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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Pampers Kandoo Shampoo and Wipes Review and Giveaway
I received a Pampers® Kandoo® 2 in 1 Conditioning Shampoo with Vitamin E in Tropical Smoothie™ scent and Pampers® Kandoo® Flushable Wipes in unscented for free to try out to facilitate this review.
The Pampers® Kandoo® shampoo is tear free, dermatologist tested and hypoallergenic. The Tropical Smoothie™ scent smells really great like a combination of pineapple, melon, and strawberries. They also have Funny Berry™, Magic Melon™ scents. I love fruity scents and so do my kids! It contains natural fruit extracts, Vitamin E, a lot of other ingredients that are hard to pronounce. It does not have Parabens or Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS), but it does have artificial colors in it that I don't think are really necessary. It is for use on children age 2 and up. I love the cute little frog shaped bottle that it comes in. I am going to reuse it after it is empty because it is so adorable. If you go to the Pampers® Kandoo® website you'll see that the frog bottle for the shampoo is now bright pink. The hand pump is easy to use and it comes out in a gel that when rubbed becomes a nice lather. It comes in an 8.4 FL OZ (250 mL) size.
The Pampers® Kandoo® Flushable Wipes that I received are the sensitive, hypoallergenic unscented kind. They also have a Magic Melon® scented variety. The wipes say they are flushable, biodegradable and sewer and septic safe, but I wouldn't flush these down the toilet because they seem a little thick to be doing that. Although I do love the thickness because they don't break or tear while using and don't require too many to get the area clean. These are easier to use by little hands because there is no rolling or ripping required and one wipe is about the size of 2 pieces of toilet paper. They are moistened with lotion to moisturize while wiping and clean 30% better than dry toilet tissue. I received a softpack of 42 wipes. The softpack also has a nice flip top lid that keeps the wipes sealed shut so they won't dry out. The softpack is just the right size to travel with...just place it in your bag or purse for use on the go. These are also available in tubs and refills.
You can follow Kandoo® here: https://www.facebook.com/pamperskidskandoo, http://twitter.com/pamperskandoo.
NEW KANDOO: Also, beginning the first week of March, meet the Kandoo Clean Crew and take the Oath to keep yourself super clean at www.pamperskandoo.com. They will be giving away 1000 Super Power Clean Kits each month! Look for the new and improved Kandoo Personal Care line, including Shampoo, Body Wash, and Hand Soap at most major retailers and online. Don't forget to enter to win the prize below on my blog too!
Prize: (1) pack of 42 count Kandoo® wipes and (1) Kandoo® Hand Sanitizer or Kandoo® Hand Soap. Open to US and Canada.
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DISCLOSURE/DISCLAIMER: I received product for free to facilitate my review and the opportunity to give another away to my readers. My thoughts are mine and my family's own opinion and have not been altered by anyone else. I did not receive any other compensation for doing this review.
7 comments:
- Erin said...
I would prefer the hand soap!
- April 5, 2013 at 9:04 PM
- andrea v said...
Hand soap
- April 6, 2013 at 1:10 PM
- Jennifer T. said...
I'd prefer the Hand Soap.
- April 6, 2013 at 6:48 PM
- Mary T said...
I'd prefer the hand soap.
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- April 6, 2013 at 8:35 PM
- Terra Heck said...
I prefer the hand soap. Thanks.
- April 17, 2013 at 3:01 AM
- Unknown said...
I would prefer the hand soap. But would be happy with either.
- April 19, 2013 at 12:00 PM
- Kathy said...
very good product, non-fragrant and gentle on sensitive skin... We've been using these for well over 5 years now, and they've worked extremely well with potty training and self-reliance for our kids.
- March 29, 2016 at 12:16 AM
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
Today is the birthday of Ted Geisel, Dr. Seuss. As an artist, he is one of my heroes. When people ask me which artists I have been influenced by, I look to people like Ted Geisel and Charles Schulz. Geisel was man who combined dizzying talent with a real-world practicality, an artist who demonstrated how art can be used to demonstrably improve people's lives.
My 2-1/2 year old son has just gotten into Seuss, so I've been lucky enough to re-experience his works, and watch my son experience them for the first time. We started with Green Eggs and Ham, reading it each night for a couple of weeks. But then we moved on to Horton Hears a Who, which he has me read to him at least twice a day. Ah, Horton! It has to be one of my favorite books, period. Green Eggs is fun, The Cat in the Hat is wild, but Horton is sublime. And the language — oh, the language is just beautiful: the sound of it, the way it feels as you read it, the way it makes the story flow through your mind. Whenever we get to the part of the story where the Whos all shout "we are here, we are here, we are here, we are here", and my son lets out a cheer, it never fails to choke me up. It never fails to amaze me how my son is riveted to this story, time and time again. To make a work of art that has such an impact… I cannot imagine what that must be like.

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We landed in Bogota around ~5am-ish and got to our hostel around 6am. It was too early for us to check in and get our rooms so we just freshen up and left our backpacks at the hostel's storage room. The first thing we needed was coffee but there wasn't one open at 7am so we decided to get breakfast first at La Puerto False.
We got tamales, huevos con jamon, chocolate completa and almojabana. We definitely over ordered as we didn't know that the tamales was going to be THAT big and that almost every dish came with a bread.
The chocolate completa is a traditional drink that Colombians love and they get it for breakfast, lunch and even as a snack. It's hot chocolate with cheese. You're suppose to cut up the cheese into tiny bits and drop it into the hot chocolate, let it melt and eat it when it's melted onto the bottom of your cup. Maybe we didn't do it or it could've been better elsewhere, but we didn't like it. Our cheese didn't melt well and the chocolate was a bit bland. The star of our meal was the tamales – it was flavorful and I loved the texture of it.
After fueling up, we explored Bogota with no real plan in mind. We went to the Bolivar Square, saw the National Capitol building and the Cathedral of Colombia.
The square was pretty empty since it was fairly early so it was a perfect time for pictures. It almost felt like a wasteland if it wasn't for all the pigeons walking around.
We walked around the city for half a hour, just admiring the architecture and the colorful walls with graffiti art. Since no one was really out yet, it gave us a different experience of the city that what we had later on the day.
We couldn't believe it was only 9am after all that. Our 3 hours in Bogota already felt like it would be noon. With some time to kill before our free walking tour, we want to get our first cup of coffee at Azahar Cafe.
Azahar Cafe looked like a hipster cafe you would find in Williamsburg. We chilled with our cup of coffee for almost a hour before we went to meet our walking tour guide in front of the Gold Museum.
The free walking tour was with Beyond Colombia and here's our tour guide Juan!
