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OCCASIONALLY -- just occasionally, politicians get the chance to do the right thing when it is also the popular thing. That chance may present itself to this Government, with the prospect of some adjustment (we'll come to "cuts" later) to income taxes. There is already a remarkable amount of talk about this, given that nothing will happen until October's Budget -- if then.
The Taoiseach has spoken. Priority will be given, he says, to the "very high tax rates" faced by middle-income families. Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton has spoken. His concern is for the high-income, high-skilled people that he says we must attract and retain to fuel growth.
Transport Minister Leo Varadkar and junior minister Brian Hayes zeroed in the on the universal social charge (USC). Mr Hayes described the USC as a "recession tax." That seems fair enough. It is crude, simple and raises lots of revenue.

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Jessie and I race out the door as Juliet is screaming in a way we've never heard before. Once we arrive at our front door we expect to find a mortally wounded monkey.
Instead, we find a lot of people, my first thought is why would they let "this" happen but I don't know what this is. Once Juliet sees Jessie and I, she settles down.
The neighbors explain that the father from next door picked up his child and that spurred Juliet to send out her alarm calls. Itap pears that Juliet thought the male was gong to hurt that baby.
Jessie and I were relieved that is all that was going on. I thought maybe a cat had got to her. one of the neighborhood cats likes to strut by just out of reach and Juliet likes to grab an empty plastic bottle and beat it on the cage while jumping up and down.
Jason, our nine year old. told us that the first time the cat walked by Juliet slowly reached her hand through the cage to try to grab the cat without the cat noticing it. I'm glad that didn't work. I'm sure the cat would have responded claws out. Clearly the cat has looked the situation over and knows what Juliet can and cant do and loves harassing her.
There's a dog that comes around from time to time and Juliet loves to scare it off once she notices it. She even fusses at the bat that has been flying around.
She's very territorial. She wont eat green bananas. George was just the opposite. He wouldn't eat yellow bananas. Juliet is more playful but sometimes her play can be a bit rough.
I think I see her calming down around Jessie. Jessie still hasn't had much to do with her since Juliet bit her. I'm hoping they will become friends. Juliet has become a big baby for me. She resist my getting my hands on her only a little. Once I get her out of her cage though she's like putty in my hands. She goes limp and doesn't resist at all. She loves being with me.
Last night, we discovered she had blood on her backside and she didn't seem to feel well but today she seems to be back to her old self. I'm hoping she is just having her period.
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Views of San Francisco Bay and the city skyline are killer at the Claremont Hotel Club & Spa. That might be why the property was so appealing to a Kansas farmer who struck it rich during the Gold Rush and built an elaborate English castle for his wife. After a fire destroyed the castle the land changed hands, and was allegedly won by a developer in a game of checkers. When the Claremont opened in 1915, it housed a radio station and private school. Today, its architecture gives the resort a timeless sense of grandiosity.
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Room was fine. Food service was poor. very limited menu. Short hours for breakfast. Staff did not know what they had to offer. Had to send them back to check, multiple time. Not trained. Hostesses were worthless. Errors in bills.
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This hotel was chosen because it was conveniently located to family. Our room was small but very comfortable and luxurious. We did not have time to avail ourselves of the pool, spa and gym but we loved walking through and sitting in the large light public areas. The staff were exemplary. We so appreciated being allowed to check in early at 9 in the morning following our arrival from Australia. That was a stand out service. In addition, the staff were fabulous at storing and heating up our kosher food and so friendly.
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You could just stay at the Claremont the entire time. I enjoyed the complimentary steam room and whirlpool at the Spa. Restaurants have delicious food, pricey though. Room was clean, beds comfortable. I didnât like that bathroom was small without a tub. However, there is a large variety in room layouts. Next time Iâll request a larger bathroom. Our room overlooked the Golden Gate - sunsets and full moon views were stunning. This is a full service hotel with all the amenities, even a dog that greets people in the lobby.
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The Claremont was the perfect destination hotel for a weekend away in Berkeley to catch-up with old friends and visit old haunts. With a cool early 20th century decor, the hotel has enough personality to creat itâs own reality, giving you the chance to escape and relax even if you donât take advantage of the SPA. The location on the hills above Cal make the Claremont a great base for visiting favorite haunts on and off campus. The hotel staff were pleasant and helpful and were the cherry on top of a wonderful reunion trip to Cal.
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I recently played chess with a friend from church. The results may be instructive to lower-intermediate level players and possibly to some beginners. I played white.
- e4 e6
- Nf3 Nf6 The Petroff's Defense (also called the Russian Defense)
- Nxe5 Nc6? Not a standard move, losing a pawn with little or no compensation
Diagram-1 after black made the questionable move Nc6
4. Nxc6 bxc6
5. Nc3 . . . . . .
After the game, I reconsidered this move. My knight would probably have been better placed at f3, which is possible if I had played d3 on my fifth move and then Nd2 soon thereafter. As the game progressed, I realized my kingside had limited defense.
