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Ho, Ho Ho is the sound Santa makes while jumping in this Santa Claus bounce & slide combo rental. A beautiful graphic depicting Santa and his elves in the workshop preparing the sleigh.
- Features a large slide that exits outside unit.
- Mesh windows for ventilation and viewing.
- Child-safe blower.
- Inflated basketball hoop inside.
Extension cord use: No
Attendants: (1) Customer provides or hire our staff.
Best for ages: 12 and Under
Throughput: 100 participants per hour
Note: Not recommended for rain showers. This theme is also available as a bounce house rental. Requires 3.5 foot wide pathway to setup location.
Price: $249 / 4 hours
$15 each additional hour
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How do you know you're watching television with a Consumerist editor? Our commenters will probably formulate all kinds of punchlines for that setup, but last night, I was half paying attention to former President Bill Clinton's speech at the Democratic National Convention on CNN when I happened to see an elderly supporter waving her Medicare card at the camera. Her name and Social Security number were completely legible. "We can read her card! Stop showing that!" I shouted at the TV. The people on the television never listen to personal finance bloggers who are shouting at them. [More]
Crazy CSR Loves Spam, You, Hanging Up Abruptly
Megan sent us this transcript of a recent phone conversation she had with someone from a mysteriously generic "cardholder services" that called her.
Smart Television Alliance Asks "Feature Films For Families" To Stop Using Its Name
Feature Films For Families—the company that's been phone-spamming random people over the past few weeks—follows no man's law! The nonprofit Smart Television Alliance, which works to educate parents on how to improve the television experience for kids*, discovered that the company was using its name without permission.
Verizon Wireless Sues "Velveteen Rabbit" Telemarketers
Hooray for Verizon Wireless! Wait, what? The cellular carrier has just filed a lawsuit against Feature Films For Families for illegally telemarketing. Specifically, they're accusing the company of using an auto-dialer to cold call hundreds of thousands of Verizon Wireless customers earlier this month, which is illegal according to NJ state laws (where the suit was filed) and the Federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
How The "Velveteen Rabbit" Company Is Bypassing The Do Not Call List
We were wondering how Feature Films For Families, the company that's randomly calling home lines and cellphones to sell a movie to people who are on the Do Not Call list, was able to get around federal and state telemarketing rules. It turns out they're hiding behind a non-profit, and non-profits are exempt from following the Do Not Call list. Something similar happened in 2006 between Feature Films For Families and a different non-profit named the Dove Foundation, and the state of Missouri fined them $70,000. It might be time for you to start filing complaints with your state Attorney General and the FTC.
This 'Velveteen Rabbit' Teaches You The Triumph Of Love. Also Of Telemarketing.
Oh no, someone's gone and made a terrible looking half-animated, half-live action, religious-on-the-down-low version of this beloved children's book. That's bad enough, but then they decided to direct-market it to households by cold calling strangers and offering them a "producer's guarantee" that if they don't like it, they can purchase other movies from FamilyTV.com for $4 each. Update: Here's how the company producing the film is sneaking past the Do Not Call rules.
The Consumer Ethicist: Stop The Telemarketers!
I have been getting a lot of calls from a number on my cell phone. I know its a telemarketer, so I don't answer anymore. My cell phone number is on the "do not call" list, if that means anything… I guess not.

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Chapter 1
God has open hands.
I love how James begins his letter to the Jews, boldly declaring that God is a generous giver: "If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God, who gives to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him." (vs 5)
This is exactly how I think of God—as someone who has open hands, not clenched fists. Instead of trying to find ways to hold us back or keep us down, He is always thinking of new ways to be generous to us, to give us good things.
As James continues, he gives a startling example of this: "The brother who is poor may be glad because God has called him to the true riches. The rich may be glad that God has shown him his spiritual poverty. For the rich man, as such, will wither away as surely as summer flowers." (vs 9-10)
It is our tendency to divide people based on wealth, to subconsciously categorize people as "the haves" and "the have-nots." But James says that God has blessings and riches for both, and in Christ, both the rich man and the poor man are equal.
How? Because true riches are in heaven. The poor believer, James says, should understand that and rejoice that he is spiritually wealthy. And the rich believer, James says, should rejoice that God will help him understand that all of his earthly riches amount to nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Thus, the poor man may rejoice in his humility, and the rich man may rejoice in his humbling. Both are gifts given by a generous God.
And that is but one example. Indeed, James sees God's hand in every gift: "So, my very dear friends, don't get thrown off course. Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light." (vs 16-17)
I love the imagery of gifts cascading down from heaven like a giant waterfall of blessings. Yes, God has open hands, and out of them pour a Niagara Falls of every beneficial gift imaginable. No matter who we are or where we are, He has tailor-made blessings just for us—rivers of gifts meant to help us grow, mature, and prosper as His people.
He will never withhold anything that will benefit us!
Chapter 2
God wants trust, not belief.
After reading this chapter of James, I think we might need to come up with a different colloquial term for Christians. While they are often referred to as believers, perhaps it would be better to use the term trusters. For, if James makes anything clear in this chapter, it's that simply believing doesn't have much to do with faith (or trust, as the Greek word translated faith connotes).
Here's what James said: "In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But someone will say, 'You have faith; I have deeds.' Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder." (vs 17-19)
James uses the example of the demons to expose the fallacy of faith without works. For the demons certainly believe in God, in the sense that they acknowledge that He exists, but their belief has never developed into faith—because they don't trust God. If they knew Him enough to trust Him, they would know that they have no reason to shudder.
God is not someone to be afraid of.
But the demons don't really know God, and they don't want to know Him, either. As such, then, their belief in Him is totally worthless, for what they believe about Him is completely without foundation, and it only serves to make them afraid of Him. Stuck in that condition, there isn't much God can do for them.
But those who can be said to have true faith are those who not only "believe in" God, but those who have come to know Him so well that they trust Him. This is why James says that faith and works must go together—not because our works have anything to do with our salvation, but because the kind of faith which saves is also the kind which changes the heart and alters our actions.
So, even though we've used the label for so long, it's not just enough to be a believer. Even the demons are included in that category! God doesn't want people to believe in Him; He wants people to trust Him.
That's when the healing begins.
Chapter 3
God is the Word.
I thought the way James wrote about the tongue in this chapter was very interesting: "The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be." (vs 6-10)
At first, I wondered where James was headed with his treatise on the tongue. Perhaps, I thought, he had been the butt of some cruel jokes! But then, in verses 9 and 10, he revealed his main concern—that it is our tongues which reveal our double-sided nature. We say one thing when it suits us and another when circumstances are different.
We don't always speak with integrity.
Unfortunately, this is an ever-increasing problem in our society. Turn on the television, listen in the grocery store, or even try to sit through a political speech—our talk is often foolish, vulgar, and empty. Truth is exchanged for political correctness. Tact is exchanged for obscenity. We've lost the art of decorum.
