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Now-Daughter R has not left her room for six months. She lays in the darkness all day every day, only leaving to go to the doctor for hormones or to sell things on eBay so she can get spells to turn her into a true woman. She is extremely depressed and complains of being suicidal (we've been to ER). I know it's at least partially the hormones and believe she is undiagnosed bipolar, but she won't listen and she is 19 so the doctors she goes to can't talk to us, and in the meeanwhile. she tries to monopolize our time with drama withouth taking any of our advice. I know from experience she would starve to death if we didnt keep the fridge stocked – since she was a baby neither rewards nor punishments have helped, which was always a source of many parent-teacher meetings (she wouldn't listen in class, and didn't respond to various strategies on working with her such aS a reward or a punishment). I feel like she needs serious psychiatric help — even inpatient stuff – but doctors and hospitals and psychiatrists ahve not been able to help. Aaarghhh. Tomorrow I am going to start from scratch – I will start calling psychiatrists to see if anyone can help us make a plan for our daughter. I wish there was a clinic we could take her to, something like the Mayo Clinic but for severely depressed young adults.
Learning how to "better" manage brain fog
For me, there are many crummy things about chronic illness, but the second worst of them all — after fatigue — is brain fog, i.e. the much harder challenge of keeping a clear thought.
Time was before my illness that my brain would whir to life and I could quickly motor off anything I needed to. Ask me the strategy to something, and I'd leap up on the whiteboard and starting jotting ideas down. But now, keeping clear thoughts is difficult. Answering any question that requires me to go into the memory bank is a challenge, and anything with some uncertainty or complexity is a challenge unless I have time to process. Spelling? I used to be great, because I would literally picture the word in my head and recite what I saw, but now I don't see the word and am kind of stabbing in the dark.
Needless to say, this has made my job as an analytical sales person in a cutthroat industry hell. But I think I've developed a list over the past few years that has helped. I'm not 100%, or even 90%, but I'm getting better and I'v adapted.
Checklist in OneNote. OneNote is good because it's free and I can access it from my computer, iPad or iPhone. What I do is make a checklist of each item at the office I have to get down, then I break it down to how much time to spend on it. For example: Answer emails – respond during morning coffee. Send out follow up reports from yesterday – 30 minutes. Send out status check note to 500 customers – 20 customers a day… I've noticed this is important – I'll lose paper lists, or I start moving things around until it gets messy (I can cut and paste); also, I can keep a template that I copy and paste into a new Tab every day so every day I am starting with a fresh checklist. Plus, my razor sharp memory no where I was on a task has evaporated, so now I can search in OneNote to find out what I've done on something.
Stick with the Checklist. It is tempting that if I come to complexity in my checklist to pass it off until later. For example, if "Respond to email" includes an email that involves research, my temptation is to push it aside until later the day. But I've learned I need to take a short break, grab another cup of coffee, return and take the steps needed to complete that email. If I push it off, I start to get overwhelmed and fight the urge to shut down. So even it means taking a pause while I gather my energy, I do nothing else until complete that next task.
One Thing At A Time. My days of answering email while on a conference call, or making a phone call while waiting for my computer to re-boot, are over. So I have to focus on one thing at a time.
Take Breaks. The days of crazy 12 hour days are over. I have to take several breaks during the day to make sure I maintain the energy needed to keep brain fog at bay.
Accept the Inevitable. I will never be as crisp, sharp and productive as I once was. I can't compare myself to the old me, which thankfully was 200% of most people (honestly). Instead, I have to focus on doing the best I can with what I have now. I this were a five-card poker me, the old me had six cards to choose from, the new me has 4 cards to work with (versus everyone else's 5). I can't worry that I used to have 6 or that some have 5, I just have to do the best I can with 4 and realize that I won't win as much as I used to. That takes some pressure off.
Lots and lots of coffee. There is no way of getting around the fact that coffee is the new normal for me at the workplace. If there are side effects so be it, but I have to have the energy needed to keep my job and pay my bills. On the days where I need an extra burst of energy, I take a caffeine pill and pray for a "good" day.
My two cents. Since life gave me lemons, I'm doing the best i can to make a decent lemonade. (I've had to relearn how to do my to do list – I used to do it mostly by memory and prioritization, but that's not possible anymore, and too long of a checklist is overwhelming 🙂 ).
Why the heck am I so tired this week
The past week and a half I've been exhausted. I hate getting out of bed in the morning, and dread looking for work during the day. Why? I don't know. I just am. It might be a cycle in my chronic health issues and fatigue, or it might not be – I just have to continue to fight through it, althought it is exhausting fighting through exhaustion 🙂
Childhood acquaintance battling cancer
P was a kid from another neighborhood but who'd we bump into from time to time in sports. THere were a million such kids who were long ago forgotten but P was memorable because he was a plus-sized kid (had metabolic issues) who was a fantastic athlete. He scored every point on his basketball team because of a deadly shot and hit long home runs in little-league baseball. When we were adults we played softball with him; he was still plus-sized and still a great athlete – he was a great infielder and hit long towering home runs once or twice every game. Later, he helped lead another team to a state softball championship… He wasn't a happy-go-lucky guy, but *was* easy going and pleasant to be around, and I never remember him being angry or frustrated, not once… Just learned he is battling cancer that is likely terminal. Bleh. And double bleh.
Hit a happy milestone yesterday!
Before my lung-disease diagnosis, I could do 140-pound bicep curls. Six months later, after treatment for lung disease, I was so weak I had to literally use two hands to shave. Yesterday, after 5 years of self-physical-therapy and very slow progress, I did 140 pound bicep curls again (without straining). It felt great to return to my old gym strength (although my every-day strength is far weaker than 5 years ago. There is no chance of me getting into a street fight 🙂 ).
I also was able to do 5 *slow, easy* reps of 4 sets of 405 pound (the entire stack) of leg presses. For some reason, my legs – which have always been strong for my weight/size — are suddenly freakishly strong, and I've gone from sets of 4 300 pound to 5 400 pound presses (with no straining) in just a couple of months. Anyway, strength isn't that important to me, but it is nice to reach my pre-illness strength and it is fun to watch the numbers climb a little. I do have to be careful though – I need to keep my heart rate at a reasonable level and not get too into the additional reps and heavier weights.
Current numbers for my future reference:
- Honest assessment of appearance: thin, fit or trim. Up from borderline gaunt/skinny 3 years ago.
