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Recent research has found Chinese are open to paying more to have auto-driving features in their vehicles and the country is expected to become the largest market for autonomous vehicles in 20 years.
United States management consulting company Boston Consulting Group reported in January that nearly 40 percent of customers in China are willing to pay more than $5,000 for a fully autonomous function. The country ranked eighth among the 10 countries with the most consumers willing to pay for such a function, with Japan, India, and France having about 50 percent of surveyed customers willing to do so.
The company polled about 6,000 consumers from 27 cities in 10 countries, with about one-tenth of the respondents being Chinese consumers.
"Surprisingly, the No 1 reason for using autonomous vehicles is 'no need to park the car'," said Nikolaus Lang, senior partner and managing director of BCG Munich.
BCG found 43.5 percent of the surveyed drivers want their car to "drop me off, find a parking spotand park on its own," and the number two benefit is to "allow me to multi-task or be productive during the drive", with 39.6 percent of respondent selecting that in the survey.
Lang said, "Autonomous driving technology is expected to reduce 8 percent of traffic looking forparking spaces."
Thomas Dauner, global leader of BCG's Automotive practice, said: "People spend on averageone hour a day in a car. The driver will be able to use that time for reading and replying to e-mails, and work one hour less every day."
Ease of parking
Many carmakers included semi-autonomous parking functions last year. These models are volume products already imported to the Chinese market.
BMW launched remote parking that allows the driver to stand outside the new 7-Series and park using the Display Key. Volkswagen's trained parking system makes the e-Golf capable of driving to the spot by itself through a path recorded earlier. A Volvo V60 can find its way to a designated spot, and drive out of the lot, locate and stop in front of the user.
Ease of parking
Many carmakers included semi-autonomous parking functions last year. These models arevolume products already imported to the Chinese market.
BMW launched remote parking that allows the driver to stand outside the new 7-Series and parkusing the Display Key. Volkswagen's trained parking system makes the e-Golf capable of drivingto the spot by itself through a path recorded earlier. A Volvo V60 can find its way to a designated spot, and drive out of the lot, locate and stop in front of the user.
Premium car makers were eager to demonstrate last year their fully autonomous drivingcapabilities allowing drivers to be hands off on public roads, including Mercedes-Benz, Audi,BMW, Volvo and Cadillac.
Tesla said it would upgrade the software in its current models remotely by mobiletelecommunications to make all its vehicles capable of autonomous driving.
Mercedes-Benz' autonomous driving capable F 015 has front seats that rotate and allow thedriver and front-seat passenger to turn and interact with rear-seat passengers.
Dauner said, "The premium car makers show higher interest in autonomous driving than volumecarmakers, as their value is better justified."
Marco Hecker, Deloitte's China Auto Consulting Practice managing partner, said intelligent functions help car makers in brand building as they bring a halo effect to the brand, even thoughthe customer may not really use the function.
Chairman of China Machinery Industry Federation Wang Ruixiang said last year: "The innovations are becoming a trend. A car is becoming a mobile platform carrying people's work and lives, and fulfilling more and more daily needs."
Qu Guochun, deputy director general of the machinery industry department under the Ministry ofIndustry and Information Technology, said, "Customers have started to focus on intelligent functions, and their demands are evolving, so the carmakers are accelerating their research anddevelopment on intelligent systems and have launched driving assist functions."
In the first half of last year, industry experts said they expected single lane highway autopilot technology would be introduced in 2016. However, autonomous driving on highways was successfully tested by Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW and Volvo in 2015, and by Nissan in January.
Volvo expects to roll out 100 units of its fully autonomous car in real traffic for a trial in Sweden in 2017.
Legal restrictions
The majority of such tests are conducted in the United States, with several in Germany and Sweden. In China, BMW and Baidu worked together on an autonomous driving test, in December.
"We choose the city because the California regulator allowed us to do the test," said chairman and CEO of Nissan Motor Carlos Ghosn in San Francisco ahead of an autonomous driving demonstration in January, "The situations vary from country to country."
Chinese laws do not have clear terms on autonomous driving, but they forbid a driver from taking both hands off the steering wheel.
BCG projected that China would have the largest amount of fully and partial autonomous vehiclesi n the world by 2035, with the number of partial autonomous vehicles expected to reach 5.2 million units, and fully autonomous predicted to reach 3.4 million.
KPMG's Global Automotive Executive Survey released in January shows China has become the No 1 place to pilot new innovations or launch new products according to 16 percent of this year'sexecutives, followed by Germany and the US.


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Today I'm tired but happy. I had a successful day with 3 rolls finished and a 4th halfway through. We saw the Congress, visited the café of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, walked along Avenida Corrientes and stopped in several bookstores – Corrientes is full of them. I got very lucky in one of them and walked out with 2 very relevant books. One thing became clear though: The Rollei is not the right camera for such an extremely crowded place as the centre of Buenos Aires! You hardly get the chance to stop there, so there is just no way to focus and compose with the Rollei, especially not with the tall buildings blocking most of the sun so that you have to shoot at f/5.6. Next time we go to such a crowded place I won't weigh myself down with it. In the end I only took one picture with it and it wasn't really worth it to carry it all day. Tomorrow we're planning a bit more quiet outing though and I hope to finish off the roll then.
Today's pictures? Well, I was a bit unhappy with the roll I'm showing you today, mainly due to the quality of the negatives. This was actually the roll where I realised that it's better not to push colour film even when it's underexposed. The results are definitely more grainy than the rolls where I metered at 1600 and forgot to push. By the way, it's April and these are the last shots from last year. About time, I'd say! Goodbye snow!
All pictures taken with: Leica M6 + Zeiss ZM C-Biogon 35mm f/2.8.
dm Paradies 400 @1600 developed in Tetenal C41 Kit, +2.
Just too cute!
If only it wasn't so grainy!
Pretty wintery, eh? Well, here we have every day above 20 degrees right now!
It says "simply heavenly" on the window pane … "simply creepy" I'd say though!
Weird colours? Turns out daylight colour negative film needs filtering under tungsten light or it actually gets a colour cast that can't be corrected because the information is simply missing. With the filter stealing 2 stops I think tungsten film is the better option though.

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If you missed the the FLOOR INFECTION event unlocks last time, you have another chance at getting the songs for DDR A20 PLUS. This time, the dates will be from 8/6/2020 to 9/7/2020. You may refer to this guide on how to unlock the FLOOR INFECTION songs for this event.
East Coast Stamina 6
Facebook Event
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What is East Coast Stamina?
East Coast Stamina (ECS) is a high level competition centered around a selection of the most difficult custom content available for In The Groove, a four-panel dance simulation game along the lines of Dance Dance Revolution. It has been an annual tournament since September 2011, eventually becoming a biannual event starting with ECS2.5.
When/where is it happening?
East Coast Stamina 6 will be held November 17th-19th at the Harrisburg East Mall.
What is the format?
Historically, the tournament has generally consisted of a "marathon" (a mix of songs usually roughly an hour in length), and then a timed set where players could choose songs from a preselected list, where the songs are assigned point values based on their difficulty in addition to the scores the players obtain on them. ECS4.5 and ECS5.5 have added team play as an aspect of the format, but the mainline ECS tournaments– 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and the upcoming ECS6– have all focused on one individual competing against the other entrants to achieve the highest score possible on the marathon, and also to gain as many points as possible in the timed set.
Who are the competitors this year?
The competitors for East Coast Stamina 6 will be the top 16 ranked players able to attend from the Stamina RPG qualifiersthat took place from July 22nd to October 1st of 2017. The list is not fully confirmed yet, but here is the tentative list, in order of qualifying rank:
- trev0115 / Trevor (United States)
- JDongs / Jared (United States)
- CardboardBox / Anthony (Canada)
- Aoreo / Jim (United States)
- Honk / Anthony (Canada)
- Archi / Ian (United States)
- 2PercentMilk / Amy (United States)
- lil_beastling / Kevin (Australia)
- rawinput / Mike (United States)
- Rynker / Ryan (United States)
- Dingoshi / Adiono (Australia)
- hippaheikki / Markus (Finland)
- SteveReen / Steve (United States)
- Nico / Ian (United States)
- krushrpants / Bryan (United States)
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Albania - Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Digital Media - Statistics and Analyses
Albanian telecom sector continues showing slow but steady growth
Albania's telecom market is consistent with developments elsewhere in the region, with fixed-line telephony penetration declining as subscribers migrate to mobile solutions and with ongoing government efforts to improve broadband availability and access conditions. To this end the regulator recently imposed LLU and bitstream access conditions on the incumbent telco Albtelecom.
The country's small economy is highly dependent on the key trading partners of Italy and Greece. The former still struggles to develop growth while the latter faces yet more austerity as part of the ongoing acceptance of bail out conditions from international lenders. These economic considerations had a marked impact on Albania's telecom sector, with revenue growth having declined for a number of years before showing marginal recovery from 2014.
