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"For the past century, the United States has effectively dominated the economic and political destinies of the countries on the Central American isthmus - Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. In this timely and engaging narrative, John H. Coatsworth explores the paradoxical question of why a region so closely tied to the United States should have become the site of so much bloodshed and brutality." "To answer this question, Coatsworth examines both U.S. foreign policy and its impact on the Central American countries. He rejects the cold war dogma that blames Central American instability on extreme Communist machinations as well as the opposing view that attributes it to purely internal factors such as poverty and inequality. Coatsworth relates the extraordinary high levels of political and social turmoil that have characterized the modern history of Central America largely to these countries' excessively close and subordinate ties to the United States." "Coatsworth provides a concise history of U.S.-Central American relations before 1945, from the Monroe Doctrine to the transformation of the isthmian republics into client states of the northern colossus after 1900. In the bulk of the study he looks at the effects of FDR's "Good Neighbor" policy; at how the cold war shaped U.S. policy toward the region, including the United States' involvement in overturning governments in Costa Rica and Guatemala after its friendly relations with repressive regimes in the region; at the effects of the Alliance for Progress and the succeeding decade of U.S. neglect; and at the U.S. role in the Nicaraguan revolution and counter-revolution and the guerrilla war and counterinsurgency in El Salvador. He argues that at key turning points in the political history of five of the six Central American states between 1954 and 1990, the United States played a direct role in averting challenges to the status quo - which meant quashing nationalist, reformist, or revolutionary movements and regimes committed to social change and greater independence from the United States." "Gone with the cold war are the security doctrines and the anti-Communist ideology that fed U.S. interventions in Central America in the postwar era. For this reason, Coatsworth's comprehensive survey of these six countries' troubled relations with the United States is essential reading for students of international and Latin American history, as well as for those interested in the evolution of U.S. foreign policy over the last half-century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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On Tuesday October 24, a judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs saying the environmental groups' lawsuit was not moot as previously alleged by the defendants. The FWS has claimed the lawsuit was irrelevant since the agency agreed to stop allowing the practice after 2012. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg wrote, "waiting for 2013 is not good enough… Plaintiffs allege harms that are currently occurring and will continue throughout 2012."
The Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility filed suit saying that using genetically-modified crops harms beneficial insects, increases herbicide-resistant weeds, alters soil ecology and genetically contaminates natural plants. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) currently are grown in wildlife refuges in the FWS' Southeast Region, which encompasses 10 states. The most common GMOs in the refuge areas are corn and soybeans resistant to the herbicide Roundup.
A comment left on Field & Stream's post announcing the same decision by the judge said these GMOs could be having a harmful effect on wildlife in the area, especially deer. "All three of the deer that have been taken from my hunt club so far this year have had cancer," Alex Grimaudo wrote. "One of the guys I hunt with is a doctor at Langley Airforce Base and believes that this excessive amount of cancer could bee related to the genetiacally modified crops in the area."
Prior to this lawsuit, the environmental groups had filed two similar lawsuits in the state of Delaware and were successful in blocking GMOs from two wildlife refuges in the northeast region, which encompasses 12 states.
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Pros: Good size for 2 or 3 people, very relaxing, basic but suits our needs.
Cons: Not happy with support from dealer, don't like spa chemicals included with package.
Those are the words you can hear coming from the mouth of me or my husband at least once a week for the last year since we bought our Bengal spa.
I've always wanted a spa and tried to talk my husband into one for years but he wouldn't bite. So I gave up on that after a few years and started working on him to get a pool installed instead due to the hot summers here but he wouldn't bite on that either. One day I actually got him to look at pools and I was close to getting him to agree when he turned to me and said let's get a spa instead. So I grabbed him by the hand and dragged him off to the Hot Springs spas dealer.
We had always heard good things about Hot Springs spas so we were pretty sure that's where we wanted to purchase. We looked at all of the models at the dealer and decided on the Bengal spa from Tiger River spas which is a division of Hot Springs. We decided on this spa for several reasons:
We were looking for a spa at a fair price with some features but not loaded with options. The spa is used mostly by my husband and I and weve only had others with us in the spa twice because Im really picky about cleanliness. The Bengal has good features but not a lot of bells and whistles like a radio, TV, ozonator, deep cupholders, upgraded lighting, or moto-massage jets. The Bengal met all of our basic needs.
This spa is approximately 7'x 7' in size and is designed for 5 people. There is a door panel on one side that comes off by removing 4 screws and allows access to the heater and heater reset button and plumbing elements. There are basic seats with hydro-massage back jets on three of the sides. Along one whole side is a lounger. In one corner is a deeper seat that has a string of jets that massage the back and neck. The lounger is pretty cool but not as comfortable as I thought it would be as I tend to float right out of it when the jets are on and when theyre off I feel like Im drowning. But Im quite short so thats why. My husband is taller and he has no issue with it at all. Its his favorite spot in the tub. My favorite spot is the corner seat with the 12 back and neck jets. The spa is designed for 5 people, however it is most comfortable with 4 or less people if its mixed company. Once we had me, my husband, and another couple in the tub and there was a little too much accidental foot touching for the guys. Ive been in the tub with 3 of my gal pals and we were fine.
The Bengal comes in the following colors: azurite, which is a deep, ocean blue, sand, which is self-explanatory, and silver pearl which is a metallic grey like a black pearl. We chose azurite because it looked really good filled with water. I thought that the other colors looked a little flat but the azurite color is very inviting. The spas are enclosed in a synthetic wood cabinet called SureWood. It looks like real redwood but is very low maintenance and has not faded from the sun or become discolored in any way. It wont crack or peel and is covered by a 3-year limited warranty. The cabinet still looks great after 3 years of brutal Michigan winters and summers. Ive seen spas with real redwood or cedar cabinets that are unsightly and cannot be cleaned to improve their appearance so its nice to not have to worry about that.