Our group was largest walking tour group I ever been on. There was probably more than 30 people and it was 3 hours long. It was a great way to see most of the city and learn about the history of Bogota.
- Parque de Santander
- Gaitan's corner
- Casa Galeria
- Miguel Urrutia Art Museum
- Bolivar Square
- Teatro Colon Bogota
When we were on the walking tour, we started to notice the city getting more alive and robust. The streets were fill with people, music, and aromas of food.
We got to try chicha (fermented drink) which tasted like kombucha… probably because the one we tried had was only 4-5%. At the same cafe, we also got chucula which is a drink you can only find in Colombia. Chucula contains coco, cinnamon and a couple of other spices. It reminds me of chai but a little more unique.
Fun fact: did you know that Justin Bieber was the reason why Bogota legalized graffiti? (That's what the tour guide told us and I'm taking his word for it.)
Juan was a great tour guide and we learned a lot about Bogota from him. I highly recommend it if you visit: Beyond Colombia
It was 1pm-ish when we were done with the tour. We had a lunch reservation at Mesa Franca which was half a hour away from the city. We were starving and there was so much traffic that we ended up being late for a couple of minutes but it was fine. The food was AMAZING, we got 3 entrees, 2 appetizers, drinks and 2 deserts to share.
Honestly one of the best meals I ever had and it didn't break the wallet. It was around ~$60 total. HIGHLY recommend Mesa Franca.
The last activity we had before settling in back in our hostel was taking the tram up to Mount Monserrate and get the view of Bogota. Unfortunately the cable car was closed but the tram still worked so we took that up.
It whole ride up took around 5 minutes. You get a pretty nice view of Bogota on the first half of the ride up and the rest was mostly just the tram in the tunnel.
There's a church at the top and a pretty damn good view. It would've been nice if it was less cloudy so you could see more of the city but it was breathtaking nonetheless. The only thing to keep in mind is that walking around takes a lot of energy because of the attitude.
We were on the top of Mount Monserrate for a good amount of time just taking in our environment and the view. We went back to the hostel to check in and shower afterwards.
We were going to go to a popular night life restaurant for dinner but we were exhausted from being active for 14 hours. We opted in to make a food run at McDonalds for dinner because we all love to try country exclusive menu items.
We went to bed around 10pm. I was the last one to pass out as I was trying to finish this post, but couldn't. We had to wake up at 6:45am in the morning so we can checkout, get breakfast and fly to Pereira.
(P.S. uploading this post without WiFi and it's taking forever… even with WiFi it's pretty slow. It's just the slow upload of pictures that's taking forever so I need to come back and caption them :(. )


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New Hampshire officials to hold public hearing on proposed, voluntary hike safe card
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � New Hampshire Fish and Game officials Department will hold a public hearing on proposed rules to establish a hike safe card that would forgive hikers for rescue expenses they might face if they're negligent.
The hearing is scheduled for Sept. 8 at 6:30 p.m. at the Fish and Game headquarters on Hazen Drive in Concord.
The program would become effective on Jan. 1, 2015. The legislature approved the cards in June.
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Back in May 2012 I wrote The Tallest Structure in the World blogpost, in which I wrote about Lincoln Cathedral.
This week I received an email from someone who described himself as a sceptic and, although he made no claims about which was the tallest structure or building at that time, said that he does not believe Lincoln Cathedral was ever the tallest. He based his scepticism on the fact that he lived in Lincoln from 1981 to 1984 and had never heard the claim. I can only accept the figures that are available to us today since the spire was blown down in 1549.
Lincoln Cathedral, including the spire on the Rood Tower, stood 524 feet high, prior to that the old St Paul's Cathedral in London had been the tallest building for 100 years. Although the spire was lost in 1549 no building was higher than the Cathedral's tower and spire until the building of Ulm Minster in 1890 at 530 feet.
How important is it that Lincoln Cathedral was once the highest structure in the world? Well it's a matter of status, there are so many legitimate claims that can be made about Lincoln (see the About page on this blog), but to have the tallest building/structure for 439 years is unique in the modern age, but the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest structure for nearly 4,000 years.
Having 'said' all that what is most important to me is that Lincoln Cathedral is one of the most beautiful buildings I have seen. Biased? Me?


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Four Seasons Rancho Encantado welcomes Andrew Cooper as Exec Chef
Andrew Cooper has been appointed Executive Chef at Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado Santa Fe, joining the team from the Resort's sister property, Four Seasons Resort Hualalai at Historic Ka'upulehu. "This is my first time living in the Southwest, and I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of learning new techniques incorporating New Mexican influences and flavours," says Cooper. "I already am researching local game, farmer's markets and growers, and seasonal offerings unique to the destination. The rich culture and history of Santa Fe promise many exciting adventures – culinary and otherwise – for me in this new role."
With more than 20 years of experience around the globe, Cooper's diverse resume includes a wealth of culinary expertise in a variety of cuisine styles. A graduate of the esteemed Culinary Institute of America, Cooper brings more than 12 years of Four Seasons experience to his new role as Executive Chef at Four Seasons Resort Rancho Encantado.
Cooper's most recent appointment was Executive Sous-Chef at the Hualalai property. Prior to that, he was the opening Senior Sous-Chef at Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village, in Southern California. He also served as Sous-Chef at Four Seasons Hotel New York.
Cooper's early years as a chef were marked by variety. He started at the Woodcrest Country Club in Syosset, New York, then went on to become a guest lecturer for a period of time at the Alpina International School of Hotel Management in Illana, Switzerland. His next role was cooking at Chef Allan's in Miami, Florida, and then training as executive chef at Bretts Wharf Restaurant in Brisbane, Australia.
In addition to a culinary degree from the CIA, Cooper earned a bachelor's degree in hospitality management and a master's degree in food service management, both at Florida International University.
Cooper enjoys arts, culture and history, and visiting museums and galleries. An avid outdoor enthusiast and cyclist, he is eager to explore the majesty of New Mexico and Santa Fe. Cooper will reside in Santa Fe with his wife, Ruby, and two young children.


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We have produced an evolutionary model for promoters (and more generally for genomic regulatory sequence) analogous to the commonly used synonymous/nonsynonymous mutation models for protein-coding sequence. Although our model, called Sunflower, relies on some simple assumptions, it captures enough of the biology of transcription factor action to show clear correlation with other biological features. Sunflower predicts a binding profile of transcription factors to DNA sequence, in which different factors compete for the same potential binding sites. Sunflower can also model cooperative binding. We can control the apparent concentration of the factors by setting parameters uniformly or from gene expression data. The parameterized model simultaneously estimates a continuous measurement of binding occupancy across the genomic sequence for each factor. We can then introduce either a localized mutation (such as a SNP) or a coordinated set of mutations (for example, from a haplotype or another species), rerun the binding model and record the difference in binding profiles using their relative entropy. A single mutation can alter interactions both upstream and downstream of its position due to potential overlapping binding sites, and our statistic captures this domino effect.