- Age: 48
- Weight: 159 pounds
- Bicep Curl (4 reps): 140 pounds.
- Leg Presses (5 reps, but need to go down to 4 to keep my heart rate low): 405 pounds.
- Bench Press (2 reps): 200 pounds.
- Shoulder Pull Down (or whatever it is called) (4 reps) 200 pounds or 220 pounds (3 reps).
What Shingles the third time around is teaching me about Shingles
I had fairly mild cases of Shingles twice before, but this stronger bout of Shingles is teaching me a few things about Shingles:
- It can cover a lot of the chest and back (not just a spot or two, but quite a few spots).
- It can spread to the face.
- It hurts to wear clothes over the Shingles area – like wearing winter clothing on a severe sunburn.
- The infected areas feel like I pulled muscles in those areas, so in addition to having a sunburn it feels like I pulled something in my back, chest and arm.
- It hurts to style my hair (literally, running my hand through my hair hurts my head).
- There are random shooting pains (like someone is stabbing a knife) at random spots in my body that last for a few minutes or more, move to another spot, then return again. The worst of these is in my ear, which makes me wince involuntarily.
- I am sweating profusely. I literally had sweat dripping from my ear just from standing for 15 minutes.
- I want to sleep.
- After 8 days, it is still going strong (the blisters have stopped growing and spreading but otherwise 8 days in I still feel the same I did on Day 1).
On the plus side, I always have aches and pains and fatigue, so in some ways Shingles impacts me less that way than it otherwise would.
Had a brief moment where I remembered my month on high doses of prednisone…
Had a fleeting memory of my days on prednisone, and how I took on too much then had to pay the price 🙂
I had no idea when I went on 50 MG of Prednisone that it would make me crazy. It also gave me a limitless amount of energy. In those first days, I was literally sleeping less than an hour a day, so they put me on Ambien, but this allowed me to sleep only an hour or two, so they put me on ultrastrong sleep medication that put me down 4.5 hours a night almost to the minute. Otherwise, I was almost nuts with energy. Some examples:
- I had the idea that I could write a novel on my iPhone. So while the family played games over Christmas, I sat nearby (I couldn't focus on the game) and typed several chapters of a book on my iPhone.
- I decided to coach my son's basketball team. The problem was, the neighborhood already had a team. So I worked with the rec league director to recruit and create a new team of 13 year olds. I read a book on how to coach, created a website, wrote about the games for the local newspaper, and kept a daily blog no one read about the goals and practice plans. 🙂
- I volunteered to do marketing for my company. I generated a newsletter, built a community forum, came up with an in-depth marketing plan and read books about marketing, all at night or on the weekends.
These are just some examples. The real problem was, when they started to taper off my meds, my energy went the complete opposite way – I had none. Suddenly, I had no energy and was sleeping 12 hours a day and exhausted all the time, but still had to maintain all the things I'd volunteered for. I gave up the novel, but was still coaching and writing for the paper and moonlighting as a marketing manager – it was hell. 🙂


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The new "Catherine," Rin, is described as a healing existence that assists the nightmare-ridden Vincent and shows him new values. While her speech and conduct give off an aura of considerably lacking in common, she is a very straightforward and gentle character. The scenario is mainly being made by full-time staff. The wide range of difficulties and convenient systems being prepared will enable people who are interested in the story to enjoy the game until the very end. In puzzle action stages, there is a new mechanic where you have to think about not only how to move cube-shaped blocks, but also blocks in a state where multiple are connected. You can switch between new and traditional modes during the story. There was unexpected excitement for the competitive mode overseas, so online battles are being included. There is more than one new ending.
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Def Jam Signee, Gunplay caught a break in an armed robbery case in which his was caught on camera during the commission of the crime.
Based on a report by TMZ, Gun Play will not be held accountable for crime that he was captured committed on camera. The rapper was initially charged with robbing his accountant at gun point. The incident was captured on a video surveillance tape. The case was ultimately dismissed because insufficient evidence to prosecute, despite the presence of the tape. The District Attorney says that this is because of an inability to subpoena the victim, who they have not been able to locate in order to serve with the subpoena.
"Video alone is not enough to convict an individual of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt," explained the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office. "Although the armed robbery is captured on the victim's surveillance system, the victim, Turron Woodside, is uncooperative of the prosecution of this defendant Richard Morales [Gunplay]."
Gunplay spoke with the new developments in his case, "Today I am grateful and blessed that the case was dismissed," he said. "I plan on picking up where I left off with my music and making hits with my upcoming debut album … The first thing I am going to do today is smoke a joint, relax, play video games, and just be with my loved ones."
After being charged with armed robbery and aggravated assault, the rapper turned himself in to authorities in October of last year. He was subsequently placed under house arrest pending the outcome of the case. The rapper literally dodged a bullet in this one. He could have received a life sentence if convicted on both accounts.


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For so long, there has always been speaking about Aloe Vera that has really been acknowledged for its terrific helpful qualities. In Aloe Vera juice we will find big quantities of vitamins, enzymes, amino acids, minerals, and vitamins," In totality, it is stated that you have about 200 advantageous compounds.
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Aloe Vera juice & Water
The juice of aloe with water supports some functions that safeguard our body considered that it has vitamin C, Thanks to this essential juice will assist us to strengthen the body's immune systems.
Consume Aloe Vera Juice Every Day – Aloe Vera Water
If we wish to start taking advantage of changing millimetrically to the maximum use attributes, we will recommend that you have to prepare an essential natural home remedy simply using the following elements:
- A stalk of Aloe Vera
- A glass of cleansed Water
- 1 A teaspoon of Honey
How should you take it? Let's begin by taking the aloe vera leaf and clean it with its gotten rid of ends, squash it, then you have to dissolve the resulting pulp in a glass of water. For a better result, you should include a little honey to eliminate the bitter.
Treatments with Aloe To Strengthen Hair
Individuals who consume this juice can help keep your scalp healthy, which will produce an amazing fortifying effect, assisting development and offer shine to your hair. To accomplish an aloe vera hair mask, exactly what you will require are the following components.
- Aloe vera leaf and
- A teaspoon of Almond oil
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I have a friends OLD Inspiron 1150 (svc tag:d31ml51) where the HDD has failed. I replaced it with a not quite as old HDD (Hitachi model: hts421240h9at00) which worked in my OLD laptop until the DC jack went out and I replaced the computer.
