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Gary Ferguson, 296 pages, hardcover: $25.
Counterpoint, 2014.
When Gary Ferguson set off to scatter the ashes of his wife, Jane, in the wilderness, he was overwhelmed by
Gary and Jane were students at Indiana University when they met. They married in 1980 and spent the next 25 years walking, biking, driving and canoeing in remote places from Mexico to the Arctic. For the last 14 of those years, their journeys began and ended at a house near Red Lodge, Montana. Then Jane drowned during what should have been an easy canoe trip down the Kopka River in Northern Ontario.
Soon after, "wrapped in an impossible fog of grief," Ferguson began his solitary journeys to scatter Jane's ashes in three of the five locations specified in her will: Alpine Lake in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho; near a Forest Service cabin in southern Montana; and in an isolated corner of Utah's Capitol Reef National Park. Two years later, he hiked to the last two places: remote areas in Montana's Beartooth Mountains and Yellowstone National Park. During these journeys, he thought about their lives together, and his reflections gradually unknotted the tangle of his sorrow and helped him rediscover himself. He found solace in something he learned from an elderly Paiute man: "On any given day there's both beauty and chaos standing together."
Gary Ferguson writes under the influence of poetry, especially that of beat poets Kenneth Rexroth and Gary Snyder, known as the poet laureate of Deep Ecology. But Ferguson's prose is clear and engaging, and he uses it to convey his hard-earned knowledge of fear and freedom and the failings of the boomer generation. The Carry Home invites the reader to witness life and death from the writer's newfound point of view: "It's in the woods just beyond my door where I'm likely to recall that life as we know it wouldn't even arise in the first place, unless it also passed away."
]]>It's a story as old as storytelling itself: A young man leaves his home in search of adventure before settling down to the responsibilities of adulthood. But in Matt Pavelich's second novel, The Other Shoe, the story is less about the traveler and more about the aftermath of the journey. Calvin Teague, a 24-year-old pharmacy student from Iowa, is really only "fit to run a small circuit through thoroughly expected events." Nevertheless, he sets off to see the Pacific Ocean. His car breaks down near Red Plain, a fictional small town in western Montana. It will take days to repair, he's told, and so he attempts his own version of the hero's journey by strapping on a backpack and striding off down Highway 200. He is soon reported dead, though, and Karen and Henry Brusett, locals who know what happened and why, refuse to talk. So Henry is arrested and sent to jail.
Pavelich -- an author and attorney from Hot Springs, Mont. -- writes his cast of small-town characters true and deep, avoiding artifice and stereotype. The county attorney, Hoot Meyers, a hometown boy, "knew every living soul in Conrad County, frequently knew their whole genealogy and how they were likely to behave in a given situation." Now he has to build a murder case against his old friend Henry, a physically disabled man with "a form of high anxiety, a severe case of something to do with other people." Karen, a backwoods beauty, learned early on "to stay quiet, to act as if she'd lost the power of speech altogether," a skill that comes in handy during her interrogation by local law enforcement officials. The delightfully named public defender, Giselle Meany, has "a reputation as a meddlesome fool (whose) heart (is) worn on a sleeve and bleeding inexhaustibly, without discretion."
The people in The Other Shoe are haunting and memorable characters, bound tightly to their past by local history and folklore. Pavelich unwinds his intriguing plot slowly, reflecting the pace of life in rural America. By the last page, anyone who has ever lived in a small town is likely to think, This really could have happened.
]]>More than a decade before Suelo's life-changing decision, Mark Sundeen, the book's author, worked with him briefly in Moab, Utah. When Sundeen heard about Suelo's moneyless lifestyle, he was struck by the different paths they'd chosen. Intrigued, he tracked down his former co-worker, who was still living in the Moab area. The two men renewed their acquaintance by going dumpster diving, picking melons from an abandoned garden, and digging wild onions. It didn't take long to "harvest" enough food to last several days and pack it off to Suelo's residence: a cave situated on public lands located "a two-hour walk from pavement." Illumination inside it came from burning cotton cords floating in glass jars filled with vegetable oil, and the cooking was done on a ventilated "number-ten chili can." Living permanently on public land is illegal, and once, after Suelo was caught, he unsuccessfully argued his case before a judge. He paid his fine with hours of community service, and then settled into a smaller, more isolated cave.
Suelo has many strong opinions about capitalism and religion, which he expresses freely on his blog, accessing the Internet via a public library computer. Hostile readers have called him lazy, a freeloader, and worse. But Sundeen keeps a cool head as he weaves facts, timelines and anecdotes into a fascinating story, researching everything from Suelo's grade-school years to the history of banking. What he discovered about the defining moment in Suelo's life will give readers a lot to think about. Ultimately, Suelo decided, our attachment to money is about our fear of death: "Money perpetuated the fantasy of immortal earthly life, the illusion that we could determine the future." Sundeen concludes that, despite his critics, Suelo is still a productive citizen, a sort of "freelance philosopher." He just doesn't receive -- or want -- a paycheck.
]]>"This is a personal book," Catherine C. Robbins writes in the preface to All Indians Do Not Live In Teepees (or Casinos), a collection of her journalistic essays. Robbins is not Indian, but she is also "not an Indian wannabe," she says, and is "neither 'going native' nor finding salvation in Indian life." Rather, her goal is to document the mistreatment of American Indians -- something she often witnessed during 25 years as a journalist -- while revealing how contemporary Natives are generating new energy and vision from their turbulent past. Robbins does more than simply report facts; she provides cultural commentary through her personal experiences, and infuses present-day events with well-researched historical context.
Robbins focuses largely on the tribes based in her home territory, the Southwestern United States. She begins with a detailed account of an eight-year repatriation process that ended in 1999, when Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology returned 2,000 ancestral remains and artifacts to the Jemez/Pecos Pueblo in New Mexico. According to Robbins, that repatriation "united and strengthened" the Pueblo people and inspired other tribes to make formal requests for the return of artifacts. Another chapter chronicles the brouhaha over a zoo on the Navajo Reservation. Some tribal members viewed caging wild animals as a violation of their sacred relationship with nature, while others envisioned the zoo as a teaching facility for students. "Tribal members," Robbins writes, "debate about the proper proportion of traditional to modern as noisily as classical philosophers in Athens might have argued their own issues."
No single book can do more than scratch the surface of the complex contemporary lives of Native peoples. But Robbins has helpfully provided nearly 60 pages of detailed notes, along with useful lists of books, places and websites -- a plethora of resources readily available to anyone willing to look beyond the popular culture's stereotypes of American Indians.
