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Mathematicians are always looking for efficient methods for solving problems. How efficient can you be?
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Some 4 digit numbers can be written as the product of a 3 digit
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only once. The number 4396 can be written as just such a product.
Can. . . .
What is the smallest number with exactly 14 divisors?
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Sissa cleverly asked the King for a reward that sounded quite modest but turned out to be rather large...
Ben passed a third of his counters to Jack, Jack passed a quarter
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Liam's house has a staircase with 12 steps. He can go down the steps one at a time or two at time. In how many different ways can Liam go down the 12 steps?
What is the largest number which, when divided into 1905, 2587,
3951, 7020 and 8725 in turn, leaves the same remainder each time?
The clues for this Sudoku are the product of the numbers in adjacent squares.
Powers of numbers behave in surprising ways. Take a look at some of these and try to explain why they are true.
A game for 2 or more people, based on the traditional card game
Rummy. Players aim to make two `tricks', where each trick has to
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and. . . .
How many solutions can you find to this sum? Each of the different letters stands for a different number.
Can you arrange these numbers into 7 subsets, each of three
numbers, so that when the numbers in each are added together, they
make seven consecutive numbers?
Think of two whole numbers under 10. Take one of them and add 1. Multiply by 5. Add 1 again. Double your answer. Subract 1. Add your second number. Add 2. Double again. Subtract 8. Halve this number. . . .
Can you find six numbers to go in the Daisy from which you can make all the numbers from 1 to a number bigger than 25?
Find a cuboid (with edges of integer values) that has a surface
area of exactly 100 square units. Is there more than one? Can you
find them all?
Five children went into the sweet shop after school. There were
choco bars, chews, mini eggs and lollypops, all costing under 50p.
Suggest a way in which Nathan could spend all his money.
Can you find an efficient method to work out how many handshakes
there would be if hundreds of people met?
A car's milometer reads 4631 miles and the trip meter has 173.3 on
it. How many more miles must the car travel before the two numbers
contain the same digits in the same order?
Is it always possible to combine two paints made up in the ratios
1:x and 1:y and turn them into paint made up in the ratio a:b ? Can
you find an efficent way of doing this?
The number 2.525252525252.... can be written as a fraction. What is
the sum of the denominator and numerator?
Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie chooses three of them that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?
A country has decided to have just two different coins, 3z and 5z
coins. Which totals can be made? Is there a largest total that
cannot be made? How do you know?
A decorator can buy pink paint from two manufacturers. What is the
least number he would need of each type in order to produce
different shades of pink.
What is the greatest volume you can get for a rectangular (cuboid)
parcel if the maximum combined length and girth are 2 metres?
Triangle ABC is isosceles while triangle DEF is equilateral. Find
one angle in terms of the other two.
On the graph there are 28 marked points. These points all mark the
vertices (corners) of eight hidden squares. Can you find the eight
hidden squares?
If: A + C = A; F x D = F; B - G = G; A + H = E; B / H = G; E - G =
F and A-H represent the numbers from 0 to 7 Find the values of A,
B, C, D, E, F and H.
Here are four tiles. They can be arranged in a 2 by 2 square so that this large square has a green edge. If the tiles are moved around, we can make a 2 by 2 square with a blue edge... Now try to. . . .
Four bags contain a large number of 1s, 3s, 5s and 7s. Pick any ten
numbers from the bags above so that their total is 37.
What does this number mean ? Which order of 1, 2, 3 and 4 makes the
highest value ? Which makes the lowest ?
Each of the following shapes is made from arcs of a circle of
radius r. What is the perimeter of a shape with 3, 4, 5 and n
There are four children in a family, two girls, Kate and Sally, and
two boys, Tom and Ben. How old are the children?
A 2 by 3 rectangle contains 8 squares and a 3 by 4 rectangle
contains 20 squares. What size rectangle(s) contain(s) exactly 100
squares? Can you find them all?
Start with two numbers. This is the start of a sequence. The next
number is the average of the last two numbers. Continue the
sequence. What will happen if you carry on for ever?
Use the differences to find the solution to this Sudoku.
Square numbers can be represented as the sum of consecutive odd
numbers. What is the sum of 1 + 3 + ..... + 149 + 151 + 153?
Two motorboats travelling up and down a lake at constant speeds
leave opposite ends A and B at the same instant, passing each
other, for the first time 600 metres from A, and on their return,
400. . . .
Different combinations of the weights available allow you to make different totals. Which totals can you make?
What size square corners should be cut from a square piece of paper to make a box with the largest possible volume?
Imagine a large cube made from small red cubes being dropped into a
pot of yellow paint. How many of the small cubes will have yellow
paint on their faces?
A 2-Digit number is squared. When this 2-digit number is reversed
and squared, the difference between the squares is also a square.
What is the 2-digit number?
The diagram illustrates the formula: 1 + 3 + 5 + ... + (2n - 1) = n² Use the diagram to show that any odd number is the difference of two squares.
