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I left him staring into the eyes of his own skull and went to make some tea. Nothing special, but loose-leaf for the occasion. Brought it back on a tray with the sugar pot, and the strainer. Neither of us take milk.
He didn't seem too interested in the tea when I laid it down at first, but eventually decided to come and investigate. The both of us have always seen tea as a bit of a comfort, and considering the situation I think it is fair to say we both needed it at the time.
He poured his, then I poured mine while he added an obscene amount of sugar – he's always liked his sugar. He says sometimes that at least he died before he got diabetes. I tell him that's the wrong attitude to have.
"That's my skull?" he said looking over his shoulder at the yellowing object. The bone dome stood silently, teeth stretched in a never-changing grin. Looking its own way.
"… God."
I nodded. I wish I'd brought in a bit of cold water. Just to make the tea… drinkable. Far too hot as it is. And leaving it makes it stew. Or is that just if you leave the leaves in? I suppose that's one reason why people take milk – just so they can drink it before their company has to leave.
"Why haven't I seen it until now?"
"Yeah. Why."
I frowned at him, "Well… the meat had to decompose. It was suspicious enough having to dig your bones back up."
"You buried me on a hill."
"I buried you out the way."
He snorted, "Out the way, on a hill. Was a cemetery too much to ask? Didn't a new one just open a few months ago? You could've put me there."
I shook my head, "It opened about a year ago," I said. "And besides, I wasn't going to sneak into a cemetery to dig you up. Much easier just burying you on a secluded hill where no one goes. Made my job easier. Besides – you didn't even stay in the ground."
He didn't seem happy, even though he couldn't deny the logic of my decision. I'm rather surprised he cared that much. Honestly, I thought he wouldn't care where he was buried. He never cared about much anyway. Why would he be so defensive about this?
Silence fell around us. I did my best to not feel too uncomfortable, though the way both of us left our tea to cool definitely gave the room a bit of an awkward feeling. And although I tried my best to come up with conversation, nothing seemed to flow at the time. You can't ask a dead man how he's doing. Or what he's been doing lately. It'd be pointless.
I found out it was pointless after I asked him. I said, "What've you been up to lately?" as any friend would. And he just looked sideways at me and said, "Stupid question?"
That happened the last time we met, but at least conversation happened, no matter how much of a fool I looked.
"Hard to check if your skull was free of meat," I said, attempting a bit of humour.
"Free of… meat? Why the hell are you calling it 'meat'? That was me. That was my brain in there."
"What? But you died."
"So? Still my brain, even if it's not working. Or wasn't. I suppose it's animal crap now."
This is why it's hard to talk to him.
"Um…" I said, trying to save face. "I'm certain it's free of your brain. Or your flesh. It's been in the ground… a good nine or ten months. And I cleaned it. And I bleached it in the sun for a few days. I put it on the shed roof."
"No one noticed, I swear."
He sat back, his arms folded over his chest. His seemed to avoid looking at me, or anywhere near me. I was used to this. I wasn't fazed by his attitude. He was always like this, even before he died. Equally standoffish, equally gloomy.
But he looked at me eventually, "Where's the rest of me then?"
I shrugged one shoulder and tested if my tea was cooled with my top lip, "Black bag – ow."
"I'm kidding," that made me smile, despite my hurting lip. Didn't make him smile though. Unsurprisingly. "Everything's in a box in the shed. It took hours for me to sort it all out. I tried to put all the leg bones together, all the arm bones, all the ribs… that sort of thing. Not sure why. I mean, what am I supposed to do with it?"
He didn't say a word. Just sat there with his arms folded. The same as he was before. He looked identical now to how he did before he died. Same hair parting, same bags under his eyes, same remnants of that skin condition on the back of his left thumb. Apparently it was a stress-related skin condition. I always thought otherwise; I always thought it was his skin reacting to the washing-up liquid. Because it always flared up after he did the dishes. He insisted it was stress though.
I scratched at my temple, "Do I just keep it all in a box in the shed? Bones in my shed? Human bones?"
"Fucking bury them again if it's a problem. Sorry to be a burden on you."
I sighed, "Not a burden, I just… what does one do with human bones? Honestly, if someone finds out, I'll probably be arrested."
"And being arrested isn't a burden."
"Well. I mean, it is. But… well what do you want me to say? Your dead body is a bloody nightmare to look after?"
He shrugged, "If you want to say that. It's not even my problem."
I sighed again. Same insufferable attitude. Plus my tea was still too hot. But at least it was cooling.
"It was so fucking creepy digging you up."
"You don't say."
Despite his obvious disinterest, I decided to press on with my point. I wasn't going to let his attitude deprive me of a conversation, "I mean, on the one hand you did ask me to last time you were here. So at least I had the peace of mind that you wanted me to dig you up. But on the other hand… I can't tell whether seeing you made it more or less creepy. Because if I hadn't seen you again, I'd just be digging up the bones of someone I'd spent years of my life around. Which is creepy on its own… but seeing you again, then digging up your bones is weird. Because maybe I don't see those bones as yours? I can't tell. But you're welcome with the skull anyway."
"What do you mean, 'you're welcome'. I never thanked you."
"No I… I did what you asked."
"Yeah, you dug my body up. Didn't ask for you to display my head in your fucking house. Who wants that?"
I found myself truly glowering at him. Talking to him was getting me nowhere. It was just ending up annoying me. Still – I'd promised to take tea with him. Not that a promise meant much to him anyway. He never honoured his. Still doesn't.
"Shall I take it down then?"
"Your house."
I didn't answer this. I just tried my tea again. Drinkable. A little hot, but not scalding. And perhaps the heat of the tea would quench the heat of my forehead. He was truly annoying me. And yet I felt awful being annoyed at him.
