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A Bigger & Better Northampton Station
Northampton is Alive with Ambition and Enterprise.
The new Northampton Railway Station marks the start of an exciting town centre development decade.
At almost twice the size of the current railway station, it will welcome visitors, commuters and businesses for generations to come.
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Red Wing Framing & Fine Art Printing
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Part 2 of 3
Framing digital prints is an extension of a print service provider�s (PSPs) services. Offering an end-to-end solution to customers provides an easy, one-stop shop environment. In the first part of this three-part series, American Frame was profiled. The company added wide format digital printing to its framing business after realizing the potential of servicing all of its clients� needs under one roof.
Similarly, Red Wing Framing & Fine Art Printing, of Red Wing, MN, offers a variety of framing and gicl�e services to its customer base.
Company Background and Services
Red Wing Framing was founded in 2001. Located in a 3,000 square foot facility with a print area of 2,000 square feet and eight employees, John Patrick Becker, CEO, Red Wing Framing, and his staff offer a variety of services to international customers and clients in the upper Midwest.
Because the PSP�s business is equal parts framing and printing, multiple framing services are performed. These include museum level custom framing, canvas stretching, frame repair and restoration, mounting, and matting. The shop offered framing along with printing since the beginning, �We wanted to complement the custom framing by providing more of the entire image manufacturing process,� admits Becker.
The shop uses multiple machines to frame prints. A Pistorius double miter saw is used for mould cutting. Various wall cutters are for glass cutting and a Gunnar USA Inc. computerized mat cutter is utilized for cutting mats. The shop relies on a VacuSeal vacuum press for the mounting of art.
Print services, both fine art and general, include image restoration and color correction, large format printing, printing on canvas, acrylic prints, metallic prints, panel prints, glazing, weather-tolerant outdoor printing, printing on silk, backlit fabrics, and adhesive backing.
The PSP declares itself a Hewlett-Packard (HP) shop. To create digital prints it relies on two 60-inch HP Designjet Z6100ps printers and one 60-inch Designjet Z6200 printer, with another on order.
The printers are set to keep up with the shop�s busy schedule and the multiple mediums used. �We print every single day. We try to keep the printers as busy as possible. Typically we dedicate a printer to a specific media like watercolor, canvas, and photo paper,� explains Becker.
To ensure customers receive a well-rounded artistic experience other services offered by Red Wing Framing include art consultation, a corporate art program, and an online gallery featuring select artists.
Creating Happy Customers
With the print provider�s vast abilities and customer base, no one order is ever the same. �There are very few typical customers as this is the custom nature of our business. An order could begin with an original painting created many years ago by a relative who has since passed. Somebody from the family wants the original reproduced, printed, and framed for their siblings,� explains Becker.
Another order the PSP may receive is assisting businesses with decorations, such as the request from Oasis Eatery at Nesbitt�s Nursery. The company was looking for a way to decorate large, empty walls in its shop. Nesbitt�s supplied the PSP with photography of the food served in the eatery. Red Wing Framing created acrylic prints and mounted them with frames on the backside to make the images stand out on the wall. The Oasis Eatery and their photographer were happy with the project�s outcome.
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Photographer Linnae Carlson, a frequent customer, reached out to Red Wing Framing to aid in Carlson�s assignment at the Mayo Clinic Health Systems in Red Wing, MN. The goal was to provide calming imagery for the clinic�s surgical waiting rooms.
The installation was divided between two sides of the waiting area. One wall features a series of macro photography. Images of a classic car dashboard and the inner gears of a pocket watch were chosen to present viewers with complex images that would cause them to become lost in thought. The wall is considered a masculine installation, while the art installation opposite features a feminine touch with gallery wrapped images of flora and fauna.
The macro photography images are 16x24-inch acrylic prints mounted onto 20x28-inch floater frames. The acrylic prints were output with the HP Designjet Z6100ps on LexJet Corporation Sunset Photo Metallic Paper with a quarter-inch acrylic facemount. The flora and fauna 8x11- and larger 24x27-inch gallery wraps were printed using the HP Designjet Z6100ps onto LexJet Sunset Reserve Bright Matte Canvas with one-and-a-half-inch stretcher bars.
The acrylic prints were a bit of a challenge. �Acrylics are fussy; they are very contaminant sensitive. It requires patience and a clean room environment,� notes Becker.
From request to execution the project took the PSP a month to produce. The Mayo Clinic and Carlson were both delighted with the installation.
A Fine Success
While offering framing alongside its fine art printing services, Red Wing Framing encounters many unique prospects. �Offering fine art framing creates new opportunities, especially on the commercial side of framing,� admits Becker. Whether it�s creating touching installations for families in their homes and tense areas or appetizing decorations for local businesses, the PSP meets any fine art print and framing request.
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Garges-Lès-Gonesse, France – Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport, one of the leading airports in France
Edam, the Netherlands, 27 June 2014 – Today the Mauritshuis reopens its doors after a two year renovation. Located in the heart of The Hague
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Financing Your Dream
Everyone has a dream growing up and for some of us the dreams stick to us like gum on the bottom of our shoes that keeps following you down every block. If you're lucky enough to be talented and armed with experience to start working on making your dream a reality, finances can get tight if you have to work harder than you thought. Dreams are expensive and you will need to learn how to budget your lifestyle to give you the time off of your day job to work on your manuscript or invent your gadget. It can be difficult to work full time, attend night classes and work on your book while keeping your wallet full.
Life is expensive and needs to be paid for just to keep a roof over your head and food in your stomach. There can be a few things you can do to stay afloat. The first thing that should always be known when making any type of a lifestyle change that affects your bank account is that you should always live within your means. Living within your means is all about managing your current budget down to a T. You have to have some wriggle room to work with, so you may need to have a savings plan when you intend to lessen your work load in order to concentrate on "your craft" or whatever it is you intend to do with yourself.
