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She's dated Jamie Kennedy, Carson Daly and even John Mayer, but none of them are the father of Jennifer Love Hewitt's baby.
People magazine is reporting that Jennifer Love Hewitt is pregnant with her first child. The baby's father is her boyfriend and The Client List costar, Brian Hallisay.
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Hausvald Burmese Cats, bred by Trish Smith in Norfolk, England. Trish welcomes you to HAUSVALD. If you would like to acquire a Burmese from the UK then please use this site to find out a little more about me and my Cats. We are located between Norwich, in Norfolk, and the coast. I started breeding Burmese in 1996. I now have 5 breeding Queens;2 Brown, 1 Blue and 2 Lilac. I started showing in 1999 and was very pleased to qualify one of my kittens (Angelica)for the SUPREME CAT SHOW 2000 at the NEC in Birmingham, winning 2nd prize in her open class.
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Though the Horde, they keep insisting, aren't supposed to be the bad guys anymore. So, yknow, the idea does make a certain amount of sense.
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When the New Jersey Devils beat the New York Rangers in the Eastern Conference Finals this past May, everyone anticipated the rematch between Martin Brodeur and Henrik Lundqvist. Little did fans know that it would occur almost six months to the day of Adam Henrique's series winning goal, that the venue would be Atlantic City, and that the purpose of the game would be raising money for victims of a hurricane that rocked the shores of New Jersey and New York.
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I had one of these vents attached to the sink drain in my kitchen island. A month ago, we started detecting a smell - tought it was the garbage. AFter several attemps to stop the stink I noticed the air vent up behind the sink. I put some plastic wrap on it, held in place with a rubber band, and stink went away. Saw no impact on drainage - so I took the vent out and put a threaded plug in. Fixed!
This week detected a smell coming from a butler pantry sink. Looked underneath and saw another one of these vents. Used the same approach as above and stink went away. But this time, I can see that the water drains slower. Haven't installed the permanent plug on this vent yet. Do i need these vents? Aren't they supposed to bring a little air in to help drainage but not let smelly gas out? Why the smell all of a sudden - is that normal? Seems odd to me that both vents started emitting the smell within a month of each other. Thanks |
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The vents should not emit a smell. Time to replace them with new ones. Plugging is the very wrong thing to do. |
That would be sewer gas and other food rot smells. The vents are supposed to let air in but seal from letting air and stink out. Nicknamed cheater vents, time to get new ones as the old must have warped or rotted at the gasket. |
Thanks - I will change the vents. |
Yes, change them. Do you have plumbing on an upper floor above this kitchen? |
I do - but the sinks and other drains on the second floor are connected to air vents that run up to the roof. It was only these 2 sinks that had the cheater vents on them - the island sink because there is no way to vent up and the BP sink because the wall behind it does not provide an easy path to the attic. Can someone explain what would happen if I left the cheater vents plugged forever? I plan on changing them but was curious of the downside other than slower drainage. Thanks for the help. |
Air Admittance Valves are designed to open upon negative pressure in the drainage system and close when the negative pressure is absent. If you cap them rather than replace them you run the risk of syphoning p-trap seals and allowing sewer gases to enter through the p-traps. |
Thanks for the info - very helpful |
Forcing them to operate under positive pressure can force the seal to leak, causing premature failure. Upstairs toilets flushing = positive pressure downstairs where they are connected to the drain. Because AAV's fail eventually they are not liked by code writing regulators and plumbers with a long view of history. HTH |
I pulled off the second AAV - made by Oatey. I guess the stink is the singal that the vent needs changing. The house isn't quite a year old - seems odd to me that both would fail. Should I be looking for some other issue that could have caused this problem? The second floor plumbing does not get used often - only when we have guests. We periodically go up there and flush toilets, run bath & shower heads etc to keep ptraps full. Thanks for the help. I can't say I am fond of these AAV's but it is too late to change that so I am glad I now understand what they do. |
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Canon's Powershot A3100 IS is the latest in its "A" series of digital cameras, a line that has enjoyed popularity and customer loyalty since A20 launched 10 years ago. Its popularity is mostly due to the "A" series reputation for delivering excellent image quality and dependable performance. Budget-conscious shooters loved earlier "A" series digital cameras because they were like an inexpensive - and slightly stripped down - version of Canon's "G" series digicams.
The A2000 IS, which was introduced in 2008, was the first step in Canon's makeover of the venerable "A" series. The A2000 was an auto-exposure-only point-and-shoot that lacked manual exposure capability, an optical viewfinder and a handgrip. With the A3100 IS, which replaces the popular A1100 IS, Canon's revolutionary "A" series makeover feels complete.
On the surface, the A3100 IS bears a discernible family resemblance to earlier A series digicams, but under the hood presents a major departure from the basic design philosophy that defined its predecessors. The A3100 IS (like its predecessors) provides excellent bang for the buck. Will it help maintain Canon's dominance in this highly competitive market segment? Let's find out.