I'd mourned him. For months. And then… six months after he'd died, I heard a knock on my bedroom door and in he walked. In the flesh. Physical, nothing ethereal or see-through. I had a panic attack over it to which he stood there, scowling a little at me, but didn't try to explain or help me. He just waited.
Waiting in the room probably helped, I admit. Probably helped me to come to terms with the fact that he was there. Unthreatening and… normal. Because I had missed him. A man made almost entirely of flaws, and I missed that? Apparently. Somewhere I cherished him, I admired him, I was amused by him. It felt strange to like someone like that, or to want him around… and, as I sat with my teacup at my lips, I wondered what I had missed. Had I missed the way he annoyed me, his blunt and unorchestral voice? What exactly had I lost with his death? Nothing much.
I'd actually gained a bit of positivity. I laughed a lot louder when I laughed during the understated healing process. When I wasn't thinking about him, when he wasn't on my mind. If I was amused, I was properly allowed to laugh… I was probably a bit happier.
Staring at him, I put down the teacup.
"It's cool?"
"I guess so. A bit hot but…" He was talking about the tea. He'd looked down at it when he'd asked. Tea came first. Insultingly enough.
He, with his new information, tried the tea. Then he complained he'd added too much sugar. So he added more tea. Then he complained it was too hot. So he put it down again. I watched. I didn't say anything.
"You know something," he said, unaffected by my silence.
"What's that."
"I discovered a lot about myself. When I died. It's like… all the things I should have known, or maybe I did know them… all the things buried deep in my brain all were so clear. Whispers of thoughts were suddenly spoken properly, and facts were shouted. I realised a lot. It felt huge at the time. Just feels normal now."
He snorted, "There, that perked you up, didn't it."
It had.
"Shut up. What did you… find out? Was it all about you?"
"Most of it. Some of it was about other people, some of it was about other places and things, most of it isn't important. Perhaps I'd go and tell people things but… yeah they all think I'm dead so what's the point?"
"I thought you were dead."
He shrugged.
"Am I different?" I asked, with trepidation.
He just shrugged again.
Which annoyed me. But I tried not to let it show.
"What did you find out."
"A fair bit," he said. Then he kept me waiting by trying his tea again. Not to be put out, I drank some of my own. But when I put my cup down, he was huffing and adding a splash more tea and a lot more sugar. Apparently a dead man can't make a decent cup of tea for himself.
I playfully asked if he needed any help – he declined less-than-playfully.
"Tell me what you found."
"God, fine. I found out, well… this all might be a little surprising to you too. But I found out more about my actual family, I found out my actual name, and I found–"
"Hold up, your actual name?"
He nodded slowly. As if I was stupid.
"What parent calls their child Lull?" he said. "When their other children are called Rhesus and Lois? Why the hell would you think my real name was Lull?"
"I know it's what I told you, but I didn't know I had a real name until I died. So. And yeah, I've apparently got an older brother called Rhesus. I didn't even know that. Unless I did and it was just buried somewhere in my mind. Death pulled it out maybe."
"You don't sound all that surprised," he said. Flatly.
I tilted my head, "Should I be? I mean, yes, you have an older brother, that's new. But I don't know him do I? Probably never will. Where is he?"
"How the fuck should I know?"
"Fine," I said. "You don't know. And I'm not that surprised. I'm more surprised about your name, though you've got a point about it… I suppose no parent would call their kid Lull would they."
"So what is it?"
And he smirked. In all the time I've known him, I've never seen him smirk. I don't know if I'd ever seen his teeth, to be honest, that's how little he ever smiled.
"What makes you think I want to tell you?"
"Um, the fact you brought it up? Is it really embarrassing?"
"Quite embarrassing, yeah."
"Are you going to tell me…?"
He shrugged. "Ahh… yeah. I mean, what are you going to do. Tease, worse case."
"I could tell Lois."
He frowned. Darkly.
I blinked, "Or… not tell Lois? You could tell her yourself…? Actually, that's a good point – why haven't you appeared to her? I want the answer to that question first please, before your name."
"Appeared? Hah. I'm not a spirit."
"Alright, why haven't you gone to her then?"
His eyes narrowed, and he developed some subtle snarl. Both combined contorted his features into something quite ferocious, and I regretted asking the question. It was a fair enough question too – Lois was his sister, his little sister, the girl he took care of even before she could walk.
"Why the fuck would I want to screw up her grieving process?" he growled. "She's mourning, or she has mourned. If I showed myself to her… bang, whole thing screwed up. Whole thing pointless. There'll be a point where you won't see me again either, so if Lois knew I was here… well look at Lois. She's a stupid little girl, she'd latch onto me again. Pretend I wasn't ever dead and her head would make her believe that. Out of denial."
"Alright, alright. Good point."
"Then when I vanish forever, she'll have to start all over again. You think that won't be more damaging?"
I tapped the side of my teacup once and shook my head. I felt like I was getting scolded, like I was stupid. Because he had a good – better than good – point. He was right. Dying, going away seemingly forever, then coming back into Lois' life wouldn't be good. I'd never call her a "stupid little girl" but… he was right. He was. She'd start believing he never died.
Lois relied almost exclusively on me after her brother died. Perhaps because she thought I was closest to him, I was reliable like him. And I am reliable, I will call myself that, but I'm a lot softer than he ever was. If she pissed him off, he'd let her know. If he needed space from her, he'd physically push her away. I could never do that. I let her close to me, I held her when she cried, I talked about him with her, I smelled her tears and she smelled mine.
Something we both… realised… was that we felt as if he had never existed. It wasn't long either. The denial was strongest, and scariest. As if he had just gone away on a trip somewhere and he would be back before long. But the more I thought about it, the more I realised I was waiting. I was waiting beside a door that he would never come through. I would buy cigarettes for him and only remember no one was going to smoke them when I was halfway out the shop door. I would prepare the sugarbowl when I made tea just in case he wanted any, before realising he'd never be there to take sugar again.
