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Q&A with Dr Sam Bunting about facial cleansing
Harley Street dermatologist, Dr Sam Bunting took part in a Q&A about facial cleansing and answered your questions about rosacea, hormonal outbreaks and dealing with teenage skin.
As a cosmetic dermatologist with a busy private practice in Harley Street, Dr Sam Bunting is used to giving out advice on all skin types and giving tips on how to keep skin radiant and youthful-looking. The Q&A was sponsored by Philips VisaPure, a gentle, easy-to-use electronic facial cleansing device that massages the skin to remove make-up, dirt and impurities.
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Q. BloodFlower: Which common skincare ingredients should be avoided?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: The key is to match up your skincare routine with your skin type – personalisation is vital for great results. However, in general, harsh cleansers that foam aggressively and leave the skin feeling tight after washing should be avoided, as should excessive use of physical exfoliants - particularly for those with sensitive skin types. Toners containing alcohol are also best left on the shelf.
Q. Roseformeplease: How can I make sure that my very sensitive and eczema-prone skin does not flare up? I use Eucerin and La Roche Posay, which help, but would love to be able to use a cleanser and thus be able to wear some make up. Also, at 45, it has got drier and more prone to red patches, so how can I adapt as I age?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: My favourite skincare brand for dry skin is Avene – they have an Extremely Gentle Cleanser that is well tolerated by those with very dry skin. They also do a range called Tolerance Extreme, which is preservative and fragrance-free and is a real blessing for sensitive, reactive 'stinging' type complexions. I think it's important to have flexibility in your moisturisers – a lighter lotion for the day and a heavier cream at night. Cetaphil Moisturising Lotion and Cream are good options. If despite these measures you still have red, dry patches, see your GP as you may benefit from prescription medication.
Q. UntamedShrew: What is your own skincare routine in morning and evening and which products do you recommend for each stage?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: I use a combination of French pharmacy brand products and prescription based products. I cleanse with La Roche-Posay Physiological Cleansing Gel and I use Obagi Hydrate Moisturiser and Sunshield SPF 50. I also use their Professional C-serum 20% vitamin C serum in the morning and a prescription retinoid at night. Simplicity rules!
Q. Lovecat: Is there any way to actually get rid of blackheads and prevent them coming back once you've got them?
I have tried so many different things over the years and they come back again and again. I don't wear make up and rarely use foundation, I use a blackhead scrub and the Neutrogena Pore Refining Moisturiser, I'm now nearly 48, the rest of my skin is fairly dry but I still have a teenager's nose.
A. Dr Sam Bunting: Blackheads are blocked pores which are open to the air. The best approach is to prevent them by using a topical retinoid – Avene Ystheal is a good place to start and should be used at night (in conjunction with daily sunscreen). In addition, a salicylic-acid based cleanser would be a good product to use in view of your combination skin type, as this helps remove debris from pores, making them appear smaller.
Q. WallyBantersJunkBox: What do you recommend to improve large open pores? I have heard that they happen because cleansing isn't thorough enough, but even after facials they are still visible on my cheeks.
Also, at the change of each season I always seem to suffer with an itchy and flaking forehead for a few weeks. Exfoliating or intensive moisturizing never seem to work. What recommendations do you have?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: Pores don't open and close like doors – large pores appear in the context of oily skin. Their appearance can be improved by using salicylic acid as this gets to the oil element of the pore and removes built up debris and sebum. In addition, it's important to maintain collagen stores and 'prop' the pore up, this means using a broad spectrum sunscreen on a daily basis, all year round, and using ingredients like vitamin C to maintain collagen stores. Again retinoids would also be useful here. Read more on big pores here.
In regards to your forehead, it's important to see your GP in case it's eczema or psoriasis, which may need topical medication.
Q. Ijustworemytrenchcoat: Is there a limit to what products we put on our skin can do to improve it? I have tried so many regimes over the years, but my skin looks like I don't take care of it at all -dehydrated in places, oily in others, hormonal outbreaks and cystic acne.
A. Dr Sam Bunting: You are not alone. Many skincare trends are not suitable for everyone and can actually cause problems, sometimes we women are our own worst enemy. It sounds like you need an intervention. It would be worth having a one-off appointment with a beauty-orientated dermatologist to help you rationalise your skincare. There is no doubt in my mind this could help your skin improve. In most cases, less is more.
Q. mumsbe: Since having my son, I have had really dry skin. Some days it's almost like a layer of dry skin on top of my normal skin, it makes me look 100 years old, is very itchy and drives me mad. It's strange because up until now I have had very oily skin, so oily that my skin looked wet. I think I would rather have the oily skin back, any advice?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: Pregnancy and the hormonal changes that go with it can lead to fluctuations in your skin. On top of that, the subsequent sleep deprivation that goes with having a young child can lead to dryness. You should try using a non-foaming cleanser and nourishing moisturiser – I'd recommend Cetaphil Gentle Cleanser and Moisturising Cream, and use tepid water (not hot) when cleansing. Make sure that your diet supports skin hydration – be sure to get plenty of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids from sources such as salmon, avocado and walnuts. If these simple measures don't help then you may need to see your GP or a dermatologist for some extra input.
Q. FabULouse: What would your cleansing recommendations be for an 18-year-old with oily skin, prone to blackhead formation and two to three proper red spots at any one time? The typical 'teenage' products seem terribly harsh and definitely worsen oil production.
A. Dr Sam Bunting: I am a big fan of the Obagi Clenziderm range – their foaming cleanser with 2% salicylic acid is an excellent choice and is less drying that most typical acne cleansers.
Q. mandalee: In the past month, I've suddenly gotten small patches of little bumps on my chin, at the corner of my mouth, next to my nose and even inside my nostrils. They are not pimples, they never come to a head, and spot cream does nothing to them. They don't itch like eczema, either and if anything, they're tender. I've also had patches of eczema on my hands and inner elbows lately, though. I have resorted to Betnovate 0.1% twice a day, which seems to help somewhat, but will it ruin my skin? I'm 42.
A. Dr Sam Bunting: First thing to say is stop the Betnovate topical product. From your description you sound like you could have a condition called perioral dermatitis. Topical steroids can make this condition worse. I'd advise that you stop using products that are not labelled non-comedogenic as this condition can arise from using poorly formulated skin care products. It would be worth getting an expert opinion as a doctor really needs to see a skin problem to make a diagnosis and you may need prescription medication to settle it down fully.
Q. Rosie29: My daughter is starting puberty, she's 10, when should preteens start doing more than just washing their face with a flannel in the bath?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: The key is to take action once oiliness in the T-zone and those first clogged pores appear. At this point a simple salicylic acid-based cleanser can help. Try Neutrogena Visibly Clear Oil-free Wash.
Q. ParsleyTheLioness: What will the electronic cleaning device do for my skin that normal cleansing will not?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: Simply put, the thoroughness of the cleanse. The VisaPure is 10 times more effective than manual cleansing and will make sure there are no remnants of make-up, grime and dirt which might clog up pores. This also helps with the penetration of skincare products after cleansing. This is especially pertinent for those living in an urban environment - it's crucial to remove environmental pollutants from the skin as we now know this plays a key role in the development of hyperpigmentation.
Q. Rexy: Will using this improve my combination skin and pigmentation issues?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: The VisaPure will form a good foundation for an effective skincare regime, aimed at tackling these issues especially if living in a urban environment as mentioned previously. Seek out ingredients aimed at hyperpigmentation – for over-the-counter I like La Roche Posay Pigment Control and Avene D-Pigment. Check out my blog for my top tips to getting the most out of your cleansing brush.
Q. OneLittleLady: What is the best way to deal with hormonal spots that don't seem to come to a head, and what are your top tips for looking after dry skin?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: The first approach is to avoid skincare products on a regular basis that exacerbate the problem. You'll need to seek out non-comedogenic skincare – brands like La Roche-Posay and Bioderma are great options. You then need to utilise an agent that prevents spots and the ideal product would be a vitamin-A derivative at night. In addition, it's worth having an anti-inflammatory product to tackle inflamed spots – benzoyl peroxide 2.5% strength would work. It should be possible to take care of dry skin using products which support skin barrier function at the same time as tackling blemishes with this approach. In fact good barrier support ensures more rapid resolution of blemishes – so the notion that you have to 'dry spots out' is an outdated one.
