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Its been all over the internet and I can't fail to talk about it in this blog-Caleb's super performance.
Meet Kwasi Enin, son of Ghanaian immigrants who has obtained admission to all 8 Ivy League Schools in the USA. A senior at William Floyd High School in Shirley, New York, Kwasi Enin applied to all eight Ivy League Universities — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Cornell — and was accepted to all of them.
"My heart skipped a beat when he told me he was applying to all eight," says Nancy Winkler, a guidance counselor at William Floyd. In 29 years as a counselor, she says, she's never seen anything like this. "It's a big deal when we have students apply to one or two Ivies. To get into one or two is huge. It was extraordinary."
We congratulate William Floyd High School senior Kwasi Enin, of Shirley, L.I., who applied and was accepted to all eight Ivy League schools ( Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell and Brown Universities).
He has a straight-A average. He scored in the 99th percentile on his SAT. And he's a shot putter, viola player and a cappella singer. His extraordinary achievement was the talk of the education world Tuesday April 1st, 2014, but the 17-year-old aspiring doctor took all the attention in stride.
"It has been a little crazy, but I never really feel overwhelmed because I love what I do and I have great support," Enin said. He turned into an instant celebrity when he got accepted at all eight Ivy League schools. He was profiled on several TV and radio show including ABC's 'Good Morning America' and his name trended on Twitter.
But all the adulation isn't going to Enin's head. "That's not Kwasi," said his uncle Edmund Bimpong. "He's low-profile, very high humility."
A first-generation American whose parents are from Ghana, Enin figured applying to all eight elite schools would improve his chances of getting into one of them.
His first acceptance letter came from Princeton in December, the last from Harvard at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.
"I thought Harvard would be the one to reject me," he said. "They're Harvard."
Collectively, the Ivy League schools accepted fewer than 9% of all applicants for the class of 2018, ranging from 5.9% at Harvard to 14% at Cornell.
Enin ranks in the top 2% of his class and aced 11 advanced placement classes. The son of two nurses, he also volunteers in Stony Brook University Hospital's radiology department. But he said he believes what truly sets him apart is his passion — for everything.
"Every admissions counselor I spoke to at the Ivy League schools brought that up," he said. "It's a big part of who I am."
Enin hasn't yet made up his mind about where to take his prodigious talents. But with its strong reputation in medicine and music, he's leaning toward Yale. He's particularly drawn to its biomedical engineering program.
"I want the passion of music and medicine to be part of my life wherever I go," added Enin, who lives in Shirley.
Some Enin admirers joked on Twitter that he should follow the example of exceptional high school athletes and reveal his choice on TV. William Floyd High School Principal Barbara Butler said the school is abuzz over Enin.
"I heard other kids remarking about him — 'I want to do that,'" she said. "It couldn't have happened to a better kid. He's such a well-rounded, humble and modest young man."


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June 16, 2016
ÇaFleureBon Behind The Bottle: Interview with Camille Goutal of Annick Goutal Parfums + Rose Pompon Perfume Draw
Camille Goutal May 2016
Last month the Annick Goutal Boutique and Sniffapalooza invited us to Celebrate Spring over cocktails and music and to meet Perfumer & Creative Director Camille Goutal.
Hernando with Camille Goutal and Isabel Doyen
Although Michelyn has interviewed Mme Goutal in 2009, and again in 2011, we thought it would be a good time to catch up on the changes in Mme Goutal's perfumery and to go behind the bottle on the newest release from Annick Goutal Rose PomPon.
Rose Pompon Display at Annick Goutal Madison Ave (photo Hernando)
CaFleureBon: Rose Pompon is your newest scent. Since your mother was deeply fond of roses which one was her favorite?
Camille Goutal's rose garden
Camillle Goutal: She was fond of a rose, Charles de Gaulle, like the president. You know the name is not very sexy but the scent is amazing. It's a light colored rose. She really loved the scent. It's a little bit like Ce Soir ou Jamais (1999). We have a lot of roses in the countryside home. She had a lot of very pale roses, like white, pale pink. She did not like strong colors.
Charles de Gaulle Rose
CFB: And you?
Camille Goutal: Same. I love the Charles de Gaulle too. I have one on my window railing in my city home. I put a lot of flowers there. I have one that is pretty big now. When I open the window, the scent is very strong. I like fleshy pink roses to look at, but the most important is that they smell beautiful and aren't just beautiful to look at.
CFB: How long did Rose Pompon take to create?
Camille Goutal: Not that long actually. About five months. Sometimes a fragrance can take years or they come to me and to Isabel Doyen fully formed.
CFB: This time for the first time in the Company's history, a perfumer other than Isabelle Doyen was brought in, Philippine Courtière. Why?
Camille Goutal: Isabel and I, especially Isabel, has worked on many roses, and we wanted a new look. A younger, not that Isabel and I are old, but I love youth, so dynamic. Philippine Courtière was very nice and respectful of the brand. She listened to what we were saying. If she put in an ingredient in the formula that I did not like, not very Annick Goutal, not in the DNA of the brand, when I asked her to take it away she would.
CFB: How did you meet?
Camille Goutal: It's very funny, someone from the marketing department knew someone at Firmenich and the said you should try to work with Philippine Courtière. She was very nice and I was very happy to work with her.
CFB: What is the complete list of ingredients in Rose Pompon?
Camille Goutal: The two roses used in this fragrance are the Bulgarian Rose and the Taif Rose. There is also cedar wood, patchouli and white musc outside of what is on the website.
Rose pompon
CFB: Where did the name Rose Pompon come from?
Camille Goutal: The name comes from the blossoming of thousands of little puffballs of roses in France in spring, roses that are in bushes or climbing on the walls of a lot of houses everywhere. It's not a special variety, it's just a certain shape of roses, a visual effect, like pompons…
Annick Goutal created her own perfumes until 1985 when she began collaborating with Isabel Doyen
CFB: Your mother worked with Robertet in the beginning Do you still work with them?
Camille Goutal: Robertet is our supplier. So in the beginning my mother knew nothing about fragrances and had to train herself, so she was trained by perfumers from Robertet. They were very nice with her. They taught her a lot of different things. She then was able, as we say in French, "fly by herself." That's when she decided to start on her own and have her own lab and that's when she met Isabel. That was around 1985. We work with IFF who we like a lot. Both are our main suppliers but we have a special relationship with Robertet. They are very helpful. Like if we are looking for something special they can buy it for us. It's funny you brought Robertet up because Isabel and I are going in an hour to a special dinner they are hosting for perfumers
CFB: One of our modern masterpieces is Sables (1985). Its use of immortelle was a game changer, please tell us more
Camille Goutal: It's a bit hard for me to talk about it. My mother created it but from what I remember at that time it seemed so unusual from what was on the market. It's funny now when we (Isabel) smell other fragrances that are supposed to have Immortelle we don't even smell it. The comparison between Sables and other fragrances is huge. What I also like is that the formula is pretty simple but the idea is very strong. I find that very interesting. The formula is pretty short compared to what she used to do at the time. The idea was very new. And the formula is very, very, very expensive. It's one of our most expensive formulas.
