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Empire of Trebizond
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|August 15, 1461
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The Empire of Trebizond was a monarchy that flourished during the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries comprising the far northeastern corner of Anatolia and the southern Crimea. Originally a revolt by the grandsons of Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos, within a year the territories that supported them organized into one of three Byzantine Greek successor states established after the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Fourth Crusade, the others being the Empire of Nicaea and the Despotate of Epirus.[1] Although their prospects of reconquering Constantinople were reduced following the loss of Sinope in 1214, the Emperors of Trebizond pressed their claim on the Imperial throne after the Nicaean reconquest of Constantinople in 1261, which extinguished the feeble Latin Empire, when the Empire of Trebizond had settled into the role of a minor state primarily concerned with its profitable role as the Western terminus of the Silk Road through a unique form of diplomacy: "Most of the emperors were blessed with a progeny of marriageable daughters," writes Donald Nicol, "and the beauty of the ladies of Trebizond was as legendary as the wealth of their dowries."[2]
The Trapezuntine monarchy proved to be the longest surviving of the Byzantine successor states. The Despotate of Epirus slowly disintegrated through the 13th and 14th centuries, coming under the control of the restored Byzantine Empire c. 1340. While the Empire of Nicaea had become the resurrected Byzantine Empire, it came to an end in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire. The Empire of Trebizond lasted until 1461 when the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II conquered it after a month-long siege and took its ruler and his family into captivity.[3] Its Crimean principality, the Principality of Theodoro, lasted another 14 years, falling to the Ottomans in 1475.
Its wealth and exotic location endowed a lingering fame on this polity in Western European eyes. Cervantes described the eponymous hero of his Don Quixote as "imagining himself for the valour of his arm already crowned at least Emperor of Trebizond." Rabelais had his character Picrochole, the ruler of Piedmont, declare: "I want also to be Emperor of Trebizond." Other allusions, as well as works set in this distant monarchy, continue into the 20th century.[4]
- 1 Overview
- 2 Origins
- 3 The Empire up to the civil wars
- 4 From the civil wars to the end of the 14th century
- 5 Trebizond in the 15th century
- 6 Megas Komnenos dynasty
- 7 List of Trapezuntine people
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 Sources and research
- 11 External links
Geographically, the Empire of Trebizond consisted of little more than a narrow strip along the southern coast of the Black Sea, not much further inland than the Pontic Alps, along with the Perateia, or southern Crimea (Principality of Theodoro). Its demographic legacy endured for several centuries after the Ottoman conquest in 1461 and the region retained a substantial number of Greek Orthodox inhabitants until 1923. These are usually referred to as Pontic Greeks. The eastern branch, who settled around Kars and Georgia, are often referred to as Caucasus Greeks, and the Crimean branch, resettled by Catherine the Great on the north shores of the Sea of Azov, are referred to as Mariupolitan Greeks. The Pontic Greeks remained along the eastern Black Sea coast and its hinterland in the Pontic Alps, as well as in northeastern Anatolia, until the years immediately following the First World War, when those who had retained their Christian Orthodox faith and Greek identity fled, or were killed in, the tumultuous Pontic genocide (1917-1921). Their displacement was formalized, and the few still remaining were required to leave, in 1923 with the population exchange between Greece and Turkey. Many were resettled in Greek Macedonia. Those living in the Crimea and the Russian province of Kars Oblast, much of which lies in modern Georgia, stayed longer, with some Greek speaking villages remaining in both locations today.[5]
The core of the empire was the southern Black Sea coast from the mouth of the Yeşilırmak River, a region known to the Trapezuntines as Limnia, possibly as far east as Batumi; a Genoese document records the seizure of one of their ships at that port in 1437 by a military Galley at the orders of Emperor John IV.[6] Anthony Bryer has argued that six of the seven banda of the Byzantine theme of Chaldia were maintained in working order by the rulers of Trebizond until the end of the empire, helped by geography. Geography also defined the southern border of this state: the Pontic Alps served as a barrier first to Seljuk Turks and later to Turkoman marauders, whose predations were reduced to a volume that the emperors could cope with.[7] This territory corresponds to an area comprising all or parts of the modern Turkish provinces of Sinop, Samsun, Ordu, Giresun, Trabzon, Bayburt, Gümüşhane, Rize, and Artvin. In the 13th century, some experts believe the empire controlled Perateia, which included Cherson and Kerch on the Crimean peninsula. David Komnenos, the younger brother of the first Emperor, expanded rapidly to the west, occupying first Sinope, then coastal parts of Paphlagonia (the modern-day coastal regions of Kastamonu, Bartın, and Zonguldak) and Heraclea Pontica (the modern-day Karadeniz Ereğli), until his territory bordered the Empire of Nicaea. The expansion was, however, short-lived: the territories west of Sinope were lost to Theodore I Laskaris by 1214, and Sinope itself fell to the Seljuks that same year, although the emperors of Trebizond continued to fight for its control over the rest of the 13th century.[8]
The rulers of Trebizond called themselves Megas Komnenos ("Great Comnenus") and – like their counterparts in the other two Byzantine successor states, the Empire of Nicaea and the Despotate of Epirus – initially claimed supremacy as "Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans." However, after Michael VIII Palaiologos of Nicaea recaptured Constantinople in 1261, the Komnenian use of the style "Emperor" became a sore point. In 1282, John II Komnenos stripped off his imperial regalia before the walls of Constantinople before entering to marry Michael's daughter and accept his legal title of despot.[9] However, his successors used a version of his title, "Emperor and Autocrat of the entire East, of the Iberians and the Perateia" until the Empire's end in 1461.[10]
The city of Trebizond was the capital of the theme of Chaldia, a region that had already shown separatist tendencies in the 10th and 11th centuries. Chaldia came under the control of a local leader named Theodore Gabras, who according to Anna Comnena regarded Trebizond and its hinterlands "as a prize which had fallen to his own lot" and conducted himself as an independent prince. The Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos confirmed him as governor of Chaldia, but kept his son at Constantinople as a hostage for his good conduct. Nevertheless, Gabras proved himself a worthy guardian by repelling a Georgian attack on Trebizond.[11] One of his successors, Gregory Taronites also rebelled with the aid of the Sultan of Cappadocia, but he was defeated and imprisoned, only to be made governor once more.[12] Another successor to Theodore was Constantine Gabras, whom Niketas describes as ruling Trebizond as a tyrant, and whose actions led Emperor John II Komnenos in 1139 to lead an expedition against him. Although that effort came to nothing, this was the last rebel governor known to recorded history prior to the events of 1204.[13]
The empire traces its foundation to April 1204, when Alexios Komnenos and his brother David took advantage of the preoccupation of the central Byzantine government with the encampment of the soldiers of the Fourth Crusade outside their walls (June 1203 – mid-April 1204) and seized the city of Trebizond and the surrounding province of Chaldia with troops provided by their relative, Tamar of Georgia.[14] Henceforth, the links between Trebizond and Georgia remained close, but their nature and extent have been disputed.[15]
Both men were the grandsons of the last Komnenian Byzantine emperor, Andronikos I Komnenos, by his son Manuel Komnenos and Rusudan, daughter of George III of Georgia. Andronikos I had been deposed by Isaac II Angelos, while Manuel was blinded (a traditional Byzantine punishment for treason) and died not long after. Alexios and his brother, David, ended up at the court of Queen Tamar of Georgia, who gave them military support to return to Byzantine territory. Vasiliev explains that she had been motivated to do so after the Emperor Alexios III Angelos stole the gifts Tamar had given to a group of visiting monks as they passed through Constantinople.[16] While Michel Kurskanskis has argued in support of Vasiliev's interpretation, he disagrees with Vasiliev over the intent of Tamar's intervention: Vasiliev has argued that the Queen intended to create a buffer state to protect the Georgian Kingdon, while Kurskanskis believes she supported the brothers in their attempt to reclaim the Byzantine throne in Constantinople.[17]
The Empire up to the civil wars[edit]
After marching from Georgia, and with the help of their paternal aunt Queen Tamar, Alexios and David occupied Trebizond in April 1204.[18] That same month Alexios was proclaimed emperor at the age of 22, an act considered by later writers as the moment the Empire of Trebizond was founded.
