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Hurt in an Indiana Car Wreck? Call the Car Accident Lawyers at Ken Nunn Law Office!
If your life has been turned upside down in Bloomington or Indianapolis by a car crash that was caused by another driver, do you know what to do?
The answer is simple: You need the help of an Indiana car accident lawyer. The Ken Nunn Law Office is a state-wide law practice devoted exclusively to injury and wrongful death cases. No matter where you live in Indiana, chances are we have helped a neighbor, co-worker, classmate, friend or family member with a car accident claim.
Sustaining injuries and property damage after an accident that wasn't your fault can be overwhelming and stressful. Additionally, motor vehicle accident cases are often complex and consist of many details that must be reviewed to determine your legal options.
For this reason, it's imperative to speak with a lawyer at the Ken Nunn Law Office about your case. If you have grounds to file a lawsuit to seek compensation for damages, we can gather the necessary documents and other vital information to build your claim. Remember that every car accident case is unique, and results will depend on the circumstances of your case. The Ken Nunn Law Office has been helping injured victims for over 50 years. With our experience, you can trust that your case is in knowledgeable hands.
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Vehicle Accident Cases That Our Firm Handles
In order to better serve the Indiana community, we handle various types of vehicle accident cases, such as:
- Car accidents
- Motorcycle accidents
- Semi-truck accidents
- Pedestrian accidents
- Bicycle accidents
- And many more
Depending on the circumstances of the accident and the severity of your injuries, you may be eligible to obtain compensation for your suffering and any property damage.
Common Causes of Car Wrecks
In countless cases, automobile accidents are caused by driver negligence. Some of the most common types of negligence that lead to crashes include the following:
- Inattentiveness (cell phones, changing the radio, talking)
- Reckless driving
- Speeding
- Failure to yield
- Driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol
- Running a red light or stop sign
- Lack of vehicle maintenance (poor brakes, worn tires, or burned out lights)
These common types of collisions can cause serious damage to both an individual and their vehicle. Although the wrongdoer's car insurance is supposed to cover injuries and property damage after an accident, insurance companies will do everything in their power to defeat or diminish the value of your claim. To make matters worse, if you suffered serious injuries, a small settlement amount can leave you with a pile of medical bills and living expenses. If you find yourself in this situation, we can help.
Five Tips to Follow After an Automobile Accident
Knowing how to proceed after a car wreck can be confusing. The steps you take immediately following your accident can either protect or damage any compensation you may be entitled to receive for your injuries and property damage. In some cases, drivers make poor decisions that tremendously affect their cases, leaving them with little to no compensation.
Below are several suggestions from our car accident lawyers that you can use after a collision to help protect your legal rights:
Remain at the scene
It's essential that you remain at the collision scene. If you decide to leave, you may face criminal charges.
Call emergency responders
Even if no one appears to have suffered any serious injuries, it's in your best interest to call emergency responders. Furthermore, it's important to have the police at the scene, so they can write a report. A police report is a detailed document that summarizes the accident and states both the facts and opinions of the investigating officer or officers at the scene.
Collect evidence
Evidence is essential when trying to file a claim to seek compensation for your losses. This can include photographs of the scene and your injuries, witness statements, video footage, cell phone records and 911 tapes. It is extremely important to collect evidence before it disappears.
Do not admit fault
Admitting fault can damage any compensation you may be eligible to obtain. For instance, if you apologize or admit fault for an accident that was actually the other party's wrongdoing, you may lessen or completely diminish your chances of receiving any future compensation.
Contact an experienced and knowledgeable attorney
Automobile accident cases are, oftentimes, labor intensive and difficult to manage without proper legal guidance. Therefore, seeking an auto accident attorney to determine your legal rights will work to your advantage.
Liability: How Fault Is Determined After a Wreck
If you decide to take legal action against the liable party, it's vital that fault is clearly established. However, the person at fault is not always obvious. The type of wreck you're involved in and the injuries you sustained are major factors in determining who is legally responsible for the collision.
Indiana is a modified comparative fault state and uses a 50 percent fault system. This means the injured person has to be found to be less than 50 percent at fault. For example, if you are found to be 20 percent at fault for the accident, then any compensation you're owed will be reduced by 20 percent.
If you are found to be more than 50 percent at fault, then you will be unable to receive any compensation for your injuries and damages. In cases where fault is not clear, it's even more vital to have a knowledgeable attorney handling your case. An experienced lawyer can evaluate every detail and determine your legal options.
The biggest mistake injured people make is giving recorded statements to insurance companies without first consulting an Indiana car accident lawyer. We can help you receive the compensation you are rightfully owed to help cover medical bills, property damage, and other costs.
Statute of Limitations: A Missed Deadline Can Result in Missed Compensation
Every state has its own statute of limitations law that places a deadline on an injured victim's right to seek compensation for the negligent actions of another person. This law is highly enforced. If you fail to file within the allotted time, you will likely diminish your chances of receiving any compensation. In addition, if your Indiana car accident involves a crash with a vehicle or employee of a government agency there could be deadlines as short as 180 days to protect your legal rights. That's why it's crucial to be aware of all the laws governing your state.
In the state of Indiana, car accident victims have two years to file a lawsuit, according to Indiana Code section 34-11-2-4. If an injured victim files a lawsuit against the negligent party past the two-year deadline, it will more than likely be dismissed.
Compensation: General and Special Damages
Compensation is a monetary award intended to cover damages for an accident caused by a negligent person. There are two types of damages: general and special.
General damages cover non-economic losses, such as:
- Physical pain
- Mental suffering
- Diminished quality of life
- Permanent injury
Special damages cover monetary losses, such as:
- Lost wages
- Medical expenses
- Property damage
- Loss of earning capacity
- Out of pocket expenses
Although these are some of the damages that compensation can cover, there are other losses that may be taken into consideration. In order to adequately calculate a reasonable settlement amount, our car accident attorneys will need to review the various details of your case.
Car Insurance Requirements
According to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV), drivers in Indiana are required to have liability insurance and uninsured/underinsured motorist liability coverage. Listed below are the minimum amounts of coverage drivers must hold:
- Bodily injury (per person): $25,000
- Bodily injury (per accident- multiple people injured): $50,000
- Property damage (per accident): $25,000
- The minimum limits for uninsured motorist coverage are equal to the minimum limits for liability coverage.
- The minimum limit for underinsured motorist bodily injury coverage is $50,000 (per accident).
Frequently Asked Car Accident Questions
Do I need to hire a lawyer?
After sustaining injuries in a car wreck caused by a negligent motorist, it's beneficial to hire an attorney. An experienced attorney will know what questions to ask to ensure that the insurance company will not take advantage of you.
How much is my case worth?
In order to determine the value of your case, our team will need to review the details. Your case is calculated by various circumstances, such as the severity of your injuries, medical bills, and other factors.
How long will it take to settle my case?
The amount of time it will take to settle your case will depend on the details surrounding your claim. Most car accident cases do not require litigation. However, your claim still has to undergo settlement negotiations before you can receive compensation.
Will my out-of-pocket expenses be covered?
It's important to keep any receipts that pertain to your accident. For example, receipts from prescriptions and gas purchases to travel to and from medical appointments can be used as evidence to support your claim.
Do I have to pay a fee to speak with an attorney?
At the Ken Nunn Law Office, it's free to talk to us. Some firms do charge a consultation fee, however, we won't charge a penny unless we win money for your case.
Car insurance is available to take care of injuries and property damage in most car accidents, but often insurance companies will stretch out the payment process to try to get you to take a tiny check. When injuries are serious, insurance companies may attempt to pay little or nothing, leaving you with a pile of medical bills and living expenses. We can help.
Contact Our Experienced and Dedicated Attorneys
The best course of action following a major collision is to hire an aggressive team of car accident lawyers, like those at the Ken Nunn Law Office. We will fight on your behalf to get the settlement you deserve from the insurance company. Many insurance companies know the name Ken Nunn — and they know that our lawyers don't back down when it comes to fighting for money that our clients deserve.
The insurance company would love to settle your claim for a small check but don't make any decisions until you've talked to us first. If you've already talked to another attorney, we will go over that lawyer's fee agreement line-by-line, so that you can better understand it before you sign anything.
There may be additional charges that you need to know about. You can talk to us for FREE. You would be surprised at the number of people who wait to see what the insurance company does before speaking with an attorney. This is a big mistake! Waiting actually helps the insurance company avoid paying you any money.
If you or someone you love has been seriously injured in an auto accident, don't take chances with your case. We are as close to you as your telephone and will answer all of your questions for free. Put the experience of the Ken Nunn Law Office's car accident lawyers on your side by calling 1-800-CALL-KEN, or fill out our quick and easy online contact form below.
Remember, you do not need any money to hire us, and there's NEVER a fee unless we get money for you! Allow our legal team to fight on your behalf.


