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New Zealand Archives and Libraries
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Archives collect and preserve original documents of organizations such as churches or governments. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm. This section describes the major repositories of genealogical and historical records and sources for New Zealand.
If you plan to visit one of these repositories, contact the organization and ask for information about their collections, hours, services, and fees.
Although the records you need may be in an archive or library in New Zealand, the Family History Library may have copies of them in microform. The library has copies of records from several New Zealand archives, libraries, and other record repositories.
In New Zealand there are several major types of repositories for genealogical records:
- National and department archives
- National library
- City Council archives
- Public, museum, and university libraries
- Church archives
- Genealogical and Historical Societies
Many of these repositories have web sites on the Internet. Some web sites and e-mail addresses are given below along with postal addresses. In addition, some other New Zealand sites of interest can be accessed through the web site for Archives New Zealand. The web site address is given below.
- 1 Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga (formerly National Archives)
- 2 Regional Offices of Archives New Zealand
- 3 Department Archives
- 4 National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa
- 5 City Council Archives
- 6 Public, Museum, and University Libraries
- 7 Church and Religious Archives
- 8 Historical and Genealogical Societies
- 9 National Register of Archives and Manuscripts (NRAM)
Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga (formerly National Archives)
Archives New Zealand collects government records relating to New Zealand history, culture, and people. Records of genealogical value include:
- Some civil registration records
- Court records
- Education records
- Emigration and immigration records
- Government employee records
- Land records
- Maori genealogies
- Military records
- Mining records
- Naturalization records
- Old age pension records
- Passenger lists
- Probate records
- Reference materials
Archives New Zealand is open to the public. You can search the online catalog at:
Archives New Zealand (Head Office)
| 10 Mulgrave St
| PO Box 12050
|+64 4 499 5595
|+64 4 495 6210
|9am-5pm Mondays to Fridays, 9am-1pm Saturdays (Exhibitions Only)
On the home page click on links for other helpful sites.
Regional Offices of Archives New Zealand
There are also regional offices of Archives New Zealand which collect records within the areas they serve. Contact details for regional offices are:
Archives New Zealand
Auckland Regional Office
95 Richard Pearse Drive
Mangere, Manukau. 2022
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-9) 270-1100
Fax: (64-9) 276 4472
Email: email@example.com
Internet: http://www.archives.govt.nz/about/ourstructure/regionals/auckland.php
Mailing address:
PO Box 201103 Auckland Airport
Manukau. 2150
New Zealand
Archives New Zealand
Wellinton Head Office and Regional Office,
Street Address:
10 Mulgrave St. Thorndon. Wellington 6011.
Postal address: p. o. bOX 12-050, Wellington.
Phone: (64-4) 499-5595
Fax (64-4) 495-6210
Eamil. email@example.com
Opening Hours 9-5p.m. Monday-Friday
Archives New Zealand
Christchurch Regional Office
90 Peterborough Street
New Zealand
Mailing address:
PO Box 642
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-3) 377 0760
Fax: (64-3) 365 2662
Email: email@example.com
Archives New Zealand
Dunedin Regional Office
556 George Street
New Zealand
Mailing address:
PO Box 6183
Dunedin North
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-3) 477 0404
Fax: (64-3) 477 0422
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Helpful guides to the National Archives collection are:
Family History at National Archives. Wellington: Allen & Unwin/National Archives, 1990, (Family History Library book 993.1 D27f).
Beyond the Book. Wellington: National Archives, 1994, (Family History Library book 993.1 D27f Supp. 1994).
Department Archives
In addition to Archives New Zealand and its regional offices, some government departments retain custody of the records they generate. Civil registration records are held by the Department of Internal Affairs in the Central Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. Wills and probate records from 1990 to the present are held either at the High Courts of the Justice Department or by the Public Trust Office. Land records are held by Land Information New Zealand. The records of the various departments are open to the public. You can read more about these departments and their records under the appropriate record headings on this site.
National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa
The National Library of New Zealand has the largest collection of reference and research materials in the country. It has a rich collection of family history resources. The Alexander Turnbull Library, which is New Zealand's main research Library, is a division of the National Library. Besides published items, the Turnbull Library holds New Zealand's largest collection of private manuscripts and archives.
For advice on researching your family history or whakapapa, go to http://www.natlib.govt.nz/services/get-advice/family-history
''''Alexander Turnbull Library
Cnr Molesworth and Aitken Streets
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-4) 474-3120
Fax: (64-4) 474-3063
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.natlib.govt.nz/atl
Mailing address:
Alexander Turnbull Library
PO Box 12349
Wellington 6144
New Zealand
National Library of New Zealand
Cnr Molesworth and Aitken Streets
New Zealand
Mailing address:
PO Box 1467
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-4)474-3000
Fax: 64-4-474-3035
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The catalog of published items for both the National Library and the Alexander Turnbull Library (the latter from 1984) is found at:
The Alexander Turnbull Library has published its pre-1984 catalog on microfiche. It is available at many academic and public libraries. The Family History Library holds this catalog (Family History Library fiche 6343237; 793 parts) but it does not circulate to Family History Centers.
The Alexander Turnbull Library's catalog of unpublished items is found at: http://tapuhi.natlib.govt.nz/
An online database of heritage items from the Alexander Turnbull Library, called Timeframes, is also available on the Internet. It contains over 42,000 heritage images, mostly dated pre-1947, and is growing every day. The address is:
Other National Library online databases are included under the appropriate records on this site.
City Council Archives
City councils created records in the course of their activities and contain considerable resources for family history.
Contact details for the city council archives of the five largest cities in New Zealand are as follows:
Auckland City Archives
Auckland Public Library
Lorne Street
New Zealand
Mailing address:
Private Bag 92516
Wellesley Street
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-9) 307-7792
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/
Hamilton City Archives
Hamilton City Libraries
9 Garden Place
New Zealand
Mailing address:
PO Box 933
Hamilton 3240
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-7) 838-6826
Fax: (64-7) 838-6858
Internet: http://www.hamiltonlibraries.co.nz/page/pageid/2145833031
Wellington City Council Archives
28 Barker Street (off Cambridge Terrace)
PO Box 2199
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-4) 801-2096
Fax: (64-4) 801-2097
Email: email@example.com
Internet: http://www.wellington.govt.nz/services/archives/history/history.html
Christchurch City Council Archives
90 Peterborough Street
New Zealand
Mailing address:
PO Box 237
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-3) 377-0760
Internet: http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Handbook/archives.asp
Dunedin City Council Archives
Civic Centre
50 The Octagon
New Zealand
Mailing address:
PO Box 5045
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-3) 474-3553
Fax: (64-3_ 474-3594
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.cityofdunedin.com/city/?page=archives_about
Public, Museum, and University Libraries
Some sources helpful to family history research are available in major libraries in New Zealand, and smaller public libraries may also have family history collections. Most libraries' collections are open to the public. The National Library of New Zealand has already been mentioned. Listed below are some major libraries in New Zealand with collections of records valuable to family history research. Contact these libraries and ask about their collections, hours, services, and fees.
Auckland City Libraries
Lorne Street
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-9) 307-7795
Email: email@example.com
Internet: http://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/EN/heritage/familyhistory/Pages/familyhistory.aspx
Mailing address:
PO Box 4138
New Zealand
It has a large collection of records for New Zealand, as well as for other areas of the world. A published guide to their collection is available: Researching Family History in the Collections of Auckland City Libraries. (Auckland: Auckland City Library, 1997.)
Central Auckland Research Centre:
Christchurch City Libraries
Cnr Gloucester Street and Oxford Tce
New Zealand
'Mailing address:
'PO Box 1466
Christchurch Mail Centre
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-3) 941-7923
Fax: (64-3) 941-7848
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://library.christchurch.org.nz/
Dunedin City Library
Moray Place. Dunedin.
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 5045,
Moray Place. Dunedin.
Internet: http//dunedinlibraries.com/home
Invercargill City Library
Private Bag 90111.
Phone 64-3-2111-444
Internet: www.ilibrary.co.nz
Gisborne Public Library known as
H. P. Williams Memorial Library
Gisborne. North Island
Internet: www.gpl.govt.nz
Auckland Museum and War Memorial Museum
Tamaki Paenga Hira
Domain Drive
New Zealand
Mailing address:
Private Bag 92-018
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-9) 309-0443
Fax: (64-9) 379-9956
Email: email@example.com
Internet: http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/?t=200
Internet to the Main page of the Museum. www.aucklandmuseum.com
Hocken Library
University of Otago
Cnr Anzac Ave and Parry Street
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-3) 479-8868
Fax: (63-3) 479-5078
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/hocken/index.html
Mailing address:
Hocken Library
PO Box 56
New Zealand
The Hocken Library has a large collection of archival publications, and pictorial material pertaining to the Otago and Southland areas of the South Island.
The online catalog for published materials is at: http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/hocken/cata.html#published
For manuscripts and archives go to: http://hakena.otago.ac.nz/nreq/Welcome.html
Macmillan Brown Library
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-3) 364-2753
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/mb/
University of Waikato Library
Private Bag 3105
Hamilton 3240
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-7) 838-4466
Fax: (64-7) 838-4899
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/resources/nzc/
This library has an extensive collection of new Zealand biographies.
