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Reclaiming the Loch Ness Monster from the current tide of debunking and scepticism. If you believe there is something strange in Loch Ness, read on.
Friday, 30 May 2014
Underwater Webcam Photos
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Toddlers? Get your priorities right, man!ReplyDeleteReplies
They could be interpreted as monsters too!Delete
- Anonymous30 May 2014 at 02:32
You know,many we were too hard on frank Searle.that looks like his Muppet photo.also a close up witness to ogopogo said it looked like dino from the Flintstones, sort of.hmmm.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the reference: it's an honor to receive mention at such a successful yet intellectually brilliant blog. I personally suspect that the Paula Schuman image is probably that of a newt, and that the rest of the online camera images probably aren't actual animals at all. So I definitely agree with your inference that the object in the image is close to the camera. Steve Plambeck left an excellent comment beneath the article, pointing out that the object in the Schuman image bears much similarity to a palmate newt. I agree with this contention and feel that this is its most likely identity.ReplyDelete
The photo normally referred to as the 'muppet' photo was by 'doc' Shiels, rather than Frank Searle... however I don't spot a resemblance to these images myself!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous31 May 2014 at 15:34
hello people I just want to say good webssite and I love nessie it is definately real. Well done to glasgow boy for the comentary pruning we dont need different opinions on here apart from Believers !!!ReplyDelete
Nessie Rules!!!
- Anonymous3 June 2014 at 02:37
Glasgow boy can you do a first hand expanded interview with that guy who had a close encounter with nessies belly in the murk UNDERWATER?ReplyDelete
It gives me the chillsReplies
His story is here:Delete
- Anonymous3 June 2014 at 06:23
Love the classic understated semantics in the article. "A bit scared" That'd be putting it mildly i'd have thought!!ReplyDelete
I know you have corrected me once already, and no I don't have a link to where I read this, but I thought that top picture was not from Loch Ness. I would agree with that, only because of the bright conditions, green veg and clear conditions. I have seen some underwater images from Dick Raynor that are clearer than I would have guessed Ness to be, but this looks like someone's aquarium...ReplyDeleteReplies
Heh, that sounds like the old sceptical tactic - prove this picture was taken at Loch Ness!Delete
- Anonymous4 June 2014 at 03:43
Is it an unreasonable question to ask?Delete
Not unreasonable to ask, I have not seen any comment that it is not at Loch Ness. The relative clarity of the water is not I think an argument against it as the camera was positioned in shallow waters.Delete
- Anonymous4 June 2014 at 05:18
I think it's fair comment. The top pic just doesn't look like Loch Ness water at all, which is famously tinged with peat. I agree it looks more like an aquarium scene. Unless there's been something done with the colour saturation on the image to try and bring the image out a bit more.ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, entirely possible.Delete
- Anonymous4 June 2014 at 05:53
I've had a gander at the link (Bizarre zoology blog) and, while i may well be reading it wrong, it appears the top pic and the group like it are being used as comparison pics. There's a different copyright stamp on them. I don't think they're Loch Ness images, though the way the blog presents it is a bit ambiguous admittedly.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hey, trevorthecat. Scott's article mentions "The background visible in Schuman's picture is consistent with the back ground of other images filmed with the Scotland Online underwater camera that was located at the end of Temple Pier, Urquhart Bay, Loch Ness, described by long-time Loch Ness researcher Dick Raynor at this link." So yes, these images are supposed to all be from that location at Loch Ness.Delete
- Anonymous4 June 2014 at 10:32
Referencing South Park, the bottom pic looks like Kyle Broflovski's little brother Ike when he's talking. heheReplyDelete
- Anonymous4 June 2014 at 10:42
Wherever I look on the web for information its always like this. Theres nothing of any substance to suggest the loch ness monster is anything more than a scottish fairytale. Very disappointing for me.ReplyDeleteReplies
There may be not be enough to satisfy your demands, but there is more to this than a fairy tale.Delete
- Anonymous5 June 2014 at 01:53
perhaps not a fairytale. more a story which has gathered pace but has nothing to back it up. its a big shame its not real I wish it was!Delete
In the case of the Loch Ness Monster, I think the term "no smoke without fire" does apply.Delete
- Anonymous5 June 2014 at 02:05
the trouble is there would be fire found by now if it were there!Delete
The trouble is it cannot be agreed whether one is looking at a real flame or flame-effect!Delete
- Anonymous5 June 2014 at 04:49
Rubbish..plenty of first hand accounts.Delete
I thought you skeptics gave up.
Well a jobs a job,pay per post.eh?
- Anonymous5 June 2014 at 08:39
Oh its the return of the Tin Foil Brigade. Accusing people of being paid to post here. GB are you happy for your subject to be associated with mental illness once again?Delete
Yup, okay. No more posts about other posters being paid employees of mysterious organisations, please.Delete
- Anonymous6 June 2014 at 14:48
Hello Gentlemen. It does seem peculiar that after all these decades we're looking at photos of the inside of an aquarium.Delete
- Chasing Leviathan4 June 2014 at 11:53
Quite happy to be proved wrong, but I agree the top picture doesn't look like the peaty Ness. Scale looks a little odd to me too.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7 June 2014 at 00:13
In can assure you that the underwater webcam photos were taken in Urquhart Bay, Loch Ness. It's murkiness is grossly overstated, usually by people who have never dived or operated underwater equipment there. Here is a link to my own video clip taken at exactly the same location - +/- 50 cm. Regards, Dick Raynor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF6GM66lVuQReplyDeleteReplies
Dick just to be clear - the photo at the top of this page is not from your camera, correct? Your background is dark bordering on black. The background in the shot above is tropical blue. Please explain how this is Loch Ness, which is dark and peat stained, just like your video...Delete
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"hopkarma - the photos at the top of this thread are not from my camera but from the old Scotland Online one. The images have been copied many times and enthusiasts will have "improved" the quality at every opportunity. Those clumps of algae get blown around when the tour boat is arriving or departing, typically about 5 mins before and after the hour. The main differences between these photos and mine are that my new ones go out to a greater distance than the old camera, and mine use available light while the old one had a ring of permanently-on diodes. I could cobble together an old-school u/w webcam from junk in the shed"
Unnecessary comment at end removed.
- Anonymous11 June 2014 at 15:38
"Unnecessary comment at end removed" ??? Did Dicky Boy close out with an insult?!!Delete
Two more observations/questions about the photos at top of this thread: That is very shallow water for a large unknown animal; and when did Nessie become albino?Delete
- Anonymous7 June 2014 at 09:30
Fair enough. What's the water depth in the area in question out of interest?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7 June 2014 at 13:23
trevorthecat - I didn't measure the depth at lunchtime today but did make a short video for the anonymous folk who think my videos are faked. I'd guess the depth to be about 5 ft or 1.5 m. The video is at http://youtu.be/9hONm7J2d84ReplyDelete
- Chasing Leviathan7 June 2014 at 13:39
I stand corrected. Thanks, Dick. And thanks for the video clip. I think the moving image helps with establishing scale.ReplyDelete
- Texan Ranger8 June 2014 at 03:14
I wonder why the numbers of Bigfoot and UFO videos and photos have massively increased since everyone started carrying cellphones. You'd think a nearby 8 foot heavily muscled apeman would cause much more of the rabbit in headlights syndrome than a hump in Loch Ness would.ReplyDeleteReplies
UFO sightings are claimed all around the world & Bigfoots' are claimed all over the North American continent as well as other parts of the world. If a UFO or Bigfoot image is to be faked it can be undertaken in countless places which is why I think there are so many of their photos popping up these days. If anyone wished to fake a LNM image they would have to go to the one and only ............. Loch Ness.Delete
- Texan Ranger9 June 2014 at 00:04
Agreed, but the overall point was that with Bigfoot, sightings are now often being converted into footage or photos, thanks to cellphones. The sightings on Loch Ness are not resulting in footage or photos, even though cellphones are carried in Scotland.Delete
Do you not find this curious? I think the Bigfoot images put a huge dent in Glasgow Boy's "shock and awe" theory.