The best thing to do is use your talents to supplement your talent. What I mean by that is look for a way to do what you love to make some money so that you can continue to work on your projects without letting finances get you down. If you're a painter, think about getting a job doing something just as creative like painting murals for the city or a new office building that just opened up around the corner. You can approach a business and see if they would be interested in what you have to offer. You can build a nice portfolio at the same time. If you're a writer, you could look for some freelance copywriting jobs to pay a nice sum during the week and work on your novel in the evenings. The cool thing about freelance work is that it's all done on a by the hour basis or project basis.
The main thing is to get a little crafty, make some connections that you can use and try to snag something to supplement your living while you live the modest life of a starving artist.
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Novato police have arrested a man suspected of robbing an Umpqua Bank branch on Wednesday morning.
The man entered the bank, located at 999 Grant Ave., and demanded money from a teller around 9:20 a.m. and left with an undisclosed amount of cash, Sgt. Jennifer Dunlap said.
Joshua Wilson Little, 26, of Novato, was identified as the suspect and was arrested by a police officer about half an hour later a short distance from the bank, Dunlap said.
No one was injured during the robbery.
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"We finally
cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but
God did."
Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA) of Baton Rouge overheard talking to lobbyists
now we are told that the people caught in the flood waters of New
Orleans deserved what they got. We hear that most of those
who stayed behind did so in order to pillage and loot.
the sort of Southern-GOP anti-black screed, let me say that the
political bias sticks out like a blonde in Botswana.
I have learned from working the news that one must read widely.
And some of the u201Cthey deserved to dieu201D commentators make
points of history and engineering which need to be further disseminated.
Other u201Clet them drink sewageu201D commentators have made remarks about
the local political talent which might not be far off the mark.
these u201Cjudgmentalu201D commentators hit their seductive stride, they
offer intelligent and reasoned arguments for an appalling and monstrous
is called Final Solution thinking.
is not OK sit on our hands and let the floods waters take a group
of people because "all of them" are violent and bad.
with that "reasoning" is that it isn't true: not all of the people
trapped in NO were bad and violent. The other problem with
that reasoning is that it smacks of ethnic cleansing.
right, New Orleans was one fat, wicked city. But, by the same
standard, Washington DC must rank lower than New Orleans…and if
something bad happened to DC, would I sit back and say, oh well,
lots of bad people there…ho hum. Tempting, to be sure, but
immoral all the same.
the distrustful and judgmental line of reasoning, we ought to be
plenty nervous when Congress cancels its recess to stay in Tron
to pass more laws legalizing government looting.
is: Unlike Washington DC when Congress is in session, New
Orleans was peopled by ordinary folks who did not stay in order
to loot, rape and do worse. There were a whole bunch of black
and elderly folks stuck in that town because they were poor, had
no way to get out.
we analyze the causes of Katrina, what emerges is a "he said, she
said" script. Democrats are eager to show how Republicans
are insensitive, racist and OTD [Old-Testament-Driven]; and Republicans
are shrill in their denunciation of the welfare state African-Americans
and the poor quality [read Democratic Party] leadership in the Katrina
ravaged states.
well, there's a whole gang of folks who are eager to weave conspiracy
and pure, wicked cussedness into the mix.
look at the devastation of Katrina as a natural disaster the effects
of which were exacerbated by poverty, human error, concentration
of money & power in DC and the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Yes, indeed, the well-meaning, tax payer-funded and property developer-serving
do not "blame" George W. Bush as he is a hapless fool.
may not be "blamable." But, sure as heck, Bush is the one
who must be held accountable. He has lost the connection
between high office and honor.
has been, and willingly remains the pawn of dark forces which forces
may be the undoing of us all. Bush is a user who got used.
wise pundit might say that Bush is "inconsequential," and in this
crisis he certainly has been: what a wuss. Bush has no power.
Whirl is King now.
10, 2005
C. Gyllensvard [send her mail]
is the product of barbaric Swedish ancestry sharpened by two decades
in Washington DC. She has gone to earth in the foothills of Georgia.


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Northwest Food News has a great story on NPRabout mushroom hunters. I love the quote that Guy uses to open the piece:
Many cultures, including our own, once considered hunting mushrooms aberrant behavior. They are, after all, a sometimes filthy and occasionally deadly fungus. William Delisle Hay, a 19th Century British mycologist, wrote that a mushroom hunter was often "regarded as a sort of idiot among the lower orders. No fad or hobby is esteemed so contemptible as that of the 'fungus-hunter' or 'toadstool-eater.'"
It is a strange hobby that attracts an off-center band of acolytes, and mushrooms are the eccentric uncles of the food chain (dried porcini does smell like toe jam after all), but count me in as a lowly "toadstool eater" and "fungus hunter."
Picture: A 3 pound porcini I discovered on a recent outing near Mt. Spokane.
The United Nations has released their World and Economic Social Survey for 2011 and on cue from myblog post a few days ago about the need for and emphasis on food self-sufficiency to address global food crises, the report states:
…the main policy focus on the supply side should be promotion and development of sustainable agriculture, with an emphasis on small farm holders in developing countries, since it is in this area that most gains in terms of both productivity increases and rural poverty reduction can be achieved. In developing countries, most food is still locally produced and consumed, placing smallscale farming at the heart of food production systems.
The report summarizes the challenges facing current food systems.
The recent food crises have revealed deep structural problems in the global food system and the need to increase resources and foster innovation in agriculture so as to accelerate food production. Food production will have to increase between 70 and 100 per cent by 2050 to feed a growing population. With current agricultural technology, practices and land-use patterns, this cannot be achieved without further contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and land degradation. The consequent environmental damage will undermine food productivity growth.
The survey also highlights the problem of "undernourished" populations in the world which it defines as "caloric intake is below the minimum dietary energy requirement, which is the amount of energy needed for light activity and a minimum acceptable weight for attained height. It varies by country and over time depending on the gender and age structure of the population."