Q. Mobbsey: With teenage boys with spots/acne, is it what they eat or how and what they cleanse with? How should my son keep his spots at bay?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: The approach to spots should be the same as mentioned in the last question. Teenagers may be better off with a salicylic acid-based cleanser, to help manage the excessive oiliness that typically occurs at this age. Key dietary tips which may help when managing acne are:
- Stick to low GI carbs – ie avoid any refined/unnaturally white carbs.
- Make sure there is plenty of zinc in your diet. Good sources are cashew nuts and shellfish.
- Moderate dairy intake.
I don't believe in excluding things from diets but a balanced diet including fresh fruit and vegetables, based on these key principles, will make a valuable contribution to an acne management plan. Read more on acne truths here.
Q. Leedscatgirl: What's the best treatment for whiteheads?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: There are many different types of lesions that can be described as whiteheads – common ones are milia - small, raised, pearly white non-inflamed bumps often around the eye or on the cheeks. These can be triggered by using oil-based products, like eye make-up remover which can clog the delicate glands in the eye area. The use of a non-oily eye make-up remover is recommended and stick to non-comedogenic skincare as general as a rule. Individual lesions can be extracted in-office by a dermatologist.
Q. kasbah72: My nine-year-old son is already suffering from breakouts. He gets white heads and large spots around his hairline and deep blackheads and raised spots on and around his nose.
We are currently washing his face with teen washes and using a Dermalogica spot treatment but nothing is working.
My husband and I both had terrible acne as teens and I have various hormone-related issues. I feel so bad that he has inherited something like this. What do you recommend as a skincare routine and any other products?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: I would recommend seeing a GP – your son is likely to need a prescription-grade retinoid at night to tackle the blackheads and also benzoyl peroxide for the inflamed spots. I recommend tackling acne earlier rather than later for teens, to limit the damage to the skin and perhaps, just as importantly, the psychological scars acne can leave on self-esteem.
Q. lazypepper: What is your view on using Roaccutane for mild but persistent acne? I am 46 and have very oily skin still. I have had acne since being a young teen and I am currently taking Trimethoprim which keeps the spots to a minimum, but my face feels like an oil slick.
When taking no medication I get some large spots on my face, neck, chest, shoulders and back. I wouldn't say it is cystic, but there are enough to upset and embarrass me. I have been to see a dermatologist privately and I am to return for a repeat visit to see how the Trimethoprim is working. However, I can't keep taking it forever, can I?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: I am very sympathetic to your story – I see a lot of patients who suffer in the same way with chronic ongoing acne which destroys quality of life. In my opinion, it's important to consider Roaccutane in the context of patient's history and background medical condition. But yes, I feel it does have a place in cases such as yours where other treatments aren't working, assuming you are also using a topical retinoid at present. Spironolactone would also be an option. Here's a useful website discussing the various treatment options.
Q. cakelover75: Which cleansers do you recommend for rosacea sufferers? I have the small, bumpy, red spot type of rosacea. I'm in my late 30s and have fair, celtic skin.
A. Dr Sam Bunting: I like La Roche-Posay Rosaliac Cleanser. I also like Cetaphil's Gentle Cleanser which tends to be well tolerated by most patients with sensitive skin. I would avoid physical exfoliation in those who suffer from rosacea.
Q. Grey24: I have daily acne and very over-oily skin even though I'm now 40. Combined with this, I have also had rosacea and redness since I was 25. Balancing and treating them both is very difficult as most products and treatments for one, exacerbate the other. Any advice?
A. Dr Sam Bunting: Interestingly there are some ingredients that can be used in patients with acne and with rosacea. Salicylic acid is a useful ingredient as it's helpful to those with excessive oil, acne and rosacea due to its anti-inflammatory properties. Involving your doctor might be sensible – azelaic acid (available on prescription) could be beneficial in both conditions. It's important to emphasise the need for sunscreen. A non-comedogenic sunscreen (like Avene SPF 50 emulsion) is really key in preventing rosacea flares. Read more on rosacea here.
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Bad new: My luggage fell over very gently, and the MacBook's screen broke very daintily. I didn't know it had broken until I took it out at Joy's house in Llanharan.
Good news: It still works.
Bad news: To get a new screen here would take until Monday and cost £450 and take until Monday.
I took a few photos in and from the train. Nothing remarkable yet, but it does look different and greener and hillier than Norfolk. That will surprise no one, I guess, but still it was beautiful for me to see it for the first time.
Joy and I are going to go out for box tape to stabilize the glass in a while, and I might need to upload the other photos later.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Good news: I did not break my leg!
Posted by Sandra Dodd at 8:04 AM
3 comments:
- Schuyler said...
Dang, so the repack wasn't necessarily the best thing...
I hope box tape helps. I hope it more than helps, it heals.
- July 31, 2009 9:05 AM
- Katy said...
Maybe your luggage got knocked over by a mischievous little Peruvian bear????
I have always wanted to take my stuffed Paddington Bear that my sister made and take pictures of him in Paddington Station!
Sorry about the computer.
- July 31, 2009 12:11 PM
- Jocelyn said...
I'm glad about your leg, but -- HEARTBREAKING!
- August 01, 2009 1:15 AM
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A Pattern – A collaborative essay
She chooses colors — the green of new leaves, brown of earth, blue of juniper and spruce, fresh cream, and one skein that contains all of these, the colors of growing things — and sets them out to admire their blending, their contrasts. In worsted weight the delicate shawl becomes a blanket.
My view: a thick pane of glass, cool to the touch, frames it. Across the bay, coastal islands huddle under gray blankets of fog and mist, a gentle tucking in of Douglas firs, madronas, and alders. Craggy mountaintops crest above weepy stratocumulus, so barely detectable that I can blink away the rock clouds. The demarcation between sea and sky blurs — the same opalescent shadow blue, a steel coating obscures the horizon. My fingers trace the scars of an ancient continent, of tectonic folds and narrow inland passages, row after row.
Begin with a single stitch — embryonic — and grow by one stitch more each row, widening to full zenith before waning, decreasing back to a single point. The hap grows as her belly grows, round as the moon. Slip the looped edges onto the needle; gather the diamond into a round, a sac. The knitting now spirals about the periphery; waves of hap shell lace surge over her belly, over the baby in his amniotic sea. She drowses between repeats, loses her place, the yarn over, knit, yarn over, knit, yarn over, knit more powerful than any lullaby.
My fourth-floor office window reveals the full length of an irregular shore, sinuous as scrap yarn. Where the hill slopes south toward the water, I observe the waning green of a maple tree; its roots sap the leaves of their nutrients, storing up reserves for future growth. It seems that the outermost and uppermost leaves have crinkled; curling ovate lobes folded inward, burnt as they are after a summer of light. The deep recesses of the tree remain dark and verdant. Near the leaf stems, layers of cells prepare for separation, bundle scars, abscission.
Old Shale tides complete, turn now by ninety degrees to the jagged shore's edge. The ridges form in quick rows, wrong side and right, and join the seafoam by knitting two stitches together where they meet. Her weariness with the endless edging arrives along with her weariness at everything else, her restlessness. Her belly now at full moon, high tide, she walks; prunes the grapevines; bakes bread. In those last waiting days she hasn't the patience to follow directions, to knit from the chart.
On the street below the window, a woman in a red and black flannel shirt walks along the sidewalk, and after her purls a trail of eddying fallen leaves. I notice first the gleam of her hair. It shimmers palely. I marvel at its luster — not blonde, near lilac, not white, a rippling silver. An illusion of age, surely, for she carries her body easily. She pauses at the white dashes of the crosswalk, and turns toward me. Parted in the center, the other side of her hair is starless, glassy waves of ink.
Awkward at first, loops pulled tight or left too loose, she fumbles her newborn's heavy head — dropped stitch. Soon the motions grow fluid, needles flicking out smooth rows of stockinette without the need to look. Her son, still curled like a snail, sleeps against her breast, heart to heart. Her hands reach out to catch him even before she understands he has started to slip.
Instinctively I pull my scarf closer to my chin, fold my hands to my cheeks and lean my forehead against the window glass, startled by the contrast embodied by one woman. It seems we are walking around, an accumulation, past and future tenses plied together, the source material of all we are becoming. My fingers worry the knots of my scarf. I'm thinking about the gray of my knitting now, and what I can't see emerging on the underside of the work; the present is the one knot that focuses my attention, the one loop that leaves my needle, always leaving.
Organic texture and profusion of fluid forms — ocean's spill and hillside's heave, depth and growth unfathomable.
In the art gallery, textiles stretch at a colossal scale, wool to blanket a sea bed. Muted colors pool as silver deepens to black, a subtle gradation — zones of oceans: sunlight, twilight, midnight, abyss. At high tide, seascapes spill over a white sofa on a platform of shipping pallets, modern minimalism.