]]>It's 1959, and the shiny façade of America's white culture is beginning to tarnish. Schools are being desegregated and black people are starting to march in the streets of the South. There's an "unsavory mixing of whites and Mexicans" in California nightclubs. Young men "of a certain type" are migrating to San Francisco. And Alfred Hitchcock is about to inflict moral mayhem on the movie industry, and on his viewers, by filming the murder of a naked woman in a shower.
Hitchcock ("The Director)" wanders into Manuel Muñoz's novel, What You See in the Dark, in Bakersfield, Calif., seeking a motel location for his new movie, Psycho. And Muñoz crafts his hybrid story, an artful blend of fiction and history, around the making of that famous film. "He (Hitchcock) was in the midst of doing something extraordinary and uncanny with some actresses, finessing their star wattage and burnishing it into a singular, almost iconic image."
Analogous to "The Director" and "The Actress" (Janet Leigh) are two ordinary people. Teresa Garza and Dan Watson are small-town lovers. She wants to be a famous singer; he directs her nightclub debut. Their relationship ends with her brutal murder: "The stairwell up to her apartment had a side wall smeared in blood. ..."
Muñoz's skillful use of second-person point-of-view in the opening and final chapters gives the story a cinematic feel -- you can almost hear the soundtrack as Candy, Teresa's co-worker, searches for her: "She's there, that girl. You looked for her among the faces surrounding the bathroom mirrors, but she was nowhere to be found. But you know she's there. ..." Candy also judges: She can't imagine how "that skinny brown girl who lived above the bowling alley" managed to snag "the most handsome man in town." The rest of the novel is told from a third-person point of view. It's an unusual approach, but the shift works.
With his debut novel, Muñoz knits a complex web of storylines into one smooth narrative, pulling the reader through backstory, action and multiple perspectives with the subtlety of a literary master -- or even a film director.
]]>On the Day of the Dead, Randy returns, riding an old swaybacked horse into the village. He meets a parade of characters, including Lilith, Death, and the Devil, who offer him advice and distraction. Unica, an old medicine woman, tells him there are "galaxies of souls out there, all being recycled," and says that the "purpose of living (is) to expand the soul." The old Catholic priest from Randy's childhood church tells him, "Time is like a worm. It eats everything." Several alluring women try to tempt him, but Randy refuses to give up his dream of re-uniting with Sofia, although he wonders if she, too, has forgotten him. And he can't find out -- because Sofia lives on the other side of a torrential river that has no bridge across it.
Eventually, Randy encounters his old first-grade teacher, Miss Libriana, who gives him a helpful book entitled How to Build a Bridge. The villagers think he is crazy to try to build a bridge across the wild river. "The gringos in the cantina agreed. A Mexican boy could never build a bridge. Hadn't he failed high school? Didn't get his diploma. Still had a noticeable accent when he spoke English. Would never get ahead." But while they sit and drink beer, Randy works, cutting trees with a band of migrant workers who have agreed to help him build the bridge.
Randy Lopez may be Chicano, but his yearning for community, recognition and love are universal. Anaya manages to weave large and complex issues like wisdom, spirituality and the clash of cultures into a simple story -- one that celebrates creative imagination, a sense of purpose, and the blessings of life.
]]>Wild Comfort often drifts into vivid poetry. Moore describes the sun "slumped on the water like an egg yolk, peppered by frigate birds" and shares her experience of a night when you'd need "a stone chisel to flake the darkness out of this sky." Poetry is a way to express grief, she notes: Sometimes, she says, "when death comes, only poetry is enough."
Although dark images appear frequently in these essays, threads of insight and joy are stitched in as well. Moore returns briefly to her original intention in "The Happy Basket," a sort of gratitude-journal-in-wicker experiment where she collects notes about what she's doing when she feels happy: "Fresh crab ... Frank and I held hands in bed last night ... A patch of sun and a glass of wine after work." Near the end of the book, an optimistic essay about the abundant life rising from the ashes of the Mount St. Helens eruption reminds us that nature will use the tiniest crack in a rock or patch of scorched ground as a place to start over. Moore posits that "destruction, creation, catastrophe, renewal, sorrow, and joy are merely human ways of seeing" natural events. Ultimately, she says, only change is real. While this is certainly not a new idea, her descriptions of insects under rocks, of snowflakes and fog, of water and tree branches show us fresh ways to value often-unwelcome changes.
Moore does not pretend to have a comprehensive definition of sorrow, or a cure for its pain. What she does have, however, is the skill to weave snippets from the cycles of nature into essays that offer beauty, reassurance and comfort.
]]>Worst of all, as Wilkinson discovered, people from terminated tribes were no longer considered Indian -- by either whites or Indians. "I felt like I lost my identity," Agnes Pilgrim, a Siletz, told Wilkinson. Termination also affected tribal members far from Oregon. "One woman lost her teaching job at Haskell Indian School in Kansas," Wilkinson writes, "because she was no longer a member of a 'recognized' tribe."
Then, in 1966, Robert Bennett, an Oneida Indian from Wisconsin, became BIA commissioner. Things began to change. In the early 1970s, a small group of Siletz re-formed the tribal government and began the formidable legal process of seeking restoration. Although they were opposed by powerful commercial and sport-fishing organizations and legislators who "worried that other terminated tribes might use (the Siletz) as precedent for their own restoration," the Siletz Tribe was eventually restored. "Restoration proved to be only a beginning," however, as Wilkinson observes. The Siletz had to re-establish their "identity and create a governing structure in a new time" -- all of which required cooperation and diligence.
The People Are Dancing Again presents a meticulously researched history of the Siletz people, who had asked Charles Wilkinson to write their story. It's also the story of every terminated tribe that has had to fight to regain its culture, language, land and place in American society.
]]>McGuane's dark picaresque is narrated by Irving Berlin Pickett, who is "well aware of the absurdity of (his) name." Pickett -- the spawn of a patriotic evangelical Christian and her closet-atheist husband -- notes that he was born in "an era when breasts just happened, were not built to suit." But whether real or fake, any breasts Pickett meets push him beyond his meager social skills. His relationships with women range from casual to ruinous, which is understandable, perhaps, in the aftermath of his teenage sexscapades with a seductive aunt.