Chris and Jo put two red and four blue ribbons in a box. They each
pick a ribbon from the box without looking. Jo wins if the two
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NOTICE OF MEETING THE HEALTH AND EDUCATIONALFACILITIES BOARD OF WILSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE (the Corporation) will meet in public session at 4:00 p.m., local time, on Monday, December 1, 2014, at the Office of the Joint Economic Development Board of Wilson County, 115 North Castle Heights Avenue, Suite 102,Lebanon, Tennessee, 37087 for the purpose of considering and transacting all business which may properly come before the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the Board), such business to include, but not necessarily be limited to, authorizing all documents and matters necessary or desirable in connection with a tax-exempt loan and the issuance of a not to exceed $5,905,000 Multifamily Note for Greentree Pointe TN, L.P., a Tennessee limited partnership, in order to finance the acquisition and rehabilitation of an existing approximately 130 unit multifamily housing facility located at or near 1640 West Main Street, Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee. For further information, contact Robert Rochelle, Esq., Rochelle, McCullough, & Aulds, PLLC, 109 North Castle Heights Avenue, Lebanon, Tennessee 37087-2738, phone (615) 444-1433.
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SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE Sale at public auction will be on August 26, 2014 at 12:00PM local time, at the front door, Wilson County Courthouse, 228 East Main Street, Lebanon, Tennessee, pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by Michael Wardlow, a married man, to Robert M. Wilson Jr., Trustee, on December 11, 2006 at Book 1221, Page 2452; all of record in the Wilson County Register's Office. Party entitled to enforce security interest: The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the certificateholders of the CWABS, Inc., ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-25, its successors and assigns The following real estate located in Wilson County, Tennessee, will be sold to the highest call bidder subject to all unpaid taxes, prior liens and encumbrances of record: Parcel 080-041.05 A certain tract or parcel of land in Wilson County, in the State of Tennessee, described as follows: BEGINNING at an iron pin, said iron pin being on the northerly right-of-way (25' from center-line of) Eddins Road and being 2850.01' as measured westwardly along the northerly right of way of Franklin Road and said Eddins Road from the southwest corner of the Robert E. Brown property of record in Deed Book 165, Page 42, R.O.W.C., Tennessee, and also being the southeast corner of this tract; thence with the northerly right-of-way of the aforesaid Eddins Road N 83 deg. 32' 44" W 195.37' to an iron pin, said iron pin being the southwest corner of this tract; thence leaving the northerly right-of-way of the aforesaid Eddins Road and severing the B.F. Johnson property N 7 deg. 26' 01" E 958.36' to an iron pin; thence N 1 deg. 16' 56" E 245.00' to an iron pin, said iron pin being the northwest corner of this tract; thence S 86 deg. 27' 48" E 210.00' to an iron pin, said iron pin being the northeast corner of this tract; thence S 6 deg. 51' 47" W 1212.95' (erroneously shown as 121.95') to the point of beginning. BEING the same property conveyed to Michael Wardlow and wife, Lavena Wardlow by Warranty Deed from Mel Martinez, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, of Washington, D.C., dated June 11, 2003 and recorded July 1, 2003, of record in Book 989, page 1380, Register's Office for Wilson County, Tennessee. Subject to all covenants, easements, restrictions, reservations, conditions and rights appearing of record against the above described property; also subject to any state of facts which an accurate survey of said property would show. PROPERTY ADDRESS (for information only): 531 Eddins Road, Lebanon, TN 37087 Map & Parcel: 080-041.05 Street Address: 531 Eddins Road, Lebanon, Tennessee 37090 Parcel Number: 080-041.05 Current Owner(s) of Property: Michael Edmund Wardlow a/k/a Michael Wardlow Other interested parties: Cavalry SPV I, LLC, as assignee of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. The street address of the above described property is believed to be 531 Eddins Road, Lebanon, Tennessee 37090, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property sold herein and in the event of any discrepancy, the legal description referenced herein shall control. SALE IS SUBJECT TO TENANT(S) RIGHTS IN POSSESSION. All right of equity of redemption, statutory and otherwise, and homestead are expressly waived in said Deed of Trust, and the title is believed to be good, but the undersigned will sell and convey only as Substitute Trustee. If you purchase a property at the foreclosure sale, the entire purchase price is due and payable at the conclusion of the auction in the form of a certified/bank check made payable to or endorsed to Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP. No personal checks will be accepted. To this end, you must bring sufficient funds to outbid the lender and any other bidders. Insufficient funds will not be accepted. Amounts received in excess of the winning bid will be refunded to the successful purchaser at the time the foreclosure deed is delivered. This property is being sold with the express reservation that the sale is subject to confirmation by the lender or trustee. This sale may be rescinded at any time. Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP Substitute Trustee Law Office of Shapiro & Kirsch, LLP 555 Perkins Road Extended, Second Floor Memphis, TN 38117 Phone (901)767-5566 Fax (901)761-5690 www.kirschattorneys.com File No. 14-058277
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Project Workers – Dawes Unit
- Bristol
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Registered Manager (1277)
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- £60k per annum + car + benefits
Foster Care Associates are recruiting for a Registered Manager to lead the team in the North West, the office base is in Warrington. This is a full time, per...
Training Support Assistant - Social Enterprise
- Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
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Are you experienced in working with young people with special educational needs? Are you qualified at level 2 or above in English, Maths and ICT? If so, our ...
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Governor Deval Patrick and legislative leaders announced that the Commonwealth has saved $190 million in transportation-related costs as a direct result of sweeping transportation reform signed into law one month ago.
Due to five risky financial transactions – so-called "swaptions" – entered into by the Turnpike Authority in 2001, the Authority was at direct risk of having to pay the financial institution UBS $257 million dollars immediately. The passage of transportation reform improved the Authority's bond rating to the point of negating the need to pay $190 million of that amount.