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This blog was originally titled "Indulge Yourself: Read what you want, watch what you want, and live a life that makes you happy" because that's what I write about here. But as author Natalie J. Damschroder, aka NJ Damschroder, who writes romantic adventure and YA adventure—heart-pounding fiction with kick-ass heroes and heroines who fall in love while they save the world (or at least one small part of it), it seemed prudent to bring this blog into my author world. Thanks for visiting!
Saturday, August 19, 2006
How I Got Here—Short Fiction
Short fiction is how I sold to Amber Quill, too, and my oldest daughter gets credit for the story that did it. My friend Megan Hart encouraged me to enter the erotic romance contest, and I had no ideas until my daughter said one day, "I wish money grew on trees." The story of a colonized planet whose economic system was dependent upon leaves from one particular tree flew from my head to my fingers and became The TreeKeeper. Since then, I've published or contracted for eight additional stories with Amber Quill.
I've been very happy with my small press experience. Both publishers put out high quality products, and I've learned a great deal. But my goals are higher, farther, faster.
Which is WHY I "got here."
Tomorrow: How I Got Here—Writing Life
2 comments:
- Jody W. and Meankitty said...
Fun series of posts! Just letting you know there's an audience out here...
- Natalie J. Damschroder said...
You're belying your moniker by being so nice to me, meankitty. :)
I don't mind if I've bored everyone away. Isn't the point of a blog to talk about yourself and stuff only you find interesting?
What do you mean, it's not????


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Popular JavaScript library Standard starts showing ads in the terminal to fund open source projects
Standard, a popular npm package, is a style guide, linter, and automatic code fixer that helps developers format code and ensure consistent style across their codebase. With nearly 200k weekly downloads and used by roughly 80k GitHub repositories, Standard is a well-known and much-used library in the development community.
Despite its popularity, Standard has now been awarded the not-so-glamorous title as the first JavaScript library to show third-party advertisements in the terminal. After developers install the package via npm, they are greeted with banner advertisements for LogRocket and Linode. The ads are powered by Funding, a new JavaScript project that helps companies buy ad space in developers' terminals and shares some of the profit with open source projects that have signed up to show ads. The project was created by one of the developers working on the Standard library and is intended to help open source maintainers secure a more reliable source of funding.
The developer community had a largely unfavorable reaction to the decision to allow ads in the terminal. Many developers complained that the ads would complicate debugging by muddying logs. Other developers noted that packages often use multiple dependencies, leading to a bizarre situation where terminals could potentially be bombarded by multiple nested ads. After the backlash, Linode pulled its support from the project and removed its ads from the platform. A few creative developers even built a first-of-its-kind ad blocker for the command line should the sponsors return.
Many agree that open source software has a serious funding problem. Other developer-led initiatives have sprung up over the past few years to fix the lack of funding in the open source ecosystem. One such tool, OpenCollective, helped projects show donation requests in a post-installation terminal message. The project gained traction and is now (sometimes begrudgingly) accepted by many developers.
The lack of easy funding raises an important question: should open source projects penalize individual developers or should they demand more from big technology companies that often benefit greatly from open source projects? Tapping into an entire development community for funding is lucrative and far easier to implement for open source projects of any size, but the strategy risks alienating the very users that help promote project virality. Conversely, partnering with big tech companies can comfortably sustain many open source tools, but can potentially subject projects to outside interests and make them more vulnerable to significant dips in funding should any sponsors drop their support. No solution is without its faults.
Standard deserves acknowledgement for seeking out creative alternatives to secure funding for the open source world, but will need to be wary of disrupting developer workflows.
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Time for some good good healing!
Time for some good good healing!
As the battlefield healer in my LARP, I know this dance quite well. "Healing spell! Healing spell! Cure poison! Destroy undead!"
I am always amazed with how those gishes juggle their sword, shield and spellcasting hand. Funny enough, that is exactly what happens at many tables.
The flowing of Mark the Barbarian's cape from panel to panel indicates that the battle is raging all around Dustin's paladin, but the sheer calmness with which he goes around healing and smiting makes me want to think of a LARP-type interpretation of a turn-based battle, with everyone else just sort of frozen in place while the character whose turn it is does their thing.
"And when I get that hit point loss
I want paladin healing
Paladin healing, oh baby
Makes me ready to fight…"
That's kinda awesome.
Mind, I'm not sure how he managed to do it all in one combat round, but I'm also not up to date on Pathfinder.
Speaking from experience, one doesnt need a sword to smite
"Catch these hands MutherTrucker!"
One high level Paladin, chilling in a necromancers yard.
(The party had to negotiate some important stuff. And we were going about it by Not being Murder hobos.I didnt wanna disturb the diplomacy rolls by looming in the corner waiting to be compelled to be all Judge Dredd in his house).
So there he is chilling outside. No armor just "im going to be polite today" clothes. With nothing to do but wait he decides to do the Necromancer a solid (because hes lawful GOOD not lawful asshat)and goes to chop wood at his woodpile.
And thats when some kind of TPK undead monster shows up. The necro's pet project apparently. ANd the reason why he was non plussed about high level murder hobos in his house.
So of course if the party tank is alone and without support while the others are negotiating … That is some high quality corpse for a necromancer
And all i have is some nice street clothes, a sword that i swore would remain sheathed until negotiations were finished, a wood cutting axe. that the monster is immune to. and …
A creature that was supposed to in theory kill the entire party, Bad. And be spooky scary enough to remind us that negotiation was the only way.
Because it was kind of Undead that get healed by negative energy and feed off of all manner of level and all manner of ability drain … (we were told later)
so once i realized that was its thing after loosing initiative and getting grappled and forcing a fort.save to fend off level drain i took a gamble and grappled back to channel all my Positive energy from Lay On Hands. (a simple touch attack) …
Which seems stupid but it was literally the only thing i could do. I figured it might work enough to get it to let go.
… and soloed the the big party encounter for the week (after a failed Fort save because Constitution = Nil) in one attack.
So i go from level 15 to level 17 with hardly a mark except some mussed up clothes. At the cost of all my healing for the next fortnight in game. "you drained your "battery" said the DM.
And the party doesnt even get loot because the critter fight would have allowed us to loot the necromancer if he triggered it.
but the encounter was triggered by a parties (me and monster) not directly involved in the negotiation the Necro gets away with "oh it looks like my lab experiment got loose. So sorry about that.
but you know how these things are.
Now, if you can keep your glowing murder hobo i from TOUCHING THINGS THAT DONT BELONG TO HIM, In MY Fucking House … we can go back to negotiating this peace agreement, yes? "
Daaaamn Dustin, you are good at shield juggling. O.O
@Alexey – you'll notice that the shield is absent in the second panel, on the right arm in the third, and on the left arm in the fourth. So yeah, juggling is the right word… and yes, very typical of most tables I've played at. It's always best not to ask how many hands someone thinks they've got…
No good deed shall go unpunished, I'm afraid. Sorry, man. 🙁
I just realized something, what are their character's names?
I'm really enjoying this arc!!! Happy Thanksgiving ^_^
While some of y'all may complain of the weapon/shield juggling, as a total dork, I wish to point out the cardinal sin that is NOT holding your shield in front of you when you do your smiting.
Shields don't work when they're not between you and the bad guys!
As to the juggling, though: realistically, I think what would happen is he would briefly sheathe the sword or pass it to his shield hand, then use the open hand to do Lay on Hands, then pass the sword back to his main hand and get some smite on. This could be very reasonable depending on what version of D&D they're playing and how many movements they've made (as some D&D lets you draw/sheathe weapons as part of movement, and he could be using a Hero Point / Action Point system to get extra actions in a single turn).
…Or, well, he could just be acting out over multiple turns. I could see this being a two turn thing.