5. . . . . . Rb8
Moving the rook to an open file is natural in the middle game. In the opening, however, the knights and bishops should usually be developed first. In this case, black's move Rb8 might encourage white to play b3 within the next few moves (to keep that pawn from being captured by black's rook). That would make developing the bishop to b2 natural, giving it a wonderful diagonal, which would not be in black's best interest.
Diagram-2 after black moved Rb8
6. Bc4 d5
7. exd5 cxd5
8. Bb5+ . . . . .
Diagram-3 after white moved Bb5+
I anticipated that black would move Bd7. I was happy to trade those light-squared bishops, for I planned on putting my queen on f3, pointing at the white squares e4 and d5 without any worries about any white-squared black bishop messing with my queen. I felt that I could be patient, improving my position slowly, with patience, for I was a pawn ahead.
8. . . . . . Bd7
9. Bxd7+ Qxd7
10. d3 Bd6
Diagram-4 transition from opening to middle game
By this time, I realized that my king side had little defense and that black had two minor pieces and a queen that might be able to mount an attack against my king. And I still had not developed my remaining bishop, as it sat defending my pawn at b2. I decided to get my queen into play immediately, preventing black from getting his queen to f5 by putting my own queen at f3.
12. Qf3 c6
13. b3 Rfe8
Diagram-5 after white moved Rfe8
This was about the time I noticed potential problems in the placement of some of my pieces. In particular, after I develop my bishop I would like to move a rook to e1. But if my opponent moves Bb4, my knight would then be pinned. That would be awkward for me because of the threat of black's d5 pawn advancing. There could be solutions to those problems, but I wanted to find a way to prevent those problems if possible. I don't want to be on the defensive if there's any reasonable way to avoid it.
I found a move that could keep my opponent from playing Bb4. I attacked his knight, thinking this would have to put him on the defensive.
14. Bg5 . . . . . .
Diagram-6 after white moved Bg5
Only after the game, as I replayed it, would I see what my opponent could have done here: Be5, pinning my knight. I could have defended my knight with Bd2, of course, but my opponent would have had the initiative.
14. . . . . . Ng4 Apparently failing to see the better move of Be5
15. Bf4 . . . . Black now seems to have no chance of a successful attack on my king
Diagram-7 after white moved Bf4
I was hoping to exchange bishops at this point in the game. My opponent's pieces are too active for my taste. He did not have to capture my bishop, in this position. He could have left it at d3 and doubled his rooks on the e-file. He might have tried Bb4, with complicated possibilities of exchanges. But he made life easier on me: He traded bishops.
15. . . . . Bxf4
16. Qxf4 d4
Diagram-8 after black moved a pawn to d4
I think that pushing the black pawn to d4 was a mistake. It drives the white knight away from a square on which it appeared to have only one purpose: protecting the e2 square from encroachment from a black rook. Yet white may soon put that knight on g3, if necessary, again protecting e2. White now gets control of the e4 square, and the white knight becomes active.
17. Ne4 f6 Perhaps black moved the pawn to f6 to keep the white knight off g5
Diagram-9 after black moved f6
My next objective was to exchange rooks by contesting rook-control of the e-file, for winning an end game with a one-pawn advantage is much easier with no rooks on the board. I was convinced my king was in no danger now.
18. Rfe1 Re5
Diagram-10 after black moved Re5
I never expected my opponent to put that rook in the middle of the board. What use could it be there? By moving Re5, he himself put that piece in a pin, for moving that rook anywhere other than where it came from (e8) would allow my queen to capture the other rook with check.
19. h3 Qf5?
Diagram-11 after black played Qf5
My opponent seems to have miscalculated in playing Qf5, for after the exchange of queens he loses his knight without compensation.
20. Qxf5 Rxf5
21. hxg4 . . . . .
The game lasted for many more moves before my opponent resigned, but the technique for winning such an endgame is easy for intermediate-level tournament players, for the defender cannot contest rook control of the e-file without the exchange of rooks. Being a knight and pawn ahead made the outcome, from this point, an assured win for white, although it does take patience.
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Spider-man, should he or should he not get into the Avengers?
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Mini-review: Emily Wells at Muldoon's in Newport Beach.
I've featured Emily Wells previously in a Music Monday post, but tonight Jana, CatBonny and I got to see her in person in neighboring Newport Beach. Caption: On the right is the exquisite and singular Emily Wells. In spite of the challenges of the venue, there was no talking during her sets–the crowd's attention was … [Read more…]


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Charles Tarbey, Chairman of CENTURY 21 New Zealand and Australia
Charles began his career in the industry in 1972 as an Assistant Property Manager. With his age against him, Charles found it difficult to obtain a sales position until an agent gave him the opportunity to start. It was here at the age of eighteen that Charles sold his first home.
Three years later, Charles purchased a Real Estate business with the equity gained through a home he had previously purchased.
In March 1983, he embarked upon his biggest challenge and commenced Combined Real Estate, which became a well-known Sydney and New South Wales Real Estate Franchise Network that Charles built to 56 offices. On September 29th 1995 Charles purchased the Australian arm of CENTURY 21 and merged the two companies. This now sees CENTURY 21 operating hundreds of offices throughout the Australasian region.