The Bengal comes with the following types of jets: 1 JetStream Jet which is in the foot section of the lounger, 3 Rotary Hydromassage Jets which are in the backrest section the lounger, 5 Directional Hydromassage Jets which are in the other seats, 18 Directional Precision Jets, 12 of which are in the corner seat and the others in the footwell. The SmartJet system lets you divert water to different combinations of jets and fine tune the feel of your hydromassage with the simple turn of a lever.
Control System, Heater, and Jet Pump
The Bengal spa operates on 115v with a GFCI protected power cord so there is no need for hard wiring an electrical hook-up, however you can run them on a 230v dedicated line as well which is what we decided to do. My cousin is an electrician and was able to set up a dedicated line outside the house for the spa. The Control panel is easy to use. With the touch of a button you can raise or lower the water temperature, turn the light on and off or dim it, and turn the jets on and off. Heating and filtration are automatic so you dont have to control or monitor those. There are added security features that allow you to lock in the desired temperature so others cannot change them.
The Bengal comes equipped with a basic blue LED light that can be dimmed. There are optional lighting packages available that allow for multiple colored lights as well as exterior lighting.
The Bengal came with a custom fit, fully-insulated thermal cover has an exclusive that creates a tight seal, trapping heat inside. It folds in half like a taco for easier removal. The cover comes with child-resistant safety locks is made of the highest quality, marine-grade vinyl and is tapered for water runoff. I like the locks for when we go on vacation so unwelcome people cant get into it and use it. There has been recent vandalism to spas in our neighborhood where people have filled them with dishsoap so it's nice to have the locking mechanism.
I mentioned above that the cover folds for easier removal. This by no means implies that the cover is easy to remove or replace. Well, actually removing it isnt that hard, but for one person to put it back on the spa after use would be really, really hard unless they are the Hulk. Therefore we purchased a cover lifter which assists with removal and replacement of the cover. There are a few models of varying cost. We cheaped out and got the basic model for $100. The lifter is made of aluminum poles that are shaped like a square with one side missing. The two vertical poles attach to 10 chains that attach to the sides of the spa with bolts. Then you just fold the cover over the horizontal bar and slide it back. The result is that the cover hangs alongside the spa and rests on the horizontal bar of the lifter. To replace it, just do the opposite.
Cleaning and maintenance
Cleaning is easy. I just drain the spa by removing the cap that closes off the drain tube, clean the shell and hose it out, and refill it. While the spa is draining I remove the filter and spray it with filter cleaner. After a half hour I hose the cleaner off thoroughly and replace it in the spa. The filter is very easy to remove and clean. I just remove the cap that holds it in place, reach down, and pull it out.
The only thing I dont like about cleaning is that the headrests are really hard to re-attach. I take them off and scrub them when I clean the tub and theyre hard to snap back on.
I totally empty, clean, and refill the spa every three months or so. I refill it with cold water from the hose and usually set it to about 102 in the winter. The heater heats the 330 gallons of water fairly quickly. I usually have it filled up by about 7pm and when I wake up the next morning its up to 102 degrees already. The spa seems fairly energy efficient. I have not noticed a huge increase in the electric bill since we installed the spa. It costs less than a dollar a day to run it. I test the tub weekly and add chemicals as needed depending on the results of the test strip. If there are a lot of people in the tub I usually throw a few tablespoons of spa shock in after we get out and let the jets run for a half hour or so before closing the cover.
The Dealer
The dealer was not helpful at all. They were really helpful, friendly and nice when we were buying the spa, but their tune changed after we had already purchased it and had it installed.
The first issue we had was with delivery. The day the spa was delivered, the delivery men cracked a large piece of wood off of the new deck that we had built for the spa. My husband called the dealer to tell them about it and to ask them to fix the damage. When they refused, I called them and told them that I would have the damage fixed but I wanted a set of stairs and some accessories to compensate for the damage. They obliged and sent over a double step that matches the redwood finish as well as a thermometer, floating radio, and a rubber duck. I was happy with that result.
A few days later I had a hard time understanding how to use the spa chemicals so I went to the dealer and they were not very patient with me. A complete BaquaSpa kit was included with our purchase and the salesperson became exasperated when I asked him to write down what I needed to do every week and told me to just go home and read the book.
So I read the book and two days later ended up in the hospital with lung issues from inhaling the chemicals as well as a severe rash. I followed the instructions perfectly but had some sort of bad reaction to the BaquaSpa chemicals. We called the dealer and asked for help but they said they couldnt help and to just follow the instructions. We ended up totally draining the tub and refilling it twice with the same bad result. On the third try I went to a pool & spa store where I switched to a bromine system and have not had any problems with breathing or itching.
My husband and I both got really sick the following March and didnt use the spa for nearly three weeks so the spa developed a weird algae problem. When I called the dealer they asked me to bring in a water sample. When I brought the sample in, the Hot Springs dealer claimed that they didnt know how to fix the issue and refused to help on the basis that I had switched to a sanitation system that they do not support. I took my water sample to the same pool & spa store that helped with the chemical issue and they fixed us right up.
Bottom line:
Im really happy with the Bengal spa. My husband and I have very stressful jobs so its great to go outside and look up at the stars while sitting in the relaxing water. We take the portable TV out every New Years eve and ring in the new year in the spa and just thoroughly enjoy it all year round. Once a week one of us looks at the other and says ahhhhh what did we ever do before we got this spa? It was a great purchase.
Updated 27-July-2006: Since I last wrote this review, I have had 3 more communications with Hot Spring. Some time in June I noticed that my jets were not flowing as powerfully as they once had so I looked up the phone number for service on Yahoo and scheduled a service call for 2 weeks later. I thought 2 weeks was a bit long to wait but the tub wasn't broken so I wasn't too upset. But the day they were supposed to come to my house they did not and when I called service to find out why, they didn't have my appointment in their books and couldn't send anyone out until the following week. They had a record of my call and my problem but no record of my appointment. I appealed to them in a nice, professional manner but they still wouldn't come out until the following week so I was pretty angry. When they did finally show up, the serviceman was really nice and helpful and it turns out that there was a hornet nest in the air intake tube which he flushed out using our garden hose. This was not covered by the warranty so I had to pay the $95 service fee. He also advised me to tack a small piece of screen over the intake vent to prevent that from occurring again (why they just don't MAKE it that way, I don't know).