Annick Goutal's husband and Camille Goutal's father cellist Alain Meunier
CFB: What was your mother's favorite musical composition?
Annick Goutal was a Pianist
Camille Goutal: She really loved J.S. Bach. Especially his Cello Suites and also Goldberg Variations for piano. She also loved piano pieces of Schumann, Schubert and Chopin, especially Chopin's Nocturnes.
Une Matin d'Orage EDP
CFB: What perfumes do you currently wear from the collection?
Camille Goutal: I wear three. Neroli (2013). I have always loved the orange flower scent. It's not to overpowering for when you are on the subway or at work with other people. I also love Songes (2005), the one I created for myself on the trip to Mauritius island. I like it because it's so luminous and dark. It's day and night. I'm also crazy about Un Matin D'Orage (2009), in the EDP, that's the one Isabel created which is a bit more round and stronger I wear.
Annick Goutal flacons (photo Hernando)
CFB: One of the things about the bottles that your mother created is that they have a timeless quality to them. Many clients have the impression that the line has been around longer that it has. The timeless look, like a Guerlain, Chanel. What is your impression?
Camille Goutal: I know what you mean. Sometimes I have the feeling that it is too timeless and traditional. I love the bottle myself, the shape, the way it feels when you handle it, especially the feminine bottle. That is something we are working on. We want to keep the spirit but make it a bit more contemporary.
Annick and Camille Goutal Petite Cherie
CFB: You created a tribute to your mother with Mon Parfum Cheri (2011). Your mother's tribute to you is the iconic Petite Cherie (1998). When I think of your mother I think of love and romance.
Camille Goutal: Yes, romance but more about love in general. She loved life so much. She was a very loving person in general. I think you can feel it through the brand. Of course the quality is very important but it's the sincerity that one can feel. Of course not all our fragrances have this story. Most of the fragrances come from something special. Quel Amour (2002) was a tribute to my partner, the man who is the love of my life for twenty years.
CFB: What is your opinion on the thousands of niche perfumes today considering there were so few when your mother started the business in 1981?
Camille Goutal: Hmm, it's very complicated for us as a brand. It's more challenging. Some brands are interesting. Isabel and I do not go and smell the competition. But, there are some brands that are very nice and others not so. They come and disappear. A lot of people think fragrance is so easy. It's not that easy. For us it's hard. It's a competitive market and we have to work hard. You need to be a strong brand and have support, especially in the beginning. Brands like Maison Francis Kurkdjian. He doesn't create fragrances like the way we do but his fragrances but his brand is lovely. His bottles are nice. You can feel his personality in the brand. Atelier Cologne, the owners Sylvie and Christophe Cervasel are very passionate. We like that brand. And also Marc-Antoine Corticchiato's Parfum d`Empire perfumes and colognes.
Les Orientalistes 2008 Amber Fetiche, Myrrhe Ardente (disctd) and Incens Flamboyant
CFB: Les Orientalistes were ahead of their time in 2008, since Eastern perfumery is now the rage. Any plans to expand the East meets West theme?
Camille Goutal: Maybe. We have just finished another formula so we will present it to the office and see if they will launch it perhaps in a year.
CFB: the company has been bought, first by Taittinger, then Starwood Capital and most recently by Amore Pacific. How has that affected you?
Camille Goutal: It's not the fact that we have been bought so many times, for me it's more complicated because the market is changing faster and faster. As you said, there are so many new brands to follow. And also the clients are always asking for new fragrances, always, always, always! And for me that's very complicated.
Annick Goutal with a young Camille
CFB: We are not aware of another mother to daughter niche perfumery. When Michelyn last interviewed you (2009), your daughters were six and nine. Have they shown interest to enter the family business?
Camille Goutal: Not yet. They are showing interest in fashion, make-up, but they are teenagers. So of course they want to see series on TV. The can smell very nicely. They have good noses. They love to wear fragrances every day. But for business, they are too young, for now.
CFB: Sneak sniff of what is to come?
Camille Goutal:: Yes, we are launching a new fragrance very soon. I can tell you that there will be a new bottle. And, next year is going to be very interesting for us.
Hernando Courtright, New York Event Contributor (with Contributions from Michelyn Camen, Editor in Chief)
Editor's Note: Subsequent to this interview we have learned from Francoise that the new fragrance is called Rose Oud, housed in a new bottle and will be available very soon.
Francoise Allessi Annick Goutal Boutique 955 Madison Avenue NYC
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The serious, critically acclaimed sexiness of Sean Zevran has graced porn screens for two years now, first with Randy Blue, and more recently with the newly merged Raging Stallion, Falcon, and Hot House, soon to be known as the Raging Hot Falcon.
Now it's time to talk about whether he's absolutely more sexy with his body hair intact, or, as in his most recent Hot House scene (with Johnny V) or some of his older Randy Blue work, he's hotter when he's all smooth and waxed/shaven.
First, let look at him in the promo stills we have from Falcon's upcoming feature Naughty Pines.
All hot, right?
Now, here's Sean a couple years ago modeling for Andrew Christian and Randy Blue.
Here he is last fall getting his dick sucked by Austin Wolf for Randy Blue's Welcome to L.A.: Silverlake.
Au natural again, for Falcon Edge's Stunners, in a scene with Adam Ramzi.
And now here's Sean in this newly released scene — which also happens to be blond muscle bottom Johnny V's porn debut — in Hot House's Dirty Fuckers.
[Hot House: Dirty Fuckers, Scene 1]
August 31, 2014 at 8:50 am
I prefer hair… . Trim if you. Must but don't shave it all, esp not the pubes which is a bone killer
August 31, 2014 at 12:41 pm
@Jamison: Couldn't agree with you more!!
August 30, 2014 at 8:21 pm
Why isn't this a poll? I prefer him with hair.
August 31, 2014 at 8:50 am
Excellent idea!!
August 30, 2014 at 4:07 am
I could care less if he has hair on his chest or not, he's a fucking gorgeous masculine man and his body is unreal. Could ya'll find something to nitpick on a little harder???