In general, the A3100 IS's styling is similar to earlier "A" series cameras; its metal alloy and polycarbonate body is compact, stylish (in a practical sort of way) and durable. The camera feels good in the hand - although a bit small - and is easy to operate. Canon's "A" series digicams have always been powered by relatively cheap and universally available AA batteries, but the A3100 IS (and its nearly identical sibling the A3000 IS) are the first "A" series cameras to be powered by proprietary Canon Lithium-ion battery packs.
The A3100 also incorporates a slight redesign of the control array and a new simplified two tab menu system. Its predecessor featured an optical viewfinder and a rudimentary handgrip; the newest PowerShot eschews both. The A3100 IS is smaller (by about 25%) than its predecessor and looks like a shrunken version of earlier A models. Previous "A" series models were very popular with photo enthusiasts and more serious shooters because they provided a useful range of manual exposure options (Aperture Priority mode, Shutter Priority mode and a full Manual exposure mode), but the A3100 IS uses the same auto exposure-only system as the A1100 IS.
Unlike earlier "A" series units, the A3100 IS is thinner, lighter, easier to use than earlier "A" series digicams and easily pocketable. Earlier "A" series cameras were also marketed to a broader demographic, including photo enthusiasts, but the A3100 IS is clearly targeted toward snap-shooters and casual photographers.
Ergonomics and Controls
The A3100 IS's user interface is logical and uncomplicated; all buttons are reasonably large, clearly marked, sensibly placed and easily accessed. Operation is basic and all exposure options are minor variations on the auto exposure theme. The four-way controller and FUNC button provide direct access to the most commonly changed/adjusted (exposure compensation, WB, ISO, My Colors, flash, macro mode, etc.) features and functions. Kudos to Canon for keeping the exposure compensation button at the top position on the compass switch, making minor exposure adjustments (incrementally lightening or darkening images) easy.
The A3100 IS's mode dial is one of the best I've seen with a logical, almost intuitive layout, but its placement (top right hand corner of the camera body) is a bit disconcerting since it is very close to and directly in line with the on/off button and the slightly-too-small shutter button. Ergonomically, the shutter button should always hold the top right hand corner position.
The mode dial has five dedicated scene positions: portrait, landscape, night snapshot, kids & pets, and indoor. In addition, there is a general scene mode position that leads to a list of less commonly used scene modes including face/self-timer, low-light (2.0 megapixels at 1600 ISO), super vivid, poster effect, beach, foliage, snow, fireworks and long shutter. There's also a dedicated face detection mode button. Canon obviously designed the A3100 IS to as easy to use as possible and most purchasers won't have difficulty using it right out of the box.
Menus and Modes
The PowerShot A3100 IS features a simplified two tab version of Canon's classic menu system. The A3100 IS's menu system, accessed via a dedicated button beneath the compass switch, is logical, easy to navigate and simple, since the camera permits only minimal user input. Push the menu button and the "camera/setup" sub-menus appear. The A3100 IS provides an acceptable selection of shooting modes including program, auto, easy and video/movie modes, and a small, but adequate, selection of automatic scene modes. Here's a complete list of the A3100 IS's shooting modes:
Like many currently available point-and-shoots, the A3100 IS doesn't have an optical viewfinder, relying instead on the LCD for all framing/composition, captured image review and menu navigation chores. Most casual shooters don't use optical viewfinders and in many shooting scenarios (macro, festivals, events, portraits), it is quicker and easier to watch the decisive moment come together on the LCD screen than it is through the optical viewfinder.
The A3100 IS may lack a viewfinder, but makes up for it by adding a slightly larger (2.7-inch versus 2.5-inch) LCD screen with double (230K versus 115K) the resolution. The A3100 IS's TFT LCD screen is bright, hue accurate, relatively fluid and automatically boosts gain in dim/low light, and it displays exactly (100% of the image frame) what the lens sees.
The A3100 IS's LCD works fairly well for framing, composition, captured image review and menu navigation. The user-enabled composition grid display is a nice and useful touch, but it is, like all LCD monitors, subject to fading and glare in bright outdoor lighting. The A3100 IS's nifty chronological image review/compare option makes it easy to select the best picture from a sequence of similar images. Photographers who try to "nail" the shot by covering static subjects from various perspectives - like me - will love this feature.
While the Canon A3100 IS doesn't look like earlier "A" series cameras, it uses essentially the same exposure system that made its predecessors popular. Exposure is automatically managed by the camera's DIGIC III processor, which combines most primary camera functions (image interpolation and processing, auto exposure, white balance, JPEG compression, gain control and power management) in one chip that improves efficiency and processing speed. In all exposure modes, the camera automatically optimizes all exposure parameters (aperture, shutter speed, sensitivity, WB, etc.) to consistently produce correctly exposed images.
Shooting Performance
Timing (speed of operation) is one of two most important considerations when assessing digital camera performance, and the other is image quality. The A3100 IS comes in right at the top when compared to its competitors, with the exception of the continuous shooting rate, in terms of operational speed.