As I was pondering all these things, it occurred to me that it is no coincidence that God is also known as the Word. For if it is by our words that our true selves are exposed, then it is also by His Word that God's true self is revealed. And it is fascinating to discover what we can learn about God by His words:
- He doesn't care about being politically correct.
- He tells the truth—even when it's painful.
- He speaks softly whenever He can.
- He also raises His voice when necessary.
- He never uses words to hurt someone.
- He never says what He thinks people want to hear.
For all these reasons (and more), we can fully trust in God's Word. It's accurate, it's timely, and even when it hurts, it will produce a harvest of blessings in our lives. He is the ultimate example to look to when we want to tame our tongues.
He is the Word.
Chapter 4
God is in today.
What is it like to live today? I must confess, I don't really know. Even though I try to savor each day because, intellectually, I know that today is all I have, I am so conditioned to think ahead, plan ahead, and prepare for the future that today tends to get lost in the mix.
Honestly, sometimes it feels like today is simply a stepping stone to tomorrow.
But the hard truth is, there is no tomorrow. Even when you get to "tomorrow," it will be today. There is nobody in tomorrow. It is an entirely theoretical construct. That means you can't carry on relationships with anyone in the past or future. Relationship is entirely within the realm of today—and that also includes relationship with God.
As James put it: "Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.' Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, 'If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.'" (vs 13-15)
Today is all you have. That's just the reality. You don't know if you will be here tomorrow, next year, or five years from now. A great number of people woke up this morning not expecting this would be their last day on Earth. If they had known, do you think they would have done anything different today?
There is certainly nothing wrong with making plans for the future . . . as long as you don't start believing that the future is guaranteed to you. Surely, a future eternity is guaranteed to you, but none of us know how much time that will include in this life. Thus, until the day Jesus comes back to take us home, we really should live (as much as possible) for today.
Don't let the ordinary moments pass you by.
Don't let small wonders escape your notice.
Don't forget to be grateful for all the things you normally take for granted.
And don't forget that God is in today. He can't meet you in yesterday, and He can't find you in tomorrow. But He's eager to see you today. Why not take a moment to share your plans with Him and listen to what He has to say about them? He may just have a plan of His own that He'd like to share!
Chapter 5
God's richest blessings may come in poverty.
If you're ever looking to while away some time, do a Google search for "the misfortune of lottery winners," and you'll find some fascinating and unbelievable stories. I imagine that most everyone, at least once in their life, has dreamed of winning the lottery. To be suddenly freed from the constraints of necessary work seems like it would be so wonderful . . . but it can be anything but.
Even those who dream of all the good things for others they could do with such winnings haven't managed to escape the "curse" of lottery winnings. One man, Jack Whittaker, who intended to do good for others—and actually did a lot of good with the majority of his $315 million prize—still says he eventually regretted winning the lottery: "You know, my wife had said she wished that she had torn the ticket up. Well, I wish that we had torn the ticket up too. . . Family is what is dear," he said. "I don't know where it'll end. But you know, I just don't like Jack Whittaker anymore. I don't like the hard heart I've got. I don't like what I've become."
I'm haunted by that last statement: I don't like what I've become. No wonder so many of the Bible writers warned their readers about the pitfalls of wealth: "And a final word to you arrogant rich: Take some lessons in lament. You'll need buckets for the tears when the crash comes upon you. Your money is corrupt and your fine clothes stink. Your greedy luxuries are a cancer in your gut, destroying your life from within. You thought you were piling up wealth. What you've piled up is judgment." (vs 1-3)
Now, I feel it is important to point out that there is nothing wrong with wealth in and of itself. God Himself had plenty of rich folks among His friends—such as Abraham, Job, Zaccheus, Joseph of Arimathea, Matthew, and Barnabas—and it would seem that wealth didn't ultimately have a corrupting influence over them. However, that appears to be the exception rather than the rule. As Jesus warned many times, we must regard riches as a potentially significant obstacle to entering the Kingdom, because for most people, they entice us to put our trust in material things rather than in God.
That's the problem with wealth—not the money itself, but the potential power it has over those who become entangled with it. Certainly, there are some who have the ability to handle wealth in a spiritually-acceptable way, but many do not, and though I have often dreamed of not having to worry about finances, I wonder who or what I would become if I was suddenly a millionaire.
In our society, we tend to have a lot of debates over the rich versus the poor. We fight wars on poverty, trying to help the "have-nots" to acquire more things and get a larger slice of the pie. It is humbling, then, to consider that God's richest blessings may actually come in poverty. It is still hard for us to believe that those who "don't have as much as we do" might actually have more than we do.
Even in our desire to help (which is both noble and Biblical), we are still in danger of getting caught up in viewing material things as the answer to people's problems. And while money may certainly solve a lot of problems, it only takes a quick Google search to discover that it can cause a whole host of other problems.
What matters to God isn't the balance of your bank account, but the condition of your heart. Whether you're "rich" or "poor," do you want what others have? Do you spend your time trying to figure out how to get more, believing that "if I just had this much," life would suddenly be okay? Do you share what you have? Do you think others should share more with you?
Do you find security in your paycheck? Or do you find security in your God?
No matter how much or how little you have, don't get sucked into the material vortex of this world. God has His own definition of wealth, and often, His richest blessings come packaged in poverty. I dare say that many lottery winners have learned that lesson the hard way.


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It's no secret that relationships generally lasted longer and were more successful during our grandparents' and great-grandparents' younger days. Things were obviously very different back then and a lot of those differences helped the older generations learn how to maintain happier, healthier, longer-lasting relationships. Below are 7 tips for helping your relationships be a little more "old-fashioned."
Lay off of social media
Social media is just dangerous and can be very damaging to your relationship. It gives you a place to vent about your relationship to those who have no business knowing about your problems. It helps you keep tabs on your partner and vice versa, limiting you and your partner's independence and freedom as individuals. It allows you to maintain a certain control over your partner and that can lead to unhealthy habits and relationship anxiety. It can also lead to relationship comparisons.
Older generations didn't have access to the rest of the world the way that we do. They had no way of keeping tabs on their partners and venting to the world unless it was by megaphone in the center of town (and I'm sure that was far too much work!) The older generations had each other and those close to them and for them, that was enough. It allowed them to focus on their relationships and the small world around them without all those distractions. It also allowed them to live freely and independently with no other choice than to simply trust each other.
Call instead of texting
Of course, it's nice to get a sweet text from your partner here and there, but the older generations didn't have that. They had to pick up the phone, hope their significant other was available to answer, and have a conversation. If you want to be a little more old-fashioned, limit your texting and make a phone call.