The date Alexios entered Trebizond may be narrowed down even further. Sergey Karpov has identified a lead seal of Alexios, on one side "the image of a strategos in the peaked helmet leaded by hand by St. George" with the inscriptions Ἀλέξιος ὁ Κομνηνός [Alexios Komnenos] and Ὁ Ἅ(γιος) Γεώργιος [Saint George] on either side; on the obverse is a scene of Ἡ Ἁγία Ἀνάστασις [The Holy Resurrection] with the corresponding inscription. Karpov interprets the significance of this image and the inscription as portraying the most important achievement of his life, St. George inviting the victorious prince to enter Trebizond and opening the gates of the city with his left hand. The importance of St. George was that Easter—the date of the Resurrection—in 1204 fell on 25 April, while the memorial date of St. George was 23 April. "So I dared to assume," writes Karpov, "that the seal points out the date of the capture of Trebizond."[19]
Vasiliev points out that the brothers occupied Trebizond too early to have done so in response to the Crusaders capturing Constantinople; Alexios and David began their march on Trebizond before news of the sack of Constantinople on 13 April 1204 could reach either Trebizond or Georgia. According to Vasiliev, however, their original intention was not to seize a base from which they could recover the capital of the Byzantine Empire, but rather to carve out of the Byzantine Empire a buffer state to protect Georgia from the Seljuk Turks.[20] Kuršanskis, while agreeing with Vasiliev that Tamar was motivated by revenge for Alexios Angelos's insult, proposed a more obvious motivation for the brother's return to Byzantine territory: they had decided to raise the banner of revolt, depose Alexios Angelos, and return the imperial throne to the Komnenos dynasty. However, not long after they had gained control of Trebizond and the neighboring territories, news of the Latin conquest of Constantinople reached them, and the brothers entered the competition for recovery of the imperial city against Theodore I Laskaris in western Anatolia (ruler of the "Empire of Nicaea") and Michael Komnenos Doukas in mainland Greece (ruler of the "Despotate of Epirus").[21]
For most of the 13th century Trebizond was in continual conflict with the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm and later with the Ottoman Turks, as well as Constantinople, the Italian republics, and especially the Republic of Genoa. It was an empire more in title than in fact, surviving by playing its rivals against each other, and offering the daughters of its rulers, who were famed for their beauty, for marriage with generous dowries, especially with the Turkish rulers of inland Anatolia. The common view is that the Empire of Trebizond relied heavily upon wealth gained from its trade with Genoese and Venetian merchants to secure for itself the resources necessary to maintain independence.[22]
The second son of Alexios, Manuel I (1238–1263), had preserved internal security and acquired the reputation of a great commander, but the Empire was already losing outlying provinces to the Chepni[23] Turkmen, and found itself forced to pay tribute to the Seljuks of Rûm and then to the Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate, a sign of things to come.
The destruction of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan in 1258 made Trebizond the western terminus of the Silk Road, and under the protection of the Mongols the city grew to tremendous wealth on the Silk Road trade. Among others, Marco Polo returned to Europe by way of Trebizond in 1295. The troubled reign of Manuel's youngest son John II (1280–1297) included a reconciliation with the restored Byzantine Empire and the end of Trapezuntine claims to Constantinople. Trebizond enjoyed a period of wealth and influence during the long reign of John's eldest son Alexios II (1297–1330).
From the civil wars to the end of the 14th century[edit]
Following the death of Alexios II, Trebizond suffered a period of repeated imperial depositions and assassinations, despite a short period of stability under his youngest son Basil. Two different groups struggled for ascendency: the Scholaroi, who have been identified being pro-Byzantine, and the Amytzantarantes, who were identified as representing the interests of the native archontes. These civil wars came to an end in 1355, when the last partisans of both factions were brought under control by Alexios III.
Under the rule of Alexios III (1349–1390) Trebizond was considered an important trade center, and was renowned for its great wealth and artistic accomplishment. However, Anthony Bryers has argued against this viewpoint, stating that while the income from taxes levied on this trade was "by Byzantine standards" substantial, as much as three quarters of the income of the Emperor came from land, "either directly from the imperial estates or indirectly from taxes and tithes from other lands."[24]
Trebizond in the 15th century[edit]
The restored Byzantine Empire was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1453 while the Empire of Trebizond managed to survive until 1461, when it too was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. Manuel III (1390–1417), the second son and successor of Alexios III, allied himself with Timur, and benefited from Timur's defeat of the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Ankara in 1402. His son Alexios IV (1417–1429) married two of his daughters to rulers of two neighboring empires centered in Persia at that time led by Jihan Shah, khan of the Kara Koyunlu, and to Ali Beg, khan of the Ak Koyunlu, while his eldest daughter Maria became the third wife of the Byzantine Emperor John VIII Palaiologos. Pero Tafur, who visited the city in 1437, reported that Trebizond had fewer than 4,000 troops.
Alexios IV's eldest son, John IV (1429–1459), could not help but see that his Empire would soon share the same fate as Constantinople had suffered in 1453. The Ottoman Sultan Murad II first attempted to take the capital by sea in 1442, but high surf made the landings difficult and the attempt was repulsed.[25] While Murad's son and successor, Mehmed II, was away laying siege to Belgrade in 1456, the Ottoman governor of Amasya attacked Trebizond, and although defeated, took many prisoners and extracted a heavy tribute.[26]
John IV prepared for the eventual assault by forging alliances. He gave his daughter to the son of his brother-in-law, Uzun Hasan, khan of the Ak Koyunlu, in return for his promise to defend Trebizond. He also secured promises of help from the Turkish emirs of Sinope and Karamania, and from the king and princes of Georgia.[27]
After John's death in 1459, his brother David came to power. David intrigued with various European powers for help against the Ottomans, speaking of wild schemes that included the conquest of Jerusalem. Mehmed II eventually heard of these intrigues, and was further provoked to action by David's demand that Mehmed remit the tribute imposed on his brother.[27]
Mehmed's response came in the summer of 1461. He collected a sizable army at Bursa, and in a surprise move marched on Sinope, whose emir quickly surrendered. Then the Sultan moved south across eastern Anatolia to neutralize Uzun Hasan. Having isolated Trebizond, Mehmed quickly swept down upon it before the inhabitants knew he was coming, and placed it under siege. The city held out for a month before David surrendered on August 15, 1461. With the fall of Trebizond, the last independent remnant of the Byzantine Empire, as well as the Roman Empire from which the Byzantine Empire sprang, was extinguished.[28]
Megas Komnenos dynasty[edit]
The Komnenos dynasty ruled the main Byzantine Empire from Constantinople until 1185. The table below shows the members of the family that were rulers of the Trebizond Empire from 1204 to 1461.
|Started reign
|Ended reign
|Alexios I Megas Komnenos
|1 February 1222
|Andronikos I Gidos
|1 February 1222
|Ioannes I Axouchos
|Manuel I Megas Komnenos,
"The Great Captain", "The Most Fortunate"
|March 1263
|Andronikos II Komnenos
|March 1263
|Georgios Komnenos
|Ioannes II Megas Komnenos
|First reign
|Theodora Megala Komnena
|Ioannes II Megas Komnenos
|16 August 1297
|Second reign
|Alexios II Megas Komnenos
|16 August 1297
|Andronikos III Megas Komnenos
|8 January 1332
|Manuel II Megas Komnenos
|8 January 1332
|c. September 1332
|Emperor for 8 months.
|Basileios Megas Komnenos
|c. September 1332
|6 April 1340
|Irene Palaiologina
|6 April 1340
|17 July 1341
|Widow of Basileios.
|Anna Anachoutlou
|17 July 1341
|4 September 1342
|Daughter of Alexius II.
|Ioannes III Megas Komnenos
|4 September 1342
|3 May 1344
|Michael Megas Komnenos
|3 May 1344
|13 December 1349
|Father of Ioannes III.
|Alexios III Megas Komnenos
|13 December 1349
|20 March 1390
|Manuel III Megas Komnenos
|20 March 1390
|5 March 1417
|Alexios IV Megas Komnenos
|5 March 1417
|October 1429
|Ioannes IV Megas Komnenos
|October 1429
|David Megas Komnenos
List of Trapezuntine people[edit]
- George Amiroutzes
- George of Trebizond
- Gregory Choniades
- Johannes Bessarion
- John Lazaropoulos
- John Xiphilinos
- Michael Panaretos
See also[edit]
- Hagia Sophia, Trabzon
- Sumela Monastery
- Dorothy Dunnett, a Scottish historical novelist, much of whose book The Spring of the Ram is set in Trebizond at the time of its fall.