The following chart was, for me, the most telling indicator that something has gone amiss:
Notice that undernourished populations were steadily on the decline as the Green Revolution took hold in the 70's and 80's driven by industrial farming techniques but since 1997 these populations have dramatically risen. The economic crisis and the rise in commodity prices/market volatility in 2008 and 2009 sent that number above 1 billion for the first time in recent history. Gains from industrial agriculture with its emphasis on intensive land use, mono-crops, and chemical inputs have not only stalled, but they seem to be failing the world's most vulnerable.
The UN survey argues that there is a need for a new green revolution in food that is more green than the last one - more ecologically sustainable, more small-scale, more economically stable, and less dependent on fossil fuels.
The report is full of interesting charts and information on economic development. This chart on energy consumption also caught my eye.
Deer Park and Kettle Falls have recently been asked to change their zoning ordinances to allow backyard chickens within their city limits. After public meetings and planning commission deliberations, the city council of Deer Park chose last night to take no action to allow backyard chickens. A representative at city hall explained that the person who orginally requested the change had moved from the area, and there was not a strong contingent of city residents advocating for the change.
Kettle Falls, on the other hand, looks like they are on a path to allow up to five chickens and/or rabbits. Their Planning Commission is currently fine tuning a proposed ordinance. I was curious to hear that one element in the current proposal is that three legitimate complaints against your chickens would get them evicted. I'm guessing that will get revised before the final draft, but it reminds me of how suspicious people are of chickens. Imagine a city writing such a rule into a dog or cat ordinance. It would be a mutiny.
Every change to chicken ordinances that I'm aware of has originated with a single, reasoned letter to a city council. If you are interested in making changes in your city, regardless of size, a simple letter is the best place to start.
Unfortunately, things are a little more complicated in a jurisdiction like Spokane County. We've had meetings with council members and made our desire for changes known but, as far as I know, the 3 person council has yet to request for the Planning Commission to draw up a proposed change to the ordinance. It looks like we're going to have to raise some money and do some petitions. I'm eyeing the Spokane County Fair as a primary avenue to raise interest and support. Join up with our Facebook page, Spokane Area Chicken Ordinances, if you're interested in helping make changes in Spokane County.
I was startled when I read that statement in a yestereday's NY Times because I'm remembering some pretty horrible incidents of drought and famine in Africa over the last 60 years.
Last week U.N. agencies monitoring a severe drought in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti increased the volume on existing warnings over food shortages in the region, a consequence, they say, of an unprecedented dry spell, instability and higher global food prices.
The potential human cost of this combination of drought, conflict, and poverty are hard to fathom:
UNICEF estimates that about 25 percent of people in Kenya's far north are now suffering from acute malnutrition, including more than 37 percent of those living in the Lake Turkana area. Throughout the Horn of Africa the aid group warns that "millions of children and women are at risk from death and disease unless a rapid and speedy response is put into action."
I predict that in the next 6 months the issue of worldwide drought, crop failure, and famine will likely dominate the news cycle and will potentially change the landscape of the food movement conversation. Go here for a previous post on these emerging dynamics. It could go two directions. It might lead to further insistence on genetically modified crops and entrenchment of global commodities as the "only" way to respond to world food needs. The industrial food complex will double down on the refrain, "How are we going to feed the world without this technology?"
I hope the crisis sparks the conversation in a different direction though. The other option is for the world's policy makers to recognize that locally-developed sustainable agriculture is a viable, and maybe the best option for addressing food insecurity among the world's poor. It's more complicated than the big bucks and bushels approach of food aid but is necessary to address long-term solutions.
In the book "Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty", Wall Street Journalist writers Thurow and Kilman highlight the nature of the problem:
For decades, the world has grown enough food to nourish everyone adequately….In the modern world, like never before, famine is by and large preventable. When it occurs, it represents civilizations collective failure.
They go on to identify a major policy shift in world food-aid circles that has led to some of the problems we are seeing today. Instead of helping developing countries nurture their own local food systems to make them self-sufficient there was a move in the 1980's to make countries dependent on imports from wealthy nations.
John Block, Reagan's agricultural secretary as the U.S. farm economy struggled under the weight of price-depressing gluts, put it bluntly: '[The] idea that developing countries should feed themselves is an anachronism from a bygone era…. They could better ensure their food security by relying on U.S. agriculturals products, which are available, in most cases, at lower costs.'
…In the view of the World Bank and other development organizations, food self-reliance became more important than food self-sufficiency: It made more sense for the poorest countries to develop businesses to earn the money needed to import food rather than grow their own.
Instead of helping poor farmers develop local and sustainable agricultural systems, they were encouraged to get out of agriculture, go to the city and move into the manufacturing sector where their low-wages could be put to "good use" in the world economy.
This arrangement worked OK as long as their was a glut of grain commodities and low food prices. We are now finding out how that all works when stores of grain are low (because of recent crop failures and biofuel competition), and food prices are high. It's not a pretty picture.
They also describe a shift in the crops that farmers do grow in developing countries. They have been encouraged to move into cash crops that can be put into the commodities markets and sold, instead of aiming toward crops that lend their communities to self-sufficiency. This has put these farmers at the mercy of world commodities markets whose prices rise and fall without a care to issues of hunger and self-sufficiency.
Le'ts hope in the coming months as this impending human disaster unfolds in Africa and other places around the world we'll be hearing the words "agricultural self-sufficiency" as the center-piece of addressing the crisis.
Fortunately there are some indications massive food corporations like Nestle and Unilever recognize there is a problem as reported in this Fast Company article:
Your local grocery store may be stocked with foods from around the world, but make no mistake: Our food system is starting to fail. Resource constraints, unpredictable weather, increases in food-borne illnesses, and malnutrition (925 million people are malnourished while one billion are chronically obese) are all making the major food corporations rethink the way they do business.


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In the News: Historic Landmark Back in Business
The heart of downtown Ho-Ho-Kus is open for business once again.