August 30, 2014 at 7:16 am
@Mihcael: I've never seen that name before. Looks much like Michael. (You suggested we find something to nitpick on a little harder!!)
September 1, 2014 at 1:24 am
LMAO touche :P
September 1, 2014 at 6:50 am
Good sport!! Rare these days.
August 29, 2014 at 6:03 pm
Could pass for Austin Wildes' brother in a porn scene.
August 29, 2014 at 12:02 am
Waxes, hairy, Sean is sexiness incarnate
August 28, 2014 at 11:21 pm
no waxing and no bold head either, as a bottom the guy is a miracle
August 28, 2014 at 8:40 pm
Hairy chest is uncommon in oriental Asia, but I find some guys specially in other race that carry that well. I only hope they take showers at least twice a day and use deodorant after. Sean waxed it or not he's still HOT not to say this guy is so HANDSOME.
August 28, 2014 at 8:16 pm
He likes having body hair, but waxes it/shaves it just for a different look. Personally I love the hairy chest but enjoy that he doesn't mind either way on him. At least he doesn't fully manscape like so many pornstars
August 28, 2014 at 8:15 pm
Of course, this is an extremely personal issue like which is the best coffee order at Starbuck's. Actually, I'm really tired of the "little boy" look we've been bombarded with for oh these many years. I like a guy that has the natural look. Hair turns me on! Now, don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with trimming. Waxing, shaving, and plucking are just a bit much for me. IMHO Sean looks unbelievably hot with a buzzed head of hair, a five o'clock shadow, trimmed bush, leg hair, and a hairy ass. My preference leans heavily toward the masculine look rather than the infantile look. Sean, you're a stud…let it all grow back!!
August 28, 2014 at 11:02 pm
@Shit Creek I agree with everything you have written. I also would like to add that porn producers and companies often wonder why the porn consumers are starting to die off or enjoy the homemade stuff, from tube sites. I would argue, that a couple of main factors would be, that major porn companies lack diversity in race, body type, and overall looks when it comes down to their selection of models. Some of us like a man to look like a full grown man, and not be type cast as the thug, daddy, bear, or leather man of the movie. Why can't one porn movie check all of diverse body types, races, and normal sexual acts(excluding fetish stuff), that seem authentic?
August 29, 2014 at 7:13 am
Hey, Nick, thanks for the reply. You are so right! I can honestly say that I find some men of every "type" sexy and appealing. It's as if these companies think we viewers don't care to see anyone over 25 who isn't blonde, thin, and hairless. Give me a stud like vingage "Bruno" any time. Have a good day!!
August 29, 2014 at 7:14 am
OOPS!! vintage
August 28, 2014 at 7:52 pm
he's so damn bald tho lol the body hair doesn't change that for me…
August 29, 2014 at 12:12 am
Yea he did that probably because of the noticeable receding hairline. Some people on the blogs were giving him hell over it, but I'm not sure if that's what partly influenced his decision to clean shave his head. I didn't have a problem with it either way, but I do have a thing for clean bald heads like that!
August 28, 2014 at 7:05 pm
If you're naturally hairy then stick with it. A little trim for neatness I can go along with, but who the hell can be bothered with all the regular maintenance of waxing? Mind you I am a self confessed lazy bastard so what would I know, the bare minimum is enough of a chore for me.


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Gina Crotts and Birth Mother Baskets are big proponents of using Childconnect as part of a healthy post adoption plan. CAIRS Solutions developed and supports Childconnect. Developed as an online post adoption tool, Childconnect addresses some of the hassles that lead to post placement agreements breaking down, which can cause added grief and stress to birth moms. Adoptive parents and birth moms sign up for Childconnect through their adoption agency or attorney. Adoptive parents simply log on to their protected portal and upload photos, videos and letters for their birth moms to view any time. These photos and letters are also printed and bound into a hardcover Lifebook, which is mailed to the birth moms with every post adoption update. Giving birth moms reliable post placement updates has led to much healthier post adoption relationships.
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Tuesday, 26 September, 2006
Setting the Bar
There's a hill I've been trying to ride up all summer. It's not a long hill – only a couple hundred meters or so. It starts out gently enough, and gradually becomes steeper, to the point where the grade is sufficient that the delicate balancing act of keeping the front wheel on the ground, while still maintaining enough weight back to drive the rear wheel takes all of my attention, and I just haven't had enough leg-power to keep going, even if I could find that balance.
It's taken weeks of attempts just to get to that certain point, marked by a pair of large oaks, standing like sentinels to the right of the path. It is at this point where I have continually come to a complete stop, having to concentrate on getting off the bike without both of us sliding back down the hill sideways; it's steep enough to be just a little spooky dismounting. A few times, I've made the effort to walk the bike to the top, but more often, I've just turned around and enjoyed a speedy descent. I've never made it past those trees.
Until now.
The other day, feeling both strong and confident, I tried, once more, to attempt a ride up that hill. I approached as I always have, in low enough gears to make the final downshift into my granny gear possible, and built up as much speed as I could muster to carry me deeper into the ascent. I focused my attention, not on the trees, my previous drop-dead point, not on the top of the hill, but on a point just a few meters in front of me, and rode like nothing mattered, but the thought of getting a little farther, of breaking my own standing record. I really wanted to get past those damn trees.
The mental game is as important as strength in any sort of physical challenge like this. The focus, this time, was not on previous attempts, or on what I might have considered to be failures, but on simply realizing a new milestone. The goal was a realistic one. I didn't set out to conquer the hill, but to get just a little farther up. I gave no thought to what would happen if I had to stop on a still steeper, spookier part of the grade, concentrating, instead, only on getting to the next step.
It wasn't until the grade eased that I realized I'd made it. It had taken most of my muscle, leaving just enough to finish the ride up the more gentle, decreasing grade to the top. Heart pounding, legs burning like well-done roasts, I'd accomplished more than I expected. (That I could barely stand the next day is of little consequence. I'm young. I recover.)
Once again, we can learn lessons from observing the play of children, who will repeatedly and patiently try things without concern over success or failure. The two headed monster of a goal too far out of reach, and too much attention spent on previous failures to reach it, often sets us back farther than we realize, dooming our attempts before we start. We know this, intellectually, but often continue to operate in a mode which almost guarantees failure, rather than finding a piece that can be done, and reaching just a little past it. (Of course, there's a thin line between the child's tenacity and the adult's insanity, which is marked by mindless repetition of precisely the same actions, whilst expecting entirely different results.)
