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Lifestyle Changes to Manage Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
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CFS can make you feel helpless, guilty, confused, angry, sad, or worthless. As your symptoms linger, you may find that your family, friends, and employer are getting impatient. You may have to deal with people who don't understand that the symptoms are not all in your head. Although there are many things that you need to do, you may feel that you don't have the mental or physical strength required to do them.
During this time, you need to take good care of yourself and make some adjustments in your lifestyle. Here are some tips:
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Some days you will feel better than others. On good days, you may try to make up for all the things you can't do on the days when you have less energy. By the end of the day, you are exhausted, and then you spend the next two days in bed. When you have another good day, the pattern repeats itself.
Rather than pushing yourself and ending up exhausted, try to pace yourself. This means that you need to listen to your body. At the first warning sign of fatigue, pain, or discomfort, stop what you are doing and rest. Lie down in a quiet place with your eyes closed. Alternate your activities with periods of rest. If you are very ill, your periods of activity will be short (possibly as short as five minutes) and your rest periods much longer. As you get better, your activity periods will get longer and your rest periods shorter.
If you were very active before your illness and engaged in competitive sports, it may be difficult for you to choose activities that don't require as much energy. So choose a few activities that you enjoy, but use moderation. Some exercise is good, even if it is only stretching. When you're sick is not the best time to engage in competitive sports. Rather than lots of physical activities, this is probably a good time to concentrate on some old or new hobbies requiring less physical exertion.
Make Necessary Adjustments With Work or School
You may or may not be able to continue working full time, or even part time, depending on the severity of your illness. Discuss this situation with your employer and see if you can decrease your work hours. Lost work hours can have a significant financial impact. Try to be prepared to scale back or compensate for the lost income. You may be able to receive partial or total disability income benefits through your employer, a private plan, or the Social Security Administration. You should be aware that this is a lengthy process and that disability earnings could be significantly less than your salary.
If you are in school, see if it is possible to have home tutoring or home schooling, or to attend school part time. It is better to go slow and let your body heal gradually, rather than take on more work than you can successfully complete and, in the process, worsen your medical condition.
Your partner, family, friends, and even your employer and coworkers will likely have to make adjustments. It's important that they know the name and nature of your illness so that they can provide support and help you to cope.
Make Changes to Alleviate Conditions Associated With CFS
You may need to make changes in your diet to alleviate certain problems such as food allergies and gastrointestinal problems. A well-balanced diet can help you to feel better. If getting adequate sleep is a problem, talk to your doctor about treatment options such as lifestyle changes and the use of medications. If you have problems with pain and mobility, consult your provider about a referral to a physical or occupational therapist.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/ .
Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association of America website. Available at: http://www.cfids.org/ .
Craig T, Kakumanu S. Chronic fatigue syndrome: evaluation and treatment. Am Fam Physician. 2002;65:1083-1090.
Prins JB, van der Meer JW, Bleijenberg G. Chronic fatigue syndrome. Lancet. 2006;367:346-355.
Last reviewed February 2009 by ]]>Jill D. Landis, MD ]]>
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Shawna Kenney
Writer Shawna Kenney is which of the following?
A. The Johnny Depp of Journalism
B. The Lois Lane of whips and chains
C. The living embodiment of your "average" Chuck Palahniuk protagonist
D. Author of the award-winning, tell (almost) all memoir, I Was A Teenage Dominatrix, as well as the just-released look at popular celebrity character hustlers, Imposters
The answer obviously is:
E. All of the above
East-coast punk with a pen turned west-coast punk with a tan (and then back again), Shawna's story is the embodiment of Joseph Campbell's prime directive. "Follow your bliss," he said. And she most certainly has.
Shunning major publishers, embracing "the other," and living to tell the tale. That's Shawna Kenney in a nutshell. She chronicles the lives behind the costumed characters who wander unauthorized up and down Hollywood Blvd, charging passerby for pictures. She earns an MFA in creative writing. She teaches the next generation. There's not a whole lot that she doesn't do.
Including being interviewed by writers who've long admired her, wondering how she does all which she has. In this, our second conversation together, I got some enlightening answers.
Will Tupper: Shawna, I've admired your work for almost seven years, ever since I read your memoir and we did an interview together for the now-defunct Chicago magazine, Punk Planet. But for those who aren't as lucky as I've been… Shawna, who are you again?
Shawna Kenney: I'm a writer/journalist/author/photographer spawned from the punk scene and zine culture, raised in the bowels of Southern Maryland in the shadow of Washington, DC.
Will: You started out east, and then headed west to Hollywood. After that, you packed your bags and came back east, to North Carolina of all places, to get your MFA in creative writing. You'd done a ton of publishing already, an award-winning book and everything. What was your MFA motivation, and why North Carolina?
Shawna: After my book came out, I was an invited guest speaker to a couple of college classes in LA, and loved the interaction. I found out I needed an advanced degree to teach in most places, so I started researching what that would involve. I had no interest in taking the GRE, so limited my choices to good programs that accepted students based on writing samples, in places where I thought I could live. I was accepted at Antioch in LA, too, but there was no teaching component there, and I felt I really needed the teaching assistant experience. UNCW offered me a nice package, so even though I loved LA, figured I could take a sabbatical from the city and live on another coast in a quiet town for awhile. Living in the south has been quite educational for me. And now that I'm done with school, I'm still trying to decide whether to stay here or go back to LA, or whether I can actually pull off the bi-coastal thing. I like having a house with a porch and swimming in warm ocean water. Plus now I have a community of artist and writer friends here. Wherever I go I'm missing someone, it seems.
Will: Could you tell me a bit about life as an MFA student? What was the application process like, and did you ever feel as though you already knew a lot of what you were being taught? I ask that based on my own experience as an undergrad. My classmates were excited about their first submissions to publications, and I was sitting there thinking, "Yup. Been there, done that."
Shawna: Luckily I had friends to help me with the application process (letters of recommendation, choosing a writing sample, etc.) My family is very working class—my sister and I sort of had to navigate the college thing on our own—so there was no one I could turn to there.
I was mainly going to grad school for the piece of paper that would allow me to teach in addition to my writing career, but I did learn about craft and was exposed to writers I wouldn't have discovered on my own. I mean, I hope I'll never think I'm beyond learning new stuff. It was weird at first…I had been in the "real writing world" but wasn't used to talking about writing so much! It's just something I did and felt compelled to do and never examined too much. Talking about it and analyzing it felt strange at first. I also realized that some writers I met in LA were on the opposite end of the academic spectrum—worrying more about selling or promoting than the actual writing, which can be annoying, too.
There was a bit of weirdness in grad school. You don't have to have a degree to be a writer but I definitely felt like some people in grad school thought so. Some never submitted a thing for publication or did any readings because they were waiting to graduate (or were they just in school because mommy & daddy wanted them to have an advanced degree?) I couldn't figure it out. In my world writers write and school can't make you what you already are or aren't.