Although a plausible twist of fate allows young Pickett to migrate from low-class teenager to successful physician, he's still a bit of a goober. So when a former lover's husband pressures authorities to bring manslaughter charges against Pickett after a patient dies, the doctor does all the wrong things.
In a sort of post-indictment panic, Pickett blunders his way across the Pacific Northwest and southwest Montana, looking for comfort in fly-fishing, bird hunting, and a thrillingly dysfunctional relationship with a female outlaw. The aftermath of his destructive choices, however, is often interrupted by self-reflective episodes. "Everyone must look back over their lives and consider what the big mistakes were," Pickett thinks. "If this spell of forced leisure had a mission, it seemed to be this review as to how I got to this place."
Driving on the Rim does more than deliver a story. It demonstrates McGuane's remarkable ability to create and then untangle multiple plotlines, bringing us, once again, to wonder at his ability to create uniquely hilarious characters that yet remind us so much of ourselves.
]]>To Joe Hutto, a "romantic scientist," it seemed that the vast grandeur of Wyoming's Wind River Range existed "in spite of us," that "human civilization and technology had proven impotent against an apparently irresistible force of nature." But that was before he scrambled up Middle Mountain to spend his first summer observing a large herd of wild mountain sheep. His assignment was to gather information that might help scientists discover why Rocky Mountain bighorn lambs were dying of a strange neuromuscular disorder.
The statistics he gathered that summer reversed Hutto's old notions about environmental damage: "One would logically expect any threat to a remote twelve-thousand-foot alpine habitat to come from below. ... Ironically, something mysterious is occurring that seems to affect the highest elevations most dramatically." That mysterious something turns out to be acid rain.
The Light In High Places chronicles Hutto's experiences during the bighorn sheep study, as well as time he spent working as a Wyoming ranch hand. His first book, Illuminations in the Flatlands, recorded the months he spent raising a brood of wild turkeys. In The Light In High Places, he walks us through alpine wilderness to show us that "it is not the greed of multinational corporations with their vicious bulldozers, chain saws, and oil rigs" consuming the earth's resources and polluting our environment, "but rather individuals like you and me" -- via our daily consumer choices.
But this is (mostly) not a preachy book. The narrative is taken from Hutto's journals, written while he had an abundance of solitude and time to observe, investigate and reflect. The roughly three dozen color and black-and-white photos in the book add clarity and perspective. Hutto shares plenty of personal stories, introducing us to old-school ranchers and authentic Wyoming cowboys. Bears, mountain lions, hawks, wolves -- even a wolverine -- make cameo appearances in this wilderness drama. And we get to be privileged voyeurs to the author's discoveries, without even having to lace up our hiking boots.
]]>The United States of America leaped into the 20th century with a surfeit of natural resources and a flamboyant leader. Early in his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt proposed a radical idea: Set aside and protect certain parts of the country for the enjoyment of all its citizens. Despite industry's opposition, he managed to create the Forest Service. But congressmen balked at paying for "scenery," and so "jungle capitalism" broke out in the West, according to Timothy Egan's new book, The Big Burn.
During the first decade of the 1900s, "Teddy's green rangers" bravely attempted to protect public lands. But they were losing the battle. Hard-knuckle brawls erupted in forests and on the streets of Western towns, in rowdy mining camps and in elegant dining rooms. Verbal fisticuffs broke out in the halls of Congress. Industrial capitalists like J.P. Morgan, William A. Clark and John D. Rockefeller scrambled to make all the money they could off the "free" natural resources in the West before Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, locked it all up.
When influential congressmen in cahoots with the powerful robber barons denied funding for the Forest Service, Pinchot deftly parried. He presented Congress with a new idea: His rangers, he said, could also fight wildfires.
Then, out in Idaho, a monster wildfire blew up. In less than two days, more than 3 million acres of trees and five towns were burned into ashes. Nearly 100 people died. Pinchot blamed Congress and promised to control future wildfires –– if his rangers were given adequate funding.
In The Big Burn, Egan posits that without the catastrophic fire of 1910, the public lands we enjoy today would not exist. But he also presents a down side to the salvation of the fledgling Forest Service: decades of fire-suppression policies. As "bigger, longer, earlier, hotter wildfires" have become more common, Egan says, "firefighting now accounts for nearly half of the Forest Service budget. This was not what Roosevelt had in mind."
Egan's meticulous research and engaging style enliven this many-sided story. His characters are round and fully animated, springing to life from the flat, dusty pages of history.
The word "forgiveness" conjures up images of long, damp hugs, sobbing and weakness. Our movie theaters, television screens and books are filled with heroes who violently punish evildoers, not people forgiving each other. In real life, our justice system steers clear of reconciliation and dispenses vengeance instead.
At first, vengeance is what Irene Stanley, the central character in Oregon writer Naseem Rakha's novel, The Crying Tree, wants. She's wallowed in anger for years, waiting for an execution that doesn't happen. She is obsessed and even suicidal, filled with bitter hatred. But who can blame her? Who wouldn't want revenge against the person who killed your 15-year-old son?
But then, after a decade of her life has been ground into dust by the ponderous wheels of the justice system, Irene discovers that her "hate had run its course and depression had whittled her to nothing." And so she writes to her son's murderer: "I forgive you for what you did to my son. ... I understand people make mistakes in life, Mr. Robbin, and I forgive you yours."
Irene's decision launches her into uncharted territory. While she may be ready for forgiveness, the rest of the world is not –– especially not the prison system. Forgiveness forces Irene beyond the narrow mindset of her southern Illinois hometown, where a "fierce and angry God" reigns over Creekside Baptist Church. She finds herself alone, without precedent or guidance. Knowing that her friends and family, especially her husband, will never understand, she keeps her correspondence with Robbin a secret.
There are other secrets in this book. But even though The Crying Tree is her debut novel, Rahka entwines these twists into her plot with expert timing. Lucid scenes reveal the complex grief and enduring frustration experienced by the surviving members of the Stanley family.
Despite a few soapboxy moments, The Crying Tree offers readers an enthralling story. It also offers a sense of hope: the possibility that we, as a society, may someday find a place for genuine forgiveness within our justice system.
]]>Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It
Maile Meloy
240 pages, hardcover: $25.95.
Riverhead, 2009.
Where The Money Went
Kevin Canty
208 pages, hardcover: $25.
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009.
Three recent books of short stories feature complex but credible characters in relationships tingling with tension. Even as they play on well-worn themes -- unrequited love, marital discord, moral weakness -- the stories in these collections are full of provocative plots and unexpected finales.
