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Sweet Potato Vine
I am growing a sweet potato as a houseplant. I was not concerned about the vegetable, so I just planted a piece of the potato that was sprouting in soil rather than cutting off and planting slips. But now I have a stalk (about 10" high already) rather than a vine. What's going on? Will pruning or some other care encourage more vine-like behavior? Thank you!
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Could you please send us a photo of the plant? We will be better able to identify what is happening if we can see it. I suspect that there is some fasciation happening, but can't tell unless I can see it. It could also be that it does not have enough light. If it is growing upward in an attempt to find light, you can snip off the top 1/3 and place it somewhere it will get more light. This should stop the upward growth and it should start to vine more.
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Monday, April 11, 2011
To the Best Husband!
Two years ago, I was blessed to marry my best friend! I really can say, that I have never regretted it for even one second. Besides being one of the sweetest men that has ever walked on this earth - I have to say how amazing it is that I can completely be myself around him. We can laugh together, cry together , dream together and we will grow old together. Every day my life is better because of you! Richard, I love you will all of my heart!
Now that everyone has shared my sentimental day, I'll tell you a little bit about my card. I wanted to enter this in the JustRite challenge - which was a color challenge. And, in all of my tons of designer paper, I just didn't have anything that fit the bill. So, I used my Parisian Anthology papers from Pink Paislee, and Glimmer Misted them to match the challenge. Then, I used some of Faber-Castell's gelatos to stamp the small flowers onto my background paper. The stamp is from JustRite's Fancy Labels set. I also used the gelatos to add more intense or contrasting colors around the resist designs. My sentiment is from Baroque Nested Frames and Sentiments. Finally, I got to use one of JustRite's exclusive Spellbinders die, Nested Sentiments to cut my frame and photo corners.
Thanks for looking!
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11 comments:
- Unknown said...
This is a beautiful card Gini. I'm sure your husband loved it. Happy Anniversary you two, and many more.
- April 11, 2011 at 8:31 PM
- Susan ~ Killam Creative said...
Happy anniversary, Gini. This card is gorgeous... just like you.
- April 11, 2011 at 8:40 PM
- Mary Lou said...
Wow ~~Happy Anniversary and many many more !!!!!
Love your card and am sure Richard will adore it :)
- April 11, 2011 at 10:26 PM
- Sheri said...
What a lovely card! Love the inking technique!
- April 11, 2011 at 11:34 PM
- CraftinGranny said...
Belated Happy Anniversary. Isn't it wonderful to be married to the man of our dreams. Enjoy each precious day! "Hugs" Carol
- April 12, 2011 at 7:39 PM
- Beate said...
Gorgeous card! Belated Anniversary wishes!
- April 15, 2011 at 1:36 PM
- fatmonica said...
It's a lovely card.
- April 15, 2011 at 5:03 PM
- Lisa Hjulberg said...
Happy Anniversary Gini! I know your husband will love this card. It's beautiful done!
Thanks so much for playing with us at Sketch Saturday! I hope you'll join us again soon!
- April 16, 2011 at 3:21 AM
- Terry said...
The Design Team are really pleased that you joined us for the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge this week - Thank you for sharing your wonderfull distressed hubby card with us. Wow love the colors and I am sure that your hubby will love it. Hugs Terry xxxx
- April 17, 2011 at 6:27 AM
- Altered Amanda said...
This is really great! Love the style!
- April 18, 2011 at 2:01 PM
- JustRite Stampers said...
Gini- JustRite Friday Challenges are back by popular demand starting on Friday August 12th.
Hope you will have time to join in the fun.
Kellie Fortin
- August 11, 2011 at 10:18 AM

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A glimpse at the Arbors Park development in Ayden, North Carolina. This tax-credited senior development project is a little more than halfway through with construction. Here is the view from a future resident's front porch, looking towards the clubhouse and picnic pavilion. There will be one and two bedroom units available upon completion.
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Ben Law is a research analyst for First Light. In this role, he supports the senior research analysts in a number of ways, including financial modeling, expert network due diligence, industry and market research, and channel surveillance.
Prior to joining First Light, Law honed his research skills at Chicago-based Driehaus Capital Management, where he began working as an equity research analyst in 2008. During his tenure at Driehaus, Law supported investment strategies across a wide range of geographies, sectors and market-caps, including U.S. mid-cap, U.S. large-cap, focused equity growth, global growth, international discovery and the firm's nearly $1 billion international small-cap fund. While at Driehaus, Law was promoted to senior analyst covering global industrials and utilities, as well as international small-cap companies. Law earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Minnesota Duluth's Labovitz School of Business and Economics.
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Looking for the best January sales deal on a KitchenAid stand mixer? January may be on its way out, but this deal – which started on Boxing Day – is still going strong. Any baker worth their salt (and icing sugar) needs a mixer like this. Fast, quiet, and easy-to-clean, the KitchenAid Artisan is a bona-fide modern classic and will enhance the look of any kitchen it resides in. Unusually, Lakeland's deals include the most desirable KitchenAid stand mixers, not just the weird-looking ones or the ones that are pink with stars on.
Long-term watchers of KitchenAid stand mixer deals will be well aware that the £200 discount is pretty standard when these things are on sale, but on the other hand… that's a huge £200 off the most sought-after kitchen gadget there is.
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Understanding Dementia And 'Wandering'
NEAL CONAN, host:
Local news reports this story so often, it can get lost in the static. An older person suffering from dementia wanders off and is usually found in a car or by the side of a road, headed toward the faraway past, a childhood home, to pick up kids long since grown.
Scientists are not sure why Alzheimer's patients wander, but about half of them will suffer serious injury or death if they are not found within 24 hours.
If this is your story, if you have a loved one or a patient who's wandered off, tell us your story: 800-989-8255. Email us: email@example.com. You can also join the conversation on our Web site. That's at NPR.org, click on TALK OF THE NATION.
NPR's Linton Weeks wrote "The Mysteries of Dementia-Driven Wandering" for NPR.org, and he's been kind enough to join us here today in Studio 3A. Nice to have you with us on the program today.
LINTON WEEKS: Thank you, Neal. Good to be here.
CONAN: And as you note in your piece, we're humans. We're all wanderers.
WEEKS: Yeah. It fascinates me, actually. It's the mysterious quality of it that fascinates me.
I've read about the science. I've read about the decline of cognitive skills. But it's the need to go some place, to go home, even when you are home, that I think drove me to write this story.
CONAN: Go home even when you are home, often a home you don't necessarily recognize as home.
WEEKS: Right. And that's a recurring motif in these stories, is someone will be home. They'll be at the home where they've lived for decades, maybe. And they'll insist that they really want to go home. And they may pack their bags. They may stand at the front door. They may throw a tantrum. And where is it exactly they want to go? I'm not so sure.
CONAN: And do they have answers? Most of them are found, but are there answers that we understand?
WEEKS: Well, I'm working on it. I don't understand. But I do understand the need, the desire to move, the restlessness, the sort of need that we all feel…
CONAN: Mm-hmm.
WEEKS: …to get up and go.
CONAN: This is, of course, one of the oldest stories that we know about. The "Odyssey" is a story of wandering.
WEEKS: Right, and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." And I mentioned Steinbeck in my story because the picaresque tale, the wandering lost soul, the pilgrim, it plays to something deep within us.