That was the denial. And it hit both me and Lois hard… but it affected her more. I was my own person, I looked after myself, but he looked after her. If I was waiting by the door, she was pressed up against it. With her nose at the letterbox. As if trying to use any sense she had to find him.
The belief that he never existed came soon after that, and Lois was indeed a wreck. I'd lost a friend, but Lois had lost a brother who was more of a father than a sibling. Not a good father, but a guardian nevertheless. So to believe he didn't exist terrified her.
A year, and she is only just healing properly. She can go through his CD collection now. She can't play any of them. But she can look at the boxes without weeping. Most of them.
"No. You're right. Don't go to her."
"I could tell her your real name. If you like."
"Also no. What would that help?"
He sat back again. No longer as vicious. "Yeah. To reveal that her brother's name wasn't ever his real name? Lovely."
"Fine, not that either."
"Just… keep this to yourself. Honestly, it's better if no one else knows. They'll only ask questions about how you know. I probably shouldn't have mentioned it."
I scowled, "You can trust me, you know. I know when to keep my mouth shut."
"Alright," he sighed. "I know. You're not stupid."
"I don't think I am. At all. Come on. What's your real name?"
I found myself smiling, trying not to chuckle. Arby? The man sat before me, who I've known as Lull, is called Arby.
"Short for anything?"
"Probably. Stop laughing."
"I'm really not."
He busied himself with his tea. Taking mouthful after mouthful. Until he had drained the teacup. I politely offered to pour him more, but he declined.
"Yeah, no more tea. I'll be going in a few minutes. Back to the void of fucking nothingness."
"Is that really what it's like? To be dead?"
He shrugged. "Honestly I'm just speculating. I don't remember a thing while I'm there unless it's more subconscious revelations made conscious. Death is death. Nothing is nothing. Just how it is."
"How much longer have you got?"
"How long has it been?"
"Not long, actually. Probably a couple of hours."
"Mm. About as long as last time."
I smiled, "Last time you were here for twenty minutes."
He frowned.
"I suspected this for a while now – your perception of time is completely thrown off. Like you thought the cemetery opened a few months ago? It opened before you died, you know?"
"Shit. I remember. That's annoying."
"It's alright. You just going to vanish again?"
"Most likely."
"How do you know you're going?"
He looked to one side. Perhaps thinking of the answer. Then he looked down at his hands. "I'm not… sure. It's like an alarm clock in my head. Or something. I just suddenly realise I'm going to go. I don't have long. Even if my perception of time is fucked."
"When are you going to come back?"
"Might not. I can't say."
I felt suddenly vulnerable. My question, a child-like question, an innocent question. "When are you going to come back?" As if my happiness, my enjoyment in life, my purpose, relies on him… Even though I know that, if he never did return, I'd be okay. I'm logical enough – I hope – to avoid mourning too hard a second time. I know he's dead, I remind myself of that fact every time he vanishes again. I remind myself that he's dead, that he probably won't come back. Ever.
But still. Asking that question, allowing that slice of childishness into my tone… it's made me a little melancholic about the entire situation. I know I'd give up a lot to just spend a few hours more with him. And that's proof I've not healed. Much. At all.
"Ah well. I'll put the kettle on if you do come back. In the meantime, is there actually anything you want me to do with your bones?"
"Oh um… no. That is… you can bury them again if you want. Or you can keep them in your shed. Honestly, if I was you I'd keep them in your shed. Burying bones over and over might literally get you arrested."
"Right… I'll think about it. Perhaps I'll invest in a big dog."
I managed to laugh.
He vanished not long after that. Fortunately, he wasn't halfway through a sentence, or else it'd have felt even more abrupt. All that happened was that his teaspoon fell to the table. He had been fiddling with it slightly as he listened to me explaining what kind of dog I'd most want – my preference seems to fluctuate between one of those Russian bear dogs and an old English sheepdog – and then he'd –
He'd vanished. It was disconcerting, terribly so. To be looking at someone, chatting, and then they're suddenly not there. No sound effect like in a cartoon, nor a flash of light. Simply, he was there, then he wasn't. Instantaneously. No fade-out, no dissolve. Just vanished.
So the teaspoon clattered to the table and actually took a chip out of the teacup as its handle scraped past. I sat there for a while, still, not really moving at all. But I knew he'd not come back.
I cleaned up the table. Examined the chip in the teacup; nothing major, it wouldn't cause a crack. So at least there was that.
After all that, I went back to the room and examined his skull. When he was sitting in front of me, the skull on the bookshelf behind him wasn't weird. Now it was. I picked it up, and my fingertips didn't like that. It felt too strange. Touching something which was, a year and a half ago, in the head of the man who'd been drinking tea with me…
Yeah, I put it down quite quickly. Simply too awkward for me to hold anymore. Even stranger to be in the same room with it after its owner had departed from the room so suddenly.
So I decided to leave the room too. Leave the room and call it a night. Tomorrow I'd feel differently about the skull – I'd be able to face it and feel comfortable with it. But looking at it now, looking at the teeth that, a year and a half ago, would have had held a cigarette while he lit it… it was scary. It made my head ask all those questions. The ones beginning with "how" and "why".
I turned out the lights. All the lights downstairs. And I locked the front door. I stared through its window, my house dark behind me, and the streetlamp across the way glowing faintly, painting the surroundings in shades of brown and gold.
That hill he was originally buried on is a public bridleway. One I walked many a time either alone or with friends or family. It didn't mean much to me then, it was only a bit of rough terrain with a few climbable trees… perhaps a dash of nostalgia here and there. I suppose it'll mean something else now.


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It sits on the table. I give it a wary glance.
It has been some time since we last interacted, and I'm not sure I'm ready.