Also, I may not have fit in as well as others because one: I was a bit older than most of my classmates (I started at 33, many were in their 20s) and two: I had no interest in publishing in literary journals. Why write for publications that no one reads, and for free?! And three: I already had a book out. And an agent. Some people said they found it strange that I was there...maybe they thought those things are the answers to all the questions of the universe or something, but I'm still searching...
One big complaint I heard from classmates was that the business of writing/publishing was never discussed in our classes, so I did feel very grateful for my experiences in the field.
Will: I Was A Teenage Dominatrix is a memoir about your college life as student by day, dominatrix by night. As you met readers, did you ever feel you failed to live up to the expectations they had of you based on the book?
Shawna: I felt that way on my first book tour. A couple of people said things like, "You don't look like how I thought you would." And I had one bookstore owner even suggest I do the reading in a dom outfit, so at first I thought, "Wow, I must be really disappointing to people." But then I had to remind them and myself that that's what my book was about—me becoming comfortable with ME and not some idea that society has of what a woman should look like or what an (ex) dominatrix should dress like or whatever.
After the book came out, I was asked to write the forwards for and contribute to numerous S&M and sex-related books and to write columns for sex magazines, and I turned almost all of them down. Nothing against those books—they're necessary and I am pro everything sex-positive and not anti-porn at all, but I knew aligning myself with more sex industry-related stuff would keep me boxed into one genre. I identify more as a punk or pop culture writer than some sexpert, but I'd rather not label myself if I don't have to. (I think that maybe answers your next question?)
Will: These days, part of your career as a freelancer is working as a teacher. I think that's just so cool. After you got your MFA, was it hard to find work teaching writing?
Shawna: I didn't want a full time teaching career, but thought it'd be a nice fit for freelance writing. UCLA Extension was one place where I'd been a guest speaker, but turned down as an instructor because of my lack of credentials. It was really cool to go back and apply with MFA-in-hand, and to be offered the opportunity to teach for them. I did a semester in person and now mainly teach personal essay online for them. I also teach basic English classes at a local technical college and photojournalism at a juvenile detention center. The juvies (as I lovingly refer to them) are my favorite, and I don't even think I needed an MFA to teach them, but it's an opportunity that fell into my lap after teaching at a summer arts camp here in NC. They are kids who have been kicked out of high school for various reasons, and they are the most unpredictable-yet-creative people I have ever met. They are not spoiled college kids. They remind me a lot of the guys I grew up with. I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about how doing a zine and skateboarding and going to punk shows probably kept me out of a lot of trouble in high school. These kids—these young adults—don't seem to have people around showing them what's possible or what's going on outside of high school.
We made a newspaper last semester. This semester we're doing blogs, which they seem to love. It's hard on me because some disappear to other programs or due to running away or going back to school, and new ones appear as the school semester goes on, and I have to adapt to whatever is thrown my way. They hate almost everything, and have been disappointed by so many things in life already, and I am trying to get them to be critical thinkers within this "system" that I don't even like or agree with on many levels. I am only there two days a week, an hour and a half at a time, but it's the biggest challenge and most educational experience I've ever had.
Will: You also teach a course called Writing 401.3: Writing the Personal Essay for the UCLA Extension Writers' Program. How different is writing a personal essay from, say, writing an Op-Ed for your local paper? Doing an interview with someone? Writing fiction? I guess what I'm asking is, is there a different skill-set for essay writing than for other types of writing? Could you perhaps tell me a bit about the specifics of what you teach, exactly?
Shawna: A personal essay is different from an op-ed in that it is personal and not overtly political--usually intimate or conversational in tone, with elements of confession, honesty and self-revelation. To keep things from sounding like a diary entry, though, you have to find the universal in your unique experience. I feel it's a way of "working things out on paper." My class helps people to mine their own lives for stories and to find meaning in those stories. It's similar to memoir but a much shorter form. Philip Lopate wrote in the intro of a book I use called "The Art of the Personal Essay" that the form "turns out to be one of the most useful instruments with which outsiders can reach the dominant culture quickly and forcefully and testify to the precise ambiguities of their situation as individuals and group members." This is what I love about it.
Will: That's cool. One of the many things I've always found inspiring about your decisions has been the path you've chosen: independent, looking "outside the box," and writing about what's out there. Have you ever thought about going "more mainstream?" Like, I could totally see Penthouse publishing your memoir.
Shawna: I have always been interested in "the other," or, as my friend and fellow writer Michelle Tea puts it, "the part that got left out." Someone asked me the other day how I choose the subjects I write about for magazines and newspapers, and all I could think of was that I follow my obsessions. I'm sure there are more marketable things I could be writing, but I'd probably get bored and feel like a whore.
Will: Ha. You and I have both been heavily influenced by punk music and punk philosophy. One important aspect of that has always been community, and you've always seemed to run with a pretty amazing bunch of folks. Pleasant Gehman, Clint Catalyst… the list is almost endless. How important are your peers to you, and has that changed at all since you left Cali, and came back east?
Shawna: Living in LA gave me the most amazing opportunity to meet other writers—I had no writing community in DC. Not saying that one didn't exist, but I was a writer amongst a lot of musicians. In LA I met "my tribe." I met Pleasant at BEA when we both had books coming out. I met Clint at a reading at a local bookstore. I met poets like Iris Berry, SA Griffin, Rachel Kann… memoirists like Dito Montiel and Michelle Tea, novelists like Aimee Bender, Jerry Stahl… just this insanely talented pool of like-minded souls. I don't think people think of LA as a literary city, but it is, and it provided me not only with an education but with a true artist's community. All of the people I named above are still close friends, even though I'm 3,000 miles away. I saw Pleasant last year in Asheville, NC while she was on a bellydancing tour. My husband and I opened an indie bookstore for a year when we first moved here and Dito came down from NY to play and read at the grand opening. We booked a reading for Michelle Tea here not long after. I just hung out with Bett Williams and a bunch of other folks while I was back in LA last semester teaching. Even meeting you through Punk Planet and being back in touch… It's this whole worldwide network of friends—a family—similar to what punk rock has provided for me. These writers are my friends and teachers.
Will: You also do a ton of journalism. A lot of the folks reading this interview no doubt would like to make money writing things, but just don't know how. Was the leap to newspaper and magazine work a difficult one?
Shawna: Well, it's not like I'm writing for the New York Times or anything, but I am lucky anyone wants to pay me for anything I write. I still get rejected all the time. I keep all of my rejection letters. Any success I've had is due to tenacity, pure and simple. I never give up. Plus I've worked in an office and in customer service and in the food and sex industries, and I'm not especially good at any of those. Writing and teaching make me happy.
Will: Your new book Imposters is a big, beautiful, funky, coffee-table looking thing. You discuss the book's genesis in depth in the introduction, but the gist of it seems to be (to me, at least): you saw something interesting happening in the heart of Hollywood, and decided you wanted to write about it. Would that be a fair assessment?