The majority are told by or about men. In Nine Ten Again by Montana writer Phil Condon, working-class men struggle with war-induced stress, homelessness and painful decisions. The men in Maile Meloy's Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It mostly crave what they can't have: a wife and a mistress, grandma's money, the truth about a murder. Many of Kevin Canty's male narrators seem to be on their way out of ennui-infested marriages in Where The Money Went.
The title piece of Montana author Canty's collection is a potent short-short story in which a man sits at his kitchen table evaluating the events and decisions that drained his finances: the big house with a swimming pool, the cars, high-end bicycles and skis, vacations, private schools, and, finally, the lawyers. In other stories, a parade of men from Montana to Arizona brood over their relationships. Often, frustration and anger ("Sometimes it seems to me that anger is the engine of a marriage, the power that drives all the other parts") propel them into risky behavior: sex with a friend's wife, drunk driving, ignoring dangerous weather conditions.
As "The Boreal Forest" unfolds to a queasy ending, Canty's narrator sits under a tree, waiting out a snowstorm. He thinks about the possibility of dying, and it puts his pathetic human drama into perspective. "That was the joke:" he thinks, "all the rest of it, Maria (his lover), Catherine (his wife), even Ellie (his young daughter), we had made it all unreal. And this was real, this mountainside, this storm, and it wanted to kill me."
Dicey weather and convoluted relationships also compel many of Meloy's characters in Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It. The title story (whose name is taken from a poem by A.R. Ammons) expresses the sentiment directly, but the men in some of the other stories also want it "both ways." In "O Tannenbaum," for example, Everett invites the wrath of his wife and scares his young daughter during their annual Christmas-tree-cutting outing when he offers a ride to Clyde and Bonnie, a couple stranded in the woods. Although his neck prickles when they offer their names, Everett's decision is motivated by the fact that "this wasn't country where you left people in the snow" -- and by lust. The young woman is "the kind of blonde who (holds) sorority car washes." Just his type.
In "Two Step," a brilliantly crafted anecdote about a menage a trois, Meloy places a pregnant wife and her husband's mistress in the couple's kitchen while the husband races toward home. Alice cries, telling her "friend" about the agony of suspecting an affair without knowing the identity of the other woman. Or does she? "The Children" leaves the reader wondering if Fielding will abandon his beautiful and talented wife for a woman just a few years older than their daughter. As in most of Meloy's work, these stories show that the core of this California novelist's prodigious talent is her ability to tantalize, revealing small but crucial details at critical moments.
Similarly, Condon's skill with nuance enables him to tackle complex social and moral issues that might derail a writer with less finesse. Nine Ten Again features stories about workingmen and their challenges, including war. Chad, the Vietnam veteran who narrates "A Country Voice," knows that his furniture-building therapy, a suggestion from his "VA head-bender," is like trying to eradicate an acre of dandelions with a screwdriver. Terrors from the past -- where his buddies disappear in "a giant red sneeze in the jungle" while he fights for a government that "like(s) to start wars, but not to finish them" -- saturate his present. Duck, the born-again bricklayer in "Cakewalk," touches his Bible but doesn't open it. His decision to keep quiet about the cause of a co-worker's death makes "him wonder if he should ever open it again."
Most of the men in Nine Ten Again make their decisions from the middle of a situation -- long after the events that shaped their lives have occurred. But for a graphic look at how one boy gets hurled into manhood, turn to the end of the book. "Bridgestone, 1963" is shaped by an unsettling coming-of-age theme. After an appalling incident changes Cane Raone's joyful adolescent obsession with motorcycles into grief and guilt, he seeks respite in the spectacular landscape of western Colorado: "I walked to the window. I wanted to punch my fist through one of the panes, as if that could let all the bad things in the room rush out and disappear in the mountains." The darkness of that one event appears to stain Cane's future. And we are left to imagine how that stain might color his relationships and influence his adult decisions.
Reading the stories in these three collections is like entering a building full of freshly washed windows. They allow us clear (if circumscribed) views into the lives of many different kinds of men and offer a roomful of hints about why they are the way they are.
]]>An engaging blend of history lesson, fly-fishing essay and philosophical treatise, Yellowstone Autumn describes a veteran writer's three weeks of solitude in Yellowstone National Park. Walter Wetherell makes the trip from New England to commemorate his 55th birthday -- his official entry into late middle age, as he sees it.
Standing outside his cabin during his first night alone, Wetherell marvels at the sound of a bugling elk, "one of the few sounds in nature worth traveling two thousand miles to hear." But his transition from modern life isn't easy. He has trouble making decisions: "Since anything is possible, the choices can be a bit overwhelming, and there is nothing stopping you from changing your mind." So he does -- many times. He has difficulty relaxing, then gets angry about his inability to relax. And just as his daughter had predicted, Wetherell suffers through spells of homesickness.
In the tradition of Henry David Thoreau and Edward Abbey, Wetherell contemplates his relationship to the land, people and wildlife, including old bison bulls, his wife, thermal pools and his own body. He broods over his membership in the "sandwich generation" -- squeezed between the demands of growing children and aging parents. He reads the historical accounts of the region's early explorers and inserts himself into their stories with imaginary journal entries: "Jake Smith came up to me this morning while I was splashing lake water in my face; he stuck a willow branch in my hand, ordered me to catch some trout for breakfast."
Although it's October, temperatures soar into the 90s, and Wetherell laments the effects of global warming on the park: "We go to Yellowstone like we stare up at the stars -- to see a place unspoiled -- and if we are messing up its weather, then soon there will be no reason to go at all." But despite the heat and his mental meanderings, Wetherell succeeds in fly-fishing 20 rivers and two lakes. And when he returns home, it's to realize, gratefully, that Yellowstone "had supplied me with a deep reservoir of solace to help me through the coming year."


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Today will be the last day of mostly dry & quiet weather. Tonight, an area of low pressure will move into the Northwest bringing moderate to heavy rainfall to Southern Oregon. This storm system is going to keep plenty of clouds over the area today with increasing winds into this evening.
A high wind warning is in place for the Coast, Eastern Klamath County & all of Lake County for early Wednesday morning to account for this. A wind advisory is also in place for strong winds late tonight through tomorrow morning for the Shasta Valley. Winds will be out of the southwest gusting up to 50-60mph. Sustained winds will be between 20-40mph.