I prowl around the table, looking at it from all four corners, wondering what my best form of approach is. I'm not ready for head on…I'd rather wonder from the side.
My eyes take in its rounded corners, the rough edges sewn up time and again, the way the handle curves beautifully not betraying the dark interior contents, the fabric worn and faded and yet I still see the pattern, something worn deep in my memory.
My hands tremble, my eyes begin to fill with tears and my heart beats hard.
Once embraced, attacked, released…one can never return to the unknown.
It has sat in the dark corner of my closer for far too long, skeletons dancing about…sharing their secrets and pushing them deep into its recesses, and I remember slamming the door on their whispered voices.
But the day has come. The door has been opened. The light has sent those skeletons fleeing and I have thrown this memory keeper full onto the table, ready to spill its contents.
The clasp is worn and rusty, and yet I know it just looks old, its barely been used and I've yet to flick the switch. I know that there is a journey that lies ahead. That soon this table will be littered with moments, memories, vices, grace and mystery…and yet my fingers hover above.
Letting forth this baggage, these moments of the past…will forever change my future, because once released they can only be dealt with, given the death blow to those things that drag me low and speak in lies, and those things seen in fresh light that I had left foraging in the dust of disuse and un-remembering.
Holding my breathe, I close my eyes…and flick open the latch. A puff of dust seeps out as I open the cavern of its opening wide and dare to take a peek. The contents lay deep within, time covered and sitting dark cornered. My task lies ahead…
I shall take each of them out. I will lay them table covered until ever last item is revealed. And then, it will begin. The banishment or burnishing…it lies ahead, there is no turning back.

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When I wrote last about Chance needing a helmet to fix his flat spot on his head, it was July. Here we are in September and he's closing in on actually having a helmet to wear.
The helmets aren't cheap and aren't ordered until funding is secured. The clinic we went to suggested we try doing a pre-determination request with our insurance. Nearly two weeks later we got the answer I was expecting, "No. It's not medically necessary." Another call to the clinic again gave me a list of funding sources. I called a couple and after the first call I was rather discouraged. The guy basically laughed at me and told us we make too much money. I'm sorry, $2,800 is quite a chunk for people who work hard and have good jobs to come up with all at once. But, where there is a will, there is a way.
A week ago we took Chance back to the clinic in Wichita to get "casted" for a helmet. The process involves a cap with sensors that is connected to a computer. An orthotist then scanned his head using a "gun" – much like what they use to scan items in a store. The scan sent information into a computer program and wha la, there's a 3D model of Chance's head on the computer screen. From this they make the helmet for him to wear.
When faced with the option of what color to get Chance's helmet in, I was drawn to the camo. He's a little boy, and what mother of a little boy doesn't gravitate towards camo? My husband wasn't as keen on the camouflage as I was, so we opted for a solid color. Then it was a choice between white or black? Creative parents huh? I questioned the orthotist as to what we could do to the helmet to spiff it up on our own. Stickers were completely acceptable. Well there you go. Chance will have a half Oklahoma State Cowboys and half Kansas State Wildcats helmet! He may not know the difference between the teams or even if they exist, but people will know his parents are college football fans! At least when people stare (and I know they will) they will have something interesting to look at!


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Once the HITECH Act was passed in 2009, EHR adoption and implementation of health IT systems grew tremendously over the coming years, as more providers began focusing on obtaining financial incentives from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) under the EHR Incentive Programs. While patient safety and quality of care has improved with the integration of computerized records, EHR adoption challenges have led to certain burdens among healthcare professionals.
From the potential for medical errors to a conceivably negative impact on the patient-doctor relationship, EHR adoption challenges will need to be addressed as healthcare facilities continue to implement computerized systems in order to qualify for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs.
Fourteen experts from a wide background of organizations including Kaiser Permanente, Cerner Corporation, and Nextgen Healthcare put together a report to illustrate the future of EHR technology and how to overcome many common EHR adoption challenges. The report was published on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association EHR 2020 Task Force.
Some of the "unintended clinical consequences" of EHR implementation has been the longer work hours required from the data entry around computerized patient records and less time for physicians to communicate directly with their patients. Additionally, EHR interoperability has not grown across the medical sector as quickly as previously hoped. Health data exchange is lacking due to information blocking among providers and vendors alike.
The overall goal of the health IT industry is to develop an effective and interoperable health information exchange platform in which patients, providers, healthcare professionals, and public health agencies have ready access to key data. However, EHR adoption challenges have put up roadblocks toward meeting this goal.
The Task Force offers ten suggestions for improving on health IT systems and overcoming some common EHR adoption challenges. First, it is important to decrease the overall burden from a high amount of data entry on the physician. When it comes to diagnosis and treatment, the process of capturing data has fallen on the physician, but moving the data entry toward other members of the healthcare team or even patients themselves could prove beneficial.
"Clinicians remain uncertain regarding who can and cannot enter data into the record, placing a tremendous data entry burden on providers, the most expensive members of the care team," the Task Force wrote in the report. "Clinician time is better spent diagnosing and treating the patient rather than charting. Regulatory guidance that stipulates that data may be populated by others on the care team including patients would reduce this burden."
Another suggestion the Task Force offered is to include sound recording during a patient visit instead of manually entering information into the EHR system. When it comes to discussing medical history, conducting a basic physical exam, and giving patients advice, doctors would benefit from a sound recording instead of pure data entry.
By following the suggestions offered in the Task Force's report, the healthcare sector should move forward in properly addressing some common EHR adoption challenges and paving the road toward a future of effective and interoperable health IT products.


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Through the cracked mirror, Alice stares at herself and wonders if there is any difference between her and this woman before her now.