- Lawrence Schoonover, an American historical novelist, much of whose book The Burnished Blade is set in Trebizond at its height.
- ^ Alexander A. Vasiliev, History of the Byzantine Empire, Vol 2. 324 - 1453, second edition (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1958), p. 506: "... on the territory of the disintegrated eastern empire, three independent Greek centers were formed; The empire of Nicaea and the empire of Trebizond in Asia Minor and the Despotat of Epirus in Northern Greece."
- ^ Nicol, The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453, second edition (Cambridge: University Press, 1993), pp. 402f
- ^ William Miller, Trebizond: The last Greek Empire of the Byzantine Era: 1204-1461, 1926 (Chicago: Argonaut, 1969), pp. 100-106
- ^ Miller, Trebizond, pp. 117ff
- ^ "Greeks of the Steppe". The Washington Post. 10 November 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ S. P. Karpov, "New Documents on the Relations between the Latins and the Local Populations in the Black Sea Area (1392-1462)", Dumbarton Oaks Papers: Symposium on Byzantium and the Italians, 13th-15th centuries, 49 (1995), p. 39
- ^ Bryer, "Greeks and Türkmens: The Pontic Exception", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 29 (1975), pp. 117ff
- ^ As documented by Michel Kurskanskis, "L'empire de Trébizonde et les Turcs au 13e siècle", Revue des études byzantines, 46 (1988). pp. 109-124.
- ^ Nicol, Last Centuries, p. 74
- ^ See the discussion in N. Oikonomides, "The Chancery of the Grand Komnenoi: Imperial Tradition and Political Reality", Archeion Pontou 35 (1979), pp. 299-332
- ^ Miller, Trebizond, p. 12
- ^ Some authorities identify Taronites with the known son of Theodore Gabras, Gregory Gabras. See Anthony Bryer, "A Byzantine Family: The Gabrades, c. 979 – c. 1653", University of Birmingham Historical Journal, 12 (1970), p. 176
- ^ Miller, Trebizond, p. 13
- ^ Hewsen, Robert H. (2009). "Armenians on the Black Sea: The Province of Trebizond". In Richard G. Hovannisian. Armenian Pontus: The Trebizond-Black Sea Communities. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, Inc. pp. 47, 37–66. ISBN 1-56859-155-1.
- ^ Eastmond, Antony. "Narratives of the Fall: Structure and Meaning in the Genesis Frieze at Hagia Sophia, Trebizond". Dumbarton Oaks Papers 53 (1999), 219–36.
- ^ A. A. Vasiliev, "The Foundation of the Empire of Trebizond (1204-1222)", Speculum, 11 (1936), pp. 18f
- ^ Michel Kuršanskis, "L'Empire de Trébizonde et la Géorgie", Revue des études byzantines, 35 (1977). pp. 243-247
- ^ Michael Panaretos, Chronicle, ch. 1. Greek text in Original-Fragmente, Chroniken, Inschiften und anderes Materiale zur Geschichte des Kaiserthums Trapezunt, part 2; in Abhandlungen der historischen Classe der königlich bayerischen Akademie 4 (1844), abth. 1, pp. 11; German translation, p. 41
- ^ Karpov, "New Archival Discoveries of Documents concerning the Empire of Trebizond", Gamer, 1 (2012), pp. 75f
- ^ Vasiliev, "Foundation", p. 19
- ^ Kuršanskis, "Trébizonde et la Géorgie", pp. 243-245
- ^ Hewsen, "Armenians on the Black Sea", p. 48
- ^ Haldon, John, The Palgrave Atlas of Byzantine History PART III: THE LATER PERIOD (c. 11th–15th Century), The map includes "Chepni Türkmen"
- ^ Bryer, "The Estates of the Empire of Trebizond. Evidence for their Resources, Products, Agriculture, Ownership and Location", Archeion Pontou 35 (1979), p. 371. He also includes revenue from such typical medieval sources as "the profits of justice, imperial trade and mining, confiscations and even piracy."
- ^ Miller, Trebizond, p. 85
- ^ Miller, Trebizond, pp. 87f
- ^ a b Nicol, Last Centuries, p. 407
- ^ Nicol, Last Centuries, p. 408
Sources and research[edit]
Primary Sources[edit]
- Johannes Bessarion: The praise of Trebizond
- Michael Panaretos: Chronicle
Secondary Sources[edit]
- Anthony Bryer & David Winfield, The Byzantine Monuments and Topography of the Pontos (DOS. XX), vol. 1–2, Washington, 1985.
- Anthony Bryer, Peoples and Settlement in Anatolia and the Caucasus, 800–1900, Variorum collected studies series, London, 1988.
- Bryer, Anthony (1980). The Empire of Trebizond and the Pontos. London: Variorum Reprints. ISBN 978-0-86078-062-5.
- Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer, Geschichte des Kaiserthums Trapezunt (Munich, 1827–1848)
- George Finlay The History of Greece, From Its Conquest by the Crusaders to Its Conquest by the Turks, and of the Empire of Trebizond: 1204-1461. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1851.
- Sergei Karpov. L' impero di Trebisonda, Venezia, Genova e Roma, 1204–1461. Rapporti politici, diplomatici e commerciali. Roma, 1986, 321 P.
- Sergei Karpov. Трапезундская империя и западноевропейские государства, 1204-1461. ("The Empire of Trebizond and the nations of Western Europe, 1204–1461.") Moscow, 1981, 231 pp.
- Sergei Karpov. История Трапезундской империи ("A history of the empire of Trebizond"). Saint Petersburg, 2007, 656 pp.
- William Miller, Trebizond: The Last Greek Empire, (1926; repr. Chicago: Argonaut Publishers, 1968)
- George Ostrogorsky, History of the Byzantine State, Rutgers University Press. New Jersey, 1969
- Donald Queller, Thomas Madden, The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2nd ed., 1997. ISBN 0-8122-3387-5
- Savvides, Alexios G. K. (2009). Ιστορία της Αυτοκρατορίας των Μεγάλων Κομνηνών της Τραπεζούντας (1204-1461). 2η Έκδοση με προσθήκες [History of the Empire of the Grand Komnenoi of Trebizond (1204-1461). 2nd Edition with additions] (in Greek). Thessaloniki: Kyriakidis Brothers S.A. ISBN 978-960-467-121-2.
- Rustam Shukurov. Великие Комнины и Восток (1204—1461) ("The Megas Komnenos and the Orient (1204–1461)"). Saint Petersburg, 2001, 446 pp (in Russian).
- Levan Urushadze, The Comnenus of Trabizond and the Bagrationi dynasty of Georgia. — J. "Tsiskari", Tbilisi, No 4, 1991, pp. 144–148: in Georgian.
- Fyodor Uspensky, From the history of the Empire of Trabizond (Ocherki iz istorii Trapezuntskoy Imperii), Leningrad, 1929, 160 pp: a monograph in Russian.
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I have long realized that it is the "correction" piece that is the most difficult for me in parenting some of my children. God made me compassionate; and somewhere along the line I realized that I resonate with the quote I read somewhere "To understand everything is to forgive everything." And, for me to forgive is automatically to forget. I can forget a child's (or anyone's) wrong-doing faster than the blink of an eye.