While the serviceman was here he noticed that I was having problems with some of my jets. For about a year now I've noticed that some of the jets that spin and are removable sometimes fall out of their place and I have to stick them back in. The serviceman said that those are covered by my warranty and that I should take them back to the dealer and they will swap them out. So I did that the next day and again got the same unhelpful, unfriendly, rude service that I've become accustomed to. The 2 men behind the desk completely ignored me when I walked in and stood at the counter. They ignored me until I interrrupted their conversation about the baseball game and asked to be helped. Their "service" included a lecture about my whole tub seizing up because the buildup on my jets indicated that I'm over using chemicals (I'm not) and then he took a half hour lecturing me about the jets and typing all kinds of info into their system before telling me that the jets would come in the mail in about a week with instructions on how to re-install them. He simply turned away from me and went into the back office when he was finished so I didn't even know he was finished until about 2 minutes later when I walked back there to see if I could leave. That's just really bad service and I won't go there again based on it. I will call the other dealer about 10 miles away to see if the service improves there. The jets did arrive about a week later and they're working fine.
Updated September 2006 Last week the heat in my tub stopped working so I called service on Monday when they re-opened and someone was here within the hour to fix it. Turns out a circuit board had gone bad and melted (so that's what that smell was) onto the heater. The heater was working fine but they replaced it just to be sure and all is working fine now. No charge as it was completely covered under the warranty.


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Bedtime shenanigans - who is right, us or DD?(50 Posts)
We're trying to get DD(12) in bed at a decent time at the moment as she's a complete pain in the backside at going to bed at a reasonable time. She always has been since she was born.
She reads in bed for ages every night but when we tell her to turn her light off at 9pm, she has a myriad of excuses why she can't; needs to finish the chapter, has to feed the gerbils, needs to go to the toilet. We give her a 15 minute warning to do these things, then a 5 minute warning, but then there's a lot a messing around which can go on until after 10pm. This is annoying for us as we can't settle, watch
Homeland telly and if we don't keep on top of it and keep telling her to go to bed, she'd still be awake until after we went to bed. This is an issue because we have to peel her out of bed in the morning and she does suffer from the lack of sleep.
So… inspired by Divas and Doorslammers, we are removing a minute from the following night's reading time for each minute she messes around after she's been told to turn her light off. But I've got myself a bit confused with the logistics of this.
For example, with this sanction in mind, on Tuesday night she messed around and finally settled at 9.21pm. So she was told she would have to turn her light off at 8.39pm on Wednesday night.
Last night she put up a lot of resistance to this and whilst she wasn't able to read from 8.39pm last night, we had to remove the light from her room as she kept turning it back on and she still messed around and finally settled at 9.12pm.
She says she should only lose 12 minutes of reading time tonight as her lights off time is usually 9pm. But we say she should lose 33 minutes as she was supposed to settle at 8.39pm and didn't.
Which one do you think?
DD is a master of loophole finding and maximising situations to her advantage, so whilst on the one hand we're fairly happy to go with her method as she has agreed to it, we have a sneaking suspicion that she has found a loophole that means she's not as penalised as we think she is. But then we can't work out if that matters as last night she did settle at 9.12pm compared to 9.21pm the previous night.
Help! Who is right, us or DD?
NHS recommend 10 hours sleep for 9 year olds, 9 and half hours for older.
Sleep is incredibly important.
[Flowers] and I hope your perseverance pays off. You are the parent, you are right. You could also research facts for her re sleep and its importance.
Sounds like it is working then. Which is pretty much my mantra, if it works, we do it. I don't care what other people say, if it gets us through the day that's my method.
Well done for getting it to work! I'm glad it's improved her mood.
Perhaps 9pm is too early for some DC, but DD has been going to sleep at 9pm for over a week now and still has to be woken up in the morning for school. It has made such a remarkable difference to her mood so I am sure that it's the right bedtime for her. Luckily she doesn't do gymnastics or other activities which prevent her from going to bed then.
I think 9 is far too early. As another poster mentioned, Scouts- Guides- gymnastics for this age group doesn't even END until 9...
My DD's bedtime is 9.30, electronic devices removed at 10. She turns her own light off when she wants after that.
A friend of mine also tells me to just tell my ASD son 'no' and he won't be like it any more. I wish it were that easy <sighs>
About 80% of children with ASD have trouble getting to sleep at night. Personally I prefer to keep his bedtime exactly the same so his body gets used to it but I still have a lot of battles.
Good luck with whatever you try OP. I hope things get easier for you.
<< hears California Dreaming playing softly in the background and pukes >>
What's wrong with just being A PARENT.
I AM IN CHARGE and you are a child.
You trust me, love me and will obey me because I am your god, your provider and your source of DOOM should you transgress.
If you fuck up and piss me off badly enough the world will end - so behave...
I am the arbiter of EVERYTHING (and you like it that way)
until you're fifteen when it all goes tits up...
Obviously everyone has their own methods for dealing with unwanted behaviour and for eliciting the desired behaviour. Some are saying let her choose her own bedtime, you can't make her do anything, you're cruel. And some are saying put your foot down you pansy.
I absolutely take on board that we should look at techniques for ASD as we had a supernanny type person working with us when DD was younger to help sort out her behaviour and sleep, and she admitted defeat and couldn't make any difference at all. So we sort of have an idea now what DD does and doesn't respond to. And DS is so much more textbook and I can see how any of what has been suggested might work with him.
This particular method was suggested in Divas and Door slammers for hard cases, which DD is, and there was something about it that made us feel DD would respond well to it. I think it's the point that there is always something for her to gain by settling down, whatever the time is. We used to get caught in a situation where eventually she'd got the punishment (ie lost telly the next day) and therefore she'd may as well keep doing the crime,. So then we'd have to either give her a second punishment or give her an incentive to settle by rescinding the punishment if she went to bed. Then of course she'd have messed about for an hour with essentially no consequence.