An hour ago, he kissed her by the gate. It was still dark outside; even the rooster in her neighbor's yard had not deemed it fitting to crow out as was its morning ritual. He said goodbye and that he will see her in a week. She said okay and reminded him to stay safe. He smiled and said, always. Then he asked anxiously (again) if she was really alright. This time, she had to roll her eyes at him and there was a tartness in her voice when she answered that yes she is more than alright and that he should stop the Sir Galahad demeanor because she is not a damsel in distress, far from it. She had sex, lost her virginity but that doesn't mean she got injured in any way. Jonas hugged her and he told her (again) that he loves her. Then he walked away and was gone.
Through the cracked mirror, Alice stares at herself and wonders if there is any difference about the way she feels about him now compared to yesterday.
Of course it would come to this, who was she kidding? It's not as if they were living in the eighteenth century when remaining chaste until matrimony was paramount.
She was (is) not Maria Clara, after all. Far from it. She detests that woman, in fact. She has never understood the fascination with that Jose Rizal character, insipid weak simpering girl. But Alice, Maria Clara was a product of her time so give her a break. Why — would you be doing things differently if you were in her shoes? If you were the lovechild of an indio woman and a Spanish friar, forever surrounded by chaperones and duenas, cosseted by your shallow social climbing father, would you not have behaved like the way she did? Don't be so goddamned superior; you would probably have been worse than Maria Clara, come to think of it!
Alice stares at herself. At her shoulder length hair that he kept playing with just a few hours ago. At her eyes, pupils dilated. She read somewhere that the sympathetic nervous system kicks in during sex and that's the reason for the pupillary dilatation; and that girls tend to look more attractive to the opposite sex when they have dilated pupils.
Alice looks at herself and wonders what he saw in her. He often said that he finds her beautiful; which she just took with a grain of salt. Why? She wanted to badger him: what makes me beautiful? This hair? My eyes? My nose? My lips? These freckles on my face? Just what is beautiful about them?
As far as her physical attributes went, Alice was never vain. Her body, her face were what they were and that's that. She regards them with a brutal matter-of-factness; so that she cannot understand when someone would regard them (herself) with sentiment or covetousness. She just didn't believe that there is anything different (or special) about her face, her body compared with that of any other woman.
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Ekerete Udoh, Nigerian journalist and a friend of the Ojukwus, interviews the widow of Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Bianca Ojukwu. She allows some insight into deeply personal, previously not explored by the media, matters of her life with one of the most prominent figures in Nigerian post-independence struggle for nation-building.


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Valarie Ianniello is an actress who portrayed an unnamed crewman in the 2003 Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Crossing".
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Not any one topic, but comments on the past week's events.
This past Monday was Tax Day, where all Patriots paid their fair share. Except, of course, those who believe that they are Patriots regardless of what they pay in taxes.
President Obama's effective tax rate was released to be a little over 18%, which was reduced from a larger rate by huge charitable contributions. While I applaud his contributions to charity (although I do wonder who got the money), I was always under the impression that the Liberals (including the President) wanted the government to get their cut first to fund all their pet projects.
I guess not…
Also this past Monday, two bombs exploded during the Boston Marathon. Three people were killed, many more maimed, and countless nightmares for years to come were created. The terrorists (yes, I will use that word even though the PC among us won't) were found with one killed and the other wounded. It seems that the surviving terrorist is Muslim, a teenager, and a naturalized American citizen. From the reports that I have read and heard, he is being questioned without being read his rights nor with an attorney present.
There are several comments that I have on this situation.
The first, as much as it pains me to say it, is that since this person is reputedly an American citizen, he now bears the rights and privileges of an American citizen. This includes the right to counsel and the right not to incriminate himself.
The next is that this person must be questioned intensely to find out what & who he knows, and where he learned to make bombs. Somehow, as he is a teenager, I find it hard to believe that he is the mastermind behind all of this.
Last is that I believe that this is the first of many attacks by terrorists of Muslim origin. I know the Muslim faith is portrayed as a religion of peace, and many followers do not believe in these attacks, but actions throughout the world call into question that premise. From a post in 2006:
Our media and politicians make excuses for Islamic terrorists, thinking that they are misunderstood and that we, as a country, need to understand why they hate us. That way, we can change so that they will "like us," and will stop the killing.
Unfortunately, the killing has been going on for centuries, and will not stop anytime soon. A religion that goes ballistic over cartoons and cannot stand scrutiny is a religion that doesn't need excuses, but accountability for it's actions and justification for its existence. To state that it is a religion of peace and yet foment violence against non-believers is hypocritical in the extreme.
Whether we like it or not, I believe that the Islamic terrorists are going to do their damnest to make this into a religious war from whatever it can be called now. They will use the classic good vs. evil argument, an us-vs.-them conflict in the name of a jihad (religious war, for those of you in Rio Linda). They will plot, plan, and execute attacks that will cause large numbers of casualties. And the elitest idiots among us will wring their hands crying, "We don't understand! We were talking!" Understand this, you Brie-eaters – there are people in the world that want to kill you just for the reason that you exist!! And we still seem to pursue the idiotic mantra of appeasement to those who wish nothing more than to destroy our country and subjugate us to their religion.
I look at Iran's headlong rush to nuclear power & it's stated goal of wiping Israel off the map, and it just adds an exclamation point to the above.
Gun control banning legislation was defeated this past week, although by the slimmest of margins. The anti-gun anti-Second Amendment crowd is vowing to keep pushing for gun control banning legislation to be passed.
What is just absolutely insane is that these people are standing upon the bodies of children pushing this legislation in their names, and the proposed legislation would have done nothing to prevent the tragedy in the first place!! Passing legislation that restricts the rights of the law abiding and does nothing to resolve the real problem is useless at best and un-Constitutional at worst.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, one of the health reform law's chief authors, says he's worried about a "huge train wreck coming down" if the Obama administration doesn't improve its public outreach about the legislation.
