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At times I feel like I really will be able to learn this language. That maybe I’ll have a decent conversation with a family member some day and that I’m making good progress.
Other days I feel discouraged. There are so many words, so many rules, so much to practice, and still so much that I have yet to uncover. What if eight months is not enough time? Will I ever speak and understand as well as I want to? Is this goal unrealistic and am I naive for thinking I can achieve it?
And forfeit the potential to fulfill a dream I’ve carried with me for over ten years?
I could never let myself do that. I already know the ball and chain of regret I would carry with me had I chosen to stay behind. Growing up with this desire to learn Slovene is the equivalent of an itch never getting scratched. How painful it would be to look back on my life knowing I didn’t even try, despite how much I wanted it and how open the door was.
I’ve always known that I would never be content with only knowing one language. As much as I’ve tried to find that feeling, it has never come. I’m jealous of people who are bilingual. Always have been, always will be. This ever present envy is the result of having extended family whom I cannot communicate with effectively and growing up with a mother and close friends who speak multiple languages. I wanted to be a part of the club. It pained me when my fifth grade English teacher asked our class who was bilingual and I had to keep my hand down. I so badly wanted to raise my hand. Wanted it to be true. Even seeing strangers on the street who I know can speak Slovene with as much ease as I speak English reignites that spark of jealousy within me. It’s something I have always wanted. Something that’s always been just out of reach.
It’s hard when you can’t be a part of something that feels very much a part of you.
Each year that passed of me only knowing English, I grew more jealous, more bitter, and more resentful. I had to learn to get over these feelings, which was easy by no means and took several years. I still have days where I don’t feel “over it” at all and have to remind myself that you can’t change your past, but you can shape your future. For me, that meant letting go of the fact that I grew up monolingual, and choosing to focus on what I can do now to change that.
After spending about a month here, I realize that my decision is viewed differently by Americans and Slovenes. In the US, when I told others about my decision to move to Europe in order to study a language, I was met with countless oohs and ahhs, an endless stream of encouragement and admiration.
But the people who are from here give me the impression that what I’m doing is odd. Why would she leave America to come to Slovenia of all places? And just to learn the language? Why would she want to learn Slovene anyway? There are only 2 million of us! Guess they don’t know my backstory.
I’ve also heard things that have led me to believe I’m wasting my time. That I should hurry up and go to college instead of taking this much needed break not only to learn Slovene, but also figure out what I might want to do with my life. There are a million and half other reasons I could give in defense to spending a school year here, but I’ll leave that for another post.
Even though there are times I fear I won’t learn as much Slovene as I want to or that I’m silly for even trying, I remember my classmates who are much older than I and have chosen to do the same thing despite their age. Did I mention I’m the youngest in my class by 11 years?
Though I often feel discouraged and overwhelmed when thinking of how much I have yet to learn, I remember the showers of encouragement I’ve received from others (thanks by the way) and that progress counts for a lot more than I give credit.
Even still, I fear coming out of this experience feeling just as lost about my calling and purpose as before. But then I remember that God was the one who led me here. If he didn’t have a good reason, he would not have done it. There is so much that will happen over the course of these eight months that I cannot even imagine, even if they aren’t the most grandiose or the most obvious.
And that’s all the comfort I need.
Learning a language is a mountain sized task. Just like eating an elephant you have to take it one word or 1 concept at a time. Also in language acquisition there is a quiet period. You are listening and absorbing. Give yourself time and grace because that is an important step that can’t be skipped. I love love love that you are a immersing yourself to learn a language and a culture.
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Our theme this week was a no brainer as the show aired on Australia Day, or ‘Invasion Day’ as some of us like to call it. It seemed appropriate that our show focus on Australian/homegrown music, so we opened with Gangajang and SOUNDS OF THEN (THIS IS AUSTRALIA). Then it was Icehouse with GREAT SOUTHERN LAND. Is this song quintessentially Australian, or what?
Archie Roach is a singer and songwriter of amazing strength and insight. A story teller in the tradition of his ancestors, Archie conveys intimate real life stories as well as traditional stories of the Dreaming. Having survived a personal history that would have left most artists scarred and defeated, Archie Roach has emerged as an extraordinarily gifted Australian artist with a truly visionary talent. I chose to play TOO MANY BRIDGES, from the 2007 album Journey.
Yilila’s track E DHUMBALA is from their CD Digipack EP, Aeroplane, released in 2006. With their unique brand of Traditional/reggae/rock music, they have to be one of my favourite Indigenous bands. Unfortunately this track wasn’t available as a video clip, but I encourage you to check them out.
I’m also loving the group Tinpan Orange. Emily Lubitz, Jessie Lubitz and Alex Burkoy are all very talented but Emily’s voice is so seductive. Try and get hold of their new album THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE and take a listen to the track of the same name.
Next up it was Thirsty Merc and SOMEDAY, SOMEDAY. Bit of trivia for you: The band’s name came from a gas guzzling Mercedes Benz belonging to the band members, with the numberplate ‘THRSTY’.
One of my all time favourites, and one the tracks I had to play again from last year’s All Australian show, is the Saints song (I’M) STRANDED. Equally, The Easybeats had to get another run, but this year I thought I’d give FRIDAY ON MY MIND a rest and instead we heard another standard of theirs: WEDDING RING.
Nostalgia was hitting hard when Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs delivered MOST PEOPLE I KNOW THINK THAT I’M CRAZY and Men At Work rounded out the first hour of the show with the iconic Aussie anthem, DOWN UNDER.
The Living End asked a question that may have been on everyone’s lips: WHAT’S ON YOUR RADIO? Mate! All Australian, homegrown, classics. No less. And we needed some female rock energy to bring some balance into the day’s playlist. Can’t get better that Chrissie Amphlett and The Divinyls with SCIENCE FICTION.
Anyone remember The Beasts of Bourbon? LET’S GET FUNKY is from their 1990 album ‘Black Milk’. Tex Perkins, you are one radical dude.
Their’s been lots of tripping down memory lane, so I thought I would throw in the occasional contemporary recording, like Empire of the Sun and of their best, HALF MAST. Of course, with a baby boomer creating the playlist, it wasn’t long before we returned to the oldies, (but goodies!). My favourite Crowded House track is DON’T DREAM THAT IT’S OVER and we followed with Richard Clapton and GIRLS ON THE AVENUE. Here’s a clip of Rick performing live at the 2007 Countdown Spectacular Tour. He has got to be one of Australia’s most talented artists.
There is no way you can create an Australian playlist and leave out Paul Kelly. And we didn’t. I left the overplayed and obvious tracks alone and chose another of his that I really like, YOU’RE LOVIN’ IS ON MY MIND. Leah Flanagan was one of my picks for ‘best of’ the recent Mullumbimby Music Festival. Loving TYPSY TANGO which you can find on her 2008 album LEAH FLANAGAN BAND. Now I know that The Black Seeds are from New Zealand but that doesn’t stop me adopting them for today’s show (isn’t that we do with all talented Kiwis – they become instant honorary Aussies?). Their song COME TO ME is a great example of their funk/afrobeat/soul sound.
Cold Chisel were the only band to get two songs onto the list. And that’s because I couldn’t leave out what some think is THE Aussie rock song: KHE SANH. This clip is worth viewing just for the audience’s reaction. Chisel fans unite!
I missed Rose Tattoo when they performed in Byron Bay recently, but I hear they still know how to rock a room. So, my pick was ROCK N ROLL OUTLAW.
This week all the kids, and the teachers, are back at school. So next week’s show is dedicated to them with all songs about SCHOOL. Got any suggestions? Drop me a line either on the blog or through the bayfm.org site. Love to hear from you.
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Can one of you americans reading this answer a question for me? How do US dress sizes compare to UK dress sizes? I know you use the same sorts of numbers but I'm pretty sure they differ - and I've read some stuff recently about women being 'size 2' which if it was UK sizes would be stick-women type of size. Ill and nearly dead. So I'm curious. To help, I'm a UK size 14 and I have a 30 inch waist and 40 inch hips ... what'd that make me in the US?
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My guess would be that you'd be somewhere around a size 12. I'm stuck between size 14 and 16 at 41-34-42 if that gives you an idea. Size 2 american _is_ stick thin though. I assume it would require about a 20 inch waist.
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Come Step Back In Time – Discover a passion for history….
End Of An Era …..
Me in top aft cabin of Beachcomber with photo of Maureen O’Hara.
Stills from BBC One’s, Inside Out South East’s ‘Sultan and The Showgirl’, 1930s set drama-documentary. I was an expert contributor. October, 2015.
1960s selfie at Goodwood Revival 2015.
My grandfather’s story featured in Hengelo’s Weekblad newspaper (24.3.2015, p. 15 – http://www.hengelosweekblad.nl). Thanks to all the hard work by historian Eric Heijink!
Selfie at The Wallace Collection.
Having great fun with broadcaster and media specialist, Di Evans. Image courtesy of the Reel Media Deal.
Me with Chef Adam Gray and presenter/musical theatre star Craig Price. Image Courtesy of Craig Price.
With Michelin Chef Adam Gray doing our food history homework at the Skylon restaurant, London. Chef Gray brought his 1869 copy of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management. Image courtesy of the Reel Media Deal.
Lucy Adlington. ©Come Step Back In Time.
Pictorial highlights from some of my many blogging joys over the last 5 years of Come Step Back In Time. (More images at end of article).
I published my first article on Come Step Back In Time in July 2011 and after 5 incredible years, this post will, sadly, be my last. I have thoroughly enjoyed every second of writing this blog but the time has come to embark on exciting new writing challenges.
I am very proud of Come Step Back In Time and the site will remain live for as long as WordPress continues to exist, hopefully for quite some time to come. There are 185 articles on here, most of which are long read. Final word count stands at 280k, equivalent to 3 full-length novels or 3 PhDs, no wonder I have bags under my eyes! At the end of this post, I have compiled a list of my favourite articles from the last 5 years.
Regular readers will know, since 2013 I have also written a 2nd blog, Viva Blancmange, dedicated to retro food. Like Come Step Back In Time, Viva Blancmange has also gone from strength-to-strength, attracting a lot of attention from the British media as well as securing a large, global readership.
Running 2 blogs in tandem has been a considerable amount of work as you may imagine. Whilst I never shy away from a challenge, I recently made the decision that, going forward, I would retain just 1 blog. I have renamed Viva Blancmange, it is now 20th Century Crush.
Over the years, I have amassed a large collection of 20th Century vintage ephemera. 20th Century Crush will showcase historical gems from this collection. Topics will include food (diet and dining), fashion, popular culture and society, covering the period 1900-1990s. Posts on 20th Century Crush will be shorter in length and can be read in the time it takes to drink your morning tea/coffee/protein shake.
I have also carried out a major rebrand across all of my digital and social media platforms. In particular my Twitter handle has changed to @20thCentCrush and I have created a new hashtag, #20thCCrush. This hashtag will feature lots of fascinating, 20th Century inspired content. There will also be a new Instagram account so keep your eyes peeled on Twitter for further announcements.
Come Step Back In Time will always have a very special place in my heart. It has brought me great creative joy as well as new friendships and many media opportunities, with television/radio appearances on BBC, ITV and Channel 4.
War Room Pass Southwick House. D-Day.
Bournemouth Pier, 2011. ©Come Step Back In Time.
Hythe Pier, Hampshire, November, 2013. Opened on the 1st January, 1881. The tramway opened in 1909. After the First World War, a second-hand locomotive was purchased from the Avon Mustard Gas Factory and brought into use on the pier in 1922. It still operates today. The pier is one of the longest in Britain. ©Come Step Back In Time.
Hastings pier, November 2013. ©Come Step Back In Time.
Replica bathing machine used by King George III when he visited the seaside town of Weymouth. He spent 14 summers between 1789 and 1805 there. ©Come Step Back in Time.
Brighton’s Palace pier, November 2013. Opened on the 20th May, 1889.
Royal Marines Museum ©Come Step Back In Time.
Hannah Snell, Royal Marines Museum.
‘Per Mare, Per Terram’ – by Sea and Land. Moto of The Royal Marines.
Postcard showing the Royal Victoria Military Hospital, Netley.
Edward Fox and his wife Joanna David who gave a wonderful tribute to Dickens including reading aloud extracts from some of his novels. © Come Step Back in Time.
Oliver Dickens with his great, great, great, grandfather. © Come Step Back in Time.
Abel Magwitch and Molly. Film still from Magwitch (2013). Image courtesy of Violafilms.
Grandmother favoured a braided hair style with deep ‘waves’ framing the face.
The lady standing-up is my great, great, grandmother. Photograph is dated c.1911.
©Come Step Back in Time. To the right and left of image examples of Coalport’s Parian Porcelain. Two icepails c.1850. Parian is a type of unglazed porcelain with a dense texture and a pure white finish, similar to Greek Parian marble. Coalport stop using this technique in the 1860s.
©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Example of one of the staff costumes made by The Costume Project for Kew Palace.
©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. A Reproduction (1) Corset from the 1890s made by The Costume Project team. Notice the beautiful stitch detail on the corset.
©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. Reproduction 2 of the Mantua Gown 1740s, made by The Costume Project at Ironbridge.
©Come Step Back in Time. Inside McClures General Draper and Outfitters, no. 3 Canal Street, Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire. An original building from Stafford Place, Oakengates, Telford (exterior and shop front only). c.1880. Opened on site on 4th Apri, 2009.
©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. View of the Iron Bridge over the River Severn.
©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. The Pharmacy at Blists Hill Victorian Town, Shropshire.
Jane Austen Festival, Bath, 2011.
Gilbert White’s study at The Wakes. The desk shown may have been the original desk owned by Gilbert.
Glasses and case belonging to Jane Austen’s mother. On display at Lyme Regis Museum.
Inside the 1940s sweet shop. Milestones.
Shawl, feathers and cap of bronze mesh with gold sequins. C.1928. Dazzle Exhibition. HCC Arts & Museums.
Dazzle Exhibition. Gosport Gallery, Gosport, Hampshire.
White satin shoe with oval diamante trim. High curved and waisted Louis heel covered in white plastic, painted with a design on an Egyptian theme in red, green and gold and inset with multi coloured diamonte. Printed label Debenham and Freebody. Wigmore St. C.1935. Dazzle Exhibition.C.1988.124. HCC Arts & Museums.
Barlaston Hall. The imposing country house that greets the visitor at the start of the long driveway leading-up to The Wedgwood Museum. This is now a private residence and is only ocassionally open to the public for pre-booked visits. The house was built in 1756-8 for lawyer Thomas Mills from Leek. It overlooks the Trent Valley and the octagonal diamond sash windows are a rare surviving trademark of Taylor’s work.
The Apotheosis of Homer Vase. Cylindrical pedestal with white reliefs of fruiting vines, medallions, lions’ heads, ribbons and trophies. Solid blue Jasper Relief decoration modelled by John Flaxman. C.1790.
This was my favourite photograph from the exhibition, ladies inspecting one of the new, Creda, electric cooker in the 1920s. This photograph is in the St. Barbe Museum collection.
Local actor Bruce Clitherow reading from William Retford’s Memoirs of Growing-up in Ashley.
From left to right: ‘sir’ John Pheasant; ‘sir’ Michael Moore; ‘sir’ Graham Hart and ‘sir’ David Winney.
Jacqui Wood demonstrating prehistoric cooking techqniques at Buckland Ring Iron Age hillfort, Lymington, Hampshire.
Some of the pretty seafront architecture in Lyme Regis.
Snazzy, vintage rubber bathing hat. Portsmouth City Museum.
Marchpane made by Mike and Jasmine Goodman. Mike’s marchpane depicts Lymington’s Coat of Arms, a sailing vessel.
The Tudor Parlour, c.1560, at Avebury Manor, Avebury, Wiltshire. The table is laid with Pewtor ware which became increasingly more poppular amongst the well-to-do than wood fashioned table ware.
Emblem worn by 1908 British Olympian Clarence Brickwood Kingsbury. Clarence won two gold medals in cycling. The emblem was sewn onto the front of his jersey. From a recent display about Clarence at Portsmouth City Museum.
Loom 10 in the weaving shed showing a Hattersley Dobby loom by William Smith & Bros Ltd of Heywood Lancashire, built in the nineteenth century.
An enthusiastic crowd brave the dreadful weather in Mayflower Park.
A member of Tudor re-enactment group, The Hungerford Household. Tudor knitting.
The floating Flemyngs monument, St. Nicolas Church, North Stoneham.
Interior of Hurst Castle’s Garrison Theatre.
Diamond Jubilee cupcakes that I made for my neighbours to celebrate this momentous event.
Well wishes to the Queen from Cunard’s Queen Mary 2.
Inside of a 19th century croft house in the Highlands of Scotland. Colbost Folk Museum, Colbost, Isle of Skye.
Interior of Bailey’s Maestro Caravan, 1955.
Traditional 1950s, British living room setting at Portsmouth City Museum. Not everyone in post-war austerity Britain could afford to have the latest modern design interiors that emerged during this decade.
Liz Tilley hat box 1950s. St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire.
Family picnic on Galleywood Common. 1957. My grandad’s pride and joy, the Ford Consul can be seen in the background. My grandma wearing her high heels for the ocassion of a picnic always amuses my aunt.
Me on the balcony at MShed Museum. To create the look, I took an old Marks and Spencers faux-fur hat, cut-off the brim and fashioned a pillbox style hat. The brim I attached to the neck of an old black, button-through cardigan to create a stylish collar. I removed the buttons of the cardigan and replaced with pearl-look buttons. I borrowed an original pair of white 1950s gloves from my mother-in-law. The stockings I wore were original 1950s, they tended to lose their shape as there was no lycra in them. I wore a 1950s style girdle brought from the London based vintage shapewear specialists What Katie Did. The handbag is an original on loan from my dear friend Carolyn Hair.
L-R: Michael Patterson, Claire and Peter Mitchell with their collection of RMS Olympic interior fittings.
South Western Hotel. Designed by John Norton in the French Renaissance style.
Village Garage, 1930s. Breamore Countryside Museum.
Restored 19th Century Shepherd’s Hut in the grounds of Mottisfont Abbey, Romsey, Hampshire.
1890, Doulton’s white Carraraware tiles designed for Oakley & Watling Provisions and Fruit Merchants, 56 High Street, Southampton.
The Flagstaff Museum of Tea Ware, Hong Kong Park, Hong Kong.
The Southern Skirmish Association, Bath 2011.
View of Loch Dunvegan from Colbost Folk Museum, Colbost, Isle of Skye.
Tara Howard Proprietress of Langtry Manor Hotel, Bournemouth dressed as Lille Langtry. Image supplied by kind permission of Ms Howard.
‘The Indifferent Sky’ (2011) by Sean Henry. Displayed in the Cathedral Cloisters. Bronze, cor-ten steel, all weather paint. 237cm x 120cm x 149cm.
Homage in papier mache to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Bisterne Scarecrow Festival 2011.
View of the dining-room at The Red House, from the peephole Albert had installed.
A Tudor gentlement enjoying the delights of the restored knot garden.
US Medical Company (Union Regiment), Southern Skirmish Association (SOSKAN).
Such generous goodie bags provided for us by Penguin Books UK (@PenguinUkBooks). Image copyright – Come Step Back In Time.
These beauties were provided by flower subscription service, Bloom & Wild (https://www.bloomandwild.com/ – @bloomandwild). This photograph won me a three month subscription to Bloom & Wild and I gave the prize to my lovely mum. Image copyright – Come Step Back In Time.
Since March 2016, I have been the History Editor at Bloggeration (@Bloggeration_) an on-line magazine for bloggers across the globe. Editor in Chief is the fabulous Sarah Moody (@Sairey_bearey ) of The Prosecco Diaries whom I met last year when I attended one of her Blogger workshops in London. You may remember reading my article about this event?
Bloggeration has been incredibly successful since its launch a few month’s ago and whether you are new to blogging or a seasoned pro, there is something for everyone in the magazine. New content is posted daily. Bloggeration‘s Twitter account (@Bloggeration_) is very active, a great way to meet other bloggers too.
Every Sunday between 9.30 and 10.30 am (GMT), a different Editor hosts #BloggerationChat – a themed Q&A covering a wide range of blogging topics. #BloggerationChat has even trended on Twitter! I will be hosting a history-themed #BloggerationChat on Sunday 8th May and Sunday 22nd May, so do drop by and connect, it will be lovely to meet you there.
Quality not quantity. History bloggers tend not to post daily. Articles take a lot longer to research, write-up and curate illustrations. If you are averaging two or three a month then I salute you!
Be a proof-reading Ninja. Your readers will quickly lose confidence in you if articles are full of spelling and grammatical errors or broken web links.
For my comprehensive feature article on how to start a history blog, click here.
Good luck if you start a history blog. Leave me a comment below or Tweet me (@emmahistorian) if you do, I would love to hear about how you are getting-on and am happy to answer any blogging related questions.
Basque children arrive at Southampton aboard the liner, SS Habana, having been rescued from the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. May 25th, 1937.
I am extremely pleased to finally be publishing this article which I have been researching, on and off, for about a year now. Since the plight of migrant children continues to dominate European news headlines, it felt like the perfect time to crack-on and write-up my notes. Regardless of your political views about refugees, economic migrants or asylum seekers, this is a heart-warming, true story, fundamentally about humanitarianism.
The successful evacuation of 3,840 children to Britain from the war-torn Basque region of Spain in May, 1937 is an event in our nation’s history that we should justly be proud of. As the narrator states in the British Pathé film below: ‘Britain has always been a safe haven for exiles’. Perhaps we should all bear this phrase in mind when formulating an opinion about the plight of families fleeing war-torn countries.
British Pathe film from 1937, ‘Tragedy of Civil War – Basque Refugee children arrive in England’. Film shows the children arriving in Southampton as well as the temporary reception camp at Stoneham Farm, Eastleigh, near to the city centre. Uploaded to You Tube 13.4.2014.
In 1937, Spain was engaged in Civil War and had been since 17th July, 1936. The political background to the War is complex but I recommend listening to Melvyn Bragg’s BBC Radio 4 documentary on the topic from the In Our Time series, broadcast in April 2003, which clearly sets-out the facts.
At first, the British government did not want the Basque refugee children to come, intervention could be seen as an act of taking sides. The government wanted to maintain a neutral reaction to this conflict. The Archbishop of Canterbury at the time, William Cosmo Gordon Lang (1864-1945), also found himself in a difficult situation, he too had to adopt the Church of England’s neutral position whilst supporting humanitarian initiatives for the Spanish women and children.
Bombing Of Guernica In Spain, April, 1937. The event inspired Pablo Picasso’s 1937 painting, ‘Guernica’.
On 26th April, 1937, the non-militarised Basque town of Guernica was heavily bombed. This was one of the first aerial bombings by Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe. The town was devastated and over 1,600 people killed. Archbishop Lang happened to be in the Basque region at the time, reporting back on the children’s harrowing plight. Public conscience was stirred and the British government were forced to back down.
‘Guernica’, a mural oil-painting on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), completed in June 1937, as a reaction to Nazi Germany’s bombing of the town. The painting is housed in Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofia.
Originally, the Home Office only gave permission for 2,000 children to be evacuated to Britain. However, since France had already given shelter to between 16,000 and 18,000 refugees, supporters argued that it was not unreasonable for Britain to ‘do her bit’ and take-in 4,000 children.
If England will not have them all, 2,000 will be landed at Bordeaux en route, and the rest will be brought to Southampton arriving Saturday. [22nd May, 1937).
The people of Southampton rose to the challenge as one might expect from a Port town with a long history of welcoming migrants fleeing persecution. The town needed to pool all of its human resources to pull-off a successful reception and create a suitable base camp for the children. The children only needed accommodation in Southampton for a couple of months, as the plan was to send them on to new foster homes and country houses throughout Britain until hostilities in Spain had ceased.
Volunteer helpers cleaning a house in preparation for the arrival of Spanish refugees, 1937.
Although the British Government now supported an evacuation, they made it perfectly clear that once on British soil, they would not be held responsible for the children’s welfare. Of course, such declarations just served to fuel the cause. Southampton’s citizens rallied and several days before the refugees were due to arrive, 1,000 of them gathered at the town’s Guildhall to pledge their help, support and donate money.
I found the following quotes from regional newspapers in a clippings folder at the Local Studies Centre of Southampton Central Library. They detail how local people rose to this challenge. Organisations, such as the Scouts, Guides, Boys Brigade, YMCA, Salvation Army and Quakers lent their support. Southampton’s school children collected eggs and the town’s local co-op donated food and clothes. An egg-storing depot was set-up at Messrs A. E. Turner’s store, London Road, Southampton. High-profile supporters of the evacuation were The Duchess of Atholl, the Cadbury and Rowntree families and King George VI.
Southampton’s response in personal service and in gifts has been magnificent, but there are still several urgent needs unfilled. One of these is a caravan or hut for the use of V.A.D. nurses and as a medical examination room.
Gifts of vegetables toys, clothes, etc, are, of course, warmly welcomed, and there is a caravan just outside [of the Stoneham transit camp, near Southampton] for the receipt of gifts. The generous spirit of local folk is above praise; hundreds have been working all hours of the night, and even if they go out of their way to engage a cook or collect a string of cars which turn out to be unwanted, they take it all most philosophically.
The spirit of the camp is admirable: one recognised many of Southampton’s leading spirits at work on humble jobs or helping in the shepherding of children: so long as they are useful they do not mind. Even trained nurses were cheerfully filling palliases with straw on Sunday, because that was the most urgent task. Incidentally, someone had the bright idea of turning Sunday afternoon’s curiosity to account, and went round with a tin bowl. He collected £5 in pennies.
Three young orphans from Bilbao arrive at Southampton aboard the liner Habana. May 23rd, 1937.
On Thursday 20th May, 1937, the SS Habana sailed from Bilbao, France with approximately 3,840 children on board accompanied by 80 teachers, 120 helpers, 15 Catholic priests and 2 doctors. The ship was only meant to carry 800 and conditions on-board were very cramped. It was a tough voyage, many suffered sea-sickness, diarrhoea, particularly around the Bay of Biscay.
SS Habana arrived in British waters on Saturday 22nd May, lying-off of Fawley, where it awaited English health authorities to clear its passengers so that it could dock at Southampton Port. Early on Sunday 23rd May, SS Habana finally left her anchorage and docked at Berth 106, arriving just before 8am.
The children were given medical examinations then immigration officers took details of their names and parentage, fixing labels to their wrists before they were allowed to troop down the Habana’s gangway onto the safety of Southampton Docks. The children were helped by white-uniformed, Spanish, Red Cross nurses.
Once the children had disembarked onto Southampton Quay, they boarded a long line of Hants and Dorset Motor Services buses which the company had loaned for such purposes. Next stop was Southampton Corporation Baths on Western Esplanade, where a host of volunteers bathed them in disinfectant and gave each child a fresh set of clothes.
The above immigration procedures may seem a little draconian by modern standards but you have to remember that the living conditions these refugees had left behind were so grim, many of them had become malnourished and vulnerable to disease. All sensible precautions had to be taken to ensure no communicable diseases were inadvertently brought into Britain and worse still, spread throughout the transit camp at Stoneham Farm.
In one of the local newspaper reports, I found an account of life in the war torn Basque region, given by a 15 year old girl from the town of Azkoitia in the province of Gipuzkoa.
Nine months ago, I was living with my father and two brothers in Azkoitia, where my father was a magistrate. Now my father is in Bilbao, one of 300,000 refugees from the war zone. My brothers are fighting in the Basque Army against the Fascists. When the fighting began all around my home we had to evacuate the village. My father and I went to Guernica.
We lived there for eight months – mostly underground – until in one air raid the whole town was wiped out. What had a short time before been a pretty market town was reduced to a mass of flame and ruin. Incendiary bombs fell side by side with high explosives. Panic and bloodshed were rife. All the people in the houses next to that in which I was are now dead.
Another account was given by a couple of Roman Catholic priests who had accompanied the refugees to Britain. Benito Juan Sarakoetxea and Padre Gabriel Manterola told reporters at the Southern Daily Echo that the people’s diet had been very poor indeed, food was scarce. Daily rations consisted mainly of fish, black bread and water with some milk made available to children.
They also recalled how citizens were so afraid they were living in the safety of their cellars. In fact since 31st March, 1937, the children had been bombed every day except for three days, leaving many of them now in a heightened state of anxiety.
Southampton residents were asked not to visit the Docks or line the streets to greet the children. This was not an unfriendly gesture but instead one designed to ensure the children were not over-whelmed. Although, from some of the newspaper reports I have read, local children did cheer and wave as the buses transported the refugees to Stoneham Farm.
Stoneham Farm temporary transit camp, May 1937.
The temporary reception camp was located at Stoneham Farm, near Eastleigh, just outside of Southampton. A local farmer, G. H. Brown, lent a parcel of farmland to the cause. The site, run by volunteers, was efficiently organised with 400 bell tents and plenty of facilities although it did take a few days for the terrified youngsters to settle.
Traumatised Basque refugee child arrives at Stoneham Farm temporary transit camp, May, 1937.
In the period leading-up to the refugees arrival, local citizens rallied around to get the Stoneham land ready. Local plumbers laid water pipes, carpenters constructed simple structures and Dockers dug latrines. Depots for food, clothes and toys were set-up all over Hampshire, supported by cricket clubs, churches and women’s organisations.
Unsurprisingly, the refugee children were unused to a structured, daily routine. Many of them had, for quite a considerable amount of time, been running wild due to the horrific circumstances back home. There were some instances reported that whilst at Stoneham Farm camp, some children had been caught stealing from local orchards. Another incident detailed several boys having stolen communion wine from the temporary on-site church tent!
Refugees lining-up to receive their meal at Stoneham Farm transit camp, Eastleigh. May, 1937.
The children were well-fed at the camp, diet consisted mainly of scalded milk, bread, boiled meat and potatoes with peas and onions. Each child was given a daily amount of milk equivalent to 1 and 1/2 pints. There was also plenty of fruit and sweets (thanks to Rowntrees). Cadbury’s also sent down 12,000 chocolate, 12,000 bars. Meals were cooked by local people under supervision of a team of ex-army and navy cooks.
There were many daily activities to keep the children occupied including boxing (organised by ex-heavyweight champion, Joe Beckett), a cinema and Spanish/English lessons. Entertainment was organised by Spanish-speaking actor Neville Towne. The artist, Augustus John (1878-1961), visited the camp everyday and sketched the children. A tannoy system was also installed, to keep everyone updated with news from Spain. This was not always very well-received and on occasion very distressful.
Boxing practice at the Stoneham Camp. Professional boxer, Joe Beckett (1892-1965) looks on. May 29th, 1937.
Over the following months children were gradually sent to foster families and designated centres, which were also known as ‘Basque Colonies’. There were 94 Colonies set-up across Britain. The children were dispersed to country houses and private homes in: Manchester, Swindon, Scarborough, Cambridge, Brampton, Worthing, Tunbridge Wells, Worthing, Ipswich, Derby, Welwyn Garden City, Birkenhead, Watford, Thame, Watford, Richmond, Birmingham, Newbury and of course Southampton.
The refugees stayed in Britain for 2 years and when the war ended on 1st April, 1939, all, apart from 500 children were returned to Spain. Many children could not be returned as their families either no longer had a home or had been killed. Approximately 400 children settled permanently in Britain. The father of former Conservative MP-turned broadcaster, Michael Portillo, was a Basque refugee.
I was 14 at the time. I cried a lot in the boat on the way over. It wasn’t just me – many children were crying. It was because we knew what was going on with the war, especially in Bilbao. When we arrived in Southampton we were taken to be checked by a doctor, then we went to the campsite at Stoneham. There were so many children to sort out. Our group were sent to Caerleon in South Wales, between Cardiff and Newport. We had a lovely time there, we were very happy in Caerleon because we were one big family. There were 67 of us, and one Spanish lady who looked after us all – we called her our mother. We stayed there for 2 years until the Second World War started and the soldiers needed the rooms.
Basque children being given toys in Watermillock, Bolton. 26th June, 1937.
Film by British Pathé, ‘Vivid Demonstration’ (1936), shot at Eastleigh Aerodrome (later Southampton Airport) on 26th March, 1936. Film features Vickers Long Range Bomber and a Spitfire prototype. This was the Spitfire’s 2nd test flight. Film also shows pilot Jeffrey Quill getting into the Spitfire. Uploaded to You Tube 13.4.14.
Saturday 5th March will be the 80th anniversary of Spitfire’s first test flight from Eastleigh Aerodrome (later Southampton Airport), Hampshire which took place on 5th March, 1936. The first Spitfire test flight lasted 8 minutes. Southampton Airport will be marking this momentous occasion, a Spitfire will take-off from there on Saturday on an 80th birthday flight.
It will first fly close to the resting place of its Chief Designer R. J. Mitchell (1895-1937). Continuing along the river Itchen to Southampton Water where it will pass near to the site of the old Supermarine factory in Woolston where many thousands of the aircraft were built. Onwards to Portsmouth harbour before flying back on itself to Southampton Airport.
According to Southampton Airport’s website, the Spitfire should be visible, around the Solent, between 11 am and 12 noon on Saturday 5th. Subject to weather conditions, there will be good vantage points along the River Itchen, Weston Shore, Hythe, Royal Victoria Country Park, Lee on Solent and Cowes (Isle of Wight).
Afterwards, head down to the brilliant, hidden gem that is Solent Sky Museum, Southampton (Twitter: @SpitfireSolent). On Saturday 5th, this multi-award winning Museum will be open from 12.30pm (admission charges apply) for a packed afternoon of activities to commemorate the Spitfire’s 80th anniversary. A new exhibition will also open on Saturday, ‘Southampton and the People’s Spitfire’, containing over 100 photographs documenting Southampton’s Blitz.
This exhibition will focus on Southampton’s role producing the Spitfire in ‘Southampton’s Blitz’. During the Battle of Britain, in 1940, Southampton was heavily bombed and the Supermarine factory was destroyed. Spitfire production was dispersed to any local site with enough floor space to produce Spitfire components. The exhibition also commemorates the heroic efforts of local residents to maintain Spitfire production at all costs.
The Spitfire production line at the Vickers Supermarine Works in Southampton, 1940.
There were 20, 531 Spitfires built, the last one rolled off the production line in 1947. Surviving examples are extremely rare (there is one in Solent Sky Museum – Mk24 PK683). The first Spitfire prototype was originally called “The Fighter” F.37/34 but subsequently this changed to prototype K5054.
Captain Joseph “Mutt” Summers (1904-1954) piloted the first Spitfire test flight in 1936. Mutt joined Vickers Aviation Ltd in June 1929, a year later he became chief test pilot at Supermarine Aviation Works. Jeffrey Kindersley Quill (1913-1996), piloted the second test flight on 26th March, 1936 (see film at top of article). Jeffrey was known as “Mr Spitfire” and was Mutt’s assistant. In January, 1936, he began working at Vickers and its subsidiary Supermarine.
‘Solent Sky Museum Seeking Stories Recalling World War Two’ by Shan Robins (That’s Solent TV) featuring an interview with Museum Director Sqn/Ldr Alan Jones MBE CRAeS RAF Rtd. Alan also introduces some special Spitfire related artefacts from the Museum’s deep archives. Uploaded to You Tube 13.2.2016.
I recently assisted on and participated in several films made by Shan Robins (Senior Broadcaster at That’s Solent TV) shot on location at Solent Sky Museum. It was a wonderful opportunity to find-out more about some of the Museum’s most famous exhibits.
‘The Schneider Trophy’s Influence on the Design of the Spitfire’ film by Shan Robins (That’s Solent TV) featuring Museum Director Sqn/Ldr Alan Jones MBE CRAeS RAF Rtd. Uploaded to You Tube 4.2.2016.
‘Flying Boats: A Look Back at a Bygone Era’ by Shan Robins (That’s Solent TV) featuring an interview with myself made on location at Solent Sky Museum, which is also home to the ‘Beachcomber’, a flying boat originally built in 1943 as a Short Sunderland Mk3, but in 1947 was converted to operate commercial flights with passengers. Uploaded to You Tube 18.2.2016.
There are many exhibits at Solent Sky that fascinate me but the Beachcomber is by far my favourite. In 2012, I wrote an article about the Beachcomber. On my recent visits to make the above films, I made sure I spent some more time looking around this lovely vintage flying boat.
In the summer of 1919 (16th August), Supermarine operated Britain’s first commercial flying boat service from the Royal Pier, near Southampton docks. The first flights were local, to Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Isle of Wight, on a Channel Mk.1 aircraft. In September, 1919, Supermarine operated its first international flying boat service from its premises at Woolston travelling to Le Havre.
The service to Le Havre did not operate for long, starting-up again in September 1923 when flying boats serviced the route between Woolston and Cherbourg. In 1924, British Marine became Imperial Airways who continued to operate flying boat services from Woolston. Between the 1924 and 1958, Southampton became one of the busiest flying boat ports in the world.
Before the jet age really took hold, towards the end of the 1950s, flying boats were the popular, if most expensive, method of travel overseas. Only the wealthy could afford the ticket price as well as spare the time needed to complete the journey. Travelling to the other side of the world by flying boat could take eight days or more. Some of the journey would have to be made via ship or other modes of transport until flying boats were servicing more routes. Eight days may seem a long time now but actually, back then it was considered extremely quick!
Film by British Pathé, ‘Flying Boat – Sydney Aka New Empire Flying Boat Leaves Sydney For Southampton’ (1938).
Like the Spitfire, the flying boat is also celebrating a big birthday this year. On 3rd July it will be the 80th anniversary of Imperial Airways’ first Short C Class flight from Southampton which took place in 1936. Imperial Airways’ first revenue flight took place on 6th February, 1937 and henceforward, Hythe (near Southampton), became the airline’s home base. Only 42 of this type of flying boat were built.
In the new C Class ‘boats, passenger comfort took precedence. A smoking cabin at the front of the aircraft was fitted out like a lounge, with chairs facing each other around small tables. Behind this was a galley, where a steward delivered restaurant quality meals on china plates. Amidships was the “promenade” deck with large, high-placed windows where passengers could stand and see their sights. In all, 24 passengers could be carried.
All this luxury came at a high price, however. The round trip from Southampton to Australia cost as much as a small house in 1937…. Today, aircraft travel at upwards of thirty thousand feet, and frequently all that is visible is clouds. In the C Class, though, there was no pressurised cabin, so flying took place at low level for the whole of the journey. This enabled Imperial Airways to make scheduled flights almost into sight-seeing tours.
This first C Class flight took place over Southampton Waters. Southampton was chosen as the location for an international “marine aeroport”, or “airport”. As the name suggests, the first airports were actually located at seaports, Southampton being one of the first.
Airports were originally not the landlocked complex of buildings and terminals that we know today. Historically, that type of airport would actually have been known as an aerodrome. In the 1930s, Southampton’s aerodrome was based at Eastleigh and is today Southampton Airport.
British Pathé film, ‘Empire Flying Boat (Imperial Airways) ‘Centaurus’ leaves for flight to New Zealand from Southampton’ (1937). Uploaded to You Tube 13.4.2014.
Imperial Airways flying boat ‘Centaurus’ at Hythe, Hampshire with its five- man crew. The plane flew to Egypt, Iraq and Singapore bringing India to within 2 and 1/2 days air-travel from Britain. L to r Flt Clerk R Doel, First Officer A Richardson, Captain J Sheppard, Wireless Operator L F Mitchell and steward E W Rowcliffe. 1938.
In March 1937, Imperial Airways Limited (1924-1939) started their twice-weekly services to Alexandria and later that year to South and East Africa. These aircraft were maintained at the Hythe flying-boat base until early 1938 when operations moved to Folland’s hangar at Hamble which could now handle five C Class boats at any one time.
A snapshot photograph of a an Imperial Airways flying boat moored to a jetty in Southampton harbour, taken by an unknown photographer in about 1935.
Imperial Airways established their services as four times a week to India, three times to East Africa and twice to Durban, Malaya, Hong Kong and Australia. On 5th July 1937 their first Transatlantic service was started with flights from the UK by Imperial and from the USA by Pan American. In September 1939, Imperial Airways transferred their aircraft and services to Poole Harbour.
Photograph from 1936. A Flight Steward aboard the giant flying-boat, ‘Canopus’ serves breakfast to passengers in their bunks. Imperial Airways’ Canopus was on the Alexandria-Athens service. It cruised at 200mph and carried 16 passengers in night stages.
Advertising poster for Imperial Airways (1939). On display at Solent Sky Museum, Southampton.
In the pre-war era, flying with Imperial Airways was everything you would expect it to be, if you had money that is. Passengers who flew regularly with the airline were even allowed to have their valet with them. If you didn’t have a valet to look after your every in-flight need, then you would be looked after by a Flight Steward. In these early years of seaplane travel, all Stewards were male.
Facilities on-board these early flying boats were not luxurious but were adequate. The Short Calcutta and Kent flying-boats were equipped with twin-burner oil stoves, there were no cooking facilities on the Empire ‘boats. Restaurant standard meals were prepared locally in ports across the world, decanted into vacuum flasks and stowed for service in either hot boxes or ice chests.
Steward preparing lunch in the galley of an Imperial Airways, Short L.17 Scylla, a landplane version of the 38 passenger Kent flying boat. The London-Paris route, 1934.
Fruit juices were transferred from the vacuum flasks into serving jugs, bread rolls and Ryvitas were placed in baskets. Food was always served on china plates. Preserves and butter were put on plates and covered with doilies. White linen table cloths and serviettes, metal cutlery, side plates and cruets were laid-out on the tables in each of the cabins.
Imperial Airways, the Short L.17 Scylla, was a landplane version of the 38 passenger Kent flying boat. Flight Steward attends to his passengers on the London-Paris route, 1934.
The Mayoress of Southampton christens the ‘Southampton.’ Naming ceremony of the RMA ‘Southampton’, at which a libation of wine from a silver ewer is poured over the aircraft. The ceremony took place at the new flying boat base at Southampton docks (Berth 50) which allowed passengers to step ashore straight into the airport buildings. Officially opened by Lord Nathanon on 14th April, 1948.
After World War Two, Imperial Airways became the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). The last C Class retired in c.1947. A new marine air terminal was built for BOAC at Berth 50 in Southampton’s docks with bars, lounges and dining rooms, and a direct rail line was established to London Waterloo. However, in 1948, BOAC gradually started to replace their flying boats with modern land aircraft. Their flying-boat services, from Southampton, finally ended in the autumn of 1950.
British Pathé film, ‘Flying Boat Deck'(1948). Showcases the new BOAC Marine Terminal in Southampton. Uploaded to You Tube 13.4.2014.
Following BOAC’s decision to no longer operate a flying boat service out of Southampton, Aquila Airways, an independent airline, stepped-in and filled that gap, well at least until 1958. Aquila Airways Ltd was formed on the 18th May 1948 by Wing Commander Barry Aikman and operated from Hamble Beach, adjacent to the former Folland slipway.
