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By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, April 26, 2021
A breakthrough psoriasis drug is better at dealing with the itchy and agonizing skin sickness than medicines already on the market, in accordance to outcomes from two medical trials.
There was a "night time and day big difference" in the outcomes from bimekizumab in contrast towards two founded psoriasis medication, secukinumab (Cosentyx) and adalimumab (Humira), reported Dr. Mark Lebwohl, a co-researcher in one of the medical trials.
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"We're now at a issue exactly where we can obvious the huge the greater part of psoriasis people with medications that are quite helpful and quite harmless," he included.
Primarily based on these outcomes, Lebwohl expects the Belgian pharmaceutical enterprise UCB Pharma to go after rapid acceptance of bimekizumab with the U.S. Food items and Drug Administration.
"I would hope it would be on the market this summer season," he reported.
Psoriasis has an effect on a lot more than 8 million people in the United States, in accordance to the Countrywide Psoriasis Foundation.
It's an autoimmune sickness that speeds up skin mobile advancement, producing cells to pile up on the surface of the skin and sort plaques that itch, burn and sting. These plaques can look on any aspect of the system, but are most generally identified on the elbows, knees and scalp.
A pro-inflammatory biochemical identified as interleukin-seventeen (IL-seventeen) has been implicated in the improvement of psoriasis, Lebwohl reported. Secukinumab and adalimumab work by blocking the chemical's most strong sort, identified as IL-17A.
Bimekizumab blocks equally IL-17A and an additional sort of the chemical identified as IL-17F, Lebwohl reported. The injectable drug is administered as soon as a month.
"The biology [of the two types of IL-seventeen] is overlapping — 17A is a lot more strong but 17F is a lot more considerable," Lebwohl reported. "Even however 17A is more robust at producing psoriasis, there is a lot more of 17F. By blocking equally, you get the total influence."
Just after 48 months of cure, about sixty seven{de67ab9575e0f65325df988e3a8731ef61b975ae2223cdff83ba315b2ed86bd4} of bimekizumab people experienced entire clearing of their psoriasis plaques, in contrast with forty six{de67ab9575e0f65325df988e3a8731ef61b975ae2223cdff83ba315b2ed86bd4} of people obtaining secukinumab, in accordance to outcomes of the demo that Lebwohl co-authored. A overall 743 people participated.
The other medical demo, involving 478 people, presented identical outcomes. Just after 16 months, 86{de67ab9575e0f65325df988e3a8731ef61b975ae2223cdff83ba315b2ed86bd4} of people on bimekizumab experienced professional a ninety{de67ab9575e0f65325df988e3a8731ef61b975ae2223cdff83ba315b2ed86bd4} reduction in their psoriasis plaques, almost double the forty seven{de67ab9575e0f65325df988e3a8731ef61b975ae2223cdff83ba315b2ed86bd4} who reached the very same response with adalimumab.
"They block IL-17A, although this blocks equally IL-17A and IL-17F," Lebwohl reported. "That is likely why it truly is so helpful. Blocking that added tiny little bit of IL-seventeen really receives you the included effectiveness."
Bimekizumab also has been proven to successfully deal with psoriatic arthritis, a problem that has an effect on one in three people with psoriasis, Lebwohl reported.
People getting bimekizumab ended up 4 to 10 moments a lot more very likely to have a reduction in their arthritis signs or symptoms than a placebo team, with the response escalating with the size of the dose, in accordance to outcomes published in The Lancet.
Blocking IL-seventeen does result in a bigger threat of yeast infections, and the threat is more robust with bimekizumab than the other two medication, outcomes showed.
"Nature has completed an experiment for us by providing us people who are deficient in IL-seventeen, and they get dreadful yeast infections," Lebwohl reported. "We expected just before the examine is that the only facet influence we might see was yeast infections, and that's what happened."
The moderate to reasonable instances of yeast an infection that happened in the medical trials ended up "effortlessly treated with fluconazole," an oral anti-fungal drug, Lebwohl reported.
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Dr. Michele Inexperienced, a dermatologist with Lenox Hill Clinic in New York Town, reviewed the conclusions.
"This is an remarkable examine exhibiting sizeable outcomes working with an interleukin-seventeen inhibitor to deal with plaque psoriasis," she reported.
Having said that, Inexperienced sounded a notice of warning, urging even more examine of the drug.
"A much larger sample size wants to be utilised considering the fact that in addition to candidiasis, interleukin inhibitors have been associated with increased charges of other opportunistic infections, critical infections and most cancers," Inexperienced reported.
The medical demo outcomes ended up published April 23 in the New England Journal of Medication, and also ended up presented at an on-line conference of the American Academy of Dermatology.
UCB Pharma funded equally trials.
Much more information
The Countrywide Psoriasis Foundation has a lot more about psoriasis.
Resources: Mark Lebwohl, MD, dean for medical therapeutics, Icahn College of Medication at Mount Sinai, New York Town Michele Inexperienced, MD, dermatologist, Lenox Hill Clinic, New York Town New England Journal of Medication, April 23, 2021
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Display Captions in Your Video
Learn how to add captions, ensure ADA compliance, and export your video with captions.
Learn how to add captions, ensure ADA compliance, and export your video with captions.
In this tutorial:
Captions display onscreen text for the audio, sounds, or actions occurring in a video. Captions create videos accessible to a larger audience, including:
The caption type is selected during the video export process.
Note: The TechSmith Smart Player is required for table of contents, closed captions, search, quizzing, and hotspots in a video. To include the TechSmith Smart Player, export the video to Legacy Local File (Windows), Local File (Mac), Screencast, or Knowmia. See Export & Share Your Video.
Complete one of the following options:
Complete one of the following options:
Select Export > Local Drive > File format > MP4 > Caption Style > Burned in captions.
Select Export > Local Drive > File format > MP4 > Caption Style > Under video captions.
Camtasia offers various caption methods:
Manually type the captions as you view your video.
Paste a prepared script into the caption editor and synchronize the script with the audio playback.
Camtasia utilizes the Microsoft Speech-to-Text engine to automatically convert voice recordings in your project into captions.
Note: Speech-to-Text is grayed out if there is no voice recording on your timeline.
Tip: Train Speech-to-Text to improve accuracy
Continue to train Speech-to-Text to recognize your pronunciation and improve the transcription accuracy.
You can import or export captions as SAMI or SRT (SupRip) files. Export captions created in Camtasia to archive, to use in another program, or to share captions across platforms.
Import a Caption File
Select File > Import > Captions and select a SAMI or SRT (SubRip) file. The caption file opens in the caption editor.
Export a Caption File
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute designed to ensure equal access to opportunities and benefits for qualified individuals with disabilities. In many state, government and education institutions, videos must include ADA compliant captions.
Apply these caption tips to make your captions ADA compliant:
Note: If the caption style is not ADA compliant on Windows, the red ADA icon appears below the caption editor. To restore ADA compliance for all captions, click the ADA dropdown and select Make Compliant.
|Edit caption text
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|Select caption on the timeline. Click the font properties icon in the caption editor and adjust desired settings.
|Clear caption text
|Remove all captions from media or timeline
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|Right-click (Windows) or Control+click (Mac) on the caption and select Split Caption.
|Merge adjacent captions
|Right-click (Windows) or Control+click (Mac) on the caption and select Merge with Previous Caption (Windows) or Merge with Next Caption (Mac)
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How to Open Source Code of a Website
The hard part of starting software projects is that you have to do it alone. You don't have all the answers when you start a software project. If you're lucky, you might be able to find code somewhere that does things like send email. But if you want something a little more involved, or if you want to write great reusable code, then it's time to stop searching and learn how to open source your own code.