A woman in white stands profiled before her creation, arms draped in front of her, hands folded to meet at her womb. Does she know she has assumed the posture of pregnancy?
These textiles divulge the treasures of the sea, the teeming weeds, the fogs that feed the sequoia.
Empty nets, patternless. There are no instructions.
Try language to capture the mysteries of the deep. You knit me together in my mother's womb. The incantations of ancient scriptures trawl for delicate meanings, which slip the nets.
And yet.
Here, in the work of two women, visions combine, an aesthetic convergence. Oversized stitches, knots and braids, transform into tangled seaweed, rope, anchor chains.
We might trace the paths of individual threads, map the familiar gestures, stitch by breath by stitch; strands of bull kelp and fingers of brackish water, bewildered.
We do what we can.
Low-slung clouds overhead, formless gray wool, like so many October days. A father walks bareheaded in the rain, hands enclosing the tiny feet of the infant strapped snug in the carrier against his chest. On the way to school, the mother's eyes dart from yard to sidewalk to street, missing nothing, wary of everything surrounding the child skipping half a block ahead. The father rides his bicycle on the traffic side of his son.
The gray tangle of yarn didn't resemble a gift at first, but I saw what the repetition of stitches could bear. So I cast on in our house by the bay. Thoughts of what could be stirred my needles mornings while we sipped coffee; the front window showed us the street with its strollers and bikes and buses rolling by. I purled, slipped, knit in the weak light of chilly afternoons. And on, increasing and decreasing while we watched television after dinner, leaning against each other under blankets with blinds closed against the dark and the rain. Still, on the front porch before bed while drinking tea and listening to the wind.
She decided she needed a new dictionary. The one on the shelf, crisp as the falling leaves that autumn she left for college, was now three editions outdated. Had it been so many years? What had she become in the meantime? She wanted words to name the intangible.
I spent autumn knitting toys, gifts for our nieces and nephews. And just like that an elephant led to a kitten, which led to a dog and a fish, which led to three bears and a mouse. Soon, a wool menagerie occupied the unused half of our kitchen table.
What else are we, mothers and fathers, pulled along in this oceanic ebb and surge? After she tucks her children into bed at night, beneath quilts stitched by grandmothers and great aunts, alongside handknit toys — the pink bunny, losing an eye, the oversized octopus — who is she? Is there a word?
How to knit my care into textiles, sew it up in the stuffing? Here, for my family to hold: tangible proof of connections. And yet, I know now, mothers worry when their children play with proof. Gifts rendered too precious for use instead sit on nursery shelves, distant and out of touch. I remember an afghan my grandmother made me, in childish pastels, satiny ribbons woven into slips and gaps. All those hours spent crocheting and thinking of me, for the blanket to end up folded and boxed.
Sometimes parts unravel, roles stitched together according to an untested pattern, held tenuously by a thread. Strange menagerie. No piece makes up the whole.
Interminable — my longing for a pattern. When I doubted my progress, I could put my finger to the page and skim the rows to come. Does this look like an elephant yet? How about now? I held up a gray swatch of knitting for inspection. The comfort of a blueprint, abbreviations, the code for getting from here to there. The promise of seeing a shape finally emerge, a selvage edge for seaming. Loops of yarn pulled through, threaded around my index finger. Tidal, the rhythm of making gains.
Perhaps we find ourselves in the space between stitches, that elastic aperture that opens when we learn not to hold so tightly.


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...that there's a rush to being so into someone that you physically ache when they are not around, that you seem to only think about the next time you'll see them and you're totally willing to spend money better spent elsewhere and forgo the sleep that you need because you just can't shake that person. Is it love? Remember, you said the same things about cigarettes.
...that sleep happens.
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...that we tell each other stories to help us live a better life and some of our best story tellers aren't doing hit TV shows or blockbuster movies or anything on Broadway or best-selling novels. They're in comic books, cable, Netflix, storefront theaters, independent book stores and bars.


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Ice, Ice, Baby
Written by Liz, Posted in Knitting, New Projects, Noni Medallion Travel Bag, stash enhancement
Choose the musical version wisely, lest your earworm become an 80's has-been rather than a 70's rock deity. 🙂 (ETA: Evidently Wendy and I shared the same sentiments towards weather. :))
Outside, the trees, bushes, roads and walkways are encased in a fairly icky ice storm. I discovered that it was perhaps a bit more than slush when I stepped outside our front door yesterday, took one step, and promptly fell on my arse.
Oh. Perhaps we'll add salt then, aye? ~sheepish~ Also, I have a bruise on my forearm that should look pretty spectacular 'round about tomorrow.
A box of Morton's kosher salt later, and our walkway and steps are once again navigable without having to bring crampons and stout rope along, but the storm has also brought with it very grey skies, making photography for my planned duvet tutorial a touch difficult. That may be pushed off to next week if the weather continues this way, or I might be able to pull it off over the weekend. I won't leave it off, though.
Instead, today I give you: A new project. (Because one can never have too many projects on the needles at one time, I say.)
I might have gotten a bit carried away with the grey winter when I decided on color for this bag — although I prefer to believe I am influenced by the colors of belly dance costumes and rajasthani dancers. 🙂
I substituted Ella Rae Classic wool in lieu of the suggested Cascade 220, because that's what Knit Happens carries and I wanted brighter colors for slightly less cost.
The Ella Rae I know is lovely because I'm using it for Tom's skully scarf, it's at least a dollar less per skein than the Cascade, and it has 219 yards to a ball, making it close enough to equal to be a score in my book. (By the way, I don't always feel that cheaper is better, but sometimes it just makes sense, all other items being equal, to save as much as you can, wherever you can.) ETA: Thanks, Rosemary, for pointing out that the Ella Rae in fact IS equal to Cascade 220 in all things except price and name. 🙂 Score!
Thus far I have about six rows of the bottom of the bag completed. Twice, in fact — the first iteration had to be ripped out because I forget that my concentration really can't be interrupted in the middle of a row, because whenever it is, I WILL persist in effing it up.
This is one of the first patterns I've worked with for which I have a bit of a negative preliminary review, although my complaints are really minor in the grand scheme of things:
My biggest complaint so far with this pattern is that the chart is really tiny and difficult to read, and I would like very much to have an enlarged copy of the chart made so I can read it more easily. But the copyright is laid out VERY explicitly in the pattern booklet that there can be NO reproduction of ANY kind for ANY reason — which I take to mean very clearly that you cannot make enlargements for personal purposes. I'm actually pretty frustrated that there's not an allowance for that in the pattern booklet, but I know designers are very concerned about unauthorized reproductions of their patterns, and rightly so, as it's a commonplace practice that does take money from their pockets that most can ill afford. But it still bothers me and is causing me difficulty in enjoying the knitting of the pattern. I really really want the finished product, though, so I imagine I will figure out a way to slog through it.
Another bit to this piece is that the bag handles used in the example are way more than I'm willing to spend, after spending as much as it takes for the yarn to make the bag to begin with. $50 for the handles alone seems pretty darned excessive to me, so I won't be using those handles. I'm aware of course that you needn't make any given pattern as it is made in the sample, and that in fact shop owners bemoan the fact that people seldom wish to deviate from what's in the photograph. It's an easy fix as well in terms of not using the suggested finishing item, but I think it's still a legitimate personal annoyance to mention.
What will I use for handles instead? I don't know, I haven't decided yet. I think I may actually go the route of heavy duty webbed strapping going all the way under the bag, to give additional support to the bottom of the bag and a bit of added structure to the bag itself. I may improvise using leather belting instead of webbing, I don't know, the ideas are still sort of tumbling around in my head. But there you have my wee bit of brightness for the grey winter. 🙂


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Kenneth Vercammen & Associates Law Office helps people injured due to the negligence of others. We provide representation throughout New Jersey. The insurance companies will not help. Don't give up! Our Law Office can provide experienced attorney representation if you are injured. Our website www.njlaws.com provides information on civil cases we can be retained to represent people.