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On the 30th of October we started a trip to Copenhagen, the exciting urban source of Danish culture and design, and, as we will find out during our stay there, a source of adventure. Weiterlesen
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T-Ducks in Row #120 – SMILE! New Richland College Photo Staff Directory to Launch Soon
WHAT? Does your Richland College Staff Directory photo date back to the Nixon administration? Does your photo resemble your prom night photograph? Does your image bear an uncanny resemblance to R. Mobius Thunderduck because you did not provide a photo? Can your colleagues and students even recognize you anymore? Well, now is your chance to change that!
WHO? If you are a full-time faculty member, professional support staff, or administrator, your directory information is included in the official online Richland College Staff Directory.
WHEN? A new, improved version of the Richland College Staff Directory will launch very soon, so you will want to give us your best shot with current information about your correct school/division, position title, office number, and telephone number. Once all information is updated, the new directory will be released college-wide.
WHY? A new online Staff Directory is part of a larger, responsive design website redesign that will be launched soon. In the meantime, in order to launch the new directory, we need your help making sure your information is up-to-date.
HOW? Please check your contact information by following these three easy steps:
1) Go to this URL in your browser: http://www.richlandcollege.edu/staff/
2) Start typing your name. As you type, your current information and photo will auto-fill.
3) Check to make sure your information is correct and the photo shown is the correct one.
HOW ELSE? If for some reason you are not listed in the directory or your contact information is incorrect, please email your updated information to firstname.lastname@example.com and the WebTeam will update it for you.
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Countdown to Nov. 3: Tetreau, Tymniak race heads into homestretch
The battle for Fairfield's top job is entering its last month, and while letters to the editor and lawn signs cross swords over the better candidate, the contest has become one of the more closely watched in the state.
Democrats aim to hold the first selectman's seat that their party has occupied since 2001, while Republicans — who control nearly all of the town's major boards and commissions — hope to parlay that advantage into victory.
The race to be decided Nov. 3 pits incumbent Democrat Michael Tetreau against Republican Chris Tymniak, a Representative Town Meeting member. While the Tymniak name is familiar locally because both of his parents served as a state representative, Chris Tymniak is a relative newcomer to the Fairfield political scene.
Tymniak, who previously has worked in the offices of several state GOP officials, is finishing his first two-year term on the RTM.
Tetreau, meanwhile, had served on the Board of Finance before being named to fill the first selectman's spot after Ken Flatto resigned four years ago. He ran that November and won his first four-year term as the town's chief executive. Prior to his time on the finance panel, Tetreau, 63, had served on the RTM and the Town Plan and Zoning Commission.
But Tymniak is no political neophyte. The 36-year-old recently left a job as chief administrative officer and personnel director for the city of Ansonia, a position he held for about two years. Prior to that he served as the director of Gov. M. Jodi Rell's Bridgeport office and as a legislative manager for the state Department of Motor Vehicles. He also owned his own political consulting firm, the Capitol Edge.
Adding to the drama of the contest is that the candidates' partisans are fairly evenly matched, at least based on the latest voter enrollment figures, with 10,423 registered Republicans and 10,024 registered Democrats in town. Unaffiliated voters, however, will likely play the key role in deciding the winner, outnumbering those in either political party at 15,127 in their ranks.
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Mike Tetreau
Age: 63
Address: Plesko Place
Personal background: Single; graduate of Roger Ludlowe High School, Princeton University; career in real estate
Public service: First selectman for four-plus years; served on town's Board of Finance, Representative Town Meeting and Town Plan and Zoning Commission
Top three campaign issues: Taxes, education/quality of life, and jobs and economic development
Chris Tymniak
Age: 36
Address: Old Mill Road
Personal background: Married, father of two children; graduate of Fairfield College Preparatory School, Springfield College
Public service: chief administrator, city of Ansonia; member of Representative Town Meeting, District 9
Top three campaign issues: Economy, education, and seniors
The recent threat by General Electric to leave its Easton Turnpike headquarters, as a result of a dispute with state officials over their tax policies, has nonetheless overshadowed the local campaign. In no small part because, with its headquarters valued at about $76.5 million, the corporate giant pays approximately $1.8 million in property taxes and many GE employees live and pay taxes in town.
Tymniak has repeatedly hammered Tetreau on the issue of GE's statements that it is considering a move elsewhere, saying he would be more aggressive in efforts to try to convince the business to stay.
"I would be meeting with the GE relocation team asking what exactly they are looking for and how Fairfield can become a better partner," said Tymniak, who faults Tetreau for not calling on fellow Democrat Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to veto that budget.
"That budget was the tipping point that prompted GE to make an unprecedented statement about relocating our of our town and state," Tymniak said. "The reality is, the first selectman decided not to be involved in this entire process."
Tynmiak said he would lobby the governor "aggressively" for a repeal of "anti-growth taxes, reducing excessive regulatory burdens, addressing the huge unfunded retirement obligations, and deteriorating infrastructure that are driving both companies and people out of our state. Fairfield residents need to know that they have a strong ally in pushing for needed changes in these and other key areas."
Not surprisingly, Tetreau disputes Tymniak's assessment.
When emotions were high following GE's announcement, "I immediately jumped in to talk to both sides, both representatives from the governor's office and from GE, to calm the emotions and open up the communications channels," Tetreau said. And since then, the first selectman said he's been a "key factor" in keeping communications moving forward.
"GE may eventually decide to leave town, but I have worked to help the state have their best chance at keeping them in Fairfield," Tetreau said.
Tymniak's comments, he said, are politicizing the issue for his self-interest and are not likely to help keep GE in Fairfield. "We should be working together to keep them in Fairfield," Tetreau said. "My opponent has suggested an approach of yelling at the governor or issuing demands that would not help solve the situation, especially as GE has asked to keep the rhetoric in check."
Tymniak said he would a business developer in the first selectman's office. "Clearly, we need to do more to attract new companies to Fairfield, as well as keep the ones we currently have. I understand that several state policies hurt us, but we also need to take steps to grow our tax base faster than the town budget."
For Tetreau, the only "real" solution is for the state to devise a plan to make Connecticut competitive for large and small companies every day. "The key to recovering this economy is more jobs," the first selectman said. "We need more job friendly policies and programs to compete against other states. And we need them now."
In addition to hiring a business developer, Tymniak said he would establish a business advisory panel made up of members of the community.
"Business should be telling us what challenges they see and we should be supporting them in any way we can," Tymniak said.
"This comment leads me to believe my opponent doesn't understand how the town of Fairfield works and also does not appear to have read our town charter," Tetreau said. "His initiative would be redundant and a duplication of expense. "
The town already has a community and economic development director, Tetreau said, who is "doing a superb job." According to Tetreau, the town has a low unemployment rate and a high commercial occupancy rate, one of the highest in Fairfield County. An economic strategic plan is being developed by the Economic Development Commission, he said.
Penfield Pavilion
Penfield Pavilion not only is an eyesore, not to mention a sore point, for many residents. The shoreline pavilion remains shuttered since it was undermined by Superstorm Sandy in 2012. Efforts to repair and reopen the pavilion have moved slowly, and the building committee is now leaning toward its original plan in order to bring the project in under the $6 million that has been budgeted. This means it is likely the pavilion could be out of commission for another season next summer.
"This building committee has done an amazing amount of work, including listening to members of our community and evaluating eleven different options," Tetreau said. "They really led us through a community decision with many different opinions — one of the most difficult tasks they faced."
He said FEMA's complex and confusing set of reimbursement guidelines didn't make things easier for town officials. "The objective has always been to do what is in Fairfield's best long-term interest. This is the guideline that I have asked the building committee to follow."
Tymniak said he would have a made a "swift decision" to rebuild the beach facility. "Communities up and down the eastern shoreline took and action and rebuilt immediately," he said. "In contrast, our first selectman stated, 'There is no timetable … It's not an urgent facility, from the town standpoint.'"
According to Tymniak, Penfield Pavilion "is the last uninhabitable building in the beach area." A drive through the neighborhoods off Fairfield Beach Road and the west end of Fairfield Beach Road, however, reveals there are still homes being elevated, repaired or completely rebuilt as a result of Sandy damage.
During a recent Penfield Building Committee meeting, Tymniak used social media to question why Tetreau was absent. "At the Penfield Building Committee. I'm puzzled as to why our First Selectman was not in attendance. It's looking like we won't have the Penfield Pavilion open for a fourth season. I commend the volunteers' work, but am so very disappointed in our lack of leadership from town hall," Tymniak posted on Facebook and also tweeted.
"He knows full well that I was at a Board of Selectman meeting being held at the same time — since he briefly attended our meeting," Tetreau said. "He is also very naïve if he does not realize that I am communicating with Building Committee chair, Jim Bradley, and CFO, Bob Mayer, frequently to review the updates and options facing the building committee. "
Taxes, taxes, taxes
As many candidates before him have done, Tymniak has said he will lower taxes.
"I've done it as a city administrator," he said. "Many of our neighboring towns have done it, and even Hartford had a zero increase last year. It would send a message that we are open for business."
Tymniak said many other towns have reduced spending and that has allowed them to lower taxes. "I will work tirelessly to make Fairfield a more business friendly town and actively work to recruit businesses," he said. "I will grow the grand list rather than continue to 'reduce the tax increases' on our homeowners."
Ansonia has seen decreases in its mill rate for the last two years. This year the mill rate declined 1 mill. In both years, money from surplus was used to fund the budget. This year, $2 million was taken from the "rainy day" fund which the city's mayor had said rose to about 17 percent of its budget, the previous year it was $550,000. Most towns carry the recommended 7 to 10 percent for a rainy day fund.
He also said taxpayers should know that Tetreau does not pay property taxes, "yet asks us to bear the burden of his budgets every year." Tetreau, who returned to town in 1995 to work in real estate, lives in a rental home.
"My recent budget went through the Board of Selectmen, Board of Finance with a Republican majority and the RTM with a Republican majority with virtually no changes," Tetreau said. "Importantly, my opponent hasn't suggested a single change to either of my last two budgets. Even though he did not vote on (the 2014-15) budget since he missed that budget vote, he did support and vote in favor of my budget proposal this year."
Tetreau said the budget allowed the town to include full funding for the school system and security upgrades, full funding for the libraries, full funding for long-term liabilities, more paving, increased sidewalk maintenance, expanded senior center programs, more public works vehicles, increased support for school nurses, the Conservation Department and Finance Department.
"And rather than kick the can down the road or defer expenses to a future date, I worked closely with each of our department managers to get more done with less," Tetreau said. "Fairfield's tax increases have been reduced each year resulting in the lowest tax increase in 15 years."
On the campaign trail
Tetreau said one of the reasons he enjoys campaigning is meeting people. "A campaign is all about meeting people," he said. "One of the best parts of being first selectman is all the people you meet."
He said the feedback he's received has been positive and enthusiastic.
"The people really appreciate how much we have accomplished, including restoring our top AAA rating to supporting education, school security, expanding programs for seniors, restoring library funding, saving Pequot Library and the Southport Post Office, reducing costs for pensions, health care, workers compensation, building the Fairfield Metro station and cleaning up Mill River," Tetreau said. "We have accomplished all this in one of the worst economies in our lifetime while at the same time keeping tax increases to a 15-year low."
Democratic Town Committee Chairwoman Heather Dean said the Tetreau/Marmion campaigns are in full swing.
"Everyone is working hard to meet voters through canvassing and phone banking," Dean said. "The response has been fantastic. The majority of voters spoken with are overall pleased with First Selectman Tetreau and Selectman Marmion's performance thus far."
She said while the decision is ultimately up to the voters, "our reports say it will be Team Tetreau."
Tymniak and his running mate, Laurie McArdle, a fellow RTM member — the GOP dumped incumbent Selectman Kevin Kiley — have been walking door to door since early June, he said.
"The more our team meet with residents, the more our platform of lower taxes and a more efficient and responsive government is well received across party lines — because this election is not about Republicans or Democrats," Tymniak said. "It's about Fairfield. And Fairfield deserves better."
Tymniak recently received the endorsement of former Gov. M. Jodi Rell, for whom he used to work. It was one of two campaign appearances Rell is making this year — the other was for her son.
At what was billed as a "community rally," Rell said of Tymniak, "I only go for people I respect and I know can do a good job ... I've seen his work and I've seen his work ethic."
Republican Town Committee Chairman James Millington told the crowd at the event, "This year is going to be a major year of change to Fairfield."