Internet: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/resources/nzc/biography.shtml
University of Auckland Library
Private Bag 92-019
Auckland Mail Centre 1142
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-9) 373-7599
Internet: http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/
It has a large microfilmed collection of Maori Land Court minute books and other material pertaining to Maori studies. Old maps showing old Land Claims for Auckland and Northland. Also maps of Auckland 1847, Auck. South 1859-64
New Zealand National Maritime Museum
Hobson Wharf.
Auckland.New Zealand
New Zealand Ship and Marine Society
P.O.Box 5104
New Zealand
This Society is into preservation of private and public collections of shipping photographs, models, drawings, literature and other masterial of shipping interest, especially that associated with New Zealand. This site has useful links to other kindred organisations.
Army Museum Waiouru New Zealand
Cnr. State Highway 1 & Hassett Drive.
Waiouru. New Zealand
phone 64 6 387 6911
Fax 64 6 387 6319
Army Records for New Zealand, the different Expeditionary Force Histories, current displays on line.Individual Soldier Records up to 1920, are held at Archives New Zealand, Wellington. Post 1920 are held at N. Z. Dept of Defence, Trentham.
Church and Religious Archives
Many church records of New Zealand are in the custody of the minister or priest of the parish or congregation which created the records. Some early records are in church or religious archives. The Anglican, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian faiths, as well as the Salvation Army, all have archives, and some have more than one. The Anglican church, for instance, has six diocesan archives. Listed below is one main archive for each of the major religious organizations. The staff at these archives will be able to direct you to the specific archive that holds records for your congregation of interest. It is possible to write to these archives and request brief searches of their records. Keep written requests simple and include a self-addressed envelope and a small contribution for expenses and postage.
Provincial Archives-St John's Theological College
202 St John's Road
Auckland 5
New Zealand
Internet: http://www.anglican.org.nz/Resources/Archives1.htm
Archdiocese of Wellington Archives
22-30 Hill Street
New Zealand
Mailing address:
PO Box 198
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-4) 496-1777
Internet: http://www.catholic.org.nz/
Methodist Church of New Zealand Archives
Morley House
Latimer Square
New Zealand
Mailing address:
PO Box 931
Christchurch 8015
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-3) 366-6049
Fax: (64-3) 364-9439
Email: email@example.com
Internet: http://www.methodist.org.nz/index.cfm/home
New Zealand Baptist Historical Society
Carey Baptist College
473 Great South Road
New Zealand
Mailing address:
PO Box 12-149
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-9)525-4017
Fax: (64-9) 525-4096
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.carey.ac.nz/The_College/Pages/Contact_Us/
Hewitson Library
Knox College
Arden Street
Dunedin 9010
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-3) 473-0107
Fax: (64-3) 473-8466
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.archives.presbyterian.org.nz/
Salvation Army Archives
Salvation Army
PO Box 6015
New Zealand
Telephone: (64-4) 382-0732
Fax: (64-4) 802-6259
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/SITE_Default/SITE_special_services/archives.asp
NZ Jewish Archives
80 Webb St.
New Zealand
Phone: 64-4-384-5081
Fax 64-4-478-9061
For a complete list of all church and religious archives in New Zealand with their addresses, see:
Bromell, Anne. Tracing Family History in New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: Godwit Publishing Ltd., 1996. (Family History Library book 993.1 D27ba 1996.)
Historical and Genealogical Societies
In New Zealand, there are several organized historical and genealogical societies. Many societies maintain libraries and/or archives that collect valuable records. For more information, including addresses of the societies, see New Zealand Societies.
National Register of Archives and Manuscripts (NRAM)
NRAM is a register for manuscripts and archives held in many New Zealand repositories. Manuscripts in the custody of some smaller libraries are not included. First completed in 1979, the register is updated periodically and is indexed. It is available at several of the large repositories in New Zealand as well as the Family History Library (Family History Library book 993.1 A3nr 1979 ed.; 2 vols. in 6 parts).
NRAM is searchable online at: http://www.nram.org.nz/about.php
A wiki article describing an onlline collection is found at:
New Zealand, Immigrations Passenger Lists (FamilySearch Historical Records)


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Thursday, 4 June 2009
New Hair!
Makeup? Face: BB skin foundation, mac msf natural. Nars Laguna, Mac moon river. Eyes: Lash stiletto mascara. Lips: Mac hue with Max Factor English Rose lipstick and a rosey lipliner. (same as this)
It looks alot shorter than it actually is as I have had some major volume and waves injected into the back of my hair, I will show you how long it is once I have it straight one day too. She took about half an inch off the length, added some layers to the front and back. I have booked another appointment for 8 weeks time. Bye Bye split ends, you will not return!
I love it, my hair finally feels healthy and light again. I think my next mission in life is to be obsessed about my hair so be warned I will probably blog quite alot about my hair :) Enjoy the rest of your day.
PS. I have major Illamasqua goodies to show you, watch this space!
60 comments:
- ClassyDea66 said...
I REALLY LIKE IT! your hair dresser did quite a fantastic job! can't wait to see the Illamasqua goodies...
- 4 June 2009 at 16:41
- bubblegarm said...
Thanks Hun :) xxx I can't wait to show u, everything is amazing!
- 4 June 2009 at 16:44
- Olivia said...
Wow your hair looks stunning!
I really need to go to the hair dressers and get the chop :)
- 4 June 2009 at 16:44
- bubblegarm said...
@olivia thanks sweetie, do it.. It feels so good!
- 4 June 2009 at 16:49
- JennXOXO said...
Your new hair cut looks amazing!
- 4 June 2009 at 16:59
- GiGi said...
Looks beautiful! It looks like you got highlights.
The color is beautiful & shiny.
I'm getting mine cut next week, can't wait.I feel like so much weight just comes off!
- 4 June 2009 at 17:04
- *SweetestSinSheroon* said...
woooooowwwww..love it..especially the layers..thanks for adding the make-up part..xxxxxx
- 4 June 2009 at 17:05
- Monique said...
You look great!
- 4 June 2009 at 17:10
- bubblegarm said...
thanks girls :)
@sherona ur welcome :)
- 4 June 2009 at 17:11
- Zoella. said...
Wow, your hair looks amazing my lovely! Really shiny and healthy. Ahh i love the feeling of a fresh haircut! XX
- 4 June 2009 at 17:12
- Marie said...
WOWEE! Phwoot Phwoo!
This is Stunning! xx
- 4 June 2009 at 17:12
- bubblegarm said...
@zoella thanks hun :)
@marie lol ur so funny, thanks :)
- 4 June 2009 at 17:16
- amynicola_ox said...
i really like it! but i think your hair suits you whatever its like - it looks super healthy :)
- 4 June 2009 at 17:18
- bubblegarm said...
@amynicola aww thats a sweet thing to say, thanks hun :) xxx ill pay u later :) xxx
- 4 June 2009 at 17:20
- Sandra: said...
I love it! Very beautiful and I love the lip colour as well, so glamorous. I really want to try that oil hair mask you made, your hair is so nice and shiny
- 4 June 2009 at 17:36
- Catanya said...
I find it really glam! Like your new hair cut, it reminds me of cute pin-up girls, and I like it!
- 4 June 2009 at 17:38
- Cake Girl said...
woweeeee!!! How glamourous....
- 4 June 2009 at 17:56
- Phoebe said...
how did you get those curls? it looks stunning. great cut too!xx
- 4 June 2009 at 18:07
- Charlene said...
wow!! stunning! i want to look like u when i grow up haha....how gorge! i love your skin too! ur just perfection! i can't get over it...and ur barely wearing any makeup (ie. eyeshadow etc.) wow...hairdresser did a wonderful job!
- 4 June 2009 at 18:08
- Jo said...
Very glamourous! :) x
- 4 June 2009 at 18:14
- Kathryn said...
You look amazing :)
- 4 June 2009 at 18:28
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- 4 June 2009 at 18:31
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- 4 June 2009 at 18:32
- loulabelle said...
your hair looks gorgeous :)
- 4 June 2009 at 18:52
- Saimese said...
Love the hair & the lip colour is stunning. I also love your outfit of the day posts. You're gorgeous & you've got style. Your hubby is one lucky man ;)
- 4 June 2009 at 18:54
- Ditzymakeup said...
Your beautiful!! And i love your hair!!
What did your hairdresser use to make them curls/flicks? I love that style!!
I'm in seriously need for a hair cut!
- 4 June 2009 at 18:56
- lipstickrules123 said...
- 4 June 2009 at 18:58
- BabyJanny said...
love it, it suits u so well :) and i love the color btw :)
- 4 June 2009 at 19:06
- LoveLipstickandLime said...
Beautiful!!!!!! Perfect lenght and shiny locks. Suits you very well. xxNadia
- 4 June 2009 at 19:28
- Crissy said...
I love the waves! :D
- 4 June 2009 at 19:40
- 4 June 2009 at 19:42
- leskel said...
hey your skin always looks so flawless and dewy. when i use the msf medium it can sometimes look powdery how do u overcome that.
- 4 June 2009 at 19:44
- *stars*in*my*pocket* said...
I absolutely love it!!! I'm going for a haircut this afternoon- hope mine turns out as well as yours!
