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The Via Xtreme Ultimate Sexual Enhancer Dietary Supplement for Men has been recalled because it has been marketed as a natural supplement, yet it contains several drugs including Viagra and these have not been listed on the label.
The drugs found in the product are sulfoaildenafil methanesulfonate, sulfosildenafil and dimethylsildenafil which are analogs of sildenafil (Viagra). Sildenafil is approved by the FDA to treat erectile dysfunction (ED), but the fact that it wasn't listed on the packaging of the sexual enhancer dietary supplement means that it is in fact, an unapproved drug.
Viagra can interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs such as nitro-glycerine and may lower blood pressure to dangerous levels. Customers with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or heart disease are at particular risk because they often take medications that contain nitrates.
Viagra can also have side-effects such as allergic reaction and headache. If during sexual activity you experience dizziness, become nauseated, have pain, numbness or tingling in your chest, arms, neck or jaw, stop and call your doctor immediately. These are signs of serious side-effects. Viagra can also cause sudden vision loss.
The affected lot numbers are 809013, 806030, and A032111 and if anyone has the product with these lot numbers they should stop taking the product and consult their doctor if they have experienced side-effects.
Consumers with questions may contact the company at (954) 922-1133, Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 4:00pm EST for instructions on the return process.
Adverse events can be reported to the FDA online:
FDA Press Release, 13th July 2011 - http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm263025.htm
Viagra, RxList: The Internet Drug Index, page accessed 18th July 2011 - http://www.rxlist.com/viagra-drug.htm
Reviewed July 18, 2011
by Michele Blacksberg R.N.
Edited by Shannon Koehle
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What can we tell about a city from its data? Here's a brief look at what drives crime and 311 calls in Chicago.
Let's start with the big picture. In 2014, there were 272,374 recorded instances of crime (wow), and this is the locations of all the crime reports. To put this into perspective, the estimated population of Chicago in 2013 was 2.72 million, so there was about a crime recorded for every 10 people. This is enough and sufficiently spread out over the city that we can make out the geography (even Washington Park is visible near the lake, apparently not a hotspot for either criminals or maybe police). I'm not that familiar with Chicago neighborhoods, but you can see that there seems to be a hotspot down on the South Side around the intersection of 90 and 94, out to the west around Oak Park and downtown by the Near East Side.
How about the 311 calls? These are calls for city services like to report graffiti or request maintenance. These seem to show strong geographic variation between each other. The most prominent is graffiti as is clear from the density of points, so let's focus on that for a moment. Since graffiti is associated with crime, maybe it should be most reported in areas that are crime heavy, but it's clear that reported graffiti is not indicative of crime level. In fact, you can show that the wards where graffiti reporting is the highest are correlated with gentrification (I suppose the idea is that gentrifying areas might be more sensitive to disorderly conduct, but that's not the only viable hypothesis). In contrast, calls for emptying garbage, tree trimming, abandoned cars, or extinguished street lights are much more uniform. This is important because it tells us that geographic variation is not just because people in certain neighborhoods don't have phones or just don't call, people do call but they're not calling in about certain things. Also, are rodents really only a problem on the north side?
If we plot the number of reported events over the course of the year, we find that nearly everything has some relationship with temperature. This is a well-known phenomenon that crime, for example, increases with the temperature. But we might as well plot it for fun, and I show it below. We have to be careful because different wards have different mean levels of crime, so I am showing the fluctuations as a percentage of the mean to make a fair comparison. For every degree increase in the maximum daily temperature, crime reports increase about 0.8% above the mean. You might note that crime is typically higher on Saturday than the average weekday (either these criminals have weekday jobs or there are more targets on Saturday but not Sunday).
I show similar plots for the different types of 311 calls. Some of these have no real correlation with the temperature such as report about abandoned cars or graffiti. Others have strong temperature dependence as would be expected, and these are garbage (2.6% increase per degree--yuck!), tree trimming, sanitation, etc. One that has a negative correlation is the report of street lights (-1.7%) and that is presumably because the days get longer during the summer (and maybe cold has a negative impact on the longevity of bulbs?) For 311 calls, it's quite important to distinguish between weekdays and weekends and so the shown linear regressions exclude the weekends.
The huge impact of the temperature is astounding. In fact, many have shown temperature to be highly predictive of conflict and crime in many other places (see Hsiang et al. 2011). Clearly, the direction of causality must be from nature to human behavior, but it's not clear whether it's really temperature, the longer day, or something related that is causing these reports to rise and fall.
Clearly, fluctuations in crime vary systematically over the entire city, but there is at least one clear reason why these large fluctuations are correlated. So if I were to look at how fluctuations about the mean were correlated between different wards over the course of the year, the correlations would be dominated by these systemic trends. What happens if I explicitly remove the trend. Are the leftover fluctuations still correlated? I check this by subtracting off the mean across the wards, which still seems to give a rich correlation structure as visible below.
Taking the crime data renormalized by the means of each ward and then having subtracted the mean over hte wards, I use SVD to pull out the patterns characterizing the wards. It looks like only a few wards have strong deviations along the first and second components once we've accounted for the mean trend. Noticeably large deviations are visible for wards 11, 19, 22, 38, 40, 41, 43, 44, 46, and 47. To see how these outliers fit in with the geography of the city, I took the wards that were more than half a standard deviation away from 0 and colored them by whether they are positive or negative. What is really interesting is that all the clusters are not geographically proximal. For example, the cluster of wards 1, 32, 43 and 44 deviate from the mean trend in similar way as 10, 12, 22 and 36 despite the separation.
If you're curious, the other matrix returned SVD will tell us about the variation over the days. After the mean has been subtracted, the first component reflects the weekly variation. The second component is more complicated, and it's not immediately clear to me what it refers to. But it's below for you to inspect. Let me know if you have any ideas...What I see from inspecting this is a slight depression at the beginning of the year and during the summer. So, it looks like the summer is not just a trend up but maxes out?
What's the conclusion? I don't think any of these posts are ever thorough enough to lead to any real conclusion, but it's stunning to see how strong global effects like temperature and the weekly cycle are on the crime cycle in Chicago (or any city probably). Besides that, its important to mention that the right way to compare the crime statistics between wards seem to be to rescale them by the means (or geometric means). A lot of statistical tools that researchers tend to take off the shelf make normality assumptions, and if that is the case, one should really take these variables into the log domain after rescaling, or perhaps use a statistics that isn't sensitive to outliers like Spearman's rank correlation.
This post was originally motivated by a datathon at the Computational Social Science Summit of 2015. We were investigating the incidence of crime in Chicago using crime reports collected during 2014 and 311 calls. Although the focus of the datathon was on answering some sociological questions and making policy recommendations, there were some very interesting patterns that might merit further attention. I thought it would be fun to show some of them here. I should mention that the Chicago Tribune has a very nice website set up for visualizing these data across many more years here.
The crime data consists of all the reported crimes including details of the date, type of crime, a discription, the location, and whether an arrest was made or not. The 311 data that we looked at included calls about abandonced vehicles, garbage carts, graffiti removal, rodent baiting, sanitational code complaints, broken street lights, tree debris, tree trimming, and vacant and abandoned buildings (say occupied by the homeless). Similarly, these files include time, location, and some other relevant information such as the type of complaint and whether it was addressed or not. This is a lot of different variables to play with, and one can easily stick all of these different columns into a machine and try to analyze what it spits out, but I thought I would show more details since I don't think black boxes are particularly helpful.Back to top

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There is no denying the dominance of German auto brands among the world's 10 most valuable this year. The combination of their trusted and long-standing heritage, a commitment to diversification, innovation and after sales-services is what really sets these German brands apart from the rest.