"We tried to make it something the town will have for a long time," said Gordon Hamm, a managing partner of the Inn whose group, Ho-Ho-Kus Inn and Tavern LLC, purchased the borough-owned property back in the spring and has spent the past six months renovating the building. "The number of people that care about the Inn in this town is amazing."
Featuring a new roof, boiler and heating system as part of the building's updating, the Victorian-style Inn, located at the confluence of Franklin Turnpike, Sheridan Avenue and Maple Avenue, also features new hardwood floors, extensive brickwork and a completely refurbished interior. And with its walls adorned with local memorabilia including old photographs, maps and even a baseball uniform from the mid 20th century, the Inn is ready to regain its place as part restaurant, part history museum of Ho-Ho-Kus.
First built back in 1790, the Inn first served as a private residence for Andrew Zabriskie and his family, who operated a cotton mill near today's Warren Avenue Bridge. But after several devastating floods, the family sold the property in 1882, where it would remain a residence for the next few decades, even serving as a parsonage for the Christ Episcopal Church in Ringwood.
In the succeeding years, the Inn was variously known as the Zabriskie House, the Mansion House, Villa Inn, the Wayside Inn, the Washington Inn, Estephe's Hotel and Paddy Burke's. The building was on the verge of being closed in the late 1920s when H.T.B. Jacqueline purchased the building, restoring much of its Revolutionary War-era décor.
The borough purchased the property in 1941 to ensure its preservation, eventually leasing it to Gordon Butler and Heather Wilson in 1953, whose son Dick would operate the Inn until 1985. By this stretch in its history, the Inn had become a favorite center in town for people to congregate, and several notable personalities, from Jackie Gleason to Tony Curtis to former President Richard Nixon, would stop by to dine there.
"It was a fun place to come to," said Dick Wilson, now 77. "When people came to the Ho-Ho-Kus Inn, they had the expectation of having a good time."
The Inn, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, would change hands several times over the proceeding years, most recently when owners Chris and Nan Kelly sold their share of the building at the beginning of 2009. At that point, Hamm, a councilman, helped organize a group that assumed control of the Inn with the intent of recognizing the building's unique place in the borough's history. From there, it was a matter of meticulous research to do justice to its legacy.
"We had to be creative without destroying anything," Hamm said. "We were trying to recreate Ho-Ho-Kus, basically."
In August, the Inn sent out mailers to Ho-Ho-Kus residents, asking them to help furnish the interior by supplying memorabilia. The response has been overwhelming, according to Inn officials, who claim that they've received so much feedback they've yet to fully sort through and post all the contributions. George and Martha Washington in particular are featured prominently, a nod to the days when the neighborhood was a staging area for patriots fighting the British.
Watercolor paintings of the classic Inn by Ho-Ho-Kus resident Phyllis Hughes decorate the library found on the ground floor, while a portrait of Andrew Zabriskie by local resident Keri Clark is found upstairs in what is known as the Zabriskie room.
In addition to its ornate main dining room, the ground floor features a modernized tavern that serves the bulk of the Inn's lunch crowd, as well as a second bar in the former lounge, now called the library.
While the newest incarnation of the Inn is still brand new, having opened on Dec. 7, the response from those who have returned to the Ho-Ho-Kus landmark seems positive.
"This is the first time it's really been done tastefully," said Jane Barry, a local resident who has been coming to the Inn since the 1940s and vividly remembers its glory days as a top gathering spot in town. "I think that we needed this in the area."
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Cherry Creek Real Estate
Framed by Colorado Boulevard and Uninversity Avenue on the north and south respectively, and 6th Avenue and Exposition on the east and west, Cherry Creek is so centralized that one can to remain in the neighborhood without sacrificing any amenities: gyms, cafes and supermarkets (including a Whole Foods, which incidentally offers valet parking). Cherry Creek Mall, just off University Avenue, is the best, most well kept shopping center and has the highest saturation of top-notch stores: Coach, Louis Vuitton and Tiffany & Co. among others.
The gated communities exude victorian charm on a grandiose scale. Houses go for $800,000 on average, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. the waiting list to become a member of the Denver Country Club, located, of course, in Cherry Cree, is almost as long as the 22-mile Cherry Creek Path, a superhighway during the warmer months for bikers, skaters. Come summer ime, Cherry Creek really gets heated up with the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, a three-day outdoor market in early July where patrons can buy art, interact with exhibitors and simply enjoy an award-winning gala.
The neighbrhood is such a blanced mix of old-school architecture and modern comforts, that it is easy to ignore its pretentious rap and dive right in (though we wouldn\'t suggest actually diving into Cherry Cree; it\'s a little dirty, and honestly, quite shallow).
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Review of the 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan
Though it offers useful features like in-floor storage and a full set of fold-flat rear seats, the 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan generally lags behind the competition. Unless price is your only determinant, one of its import-brand rivals will suit you better.
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What's New for 2007
There are no significant changes this year.
It's difficult to imagine life before Dodge introduced the modern minivan in 1984, when parents no longer had to haul the kids around in mile-long station wagons and could purchase a vehicle with relatively compact dimensions that could seat seven. A lot has changed since then, but the Dodge Grand Caravan continues to be one of the most well-known choices for a minivan.
The Grand Caravan is essentially a long-wheelbase version of the Dodge Caravan, but with upgraded amenities and more desirable features and options. This year, it doesn't receive any significant changes or upgrades but remains popular with customers who need a seven-passenger vehicle but can't afford or don't want a pricier alternative. Dodge keeps things simple, offering only two trim levels.
In recent years, the competition has gotten stronger, with new versions of the Honda Odyssey and Toyota Sienna along with the impressive Kia Sedona. All offer an impressive list of standard features, and the Sedona easily matches the Dodge on price. In simple terms, the 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan is no longer a top choice in this segment considering its mediocre driving dynamics and dated design. We do like its "Stow 'n Go" seating system, but overall we think one will be better served by one of the other choices in this segment.