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Many people are injured when attacked on a business property, when the property owner fails to provide adequate security. Injured persons may be able to recover damages plus payment of medical bills. The New Jersey Supreme Court in Kuzmicz v. Ivy Hill Park Apartments, 147 N.J. 510. (1997) recently reviewed liability for injuries suffered by people attacked. The duty of landowners for injuries that occur on their premises, the analysis no longer relies exclusively on the status of the injured party. Instead "[t]he issue is whether, 'in light of the actual relationship between the parties under all of the surrounding circumstances,' the imposition of a duty on the landowner is 'fair and just.'" Brett v. Great Am. Recreation, 144 N.J. 479, 509 (1996) (quoting Hopkins v. Fox & Lazo Realtors, 132 N.J. 426, 438 (1993)). For off-premises liability, the issue is substantially the same. In both contexts, however, the analysis is fact-sensitive. Hopkins, supra, 132 N.J. at 439. Ultimately, the determination of the existence of a duty is a question of fairness and public policy. Snyder v. American Ass'n of Blood Banks, 144 N.J. 269, 292 (1996); Crawn v. Campo, 136 N.J. 494, 501 (1994); Dunphy v. Gregor, 136 N.J. 99, 108 (1994); Kelly v. Gwinnell, 96 N.J. 538, 544 (1984); Goldberg v. Housing Auth., 38 N.J. 578, 583 (1962). Foreseeability of injury to another is important, but not dispositive. Snyder, supra, 144 N.J. at 292; Carter Lincoln-Mercury v. EMOR Group, 135 N.J. 182, 194 (1994). Fairness, not foreseeability alone, is the test. Relevant to the determination of the fairness of the imposition of a duty on a landowner is the nature of the risk, the relationship of the parties, the opportunity to exercise care, and the effect on the public of the imposition of the duty. Dunphy, supra, 136 N.J. at 108; Hopkins, supra, 132 N.J. at 439; Goldberg, supra, 38 N.J. at 583.
Landlord liable to Tenant Consistent with that analysis, the Court has found a landlord liable to a tenant for damages resulting from a burglary when the landlord failed to replace a broken dead-bolt lock on the tenant's apartment. See Braitman v. Overlook Terrace Corp., 68 N.J. 368 (1975). The apartment house was in an area where break-ins were common, and the landlord had assured the tenant that it would repair the lock. Id. at 371-73. Furthermore, a regulation of the Department of Community Affairs required the landlord to furnish a working lock. Id. at 383-84. In that context, the Court held, "[a] residential tenant can recover damages from his landlord upon proper proof that the latter unreasonably enhanced the risk of loss due to theft by failing to supply adequate locks to safeguard the tenant's premises after suitable notice of the defect." Id. at 383. The Court likewise have imposed liability on a landlord who provides inadequate security for common areas of rental premises for the failure to prevent a criminal assault on a tenant. See Trentacost v. Brussel, 82 N.J. 214 (1980). In Trentacost, the apartment was in a high crime area. Id. at 218-19. Burglars and other unauthorized persons previously had broken into the building. Id. at 219. Contrary to an administrative regulation, the landlord had not installed a lock on the front entrance. Id. at 222. On those facts, the Court held that "[b]y failing to do anything to arrest or even reduce the risk of criminal harm to his tenants, the landlord effectively and unreasonably enhanced that risk." Ibid. The Court relied in part on the implied covenant of habitability in the lease and stated that "[t]he 'premises' which the landlord must secure necessarily encompass the common areas of multiple dwellings." Id. at 228. In both Braitman and Trentacost, the criminal act resulting in the imposition of liability on the landlord occurred in the apartment house. Supermarket Liability Similarly, the Court has held that the owner of a supermarket may be liable to a customer who is mugged at night in the market's parking lot. See Butler v. Acme Markets, Inc., 89 N.J. 270 (1982). In Butler, unknown to the customer, seven muggings had occurred in the lot during the preceding year, five in the evenings during the four months preceding the attack in question. Id. at 274. To combat the muggings, the market had hired off-duty policeman. Ibid. At the time of the attack, however, the only guard was inside the market; no one was on duty in the parking lot. Id. at 275. In that setting, the Court held that the market had a duty to protect the customer from foreseeable criminal activity. Id. at 284. Uniting Braitman, Trentacost, and Butler is the premise that landlords and business owners should be liable for foreseeable injuries that occur on their premises. The underlying rationale is that they are in the best position to control the risk of harm. See Butler, supra, 89 N.J. at 284. Ownership or control of the premises, for example, enables a party to prevent the harm. Accord Steinmetz v. Stockton City Chamber of Commerce, 214 Cal. Rptr. 405, 408 (Ct. App. 1985) (reasoning that duty is grounded in possession of premises and right to control and manage premises); LaFleur v. Astrodome-Astrohall Stadium Corp., 751 S.W. 2d 563, 565 (Tex. Ct. App. 1988) (holding that duty to provide protection arises from defendant's power of control). Usually there is no liability in off - premise assault. Courts from other states likewise have refused to impose liability on commercial landowners for off-premises murder or assault. See, e.g., Steinmetz, supra, 214 Cal. Rptr. at 408 (declining to impose liability because of difficulty in defining scope of any duty owed by landowner off premises and not controlled by him); Wofford v. Kennedy's 2nd St. Co., 649 S.W. 2d 912, 914 (Mo. Ct. App. 1983) (declining to impose liability on tavern owner for injuries suffered by patron assaulted on adjacent public street because otherwise "line which would cut off the landowner's liability becomes nearly impossible to draw"). Generally, a possessor of land is not liable for off-premises injuries merely because those injuries are foreseeable. See, e.g., MacGrath v. Levin Properties, 256 N.J. Super. 247 (App. Div. 1992), certif. denied, 130 N.J. 19 (1992); Simpson v. Big Bear Stores Co., 652 N.E.2d 702, 705 (Ohio 1995); see generally Restatement (Second) of Torts § 314A comment c (1965) (indicating possessor of land is not under duty to person endangered or injured when one has ceased to be an invitee). That general rule protects an abutting property owner from liability for injuries that occur on a public way. See Restatement (Second) of Torts § 349 (1965); see also MacGrath, supra, 256 N.J. Super. at 251-52 (noting court follows Restatement § 349 unless exception applies). Sidewalk Fall down Liability A narrow exception imposes liability on commercial landowners for injuries to pedestrians on abutting sidewalks. See Stewart v. 104 Wallace St., Inc., 87 N.J. 146 (1981). The duty to maintain the sidewalks flows from the economic benefit that a commercial landowner receives from the abutting sidewalk and from the landowner's ability to control the risk of injury. Id. at 158; Davis v. Pecoreno, 69 N.J. 1, 8 (1975) (holding gas station owner liable for injury caused by packed snow and ice on abutting sidewalk because "traffic was directly beneficial to his business and enured to his economic benefit"). Several decisions of the Appellate Division delineate the appropriate limits of a commercial property owner's liability for off-premises injuries. Critical to those decisions is the premise that a landowner's liability may extend beyond the premises for activities that directly benefit the landowner. Thus, the owner of a shopping center was not liable to a woman who fell on a dirt path leading from the shopping center to a parking lot. See Chimiente v. Adam Corp., 221 N.J. Super. 580 (1987). In Chimiente, sidewalks provided a safe alternative route. Id. at 584. The dirt path conferred no direct economic benefit on the shopping center. Ibid. Similarly, a shopping center on Route 22 was not liable to a customer who was struck by a car while crossing the highway. See MacGrath, supra, 256 N.J. Super. at 250-51, 253. A restaurant that provided parking on the opposite side of the street, however, had a duty to provide safe passage from the lot to the restaurant. See Warrington v. Bird, 204 N.J. Super. 611 (1985), certif. denied, 103 N.J. 473 (1986). The restaurant knew that its patrons would cross the street, and derived a direct economic benefit from their use of the path. Id. at 617. Finally, a caterer was found liable for the death of a business invitee who was killed crossing a county highway after parking her car in a lot the caterer knew or should have known the invitee would use. See Mulraney v. Auletto's Catering, 293 N.J. Super. 315, certif. denied, _ N.J. _ (1996). Prominent among the reasons for the imposition of liability was the proposition that the use of the lot furthered the caterer's economic interest. Id. at 321. Critical to the imposition of liability is a direct economic benefit to the commercial landowner from the path taken by the injured party and the absence of an alternative route. Courts from other states likewise have concluded that a landowner does not owe a duty to protect people from criminal activity on adjacent premises that the landowner does not own or control. See, e.g., Donnell v. California W. Sch. of Law, 246 Cal. Rptr. 199, 201 (Ct. App. 1988) (holding law school not liable merely because it took no action to remedy dangerous condition on adjoining property); Steinmetz, supra, 214 Cal. Rptr. at 408-09 (holding tenant in industrial park not liable to business invitee who was mugged a block away from tenant's premises but within park); National Property Investors, II, Ltd. v. Attardo, 639 So.2d 691 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1994) (holding no duty for store owner to protect customer from assault in apartment premises when assailant followed customer from convenience store to apartment house across street); Simpson, supra, 652 N.E.2d 702 (holding supermarket owner's duty to warn or protect business invitees from foreseeable criminal activity extends to premises in possession and control of owner and therefore owner not liable for injuries suffered by patron attacked in common area of shopping center). Southland Corp. v. Superior Court, 250 Cal. Rptr. 57 (Ct. App. 1988), is consistent with that premise. In Southland, three assailants attacked a customer from a convenience store in a parking lot ten feet away from the store's property line. 250 Cal. Rptr. at 58. The customer sued the lessee and sub-lessee, who were the franchisor and franchisee of the store. Id. at 59. The master lease provided that the store could use the adjacent lot for parking, and the injured customer believed that the store controlled the lot. Id. at 58 n.1, 59. Many customers parked in the lot. Id. at 58. The lessees did not erect a fence or do anything else to discourage the customers from using the lot. Id. at 59. Denying summary judgment for the lessee and sub-lessee, the court relied on the fact that the store controlled the lot and "realized a significant commercial benefit from their customers' use of the lot . . . ." Id. at 62-63. Absent a landlord's control of an adjacent lot or realization of "a significant commercial benefit" from tenants' use of the lot, the landlord does not owe a duty to warn tenants of the risk of criminal assault on the lot. See Ibid. Conclusion There is a possibility of imposing on a landlord a duty to pay a tenant for injuries sustained in a criminal attack on its property to help compensate the tenant. In appropriate circumstances, property owners may be liable if they negligently conduct activities that expose others to foreseeable criminal attacks. Contact a Civil Trial Attorney to discuss your rights.