Limit communication throughout the day
With that being said, that doesn't mean you should blow up your partner's phone with calls all day. Try limiting communication a little more, and saving all that chatting for later. Give your partner some space during their day to work, go to class, or see their friends and family. That space will only bring you closer.
Hide technology
When you're together, put away your phone and turn off the Netflix. It's fine to have your lazy nights binge-watching your favorite shows together but try to spend the majority of your time talking over dinner or doing something active. Try to avoid technology and spend your time together focusing on each other.
Also, avoid making other phone calls, texting, or checking social media. Give all of your attention to your partner. Those text messages and Facebook updates can wait.
Show your love with small gestures
Back in the day, they weren't able to shout their love to the world via social media to make their partner feel special. Bringing home a nice bouquet, cooking his favorite dinner more often, or doing your partner's least favorite chore for them should be just fine.
Take it slow
Back in the day, after a first date, a few days usually went by before another phone call was made. Nowadays, some people get knocked up on the first date! Take it slow, give each other space, and get to know each other from the start. There is no reason to rush anything. You don't need to start texting him/her as soon as you part ways at the front door.
In addition, go at your own pace. Just because your friends got married to their significant others within the first two years of dating doesn't mean that you should. IF you even want to hit those milestones, hit them at your own pace.
Lower your expectations
Decide what YOU want out of your relationship and what YOUR standards are. Once you are able to figure yourself and your desires out, you'll be able to maintain your relationship a little more smoothly. Like I mentioned just because that couple over there is doing this certain thing in their relationship does not mean that you should too. Stop comparing your relationship to others, set your standards, and be happy. It's important to keep your standards high, but be sure that your expectations aren't too unrealistic.


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Amitav Acharya
During its heydays, when the Tang Dynasty ruled China, the Silk Road was an inhospitable and utterly dangerous place. It nearly cost the most famous pilgrim to travel the road, the 7th century Chinese Monk Xuanzang, his life. Sadly, despite the dramatic improvements in transport and communications, many parts of it are still difficult and unstable. There is Uyghur unrest in China's Xinjiang province, the site of such major Silk Road stopovers as Hami and Turpan on the north and Khotan (Zeitan) in the south. Taliban menaces the old Silk Road route to India via Afghanistan and Pakistan (Swat Valley). Add Iran, Baghdad, and the Central Asian Republics, and you get the picture.
Yet it is possible to sample the Silk Road, especially the eastern part of of it, from Xi'an to Dunhuang, which is within Chinese territory and very much accessible. It is the next best alternative to going the full distance.
In Xi'an, one can still visit the place where the Silk Road caravan's took their first steps in the long and hazardous journey. It is now a small park with stone and concrete horses, camels and traders as well as a detailed map of the Silk Road.
And the most famous site for those with a special interest in the life of Monk Xuanzang is the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, built by Emperor Gaozong in the 7th century where the monk stored the Buddhist documents he brought back from India. A huge standing statue of the monk greets the visitor at the entrance to the Pagoda. A new building, called Tripitaka Palace, has been added with a sitting statue of the monk, as well as illustrations and murals depicting his journey, including encounters with peoples and rulers of India.
Xuanzang travelled to India in 629AD, against the wishes of Tang emperor Taizong, and returned to capital Chang'an in 645 AD. He travelled across India, several years of which were spent at Nalanda, the Buddhist university of India. Upon his return, he devoted his life to translating the Buddhist scriptures brought back from India, and sought imperial recognition and patronage for Buddhism in China.
In the "Forest of Steles" at the Shaanxi Museum (Beilin) which contains the largest collection of ancient steles in China, one can see two different calligraphical renderings of Emperor Taizong's preface to Xuanzang's Record of the Western Regions, where he gave graphic accounts of his travels to India. Emperor Taizong wanted him to write this account for a strategic purpose - so that the Tang empire could gain a first-hand account of the lands to the west which posed a constant threat to China. In modern times, we might call it strategic intelligence. Another stele, a 14th century portrait of the venerable monk, is not for public display, but one can buy rubbings of it from the museum store.
The Silk Road not only brought Chinese goods to the world, as far as to the eastern Roman empire (both Rome and the Byzantine Constantinople), it also brought the world to China. During Tang, Chang'an with a population of I million was the largest city in the world. At the Shaanxi History Museum, one can find images of various foreign nationalities who came and lived and traded with China, especially during the Tang dynasty. These include images of Huns, a Javanese, Mongolians, and even black Africans. Terracotta figurines of the camels and horses that kept the Silk Road humming can be found here. And one could see actual Silk Road era silk fragments, green, yellow and white. A documentary film recreates the Silk Road caravans; in front of a huge three dimensional map of the Road with its major routes lighted.
A mural from the interior walls of the tomb Gaozong, the son of Wu Zeitan, the only female empress in China's history, captures the diplomacy of the Tang which used the Silk Road to pursue an unprecedented policy of commerical and cultural opennees to the outside world. It depicts three Tang officials conferring among themselves while three envoys, who were from the Eastern Roman empire (Byzantium), Korea and Mongolia respectively, await. This mural is yet to be publicly displayed (although pictures of its are available in Museum guides). We were shown it and other original tomb murals - including scenes of royal hunting, the city walls and buildings of Chang'an, and ceremonies featuring Tang noble women whose plumpness was regarded as a thing of beauty - as a spcial favour to academics by the director of the Museum who studied with of my one of my Chinese hosts- a professor from Lanzhou University.
But nothing gives one a better flavor of life in the Silk Road than Dunhuang. Located on the edge of the Gobi desert, the oasis of Dunhuang, or Blazing Beacon, was the point where the ancient Silk Road divided into northern and southern routes, and where devotee and pilgrims made donations to build Buddhist images and commission murals inside the Mogao grottos at Mingsha Mountains near the Dunhuang River.
Ordinary visitors to Dunhuang's Mogao Caves are allowed only 10 caves per ticket (which costs 200 yuan per foreigner), unless you pay extra (200 yuan per cave) to visit a selected number of special caves. I paid 600 yuan for 3 such special caves, although there were several which are strictly off limits to visitors.
The caves do provide a vivid sense of the beauty of the Buddhist images and murals and plenty of evidence of the diffusion of Indian art into China via the Silk Road.
During the early stages of its development, the Northern and Western Wei periods (386-556AD), statuary and murals at the Mogao Grottos were heavily influenced by Indian designs, especially the Indo-Greek Gandhara design. Many Central Asian kingdoms, including the famed kingdom of Kucha that Xuanzang visited on his way to India, were ruled by Indo-European kings in whose courts Sanskrit was spoken. But by the time of Tang, divided into early-, mid-, high and late periods, the Indian influence had graduated given way to Chinese patterns and concepts. It is not clear whether this was done at the behest of the Tang emperors in Chang'an or was a natural evolution as Buddhism became increasingly localized in China. But the signs of such a transition were unmistakable at the fablous Mogao Grottos at Dunhuang.