And I assume that when things begin to change in our heads and we revert to certain childish ways, or we revert to ways that we haven't acted for years, that maybe we are reverting to something even deeper than we know.
CONAN: There was a lovely line in your piece about when our lives turn to thin broth.
WEEKS: Well, it is a little like that. And I've been around people who are near death and people who are in the last days of life. And, you know, it's just something that - they're there, but they're not there-there.
CONAN: It's too often the case, there are now - what? Four million people who are believed to have Alzheimer's disease. And this is one of those ailments that is just burgeoning with the growing population growth of people who are going to be in their 70s and 80s.
WEEKS: One of the - George Mason University says - you know, well, now, there are, you know, there are 4 or 5 million people with Alzheimer's. They think it's going to go to 20 million soon, or in the near future.
And one of those stories that really got me interested was a guy in Maine - I actually talked to a bunch of people in Maine, it seemed like the stories are related - who was interested in long-distance trucking and had been a long -had done the long hauls over the years, had a bunch of trucker friends, also liked to wander, leave his home, walk in the woods, come back. One day, he didn't come back. And his family, the Springer family really doesn't know whether Chuck, their guy, is a mile away in the woods or whether he's thousands of miles away.
CONAN: Oh.
WEEKS: And I just - that was chilling to me, really.
CONAN: Yeah. It's, of course, chilling for the family. But on the other hand, in his mind, home may have been the cabin of a semi.
WEEKS: Exactly, yeah. Exactly.
CONAN: If this is your story, if you have a loved one who has wandered, if you have a patient who has done that, give us a phone call, 800-9898-255. Email us, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Ruben is with us from Galt, California.
RUBEN (Caller): Hello?
CONAN: Hi. You're on the air, Ruben.
RUBEN: Okay. My mother-in-law is 85. And starting last year, she started wandering and we had to block off her driveway, put up a gate. It ended up escalating, putting an electric motor on it, putting an electric lock on it. And the big problem we had wasn't with her. It was other people in the family who were in denial.
WEEKS: That's interesting.
CONAN: They didn't want to accept that…
RUBEN: She'll come back.
CONAN: Ah.
WEEKS: Oh.
RUBEN: You know, she'll go off someplace but she'll come back. She didn't, you know - once somebody around the corner found her and brought her back. And she's wandering along, she'll pack up bags each morning and she wants to go. At times we'll go up to visit, and she'll be standing at the gate looking over it, and you know, she can't get out but she would like to.
CONAN: Does she tell you where she wants to go?
RUBEN: No. She doesn't know who we are. You know, we will have situations - I'm a son-in-law, and you know, she might remember that I am her daughter's husband, but she doesn't remember that she has a daughter. She'll - I don't have any children.
And it's not real extensive yet. I mean it's bad, but it will get worse. But as I say, the biggest problem we run into is her husband's 85, and we're starting to talk about maybe she needs to go to a home. It's harder for him to deal with it.
WEEKS: That's one of the things I didn't get into in the story and probably should have. I do empathize because I did hear a lot of stories about people who were dealing with patients who on the one hand were perfectly in their right minds some of the time, and then at other times were not. And it was never really clear if someone was just going out to the store.
Or one of the families I talked to, the woman got in her car, drove off like she does often during the day, and just kept driving. And she ended up out in the woods, hours away, and in the mud with one shoe on. And fortunately, they found her and brought her back. But they weren't ready for that. They weren't prepared for that.
CONAN: Ruben, we wish you the best of luck.
RUBEN: We could use it.
CONAN: Thank you very much.
RUBEN: Thank you for the subject.
CONAN: Bye-bye. Let's see if we go next to - this is Cliff. Cliff with us from Aquebogue in New York.
CLIFF (Caller): Hi.
CONAN: Go ahead, please.
CLIFF: My dad's had Alzheimer's for the last 10 years. He's currently in a nursing home up in Massachusetts. He would get angry and frustrated with his disease, and he would just walk right out the door and be gone in a flash. He's a very fast walker. And he would just disappear, it was unbelievable. And the strange thing is that he can still walk now in the nursing home, but nursing homes just don't want these people to walk, they don't want them to wander. They don't allow them to do that. And so it causes even more frustration and he goes - he's been kicked out of several nursing homes for this, and it's a huge, huge problem.
CONAN: And again, did you have any idea at any time where he was going?
CLIFF: No idea. No. He'd just go - he'd bolt. He was like gone in a heartbeat and you'd have to just drive around and look for him and call people and, you know, hunt. It was just incredible. And he would be gone, he'd be walking, you know, like two, three miles away. Incredible.
WEEKS: Well, as somebody pointed out to me, it's important that people get exercise in order to keep the mind nimble and agile. And so walking is a good thing. And there is good walking, but then there's also walking that can get dangerous very fast.
CONAN: Mm-hmm. There's also, as Cliff points out, there are behavioral aspects of Alzheimer's where people do get angry for little or no reason whatsoever, and it's very difficult to deal with. And those frustrations of not being there, not having the command of the faculties that you used to take for granted, which can make anybody incredibly frustrated and incredibly angry.
WEEKS: I have a friend…
CLIFF: (unintelligible) you should know - you guys should know that this is a huge problem and nursing homes cannot deal with this. And it's become so bad that patients are routinely, every day, are thrown off, thrown out of these nursing homes to hospitals, and the hospitals can't deal with them. The hospitals are rejecting them. And so you end up in this no man's land, you know, this in-between place where you're thrown into an emergency room in the middle of the night because your dad has wandered and there's nothing you can do.
So you have to go through this whole system of getting the drugs, being medicated, and then the medication becomes too much. And that overwhelms the person and there are - it is like hell on earth, I have to tell you.
CONAN: I'm so sorry, Cliff.
WEEKS: Yeah. Me too.
CONAN: Thanks very much for the phone call.
CLIFF: Thank you very much for the time.
CONAN: There's an email from Cindy in Louisville. My grandmother had senile dementia due to diabetes-induced mini-strokes. She moved in with my parents and everything went fine until my grandmother started leaving in the middle of the night - once, with just a book. Luckily, the neighbors happened to see her walking in the neighborhood and brought her home at midnight. When I asked her what she was doing, she answered, I'm going to a party.
This behavior, more than any other issue, led to my parents' decision to put my grandmother in a nursing home, a difficult decision. But they couldn't stay up every night listening for her to leave or barricade the doors. And that's what it comes down to. And that time of day is interesting. There's a phenomenon called sundowning. Explain that to us.
WEEKS: Well, it's - I wish I could explain it, but it is something that happens at dusk, where patients get restless. And it brings out other behaviors, too, not just wandering, but it is believed that that time of day - maybe it's because in the past, the time of day, the routine changes a little bit as we get towards supper time. And that change creates a certain restlessness. And that is when some people disappear.
CONAN: You can also get tired and lose more of those faculties. It varies not just day to day but from hour to hour sometimes.
WEEKS: And there are practical things - reducing liquids at night - and these are things I learned about in my reporting, reducing liquids at night so that people don't get up to go to the bathroom so often and therefore, don't get up to go somewhere else so often.
CONAN: NPR's Linton Weeks wrote "The Mysteries of Dementia-Driven Wandering" for NPR.org. He's with us today here in Studio 3A. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
And let's go next to William. William with us from Charlottesville in Virginia.