Shawna: Yes. Again, I became obsessed with a group of people, and without knowing someone was photographing them, and it turns out, that two people were making documentaries about them, I stayed focused on them, never knowing if anything would come of it. The cosmic unconsciousness brought us together, I guess. I never planned a book, but it's a lovely bonus. For the same reason (obsession), I also did a story on this Finnish family in my town who makes troll dolls. And then one on southern vegetarian food. And prison tattoo machines. And roller derby. And noise music. The list goes on and on. Just finished a piece for my local paper on technotrash—what to do with your old computers and TVs. There are so many people doing fascinating things; I will never run out of material!
Will: What's the biggest thing you learned from doing Imposters (the book), and what's the biggest thing you learned from the Imposters (the actual people)?
Shawna: I learned that a group endeavor is much more difficult than one person writing a book a lone in a room. There were lots of people involved with Imposters—from the photographer to my Swindle editor who originally published it as a magazine article and then pushed for it to become a book, to the editor at the publishing house, to all of the characters themselves.
The characters (the Imposters people) showed me that everyone has a hustle as well as a back-story. I know the subject matter is funny, but I also aimed to treat them with dignity.
Will: Where do you think the Imposters' desire comes from? What makes someone want to dress up like someone famous in order to make some cash?
Shawna: Our culture is so celeb-obsessed. I mean, there's a war going on and Britney's breakdown is headline news? Coming from DC, where the rockstars are the politicians and the punk rock is more political and less fashion or personality-oriented, it was wild for me to witness the tourist mayhem in Hollywood as I lived right in the middle of it all. There's this capitalistic mentality everywhere in our pop culture—the bling-bling "I've-got-more-than-you-do" attitude that does nothing but make people feel they never have enough or can't possibly ever be enough by just being themselves. I don't claim to understand it.
Will: I started interviewing people because I've always been fascinated by what their days are like. Tell me about a typical "writing day" for you. Do you write every day? Or wait until you've got that hot idea, and then just run with it?
Shawna: I do write every day, but not in a journal like I probably should. I sort of jump from project to project to keep from being bored. Always walk or do yoga first thing in the morning…it helps clear my thinking. Work a bit on this story for the newspaper, make some calls, check some emails, go back to revising my book (my grad school thesis: Girl in the Pit: Interviews & Essays in Punk Rock 1986- 2006). Eat lunch, maybe meet up with a friend for tea to keep from being a total hermit, write a bit more, read, check my myspace. Nights are reserved for hanging with my husband/ having a social life, and teaching. I write best in the morning, and on deadline.
Will: Finally Shawna, Swindle magazine recently sent me a copy of their Second Annual "Icons" issue, in which you interviewed legendary filmmaker John Waters. I have to ask: in terms of your entire life thus far, was that a great day? Or the greatest day?
Shawna: Ha ha. It was pretty fucking awesome. I wrote him a letter and sent him my book and his publicist responded two weeks later, which really surprised and thrilled me. He was so cool. They told me I had an hour to interview him and he gave me two. He took a Polaroid of me & the photographer Swindle had sent to his house, because apparently he does that to everyone who enters his home. He also indulged me by posing with me for a dorky fan photo, signing a book for a friend, and autographing my "Til Death Do Us Part" comic book. He was gracious, humble, hilarious and kind. What can I say? Maryland, REPRESENT!
Check Out Shawna Kenney's books & other works:
I Was A Teenage Dominatrix: A Memoir
My First Time: A Collection of Punk Rock Show Stories
Let Fury Have The Hour: The Punk Politics of Joe Strummer
Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class

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2012 Dove Awards: Russ Taff advice to young artists
Classic live video of Russ Taff above.
The 2012 Dove Awards honored legendary Gospel singer Russ Taff, a five-time Grammy winner, at the awards show last week in Atlanta, and he had some sage words of advice for young artists.
"The advice I'd give to someone starting out is to be yourself," Taff said. "When I started in 1976 it was wide open. Now the Christian music industry has turned into this mammoth business. So now people try to change you, change your look, change your sound, style. Just be yourself. That is what God has given you and what has gotten you this far. Be yourself. Fight to be yourself."
In his long career Taff has faced ups and downs with the help of his friends.
"When I started off I had a rough time and was wondering where God was, and I was told to 'Read the red. Read what Jesus said not what someone has told you,'" he said. "And I fell in love with Jesus. I'm finally the man I've always wanted to be. The husband I always wanted to be …"


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NAMEMoose::Autobox - Autoboxed wrappers for Native Perl datatypes
use Moose::Autobox; print 'Print squares from 1 to 10 : '; print [ 1 .. 10 ]->map(sub { $_ * $_ })->join(', ');
DESCRIPTIONMoose::Autobox provides an implementation of SCALAR, ARRAY, HASH & CODE for use with autobox. It does this using a hierarchy of roles in a manner similar to what Perl 6 might do. This module, like Class::MOP and Moose, was inspired by my work on the Perl 6 Object Space, and the 'core types' implemented there.
A quick word about autoboxThe autobox module provides the ability for calling 'methods' on normal Perl values like Scalars, Arrays, Hashes and Code references. This gives the illusion that Perl's types are first-class objects. However, this is only an illusion, albeit a very nice one. I created this module because autobox itself does not actually provide an implementation for the Perl types but instead only provides the 'hooks' for others to add implementation too.
Is this for real? or just play?Several people are using this module in serious applications and it seems to be quite stable. The underlying technologies of autobox and Moose::Role are also considered stable. There is some performance hit, but as I am fond of saying, nothing in life is free. Note that this hit only applies to the use of methods on native Perl values, not the mere act of loading this module in your namespace. If you have any questions regarding this module, either email me, or stop by #moose on irc.perl.org and ask around.
Adding additional methodsMoose::Autobox asks autobox to use the Moose::Autobox::* namespace prefix so as to avoid stepping on the toes of other autobox modules. This means that if you want to add methods to a particular perl type (i.e. - monkeypatch), then you must do this:
sub Moose::Autobox::SCALAR::bar { 42 }instead of this:
sub SCALAR::bar { 42 }as you would with vanilla autobox.
BUGSAll complex software has bugs lurking in it, and this module is no exception. If you find a bug please either email me, or add the bug to cpan-RT.
AUTHORStevan Little <email@example.com> with contributions from: Anders (Debolaz) Nor Berle Matt (mst) Trout renormalist
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSECopyright 2006-2008 by Infinity Interactive, Inc. <http://www.iinteractive.com> This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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As if Lindsay Lohan needed any more drama, she's now without an attorney just hours before starting her 90-day jail sentence.
The Los Angeles Times reported late Monday evening that famous defense attorney Robert Shapiro was dropping his representation of the troubled star - only days after stepping into the position.
When Shapiro announced he would be working for Lohan, he agreed to take her case on the condition that she accept a "requirement of jail."
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LiLo's former attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, quit earlier this month without explanation.
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Tyne Green parkrun is a newly established, weekly 5km event taking place every Saturday morning at 9am at Tyne Green, starting and finishing near the children's play area.
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The event is for all ages from 4+ organised by local volunteer teams and once you've registered on the parkrun website, and obtained your bar code, you're ready to head to your local event.
Dr Frankel, Anne Brooks, Teresa Tomlinson, Georgina Robley and Lindsay Sails have participated in the event so far and have found it challenging but enjoyable.