I recall a little demonstration on of my Kung Fu teachers gave. it's not new, nor particularly esoteric, but it taught a valuable lesson. He had us all line up, extend our right arm, and rotate anti-clockwise as far as we could, making a note of where we ended up pointing. Then, he had us close our eyes, and imagine ourselves easily and effortlessly rotating a full 180˚. When we repeated the experiment, every single person in the room was able to turn significantly farther than they did the first time. Try it. We can always reach a little farther than we think we can.
As an aside, the ride home was slightly blemished by having to dodge more glass on the roads than ever before. I truly do despise people who litter, in general, and specifically those who seem to feel that it's completely acceptable to defenestrate trash, especially glass, from a moving vehicle. There's a very special place deep within the brimstone perfumed bowels of the ninth circle of hell for those who throw bottles to crash into thousands of shards, like shrapnel by the side of the road. There, they will spend their eternity rolling naked in piles of their own broken glass, relieved of their perpetual suffering only long enough to repair the flats of poor bicyclists who have fallen victim to the malefactors' thoughtlessness.
Fortunately, the Kevlar liners on my new tires do an adequate job of keeping the shards, mostly, at bay. Unfortunately, they still are not proof against the goat-headed bullrush thorns, and I managed to ride over a couple of those, yet again, on the way home. My front tube now has yet one more patch as a little trophy of my earlier triumph.
Today, find one of those things that seems overwhelming. Break it into a few smaller pieces, and take a stab at one of them, reaching just beyond what you think comfortable, or even possible. See you at the top.
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Alot of food for thought. Thank you!
When we look at setting goals for ourselves, we shouldn't look at what goal Bob set for himself. Goals should be very personnal. Goals are our way of validating that we are going forward into the world. I think that if I were trying to climb that hill, I would have been happy with inches of progress per day. But sometimes we have backsliding on a hill of that grade, too. Inertia and determination combine, but sometimes we lack one or the other.
This post is a great post pointing out a common fallacy… that when we are trying to achieve a great goal, we can never doubt that we can achieve it. There are many out there who believe they can't when they really can. There are many out there who believe they aren't enough, when in fact, they are superior to what they believe.
Beliefs hold us back, as Greg points out here. Beliefs are what compose our personality. Striving makes us real. Accomplishing makes us sated and therefore, lets us lose our perspective, unless we concentrate on it continually.
Always strive for one more inch. Inches add up. Soon you will be there. Never be satisfied. JMO.
I have read this several times over in The Warrior Elite, which is a book that follows BUD/S class 228 through training. For those that don't know, BUD/S stands for Basic Underwater Demolition/ SEAL training. This is where the men that desire to be US Navy SEALs will test that desire time and time again. It is amazing to read about guys my age, that have barely started truly living endure being cold wet and tired for 6 months just to get entry in the Teams. Hell Week for this is 5 days of just that, Hell. They got the first 72 hours without any sleep being made not only to survive and just get by or skim through, they must show they can perform in conditions like this. The author, an Ex Vietnam era SEAL, basically says that most men that quit during Hell Week do it because they get that first dose of in the beginning and think four and a half more days of this, HELL NO for me and they quit.
I hope that when I get to that moment I will follow the advice such as this and excel. I know physically I can do it, but the mind is a powerful thing and physical preparation can only help so much. Thanks Greg.
Sorry for the long reply all! Happy smoking!
What you describe is real, and manifests itself in several ways. The "external version" (for lack of a better phrase) is known as the "Pygmalion Effect," or the "Rosenthal Effect." Powerful stuff, but not clearly understood, primarily because of the of cause vs. effect issue.
In all cases I've known, two things are certain, though: brilliant people and high achievers know that they are, and any protestations to the contrary are simply social niceties (sometimes even convincing ones); and such people don't consciously disregard boundaries or expectations… they never consider them in the first place.
Can one MAKE that outlook/attitude/whatever-it-is happen by choice? Or is it hardwired, like self preservation and sex drive. Good question. Greg's bicycle adventure poses it implicitly, and well.
Good Stuff, GLP. Keep it up. 🙂
I think the gov't might also balme it on smoking.


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An exploding technology field has rocked the culture and created a booming sector of the economy, but women are vastly underrepresented in the field.
"The proportion of women currently in technology across the board is estimated to be around 18 percent," said Mauricio Ferrazza, chair of the Miami Animation and Gaming International Complex (MAGIC), a state-of-the-art initiative in MDC's School of Engineering + Technology at Wolfson Campus.
A recent event organized by Code Art Miami and hosted by MDC at MAGIC's cutting-edge facility was part of a larger initiative to increase opportunities for women in the field. Founded by Maria Mejia, Code Art Miami introduces coding to girls at an early age through creative coding projects and community building among those who want to learn more about computer science and technology.
Code art is digital visual art generated directly by computer code, without the use of a computer graphics tool to make an image. The event featured a contest of code art created by girls as well as a panel discussion on women in technology. The afternoon also included a tour of the MAGIC facilities, which feature the latest in animation and graphics technology, including an image capture studio.
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A new heart
Transplant patients face a difficult journey
Watching Mark Bell straddle his shiny black Harley, you would never know he received a new heart in February.
Bell, 53, first suffered two heart attacks in 2008. A truck driver who grew up in Hartford City, oldest of three boys and now with children of his own, it was shortly after his youngest son was diagnosed with brain cancer that Bell had his first heart attack.
His health began to spiral downward. He had a defibrillator implanted in his chest to jolt his heart back into a natural rhythm whenever it strayed. He lost his truck drivers license because of it and went on unemployment.
After he received the defibrillator it began to go off with increasing frequency, and at first he kept it secret. But on Thanksgiving 2012, his family noticed he was quiet and withdrawn. His mother, Joyce Bell, recalled when she asked him what was wrong he said he thought he was coming down with the flu. On the Sunday after Thanksgiving he called her and told her he was at Lutheran Hospital.
"Once they got him in there and started checking him out, all the stuff about his defibrillator going off came out," Joyce Bell said.
Two weeks after his admittance and many tests later, he was told his heart would last two years. He was put on the heart transplant list. It was his last option. His daughter, Dianne Bell, said he had never talked about a transplant until he went to Lutheran. Once he was on a list they told him it could be anywhere from a day to six months before he would get a heart.
He didn't have long to wait; the call came Feb. 15.
Lutheran Hospital has been performing heart transplants since 1985. Since that time they have performed more then 260 heart transplants. Patients are told it will add 10 years to their life, but some recipients live much longer. They have followed 115 transplant patients at Lutheran for more than 15 years. The longest-living recipient at Lutheran was 51 in 1989 and is still alive, 24 years later.