A visit to cave 285, one of the "special" caves to which we had to purchase access, tells it all. Done during the Western Wei (mid 6th century AD) dynasty, the murals of the cave include a Shiva and Ganesha, on one of the walls as well as an image of the Mother Goddess of Chinese mythology (Nuwa) on the ceiling. The Shiva can be identified by a partially blurred trident on one of his four hands, right next to the mural of Ganesha.
This fantastic image of the two father and son Hindu deities in a Buddhist grotto has not been written about, and was particularly exciting a discovery for me. I have not seen or read about other Hindu deities at Dunhuang. The Mother Goddess image is of special importance. Was it a precursor to Guan Yin, the everpresent Chinese female boddhisattva?
Dunhuang's Mingsha Mountains, a strech of enoromous sand dunes, was termed "rumbling sands" by Marco Polo during his travels through here. They are among the most striking dunes in the enitre Silk Road. The oasis-like Crescent Moon Lake at Mingsa, whose water never dries up and is believed to have medicinal value,is a mystical wonder of nature.
The Mingsha dunes are also a good place to get a sense of the challenges the Silk Road traders and pilgrims had to face from an inhospitable and unpredictable desert. Along with my Chinese friends, I climbed to the top of a hill, partly by camel and then partly by foot, while the sun shone brightly over our head at 6pm local time. As we reached the top, a howling wind started blowing, blurring the sun and blasting sand on our faces, making it difficult to breathe and almost knocking me off my feet and down the steep slopes of the dune. We made it back, sliding down the dunes, to be told by the locals that an unexpected sand storm had visited the area.A local legend has it that during the Han Dynasty, a Chinese army advancing to the western region was attacked by its enemy here, but the war drums attracted a howling wind, burying both armies. I almost believe in it.
Dunhuang Cave 285
Outer Wall Murals
Fruits and Food
Although Dunhuang today is a modern-looking town, with regular flights from Beijing and Shanghai (via Lanzhou), and comfortable accommodation like the Mogao Hotel where I stayed, it still offers plenty of evidence of a rugged, frontier past. Donkey meat and yellow noodles are a Dunhuang speciality. Mutton kebabs and oven-baked bread (similar to but a little tougher than the Indian Naan), are the staple of the Muslim people in the Western region, although it is equally popular with the Chinese. The very pleasant night market offers an abundance of dried and fresh fruits.
Xuanzang on India
"On examination, we find that the names of India (Tien-chu) are various and perplexing as to their authority. It was anciently called Shin-tu, also Hien-tau; but now, according to the right pronunciation, it is called In-tu. The people of In-tu call their country by different names according to their district. Each country has diverse customs. Aiming at a general name which is the best sounding, we will call the country In-tu. In Chinese, the name signifies the Moon. The moon has many names, of which this is one. For as it is said that all living things ceaselessly revolve in the wheel (of transmigration) through the long night of ignorance, without a guiding star, their case is like (the world), the sun gone down; as then the torch affords its connecting light, though there be the shining of the stars, how different from the bright (cool) moon; just so the bright connected light of holy men and sages, guiding the world as the shining of the moon, have made this country eminent, and so it is called In-tu."
Xuanzang, Si Yu Ki (Buddhist Records of the Western World), Book II, Translated by Samuel Beal (first published in U.K. in 1884, reprint, New Delhi, Low Price Publications, 1995), p.69
A Taste of the Silk Road
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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Juan Mata wishes Anderson good luck
Manchester United playmaker Juan Mata has seemingly confirmed Anderson's exit from the club, reports The Guardian.
Writing in his blog, the Spanish international, who joined the United ranks in last year's January transfer window, has wished Anderson luck ahead of his return back to Brazil.
There's no doubt about it, Anderson has endured a tricky time at Old Trafford in recent years, and now could leave the club behind on a permanent basis.
Mata wrote: "I want to wish good luck to my friend Anderson, who is back to football in his native Brazil. All the best, my friend!
The same report from the Guardian, meanwhile, has revealed that the player's move to Internacional is still in the balance as negotiations are still going on.
He could still stay
There's no doubt about it, the majority of Manchester United fans will be desperate to see Anderson finally leave the club behind after failing to secure a first-team spot for a number of years now.
With the deal still in the balance, Anderson could yet stay at the Theatre of Dreams until the end of the season. There's no doubt about it, though, the player is in need of a new challenge as he goes in search of finding first team football once again.
In fact, last season, under David Moyes, the Brazilian midfielder was sent out on loan to Fiorentina, but failed to make any real impact in Italy before returning to English soil.
And this term, under the Louis van Gaal regime, the midfielder has once again failed to prove his credentials and rarely featured throughout the course of the campaign.
Still only 26, the midfielder could yet get his career back on track, but it will surely be away from Manchester. It remains to be seen, however, as to whether the deal will go through before tonight's deadline...
Manchester United fans: What went wrong for Anderson? Have your say in the comments section below!News Now - Sport News


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Easter egg
Easter eggs are hidden parts of a game or software that are usually discovered by more experienced players. There have been a number of Easter eggs throughout the Pokémon franchise. In the games, there are several items, locations and events that are considered by some to be Easter eggs.
Easter eggs in the games
A major Easter egg in the game is the truck from the Generation I games. In Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow, as well as their remakes Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, there is a truck which appears in the S.S. Anne's port which serves no evident purpose except as scenery. With scenery being very sparse in the Generation I games, and this being one of the few sprites with no other purpose than to exist in one spot, fans began speculating that another purpose existed for this truck, and that it could perhaps be moved with Strength. Thus, a popular rumor sprang up that a Poké Ball containing Mew could be found underneath. The only flaw with this was that the HM for Strength could only be obtained after getting HM01 (Cut), which required the S.S. Anne leaving. There were a number of ways that players went around this problem. The first, and most obvious was trading a Pokémon that knew Cut into their game. The second involved getting the HM from the ship's Captain then battling a Trainer and losing, having them run to the Pokémon Center without the ship leaving. They could progress through the game until Surf and Strength were acquired and then attempt the truck. The rumor was proven false.
Later, in the Generation III remakes of Red and Blue, the truck is still present, however, there is actually something of a point to get to it this time around. On its pier, if the player walks down a bit, they can find a hidden Lava Cookie, unavailable until later in the game at the Sevii Islands. The truck had been positioned there, as an Easter egg, due to the old, popular rumors that were spreading during the time of Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow.
Diamond dust
Diamond dust (Japanese: ダイヤモンドダスト diamond dust) is a special variation of snow that has appeared in select locations and at select times in core series games since Generation IV. Diamond dust has no effect in battle.
