looking at hiking. Are the S-Bahn routes from Dresden towards Bad Schandau mostly over ground as to offer scenic route across Saxon-Switzerland - or will I already get a look at this region if I'm taking the train from Dresden to Prague?
... planning to return for some hiking in the summer ...
We are planning a 3 hour stop over in Dresden between train trips. My first question is, are the lockers at the main Dresden Hbf. Secondly we would like to visit the Old Town, is it easy to get there from the train station. Any advise on making the most of our 3 hours in Dresden would be greatly appreciated.
Dear all,
Please help me with a tip: I want to go from Prague to Dresden by bus and back from Dresden to Prague by train (convenient hours). Cannot find on the Dresden city map where is the bus station. Can anyone tell me that? And also if the train station for Dresden is the main station, Hauptbanhof? I have a good map of the traffic system, I can find it if there is another one.
Thanks for your time,
Please can you help me If I take a normal ticket from Prague to Berlin can I use it next day to Dresden Hauptbahnof o I have to buy another one???
Where i have to go to wtch company of trains in Prague to take the tickets and in DResden
Thank you very much Its my first trip to German
Sorry about this rush but I´m trying to buy a train ticket to go from Dresden ( I want to see the center ) and Berlin , I´m staying in Park Inn Alexanderplatz but there are so many stations that I don´t know where to stop. I´m leaving from Prague , where do I have to stop both times? Thanks a lot.
Hi ! I shall be leaving Dresden for Bayerisch Eisenstein on the above date. Will there be fewer trains than usual this being a public holiday? and any idea if supermarkets or shops will be open ? appreciate any kind of help.
Also how do I get from dresden airport to dresden main train station? read somewhere it is by subway. Can i buy a group ticket and how long is the journey? many thanks
Hi fellow VTers,
Will be flying into Dresden. Never been there before.Have 21 days to spend in europe. thinking of definitely visiting prague. any other suggestions as to where i can go in the area where there are lots of lovely alpine scenery, pretty quaint villages all accessible by train. dont know if it is too much to think about denmark or switzerland.help! we intend to wind down for about a week before flyinng back home from Dresden again. Is there a village near Dresden where we can go for quieet walks amidst stunning scenery?:)
Whereabouts in dresden is the Russian Orthodox Church. I will be arriving by train at the Hauptbahnhof.
I've got about an hour maximum to spare in Dresden. I'm trying to work out what would be a nice, roughly circular, tram route. If we use the same road back and forth from the Old City to the station that's OK, but there's obviously a lot of options for something circular.
Tram 11 from Hauptbahnhof all the way to Albertplatz, then back again on a #3, might do the job (it doesnt have to take an hour, less would be good).
I guess the question might be better put "what's the best bridge to cross over on, and what's the best street that you really should do" and I can work it out from there.
If you could also point me in the direction of some info on how and where to buy tickets and what the cost is, and the quickest way to get tickets for 15 (there's a whole gang of us) that would be nice but I'm sure I'll work that out eventually.
I'd like to know if there is a "day" ticket for public transport in
Dresden and what means of transport it includes.
Btw, I bought a ticket from Dresden Hbf to Frankfurt, but I changed
my hotel and the new one is closer to the Altstadt Bahnhof. The train
stops at the Altstadt Bahnhof and then moves to the Hbf. Do you know if
there could be any problem if I took the train in the Altstadt Bahnhof?
Thanks in advance!
I've seen on some VTers pages that there is a "Dresden Card" for museums.
Is it really worth buying? Where can I get it? Will I enter museums for free
or will only have a discount? With an international student card is the Dresden Card still worth buying?
Thinking about a 1 day trip from Prague to Dresden via train on Dec 24.
Will the city stores, tour areas be closed on that day?
Are the trains unusually crowded on December 24?
Is this a scenic train route?
I don't want to waste time on a train to arrive in a city essentially closed for Christmas Eve.
Thanks in advance for any advice on this issue.
I plan to visit dresden from 22nd Dec to 25th Dec. Will it be very cold and windy? what are chances of snow and if flights will fly during this time. I am from Mumbai, India and we really are not used to any winter as such. Thanks for sending quick answers
Hello all,
my parents are going to Dresden from Karlovy Vary. Apart from sightseeing they would like to do some shopping. What i wanted to ask - if there are any shops with really big size clothes in Dresden?
Thank you in advance for the answers.
Leaving Prague and have 2 spare nights before meeting friends in St Goar (via Frankfurt). We're mature-aged train travellers and have looked at Regensburg, Nurnberg, Bamberg and Dresden which are all sound appealing. Wondering what experienced VTers would recommend. Thanks for any opinions! Kathy
I am a female and will stay alone in Dresden for 4 days for a conference.
In which part of the city should I take a hotel? I want to stay is an area with a restaurant and coffee shops that will be nice and safe for me alone at night. I'm trying to pick between the Hilton at the old city and The Westin in the new city, but other option is possible, that do you think?
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As Facebook's guiding ethos has always been it's better to ask absolution than authorisation, it's not shocking Facebook has had a few troubles with its app over the years. Whether it's trying to steal your contact list, or only begrudgingly implementing privacy features, generally if you download a Facebook app, you're possibly in for at least some annoyances.
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Davie Yards Releases Fourth Quarter, Year End 2008 Results
Davie Yards Inc. has released its financial and operating results for the twelve month period ended December 31, 2008.
Financial Highlights Fourth Quarter 2008:
Revenue for the fourth quarter ending December 31, 2008 was US $36.8 million and net profit was US $27.4 million. The results mainly comes from the reversal of the loss provision taken in 2007 and the residual provision taken in the second quarter of 2008 following contract price adjustments accepted by Davie's clients and a strengthening of the U.S. dollar during the quarter. Operations in the quarter were negatively influenced by a lack of materials and a need to preserve the rest of the Corporation's cash, leading to a closing of the operations and lay-off of the employees on December 12.
Financial Highlights 2008:
In the year ended December 31, 2008, Davie recorded operating revenues of US $88.2 million. This revenues growth in the twelve months of 2008 is essentially due to an increased level of building activities on the three first ships on contract. TThe first one is 52 completed, the second is 21% completed and the third is 10% completed. The gross profit for the year was recorded at US $10.3 million with a net loss of US $24.1 million.
Future Outlook:
"We started resuming operations in the beginning of March, and we currently have 832 employees at work. All employees are expected to be called back to work by the beginning of April. Planned productivity is expected to be reached at the end of June. We have five vessels on order with a total contract price of US $740.6 million and our order book takes us to first quarter of 2011. In order to finalize these ships we need all of the close to 1,100 employees we had in December and another 500 more", stated Steinar Kulen, CEO of Davie Yards Inc.
Mr. Kulen continued: "Due to the financial turmoil, the market outlook is characterized as 'wait and watch'. However, the fundamentals within the offshore oil and gas industry are still positive, and offshore activity is going into deeper and deeper water. WWe also see that net fields will be developed in the near future for which several vessels are not yet built and there are also promising Canadian domestic requirements for new vessels".
Going concern
To date, the Corporation has financed its operations mainly through share issuances, borrowing, and revenues from contracts. The Corporation has incurred significant operating losses and cash outflows from operations as reported in the two last quarter. Due to this, the Corporation began working on its financial restructuring plan during second half of 2008. As part of this plan, the Corporation reached agreements with its clients for price increases of US $95 million on their existing contracts and obtained US $10 million of loans from Investissement Quebec. At present the Corporation is finalizing an increase of the equity through a US $20 million private placement share issuance.
If the Corporation fails to complete the US $20 million private placement, its available cash and cash equivalents and committed sources of cash are not presently sufficient to fund expected cash requirements through the next 12 months. As a result, there could then be uncertainty as to whether the Corporation will have the ability to continue as a going concern.
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Apostleship of Prayer. Eucharistic Youth Movement. Apostleship of Prayer History: . The AP is born in Vals, in 1844, in times of a missionary expansion of the Church. The young Jesuits wanted to be missionaries now. Father Gautrelet, the day of the feast of Saint Francis Xavier:.
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Eucharistic Youth Movement
The AP is born in Vals, in 1844, in times of a missionary expansion of the Church
« We can be apostles through prayer, offering our lives, learning to do God's will in all things. »
God, our Father, I offer You my day.
I offer You my prayers, thoughts, words,
actions, joys, and sufferings
in union with Your Son Jesus' Heart,
Who continues to offer Himself in the Eucharist
for the salvation of the world.
May the Holy Spirit, Who guided Jesus,
be my guide and my strength today
so that I may witness to Your love.
With Mary, the mother of our Lord and of the Church,
I pray especially for this month's intentions
as proposed by the Holy Father.
Father Ramière
The Pope's intentions
Where are we ?
In 90 countries, with over 40
million members.
The most numerous local APs :
Brazil, Philippines, Italy, Angola,
Portugal, a few other countries…
The MOVEMENT model:
In the first model, in many places we live a situation of crisis:
Members are growing old,
there is no renewal
of the people,
nor the practices,
the numbers are going down.
We live in a world in crisis, and in a Church in crisis… But let's not forget that the word « crisis » can mean danger and opportunity.
Not only a devotion, rather a SPIRITUALITY,rooted in the Daily Offering, the Eucharist and our Baptism, with devotional aspects, always optional, such as the First Fridays, Holy Hour, Consecration to the Heart of Jesus, etc.
The Apostleship of Prayer:
A spirituality that offers a way to Sanctity for the Christian of the Third Millennium.
Daily life is valued and all we do can become prayer.
AP helps us seek and find God in all things.
We find here the basic spirituality of the Church:
Jesus and his Heart
The Eucharist
Church sense
Ecclesial and at the same time very Ignatian:
We live an inner struggle in a world that challenges our faith. We wish to live for God and to find him in all things.
and unity to our lives,
and it all makes
new sense!
The Eucharistic Youth Movement
Our youth branch, the old Eucharistic Crusade
(Mouvement Eucharistique des Jeunes - MEJ)
In 42 countries
Most numerous in Madagascar, Burundi, France, Egypt, Italy, Angola, Chile.