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We will follow any future guidelines from the NHS and change this policy if we are instructed to do so.
The government is working with pharmaceutical companies, suppliers, and the NHS to make sure patients continue to receive the medication they need if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
Around three quarters of the medicines and over half the devices and one-use medical products, such as syringes, that the NHS uses, come into the UK via the EU.
The Government has analysed the supply chain, made plans to reduce the risk of disruption, and given instructions to pharmaceutical companies to ensure that they have adequate stocks to cope with any potential delays at the border. We are confident that, if everyone does what they should do, the supply of medicines and other medical supplies will be uninterrupted in the event of exiting the EU without a deal.
This means if your doctor prescribes medicines or special equipment for a health condition, you should still be able to get the treatment you need from your GP or pharmacist.
Occasionally we do experience temporary shortages of specific medicines. If this happens, your doctor will prescribe the best alternative to your usual medication – this is a tried and tested system.
If there are any shortages of particular medicines after EU Exit, the same system will be in place – your doctor will advise you of the best alternative to treat your condition.
This is a UK-wide policy. The Department of Health and Social Care in England is working with counterparts in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to deliver the uninterrupted supplies people expect.
Information about the national data opt-out programme can be found at:
www.nhs.uk/your-data-matters or telephone 0300 303 5678
Repeat Prescription requests
We have recently had a significant increase in the number of prescriptions being requested urgently, i.e. same day. Our turnaround time for repeat prescriptions is 48 working hours and although we will try, we cannot always comply with same day requests.
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Health advice and treatment can be obtained free of charge (for those eligible) from local pharmacies.
Conditions such as head lice, mouth ulcers and fungal infections can be treated under this scheme. You will need to provide evidence of your entitlement to free prescriptions to obtain free treatment but the pharmacist's advice is always free of charge.
Please let us know if you are a carer so that we can refer you to Carers Northumberland for support, if you so wish.
When you request an appointment, our staff may ask you if your problem is urgent. Feedback suggests that clarification would be helpful for patients.
An urgent problem is something which cannot wait until the next available routine appointment (and is not a 999 emergency).
We will ask patients with urgent problems to come to the practice to be seen at the end of surgery. An example of an urgent problem might be an exacerbation of a chronic condition such as asthma.
Please note that we charge for work which is not contracted for by the NHS. This included certain vaccinations, driver medicals and other reports. Please see our list of prevailing charges displayed in the surgery.
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Please also be aware that we cannot guarantee to turn around sick note requests within 48 hours, nor can we provide sick notes in advance.
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Thanks to the generosity of patient who wishes to remain anonymous, the practice has purchased a BP machine for patients to self check. This is sited in the waiting room. Patients will be encouraged to have their blood pressure measured prior to going into a consultation
We can offer a no scalpel vasectomy service in conjunction with Newcastle Hospitals. Dr Ben Frankel offers this service on a Friday morning, which requires a referral from your GP. Please note that the first appointment is for consent and to arrange the procedure at a future date. This procedure is available to all Tynedale patients. Further details are available by clicking on the vasectomy tab to the right hand side of this screen.
Please call for advice if you think you may have measles or have been in contact with a confirmed case.
Please do not come to the surgery.
We are sorry that you are sometimes kept waiting beyond your appointment time. This can happen because patients before you take longer than the 10 minute appointment slot to discuss their problems.
If you have a problem which you think may need longer than 10 minutes, please ask for a double appointment. Similarly, please bring only one problem to a single appointment.
If a patient is transferred from Hexham General Hospital to Wansbeck or North Tyneside general hospitals for further treatment, a free daily shuttle car operates from Hexham to enable relatives to visit. To book a place on this service, which leaves Hexham General Hospital at 1pm, contact 0344 811 8111 and ask for extension 5388.
The number to contact urgent care services when the surgery is closed is 111.
We are able to send text messages to confirm appointments and to remind patients to attend. If you provide us with a mobile number we will assume you are happy to have this service. please let us know if you would prefer to opt out of this.
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For reasons of confidentiality, we do not offer work experience or placements to anyone wishing to pursue medicine as a career. We would encourage any of our patients seeking this experience, to join our Patient Participation Group to become more involved and gain an insight into some of the current issues in general practice.
The 683 bus now stops at the main hospital entrance but will also stop, on request, at Hexham Primary Care Centre entrance.
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"Laggari stone pavement" was built in the period of Ottoman occupation and is part of the road that connected Ioannina with Sagiada port. It extends over the steep slopes of Laggari mountain above Patamia stream.
The stone pavement is well preserved in some parts. The ruined walls that protect it from the slopes and large stones are impressive and reach four meters in height and sometimes are double.
The pathway leads to a field where the yard of a small church lies with the strange combination of chapel and front door.
To return you have to follow the same route. The route lasts approximately two hours and is an easy one.
The more adventurous can return by following a route inside the gorge when the water levels are not very high. This route presents some difficulties only in one part where you have to go down a waterfall, but it is worth doing it and enjoy the beauty of the waterfalls and small lakes which are formed by rocks. (To reach again the beginning of the stone pavement turn right to a dirt road after passing the cement tank).
The route is worth to take just for seeing the amazing view that it offers not only in the stream that runs inside it but also on the steep rocks of Laggari.
The pathway starts among Daphne ("Tziouma") and Kokkinolithari villages, on the way to Filiates-Keramitsa, one km after Daphne (there is a relevant sign).
Do not forget to visit Aghios Minas monastery in Kokkinolithari. It is an impressive building on top of the rock.
You can eat in the famous restaurants of Daphne and Keramitsa villages, under the shadow plane trees.
We suggest using one of the agrotourism accommodations of the area as a starting point of your trip.
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GOP Reagan-Bush spin echoed by the media
Within hours of the death of Ronald Reagan, the fortieth president of the United States, purported similarities between Reagan and President George W. Bush became a favored talking point of Republican political operatives and then was echoed by others, including a reporter from The Washington Post appearing on a FOX Sunday talk show.
The spin:
Frank Fahrenkopf, former Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman, on a CNN breaking news segment on June 5:
FAHRENKOPF: I think what also came to mind was the comparison in a way with President Bush. I mean, when Ronald Reagan came to Washington in 1981, the view was that this was a governor from a western state, no foreign policy experience. He was "dumb," a cowboy actor. Remember all of that? That he needed advisers around him to do anything. And sort of very much the same thing that George W. Bush faced when he first time [sic]. The economy, I mean people forget the day he was sworn into office; the crime rate in this country was 21.5. It's hard to believe that now, looking back. So the great changes that he brought and the dignity and pride he brought back to America are the things that resonate most with me.
Grover Norquist, conservative movement leader and president of the Americans for Tax Reform, on June 5 (as quoted by The Washington Post on June 6):
NORQUIST: George W. Bush has governed as if it were the third term of Ronald Reagan's presidency. People who are looking to run for president in 2008 will run as Ronald Reagan's heirs.