Results from Sunflower show many features in agreement with known biology. For example, the overall binding occupancy rises over transcription start sites, and CpG desert promoters show sharper localization signals relative to the transcription start site. More interesting are correlates to variation both between species and within them. Over evolutionary time, we observe a clear excess of low- scoring mutations fixed in promoters, consistent with most changes being neutral. However, this is not consistent across all promoters, and some promoters show more rapid divergence. This divergence often occurs in the presence of relatively constant protein coding divergence. Interestingly, different classes of promoters show different sensitivity to mutations, with developmental and immunological genes having promoters inherently more sensitive to mutations than housekeeping genes.
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Welcome to my website. This site shares my body of work. My work involves documenting the lives of "elders" – those that have turned their life experiences into wisdom. Enjoy your visit and I look forward to you returning.
Aging Well
"Aging Well", a radio program (92.9/Philadelphia), was started in November 2018 and seeks to create more inter-generational connectivity, support and information for individuals as they age and for the caregivers that assist them. Through live interviews and conversations with those providing services to the aging, we hope to generate a groundswell of interest for the aging population. "Aging Well" is meant to affirm the aging population and those who care about them. Listen here.
2016 Leeway Foundation Transformation Award Winner
Julie Rainbow is a social research activist artist, who integrates critical thinking with 25 years of social work experience; while synthesizing and analyzing stories from elders into original artistic work. Elders who've turned their life's experiences into wisdom share their life experiences. Read more: Julie Rainbow LTA '16
Bodies of Work Include:
"Catch the VIBE" (Voices and Images of Beloved Elders)
"Catch the VIBE" (Voices and Images of Beloved Elders), is a multimedia theatrical performance that shares the histories of elders, while exploring intersections of culture, history, photography, music, media and technology in the modern world. >>read more
"Standing the Test of Time: Creating Relationships that Endure" - Workbook
"Standing the Test of Time: Creating Relationships that Endure," takes a look at the intimate lives of African American marriages of 30 years or more, to reveal valuable lessons in developing loving and lasting relationships. >>read more
"Not Finished Yet - Elder Women of Philadelphia"
"Not Finished Yet - Elder Women of Philadelphia" is a photographic/literary exhibition that shares the histories of elders, women 80 years of age or older, while exploring intersections of culture, history, identity in the modern world. >>read more


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There is nothing quite like receiving a package at your doorstep. We all get the Christmas morning excitement when our long-awaited delivery finally makes it to us. But before you can shout "Hallelujah!", you're probably getting a little obsessive-compulsive about checking the delivery status.
We've heard tons of stories of what shoppers do to stalk track their packages. Everything from refreshing the shipping page every ten minutes to creating detailed spreadsheets so they don't lose sight of a single delivery. Whatever it is, we're all guilty of being a tad overbearing as we wait not-so-patiently. Here are a few great ways Slice can help you track your packages, save you time and keep you from becoming an overbearing package tracker.
Automatic package tracking
As you might already be well aware, Slice can automatically track your packages from multiple carriers including UPS, Fedex, UPS, DHL, Ontrac, Lasership and more. By using your shipping emails, Slice can automatically add your tracking numbers and track your packages, so you don't have to dig through your emails and meticulously refresh the tracking page.
On the Slice mobile app, you can get updates via push notifications. Mac users can also get desktop notifications, and you can download Slice in the Chrome web store. You can easily access all the information you need about your package and delivery. This way you're getting only the information you need when you need it.
Manually adding tracking numbers
Not all packages come with an email that gives the tracking number and shipment details. Mom's care package is as important as anything that comes from Amazon (actually, maybe more important). Most delivery services provide a tracking number on the receipt, which you can manually enter into the Slice app.
If you're sending packages out or returning a package, you can use the Slice barcode scanner to quickly add your tracking number into your Slice account. When manually adding a tracking number, you'll notice a scan button that will bring up a barcode scanner. Place the barcode of your package slip into the window and you'll hear a snap when Slice picks up the tracking number. Works with most of the carriers we support, try it with your Fedex, UPS, USPS and DHL shipments.
On the mobile app, use the + button in the bottom corner and you'll see an option to manually enter your tracking number. You can also do the same on the Slice web app under the shipments tab. It's also great for tracking numbers Slice might have missed, like tracking numbers sent from eBay sellers or anything else that might be flying under the radar.
Share a shipment
Part of the joy of buying a gift for someone is watching them open it. Although you might be miles or even oceans apart, it's can be impossible to see their eyes light up or let them know to expect something without ruining the surprise. Sharing shipments lets you and your recipient build that anticipation together. What's great about sharing the shipment is that they can know when the package is coming but they have no idea what's inside.
On the Slice iOS app, you can share a shipment by tapping on the 3 bubble icon of the shipment window. Select "share shipment," then type in the recipient's email. You will be given the option to select a gift icon and leave a short message. On the Slice web app, you'll find the share shipment link under the Shipments tab. The recipient doesn't need to be using the Slice app to receive a shared shipment, they'll get an email from Slice – downloading the Slice app couldn't hurt, though.
IFTTT Recipes
The more hardcore trackers might be left wanting more. Maybe you're not ready to give up your spreadsheets or you're aching for more features. Then you'll be happy to know Slice is integrated with IFTTT (If this, then that) which allows almost infinite possibilities. You can start by using pre-made recipes or make your own.
Recipes work by providing an if statement (if I receive a tracking number) and a then statement (then add delivery date to Google calendar). You can add them to your to-do list or have it send you a text message upon arrival. Slice and IFTTT allow you tons of flexibility and customization, so you can track your packages any way that suits you. Check out all Slice recipes!


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Homebuyers have a right to seek a refund for a house even if the postponed project is complete per new Supreme Court ruling.
If there is an unreasonable delay in delivering a real estate unit to a buyer, it is completely up to the purchaser if they desire to take ownership of the unit or seek repayment with appropriate compensation, the Supreme Court has ordered.
The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has also passed a similar rule says Hirsh Mohindra. The rule says that a flat buyer cannot be forced to accept the tenure of his/her residence offered by the builder.
A case filed in the Supreme Court bench involved a project in Gurugram where a builder had sold a villa to Shrihari Gokhale in July 2012. The builder had promised December 31, 2014, as a possession date. Gokhale had filed a complaint with the NCDRC in 2016 asking a repayment of Rs 13.24 crore.