Aquila serviced the popular route between Southampton and Madeira, initially under a BOAC Associate Agreement. Aquila also provided charter flights carrying ships’ crews. In 1948, Madeira could only be reached by ship, there were no direct flights. When Berth 50 at Southampton docks became vacant, Aquila moved in. By 1951, the airline had 12 aircraft.
At the beginning of 1949 Aquila purchased the remainder of BOAC’s Hythes and parked them on the beach at Hamble. Aquila was able to make use of Berth 50 at Southampton Docks and G-AGEU Hampshire departed on a proving flight to Funchal Bay on 24th March. Its deluxe cabins with thirty-one seats were served by three stewards, with a cocktail bar available.
Shirley was an air hostess for Aquila Airways, Southampton during the 1950s. Ivor was a flight engineer, the couple met during a practice boat-drill in 1953. When they married, they had a marzipan flying boat on top of their wedding cake.
Many stars of stage and screen flew with Aquila in the 1950s including: Harry Secombe; Terry Thomas; Trevor Howard; John Huston; Bernard Miles; Peter Butterworth; Janet Brown and John Mills.
The golden age of international flying boat travel from Southampton slowly drew to a close. The flying boats could no longer compete, in terms of cost, speed and flying times, with planes like the de Havilland DH 106 Comet, a British jetliner introduced in 1952. Occasional flying boat pleasure flights still took place over the Southampton Water.
I was delighted when Ohio-based author, Kerrie Hollihan, contacted me to ask if I would like to review her latest book, In The Fields and the Trenches: The Famous and The Forgotten on The Battlefields of World War One. Published last month by Chicago Review Press, In the Fields and the Trenches is Kerrie’s 6th YA non-fiction work for this excellent publishing house. I have previously reviewed several YA non-fiction books from Chicago Review Press, both by author Kathryn J. Atwood Women Heroes of World War 1 and Code Name Pauline.
Kerrie’s new book is a collection of 18 biographies of young men and women who bravely and selflessly decided, to ‘do their bit’ on the frontline in World War One. Several individuals, featured in In The Fields and the Trenches, went on after the war to become well-known in a variety of occupations from writer to president to film star (J. R. R. Tolkien; Ernest Hemingway; Harry Truman and Buster Keaton). Others were from high-profile families such as The Young Roosevelts or Irène Curie, daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie.
The Comedian: Buster Keaton (American).
*Biographies feature later in this article.
Walter Koessler (1891-1966). A German architectural student who was called-up to fight for his country in World War One. Walter served in the German Officer Corps. He brought along his camera to capture many aspects of a soldier’s life on the frontline as well as in the trenches. After the war, he arranged all his photographs in an album ‘Walter Koessler 1914-1918’. This photograph was taken during Walter’s first months as a German Officer. He is pictured here with his motorbike. ©Dean Putney.
Although In The Field and the Trenches is aimed at the YA market, I highly recommend it to anyone interested in reading a fresh perspective on World War One. Hidden histories of extraordinary young people many of whose stories may have been forgotten forever if it wasn’t for writers like Kerrie. The book also includes a very helpful World War One Timeline to contextualize some of the events featured in the biographies.
I notice Kerrie dedicated this book to her grandfather, the inscription reads: ‘Frederick Urban Logan – US Army soldier and bugler in France 1918-19’. World War One is obviously a period in history that has a particularly strong personal connection to Kerrie.
One of Walter Koessler’s photographs. Soldiers washing and doing their laundry in livestock troughs during World War One. ©Dean Putney.
Wars are fought by young people, and young people fighting wars make history – in ways great and small…They fought in battles, flew warplanes, killed the enemy, nursed the wounded, and fell in love. One died in combat. The rest came home, their lives forever changed.
Some of them had famous names, but most did not. Some had distinguished themselves in battle and returned as war heroes, while others would reach their prime as writers, businesspeople, scientists, and film stars. One became president of the United States. Another died penniless, estranged from his family.
These men and women lived a century ago. They felt altogether modern, and indeed, for the time they lived, they were. They encountered heroes, cowards, comics, and villains. They learned about human nature – power, greed, death, love, hate, courage, and fear. Like women and men of any age, they came away from a devastating experience with mixed feelings of despair, joy, hatred, loss, and hope. Their stories plainly show how they shared with us the tough journey that we call life.
Photograph of the trenches in Winter by Walter Koessler. ©Dean Putney.
I have chosen 2 of my favourite biographies, from In The Field and the Trenches, to share with you here. The Aviatrix – Katherine Stinson and The Showgirl – Elsie Janis.
In Spring 1912, she became only the 4th American woman to earn a pilot’s license. Early in her flying career she made good money ($1,000 to $2,000 per week) performing acrobatic flying displays using her fabric-winged biplane. An extremely dangerous way for anyone to earn a living let alone a 5ft 5, young woman weighing only 100lbs! She took great pride and care maintaining her own plane and hired only the best mechanicians (known nowadays as mechanics).
The army might have forbidden her to fly in France, but the US government knew that a flying schoolgirl could appeal to Americans’ hearts and open their pocketbooks. Put to work as an airborne publicity stunt, Katherine flew from town to town on a campaign to sell Liberty Bonds to help pay for the war. She also raised $2 million for the American Red Cross, and she ended that fundraising journey by landing on a white cross in front of the Washington Monument.
In July, 1918, she piloted the 1st airmail flight in western Canada, from Calgary to Edmonton. However, she still wanted to ‘do her bit’ in France. If she wasn’t allowed to be a pilot, then she would offer her services as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. She joined the ambulance corps in August, 1918 and was soon sent to France.
After the war, she got permission to work as a pilot and fly mail between Paris and General Pershing’s army headquarters. Unfortunately at that time, the Spanish Flu pandemic was sweeping across Europe and North America. She succumbed to the virus and ended-up in a Paris Hospital. As it turned out, during the war she had, unbeknown to her, also contracted tuberculosis and her health was now ailing. She spent years convalescing.
Whilst in a sanatorium in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she met Miguel Antonio Otero Jr, who had been a pilot in World War One. They married in 1927. She went on to become an architect.
She first set foot on stage when at just 2 and 1/2, dancing in church socials. A child star from the get-go, she could sing, dance and act. Her mother, Janice Bierbower, was a typical stage mum who managed her daughter’s career, travelling everywhere with her. A professional stage career took her all the way from Broadway to Europe and back again.
In 1917, aged 28, she was in London with her mother, their maid and her Pekingese, Mousme. Despite not having permission from the US government to visit Europe, she decided to make the journey anyway. Afterall, she was a big star and surely no-one would refuse her entry?
Elsie was a trooper and performed up to nine shows in one day. She entertained on makeshift stages and tabletops, and she felt just as comfortable taking her show into hospital wards. She always opened her act with that same question, “Are we downhearted?” Bold, brash, and talented, she sang, danced, did a few imitations, and cracked jokes for the troops.
Not everything went well whilst they were in France. She refused to wear a uniform and one occasion in Provins, on her way to entertain 2,000 US troops at Chaumont, both her and her mother were arrested on suspicion of spying. This incident could have been avoided had she worn military attire. French officials examined the pair’s paperwork and after much fuss, eventually allowed them both to proceed.
Being in France must have been heart-breaking for her. In 1916, her British boyfriend, actor and singer, Basil Hallam Radford (b.1889) had been killed during the Battle of the Somme. He was a member of the Royal Flying Corps.
After World War One, she continued her career on stage and the silver screen, Women in War (1940) was her last film. When her mother died she married Gilbert Wilson, moving to Hollywood in 1936. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Elsie Janis and ‘her boys’, dressed as World War One veterans from the US, Britain and France. In 1920, Elsie reprised her wartime experiences in a show. Image courtesy of Kerrie Hollihan. Author’s own collection.
Short film I made with That’s Solent TV. The SS Stella Memorial, Southampton. Film by Shan Robins (Twitter: @ShanTwoots ). Uploaded to You Tube 5.2.2016.
A few weeks ago, I made a short film with That’s Solent TV ‘s senior broadcaster, Shan Robins (see above). Shan and I made our film on a day with practically hurricane force winds! The microphone struggled a little bit, but nonetheless, hope you enjoy.
The Stella Memorial (previously known as The Rogers Memorial and before that The Stella Stewardess Memorial Fountain) is located on the Western Esplanade in Southampton. The monument has intrigued me for a long time, having passed it numerous times on foot whilst en-route to the city’s heritage quarter. The memorial is dedicated to Southampton stewardess, Mary Anne Rogers (nee Foxwell) (1855-1899), who lived in Southampton and drowned when the SS Stella sank in March 1899.
Mary’s backstory is heart-breaking. Born in Frome, Somerset on 14th February, 1855. She had 6 siblings, 2 of which were born after the family moved to 19 Weston Shore Road, Southampton shortly before 1865. In 1871, aged 17, Mary moved out of home and went to work as a general servant for Charles Trubbett and his family. Mary didn’t go far, the Trubbett family lived next door at 17 Weston Shore Road.
On 20th March, 1876, Mary married Richard Rogers (c.1852-1880) at the Independent chapel, Northam, Southampton. The couple had 2 children, Mary Ellen (b.1878) and Frederick Richard (b.1881). The Rogers’ marital home was located in Chantry Road, Southampton. Richard, a seaman, worked for London and South Western Railway (LSWR). On 21st October, 1880, 4 years into their marriage, Mary 6 months pregnant with their 2nd child, Richard drowned at sea. He was swept overboard on the SS Honfleur whilst working as a second mate.
His death was in an era long before the Health and Safety Executive, ambulance chasing lawyers and large compensation claims being brought by family members against negligent employers. Instead, in 1899, it was normal practice for railway companies to offer employment to the immediate family of deceased employees. A job would be offered to either the surviving spouse or eldest child in the family. The latter in this instance was, of course, not an option.
This precedent negated the company’s responsibility to have to pay either compensation or provide a livable pension to the family. In other words, pay money out with no return for an indefinite period of time. There was considerable pressure to accept employment. With a toddler already and another baby on the way, Mary had no option but to accept a job with LSWR.
Almost immediately after the birth of her son in January 1881, Mary began work as a stewardess for LSWR. Her earnings were 15 shillings a week plus any tips received from passengers. For a woman in her circumstances, this was a decent, stable income and in modern terms, a job with prospects. It also kept her family out of the workhouse.
Mary’s parents, James (d.1899) and Sophia (d. 1894) Foxwell, looked after their 2 grandchildren in their home at 22 Albert Street, Southampton while Mary spent long periods of time away at sea. The family eventually moved into 45 Clovelly Road, Southampton and named their home Frome Cottage, a nod to their Somerset roots.
…. was in essence that of a lady’s maid or nursery nurse and many of the duties were essentially domestic in nature, such as attending to the needs of ladies in their bedrooms or in the female lounge, and washing and tending to the children.
Now, though, as the Stella pitched and rolled, throwing its passengers around like skittles, the stewardesses were wholly responsible for the lives of the women and children, rather than simply for their domestic requirements.
The SS Stella was one of 3 sister ships built for LSWR at a cost of £62,000 (nearly £4 million in today’s money). Completed in October 1890, she had a top speed of 19 knots and was licensed to carry 712 passengers. Fitted-out with all mod-cons, electric lighting and 1st class cabins had en-suite toilets. There was even a Ladies’ Saloon and a Smoking Room for gentlemen. The Stella serviced the popular Southampton to Guernsey and Jersey route.
In fact, it is likely that the two women walked together to the quay in Southampton on the morning of 30 March 1899; the same quay where, the following day, relatives of those on board the Stella gathered anxiously to wait for news of their loved ones.
Ada’s father had worked for London South-Western Railway but an accident had recently left him paralysed so, like Mary, she went to work for LSWR in order to support her family. Incidentally, SS Stella’s captain, William Reeks, also lived in the next road to Mary, Oxford Avenue.
The Stella was fitted with 2 lifeboats, 2 cutters, a dinghy and 2 Berthon collapsible boats. There were life jackets for 754 people and 36 life buoys. However, the lifeboats could only carry 148 passengers. There was not enough time to lower the 2 Berthon boats.
Five lifeboats were launched at rapid speed. One boat drifted until the Vera found it at 7am on Good Friday. Another boat drifted for 23 hours and was rescued off Cherbourg. The port side lifeboat capsized after launching, stranding its passengers. It drifted for several hours then was righted by a high wave. The survivors managed to pull themselves in.
Unfortunately, they could not find the boat’s bung and the vessel filled, almost to its top, with seawater. The airtanks were the only reason the lifeboat managed to remain afloat. Survivors had to continually bail out the waist-height water with their hats and shoes. Four people died in this lifeboat, including its only woman survivor. The others were rescued by a French tug, Marsouin, at 3pm on Good Friday. One of the Marsouin’s crew straightaway located the bung on a chain!
Unfortunately, detailed passenger lists are not available, these went down with the Stella. Many of the bodies were never recovered, including that of Mary and Ada. Captain Reeks also went down with his ship. Out of the 217 passengers and crew on board the SS Stella that day, 112 survived and 105 drowned. A total of 86 passengers and 19 crew members perished. Queen Victoria (1819-1901) sent a message of sympathy to the bereaved families via the LSWR offices.
Witnesses observed that the sea surrounding the wreck was littered with life belts, timber, luggage, personal effects and a furniture van. Some of the bodies were located in unusual places because of tidal flows. One was found in the mouth of the River Seine and the final corpse washed-up on a Guernsey beach 9 months after the sinking. Many of the corpses were found floating still in their life belts leading to the conclusion that death had been caused by exposure rather than drowning.
The Board of Trade enquiry began on 27th April, 1899 at the Guildhall, Westminster. Its conclusion, ‘the SS Stella was not navigated with proper and seamanlike care.’ The wreck of Stella was discovered in June, 1973, by two Channel Islands divers. It lies in 49 metres (161 ft) of water south of the Casquets. The tragedy is sometimes referred to as ‘The Titanic of The Channel Islands’.
Many tragic stories emerged following the sinking of the SS Stella. One of the saddest is the fate of the Glover children. Seaman Thomas Glover drowned in the tragedy, he left behind a 2nd wife and 5 children from his previous marriage.
Thomas Glover’s 1st wife, Rosina Bella Glover, (nee Rickman) was born in Southampton, 1866. In July 1897, Rosina was run down by a Misselbrooke & Weston horse and cart in Shirley High Street, Southampton. Misselbrooke and Weston were an established local, family-run grocery business which had opened in 1848. The business was eventually sold to Tesco.
Elsie Lilian Glover (b.1896). Fate unknown following her admission to the Workhouse.
The memorial was unveiled on Southampton’s Western Esplanade by Lady Emma Crichton (daughter of the Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire) during the morning of Saturday 27th July, 1901. Present also at the unveiling were Mary’s sister, son and son-in-law.
Artist Herbert Bryan’s original suite of designs, submitted to Southampton Borough Council and Estates Committee, included a drawing of a memorial seat. The Committee rejected the proposed seat in favour of a more appropriate and practical drinking fountain. However, the memorial has long since ceased to function as a drinking fountain and 3 bronze masks (grotesques) from whose mouths water flowed have now been removed. (Source: Southampton Memorials of Care For Man and Beast by A.G. K. Leonard, published by Bitterne Local History Society: Southampton, p.46).
The memorial was paid for by public subscription. The sum of £570 15 shillings 8d (approximately £35,000 in today’s money) was raised from 519 subscribers. Amongst the subscribers were Emily Davies (1830-1921) and Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917). Emily was a prominent feminist, educational reformer and suffragist born in Carlton Crescent, Southampton. Elizabeth was an English physician and feminist, the 1st Englishwoman to qualify as a physician and surgeon in Britain.
After the memorial costs had been covered, £50 was paid to Mary’s daughter as a wedding gift. Her son received £200 to be paid at intervals until his shipwright apprenticeship finished. A sum was also allocated to pay for Mary’s father’s funeral costs, he had died shortly after the Stella disaster.
Herbert William Bryans (1856-1925), Annie’s husband and well-respected stained glass artist. Herbert designed the memorial with input from his wife, Frances Cobbe and artist G.F. Watts.
Irish philanthropist and religious writer Frances Power Cobbe. 1860.
In memory of the heroic death of Mary Ann [e] Rogers Stewardess of the “Stella” who on the night of the 30th March, 1899, amid the terror of shipwreck aided all the women under her charge to quit the vessel in safety giving up her own life-belt to one who was unprotected. Urged by the sailors to makes sure her escape she refused lest she might endanger the heavily-laden boat. Cheering the departing crew with the friendly cry of “Good-bye, good-bye.” She was seen a few moments later as the “Stella” went down lifting her arms upwards with the prayer “Lord have me” then sank in the waters with the sinking ship.
Actions such as these – revealing steadfast performance of duty in the face of death, ready self-sacrifice for the sake of others, reliance on God – constitute the glorious heritage of our English race. They deserve perpetual commemoration, because among the trivial pleasures and sordid strike of the world, they recall to us forever the nobility and love-worthiness of human nature.
Platinum print photograph (1892) by Frederick Hollyer (1837-1933) of British artist George Frederic Watts. Known as ‘England’s Michelangelo’, Watts was one of the most important painters of the late Victorian period.
George Frederic Watts RA (1817-1904) advised Annie, Herbert, Frances and their group on the design of the memorial. Local newspapers reported that the designer, Herbert: ‘acted under the advice of Miss Cobbe and G. F. Watts, R.A.’ but it is uncertain how much the latter, then nearing the end of his distinguished artistic career, contributed to the actual design of the memorial.’ (Source: Southampton Memorials of Care For Man and Beast by A.G. K. Leonard, published by Bitterne Local History Society: Southampton, p.46).
Postcard, issued in 1903, showing the memorial on Western Esplanade, Southampton. There were many postcards of local views and landmarks of Southampton in circulation at this time. This postcard was a particularly popular image which was photographed by Whitfield Cosser of Hanover Buildings, Southampton. The cannons shown here, British nine-pounders, were spoils of war from the Crimean campaign (1853-56) and were smelted down during World War Two.
I met author and academic, John Broom, in 2014, when our paths crossed in the history blogosphere. John had just launched Faith In Wartime and we exchanged ideas on getting started with blogging. He is now an established history blogger. Faith In Wartime has gone from strength-to-strength with a fast-growing readership.
John graduated in History from the University of Sheffield in 1991 and has pursued a career in teaching, firstly in History, and latterly as a Specialist Teacher in Autism. In 2006, the inheritance of a collection of papers and memorabilia, written between 1940 and 1946 by his late father who served in the Desert Rats, sparked in John, a passion to discover the links between twentieth-century warfare and religion.
After completing an MA in Local and Regional History with the Open University, John decided to study for a PhD at the University of Durham. He has also conducted research on behalf of the Bible Society for their First World War website. John’s PhD research explores connections between the Second World War and Christian culture in Britain. He plans to complete his PhD in 2017.
In 2015, Pen & Sword Military published John’s first book, Fight the Good Fight: Voices of Faith from the First World War (ISBN: 9781473854154 – Price: £19.99 / $39.95). When John approached me to ask whether I would like a copy to review, of course I was delighted to accept.
Fight the Good Fight is a fascinating read and very well-written indeed. The book is a detailed study of a usually hidden aspect of wartime social history, the topic of Christian faith. Fight the Good Fight has been meticulously researched and includes a wealth of previously unpublished material.
I am pleased to commend this book of case studies of Christians from all walk of life, of many different denominations and displaying a wide spectrum of political views. It includes accounts from the Western Front, the home front and from the prisons of Britain that held conscientious objectors and those on the Continent that held prisoners of war and spies.
These stories help us to understand better an aspect of the rationale behind the response of so many to the challenge of global warfare, and further increase our admiration for the depth of belief and of personal character that so many were called to show.
Fight the Good Fight demonstrates the variety of ways in which people of different denominations; Anglican, Catholic and Nonconformists, interpreted the war as combatants, civilians, chaplains and conscientious objectors. The book will interest anyone who is fascinated by the social history of World War One, regardless of their religious persuasion.
Whilst a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world apart from 1914 to 1919, there was one factor that united millions of people across all nations: that of a Christian faith. People interpreted this faith in many different ways. Soldiers marched off to war with ringing endorsements from bishops that they were fighting a Godly crusade, others preached in churches and tribunals hearing that war was fundamentally against the teachings of Christ.
John Esslemont Adams (1965-1935) was an Army Chaplain who served on the Western Front in World War One. Image courtesy of University of Leeds Special Collections.
Whether, Church of England or Nonconformist, Catholic or Presbyterian, German Lutheran or the American Church of Christ in Christian Union, men and women across the globe conceptualised their war through the prism of their belief in a Christian God.
Fight The Good Fight brings together individual and family case studies, some of well-known personalities, others whose story has become neglected through the decades. Although divided by nation, social class, political outlook and denomination, they were united in their desire to Fight the Good Fight.
Families in War (The Chavasse Family and The Brocklesby Family).
I have selected the biographies of Lilian Hayman and Pastor Pieter-Jozef ‘Jef’ Dergent to share with you in this article. I found their stories particularly interesting, moving and harrowing in equal measure. It also transpired that their stories were interconnected (although Lilian and Jef never met!). Both were united by the strength of their own faith and sense of religious duty, heightened by a backdrop of global conflict.
Lilian Hayman. Image courtesy of Norman Ching.
Lilian Hayman’s story appears in the ‘Women in War’ section. Lilian was a Bristol-born surgeon’s wife who ran a boys’ Bible class in Brighton and then from her home in Bournemouth, Dorset (from about1912). In the Imperial War Museum’s Department of Documents there are more than 100 letters written to Lilian by some of her ex-pupils who were now serving in the armed forces.
Lilian continued to teach her Bible classes until her death in 1944, aged 80.
Pastor Pieter-Jozef ‘Jef’ Dergent. John Broom’s own collection.
He was considered by his parishioners as a man of the people, who took care of children and the infirm. He set-up a Gregorian singing choir and was holding harvest time rehearsals in the church.
Priests were considered by the Germans to be dangerous partisans, capable of inspiring resistance from the Belgian people. Four priests hid in a well for 3 days and then left Aarschot in disguise on the night of 23 August. The dean of the town was held prisoner as a partisan.
When the Germans searched Jef’s house, old gun cartridges had been found in a storage room. Jef was kept under arrest in a room in his house and then released on 20 August. However, he was now under suspicion of subversion.
Following his release, Jef made the courageous decision to take 3 wounded men, by cart, to Aarschot where the Damien Institute, former home to the Fathers of the Sacred Hearts, had been converted into a Red Cross field hospital. Jef and his driver set-out at 8am on 26th August, safely depositing their wounded at the hospital later that morning. One of the fathers asked Jef to stay but he refused, wishing to return instead to his parishioners in Gelrode. A decision that would place his life in grave danger.
Whilst crossing the Market Square in Aarschot, Jef and his driver were arrested. Both were imprisoned in City Hall until 5pm the next day. Afterwards, Jef was kept outside the town’s church where inside, there were 3,000 prisoners. Jef was subjected to violent physical attacks by the Germans as they tried to get him to renounce his faith. He was stoned, beaten, bound and prisoners were encouraged to urinate on him.
Jef was then moved to a nearby house, Blykershuis, 200 yards from the church. Behind the property, he was killed with 2 rifle shots and thrown into the river Denier. His naked body was found two days later by Red Cross volunteers, 5 kilometres from Aarschot. Identification had only been possible because of a watch discovered inside his tunic that was discovered floating near the body.
The British and American press widely reported Jef’s murder. His death and the circumstances that led to it, saw him elevated to the status of martyr. The exact cause of Jef’s death was not confirmed until1948 when his body was exhumed in order to carry-out forensic tests. It was revealed that he had indeed been shot twice, in the head and through his vertebra. Following a special ceremony in Gelrode churchyard on 4th September, 1949, Jef was reinterred.
Lilian Hayman used Jef’s example of self-sacrifice and unwaivering commitment to his faith as a lesson to her boys’ Bible class in Bournemouth on 28th January, 1915. Lilian compared his betrayal with that of Jesus by Judas Iscariot. (Ibid p.140).
Listen to John on BBC Radio Solent (October, 2014) discussing the Stratton War Memorial located in Stratton, near Dorchester, Dorset.
Southampton-based Vintage Hair Lounge, is one of southern England’s leading providers of vintage hair styling and make-up. Founded in 2010 by mother and daughter team, Gloria and Sharon Holloway. Sharon originally worked as a top criminal barrister but retrained, in the early 2000’s, to work as a hair and make-up artist in film, television and theatre. Gloria has been a hairdresser all of her life, spending many years as head of hair and beauty at Isle of Wight College.
In 2015, I had the privilege of interviewing Gloria at the vintage extravaganza that is, Goodwood Revival. Gloria has had a long and illustrious career in the hair and beauty industry, spanning over 5 decades. I am delighted to share with you here, highlights from my interview with Gloria.
It was an excellent 2 year training scheme. We were taught to do everything ‘properly’, paying particular attention to historical accuracy and techniques. Unfortunately, in the year I finished my course, the BBC raised the age they employed training academy graduates, from 18 to 21. I was very disappointed that I couldn’t begin working for the BBC straightaway and would now have to wait 3 years to put my skills into practice.
We opened the salon in 1962/63. I really enjoyed working in a salon environment, chatting with customers and finally getting to use the skills I learned at the BBC. The 1960s was also a very exciting time to be a hairdresser. Hairstyles were changing so fast. Clients became more adventurous with their choice of cut, colours and styles. When I first started working, ‘beehives’ were very popular.
British Pathe film, ‘Luxury Hairdressers’ (1964). Uploaded to You Tube, 13.4.2014.
Gloria’s beehive updos are now legendary amongst her Vintage Hair Lounge clients. Quite simply, Gloria is the Queen of Beehives. Afterall, Gloria learned her techniques first-hand, back in the 1960s. In the last few years, Gloria has seen the beehive hairstyle make a comeback. This is thanks, in part, to being popularised by a number of celebrities from the entertainment industry.
British singer, Amy Winehouse, performs at the Glastonbury Festival 28th June, 2008. AFP Photo/Ben Stansall. Amy’s iconic hair style was a modern-take on the 1960s beehive.
British singer Adele was also a fan of the beehive hairstyle. 24th February, 2013. Credit: Jason Merritt.
A traditional beehive doesn’t have a French pleat! A common mistake with modern-day versions. The hair should be smoothly swept upwards, blended at the top and sides, it should also be teamed with a fringe. Backcombing is the key to a really good beehive.
Dressing hair properly was very important in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1950s, hats were worn high on the head with hair in a French pleat. In the 1960s, Vidal Sassoon liberated women’s hairdressing. Haircuts were less complicated and a modern-take on the 1920’s ‘bob’ became popular too. Hats were still worn in the 1960s but less fussy and not so old-fashioned. In the Swinging Sixties, young people liked wearing berets and ‘baker boy’ hats. I used a lot of ‘Plix’ by L’Oreal setting lotion in the salon. I also remember creating the unusual ‘cottage loaf’ hairstyle quite a lot.
Advert for Plix setting lotion by L’Oreal. The setting lotion of choice for professional hairdressers in the 1950s and 1960s.
When I teach 1960s hair styling techniques on courses at Vintage Hair Lounge, I am very particular about backcombing. Nowadays, backcombing is often taught incorrectly. If not done properly, the hair will become tangled and impossible to work with. Each section of hair should be backcombed in stages all the way from root to tip and in one direction. Don’t drag the hair. This method ensures that you create strength and structure in the hair. This gives you a strong base from which to build your style. Backcombing is important when creating 1940s Victory Rolls too. You don’t need rollers to create them, just backcomb, control and shape the roll.
Miss V. Neels of Southsea, Hampshire works on a model to create the ‘cottage loaf’ hairstyle during a teen hairdressing competition at the Park Lane Hotel, London. 25th April, 1960.
British hairdresser Vidal Sassoon (1928-2012) creates a long bob with a soft fringe for actress Janette Scott (b. 1938). 4th January, 1963.
British Pathe film ‘Artists in Hair Styles’ (1962). Uploaded to You Tube 13.4.2014.
Beehive hairstyles emerged in the late 1950s, peaking in popularity during the early 1960s. Although, according to trendsetting booklet, with it: trends for ’63 (1962) : ‘Out for the with-its are bouffants and beehives. Out, too, is back-combing: it’s harmful to the hair. In are blonde and light brown shades to tone with the natural look of the new fashions’ (p.19).
Also in the early 1960s, new setting lotions, hair sprays and colourants began to emerge for professional as well as amateur home stylists. Hair spray had been around since the 1940s but by the 1960s it was mass-produced and very cheap.
Colouring your hair at home, in a wider range of shades than before, also become a reality. I found a wonderful article, ‘What it’s like to colour your hair’, in my vintage magazine collection. The article appears in a popular British weekly, Woman, (11.3.1961). Unlike today, in the early 1960s, there were only 2 options for colouring your hair at home, temporary water rinses and semi-permanent rinses. Permanent tints had to be done at a salon.
A selection of popular 1960s hairstyles. Images from my own private collection of magazines, Woman (March, 1961) and Woman’s Day (April, 1964).
Gloria Holloway during the 1960s. All images courtesy of Gloria Holloway.
By the time the college approached me, I was managing 2 salons on the Island. I thought that the new department at the college was an exciting development in hairdressing education. I had always enjoyed teaching in my salons. I accepted the position at the college, initially working there part-time. When I started at the college there as no in-house salon but eventually I set one up. I was Head of Department and Head of Student Services at the college for 26 years.
Until the end of the 1980s, Gloria was the owner and innovator of 4 Isle of Wight salons (Marina Dawn, Monroe Hair). Today, Gloria is still a highly regarded lecturer and trainer in hairdressing, continueing to work closely with hairdressing training providers in both college and salon environments to improve industry skills.
Hairdressing is a fantastic career! It allows you to be creative, meet new people and travel the world. It is never too late to master the skill. It is a wonderful thing to be able to make someone ‘feel good’ about themselves by simply doing their hair nicely.
When Gloria and Sharon started Vintage Hair Lounge, in 2010, they had a salon in Southampton High Street but in 2012 they closed that salon. Going forward, this enterprising and dynamic duo, now operate their business, predominantly, as mobile specialists and trainers in vintage hair and make-up. Their HQ is based at Southampton’s Solent Business Centre, facilities include an in-house photographic and training studio.
That’s Solent TV, ‘Talk Solent’, chat show, pictured (L-R) presenter, Shan Robins, myself, Gillian Tully (CEO of Film Expo South), Sharon Holloway (Co-Owner of Vintage Hair Lounge). November, 2015.
There are many unique aspects to Vintage Hair Lounge’s business model. It comes as no surprise that education and training still remains at its core. Gloria and Sharon run courses for both professionals and the general public. Keep an eye on their website for forthcoming courses as they sell-out very quickly! Click here.
‘Vintage Hair Lounge to be stocked in the British Museum’. Film by That’s Solent TV. Uploaded to You Tube 20.1.2016.
Vintage Hair Lounge also has a sister company, VHL Distribution an independent cosmetics distributor based in the UK. VHL Distribution has recently formed new partnerships for distribution in Europe with Australian based brand Eye of Horus Cosmetics (Twitter: @eyeofhorus_mu), and French brand Féret Parfumeur (Twitter: @FeretParfumeur) for distribution in the UK. Other heritage brands on VHL Distribution’s portfolio include: Papier Poudré Limited (Twitter: @papierpoudre) and Barba Italiana (Twitter: @barbaitalian #barbaitaliana).
These beautifully packaged, extremely high quality, heritage brands can be found on-sale at vintage retailers, salons and barbers, museums and gift shops. A selection of these products can also be purchased at Vintage Hair Lounge’s online store.
Exciting times are ahead for VHL Distribution (see film above). The British Museum has recently selected award winning Eye of Horus Cosmetics to be sold in the gift shop, later on this year, during their major new exhibition, Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds which opens in May.
Teaser trailer for the British Museum’s forthcoming blockbuster exhibition, Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds. Uploaded to You Tube by British Museum, 4.01.16.
Regular readers of Come Step Back In Time will know that interest in Egyptology is currently at an all time high. In July 2015, British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves, published a paper that claims Tutankhamun may not have been alone in his burial chamber. A series of ultra-high-resolution images of King Tut’s tomb (subsequently designated KV62) have revealed what is believed to be the outlines of two doorways, previously blocked and plastered over.
Reeves has suggested that behind these hidden doors there may be a lavish secret tomb belonging to the legendary Queen Nefertiti (the 14th century wife of Akhenaten, step-mother to Tutankhamun). Tutankhamun died at the age of 19, and it is thought that, due to his unexpected death, he may have been buried in a chamber of his step-mother’s tomb.
Continued interest in Egyptology ensures that Egyptian Revival products, such as Eye of Horus Cosmetics range, will remain popular with beauty professionals and the general public alike. It is interesting to note that Eye of Horus Cosmetics range of illuminating eye makeup is actually based on sacred formulas passed down from the ancient Egyptians.
Eyeliners in the range are all made with natural waxes and oils and the incredible organic Moringa Oil, a tell-tale product found in Tutankhamun’s tomb. Check out the entire Eye of Horus range at Vintage Hair Lounge’s online store.
Follow VHL Distribution on Twitter @vhldistribution.
A short while ago, I received a Press Release from PR Matters that was so exciting, I just had to share it with you here. New research, conducted by retired 18th and 19th century metallurgist Dr Richard Williams, has proved that a cooking pot in the collection of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust is the oldest known coke iron casting in the western world.
Without using coke to smelt iron, there would have been no Industrial Revolution; the supply of wood was simply not extensive enough. It has previously been assumed that Abraham Darby I (1678-1717) invented the process because wood was already becoming increasingly scarce and coke was therefore generally more economic, but Dr Richard Williams has established that it was, in reality, all about cooking pots.
Dr Williams has been working on behalf of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust as a member of the museum’s Birmingham Advisory Group. The work, published in the journal Historical Metallurgy shows that Abraham Darby’s genius was more commercial than technical (as previously thought) and that he actually first smelted iron with coke, as opposed to charcoal from wood, for just one application.
©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. An extract from Abraham Darby I’s original 1707 patent for casting iron bellied pots.
In 2013, I want on an incredible press trip to Ironbridge, Shropshire. I cannot tell you what an astonishing heritage site it is. There are 36 scheduled monuments and listed buildings cared for by The Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust, spread over a 6 square kilometre site.
The Trust also operates 10 museums which collectively tell the story of the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. These museums are: Blists Hill Victorian Town; Enginuity; Coalport China Museum; Jackfield Tile Museum; Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron; Museum of The Gorge; Darby Houses; Tar Tunnel; The Ironbridge and Tollhouse and Broseley Pipeworks. For anyone interested in social or living history, Ironbridge is a must!
The cooking pot which has been the subject of Dr Williams findings, is part of the Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron collection. The unique cast iron pot, dated 1714, inspired Dr Williams to wonder how it had been cast in order to have exactly the right metallurgical structure? He saw the relationship between the only patent (see image above) that Abraham Darby filed – about moulding such pots in sand – and his modified blast furnace.
It had been previously thought that the two inventions were entirely independent, but Dr Williams realised that Darby’s patent would only work if the liquid iron he used to pour into his moulds was made with coke.It would not have worked with the previously universally used charcoal.
Darby’s new process was much cheaper than the competitive one, which was most effectively practised on the continent, with a consequently large importation of pots into England. On the continent they used charcoal but, in order to get the right structure in their iron, Dr Williams recognized that they had had to pour their metal into moulds that were very hot, thus being obliged to use an expensive moulding process where the sand grains were bound together with clay, the so-called loam process.
Darby’s patent specifically said that he was going to use no clay and his moulds could thus not be heated. Dr Williams explains that to make most castings, the composition of the iron had to be such that a grey structure resulted rather than a white one, but this was much more difficult when the casting was thin, as with a pot, because the metal cooled more quickly than with a thicker casting.
The iron had to be high in silicon to come out grey, something that was very difficult to achieve using charcoal. But coke did it much more easily and this Abraham Darby already knew, from the work of others before him. He clearly knew it some years before he first set out to make iron himself, because his patent was published in April 1707 and he did not start his coke blast furnace until the end of 1708.
It has not previously been realised – at least in the UK – that moulds used to be regularly heated. Dr Williams could find no reference to it in the English language. There are however many references to it in the French encyclopaedias published in the second half of the 18th century, of which the Encyclopédie of Diderot is the most famous.
To prove his thesis, Dr Williams examined a number of 17th and 18th century pots made with the loam process at the Maison de Metallurgie in Liège. He deduced that all pots bear characteristic markings that establish how they were made and in his paper he demonstrates that the pot in the Ironbridge Gorge Museums, dated 1714 (just six years after Darby’s first blast furnace came on stream) must have been cast using an iron made with coke. With no one else known to be making coke iron at the time, it could only be a genuine Abraham Darby product, the oldest known coke iron casting in the western world.
To begin with, coke iron was only of economic use for the manufacture of cooking pots, but the profit from this activity allowed him and his descendants the time to develop the coke blast furnace for all the other applications for which it became suitable. His first furnace produced just four tons per week. In the world today, more than one billion tons of iron comes out of coke-fired blast furnaces each year.
The Coalbrookdale Company was formed in 1709 by Abraham Darby I (1678-1717), an iron-master who had moved to the region from Bristol in the previous year. His original intention was to lease an ironworks with a view to setting-up a brass foundry – he had been experimenting with making brass pots since 1707 which led to his patent for casting iron bellied pots in dry sand.
He leased the Furnace at Coalbrookdale in 1709 from landowner Basil Brooke of Madeley and his wife Elizabeth, beginning blasting in January of the same year. Until the latter part of the 18th century, the most important industry in the Ironbridge Gorge was coal-mining – the first step on the road to the birth of the Industrial Revolution in the region.
Other coal-using industries utlising the area’s rich natural resources were: lead smelting; tar boiling; pottery making and brass manufacturing. The Tar Tunnel at Ironbridge is open to the public and well-worth a visit. In 1787, miners digging in the area struck a spring of natural bitumen (treacle-like black liquid) which has seeped out of the walls and formed into puddles for over two hundred years. It was money from coal that funded the first ironworks in the area.
Although now a haven of tranquillity, in the 18th and 19th centuries, the area resembled Dante’s Inferno, a scene which artist Philip James De Loutherbourg (1740-1812) captured so brilliantly in his iconic painting Coalbrookdale by Night (1801).
Iron Works at Coalbrookdale by Philip James De Loutherbourg (1740-1812) from an engraving by William Pickett. ©Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. De Loutherbourg was a theatrical designer who worked for playwrights such as R.B. Sheridan (1751-1816) and David Garrick (1717-1779). His painting, Coalbrookdale by Night (1801), depicting the raging Bedlam Furnaces in Madeley Dale, Shropshire, a little further downstream from Ironbridge, recreates the iconic scene of fire and brimstone that we now associate with the birth of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain.
The three surviving groups of iron furnaces mark these different phases in the local iron industry – the earliest, the Darby Furnace at Coalbrookdale …… Bedlam Furnaces (begun 1756-7) were the first of the great new Industrial Revolution furnaces, experimenting with new forms of power, while the Blists Hill Furnaces, begun in c.1832 and closed in 1912, signal the move away from water as a source of power, and eventually the end of smelting in the Gorge.
..adhering strictly to the ideals of self-discipline, frugality and simple faith, attitudes which extended into the conduct of their business. As members of the Society of Friends, Quakers formed a close-knit group, distinct in their way of dress and habits, and tending to socialize as a group. Many of the visitors who came to Coalbrookdale were Quaker associates, and the large houses at Coalbrookdale became a focus for this society.
The houses were built close to the works, but looked out over a more pleasant view of trees, pleasure gardens and a pool with a small decorative iron bridge. For most of their history the houses were occupied for relatively short periods by family members or by works managers; often, as in the case of Abraham Darby III, while they built or altered finer houses elsewhere in rural settings.
Carpenters Row is an example of company housing: built c.1783, it is a terrace of eight cottages, each with a downstairs parlour with a range, a tiny pantry and a bedroom above….Carpenters Row would have provided a relatively good class of accommodation.
The molten iron from a blast furnace could be poured direct into sand moulds to produce cast iron goods or cast ingots called “pig iron”. The pig iron was then either melted and cast in a foundry or purified to produce wrought iron that could be shaped by hammering and rolling in a forge.
(Extract from text panel at the site of the Old Furnaces, Upper Works, Coalbrookdale, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust).
Isle of Wight based author, Joan Ellis. Image copyright Joan Ellis.
I met independently published author, Joan Ellis, in August last year whilst doing one of my regular guest slots on That’s Solent TV’ s chat show, Talk Solent. The show was presented by Shan Robins and we were also joined by award-winning special effects designer, B Jones. It was a fascinating discussion covering a wide range of topics, everyone contributed their well-informed opinions on the topics of the day. I was honoured to share the sofa with such talented and creative women.
Before leaving the studio that day, Joan pressed into my hands a copy of her latest book, I am Ella. Buy me. (2014). Joan knew that I was retro-obsessive with a particularly fondness for the 1980s (well, it was, afterall, the decade of my ‘yoof’!). Joan wondered whether I would like to feature it on Come Step Back In Time? I was delighted to accept.
Let me first introduce you to Joan. Born in London, Joan has had a long and successful career in PR and advertising. During the 1980s, Joan was a copywriter in several top London advertising agencies (Ogilvy, Lowe Howard- Spink, Banner and Arc Worldwide amongst others).
Never one to let the grass grow under her feet, Joan has also set-up a comedy club where she wrote and performed, even appearing on the same bill as Jo Brand. Once. Joan’s extensive knowledge of Advertising and PR has seen her lecture at University level and she even taught comedian Noel Fielding. He learned all he knows about advertising from Joan who encouraged him to showcase his creative talents on a wider stage. The rest, as they say, is history.
Joan now lives on the Isle of Wight with her daughter and husband. She often appears on television and radio discussing her career as well as offering advice to aspiring authors. Joan also performs a one woman, semi-autobiographical, show ‘A Woman’s Wit, Wisdom and Pratfalls’.
I was writing for eight to 10 hours a day on different briefs so I’d be changing my style and tone of voice depending on the product and the audience. It was fantastic training for becoming an author because you’re getting inside the heads of different audience types as well as the discipline of meeting a deadline and that creative process of taking things in different directions and thinking of things in different ways.
Joan, the 1980s career girl. Image copyright Joan Ellis.
…I became the rarest of beasts in Adland in the early 1980s, a woman.
I am Ella. Buy me. will transport you back to the 1980s. Joan draws upon her own experiences working in advertising in London during this period and brings Ella’s fictional world vividly to life. A city world of Porsches, tailored clothing, big hair, inflated salaries and fine-dining.
This is Thatcher’s Britain, where ‘greed is good’ but morals are bankrupt and sexism in the office, rife. This is the backdrop of Joan’s novel, a brilliant expose of 1980s life and Adland culture. I am Ella. Buy me.’s main protagonist is Ella David, a rare beast – a woman in a man’s world.