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It's time for another erotic author feature – and this week it's JP Philips in the spotlight. Find out more about JP in the revealing exploration below, and discover his incredibly hot writing. Personally, I'm really tempted by No Angel – I need to read this story.
You can also follow JP on Twitter and Tumblr.
If you'd like to read about other erotic authors you can find the Erotic Author Spotlight Series here. Erotic author and interested in your own free feature post at Cara Sutra? Find the call for submissions page here.
I run a similar free promotional offer for sex bloggers and sex toy reviewers. You can find the Sex Blogger Spotlight Series page here, and the call for submissions (the Q&A and other info to send me) here.
Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com with your info – whether author or blogger – and I will reply with your spotlight date. This will be the next available Monday for authors and the next available Thursday for bloggers.
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J P Philips describes himself as, "a perfectly ordinary, happily married, forty-something-year-old man who accidentally stumbled upon a talent for erotic writing." He's just opened his brand new website, My Darkest Desire, where you can find his entire collection of short stories and novellas.
I came up with the idea for My Darkest Desire several years ago, when deciding I wanted to take my passion for writing to the next level, yet was left frustrated by the publication options available. I knew there were thousands of people out there like me – ordinary, perfectly decent men and women who occasionally enjoy indulging in a dirty story or two, yet who struggle to find no-nonsense erotic fantasies that are written with care. It also seemed obvious to me that the home for such writing should be online, yet there were seemingly no quality websites devoted to it. In the end I wondered if I could maybe have a go at creating that place, myself, and so the journey began. It wasn't the smoothest of rides, however, and I made a good few wrong turns along the way, but I got there in the end, even if it did take me a mere three-and-a-half years.
My hopes for My Darkest Desire are twofold, really: that it presents my work in a classy, relaxed environment, and that it can go some way towards promoting the work of others who I respect, too.
In terms of my life as a writer, it began purely by accident back in February 2006, when I was newly out of my first marriage and feeling as though a giant weight had been lifted from my shoulders. I'd stumbled across one of those crappy magazines aimed at particularly stupid young men not brave enough to buy real pornography (Nuts or Zoo, I can't remember which), and while mindlessly flicking through it, I came across a Girlfriend's Confessions page. After reading about Tracy from Acton's unlikely romp with the UPS hunk in the elevator, I spotted that the magazine editors were offering the princely sum of £25.00 for submissions. Now, I can categorically state that I am not now, nor have I ever been, a girlfriend with a desperate urge to confess my sins to the gullible of Great Britain, but I was sure I could write a far better confession than the ones I'd just read, and that it might be a fun challenge for me to do so. And that evening, I sat down at my computer to type. In the end I wrote far more than the magazine stipulated, but it didn't matter: a tiny, flickering flame had been kindled, and I soon went on to write more stories, publishing them online in an amateur capacity, where I won several prizes and built up a considerable readership.
Eventually, I decided I no longer wanted to offer my stories to third-party websites, and so I created Jonathan Philips Erotica.
JP Erotica was a lovely little website, but I was still giving my writing away for free, and as things in my life began to change, I could no longer justify the many hours I spent at the computer if there was not even a little financial incentive for me to do so.
And then, out of the blue, a publisher approached me. I was at a turning point in my writing career and, despite a little voice at the back of my mind screaming, "Run away, run away!" I thought, what the hell, and my short story collection My Sweet Degradation was duly published.
For a number of reasons, the experience wasn't the greatest of successes, and although my publisher desperately wanted more from me, I decided I needed to be in charge of my fate once again. That led me to think about creating what eventually became My Darkest Desire.
For those who don't know my writing, I've thought long and hard about how best to categorise it, and I've come up with the snappy title, slightly-larger-than-life-story-led-hardcore. Nice, eh?
The slightly-larger-than-life bit comes down to the fact that I'm really not interested in gritty reality when it comes to erotic fantasy. I'm happy for my stories to be that little bit unrealistic. I want the characters to have firmer than average boobs and longer than average cocks (only rarely at the same time, I hasten to add). Wet patches, fanny farts, erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation play no part in my tales – you'll no doubt be delighted to read.
Story-led is simply that it's incredibly important to me that there actually is a central storyline, and that my writing is not just a succession of sex scenes. Just like great sex in reality, what makes it great is not the act alone: it's the person, or people, you're with, it's how you came to be with them, it's what has happened in your lives to get you to the point where you find yourselves together.
Hardcore should be obvious. Over the years I've come to the conclusion that my readers don't need, nor want, to be shielded from graphically descriptive sex scenes. If you're reading an erotic story then you want to read about sex, right? I shouldn't protect your sensitive, little souls with flowery metaphors and similes, should I?
My Darkest Desire is in its very earliest days. In a way its an experiment I'm well aware has the potential to fail, but it's an experiment I strongly felt I had to try or I'd end up wondering, what-if for the rest of my life. One thing I know for certain, however: it's incredibly exciting waiting to see what happens next…
To learn more about JP, to find free samples of his stories, and to discover how and where you can download his entire library of work, please visit mydarkestdesire.com.


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One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival by Wendy Holden
One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival by Wendy Holden
Zuzana Ruzicková grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the piano. But her peaceful, melodic childhood was torn apart when, in 1939, the Nazis invaded. Uprooted from her home, transported from Auschwitz to Hamburg to Bergen-Belsen, bereaved, starved, and afflicted with crippling injuries to her musician's hands, the teenage Zuzana faced a series of devastating losses. Yet with every truck and train ride, a small slip of paper printed with her favourite piece of Bach's music became her talisman.
Armed with this 'proof that beauty still existed', Zuzana's fierce bravery and passion ensured her survival of the greatest human atrocities of all time, and would continue to sustain her through the brutalities of post-war Communist rule. Harnessing her talent and dedication, and fortified by the love of her husband, the Czech composer Viktor Kalabis, Zuzana went on to become one of the twentieth century's most renowned musicians and the first harpsichordist to record the entirety of Bach's keyboard works.
Zuzana's story, told here in her own words before her death in 2017, is a profound and powerful testimony of the horrors of the Holocaust, and a testament in itself to the importance of amplifying the voices of its survivors today. It is also a joyful celebration of art and resistance that defined the life of the 'first lady of the harpsichord'- a woman who spent her life being ceaselessly reborn through her music. Like the music of her beloved Bach, Zuzana's life is the story of the tragic transmuted through art into the state of the sublime.
In 2015 I reviewed Born Survivors (Bloomsbury) by Wendy Holden which told the story of three mothers and their newborn babies survived the horrors of the Holocaust and then 65 years later the three 'babies' met for the first time. A powerful story that has stayed with me to this day.
Wendy Holden the author of over 30 books now has released a memoir One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival (Bloomsbury) the powerful memoir of Zuzana Ruzicková the Czech Harpsichordist who faced the horrors of the Nazis after they invaded her homeland.