WILLIAM (Caller): Good day.
CONAN: Hi.
WILLIAM: See if you can follow this logic. My mother passed away. She did have Alzheimer's. Shortly before, we had to change all the locks and secure her within the house. She had gotten in her car and put the car in forward, and attempted accidentally to drive through the garage onto which she would have fallen onto a propane tank. She was saved by the framing of the building.
But in an odd way, my family and I, I'm afraid we agreed that - she'd lived three years beyond that point and then - but in an odd way, it would have been best if she could have died without pain. She did not want to live any longer. She was not attempting to commit suicide, but she no longer knew who she was. She was so frustrated. You know, we did not wish her dead. But you know, in a perverse way it would have been better, because she proceeded to live miserably for another two to three years.
It's such a difficult, difficult issue. You cannot wish for people to be put to sleep. But I fear with Alzheimer's, if there were not a pill, with which one could pass away peacefully - it would be ideal, I must say.
WEEKS: That's another recurring motif I hear, actually, is the patient asking for a pill.
WILLIAM: Yes.
WEEKS: And the pill is - again, I didn't get into it, but there's something, there's something primordial about that pill. There is something basic and everlasting about that pill, just like the need to go home.
CONAN: William, also - I assume that there were other people in the building that, if that propane tank had gone up, would have been in danger. So...
WILLIAM: Indeed. I'm being - I am being facetious. The point about the pill is more, more of the issue. And I understand the Supreme Court in that it could never pass such a thing, and poor Dr. Kevorkian, I think that was his goal, was to give us all in this situation some sort of option.
CONAN: That was - situations where those people had some ability to decide for themselves and clearly, your mother was past that.
WILLIAM. Far beyond that.
CONAN: I'm so sorry with what happened. And it's so painful to live with the consequences of that, and it is something again that so many of us are going to face.
WILLIAM: Yes. We were fortunate. It was just another three years. You had the gentleman who said it had been 10 years. I cannot imagine. I cannot imagine living for 10 years with a mother or a father in that state. I feel for any people in that situation.
CONAN: William, thanks very much.
WILLIAM: Thank you.
CONAN: Bye-bye. Here's an email from Diana. I worked for a large nursing home several years ago. We had a resident that had Alzheimer's and unfortunately, he got out and was hit by a car. As the director of nursing, I was mortified about the event and still carry scars from it today. My suggestion is that families should work harder to place their loved ones in a secure environment and not look at their own comfort in respect to where they place them. Had his family listened to - listened - this tragedy would not have occurred.
Well, again, comfort is sometimes not the issue. We can't talk to that individual case. There's a great line in your story, Linton, when you say if you talk to one Alzheimer's patient, you've talk to one Alzheimer's patient. Everybody's different.
WEEKS: Yeah.
CONAN: But it's certainly not always about the family's comfort. It's just sometimes, they're beyond the bend. Let's see if we can go next to Catherine. Catherine with us from Stem in North Carolina.
CATHERINE (Caller): Yes. Hi. I was going to relate the tale of my grandmother, who used to always tell me she wanted to go home just one more time to the old home place (unintelligible) burned so you couldn't take her home. It had burned, though, when she was very young, and she couldn't remember that part.
CONAN: And those memories are so set, those earliest memories, and those,I guess, are the last ones we lose, a lot of the time.
CATHERINE: I think so. And I think everybody wants to go home.
CONAN: Here's an email we got just along the same lines from Randall in Louisville. My grandmother's husband walked away from the personal home - care home where he lived for a decade. He walked six miles or so, and was found frozen to death back on his old farm that he'd owned 50 years earlier.
And Linton, you walked - talked about - well, the truck driver maybe going back to the road, or the farmer heading back to the fields - or wherever home seemed to be.
WEEKS: Yeah. Just a desire to be where you're most comfortable, I guess, or where it all began.
CONAN: Catherine, thank you very much for the phone call, and we're sorry for your experience.
CATHERINE: Yeah. Thanks.
CONAN: So long.
CATHERINE: Bye.
CONAN: NPR's Linton Weeks wrote "The Mysteries of Dementia-Driven Wandering" for NPR.org. Just go to our Web site and look it up if you'd like to read it. He joined us here today in Studio 3A.
Thanks very much, Linton.
WEEKS: Thanks a lot, Neal.
CONAN: This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.
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Being a chef is all about combining the perfect amount of ingredients to make a taste sensation that will usher those tasting it on a journey to pure bliss. This is the mission of every South African celebrity chef – to swoop eager diners from their feet while giving their taste buds something to dream about. So, without further ado, let's have a look at 6 of South Africa' own top Celebrity chefs.
Chef Luke Dale-Roberts
Dale Roberts settled in South Africa in 2006 after working in Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Korea and Switzerland. These remote countries taught him all he knows about culinary art. So much so that chef Luke Dale-Roberts was voted Chef of the Year 2011 in the Eat Out Restaurant! Since then, he has opened a number of renowned coffee shops such as The Test Kitchen.
Chef Reuben Riffel
Reuben Riffel is an exceptionally talented individual from the South African culinary group. Reuben came into contact with fine dining by testing the food his mom brought home from the different gourmet restaurants she worked in. His first culinary break came at Monneaux Restaurant in Franschhoek, where he took the position as a kitchen hand. From there he worked his way up as one of the top celebrity chefs in South Africa and has already palmed in a few amazing awards!
Chef Michelle Theron
Michelle has been the Chef de Cuisine at Pierneef à La Motte Restaurant since 1 May 2014. Since Michelle opened her restaurant in 2010 she indulges her clientele with authentic Cape Winelands cooking. Michelle's enthusiasm for culinary art began as a young girl while cooking with her mother. Her interest was filled by culinary writing and her adoration for chefs such as Dominique Crenn.
Chef Jackie Cameron
Jackie Cameron fuses a feeling of personality into her cooking. Jackie makes sure that every dish she presents carries with is something true to South Africa. Her gifted hands and simple, yet elegant dishes had gotten her a number of awards over the years. Her cooking is enjoyed in a number of restaurants across SA.
Chef Adriaan Maree
Adriaan Maree made his first mark in culinary art when working at Rust en Vrede and Michelin Star Hibiscus Restaurant in London. With his career path set, he became the new Head Chef at Roots. His mission is to present dishes that are light, yet will leave you wanting more. According to Adriaan, the best way of making a winning dish is to take a few ingredients and enhance its flavour to the max.
Chef Veronica Canha-Hibbert
Veronica started her cooking venture in 1999 at The Mount Nelson. Once qualified, she worked in different Five Star establishments in England. In 2008, she came back to Cape Town and began working as an Executive Chef at the Ellerman House. Veronica believes that in order to make the perfect dish, you need to build flavour with character and always watch your own behaviour while at work.
With 6 of South Africa's top celebrity culinary artists each preparing dishes to make one's mouth water, there is nothing left to do but try one of their masterpieces!


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– Can't complain about a 31 point win over anyone, especially on the road. It was a combination of MSU shooting extremely well, MSU playing mostly very sound defense, and Northwestern unable to hit the few open shots they generated.
Think about how much worse it could have been if MSU hadn't committed 15 TOs.
– Denzel had a funny game. He shot extremely well and had a great Zel-like line (19/6/7) but he also had 6 TOs. Overall, obviously a strong effort but you can't say it was a top level game for him in terms of sharpness. He's got better to give, which is great news for MSU.