Shutter Lag (press-to-capture, pre-focus)
Camera | Time (seconds) |
Canon PowerShot A3100 IS | 0.01 |
Sony Cyber-shot S2100 | 0.02 |
Olympus Stylus 7010 | 0.03 |
Kodak EasyShare Z915 | 0.05 |
AF Acquisition (press-to-capture, no pre-focus)
Camera | Time (seconds) |
Canon PowerShot A3100 IS | 0.41 |
Olympus Stylus 7010 | 0.45 |
Sony Cyber-shot S2100 | 0.68 |
Kodak EasyShare Z915 | 0.94 |
Continuous Shooting
Camera | Frames | Framerate* |
Olympus Stylus 7010 | 2 | 1.7 fps |
Kodak EasyShare Z915 | 3 | 1.6 fps |
Sony Cyber-shot S2100 | ∞ | 1.0 fps |
Canon PowerShot A3100 IS | ∞ | 0.9 fps |
The A3100 IS features the same TTL Contrast Detection 9-point AiAF (Advanced Intelligent Auto Focus) system as its predecessor. It has two AF modes - Face AiAF and Center. In all exposure modes, the camera analyzes the scene in front of the lens and then calculates camera to subject distance to determine which 9 AF point is closest to the primary subject (closest subject priority) and then locks focus on it. The A3100 IS's default face detection AF mode is linked directly to the camera's auto exposure and auto WB systems. The A3100 automatically finds, locks focus on, tracks and then optimizes exposure for up to nine faces or shooters can lock on a single face and track it through a crowd.
Even though Canon's DIGIC IV processor is showing up in many of its newer cameras, the A3100 IS's older DIGIC III processor still provides impressive performance including quicker start-up, faster AF and snappier shutter fire times than most its competitors. Users can also opt for the 1 AF point (center) AF for classic portraits or traditional landscapes. In low light, a focus assist beam helps illuminate the subject for more accurate focusing.
The built-in multi mode flash provides an acceptable selection of artificial lighting options, including auto, red-eye reduction, auto red-eye correction, flash on, flash off; FE lock, slow synchro and smart flash modes. According to Canon, the maximum flash range is about 13 feet (4 meters), which seems fairly accurate, based on my limited flash use. The A3100's flash recycle time is between 3 and 4 seconds. The Smart Flash Exposure mode adjusts flash exposure to match the subject and the shooting conditions to avoid dark facial shadows in outdoor portraits and for even lighting during macro shooting.
The A3100 IS's optical image stabilization system reduces blur by quickly and precisely shifting a lens element in the zoom to compensate for minor camera movement. Image stabilization allows users to shoot at shutter speeds up to three f-stops slower than would have been possible without it. Image stabilization can also be useful when shooting dimly lit indoor venues where flash is inappropriate.
According to Canon, the A3100 IS is good for about 240 exposures on its fully charged Lithium-ion power pack. That's substantially fewer exposures than the A1100 IS was capable of with a pair of re-chargeable NiMH AAs. The Canon PowerShot A3100 IS supports SD, SDHC, MMC, MMC+, HC MMC+ and the SDXC format (for memory cards larger than 32GB).
Lens Performance
When the A3100 IS is powered up, the 6.2mm-24.8mm, f/2.7-5.5 (35-140mm equivalent) 4x zoom extends from the camera body automatically, and when the camera is powered down, the lens retracts inside of the camera body and a built in iris-style lens cover closes to protect the front element. Zooming is fairly smooth and lens operation is relatively quiet. Minimum focusing distance (in macro mode) is 1.2 inches. The A3100 IS needs about 3 seconds to move the lens from the wide angle end of the zoom range to the telephoto end of the zoom range. Construction is seven elements in five groups with two single-sided aspherical elements.
The A3100 IS's zoom is surprisingly good and even though the lens displays some very minor corner softness, there's no vignetting (dark corners). Barrel distortion (at the wide-angle end of the zoom range) is minimal, which is impressive since barrel distortion is a common fault with small, highly complex camera zooms. Pincushion distortion is essentially invisible at the telephoto end of the zoom.
Video Quality
The 30 fps VGA (640 x 480) movie mode wasn't designed to compete with a dedicated video camera, but it will do nicely for generating email video attachments for friends and family. Like most cameras, the A3100 IS can't be zoomed while in video capture mode.
Image Quality
Image files produced by Canon's point-and-shoots are optimized for the bold bright hues and slightly hard contrast that many shooters refer to as Canon Color, and the A3100 IS doesn't stray far from its "family" trait. Default color is fairly accurate, with most colors coming pretty close to neutral.
Reds are a little warm, blues are a bit bright and greens are very vibrant, but purples are bluish. Most casual shooters won't consider these minor variations as color faults. Although there is a slight tendency toward overexposure, the A3100 IS produces dependably well-exposed, almost noise-free images when used outdoors in good light. Chromatic aberration is remarkably well-controlled, but some very minor color fringing is present, especially in the color transition areas between dark foreground objects and bright backgrounds.
Images from the A3100 IS are highly-detailed and surprisingly sharp, although in a small percentage of my shots the AF system didn't hit the mark and the IS system infrequently dropped the ball, which resulted in an occasionally blurry image. In bright contrasty lighting, highlight detail was occasionally blown-out. Overall, the A3100's image quality is slightly better than average for cameras in this class.