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Yay Ami!
My friend Ami got a PR in the Monumental Half Marathon this weekend! What makes this special (besides the fact that it's not really normal for human beings to force their bodies to run for 13.1 miles unless something is chasing them)?
It's special because AMI is special. She's special (in addition to many other reasons) because she's an ordinary mama like me and like lots of you. She's special because every time she trains for and enters and runs and finishes a race, she reminds us all that we can do it too, if we want to! The fact that she rocked the course with a PR (personal record~don't I just sound like a Real Runner who knows all the lingo?) is over-the-top Awesome!
So today I'm celebrating Ami's success. And the efforts of all the mamas out there who lace up their shoes and hit the pavement, the trail, or the track, day after day, for their own reasons. Including you.
[Note: If Ami gives me permission/information, I'll post her time and pics here. Otherwise, give the girl some privacy and save your requests for autographs for when she's recovered!]


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Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical-romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds.
It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to "talkies."
In English, with English subtitles, 103 mins.


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I have less to lose and,
I have less to lose.
I'm short-
dated stock.
Damaged but
might make a nice accessory
to your ego
or your diversity quota.
I'll play the disability card
if it gives you a moral hard-on
pity me.
Let me be your
inspirational story
two-dimensional trope
a point to measure
it could be worse
a narrative so deeply internalised
this must be what they mean by
having a spare rib.
The black bib
to hide the blood
adorned on me at birth
My bread and butter.
Wash it down with
intense feelings of isolation, and
all the times I made
out of mountains.
I grew up knowing
I'm pretty
as long as I don't speak.
I speak anyway.
and let's face it
I do have to be better than
meet someone new and,
hope they see
polished Instagram selfie
I walk in and,
that ship has already sailed.
Hashtag nofilter.
I don't need you anyway
denial is my best friend
and we go
way, way, back.
I remember thinking
I can't be
stupid and fat
I remember thinking
I'm not stupid
I remember thinking
it's ok if I'm pretty?
(Yeah I bet you didn't mean it that way.)
Is that self-esteem or denial talking?
all the times I spoke
you mouthed words back at me.
patronising hand-hold
makes my skull turn inside out.
Shove those words down my throat baby,
spoon-feed me while you're at it.
Cerebral palsy didn't make me blind.
Wash it down with
violets for breakfast
and this
homogenised breastmilk
I am weening myself of
I am starving myself of
maybe if I get small enough
they won't notice my speech.
I could probably take
a selfie
that would make me look good enough.
just look how big
your body looks
next to mine.
Throw me around babe
I'm the perfect combination of
with low self-esteem.
I'm your dream girl.
Wash it down with
red wine
the natural healing properties
of turpentine,
and memories
of when your father taught you
the most humane thing to do
with an injured bird
is to break its neck.


text: Matthew was born and raised in Houston, Texas and attended the United States Military Academy where he graduated with honors with a B.S. in Systems Engineering in 2014. Upon graduation he commissioned as an Engineer Officer and was first stationed at Fort Hood with the 1st Cavalry Division. As an Officer in the U.S. Army he served as a Platoon Leader, Executive Officer, Human Resources Officer, and an Aide-de-Camp in assignments spanning Texas, South Korea, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Matthew will be pursuing his MBA at Rice University's Jones School of Business as a member of the Class of 2021.