For example, a child will misbehave or disobey and I will give a consequence.... a likely example might be someone staying on the computer after being told to get off at a certain time. I'll say that the next day they will lose their time.....but sure as sure, the next day I may have a vague memory that someone needed to be off the computer for some reason...but I can't recall who or why. It is awful. I recognize this trait as a blessing in many ways (I certainly can't hold a grudge!) but it isn't always.
And, in more complex situations, once I understand, and give instruction, I don't ever feel able to give any sort of consequence.... I'm never sure whether I ought to or not. Here is a recent example.....Anastasia has a couple of assignments she should complete to finish the school year. She has been under an enormous amount of stress over some very serious issues, and is suffering more than I even knew. I am learning that she tends to work very hard not to share things that are painful. So one afternoon I mentioned that she needed to finish the report and she said, "It's not happening!" I addressed that by keeping my cool and saying that it sounded to me like she was upset about it, and I said a few things to make the assignment seem do-able and said that sometimes having something to look forward to after a big effort could help motivate you. So I offered a reward when she was done (new headphones since her present ones had stopped working.) I deliberately left that conversation sort-of open-ended....I didn't sense that I could force her to make a specific plan without stressing her out too much.
But, the next day she mentioned needing headphones and I cheerfully quipped that they were "on the way with the speed of a term paper." Instead of thinking this amusing, she melted down in a way she hasn't in a long, long time - taking the mail and throwing it all over the driveway, even tearing a letter in two. I was heading out at that moment with another child, and was REALLY glad to continue driving!
Later that day, when she was regulated again... I brought up the term paper and her reaction to my mentioning it. She immediately (instantaneously!) became disregulated and I could see her looking around for something to destroy. I quipped, "Oh, let me get you some mail!" I could see that she momentarily saw the humor and with that, her anger left but she burst into tears. Crying is very rare for her. And she revealed how overwhelmed she is. It became clear to me that doing this paper may well be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and really... in the scheme of things, it can be dismissed. So, I talked about her feelings, and how much better it might be to TALK to me, rather than snap and be defiant...how not everyone is going to be able to see through the defiance to something deeper, etc. Then we talked about the underlying issues.
It was good, and later addressed in therapy....but I feel like maybe I didn't do my motherly duty in a) allowing her to go "unpunished" for being defiant, and b) allowing her not to do the paper.
From her brothers' point of view, I let her "get away" with things and am "too soft".
So, what do you think?


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Students make piles from a variety of sediments and measure (either with a protractor or using basic trigonometry) the angle. They examine sediments with different sizes as well as different angularities. They also add water to the piles to evaluate its impact.
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Students need to be warned to take their measurements with care and precision. If they are little off, they could have difficulty answering the questions well. Also, students tend to make small piles which increases error. (This is a terrific place to discuss error and propagation of error).This activity requires some additional materials:
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Do you know what is "pastel"? It's a very popular appetizer in Brazil. Delicious!
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Ingredients7 oz. frozen empanada pastry
1/4 cup of chopped walnuts
2 tablespoon of cream cheese
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Olive oil
PreparationPre heat oven to 325 F.
Cut in a square shape empanada pastry {about 3 inches/side}. Put a teaspoon of cream cheese, some walnuts and salt and nutmeg. Then, you must close the dough pressing one side to another, in order to the filling doesn't spill during the cooking process.
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BOSTON (AP) - American Tower said Friday that it reached a deal to buy the parent company of Global Tower Partners, which owns about 5,400 cellular towers in the U.S., for about $3.3 billion.
The purchase price includes $3.3 billion in cash, plus the assumption of about $1.5 billion in existing debt. The companies value the deal at about $4.8 billion.
Global Tower, which is majority owned by Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, also owns and operates about 800 properties in the U.S. under third-party communications sites, and has management rights to over 9,000 domestic sites.
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University enrollment has dropped again at most public colleges in Tennessee. The Board of Regents is hoping the 3.3 percent dip is a temporary downturn, blaming everything from smaller classes leaving high school to more students returning to the workforce.
Student populations swelled during the recession. People stayed in school while jobs were harder to come by, the theory went. Middle Tennessee State led the way with more than 26,000 students in 2011. It's also seen the biggest drop – down 6 percent. This fall's headcount sank below 24,000 – roughly where it was in 2008.
"Unlimited growth was simply not something we could sustain forever," says MTSU student affairs chief Debra Sells.
MTSU does see some silver lining. For one, there will be fewer cars on campus, dissipating the headache of finding a parking place to some degree.
"To drop a little bit does give us a chance to catch our breath," Sells says, adding that MTSU is "not interested right now in reducing enrollment."
Retention rates have taken a hit. Fewer upperclassmen returned.
But the school did see a slight increase in the size of this year's freshman class, which administrators view as encouraging.
Now in its second year of system-wide decline, Board of Regents vice chancellor Tristan Denley says the dip isn't entirely the result of negative factors. For instance, graduation rates have improved on most campuses – dramatically at some, like Tennessee Tech.
"If those students hadn't graduated, well then they would be walking around on campuses and would appear in today's enrollment figures," he says.
But enrollment will have to rebound if public universities are going to help the state reach an ambitious goal of having a majority of working age adults with some type of degree.
"It's at least our hope – and all of the things are in place – to see this temporary downturn reversed," Denley says.
The Board of Regents also oversees the state's community college system, which dropped by roughly the same amount as universities. However, Motlow and Nashville State bucked the trend and saw modest enrollment growth.
The only Board of Regents campus to increase this year is Nashville's Tennessee State. It was only about 40 more students, but the gains are significant at TSU, which has experienced almost no sustained growth over the last decade.
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Maxwell Lord had been one of the world's foremost power brokers. A man who had been entertained by governments, empires, and businesses. Whatever Max wanted to happen happened. His crowning achievement was the formation of the Justice League International, but that – like all Leagues – eventually fell. Max then became embroiled in the affairs of an artificial intelligence called the Kilg%re which transformed him into a cyborg. He appeared briefly in the public eye to organise a short-lived successor organisation to the JLI. However, what most this friends were unaware of was that Max was working behind-the-scenes on a new conspiracy.
- In Part One: Background, Details, and Biography (Early Life).
- In Part Two: Taking over the JLI, Fall of the Kilg%re, Max's telepathic talent, and Shenanigans, JLI Style.
- In Part Three: Loss of control: Superman, Heimlich & Dreamslayer, and the First Death of Maxwell Lord,
- In Part Four: The Super Buddies, Left Turn Clyde, and Life & Death.
Biography (cont...)
Becoming the Black King
Checkmate was one of a several of inter-related US black-ops/intelligence agencies that were established or reactivated around the same time as Maxwell Lord was setting up his Justice League International. Checkmate's hierarchy was based on the game of chess, the director was the "King", the deputy-director was the "Queen", its special agents were "Knights", and its normal agents were "Pawns". The fortunes of the agency waxed and waned in the competitive world of meta-human espionage (Checkmate V1). The last known King, David Said, and his bishop, Jessica Midnight, were responsible for recruiting Bruce Wayne's bodyguard, Sasha Bordeaux, as a Knight ("Bruce Wayne: Fugitive").
Checkmate was reorganised sometime after Bordeaux's recruitment into a parallel-structure: White Side and Black Side. White Side was broadly political in nature while Black Side was broadly operational. Each side had a King and a Queen and each of them had a Bishop (an advisor) and a Knight (special agent). One side was meant to balance the other. It is, perhaps, not surprising that Maxwell Lord was recruited by the Government to be the new director of operations (the "Black King"). His time with the JLI had given him unparalleled access to and knowledge of the meta-human community (ditto with his business contacts). What isn't entirely clear is whether Max's recruitment came before, after, or concurrently with his organisation of the Super Buddies (The OMAC Project).
Manga Khan had hinted to Max that it was possible to reverse his cybernetic condition, but that offer was never realised. From Checkmate Castle in the Swiss Alps Max had access to technology and resources from almost every other US agency including the Cadmus Project, Project "M" and Task Force X and to Federal contracts with STAR Labs, the Blackhawks, and Progene Tech. It was this technology that he would use to restore his humanity. How he did so isn't entirely known, but the Maxwell Lord from a divergent timeline recorded that:
I have quite a history with artificial intelligence. It was a sentient computer virus called itself the Kilg%re that started me down this path. Perhaps it knew of the latent mind control powers that I would later manifest. Perhaps that's why it considered me an important asset to its mission of world control. The Kilg%re set me up as the Justice League's liaison. I manipulated the League as I was instructed. I collected information, but somewhere along the way I had a change of heart.