On January 10, 2008, Director Junichi Masuda announced on his blog that fans should play Pokémon Diamond and Pearl on January 12, his birthday, for a surprise. The surprise was discovered to be sparkling diamond dust falling in Snowpoint City instead of the normal, light snow.
Below are the known dates and locations that diamond dust occurs in the Pokémon games.
|January 12
|Junichi Masuda's birthday
|Snowpoint City
|February 27
|Release of Red and Green
|Snowpoint City
|February 29
|Leap Day
|Snowpoint City
|Mt. Silver
|March 15
| Ides of March
Hōnen Matsuri
|Snowpoint City
|Mt. Silver
|March 31
|Mew (ミュー) trademark granted
|Snowpoint City
|April 22
| Release of Diamond and Pearl in North America
Earth Day
|Snowpoint City
|May 1
| Release of Emerald in North America
May Day/International Workers' Day
|Snowpoint City
|September 2
|V-J Day (United States)
|Snowpoint City
|September 20
|Sarah Natochenny's birthday
|Snowpoint City
|October 10
|Release of Pokémon Blue in Japan
|Mt. Silver
|October 30
|Release of Pokémon Ranger in the US
|Snowpoint City
|December 31
|New Year's Eve
|Mt. Silver
|Icirrus City
|Player's birthday
|Frost Cavern
|Player's birthday
|Mount Lanakila
Secret wallpaper
Another Easter egg in the games is secret wallpapers for the Pokémon Storage System that can only be unlocked via outside resources in Pokémon Emerald, Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, and Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver. A special phrase must be entered in-game to unlock these wallpapers, with the phrase depending on the player's ID number. Online generators at places like Filb.de can be used to obtain these phrases.
In Pokémon Emerald, the player may speak to the father of a sick girl named Walda in Rustboro City to obtain a "Friends" wallpaper by telling him a word that will make Walda laugh. It is possible to unlock a variety of wallpapers, with different combinations of background and patterns and colors, by telling the father different words, but only one Friends wallpaper may be unlocked at a time.
In the Generation IV games, eight wallpapers can be unlocked. Unlike in Emerald, all eight wallpapers can be unlocked at the same time, each requiring its own unique phrase. These wallpapers differ between the Diamond and Pearl, Platinum, and HeartGold and SoulSilver games. In Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, the player may speak to a TV producer at Jubilife TV to unlock the wallpapers. In HeartGold and SoulSilver, the player may speak to Primo in the Violet City Pokémon Center to unlock them.
Other Easter eggs
- In Pokémon Stadium, when the player uploads a Pikachu from Yellow, it will be voiced by Ikue Ohtani and have unique sound effects. Likewise, if a Pikachu or Raichu that knows Surf is used, it will have a unique attack animation. This animation also occurs in Pokémon XD and Pokémon Battle Revolution.
- An Easter egg can be found in Super Smash Bros. Brawl while the player is playing in Pokémon Stadium 2 stage when the stage is in Ice Mode. If the player angles the camera and looks through the window of the cabin that Snorunt is in, a poster of a pet cat can be seen on the wall. The cat is rumored to belong to Sakurai, but he announced that it is false.
- Within the coding of the Mobile Trainer cartridge (the main Game Pak packaged with the Mobile Game Boy Adapter) is a reference to an alleged 'game' called "Pokémon Moss" (Japanese: ポケットモンスター苔). The same reading with different kanji (虚仮) can also be interpreted as "Pokémon Fool", hence it is possible this was simply a joke by the developers to trick the fanbase.[1]
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Air de Paris was founded in Nice in 1990 by Florence Bonnefous and Edouard Merino, who met as students in the curatorial program at École du Magasin in Grenoble. The gallery relocated to Paris in 1994 and moved to its current space on rue Louise Weiss in 1997. The name Air de Paris was adopted as a tribute to Marcel Duchamp's readymade 50cc of Paris Air, reflecting the ethos of the gallery's program and the artists with whom it works.
The gallery opened in the summer of 1990 with the now-legendary exhibition Les Ateliers du Paradise, subtitled "a film in real time," for which the artists Philippe Perrin, Pierre Joseph, and Philippe Parreno occupied the gallery for the entire month of August, transforming it into a photogenic living space and a site for spontaneous events, actions, and interactions. Air de Paris currently represents both emerging and established artists, including Philippe Parreno, Liam Gillick, Trisha Donnelly, Sarah Morris, Carsten Höller, Eliza Douglas, Aaron Flint Jamison, and Adriana Lara, as well as the estates of historically important artists such as Guy de Cointet and Channa Horwitz.
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Our variety of nature spots aren't just close to you, but close to each other. Hike and play in the cliffs, caves and limestone trails of Mono Cliffs Provincial Park. Trek the Bruce Trail, Canada's longest footpath, surrounded by the Niagara Escarpment, which actually merits words like majestic. Drive or even stroll a few minutes from downtown Orangeville and you're suddenly walking on Island Lake's over-the-lake boardwalks (the area's a favourite for dog-owners.) Fly fish at Glen Haffy Conservation Area, camping, windsurfing and canoeing… and of course, just rock-sitting and mind-clearing. No wonder the entire Group of Seven found inspiration here.
Imagine yourself up here, awed by miles of green and the technicolour epic of fall. Then imagine it all under a curvy blanket of white snow. It's your chance to try fun, off-the-beaten-track things. Ice fish in your cozy cabin on Island Lake Conservation Area and elsewhere, snowmobile all over, cross-country ski through hushed forests at Monora Park in Mono, pond skate at Alton Mill, snowboard at Hockley Valley Resort. And for families that want to take the commercial edge off the holidays, come up at Christmas, Thanksgiving and Halloween, and join in the traditions that sustain us here: haunted houses, pumpkin picking, small-town store windows dressed for the season, tree-cutting, village Christmas parades. If your winter activity wish list includes a long drive and pricey activities, you're out of luck. But if snow-covered barns, horses in blankets and spending more time playing in the snow than getting to it sounds good, you're home.
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Headwaters is home to many conservation areas and provincial parks, each offering four-season activities and something memorable. Stroll right over the lake on the Island Lake Conservation Area's amazing boardwalk (and upcoming floating stage). Walk Canada's longest footpath, the Bruce Trail, which contains much of Ontario's 450-million-year-old rock wonder, the Niagara Escarpment. You can also tackle the Escarpment's cliffs, caves and limestone trails in Mono Cliffs Provincial Park. Peek at our extensive collection of trail maps or just take any side road and enjoy the wild turkeys, horses, sheep and cows that are no doubt enjoying you.