The A3100 IS provides users with a decent selection of white balance options, including auto, daylight, cloudy, tungsten, fluorescent and fluorescent H, and custom. Overall, the A3100 IS's auto WB system does a good job, but like all of Canon's consumer cameras, the auto WB setting produces colors that are noticeably warmer than real world colors under incandescent light.
Auto White Balance, 3200k incandescent light
Some DSLRs have a problem generating accurate greens and many consumer digicams have trouble getting purple just right. The A3100 IS suffers from this color interpolation malady. In the photo of the Crocuses, notice that the A3100 IS nailed the lavender in this group of early spring bloomers, but failed to get the deeper purple in the image of the Dwarf Irises right; the color is much too blue.
The A3100 IS provides a decent range of sensitivity options, including auto and user-set options for ISO 80 to 1600. ISO 80/ISO 100 images are indistinguishable in that they both show bright colors, slightly hard edged native contrast and very low noise levels. ISO 200 images were also very good, but with a little less pop.
ISO 80, 100% crop |
ISO 100, 100% crop |
ISO 200, 100% crop |
ISO 400, 100% crop |
ISO 800, 100% crop |
ISO 1600, 100% crop |
At the ISO 400 setting, noise levels are noticeably higher and there's a perceptible loss of minor detail. ISO 800 images are very noisy, but they should be OK for lo-res email images and 3 x 5 inch or 4 x 6 inch prints. ISO 1600 images are way too noisy to be useful for anything beyond record shots.
The Canon PowerShot A3100 IS is noticeably different in terms of both design and size from its predecessors and is obviously targeted to casual photographers rather than photography enthusiasts who bought earlier "A" series models. Factor in the new Lithium-ion power pack and the A3100 is actually closer to Canon's Digital Elph models than to earlier "A" series units. The A3100 IS is practically identical to its little brother, the A3000 IS, so bargain seekers can save about $20 by opting for the A3000 IS over the A3100 IS, without giving up much.
The A3100 is an almost ideal first digital camera and an excellent choice for the primary family camera. It is also a very good choice for travelers who want a tough, lightweight, "go anywhere" camera. I carried the A3100 with me (just about everywhere I went) for two weeks, and even with the changes to the basic "A" series formula, I was consistently impressed, just like I have been with every other "A" series Canon camera I've used so far. The bottom line is that you really can't do much better for under $200.


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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
WHILE many of us have chosen to avoid the biting winds of recent days, a few hardy souls took advantage on the Suffolk coast.
A group of paragliding enthusiasts were captured soaring along the cliffs at Corton, near Lowestoft, by one of our many iwitness subscribers.
Regular contributor nicko1 posted the fascinating images at suffolk.iwitness24.co.uk – our online resource for readers to send photos and videos of what is happening near them.
The paragliders in these pictures braved freezing-cold temperatures to achieve some deft airborne manoeuvres along the coastline.
Several walkers watched the spectacle, caught on camera by nicko1, who said the paragliders can only fly over the Corton cliffs on easterly winds. He added: "It was very peaceful watching these men floating around like snow flakes."
Pilots use a hollow fabric wing to gain lift and stay in the air and can fly for several hours in the right conditions.
Paragliders launch into the wind from an elevated position to generate enough air pressure to inflate the wing.
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Wake up, Polly Parrot.
So many of you babies. Good Lord, I'm too old and tired to be changing diapers at this stage in my life. How stupid am I, letting myself become responsible for nine cranky little ones like you? I should be relaxing in a rocking chair, my reward for a long life. Things sure have happened differently from the way I supposed.
Whose kids are you anyway? Am I kidding myself that you'll grow up smart, or will you just be another bunch of idiots like your parents? Maybe I can teach some of you to read so you'll be able to understand this record I'm starting. You kids better smarten up fast, because Grampa Amos may not be around to see you through too many more years.
Now, where do I begin? The first thing you kids should know is that I'm not right in the head. Touched. Not as bad off as the other adults, if any of them are left alive, but bad enough. I have Alzheimer's Disease. I can't help that. You're just going to have to understand if I skip around a bit or leave out anything important.
Well, maybe that's enough writing for today. I can't seem to do this for very long before I tire and my handwriting gets illegible, and a bunch of you kids are crying to be fed. I'll try to keep at this journal until it feels like a proper record, or until I can't remember anything more. I know it's not much, but it's something.
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I've been thinking about this journal, and I decided I should fill you in on who I am and how I got to be in charge of you kids, just in case. My name is Amos Franklin, and when this whole mess started, I was living with my daughter Marie, her husband Jim, and their teenage daughter Sheila. Jim didn't like me much.
"Come on, Marie, you know we have to put him in a home," Jim said, one day after supper, as if the Alzheimer's meant I couldn't hear or understand him. "When Sheila has the baby, we're going to need the room."
Did I say Sheila was pregnant? No, I guess I didn't. Well maybe for you kids, getting pregnant will be a good thing, but back before everything changed, it wasn't always something welcomed.
"He's not going in any home," Marie said, "even if we could afford one of the good ones."
Jim looked at me hard, and I knew he didn't care if it was a good home or a bad one. He just wanted me out of his home. I pretended not to notice and turned my attention to the nightly news.