Assistant Editor: Ernest Fantini
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Store, Mall, Business and Bar Liability for Criminal Attack based on Inadequate Security
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It's time to present the most influential European graphic artist of the Diesel Era, a man who created scores of iconic images.
Cassandre is Dieselpunk. Just start to explore the Interbellum, and you'll be immediately welcomed by his travel posters. Just start to search an appropriate font for your latest Dieselpunk artwork, and you'll come across his typefaces. You may never heard of Adolphe Jean Marie Mouron aka Cassandre but you certainly recognize his style. And if his name doesn't seem familiar you'll be amazed to learn what a variety of 1920s and 1930s visual symbols is created by one (and only!) artist.
Here's some extract from Cassandre's biography, published in Art Directors Club Hall of Fame:
In 1923, a Parisian hurrying by the poster-appliquéd walls and hoardings of his city might have had his eye drawn to a large horizontal poster. The central image was dramatically simple: a starkly drawn, well-muscled black figure posed against a radiant yellow background holds a woodsman's axe upraised to the full length of his rippling arms. The spectator awaits the woodcutter's coup de grace to a tree held by its final fibre to a well-hewed stump.
Given its strongly allegorical tone, the poster might have been taken as an exhortation by one of the revolutionary organizations of the time urging the French proletariat to fell a symbolic class foe. In point of fact, the poster's message was considerably less inflammatory. For just below the Herculean woodsman, the angular, decorative lettering informed the viewing public that the blow to be struck was a no-nonsense advertisement for Au Bucheron (The Woodcutter), a prominent Parisian furniture store. Forthrightly—even clumsily—lettered at the lower left of the poster was the name of Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, a young artist-designer making his first appearance among a select and aesthetically tired community of poster designers.
The leap from the Bucheron poster in 1923 to the succeeding one for Pi Volo aperitif embraced a quantum jump. This poster, with its fusion of bird, glass, light and dark forms and its art deco lettering, demonstrates that Cassandre had assimilated the revolutionary ideas of shape and interpenetration of form developed in the cubist and abstract paintings of Gris, Braque, and Picasso.
Barely a year later came the immortal "L'lntransigeant" truck poster. The forceful head and radiating telephonic lines of its composition created an indestructible image, and who today would be daring enough to truncate the product's name as Cassandre did in 1924?
In each succeeding year, Cassandre's posters show an increasing innovation enhanced by breathtaking execution. Images so seemingly literal and so directly rendered took on a new dimension. A shipping poster (1927) depicted cargo being hoisted.
Railway posters conveyed the essence of locomotion and the rectilinear purity of tracks. The magic of these posters lay in their bigger-than-life imagery and Cassandre's extraordinary sense of the dramatic. Every poster bore an invention in letterforms, fashioned as an integral part yet providing a visual bonus—lyrical, playful, geometric or decorative, and above all never banal. Perhaps in the Cassandre "symbology" it was the fusion of puritan and thinker that was preeminent, and in the memorable railway documents, the engineer heightened the alchemy.
Who can forget the exquisite distillation of the "Étoile Du Nord" poster, in which the velocity of the northern express is vivified by the acute perspective of pristine tracks culminating in a white star—an image that leaves us listening for the haunting sound of the train's whistle.
Like Chaplin's "Little Tramp," Cassandre's "Dubonnet Man," for all its stripped down formalization, has given us one of the ever-ingratiating figures of modern poster iconography.
At the same time, while designing his posters, Cassandre had begun to design several avant-garde type faces. The first of these faces, Bifur (above), appeared in 1929, a shimmering combination of solid forms and fine parallel lines whose art deco quality fits much of the design spirit of our time.
Acier (above) followed in 1930, and seven years later his most prestigious typeface, Peignot, appeared, dedicated to Charles Peignot, his friend, colleague and patron. Its jaunty asymmetry and unorthodox ascenders bespoke a pre-war elegance that could only be French.
A tribute to Peignot by Lydia Michalitsianos
If there is a continuum in Cassandre's work, it lies in his command of the full spectrum of visual styles. Cassandre, from 1923 to 1939, was a bridge between the modern fine arts and their contemporary application. His pictorial approach embraced all styles, ever discriminating that it was the spirit he consumed and not the corpus. The filtering force was Cassandre's extraordinary intellect, the inordinate appropriateness and selectivity of his personal vision. ...
Enough with quotes. Hope you'll read the whole article. I just want to add a few notes - for instance, to mention Cassandre's designs for the Container Corporation of America, made after WWII. His pre-war American commissions are better known, like Surrealist Harper's Bazaar covers:
One of his post-war creations is familiar even to illiterate all over the world: it's Yves Saint-Laurent logotype created in 1963:
And my personal favorite is this 1930s poster:
There are 68 images in the album. Browse it - or enjoy the slideshow.
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My pleasure, Stefan. Of course I know the story and the gimmick. I wanted to publish all three pictures of the Dubonnet man, but failed to find a high-quality photo. Do you know that the gimmick was used in Argentina in 1940s, in the "Mejor, mejora, Mejoral" (Mejoral improves better) radio jingle? Mejoral, as far as I remember, was some kind of medicine.
The impact of Cassandre's graphic talent and genius about communication upon French collective subconsciousness cannot be emphasized enough. If you look carefully at the Dubonnet poster, for example, you'll see that the fonts in the name of the brand appear in various combinations of bold/outlined letters : DUBOnnet, DUBONnet, DUBONNET. This is not just by chance. In French, DUBO, DUBON, DUBONNET phonetically translates as Du Beau, Du Bon, Dubonnet (Beautiful, Good, Dubonnet). The gimmick just burned itself forever in a whole generation of consumers during the Interbellum. So did the little "Dubonnet song" aired on the radio (ads for alcohol and cigarettes were permitted everywhere, then) that people the generation of my parents still can remember, 80 years later :
"Buvez quand bon vous plait,
Du beau, Du bon, Dubonnet
Il apporte la joie de vivre,
Le bonheur, la santé et l'équilibre..."
(Drink whenever you like
Beautiful, good Dubonnet
It brings joy of life
Happiness, health and balance...)
Even more clever were the Dubonnet narrow, horizontal posters placed inside the Metro tunnels. Not in the stations, but on the walls of the dark tunnels in between stations. Along with the usual, highly recognizable gimmick "DUBO, DUBON, DUBONNET", the stylized, Art Deco style little character was pictured first holding his glass of wine, then raising his arm on a second poster and finally drinking the content of the glass on a third, final design. Inside the traveling wagons of the Metro, travellers could see the sequel of ideally framed and conveniently windows heigth placed designs suddenly lit up by the inner light of the wagons, the motion of the train generating the illusion of a short animated film, the viewer being in motion instead of the movie ! How clever, when you're trapped inside the wagons of some underground railway without anything else to look at throughout the windows, isn't it ?
Other than that... this is just another amazing post. Thank you very much, Lord K.