It was March 1939 when the German troops arrived and soon after Zuzana and other young Jewish boys and girls were forced to act as 'messengers' delivering the dreadful letters that informed those families that they were to be transported away from their homes. Many already feared the worst. These letters were the final confirmation of what was to come. In October 1941 these transports to hell started and this included Zuzana and her own family. Life was never to be the same again. The family were sent to Auschwitz their fate was almost certain death and it was here that her father was murdered by the Nazis.
Zuzana and her mother survived the horror of Auschwitz only to be moved to hell that was Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp. By now they were barely surviving on next to nothing and the only way to survive from one day to another was to work in the camp by moving the dead to the ovens. By doing this it meant a little more food for her and her mother. From an early age Zuzana loved music and learnt to play the piano and throughout her time in the concentration camps she kept her music alive in her head. To be free and to play again.
It was a date that would live with Zuzana for the rest of her life. 15th April 1945 she was liberated from Belsen by the British Army. At this time Zuzana only weighed around four stone. But she had survived. All through these years and through the hell and horror of Auschwitz and Belsen she carried a piece of printed music paper with favourite J.S. Bach music on it.
The war was over but the suffering was not over as she now lived under the Soviets and the Communist regime. Zuzana went back to her music studies but only as per the Soviets perspective. From the pianist she switched to playing the Harpsichord after she met Victor Kalabis who would be her future husband. Now she could learn some of her favourite Bach pieces. Following this she became famous and performed all over the world for decades to come and also recorded over 100 albums. J.S. Bach had saved her life.
Wendy Holden conducted many interviews with Zuzana Ruzicková and two weeks after her final interview Zuzana passed away never to see her memoir published. The dedication in the book reads as follows: Dedicated by Zuzana to Johann Sebastian Bach whose music reminds us there is still beauty in this world.
368 Pages.
Thank you to Bloomsbury Books UK for the review copy of One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival by Wendy Holden
One Hundred Miracles: A Memoir of Music and Survival by Wendy Holden was published by Bloomsbury and was published on 18th April 2019 in Hardback and is available through Waterstones, Amazon and through your local independent bookshop.
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story – Christie Watson
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story by Christie Watson
I have an admission to make. When I started to write this review for The Language of Kindness by Christie Watson I really struggled to put the words on paper. Whatever I write it will not do justice to a memoir about nursing. This book had me crying. Yes, there were also times when it made me smile and made me laugh. One thing it really did do as if I needed to was to really appreciate the profession that is nursing and the dedication that nurses put into their daily roles.
There are personal stories of patients contained within the book that many will be moved by. Watson has one problem when she starts her training to be a nurse and that is the sight of blood. It makes her want to faint. This is something she will have to overcome. Mistakes are made along the journey to become a nurse. She manages to overcome the hurdles in training and starts to make her mark in the intensive-care wards for children and then to progress further.
There are many stories that Watson tells and throughout the book it is her quiet and gentle prose that makes this memoir really shine. Watson also rages about what is happening with the NHS of today. When we think of nurses we think of them dispensing medical care and medicines to make us better, but reading this will give you a much greater understanding. It is more than that, it is about talking and being with those who need medical care. From just assisting a patient and helping them do the basics to singing to a new born baby who sadly then sadly dies. This is pure emotion. I have nothing but admiration and pride for the nurses who work so tirelessly in our NHS. So many stories that I could share here but that would detract from the incredible memoir. Nursing is an undervalued profession but many like me believe they are all angels.
Christie Watson also wrote a novel Tiny Sunbirds Far Away that won the 2011 Costa First Novel Award. Following this Watson left nursing after two decades and decided to become a full-time writer.
What I have written here about The Language of Kindness will never do it justice. This is a book that deserves all the accolades. Lyrical and moving this is a book that I highly recommend.
336 Pages.
Thank you Sophie Lambert at Conville & Walsh or the review copy of The Language of Kindness by Christie Watson.
The Language of Kindness by Christie Watson is published by Chatto & Windus and was published on 3rd May 2018 and is available through Waterstones, Amazon and through your local independent bookshop.
Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear by Lev Parikian
Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear by Lev Parikian
Men and birds, (the feathered type). What is it about why we become keen birders. I don't just mean feeding our garden birds but actually going birding and trying to find birds in their natural habitat. Oh it does not end there, then we have lists and hi-tech bins and scopes that cost thousands not to mention cameras and then there is the lists. The birds you have seen in a calendar year. Lists for garden and your local patch and then you go chasing those very special rare birds that arrive on our shores during the Spring and Autumn. Welcome to the world of an avid birder. Yes, I have been there. Seen it and got the t-shirt. I want to introduce you to Lev Parikian. Lev is a very notable conductor and a birdwatcher. In Lev's new book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear (Unbound) he takes us through his story of when he was young he loved going birding and seeing new birds (or not as it transpires) and then he stopped only when he was fifty did his loves of birding return. This is his story of a year of birds, family, music and a look back through his younger days.
My library is stuffed full of bird books and stories of that writers birding year, some are really good and entertaining and some just do not cut it at all with me for a number of reasons. But Lev Parikian's book is just that most wonderful read it is a riot of laughs and nostalgia. Starting in January 2016 this is his story of a lapsed birdwatcher aiming to see 200 birds in a year, that is REALLY seeing 200 birds in a year not ones he thinks he is seeing. Yes, Lev I have been there too.
When Lev was twelve-years-old he loved birds and birdwatching but like any keen young birder there is that urge to think you have seen a bird that in the cold light of day was not the bird you thought it was. Claiming to see a bird when actually you did not. But then after a few years and growing up the birding stopped and other things in life took over, like his love of music which in life became much more than an interest. Then of course there is cricket and girls.
There is something uniquely different about the way Lev has gone about writing about his birding year. His absolute pleasure at discovering his love of the outdoors and his love of seeing and finding birds again really shines through. But there is still that target of wanting to see 200 birds in a full calendar year. Does Lev actually achieve his target?
Sometimes seeing something really very special is something that should be shared with someone close to you. You will experience that in this glorious read. Together with Lev we travel the length and breadth of this beautiful country seeking birds in their own natural habitat. From woods to estuary and the lowlands to the highlands and a barrel of laughs along the way.
What shines through for me is the love Lev has for his family and his music and that he has found the real beauty in nature again. It is a gift for each of us to enjoy and treasure. I just loved Why Birds Suddenly Disappear and it now takes pride of place along with the very best nature books in my library. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
272 Pages.
Thank you to Lev Parikian and Unbound for the review copy of Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear.
Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear is published by Unbound and was published on 17th May 2018 and is available through Waterstones, Amazon and through your local independent bookshop.
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Blend the potato with ¼ to ⅓ cups of the water in a blender. Add the remaining ingredients and blend until smooth. Pour into a saucepan. Cook, stirring, until smooth and thick, 7 to 8 minutes.
Serve at once. The sauce will set when cool and can be reheated.
Makes 2 cups Preparation time: 10 min Cooking time: 10 min Source: This is a recipe I found in the McDougall "Program for Maximum Weight Loss" book.
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Madeline Miller is an American novelist. Her debut novel, The Song of Achilles, won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2012 for its portrayal of the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus in Ancient Greece. She spent ten years writing the book while working as a Latin and Greek teacher.
Her latest novel, Circe, published in April 2018, is inspired by a character in Homer's Odyssey.