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Underneath those moves and that contagious smile, there is a sad story. Instagrammer that goes by wsgingerface tells Gay Star News his story and what makes him dance. Find wsgingerface aka Gerrard on Instagram and take in all of his hunkiness!
Gerrard heralds from Australia but has been living in London for the past year. He works shifts as a security guard but also does some modeling, acting and dancing (regulars at XXL in Southwark may have seen him shaking his rump on a podium).
He's currently posting a series of videos of his top 13 choreography routines from music videos.
He tells GSN that threw himself into dancing when he hit a particular low-point in his life. He moved back to his hometown of Brisbane in 2011 after a spell as a singer and dancer on cruise ships.
'I moved back to be around my mum who had been battling Lymphoma since 2004 and didn't have much longer to live.
'It was a hard time, not just to deal with losing my amazing and talented mum but to move back to a town that I left as soon as I finished high school for the big city, Sydney.
'On top of this I had to leave my boyfriend of two and half years to move back as we were working on a Partner Visa to get him back into Australia after we both decided to do the contract on the ship together.
'The visa fell through and my mum passed away in November 2011. Through this hard time I stayed with my best friend from high school, Simone. She became my rock. She also had this kick-ass game on her Xbox called Dance Central, which allowed you to work on dance routines up to a professional level.
'As I couldn't afford classes I regularly played this game. I moved back to Sydney not long after my mum died but I couldn't afford to buy my own Xbox. So I went without dance.
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hey everyone, I took this post down the other day because I offended some people with the way I chose to bring awareness to not being fearful, going about business as you normally would and just being happy to be openly gay as well as celebrating a fellow gay person; by selecting the best photo out of the amazing submissions I got from my "letting it hang" post. anyone who knows me knows I have a heart of gold and did not mean to make it seem like I was using a tragedy for my benefit. the comments I got cut deep as I know the struggle of losing people close to me and I would NEVER intentionally hurt any of you going through that type of pain. please take this as my deepest apology and try to enjoy this video for what it is. just a quirky guy trying to battle his own demons and allowing ig to be my outlet. number 11 of my top chory of all time "Everybody" The Backstreet Boys, directed by Joseph Kahn and choreographed by Fatima; it was filmed in the location where "casper" the movie was filmed. the band put their own money toward it as the label didn't support the idea. in my video I feature @daviduser0 who submitted the best natural looking man pic. I hope you enjoy it and please #morelovelesshate
continuing on with #12 of my top 13 chory in music videos of all time. this video is pretty special because this shuffle was derived from the "Melbourne shuffle" ozzie ozzie ozzie!! choreographed by Quest Crew who feature in the video #partyrockanthem #lmfao (funny fact, I was in a commercial for big bro 🇦🇺 there's a funny moment of me dressed as a cowboy doing this chory in slow motion. the commercial played so often during the Olympics, loved it) 🐻💪🎆
along with doing my top 13 chory for music videos, I also should include the choreographer Darrin Dewitt Henson (silly ginger). he lives in Bronx NYC, his chory was also used in music videos for Britney, Backstreet Boys, Nsync and even New Kids On The Block. he also starred in Stomp the yard…. bit of trivia for ya!!
I know a few lovely people have sent through requests for songs I should do. while I fully appreciate your messages, I'm sorry I'm going to be totally rude and do my own thang (sorry bout it) 😂 😂 😂 let this music video chory @jlo aka Jenny from the block "love don't cost a thing" be the FIRST of my top 13 best music video chory of all time 💃🐻#13