Penetration in the fixed-line and broadband sectors remains very low by international standards. Although regulatory obstacles remain, this low penetration provides opportunities for further investment in network upgrades to help propel the country's economic growth through digital offerings and IP-based technologies and services. Such investment in fixed-line infrastructure is being encouraged by the regulator through amended access measures and by the government through its own funding programs. However, as mobile network infrastructure improves consumers will continue to prefer this platform for voice and data services, and as a result the mobile sector will be the focus for future growth in the overall market.
The country has long sought accession to the European Union (EU) which has benefited its telecoms sector through closer scrutiny of its regulatory regime and through the injection of funding to help modernise infrastructure. Albania signed a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU, which came into force in mid-2009. As part of the EU pre-accession process, Albania has received financial aid to build public institutions and improve cross-border co-operation under the EU's Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance funding mechanism. Since June 2014 Albania has been recognised as an official candidate for accession to the EU.
Key developments:
Vodafone Albania shuts down its M-Pesa service; Plus Communications and Albtelecom secure 2600MHz spectrum licenses; Albtelecom's share of the broadband market continues to be squeezed by competitors; report update includes the regulator's market data to March 2017, operator data to Q2 2017, recent market developments.
Companies mentioned in this report:
Vodafone Albania, Albtelecom (Eagle Mobile), Telekom Albania (AMC), Cosmote, Turk Telecom, Primo Communications.
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Well the nations favourite bumbling, cretinous, interbred albino buffoon has decided that, not content with standing as candidate for London mayor, what we really need is a dose of Bo-Jo's Wildean wit and stunningly clever verse. Yes his remarkable book which concerns a fictional family who refuse to let their children watch TV is certainly something that has left me quite astonished …… he certainly proves that when it comes to "rhyming and stealing" Jay-Z has nothing to worry about. More inane rhymes I venture, have not been published since….well …since the dawn of time, Johnson remarkably makes me yearn for the unbearable gibberish of the highly irritating Dr Zeuss. In fact I thought Welsh Football coach and ex-Liverpool player John Toshack's Dylan Thomas-esque book of verse "Gosh It's Tosh" would take some beating :-"Coming in to land at Speke/My legs are feeling very weak/We've just returned from Barcelona/and now I'm going for a sauna." But this is akin to WB Yeats compared to Boris' efforts, check out these nuggets and tell me that Bozza's time studying the classics wasn't money well spent
"He'd zap the programme off and holler/'Go and read some Emile Zola." – Profound in the extreme – I wager Zola would have saved the French government a job and actually blocked his own chimney to breathe in that sweet carbon monoxide if he'd have known he would have been name-checked within such facile tommy rot. But wait Boris has more gems for the discerning reader
"Behold them, reader, and despair:their lolling eyes, their glassy stare,
this formerly dynamic pair-In a double-seat wheelchair." (WTF!!!!)
Despair indeed , and this from a man who was once "Tory Arts Champion" and stated in 2004 that he wished "to reverse the decline of verse" ….Yes the Boris Johnson "Make Poetry History" campaign has got off to a flyer!


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Planning principles
Auroville will be 50 years in 2018 and it is necessary to change our approach towards development to manifest the "international township" that the Mother envisaged. To be able to do this the residents of Auroville need to prepare Detailed Development Plans (DDP) with clear development priorities. The Charter and the Vision for Auroville, as given by the Mother, form the foundation for development of Auroville. To manifest this vision, residents need to agree on the Terms of Reference (ToR) within a framework for a participatory planning methodology. The Planning Principles integrate the Mothers Vision and the Charter with key features of the galaxy concept and requirements of the community.
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Terms of Reference
To enable the preparation of Detailed Devleopment Plans, it would be necessary to have guiding principles for action that would help planners to make the best decision for the community and its future dveleopment. The Terms of Reference or ToR document, would provide the framework of principles and guidelines.
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New TDC - Structure and roles
The new TDC is made of two parts – Interface and Technical - both of which together are responsible to move forward the development plan of Auroville and undertake its implementation in compliance with approved principles and guidelines. The full TDC team comprising of these two parts, is accountable to the Residents Assembly.
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Celery with Benefits
Celery is not the most Tasteful… but Damn is it Beneficial!
Celery is an under-Rated vegetable as many of us think its just Water and Crunch, but it is much more; as it is a good source of calcium, vitamins, potassium and magnesium.
What Other Benefits?
- Celery has Anti-Canceous properties, with its rich component called Luteolin which helps to lower the growth of Cancer cells in the pancreas.
- It contains Phthalide and pottassium which helps to lower blood pressure by reducing the production of stress hormones.
- Celery also helps maintain a normal cholesterol and regulating Vitamin D. Also includes 3-n-butylphthalide (BuPh), a component with the function of lowering cholesterol and maintaining a healthy heart. The Chicago University study showed that two stalks of celery a day can reduce bad cholesterol (LDL) by up to 7 points.
- Celery is healthy for the eyes too, as it contains Vitamin E and antioxidants like flavonoids and polyphenol phytonutrients, which keeps the eye moisturised.
- Hippocrates, the father of medicine, wrote that Celery is a vegetable that can be used to calm our nerves and provide a great relief to joint pains, asthma, acne or lung infections. Celery's special benefit is its components to help reduce inflammation.
- Celery helps boost a man's fertility, as Dr. Alan R. Hirsch, Director of the Smeel and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, says :
Two pheromones in celery–androstenone and androstenol–can boost your arousal levels. Another good news is celery oil has been found effective in boosting the number and motility of sperm, when it is used together with vitamin E.
- These stalks improve digestion which allows your body to absorb better nutrients, with its high water content, and the NBP (a healthful compound) in the vegetable as it improved circulation in the intestines and helping the body to detox.
- Finally, it helps you lose weight as it is low in calorie (10 calories per large stalk) and rich in nutrients like magnesium and potassium, as previously mentioned. Celery helps you regulate lipids and fats in the body which controls metabolism and restricts obesity. Not to mention, in reality, you are losing more weight chewing on that stalk more than anything else. So moral of the story, eating celery makes you lose weight, and don't take that lightly because it's true.
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Pinwheel Vintage Stitch
Enjoy magical days filled with fun with our Pinwheel Vintage Stitch applique design. This design is perfect for adorable outfits for festive gatherings or just a day of play! Stitch it on a burlap door hanger or tote to really celebrate the season!
The Pinwheel Vintage Stitch applique design listing includes five sizes for a wide array of hoops: 4×4, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 inch.
The font shown in our sample is the Vintage Print Alphabet and is available separately to purchase HERE.
You will receive this design in DST, PES, EXP, HUS, JEF, VIP, XXX, VP3 and ART.
This design features a vintage or 'bean stitch' finish only; there is no satin stitch.
Take pictures of your special events and share them with us on our Facebook page. We love to see our appliques in use on your special projects! More designs are available here for your fun activities.


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To celebrate the upcoming release of my new book Coloring Through Cancer, please enjoy this free coloring page that you can color. The section at the bottom says "I am coloring for" – you can write the name of a person, charity or cancer in this box.
Coloring through Cancer will be available in the first week of July 2016 on Amazon and at sarahrenaeclark.com
Anyone who has been through cancer, is going through cancer or who knows someone who has been affected by cancer needs to have this book! So please spread the word and invite your friends to my launch event.


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Getting started:
- Set up a Google account (if you don't have one yet).
- Sign up on Picasaweb.com (if you haven't done so already).
- Upload images (or videos) to your account (Picasaweb gives you 1GB for free).
- Add the tag "fsduenna" for general images or for flight-specific images, add both "fsduenna" and the flight-ID as tags (you can see the flight-ID in the address of the flight's page, it's the bold part in http://fs-duenna.com/flights/ShowFlight.php?flight=TJ2KjrYySYrfOEd3RCQGbmOHVBE ).
- Refresh the flight's page to see the images.
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This is picture heavy, since there are 5 cards along with the bag, and the sketch challenges are also linked.
A friend and I were chatting the other day and she sent me a link for using a pad of design paper for a set of cards. As we talked about our paper hoarding and what we should do about it (besides therapy) I knew I had to use up some of my retired stuff, since I really haven't looked at in a long time. So dug it out, and decided a few bags with cards in them is just the way to make gifts, and use up my paper...
I found this template for the bag, after searching thru hundreds of saved files from over the last 16 years of crafting, and knew it would work! Thank you Amy Celona!
Next I needed a few cards to complete the bag. this was more of a challenge than anything. I needed to find challenges, past or present to use some of this DSP that I had at hand. AND not to stray from those papers! And Rainbow Sherbet is some bright paper. Sadly I still had some of the coordinating inks too!
Just Add Ink moved things along. This was a challenge in September and I thought it would come in handy again.
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Next, I have this sketch from Merry Monday, but hadn't figured out what Christmas card to put together but I liked it as a birthday card.. so why not?
|Merry Monday
I remembered the CAS(E) this Sketch! and this challenge was closing 40 minutes after I found the sketch but it doesn't matter, I was happy to use it, and a Thank you card was born!
|CAS(e) this Sketch
Simple and fast, by this point I am sick of looking at the old paper, but know I need another card. When I looked at Freshly Made Sketches, it was just what I could use to complete another card! Thank you FMS!!!