1. Who were your literary influences and heroes as you were growing up?
One of the first books to really affect me was Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. I was thirteen when I read it, and most of it went over my head, but Hugo's condemnation of hypocrisy, and his passionate empathy for those who are treated unjustly, struck deep.
Then as a teenager I discovered Lorrie Moore and Margaret Atwood. I read everything they'd written, and fell in love with their sharp and poetic use of words, their complex characters (particularly their complex women), and their obvious pleasure in language itself.
T.S. Eliot was another pillar of my early literary life. I must have listened to his reading of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock a hundred times in high school; I can still hear his intonations on every line.
And I have to mention Watership Down, by Richard Adams, which is one of those wonderful books that can make the jump from childhood to adulthood. It's steeped in the ancient epic tradition, but it's also just brilliant, engaging story-telling. After reading it, I hoped that if I ever wrote a book it would be half as exciting!
2. When was your first exposure to the Classics, and when did you think 'I'd really like to write something like that'?
My mother used to read me pieces of the Iliad and the Odyssey as bedtime stories when I was a child, and I completely fell in love. I can still remember the shiver that went through me at the first line of the Iliad: "Sing, goddess, of the destructive rage of Achilles."
I read everything I could find on Greek myths, and began to study Latin and Greek in school, eventually getting my degree and Master's in Classics. All that time I was also writing, but the pieces were contemporary. I never considered writing fiction based on Homer until I was asked to direct a production of Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare's version of the Iliad. It's such a wonderful play: acid, angry, and incredibly funny. It was a revelation to bring these famous heroes to life on the stage. It made me realize that I didn't just want to write papers about Achilles and Patroclus, I wanted to write a novel.
3. Circe is a secondary character in the Odyssey. What attracted you to write about her?
She's such a wonderfully vivid figure in the Odyssey: a terrifying and beautiful witch-goddess who keeps tame lions and wolves, and turns men into pigs. But she's just a cameo: no sooner does she appear than Odysseus is already sailing away. Homer tells us nothing of her inner life, or how she got to be the way she is.
I wanted to explore those mysteries, to expand her story and set her at the center of her own epic. I also loved Homer's description of her as "speaking like a mortal." I was immediately intrigued: what does it mean to be a goddess who speaks like a human? To me it suggested that she was a figure caught between worlds, belonging to neither, the ultimate outsider.
Circe is also fascinating because of the way she relates to so many other famous myths: she's the Titan Helios' daughter, the Minotaur and Medea's aunt, and Prometheus' cousin.
Last but definitely not least, there's the fact that she's the first witch in western literature. She's born a nymph, one of the lesser goddesses, into a society that treats her like a pawn, giving her no agency or control over her destiny. So she literally invents her own power. Gods and monsters aside, to me this is the story of a person who rejects the identity given her by her family, and instead fights to carve out her own.
4. At what point did you feel you had found the voices of the main characters in Circe?
Somewhere around year five, out of seven. I mentioned my theatre background, and for me finding the voice of my narrator is something like the process of an actor getting into character. I have to be able to fully inhabit her skin, see through her eyes, speak with her voice. I spend a lot of time writing and throwing things out, trying to find my way in and one day it just clicks, usually after I figure out the first sentence.
Once I do, the other characters also tend to emerge. I like how sometimes characters surprise me — Daedalus, the master craftsman of the ancient world, was originally going to be a cameo. But he just kept drawing my (and Circe's) attention.
5. If you could rewrite anyone else's book in your own style, which would you choose?
There's an old bit of writing advice (I'm not sure who said it first) that you should write the novel that you, and only you, can write. Novels come from such deep ore, I think it would be a trespass to rewrite someone else's with my style.
Retellings, however, are a different matter. Taking a story and speaking back to it by changing the perspective is an old and esteemed tradition. I love Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, a retelling of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Geraldine Brooks' March, which is an expansion of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women from Mr March's perspective, and John Updike's Gertrude and Claudius, which among other things makes the case that Hamlet is a self-absorbed, destructive pill. And the Aeneid, which is Virgil's Roman version of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
So, in that tradition, I would love to retell stories from the Aeneid, and from Shakespeare's The Tempest.
6. Do you have a message for your many readers in Suffolk Libraries?
Thank you so much for reading! It is always an honor that someone would choose to spend their time with my work, especially in a world where we are all so rushed and have so little time to spare. It's because of you that I have been able to live immersed in my two oldest and greatest passions, Classics and the written word. I am very grateful — we writers are nothing without you!
I also feel a special connection to libraries: my mother was a librarian, and I spent many happy hours as a child wandering stacks and discovering treasures. So thank you also for supporting libraries by continuing to use them!
7. Can you tell us one thing that your readers might not know about you?
Such a tricky question, because it involves guessing what my readers might have guessed about me. Here goes:
For someone who loves Greece as much as I do, I have a terrible tolerance for the sun. I burn in about two minutes. So I am the owner of several gigantically-brimmed and sun-blocking hats that I wear in nearly all weather. I don't know about the UK, but in America that's definitely weird. Luckily, I'm an author, which seems to carry with it expectations of a certain amount of wardrobe eccentricity.


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It's also modeled off of my [Courtland's] personal goals. Some of them may be goals you share (e.g. build a company that can be self-sustaining), but others may not, so make sure to tune it to your liking.
To use this list, simply check your business ideas against the various questions and evaluate how they perform compared to each other. It's also a good way to tweak your business ideas to make them better.
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The Almighty God, who knows the future, is patient with our present complaints.
Honor your father and your mother (Exodus 20:12).
To all the moms at Stone Hill, let me offer a genuine "Happy Mother's Day!" For all of us who have mothers (and, apart from Adam, that means "all of us"), I offer two suggestions on how best to honor them. I borrow the words of one of my favorite bloggers, Tim Challies. For the full text (posted December 21, 2016) go to https://www.challies.com/articles/5-practical-ways-to-honor-your-parents/
Challies writes: "What is the honor God means for us to give our parents? I am going to offer 6 broad suggestions, though certainly we could come up with many more. I understand that in some cases showing honor may be difficult or very nearly impossible, and in our next article we will discuss some hard cases. But for now, let's simply consider some practical ways in which we can display honor."
Forgive Them
"The fact is, there are no perfect parents. All parents have fallen far short of their children's expectations and, in all likelihood, even their own expectations. Our parents have sinned against us. They have made unwise decisions, they have had unrealistic expectations, they have said and done things that have left us deeply wounded. For that reason, many children enter adulthood controlled by anger and bitterness. They find themselves unable to move past their parents' mistakes or their parents' sin. We can best honor our parents by forgiving our parents. And this is actually possible, for we serve a forgiving Savior. In the Bible we see Jesus's willingness to forgive the ones who had wounded him. In the moment the nails were driven into his flesh, he cried out "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34)."
Seek Their Wisdom
"We honor our parents when we seek their wisdom. The Bible constantly associates youth with folly and age with wisdom (Proverbs 20:29, Job 12:12) and tells us that those who have lived longer lives have generally accumulated greater wisdom. We do well, then, to lean on them for understanding, to seek their input when faced with major decisions. In some cultures this is expected and in some it is eschewed. But either way, it honors our parents when we seek their help, even if in the end we cannot heed it."