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Following the signals of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia, which lowered the interest rate on the treasury bills, Komercijalna Banka AD Skopje decided for the third time this year to lower the loan and deposit interest rates, as follows:
As from 01.05.2010 the Bank shall lower interest rates on the balance on current accounts for 0.2 percentage points, on the denar demand savings deposits for 0.3 percentage points, on the time deposits from 0.7 to 1.2 percentage points, on the FX demand savings deposits in EUR for 0.2 percentage points and on the FX time savings deposits in EUR from 0.1 to 0.3 percentage points. The interest rates on time deposits of legal entities shall be lowered accordingly.
Banks would be more stimulated to decrease the interest rates on loans if the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia decreased the rate of the mandatory reserve.
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Victor, our guide, was a wonderful young man with so much knowledge of Budapest. After taking some time to train our group on the segways, we were off to a fabulous 2-hour tour of the city. I would highly recommend this tour and DEFINITELY would say to request Victor.
Sadly it was not ideal weather for touring a city - started wet and became extremely wet! However this did not deter our lovely guide, Brigit. She had waterproofs ready for us on our arrival - only those very fetching transparent plastic bags with appropriate holes in, but the thought was there and we stupidly had brought no suitable attire ourselves!! Despite all, Brigit came across as a shining example of a very thorough, friendly, warm and knowledgeable guide - a veritable credit to the outfit. There was only the 2 of us and she let US decide exactly where we would like to go. The bad weather did not overshadow in any way the excellent service provided and I would recommend them just as highly as I would recommend a visit to this beautiful city.
excellent tour well presented with a great guide . tour started with a safety / training session , so all felt safe .
We had Viktor for a guide and it was fantastic, fun, easy to learn and the best way to see Budapest. We did the 3 hour Segway tour. We did have two incidents during the tour where my wife got thrown off her Segway due to someone walking in front of another person in the group, she hit back end of our friends machine. She hurt her knee really bad but after quick help from Viktor and a coworker she was able to continue. SO keep Lots of distance between you. Our friend was flung off but managed to hold on and spin around when she got to close to a curb and hit it. Keep clear of those !! Overall though it was the best thing we did on the visit to Budapest...
This is a great way to see the city. The tour guide was very knowledgeable and personable, the Segway itself appeared relatively new, and we did not feel rushed. I very much recommend this tour.
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I always book my excursions through Viator when seeing a city for the first time, and they usually have a Segway Tour offering. The Segway is the best way to see the city and it is best to book this type tour for your first day. After a Segway tour, you'll know your way around the area and know where you want to spend more time. I took the 3-hour tour with a wonderful guide and this was perfect. Our guide asked our interests and mine was the history of the area, and she was a book of knowledge. You will stop many times during the tour to hear wonderful stories, history, and its significance which make the place come alive. I have found that Viator always books through very repeatable tour companies and this was no exception. Ours was through Yellow Zebra Segways and Bikes and they have years of experience.
Excellent tour! very fun, basically a personal tour as we were the only 2 people that booked it. Worth the money as you get a full tour without tiring yourself out as much and the guide was funny and helpful, picking a tour to suit us.
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This was our first Segway experience and after 10 minutes training we were on our way
Luckily there were only 2 of us on the tour so we had Peter our guide all to ourselves
Peter was very knowledgeable and made the tour very interesting and a lot of fun
10 out of 10 for the experience and our excellent guide
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Our tour ended up being only the three of us girls travelling together like a private tour. The segway was easy enough to get used to and Budapest is pretty flat except for a few bumpy roads and curbs. Our guide was really nice and very knowledgeable. She showed us heaps of stuff, and asked us if there was anything we wanted to see so she could tailor the tour to us. At the end of the tour she sat down with a city map and showed us heaps of stuff including a good place to have lunch.
This is the BEST way to see to see an old world capitol! The nature of the tour assures a reasonable size group (~12 - 16) so that everyone can see and hear the entire presentation. The Yellow Zebra Tour was expert in bringing up absolute novices to competent Segway operators in ~5 minutes; they were totally safety conscious with new equipment and expertise on operation; the guides were superior in knowledge and ability. We cannot recommend the experience more highly.
Took a segway afternoon tour with Yellow Zebra recently, and was really impressed. The office was easily found and we were received by a friendly staff. After an initial practice session, we were off on a 2-hour spin around the city with our guide, Brigid. She is a superb ambassador for her city, and gave us plenty of insider information and funny anecdotes. There was no-one else on our tour, so Brigid tailored the afternoon to suit our interests. This is an amazing experience and a lot of fun. We had never used segways before but they were really easy to use. Highly recommend this for everyone. Enjoy!! Thanks Brigid, amazing!
This was great. It was not our first Segway tour so we were familiar with the equipment. This is a wonderful way to see a city and we highly recommend it to adults of all ages and youth that are old enough. Our guide was FANTASTIC and gave us not only historical facts, but also her educated insight. She was also able to give her perspective into life in Budapest. The city is not one of the most beautiful in Europe (that is NOT to say that it is not beautiful), but the people are very proud of their city and country and that comes across in a very pleasant unmistakable way. There are many national treasures in Budapest and I am sure that over time this city will regain it's once prominent place. They have come a long way since they became a free nation. I strongly recommend visiting this city and feeling the strong love its inhabitants have for their city and country. It is nice to see, especially in the youth.
Brilliant! a great way to introduce your self to Budapest. Segway's are such fun and easy to get the hang of.