When I got the 'new' HDD in and turned on the laptop it went to the advance options screen. I entered 'start windows normally' and the countdown clock froze and I had to restart. It went back to the advance options screen so I chose 'last known good config' and the same thing happened. So I restarted and it went back to the advance options screen and I tried safe mode. It then went to the running page of files and froze. So I restarted and it went back to the advanced options screen and I just let the clock run. It froze on 0. Like I said, the replacement HDD worked when I last used it, so I'm guessing its something else...maybe. When my friend was using it with the old HDD it hadn't been used in a couple years due to virius infections. I reinstalled the OS and it worked fine for a few days. She went to turn it on one day and got a black screen after the Dell splash screen. Did an ESD and a restart and restarted into BIOS. Could not find a way to get into XP. It will go into BIOS but the same thing happens after exiting. Ran a diag and it gives an HDD error on the newer HDD. Currently looking for a different HDD to try but what else could it be?? Shes kinda pretty and I'd like to help! HA!!
Well the majority of your initial problem was caused by trying to boot a transplanted operating system. XP and all later windows versions are extremely linked to the hardware environment they were installed in.
If you have run a HDD diagnostic and gotten errors, then that may or may not indicate HDD failure. It usually does but sometimes there are other reasons such as faulty data cables that can give false HDD errors
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Humm. Right now I dont have any way to format that dive. Other than the environment and wire problem what else could it be other than both HDD's are faulty?


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A few months ago we wrote about a new era of garden studio design, and showed you the first concepts from new garden studio supplier 3rd Space, well the design has been developing as the range nears its launch and we asked Ben Jardine of 3rd Space for another look! As the pictures show he's developing quite a striking garden studio.
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LET'S FACE IT, the world has shrunk. A whole wealth of information is at our fingertips, laden with opportunities, potential and possibility. The good, the bad and the ugly are all accessible to us in a digital landscape.
Overwhelmed by Choice
Easily distracted
Questions to think about:
- What does it mean to be holy? To be different? To be separate? Is it just about staying away from the bad and the ugly or is it an active seeking of the good?
- When we spend time in the digital landscape, how do we use this time? Do we use the opportunities it gives us for the good of ourselves and of others? Or can it be simply an exercise in distraction?
- What identifies us as disciples of Jesus in a digital age?


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LMM's Meyer and Boyarski Sell Former Nursing Home Site in North Haven
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A former assisted living facility has new owners, thanks to a deal brokered by Levey Miller Maretz.
Noah Meyer and Mike Boyarski, both of Levey Miller Maretz, were the sole agents in the deal. Robert Sachs of Branford bought the property, at 193-201 Clintonville Road in North Haven, from Clintonville Road Associates LLC for $1,067,500.
The site, which previously housed Clintonville Manor, has a 38,000-square-foot building on slightly more than 11 acres. The new owner plans to redevelop the property into age-restricted housing.


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Hand Evaluation. Selection of opening suit
By now, you've read that you should bid your longest suit first. But there are probably some other questions in your mind.
How many cards do I need?
Question: How many cards do I need in a suit to open the bidding in that suit ?
Answer: Four. 4. Quattro. Vier. 四. Quatre. Not 3, no matter how nice they all look.
It's better to have 5. Anyway, your partner is going to count on you to have a minimum of 4, and will make all his/ her calculations on the basis that you have been telling the truth. (In some bidding systems you can't even open the bidding in a Major suit unless you have 5 of them).
You've got 2 long suits ?
Suppose you have two long suits? Suppose the the slightly shorter one has many more points (Aces, Kings etc).
The rule is, always bid Longest suit first, then bid the Shorter one next. And you can even tell your partner, through your bidding pattern, exactly how many cards you have in each suit.
- 5-4: bid LS, i.e. bid your Longer first, then the Shorter one
- 6-4: bid LSL
- 6-5: bid LSS
Two 5-card suits ?
Bid the highest ranked suit first. ( is the highest ranking of all suits, is the lowest).
When you have two 5-card suits, a very nice position to be in, you will be wanting to show them both to your partner. By bidding the highest ranking first, and rebidding the lower ranking second, you end up keeping the bidding at a lower level for further "conversation".
Two 4-card suits ?
Always open with the lower ranking. (Assuming you're not planning to rebid in NT to show you have a balanced hand).
That gives your partner a chance to bid his 4-card suit at the lowest possible level. He may not have the strength to be able to bid at the 2-level, so you might not find your 8-card fit if you bid the higher ranking suit.
Showing your partner how strong you are
If you have 12-19 points, you can open the bidding in a suit. But your bid is not very precise about your strength. The second bid will give the extra precision that your partner will need to assess what to do next. However, you have to plan your second bid before making your first bid.
The fundamental rule is: don't break barrier in a new suit unless you mean to.
- with 12-15 HCP do not exceed the barrier if you are bidding a new suit
- with 16+ HCP you must go through the barrier if you are bidding a new suit
Barrier definition: a rebid in same suit as your opening bid, at a level one higher.
- E.g. If you open 1, your barrier =2
Some players with quite a lot of experience forget about this from time to time, even though it really is a fundamental principle. That's a pity, because they end up misleading their poor old partner about the strength of their hand.
5332 distribution ?
Open and then re-bid your 5-card suit. Or better (usually) use NT in some way to show you have a balanced hand.
4441 distribution ?
Open the suit below the singleton ..unless it's in Clubs, in which case bid 1. And it's quite a good idea not to open the bidding unless you have 13 points.
Worried you might forget all this ?
You can print the free crib sheet and keep it beside you as you practise.


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College Publications
Exchange Magazine Summer 2019
In this issue of "Exchange," the College magazine, we stop and remember our shared values, and we consider how these touchstone values are helping our community to find the way back from the appalling events of April 30. We include a brief series of stories that highlight the importance that connections have made in the healing process.
Spring 2018 Exchange Magazine
Twelve years ago, the first issue of Exchange was published. With this magazine, we want to connect to our alumni and friends, not just to send a one-way missive, but to invite a response back from you: to exchange. In this issue, we particularly celebrate the exchange that occurs in the student research experience.
Spring 2017 Exchange Magazine
This Spring 2017 issue of the UNC Charlotte College of Liberal Arts & Science's Exchange magazine illustrates the theme of mentorship. Stories in this issue confirm that bonds between students and faculty mentors are crucial to the college's mission of educating students to be critical and imaginative thinkers and engaged citizens in a rapidly changing world.