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Since my Framelits were still out I grabbed them and completed the last card for the bag. Uses more DSP, and alittle bling and bam! its done. No sketch, nothing fancy but I have completed it!
I DID IT!!! I used some of the retired DSP that I have been hoarding... I actually am looking at completing a few more for gifts, and using some old, so I can buy some new!... start the cycle all over again!!!
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Hummingbirds are Finally Here!
The hummingbirds have finally arrived and I'm beginning to see them more frequently, in brief moments, as they zip by.
I just happened to be outside with my camera taking Garden Blogger Bloom Day pictures yesterday when this one came by.
Once they get used to seeing me around, I'll raise the window and sit beside it and photograph them up close. I did this last year and loved being so near them.
I can't imagine summer without all of the bumblebee activity.
The catbird and the robin were singing at the same time, right there together, in the top of the tree. They did not make beautiful music together, let me tell you. The catbird makes a sound somewhere between a crying baby and a very loud meowing cat in heat. I think they were trying to out sing each other.
The goldfinches have already started eating the seeds from the sunflowers. It's funny, because I don't recall ever seeing them eating sunflower seeds from the feeder. I have thistle/nyjer feeders and that's the seed they usually eat.
This is one summer critter I can definitely do without.
Another summer pest that is not welcome here at Robin's Nesting Place, is the dreaded Japanese beetle. Everyday I go outside and pick them off the plants. They seem to especially love the roses and the purple sweet potato vine and are destroying them. Last night I was sitting here at the computer when I felt something on my back, I reached down my shirt to see what was scratching me and I felt a Japanese beetle on me. I can handle it fine touching them with my hands, but for some reason the thought of one of them on me freaks me out. Thankfully no one but my husband was in the room, so I came out of that shirt really fast. I hate when that happens!
I'm seeing the bunnies all over the neighborhood when I walk in the evenings. I think they are so cute, in other people's yards! This one, however, was in my yard, still munching on the burning bush. So it is not cute! Well...maybe just a little bit.
Thank you to all of you who mentioned that my RSS feed wasn't working, I'm not sure what happened, but we've been having some computer issues lately. I hope I have corrected the problem, and that it's working for you again. Please let me know if it isn't.
27 comments:
- Amy said...
Such lovely pictures Robin. If that bunny was dipped in chocolate it would be perfect for Easter :)
Would you believe that tonight my husband had a hummingbird fly right up to him and hover in front of his face, about an inch from his nose? They looked at each other for a bit and then the bird flew away. Amazing! Wish I'd been there to see it.
- July 18, 2008 at 12:43 AM
- Jayne said...
Yay! Hummers! Love your photos of them Robin. They have been really scarce here too.
- July 18, 2008 at 7:04 AM
Robin, thank you for sharing your lovely photos - they are just amazing! I'll have to look around on your blog to see if you mention the type of camera and lens you use. Also, thank you for visiting my blog, and please come back often.
- July 18, 2008 at 7:59 AM
- Yolanda Elizabet Heuzen said...
Ohhhhhh, what a lovely blog you have today Robin, it is literally teeming with wildlife. Even the bunny is cute. Easy for me to say as it is not munching away on my garden plants. ;-)
If there is one thing I envy you it's the hummingbirds. I so wish they would visit my country too. But alas. And I love those feeders too. I have seen so many pretty ones on many a blog.
LOL, that catbird sounds ..... interesting. ;-)
Have a lovely weekend!
- July 18, 2008 at 8:36 AM
- Naturegirl said...
Robyn all your bugs and blooms and hummers are wonderful to view..well NOT that ((((((Japanese beetle!))))) they sure do make a mess out of the roses!!
I have a bunny pose exaclty like yours but it is turned the other way..in fact a whole family live in my garden!!Send some of the hummers my way...feeders out but they are not arriving? Have a wonderful weekend.
- July 18, 2008 at 9:16 AM
What amazing pictures! I love the ones of the hummers. They are so cute and tiny and remind me of my mother. She has around 8 or 10 humming bird feeders in her yard and there are constantly hummers there. She loves them and babies them with fresh sweet juice all in the shade "so they won't be hot" as she says!
- July 18, 2008 at 10:10 AM
- The Diva said...
I was showing my daughter your damselfly photo, and she said your cat looks just like our Sophie. She does. Love the tiger cats, don't you?
Your photos are fab as always.~~Dee
- July 18, 2008 at 10:21 AM
The RSS feed is working again.
A couple days ago I asked for your help in determining if my echinacea had the same problem mentioned in your post. I want to thank you for taking the time to come by, look, and respond. Thank you!
I also wanted to tell you that I just love your blog and your pictures. And I'm jealous about all the birds you have! I have many, many robins, some cardinals and brown thrashers and that's about it. I love looking at the birds you photograph.
- July 18, 2008 at 11:07 AM
- Karen said...
I love the photos of the hummingbirds. I can't seem to be quick enough to capture them around my place. I know what you mean about the Japanese beetle. ughh!
- July 18, 2008 at 11:14 AM
- NCmountainwoman said...
I've never heard a catbird and robin duet. Great photos. Glad you have hummers again.
- July 18, 2008 at 11:29 AM
- Gail said...
You do take great photos Robin. It's a visual treat to stop by....damsel flies, dragon flies and hummingbirds...and flowers, too! Wonderful.
- July 18, 2008 at 11:45 AM
- Kerri said...
You do so well capturing the wildlife. I'm glad the hummers have arrived for you. They're such fun to watch. I've had a couple fly really close to my face a few times, and a pair chasing each other right by my ear have scared me a couple of times. You know how loud they sound...and they come out of nowhere!
Wonderful photos of the dragonflies..both this one and the one on the hosta. I've seen lots of honeybees (yay!), bumblebees and butterflies, but not many dragonflies or damselflies yet. I'd love to have heard the catbird and robin singing together :)
- July 18, 2008 at 12:54 PM
- Mr. McGregor's Daughter said...
I'm with you on the rabbits. They're fine, in other people's yards. Your photos continue to be outstanding! I've never seen a photo of a still hummer. That is so neat. (Note to self: get Hummingbird feeder.) With all the rain we've gotten, the mosquitoes have been truly beastly. My daughter wants a pet dragonfly to keep in the house to eat any mosquitoes that get in.
- July 18, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Beautiful wildlife pictures, as always, Robin. I'm glad your hummers have arrived. Now I can look forward to your photos of them.
- July 18, 2008 at 9:17 PM
- Sue Swift said...
I don't think I've ever seen a photo of a hummngbird not hovering before. They look such a funny shape when they're still.
- July 19, 2008 at 4:36 AM
I really enjoy your closeup shots. They have such clarity.
- July 19, 2008 at 10:51 AM
You always have so much going on in your garden Robin. I am anxiously awaiting hummingbirds too (we only get them on their way back south). I have my feeders all ready to go as soon as I spot the first one. I don't envy the japanese beetles tho. ugh. and kudos to you for the great dragonfly photos ~ they are all wonderful.
- July 19, 2008 at 7:21 PM
- CiNdEe said...
We have grasshoppers/rabbits and thankfully no Japanese beetles.
I am so glad your hummingbirds are there now. I wonder what took them so long. Do you boil your sugar and water? I just wondered. Some people do and some don't.
- July 19, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Your pictures reminded me that I want to get some Garden Verbena or as we say down here--Verbena on a stick. They add so much to your pictures. I've seen some hummingbirds drinking from my salvias and hyssops. They are never around long enough for me to capture them on my camera. Loved your post as usual and I hope things are going well for you and your dh.
- July 20, 2008 at 12:20 PM
- Catherine said...
What stunning photos. I'm very jealous - they're not found in the wild in England, or anywhere else in Europe. We do have the hummingbird hawkmoth, which often gets mistaken for the real thing, but if you look closely you can see antennae.
I also wanted to thank you for sending me a welcome message on Blotanical. I tried to send a response back for some reason, it didn't work. I suppose I'll get the hang of it soon!
- July 20, 2008 at 2:13 PM
- Sherri said...
Robin, looking at your pictures are such a treat!!! I love humming birds and your pics of them are wonderful! I had Catbirds when I lived in NJ and I love them. It is unusual that the Catbird and Robin were in the same tree and singing at the same time-what a great shot.
- July 20, 2008 at 5:27 PM
- Rose said...
Robin, your photos are spectacular! They make me long for a new camera like yours--but I know your skill at photography is a large part of it, too.
I have seen so many dragonflies this year, too. In fact, I have all the same "critters" you have, including those disgusting Japanese beetles. How awful to have one down your shirt:)!
But the hummingbirds haven't been around lately; they must not like my "cooking."
- July 20, 2008 at 5:39 PM
- garden girl said...
As always your photos are awesome Robin. I'm amazed how well you capture the critters. It's as if they pose for you! It's always exciting when the hummingbirds return at last.