Now that you have done all the hard work and built a great product, open sourcing can be intimidating. What if you get no contributions? Is code enough on its own? In this post, we will cover everything you need to know about open sourcing a product including: Getting people involved, features, marketing and more.
View Source Code in Chrome
So how do you view the source code of a website? Here are the step-by-step instructions to do so using the Google Chrome browser.
- Open the Google Chrome web browser (if you do not have Google Chrome installed, this is a free download).
- Navigate to the web page you would like to examine.
- Right-click the page and look at the menu that appears. From that menu, click View page source.
- The source code for that page will now appear as a new tab in the browser.https://6af7b1b641b61c72248b05429c547d38.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
- Alternatively, you can also use the keyboard shortcuts of Ctrl+U on a PC to open a window with a site's source code displayed. On a Mac, this shortcut is Command+Option+U.
Google Chrome
To view the source code of a website on a Mac using Chrome, navigate to the page you want and use the keyboard shortcut: Option+Command+U.
You can also right-click on the page and select "View Page Source" from the dropdown menu.
Use Chrome's Developer Tools
In addition to the simple View page source ability that Google Chrome offers, you can also take advantage of their excellent Developer Tools to dig even deeper into a site. These tools will allow you not only to see the HTML, but also the CSS that applies to view elements in that HTML document.https://6af7b1b641b61c72248b05429c547d38.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
To use Chrome's developer tools:https://6af7b1b641b61c72248b05429c547d38.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
- Open Google Chrome.https://6af7b1b641b61c72248b05429c547d38.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
- Navigate to the web page you would like to examine.
- Select the three-dot menu in the upper-right corner of the browser window.
- From the menu, hover over More tools and then choose Developer tools in the menu that appears.
- A window will open that shows the HTML source code on the left of the pane and the related CSS on the right.
- Alternatively, if you right-click an element in a web page and select Inspect from the menu that appears, Chrome's developer tools will pop up and highlight the specific part you chose in the HTML with the corresponding CSS shown to the right. It is super helpful if you want to learn more about a particular piece of a site.
How to view the HTML code of a particular page element?
Instead of viewing the HTML code of a whole page, you can view the code of particular page elements using the INSPECT ELEMENT option available in all popular browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
The process is straightforward. Open the page in a new browser window and then highlight a section of the page using the mouse.
Right-click and then select INSPECT from the dropdown menu.
This will open the developer tools and show you the HTML code associated with the particular element or page section.
Here is a quick demo on how to do this using Google Chrome.
Is Viewing Source Code Legal?
Over the years, we have had many new web designers question whether it is acceptable to view a site's source code and use it for their education and ultimately for the work that they do. While copying a site's code wholesale and passing it off as your own on a website is certainly not acceptable, using that code as a springboard to learn from is actually how many advancements are made in this industry.
As we mentioned at the start of this article, you would be hard-pressed to find a working web professional today who has not learned something by viewing a site's source! Yes, seeing a site's source code is legal. Using that code as a resource to build something similar is also safe. Taking code as-is and passing it off as your work is where you start to encounter problems.
In the end, web professionals learn from each other and often improve upon the work that they see and are inspired by, so do not hesitate to view a site's source code and use it as a learning tool.
More Than Just HTML
One thing to remember is that source files can be very complicated (and the more complex the website you are viewing is, the more complex that site's code is likely to be). In addition to the HTML structure that makes up the page, there will also be CSS (cascading style sheets) that dictate the visual appearance of that site. Additionally, many websites today will include script files included along with the HTML.
There are likely to be multiple script files included; in fact, each one powering different aspects of the site. Frankly, a site's source code can seem overwhelming, especially if you are new to doing this. Don't get frustrated if you can't figure out what's going on with that site immediately. Viewing the HTML source is just the first step in this process. With a little experience, you will begin to understand better how all these pieces fit together to create the website that you see in your browser. As you get more familiar with the code, you will be able to learn more from it, and it will not seem so daunting to you.
Meet people who are interested in similar things
Open source projects with warm, welcoming communities keep people coming back for years. Many people form lifelong friendships through their participation in open source, whether it's running into each other at conferences or late night online chats about burritos.
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Eat Cook L.A.
An intimate culinary portrait of Los Angeles today—a city now recognized among food lovers for its booming, vibrant, international restaurant landscape—with 100 recipes from its restaurants, juice bars, coffee shops, cocktail lounges, food trucks, and hole-in-the-wall gems.
Once considered a culinary wasteland, Los Angeles is now one of the most exciting food cities in the world. Like the multi-faceted, sprawling city itself, the food of Los Angeles is utterly its own, an amalgam of international influence, disposable income, glamour, competition, immigrant vitality, health consciousness, purity, and beach-loving, laid back, hip, unrestrained creativity. With 100 recipes pulled from the city's best restaurants but retooled for the home cook—like Charred Cucumber Gazpacho, Roast Chicken with Spicy Harissa, Vietnamese Coffee Pudding, Blackberry Mint Mojito Ice Cream and Thai Basil Margaritas—EAT. COOK. L.A.; Notes and Recipes from the City of Angels is both a culinary roadmap and a sophisticated insider's look at one of America's most iconic and fascinating cities.
"Food writer Crapanzano (The London Cookbook) is a New Yorker with the culinary heart and soul of an Angeleno. Here she considers the menus of restaurants, coffee and juice bars, and food trucks from across L.A. to present 80 excellent recipes that focus on simplicity, freshness, and bright flavors. . . The City of Angels takes flight in this vibrant survey of its diverse cuisine."
"In EAT. COOK. L.A., Aleksandra Crapanzano deftly explains the real reason we love to eat in L.A. restaurants: they have the best home-style cooking in America. The city's obsession with all things casual and healthy means that its chefs are dishing out seasonal vegetables with romesco, cornmeal pancakes with turmeric butter, and chocolate sesame cake, a wildly exciting sprawl of restaurant dishes you can cook at home. Better still, Aleksandra, through her wide-ranging curiosity and engaging voice, makes you want to race to the kitchen. Her stunning book captures a moment in cooking that we're all going to want to embrace–and preserve!"
—Amanda Hesser, cofounder and CEO of Food52
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—Heidi Swanson, author of Super Natural Cooking
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Board of Directors
Karin Look
Karin LookPresident
Karin Look is a retired national security professional. Following education at Sweet Briar College, Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, and UVA Law School, Karin held positions at the Central Intelligence Agency, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Department of State. During her career, she wrote and negotiated treaties controlling nuclear weapons, led the removal of nuclear and chemical materials from Libya, led consultations with NATO on conventional forces, and led for the State Department renewed U.S. thinking about controlling biological weapons. Since arriving in Maine in 2012, Karin and her husband, George, have immersed themselves in the restoration of their 1813 federal house and barn and created extensive herb and vegetable gardens. They embrace the use of natural methods, emphasize native plants and are ever-conscious of the needs of bees and butterflies. While in Maine they have supported Maine Preservation and local land trusts, team-taught classes at the Belfast Senior College, presented at Pecha Kucha, started a lunch-time discussion group on global issues, and adopted two cats. In addition to her work on the Program Committee, Karin serves on the Town of Montville's Planning Board, and the Mid-Coast Forum on Foreign Relations' Speakers Committee.