- 4 June 2009 at 20:07
- ellamarie84 said...
I think your hair looks stunning! xox
- 4 June 2009 at 20:09
You look really good!
I love the cut and colour, I think it suits you wondefully.
I like to think of myself as a natural girl, as I don't dye my hair (it's dark blonde in the winter and sun kissed in the summer), hardly ever use any kind of heat on it and have never had extensions of any sort... but truthfully this lack of hair-enthuse has more to do with my laziness.
However, I am also obsessed with hair care and am always looking for natural or store-bought products to help reduce dryness and split-ends and to help promote shine. So far I haven't tried anything that I can really recommend, though my sister also swears by coconut oil. I think a very healthy diet is probably the best thing one can do for hair, skin and nails.
SO... I'm excited to see what you'll discover and share with us! :)
- 4 June 2009 at 20:09
- Meya said...
look great! so much shine and looks healthy.
- 4 June 2009 at 20:14
- Saskia the Salsa Fairy said...
your new hair is lovely, i love the waves, it looks so much healthier and full of life xx
- 4 June 2009 at 20:34
- R.C. said...
love the cut! So fresh and so clean!!!
- 4 June 2009 at 20:42
- Vespa GirL Make Up said...
Amazing... it looks so good on you
- 4 June 2009 at 20:52
- Karrie said...
WOW great hair cut!
- 4 June 2009 at 21:37
- Aleksis said...
Wow Wow Wow! It looks SO gorgeous and I still absolutely LOVE your hair color...the wave/volume looks fantastic!
- 4 June 2009 at 22:21
- Katrina is a Princess said...
OMG!! You look GORGEOUS! You always have!! This hair cut is beautiful!! The volume and curls are perfect! Beautiful!!!! :)
- 4 June 2009 at 22:30
- bubblegarm said...
wow thank u all so much for your feedback girls, I really appreciate it :) ur all ever so kind! xx
@phoebe & @ditzymakeup
she used several brushes and curled my hair around them and held it there until cool :)
@charlene awww thank u soo much :) ur way too kind sweetie xx
@leskel thanks, I use very little mac msf natural, just a light dusting, and then I fix+ or spritz my face with water.
@nadine sometimes i wish i never coloured my hair, ur doing the right thing :) im definately going to try the coconut oil, i cant wait to see what i will discover too :)
@aleksis thanks hun :)
@katrina aaah ur so kind :) thank u!
- 4 June 2009 at 23:18
- Caramel Diva said...
I like it its very pretty
- 4 June 2009 at 23:35
I absolutely (heart) your new cut and it's so glossy and healthy looking.
I hate how my hair dresser does nothing but try straightening it with ghds, despite my insistence on having hollywood waves and a little oomph! hehe.
- 5 June 2009 at 00:05
- ladyb said...
really liking the new hair color - I've been gone for a few days - did you redye it ? or has it just faded :) Either way it looks lovely!
Also love the new hair cut !
- 5 June 2009 at 01:08
- Lily G. said...
Your haircut looks so cute!! Love it.
- 5 June 2009 at 01:17
- whitebutterfly01 said...
Ok that looks so beautiful!!! Absolutely gorgeous, think I might go for something similar on my birthday :)
- 5 June 2009 at 01:18
- Look.Inside.My.Closet said...
Wow! You always have great looks.
Can I print your photo and ask my hairstylist to copy? I have an apointment next tuesday and this is the exact haircut I seach in magasine for months! You are beautiful. Thank you for sharing with us your looks.
- 5 June 2009 at 01:28
- pinkpom said...
What's up beautiful? Geez louise your hair looks gorgeous. Seriously, this is your best hair!
- 5 June 2009 at 04:07
- bubblegarm said...
Thank u very much :)
@ladybthanks :) it's just faded.
@lookinsudemycloset thank u, of course u can :)
- 5 June 2009 at 07:50
- Make Up Crunch said...
It looks so classy Muhsine, you do definitely have a look of a 60's screen siren about you! I, on the other hand, have a look of a police siren at the moment and have completely lost my way with my look :-(
- 5 June 2009 at 08:07
- Make Up Crunch said...
O and re the extensions, I have completely ditched mine too, I don't think people realise just how much hard work they can be, I think it's ok if you are a celeb and have someone constantly looking after your hair for you but to do it yourself just takes over too much time I've found. I agree Clip-ins have more going for them!
J x
- 5 June 2009 at 08:10
- mizzworthy said...
This is such a great look on you - It looks so healthy! xxx
- 5 June 2009 at 11:56
- bubblegarm said...
@makeupcrunch aww thanks Jo, u r so sweet :)
@mizzworthy thanks hun :) X
- 5 June 2009 at 12:08
- Erika said...
your hair is very beautiful!!
- 5 June 2009 at 12:09
- Anna said...
Your hair looks beautiful like this!! It's so glam, love it :) xoxo
- 5 June 2009 at 12:09
- tina_mbc said...
Your hair looks soooo strong and healthy atm, I love it! ;) xoxo
- 5 June 2009 at 12:26
- Yelena said...
So stunning!!! you seem to get more and more gorgeous with every new photo!!
- 5 June 2009 at 18:22
- The Accessory Lady said...
Great layers. They frame your face beautifully.
- 8 June 2009 at 12:19

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|Google Friend Connect...my followers hidden to protect their anonymity ;)
So I started digging. It appears that in an effort to drive people to Google +, the Google team has now put together a Google + Followers option that merges your Blogger profile with your Google + profile. Your blog posts will automatically be listed on your Google + page. The point is that it merges your Google + and Blogger followers so that you no longer need to manage two sets of friends. Next problem? I don't use Google +. To me it's a weak version of Facebook (at this point) and not many of my friends use it. However, if Google + is your main social networking tool, it is a no brainer to merge your profiles to make it easier to share blog posts with your friends and family.
For now I'm going to keep my Google Friend Connect widget. For the good times. What will you decide?
To find out more about Google + Followers check this out. And for more information about merging your Google + and Blogger profiles, see here.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
A 15-year-old Syrian girl critically wounded in her nation's ongoing civil war has made a miraculous recovery at a hospital in northern Israel.
Doctors at Ziv Hospital in the Galilee town of Safed (Tsfat) were shocked when the girl got up and walked around just one day after having her leg amputated as a result of massive shrapnel injuries.
The young girl had been hit by shrapnel all over her body. The Israelis worked hard to save her left leg, but were certain she would not be mobile for some time.
The doctors were taken aback when just 24 hours later, the girl stood up, and with the help of crutches began to move around the hospital with little trouble. Dr. Alexander Lerner, head of orthopedic department at Ziv Hospital, told Israeli media that his entire staff was filled with an amazing joy to see this girl smiling and walking around.
The hospital has treated dozens of Syrians hurt in indiscriminate attacks by both government and rebel forces.
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Rumor: Capcom Readying Arcade Cabinet for 360, PS3
Cover art for a yet-to-be announced game titled Capcom Arcade Cabinet has been unearthed, leading to speculation a new downloadable game is on the way for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Siliconera discovered the trademark filed by Capcom on Dec. 7 for Capcom Arcade Cabinet, but French gaming site Pockett managed to find some of the game's key art before Capcom was ready to officially announce the game.
Though the various games potentially to be included are a bit tough to discern in the art, there are some obvious and recognizable faces in the crowd. Sir Arthur from Ghosts 'n Goblins is present, as is the hero from the side-scrolling actioner Trojan. There are also robots, planes, kung-fu characters, some muscle cars, and a whole bunch of other classic Capcom family members.
Just what games are going to be included are anyone's guess, but it appears Capcom is all but ready to announce this title soon. Until then, let us know if you can figure out any of the other games potentially included based on the game's art.


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O'Reilly on ACLU: "I think they're a terrorist group. ... I think they're terrorists"
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly labeled the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) a "terrorist group" for filing a lawsuit against Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and for opposing Bush administration anti-terrorism measures that the group believes are unconstitutional. The lawsuit [1] accuses Rumsfeld of approving illegal interrogation methods that led to the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody; the ACLU also believes that measures such as federal "no-fly" lists [2] and expanded investigative and surveillance powers for federal law enforcement under the USA Patriot Act [3] are unconstitutional. O'Reilly added: "They're terrorizin' me and my family. They're terrorizing me. I think they're terrorists."
From the March 1 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
O'REILLY: This ACLU has no strategy to fight the war on terror at all. Everything the United States government does -- everything -- they oppose. Everything! Nothing they like in defending ourselves against terrorists -- nothing. ...
No-fly list, remember that? National Transportation Safety Administration put a no-fly list of travelers who they considered a threat. ACLU sued, challenged it. Can't have a "no-fly" list. Okay? That's number one. Airline discrimination. So there were some people that were saying, "Well, look, if we have these guys and they just came in from Jordan or they came in from Oman, we're gonna watch 'em closely, pull 'em aside, detain 'em, talk to 'em." ACLU sued. "No, can't do that."
Patriot Act? Uh-uh. No Patriot Act. Can't be listening on floating wiretaps like you do on drug dealers -- uh-uh. Can't try to catch terrorists like that. Can't be lookin' at people checkin' out weird things in the library -- uh-uh. Okay? Nope, sued.