We're still waiting for them here, although we did have a hummingbird moth here yesterday enjoying nectar from the impatiens. That's the first time I've seen one of them in my garden. It was very exciting. (wierd huh, getting excited over a bug!)
- July 21, 2008 at 7:41 AM
Robin, your pictures are amazing! Do you make your own hummingbird suet? I have some store bought ones but I think I must have over diluted it, the humingbirds never comes.
I'm also battling with japanese beetle. They were destroying all my flowers and they are really annoying. I'm scared to touch them with my hands, the fact that they actually climbed up on your back will freak me out! I bought an organic pest control solution and that seems to have taken care of it (for now... fingers crossed).
- July 21, 2008 at 9:41 AM
- Lisa at Greenbow said...
We have a couple of young rabbits in our garden right now too. UGH...
Your hummers are great. They make the garden feel so alive with all their zipping around.
- July 21, 2008 at 2:12 PM
- Kylee Baumle said...
Gorgeous photos as usual, Robin! The hummers were here early, in droves, then disappeared for awhile. I'm happy to say they're back! The Monarchs did the same thing!
- July 22, 2008 at 3:06 PM
- CIELO said...
Too lovely!
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20 Saturday Jun 2015
Posted Naturally Mein
affordable, easy, Face Mask, honey, How To, Milk, natural, Skin Care, strawberries, zerotohero
Okay Readers, I promise this will be the last Strawberry post but this will be the first of my new Natural Skin Care blogging tips!!! Not only will I tell you how to make natural masks, I will also explain how they work. I'm the type of person who needs to know why for everything before I use it. Here's my easy to make, hydrating, and cheap face mask. It's also great for all skin types!
What do I do?
With this face mask, you need three ingredients: Three large strawberries, one teaspoon of honey, one tablespoon of milk. Mash the strawberries with a fork and then stir in the rest of the ingredients to make a paste. Wash your face with warm water to open your pores (I use Cetaphil face wash) and pat dry with a clean towel. Then apply the paste for 15 to 20 minutes. You can also cut strawberry slices for under your eyes to help with puffiness and dark circles. I recommend lying down with a towel under your head. Rinse off with cold water to tighten your pores and lock in the good stuff. I always apply Cetaphil moisturizer after my shower or face mask by patting.
Don't forget to get a good night sleep and drink plenty of water!!
How does this work?
Honey and milk have been used for centuries as far back as ancient China and Egypt! It's my staple for natural products. Here's why: Honey is naturally antibacterial and a humectant (a natural moisturizer) while milk contains beta hydroxy acid making it a natural exfoliate to soften your skin while helping to even out your pigmentation. This will make your skin soft with brighter, younger looking skin (it helps reduce wrinkles). Milk/Honey is great for scars as well as cold sores. Honey is the best spot treatment (leave it on over night!).
Strawberries work well with these two ingredients!Strawberries are crammed with vitamins and contain salicylic acid which both are very useful to treat and pamper your skin. These berries cleanse, exfoliate and refresh your skin because the salicylic acid gets rid of your dead skin cells, it tightens your pores and brightens up your face making it look shinier. They refresh, remove impurities, reduce swelling and redness and lighten scars. Strawberries also acts as a natural toner and are great for scrubs. It's June so this is the best time for fresh strawberries!
19 Friday Jun 2015
Posted Cookingin
baking, cake, chocolate, dessert, glaze, heart-shaped, icing, strawberries, yummy
Howdy Readers!
I'm on a Strawberry cooking spree! Yesterday, I made a delicious cake and I thought it would be great to share with you guys!
I used a Classic White Duncan Hines cake mix. However, I use olive oil instead of vegetable oil. With that said, use a little under the line because olive oil makes everything grow. Follow the instructions on the back of the box. I remembered to take pictures this time to show you! (Also, please excuse my messy cookware. I was making a big cake and had to use the biggest pans which happens to be my oldest! My mom's side is Italian and it's a tradition to pass down pots when a new generation gets married or their own place. I have a pot from three generations ago!)
After you mix your batter and preheat your oven, you will need two more items. One square tin and one circle tin. I used an eight inch on both. Prep your pans, pour in the batter and begin baking!
Now here's where it gets fun!! After cooling your cakes, you will need to flip them. Take the a large pan and flip your square piece on to it. Make sure to position it as a diamond so you can place your circle pieces on top without them falling off the edge. Now, take your circle cake and flip it into a large dinner plate. You will cut the cake in half on that plate. Carefully place the cake halves along the diamond to make a heart. If you need to carve, carve the outer edges of the heart. It will be easier to ice in the long run. Now, you should have a lovely heart in front of you!
For the icing, we will be using a regular tub. I used Duncan Hines Chocolate. Scoop half the tub into a microwavable bowl. Microwave for ten seconds and stir! This with make your icing smooth, easy to pour on and glossy without changing the taste or going nuts! It's my new favorite way of icing!! For the sections where the halves meet the square cake, you have two options: Pour extra icing till it's full there or place regular icing between the edges and then pour on glaze. I personally recommend just pouring. When you're finished, add strawberries to your liking. With this glaze, it's great for chocolate covered strawberries as well!! Just dip the strawberries in while holding the stem. They are great for decorations too! Then place the cake in the fridge for thirty minutes to harden.
Enjoy 🙂
16 Tuesday Jun 2015
Posted Cookingin
I woke up starvingggggggggggggg this morning!
Which is unusual for me since I rarely eat breakfast. I know that's suppose to be bad but I find when I eat breakfast I get hungry much earlier or nauseous until the afternoon. In fact, I hate most breakfast foods. So, I was in a dilemma.
I had two choices: eggs or strawberries. Neither sounded appetizing on their own. So, I made Crepes instead! They count as dessert as well so I was cheating a little with breakfast.
When I was in high school, Crepes were a big deal. My french teacher, after school, would make them every month and bring in all sorts of toppings. Kids would come in and bring them upstairs to snack and work on their math (it was allowed as long as you brought our math teachers a plate with extra whip cream)! I also was friends with Madame's daughter and was invited to slumber parties where we would eat crepes in the morning with fruit. So, I missed them!(The crepes, but my friends too!!)
Today's crepes were delicious!!! I wished I took photos to show you but I forgot 😦 And I was really hungry as well…. but I can give the recipe to you so you can try! It's really easy.
These were just plain Strawberry Crepes, but you add cream if you desire or a hint of chocolate dressing. Powder sugar is great for crepes and strawberries as well.
Strawberry Filling
2 cups frozen sliced strawberries, thawed
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon orange zest, optional
3 cups fresh strawberries, sliced
Gently puree 2 cups of strawberries. Stir in sugar, orange zest if using, and fresh sliced strawberries. Serve strawberry filling at room temperature.
Makes eight servings:
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup water
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon of Vanilla, optional
Enjoy your crepes!! 🙂 They should look something like this!
15 Monday Jun 2015
Hello Readers!
The weekend has ended but summer has official started for me! I write this while eating s'mores and watching the (surprisingly large) lightening bugs dancing around. If anything, I just wanted to capture Saturday forever and I thought writing it here would be the best spot!
Friday night I pulled out the cooler, gave it a nice wash, and decided Saturday was a perfect beach day. With a call to my sisters and my mother, everyone agreed. So, I packed up all the beach bag and towels, and the next day we hopped in the car in the early morning to drive about two hours to our favorite beach.
The morning cloud cover scared most of the traffic away so the ride was smooth. We rolled down the windows and blasted our favorite radio station, with intervals of calling in for the radio contest that was playing–no winning calls though. As soon as we crossed over the bridge that led to the quaint little town we could smell the ocean breeze. Little white sailboats specked the water. We found our favorite deli as soon as we hit our ocean town and bought chicken wraps, cakes, and chips to add to our tomatoes, drinks, and strawberries.
We were greeted by a cool summer breeze as we opened the blankets, threw off our sandals and settled down for the best beach day I could ever recall. The water was freezing at 60 F and the current was strong but it didn't stop anyone from swimming. One ocean can turn any adult into a child again. I watched children diving like dolphins and married couples splashing like new teenage lovers. My sisters and I dove right in, tumbling in the waves, getting washed away by the current and jumping like seals. At one point, we saw a horse-shoe crab floating overhead in the wave. A little reminder that we were not the only creatures to enjoy the sea that day.
Placing the chair on the water's edge, I sat with my mother. We counted the cruise-liners and the sailboats that drifted on the horizon. Our conversation drifted from our lives at home to living like mermaids on the beach forever. We giggled as a blond lifeguard splashed around the waves trying to catch our attention. A young boy called out playfully to his mother and laughed as he pretended he couldn't swim. The lifeguard ran over to save him but found no danger except a grumpy mother. He flashed a smile as he turned to glance where we sat.
As the sun lowered and the tide raised, we walked along the rock jetty and watched the water fill the tide pools while the large waves crash on the shore.
Adventurous, we walked toward the bungalows until we found an old-fashioned ice cream and burger eatery where we could eat outside with refill after refill of seltzer water.