Wayne Hobson
Wayne HobsonVice President
Wayne Hobson is a retired academic who moved to Rockland from southern California in 2005 and has been a year-round Maine resident since his full retirement in 2010. He has been active in the Rockland Shakespeare Society and currently serves as its president. He served his entire academic career in the American Studies Department at California State University, Fullerton, which he joined after earning his PhD from Stanford University in American History, with a secondary field in African History. During his thirty-seven years at Cal State Fullerton he taught both undergraduate and graduate-level courses. His research and writing interests shifted over the years. Much of his research and writing was on aspects of the history of American legal culture, with a particular interest in celebrated criminal trials. That interest ultimately evolved into the broader study of public memory. Wayne was very active in the California American Studies Association, serving a term as its president as well as many years as that organization's secretary-treasurer. He also served six years as chair of his academic department, four years as the director of the university's honors program, and one year as the university's director of academic advisement.
Rendle Jones
Rendle JonesTreasurer
Bio to come
James Hengerer
James HengererSecretary
Jim Hengerer grew up in Albany, NY. After medical school, he served in U.S. Navy for nine years while training in Ear, Nose and Throat. He practiced in Lynchburg, VA for 35 years and retired to Rockland four years ago with his wife, Judy. They have spent summers in Maine on Echo Lake for many years. Jim also serves on the United Midcoast Charities Board of Directors and is a member of UMC's Development Committee and Grants Committee.
Don Abbott
Don AbbottDirector
Don Abbott has been coming to Camden in the summers since childhood. He has a degree from Kenyon College in chemistry and earned his MBA from Wharton. He has had a career working with international corporations on the financial side and he and his wife, Penny lived in Brazil, Spain and Mexico over the course of his career. They have two married sons who live on the northwest coast.
Don and Penny moved to Camden full time for retirement. Don served on the town development committee for several years as well as being treasurer on the YMCA board. He is an active fly fisher and served as Chair of the Maine State Trout Unlimited organization. And in the summer there is boating on Penobscot Bay.
Dwight Blue
Dwight BlueEducation Chair
Dwight Blue, a longtime fan of the Conference and the student volunteer coordinator at The Strand, has been teaching English at Oceanside High School in Rockland for 20 years. Originally from Lincoln, NE, he moved to Maine in 2000 after graduating from the University of Nebraska. Prior to that, Dwight spent three years in the U.S. Army, including a one-year deployment to Bosnia in 1996. Dwight resides in Warren with his wife, Maggi, and their son, Atticus.
Bruce Cole
Bruce ColeDevelopment Chair
Bruce J. Cole is President of McNabb Marketing Resources, Inc., a Camden-based communications and marketing company. McNabb organizes technology exhibitions and conferences in North America and Europe and operates in a number of markets, including wind power, energy from biomass and waste, hydrogen and fuel cell technology, commercial maritime, and recreational boating. Bruce is past president of Diversified Communications' publishing and trade show division. He has been the lead communications consultant for the National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) since 1997. Bruce grew up in western Oregon and has B.S. and B.A. degrees from Oregon State University and an M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Minnesota. He has served in leadership positions for the Camden Rotary Club, Rotary International's Youth Exchange Program, and the First Congregational Church of Camden. He is a past president of the Camden Conference.
George A. Cooke
George A. CookeDirector
George Cooke has spent summers in Maine since childhood and, along with his wife Laura, became a permanent resident of Lincolnville in 2019 following his retirement from an active legal practice in the media and entertainment business. After graduation from Dartmouth on an NROTC scholarship, George served on destroyers tracking Russian submarines in the Med and did an in-country tour north of Danang as an advisor to the South Vietnamese coastal patrol force. The GI Bill enabled him to continue his studies at Cambridge University and Harvard Law School. Between stints at Boston and LA law firms, he had the good fortune to work for 20 years at HBO, where he had a front row seat to the burgeoning of pay television and the internet. George continues his involvement with film as a Board member of the Points North Institute, organizer of the Camden International Film Festival.
Wendy A. Laidlaw
Wendy A. LaidlawDirector
Wendy A. Laidlaw, CFP® is involved in many aspects of R.M. Davis, from portfolio management to heading up the Finance Department, from compliance assistance to human resource leadership. Wendy is the firm's Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Her care and commitment toward her clients and their circumstances are genuine and valued. She is a Certified Financial Planner™ and an Investment Advisor Certified Compliance Professional. Wendy is a member of the Management Committee.
Born in Michigan and now residing in Portland, Maine with Mike, her husband, Wendy has two step-sons and eight grandchildren. Wendy enjoys reading, travel, keeping fit, and classical music.
Betsy Mayberry
Betsy MayberrySouthern Maine Chair
- Profession Digital Marketing
- Experience 8 Years
- Email email@example.com
- Phone 567.123.9008
- Company MiExpo Business
- Website www.miexpoconf.com
Nick Mills
Nick MillsMarketing Chair
Nick B. Mills taught journalism at Boston University for 26 years. In the 1980s he trained dozens of Afghan journalists in Peshawar, Pakistan and founded the Afghan Media Resource Center, a full-service news agency. In 2004 and 2005 he worked in Kabul with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and collaborated with Karzai on a book, "KARZAI - The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan."
- Profession Digital Marketing
- Experience 8 Years
- Email email@example.com
- Phone 567.123.9008
- Company MiExpo Business
- Website www.miexpoconf.com
Jane Nyce
Jane NyceCommunity Events Chair
Jane Nyce retired to Cushing, ME in the summer of 2014. She was co-President of the Board in 2015 for Village to Village Network, a national non-profit supporting community programs to keep seniors safe in their homes and connected in their communities. Additionally, she is working with Methodist Conference Home in Knox County, ME to establish a village model program for Knox County. She was the founding Executive Director for Staying Put in New Canaan in Connecticut, one of the early "village" models, now in its ninth year of operation. She came to the program when it was in development in the summer of 2007 for her last internship in a Masters of Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College. Before that, her professional work for over twenty years was in consumer insights and market research. She worked for Kraft Foods, Tropicana and Information Resources, a national research firm for clients such as P&G, Unilever, Quaker, Coca Cola, etc. Her educational background includes an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Smith College and work in the doctoral program in Psychology at Cornell University.
Charlotte Singleton
Charlotte SingletonProgram Chair
Charlotte Singleton has worked as a director of nonprofit organizations at home and abroad for more than 30 years. She has been a member of the Camden Conference Program Committee since 2013. For 11 years, she served as executive director of the World Affairs Council of Oregon, the largest international affairs organization in the Pacific Northwest. She also has served as a board member and president of the National Council of World Affairs Organizations in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Singleton served as Executive Director of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Singleton and her husband, Seth, who teaches international relations at the University of Maine, have lived and worked abroad in many countries, including Ecuador and Vietnam. Seth and Charlotte Singleton live in Mount Desert.
Matthew Storin
Matthew StorinDirector
Matt Storin served as editor of The Boston Globe from 1993 to 2001. Earlier, he was editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, executive editor of the (NY) Daily News, editor of Maine Times and national editor of U.S. News & World Report. His reporting career, which began in his hometown at the Springfield (Mass.) Daily News, included stints in Washington for the Griffin-Larrabee News Bureau and later the Globe, for whom he covered Congress, the White House, and later Asia. Based in Tokyo, he covered the late stages of the wars in Cambodia and Vietnam. After retiring from the Globe, he served as associate vice president for communications at his alma mater, the University of Notre Dame, where he also was concurrent professor of journalism. He retired from Notre Dame in 2014 and lives in Camden.
Advisory Council
Our Advisory Council serves in an advisory capacity to the Board of Directors. We are extremely thankful for their support.