– The freshman class was off the charts tonight. McQuaid had a career high 17 points, with 5-8 from three highlighting the performance. I also thought he played well defensively against McIntosh and he ran our offense well when he was in that role. DD had 8 and 11 with 6 blocks and 3 assists. Kenny Goins (redshirt freshman) had 4 points and 5 boards and played well again defensively. Even Kyle Ahrens chipped in with a made 3.
– Again, containment of the pick and roll game was much improved, building on what we saw vs. Maryland. McIntosh had 14 points but was only 4-15 from the floor and had just 2 assists…that's great defense on the catalyst for that team. There was a breakdown or two, so there's always room to keep moving on up, but things are looking better lately…need to keep that momentum.
– MSU shot 62% from three. When you attempt 26 triples, that's *really* meaningful. To put it into perspective, the only Spartans who were under 50% from deep tonight were Eron Harris at 2-6 and Alvin Ellis at 0-1.
– 15 TOs took some of the shine away from the overall offensive performance but the three shooting and 22 assists on 28 made field goals does tell part of a very nice story.
– With Rutgers coming up, you'd like to think MSU is looking at 6-4 after the weekend. The Big Ten season will be determined by what happens in the three games after that (@Michigan, @ Purdue and home against IU). Win 2 of those and I think a 2nd or 3rd place finish is still very much in the mix.


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If it's time to replace your water heater, consider upgrading to a high-efficiency electric heat pump model – they are up to 200 per cent energy efficient and use warmth from ambient air to heat water in the storage tank.
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Producers: Fahad Fazil, Nazriya Nazim, Dileesh Pothan & Syam Pushkaran
Written By: Syam Pushakaran
Music: Sushin Shyam
Cast: Soubin Shahir, Shane Nigam, Sreenath Bhasi, Fahad Fazil, Mathew Thomas…etc.
Release Date: 07 February 2019
The movie portrays the story of four brothers and their mutual love in the remote village of Kumbalangi.
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The year 2019 has started with wonderful superhits, as I mentioned earlier through Vijaysuperum Pournamiyum. Now, another superhit movie still running in theaters successfully garnering positive reviews from critics. i.e Kumbalangi Nights.
Although, the movie starts with slow pace, it slowly steals the attention of the audience through some outstanding performances of the cast…especially to be noted Fahad Fazil's performance. He is proving his true caliber as an actor and can fit in any roles.
The performance of the brothers also was appreciated ,as it emotionally captures and melts our hearts. I felt it is a simple story which portrays innocent love, relationships which is not dead in the world, that makes it so special about this movie.
The director can be too proud about his debut movie which is performing amazingly. Shyju Khalid's cinematography was exceptionally good, as every shot of the movie was captured beautifully, especially in nights (you will catch-up once the movie runs). In Summary, Kumbalangi Nights is a movie that fills our hearts with a good vibes left in your mind!
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Program outcomes from arts engagement never fail to inspire:
"What are some indicators that tell you clients were uplifted by the Tidewater Arts Outreach music or arts program?" Staff responses include:
- The clients were extremely engaged, even to the point of joining the band on stage and singing into the microphone. They really "came alive" during the performance.
- Thank you for always bringing such joy to the lives of our residents.
- Clients played an instrument, sang, or danced. Most of them talked about the band for the rest of the night.
- TAO programs/artists are engaging and provide unique experiences for residents. They have very mixed cognitive functionality so they enjoy that programs reach all levels.
- Patients enjoyed every moment! Breathtaking! Two thumbs up!
- Residents were singing along, dancing in their seats, smiling, clapping along with the music, laughing, tapping their feet, and interacting. By the end of the program, they were all smiling and happy. They gave him a big round of applause and cheered. They told him how much they enjoyed his program and wanted to know when he was going to come back.
- Uplifting, nostalgic. Residents especially enjoyed the variety in music selections, the quality, and the personalities of the musicians. TAO always provides us with very special programs that our residents always look forward to.
- I had kids tell me that they had a great time and some residents hung their artwork in their rooms. Kids showed me their finished projects the rest of the day!
- Patients were engaged during the program and seemed like they didn't want them to go. Once they started interacting they laughed and enjoyed socializing and cutting up with each other. Moods were improved.
- The musicians were talented, and residents enjoyed the music; the group gave educational information on the instruments and origins/backgrounds which the residents really enjoyed.
- There was an "after glow" in the air afterwards and the friendly exchange between the artists and participants was part of it.
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Deputy Gordon Erickson was assigned to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Transportation Bureau at the time of his death. Deputy Gordon was the passenger deputy in a Department Transportation Bureau bus. The deputy driver of the bus made a left turn with the door open and Deputy Erickson fell out, striking his head on the pavement. He died of massive head injuries.
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Took Myself Hostage and Got SWAT Called on Me
The day started off to great start, more of the terror, bewilderment, frustration and despair that I'd become accustomed to. I wrestled back into conscience after a long blur of a night. My mind slowly managed to create a thought — "What the hell happened last night? TOTAL BLACKOUT, the best kind to have if you're a drunk like me. Blackouts always gave me a certain sense of security, as if I could not be responsible for the previous night's damage. If I did not remember a particular incident it could be explained and rationalized. I'm just a drunk junkie, what did you expect to happen. Oh well, it doesn't matter.
My survey of the warzone usually included me finding a fresh fist hole in the wall. Who keeps punching hole in the walls, son of a b*&##@, that sucks! I do fuzzily recall I left to re-up on some goodies and when I returned "she" was not home. She always had a knack for burning off with someone, anyone really. If you had money or dope, "she" was your girl – I mean your girl, good luck.
There's that book I read. It's ominous warning, "Then he will know loneliness such as few do". Just the idea of being alone would absolutely produce panic and fear, along with the anger of thinking – why is "she" doing this to me? Where is "she?" Who is "she" with?
I run to my bedroom to check my wallet – money gone. I dig into the drawer in my bedside table finding my secret stash – gone! Oh my GOD! Not again, damn it! What am I gonna do?
As twisted as I am, my thoughts are only filled with perverted and sick carnal imaginations of her and who "she" is with. The pressure of my Nero-sickness builds and boils inside my skull. I need a hit. I scurry to my closet and check every pocket of every piece of clothing I have piled onto the floor. There has got to be something in here that I left.
Frenzied and in full flight I tear in the pants, shirts, coat, looking for that crumb, which I'm convinced exists.
Recently I search, and seek the hidden treasure. Then I remember that I stashed some stuff under the couch in the living room, YEAH BABY! Thank you Jesus.
Under the couch was a plate and it was glistening with the wonderful magic dust! Glory! I had passed out the previous night without depleting my supply. It's a miracle. Time to get busy.
Over to the stereo, got to some Pink Floyd. Crank it up, so that clatter in my head can be stilled. I can then perform the needed operation with the skill required to hit the mark. Like a little crazy mouse running around insanely in a cage, I prepare my potion and fire it up with all cylinders blasting.
For that brief moment, all is absolutely grand. Peace, comfort, and joy. as if Christmas carols are going off in my head. The pressure cooker releases the steam. AHH... Oblivion is just around the corner. One more just to make sure.