We came back home: a little sun-burnt, a little sandy, and a little tired but glad we took our day trip to the beach.
13 Saturday Jun 2015
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A Prayer that was heard
We were sitting next to each other in the bus. Me and my sister. And suddenly we heard the sound of an ambulance nearby. The vehicles stopped and gave it a pass. As soon as I heard its siren, I stopped for a few seconds and closed my eyes. Seeing this, my sister was puzzled. I could see it in her eyes, the urge to question me about my sudden action. I thought to myself, about the time, when I had the same confusion in my mind.
It was a year before, when I was coming back from college, in the college bus, with a good friend. We were busy in our talks about school and studies when suddenly an ambulance passed by. I saw her closing her eyes and praying. She opened her eyes back after a few seconds. I asked her what she…
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11 Thursday Jun 2015
Posted Musicin
Concert, driver, I bet My Life, Imagine Dragons, limo, Party, Won
I won two free tickets to an Imagine Dragons concert AND a driver/party limo!!!!! \\(^-^)// Let me repeat. I WON SOMETHING! AND IT'S MY FAVORITE BAND!!
I never win!!! ANYTHING!! Especially calling in on the Radio for concert prizes. The only thing I ever won was a stuffed animal from Wack-A-Mole for my sister. Oh, and a car-wash I still never received….
Of course, I'll be taking the same sister to see Imagine Dragons because it just so happens to be her favorite band too.
Please, rejoice with me by dancing crazily to "I Bet My Life".
07 Sunday Jun 2015
Posted Musingsin
butterflies, change, God, grandmothers, love, mothers, Peace
I rarely write on my everyday life. I probably should–most bloggers do–but my life is fairly uninteresting. Well, it is interesting and different but not interesting for other people. However, something extraordinary happen the other day. I believe in God, miracles, and angels. I believe there is a greater force than all of us; yet, more so this week than ever. My second major was Religious Studies, so I read countless secular arguments against "archaic organized religions" where people were critiqued for being childish (I have an argument against those critiques but that is for another day). Because of those critiques, I want to share my story because I want others not to feel silly for believing.
My grandmother called me her little butterfly. I don't know if it was because I never stopped moving when I was younger or for my ongoing fascination with butterflies, either way it caught on. In her very last words to me, she called me her "Little Butterfly". Of course, my family missed her terribly especially my mother and I. We took comfort in seeing butterflies and thinking of her. Sometimes, we liked to say, half-jokingly and yet very seriously, that she was there as the butterfly. Later in my first year of college, my neighbor, who was born and raised in Mexico, was visiting my dorm and saw my room decked out in green and purple butterflies: "Do you know that butterflies are loved ones saying hello?". I freaked out. No! I didn't know but I did know!? I never knew others thought this; somehow, this made our little comfort even more real.
On Saturday, I was helping my mother make a giant change. She was terribly uneasy that day because we were all unsure whether we were doing the right thing. It was the type of decision that closed the door to the past forever and left the future blurry. My mother was finishing up while we all headed over to the car, ready to leave. I suddenly had the feeling that I needed to go to my mom, just for moral support or help or whatever. As I was standing with her, my mother stalled, still unsure she was ready to turn away, and then a miracle happened. A large yellow butterfly came floating straight toward us. We both broke out smiling so I said hello! As soon as I said that, our little beauty circled right over to me and danced a hand's width in front of my face. I could not stop smiling and laughing because I knew that was my grandmother agreeing with our decision and telling us she was still watching over us and protecting us. I looked at my mother, who at this point now was in tears, nodding. She knew too. Everything was going to be alright.
Other strange things have happened this week and year that has shown me that God is watching over my family, but some of those stories are not mine to share. I can only give thanks and offer my truest love to God. You may think I am childish, you may think I am looking for things and merely forcing myself to see them in my search but I know that what I saw and what I felt was and is all very real.
Readers, may you receive God's love and peace.
07 Sunday Jun 2015
Posted Uncategorizedin
Let's Wander. Who needs direction when they have each other?
"Let's leave," she said when she meant to say "let's wander."
Who needs direction when they have each other?
"Let's run," she said when she meant to say "let's live anew."
Could time really be lost if spent lost together, just the two?
"I love you," she meant to say when she first said "let's leave."
But will she ever find the strength to take that huge leap?
04 Thursday Jun 2015
Posted The Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Awardin
ambivert, Avengers, chores, extrovert, fame, family, friends, introvert, Jane AUsten, Japan, jokes, life, love, money, Nominated, nominations, Old Movies, opinion, postive, questions, quote, regrets, rules, Sisterhood of the world bloggers award, TCM, travel, wishes, zerotohero
I was nominated for Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award!! I love this award, it just sounds so cool!! Thank you imperfectioninanutshell!! She really is an amazing blogger, please check out her page!!
So here's the rules for the award:
Thank the giver and link their blog to your post.
Answer the 10 questions given to you.
Pass the award on to 7 other bloggers of your choice and let them know that they have been nominated.
Include the logo of the award in a post or on your blog
Imperfectioninanutshell asked me:
1. What was your teenage life like?
I actually had a pretty great teenage life. I had a really close friend group and a really tight family. The town we lived it was all really weird. I can't explain it very well… It was like a 1950's movie…. lol
2. What is your most prized possession?
Hmmm, well, I try not to get attached to material possessions because things break or get lost. I treasure my family (which include my friends and pets). Material wise… My crucifix that my mother got me for Christmas two years ago. I use to take it off every night because I was afraid I would break the chain but now I never take it off.
3. Favorite book?
Okay, so this question hurts. I can't pick one!!! I'm currently re-obessesed with Persuasion by Jane Austen. Does manga count? I'm reading Kamisama Kiss!! So I might have a small and incurable obsession with that but Tomoe and Nanami are so cute!!!
4. Favorite movie?
Anything Avengers related and pretty much anything playing on TCM! I love old movies.
5. Money, love or fame? Why?
None of them? I have little faith in all three of them. Money won't make you happy and tends to make more problems. It would also make me lazy and isolated. I need to work. I wouldn't want fame because I like being who I am instead of judged by magazines or the world. I already have family love! I don't want romantic love because I have little faith in that kind of love. I don't believe love you find in fairytales exists and that's the only love I want. So, I'm not really looking. I know that sounds terrible but maybe that will change when the right guy shows up.
6. What is one thing you regret?
I don't think I regret anything. Everything I have done has led me to this moment and who I am. I can't regret the mistakes I made if they have brought me down this path. In fact, I cherish those mistakes! I don't know why but I find them beautiful. Yes they were messy but they were moments of growth. I learned so much about me, other people and the world that I wouldn't want to not know.
7. Which country do you want to visit?
Easy. Japan!! I know you might think it's because of my addiction to Kamisama Kiss but I wanted to go before reading the manga. I have never traveled before and I think I will only have one chance to travel so I want to go to a place that is completely different from my own and Japan seems amazing!!
8. What do your friends think of you?
Well, you probably need to ask them but I think they think I'm nuts, blunt, honest, oblivious, protective, and passionate with a terrible temper.
9. Are you bossy?
*chuckling* Yes. However, my leadership skills suck.
10. What is one positive thing about your blog?
Well, I'm writing again! I wrote a lot when I was younger and I really wanted to be an author. In college, I was intimated by the rest of the "English Majors" and I didn't have time to daydream or think of storylines. Now I find myself writing everyday for myself and not for my professors. I'm also less scared of others seeing my writing.
I hope you enjoyed reading! Now, it's my turn to ask the questions around here! (I always wanted to say that! ;p)
1. How are you?
2. I love to laugh. Please tell me a funny joke? Corny jokes are my forte!
3. If you could create a group to help others what would it be?
4. What is your favorite chore?
5. Are you more of an introvert or an extrovert? Ambivert?
6. What is your favorite quote?
7. If you could meet any fictional character, who would it be and why?
8. Are you more of a night person or a morning person?
9. What's one thing you wished you did but didn't do?
10. Did you enjoy answering these questions? (I couldn't think of another and then I honestly wanted to know :P)
I nominate:
Bye for now readers!


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Marketing and Publishing Your New Book
|Written by Annie Jennings
You can get publicity on yourself, your book and your business with a few simple tips. Publicity for book marketing allows you to achieve the media placements of your dreams and with the right publicity know-how you'll be able to break into top national TV shows, get booked on high listenership radio interviews with professional publicist technique and strategy. So get ready to delve into the world of book marketing, book publicity, author marketing and author publicity. It's fun and is not so hard.
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At 515 pages, The Pinhoe Egg is a long book, certainly by comparison with anything else I've read in Diana Wynne Jones' canon. I work that out to around 118,000 words, which is getting into J K Rowling territory.
This is another in the Chrestomanci series, and although it was written quite late, in 2006, it picks up pretty much from the much first book in the series, Charmed Life, which was written way back in 1977.