Spring 2016 Exchange Magazine
This Spring 2016 issue of the College's Exchange magazine makes visible the scholarly accomplishments of CLAS students and faculty. This work is not an end in itself, as College Dean Nancy Gutierrez says, but a pathway to creating a better future.
Summer 2015 Exchange Magazine
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I ate dinner at Durgin Park with a great group of people who are going to be at BloggerCon tomorrow.
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Ralph Poole of What Ralph Knows who tried out for Joe Mozian's My Life is a Sitcom. His wife Barbara is an artist.
Shimon Rura, who has frassle, a weblog stream of collective consciousness thingie that I need to delve into.
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A N Wilson might sneer at the genre of nature writing, saying, "Thanks to Wordsworth, we all have the idea that 'poets' ought to be country dwellers, ought to live up lanes and use a bucket for a lavatory." Nature writing of this sort, he says in an interview with the Telegraph, "appeals to all that is gentlest and best in us, the lovers of unwrecked England" but recently there have been signs of vigour, of writings taking a new form and addressing the changing relationship we have with the world around us. These changes may be as a result of us increasingly living away from our rural beginnings, either literally because we migrate to cities or metaphorically as we focus inwardly upon the domestic- a result of economic hardship. Or it might be because nature itself is shrinking, further influencing how we interact with it: our garden birds are disappearing and we are less likely to productively coexist with a wide variety of creatures or meet them in an everyday sense. Nature has become commodified too, partly in order to protect it; we 'buy' experiences and visit nature reserves; we go to 'see' nature instead of perceiving our lives as part of it. We seem to lack affinity with and self-assurance of our sense of place. Indeed we may lack that sense of place in itself.
The best nature writing is not rooted in conservatism or nostalgia. It possesses political agenda because the personal is the political, wrought from our everyday lives. Driving change yet retaining the ability to cast an experienced eye back to the past, it respects history but does not fetishise it, locating humans firmly at the heart of the natural order whilst identifying our disruptive influence upon it. We cannot separate ourselves from this, no matter how much we mistakenly try to and a wise person recognises nature as a greater life force which nonetheless can be vanquished by human misadventure and downright maleficience. We would do well to re-acquaint ourselves with the Pagan folklore which reminds us of our temporary status, as guests and housekeepers for future generations.
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Monday, September 08, 2008
The 'piling on' toward Sarah Palin
That's what our local paper, The Blade, has done with the vice presidential pick of Gov. Sarah Palin.
They start on Aug. 30 with "McCain's Machinations," where they dismiss her experience as a governor and mayor, saying McCain picked "a candidate who makes Mr. Obama's resume seem substantial by comparison."
On Sept. 4, they claim that McCain's selection is a 'cynical ploy' designed to distract Americans from the issues. They also tell you that McCain, with his many years in the Senate, is perpetuating the problem - even though his opponents have more combined years in that body than he does. They also make a point of implying that her family obligations are enough to prevent her from doing her job well - an issue that has gotten way too much coverage in this day and age when women are told they can have it all.
Three days later, on Sept. 7, they call Palin a dog in their editorial, "Palin as pit bull." They say she gave a good speech at the Republican Convention, but that it was light on facts and details. Perhaps they missed Sen. Barack Obama's speech? It was equally light on facts and details, especially on how he was going to fund all those give-aways he was promising, but received no such editorial.
While even Democrats acknowledged she hit some sore points with some of her comments - and the way they began defending against them certainly proves that - The Blade editorial board wrote, "Her zingers about the Democratic ticket tended to slide around reality, to be charitable,..." I think that means they think she lied, but they provide no evidence that anything she said about her opponents was inaccurate.
Today's editorial, "Northern Exposure," (wonder if that's a violation of copyright on the TV series?) critiques her record. While such a critique is appropriate for the editorial page, it wasn't something that's been done with her opponents.
I have no problem with such attention to detail when it comes to a candidate's record, but the bias comes into play when you do it for one candidate, but not the other. If people need to know the Republican Vice Presidential candidate's record, shouldn't we also know the Democrat's? And certainly, if such a critique is warranted, it is warranted for the Presidential candidates from both parties.
I've already pointed out the lack of intellectual honesty in news of the campaigns, but four editorials in 10 days is part of the reason why so many people, especially women, think the piling on is too much. It's also showing signs of backfiring on liberals, with some voters looking more favorably at the McCain-Palin ticket because of the excessive negativity being heaped on Palin. And it's cost at least two MSNBC anchors their election coverage positions.
As a former Republican elected official who survived four very tough campaigns in Democrat-dominated jurisdictions, I don't have a problem with intense media coverage and tough questions. I do have a problem, however, when the tough questions are directly only to me and not to my opponents. Knowing I was going to be scrutinized more because I was Republican made me better prepared to handle all sorts of inquiries - and that made me not only a better (and successful) candidate, but it made me a better elected official as well, contributing to my reputation for 'always doing my homework.' I'm certain Sarah Palin feels the same way.
But if the media wants to help voters really know the candidates, they won't reserve such treatment only for the candidate(s) they hope will lose. Perhaps that's the point. Perhaps, in their hearts, they know that the American public wouldn't support their favored candidates if they really knew the objective and unbiased truth about them, so they don't tell you.
Of course, such activity leads to a loss of readers, declining sales and a loss of credibility - which is where many in the media find themselves today, with so many people turning to alternative sources for their news. So maybe this isn't such a bad thing after all.
6 comments:
- Ben said...
Your last paragraph hit it dead on.
- Cynical Counsel said...
I found it amazing the the Blade would cut and paste "selected excerpts" from another paper's editorial page to slight Palin.
So Block says - "In other people's bias words (editorial) taken out of context (excerpts) here is why Palin is bad.
Schmuck. But at least the Blade is consistently bias and predictable.
- Timothy W Higgins said...
There is no surprise in the Blade's coverage of Sarah Palin. I am surprised however that you expect more of them.
I too find myself criticizing this source alleged source of information far too often these days. I am coming to realize that nothing more can be expected, and I almost feel sorry for them.
I picture the orchestra playing off key as the Titannic sinks ...
- Maggie said...
Tim - I guess it's not so much for me as for my readers, who may suspect such biases, but not have them so evidently pointed out.
Since we're both so fond of quotes, "All it takes for evil to success is for good men to do nothing."
I'm doing something...