It wasn't that bad last night. I'm feeling pretty damn good, except for having to get sick, things are looking up. But looking down onto the serving of crystal magic I notice the mountain is just a small bump!!! Oops.
"THE LUNATIC IN IN MY HEAD" blows from my stereo, which is more like a pro sound system. I crank it up to full freak level, the decibels cause my eyes to flutter with their sockets. BBBBBZZZZZZZZ
The ritual has begun. Frantic molecules flooding my grey matter, Mr. Hyde is back, taking control of my body – stripping me naked and using me like a ragdoll, raping me with my own demented fantasies. A good shot of powder is always twinned up with my sex drive. I love driving fast and furious. A Ferrari!
The monster of my addiction is in full force, rapidly coursing through me with no bounds to hold it back. Next, I have thoughts of the liquid nourishment that I must have. A supply of 2-18 packs of Busch, and a bottle of my favorite cough medicine, Jagermeister, delightful.
Heavenly bliss – the perfect day!
I'm able to put my clothes back on, get in the Lincoln, and make down to the booze parlor. I put my requisition on credit, call the snowman and make my run to re-up-up again. My ride seemed to have it's own intelligence that was programed to make the trips to my dealers house and return me back safely to the bat cave.
The cap of the bottle quickly got twisted releasing the liquid gold of my soul. Swig, gulp, gulp, again, sip, not too much. I got the rest of the day to go!
The memories of the next few hours became muddied and sporadic, the oncoming blackout was taking hold. Vaguely, the visions of my small cabin flashed and faded into my sight, and I had recollections of blood running down my arms and neck. A cold shower was taken to offset the overheated furnace cooking my innards.
Dangers of Cocaine Induced Psychosis – Study of Addictions
Unfortunately, when the user experiences cocaine psychosis, there are a number of dangers that can arise. An individual who is experiencing a state of psychosis doesn't understand what is real and what is not and therefore may make irrational decisions regarding their own lives or the lives of others. Cocaine psychosis can lead to murder, injury, violent behavior, accident or other serious consequences. It is very common for those who experience cocaine psychosis to hallucinate and think that they see or hear something or someone talking about them or threatening them in some way. Similar to schizophrenia symptoms, cocaine psychosis has a tendency to cause a user to act out towards others due to the hallucinations and paranoia that they are experiencing. Cocaine psychosis can cause serious delirium which can make an individual act bizarre or violent.
I had entered the twilight zone, a place I had familiarity with. Seeing and hearing things were common enough that I could manage them quite well. Hallucinating was not difficult and at times intriguing to encounter. However this time was just different than all those other time that I had ventured into a cocaine/Jager fueled adventure.
I was without companionship and loneliness was crashing in on me. Turns out "she" was down in San Antonio whoring around with her prostitute friend, whose name will never be spoken. The sorrow in my guts with the knowledge of her betrayal to my adoration torn into my heart. I had more moments of reality during the next few hours.
Eventually, the cocaine pipeline ran dry and depleted my resistance to the dark side of which I have dropped into before. A cloak of depression that envelops all thoughts and feelings. Overwhelming me with a vengance of remorse and pity like a black hole, sucking every morsel of sanity away forever, and ever.
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Cocaine psychosis can cause serious delirium which can make an individual act bizarre or violent. It is very common for hospitals or treatment staff to require extensive restraint features in order to force an individual who suffers from cocaine psychosis to remain calm and to prevent any risks or dangers to others. Self-destruction is always a serious danger when cocaine psychosis is a problem. The user may try to commit suicide, attempt to hurt himself or attempt to act violently as a means of coping with the delusions, hallucinations or illogical thought process that are occurring within the brain.
The dangers of cocaine psychosis are really rather stringent. Studies have shown that a number of violent crimes, homicides, injuries, accidents and other dangerous situations can all be traced back to the use of excessive amounts of cocaine. When the brain is activated to act in survival mode after excessive cocaine use, there are wide ranges of potential consequences that may occur.
So here I was. totally in the grips of the crazies, delusional to the point of self-destruction. In that book I read all the time, it says – "He will wish for the end."
And that's me at the end of my path! I have to stop this now!
But in my mind I imagined trying to overdose but every time I used I would have a moment of renewed hope. No – not that.
Lets try this – I tear a extension cord loose from behind the stereo system and fashioned a slip knot noose and tied it around my neck. By this time walking was not an option. Having polishing of th Jager, my condition was that of a cripple. Crawling over to the balcony on my back porch it tied the cord to the handrail. My hands were heavy and my fingers were balloonish.
Anger and despair like a tsunami came shooting into every fiber of my universe. I just have to end it quick! No more pain or torture, I needed peace!
I grabbed a hold of the wooden upright of the railing surrounding the back deck, but was not able to make the climb for the jump. I had no balance left and coordination using my eyes became dizzyingly unfocused. A jumbled blur was all I perceived. The wire noose had tightened and started to close off the flow through my jugular veins. I don't know much else until I found myself in the middle of the living room, face down to the tile floor. I had pissed my pants and was puddling an inch a ta time to the kitchen. In the kitchen, somehow I was able to grab a steak knife and took the knife and tried to cut the wire loose. It wasn't working and the swelling around my neck was increasing.The steak knife was now between the wire cord and my neck. It would not cut. It was stuck.
My ability the breath was becoming raspy and it felt as I was inhaling fire. What can I do. I don't know what to do. Help me someone, HELP. The cellphone I had was in my back pocket and it had time left. The next action I took was, maybe, the most insane thing I have ever done.
I dialed 911
The dispatcher came onto the line. The conversation went something like this.
"911 – What is your emergency"
My reply to her -Help, I don't know what to do.
The dispatch came back with – "What is your problem Sir?"
This is my response to her inquiry – I am holding myself hostage and I can't get out!
From that point in time it was about 20 minutes that she kept me on the phone. She asked who I was and I told her. Being that I had an extensive arrest record with the local Sheriff's Dept. they knew my location.
I stayed on the floor until she said to me the deputies were on the scene and I could hang up with her, so I did. I lay there holding the knife still as it started to cut my swollen neck, when...
BAM. BAM. BAM. The door to my place burst open and the ninja turtles came barreling into the cabin. Well not really Ninjas, but they did look like turtles.
One of the Sheriffs was a hostage negotiator and he was the first person in a very long time to show me concern or worry about my welfare. To this day, I hold a great deal of gratitude for this copper.
Well the conversation turned into a intervention of sorts. The Lieutenant was able to cut the wire from my neck and the EMT's were brought in after the scene had been secured. I was still reeling from the trauma and was not quite right in the head. Obviously!
He found all of my utensils and chose to dispose of them without a report. He found the 2nd 18 pack of beers still in the fridge. He poured them in the sink one by one. He asked what I wanted to do and I had a choice. One choice was to go to the county jail and the other was I could go to the hospital and have a psychological evaluation. I took the easier softer way and decided on the funny farm. After I was checked out and spun dry by the shrinks, and had medically reestablish reality, then I was transported to the State Hospital in San Antonio.
But that's another story! Thanks for your time and if you're having a hard time get a hold of someone like me who had "been there, done that" . The first step to recovery is the realization of how really screwed up thing are.
Thanks again, Chris PHRC.
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On view in the Shenandoah Valley Gallery, this exhibition presents 20 contemporary landscape paintings by Shenandoah County artist Sally Veach (b. 1962). On view at the MSV through June 21, 2020, Ghosts of a Forgotten Landscape: Paintings by Sally Veach includes several works on first-time public display.
