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Iron Man Football
Strap on your helmet and get ready for a football throwback gaming experience. Iron Man Football is the first football game to feature amazing state-of-the-art 3D graphics and animations on the Sony PlayStation. Relive the glory days of classic football where anything goes.
The major drawback to Iron Man Football is the lack of NFL licensed teams. However, the game fills a niche as it features classic football uniforms and play calling. In addition, Iron Man would have been the first true 3D football game on the PlayStation and ensured enhanced gameplay. Although the game was cancelled within 2 months of development, it is clear that the development team had the skills and confidence to produce an exceptional football game.
Developer Insight:
"There was going to be a lot of story involved in the game; one of the main ideas as I recall was to build up your team by barnstorming around the country. It took me a while to realize that this had nothing to do with airplanes and more to do with going on tour.
We had a good team technically. But to be honest, the game was very ambitious. I had previously worked on both Unnecessary Roughness and Madden (SEGA and SNES) but I didn't borrow very much in the way of code. Of course the experience did help in trying how to come up with the underpinnings of a football game. Being ambitious isn't necessarily bad since you can always pare back and you tend to put out a better end product.
It was a big challenge since the industry was transitioning to 3D and the PSX was new. Had the project not been cancelled early, I'm confident we would have come out with a potentially ground breaking product."
-former programmer, Capcom Digital Studios
"We had to do Iron Man football because Capcom was unable to obtain an NFL license. Iron Man was going to be old time football with all the real old plays, one of our guys went to the football hall of fame and copied all the plays, like razzle dazzle and statue of liberty…
Why it was cancelled? One contributing reason was Bernie Stolar, the VP of 3rd Party Relations at SCEA, did not approve the title because there were too many football games already in the queue.
Please also note, what you see is two months of work, we could have finished the game by September for Christmas of 96 for sure."
-former producer, Capcom Digital Studios
"There were a number of factors, somewhat external to the project, why this particular title was killed. From a larger context, there were certain business plans and support expected for all of the US titles which were scaled back by Corporate. One of the factors was the expectation that a large marketing budget and effort would be required for Iron Man Football; more so than the other titles (Major Damage and Werewolf The Apocalypse); another project, as you know, had a license tie in which would be leveraged for the video game title (Streetfighter The Movie).
It was an innovative concept and with a unique approach, had the possibility to break out of the pack of the standard NFL approach to football game concepts. The technical and art team were very good, project management was weak on the project and impacted execution. Could it have been completed on time and before Football season? Difficult to say, but most likely would have required a change of the PM to accomplish this.
Several members of the team were former EA employees and had some experience and exposure to Madden, so there were 'blood lines' that contributed to the focus and quality of the team.
There were a number of research activities carried out as part of the concept development and design phase. Hall of Fame visits, yes; audio recording at football games as well; and research into other historical materials about football pre-"modern era." The recent George Clooney Leatherheads movie had echos of the game concept."
-former VP Development, Capcom Digital Studios


text: Aretha Franklin Calls Off Her Wedding Singer worried relationship was moving too fast By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Jan 24, 2012 2:58 AM CST 1 comment Comments In this Jan. 14, 2012 photo, singer Aretha Franklin performs during the BET Honors at the Warner Theatre in Washington. (Jose Luis Magana) (Newser) – Aretha Franklin won't be getting fitted for a wedding gown after all: She's called off her engagement. A statement released yesterday by her rep said Franklin's wedding to Willie Wilkerson wasn't going to happen. "Will and I have decided we were moving a little too fast, and there were a number of things that had not been thought through thoroughly. There will be no wedding at this time," Franklin said. "We will not comment on it any further because of the very personal and sensitive nature of it. We appreciate all of the many well wishes from friends." Franklin, 69, announced shortly after New Year's Day that she was getting married. In an interview with the AP, the jovial Queen of Soul talked about getting fitted for gowns by designers including Vera Wang and Donna Karan, and said she hoped for a summer wedding in either Miami or Long Island's Hamptons. (Read more Aretha Franklin stories.) My Take on This Story Report a story error Show results without voting | 36% Annoying 20% Hilarious 20% Intriguing 11% Depressing 11% Brilliant 2% Scary

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News hasn't exactly been great for Visteon of late, what with getting delisted, filing for bankruptcy and attempting to end the pensions of thousands of retirees. That's the bad news. The good news? A suite of impressive prototype dashboards on display at the Consumer Electronics Show that ranges from the pedestrian, multi-colored model in the Mustang, to the crazy 3D dash powered by the NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipset. We've got photos, videos and plenty of impressions after the break.
The most basic dash designs are already in production, but even these range from the boring to the sublime. On the low end of the spectrum there are systems that still rely on plastic needles, while the other end is composed of LCD-based models for Range Rover and the latest Jaguar XJ. If you haven't seen these new displays, they're surprisingly bright and beautiful, and hard to distinguish from a mechanical dash until things start moving.
Like other automakers, Visteon is working on new technology to catch drowsy drivers before they go into a full-on snooze. The system uses an IR camera and emitters mounted in the dash to track the driver's eyes, whether in daylight or at night, to determine where the driver is looking and how wide his eyes are. From that (and surely some other parameters), the vehicle can tell just how alert the driver is, sounding an an alarm and even vibrating the seat to snap the driver back into reality.
Also on hand was the Connected Car, which is remarkably similar to the MyFord concept. With an Atom-powered processer running Linux (Moblin to be specific), the system can run custom apps, the first of which is Slacker, a music streaming app similar to Ford's Pandora setup. The device can also use a USB data modem, can work as a WiFi hotspot and aggregates all media either from internal storage or external devices (connected by USB) so that you don't have to remember where your tunes are stored – they just play. But the coolest inclusion was a place on the dash for a PowerMat allowing drivers to wirelessly charge their device on the go.
Then there was Advanced ICP Concept, technology that's set to show up in cars in the next two years. It combines a suite of soft-touch, virtual buttons and a touchscreen, all of which not only react to touch, but also react to a sweeping motions, meaning you can scroll through albums by simply waving your hand around. Similarly, the dash lights up near your hand as it hovers over.
Finally, there was the pièce de résistance: The Next Generation Cockpit concept. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take photographs or video, but the system was powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 2 3D graphics chipset, which predictably provides phenomenal graphics performance for 3D navigation, but also results in some particularly flashy dials and gauges. Currently the system was just showing a loop, flinging information around that could cause drivers to erupt into an epileptic seizure. Thankfully, the display and its elements will be much simpler – similar to the existing Jag and Range Rover dashes – when it hits production in a few years. When the system does arrive, Visteon will use Open GL ES to render 3D content on a maximum of four displays, with primary interaction coming primarily from a 1280 x 480 capacitive touchscreen.


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Surreal Lives: Ruth Brandon
RUTH BRANDON is a writer and journalist based in London and France. She is the author of many works of both fiction and nonfiction, most recently a thriller, Caravaggio's Angel, published by Soho Press in 2009. Her book Surreal Lives: the Surrealists 1917-1945, appeared in 1999, and was much praised.
This interview was conducted via mail from October 2007 until January 2008… I thought Ruth Brandon wrote a great book on the Surrealists, and wanted to find out why the book spoke to me as deeply as it did.
This interview was first published in Complete with Missing Parts: Interviews with the Avant-garde by my press, (VOX Press, 2008), in a limited edition of seventy-five copies.
Il faut changer la vie.
— Rimbaud
What led you to write Surreal Lives? Since when did you begin envisioning such a complex book project?
Ever since I was a student reading French and Spanish, I've been attracted to Apollinaire and Tzara. Dada appealed to my childish knee-jerk anti-authoritarianism. Still does. My tutor at Cambridge, Alison Fairlie, actually knew Tzara, so I have a Tzara number of one. A little later, when we graduated, my closest Cambridge friends started a magazine called Form. As the name implies, it was about formalism in art, so very counter-Dada and totally anti-Surrealist. But people like Arp and Raoul Haussman and Hans Richter kind of crept in. I wasn't involved with Form personally, and actually had little real idea what it was about, but it all stewed together in there — something I was interested in.
Then studying Spanish meant I spent quite a lot of time in Madrid during the Franco period. My friends there were an absolutely charming but terrifically Catholic family, so pious that they'd cross themselves every time they even passed a church. So I was introduced to that extraordinary overheated hyper-religious atmosphere, which I'm sure hadn't changed very much for centuries. In London, where I grew up, I belonged to a very left-winged set, and it never crossed my mind that people I liked could ever be anything other than socialists. So when the penny finally dropped — that my Spanish friends had been on the Francoist side during the civil war — that was quite a jolt to my narrow little world. All these made me very interested in Buñuel's films. I remember seeing Viridiana when it first featured — in the light of what I'd seen in Madrid, it was quite something.
After that, I didn't think about any of that stuff for a long time, though it did vaguely cross my mind that the Surrealists would be an interesting subject. When it became clear that I wasn't going to make a living as a novelist — which my publisher had at one time thought I would — I was casting about for a nonfiction book to write, and thought about the Surrealists again.