But now it's still always worth her while to stop messing about and there's a direct relationship between the time she wastes and what she loses from her reading time. I think she recognises that she's borrowing time from the following evening and that it's only her that's missing out.
It seems to be working so far. She feels she has control over the outcome, by turning her light off at the time we've set. Since she managed to get it back to 9pm on Friday night, she's managed not to lose any reading time and has settled every night. And she's not lying awake for hours. She has been a lot happier for it and I wonder if she doesn't realise herself that she feels better for getting more sleep.
But we mustn't get complacent as that's when she spies a chink in the armour and it all goes pear-shaped. The goal is that we stop in 30 days (says the book) and then just say that we hope she can now regulate her own bedtimes as she can see what a difference more sleep makes, but that if she starts messing around again, we'll revert to this method. Because I don't want to be standing in her room every night at 9pm and I understand that ultimately she needs to be able to do it herself.
We have decided that next weekend she can earn some extra reading time at weekends if she's been able to stay at 9pm all week. We haven't told her this as she doesn't respond to carrots and senses manipulation a mile off. She likes it better when she doesn't see the rewards coming.
Mini, completely agree, of course I only have a 3yr old and a 7 yr old,and they are challenging enough.
At twelve I went to bed at ten because of a hobby. Bed by nine with time to wind down in her own time sounds lovely (cf swimming eighty lengths before bed!) I'd leave her to it.
Difficulty falling asleep is a big problem for kids with ASD. My son also has problems. He just can't seem to switch off at night and he complains a lot that he can't sleep. To be honest I had problems when I was a kid too. I always had dark circles under my eyes from lack of sleep.
With my son we have had to have a strict no electronics policy after dinner. No TV, no games. Routine is really necessary. Before bed he has a drink, he brushes his teeth, goes for a wee and has a story, so there are no excuses for him to get up again.
I think you will have more luck with looking for strategies for kids with ASD as the problems are quite specific.
A couple of things spring to mind ...No idea if they will work but?
If she is so bad at getting up in the morning, and you want to do the minutes thing, can you do it then? 'Oh you're obviously tired, so given that its taken you 10 minutes to get out if bed, you'll be going to bed 20 minutes earlier this evening'
The second is a compromise... If she stays in bed (no feeding the gerbil/sorting out stuff) then she is allowed ?10 minutes reading time, but if she sets foot out of bed, lights off?
Babe, get real - if you set up a situation of minutes here and minutes there you have put in place something which can be negotiated - traded almost - what a farce. Who is in charge here ?
At 12yrs bedtime should not be a negotiation of any kind. But OF COURSE any canny twelve year old will negotiate ruthlessly if the chance to do that is offered. Cut out the nonsense of buying and selling minutes and just set a strict no bullshit bedtime.
The sanction if there is any fuss at bedtime is "no Tv for a week" or no (whatever she goes for - PSP, Nintendo, Barbie videos on the computer - whatever).
"Fuck me around at bedtime and you lose out BIG TIME" is something that children VERY quickly come to understand if you use (and stick by) the sanction only once or twice.
Bedtime crap can be cured over TWO nights with a ruthless and completely strict approach. It doesn't turn you into EVIL MUMMY - it makes you in to what you wanted to be before this nonsense started - a good parent who has her the in bed at the right time every night (which is good for them).
It's wise to include a twelve year old in family decisions, to make her feel like she is growing up and turning into something other than a child - to make her that her opinion counts and that she has a role in the world which is bigger than "just do as you're told".
But bedtime is not and cannot be part of these conversations. Because that's an area where the adults in the house must have an absolute authority (and that's a very short conversation that can be had)...
Good luck with a canny twelve year old but remember, you are not in partnership with your children, you are leading them and although the crown sometimes sits heavy, you ARE in charge.
Can she gain an extra 5 mins for Fri night for each weekday she is in bed with lights out etc at 9? So there is an incentive as well as a punishment?
Sounds like you are doing OK
I go to bed at 9pm usually, 9:30 at weekends sometimes but the last two weeks 8:30 due to illness. I cannot imagine letting our kids stay up till the same time or later than me- as it is I only get 30 minutes after our child is in bed before I go to bed myself. I guess of depends what time you get up though. We are up eating breakfast at 6.
She doesn't like time counting down. She gets worked up by it and it detracts from what she's supposed to be doing. But she doesn't have a very good concept of time, so we are trying to make her aware by seeing the connection between the time she goes over and what will come off the next day.
Last night, she turned her light off at 8.48pm. Much fuss and tantrums. I had to remove the lamp again and then she went quiet. I went to check on her and she was reading by the light from the landing. But because I'd checked on her at 9, she didn't go over her normal bedtime so according the new rules, she hasn't lost any reading time tonight. And then she went to sleep.
We didn't know how to deal with her reading when she wasn't supposed to, even though she did actually go to sleep at 9pm anyway, which was the goal. Because it was disobedient and against the rules. So we decided to let her have all her reading time tonight (because she went to sleep at 9) but she lost her DS for the evening as the consequence for the disobedience.
It just gets so complicated and you can see why we try to have a crystal ball to allow for all the eventualities.
Do you ever use a timer for her? e.g. set it to 30 mins at 8.30, so she can see the minutes ticking by?
We do that sometimes leading up to bed time, or often for homework, so she gets more sense of how long she has for things. Time is a very subjective and slippery thing, even for very organized people.
Next thing she will be doing is take a flashlight to bed.
I have gone with 12 mins as DD seems to be able to understand the connection between that and what's coming off her reading time. So lights out tonight at 8.48pm.
She is currently wafting around the house and seems unconcerned that her light's going out in 15 minutes and she hasn't started reading yet.
To answer the specific question, you should probably go with 12 minutes, otherwise it might get a bit absurd within a few days. Say you take 33 mins and she messes about until 9.20pm because she's just not tired, you'll be turning the lights off at 8.07pm tomorrow night and so on.
We're being much stricter than before with our reception age DC because of getting up early for school. But I am pretty happy that bedtime has gone in the right general direction as a result, than the specific minute the lights go off. Sounds like you are too from your last paragraph. But stay firm with the 9pm... give them an inch and they'll take a mile
To my 9yo DS bed is a mortal enemy. He says he hates sleeping.