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A list of places the Garbage Patch/Spot.us project is mentioned:
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September 12, 2009 7:32 pm
On my first cruise (Costa Lines) back in the early 1970s, we watched and yelled as the ship's crew dumped ALL the garbage off the stern everyday. We were sickened by it, but they didn't even understand what we were yelling. If they still dump at sea it is well hidden, but what we gather (and trip over) from the beaches here on the east coast of Florida tells me there are still some litter bugs at sea and the fish are just about gone from the river and the coastline. Even deepsea fishing boats come back empty now. It is good to read your blog and know that this is finally getting attention. Good for you! Best wishes, pc


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You may be a Hare Krishna fanatic if ... you refuse to eat your kid's birthday cake because he blew out the candles and may have muchified the top layer with tiny kiddie spittles.
On the other hand ...
You may be a Hare Krishna fanatic if ... you'd fight with someone over who gets to swallow the leftover pit of a date, apricot or other stonefruit eaten by someone who you don't actually know but is institutionally recognized as a 'senior devotee'.
Heaps more of these here.
Your body may be ugly as sin, but if you smile you look attractive.
Your body may be a perfect 10, but if you don't smile you look unattractive.
Perhaps this isn't so profound of a realization, but it's something I've been thinking of lately.
You may be a Hare Krishna fanatic if ... you are still living off the grains you stored for y2k. :)
Heaps more of these here.
This just came into the inbox. If everyone chips in a little then we can help them pay for medical costs.
If you want to use a credit card, or avoid costly international fees, you can make a donation into my PayPal account and, as Gopala is my witness, every penny will go to Braja and Jahnu (except for the small percentage PayPal takes as a transaction fee.)
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Dear Friends of Braja Sevaki and Jahnudvipa Prabhus,
Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
For now the general news about Braja and Jahnu is good. As you may well know, Braja is back in Mayapur and, for the time being, recuperating at my house. She's still very sore all over but her face is improving every day. And today she wanted cheese and tomato toast for breakfast so things are looking up :0)
Jahnu was moved to a private room yesterday and will have a 24 hour attendant with him as Braja is not able to be there. He still has one chest drain in and was sedated again because of agitation. The doctors say this is normal in these situations. But hopefully, being in a private room will be more peaceful for him and he can make speedy progress. He still needs many of your prayers.
The cost of the medical treatment so far has been upwards of $20,000 and Jahnu is not out of there yet. So it could be as much as $30,000 by the end. Many of you have enquired as to how you may offer some financial assistance for the medical expenses. After discussing it here and understanding that some of you may be concerned as to where the money might go, we decided it would be best for donors to send the money for Braja and Jahnu directly to Braja's personal account.
Account name: Bonnie A Stewart
Account number: 5000 1040 6355
Bank name: Commonwealth Bank Of Australia
Branch: Adelaide
Swift code: CTBAAU 2S500
Anybody sending a donation should let me know by email as to when and how much you have sent so we can keep track of it.
There will be separate information for donations to help the driver but I haven't been given them yet. I'll send them out as soon as I can.
Braja and Jahnu are so grateful for all the love being sent their way. They feel that their recoveries have been expedited by all your love and prayers. Thank you on their behalf.
"And big licks from the cow shed!" said Braja!!
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STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING (except reading this of course)!!!!!
Spend a few minutes watching this video. You'll be glad you did.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
...on the tip of His nose Lord Gopala wears a rare pearl taken from an elephant's brow: nasagre gaja-mautikam.
From Brhad-Bhagavatamrta 2.7.29 ppt., by Sanatana Goswami Prabhupada; presented by Gopiparanadhana Prabhu
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Coles has contributed food and other assistance to authorities co-ordinating relief efforts in affected areas and will donate this Friday's profits from its 750 stores nationally to the Victoria bushfires appeal.
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Here's the latest article from award winning educator and author, Kristen Houghton for School Reform at BellaOnline.com.
Child Abuse Comes in Many Forms
Child abuse can take many forms, one of which is neglect of a child´s hygiene...
We may think we know what child abuse is; physical bruises and marks, emotional ly fearful looks and an inability to takepart in normal activities.But what about hygiene? How many of us have seen children who look disheveled and downright dirty? How many have noticed children who have a bad odor to them? Neglect in a child's hygiene also counts as child abuse.
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Child Abuse Comes in Many Forms"
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Alma rallied after Greenbrier capitalized on a pair of big plays and held off the Panthers 30-20 Thursday night at Airedale Stadium.
It was the final non-conference game for Alma, who face Chaffin next week to start River Valley play.
"Chaffin has a great defense and (the Cougars) run the ball… a lot," said Alma coach JD Coursey. "It could be one of those games that is over quickly."
The Airedales had back-to-back interceptions in the first half. The first was returned 35 yards by Hunter Milligan to the Alma 3. Alma's defense came up with two big stops, but Carter Burcham hit Jason Hill for a five-yard strike on a fourth down. Burcham connected with Cody Hopper for the two-point conversion and Greenbrier cut Alma's lead by more than half, 14-8 with 4:34 remaining in the second quarter.
After Hopper returned the kickoff to the Alma 46, Greenbrier tied up the game to start the second half as Burcham found Alex Massey for a 30-yard strike with 5:24 remaining. Alma halted the two-point conversion to keep the score tied, 14-14.
Alma returned with back-to-back scoring drives. Noah Dotson had touchdown passes of 33 and 62 yards. Dotson added a pair of two-point conversions as well, including high pass that seemed more like a jump shot to hit Dean Whitmire in the back of the end zone behind several defenders. Alma led 30-14 4:58 left in the game.
"That was the key," said Coursey. "A sign of a good team is one that respond like that and score when it needed to."
Greenbrier responded with the longest drive of the night (11 plays) which ended on a five-yard run by Hopper after Burcham hit Massey with a 25-yard strike.
The Panthers picked off another interception late in the second quarter, but the Alma defense made a stop on a fourth-and-2 with a sack by Jacob Davis and Cordel Thompson.
Alma led 14-0 a one-yard run by Dotson.
The Airedales finished with 291 yards on 36 plays. Dotson was 5 of 9 passing for 164 yards and three touchdowns.
Brayden Harris had two catches for 69 yards and two touchdowns, and Drake Pendergraft hauled in two catches for 73 yards for one touchdown.
VB Freshman Academy 25, Poteau 0
After a scoreless first quarter Van Buren got on board and rolled out 300 yards on the ground to their first win of the season Tuesday night at Blakemore Field.
The game was rescheduled from Thursday to accommodate the high school Pirates' game for that evening.
Gage Bowlin had 13 carries for 98 yards to pace the Pointers.
Kameron Collins, Malik McElwee and Caleb Christenson each had four carries, but finished with 79, 73 and 57 yards respectively.
McElwee, who finished with three catches for 111 yards, got things moving as he hauled in a 63-yard yard pass from Kyan Rose in the second quarter.
Collins, who had two touchdowns runs, scored his first on a three-yard jaunt and gave Van Buren a 12-0 lead at the break.
Collins added his second TD run, this time from 59 yards out in the third quarter.
Christenson had a 35-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter.
Rose completed 4 of 8 passes for 113 yards.
Mountainburg 42, Decatur 20
The Dragons survived some breakdowns on special teams to improve to 2-1.
The Bulldogs scored all three of its touchdowns during a kickoff.
Decatur scored on two kickoff returns, and recovered a fumble during a Dragon kickoff return and returned it for a touchdown.
Robert Roxin scored three times for Mountainburg. He began the game with a 70-yard touchdown return. He caught a 30-yard pass from Quency Pixley and added a five-yard touchdown run.
Pixley threw a 60-yard pass to Matthew Dollard for another first-half score.
Mountainburg led 30-6 at the half, but Decatur had their second kickoff return for a touchdown. When the Dragons had the ensuing kickoff, the Bulldogs stripped the ball and returned it for another score to make it 30-22 in a span of 30 seconds.
Riley Dollard put Mountainburg on track with a 70-yard touchdown run and Roxin added his final TD run for the final score.
Roxin almost returned an interception for a another score off of a deflection from Pixley.
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The Loyola University New Orleans College invites you to the 31st Annual Moot Court Awards Banquet. Thursday, April 19, 20186:00p.m. - 9:00p.m. Hors d' oeuvres and buffet dinnerRosy's Jazz Hall500 Valence Street New Orleans, LA 70130
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Islamabad High Court (IHC) declares Pegham Union as CBA of Wapda
Hyderabad Sindh (December 18, 2012) – The leaders of Pakistan Wapda Employees Pegham Union said that their union has been declared as CBA of Wapda and their opponent union Hydro electric labour union has lost its registration.