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Becoming a teacher is very hard. It takes a lot of education and knowledge before an aspiring person is able to instruct others. Becoming a good teacher is even harder as it requires even more education and knowledge as well as experience and properly developed teaching habits. While teaching one subject may be easier than teaching another subject, the truth is that some teachers have it harder than others do. A good example of this would be private music teachers. Private music teachers face a few difficulties that some other teachers don't. Becoming a successful music instructor is difficult as it demands a lot more than just education and knowledge. First of all, music teachers need to be good musicians. This takes a lot of work, probably much more than the average school teacher has to go through. However, it doesn't matter how good musicians are or how much they know, it will never guarantee that they will be able to successfully instruct developing students. Teaching music requires more than just advanced knowledge and skill. [Thesis] A successful music teacher needs the ability to interpersonally connect with his/her students and to quickly adapt to a different teaching method that specifically targets every individual person.
Before talking about the qualifying traits of a successful music teacher, we should examine the field of music education. Three years ago I began teaching piano to several students and I quickly found out that music teachers face a lot of hardships. One of the first difficulties I faced was the wide variety of ages that I found myself instructing. Professors in a college or university or teachers at a local high school usually have a general age group that they instruct: a group of high school graduates or a group of freshmen…etc. According to Robert Crosnoe, a professor of human sociology, having a general age group allows a teacher to orientate himself or herself around the class and eventually speak very effectively with them over a given period of time. However, music teachers can have students that range from 5 years to 60 years old. A local piano teacher that I am well acquainted with, Boris Karpuk, says that he teaches several students whose ages range from 6 years old to almost 60 and he has to teach them all in the same day. This almost forced him to develop a unique skill in teaching different ages. He must be able to quickly transition from teaching one age group to teaching another. Transitioning from teaching an elementary school student to teaching a high school student and then quickly transitioning yet again to teach someone else is not an easy thing to do. One of the problems is that the material instructed is the same, yet music teachers must instruct each student in a different way according to the student's age. Being able to quickly change from teaching an older student to a younger student, who may both be playing at the same level, is an essential skill required of most private music instructors (Karpuk).
The next problem that confronts private music teachers is character and personalities. No one student is the same and there are few exceptions anywhere, whether in high schools, colleges, and universities. Despite the differentiation of students, in a class environment a teacher will not have to deal directly with all these differences in personalities. Most of the time the issue is dealt with indirectly as the students themselves learn to work with their instructor and adapt a way of being successful in the class (Crosnoe). Music teachers, as I have personally found out, have to deal with these issues directly head on. It seems that tutoring someone one on one leads to a very direct confrontation of personalities. Most of the time music teachers are the ones that need to adapt to their student's character and their specific learning style. The ability of a teacher to get a basic understanding of the student's personality and to adapt to it is an essential element in all subjects of teaching and not only music.
One thing about private music teachers in general is that more pressure is applied to them, than to the average teacher in a classroom environment. If a music teacher is not proving himself/herself proficient in educating the student, parents may grow unsatisfied and may decide to find another teacher or perhaps the student might just decide to leave on his or her own. Music teachers can lose students very quickly which means that they lose their jobs quickly also. In high school this sort of arrangement doesn't work often as both parents and students frequently don't even have a choice in what teacher is available. They need to go to a certain class with a certain teacher whether they like it or not and there is almost nothing that they can do about it. Music teachers, on the other hand, can be easily replaced and dropped and there is definitely a good job competition out there for private music instruction. Therefore, the pressure a private music teacher faces is in a small way different from the pressures classroom teachers are subject to.
There is also another added pressure that many music teachers face in a larger degree than most other teachers do: parents. Very often parents are present during the music lessons of their children. Some music teachers insist on their presence while others insist against, but more often than not, parents will not be far away. Considering that parents are the ones who pay for most of the music lessons makes them in a small way my boss. Having a boss hang around during a music lesson does affect the way I instruct my students. For example, while I may sometimes sit back in an available chair and just orally guide the student along as they struggle through my lesson, in the presence of a parent I might stand next to the student and use and more hands on approach, showing them exactly what they need to do. I would feel uncomfortable sitting there while a parent is observing my lesson. It is not very common for a high school teacher to have to lecture the class in the presence of the principal. Of course, every once in a while an evaluation committee does come to watch the instructor in action, and it does put a certain amount of stress on the teacher. However, many music teachers are subject to indirect evaluation at every lesson by the watchful eyes of the parents. It is just another thing that unfortunate music educators have to deal with.
Combining the expectations of parents and the expectations of the student, private music instructors are forced to balance between producing a pleasing/fun environment and an educating/progressive one. How much homework should be given and how quickly progress should be made are all questions that private teachers must answer individually for every student that they instruct. If a teacher is too strict the student may grow very apprehensive toward music lessons and things will end up badly. If a teacher is too nice parents may grow dissatisfied that their child is making little or no progress. According to John Aschenbrenner, author of an online piano resource, finding the "comfort zone" where the student is both happy and receiving a proper education is a goal for all music teachers (Aschenbrenner). The correct way of balancing the learning environment is just another added pressure and hurdle that a private music instructor must overcome (Aschenbrenner).
A common problem that private music teachers face is the difficulty of motivating their students. They are already directly responsible in motivating their students to learn and play the desired instrument since they are the primary instructor. Most instructors hold the ability to either facilitate a positive or negative appreciation in their students. If a teacher fails to motivate his or her students, then things usually end up badly or the student teacher relationship is terminated. Most parents, in a way, almost expect that the music instructor would motivate their child to want to learn and play on their musical instrument. The only problem is that motivating someone is not very easy to do, especially when students are so radically different from each other. One type of motivation may works well with one student but not work with another student and the music instructors are stuck trying to figure out a way in which they could inspire their students. Sometimes it is even impossible to motivate a student at all since past experiences have already formulated the child's reaction to their instrument and music lesson. For example, what can a music teacher do with any student who doesn't want to learn? I once had a student whose former teacher was very strict to a point where lessons were dreaded and tears were shed. When I began working with them, what could I possible to do help them regain their like for music when they were just dead set against it. I am sure there is a way to do it, but for someone like me, who is only a beginning teacher, it is something I will have to struggle to find out.