That was all covered in previous posts, but my theory was based on close in sightings.Delete
Most of the bigfoot videos I have seen do not seem to be close up or clear in detail (e.g. lots of trees in the way).
- Texan Ranger9 June 2014 at 04:24
And we should be seeing the equivalent images of Nessie but we don't. No one covered this discrepancy elsewhere as far as I can see. Mid distance and long range images of Bigfoot are aplenty, such images of Nessie from cellphones? None, unless you count those two silly snake neck photos.Delete
A Bigfoot-Nessie discrepancy? What is the picture to sighting ratio for Sasquatch?Delete
- Anonymous10 June 2014 at 09:23
Gian quasar just wrote the book,RECASTING BIGFOOT and did an interview on Bin all of America,he says the whole idea of bigfoot is incorrect.very interesting ideaDelete
Some of the recent Bigfoot videos and stills are from unmanned trail cameras, triggered by the presence of an object and taken at fairly close range. I don't think such cameras would work at Loch Ness, but at least they don't suffer from shock and awe.Delete
Too right they don't suffer from shock and awe.Delete
Trail cameras at Loch Ness do work in the sense that objects close by will trigger them (e.g. birds, boats). A photo at 400m will not be a game changer. A shot at 40 feet might, but they are less probable.
- Anonymous22 June 2014 at 01:10
No cameras ever work at loch ness if we are to believe in a monster.Delete
- Anonymous22 June 2014 at 14:58
A new underwater webcam seems to be online on Raynor's website, I haven't seen anything on it yet though http://www.lochnessinvestigation.com/cameras.htmlReplyDelete
- Anonymous2 July 2014 at 02:49
Can anybody shed some light at the following personal enigma which would be a great help,.Remember the excellent video-dairy "Desperately Seeking Nessie" by Steve Feltham,....who was the person Steve ran into while being in Chester??? I would be very grateful if anybody could tell me please E-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.com
I would ask Steve on his own facebook page.Delete


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I got my first Lowchen when I was 13 from my very good friend and mentor, Donna Jones, of Musicbox Lowchen. From then on I was hooked and haven't turned back. I have been lucky enough to have her guidance along the way and because of that I have accomplished more than I ever thought I could.
The name WillowCreek is very special to me. We rescued a mix from the shelter when I was 7 years old, her name was Willow. I started training her to do tricks and went to many obedience and some agility classes with her. At the time mix breeds could not do agility so our training stopped there. When she was 5 she got hit by a car and was killed, I was devastated. We decided to bury her beside the creek that ran through our back yard beside a willow tree. When I started trying to think of a kennel name I could not think of a better one than Willow Creek. She is the reason I started showing dogs and the reason I love what I do.

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I watch a lot of cop shows. I enjoy some nature and educational programming as well, but my go-to are things like CSI and Cops. More often than not they're background noise, and I'm not actually watching them, but even with just listening to them as I go in and out of a room or read emails or do paperwork, you learn a lot about the people that we share this world with. I certainly have a greater understanding for the work those who protect and investigate do, and today I thought I'd share a few lessons I've learned that we can all apply to our lives and our success.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone run from the cops or commit a crime or lie because they made a false assumption. Sometimes it's that they think they have a warrant or don't think they're that drunk or think someone took a couple of dollars from them, but regardless of what they're assuming, often they're wrong. And if they're not wrong, it's often something so insignificant their actions end up turning an ant hill into a mountain.
It's dangerous to let assumptions play too large of a role in your life. They can be helpful in giving you a baseline to work with, but if you choose to operate by assumptions you'll often end up in trouble or consistently apologizing for being wrong or blowing things out of proportion.
One of the other things that you see occasionally on the shows and you hear about in the news are cops being aggressive. Especially in more recent programing you hear them explain to people why they were so aggressive, and it's because they want to go home at night. Now, I'm not suggesting at all that violence is the answer or that some in law enforcement aren't too aggressive, simply that they have a little more leeway than others do when it comes to how they respond towards others.
All of these shows are about people who have lives, want to have lives or want to live. It turns out that that's what we're all about too. I assume that I'll be able to see tomorrow, enjoy food tomorrow, see my partner tomorrow and make a difference in the world tomorrow. It's an assumption that I'm fairly confident in being able to make, but I just don't know for 100%. Life truly is a gift, one that can change or be taken from us at any time. If we were to respect each other a little more, listen a little better, be a little more honest, we'd all live a little longer, happier and better.


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The last few months have seen the brave new world of personal genomics thrown into a state of turmoil, as the might of US federal regulators turns on this fledgling industry. There is no question that some level of regulation would be welcomed, to iron out the irregularities and squeeze out the fraudsters. But hidden somewhere in amongst the hype and the scaremongering are some real gems that we should not abandon lightly. Take note, please, Mr Regulator.
Some of the recent crop of consumer genomics companies are true innovators, pioneers attempting to navigate the treacherous complexities of modern human genetics. Their attempts at presenting complicated genomic and risk information in an accessible form have been exemplary. Is the information useful? For the most part, no. Is it harmful? Again, so far the answer is a resounding no. So what's the problem? Speaking to numerous individuals who have had their genomes scanned reveals that most are notably under-whelmed by the experience – they didn't learn much of direct use, and they haven't changed their lifestyles. But individuals are free to chose to purchase these tests, or not, and to decide for themselves whether it is worth parting with their hard-earned cash.
Continue reading 'Personal genomics: a voyage of exploration'


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Singapore has been successful in creating a world-class healthcare system, as demonstrated by basic health indicators like infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, and life expectancy. This has been achieved at a lower cost, both as percentage of GDP and in absolute numbers, compared to other developed countries. The main healthcare challenges are similar to those in many other countries and include non-communicable diseases, the rapidly ageing population, and an increased number of people developing chronic diseases.
The main actor is the Ministry of Health (MOH) that has the responsibility for healthcare and specifically for ensuring that basic medical services remain affordable and available to all Singaporeans through policy planning and coordination. Preventive healthcare programmes (including screening for some cancers) and promotion of a healthy lifestyle are included in the Ministry's strategy.
The philosophy of Singapore's health payment system is to make healthcare affordable for most people by subsidies and price controls and to put the responsibility on the individual through mandatory savings within Medisave, the national medical savings scheme.
80 per cent of primary care is delivered by private practitioners with the remaining 20 per cent provided for by public polyclinics. However, hospital care is mainly delivered by public hospitals (80 per cent) with private hospitals providing the remaining 20 per cent.
All public hospitals have been restructured to run as private autonomous companies in order to improve efficiency and financial discipline. They are structured in 6 regional healthcare clusters that encompass primary care polyclinics, tertiary care hospitals and speciality centres. Patients have the freedom to choose any provider in the various sectors.
An initiative for National Electronic Health Records is underway and aims to improve coordination between different healthcare providers and better informed decisions by the practitioner, leading to more accurate diagnosis and a more patient-centric care.
Development towards improved healthcare quality is led by the government and the clinicians, with patient engagement in policy development virtually non-existent.
The MOH has developed National Standards of Healthcare, starting with public sector hospitals. The purpose is to secure that the healthcare provided is appropriate to the needs of Singaporeans and based on current evidence and clinical knowledge. The standards are used to relate measured healthcare quality and identify improvement areas. Performance in the healthcare system in relation to the standards is benchmarked locally as well as internationally to promote continuous improvement.
The Ministry conducts regular studies and surveys; The National Health Surveillance Survey monitors the health status of Singaporeans and the Patient Satisfaction Survey monitors the patients' perception of care and providers.
Publication of the results from the Patient Satisfaction Survey is meant to spur the healthcare institutions to improve services in relation to their peers. The Ministry also encourages hospitals to publish clinical outcome parameters to inform the public.