Doctors have a four-hour window from the time a heart leaves a donor to the time it must be restarted in the recipient. Miss the window, and the organ tissue begins to break down.
Bell would learn later his heart came from a 45-year-old man in Georgia.
In the early morning hours of February 16, Bell was prepped for surgery and given a chance to say goodbye to his family. Sitting up in the bed that would ferry him to surgery, Bell looked stunned but managed a thumbs-up to his family and girlfriend. They trailed after him as he negotiated the maze of hallways down to the operating room level; he gave a last wave as he passed through the double doors to the surgical unit hallway.
A whole team of people is involved to make a transplant possible. The group is comprised of doctors, surgical nurses and medical technicians. Part of the team travels to the donor to collect the organ. Once in Fort Wayne, the heart is passed on to the patient's surgical team. While the heart is out of the body, a heart-lung machine keeps the patient alive and an infusionist keeps the right mix of blood and gases going to the body.
Two surgeons work together on the patient. Once the new heart is in the chest, it takes one to move things out of the way and another to reconnect the new organ. Dr. Joseph Ladowski, medical director of transplantation at Lutheran Hospital, was the lead surgeon on the case. Ladowski, a former runner turned tri-athlete, is a veteran of many transplants. He became known in the '80s in Pittsburgh for his work on heart-lung transplants at the University Health Center of Pittsburgh.
He decided to become a heart transplant doctor in 1967 at age 12. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, a medical degree from the university's Pritzker School of Medicine in 1980, and his residencies were at the Hospitals of the University Health Center of Pittsburgh, where his training focused on heart and heart-lung transplantations.
"I didn't tell anybody I wanted to be a heart transplant doctor until I got into medical school," Ladowski said.
Since then he has done hundreds of heart transplants. Back in the '60s, Ladowski said, there was a lot of enthusiasm about heart transplants. In 1969 there were 124 surgeries done, but by the end of that year only 20 percent of the recipients were alive. Although the surgical process was a success, the immunosuppressant drugs were killing the patients.
The drugs were too strong; a cold sore or common cold could kill a patient. In 1979 and 1980, Dr. Thomas E. Starzl at the University Health Center of Pittsburgh used a newly discovered immunosuppressant drug, cyclosporine. The new drug could selectively reduce a small part of the immune system. It created a surge in heart transplants. There are currently 146 sites for heart transplants in the United States; last year 2,200 were performed in the United States. Nine of these were at Lutheran.
To be approved for a heart transplant, a patient must be healthy enough to receive it. People whose bodies are failing in other areas are generally not put on the list. Liver failure or bad lungs or kidneys would all keep someone off the list. Patients who have had cancer and been cancer-free for a year are considered on a case-by-case basis.
For Bell the hour had come, and there was no turning back. Fully draped with only a small part of his chest exposed, he waited on the table for the organ to arrive.
As soon as the cooler bearing Bell's new heart passed through the OR door at 3:37 a.m. the surgical team began cutting out the old heart to make room for the new. Meanwhile a doctor worked at gently warming up the new heart and trimming off excess fat, shaping the vascular vessels for easier reconnection. When the old heart was removed, it was easy to see it was enlarged; the muscle had little elasticity. The donor heart was much smaller with less fatty tissue surrounding it.
As the minutes flew off the clock, Bell's team worked to give him his new heart.
When a heart is reattached, the surgeon starts at the back and moves forward, connecting first the left atrium, the right atrium, the inferior vena cava, the superior vena cava then the pulmonary artery followed by the aorta. As he works, the other surgeon moves things out of the way.
Just as the team was coming up on the four-hour deadline, the heart-lung machine was backed off and blood began to pump through the organ. The moment the blood flowed through the heart, it began to beat. The beat was unsteady and then stopped. The heart-lung machine was restarted as the doctors looked for the solution to the problem. Bell said he was later told anesthesia turned out to be the culprit. It took about four minutes to restart the heart and get a steady heart beat line on the monitor. After that it was a matter of making sure there were no leaks before closing Bell up and making sure he was stable before moving him to intensive care.
Although it sounds like the end of a successful transplant, it is just the beginning. Bell will be a patient for life. Once released from the hospital he would return weekly for heart biopsies for the first several months. The biopsies make sure the body is not rejecting the new organ. Five months out, Bell was able to go bimonthly.
He is on a strict medication regimen; he takes 19 different pills, a total of 35 a day. Some suppress his immune system; some keep his blood from clotting. Others he took before the transplant. Over time, as his body integrates his new heart, his immunosuppressant drugs may be dialed back, but they will never go away.
For the first few months after surgery, Bell bounced in and out of the hospital. First he had an infection in his incision, then a clot in one of his legs, and then his kidneys failed for several weeks. For his live-in girlfriend of three years, it was too much. Bell is now living back in Blackford County with his parents, Joyce and Fred Bell, until he can return to his work as a truck driver.
Despite the trips to the hospital and the breakup of his relationship, he remains optimistic about his future. He's adjusting to a new normal and is grateful for the second chance at life. He can now watch his granddaughter, Braelyn Bell, 4, grow up. He is currently undergoing cardiac rehabilitation at Marion General Hospital to teach his body and new heart to work together. Bell is finally back on his motorcycle and planned to travel to the Harley rally in Sturgis, S.D., this fall.
"It's the best I have felt on my motorcycle in two years. I don't have to worry about the defibrillator going off," Bell said.
Bell said a couple of weeks ago he was out riding his bike with some friends when they got caught in a storm. As he and his friends waited out the storm under an overpass, Bell found himself watching the rain with a whole new appreciation, because he can.
"It gives me a different outlook on life, knowing someone died to give me this gift," Bell said.
First appeared in 2013 Fort Wayne Monthly's Health.


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Humans are creatures of habit. We like doing the same things. We like seeing the same outcome. It's how we interpret our world, and to some degree ourselves.
What happens if that breaks down entirely? What would you do if you found yourself stuck in something that made no rational sense?
The next short story comes from Texas writer Austin Green, who is part of a local writer's group and is one of the most ridiculously talented folks I know at building suspense-here is his contribution to our All Hallow's Read Celebration called "The Haunted Maze".
The Haunted Maze
Robbie had been going to the Halloween carnival every year for as long as he could remember. The one night event was his favorite night of the year. Every October 31st, as soon as the carnival opened, he would run straight to the entrance of the haunted maze. Robbie was always the first one to make it through the maze, winning a self created competition he knew no one else was keeping track of. As he waited for the gates to open, he wondered what new scares they would try to add. It didn't matter. He would still be the first to complete it.