Adult Ed: "Jeremiah": Meets at 9:30 a.m. in the Library and is led by John Wilsey.
Adult Ed: Come Creator Spirit: A Trinitarian Approach to Understanding the Holy Spirit: This class is led by Patrick Haley at 9:30 a.m. in the Adult Ed room.
Creole Bible Study: Qu'est-ce qui nous vient à l'esprit en pensant à Dieu? '' Ce qui nous vient à l'esprit quand nous pensons à Dieu est la chose la plus importante à notre sujet.'' (A.W. Tozer) Nul ne peut contester cette réalité. C'est pourqoui le sujet qui convient à l'humanité d'étudier est Dieu. Comprendre Dieu dans sa personne, sa nature ou ses attributs est la plus noble des recherches que puisse engager un enfant de Dieu. Bien que cette démarche s'avère difficile à cause de la complexité de Dieu, elle en vaut la piene car la connaissance que nous avons de Dieu déterminera de façon décisive notre manière de vivre. This class will be held in the Adult Ed room at 11:10 a.m. starting this Sunday.
Church Financial Update: Through the end of April, our church's income year to date was $514,482. This figure is below budget and below prior year. The approved budget for 2018 called for a 7% increase in giving. After four months, our general fund income shows a 12% decrease year to date. Our expenses this year total $694,223 which is $19,000 under budget. Our deficit for 2018 is $179,741. We are thankful for each one who gives. In addition to the offering plate, you can give electronically through our website, via the Loop or the Stone Hill app.
GO Conference Goal: We received nearly $12k toward our Global Outreach conference fundraiser. This will be divided between the Transformation Church and As Our Own. Thank you for your generosity!
Sunday is Compassion Sunday: Stop by the Compassion International booth in the atrium to learn more about child sponsorship. Choose a child from Haiti to sponsor by picking up a packet of information and following the instructions.
A Special Congratulations to: Alex Davison and Graham Switzer who are part of the More Than Conquerors Class received medals at the Special Olympics swim meet. Graham participated in: 25 Meter Freestyle, and the 4x25 Free Relay and 4x50 Free Relay. He received 3 participation medals. Alex participated in: 50 Meter Freestyle, 25 meter Back Stroke, 4x25 Free Relay and 4x50 Free Relay. He received 2 Gold, 1 Silver and 2 participation medals.
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Is sex a chore now? This topic came about because I was listening to a podcast episode, The Chore of Sex, by Relationship Hot Topics with Hank Davis and Rebecca Ryder. After listening to it, I think I can relate that sex is a chore sometimes. I've had a few long term relationships (over 1 year) and sometimes the sexual excitement definitely dissipates. You still love them, but the sexual fervor you once had is not the same anymore. I was curious if other guys or even if women have experienced this.
Do Any Of You Find Having Sex Is A Chore Now? Outline
- Do you feel that sex is a chore? Or heard similar stories from your friends or family?
- Which sex do you think experience this the most?
- Or do you think it's even?
- Do you think only a certain age demographic feels that sex is a chore?
- Is this because people have been desensitized by sex with the same partner?
- What are the best excuses to get out of sex?
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Le Cl?ac'h Sets New Record for Vend?e Globe
On Thursday, French yachtsman Armel Le Cléac'h crossed the Vendée Globe's finish line at Les Sables d'Olonne, bringing a dramatic contest for first place to a close. He completed the course in 74 days, 3 hours and 35 minutes, beating the previous speed record by almost four days.
The race organizers say that Le Cléac'h and his closest competitor, Alex Thompson, set a higher bar this year thanks to the use of hydrofoils – L-shaped daggerboards that were not fitted on the previous generation of purpose-built IMOCA 60 racing yachts. The foils convey lift and extra speed under certain conditions, allowing the vessels to cut through the swells at up to 35 knots. However, the design reduces performance upwind, and yachtsmen have to make smart strategic decisons to maximize its potential.
The French frigate Nivôse escorts Thompson and Le Cléac'h in the Southern Ocean
"It is the sailor who makes all the difference," Le Cléac'h said at the starting line in November. "The one who comes out on top will be the one who makes the fewest mistakes. We are setting off as pioneers, as no 60-foot monohull has ever sailed around the world with foils. I am one of the favourites, but I'm not the only one. There have been four transatlantic races since I started sailing on [this vessel] and I won one of them."
Both Thompson and Le Cléac'h were top contenders in previous years and had been widely favored. They traded off in the lead position several times, even though Thompson was competing with a handicap – he struck an unidentified object early in the race, breaking off his yacht's starboard foil. In spite of the damage he set a new speed record for the segment from Les Sables d'Olonne to Cape Horn. (Others had worse luck. Floating object collisions caused several contestants to quit this year's race, some with shattered hulls and some without their vessels at all.)
Celebration at the finish line
In an interview Thursday in the cockpit of Banque Populaire VIII, Le Cléac'h expressed gratitude and amazement at his historic win.
"I wanted this victory so much . . . I felt that everything was against me. This was my third Vendée Globe and I knew it was the one that had to go for," he said. "I did not let go, never, not a meter . . . The race was intense from start to finish and I never had a break."
Le Cléac'h's success sparked an outpouring of national pride. French president Francois Hollande commended Le Cléac'h for his "courage and determination," and prime minister Bernard Cazeneuve hailed him as a flag bearer of "l'excellence française." The yachtsman and the team that built his boat are from Brittany, and the leader of Breton's regional council said that their performance was testimony to "Breton's excellence in offshore racing . . . A man, a boat, high technology, all of Brittany is proud today of Armel Le Cléac'h."


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The NOW TV Smart Box is the provider's higher-end set-top box. Here's how to make the most of it.
NOW TV's Smart Box lets you combine Freeview and pay TV channels on a flexible, contract-free basis. For example, you can buy an Entertainment Pass in October to watch the new series of The Walking Dead, cancel it in December when the show has its mid-series break, then purchase a new one in February without paying any cancellation fees.
NOW TV also has passes to watch Sky Cinema, Sky Sports and kids' content, too, all of which are available on the same flexible basis.
Although you don't need a set-top box to watch NOW TV, there are some benefits to using the NOW TV Smart Box instead of other devices.
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NOW TV offers two different set-top boxes: the NOW TV Box and the NOW TV Smart Box. The biggest difference between the two is that you can watch Freeview channels through the Smart Box (provided you have an aerial and a valid TV licence.
The NOW TV Smart Box also lets you pause and rewind live TV, both on Freeview channels and channels included with your NOW TV pass, which you can't do through the regular NOW TV Box or app.
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Using the NOW TV Smart Box
The NOW TV Smart Box is very easy to set up as it's essentially a plug and play. Just log in through your NOW TV account and connect to the internet, and you're good to go.
Once you've got the box online, here's how to navigate through it.
Home is the hub of all your NOW TV Smart Box activity. It shows you the last live channel you were watching, programmes airing live, things you've been watching on NOW TV, programmes or films you've added to your watchlist and recommendations — all of which should be included in your NOW TV passes.
This section also displays highlights across all of NOW TV's passes, so you may see some things that aren't included in your passes in this section. If that's the case, you'll be prompted to buy the relevant pass, which you can do directly through the Smart Box.
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Best of Catch Up
This section shows you the highlights of what's available across the catch-up services you have access to, including NOW TV, BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub and All 4. It's a quicker way to access popular shows than having to visit each individual app. If you can't find what you want to watch there, you can also open the apps directly from this menu, too.