From the Publisher:
"In the years following World War I, a small group of writers, painters, and filmmakers called the Surrealists set out to change the way we perceive the world. In Surreal Lives Ruth Brandon follows the lives and interactions of such firecracker minds as the movement's didactic 'Pope' André Breton, and the ambitious and manic Salvador Dalí , as well as Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, Man Ray, Max Ernst, and filmmaker Luis Buñuel. It charts the shifting allegiances of such muses and patrons as Gala Dalí and Peggy Guggenheim. Ruth Brandon spins the many stories of Surrealism with wit, energy, and insight, bringing sharp analysis to an eccentric cast of characters whose struggles and achievements came to mirror and define the way the world changed between the wars."
Surprisingly, given that they were so very much a product of a particular time and place, there didn't seem to exist the kind of book
What interests me is really the antithesis of that kind of iconographical, worshipful approach. It seems clear to me that movements like Surrealism begin because particular people react to particular events in a particular way.
One reason why I enjoy writing group biography is because it's the ideal way to examine that phenomenon. I'm less interested in the credo than the human mechanics of how it evolved —the psychology, the political situation, etc. What interests me about the ideas is how they reflect the people. The opposite of an art history approach. I was actually asked to give a seminar on my book in an art history department. When I finished, the dean remarked that this was the first time he'd heard art treated as a series of personal interactions. But in the sense that all art is surely the most unmediated possible transferal of brain/heart to paper/canvas or whatever other medium, how can you think personal context unimportant? Less so in painting, perhaps. As I said, I don't think surrealism is primarily about painting.
As to the complex form of the book, it was always fairly clear to me that that was the only way to go about it — as a series of chronological episodes tracing the movement's history and evolution through different groups. The technical problem is that it's hard to get started. It's like Benjamin Britten's 'Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'. You start with one instrument, but you don't get the full band playing until the end.
You begin Surreal Lives with a straightforward thesis: Breton, so passionate about freedom, both personal and artistic, was totalitarian in his impulses, a dictator in the age of dictators. Can these two impulses — to freedom and total control — possibly be reconciled? This is the clash at the heart of the Surrealists' story.
Please elaborate how this contradiction lead to André Breton's glory and demise, and the type of Surrealism he helped create and nurture.
Well, of course Breton was Surrealism. That's the first thing to realize. The whole thing is really just a huge, often overblown materialization of whatever happened to be going on inside his head. If you couldn't accept that, you couldn't be a Surrealist. That was what laid at the root of Breton's great bust-up with Dalí — Dalí didn't accept the control, yet went on insisting he was a Surrealist — hell, the Surrealist. The really big figures that could compete with Breton in stature, like Apollinaire and Picasso and Duchamp, remained his friends because they were never part of Surrealism proper.
They hovered round the edge and dipped in, to everyone's benefit. But they had their own games to play, which they weren't about to subordinate to Breton's. And he accepted that. That was why he found Duchamp so fascinating — because Duchamp was someone he could never control. But that was OK, because he wasn't a Surrealist.
Breton's head wasn't a very comfortable place to be. It was a very complex and contradictory place. What he yearned for was spontaneity, the unbridled, the outrageous and uncontrolled and the juxtapositions they led to. But emotionally, spontaneity was terribly hard for him. He did excess all right. But it was forced excess, from the head, not the gut. By nature he was inhibited, repressed, romantic and fanatically orderly. For instance, in the famous Surrealist investigations of sex, he said, 'I desire a woman when I love her. This is absolutely not accompanied by an erection. If you love a woman it is absolutely impossible to masturbate while thinking of her, except…when there's a formal agreement between the man and the woman. If for example it's been agreed that you'll both masturbate at five o'clock.' There's Breton: a formal agreement and precise timing for — masturbation.
Breton's real and huge gift was for the politics of art. In fact that was really a combination of two gifts: for spotting new and significant talent, in which he succeeded Apollinaire, and for keeping up momentum. That was the big difference between Dada and Surrealism.
That was why he fell for Jacques Vaché in the way he did. Vaché embodied everything he would have loved to be but was not. He was a dandy, cynical, stylish, outrageous to the point of murder, whereas Breton was earnest, awkward and enthusiastic. Breton liked to define the ultimate surrealist act as going into the street and shooting someone at random: something he could never have done. But Vaché did actually brandish a pistol in the theatre — it was Apollinaire's Mamelles de Tiresias in 1917 — and when he committed suicide, he made sure to take someone else with him. Breton was lost in admiration, and in a very real way, what would later become Surrealism was modeled on Vaché. There were other elements too, of course — the pursuit of chance, dreams, psychoanalysis. But Vaché was always there, at least in Breton's mind — which, as I've said, was Surrealism.
Breton's real and huge gift was for the politics of art. In fact that was really a combination of two gifts: spotting new and significant talent, in which he succeeded Apollinaire, and keeping up momentum. That was the big difference between Dada and Surrealism. Both Breton and the Dadaists — Tzara, Arp, Hans Richter and the rest, and also Duchamp in his New York Dada phase — evolved their artistic stance in reaction to, or rather against, World War I. But where Dada never moved on from there, Surrealism under Breton kept evolving. Dada was a scream of outrage; Surrealism was always more than that. It was never just artistic, it was political — a political movement headed by Breton. He's called the Pope of Surrealism not just because of his habit of 'excommunicating' Surrealists he disagreed with, but he was really more like a Stalin, you had to keep up with the whim of the moment. That was why the communists could never really accept him, or Surrealism. He was a rival, not an acolyte.
Yet the politics that evolved around World War I, which was essentially a war of soldiers, and which spawned dictators, including Breton, were of no use during World War II, in which every civilian was a participant. That was the milieu that gave rise to Existentialism. And in that world, Breton and all he stood for simply seemed out of date.
Picabia seems to have fallen into obscurity at this point in time compared to Surrealist artists such as Dalí, Ernst, and de Chirico. If this is true, why do you think this is the case?
A couple.
1) Picabia was a Dadaist, through and through. So he simply got left behind. And 2) he was a tart. He tried this, then he tried that — you only rarely (as with the wonderful New York paintings) had the sense — that you always get with Dalí, Ernst, or de Chirico — that he was really channeling his deep thoughts and emotions through his brush. So he lost significance. The machine paintings, for instance, are intellectually amusing, with their clever puns. But not much more than that.
Why do you think Breton was so obsessed with poets like Valéry, who wrote no poetry for fifteen years, or like Vaché, who wrote almost nothing during the course of his short life? Or an artist like Duchamp who produced a small amount of work during his long life?
In my view, the key is Vaché's early death by suicide. After that, suicide, or any other early death, (e.g. Lautréamont) became an icon for Breton. And ceasing artistic activity could be seen as a sort of artistic suicide — as with Rimbaud, who just stopped writing poetry while still in his twenties.
As for Duchamp, the whole business of conceptual art and the revolt against 'the retinal' can be seen in a similar light. People invest in his conceptual objects, like the famous urinal, a huge artistic significance. But if you see it as a reaction to his rejection by the French art establishment in 1912, when they turned down his Nude Descending a Staircase (following which he became a librarian), then conceptual art in general, and the urinal in particular, looks very much like Duchamp raising a finger to the whole art establishment — literally, pissing on art. It all chimes with his extremely nihilistic mood at that time. Also, Breton was very keen on puns, and Duchamp was a master punster, most of them filthy, which was even better.
What exactly is Vaché's notion of "Umour"?
You have to remember that Breton was entirely humourless. Not a vestige of it. If he hadn't been, he could never have driven Surrealism as he did: his force came from the fact that he took even its greatest absurdities wholly seriously. 'Umour', so far as I can make it out, has very little to do with humour, but was a black, nihilistic and cynical take on life generally and the war in particular. It was a take Breton could never have produced himself, and as it came from Vaché, with whom he was in love (though he would never have admitted it, he was very homophobic), he revered it. In the same way, Dalí's humour — his ability to make jokes— always left Breton at an admiring loss.
You seem a bit critical of William Carlos Williams in Surreal Lives; is this an accurate observation or am I exaggerating what you've written about him?
You're exaggerating. I was amused at the contrast between the earnest, public-spirited, rather puritanical Williams and the wholly cynical, wholly irresistible, Duchamp.
Did Arthur Cravan really die, was he ever real?
Who could tell? He couldn't, that's for sure.
What were the core differences between New York Dadaism and German Dadaism? How was Parisian Dada different from both?
Both German Dada and Zurich Dada were shaped by the inescapable consciousness that while they laughed, savagery was going on just round the corner. In that rather hysterical sense they were life-affirming. New York Dada was different. New York, until 1917 and even after that, was a long way from the war. It was a sort of dance of death, a deeply decadent whirl taking place in a vacuum. Paris Dada was a dead end, an attempt to import the Zurich vitality to postwar Paris. It was largely a matter of Tzara and Picabia shouting the same things louder and louder, until quite soon everyone had heard them and wanted to move on.