While the argument continued on whether or not to put me away, I watched a story on some group calling itself Eden-2. They were a bunch of environmental terrorists who thought mankind had mucked up the planet. There were probably hundreds of silly radical groups like that back in those days, but the authorities were taking this one seriously.
"What do you know about Eden-2?" I said to Jim, hoping to change the subject of conversation.
"We just ate, Pops," he said, not really paying attention to me.
Out in the kitchen, I heard Sheila say to Marie, "Momma, I don't want Grandpa to go away just because of the baby. I can keep it in my room."
I didn't hear what my daughter said back to Sheila, because the television was still going on about the terrorists and Jim was talking: "Pops, you know it's not fair to burden your daughter and me as you keep getting worse. At some point we won't be able to take care of you as well as a professional facility can."
"You mean a nursing home?" I said.
"Yeah, that's right. We'll find you a really good one, I swear," he said, averting his eyes to the television.
"But Dr. Mason says the neuronal transplant may reverse some of the Alzheimer's Disease."
"Yeah well, we'll see."
"He says it's very promising."
"I'll level with you, Pops. The doctor says it's experimental. If it helps a bit, great, but there's just no counting on something like that. Marie and I have to make real plans with Sheila's baby on the way."
There was no way I was going to win an argument with Jim that night. I also wasn't going to give in and tell him that it was okay to pack me off to some warehouse for the dying. I pretended to lose interest in the conversation and turned my attention back to the television. It was an easy way out, using the Alzheimer's as a crutch. Jim gave up and walked away, no doubt even more convinced that I needed to be put away, but at least I had avoided a fight.
I can't say that I miss that man, now that he's dead.
I just looked in on Sheila a few minutes ago. Not counting you kids, she's the only other one I saved. Not that I thought she could really survive, but because she was pregnant. Soon you kids will have another little brother or sister.
"Gamma, wan go," Sheila said, her voice sounding more like one of those retarded kids instead of the bright 18-year old that she is. That she used to be. She watched me with eyes that looked no more intelligent than a puppy's, but it was only a few weeks ago that she was bright and sassy, with a mouth on her that could alternately melt your heart or cut you to ribbons. I guess she can still cut me to ribbons, but in a different way now.
It kills me to keep my own granddaughter strapped down to a hospital bed like this, but if I let her go, she'll just wander off until she starves like all the others. I know I can't keep her prisoner like this forever, and I'll have to let her go eventually and let whatever happens happen, but it would be a tragedy to lose the baby, too.
"When the baby's born, everything will be all right," I said to her, stroking her dirty brown hair.
"Lemme go!"
With a sponge and a basin of water I cleaned Sheila up as best as I could. Her belly was getting large, and it wouldn't be long before the baby came. I hope everything works out all right. Just because we live here in the hospital doesn't mean I know what to do with any of this equipment.
I fed Sheila some cold, canned stew that I found in the hospital pantry. It's wretched stuff, and I probably should go out and scrounge something from a supermarket, but I haven't ventured outside the hospital since everything changed. Before long, you babies will have exhausted the hospital's supply of disposable diapers and I'll be forced to go out looking for more.
I'll probably wait another week or two before I go out scouting, just to make sure there's no crazy people left to hurt me.
Did I say how it all ended? No, I guess I didn't. Well, it was damn quick. I was in the hospital when it happened -- this same hospital where we all live now. It was shortly after having a fetal neuronal transplant operation, and I was still recovering. I suppose that last sentence won't make much sense to you. What it means was that Dr. Mason opened my head up and put in some healthy brain cells from babies that were never born. The disease that I have, Alzheimer's, messed up a lot of the cells in my brain -- that's why I'm so slow -- but the fetal cells were supposed to help my old damaged ones along.
It worked pretty well, I think. It's hard to tell, as the people that would normally test for such things are gone. I certainly didn't get any worse after the operation, and in a lot of ways I got better. Things like writing this journal would have been impossible for me a few months ago, and I seem to remember things a lot better now, although maybe not as well as when I was a young man.
Another one of you kids died today. I used to call this one Marie, after my daughter, even though there was a different name on the hospital cradle. She was a cute little one. What did I do wrong? Maybe it was that disease where a baby just doesn't wake up one day. Some spontaneous thing. There was a name for it.
What was the name of it when a kid just ups and dies like that? It was an acronym, I think. Why can't I remember? This is making me very angry.
Maybe my operation was only temporary and the Alzheimer's is back. Or the Eden-2 thing. If it's true, God help you kids. I can't be responsible.
That's enough. I can't write any more today.
What was the name of it?
While I was recovering from the surgery, I watched a lot of news on television. I suppose the idea of television is going to seem pretty odd for a while until you kids figure how to get the electricity turned back on. On the news they were real alarmed about the release of a synthetic retrovirus by the Eden-2 people. A bunch of the Eden-2 people released this virus at the same time all over the world, and one of them was only about ten miles away from the hospital. Over the next couple of days I noticed people starting to change.
"Hey, old man," the morning nurse said to me one morning, "if you want breakfast, you gotta fix it yourself, 'cause the kitchen staff ain't here."