Richard Anderson
David Babski
Ann Beaudry
John Bird
Ann Cole
John Davidson
Thomas M. Deford
John Doughty
Leslie Fillnow
Will Galloway
Charlie Graham
Kathleen Hirsch
Robert G. Hirsch
Peter Imber
David P. Jackson
Elaine Keyes
Jean B. Lenderking
Emily Lusher
James Matlack
Sarah Miller
Merlin Miller
Jane Monhart
Cynthia Reed
John Reed
Sandra Ruch
Seth Singleton
Judy Stein
Susan Thornton
Ward Wickwire
Michael Wygant
Kimberly Scott
Kimberly ScottExecutive Director
Kimberly Scott (Executive Director)
Kim has been with the Conference since 2008, becoming its first Executive Director in 2018. She formerly held positions in legal, non-profit, and consensus building arenas, leading local communities, advocacy groups, and public agencies at all levels of government. She is a member of the Bar in both Maine and Massachusetts, and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Toledo College of Law. When not working, Kim enjoys traveling to the far reaches of the world to trek in Nepal, Peru, and Tanzania, as well as closer to home in the Camden Hills.
Lauren Lewis
Lauren LewisOffice Manager
Lauren Lewis (Office Manager)
Prior to starting with the Camden Conference, Lauren was involved in the local arts community, both in the for profit and non-profit areas. After earning her MS at the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, she worked at the Andrew Wyeth Study Center at the Farnsworth Art Museum until 2014, when she and a partner opened The Kelpie Gallery in South Thomaston. She maintains a painting conservation practice out of her studio at the gallery, and lives in Thomaston with her husband and daughter.
Erin Towns
Erin TownsCCC Outreach Liaison
Erin Town (Classroom Program)
Erin has worked with the Camden Conference in the Classroom Program since 2015. As a high school educator, she uses professional fellowship experiences in Japan, Kazakhstan, China, Germany, Canada and Ethiopia to help students investigate the world, examine cultural perspectives, and apply knowledge to take action on contemporary issues. Erin teaches at Edward Little High School and serves as Vice President of the Maine Council for Social Studies.


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In 2020, Orange Beach, AL had a population of 6.13k people with a median age of 52.3 and a median household income of $81,295. Between 2019 and 2020 the population of Orange Beach, AL grew from 6,019 to 6,130, a 1.84% increase and its median household income declined from $81,883 to $81,295, a −0.718% decrease.
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Orange Beach, AL are White (Non-Hispanic) (97.6%), Asian (Non-Hispanic) (1.16%), Two+ (Non-Hispanic) (0.75%), White (Hispanic) (0.245%), and Other (Non-Hispanic) (0.131%).
None of the households in Orange Beach, AL reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
99.3% of the residents in Orange Beach, AL are U.S. citizens.
The largest universities in Orange Beach, AL are Columbia Southern University (7,517 degrees awarded in 2020).
In 2020, the median property value in Orange Beach, AL was $325,700, and the homeownership rate was 68.2%.
Most people in Orange Beach, AL drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 25.6 minutes. The average car ownership in Orange Beach, AL was 2 cars per household.


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Santa Cat Swedish Dish Cloth Set of 2
This set of two santa kitty dishcloths is a stylish addition to your Christmas kitchen.
Made in Sweden, these eco-friendly, compostable dishcloths absorb 15 times their weight in water and are an eco-friendly alternative to paper towels.
- 6.5 x 8 inches
- Washable in the washing machine or top rack of the dishwasher
- Cellulose / Cotton


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APU baseball takes three out of four games from rival Biola in a weekend series
The Cornerstone Cup always brings out the best in both Azusa Pacific and Biola, and this baseball series was no different. The teams combined for 72 runs in four games and produced two final scores that looked more like football than baseball totals as the Cougars took three out of four games from Biola.
The Cougars took an early lead in game one, scoring in the first inning on a sacrifice fly from Joe Gomez. Gomez brought in another run in the third inning followed by a grand slam from freshman first baseman, Tido Robles. Junior Cole Kleszcz added another two runs on a home run to left field to give the Cougars an 8-0 lead.
APU scored another seven runs in the fourth inning, highlighted by three-run bombs from both Kleszcz and Joe Quire Jr., making the Cougars' lead 15-3. Kleszcz's third home run of the game was followed by Quire's second in the bottom of the sixth inning, widening the gap between the rival teams again.
Redshirt freshman Evan Banks's three-run homer in the seventh continued the onslaught for APU. Robles capped the scoring for the Cougars with a three-run jack in the eighth inning, giving the Cougars a 24-13 win in game one.
"I just tried to do what I could for the team," Robles said. "Hitting is kind of contagious in a way, and I just tried to do my part and do the same as my teammates."
However, game two could not have been more different, as the offense for both teams was stymied until the fifth inning when Biola took a 1-0 lead on Andrew Buglino's sacrifice fly. Griffen Herrera's RBI single in the sixth inning tied the game at 1-1 before Robles hit yet another home run to give the Cougars a 3-1 lead in the seventh inning.
Biola answered with a two-run homer of their own, tying the game at 3-3. The Cougars took game two in the 11th inning when Joseph Kim reached first on an error from the Biola second baseman, who allowed Mychael Goudreau to score from third base.
The third game of the series brought fireworks similar to game one, as Biola jumped out to an 11-0 lead in the first inning.
"I have never really seen anything like that in my time here," said head coach Paul Svagdis. "I talked to the guys, and I thought our energy level in the dugout was excellent being down 11. No one really packed up shop. I talked to the guys after that inning and told them to erase the first inning and go toe-to-toe with them for the rest of the game and see what we can do."
The Cougars battled back over the next four innings, cutting the deficit to just one run in the fifth inning. Biola, however, was not finished at the plate, as they added two runs in the sixth and three in the seventh inning. APU put up four runs to bring the deficit back down to two runs, but the hurdle was just too much to come back from, and Biola took game three 17-15.
Game four was less of an offensive slugfest. The Cougars fell behind by two runs in the first inning, but they gave up just two more over the next two innings before shutting down Biola's offense for the rest of the series finale.
APU scored two runs in the second inning with RBIs from Banks and freshman Will Stroud. They added another two runs in the third on Stroud's single up the middle and two more in the fourth inning on a single from Robles. Kleszcz's single in the fifth inning capped the scoring for APU.
Meanwhile, pitcher Tripp Aversa threw three straight shutout innings for the Cougars in a series where scoreless innings were at a premium, closing out with a 7-4 victory.
"I looked back at game one and saw that they can hit and battle with two strikes," Aversa said. "You just kind of keep that in the back of your mind for when you're going to take the hill against them. You just have to remember, 'Okay, two strikes I've gotta hit my spots and make them miss or get soft contact."
APU improved to 23-10 on the season. They have a week of rest before a home-and-home series against Concordia beginning on Thursday, April 11. The Cougars currently sit at the top of the PacWest Conference with a conference record of 13-3.


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My coffee and I sit at our round table with our unconventional breakfast, looking through cookbooks to plan our week's meals. My own handwritten notes are familiar even though they were written 20 years ago. Books being sacred objects, I was aghast the first time ex-Pat made notes in a cookbook. Over the years, he convinced me to do so, but only in pencil, and as minimally as possible, to convey the changes I'd made.
Those notes from 20 years ago….they transport me back to the Cozy House, to my slope-floored kitchen with its knotty pine cabinets. To the Mother-in-Law's tongue that my co-worker Sandy gave me decades ago, thriving in a pot in the corner. The dogs' and cats' food and water dishes slightly underfoot on the lavender linoleum. The Asian blue patterned containers holding the cooking utensils on the counter next to the little one cup coffee maker. The bottom drawer where the casserole dishes lived, the one that always went cattywampus when I tried to close it. My beloved Norge stove.
We never ate dinner at the kitchen table, only breakfast on weekdays, just as it had been at my parents' house growing up. I tried to get us to do so once and only once. It was disastrous and all three of us wound be miserable.