(Norquist holds weekly conservative strategy sessions in a boardroom of Americans for Tax Reform in Washington, DC, where talking points are distributed among "lobbyists, analysts, senior White House and Hill staffers, advocates for property rights, gun ownership and traditional values" according to a January article in The Washington Post.)
The echo:
Morton M. Kondracke -- Roll Call executive editor, co-host of FOX News Channel's The Beltway Boys, and regular contributor on FOX News Channel's Special Report with Brit Hume -- during a FOX News Channel alert on June 5:
KONDRACKE: What's amazing is how underrated he [Reagan] was by his opposition, and it's uncanny how parallel that is to George Bush. There were covers on Der Spiegel magazine, for example, in Germany when Reagan became President, "cowboy," "dunderhead," "movie star," all that kind of stuff, and the Democrats all thought he was a dunce too, and it kind of all encapsulated in that wonderful Saturday Night Live send-up, you remember, during the Iran-Contra scandal.that was the caricature of what most of Washington, especially the Democrats, thought that this guy was all about, and they still give Gorbachev the main credit for the end of the Cold War, as though it was Gorbachev's gift to the world to demolish his own Empire.
Ceci Connolly, Washington Post staff writer and regular contributor on FOX Broadcasting Company's FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace, on that program on June 6:
CONNOLLY: You really see what a lasting impact he [Reagan] had on American politics, and especially Republican politics. I mean, think about, well into the late 1990's we were all out around the country looking for those "Reagan Democrats." Reaganomics, a type of economic theory that we studied and wrote about and tracked for such a long period of time. When you stop and think now about the second President Bush, I think that you see many of the same traits and characteristics, and in fact, secrets to political success. You see another political leader who thinks in big strokes, who often thinks in terms of good and evil, right and wrong, who is a delegator, who does not get bogged down in the details, who is often underestimated or underrated, has that same sunny optimistic outlook, talks about freedom around the world, those same themes, smaller government. Not always successful at some of those goals, certainly, both times around rising deficits, but you really see that lasting impact.
Connolly's view of Reagan and Bush is shared by GOP operatives but not by Washington Post "Style" section columnist Tom Shales, who wrote:
The gap between him [President George W. Bush] and Ronald Reagan -- in terms of stature, speaking ability, and overall presidentiality -- is gargantuan.


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"A more accurate and b-value independent estimation of diffusion parameters using Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging", ISMRM Chapter Benelux conference proceedings, Utrecht, the Netherlands, pp. 10, January, 2010.
"A more accurate and b-value independent estimation of diffusion parameters using Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging,", ISMRM, 18th Scientific Meeting and Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden, May, 2010.
"Noise measurement from magnitude MRI using local estimates of variance and skewness.", Physics in medicine and biology, vol. 55, issue 16, pp. N441-9, 2010 Aug 21. Download paper (219.85 KB)
"Optimal experimental design for Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 819-829, 2010. Download paper (1.12 MB)
"Segmentation Based Noise Variance Estimation from Background MRI Data", ICIAR , vol. 6111, Porto, Portugal, Springer LNCS, pp. 62-70, 2010.
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"Likelihood based hypothesis tests for brain activation detection from MRI data disturbed by colored noise: a simulation study", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 287-296, February, 2009.
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The Houston Dynamo announced today that midfielder Alex Dixon has been loaned to the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League (NASL). The loan is effective immediately and will expire on May 5, at which time Dixon will return to the Dynamo.
Dixon, 23, appeared in four regular season games (one start) in 2012. He also started eight MLS Reserve League games, scoring two goals and notching three assists, helping the Dynamo win the Central/Mountain Division title. The Atascocita High School graduate is one of five players from the Dynamo Academy, presented by Statoil, to have signed a homegrown contract since 2009.
Dixon becomes the second Dynamo player to be sent on loan this season after midfielder Brian Ownby was loaned to USL-Pro side Richmond Kickers last month.
After last weekend's 2-0 win over the San Jose Earthquakes, the Dynamo head to the Pacific Northwest this weekend to take on the Portland Timbers. Saturday's match will kick off at 9:30 p.m. CT and can be seen on CSN Houston or through the MLS Stream of the Week.
Following this weekend's match, the Dynamo will return home to face the Chicago Fire on Sunday April 14 at 4 p.m. Individual tickets start at $24 and are available at www.houstondynamo.com/tickets, by calling (713) 276-GOAL or at the stadium ticket office (2200 Texas St., Houston) from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday.


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Economists suggest gold investments are risky
As the price of gold continues to rise and public uncertainty of the economy increases at a similar pace, many investors are turning to a traditional fail-safe: gold. However, it's a growing bubble that may be ready to burst, according to economic experts at Kansas State University.
The federal deficit and a deteriorating economy have many investors fearful of the United States economy entering a period of stagnation, causing stock prices to be driven downward, said Lloyd Thomas, an economics professor at K-State. In this period of uncertainty, many are selling stocks and corporate bonds and putting their money into gold.
Recently, gold prices have skyrocketed as high as $1,800 an ounce, and Thomas said the price might continue to creep higher as economic concern grows. "People believe that gold is a hedge against uncertain times," he said. "In the long run, gold prices have kept pace with inflation. People are flocking to it."
Other financial experts agree, citing a perceived security in tangible investments during uncertain times. Ann Coulson, an instructor for K-State's personal financial planning program, said that the weakened U.S. dollar and real estate market, "wild ride" of the stock market and low interest rates have caused many investors to turn to gold.
"Where to invest has become a question for many, and gold has risen to the top for some investors," Coulson said.
Coulson said there are many ways individuals may choose to invest in gold, including jewelry, coins, bullion or gold bars, exchange traded funds, gold mining stocks, gold mutual funds and gold futures and options. Jewelry and coins are typically not good choices, she said, and gold bars raise many storage and cost issues. Exchange traded funds give the investor the opportunity to own gold without an actual delivery, and gold mining stocks' value is only partially dependent on the value of gold.
Diversified investment -- like gold mutual funds -- often offer the most protection, Coulson said.
"Gold futures and options are not for the novice investor," she said. "Investing in gold through an infomercial on late-night TV is also a bad idea."
Both Coulson and Thomas agreed that the price of gold may continue to rise, but cautioned that the increase most likely will not last. From 1960 to the present, Thomas said, gold has gone up an average of 8 percent a year, while inflation rose at less than 4 percent a year. In the last 10 years, gold has gone up 17 percent a year.
"In the long run, gold has gone up," Thomas said. "But in 2000 the price of gold was $300 an ounce. It has gone up six-fold since then, and it might go up higher than what it is right now. It's gone up too fast -- it's a bubble."
Thomas compared his gold predictions to the housing market. People were lulled into thinking housing prices could never fall, but they fell more than 30 percent in most American cities.
"The same thing could happen to gold; it's not risk-free," he said. "In the last 10 years it's gone up 17 percent a year, but the price of things we purchase has only gone up 3 percent a year. That's unsustainable. It's my own opinion that gold prices will collapse -- I just don't know when."