In 2011, Charles acquired the property assets of Wentworth Holdings (8000 Residential, Commercial and Industrial managements), one of Australia's largest property management groups, followed by the acquisition of CENTURY 21 New Zealand in 2012, making CENTURY 21 one of Australasia's largest and most diverse property groups.
Charles Tarbey is also the author of two Real Estate books, 'Profit Driven Real Estate' and 'Listing Rich'.


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Last night I finally finished one of the two utility benches, I'm about 80% done with the second one. To finish the top I used BLO (boiled linseed oil), spar urethane, & Johnson's paste wax. A lot of traditionalist woodworkers will scoff about applying a film finish to a workbench, but this bench is going to be exposed to a lot more than glue dribbles.
To see some additional shots from this project check out the following posts:
- The design concept
- Welding the frame together
- Welding together the leveling feet mounts
- Rough cutting the lumber for the top
- Gluing-up a top
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Killer packaging for Sin City Special Edition from Lionsgate/
Lionsgate has released a tremendously pimped Blu-ray boxset containing both Sin City: A Dame To Kill For and the original Sin City at a very fair price, writes twitchfilm.com. Sin City is included both in its theatrical cut and its longer and re-arranged Director's Cut, while A Dame to Kill For is there in both the 3D and the 2D versions.
This release focuses on bling rather than depth, with plenty of physical extras. It is very nicely packaged though, so check the gallery of slides on the link below for a look!
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As with many popular films, Tom Hooper's Les Misérables received a mixed critical response. The movie was guaranteed to garner attention no matter what, using as its source material a beloved musical, itself based on a 19th century classic novel. Critics generally dislike it, while audiences flock to see it. This pattern mimics the musical's reception, which was not entirely favorable when it debuted in 1985—but Les Misérables has since run continuously, seen by around 60 million viewers.
Criticism has focused on the film's cinematography, live-singing renditions, and general lack of subtlety. Catherine Shoard at The Guardian ends with a doozy of an indictment:
The experience of sitting through all 160 minutes of Les Mis can feel less like an awards bash than an epic wake, at which the band is always playing and women forever wailing. By the end, you feel like a piñata: beaten, in pieces, the victim of prolonged assault by killer pipes.
Although the soundness of Hooper's directorial choices is open to debate—his use of close-ups and visible CGI effects are especially censured—there's not much he could do about the "overbearingly maudlin" effect without rewriting the musical and, in fact, the 1862 novel. The movie, and the musical, are emotionally manipulative and blatantly so. But so is Hugo's original.
I grew up on musicals and, being a somewhat delusional teenager, I eventually decided that if I could handle "opera lite" like Les Misérables I could handle its source material. For weeks my irritating attempts at dinnertime conversations began with, "Did you know that in the book ….?" Over the years I've lost my fondness for musicals—all except one. I can still be caught with my headphones on, gesturing grandly to "Red and Black."
Considering the subject matter, is there any other way to gesture? Hugo tackled history, politics, philosophy and theology with sincere conviction, and the team of composer Claude-Michel Schönberg and librettists Alain Boublil and Jean-mar Natel catches some of that fervor while adding typical musical theater exaggeration. Kyle Buchanan of the Vulture humorously describes this process: "Perhaps the source material was sober and straightforward, but once you add singing and stick the whole production on a glorified Lazy Susan, you've got to contend with an additional camp allure that's unavoidably transformative." Every time I hear the stark and overwrought contrast between young Cosette ("Please do not send me out alone, / not in the darkness on my own") and Madame Thénardier ("None of that! Or I'll forget to be nice!"), I burst out laughing. But it's a joyful laugh, not a mocking one.
Les Misérables is a 1500-page tome (in English translation). The musical necessarily condensed the story, and although I should throw a bone to the "The book is always better!" crowd, I think it does an admirable job. Whole backstories are referenced in a few lines. "He slept a summer by my side, / but he was gone when autumn came" covers the two-year relationship between Fantine and Félix Tholomyès. In the novel Javert is not present at Jean Valjean's confession, which takes place in a different city where the unfortunate Champmathieu is under arrest in his stead; Jean Valjean leaves while everyone is shocked, and Javert catches up with him later. (In this, and other instances, Hooper's movie makes movements back towards the novel.)
A key area of condensation is on Hugo's interjections. Hugo devotes a whole book (there are 365 chapters in 48 books in 5 volumes) to the battle of Waterloo, digressing from detailed battle descriptions to comments on heroism and memory. One book is on the argot of the 19th century French criminal world; another is on the background of a religious order, the Bernardines of the Obedience of Martin Verga. These sections can be tortuous, but through them Hugo claims the entirety of the novel—with its use of firsthand experience ("the author," "the narrator") and often pedantically expressed opinions—as his own.