What an experience! We took the premium tour, so in adition to the most interesting sites of Pest we also went to Hero square and did a tour in the park. Segway was not only fun, but also a perfect way to enjoy the very interesting explanations and historic tales of our perfect guide Thomas
It was a wonderful experience, we have been able to see some more of Budapest bu expecially to enjoy first city light getting on at dusk. Our guide Lazlo was an excellent companion, very kind and professional


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Thanks, I had a hard time finding any. My home brew store does not carry it. I had to find it on a wine website. It was giving directions on the website for wine and said to use with Meta-Bisulphite. I'm guessing that is for wine preserving and not needed for cider.
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9 oz molasses
Pot. Sorbate 4 1/2 CUPS of Brown sugar...NOT POUNDS
just follow the OP directions..10 days in primary...add your K-meta and let sit another 10 days. Then bottle. you don't necessarily need the brown sugar...it is plenty sweet without it. I just did a new batch of this. was at 11 days yesterday, when I racked it off the lee's and added my bisulphite...and my OG was at 1.010..and it was very good. I may just add some cinnamon extract to spice it up just a bit and call it good.
the Salfale so4 is a great yeast for this one....if you want it it drier then backsweeten using sweet mead yeast or other.
Just started up a 5 gallon batch of this last night. Only change is I threw in a cinnamon stick to the juice we heated on the stove and then dropped it in the fermenter with the honey/juice/molasses mixture. It was fermenting steadily within a couple hours. Here is what we used:
-24 oz honey (We measured out 20oz which would be the correct amount according to recipe, but there was just a little bit left in the container so we just used all of it)
-7.5 oz molasses
-1 cinnamon stick
-5 gallons Always Save brand Apple Juice (3 qt jugs were on sale for $1.50 each)
-1 packet salfale s-04
-5 tsp. potassium-sorbate
-7.5 to 8 cups brown sugar and apple juice mixture for back sweetening
I plan on siphoning onto the p-sorbate in a couple weeks, then back sweetening a week later. Then moving it to the keg a week or so after that. I've only got a single tap keg and its in use, so it'll have some conditioning time before I'm able to fully hook it up and start drinking it.
I've got 2 thoughts:
1. I've got lots of juice left (bought 10 gallons, planning on making this and edworts, but then realized I didn't have enough carboy space!) so I was thinking about back sweetening with a juice and brown sugar mix instead of water. Anyone see a problem there?
2. When I let this condition in the keg should I go ahead and apply co2 and let it carb, or should I leave it still until right before I'm ready to start drinking? Or is there any difference?
3. What psi do you keg it at?
can I bottle carbonate this? what is the recommended level of carbonation for cider?
if I carbonate in bottles I assume I should add some yeast before bottling? am I right?
Planed: Looking for a good Cider recipe
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Secondary: Empty
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Keged: No kegging system yet... someday
This stuff is awesome. Wish I had brewed 4-5 gallons. SWMBO wants more!
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Free agency quarterback Charlie Batch told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that he's not ready to retire just yet. "I'm not closing the door," the former Steel Valley High star said. "I'm open to whatever is out there for me." Batch says he wouldn't working in an NFL front office. "I'd definitely be open to (Steelers GM) Kevin Colbert teaching me his job," Batch said. After drafting Landry Jones last month, I can't imagine the Steelers bringing back Batch who's currently 38 years-old. It might time for him to pursue his a new career. Need NFL Tickets? The post Charlie Batch not ready to retire just yet appeared first on Pro Football Zone.
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Happy Throwback Thursday! In celebration, photographer Benny Doutsh offers some truly inspiring photography gathered in the midst of his world travels for this week's Vintage DB. These photos originally appeared in DB 11, Winter 2010.
Benny Doutsh was born in Israel and currently lives in Tel Aviv. Recently he spent time in the Himalayas, documenting the journey of Indian motorcyclists as they crossed some of the world's highest mountains. He currently works as a photographer for YNet News, the English language website for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's most-read newspaper, and FullGaz, a motor sports news website. Check out what's up next for Benny on facebook.
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Besides reading the predictably, addictively, and incessantly superfluous—email, social media, the BBC news website—I somehow find myself today, as if trying anxiously to make up for lost time, flipping among five books.
When in New York last spring I caught Caryl Churchill's new play, Love and Information, and now I'm enjoying how stage manifests on page stunningly: 57 playlets (each only seconds long) that can be, within certain parameters, randomized for each performance, sans tags for or descriptions about who is speaking and where—the whole investigating how networked culture has turned each of us into data torrents.
For mindbreaks, it's Sam Lipsyte's collection The Fun Parts. Turns out Lipsyte was raised in Closter, New Jersey, which lies 7.8 miles from where I was raised, and so one of the joys of his prose for me is swimming among the voices and venues in which I grew up. Everybody talks about how funny Lipsyte's fictions about urban/suburban lost boys and girls are, but in the end those fictions are about just the opposite: the abrupt erosion of searing humor into breakage and loss.
David Shields recently sent me a mockup of his next nonfiction, War is Beautiful, due out late in 2015. It announces itself as a large, thin coffee-table book with luscious layout, but immediately dissolves into a cloud of irony created by the discrepancy between found quotes about war and journalism and the gorgeously rendered nightmare images from the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Like Love and Information, it's all collage, 24/7.