The historic barns of the Valley landscape figure heavily in Sally Veach's paintings. She has devoted recent years to creating a series of works—Barns of Shenandoah—depicting barns, exploring their meaning, and representing barns as an iconic link between the natural and material worlds. Paintings in the Barns of Shenandoah series feature recurring themes, including the power of nature, the disappearance of barns, and the spirits of ancestors. Veach's gestural brushwork and dramatic palette express her reverence for the beauty of her surroundings, while venting frustration and concern over change, eventually finding acceptance and reconciliation between nature and humanity.
Harvest Ghost, a 2018 painting by Sally Veach, was recently acquired by the MSV for its contemporary art collection. The painting is currently on view in the MSV exhibition Vital Force.


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Seventeen gardens in England's first Mill Village, set in spectacular scenery where limestone and shale soils meet, varying from secret, backyard precipices to the spacious grounds of mansions. We indicate which gardens require fitness and good balance and which are easy of access. Tickets from a stall on Scarthin Prom (DE4 3QF) but parking easier at Cromford Wharf DE4 3RQ. Refreshments widely available at gardens, pubs or cafes. For more information contact David Mitchell via Scarthin Books 01629 823272.
Cromford Open Gardens, Derbyshire Peak
Past event 12:30-5:30PM Sunday 9 July 2017
Scarthin Books Of Cromford, Scarthin, Cromford, MATLOCK, DE4 3QF


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Afternoon Tea is a classic British mealtime, filled with Victoria sponge, cucumber sandwiches and tiny, perfectly crafted sweet treats. The Queen herself still fulfils the regal ritual on a daily basis. Should you find yourself wanting to put your glad rags on and go out for posh cuppa, we've put together a list of the best afternoon tea offerings across the UK and Ireland.
G&V Royal Mile Hotel, Edinburgh
Perfectly positioned at the corner of George IV Bridge and the Royal Mile, just steps from Edinburgh Castle, G&V Royal Mile Hotel Edinburgh is in the heart of Edinburgh. Afternoon Tea is served in the striking Cucina restaurant or on the outdoor terrace in fair weather. The Chef's unique take on this British tradition includes cucumber gazpacho, chamomile tea sorbet, honeycomb truffle and Negroni jelly!
Traditional Afternoon Tea from £22.50 per person or with a choice of cocktail for £29.50. Visithttps://www.quorvuscollection.com/en/gandv-hotel-edinburgh for further information and booking.
La Suite West, Hyde Park
La Suite West is delighted to celebrate Afternoon Tea Week with a special collaboration with AfternoonTea.co.uk. La Suite West's NEW Nosh Garden Kitchen is the perfect place to celebrate the annual Afternoon Tea Week with an indulgent but healthy Afternoon Tea in the hotel's beautiful garden terrace. For the duration of Afternoon Tea Week and for the whole of August, La Suite West will be offering 25% off their quintessentially contemporary vegan alternative to this Great British Tradition every day from 12pm. Featuring a fashionable and central venue near London's Hyde Park, Portobello Road Market, Notting Hill and Kensington Palace Gardens, the newly launched Nosh Garden Kitchen features a selection of superfoods and products free from additives, eggs, dairy, gluten and high in vitamin content. The vegan Afternoon Tea offers a selection of raw and plant based dining options, with a combination of designer finger sandwiches, crusty home-made scones served with light and creamy whipped coconut cream and fresh strawberries, to a selection of home-made pastries. This will of course be accompanied by a bubbling glass of non-alcoholic fizz and a selection of fine JING Teas.
Vegan Afternoon Tea from £21.75 per person. Visit afternoontea.co.uk for further information and booking. Offer subject to availability. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. Valid 1st – 31st August.
Hotel Gotham, Manchester
The stunning art deco façade of luxury 5-star boutique Hotel Gotham, situated at the centre of mid-town Manchester, is one of the city's grandest buildings. A former bank premises dubbed the 'King of King street' due to its grandeur and castle-like design, guests are greeted by glamorous, Manhattan-inspired interiors, housing 60 luxurious rooms and suites. The hotel also boasts Club Brass, a private roof-top bar with panoramic views over the city, as well as Honey, the two AA rosette restaurant serving contemporary British cuisine. Those looking to indulge in signature Gotham style can book an afternoon tea at the hotel's Honey restaurant for an exciting dining experience. Guests will be served a delicious selection of homemade cakes and sandwiches, handmade scones with local jams, as well as a selection of freshly brewed coffee or speciality teas.
Afternoon Tea from £25 per person. Visit www.hotelgotham.co.uk for further information and booking.
Dorsett Shepherds Bush, London
Located in the heart of vibrant West London on Shepherds Bush Green, Dorsett Shepherds Bush is a Grade II listed building with 317 luxurious rooms, featuring Chinese-inspired interiors. There are plenty of fine dining options available, and one of the best ways to spend an afternoon at Dorsett Shepherds Bush is with the scrumptious Dorsett Classic Afternoon tea, available daily. Served under the striking golden atrium of Jin bar, Dorsett hosts an offering of superb appetising savoury and sweet delights and selection of leaf teas. The Sparkling Afternoon tea includes a delicious glass of Prosecco, and when celebrations are in order, the Celebration Afternoon Tea is the perfect choice, which includes a glass of Jacquart champagne and a special celebration cake delivered to the table, ideal for any occasion.
Dorsett Classic Afternoon tea £24 per person, Sparkling Afternoon Tea £30.50 per person and Celebration Afternoon Tea £40.50 per person. Visit www.dorsetthotel.com for further information and booking.
The Chester Grosvenor, Cheshire
Situated in Chester on one of Britain's prettiest streets, The Chester Grosvenor is steeped in historical charm. A striking Grade II listed building with traditional black and white timbered exterior, there are 68 contemporary bedrooms and luxurious suites to choose from, alongside a wonderfully peaceful spa centre and the award-winning restaurants; the Michelin-starred 'Simon Radley at The Chester Grosvenor', the luxurious yet relaxed La Brasserie restaurant, and Arkle Bar and Lounge. For sophisticated Gentlemen, The Arkle Bar and Lounge hosts afternoon tea with a distinctive masculine slant, with hearty fare and strong tea replacing traditional delicate French pastries and tiny sandwiches, prepared by The Chester Grosvenor's award-winning chefs.
Gentleman's Afternoon Tea £32 per person, Gentleman's Indulgent Afternoon tea £45 per person. Visit www.chestergrosvenor.com for further information and booking.
Conrad Dublin, Ireland
The team at Conrad Dublin are delighted to introduce their new Musically Inspired Afternoon Tea which will be hosted seven days a week within the contemporary surrounds of Lemuel's Lounge. The Afternoon Tea includes a delicious array of freshly baked cakes, pastries and scones as well as gourmet sandwiches designed by new Pastry Chef Brizaida Hernandez, served with freshly brewed tea or coffee. This quintessential British pastime has been given a twist as the hotel pays homage to it neighbours, The National Concert Hall offering an experience to satisfy all tastes. The menu includes a new musically inspired selection of culinary delights including Burren smoked salmon, avocado purée, caper berry sandwiches on Guinness bread, exotic creamy coconut, lime and mango macaroons and a 'Chocolate symphony' ganache amongst many others.