I have a few students who had teachers before they switched to me. There are several problems that come with that sort of switch. First of all, some of the students have already begun to hate music lessons. It seems that their former teachers had accidentally instilled in them a rebellious attitude against learning and they just don't want to play anymore. Yet parents still force them to attend lessons. It is very difficult to work with such children as I find myself having to also force them to do anything at all. I am obligated to struggle to find a way to instruct them while at the same time trying to motivate them when they are completely against learning. One student in particular, a young girl that I am teaching violin, has developed a way to get out of music lessons in an indirect way. She will talk to me about her day at school and the things that happened that day or that week in an effort to postpone the lesson as long as possible. When I finally get her to play something for me, it takes her a whole minute just to put the violin to her shoulder. Normally it should take only about one second.
Another problem that I incur when receiving new students from other teachers is the different modes of instruction. A student gets used to his or her former teacher and has expectations that I will teach them the same way. When they find out that I use a completely different method in my instruction, they also become a little apprehensive and rebellious, and I am forced to try and solve that problem before I am also dropped. Every teacher has his/her own approach and methods of instruction. That is why I need to be very careful with new students because they may dislike me only because I am different from their former teachers. One student that I had, a piano student, had a former teacher that wrote down the letter names for all the notes. The student had gotten used to this. When he switched over to me and found out that I did not write down the letter names but instead forced him to do it instead, he started to complain.
In both my research and my personal experience I have found that there are two traits that a good music teacher has. According to Eve Harwood, an associate professor of music education, the first trait of a successful music teacher is sensitivity and the second one is adaptability. Teaching a student one on one is different from teaching an entire classroom full of students. As a private instructor a person has to be very sensitive to the child or student that he/she is teaching. Teachers need to listen very carefully. They need to read the body language and facial expressions. According to D. W. John Andrews, a published author on educational books, teachers need to understand the troubles and difficulties that their students has and work hard to see which methods work and which ones don't work. I will use an example of my own music teacher, Sergey Leschuk, a private voice and piano instructor. He went as far as to use reverse psychology on me since he was able to identify a good way to motivate and inspire me. I was the type of student that was always up for a good challenge. I always went for the hardest pieces to play, even if he didn't really want me to play them. Well, he decided to use that against me and would often discourage me and bring in easy pieces. I would always complain to him. It ended with me learning both the easy pieces and the hard ones that I wanted to tackle, learning more than he asked of me. At that time I had no idea what he was doing, but now I will admit that it was successful, if that really was his original intent.
Communication between a student and a teacher is different when it is one on one tutoring. Whitney McGowan, an author from the scholarly journal Innovative Higher Education writes that often times, if a music teacher is unaware of the situation, students won't really understand what it is that they are doing, but still be able to fool the teacher. For example, I once had a student that had very good memory. They would watch me play a musical phrase just one time and they would be able to play it back. It is a wonderful ability, but the problem is that I was teaching them to read music. What they were doing was not reading but replaying what they heard. I would sometimes think that they were actually reading the music, when in fact they were only mimicking what they heard. I found out that the poor student has been learning violin for three years and has never learned to read. Talk about not understanding notes. Some students are tricky enough that they will learn to play a piece without even being able to read from some sheet music. This is comparable to a student being unable to read words in a book, but still fool the teacher because they memorized what was written there just by listening. The sad thing is that some instructors won't even catch it until it hits them directly in the face.
That is why proper communication is required. J. Emil Haller, an accomplished educational author, talks about this specifically. A teacher should continuously ask questions that his/her student needs to answer as a way of evaluating whether or not the student has understood the instruction and if they know exactly what they are doing. Also, when a student asks a question from the instructor, the instructor needs not only tell the answer, but should also find out where the question came from and why it was asked. They should look into answering questions beyond what the students ask of them. If the student keeps asking the letter names of a piece of music, then I should conclude that the student needs more practice learning letter names. If a student keeps asking how much time until the lesson ends, then I should at least be able to make a small insight into that. What does my student want and what does he mean to tell me with his question. Is he/she asking how much time left until they are finally finished with the torturous music lesson, or "Why does the lesson go by so fast?"
Sometimes a student can be very tricky and difficult to understand. Some students are shy and withdrawn and are not open to easy interpretation. Even some of the things they say may not have direct literal meaning. Susanne K. Langer, a former tutor from Harvard University writes, "When we are faced with a strange or difficult situation…our whole reaction depends on how we manage to conceive the situation" (56). Teachers will always face difficult situations, yet they need to read between the lines. They need to try to understand their students at a deeper level. They need to try to understand the complete situations, look at body language, facial expressions, look at everything and try not to miss important information that might allow them to see into the mindset of their students. Which instruction works with them? What are they happy with and what are they against? These are questions that instructors need to constantly ask themselves. Charles Kadushin, a former sociology professor from Columbia University explains that even body language can sometimes be misleading, and therefore it will take extra effort from the teacher to learn what the students feel and their inner characters. Failure as a teacher comes when the instructor is unable to understand the basic behavioral pattern of their student.
Once teachers are able to establish a good communication system with their student, things begin to go well. By good communication I mean both sides are heavily involved in interaction with each other. The teacher understands the student and the student connects with their instructor. Of course, it all begins with the instructors themselves. If an instructor is sensitive to their students and able to connect interpersonally with them and if the instructor is able to change his/her way of instruction to adapt to different students, then starts the success of a music education. The instructor is able to reach out and pull out the maximum potential of the student in the shortest amount of time and the student is able to pull out the maximum from the teacher.
Works Cited
Andrews, D. W. John. "Growth of a Teacher." The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Mar. – Apr., 1978), pp. 136-150. Print.
Aschenbrenner, John. "Teach your child piano – free online course" American school of piano teaching. Jan 2009. http://www.americanpianoschool.com. Web.
Crosnoe, Robert, Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, and Glen H. Elder, Jr. "Intergenerational Bonding in School: The Behavioral and Contextual Correlates of Student-Teacher Relationships." Sociology of Education, Vol. 77, No. 1 (Jan., 2004), pp. 60-81. Print.
Haller, J. Emil. "Pupil Influence in Teacher Socialization: A Socio-Linguistic Study." Sociology of Education, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Autumn, 1967), pp. 316-333. Print.
Harwood, Eve. "Musician and Teacher An Orientation to Music Education." British Journal of Music Education; Nov2009, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p337-339, 3p. Academic Search Premier. Web.
Kadushin, Charles. "The Professional Self-Concept of Music Students." The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 75, No. 3 (Nov., 1969), pp. 389-404. Print.
Karpuk, Boris. Private piano instructor. Personal Interview.
Langer, Susanne K., "Language and Thought" Language Awareness Eds. Paul Escholtz, Alfred Rosa and Virginia Clark. 9th edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2004. 53-58. Print.
Leschuk, Sergey. Private vocal and piano teacher. Personal Interview.
McGowan, Whitney, and Charles Graham. Innovative Higher Education; 2009, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p161-171, 11p. Academic Search Premier. Web.