Oh well...
The only thing that works is when everybody in the house goes to bed together. Because he certainly can't sleep if anybody else is running around, or heavens forbid, having fun.
I'd be happy if he was staying up reading, but he doesn't like to read
Have you tried audio books? Lying in bed in the dark not sleeping is awful. Lying in bed in the dark listening to an audio book is lovely.
I have a 12 year old, by the way, and I do my best to have him asleep by 9.30 at the latest. He has a very full on life and needs to be asleep by then. Can't believe the 12.00 people!
I had a 7pm bedtime until I was a teen then it got moved to 8.30pm with a LOT of arguing, and I was expected to sleep, or at least lights off/no reading/no getting up from them, regardless if I was tired or not.
As an adult, my sleep is shocking. I often can't cope on less then 9hrs solid sleep, and regularly sleep 12 hours+ in a chunk if I can. I still "rebel" when tired and will fight sleep until 2,3am and then struggle to get up, or I swing into total insomnia and have days where I can't sleep. I honestly blame my mum for this - I was never allowed to "learn" when I was tired
Just saw your post Poltergoose - very succinctly put. I think it is the requirement of quiet, non-interaction that does the trick - it enables the child to realise that they are tired. Constant nagging about putting the light off only steels the resolve to stay awake longer!
I think if you want her in bed for nine and she went 12 minutes over then 12 minutes should come off.
I have a 12-year-old who also faffs around at bedtime so I am reading this thread with interest (attempts watch Homeland struck a chord ). We also aim for in bed at 9pm - so all faffing (teeth cleaning, getting a drink, packing schoolbag) has to be completed by that time. I am, however, happy for her to read quietly in bed after that as I could never get to sleep without reading first. I do slightly agree with Starballbunny, some days she isn't home from school until 6pm and usually has lots of homework so I think it is fair enough that she needs to unwind before she goes to sleep, but I don't think an open ended bedtime is the answer. I prefer to aim for in bed and quiet at 9 (sometimes it's a bit later) and then calm, sleep inducing reading after that. Trying to nail her to precisely 9pm would be self-defeating for everyone - we'd be up and down stairs checking light was off (so couldn't watch Homeland) and she'd be back to square one in terms of settling every time we came up.
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Monday, May 28th, 2012
I'm sitting in the Boston airport as I type this, waiting for my flight to London to attend the Orange Prize shortlist reception and start my UK paperback tour. Very exciting! It seemed like the perfect time to post something on etymologies (isn't it always a good time for etymology?) And hopefully next week I'll be back with a myth as well.
Those of you who follow this blog know my feelings about snakes, but this is such a great etymology that I couldn't resist. Herpetology, or the study of reptiles, snakes and amphibians, comes from the ancient Greek "herpo" which means to creep, crawl or slither. In other words, Herpetology is "the study of creepers." Interestingly enough, in the ancient world, this didn't just mean snakes and their ilk. The Greek noun herpuster could refer to a reptile or a crawling child. Hmmm.
What really makes this etymology cool is the fact that the "h" sound in Greek very often became "s" in its Latin counterpart. So "herpo" became "serpo," also meaning to slither. And from there we, of course, get our English word serpent. Other examples of the "h" to "s" change include hept- (Greek root for seven) and Latin sept-, as well as "hals" which is the Greek for salt, which becomes Latin "sal."
Thersitical. This one isn't really etymology, but eponym. Thersitical, which means loud-mouthed, rude, and foul, is named after Thersites who was a loud-mouthed, rude and foul character in the Iliad. He's the only common soldier who dares to stand up to the kings and tell them what he really thinks; in return, Odysseus beats him savagely. He also plays an amazing role in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, where he steals every scene he's in with his bitter, angry and hilarious diatribes against the hypocrisy he sees around him. Among many other acid observation he notes that "Agamemnon is an honest fellow enough…but he has not so much brain as earwax" and that Achilles has "too much blood and too little brain." In his most famous line, he sums up the Trojans and Greeks alike: "lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery. Nothing else holds fashion!"
In its modern English usage, agony has come to be an exclusively negative word, but in its original Greek sense, it simply meant "contest"—most often in the physical sense. A boxing match, for instance, was an agon, as was a race—any situation in which contestants strove to beat each other. From this we also get the word "antagonist" which originally just meant opponent—the person against you in the agon. So, although agony is something you suffer in English, I prefer the Greek, where it seems like something you can fight, and maybe win.
Atom. This is a very old word, used by Greek and Roman philosophers to refer to the smallest particles imaginable—the foundation stones that built everything else, and so were themselves "unsplittable"—from "a" (not) and "tomos" (cut). Of course, nowadays we know that atoms can be split. But I like that the name remains anyway—in homage to the amazing ancient philosophers who had the foresight to imagine that the world was made up of things they couldn't see.
Gallimimus is a ostrich-like dinosaur, whose name is actually Latin, from gallus, meaning chicken, and mimus, meaning mimic—but Latin mimus is itself derived from the Greek mimos, which means an actor or mimic, so I felt like it still counted. And, of course, our word "mime" also comes from it. For all you Jurassic Park fans out there, Gallimimus makes a brief cameo in the first movie: "they're flocking this way!"
I wish you all a wonderful week and (those in the US) a great Memorial Day weekend!
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
I'm in the middle of Kathryn Harrison's novel Enchantments right now. The book narrates the events before, during and after the fall of the the Romanovs, through the eyes of "Masha," Rasputin's daughter. I'm enjoying it very much, and particularly admire Masha's sharp, satiric voice. Having survived the revolution she finds herself in an American traveling circus. She proposes act after act to the owner, and finally hits on one that will satisfy him:
The idea had been to have two bears doing somersaults while I waltzed with a third, Hannibal, and an assortment of lions, pumas, leopards, and tigers sat on their haunches, looking at us….. For the Daughter of the Mad Monk to waltz with a bear to Strauss while a dozen potentially murderous animals watched was enough, even for Americans.