We told Senator Baucus and the rest of the Demorats that this was a bad idea from the start. Too bad they didn't listen, and worse that we're the ones that are going to be affected the most.
Last, a Texas fertilizer plant blew up last Wednesday, killing 15 people including 10 firefighters. Our prayers go to their families.


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Recipes from My Edible Landscape
Scandinavian Rhubarb Cake
from Mark Lee, 2012
One of the first things from the garden in the spring is rhubarb. Is it a fruit? With lots of sugar added, it sure tastes fruity. Added to a cake, it adds a pleasant tanginess and moisture. I bake this as a ring using a bundt pan. This recipe is adapted from one by Photogardner on food.com that I found using Yummly.
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The 2016 vintage started off with respectable weather through bloom and set. Our first bit of 100-degree weather came during the sizing phase which affected berry growth on many of our varietals. In September, the ripening was lengthened with the hot and cool temperature swings. Overall, winemakers are optimistic about the yields with no significant factors like freezes or prolonged heat spikes affecting the crop.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden has been a key partner for the United States in spying on Russia and its leadership, Swedish television said on Thursday, citing leaked documents from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
Earlier this year, former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden passed to media details of a global spying programme by the NSA, stirring international criticism. The U.S. has said much of the information was a result of cooperation with other intelligence services.
Swedish television cited a document dated Apr. 18 this year saying Sweden's National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA), which conducts electronic communications surveillance, had helped in providing the United States with information on Russia.
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Swedish television said it had obtained the documents from Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who brought the Snowden leaks to world attention.
Snowden is in Russia, where he was granted asylum in August for at least a year.
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23 April 2016
US to Give Philippines a Spy Blimp
US spy blimp (photo : the hill)
US giving Philippines reconnaissance airship to monitor West Philippine Sea
The United States government is providing the Philippines with military aid worth USD42 million to boost the country's maritime surveillance capabilities in face of West Philippine Sea dispute.
"We will add to its capability to put sensors on ships and put an aerostat blimp (non-rigid airship) in the air to see into the maritime space," US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg said in an interview with CNN Philippines.
The said military aid was first announced by United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in New York at the Council on Foreign Relations April 8 before starting his Asia-Pacific trip that included travel to Philippines.
Last year the US government announced its five-year Maritime Security Initiative, a commitment to help partner nations like Philippines address common challenges. The initiative has a total budget of US$425-million.
"We've just released the first tranche of this money, nearly 80 percent of which is going to the Philippines. There it will help modernize the technology and train staff at the Philippines National Coast Watch Center, enhance an information network to enable the sharing of classified communications between U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii and key Philippines maritime command centers, provide an aerostat reconnaissance platform (airship), and outfit Philippine navy patrol vessels with better sensors so they can see and do more in the region's waters," Carter said.
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Ini kan balon yg pernah lepas trus keliling2 sendiri sampe bikin puluhan penerbangan batal.. masih dipake toh... oh iya, krn kurang reliable utk US akhirnya di pinjemin ke philipina deh ya.BalasHapusBalasan
I do think, what you are referring to is the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, or JLENS colloquially called, Spy Balloon which had a recent mishap wherein the balloon broke free from it tether and crashed. The aerostat that will be given and stationed in the Philippines is just the surveillance model, similar to the one bought by Singapore. The surveillance model is a successful one which are used by the US Customs & Border Protection in the US Mexico since 1983 when they opened the first operation site in Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The radar of these balloons could detect any low-flying objects up to a range of 322 kilometers (or 200 miles). As you could see, just one unit of these aerostat placed in a strategic location in the Philippines could greatly assist in the surveillance of illegal Chinese access in our territory.Hapus


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With only 81.6% of Mzuzu, Malawi's population having access to improved water, many people resort to drinking water from contaminated sources such as streams, boreholes, or unprotected wells. One study by Msilimba & Wanda (2013) found fecal coliform present in 96.3% of sampled well sites in Mzuzu. As a result, there is a substantial need for affordable and effective household point-of-use (POU) treatments in the region.
The Tulip Water Filter is one POU treatment option available to homes in Mzuzu, and is capable of removing over 99% of bacteria, turbidity, and protozoa in water. This technology uses a ceramic filter to clean the water and is ideal for homes in low-income settings. Though proven effective in lab settings, research is still needed on its effectiveness in the field.
What is the significance of this project?
Approximately 80% of respondents living in Mzuzu prefer drinking untreated water that was traditionally considered safe, over treated water. Limited data is available explaining why certain users fail to comply, and how it impacts treatment effectiveness. A similar study, conducted by Levy et al. (2014), measured chlorine effectiveness in the field, and found that efficacy of POU treatments in controlled settings was significantly better than chlorine effectiveness within the community. Consequently, this study will examine the relationship between user compliance and the effectiveness of the Tulip Water Filter in household settings. These findings will then be used to implement new strategies to improve rates of filter use, thus ultimately reducing the incidence of diarrheal disease.
What are the goals of the project?
In order to increase the effectiveness of Tulip Water Filters and decrease the risk of waterborne disease, the primary objective of this proposed study will be to assess the relationship between compliance and filter effectiveness among households in Mzuzu, Malawi. The study will accomplish this objective by focusing on two specific aims. First, I will measure the overall self-reported rate of compliance by distributing surveys to households that own Tulip Filter in Mzuzu, Malawi. These surveys will assist me in measuring levels of compliance and better understanding the attitudes that communities have about the intervention. I will also take water samples in order to assess the effectiveness of Tulip Filters within the household versus their efficacy in the laboratory.
Up until now, I've funded this project completely out-of-pocket. As a graduate student, the total project cost of $10919 is one that is extremely difficult to bear alone. I have been fortunate enough to have Emory University and IDEXX Laboratories donate some supplies. However, even with these generous donations, my project will still cost approximately $3500 out-of-pocket.