Immigration, all right? ACLU sued, filed a federal lawsuit challenging an initiative by [former Attorney Geneal John] Ashcroft to enlist state and local police in the routine enforcement of federal immigration laws. No, no, can't do that. Can't have the local police or the state police; help the feds enforce immigration laws -- no way! Can't do it!
Guantánamo Bay -- all of 'em have to have civilian lawyers. No enemy combatants -- no way, uh-uh. Come on. Come on. Every single thing the United States government tries to do to protect us against terrorism, these people oppose and they'll sue -- just like Christmas [4]. Same thing. Same thing. "We'll sue you -- put the crèche in the main part of town, sing a Christmas carol -- we'll sue you." Sue, sue, sue, sue, sue.
So look, I'm declarin' war on the ACLU. I think they're a terrorist group. They're terrorizin' me and my family. They're terrorizing me. I think they're terrorists. Can I get some lawyers to help me out here? Can we sue 'em? They're puttin' us all in danger.
In the past, O'Reilly has called [5] the ACLU "the most dangerous organization in the United States of America right now ... second next to Al Qaeda" and "a fascist organization." He has also said [6] that "Hitler would be a card-carrying ACLU member. So would Stalin."
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As much as I love being on my island (ok, fine, smoky-sweltering-city-within-an-island), I can't help fall in love with every other place I visit. It's just me. I am the wide-eyed traveler. I can never seem to affect a pose of sophisticated ennui. Unlike that Cole Porter song, I get a kick out of everything. On one hand, I come off as a silly panting puppy. On the other…well…can you imagine what kind of wonderful sensory overload it is to get a kick out of everything? You should try it.
Because of my naïve, yet happy, wanderings, I have come to the following conclusions:
I'll stop here before it becomes apparent that I am indeed totally off base. Oh, you already know? Don't tell anyone.
Anyway…the cute French girl in me. She needs to be fed. Thank goodness Bron chose clafoutis as the theme for this round of Hay Hay it's Donna Day!
Clafoutis, though very familiar and comforting to the real French, is very new and exciting to me and my imaginary French self. It is a dessert made traditionally with cherries (pitted or unpitted – the debate rages on!) onto which a custard-y batter is poured, and then the whole lot baked. Although Donna's recipe sounded tempting, I decided to use a French girl's recipe. And since that adorable French girl already gave me a great way to use my matcha, I thought I would be pretty safe taking her clafoutis too! Thank you Bea 🙂
But…but…despite all this fantasy identities, I am still an island girl at heart. 100% Filipino. So my clafoutis has mangoes and chicos. Mangoes from the Philippines are in my (and a gugillion other) opinion the best in the world. Chicos are another local fruit that have always been a favorite of mine. Less popular than the mango, it has its lovers and its haters…and I am firmly in the lovers camp. It is sweet, sandy/grainy, juicy, and somewhat, I can't find a better word than…booze-y. Both fruits are in season now so the timing was perfect for a tropical clafoutis (omg! Is that what I am?). You can find Bea's recipe I used here. Just substitute the cherries for half mango and half chico. Also, I didn't add the crushed biscuits and pistachios.
The mango clafoutis was good…but not as good as I expected, considering I worship this fruit. I suppose for me, the best way to eat a mango is plain, with nothing to detract from its inherent perfection. The chico clafoutis however was a revelation. I honestly didn't know how it would turn out, as the chico is seldom used in baked goods (yes, the occasional chico panna cotta in some fusion-y restaurant sometimes). It was a nice surprise biting into it…the chico had firmed up somewhat in the oven and it's sweet, grainy self was a great match for the smooth custard.
I am leaving tonight for Hanoi (yaaaay!!!!) so I'll stop here. I still have a mountain of work to finish, plus packing, plus making sure the flat is at rights before we go. I'll see you all when I get back, hopefully with lots of photos and highlights to share, and for certain with a few more pounds on me.
Until then I remain, this amalgamation of all that I have seen and experienced, within this country and without, half local-half whimsy…your tropical clafoutis 🙂


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Best Practices: Distributor Kramp Serving All Customer Requests With Long Tail Strategy
Our blog frequently provides best practice stories of our customers using product information management (PIM) for their business model. This case is about the "long tail strategy" at Kramp.
Tines, hand tools, spare parts for agricultural machines and hydraulic motors are the order of the day at Kramp. Kramp, based in the Netherlands, is Europe's largest wholesaler of accessories and spare parts for motorized equipment, agricultural and construction machines. The company's business model and e-commerce strategy is exemplary. Kramp is using product information management (PIM) for their long tail strategy in e-commerce.
Kramp's Value Proposition: "It's that easy"
"We want to make it easier for our customers, partners and suppliers. We believe in the future and the power of e-commerce", said CEO Eddie Perdok. Kramp grew the product assortment from about 200,000 to 1,000,000+ items from about 2,000 suppliers.
Previous stock policies in mail order retail always meant having limited space. In the catalog there were only a certain number of pages available. Even the logistics were limited – warehouse storage limited the possibilities so much that the majority of companies tried to find the "perfect catalog range" with the largest number of bestsellers.
The Digital Assortment Has No Limits
"Compared to other sales channels, the internet gives us significant cost advantages", says Eddie Perdok. The digital department store consists of servers that can be easily extended at any time.
Adding a new product requires no more than a few additional entries in a database. The challenge is that the product data must be obtained from the suppliers and then distributed before products can be presented in a shop. The range is therefore often limited because the product data cannot be efficiently updated and sale is lost to other vendors are retailers.
Europe's largest wholesaler of spare parts for agricultural machines and accessories focuses on managing all product data from a central data source for all sales channels and languages.
Customer and supplier feedback is an important factor
"We want to bring customer opinion and supplier knowledge together", explains Eddie Perdock. "Online customer evaluation combined with the knowledge of the manufacturer puts us in the position of being able to optimally control our stock". In e-commerce, vendors, retailers and customers are coming closer and closer together.
Benefits Kramp realized with PIM on their long tail strategy
- Quick ROI due to short implementation phases
- Better customer satisfaction due to optimal data quality
- Higher margins and turnover in e-commerce due to niche items in long tail
- Easy, professional handling of mass data lowers process costs
- Short product introduction times to new markets
You can learn more on using PIM for long tail business on the entire case study or hear Ronald Renskers, Manager Product Content at Kramp, and others talking on the latest video.
Massively increasing the assortment is one of the top trends retailers and distributors focus on, according to Forrester Principal Analyst, Sucharita Mulpuru. Forrester's research shows that retailers' biggest competition are brands that sell directly to consumers. Marketplaces like Amazon result in higher margins, according to Forrester and www.pim-roi.com.


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Laserface Jones Postmortem
May 05, 2009—
Background InfoAfter growing up wanting only to make videogames, and making a few small games with Pascal and later Hypercard in grade school, I released my first game for the uDevGames contest in 2004, called Kill Dr. Coté. It won the award for Best Gameplay, was a fan favorite, went on to be published by Freeverse, and got me my first job in the industry as a programmer.
About Laserface JonesLaserface Jones vs. Doomsday Odious is a dual-analog, omni-directional scrolling shooter. Setting-wise, it follows in the trend of science fiction B-movie style of my previous games. An alien known as Doomsday Odious is a planet-sized ameoboid that devours entire worlds whole, and it has set its sights on Earth. You play Laserface Jones, a robot that knows only how to destroy, and you must fight your way inside the beast and destroy it from the inside.
It's definitely an old-school, arcade shooter. The difficulty is off the charts, but done so in such a way that teaches you how to beat it, not just to kick your ass and laugh at your suffering. There's no doubt, though: it's a quartermuncher, and it's proud of it!Laserface Jones draws inspiration from a lot of sources. I take a lot of joy in hiding little homages to other games and media. If you pay attention you'll catch references to Gradius, Life Force, Contra, Axelay, LOST, Battlestar Galactica, and Emerson Lake & Palmer.
Flight of the Jones
- Idea selection
- Gameplay Prototype
- Level Editor
- Content Creation
Idea SelectionWhen uDevGames 2008 started, my first task was to choose an idea. This was a bigger step than it would initially seem. I had three ideas that had been swirling around in my tempestuous mind for some time. The first was TANK, which was germinated on my podcast with Blake Buck and William Miller as a game we wanted to make, and never did. I do, however, have an entire design laid out, again, in my brain. The second idea was the dual-analog scrolling shooter. It was to take the winning mechanic of Kill Dr. Coté and address the main criticism, which was the lack of variety. The third idea was an experimental, abstract shooter. It would have been an experiment in adaptive difficulty, and the gameplay felt solid (in my head) but it lacked in ambition.
Narrowing down these three ideas to one was a difficult process. TANK was easily the favorite idea at the outset. It had style, it had frantic (but untested) gameplay, and it had a lot of potential. The problem, however, was that it required a LOT of art assets, which I knew from the get-go would be my weakness. That alone was enough to eliminate TANK as an option.So it was between the shooter and the experiment. I knew that having competed before, plus what I was capable of then versus how much more I know now, that I could easily complete the shooter in three months. The problem, however, was that I also now had a full-time job to contend with. Would my ability be able to offset the loss of five days a week to work? I "decided" on both ideas several times, settling on one and then see-sawing to the other, over a period of about two weeks.