This was very unusual. You kids have to understand that hospitals were always staffed, and things like this just didn't happen. And the nurse had always been very courteous before that "old man" remark.
"Where's Dr. Mason?" I asked.
"Dr. Mason?" she repeated with a puzzled look on her face. "He's not here. Why don't you just go home? Everybody else is."
"If this is how you treat your patients, I just might," I said.
She flashed me a goofy grin and disappeared out the door. I could hear laughter and loud voices from somewhere in the hallway, and it scared me half to death. A hospital wasn't the right kind of place for these kinds of sounds. It sounded more like a zoo.
My granddaughter Sheila came in to the hospital to visit me on that last day of almost-normalcy. "G-g-grampa?" she said sheepishly, peeking her head in the room.
"Sheila!" I said. "Am I glad to see you. This place is a madhouse."
"M-m-mom says h-h-hi."
The stuttering slowness of her speech quickly dampened my happiness. The thing that was going around must have hit her while she was on the way over, for it was obvious she'd never make it home alone in the addled state she was in. It was amazing that she even made it to the hospital. This wasn't the Sheila I knew. Over the next few minutes, as I watched, what little spark of intelligence that was left vanished from her face.
I rang for the nurse, but no one came. On the television, many of the regular stations were off the air already, but a few remaining ones were trying to do news reports. I remember watching a newsman dressed in pajamas trying to read a story. He was looking away from the camera and giggling a lot. The story, when he could muster enough discipline to read it, told of the end of life as we knew it.
What it amounted to was the profound mental retardation of the entire adult population overnight. The Eden-2 group had succeeded spectacularly in their plans to restore humanity to a pretechnological level. Over the next 24 hours, the hospital staff, the other patients, and the people on the television all turned into a bunch of hopeless morons.
I tried phoning home to Marie to have her come over and pick Sheila and me up but the line was busy and remained that way. After a few hours of fruitless dialing, I called 911, information, and the operator, and got busy signals on those numbers as well. In frustration, I punched numbers at random, hoping for anyone to answer, but the telephone system was gone.
It was obvious that if Sheila and I were going to get home, I'd have to take charge. I found my clothing, got dressed, and prepared to face the world. Just getting Sheila through the hallways of the hospital was an ordeal. The floor was littered with all manner of debris: clothing, bedding, medical equipment, food trays and bedpans. A few mindless people were milling about and several of them followed us to the main entrance.
Once outside the doors, our followers dispersed in all directions. God only knows where they were going. Doctors, nurses, patients, they were all equal in idiocy now, and I made no effort to stop them. What happened to any of them I don't know. They were all doomed, but what could I do?
My hope of getting us a ride home was dashed by the sights of the street outside the hospital. Several cars were crashed, and an ambulance was overturned. No traffic moved along save for the sad, vacant pedestrians scurrying by at random. I briefly thought I might take a car and drive myself, although it had been a few years since I was allowed behind the wheel, but I gave up on that. Even if I could find us a working car with keys in it, the roads were all but unpassable with all the wrecks.
I brought Sheila back into the hospital, and that's where I made our home. And why not? There was plenty of food in the kitchen, and lots of places to sleep.
I found a bed with restraints to keep Sheila from wandering off into the night.
Within a few days, almost all of the remaining people had found their way to the door and disappeared. A dozen or so of the patients had died in their beds and I rolled them out into a back hallway.
And I found you, dear children, the residents of the maternity ward. Even as squalling infants, it was obvious that the virus had not affected you kids. Eleven of you when I first discovered you, although two of you died quickly thereafter. How could I not try to save all of you? After all, it was the thing we shared in common that had allowed us to ride out the virus: we all had baby brain cells.
Despite a whole storeroom full of diapers off the maternity ward, it didn't take too long for you kids to go through the lot of them, and you'd soon need sizes bigger than the newborn ones the hospital kept. There was plenty of infant formula for a while, but I could see the day coming when that too would run out. There was just no getting around the fact that I had to go out searching for supplies.
Things had quieted down a lot since the change. Looking out the windows, I hadn't seen anyone moving out on the street in a week when I decided it was time to explore. I found a telephone directory at a nurse's station, and a pretty good street map in the emergency room, so I knew where I was going. I made sure all you kids and Sheila had a good meal and were changed before I headed out.
The place I was going to was only about a half a mile away, so I probably could have walked it -- I'm not nearly as feeble in my legs as I am in the head -- but I took one of the fancy electric wheelchairs instead. It seemed to be holding a charge, the last one it would ever get, and it carried me all the way there, although it was slow going at the end.
On the way, I saw things that I wish I hadn't. Plenty of crashed cars with their decaying occupants still in them. Lots of dead people on the curb where they simply toppled from starvation. I saw a dog roaming the street, frightened by the sight of me, but obviously well fed. I didn't want to think about what it might have found to eat. It was with relief that I reached my destination, the Toy Warehouse.
There was a supermarket a little farther away, and I'll investigate that another time, but the Toy Warehouse was the closest place in the Yellow Pages that had what I needed -- infant formula, diapers, and baby food. The baby food was for Sheila, as she had to be spoon fed by this time.