I confess that I am slightly confused with a passage in Surreal Lives, somewhere near the end of the chapter "Dada Comes to Paris." At this point, Breton is attempting to find a way "out of Dada." On a Dada spectacle organized by Tzara, you write:
Sarah Bernhardt, died in battle
Claude Terrasse, died in battle
Francis Picabia, died in battle
Pablo Picasso, died in battle…
My question: what exactly sets Breton off in such a violent rage? Because he perceives that de Massot has insulted his friends Picabia and Pablo Picasso, or is it something else?
I think it's more that Breton, Eluard, Péret and the other Surrealists had had it with Tzara and all his rather repetitious works, and that this marked the breaking point, the moment when Surrealism moved on and Dada stayed put. It's clear Tzara was expecting violence — the whole evening was a sort of staged fight. Breaking Massot's arm was Breton demonstrating outrage in an outrageous manner. Because it was so forced and serious, it went too far. He was in a genuine rage, but it was about Tzara continuing to hog the spotlight. Massot was just its unfortunate recipient.
Another slightly unclear point for me in Surreal Lives comes with the final break-up between Breton and Picabia: what finally ended their long but desultory friendship?
Partly it was the cumulative effect of Picabia's determination to go his own way and not be dictated to by Breton, combined with Breton's inability to deal with irreverence directed at himself (as when Picabia printed Breton's pedantic rejection of an invitation to contribute to his magazine 391 under the heading 'A Letter from Grandpa'). In fact, unusually, it was Picabia who broke off the relationship — on that very occasion, when he commented: "When I've smoked a cigarette, I'm not in the habit of keeping the butt." Generally, it was the charismatic Breton who did the breaking-off, and the excommunicates who moped in the solitude of rejection. It was also that Picabia was and remained a Dadaist, and Surrealism moved on and left him behind.
Why did the Surrealists come to view the novel as an inauthentic form of literary expression?
Novels need plot and form, of some sort — even Tristram Shandy is not shapeless, and it's certainly not spontaneous. Surrealism is about spontaneity and whim. And as Breton and Soupault's Magnetic Fields shows, that, in book form, is quite simply unreadable. So in a way the notion of a Surrealist novel is a contradiction.
There is a great sense of immediacy in Surreal Lives — I felt that all these writers and artists, some of whom go back to almost a hundred years ago, were audible, had truly come to life on the page. I wonder if you've considered extracting a screen play based on Surreal Lives?
For some years now, I've been meditating a film about Duchamp and Henri Roché in Dadaist New York, seen through the eyes of Beatrice Wood, the lover of them both. It would be a sort of decadent New York Jules et Jim (which of course was from a novel by Roché). I do think it would make a really wonderful film — extremely sexy, that mad hellish atmosphere of World War I New York, all those German spies, Arthur Cravan… But it's a question of finance, as usual. And time, which is the same thing.
If you had to choose your favorite Surrealist, who would it be?
Duchamp, except he wasn't one. Buñuel.
Why did the Surrealists hate Anatole France?
I guess because he represents, in every particular, the world they were rebelling against — that is, the world that had allowed the carnage of World War I to happen. Surrealism was absolutely a product of World War I: they were the generation that had been expected to fight in it, wanting to destroy everything about the old world that had fomented it and sent them off to die. The 'celebrated limpidities' of France's prose, his honours, his membership of the Académie Française, etc, were an encapsulation. "Un Cadavre" literally buried all that.
What are your own opinions about Breton's Nadja?
What a strange and revealing book that is. I like it — its atmosphere of the marvelous and the magic, especially its strange photos. And the way it trails round Paris. But it also says pretty horrendous things about the author — his absolute egoism, his total inability to recognize that he's dealing with another human being, his horror, really, when he's forced to recognize that — that Nadja isn't just a projection of his Surrealist imagination. That was something he always found it hard to accept about people.
Aragon's life was a strange and tumultuous one, and, from a literary standpoint, tragic, his pen having gone silent for more than forty years. Your thoughts?
I found him a rather sad figure. Extraordinarily brilliant and charming, and terribly weak. You can see why communism and Elsa Triolet so profoundly enthralled him — they took him over, gave him a framework. All they demanded in return was — himself. After the visit to Russia, he was no longer able to be an artist. But he obviously thought that a price worth paying — if he even realized it had happened. After all, he still went on producing poems. They just weren't any good.
The fact that (as everyone knew) he was actually bisexual, but would never admit it publicly, says something about the homophobic atmosphere surrounding Surrealism.
Dalí's career was a magnificent one from every point of the compass. However, one certainly can see a weakening of his work in his later life, to the point of utter inauthenticity of artistic expression.
Another extraordinary talent that buckled under the weight of its own neuroses. His early paintings are quite wonderful, very powerful. The one they used on the cover of Surreal Lives — fantastic. And then that cheap crap at the end…
The truth is, that Dalí really needed Breton. He needed Breton's disciplining eye. Until 1938, his paintings carry this weight of dreamlike power. But as soon as they split, Dali was lost, artistically — though of course, tremendously successful commercially. Nothing but cheap repetition. Avida Dollars indeed.
By then Surrealism, too, was in decline. World War II was approaching, and Breton was running out of steam. America was the coming place: Breton hated everything about it, but Dalí loved it, and it loved him.
Luis Buñuel?
I think he's the one great Surrealist genius. Film is the Surrealist medium par excellence — you can play all their games with film, it demands them, juxtaposition, magic — Buñuel even incorporated into his films dreams he'd had the previous night — he used it incomparably. And he's so attractive — that wonderful memoir of his, My Last Breath. And what a beautiful young man! Impossible to reconcile what he was, physically, with what he became. One has to conclude, hair is so important…
One of the reasons I wanted to do this book was the possibility of writing about Buñuel and Dalí. I could see so clearly how they were a product of that quasi-medieval Spanish environment I'd encountered in Madrid. Everything they did originated there — reacting against it, but also deeply drawing from it. For them the Surrealists — anti–religious, modern! — were glamour personified. But when they came to Paris at the end of the 1920s, Surrealism was in a rather unproductive phase. Breton at once sensed, with those infallible antennae of his, that here was new lifeblood, a new direction. So he pounced on them. It was just a wonderful moment for them all.
At the end of Surreal Lives, you make the claim that the world is a surreal place as opposed to an Existential place, as delineated by Camus and Sartre.
I think what I meant was, that when you say something is surreal, everyone at once knows what you mean. It's about a certain dreamlike weirdness that pervades some events. It probably always has done so, since the world began, but what Breton did was to give that sensation a name. On the other hand, if you said something was existential, no one save a philosopher would know what you were talking about.
(VOX Press, 2008)
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Dua's for Relief from Distress …..
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I was reading a book Yesterday named 'Islam's Treatment For Anxiety And Worry' and came across some beautiful duas to be read to relieve oneself from Distress or Worry. I found it very useful as I dont think anybody in this world is spared from Anxiety and Worry…..!!!!! That was exactly what i needed the most, Some duas that would help me increase my faith in Allah, I will be reading those duas daily inshallah as Prevention is always better than cure, Dont you agree ???? Here they are –
For Distress :
1. Allahumma inni a'oodhu bika mina al-hamm wa'l-hazn wa'l-ajz wa'l-kasal wa'l-bukhl wa'l-jubn wa dala wa'l-dayn wa ghalbat al-rijal
Trans: O Allah ! I seek refuge in You from distress, grief, incapacity, laziness, miserliness, cowardice, the burden of debt and from being overpowered by Men.
2. Allahumma inni abduka ibn abdika ibn amatija nasyati bi yadika, mada fiyya hukmuka, adlun fiyya qada'uka. As'aluka bi kulli ismin huwa laka sammayta bihi nafsaka aw anzaltu fi kitabika aw 'allamtahu ahadan min khalqika aw ista'tharta bihi fi ilm il-ghayb indaka an taj'al al-Qurana rabee' qalbi wa noor sadri wa jala huzni wa dhihab hammi
Trans: O Allah! I am your slave , son of your slave, son of your maidservant; my forelock is in Your hand, Your command over me is forever executed and Your decree over is just. I ask you by every name belonging to You which You have named Yourselves with, or revealed in Your Book, or You taught to any of Your creation, or You have preserved in the knowledge of the unseen with You, that You make the Quran the life of my heart and the light of my breast, and a departure for my sorrow and a release for my anxiety.
3. La ilaha ill-Allah al-Azeem al-Hakeem, laa ilaha ill-Allah Rabb al 'Arsh al-'Adheem la ilaha illa-Allah Rabb al-Samawat wa Rabb al Ard wa Rabb al-Arsh al-kareem
Trans: There is no God but Allah, the All-powerful. The Forbearing; There is no god but Allah. Rabb of the mighty throne; there is no god but Allah, Rabb of heaven,Rabb of earth, Rabb of the nobel throne.
4. Ya hayyu ya qayyum bi rahmatika astagheetu
Trans: O Ever-Living , O Eternal, by Your mercy I seek help.