Ella must not lose her head as she has a mortgage to pay (at 9%!) as well as her ill mother’s rent. There is no Trust Fund to catch Ella, she is at the mercy of her sexist and predatory boss, Peter Richards. Peter, bored with his ball-clicker, demands something or someone new to play with, Ella finds herself battling more than just fat thighs.
Can love help her go from a girl in the firing line to a woman calling the shots? Fans of ‘Mad Men’ will enjoy meeting Ella. She’s Peggy meets Bridget Jones.
During the 1980s, anyone, male or female, working in advertising was a precarious way to make a living. If you were a woman, then the stakes were very high indeed. Being propositioned, fired, hired, rehired and having to hustle on a regular basis were all part of its culture. The route to the boardroom was a rocky and compromising one. In I am Ella. Buy me., Joan, has drawn upon her own experiences and has created the 1980s Adland culture very well indeed.
Although I am Ella. Buy me. is not autobiographical, there are many similarities between Ella’s and Joan’s experiences in advertising. More amusingly, on one occasion Ella must pretend to be a Tom cat called Marmalade in order that she can pen letters from him. In real life, Joan once had to create an advertising campaign for pet food in which a cat vocalises his thoughts. The cat’s voice in Joan’s commercial (see above) was, of course, male!
I am Ella. Buy me. is a terrific read, the perfect accompaniment on a long train journey or curled-up by the fire in a holiday cottage. As an experienced professional writer, Joan has skilfully offered her readers an amusing slice of 1980s nostalgia whilst still managing to create three-dimensional characters that you actually care about.
To purchase copy of I am Ella. Buy me., click here.
Follow Joan on Twitter @JoanSusanEllis .
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Personalized Easter Hostess Gifts To Show You Care!
Time To Get Hoppin’, Prepare for the Easter Bunny!
Enter to Win! Texas Jelly Beans Giveaway! Perfect for Easter and National Jelly Bean Day!
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2019-04-18T12:40:39Z
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The teams that surprised me the most were Dallas and Buffalo. The teams that were the most disappointing had to be New Orleans and Atlanta. I really thought it would be a battle between the two of the them for the division, and it was to an extent. Just not the way I thought it would go. I thought each of them would have at least 10 wins this season.
So what about over the last year? Including scores going back to Week 7 of last year, we see some big differences. How about those Arizona Cardinals? Most underrated team in the NFL since last year.
So we’re down to the Final Four. It’s been one of the most exciting basketball tournaments ever. Poor Butler. Last year’s Cinderella team. No Cinderella this year. Oh, they’re back in the Final Four again. But this time, they’re being overshadowed by VCU. Butler and VCU will face-off in the first semi-final game next Saturday. Should be a defensive struggle. And in the other bracket will be a couple of well-known powers, Kentucky and UConn.
So it seems that the winner of the UConn/Kentucky matchup has the best chance to win the national championship. But I wouldn’t put money on it. Butler and VCU have proven that they not only can play with anyone, they can beat anyone. It should be a fun ride!
My weekly college basketball rankings have been updated. You can find them here and compare them to others on Massey Ratings College Basketball Comparison.
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2019-04-18T15:42:27Z
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Judge Terrence W. Boyle responds to conflict-of-interest charges.
One of President Bush's most controversial judicial nominees has admitted to presiding over several cases in which he held a financial interest, in violation of federal law. In his first public response to the ethical violations revealed by the Center for Investigative Reporting and Salon on May 1, Judge Terrence W. Boyle of North Carolina said the conflicts were inadvertent, minor mistakes. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, made public July 12, Boyle said that hearing charges of conflicts of interest "surprised and upset me." He nevertheless disputed several of the charges.
The Salon/CIR investigation showed that Boyle issued orders in at least nine cases involving corporations in which he reported stock holdings. "In approximately four cases, the screening system in place at the Clerk's Office and in my chambers missed the appearance of a potential conflict," Boyle wrote. "Accordingly, I unknowingly and unintentionally participated in these cases while I held a minimal number of shares in one of the parties." He added: "While my stock holdings were relatively insignificant, I regret that the oversight occurred. It certainly was not my intention to participate in a case where I held stock in one of the parties."
The conflicts of interest have thrown into doubt Boyle's confirmation to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals -- second only in judicial authority to the U.S. Supreme Court. Frist indicated in April that he would push for a full Senate vote on Boyle, a favorite of conservatives, in May. After the report on his ethical violations, however, top Democrats called for Boyle's nomination to be withdrawn. On Wednesday, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, reaffirmed his opposition.
"These breaches and his avoiding full accountability compound the already compelling reasons why this nomination has become so controversial, including strong opposition from many law enforcement groups around the country," Leahy told Salon. "The White House should withdraw this nomination instead of pushing for this promotion to a lifetime seat on one of our highest courts."
Specter, who had labeled the conflicts potentially "disqualifying," had conducted his own investigation. He and Frist wrote to Boyle asking for a written explanation of the ethical conflicts. (Frist and Specter did not return Salon's calls for comment Wednesday.) In his letter, Boyle mounted a defense of his record that mirrors one made by North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole, and one spelled out in a memo circulated by the judge's former clerks. As Salon reported on May 23, the defense contains inaccuracies and ignores the letter of federal ethics law.
Boyle wrote that the conflict involving Quintiles, a pharmaceutical-services company, is "categorically untrue." The case occurred in 2001, when Boyle denies owning any stock in Quintiles. However, Boyle's official financial disclosure report covering the year 2001 lists stock in Quintiles. His 2002 filing shows that he sold his Quintiles stock after the case was over. Boyle did not address this inconsistency in his letter.
Boyle also denied that he had any financial interest in three cases involving Midway Airlines. Boyle was a trustee of one of his children's trusts, which held Midway stock. The law on judicial conflicts of interest makes it clear that a judge who is a trustee does have a financial interest in the trust.
Although Boyle regretted his lack of oversight in four cases, he went on to write that "whatever minor financial interest I may have had in the case in no way affected my decision-making or the outcome of the case."
Nevertheless, federal statute since 1974 does not allow judges to sit on cases in which they have a financial interest, no matter how small, and no matter how the case may turn out. Leslie W. Abramson, a judicial ethics expert at the University of Louisville's law school, said, "Did he violate the statute? Yes." Professor Monroe Freedman of Hofstra University School of Law added that Boyle was "trying to fudge the language" by calling clear-cut violations "the appearance of a potential conflict."
In his letter, Boyle stated he always makes a "conscientious effort" to screen cases for possible conflicts, and informs his court clerk's office of his financial interests for additional screening. "This method was the best practice available over time, but it was not flawless," he wrote. "Some cases were missed by the screening process."
But Michael Brooks, the acting clerk of Boyle's court, told Salon in April that the clerk's office does not screen for financial conflicts, leaving that to the individual judge. Brooks said the court didn't use a computer system to catch conflicts because "you get some false positives that way, and we've been successful with the current situation." Boyle, however, apparently contradicted Brooks and wrote that the computerized system wasn't even available "until recent weeks."
Neither Brooks nor Boyle returned calls Wednesday seeking comment. Boyle has not responded to numerous calls and a detailed letter from Salon, asking for an explanation before the original report on his conflicts was published. He did state in his letter to Frist that he wrote a letter of explanation to the Chief Judge of the 4th Circuit and President Bush.
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2019-04-26T09:54:48Z
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Yesterday and today find me trying to finish up printing and sending out my special needs group’s newsletter (I’m the editor) as it needs to be sent out before November (which is just 2 days away!). Wouldn’t be a difficult task except that we mail out about 65 of them, each hand folded, hand addressed, stamped, return addressed, etc. by me. I’ve got about 25 more to get done with this morning, then it’s a trip to the post office to buy stamps and get those babies in the mail!
Speaking of babies, am currently awaiting the arrival of my 1 yr old grandson. Oldest son has had a bit of a job shift and is now acting Executive Chef at his restaurant, which is a good thing for him BUT last week he worked 80 hours and meant a bit more babysitting for me, as well. Don’t get me wrong-I love my grandson, but this “Grammie” isn’t getting any younger! When I mentioned the trip to the post office-that includes taking my ‘baby’ along, too!
Yesterday was one of those really crazy days that comes out OK in the end, but while you’re going through it, is very hectic/crazy, etc. It was supposed to be my ‘off’ day for babysitting but since oldest son had worked so very many hours last week and was sounding like he was going through major over-stress, I volunteered to watch my ‘baby’ so that oldest son could get some much needed general chores (bill paying, going to the bank, cleaning up the house, laundry, chopping a huge bunch of wood, etc.) done. I ended up having the baby from around 11:15 a.m. to around 9:30 last night. In the middle of this oldest son helped me to go pick up a very nice (slightly used) Lazy Boy recliner from a Freecycle person! (told you it was a crazy day/night!) This was a last-minute decision which required my husband and youngest son to somehow manage to remove ‘old’ recliner from back bedroom, vacuum floor, remove (actually re-position, temporarily) my 10+ garbage bags full of yarn to another location so that new recliner could be brought in the front door (which ended up coming in back door, you can guess didn’t make husband too happy after all the work of making the front door fully accessible!) . We are now the owners of a very nice Lazy Boy recliner and I’m happy! In the process there were the added benefits of having the floor vacuumed up under old chair and the many bags of yarn rearranged, so again, I’m happy! Tonight is my knitting group’s third meeting, so that makes me excited/happy, too!
Although it wasn’t a ‘regular’ day around here yesterday, all-in-all, it was a very productive day for all involved! Now to get back to finishing those newsletters!
Just thought you might like a peak before we send them off to Ghana! (There might be a few more small completed lap robes from my friend Sharon Mick’s granddaughter Jennifer Willison…I’ll find out tomorrow at church).
Gotta run, more ‘stitchin’ together of squares needs to be done!
After they left for the dance I was finally able to relax a little and begin to look over the yarn bag I’d been given the day before. It’s getting down to the wire on the afghans going out to Ghana; Tuesday I am to do a presentation on my project at a nursing home and I’m trying to schedule the ‘hand-over’ date for the afghans (from me to the head nurse who’s going to Ghana); am hoping to be able to do that October 23rd-that gives me approx. 2 weeks to finish up any unfinished squares and sew together what’s left into afghans. We now have 23 finished afghans and enough squares for 2 more (plus I’ve been told by several friends that there are quite a few more squares ‘on their way’ to me, soon!). I’m just so thrilled that this project has finally found it’s ‘wings’ and is growing.
Today after church I’ve been trying to update my other blog (for the project http://theghanaproject.wordpress.com) and added a few new stitches and photos under “Stitches” and 2 new “Contributors” entries & photos. I’m so very grateful to all those people who have sent me squares that I wouldn’t want anyone to think that I’d overlooked anything they donated to the project…I’m really trying to keep up on the logging the donations and their accompanying photo. On looking over all the Stitch patterns I’ve entered on that blog, there’s a good 12 more that I have to knit ‘samples’ of so that I can enter the photo with the pattern! I think it’s so much nicer to have a photo to look at when you’re trying to decide on what pattern to knit…just my personal preference!
Been busy these past three days trying to ‘catch-up’ with all the afghan squares/afghans, after receiving a call that the next date for the trip to Ghana has been moved up to October 25th! That’s about a good 3 weeks earlier than I’d expected, so now my sewing needle is flying as I attempt to put together as many of these donated squares as possible. Actually, I lost count on how many completed afghans there are…I ‘believe’ it’s up to 22, but not exactly sure and don’t want to take the time to go count them again! I finished sewing another one together last night and will do the crocheted border today. There is no set number I’m trying to attain, just want to make sure that I include as many of the donated squares as possible for this trip. I’ve received word, also, that there is another box of 50 squares coming, and “Momma” has graciously notified me that she’s (once again) taken up her crochet hook (or, if memory serves me right) she’s now knitting more squares……..GOD LOVE HER! She’s kind of my ‘patron saint’ of this project (hehehe), having donated the largest amount of squares (actual total count from her-I don’t have a clue…let’s just say it’s an amazing amount! If you really want to count, go to the Ghana site blog and view the Contributors photos).
Just wanted to say the very first meeting of the “Waterford Area Knitters (& Crocheters)” transpired last evening…and it was great! Four lovely ladies joined me at Panera Bread and did what most women do when in a group – chatted, ate, and drank coffee (and knitted)! I thoroughly enjoyed myself which was the primary reason for my starting this group, as well as meeting new people and learning more about knitting. We have agreed to do this again in two weeks, so I’m excited! The manager of Panera was very cordial to all of us, which helped to make us all feel very welcome.
Final report: All-in-all, a VERY NICE TIME!
You know how some days are better than others? Today was one of the ‘others’ days. It started out with babysitting my 1 yr old grandson and his starting to cry. I should clarify this: he is NOT a crier by nature, but this day he began weeping, uncontrollably…for a long period of time. Make that ‘over 1 1/2 hours’ of long period. I tried everything in my little bag of ‘grandma’ tricks going all the way back to 3+ years of running my own infant/toddler daycare, 14 years of fostering infants and toddlers plus raising our three boys…NOTHING worked! To say that I was desperate would be an understatement. My best guess was gas pains because he kept drawing his legs up to his stomach. Finally I got his Dad on the phone and he, too, had no idea but suggested I try giving him a Tums tablet. It was worth a try, I said; I proceeded to break it into very tiny pieces to get him to take it. Still not sure exactly what it was or what eventually worked, but he finally stopped crying! Poor baby – he was exhausted and lapsed into a deep nap and only woke when his Mom came to pick him up about an hour later. Grandma and baby are very tired after all that.
Jump forward about 2 hours to husband calling to tell me that he drove through a puddle while coming home (it’s rained here all day) and the Serpentine belt on his engine came off – AGAIN!. That resulted in him waiting 2 hours for AAA to come tow his car to Midas to have them fix it in the morning (and, I’m sure, hearing from my husband that they should have fixed it properly the FIRST time they fixed it about a month ago!) He called home to ask me to meet him at Midas for a ride home and as I pulled into the parking lot (by now it’s almost 7 p.m. and still pouring rain) I see the tow truck guy standing on the side of the big tow truck bed and it looks like he’s trying to ‘fish’ the side window of my husband’s van! I ask what’s going on and learn that the tow truck guy somehow locked the keys INSIDE our van! GREAT! Another trip home to grab the extra key (only 5 minutes round-trip) and we were ‘good to go’. Should I add here that my husband was VERY glad to hear that we had nice, hot homemade enchiladas at home for dinner? We are ALL very glad to finally be home, safe & sound. WHAT A DAY! (Now, tomorrow I’ll have to get up extra early to drive my husband to work, then drop youngest son at school before ‘starting’ my day…oh well – Life has it’s little ‘bumps’!) I can see it’s going to be an ‘early to bed’ night for all of us!
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https://grammiepammie.wordpress.com/2007/10/
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This isn’t some kind of one genre hip-hop or indie rock blog, no we are The Music Brewery and diversity is our friend!
RAGHU Dixit has already taken the Indian music scene by storm and is now aiming to translate his popularity there into UK success.
He has fetaured on the front cover of Rolling Stone in India, twice, and has already appeared at Glastonbury and on Jools Holland where he was described as having “a marvellous sound”.
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2019-04-25T16:02:35Z
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https://themusicbrewery.wordpress.com/category/genres/
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« Creating Multiple subdirectories wordpress installation in one single database one domain.
All websites must have at least a single point contact with the site content.
I wanted to add various ways to allow people reading my posts to be in touch with the content and possibly allow them to subscribe to the new posts, comments in general.
I am pasting the code for all the means that readers use to get linked to my site.
for subscribing to posts, comments through RSS select Yes for all options.
Select Yes for Subscription By Email, and type Subscription by Email in title.
Write YOURSITEFEEDBURNERID without any space in the the box for feedburner id.
To get my FeedBurner id. I went to http://www.feedburner.com. Created a google id, login and went to my feeds. Entered the site name for which I wanted a feedburner id. And followed the instructions. There I get my feedburner id.
upload it in plugins site and from admin site activate this plugin FeedSmith.
This entry was posted on September 15, 2009 at 5:12 am and is filed under Webpage Design. Tagged: code for rss, del-ic-ious, digg, email, feedburner feedsmith, form, how to add, madhurie singh, madhuriesingh, plugin, subscribe, subscription, technorati, wordpress. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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2019-04-21T20:47:45Z
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https://singhmadhuri.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/code-for-rss-technorati-digg-del-ic-ious-subscribe-email-for-wordpress/
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Eyeteeth: You know, the guy with the biggest colon ever only went once a month.
My Sister: Come on, that's not true.
Eyeteeth: It is! I SAW THE COLON IN A MUSEUM.
My Sister: What'd he die of, something, uh, related?
Eyeteeth: Yeah. So you're flippant about it now, but irregularity can have serious consequences!
Seven-Year-Old Luna: What's a colon?
My Sister: Boy, I love this conversation.
--The colon belonged to a man known as "the Balloon Man" and "the Human Windbag" when he exhibited his horrifyingly swollen abdomen in a sideshow. You too would have a horrifyingly swollen abdomen if your colon were about seven feet long and thirty inches around -- big enough to displace the other organs -- as opposed to a more usual five feet long and maybe three inches around. This uncomfortable condition was the result of Hirschsprung's disease, a congenital affliction whereby part of the colon lacks the proper nerves and can't pass waste through. Well, it must be able to pass some, because the Balloon Man (of whose real name I can find only the initials J. W.) lived to his late twenties despite that his bowel difficulties were first noted by his mother when he was an infant. I guess the rest of the colon eventually works to force matter out of the body, but in the meanwhile Hirschsprung's results in the pragmatically named megacolon. And you can buy one of your own from (of course) the Mütter Museum, which houses J. W.'s. I don't know how I feel about that, actually; it's kind of funny, but we are talking about a condition that plagued poor J. W. his whole life and eventually killed him. Still, that he was willing to exhibit himself in a sideshow suggests that he might be OK with this. I hope he would be OK with my gazing on his gut in a glass case, because I sure as heck did.
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2007-08-21 Assigned to ZIMMER SPINE, INC. reassignment ZIMMER SPINE, INC. ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST (SEE DOCUMENT FOR DETAILS). Assignors: VONWILLER, STEPHAN, DARST RICE, MARK W.
A system for implantation of a spinal stabilization system includes a vertebral anchor having a top portion. The top portion has a perimeter and a first engaging element. The first engaging element has a first longitudinal axis that is generally parallel to a second longitudinal axis of the top portion. The perimeter extends around the second longitudinal axis. The system also includes a driving tool that has a second engaging element that is configured to cooperate with the first engaging element to substantially restrict rotation of the driving tool relative to the top portion about the second longitudinal axis. The first engaging element is configured to slidably receive the second engaging element in a direction along the first longitudinal axis, and the second engaging element is configured to extend substantially within the perimeter of the top portion.
This invention relates generally to spinal fixation surgery and, more specifically, to systems enabling installation of anchors of spinal stabilization constructs.
The spinal column is a highly complex system of bones and connective tissues that provides support for the body and protects the delicate spinal flexible connecting member and nerves. The spinal column includes a series of vertebrae stacked one on top of the other, each vertebral body including an inner or central portion of relatively weak cancellous bone and an outer portion of relatively strong cortical bone. An intervertebral disc is situated between each vertebral body to cushion and dampen compressive forces experienced by the spinal column. A vertebral canal containing the spinal cord and nerves is located posterior to the vertebral bodies. In spite of the complexities, the spine is a highly flexible structure, capable of a high degree of curvature and twist in nearly every direction. For example, the kinematics of the spine normally includes flexion, extension, rotation and lateral bending.
There are many types of spinal column disorders including scoliosis (abnormal lateral curvature of the spine), kyphosis (abnormal forward curvature of the spine, usually in the thoracic spine), excess lordosis (abnormal backward curvature of the spine, usually in the lumbar spine), spondylolisthesis (forward displacement of one vertebra over another, usually in a lumbar or cervical spine) and other disorders caused by abnormalities, disease, or trauma, such as ruptured or slipped discs, degenerative disc disease, fractured vertebra, and the like. Patients that suffer from such conditions usually experience extreme and debilitating pain as well as diminished range of motion and nerve function. These spinal disorders may also threaten the critical elements of the nervous system housed within the spinal column.
One particular spinal fixation technique includes immobilizing portions of the spine of a patient by using connecting elements such as relatively rigid orthopedic spine rods that run generally parallel to the spine. Another technique utilizes less rigid connecting elements to provide a more dynamic stabilization of the affected regions of the spine. One example of such a spinal stabilization system is offered by the assignee of this invention, Zimmer Spine, Inc., as Dynesys® and is disclosed in European Patent No. 669,109, which is hereby incorporated by reference entirely. As used herein, the terms “spinal stabilization system”, “spinal stabilization construct” and similar terms encompass any type of connecting element extending between adjacent vertebrae regardless of its rigidity, flexibility or construction. Installation of such systems may be accomplished, for example, by exposing the spine posterially and fastening hooks, bone screws, or anchors to the pedicles of the appropriate vertebrae. The vertebral anchors may be generally placed in a quantity of two per vertebrae, one at each pedicle on either side of the spine and serve as anchor points for the connecting elements.
Installation of such spinal stabilization constructs with vertebral anchors may thus require a surgeon to prepare an incision aligned with the spine of a patient. The vertebral anchors may then be attached to a number of vertebrae after which the connecting element is located with respect to receiving portions of the vertebral anchors. Fastening of a vertebral anchor may involve inserting a tool through the incision to engage the anchor such that actuation of the tool causes the anchor to engage the pedicle or other suitably chosen part of the vertebra. For example, a top portion of a threaded pedicle screw can be engaged by a tool such that rotation thereof in turn rotates the pedicle screw. Rotation of the pedicle screw then threadably engages the vertebra thereby securely mounting the anchor.
Known installation systems and techniques for spinal stabilization systems may be such that an interface between an instrument and an anchor allows some level of loose rotational and/or axial engagement or “play” between them, which may be undesirable to some users. Some systems also include multiple instruments to allow for engagement and rotation of the anchors and do not allow for top loading of elements of the stabilization system into the anchors. Therefore, systems and related methods to provide installation of a spinal stabilization construct and which address some of the drawbacks of known systems are highly desirable.
This invention addresses these and other shortcomings in the prior art. The devices and methods associated with this invention are used to aid in the surgery and installation of spinal stabilization systems and associated components, particularly the vertebral anchors of a spinal stabilization system.
In one embodiment, a system for implantation of a spinal stabilization system includes an anchor, such as a pedicle screw, which in turn includes a top portion. The top portion has a perimeter and a first engaging element. The first engaging element has a first longitudinal axis that is generally parallel to a second longitudinal axis of the top portion. The perimeter extends around the second longitudinal axis.
The system also includes a driving tool that has a second engaging element that is configured to cooperate with the first engaging element to substantially restrict rotation of the driving tool relative to the top portion about the second longitudinal axis.
In specific aspects of this embodiment, the first engaging element is configured to slidably receive the second engaging element in a direction along the first longitudinal axis, and the second engaging element is configured to extend substantially within the perimeter of the top portion.
In a specific embodiment, the first engaging element is further configured as a female element such as one having a generally trapezoidal shape. In another specific embodiment, the second engaging element is further configured as a male element such as one having a generally trapezoidal shape.
In one embodiment, the second engaging element includes an outwardly extending member; and the first engaging element includes a recess configured to receive at least a portion of the outwardly extending member to thereby axially retain the second engaging element therein. The outwardly extending member may be further configured as an outwardly biasing member.
In another embodiment, the driving tool includes an outer shield adapted to restrict radially outward movement of the second engaging element. The driving tool may also include a slot adapted to guide a connecting member of the spinal stabilization system toward the top portion of the anchor.
In another embodiment, the driving tool includes a securing member configured to secure a connecting element of the spinal stabilization system against the top portion of the anchor. In one aspect of this embodiment, the driving tool may further include a guide wire, such that the securing member is releasably coupled to the guide wire and such that the securing member is further configured to be coupled to the top portion of the anchor.
In a specific embodiment, the second engaging element extends fully within the perimeter of the top portion. In another specific embodiment, the second engaging element further includes a tapered end adapted to facilitate engagement thereof with the first engaging element. In yet another specific embodiment, the top portion may include a generally U-shaped channel configured to receive a connecting element of the spinal stabilization system therein.
The invention also includes various methods to install the vertebral anchor utilizing the driving tool and the associated advantages and features not found in the prior art.
FIG. 21 illustrates the apparatus of FIG. 19 with the flexible member installed between the anchors and the instruments of FIGS. 18A-C being removed from the surgical site.
Referring to the drawings, and more particularly to FIG. 1, an installation system 10 according to one embodiment is shown for implantation of an exemplary spinal stabilization system or construct 12. The spinal stabilization system 12 includes a number of vertebral anchors 14 such as pedicle screws in one embodiment and the top loading installation system 10 includes a driving tool or instrument 16 that engages and drives each of the anchors 14 into selected vertebrae 17 of a patient. The installation system 10 thus permits implantation of the spinal stabilization construct 12 that, in one aspect, includes a connecting element 18 such as one in the form of a rigid rod or a more flexible construct of a cord and flexible member 19 (see FIG. 1) as in the Dynesys® system offered by Zimmer Spine, Inc., the assignee of this invention, to control relative motion of adjacent vertebrae 17. In one embodiment, the flexible member 19 may be formed from polycarbonate urethane and the connecting element 18 is a cord that may be formed from polyethylene-terephthalate, although it will be recognized that various other materials suitable for implantation within the human body and for providing stabilization of the spine while maintaining flexibility may be used. In other embodiments, the connecting element 18 and flexible member 19 can be constructed of other flexible materials such as metal, polymeric materials, or combinations of flexible materials.
Implantation of the spinal stabilization construct 12 may further involve, for example, inserting the instrument through an incision 20 through the skin 22 of the patient, in a region proximate the vertebrae 17. The incision may be sized for minimally invasive percutaneous or retractor based techniques or may be used in open procedures.
With reference to FIGS. 1-3, the installation system 10 in this embodiment includes, as described above, a vertebral anchor 14 such as one in the form of a pedicle screw and an instrument 16 that cooperates with a top portion 24 of the vertebral anchor 14 to engage the vertebral anchor 14 for subsequent implantation into the vertebra 17. Accordingly, the installation system includes an interface between the vertebral anchor 14 and the instrument 16 to facilitate a suitable engagement there between.
With particular reference to FIG. 2, the vertebral anchor 14 includes, in addition to the top portion 24 thereof, a shank 26 connected to or integrally formed with the top portion 24. The shank 26 is suitably designed to engage the vertebrae 17. To this end, the shank 26 may include a tapered distal end 27 and a threaded surface 28 such that rotation, such as clockwise rotation of the shank 26, causes the vertebral anchor 14 to advance into the vertebra 17 generally in a direction of a longitudinal axis 29 of the shank 26 which may further be coaxial (though not necessarily) with an axis 30 of the top portion 24. Persons of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that, alternatively, the threaded surface 28 may be designed such that counter-clockwise rotation of the shank 26 causes the vertebral anchor 14 to advance into the vertebra 17.
While the embodiment of FIG. 2 depicts a vertebral anchor 14 in the form of an exemplary pedicle screw that is uniaxial and which further has a top portion 24 as shown, it is contemplated that, alternatively, the anchor could be of a different type and/or include a top portion that differs from that shown in FIG. 2. For example, and without limitation, the vertebral anchor may be one in the form of a polyaxial screw (not shown) such that the top portion thereof differs from the top portion 26 of FIG. 2 in that it has an axis that is not necessarily coaxial or parallel with an axis of the shank of the polyaxial screw. The vertebral anchor may also include a hole or cannulation through its center to accommodate a K-wire that may be used in a minimally invasive procedure.
With continued reference to FIG. 2, the exemplary vertebral anchor 14 includes, as described above, a top portion 24. In the shown exemplary embodiment, the top portion is generally U-shaped and includes a channel 32 configured to receive the connecting element 18. More specifically, and with particular reference to the orientation depicted in FIG. 2, the channel is configured such that the connecting element 18 lies with a reference axis thereof (not shown) extending in a direction into a plane of the drawing i.e., generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis 30 of the top portion 24. In one aspect of the shown embodiment, the channel may include tapered edges 32 a to facilitate receipt therein of the connecting element 18. The top portion 24 of the vertebral anchor 14 shown in FIG. 1 is generally referred to as a top loading vertebral anchor in that the connecting element 18 is coupled to the top portion 24 generally from the top direction.
The top portion 24 of the vertebral anchor 14 may further include a threaded region 33 (FIG. 5) disposed on walls 34 and configured to receive a securing member such as one in the form of a set screw (not shown) which in turn secures the connecting element against surfaces defining the channel, thereby securing the connecting element 18 in position relative to the vertebra 17 (FIG. 1).
While the exemplary embodiment of FIG. 2 depicts a vertebral anchor 14 in the form of a pedicle screw which is further uniaxial, includes a generally U-shaped top portion 24 and a tapered distal end 27, those of ordinary skill in the art will readily appreciate that any suitably chosen vertebral anchor of any other type, shape and/or relative dimensions may substitute the exemplary vertebral anchor 14 of FIG. 2. Similarly, while the exemplary vertebral anchor 14 of FIG. 2 is described as being configured to receive a connecting element in any form such as, and without limitation, a rigid rod, a semi-rigid construct or a flexible construct.
With reference to FIGS. 3A and 3B, the instrument 16 in these embodiments include a generally elongate body 38 and an actuator in the form, for example and without limitation, of a gripping portion 40. The gripping portion 40 includes a polygonal portion 47. The elongate body 38 may be made of one or more rigid materials such as a biocompatible metal and have a length suitably chosen to facilitate engagement of the instrument 16 with the vertebral anchor 14 and further to provide a surgeon with sufficient room to actuate the instrument. For example, and without limitation, the elongate body 38 may have a length such that the surgeon may percutaneously grip the gripping portion 40 with a suitable tool and rotate the instrument to cause corresponding rotation of the vertebral anchor. In one aspect of this shown embodiment, the exemplary gripping portion 40 is in the form of a polygonal structure (only 3 sides thereof shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B) such as a hexagonal structure. Accordingly, actuation of the instrument 16 may include coupling or engaging the gripping portion 40 with a hexagonal wrench, driver or tool (not shown) and manually rotating the wrench to cause a corresponding rotation of the instrument 16 which, in turn, rotates the vertebral anchor.
In one aspect of the exemplary embodiments of FIGS. 3A and 3B, the instrument 16 includes a guiding slot 41 extending between a suitably chosen portion of the elongate body 38 and a distal edge 43 thereof. The guiding slot 41 is configured to receive an element of the spinal stabilization system such as the connecting element 18 (FIG. 1) and guide it toward the top portion 24 of the vertebral anchor 14, such that it can be secured against surfaces of the top portion 24. Moreover, the guiding slot 41 may facilitate bending of the elongate body 38 such that a natural compressive force can be applied against engaging surfaces of the top portion 24, which enhances axial engagement of the instrument 16 with the vertebral anchor 14.
With reference to FIG. 3B and unlike the exemplary instrument of FIG. 3A, the protrusions 60 of FIG. 3B extend outward of or beyond a perimeter 38 a of the elongate body 38. Additionally, a tubular member 39 can be placed over the elongate body 38 to restrict radially outward movement or splaying of the distal end 42 of the instrument 16. In this regard, accordingly, the tubular member 6 o may permit a relatively high force to be applied to against the vertebral anchor 14 with a minimal or negligible likelihood of splaying of the distal end 42 of the instrument 16. The instrument of FIG. 3B also includes a guiding slot 40 that includes a tapered region 41 a that may improve the installation of the connecting element 18 to the vertebral anchor 14.
While the exemplary instrument 16 is depicted including a generally uniaxial elongate body 38 that does not extend beyond the footprint of the vertebral anchor 14, it is contemplated that it may alternatively have other shapes and footprints. Accordingly, an instrument may include an elongate body having one or more curved segments or an elongate body having more than one uniaxial segments. These variations may be suitably chosen, for example, to facilitate actuation of the instrument to rotate the vertebral anchor 14.
With reference to FIGS. 1-7, and as mentioned above, the installation system 10 in one embodiment includes an interface between the vertebral anchor 14 and the instrument 16 to facilitate suitable engagement there between. When in an engaged state, the vertebral anchor 14 and instrument 16 are generally as depicted in FIG. 4. To this end, the interface is defined by cooperating features of the top portion 24 of the vertebral anchor 14 and distal end 42 of the instrument 16. Accordingly, and with particular reference to the embodiment of FIGS. 5 and 7, the vertebral anchor 14 includes, at its top portion 24 a pair of first engaging elements in the form of female elements or slots 44 on each side of the longitudinal axis 30 (FIG. 2) of the top portion 24. More specifically for this embodiment, each of the slots 44 is trapezoidal and extends along a longitudinal axis 44 a thereof (generally perpendicular to the plane of FIG. 5) and defines the shape of each of the walls 34 of the top portion 24. Each of the female slots 44 includes an interior wall 46 and inwardly diverging lateral walls 48 jointly defining the shape of the exemplary first engaging element of the embodiment of FIGS. 1-7.
In one aspect of the shown exemplary embodiment, each of the female slots 44 extends from a perimeter 50 of the top portion 24 and toward the longitudinal axis 30. As used herein, the term perimeter is intended to include, in addition to the physically ascertainable outer surfaces defining the shape of the top portion 24, a pair of projected surfaces 50 a, illustrated in phantom (FIG. 5), and defined by corresponding projections of the outer surfaces 50 b of the walls 34. The perimeter 50, accordingly, extends around the axis 30 of the top portion 24. While the exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 1-7 depicts a pair of first engaging elements radially equidistant from the axis 30, it is contemplated that the first engaging elements may alternatively not be equidistant from the axis 30. Similarly, it is contemplated that a specific embodiment of a vertebral anchor (not shown) may alternatively include first engaging elements in a number less than or in excess of two.
With reference to FIGS. 3-7 and as described above, the interface between the vertebral anchor 14 and the instrument 16 includes a feature on the distal end 42 of the instrument 16 that cooperates with the top portion 24 of the vertebral anchor 14 to provide engagement therewith. To this end, a pair of second engaging elements in the form of male elements or protrusions 60 integrally extend from the distal edge 43 of the distal end 42. More specifically, the protrusions 60 in one embodiment protrude in a direction generally parallel to a longitudinal axis 16 a (FIGS. 3A and 3B) of the instrument 16 and are positioned to be in registration with the trapezoidal female slots 44 of the vertebral anchor 14.
In the exemplary shown embodiment, the protrusions 60 are generally trapezoidal in shape (FIG. 6) such that a tight engagement is provided with the female slots 44. Tight engagement of the female slots 44 with the protrusions 60, as depicted in FIG. 4, facilitates substantial restriction of the top portion 24 of the vertebral anchor 14 and the instrument 16 from rotational movement, relative to one another, about axis 30 of the top portion 24. In one aspect of this embodiment, the amount of rotational restriction of the top portion 24 relative to the instrument 16 may be controlled by a suitably chosen clearance between the lateral walls 48 of each of the female slots 44 and correspondingly confronting surfaces of the protrusions 60. This clearance may, for example be in the range of about 0.0019 mm to about 0.0486 mm. Accordingly, this rotational restriction limits the application of unnecessary torque and resulting shear stress on the elongate body 38 as the instrument 16 is actuated i.e., rotated.
In one aspect of the shown exemplary embodiment, each of the protrusions 60 includes a tapered end 66 to facilitate insertion of the protrusion 60 into the female slot 44. Persons of ordinary skill in the art will readily appreciate that the instrument 16 may include a number of protrusions 60 that is less than or in excess of two. Similarly, the number of protrusions 60 may alternatively be in a number that is different from the number of female slots 44 of the vertebral anchor 14.
With particular reference to FIGS. 4 and 7, engagement of the instrument 16 with the vertebral anchor 14 is such that each of the female slots 44 slidably receives a corresponding protrusion 60 with a motion generally parallel to the axes 16 a and 30, respectively of the instrument 16 and top portion 24. In one aspect of this motion, it may be such that each of the protrusions 60 remains substantially within the perimeter 50 of the top portion 24. More particularly, this motion may be such that the outer surface 64 of each protrusion 60 coincides with a corresponding projected surface 50 a or inboard therefrom (i.e. closer to the axis 30). The motion may further be such that a majority of the cross-sectional area (FIG. 6) of the protrusion 60 falls within the perimeter 50. In some embodiments, the protrusion 60 entirely falls within the perimeter 50 allowing for the perimeter of the instrument 16 to match the perimeter 50 of the vertebral anchor 14.
In the engaged state of FIGS. 4 and 7, accordingly, each of the protrusions 60 extends substantially within the perimeter 50 of the top portion 24 i.e., a majority of the cross-sectional area of the protrusion 60 falls within the perimeter 50. In one aspect of this exemplary engaged state, the distal edge 43 of the instrument 16 provides alone, or in combination with the tapered ends 66 of the protrusions 60, an axial stopping point in the engagement of the instrument 16 with the vertebral anchor 14.
In another aspect of this exemplary engaged state, the likelihood of rotational disengagement between the instrument 16 and vertebral anchor 14 is minimal or negligible. Moreover, by providing for a tight fit between the protrusions 60 and female slots 44, the transfer of torque to the vertebral anchor 14 is facilitated. More particularly, torque applied at the gripping portion 40 of the instrument 16 is effectively transferred to the vertebral anchor 14, which allows the instrument to have a relative long elongate body 38.
While the exemplary instrument 16 of FIGS. 3A, 3B and 6-7 is depicted including two protrusions 60 that are equidistant from the axis 16 a of the instrument 16, persons of ordinary skill in the art will readily appreciate that the protrusions 60 may alternatively be of any number and not be equidistant from the axis 16 a.
While FIGS. 2-7 depict an exemplary embodiment as described above, it is contemplated that deviations from such embodiment can be reasonably made, alone or in combination. For example, and without limitation, the interface between the instrument 16 and vertebral anchor 14 may be such that the first engaging elements of the vertebral anchor 14 are in the form of male elements or protrusions as generally described above and the second engaging elements are in the form of female slots. Similarly, an interface may be such that any two of the first or second engaging elements described above may differ from one another. Accordingly, for example, and without limitation, a vertebral anchor may include a pair of first engaging elements of which one is trapezoidal in shape and the other is rectangular. In another specific embodiment, moreover, one or more of the first engaging elements (e.g., the trapezoidal female slots) may alternatively be completely enclosed within a perimeter of a top portion of the vertebral anchor, and therefore not define any portions of such perimeter. In other embodiments, the protrusions and female slots may be of a different shape such as round or square.
With reference to FIGS. 8-9, in which like numerals refer to like features of FIGS. 2-7, another embodiment of an installation system 80 for implantation of a spinal stabilization system is shown. The installation system 80 is similar in most respects to the embodiment of FIGS. 2-7, the description of which may be referred to for an understanding of the embodiment of FIGS. 8-9 as well. The installation system 80 includes a vertebral anchor 14 in the form of a pedicle screw having a shank 26 and a top portion 24 that is engaged by an instrument 86 similar in most respects to the instrument 16 of FIGS. 3-4 and 6-7. Accordingly, the instrument 86 includes an elongate body 87 and a guiding slot 89. The vertebral anchor 14 includes a pair of first engaging elements in the form of female slots 44 that defines an interface with the instrument 86. In one aspect of this embodiment, engagement motion is similar also to that described above for the embodiments of FIGS. 2-7 and follows the general direction of arrow 88.
The instrument 86 includes a pair of second engaging elements in the form of male elements or protrusions 90 disposed to be in registration with and closely matching the cross-sectional shape of the female slots 44. Each of the protrusions 90 includes, at a distal end thereof, fingers 92 having a tapered end 94 to facilitate insertion into the female slot 44. Each of the exemplary fingers 92 is depicted having a generally cylindrical shape i.e., having a circular cross-sectional shape, although other shapes are contemplated as well. For example, and without limitation, the fingers 92 may alternatively have a square, rectangular or polygonal cross-sectional shape. Likewise, the tapered end 94 is depicted having a convex shape, although other shapes including or not including arcuate segments are contemplated as well.
With continued reference to FIGS. 8-9, and in one aspect of the shown embodiment, each finger 92 includes a outwardly extending member in the form of a ring member 98 disposed about a reference axis (not shown) of the finger 92 and positioned proximate a base portion 100 of the finger 92. The ring member 98 may be coupled to or, alternatively, integral with other portions of the finger 92 or main body 102 of the protrusion 90. In another aspect of this embodiment, the ring member 98 may include a resilient structure such that it takes the form of an outwardly biasing member. Moreover, the ring member 98 may be shaped to protrude radially beyond the plane defined by the outer surfaces of the main body 102.
In operation, and during engagement of the instrument 86 with vertebral anchor 14 as indicated by the arrow 88 (FIG. 8), the ring member 98 may provide additional guidance into the female slot 44. More particularly, the exemplary ring member 98, by protruding beyond the plane defined by the outer surfaces of the main body 102, creates a tight fit between a protrusion 90 and a corresponding female slot 44, thereby guiding the protrusion 90 into the female slot 44 along a relatively narrow path.
The shape, relative dimensions and material defining the ring members 98 may be such that a relatively large level of frictional engagement is created between the protrusions 90 and female slots 44. Accordingly, the ring member 98 may facilitate axial retention of the protrusion 90 of which it is part within the corresponding female slot 44. This retention is in addition to the rotational restriction described above for the embodiment of FIGS. 2-7 and which is applicable to the installation system 80 of FIGS. 8-9 as well.
With particular reference to FIG. 9, the installation system 80 is shown in an engaged state. In this exemplary state, a distal surface 104 of the instrument 86 provides an axial stopping point of the instrument 86 relative to the vertebral anchor 14, when in contact with an upper surface 106 thereof Moreover, the tapered ends 94 are shown not being in contact with a base surface 45 of the female slots 44. Persons of ordinary skill in the art will readily appreciate that, alternatively, the tapered ends 94 may alone, or in combination with the distal surface 104, provide an axial stopping point of the instrument 86 relative to the vertebral anchor 14.
Variations of the exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 8-9 are contemplated. These variations may include, without limitation, any of the exemplary variations, alone or in combination, made in regard to any of the above embodiments or features thereof.
With reference to FIGS. 10-11, in which like reference numerals refer to like features of FIGS. 2-9, an alternative embodiment of an installation system 110 for implantation of a spinal stabilization system is shown. The installation system 110 is similar in most respects to the embodiment of FIGS. 8-9, the description of which may be referred to for an understanding of the embodiment of FIGS. 10-11 as well. The installation system 110 includes a vertebral anchor 114 in the form of a pedicle screw having a shank 26 and a top portion 124 that is engaged by an instrument 86 similar in most respects to the instrument 86 of FIGS. 8-9. Accordingly, the instrument 86 includes an elongate body 87 and a guiding slot 89. The vertebral anchor 114 includes a pair of first engaging elements in the form of female slots 126 that define an interface with the instrument 86. In one aspect of this embodiment, engagement motion is similar also to that described above for the embodiments of FIGS. 8-9 and follows the general direction of arrow 128.