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Photos: So What?! Music FestivalMarch 28, 2016 | By Maysa Askar
idobi photographer Penelope Martinez covered the So What?! Music Festival in Grand Prairie, TX.
Seven more acts join Vans Warped Tour 2015 line upFebruary 11, 2015 | By Emillie Marvel
It's that time of the week again! The Vans Warped Tour announcement is in, and this week the legendary touring festival is adding Emarosa (6/19-7/12), Mod Sun, PUP (7/1-7/29), '68, The Karma Killers, and MC Lars to its line up.
Tuesday Ten: Musician MugshotsOctober 14, 2014 | By idobi Staff
While Lil Wayne has, to the best of my knowledge, spent around 70% of his career so far behind bars, you don't need to share his level of passion for drugs and weapon possession to end up in an orange jumpsuit. In this week's Tuesday Ten, we look at some of the other crimes that have landed musicians behind the ever-so-flattering lens of the mugshot camera.
Yellowcard announce album details, new singleAugust 12, 2014 | By Hannah Pierangelo
Yellowcard have officially announced the art and track listing for their upcoming album 'Lift A Sail.' The album will be released in September with the band's new label, Razor & Tie.
Emarosa planning September release for VersusJuly 22, 2014 | By Eleanor Grace
It looks like Emarosa's long-awaited new album Versus is slated for a September 9th release. Vocalist Bradley Walden dropped the news when we spoke with him on the APMAS red carpet last night.
Go Radio announces East Coast tour datesJanuary 14, 2011 | By Jamie McGrath
Florida four-piece Go Radio will be lighting up the East Coast with Chiodos and Emarosa this February.


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Voters in the San Juan Islands will decide in November whether a half-percent Real Estate Excise Tax (REET) will be imposed for 12 years with proceeds going to affordable housing projects. The ballot measure authorizes the REET for 12 years - from December 2018 through 2030. The buyer would pay 99 percent of the REET, the seller would pay one percent.
If you have questions about the proposed affordable housing REET, the League of Women Voters is holding a forum from 12 noon to 2 p.m. Monday, September 10 at the San Juan Island Grange in Friday Harbor. Ryan Page, San Juan County affordable housing coordinator; Steve Ulvi, Yes for Homes Coalition; and Steve Buck, owner of Coldwell Banker SJI will be there to answer questions.
According to information posted on the county's website, an estimated $15.2 million is expected to be collected in the 12 years. It is to be used for development of affordable housing including acquisiton, building, rehabilitation, and maintenance for very low, low, and moderate income persons and those with special needs.
The legislation which allows an affordable housing REET limits the tax to counties that have imposed a land conservation REET at the maximum rate and the tax was imposed by January 1, 2003.
San Juan County's one percent Land Bank tax meets this criteria. The Land Bank REET - one percent tax paid by purchasers - was originally approved in 1990, renewed for an additional 12 years until 2014. Voters approved by a 442 vote margin a 12-year extension in November 2011. That vote renewed the REET for a third 12-year period. It expires in 2026.
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Sam jones Saturday, 06 October 2018 07:16 Comment Link
Who's going to pay for new streets,water systems,sewer,electric and trash pick up? Will they be built for people with disabilites? It's already been stated that it costs 45% more to build on the islands since Jan. Taxand spend wellcome to the islands.Report
Sam jones Monday, 01 October 2018 07:09 Comment Link
Let the vacation rental people pay 2% seems that they brought on this problemReport


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Release Date: Oct 30, 2015
Record label: ATO
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative Country-Rock, Southern Rock
Halfway through the Drive-By Truckers' new live record, Patterson Hood abruptly stops singing four minutes into "Goode's Field Road", a dark song with a paint-by-numbers Truckers premise: a junkyard operator makes some bad decisions and ends up committing suicide to avoid being sent to jail. "He was a god-fearing man, he was a family man, he was a hardworking man, trying to raise his family and support everybody the best he could in difficult times and a troubled economy in North Alabama," Hood says, now preaching in front of the band's minor-chord sludge. By the time Hood finishes expounding on various histories—social, economic, cultural—of his beloved Lauderdale County, the reason for his very un-rock 'n' roll professorial digression becomes clear: sometimes a story can't be told in just a song.
One of the reasons the Drive-By Truckers have matured into one of America's finest rock & roll bands is ambition; they're solid players and write great songs, but just as important, they take storytelling seriously, and when they make an album, they strive to do more than just serve up a bunch of new songs. Most DBT releases aren't specifically concept albums, but nearly all of them have a thematic consistency in which the individual songs cohere into a larger framework. With this in mind, it makes sense that the band would want to do something more elaborate than the run-of-the-mill live disc, and 2015's It's Great to Be Alive!, recorded during a three-night stand at the the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, California in the fall of 2014, is an oversized (over three hours on three CDs or five LPs) look at the band's body of work so far, with a set list that reaches back before the beginning ("Runaway Train" was a tune Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley cut for their pre-DBT band Adam's House Cat) all the way up to English Oceans, the album the group released just a few months before these shows.
Drive-By TruckersIt's Great To Be Alive!(ATO)Rating: 4 out of 5 stars "Every night is important. Every show should be played like it's the most important show we'll ever perform … Play it like we might die before morning. Play it like it's the last show we'll ever get to play. It just might be." That's co-founder/co-frontman Patterson Hood writing in this live album's liner notes.
Four decades removed from Cheap Trick at Budokan, Frampton Comes Alive! and Alive! from Kiss, the age of the live album holding cultural currency has long passed. While these landmark albums helped introduce the artists to larger audiences, the "live" aspect of these releases has always been a false conceit. Consisting of songs recorded on multiple nights, at various venues or even during a span of months, these long-treasured artifacts are more a collection of curated live takes mixed and mastered with the aim of painting the bands in the most positive light.
Three-hour compilation of the roots-rockers' Frisco residency As their 25th anniversary approaches, Georgian dustbowl rockers Drive-By Truckers have tunnelled their way deep into the quarry mine of the earthy Americana tradition with their constant touring and songs of poker-playing devils, whisky-swigging women, simple mountain folk and good Christian farmers murdering grasping moneymen the length of tornado country. .
Where once bands like the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd provided the template for the so-called Southern Rock sound, today's generation of resident rockers from below the Mason Dixon line is far more contentious than ever before. Take the Drive-By Truckers for example. In 2001, they released their classic opus Southern Rock Opera, a fictional account of a southern rock band dubiously dubbed Betamax Guillotine, a group whose ill-fated trajectory clearly recalled that of Lynyrd Skynyrd.