Sports in Headwaters are plentiful and take full advantage of our landscape. Each of our many golf courses provide a different visual experience. Hailed as "honest" and "mystical in its beauty", Osprey Valley Golf's three courses offer a range of challenges; the Caledon Country Club seamlessly routes through the Credit River, natural creeks and Caledon's lovely hills. We're usually less busy than city courses, and the settings, well, they make it hard to keep your head down. Every one of Osprey Valley's courses is in Score Canada's top ten (including hilly classic Heathlands), and the Caledon Country Club will take you from Glory (1st hole) to Redemption (18th hole), in surroundings that feel like a 19th-century painting come to life.
Your own inspiration may come at 25 km an hour on two wheels. With thousands of hills and forest-lined roads, mountain and road cyclists have it all here including these friendly resources, Don Coats and the team from Caledon Hills Cycling, Inglewood and Brian Travis from Forks Bicycle Shop, Erin. Events are everywhere: the Tour de Terra Cotta is like a country-flavoured Tour de France, and for all-nighters, the 24 Hours of Summer Solstice, North America's largest 24-hour mountain bike festival, takes over Albion Hills every June, with races, camping and events.
Birding's popularity has recently taken flight (yes, we wrote that): it's easy, inexpensive, social and year-round. A real find is Luther Marsh just north of Grand Valley, the largest inland marsh in southern Ontario and a major wetland habitat. Magnificent great blue heron and our iconic loon are frequent, and you might even spot a rare American white pelican.
It's natural to want to take it slow up here, too. Retreats and escapes come in many forms, spiritual to soothing. Personal exploration through meditation, yoga and more, in a breathtaking natural setting, happens year-round at the Ecology Retreat Centre in Mono. Thousands of people seek the stress-fighting solace of our graceful bed and breakfasts, such as Cheltenham's 180-year-old Top of the Hill, and its acclaimed breakfasts. Many of Canada's best spas are here, like the Millcroft Inn & Spa in Alton, nestled among 100 woodland acres. Spiritual centres are many, including one masterpiece: the International Tai Chi Centre has built a spectacular Chinese-inspired temple on 100 acres of rural Mono, and people from all walks of life worldwide come for its tai-chi and other spiritually-centered programs. You can, too.
History and nature merge in our area's many mills and waterfalls, reflecting just how many of our towns were built around them. People love visiting the Millcroft Inn and Spa, built in 1881 as a knitting mill, to eat over or just enjoy beautiful Shaw's Creek Falls. Crowds come to watch the waterfall crash around the ruins of an 1899 power station at Cataract Mills in the Forks of the Credit Provincial Park. Every mill and fall is worth a look, especially because of the towns around them.
If you really want to see it all, the Credit Valley Explorer lets you do it, and lets someone else do the driving, too. This three-hour guided train tour from Orangeville to Brampton and back snakes through and above forests, valleys and rivers, stops in postcard-quaint Inglewood, slows to a crawl over the Cataract Falls, and offers a rolling view of fall's colours, winter's blanket, and spring and summer's emerald greenery. In fact, many people come every season for just this reason.
In our country, while every season is celebrated, holidays take on a back-to-basics feel. A white, country Christmas is like no other. There's homespun, traditional events like Erin's Window Wonderland, where retailers black-out store windows then unveil their seasonal decor. In Orangeville, everyone comes out for the Tractor Parade of Lights, and Christmas in the Park at Kay-Cee Gardens features 50,000 bulbs and all kinds of choirs for a full month. A country setting also brings extra spookiness to Halloween. There are corn mazes all over, and Terra Cotta Conservation Area's annual "Haunted Forest at Terror Cotta" features flashlight strolls, haunted houses and other shadowy fun. Lots of farms and centres, like Downey's Farm and Teen Ranch in Caledon hold Easter events, too. (The best way to never miss a thing is to sign up for our newsletter.)
Above all else, please get lost.
Because every backroad, every "there-can't-be-anything-down-there" left turn will be where some of your most authentic and unplanned moments will just happen. Like a sheep or cow who's decided to go for a stroll appearing out of nowhere. Foxes and turtles crossing the road at their own speeds. A rainbow over a barn. A box of vegetables picked hours ago with a pay-what-you-feel bucket. And you'll always run into someone who'll help you find your way back. That is, if you want to.
There's no better way to discover the natural beauty you'll find in the Hills of Headwaters than by hitting the trails. With hundreds of kilometres of trails that wind their way through some of southern Ontario's most stunning natural beauty, grab your backpack and enjoy a hike, ride or run. Stop along the way at a heritage town, village or hamlet, grab a bite to eat, and discover the Hills of Headwaters, just steps from the city, but worlds away!
Headwaters Trails
The Headwaters area has an extensive network of trails that offer outdoor enthusiasts a myriad of opportunities for hiking, biking, horseback riding and trekking. We are pleased to offer an expansive collection of trail maps for your consideration.
The rolling hills and valleys that define the Headwaters region, along with our parks, conservation areas and our collection of heritage towns and villages make the Hills of Headwaters a desired location for cyclists to visit. Check out our trail maps and plan your route. We're also pleased to provide some other resources to help you plan your trip.
Discover the area on our picturesque back roads. There are so many ways to explore the Headwaters region including this route suggestion for beginner motorcyclists.
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North East Scotland College photography graduate Jenny Anderson from Stonehaven has been named runner up in a national photography competition.
Jenny completed her HND in photography at the College's Aberdeen City Campus in the summer and entered the competition on a whim, thinking she stood no chance of winning.
She said, "Getting the British Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP) College Award 2016 runner up certificate in the post was such an exciting moment – for the first time ever I felt really proud of myself. The standard of work in the competition was so high I was surprised to have been recognised let alone being named runner-up!"
Jenny has been interested in photography since she was quite young. She said, "I received my first SLR camera when I was around the age of 12. Prior to this I had a small point and shoot camera which I hardly ever put down." Jenny was then fortunate to find some local professional photographers who were willing to mentor her over a number of years. She said, "Louise Kerr and Kyle Hamilton from Hamilton Kerr Studios in Kirriemuir taught me everything from the basics of photography to some of the more complex details."
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Jenny excelled at college and progressed to HND Photography on completing the NC course. Once again, Jenny's lecturers were impressed with her skills and she received 'A' grades for both graded units. At the end of the course, Jenny and her classmates were given the opportunity to display their work at the College's End of Year Creative Industries Show. Jenny's work was highly praised by judges and she was awarded Best Work on the Wall for the photography section.
Now that her time at NESCol is complete, Jenny has decided to take some time out. She said, "In October, I'm going on a gap year of travel and work with my boyfriend to Thailand and then Australia. Having spent so much time in education I want to give myself time to relax, breathe and see different cultures. Of course, this will also help me build a portfolio for when I return. I'm hoping that my time away will help me decide what path to take next. I have a few options and ideas lined up, but right now I want to take my time and explore - after all I'm still young! The photographic opportunities in both countries will be vast, and I'm excited to capture my adventures to share with my friends and family. Saying all this, my love for fine-art photography is strong. I would love to go to Glasgow School of Art to study and practise this field further, but for now my travel plans are coming first."