Rain showers will develop ahead of this storm system around 4 o'clock today at the Coast and travel further inland shortly after that. The rain will then push inland tonight and continue through much of Wednesday with winds gradually diminishing tomorrow afternoon. Another front will move in from the West Thursday afternoon & evening bringing more moderate to heavy rainfall to much of the area through Friday. Another storm will follow for the weekend.
Winds are going to be out of the south through all of these events, so this will keep snow levels high & above passes (at least until the weekend). Tuesday night snow levels will rise from 6,000′ to above 8,000′ which means this may start off as snow for Mt. Ashland but will quickly turn over to rain.
With quick rises in streams and creeks, flooding potential is something to watch closely into the weekend for these small water flows. Rivers, however are not a huge concern due to the very low water levels but this may change as the week unfolds. At this point, it looks as though the Coast is going to pick up 5″ or more of rainfall by Sunday morning. For the Coastal Range Mountains this may be more than 10."
More updates will come to the timing of each individual storm.
Meteorologist Alyssa Caroprese

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Women's Prayer Retreat From: 9/19/2014 to 9/20/2014 Contact Vickie Clemons (email@example.com) for further information.
First Baptist Church; Milan. A prayer-focused event for any woman in the church.
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Featured Speaker: Page Hughes, Louisville, KY - Page is a vibrant speaker, teacher and leader. She also has a deep passion for women and seeing them grow in the Lord. Many have described Page as a "a party waiting for a place to happen." Her book, Party with a Purpose, teaches how to party with the purpose of leading others to Jesus. Page calls it hospitality evangelism. www.pagehughes.com
Worship Leader: No Other Name, Nashville, TN – No Other Name brings a creative, interesting and powerful presentation of songs full of truth and meaning. Featuring thoughtful and scripturally based lyrics with a tight harmony, they have ministered in churches all over the nation. Their message is evident – it's all about Christ and what He did on the cross. www.no-other-name.com
Ministry Project: Our ministry project this year will benefit Dream Center. The Dream Center is a lighthouse and a beacon of hope to women and their children, who have a strong desire to change their way of life by implementing Biblical principles so that the cycle of chronic homelessness shall be broken. They teach spiritual, mental, financial and physical wellness.
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Allentown City SD (Lehigh Co.)
The William Allen High School Chorale traveled to San Francisco, CA, March 22-26, where they performed, visited local attractions and provided community service to the San Francisco Bay Area.
The students worked with the Save the Bay project, an organization trying to restore the wetlands in the Bay Area, planting more than 350 native plants in the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve. Jack, a Save the Bay representative, noted that though they were only in San Francisco for a few days, their effect on the environment would last decades. The group represented Allentown SD with pride, honor and a helping hand.


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Microsoft is definitely not happy with the UK government's decision to use ODF for government documents. The UK has made the right decision as Microsoft's file formats create a vendor lock where only Microsoft can offer software, cutting out every single player on planet earth. Microsoft works really hard to make its documents almost incompatible with every word processor out there.
If you have created document in MS file formats, using Microsoft software, you have created document which will lose data if opened with non-Microsoft software. You may blame LibreOffice, openOffice, Calligra or Google Docs for 'losing some data', but the blame goes to Microsoft. So the best solution is to move away from Microsoft file-formats, so that you can break this vicious cycle.
But how many people use ODF? Not many that I know of. The reason is simple, Microsoft pushes its own X formats which it claims to implement the OOXML specification. That's not surprising. What's surprising is that Google also pushes X formats and has one of the most pathetic supports for ISO approved open standards ODF.
When I talked to Chris DiBona he said there is no demand for ODF, that's why its not their priority. A company size of Google doesn't things for demands, they create demand for their products. Google can create demand as well as make ODF the default file format of the digital world quite easily. Before we go there let's see how broken in Google's ODF support. In a nutshell you can't open and edit ODF files across Google platforms including ChromeOS, Chrome Browser, Android and Google drive. If you get a file saved in ODF formats such as .odt, Google products will refuse to open the documents. Google will happily show the preview of a docx file as well as offer to edit it. When you download a file from Google Docs, the first or the default option is docx. Google doesn't even bother to offer Open Document Format while downloading a presentation.
What Works With Google Services?
Only Microsoft's controversial X formats. If you get a docx file, you will get a red carpet treatment in Google services. Android will show preview and allow you to read docx files, same is the case with Chrome OS and Google Drive.
If you uploaded a docx file without conversion Google Docs will show you a preview and also open and edit it. But if you upload an ODF file without conversion, Google Drive won't offer any preview and will also refuse to open it. You will have to download it and then upload again with conversion on.
So, in a nutshell you are forced to use Microsoft's OOXML formats if you are a Google user.
Why is Google not offering full support for ODF?
Why is Google not choosing ODF as the default file format instead of Microsoft's messy X formats? To add insult to injury, Google's own Docs don't work well with Docx files and you would lose some data. I am left with puzzling questions why is Google not supporting ODF and locking users into an incompatible and vendor-locked messy format?
Google should switch to ODF to gain European markets
What ever the reason may be, Google needs to change this love for X. With UK government moving to ODF, Google will cut itself out of a huge market they are creating where European companies will be able to offer document solutions, breaking the 'abusive' monopoly of Microsoft. It will create a lot of new businesses any one would be able to offer solution in a market previous locked down to Microsoft.
If Google doesn't switch to ODF it risks losing markets in Europe, as no one will bother to use a product which can't support vendor neutral, open standard file format ODF.
Ironically even Microsoft has a far better support for ODF in its products than Google does.
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NICK SCHWIEN • Hays Daily News Daniel Gottschalk takes the low line around RPM Speedway in his Northern sport mod July 30 in Hays.
By NICK SCHWIEN
It nearly was an identical situation for Daniel Gottschalk.
The driver of the No. 3D Northern sport mod made sure the result was identical as well.
After lining up in the same position for Sunday night's feature at Thomas County Speedway in Colby, Gottschalk was in a familiar position. The lineup was similar for his heat race, as well, with the same seven cars.
"I thought the lineup was the same when I looked at it," Gottschalk said. "I ended up coming through in the feature the same as I did in the heat race. The car felt good."
The sport mod win was his first of the season. As close as he came to winning his first race earlier this year, things just wouldn't go his way or he'd run out of laps while working his way through the field toward the front.
"It's been a long wait," Gottschalk said.
The week started off rough, though.
On July 30 at Mod Mania at RPM Speedway in Hays, Gottschalk was credited with a 17th-place finish after leaving the feature on the tow hook when his car suffered significant damage without even making contact with another driver.