This was stated by employees union president for Sindh Sajan Pahanwar, secretary Rafiuddin Shah, vice chairman Babu Yakoob Alam, Anis Ahmed Khan and others while addressing news conference at press club here on Tuesday. They told their case was pending in courts and on 18 Dec 2012 Islamabad High Court gave decision in their favour as the registration of Hydro union had already been cancelled since last 6 months.
They said their rival union office bearers are almost retired employees of Wapda while their office bearers are sitting employees. They said that former CBA union had collected millions of rupees from employees in last 50 years so they would take account of every rupee from them. They said they would try to solve the problems facing employees of various wings of Wapda including Hesco Jenco, Water Wing and Sesko.
They pledged old age facilities for retired employees, GLI on retirement, 20% allowance for all offices, promotions of employees on line of officers, time scale, up gradation, move over, selection grade two bonuses each year, recruitment of children of employees on vacant posts, TA and overtime without deduction, risk advance for all employees.
They also told that the former hydro labour union has given call of protest on today 19th against Islamabad High Court decision awarding Pegham union CBA status. They condemned this call and said it would be contempt of court of which they appealed to IHC to take notice of.


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New Federal Law Could Affect Students' Internet Privacy
President Donald Trump has signed into law a measure that critics say clears a path for internet-service providers to share and sell customers' web-browsing histories and other personal data, a decision that could have ramifications for student privacy.
The legislation nixes rules approved by the Federal Communications Commission that set privacy restrictions on data the telecoms collect on customers. Those rules had not yet taken effect.
Just how and whether student information could be gathered and sold depends on such factors as the language of individual K-12 contracts with schools and districts, experts say. Another factor is whether students log in through the school or their own, separate connection.
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Hi , my 21 year old female hasn't layed any eggs this year which I'm sure is down to the cool summer that we've had. But what worries me is it any danger to her health if she doesn't lay this year or is it advisable to have her induced by a vet or can anyone recomend a method that works but not unkind to the tort.
I've had her for 2 years now with successful hatchlings and her previous owners reported no problems at all.
Many thanks
Egg Laying
Started by Shurco, Aug 20 2017 01:05 PMNot laid yet
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Posted 20 August 2017 - 01:05 PM
Posted 20 August 2017 - 01:18 PM
Providing you have a male, then best to leave well alone. Inducing eggs is rarely necessary as many torts carry eggs through to the next season. It's only a problem if she is climbing the walls in nesting fashion, in which case, keep her within a good nesting site with added heat for encouragement. I had a female induced by a 'knowledgeable!' Vet some years ago and it took several years for her to recover. It was only after years of her repeatedly dropping infertile eggs and being generally lethargic that it was explained to me how her system had been well and truly messed up. Some vets do it as routine ( same as antibiotics etc) but I wouldn't do it again. Hope this helps.
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Posted 20 August 2017 - 02:16 PM
Ok thanks I'll just let nature take its course
Posted 20 August 2017 - 04:17 PM
Do you have a male? Harassment can stop them laying, also if you are using a friends male, could be she's not been stimulated to produce eggs.
Posted 20 August 2017 - 04:20 PM
I've got a male of the same age and separated them when she started climbing the walls.
As I said in the beginning I've had successful hatches last year but she layed much earlier
As I said in the beginning I've had successful hatches last year but she layed much earlier
Posted 20 August 2017 - 06:40 PM
Have they been together this year? I wouldn't worry as there are odd years when they don't lay.
Posted 21 August 2017 - 06:07 AM
They're together all the time until she started climbing then I separated them
Posted 21 August 2017 - 07:36 AM
So she's showing a need to nest? I'd just try to increase heat where she usually nests, this is what will trigger her.
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new FS owner
Hello all I recently acquired a FS. I have sailed and raced FS many years ago and have always kept my eye open for one. I have not picked up the boat yet and had a question about stowing the mast when towing the boat. My thoughts were to place the mast and boom on a couple life vests and tie them to the boat. BUT I thought I would ask if there was standard way to stow the mast and boom for moving the boat.I picked up hull 1069, from a bit of gazing online I take it this was built in the late 60's. I am sure there is a hull number with the date in it but have not gotten that far yet. The boat and trailer look very good. The interior floor has been redone; the wet balsa was taken out and replaced. I am bit concerned about the weight looks like a bit of extra glass there. The keel has a ugly patch job I will have to make some decisions on. That covers the first half hour of looking at the boat so I am there will be a few other issues. thanksDwight
Sun, 09/30/2012 - 15:22
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Hi Dwight,The usual way of stowing the mast for towing the boat is having a yoke that fits into the rudder gudgeons at the stern and another yoke that either fits onto the mast step or fits into the space in the stanchion that is just aft of the mast step. The boom is usually stowed in the boat, positioned as far forward as possible to keep it from moving forward in case of a sudden stop. I own hull number 1087, which was built by Customflex in Ohio in 1967. I think the requirement to have the boat's identification number on the hull did not start until 1972, so it's possible that the hull number is not anywhere on the hull of your boat.Regards,Greg
Mon, 10/01/2012 - 14:56
new FS owner
I bought my boat in 1999 and the the jib blocks and the mainsheet cleat all had ratchet blocks. I don't know if they were original equipment, but they look like they could have been. There were no spinnaker sheet blocks on my boat when I bought it, so I don't know about those.GregFlying Scot #1087
Mon, 10/01/2012 - 20:13
The yoke at the stern is metal and has a rod that goes down through the rudder gudgeons. The forward yoke is a wooden fork, that fits in right behind the mast step. You will also need a tiedown strap. Some of the old boats had a tiedown board that went across the back of the cockpit. Also be sure the boat is secure at the bow. Usually the winch is a good sturdy attachment at the bow.
Tue, 10/02/2012 - 15:22
Some of the older Scots may not have the metal rod that goes through the rudder gudgeons. They may be made of wood with two metal angles mounted on it. If this is what you have, the rudder pin is then used to hold the yoke on the gudgeons. In addition to the winch being taut, I use an extra line to tie the bowplate to the trailer in case the winch fails. If its an old trailer, and the winch looks questionable, I advise using the line to tie it down just in case. Nothing worse than trailering along and hitting a good bump and watch the boat launch up in the air. Also check the bunk boards. I found out one day that one of my bunk boards came loose and there was a nice vertical steel post aiming for the hull. Caught it in time before it did any damage. Good luck and welcome to the FS class.
Wed, 10/03/2012 - 12:48
In the gallery on the third
In the gallery on the third page is some pictures of mine, you can see the yoke in the back of my boat , and on the front I made my own support to fit inside of the stanchion. another reason to use this over cushions , is the deck is very slippery , and the second reason is getting the mast up over the tow vehicle. My boat is a 64


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In the first year of a big soda tax in Mexico, sales of sugary drinks fell. In the second year, they fell again, according to new research.
The finding represents the best evidence to date of how sizable taxes on sugary drinks, increasingly favored by large American cities, may influence consumer behavior. The results could have consequences for public health. But they also matter for policy makers who hope to use the money raised by such taxes to fund other projects. Philadelphia, San Francisco, Oakland, Calif., and the Illinois county that contains Chicago have recently passed taxes similar in size to the tax in Mexico.
Mexico's soda tax took effect in 2014, and applied to all beverages that included added sugar, including carbonated soft drinks, fruit drinks and sweetened iced teas. The effort was pushed by public health advocates who argued that liquid sugar was contributing to the country's high burden of obesity and diabetes.
Studies on the first year of the tax found that sugary beverage consumption fell substantially, with the biggest decreases among low-income Mexicans — the group at highest risk of obesity-related diseases. But industry analysts and anti-tax advocates had argued that the one-year results could just be a blip that would reverse as companies retooled their products, or as consumers adjusted to higher prices for their favorite drinks.
The new study, published online Wednesday in Health Affairs, shows that the results of such a tax may be far more long-lasting. The research, based on shopping data from a large sample of urban Mexican households, showed that the first year's consumption declines continued during the second year. Over all, sugary drink sales fell by 5.5 percent in 2014 compared with the year before, and by 9.7 percent in 2015 — again compared with 2013. (The results are based on predicted volumes had there been no tax.) Once again, the largest reductions were among the poorest Mexicans.
Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, and one of the study's authors, said the trend suggests that sugary drink consumption may follow a pattern similar to that of products traditionally thought of as addictive, like cigarettes and alcohol.