5. Allah Allah Rabbee la ushriku bihi say'an
Trans: Allah, Allah is my Lord , I donot associate anything with Him.
6. Allahumma rahmata arjoo fa la takilni ila nafsi tarfat ayn w'aslih li sha'ni kullahu la ilaha illa anta
Trans: O Allah, for your mercy I hope, so do not leave in charge of my affairs even for the blink of an eye: rectify all my affairs. There is no God except You.
Ya Allah-Khair
64 Responses to "Dua's for Relief from Distress ….."
Beautiful doas….may Allah accept it from us and make our staying in dunya easier inshaAllah. Stay strong sis 🙂
Nice duas, thx 4 sharing 🙂
Duas are powerful…thanks for reminding us 🙂
Thank you.. This came at the right time. May Allah bless you and your family forevermore.
Mashallah very nice duas maryam may lord give you rewards, ameen
thanx maryam i love it! may allah always keep you safe and happy, ameen
Jazak Allah Khair
thanks god bless you
Do you know a good duaa for a broken family? thanks.
Salam sister
thank u for posting these, just what we all need, may Allah (God) accept all our prayers and bless us with his love and mercy… I read a msg about broken family, i couldn't find anything exactly on this in the supplications book but these…
"what to say to foil the devil's plot"
A'uthu bi kalimaatil-laahit-taammaatil-lati laa yujaawizu-hunna barrun wa laa faajirun min sharri maa khalaqa, wa bara'a wa thara'a, wa min sharri maa yanzilu minas-samaa'i, wa min sharri maa ya'ruju feeha, wa min sharri maa thara'a fil-ardhi, wa min sharri ma yakhruju minhaa, wa min sharri fitanil-laili wan-nahaari, wa min sharri kulli taariqin illa taariqan yatruqu bi khairin yaa Rahmaan.
I seek refuge in the Perfect Words of Allah- which neither the upright nor the corrupt may overcome – from the evil of what He created, of what He made, and of what He scattered… from the evil of what descends from the heavens, and of what rises up to them… from the evil of what He scattered in the earth and of what emerges from it… from the evil trials of night and day, and from the evil of every night visiter, except the night visiter who comes with good. Oh Merciful One.
Most problems in relationships are due to misunderstandings or one's anger or wrong thinking.. i feel these are whispers of evil so I ask God to protect me for it, and i also suggest to say,
"Alhamdu lil-laahi 'alaa kulli haal" meaning "Praise is to Allah in all circumstances" as this is what the last Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said when something that displeased him happened.
Hope your family problems resolve inshallah.. 🙂
Ashahadu An Laa illaaha illal llahu
Wa Ash Hadu Anna Muhammadan Abdu Hu Wa Rasooluhu
"I bear witness that there is no deity but Allah
who is without partner, and I bear witness that Muhammad (Peace be upon Him) is the Rasool."
"O Allah, Shower Your Peace come upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you have brought peace to Ibrahim and his family. Truly, You are Praiseworthy and Glorious. O Allah, Shower your blessing upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, as you have blessed Ibrahim and his family. Truly, You are Praiseworthy and Glorious".
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Islam, As-Salaam Alaikum!
My Name is Khalid U.Ibrahim. I am in need of your (Du'a) Prayers for ALLAH's Help and Protection. (Ya ALLAH!) OALLAH! I Beg of you to Bestow on us (the Believing Muslims) a Home, a Home of Safety, Security and Peace in this World Life, Out of the Reach of the Dajjal and his army, and also Grant us a Home of Safety,Security and Peace in the Life Hereafter,Out of the Reach of the Fires of Hell!.(Ya ALLAH!) OALLAH! I Beg of you to Increase our Faith and Devotion, and to Bless us with Peace in our Hearts and Souls.(Ya ALLAH!) Please Forgive All The Believing Muslims,(Ya ALLAH!) Please grant All the Believing Muslims the Best in this world Life and the Best in Hereafter, and(Ya ALLAH!) Please Protect us(the Believing Muslims) from own Nafs, and(Ya ALLAH!) Please Protect All the Believing Muslims from the hands of the Dajjal and his army.] {No One in this World care!} (Ya ALLAH!) OALLAH! I Beg of you for the means to do good, and to avoid evil, and Bless us to Love the poor, and I beseech you forgive us(the Believing Muslims) and have mercy on us. And When you subject the people of theWorld to trial, Protect us from being affected by it.(Ya ALLAH!) OALLAH! I Beg of you, your Love and Protection,and the Love of those who Love you, and Grant us the Love of all such actions that will bring us closer to you, with our Love and Devotion to you.(Ya ALLAH!) OALLAH! I thank you for all your Mercy and Protection that you have bestowed on us, and all that you have given us in these trouble times that we are facing,(Al-Hamdolillah!).
Assalamu Alaikum
Can you please send me the Editable Arabic text of the "Allahumma inni a'oodhu bika mina al-hamm wa'l-hazn wa'l-ajz ………………………..
"Allahumma inni abduka ibn abdika ibn amatija nasyati bi yadika, …………………."
to my email ID firstname.lastname@example.com
It will be a great help.
Assalamu Alaikum,
Can someone please tell me or send me links about protecting yourself and your loved ones from the 'evil-eye'?
Jazak Allah Khair,
For sister MARYAM
Thanks for presenting such a illuminating supplications. May Alllah Almighty give you peace and more wisdom.
Assalamu Walikum Maryam.
Duas are miracles. At the time of distress duas are really important. Remebering Allah is the key to happiness, and pateints is also required. May Allah bless you and be pleased with you and reward you the highest of all heavens.
Mashallah Sister.
Jazakallah Khair
May allah strengthen your imaan
There is a wonderful dua book. Its a compilation of authentic duas with arabic text and meanings. Its available in windows chm format where you can search as well. Please check http://www.fatwa-online.com/downloads/dow004/index.htm
salaam, these duas you have shared with us are very helpful Mashallah. I'm just wondering if you know any duas for very serious situations, I am in a very bad situation at the moment and it would really help if I could read duas for them
Thank you
Jazakallahkhairon sis, very useful post mashallah. I added it to my blog, hope that's ok?
JazakAllah khair for sharing! 😀
assalamalaikum maryam, thanks for the duas ,may almighty bless u with peace n prosperity allah hafiz
Thank you incredibly much for those beautiful Dua's. I read all of the Dua's including the one's posted in the comments. InshAllah I will beneifit from them.
JazakAllah it would be more apprecitiable if you write it in ARABIC
Thank you so much for these duas.
Great Blog!……There's always something here to make me laugh…Keep doing what ya do 🙂
Salaam! These dua's are amazing but it is difficult to say the words correctly in english, if there was arabic text it would be more beneficial..Jazakullah!
as salamu alaikum,
jazakallahu khair for these duas.
since I noticd that many people benifits from this article, just wanted to correct an error in dua # 2 ( i am pretty sure its just a typo)
it shoud be Allahumma inni abduka ibn abdika ibn "aamatika" (not amatija)
thank you again sister for sharing
Bismullah,ir-Rahman,ir-Rahim. "Ashhadu Alla Ilaha Illa Allah Wa Ashhadu Anna Muhammad Rasulu Allah" "I bear witness that there is no deity other than Allah(SWT)
and that Muhammad(SAW) is his servant and Messenger." Dear Brothers and Sisters in Islam, As-Salaam Alaikum!
My Name is Khalid U.Ibrahim. I am in need of your (Du'a) Prayers for ALLAH's Help and Protection. (Ya ALLAH!) OALLAH! I Beg of you to Bestow on us a Home, a Home of Safety, Security and Peace in this World Life, Out of the Reach of the Dajjal and his army, and also Grant us a Home of Safety,Security and Peace in the Life Hereafter,Out of the Reach of the Fire of Hell!.(Ya ALLAH!) OALLAH! I Beg of you to Increase our Faith and Devotion, and to Bless us with Peace in our Hearts and Souls.(Ya ALLAH!) Please Forgive All The Muslims,(Ya ALLAH!) Please grant All the Muslims the Best in this world Life and the Best in Hereafter, and(Ya ALLAH!) Please Protect us from own Nafs, and(Ya ALLAH!) Please Protect All Muslims from the hands of the Dajjal and his army. (Ya ALLAH!) OALLAH! I Beg of you for the means to do good, to avoid evil, and to Love the poor, and I beseech you forgive us and have mercy on us. And When you subject the people to a trial, Protect us from being affected by it.(Ya ALLAH!) OALLAH! I Beg of you, your Love, and the Love of those who Love you, and the Love of all such actions that bring us closer to you, to your Love.(Ya ALLAH!) OALLAH! I thank you for your Mercy ,Protection and all that you have given us in these trouble times that we are facing,(Al-Hamdolillah!).
Ya hayyu ya qayyum bi rahmatika astagheetu
jaza kallah sister 🙂
May allah give u happiness
And these beautiful duas were much needed
thank you very much for these duas
please make dua for me, i am suffering from extreme stress and anxiety/depression. everyday has become a struggle,may god help me ameen.