"The car just gave out," he said.
Instead, Gottschalk pulled out his older car, one he ran last season.
The car didn't have much dust on it, though. Fellow driver Austin Carter had piloted it at WaKeeney Speedway at a race earlier this season after his car was damaged in Hays the night before.
Gottschalk hopped in the older car and drove it without much of a hiccup July 31 at WaKeeney for the fair races. He finished fourth in the backup car.
"At WaKeeney, I could feel it pull better," Gottschalk said about the backup car.
One of the main differences between the two cars -- in addition to the chassis -- was his backup car had a claim engine and his newer BMS car had a crate engine.
"It was completely different horsepower," Gottschalk said about the claim engine on the heavy track. "You can carry the RPMs better. That claim motor just wraps a little better."
That engine propelled him to the front Sunday in Colby. And it helped him capture that elusive win.
Gottschalk beat Clay Money, who was second, to the stripe. Andy Barton was third.
"We checked out to a pretty good lead," he said. "There was a caution with about four or five laps to go. (Money) wasn't too far behind me at the checkered flag then."
Now, Gottschalk plans to remain in the backup car until he gets his newer one fixed.
And the car is no stranger to victory lane. Former sport mod driver Clayton Wilson, who won a track title at RPM in 2010, drove the car while he was competing.
"It's had plenty of feature wins by Clayton," Gottschalk said. "I sent it down in the offseason to get fixed up for situations like this."
RPM Speedway will host its regular five classes at 7 p.m. Saturday, while WaKeeney Speedway will host races at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. IMCA-sanctioned modifieds, stocks, Northern sport mods, hobby stocks and sport compacts will compete at both tracks.
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@everetra - It's quite surprising to learn how the washing machine is tripped by the threshold voltage. I always thought that it used a timer mechanism of some sort to know when to change different phases or cycles.
Since it's dependent on slight voltage variations and not a timer however, I suppose it could malfunction if anything happened that threw the voltage off by even a little bit.
An electrical spike across the line might do that. It might be wise to have some voltage protection for your appliance in that case too.


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The Blood Type Diet Archives Volume 5
Posted By: Samantha RaeDate: July-23, 1998 at 10:31:07
In Response To: Questions about sweat, blood type and diet (OJoan)
Hi,I recently found some interesting information on the effects of heat and thought I would share it with you.
All information is from the book Beyond Prozacby Michael J. Norden M.D. Copyright 1995
Heat in the form of both high temperature and high humidity was associated with a decrease in serotonin (and dopamine) activity. High humidity increases the heat load on the body by rendering sweating less effective in cooling. Temperature was particularly important in men wheras women appeared more sensitive to humidity. Also in women, light was associated with ELEVATIONS of serotonin and dopamine.
The view in the 1960's that serotonin was responsible for raising body temperature has stuck despite the growing evidence that serotonin is important in cooling. Clear evidence shows some serotonin receptors will raise while others will lower body temperature.
Essentially every time a person does somethung that heightens serotonin levels, cooling mechanisms seem to kick into a higher gear. Groups of people characterized by low serotonin tended either to sweat less than normal, to run higher body temperatures, or to tolerate heat poorly.Multiple sclerosis patients Poor heat tolerance (exacerbates symptoms)EpilepticsPoor heat tolerance; heat often can precipitate seizuresViolent criminalsDecreased sweating under certain conditionsViolently suicidal individualsDecreased sweating under certain conditions
Serotonin's cooling function sets up a symmetrical relationship. Serotonin reduces heat, and heat reduces serotonin. Heat appears to reduce seotonin's ability to handle other duties while simultaneously attending to that highest priority job, maintaining proper body temperature.
Given the countless ways in which modern life stresses our Stone Age brains, we certainly need a robust serotonin system.
In part two of the book Beyound Prozac by Michael J. Norden, M.D. he tells the reader many natural ways to boot serotonin. These are light therapy, melatonin, sleep, and exercise. Then diet and nutrition is given several chapters.
The most wonderful aspect of this is that the ways given to boost serotonin are the same as ER4YT. On this diet I have overcome many health problems, many due to my less than normal sweating. In addition to the diet, Essentail Fatty Acids have been really beneficial.
I am eating right, sweating more and loving it!
By the way, I am type O
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 9:26pm
Tyler — The Apaches are going bowling.
The Tyler Junior College football team will play in the Football Capial of Kansas Bowl December 8 in Pittsburg, Kansas.
TJC was ranked as high as third nationwide this season.
The Apaches will play in their first bowl game in ten years.
Tyler coach Danny Palmer talked with KETK's Danny Elzner.
"We have a bunch of great kids like all coaches say," Palmer said. "But they were a special group."
"Our kids are very deserving of the bowl bid," Palmer added. "We're really looking forward to it."
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Thanks to all the Claystation team for their help over the 4 days:
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All of the latest news about our university.
With three decades of data from more than 475,000 participants, a new study on narcissism from the University at Buffalo School of Management reveals that men, on average, are more narcissistic than women.
The companies expect to create 40 jobs and invest $12.5 million in Western New York within five years.
Levine, a longtime UB faculty member, died of cancer Feb. 26 in her Buffalo home.
The SPIR program provides up $25,000 for participating organizations.
Megan Lundgren and Laurie Widman believe in the power of public education. Both feel a pull to the students they teach in the North Tonawanda City School District and aspire to influence their students "beyond the four walls of the classroom."
Women married to men with alcohol abuse problems can face a slew of problems themselves, with finding support for their situation near the top of the list.
As habitats shrink, Newton's Laws of Motion could help us predict how some animals will react, UB researchers say.
The communities will be part of Growing Food Connections, a national initiative led in part by UB's Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab.
University at Buffalo dining services will raise its game once again, transforming its most modern student dining area into an interactive "Hunger Games" Theme Night, complete with decorations, sound, costumes – and especially food – all inspired by the movie sensation popular among university students.
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Become your favorite heroine, Katniss! Here you will find a list of her costumes from the movie and books.
Pre Reaping
If there is one object that personifies Katniss Everdeen from the Hunger Games, it is her bow. She is a skilled archer, learning from her father, in fact the first bow she had was made by her father and she took up one of his larger bows later in life. Due to the scarcity of modern materials in the Districts, Katniss' bows are made from wood.
Looking like a longbow, these hunting bows are light but powerful, easily able to take out game and other wildlife… and people. The skill however is a different matter and it is what sets Katniss apart from the other Tributes, who didn't have the chance, or take the risk, to use a bow.