"Like with tobacco, we're seeing what we call a real habituation effect," he said. "Over time people seem to get more weaned away from the sugary beverages, and that increases the impact of the tax."
For public health crusaders, who like the idea of the soda tax because it can reduce sugar consumption, such news may be welcome. But some public officials may be dismayed by the results. Philadelphia passed a large soda tax last year and earmarked most of its proceeds to pay for a major expansion to prekindergarten. City budget officials had assumed that the tax would provide a stable source of revenue for education. If results there mirror those of Mexico, city councilors may eventually have to find the education money elsewhere.
The results are also unwelcome news for another group: the beverage industry. So far, there isn't clear evidence that sugary drink taxes have a real impact on public health, which the International Council of Beverages Associations highlighted in a statement disputing the research: "Obesity rates have not gone down as proponents vowed they would under the tax." But if a tax on sugary drinks leads to lasting changes in consumer tastes, the growing popularity of such taxes could turn out to be bad for business, whatever new evidence emerges.


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Hi, DH here! Thanks all for your kind comments on my last post - I do feel better, even though our situation is objectively worse than it was lol. Now I'm unemployed (massive layoff at the old music factory), Oma is living with us, and I'm spending just about all of my time looking for a job. At times, I feel like I'm underwater, running in nightmare-slow-motion, pushing against the current of... everything. The world seems ever sharper, meaner, and more dangerous. This morning on the local news, there was a shooting at a shooting vigil that killed a man. Holy crap! Don't go to vigils. Don't go where there are large concentrations of people.
Don't go outside.
About a month ago, our older girls participated in the year-end dance recital (show) their school does every year. If you're not a dance parent, it's hard to imagine: This is a real show, with the students (and some professionals) performing ballet, jazz, modern, and tap (Julia's favorite). Costumes, makeup, lights, professional venue, etc. The timing worked out so that I went to the younger's show with her older sister, and then I drove them home in my car. No problem! I'm a good driver.* Things were fine until I got to the highway that runs to our house. We followed a drunk driver who literally drove into a ditch in front of us, corrected, and then somehow turned off the road without killing anyone. Whew, I thought.
Too soon.
The next car ahead was driven by someone even more drunker! I know, hard to believe, but as we followed this one, it seemed obvious that he was headed for serious trouble. He couldn't keep the car on the road, and kept veering to the right, as if the shoulder was another lane. I stayed well back, in case he decided to swerve left and incite a head-on with a truck in the oncoming lane. I fumbled for my phone in the dark, weighing the possibility of getting a $612 ticket with saving lives, when he seemed to straighten up: The car moved into the right-hand turn lane at our neighborhood... church? up ahead, and he was leaving the highway. Yay! I sped up (he had been going 30 in a 45 MPH zone).
Too soon.
There have been a number of times in my life where I know I've had a supernatural experience. Usually, it's in the heat of a life-or-death moment, and usually the decision I make is too quick to analyze, and yet somehow, correct. This was like that. At the last possible moment, as I drew alongside, The Drunk decided he didn't want to go to Church after all, and cut back over into the lane I was driving in. No looking, no pause, just swerve left. I didn't see it happen. I couldn't, as I was looking forward at the time. I guess a scientist would say I must have caught some movement (in the dark) from the corner of my eye. And without even realizing I had done it, my car was across the center line, leaving tire tread we could see the next day, as I stopped perfectly parked facing oncoming traffic. I think if there had been a car coming, I could have dodged even a little more left, and missed that too.
And now I know how drunks cause horrific accidents.
The girls and I sat utterly shaken in our seats. My insurance agent didn't magically appear and say, "Wow, you just saved lives AND money!" The Drunk didn't wreck his car and get in trouble. My reward was to drive us back into our lane, and home. In actuality, this is pretty routine for me. I avoid a LOT of accidents, some of which could have been pretty bad. Usually the thanks I get is road rage**.
What matters anymore? Can I get drunk too and go to Church? Can I carry a gun and just shoot those A-holes in the face? How do you explain what happened (or what is happening in the world) to your beautiful daughters?
So, this feels like the end, a little. I'm going to follow Julia into the dark (of not blogging here). I've steered clear of a topic that is very important to me: Global warming, and how we humans might do something about it, like right now. I don't know if you share my passion, but this is where I'm going to be hanging out on a regular basis. Who knows? Maybe we can save our biosphere. Could happen!
Peace, love, and best wishes to you all, thank you so much for sharing our journey. I can't say we're done, because it's Julia's Personal Thinking Spot after all, so until we blog again... <3
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If stealing the show was against the law, Nathan the dog would be one smooth criminal.
The charming little Chinese Crested pup, who took the internet by storm a few years back for his uncanny ability to boogie along to pop songs, is back and as wiggly as ever.
This time, Nathan is getting his groove on to the cheery sounds of a grandma rocking the accordion - proving without a doubt his incredible versatility as a backup dancer.
Best of all, Nathan's signature dance skills aren't just fun to watch - they're helping to raise awareness about other pups like him. He's been serving as a a spokesdog of sorts for the group Bald Is Beautiful dog rescue, putting the spotlight on these unique pets' playful side.
"Although their looks are considered odd to some, Nathan's growing fan base is discovering what makes them incredibly special; quirky antics, expressive faces and loving personalities," his owner wrote on Facebook. "Because of Nathan, adoptions within the rescue have benefitted. Inquiries and interest about the breed has increased and comments have been more positive than ever."
Here's another video of Nathan in action, this time grooving to a tune with a bit more rhythm.
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Falling Rock—Foothold Broke Off
Wyoming, Tetons
John Hubalek (23) was climbing Baxter's Pinnacle on July 6, 1987, with Randy Harrington. At 1445, Harrington was leading the second pitch of the south ridge when a foothold that he was standing on broke off. A rock, 25 to 30 centimeters in diameter, fell approximately ten meters and struck Hubalek on the head and shoulder. Hubalek was wearing a helmet, but the impact still knocked him unconscious and he was left hanging upside down in his climbing harness.
Leo and Helen Larson were climbing an adjacent pitch and they were able to come to Hubalek's aid and also radio the Jenny Lake Ranger Station to report the accident.
in Rotors helicopter was used to sling load equipment to the base of the pinnacle. Hubalek was lowered 100 meters down the cliff and then carried another 400 meters down steep talus and scree to the trail. He was wheeled to the boat dock, taken across the lake in the concessioner's boat, and driven to St. John's Hospital in the park ambulance. He arrived there at 2025. His injuries were diagnosed as a concussion, head laceration and brusied shoulder. Had Hubalek not been wearing a helmet, he very well could have been killed. (Source: Bob Irvine, Ranger, Grand Teton National Park.)


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Goal Running in Dymchurch, animals treated at a vet school and Wreathed Hornbills at a zoo.
Short Summary
Titles read: "CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF".
Various locations of events.
At Dymchurch in Kent we see men on a field playing a game of Goal Running. It involves two teams of men, running in pairs (one from each team) around a kind of rounders pitch. The object is to get round without being touched by your opponent. Several shots of the game in progress. Some men fall over and are easily touched - meaning 5 points to the opposite team. One man almost pulls the shorts off his opponent!
At Erkatz in Russia we see various shots of trainee vets being taught to treat animals at a special hospital. A pig lies on a table to be given ray treatment. A horse has a silver instrument run over his coat (not sure what this is for). Another horse is seen hanging in a sling, with sleepers over his eyes and his hooves attached by chains to the sling frame. The sling is suddenly tipped up so the horse is lying on his side - it looks very bizarre! This allows a vet to operate on any part of the animal.
At St Louis Zoo in Missouri, United States of America we see two Wreathed Hornbills, the only ones in America, being taken out of boxes and put into their cage. They look rather lonely on their bare tree.
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- 1192.03
- Media URN:
- 41101
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- Pathetones
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 04/09/1939
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COLUMBUS: The Ohio Department of Education is losing a leader in its school accountability division as the state investigates whether districts improperly manipulated attendance and enrollment data.
Associate Superintendent William Zelei told colleagues in an Aug. 6 email that he�s resigning for a new job. The department released the message Wednesday.
Zelei said he was asked months ago to lead the Ohio Schools Council, a cooperative purchasing consortium for school districts. He says it gives him an opportunity to move closer to an ill relative.
Department spokesman John Charlton indicated Zelei�s plans aren�t related to the data investigation or recent resignation of Superintendent Stan Heffner.
Charlton says Zelei offered to stay with the department through September to help with the transition. His departure date isn�t set.