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Thanks to Caroline Skelton at the North Shore News for the nice profile piece! It runs under the slow-news-day headline: Rules of The Man Game hard to pin down. I'll copy-paste the piece and put it under the perforated fold line because I have no idea how long things stay on the weird canada.com website system…
Dateline: Friday » August 29 » 2008
Rules of The Man Game hard to pin down
Caroline Skelton
Special To North Shore News
Friday, August 29, 2008
by Lee Henderson
(Viking Canada, August).
It took nine years for Lee Henderson to translate the teeming frontier world in his head into a book.
A long stint for 500 pages, perhaps, but not surprising considering the rough landscape of early Vancouver that comes to life in The Man Game: a world inhabited by more than 30 characters — loggers, prostitutes, opium addicts, bakers and Vaudeville actresses — and fixated with a complex sport brewed in the depths of Henderson's imagination.
In the tradition of his enigmatic collection of short stories, The Broken Record Technique, Henderson's muscular first novel is a book so different from its shelfmates, even its author acknowledges it to be "very strange."
The story begins in Vancouver circa 1886, when a young couple arrives on the day a monumental fire guts the city. In the still-smoldering ruins, the irrepressible Molly, a veteran of European music halls, catches hold of the town's feral masculinity and harnesses it into a competition — the man game — that soon changes the course of the city's history.
Meanwhile, in a parallel plotline taking place in today's East Vancouver, a young man and the woman he loves are discovering that Molly Erwagen's game of swarthiness and style is far from over.
In the course of those nine years of writing, Henderson acknowledges there were some bad times. Like the time, four years in, when he threw out nearly everything he'd written.
"In 2003, by that point I'd written about 250 pages, and I realized that this story was just beginning, and at 250 pages I'd just kind of reached what should have probably happened in the first 30 pages," he says. "I kind of lay in bed thinking I was either going to puke up a lung or, you know, jump out a window."
Thankfully, he did neither. Rather, he deleted almost all of it and started again. (After that, he notes, things went much better.)
Henderson says he chose the complex plot as a challenge, hoping to break from contemporary writing with a story that engaged with Vancouver's history. Real details of the city's wild past shows up in the story — from the Great Vancouver Fire that all but leveled the city in June 1886, to John Clough, a one-armed drunk who, legend has it, spent so much time in jail they made him warden ("I like that kind of anarchistic decision-making they were doing back then," says Henderson).
But The Man Game isn't so much historical fiction as it is a contemporary story with a historical setting.
"Historical novels . . . they all want to relate to the contemporary world, but it's sometimes very difficult when the author is trying to create an image of the past that is totally committed," says Henderson.
His is more a marriage of history and speculation; frontier Vancouver is a diving board, "and the rest of it's just a big pool of my own making and my own imagination."
Though much has changed in 120 years, the Vancouver of Henderson's imagination has much in common with the city today — and not just in wild and wooly charm. At the time, race riots gave expression to a rising fear of the Asian labourers arriving en mass to work on railways and in mills. These days, says Henderson, there is still something of a xenophobic nervousness, particularly as the world turns to watch the Beijing Olympics.
And while loggers are no longer cutting down stands on Georgia Street, the impetus to expand and develop is still alive and well in pre-Olympic Vancouver.
Still here, too, is the desire to pummel one's fellow man — a desire that's central to The Man Game. Throughout the novel, the exact purpose or rules of the game itself remain hard to pin down, the whole competition more evocative than literal.
"That's maybe the thing I liked most about it, why I kept writing the book, was because I had all these different ideas of what the game was, but I still don't really know what it is," says Henderson.
Still, there's lots of fodder for the imagination, including Henderson's own sketches of the game's winning "moves," inspired by the likes of wrestling, ballroom dancing, break dancing, acrobatics and boxing. Most are probably physically impossible, he says, "even if people ever wanted to try (them) . . . I don't think they really will."
Then there's the style of writing in the book itself, which echoes the raw, dangerous game, in which two naked men crush one another gracefully in the middle of a street.
"I was looking for not necessarily the best sentence always — but sometimes the sentence that kind of feels like you just got an elbow in the teeth, or the kind of sentence that feels like you just were thrown head over heels. Or sometimes one that felt like an embrace or a seduction," says Henderson. "It needed to be really flexible, and absurd as well."
Not an easy way to write, and not entirely conscious either, he says. "If I had had the choice to write that way, I don't know if I would — it's intimidating to be so particular about sentences."
These days, Henderson is still writing articles for visual arts magazines and the odd short story, but is in no great rush to start another novel. After nine years spent on the last one, he says, "I'm pretty patient."
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I was taking down my Easter door wreath to put up my patriotic wreath, when I happened to look down to notice that my little wren had made her nest and laid six eggs in the lower curve of the wreath AGAIN this year, soooo my front door still has an Easter wreath on the exterior and the patriotic wreath is currently on the inside of the door. The tiny bird (or one of her offspring) comes ever year and nests in the same place, but I had overlooked her activities this year although I was constantly picking up moss and debris from my threshold. I should have remembered that she likes that wreath. Whenever I attempt to peer into her inner sanctum, she flies out, so I can keep tabs on the progress of the eggs. She doesn't seem to be deterred in spite of my intrusions and the opening and closing of the door. When they hatch, they are quiet as little mice, never peeping or cheeping, even when she comes in to feed them. Then suddenly one day they are gone and the nest is abandoned until next spring. I give it a good bug spraying and replace it with the patriotic wreath. And so it goes…
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SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands flock to 'The Rock' during the day, but the most popular Alcatraz tour takes place at night. For 2 1/2 hours you will embark on a boat tour around the island followed by a personally guided tour of life behind bars. The night tour also offers programs and presentations not available during the day. If your feeling a little spooked out by the end of it all, enjoy some fantastic views as the sun sets on the bay.
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I swooped in like the bald headed eagle I am on another two sales shirts: the lilac striped Sea Island one and another lilac checked one. I'll have no problems with these as part of my business and day-to-day shirt rotations.
The art of the getting a classic T&A at sales prices, is to go for the more conservative and fine checks and stripes. Then you are on a winner and have avoided whimsy and teh vagaries of fashion.
I like a lot of Turnbull's shirt designs whether they're conservative or bold.
Oh, I have many of the bolder and more daring ones too, no problem there. But you need to space their use a bit more than you would a more conservative shirt, or do you? I am pretty much in T&A all the time now and I do notice I am down to a core team of about 20 shirts I favour and then interject with the more dandyish depending on mood.
A good point, Hepcat.
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^It's funny how a theme develops, a certain style, a way of doing things....reassuring to the onlooker that this person has their proverbial together.
I do like subtle differences, my wife goes crazy, but not everyone can notice the difference, the nuance and change that is a totally different vibe to the initiated.
My latest T&A shirts arrived today, yes, similar to that which has gone before, but a development and journey into getting there.
A way of being in middle age.
And the sales shirts with the triangle patterns? Please!
The triangle ones that creat a 3-D impression? Yes, they are going to date as a vulgar fashion item for sure.
And many items at T&A look like cheap tat from a souvenier shop, especially anything London-themed.
The London themed stuff looks decidedly for the tourists, or would city boys wear it? Those ties with the tiger jumping Tower Bridge, or that self proclaimed "Storm in a teacup tie".
"ha ha ha" "snigger" oh how very ironic
http://turnbullandasser.co.uk/sale-uk/s … -size/16.5
So, there are in my size. Yes, all quite unusual checks. But I am missing the "typical" T&A eccentric patterns. PoW with bold over-check/stripe. These ones here just look like any "modern" random shirts from a "designer brand".
T&A also seem to have dropped their online customizing offer? H&H still have it,
That's because it is the end of the sale, what you are looking at are the great unloved.
No Heppy that is more or less what it was (in my size) when it started
That's my size too and there was 41 shirts in that size at the beginning of the sales. Just saying.
Maybe all the nice "casual" shirts with the oh so funny contrast buttonhole stichting are gone
Got some great looking knitwear. Would love to be able to try some things on and get some stuff.
I am counting down the months and getting ready for when the knitwear hits aussie shelves again, got some nice ambitions this year.
Aye, there's some seriously splendid and expensive knitwear going on there, Shooey.
At the other end of the price scale, relatively, I've just purchased one of these for when the weather picks-up:
http://www.brooksbrothers.com/Supima%C2 … ;cgid=0224
Wools are fine here from November through to the start of March, but they get too hot once the temperature starts picking-up.
Got a really nice Turnbull & Asser bengal stripe shirt today. It's got that classic T&A collar. I've never owned the brand before but l will say it is a total hoot. It's a real power shirt that makes a strong statement, so no wonder the rulers of the world love wearing them. Also got a beautiful bengal stripe Isaia, real typical Italian sartorial elegance as opposed to the hardcore power shirt from T&A.
Which colour, Shoey?