The last two things I'm reading feed my novel-in-progress, a retelling of the Minotaur myth, whose guiding metaphor is the labyrinth. And so: the chapter in musicologist Veit Erlmann's Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality about muscial labyrinths and German physicist and physician Hermann von Helmholtz's monograph on resonance theory, which subverts Descartes' mind/body duality by asking us to think about how we hear music, thereby complicating inside/outside and suggesting the former is always-already the latter, the latter always-already the former.
Part of my Minotaur novel-in-progress takes the form of erasures of earlier texts (by Ovid, Borges, et al.) concerning labyrinths. And so: Jen Bervin's Nets, her amazing (a word, naturally, that holds within itself maze, a form that complicates the unicursal structure of the labyrinth) erasures of Shakespeare's sonnets. In each case, the gray ghost of the original haunts the bold black residue, reminding us by suggestive indirection that every body, physical or linguistic, is a haunted house.
card designed by Amy Berkowitz for Job Fair, an upcoming
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So, you're in pain. Every time you sit down to write, you get a crick in your neck, a pinch in your shoulder, an ache in your forearm, your fingers go numb. Maybe it started at work, but now it's infecting your free time, your time, your art. You know it's not good. Maybe you've tried wearing a wrist brace. Maybe you told your boss. Maybe it got so bad you had to quit your job and your nice boss talked you out of applying for workman's comp because it would raise the price of insurance for that nice non-profit arts organization you work for. Maybe you went to the doctor, but they told you there wasn't anything you could do except stop; stop writing, stop playing music, stop drawing, stop filling out that excel sheet for work so you can pay your rent so you can afford to live in this city that wants so badly to price you out to make way for more folks who's bodies will be exploited and ravaged by their computers and personal electronic devices. It's not good, but it's not the end. Let's talk about it.
For this post, I've asked the help of my dear friend and colleague, Amy Berkowitz. Amy is the author of the book, Listen to Her Heart (Spooky Girlfriend Press, 2012), editor of Mondo Bummer, host of Amy's Kitchen Organic reading series, and gets her necessary cash working as a freelance writer. Amy and I have had many conversations about chronic pain over the years, since we both deal with it ourselves, so we decided to co-interview each other about our experiences as poets who's writing is often mitigated but also inspired by pain, and the division of what physical capacity we have between our work as paid laborers and our work as artists. In fact, we cannot have a conversation about pain and writing without talking about work. Here we are having a real-live conversation on my couch in Oakland that we later shared the task of transcribing for reasons that will become obvious very soon:
Lindsey Boldt: I just heard Amy Berkowitz's shoulder pop!
Amy Berkowitz: Yeah.
L: Does your body make a lot of noise?
A: That shoulder pops loudly in a way that startles people, but other than that I think it cracks a normal amount.
L: My shoulder is a bit loud too.
A: Do you want to get it on tape?
L: I don't think it's quite as loud as yours. I can hear it but it's more of a grinding, of gristle…my acupuncturist actually used the word "gristle" last week.
A: That's disgusting.
L: Yeah, it was kind of upsetting. She's great otherwise!
L: So, Amy, when did you start having pain?
A: I was doing some market research work that required a lot of data entry with precise mouse clicking and using the number key pad and it resulted in pretty bad shoulder pain and pre-carpal tunnel: muscle spasms in my shoulder and some amount of numbness in my wrist. And then, long story short, I experienced a trauma, and the morning after that, I had pain all over my body, and that was eventually diagnosed as fibromyalgia. I'm still living with that chronic pain and I also have to be aware of avoiding repetitive motion like I was doing in that job because that would aggravate the pain more.
L: Does that affect the kind of labor you can do?
A: Definitely. There have been a few jobs that I wasn't able to do because of pain. I was going to work at Whole Foods a few years ago but had to quit to avoid a repetitive stress injury from bagging groceries. I also had to leave another job where I was doing data entry. Anyway, I am currently a freelance writer and it's a little frustrating that my work-work uses the same part of my body as my art-work (and I know you have the same situation yourself), but I have been able to make it work. I'm using the word "work" a lot. It helps that I have some amount of flexibility as a freelance writer and some freedom to work remotely in settings where I have more control of the ergonomic setup of my desk. It also helps that I've gained a lot of knowledge about how to sit at my computer in a minimally damaging way.
L: You were saying earlier that when you're working from home you feel more comfortable taking breaks and getting up to walk around.
A: Yeah, it seems more natural. At an office, even at an office where people are encouraged to live healthily, I feel like I'm being distracting if I get up and walk through rows of desks every 25 minutes as my physical therapist suggested.
L: Let alone do stretches.
A: Yeah, I've never seen anybody stretch at their desks.
[Here's an excerpt from Amy's book, Tender Points, which is forthcoming from Timeless Infinite Light:
It's 2010 and my boyfriend's bed is like a Reese's peanut butter cup. Brown comforter and pillow and tan sheets the exact color of peanut butter. He makes me omelets with expensive ingredients and buys me a record player for my birthday. This, I think, is care.
I'm having a hard time finding a job because I just moved to the city and because my disability substantially narrows my options. Avoid repetitive motions. That's kind of the definition of a job, repetitive motions.
The temp agency called it administrative slash data entry, but it turns out to be pure data entry. I'm entering data from massive binders of handwritten medical records into a series of online forms. The data is so thick with abbreviations that I have no idea what any of it means.