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
I've just updated my appearances page in include my UK paperback tour. It includes two events at the Hay Festival, which I'm very excited about, as well as terrific evenings at the Bristol Festival of Ideas, Topping Books and the Twickenham Library.
In other news, I recently wrote an essay for NPR about a long-time favorite book of mine, Elizabeth von Arnim's Enchanted April. It was such a pleasure for me to get to write about it, and I hope that you enjoy the piece.
There are just a few days left before I head off to the UK for the Orange Prize shortlist events, so I am busily repacking. Given all the traveling, Myth of the Week has been on hiatus for the past week, but I promise that I have a good one coming very soon. The pits of Tartarus aren't just for men anymore…
Monday, May 6th, 2012
Happy May! Here are five more etymologies to kick off the week.
Cacophony. This word, meaning terrible, dissonant noise, is literally just the Greek for "bad sounding" or "bad speaking"—kakos means bad, and phon– speaking. Phon- shows up elsewhere in English, most notable in telephone (far speaking), and in cacophony's opposite, euphony (good speaking/sounding). By the way, those of you who are Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans can rest assured that Joss Whedon knows his Greek: one of the show's Big Bads is an old vampire named Kakistos—the superlative of kakos—which literally means the worst.
Rhinoceros. A favorite zoo animal from my childhood was the great, saggy-armored rhinoceros, whose name comes right from ancient Greek. Rhinos is the word for nose and ceros means horn. So, a rhinoceros is appropriately named for its most distinctive feature, its "nose-horn." Rhino- also shows up in several other English compounds, most commonly in rhinoplasty, or nose job.
Rhapsody. This lovely word has an equally lovely origin. In ancient Greece, a "rhapsode" was a bard who traveled from town to town performing epic poetry, most often stories from Homer. The word rhapsode itself has a further etymology, from the Greek "rhapt-" which means to stitch or sew, and "oid-" meaning song. The job of the bards was to stitch together different pieces of verse to create a whole piece that would go over well with that night's particular audience.
Moron. It has always tickled me that this petty playground insult is right out of the ancient world. It's from the Greek moros, meaning stupid or foolish.
Pterodactyl. The dinosaur of the week is pterodactyl, whose name derives from the ancient Greek word for wing or feather, "pteron," and "dactyl" which means finger. Put together, the two make the "winged finger" dinosaur we've come to know and love. As a very young child I had trouble pronouncing this word, usually turning it into "petrodactyl." Stone finger? Certainly would make it harder to fly….
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As the state becomes more authoritarian and the police more militaristic, revelations like this one from our overlords sure puts things into perspective:
The backstory is this: a woman was walking down the street when a motorcycle cop approached her, asked her if she lived in the area and if she would talk to him. She says his approach made her feel uncomfortable, so she refused and continued on her way.
"I thought that maybe he was flirting," she said. "I just thought it was odd, I thought it was odd. I wasn't really sure but I felt uncomfortable because there wasn't anyone around."
She says she was worried he might not even a real cop, so she refused to stop and began jogging away from him.
"He just crept along beside me on his motorcycle and he started saying, 'Hey ma'am! I want to talk to you. Hey stop, ma'am! I want to talk to you.' Then my anxiety rose even higher," she said.
This was followed shortly thereafter by the cop dismounting, chasing her down, tackling her and placing her under arrest. The police chief claims this arrest was for "walking on the wrong side of the road," (as well as "evading arrest" and "resisting arrest") despite the fact that the woman wasn't ultimately charged with anything.
Even if the preceding events could possibly be dismissed as hearsay, or something tainted by false impressions and emotions, there's the police chief's responses to questions about this interaction.
Whitehouse Police Chief Craig Shelton says this:
Shelton says by law you're not required to stop and talk to an officer if there's not a lawful reason for them to be stopping you.
But then he says this:
"Normally if a police officer pulls up, in my opinion, it's awful odd for somebody just to take off and not want to speak to the police officer," Shelton said.
Yes, this may seem "odd" to a police officer, but it's not all that odd for citizens, even those committing no real crime (Shelton justifies the stop with the "walking on the wrong side of the street" crap) to have no desire to talk to police officers. A huge imbalance of power makes conversation uncomfortable. Anyone who's attempted small talk with their boss understands this. If someone doesn't want to talk to a cop, it's not odd, it's normal.
Get it? If you refuse, as Cartman from South Park would put it, to respect their AU-TOH-RAH-TAY, you must be up to no good. My personal experience is that agents of the state tend to have over inflated opinions of their worth and are practically always dismissful of the fact that they work for us tax paying citizens. Not the other way around. The trending I am seeing these days, where this field, too often dominated by ego maniacs, is arming up, thinks the law applies to us but not them, and quite often don't even know the law, worries me. When you hear stories of police officers abusing citizens just because they record them, thinking that they should be immune form scruteny, it bodes nothing but ill, too.
Look, don't get me wrong. I am not advocating either anarchy or disrespect and active resistance to the law, but I think most of these public servants need to be reminded that they are there to serve us, not to treat us like criminals that just have not been caught in the act yet.


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I saw a poster in the train station the other day, "Be green; switch off idling engine" Let me first state the obvious. I agree. Switching off idling engines is a marvelous idea. Now to the not so good bit, so listen up folks: Switching off an idling engine for a bit, doesn't make you "green" it makes you less "brown" or whatever the logical opposite is.
Recently I was in Australia. On the TV, I saw a commercial for a well-known brand of fly-spray. The perfect lady in the perfect house with perfect kids had a terrible problem. Dirty flies were invading her perfect world and spreading yucky diseases. The solution? Fly-spray. Let me first stare the obvious: I agree. Flies are dirty and spread disease. My problem here is the perfect lady in the perfect house picked up a handy can of prominently displayed product and sprayed. Superimposed coming out of the can – was a multitude of green leaves that gracefully swept the flies away – as if fly-spray is some sort of natural greenie insect removing wonder. It's not. It's poison.