The builder had challenged the NCDRC order in the Supreme Court to repay the principal amount of Rs 8.14 crore. The court found that there was a total failure on the part of the real estate agent, a deficit in providing services and ordered that the builder cannot vend the villa booked by Gokhale till the order was executed.
Records indicate that the entire consideration was Rs.8.31 crore, the respondents had remunerated Rs 8.14 crore by November 2013 notes Hirsh Mohindra. Though the plaintiffs had assumed to deliver the villa by December 31, 2014, they failed to release occupancy. As late as May 28, 2014, the amended construction schedule forecasted the date of delivery to be October 2014. There was, thus, failure on the part of the litigants and deficient in rendering service in terms of the commitments that they had made, the Supreme Court order said.
In the NCDRC, a bench of Fairness VK Jain directed a Delhi-based builder Pioneer Urban Land and Infrastructure to repay Rs 4.43 crore to a home purchaser who had deposited the amount in 2012 for a flat in Gurugram.
That flat was to be completed in 2015, but the builder botched to meet the terms and the consumer approached NCDRC in 2018 for repayment of the total amount paid. Though the builder had ready the flat and got the occupation certificate from the authority just a night before the purchaser filed the grievance, the charge directed the builder to repay the amount as there was holdup of more than two years.
The respondent flat buyer has made out an apparent case of lack of service on the part of the builder. The respondent flat buyer was justified in terminating the purchase agreement by filing the grievance, and cannot be forced to accept ownership, notes Hirsh Mohindra. The respondent buyer was lawfully permitted to look for repayment of the amount deposited by him along with compensation, the NCDRC order said.
These new rulings certainly put the onus on the builder to deliver on the promises they make, and empower buyers to seek remedy when builders do not.


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There are questions people ask themselves privately all the time, as they experience the disconnect between their public lives and their private experiences, that are seldom made a matter of record, seldom publicly discussed, difficult even to articulate in the current milieu, since they interfere too much with the daily business of getting up and going to work; questions that deeply resonate with the way most of us live: for instance, what value does any of it have, to stuff away the most personal aspects of your life, to deny or ignore your authentic experience of things, your deepest feelings, so you can strap yourself into a suit and go shake people's hands and try to make money? What is the worth of "growing up and getting a job" – or, once you're there, of "being an adult" – if it means spending most of your day not being yourself, not even needing to be yourself; not needing to feel or think about the things that matter most to you, that reach the very ground of your being, that most personally speak to your experience, so that you can do "productive," money making, but ultimately impersonal WORK, to which the majority of your time needs to be devoted? Thoreau, in Walden, says: "Actually, the labouring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labour would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance – which his growth requires – who has so often to use his knowledge?" Given the boring, impersonal realities of functioning in capitalist society, selling your very self for the price of shelter and "comfort" and entertainment – wondering every day if the trade is worth it – wouldn't it be better to just burrow into your fear, confusion, loneliness, and private obsessions, and seek self-respect (and the love and attention and respect of others) not through knowing that you are regarded as a productive member of a community that you feel no personal connection to whatsoever, but by making your soul public, by producing art that DOES speak of your private experience? If you could fulfill your need for love and attention and esteem in the community that way – if you could somehow produce work that got their attention and won you the acclaim and notice you need -- wouldn't that be better than a day-to-day life as a drone?
I wonder how Daniel Johnston would respond to these questions? (The Q&A after the film I just saw certainly didn't do them justice -- not that he was in attendance, and not that anyone asked anything very challenging). It remains unknown at the end of the film how much insight Johnston has into his own career; it seems possible his talk of Satan could productively be attached to my rants about consumer capitalism - he does at one point assert that Satan drinks Mountain Dew in the film -- and that maybe we're getting at the same thing (the religious formulation of the above questions asks what it profits a man to gain the world but lose his soul, and one imagines Johnston has pondered the quote). All the same, there is an aspect of uncontrolled spiralling in his impassioned metaphoric experience of the world -- a condition commonly described as "religious delusion" -- that makes it hard to know how objective he is capable of being about himself. In any event, The Devil and Daniel Johnston just played to a sold out and appreciative audience at Vancouver's Pacific Cinematheque, as a Big Smash/ Frames of Mind - affiliated sneak preview before it opens next week at Cinemark Tinseltown. It's a fascinating film, but it raises far larger questions than it could possibly hope to deal with, and it's these questions that are interesting – the film is only the springboard. I could toss off a few more, since it pleases me to frame them: what is the function of the art of a man like Johnston in a consumer capitalist society? How would we describe it? If only Rainer Werner Fassbinder were alive to make a film about Johnston, he could maybe do it justice – making sort of a black comedy of it all: a mentally ill man, as part of his illness, is inwardly compelled to produce art; the rest of the community around him at first despise and reject him as a freak, but somehow he develops a huge following of young people who, ambivalent about losing their own identity to their jobs and social roles, seize on his "authentic expression" of emotion as a passport to connecting with their own personal, private, but publicly unspeakable selves (we could drop references to the Pied Piper into the mix, perhaps, and have parents expressing dismay about their children's taste in music). The man personally cannot be dealt with – he is deeply mentally disturbed and needs to be institutionalized and medicated and controlled by others, and in his daily life is treated as an object, a patient, an inferior; but he is periodically let out into the world to perform his songs, which his fans so need. He is loved by them (tho' they'd rather be spared the details of what his personal life is like); and to him, all is right with the world -- he is happy to be a star, and that's how he thinks of himself. (Though it's an unkind analogy, I remember Brian Fawcett writing somewhere, perhaps apocryphally, that Zip the Pinhead -- not to be confused with the cartoon character -- believed he was in charge of the circus he was a part of and would occasionally bark orders from his cage to people around him, which P.T. Barnum encouraged them to indulge, since it made him more manageable). After soaking up their love, at the end of the tour, he is driven back to the institution, medicated, and kept quiet. What a relationship of the artist to society…! And what a society, to produce and support it!
(Note: Daniel actually seems to live most of the time with his parents, who obviously love him deeply, though he has caused them much worry and fear and anxiety. The above is a sort of "fictionalized" scenario -- one which does resonate against tonight's documentary, tho').