It's a terrible office, with low, square-tiled ceilings; everything beige and dusty. I sit in a cubicle on a mostly deserted floor. I scavenge the empty cubes for thick reference books and a cardboard box so I can make a monitor riser and a footrest and approximate an ergonomic setup.
Despite these interventions, I can't physically tolerate the work. By my fourth week, my wrist feels tight and numb as it hovers above the ten-key. I try wearing a brace, but it doesn't help. I tell my supervisor, and within the hour, I get a call from the temp agency informing me that the assignment is over.
That night, I am a fucking mess. I'm angry at my body, I'm angry at the temp agency, I'm angry at the man I blame for this pain. And I'm overwhelmed thinking: how the fuck I'm ever going to support myself.
And my boyfriend says: "Well, don't wallow in it. That's not going to help. Just pick yourself up and get back out there."
These are the words of a little league coach but I am not a little league team. I am a grown person with a disability.
After that, his bed doesn't look like a giant piece of chocolate anymore. It looks like a bed.
L: You were saying that you've been able to strike a balance between your work life and your artistic life and have been able to have enough energy, but also lack of pain after work, to go home and be able to work on your own writing.
A: I can say that if I've been sitting all day at work with hunched over shoulders, for whatever reason, and having to use the mouse a lot to click into small fields I'm not going to go home and have the ability to open up my computer again and write a poem. I think it is possible if you're really careful with how you use your body when you're doing paid labor to feel energetic and ready to work when you get home.
Have you read about the "Spoon Theory"? Well, I'm very critical of it, but I think it's useful. It was created by somebody with an invisible illness; I believe she has lupus. She was at a diner with a friend, trying to explain what it was like to live with her chronic illness. In a moment of exasperation and inspiration, she got up from their table and ran around the diner, gathering a dozen spoons. She handed them to her friend and explained that the spoons represented the finite amount of energy that someone living with a chronic illness has every day. She asked the friend to describe her daily routine, and took away spoons as she did various tasks. One for taking a shower, one for getting dressed, etc. Finally the friend was left with only six spoons, and she hadn't even made it to work yet. Basically, it's the one way that people with invisible illnesses have to talk about their limited energy levels, so I think it's really useful, but it's also a frustratingly imprecise and domestic metaphor, which I think isn't doing any favors to a kind of illness that's already seen as feminine and not really legitimate.
L: People have described me as "delicate", which I really hate (laughs). That feels pretty gendered.
A: There's something that comes up a lot in this, so I'll just bring it up now, because it's in everything we're saying in a way, is how Western medicine has this very stubborn idea that the mind is not actually connected to the body and that mental illness and physical illness are two separate things, and then you have systems like Ayurveda that say, actually, it's the same thing.
L: Right, and anyone who's struggled with depression or anxiety knows that those illnesses manifest themselves physically too, just as an injury can trigger an emotional response.
L: Do you write art or make art differently now than you did either before you started dealing with pain?
A: I don't write by hand as much because I find that muscle in my thumb gets tired easily. So I will for a few pages but it just isn't practical for me to try to write very long by hand, which is a shame because when you write by hand, your mind works completely differently and makes associations in a different way. I think it works with time in a different way than when you're typing. So, I suppose I've lost something there.
L: Do you notice a difference in the quality of your writing, not necessarily better or worse but what is the difference?
A: I think there have been so many other factors since I started having pain that it's hard to isolate that as a variable. I am writing directly about pain now. I'm working on a book about having this experience of chronic pain. So that's obviously a big difference. For me at least, it's easier to be in a train of thought and have subconscious ideas come out when I'm writing long hand than when I'm typing. What about you?
L: Both are equally difficult for me, typing and writing by hand. I can do either for about 15 minutes before it starts to be an issue. Right now my shoulder hurts and I'm not doing anything. So if I'm starting at that base-line, and people always tell you that you should stop when it hurts, then the question becomes, should I write at all if I don't want to further injure myself and if I'm okay with that possibility, how long can I write without the pain becoming really blaring?
When I was writing Overboard, I would write for long periods of time. I wrote hunched over a laptop, definitely not ergonomic. I would get into that mode and be able to stay in it for a long time. I can't do that now. I have to make sure to take breaks. I miss being in that space. Even if I weren't being good to myself and taking a break, the pain would interrupt that thought process anyway.
I started writing plays with my partner, Steve Orth partly because I couldn't write. When we write a play, none of it is actually written. There's a basic outline and we rehearse using that outline, but the exact dialog is never actually written down. Each performance is, in a way, new. That was a direct response to being unable to write. Last summer, I couldn't really write at all so I started drawing and doing more visual art. I also started meditating and through that doing some automatic writing. When I do automatic writing, some sort of energy moves through my shoulder, through my right arm and through my hand. That's where the pain is, from my right shoulder to my right hand. That's really changed what I write about and how I write, which feels very positive, but I still get frustrated that I can't sit down and bang out a short story the way I used to do.
A & L: Should we do advice? What has helped?
A: My answers are all about ergonomics. Well, also get enough sleep. It's a big thing. I have fibromyalgia, which Lindsey doesn't, and a lot of people reading this might not have either, but with fibromyalgia you have non-restorative sleep, which means that your body doesn't feel rested no matter how long you sleep, so it's important to at least sleep a normal amount, 8 or 9 hours. But that's probably good advice for everyone. So that's one thing that makes a big difference, and the other thing is ergonomics. Your knees are supposed to be below your hips when you sit; your monitor's supposed to be eye-level; all that stuff. I brought an ergonomic footrest to the place that I'm working now, and it makes a huge difference. And they provide monitor risers and external keyboards and mice. Another thing is that I've started using my mouse with my left hand because my right hand gets more tired from typing. Also, it's not super hard to teach yourself to use the spacebar with your left thumb.