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Álvaro Varela Walker is a Chilean attorney and human rights activist. He was born in 1951.
Varela studied law at the University of Chile. He became student body president and was active in politics. He supported Salvador Allende, a leftist who was elected president of Chile in 1970. In 1973, Allende's government was overthrown by a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. As the universities in Chile came under control of Pinochet's military regime, he was expelled.
In 1974, he began working as an attorney for the Committee for Cooperation for Peace, an ecumenical initiative of the Catholic Church to catalog and defend against human rights abuses committed by the dictatorship. In 1976, Pope Paul VI established the Vicariate of Solidarity (La Vicaría de la Solidaridad) under the leadership of the Archdiocese of Santiago, where Varela continued his human rights work. In addition to publicly denouncing the human rights abuses of the regime, the Vicariate provided legal assistance to 250,000 Chileans and became a target of the military government.
After the restoration of democracy in 1989, Varela served as a member of the Valech Commission (the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture Report) chaired by Catholic Bishop Sergio Valech, which investigated the human rights record of the Pinochet regime. The Commission found that there were more than 38,000 people detained by the regime. The Valech Commission built on the work of an earlier Rettig Report, which had determined that more than 2,200 people were executed by the Pinochet regime. The Valech Commission provided an accounting of the abuses of the military regime, as well as determining reparations to its victims.
In November of 1974, I was kidnapped by a unit of the DINA [National Intelligence Directorate], commanded by Osvaldo Romo Mena, who is responsible for at least 250 missing detainees in Chile. He was a torturer. He was even singled out (it was a singular case in human rights history) and named in one of the resolutions of the General Assembly of the United Nations as a torturer.
[The Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (English: National Intelligence Directorate) or DINA was the Chilean secret police in the government of Augusto Pinochet.] [Osvaldo Romo (1938 – 2007) was an agent of the Chilean Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) from 1973 to 1990, during the rule of Augusto Pinochet. He was tried and convicted of kidnapping by a Chilean court.]
As part of a huge battalion made up of members of the DINA, he kidnapped me in November of 1974 from the home of my parents, where I lived. I had begun criminal charges against him because I had identified him as a participant in a series of kidnappings. They were kidnappings; they were not arrests because there was no legality, no formality.
During one of those kidnappings he had raped someone. So I had initiated criminal charges against Osvaldo Romo Mena for that rape.
Shortly after he kidnapped me, he drove me to one of the DINA'S torture centers, located in a residential sector of Santiago, where I was [held] for approximately forty hours. The purpose of the kidnapping was to mount a plan, using me against Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez, the head of the Chilean Catholic Church.
[Raúl Silva Henríquez, (1907 –1999) was a Chilean Cardinal of the Catholic Church.]
During those forty hours the mistreatment and torture was constant. I was prepared to be executed by a firing squad. For several hours a gun barrel was pointed at my forehead, next to my forehead, etc.
I was in the torture chamber. I was severely beaten and tortured. At some point, the plan that had been designed against Cardinal Silva Henríquez for which they had kidnapped me was changed or was dropped and I was released.
The dictatorship never acknowledged that I had been detained. I was the first of those of us who were in the human rights legal defense team to be kidnapped and tortured. The Catholic Church's response was very strong and powerful, achieving its goal of freeing me.
Chile is a narrow country of over 17 million citizens on the western coast of South America. Economically, Chile is regarded as a developed country, with the highest per capita gross domestic product in Latin America. The country is rich in resources, including excellent conditions for agriculture and has vast mineral deposits, especially copper.
Spanish conquistadors led by Pedro de Valdivia conquered Chile in 1541. The country's capital, Santiago, was founded in the same year. Throughout the 277 years of Spanish rule, there was resistance by indigenous groups, such as the Mapuche.
In the early 19th century, an independence movement began in Chile with the establishment of a national front. The front maintained power from 1810 until 1814, when Spain reestablished control of the colony. Many leaders of the pro-independence movement reorganized in Argentina. In 1817, the exiled rebel independence leaders regained control of Chile and formally declared independence on February 12, 1818.
While initially under the leadership of authoritarian General Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile later established a tradition of democratic rule that largely continued until the 1970s. In 1970, prominent Marxist leader Salvador Allende won power in democratic elections. While the economy initially boomed under Allende, domestic opposition and international pressure, especially from the United States, led to increasing difficulties for the government.
On September 11, 1973, a military coup overthrew Allende and installed General Augusto Pinochet as president. Allende committed suicide as troops advanced on the presidential palace.
The sixteen years of Pinochet's military dictatorship were marked by significant human rights violations and the abolishment of civil liberties. The dictatorship jailed dissidents, prohibited strikes, and dissolved the national congress and political parties. Thousands were tortured and killed; many more were forced into political exile.
In 1980, the Pinochet regime promulgated a new constitution. It included a provision calling a referendum in 1988, allowing voters a yes or no vote on whether to prolong Pinochet's tenure as president. The referendum campaign saw massive opposition efforts to encourage voter turnout, with nearly the entire democratic opposition united against the military government. While the Pinochet regime belatedly began making reforms, 56 percent of the population voted "no" to continuing the dictatorship, setting the stage for a return to civilian rule.
In 1989, Chilean democracy was fully restored by a democratic election to choose a new president, the first free election in nearly twenty years.
Since the return to democracy, Chile has implemented significant economic and political reforms, including a free trade agreement with the United States. Although there have been major strides in promoting equality and human freedoms, the human rights violations of Pinochet's dictatorship still haunt many people. The Rettig and Valech Reports investigated and documented the human rights violations and torture under Pinochet's government, but many Chileans continue to demand greater accountability for those responsible.
Freedom House's 2014 Freedom in the World report categorized Chile as "free" with an overall freedom rating of one, with one being the freest and seven being the least. The country also received ratings of one in political rights and civil liberties. However, in the 2014
Freedom of the Press report, the nation was categorized as "party free" due to a lack of diversity in the media.