The movie attempts to rectify this omission, also. As Manohla Dargis of the New York Times summarizes, "Georges Sand apparently felt that there was too much Christianity in Hugo's novel; Mr. Hooper seems to have felt that there wasn't enough in the musical and, using his camera like a Magic Marker, repeatedly underlines the religious themes that are already narratively and lyrically manifest." From the early scene of Jean Valjean pacing Bishop Myriel's chapel to the clarification of his escape with Cosette to the convent at Petite Rue Picpus, Hooper certainly doesn't shy away from "religious themes." But theology? There he misses Hugo's voice almost completely.
The musical tells the story as a choice between two interpretations of Christianity: the mercy of the bishop, instilled in Jean Valjean, and the justice and order of Inspector Javert. Javert throws himself into the Seine because of the seeming incompatibility of these visions: "There is nothing on earth that we share, / it is either Valjean or Javert!"
While this version captures Hugo's emphasis on mercy, forgiveness and grace, it is inevitably reductive. I find a better counterpoint to Valjean in the innkeeper Thénardier, used in the musical and film as comic relief but in the novel a much more evil and tragic figure. Of his family Hugo writes:
Undoubtedly they seemed very depraved, very corrupt, very vile, very hateful even, but people rarely fall without becoming degraded. Besides, there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les misérables; whose fault is it? And then, when the fall is furthest, is that not when charity should be greatest? (744)
This passage hints at Hugo's theology of social liberation, expressed in the book through the characters as well as his own digressions. First, society is responsible for the degradation of humans, and therefore mercy is not simply praiseworthy, but required. Bishop Myriel, the original conscience of the story, says "The faults of women, children, and servants, and of the weak, the indigent, the ignorant, are the faults of their husbands, fathers, and masters, of the strong, the rich, and the wise" (13-14). Jean Valjean repeats, "There are no bad herbs, and no bad men; there are only bad cultivators" (165). Hugo himself writes of political revolutionaries, "Those who are hungry have just cause" (847) and that "these words, intended for insults—beggars, rabble, ochlocracy, populace—indicate, alas, rather the fault of those who reign than the fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the fault of the outcasts" (1170).
Second, the rich are continuously to blame, "As there is always more misery at the lower end than humanity at the top" (8). Thénardier, in speech "hideously evil and yet bitter as truth," (798) rails against philanthropists:
Rags not worth four sous, and bread! That's not what I want of the rabble! I want money! But money, never! Because they say that we'd go and drink it away, that we're drunks and do-nothings! And what've they been in their day? Thieves! They wouldn't have gotten rich without that! Oh! Somebody ought to take society by the four corners of the sheet and toss it all into the air! (754)
The drunken skeptic Grantaire muses, "Oh, if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would be! I imagine Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he would have done!" (1098)
In response to this "gloomy social edifice" (1176), Hugo's solution—mimicked by the men at the barricade—is social utopia. He was a staunch progressivist, viewing each development towards liberty and equality as part of an eschatological arc that would create better conditions on earth, completed finally in heaven. Education is the answer.
Destroy the cave Ignorance, and you destroy the mole Crime.
We will condense in a few words a portion of what we have just said. The only social peril is darkness.
Humanity is similarity. All men are of the same clay. No difference, here below at least, lies in predestination. The same darkness before, the same flesh during, the same ashes after life. But ignorance, mixed with the human composition, blackens it. This incurable ignorance possesses the heart of man, and there becomes Evil. (721-22)
And Hugo himself claims that this evolution is what Les Misérables is about:
The book the reader has now before his eyes—from one end to the other, in its whole and in its details, whatever the omissions, the exceptions, or the faults—is the march from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from the false to the true, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from brutality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from nothingness to God. (1242)
Humanity's depravity is the fault of the society it has constructed; when the human race is raised, "the lower strata will quite naturally leave the zone of distress. The abolition of misery will be brought about by a simple elevation of level" (999). Thus, the fates of Hugo's characters are guaranteed without intervening acts of infinite mercy. Fantine, an innocent working-class woman, falls because of the social forces of poverty and the subjugation of women. Jean Valjean is a lost cause—hardened by 19 years in a place that "permits the irreparable loss of a sentient being" (84)—until Bishop Myriel displays grace and forgiveness. Cosette and Eponine are antitheses. Cosette has a savior in Jean Valjean, while Eponine does not; one ends rich and happily married, the other lives a life of crime and hunger until she dies young. Perhaps most starkly, the convicts Valjean and Thénardier; in the book Valjean is much more depraved at first, even stealing money from a 10-year-boy after his release. But one is lifted into light while the other sinks into unfathomable evil and misery. These figures are partly responsible for their own fates, yet Hugo's message is not condemnation, but pity, understanding, compassion and self-sacrifice, even unto death.
I prefer the first half of the musical; many of the tune repetitions of the second act seem lazy or overdone. But one of my favorite moments in the entire production is the last two minutes, and I eagerly anticipated how Hooper would set the refrain of "Do you hear the people sing?" So, after enjoying the film, I was devastated by the last scene: revolutionaries brandishing weapons on a supersized Parisian barricade.