I don't know whether it's because I've read quite a bit of Jones this year, or whether it's just that some of her books appeal more than others (I couldn't get past the first in the Dalemark series, for instance), but this one didn't grab me much at all. It seemed all over the place, and there was a point at which I began to think that she'd just had it published without much revision. The writing lacks her usual sharpness, and as the book goes on, becomes downright sloppy. Pronouns often fail to connect to the character they're related to, and some characters, such as Joe and Marianne's father, are called one thing in some places and something else in others. He also goes from being pleasant to ugly: beginning as a man for whom peace is the be all and end all to being presented as consistently aggressive and rather stupid.
Jones' book often have a kind of viciousness lurking under the surface (Black Maria is a prime example, or the way in which the father is so summarily killed in the first Dalemark book and then left behind, as it were, by his widow), but in this book the viciousness is surprisingly nasty. It's not just the ongoing dispute between the Pinhoes and the Farleighs, but the fact of what they're prepared to do to each other (smallpox is just one curse they send). Furthermore there's the locking away of all the half-seen creatures for centuries by those who should know better, and the cruel treatment of Gammer by his own sons. In spite of Jones' explanations, these things seem to show village people with considerable suppressed hatred for each other. I suppose it could be that their dark secrets result in them being more vicious, but it's not that clear - to me, anyway.
Chrestomanci and his tribe, of course, are all sun and light, reason and righteousness. They're almost saintly in their ability to be right about everything, and while that's okay - we certainly need some sun and light in this book - they also become a little unbelievable at times. Still they stand in the same vein as several of her major wizard characters: slightly unworldly, too good to be true, but able to fix everything.
I've read in some reviews that the baby griffin is regarded by readers as a delightful creature; sorry, I think he belongs in the same place as the detestable Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace. Not only is he badly realised - we can never figure out exactly how big he's supposed to be: one minute able to be carried, the next whipping around on his own and causing chaos, the next like a toddler...it goes on. And considering that he's what comes out of the egg, he doesn't actually play any particularly important role in the book's plot.
And that's another issue: Jones' plots are often very neat and well-constructed. This one seems all over the place. It doesn't help that there's no main character: we swing from Joe and Marianne early in the book to Cat (who was in the first book) and back again, never quite settling in anyone place for long.
Ah well, you can't win 'em all...!


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Health Professional and Patient Interaction Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 9th Edition
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource - Access Card
Easily navigate through the complicated and challenging world of daily on-the-job human interactions, with Health Professional and Patient Interaction, 9th Edition. Covering strategies for effective communication, this time-tested guide offers the tools you need to establish positive patient and interprofessional relationships built on respect. It not only covers respectful actions and good decision-making, but also demonstrates how those decisions directly shape your on-the-job success. Practical examples and authentic scenarios highlight how to apply respect and professionalism to coworkers and patients of various ages and various backgrounds across a wide spectrum of healthcare environments. It's the foundation you need to effectively and successfully communicate on the job.
- Overall emphasis on respect sets up a basis for building positive relationships with patients and fellow health professionals through good decision-making.
- UNIQUE! Authentic scenarios and examples demonstrate strategies and tools for effective communication with patients of all ages in a wide range of health care settings.
- UNIQUE! Interdisciplinary approach addresses issues that apply to many different healthcare disciplines to help you identify with your specific field as well as recognize themes that apply across the healthcare spectrum.
- Authentic patient cases give you a more personal connection as to how the various communications and actions discussed in the text affect the patient.
- Reflections Questions throughout the text challenge you to apply critical thinking skills and your personal experience to different scenarios.
- Questions for Thought and Discussion at the end of each section help you apply your knowledge to a variety of situations.
- UNIQUE! New chapter on respectful interprofessional collaboration and communication discusses best practices for respectfully interacting with one's coworkers across the professional health team.
- NEW & UNIQUE! Clearer integration of respect throughout the text underscores its necessity across the many different types of interactions between the health professional and patient.
- NEW! Introduction on how respect impacts a professional's practice has been added to Part One of the text and covers critical topics such as establishing a professional identity and creating healthy, respectful relationships while being mindful of boundaries within such relationships.
- NEW! Updated photos feature health professionals engaged in authentic clinical activities.
SECTION ONE: Creating a Context of Respect
1. Respect in the Professional Role
2. Professional Relatedness Built on Respect
3. Professional Boundaries Guided by Respect
SECTION TWO: Respectful Interaction in the Delivery of Care
4. Respect for Self: One's Professional Role
5. Respect in a Diverse Society
6. Respect in Care Delivery Systems
SECTION THREE: Respect for the Patient's Situation
7. Respecting the Patient's Story
8. Respect for the Patient's Family and Significant Relationships
SECTION FOUR: Respect through Communication
9. Respectful Interprofessional Communication
10. Respectful Communication in an Information Age
SECTION FIVE: Respectful Interactions Across the Life Span
11. Respectful Interaction: Working with Newborns, Infants, and Children in the Early Years
12. Respectful Interaction: Working with School Age Children and Adolescents
13. Respectful Interaction: Working with Adults
14. Respectful Interaction: Working with Older Adults
SECTION SIX: Some Special Challenges: Creating a Context of Respect
15. Respectful Interaction When the Patient Is Dying
16. Respectful Interaction in Complex Situations
Amy M. Haddad, PhD, RN, Professor, Center for Health Policy and Ethics, Department of Pharmaceutical and Administrative Sciences, School of Allied Health Professions, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE, Ruth B. Purtilo, PhD, FAPTA, Professor Emerita of Ethics, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA; John Marsh Visiting Professor, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT and Regina F. Doherty, OTD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy Department, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA; Senior Occupational Therapist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA


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16/2: Linen thread is available in 100 yd. (91 m.) skeins $3.50 in white, off white, buff and unbleached. Before the 19th century linen thread was sold by the skein and similar skeins are illustrated in Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia. Because of this these skeins may be used as they are for museum displays or wound onto a thread winder. Linen thread of this weight is great for sewing coarse linens, top stitching, thread (Dorset) shirt buttons, and making lucet cord. Crewl needles work well with this linen thread for sewing in fabric or for making thread buttons try tapestry needles.
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Oldboy (18) + Satori Screen Intro
Date(s) - Friday 25/10/2019
8:45 pm - 11:00 pm
In 1988 drunkard Oh-Daesu (a memorably fierce performance by Min-sik Choi) is kidnapped off the street and held captive for fifteen years with no clue as to the reason why. Released just as mysteriously fifteen years later, he sets out on a relentless and violent quest to find his tormentors and discover just why he suffered this fate. Park Chan-wook's intricately plotted thriller has been remastered in stunning 4K resolution giving a new generation of film fans the chance to see one of the greatest cult films of the 21st century on the big screen.
"A classic of the macabre that revived the spirit of Jacobean theatre for 21st-century cinema" ★★★★★ – The Guardian
Tickets: £9.50 (standard), £7.00 (concessions) & £3.50 (18 – 25 year olds)


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22 Oct Your Compact Powder Case Turns 94! The Evolution of a Timeless Beauty Product
Before the 1920s, the everyday woman did not wear much makeup – if any at all. In fact, before the era of flappers and speakeasies, makeup was only for performers and women of "loose morals". One reason may have been that makeup was a lot harder to put on before this time. Liquids, powders, tints, and other concoctions typically came in small pots, and applying them correctly took hours. That all changed on April 17, 1923, when the compact makeup powder was patented.
Changing Faces in the 20s
In fact, the 1920s are really to blame – or to credit – for the way we do our makeup today. Tubes, brushes, and compacts were all introduced to the makeup industry during this era, making it possible for the lovely flapper girl on the go to do her makeup anywhere. With the invention of the compact case, women who had previously stayed away from blush were now helping to bring this makeup staple into the mainstream – no longer relegated for "loose women" or performers only! Blush was either red or orange, and was applied on the cheek bones, in circles on the cheeks, and especially applied over a suntan a la Coco Chanel. While there were many other political factors changing the way women considered themselves during this time, it can definitely be said that the changing attitudes towards beauty and makeup helped to add to the liberation of women during this era.
Other Products on the Rise
Emboldened by the success of the newly minted compact, makeup companies started investing in other forms of convenient packaging. The first Maybelline mascara featured a tiny brush in a tin that was swept along a stick of black kohl. Nail polish also took off during this time, pioneered by French makeup artist Michelle M'enard in partnership with Revlon.
Safer Products
Another way that the invention of the makeup compact changed the makeup industry was to provide a new focus on safer makeup products. Now that makeup was more widely used and accepted, a larger audience demanded higher quality control. The makeup that we see today, carefully formulated to benefit our skin rather than thrown together with "whatever works best", is largely due to the fact that the makeup compact made makeup more accessible.
Convenience Evolution
The convenience boom in the makeup industry has truly come into its own. Today, thanks to early pioneers creating compact cases and other convenient packaging, we now have things like "The 5 Minute Face" and makeup products designed to be used all over the face, like blush-lipstick-eye color combo sticks.
Imagine trying to do your 5-Minute Face routine (foundation, concealer, powder, highlighter, blush, liner, mascara, lip color, according to "What Not to Wear" makeup artist, Carmindy) without the aid of your compact case of powder or blush! Not to mention the convenience of lipstick that can be swiped on, rather than being carefully painted on from a pot. It is easy to see how, without this invention, makeup today would have been much different.