Doing dishes, by hand as we never had a dishwasher, standing at the sink looking out into the backyard from the white-framed casement the window. My view was beneath the arch of a tree that was slowly growing its way into the house, bending the gutter a little more each year. Ex-Pat and I talked about one day remodeling the kitchen, making it bigger, though it was a good size already. We would have built out the kitchen around the tree, leaving it free to grow as tall and as strong as it wanted.
That view from the window had grown over the decades from a dirt yard with giant wooden spools as tables in various places, to a bower of beauty, with the greenhouse that ex-Pat had built by hand as its centerpiece. Beautifully cold in winter but always warm with memory of summer. Sparkling with promise in spring. Glowing with trailing golden cottonwood leaves in fall. And raging and singing in its glory on the warmest days and nights of summer,
It all lives only in my memory now, as I sit at a different table in a different life, the wind swishing the pine boughs outside the door, the blue sky shy beneath sheer white clouds, the Stellar's Jay keeping silent company, my coffee now grown cold.
Today's gratitudes:
- That I'm alive
- Cats
- Music
- Driving
- Sweatshirts
It feels like my whole life was kindling. An exaggeration, I know, but yesterday, I saw a picture of an old fence, like one that surrounded graves 120 years ago. And I remembered that I had had a piece of fencing like that, something ex-Pat and I found on a trip to Leadville, that had been waiting for years to become an integral piece of art. That became nothing more than kindling.
My giant, ancient, solid, five-inch thick wooden door, resting on iron rods, a much-desired, terribly weathered birthday present that I used as a potting table, now reduced to just those pieces of iron. Nothing more than kindling.
The K Tree, an ornamental pear that we planted when K was born, that was split by a heavy spring snow and yet still survived to bloom each spring, now a charred shadow of its former self. Nothing more than kindling.
When the Texas Baptist Men were sifting through the ashes, one said, "You must have had a lot of combustible stuff in here." I suppose I did. Waist high stacks of pages of ashes marked where my bookshelves were, where K's bookshelves were, all disintegrating at the slightest touch of my finger. Dust in the wind. Nothing more than kindling.
And another fire, in Boulder yesterday, burning trails my feet know well. Mercifully, the winds were not what they were on December 30, so other communities were spared the fate of mine. But it raised the specter of that day. K knew about this fire before I did – she had friends who were evacuated – but didn't want to stress me out by telling me.
I'm maudlin today, despite the warm weather, as we're having troubles with our well at the Retreat and I feel like I've moved into the house in that '80s movie, The Money Pit. I'm sullen and sulky and cannot even take a bath for comfort. I'm feeling like it's all somewhat pointless. Because in the long run, after all, I'm really nothing more than kindling.
Today's gratitudes:
- MKL, today and every day
- Blankets
- Lots of birdsong
- The road to the Final Four
And his name is Pharaoh. Maybe I should say there's a new cat god in town. This is our late son's Maine Coon, who's been living with MKL. Yesterday, we shifted him up to the Retreat. He's settling in well. He's very attached to MKL though, so as much as he likes me, I'm a little nervous about how we'll do when MKL goes back to civilization tomorrow. He's super smart, can open most closed doors, and lives up to his breed's reputation as "the dog of cats". But it sure was nice to have him snuggle in my lap for a couple of hours. It's been too long.
Today's gratitudes:
- A lovely day
- Successfully cooking dinner
- Cats
- Coach K's 100th tournament win
I've driven hundreds and hundreds of miles already this year. My drives have been from The Retreat to MKL or to the ruins of the cozy house. Of course, it's wonderful to have time with MKL, but most of my trips north have involved my sifting or just sitting in the ashes or managing some detail of recovery. In other words, these drives have been taken with a heavy heart.
Yesterday, though, my drive was different. Instead of turning north, I turned south on the highway and headed for New Mexico to meet up with K for one night in a town about midway between us. As soon as I hit the unfamiliar blacktop of I-25 South, I felt free. The sky opened up to a vast blue and I felt tearfully excited that I was going to see my girl.
It was a lovely, easy drive, with Truck most eager to hit illegal speeds. It was warm and sunny and I had Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers as musical accompaniment. I blew kisses to the many herds and singleton antelope I saw along the way, they being my comfort and shamanic power animal, so often appearing in my travels.
While I'm not choosy, particularly when it comes to New Mexico skies, I prefer a few clouds to add some extra drama, but the clarity of the day, with a three-quarter moon resting in the crook between the mesas, made for a liberating trip. I love how, heading south from the Retreat, the Spanish Peaks appear suddenly before me, welcoming and enticing. Across the border, after Raton Pass, a New Mexico snow-capped mountain range peeks out from the west horizon, dipping behind the brown hills and reappearing unexpectedly in a slightly different place a few miles down the road.
Once, years ago, when K was in high school, she was having a rough patch and she said, "I just want to get out of this state." And I said okay. So we got in the truck and drove to Wyoming, thrift shopping, exploring, and stopping at the hoodoos at sunset to clamber around. That change of scene, that change of state, was just what she needed. A day with her in another state was just what I needed right now. I'll share pictures in the coming days.
In the cozy house was a little wooden two drawer filing cabinet. In this little two drawer filing cabinet were words. So many words.
I had files of letters from my Mother and Father. They've been dead for 16 and 17 years, respectively. It was tough losing them within 21 months of each other. The loss from the fire is the only loss that's been anywhere near similar to my heart. And I suppose the loss of my pets before Roscoe and Dusty.
My Father in particular was a prolific writer. He sent me newspaper clippings about my hometown or other stories he thought I'd be interested in, along with a little one or two page note, usually on his Duke University notepaper. I kept them all. And now they're gone.
K has a letter that her grandfather sent to her. I think that may be the only letter left. I don't know how or why I took that one with me when I left, but I'm glad I did. I have some old files in my basement that may have copies of letters he'd written to others, but none to me. My heart tears just a little as I write that, one more tear that will need to heal over time.
My Mother did not write letters to me often, but those she did are gone. However, she, like me, kept journals. I took all of them that I could find with me. That's a blessing. I have a lot of her words, her history, her thoughts, even documentation of some of our nightly phone calls. I haven't been able to see what years are missing yet. I don't want to know, because knowing won't change anything and it will just magnify what's lost instead of what's left. I don't need that right now.
I hadn't thought about the letters and my parents' handwriting until today, when, while leafing through a cookbook that I took with me when I left the cozy house, I found one of my Mother's recipes. She always used little yellow lined notepads. Then I remembered. Another memory of what's been lost.
I've written about losing my journals, my words, those memories. But as a photographer, I've lost thousands of images that were taken in a pre-digital era. And that really hurts. I'm not alone in this. The images that I've shared of the cozy house were sent to me by a professional photographer from town who also lost decades of her beautiful work.
Believe me, I continue to beat myself up with "Why didn't I transfer all those images to a digital platform?" Because it took time and money and resources that I didn't have. "Why didn't I take those photo albums on the top shelf of the bookcase – there were at least 15 – with me?" Because I didn't have space for them yet. "Why didn't I at least take the notebooks of negatives?" Because, and so much of it comes down to this, I thought the cozy house was a safe place. I thought it was invincible. I was wrong.
Perhaps I should have known better.
In 2013, the cozy house was hit by the 100 (or 10 or 1,000 or 10,000) year flood. The root cellar filled with water and the kitchen and two rooms had about four inches of muddy water, but the cozy house stood firm. Some boxes of photos were close to the floor of the cat room at the time. Much later, Ex-Pat brought them to the Bungalow, damaged as they were and I tucked them away to sadly deal with later. I guess today is later.