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This does what it says on the tin: It's your standard EPG to show you what's currently on. It's broken down into free to air channels, NOW TV channels and radio stations so you can quickly find what you're after. You'll have to set this up in the Settings menu.
My Apps
The NOW TV Smart Box comes preloaded with 13 apps:
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App Store
If that's not enough for you, you can go to the app store and download more apps. Their selection of TV and film apps is limited (no Netflix or Amazon Prime here), but you can boost your box with a range of music, kids and sports content, plus other internet video services like Vimeo and Crunchyroll, and international channels.
Here's where you can change the settings of your Smart Box, including setting up screensavers, subtitles and adding live TV channels. If you have an aerial connected to your box, you'll need to head here to set up access to live channels. This is also where you set up your internet connection to the box.
NOW TV Smart Box: hardware
The NOW TV Smart Box is powered by Roku, so it may already be familiar to you.
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The box
The NOW TV Smart Box is much smaller than more traditional set-top boxes like the Sky Q, TiVo or YouView boxes, probably because TV recording isn't supported, allowing for a smaller hard drive. It has a quad-core processor in it, making it pretty responsive to commands.
Although you can connect to the internet wirelessly, it also has an Ethernet port to connect direct to your router, as well as USB and micro SD ports, too, so you can view photos or films on your TV through the box. It supports up to 1080p to give you HD-quality TV, but it won't support 4K or UHD programming.
The remote
The remote is very similar to a standard Roku remote, but even simpler to use. It's got standard buttons to scroll through menus, get to the home screen and play, pause and rewind or fast forward. It also has a button to get you directly to NOW TV and another to access the Sky Store — quicker than scrolling through the main menu.
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The Truth About Possessiveness and Love
Possessiveness is closely linked to jealousy, which is in charge of destroying relationships, but is also a slowly self-destructive feeling. It's related with fear, mistrust and insecurity felt by the individual.
It is necessary to distinguish between love and possession, because in love there's trust, willingness to share, comfort and space for each individual that makes up the couple. In possessiveness, there's jealousy, selfishness and distrust on behalf of the possessive and there's no freedom or tranquility for the other party. It's a relationship that leads to total destruction.
What triggers possessiveness?
Possessive people have backgrounds ranging from loneliness to discrimination during childhood, to having a low self-esteem. Sometimes it can even be a genetic trait that's inherited.
It's important to note that regardless of the cause or antecedent, possessive people suffer passion and anger attacks over their partners. These negative emotions are painful for both partners, and inconsistent with trust and love.
Symptoms of possessiveness
Possessiveness isn't just about trying to dominate the other person, but about seeing them as a suspect, when in reality they haven't done anything. Everything appears in somewhat of a chain reaction, where possession and domination of others is greater every day.
The possessive person feels the need to spy on their partner, check their luggage and look for signs of infidelity in their marriage. In short, they constantly suspect of their partner and don't let them rest in peace. On other occasions, they even come to the point of following their partner to work and spying on them to find out if they're having an affair.
Destroying a relationship
Initially, possessiveness is interpreted as a sign of love, but when it becomes a persistent and negative trait, you begin to see cracks in the relationship.
Every relationship, regardless of how deep and intense it is, allows space and freedom for both partners, but in a couple where there is a possessive, this leads to destruction of the relationship. The possessive person wants to take over everything, and causes disruption in the life of both partners, making it impossible for someone without freedom or tranquility to enjoy such an overwhelming relationship. It's a relationship that's doomed to failure.
How to control possessiveness
When looking to control possessiveness, deep breathing and meditation are great because they help to achieve higher levels of mental concentration.
This helps the person abandon their possessiveness, and hypnosis leads to self-control and to being guided by reason, which helps them avoid exercising possessiveness over their loved ones.


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A King's entrepreneurial success story, luxury lingerie business Attollo was founded by Alice Holden ( Geography, 2014) and Fleurette Mulcahy (Geography, 2014) while they were still studying. We spoke to them about how their student friendship has developed into a successful business relationship the day after they secured investment from two new investors – one of whom is also a King's alumna.
Alice: We first met each other on Facebook. I can't remember who sent the first message, but we were both part of a 'Going to King's' Facebook group. When we arrived at our first lecture, we recognised each other.
Fleurette: We took part in a Geography treasure hunt, which actually turned out to be a five hour trek around central London…
Alice: We were the only ones who took it seriously – we wanted to win!
Fleurette: That's true, I think we're both of the mind-set that if you're going to do something, do it properly.
Alice: So we bonded over our competitive spirit and determination.
Fleurette: But we also bonded over bras! Within the first few weeks of meeting, we were having a coffee, discussing what we love to wear and what we get frustrated about when we're shopping.
Alice: We realised we had the shared experience of how difficult it can be finding comfortable, attractive underwear to fit more obscure sizes.
Fleurette: Our lightbulb moment – when we realised we wanted to turn our passion into a business – came at the end of our second year. We had just handed in an essay and were sitting in the Waterfront Bar. We looked at each other and just said: 'let's do something about this.'
Alice: The summer between our second and third years was spent planning. I was at home in Sussex and Fleurette was in London, but we were both researching and sharing ideas. Attollo means 'I lift up, I raise, I excite' and that's the philosophy behind everything we do.
Fleurette: Going into business together felt very natural because we've always had a great working relationship. Our friendship was built on our shared academic and business ambitions rather than King's nights out.
Alice: For me, working on Attollo with Fleurette has helped me find my place in London.
Fleurette: In the past, whenever something has gone well we've tended to say "great, now what?" and just move on to the next piece of work. So we're making sure we take more time to celebrate, to reflect and enjoy these moments together.
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Alice: We've also had so many great experiences from our relationship with King's: winning the best pitch in King' Lion's Den Challenge, meeting inspirational figures at King's Enterprise Connect, and being invited to host the September 2015 event. Also, if we hadn't taken part in King's Enterprise Business Accelerator weekend, we never would have secured our first investment.
Fleurette: We've had great support from within King's; we call Director of Partnerships and Consultancy Michael Hill-King our 'business dad' and Professor David Green, from King's Geography department has been so supportive. After the Santander Universities National Entrepreneurship Awards he took us out for a celebratory lunch.
Alice: King's Enterprise gives a safety and security, a platform and network from which to ask for support and to test ideas. King's encouraged our drive and our desire to succeed. It's a university with a strong sense of tradition but also a go-getting, can-do attitude.
Fleurette: If it wasn't for King's, Attollo wouldn't exist today.
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text: TRUST ME Multiplier event – information on the FAME project On 25 January 2018 MGYOSZ / Business Hungary successfully organised the closing event of the two-year long TRUST ME project in January 2018. We also took the opportunity to inform all participants on the progress of FAME project. FAME is the third station of the project series in which our Confederation cooperates with the project leader Budapest Business School. FAME project deals with the same topic of the first one, called INSIST project approaching in more detail, thus the participants of the multiplier event were pleased to receive developed information on family businesses' issues, as many of them have been following the progress of INSIST project and the whole project series. At the event the experts of our Finnish, French and Romanian project partner introduced the current situation of their respective countries regarding the project topic and shared some best practice examples with the participants. With great interest we also had a round table discussion titled 'Be mentor or be mentored, corporate experiences in mentoring' moderated by the chef editor of our monthly e-bulletin, Magyar Gyáripar. As final product of the TRUST ME project we printed the handbook for future mentors which were disseminated at the closing event. The online version of the handbook is available at the project website. Prev


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Rachel Day died of sepsis 10 days after diagnosis
Rachel Day's mum Bernie had been trying to get hold of her all morning.