The female slots 126 of the top portion 124 are similar in most respect to the female slots 44 of FIGS. 8-9 but include one or more recesses 130 configured to receive the ring member 98 therein. More particularly, each recess 130 is configured alone, or in combination with other recesses 130, to receive all or at least a portion of the ring member 98.
With particular reference to FIG. 11, in which the installation system 110 is shown in an engaged state, the ring member 98 is depicted occupying the volume defined by each of the recesses 130, thereby establishing an axial position of the instrument 86 relative to the vertebral anchor 114 (i.e., an axial position of the protrusions 90 relative to the female slots 126). Moreover, engagement of the ring member 98 within the recesses 130 facilitates axial retention of the protrusions 90 within the female slots 126. Accordingly, engagement of the ring member 98 within the recesses 130 enhances axial stability of the instrument 86 relative to the vertebral anchor 114.
In one aspect of this embodiment, and as described above with reference to the embodiment of FIGS. 8-9, the ring member 98 may include a resilient structure such that the ring member 98 takes the form of an outwardly biasing member. This resiliency may further be such that the ring member 98 is pushed inwardly (i.e., toward the reference axis of the finger 92) as the protrusion 90 and, more specifically, the finger 92 travels along surfaces defining the female slot 126. Moreover, this resiliency may be such that the ring member expands outwardly when exposed to the recesses 130.
With continued reference to FIGS. 10-11, while the shown embodiment depicts a female slot 126 including at least two recesses 130, it is contemplated that a first engaging element in the form of a female slot or any other suitable form may include recesses in any number. For example, and without limitation, a first engaging element may include only one recess that extends along a relatively large portion of the surfaces defining the female slot 126. Other variations may include, without limitation, any of the exemplary variations, alone or in combination, made in regard to any of the above embodiments or features thereof.
With reference to FIGS. 12-13, in which like reference numerals refer to like features of the embodiment of FIGS. 2-7, another embodiment of an installation system 140 is similar in most respects to the installation system 10 of FIGS. 2-7, the description of which may be referred for an understanding of the installation system 140 as well.
The installation system 140 includes a vertebral anchor 14 shown in phantom (FIG. 12) and which has a top portion 24 that includes a pair of first engaging elements in the form of female slots 44. An instrument 142 having an elongate body 144 and a pair of second engaging elements in the form of male elements or protrusions 146 permit engagement of the vertebral anchor 14 such that it may be actuated into engagement with a vertebra (FIG. 1). The instrument 142 further includes an actuator in the form of a gripping portion 150, a guiding slot 152, both of which are respectively similar in most respects to the gripping portion 40 and guiding slot 152 of FIG. 3, the description of which may be referred to for an understanding of these features as well.
In the exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 12-13, the protrusions 146, which are similar in most respects to the protrusions 90 of FIGS. 3A and 3B, are surrounded by a pair of projections or shields 160. The shields 160 are disposed radially outward from or beyond (i.e., relative to an axis 142 a of the instrument 142) the protrusions 146. More particularly, and with particular reference to FIG. 13, the protrusions 146 and shield 160 may form a continuous body at a point away from the distal surfaces 164 of the protrusions 146. In this regard, accordingly, each of the protrusions 146 and corresponding shield 16 o become separate components at least at a point proximate the distal surfaces 164. In one aspect of this embodiment, and still referring to the view of FIG. 13, a protrusion 146 and corresponding shield 160 may be integrally formed or alternative coupled to one another. FIG. 13 depicts an integral protrusion 146 and shield 16 o construction. Alternatively, the instrument 142 can be movable along the axis 142 a of the instrument 142 and, thus, not of an integral construction.
With reference to FIGS. 12-13, the shields 160 are disposed outside of the perimeter 50 of the top portion 24 of the vertebral anchor. Operationally, the shields 16 o restrict radially outward movement or splaying of the protrusions 146. In this regard, accordingly, the shields 16 o may permit a relatively high force to be applied to against the vertebral anchor 14 with a minimal or negligible likelihood of splaying of the protrusions 146.
Variations of the exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 12-13 are contemplated. These variations may include, without limitation, any of the exemplary variations, alone or in combination, made in regard to any of the above embodiments or features thereof.
With reference to FIGS. 14-17, different exemplary embodiments of instruments of installation systems in accordance with the above embodiments are depicted. With reference to FIGS. 14-15, an embodiment of an instrument 190 includes an actuator 194 that includes a polygonal gripping portion 194 a, as well as a guide wire 196. The guide wire may also include a hole or cannulation through its center to accommodate a K-wire that may be used in a minimally invasive procedure. The instrument 190 further includes a pair of protrusions 198 similar in most respects to the protrusions 178 of the exemplary instruments 16 of FIGS. 3A and 3B and which are suitably designed to engage corresponding portions of a vertebral anchor. In one aspect of this embodiment, and unlike the embodiments depicted in FIGS. 2-13, the instrument 190 includes a substantially continuous tubular structure or cannula 193 defined by walls 193 a of the instrument 190.
The exemplary instrument 190 includes, as mentioned above, a guide wire 196 (e.g., a flexible guide wire), which is disposed within the cannula 193. Moreover, a securing member 200 in the form of a set screw is coupled to a distal end 196 a of the guide wire 196. Operationally, the protrusions 198 engage and rotate a vertebral anchor in ways as described with regard to the embodiments of FIGS. 2-13. For example, the actuator 194 may be rotated by gripping the gripping portion 194 a thereof with a suitable tool such as a wrench, which in turn causes rotation of the vertebral anchor, which thereby engages a vertebra.
In one aspect of the embodiment of FIGS. 14-15, the guide wire 196 is held in a fixed rotational position relative to the cannula 193. More specifically, a retaining structure 202 in the form of a retaining spring or clip is coupled to the guide wire 196 and the cannula 193, thereby restricting rotation of the guide wire 196 relative to the cannula 193. Accordingly, actuation (e.g., rotation) of the instrument 190, for example by gripping and rotating the gripping portion 194 a, similarly causes rotation of the guide wire 196.
With continued reference to the embodiment of FIGS. 14-15, a subsequent step in the installation of a spinal stabilization system may involve decoupling of the retaining clip 202 from the cannula 193 and guide wire 196, such that the guide wire 196 may be rotated independently from the cannula 193. More particularly, the rotational position (i.e., about a longitudinal axis 204 of the cannula 193) of the cannula 193 may be held constant by engagement with the implanted anchor (not shown) and the guide wire 196 rotated to cause rotation of the securing member 200 coupled to the distal end 196 a of the guide wire 196. Rotation of the securing member 200, in turn, engages a corresponding surface of the vertebral anchor, such as, for example a threaded region similar to the threaded region 33 of the embodiment of FIGS. 5 and 7. Engagement of a threaded region as described above secures the securing member 200 against the vertebral anchor and may further secure a spinal fixation connecting element 78 against the vertebral anchor.
The securing member 200 may subsequently be decoupled from the guide wire 196 and the guide wire 196 removed from within the cannula 193 or, alternatively, the guide wire 196 and the other portions of the instrument 190 may be jointly removed from the surgical site i.e., away from the vertebral anchor. In one aspect of the exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 14-15, coupling of the securing member 200 to the guide wire 196 may take the form of a releasable coupling known to those of ordinary skill in the art. For example, and without limitation, this coupling may include engaging cooperating surfaces of the distal end 196 a and securing member 200 and/or include a frangible connection.
In other embodiments, the guide wire 196 can be eliminated from the instrument 190 allowing for access to the vertebral anchor 14 through the cannula 193. In this embodiment, a securing element such as a set screw (not shown) may be passed through the cannula 193 to the vertebral anchor 14 for securing a connecting element 18. For example, the set screw may be engaged by the hex end of a driver and then passed into the cannula 193 with the handle of the driver extending outside of and beyond the gripping portion 194 of the instrument 190.
With reference to FIGS. 16-17, an alternative embodiment of an instrument 210 includes a cannula actuator 214 that includes a polygonal gripping portion 214 a, as well as a guide wire 216 and corresponding guide wire actuator 218. The guide wire may also include a hole or cannulation through its center to accommodate a K-wire that may be used in a minimally invasive procedure. The instrument 210 further includes a pair of protrusions 220 similar in most respects to the protrusions 178 of the exemplary instruments 16 of FIGS. 3A and 3B and which are suitably designed to engage corresponding portions of a vertebral anchor (not shown). In one aspect of this embodiment, and similar to the instrument 190 depicted in FIGS. 14-15, the exemplary instrument 210 includes a substantially continuous tubular structure or cannula 223 defined by walls 223 a of the instrument 210.
The exemplary instrument 210 includes, as mentioned above, a guide wire 216 (e.g., a flexible guide wire), which is disposed within the cannula 223. Moreover, a securing member 230 in the form of a set screw is coupled to a distal end 216 a of the guide wire 216. Operationally, the protrusions 220 engage and rotate a vertebral anchor in ways as described with regard to any of the above embodiments (FIGS. 2-15). For example, the cannula actuator 214 may be rotated by gripping the gripping portion 214 a thereof with a suitable tool such as a wrench, which in turn causes rotation of the vertebral anchor, which thereby engages a vertebra.
In one aspect of the embodiment of FIGS. 16-17, the guide wire 216 is held in a fixed rotational position relative to the cannula 223. More specifically, a retaining structure 232 in the form of a retaining pin extends through and couples the guide wire 216 and the cannula 223, thereby restricting rotation of the guide wire 216 relative to the cannula 223. Accordingly, actuation (e.g., rotation) of the instrument 210, for example by gripping and rotating the gripping portion 214 a, similarly causes rotation of the guide wire 216.
With continued reference to the exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 16-17, a subsequent step in the installation of a spinal stabilization system may involve decoupling of the retaining structure 232 from the cannula 223 and guide wire 216, such that the guide wire 216 may be rotated independently from the cannula 223. More particularly, the rotational position (i.e., about a longitudinal axis 234 of the cannula 223) of the cannula 223 may be held constant by engagement with the implanted vertebral anchor (not shown) and the guide wire 216 rotated to cause rotation of the securing member 230 coupled to the distal end 216 a of the guide wire 216. Rotation of the guide wire 216 may be effected by suitably rotating the guide wire actuator 218. Rotation of the securing member 230, in turn, engages a corresponding surface of the vertebral anchor, such as, for example a threaded region similar to the threaded region 33 of the embodiment of FIGS. 5 and 7. Engagement of a threaded region as described above secures the securing member 230 against the vertebral anchor and may further secure a spinal fixation connecting element 18 against the vertebral anchor.
The securing member 230 may subsequently be decoupled from the guide wire 216 and the guide wire 216 removed from within the cannula 223 or, alternatively, the guide wire 216 and the other portions of the instrument 210 may be jointly removed from the surgical site i.e., away from the vertebral anchor. In one aspect of the exemplary embodiment of FIGS. 16-17, coupling of the securing member 230 to the guide wire 216 may take the form of a releasable coupling known to those of ordinary skill in the art. For example, and without limitation, this coupling may include engaging cooperating surfaces of the distal end 216 a and securing member 230 and/or include a frangible connection.
Referring now to FIGS. 18A-21, use of instruments 240 to install components of the spinal stabilization system 12 to the vertebrae 17 of a spine will now be described. With reference to FIGS. 18A-C, the exemplary instrument 240 includes protrusions 242 at a distal end 244, which are similar in most respects to the protrusions 90 of FIGS. 3A and 3B. The instrument 240 also includes a substantially straight portion 246 at the distal end 244 and a substantially straight handle portion 248 at a proximal end 249 of the instrument 240. Between the proximal end 249 and the distal end 244, the instrument 240 includes a first curved portion 250 and second curved portion 252 shaped to facilitate the installation of a flexible element 19 between the vertebral anchors 14. The instrument of FIGS. 18A-C also includes a guiding slot 254 that includes a tapered region 254 a that may improve the installation of a connecting element 18 between vertebral anchors 14. The instrument 240 can be formed of a rigid material such as metal or can be constructed in whole or part with one or more flexible materials.
With reference to FIG. 19, the connecting element 18 and flexible member 19 are coupled together and positioned above the instruments 240 and then moved down in a direction toward the spine. The instruments 240 can be coupled together in an open procedure to provide a guide for the insertion of a connecting element 18 and a flexible member 19 like instruments 16 are coupled to the vertebral anchors 14 in FIG. 1. In other embodiments, the instruments 240 can be positioned so the substantially straight portion 246 at the distal end 244 of each of the instruments are parallel. This configuration may be used in more minimally invasive procedures that use retractor or portal systems. In another embodiment, the instrument 240 can be configured without curved portions 250, 252 and be substantially straight from the distal end 244 to the handle portion 248 forming an angle at the junction of the handle portion 248 and the portion of the instrument 240 that engages the connecting element 18 and flexible member 19.
Referring now to FIG. 20, the surgeon continues to move the connecting element 18 and flexible member 19 construct toward the spine of the patient. The surgeon may use a pushing instrument 256 to aid in movement of the connecting element 18 and flexible member 19 construct. The pushing instrument 256 may include a handle portion 258, a shaft 260 and a mating portion 262 that engages the flexible member 19. Alternatively, the pushing instrument 256 can include a mating portion that engages the connecting element or both the connecting element and the flexible member. The connecting element 18 can be passed into the guiding slot 254 during the movement of the flexible construct toward the spine. The surgeon can either use the instruments 240 to create distraction between the vertebrae. Alternatively, the flexible element 19 may create the distraction between the vertebrae as the flexible element 19 moves the instruments 240 apart as the flexible element 19 moves toward the spine.
Referring now to FIG. 21, the flexible member 19 is shown in position between the vertebral anchors 14 and the connecting element 18 is located within the vertebral anchors 14. Following release of the instruments 240 from the vertebrae, a securing member (not shown), such as set screw, may be engaged by a driver or other installation tool suitable to secure the connecting member 18 to the vertebral anchors. For example, the instruments shown in FIGS. 1-17 may be used to guide securing member into engagement with threads on the vertebral anchors 14. Following placement of the securing member, the outer ends of the connecting element 18 may be trimmed and the incision 20 closed to complete the installation.
Persons of ordinary skill in the art will readily appreciate that any one or more of the features described above with regard to any of the exemplary embodiments of FIGS. 1-21 may be combined with any other features and/or embodiments shown therein.
From the above disclosure of the general principles of this invention and the preceding detailed description of at least one embodiment, those skilled in the art will readily comprehend the various modifications to which this invention is susceptible. Therefore, it is intended for the invention to be limited only by the scope of the following claims and equivalents thereof.
wherein the first longitudinal axis is parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the threaded shaft and the second longitudinal axis is non-parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the threaded shaft.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein said first engaging element is further configured as a female element.
3. The system of claim 2 wherein said female element further comprises a generally trapezoidal shape.
4. The system of claim 1 wherein said second engaging element is further configured as a male element.
5. The system of claim 4 wherein said male element further comprises a generally trapezoidal shape.
6. The system of claim 1 wherein said slot is adapted to guide a connecting element of the spinal stabilization system into said channel of said top portion of said vertebral anchor.
a securing member configured to secure the connecting element of the spinal stabilization system in said channel of said top portion of said vertebral anchor.
8. The system of claim 1 wherein said second engaging element is fully confined within said perimeter of said top portion.
9. The system of claim 1 wherein said second engaging element further comprises a tapered end adapted to facilitate engagement thereof with said first engaging element.
10. The system of claim 1 wherein said distal end surface is at an oblique angle to the second longitudinal axis.
11. The system of claim 10 wherein said distal end surface abuts a top end surface of the top portion of the vertebral anchor when the installation tool is engaged therewith.
wherein each of said first engaging elements is configured to slidably receive one of said second engaging elements therein in a direction parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the threaded shaft.
13. The system of claim 12 wherein said first engaging elements are further configured as a trapezoidal-shaped female elements.
14. The system of claim 13 wherein said second engaging elements are further configured as a trapezoidal-shaped male elements.
15. The system of claim 12 wherein the elongate shaft includes a straight distal end portion extending along the longitudinal axis of the elongate shaft to the distal end of the elongate shaft.
a securing member configured to secure the connecting element of the spinal stabilization system in said channel of said top portion of said pedicle screw.
17. The system of claim 12 wherein said channel is a generally U-shaped channel generally aligned with the slot of the installation tool when said second engaging elements are slidably received in said first engaging elements.
wherein the first and second elongate slots of the head portion of the pedicle screw are configured to slidably receive the first and second protrusions of the installation tool.
19. The system of claim 18, wherein the head portion of the pedicle screw includes a generally U-shaped channel, wherein the elongate channel of the installation tool is generally aligned with the generally U-shaped channel when the installation tool is engaged with the head portion of the pedicle screw.
20. The system of claim 19, wherein the head portion has a longitudinal axis perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the generally U-shaped channel, wherein the elongate shaft of the installation tool is non-parallel to the longitudinal axis of the head portion when the installation tool is engaged with the head portion of the pedicle screw.
wherein the longitudinal axis of the first installation tool is non-parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the threaded shaft of the first pedicle screw.
22. The system of claim 21, wherein the longitudinal axis of the elongate shaft of the first installation tool diverges from the longitudinal axis of the elongate shaft of the second installation tool in a direction away from the first pedicle screw.
23. The system of claim 21, wherein the longitudinal axis of the elongate shaft of the second installation tool is non-parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the threaded shaft of the second pedicle screw.
24. The system of claim 21, wherein the top portion of the first pedicle screw includes a first elongate slot on a first side of the top portion and a second elongate slot on a second side of the top portion opposite the first side, the first and second elongate slots extending parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the threaded shaft of the first pedicle screw.
25. The system of claim 24, wherein the first installation tool includes first and second parallel protrusions extending distally from the elongate shaft of the first installation tool, the first and second protrusions being slidably inserted into the first and second elongate slots of the top portion of the first pedicle screw.
26. The system of claim 25, wherein the first and second protrusions extend parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the threaded shaft of the first pedicle screw.
ES2115767T3 (en) * 1993-05-11 1998-07-01 Synthes Ag Mounting for osteosynthesis and loose gear.
FR2715057A1 (en) 1994-01-18 1995-07-21 Breard Francis Henri overall device to stabilize the spine.
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Will #CharitableGiving Suffer Because of the Election?
Since the end of February 2016, the US Presidential candidates and their allied Super PACs have raised close to $1 billion. Some pundits believe that the candidates could spend up to $5 billion before the November General Election. And that’s just looking at the Presidential candidates. Candidates for other offices will also raise enormous sums of money.
The question for the nonprofit sector is this: Will charitable giving suffer because of the election this year?
Blackbaud researched the question and presented the findings of its report in the session “Giving in an Election Year – How Political Giving Impacts Nonprofit Support” at the 2016 AFP International Fundraising Conference.
The study examined the giving behavior of over 400,000 donors during the 2012 campaign year when Barack Obama and Mitt Romney battled for The White House. Researchers looked at giving data about those who did and did not contribute to political campaigns in 2012 and compared the information with charitable giving information from 2011.
The report acknowledges that the data paints a picture of 2012 without providing a prediction for 2016. More research is needed. Nevertheless, based on the Blackbaud report and multi-decade data from Giving USA, it’s likely that political giving will not negatively affect the nonprofit sector this year.
However, increased giving was not limited to those two sub-sectors. Most other sub-sectors also saw gains, though those gains were not as large. This is a positive sign for the nonprofit sector in general.
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I’ve been thinking a great deal about reflections of late. Not just in the literal sense, but also in a figurative one; I mean, we all spend so much of our lives reacting to things, don’t we? One action or situation causes something else to react to it, to reflect from it as a beam of light reflects from a mirror. Take my mum, for instance; had she not been born in a Victorian bordello, would she have become such an awful prude? And had she been less tightly-wound, would I have been so loose? She was like a left-handed reflection of my grandmother, and I in turn a reverse-image of her. Granny’s actions made her a wealthy woman, and my mum’s aversion to using what she considered a tainted legacy inadvertently preserved it all for my sister and I; then I in turn was shaped in part by not ever having to worry about money. Each generation reflecting from the one before it, endlessly into the past and future, like the row of images one sees when one faces two mirrors toward one another…an endless corridor stretching out in either direction, forever.
Near the end of the Twenties Granny decided she was too old for that sort of thing, and really couldn’t keep up any more. The place had declined quite a bit since its heyday in the Mauve Decade, but it was still very lucrative and could no doubt have supported Mum in fine style. But she would have none of it; though she had followed Granny into the business as expected, she never really embraced it, and as my sister Julia reached school age Mum began to fret about the effect of bringing her up in “that kind” of environment (meaning the same one she had been brought up in; my mother was not the most logical of women). She and Granny had a terrible row, and she stormed out with Julia; they didn’t speak again for several years. Granny sold the business, bought a lovely little place in a small village in Lincolnshire and retired to go bird-watching and fuss with roses. Mum opened a millinery shop, eventually married and was blessed with her only legitimate offspring (meaning me) in ’36. Undoubtedly she intended that I would never meet my grandmother, but Hitler had other plans; when it came time to evacuate us things were hastily patched up, I was given into the custody of Julia (who was seventeen then), and the two of us were bundled out to the country for the duration.
Looking back on it now, I can’t remember thinking of Granny as anything other than an absolutely marvelous old lady who was never too strict about how many biscuits I might have before tea. What I mean is, she seemed much of a muchness with the friends’ grandmothers I had known in London, only more attentive to me (as was to be expected). Nor did I sense anything odd about the relations between she and Mum when the latter came up for one of her frequent visits, though I do remember asking Julia why Dad never came up with her, and never receiving a satisfactory answer. Granny passed peacefully in her sleep in November of ’44; not long after that Julia (who had long since returned to London) married an American bomber pilot, and after the war they moved to California. Then in ’51 Dad (who was ten years older than Mum) succumbed to a heart attack, and that left me alone with an increasingly pious, frustrating and overprotective Mum who seemed to believe that demons were lurking behind every lamp-post and plotting to steal my virtue. I couldn’t get out of the house soon enough to suit me, and I’m a bit ashamed to say that I was less sorry than is proper when she followed Dad via stroke in ’63.
So there I was: barely twenty-seven, beautiful and rich; good business sense runs in the family, and my mother’s business was so healthy its sale more than tripled the trust fund Granny had established for me twenty years before. Most importantly, I was unencumbered by anything remotely resembling a chaperon. As you might expect I went a bit mad, but only socially: when it came to money, I was just as hard-headed and shrewd as Mum and Granny had been. Though I was willing to spend a bit more on a Highgate townhouse than was strictly prudent, I wasn’t about to buy all sorts of new furniture when there was plenty of lovely stuff in storage, much of it things from Granny’s brothel that she had been unwilling to lose when she sold it. And one of those items is the reason for my waxing philosophical of late, and for my writing this.
As I said there were many fine pieces, including some genuine antiques. And one of them was a huge mirror, large enough to cover most of the wall of a small chamber. I say “mirror” because that’s what it evidently was, though the glass had apparently undergone some curious degeneration which turned it a murky black. An expert pronounced the frame Elizabethan, but of a most peculiar design; he said it was almost unheard-of for one so large and so old to have survived with the glass intact, and offered me a ridiculous sum for it. But I was absolutely in love with it and had no need of more money, and I was sure this must have occupied some parlour in my Granny’s old brothel. The fact that it was useless as a looking-glass was immaterial; it was gorgeous and started many a conversation at my frequent parties. And that was even before the glass cleared.
It had occupied my wall for several years when the change came. One night, several of us were sitting on the floor dropping acid, when there was suddenly a strange shift in the appearance of the glass, as though one patch of the blackness had been suddenly stripped away and light was coming through from behind it. The rest rapidly cleared, and then I saw the image of two people in the glass…that is, two people who were not among those in the room. I immediately called my friends’ attention to it, but the view was gone as suddenly as it had appeared; however, it was now a perfectly normal, utterly clean reflective surface. The next day I put the fleeting glimpse of strange figures down to the action of the psychedelic, but the change in the glass was no hallucination: it now reflected the room as though I had replaced the darkened pane with a new sheet of glass. And that, in fact, is what the antique dealer angrily accused me of when I called to ask him how such a thing could happen; he angrily stormed out and cautioned me against wasting his time again in future.
My friends were not so irate as the expert when I told them what had happened, but were no more willing to believe; everyone insisted I was just trying to create a sense of mystery, or hinted that I had been doing too many drugs or watching too many Hammer films. So I stopped trying to convince anyone, and had almost stopped worrying about it when early one morning, while my guest was still upstairs asleep, I wandered into the room and once again saw the image of people – three of them this time – who were absolutely not there with me, despite the fact that I was absolutely sober. And though I use the word “people”, it was clear that these were not wholly human; they resembled us in much the same way as one breed of dog looks like another one: same general features, yet unmistakably different. The vision persisted for only a minute, and by the time I had made up my mind that this was not a figment of my imagination it once again showed only a normal reflection.
The phenomenon repeated itself infrequently and irregularly over the next few years. I was afraid, but not to the point of having it crated up again; after all, they were just images, startling but harmless, and Granny had apparently displayed it for decades without mishap. Furthermore, that was an era of exploration and expanding of consciousness; I was convinced that the images were a psychic manifestation rather than a supernatural one, perhaps an attempt at communication by beings from some other dimensional plane. But the glimpses of that world remained sporadic and wholly unpredictable, and eventually they began to unnerve me so much that I decided to return the glass to the state in which I had found it, stored in a dark crate.
quantum physics will unlock the occult, but it will provide neither comfort nor protection. Interesting story.
HPL collaborated on a story about a mirror, I have not yet read it, but it was panned on the HPL Literary Podcast (not that I always agree with them).
You and I share a love of mirrors as we’ve established. But I also enjoy the metaphysical discussions of what mirrors are in occult practices. There is a Doctor Who episode (there I go again! 😀 ) where a villain is condemned to reside in every mirror: she is what you see out of the corner of your eye as you pass a mirror, which is not your own reflection. Nice cliffhanger on this story, Maggie. Lets the reader concoct all sorts of theories on their own.
Beautiful story. It reminded me of something I wrote a while back. Anyway, thought you might like it.
Aim turned and looked at herself in the dress that she would not be married in. She examined it, the way it hung down around her waist. It was a beautiful dress.
The corner of her mouth turned up slightly in a lovely expression of the gentlest grace. But that was not how she felt. It was if she was being carried along, caught in the wake of some other life that could never be hers.
Aim was an odd girl with an odd name. Perhaps if she had been a little different it could have been the other way around. The woman he was with, and not her, was so very much like her: the way her expressions flitted across her face, the depth of her green eyes, the tangle of her black hair. But when she laughed, the sound didn’t catch in her throat the way it did in Aim’s. Aim had so much inside her, she wanted to pour it all out, but she was always silent.
Aim was not quite right.
She had taken to following her. At first, it was that everywhere she looked, there she was. But now she couldn’t stop. She felt that if she lost this woman in the alleys of the city, she would lose herself as well. She couldn’t remember when her life hadn’t been that of a marionette with this hateful creature on the other end of her strings. Darting across streets, and looking out from the other side of windows, her life was only this obsession.
Sometimes she was found out. Sometimes this person would look right at her, her eyes falling across Aim’s face with such complete indifference that Aim felt only cruelty, though there wasn’t a hint of it in her mouth.
Aim’s hand ran through her hair. Her finger ran above her eye, and came to rest against her temple. She wanted it to slide, up, pierce her iris, watch the blood trickle down her cheek. Then she would see how she felt, she would look how she felt. And then she would put out the other one, and she wouldn’t have to look anymore. But she couldn’t.
The other day she had caught Aim looking at her through a café window. The woman was alone. She looked at Aim and, for a moment, it was as if she looked right through her, behind her, down into her very soul and right at the thing she wanted most in the world. And she smiled in recognition of that person that Aim loved- that person that Aim loved but could not have, but she could.
Now she was looking at the same dress that that other woman could call her wedding dress, and Aim could not. It hung down around her just as well as the bride. It was a beautiful dress.
Aim knew she shouldn’t go there, shouldn’t have to see that day that could not belong to her.
But she would. She would stay somewhere, unnoticed, in the corners, where the glances of all those other, uncaring, unreal guests, who had come invited, and not slipped in unasked, would pass her by without comment. And the priest would ask, and she would want to break out of this prison of soundlessness, to walk down that aisle, to just once have them see her, her and not that other woman who was the inversion of all that she was, and just once to touch him, if only for that one fleeting moment, before passing back into a lifetime where everything was beyond a pane of glass.
But she wouldn’t. She would stay there, wearing the dress that was the mirror image of the bride’s, and mouthing silently along to words that were not addressed to her.
It was a beautiful dress. Content, Mia turned and left the fitting room. And Aim followed, flitting out of the looking glass, cast about behind the bride, in every window and every reflection, following like a bride’s tattered train.
This story confirms my feeling that mirrors are something it’s better not to think about too deeply….
Hmm. Maybe it’s slow glass, from Light of Other Days.
A few decades before the 1960s with it’s acid-dropping, Spiritualism was a big thing. Seances and such were being held everywhere from abandoned houses to graveyards to private homes to… brothels. It has been said that mirrors which reflect occultist rituals become windows into other worlds.
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I wouldn’t say I am distressed, but it certainly is different from life on Ometepe Island, Nicaragua.
I am lost and bewildered when I enter a grocery store. Yesterday, I stood in front of the canned baked beans and cried…10 different types of baked beans? In Nicaragua, it was always fun to shop; I never knew what unexpected treasure hidden among the shelves I would find. Dill pickles, pretzels, and dark chocolate were treats. Now, with too many choices, it is more of a frustrating experience.
2. The leaves change color!
Oh how I love fall! In Nicaragua the leaves crumble and fall off the trees without changing colors. The gorgeous displays of the Maple leaves are eye-popping.
It is a rainy day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which gives me an opportunity to relax from the tourist mode and write about one of our recent adventures, the Delta of Tigre.
Getting to Tigre from Buenos Aires was an adventure itself. Transferring from the green line subway to the blue line subway to the train during rush hour was an experience in which we not only survived, but thrived! With over one million commuters daily, we were jammed and packed like sardines into the subways and train. It reminded us of the chicken buses in Nicaragua, except the train had air conditioning! Good thing we went heavy on the deodorant. All I could see above me were armpits!
An hour and a half later, we arrived in Tigre ready to board the vintage mahogany commuter boat bus to explore miles and miles of interconnecting streams, rivers, and channels through the delta.
Tigre is the starting point to the Paraná Delta. Once home to jaguars, or tigers, the charming waterways are lined with spas, hotels, restaurants, mansions, and thriving water communities. The river is always at the door.
We have always preferred to explore on our own, and found the local Interisleña boat buses, which truly function like buses, dropping off and picking up people along the numerous waterways in the Delta. For $15 rt for both, we could hop on and off to our wandering delight. It sure beat the crowded and expensive tourist ferries and catamarans that only travel on the large rivers and drop off tourists at the most expensive restaurants on the river.
This is a quote we live by…our mantra for financial security and happiness.
We leave for Uruguay and Argentina next week, so I have to prepare for our house sitter, which includes paying bills and planning ahead financially.
It is always a good time for me to report on our monthly expenses because I have receipts and bills spread out on my kitchen table. This time, I am dividing our financial “happiness” into four categories. Let me explain how this works for us. But, first a breakdown of February 2018 expenses.
Total February 2018 expenses = $1,467 Plus, $31 a month for SKY TV. I forgot to include SKY when I made the pie graph because it is the only bill we pay with our credit card and I didn’t want to make a new pie chart.
My children’s library topped our expenses this month because I gave my librarian a raise and put him on a yearly salary including health insurance. Then, our internet provider GGnet, graciously provided my library with free internet if I would purchase the equipment. The dish, cable, router, special surge protector, and installation was $500…but well worth the expense to open the door to the world of education through technology for the teachers and students.
The utilities include water ($3), electric ($58), internet ($115), phone plan ($52), and SKY satellite TV ($31).
The monthly university tuition for our goddaughter is $100. That includes her food, lodging, and books and materials she needs. She is starting her third year of university in March. She is a communication and theater major in Leon and we are so proud of her.
Our property taxes are due once a year. If we pay before March 15th, we get a 10% discount. $39 for two houses and 2 1/2 acres of beach front property on the lake. Not bad, huh?
Miscellaneous includes a bottle of propane, gas for the motorcycle, and emergency money for our house sitter.
Don Alberto was pleased with the advise, and the next day, he chose his sharpest stone-carving tools, which consisted of two sharpened pieces of rebar, a stone hammer, and a metal blade, and trekked through the valley below to find the perfect cliffs to begin his once-in-a-lifetime dream of honoring God, family, and love of nature and animals.
Along the stone paths worn by his daily treks, he planted coffee trees, bromeliads, and orchids that he treasured. Today, Don Alberto’s 40 something years of stone-carving are his tribute and gift to Tisey Estanzuela Natural Reserve outside the town of Esteli that he calls home.
Welcome to Finca El Jalacate, sculptures in rock.
Don Alberto is a spry 72-year-old, with a snow-white afro and suntanned skin with weathered lines etched into his face that kind of resemble his carvings. He attributes his healthy lifestyle to working every day of his life. He said that even when he is sick (which isn’t often), he prefers to carve rocks than stay in his bed. He enjoys visiting the 60 thousand visitors he has had throughout his adventures in rock carving, and explains with joy the many details in his carvings.
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Week 23 @Norris Dam State Park in Norris, TN.
I couldn’t decide between the above edit or this one. They each have a different feel.
Which edit do you like better?
Week 24 Swimming while visiting family in Northern Kentucky.
Week 25 Took a new headshot for Facebook and Twitter.
I hope you all have enjoyed this months edition of project 52.
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Derek and the Dominos, Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs was recorded in August through October of 1970. It is is particularly breathtaking in its remixed “20th Anniversary Edition” released in 1990 on CD in a three-disc box set which included two discs of jams, outtakes, and alternate tracks which are somewhat interesting but not really noteworthy.
IIRC, although Derek and the Dominos did some touring they were basically a bunch of guys brought together at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida to cut some tracks. The line-up was: Eric Clapton (guitars, vocals); Duane Allman* (guitars); Bobby Whitlock (organ, piano, vocals); Carl Radle (bass, percussion); and Jim Gordon (drums, percussion, piano); with Albhy Galuten** (piano) on “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out.” “Layla” itself, which while good is not the best cut on the double-album, did not stand up well*** to the stupifying radio overplay it received at the time.
*On all but three of the fourteen tracks.
**Which sounds suspiciously like a pseudonym to me, but I couldn’t tell you for whom.
A Google search suggests that Albhy Galuten, despite having a name that looks like an anagram for something else, may be real enough to have some institute of higher learning proud to claim him as an alumnus.
I am a musicologist, after all. Research is my specialty!
I actually think "Layla" is unusual among FM-radio workhorses in that it's stood up to being overplayed just fine. It's an all-time monster of hookiness.
Blech; it looks like we shan't be riding up to Fusion together after all.
How long is your theoretical layover in Chi-town? My other oxygen molecule and I have a favorite restaurant where you would be stopping, and he would very much like to meet you.
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November 22, 2018 December 5, 2018 James K. Lambert1 Comment on 3. Oliver Stone’s JFK is a pack of lies.
3. Oliver Stone’s JFK is a pack of lies.
In 2013, before I attended the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination or made my feature, Conspiracy Theorists Lie, I made this video about a few of the many lies in Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991).
For a more comprehensive list see, “The JFK 100: One Hundred Errors of Fact and Judgment in Oliver Stone’s JFK,” by Dave Reitzes. Like me, Reitzes was a big fan of Stone’s film and a fervent believer in a conspiracy, for a time, but the more he looked into the actual facts of the case, the less he was able to justify or defend Stone’s work. We discussed this in an interview I did with him a couple years ago.
Previous 2. “Back and to the left,” is consistent with the laws of physics.
Next 4. Jim Garrison was a homophobe, not a hero.
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Tall structures have been in existence for centuries. The Great Pyramid of Giza, built in the 26th Century BC, was as high as 480 feet high. The Towers of Bologna, constructed in the 12th Century AD, topped out at about 320 feet for the tallest tower. Although these were tall structures, they did not perform the same functions that today’s modern high-rise does. The purpose of the modern high-rise building is to maximize building area in the smallest lot area. The modern high-rise rose to prominence when two significant developments were achieved: steel frame construction and the safety elevator.
Steel frame construction allowed buildings of great height without the use of loadbearing walls, since this would have required thick walls at the base that would have rendered the lower stories useless. Steel frame construction acts like a skeleton upon which the lighter weight building skin is attached. The safety elevator provided a rapid means of travel to the upper floors without having to use stairs. The “safety” aspect is a braking device that would stop the elevator cab should it drop uncontrollably from equipment or cable failure.
From a life safety perspective, the high-rise poses unique situations not found in buildings of lower height. Regarding egress, most high-rise buildings have relatively small floor areas making the travel distance to an exit stairway well within the limitations of the International Building Code (IBC). However, long travel down the stairs is slow compared to egress through corridors and exit passageways. Additionally, the heights associated with high-rise buildings make it more difficult to fight fires at the extreme elevations.
How ‘High’ is a High-Rise Building?
This discussion regarding building height leads to the prime question: at what height is a building considered a high-rise? A high-rise building is defined in Chapter 2 of the IBC as a “building with an occupied floor located more than 75 feet (22 860 mm) above the lowest level of fire department vehicle access.” Unlike the standard building height dimension regulated by the IBC, the height for determining a high-rise building is determined by two different points of measurement: 1) the lowest level of fire vehicle access and 2) the highest occupied floor (See Figure 1).
Regarding the bottom point of measurement, if a building is constructed on a site that has varying grade levels around its perimeter, the measurement is not to be taken at the grade plane as defined by the IBC. Rather, the dimension is measured to the actual surface of the ground or pavement that is accessible by fire department vehicles. This measurement point can be above or below the grade plane.
For the upper measurement point, this is taken at the floor level and not the overall height of the building. For example, if a building has an overall height of 80 feet, but the highest occupied floor is at 70 feet, it is not considered a high-rise building. However, if the building has an occupied roof (i.e. roof decks, but excluding occupancy for maintenance purposes), some building officials would consider the roof as an “occupied floor,” thereby making the roof and not the enclosed floor below the point of measurement.
Knowing where to take the measurement is important, but why is the measurement limited to 75 feet? To understand this, you have to understand firefighting capabilities. Although platform and aerial ladder fire trucks have reaches that exceed 75 feet, geometry may factor into the actual reach capabilities of the fire department. Although the measurement is to the ground level of the fire department access, there is no requirement for how close the access must be to the building beyond the International Fire Code (IFC) requirement that fire access roads extend to within 150 feet of all portions of a building’s first story. Therefore, the farther the fire truck is from the building, the lower the height it can reach. The Insurance Services Office (ISO), which rates fire departments, has set a maximum reach of 100 feet to achieve maximum points in this category.1 This gives the fire department a 25-foot margin if they encounter differing circumstances at incident sites, such as the location of the fire lane from the building.
Section 403 of the IBC establishes the minimum requirements for high-rise buildings. This section starts off with a list of buildings that, by definition, are high-rise buildings but are considered exceptions to the special requirements. These include airport traffic control towers, open parking garages, Group A-5 buildings, special industrial occupancies, and Group H-1, H-2, and H-3 occupancies. This section adds supplementary requirements beyond the basic requirements in other sections of the IBC. However, this section also modifies some basic requirements for high-rise buildings or exempts them from some basic requirements.
As a result of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City, the IBC incorporated a number of revisions over time within the 2006, 2009, and 2012 editions—the majority of which were implemented in the 2009 edition. These revisions were implemented to increase the protection of building elements and enhance the means of egress systems in high-rise buildings. In the 2006 IBC, a specific distinction was made between two types of high-rise buildings: those that are not greater than 420 feet in building height and those that are greater than 420 feet in building height. You will notice that, unlike the definition of a high-rise building, this height is measured according to the IBC definition of building height, which is between the grade plane and the average roof height of the highest roof.
If a high-rise building is equipped with sprinkler control valves that have both supervisory initiating devices and water-flow initiating devices at each floor,3 then the fire-resistive ratings associated with the construction type could be reduced. A Type IA high-rise building that is not greater than 420 feet is permitted to be constructed using fire-resistance ratings equal to that of Type IB construction, except that the fire-resistance rating of columns supporting floors cannot be reduced. A Type IB high-rise building—except for Group F-1, M, and S-1 occupancies—is permitted to be constructed using the fire-resistance ratings of Type IIA construction. For either of these two reductions, the use of the building height and area limitations for the original construction type are permitted. For example, a Type IB, Group B high-rise building may reduce the fire-resistance rating of its building elements to that of Type IIA construction per IBC Table 601, but the height and area of the building is still limited to that of Type IB construction per IBC Chapter 5.
Although not specific to high-rise buildings, the definition of primary structural frame in the IBC was modified as a result of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) building code recommendations following its WTC research. The definition stipulates that lateral bracing is part of the primary structural frame if it is essential to the vertical stability of the building—even if the bracing does not carry any gravity loads. Therefore, if IBC Table 601 requires a 2-hour rating for the primary structural frame, then lateral bracing for high-rise buildings would be considered essential to the building’s vertical stability and would be required to have an equal fire-resistance rating.
The IBC has one other reduction and one increase for high-rise buildings relating to fire resistance. The reduction applies to high-rise buildings not greater than 420 feet, and allows the fire barriers for vertical shafts—this does not include shafts for elevators and exit enclosures—to be reduced from 2 hours to 1 hour. The increase applies to sprayed fire-resistant materials, and increases the minimum bond strength from 150 psf (IBC Section 1705.13.6), to 430 psf for high-rise buildings up to 420 feet, and 1,000 psf for high-rise buildings greater than 420 feet (IBC Table 403.2.4).
Several changes and additions to the means of egress requirements have been introduced in the IBC for high-rise buildings. Some of these new requirements were controversial and were opposed by organizations such as the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA).
The most controversial requirement was an additional stairway for buildings more than 420 feet in height (IBC Section 403.5.2). For example, a building with multiple stories and an occupant load of 500 or less for each story would be required to have a minimum of two exits from each story. However, if that building exceeds 420 feet in height, then a third stairway would be required. This is to overcome the problem encountered at the WTC in 2001, when occupants were egressing down the stairs while firefighters were trying to work their way up the same stairs. Furthermore, if one exit is removed, the remaining exits must provide the total exit width calculated per Section 1005.1. This additional stairway requirement applies to all applicable high-rise buildings in all occupancy groups except for Group R-2.
Also related to exit stairways is the remoteness requirement (IBC Section 403.5.1). The remoteness requirement states that interior exit stairways be separated by a distance not less than 30 feet or ¼ of the overall diagonal of the building or area to be served, whichever is less. If three or more exit stairways are provided, at least two shall comply with the remoteness requirement. If interlocking stairs are provided, the stairs will be counted as a single exit stairway.