On some level, tho' I liked the film far more than I suspect she did, I think Penelope Mulligan is absolutely right in her Discorder column; this film fails to really ask the important questions about Daniel Johnston. It contents itself with participating as enthusiastically as possible in the adulation of the man, while "objectively" (and creatively – Gibby Haynes is interviewed while receiving dental surgery) documenting the details of his illness, which is given second place. It's certainly an entertaining ride -- in a more superficial way than a "serious" treatment of the subject matter would be. At one point, for instance, we are shown footage shot, apparently, by Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, as they drive around NY looking for Daniel, who has gone off his meds and is wandering the streets in the grips of religious delusion and ambitions to be famous. They believe he gets on a bus to go back to his parents, but awhile later, he is seen again in NY, and eventually ends up in Bellevue, institutionalized. He gets out after a few days and, as the story goes, ends up opening for fIREHOSE that night at CBGBs. That this is the punchline to the story got a hearty laugh from the audience, which is a testament to just how "entertaining" the film manages to be, but maybe just a few people were, like me, left just a little uncomfortable about what we were laughing at. It didn't seem cruel, exactly -- I think most of the audience love Johnston and his music and see bits of themselves in him -- but there are definitely questions of "exploitation" that come up, and of voyeurism, and of the entire nature of this transaction -- questions which Johnston himself is inclined to occasionally voice, tho' not in this film, where he is mostly spoken about (or represented through his tapes and songs), rather than being given a chance to express his own views for the camera. Still, I remember him singing on one of the tapes of his I had, back in the 1980's, about how it's easy for us to come and listen to his songs, but he has to live with his problems all the time...
I can't wait to see how tomorrow's screening of Watkins' Privilege -- which posits the pop-star as the manipulated messiah of a totalitarian state, controlled by the powers that be to help fans conform – resonates against tonight's show. Daniel Johnston as Christ? Why not? I wonder if he's seen the film...?
Artists occupy a privileged place in North American life: they connect us to the real emotions and private experiences that we, by taking the path most taken, have forsaken. All the better if the artists are insane – all the more "authentic" their expressions. Anyone concerned about these issues, whether they care about pop music or not, is strongly urged to see The Devil and Daniel Johnston. It's an amazing, bizarre experience. And it's bound to sell the man a few CDs -- he apparently has a new "greatest hits" thing out this week -- which doesn't seem like a bad way for people to spend their hard-earned money, I suppose.
Speaking of which, I now must curtail my writing and go to bed, that I may get up for work in the morning. Be free, Daniel! ...because many of us aren't...


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A Police Clearance Certificate or Criminal History Record is issued by the Oregon State Police Identification Services Section. In Oregon, Criminal History Information is confidential and not open for public disclosure unless otherwise authorized by Law. Criminal record information is maintained at the Police Identification Services Section. PCC Certifying that the applicant has never partaken in any criminal activity that led to the involvement of the Oregon State Police, and is also required when a person applies for an immigration status to other countries. Person applying for Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) are required to state the period of stay in Oregon. Documentary proof of legal stay is to be provided. First Entry and Last Exit date STAMP is also required. All pages of VISA (Colour Copy). It is issued to any individual who reside more than 6 months in Oregon.
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Mock the Fic: Runaway Dream part 2
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This is part two of a two piece that just screams, mock me! Please mock me! To recap, its a lovely little story written by a 14 year old writer who pulls the biggest Mary Sue of all time and inserts herself into the story. Full of cliches and lol's. How could we not mock a story that starts out with a 14 year old becoming a detective?
Stats: Title:Runaway Dream Author: NinjaaGurl Summary: this started because of a dream i had.the main point is what would happen if a 14 year old was a homicide detective (BCF: 14 year old homicide detective? WTF?) Rating: T
Puke Bags: 1
Sporks to the eyes: 4
Please tell me this time its Montgomery's pov. PLEASE!
I've been on the run for 3 whole days.
Damn, it's not.
I'm cold and tired, and don't even get me started on the rain. I swear, God must be pissed at me because it hasn't stopped raining since I left.
I can assure you, yes, God is mad at you because you wrote a Mary Sue fic. God will smite thee for Mary Sue fics! Its part of the whole Ark of the Covenant thing.
I tried going home but the police were waiting to ambush me.
Damn Kate it's like she knows my every move.
Kittens are dying with the lack of comma use. Read the rest of this entry →
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Wednesday 05 April 2017 - Wednesday 05 April 2017 - Undercover Area
Administration of Medication- Policy and Procedures In line with the Department of Education policy staff will not administer medication or oversee students taking their medication without written parental permission. NO ASPIRIN or PANADOL can be administered to school children unless the school's medication action plan has been signed by a parent ......
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The Rusty Spear is a collectible item that appears in Sonic and the Black Knight.
The Rusty Spear is a very simple form of spear. It has a straight brown shaft and a small and flat pointy head which is covered in brown rust. According to its profile, it was used in ancient times.
The player can collect the Rusty Spear by defeating enemies during different Missions in certain areas. Then to obtain it, the player must use the ID points earned from completing the Mission where the Rusty Spear was picked up to identify it on the identification screen. The Rusty Spear is needed to craft the Morglay.
- No: 15
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The Clubhouse
What is a Clubhouse?
A Clubhouse is first and foremost a local community center that offers people who have mental illness hope and opportunities to achieve their full potential. Much more than simply a program or a social service, a Clubhouse is most importantly a community of people who are working together to achieve a common goal.
A Clubhouse is organized to support people living with mental illness. During the course of their participation in a Clubhouse, members gain access to opportunities to rejoin the worlds of friendships, family, employment and education, and to the services and support they may individually need to continue their recovery. A Clubhouse provides a restorative environment for people whose lives have been severely disrupted because of their mental illness, and who need the support of others who are in recovery and who believe that mental illness is treatable.
The Origin of the Term "Clubhouse":
The word "Clubhouse" derives from the original language that was used to communicate the work and vision of Fountain House, the very first Clubhouse, which was started in New York in 1948. Since its inception, Fountain House has served as the model for all subsequent ICCD Clubhouses that have been started around the world. Fountain House began when former patients of a New York psychiatric hospital began to meet together informally, as a kind of "club." It was organized as a support system for people living with mental illness, rather than as a service or a treatment program. Communities around the world that have modeled themselves after Fountain House have embraced the term "Clubhouse," because it clearly communicates the message of membership and belonging. This message of inclusion is at the very heart of the Clubhouse way of working.
Clubhouse Principals:
- Members (program participants) work side-by-side with staff and peers in running the daily operations of Frontier House.
- Members engage in work of the program such as preparing lunch, accounting and bookkeeping, fundraising, public relations, receptionist, custodial duties, and so MUCH more.
- Members volunteer to participate as they feel ready and according to their individual interests.
- Members and staff meet in open forums to discuss policy issues and future planning for the Clubhouse.
- Members have the opportunity to return to paid employment in typical work settings with varying levels of support. Employment options may vary from Transitional employment to options offering more permanency, such as Supported or Independent Employment.
- Community support services are offered to Frontier House members and include assistance with housing, public benefits, accessing medical resources, referrals/support for substance use issues, and other assistance based on individual needs.


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Incorporate a hint of pattern into your professional wear with this blue and pink patterned shirt. The check design comes in a micro size that is subtle but still distinctive.