When she finally did, instead of relief all she felt was terror.
Her daughter was screaming uncontrollably and begging for help.
As Bernie rushed to help, not knowing what she would find, 29-year-old Rachel was rapidly succumbing to sepsis as it ravaged her body.
Days later, Rachel was dead.
On World Sepsis Day, Bernie, from Cardiff, tells Rachel's story.
It was during lunch with my husband that I first knew something terrible was wrong.
I had texted Rachel that morning, but she hadn't replied.
Feeling uneasy, I rang her.
But when she answered, it was a noise I will never forget.
She was screaming uncontrollably at me, screaming in pain, screaming for me to get there.
I sped to her flat, keeping her on loudspeaker as I drove.
But when I got there, I was greeted by a terrifying sight.
Rachel was lying in bed, unable to move.
Her mouth was blue and her legs were mottled and swollen, spasming with cramp.
"Don't worry, my darling," I said, desperately trying to reassure her as she screamed in pain. "We'll get you help. You'll be okay."
But in reality, I was already too late. She was in septic shock and she was dying.
I just didn't know it yet.
It was a situation made all the more impossible by the fact my daughter had been so healthy.
Rachel loved sport and fitness, and for a long time had worked as lifeguard and swimming teacher at Llanishen Leisure Centre, before becoming assistant manager.
There, she mentored younger staff and made friends with her sunny personality and strong work ethic.
She was beautiful, in the bloom of her life, excited about a business idea to change her career path and open a creche for dogs.
But that weekend - the second May bank holiday in 2017 - she fell ill.
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It came on so quickly.
Just the day before, we had been out together, enjoying a boat trip around Cardiff Bay then going on to drink cocktails.
She lived with a close friend and I know that on the Sunday, she had gone to bed earlier than usual, complaining she felt unwell.
At 4am on the Monday morning, she had knocked on her flatmates' door, asking her to take her to A&E.
She was vomiting and complained of feeling breathless.
She told her flatmate she was frightened she was going to die - a common symptom of sepsis as it takes over the body so quickly.
Her flatmate did all she could - driving her straight to A&E at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.
She was told there was a five-and-a-half hour wait to see a doctor, and that she might be best going home and taking Paracetamol.
Rachel followed the advice and went home to bed.
But at 7am, her flatmate left for work, reluctantly leaving her alone with just a sick bucket and a glass of water.
Like me, she texted throughout the morning to check Rachel was okay.
Like me, she didn't receive a reply.
It was only when I phoned, and Rachel managed through her pain to tap the screen to answer that we knew the horror that had engulfed her.
New guidelines for managing sepsis say it needs to be treated with intravenous antibiotics within the hour.
But we were already way behind.
It had consumed her, constricting her movements as it began ravaging her internal organs and tissue, leaving her in extraordinary pain.
The following sequence will be etched forever on my mind.
At first, despite the urgency of my 999 call, just one paramedic came to her flat.
He sent for an ambulance and two more paramedics arrived.
Rachel was still screaming in pain, and they couldn't even find her blood pressure, it was so low.
It was one hour and 20 minutes before she reached A&E - despite it being just a few miles away.
As we drove there, I was screaming inside my head for them to hurry.
It was only as we neared hospital that the word sepsis was first mentioned. Sepsis, I thought. What was sepsis?
But it was clear that the doctors and nurses on the Intensive Care Unit knew.
As soon as Rachel arrived, she was attached up to one drip and another, pumped full of antibiotics and fluids.
A consultant told Rachel she was going to be put under sedation to give her body a rest.
She reassured her she wouldn't die but, in reality, doctors probably knew she would be lucky if she lasted 24 hours.
In fact, Rachel lasted 10 days in intensive care.
She fought and fought.
But it was now 12 hours after she had first attended A&E with symptoms and the sepsis was in full control.
She had blood clots on her lungs, brain and kidneys. Her body was swollen, her beautiful face and nose disintegrating and turning black.
After six days in an induced coma, she was slowly brought back round by doctors, so they could assess what damage had been done to her brain.
Rachel couldn't talk but she could communicate through blinking - one for yes, two for no.
She recognised the voices of close friends, blinking when they sang her funny Dr Dre songs.
I would sing to her in my terrible voice, mainly lyrics from the Carpenters' hit Close to You, which I had sung to her since she was a baby.
Needless to say, she blinked twice. Shut up, mum, she was saying. Stop singing.
She still had her sense of humour and we thought that night that she might just make it.
And on the following Sunday - day seven - we held out even more hope when she opened her eyes for her dad.
But her body was too tired to do it more than once, and she was put back under sedation.
It was the next day, on Monday, 5 June, that consultants broke the news to us that in order to save her life, they would need to amputate her limbs.
They wanted to take both legs under the knee and her left arm.
Although horrific, it was our view that she would be able to cope with this.
Before surgery, the doctors let me slide onto her bed and give her a cwtch [hug].
But when the surgeon came to talk to us afterwards, he told us the damage to her tissues had been so severe, they had had to amputate both of her arms, leaving her a quadruple amputee.
To say we were distraught is not touching it. How would Rachel cope like that? What sort of life would she have?
It was at this point I went to the chapel in the hospital.
I was screaming at God, asking why this had happened to Rachel and not me.
I walked to the window, shaking violently and wanting to throw myself out.
But the chaplain must have heard me. She rushed in, wrapped a blanket around my shoulders and calmed me down.
She told me I was a mum, and as a mum, I knew what I had to do.
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But then there came the final blow, delivered by a consultant in tears.
Rachel had multiple-organ failure. She wasn't going to make it anyway.
We invited all her friends to the hospital, let people say goodbye, put candles around her room, then switched off her life-support machine.
This was Wednesday, 7 June 2017, and my beautiful girl was gone in minutes.
That was 16 months ago. More than 400 people came to her funeral.
Obviously, we have questions about Rachel's death. Could an earlier diagnosis have saved her?
But for now, our family is focusing on campaigning to make people more aware of sepsis.
The illness kills upwards of 44,000 people in the UK - more than bowel, breast and prostate cancer combined.
The money we have raised has gone towards implementing a 'Sepsis 6 Pathway' at the University Hospital of Wales.
This means anyone admitted with a fever or signs of infection will be checked against red-flag symptoms of sepsis.
We are now hoping to train paramedics and GPs to spot early warning signs, as well as getting the pathway into more hospitals.
Of course, we are also focusing on getting Rachel's story out there to the wider public.
I don't want to let her down.
If she died to save others, then I have to do what I can to get the message out there.
What is sepsis?
Sepsis is triggered by infections, but is actually a problem with our own immune system going into overdrive.
It starts with an infection that can come from anywhere - even a contaminated cut or insect bite.
Normally, your immune system kicks in to fight the infection and stop it spreading.
But if the infection manages to spread quickly round the body, then the immune system will launch a massive immune response to fight it.