Thank you Mariam….may Allah give u many rewards for sharing these duas with us….they have really helped me…plz tell us what book u got these dua's from with isb number. Thankyou once again sister. 🙂
Wonderful duas. These couldn't be at a wrong time when i need this so much right now . INSHAALLAH ALLAH will erase my sorrows n my worries INSHAALLAH.. May Allah bless u sis .JazakAllah khairun sis.
Assalamalikum i feel so blessed to be born in the holy Prophets S.A.W Ummah inshallah the love we have for Allah azwajaal and the final prophet will take us jannat.
thankyou all for uploading these duas much appreciated please remember me in your duas xxx
MashaAllah may Allah subhanataala reward you Amin
wow girl what a beautiful heart u have to have shared this lovely post.
im going thru a very terrible emotional havoc. anyone who is reading this, please pray for me. 🙂 Allah will reward you immensely. inshaAllah.
maryam, in my distress, i stumbled upon this site http://maseeh1.tripod.com/advices7/id150.htm
and really loved all the duas mentioned but i was looking for arabic text, and the link by zios was EXACTLY what i was looking for. Allah has been so kind on me. 🙂
jazakaAllah kerin kaseerah.
maryam do write me back at my email id.
I appreciate you sharing this blog.Really thank you!
Thanks for the dua. Only Allah can help us in our difficulties and sorrows.
please make dua for me.
i am only 16, but have been having alot of depression, and axiety!
Also please pray that i get my happiness back INSHALLAH
i also wear a hijab, but am the only one in my class, and i feel like some guys make fun of me for it. Please make duaa for me, that they stop. thank you! MAY ALLAH REMOVE ALL SORROWS, PAIN, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION AND WORRY.AMEEN
please pray that all my worrries go away! and that i get TRUE friends who dont hurt me! AMEEN
Asslamo Alaikum sisters
I just discovered this web page its amazing. Sister maryam Allah reward you for all your work. The duaas are subhanAllah amazing,remember me in your duaas sisters.
Asslamo Alaikum sisters
I just discovered this web page its amazing. Sister maryam Allah reward you for all your work. The duaas are subhanAllah amazing,remember me and my family in your duaas sisters.
Assalam o alekum Warehamat Allah.Please can you tell me dua for being free from all stress and worries.
beautiful duas may allah accept all our duas and give releif from this worlds worries and the aqirath too. Aamin
sister i am in tears because of family sickness and especially for my father. although i m still reading your beautiful duas now. i am only 12 and cannot feel the confidence and happiness i used to feel. inshallah these duas will help and also please make duaa for me.
Asalam Alikum,
Is there Anyone,
Can Write The Dua In Arbic Language —> It's A Lot easier for me to read it and memorize It —–Thanks To Everyone For Leaving Nice Comments Here .


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1. Cut out dinosaur body.
2. Cut the line between the legs and along the belly line. Roll the leg flaps up toward each leg. A tight roll should stay in place, but use glue or a bit of tape if needed to keep the leg roll together.
3. Fold body halves together. Sharply fold the top of the sail, but put a mild crease (about 15 degrees) at the base of the sail on both sides. This makes a straight up and down sail and an A-frame like body. Glue sides of head and tail together.
4. Add volume to the body with creases at shoulder and hip.


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DINK! It's a wonderful sound that all Wednesdayites know and love. It's the sound of victory.
Next Thursday it will be 25 years since John Sheridan rang that Wembley goalpost with the sweetest sound on earth in the Rumbelows League Cup Final.
That sound is the reason why I'm a match going, card carrying, hopelessly devoted Sheffield Wednesday supporter.
That noise is the reason my mum had to keep me calm during the final by giving me some old printer paper to shred to stop me bursting the stitches I still had in from an appendix operation the week before.
It's the reason as soon as those stiches were out I went to my first Owls game against Leicester City the week after.
It's the reason I fell in love with Hillsborough as I climbed the steps of the South Stand and looked down on the pitch bathed in glorious sunshine in our 3-1 win against Barnsley the match after the Leicester game.
It's the reason my brother and I watched 'The Road to Wembley' and 'The Will to Win' VHS videos at least once a week during our childhoods.
It's the reason I stood for hours waiting to get a glimpse of the players at the Middlewood Road training ground in the summer holidays.
It's the reason I spent my pocket money buying flags and t-shirts from the old club shop where I could barely see over the large wooden counter to look at the merchandise.
It's the reason I spent most of 1993 fasionably dressed in a Sheffield Wednesday shellsuit.
That noise is the reason I've spent more money than I care to add up following them home and away for the past 25 years.
DINK is the reason.
It's the happiest noise in history. Paul Thompson, with his Wembley Match Verdict, as reported in The Star the following day
Indisputably the better team – with a bigger heart, the greater ambition, the fiercer hunger for glory and the support of the more fanatical crowd – won the Rumbelows Cup at Wembley
"We didn't fear anybody. We felt we could get a result against anyone in that particular season." Lawrie Madden on an incredible campaign
Skipper Nigel Pearson said: "It's the greatest sporting moment of my life, and for the fans I'm sure." Read more quotes from players and management in the immediate aftermath
Liam Hoden on how Monster Trucks upstaged Wednesday's cup celebrations on television
Legendary Owl Roland Nilsson on his pride at the Class of '91


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- Home
- Government
- Boards & Commissions A - G
- Commission on Aging
- Member Biographies
Member Biographies
Naomi Dreskin-Anderson
Naomi Dreskin-Anderson is an attorney whose practice is focused on issues of elders and their families. She is appointed by the Board of Supervisors to the Napa Commission on Aging and has served three terms as Chair. She is a member of the District Attorney's Elder Abuse Prevention Council and is currently Co-Chair of the Healthy Aging Population Initiative (HAPI). Prior to becoming a lawyer, Naomi focused her advocacy on the concerns of elders residing in nursing homes and residential care facilities and directed the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program for Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. She served as the first executive director for the California Long Term Care Ombudsman Association. Naomi has been an advocate for elders for more than 30 years.
Thomas Kalbrener
Born 1938 as a twin in northern Minnesota, BA in SLA, University of Minnesota 1961. U.S Army Security Agency to 1962. Tom was married in 1963 and employed by paper products companies in Minnesota and Illinois in various capacities, First Bank Minneapolis as a Trust Officer, and Waldorf Corporation and Champion International as Credit Manager and Director of Benefits and Compensation. At the sale of Waldorf Corporation in 1998 Tom was retired and served as a consultant providing guidance and assistance to organizations purchasing employee health care and developing retirement plans. Tom's two grown children continue to live and work in Minnesota. Tom was divorced in1998 and moved to California. He lives in Napa and is employed part time for a local winery in Guest Services helping visitors understand the rich history, geography, and viticulture of Napa Valley. He remains interested and concerned about the quality of life and resources available to the senior population and has served two terms as a member of the NCCOA.
Betty Labastida
Betty was nominated to the Commission on Aging by Supervisor Alfredo Pedroza as District 4 Representative in December 2015. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from California State University Los Angeles and a Master in Health Services and Family Nurse Practice from UC Davis in 1973. During her 46 year career she worked in different health care systems including twenty years with the U.S Department of State Foreign Service. She retired in December 2014 and her last position as a Family Nurse Practitioner was with Ole Health. Betty has actively volunteered with UCCE Master Gardeners of Napa County since 2000, Napa Valley Can Do in the community garden and Waterway Keepers, Napa Solano Audubon Society and Citizenship Legal Services. She is a Board member of Ole Health and on the Patient Advisory Committee.
Oliver 'Rocky' Sheridan
I was born in San Francisco during the depression and my family moved to Napa when I was three months old. I grew up attending local schools prior to entering the army in 1952. Upon my discharge, I completed high school and Napa College. I began an apprenticeship at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in 1958 and retired from Mare Island in 1992 with a total of 34 years of federal service. I am active in my community as I am a firm believer that we should share and give back to our community. My interest is now focused on our senior population as it is fast growing segment of our total population. Many of our seniors are facing hardships today that need to be addressed by our party leaders. I am proud to serve on the Napa Commission on Aging, the Napa County Board on Mental Health and the Mental Health stakeholders group.
Charles 'Chuck' Morse
Charles (Chuck) Morse, is an attorney emphasizing Estate Planning and Administration. Born 1940 in Massachusetts, served in U.S Navy April 1960 to March 1969 as an Electronics / Crypto Technician. Honorably discharged as a First Class Petty Officer ( E-6) held Top Secret clearance. Studied at Napa Valley College, University of Hawaii, Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts - got his Juris Doctor from Armstrong College in Berkeley in 1981, and was admitted to the California Bar that same year. From 1981 to 1990 worked as Electronics Systems Engineer for companies supporting Mare Island. Chuck was a Senior Advocate for Napa County Legal Aid (1981-82) including clients at Veteran's Home. Later contracted with Redwood Caregiver Resource Center to assist families of brain-damaged adults. His community service included: Vintage High School Band Boosters; Land Trust of Napa County; Napa County Commission on Aging; Veterans Remains Officer for Napa County. Big Brothers of Napa, and on Boards of Directors of Garden Haven Adult Day Center; Aldea Children and Family Services; Matrix Parent Network; New Technology High School Foundation; Napa County D.A.R.E Foundation; Solano-Napa Area Agency on Aging; Parents CAN; Community Resources for Children; Napa Valley Hospice and Adult Day Services and SIR Branch 65 - Big SIR 2015 and 16.