L: I use an ergonomic keyboard that has touch-sensitive keys. It's flexible so I can move it into different positions. I have an ergonomic mouse that's a vertical mouse. I also know that some graphic designers will use foot mice. I mouse with my left hand a lot. I think it's good if you can distribute the 'wear', which sounds gross. I do a lot of various kinds of healing practices: I get acupuncture regularly and they give me herbs. I make bone broths because they're supposed to be very healing and restorative. I'm trying to eat a lot of protein so that my body can repair itself better. I'm a big stress case so I'm trying to do things to relax while I'm writing or working but also after. I use lavender essential oil (either put it on myself, burn it in an evaporator or put it in a bath). I drink chamomile tea which sounds lame but it is actually proven to relax the nervous system. And that makes a big difference because then my shoulders don't tense up nearly as much. I take baths and soak my shoulder. I just got a hot water bottle, which is pretty awesome. I was told by an acupuncturist and a physical therapist to take breaks every 30 to 45 minutes. There is free software you can install that will remind you. Get up and actually move around, do some stretches. Physical Therapy is awesome, definitely do that if you can. Maybe I should take pictures of myself doing my stretches.
DON'T: Here's Lindsey hunched over her laptop. Don't do it!
DO: Here's Lindsey with laptop plugged into a monitor and external ergonomic keyboard. She is also using an ergonomic mouse and good posture! Way to go, Lindsey!
A: I feel like it's really easy to get sucked into just looking at the internet because there's a lot of stuff on the internet. But when you think about how important and limited your body's energy is like you should just use it for stuff that's gonna get you paid or stuff that's gonna make your art. Like don't read the comments on HTMLGiant. Don't read HTMLGiant.
L: I realize that when I take a break from working to look at facebook I'm still clicking my mouse, maybe more than when I was working. So that's not really a break. I'm burning up my art making powers!
I feel passionate about this because it changed my life, for good and bad. It has made working and writing a lot more difficult but also a lot more intentional. I don't take for granted sitting down to write which I think was a real privilege when I was younger.
I feel very adamantly that if you are dealing with pain because of a work situation, and even if you're not yet, your employer should be responsible for providing you with the ergonomic equipment that you need, or they should at least be supportive of you getting that equipment, or taking breaks. [Do you hear that non-profit arts organizations? You are not exempt!] I was talked out of getting workers comp by an employer because I developed my injuries on the job and it would have raised their insurance. And this was one of those cool non-profit arts organizations. So, you are not safe in the non-profit arts world! Actually they probably have a better time getting you to make sacrifices.
A: Well and you have sympathy for them because they're a cool non-profit arts organization.
L: Yeah and you're already giving up the money you could get somewhere else, so don't hurt your body for them. It's not worth it.
A: You were saying earlier that you had hesitations about the way that you'd be talking about this because you didn't want to come off as being, like pro-work? Like, "Work mortifies the body and ruins the mind, but let's make it more fun…" Work is kind of evil, and people don't need to work for eight hours a day. And that's kind of why it degrades your body: because we weren't meant to do the same kinds of motions for that long. And so this is not just a guide to let that not kill you, but also a guide to let that not kill you so that at the end of the day you can go home and be an artist.
L: But also while you're making your art to be good to your body too so you can keep making art. Because if you were writing eight hours a day, writing whatever you wanted, you could still hurt yourself. Musicians get carpal tunnel too. Be nice to your body. If you're more productive at your job as a result of doing these things, cool, I guess, but that's not really the point.
A: I think the point is having energy leftover; spoons, if you will.
L: If you come home and your body doesn't hurt and you're not tired, then you can come home and make some art, rather than watching a dumb TV show, or a good TV show.
DON'T: Here's Amy after a crappy day, watching some TV because her body hurts. Sure, this happens, but try to avoid it!
DO: Here's Amy after a good day of treating her body well, writing a poem. Way to go, Amy!
[I also want to add that Amy and I are unsure whether this whole interview will get transcribed by deadline because there is so much typing involved!]
A: Right, so that's part of it. Also, I came over two hours late, because I needed a lot of sleep. I was catching up on sleep I didn't get this week.
L: And as I'm saying these things I feel like I sound like a lazy jerk. "It's so much typing" (whining voice).
A: No but we just gave a whole interview about how it's about pain.
L: But that's the voice in my head that I have to argue with all the time.
A: Maybe we should just post the audio.
L: Maybe we should.
[Many, many thanks to Amy Berkowitz, without whom the writing of this post would have been so much more painful, in more ways than one. Hurrah for Amy! Hip-hip-hooray!]
And now, for the outro…
Two wrist-brace themed music videos!
Honestly, fuck a wrist-brace (humiliating shame garments), but if you must wear one, imagine that you are Kathleen Hannah (or whoever this is) dressed in a jumpsuit and banana hat or Beyonce (Sasha Fierce), wearing a metallic claw of power and be sure to take breaks every 30-45 minutes to dance.
Dear ones, this does not have to be you. You do not need a robot hand.