Robbie was alone this year. His other friends thought the carnival was kids stuff. They were in high school now. They spent Halloween night at costume parties or at sleepovers watching scary movies. Technically they were right. The carnival was held as a town alternative to trick-or-treating. Someone convinced someone it was a safer idea to throw a carnival for all the kids to go to than having them roam from house to house in search of candy, and the town just seemed to go along with it. He didn't mind being alone though; that just meant there was no one to slow him down during the maze. He would see his friends after he finished the maze.
As the gates opened and the carnival began, Robbie suddenly felt more impatient than normal. He had no interest in winning a stuffed giraffe or buying any cotton candy. He ran past the hall of mirrors and the spooky hayride. He turned the corner and his greatest fear was realized. Just as he was within sight of the haunted maze, he could see someone else already going in. This wasn't happening. He ran faster.
Robbie went right through the entrance without admiring the recently painted signs of warning. He wasn't worried about being scared, he was worried about losing. He made the first right and could hear the other person ahead of him. Faster and faster he ran, each turn getting just a glimpse of the person in front of him. Why was he also running? He had told a few friends about how he was always the first one to finish the maze. Was one of his friends trying to beat him just to rub it in his face? He ran faster. Another left, another right. He stopped to see if he could hear anyone else. He couldn't. This was either good news or bad news. His rival either went the wrong way, or Robbie himself went the wrong way. At least he wasn't trying to play catch up anymore.
Onward he went, but something else was off. Since he ran in, no one had popped out of a trap door to try and scare him. Nothing flew up when he turned a corner. He hadn't even reached a dead end. Usually by now he would have seen at least 2 or 3 workers, painted up as zombies or ghouls. The maze seemed so much bigger this year. Time continued on, and Robbie lost all hope of being the first to finish. There were no sounds of others running through the maze. The person who got their first must have picked the right path. Suddenly all Robbie wanted was to be out of the maze. He tried turning around and looking for the entrance, but nothing was as he remembered. Eventually, he made it where he thought the entrance should be, but there was no way out. Just another wall. That's when he saw him. The other person who had entered before him had turned the corner and was standing there facing him. Robbie couldn't make out the face in the darkness of the maze, the tall walls blocked the moonlight from reaching them. He called out to the other person, asking if he knew the way out. The figure stood there silently. Robbie took a step toward him, but as he did the figure then turned and ran back the way he came at full speed. Robbie started chasing him again. He ran after him as long as he could but eventually he needed to rest. He couldn't keep running. He continued on in this new direction, hoping to find something. He wandered through the twists, desperate for a way out.
He turned right and that's where he saw him. He paused. Suddenly, the other figure called out to him, asking if he knew the way out. He recognized his own voice, and when the figure stepped toward him he turned and ran.
At the entrance of the carnival a couple of Robbie's friends paid admission and made their way inside. If it was important to Robbie to finish the maze first, the least they could do is surprise him at the end. They asked the ticket seller where the haunted maze was this year. "No haunted maze this year," he replied. "No one wanted to build it, so we just skipped it. Maybe next year though."
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Austin Green is a mob hit man who, upon falling in love, quits. 5 years later, his wife dies and to make sure he's not alone she arranges for a dog to be brought to him after her death. Later, some men wanting his car break in and beat him up and kill his dog. When he recovers, he sets to get the ones who killed his dog. He learns that the leader is the son of his former employer. And the man wanting to protect his son, tries to take care of Green but he's still as good as he was.


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There are so many different exercise options out there and varying professionals who offer them, but who should you choose?
We've enlisted Nardine Presland, Practice Development Advisor for Exercise & Sports Science Australia, to tell us more. Nardine explains why it's so important to choose the right exercise expert for you…
Everyone is unique, and so are our requirements. There isn't a one size fits all approach to exercise, and with so many exercise trends appearing each week, it can be confusing and potentially harmful to our health and wellbeing if we aren't exercising safely or with the advice of the right professional.
If you've decided or been advised that you need to implement more physical activity into your daily life, you might engage the services of an exercise expert. But it's important to make sure you're engaging the right person for your needs.
There are a few exercise professions who prescribe exercise as part of their services, for example Accredited Exercise Physiologists, Accredited Exercise Scientists, Accredited Sports Scientists and Personal Trainers. So it can be difficult to determine which one you should see.
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Accredited Exercise Physiologists (AEPs) are the experts exercise for those living with, or at risk of, chronic conditions, with the equivalent of 4 years' full time university study. AEPs have the same credentials as an AES plus they have additional training in safe assessment and exercise prescription for people who have chronic illness such as:
- metabolic conditions including Type 2 Diabetes
- cardiovascular conditions such as heart failure
- musculoskeletal conditions like arthritis
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- neurological conditions including multiple sclerosis, cancer and mental illness
See an AEP if you have been diagnosed with a condition and want to move better and feel better.
Your GP can refer you to an AEP under Medicare and DVA to help manage or treat symptoms of your chronic condition. AEPs are also recognised to provide services by most private health insurers, as part of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and Workers Compensation schemes.
The exercise professions are equipped to help motivate you towards better health and ideally can work together to refer you for specific services that match their expertise.
It is important to identify what your exercise needs are and to understand the difference between each exercise professional's qualifications and skill set to ensure you are receiving the right information to exercise safely.
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My mother, gone now for over thirty years, would be amazed and I believe proud that her disorderly and messy youngest progeny is championing the cause of neighborhood beautification. Well, Mom, I finally got it. My place is a reflection of me. And I do feel better when my hair is clean and my socks don't have holes. And so is our neighborhood a reflection of us. That's why I agreed to write about "neighborhood beautification" for the Grand Lake Guardian.
Please don't misunderstand me; I'm not going for pure beauty. My goal is more realistic and a lot more important. I want our community-shared space to represent the neighborhood at our best. I'm pretty sure it will make all of us feel better. I think Mother's exact words were "you'll never regret putting your best foot forward." But really, there is so much that's great about this community: it's beautifully diverse; it's got "The Lake;" it's walkable to most services; it has a growing number of restaurants and multiple forms of public transit. Let's see, did I mention the Farmers Market, the Morcom Rose Garden, the Oakland Museum of California, two public libraries? Well I'm sure you get my point.
In 2002 a very small group of neighbors formed the Grand Lake GrimeBusters, to take on small projects. The origins of this group may provide an example of the unintended (and good) consequences of involvement, so permit me to tell the story:
Having noticed the build up of litter on the Grand Avenue entrance to I-580 East, Ken Katz (of Splash Pad fame) organized a Saturday clean-up by coordinating with the City of Oakland and Caltrans, and posting a few signs along Grand and Lake Park Avenues. On our way home from Gold's Gym one morning, my husband Bob and I saw the signs and decided this was a way we could lend a hand to our new neighborhood and perhaps solve a problem we had found annoying: litter.