Although the price of gold is high, it may be a good investment as the price continues to climb -- for now. Unlike investing in stocks or bonds, Coulson said, there is no income associated with gold. Money is made from buying low and selling high. She agreed that the price is destined to fall at some point.
"Gold as a piece of a diversified portfolio might make sense, but if an investor invests solely in gold, that is a great risk," she said. "It is not a safe investment unless you are buying gold bars and burying them in your backyard, and even that is not safe because the price is dictated by what buyers are willing to pay for gold."
Thomas suggested that the only way to make a gold investment virtually risk-free is to look at it as a long-term investment since, in the long run, gold prices do tend to go up. As a 50-year investment gold may be a safe bet, he said, but it is not a guarantee in the short-term.
"On a 100-year horizon, sure -- buy gold and leave it to your grandchildren," he said. "But in two, five or 10 years, prices could be lower than they are now. There's a lot of fluctuation. Prices have gone from $200 an ounce to $1,800. That just can't continue."
As the federal government attempts to pay interest on its growing debt, Thomas said the chances for increased inflation will go up. As this happens, gold prices may continue to fluctuate as investors pull money out of stocks. However, as the deficit slowly decreases, gold prices could fall in half.
"When investors become more confident in the economy, gold will be less valuable as an investment," Coulson said. "I agree with Warren Buffett: Gold has no utility, so as a long-term investment it's not a good choice."
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We can't talk about the greatest '90s kids movies without mentioning Home Alone. Macaulay Culkin stars as a child left behind by his frazzled family as they begin a Christmas vacation. When his home is targeted by thieves, he defends it using every zany trick he can muster. Another live-action '90s kids movie that still stands the test of time is Jumanji. Starring the late Robin Williams, this film tells the story of a board game that comes to life. On this list, you'll also see numerous animated kid classics. The Disney renaissance of the '90s included Toy Story, Aladdin, and The Lion King, among others.
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Balterio laminate floors can also be used with floor cooling systems or combined underfloor heating and cooling systems subject to strict conditions.
Floor cooling is a system that prevents the floor construction from warming up during hot periods and/or even cools it a little so the room temperature stays comfortable indoors.
How does it work?
Floor cooling works the other way around to underfloor heating. The piping system in the floor construction is filled with water with a minimum temperature of 18 °C or higher to always guarantee a minimum temperature difference between the room and the water in the floor cooling system. The floor can then be cooled during warm periods throughout the year. The cooler water gives the floor a cooling effect. The room will feel more comfortable because the floor is cooler than the room temperature. It is important to remember that the temperature of the cooling water in the floor construction does not have to be particularly cold to lower the room temperature by a few degrees; a few degrees lower than room temperature is sufficient.
Which floor cooling systems can be used in combination with Balterio laminate floors?
Only one type of floor cooling is compatible with Balterio laminate floors: floor cooling in which relatively cold water flows through synthetic pipes contained in the floor construction. In most cases floor cooling is combined with a floor heating system.
What must be borne in mind with floor cooling systems or a combination of a floor heating system with floor cooling?
Balterio laminate floors can be laid in combination with any type of Balterio subfloor in spaces with floor heating and/or floor cooling systems. If a Balterio laminate floor is used in combination with a non-Balterio subfloor, you must ensure that the total (laminate + subfloor) thermal resistance (R) is lower than 0.15m2K/W. For this consult your subfloor supplier and/or your installer.
R values (according to the ISO 8302 – 1991 standard)
The maximum permitted thermal resistance (R) in the floor covering amounts to 0.15 m2K/W.
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Ms. Carpenter
"The next appointment," announced Father Muratori implacably, "is a certain Ms. Mary Carpenter."
"Ms.?" said the archbishop. "Of what vintage is this Ms. Carpenter?" He accented the Ms. both times he used it.
His secretary shrugged. "Her term, Archbishop. I'd say she has at least a year to go before she's 20."
"Do we know her or what she wants?"
"What she wants is 'personal,' she says, and she looks vaguely familiar to me, but I don't think I know her."
The archbishop sighed. He prided himself on his accessibility, but it was Muratori's job to screen out the nuts from the people who really had something to say to their spiritual leader. He must think this Mary Carpenter was worth seeing, so there was no point in arguing with the dutiful but inscrutable young man about it. It was such a soft May morning with flowers in bloom outside his window. Tulips, he thought. He wasn't up to another confrontation with a feminist today.
Mary Carpenter was shown in.
The archbishop realized that Muratori was probably right. The young woman did not look like a nut. Dressed smartly in a gray suit with a plaid scarf at her neck, she seemed a presentable and sensible late adolescent girl. Still there was something slightly "foreign" about her. Her skin was almost olive in color, and her long black hair and deep brown eyes seemed to suggest the eastern Mediterranean. Carpenter was not a Greek name, but maybe it was a translation of something more clearly Levantine.
"Good morning, Ms. Carpenter," said the archbishop, emphasizing the Ms. ever so lightly, as he rose from his desk to greet her.
"Good morning, Archbishop," she replied, bowing to kiss his ring—an old church custom he found embarrassing. Her brown eyes spark led, and she showed a row of even, white teeth in a quick and somewhat impish smile.
Then he recognized her. The world spun around him. He was on a crazy cosmic roller coaster. He quickly went back to his seat behind the desk and sat down badly shaken. Ms. Carpenter sat down across from him, a friendly grin lighting up her face. "You recognized me, didn't you?" She spoke delightedly, as if they were playing a wonderful game. Her voice was rich and deep, as though somewhere in the background there was breaking surf.
"Yes. Do you read minds?"
She laughed. "No, not really, but I'm pretty good at reading faces."
"What I want to know is why you look exactly like I always imagined you to look."
More laughter. "But, Archbishop, how else did you expect me to look? Admittedly, if I were going to China—to cite the old example—I would have had to make certain other changes ..." Her laughter hinted at wisdom which teenagers didn't have. But then she really wasn't. ...
"How many changes did you have to make for me?"
"Surprisingly few. That's one of the advantages of dealing with a scholar who specializes in the area." The laughter was still in her eyes and smile. What deep dancing eyes. He amused her, she felt no constraint to hide the fact.
He was still shaken. "Would it be proper to offer you some tea?"
"Why not?"
He poured her a cup of Lapsang Souchang from the pot on the warmer. She smiled with surprise and pleasure when she sipped it.
"First time?'' he asked.
"Only for this brand. You are surprised that I would drink tea?"
"No reason why you shouldn't, actually. We have a doctrine that says you should be able to. But please spare me the shock of asking for one of my cigars."
Now the laughter was explosive.
"Well, it wouldn't give me cancer at any rate!" They laughed together. This was not a dream. Nor was he suddenly out of his mind, but reality was slipping away, like a fading TV signal on a rainy night.
"Uh, what is the proper title that I should use?"
"Oh, I have lots of them, but I think Ms. Carpenter is fun. We had a lot of laughs over that. 'Course you can always use my first name if it doesn't scare you too much."
It did. "Well, would it be out of order, Ms. Carpenter, to ask what you want—other than to sample my brand of tea?" Get down to business, yes that was the thing to do.