For those who haven't used the IDEXX method, water is poured into IDEXX trays along with Colilert, sealed and then incubated before it's read for analysis. Colilert is the indicator used determine fecal coliform and E. coli levels.
While English is prominent in Malawi, many locals speak languages other than English. Therefore, I will hire a Mzuzu undergrad student to assist with translating and collecting data.
Meet the Team
Team Bio
I am very excited to be heading up this project with the support of Emory University and Mzuzu University Centre for Excellence in Water and Sanitation. I am currently a MPH Candidate in Global Environmental Health at Emory University, and am expecting to graduate in 2016. I graduated from the University of Florida with degrees in Environmental Science and Psychology in 2013. While I have acted as a research assistant on a few projects in the past, this will be my first project as the lead researcher.
My passion for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) studies began while taking a water sustainability class at UF. Since that time, I have continued to expand my knowledge in the WASH field. This past year, I traveled to Jaipur, India, where I worked with children living in the slums, teaching English, math, and hygiene related topics. Witnessing these children drink this brownish red water daily was a very eye opening experience. This experience is what inspired me to pursue a career that will increase affordable access to sources of clean drinking water in low-income settings.
I hope to be able to use this project as my thesis and publish my results after completing my project.
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Link to Msilimba & Wanda (2013) paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...
Link to Levy et al. (2014) paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...
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So I got this fun pumpkin candle, and many of us give candles, things in mason jars, etc. So I thought wouldn't it be great if the wrapping could also be a gift! Here is what you will need: Dia De Los Muertos Image Sheet, Day/Dead Charm Collection, Fantastic Glaze & Glue, Fantastic Super Sticky Dots, Paisley Tray, Medium Glass Round, Small Jump Rings, Large Jump Rings, 24" Ball Chain.
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Lidie lives in Jules, Brazil, with Tio Paulo and Titia Luisa. Her father, Pai, and brother, Rafael, left her to go to America soon after her mother, Mamae, passed away. Lidie was seven years old.
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The filly comes to the horse farm where she, with her own story of loneliness and heartbreak, befriends Lidie. Will the two of them be able to make it through the rough times? Will the filly find the family she needs? Will Lidie find the family she desires?
This is another good story from Patricia Reilly Giff. It is not only a horse story but also a story of family...a story that captures the feelings of immigrants coming to a new world...of adventure...of dreams.
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Are CEOs Overpaid?by GDN Shared Post March 17, 2009
Amid the current economic turmoil, the debate over CEO pay has intensified. Now more than ever, the propriety of large salaries and bonuses for CEOs is leading people to ask, "Are CEOs overpaid?"
This question is an important one, said Jerald Greenberg, senior psychologist at RAND Corporation and a member of a panel that will discuss the compensation of CEO's at the 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology April 2-4 in New Orleans.
The panel includes four experts in organizational justice, compensation and employee motivation. "As resources become scarce, we become increasingly careful about how to spend them," Greenberg, SIOP Fellow, said. "So, if a CEO's salary appears to be wasted, people become concerned about it."
Edwin Locke, a retired SIOP Fellow, noted there is no set level of pay that is "fair" or that would make a CEO "overpaid." Locke, who taught management and psychology for 34 years at the University of Maryland, said instead of thinking in terms of "is a certain amount of pay too much," you need to look at the market.
"Fair is really, at least at the time of hiring, what the market price is," he explained. "What's the intrinsic value of a baseball player? What the fans are willing to pay to see a ball game."
However, the market for CEOs doesn't always work the way the normal marketplace works, argues fellow panelist Albert Cannella.
"That statement is much more correct if CEO salaries were established in a marketplace where there's a lot of buying and selling going on," said Cannella, Koerner Chair of Strategy in the Department of Management at the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. "That would arguably be the case if CEOs changed companies frequently, and we could observe a lot of CEOs leaving their current positions for other CEO positions at higher salaries. However, this is extremely rare. The evidence suggests that CEO salaries arise from private—i.e., covert—processes that they have significant control over."
Cannella said one of the factors leading to extremely high salaries is that CEOs often exert a huge influence over the boards of their organizations and, thus, over their own compenstion. "Boards don't have to agree to these contracts in the first place, but they do," he said. "A lot is done in the honeymoon period following the CEO's hiring when everyone feels great about the person."
CEOs also garner power because there are relatively few of them in the workforce. That puts them in an exclusive and highly paid 'CEO Club," where salary levels often become a form of competition among CEOs," Cannella said.
However, that there are few CEOs, makes high pay more justifiable, Locke explained. "Good CEOs are extremely difficult to find. There aren't that many and you have extremely high turnover." In part, that's because running a company is much more complicated than it used to be, he added.
The panel agreed that pay increases for executives whose companies are performing poorly is a bad idea. CEOs should be paid highly for success and not for failure, Greenberg said. However, Locke added, you need to be sure success is both long and short term.
"If the CEO makes a lot of money for the company in the short term but the company eventually fails because of poor investments, then that would be a negative long-term performance," he said. "On the other hand if you fail in the short term, there is no long term."
And measuring the outcomes of a CEO's work isn't always easy, Cannella said.
"What exactly did the CEO accomplish over the year? What value creation can be attributed to him or her? That's very difficult to figure out," he said.
Meanwhile, the pay discrepancy between CEOs and employees has widened over the past few decades, Cannella said, noting that the first study of CEO pay comparing this gap was done in 1986. "Back then we thought CEOs were making a lot of money, he said. "The CEO was making 50 to 60 times what the entry-level employee was making. Now it is hundreds of times more."
But Locke said the issue can't be looked at in terms of the pay discrepancy.
"There is no intrinsic amount of difference that there should be between the CEO's salary and the other employees," he said. "If a CEO is doing a good job, he might be the reason the company's doing well and the reason employees still have a job."