Thomas Collette
Tom Collette was born in San Rafael. He received an A.A. degree at City College of San Francisco and B.S in general studies / fifth year credential teaching at Southern Oregon College. He taught school at Edwards Air Force Base, Woodland Unified and finished 26 years in Cabrillo Unified in San Mateo County. While teaching at Cabrillo Unified, Tom received his Masters of Arts from the University of Santa Clara in teaching reading to those with dyslexia. He was granted a Fulbright teaching exchange in England. Since his retirement he has worked part-time in the area of work experience at Foothill College and the DMV. While living in San Mateo he served on the Housing and Appeals Board, San Mateo Library Board and the San Trans Citizens Advisory Committee. He was a member of his Homeowners Board, a Deacon at his church and an Inspector for Elections. He is a member of SIRS, the 100F and the Masons. For the past 7 years Tom has volunteered every Sunday at SFO to work the Travelers Information Booth and for the past 25 years he has volunteered at Fort Point assisting with tours and greeting the public. Tom moved from San Mateo to Napa in December of 2015 and he is continuing his public service work as a newly appointment member of the Commission on Aging.
Terri Restelli-Deits
Terri Restelli-Deits received her MSW degree with specialization in Gerontology from UC California at Berkeley and her BA in Psychology from Dominican University of San Rafael. She is a social worker and consultant actively involved in community and statewide strategic planning efforts. She has served as a member of the Napa County Commission on Aging since 2006 and served two terms as the Commission's Chairperson July 2014 to June 2016. She is a graduate of Leadership Napa Valley, currently serves on the Napa County Mental Health Board, Executive Board of the California Elder Justice Coalition, among various committees. Terri has a passion for serving seniors and our community and loves sharing that passion with other advocates.
Heather Stanton
Heather Stanton worked for local government for 30 years working for the City of San Jose and the City of Napa. Heather also operated a public relations firm for 15 years specializing in political campaign strategy and management. Heather was the director of the City of Napa Community Resource Department for 10 years. During that time Heather oversaw construction of the Las Flores Community Center, rehabilitation of the Napa High School, construction of the Napa Skateboard Parking and a number of other smaller projects. Heather was responsible for a number of programs including the operation of the Senior Center, recreation activities and park maintenance.
In 1991 Heather began working with Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District as part of the county-wide team overseeing the design and implementation of the construction of the Napa River flood project. After voter approval of the project in 1998 Heather was employed as the Project Manager of the Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District from 1998 to 2008. Duties include overseeing the implementation of the Napa River / Napa Creek Flood Protection Project and working with various local, State, and federal agencies collectively on the Project. Heather also served for two years as the Project Manager for the St. Helena Flood Project. Heather retired in 2008 and serves as a volunteer on numerous non-profit organizations. She is currently the Secretary / Treasurer for the Teacher Resource Center of the North Bay. She is a Advisory Council member of the Napa Solano AAA.
Carroll Cotten
I was elected to the Commission on Aging in July, 2012. I represent Napa County District 3, Diane Dillon's District. My wife, Ellen, and I reside in Vineyard Valley, Saint Helena, a manufactured homes senior community. Ellen and I moved there from Fresno, CA, in March 2006, to be closer to two daughters and their husbands. I have served on the Board of Directors for the Rianda Senior Activity Center in Saint Helena; I am currently a member of the Advisory Council for the Area Agency on Aging, and volunteer for Molly's Angels and the Saint Helena Food Bank.
Christy Kling
Christy Kling's education includes, BA degree in Biology / Chemistry and Kinesiology from Point Loma Nazarene University, MA in Biomechanics from Washington State University and doctoral work in Education from the University of San Francisco. She has several certifications from the College of Sports Medicine, National Strength and Conditioning Association and the American Red Cross. She is a professor at Napa Valley College and is actively involved in several community projects. She has served as a member of the Napa County Commission on Aging since 2014 and has served as a representative on the Latino Elder Coalition. Christy has a passion for serving others in our community and advocates for wellness and exercise.
JoAnn Busenbark
I have lived in Napa over 50 years. After 30+ years developing and administering programs and services at NVC (Napa Valley College) for disabled students, I retired and have added Senior Issues to my advocacy efforts. I served 9 years on the planning commission for the City of Napa and 9 years on the Napa City council advocating for all special populations. I am an active senior concerned for our growing numbers whose basic needs may be in jeopardy. I serve on the City of Napa Senior Center Board, Napa County Commission on Aging, Area Agency on Aging, and the Napa Valley TV Board of Directors I am an avid fan and participant in Mah Jongg, Bridge, and poker. Advocating for the highest quality services for we who are aging is my passion.
Myrna David
Myrna David moved to the Napa Valley permanently in the fall of 2015 after being a second homeowner for 10 years. Prior to her move, she had careers in both public affairs and marketing research. Most recently, she worked as East Bay Regional Director with the Jewish Community Relations Council. She is currently on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Historical Society of Napa Valley, the Vintage Owners Association and she is a member of Congregation Beth Shalom in Napa. She is married, resides in Yountville with her husband and has a son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter living in San Francisco. She was appointed to the Napa County Commission on Aging in November 2016. She is active in sports, belongs to a gym and believes that physical fitness is especially important to the physical, mental and social well-being of seniors.
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Commissioner Emeritus Bios
Joice M. Beatty
Joice M. Beatty received her BS Degree in Occupational Therapy from San Jose State University. She was a Registered Occupational Therapist for 37 years, working with geriatric and psychiatric patients in the community and in health care facilities. Work related activities include her member on the Napa County Commission on Aging (chair twice), the Napa County Alliance on Aging, and the Napa County Elder Abuse Prevention Council. Joice is also Past-Chair of the Napa County In-Home Supportive Services Advisory Board. Other activities include her chairmanship of the St Helena Beautification Foundation, serving as a member of the Board of Trustees of Rianda House Senior Activity Center, and the St. Helena Rotary Club where she served as President from 1994 to 1995.
Rita Umphries
Rita Umphries began her professional life in education. She joined the Air Force during the Second World War and continued in military life as a wife and mother. She has lived in many regions of the United States. She continued her career in teaching once her four sons had grown. Mrs. Umphries has served in leadership capacities throughout her life. She was commissioned by the U.S Air Force as a recruiter, then a publication officer and Squadron Commander. After her retirement as a school principal, Mrs. Umphries also chaired the Retired Teachers group.She was appointed to the Napa County Commission on Aging by Wes Chesboro and has served as chair of that organization. Rita is a resident of the California Veterans Home and is currently a member of the Board of the Lincoln Theater as well as a working member of KVET. She became an advocate for the less fortunate, especially the elderly.
Betty Rhodes
Betty has served with the Napa County Commission on Aging since July 2001. She is immediate past Commission Chair, having served two terms. She also serves as Chair of Caregiver Permit Education Ad-hoc Committee. Betty also enjoys membership on the Napa Senior Advisory Commission, and a member of the Elder Abuse prevention Agency, chaired by District Attorney Gary Lieberstein. Betty served on the board of Leadership Napa Valley for a year after graduating Class 22. She is a member of California Senior Leaders, Berkeley University and was honored as Outstanding Community Booster of the Year, May 2008, by the Napa Chamber Foundation and Mechanics Bank. Betty also writes a column in the Napa Valley Register called Senior Corner.


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Africa is now in desperate need of entrepreneurial political leadership which seeks innovative and sustainable development pathways to address the plethora of current and emerging socio–economic and environmental challenges facing the continent. To meet the growing and changing economic aspirations of the largely young population, major productivity increases in agriculture and trade in value–added goods within and with the rest of the world are needed to create new economic and employment opportunities. This requires a major paradigm shift in the way Africa does business with its partners: moving away from heavy reliance on foreign aid and export of raw agricultural and other industrial materials to a new era of negotiated and mutually beneficial economic partnerships and trade. This new path for Africa's economic development must be underpinned by strong and sustained investment in Africa's innovation systems, including research to support and promote value addition, product development and manufacturing.
Keywords: innovation systems, R&, D, research and development, trade promotion, value–addition, entrepreneurial leadership, agriculture, political leadership, sustainability, sustainable development, socio–economic challenges, environmental challenges, economic aspirations, productivity increases, value–added goods, economic opportunities, employment opportunities, foreign aid, exports, raw materials, agricultural materials, industrial materials, economic partnerships, economic development, investment, product development, manufacturing industry, Ghana, South Africa, postharvest technology


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Carmen Argenziano (b. October 27, 1943) is an American actor.