Gameplay PrototypeThis phase went remarkably fast, maybe about a week or two. I knew from Kill Dr. Coté that the mechanic of using WASD to move and the mouse to aim and shoot was a winner. I just needed to make sure I added to it, and provided enough content to keep the game fresh.
Level EditorI knew off the bat I would need a level editor. I got away with having no level for awhile, and just having a constant rightward movement and automatically spawning enemies, but that was not to last.
The level editor is build into the game. Hitting TAB in a debug build brings up the Edit Mode, where you can click to place obstacles and enemy formations, and drag them around.The editor took about two weeks to create to the point where it was functional enough to make levels, and another few weeks afterwards to polish up to the point where it was 100% satisfactory. So about a month altogether.
In addition to the editor, the game can read in .svg files that define the "path" of the level. I'm super proud of this, as it means I could draw the levels out in Illustrator. Something didn't work right, or a turn was too sharp (or not sharp enough?) Easy. Open it up in Illustrator, tweak a few control points, and resave. This also allowed me to very easily do crazy things with the scrolling, as opposed to straight right or straight down. For instance, the first level has a section that waves back and forth as you navigate the rocky shell of Doomsday Odious, and level two actually does a loop-de-loop.
Content CreationThis phase was the final part of the dev cycle, and was the most rushed. After dilly-dallying with a few in-engine features that I ended up cutting out of the game completely (enemies with build in obstacles, obstacles that would rotate in-game) it became imperative that I actually make the damn game! I had a functional-but-bad first level that needed to be redone, and levels two and three didn't even exist yet!
Thankfully, the Level Editor made it a lightning fast process. After trashing what I had done on the first level, recreating each of the three levels took about 48 hours, not including the time required to create new enemies to populate those levels. The first level took the most time in that regard, requiring a few weeks to get all enemy types in. The second level was much faster, and the third level just reused enemies from the first two levels. (If you couldn't tell that I was strapped for time by the third level, you may also notice there's no crazy curve in level three, just a straight line!)


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The Future of the Chicago Cubs' Front Office – Pat Gillick, Rick Hahn, Ari Kaplan
By now, most assume that Jim Hendry, though under contract through 2012, will be out as Chicago Cubs' General Manager after this season.
If that's true, it's time to start thinking about the future of the Cubs' front office – not just whom the next GM might be, but also what structure the front office might take (i.e., will there be a Director of Baseball Operations above the GM?). Ken Rosenthal offers some thoughts:
Speculation persists that owner Tom Ricketts might hire Hall of Fame inductee Pat Gillick as club president. In theory, Gillick could retain Hendry, and the two could work together to fix the club. But the entire idea seems far-fetched; Cubs fans want change, and both Hendry and manager Mike Quade seem likely to be replaced.
The real intrigue would begin once Ricketts began his search for a new GM.
White Sox assistant GM Rick Hahn is generally regarded as the game's leading GM candidate, but many in the industry believe that the Cubs' job also might draw interest from some of the game's top current GMs.
Phil Rogers suggested some weeks ago that Hahn was a likely GM candidate for the Cubs after the season, so you can expect to continue hearing his name. I hope you can get past the White Sox thing.
Speaking of Hahn as an up-and-comer, Will Carroll put together a list of some of the top up-and-comer types, many of whom the Cubs are likely to consider for a GM opening. The list includes Hahn (at the top), as well as Rangers' Assistant GM Thad Levine, Giants' VP of Baseball Ops Bobby Evans, Yankees' VP of Amateur Scouting Damon Oppenheimer, Dodgers' Assistant GM DeJon Watson, Braves' Director of Baseball Administration John Coppolella, Pirates' Director of Baseball Ops Tyrone Brooks, Indians' Assistant GM Mike Chernoff, and MLB Senior VP of Baseball Ops Kim Ng.
Rounding out Carroll's top 10 is an in-house option for the Cubs, Ari Kaplan, the team's Manager of Statistical Analysis:
"Ari Kaplan has a passion for baseball and he combines this with a thoughtful and intelligent approach to the game. In my view, he is at the very top of the line when it comes to the development and understanding of the analytical programs available to a Major League team. Ari also has the ability to communicate with all levels in the game; from the minor league pitching coach to the top team executives."
— Fred Claire, former Dodgers GM
Kaplan is a name many won't know, even inside of baseball. That could change rapidly if Kaplan is given a larger role in running the Cubs baseball operations, something many inside the game feel is coming soon. One baseball exec compared Kaplan's role with the Cubs as what Stu Sternberg did with several current Rays execs in the year before he assumed control. If Kaplan was shadowing the organization, helping Tom Ricketts make decisions about building his own front office, it would surprise no one. It would be a bit more of a shock if Kaplan were given the Andrew Friedman role, however. "There's no question that [Kaplan] is one of the smartest guys around, but he's just a stats guy," one current NL staffer told me. "The scouts won't work for him because he pitched his consulting gig as almost replacing them for years."
Another MLB staffer questioned his personality: "I like Ari, but any comparison to Andrew Friedman means they haven't met both guys. Friedman played up to a level and is great with the media. Ari doesn't have that comfort level yet, and I'm honestly not sure he ever would. Putting him in the line of fire of a Chicago media would be like the cow kicking the lantern."
Even those who think Kaplan is ready believe he would need to be paired with a baseball type, in the way that Friedman has Gerry Hunsicker available. One person familiar with the Ricketts believes that the new Cubs ownership knows that their decision on Jim Hendry and his eventual replacement could define them to the fans. "Risking their reputation on a nobody is tough. It worked out in Boston, but remember that the first choice was Billy Beane there."
Kaplan came to the Cubs only recently, as the club works to "modernize" their scouting approach and philosophy.
Other names you'll continue to hear as the front office rumors heat up later this year include Padres' Director of Baseball Ops Josh Byrnes (which we discussed here a few weeks ago), Red Sox Vice President of Player Personnel Ben Cherington, as well as a number of current GMs, including the Yankees' Brian Cashman and the Tigers' Dave Dombrowski, each of whom are "free agents" at the end of the year.


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VIA Isaiah Processor Architecture Preview - Low Power CPU
Catching Up
The news about VIA as of late has been somewhat depressing. The chipset business was moved under the CPU business, and many thought that it was the end of VIA chipsets serving other processor architectures. While it may be true that VIA will stop developing chipsets for competitors processors, the news we have today certainly changes many of the aspects of VIA's CPU and core logic markets.
VIA strength has been in size
Some years back VIA acquired Cyrix and Centaur, both of which produced processors for the Socket 7 infrastructure. Since that time those teams have designed the Eden and C-Series of processors for VIA. VIA took the road less traveled by designing for lower power consumption rather than top performance.
While VIA has not taken the world by storm with their processor offerings, they have carved a niche out for themselves in the ultra-small form factor and low power markets. Throughout the years they have improved their designs with both power and performance improvements. The current C7 processor is a sub 20 watt product that clocks upwards of 2 GHz. It has found many a home in specialty products, as well as energy efficient desktops and ultra mobile portables.
Now we are about to see the fruits of the labor of the 100 or so Centaur engineers that have been working on the new architecture in Isaiah for the past four years. These very same engineers have not only created this new product, but continued to work on previous revisions of the VIA family of processors. How they found the time to do it all, I am not entirely sure. Considering that the design teams at Intel and AMD far dwarf these guys, what they have put out should turn some heads.
Performance not Foremost
VIA has done a good job cutting a niche out for themselves in the low power/low heat market, and while their products do not lead the world in performance, they certainly are still some of the most power efficient for many applications. When then engineers at Centaur were directed to create a new architecture, power consumption was always the first goal. Performance does take a back seat, but not nearly as much as one would think. VIA knew that if they were to compete against Intel and AMD, as they are migrating to a new process node, they had to improve their performance to keep their products competitive.
New Isaiah-based CPU is very small indeed - Photo courtesy Russell Johnson
The second goal of the new architecture was to include many new technologies that are starting to be utilized more and more. The first goal was native 64 bit compatibility based on AMD64. The next was to include virtualization support, which might not be very important at this time, but the team sees the potential in the near future. Another goal was to improve floating point and multi-media extensions (SSE3), and make that performance competitive with the other products in the marketplace.
The overriding push for this product was to make a truly next generation CPU which will not only compete with the big guns in power/performance ratios, but exceed them. While I do not have an Isaiah CPU in front of me for testing, we must consider that VIA has rarely reached out to the tech reporting community in recent years regarding newly released products. For them to roll out the red carpet as they have, we should probably consider that they have good reason to do so and that they mean business.
A Next Generation Design
The C7 was not a performance part due to many of the trade offs to achieve good power consumption. The C7 was an in-order scalar design with a small amount of L2 cache. It had limited floating point and multimedia capabilities, but its overall performance was good enough to achieve quite a few design wins for products which demanded excellent power characteristics.
Now that we are entering the age of HD audio and video, the computing demands placed on current processors have increased dramatically. Once fast CPUs were the domain of the hard core gamer, but with the rich multi-media demands placed on many new computers, even these fast processors are struggling with some applications.