Celebrate Your Compact Case!
It is interesting that everything from the way we do our makeup today to the way we consider feminine beauty could be influenced by something so small as a clever bit of convenient packaging. But the invention of the compact case is worth celebrating for all of these things and more. Next time you wake up late but still manage to get out of the door with a beautifully fresh face, be sure to send a little thanks to your compact case!


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I purchased a 1961 Austin-Healey 3000 BT7 from a rather eccentric gentleman (hoarder) and am in the process of restoring it. Unfortunately, he decided one day he'd start stripping it for paint and started pulling parts off. I think when he got discouraged he put it on Craigslist, which is where I found it. Also unfortunately, when he stripped the parts off he did not label anything, so the process has been part restoration work, part archeological dig. I think I have most things figured out, but there is a piece of metal, about 46 1/2" long and 3 1/2 to 5 1/2" wide, which I cannot figure out for the life of me where it goes. Please take a look at the picture link and tell me if you know what it is?
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Once again, the cover of Action 25 (June 1940) appears to show Superman in flight, before the stories themselves acknowledge this ability.
Jerry Siegel and Paul Cassidy helm this tale, which begins with a bank robbery by thieves with no recollection of the events.
Lois Lane mentions a psychic and hypnotist to Clark, Medini, whom she is going to consult, in order to find out Superman's secret identity. Ironically, that's the same information Medini is trying to extract from her.
Superman confronts Medini, who uses hypnosis to paralyze him. Once Medini has gone, Superman's powers begin to return, but he lacks complete control over his abilities until he jumps high into the stratosphere, which removes the effects of the hypnosis. Pondering this sequence, it would seem that Medini must actually possess some degree of mystical powers, as only magic would be able to have such an extended effect on the hero.
Once his powers are back, Superman quickly dispenses of this one-shot villain.
With this issue, Guradineer has Pep travelling to England as a war correspondent, despite having no experience or training in this field whatsoever. But that is only the first odd thing about this tale.
After not only the ship Pep is on gets torpedoed, but the rescue ship as well, the lifeboat capsizes. Pep swims around tirelessly saving people until the sub surfaces and they are brought on board. Despite being an American kid and not in the military, Pep is brought before the sub`s commander, and manages to get his gun from him and single-handedly take over the sub.
The commander of the sub wears a white uniform, which I thought was odd. As they are showing England at war, why would they not depict the Nazis as they appeared?
Then it become clear. The art "error" is our clue to confirm that this story is a preposterous tale – this is the story Pep told people to explain why he left for a while, rather than telling them the truth about his dismal Florida tryout.
Sheldon Moldoff continues the Black Pirate's adventures, as he falls into the hands of the angry Captain Ruff, who demands to know where Jon Valor hid his treasure.
The Black Pirate breaks free, and sets fire to Captain Ruff's ship. Everyone winds up in shark-infested waters, ass the Black Pirate heads for a mysterious ship he saw on the horizon.
Gargantua T. Potts makes his final appearance in this Baily story, spending some time with Tex and Bob Daley at Tex's camp in Maine, Golden Gates.
They encounter a mysterious amnesiac, being pursued by gangsters. For a few panels it looks like Gargantua will be the one to save the day, but again he is reduced to racist comic relief. I'm just so glad this character is being dropped, it's worth mentioning his final tale.
Moldoff winds up Clip Carson's Verdania adventure in this issue.
Surprisingly, for the era, the rebels turn out to be financed by an American oil man, trying to manipulate the situation in the country for his own benefit.
The final panel, the hanging of the revolutionaries, is coloured so darkly, it's almost in silhouette. But it does add a very somber tone.
Zatara faces off against Asmodeus, a powerful villain who uses science and magic against the hero, in this story by Gardner Fox and Fred Guardineer.
The Tigress also returns in this story. She is working for Asmodeus, but winds up being of very little assistance, as Zatara draws the villain's plans and location from her mind, before shrinking her to doll size to keep her out of trouble.
Asmodeus makes a really good villain for Zatara, and the battle between them easily carries the few pages that it lasts. It's a shame this villain never made a return.


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By John Schulian
I wouldn't cross paths with McGurk again until I was out of grad school and holding an Army draft notice. By then, his promise to keep an eye on me didn't matter. I was fully aware of the fact that I wasn't good enough for pro ball. But that doesn't mean I stopped loving the game. Of I hadn't love it anymore, it wouldn't have hurt so much to make the first truly difficult decision of my life. I was a sophomore at Utah and we were working out in the fieldhouse, an old barn with worse lighting than an abandoned coalmine. It seemed like every day I'd wind up catching this left-handed maniac who eventually signed with the Giants. He had a great fastball, a wicked curve, and absolutely no control. While his pitches bounced off my chest and shins, I started looking at my future in a different light.
In the fall quarter, for the first time in my life, I'd done really well in school. Something like three A's and a B. And it felt good. Better still, I was starting to think I might want to be a newspaper reporter. But if I played baseball, I was going to miss classes and not have as much time to concentrate on my writing as I needed, and, really, for what? For the chance to sit in the bullpen when the wind was turning Laramie, Wyoming to ice? For the chance to do that for one season and maybe two before I got a decent shot at starting? Baseball wasn't my future anymore. My brain was, for better or worse. Whatever the future held for me, I knew I wasn't going to stay in Salt Lake. I needed to get the best grades I could so I could use them as my ticket to ride. So I walked away from my baseball scholarship. Nothing dramatic. No pleas for me to stay. The team would get along fine without me. I cried a lot of tears that nobody ever saw, but I knew I'd done the right thing. And I graduated Phi Beta Kappa, which is something I've never made a lot of noise about, mainly because I've never fit my idea of what a Phi Beta Kappa should be. A Phi Beta Kappa should be legitimately smart, a true intellectual. I'm just the guy Pete Radulovich turned into a catcher.
I thought that was the end of me and baseball. But come summer Utah Power & Light's amateur team called and offered me a chance to play. I promptly went out and had the worst year of my life. I'm not sure I hit .250. But they asked me back the next year, when the team added two terrific players from BYU, one of whom happened to be a catcher. I wasn't sure why UP&L needed me, but I hung around, doing a little catching and wondering if I was wasting time. And then one night I whacked a pinch-hit double over the left fielder's head, and everything changed. They made a place for me in the lineup, sometimes catching, sometimes at third, but mostly in the outfield because our other catcher's idea of playing there was to wait until he saw where a fly ball landed before he went after it. I led the team in hitting and he was right behind me.
The next year was even better. I caught full-time and my friend Steve Radulovich, Pete's son, who'd been drafted by the Yankees and Cincinnati but never signed, played first base. We had a lot of good college players and a couple of former minor leaguers on the team, plus a curve-baller from Utah who went 8-0. We won our league and the state amateur championship, and I hit .397, best year I ever had, even if Radulovich out-hit me by 70 points. (It's almost embarrassing to remember this stuff, but I do.) One of the guys I played with—we called him Starchy—still says I was the craziest SOB he ever saw, and he's probably right. After doing nothing but study in school, I had a lot of steam to let off. I hardnosed our pitchers, bitched incessantly at umpires, challenged a lot of opponents who could have kicked my ass, and swore like a stevedore if I hit a weak ground ball. I've still got the trophy they gave me as the team's most valuable player. But the story I want to leave you with has nothing to do with that.
We had a pitcher, one of those kids who'd been a monster all the way through high school and then hurt his arm. I could have caught his best fastball barehanded. But one night he's throwing a beautiful game — it might even have been three innings of no-hit ball–and he calls me to the mound. Our manager, a big guy with the face of a baby bird, trots out immediately.
"What's the problem?" our manager says.
"I'm tired," the pitcher says.
Our manager looks at him for a beat, then slaps him on the back and says, "John will tell you when you're tired."
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Westhaven is one of the four priority sectors in NDG. The neighborhood is bound by Saint-Jacques and Sherbrooke Street on the east and west and West Broadway and Connaught on the north and south. The Council works in partnership with key stakeholders and actors within the community including residents, volunteers, and organisations in order to give voice to their concerns and form a common vision for Westhaven.
The Westhaven Neighbourhood Committee was formed in 2012. Involving key partners and local residents, the committee aims to create a space in which challenges and opportunities within the community are discussed in depth. Since its formation, the committee has begun reflecting on its vision, mission, goals, and priorities. In 2013 the committee conducted a local survey and gained a deeper understanding of the specific needs of the community. The committee is constantly reaching out to more stakeholders within the community, it partners with key organizations and organizes various activities to increasingly involve the citizens of Westhaven. Relevant connections are being made through mobilization and partnerships within the community for the purpose of developing projects that link residents with services and facilities in their neighborhood and in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce as a whole.