- navyvet said...
Piling on? The Blade?
I look at the 4 editorials as continuing chapters in their "We Are Leftists" manual
Chapter One....ABR....Anybody But Republicans. Soon thereafter, they followed up with a front page editorial favoring BHO over HRC
which they said was(front page) unusual and that it in no way assured they would endorse him in the general election. I am not only dubious of that claim, but doubtful as well. Call me cynical.
Should probably take a wait and see attitude....
..."slide around reality"....that is a good one....
Thanx Maggie
- Hooda Thunkit (Dave Zawodny) said...
Re: the Blade, three words:
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In between GMail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail, who do you think has the best spam protection and why?
In between GMail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail, who do you think has the best spam protection and why?
Are you folks for real?
Or do you get paid by Google?
Gmail is now the biggest spam machine on the market. You'd not believe the number of spam flooding our server, coming from - YEP, indeed ... the Great Winner Gmail.
on a %-scale I'd need to say, no less than 80% of all spam flooding in has a [at]gmail tail.
we have, however, solved this problem very easy by ban and blacklist to every single IP used by Gmail. It works great as of now. Even big gurus like Google can be penalized, although they play up as being the only good out there. Most times it just those "self-proclaimed" gods who are actually worse than the devil.
Sorry folks, but I neither like nor accept this, no matter how many billions of dollars rich you are, it doesn't intimidate me.
I too have accounts on all three services; Gmail being the most recent of them. Hotmail was; at one time, my preferred client but in the last year or so their spam filter has gone to the dogs. Yahoo doesn't do too badly seeing as I don't log in to find massive amounts of spam waiting on me. Gmail though is the clear winner though since I currently log into it infrequently and rarely have anything at all labeled as spam.
I have an account with each of the services you have listed, and the one I have the least amount of spam is the one noted here already: Gmail.
Each of the accounts have settings that you can set that make catching the spam even better for that service, however, changing those settings, and what their defaults are what my recommendation is based upon. Gmail's default settings catches almost all of my spam immediately, with only an occasional false positive here and there. Both Hotmail and Yahoo Mail's default settings have not been enough, so I have had to go in and go to stricter settings, and create special filters.
Also, the one thing that is most appealing to me in the decision, is that it sends it to the spam folder, and after 30 days, automatically deletes it without me having to go in and empty it manually. Google also gives you so much space to utilize, that unless your doing some extreme business through the account that involves emails with the largest file attachments, the spam folder is not going to cause you to fill up the limits on your account.
As far as the false positives I have gotten, most of them have been because someone sent like 5-6 emails with-in a small amount of time, which by most email providers is a good indicator of a spam attack. Usually, however, I don't get these because whenever I receive emails from people I know, the very first one I get from them, I will add them to my contacts, which automatically blocks gmail from mistakenly marking them as spam (unless you go into the settings and tell it otherwise).
Now you might ask, why I have an email account with all 3? Originally, I had Yahoo, when they were indeed a very formidable email provider, and have just kept that address. I actually loved Yahoo for a long time, however, as Email providers and services have evolved, and updated, Yahoo just has seemed to be going in a totally wrong direction for me to recommend it to anyone anymore. My 'Hotmail' account, is actually my domain account, which is my business. My business domain is maintained by Office Live, which utilizes Hotmail for it's services. My Gmail account is my personal account and is used as such, however, with the growing services of Google, I am strongly considering moving my Office Live account over to them as well.
Hope this helps answer not only the best as far as my opinion goes, but the why as well.
gmail is false-positives.
spot on. you seem one of the few realistic who don't admire the golden curtain but check out the scrap hidden behind.
It's not even close. GMail is by far the most effective of the 3. Every system has a false positives but you have to weight the good with the bad.
In my case, I'd rather look in my spam folder (or label in this case) once every 3 weeks for that one email I was expecting rather than having to make 50 messages a week as spam.
I have no first hand experience with Hotmail, but find GMail's spam filtering to be more effective than Yahoo's. Like Mike, I also find I get rather a lot of spam, but the vast majority of it is filtered correctly.
The only real problem is that there are some false positives. About 1 in every 100 messages in the spam folder are 'real' messages, so I need to check the spam folder carefully before emptying it.
After Using all most popular e-mail web services out there (Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail).
I noted that Gmail has better spam protection than Yahoo! and Hotmail. Because even if I used my Gmail e-mail address while registering or posting on many different websites I receive hardly 1 spam in 2-3 days. In Yahoo! I receive about 15-20 spams a day. In Hotmail the number is even higher.
Yes, but anyone knows *why* some algorithms are better than the other? :)
For one, there is no documentation about the algorithms and methods used for each serivces. And then there is no definite answer even if you would know.
Since all three providers let you specify mails as "spam" and "no spam" I'm sure they all use some sort of Bayesian Filter among other methods.
I will spare you the details how the filter works but you can look it up on Wiki
Basically, the more emails are defined as either "spam" or "clean" they more effective the Bayesian Filter works. This means a filter with 10.000 mails marked as spam and another 10.000 clean will not work as efficient as one with 100.000 for each.
So there are two things we can already say:
(1) They more user actually use the functions to specify mails as either spam or clean they more efficient the Spamfilter will work.
(2) Depending on the users input different mails will be marked as spam.
Also most providers have user specific spamiltering. This means a user who regularly mark unwanted Emails as spam and false-positives the better the experience of the user will be.
Gmail then Yahoo!
I firmly believe that Gmail is the best. Not only because it has the best spam filter (although not perfect either) - but also because it just has by far the most exciting features to offer! I would never even touch any other webmail after all the fantastic (lab) features that Gmail offers!
From what I heard and read Gmail offers the most effective spam protection with the least false-positives.
However, my personal experience with Gmail is mixed.
Without passing on my Gmail adress I had 70 mails in the Spambox within a week. That was kind of disturbing considering I never passed on my address or used it in any way.
I haven't used any of the other services within the last years so no comment on them.
My experience with gmail is just the opposite. As far as I am concerned, gmail has the best spam filters. My original email service was mail.com. I got a gmail account -to go out and fetch my mail.com email, and I set up both of them in my Thunderbird email client. After a little training, I hardly get any spam any more. What little spam I do get goes right into the trash. I dont even see it.
the reason for that is that your eMail address was probably already on spam lists before you ever created it. Spammers don't just collect eMail addresses they find somewhere, they also guess them and just spam on assumption.