I'd trade my mother for a subway ticket, but my soul… that was something else entirely. I fought back. The Kilg%re eventually did too. It took control of my body. It transformed me into a cyborg. It tried to take away my humanity. It took dozens of operations through the various organisations controlled by Checkmate — Cadmus Labs, Project "M", and Progene Tech — to regain my flesh and blood. But although I was free from the metal and oil membranes running through by veins, I understood the value of artificial intelligence. And of keeping power over the world in the hands of men and women. Not androids. Not aliens. Not the Justice League.
Maxwell Lord of a timeline where the OMAC Project was successful (Booster Gold V2 #9)
Time out: Lets be honest dear readers – Max's personality has bounced around quite a bit. The original working-with-the-Kilg%re Max let a man kill himself, but he was shocked by what the Kilg%re did to his secretary. He had enough of a conversion when he broke with the Kilg%re that the Martian Manhunter didn't read him as evil. Nevertheless, the JLI Max was still willing to use mind control to convince the Huntress to join his team. The breakup of the JLI and the resurgence of the Kilg%re robbed Max of the team he'd built and ultimately his humanity. The fight to free himself from the Kilg%re, the failure to rebuild his team (the Super Buddies experiment), and the operations to restore his human body must have taken a toll on his mind. Somewhere in that entire sequence Max fell off the white-hat wagon.
The O.M.A.C. Project
The Maxwell Lord who thought he could bring about a better, more stable, more secure world by creating a well run international superhuman task force had lost faith with that optimistic ideal. The flesh-and-blood Max who emerged from Checkmate's labs was a pessimist who now saw the superhumans as an inherently chaotic factor that could not be adequately controlled. It cannot be coincidence that Max came to his conversion during the time that the pro-human scientist Lex Luthor was US President. Max's agenda at Checkmate would have dovetailed nicely with Luthor's private anti-alien, human-first beliefs.
Max knew that he would need a new type of soldier to police the superhumans and began a research campaign called the OMAC Project. Early prototypes were produced in collaboration with the freelance intelligence operative Mister Orr. Orr's Mark III OMAC, codenamed "Equus" was nearly feral and the Mark IV OMAC, codenamed "Pilate" (alias Father Daniel Leone) overcame its conditioning. Orr's OMACs had used a synthetic cancer-line to rewrite the human body, but the results proved unacceptable to Checkmate and they withdrew their funding in favour of a different approach (Superman #204-215). The final design of the OMACs – Omni-Mind And Community – used a synthetic nano-machine virus to infect unsuspecting sleeper agents. The OMAC virus was developed in a collaboration between Lex Luthor's Lexcorp and Maxwell Lord's Checkmate. The virus was introduced into 1.3 million "hosts" via a dummy public health campaign.
The invisible machines would remain dormant inside of the sleeper host until activated. They would then take control of the host's body turning them into a drone with basic fight/flight responses, but keyed to an outside control for strategic and tactical control. The nano-machines protected the host with a super hard exo-shell that had a distinctive head fin and a single eye. These supertough shells gave the OMACs superstrength, flight, and energy projecting attacks and other highly-extensible offensive capabilities. They also concealed the OMACs true identity from their target.
The last part of the OMAC army was a command-and-control computer system. Max had been the pawn of the Kilg%re so he knew the potential of artificial intelligence, but he now needed an AI that he could control. Max discovered that the Batman had built the perfect system, a semi-intelligent satellite called the Brother Mark One, that he had specifically designed to track and monitor superhumans. Max's silent partner in the seizure of Brother Mark One and the creation of the OMACs was Alexander Luthor, a refugee from a defunct parallel universe. Max, with an unknown amount of help from Luthor, liberated the Brother Mark One from the Batman. Alexander Luthor added a child-like intelligence to it for his own purposes. The Brother Mark One, or "Brother Eye" as it called itself, knew the Batman as "creator", but it was loyal to Max whom it called "teacher."
The OMAC technology was not cheap to develop even with Checkmate's Black Ops budget. Max began laundering the funds and procurement for the OMACs through a series of dummy corporations and the offices of companies like Waynetech and Kord Omniversal which were owned by his former associates. Most of this went unnoticed until Oracle discovered the word OMAC left on an account connected to Kord. She alerted the Blue Beetle (Ted Kord, the owner of Kord Omniversal) and he began his own investigation. Brother Eye and Lord sought to confuse Kord's investigation and Max even met Ted socially to try and dissuade him of his attempt. Nevertheless, Ted eventually traced the OMAC trail to Checkmate's castle in the Swiss Alps.
Max had assembled covert intelligence on most heroes and villains identities from his time on the JLI, working for the Kilg%re, and through Brother Eye's surveillance. Beetle discovered those files in the Checkmate database and erased them before he was discovered. Max was impressed that his friend had got this far and offered him the chance to join Checkmate. Ted refused and was shot dead by Max (Countdown to Infinite Crisis).
Max ordered Sasha Bordeaux to incinerate Kord's body and to dispose of the evidence. She hated what he had turned Checkmate into and secretly sent evidence of Kord's murder to Bruce Wayne (whom she knew was the Batman). She implicated Checkmate and Wayne's stolen satellite. Lord discovered the loss of evidence and used it as an excuse to unveil a fabricated "plot" by the White Queen and King to remove him. He telepathically forced White Queen's Knight Jessica Midnight to kill the White King and Queen and then made her a scapegoat. Max had now eliminated the last remaining check on his control of Checkmate. However, the Batman now knew the truth behind the OMACs (OMAC Project #1-3).
Batman's involvement forced Lord to move up his schedule for the OMAC Project and he activated a previously established hypnotic suggestion in Superman's mind. Superman began hallucinating that Brainiac was attacking his friends whilst he was actually attacking the Batman. He almost killed Batman before the rest of the Justice League managed to stop him. The Martian Manhunter discovered the "fingerprints" of Max's mind control in Superman's mind and revealed his connection Checkmate and the OMACs. Wonder Woman went to face Lord in Checkmate Castle. Wonder Woman's divine blood prevent Lord from controlling her, but it didn't stop the controlled Superman from fighting her.
After fighting the controlled Superman across the world Wonder Woman managed to bring him back to Checkmate. While her friend was momentary floored Wonder Woman bound Max in the lasso of truth and order him to release Superman. He told her that she "can't keep this lasso on me forever. And the next time he'll [Superman] kill Batman… or Lois… or you. You think I've lied to you, but I haven't. I can't. He's mine. I'll never let him go." Wonder Woman then twisted Max's neck, killing him instantly and permanently removing his control of Superman ("Sacrifice" – Superman V2 #219, Action Comics #829, Adventures of Superman #642, Wonder Woman V2 #219).
The King Is Dead
Maxwell Lord's death triggered a protocol called "The King Is Dead", putting Brother Eye into a fully autonomous survival mode designed to eradicate all superhumans. The surviving Checkmate Knights managed to savage something of the organisations knowledge of the OMACs and provided Batman's forces with the information they needed to halt the OMAC holocaust. However, in one last vindictive act Brother Eye transmitted video of Wonder Woman killing Maxwell Lord to every communications screen on Earth. Her public reputation was shattered as few people knew the full circumstances. It was Booster Gold who realised that the alien armour worn by Jamie Reyes (Ted Kord's successor as the Blue Beetle) was the key to breaking Brother Eye's stealth technology so that Batman's team could finally bored it and disable it from within (OMAC Project #4-6, Infinite Crisis #1-7).