I brought some up from the basement today. Decades of photos stuck together. So I've spent some time meticulously pulling them apart. The mud has acted like glue in some cases, so if I can get a fingernail inserted into a stack, I can flex them a little, then a little more, and then still a little more, until I can gently separate them. Sometimes I lose a little backing. Sometimes some of the photo tears off. But overall, I'm making some progress.
These are mostly images from my travels, and that's nice but what I was hoping to find are images from K's childhood. There are some – of her and her best friend at the Renaissance Festival, of her time at Calwood – but not what I'm looking for. And none as yet of the house. I've lost my pictures of Scotland from when I was pregnant, and that's a tough one. That was a very happy time. And the picture of K and ex-Pat taken right after she was born. You've never seen any newborn look more like she was saying, "WTH. PUT ME BACK." She wasn't even crying, just glaring at the camera from under her tiny knitted hat that hospital staff put on her little head.
On one bright note, I have one box of albums from my Mother (another was lost to the flames). When K was born, my mother asked me to get duplicates of the pictures I took and send them to her. It gives my heart a flare of hope that I have some of those. Now I just have to find the box in our Indiana Jones movie warehouse of a cellar filled with boxes.
I was born only a few miles from the house I grew up in, the house my parents lived in my whole adult life, the house in which my Father died. As I've said, it's what I truly thought of as home. My Mother sold it about 10 months before she died, about 5 months after my Father died.
I wanted that sense of security for K. I could see the cozy house's lights from the room in hospital where K was born. It was always her home, even after I moved to the Cottage and then to the Bungalow. Even after she went 1,000 miles away to college, and then 500 miles away to start her grown-up life.
I have often talked with her about the concept of home. Now my heart breaks that she has suffered this loss of home as a place, a concept, and a heart, just as I have now done twice. She's too young for this loss.
Several sisters of my heart were raised differently from me, being from military families. They moved often and far. One has wondered why I left so many things I treasured in the cozy house. She was not attached to much and was ready to pick up and move when the family needed to, never leaving anything behind. Another has found herself more attached to things since she had to pick up stakes so often.
My Mother was the child of a somewhat nomadic father, and she loved moving. She loved the new towns, new schools, new people. Her lack of attachment to things, as I discussed yesterday, was also most obvious to me by the fact that she sold her wedding dress. She didn't think about the daughter she might have someday who might want it. She did save a silk chiffon scarf that she wore on her wedding day, that I wore on mine, that is now ashes.
My Father moved, but most of it was for education. Kentucky, Connecticut, New York, Illinois, and finally, North Carolina, where my childhood house was the first and only house he bought. But despite all those moves, he had a family home to go back to in West Virginia, where his Mother was born and lived until she could no longer live alone, which was in her mid-80s. While we never discussed it, I think he had the same concept of home that I did.
Of course, all of this is completely contradictory to the me that I know that wants to travel until the end of my days and beyond. Or is it? Does my wandering soul just need to know that there is a home, a sanctuary to return to? I welcome your comments here. They help deepen my thoughts about this topic that has been a lifelong wonderment.
Something odd is happening. In my reaction to the fire and the loss of things precious to me, I am doing two things: trying to find my lost treasures out there in the universe and wanting to get rid of everything I own.
I talked briefly with K about this and she understands and has had similar feelings. Thinking about lost things takes her down a rabbit hole of emotions. Writing about the memories I have about the house, to keep it alive, makes me cry. When K asked me if it was helpful for me, I said that at least she would have this journal with my memories of the house for her future. And then I said, "Unless it burns up," and she said, "I just thought the same thing."
I don't trust the universe right now. I don't trust that there's not another giant Monty Python introduction foot just waiting poised to fall and crush me again. Dreams reflect this. Dreams where I can't find my hotel or my hotel room. Yes, in my dreams, I'm back to living in hotels, a sign that I don't know where I belong. Dreams about the beach house, which right now feels like the only home I have left, but in dreams, it has changed or moved or the beach has altered, the town has altered, the sea itself has altered, with huge, consuming waves.
I expect to lose all things now. It's how this works. In my traumatized brain, I think that if I eliminate all extraneous things, which translates into almost everything, it won't hurt so much when I lose "it all" again. There may be some validity in this instinctual Konmari impulse, but it's very unlike me. When I feel empty from loss, I have a tendency to become acquisitive. Which is why I'm on the hunt of specific items that I lost in the fire.
I've always been attached to my "stuff", been extremely sentimental, the opposite of my Mother. She was very cognizant of this and guarded against me myself, cleaning out my childhood home and not even offering me too much stuff. She knew I'd take anything and everything, the house included, if I'd been given the opportunity. I'm still a mix of miffed and grateful that she approached it that way.
So now I'm in a bit of a limbo. To acquire or to dispose? I think clarity will come when MKL finally joins me at the Retreat. I trust that then, we will get the things we have organized, decide what we really want to incorporate into what will be our home together, and move forward. Maybe then, I will calm down. Maybe then, I will be able to find peace in emptiness. Maybe then, I will move out of the hotels in my dreams.
How many times have I sat with grief before? I have lost count. But before, it has been grief for people, for relationships, and for the futures that are lost along with them. The number of people that I have lost is severely disproportionate to my years. Unfortunately and mysteriously, K seems to be following a similar pattern in her quarter-century life.
But I've never lost something so tangible and with so many intricacies and layers. Something that was primarily composed of things, and that was a thing itself. I've lost gloves and iPods and earrings. I've broken favorite coffee mugs and Christmas ornaments. I've lost fuzzy pink sweaters and high heeled booties. Reading glasses and birth control pills (!). But this loss and the grief of it is so very different. While, yes, we have lost things (I cannot think of the loss of Roscoe and Dusty right now), we have lost more than that. I am grieving the loss of what my heart felt was a surety, a safe place, a place that would always be there if I needed it. The very definition of home.
Having a place become home takes a long time. For me, it takes a very long time. I was in the Bungalow for ten years. It felt much like home, like the place I yearned for after a long day, but my feelings were more centered around attachment than safety. I'm not sure that makes sense, yet I know it to be so. The cozy house was mine for 30 years. It had earned its place as home.
When I've longed for home, I've longed for the house I grew up in, which my Mother sold before she passed. I know it's not the house itself that I yearn for as much as the feeling of safety and being cared for, of someone making everything better so I didn't have to do or think about hard, sad, bad things. The longing for being a child again. I'm still salty about my mom selling the house, and saltier still about the buyer who cut down all the beautiful old pecan trees in the front and backyards. This loss — my loss — of the cozy house has forced me to confront the feelings of losing my childhood sanctuary. I have now lost yet another sanctuary. Perhaps sanctuaries are temporary. Perhaps they are illusions.
So I hole up in the Retreat, beneath blankets and blue skies. I tell the cozy house's story to the man who comes to plow the driveway. I bake brownies because no Southerner allows a loss to go unmarked by home-baked goods. I sit side by side with my grief, watching it turn and transform in the changing light behind my eyes. My friend, my enemy, my companion.


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Just a reminder, every second Sunday of the month I'm doing a serial with an original illustration from the wonderful Dani English, who also does my book covers.
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Season 37 of The Challenge is here: Spies Lies & Allies, which pairs up some international reality star show stars with American counterparts as pairs try to win their share of $1 million. It's a sequel of sorts to Double Agents, in which everyone paired up … but then could switch as the season went on.
As usual, we'll do some power rankings each week to see who's in the lead … and who could fall short.
In this week's episode: Yep, you guessed it — another pair of rookies went home. But the fallout from that elimination has just changed EVERYTHING about the game.
Kaycee and Emanuel
Man, I fully expected Jeremiah to steal Kaycee after he won the elimination.