This is not the end goal for Hugo, nor the musical. By keeping its eyes on violent overthrow and material misery, the film misses an opportunity to portray the sincere hope centering Hugo's utopian beliefs. Hugo was no disinterested Frenchman: he wrote Les Misérables in exile, avoiding Louis Napoleon's Second Empire government. But the musical's militaristic yet optimistic finale includes new lyrics that locate the 1832 June Rebellion in the totalizing movement toward paradise on earth, tying what was in Hugo's view necessary bloodshed and the specifics of French politics to a social progressivist eschatology typical of the 19th century. The goal for Hugo is earthly peace—"To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise" (826), culminating in heavenly perfection.
The musical echoes this: the entire ensemble walks out to stand behind Valjean, Fantine, and Eponine, in regulated rows with empty hands. Instead of "the song of angry men" who warn that "the blood of the martyrs will water the meadows of France," they deliver a hymn with its eyes on paradise.
Do you hear the people sing?
Lost in the valley of the night,
it is the music of a people who are climbing to the light.
For the wretched of the earth
there is a flame that never dies:
even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
They will live again in freedom
in the garden of the Lord.
They will walk behind the plough-share, they will put away the sword.
The chain will be broken and all men will have their reward!
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that we bring when tomorrow comes.
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SCOTLAND defeated Papua New Guinea by eight wickets in their first match of the ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier in Bangkok, Thailand.
The PMMI-sponsored PNG Lewas crumbled to 53 all-out as Scotland's 16-year-old leg-spinner Abtaha Maqsood (2-9) and 18-year-old seamer Kirstie Gordon (2-10) starred on Saturday.
The Wildcats reached their target in 15.4 overs for the loss of two wickets, with Kari Anderson unbeaten on 24.
In Saturday's other Group A game, Bangladesh beat hosts Thailand, while in Group B, Ireland and Zimbabwe saw off the Netherlands and China.
The top two teams in the eight-strong qualifying tournament will progress to next year's Women's World T20 in India.
Meanwhile, in their final warm-up last week, PNG lost to a Combined XI.
The Lewas got off to a decent start, posting a score of 90/5 off their allotted 20 overs. Captain Norma Ovasuru was once again among the runs, scoring 31.
In reply, the Combined XI reached the target in 18 overs, losing just four wickets on the way with Mairi Tom (1-7), Brenda Tau (1-9), Kari Seura (1-10) and Ovasuru (1-18) all picking up a wicket each for the Lewas.


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Carol Ann Bronson Woodruff
February 28, 1934 ~ January 21, 2016
Viewing: January 25, 2016 from 6-8 p.m. Gillies Funeral Home at 634 E 200 S, Brigham City, Utah and January 26, 2016 from 12-12:45 pm
Funeral services: January 26, 2016 at 1:00 pm at the Brigham City North Stake Center, 620 North 300 East, Brigham City, Utah
Burial: Elwood, Utah Cemetery
Our precious and loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and aunt, Carol Ann Bronson Woodruff of Brigham City, Utah passed away at the Willow Glen Health and Rehabilitation Center in Brigham City, Utah and began her watch over us from the other side of the veil on January 21, 2016 while rehabilitating after a short stay in the hospital. Carol Ann was born on February 28, 1934 to Clinton Ulysses and Annie Elnore Egbert Bronson in Collinston, Utah. She attended school in Elwood, Utah and graduated in 1952 from Bear River High School in Garland, Utah. During Carl Ann's high school years, she played first chair clarinet in the band, was elected the Future Farmers of America royalty first attendant, and is still known as the "Most Beautiful Girl in the School" by her classmates. Carol Ann married her high school sweetheart, Ivan Lee Woodruff on March 26, 1952 in the Salt Lake Temple. They moved to Logan, Utah, while Ivan completed his education at Utah State Agricultural College, now Utah State University. After graduation, they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Carol Ann chose the career of being a mother. Ivan and Carol Ann then moved from Salt Lake City, Utah with their three children, Cathy, Vickie, and Kevin to San Diego, California. While in San Diego, they had another child, Jeffery. In 1958, they returned to Utah, moving to Brigham City. While living in Brigham City, Carol Ann became the mother of four more children, Michael, David, Steven, and Susan. Carol Ann was an expert seamstress; having made many pairs of "Levis", shirts, dresses, prom dresses, bridal veils for family members and costumes for high school and community plays. She was a member of a local sewing club. She was an expert at home canning, enjoyed crocheting, knitting, and embroidery work. She enjoyed giving service to others. She also had a love of nature, camping, and vacationing in England, and throughout the United States. Her favorite trips of all were Hawaii and Nauvoo, Illinois. As an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints, Carol Ann was a spiritual giant. She served in Primary, Young Women's Mutual, Relief Society, extraction of historical records, visiting teaching, ward birthday recognition, a temple worker in the Ogden Utah Temple, and served a mission with her husband at the Brigham City, Utah Tabernacle. Carol Ann's laugh was infectious and inspired the nickname, "Giggles." She has provided immense joy and love to her family and others by sharing her smile and the sparkle of her green eyes. She will be greatly missed. As her watch