I want to add that throughout the day Amy and I spent together walking around my neighborhood, eating soup and talking about writing and pain we kept circling back to work, but we also kept circling back to misogyny and gendered violence. Throughout our conversations about our bodies and the pain they feel, and about our struggles to communicate our experiences to friends, family and especially co-workers and bosses, it seemed that everything was inflected by a silent and sometimes not so silent accusation of hysteria. Maybe it's just plain disregard for a body in pain, or an inability to empathize because the person you're trying to make understand just does not know what it feels like. Maybe we feel used and exploited because our bodies are not our own while we're on the clock. When the same boss who talks you out of workman's comp makes leering comments about how good your jeans look and laughs both off, it is hard to separate the two kinds of pain that enter your mind and body. It's hard to shake the thought that misogyny or at the very least, Patriarchy, has had a role to play here. If we were men, would we have demanded more? If we were men, would our pain be better understood? If women are thought of as "delicate" and our pain no surprise, then, why is it we are called hysterical when we name that pain and ask for accommodations?
Let's be good to our bodies and to other people's too. If you're not sure how, consider the witch's creed: "Do what you will and it harm none." If you're not sure if what you're doing or asking someone else to do will cause them harm, ask.
Lindsey Boldt is a poet, performer, editor and educator living in Oakland. She is the author of the full-length book, "Overboard", and the chapbooks, "Oh My, Hell Yes" and "Titties for Lindsey". With her partner Steve Orth, she co-edits Summer BF Press and writes, directs and performs plays in the style of "Oakland Poetic Realism". Recent productions include "Dating by Consensus" and "The Reading". She is also an editor with The Post-Apollo Press.
Just when you thought you had seen it all…. Reb Livingston's "Give Boot to the Muse; Behold the Power of Duende" is the first essay to be featured as part of the Vintage DB series! Crack open the dusty virtual pages of DB 4, Spring 2002, and you'll find that this expository piece is a delicious bit of food for thought.
"It is easy to understand how the bull is the matador's drunken beast—irrational, powerful and elusive. The artist who deals with his page, canvas, voice, clay with the same approach is the artist in search of duende."
Reb Livingston is a prolific writer of both verse and prose. She has authored several books including her upcoming novel, Bombyonder, to be released by Bitter Cherry Books this October. Additionally, she curates the awesome Bibliomancy Oracle (bibliomancyoracle.tumblr.com) and is the editor/publisher of No Tell Books. Go check out all the cool stuff she does here: reblivingston.net.
Proceed to "…Behold the Power of Duende"
Hiding within the "Canadian Strange" section of DB 8, Fall 2006, lurks this week's intriguing vintage highlight. Reminiscent of journeying via guided meditation, listening to Catherine Kidd's recording of her piece, "Blue Orb," is sure to take you to new and interesting places.
"…this wisp of a sheep lay curled on my tongue
with an imaginary number painted on its side.
I supposed that it somehow got lost from the fold
or else just needed somewhere to hide…"
Catherine Kidd has written, performed, and recorded numerous pieces of prose and poetry. Her first novel, Missing the Ark, came out in April 2007 while her latest work includes "Hyena Subpoena," a combination of poetry and soundscape. Find out about her latest ventures at her website: catkidd.com


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Even the best singers have their off days and today was Emeli Sande's turn to be a bit under the weather. Appearing on ABC's Good Morning America to perform "My Kind of Love" from her Our Version of Events debut album, the songbird was off her mark as she struggled to hit he usually clear […]
Despite receiving heavy support on Urban formats, Mario's "Somebody Else (Ft. Nick MinaJ)" failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100. So, the crooner has lined up a new song called "Fatal Distraction" that he hopes will better his chances of scoring a much needed hit.
As the premiere date for CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story draws nearer, Vh1 has offered a new preview of the biopic, which is one of the most highly anticipated television events of the year. Starring Lil Mama, KeKe Palmer and Drew Sidora, the show will air on October 21.
Daley released his lead Days & Nights single, "Broken", over a month ago and it quietly slipped under the radio. However, the singer-songwriter has added some fresh fuel to the fire with the premiere of the song's stunning accompanying video.
Did you know that Lauryn Hill didn't originally intend to record "Ex-Factor" because she wrote the song for another artist?
Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP is widely regarded as one of the greatest Hip-Hop albums of the last decade, so when he announced its official sequel, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, his fans were whipped into a frenzy. Yet, does the first new song from the set, "Berzerk", match the hype?
Many critics have lauded Ariana Grande as the one of the best singers of her generation, but their is another young talent who deserves the similar recognition. With control far exceeding her years, JoJo is easily one of the most gifted vocalists out today and she proved it at Vitamin Water's #uncapped event last evening.
Jessie J's promotional campaign down under has come to an end but before she returned the US, the bubbly songbird appeared on The X Factor (Australia) to perform her latest single, "It's My Party". Equipped with a car and her entourage of friends, Jessie J brought the underwhelming show to life with her stunning set.
Jason Derulo and Jordin Sparks are working overtime to promote their relationship in the media. In addition to obviously PR-generated rumours that the pair have gotten engaged, the former has released a new song called "Marry Me" just in time to capitalise on the timely hype.
Katy Perry previously shared previews of two new songs, "Walking on Air" and "Dark Horse", to give her fans the opportunity to choose her next Prism single in collaboration with Pepsi and MTV. Now, she has revealed the winning track as well as a preview of her video for "Roar".