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Flooding closes highway between St. Charles and Noelville
Highway 535 between St. Charles and Noelville is closed due to flooding.
The OPP said in a release that signage is in place at Highway 17 in Hagar, Highway 69 in French River and Highway 64 at Noelville to advise travellers of the impasse.
"The Ministry of Transportation is on scene and repairs are underway," the release states.
An excavator could be seen digging up the road in the early afternoon Thursday.
The problem appeared to originate with a beaver pond giving way late Wednesday night.
"The OPP will provide further information and updates of the road advisory as it becomes available."
Residents are asked to not call OPP communication centres or detachments for road advisory updates or road condition information.
Instead, you should visit the MTO website at ontario.ca/511, twitter@511Ontario or call 511 traveller's information, where information on road closures can be obtained.


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"I have seldom felt so alone," wailed George Monbiot in his November 25 column in the Guardian, England's most prominent left-wing daily. "Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial. The emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, they say, are a storm in a tea cup, no big deal, exaggerated out of all recognition." Monbiot agrees with his green comrades that "climate change deniers have made wild claims which the [e-mail] material can't possibly support." "But," he says, "it is also true that the emails are very damaging."
The New "Deniers"
"The response of the greens and most of the scientists I know is profoundly ironic, as we spend so much of our time confronting other people's denial," wrote Monbiot. "Pretending that this isn't a real crisis isn't going to make it go away. Nor is an attempt to justify the emails with technicalities. We'll be able to get past this only by grasping reality, apologising where appropriate and demonstrating that it cannot happen again."
However, some might suggest that George Monbiot is also in denial, if he thinks that the entire "Climategate" e-mail affair (see here and here) can be resolved by a simple apology and the promise to not let such nasty practices happen again. Considering the seriousness of the alleged misdeeds in the hacked e-mails, and, even more importantly, what is at stake in the policies and legislation that have been adopted and are being proposed based on the exaggerated and fraudulent claims of the scientists involved, something far more serious than apologies and promises is required.
Even calling on CRU director Phil Jones to resign, as Monbiot does, will not suffice; nor will the resignation and/or firing of all the individuals who have been exposed as engaging in unethical practices. What has been initially culled from the vast cache of e-mails provides prima facie evidence of a concerted attempt by well-placed and fanatically biased "scientists" to cook the books on global warming statistics and prevent skeptical scientists (whom they viciously stigmatize with the "denier" label) from being published in professional journals. Moreover, as we've previously reported, the e-mails also provide evidence that the scientists in question discussed destroying their records and data to prevent its release under Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests. In this, they very possibly ventured into criminal activity.
On November 23, former British chancellor Lord Nigel Lawson called for an independent inquiry into the e-mail controversy and the claims of collusion among climate alarmists. Lawson, who has been critical of the claims of impending catastrophe due to anthropogenic global warming (AGW), was joined in the call for an investigation by global-warming champion Bob Ward, director of policy and communications at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics.
On November 24, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, announced his intention to begin a Senate investigation, while in the House of Representatives Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, announced he and House colleagues have also begun investigating the matter.
The Totalitarian Impulse
For years, Monbiot has relished his role as the lead flamethrower of the European Greens. His has been one of the loudest voices viciously attacking opponents of global-warming alarmism, including eminent scientists, as "deniers." This, of course, is a blatantly malicious attempt to smear into silence all dissenting scientific voices by claiming that their reasoned challenges to AGW fright peddling are the equivalent of Nazi Holocaust denial.
To Monbiot, every scientist, commentator, politician, or journalist who questions the alleged "scientific consensus" on AGW, is a "denier," a "scumbag," and a "sell-out" to the coal and oil industries — or worse. For, you see, as Monbiot declared in a 2006 column: "Climate change is not just a moral question: it is the moral question of the 21st century."
When Monbiot (or "Moonbat," as he is known to many of his detractors) is not hyperventilating about the coming AGW apocalypse, he can be found railing against capitalism or leading groups of "squatters" who are occupying property in the name of "the people," or participating in "direct action" in various and sundry left-wing causes. Last year Monbiot failed in one of his direct action stunts: attempting to execute a citizen's arrest of former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, for his alleged role as a war criminal in the Iraq War. He was blocked by security guards from carrying out the arrest when Bolton spoke at the Hay Festival, a literary festival in England.
Monbiot has developed a reputation — even in some leftist circles — as a cause-of-the-week gadabout, but AGW activism clearly is his obsession. "Stopping runaway climate change must take precedence over every other aim," he claims.
While he shares philosophical porridge with anarchists, communists, socialists, and radical greens of every stripe, he frequently clashes with purist ideologues on the Left who let other single-issue interests get in the way of saving the planet.
He confesses: "I don't know how to solve the problem of capitalism without resorting to totalitarianism." But, since as a practical matter we can't abolish capitalism outright, then, for the time being, in the interest of stopping irreversible AGW, "We have to use all the resources we can lay hands on, and these must include both governments and corporations."
Breathtaking (Literally) Proposal: Personal Carbon Rationing
In his 2006 book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning, a best-seller in Europe and the United States, Monbiot asserts: "Manmade global warming cannot be restrained unless we persuade government to force us to change the way we live."
According to Monbiot, even the radical proposals by Britain's Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are too milquetoast, even though they would literally wreck the economy and throw many people into utter destitution. "The government is using outdated figures, aiming for a 60% reduction by 2050," in greenhouse gas emissions, he said. Monbiot calls for much more drastic action and on a much faster timetable. According to him, the government must institute "a 90% reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030."
To achieve these extreme, civilization-crashing reductions, governments must, he says, "use that target to set an annual carbon cap." "Then," says Comrade Monbiot, government would "use the [carbon] cap to set a personal carbon ration. Every citizen is given a free annual quota of carbon dioxide. He or she spends it by buying gas and electricity, petrol and train and plane tickets."
Yes, every breath you take, every move you make, the government will be watching — and regulating — you. Not even Robespierre, Stalin, Mao Zedong, or Pol Pot dreamed of such absolute power.
Of course he is wildly in favor of concluding the most stringent agreement possible at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen. Monbiot is precisely the kind of ideologue Lord Christopher Monckton was referring to when he warned recently that the Copenhagen treaty would be an attempt by those of his ilk to impose a communist world government. A recipient of the United Nations Global 500 Award and the OneWorld National Press Award, Monbiot competes with Al Gore for the slot of poster boy of the green globalists.