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In 1982-83 most of the Hasbro G.I. Joe line was made up of the G.I. Joe special forces members with only one single enemy to fight. The Cobra Commander enemy leader was available by mail-in in 1982 and on the single card in 1983 but until then (for roughly a year or until your mail-in figure arrived) G.I. Joe only had one "enemy" to fight- the generic troop builder figure titled (appropriately enough) Cobra Trooper and the Cobra Trooper Officer (so I guess technically two enemies).
The Cobra Trooper was only a mild modification of the Cobra Trooper with some silver paint additions and a slightly different helmet. The Cobra Trooper is your basic Cobra enemy soldier. In later years, the basic blue cobra trooper would be replaced by the more stylistic Cobra Viper but early on in the comic books and in the toy line this basic trooper was the enemy.
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I accept that this new world is very different from the real world as I know it. I accept the behaviors that my mother often expresses -- the behaviors that drive me crazy in real world -- are perfectly acceptable and are the norm in Alzheimer's World.
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Previously I wrote -- Communicating in Alzheimer's World. That article should be considered as a companion to this article. They go hand in hand.
Both articles are designed to help you communicate with someone living with Alzheimer's disease.
After years of trying to figure out how to communicate effectively with my mother, Dorothy who lived withAlzheimer's disease, I concluded that I needed a good mental construct so that I could better understand and comprehend what I was trying to accomplish.
I finally concluded that in order to communicate effectively with my mother I had to change. I had to develop a new set of communication skills in order to deal effectively with her new reality. This simple realization lead me to the creation of what I now call
Over time, I learned how to step seamlessly into this brand new world. It did take time and effort to get to where I needed to go. But, first I had to understand where I needed to go.
My goal was simple and straightforward -- I wanted to learn how to communicate effectively with a person living with Alzheimer's.
When I step seemlessly into Alzheimer's World I am the same person, my mother is also the same person. However, my mother's sense and understanding of reality has changed. It changed because her brain was sick.
When I go into Alzheimer's World, I enter my mother's world. I join her in her new understanding of reality.
I accept that this new world is very different from the real world as I know it.
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I also accepted that the behaviors that my mother often expressed -- the behaviors that drove me crazy in real world -- are perfectly acceptable and are the norm in Alzheimer's World.
This simple understanding brought with it a tremendous sense of relief. I stopped feeling like I was going crazy. I stopped feeling like my mother was going crazy.
Over time I developed a sense of calm. Somehow when I step into Alzheimer's World I experienced a new sense of calmness. This new calmness brought with it a sense of understanding. It feels like every thing slows down. Much of the way I operated in the real world changed. Even the tone of my voice changed.
Behaviors that once made me angry and "out of sorts" now made me chuckle. Alzheimer's World can be a happy place one you gain acceptance.
The following is a description of how I started to envision Alzheimer's World and how it differs from real world. More or less, my early development of the construct that lead me to the conclusion that I needed to change if I wanted to communicate with my mother, Dorothy.
Alzheimer's World -- Two Circles Trying to Intersect
Alzheimer's World is not difficult to understand or find. Some caregivers get there, some don't.
It takes lots of thought and the development of a new mental construct of behavior to understand Alzheimer's disease. It takes time.
Take the relationship between my mother and me as an example.
I've known my mother my entire life. We have been communicating our entire lives. I would imagine that our communication is similar to most people. We engaged in all the human behaviors and emotions over the years. We established patterns on how to deal with the good and the bad.
Did I ever get angry with my mother -- of course. Frustrated, agitated -- of course. When we had a problem with each other we learned how to work it out. How to make up and reattach.
Over the course of 50 years we developed our own method of communication -- our own behavior.
Then Alzheimer's struck.
Our communication and the behavior changed. Abruptly, over night. It was if our ability to communicate effectively had been robbed from us.
I saw and understood these changes were being caused by Alzheimer's disease. On the other hand, my mother couldn't see the change. She couldn't understand what was happening.
When my mother would say something mean, or act out crazy behavior I experienced the same emotions I had my entire life -
Why wouldn't I? I felt the same exact feelings and emotions that I had been experiencing for 50 years. I had 50 years of practice.
Looking in from the outside, most people would conclude its easy to come to an understanding that the meanness and craziness are a direct result of the disease -- Alzheimer's.
They conclude you simply adjust and come to an understanding that Alzheimer's is the cause of the behavior, and as a result you can just shrug off the meanness and craziness.
This is far from the truth and the reality of the situation.
It is almost impossible to explain to someone how difficult this adjustment can be. How difficult? It took me years. Years while I was trying to do it day after day after day. Every day.
I had to change my mother couldn't.
I had to find a way to get into her Alzheimer's World, instead of trying to drag her back into Real world. I knew and understood she was never coming back to the real world. Never.
Here is how our life looked before Alzheimer's.
My mother had her life. I had my life. Our lives clearly intersected and we had all of our shared experiences stored in that intersection o our lives.
We had an understanding and frame of reference that we developed over our lives. We knew each other very well. We knew how to deal with each other.
After Alzheimer's struck, this is what our life looked like.
It was like we were two new and different people. I guess you could say, we had to get to know each other again.
I thinks its obvious that when you first meet someone it takes time to get to know them. Over a long period of time you get to know and understand them -- better and better.
In this particular case you have to get to know a person and deal with a person that is often mean, and often does things that make you angry.
You really have two choices. The first choice is easy -- walk away. Or, you have a second choice -- to learn how to love and care for someone that does things that normally would make you do what you would do in choice one -- walk away.
You have to choose. You can choose change and understanding. Or, you can try what I call the hamster approach. Run around the hamster wheel faster and faster, and get no where fast.
If you choose the hamster approach you'll most likely end up bitter and angry, or worse -- depressed.
You are the one that must decide.
I finally came to the conclusion that before I could make the leap into this new world, I needed a construct of this new world.
I was coming to an understanding of what I wanted to do and how I was going to do it. In order to organize my ideas I also decided I needed a picture of what this might look like.
Here is a picture of I how I envisioned Alzheimer's World.
My mother is now represented by the red circle. My mother changed. Her brain is sick. She has Alzheimer's disease.
I am represented by the green circle. I learned that I had to change because it was impossible to change my mother. So green represents the new me.
The intersection of the red circle and green circle is yellow. The yellow intersection represents Alzheimer's World.
This is where I wanted to get too. In order to get into the yellow I had to first accept that something had to change -- that something was me.
Next I had to accept that the new behaviors my mother was engaging in were a direct result of her Alzheimer's disease -- her brain was sick. This allowed me to accept her as she (now) was.
Finally, I came to the conclusion that I had to develop an entirely new set of communications skills.