If you want a Katniss costume, it will not be complete without a replica bow.
(Note: real arrows are dangerous and can seriously maim, injure or kill, and should not be used without supervision or experience.)
Some tall knee high laced boots they would be perfect.
These are in fact the type of boots worn in the movie, Frye women's lace boot, in brown.
Whilst training for the Hunger Games, the tributes were given a set of training clothes, these clothes have a unique style to them not can't be easily reproduced unless you are good with a sewing needle or know someone who is.
Currently though, you can at least get the training shirt replica from various suppliers, though you will still have to make the leggings yourself, or perhaps just use plain black leggings.
The boots for this outfit are so similar to the training boots you can use the same pair with both outfits!
The Arena
After the reaping, Katniss had to leave her bow behind in the District and ended up with a silvery metallic style bow that the Capitol supplied, but you should be able to get away with a standard wooden bow.
(Note: real arrows are dangerous and can seriously maim, injure or kill, and should not be used without supervision or experience.)
When in the Games, Katniss' clothes are very simple, having been provided for her by the Capitol. The makes makes finding costume for that party, halloween or LARP that much easier!
"A hooded black jacket" is what the book says Katniss wears in the arena, and this can be any lightweight jackets that have a thin feel to them. There are also movie replicas available from different outlets.
"A light green blouse", though in the movie it is much darker almost black in color. You should be able to pick up on of these from any clothes store.
"Sturdy brown belt" should be easy to obtain you may already have one, or you can pick one up relatively cheaply.
"Simple tawny pants" are straight forward cargo pants in a light brown or tan color
"Skintight socks", any light grey knee high socks are ideal though if you want to go all the way you can get Capitol branded socks, for that extra bit of realism.
"The boots… soft leather not unlike my ones at home". Hiking boots can do in a pinch, although these boots by Jennifer Tanker are the ones used in the movie.
The Mockingjay pin, the symbol of Katniss and revolution, was Katniss Everdeens tribute token in the Games and was given to her by her friend Madge Undersee, right before Katniss entered the games. It was originally Madge's aunt Maysilee Donners, who died in the 50th Hunger Games.
Making one of these is possible but not too easy to do especially if you are not very arty, however there are a few companies that offer reasonably priced replicas.
Whereas the original backpack was a bright orange the movie has toned it down slightly, though still keeping some orange on it, so ideally you are looking for an orange backpack or a black and orange backpack.
Reward Bags
To go along with your recreation of the Hunger Games, you can even get one of the reward bags that supporters send into the arena. A gray draw cord bag and some creative stitch work can net you one of these, or you can simply pick up one of the replicas.
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Sunday, November 01, 2009
Coastal Christmas
Get in the holiday spirit with a trip to Virginia Beach
If it's the
colorful, twinkling lights that awaken your spirit,
plan a visit to
This is the
only time of the year cars are invited to drive on the boardwalk to enjoy the
"It's just the most beautiful display of lights from one end of the boardwalk to the other," said Steve Proctor of Moneta. He and his wife, Mary Jane, honeymooned there over the holidays in 2001.
"They give you a CD to play in the car describing the unique features of the displays with Christmas music playing in the background," Proctor added.
The event is open daily in December from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.; admission is $12 per car.
Although signs of Christmas begin appearing in late November, the official start of the season is the city's Holiday Parade at the Beach on Dec. 5. Along with thousands of parade-watchers, there are dozens of marching bands, decorated floats, school children, dance troupes, organizations and numerous other groups that come together to share the excitement of the season. Of course, Santa makes an appearance.
You can see more of Santa's toy extravaganza nearby at Hunt Club Farm's "Magical Forest Toyland." Just 10 minutes from the beach, the farm invites visitors to browse its Winter Wonderland Christmas Barn filled with hundreds of animated animals and elves preparing for the holidays. Children are challenged to wander a "light maze" while parents shop for country holiday items, handmade fresh wreaths, gift baskets and other treats.
If you
prefer a gentler, musical holiday celebration, schedule your visit to include
one of the performances at the
Proctors also strongly recommended a trip to the
For a truly
memorable experience, reserve a spot on one of the center's two-hour
whale-watching boat trips. From late December through mid-March, humpback and
fin whales migrate off the coast of
If you're
looking for more holiday magic, head out for what's known as
Lake residents can enjoy the annual Christmas light display at the Elks National Home in Bedford,a tradition since 1953. A lighting ceremony will take place Dec. 11 at 5 p.m.The display, which features approximately 50,000 lights and is enjoyed by driving through the grounds, is open each evening through New Year's Eve from 5:30 to 10.


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Recent and archived news articles by Richard Pérez-Peña of The New York Times.
Gordon Fox Pleads Guilty in Rhode Island Corruption Case
Mr. Fox, the state's former House speaker, is expected to serve three years in prison for taking bribes and using campaign funds for personal expenses.
March 4, 2015, Wednesday
Nurse Who Contracted Ebola in the U.S. Sues Her Hospital Employer
The nurse, Nina Pham, asserts that Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital knowingly left workers without the training or equipment needed to handle Ebola.
March 3, 2015, Tuesday
Tiny Missouri Town Is Reeling After Gunman Kills Seven Neighbors
The suspect, who was found dead after the shootings, is believed to have killed his victims in four different homes.
February 28, 2015, Saturday
Insanity Defense Fails in Killing of the Former Navy Sniper Chris Kyle
The defendant, Eddie Ray Routh, said he was suffering from psychosis and paranoid delusions when he fatally shot Mr. Kyle and Chad Littlefield in 2013.
February 26, 2015, Thursday
In Remarks on Obama, Rudy Giuliani to the Core
Mr. Giuliani, long prone to flamboyant confrontation and rhetorical excess, is less inclined toward self-restraint than ever.
February 21, 2015, Saturday
CSX Oil Train Was Not Speeding in West Virginia Crash, Inquiry Finds
The train's digital data recorders indicate it was going 17 m.p.h. under the speed limit in a stretch where it derailed, federal officials said.
February 20, 2015, Friday
We're Sorry, Applicants. We Accepted You in Error.
About 800 candidates for Carnegie Mellon's well-respected graduate school of computer science were told they had been admitted in error.
February 19, 2015, Thursday
Spilled Oil Keeps Flames Burning After a Train Derailment in West Virginia
The derailment sent fireballs ripping through the air, prompting the evacuation of a nearby village and forcing the shut-off of local water supplies.