Tears for the Perps
Although Monbiot has called for Phil Jones to resign over the e-mail row, it appears to be a concession on his part to expediency rather than scruple; Jones must be sacrificed, like a pawn to save the queen. Monbiot's charges of denial against fellow greens and his call for Jones to step down have been characterized by even some of his erstwhile opponents as "courageous," but it is simply a more pragmatic form of denial, a choice to cut losses and continue forging ahead. He realizes that his side has a better chance of getting past the scandal by 'fessing up to minor peccadillo and offering up a sacrificial lamb, rather than stonewalling and risking a larger investigation.
Monbiot realizes that the e-mails, such as the one in which Jones tells Michael Mann that he (Jones) and Kevin Trenberth will censor opposing scientific views from the forthcoming IPCC report, are a big problem. In that e-mail Jones wrote: "I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow — even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"
Monbiot tries to put the best spin on it he can, but is forced to admit: "Even so, his message looks awful. It gives the impression of confirming a potent meme circulated by those who campaign against taking action on climate change: that the IPCC process is biased."
And indeed it is, as the e-mails confirm. However, Monbiot claims, as he has done for years, that the Climategate violations by Jones, Mann, et al are the result of the poor AGW alarmists laboring under a vicious, withering siege by well-funded "scumbag" deniers. Jones and company are victims who fell into this moral quagmire because "fossil fuel industries have employed 'experts' to lie, cheat and manipulate on their behalf."
Monbiot and his fellow alarmists know that it is their side that has always had the overwhelming advantage in funding — from governments, the UN, corporations, foundations, and NGOs — not the skeptics. Senator Inhofe has reported that the lopsided imbalance is on the order of more than $50 billion for the alarmist camp (over the past decade or so) to a paltry $19 million for the skeptics.
But Monbiot paints Phil Jones as a martyr-victim of the terrible fossil-fuel industry. He writes of Jones:
I feel desperately sorry for him: he must be walking through hell. But there is no helping it; he has to go, and the longer he leaves it, the worse it will get. He has a few days left in which to make an honourable exit. Otherwise, like the former Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, he will linger on until his remaining credibility vanishes, inflicting continuing damage to climate science.
"By comparison to his opponents, Phil Jones is pure as the driven snow," insists Monbiot, and the offenses by the "deniers," he claims, "are 100 times graver than anything contained in these emails."
Monbiot is hoping that public awareness of the e-mail scandal can be sufficiently contained (especially in the United States and Europe) to prevent a full-scale exposé of the extent to which so-called "climate science" has been systemically corrupted and politicized by the IPCC and its enabling "experts" at the CRU and similar institutions. Readers interested in investigating evidence that shows the CRU e-mail scandal is just the tip of the iceberg may want to check other sources, such as those here, here, and here, that have been reporting on and documenting the bias, abuses, and unethical practices of the climate alarmists for years.
Related articles:
Congress Launches Climategate Investigation
IPCC Researchers Admit Global Warming Fraud


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ComicBreak.com brings you artist David Marquez on February 19th, 2012 at 6pm to sign copies of Fantastic Four: Season One! Stick around till 7pm for a special FREE screening of the never released 1994 Fantastic Four movie!
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Spring 2013 Ready-to-WearChristian Dior
The Schubert piece that was playing as invitees entered the huge, purpose-built salons where Raf Simons showed his first ready-to-wear collection for Dior today was familiar, especially to fans of The Hunger, David Bowie's 1983 vampire movie. Simons is an ardent Bowie-phile, and the very individual choice of music was the first sign that the designer was about to impress his personality on the massive edifice that is Dior. Where Galliano achieved the same thing by amping up the house till it matched his own delirious, romantic, saturatingly sensual historicism, Simons took a long, cool look at the heritage and found the strictness, the rigor, and a different kind of sensuality. His soundtrack spoke volumes: Detroit DJ legend Carl Craig, who took over from Schubert after the show started, delivers techno with warmth. Another telling detail: At July's Couture outing, the salons were color-coded with Galliano-esque walls of lush flowers; today, the same color-coding was achieved with minimal, diaphanous curtaining. Rococo to Bauhaus—that evolution speaks another volume or two.
According to the show notes—and Raf's own words—the key descriptor for this new era at Dior is "freedom." But freedom from all restraint ultimately leads to the excess of self-destruction. What we saw today, by contrast, suggested an appreciation of the power of limits. How much more inspiring is discipline than free rein. That much was already clear, by the way, in the dress rehearsal that was Simons' Couture show in July.


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We all dream big, and there is absolutely no harm in that. Dreaming big, having big goals is how you grow in your life and someday even achieve those goals.
However, just because you have achieved success doesn't mean you should change and become someone you are not. In this age of distractions forgetting who are and remaining grounded is the most challenging thing to do.
Staying true to who I am was tougher when I first got wealthy. Having great friends kept me grounded.Mark Cuban
Here are seven ways to remain grounded after achieving success;
Remember your Roots
No matter how successful you become, never forget your roots. Remembering where you came from helps you be more grounded and understand others that work with you. Also, when you remember the journey you took and the people that you came across to reach where you are, you start to appreciate your success.
Be Humble
Just because you are successful doesn't mean you can be rude. Staying humble to others around you helps you create strong bonds that no success can buy. Your success is a contribution made by many people in your life. Every person that helped you in any way to reach where you are is a part of your success and the same way everyone you meet now and in the future will be a part of your success.
Practice healthy competition
Your competitors are not your enemy. They are people with ambitions just like. When you treat your competitors with respect and practice healthy competition, you become more than your success. For many people, only their success defines who they are, but great people are more than their success, they are icons not because they are successful but because they are different and respect others in their field.
Listen with Interest
You might have heard that to be a great leader, you have to be a great listener. However, many people just listen without any interest at all. When you listen to others with interest, you show them that you not listening to them because you have to but because you want to.
Don't hesitate to Apologize
Whenever you feel like you have made a mistake or hurt someone unintentionally, don't hesitate to apologize. By saying sorry for your mistakes, you don't just show other that you regret your mistake but also show them that you care enough to actually apologize for it. People respect the person who never hesitates to apologize because they know the person is genuine and humble enough to do so even after being successful.
Connect with your friends and family
The pursuit of success usually isolates people from others. However, staying connected with people you actually care about gives you a morale boost and makes your relationships even stronger. No matter how successful you become, always cherish the people you care about because they will be there for you whether you are successful or not.
Always remember to take some time out to relax and rewind. Success doesn't mean that you need to be working all the time. Take some time out and have a vacation with your family and enjoy the beautiful things in life. By doing so, you also avoid the risk of burnout.
The hardest thing to find in life isCeline Dion
balance– especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
If you have any more points to add, please let me know in the comments below.