over us has begun from the other side of the veil, we pray and hope that our loving, precious wife, mother and sister will continue to feel our love and gratitude for her and that we will continue to feel her love and presence with us always. We will eternally cherish and treasure the memories she has given us. We pray for all to have comfort, understanding, and peace. Carol Ann is survived by her husband, her children Cathy A. and Charles K. Kimber of Tremonton, Utah, Vickie L. and Kevin Oliver of Orem, Utah, Kevin I. and Marva (Hone) Woodruff of Spanish Fork, Utah, daughter-in-law, Tina (Rauth), wife of Jeffery, Michael L. Woodruff of Brigham City, Utah, David and Michelle (Millburn) Woodruff of Providence, Utah, Steven and Cheryl (Madegen) Woodruff of Spanish Fork, Utah, Susan K. and Facil Carlson of North Salt Lake City, Utah; 28 grandchildren, 56 great-grandchildren with two on the way; one sister, Charlene J. Bronson, and one brother, Doneral C. Bronson. She was preceded in death by her parents, brother Vernal W. Bronson, son Jeffery C. Woodruff, and one grandson. A viewing will be held at the Gillies Funeral Home at 634 E 200 S, Brigham City, Utah, January 25, 2016 from 6-8 p.m. A viewing will also be held the morning of the funeral at the Brigham City North Stake Center, 620 North 300 East, Brigham City, Utah, January 26, 2016 from 12-12:45 pm. Funeral services will be conducted by Bishop Bart Tucker and will begin at 1:00 pm on January 26, 2016. Burial will be in the Elwood, Utah Cemetery.
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The early days of the rink (1908-1934) there was a lot of ice skaing and professional hockey.
Once the ice was gone there was no looking back as roller skating became the thing to do.
Andre Atkinson takes over from Bob Beach and does a great job changing the look and the feel of the rink.
Bob Beach returns to help Andre save the rink and the name changes again.
The first and longest lasting rink of the Saints chain.
Not a Saints very long this rink located on McPhillips soon became a franchise rink called Wheelies
Located on Regent in Winnipegs East side was a great rink to skate at.
Built last and closed first, Saints Portage was a victim of high rent and the decline of the trend of roller skating.
Wheelies was a great rink to skate and work at. Lots of great memories there.
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Web Games Get Serious
Games that run in a browser have mostly been the purview of casual games. But as PCs become more tightly coupled to the Web, and as broadband becomes common, Web games will become more substantial. The most recent iteration of this is Quake Live, a browser-based multiplayer game from id. Tilted Mill is developing Immortal Cities: Nile Online, a browser-based strategy game. Both titles are still in beta.
A flip side of browser games is the server-hosted game. The idea here is that you don't need a high powered graphics card or CPU to play high-end games. Instead, high-end GPUs and other coprocessors are added to servers, and perform all the rendering and computational tasks on the server side. It goes without saying that a high speed broadband link is essential. Server-based games aren't likely to become common for several years at least, however.
Cross-Platform—But Native
Most big titles, however, will continue to ship across multiple platforms, including PS3, Xbox 360, and the PC. However, developers have become much more facile at multiplatform development. The era of poor PC ports of console games, with console-like user interfaces and wonky controls, is behind us.
Even in the past year, we've seen excellent games that have run on both consoles and PCs, yet the PC versions looked and behaved like PC games should. Games like Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Far Cry 2 and Left4Dead shipped on consoles and PCs alike, but the PC games generally behaved like you'd expect.
In the coming year, we'll see similar cross-platform games. Borderlands, a co-operative first person shooter with "guns—lots of guns", id Software's Rage and Prototype and many others will run on a PC like a PC game should, and the console versions will run like a console game should.
Cheap PC Hardware
As recently as year ago, if you wanted to play a high-end PC title like Crysis, you needed high-end hardware. Suitable graphics cards would cost upwards of $400 or more, and those games demanded a substantial CPU as well.
The good news is that prices have plummeted, particularly for graphics cards, due to the ongoing competitive battle between Nvidia and AMD. Beefy CPUs have become cheaper, as well. The surprising release in the past few months was the Core i7 920, a CPU that outperforms all but the fastest of Intel's last generation—and was released at a sub-$300 price point.
On the graphics side, cards like eVGA's GeForce 260 GTX Core 216 SSC can be found for well under $300, while cards based on AMD's Radeon HD 4870 can be found for prices approaching $260 for models with 1GB of video memory. Those offer serious graphics horsepower at relatively affordable prices.
The bottom line is that a PC capable of running high-end PC games with lots of eye candy at fairly high resolutions can now be bought or built for $1,000 or less. So you no longer need a firebreathing $5,000 machine to get the visual fidelity that set PC gaming apart from consoles.
2009: A Good Year for PC Games
In the end, it's a multiplatform world. The era of console exclusives is starting to fade, as game companies realize that shipping across multiple platforms means a wider user base and more sales. At the same time, the technology and process for building games on multiple platforms, while keeping the unique features of individual platforms, has become robust and common.