Isaiah Architecture Overview
To meet these performance needs, VIA is introducing their Isaiah family of processors. This is a totally new architecture from the ground up, and not based on any previous work from VIA/Centaur. The changes from the C7 to this product are dramatic, and the engineering effort to achieve these results looks to be spectacular.
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AMA Pro Racing will continue to field its three support races for the Laguna Seca GP during the 2011 season. The announcement made about the 2011 season makes for the seventh consecutive season that AMA Pro Racing has supported the sole MotoGP race at Laguna Seca. Unlike the Indianapolis GP, the Laguna Seca GP runs without the 125 GP & Moto2/250 GP support classes.
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Reading 1: Growing Tensions in Central New York
The tensions that existed between the people of central New York during the colonial era are well documented. While Swedish scientist Peter Kalm was on a botanical expedition in 1749-1750, he wrote about the relationship between the English and Dutch colonists who first settled the area:
The hatred which the English bear against the people at Albany is very great, but that of the Albanians (the Dutch colonists) against the English is carried to a ten times higher degree. This hatred has subsisted ever since the English conquered this section, and is not yet extinguished, though they could never have gotten larger advantages under the Dutch government than they have obtained under that of the English. ...They are so to speak permeated with hatred toward the English, whom they ridicule and slander at every opportunity. ¹
In the 1757, Thomas Butler, member of an English family that held large amounts of land in New York, corresponded with Sir William Johnson, another great English landholder and Superintendent of Indian Affairs:
I have often Said and do Yet That if any Troubles Shou'd arise between the Six Nations and us it will in Great Manner Or intirely be owing to bad ignorant people of a difrant Extraction from the English that makes themselves too busey in telling idle Stories. I fear we have too many of those who Speak the Indian Tongue More or less and dont Consider the Consequence of Saying we are Dutch and they are English that they had a fight Together last winter in Schenectady. the Dutch there beat the English. The quarrell was because they wou'd not allow the English To be Masters and take from them all they had. that the English wanted to drive them about like dogs, this Story I imagin proceeded from a small dispute between the battoe Men and Soldars last fall, and the English are Severe on the people at albany taking from them what they pleas breaking open their doors when they will, had forced Capt. Herkemer out of his House.²
Sir William Johnson was aware of other tensions between the English and German settlers, including prominent German immigrant Johan Jost Herkimer (or Hercheimer) with whose family Johnson's family had often quarreled. He worried about the alarming sale by the Germans of large quantities of rum to the Iroquois Confederacy and the wedge it was driving between the British authorities and the Six Nations, when he wrote to James Abercromby in 1758:
I believe Sir I have the Honour of your Concurrance in Opinion that for the present at least, it will be both Politick and prudent not to indulge the Indians with a Trade at the German Flats. In a Message I have just sent to the Six Nations, part of which is on this Subject, I have told them that you do not incline, to trust the Lives and properties of His Majestys Subjects to the Assurances of those, who late Experience shows are either not able or not willing to fulfill them, and that at Albany and Schenectady they are welcome to come and trade.
After the French and Indian War had ended, Great Britain sought to gain stronger control of the colonies and started to impose taxes on the colonists to reduce Britain's enormous national debt incurred while fighting the war. Rival groups, because of ethnic, religious, or economic differences, began to align themselves politically. In general, those who became Rebels were fighting for the right of self-governance and freedom from British control. Those who chose to be Tories, on the other hand, were fighting to maintain their ties with Great Britain and the British King. There were also cases where people simply preferred to keep things the way they were, and fought to maintain the status quo, so they were Tories by default. The explosive mixture of old grudges with the political and philosophical arguments of the revolutionary era turned New York into a powder keg.
Once hostilities broke out in 1775, New Yorkers were forced to choose sides. Upon the death of Sir William Johnson in 1774, his son John inherited a 200,000 acre estate and, in later years, also became Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Sir John Johnson chose to be loyal to Great Britain and gathered ammunition and raised a militia group called the "King's Royal Regiment of New York."
Nicholas Herkimer, son of Johan Jost Herkimer, a wealthy German-American trader and owner of 2,000 acres of land, chose the Rebel cause. In 1776 Nicholas Herkimer was made a Brigadier General in the New York State militia and charged with defending the state against Tories and Indians. Herkimer and General Philip Schuyler, with their Rebel militia, forced Johnson's militia to disarm and disband. Johnson fled for Canada, fearful that he would be arrested for his Tory beliefs. Ironically, Nicholas Herkimer's brother, Han Yost Herkimer, chose the Tory cause and became a Captain in the Indian Department; the Herkimers were one of many families split by New York's civil war.
One apparent exception to the rivalries in colonial New York appeared to be the Iroquois Confederacy. For 500 years the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy had mutually supported and protected one another. However, continued European settlement along the New York frontier had generated tensions between the Confederacy and European settlers. In 1768, in an attempt to set a boundary line to solve this chronic problem, the British convened a meeting at Fort Stanwix, which had been abandoned following the French and Indian War and was in disrepair. As many as 3,000 delegates from the Iroquois, Shawnee, and Delaware Nations met with the representatives of the King of Great Britain. Instead of resolving tensions, the boundary line divided the Iroquois Confederacy into factions, some opposed and others allied with the King and Great Britain.
At the outbreak of the American Revolution, the Iroquois Confederacy had to decide whether to support one side or the other as a single confederacy or whether to allow each of the six member nations to decide individually. The Onondaga Nation was the keeper of the Central Council Fire, the symbol of the Iroquois Confederacy's 500 years of unity. Although they urged continued unity and neutrality, the six tribes could not agree on a single course of action. The Central Council Fire was then extinguished due to deaths of sachems and chiefs caused by disease. Iroquois unity was irrevocably broken. British and Rebel diplomats courted the favor of the individual tribes, hoping to get them to support their side or remain neutral. The Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca Nations chose to support Great Britain. Although originally neutral, by July 1777, the Oneida and Tuscarora Nations would support the Rebels. There were many individuals who did not choose to accept the decision of their respective nations, so both Tories and Rebels counted among their forces members of all six nations.
Mohawk Joseph Brant, or Thayendanega, was a relative of Sir John Johnson. His sister, Mary (Molly) Brant, became the common law wife of Sir William Johnson after the death of John's mother. British educated and a member of the Anglican Church, Joseph Brant supported the Tory cause and eventually received a British Officer's commission as a captain. Just 37 days before the Battle of Oriskany, General Herkimer and Rebel militia troops went to investigate claims that Joseph Brant was attempting to raise Tory troops for an impending attack on the Mohawk Valley. On June 29 and 30, 1777 Herkimer met with Brant and unsuccessfully attempted to persuade him to stay neutral during the war. By August 1777, sides had been chosen, the participants were armed, and the stage was set for the first major battle between Tories and Rebels.
Questions for Reading 1
1. Develop a chart to track key people and groups discussed in the reading. Across the top of the chart list the headings: Sir John Johnson, Nicholas Herkimer, Joseph Brant, Indian Tories, Indian Rebels, Germans, Dutch, English. Down the side of the chart make these headings: Allies, Enemies, Events, Goals. Take notes on the chart. Did the goals and friendships (or hatred) of the people and groups influence which side they supported before the Revolutionary War? During the Revolutionary War?
2. What were the tensions that developed between the various people who lived in central New York? Between the European-Americans? Between the six nations of the Iroquois Confederacy? Between the European-Americans and the Iroquois Confederacy?
3. Why was it important for European-Americans to maintain good relations with the Iroquois Confederacy?
4. What about New York's physical location made its control essential to both Rebels and Tories? What made central New York strategic for both European-Americans and the Iroquois Confederacy? What about Fort Stanwix made it a strategic frontier post?
5. Why do you think the individuals and groups decided to support the sides they did during the Revolutionary War? What impact do you believe these decisions had on their lives and the lives of those around them? How did these decisions impact the Iroquois Confederacy?
Reading 1 was adapted from James T. Flexner, Mohawk Baronet: A Biography of Sir William Johnson (New York: Harper, 1959); Barbara Graymont, The Iroquois in the American Revolution (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1972); Isabel T. Kelsay, Joseph Brant, 1743-1807: Man of Two Worlds (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1984); Philip Ranlet, The New York Loyalists (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986); and W. Max Reid, The Mohawk Valley: Its Legends and its History, 1609-1780 (New York: G. P. Putnam's & Sons, 1901).
¹Peter Kalm, Peter Kalm's Travels in North America (New York: Dover Publishing, 1966), 346.
¹Peter Kalm, Peter Kalm's Travels in North America (New York: Dover Publishing, 1966), 346.


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SIOUX FALLS -- A Bridgewater man died in a two-vehicle crash on S.D. Highway 42 about 22 miles west of Sioux Falls on Thursday, March 21.
According to the South Dakota Department of Public Safety, 38 year old Jeffrey Ryan Robocker was eastbound on Highway 42 driving a 2008 KIA Sedona and nearing the intersection with 447th Avenue. A northbound 2007 Peterbilt semi-truck driven by Joshua Dean Steffensen, 35, of Hetland, S.D., stopped at a stop sign and then pulled onto the highway to turn west. Robocker's vehicle struck the trailer of the semi-truck.
Robocker was not wearing a seatbelt. He was dead at the scene. Steffensen was wearing a seatbelt. He was not injured. The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigating.