The oldest disease registry in Singapore is the Cancer Registry that was established in 1968 by the National University of Singapore. Other registries were started at other institutions. In 2001 the National Disease Registries Office (NDRO) was established by the Ministry and the four existing registries were subsequently incorporated.
The National Registry of Diseases Act was passed in December 2007. It mandates all healthcare institutions to report all cases of reportable diseases and stipulates that patient consent is not required for inclusion of their data into the registries and any subsequent use.
Today it manages 7 registries in cancer, AMI, renal, birth defects, stroke, donor care, and trauma. NRDO has an efficient data collection process, where 90 per cent of data is received in electronic form. Data is validated and encrypted to protect patient confidentiality. Analysis is done on anonymised data and reported to the MOH, and the hospitals if they so request. Reports and trending are also regularly published on NRDO's website.
The MOH introduced the National Standards for Healthcare as a reference for performance assessment of the public healthcare providers and a tool to stimulate them to continuous quality improvement. Indicators, some of which are derived from the registry data and other, self-assessed clinical and performance indicators are used in a system of Cascading Scorecards, developed to ensure nationally consistent measurements at every tier of the healthcare system to ensure valid and reliable like-for-like comparisons.
The government has signed a Service-level Agreement with each public hospital; within that agreement the scorecards are included as a management tool and there is an agreement about meeting certain targets.
Results are presented by the MOH to the senior management of the hospital. Governance, rather than financially based incentives, is thus used to push performance improvements.
Based on performance reports, the MOH works closely with the healthcare providers, specifically the hospitals' Health Performance Offices, to identify opportunities for improvements in those areas where there is concern. The issues detected can be used for goal-setting, which can be included in formal documents, such as Statement of Priorities, agreed between MOH and the Regional Healthcare Clusters/hospitals.
Also regionally, within the healthcare clusters or a specific hospital, there are programmes for healthcare quality improvement using hospital databases, registries or other data. The Chronic Disease Management System of the National Healthcare Group and the work of the Healthcare Analytics Unit at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital are illustrated as examples.
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As recently as this month, I posted on the meteoric rise of Herman Cain. This post here is notable for two reasons. First, of course, it is very, very rare that I will mention one of my prior posts that I wrote earlier in the same month. On average, with only one or two posts a month on various topics, it's like actually watching lightning strike by referencing another same month post. I probably haven't done that in nearly two years. Second, it goes to show how quickly a candidate can fall into ill-repute in a matter of weeks. Yes folks, less than three weeks ago, we were looking at King Cain, the GOP frontrunner rivaling Mitt Romney. Now, King Cain has been thoroughly dogged by yet another alleged mistress. Maybe Herman Cain is the Tiger Woods of politics?
Herman Cain supporters no doubt need only point to Ginger White and say: consider the source. She has filed a sexual harassment claim with her employer about ten years ago, declared bankruptcy, has been evicted numerous times, had a restraining order against her for stalking, and sued for libel and defamation. Surely Herman Cain could do better. That said, the Cain Train is likely derailed and (I believe) unlikely to get back on the political fast track for this presidential election.
In the meantime, the new guy on top: unlikely Newt Gingrich. One can only wonder if he will be the next one up on the chopping block. Think: wack-a-mole.
In the meantime, I leave you with this gem from Jon Stewart. I would embed this if I could figure out how, but in the meantime, click the link and watch. It's only five minutes.


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CHENNAI: A broken storage jar with inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi script has been excavated at Quseir-al-Qadim, an ancient port with a Roman settlement on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. This Tamil Brahmi script has been dated to first century B.C. One expert described this as an "exciting discovery."
The same inscription is incised twice on the opposite sides of the jar. The inscription reads paanai oRi, that is, pot (suspended) in a rope net.
An archaeological team belonging to the University of Southampton in the U.K., comprising Prof. D. Peacock and Dr. L. Blue, who recently re-opened excavations at Quseir-al-Qadim in Egypt, discovered a fragmentary pottery vessel with inscriptions.
Dr. Roberta Tomber, a pottery specialist at the British Museum, London, identified the fragmentary vessel as a storage jar made in India.
Iravatham Mahadevan, a specialist in Tamil epigraphy, has confirmed that the inscription on the jar is in Tamil written in the Tamil Brahmi script of about first century B.C.
In deciphering the inscription, he has had the benefit of expert advice from Prof. Y. Subbarayalu of the French Institute of Pondicherry, Prof. K. Rajan of Central University, Puducherry and Prof. V. Selvakumar, Tamil University, Thanjavur.
According to Mr. Mahadevan, the inscription is quite legible and reads: paanai oRi, that is, 'pot (suspended in) a rope net.' The Tamil word uRi, which means rope network to suspend pots has the cognate oRi in Parji, a central Dravidian language, Mr. Mahadevan said. Still nearer, Kannada has oTTi, probably from an earlier oRRi with the same meaning.
The word occurring in the pottery inscription found at Quseir-al-Qadim can also be read as o(R)Ri as Tamil Brahmi inscriptions generally avoid doubling of consonants.
Earlier excavations at this site about 30 years ago yielded two pottery inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi belonging to the first century A.D.
Another Tamil Brahmi pottery inscription of the same period was found in 1995 at Berenike, also a Roman settlement, on the Red Sea coast of Egypt, Mr. Mahadevan said.
These discoveries provided material evidence to corroborate the literary accounts by classical Western authors and the Tamil Sangam poets about the flourishing trade between the Tamil country and Rome (via the Red Sea ports) in the early centuries A.D.
Tamil-Brahmi inscription on pottery found in Thailand
The presence of the characteristic letterRaconfirms that the language is Tamil
— Photo: Courtesy, Dr. Berenice Bellina of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
A unique Tamil-Brahmi Inscription on pottery of the second century AD has recently been excavated in Thailand.
A Thai-French team of archaeologists, led by Dr. Bérénice Bellina of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, and Praon Silpanth, Lecturer, Silpakorn University, Thailand, has discovered a sherd of inscribed pottery during their current excavations at Phu Khao Thong in Thailand.
At the request of the archaeologists, Iravatham Mahadevan, an expert in Tamil Epigraphy, has examined the inscription. He has confirmed that the pottery inscription is in Tamil and written in Tamil-Brahmi characters of about the second century AD. Only three letters have survived on the pottery fragment. They read tu Ra o… , possibly part of the Tamil word turavon meaning `monk.'
The presence of the characteristic letter Ra confirms that the language is Tamil and the script is Tamil-Brahmi. It is possible that the inscription recorded the name of a Buddhist monk who travelled to Thailand from Tamil Nadu. This is the earliest Tamil inscription found so far in South East Asia and attests to the maritime contacts of the Tamils with the Far East even in the early centuries AD.
Prof. Richard Salomon of the University of Washington, U.S., an expert in Indian Epigraphy, has made the following comment on the inscription:
"I am happy to hear that the inscription in question is in fact Tamil-Brahmi, as I had suspected. This is important, among other reasons, because it presents a parallel with the situation with Indian inscriptions in Egypt and the Red Sea area. There we find both Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions and standard-Brahmi insciptions; and we now see the same in Vietnam and South-East Asia. This indicates that the overseas trade between India to both the West and the East involved people from the Tamil country and also other regions."
Iravatham Mahadevan adds: "Already we know of the existence of a touchstone engraved in Tamil in the Tamil-Brahmi script of about the third or fourth century AD found in Thailand and presently kept in a museum in the ancient port city of Khuan Luk Pat in Southern Thailand. There is every hope that the ongoing excavations of the Thai-French team will bring up more evidence of ancient contacts between India and Thailand."
`Rudimentary Tamil-Brahmi script' unearthed at Adichanallur
By T.S. Subramanian
The picture shows the urn with the rudimentary Tamil-Brahmi script, and a human skeleton and miniature pots at the Iron Age urn burial site at Adichanallur in Tamil Nadu. The inset with the arrow mark depicts how the script has been written inside the urn. — Photo courtesy: ASI, Chennai Circle.