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Soon to be graduates and their family are pressed for time, scurrying to address every detail of this exciting occasion. One of the biggest tasks they must consider is who to invite to the actual graduation ceremony, and who receives an announcement. The confusion often begins here. How can the recipient tell the difference? Similar in appearance, but the distinct qualities deserve our attention.
The graduation announcement
This is by far the most common card sent to the majority of family and friends. An announcement proclaims the student is graduating from high school or college. It often includes a photo of the graduate, their school emblem, a quote, and maybe a personal note. There will not be any details about the ceremony or reception because it's not an invitation to attend.
An appropriate response to the announcement
First of all, don't be disheartened if you're not invited to the graduation. The graduate and their family are already feeling uncomfortable that they couldn't welcome more of their loved ones to the event. Most of the time, ceremony seating is limited and tickets are purchased well in advance for attendees. Understand that this can be a stressful time for the family who must cut the guest list down to only a few. Instead of expressing your disappointment or desire to attend, share with the graduate your genuine excitement that they've reached this major life milestone.
Graduation gift etiquette
Give what you feel most comfortable giving. Depending on your relationship to the graduate, their family, and your financial situation, determine what is most appropriate to offer as a token of congratulations. Don't forget to include a heartfelt card acknowledging their accomplishments.
The graduation invitation
The invitation is a request to be present at the graduation ceremony and/or the reception. Expect to see more detail on this card, including clear verification that you are invited such as, "please join us," time, and address. RSVP as soon as possible.
An appropriate response to the invitation
The most anticipated response is a prompt "Yes" to the RSVP. If you're unable to attend, send your regrets as quickly as possible. When provided enough notice, the family can give your ticket to another family member or close friend. Order your gift online, carry one to the reception, or mail a check or gift card to the graduate.
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Whether your pain is caused by arthritis, menstrual cramps, or backache, there is an over-the-counter (OTC) pain medication for what ails you. Most OTC painkillers fall into one of two classes: acetaminophen or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Each type of pain medication has its own risks and benefits, although most have been used successfully for years and are well tolerated by most people.