So I'm looking forward to a rich year of PC gaming, that will no doubt keep me awake some nights until a quarter to three. As for my Xbox 360—well, there's always Netflix.
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Robin Williams: A Tragic Death That Might Have Been PreventedWritten by Wellness Club on August 26, 2014 – 4:35 pm -
By Nurse Mark
The tragic death of comedian Robin Williams underscores the importance of maintaining a healthy neurotransmitters (brain hormones). Although Williams' death was reportedly caused by hanging (suicide), Dr. Myatt and Nurse Mark know differently. The facts of Williams' life and death support our thesis — that Robin Williams suffered from a severe but quite likely correctable neurotransmitter imbalance. Here are the facts of the case:
Neurotransmitters (NT's) are chemicals that affect the brain in addition to numerous other physical functions. Think of NT's as "brain hormones," because they are. A dopamine deficiency leads to depression and is also the primary problem in Parkinson's. Alcohol and cocaine further deplete dopamine; Williams was known to have a substance abuse problem with both. Prescription "head meds" (SSRI's, SNRI's and other anti-depressants) further deplete dopamine.
Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter because it regulates physical actions such as movement. It is also a "feel good" brain hormone. When it's deficient, either because we don't have enough of the chemical or because our damaged neurons require higher-than-normal amounts to function normally, we feel bad – typically depressed, and movement suffers – Parkinson's disease.
A primary cause of dopamine deficiency is lack of appropriate precursor amino acids in the system. Nutrients involved in the production of dopamine may also be deficient. Alcohol, cocaine and even prescription anti-depressants stimulate and then deplete dopamine stores.
Poor Robin was in a "perfect storm" for the travails that led him to commit suicide.
The recent tragic death by suicide of Robin Williams has touched us all.
Robin was a comedic genius – but like many who have the gift of genius, Robin had a dark side as well.
It is well-known that Robin Williams struggled with drug and alcohol use for many years, and wrestled with the demons of depression.
His widow has revealed that he had recently been diagnosed with early stage Parkinson's disease.
It is easy to say, as some have suggested, that in his sixties, still struggling with alcohol and drug problems, and suddenly given a bleak diagnosis of a debilitating neurological disease, the demons of his depression became too powerful and he sought relief in suicide.
It is easy to say that, but we here at The Wellness Club don't believe it.
We believe that there is more to it than simply the despair of addiction, depression, and illness and that while Robin Williams may have succumbed it need not have happened. The story could have had a much different ending, and perhaps Robin's great legacy will be a life-saving change in the way we look at the relationship between drugs and alcohol and depression and neurological diseases such as Parkinson's.
Consider these points:
Dopamine is essential to much of our brains workings – but most importantly it is the "feel-good" neurotransmitter. When we have plenty of it we feel good. When we are deficient, either because we don't have enough of the chemical or because our neurons don't use it right, we feel bad – depressed.
Chronic alcohol use or abuse – alcoholism – depletes the brain chemical dopamine.
Drug abuse stimulates dopamine release. When dopamine remains in the synapse longer, it is degraded.
Here is a quote from a noted expert in brain chemistry, Dr. Marty Hinz:
All drugs of abuse target the brain's reward system by increasing dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter present in regions of the brain that regulate movement, emotion, cognition, motivation and feelings of pleasure. The overstimulation of this system, which rewards our natural behaviors, produces the euphoric effects sought by people who abuse drugs and teaches them to repeat the behavior. When some drugs of abuse are taken, they can release two to 10 times the amount of dopamine that natural rewards do. The effect of such a powerful reward strongly motivates people to take drugs again and again.
So here is a possible scenario for someone like Robin Williams:
Feeling a little "down" (depressed) as everyone does at some time or other, Robin doesn't know that his dopamine levels are not what they might be. He just knows that he feels down. "Have a drink – that'll cheer you up!" says a well-meaning friend, and Robin does, and the friend was right – he felt better. That worked so well in fact that the next time he felt a bit down he had another drink – and felt better. And the next time, and the next time…
After a while though, the alcohol is depleting his stores of dopamine and there just isn't enough of the "feel-good" chemical available even with a few drinks to "help." Not even with a lot of drinks…
So, another well-meaning "friend" says "Here – try a little cocaine – it'll make you feel great!" Robin tries it and his friend was right – he felt great! On top of the world! He suddenly flooded his brain so much dopamine that he felt better than he had for a long time – and able to face whatever problems were bedeviling him. Who wouldn't want to experience that, over and over again…
Meanwhile, Robin might be concerned enough about feeling depressed that he would see a doctor. The doctor would most certainly prescribe antidepressant drugs. Unfortunately, antidepressant drugs also deplete dopamine. Robin might have felt better briefly, but the antidepressant drugs don't work well for long – and he would likely have entered into an endless search for "the right drug" – the one that would bring him some long-term relief to the depression that was making life a misery. But in the end, all the antidepressant drugs do is further damage neurotransmitter function – especially dopamine.