CHENNAI, FEB. 16. A piece of writing has been discovered inside an urn at the Iron Age burial site at Adichanallur, 24 km from Tirunelveli town in Tamil Nadu. The script has six letters. The urn has a human skeleton in it along with miniature pots. What is unusual is that the script was inscribed inside the urn after it was baked. Normally, scripts are inscribed on the outer surface of urns.
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Chennai Circle, made this discovery when it resumed its excavation at Adichanallur after about 100 years. Dr. T. Satyamurthy, Superintending Archaeologist and Director of the excavation, first noticed the script. He has proposed that the piece of writing is in very rudimentary Tamil-Brahmi. M.D. Sampath, retired Director, Epigraphy, ASI, Mysore, also "suggested that the writing is in Tamil-Brahmi in a rudimentary form." Dr. Sampath says he has "tentatively read" the script as "Ka ri a ra va [na] ta." He says the script has seven letters.
"Might date back to 500 B.C."
Dr. Satyamurthy has proposed, on the basis of "preliminary thermo-luminescence dating," that the pottery found at the site, including the pots found in the urn along with the script, might date back to circa 500 B.C. This date is, however, subject to confirmation by carbon-14 dating, which is the more reliable method.
The claim on the date of the script and the assertion that it is in Tamil-Brahmi will be subjected to the scrutiny of scholars in the field.
The term `Tamil-Brahmi' is used when the script is in Brahmi but the language is Tamil. The Brahmi script was predominantly used for Prakrit from the Mauryan (Asokan) period. The Brahmi script was brought to the Tamil country in the third century B.C. by the Jain and Buddhist monks during the post-Asokan period.
According to Iravatham Mahadevan, one of the foremost authorities on the Tamil-Brahmi script: "The Brahmi script reached Upper South India (Andhra-Karnataka regions) and the Tamil country at about the same time during the 3rd century B.C. in the wake of southern spread of Jainism and
Buddhism." In his magnum opus, Early Tamil epigraphy, From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D., Mr. Mahadevan says that "the earliest Tamil inscriptions in the Tamil-Brahmi script may be dated from about the end of 3rd century or early 2nd century B.C. on palaeographic grounds and stratigraphic evidence of inscribed pottery. The earliest inscriptions in the Tamil country written in the Tamil-Brahmi script are almost exclusively in the Tamil language."
While Upper South India was under the sway of the Nanda-Maurya domain, the Tamil country was politically independent. As a result of political independence, Tamil was the language of administration in the Tamil country. "When writing became known to the Tamils, the Brahmi script was adapted to suit the Tamil phonetic system. That is, while the Brahmi script was borrowed, the Prakrit language was not allowed to be imposed along with it from outside," says Mr. Mahadevan.
Dr. Satyamurthy, however, proposes that the script found inside the urn may belong to circa 5th century B.C. According to him, this was based on "preliminary thermo-luminescence dating," which "takes the site to the period from 1500 B.C. to 500 B.C. So the script is also likely to be dated to 5th century B.C. even if we take the latest date into consideration."
Name of hero?
He pointed out that the Tamil-Brahmi script had been found in Sri Lanka too. The script found at Adichanallur could be the name of the hero whose skeleton is in the urn. "The associated pottery including the thin black and red ware [found in the urn] indicate the importance given to the dead person," he said. The denture has been sent to the Anthropological Survey of India for examination.
Delivering the T. Balakrishna Nair Memorial Lecture on "The geneses and features of Brahmi scripts," organised on January 12 by the Department of Ancient History and Archaeology, Madras University, Dr. Sampath said: "It may be suggested that the writing is in Tamil-Brahmi script in a rudimentary form. Attempts were made to blow up the writing so as to decipher it. It may be tentatively read as, `Ka ri a ra va [na] ta'. The reading is subject to improvement."
"A rare occurrence"
Estampages of the script could not be taken because it was inside the urn. So eye-copies were taken. Although the exact meaning of the script was not clear, it was quite likely to be the name of the engraver or the maker of the urn or the person whose skeletal remains were interred inside, he said. He described the script found inside the urn as "a rare occurrence."
Six trenches dug by the ASI, Chennai Circle, at the Iron Age urn burial site Adichanallur in 2004 yielded a cornucopia: 157 burial urns, 50 of them intact and 15 with human skeletons. The urns with skeletons had exquisite miniature pots inside along with paddy and husk. Around the urns were ritual pots and iron implements, including daggers, broken swords, a spearhead, celts and so on. One of the urns had the script inside it and this urn had a big lid too. It is called "twin pot."


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On Monday, a Freedom High School freshmen football player was shot in the face with a BB gun and suffered a jaw injury while inside the home of a teammate as they were attempting to sell tickets as part of a fundraiser.
According to Traci Austin, she received a call at 5:48 pm from her son, Eugene Moses, 14, that he was hurt and needed to go to the hospital. She assumed he was at the school practicing football, but instead she was directed to a neighborhood near the school where he was covered in blood.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the BB is still lodged in Moses jaw and surgery at this time is deemed too dangerous. He is meeting with doctors next week to discuss options.
The incident occurred when Moses joined two of his teammates went inside one of their homes on Narcissus Court when one of the boys picked up the BB gun off the table and began pointing the gun around inside the home. He eventually pulled the trigger and that is when Moses was hit in the jaw.
"It is really unfortunate; I am upset he still has a bb gun pellet embedded in an important muscle in the jaw that makes it open and close. He can't eat and is only on liquids and is only eating Jamba Juice," said Austin. "It is just really unfortunate that no parents were notified, no chaperone, this could have been a loaded gun in someone's house."
Austin questions why she was never notified they would be off campus selling raffle tickets instead of practicing on the football field. She also is requesting a policy change and seeking the District would work on improving communication and ensuring there is proper adult supervision when students are off campus.
Freedom High School Principal Kelly Manke countered the claims of not being notified. She explained the school has had a long standing practice for the athletic teams to sell discount cards in the community to raise funds for their teams.
She highlighted that on July 31st that the football players received cards and a flyer explaining the fundraiser and the players were asked to take them home to their families. On August 8th a reminder email was sent to families that players would be selling their remaining cards in the community during practice on August 12.
Manke said on August 12th players went into the community to sell cards. Three players took it upon themselves to enter of the player's homes. In the home, one player found a BB gun and accidentally fired the loaded BB gun, which resulted in an injury to another player.
"This is a very unfortunate accident and we are working with all the families involved," said Manke.
Moses, who has been playing football since age 7, plays the running back position and his favorite team is the 49ers. With his injury, he currently cannot play football at this time and there is no estimated recovery time until more tests are completed.
Moses still wants to play football and hopes to get back on the field in the future.
A police report was filed with Oakley Police who are still investigating.
Oakley Police Chief Eric Christensen confirmed all three players in the case were juveniles and that officers were called because the mother wanted a police report.
Christensen stated:
Three kids are on the Freshman Football Team. Instead of practice, the Football Coach decides to have the kids don their jerseys and go sell coupon books in the neighborhood. The kids go to sell books like they have been told. Three friends who are on the Freshman Team decide not to go sell books, but instead go to one of the kids' homes. While at the home, one of the kids grabs a BB gun that was out. The kid starts waiving the gun around and pulls the trigger – hitting another kid in the face. They do first aid for the injury and the kid goes home. When the kid goes home, Mom sees the injury and takes the kid to the doctor. The BB is still in the wound and the hospital did not want to risk further injury by removing it immediately.
Christensen also stated they are going to be referring the case to the District Attorney's Office.


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My American Toad has been ill for the past month. She was less active and had red spots on her belly for about a week. She hasnt eaten at all in the past three weeks, whereas normally she has a daily ravenous appetite. She burrows all the time now and hides for days at a time. She has absolutely no interest in food. Ive had her for over two years. Also, her mouth and tongue are white (and not the usual pink color).
Any ideas for how to treat her?