Lord's activities had turned Checkmate into a powerful and effective, if misguided, organisation. There was a Federal investigation and the organisation was on the brink of being wound up when it was re-purposed by the United Nations. The US signed Checkmate over to the United Nations Security Council and it became their meta-human monitoring and security watchdog. Its new purpose was to fight international superhuman terrorists and to police the increasing number of State aligned superhuman teams. The new Black King, Taleb Beni Khalid of Israel, recruited Beatriz DaCosta (Fire) as his new Knight and Bordeaux was promoted to become the Black Queen (Checkmate v2).
Brother Eye's broadcast of Wonder Woman murder of Max turned her into an international fugitive. She had killed monsters like the Medusa before and morally considered Max to be no different. Nevertheless, the pressure from the authorities forced her to adopting a new secret identity as Special Agent Diana Prince. She eventually handed herself into the authorities and stood trial for Max's murder. Her lawyer, Kate Spencer (alias Manhunter), had help from Bordeaux in getting her acquitted (Manhunter #27). The Government's arrest of Wonder Woman – the daughter of a Queen Hippolyta, a foreign head of state – triggered an invasion of Washington DC by the Amazons (Amazon's Attack).
Most people assumed that Booster Gold, never the most highly regarded hero, went off the rails after Max killed his best friend (Ted Kord, the Blue Beetle). What they didn't realise was that he had become a roving time agent for the Time Master Rip Hunter. Against Rip's advice, Booster volunteered to help another time traveller called the Black Beetle alter history to save Ted. With Dan Garrett and Jamie Reyes (Ted's predecessor and successor as the Blue Beetle). However, what they actually created was a divergent timeline where Batman never learnt about the OMACs until it was too late.
Ted's death should have been the trigger that unravelled Max's conspiracy. Without that Max's OMAC were successful in killing hundreds of superhumans and driving the survivors underground. Beetle and Booster reassembled their JLI team-mates and used a Boom Tube to storm Checkmate Castle. In that timeline it was Doctor Light who managed to kill Max. However, it turned out that the Black Beetle was actually Reyes's future arch-enemy. He had helped Booster save Ted so that there would be no need for Jamie to ever become a Blue Beetle and thus never rise to oppose him. The changes to history were causing Booster to fade from reality and Ted realised that he had to die to save Booster and restore the correct timeline. He then stepped back into the place in time he had come from – thus restoring reality, but presumably ending his life again (Booster Gold V2 #6-10)
Becoming the Black Lantern
Maxwell Lord was given a second funeral at a cemetery in Washington DC. However, his murder by Wonder Woman had given his remains mystical significance. A trio of villains – Despero, Enigma (the Riddler from the Anti-Matter Universe), and Morgaine Le Fay – sought to usurp Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman's totemic positions within the Universe's make-up and needed a spell component linked to Wonder Woman. They chose Lord's skull and sent a team of agents to retrieve it. Gangbuster, Hawkman and a large group of allies fought Le Fay's agents, but one of them escaped with the skull. The narrative of the Universe was fundamentally rewritten, but the spell was not perfect and the original reality was eventually restored (Trinity).
Other raids on deceased superhuman graves caused the Justice League to create a special secure morgue that was buried three stories beneath their Washington DC headquarters. Maxwell Lord's remains were reinterred there, but they did not remain undisturbed for long. An aspect of Death called Nekron attempted to enter the living universe by creating a perverse duplicate of the Green Lantern Corps. His Black Lanterns were corpses animated by a black power ring that read the corpses memories and recreated it as a hateful zombie-like creature. Each Black Lantern was created to elicit the strongest emotional response from a specific target. Black Lantern Maxwell Lord was created to torment Wonder Woman and he fought her in Arlington Cemetery before the last pitched battle in Coast City (Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #1).
Nekron was defeated when the White Entity – the living embodiment of life – was discovered. The legion of Black Lanterns were destroyed, returned to inanimate corpses, but for some as yet unknown reason the White Entity's White Lantern saved twelve of the deceased and returned them to life. Maxwell Lord was one of those twelve. He acted quickly a cloud Guy Gardner's mind and escaped before anybody realised he was one of the twelve (Blackest Night #1-8).
Maxwell Lord's activities now unfold in Justice League: Generation Lost.


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- This set is based on witches and three of the names reference pagan holidays (Holle Katrina and Lamenta being the only one without them).
- This is the series that has a contest winner doll, from the 13th anniversary contest back in 2011 (Holle Katrina).
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Welcome to Pot Luck ceramic studio Pottery painted by you
Ceramic Painting / Pottery Painting Here in our studio we are pleased to offer both children and adults the chance to create a unique work of art We have an extensive range of pottery for you to paint with prices ranging from £5 upwards this includes our studio fee. You will have access to a range of paint, brushes and tools to create your masterpiece and help is always on hand.
Be My Bear We also offer Be My Bear parties or singles with our Teddy take-away service.
- Pick a bear
- Build your bear
- Make a wish
- Name your bear
Each kit contains bear skin, stuffing, wish star instructions (again, help will be at hand), birth certificate and carry bag.
Kids Ceramic Parties We are able to offer you the choice of painting or bear building as a separate party or both together. Pottery painting parties start at £7 per child painting a plate £9 per child painting a cup, vase or bowl and £12 per child for a money box.
Be My Bear Parties Be My Bear Parties start at £8.50 Per child for an 8 inch bear, up to £13.50 per child for a 15 inch bear.
Adult Parties Be it Birthday, Anniversaries, Hen Nights or just a group of you that are looking for something different to do on a night out. Come to the studio, bring a bottle, relax and enjoy an evening of ceramic painting even those of you who think I cant paint (I was one of those!) with some hints, tips and cheats you will be amazed at the beautiful piece of work that you can create.
Parties At Your Home Please contact us to arrange a party at home or a venue of your choice.
Gifts At the front of our studio we have a small gift shop, which is mainly stocked with craft items made by people locally, there is a selection of jewellery, glass and wood, there are also cards and bookmarks please feel free to just come in to browse.
Schools & Clubs Please contact us to arrange a party at home or a venue of your choice.


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Estrogen or Progesterone?
Actually, estrogen and progesterone are vital to the health of every woman. These two hormones exist in a delicate balance, and when that delicate balance is thrown off, various health complications can ensue. From puberty through the child bearing years, there is a delicate play between estrogen and progesterone. Progesterone is on the other side of the teeter-tauter from estrogen. The amount of these hormones produced by the body can vary from month to month and year to year depending on many factors including stress, nutrition and exercise. Side Note: A big factor regarding estrogen and what could be called estrogen dominance, is the influx of xenoestrogens into our environment. These are chemically manufactured items that can mimic estrogen. In large measure they have invaded our food supply. Things like pesticides and animal growth hormones used on the farm are good examples. Ever wonder why girls are developing physically and sexually at younger and younger ages? That's xenoestrogens at work - a side result of "better living through chemistry."As a woman goes through her child bearing years in life, if estrogen becomes dominant over progesterone, havoc can ensue. This may be reflected as various problems including:
Irregular menstrual flow; crampingBloating; depression; irritabilityMigraine headaches; insomnia; epilepsyMiscarriages; infertility; incontinence; endometriosisHot flashes; night sweats; vaginal drynessHypoglycemia; chronic fatigue syndrome; yeast infectionsHeart palpitations and other cardiovascular disordersEarly bone loss pre-menopause, osteoporosis beyond
Many women don't experience these things until they get closer to menopause or cross that threshold. Once there, the amount of estrogen production drops significantly and progesterone production virtually stops. This shift in the balance between these two hormones leads to the unpleasant menopausal symptoms many women experience, like many of the items listed above. Natural progesterone is very effective at treating all of the problems listed here - including OSTEOPOROSIS. That's right, it has been proven that natural progesterone intake reverses osteoporosis by increasing bone mass. Let me say that again…
This information should be first hand knowledge for every medical doctor. But it is not. Part of the problem is the very big influence that pharmaceutical companies have in medicine. There simply is no profit in prescribing natural substances. I did a search on the web today for information on osteoporosis while writing this, and of the 20 or so big professional sites I visited, not a single one mentioned the fact or the clinical results that show natural progesterone reverses osteoporosis by increasing bone mass. Every site was based on unnatural, drug based pharmaceutical intervention.What does this all mean? When you go to your doctor, the odds are very high that if you are a woman age 50 or older, the idea of hormone replacement therapy may be introduced. Estrogen may be one of the class of hormones suggested, with Premarin often at the top of the list. Natural clinical research has shown that it is not always estrogen that needs to be added to solve the problems women experience, but often times it is a need for progesterone. I am going to make a suggestion. As a smart consumer, you will want to do some research before you embark on any hormone replacement protocol. Based on what you discover, you may want to share the information with your doctor. Doctors are very busy and they don't always have time to keep up on all of the progress that is being made in the area of natural health. If it is truly ascertained that you need estrogen replacement and not just progesterone, than you should know that
Yes, NATURAL estrogen is available. If you are led to believe that Premarin is natural, let me remind you that yes, Premarin is natural, it comes from a horse, but horse estrogen is UNNATURAL to humans. With a little research doctors can prescribe the right natural estrogen if that is indicated for your situation. They will balance that with natural progesterone, NOT the artificial progestins.