Per IBC Section 403.5.3, doors leading into exit stairways are permitted to be locked from the stairway side, provided that all doors can be unlocked—not unlatched—simultaneously upon a signal from the fire command center, which is discussed later in this article. For stairways where doors are locked from the stairway side, a two-way communication system connected to a “constantly attended station” must be provided on the stairway side at every fifth floor.
Stairways serving high-rise buildings are required to be constructed as smokeproof enclosures per IBC Section 403.5.4, which references IBC Sections 909.20 and 1022.10. Section 1022.10 establishes the basic requirements for interior exit stairways within smokeproof enclosures. The smokeproof enclosure must be accessed through a vestibule4 unless the pressurization alternative is implemented. The smokeproof enclosure must terminate at an exit discharge or a public way; however, it can be extended using an exit passageway. To do so, the exit passageway must be separated from the smokeproof enclosure with a fire door and have no other openings other than the door to the exit discharge. Other openings are permitted into the exit passageway provided it is accessed by vestibules like the smokeproof enclosure or is pressurized in the same manner as the smokeproof enclosure. If the exit passageway is pressurized in the same manner as the smokeproof enclosure, then the fire barrier and fire door between the smokeproof enclosure and exit passageway may be eliminated. Finally, the last exception permits the smokeproof enclosure to egress through areas on the level of exit discharge per IBC Section 1027.
Another requirement specific to high-rise buildings is the use of luminous markings for the egress path per IBC Section 1024. The only occupancy groups to which this applies are A, B, E, I, M, and R-1. This section explains in great detail what needs to be marked and how. If the stairway egresses through areas on the level of exit discharge, such as a lobby, the markings are not required in those areas.
The last egress requirement for high-rise buildings is actually an exception. IBC Section 1029 requires that Group R-2 occupancies be provided with emergency escape and rescue openings for all sleeping rooms in stories below the fourth story. However, because of the added protection and safety measures required of high-rise buildings, IBC Section 403.5.6 exempts high-rise buildings from having these openings.
Structural integrity is a set of requirements that was introduced in the 2009 IBC as a result of the WTC investigations. The structural integrity requirements, located in IBC Section 403.2.3, apply to interior stairways and elevators in high-rise buildings in Risk Category III or IV per IBC Table 1604.4 and all high-rise buildings that are more than 420 feet in height. The intent of this category is to ensure that elevators and interior stairways stay intact following a significant impact to those elements.
The Code Corner No. 41, “Gypsum Board Construction,” describes in greater detail the requirements for structural integrity for soft body impact. Although that article focuses on gypsum board (the most susceptible material likely to be used for these elements), the requirements apply to any material that is not masonry or concrete, which are exempted from the requirements. Additionally, any complete wall assembly that has been tested to Classification Level 3 for Hard Body Impact per ASTM C 1629, Standard Classification for Abuse-Resistant Nondecorated Interior Gypsum Panel Products and Fiber-Reinforced Cement Panels, is permitted to be used.
A fire command center (FCC) complying with IBC Section 911 is required in each high-rise building. The design professional can locate the FCC where it best suits the project, but the location must be approved by the fire official. The FCC must be separated from the rest of the building using 1-hour fire barriers, horizontal assemblies, or both. The size of the room must have a minimum area of 200 sq. ft. with a minimum dimension of 10 feet; therefore, a 20-foot by 10-foot room is the minimum requirement. IBC Section 911.1.5 provides a complete list of features that are required for the FCC. The layout of the FCC and its features must be approved prior to installation.
It probably goes without saying that high-rise buildings are required to be equipped with an automatic sprinkler system. IBC Section 403.3 requires a system complying with NFPA 13, except for parking garages and telecommunications equipment buildings. For buildings over 420 feet in height, a second riser is required for each sprinkler system zone. Furthermore, each riser must supply water to sprinklers on alternating floors. This prevents large, continuous blocks of stories from being unprotected should one riser fail for any reason. To maximize the survivability of the risers, risers must be located in stairways that are separated by a minimum of one-third the overall diagonal dimension of the building.
In addition to a sprinkler system, standpipe systems are also required for all high-rise buildings. Since high-rise buildings are required to have a sprinkler system, a Class I standpipe is the minimum requirement per Exception 1 to IBC Section 905.3.1. Hose connections are required at all floor levels above and below grade, and they shall be placed at intermediate landings between floors or as approved by the fire code official. If the high-rise building has a heliport, helistop, rooftop gardens, or landscaped roofs, then the standpipe is required to extend to the rooftop.
Fire pumps for all high-rise buildings must be supplied by connections to two separate water mains located on two separate streets per IBC Section 403.3.2. Two connections to the same main are permitted provided that the main has valves that can isolate a break and not interrupt the supply to no less than one of the connections. The piping connecting the fire pump to the two connections must also be separate. Connections and piping for each line must be sized so that each line can individually provide the required flow and pressure for the fire pump. Lastly, the room containing the fire pump must be separated from the rest of the building by fire barriers and horizontal assemblies with a fire-resistance rating of not less than 2 hours.
Several types of alarm, notification, and communication systems are specifically mandated for high-rise buildings. The first is a voice/alarm communication system, which shall operate upon activation of a smoke detector, manual alarm box, or sprinkler water-flow device. The voice/alarm communication system must sound a tone that is followed by evacuation instructions. The second is a smoke detection system, which requires detectors in mechanical, electrical, telephone, elevator, and similar type equipment rooms, as well as elevator lobbies. Duct smoke detectors are also required in main return air and exhaust air plenums of air conditioning systems with a capacity greater than 2,000 cfm and connections to vertical ducts or risers connecting two or more stories. The third and final system is a fire department communication system, which is wired and connects the FCC to the elevators, elevator lobbies, emergency and standby power rooms, fire pump rooms, areas of refuge, and exit stairways.
High-rise buildings, like any other new building, are required to have emergency responder radio coverage throughout the building per IFC Section 510. This requires that a system be installed in a building that ensures adequate radio communications between emergency responders. Exceptions allow a wired system if approved by the fire code official, no system if the fire code official determines the coverage is not needed, or the fire code official may allow an automatically activated system if it is determined that a continuously operating system would have a negative impact on the normal operation of the building.
Another provision added to the IBC in the 2009 edition is the requirement to provide mechanical or natural ventilation. The intent of this requirement is to provide a means for firefighters to expel the smoke after a fire event without requiring a full smoke control system that is specified in IBC Chapter 9. The requirement (IBC Section 403.4.7) identifies three methods: 1) manually operated windows or panels, 2) mechanical air equipment, or 3) an alternate method.
The first method requires easily identifiable windows or panels to be located around the perimeter of the building at 50-foot maximum intervals. The area of the openable units shall be based on 40 sq. ft. for every 50 feet of building perimeter. Thus, if a building has a 300-foot perimeter, it will need to provide a minimum of 6 windows or panels with each window or panel providing a minimum of 40 sq. ft. of openable area. There are two exceptions that modify this requirement. The first exception applies to Group R-1 buildings that have sleeping units or suites located along the exterior wall. This exception allows each sleeping unit or suite to provide an operable venting unit having an area of 2 sq. ft. in lieu of the main requirement. The second exception allows fixed windows, but the glass must be able to be easily removed by breaking or other means to achieve the required area.
The second method allows the use of mechanical air-handling equipment to exhaust the smoke directly to the exterior. The mechanical equipment must provide a minimum of one air change every 15 minutes. For example, if a floor has a volume of 55,500 cubic feet, then an exhaust system that provides a minimum airflow of 3,700 cfm is needed (55,500 cubic feet ÷ 15 minutes).
The third method allows an alternative method that is approved by the building official. If a building or a portion of a building is provided with a smoke control system in accordance with IBC Section 909, the building official may allow that system to be used instead of the less sophisticated methods described above.
It is ironic that today’s modern model life safety codes were developed as a result of a high-rise fire. In 1911, a fire occurred on the eighth floor of the ten-story Asch Building in New York City that left 146 occupants dead. Today, that building is called the Brown Building and is a part of the New York University campus in Greenwich Village. The fire, better known as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, was considered the deadliest building disaster in New York until the WTC collapse 90 years later.
The NFPA, after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, worked towards improving the life safety aspect of buildings and developed the Building Exits Code in 1927, which would over time become the NFPA 101, Life Safety Code. Also in 1927, the International Conference of Building Officials enacted the first Uniform Building Code, which incorporated construction and life safety requirements. Although a model building code did exist prior to 1911 by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, its focus was preventing collapse and limiting structural damage, and not protection of life safety.
Like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the WTC tragedy instigated sweeping changes to building and life safety codes with a greater emphasis on high-rise buildings. Even though many requirements have been added to the IBC and other codes based on the recommendations of NIST, not all of the recommendations have been adopted. Some of the proposals still under consideration include requiring buildings over 420 feet high to survive a complete burnout with only minor structural failure, requiring buildings not to experience a collapse that is disproportionate to the initiating failure (i.e. progressive collapse, such as that experienced by the WTC), and requiring a video surveillance system in exit stairways, elevator lobbies, elevator hoistways, and elevator equipment rooms for emergency responder situational awareness. These proposals may or may not be included in future editions of the IBC, but there will likely be other events that will trigger new changes, and the cycle will continue.
1 The measurement is to the roof and not the highest occupied floor level. If a community does not have a building with a roof height greater than 100 feet, then they will award maximum points if the fire department can reach the height of the highest building in the community. The ISO does not factor in the distance the apparatus is from the building; therefore, a straight up vertical reach that meets the minimum height satisfies the ISO requirement.
2 These construction types have a maximum building height of 65 feet. With a sprinkler system, the height can be increased to 85 feet, which means a floor could possibly be located above 75 feet without exceeding the maximum number of stories if large floor-to-floor heights are used.
3 Supervisory initiating devices monitor the status of critical operating features of an automatic sprinkler system to ensure proper operation when needed. Water-flow initiating devices send a signal to the fire alarm system when they detect water moving through an automatic sprinkler system due to an open sprinkler head.
4 In lieu of a vestibule, an open exterior balcony may be used. However, for high-rise buildings this may be an unlikely option to consider, especially for stories at great heights.
5 NFPA 110 requires that an indoor Level 1 system be enclosed in a room separated from the rest of the building with 2-hour construction. A level 1 system is defined by NFPA 110 as a system that “could result in the loss of human life or serious injuries.” The explanatory information for NFPA 110 indicates that the loads required by the IBC are considered those applicable to a Level 1 system.
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A glimpse behind the scenes of Andrew Barton’s 2011 British Hairdresser of the Year photoshoot.
This is a short film I made for celebrity hairdresser Andrew Barton. It was shot during the photoshoot for the images that make up his entry into this year’s British Hairdresser of the Year competition.
Andrew is probably best known as the hairdresser from Channel 4’s 10 Years Younger but also has his own Covent Garden salon and works around the world for most of the biggest hair and beauty companies.
He is a past winner of British Hairdresser of the Year (in 2006), this year’s winner will be announced on 28th November at a ceremony at Grosvenor House.
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The great Chicago Soda Tax of 2017 is as dead as the 8-Track. In what was a stunning turnaround in less than 6 months, Chicagoans are free again to drown on the latest alleged zero sugar sugary drink from Coke, without the undue burden of a penny per ounce tax. Was this a proxy defeat for Michael Bloomberg’s administrative nanny state and his chances of running for President in 2020?
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Every season has its must-have wardrobe items, and in winter, it’s all about being warm while remaining stylish. Here are 7 winter wardrobe essentials you need for all occasions.
Every season has its must-have wardrobe items, and in Autumn, it’s all about being warm while remaining stylish. Here are 6 Autumn wardrobe essentials you need for all occasions.
Whether you been dating for 2 months or married for 5 years.
They say there are five love languages and one of them is receiving gifts. Choose one of these finds; However, and you’ll cut through to him regardless.
Christmas Gift Ideas for Her..
Christmas is just around the corner so I thought I’d put together a few gift guides to give you some inspiration. It can be so hard to pick the right thing for her, so hopefully this sparks a few ideas if you’re stuck!
Spring is finally here, time has come to ditch the sweaters and boots and make way for a whole new season. Here are the 5 items you need to get your closet warm-weather ready.
Mother’s day is just around the corner. Your mom—who knows you best out of almost anyone—will be able to tell if you picked up a last-minute present on the way to brunch! So with that in mind, we’re here to help you find the perfect present for her. After all, our moms really do deserve the best!
We’ve rounded up 6 of the sweetest gifts we could find for the mothers in our lives. So, without further ado, here are a few ways to show your mom you love her.
The time slot is usually April but now May. The new focus for Mercedes Benz Fashion Week 2016 is Resort Collections. 55 designers will be showing in the runaway, Matiscevki will open the week’s festivities.
Starting on the 15th May all through 20th.
What to wear to a christmas party?
Holiday parties are your time to shine, what would be a perfect outfit for a christmas dinner , office soiree or the New Year’s party.
We have pulled out some perfect outfit ideas for all you ladies.
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The wedding of the year finally arrived! OK, so it wasn’t the wedding of the year in the Kimye sense (Indianapolis is almost just like Capri), but more so in that anticipation has been building for this weekend all year. A night to party with some of my favorite people? It’s was bound to be good—and it didn’t disappoint. I am so sore! I’ve never danced that much at a wedding (and I even managed to keep my heels on most of the night, I’ve very proud). I don’t think anybody danced more than the groom though, which is hilarious because he’s not typically a clubber (Did the beard give it away?). Peter was among the first people I met my freshman year at Indiana, one of my boys. The next day his parents said they’d never seen anyone enjoy their own wedding as much as Pete did. It’s something to aspire to. And we love Sarah, too! The two actually met in middle school, and Pete had a crush on her even then, but they didn’t start dating until a few years ago. She looked beautiful, and from what I hear, she was the opposite of a bridezilla (also something to aspire to). I know this picture isn’t good in technical terms, but I really liked it because it looks like a painting.
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The idea of f*cking in public places makes me extremely crazy ! The fear of being noticed excites me the most . The only thing I need is a partner . Any volunteers ?
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I created an introduction to the real world problem of Global Warming as part of my EDTECH 503 class. This class provided the road map of creating an Instructional Design as the designer rather than usual role as a teacher. Any comments are welcome because a valid Instructional Design should always warrant revisions in order to help learners master the content goal.
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Just checking in to say that I’ve received my compensation numbers for next year, including my bonus. I’m getting a much bigger chunk in added retirement contribution that I’ll be fully vested in right away.
1. Mini-vacation. One of my friends is getting married in California (where she now lives, though her wedding is in a different part of the state). I’m going to take this opportunity to do a mini-vacation. The area where her wedding is is not cheap, so we’ll be paying for flights and potentially a vacation condo instead of a hotel room. I’ll probably try to book that next month, but I’m keeping a watchful eye on flights.
2. A blender. I currently have a cheap $20 Walmart blender that I got after my slightly nicer one died. It’s eh. I’d like to get one that I can easily make baby food with, so I have my eye on a fancy one. On an unrelated note, I just bought a $30 rice cooker to make oatmeal with in the morning. Seeing as I’ve been spending $3 a day on oatmeal, this purchase should pay for itself in a couple of weeks.
3. Towels. When I lived in my last place I had shared laundry. Shared with many many people. The front-loaders always had a bit of a smell to them, which I feel like my towels picked up, and I’ve never been able to 100% get rid of it. So I’m hoping to buy a new set of bath sheets and towels. Probably at Target, because I’m still pretty cheap.
4. HSA. I’m putting $750 in my Health Savings Account. The last two years, I’ve put in $3,000-$4,000 to ensure that we had enough to pay for hubby’s LASIK, and having the boy. I’ve still got a couple thousand in there, and I have been contributing an amount from my paychecks, but I feel like a little extra won’t hurt (and I’m going to get hit with a lot of taxes on the bonus, so I might as well avoid tax on some of it).
5. 401(k): Like the last two years, I’ll contribute just enough to get the employer match.
Basically everything else will go towards student loan reduction.
I’m also getting a small promotion, and an accompanying raise. The raise isn’t anything too too crazy, but I’m happy with it, and it’s more than the cost of living adjustment that I generally expect to receive most years. My 401(k) has an annual increase program, and I’m signed up to bump up my pre-tax contribution 1 percentage point to 9%. I also contribute 2% on a Roth basis. I’m thinking next year I may make a similar increase to my Roth contribution. But either way, I’ve attempted to schedule the increase to coincide with the change in salary, so that I don’t even notice the increase. I’d like to eventually get up to contributing 15% myself — and the 5% (3% match, 2% not tied to my contributions) from my employer will be icing on the retirement cake.
Here’s 225 pieces of the puzzle–my current balance is $54,695. If the last two years are any indication, I should be getting my bonus tomorrow, and will do another puzzle update this weekend.
For the last two years, my primary goal was to pay off $20,000 in student loan principal. Thanks to wedding gifts, and some help from my man working, and six rent payments, I was able to accomplish this in 2015. Thanks to a good bonus, some extra from savings, and two months of rent payments, I was also able to meet my goal for 2016.
A small point: my interest rate is lower. Every penny counts. Because my rate was cut in half, only about $100 a month is currently going towards interest. That’s $100 more a month than last year, so over an additional $1,000 for the year. Total reduction from my minimum monthly payments should be over $10,000.
I’m hoping for a raise/promotion. An extra $100 in payments a month wouldn’t hurt. Either way, I hope to bump up my 401k contributions at least 1 percentage point. Edit: I can confirm a raise (and promotion!) is happening. But instead of stockpiling my HSA from my bonus, I decided to add a bit from every paycheck, so my paychecks have gone down a bit so far this year (raise isn’t effective for another few pay periods). So post-raise, and bumping up my 401(k) contribution, I don’t expect my take home to increase much, if at all. I won’t plan on anything here as far as loan payoff goes.
That gets me conservatively (hopefully) to $29,000, so I’m really hoping that $30,000 is doable, and I’m open to reevaluating halfway through the year to see if there’s a “stretch goal” I can achieve.
I will, of course, have a couple of mini-goals as well. I’m not looking to load up my HSA by a ton this year with my bonus, but I am contributing some from every paycheck. My employer contributes $600 a year, and I’m hoping I can add $2,000-$2,500 net to that over the course of the year (barring actual medical emergencies requiring me to actually use some of this money). In 2016, I had a mini-goal to add $10,000 to my 401(k). I’m thinking that I should make $13,000 my goal for personal contributions to retirement this year. My employer contributes about 5% (some matching, some unrelated to my contributions), which I’m not counting here.
I’m not going to lie to myself this year about increasing savings for the year. Things come up throughout the year, and if I have extra, I’m going to want to use it to meet my aggressive student loan payment goal. My goal has been to pay this off by the time I’m 35, and that means I need to make major progress. Once this is paid off, I can really shift my focus to savings.
Part 1 was published quite some time ago. Originally, Part 2 was intended to be a discussion of further refinancing my loans, into a couple of chunks, including possibly moving a portion of my big loan into a variable interest rate. I abandoned that thought when I wasn’t happy about the rates SoFi would have offered me.
In my last post, I noted that I didn’t add much to my savings account this year. My goal had been to add $3,000. Part of why this didn’t happen is that we refinanced our mortgage in July. I got a couple of Zillow alerts that our estimated house value had gone up. Originally we put 5% down, so our interest rate was a (terrible) 5.25%. Part of this is due to the fact that our house is a multi-family. Because our house value has increased approximately $30,000 in the two years we’ve owned it (some due to improvements we’ve made and some due to the market), we now have 20% equity, and were able to refinance to a 3.5% rate for a 20 year loan. I think our principal and interest payment went up by less than $10. Paying off our mortgage 8 years earlier for a mere $10 a month? I’ll take it. Our mortgage payment will go up a little bit more because of increases to our taxes and insurance premium, but those are unrelated to the refinance and would have happened anyway. Our payment is still less than it was before we qualified for the homestead tax exemption.
Here we go again! I’m looking into refinancing my current 15 year loan (about 13 years left) to a 5 year. Unlike my prior refinance and the mortgage refinance, where the monthly payment didn’t change all that much, if I do this my minimum payment will almost double. In theory, I should be paying over $1,100 to my student loan every month, though my minimum payment is currently about $555. The lowest possible rate I could get would be 1.95%. That’s an awesome rate. If I’m able to get that, I’d only be paying about $100 in interest every month. Changing my minimum payment to (approximately) $1,050 will give me a lot less wiggle room, but I’m hoping it will provide some motivation to tighten my belt elsewhere (I’m looking at you, Amazon and work lunches). I also only put two months of rent payments toward my loans this year–last year I did six. I’m looking to put pretty much every rent payment toward my loans in 2017. This should give me a bit of wiggle room in months where I wouldn’t otherwise put the full $1,100 toward my loan payments.
So hopefully this goes through and I’m able to start plowing through loan principal in what remains of the year and into 2017. I’ve got some ambitious goals for 2017 that I’ll post about once I hit my big 2016 goal.
EDIT: Drafted this a while ago, but just getting around to publishing. I’ve been approved, and the payoff check should be getting sent any day now. More details in my next post, whenever that is.
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No, not that type of sub.
The submission window for The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors is now closed. We have received 297 submissions to wade through (sorry, to read), make shortlists, and then finalised the table of contents. We hope to start contacting folk in a few weeks. Please be patient.
This entry was posted in Book news, Fiction, general, New book updates and tagged Alchemy Press, horror, Jan Edwards, Peter Coleborn by alchemypress. Bookmark the permalink.
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『The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
『Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Copyright © タロット占い師*セラヤの優しい日々. all rights reserved.
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Struggling to survive despite the government ‘s clean energy dream, biodiesel industries have demanded the Goods and Service Tax (GST) rate on them be slashed from the current 18 to 5 per cent.
The demand came days after solar industry made a similar pitch, stating while the unrealistic levy on the solar panels is killing the Indian industry and giving an edge to Chinese exporters.
On Tuesday, the Biodiesel Association of India (BDAI) wrote to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Finance Ministers of West Bengal and Rajasthan seeking a reduction of high GST rate.
The apex industry body pointed out that while there is a huge potential of producing more cleaner fuel in India, the extraordinary levy has bought the industry at the “brink of extinction”.
With the implementation of GST from July 1 2017, levy on Biodiesel has gone from 6 per cent in excise duty to 18 per cent in GST.
“This has made Biodiesel costlier than High-Speed Diesel (HSD) and biodiesel users will not get any Input Credit for use of it. Both these put together, the effective cost of Biodiesel has become unviable to the end users. Eventually the entire Biodiesel industry will come to a halt, despite this Green Fuel having such environment and social benefits,” BDAI said in the letters.
Made directly from edible oil in equal quantity, of which India is a second highest consumer, the bio-diesel helps in reducing the emissions by 30 to 100 per cent, depending upon its blend in the normal diesel.
“With 18 per cent GST, the price come around Rs. 10 per litres, this is equivalent to normal diesel,” BDAI President Sandeep Chaturvedi told IANS.
At present few states like Karnataka use 100 per cent or zero-emission biodiesel buses, while states like Andhra Pradesh use 20 per cent blend bio-diesel.
“This means cleaner environment, drop in imports and several jobs,” Chaturvedi said.
Currently India has an installed capacity of 12 lakh tonnes per annum of biodiesel, of which actual production is 3.5 lac ton per annum, however estimated or potential production is about 27.5 lakh tons per annum.
“The industry employs 25,000 people directly and 100,000 people indirectly and with the demand, employment requirement would go to an estimated 500,000,” Chaturvedi said.
“This can go further up with an increase in Blend Ratio from 5 per cent to 20 per cent,” he said, adding that the biodiesel industry is also in discussions with the defence sector.
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Once upon a time in there woman who had been married for sometime to a young man from a neighboring village. She was having some major fertility issues which was not an excuse that the parents of the young man thought was valid. She was very close to being put out. She would cry every night and every morning on her way to fetch water. She would stop at the gigantic sacred Mugumo tree and offer up a prayer. The other women in the village would tease and mock her daily. One morning on her way back from fetching water she heard the cries of an infant. She quickly put down her water pot and searched the grass the lined the path. It wasn’t long before she found a tiny baby nestled in the broken shells of a large ostrich egg. She picked the baby up and at hightailed it home leaving her water pot by the road side. When her husband came home that evening she presented him with the baby telling him that God had answered her prayers. He was relieved that his family would stop harassing him and that he would not have to get back to the dating scene. They hid the baby until they could no longer do so and when the villagers asked whose baby that was they owned up to it offering no explanation as to where she came from. The villagers did not press the matter as long as all the other babies in the village were accounted for.
The sight of men standing or kneeling in solidarity to protest the injustice and abuse of their fellow brethren should be a moment of pride. As always there are those who simplify this action to show of disrespect. Well, is the flag and anthem above protest? They both for stand and applaud freedom from injustice and oppression. This action has forced some to squarely face the imperfections of the place they are so proud to call home. And this is always a painful thing. Others feel that tainting the enjoyment of a most American sport with what they consider racial issues is going too far. Regardless of the motivation behind it they are really protesting a protest. This is the most American thing you can do. This is what makes America great.
This weekend I had the pleasure of showing some friends the sights of Southern California. I took them to places I frequent all the time and others that are must see for anyone visiting for the first time. The Griffith Observatory is one of those sights. We braved the infamous Los Angeles traffic then took a short hike up to top of the hill where the observatory is located. And it was well worth it for we were greeted by an magnificent view of Los Angeles. My friend said that it was amazing that all those tiny lights represented at least one person. It reminded me of how small our lives are in comparison to the vastness of what it out there and that is just the part we can see with our naked eyes. A humbling thought indeed.
The ocean tops the list of all the things that amaze and intrigue me. How it it seems to lie quietly beside us seemingly harmless. Vast and endless. Its power and might cloaked in calm. Then when it is disturbed it possesses a force we cannot fathom. Unleashing fury as it weaves a path of destruction. And when it is all done and after we pick ourselves up yet again, we frolic, feet in the sand all being forgiven and forgotten.
I am sure you have heard of the story of Kariuki and Shiru two children whose parents were farmers during a major famine in Kiambu. They had the misfortune of having a step mother who wasn’t very fond of them. As the story goes she convinced her reluctant husband to abandon them in the forest so they would have enough to eat. And after putting up not much of a fight he agreed. Unbeknownst to them Kariuki overheard this conversation and thought ‘that b**ch.’ He decided there and then that he wasn’t going to be dumped in the forest to starve to death so left a trail of crumbs of doma (arrowroot) on the way to the forest so he and his sister could find their way back home. Not a great plan since they were eaten by animals. Then these poor children end up being lured by a witch who intends to trap, fatten and eat them at some point. They manage to trick her into falling into the fire and return home with a fortune to find their father is now a widow and pining after them.
My mother always says ‘this too shall pass’. When you have lived a life that has been been littered with devastating losses you know this fully well and you are grateful for it. I only wish the blissful moments would linger just a little bit longer.
I remember being around ten years old when my father took us on our first road trip. We piled into the Peugeot station wagon with our luggage excited about the adventure we were about to embark on. Our trip took us around Mount Kenya. We spent several nights in the towns that lay around around it, Embu, Meru, Nanyuki and Nyeri. In Nanyuki we spent one night at the Nanyuki Sports Club. It was by far my favorite stop on the trip. The colonial style brick buildings surrounded by vast manicured green lawns and golf courses were something to behold. At that time the area around it was covered in more dense forests and farmlands. It looked like someone dropped an English garden in the middle of a forest. Behind it was a glorious view of the snow capped peaks of the mountain. It was breathtakingly beautiful.
It is only in recent years I have come to truly appreciate my heritage. Moving to a continent where my identity was lumped into one group based on my outward appearance did not help. I remember scoffing at those who proudly wore their African prints and jewelry wondering why they would want attract attention. I was just weary of the questions often accompanied by the limited views of Africa and its inhabitants. So I stayed under the radar with only an accent to give me away. Then one day I got a real taste of it and I savored it. Surrounded by those who proudly owned their heritage I too started to appreciate it. At first it felt foreign, like an ill-fitted suit needing adjustment. It took some time but now I am on the inside and I see it so clearly. Oh, how rich and flavorful it is. It is a new day.
I love to draw and paint. Obviously you say to yourself this is an art blog. But stay with me for a moment. I remember the first time I held my Faber-Castell marker set my father had brought me from Germany. Those beautiful pens were a priced possession and I got so much pleasure from doodling. My father cultivated and encouraged art all through my schooling. Then I lost interest in high school instead taking up sewing and crafting. After graduating I briefly went to art school. Again my father pushed me to work on a series of paintings for an exhibition. It was so enjoyable and I had such a great sense of accomplishment. Then I decided to study fashion design in college. My journey has been very unsteady and I believe it is because I had to find the true purpose of my art. Self expression. I had fought it my whole fight. The finally I surrendered. A happy surrender. And I have my father to thank for that.
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America’s Next Producer, a new reality competition series for TV Guide Channel, is looking for Television Producer/contestants to compete in a series of innovative challenges that showcase their talent.
The ultimate winner receives $100,000 cash, a production office in Hollywood, and a first-look deal with TV Guide Channel. No matter if you’re fresh out of school, an industry veteran, or DIY video producer – if you are serious about production and looking for your big break, this may be your ticket. For more details, check out www.tvguidechannel.com or email americasnextproducer@yahoo.com.
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Posted on August 25, 2014, in Tips and tagged abroad, airplane, AIRPLANE MODE, bluetooth, communication features, communications, gps, ipad, location, location services, overseas, wifi. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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A quiet place to hide away from the horrors of the asylum was impossible to find even in his office. Dr. Hudson gulped back a glass of amber liquid and closed his eyes to the heat that the alcohol left behind as it slid down his throat. A second and then a third glass of the whiskey that was deftly hidden behind three rarely used psychiatric textbooks on the top shelf of his bookcase quelled his conscience and warmed his belly. Camille West and her feeble blackmail attempt were vanquished from Hudson’s mind for the night, along with the two unnecessary electroshock treatments he’d administered on the woman on the orders of her whining husband, and their shared mistress.
The thumping on his office door caused Hudson to knock the glass against the edge of his desk. The bottom broke away, shards of glass flew across the desk and on the floor, and the fourth shot of whiskey drained down his pant leg.
‘What do you want?’ He spat the words out with such force that beads of spit join the glass shards on the desk.
In a fluid motion of opening the door and stepping into Hudson’s office, Byron Emmett appeared. Two more steps and the orderly was practically part of the doctor’s desk.
‘I asked you what you want?’ Hudson sniped again, more interested in wiping the remnants of whiskey and glass from his hand and desk than the orderly standing in front of him.
Unflinching, Emmett stared at Hudson, and it was the doctor who broke eye contact first. It was that kind of opportunity to exert some power that Emmett thrived on.
‘I’m not sure why you’re telling me this,’ Hudson tried for nonchalance but came across more as scared.
‘Well, let’s face it, Emmett, if Camille West croaks it, things will be far easier for both me and her husband.’ Hudson chuckled at what he clearly deemed a witty response.
Byron Emmett had opened the door and taken a step outside before he turned back to speak to Dr. Hudson.
Hudson’s jaw slackened, his expression dropped, and he somewhat resembled a melting clump of wax.
‘What did you say?’ he demanded of Emmett.
Away from the city where there were no man-made lights to spoil the view, Cassandra Paulson laid looking up at the stars. The dewy grass would eventually seep through the picnic blanket and into her clothes, but for now Cassandra Paulson was content to lay back and look up. The world was still when she could see the stars, and with the events of recent days, she desperately needed stillness. What had started out with Oliver West as fun had become serious when he decided to have his wife committed because she’d found out about them. Oliver was no longer fun to be with, and his buddy from the asylum was just as bad, always wanting her time.
It hadn’t taken long for Dennis to become suspicious about her and West after Camille went away. Oliver had no reason to be careful anymore and he didn’t care if Dennis discovered Cassandra’s infidelity. But the stars, the stars never wanted anything from her. They didn’t want her time, they didn’t need her to always be around, they didn’t demand of her time or body. The stars were just there. Cold, unfeeling, but always shining, always there. Being under the stars provided Cassandra her one true moment of happiness. The solitude was comforting after a stressful week of cat and mouse games with Dennis.
‘Thank God he doesn’t know I come here.’ She spoke to the stars knowing that no one else was around for miles.
But Dennis did know she frequented the vacant land out of the city. Suspecting that she had been disappearing for a rendezvous with Oliver, he had followed her one night some months back. He’d worked himself up to a stand off with Oliver but had been bitterly disappointed at not being able to catch them in the act. Instead, Dennis had been surprised to learn that she spent the time alone and looking up at the night sky, albeit on her back, a skill which he felt that she was becoming highly adept. He had stayed the whole time she was sky watching, just in case Oliver West showed his face.
Tonight, as Dennis hid in the darkness watching the woman he’d vowed in front of a hundred or so of their nearest and dearest to stand by, he firmly decided that death would come for Cassandra sooner rather than later. With Camille West’s help, Cassandra and Dennis would suffer the pain and anguish that they had inflicted on their spouses. But first, he’d have to get Camille out of the asylum, and that was going to take some doing. However, tonight he was going to relish the thoughts of revenge that he harboured as he watched Cassandra taking in the night sky.
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Fragrances represent for most fashion houses a way to reach out to a wide number of consumers as, in most cases, they are (with some exceptions maybe...) the most affordable luxury products available on the market.
Yet, perfumes can also become the unlikely protagonists of news stories, as proved by the recently unveiled results of the investigations about the poisoning of Russian former double-agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, in Salisbury, southern England, in March this year.
British detectives struggled to find the source of the Russian-made Novichok nerve agent used in the attempted murder of Skripal and his daughter.
Earlier on this week, though, two suspects were named, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, believed to be officers of the Russian military intelligence service (GRU) and charged with the use and possession of the nerve agent Novichok.
Investigators recently linked the poisoning of the Skripals to the June 30 poisoning of Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley, a couple living in Amesbury, near Salisbury. Sturgess actually died on July 8 as a result of her exposure to Novichok.
Rowley explained to the police that he found a box that he thought contained perfume in a charity bin where it had probably been left after it was used on the Skripals.
He put together the bottle and the applicator he found in the box once he arrived at his place, getting some of the contents on himself, while Sturgess applied the substance to her wrists and started feeling unwell.
Investigators found a pink box at Rowley's home labeled "Nina Ricci Premier Jour" with a bottle inside: tests undertaken at the Government's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory revealed that the bottle contained a significant amount of Novichok.
Enquiries at Nina Ricci uncovered that the bottle, box and nozzle were not genuine: the box was indeed a counterfeit and the bottle and nozzle had been especially adapted to ensure that the contents did not come into contact with the user when the liquid nerve agent was sprayed.
Perfume assumes therefore a central role in this tragic news story, calling to mind fiction and in particular the fragrance appearing in Luke Jennings' Codename Villanelle thriller novel, that was turned this year into TV series "Killing Eve" for BBC America.
Villanelle, AKA killer Oxana Vorontsova (in the novel) and Oksana Astankova (in the TV series; portrayed by British actor Jodie Comer) is a fictional assassin with a penchant for fashionable clothes and luxury products, that she uses as prizes to reward herself after her killings (in the TV series she wears for example a frothy pink Molly Goddard number, a Dries Van Noten suit, a Burberry dress, a J.W. Anderson jacket and Balenciaga boots).
Perfume has a key role in the story: in the novel, psychopath assassin Oxana choses her cover name after her favorite fragrance.
"It's called Villanelle," a shop assistant explains her in the novel, "It was the favourite scent of the Comtesse du Barry. The perfume house added the red ribbon after she was guillotined in 1793." Oxana sarcastically replies: "I shall have to be careful, then".
Doubling up as a waitress and aspiring perfumer Villanelle uses an invisible liquid in a perfume bottle to poison one of her victims (the same liquid in the same perfume bottle then accidentally kills her neighbour and temporary boyfriend...).
Oxana also sends to Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), a British intelligence agent who becomes obsessed with this heartless assassin, her lack of remorse and her modus operandi, a bottle of "La Villanelle" (it is worth adding that a perfume named Villanelle was produced this year in Belgium before "Killing Eve" was broadcast; its makers highlighted the name was inspired by Keith Douglas' 1940 poem "Villanelle of Spring Bells").
Villanelle is certainly not the first and will not be the last to use a fragrance as inspiration and poison, but in these two cases there seems to be an intriguing parallelism between reality and fiction.
Scared of perfumes now? Well, in connection with the Novichok case the police reassured consumers that anyone who has boughta Nina Ricci perfume from a legitimate source should obviously not be concerned. But, from now on, never spray on yourself any substance you may find by pure chance, even when it comes in what looks like a designer bottle.
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0November 27, 2009Did Glenn Beck start a Palin-Beck feud?
3November 26, 2009Wouldn’t this blow Andrew Sullivan’s mind?
2November 26, 2009More climate change shenanigans?
1November 25, 2009ACORN was framed, framed I tell ya!
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Yet this is not from Apple itself, a company called Computer Choppers give more life in the new iPod Shuffle. Not only pimping it with engravings you can actually choose a variaty of colors ranging from $129 to plating it for $200. Its still a nice deal to costumize you iPod Shuffle but still, will you buy the new iPod Shuffle?
Yeah the iPod Shuffle controls, it’s not that hard to memorize but hey, the first time you use it, it’s’ not Apple.
Yeah yeah yeah, you made a new iPod Shuffle, oh it’s nice oh it’s small how much you praise it, it’s still lifeless, dull, plain and boring.
Good thing there’s a person who’s more artistic than Apple (take that!), petercui comes up with a solution to put life in to the new iPod Shuffle, by making a picture engraving or any type of design you want. Cool eh? I hope Apple will make something similar to this. I’ll put iRan and iRack on it.
The small iPod Shuffle got even smaller, so small it’s just a size of the usual flash drive we see in the market. It’s 1.8 x0.7 inch in size and just 0.38 ounce a 0.17 ouch lighter than the 1GB iPod Shuffle.
The buttons are now in the earphones so the only thing that you can control in the unit itself is the hold switch, so if you loose your earphone your Shuffle is useless. It has a VoiceOver which tells you the name of the song and the artist, I just wonder if this is only available for iTunes songs only, you know what I mean, like the Genius. Sadly, there are two colors to choose from, black and silver, but don’t worry, it’s still iPod (-_-) The battery now only has 10hrs. of playback time, a 2hrs shorter than the old shuffle.
The new iPod Shuffle is about Php. 4,190.oo in the Apple Store Philippines.
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Posted by Ian Cole in Europe 2013, Eurovision to 50, Ian C, The Ians on Tour.
Last night Ian and I celebrated the birthday with our friend Carl Magnus with dinner at Den Gyldene Freden (The Golden Peace). The restaurant was established in 1722 and is recognised as the oldest restaurant in the world to have the same surroundings, essentially looking the same as it did in the 18th century. It got a reputation in the 20th century as a place frequented by creative types, and today the Swedish Academy (which nominates the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature) convenes there every Thursday.
The restaurant extremely charming, and the food was delicious. We had a fun time, talking and laughing our way through the meal and a couple of bottles of wine. Carl Magnus also presented me with a very special birthday present.
We may not have noticed the Swedish Academy, but midway through the meal Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe – the Pet Shop Boys – walked in (with what I assume was their manager) and sat down for dinner at a table close to ours.
After we finished our dinner, and emboldened by the wine, Carl Magnus and I approached them. Carl Magnus told them he’d been a fan for many years, that he respected their work and just wanted to let them know. I then said that we were celebrating my 50th birthday, to which they replied wishing me a happy 50th birthday and joked that they were there as an arranged surprise for my birthday.
So there you have it. The Pet Shop Boys have confirmed that I am now 50.
Geez…….coming back home is going to be a big let down following all the VIP treatments of the past few weeks. We’ll ‘talk to your people’ but the best we will be able to offer is a few snags on the barbie, a couple of beers and You Tube clips!!!
Wishing you a Bon European Voyage and safe trip back home!!!!
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In case you didn’t notice, all the Andrew Luck Leaf Prismatic auctions were closed today. Below is Leaf President Brian Gray’s response to the errors.
“We appreciate the feedback on the recent Metal Andrew Luck cards which included spelling errors. I am embarrassed over these oversights and I would like to apologize on behalf of LEAF that these errors occurred.
These were printed as part of a much larger job and were only one card on a 100 card sheet. With that being said, there is still no excuse for this error..
1> We have removed all listings for auction style cards featuring this error. This includes ALL parallels. All bids are cancelled and the cards will be destroyed!
2> We have discontinued selling the error version of the Luck Prismatic. We WILL ship the 39 copies sold last night, but will be destroying the rest of the copies immediately. Therefore, while the cards are numbered to 350, only 39 cards will be released. We will only ship cards #1/350 to 39/350.
3> We have (at great expense) stopped the presses mid-production and added this card to our Metal Football Draft print job. We WILL be reprinting these cards with corrections made. These cards will be made available on ebay in the next 10 days for shipment approximately February 7th. These corrected versions will be made available similar to the manner error versions were.
4> The base version of the Luck card has no errors and will continue to be made available continuously until the production run is sold out.
I am pleased we found this solution to any concerns over the errors on these cards.
Once again, I personally apologize to both collectors and Andrew for these errors and hope this resolution resolves open concerns..
I think this was handled very well. You probably wouldn’t get that kind of response that fast from another manufacturer. So, who are those lucky collectors that are getting one of the errors?
Yesterday, Topps announced that Ryan O’Hara would become its new CEO. Departing is Scott Silverstein who has been with Topps since 1993 and will stay on the Topps board.
O’Hara holds a BA in Economics from Stanford University and a Masters of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. This guy has spent so much time in school, he probably hasn’t opened a single pack of trading cards in his life…… just joking 🙂 O’Hara is coming over from TV Guide and TVGuide.com and in the past has worked for Nestle and Fox Sports. Having worked for Nestle could possibly help Topps out with their candy business and working for Fox Sports means that he’s not totally lost when it comes to sports.
One area that I’d like to see O’Hara succeed in at Topps is their social media division. O’Hara is one person that truly embraces social media and marketing. This is one place that Topps drastically needs to make some improvements in. Topps does send some products out to a few websites other than Beckett, but other than that, they really fall short of what some of the other manufacturers are doing. They do have Topps Town and that iPhone card flipping app, but other than a few Tweets every now and then they don’t do anything too spectacular. Don’t even get me started on the augmented reality stuff your suppose to do with a webcam.
On March 1, O’Hara will start as the CEO of Topps, and it will be interesting to see what changes he can bring with him.
What type of changes would you like to see at Topps? For one thing, cover up the redemption codes so people can’t use them and then place the redemptions up for sale!
Maybe President Obama is more fond of the Turkey Red “Cabinets”.
Yesturday afternoon I received an e-mail from the Vice-President / Marketing & Public Relations head of the Williamsport Crosscutters, thanking me for mentioning the Phillies Dinner and posting the pictures on Sports Card Info. I thought this was pretty cool. He was the guy interviewing J.A. Happ on Wednesday night. I wonder who else reads this blog?
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#DifferenceMakesUs – What’s that all about, then?