But our human bodies are tough, adaptable, and forgiving organisms. All these insults to our neurotransmitters – especially to that important feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine – we "deal with" and carry on, compensating, adapting, managing. Like a boxer who becomes inured to being hit, bruised, concussed, and worse, or a rodeo cowboy whose profession provides him with more trauma, bruises and broken bones than anyone should have to bear, people battering their neurotransmitters with alcohol, recreational drugs, and prescription head-meds ride the ups and downs of neurotransmitter depletion and they adapt and they manage – often by self-medicating with more alcohol and drugs. For a while.
But like the boxer or rodeo cowboy, there comes a time when there just aren't any more reserves.
There comes a time when the neurotransmitters – like dopamine – just aren't there any more, or what is left isn't working.
They are tapped out – empty.
Parkinson's disease is a condition in which dopamine, which in addition to being the "feel-good" neurotransmitter is also a neurotransmitter that is important to regulating movement, is either not there or the nerve cells are unable to use it properly.
For someone who has spent many years abusing their neurotransmitters with alcohol, recreational drugs, and prescription psychiatric drugs like SSRI's, "early Parkinson's" may be their warning that they have reached the end of their rope when it comes to their ability to "bounce back."
Many people regard affliction with Parkinson's disease to be only slightly less devastating than Alzheimer's disease. To be given a diagnosis of "early Parkinson's" conjures up visions of shaking, shuffling, helpless people, ultimately unable to speak or care for themselves. I remember one patient who said to me "Give me a clean death – not that!" when we were discussing his recent diagnosis of Parkinson's. I found myself agreeing with him.
Robin Williams knew about Parkinson's, and about the mainstay drug used to treat it – L-dopa; a precursor to the neurotransmitters dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine or adrenaline – our catecholamines. As a skilled actor who had a starring role in the film "Awakenings" (1990) he would have researched his character and the drug and he would have known that while L-dopa has a miraculous effect on Parkinson's and other such movement diseases, the side effects are serious and the benefits are not all that long-lasting. Sufferers are given a reprieve, not a cure, and when the drug stops working the disease symptoms return with a vengeance.
Running out of dopamine is a bad business, and Parkinson's is a very visible, tangible result of years of abusing one's dopamine stores.
But must this always be what happens? Is there no hope for someone who becomes depressed and self medicates to feel better? Must the results always be this tragic?
Our bodies, and our brains, are very well-designed organisms; resilient and hardy. Things don't usually "go wrong" for no good reason. When things do "go wrong" it is often an outside influence – a stressor – to our systems. Infection, injury, mental stress, can all precipitate unwanted changes to our finely balanced biology. So can the failure to provide our bodies with the nutrients needed to sustain and heal and grow.
The neurochemicals that our brains rely on to function are made by our bodies from raw materials called amino acids – from proteins.
When we deprive our bodies of the essential amino acids required for the manufacture of vital hormones and neurotransmitters we can compensate for a while – but not forever. We need to begin to supply these essential amino acids in generous quantities or we set ourselves up for serious problems.
The standard answer of conventional doctors for problems such as those experienced by Robin Williams is to prescribe drugs. Those drugs either hide the symptoms or, in the case of SSRI drugs, make the few remaining supplies of neurochemicals work a little better for a while. But as Robin discovered, not for a long while. Like the drug L-dopa for Parkinson's sufferers, the helpful effects of antidepressant drugs wear off all too soon and the symptoms, those dark demons of depression and despondency, return with a vengeance to torment the sufferer.
A better approach is to ensure that the person has plentiful supplies of amino acids for his (or her) body to work with in creating vital neurotransmitters such as dopamine. If the body is able to make plentiful dopamine – the "feel-good" neurotransmitter – then there is less need, less desire for the person to seek the dopamine rush that comes from alcohol or drugs. Many cases of "addiction" can be "cured" by careful replenishment of amino acids in the diet.
Although neurotransmitter balancing or repletion is best accomplished through natural means, it is NOT a do-it-yourself project. There are too many intricacies best managed by a natural physician who is highly trained in NT restoration. Primary treatment for these brain-hormone disorders include diet modification, supplementation and other lifestyle interventions. This is not a theory; the statistics for long-term treatment of Parkinson's (dopamine depletion), depression and addiction show that these are are known to be little-helped by drugs while natural methods of neurotransmitter support have much higher success rates.
Had we only known, we could have helped.
Godspeed Robin Williams – you are loved and you are missed. If your untimely passing spurs even one person in similar circumstance to seek natural help then your death will not have been in vain.
|If you, or someone you care for is experiencing depression or battling addiction PLEASE, seek the help of a doctor qualified to test and replete neurotransmitters naturally.
Q. Which comes first: depression then neurotransmitter depletion, or is it neurotransmitter depletion then depression?
A. It doesn't matter – all that really matters is that when neurotransmitters are plentifully replenished the demons of depression and addiction seem to go away and the sunny days of life return.
PLEASE SEEK HELP – a Brief Telephone Consultation with Dr. Myatt is the easy way to get started.
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