That's between you and your doctor and I can't answer that but the odds are, you are probably much more in need of natural progesterone for your health than you are in need of estrogen. This is especially true for increasing your bone mass and fighting osteoporosis.
I have purposely left this section short and void of much discussion about the nuances of hormone replacement. This is for your research. There are very good sources where you can turn to get excellent and complete information. The key you are looking for is NATURAL PROGESTERONE.


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Communication Resources
Parallel Structure
Overview: Parallel structure in writing is a way to give equal weight to ideas through patterning words, phrases, or clauses. Parallel structures are normally joined with conjunctions such as "or" and "and." Below are numerous examples of parallel structures in business writing.
Example 1
- Prepared weekly reports to director
- Audited incoming accounts
- Attended weekly meetings
- Wrote weekly newsletter
Note that each bullet point begins with a verb in the past tense, thus giving equal weight to each achievement.
Example 2
- Purchasing merchandise directly from sellers
- Setting up displays
- Organizing staff schedule
- Balancing monthly accounts
Note the gerund structure of the verb after each bullet point, giving each equal weight and also indicating an ongoing function.
Example 1
My personal characteristics, my experience and my degree make me the perfect candidate for the job.
Note that the three details the writer lists (my personal characteristics, my experience, and my degree) are all nouns preceded by the pronoun "my."
Example 2
The sales associate was required to greet his clients quickly, warmly, and formally.
Note the "ly" ending on each of the adverbs describing how the sales associate greeted his/her clients.
Example 3
The manger told his team to arrive early, to set up near the entrance, and to hand out flyers to each person that walks through the door.
Note the use the infinitive (to + verb) for each of the tasks that the team must do.
A Final Word
Parallel structure gives flow and clarity to writing. It shows that you are a professional by utilizing a universally accepted method in business writing.
The Writing Lab & OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. Parallel
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Buddy Franklin Ricketts, 34, remains in the Bradley County Jail under $25,000 bond after he was arrested Wednesday afternoon by BCSO Traffic Unit deputies, according to reports.
On June 15, 2009, Ricketts was traveling on Old McClure Road when he crashed the 1996 Toyota 4-Runner he was driving.
Haley Nicole Valenzuela, 7, was partially ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene, according to reports.
Jacob Taylor, who was 5, and Shayann D. Forgey, who was 8 at the time, were injured in the crash.
Taylor was flown to T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital and Forgey was transported via Bradley County Emergency Medical Service to SkyRidge Medical Center where she was later treated and released.
According to reports, Ricketts was delivering newspapers at the time of the crash and "the children were assisting him with the delivery."
Initial investigation at the scene by Traffic Unit Deputy Anthony Cameron indicated speed was a contributing factor in the crash and "not all children were properly restrained" at the time of the crash.
According to Bob Gault, media relations officer for the Bradley County Sheriff's Office, Ricketts was charged with one count of negligent homicide and two counts of reckless endangerment.
He will be arraigned in Bradley County Criminal Court at a later date, according to Gault.


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I distinctly remember one time my parents talking to me down the phone and saying, "if we throw cash away at you now -
you'll never know the value of money." But I still think it would've been nice for them to pay that ransom..
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I distinctly remember one time my parents talking to me down the phone and saying, "if we throw cash away at you now -you'll never know the value of money." .......... But I still think it would've been nice for them to pay that ransom....midnightstoker 46-50, M 2 Answers 1 Jan 24 in Community
Rather than saying, "And here's your receipt," cashiers should say, "Will you throw this away for me? " :)midnightstoker 46-50, M 1 Answer 2 Jan 10, 2012
Instead of cashiers saying "here's your receipt" they should say "will you throw this away for me? "
Your parents exert pressure saying do this or we'll take your car.. Do what they want or throw the keys and walk away?Your parents don't like your mate though you know they don't have any good reason except that your mate isn't in denial about the stupid choices you've been making lately. You know...mikeybear 22-25 7 Answers 4 Apr 13, 2011
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You know those people who hand you flier's in the street,...... It's like they're saying,"Here,throw this away for me"midnightstoker 46-50, M 6 Answers 2 Mar 5, 2012
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Chicago Blackhawks shut out St. Louis
Corey Crawford made 34 saves in his third career postseason shutout, and the Chicago Blackhawks got back into their playoff series with the St. Louis Blues with a 2-0 victory in Game 3.
The Associated Press
CHICAGO – Corey Crawford was there every time. Slap shots, wristers, backhands and tips, he stopped each one of them.
The Chicago Blackhawks needed a rebound game from their goaltender, and he delivered in a big way.
Crawford made 34 saves in his third career postseason shutout, and the Blackhawks got back into their playoff series with the St. Louis Blues with a 2-0 victory in Game 3 on Monday night.
"I'm just going shot by shot," Crawford said. "It's all I could do the whole game was worry about the next one and focus on the next shot and stop that. I don't want anything else going through my mind through that hockey game."
Jonathan Toews and Marcus Kruger scored as the defending Stanley Cup champions bounced back after two overtime losses in St. Louis. Toews' 21st postseason goal was the second score by a Blackhawks forward in the series.
"Three games in a row. It's been a very intense series and extremely close," Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said.
Ryan Miller shook off another slow start and finished with 23 saves, but Toews' shot at 4:10 of the first went through the goaltender's pads and was the only score for most of the game.
"It's not a good goal. We'll leave it at that," Miller said.
It was quite a turnaround for Crawford, who was upset with his play after Saturday's 4-3 loss. Barret Jackman's winning goal in Game 2 went through Crawford, prompting the goaltender to say he had to play better for Chicago to win.
Quenneville met with Crawford on Sunday, and he responded with one of the best games of his career.
"We have a lot of one-on-one meetings throughout the season, but we get ramped up at playoff time," said Quenneville, a former NHL defenseman. "I generally stay away from the goalies. We chatted. Basically I was commending him on accepting that responsibility (for the loss)."
Crawford drew chants of "Co-rey! Co-rey from the capacity crowd at the United Center. He was helped by a sound performance by Duncan Keith and Chicago's defensemen, who stepped up without the suspended Brent Seabrook.
Other games
Penguins 4, at Blue Jackets 3
Brandon Sutter, Lee Stempniak and Jussi Jokinen scored in a span of 2:13 of the third period to revive Pittsburgh in a victory over Columbus.
Pittsburgh took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven East first-round series thanks to the goals on three consecutive shots.
Brooks Orpik added a goal in the final seconds of the second period as the Penguins stormed back from deficits of 2-0 and 3-1. Marc-Andre Fleury had 17 saves.
At Wild 1, Avalanche 0 (OT)
Mikael Granlund's diving goal 5:08 into overtime allowed Minnesota to reduce Colorado's lead to 2-1 in their West series.
Semyon Varlamov of Avalanche stopped 45 of 46 shots, a franchise playoff record for shots on goal by the Wild.
Minnesota's Darcy Kuemper made 22 saves.
At Stars 3, Ducks 0
Kari Lehtonen made 37 saves for his first career postseason victory and Dallas won its first home playoff game in six years. Anaheim leads the West series 2-1.