But he went with Tori, which wasn't a bad move at all. And that means our No. 1 pairing stay at the top for yet another week, especially after they finished top-three in this week's challenge — in which the competitors had to go under water to fetch wires, grab a key off a yacht and use it to open a suitcase full of puzzle pieces to form a "detonator." There's no stopping these two … until someone steals one of them after an elimination.
Emy and CT
CT continues to own anything involving a puzzle, and Emy did a fantastic job as well. TJ was right to compliment her on throwing herself in last week in order to steal CT, and now Berna — who criticized Emy for the backstabbing move last week, while complaining all season about Amber talking about double-crossing all the time — is gone.
Let's add in the fact that with the veterans' alliance done now that there are no more rookie-rookie pairs, I feel like these two are safe. No one wants to face CT in elimination unless they have to.
Ashley and Ed
I know Ashley was mad that Josh got stolen and that Priscilla ignored her threat — she said anyone who meddled post-elimination so there was no rookie-rookie pairing would be targeted.
But she got Ed! Ed is good! She'll be happy with that eventually.
Things aren't looking too good for [redacted]. #TheChallenge37 pic.twitter.com/Qs8uVppdLf
— The Challenge (@ChallengeMTV) September 30, 2021
Priscilla and Josh
I don't care that Ashley's probably about to turn the whole house against Priscilla. The fact that she made the moves to steal Josh AND make sure there were no more rookie-rookie duos was the best and deserves a bump up in our rankings.
Also, FANTASTIC work in the elimination that involved being tied to Jeremiah, slowly climbing a pole while back to back and cutting the rope that bound them together on a large razor.
Don't mess with my girl Priscilla now! #TheChallenge37 pic.twitter.com/xcJY7ray6B
— The Challenge (@ChallengeMTV) September 30, 2021
Amber and Devin
I moved them down because — prediction! — the first vet this house is about to go after is Amber, which means she and Devin have work to do. Luckily, they're among the best competitors in the house.
Tori and Jeremiah
I'm a little intrigued here — Jeremiah performed well at elimination, Tori knows what she's doing … I might be underrating them here.
Nany and Logan
They're on the fringe of contention and definitely have plenty of friends in the house. A pretty good place to be right now.
Amanda and Kyle
The only thing I'm confident in right now is the fact that they are politically savvy enough to talk their way out of elimination for a while. Otherwise? I'd love to see them win a weekly challenge at some point.
Bettina and Cory W.
Honestly, not sure about these two. I loved seeing Bettina try to convince Amber to throw herself into elimination to go up against Berna, but: I don't think they're among the top contenders yet.
Big T and Nelson
Nelson just lost Berna, and there was some Big T elimination talk earlier in the season. Does that come back to hurt them both?
Berna and Hughie (eliminated)
Two of the more entertaining rookies are out, and while I admire Berna's fire to try and get her out of getting sent down, it was too little and too late. As for Hughie? What fun to watch. Sadly, they're out.
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PATERSON, N.J. (PIX11) -- A neighbor's surveillance camera caught 76-year-old Alexandra Suchinsky on the morning of Nov. 4 doing what she always did – picking up garbage in front of her home on Albion Avenue in Paterson, New Jersey.
The surveillance video captured the moment a box truck moved in reverse, then struck Alexandra Suchinsky in the head as she bent over and rolled right over her.
"I got the phone call. My partner told me that my mom was in an accident," said Alexandra's son, John Suchinsky. "I came back here and I saw that my mom was under a blanket, lying on the street."
John Suchinsky said his mother's death was the result of a problem he and his neighbors have been complaining about for years.
A steady stream of box trucks and tractor-trailers pull up to a food processing plant at the end of the dead-end street, blocking traffic and damaging vehicle along the way. They then reverse their way all the way back to the corner.
"Knowing how things were on this street, I was furious," John Suchinsky said. "On a normal basis, it would be up and down the whole street."
No charges were filed in Alexandra Suchinsky death, which is being classified as a tragic accident.
Paterson Mayor Andre Sayegh said the city is attempting to force the company owners to be better neighbors.
"Making the company more conscientious. That's very important," Sayegh said. "There's poor signage. The company needs to comply with proper signage."
John Suchinsky said he has hired an attorney and is considering a civil lawsuit.


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Most varieties of table grapes are the European species Vitis vinifera. This species originated between the Caspian and Black Seas in Asia Minor. There are records of grape production as far back as 2440 BC. Table grapes differ from wine grapes mainly by the size of the berries. Varieties come in different colours and may contain seeds or be seedless.
Grapevines in the home garden can be grown over a pergola to provide shade or on a post-and-wire trellis. A full sun position is required as shaded vines are more susceptible to disease and tend to produce fewer bunches each season.
Vines can live for over 100 years in good growing conditions but the average productive life is 25–50 years.
Vines are best planted out in August/September while they are still dormant (e.g. just before budburst). Add compost or aged animal manure to all soils prior to planting and if the existing soil is sandy add compost, aged animal manure and clay. This mixture will help retain moisture and provide nutrients for the vine. A light dressing of blood and bone can be applied when the vine starts growing in early spring. Granular NPK fertilisers should not be used on newly planted vines until 6–8 weeks after the first emergence of green shoots, but can be used after this time.
Table grapes vines can be grown from hardwood cuttings taken in late winter from shoots have grown in the previous season. Select a section of cane about 30cm long that has five to seven buds. Cuttings should be 6–12mm in diameter with close internodes. A cut should be made immediately below the bottom bud and 2–5cm above the top bud. Plant the cuttings in moist, well-drained soil. The cuttings should be planted with the top bud clear of the soil and the second bud down (from the top) at ground level. This means that approximtely 1/4 of the cutting is out of the ground and 3/4 is below ground. There is no need to use rooting powders on grapevine cuttings because table grape cuttings take root easily. It is not normally necessary to graft onto a nematode tolerant rootstock, however, if the soil is very sandy it would be beneficial. Some varieties including Red Globe and Crimson Seedless will perform better if they have been grafted.
Potted vines
Trellising and vine training
Vines can be trained over a pergola or a post-and-wire trellis. To begin this process, vines should be trained up a garden stake, bamboo stake or something similar. It is important during the first year to let the vine grow vigorously to achieve the desired height. This will allow the vine to establish a strong root system and framework (e.g. the trunk and arms of the vine). Only one single shoot should be trained throughout the first growing season; select two to three shoots initially, and remove all others. Tie the two to three shoots to the garden stake with string or plastic tape (flagging tape/budding tape). Once one of the shoots reaches 0.5-1.0 m in length, remove the other shoots, leaving the favoured shoot. Remove the lateral shoots that emerge at the base of each leaf. Do not remove the leaves during the growing season, these leaves will supply the vine with the food they require for the next growing season.
If the vines fail to reach the desired height in the first year, the shoot (now redish-brown in colour and called a mature cane) should be cut back in winter, to two to four buds above the beginning of it's growth point. Repeat this training process again in the second year. If the vine establishes well in the first year, it will start producing bunches in the second year. A couple of bunches can be left to ripen if desired. We don't want to overload (stress) the young vine with fruit at this stage of it's life, as this will stunt it's growth for future years.
Watering and fertilising
Watering regimes will vary depending on where you are growing your vines. For the Perth region, regular watering of vines in the home garden is necessary from early November to late March in most seasons. Applying mulch will help retain moisture in the soil during summer months. Mulch can be placed all around and touching the trunk without risk of encouraging disease. Disease risk is minimised if the water can be kept off the foliage.
A mature vine will require about 500g of NPK fertiliser with trace elements each season. This should be applied as a 350g dressing at or near the start of budburst and a 150g dressing four weeks later.