- Jonathan
Ideal of course would be to get her to a herp vet. Can you post a photo of the red spots? Several things come to mind with the red spots besides red leg. Has anything changed in her enclosure? Is the substrate pretty clean? Did she have a diet change? The whitish mouth might suggest anemia but from force feeding our toad with MBD, have noticed that his tissues are not very pink in his mouth. Does your toad get calcium and vitamins regularly? Eliminating at all? Temp warm enough to prevent hibernation? Hope your toad is back to normal soon.
Just checking back to see how your toad is doing. Have you tried giving her reptiboost ( you dissolve some powder and gently open the toads mouth and put in a little bit). It provides vitamins and energy.
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Blue Cave - photo source Tourist Board of Komiža
The beauty of Biševo's Blue Cave has been recognized by Baron Eugene von Ransonnet far back in 1884. Upon his suggestion, the entrance to the cave has been enlarged, making it accessible to visitors from around the world. The cave now has two entrances: the smaller one artificially widened and deepened so a small boat could enter, and the wider one, located at the southern part of the cave – the underwater passage, through which the magical game of light and water is performed. Depending on the season, the ideal time to visit the cave is between 9am and 1pm. You can enter with dinghy, but only paddling, or with locals' small boat. Blue Cave is a protected geomorphologic statue of nature and entrance must be accompanied by local authorities and charged: 50 Kuna per adult and 25 Kuna per child in high season.
Mezuporat and Porat bay - photo source Tourist Board of Komiža
After you've visited the Blue Cave, you may go right around the corner to Mezuporat bay and take a swim and enjoy refreshments from local bar on a sandy beach. Mezuporat is a popular destination for Blue Cave's visitors, but, around 13:00 o'clock, most tourists go back to Komiža or Vis and you'll be able to moor a sailing boat at a local pier. Depth in bay is up to 15m, safe from SE and SW winds.
If you prefer calm bays, you may walk on the other side on the island, to Salbunara bay. Here you can buy local wine Biševski Plavac or homemade liqueur of island's herbs.
Another bay on the western side of island is Porat - much bigger and popular bay with few buoys, two restaurants and a beautiful sandy beach. Depth of this bay is up to 25m, it is well protected from all winds, except from SW wind. Porat is good shelter if Bora catches you.
Monk Seal Cave - photo source Tourist Board of Komiža
On the southeastern part of the island is the Monk Seal Cave. Its entrance is a narrow, almost thirty meters high, gap in a cliff. As does the Blue cave, Monk Seal Cave also has geomorphological specificity. Monk Seal cave is 160 m long with a relatively big entrance which gets smaller inwards. This cave was named after a very rare type of seal, the Mediterranean Monk Seal, which habitats in the cave. After a long period of almost complete absence of this beautiful animal from our part of the Adriatic, in the past few years she's been sighted. Therefore, it is not unrealistic to expect that the Monk Seal Cave welcomes its old occupants again.


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Coming straight from our Angus Grass-Fed breed in the heart of the Argentinian Pampa, this Porterhouse steak has been selected by De La Valley for its incredible flavor! Splited by a t-shaped bone, this steak combine the sublime tenderness of the Tenderloin and the exceptional juiciness of the Striploin, and brings up a perfect balance of these two.
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Sliced from the Short Loin, the Porterhouse is made of two famous cuts: the Tenderloin and the Striploin, splited in two a T-shape bone. Often compared and/or confused with the T-Bone, the Porterhouse is actually characterized by a bigger Tenderloin portion due to the fact that it is cut from the rear end of the Short Loin.
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Known for being super tender and lean, the Porterhouse steak can easily loose all its juiciness when overcooked. In order to obtain the best results, De La Valley recommends a high heat cooking on a pan.
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For cooking a nice rare Porterhouse Steak (600g):
Step 1: Take you De La Valley Porterhouse steak out of the fridge at least 20 minutes before cooking in order to bring it to room temperature
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Step 3: Lightly coat your steak with olive oil before seasoning it with salt and pepper
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Step 5: Cook for 3 to 4 minutes each side to get a nice rare cook. Then sear the edges.
Step 6: Take your steak off the pan and let it rest for 5 to 10 minutes before taking your first bit. ENJOY!
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Bergdorf Goodman: Prismatic
Spring is just a breath away and nothing conveys the promise of New York's burst of daffodils, tulips and cherry blossoms like a rush of color on Fifth Avenue. Always fascinated by the patterns and colored emitted from light traveling through a prism, David Hoey and team commissioned artist Sean Slaney to create a hand-cut, … Continue reading
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Another awesome window project. Each day one ostrich egg each day another excitement.
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Bergdorf Goodman Fifth Avenue windows now host neutral territories… But with a wry smile. Blending Spring's Neutral palette against a blank canvas and familiar vintage mannequin parts, Hoey highlights a delicate assortment of shoes, accessories and Ready-to-Wear pieces. Hiding behind this tranquil display is David's signature wit: seemingly towering vintage mannequins that peek through a … Continue reading


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Mortgage Loan Modification
Mortgage Loan Modification – Every homeowner facing a challenge in making their current payment should apply for a mortgage loan modification. You may qualify for a reduced payment at a significantly lower interest rate.
When borrowers get in trouble they can't make loan payments. The bank is left with few options and they usually go in this order;1. modification, 2. short sale, 3. deed in lieu 4. foreclosure. Often, the best option for homeowners who's goal is to keep the home is loan modification. Mortgage loan modification is a process where the terms of a mortgage are modified outside the original terms of the contract. In general, any loan can be modified. Mortgage loan modifications allow the bank to make loan payments more affordable for borrowers. A loss mitigation option that a mortgage modification allows a borrower to refinance and/or extend the term of the mortgage loan and thus reduce the monthly payments. When approved for a mortgage modification your lender may offer better interest rates, loan terms, loan balances, or other parts of the loan agreement. A loan modification helps prevent you from getting too far behind on payments and risk possible home foreclosure. Only a small percentage of applicants are approved for a loan modification so be prepared to know your options.
Do I qualify for a loan modification?
Helpful tips when applying for a modification:
- send documents for overnight delivery using FedEx/UPS or use a high quality fax machine to send required documents (standard fax machines may be hard to read – especially bank statements)
- call your lender 2-3 days after sending documents and confirm they received and can read all the pages
- ask how long your application will be pending or when your application will expire/time-out
- call your lender at least once a week to check on status of application
Mortgage lenders have strict qualification guidelines that allow or prevent you from qualifying for a mortgage modification. If you understand what they are looking for you can be sure you can meet their requirements and qualify for the modification. They have secret formulas and requirements to qualify those applying for a mortgage modification. Some people are not aware of the fact they may have been denied for a small, simple overlooked reason. Most mortgage lenders do not even offer the reason(s) they rejected your request. They leave you lost in the dark wondering what happened. If your lender has denied a modification you will want to start thinking about a real estate short sale.
If you are upside down and do not qualify for a modification or feel a modification is not in your best interest than your next best option will be a real estate short sale. If you have equity in the property you will want to consider a traditional home sale.
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If I were a berry I would want to be included in this oatmeal. Chuck Berry, Halle Berry, even Barry White cannot hold a candle to this oatmeal… it's that good.
Real strawberries, Wild Oregon blueberries and the nutritious goodness of certified gluten-free oats all combined together to create perhaps the world's most perfect bowl of oatmeal, just for you.
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Due to the current snow situation the snowtubing track is not yet in operation.
Snowbiking is a mixture between cycling and skiing. On the Snowbike wheels and pedals have been replaced with two skis. Firmly in the saddle and with stretched arms the pilot is able to elegantly cruise through the snow. The feet are at the side and used as stabilisation aids like support wheels on a kids bicycle. Cornering resembles motorcycling, since instead of simply turning the handlebar, you would much rather want to lean your whole body in the desired direction. A suspension makes the ride more comfortable and fun.