So what can companies do to make sure their CEOs salary hasn't gone off the deep end? One option is to make CEO pay at least partially recallable, Cannella suggested. Merit-based pay is also a good concept, Locke and Greenberg said. Greenberg said incentives are an important factor in performance-based pay.
"A formula that rewards executives for what they do to bring value to the company—long-term, short-term, and ethical goals should be met—is key," he said. "Fixed sums, such as the U.S. government's $500,000 salary to bank executives, are severe disincentives. This is a great time for paying for performance."
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I was reading this wonderful article on GuidePosts that talks about recognizing and understanding all the people in our lives and this particular sentence stopped me right in my tracks:
"I imagine Jesus looked at people like that."
This got my mind running in circles and I began imagining how glorious that must be. Oh, to see like Jesus!
I envision every question would be answered and our doubts would just disintegrate. Think about it, all the conditioning that has been passed on to us would simply fall away. We would not see one another as an adversary or as being separate, but instead as being brothers and sisters and even being one.
Faith and prayer would be our anchors. Love would be our only real guide and compassion could be the new currency. Doesn't that sound awesome? Or is it a little too pie-in-the-sky for you?
For the pie-in-the-sky thinkers, let me remind you (and most definitely remind myself) of Luke 8: 22-25:
"Where is your faith?"
Jesus asked this after taking his disciples to new waters and proceeded to fall asleep. While he was sleeping a terrible storm moved in and the disciples, shrouded in fear and feeling in danger, woke him up.
"Where is your faith?" He asked His disciples.
In fear and amazement they asked one another, "Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him.
~Luke 8:25, NIV
I will take pie-in-the-sky any day over the opposition. But it takes work and prayer!
So I pray: Jesus thank you for planting these seeds of love and hope within me. Help me to see all others with eyes like yours. Show me more ways to comfort and love anyone in need. Help me heal myself and others with my words and actions. Thank you for your truth and love. Fill me with your courage so that I may shine your light as I am meant to.


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The instrument combines two complementary micro/nanoscopic techniques: partial wave spectroscopic (PWS) nanocytometry, which quantifies the statistical properties of molecular density distribution within live or fixed cells for length scales from 10 to 200 nm, and Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscope (STORM), a super-resolution microscopy offering molecular-specific images with resolution as high as ~20-60 nm. The core staff is developing a combined STORM-nanocytology software system that allows for seamless integration of the microscopy techniques with a co-registration capability.
The application of this instrument to the Chicago Region Physical Oncology Sciences Center studies allows investigators the ability to image and sense the chromatin structure with sensitivity down to 10-20 nm in live as well as fixed cells, and can work with individual cells as well as able to analyze thousands of cells across an entire slide within minutes. CR-PSOC Investigators anticipate that this cutting-edge microscopy system will open up new directions for basic science as well as translational research.


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In a meeting that sought to explore ways and means of mitigating economic losses arising from the closure of the mall, Ms.Kandie (East African Affairs, Commerce and Tourism Cabinet secretary) said her ministry would establish a team comprising Westgate Mall stakeholders to consider and advise on specific measures that Government® and other parties would jointly take to restore the mall. According to reports, the proposed committee will also identify the immediate actions by the Government® to safeguard on possible loss of more than 2000 direct jobs resulting from the terrorism attack.
The announcement has stirred a debate among the good "individual citizens" of Kenya. On one hand, there are those who support the Government® s move especially on the argument that the approximately 2000 persons who "lost" their jobs (and are still alive) will be able to work again. On the other, those who oppose the move saying the businesses were insured and tax payers monies should not be misused.
Recognising what followed Bomblast-1998 at the former Nairobi US embassy; I would refrain from suggesting that the mall be turned into a memorial something simply for the fact that it was private property. For the same reason, it should be none of the governments business to provide funds for the reconstruction of a privately owned; mandatorily insured businesses.
But is it as simple as that?
Firstly, the Government® is tasked with ensuring the protection of life and property of its citizens, especially within our borders. Government® security agencies have been blaming each other for bungling the response operations. The CEO himself, according to reports, also admitted that they bungled the operation due to a failure in the internal communications department. He went ahead and paid for a feast to calm down the nerves of one of the security agencies. In light of these blunders, and many other pending in-tray matters such as IDPs, and personal scandals facing the CEO and his deputy, Government® is once again in need of a PR exercise that is relevant and can mitigate this particular Watergate Westgate fumble. If the government offered to pay all the hospital bills of the victims, both with and without health insurance, i have a feeling that the debate would be heavily swayed towards supporting.
Unfortunately, Government® was beaten to that role by other "good corporate citizens" Who simply needed to keep doing what they do on an everyday basis, subsidize what it would cost normally and voila, have their names and banners over a "corporate social responsibility" event. It came naturally for them. That means that whatever CSR opportunity that is left for Government® would expose something that the ordinary individual citizen has been made to believe doesn't come naturally to government- prioritize business and investment over the promotion and protection of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of individual citizens.
The issuing of travel advisories by some of our "friends" was aimed at ensuring the protection of their citizens from physical harm in the event that Al-Shaabab are able to make good on their threats gain(read putting their citizens first). Our Government® had pre-empted this and asked our "fiends", not to issue travel advisories as "terrorist attacks can happen anywhere" (read will greatly impact negatively on our tourism revenues).
Having said this, it is important to let Government® do all it can to mitigate the current problem it finds itself in. All corporate entities have a right to describe their mandate and find ways and loopholes around the small political problem of who actually gave them the mandate. Sometimes shareholders opinion might be split down the middle; or to be fair just above the middle with 50% plus, give or take, 8000 votes. After all, isn't the Kenyan definition of democracy inteprated to mean majority takes all, is all and decides all?