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The 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan minivan is primarily available in a SE or SXT trim level. (There's also a cargo van version, the CV, that offers options for configuring a Caravan as a work vehicle.) The base SE comes standard with air-conditioning, cruise control and a CD player. The more desirable SXT adds three-zone manual temperature control, a power driver seat, powered accessories, keyless entry, a roof rack and foglamps. The SXT also includes the Grand Caravan's signature Stow 'n Go seating and storage system that features second- and third-row seats that fold into the floor. Many of these features are optional on the SE. Popular optional features include a rear-seat DVD-based entertainment system, a power liftgate, leather seating, upgraded audio systems and Bluetooth connectivity.
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The Grand Caravan has two V6 engine options. The SE comes with a 3.3-liter good for 170 horsepower and 200 pound-feet of torque. The SXT has a 3.8-liter version that produces 200 hp and 235 lb-ft of torque. Both are mated to a four-speed automatic transmission.
A driver knee airbag and antilock brakes are standard on the 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan. Full-length side curtain airbags are optional, as are power-adjustable pedals. The Grand Caravan does offer low-speed traction control as an option on the SXT model, but disappoints with few other standard safety features. Note that the center position of the third row in every Town & Country is equipped with a lap belt only. In crash tests, it earned a full five stars in NHTSA frontal- and side-impact crash tests. Frontal-offset IIHS crash testing produced an overall "Acceptable" rating (the second highest on a scale of four). When equipped with side curtain airbags, the Dodge Grand Caravan also rated "Acceptable" in IIHS side-impact testing.
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The Grand Caravan can seat up to seven people. Being an older design, the vehicle's cabin has a decidedly dated feel with dull plastics, fussy controls and an undersized navigation system screen. The star of the show is definitely the Stow 'n Go fold-flat seating and storage system, which provides a perfectly flat load floor when the seats are stowed, along with numerous storage compartments. There are 32 cubic feet of cargo capacity with the third-row seats in use, and a maximum of 144 cubes with the second- and third-row seats folded into the floor.
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Compared to the newer minivans, the 2007 Dodge Grand Caravan falls short in acceleration, handling and braking. Neither of the V6s offers the kind of passing power or smoothness now expected in this class, and the four-speed automatic transmission doesn't help matters, as it hunts between gears on highway grades. Ride quality is on the soft side, but often feels too bouncy over bumps and ruts, especially when the vehicle is carrying a full load of passengers. The steering is fairly responsive, at least, but there's considerable body roll around corners.
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Not sure of this subject, but I couldn't find any info anywhere else. My mom died about 8 months ago, my dad is 83, decent health, but his grief is substantial. (they were married 62 yrs.) Recently, I have noticed forgetfulness, also he says he "talks" with my mom, which I understand, I also am a widow, however, he says when he does he doesn't understand why she doesn't talk back. He knows she is gone, this bothers me. any thots?
Posted on 2008/9/22 19:24
From: Dallas
Posts: 261
First, Sueh, I'm saddened to learn of your loss. My heart goes out ot you.
I think you have raised a good question, but I fear it may not have an easy answer. When we lose a spouse after a long life together, our entire world is upset. Indeed, Thomas Attig in the book, Relearning the World, exactly describes it so. It may be that your dad's world has been so utterly reshaped that he has little grounding upon which to assess that which is real.
What further complicates matters is that a significant percentage of spouses report seeing their loved one after the death. It is NOT unusual. Nor is it unusual for the spouse to not talk back. Indeed, it is arguable that whatever the source of these apparitions (psychological or paranormal), the point of them is to help the survivor come to terms with the loved one's departure. As a hospice chaplain for twelve years, I encouraged people who had these experiences to explore them, to try and grasp their meaning to them. I would exercise caution, as I'm sure you are, in minimizing these experiences. In dreams or waking life - or both - he's just trying to process his loss.
One other note is this: Loss affects memory, digestion, immunity, capacity to enjoy life, awareness of surroundings, sleep, dream life, and truly every other aspect of life. We really are re-learning the world.
Having said all that, there is yet another caveat to the situation as you have presented it. Often, where one spouse has dementia, the other spouse covers for the demented spouse through a unique pattern of interference, practices, etc. that others might not see. Then when the spouse who does not have dementia dies, the behaviors that are common symptoms of dementia become obvious to everyone because mom is no longer there to remind dad that he forgot to put on his pants (and I'm not trying to be funny in the least in saying this). My mom really covered for my recently deceased dad pretty well: None of us realized how well. So, it could be that you're picking up on things that have been there for a while but are only now obvious. Or, not...
In any case, I would not become too alarmed. I would give your Dad time to adapt to what he is going through. If, after several months, he is still going through these experiences, I would take him in for a physical. If he worsens or becomes depressed, I would jump in even sooner. That's all I can think of at the moment. I'll post more as I have other thoughts.
We wish you well.
Mike and Barb Davis
Posted on 2008/9/24 20:44
Thank you for your response. I was home (I live about 2 hours away from Dad), this weekend, noting that Dad, again, was confused. However, he reverts back to "normalcy". He mourns the loss of my mother, and his two sons do nothing to help ie: see him, talk to him, and he says now I have lost my boys. I have talked to both brothers, and they just get angry with me and do less, if that is possible. I encourage Dad to get out, to talk to people, to go to church. He does not want to do these things. He has had a check up at the doctor's office, the doc put him on Xanax.. a small dosage and mg. to help him through this grief. I am concerned about the confusion, and the enormous amount of grief, however, I did lose my husband 7 years ago and I do remember how terrible the grief was. I thank you for your response it was most helpful to me.
Posted on 2008/9/29 16:19
From: Rowlett
Posts: 56
Hi Sue -
Does your Dad live by himself? Does he have any neighbors who can check in on him or maybe just call him periodically to say "hi"? He may become more isolated as time goes by because he really doesn't feel like going out or doing much with other people - which is completely understandable but this scenario then oftentimes leads to more isolation and more problems with health.