Getting the wheelchair in the toy store was impossible with all the debris littering the entrance. Luckily it wasn't human bodies, but toy ones, dolls, and cars and balls and all manner of playthings. The place looked as if it had been ransacked. I might have expected a supermarket to be cleaned of its contents, but a toy store? It was sad, but in their final days, perhaps many of the confused horde found the comfort of cuddly toys a higher priority than the necessity of food.
I made my way through the littered aisles to the back storage area, where I found case upon case of diapers, formula and baby food, all untouched. In the bicycle area I found a large adult three-wheeler, and I was able attach a big wagon to haul some cartons back to the hospital. The tricycle and wagon proved a reliable method of transportation and I made several trips to the toy store and the supermarket in the following weeks. Later I went to a hardware store and got kerosene heaters and a gas camping stove. Then some books from a library.
I never saw anyone alive during any of the outings.
A few days ago, Sheila had her baby -- my great-grandchild. The delivery seemed to go well, without me having to do much more than coach her to push at the right time and tie off the cord afterwards. Sheila barely knew what was going on the whole time, merely birthing the child by some animal instinct, like a dog or cat.
The baby is a girl, which I think is a very good thing if you kids are ever going to build up the population again. Sheila was worn out by the labor, and I left her restraints undone afterwards so she could relax in her exhaustion. The next morning, however, she was gone with the rest, as surely to her death as if she had jumped off a cliff. God rest her soul.
The baby has alert, intense eyes. Young as she is, I can see a sparkle of intelligence there that her mother lacked. I call her Marie.
What a dunce I am. of course there have to be others out there like me who survived the Eden-2. Even if this fetal tissue procedure was experimental, there have to be other test subjects. What a monumental conceit on my part to assume I was alone.
Even if there's only one other person alive that can help me with raising you kids, it would make me sleep a whole lot better at night. It's not fair for me to have so much responsibility.
If they did the procedure on me at this hospital, then they must have done it to others. There have to be records of such things somewhere in this building. I hope it wasn't just kept on the computers. Even if I could get the things working, I wouldn't know what to do with them. There must be something on paper.
I'll tear this place apart if I have to.
I found the records, in Dr. Mason's office, of course. There was a row of file cabinets, crammed with folders, one of which was mine. Interesting stuff there, but the important thing was it cross referenced to an "FT-12" file. That's where the gold was buried.
The FT-12 file had all the names of Dr. Mason's fetal neural tissue procedures over the last four years. About a quarter of them were listed as deceased, but there were 22 others, mostly with local addresses. Surely some of them must have lived past the Eden-2 disaster. Maybe a few still survived.
How do I find them? I'm afraid to go too far from the hospital looking for them. If anything happens to me, you kids are lost.
I figured out how to make a really good noisemaker. I took the siren off an ambulance and brought it up to the roof. Maybe it's just because it's so quiet these days, but when I hooked a car battery up to it, it seemed as loud as anything I can ever remember. The battery didn't last very long, the bulk of its charge long since spent, but I have lots of cars to pick over. There must be over a hundred right here in the hospital parking lot, and I'll use every damn one of them.
It was a full day before the first one came. Rose Feinstein, a dear old woman. She raised a couple of kids of her own in her day, and she knows a whole lot more about caring for babies than I do. Rose was afraid of what she might find when she timidly inched through the hospital door, attracted by the howling siren. She still didn't look very trusting when I ran out and greeted her, but you kids won her over. As soon as I could get her to come upstairs and see the nursery, she broke down and cried, hugging a bunch of you.
That's when I knew you kids would be safe.
Over the next five days of running the siren, three more of Dr. Morgan's patients came in. That was all. I kept at the siren another week, off and on, but the five of us seem to be all there is. There's probably more in other cities, and maybe some of them were quick enough to save the babies wherever they are. All we can do is hope.
It's been awhile since I last wrote in this book. I guess having other people to talk to changed things a bit. I'm sorry, but I was probably running out of things to say anyway.
You kids are getting bigger now, so I guess we're doing something right. Rose is really good with babies.
It's going to be a lonely world for the bunch of you. All of us adults are pretty old, so by the time you're grown up, we'll be gone. Maybe that's best. You kids don't need any old baggage dragging you down -- you have a whole world to rebuild. Maybe it really is a second Eden.