Her eyes widened. "A favor, Archbishop. What else have I ever wanted? I think my record on that is quite clear."
"A church?"
"Come now, Your Grace, you and I really ought to be beyond that sort of thing. Besides, they have already built one for me here in this country."
"A beautiful church then?"
"I have heard the joke, too, you know. Heaven forgive me, I laughed at it."
"Heaven forgive you? Surely that's an inappropriate phrase?"
"Archbishop, you are a literalist, aren't you?" The same impish grin spread across her lovely face. She looked like he thought she should, but there was a hoydenish quality about her that did not fit his expectations.
"There was a time when you seemed to need beautiful churches."
"Not I, my lord. People wanted to build them, and that was all right. But I never needed them."
"They put up some fine ones, though."
"Yes, and I'm proud of them; but not many after the 14th century, don't you think?"
"Do I shock you, Archbishop?" Her voice was frank and unassuming.
"To be honest with you, you do surprise me."
"I don't seem to fit the image of an age-old human symbol."
"Oh, I'm not arguing with the symbol, Ms. Carpenter. If what you reflect is like what you are, then the cosmos is a better place than I thought it was..."
She actually blushed. "A very pretty compliment..."
"Yes," he continued his thought, "better, if a little wilder and more unpredictable, and..."
"Better make it good," she murmured.
"... and more filled with playful wonder." Grand larceny with someone else's phrase, but under the circumstances... He was on the roller coaster again.
She clapped her hands like a child at a circus. "Oh very good indeed! May I have more tea?"
He poured the tea. "Now, as to that favor you wanted?"
"So businesslike—just when we were having such a nice conversation. Well, you don't need to look all that serious and solemn. I won't affect your budget at all." She was now a pretty fishwife in a market place, promising him a bargain. Oh Lord he was in trouble…
He put down the teapot with a clatter. "You did read my mind!"
"I told you that's out of bounds for me. I'm just a shrewd bargainer and a good reader of faces. You know my ethnic background." She leaned over his desk every inch the confidential negotiator.
"You know the cloistered convent up at Docksville?"
"Sure, there's three old nuns in it and one postulant. The order is being suppressed by Rome because it doesn't have more than a score of members all over the world."
"Don't close it down. Leave it open. I told you it wouldn't cost much."
"But why?"
"Now, my lord, you ought to know better than that. People don't ask me that kind of question." In her dizzying spin from mood to mood she now was playing the part of an Italian Cardinal.
"To quote yourself, Ms. Carpenter, you and I ought to be beyond that sort of thing."
"Ah ha, you catch on to the game too quickly. You also ought to know that my kind tend to make up the rules as we go along. Anyhow, I just know that it's very important that the convent be left open."
"Very important, to judge by the status of the messenger."
She shrugged in the ancient gesture of the Near Eastern negotiator. But her answer was 20th-century New York, "What can I tell you?"
''I've got rules I've got to keep."
"Bend them."
"Orders from Rome."
"Ignore them. The Romans won't know the difference."
"That sounds slightly seditious."
"I'm sure you won't tell on me." She winked. He wouldn't mind the conversation if she wasn't enjoying it so much.
"You do remember the story about the leper from the Hebrew scripture, don't you? I think we improved on it in ours, but you know the lesson. If I asked you for something big you would cheerfully do it, so I ask for something small and you hesitate."
''I'm not hesitating; I'm just saying I don't understand."
"That's the whole point. You're not supposed to understand. Besides if I hadn't come, you certainly would have closed it."
"I certainly would have. I can think of no good reason to keep open an expensive and useless convent. Neither can Rome." It was his most archiepiscopal tone, reasonable but firm.
"Keep it open as a favor for me, please?" There was a tone of pleading in her voice.
"How can I say no?"
"I don't take away people's freedom. You can say no by saying no. You can even make a good case that I have no authority to dispense you from Roman regulations. I am not, as you surely realize, a member of the curia."
"I can't," he sighed looking at his hands as he always did when he had to say "no."
"You won't keep the cloister open?" She wrinkled her nose in disbelief, "not even for me?" The girl was used to getting her way.
''I'm afraid I can't. I've got the Congregation of Religious in Rome on one side of me and the pastoral council here on the other side. And they both have decided to close it. If I had my way...."
Her small hand tightened, the knuckles turning white. Sparks flashed from her eyes. "Don't I have any vote?"
''I'm sure you do, but as you well know there are legitimate channels of authority in the church. We all have to go through them. I could arrange for you to talk to the chairman of the priest senate..."
She rose from her chair and paced back and forth in front of his desk. "Fine chance I'd have with them. They think I belong in a medieval monastery." She was angry … but she wasn't supposed to...
"Or a Portuguese basilica." He didn't know what made him say that but it was a mistake.
She turned on him, her face grim, her jaw set, her eyes now blazing! "Archbishop, you're a fool and a coward. You're not really a bad man as canon lawyers go, but you've balanced so many forces for so long that you've forgotten what you're supposed to be. You don't really want to close that cloister down. You never did...." Her dark skin had flushed a dusky rose in anger.
"How do you know that? I thought you didn't read minds."
She dismissed the quibble with an imperious wave of her hand. "Someone who does told me. You like the old nuns, you even believe that cloisters are a good idea. You have compromised so often that you can't follow your own instincts anymore." She stamped her feet impatiently. "Why don't you wake up before you waste your whole life?"
Shock and dismay must have begun to show on his face. She smiled faintly. "You're scandalized because I'm angry. I'm not supposed to get angry, right? Just a plaster statue to light candles for?"
"I am a little surprised," he mumbled.
"Sure, I should not have any human emotions at all, no strong feelings, no concern, you want to make me the kind of person who would be a good archbishop."
"That's not fair... I ..."
"It is too fair. I may grow angry, but I'm not unfair. You know that."
"Ma'am you have me trapped." She sat down in her chair again.
"That, my lord, is the general idea. To clear up this point: you don't think someone would have been given my job unless she had powerful feelings do you? You don't think that I would lose those feelings ever, do you? What kind of a theologian are you?" Her anger seemed to be rising again.
"I just wish I could sign you up for a talk with some of my theological advisers. You'd blow their minds."
"No thanks. Archbishops are bad enough."
He played with his episcopal ring as he always did when making decisions. The flowers were still blooming in the garden outside. The sun was still shining. He could hear Father Muratori's typewriter. It was not a dream. Ms. Carpenter's theology was impeccable. He had never thought the principles should be taken that literally though. If people like her ... strange way to put it ... really cared desperately then ...
"Would you have really preferred me, my lord, without passionate concern?"
"No ... but the force of it surprised me..."
The same impish grin. "A lot of people are going to be surprised. Now tell me that you are going to fend off the Congregation and the Senate and follow your own good instincts about those poor nuns..."
"Woman, you are used to having things your way."
"Solid scriptural grounds for that too, Excellency." She knew she had him. "Well," she stood up, "it's been a pleasure to do business with you, Archbishop. Now I really must be going."
"Don't try to tell me that you haven't enough time."
"I've already taken too much of yours. You have so many administrative responsibilities." Now she was just plain making fun of him.