The simpler and shorter your eMail address is, the more spam you will receive, no matter whether or not anyone knows that eMail address exists.
In case anyone suspects Google had something to do with this, think again. Google has no interest in spamming you. First, spam mail creates extra traffic on their servers, i.e. extra costs. Second, you said they managed to filter those eMails to the spam folder. Go figure.
Of course one could still imagine that Google sells eMail addresses to spammers. Now imagine the scandal if anyone could ever prove that. I would suppose Google is smart enough to know that risking that kind of damage is not worth it.
Your dream is certainly a nice dream but do you watch the news, sometimes? Everyone knows the bigger the corporation the more crocks swim in there. It's in the news on a daily ratio. Not pointing or claiming anyone, not at all, but your theory is nothing but a "realistically" unsupported theory.
Reality had proven us and continues to proof, exact the opposite!
So, I only hope you can continue dreaming without awakening, you might just suffer a heart attack or attempt suicide and you seem to be a nice enough lady no one of us would like to hear about that from happening to you because you all of a sudden could see the real picture and were too disappointed.


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Sand Point students have been reeling in the arts!
This teacher-created after-school program teaches 2nd-5th graders how to play and perform instruments in a rock band. Groups of students formed and named their own bands, practiced after school each week, and then performed for our school community at a school assembly.
Thanks to Bryan Manzo, Scott Jenkins, and Jack Knight for organizing, recruiting, and teaching Sand Point students how to rock out! Also, in connection with Stone Soup Theatre, Sand Point students are able to participate in drama during early release Wednesdays.
This December, students performed Robin Hood the Musical. It was a hit, as students acted and sang for our community. Thanks to Stone Soup Theatre and Maizun Blackbird for bringing drama to Sand Point! To further incorporate the arts into our school, we have weekly ukulele lessons taught by our staff for all 4th and 5th graders and art lessons taught by local art docents for K-5th graders. We also have weekly music lessons taught by our music teacher, Mrs. Jackson.
Our students have been motivated to use their creativity in our school, as a few students have written our first school song! We are so proud of all the arts incorporated into our small northeast school. Go Squirrels!


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Time to sit back and review what's gone on with the team while we all kick back for a few days. Let's go from the back out and start with the goalies.
Obviously, one of the major stories and concerns on the Hawks has been the absolute thud Corey Crawford has put forth. While he started the year strong, it all went to pot right about the time the calendar flipped to November. And it's not just one aspect of his game, say a weak glove or bad movement. Though those two have been part of it. But the rebound control, the angles, and just mental lapses have cost Crow a lot of bad goals and shakey performances. It's the leading the reason that the penalty kill has kept the Hawks from getting their head above water in terms of the division.
And now it's pretty clear that it's affecting his emotional psyche. The frustration was clear on Tuesday against Nashville. Crawford has never busted his stick over his net like that before.
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What's a little frightening for Hawks fans is that the only answer is for Crawford to find his game. There are just enough holes on the team that Stan Bowman is going to have to address through trade that finding enough assets to swap out with a goalie added to the wish list is going to be cumbersome. Ray Emery is not a long term answer. Crawford just has to find success again.
How does he do that? It's hard to say, only goaltending experts can talk about his game and tendencies with any level of knowledge. Crawford just needs to find confidence again. Maybe he should tone down the aggressiveness a bit, he's a big guy and doesn't need to challenge shooters as much as he has. That would help with his movement and then his rebound control could back.
As for the backup, Ray Emery, he's been pretty much everything you ask of a backup. Other than the Edmonton disaster, he's kept his team in every game that he's been in and when the starter dipped was able to step in and guide the ship for a couple weeks. That's what you want out of your #2. But that's all Emery has proven to be, a #2. If the Hawks have to turn to him when the playoffs roll around, no one is going to feel comfortable.
Sam Fels is the proprietor of The Committed Indian, an unofficial program for the Blackhawks. You may have seen him hocking the magazine outside the United Center at Gate 3. The program is also available for purchase online. Fels is a lifelong 'Hawks fan and he also writes for Second City Hockey .


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In the background is Yigal Alon, an upscale business district in Tel Aviv, a truly global city.
Today marks the end of a business marathon in Israel, that ranged from meetings on innovation, business intelligence, home land security technologies, exports validation and certification, logistics, SMEs training, Women empowerment and a frank discussion at the Chamber of Commerce. A good run...into the new year.
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Dragons Honor Seniors, Take Series From Southeast WhitfieldPHS Baseball, Team FYN Sports April 21, 2018
Yesterday afternoon, the PHS varsity baseball team once again hosted the Southeast Whitfield Raiders at Dragons Field for the 3rd and final game of their series, & the final game of the region schedule. Prior to the game, the seniors on the 2018 PHS baseball team were honored for their contributions to PHS during their time.
In the top of the 1st, senior starter Isaiah Payne, had it working early. Payne needed just 10 pitches to get out of the top half of the 1st. Pickens, got a lead off single from senior Joseph Gossett, but Gossett would be left stranded at 3rd, & we would head to the 2nd, tied at 0. In the top of the 2nd, Payne continued his good early work by striking out two Raiders in the frame. In the bottom of the inning, A 1-out single from Colby James, a walk drawn by senior Lucas Headrick, and a single from Payne, would lead to a 2-out, 2-RBI base hit from Gossett as the Dragons took a 2-0 lead over Southeast Whitfield, heading to the 3rd.
Payne, now working with the lead, continued giving the Raiders trouble as he got out of the inning, using 16 pitches. In the bottom of the 3rd, a lead off walk drawn by senior Dylan Huffman, came back to bite Southeast Whitfield as Brady Moore drove Huffman in with a 1-out double. Moore would go on to steal 3rd, then come into score after a pitch got by the catcher. Pickens took a 4-0 lead, into the 4th. In the top of the 4th, the Raiders got their first hit of the game, but that would be all. In the bottom of the frame, Gossett, got a 2-out double, but would be caught trying to steal 3rd to end the inning. Going to the 5th, the Dragons held a 4-0 lead over Southeast Whitfield.