Dallas captain Jamie Benn skated out of the penalty box to score late in the first period, and 19-year-old rookie Valeri Nichushkin added a goal.
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DALLAS -- Kosmos Energy provided an update on the company's global operations and announced record production from the Jubilee field offshore Ghana. Jubilee field production is currently in excess of 105,000 bopd. According to Cosmos, significant production growth has resulted from additional acid stimulation operations performed on some of the Phase 1 wells, as well as the startup of the Jubilee Phase 1A development plan. Two additional acid stimulation operations on Jubilee Phase 1 production wells have been recently performed, at a gross cost of approximately $8 million per well. In total, seven acid stimulation operations have been performed in 2012, with all treated wells showing substantial productivity increases.
The first of five Phase 1A production wells was recently completed and has commenced production to the Jubilee FPSO vessel. A second Phase 1A production well is expected to be online by the end of January 2013, with the remainder to be drilled, completed, and commissioned in the first half of 2013. The company has a 24% participating interest in the Jubilee field.
On the Deepwater Tano block, the TEN (Tweneboa, Enyenra, Ntomme fields) plan of development was submitted to the government for approval in the fourth quarter of 2012. The TEN development will be Kosmo' s second FPSO project in Ghana. In addition, the Deepwater Tano companies are preparing to spud the Sapele-1 exploration prospect, with results anticipated by the end of February 2013. The company's participating interest in the Deepwater Tano block is 18%.
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We're not which part of this video we were moved by, the montage of James Bowthorpe on his round-the-world cycling journey through the Norwegian countryside or the remixed track of "How to Be a Werewolf" from Mogawai's Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will album.
We came across Antony Crook's short film 'Thirty Century Man', a film about James on his epic journey across the world on his bike which ended up smashing the previous record by a whole 20 days. In order to break the record, he needed to bike 120 miles a day in order to complete his epic, 18,000 mile adventure.
Following the completion of filming, Antony "wanted the film to somehow give a sense of what James had achieved and the idea of him being alone, somewhere wild and isolated." To help with that he found the perfect soundtrack after "carrying new demos by Scottish alt-rockers Mogwai at the time of filming.
Listening to 'How to Be a Werewolf' on repeat while driving around looking for shoot locations which fit perfectly with the landscape. When Mogwai saw the footage, the group decided to remix the song, tailor-making a version exclusively for the film. The result spectacularly captures the notion of circumnavigating the earth.
"We found the perfect backdrop to tell this story of somebody who points his bike at the horizon and then doesn't stop pedaling. It's a film about never giving up," says Crook.
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Ivan Cleary appointed Panthers coach
ON behalf of the Board of Directors of Panthers Group, Rugby League General Manager Phil Gould takes great pleasure in announcing the appointment of Ivan Cleary as Head Coach of the Penrith Panthers for the next three seasons.
Panthers take down ill-disciplined Titans
IN a scrappy game at Skilled Park, the Penrith Panthers got up to defeat the Titans 23-10 in front of the 12,262 Gold Coast crowd tonight.
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Phil Gould is joining the rugby league management team at Panthers.
PHIL will work closely with Michael Leary, Shannon Donato, Jason Wrigley, Jim Jones and the management team and will have direct involvement in all aspects of rugby league and in particular the coaching and team support operation.
Weary Warriors Win: Panthers Lose Another
RETURNING to some form the New Zealand Warriors collecting their 4th win of the season and their second straight at their home base at Mt. Smart Stadium. To defeat the Penrith Panthers 26 points to 18 in front of 11,412 fans.
Knights nuke pathetic Panthers
THE Newcastle Knights have dismantled an mistake prone and penalty riddled Penrith Panthers 42-8 in very hot conditions at CUA Stadium.
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LEAGUEUNLIMITED'S Paul Mitry takes us through Penrith's opener against the Newcastle Knights.
2011 Season Preview - Penrith Panthers
2011 is a year where the Panthers once again go in with the labels of pretenders. If the Panthers are to prove that last season was not a fluke, then Matthew Elliott and his mountain men must step up and deliver again.
Adam Woolnough announces his retirement
PANTHERS prop Adam Woolnough has today announced his retirement with a year to run on his contract.
Dragons defeat Panthers with clinical performance
THE St George Illawarra Dragons have all-but guaranteed themselves the minor premiership after a 25 to 6 victory over the Penrith Panthers in front of 19,987 tonight at CUA Stadium.
Eels unchanged for Panthers match
THE Pirtek Parramatta Eels will field the same 17 that downed the Brisbane Broncos when they head west to take on Penrith this Sunday at CUA Stadium.
Dragons pile on points to punish Panthers
THE St George Illawarra Dragons have piled on 20 points in the final 20 minutes to post a comprehensive 38-10 win over the Penrith Panthers tonight.
Broncos show class after real struggle
A ton of dropped ball from the Penrith Panthers helped the Brisbane Broncos who were good enough to capitalise and defeat the mountain men 38-18 in front of 14,322 fans at CUA Stadium tonight.
Melbourne grind out victory
A Cameron Smith penalty goal has proved the difference as Melbourne ground out a tough 16 to 14 victory over a determined Penrith Panthers outfit at Olympic Park tonight.


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WASHINGTON – The Senate on Saturday unanimously approved a congressional resolution cosponsored by U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.), expressing the importance of open unregulated Internet in the international community.
"It's so important for the Internet to remain free from the control of government—any government," Johanns said. "We've seen how an open Internet can serve as an agent of change in developing nations, and we've seen how burdensome regulations can stifle innovation even here at home.
"We as a nation must continue to support and develop the free exchange of ideas made possible by the Internet today, making it a source of innovation and growth at home and in the developing world."
The measure articulates the United Sates' position on the global role of the Internet as the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU) prepares to review and renegotiate international telecommunications regulations. Some countries within the ITU are advocating for new international standards allowing for tighter policing of the Internet by the U.N. –something the Senate is now on record opposing thanks to Johanns' resolution. The World Conference on International Telecommunications, where the ITU will discuss telecommunications regulations, is slated for December 2012 in Dubai.


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On Veteran's Day, unknowncountry.com just wants to say THANKS to everyone who has fought so hard for our country, and to remind you of two of Anne Strieber's most popular diaries, which she wrote about our Vets. To read them, click here and here.
I want to add my thank you to all the Veterans that have served on my behalf. I especially want to thank my Father (WWII) and my Grandfather (WWI) for their service. Both have crossed long ago. Little is known about the service of my Grandfather and I consider that my family's loss. My Father served in the Pacific Campaign during WWII where he commanded an LCI. He participated in 9 invasions, including the Battle of Leyte Gulf when MacArthur returned to the Philippines. He was awarded two Bronze Stars, one from the USA and one from the Philippine Government for his participation in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. During his time in service he transported Japanese prisoners of war and armaments for the troops and was threatened by Kamikazes. His life was saved during Leyte Gulf because a ship cut his off to land ahead of him. That ship took a direct hit by a Kamikaze and all aboard died. Somehow he came home to us. This War, though necessary, took a terrible toll on him and he was forever changed by what he experienced. He was a good man thrust into the horrors of War as all of you have been. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.


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No-Cook, MyPlate-Inspired Recipes
MyPlate is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) current food guide, which empowers consumers to learn about and maintain diets rich in the five necessary food groups: fruits, vegetables, grains, protein foods, and dairy. Here we take a look at MyPlate-inspired recipes for no-cook meals.
Delish is working with the Partnership for a Healthier America and USDAs MyPlate to give anyone looking for healthier options access to thousands of recipes that will help them create healthy, tasty plates. For more information about creating a healthy plate, visit choosemyplate.gov. Find recipes at pinterest.com/MyPlateRecipes.
Chicken-Peanut Salad in Lettuce Cups
This Asian-inspired chicken dish is light, fresh, and delicious. Using pre-cooked chicken ensures you don't have to go anywhere near the oven or stovetop to prepare this meal.
Recipe: Chicken-Peanut Salad in Lettuce Cups