This can also be a problem as the immune response can have catastrophic effects on the body, leading to septic shock, organ failure and even death.
Symptoms include:
- slurred speech
- extreme shivering or muscle pain
- passing no urine in a day
- severe breathlessness
- "I feel like I might die"
- skin mottled or discoloured
Symptoms in young children include:
- looking mottled, bluish or pale
- very lethargic or difficult to wake
- abnormally cold to the touch
- breathing very fast
- a rash that does not fade when pressed
- a seizure or convulsion
Source: NHS Choices


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(Authentication|Access control|Identification) - AuthN
> Software Security > (Authentication|Access control|Identification) - AuthN
Table of Contents
1 - About
Authentication is the process that establishes the identity of a user who accesses a resource of an application (page, image,…)
It's abbreviated as
AuthN for authentication versus
AUTHZ for authorization.
The process validates who you are. The system which does this validation is referred to as an (Identity|Authentication) Provider.
After a user has been authenticated, a session is created that holds all the navigation context data.
The next critical aspect in security building is the authorization step.
The process of creating, submitting, and verifying credentials is described simply as authentication, which is implemented through various authentication protocols
2 - Articles Related
3 - Ways
Basically, there are three ways to authenticate an individual:
- by something the person knows,
- by something the person has,
- and by something the person is.
All these ways have been used from prehistory until the present day, and they all have different security properties and trade-offs.
3.1 - The person is of a particular group
With the two first identification, you are identifying if the person is of a particular group. Not that the individual is a particular person.
- Knowing the secret handshake authenticates you as a member of the secret society.
- Having a copy of a house key authenticates you as one of a group that has access to a given house.
- I might give you enough information for you to call my bank and withdraw money from my account. When you do this, the bank thinks it is authenticating the account owner, when it is really just making sure that the person on the other end of the phone knows enough information about the account and account owner to be an authorized user of the account.
3.1.1 - something the person knows
- secret handshakes,
- PIN codes,
- and combinations to locks.
During World War II, American soldiers in Europe would ask strangers cultural questions like "Who won the 1940 World Series?" on the assumption that German soldiers wouldn't know the answer, but every American would.
The biggest vulnerability is that the secret can be transmitted, learned, or stolen.
3.1.2 - something the person has
The something might be:
- a physical key,
- a membership card,
- or a cellphone SIM card.
Like the "something the person knows" method, anyone can give this to anyone else.
3.2 - something the person is
Something the person has that's a physical part of their body. This is what we normally think of as identification.
When we recognize people, we recognize their physical features.
- On the telephone, we recognize someone's voice.
- cats spray to mark their territory,
- dogs sniff each others butts
- whales have individual songs.
More modern versions of this mechanism, called "biometrics," include:
- fingerprinting,
- voice printing,
- hand geometry,
- iris and retina scans,
- and handwritten signatures.
Biometrics has advantages over passwords and tokens in that they:
- can't be forgotten, although they can be lost. (People can lose fingers in an accident, or temporarily lose their voices due to illness.)
- can't be changed. If someone loses a key or an access code, it's easy to change the lock or combination and regain security. But if someone steals your biometric—perhaps by surreptitiously recording your voice or copying the database with your electronic iris scan—you're stuck. Your iris is your iris, period.
The problem is, while a biometric might be a unique identifier, it is not a secret. You leave a fingerprint on everything you touch, and someone can easily photograph your eye.
4 - Multiple Techniques
Better authentication systems use two or more methods.
- An ATM, for example, uses "something the person has"—an ATM card—and "something the person knows"—a PIN. (Then it takes the person's picture, for audit purposes.)
- A passport is a physical card that is hard to counterfeit and contains a photograph.
- The door-locking device may uses both a PIN and a hand-geometry scanner.
5 - Identification is not authentication
Systems that confuse identification with authentication can have significant insecurities.
Some systems use the last four digits of a Social Security number as an authentication code, even though a Social Security number is a public identification number. You can't change it. You can't prevent others from having it. It's a unique identifier, but it's hardly a secret: a good number to identify me by, but a terrible one to authenticate me by. Your mother's maiden name is a similarly lousy authentication code.
6 - Provider
An Authentication Provider implements the authentication method. See Authentication - (Authentication|Identity) Provider


text: The Nigerian government has approved a long-awaited Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF) as part of the 2018 Appropriation Bill passed by the National Assembly on June 3rd. The move will allow Nigeria's government to fund a basic package of healthcare across the country, taking it one step closer to its goal of implementing a universal healthcare system by 2030. The need for the BHCPF was outlined in the National Health Act 2014, which came into effect in 2016. According to the Act, 50% of the fund will be used to provide the basic minimum package of health services through Nigeria's existing National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Another 20% will be used to provide essential drugs, vaccines and devices, while 15% will go on maintaining facilities and transport. A further 10% will be spent on human resources, and the final 5% will fund emergency care. Now that the BHCPF has been approved, the government can start to roll out these health services to 8m Nigerians in three states during 2018, as part of a pilot project. A steering committee for BHCPF, appointed in March 2018, will take responsibility for implementing the new system. Nigeria's healthcare system is currently reliant on out-of-pocket spending, which accounted for 72% of total health expenditure in 2015, according to the World Health Organisation. This leads to huge inequalities in access and outcomes. Despite the launch of the NHIS in 2005, only an estimated 5-6m people (5% of the population) were covered by health insurance in 2018. The National Health Act established an aim of achieving universal healthcare by 2030, while a health policy approved in 2016 set out the roles of federal and state governments in achieving this. The policy renewed the federal government's commitment to allocating a minimum of 1% of the country's revenue to healthcare service provision, as specified in the Act. It also urged state governments to dedicate 15% of their annual budgets to healthcare, as agreed by the African Union. Source: The Economist Intelligence Unit


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Is cricket the new white meat? BYU food scientist studies edible insects
About eighty percent of the world's population eat insects in some form, but in Europe and the United States insects are considered something that you don't want in your food. About seventy percent of the world population is at least familiar with the concept of eating insects as food the United Nations has put a lot of research into looking at which insects can be eaten and whether insects are sustainable food source. Crickets are a great source of protein comparable to what beef would supply. It has the nine essential amino acids. It's high in vitamin b12 and also an excellent source of iron. It only takes about eight percent of the resources to raise up an equal amount of protein than it would be for cattle. We've been working with a small utah company that produces cricket bars. One of our roles at BYU is to help them with product development, so our goal is to try to understand the consumer more. People don't want to eat a whole cricket, so right now that's being developed as a ground-up powder that can be incorporated into different foods. By themselves they're kind of earthy. When you eat them with other things they don't necessarily have their own flavor. I've had them chocolate covered, and the taste and texture is like a Kit-Kat. We have a sensory lab on campus which is basically a taste testing lab where we can bring consumers in to taste different products that are being developed for the food industry. We also asked them before and after they tasted the actual products what their attitude was about eating insects, and there was an increase in consumer acceptability or willingness to eat them. It does take a little bit of wrapping my mind around have crickets in your protein bar but it's got really nice flavor and texture. As far as becoming mainstream in the United States my personal opinion is that it's going to take awhile i think we'll see the market grow and therefore people have other opportunities to taste crickets and maybe there's not so much of the fear factor. I think we're a long way away from making it the new white meat, but it is very chic right now.