In the top of the 5th, Payne would throw one more pitch, then would be replaced with fellow senior, Clate McArthur. McArthur, would collect his 1st K of the day, & get out of the half inning on 11 pitches. In the bottom of the 5th, Huffman, got a 1-out base hit, Moore would be hit by a pitch, then James would get a 2-out RBI hit scoring Huffman to give the Dragons a 5-0 lead, going to the 6th. In the top of the 6th, Southeast Whitfield would plate 2 runs, cutting the Pickens lead to 5-2. The Dragons, got one of those runs back in the bottom of the inning after Gossett hit a 1-out triple, & then came into score after Huffman drove him in after beating out a potential inning ending double play. The Dragons, held a 6-2 lead going to the 7th. McArthur was able to hold down the Raiders in the 7th, to preserve the Dragons win, 6-2.
Isaiah Payne: 4IP, 2K, 0R, 0ER, 1H, 54 pitches & 1-2 with a single
Clate McArthur: 3IP, 3K, 2R, 2ER, 48 pitches
Joseph Gossett: 4-4 with 2 singles, 1 double, 1 triple, 2 RBI, & 1 run scored
Dylan Huffman: 1-3 with a single, a walk, 1 RBI, & 2 runs scored
Brady Moore: 1-2 with a double, a HBP, 1 RBI, & 1 run scored
Colby James: 2-3 with 2 singles, 1 RBI, & 1 run scored
Tyler Vreeland: 1 run scored
Pickens, wins the series between Southeast Whitfield 2-1, & finishes the region schedule at 9-9. They are 14-14 overall with one more game to play in the regular season. There will be a makeup game today at PCMS as the Dragons will welcome the Wheeler Wildcats to Dragons Field for afternoon baseball. First pitch is scheduled for 2 pm.


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Five Bruins Selected in Inaugural WUSA Draft
Dec. 11, 2000
Los Angeles -- Five UCLA women's soccer players were selected in the inaugural Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) draft, held Dec. 10-11 in Boca Raton, Fla.
Former Bruin Skylar Little (1996-99) headed the list of Bruins selected, taken in the fourth round (26th overall pick) by the Washington Freedom. Joining Little in Washington will be 2000 Pac-10 Player of the Year Tracey Milburn and Louise Lieberman (1995-98). Milburn was taken in the ninth round (71st overall) and Lieberman was a 15th round selection (119th overall).
Also drafted was 2000 College Cup All-Tournament team member Venus James by the Bay Area CyberRays. James, who is from Oakland, was taken in the 11th round (88th overall).
Former Bruin Traci Arkenberg-Gatell (1994-97) was picked in the seventh round (50th overall) by the San Diego Sprint. Arkenberg-Gatell, the 1997 Pac-10 Player of the Year and NSCAA All-American, holds the UCLA career records for points (169), goals scored (71), assists (27), game-winning goals (26) and shots (451).
For more information regarding the WUSA League and the recent draft, visit: www.wusaleague.com.
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A cannabis farm that housed more than 1,000 plants has been found in an old police station.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) made the discovery at the former Failsworth Police Station, Oldham, which was closed six years ago.
Police said in a Facebook post: "The building was vacated by the Police six years ago as part of the cuts to the Police budget and not used by us since.
"It was sold at auction a short time later. The building has been privately owned ever since.
"It was a bit surreal though seeing the old Inspector's office full of root balls and empty pots."
Police said they believe the plants had been removed from the "huge" cannabis farm early on Wednesday morning, just hours before they entered it.
Soil, empty pots and light sources were all that remained in the building, which was once home to the Failsworth and Hollinwood Neighbourhood Policing Team.
Police said other items at the scene suggested those growing the class B drug had been sleeping there - and the property's electricity meter had been bypassed.


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Dallas — In its season-opening concert, Voices of Change, a much-lauded group dedicated to performing contemporary music, followed half of a phrase from a bride's preparation: something old, something new.
We heard a string quartet by composer Shih-Hui Chen, Fantasia on the Theme of Plumb Blossoms. The composer, born in Taiwan, currently leads the composition department at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. The theme she borrowed from Plum Blossoms has an ancient heritage and comes from a form of Chinese music called Nanguan. It also describes the ensemble required to play it. It appears to have started in the Fujian Province in southern China and came to Taiwan via Fujianese migrants. Its character is gentle and usually at a slow tempo and originally was only played by the wealthy.
So that we could properly appreciate the source of her borrowed melody, Voices of Change brought an authentic Nanguan ensemble to play some selections from Plum Blossoms, members of Taiwan's Lâm-hun-koh Nanguan Music and Theater Troupe. The instruments they used were paiban clappers, the lute-like pipa and sanxian, the bowed erxian (like a violin with only two strings), and the recorder-like dongxiao flute.
The clapper is the director of the ensemble, and uses some smallish rectangle wood blocks held together on one end like a fan. She started each piece and clapped on the beat to keep the tempo. This instrument is held on the knee. A slender fingerboard is mounted on a small drum and extends to about shoulder high. It is played with a bow. The Nangun erxian is slightly different than the Cantonese version.
The sanxian is a three-string instrument that is plucked. It is held like a guitar but doesn't have similar frets. It sounds like a banjo. The pipa is a Chinese version of the lute, also held like a guitar and plucked with a pick. Both of these instruments have been around for thousands of years and are commonly played in East Asia. Some soloists, such as Wu Man, are world-famous pipa players and tour internationally.
The Plum Blossom music they played was slow and repetitive, based on the pentatonic scale, much like new age music. What struck me was the similarity of cadences to western music with the dominant yearning for the home key. The physics of the overtone series, which defines these relationships, appear to be universal.
It was difficult to discern the Plum Blossoms music we heard from the Nanguan ensemble in the string quartet piece by composer Shih-Hui Chen. It would probably take a few more hearings to ferret out the gentle Chinese melody from her thick dissonant musical language. The middle movement was as roughly aggressive as some of Bartók's music and she made frequent use of ostinato patterns.
A second work by Shih-Hui Chen, A Plea to Lady Chang'e, added the pipa to the string quartet. Her musical style was different for this work and somewhat easier to follow. As is the tradition, the pipa player sang in the middle section of the piece.
After intermission, two female actors, Ming-I Wen and Ya-Lan Lin, joined the ensemble to perform a scene from a Nanguan opera. The instruction that was offered about what we were about to see was more than helpful—it was necessary to our enjoyment.
All of their motions were very smooth, almost slow motion, and even the smallest gestures conveyed emotions, actions and situations. They moved their feet with such small steps that they appeared to float.
The two portrayed two traditional characters: the lady and the maid. It was easy to tell the difference between the elegant lady and the saucy maid, although these characterizations were quite subtle.