Some of these OTC pain medications can be formulated with other ingredients to offer additional benefits. For example, acetaminophen is available combined with diphenhydramine (to aid sleep) and is sold as Tylenol PM; Alka-Seltzer is a combination of aspirin and sodium bicarbonate, which neutralizes stomach acids.

Because the variety of painkillers in the drugstore is enough to give anyone a headache, use the following guide to help you decide which is best for your needs.

Acetaminophen

This drug blocks nerve impulses to the area of the brain that processes pain signals.

Brand Names: Examples include Tylenol, Aceta, Actamin, Apacet, FeverAll, Panadol, Tempra and several "aspirin-free" drug formulations.

Symptoms Best Treated: Fevers and headaches. Acetaminophen does not reduce inflammation, so it is not recommended for rheumatoid arthritis or other inflammation-related pain. Acetaminophen may also be easier on your stomach than other painkillers.

Typical Dosage: Adults: 325 to 650 mg every 4 to 6 hours. Children: Recommended dosage is based on child's weight and varies depending on formulation (liquid, gel caps, and so forth). Follow manufacturer's recommendations or consult your child's physician.

Important to Know: Acetaminophen is not recommended if you have a history of kidney disease, liver disease or alcoholism. Using St. John's wort may decrease the effectiveness of acetaminophen.

Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)

This class of drugs reduces the body's production of prostaglandin, a hormone-like compound that sends pain messages to the brain. NSAIDs also reduce inflammation caused by injury or arthritis.