Sit on and enjoy the ride! No long briefing, no long instruction and no long training. Simply start carving! You only need comfortable winter clothing and boots to appreciate this funsport. Special mini skis can be attached to all kinds of boots and are a welcome aid when carving or using the lift. You may use the drag lift in a standing or sitting position. Using the chair lift is possible as well.
The Snowtubing track is the core of the Snowpark Nebelhorn. Weather alone or in a group, weather young or old, the Tubing track is a whole lot of fun. Our conveyor belts will help you to climb the height difference quickly and comfortably.
The Snowscoot could be considered a mixture between a BMX-bike and a Snowboard. Actually riding the Snowscoot is quite similar to riding a city scooter since you stand with normal shoes on a wide skid without a solid connection. The main advantage of the Snowscoot is that it is easily learned. Due to the lack of a connection to the skid you may always use one foot as an extra stabilization or jump of the Snowsoot if you loose balance.
As big as a Bobby Car but with a small skid and a metal body? Two handles but no steering bar? And where would one put his legs? Many questions - a simple answer: The Skibockerl sledding 2.0 better and faster than any ordinary sled.
Never heard of the Zipflracer? It is a cool, fast and compact racing sled for young and old. It works as good in fresh snow as it does on bumpy slopes and can be ridden with outstanding speed or on shallow hills for those who are looking for a more comfortable ride. Ready - Zipfl - GO!!!
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Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training for Adolescents with Depression (IPT-A)
- Length:
- 5 days plus 1 follow up day
About this course
We are currently refining the structure of this training in an online format and so the times and dates may change slightly. Participants will be notified of any changes with sufficient notice.
Please send completed application form and associated documents to firstname.lastname@example.com before making a booking
This six-day course, including one follow up refresher day, will provide a comprehensive introduction to the knowledge competencies of IPT-A for depression in adolescents and an introduction to the skills competencies, which will be developed more fully in supervised clinical casework. The course aims to enable students to deliver IPT-A competently and creatively and to act as expert resources to professional colleagues, contributing to the development of appropriate care pathways for IPT-A and informed patient choice. This course is based on the overarching competency framework for CYP IAPT : http://www.ucl.ac.uk/clinical-psychology/CORE/child-adolescent-competences/CAMHS%20Competences%20Framework_V1%20(2).pdf
The course has a broad theoretical base, reflecting the integration of medical and interpersonal models of depression. In addition to providing practical, intensive and detailed skills training, the course will aim to increase students' knowledge base of theory and research in IPT-A. This course will further introduce students to theories of evidence based practice, feedback informed practice, young people's participation, adolescents' psychological development (social, emotional, moral) and Mentalization.
Aims of the course
It aims to equip students to become skilled and creative independent IPT-A practitioners in the context of service transformation and:
- To develop practical skills in delivering IPT-A for depression.
- To develop practical competency in working collaboratively with parents and educational services as part of routine treatment of depression in young people
- To develop practice skills in conceptualizing and formulating from an interpersonal perspective and to develop a critical understanding of the parameters of such an approach
- To develop critical knowledge of the theoretical origins and research literature relating to IPT-A for depression.
Who is the course suitable for?
Applicants should have a mental health qualification and at least two years post qualification experience of providing psychological therapy for young people with mental health problems. Applicants, who have completed two years full time training in delivering psychological therapies e.g. final year clinical psychology trainees, are also welcome to apply. Applicants with a range of training backgrounds are welcome e.g. clinical and counselling psychologists, counsellors, child psychotherapists, psychiatrists, nurse therapists, social workers, and GP's. The course is not suitable for applicants who wish to acquire basic therapeutic skills.
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All attendees are required to submit an application form. Completed applications should be sent to email@example.com no later than four weeks before the course start date. Once your application has been accepted by the course tutor, you will be prompted to book a place via the 'Book Now' button above.Accreditation
The course provides the first stage in working towards becoming an IPTUK Accredited IPT Practitioner. Following attendance on the course those wishing to become IPT practitioners are required to undertake supervision with an IPTUK accredited Supervisor. IAPT staff must arrange supervision that follows the IPT IAPT protocol and must confirm the supervision arrangement before attending the course. Supervision must be arranged directly with the supervisor and will involve an additional fee. Supervision can be provided face to face or remotely e.g. telephone, Skype. Trainees can be directed to qualified supervisors across the IPTUK network.
Accreditation to practitioner level requires four cases to be supervised, with recorded sessions reviewed. Each case runs for 12 sessions. We suggest leaving a one month gap between starting each case, picking up a new case when the formulation has been agreed on the previous one. Trainees will be required to submit digital recordings of therapy sessions as well as written and verbal reports.


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Pecherska Lavra tour
Pecherska Lavra is an old historic Orthodox Christian monastery. It is also known under the name of Kiev Monastery of the Caves. It was founded in 1015 as a cave monastery. For centuries it used to be important center of the Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Eastern Europe. Today's monastery complex makes a strong impression with its size and architecture. During our tour you will see: Great Lavra Bell Tower (once the tallest building in Kiev), incredible caves with open coffins of monks and imposing Cathedral of the Dormition with its characteristic golden domes. Pecherska Lavra complex is a unique place, definitely worth seeing while staying in Kiev.
We offer private tours with private English speaking guide.
We can pick you up from your hotel at chosen time.
Tour lasts approx. 3,5 hours.
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As I have said before, May is quite a month. it is also my son's birthday as well. So I have been very creative, and needed to come up with three cards for his birthday. One from his sister, one from his Aunt, and one from us(mum and dad). The one above, is from his sister. Now, who would have thought that boys cards could have glitter? But the new Fine Supernova Glitter is available in five colours. The chocolate adds some pizazz to his card. I stamped non SU eleven in close to cocoa, the 2-way glue pen was fine enough to allow me to trace over the numbers and then I just sprinkled on the chocolate glitter and what a transformation!
The DSP is from the 6×6 pad that is a level 1 hostess gift. There is over 60 sheets in five colours and I am so glad that Stampin' Up! is trialing alternative hostess gifts this year. The cute caterpillar is from the stamp set Bugs and Kisses.
His Aunt forgot to send a card from interstate in time to reach Nathan for his birthday, so I agreed to make one for her. It gave me a chance to use one of the new "In Colours" Riding Hood Red. I am certainly liking this colour. I also got to play with a new stamp set called Starring You. It co-ordinates with the Simply Sent Card Elements.
Sometimes you have to experiment with colours that wouldn't be your first choice. Brocade Blue, Kiwi Kiss and Sahara Sand is the combination that I feel turned out fine. Sometimes it goes against everything that we ever learn in fashion. "Blue and green should never be seen…"
The hedgehog is embossed in black. It stands out better against the silver brads. The brad in the middle is a Star Designer Brad.


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Alright so I spend probably about 98% percent of my off-time either shopping for decor for my house or watching HGTV and pining over stuff for my house. The other 2% is just staring at my dog and wondering why and how he got so cute. Not really the point but worth mentioning. Anyway, the problem is I have Anthropologie taste on a TJ Maxx budget. My apartment is also small so I only have so much space to work with, and I can't do anything permanent to the walls. So I'm trying to ball on a budget while also not being able to incorporate bigger changes that could spruce up my area. See my dilemma?
The key is to find statement pieces for less instead of buying the first thing you fall in love with, DIY things you want that could be done yourself, and COUPONS. Have you heard of the five love languages? If not, it's a fun test you can take to figure out how you best receive/give love to others. There are five, obviously, and they are: acts of service, gifts, quality time, words of affirmation, and physical touch. But honestly there should be a 6th and it should be coupons because that would be mine. Anyone that knows me knows that unless there's a coupon, chances are I'm not buying it. I implore you to adopt this way of thinking and you, too, can ball on a budget.
If you haven't read it yet, you can check out how I saved hundreds decorating my living room in this post here!
Places I shop and how to save money there:
My favorite places to purchase home decor are: Target (obviously), World Market, TJ Maxx, Michael's, Hobby Lobby, and, IF I HAVE A COUPON, Anthropologie. I feel like these places, with the exception of World Market and Anthro, have a wide variety of decor styles to choose from. Clearly I have more of a "bohemian farmhouse" style if you will, but you can find things that are coastal, mid-century modern, etc. at any of these places!