Hopefully, the medication will help him through this time. It's important that he does take his meds as he's supposed to so that the medication can be effective. It's just hard, sometimes, for a person in grief to take good care of themselves, such as being sure to eat, take meds, etc. You may just encourage your Dad to be sure that he does take his medication because it's important to you that he does take care of himself. Maybe a pill box that is filled for each day of the week would be a good way to remind him to take his meds each day as well as allow you to easily check that box if he is not!
Also, if his confusion or memory loss becomes worse or you are noticing it more consistently, you may want to take your Dad to a geriatric physician or neurologist to be tested for a dementia such as Alzheimer's disease. If he does have AD, the medications available for AD may help him slightly with memory and focus as well as mood. It's just hard right now to weed through whether it is grief that is causing his cognitive issues or more . . . however, after some time, it may become more obvious to all that your Dad has more than grief affecting him.
I'm sure it's hard to be the only caregiver for your Dad right now and sad that your brothers won't help you help him - unfortunately, this happens all too often in families where one adult child becomes the only caregiver. Maybe your Dad can move closer to where you live to make that commute a little easier for you. Please take care of yourself during this time and let us know how things are coming along with your Dad.
You'll be in our thoughts . . . Barb Davis
Posted on 2008/10/10 8:54
My mom is going through the same thing, and I'm not sure she's going to pull out. She's 86 with dementia. Dad "covered" for her pretty well until his recent stroke and our loss of him this past Christmas. I visit weekly with our dog. Just a thought: if you have a pet or have access to one, this is the most joy I see her experience-- having an animal around. Maybe your dad would benefit. Or even if he could take care of a small pet on his own. Not sure if it would work in his circumstances, but old folks do seem to get some comfort from animals.
God bless -- others are going through similar trials! :(
Posted on 2010/2/15 15:13
From: Dallas
Posts: 261
I was saddened to red about your loss this past Christmas and the heartache of seeing your mother struggle with dementia. I am so glad you visit with your dog. We use dog therapy at my hospital two days a week and its amazing the connections that people - even people with late-stage dementia - can make with a dog. A short article was recently written in our health care system's magazine (though not yet in the mail) about that special connection between dogs and us humans.
Again, we offer you our condolences and prayers for yo and your mom...
Mike Davis
Posted on 2010/2/19 22:18
Posts: 1
I'm new to this forum beginning today. I've been looking on the web for someone with similar experiences to mine, and can so very much relate to some of the stories I've read here.
My Dad died at age 84 in June of 2009. My mother grieved naturally for a year, but right at the one year anniversary of his death, almost to the day, she had her first "episode" of forgetting what had happened to Dad. Since then, for the past 5 months, she will periodically call up one of us (4) brothers and sisters and tell us that she doesn't know where he is, and shouldn't he be coming home? Sometimes she thinks he is in the hospital still, sometimes she simply thinks he is "out of town at a meeting" or just at the store. She is becoming increasingly nervous and scared about the memory lapses.
Mom can't imagine what is happening to her, and feels so guilty each time she "comes out of it" and realizes what she has forgotten, even forgotten his funeral service.
We have taken her to various neurologists and specialists and she is currently on 2 anti-depressants, but nothing seems to be helping so far.
It's such a cruel, cruel thing. Both to her and to us, who have to repeatedly tell her that her beloved soulmate has died. Why is this happening to us? To her?
Any advise is welcome.
Posted on 2010/11/17 12:25
From: Rowlett
Posts: 56
Dear Suzanne,
I am sorry for the loss of your father and for your mother's current cognitive issues. I wonder about the neurologists and what their diagnosis has been for your mother's state. You say they have prescribed anti-depressants but what about her memory issues? Grief can cause memory/cognitive changes but generally, these are temporary . . . especially early in the grieving process. It sounds as though your mother has become more confused in the year since your father's passing.
I would suggest a second opinion to see if your mother is having cognitive decline relating to Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia - in either case, several medications may be appropriate to help with her focus, attention, mood and some memory issues - such as Aricept and Namenda.
Perhaps talk with her doctors to get more information about her diagnosis and whether a medication to address her cognitive issues would be appropriate. Actually, some of the medications for dementia can assist with depressive symptoms too, and maybe her antideprssants can be modified or eliminated -
Please take care and let us know if we can offer some other suggestions . . .
Most sincerely,
Barb Davis
Posted on 2010/11/18 14:59
This is happening to my father now. He is 84, and it has been over two years since my mother died. Dad has moved in with us and is surrounded by people who love him, and the dogs, who he really enjoys. However, he has lost massive amounts of weight, is listless, and although not cognitively impaired, has had episodes of the type you described.
Obviously, he has been to a number of doctors and a few hospital stays. He has been pronounced healthy. There is nothing physically wrong with him. They wanted to put a tube in him to feed him, but I refused citing many articles and studies that determine there is no clinical evidence to support any improvement using a feeding tube. in fact, there is evidence to the contrary!
The point is, doctors have been geared to give a general DX of "old age," and simply are clueless. Hospitals are worse, since the effect of being in a strange environment usually provides for the onset of "Sundowner's," an increase in the demented/delusional state.
I am afraid my father simply cannot get over the loss of my mom and is actually willing himself to die. He has that right. In the meantime, unless he becomes a danger to himself or us, he will stay here and be surrounded by love and care. There is, sadly, no cure for a broken heart.
I wish you the very best.
Posted on 2011/10/11 14:43
I just lost my husband unexpectedly 12/2/2010 and my Dad 21 days later. I still as having a hard time. Is this normal?