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Penned in - The beginning
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He checked WhatsApp again but no reply from the Ex. The message he'd sent days ago was still unread. That solitary little tick icon next to the text told him so. He felt so lousy.
She'd left him, said she was happy and that unhappiness wasn't the reason for their breakup but he knew that wasn't true. He had spent countless hours mentally replaying scenes from their time together, realising it was the drinking that had ended their relationship. His casual but heavy boozing had been an end to what felt like a good relationship. It had been a beautiful relationship. They'd done so much together. They'd shared so many happy times but many also spent with him hungover or slurring his words after some day drinking with mates. She had seemed happy but she hadn't been had she? She really hadn't.
He felt empty without her. There was physical pain emphasised by emotional anguish. He missed her so much, but it was how she had ended it, lovingly and abruptly. The final line of her message: "Goodbye, Kellan. I hope you find happiness."
He thought he had.
Two months passed and the reply never came and nor did any other romances. Kellan lay on his bed. He was still fully clothed and too tired to do anything about it.
Work had been a real struggle; that last call he'd taken had been unnecessarily harsh. He wasn't directly responsible for the IT system that had failed but the irate team manager on the other end of the line had lambasted him as if he was. He had remained professional and polite to keep his job but customers like her seriously damaged the incentive to remain employed. His negative thoughts grew.
"You live with your parents still! You're not moving on in your job, your crappy, crappy job and you lost a beautiful relationship. YOU messed it up royally and now she won't speak to you. She was the one you know! Worse you cannot even get out of this thinking to talk to that cute girl in the cafe, the one with the beautiful hazel eyes. You're losing at life, mate, you really are."
Such miserable thinking was best resolved with a short nap. It was only 6pm but he felt knackered. Stale adrenaline kept jolting him awake but the slumber was inevitable and several minutes later he was asleep in the safety of his room in his parent's house. He was lying on his bed over the duvet while being watched by something in the same room near the foot of his bed.
Kellan started to snore.
Dreams are wondrous, aren't they? You can be taken from your bed to anywhere in this world, or any other you care to imagine. You are limited only by a limitless imagination. They are a point in time when our actions have little consequence.
Kellan dreamt about work.
When he woke up he had an unpleasant sweaty feeling from falling asleep fully clothed. It was completely dark which was disorientating and he was struggling to focus on a familiar piece of the room. There was some strange noise going on around him but he thought that was just the central heating making a racket. Things seemed unusual. After a couple of minutes, his eyes appeared to be working and this place really didn't look like the room he fell asleep in. Did he wake up and move somewhere else? This was a different room in the house, right? He found his mind starting to race and yet stalled at the memory of where he fell asleep. Wherever he was now was not right. Really not right at all.
Kellan was really starting to panic. He was not lying down but was seated and not on his own bed. Now he was sat somewhere unknown on a piece of furniture his body was not accustomed to. Somewhere nearby was this loud roar of a noise which wasn't helping the unsettling pressure that was growing within his head. His heart was racing, he felt dizzy and sick as adrenaline started to course through his veins. Was this the descent into madness or a stroke! Oh good God, he did not want it to be a stroke.
Then light hit his eyes and the shock made his shoulders go rigid. His chest lit up as his heart went into overdrive. The shock surged through his body pinning him into the chair in which he now knew he was sat. A multitude of thoughts raced through his mind while he scanned for familiarity and any immediate threat. He was sat on a train. It was the carriage of a train.
This helped calm him, as there were much worse places to find yourself and at least this place was cushioned. Still dazed, he tried to establish why he might be there. Had he taken something before sleep which had affected his memory recall? Why was he here? Maybe he was forgetting some recent trip he'd planned. Maybe he was now heading to visit some old friends he'd tried and failed to keep regular contact with. Maybe having made plans with them one drunken night. That made more sense, although wasn't this a weeknight and who had he last spoken to that lived a train journey away?
The carriage was empty save for himself, and was impeccably clean.
Peering out the window he could see the train travelling along a huge truss arch bridge arcing to the left. There was no sign of the ground below, just a thick mist. It was celestial. Maybe this was Switzerland, he thought. That had looked pretty fairy-tale-like in the online brochures he had once glanced through. Then things took a startling turn. As he followed the carriages with his eyes through the window, he gazed at the front of the train and it was not normal. There were no wheels, no compartment, and nothing like you would normally expect. It was more like the jet stream left behind by a rocket or aerial formation jet plane; a white beam of light with a stream of swirling cloud hurtling through the air, spinning, diving and whirling around. What was unsettling was the track only appearing after this orb had passed over the area it should be. This stream blended into carriages seamlessly. The effect was easy on the eye, beautiful, and hard to process. His emotions were stuck between panic and wonder.
Was this a lucid dream? What exactly was a lucid dream anyway!
His inquisitive thinking was short-lived as the train began a sudden, unexpected and rapid descent. The hair on the back of his neck stood on end and his stomach lifted as he experienced what felt like being in a plane trapped in a nose-dive. The train continued to hurtle downward at break-neck speed for what seemed like a lifetime. Kellan's white knuckles nearly burst through the skin around them as he clutched at his chair to stop himself getting flung about like a rag doll. The train would swing violently from side to side like an agitated crocodile still on its crazy descent, which convinced Kellan these were his final moments.
This was messed up and he wished he was somewhere else. He felt foolish and was now regretting those long drawn out nights in the pub with the same set of mates, unable to socialise with other people; telling again those same conversations and jokes. At this point, he knew he would rather be there than here in this uncertain circumstance. It cannot have been long, but the uncertainty made it feel a lifetime had passed, before the train settled, having levelled with the ground and soon after began to reduce its speed coming to a stop. Once stopped, the undeniable sound of doors opening was heard and Kellan took his cue vacating the train gladly and shakily.
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Dr. J. Zimmerman, chiropractor discusses bio-oxidative treatments for viral infections. Plus, Pregnancy care during CoVid-19 Pandemic
Back pain is perhaps one of the most common health complaints across the globe. Worldwide, 1 in 10 people suffer from lower back pain, and it's the No. 1 cause of job disability. Low back pain (LBP) is typically preceded by some form of injury or strain, such as lifting an object or twisting while holding something heavy, operating vibrating machinery; car collisions, or falls. Prolonged sitting is also on this list, which may explain why simply standing up more is part of the solution in many cases. There are a number of tests used to diagnose LBP, as well as a number of ways to manage such pain. This includes: controlling inflammation, restoring range of motion, improving muscle strength and endurance, coordination training and cardiovascular reconditioning, maintaining an exercise program. As you can see from the list above, the emphasis is on exercise. Indeed movement appears to be the most effective strategy to address most forms of back pain, not just LBP. Most people automatically want to "baby" the pain and avoid moving about as much as possible, but this may actually be contraindicated in most cases. Sciatic nerve pain is another common problem. Sciatica results when your sciatic nerve gets pinched in your lower back, but the pain is typically felt as originating in your buttock, radiating down your thigh. Stretching exercises can be helpful here as well. Your sciatic nerve runs through your piriformis, a muscle located deep in your butt cheeks. If the piriformis gets too tight, it can impinge the sciatic nerve, causing pain, tingling, and numbness in your leg. Sometimes, stretching your piriformis may be enough to reduce the pain. In addition, deep massage of the piriformis muscle as done with a foam roller is also very helpful. Many studies have confirmed that chiropractic management is much safer and less expensive than allopathic medical treatments, especially when used for back pain. Qualified chiropractic physicians are reliable, as they have received extensive training in the management of musculoskeletal disorders during their course of graduate healthcare training, which lasts between four to six years. A chiropractor's gentle adjustments either performed by hand or instrument are designed to put motion in the spinal joints, removing joint fixations, balancing muscle asymmetry and decreasing irritations placed on the spinal nerves. This allows the injured muscle tissue to heal at a much faster rate than if left alone for nature to take its course. Chiropractic care's greatest virtue, as far as back pain goes, is the balancing of the spinal muscles. Balanced spinal muscles bring stability to the spine. The more stable your back muscles are, the less chance of re-injury. This is one of the reasons why people use chiropractic care on a regular periodic basis, sort of like a dental cleaning appointment.
One of the most common complaints during pregnancy is lower back pain. Typical medical treatment for lower back pain is non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen and Tylenol. Chiropractic care is a natural fit for pregnancy related lower back pain, as chiropractic is 100% drug free and harmless to the pregnant mother and unborn child.
Dr. J. Zimmerman is a practicing chiropractor in Smithville, NJ. Dr. Zimmerman has over 30 years of chiropractic, health, nutrition and exercise experience
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Ryan Walker began sharing his passion for the outdoors and experiences in nature in 2003 as co-host of the radio program, Walker's Outdoor Obsession. That initial foray into outdoor communication opened the door to an outdoor writing career that has spanned the past 12 years. Walker's writing includes topics related to hunting, fishing, trapping, habitat maintenance and improvement, camping, canoeing, and introducing youth to the great outdoors. In addition to these topics, his main focus is wild game cooking. Backwoods Buffet and The Tall Tale Café have been featured in publications such as Midwest Hunting and Fishing magazine and The Outdoor Obsession in the Tuscola County Advertiser. His work can also be found in his monthly outdoor column in The Lakeshore Guardian, as well as freelance articles for Woods-N-Water News and the Tuscola County Advertiser. Additional past writing experience includes weekly news and features for the Cass City Chronicle.
Walker has been the featured keynote speaker for various outdoor groups and events. He has been an active member of the Michigan Outdoor Writers Association (MOWA) since 2006, and currently serves on the MOWA board and is the Nominations co-chairman. When not spending time chasing outdoor pursuits with his wife, Rebecca, and their three children: Hugh, Claire, and Oliver, he can be found creating new wild game recipes and experimenting with different styles of cooking. Walker's 16 years as a high school English teacher allows him to share his love of writing and outdoor interests with his students.