I had to develop communication skills that were designed to deal with Alzheimer's like behaviors. I call this part the developing of a new "mind set".
I had to get to a place where I accepted Alzheimer's like behaviors as the norm. This is one thing that makes Alzheimer's World very different. In Alzheimer's World you expect the patient to do things that are "out of the ordinary". Once you start expecting these behaviors they become a part of the new "normal".
You must come to an understanding that in Alzheimer's World the behaviors you are seeing are the new normal.
I also had to develop a new communication set so that I could talk to and reason with my mother.
My name is Bob DeMarco. I took care of my mom for 8 and a half years, 3,112 days. I know how you feel.
Dotty and I started living our life one day at a time.
I found my mom at the the intersection of our new lives -- Alzheimer's World.
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The goal of the Alzheimer's Reading Room is to Educate and Empower Alzheimer's caregivers, their families, and the entire Alzheimer's community.


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There are many instances on the farm where I find myself stuck in a tedious and necessary but relatively quiet task, a welcome change from the rumble and racket of tractor work. It is during these times of greenhouse seeding or tomato pruning that the well-worth-the-$70 job site boombox gets put to use, especially during the least exciting task of all, driving. Sometimes music will give me that boost of energy and rhythm to plow through those jobs, but for the past year or so, podcasts have been the go-to for those times when my mind needs to hear something other than itself. Yeah, the NPR mainstays of Wait, Wait and This American Life fulfill the entertainment void that seeding broccoli doesn't exactly provide but I really love it when I get to nerd out on Thursday or Friday to the latest Farmer to Farmer podcast hosted by veteran farmer and well respected consultant Chris Blanchard. Chris taps into his vast network of friends and mentors to talk about what is happening in the market farming and sustainable agriculture world which really becomes a conversation about life on a farm and what it takes to make that work in regards to business practices, family life, technology and so much more. The farming line of work doesn't necessarily allow one to traipse around and shoot the bull with the market farmer down the lane or across the country. Our sort is scattered about the land and as much as we'd like to take the time to talk and learn with fellow growers, we don't always have the luxury of time, that's why I so appreciate the work Chris is doing and the podcast universe that provides space for these conversations.
A couple weeks ago, I emailed Chris regarding a question he asked on the show. Well, a simple email signature tipped him off that I had a farm and after a bit of googling the Charm Farm, Chris invited me to be a guest on his show to discuss the process of starting a whole diet CSA as well as integrating livestock and crop production. I was deeply honored but more nervous than I've been in some time, I mean, he has interviewed several of the market farming rock stars. But alas, we talked, it went well and now you can listen in to as well. Here is the link. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the conception of the farm and why I do what I do. Enjoy.


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The federal government regulates the care and use of vertebrate animals to assure their appropriate and humane treatment in research projects. Fisk University must also be certain that laboratory animals used for both research and educational purposes conducted at the University or under its sponsorship are properly cared for, and humanely treated. Working with the NIH, OPRR, Fisk University has established an agreement with Meharry Medical College (MMC) to care for animals involved in research at Fisk. Accordingly, research projects at Fisk involving vertebrate animals will be reviewed by the MMC Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and research applications involving animals will use the MMC Animal Care Assurance Number on proposals. Fisk University investigators who will use animals in research and education must receive appropriate training in animal care and use, and as well, assure that any students and/or associates under their control who are involved in the care and use of animals also are appropriately trained. Copies of the NIH publication "Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals" are available in the Office of Sponsored Programs.
The following procedure for the care and use of animals in research projects has been established with the MMC office of Research Support Services.
- The Fisk investigator wishing to do research involving animals is to identify a "collaborator" at MMC with knowledge in the field of the proposed research. If there is any difficulty in identifying an appropriate collaborator, the MMC Office of Research Support Services (ORSS) will provide assistance.
- The MMC collaborator is to be provided with a copy of the research proposal to review and if necessary, suggest changes in the animal care protocol so that the proposal will receive approval when presented to the MMC-IACUC.
- Amounts must be included in the proposal budget for a subcontract with MMC which will cover the MMC fee for care of the animals as well as an appropriate reimbursement for work of the collaborator. The Meharry collaborator will provide these amounts for inclusion in the budget. If the MMC collaborator is unclear about procedures, he/she should contact the MMC ORSS.
- The MMC collaborator, with the help of the MMC ORSS, will provide an "Agreement to Subcontract" and also a subcontract budget and budget justification on appropriate agency forms. These documents must be included with the full application.
- Once it is agreed that the proposal is ready for presentation to the MMC-IACUC, the collaborator will present the proposal to the Committee (which meets once per month). The IACUC will either approve the proposal or suggest further changes. Once the MMC-IACUC has approved the proposal, then the MMC Animal Welfare Assurance Number may be included on the proposal Face Page along with the date on which the IACUC gave its approval. The Investigator must be certain to allow enough advance time for this entire procedure.
- When a proposal is funded, it will be necessary for the MMC-IACUC to review the animal care protocol on an annual basis.
- The Fisk OSP must be informed whenever a research proposal involves animals, by checking the appropriate box on the "Information Form to Accompany All Proposals". The OSP is willing to assist the investigator in this process and should be kept informed of progress in obtaining the necessary approval.
In view of the lengthy process, it is suggested that the proposal be given to Meharry for review at least two months prior to the due date.
PHS and NSF will allow new grant applications a grace period of 60 days from the application's deadline for the investigator to receive and document IACUC approval. Although not all federal funding agencies allow this grace period, contact with the funding agency will verify one way or the other. If the proposed animal use protocol is not approved by the IACUC, the sponsor must be notified of the action taken or modification required. The application may need to be revised or withdrawn.
When "pending" approval is indicated on the face page of a grant, efforts should be made to submit necessary items to the MMC-IACUC as soon as possible. A grace period is not extended to expedited AIDS proposals or non-competing renewals.
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Since Fisk University does not have approved vertebrate housing for research subjects, animal receipt and care will be handled by Meharry Medical College. Animals ordered will be shipped to the animal care facility at MMC, where proper care and facilities are available. Through the collaboration with a MMC research scientist, facilities for conducting the animal portion of the research will be made available at Meharry.
Training and Instruction Available to Scientists and Other Personnel
When required, training of individuals in appropriate animal research techniques will be provided by MMC, via the collaborative relationship. It may include individual training by professional veterinary staff, printed resources, audiovisual aids or other methodologies. There may be an additional charge for other services, which may be included in the project budget.


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text: While death is certain for all, most of us prefer to ignore the issue entirely. In this message, Alistair Begg considers the tragedy of dying outside of Christ, the mystery of radical change upon a believer's death, and the great victory that Jesus accomplished over sin and death. Rather than being consumed, controlled, and constrained by this life, Christians should eagerly await the return of our Savior who freed us from the sting of death.