Posted on 2012/4/2 17:49
Hi, my Mother died a year ago. I am the eldest, a daughter,and therefore the main child (of 6) who has helped or cared for my parents for the last 40+ years. My parent's marriage was supremely dysfunctional, which I discerned as a 6-year-old child (but didn't know the word for it then). My dad was always jealous that my Mother & I had a closeness. I cared for her for the last couple of weeks of her life & death(cancer), moving in to their home for the last 8 days and working with Hospice, etc. My dad has had NO grief counseling of any kind, sits in his chair listening to horribly-depressing western music and "dwelling". He is CONVINCED that I have stolen my Mother's wedding rings, other jewelry, as well as paintings, etc. He tells me "You know, I talk to your Mom!", as if it will make me tell him the 'truth' about where her wedding rings are. None of this is true, of course, but I have felt frightened of the tone he takes with me over the phone. We live an hour apart. My husband is tired of it, and can't understand why it still bothers me. My children are bewildered and have lost respect for their grandfather, while missing him at the same time. My dad has told ANYONE who will listen to him that I have done these things. I have spoken with at least 3 people from their small town who are concerned about his behavior, one telling me: "We (my Mother's friends) are SO DISGUSTED with the way he has treated you and that he thinks this of you!!! JUST FORGET ABOUT HIM!!!" They have told me this can affect my family, and it has :( and that I need to just attend to my family and detach from him. One told me she thinks he has gone 'crazy'. They have told me that OF COURSE they do not believe these claims he has against me; I am the ONLY child who did anything for our Mother as she was dying. One friend's husband's owns a new & used gun shop in my dad's town and told me how my brother took my dad there to sell or pawn a gun---she seemed a little bit concerned or confused about the behavior. My eldest daughter mentioned today that her friend's father has 6 types of dementia and thinks his wife is cheating on him and that his daughters are all against him (WHAT THE HECK????) Can this be what is happening to my dad? I feel almost an evil feeling coming from him. He used trickery and deception to get me to go up to see him in Sept. 2011, 4 months after my Mom died so he could scream at me for an hour, accusing me of a ROSTER of things I haven't done. He tried again in December to get me to go up there but my husband got on the phone and told him he is not allowing me to go up there. My sister also advised me to stay away. Now, he is calling me again, using a creepy voice, then a soft voice, and wants my husband to 'bring me up there.' I know I sound paranoid, but what is the old joke: "Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean everyone isn't against me." Can you tell me what I can advise my siblings to do at this point - they all blame me for his mental decline and I refuse to go to his house again, lest I get accused of more things. HELP!!!!!!! Rona
Posted on 2012/5/1 19:06
Hi Rona,
It's sad to hear what is happening to you and to all that have posted. Pray. Pray for strength, peace, comprehension and love and that the Holy Spirit be with your Dad and with you. Pray for him every single day. The Lord is with you and with all of your family. My prayer today is for you.
May the Lord enlighten your heart and mind. May He fill you with his love, guidance and peace. May he give you a solution to all those problems you are having with your loved ones. In the name of Jesus Christ! AMEN.
God has seen all the trouble you are going through and you are not alone. Even though it might feel like it but you are not. God bless you, your family and especially your DAD!
Posted on 2012/5/8 21:01
From: Rowlett
Posts: 56
Hi Susan,
I am so very sorry for the loss of your husband and then your father. You asked if is normal to still be having a hard time coping with their deaths after 2 years.
I can only imagine that I and many others would still be dealing with grieving feelings years after the death of 2 close family members. Especially hard is that you say your husband's death was unexpected which makes the grieving process even more complicated.
I'm not sure how "hard" this time has been for you but if coping with your losses is still very painful, if it is keeping you from doing some activities that you would like to do if you didn't feel this badly, I might suggest you set up a visit with a grief counselor and/or a grief support group. You may want to call a Hospice in your community to get some names and referrals. All hospices should offer their own grief support group that would be open to others in the community. I am sure that your very first visit to a counselor or a group will let you know that after 2 years it can be normal to be still grieving. They can offer suggestions on how you might be able to cope with your grief in some ways that will help you over the next years.
Most importantly, please know that we all grieve in our own ways for our own reasons and that each person's grief is unique - what might be "normal" for one person might not be that for another. So, please seek some help with this if you can and also please know how very sad I am for your losses.
Please let us know if you need any other suggestions or information, Susan.
Please take care,
Barb - 4hope
Posted on 2012/5/21 13:54
From: Dallas
Posts: 261
Hi, Rona:
I just wanted to take the time to respond. I think Eel was very affirming of you. That is what I want to communicate to you as well.
But first, I guess I want to share some information with you that I hope will be of help. There's no way that anyone can make a diagnosis of your Dad's condition without seeing him: Indeed, even with great specialists, the nature of a dementia is not 100% certain (Barb - my better half can correct me if she wants, and she would be right). Nonetheless, as you have described things, it's worth suspecting that a memory disorder might be affecting your Dad: The wide behavior swings, the aggressive stance, the suspicions. Often, one spouse is the normal one, and prevents the other spouses erratic behavior from being so obvious. When the more balanced spouse dies, the remaining one's mental illness is much more obvious and much worse. This doesn't even take into consideration the impact of bereavement on a spouse, a factor that has the potential to absolutely drive a surviving spouse into significant neurological and cardiovascular changes. So, your concerns on that count are completely justified. In your visits to your Dad, it's probably worth being aware of your presence and safety.
As to your experience of grief while trying to care for your Dad, I cannot imagine the isolation, self-doubt, sorrow and judgement that I imagine you feel. On one hand, due to the care you are fostering on your father, as well as your day to day life, there has been no time to do self-care. So, it seems to me that the first order of business is for you to be kind to yourself, gentle, and invite yourself to be mindful about the realities of the situation: There's not a lot of support at the moment; You haven't had time to grieve your Mom's loss; for whatever reason, quite possibly serious illness, you cannot have a meaningful relationship with him.
Second, I would encourage you to arrange some kind of evaluation for your Dad (With a qualified specialist, quite possibly a teaching hospital like UT Southwestern). If he is unwilling to allow you to do this process - and, as I suspect, his home conditions are not conducive, then for his safety - you may have to call Adult Protective Services. Given what I imagine is his mental state, he won't be able to appreciate your motives anyway. And, perhaps, with some help, he'll come to a better place to appreciate what you've attempted to do for him, and your Mom.
Those are my guesses any way.
Lot's of prayers and good wishes.