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Negotiators at the World Trade Organization are forging ahead with work to agree a global trade deal worth hundreds of billions of dollars but time is running out before the December deadline, the new head of the WTO said on Friday.
Roberto Azevedo, who took the helm of the WTO at the start of this month, said in a statement that "the dynamic has changed profoundly" in the past week, marking a turnaround from increasingly despondent noises earlier in the summer.
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"Delegations are no longer talking past each other but are seriously engaged in finding compromises on the issues that divide them," Azevedo said.
The race to agree a deal at a ministerial conference in Bali at the end of the year is not only a opportunity to slash the cost of shipping goods around the world, it also represents what many experts see as the last chance to restore confidence in the WTO's ability to reform global trade rules.
Christopher Wenk, senior director of international policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, told reporters in Geneva that the contours of a deal were clear, but it remained to be seen if the WTO could deliver.
"There's no doubt that there's kind of a breath of fresh air with Mr Azevedo taking over," he said.
"They're actually negotiating which is just amazing. They haven't really negotiated in quite some time around here, so you can really sense the uptick in activity."
If there is no deal in Bali, the risk for the WTO is that major trading powers, which are already spending much more energy on bilateral deals than on the push for a global agreement, would give up for good.
Some experts say that could foster the growth of rival trading blocs and deepen divisions, the opposite of what the WTO was meant to achieve.
Azevedo will update the WTO's 159 members on negotiating progress on Monday.
He stressed in Friday's statement there was still much to do.
"Time is not our friend and we should not underestimate the challenges ahead with positions still far apart on a number of the key negotiating issues."
The Bali deal is a small subset of the wide-ranging Doha round of trade talks that began 12 years ago and turned out to be too ambitious. The WTO repeatedly failed to clinch a deal before finally agreeing it had reached an "impasse" in 2011, at which point it started aiming for a much smaller package.
The largest part of the proposed Bali deal would be trade facilitation - standardising customs rules and procedures to speed up trade and slash costs.
At one point the WTO put the potential benefit to the world economy at $1 trillion, but most estimates put the value of trade facilitation in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
The other elements of Bali would be special treatment for the poorest economies and a limited reform of the rules on agricultural trade. (Editing by David Cowell)


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As jubilant ethnic Russians celebrate Russia's annexation of Crimea, Ukrainian residents are mostly staying behind closed doors and some are packing their bags to leave the Black Sea peninsula.
In a small cafe in the old quarter of the regional capital Simferopol on Saturday, a group of Ukrainians gathered to watch Ukrainian news over the internet and to discuss their future.
"We are ready, packed and we can even leave tomorrow if we decide so," said Sergey, a 64-year-old Ukrainian businessman who has been selling kitchen appliances across Crimea. He refused to give his full name fearing reprisals.
A native of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, Sergey moved to Simferopol three decades ago where he got married.
"The good days in Crimea are over," he said, sipping coffee. "I will try to sell my business in the coming days to cut my losses and leave."
Ukrainians account for some 23 percent of Crimea's 2 million population and are the second largest ethnic group after the Russians, who account for about 58 percent.
Many Ukrainians moved to the peninsula after 1954, when the Soviet Union gifted the peninsula, then Russian, to Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed laws completing the annexation of Crimea on Friday after the deployment of thousands of Russian soldiers backed by local unarmed militias.
Shrugging off condemnation from Ukraine's interim government and Western leaders, Russia says the annexation was necessary to protect Crimea's ethnic Russians against what it described as a "fascist" threat in Kiev, where Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovich was toppled after bloody popular unrest.
Last Sunday, Crimea's pro-Russian authorities staged a referendum on secession from Ukraine in which a landslide 97 percent of participants voted to secede.
Some Crimean Ukrainians say they feel under pressure from pro-Russian neighbours and militias loyal to the region's Moscow-backed prime minister, Sergei Aksyonov.
"It is really scary to stay here because if you support a different position to the radical pro-Russian one, you might become a victim of violence," Galina Dzhikayeva, a director of an art center in Simferopol, said in a recent interview.
By Friday, about 900 people from Crimea had crossed to the mainland, a parliamentary deputy said, and the ministry for social affairs in Kiev said it had set up a special hotline to help them claim pensions, social security and relocate their children to new schools.
"The border guards are keeping statistics of people moving ... to other Ukrainian regions ... There are families with children among them as well as individuals," Galina Lutkovska, a Ukrainian parliamentary deputy responsible for human rights, was quoted as saying by the Ukrinform news agency.
Students from mainland Ukraine studying at Crimean universities also said they may head home after the annexation.
"I don't know if I will feel bad being Ukrainian and living in Russia, but ... I do not accept this. I did not want this," said Ksenia Semenchenko, a history student.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a human rights and security body, finally agreed this week to send monitors to Ukraine after a delay Western members blamed on Russia, but Moscow said it would have no mandate in Crimea.
Many Ukrainian servicemen who served in Crimea have also been packing up after Russian troops took over their positions. Although many said they would remain in Crimea where they were born, others said they were ready to redeploy to other posts.
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I'm only going to say this once so listen up. My sister is funny. And maybe I get the humor so well because we are related and all, but this is my blog and I'm calling it like I see it. It's not too often I give her props because she has this problem with an oversized head...it's almost too big to fit through doorways. Anyway, I tell you that because as you read the following blog you might be tempted to throw a compliment her way and let her know she did a pretty fair job at her first attempt at blogging. Resist that urge. I'm kidding...in a totally serious way. The topic for the day is Men and all the untruths they tell. I could have written it myself but she seems to have taken many of the words right out of my mouth. Enjoy...
Ok so many people have been telling me I should write my own blog but I've been hesitant thinking to myself "What in the heck would I write about?" I mean really, there's only so many stories you can tell about your kids. I don't have the opportunities to travel anywhere cool. And when people randomly come up to me in stores and ask a question...it really is just to get an answer. No hidden agendas or subtle flirting unfortunately.
So why am I writing on this here blog of my talented, witty, almost as cute as me sister? Well its simple...she had written a status update earlier saying...
"people put their time and energy into what's important to them. don't say something is a priority and then spend your time doing something else. that means you lie...and God doesn't like liars."
I read that and thought automatically to myself "OMG that's so true!" In my 25 years of life I have encountered liars of all shapes, colors, and genders....but men BY FAR take the cake! I don't know what it is about the male species that makes them feel the need to lie or twist the truth to a female. I've recently re-joined the dating game and already have heard some woppers! I mean, I may be a little rusty, but I'm not dumb.
Fact: A Mother is the best detective that has ever lived. She will find out anything she needs to know by eavesdropping, snooping, stalking, or interrogation.
Fact: We are(in some cases, by default) our Mother's Daughters. We know how do to the same things that they do, it's in our blood.
If you lie to my face, I will catch you. I will find the truth out. And I will bust the windows out of your car! hahaha ok the last one only happened once but in my defense he deserved it.
But when I read my sister's comment all these instances came rushing to my head of all the lines I've been given or have been told to me via girl friends that were said by men. Now looking back at them, they were just straight out lies! Allow me to share a few with you:
- I'm pretty busy at night and on the weekends so we can really only kick it during the week days.
That's a lie. No person is THAT busy. More than likely he has another woman that he entertains during those times.
- I'm trying to figure out who I am in life and don't think I could handle being in a relationship right now.
Ok that's a lie. Soul searching doesn't require no communication or fun with the opposite sex. If you're that lost, seek professional help.
- My life is really hectic at the moment and even though I really care about you, I need to focus on my career with no distractions.
Another lie! If he really cared about you he wouldn't see you as a distraction. You would be more like a refreshing break from the chaos.
-Baby it's not you, it's me. I just can't give you what you want right now.
Aww isn't that sweet? He's thinking about your needs! WRONG!!!! He's thinking about his own needs and how one of those needs is to not have to give effort towards you!
My personal favorite...
-I LOVE KIDS!! It doesn't bother me at all that you have two. But lets just concentrate on you and I for a while.
Um...ok nice try. You want to date me and just try and pretend my kids don't exists. Get the idea of robbin' the pooty out of your head because it's not gonna happen! (you'd have to have seen Jerry McGuire to know what I'm talking about)
and lastly....
-I really miss you and want to see you...I just don't have the time.
Big Fat Lie! Any person with a brain knows that when you want to see someone, you MAKE time. I have two kids and I'm a student getting my teaching degree, if I can make time to see someone ANYONE can.
I'm sorry if you've read one of these and remember it being said to you. Perhaps he was one of the few guys actually telling the truth. But that isn't always the case. If it sounds like a duck and walks like a duck.....guess what?
Please, feel free to share your own stories of lies you've been told by the opposite sex!


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"It's been a crazy year for ticks," George Dempsey, M.D., said at his East Hampton office late last month. "Several new cases a week." Dr. Dempsey is now participating in an international research study of Lyme disease. "I'm excited to start getting some results. I think after the summer we will have some preliminary information. The more info we get the better."
Working in the office formerly occupied by Dr. Joseph Burruscano, whom he called "the Holy Grail of Lyme disease," Dr. Dempsey said, "We have 10 subjects . . . it would be nice to get 20." In order to take part in the study, patients need to have a "brand-new case and a fresh new rash." After a visit with Dr. Dempsey — with the tick, if possible — patients can be treated by whomever they wish, he said.