Well, Etsy has a new promo campaign happening, and they’ve decided to use the hashtag #DifferenceMakesUs. The idea is that differences make us unique, and each Etsy shop is difference and unique.
Each week, the @EtsySuccess Instagram account will announce a weekly challenge. You can take part in this, or you can just tag any product photo with #DifferenceMakesUs. Make sure you also tag @EtsySuccess and @EtsyUK for a chance to be featured!
How does this link in with the Craft Britannia team?
We want to feature your best work! Even if you don’t get chosen by Etsy themselves, you have a chance to be regrammed by the @craft_britannia Instagram account. Tag us in your product photos and hashtag it #dmuteamcb and we’ll pick the best and most interesting stuff to repost.
And you can enter your photos off Instagram into a competition here, where you can win a £1,000 gift card!
We’ll also be taking on the video challenge – stay tuned!
I’m just dipping my toes into instagram.(twitter scares me,) so i will – if I ever manage to post anything – hashtag it for the team. thanks!
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You may remember her from some of our experimental art shoots, or you may know her as Mitch’s younger sister. Either way, our favorite model is a Senior this Fall! We both just love this girl, and were so excited to get to photograph her senior photos. Congratulations to Sarah, finish your last year up strong!
Stay tuned for her senior video montage!
all images are copyright Colagrossi Studio 2012.
This girl is very near and dear to our hearts. Although Chance is not a senior QUITE yet, we jumped a the opportunity to photograph her. You could safely say that she is basically my (Destany’s) sister, and is about as awesome and strong willed as they come. We love you Chance! We can’t wait to do your REAL senior photos.
Last one to prove I did it! Haha.
Copyright Colagrossi Studio 2012. Stealing is bad Mmm’Kay.
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As a Torontonian and a Blue Jays fan I have followed the plight of the Jays for years but recently there has been some hope. After the Jays hired Alex Anthopoulos they began to slowly turn things around. Then came Jose Bautista who hit a league leading 54 HRs in 2010 and began to enter into the conversation for the best player in the MLB. This was a major surprise as Bautista became a start almost overnight going from a journeyman to a HR king in his first year with the Jays. Of course as the MLB is attempting to recover from the Steroid era the questions began to flow about whether Bautista had some unnatural help. Bautista crushed these rumours as he passed every drug test he had ever gone through and explained that the change in his offence came from his new timing mechanism that the Jays coaches gave him.
The CFL finished its fifth week as the season is in full swing and certain things begin to change as teams look to the conference races. There is still plenty of time in the 18 game season but in the CFL change comes quick. With B.C. continuing to look for help on defence expect new players to come in and out until they win. The Argonauts will also be looking for some help as they wait for Stephen Jyles to return in four weeks. Meanwhile Winnipeg and Edmonton continue to find success and are looking to continue the success and make the playoffs.
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First time voter Max tells us why he thinks it’s important to vote in the local elections in Kirklees.
Who runs the polling station?
Every polling station has a Presiding Officer. We met Maxine after the training sessions for presiding officers in Kirklees, to hear about what’s involved.
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2019-04-24T21:00:58Z
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https://electiontales.wordpress.com/tag/election-day/
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Victoria may be the one who has just turned eleven, but I seem to be going through just as many growing pains. She seems to like hers but I’m not enjoying mine a bit.
She is off in Nebraska this week, keeping Tiffany and gang company. I talked to her on the phone twice and she couldn’t wait to get off the phone with me. I think I’m annoying. I’m certainly not missed.
I don’t know this person who has stolen my little girl from me. She cares about fashion and considers herself too old for make believe. I embarrass her. I bore her. She wants to get a subscription to Glamour and learn how to wear makeup. She reads Twilight and wants to buy a laptop. She’s eleven going on twenty, full speed.
I remember the year I changed on my mother. We were close the whole time I was growing up and then we weren’t. I always thought it was because I’m a survivor of a whole gaggle of abuses (not by her) and they had a profound affect on me. I thought it was because I was so badly bullied in school (that was the year the whole student body had a plan to set my hair on fire). I thought it was because we were so poor (I slept on a cot, with the faucet dripping so the pipes wouldn’t freeze). I thought it was because my childhood was so horrid and she was so clueless and I was so damaged.
I never thought it would happen to my child. I thought we were different. I have dedicated the past eleven years to making this a wonderful family to grow up in. We travel and laugh and play and learn and volunteer and talk and talk and talk. And suddenly that’s not enough. Like it or not, my child is outgrowing me. Not in the sense of needing me to teach her and guide her and provide for her, but in the sense of her being my little girl.
I am a puzzle piece that no longer fits. And so, just as Victoria must change as part of her healthy evolution, I must change as her mother. Like it or not, my job description is now altered and I have to become something new, too.
And I’ll do that, and I’m sure I’ll find things to love in that new role and handle it fine. But first, I’m doing a little mourning. I’ve tried to push past it and I just can’t. I need to feel this.
I miss the days when I was her favorite person and knew everything. I miss my little girl who had her own unique sense of style and didn’t care what anybody thought of her. I miss her telling me she wanted to live with me forever. I miss leading monster parades and dress up parties with Victoria as the leader of the pack. I miss her asking to do more homeschool and being eager to please. I miss my sidekick.
I posted about this last week on the Magical Childhood blog. I tried to make it sentimental and sweet. I tried to see the good in it and put a positive spin on it, and to end on a fun note. But the fact of the matter tonight is that I don’t feel like it’s fun right now. It’s healthy and necessary, and tomorrow I’ll focus on the younger kids and the bright sides and all the platitudes that I endlessly give myself.
Tonight I am sipping Southern Comfort and missing my little girl.
I know I will love this next daughter who is replacing her, but tonight I am giving myself permission to be sad.
Yesterday I wrote on the Magical Childhood blog about Victoria nearing 11 and changing so drastically. She is growing up so suddenly and changing so much. It’s more than a bit unnerving!
So I went looking for normal development for 11 year-olds and found this handy dandy chart listing the physical, emotional, social, etc. development of these mysterious creatures, from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.
Is critical of adults and is obnoxious to live with. Be tolerant.
I told Victoria and she gave me one of those looks, but I swear I saw a grin.
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2019-04-22T10:49:44Z
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https://magicandmayhemhomeschool.wordpress.com/category/child-development/
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Due to my Sjogren’s Syndrome I have a very sensitive eyes. I struggle using some eye makeup and when it’s really bad I can’t wear any makeup around my eyes at all. Everything in and around my eyes can get sore. I have zero tear production so I need to use drops daily and I get eczema around my eyes. As well as this I have concerns over dark circles and redness from the fatigue. I have been given loads of different medical ointments from steroid creams to E45 but the only immediate relief I can get comes from Liz Earle’s Eyebright Soothing Eye Lotion. The lotion uses natural ingredients, the main ingredient being a tiny used in old remedies that was called eyebright (in this instance the old wives new best). The ingredients also include witch hazel water, aloe vera and cornflower extract. It is cooling without stinging and calms any puffiness whilst the eyebright does seem to reflect away any darkness. It is really relaxing when put on cotton wool and laid over closed eyes for 10 or so minutes. I have used it to take off light makeup as it’s very gentle but it wouldn’t take off anything heavy. I am grateful for this modest hero.
I wish I could be quite so effusive about an eye cream but I am still searching for an eye cream that I can use that gives great results. I have tried creams ranging from a few pounds to £50 and whilst some have been ok I’ve never found anything that makes me go ‘wow!’. I’m using Balance Me’s Wonder Eye Cream at the moment due to having found a deluxe sample in one of my reserves drawers and so far so pleasant. The cream is light to use but keeps the area moisturised all day, I can’t say that I’ve noticed much lift but I have only just started using it. Dark circles are being managed well by the cream so far and it is kind to the skin. The Wonder Eye Cream boasts 99% of it’s ingredients are from natural origin which is something I do try to look for nowadays as I do seem less sensitive to products that are more organic. This is certainly a good cream and one of the best I’ve used but I still can’t find myself able to rave about it – but I can’t really criticise it either. Perhaps I am asking too much from one cream? Most likely my weird symptoms are just too much.
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2019-04-24T07:53:51Z
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https://themoderngirlsguidetobeingsick.wordpress.com/category/liz-earle/
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It is one of those scenarios that are always present yet never talked about. The purpose or the intent to go after what you believe you desire yet the actions and the words to show that you have no desire for it at all. People get caught up in rage and aggression so much that they forget the words said moments earlier of forgiveness, remorse, and love. While we pick fights, we destroy safety and build more walls; we tear down the ones that create peace and put up more that create discord. It is not easy to love towards those who tell you that your heart does not matter; your words do not matter; essentially that you as an individual to them do not matter because you oppose their thoughts, their desires, and their selfish concerns. Relationships are not about self, they are to be about being in a union with someone and proceeding forth to create an even deeper bond and after the fights and the arguments, the strongest resolution. We are to be resolved within one another that our words flow with respect and love, that our actions exemplify the respect shown to the relationship whether seen or unseen; that we are accountable to one another as we are dedicated to the betterment of one another, not the destruction of each other. We should battle each other in practice and eliminate our issues so that when the real struggles come we are united as one. If instead, the fights do not involve compassion, understanding, respect, and honor then the union itself is devoid of very primary factors. Should not be a surprise that most individuals have a disbelief in trust, knowing in their hearts they are in a relationship with a single heart. Stating commitment loudly with their mouth being boastful and boisterous yet with their actions, silent, the announcement of commitment is absent. If your union is solely focused on you, then what needs are you fulfilling for your mate? If that question makes you think too long, then that tells me it might already be too late.
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2019-04-22T00:44:57Z
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https://thegentspeaks.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/union-of-1/
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Funding: All students will financial aid in the form of full tuition and a teaching assistantship. One student is offered the editorial assistantship in the second year, which carries the same stipend. Additional intersession and summer courses are available though competitive. Healthcare is included in both types of funding.
Critique of Work (statement of purpose): a two-page (at most) introduction and critique giving admissions faculty a view to the scope and thoughtfulness of the work submitted and a sense of the student’s ability to identify both its strengths and weaknesses. It should convey a sense of the tone and approach by which the applicant hopes to contribute to the writing workshops.
I’ve heard (but can’t confirm) that JHU’s stipend has gone up to $29k. (Source: a poster on GradCafeForums who claims to have been offered a spot there).
Thanks for the tip. I’ve contacted JHU and will update when I find out more!
Have you seen any pattern or a cut-off score for GRE for getting admitted into MFA in Fiction at Johns Hopkins?
Hi Apoorva, The English department has a minimum score for entry. I’m not certain what that number is however.
Do you know if the admission rate has been updated for Fall 2019 applicants?
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2019-04-23T18:53:18Z
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https://affordingthemfa.wordpress.com/east-coast-mfa/johns-hopkins-university-baltimore/
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🌟 After 11 or 12 years of waiting, you’d think that the author will write the next big thing. Unfortunately he wrote the next big disappointment and I fell from this Bridge of Clay into a sea of disappointment!
🌟 Truth to be told, I wasn’t very interested in the synopsis but October was my Contemporary month and what is better to read than a novel by the highly acclaimed author of The Book Thief aka one of my favorite books!
🌟 I like when Authors move along their past works and try to bring something new. I think Zusak both did and didn’t do that and let me explain. He wrote a totally different story that is unrelated to his previously successful books and that’s the good thing. The bad thing is that he was trying so hard to make it sound poetical and whimsical but it ended up being over the top!
🌟 I liked the magical writing in The Book Thief but the voice of this story was not appropriate for a story of this kind and he used metaphor very much which ended up being annoying. I knew that the writing is just not for me after a few chapters and Hala who BR this with me felt the same and decided to DNF it immediately.
🌟 The characters were unrelatable for me and I didn’t like any of them. I even ended up skim reading the last 50 pages as I wasn’t interested anymore.
🌟 Summary: This is a Hit or miss kind of books (Apparently a miss for me) which had a bad combination of characters, writing and plot. If you start this and feel that you ned to DNF it then I encourage doing so because it is not for everyone and if you enjoy it then good for you :D. I ended up giving it 1 out of 5 stars!
🌟 Prescription: I can’t seem to recommend this for anyone in the time being. If you want a better story about 5 brothers which is more relatable and has great writing then I recommend Watching Glass Shatter by James Cudney!
Wow, thank you for sharing my book!!! I appreciate it.
I am pretty sure that it won’t be as successful as the book thief and you won’t miss a lot if you skip it!
1 star,,, I can’t even look at you right now.
For some reason, you weren’t showing up in my Reader feed. Unfollowed / refollowed. I think it’s working now.
What a shame! I think he was always going to struggle following up The Book Thief though. I read recently that he considers this to be the book he was waiting to write and that he always wanted to write but I guess that doesn’t always made it a good one!
I’ve been looking at this book and trying to decide if I want to read it… Thanks for helping me make the decision not to! Sorry that you didn’t end up liking this one, though.
Wow one star! I’m sorry you didn’t like the book. Hope your next read will be much better!
welcome, I think you won’t miss a lot by not reading this one so that’s a good choice!
Oh no this is so sad to hear!
Maybe an unpopular opinion but unfortunately those were my feelings!
Damn! Disappointment indeed! Now recommending Jay’s book.. I am so on board!
I’m so sorry to see that this was a 1 Star read for you! Overly poetic and metaphorical writings do tend to drive me insane sometimes, but I’m really hoping it won’t be too over the top for me when I give this one a shot. Great review!
I think the pressure he was put into after writing the book thief was so huge that he felt he should give all that he has in store and it ended up being too much!
It is OK, I didn’t expect much from it anyway!
I don’t know but I didn’t like the characters or the plot so I hope you do like it more than I did!
The book thief was def better, if you didn’t like that one then definitely skip this one!
YIKES this sounds like a giant disappointment.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that happens to a lot of writers, it’s probably why there are so many ‘one hit wonder’ books!
Aahhh!! One star! I actually had this from the library and never got to it and had to return it. I’m kinda glad that I didn’t put myself through it.
It was nothing like The Book Thief experience if you are looking for something like that!
Yeah… I think I’ll skip it!
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https://thebookprescription.wordpress.com/2018/10/22/bridge-of-clay-review/
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Absolute Write Water Cooler > Pop Culture > Now We're Cookin'! > Any Great Recipes For Key Lime Pie?
View Full Version : Any Great Recipes For Key Lime Pie?
Dumb question, but are you using fresh squeezed key lime juice? I think you need about a dozen of those little buggers to get enough juice.
When I went to Key West I made it my mission to sample every Key Lime Pie I could find. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that none could compare to the Key Lime Pie that I make. This is from Martha Stewart and it is beyond compare. I have used real Key Limes and regular limes and both are excellent.
Combine crust ingredients, mix well, press into butter 8" pie plate and bake for aprox 15 minutes or til slightly browned (watch this carefully remove if browning too fast). Let cool completely on rack.
*Note* sometimes I do something very unMartha like and just buy a crust.
In the top of a dble boiler, combine the yolks, sugar and lime juice and stirring constantly, cook the mixture over moderate heat for about 10 minutes (this sometimes takes longer for me) until it coats the back of a spoon. Remove from heat and add the zest. Chill til the mixture thickens but don't let it get stiff.
Whip 1 1/2 cups of whipping cream to soft peaks and fold it into the filling. Spoon into the baked crust and chill covered for 24 hours. To serve whip the remaining cream with sugar and vanilla and pipe on top.
*This is serve-able if you make it in the morning and have for dinner that evening, but it really does taste best if it's made the day before.
:steals recipe: Many thanks for posting this!
It's been a while since I looked, but doesn't the "Learn Writing with Uncle Jim" thread have a recipe for Key Lime pie?
I must have missed it. When I have ever been in that thread I had writing on the brain so I probably looked right over it. I'll have to check it out. thanks.
We can't get Graham crackers here. How do you think it would be with some other kind of cookie crust? Like a plain sugar cookie, maybe?
I've also made this with pie pastry (just baked the pastry shell) which is wonderful as well. I think that the sugar cookie crust - or something with coconut or perhaps almonds would be terrific as well. Can you get British products? Maybe a Peak Frean Digestive cookie crust would work?
Coconut. Yum! *smacks lips* Now you're just giving me ideas! *salivates* Coconut and lime go so incredibly well together. I might just have to develop some kind of coconut/sugar cookie based pie crust just for this, you evil, um, person!
It's a different variety of lime. You know how you've got golden delicious apples and red delicious? Same thing but with limes.
I'm not sure if I've ever had a key lime - probably not - so I can't tell you what the taste or texture differences are.
I have a recipe for key lime pie that has nuts and coconut in it, as well as cool whip. Do you want me to post it?
This is the best key lime pie in the Keys. The recipe was secret for many years but counterintelligence work brought it out into the open.
Really? That's what our limes look like. Ours are shaped a bit like eggs but not quite as oval and about the same size, and the yellower they are (within reason), the sweeter and juicier they are. They don't have the funny little end that the limes in Canada have. You mean ours are key limes? Is that possible?
It sounds like you have key limes. I have a persian lime tree but they are still good to use. Both lime trees seem to produce limes all year round, at least here in central Fl. All this talk of pie has my mouth watering.
I tried to link onto this but I couldn't get it to work.
Yeah, there was an extra bit in there, Joyce. Try this.
As a side note, our lime tree is still too young to bear fruit, so we still have to buy our limes. Our lime tree was grown from seed and should be old enough in another year or two. I'm looking forward to it. :) I love limes!
Especially with some tequila added........yummy!:D I didn't realize till a couple of years ago that limes were one of the only citrus trees that you could grow from seed. I had thought they all needed to be grafted. Now I'm longing for a piece of pie and a margarita!
Thanks Richard for fixing the link.
Yep - and it's in the very first post of the index (http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8754) I put up.
This is a really tasty pie, just make sure it's good and chilled or it's a mess to cut. Hope you like it!
thinking I need to make one!
The "Learn Writing With Uncle Jim" thread - delicious as well as educational!
Thanks Elaine. This recipe sounds very different and very good. I love pineapple so this should be great!
I amended the directions on the pie~ not sure if it really makes a difference, but when I checked the recipe again it said to stir the liquid ingredients together before adding the rest.
I would think fresh pineapple would be fine. I haven't made this pie in "years" but you're right, with no gelatin, it's a very soft pie. Gotta keep it refrigerated.
I have a crazy pecan pie recipe that has no crust, and is super easy, light and crunchy. I'll post it later.
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Adobe Connect is being retired as the university's web collaboration and conferencing system in August 2017. You can preserve archived meetings if you wish to keep them. You can find instructions on archiving and saving your past meetings on the KB (https://kb.iu.edu/d/anxl#archive).
UITS has selected Zoom as the new web collaboration tool. Zoom integrates with Canvas and features iOS and Android apps. You can find more about Zoom at the KB (https://kb.iu.edu/d/bfqu) as well as during a Zoom: The Basics webinar being held by UITS. The webinar is Friday, February 17th from 11:15am - 12:15pm. You can sign up at the IT Training site (Zoom: The Basics).
Microsoft Lync 2010 is no longer being supported by Microsoft. Skype for Business should already be on JSoM PCs. If it does not start up on your login search "Skype for Business" from the Start menu. Once open it should automatically sign you into your account. On the first login it may ask to restart the program and it will change it's interface slightly to match the more familiar Lync settings. After this first sign-in the program should start automatically when you log into the PC.
UITS has implemented Duo Two-Factor Authentication when trying to access certain information at IU. The newest addition to this is the Employee Center in One.IU bank and W-2 information. You will need to enroll a device (phone, tablet, etc) in order to use Duo, or you can ask your department director about purchasing a physical token to use.
More information about enrolling a device in Duo and how to use it can be found on our FAQs page under the Security heading.
Due to Microsoft shifting away from Public Folders we will be using a new web based application called Ad Astra to view room schedules. You can find more information here.
Oncourse will be retired at the end of August 2016. It will transition to a read-only phase at this time and courses will only be provisioned in Canvas. You will be able to access your own site and content, but you will be unable to create new sites or content, edit existing content, or make changes to site rosters.
Update: Mac users can now use Self Service to upgrade their operating system to Yosemite. Please quit all applications before initiating the upgrade. Please allow 1 to 2 hours for the upgrade to complete.
Effective December 15, 2014, we will be managing all JSoM owned Macintosh hardware (including iPads and laptops) using the Casper Suite software in partnership with UITS Leveraged Services. Mac users will notice a new icon, called Self-Service, added to the end of their dock. Using the Self Service application, you will be able to download and install certain software, applications, and plug-ins without administrative credentials.
For more information on how to use the Self-Service application please see our Tutorials page.
The JSoM Off SIte Office Equipment Agreement Form will need to be signed by anyone using school-owned equipment off-campus. This includes desktops, laptops and mobile devices (iPad, phone). You can view a copy of the agreement here as well as read up on other MITS IT policies.
Update: Box now offers unlimited storage and a file size upload limit of 15 GB.
To learn more about Box see the Knowledge Base articles, or our Box tutorials.
Effective August 11th, 2014 Music1 will no longer be the JSoM file server. The new server is called Faust. Most should see this change automatically on their mapped (Z: and G:) drives. If you are having trouble getting to your files please restart your computer.
For more infromation on remapping your drives see our new section on our tutorials page.
UITS has announced that Cyrus (webmail) accounts will be retired September 30th, 2015. All current Cyrus users are eligable for an Exchange account. This change will need to be made before the retirement date in order to avoid interruption of e-mail services.
If you do not already have an Exchange account you will need to request one. After your Exchange account has been created and is your preferred email, you can move mail from Cyrus to Exchange.
If you have any questions on the change please contact our help desk.
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2019-04-23T02:34:32Z
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Müssen is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Müssen (Muessen, see also Meissen) translates literally as "Mosses" or commonly as "Marsh."
This article about a location in Herzogtum Lauenburg is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
This page was last edited on 22 February 2018, at 18:14 (UTC).
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An extravagant dish for winter, when all the ingredients come in from Turkey, but there are days wen you just can’t resist the lure of summer, still four months away. In summer, all these delicious Mediterranean veg are very cheap here in Romania.
Chop the aubergines, turn them in oil and mixed herbs and roast on high heat for half an hour.
Chop onion, garlic and red pepper and sizzle gently in oil (separate pan) until soft and smelling delicious. Mix in the tomato paste (I’d use fresh tomatoes in summer) and a bit of water to make a sauce.
Chop the courgette into inch-square chunks and add to the tomato pan, with some basil leaves. Mix everything together and turn the heat down to the minimum (or turn it off) until the aubergine is done (browned or slightly charred, soft and aromatic).
Tip the aubergines into the main pan, mix, season to taste, and simmer slowly for another 20 minutes.
Serve with boiled barley (preferably whole grain, not pearl barley), or brown rice.
Vegan at this point, but a dollop of soured cream on top will render it veggie.
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So I have successfully spent my first birthday away from home. And of course we lived it up in the true Madrid-fashion, thanks to all my friends and roommates. Honestly, I’ve got some of the most thoughtful roommates you could ever ask for. They made two birthday cakes for me and even got me presents! That was certainly unexpected! Although it would have been nice to have celebrated at home, it was definitely cool to see all my friends here come together.
So Friday night, my roommates threw the official Season Premiere/Birthday Party. I got to see a lot of people I haven’t seen in months. We all went out afterwards to our favorite place, Rock N’ Rolla, (which is now called SuperSonic, but essentially it’s the same place with the same music.) We all had a blast. Definitely one of the best times we’ve had there.
I’m officially signed up to take a French course starting October 4th. I’m highly looking forward to it. And my roommates of course noticed my excitement and thought it’d be an appropriate gift. Boy, did they hit that one on the head.
Bought a ticket to see Chloé in Brussels on the 30th of this month. Can’t wait to see her and explore a new city!
Tonight, I’ll be going out with all the Italians to watch AC Milan play.
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Frankly, it really was one of the more complex purchase decisions I’ve had to make regarding a kid’s bike. What quality level do you pay for compounded by the simple fact that most bikes today would not fit him a couple of years from now. And would a kid really appreciate a quality bike? Sure, I could go down to the local Wal-Mart and pick up whatever was on the rack for 100 bucks. But as a cyclist, I’m supposed to know better. And having done that I would have to anticipate spending an eternity riding a 60 lb, clunky, brake rubbing, saddle chafing, big box store bike through the eternal depths of purgatory as punishment for committing such a vile act. It would be my deserved destiny for allowing my son to take his first step, er should I say pedal stroke, in the opposite direction of the righteous road straight up Mt. Velominatus.
I’m not saying that any kid wouldn’t or shouldn’t be excited to ride a new Wal-Mart bike! But knowing that I would use this as a tool that bonds us as father and son cyclists, I just couldn’t do that to him or myself. Especially knowing that I would be the one consistently wrenching and adjusting a lesser grade machine.
My son never has never had a new bike. They’ve all been hand me downs and he has never complained. He knows how fortunate he is to have a bike at all. He rides all summer, spring and fall, likes taking lengthy father and son rides, and has learned the importance of wearing a helmet. He loves the freedom of 2 wheeled, self-powered speed. He has told me he is not yet interested in visiting the “Pain Cave” but he does show his tendency to be a high cadence spinner. And he has had some spectacular crashes to date which have yet to keep him from getting back in the saddle and back up to speed. So he has already embraced a bit of Rule V. Knowing he still has a few years to grow I wondered what would happen if I fit him on a bike my size. A 52 cm. I can drop the seat post, shorten the stem and move the sale to the fore position. Wallah! An “almost” ideal fitting bike that with minor adjustments, should fit him for at least another 6 to 8 yrs. Or maybe a lifetime, if he grows to (what we short Italians consider) a towering 5′ 9″ stature.
I believe that if he, and many others, are able to experience the sensation of riding a finely tuned road machine, he would immediatley acquire an appreciation for what cycling can be.
So I set my sights on” Craig’s List” to see if there might be any gems available. Knowing that a pure road bike might not be ideal for path rides I decided a cyclocross bike might give the best bang for the buck. Road or light trail all in one. Plus, a change of tires and all set for serious road. As I did the search I found what seemed to be the only CX bike available in his size. Plus, the condition sounded to good to be true. And the price was more than fair. Buying a bike should be a special experience that I did not want to deprive him of. So I told him if he did not want it just say so and we could pass. So off we went for a date with a stranger looking to sell a CX bike.
I figured the seller would be someone who might have gotten some serious use from the bike as the photos did not look so promising. I could not have been more wrong! First off, the seller seemed like a great guy and very knowledgable cyclist. The bike might have just come off the showroom floor. New condition. Plus, a few upgrades. The chain still had the original paraffin coating. My son’s eyes lit up and after a few adjustments he was up and down the road for countless mini finish line sprints. I think the seller felt pretty good about the bike’s new owner. As a final touch he even had a nice short 70 mm stem that he popped on and brought my son to an almost perfect fit. I do believe things happen for a reason. I know this bike was intended for this new owner.
I’m not sure he will ever race competitively, I don’t know that he will ever know the sado-satisfaction of exploring the pain cave. And I don’t know that we will ever share the same level of passion for the bike. But I do believe that one day, maybe soon, he will find himself in that perfect place where only a flawless ride can take him. The hum of the rubber over the tarmac and that feeling of flight. A slight tailwind, the warm sun, and maybe a good friend keeping him company. Days like that where you really wish you could be on the bike all day long. One day he’ll awaken to the “Force”. When he gets there, I will find satisfaction in knowing that of all the bikes I’ve bought, this was the best purchase I’ve ever made.
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https://heavyeddyrides.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/the-force-awakens/
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Cambodia is not a very easy place to reach, more so if you are budget traveler and looking to save money. It is not as well-connected by flights and the tickets are normally quite expensive. So, for my own budget trip, I had to put in numerous hours of research on the net and speak with loads of people and travel agents to decipher the best and cheapest way to reach Siem Reap. Since I had put in so much of an effort, I decided to write a detailed post on the best ways to reach Siem Reap from Bangkok for my other fellow travelers who too are struggling as I was.
Part 1 – Bangkok (Thailand) to Aranyaprathet (Aran) Border (Thai side of the border) by train, bus, mini-vans or taxi.
Part 2 – Border crossing, Visa on arrival Vs an e-visa in Cambodia and the various scams near the border.
Part 3 – Transport from Poipet Border (Cambodia border) to Seam Reap by bus or taxi.
By Air: This is the best, easiest and a hassle-free way but it also is the most expensive way to reach Cambodia. Siem Reap and Phnom Penh are not connected to any city in India by air. So you will have to route your flights either via Bangkok or via Singapore.
For Siem Reap – From Bangkok your options are – Thai Airways or the Bangkok Airlines and from Singapore – your options are Vietnam Airlines or the China Southern Airlines. I have tracked this sector for months and the fare is never less than Rs. 15,000/- one way. Recently, Angkor Air has also started flights from Bangkok to Siem Reap, and if booked in advance, at times you do get some good deals.
For Phnom Penh – Phnom Penh has a much better connectivity with numerous options – Tiger Airways, AirAsia, Malaysia Air, Silk Air, Singapore Air, etc and some of these are very reasonable options.
There are quite a few other cities in South East Asia that have good connectivity by air for Siem Reap and Phnom Penh.
Overland Border Crossing: If you have to travel from Bangkok to Siem Reap than the overland border crossing is a long, hassled but the cheapest way to travel. The road / highway is in a very good condition and if you leave early then you will not encounter the Bangkok traffic. Also, the hassle is not the actual travel or the kind of conveyance, but it’s the touts and scams all around.
Train from Bangkok to Aran: This is one of the most time-consuming ways to travel but it’s also the cheapest way to reach the Aran border.
In Bangkok, you can hire a cab, or a tuktuk, or ride a public (government bus) to reach the Hualamphong Railway Station. You can also use the MRT Interchange link to reach the Hua Lampong Train Station.
Here there are just ordinary trains, only third-class compartments, no aircon, only non-reclining chairs, and the journey takes about five and a half hours to reach from the Bangkok Hualamphong Railway Station to the Aranyaprathet Railway Station. Also there are only two trains a day. The first train leaves at around 5:55 am, the second train leaves at 1:05 pm. The problem with taking the second train is that you will have to spend the night in Aran, thereby spending on a hotel and wasting about 2 days in commute. However the train fare is only 48 THB.
Then the Aranyaprathet station is about 6 kms away from the border. You will need to hire a tuk-tuk (they will take about 50 – 100 THB) or a motorbike (if you have very less luggage and the fee will be around 20 – 25 THB) till the Rongkleu Market.
1. Bangkok’s Northern Bus Station (Mo Chit) – To reach this bus station, you can take a public taxi, public bus or you can also take the Skytrain (BTS) to Morchit Station. Please note that the Morchit BTS (Skytrain) Station and the Morchit Bus Terminal are not the same, and the distance is quite a bit. So take a tuk-tuk or a cab. Bus #3, #136, #104 will take you to the bus terminal from Chatuchak. You can also ride the MRT all the way to the Kamphang Phaet Station and then take a cab, motorbike or public bus to reach the bus terminal.
These government buses are air-conditioned, with comfy seats and depending on the class (1st or 2nd) include a free – small drinking water bottle and a small snack. First-class buses depart regularly every half hour for Aranyaprathet from 3:30 a.m until 5:30 p.m. and the fares are around 200 to 220 THB depending on which route the bus takes. Fares for the second-class buses are roughly 150 to 170 THB. At the bus station the ticket windows for Aranyaprathet are on the ground floor inside the terminal. The ticket windows with red letters are for second-class buses, the windows with blue letters are for first-class buses. After purchasing the ticket, you just need to step out and walk towards the parking lot for your Bus.
The main bus station in Aranyaprathet is about 6 kms from the border and you need to pay about 80 – 100 THB for a tuk-tuk. If you have less luggage then you can take a motorcycle taxi which is around 60 THB.
If the Bus drops you at the Rongkluea Market Bus Terminal, (approximately 2 kilometers away from the border) then you can either take a tuk-tuk or a motorcycle to bring you to the border. The fare starts at 40 THB and you can also walk.
Many a times buses drop you right near the Immigration area.
2. Take a Casino Bus from Lumphini Park – This is one of the best and most time efficient buses to the Aran border. Lumphini Park is a central location in Bangkok and you can take an MRT or a taxi to reach it.
The problem here is that there is no central bus station and buses are just parked around the Park. These buses leave around 5.30am – 6.00 am, the fare is around 200 THB and takes about 3.5 – 4 hours to reach. We really tried to take one of these buses but we just couldn’t find someone to book those tickets for us.
3. Airport to the Aran border – If you land in Bangkok in the morning and your timing matches with the bus schedule then you can leave for the border immediately from the airport itself. From the Suvarnabhumi airport there are two daily first-class buses at around 8.00am and 2.30pm with cost just under 200 – 220 THB. In the reverse direction, buses to the airport leave Aranyprathet at 08:30am and 12:30pm. These buses go to the Aranyaprathet bus station.
4. Bangkok’s Eastern Bus Station (Ekamai) – You can reach this station by taking a cab or a BTS.
This station also has buses to Aran leaving every hour or two (4.5-5.5hrs) and the ticket is around 200 THB.
Miniwans from Khaosan road – Khao san road is a complete backpacker and tourist section of Bangkok. As a result there are numerous travel agencies here offering transportation via minivans. There are major number of scams related to these minivans. Though the fare is supposed to be around 200 – 400 THB, these vans take forever to reach and have numerous scam stops. So they are best avoidable.
Catching a taxi from Bangkok: If you are a 4 people group and want to travel a bit more conveniently then you should consider booking your own cab. This mode of travel is convenient, flexible, time efficient but slightly expensive. You can just negotiate and book a metered public cab from Bangkok to Aran through your hotel or from the airport. Now the trick here is to find a good cab, negotiate really hard on the price and then stick to it. I have heard people quote from 2,500 THB upto 4,000 THB and any good cab will take from 2,500 THB to 2,700 THB. The toll on the way is not above 50 THB so if they start asking more for the toll then just say you will pay it yourself. Also there is no need to pay any return fare to the cabs.
While I have tried to make this list as exhaustive and informative, please feel free to drop in comments with suggestions on your experiences.
We’re planning to cross the Thai/Cambodian border next Tuesday, so this is super useful information. Many thanks, Snigdha.
Great maps–really helpful and fun to read! Thank you.
Hi, I’m planning to travel with my son first to Thailand and then on to Siem Reap via Aranyaprathet. We are both Indian Nationals. We will be staying in Aran for 2 days as we would like to use the Biking Pump Track their….we are cycling enthusiasts! After this we plan to visit Siem Reap for 3-4 days and return back to Bangkok via the same land route.
I was told that getting into Cambodia via this land route was OK but we would not be able to return to Thailand via this route as there could be a visa issue….is this true? How do we investigate this? SOS….
We are planning to do this crossing on the 6th so we appreciate the information very much! I only have one question, does one buy the ticket for the bus from Bangkok’s Mo Chit station at the station the same morning as one would like to leave?
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https://getsetandgo.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/travel-from-bangkok-to-aranyaprathet-border-thai-border/
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85%60°50°Showers with a high of 60 °F (15.6 °C) and a 65% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 6 to 11 mph (9.7 to 17.7 kph).Night - Showers with a 85% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 6 to 14 mph (9.7 to 22.5 kph). The overnight low will be 54 °F (12.2 °C).
Today - Showers with a high of 60 °F (15.6 °C) and a 65% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 6 to 11 mph (9.7 to 17.7 kph).
Tonight - Showers with a 85% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 6 to 14 mph (9.7 to 22.5 kph). The overnight low will be 54 °F (12.2 °C).
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/united-states/new-york/long-beach-2441470
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It’s Almost Like Star Trek! Or is it?
Have you ever dreamt or even just hoped to be able to communicate with every person in the world without having to know all the languages but simply by speaking your mother tongue?
Honestly, not at all. At the most I have dreamt or hoped to be able to learn thirty or a thousand languages. Mainly because if I didn’t know a specific language, I would be lacking a tool that is essential if one wants to understand the culture speaking it. And the conversation would be somewhat beckettian, I guess. It’s perfectly fine to be a nerd, finer still dreaming about a Star Trek utopia (I had the entire classic series on tape, just for the record, and it would be awesome to have a replicator and get pappardelle with fresh porcini down here in Australia) but when we talk about reality can we please try to keep its complexity in mind? Too many people still see completely oblivious of the fact that languages are not equivalent and interchangeable codes. I can cope with this, but on the other hand I think it’s sort of my duty to contribute my two cents and try to spread the awareness of what language is, and how the sentence “in the beginning was the word” has quite a literal meaning.
unfortunately there is a shortage of interpreters, a shortage of very reliable interpreters, and machine translation offers a unique tool in the sense that machines don’t get tired, people do.
Meet Captain Obvious. To reply in style, do we dare say that people interpret – in the fullest sense of the word, meaning that they are able to evaluate and give meaning to, say, non-verbal messages – and machines don’t? A flesh-and-bone interpreter will be quicker and much more accurate. Secondly, they could count on their knowledge and understanding of the “other” culture. Finally, they will be able to interact with people using not only these cultural tools, but also that 80% of communication that is non-verbal. Big shots from an intelligence agency should know these are not small details. Or at least, an average citizen whose security is supposedly in their hands would hope so.
Weiss might be right when he says that there is shortage of interpreters, and I guess that very few professionals are ready to move to Afghanistan or Iraq and work on the field. Why not look to the military, then, and invest in training? Many people choose to join the army to be able to study, why not offer incentives to whoever chooses the path of language learning and interpreting?
Are you kidding me? Firstly, there’s the problem of how reliable speech recognition might be (think of noise, and above all dialects and idiolects). Secondly, judging by the shortcomings of machine translation, I wouldn’t be to sure of that text-to-text part, either. Synthesis is probably the only segment that, bar major disasters, seems to be reliable. Is this stuff really seen as preferrable to the training of flesh-and-bones “war interpreters”?
Great. It’s not hard to imagine the kind of information gathered by an organisation which does not seem to have any idea of how important linguistic competence is. To the point that, instead of implementing new programs and train operatives with an in-depth knowledge of the language and culture of the war zone, they prefer to play Spock & Kirk with unlikely and dreadfully expensive gadgets which will hardly ever replace human intelligence. Looks like a bunch of fluff to me.
“[…] nell’amaro intruglio che i traduttori sono destinati a bere c’è una consapevolezza che redime, ovverosia che nonostante gli insulti e le imposizioni che deve sopportare nella nostra cultura, la traduzione è una componente fondamentale della nostra concezione di noi stessi come esseri umani.
Leggi la recensione su The New York Times.
“[…] in the bitter concoction translators are fated to imbibe is the redeeming awareness that despite all the insults and impositions translation sustains in our culture, it is crucial to our sense of ourselves as human.
Read the review on The New York Times.
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https://smuggledwords.wordpress.com/tag/the-new-york-times/
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I am Y from Indonesia. I have lady friend got breast cancer in left breast. She had ever done operation and chemotherapy. Now, her left breast that had been operated got purulent become very big hole about 25cm and right breast got purulent and many hole. Her left hand and two leg had been big swallow. Her body is thin. She still can eat and drink. Prof.Christ, can she still have opportunity to cure with herb medicine? What kind of herb medicine that is suitable for her to drink? Prof.Christ, Thank You.
Reply: No… I don’t think I can help her. Ask her to go and see her doctor.
My aunt 62 from Bukit Mertajam. She had breast cancer 3 years ago and had undergone mastectomy on her right breast and followed on with Chemotherapy and radiotherapy. On January this year, the cancer has metastasized to her lung, lymph node and bone.
Really thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, it’s too late for my cousin(my aunt’s daughter) to go to Penang at this time. I’ve called up your centre … about the change of date. They will see you on Monday instead.
I am writing here to tell you that my aunt’s daughter have changed their mind not coming to see you. I am very disappointed with their decision and the reason is all because my aunt’s attitude and knowledge about natural treatment (already brain washed by conventional treatment). As a nutritionist myself, I deeply feel sorry for her. Thank you for your time all the while reading my email. Thank you very much.
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2019-04-21T02:47:09Z
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https://adaywithchristeo.wordpress.com/2015/05/
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The new joint venture company that will manage the ITIL® and PPM® certifications has been named AXELOS! Please click here to view the official press release.
This entry was posted on July 9, 2013 at 5:54 pm and is filed under ITIL Best Practices. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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2019-04-24T12:24:17Z
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https://optimalconnections.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/axelos-new-company-to-promote-it-best-practices/
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I am now set-up with LP as an affiliate,, BUT, when I click on the place to get links and code to display on my website it is a page of static images, no way to choose one, and up top has place to click and download the "logo in EPS format" and the "LP techno theme song". Is the EPS thing what I want , and if it is, what the **** do I open that kind of file with !!! I have tried everything i have and nothing works. PLease help !!!! Thanks in advance as always.
What you do is save the images and you can put those up on your site and link them using your affiliate URL. The LP theme song is just a song you can download in mp3 format, I plan on using it in my little Welcome to the forums flash movie i'm making.
Thanx Lupine, kinda thought that would work but wondered what an .EPS was and how to open it !! It bugs me when I cant open something !!! Now I need to know How to replace the mambo syndicate thing at the bottom of the user menu thingy with the LP logo I want to use to make my link (I asked this in the webhosting help just now also) Thanks for the help as always !!
Guess this category isnt visited much,,,,,anyway I got it all figured out and working on the site !! Am happy RAT now !!
Sorry I didn't catch this sooner. Please mail affiliate@lunarpages.com if you need immediate assistance.
Thanx Amy !! & Have A G`ood Day !!
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2019-04-20T00:25:51Z
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https://www.lunarpages.com/forums/index.php?topic=27671.0
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The tailgating woman was furious and honked her horn, screaming in frustration, as she missed her chance to get through the intersection, dropping her cell phone and her makeup.
As she was still in mid-rant, she heard a tap on her window and looked up into the face of a very serious police officer. The officer ordered her to exit her car with her hands up.
He took her to the police station where she was searched, fingerprinted, photographed, and placed in a holding cell.
He said, ‘I’m very sorry for this mistake. You see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, giving the guy in front of you the finger, and cursing at him.
I wonder who are they trying to convince except themselves?
ACTION TALKS AND BULLS**T WALKS!
*Note: You can replace the word “Christian” with any other religion.
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2019-04-24T02:55:25Z
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https://jkys.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/sorry-for-the-mistake/
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The extremely splendid Joyce Rosario and Lee Su Feh directed our attention to this beautiful photo set of dancers from prominent NYC companies by photographer Jordan Matter on Photo of the Day.
No trampolines or other devices were used to create these photos, just hours and hours of training and dedication on the part of both the dancers and the photographer.
This is my particular favourite, but why not click over and check them all out. Tell us which inspires you the most, or which you find the most beautiful.
~ by DanceHouse on May 6, 2010.
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2019-04-20T14:27:02Z
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https://dancehousevan.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/dancers-among-us/
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I call it the TEFLON/VELCRO DANCE. Each day, throughout the day, bad things attempt to attach themselves to our hearts — resentment, fear, condemnation, trivia, distraction, etc. And to win this battle, and to successfully dance this dance, we must train our hearts to be like TEFLON with these things — to not embrace or rehearse them, but, by the grace He has given us, to move past them and go on with our day.