Musically Inspired Afternoon Tea will run until the 30th September 2017 and costs €60 for two (approx. £55). Customers are invited to book their table before August 31st and quote #MUSIC.
Ballygally Castle, Northern Ireland
With much of the filming of the Game of Thrones series taking place in Belfast and across various locations in Northern Ireland, their fabulousBallygally Castle is ideally located to explore the Game of Thrones® filming locations and channel your favourite characters. In addition, Ballygally offers a very popular Game of Thrones inspired Afternoon Tea, sure to delight fans as well as those who love the indulgence of a delicious afternoon tea! The delectable treats, inspired by the fantasy lands of Winterfell, Iron Islands, Kings Landing or Stormlands, include Lannister egg Rolls, Baratheon Bread, Little Finger Chicken Caesar wraps, Jon Snow Cakes and Dothraki Trifle with mini Dragon's eggs!
Game of Thrones Afternoon Tea from £22 per person. Visit http://www.hastingshotels.com/ballygally-castle/ for further information and booking.
Dukes London
DUKES LONDON's recently opened Great British Restaurant, GBR, is the perfect place to celebrate Afternoon Tea Week. The quintessentially British hotel launched GBR in May, and offersguests the finest traditional and contemporary British dishes in a striking and vibrant space in the heart of Mayfair. Those celebrating Afternoon Tea Week can enjoy a delicious array of savoury sandwiches, from baked gammon and tomato chutney to traditional coronation chicken and cucumber with cream cheese. Savouries are followed by a selection of sweet treats and indulgent homemade traditional and golden sultana scones, all to be enjoyed with a variety of teas, from a classic Breakfast Blend to Jasmine Pearls or Nile Chamomile. Guests wishing to spoil themselves further can opt for the 'GBR' Afternoon Tea which comes with a glass of Perrier-Jouët Champagne.
'Classic' Afternoon Tea from £32.50 per person and the 'GBR' Afternoon Tea from £42.50 per person. Visit https://www.dukeshotel.com/ for further information and booking.
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Lil problems
March 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Oh, Lii. Life is kicking out Love, btw. There was a "*gigglesnort*" in there but apparently an 8×11 in paper is too big for my scanner. Go on. Speculate! XD Who is it, and what did Lii do with him?
Advent 2012
December 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Janne from Day Eleven. He has a point, actually. Made a doodle about it a few days ago, will post it before the next advent picture 😀 (referencing THIS comic)
Advent 2012
December 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The shark was actually a very fun challenge. Yes, this is totally honest. No, I am not frightened of sharks. (really I'm not. While researching visuals for reference, I found pictures of the basking shark, which looks freaky but is harmless, and the frilled shark, which is… well, not harmless and also freaky-looking. I love […]
Advent 2012
December 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment
As much as he might be a superhero, Iso T does not know how to swim. XD
Advent 2012
December 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment
This is relevant, I swear! XD
Computers: the bane of my existence
October 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment
But how I love them still. My laptop overheated on Monday last week, and some hardware might have taken a hit. As a result, the system consistently froze and shut down after a few minutes of use. I had to bring it to the store (closest of them being in a city 1.5 hours away […]
Another candle on the cake…
March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment
I'M NOT EVEN LATE! I DIDN'T EVEN FORGET!! This is a lie. Well, partly, because I did think about it about a week ago, but I was still fighting with a midterm project (that thing is still not dead v__v). ANYWAY!! Major props to Christina who, ONCE AGAIN, remembered the Closet's birthday better than its […]
Random hello post
November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment
I still have lots of ideas for Closet Inc. but am lacking time at the moment. The semester has been a bit hectic, plus work, and now that the semester is ending, everything is due at the same time and whaaaaa. But yeah, just wanted to say hi, and I'm not dead, and I got […]


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Recently, I took my niece and nephew to the movies to see the latest Disney and Pixar movie Brave. Uh oh, a family movie in the summertime which means a typically loud movie theater filled with lots of kids (mostly from the summer camps who are being watched by a group of minimum wage camp counselors) along with the usual crying baby or two. I know it sounds like I'm painting a bad picture here, but honestly it wasn't that bad, and the movie was pretty good too.
Brave tells the story of Merida, a princess who wants to change her fate. Throughout her life she was brought up by her mother to one day become a queen. This meant doing everything proper of a lady and no fun. Merida however just wanted to live her life to the fullest. She wanted to be independent and explore. Merida's also one heck of an archer who can give Legolas from The Lord of the Rings a good run for the money. When time came that she had to choose a suitor for marriage, Merida wanted no part of it and decided to run away from it all. She then meets a witch…oops I mean wood carver, and makes a proposal to change her fate. Of course not everything goes as planned, but in typical Disney fashion you will get that happy ending.
Other than the amazing computer graphics and scenery, what I really enjoyed about Brave was the main character Merida (voiced by Boardwalk Empire's Kelly Macdonald). You don't usually see a female lead in a Pixar movie. Unlike most Disney princesses she is strong willed and more independent than the others. I also enjoyed the triplets who brought all the comedy to the movie with their over the top antics.
While the movie is fun, not everything was great. The problem I had with Brave is the fact that most of the movie was practically given away through the countless amounts of TV spots. You knew just about everything that was going to happen with barely any surprises making Brave pretty predictable. The only real surprise being the animated short La Luna which played before the movie which was nice.
Other than the predictability, Disney's Brave is a fun movie to see with the family. It's got plenty of laughs, drama, and archery. The animation is brilliant, and the soundtrack featuring plenty of Gaelic tunes is amazing. It was a great time for myself and the kids at the movies. A piece of advice: try to go see the movie without all the loud and annoying summer camp kids in the theater.


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Military Tribunals
Until the Uniform Code of Military Justice became effective, on May 31, 1951, the Army and Navy operated under laws derived directly from the British Articles of War, which had been in force since before the Revolutionary War. Soldiers and sailors had few rights, and the system was designed to enforce discipline, not justice. Punishments included execution, flogging, and hard labor with ball and chain. Over the years, there were patchwork changes. In 1850, for instance, the Navy outlawed flogging. World War I brought more changes, including the current system that provides for three levels of courts-martial--general, special, and summary--depending on the seriousness of the charges.
World War II was the turning point. It produced an astonishing 2 million courts-martial--nearly 1 for every 8 Americans who served. More than 100 servicemen were executed; 45,000 went to prison. A public outcry ensued. Congress eventually created the Uniform Code of Military Justice. President Harry S. Truman signed the legislation on May 5, 1950. The code was hailed by many as the fairest system of military justice in the world.
The code meshed the old with the new. Commanding officers still retained a lot of power, such as the responsibility to convene court-martial trials and select jury panels. But there were new checks, similar to civilian procedures. A formal appellate review system was created, including the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, now known as the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Most important, the code expanded protections for service members. More than 15 years before the Supreme Court's historic miranda decision, the code gave service members the right to remain silent and to be informed that any statement could be used against them at court-martial. It also provided for free military defense counsel in the most serious court-martial trials. Later legislative changes, from 1968 through 1983, provided for court-martial trials to be supervised by military judges. Review boards within each service were replaced with appellate courts.