Hobby Lobby (or as my sister and I like to call it, Hobster Lobster):
- If you're a Hobby Lobby frequent flyer, you know that (almost) half the store is 50% off one week, and the other half is 50% off the next week. Not everything, but damn near most of their stuff. The website will tell you exactly what's half off that week so I suggest planning your trips around that! If you absolutely can't wait to buy something, they also have a 40% off coupon you can use on regular priced items all the time. All you need to do is pull up the coupon on your phone and they will honor it! Easy peasy.
Target (or if you're my 55 year old dad, Tar-jay)
- Pretty typical, you want to sign up for emails. What's nice is that if you put something in your cart and you have an account, they will sometimes email you when it drops in price! They also tailor typical emails to your shopping habits, so a lot of the ones I receive are home-decor specific. They also ALWAYS have home sales so I let things sit in my cart and snag them when I see they're no longer full price.
- The Target RedCard. I am very against signing up for store-based credit cards unless they come with massive benefits and a low APR, but I love the Target RedCard because you can get a debit card with all the perks of the credit card! You don't have a monthly bill and your credit won't go down when you spend all of your money in Target because such is life. 5% off on purchases all the time (which is basically tax) and they have special discounts for card holders every now and again!
World Market (sorry I don't have a fun name for this one)
- BECOME A REWARDS MEMBER! It's free, you get emails automatically, and you get awesome perks! Every time you spend $200 (which, trust me, is easy to do) you get a $10 credit. You can combine them with other deals too. They are so great at doing sales regularly, you never have to wait long for something you want to be cheaper.
- The World Market website has a great price tracking tool. Any product you want, you can enter in your email to get price drop alerts and they will email you when there is a sale or it drops in price. It makes it so easy to find good deals!
TJ Maxx/Homegoods (my mom calls it "The Maxx" because she's hip. She's the number one Maxxinista and my lifetime inspiration for bargain shopping)
- Honestly you're going to find great deals at TJ Maxx regardless because that's the premise of the store. My suggestion to save money is to go into TJ Maxx with an idea of what you're looking for because if not you're gonna leave with half the store. There's really no way around it.
- This isn't really a money saving tip, but you have to go often to find things you like. I know this is a pain for those of you who don't like to shop, but for those of you who do this won't be an issue. TJ Maxx gets new things in all. the. time. and it's not the same stuff over and over again. I'll go in one week and find nothing I want, and the next I'll find 50 things I've been looking for.
**In Boise our TJ Maxx and Homegoods are merged, so sorry if this is confusing! I know some states have separate stores for both!
- Join their rewards program! I don't believe you earn points or anything but they send you emails and rewards member-only coupons and you can typically combine multiple at a time. Once I went in to buy sprinkles ($8) and a cupcake decorating set ($20) and somehow I left there only paying $10 with all the discounts.
- They also usually offer a 40% off any regular price item just like Hobby Lobby does. It's on their website and you can apply it to an online purchase or in-store!
- I'm not the kind of person who can justify spending $30 on a dish towel, but man Anthropologie has some cute stuff. The way to save money here is by signing up for their rewards program and watch out for their emails. Via the rewards program they give you 15% off during your birthday month, and special 20% off coupons randomly. They actually do have quite a few sales, especially on home decor so you just need to look for them!
How to earn money and save anywhere:
- SIGN UP FOR EBATES. If you haven't heard of Ebates, you are missing out. You basically shop through their app and they give you cash back for shopping certain places. I'm not joking and there is absolutely no catch. So far I've made back almost $300 on stuff I was going to buy anyways. Yes, I'm an online shopping addict. Let me live. Anyway, generally it's only 2% cash back or thereabouts but during holiday weekends sometimes it goes up to 10% or more! It adds up a ton over time. It not only works for home decor stores, but most places you're shopping at. I just put the money I get back into more skincare or home decor because I have no self control. Use my referral link to earn $10 when you make a purchase of $25 or more 🙂 click here!
- If websites have referral programs- use them! Even if it's not on home decor, brands want their names out there and many offer programs to encourage this. Share your love of shopping with a friend and you just might snag 20% off if they mention your email.
Use your Pinterest-y talents!
If there's one thing I've learned about decor, you can make stuff yourself a good portion of the time. It depends on how much patience and crafting skills you have, but if I see something I like and I know I can make it myself I'll do that. I also really love crafting so I don't mind it, so if you're not into that stick to buying. All of my crafting supplies either comes from Michael's or Hobby Lobby, and the same discount tips apply. Wait for the sales and sign up for emails!
I hope you were able to find some new tips and tricks to save money when shopping for your home decor. Typically people that know me will reach out to me and ask if I know of any sales going on or if I have any referral codes because I go out of my way to make sure I'm saving money. You can always comment here or shoot me a message on instagram if you're in need of money-saving guidance!
Have fun decorating AND saving money, my loves!!
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This Summer I started collecting photo images of women's hats. Especially the colorful ones. This hat was photographed during the annual Plein-Air Invitational we have in Laguna Beach every October.
The hat was especially needed as the Sun was very bright and the day was hot.
I think it glows. What do you think?


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|Cell Therapy News 19.16 May 7, 2018
Transfer of Gene Corrected T Cells Corrects Humoral and Cytotoxic Defects in X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Disease (XLP1)
CD3+ lymphocytes from sap-deficient mice were transduced with a gammaretroviral vector encoding human SAP cDNA before transfer into sub-lethally irradiated sap-deficient recipients. [J Allergy Clin Immunol] Abstract
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Chondrogenic Differentiation Processes in Human Bone Marrow Aspirates Seeded in Three-Dimensional Woven Poly(ε-Caprolactone) Scaffolds Enhanced by rAAV-Mediated SOX9 Gene Transfer
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Mesenchymal Stem Cell Sheets Exert Anti-Stenotic Effects in a Rat Arterial Injury Model
A rat model of femoral artery injury was used to compare the anti-stenotic effects of transplanted cell sheets and transplanted cell suspensions. Rat adipose-derived stem cells were used as the source of mesenchymal stem cells. [Tissue Eng Part A] Abstract
Regulatable Lentiviral Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy in a Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease
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Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation for Refractory Opsoclonus Myoclonus Ataxia Syndrome
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Mesenchymal Stem Cells Form 3D Clusters following Intraventricular Transplantation
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Promoter-Operating Targeted Expression of Gene Therapy in Cancer: Current Stage and Prospect
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Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. announced that it has entered into an exclusive partnership with Myonexus Therapeutics, Inc. [Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.] Press Release
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The New Jersey Innovation Institute (NJII) has announced that Hackensack Meridian Health has joined its Cell and Gene Therapy Development Center to access the center's process development and clinical manufacturing capabilities. [Hackensack Meridian Health] Press Release
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Novartis announced the FDA has approved Kymriah® suspension for intravenous infusion for its second indication – the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory (r/r) large B-cell lymphoma after two or more lines of systemic therapy including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), high grade B-cell lymphoma and DLBCL arising from follicular lymphoma. [Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation] Press Release
FDA Backs Gene Therapy for Fatal Neurodegenerative Childhood Disease
Orchard Therapeutics received a Rare Pediatric Disease Designation form the FDA for its gene therapy OTL-200. The treatment is for patients with metachromatic leukodystrophy, a fatal genetic disease that causes sulfur to accumulate in the body, harming the nervous system and metabolism. [Orchard Therapeutics (Labiotech UG)] Press Release
REGENXBIO Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for RGX-121 Gene Therapy for the Treatment of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II
REGENXBIO Inc. announced that the FDA has granted Fast Track designation for RGX-121. [REGENXBIO Inc.] Press Release
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that the company has reached alignment with the FDA on a pivotal study design for lumasiran, an investigational RNAi therapeutic for the treatment of PH1. [Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.] Press Release
Hemostemix Announces First Patient Treated in Phase II Clinical Trial
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Celyad Successfully Administers CYAD-01 in First Patients in SHRINK and LINK Trials
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Basic Scientists Still Feel Pinch of New NIH Clinical Trial Policy
Basic researchers who study the brain and human behavior thought lawmakers had come to their rescue in March by blocking the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from redefining their studies as clinical trials. But NIH officials are still pushing ahead with new requirements that scientists say make no sense and will cripple their research. [ScienceInsider] Editorial
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An online petition calling on the National Academy of Sciences to revoke memberships bestowed on people sanctioned for sexual harassment has garnered more than 250 signatures since it was posted on May 1. [The Scientist] Editorial
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Nature has named Magdalena Skipper as its new editor-in-chief. She is the first woman to hold the post. Skipper, who is currently editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Nature Communications, will become the eighth editor of Nature. [Nature News] Editorial
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This blog is an expanded version of Bare Bones Biology radio program that is playing this week on KEOS Radio, 98.1 FM, Bryan, Texas. A podcast can be downloaded later this week at:http://traffic.libsyn.com/fff/BBB122-Human_HandsFinal4.mp3
Hold up your hand flat open with your palm facing me. As though you were a policeman trying to stop an onrushing disaster.