And in the same way, we need to train our hearts to embrace (and meditate on) the good things that are coming to us throughout our days (to stick to them like VELCRO!) — encouragement, kind thoughts towards others, trusting thoughts towards God, Godly correction, opportunities to forgive, etc.
Every serious Jesus-follower should read through the entire Bible at least once. Otherwise, you don’t really know what you signed up for. And you end up taking a lot of other people’s word for what God wrote and who He is.
We talk a lot about RELATIONSHIP vs RELIGION and how “religion” is bad…and yet it’s easy to let others spoon-feed us and to fool ourselves into thinking second-hand knowledge (religion!) is enough — but a real, living relationship takes work.
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2019-04-25T06:44:56Z
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https://loonwatchman.wordpress.com/2014/04/
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that implies something special and catches my eyes somehow.
as promised, i will post a picture every week, for another 52 weeks.
xmas gift, significant other, and no more work for this year!
only one more week left for the year! so fast!
week #50: on your special day.
you have a bright future ahead full of success and happiness.
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2019-04-25T06:03:28Z
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https://mydonutlife.wordpress.com/page/2/
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So... what do you want to know? Well, my name is Tim Gustafson. I'm originally from Silver Spring, MD, where my family still lives. I graduated from Williams College back in 1998 and am now in medical school in Philadelphia. I built the kayak during my summer break in 2000 when I was a couple years out of college. When I started, I had some amount of wood working experience mostly from just fooling around with tools and various projects but had never before built a kayak or any boat that was not made of pieces of trash found on the beach for that matter.
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2019-04-23T12:50:15Z
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http://chesapeake16.tripod.com/id36.htm
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Seriously though, I felt like this list was very comprehensive. I think I may have gotten every statement/question on that list except the last one: “Is having a baby worth all you gave up for it?” If anyone EVER had the gall to ask me that I might no wait I would punch them in the face.
1. Aren’t you bored on maternity leave? I mean don’t you just have all this extra time since he sleeps all the time?
2. Do you nap when the baby naps? I wish I could do that during my day.
Those are the only other two I can really think of that I also got in addition to most of those on the list. But really those were few and far between. Mostly, people were respectful and just wanted to know when we were ready for visitors.
But in the future if you aren’t sure what to say to parents with a newborn this list is one you might want to study before saying anything.
And now because this post is full of newborn talk here are some pictures of my newborn….almost 13 months ago.
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https://curtandmegan.wordpress.com/tag/newborns/
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· Keep blood pressure in check. Don’t let untreated high blood pressure damage artery walls.
· Maintain a normal body weight. Obesity can increase the risk of diabetes, stroke and other vascular problems.
· Cut back on foods high in saturated fat and add plenty of whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables to your plate.
· Get plenty of exercise. Thirty minutes of activity on most days of the week is ideal.
· Take steps to reduce high blood cholesterol.
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2019-04-21T06:24:14Z
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https://jennyho8.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/mascular-dementia-prevention/
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Meister’s Old Fashioned Moustache Wax is a wax that I again found on Facebook, Oh the wonderful world of social networking.
I was excited when I received my tin of wax… I mean who isn’t excited when they get something in the mail that isn’t a bill or junk. So of course I was excited, AND it was another wax for me to try.
I opened my package and found the very basic yet classy black and white label on the tin. I do like how it is simple and to the point.
The very simple but classic looking tin.
Opening up the tin you see a white wax, and after taking a whiff it reminded me almost exactly of Cowboy Comb Moustache Wax. But there was something different about this smell. I turned the tin over and read what was in it, and what do you know this wax has Rose Water in it. I then smelled it again and it is very slight but if you think about it you can smell the rose. But who knows that could just be me thinking it actually does :). But other then that this wax does smell somewhat like Cowboy Comb’s wax.
The wax looks a little cream colored in this picture but It looks white while in the tin.
Scraping this wax off is tough! This is what I was talking about in my Wild Bill’s review about a stiff wax that is flakey. This wax is VERY stiff when scraping off and the best way to describe it would be it flakes. So is this wax really that stiff? Well, No. Once you start warming it up in-between your fingers the wax softens very nicely, but it does get a little “Greasy”, and I hate to say it but it stays that way while applying it to the ‘tache and throughout the day. Applying it is very easy since it softens up so nicely, but it stays that way, which I find a little bit weird for a wax that is SO stiff in the tin to not harden up after being applied to the ‘stache. Throughout the day I did have to worry about readjusting it to keep it in place. I did have a little bit of trouble keeping the large curls that I like, but I did manage to get smaller curls to stay in place.
Washing this wax out was very easy, since this wax didn’t harden back up like some other ones, it was very easy to wash out with water and a little bit of soap.
Overall I would say this wax would be a good one for someone who is not looking for the stiffest thing in the world but for something to keep their whiskers in place throughout the day while keeping a natural flow to it. The smell was hardly noticeable after being in the ‘stache, and it was a pleasant scent to begin with. This wax is white so you do have to worry about some noticeable flakes throughout the day but after a little readjusting they disappear.
A huge thanks to Todd from Meister’s Old Fashioned Moustache Wax. For all of you out there, head on over to their site and buy yourself a tin of their wax! This wax is definitely on the cheaper side for a 1oz tin, at $7.95 a tin you can’t go wrong!
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2019-04-21T10:04:01Z
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https://handlebarstache.wordpress.com/category/moustache-wax/
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Eight years ago, when he began his academic career at Queen's Faculty of Law, Chris Essert was assigned to teach a course on property law. He discovered that the connection between property rights and equality under the law raised so many interesting questions that it was an area he should address in his research, too.
His seminar will be a legal-philosophical inquiry into the nature of homelessness and potential legal and policy responses to it—including possible constitutional entrenchment of a human right to housing.
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2019-04-22T01:01:40Z
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https://www.law.utoronto.ca/news/meet-new-faculty-member-professor-chris-essert
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“There’s been lots of speculation over the Treasury’s plans on sickness benefit. The Times flagged up a proposal to “means test”, while the Observer has a letter pointing to £2.5bn of incapacity benefit savings from an unspecified reform.
No final decisions have been taken. But reading between the lines, it sounds like moves are afoot to scale back “contributory incapacity benefit” (which I’ll explain in a second)…..
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2019-04-26T03:58:48Z
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https://mindinflux.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/why-osborne%E2%80%99s-benefit-crackdown-won%E2%80%99t-just-hit-the-workshy/
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Thank you so much! The cake looks almost too pretty to eat...ALMOST!
That is a great looking cake!!
It is quite stunning, isn't it? I wonder how many layers it has?
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2019-04-18T19:12:26Z
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https://engarian.livejournal.com/397993.html
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I’m tickled pink to announce the release dates for the books I’m currently working on. The third in the Miller Family series, “The Way to a Man’s Heart” will be released on July 1st, 2010 and my Christmas novella “Sarah’s Christmas Miracle” will be released August 10th, 2010….to beat the rush for Christmas shopping.
“The Way to a Man’s Heart” will be Leah Miller’s story, and as the name implies she’s cooking up a storm in Ohio Amish Country…gaining fans and beaus at the same time. Watch for the second in the series coming January 1st titled “Never Far from Home.” This is Emma’s story as she embarks on a dangerous Rumschpringe with an English beau.
January will be here before you know it if current temps in Ohio are any indication. Thanks go to all the super people at Harvest House Publishers who are a blessing to work with! They make writing a joy and an honor.
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ChemistryViews.org offers daily news on latest research and the chemical industry as well as information on awards accepting nominations. It also has a comprehensive events calendar. ChemistryViews.org hosts the free online magazine ChemViews with interviews, research highlights, and commentaries from leading authors to the global chemistry community.
The monthly comic series "Wonderlab" with Sophie, Jin-Jo, Richpunzel, etc. looks in a humorous way at the ups and downs of working in a lab.
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The service was launched at the Maison de la Chimie in Paris at the Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium on May 21, 2010.
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It should be “quiet” not “quite”.
Becky has so-far survived the Zombie Apocalypse but when three men spot her walking alone, they decide to capture and take advantage of her.
Since Becky is no match for the three men in a physical altercation, Becky must use her intelligence and cunning to escape with her innocence intact.
Becky was separated from her husband Joe and they made plans to meet in a certain place on New Year’s Eve. But is he still alive? Or will Becky have to survive the Zombie Apocalypse all alone?
Anthony Renfro lives in Apex, North Carolina. He is a reader, writer, runner, husband, father, and stay at home dad – one of the toughest jobs anyone could ever do. He was born in Bristol, Tennessee, and is a graduate of UNC-Greensboro.
This novel is an amazing work of historical fiction. I have read many fiction and non-fiction books about Nazi Germany and most of them focus on Jewish people being hidden and trying to stay alive long enough for the war to come to an end. This book is not that at all. In fact, this book actually takes into account how ordinary German citizens also suffered under Hitler’s Third Reich.
I liked the fact that this book actually tells the story from several different perspectives. It also illustrates how people of different ethnicities, different backgrounds, different religions and even from varying socioeconomic backgrounds all became inextricably linked to one another during the Holocaust.
This story is based on actual events and it is a heart-breaking and gripping read. I was drawn into the story and read it in its entirety in only 24 hours.
This is the second book in a series and I am definitely interested in reading the next novel.
The only negative comments I have about YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE: A HOLOCAUST NOVEL would be the fact that there are a multitude of editing and proof-reading errors. These errors take away from the enjoyment of the story and I find them very distracting.
– Since Hitler is only one person, it should say “voice” rather than “voices”.
– Obviously there are multiple errors in the above paragraph, including one sentence that repeats the word “before” twice.
– There are so many other errors that it is impossible for me to list even a portion of them. There are misspelled words. Words with letters missing (such as “llies” where it should say “Allies”) and many instances where words are written twice.
Roberta Kagan’s ancestors experienced Nazi cruelty first hand and both of her grandparents lost their entire extended families to the Third Reich. She has written many historical fiction novels.
This book is was being offered free of charge on Amazon just before Christmas.
It’s four days before Christmas, and Mike Beem has put up a Christmas display in honour of the upcoming holiday. When a zombie picks up Rudolph, Mike is annoyed.
“You see, the biggest problem was this. When you messed with Rudolph, you screwed up the whole display.” When the zombie walks away carrying (and trying to eat) Rudolph, Mike has no choice but to shoot it in the head to save his holiday display.
Well, you will need to read A ZOMBIE CHRISTMAS to find out the answer.
The fact that this book is only 54 pages in length and is currently being offered free on Amazon makes downloading and reading A ZOMBIE CHRISTMAS a complete “no-brainer” (pun intended). This book also contains a bonus short story entitled “A Vampire at Christmas”.
I enjoyed this short tale and the only flaw I saw was that there were a few editing and/or proof-reading errors.
It just goes to show that even in extreme circumstances, such as a Zombie Apocalypse, people’s desires to help others and Christmas spirit will still prevail.
Click here to discover more twisted tales by this author.
~ I received a free copy of this book from the publisher. A review was not required, but it is appreciated.
Wow! According to the publisher, this book is aimed at Middle Grade readers (ages 10-14) but I can easily see older young adult and adult readers absolutely loving this book, much as I did.
I feel compelled to compare “The Blackthorn Key” to the Harry Potter series for a couple reasons. First, this book does not cater to kids of a lesser intelligence, nor does it patronize its readers. This book is aimed at articulate and intelligent readers who want a complex story with multiple plot twists and a smart but still likeable protagonist. Secondly, the lead character (Christopher Rowe) is extremely loyal and has a highly developed sense of right and wrong. Christopher has to make many choices throughout the book and he rarely jumps and makes rash decisions. When he needs to make a choice his sense of morality and loyalty to his master are factored into his decisions.
I love the choice of time and location, as well as the choice of apothecaries as central to the plot. Kids reading this book may not realize it, but they are being educated at the same time as they are being entertained.
There is a King, a cult, baker’s and their sons with hidden talents (especially with rolling pins). There are orphans, beggars, noblemen and women. There are crazy people who talk to ghosts, corrupt officials, true friends, bitter enemies and even assassins. This book has it all.
If you want a book that will both challenge and delight you, look no further than THE BLACKTHORN KEY.
This book (if it isn’t already) is sure to make the bestseller lists. Christopher Rowe’s name may even come to be known on the same level as that of “Harry Potter” and Christopher’s friend Tom is the “Ron Weasley” of this historical world.
I am hoping that the author plans to continue this series with many more tales of mystery, alchemy and adventure. I know I will be keeping my eye out for absolutely anything else that writer Kevin Sands publishes.
It is hard for me to believe that this book is Kevin Sand’s debut novel. I am proud of the fact that this Canadian author has burst onto the literary scene with such a polished and professional work of fiction.
This book needs to be on everyone’s MUST READ list. If you fail to buy this book you will definitely be missing out on an exquisitely crafted book.
This audiobook was written by the author late in life and published by his son, Jonathan. When Stan returned from Vietnam, he chose to not speak of or even think of, his experiences during the Vietnam War. In fact, he was so adamant in his avoidance of the topic that he even avoided all movies and books on the subject.
Because of this, BENEATH THE BAMBOO may have some flaws. The author is not a historian nor is he a professional writer. He is just an average guy who survived some not-so-average experiences after fighting in the Vietnam War.
I actually found this audiobook fascinating. I liked the fact that it was not the story of some famous battle or told by a famous soldier. Because it was told by a regular guy and not a career soldier, I found that I could more easily relate to the story.
This audiobook conveyed the horror and dangerousness of the vast network of Vietcong tunnels that the infantry had to contend with.
I read some of the other reviews of this book and saw that some negative comments were made regarding inconsistencies with what other Vietnam War veterans experienced. I have to point out that this book was written by Stan Jones’ son and not by Stan himself. It is for that reason that I am fully willing to forgive and forget about these errors. Any memoir, especially one written by a non-professional writer will contain “errors”. We must also take into account that people’s memories are fallible at the best of times and it is to be expected that a memoir written about events that took place around 50 years ago will not be completely accurate.
The story is about how the Vietnam War turned a boy into a man in a very short amount of time.
I think this is an important story and one that needs to be told and retold so that no one ever forgets about the Vietnam War and the soldiers who fought and died during it.
Check out the official webpage of BENEATH THE BAMBOO and also visit the Facebook page.
~ I received a free paperback copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.
A science experiment to teleport an item from one city to another has unexpected consequences.
A portal to Hell has been opened and demons and other creatures of darkness pour through the opening and into the world of mankind.
The fate of humanity rests in the hands of an unlikely trio: a witch, a priest who has lost his faith and a reluctant psychic who drinks to drown out the voices in his head.
There are a multitude of things I love about Tony Bowman’s books. First & foremost is the fact that they are literally impossible to put down once you start reading. If you did not know, this book is over 500 pages long. To keep the reader of such a huge story engaged (in fact, entranced) during such a massive story is an amazing feat.
There are only a few days left until New Year’s Eve and I have a ton of things I need to do. So, on my only day off what did I do? Did I get any of my tasks completed? Or even started? NOPE! I picked up TURNING THE DARKNESS and spent the entire day immersed in Tony Bowman’s imagination. And I do not regret a single minute!
Tony Bowman may not yet be a household name, but his stories deserve any and all attention they can get. I have little doubt that if Tony’s work gets discovered by the right person, he will become a bestselling author. So, now is the time to get your hands on a copy of his books, before they sell out everywhere. You will not regret it!
I am 100% convinced that Tony Bowman’s book need to be added to everyone’s TBR (To Be Read) list.
Have I gotten through to those of you reading this review? I hope so.
Where else can you read a story filled with demons, witches, vampires, werewolves, priests, militia, ghouls and God and actually feel that the story is completely plausible? That is no easy task, yet this book is exactly that.
Search Tony Bowman on my blog to read reviews of his other books.
Tony Bowman is the author of four full-length novels as well as many short stories. His short story collection entitled “Morgue Dreams and Curiouser Things” is an amazingly well written collection of seventeen short horror stories.
Tony currently lives in North Carolina with his wife, Laurie, his daughter, Sara and a hundred pound Catahoula Leopard dog.
Above is the first paragraph of the book. D.M. Annechino has done it again. He has immediately grabbed my attention and piqued my curiosity.
Who is she and what did she do to this man? And, knowing what type of book this is, I instantly started to speculate as to what horrendous crime this once respectable and well-liked man would commit.
Detective Sami Rizzo is now married to Al and they have a three year old son. Sami’s daughter, Angelina, is now eight years old.
One aspect of the Sami and Al romance storyline that drives me crazy is that in RESUSCITATION Al slept with a nurse while visiting his comatose sister in Brazil. Sami and Al were living together at the time, but were not yet married. Sami obviously forgives Al, but I don’t know how anyone could ever forgive a cheater. The circumstances were extraordinary, but to my mind that does not matter at all. I have a hard time believing that Sami would be able to ever trust him again and no marriage can survive without trust. However, all of that is obviously my own opinions on the subject and some women are able to be much more forgiving than I could ever be.
Author D.M. Annechino has a knack for getting inside the heads of seemingly “normal” people who through extraordinary circumstances have been pushed into ‘snapping’ and A PIECE OF YOU proves this.
The story begins quickly and the pace never lets up. Once again D.M. Annechino has created a taut thrill ride that will sweep readers along and keep them enthralled from the first page to the last.
I have quickly become a fan of The Detective Sami Rizzo series and of author D.M. Annechino.
“It seemed to Al that society had become so super sensitive about everything from religion to ethnicity you had to walk on eggshells every time you opened your mouth for fear you would offend someone. Years ago if you lived on the streets, you were a bum, plain and simple, then some do-gooder decided that bums should be called ‘homeless people’. Most recently the term had become ‘financially disadvantaged’.
His second book, Resuscitation (Thomas & Mercer 2011), a follow-up to his first novel, hit #1 in Kindle sales in the UK and reached #26 in the USA. He is also the author of I Do Solemnly Swear (Thomas & Mercer 2012) and Hypocrisy. A Piece of You is his fifth novel, the third in the Detective Sami Rizzo series. A native of New York, Annechino now lives in San Diego with his wife, Jennifer. He loves to cook, enjoys a glass of vintage wine, and spends lots of leisure time on the warm beaches of Southern California.
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Five Sentence Fiction is about packing a powerful punch in a tiny fist. Each week, Lillie McFerrin posts a one word inspiration, then anyone wishing to participate will write a five sentence story based on the prompt word. This week’s prompt is DARKNESS.
I cower under a rock, sheltering from the dark, swirling storm that threatens to lift me up and shatter me into tiny pieces.
The clouds bloom like poison gases, and I wrap my arms around myself, trying to keep in the warmth; to stop myself from shaking.
I know now what a terrible mistake I’ve made, opening that box.
The shadowy figure of Pandora appears before me – beautiful, yet murderous… and she’s angry.
It’s natural — even inevitable — to compare one means of expression, one form, one artistic approach with another. We compare to explain, to justify, to understand, to illuminate, to inspire. Flash fiction invites many such comparisons because it seems to lie outside what is traditionally promoted as fiction, even though the tradition of novels and short stories and, indeed, written fiction is itself quite young. In age — or youth — it is perhaps fairer to compare written fiction with photography and cinema than poetry, plays and storytelling.
Where a novel might be a full-length film, whether art house and understated or Hollywood and overblown, a short story takes us into the realm of cinematic shorts, anything from a few Vimeo minutes to a half-hour cinematic immersion. Against this, flash fiction is the animated GIF, the vine, the blipvert, a couple of YouTube minutes at most. The boundary between flash fiction and short stories is blurred at the upper end — by convention 1000 words is commonly accepted as the flash top floor, but it could just as easily be 750 or 1250 depending on who you talk to — but sharper at the lower end — the hundred-word precision of a drabble, the fifty-word drop of a dribble.
Unlike a film, however, a written story is static. A story has movement and time, but the breath of life comes from the reader as their eyes travel the words, sentences, ideas and characters. Photographs take in sweeping landscapes, family snaps, posed portraits, street moments, taken with anything from what you happen to have in your pocket to cameras whose price tag will empty your pocket and more, cropped, tinted, processed or left alone to tell their story. The word flash also suggests the illumination of a moment in all its depth, relying on the viewer to see the motion and larger world in a photograph in their mind.
Photographs can be sharp and richly detailed HDR images, just as stories can be lush with description and detail, taking in big plots and panoramas, everything in focus. But a photographer can also choose to single something out with a shallow depth of focus that leaves everything outside the focal plane blurred and set apart, trading pixel perfect fidelity and completeness for contrast and separateness, the subject of interest accentuated all the more.
In photography the out-of-focus quality is known as bokeh, derived from the Japanese boke (ボケ) meaning blur or boke-aji (ボケ味) meaning blur quality. With poor bokeh the blurring of detail is a distraction and does not serve the picture well; with good bokeh it makes the picture.
So it is with flash fiction.
Across a handful of words a story is drawn, the greater world it lives in no more than suggested, at best sketched. The context for a given piece of flash fiction lacks the detail and focus given to the story in the foreground. But this blurring, this incompleteness and implication, this necessary and greater elaboration in the mind of the reader must serve to support the story all the more. It has a very particular quality to it that distinguishes it from longer forms: good flash fiction has good bokeh.
Pop over to the FlashFlood Journal today, to see a constant stream of flashes from writers from all over the world. Happy, sad, funny, light, dark and quirky – there is something for everyone in this year’s flood. Enjoy!
I’m delighted that my teeny-tiny short story ‘Thaw’ is published in the December issue of 101 Fiction… The remit was 100 words with a one word title on the theme of winter and/or the undead. The story popped into my head immediately.
Today I’d like to share a post about how genre fiction lends itself to the short form, from prolific flash fiction writer and National Flash Fiction Day organiser extraordinaire, Calum Kerr. There’s also a fantastic story at the end. Enjoy!
Yesterday, over on Nettie Thomson’s blog, I talked about how I had turned away from writing horror stories until flash-fiction steered me back to the dark side. That got me thinking about flash-fictions and how they work for genre writing.
It’s an interesting issue. I have read, and written, a lot of flash-fictions which might be considered ‘literary’ or at least ‘realist’ in that they occur in the real, recognisable world.
To a large extent, flash-fictions often rely on the reader’s understanding of the world so that when something is referred to or implied, there is no lack of understanding, and the reader provides the necessary extra information from their own knowledge. When using this kind of shorthand, there isn’t always time for world-building or setting up complex scenarios, such as those needed in science-fiction and fantasy writing.
However, if the writer assumes an informed audience, then this can be overcome. I’m not simply talking about an audience well-versed in the particular genre of the story, but an intelligent audience who can make the same leap that you, as the writer, makes when creating the story. Small details, as in any flash, can convey a huge amount, and the rest falls into place by extrapolation.
One of the problems that a number of writers have – and something I see a lot in the work of those just starting out – is an assumption (to be fair, usually unconscious) that the reader is not quite as clever or clued up as you, the writer, and so things need to be explained. This leads to sprawling narratives where everything needs to be said two or three times, just to make sure the reader isn’t getting lost.
When I write flash, I assume the reader is keeping up. If they get lost, well, they can always read it again. The stories are short, it won’t take long.
And that, for me, is why genre stories can work so well in flash-fiction. You can create, not just a version of this world, but a version of any world. You can do it in a few words, and with a few salient details, and the pictures are then painted on the canvas of the reader’s imagination. If I mention a green Renault Clio in a ‘realist’ story, then anyone who’s ever seen one of those will be picturing the same thing. If I mention ‘a sleeper ship, plying the stars, filled with a frozen population’ then everyone reading will either know what I’m talking about or be able to work it out, but each individual will see a different ship, with a different layout, with the frozen bodies stored in different ways.
As a writer, using flash-fiction to write genre stories, I can use a larger and more varicoloured palette, and at the same time make it much more personal for each reader.
So, does flash-fiction work for genre writing?
Calum Kerr is a writer, editor, lecturer and director of National Flash-Fiction Day in the UK. He lives in Southampton with his wife – the writer, Kath Kerr – their son and a menagerie of animals. His new collection of flash-fictions, Lost Property, is now available from Cinder House.
“This area is non-operational!” came the calm voice over the speaker.
Injit was not calm. He was running for his life.
Behind him the bulkhead door shot closed with a blast of air that wanted to knock him from his feet. He rode it, letting it carry him, and then planted his feet and kept going.
A crash and roar rocked the station as the section behind him crumpled and surrendered to the vacuum. Fuel cells detonated and tremors rocked the floor under Injit. He staggered and bounced against the wall, but he stayed on his feet and carried on.
There had been no warning. He didn’t know what had happened. A momentary hole in the shield? A micro-meteor just too large and travelling just too fast to be stopped? It didn’t matter now. The imperative was to get away from the rolling collapse and get safe.
Gravity shifted under him and the floor became a slope. Injit dropped forward, his palms hitting the floorplates and skidding in blood. He ignored the pain and scrabbled forward, clawing his escape.
If he could reach the central hub, he could get to the shuttle and away. If the collapse stabilised he could return and begin repairs. If not, there was enough food, water and air in the shuttle to last him six weeks, long enough for help to come if he was lucky. But first he had to get there.
He clambered up and into the next section, sprawling over the raised threshold into the normal gravity on the far side. He dragged his feet after him, pressed them to the ridge to boost himself upwards as the door flashed down just missing his heel. It was followed by the calm voice repeating its warning, barely audible over the crumple-crash of collapsing metal.
Injit’s legs were starting to thrum in tune with the collapsing station, but he staggered on stiff legs and kept moving forward.
He was nearing the next section, just one away from the hub, when the lights started to flicker.
In the frantic strobing, Injit slowed, and then an arc of electricity grounded to the plates in front of him with a bang. Injit pulled himself to a stop and watched as the corridor between him and the hub was lit by a lightning storm.
He looked back, but all was dark behind him. The sounds of creaking and crumpling were continuing. He couldn’t go back. He couldn’t stay here.
He faced forward, took a deep breath and thought of home.
What do you think? Does genre work in flash? Comments welcome, as always.
There are Witches out there, with skull faces.
On windy nights they gather in the tree outside his window and huddle together on branches winter-shorn of leaves. They chatter and laugh, flap their cloaks and watch him with beady black eyes.
All witches, all watching. Laughing black leaves on the cold oak’s boughs.
The Boy pulls his curtains together tightly.
can peek into his room.
Grinding and eating and cawing and gnawing.
He has protectors, many and varied.
Can’t, doubt the bravery of Flying Fred Ted nor Keemo the duck that Daddy brought him from the hospital.
When Daddy was still here.
Stick thin on the bed.
The bears hate the witches with Skull faces and he hugs his small army close.
And screech and cackle and yatter and caw-caw the night away.
Outside those thick black curtains that Mummy, with the half-sad mouth, fitted.
“They’re just crows, My boy, just crows,” she had said as she hung the curtains, shoulders slumping, a pale hand covering tearfilled eyes.
When they first visited – black flecks falling out the dusky sky to populate the bare oak – Raggedy capes making excellent wings for those who wish to be something else.
The same night the Terminal took Daddy went away.
Witches have guile, they know people would spot birds with skull faces straight away.
So they slip their black pointy hats down over their shiny-leathered skulls.
Sometimes, the caw-cawing and yattering starts to swirl in his head, stops being squawks and screeches and becomes words.
Each time more teeth-on-glass voices join the chorus until eventually, in a great taunting, teasing, sneering, squealing, high pitched, rakkety-ratchet old-hag, warty-chinned wail the whole flock of skull-faced, witch-crows takes to the sky.
Raggedy capes flap. Hat mouths croak. A dark spiral rising up and out over the city.
‘They’re just crows, my boy, just crows’ she says but the tears in her eyes and the tremble of his lip won’t leave.
‘I’m sure he would,’ she looks at the floor to hide her tears as she tucks him in. ‘There are no monsters, my son. Nothing eats people They’re just crows, my boy, just crows.’ Her voice a strangled sob.
He tries to be brave but he knows she lies and pulls the covers over his head and curls up, folding in his fear and pain with ganglion arms.
RJ Barker is slightly eccentric and lives in Yorkshire with his wife, two year old son and a constantly growing collection of poor quality taxidermy. His short fiction has been published in all manner of places (including charity anthology ‘Off the Record 2: At the Movies‘) and received three honourable mentions in, ‘The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror’. RJ’s illustrated poems (together with Mikko Sovijarvi) ‘Interment’ and ‘The Social Diary of A Ghoul’ have received pretty good reviews (like, here) and are available through Amazon for electronic readers. A paper version is planned soon.
He’s recently signed with Literary agent Robert Dinsdale of Dinsdale Imber and is working on something a bit longer.
When not writing, RJ dreams of growing a huge pair of antlers and hiring himself out as a novelty coat-rack.
The problem with the ringing phone wasn’t how loud it was, or that it hadn’t stopped ringing for an hour, but that Tom didn’t have a phone.
It’d been 172 hours since The Man had visited and told him what he needed to do. 167 hours and 47 minutes since Tom had burned all The Technology in the furnace in the basement. The Man had talked for nearly an hour. 55 minutes, to be exact. Once he was done, Tom realised he hadn’t moved a muscle the entire time. He had drool running down the side of his mouth from his slack jawed acceptance of The Man’s speech.
Tom was no different to anyone else, he’d thought. Everyone had The Technology. Years before, Tom remembered vaguely, there had only been landlines. There was no way you could lie about where you were. That was one thing Tom was particularly guilty of, in fact he’d done it just the other day. 185 hours ago when Kimmy had called saying ‘Where are you baby? I thought you were coming to see me.’ Tom had said, ‘I’m just picking us up some beers, then I’ll be on my way, honey. Get yourself warmed up for me, huh?’ He hadn’t been picking up any beers. He’d just finished boning Clara, the hot blonde from across the hall. It wasn’t the first time either. After that he’d just turned off his cell. He hadn’t spoken to Kimmy since. Wasn’t much chance of it now either, since he’d melted the phone in the furnace.
Which is why it was kind of a problem that he could still hear it ringing.
He’d gone back down there, just in case there was any way that the phone might’ve fallen on the floor; maybe someone recognized it as his and stuck it though his mailbox.
He’d struggled a bit with the TV. Damn flat-screens were heavier than they looked. He’d watched it pop and shrivel inside the furnace before he’d shut the door. The stench of the melting plastic had caught at the back of his throat.
It was easier with the other stuff. The laptop was small and light. He tossed it in. He hesitated over the brand new android tablet. He’d only had it a week. Just managed to set it up to be able to record the TV, not to mention converting and transferring all of his music and videos on there. He’d stood at the open door of the furnace, the flames licking the sides of the dark cavern; tablet in hand. When he started to feel the heat scorching his eyebrows, he tossed the tablet inside and slammed the door shut.
That was it. That was all The Technology he had. Wasn’t it?
‘How long will it take?’ Tom had asked.
After The Man left, Tom sat in the dark and waited for It to happen.
Waited to see The Light.
His stomach cramped. His head spun like a merry-go-round. His mouth felt like an old rug that’d been left in the sun.
Using a final burst of energy, he’d turned the apartment upside down. He’d looked inside the empty shell in the wall where he’d pulled out the microwave. He crawled into the space near the sink where he’d disconnected the dishwasher. He trawled though the trash. He even checked inside the toilet bowl. Just in case.
If he could just find the damn thing and answer it. He could tell them to stop ringing. Tell them he needed to get rid of the phone. It was holding things up. Stopping It from happening.
He peered into the darkness of the unplugged refrigerator. The smell of the rotting vegetables sucked inside his nostrils. His appetite was long gone.
He folded himself back into the space near the sink. Knees pulled up to his chest. He felt things crawling in his hair; heard The Man whispering stuff inside his head; jittering, crazy noises. Like a jar full of flies.
He pushed his fingers into his ears to drown out the incessant ringing of the phone.
Closed his eyes, and waited.
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I discovered this delicious shrimp taco recipe a few weeks ago (thanks, Pinterest) and thought it would be PERFECT for a guy who wants to make something a little more involved than a single protein + a veggie + a starch. It’s delicious AND healthy, so a real winner in my book.
I altered the recipe slightly to make it a little spicier. I like to serve it with 1/2 cup black beans or refried black beans (organic!). This is pretty close to ‘clean eating’, except for the tortillas. I usually get wheat tortillas, but you could skip them all together and just do taco salad. It would be yummy either way!
This is an EASY dinner and delicious to top it off! I like to use the leftovers for taco salad the next day. Enjoy!
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The next morning, on her 5 a.m. trip to the local hospital, Alberto again joins her. On their way, Cu comes up, catching his son and throwing him high into the air. Alberto squeals with delight, and when he returns to the ground, spies a rock and branch combo that forms a perfect letter A. Grabbing his father's hand, he teaches the letter to him, carefully tracing the outline with his fingertip just as Despina had done with the snake's trail.
Cu is marvelous with his son. Alberto, whose attention tends to be attracted by everything, stays focused when he manages to get an adult's attention, especially Cu's.
Despina feels her heartbeat accelerate. I pray my face doesn’t show my thrill.
“Vamos a investigar las plantas que son más importantes a mi mamá.” He rolls an eye her way to see if she is dutifully impressed with the importance of the plant locations and uses he plans to show her.
“Momento. Quiero escribir los lugares y identificación de las plantas. Sarita va a preguntarme, y si yo he ovidado…” she grinds to a halt, mesmerized by the intense blue gaze rewarding her willingness to become the student absorbing his mother’s all-important plant information that has so fascinated Sarita.
Thrilled, Despina enjoys another view of the native flora and fauna, taking time to record the information in the notebook she’d grabbed en route. Although Cu rarely speaks except to impart information, she feels a closeness as they walk side by side.
With her return to the hovel to prepare the day’s lessons, she sighs, wishing she had time to daydream a bit. She shakes her shoulders and settles down responsibly.
Something useful. She taps the pen against her teeth rhythmically, creating a noise her mother would have been sure to stop. Ah! If an adult like Paul Peter can’t even tell me accurately how to get to the campfire circle without waiting until the fire is lit so I can follow the smoke...That’s a useful real-life skill.
Thus, prompted by her exasperation with Paul Peter's non-directions to the campfire, Despina looks up giving directions in her borrowed book. The book exercise is designed to improve direction-giving skills, both oral and written. Looking at the examples given, Despina decides to discard them all, but keep the objective.
She has read the Foxfire series, in which Appalachian Mountain students collected oral history, recipes, and instructions from the elders in their area. The books, which formed a series of five the last time she'd checked on it, ought to provide a model for her area as well.
She mentions the possible future creation of a book of their own, a set of instructions on how to do soon-to be-lost arts or the relation of tribal history, and possible video productions. Not wanting to scare the students before they try, Despina relates the following bit of her history, hoping that the students will then respond more positively and willingly.
Once, my step-father asked me if I had ever been to New York, (his home town). Unthinkingly, I replied, "Sure. I go through there all the time."
A few years ago, RAGBRI, ([Des Moines] Register's Annual Great Bike Ride across Iowa) a great Iowa tradition in which bicyclists of all ages get delusions of grandeur and come out in the thousands to participate in a week long bike-a-thon, came to Podunksville and environs.
The county went all out to spruce up its back roads to host the state's bikers for RAGBRI. They took tractor-pulled bush hog mowers up and down banks that have never felt a blade in the 26 years that I have been a resident. They unwittingly took down my friend's electric wire on the east, but her horses stayed in, sort of... as the horseweeds were taller than their heads, and were over 20 feet thick leading to the area where the fence had been. So, none of them wandered into that area, that is, until the day a few measly hundred practice bikers decided to try out their aging limbs and wind to see how they'd fair on the real McCoy.
Having been astride horses who bounded gleefully over enormous trap rock boulders in a Wisconsin forest preserve after weaving full tilt between trees that threatened to remove my kneecaps when the mare saw a deer; dashed with wild abandon over incredible rocks and sagebrush on the continental divide in Wyoming when a herd of antelope came up; splashed across a river that was supposed to have a quicksand bottom when a deer appeared on the far side in South Dakota, and leaped a log on a muddy track part way up a ridge on the Appalachian Trail after a rapidly receding White Tail, all without my blessing, all exhilarating in retrospect, but terrifying in the present tense, it came as no surprise to me that her horses, upon seeing the bikers, paced them down the fence line.
When Ragbri itself came, we trailered her stock over, corralling them for the duration.
The clever folks living in the only house in New York, (a new one, not one with any historical connection to the New York Church) set up a lemonade stand and billed it as "The Little Apple." Everyone along the route who put up a stand sold out before the afternoon crowd even hit, so were down to giving out free glasses of water or spraying them with the hose.
Satisfied that she had done her best to start her students off right, she dismisses them for lunch, beginning to relive her morning route in her mind as she heads back to her hovel.
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In his monumental biography of Albert Camus, Olivier Todd (1996) makes the point that Camus and George Orwell had much in common; the one big difference, however, was that Orwell’s essays were much better than his novels, whereas with Camus it was the other way around: he was a greater novelist than essayist. And yet—like Orwell’s fiction—Camus’ essays contain some of his finest prose, and have been enormously influential. Like Orwell, too, Camus was remarkably consistent throughout his relatively short life as a writer. His art develops with astonishing internal coherence; there are no abrupt changes of direction.
In 1937, shortly after Camus had at the age of 24 completed his university studies in philosophy with a diploma essay on Plotinus and St. Augustine, his first collection of essays, L’Envers et l’endroit (The wrong side and the right side), was published in Algiers. This short book, some 50 pages long, consists of five essays; unlike Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) and L’Homme révolté (The Rebel) it presents no sustained argument, but offers instead a blend of lyrical reflection with self-portrayal, even self-scrutiny, that will come to be seen as characteristically Camusian. Sometimes, when relating his 1936 visit to Prague, for instance, he speaks in the first person, but at other times, for example when speaking of more intimate family matters, he uses the third person: “There were five of them living in the flat: the grandmother, her younger son, her elder daughter and the latter’s two sons.” The stark poverty of Camus’ childhood as described here is contrasted with the superabundant generosity of nature in a country where the sun and the sea cost nothing and are freely available to all. This play of opposites is a constant theme of the collection and helps explain its title. The day of the grandmother’s funeral, for instance, is a fine, cold, clear winter’s day: “…from the cemetery high above the town the bright transparent sun could be seen shining on the sea which was quivering with light like a moist lip.” One person’s existence may have come to an end, but life in all its glory flaunts its sensuous splendors unabashed.
This theme recurs in Noces (1939; Nuptials), a collection of four essays published in Algiers two years later. They describe different places in North Africa and Italy, and the title is taken from a passage of characteristically sensual lyricism which concludes the third essay, “L’Été à Alger” (Summer in Algiers): “In the evening or after rain the whole earth, her belly moistened with a seed that gives off an odor of bitter almonds, takes her rest after giving herself all summer to the sun. And so once again this smell hallows the nuptials between man and the earth, and fills our hearts with the only truly virile love available in this world: a love that is generous but cannot last.” In tune with the note sounded here—of impermanence and perishability experienced in the midst of the most intense manifestations of ecstasy and joy—Camus’ two youthful collections foreshadow the major essays to come, particularly in a revealing remark in Noces, which has rightly been called Camus’ manual of happiness, to the effect that whatever exalts life increases its absurdity at the same time.
The absurd is, famously, the theme of Camus’ greatest essay, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). In what Olivier Todd aptly describes as “a philosophical prose poem,” Camus explores the implications of the fact that humanity has to learn to live with a historically unprecedented situation, namely a world in which God does not exist. Camus’ atheism is no modish affectation, but absolutely fundamental to his thinking; such efforts as are occasionally made to portray him as a kind of covert Christian are doomed to failure, because the texts will simply not bear out such a reading. On the contrary: Camus takes the nonexistence of God for granted, as something needing neither detailed demonstration nor further explanation. If there is no God—if in other words there is no permanent, transcendent being governing the universe—then there can be no such thing as life after death. Indeed, positing the existence of a soul which goes on functioning after our earthly body wears out makes sense only in a universe where a God of sorts presides over some kind of empyrean to which the soul is dispatched pending (according to which faith is involved) reincarnation or resurrection. But if there is no life after death, if death is indeed final, it is death’s very finality that raises questions which Camus tackles head-on in The Myth of Sisyphus. He goes straight to the point in the essay’s famous opening sentences: “There is only one really serious philosophical question, and that is suicide.
Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental question in philosophy. All other questions follow from that.” Humankind finds the finality of death hard to take: hence the existence of religions which claim to abolish it. Once human beings face up to the fact of their mortality they experience the absurd, which is the feeling that since death is the end of everything so far as the individual is concerned, nothing makes sense any more; and if life is not worth living, it is only reasonable to commit suicide.
Camus wrote The Myth of Sisyphus to rebut this argument. He fully accepts the fact of the absurd, but not the conclusions drawn from it. Humankind, he says, can (indeed must) renounce all hope of immortality and accept the transitoriness of life, but it should never assume that this denies the possibility of finding happiness and a sense of purpose in the here-and-now. Suicide is, in fact, a totally unwarranted act of irrational despair; there are instead, he argues, three valid, rational, nonreligious ways of responding to the absurd.
The last is revolt, the refusal to be cowed by the absurd: such an act of rebellion gives value and dignity to life, and is epitomized by the figure at the center of this philosophical meditation, the Greek hero Sisyphus. For daring to flout the wishes of the gods, Sisyphus, according to legend, was condemned through all eternity to push a boulder to the top of a hill and watch helplessly as it rolled down again. But the most unpleasant truths lose their power of discouragement once we recognize and accept them.
Camus’ next, much longer essay, The Rebel (1951), develops the idea of revolt as humanity’s only recourse in a world without religious faith, and further defines this kind of metaphysical rebellion as “the urge that impels individuals to defend a dignity common to all humankind.” This time Camus misjudges the nature and scope of the essay as a genre; The Rebel lacks the punch of The Myth of Sisyphus, being too ambitious and too liable to get bogged down in historical and political detail to function effectively as an essay. Whereas in the earlier work the end convincingly answers the question raised at the beginning, in the course of The Rebel the definition of the central concept— revolt—shifts unnervingly from a philosophical to a political one. The essay is therefore unsatisfying, even broken-backed. It reads more like the doctoral dissertation Camus (because of ill health) was never allowed to submit than an essay in the usual sense of the term.
There is an Italian softness about Algiers. The cruel brilliance of Oran has something Spanish about it. Perched on a rock above the Rummel gorges, Constantine reminds one of Toledo. But Spain and Italy are steeped in history, whereas the [three Algerian] towns I’m speaking of have no past at all. During the tedium of the siesta, sadness is both implacable and free from melancholy, while joy lacks softness in the morning light or in the natural luxury of our nights.