Since then, however, Congress has made few substantive changes. Nowadays, most crimes prosecuted by the military are not military-related--drug use, assault, murder, fraud, and so on. In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court removed a requirement that court-martial trials deal only with offenses that are "service-connected," giving the military jurisdiction over all crimes committed by its personnel.
The use of military commissions to try foreign nationals began in 1780 when General Benedict Arnold, the hero of Saratoga, turned his coat and joined the British after negotiations with the handsome and dashing Major John André. Arnold summoned André to his command at West Point along the Hudson River. The British dearly wanted to seize it, and Arnold gave André the plans, which he put into his boot for safe keeping on the ride back to New York. Militiamen seized André on September 23, 1780, frisked him for valuables, and found the West Point maps hidden in his boot. They also found his pass signed by Benedict Arnold. André confessed his identity immediately. The militiamen took André to Lieutenant Colonel Jameson at North Castle who sent a report to his commanding officer, Benedict Arnold, to see what was going on. Meanwhile, George Washington arrived to inspect West Point, but Arnold slipped aboard the British warship Vulture making way down the Hudson River. After a brief trial, the military tribunal ordered André hanged as a spy in 1780. Although admired for his charm and honesty, and although he asked to be executed as a soldier by musketry, Major John André faced the gallows with dignity on October 2, 1780 in full dress uniform provided by Washington himself.
The international law of war, held that enemy spies in civilian clothes, passing behind their adversary's lines with an intent to wreak destruction or gather intelligence, were subject to the death penalty and thus not entitled to any of the protections due uniformed prisoners of war. General Washington had appointed, or confirmed the death sentences voted by, a number of military tribunals during the Revolution. President Lincoln also made substantial use of military tribunals to try Confederate agents and saboteurs during the Civil War. Among these were men accused of plans to hijack Northern ships, derail trains and set fire to New York City.
In America's international wars, enemy soldiers taken prisoner were relatively well treated, or at least fairly treated, in accordance with the rules held among nations and the U.S. Army's own internal rules. There were exceptions, mostly taking place during hostilities against Native American tribes. On 28 September 1862, a military commission was appointed to try those Santee Sioux warriors engaged in the hostilities against soldiers and settlers in Minnesota. With so much war around them, the inhabitants' hatred and calls for retribution ruled. The trials were quick: in just one day, the military commission tried forty Santees, with some trials lasting only five minutes. When the proceedings concluded on December 5, 1862, the commission had sentenced 300 of the 392 men on trial to death by hanging. The people of Minnesota may have felt vindicated, but President Lincoln believed the sentences were excessive. On December 6, he insisted that only those convicted of rape and/or murder should be executed; the rest should receive jail sentences. As a result, thirty-eight Santee warriors received the death sentence.
In December 1862, the largest mass execution in American history took place in Mankato, Minnesota when thirty-eight men on a gallows dropped to their death at once. What was a just war for one side became a huge war crime for the other. Approximately 500 settlers, traders, and soldiers died in the uprising, making it one of the bloodiest wars between Indians and whites in the nineteenth century. Consequences were not only extreme for those Sioux directly involved, but the long range effects also set the tone for all future relationships between the United States government and America's Indian peoples for the rest of the century. The captivities of Kiowa and Comanches after military commissions under the direction of General Philip Sheridan in 1873 sent them to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. As far as the Indians were concerned, this scheme constituted the separation of the leaders from their people, and at its worst, the new policy represented a form of ethnic cleansing. Army leadership agreed: the Arapaho, Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne tribes were about to change their lives completely as prisoners of the U.S. Army.
The Chiricahua Apaches, however, have a far more tragic history at the hands of military commissions. General Philip Sheridan replaced General William T. Sherman as head of the army and ordered General Nelson A. Miles to bring in the infamous Geronimo while sending 502 Chiricahuas, the entire tribe, to Fort Marion. At least twenty-four died during thirteen months inside Fort Marion, after which time they continued their POW status in different detaining facilities. Mount Vernon, a town about thirty miles north of Mobile, Alabama was opened for twenty women and eleven children on 27 April 1887. They moved eventually to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where they finally ended their long captivity in 1912. Although theirs were not great numbers, the Plains tribes and the Chiricahua Apaches endured the longest captivities as enemy prisoners of war in American history. Their endurance was remarkable. That they have maintained their pride and culture despite the adversity remains nothing short of a miracle. Then again, miracles do happen.
During the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902, military commissions were used extensively as necessary instruments in the suppression of crime at a time when crime was common. They were also powerful adjuncts, especially the provost court, in putting an end to the insurrection, and making the establishment of civil government possible. In the Philippine Islands these commissions tried many hundreds of cases and inflicted punishments varying from small fines or a few days' imprisonment to forfeitures of many thousands of dollars and the infliction of the death penalty. All this took place because Emilio Aquinaldo ordered his men to disperse into a guerrilla force. The enemy wore no uniform, nor did he identify himself as a soldier. To many American soldiers, fighting the Filipino guerrillas fell outside General Order 100, the U.S. Army's rule book, and they resented being called to task for mistreatment of enemy prisoners and the enemy's murder of civilians who helped them. Fighting an unseen, non-uniformed enemy was, and remains, anathema to the American soldier in the field.
Shortly after midnight on June 13, 1942, a German submarine lifted off the bottom, where it had been waiting, and surfaced near the sleepy eastern Long Island town of Amagansett. It soon put ashore four men wearing German uniforms. They had with them explosives and other demolition equipment sufficient for a two-year career in sabotage, plus $175,200 in cash—more than $2 million in today's money. Four days later, another team of four saboteurs landed at Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville, Florida.
Brought to Washington, the eight were tried before a military commission (after the Supreme Court had unanimously decided that such a means of dealing with unlawful combatants was proper). President Roosevelt wanted a high-profile trial to send a message to Germany about what happens to saboteurs, and that was exactly what he got. The story of the capture and trial was front-page news all over the country.
The trials, held in the Department of Justice building, ran from July 8 to August 4. The prosecution was headed by the Attorney General himself, Francis Biddle, and the Army Judge Advocate General, Maj. Gen. Myron Cramer. The defense lawyers were also distinguished; they included Col. Kenneth Royall, who would later serve briefly as President Harry S. Truman's Secretary of War, and Maj. Lauson Stone, the son of Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone.
With the evidence overwhelming and two of the eight defendants cooperating, the results of the trials were never in doubt. On August 4 all eight men were condemned to death, to be executed in the electric chair at the District of Columbia jail. Biddle and the FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, both asked Roosevelt to commute the sentences of the two saboteurs who had made the capture and conviction of the others possible. Six were executed on August 8, less than two months after their landing on American soil. Military tribunals have not been used in this country to try enemy belligerents since World War II.
Nearly unknown to the Western world since the Thirty Years War ended in 1648, the United States and its allies face religious fanatics in 2010, intent on destroying the Enlightenment concept of democracy and replacing it with a medieval Islamist theocracy. If we continue to abandon the hope for reciprocity, policies of generosity and humane treatment of enemy prisoners of war in favor of the rule of lex talionis, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, there is a good chance that in a heightened state of fear, we could all become blind and toothless. If the Global War on Terror constitutes a new paradigm of warfare for the twenty-first century, perhaps we should think about creating a new international convention to replace Geneva. In the meantime, if military commissions, as imperfect as they have been, help solve the seemingly endless conflict, let them proceed.
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