Your four fingers and your thumb are all pointing in different directions.
Now let's think of your four fingers and your thumb as problems or "actions" that you and other socially conscious people are promoting — spending your time, energy and money, using your life to benefit your family, the community and humankind in general. Every person using his/her best skills to address one or other of the major actions, trying to relieve the problems faced by humankind today.
Let's say your first finger represents hunger, and all the people trying to reduce world hunger. The second finger can represent global warming. The third finger can represent conflict, for example war, politics, genocide, modern economics. And the fourth finger represents religion and spirituality. Your thumb represents overpopulation.
What I notice about this hand is that all five of the digits are pointing off toward different and separate goals. If you added together the five different problems, and the people who are working to address these problems. Well, they are not working together for a common goal – they are going off in five different directions. Often they fight or argue with each other or they simply ignore each other, rather than discussing common goals. For this reason the work of one group often cancels out the gains of one or more of the other groups.
For example, one group is working for compassion in the belief that a compassionate community will not fight. Another group tries to win because they believe that will solve all our problems. The climate change group, after a few hundred years of evidence, is finally beginning to recognize its problem is real and is trying to decide whether to adapt or deal with the root cause of climate change. The hunger group can't possibly accomplish its goal in the face of climate change and excessive population growth. And the overpopulation group believes that no positive goals can be achieved by continuing the destructive path that caused these problems in the first place.
We imagine if all the groups accomplished their goals they would all add up to a successful community. The reality, however, looks more like a mish-mash of confusing goals and conflicting interests.
Efficient and effective problem solving does not jump out into the world in five different directions at once, with the different parts of itself fighting among themselves. Modern business practice has made many serious mistakes, but at least one good concept has come out of it, and that is goal setting. Good business defines its goals, sets its guidelines, and informs all parties involved.
Our basic human goal is to live in a community that is sustainable into the future. Surely it must be, and if it's not we should ask each other why not, because we aren't acting as though it were. We have all these five problems, and more, dashing off in all directions at the same time. Don't you agree that we could organize ourselves in some way that would at least have a chance of growing a positive future? I think such a future is possible.
If our primary goal really is the common welfare, then we can align our four fingers to represent of our commitment to the common goal of human sustainability on this earth, in good health, at least through the lifetimes of our grandchildren. If my genuine stated goal is the same as the stated goals of people working in different disciplines – then we will cease to be all working for different outcomes.
Next, we can recognize the physical facts: (1) that nobody can accomplish anything if there is not enough food for them to eat, (2) that all our food comes from the earth, and (3) the earth now has more people than it can feed. If you don't believe these are real facts, then you have an obligation to the hungry humans in the world to fact-check your belief system.
So we then fold our thumb under at the roots of the four fingers, to represent represent the facts: (1) that overpopulation is at the root of all of the other problems. Yes we have had these problems in the past and we did not solve them before. Blame your heritage. Now is now and now we cannot solve them if a large part of the earth's population is desperately struggling to make a living, and ; (2) therefore, that no other compassionate goal can be accomplished when there are more people than the earth can feed; and (3) therefore, the four other goals cannot be solved in the presence of overpopulation.
Therefore, if we genuinely want to accomplish our goals. If we want our behavior to reflect our commitment to the real goal, and regardless of our personal expertise or our primary interest — hunger, global warming, conflict resolution (community) or spirituality – then it is our obligation to spend a portion of our effort, every day, to help compassionately reverse human overpopulation, first informing ourselves about why it is a problem, and then addressing that problem as it relates to our own special skills and projects. I tend to judge people's compassion by their behavior. When I see anyone brush off this obligation with a platitude or a blank look — we all do really know how important it is. Then I wonder why they don't really want to know. Can it be they don't want to help carry the burden of responsibility that goes with knowledge?
And then – we all work together to accomplish both the root goal and the individual goals by enclosing all of life on earth within the fully informed, goal-oriented, responsible, compassionate hand of human kind.
And then, you ask. (Everyone does.): "But it is such a big problem, what can I do?" The answer is – in this sequence:
1-You can recognize that this is not about "me." It's not about who does what at the level of individual decision making. Do not promote the fake debate (https://factfictionfancy.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/another-fake-debate-pro-life/) over family planning, which is corposystem propaganda meant prevent us from growing our personal and community power (http://FactFictionFancy.Wordpress.com/About)within the ecosystem. Instead study the real overpopulation threat, which is about human suffering at the level of the population, and at the level of survival of the whole living earth.
2-Do not waste time blaming anyone; it will not accomplish our common goal. Instead educate yourself and others about the suffering of populations of humans who do not have access to family planning because our corposystem is withholding that resource from them.
3-Education yourself about how the ecosystem functions to maintain its balance and therefore it's welfare and its life (you could start with the Bare Bones Ecology Energy Handbook downloadable from the right side of this blog site).
4-Discuss all three "sides" of the issue with family and friends. The "sides" minimally can be described as the conflicting needs of individual persons, families, communities, and the whole earth ecosystem.
5-What we need most right now is the political will to make family planning available compassionately to everyone on earth who wants it and needs it for their health and well being. Work as a citizen to bring this to the people who need and want it.
Bare Bones Biology 122 – Human Hands
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British rider starts last European round with the Kawasaki Racing Team in style
It's been a tough season for Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) for many different reasons, but on Friday at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours the 2013 World Champion showed once more why he is one of the most revered riders on the paddock, topping FP2 and finishing second position in the combined Free Practice standings.
With the 33-year-old's future still unclear, the rider from Yorkshire shot out like a lightning bolt on the opening day in France, ending the practice sessions just two tenths of a second behind teammate Jonathan Rea (Kawasaki Racing Team WorldSBK) and putting in consistent lap times around the 4.4 kilometre track.
Sykes, who currently sits fourth in the championship standings, was calm and composed from the get-go, something that the KRT rider believes helped him on Friday: "I just felt a little clearer today, things were coming much easier. The bike was working well, very consistent, I'm really happy with the feedback. The third session was a little less consistent just because we had three items to get through, and now I feel we're ready for the racing tomorrow".
Coming off of two fifth positions at the previous round, Sykes believes that he can make a step forward now that his injury concerns are behind: "It's a massive difference. The change of direction is so much easier now. The ankle and ultimately the leg were weak in Portugal, it was a bit difficult getting out of the sequence of hills and changes of direction. It's a night and day difference, and I think we'll only get better and feeling better on the bike".
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"Mommy…do you sometimes wish I was a giraffe?"
"No. Why do you ask?"
"Because they are very quiet and don't ask questions. I ask a lot of questions."
And she does. She asks a lot of questions.
Recently, at the dinner table she let out a frustrated sigh.