Common name: Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid, or ASA)

Brand names: Bayer, Excedrin, St. Joseph's and dozens of other names.

Symptoms Best Treated: Minor aches and pains from headaches, muscle aches, menstrual cramps, arthritis and aches from colds and flu.

Typical Dosage: Adults can take between 325 and 650 mg every 4 to 6 hours. Children should not take aspirin because it is associated with Reye's syndrome, a potentially deadly condition.

Important to Know: Aspirin, like all NSAIDs, can cause stomach pain or gastrointestinal bleeding. Use of enteric-coated aspirin and taking aspirin with food or milk may help alleviate this concern. Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding and people taking anticoagulants, like heparin or warfarin, may want to consider another pain reliever.

Common name: Ibuprofen

Brand names: Examples include Advil, Motrin, Addaprin, NeoProfen and Ultraprin.

Symptoms Best Treated: Pain from arthritis, menstrual cramps, headaches, muscle pain and fever.

Typical Dosage: Adults can take 400 mg every 4 to 6 hours. Recommended pediatric doses are based on child's weight. Follow manufacturer's recommendations or consult your child's doctor.

Important to Know: Ibuprofen, like all NSAIDs, can cause stomach pain or gastrointestinal bleeding. Taking ibuprofen with food or milk may help alleviate this concern. Ibuprofen is not recommended for patients with lupus.

Common name: Ketoprofen

Brand Names: Orudis

Symptoms Best Treated: Arthritis pain and pain from menstrual cramps.

Typical Dosage: Adults: 50 mg every 4 to 6 hours. Ketoprofen has not been adequately tested in children and therefore is not recommended for them.

Important to Know: Ketoprofen, like all NSAIDs, can cause stomach pain or gastrointestinal bleeding. Use of enteric-coated ketoprofen and taking ketoprofen with food or milk may help alleviate this concern.

Common name: Naproxen

Brand Names: Examples include Aleve, Anaprox, and Naprosyn.

Symptoms Best Treated: Menstrual cramps, fever, headaches including a migraine, gout, and arthritis.

Typical Dosage: Adults first take 500 mg, then 250 mg every 6 to 8 hours. For children, recommended doses are based on the child's weight. Follow manufacturer's recommendations or consult your child's physician.

Important to Know: Naproxen should not be used during pregnancy or while breastfeeding.

Sources

"Acetaminophen: Patient Drug Information." uptodate. 2009. UpToDate, Inc. 13 Jan. 2009
"Health Bulletin: Use Caution With Pain Relievers." fda.gov. 30 Oct. 2007. Food and Drug Administration. 13 Jan. 2009
"Over-the-Counter Pain Medication." millercenter.uchicago.edu. 13 Feb. 2007. Jack Miller Center for Peripheral Neuropathy, University of Chicago. 13 Jan. 2009
"Pain Medications." Medlineplus. 8 Jun. 2007. National Institutes of Health. 13 Jan. 2009
"Patient Information: Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)." Uptodate. 15 Feb. 2008. UpToDate, Inc. 13 Jan. 2009


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|1 Cooker
|4.5 litre
|Model Number
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|Warranty Service Type
|1. Ultra service centre, 2. Authorized Service points, (Tamilnadu, Andra & Telungana, Karnataka, Kerala )
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|Body & Lid set only
|Covered in Warranty
|Normal home use against defects in material or workmanship for a limited period.
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|1. wear & tear to the product. 2. Involved in an accident. 3. Sold away by the consumer to any other party. 4. Tampered with or repaired by someone other than our Authorized Service Centre. 5. Used in commercial activity. 6. Misused by the consumer or used in a manner contrary to the instructions mentioned in this manual.


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Yes, body lice, hair lice, have been with us since …a long long time!!
Nit picking is a ………..(fill in the blank!)
It's not fun for kids and it's a growing problem. And more poisons (permethrin, pyrethrum, lindane, etc. are being put on the heads and bodies of our children..and it's not good. No one has died from 'lice' but the poisons used to kill them- could kill us.
So I am posting this all natural remedy for the sake of our children and a reminder that Nature always has a remedy!
Make flax juice (Click here to see the flax-juice recipe).
To one cup of hot flax juice add as much salt (sodium chloride) as you can (about a half to three-quarters cup..maybe more if it's a fine table salt. .less if it's a rock sea salt..stir it.allow to dissolve. Let it cool a bit, and when warm put it all over the infested area (the scalp, the pubic area, the body..wherever the lice are.
Rub it into the hair and scalp well, especially the nape of the neck. Saturate the area.
Allow to dry. Leave on for 90 minutes.(60 minutes is usually sufficient)
Wash and shampoo and remove dead eggs with a lice comb.
Repeat in a week to ten days. Works very well. Better than all the other products!
Why it works: The principle of 'moderation' in nature.
Nature is very forgiving; a tiny bit of almost anything won't harm you. A lot of one thing can be toxic. A little 'salt' won't harm the lice, having their little bodies and eggs coated with salt will kill them. The flax juice provides the 'lotion' for the salt to coat their bodies and block their respiration.
In biology this principle is called denaturation. Proteins can be denatured by change in pH, temperature, or ionic concentration.
The salt will dry the hair a bit, so you can follow up with a natural conditioner ( I like olive and hemp oil best..add a bit of rosemary oil..and the shine and luster returns.
Give thanks..bye bye lice..
All the best.. God Bless..
PS This formula will also work for psoriasis, certain skin cancers, eczema, and a wide variety of topical skin conditions.
Yes, it is most simple. "The real mystery in "mysticism" is how we let the obvious become so hidden"!


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