We rarely hear East Asian music here, and it is very different and intriguing at the same time. After all, when Debussy heard the Javanese Gamelan orchestra at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle, the path of music in the 20th century was changed forever. Shih-Hui Chen's music, as with other Asian composers working today, offers western composers a path to incorporate more world music influences in their own compositions. We will all be richer for it.


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Speaking hours after returning from meetings with leaders from the major world economies in Pittsburgh, the Prime Minister said that he had become convinced that only legislation would stop bank bosses from returning to the "bad old days".
And he added that the British public, with its innate sense of fairness, had been "appalled" by the practices of many working within the banking system, which had resulted in the near collapse of the financial sector.
In a wide-ranging interview, Mr Brown told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: "I am saying today: 'enough is enough'. We are not going to stand by and let people return to the bad old days.
"People in Britain have a very strong sense of fairness and a very strong sense that people should take responsibility for their actions."
Announcing that he would introduce a Banking and Finance Bill in the Queen's Speech this autumn, the Prime Minister said that the new legislation would ban the awarding of substantial bonuses as rewards for risky, short-term behaviour.
And the Financial Services Authority would be given boosted powers to act to stop risky lending and penalise institutions failing to abide by the rules.
"I have become utterly convinced as I talked to my colleagues in Pittsburgh just how far we have to go," Mr Brown said.
"The banks are anxious to get back to the bad old days. A lot of people have not understood the damage that the banks have done.
"I know that we have got to play by the rules, you know we have got to be fair to your colleagues, I think the banking system forgot that."
He continued: "We will be saying to people that we are not going to be allowing a return to the bad old days.
"This is a measure that we will bring to the House of Common in the next few weeks.
"Where there is bad behaviour the Financial Services Authority will have the right to intervene.
"My fight is for the future of Britain. My fight is for an economy that is sustainable."
Mr Brown said that his biggest mistake in politics was not introducing greater regulation ahead of the collapse to stop banks becoming co-dependent.
In the interview, Mr Brown also said that he was confident that the public would come round to Labour before the general election once voters saw that he and the party had taken the "right decisions" on the response to the economy.
He claimed that he had "led the world" in leading the global economy out of recession, and insisted that he had the "strength" to "get up in the morning" and see the job through.
The Prime Minister added that voters were angry about the MPs expenses scandal, which he himself had found shocking.
Responding to recent speculation about his health, Mr Brown emphatically denied rumours that he was a regular user of prescription painkillers but admitted that he had had serious problems with his eyesight since losing the sight in one eye following a teenage rugby accident.
He said that while he had come close to going blind in the other eye, he had regular check-ups, including one a few days ago, which had indicated no further deterioration in his sight.


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Quite some time ago, back on my former blog, I wrote a piece about my uncle, Norman Lidster. I stated at that time that an ambition of mine was to complete a revision of his autobiography, No Time for Why – written (and self-published) back in the 1960s.
While it is a fascinating tale of a remarkably courageous man, and certainly a prominent icon in my life, it needs a lot of revision and heavy-duty editing. It also needs much more of a narrative than it possesses in its current state.
As such things happen, my ambition (after a reasonable start on the project) was trumped by other things in life and, while I had never forgotten the quest, I'd let it slide. You know how these things happen.
But, enter a bit of serendipity the other day. The serendipity revolved around the lovely, redheaded stranger. As I stated in the blog, at the reception following Norman's funeral in 1977, a woman approached me from across the room. She was striking and charming. She asked me if I was Norman's brother because the family resemblance was there. I asked her if she'd like to run away with me. No, I didn't, but she was quite attractive. I told her that I was Norman's nephew. We chatted for a time and she moved on to other people who were gathered.
Later I wondered, quite vainly, who she was. I asked my father and a couple of Norman's sisters, but they hadn't a clue. Just one of those mysteries in life that one has to accept, I assumed.
And now for the serendipity. Yesterday I received an email from a lady in Salisbury, England, named Sacha Hayward. She explained that she had read the aforementioned blog and that her aunt, who had just died at age 88, was a favorite nurse that Norman mentions in his book. She also mentioned that her other aunt – a redhead – had also spent some time with Norman in Victoria, BC, where he spent much of his life in a chronic care facility.
I was quite astounded, and also delighted to hear from her. She asked, of course, if I was still proceeding with the rewrite of the book. All I can say to that is, Sacha, thank you for goading me in this regard and providing some inspiration to get back to the task. She also said that if she were able to come across any further information, via old letters and so forth, she would gladly share them with me. To that I can only say, and I've told her this, I would be delighted.
As follows is an excerpt about Norman from that original blog:
I was in my mid-30s when Norman died in 1977. He died in his late 50s, which is not an advanced age in contemporary longevity, but it was a very long haul for a man as afflicted as he was.
Norman was the 'rigid man.' Smashed to a physical shell by a ghastly course of rheumatoid arthritis that began in his late teens, and which progressed with agonizing brutality for years he was, by his late 20s, utterly immobile (except for limited movement in his jaw and a couple of fingers) and, with insult troweled onto injury, completely blind. He was a fine brain, and I'll suggest a soul — a very large soul — trapped inside a useless vessel.
He was also one of the most astonishing men I've ever known. An opinion that is shared with vast numbers of people who came to know Norman over the years. Periodically, in later life, when I was going through some personal difficulties (difficulties that were tiny in comparison with his), I thought of Norman, and speculated that it would be good to talk with him at that moment, to get a kind of reality-check, a metaphorical kick-in-the-ass from him. He was good at that, and he never did it from a "poor me" perspective. While he was a very bright student in school, he was also a rebel and was actually expelled at one point for refusing to accede to a regulation he thought was draconian bullshit. Man, I like that about him.
Ultimately, Norman triumphed in his own way over this clinical cruelty, and it was likely his basic rebelliousness, and even waywardness that enabled, at least in part, that to happen. To ultimately be able to spit in the eye of the nefarious spirits that would drag him down, was triumph indeed. It was true courage. It was a victory of the human spirit. While he ultimately had great faith in God, he was also quite capable of saying "screw you" to his illness, and not let it drag him down into the pits of despair. He was candid in saying that for years he'd questioned God and was stuck in a "why me?" mode. Ultimately he realized he'd never progress if he got stuck in that place. Hence the title: 'No Time for Why.' Life was there to be lived and, all things considered, he did a mighty fine job of it.