Mike and Barb
Founders, ElderHope, LLC
Posted on 2012/6/9 1:54
Hello Everyone,
I am reading all these posts with rabid attention as I am going through this with my father. My mother just died this past August after a very short and very devastating form of brain cancer. If I'm completely honest with my self just before she became ill my father was exhibiting some mild signs of early dementia. I'm talking small things like the name of a restaurant or date of a birthday. However since her death his mental health has declined significantly. I had to move in with him due to paranoia, not eating, and even being there everyday for a few hours to write bills and visit I would not be home for forty-five minutes when my phone would ring because "some man was threatening him through he television" and could I stop back over. All this of course while working full-time and trying to deal with my own grief over the loss of my mom. So, moving in just seemed more sensible. The doctor diagnosed him with"severe grief reaction" and started him on an antidepressant. At least the paranoia is much better, but everything else is a disaster. I am a nurse and work twelve hour night shifts. I get no sleep during the day because of repeated interruptions and nights I'm off he's up and dressed at three am. I gave up living with my significant other and also gave up living across the street from my only child. Let her and him at least have a little normalcy! I am so profoundly depressed. My dad is someone I don't even know anymore. Before my mom got sick they were so active, and at home he washed clothes, shared household chores, etc. He does nothing now but read the newspaper. I do all the wash, write all the bills, he only eats if handed food. Oh and I sleep on the living room floor because its only a two bedroom house so no room for a bed anywhere. I'm so sorry for venting like this. But I do believe the answer is yes-if there was some dementia present before the death of a spouse -no matter how small-it grows exponentially . I wish only the best for everyone on this site and I thank you for the valuable insights I've learned.
Posted on 2013/2/7 5:57
From: Dallas
Posts: 261
Sorry it took so long to respond. I am not visiting here much anymore as both Barb and myself are swamped, deluged, in our real jobs as researcher and chaplain. Actually, we are planning on closing this site down in the next several weeks and moving it's data somewhere else in a more static form. So, your's is probably the last post we'll see here.
I am so sorry for the loss, pain, and stress that you are going through. AS I have done in other posts from other people, I will try to channel Barb as she is the uber-expert on Alzheimer's. But, I have been around her and AD to know what she would say. I think she would say that in couples one partner will often cover for the dementia-afflicted person so much that the dementia is not obvious. Thus, perhaps your late Mom - rest her soul - protected your Dad, covering for his dementia. When he is no longer there,it is much more obvious than it was before.
But, as you wisely point out, there is also a dynamic in loss and grief that is so all-encompassing that it deeply impacts not only emotions but our physiology. By way of example, I'm sure you've heard of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy. Ahh, but you hear of it described another way - Broken Heart Syndrome. In this syndrome or cardiomyopathy, the heart is actually physically remodeled - literally - in response to intense stress. The mechanism for this remodeling is still not understood, though there are some guesses. The heart structure is altered so that it looks like something very familiar to the Japanese - where it was first researched: It looks like an octopus trap also known as a tako-tsubo. Isn't that remarkable???
Anyway, if the heart can be sooooo severely remodeled in grief and stress, can we expect anything less of the brain? Even under the best of circumstances, the loss would have a serious impact. But figuring in the already diminished brain function prior to the loss, the damage would even be greater.
I hope you will not be harsh to yourself. As well, self-care is so important. We as health care providers are great for pushing that but often fail to be very generous to ourselves.
As this site will be going down in the next several weeks,please feel free to do a search for me on google.com. Look for mikethechap
Posted on 2013/3/9 3:50
EEL - I would love some of those prayers of yours as well.
I am suffering severe grief after the loss of my husband.
We moved to England from Ireland 4 years before he died last year, and I moved from North America to Ireland 20 years prior to that, and have no family - no one anywhere, and England is not the most open or friendly place to be (and we have a small business here that is my profession and provision that we just built so I can't move and it's not a good time to move after his death anyway).
But the long and short of it is that I am very alone and need the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, to send someone in HUMAN form, with the Love of Jesus, to bind up m wounds. I miss my husband SO much and can't hardly at all come to terms with my loss of him.
Please add me to your prayers,
- Petal xxoo <><
Posted on 2013/4/30 18:15
my grandfather passed away in February 2010. After we began noticing grandma strange behavior. Repeating herself several times. Not being able to hold a conversation, easily distracted. Not cooking meals, no longer gardening, hunting or fishing. Or working in the wood shop. These were all activities she enjoyed in the past. Odd sleeping times. Sleeps in late, naps during the day, and can't sleep at night. Forgets to eat meals, or over eats. Unable to do the checkbook and pay the bills. Forgets to turn off the stove when heating water for coffee. Not measuring the coffee and making mud. Unable to sign her name. Unable to remember her age. Recently she cant remember where she put things and blames others for steeling items. The doctor has said she has dementia. But she doesn't take her meds because they make her dizzy and feel sick. Has anyone else dealt with this, and what should we expect next? Thanks.
Posted on 2013/8/1 22:28
Yes these are sure signs of dementia. Went through the same thing with my mother in law, although my father in law was still alive at the time. She was this way for several years, and my father in law took over doing everything she use to do. She started sleeping, napping a lot and although she had been losing weight the past couple of years, she was losing it faster as she had almost no appetite. She fell out of bed one night and broke her thigh bone. Just as bad as breaking a hip. Came through surgery just fine, and was sent directly to a rehab facility, which was also a long term care facility. Her appetite never improved, and after 2 1/2 months she passed away, looking like someone from the Nazi death camps. It was awful to see her that way. I think people should die with dignity and be allowed to leave this earth when they know there is no hope for any quality of life.
Posted on 2013/12/18 15:09
Mom died a year ago. Dad says he sees her all the time as if she never left. he sees her on the sofa, in her bedroom resting, she spends the night, he tells her we're there and she dissappers. this just started a couple weeks ago. It's starting to scare me. Any thoughts on this?
Posted on 2014/10/29 15:13