He is well known for playing the characters Jacob Carter and Selmak on Stargate-SG1. Carmen has appeared alongside Tony Amendola on Stargate SG-1.
Babylon 5 TV SeriesEdit
- Guest Starring, Knives, (17 May 1995) - Urza Jaddo
External LinkEdit
- Carmen Argenziano at the Internet Movie Database


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Spot illustration of Little Miss Muffet to accompany the poem, "A Country Breakdown" by Henry Rathvon.
Published online for The Art of Eating.
My label design for Brasserie Dunham's summer seasonal "Tejo" beer; A summer seasonal brewed with Colombian coffee and inspired by the Colombian national sport of Tejo.
Art director: Simon Bossé
Photo: Brasserie Dunham
Annual promotional illustrations for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California's fundraising events.
A series of collectible silkscreen posters for Chez Boris, a Russian donut cafe in the Mile End neighbourhood of Montreal.
Chez Boris logotype designed by Marc Rimmer
Purchase prints through Inprnt
Identity illustrations for the Calcutta Cricket Club, a Bengali Indian restaurant in Calgary, Canada
Holiday wrapping paper design created for Librarie Drawn & Quarterly.
Identity illustrations for Two Penny, a Chinese inspired restaurant in Calgary, Canada.
4 colour silkscreen poster design for "Le Pick-Up", beloved lunch counter and corner store in the "Mile-Ex" district of Montreal, Canada.
For an article outlining the vast breadth of McGill University's Biomedical Engineering Department.
Promotional card design for Kingdom Kwong catering service.
A cover illustration for "The Review" from The National (UAE). Winner of the Award of Excellence in Illustration and the Award in Excellence in Features Design from The Society For Design in 2015.
"After Crimea and Ukraine, the Baltic States looked nervously to the East. With substantial ethnic Russian populations, some feared they could be the next point of tension in Eastern Europe. But historically, many Russians in the 'Balts' are happy in their adopted country, while Russia is too shrewd to make any move."
Tiny spot illustrations done for Monocle magazine (issue 84) about innovation in the shipping industry and tourism in Japans border territories.


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The Vestavia Hills Beautification Board held a Fall Gardening Seminar at Andy's Garden Center November 5th. The professionals at Andy's presented container gardening techniques including: selecting the proper plant varieties for a sunny or shady location; the best soil and fertilizing materials to use; as well as watering techniques. Andrew Sweeney and Jason Sumners of Andy's demonstrated how to create and freshen containers while answering questions from those attending. The Beautification Board sponsored a drawing for a $50 Andy's Git Certificate that was given away at the conclusion of the presentation. Mrs. Frances Byrd was the lucky winner of the drawing. Thank you Tricia Burris and Andy's for hosting this fun and informative seminar. Pictures from the event are below.
Each year, during the Spring and Christmas Seasons, beautification board members hold yard judging. Yards are judged on how well they are maintained and in appearance. During the Christmas Season, yards are judged on their appearance during the day and night.
Here are pictures of some of our 2015 Christmas Yard Winners
We love that some of our Spring Winners had a little fun with their Winner's sign.


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Monday, September 24, 2007
I Love My Family
We walked 2 miles at the Whisper Walk on Sunday morning, and I was SO EXHAUSTED! We're standing in front of the poster with names and pictures of people who are being honored or memorialized. If you look close enough you'll see a picture of me right between us. It was very emotional for me to see myself on the poster. I broke down and bawled right there at the race amongst all those people.
I feel like I've been holding in my tears for 6 months and now I can cry. I've been afraid that people think I'm not thankful when they do extraordinary things for me and I don't cry because I'm normally so emotional. I haven't wanted anyone to see me cry during this, so I've tried desperately to control it. I guess I just don't want to have to deal with my feelings. Truth is, I'd do a lot of crying behind closed doors when no one was around.
Now I can't hold it in anymore. It's mostly because I'm so damn happy. I never thought I'd get to the end! It's here. There is some restoration my body has to go through, but that's easy. Now I am free. It's kind of a release that I feel; like I've been holding my breath but now I can breathe and it's nothing but fresh air. Ah, life. It is sweet.
EDIT: Here are some pictures taken from the walk by the KC Star.
5 comments:
- airing out said...
I found I cried the six months after chemo more than I did during chemo. It is all part of the healing process... plus I probably went back to work too soon. Oh, and lots were happy tears too. It was like I had shut off the auto-pilot that got me through treatments and I was awake enough to realize what had just happened.
Best of luck to you and take care~!
ps... I happened across your blog in google search on Ovarian Cancer.
- September 24, 2007 at 8:40 PM
It's so weird saying your sister has cancer. To me it was like you never had it. We would talk on the phone as always and laugh, but then I would see you without your hair and it always struck me dumb for a second. I can't tell you how proud of you I am. I always thought I was the tough one that had to protect you, but I know now that you are strong enough to take care of yourself. I love you, you are my inspiration.
- September 26, 2007 at 9:05 AM
We love you, too. More than you could ever know.
- September 26, 2007 at 7:56 PM
- susan said...
I was having trouble posting on your most current page. Something about security. So I had to go back and find a page I could post on. Then I found a way to get past it. From what I've read back, you have really been through the mill. I have just finished up 18 rounds of chemo and it was quite an ordeal. Although I tolerated it better than some others. I'm a bit nervous about being off chemo, I feel at least the chemo was a productive action.
Now I feel like I'm waiting for something else to happen. I'm
hoping these feeling will pass.
I have a question, I read that you were taking an antidepressant
called celexa. Could you tell me
who decided you needed to be taking this and what kind of doctor precribed it. If this is too personal , I'll understand.
It's just that I have a friend dealing with breast cancer and it's
spreading to her spine. She is
starting to sound depressed. At
this point I don't think taking
medication could make things any worse. I figured if I could get
some information for her it might help. I think it could help her cope.
Thanks for any info you could give me. and I hope you continue to feel better.
September 28, 2007 2:13 PM
- September 28, 2007 at 2:43 PM
- Hillary said...
Hi Susan!
I totally felt the same way about ending chemo. It's sort of a security blanket.
I was originally prescribed Lexapro by my oncologist after asking my nurse practitioner for it specifically. I knew I needed something to help me feel happier because it was a downward spiral for awhile! Lexapro is very expensive ($50 a bottle with insurance) so my insurance company suggested an alternative, Celexa, which is 100% insurance paid for 6 months. I thought I'd try it and it definitely makes a difference. I am going through menopause too, so I have quite the mood swings to add to the mix. I feel so much better!
I'm sorry to hear about your friend. A positive outlook is SO IMPORTANT when you're trying to heal yourself, but it's often hard to do.
Congratulations on the end of chemo for you! Wow...18 treatments?! Your doctors must think you don't need it anymore. It's time to get healthy! :) Way to go.
- September 29, 2007 at 8:13 AM


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Stuff They Don't Want You to Know - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It's been over 3 weeks since I graduated from Enspiral Dev Academy (EDA) and more like 3 and a half since I last coded. That is scary! I learned it all so quickly, could I lose it just as quickly from lack of use? It's not like I felt super confident about my skills in the first place – I was proud of myself for learning it and fairly confident in my basic skills, but not super confident – so now I'm really worried.
But I've made a plan – when in doubt, schedule your life! Nothing gives you a feeling of control in this crazy world like a colour coded calendar and a plan of attack. I have an idea for a website I want to build and an idea of how I will approach it. Hopefully, I'll be able to get back into it without too much trouble or the need to take the course all over!
Today's task was to write out some notes for the new website, planning out the user stories, the flow and the database associations. The user stories went pretty well, I know what I want this site for and what it should do, so there were no problems there. I made a messy attempt at wire framing and have a good idea of how it will look. All good so far.
But trying to figure out the associations has left me stumped – I can't remember if the products belong to the customer and to the order or just to the order and then the order belongs to the customer. Are the orders a join table or polymorphic or has many and belongs to many? Uh oh. The RailsGuides aren't much help, or else I just can't make sense of ActiveRecord Associations through the dawning realisation that yes, I have forgotten everything. Crap.
I'm going to go and stare at some code and hope it all comes flooding back like magic.
Tips for Planning a New Project
One thing I have learned in the short time I've been doing this coding stuff is that it is important to sit down and plan out your projects before starting to code. Get a clear idea of the overall nature of the site before you start to build it. Some people might be able to dive right in without taking this initial step and have it all work out as it should, but I definitely cannot work that way. So here's what I do:
1. User stories – think of all of the things that a user can/should do on your site, and write them down. Don't worry about ordering them to start with, just brain storm everything you want your site to do. As per my EDA instruction, I structure them as so:
As a user, I want to:
- sign up/log in to the site
- access my account
- change my info/password
- see my past orders
- see a selection of products on the home page
- click on a product to find out more about it
- add the product to the shopping cart
- remove items from the shopping cart
- buy the items in the shopping cart
And so on, and so forth. Spend some time thinking about every single thing a user should be able to do or see on your site. When you have them all – or all you can think of at this point, as you can always add more later/as you think of them – pull out the absolute necessities (as opposed to the nice-to-have, fancy as features), the things that will create the most basic, functioning version of your website. This will be your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and will be what you aim for first – it's always good to aim for the basic working app to start with – adding all of the other mind-bogglingly awesome stuff after that.