The clean-up was well organized by Ken, and well supported by both Danny Wan — District 2 city-council member at the time—and Caltrans. A neighborhood restaurant, I think Dominos on Grand Avenue, provided food and drinks.
The net effect of the effort was a tidy freeway ramp, new social contacts for us, and bridge building between residents, merchants, the City of Oakland and Caltrans, all on behalf of the neighborhood.
By all rights it was a perfect endeavor, except that less than a week later, there was considerable new litter on the once temporarily clean freeway ramp. Bob and I were disturbed, thinking that our freeway ramp, the one that led from our neighborhood had been mistreated and was, in essence, a bad reflection on our neighborhood. So, later that week, we planned to meet with Ken and a few other neighbors to explore just what we might do that would provide a lasting effect on neighborhood beautification. After all, we had clearly begun to feel ownership for the neighborhood, even the freeway ramps leading into and out of it!
From that meeting at the Grand Lake Neighborhood Center, GrimeBusters was formed. We identified our first Earth Day project: the clean-up of the parking lot at 3300 Grand Avenue. In effect, the freeway ramp clean-up began a process of our becoming meaningfully involved in our community. I want to say that again, meaningfully involved in our community. That was a totally unintended consequence. We had simply wanted to pick up litter!
The series of beautification projects stimulated by that beginning has now grown to include hundreds of other neighbors, the involvement of many local merchants, and both Caltrans and the City of Oakland. Working in good faith with neighbors and new friends has been a most satisfying and, again, unintended consequence.
And, the tangible results are there too, in the improved landscaping along the freeway ramps, the parking lot at 3300 Grand Avenue, the traffic triangle across from the Grand Lake Theater, the planter boxes along Lake Park Avenue, the Morcom Rose Garden over the past four Earth Days, and support of others' endeavors at the Splash Pad and most recently at Lakeview School.
Mother would so approve of our slogan: "Hands-on Innovative Solutions to Neighborhood Blight". With 120 or so volunteers, the projects we've undertaken have accomplished some beautification for sure, but there is so much more to do, and there are other people and groups with similar goals who are working hard and effectively, and meaningfully.
So, this space in the Grand Lake Guardian will give voice to our community conversations about neighborhood beautification. We'll promote involvement and volunteering to build a more actionable and tangible set of opportunities. We'll highlight issues, problems, resources and projects that are deserving of more public attention. We may even have a "tips" section, or games and puzzles. We will evolve!
There is an open invitation to contribute ideas, for articles and for projects; e-mail me.
So, for today, I'll leave you with this one additional piece of motherly advice: "Sweep your steps and your walk. You'll feel better and your neighbors will too."
Note: If you're interested in participating in GrimeBuster projects, please join our Yahoo group so you'll receive notices of opportunities.


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Since its inception in 1982, Auction of Champions has raised more than $3 million for the National Farm Medicine Center at Marshfield Clinic, an invaluable resource for the agricultural industry in Wisconsin.
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- Conduct the Wisconsin Infant Study Cohort, which examines the link between a farm upbringing and stronger immunity. The objective is to identify key microbial exposures on farms that aid in immunity and offer exposure to non-farm children to reduce rates of respiratory illnesses.
- Continue the Rollover Protective Structures (ROPS) Rebate program, which provides financial support to encourage farmers to install a ROPS system on older tractors. When used with seatbelts, ROPS are 99% effective at protecting farmers during tractor rollovers which is the leading cause of deaths on farms.
- Support Veterans-to-Farmers, our heroes returning from danger of war who pursue life as a farmer through research aimed at gaining a grounded understanding of V2Fs. Research includes perceived therapeutic benefits of transitioning to agriculture; knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about safety; and specific health and safety risks. This effort will be to make sure that those who served to keep us safe remain safe while pursuing a vital career.
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Higher disposable income driving chocolate market — Report
The growing influence of western culture, rising middle classes with higher disposable income, and changing eating habits of consumers are some of the major drivers of chocolate market in Asia Pacific, Persistence Market Research (PMR), a U.S.-based full-service market intelligence firm report has said.
Moreover increasing storage and retail convenience due to rising food retail industry such as supermarket and hypermarket in growing countries of Asia Pacific is further driving the chocolate market in this region, it said.
According to the report, innovation in the field of new products with health claims, additive and preservative free, gelatin free, organic and vegetarian benefits is driving the demand for chocolate in maturing market of Europe and North America.
Additionally, the increasing use of chocolate in functional food and beverages such as chocolate milk and chocolate cake is offering new opportunity for the global chocolate market.
Chocolate is a sweet food or food ingredient sourced mainly from cocoa beans. Some of the other ingredients of chocolate include sugar, emulsifiers such as lecithin, and additional flavour enhancers such as vanilla.
It is commonly found in the form of a liquid, paste, powder or in blocks. Apart from the sweet taste, chocolate contains antioxidants and minerals, which offers health benefits such as reduced risk associated with heart attacks and cancer.
"The global market of chocolate can be segmented in three broad categories namely dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate. Whereas on the basis of sale frequency the global chocolate market can be further segmented into three broad categories namely daily chocolate, premium chocolate and seasonal chocolate," said the report.
It observed that the unorganised supply chain management in African countries such as Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, major producers of cocoa seeds, lead to demand and supply gap of cocoa.
Moreover the cold storage related issue in hot and humid climatic region of the world is posing a significant challenge for the overall market growth of chocolate market.
Ghana, for example, is the world's second largest cocoa producer, with estimated output of 930,000 metric tonnes of cocoa beans in the 2013/2014.
According to the report, with long standing culture of chocolate as a regular diet, Europe is the largest market for chocolate in the world. It is followed by North America and Asia Pacific.
"Chocolate market in Europe and North America is heading towards maturity and the growth is mainly expected from emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil," it said.
The U.S. is the largest market for chocolate in North America. Germany and The U.K. are the largest regional market of chocolate in Europe. Japan accounts for highest consumption for chocolate in Asia Pacific region.
Saturating nature of chocolate market in Europe and North America, the report said, has led to many merger and acquisitions in recent past.
"Most recently in September 2014 Cargill has acquired Archer Daniels Midland Company's (ADM) chocolate business for USD 440.0 million, to enhance Cargill's existing chocolate business globally and to bring together broad customer bases," it said.