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Visit on the Edinburgh Tour Bus Specifically to Trial the Quantum Securement System
A Report compiled by Helen Dolphin MBE
Reason for visit
Having trialed Quantum last year in Edinburgh with Route One magazine I wanted to demonstrate to members of The Mobility and Access Committee for Scotland (MACS) how the device works and to seek their opinion as to whether it was a beneficial system for wheelchair users.
As a member of the Disabled Person's Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) I was aware of the existence of MACS as they have a similar role in Scotland which is as an advisory non-departmental public body. However, this visit was not conducted in an official DPTAC/MACS capacity but was simply a group of disabled people coming together to look at and try out the Edinburgh tour bus. All opinions voiced in this report are therefore made in an individual capacity.
MACS members who took part in the visit
Marsali Craig
Marsali has been a Trustee and Director of the MS Society and a Director of Aberdeen based North-East Sensory Services. She sat on the Aberdeen City Children's Panel for two terms and currently works as a volunteer with the Faculty of Health and Social Care at RGU Aberdeen. Marsali has professional skills and experience as a Social Worker and as a Solicitor and has a wide personal experience of travelling as a disabled person.
Hussein Patwa
Hussein was elected as an RNIB Scotland Member Representative in 2011 and to the RNIB Scotland Committee shortly thereafter. He was co-opted onto the strategic Living with Sight Loss Programme Board and also sits on the Travel, Shopping & Control of Money Programme Board within the same organisation. He is a member of the Scottish Accessible Transport Alliance with a particular interest in accessible rail and local bus transport. Hussein has a background in Business Management, Innovation & Change and Internet Information Systems with e-Business.
Sheila Fletcher
Sheila has wide experience in the provision of public transport and associated infrastructure, having worked for over 25 years in the public and third sector. She is secretary of the Ross and Cromarty Access Panel and serves on the Boards of the Bradbury Centre (Bonar Bridge), Ross-shire Voluntary Action and the Scottish Disability Equality Forum. In her working life with the Community Transport Association, Shelia supports third sector transport providers throughout Scotland but mostly in the Highlands and Islands as she is based near Inverness. She is also involved with groups who provide day care in the community.
Report findings
Waiting to get on the tour bus
I had arranged to meet my colleagues at 1.00 but thought it best to turn up a few minutes early. Within seconds a lovely lady approached me to ask if I was interested in a tour and explained all the different routes and what I would see. My only feedback here is that it was raining and very windy and it would have been nice to have had a bus shelter of some kind to wait in. I appreciate that most people could get straight on a bus but if you wanted to consider your options before getting on it would be nice to have somewhere it sit and wait.
Getting on
When the driver saw that he had two wheelchair users to get on he very swiftly got the ramp out and we were able to board. We had assumed that one of us would have to transfer to a seat so it was a pleasant surprise to see there were actually two separate spaces for wheelchairs.
The tour
Marsali took the place with the Quantum and the driver explained what she had to do. Marsali very easily pushed the button and was very quickly secured. I sat in the other wheelchair space and applied my brakes. We were both glad to have a screen looking forwards as this really helped with knowing where everything was. The only difficulty we experienced was having left and right effectively back to front and it would have helped having an "R" and "L" either side of the screen to help remember where to look when the guide was speaking.
The driver drove very smoothly but when we got into the winding roads my wheelchair started to slip and slide. Sheila Fletcher stood up at one point to try to hold me in position. Marsali experienced none of these issues with the Quantum. In fact Marsali was so secure she was able to use her mobile phone whereas I had to use both my hands to hold on.
Marsali and I discussed our different wheelchairs and the fact that that my wheels are solid. I have these as I would not be able to change a tyre. However, Marsali's wheels were filled with air. We felt that my type of wheel may make the sliding issue worse. We therefore decided to swap positions. It was a relief for me being in the spot with Quantum and I was now able to relax and enjoy the tour a lot more as I wasn't having to worry about sliding about. Marsali's wheelchair seemed to be able to withstand the sliding to start with but when we turned to come down a hill her wheelchair slid out very quickly into the aisle taking everyone by surprise. This was nothing to do with the driving of the bus which was very smooth and careful it is just what happens to wheelchairs on buses.
We chose to stay on the bus for the duration of the trip as our main purpose was to have a look at Quantum. However, the guide always made sure the driver knew if people were getting off so they had plenty of time to disembark.
The tour guide
As the only member of our group with a visual impairment was Hussein who was very interested to see what the guided tour was going to be like. He found it very interesting and informative and his only comment for improvement was that he would have preferred more references to how tall something was so given a rough estimate in metres as opposed to saying, "this building is very high". After the tour Hussein Patwa said: "It was a very enjoyable day and a chance to see how an outfit catering to tourism has taken on board accessibility and was also open to constructive critique and praise".
The Edinburgh Tour Bus is probably the most accessible tour bus in the world and I would recommend that more is done to promote this. With two wheelchairs side by side, one secured with Quantum and one without it is very easy to see the difference Quantum makes to the safe securement of wheelchair passengers. Sheila Fletcher said: "It is a wonderful system and I will be telling everyone about it".
I recently carried out a report which showed that 9% of wheelchair users have had their wheelchair fall over on the bus and a large majority have reported skidding and sliding. Quantum stops these problems and Lothian should be promoting the fact that this will not happen on the tour and you can just relax and enjoy it like everyone else.
I caught the bus back to the airport and it would have been great to have had Quantum here too as when you're surrounded by luggage and lots of other people it would have been so much better to know you weren't going to move anywhere.
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Burger King Wants to Serve Russian Astronauts Hamburgers in Space
Cheeseburgers in space. It could be the futuristic follow-up to a Jimmy Buffett song, but actually it's a proposal on the table for Russia's space program. The Associated Press reported yesterday that the Russian Academy of Sciences' space food division was willing to consider the traditional American fast food meal for its own cosmonauts.
Apparently, the idea of space hamburgers came from the head of Burger King in Russia who suggested that Russia's space program should consider adding cheeseburgers in tubes to their astronauts' offerings. "We're not opposed to this possibility, especially if the food tastes good and the cosmonauts like it," Lyudmila Pavlova, the head of the space food division, said. Unfortunately, she didn't clarify what a "cheeseburger in a tube" even is. Maybe Whoppers aren't good space hamburgers?
Another question: Will this situation lead to a Cold War–esque space food arms race? If the Russians get Burger King in space, the Americans have no choice but to try to outdo them. Shake Shack? Chipotle? What is David Chang doing and how would he feel about living on the International Space Station?


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Snowman Candy… consist of a 3-piece design (photo showing only 2-piece of snowman wearing a hat).
Christmas 2014 Lolly Edition will be seeing the popular Christmas design we had before. On top of that, we will be coming out with new lollies (keep a watch out on our updates) as we slowly bulid up the mix towards Christmas.