My third observation: At Hong Kong airport, there is an advertisement. As I made my way to immigration there it was, a big poster: Under a wondrously lush rainforest scene, it boldly demanded: "Save Brazil". Intrigued, I stopped and read the little print below. Get this; it was sponsored by a Petroleum company. Let me first state the obvious: I agree. Save Brazil, whatever that means. But seriously, are they having me on? A Petroleum companies job is to dig, drill, scrape or gouge oil and its by-products from the earth, then turn it into a myriad of noxious chemicals. Useful? Sure, and maybe even necessary, but green, they are not.
Am I alone in my cynical view that Petroleum Company has any real interest apart from cynical PR spin, to "Save Brazil"? Does a fly-spray company believe its product is similar in any way to leaves on a tree? Is it actually being 'green', occasionally turning off your carbon monoxide spluttering engine?
Here's a weird idea: let's call things for what they are. I'm not green if I turn off my idling engine; I'm just less of a polluter. PR and advertising companies (not you, Rick, lol) inundate us daily, trying to steer us into thinking or acting in a certain way. Watch any advertisement on TV or in magazines for petrol, and I guarantee it will contain images of lush green fields and will prominently use the word "clean", over and over. They will be "striving for a cleaner future", "making a cleaner product", or happily telling you: "our petrol cleans your engine as you drive", what they mean is: "All the gunk that your engine produces through the magic of internal combustion, will be liberally sprayed into the atmosphere for all to enjoy".
Being green, means you own a fly swatter and walk to work. Personally, I'm not so green, but I try to be less 'brown'. I do a fair bit of walking, but I also drive my car, catch taxi's, spray flies, and perform any number of tasks that harm the environment. I want to teach my kids to live their lives being mindful of polluting, encouraging them to reduce their footprint on the world, responsibly – not pretending it's green if you pollute just a little bit – because that line in the sand is way too easy to move.


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Image-guided LITT as a minimal invasive procedure in the treatment of callosa gliomas
MR gesteuerte LITT als minimal-invasive Methode in der Behandlung von Balkengliomen
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The majority of gliomas affecting the corpus callosum are classified as bein unsuitable for open microsurgery. Depending on the neuropathological findings of a stereotactic biopsy, there is no therapeutic option for the benign tumors; malignant gliomas receive radiation and chemotherapy as a palliative standard. As a new option of minimal invasive therapy, we introduced the MR-guided laser-induced interstitial thermotherapy (LITT) for these cases. It offers a relatively safe method of partial cytoreduction in the region of corpus callosum. A (palliative) reduction of tumor growth can be achieved. As examples for the application of LITT in benign and malignant gliomas affecting the corpus callosum, two patients are demonstrated:
- A 42-year-old woman with a benign astrocytoma (II° WHO) of the anterior and middle parts of the corpus callosum was treated in 1999 (Karnofsky Index 100)
- A 56-year-old woman with a recurrent glioblastoma of the posterior corpus callosum was treated three times in 2003; a simultaneous chemotherapy (temozolomide) was added and repeated monthly.
Laser irradiation was performed using a Nd:YAG laser (1064 nm). The light was transmitted via a light guide ending in an optical diffusion tip which was positioned in the centre of the tumor. The mean energy delivered per laser session was 4.5±0.7 kJ. Laser therapy was guided by MR-imaging. For the positioning of the light guide, a special localization system was used. Thermal therapy was guided by MR thermometry using an experimental software package based on the phase shift technique. Follow-up MR examinations exhibited a volume decrease of the irradiated parts of the tumors.
LITT was tolerated well without major complications. The benign glioma (astrocytoma II° WHO), treated once in '99, showed a stepwise change of its whole inner structure in the MR-follow-up during more than five years. A minor paresis of the hand even vanished. The primarily fast-growing, radiated glioblastoma of the posterior corpus callosum was treated three times in 2000; the tumor growth stopped, a partial cytoreduction was achieved for 9 months, the patient died from a general infection under corticoids 10 months after the first "LITT".
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The commander of UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has resigned after seven weeks in the job.
The news of the resignation from the world's biggest UN peacekeeping force, with 17,000 personnel, comes as the country is hit by fresh violence.
Lieutenant General Vicente Diaz de Villegas, of the Spanish military, "has indicated that for personal reasons he will not be able to continue with his assignment as planned", said a UN spokeswoman, Michele Montas.
Diaz was appointed as force commander for the UN mission – known as Monuc - in September, just after a new year peace deal collapsed in the region.
A war that raged from 1998 to 2003 led to a humanitarian disaster with an estimated 5.4 million people dead, mostly through hunger and disease.
Fresh fighting in the African country began today after Congolese Tutsi insurgents advanced towards the strategic eastern city of Goma.
The UN base in the town was the focus of riots by local people angered by the escalation in violence. One person was killed during the uprising, a UN spokesman said.
Fighters loyal to the renegade general Laurent Nkunda overran an army base north of Goma yesterday. Rebel rockets destroyed two UN armoured vehicles, wounding several peacekeepers.
Montas said the UN peacekeeping department was seeking to replace Diaz as soon as possible. Brigadier General Ishmeel Ben Quartey, of Ghana, was serving as acting commander.
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A distraught Kit Culkin, who has battled heart problems recently, expressed concern over son Macaulay's emaciated appearance, telling U.K.'s The Sun: "I hope that he has the right people looking after him."
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An unannounced BlackBerry Curve smartphone has been unveiled by T-Mobile UK via its official website, this suggesting that the device is about to be announced soon. The new smartphone is the BlackBerry Curve 9320
Much like the Curve 9220 seen last month (which is another unannounced RIM handset), the 9320 features a 2.44 inch QVGA display, BlackBerry OS 7.1, Wi-Fi, full QWERTY keypad, and a 3.2MP rear camera.
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UH honors late alum Jack Valenti
Published 7:00 pm, Monday, June 2, 2008
The University of Houston is naming its school of communication in honor of LBJ adviser and famed movie industry lobbyist Jack Valenti.
Valenti, a World War II aviator and 1946 UH graduate, died in April 2007. He was 85.