Major companies operating in global chocolate market include, August Storck KG, Barry Callebaut, Ferrero Group, Ghirardelli Chocolate Co, Hershey Foods Corp, Kraft Foods, Lotus Chocolate Ltd, Mars Inc, Meiji Co Ltd, Mondelez International Inc, Moonstruck Chocolatier Co., Nestle SA, and Russell Stover Candies Inc.


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Most have heard that endurance exercise is good for us, so we pedal away, go for a walk or run, or move our arms and legs back and forth repeatedly on an elliptical machine. But, have you ever wondered how hard to exercise? The answer all depends on your goal (or goals).
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Blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries pack a healthy punch! These little fruits are not just a sweet summer treat; they're also a sweet way to ward off disease. Try this recipe for the 4th, and then continue to enjoy it all summer long.
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Yawwwwwwn. Can I just spend the whole time talking about how amazing Jessica and Hoyt are together and how beautiful that scene was on the porch and with them on different sides of the door? Pleaseeeee.
Okay, fine, I won't but this is another situation where an episode needs some high stakes! And I'm not talking the wooden kind.
Let's get something clear, you and I both know that Bill is under no immediate harm. First of all, it's too early in the season to be worrying about his survival (as if those bourgeois Mississippi vampires would EVER kill him anyway). Secondly, Sookie crying into her dishrag over her badass vampire boyfriend having disappeared for like a day, when we KNOW he's okay, is a huge disconnect!
This is the problem: while Bill is dressed in formal-wear and being fed course after bloody course by Chef L'Dracula in a fucking Southern castle, Sookie is devastated over his well-being. Why would I sympathize or care? This is what I care about: Eric getting "inside" in every sense of the word. That porch scene with him and Sookie was oozing with internal emotional conflict and rising and deepening tensions (of the sexual variety, too, yes), but not until the last 1/3 of the episode! A serialized drama needs to have that kind of evolving and threatening and emotional tone to it in every scene so that we want to get back to it when it pulls away to a different set of characters and conflict. We need to be thrown from one really tense or charged situation into the next to keep the story going.
Jason and Andy get exactly jack-shit done. Andy's a hero for 15 minutes and Jason thinks they are best friends, so they go Starsky and Hutch and catch a drug dealer. Okay? Does Jason want to join the Bon Temps Sherrif's Department now or what? I can't imagine them going anywhere else with that bit. Either that or he gets addicted to the Crystal Meth. Either way both ideas are incredibly unoriginal and cliche, but I don't expect much more from the show, unfortunately.
Lafayette, God bless him. You know the only reason a person would care about Tara is if they were both (1) related to her, and (2) had a heart of gold. I really think Lafayette has that heart of gold. It wasn't as evident in the beginning of the series but if you look hard I think you can see that it was present even in those scenes where he went to the old nerdy vampire's home and exchanged sexual favors for V back in S1. I just remember how he felt sort of bad for the guy, too. How he tried to make the "experience" as legit as possible, knowing the vamp wasn't going to get play any other way. And then of course there was the torture in S2. But now Tara's probably going to bone this new vampire guy like a week or two after Eggs is killed. I'm sure they'll just blame it on her "fragile state" or something but, like Hoyt said "we'll fight our natures together!" YES!
That's the kind of thing this show should be about! They need to say something about people! Something other than: "They all want sex". I mean, DUH, who didn't know that already? Address the violence! Or address the struggle with one's 'nature' and our ability to change! And definitely address "addiction" a little bit better because everyone on this show is addicted to something and no one ever talks about where it comes from. I was sorely disappointed last season when we saw how Bill turned over to the 'good side' in the Lorena flashbacks since, oh yeah, we DIDN'T SEE IT AT ALL. In one scene he's murdering people in cold blood and swimming and fucking in it, and in the next scene he's all "Enough! I am sick of all this killing! Blah blah blah" I'm sorry, I'm suppose to cheer for you now? There was no struggle! In fact, he just kind of got bored and wanted to break up with his girlfriend.
I can hear the dissent now: "He's a vampire! He had to kill to survive! He didn't know any better. Don't judge him." Uh no. He was a human being before that, and he had a conscience and knew right from wrong. At no point in this show have they adequately addressed the issue of a moral-turnover in vampires. What does it mean to become one? Do you lose your ability to make moral decisions? Do the laws of morality only apply to one's own species? Is it okay because a vampire killing a human is suppose to be the same as a human killing a chicken? Do vampires not have souls to guide them anymore? Give me some substance people!
Anne Rice (Vampire Lestat Chronicles) addressed it. Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel) addressed it. Even Stephanie Meyer (Twilight Saga) addressed. They were all done differently but the differences in moral compasses between vamps and humans were defined. The closest we came to ever explaining it on True Blood was last season with Godric and his idea that vampires had to evolve into something better and more moral in the same way that humans had over time. That concept had such potential! But no one listened to Godric and then he died and all his ideas died with him!
Anyway, what else happened?
- More Eric flashbacks, and it appears he killed Werewolf Nazis back in his Godric (!!) days… kinda random and weird but whatever o_O
- Looks like not even Jesus could save Tara's mother– they can't try and bring her back again, it's soooo damn old already!
- Terry is adorable with his list! Last week I said I wished I cared a little more about him and Arlene, and it looks like its happening because he's finally opening up to her :)
- Bill throws a lamp on Lorena and she catches on fire but… I thought she was older and faster than him so he couldn't do that (?) Looks like the writers screwed up there if you ask me… Plus, a lamp? Really?
- Sam learns nothing from his family that we didn't already figure. He just walks in on a typical family quarrel. His parents are boring as hell and didn't reveal a thing! I guess he learns that he can shift from one animal into the next by watching his brother do it or something? I wasn't too excited about that, were you?
- Someone took Jessica's truck driver! I was so looking forward to the Louisiana Chainsaw Massacre that was about to go down, haha. You think he got turned or maybe it was Hoyt that found him? Maybe a werewolf. This one I'm kind of interested in because if Jessica's in trouble its going to be good times (:
- Oh and there's a werewolf stalking Sookie… but again, for some reason I'm not caring. Are these wolves under the command of the Mississippi King that's got Bill? Color me confused. (Just throwing this out there as well, these vampires are severely confused on their hierarchical systems: Queens, Kings, AND Sherrifs?)
I'll continue to watch True Blood simply because I find it fascinating how it could lack so much and still be enjoyed by so many and I hope to learn something from it. Also because Eric is awesome and Jessica and Hoyt are like the best couple on TV right now (well, after Brennan and Booth…).