The vision of the Westhaven Neighbourhood Committee is to create a lively, vibrant and integrated environment in which diverse discussions are initiated, goals are set and relevant connections are made through mobilization and partnerships within the Westhaven community for the purpose of developing projects that improve the quality of life of the neighbourhood and Notre-Dame de Grace as a whole.
The committee's mission is to act as a catalyst for social and economic development by facilitating consultations, encouraging discussions and supporting residents and those who have a vested interest in the Westhaven community at large in the planning and implementation of projects and activities. As a catalyst, the committee aims to empower residents and partners within the Westhaven community, by providing an initial support and creating a positive space in which they can further build a community which they envision.
NDG Community Council
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Westhaven Community Center
Food Depot Alimentaire
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Key Issues and Action Plan
Since 2013 the Westhaven Neighbourhood Committee is working on a neighborhood Action Plan, which tackles 7 key issues:
1. Recreation
2. Housing
3. Social cohesion and communication
4. Safety and circulation
5. Employment
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Corrie Family History
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Corrie Name Meaning
habitational name from places in Arran, Dumfries, and elsewhere, named Corrie, from Gaelic coire 'cauldron', applied to a circular hanging valley on a mountain. Scottish spelling of northern Irish McCorry 'son of Godfrey'. See also Curry, McGorry.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Currie, Comrie, Barrie, Corrin, Corris, Gorrie, Carris, Carrie


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By the end of this short course, you will be able to...
- Explain how a typical site is built in Drupal, and explain the page-model in Drupal.
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Last week I joined a Venice food tour of the Rialto Markets and cicchetti tasting with wine.
Many of you will not have eaten cicchetti (pronounced chee-KEH-tee) and may never have heard of this food culture in Venice. They are bite-sized snacks eaten with a glass of wine.
Cicchetti can be crostini with tasty toppings, small panini, fritti (fried things, often fish) or polpette (meat balls). These delicious snacks are served in "bàcari"- a type of wine-bar unique to Venice. Here, to accompany your cicchetti you will have an ombra, a small glass of local wine. Legend has it that the word "ombra", which means "shadow", comes from the days when people would drink their "ombra" in the shade of the campanile (bell tower) in Piazza San Marco.
One of the favourite cicchetti toppings is baccalà mantecato – creamed salt-cod. Others are speck, salami, prosciutto crudo or robiola cheese mixed with black truffle. Diving down the side-streets close to the Rialto Market, we began our food tour with an aperitivo of Prosecco and two cicchetti each.
Heading down a maze of alleyways, we arrived at a cosy bàcaro for a lunch tasting of polpette with polenta, and calamari fritti on a skewer. Accompanied by some local Merlot, this was followed by yet more cicchetti and a glass of Verduzzo.
Finally, it was coffee at an old coffee-house, where the coffee selection seemed limitless.
Then a bottle of grappa was produced. I did as my guide recommended and rinsed the leftover coffee out of my tiny cup with a splash of grappa; this is known as a "grappa rinse".
Saying mellow goodbyes, we wandered, once more, into the shady alleyways of Venice.
Cicchetti tour was courtesy of Walks of Italy.
by Orna O'Reilly
Orna is a former interior designer who practised in South Africa, Mozambique and Ireland. Now writing full time, she moved from Ireland to the Veneto area of Italy in 2013.
She writes her way around Italy by blogging about it (at Ornasite) and is currently writing a novel set in Venice. You can follow her tweets @OrnaOR, and her Travel & Design page on FB.


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31st October 2017 @ Poetrylive
8PM at the Thirsty Dog, 469 K'rd
Maddy O'Dwyer
w- Callum Gentleman
hit the garden like a technicolour shell
Weed hackers squatted and snarled at ankles where suburb edge bled into ghetto.
I groped at the streets till
I knew them, terrified
I'd fall out."
Join us for a classic Poetry Live! Book launch featuring music from Callum Gentleman
Baby Teeth is the debut poetry collection by Madison O'Dwyer. It tells the story of a poet and a city slowly falling in love — and then being thrown abruptly out of it. From the drunken griefs and uncertain romances of youth to the curves of the sky and the edges of the waterfront, Baby Teeth is what is left when an adolescence is shed in our city of sails: a book of wolfishly devoured moments, the first real bites of life.
Open Mic: all welcome to read/perform
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On Thursday 5 April 1849 a young Greek (or possibly Austrian) man appeared at the Bow Street Police court charged with theft. It wasn't his first appearance and it was not to be his last. It was part of series of pre-trial hearings that demonstrate the work that the Police magistrates did in shaping cases before they came before a judge and jury at the Old Bailey. Eventually, in May of the same year the accused pleaded guilty and received a sentence of transportation.
So what exactly was he accused of doing?
At the end of March Timonion Ulasto (variously written as Vlasto) was placed in the dock at Bow Street charged with stealing 'a number of valuable coins from the British Museum'. One of the museum's assistants, a Mr C Newton, told the magistrate that Ulasto had been introduced to him by 'a personal friend' and so he came with good credentials.
Ulasto professed to have a serious interest in the coins collection, especially Roman coins. He was also an acquaintance of General Charles James Fox, a notable collector. Fox's name gained him almost unlimited access to the museum's collection and he busied himself examining nearly everything they had.
On Saturday 24 March some members of staff began to have their suspicions about the coin enthusiast and started to watch him a little more closely. On the Monday these fears were realised. Whilst searching the room a catalogue ticket was found on the floor; this referred to a 'certain coin of great value' which was soon discovered to be missing.
The museum was reluctant to directly accuse Ulasto of theft since he had arrived with such good 'introductions', but as several more items disappeared over the next few days they decided to act. Mr Newton went to the police, who then applied to the magistracy for a search warrant, which was duly granted. Ulasto was reluctant to allow the search but when his premises were turned over coins to the value of £3,000 (about £175,000 in today's money) were discovered in a drawer. Some of the items were identified (by catalogue tickets Ulasto had taken away) as belonging to the museum but others probably came from private collectors, General Fox among them.
Bail was refused (understandably) and Ulasto was remanded in custody, having declined to have an interpreter translate for him; it was common (particularly at Marylebone and the courts in the East End) for interpreters to appear to help defendants or prosecutors that had a poor or no command of English but the coin enthusiast was a well educated man who required no such assistance.
A few days later he was back up before the Bow Street magistrate, this time he was represented by a lawyer, as were the museum. General Fox was also represented in court so his interests could be looked out for.
The theft had shaken the authorities at the museum who had convened an extraordinary meetings of the directors, at which no less a figure than Sir Robert Peel (the former Prime Minister and, of course, the founder of the metropolitan Police) had attended. They set up an investigation in to what had happened and to discover exactly how many, and what value of coins, had been stolen.
The court was crowded – Bow Street was always the most popular court as it was the most senior, but this was an exciting and intriguing 'crime news' story. General Fox was there, as was the principal librarian of the British Museum, Sir Henry Ellis, Lord Enniskillen.
Also in court that day was detective Inspector Charles Field, the inspiration behind Dickens' character of Inspector Bucket in Bleak House. Three years after the Ulasto case Charles Dickens wrote of his experience of joining Field on duty and watching him work. The inspector had executed the warrant to search Ulasto's rooms and he was also investigating a series of other coin robberies in which the Greek featured as the most likely suspect. He asked for a further remand while he continued his inquiries.
Ulasto's counsel requested that his client either be tried or released on bail but Mr Jardine, the magistrate, refused. He told the lawyer that the case was too serious to risk allowing ball and Timonion was again returned to prison.
He was again brought before the justice on the 10 April and again Field requested (and was granted) a further remand. On the 17 April he was up again; the newspapers gave a brief summary of what had occurred previously (although one imagines their readers were following the story fairly closely) and now the value of the items missing had risked to nearer £4,000.
The museum was able to provide evidence (from 'sulphur casts' made of the items it held) that the coins found at Ulasto's lodgings were indeed their property. It was agreed that he should be further remanded until May.
Now the prosecution switched to General Fox who brought a separate charge for the theft of his property. No less than 71 coins produced in the court were from the general's collection he said, and had been taken some time after he had first met Ulasto back in January at Fox's London home at 35 Hill Street, Mayfair. The magistrate bound General Fox over to prosecute and the supposed coin thief was returned to his cell.
And that, it would appear, was that for the Police Courts. It is likely that Ulasto came up once more , to be formally committed for trial, but the papers don't seem to have reported it. His case was heard, as we know, on May 7 1849 and he chose to plead guilty (to the theft of over £6,000 worth of coins – a huge amount, probably close to £350,000 at modern prices). If he was hoping for a reduced punishment then he may have been disappointed; the judge sentenced him to be transported to Australia for 7 years.
If Ulasto (first described as a citizen of Vienna) was Greek (as he was thereafter referred to) then I enjoy the irony in his desire to steal Greek and Roman antiquities from the British Museum. After all, the museum 'owns' a tremendous amount of other people's property plundered by British adventurers and empire builders over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries. If a native of Athens wished to repatriate some of his cultural heritage can we really condemn him?
[from Daily News, Saturday, March 31, 1849 The Morning Post, Friday, April 06, 1849]