Copyright © 1997 Brian Plante, first appeared in Year 1: A Time Of Change. Count=7990


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Hi all, I finally finished the post on red irises. There are beautiful photos from our own Gottagarden and many others. Thanks to all who chimed in with opinions or who gave me the use of their lovely photos. Renee |
Here is a link that might be useful: AIS World of Irises Blog
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Beautiful as always, Renee. I know that hemerocallis hybridizers have been busy trying to get a true red daylily--red as in Sanny Claus red, not rust or claret. And they're pretty much there. Anyone working on that in the iris family? My guess is that it might be more difficult for irises, but from a botanical standpoint I couldn't tell you why exactly. Kay |
- Posted by hosenemesis SoCal Sunset 19 USDA (My Page) on Tue, Dec 18, 12 at 14:04
Yes, I love my 'Dixie Land Band' red daylily- it's red! Yes, they are working on it, but there are no red pigments in irises. Here's a link to an article that explains what they are trying to accomplish. |
Here is a link that might be useful: The Hunt for the Red Iris Continues
Thanks for the NYT article, Renee, but I had to laugh at the underlying principle of it all--human folly. Ain't it always the way with homo sapiens? Roses bloom red effortlessly, yet we struggle to breed a blue one. Irises bloom bluer than blue, but that's not good enough--we drive ourselves batty trying to make a red one. Sheesh!! Kay |
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I bought this 3 gallon plant group today from my favorite local independent nursery. It contains:
3 noce Dieffenbachia "Marie" 2 REALLY NICE Alocasia rugosa 1 large trailing begonia type plant I am NOT going to tell (yet) how much it cost. I want you to tell me what you THINK it would cost in your area, or what you think it might cost based on what it contains and its size. And lastly, what YOU would have paid for it (if you liked it enough to buy it) I am just curious about differences in prices of plants across the US
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You paid? $24.99 In S. Florida? $29.99 I would pay? $19.99 |
- Posted by longwoodgradms 10 or 11 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 22, 07 at 19:45
Is it in a regular black plastic pot or something different? |
depends on the nursery... some of them will sell the dieffenbachia for $10 some $20... they are pretty common here, so people shouldn't pay THAT much. Don't know about the alocasia... never shopped for one in a nursery here. |
Regular black plastic 3 gal nursery pot. Yes, the dieffenbachia is pretty common, depending on the size, they sell alone here from about $5.99-15.99. The alocasia rugosa, however, is more difficult to find "just laying about" and individual plants in 6" containers commomly sell for $9.99-15.00 each if they are available here. Much smaller plants than these sell for somewhere between that by mail order. I don't know about the pink trailing begonia-like thingie, I am not even sure what it is. Let me say this: I was surprised at the cost of this arrangement. |
lol I like these games.... ok so you were surprised by the cost and you bought it...which means that it was a good deal. Its not the most common dief, but fairly common, but you are right-that A. rugosa is unusual...but they bought it as a TC plant for about .80 cents ( give or take 20 cents),the diefs were cuttings, so I am going to go with $ 14.99. That may be too low ( guess I am thinking that I wouldn't have paid $ 20 for it-but diefs aren't my thing-although I am starting to get into calatheas! lol) |
Could we get a closer picture of the pink thingie? |
I'll try to get out there to get a closer shot of the pink thing. Its some sort of trailing begonia type plant. I'm sure its probably a fairly common hanging basket plant but I don't know its name. Its pouring rain at the moment, will try later |
Here's the purple hanging thingie |
lol I hope they deducted from the price to include that plant....is it too late to change my price to 12.99? Maybe its just me, but that plant doesn't get me excited. I did see a nice size dief at Lowes for $ 8 today. |
I think that one may be an episcia species. They grow as ground cover. |
You know I have a bunch of Episcias. You may be right, Trini, this resembles that a lot, but would be one I don;t have. I do think its a gesneriad of some sort. Episcias around here sell for between $5-7 for a 4" container. Anyway, I won't keep you in suspense any longer, because I can see that not many people are actually interested in this little game....the plants were $18 already planted in the 3 gal pot. The nice size of the Alocasia rugosas would have had them selling locally for probably $9.99 each, actually, I have never seen them locally anywhere) so I feel I got my dollar's worth. The dieffenbachia, I like because I didnlt have that one (even though its fairly common) |
- Posted by barbcoleus z10 SWFL (My Page) on Sun, Jan 28, 07 at 0:19
Do you think it's possible that that little purple thingie is an Aluminum plant. Pilea Cadierei? Barb |
Barb, that was my second guess. It looks alot like that too. |
- Posted by birdinthepalm (My Page) on Sun, Jan 28, 07 at 10:07
I'm pretty sure the plant pictured in the post just before this one, is a Pilea, though it's most likely one of the newer cultivars perhaps of the Aluminum plant. There are of course many varieties and species of the Pileas, so it could be a distinct species. I see looking at one site , there's a similar plant that looks to have more chocolate or maroon leaves, that's very similar and that one is Pilea "involucrata". |
I think you got a good deal, and the color combo is fantastic! I saw a small starter plant of Alocasia rugosa online for $15; Dieffenbachia might be common to some, but for a 6" and up pot, it can cost several $. I've had a small pot of the purple plant that I planted outside under shade, but don't know the name and it certainly is not a begonia. |
- Posted by barbcoleus z10 SWFL (My Page) on Sun, Jan 28, 07 at 11:40
Well now that we've established what it might be, I'll give you a dollar for it and expect change. :) Seriously I find you can buy some plants and pay a fortune and they are as common as dirt but people buy them anyway. People are still buying plants which invasive here in Florida! I usually shop at my local Walmart because their garden center is great I think because the manager knows something about plants and there is no other place other than HD or Lowes. One time when I went to an orchid show one of the vendors had paphs. SHe had obviously bought them from Walmart because the tags were the same, pots everything except the price which was higher of course. I guess the price is determined by what the market will bear. Barb |
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