As he walked around his desk to see her out, he said, "May I be so bold as to point out that having persuaded me to break Rome's rules, you're in no position to say anything about the responsibilities of my office."
The laughter was like an old bell pealing across a French countryside. She knelt to kiss his ring. ''I've enjoyed this conversation."
"I guess I have too, though it will take me a while to get back down to earth."
"A nice pun, if unintentional. Goodbye, Archbishop. Till we meet again."
"We will meet again, Mary?" He finally got out the name.
She beamed. "I don't know the future any more than I can read minds. But, yes, Archbishop, I have a feeling we will meet again."
Father Muratori came into the office after Ms. Carpenter had left.
"Not a kook?"
"Oh, no."
"Didn't look like one. She want anything important?"
Muratori got the signal. He wasn't supposed to ask.
"I can't help the feeling that I've seen her some place before. Anyone I ought to know?"
The archbishop looked at him steadily. "George, you wouldn't believe it if I told you. Who's next on the visitor's list?"
This article appeared in the May 1978 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 43, No. 5, pages 17-20).


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We've been waiting for soooo long to see Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart FINALLY make sweet, sweet love in the fourth and final Twilight film, Breaking Dawn, that it didn't even occur to us that some people (re: parents) might not be so happy at the seductive content.
However, Peter Facinelli—who plays hot vampire patriarch Carlisle Cullen—has made us see the error of our ways.
"I have a 12-year-old daughter [Luca Bella, whose mom is Jennie Garth]. She's a fan and I'd want her not to feel left out or awkward," Peter, 37, explained to HollywoodLife.com exclusively Jan. 16 at Lionsgate's pre-Golden Globes party.
"Hopefully it's a PG-13 type of situation," he added. "I'm sure the producers and directors know what they want—and especially what they are doing—but I'm sure they don't want to alienate fans."
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MERCURY SERIES - Saltwater Sanctuaries
Cut from shelves of rock and fed by the world's most beautiful ocean, they are a gift we and our children get to enjoy - thanks to the hard work put in a century ago.
Some of us even pause for a moment after slipping into one of the pools, look around at the escarpment, taste the clean water, and admit we cannot believe our luck.
Is it luck that some visionary thought to put in the hard work so many years ago, digging them out with picks, "borrowing" equipment for the task, taking a few risks for their community, and for future generations?
Historical clipping of Coalcliff pool
Could it be luck that they are dotted up and down our coastline, allowing us to peer out at the sea or up at the bush, as we please?
And is it just luck that they were made so well, with the sea walls just the right height to let in the occasional wave and wash the pool clean? Probably not.
And in the case of Coalcliff's beloved pool, certainly not.
It may have been luck that the right crew of miners and surf club members were around in the years just after World War 1.
But it was not luck that they were game enough to decide to take on the job, and resourceful enough to locate some explosives to assist in the task, plus an old storm drain borrowed from nearby. And it can't be luck that the authorities did not stop them digging.
That's the kind of people we were in the early part of last century, making the most of life between the escarpment and the sea, enjoying a life in paradise, once the day's work in the coal mine was done.
Now, of course, we are somewhat different people. And if the pools were not already there, what would be the chances of such perfect facilities being built these days?
Would the land have already been sold into private hands?
In the age of economic rationalism and "budget emergencies", development applications and the law of negligence and duty of care, would any local body build them just so people can have fun?
Would people be told they don't need a pool, as they can go to the nearest major centre and use the pool there?
Would the council's risk managers be convinced that it's OK for people to swim in a pool where waves could wash them out on a rough day?
And what if they knew teenagers would one day cling to the rails at the sea end of the pool, yelling with glee as the waves crash into them, flinging themselves into the whitewash as it crowds the pool? And they would do it even if a sign said don't?
Of course, the pools would have to be built and budgeted by government - at least one level of it, and probably two. And when a toilet block can cost $760,000 (Towradgi) and a car park can cost $32 million (Heathcote MP Lee Evans' estimate for a 150-space commuter car park), we see how the cost of digging out a rock pool could be more than we might have guessed, once governments get involved.
At Coalcliff, the locals have been happy to do it themselves.
When the idea that some rock pools could be allowed to crumble back into the sea as part of a proposal to save money for Wollongong City Council, the loudest voices of protest came from Coalcliff.
That idea appears to have been dumped, but the message from Coalcliff today is clear - our pool isn't going anywhere. And if the council stops, we will maintain it ourselves if we have to.
They have done it before, when first building, then expanding and taking care of, the pool in the first half of last century.
Jennifer Dalmer is 67 and she has been coming to Coalcliff since she was born - and perhaps beforehand, as her parents regularly visited their holiday shack on the hill where the surf club is now.
She said the original women's dressing shed used to be the space under a rock overhang, with a hessian curtain rigged up and "Only Ladies" splashed in white paint.
"The ritual was when we came down here on holidays, you'd go down for a swim before breakfast. And, basically, we still do the same thing.
"We get up, we live just opposite the park, all I have to do is walk out the door, across the park and we're at the pool."
And she doesn't mind it when the sea is a bit rough.
"It's rather challenging and fun - it's like doing an ocean swim but in a little bit of safety," she said.
"You just have to make sure you don't get close to the western wall or you'll get washed out. I've floated over it - it wasn't too bad."
With her husband Jim, a life member of the Coalcliff surf club, the pool is an integral part of their lives.
"It doesn't really get cold until about September or so. It stays the same temperature. Some mornings it's down around 15 or 16. The trick is to keep swimming - if you leave it, it's hard to get back in the water.
"I don't swim all year round. My husband swims all year round, but he cheats - he wears a wettie."
But being close to Sydney, it gets busy over the Christmas period.
"If we go down and look at the pool and there are, say, six or seven people in it, we say 'who has opened the gates, and let people into our Coalcliff?"'
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High school and middle school students, teachers, administrators, parents and Cornell MFA poets celebrated the written and spoken word at an open-air reading and poetry slam, April 28 at Ithaca High School (IHS).
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We had a striker for the past 4 seasons who rarely got on the end of his crosses, so it's a mute point. He was great for a while in his first season and really didn't do much else after.No ill feelings towards him, he's just another player playing for another team now.
Moot pointSorry everybody corrects me on here, i wanted to do it once
Except the first half of the 2012-13 season when he and Lukaku were the most prolific front pairing in Europe, you mean?
Hell fade into obscurity with the odd decent run of games at a mid table Spanish side to make everyone sit up and remember he still exists.
Surely Messi and whoever or Ronaldo and whoever were more prolific. They are scoring 50 goals each a season.
I doubt that will happen, for the under 21/23 spain team he is usually the captain(has been the capt), In the summer he played a lot of games for spain, whole matches!!
Cheers. i dont really watch Barca.. so i have no idea how there players names are spelt. but i spelt Deulofeu correctly lol
What you do at that age group means nothing. It's what you do against men week in week out that counts and he's classed as a man now.
For a couple of months.Remember when Jelavic had a storming few months? A little spell of form means very little.
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