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Snow in Late Winter
The weather forecasts all through yesterday
were rolled up into children's dreams of snow
to close the schools and turn them loose to play
among these clouds come down to earth. It's slowed
the adult world to a slippery, skidding halt:
we're left to shovel, scrape, commute, arrive
late to work and tell the boss the snow's at fault—
"I struggled just to make it down the drive…"
Now pause and hear the void between the scrapes'
clanging. Hear how each passing car drone dies—
how muffled all sounds are. Nothing escapes
this damping down of human enterprise.
Snow-ridged branches reach the low-slung sky
where white meets gray, merging imperceptibly.
Wild rose shoots push out
over drooping, yellowed stalks;
Blackcaps dart through the thicket
peeping in the sun;
Seagulls wheel and squawk
with more vigor than the hunt for food demands
while the swan begins her nest
far too near the road.
And still the crocus in her bulbous wisdom
waits beneath the ground
here in hibernal New England.
From the Outer Reaches of Macomb County, Michigan
He sits and sips his morning coffee,
pulling out the letter from their son
from the pocket of his robe. Vacantly
he looks out through the picture window
down the hill and off across the yellow lawn,
through subdivisions carved
from hillside orchards,
crossed now by streets with names
like Jonathan, Duchess, and Patty Ann.
Some time ago there was, he thinks,
a cornfield just across the street
and thinks, with some more certainty,
that not so long ago their street was dirt.
Since then, along the drainage ditch
a strip mall has sprouted up. He grunts
and rises from his chair and turns;
his eyes catch,
and scan the yard. He sees
that vines have crept in from the lot next door,
and that the branches last month's hailstorm
brought down still lie splayed or end-in
where they fell. He sees the scruffy lawn
where leaves whirl indolently.
He sees the adjoining beds now overrun by weeds
and tonsured, spent chrysanthemums
with stems keeled down on the railroad tie retaining wall
long splintered and gone soft. He sees his dangling
hammock rotted down to strings,
now flitting in the chilly breeze. He sees the mailbox,
rusted and bleeding from its rivets,
its red flag fallen and lying in the stubble
beside the warping wooden post. He sees
the white enameled gaslamp
half-swallowed by the Douglas fir, a mere sapling
back when they'd moved in.
Up closer to the house
along the patchy gravel drive he sees the cars,
with their accumulated chips and dings
and, ungaraged for years, their milky cataract veneer—
three cars for the two of them,
though he's the only one who drives these days.
He wonders when his son will come and get the third.
The letter says he's just about to get
the cash to get a place where he can settle in and work on it.
Nearer still he sees
the picture window's leaky edge
with drops of condensation pressed
between the plates of glass.
The gasket around the plate glass has
given way, he sees,
and supposes that he ought to get
to fixing it before winter sets in.
He considers this a while, then rises.
He balances the letter on his empty cup,
and pads his way along the hall
to draw his morning bath.
Mark Bauer's poems have appeared in over twenty literary journals as well as two chapbooks, Imperial Days (Robert L. Barth Publishing, 2002) and The Gnarled Man Rises (Scienter Press, 2005). His poems have merited Honorable Mention recognition from the Thomas Merton Institute Poetry of the Sacred Prize and the Southwest Review's Marr Poetry Prize. He is professor emeritus of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and have published over 200 scientific articles and six books, including the anthology, A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, & Addiction (Oxford University Press, 2009).
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Security Marking for Smaller Items & Equipment
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These items and equipment while small in size often hold very important information and are also valuable company assets, should they be lost, misplaced or stolen the impact on business can be highly negative.
It makes business sense to mark your assets in a permanent way so hat it is clearly visible that they belong to your company, however finding asset labels small enough to marking these items can be a challenge.
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At Dantech we work hard to find the best asset labelling and marking solutions for our customers and have a number of solutions to help businesses keep track of smaller items and equipment.
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These asset labels use a high-performance industrial adhesive suitable for most surfaces. The text and information are engraved into the surface giving a permanent high contrast, durable and tamperproof image suitable for all environments.
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These labels incorporate a 2D Data Matrix or QR code to identify and track property and to record calibrations and maintenance information in 1/10 of the space of traditional barcodes - and it is still readable even if more than half the label is damaged! A 10mm diameter asset label can contain 50+ digits
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Here's some handy fishing tips to keep in mind as you plan your Fly Fishing trip in the Great Smoky Mountains. This list will help you discover some "tricks" as you deal with wild trout, born and raised here, and some of the other fish popular in the area! Before leaving for your trip, be sure you have a license!
1. Looking for Smallmouth Bass? Find streams that are deeper and have slow moving currents. These streams are generally rocky at the bottom, and have boulders. A good place to fish for Smallmouth Bass will generally be within a few miles of the West Prong. Eagle Creek, and Noland Creek near Fontana Lake are also good areas for finding Smallmouth Bass.
2. Abrams Creek is another good area to find the Smallmouth Bass. The reason most people don't fish here because it's harder to access.
3. Keep in mind the Smoky Mountain National Park Regulations that allow no more than five Smallmouth Bass to be caught at a time. These should measure at least 7 inches in length. Anything smaller should be returned to the streams immediately. Read more about this by going to "Fishing Trips."
Abrams Creek is home to two endangered fish types, and two threatened fish types. These are Smoky Madtom, (endangered) Duskytailed Darter,(endangered) Yellowfin Madtom,(threatened) and Spotfin Chub. (threatened) These fish range in size any where from 3 to 5 inches long.
Basic tips for catching these fish are generally the same ones used to catch other kinds of fish. Have the right equipment, wear clothing for fly-fishing and obey all rules and regulations.
The tips I've listed here are for fish that are most popular to the area. There are over 50 species of fish in the Great Smoky Mountain streams! I hope this page has been beneficial in helping you catch lots of fish while vacationing in our area.


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Kool Kidz Mill Park Beetlebugs Enjoy Their Lunch in the Dining Room.
Today in the Beetlebugs room we had lunch in the dining room.
This is a follow up from an observation from Ellis and Ava who were imitating to have a tea party out in the yard one afternoon and were having cake.
The children went down in groups of four as we are doing progressive lunches.
Some children that were a little unsure about leaving the room, their friends held their hands to reassure them it was ok (Ellis and Aurora).
The children enjoyed a delicious lunch which was "Shanghai style stir fry" made by Liam.
We were very settled eating in a new environment and we are working on their independent skills by scraping their plates when finished their meals. After our delicious lunch we went in small groups back to the room for our rest time.
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Almost half of the US would not be able to cover a $400 emergency.
Around 40% have credit card debt. And 1/3 of Americans have saved $0 for retirement.
If we want our kids to survive these financial trip hazards and truly thrive, we need to start their financial education early. Our guest today, Liz Frazier, is a leader in the financial literacy movement and she's helping parents teach their young children about money as soon as possible.
Liz is a fee-only certified financial planner and the author of Beyond Piggy Banks and Lemonade Stands, How to Teach Young Kids About Finance. She is a regular contributor for Forbes and has been featured in national media such as The Wall Street Journal, PBS, CNBC, ABC and Fox Radio. Liz lives in New York with her husband and two young kids.
We'll be discussing how to get started with educating your kids about money, how to help children determine needs versus wants and how to encourage them to be grateful and appreciate what they have.


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I started my Pokemon card collecting back during the Wizards of the Coast days of Pokemon. Back when each expansion pack had first edition versions of the cards. And it was always a very high demand for collectors to rush out and go get all the first edition packs. Now a day's Nintendo's Pokemon cards don't come with first edition versions for collectors the only rush I see is just collecting them all without any special versions aside from when there is an error mistake but this happens much less often and we don't get official posts about errors made which kind of makes us wonder whether these are legit or whether people are making fake cards to scam the market.
So with that being said I'm kind of curious what the average collector thinks. Do you think that Wizards of the Coast tailored more to the actual collector I mean so far I have not seen any of the newer Nintendo Expansion card prices really go above $60 dollars which if you look at the Base Set or the Neo Destiny sets most of the first edition cards go for much more then that on average.
I feel like by Nintendo not actually having a first edition expansion it kind of makes collectors kind of feel like the later expansions might not end up being as valuable since they are not being made with the collectors needs in mind. They are printing much more packs then normal making the value of the cards much less. Which I see a whole lot less collectors actually going after them. Yet it is a good thing for the people playing the card game since then they don't have to worry about being forced to play with a first edition card which is worth $100 or more dollars.
The other thing that bugs me about all of the new expansions they haven't seemed to stop printing them. They have much longer printing runs for cards. They keep printing as long as it's selling and many stores end up with expansions that are more then a year old. I remember back when base set was out the first edition's where gone within a very short time and then as soon as they printed the next expansion the last expansion was stopped.
Don't get me wrong I'm not telling you not to collect at all cause at the end of the day you still have to catch them all. I'm more wondering what the community thinks about it and providing just some things I've noticed since Nintendo took Pokemon over. If you would like to leave comments below and tell me how you feel about it. I would be very interested in hearing your oppinions on the matter.


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There was a fire-breathing dragon, huge teeter totters, wagon races, giant illuminated dreamcatchers, construction crane rides, hands-on activities and much more for the over 55,000 Calgarians who took in Beakernight 2017. As part of Beakerhead, the evening celebration of science, engineering and art included MindFuel's DIY "Time to Shine" station where 2,000 people created their own glow accoutrement – wearable science.
"Supporting our community partners is important to MindFuel," said Cassy Weber, MindFuel CEO. "Our Beakerhead sponsorship is part of our commitment to making STEM education fun and assessable. It was great to see so many kids and adults come to our tent and put their shine on. "
In previous years, MindFuel hosted various community science installations as part of Beakerhead. This year, the organization participated in Beakernight as a sponsor.
Beakerhead is an annual program that brings together the arts, sciences, and engineering sectors to build, engage, compete, and exhibit interactive works of art, engineered creativity and entertainment.


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617Sessions is a music program from Redefined that provides complimentary studio time to local artists.
Selected artists will spend an entire day with a sound engineer at The Bridge Sound & Stage where they will record and produce a track. Each session will be filmed, photographed, and documented digitally.
Once all tracks are mastered, the public will vote for their favorite. The artist with the most votes will be invited to perform at the 2019 Boston Music Awards.
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