There are two basic methods of pruning table grapes, these are spur pruning and cane pruning. If you are in the Perth region, pruning is best carried out in late August, however pruning can be done anytime after the leaves have turned yellow or the leaves have fallen. In regions where the temperature is not cold enough to induce leaf fall (e.g. the Gascoyne), vines should be pruned mid July.
Spur pruning is used on highly fruitful varieties such as flame seedless, italia, muscat grodo and cardinal. These varieties produce one or two bunches on every shoot every year.
Cane pruning is used on low fruitful varieties such as sultana, dawn seedless, red globe and crimson seedless. These varieties only carry bunches on less than half the shoots that emerge after pruning. If the name of the variety of grape is unknown, the best pruning method is to have a combination of spurs and canes until the fruitfulness of the vine can be determined.
Spur pruning
*Photo of spur pruning*
Highly fruitful varieties that can be spur pruned only have bunches in the first 2-4 buds on each cane. How many spurs that will be left after pruning will depend on whether the vine is on a pergola or a post and wire trellis. If the vine is growing on a pergola, then 20-40 spurs can be left. If the vine is on a post and wire trellis then 16-20 spurs will be sufficient.
These spurs are shortened lengths of the previous season's shoot growth and should be spaced 10–20cm apart on the permanent arms of the vine. Each spur should be two or three buds long which will produce a maximum of two new shoots in the spring.
The most common fault with pruning vines in the home garden is overcrowding of spurs.
Cane pruning
*photo of cane pruning*
Varieties that need to be cane pruned carry bunches on the previous season's growth towards the end of the cane. There are very few bunches to be found in the first four buds along each cane. These varieties require 6 to 12 canes at the end of pruning. Each cane will have 8 to 16 buds, but be no longer than 75cm. These canes are tied onto the wires of the trellis for support.
Shoot and bunch removal in spring
It is good practice to thin excess foliage and fruit between October and December to maintain a healthy vine and prevent overcropping.
Early October
- Remove surplus shoots that do not carry any bunches. The aim is to have a single shoot every 10–20cm along the trellis for cane-pruned vines and two shoots every 10–20cm for spur-pruned vines. Avoid dense clusters of shoots.
Early November
- Remove the leaves between the base of the shoot and the first bunch. This will dramatically improve disease control.
Late December
- Thin the crop to one bunch per shoot. Select bunches that hang below the foliage and that have a loose set with a reasonable distance between berries. Reduce the crop load to between 20 and 40 bunches per vine depending on the size and age of the vine.
The following list of varieties should satisfy the demands of the home gardener.
Late maturing varieties are more likely to be affected by Mediterranean fruit fly, bird damage and powdery mildew.
Harvest period
Berry description
Mid Jan
'Flame Seedless'
Small red seedless
Spur pruned
Late Jan
Medium red seeded
Spur pruned
Early Feb
'Red Globe'
Large red seeded
Cane pruned
Mid Feb
Medium white seeded
Spur pruned
Late Feb
Small white seedless
Cane pruned
Early March
'Muscat Gordo'
Medium white seeded
Spur pruned
Early March
'Crimson Seedless'
Medium red seedless
Cane pruned
Mid March
'Waltham Cross'
Medium white seeded
Spur/cane pruned
Powdery mildew
Powdery mildew is probably the most common disease of grapevines in the home garden. The disease becomes conspicuous as a grey/white powdery growth on all green parts, including leaves, shoots and berries.
The berries may split and the pulp will often dry out. A fortnightly application of wettable sulfur or sulfur dust should be applied from mid September to late December. It is best to apply wettable sulfur early in the growing season and sulfur dust once the fruit has set. Do not apply sulfur on days when the maximum temperature is predicted to be 30°C or higher. Sprays containing bicarbonate of soda can also be used from early in the growing season to contain mildew.
Downy mildew
This was was first detected in WA vineyards in 1998 but may not be a problem for the home gardener. The disease first appears on the upper surface of leaves as small yellow oilspots. The spots may enlarge to cover the leaf. A downy growth appears on the undersides of the oil spots.
As a preventive measure applications of copper oxychloride can be applied.
Bunch mites
Bunch mites are not visible to the naked eye. Adults are less than 0.2mm long and are found on the leaf underside close to the bunches. The mites damage the berry stalks by interrupting the water supply which causes the berries to shrivel and fall off. Do not confuse this with wind-suck which may happen in hot, dry windy weather as the roots withdraw water back from the berries as a method of survival.
Grape leaf blister mite
These mites cause blistering of the leaf on the upper-surface. On the under-surface felt-like patches develop. Although the leaves become unsightly, fruit production is not affected. A spray of lime sulfur applied at bud-swell should give adequate control.
The sandy soils on the coastal plain near Perth are known to contain root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne sp.) which can destroy the root system of the vine as the vines get older. Table grapes grown on a nematode-resistant rootstock will perform much better than vines growing on their own roots but are harder to obtain through garden centres.
Exotic Pests
The Pest and Disease Information Service is on the lookout for exotic vine pests that are currently not believed to be present in WA. These diseases could devastate our agricultural industries. The pests include:
Black vine weevil
Otiorhynchus sulcatusc causes damage at the larval stage to the root system of young vines which can cause wilting and even death. Adults chew small notches in the edges of leaves. This weevil has a very wide host range including strawberries and cut flowers.
Grape phylloxera
Phylloxera, Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, is a very small, yellow insect that feeds on the roots, and sometimes the leaves, of grapevines. It can also move to the soil surface and up into the canopy and the fruit. Feeding by phylloxera can damage a susceptible grapevine's root system to such an extent that the plant may die.
Fruit fly
Natal fruit fly, Ceratitis rosa, and Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni, have females that pierce (sting) the maturing fruit and lay eggs just below the surface. Larvae emerge from the fruit to pupate in the soil.
Bacterial blight
The blight, Xanthomonas ampelina, is a bacterium that overwinters in the vines, emerges in spring and is carried to healthy shoots mainly by rain splash in autumn and winter. It appears as linear reddish-brown streaks extending from the base to the shoot tip; then, more or less lens-shaped cracks and cankers develop, sometimes as deep as the pith. Shoots subsequently wilt, droop and dry up.
Pierce's disease
is caused by the grape strain of the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa. This grapevine disease is spread by sap (xylem) sucking insects. Affected vines tend to be smaller than healthy vines. Sensitive varieties show progressive decline, low yields (up to 80% losses), low fruit quality and a shortened productive life.
Physical damage
Rain and sun
Berry splitting occurs in some varieties if rain occurs between colour change and harvest.
Sunburn is a problem, particularly in December and January. 'Red Globe' and 'Muscat Gordo' are particularly sensitive.
Can quickly cause considerable damage to young vines. Webbing and excreta may be seen on bunches together with chewed leaf margins. Products containing Bacillus thuringiensis, a naturally occurring bacteria, are organic and target only caterpillars but need to be reapplied every 5-7 days or after rain. Chemical sprays containing spinosad also control caterpillars and have translaminar movement, which means the chemical moves into the leaf, making the active resistant to rain and sunlight once the spray has dried.
These nocturnal pests chew leaves and flower buds. Banding the trunk of the vine with petroleum gel or grease will prevent weevils crawling up to the leaves.
Grapes contain sugars which make them attractive to birds such as silvereyes and rainbow lorikeets. There are no poisons registered for bird control and poisoning native birds is illegal. A wide range of netting is available.
Fruit fly
Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) is a serious horticultural pest in Western Australia. It stings grape berries to lay eggs and the fruit is then inedible.
Baiting and lure-and-kill traps will reduce numbers but netting or bagging of fruit may also be necessary.
For further information on controls read web article Mediterranean fruit fly.