Born 7 November 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria. Studied at the Grand Lycée, Algiers, 1924– 32, baccalauréat; University of Algiers, 1933–36, licence in philosophy and graduate studies diploma, 1936. Contracted tuberculosis, 1930, with recurrences, 1942–43, and 1949–50. Married Simone Hié, 1934 (divorced, 1940). Held various jobs in Algiers, 1935–39; member of the Communist Party, 1935–39; worked for the Alger-Républicain (Algiers republican; later the Soir-Républicain [Evening republican]), 1938–40, Algiers, and Paris-Soir (Paris-evening), 1940. Married Francine Faure, 1940: twin son and daughter. Taught in Oran, Algeria, 1942.; reader and editor of Espoir series, Gallimard publishers, Paris, from 1943; journalist, Paris, 1943–45; cofounding editor, Combat, 1944–47; journalist for L’Express, 1955–56.
Awards: Critics Prize (France), 1947; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1957. Died (in a car accident) at Villeblevin, near Montereau, 4 January 1960.
Other writings: five novels (L’Étranger [The Stranger], 1942; La Peste [The Plague], 1947; La Chute [The Fall], 1956; La Mort heureuse [A Happy Death], 1971; Le Premier Homme [The First Man] (incomplete), 1994), short stories, several plays, and notebooks.
Collected works edition: OEuvres complètes, edited by Roger Grenier, 9 vols., 1983.
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Submissions will be accepted September 1st through October 31st, 2013.
The Landing Theatre Company and Wordsmyth Theater Company are now accepting full-length plays for the 2014 New American Play Reading Series in Houston, Texas. Four plays will be selected for staged readings during the Landing Theatre Company’s Spring Festival. Selected playwrights must attend the readings. Playwrights must cover their own travel expenses.
1. There are no fees for submitting.
1. Selected playwrights must attend the festival.
2. Each playwright will be paired with a local director prior to the festival to prepare for the event.
3. Director will cast the play prior to the festival.
4. Each production will receive at least two rehearsals prior to the official reading.
5. One rehearsal will be scheduled when the playwright can attend.
6. The play will then be read in front of an audience, with a moderated discussion of the play afterwards.
1. Playwright must be a citizen or legal resident of the United States of America.
2. Play must not have been produced.
3. Play must not have had a public reading in the Houston area.
4. Submission must be received on or before October 31st, 2013.
5. Submission must be a minimum of 30 pages long and have a minimum run time of 45 minutes.
6. Submission must be in .doc, .pdf or .rtf format.
7. Plays are given blind reads, so there should be no playwright identifiers anywhere on the script. Your name and/or contact information should only be in the email.
8. Only one play per playwright per submission period.
9. No musicals, children’s plays, or one-person plays.
10. Playwrights will only be notified if your play is selected.
The 2014 New American Voices Play Reading Series will be presented March 7-9, 2014.
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Moving hay bales at the farm. Click over to Instagram for a cute little video of this.
We're back with more results from the 2018 member survey. Here's the first post about that, in case you missed it.
In sifting through all the responses, it turns out that most of you just want more of everything, and more choices generally.
Of the crops we grow, your favorites, in order of preference, are: tomatoes, kale/collards, strawberries, garlic, sweet potatoes and peppers. Excellent! Those are all crops we can grow in abundance in a reasonable year. 2019 is going to be a winner -- I can feel it!
Your least favorites, in order of distaste are: stinging nettles, turnips, okra, rhubarb, kohlrabi and ground cherries. I could have guessed all of those except the ground cherries. But the ground cherries had an early demise this year, so perhaps some of you got some bad ones while those plants were petering out. We’ll be more careful next year. For those of you who chose okra, the deer had you covered -- I’ve never seen an animal make such quick work of complete crop destruction. I was a little sad about it, but I’m glad many of you were not. And while strawberries look VERY promising for 2019, the rhubarb does not (it’s another perennial, so its plant health in the fall is a good indicator for spring success). Again, I’m a big rhubarb fan, so I’ll do my best to bring that one back to life for 2020 -- I just won’t make you take it if you don’t want it. One thing that’s worth noting is that many of your least favorite items (nettles, turnips, rhubarb and kohlrabi, as well as microgreens, spicy mix and radishes, which were next on the unfavored list) are crops we grow in the spring. Spring is a tough season -- cold soil, not enough sun, and wild variations in temperature and rain -- so we don’t have as many choices of what to put in your share. Fortunately, almost any fresh spring vegetable is an improvement on winter, so we’re grateful for those of you who take May and June as an opportunity to get creative.
68% of you dried, canned, froze or otherwise stored some of your CSA produce for use in the 6 months we’re apart. Well done! Almost all of you wished you could have stored more. I am like the 23% of you who didn’t stock away enough for lack of time, which is why I’ve been muttering lately about not having enough pesto in my freezer or jars of tomato soup on my shelf. We had SO MUCH BASIL! And even though I regretted not having our normal deluge of tomatoes, there were many weeks with full bins of damaged tomatoes to pick through. Alas... But the reason most of you gave for not storing enough for winter was that we didn’t offer you enough of the vegetables you desired. Well, indeed, you’re right about that. Here’s hoping for a more prosperous 2019.
You wanted more flowers. I mean, you wanted more of a lot of things, but for you-pick, you wanted more flowers as much as you wanted more strawberries and tomatoes, which is saying something. As it happens, our flower grower had a baby mid-summer. She was pretty exhausted before, during and after that happened. But she assures me that she is in no mood for a repeat performance in 2019, so we’ve heard your plea for flowers and we’re on it. We’re putting Baby Teddy in charge of the trellis. I’m kidding. That baby never does what I tell him to.
In my next post, we’ll get to the fun part, where you’ve tossed out barrage of questions, requests, imperatives, complaints and compliments, and I do my best to respond.
Farmer Carrie shared this image today on Instagram.
A huge thank-you to everyone who completed the 2018 CSA member survey we sent out. Your answers and comments will help guide us for the upcoming 2019 season and beyond.
We want to share the survey results with you, and we're going to do that in three separate blog posts. Below, you'll find some basic stats from the survey that give kind 0f a demographic snapshot of who's in the Clagett CSA, and how satsfied everyone was with the 2018 season.
In the next post, you'll find specific details about what everyone liked -- and didn't like -- about last year's mix of produce.
Finally, the third post will include some of your comments from the survey, along with responses from me.
I hope you find all of this informative and interesting. And thanks again for sharing your thoughts. Your feedback is incredibly valuable.
Now, on to the survey results!
95 people responded to the survey. Thank you!!
The large majority of you (82%) were glad you joined this year.
When asked what percentage of your vegetable needs were filled by your CSA share during the 6-month season, the most common response was 61-80%.
Almost half of you feed a household of 2.
Perhaps you are a person who would like to read the results yourself without all my own interpretations muddling it up? You can! The survey results, straight from SurveyMonkey, are here. And remember, you can sign up for a 2019 share anytime!
Who is most satisfied with their CSA share?
Dupont! 92% of members who picked up at Dupont were glad they joined, compared to 76% and 74% of the people who picked up at the farm on Wednesdays and Saturdays, respectively. Hats off to Garrett Waters and Blake Reichmuth for doing such a great job managing that pick-up! That one took me by surprise, actually, because Dupont members get the same CSA share as everyone else, but seldom come out to the farm for you-pick. It’s worth noting that our membership at the Dupont pick-up has been slowly declining. Word-of-mouth is our best advertising (especially since we don’t get any walk-by traffic now that we’re tucked in the back of an alley). So Dupont members, tell your friends to sign up!
People who thought the share offered 81-100% of their vegetable needs on average, over the 6 month harvest season, were the happiest with their CSA share. That seems obvious: If the CSA is meeting your needs, you’re happy.
Households of 4. This bit of the data is mysterious to me. I would have guessed that households of 1 would have had the largest proportion of their vegetable needs met by the CSA share (in fact it is households of 2, if survey responses are to be believed). And I would have guessed that our success meeting your needs would decline proportionately with household size (turns out it’s not a linear function at all). And I would have guessed the households of 1 would be the most satisfied with their CSA share. In fact it is households of 4 that are most satisfied, and they are the ones who claim the CSA met the smallest proportion of their household’s vegetable needs (even lower than households of 5-6). Households of 2 were the next happiest with their CSA share (after households of 4). I have a lot of theories about this. Perhaps people with children value the experience of visiting the farm as much as getting the produce? Perhaps a pair of adults can accommodate an unpredictable medley of vegetables better than a single person who has very particular tastes? But none of my theories hold any water, because why, then, are the 3-person households less happy? So my dear customers, you are as unpredictable as the weather, and my crops. Naturally.
People who commute fewer than 20 minutes. This one, thank goodness, was a linear function. The less you have to travel, the more likely your CSA share was worth your investment. It’s interesting that the people who travelled the farthest were the ones who had been members the longest. Is that because driving a lot makes you want to be a CSA member longer? No. It’s because you are my stalwart, long-time community. We’re dear to each other, you and I. We have history. Maybe you’ve moved, or maybe you changed jobs, and you think you’ll try to stick around a little longer even though your commute is longer now. Maybe you purchased a 13-week share, so you can still enjoy your favorite tomatoes or those fall greens. You still remember what a rush it is when you’re picking gobs of sweet-ripe strawberries or don’t have enough room in your trunk to fit one more basket of ripe tomatoes. Some years aren’t the greatest? It’s a gamble. We’ll take it.
Much more to come in posts 2 and 3!
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A sculptor is readying to showcase his work, and his debutante fiance of six weeks just finished helping him steal their next-door neighbor’s furniture to impress an uppity German critic… Until a fuse blows and the flamboyant next-door neighbor, a batty, booze-loving old woman, a stern Colonel father, an ex of four years, and two Germans find themselves under the same, dark roof.
But this isn’t the start of a joke. This is Black Comedy, Little Theatre’s 2018 spring mainstage production.
The scene is in 1960s London, England and Brindsley Miller, a poor artist, is making the final touches on his newly “furnished” room, with the help of his darling fiance, Carol. In just a few hours, Carol’s father, a no-nonsense Colonel, will meet Miller for the first time since they got engaged weeks ago, and a millionaire art critic, Georgia Bamberger, will arrive to view Miller’s sculptures.
The happy couple’s well-crafted plan backfires when the apartment blows a fuse. Shortly after, nearby neighbor Ms. Furnival trickles in, “seeking refuge from the storm,” as she puts it. She is closely followed by Harold Gorringe, a neighbor from across the hall who has just returned from a trip — one that had allowed Miller to steal Gorringe’s lavish furniture to impress the art critic. Following along?
“It was really fun getting to develop Miss Furnival’s character,” Dunning continued. “She starts out very nervous and afraid. I felt like she was afraid of the dark mostly because of her experiences during World War II.” Specifically, Dunning commented that she imagines that Furnival experienced bombs having burned her home, and that she still fears the darkness that because of the blackout conditions, when she had to “live in complete darkness after sundown in hopes that it would prevent German air raids and even in that darkness, the bombs still came,” as she described.
After these weeks of hard work, late nights, and lots of lines, the cast and crew of this production have pulled off three shows so far, but luckily, there are still two chances left to reserve your tickets by emailing ltclub@canisius.edu. So unless you want to be left in the dark about what happens to the eight characters that take the stage in Little Theatre’s Black Comedy, make your way to the Marie Maday Theater this Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
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Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
Oversaw development, design, management, and editing of 10,000-page external website, faculty/staff intranet, social media, online marketing efforts, and video production to promote academic business programs (undergrad, MBA, specialty masters, PhD, executive education), 12 business and research centers, career services, alumni, development, diversity and inclusion, human resources, global study, events, faculty directory, research, magazine, newsletters, blogs.
Managed the school’s digital team: website designer, front-end Drupal developer, photographer- videographer, and up to seven MBA, undergrad and high school student workers/interns.
Worked with 15-person MarComm team and trained/mentored 40+ colleagues on content strategy and established integrated marketing campaigns: website/microsite/landing pages, SEO/keywords, event/email marketing, advertising, social media, media outreach, news creation.
Managed 25+ social media accounts via Hootsuite Enterprise System (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat geofilters).
Analyzed website traffic using Google Analytics and refined SEO strategies, as needed.
Developed innovative ways to increase website traffic and social media reach: contests, BuzzFeed-style articles, online quizzes, Instagram takeovers, Boomerang videos.
Conducted workshops and consulted with faculty, students, partner companies, alumni, and administrators on best practices for personal branding and media relations.
Worked with videographer to produce promotional, student-yield and community-building videos.
Worked with team to develop intranet in Drupal for 500+ faculty and staff.
Managed procurement process for all digital marketing RFPs and sole source requests.
Led $200K branding and responsive web design project in Drupal with vendor, including development of a custom branding workshop for senior leaders which led to the establishment of four brand pillars, five attributes and a positioning statement.
Partnered with IT department to establish an online helpdesk to manage website requests.
Oversaw development, design, management, and editing of all Smith School websites, alumni magazine, print newsletters, e-newsletters, video, podcasts, and internal communications.
Managed communications team: writer/editor, website developer/designer, website/video coordinator, business analyst, internal communications manager, and student workers.
Launched the school’s Center for Financial Policy – managing all marketing efforts for the center.
Initiated and managed social media accounts: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest.
Led blogging initiative for MBA students and faculty members using WordPress.
Managed business school rankings and survey data collection and conducted competitive and data analysis to suggest strategies for improvement.
Managed $200K “Leaders for the Digital Economy” branding initiative, including a new graphic identity and redesigned U.S. website and Chinese website (bilingual/Mandarin) (2004); led in-house website redesign effort (2008); and agency-produced website refresh (2010).
Created weekly e-newsletters for faculty, staff and students to improve internal communication.
Conducted usability testing (click streams, eye tracker) during all website redesign projects.
Led 10-person team in strategic marketing and communications outreach; developed key priorities for FY 2008-09 and prepared $2M budget; served as chief communications officer, working with all units in the school and collaborating with campus officials on UMD initiatives.
Wrote official communications, speeches; orchestrated launch of school’s new dean in May 2008.
Served as website manager, graphic designer, writer/editor, photographer, videographer.
Managed and launched the first comprehensive website for school using HTML initially, then FrontPage, including the first online faculty expert directory and school intranet.
Produced monthly alumni e-newsletter; wrote for alumni magazine (three/year, circulation 40K) and faculty research newsletter (quarterly) and created first online editions of publications.
Managed digital marketing and award-winning ASA website, International Autobody Congress & Exposition (NACE) website (four languages), and related websites in HTML. (Membership 15K).
Managed online advertising and negotiated sponsorships, alliances and affiliate programs.
Wrote monthly column on web marketing and other articles for AutoInc. (circulation 20K).
Developed online surveys, compiled/analyzed data, wrote national press releases on findings.
Wrote, edited, designed, and evaluated all web promotional pieces (direct mail, brochures, ads).
Provided technical support and online consulting services for members, consumers and staff.
Worked ASA-sponsored international tradeshows (45K attendees): booth demos, workshop presentations, member consultations, and online daily show publication production.
Improved internal communications by creating a four-page printed newsletter in QuarkXPress.
Gathered construction information from 80+ federal, state and military sources in Maryland and Delaware for “Dodge Reports,” a national construction news service.
AP Style; Google Analytics; Hootsuite; Drupal; WordPress; HTML; Adobe Creative Suite Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign; MS Word, Excel, PPT; Salesforce; TaskRay.
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Stig 'Slas' Claesson, writer and artist, at Berns in Stockholm as winner of the 1966 Bernsstipendiatet.
John Stig Claesson (June 2, 1928 – January 4, 2008) was a Swedish writer and illustrator. He also was known by his signature Slas.
Claesson was born on June 2, 1928 in Huddinge, south of Stockholm. He went to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts between 1947 and 1952, when he began to illustrate Swedish classical books such as those written by Per Anders Fogelström.
Claesson was the father of actor Leif Claesson. Stig died on January 4, 2008 in Stockholm.
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GEORGE TOWN, MALAYSIA – The Health Ministry has ordered all Ayamas products in the same batch that was found to contain a banned antibiotic be taken off the market.
Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said yesterday his ministry had ordered the withdrawal of the products pending tests.
However, he said Ayamas products that were not from the same batch could continue to be sold. Liow was commenting on the Sarawak Veterinary Authority’s immediate ban on all Ayamas products following a random test where traces of Chloramphenicol were found.
Chloramphenicol is used to treat animals but is not safe for human consumption and, therefore, cannot be used in food processing.
On Saturday, Sarawak Assistant Agriculture Minister Mong Dagang said he believed the problem could lie in the source of the chickens and not during the processing part.
Chloramphenicol is banned in most Western countries although it is available in Southeast Asia. The drug is known to cause blood disorders such as aplastic and hypoplastic anaemia.
Any interactions between Chloramphenicol and diabetic medicines, or even vitamin B12 supplements, may cause allergic reactions, including stomach upset, diarrhoea, headache, nausea and vomiting.
Earlier, Liow said the ministry had approved two mega projects for Penang Hospital next year. A new women and children’s block will be constructed to ease congestion.
“The present hospital ward is 130 years old and in a dilapidated condition. Sometimes, the ceiling will fall off and this is not good,” he said, adding that the old structure would be demolished in stages to make way for the new RM125 million (S$50 million) building.
Liow said the wards in the new building would have a 300-bed capacity.
Speaking after a dialogue with the state Visitors’ Board members, Liow said a new multi-storey hospital would also be built in mainland Seberang Jaya.
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Im calling about it tomorrow but I just dont want to sound completely clueless. So how does the process go for this? Does the insurance just tell you where to go and when to pick up the car and you just go get it or is there more??? This is assuming insurance pays for it completely.
Does anyone know Proximately how much a P.I.P car insurance with come out for a 22 year old..?
Digital camera and equipment insurance?
i’m looking for affordable insurance for my digital camera, lense, flash, etc. anyone know a good place to get it at?"
My mum says buying a horse is too expensive?
Well hi. Im 13 years old and I will admit,i’m really mature for my age. I have had lessons since I have been 6 and I have had my own loan(lease) pony but I want a horse of my own. I walk for about 10 minutes at the start of a ride so the horse isn’t stiff then i’ll trot around the arena 2 or 3 times then i’ll walk a lap,change direction,walk a lap then trot a little bit and the same for cantering. I have jumped 1m 35cm so I think i’m ready for a horse of my own? But my mum(im irish) says that it costs too much. Although yes,I would be able to work for livery at a yard so the only real cost would be shoeing,worming and some tack here and then. Has anybody got any ideas on what/how I could get my mum to say yes? ~young little irish girl :)"
Why do people waste money on life insurance?
What are the benefits? Obviously it’s gonna cost more than the benefits you receive.
Negotiating a car insurance claim?
Long story short, consensus feel that my car (hit by an uninsured Crown Victoria) is going to be considered a total loss tomorrow when the adjuster checks it out. My main concern is, if I feel I am offered an unfair amount for my car, what would be a good way to negotiate with them? And what do they use to base their offer on? I’ve already checked Autotrader and other sites for a replacement for my car, and this model is very sparse (5 total within 500 miles, only searching by year and model/trim), only being sold by dealerships that want a LOT more than I paid for the car a year ago. Can I cite those examples, or do I have to use something like KBB or NADA appraisals? I’ve never had to make a claim with an insurance company before, and the only thing I know is the reputation of insurance companies."
16 Year Old Auto Insurance on Own Car?
hey, i am currently 16 and have had my license for about 5 months now, i am considering buying my own car, can anyone tell me an estimate of how much my insurance would be? i would be buying an older model car (1997-2002), i completed a young drivers course. Thanks"
Where can i get good pet insurance for my four cats?
Estimate how much car insurance would cost?
I just need a ball park estimate: I am 19, female, first time driver. I would have a used Geo Metro from the mid 90’s. I can’t get on my parent’s insurance. Can you give me an approximate range on how much I’d have to pay for insurance?"
Paying for car insurance at work for a car I dont drive?!?
Every month my employer is taking away 20 from my paycheck for car insurance for a car that I do not drive at work or outside of work. He does that with everyone, even those that do not have a driving license but are in the car as passangers. Is this even legal?"
What is a reasonable insurance rate for me?
I am a 19-year old male. Do not have my license yet. With the type of car aside, what is the insurance rate in which I should be looking for? Again, I know different cars have different rates, as do insurance companies. That is established. I just want to know what range I should go for. I only have around 3k and a **** job."
"Under currently law, can an employer force an employee into Medicare?"
Can an employer 1) require that an employee, once they’ve reached the age of 65, enroll in Medicare, and in turn, 2) remove the employee from the health insurance plan that is provided by the employer as a benefit? Does the answer to this question vary by state?"
If I get my permit next week, how can I drive it if I don’t have my name under the insurance for the car?"
How much does a million dollar insurance policy cost?
Insurance Companies average 4% annual profit. Why all the hate.?
Trivia dude 318: show me any reason to question the 4% margin. Also, even if insurance companies are incentiveized in some way to allocate money to finding reasons to deny claims (be they legit claims or not), I’ve not seen any government agency (except possibly the military) that could do anything at less cost and more effeciently than can be done by private enterprise"
Do you believe health insurance should be FREE for all American Citizens?
Driving Other Peoples Car Insurance?
Hello, I was told that you can buy insurance to use when driving other peoples cars. So lets say I drive my friends car then get in an accident, it should cover the damage to the other car. What is this called? Ive found Drive Other Car Insurance from Progressive but that cost almost $800 a year and asks about the business your working for (aka company car). Thank you."
Im turning 18 in November and I feel like it is time for me to buy my first car. Im really interested in buying a 1998-2000 Jeep Wrangler or Jeep Cherokee. These cars are typically on the cheaper side (They usually dont exceed $4000). What I really want to know is how much will insurance cost for a teen with that kind of car. Please correct me if Im wrong but wont insurance for a car like a jeep be less than that of a car like a mustang? Anyways, I dont really have a well-paying job (minimum wage) and I dont want to ask my parents to pay for it because I feel like this is my responsibility. Can anyone give me an average price for what you paid for your car insurance when you were a teenage driver? Thanks a lot for the help!"
WHERE CAN I FIND THE CHEAPEST AUTO INSURANCE WITH A DUI ON MY RECORD?
What would a life insurance policy cost for a healthy 80 year old man?
Would an insurance company issue a policy of an older person. He asked about getting a $50.000 policy for a young friend for his college education…..10 years away. Carl is in pretty good health and lives independently. What policy adds up to cash plus a death payoff? Would a payout like that hurt any college scholarship financing the boy may be eligible for? About how much does coverage cost, do any veterans group offer a better price then civilian? He will contact a broker, I am just trying to give him some rough ideas as what to be prepared for. His family history predicts he will probably live to be close to 100."
Also I used my Beauty Insider card when I bought it, so there is proof of purchase."
So I’m driving from Pennsylvania to Florida tomorrow, most likely early morning and I’m a bit nervous. I’ve been going to college in PA but I’m moving back this semester. I’m 19, and the most I’ve ever driven by myself is like 3 hours. I don’t have my insurance WITH me cause I left it in Florida after renewing my tags (cause I’m an idiot and thought I put it in my bag) but I was told its okay to just have the number to give to an officer if I get pulled over or whatever. Any advice for the road? If it gets to be bad weather anywhere ill be pulling over and stopping cause this FLORIDA boy isn’t used to snow and freezing rain etc. my family offered to pay for me to stay at a hotel if I get tired so ill do that. It’s supposed to take roughly 15-16 hours excluding breaks. I guess I’m just asking for helpful pointers? I’m getting my oil changed as we speak but they were not able to check the antifreeze or tire pressure or anything today so I don’t know about those."
Can i be on my grandma’s car insurance even if we don’t live together?
Im a 19 year old female and want to buy a car but car insurance is just too much! i want to be put on my grandmothers car insurance but we don’t live in the same city. Do you think it would be possible for me to get on there!!
What language to use when arguing an Auto Insurance ..appraisal verse actual cost?
What language to use when arguing an Auto Insurance appraisal verse actual cost?
I would like to know is selling life insurance a good career oppertunity. I can tell that people are l little skeptical when it comes down to selling insurance, But I would like to know if it is a good career move?"
Insure the box car insurance? miles question?
hi ive recently done a quote with insure the box and i got my insurance to 1600 on 2006 corsa 998c engine fully comp, i understand they give you 6000 miles standard my question is if i go over 6000 miles i need to top up how much does that cost? 250miles ? 500miles? 1000 miles ? and so on ? anyone know thanks"
Is it possible to purchase car insurance online in india?
Can you purchase car insurance without a drivers ..license?
Can you purchase car insurance without a drivers license?
How to get dental insurance in Alabama and how much it cost?
My friend doesn’t have dental insurance. So i’m just trying to help out by asking for advice. What is the cheapest dental insurance she can get that is going to cover root canal?
What type of insurance pays you a monthly cash benefit in the event you’re injured and cannot work?
My mom won’t let me get my G1 because she says her insurance rates will get too high. I asked her how high and she says she doesn’t even know. I live in Ontario.
"How much would a car payment and insurance be a month for a $40,000 car?"
How to fight a speeding ticket to avoid my insurance going up?
i live in Ontario and i received a speeding ticket the other night for going 75 in a 50 zone. however, i was very close to the part of the street where it turned 70 so a defence that i could use is that i was speeding up since i knew the road turned 70 soon. However, im fine with paying the ticket, i just dont want my insurance premium to go up. should i plead not guilty or guilty with a reason?"
Why is wedding reception insurance so incredibly expensive?
I just need insurance to serve alcohol at my wedding. Why does it have to be so expensive? Shouldn’t it just cost like $30?
Back in July 09, I let my stepmother’s boyfriend create a life insurance policy for me. He works as an agent for New York Life, and since I know nothing about insurance, I just let him take care of everything. For personal reasons, I want to cancel the insurance. I will get something else, probably term, very soon. I just still know nothing about insurance, so I have a few questions about my policy. I do have whole life insurance, so I should be able to get some money back, right? Currently, I have a $50k plan, and I pay just under $50 a month. I got this policy when I was 18, so the monthly cost seems a little high–especially since I have no dependents or debt. If I die tomorrow, I could still get a really nice funeral (not that I want one) and have it all payed in full from the money I have from my inheritance. Was I ripped off or is this pretty standard? Online, it says my Net Cash Value"" is $37.97. Is this the money I get back if I cancel? It seems low–it’s only about 3.2% of the total amount I’ve paid. I was expecting some amount closer to 10%. Ideally"
Acura integra 4 door to 2 door insurance rates!?
Hows it going :] hope you’re having a splendid day to get straight to the subject im kinda debating weather to trade my 1995 4 door integra for a 1994 JDM type front integra 2 door. My parents have AAA insurance and my mother told me they pay $700 a 3 times a year! im guessing thats full coverage cause that’s so much! Although i did get in to a accident which was not my fault. My question is will my insurance go up if i do happen to do this trade? do they even consider an integra a sports car anymore haha thanks all!
"If healthy foods were more affordable, would health insurance be cheaper?"
Interesting point of view Kal….I guess my definition of healthy"" is different from yours. I don’t consider any cereal or mild healthy (not that it’s junk food per say)…and the price of living in NYC"
Hi, My car insurance ran out. My road tax ran out last month. I applied for SORN and have one for my car. Now the problem is i want to tax my car. I dont want to take an insurance for a whole year. Is there a chance where i can get a pay as you go insurance for just a month and get it taxed for 6 months. Will they give me a tax disc from the post office if i have only a 30 day car insurance cover. Let me know"
Is Alan Grayson’s Medicare Buy In bill a viable alternative to private insurance? Or does it burden Medicare?
I was initially greatly enthusiastic about his proposal, especially since it was proposed as a cost neutral"" (paraphrased) alternative to insurance companies which increase their rates at every opportunity"
Has anyone heard of critical illness insurance?
Has anyone ever used or benefited from ctitical illness insurance through Great-West Life insurance? I am thinking of getting it, I am a health male 38 year old in Canada?"
Best options on pet insurance for my cat?
It has been 2 years that I have had my cat now and I know the older she gets the more prone she is to health conditions due to age and other factors. Based on some of your experiences what would be the best insurance company to go with? Is also adding a wellness plan to cover wellness exams, dental cleanings, and vaccines a good idea?"
What would be the car insurance group for a renault megane cabrio dymanique 1600cc?
I am selling my car and have been asked what insurance group it is please.
"Would I save much money on insurance, repairs and fuel if I switched from a Cadillac to a Lexus?
I have a 2005 STS Cadillac fully loaded v8. Id like to switch to a 4 door sedan Lexus that at least a 2005 year. I pay $815 every 6 months on car insurance right now for owning a Cadillac. I spend about $60 in gas 3 times per week and I dont even drive around much. Repairs and parts are very expensive as well. If I switched to a sedan Lexus – how much would I save approx? Would it be worth it? Would I save enough to make the switch necessary? BQ: Any other cars besides Lexus that i could switch to save money? Something nice.
I am a little under 15 and a half years old and my dad has debated and almost bought a lot of cars for me, from ford f650’s to 1965 or higher mustangs and jaguars. but so far we have thought that the car that would be good for my first car would be a 1994 Ford Mustang with a V8 with 30k miles0. which is perfect because that was the year i was born. So my question is that since its a sports car and its V8 about how much would my insurance be when i could start driving by myself?/ insurance for the other kinds of cars/trucks?"
In the state of Florida do I need to have insurance before I can get my license?
I am 19, I’ve had my permit for 3 years now, and I would like to know if I need insurance in order to get my license and if I need to take the road signs, and rules test again?"
I hit someone car’s door when I was parking. How much it will cost?
Does anyone have HealthNet insurance?
How will insurance companies make up for the preexisting clause elimination?
I guess in 2014 health insurance companies can’t discriminate people for preexisting illnesses. How will they make up for that? Will they just increase premiums for everybody?
If a car is insured in my name should the title and registration have to be?
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a very frugal/DIY/crafting christmas | Somewhere else this is normal!
I sometimes go overboard on my gift giving. By sometimes I mean always. I love buying presents for all the people I love, and even some of the people I don’t love so much. I just love picking a fabulous present, going overboard on the wrapping and then forcing them to open in front of me so that I can see their reaction. Perhaps I’ve lost the real ‘Christmas spirit’ but its these things that make Christmas special to me.
This year we have a baby, and we are saving for a house. So crazy Cassie and her Christmas spending need to be boxed away for future Christmas’s to come, and the new smart thinking, money savvy Cassie is replacing her for a while (just FYI money savvy is a new feature, there is still a few kinks on that one).
After a year of attempting crafting projects with a success rate that is relatively higher than the failure rate, I have decided to try a ‘do it yourself’ approach to gift giving. While you might be impressed at my statement, I promise you its not all roses and lollipops. Its quite the opposite.
If you can imagine a craft room, with shelves of bits and bobs spread about, a sewing machine surrounded by bright fabrics, and a bench top with assorted glues and ribbons, then there is no way your anywhere near what I’m working with. So far I have attempted working on the dining table (next to indi’s food spread everywhere), on the kitchen bench (near shopping and mail and fruit bowls and dishes), in the sun room on an outdoor couch (coated in cat hair), on the bricks in the back courtyard (with every single ant in Perth at the time) and on the lounge room floor (in order to watch tv as I was working). The whole DIY thing for presents is fine if its just one or two things that you need to make, but I may or may not have about 8 craft projects on the go. I intend to craft some frugal Christmas spirit for each one of my presents this year. It.is.killing.me.
A normal present, you chose it, you buy it, you wrap it, you give it. Dumb arse here hasn’t chosen craft projects that are simple – no that would be too easy. It took me about two weeks to chase around to all the right stores to find all the bits and bobs I needed to even start. Stupid? Yep, I’m certainly don’t have the smarts on this one.
I will show off all my hard work once the gifts have been received. I’m actually a little proud of what we’ve been doing. Most of them have been inspired by Pinterest. If I hadn’t found that incredibly addictive website I’m pretty sure I’d have brought all my presents online, they would be wrapped by now and all my spare time would be spent watching tv and drinking wine. Unfortunately that is not the case. Its ok wine, I miss you too.
If your doing a ‘DIY’ Christmas I am sending you lots of love and calming crafty vibes.
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This letter was written by Pvt. Benjamin Franklin Elliott (b. 1843) while serving in Co. E, 29th Indiana Infantry. He enlisted in September 1861 and mustered out of the regiment in September 1864 after three years. This letter was datelined 11 March 1863 from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where the regiment was encamped after the Battle of Stone’s River.
Pvt. Elliott mentions John “Harvey” Grable, his comrade in the 29th Indiana, and the brother of Mary F. Grable (1847-1915) to whom he addressed the letter. Harvey and Mary were the children of Samuel Grable (1801-1892) and Hannah Conrad (1807-1876). Harvey died at Chattanooga on 1 July 1864 and was buried in the Chattanooga National Cemetery (Plot E#11651). In 1866, Mary Grable married James Ritchie Christie (1845-1925).
I take the present opportunity to inform you that I am well at present and do truly hope these few lines will find you well. I received your kind letter the 9th and was glad to hear from you.
Well, Molly, I would like to be with you once more. You said that you would like me to be at old Harmony the last day of school. I would like to be there [too]. I think that we would have some gay old times. Well, Mary, I have not forgot the time we went a sleigh riding.
I have not heard from [your brother] Harvey since I wrote before. I wrote him a letter as soon as I heard where he was but have not received an answer yet.
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Funny old thing, time … One minute there you are with a newborn baby wondering over every minute, every detail of a new person, and then woosh – suddenly you have a three year old, grey roots in your hair and no idea where the last three years went.
In fact, it’s impossible to believe that your exuberant, feisty, glorious small person was ever a tiny newborn, a baby crawling at the speed of lightning down the hall or a toddler wobbling along on chubby little legs, arms up in the air trying to balance.
Somehow in the wink of an eye your child has become an all-consuming, time-eating, high-speed and even more demanding individual with strong opinions on everything and an all encompassing zest for life (and love of sticks, mud and trampolines).
When I was pregnant, and even more so once she was born, I found I could write. I wrote … words flowed. They slowed a little due to tired eyes and broken nights, but still they came. The first birthday passed, she learnt to crawl, to walk, to chatter, to sing, to dance; all her milestones were meticulously documented. Articles poured forth on everything from breastfeeding to pubic hair. And, then she hit two.
My word flow became a trickle, a dribble and then all but dried up. Every ounce of time was dedicated to fulfilling her needs, earning a living and keeping us in clean clothes!
When I did sit down to write I felt as if I had nothing to say, the words just wouldn’t come.
Suddenly my writing felt dry, not witty, it didn’t sparkle and flow in the way it once did. Had she taken my confidence? Had the oxcytocin dried up? I was still breastfeeding so it shouldn’t have. Maybe, I’d overdosed on it and the rose tinted glasses had become so much a part of me that nothing seemed particularly challenging or worth writing about. After all, there are only so many articles you can submit on being happy with a small child.
It wasn’t that I wasn’t creating, I wrote a book, well, I created a book – a children’s book, about breastfeeding. It always annoyed me that all her books showed bottles and jars of mush, never breasts being used to nurture, as nature intended.
I found an artist, she became a friend, a patient one, who meticulously detailed the ever shifting contents of my mind, and helped translate my vision to paper. I wrote rhymes for children. I changed the plan for the book. I made it interactive and fun with a bear to hunt for on every page. I found a publisher; I signed off proofs. But, I didn’t write about it. Not at all … it didn’t seem the right thing to do.
So, now the book is out of my control and at the printers; somehow the rest of life is back in full colour – if rose tinted.
The three year old who wakes me with a cheerful “Morning Mama” every day before dragging me out to face the world is even more demanding than the two year old was, but my words are back, bubbling out. My mojo has returned. I want to write again.
I do feel reborn. Or, maybe it’s just the spring sunshine, the daffodils and the promise of a thick slice of granary bread at the end of a bread-free Lent.
Wassn’t sure that I would find your blog, but I did hurrah!
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I didn’t get the chance to do as much work as I would have liked on the Little Sister Dress over the weekend due to Eva’s very busy schedule. She spent the better part of two days visiting her grammy. 🙂 All that dancing, eating, coloring, and playing sure tuckered her out. I have a feeling she’ll be spending most of tomorrow recovering.
I managed to get through most of the yoke, though. I’m on the last repeat, and once that’s done, I’ll be binding off the sleeve stitches. Boy will I be happy to see them go! This thing is huge!
Right now I’m magic looping it on a 60″ cable. I’m hoping that once the sleeve stitches go, it’ll fit on one of my shorter cables so I can knit uninterrupted. I’m also hoping I’ll be able to pick up speed while working on the skirt portion. I’ve got a lot of little clothes to knock out in a short amount of time!
I’ve joined for working in the round, but I haven’t yet hit the part where the sleeves are bound off. So far I’m liking how it looks. Judging by how big it already is, this will be a dress that’ll fit in the winter, which is fine by me. I bet it’ll look really cute over top of a white, long sleeved onesie and tights.
I’m so glad I bought four balls of yarn instead of three. I’m almost through the first ball, and I haven’t even finished the yoke!
Well folks, I couldn’t stare at that fuzzy mess any longer. I frogged the Rainbow Baby Cardigan, and I enjoyed doing it. Life is too short to knit with bad yarn. I have no idea what I’ll do with the Chroma in my stash, but I can tell you this – it will not be used to make ANY baby things.
Now that that’s out of the way, I had to start something new.
I’m making a little dress for Baby #2! I’m using bigger yarn and bigger needles than specified in the pattern, so I’m hoping the dress turns out a little big. I want her to be able to get more than 2 weeks’ use out of it.
This pattern doesn’t look too complicated, so I’m hoping it goes quickly. I have tons of stuff to finish before May arrives!
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Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel was to inaugurate a new international airport Monday in its desert south meant to boost tourism to the nearby Red Sea and serve as an emergency alternative to Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion airport.
The new airport, named after Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut who died in the crash of the space shuttle Columbia, will in future host jumbo jets from around the globe.
It says that it has a 3,600-metre-long runway and apron parking space for nine "large and wide-body aircraft".
It will also replace Eilat's small municipal airfield, where for decades arriving aircraft have swooped past hotel towers.
"In an emergency, not only will Israel's entire passenger air fleet be able to land and park there, but also additional aircraft," the IAA says.
Israeli media have said that a 26-metre (85 foot) high, 4.5-kilometre (2.8 mile) long "smart" anti-missile fence has been installed to help protect Ramon, which is adjacent to the border with Jordan.
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Subsistence Practices in an Arid Environment: A Geoarchaeological Investigation in an Iron Age Site in the Negev Highlands, Israel (co-author: Ruth Shahack-Gross). JAS 35 (2008): 965-982.
Multispectral Images of Ostraca: Acquisition and Analysis (co-authors: S. Faigenbaum, B. Sober, A. Shaus, M. Moinester, E. Piasetzky, G. Bearman and M. Cordonsky). JAS 12 (2012): 3581-3590.
An Ancient Relation between Units of Length and Volume Based on a Sphere (co-authors: L. Zapassky, Y. Gadot, and I. Benenson), PLoS ONE 7/3 (2012): 1-6.
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Home > International Development > How Technology and Creativity is being used for Developing Ecotourism: Peace and Unity as a Shared Value to Overcome Environmental Problems in the West Senegal Islands of Niomoume.
On the 28th-30th December 2018 the first edition of the Festival of the Islands of Casamance successfully took place on the Niomoume Islands of the Casamance region in Senegal (Ceesay, 2019) (Figure 1). The Festival was a three-day event bring together the arts, the Islands traditions, a conference and an Island tour all in the name of ‘peace and unity’. The event was attended over the three days by more than 1000 Island inhabitants, guests and visitors. The Festival was the first ever artistic and cultural gathering for the Niomoume Island and its people. The Festival is an innovative event combining the creative industries, ecotourism under the umbrella of ‘peace and unity’ to come together to solve the Islands’ social, environmental and economic problems. Mr Sens Sagna a well-known and highly-regarded Senegalese artist who is based in the UK was the cultural ambassador of the first edition festival (Figure 2). Mr Sagna through his pride in his West African heritage and his vast artistic experience and skills wished to develop collaborations between the Creative Industries sector (an industry worth £133.3bn and accounting for 8.2 per cent of the UK economy), the University of Manchester to potentially support and advise with the Festival and the problems being faced by The Niomoume Islands and the West Senegal region. Mr Sagna, Ambassador of the Festival explained that, “when the initial idea of the Festival was sent to me, I was immediately interested in getting involved and supporting a positive initiative and further understandings how of the creative arts and his skills and experiences could be drawn into the project” (Ceesay, 2019). He explained that this is the positive direction he would like to see the creative industries take in the future. He emphasised the importance that the festival has for bringing people together, to make the community well-known and for the opportunities it can create. He urged “all to embrace and support the future of the festival”.
Mr Sagna is collaborating with Dr Anita Greenhill in looking at the potential of skills development and knowledge enhancement on digital content-building in the creative industries, with a particular emphasis on the positive impact creativity can provide in the development of ecotourism (Oluwatobi Emmanuel Olaniyi, et al 2018, 593). West African cultural skills and knowledge, particularly those associated with their artistic traditions are considered the most developed in the world (Faola & Kalu, 2018). Therefore the unifying values that creativity produces as opposed to a predominantly economic focus in much development theory can be reconsidered. The potential value of the creative economy is increasing exponentially but the industry is still not fully understood and in many instances undervalued. Earlier feasibility studies (Greenhill, 2019) have demonstrated the impact the creative industries can have on social unity and the integration of marginalised groups. Attending the festival has helped to build links and opened up potential routes for international collaboration and research within West Africa.
The initial findings from the research showed that, whilst creativity has the potential to improve the situation of marginalised groups, the artistic community is often caught between traditional knowledge and skills acquisition, and contemporary culture and economic reality (Greenhill, forthcoming). This is a situation that is mirrored in Senegal, where cultural initiatives are being developed which both promote the themes of peace and unity and look to encourage and support economic development. However, a lack of basic infrastructure (especially digital infrastructure) across the country creates a series of challenges (Figure 4). Indeed, Senegal is the perfect place for the arts and healing to come together due to the fact that the country continues to be the location for Africa’s longest ongoing conflict (the Casamance Conflict). Alongside this, the Senegalese state has reaffirmed its desire to put culture at the heart of the issues of national economic and social development. This link is something that is helped by the fact that many West African performers often hail from conflict zones and so represent some of the most marginalised people in the world.
The growing use of culture, and in particular music, as part of wider efforts to address issues of peace and unity within Senegal is reflected in the Festival activities. The overall aim of the festival is to give all those who participate a platform where they can develop their skills, cultural experiences and creativity. This festival is organised by Ousmane Samoure, one of the project’s community partners, and looks to create a lasting legacy, which aids the development of the region (where there is a lack of basic supplies of clean drinking water, medical provisions, electricity and internet provision, etc.). Crucially, these festivals operate in areas that are socially isolated and, in the case of the Festival of the Islands of Casamance, have never had a cultural festival before (Figure 3).
The project looks to learn from these Senegalese initiatives and the stakeholders involved, in order to develop and join together similar work being carried out in South Manchester. This will be achieved by looking to establish a prototype for a structured process to creative production that generates social, cultural and economic value by focussing on community-driven innovation (with an initial emphasis on the creative industries and technology).
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