The UH commemoration of Valenti, who was from Houston, was announced Tuesday.
Valenti became an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson before going on to lead the Motion Picture Association of America.
The Jack J. Valenti School of Communication salutes the man whose 2007 memoir is called: "This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood."
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Alternative to Surgery for Appendicitis
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- There's now a safe and viable alternative to surgery for patients suffering from appendicitis.
Surgery to remove an inflamed appendix (appendectomy) has been the mainstay of treatment for acute appendicitis since 1889 and the general assumption is that, without surgery, the risk of complications, such as perforation or infection, is high.Researchers at the Nottingham Digestive Diseaeses Centre NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, in Nottingham, UK, teamed up to analyze the results of four randomized controlled trials involving 900 adult patients diagnosed with uncomplicated acute appendicitis. A total of 470 patients received antibiotics and 430 underwent surgery.
Antibiotic therapy was associated with a 63% success rate at one year and a 31% relative reduction in complications compared with surgery.
Even after excluding patients from one study who crossed over from the antibiotic group to the surgery group, a significant (39%) reduction in complications with antibiotic therapy compared with surgery remained.
Of 68 patients treated with antibiotics who were readmitted with recurrence of symptoms, four had normal appendix and 13 had complicated appendicitis. Three patients were treated successfully with another course of antibiotics.
The authors argue that the role of antibiotics in acute uncomplicated appendicitis "has been overlooked based mainly on tradition rather than evidence" and they suggest that a careful 'wait, watch and treat' policy may be adopted in patients considered to have uncomplicated appendicitis or in whom the diagnosis is uncertain.
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I use she and I. "This is she" when answering the phone, or " this is I" or "it is I" as well. I have children of school age that I want to go to college, I want them to go far in life. I try to prevent them from using slang, especially today's slang which is just horrible, because as they grow older and go on interviews and go into the business world, I want them to sound intelligent and for them to stand out. I do not think using proper English is snobbery, but I do think it might be becoming a lost art.


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The following are links to PDF pages of Oban tides for the 2017 season (March-October) with a variety of corrections, in particular for tidal gates around the Sound of Jura.
- tides.pdf - A4, 9 to a page
- tides_kindle.pdf - for Kindle, one tide per page .. so more than 900 pages.
The tables were created as a personal quick reference to save me having to repeatedly do the calculations. I don't recommend printing the docs as there are over 100 pages in the tabultaed version, and more than 900 pages in the Kindle verson.
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Wow, amazing work. Can't wait to fight one of these with an Alliance Dreadnought :P
The reapers have returned from dark space. With Earth under attack and the mass relays in a state of chaos from refugees and the councils fleet engaging reaper forces the galaxy is a mess. The outcome is unknown, the warfare is devastating. The galaxy will never be the same.
Wow, amazing work. Can't wait to fight one of these with an Alliance Dreadnought :P
great texture and also the 4 engines look much better this way IMO.
Well, like this it looks little weird, with the "six spikes". I think to satisfy all, merge the old and this new dread into one. The old boxy one, give it these wings but keep the bulky part and these things old one had on the back sides, and add the engines from new as well.
personally I think the engines are a bit to small but other than that its fantastical!
I think this Ship is just awesome. It looks dangerous like hell.
if only half the gaming companies of the world could learn to compromise like you....magnificently textured.
Yay 6 spikes/fangs ! Thank you ! :)
I liked the first model better without the two extra prong thingies... but either way both designs are Sexy and Deadly as hell!
Looks beast! I like it! Also, 4 engines better than 6 but make these bigger. Oh and great texture! ;)
One more thing, I assume the triangular structure at the top is the bridge, make it smaller and it would create the feeling that the ship is bigger. Sorry for my English.
It is not a bridge, but most likely communication array. Cruisers and first Normandy also had it as well as Cerberus' cruiser. And the size of it as it is now is sufficient :)
the old one is better.
I think the engines are too small as well, other that, the ship is fantastic!
Hmm... It looks like the exact same hull texture is being used as the fighters in the same dimensions. It should be scaled and repeated to reflect the size of the ship.
P.S. you can tell by looking at the circle part of the hull texture about 1/3 back on the main body.
It looks awesome but I think you should add cerberus icons on the ship to give it even more of a ME Look :p
Lovely design and textures!
Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the community today (totally free - or sign in with your social account on the right) and join in the conversation.
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A controversial Burger King ad starring Mary J. Blige did not turn out quite as the singer expected, TMZ reports. "I agreed to be a part of a fun and creative campaign that was supposed to feature a dream sequence. Unfortunately, that's not what was happening in that clip," Blige told the gossip site of the ad, which has her singing about a new chicken wrap at the fast food chain to the tune of her song, "Don't Mind." "I understand my fans being upset by what they saw. But if you're a Mary fan, you have to know I would never allow an unfinished spot like the one you saw go out."
Blige's Burger King spot was pulled from the airwaves earlier this week. Though the ad was widely criticized for playing into African-American stereotypes, the company said it was taken out of circulation due to music licensing issues.
Burger King issued a public apology to Blige yesterday. "Unfortunately, the Mary J. Blige commercial was released prematurely before all of the licensing and final approvals were obtained," the company said in a statement. "We would like to apologize to Mary J. and all of her fans for airing an ad that was not final. We know how important Mary J. is to her fans, and we are currently in the process of finalizing the commercial. We hope to have the final ad on the air soon."


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eet my rabbit, Pete! We got Pete early this summer and we love her - yes, she is a girl despite the boy's name! She is a sweet bunny and loves a good run around the garden, she shares a house and garden with two cats and a hamster. Even though we have cats we don't mind letting Pete running around the garden with our cats, cause Pete scares them away! But I don't think she means it to scare them!
My friends love her and think she is cute - a little (well, she's pretty big) grey rabbit! Well I look at Pete sometimes and think "I hope will have a long time with this rabbit!" I love her to bits and wouldn't trade her for the world! Well, here is a little profile about her:
Favorite food: carrots
Favorite drink: water
Best friend: Coco (one of our cats)
Favorite hobby: Running around the garden
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