2. Wire framing – According to Wikipedia: 'A website wireframe, also known as a page schematic or screen blueprint, is a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website.' While that sounds quite official and intimidating, all it really needs to be is a sketch of the flow of your site. What your home page will look like, what buttons it will have and where they will lead. I am terrible at drawing, so as I mentioned above my wire frames are always really messy, but as long as I can make sense of the chaos, that's all that really matters. Here is a photo of the one I did for my current personal project:
I also jot down the languages/libraries/gems/apis I plan to use for the project as well, just for reference.
I'm still a bit of a luddite I suppose, so I do all of my planning the old fashioned way, on paper – gasp, shock, horror! But there are programs that allow you to do wire framing electronically – during our final project at EDA, one of my team members used Balsamiq to do a wire frame of our mobile app, and it was a great tool. But I am still attached to the pen and notebook, you will have to pry them out of my cold dead hands, I'm afraid.
3. Database Tables and Associations – Some people might not find this as necessary in the initial planning session for a project, but I personally like to figure it out along with everything else. I jot down all of the tables the database will need, the columns for each and the associations between them. I find it helpful to have this stuff in my head when thinking about the overall app, as it just helps to put it all together for me.
(Note: In case you were wondering, I later figured out the associations for my orders table – it belongs to both customers and products, each of which have many orders as well as have many of the other through orders. Huzzah!)
Anyway, that's my process, such as it is. I understand that this is a simplified version of a project plan – if working for a client, it might be necessary to be a lot more structured and detailed in your plan. But for a personal project, this should do the trick – it doesn't have to be too formal!
I hope you find this helpful. If you have any other tips for project planning that you find work well, please do share them in the comments below. Thanks!


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A man has been arrested in connection with a collision which happened on the M5 in Gloucestershire early this morning.
The collision happened shortly before 4.30am in the southbound carriageway between junctions 9 and 10 and involved a black Vauxhall Zafira and a red Kia Cee'd
The Vauxhall left the road and landed on its side in a field.
The driver, a woman in her 60s, was not physically injured.
The driver of the Kia failed to stop at the scene.
At about 7.45am officers arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of drink driving and he was taken into custody for questioning.
He has since been released under investigation.
Gloucester News Centre – http://gloucesternewscentre.co.uk


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King of the Ring
Pro wrestling is the kind of thing that you can stake your entire life on and still not completely master that is what he taught his daughter.
"Yeah, but look at Tina now first its modeling, then acting; what's with all this flashy crap! I'll have to take her on again in the DOA tournament and teach her once and for all the true worth of wrestling!"
However, Bass had no idea that his precious Tina had already set her sights on a new conquest...
Fighting Style: Pro Wrestling
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Birthday July 4th
Age: 46
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Brazil soccer great Romario refuses breath
Former Brazilian soccer star Romario has been fined $614 and had
his license revoked for five days for refusing to take a breath
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State authorities said in a statement he was stopped before dawn
Sunday in a random police check for drunken drivers. His Land Rover
wasn't towed because he had a passenger who was sober and drove the
car away.
Romario was also fined $530 for refusing to take a breath test
in March 2010.
The World Cup winner was elected as a representative to the
lower house of Congress in 2010. He led Brazil to the 1994 World
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Movie Review - The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Criminal Honor
On a cold brutal world a man runs across a landscape that resembles the ridges of a fingerprint. He came here for a reason. To protect those he cares about from those who want to capture him. His name is Riddick.
The second in a series of live action science fiction/horror staring Vin Diesel as Richard B. Riddick an escaped convict constantly on the run from mercenaries for the size of the bounty on his head. Riddick is not a good man. Nor is Riddick an evil man. Riddick is a man with a code of conduct that allows him to continue living. When you consider his life from the moment of his birth it is not surprising. He is one of the last of the Furyans, a race wiped out 30 years ago by a then young Lord Marshall in response to a prophesy. But prophesy has a tendency to get its way. One thing Riddick does have is honor. He is neither a pessimist nor an optimist. Riddick is a realist. For those that matter to him no price is too high to pay especially for revenge.
Okay. I admit I was not a huge fan of Vin Diesel though my beloved husband was. Nor do I normally watch science fiction/horror movies beyond specific exceptions. However, I certainly got sucked into this. The character is riveting. It was enough to make me go Googling about Riddick and his universe. The character doesn't kill for the sake of killing. It's kill or be killed. Survive at any cost. Does that make him evil? No. No more than the lion is evil for killing the antelope. Kill or die. The history of the character and his race is fascinating and I look forward to learning more about the Furyans and the type of people they were. With what little information is out there make them fascinating and I want to know more.
The Necromongers. This is a freakishly disturbing group. They are not a race per se but a collection of people who have been converted to this mindset. The Lord Marshall is human and something else. He is the holy half dead who has seen the underverse. What he saw there and what changed him is unknown, but it makes him difficult to kill or stop by any normal means. Lord Vaako and Dame Vaako would like to see that happen and take his place. He is a good soldier and leader of men because he believes in the Necromonger faith. She is also a believer and will do anything to maneuver her husband into position. She is beautiful and manipulative. She is also creepy as hell in her own way. The interesting thing is these two are totally into each other. The Necromongers are another group I would love to know more about as well as what the underverse is. I guess I'm weird that way.
Throw in a mysterious member of the Elemental Race who know the prophesy and arrange to make it happen to restore balance to the universe. Judi Dench did a fine job with the role. I would love to know more this race as well.
One of the highest security prisons in the galaxy, a triple max security slam (aka slammer) is a world called Crematoria. Daylight temperature is 700 degrees Fahrenheit and 300 degrees below on the dark side. A buffer zone of 20 kilometers lies between these two extremes where the temperature is acceptable for human life, though constantly changing. It is an ideal location for a maximum security prison especially when you put the flight hanger miles away from the prison itself. The landscape of the planet fits with the results of these temperature extremes. From that alone you can tell in which direction the planet rotates with the heating and freezing effect of the stone. All this make Crematoria one of the most difficult prisons to escape from.
It is here where Riddick comes for Jack/Kyra who got herself sent here after she went after Riddick and joined a Merc (mercenary) crew. It was a very bad mistake for her. Had she stayed on New Mecca with Imam, played by Keith David, she would have had a different life. But she didn't and paid the price. She tries to blame Riddick but only she is responsible for her choice. But time and time again Riddick comes for her and then when he returns to Helion Prime he finds she has been converted. In the end the conversion is not complete and she stabs the Lord Marshal in the back while he is battling Riddick. She gives him the edge and time to place himself for the final blow. In the end she dies in his arms.
Riddick mourns her death sitting on the throne of the formal Lord Marshall. He looks up to see the Necromongers including Lord Vaako kneeling before him. A major precept of the Necromonger faith is the rule 'you keep what you kill'. Riddick is now the new Lord Marshall. What will he do with this power? That is left for the next movie which I hear is in the works and I'm looking forward to see it.
There are two things that stand out to me. The 'dogs' that were at Crematoria during 'feeding' time were awesome. I don't know what they are but they are so cool and react well to Riddick. They would make great pets for him I would think. And great protection
The second thing is the environment of Crematoria. Now as I remember fire consumes oxygen and a renewable source of oxygen would be required for the fire to burn continuously unless it's another element that burns so furiously all the time, but I'm pretty sure all oxygen would be consumed by these extreme temperatures so what is everyone breathing?
I look forward to the next installment. It should be entertaining. I'll admit it; Vin Diesel has become a bit of action eye-candy in my book.
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WoW! ~I just read this for the first time. I THINK YOU DID A FANTASTIC SUMMARY on "Chronicles"!!! I just wrote a Riddick Article myself... focused more on the First Movie "Pitch Black" (or Nightfall).
I truly admire the clean summary you have here. I, would never have made myself analyze Chronicles. And I am linking to this article here, in my own comments on Pitch Black, to lead people HERE, to see a great summary of "Chronicles".
Love your word-smything.
You are Obviously Intelligent, and cleanly logical in your clear expression.
They are making a sequel? YES! I want to see Riddick as ruler of his own Empire.
I even hope the bounty hunter Tombs, returns. I like that guy, he remians me of Harrison Ford with more edge.
Maybe Jack/Kyra can be brought back at the Underverse.
Your review ids awesome. I love that. you know.
I love this movie, But almost forgotten, how the story goes.
Untill I read this hub.
thank you.
now I do not have to read newspaper movie reviews...I can come here...good insight to this movie...thanks
I loved this movie and Vin Diesel is certainly easy on the eye, and I loved the character Riddick. You captured the movie well in your hub.
Thank you for a fantastic movie hub. creativeone59