Not only has the doctor noted an increase in Lyme cases this year compared to previous years, he has detected an increase in other tick-related infections. He has also noticed that those with the "bull's-eye" rash are tourists more often than year-round residents. He guessed that "many of them probably go back to the city and don't know what is going on. The population has increased out here," he said, and many people "are not aware of prevention measures."
"I couldn't walk, I couldn't really hear," said Marissa Fanelli, who lives on Shelter Island and has had Lyme disease and related infections since she was 15. Experiencing severe vertigo, fatigue, and pain because of nerve damage in her throat and ear in her 30s, she went to "doctor after doctor," who suggested she had multiple sclerosis, lupus, and even a brain tumor before she was finally diagnosed with bartonella, a tick-borne disease, after meeting a facial-pain specialist while attending dental hygienist school in New Jersey.
For years, tick-related illnesses have been misdiagnosed as other diseases with similar symptoms, such as loss of facial muscle tone, severe headaches, neck stiffness, and shooting pains.
"If left untreated, it can result in severe debilitation and death," warned Jesse A. Stoff, M.D., who spoke about Lyme to a little over 20 people at the Wild by Nature market in Hampton Bays last month. He has seen the complexities of the disease in the several new cases he encounters weekly at the East End Wellness Center in Riverhead. Dr. Stoff showed slides of bacteria in the spirochete family, explaining that they are hard to kill because of phased life cycles in which it lies dormant inside cells.
Regarding other common tick-borne illnesses, like babesiosis, bartonella, and ehrlichiosis, Dr. Dempsey said, "If there are 100 with Lyme disease, 30 will have other diseases as well."
Charlie Mattson of Shelter Island, who has babesiosis, said in an e-mail message that the infection not only made him "feel like s*** for over a month," but also had a strange, and increasingly common, life-changing effect: "I can no longer eat red meat," he said. When he does, he vomits and sweats for three days. Some doctors think the symptom results from developing an allergy to animal protein. Mr. Mattson now has to "watch everything I eat, and most barbecues don't have much in the way of chicken."
Because there are several strains of bacteria with different protein patterns, Dr. Stoff explained, all tests don't cover all variations.
"The lab tests are not precise," Glenn Goodman, D.C., of Sag Harbor said. "Cutting-edge doctors will diagnose from symptoms, not lab tests."
Dr. Stoff believes that "the ultimate test is a culture," but the culture is slow-growing, and it can take up to five weeks to obtain results.
Bringing the tick along to the doctor's office is helpful, Dr. Dempsey said. "If we know what we're looking at, it saves a lot of grief. Many ticks are not a problem . . . just because they're small doesn't mean it's a deer tick. It can be a baby tick."
"I haven't heard of any Lyme cases that are fatal," he said. But other tick diseases and co-infections can be. He said ehrlichiosis is the worst, but that babesiosis can be very severe as well. "They are so sick," he said of people with ehrlichiosis, which "blood work doesn't always pick up. . . . I'm tipped off just by seeing them, but it is treatable."
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Even with an IV for aggressive antibiotic treatment, Ms. Fanelli still suffers from constant nerve pain, fatigue, and brain fog (which she called "Lyme brain"). "The cost," she said, "is ridiculous." Last year, she spent more than $26,000 in medication alone, not including weekly blood tests and doctor visits. "Insurance companies don't pay without a positive test," she said. "We have to fight for better testing." From her research and experience, she said, "most Lyme tests are negative."
Working to educate herself and help others, Ms. Fanelli attends conventions held by "Lyme-literate doctors" and has traveled to Washington, D.C. "It's horrific," she said of the long-term symptoms, which in her support group of "Lymies" range from eye problems and arthritic pain to immune system disorders and even permanent paralysis. "It's a lot more serious than people think. This time last year, I didn't think I was going to make it."
Ms. Fanelli found that she needed help from the Tick-Borne Disease Alliance, which supports initiatives to find cures and raises money for health practitioners who want to be educated about the latest research and co-infections.
Dr. Dempsey suggested donations to TimeforLyme.org for research into chronic Lyme conditions. "We have some great technology," he said. "We can distinguish DNA by means that we couldn't before, to find the genetic sequence down to the exact nucleic acid. . . . Ticks carry numerous diseases," he said, "I don't make many assumptions."
The number of Lyme disease cases must be confirmed by a lab, Dr. Dempsey said, as it is a reportable disease, but only Suffolk County as a whole is tabulated: At a rate of 1,000 per two million people, the numbers don't reveal the intensity of infections on the East End, particularly since in Suffolk "half a million never get near a tick." He said it was essential to find better ways of diagnosing and identifying all diseases in ticks.
When a Tick Is Found
Although many ticks are simply too small to be detected, if a tick is found on the body, "safe removal is important," Dr. Stoff said. Some recommend using iodine or olive oil to help release the tick's grip on the skin, he said, but removal should involve tweezers. "Grab it just below its rear enlarged part, as close to the head as possible. Pull it straight out in one piece with gentle traction" while trying to avoid squeezing the blood of the tick into your system.
There are several schools of thought on treating Lyme disease, Dr. Stoff said. "If you live in a high-risk area, my recommendation is to take the antibiotics. . . . I'm not a huge fan of drugs in my practice, but I have not found any research indicating anything besides an antibiotic that can kill the bacteria."
"It's critical to pile in tons of probiotics," he added. However, "ongoing antibiotics will not work," Dr. Stoff said, for what he called post-Lyme syndrome — symptoms virtually identical to the initial illness but that appear after Lyme is successfully treated. "There are tests for post-Lyme syndrome which look at inflammatory markers in the blood."
Dr. Stoff's treatment plan, designed to "get the immune system back," often includes progressive allergy desensitization to stimulate the balance of fighter T-cells. He also recommends supplements, including fish oil and vitamins C and D. He said there was a "huge difference between natural and synthetic stuff." Diet, digestion, sleep, and avoiding stress are crucial.
Dr. Goodman uses herbs that "have extensive historic application as anti-microbials, and we also use homeopathic remedies." His goal is to use remedies that provoke "regenerative nutritive action" to re-establish the immune system. Dr. Goodman has a practice with his wife, Dr. Suzanne Kirby, that offers alternatives and complementary approaches.
"I am not against the use of antibiotics," he said. "However, there are instances where they are inadequate or ineffective." He explained that in addition to killing bacteria, "the remedies help the cell to both eject the stored toxins and provide it with nutrients to increase the cell's function."
In Dr. Dempsey's office, if a patient has a rash, "call it Lyme and treat it." He said that most doctors will follow standard infectious disease guidelines, with antibiotic treatment ranging from 10 to 21 days, depending on the size of the rash and the severity of the symptoms.
Dr. Jerry Simon, who used to work with Dr. Burruscano, has a practice in that office as well, offering alternative treatments. "We are trying to treat it from all sides," Dr. Dempsey said. "It is an art, leave it to us."
According to Dr. Burrascano's Web site, "Despite antibiotic treatments, patients will not return to normal unless they exercise. . . . A properly executed exercise program becomes part of the treatment, as it can actually go beyond the antibiotics in helping to clear the symptoms and to maintain a remission."
Prevention is something all residents could be better acquainted with, Dr. Dempsey said — wearing clothing treated with permethrin designed to withstand 60 wash cycles, for instance.
"Stay out of the high grasses," Dr. Goodman said, "and do the tick checks."
Dr. Stoff warned against "dogs and cats that go outside and then come inside and bring ticks. . . . You can get Lyme disease from your own bed." He said those with pets should have them wear tick collars and treat them with tick dip. "Do not let them into your bedroom."
Dr. Dempsey's long-term study is open to every age and gender, as long as participants have a rash, which he will biopsy. The organisms in the skin are analyzed for types and strains, and blood is drawn to be sent to a laboratory in California — "the only one in the world that does it," he said. The research has been funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health and sponsored through the State University of New York, the Rockefeller Institute, and the New Jersey School of Medicine. The study is being replicated near John Hopkins University in Baltimore and also in the Midwest.
Another way to help, according to Dr. Dempsey, is to push for financing for the United States Department of Health and Human Services. "It does not have the funds," he said. "Science, that's what I am into. We still have a lot to sort out."


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Scuderia Ferrari Store Exclusive
These French Terry shorts for teens are perfect during the summer.
For sports or free time, these shorts are suitable for any occasion thanks to their simple but bold shape, which conveys Scuderia Ferrari passion. French Terry offers lightness, and the perforated fabric at the sides enlivens the design of this piece, giving it a modern and sporty style. The front pockets are convenient and the relaxed, long fit evokes the world of basketball. The elastic waistband comes with a drawstring. The "Scuderia Ferrari" print on the side and the On Track patch top off the look of these red shorts.
- Drawstring waist
- Scuderia Ferrari print
- On Track patch
- Composition: 100% Cotton
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Oh, look, it's Michael Phelps. Seeming extra pasty. Slate nicely followed the trail this week as a set of terribly executed Olympic-athlete stock photos became a meme and a scandal.
Were the photos a mistake, an effort to paint American athletes as flawed, or just a case of bad photography? What say you?