February 18, 2015, Wednesday
Federal Inquiry Begins Into Muslim Students' Killings in North Carolina
After searching the suspect's apartment, investigators said they had seized at least a dozen firearms and an extensive collection of ammunition, holsters, cases and scopes.
February 14, 2015, Saturday
Neighbors Say Suspect in Chapel Hill Shootings Was Threatening
Craig Stephen Hicks, charged in the killings of three students, was such a disruptive presence in his condominium complex that residents held a meeting to discuss him.
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Hyderabad: Telugu writer Dr Ravuri Bharadwaja got the country's prestigious Jnanpith award for 2012 for his contributions to Telugu literature over 60 years.
He is the third recipient of the country's highest literary award from Andhra Pradesh, after Dr Viswanatha Satyanarayana in 1970 for his Srimad Ramayana Kalpavriksham and Dr C. Narayana Reddy in 1988 for his book Viswambhara. Eighty six-year-old Dr Bharadwaja was chosen for the award by a selection Board chaired by poet Sitakant Mahapatra, said a statement of the Jnanpith award committee.
Books of Dr Bharadwaja, who studied only up to Class VII, have been prescribed as text books in universities and are even the basis of many research works. Dr Bharadwaja passed through several vicissitudes of life, but continued his service to Telugu literature with perseverance. He is a poet, a playwright, a novelist of distinction and a popular science writer, the Board stated in its press release.
Dr Bharadwaja's published works include 37 collections of short stories, 17 novels, six short novels for children, five compilations of short stories for children, three collections of essays and biographies and eight plays. His notable creations include Kadambari, Pakudurallu, Jeevana Samaram, Inupu Tera Venuka, Koumudi and many more, which have been translated into most of the major Indian languages and English.
Dr Bharadwaja's greatest attribute is his flair for story-telling. His works prove that a writer can have social awareness and his works, a human purpose.
Ravuri is the recipient of many important awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award, Soviet Land Nehru award, Telugu Academy award, Balasahitya Parishad award, a Honorary D. Litt from Nagarjuna University, the release stated. 'Pakudu Rallu' is the most popular among all Ravuri works and highlights persons and their attitudes in the film industry.
I am honoured and delighted, says Ravuri
"I am honoured and delighted, I don't feel the award came late," said Dr Ravuri Bharadwaja, reacting to the news, sitting in his two-bedroom house in Vijayanagar Colony in the city. However, he said that "all regions, castes and creeds play politics in the selection of Jnanpith awards, which is most unfortunate."
He recollected that since he had only Class VII education, he was not selected for a job in All India Radio. "Some people ask me, 'how can you write poetry when you are only a Class VII fellow. Now I can say with all dignity that the same Class VII fellow received the country's highest literary award," he said.


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The pigment in the shadows is impressive and I imagine will appear even more intense, when used wet. Along with their funky names, High Maintenance (champagne gold/bronzey brown) and Bad Reputation (silver white with iridescent sparkle/steel grey) are pretty decent products which at first glance immediately remind me of a similar product from a pricier brand - only these cost £4 each instead!
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Pediatric surgery requires a special touch from the hands of a team experienced in tending to the needs of a child. In addition to technical expertise and experience, two other elements are required for great results: compassion and tenderness. When it comes to pediatric surgery, it's more than just the patient who needs reassurance.
The pediatric surgical staff at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend understand these needs and caters to every pediatric patient for a variety of procedures. More common among them are:
Removing the appendix traditionally or laparoscopically is the most common treatment for appendicitis. Surgery is used to remove the appendix before it ruptures.
Appendicitis is the inflammation and infection of the appendix, which is a part of the large intestine. The inflammation can cause moderate to intense abdominal pain.
A resection is the surgical removal of unhealthy tissue in the digestive system. It can also be used to remove tumors in the same area. This procedure is done traditionally or laparoscopically.
The risks associated with a bowel resection are infections, bleeding and the formation of scar tissue.
Inguinal hernia surgery corrects hernias formed when portions of the bowel push into the inguinal canal. This is often due to muscles in the stomach not fully forming before birth.
Inguinal hernias can occur soon after birth or years later. They often form a bulge in the groin or scrotum, which can cause pain or a burning sensation.
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Umbilical hernia surgery corrects the formation of a hernia bulge around the belly button. Surgery isn't a necessity with all umbilical hernias as they can often heal on their own. This form of hernia occurs when a baby's umbilical ring doesn't seal completely before birth.
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The incredible story of Project Superpowers concludes here! Collecting issues 7-12 of the acclaimed series, creators Alex Ross and Jim Krueger clear the decks and set the stage for more thrilling adventures to come! In these issues you'll find out the ultimate fate of our heroes, witness the re-birth of the Claw and watch as the mad god Zeus wreaks havoc across the world! Plus: the birth of a new world order and a shocking twist in the story of The Supremacy!
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A local teen was taken into custody yesterday in Shreveport's Highland neighborhood after he allegedly snatched a woman's purse on the campus of Centenary College.
At approximately 3: 39 p.m. on June 30, 2011, Shreveport Police patrol officers responded to the Centenary campus to assist Centenary College police officers who were chasing a suspect wanted in connection with a purse snatching. Officers chased the suspect to the 100 block of East Dalzell Street where a Shreveport Police K-9 took the suspect into custody. The suspect, identified as a 16 year old male juvenile, was subsequently transported to a local hospital where he was treated for injuries incurred as the result of a dog bite.
Upon further investigation, Shreveport Police detectives learned the teenager allegedly approached a woman outside of the Student Union building and snatched her purse while pushing her to the ground. Several witnesses observed the crime and gave chase to the suspect. The victim's purse and all of her belongings were recovered and returned to her. She was not injured during the attack.
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I found the original inspiration on Pinterest (the 'lamp shades' were covered in Hallowe'en hued paper) but figured I'd give it a go using my fave hues. Wouldn't this garland be absolutely fabulous for a bridal shower, an outdoor wedding and or even the most perfect addition to a nursery in lieu of a night light? Check out the awesome step by step photos below shot by the always wonderful Jenna. Craft on, beauties! Make your own dry erase board. A re you ready for maybe the easiest home craft ever?
Awesome. Because today, I'm giving you a nifty, attractive little tool that NOT ONLY will make your kitchen, mud room, office or cubicle THAT MUCH more personal and chic, I'm also giving you the ability to ORGANIZE your LIFE. Naturally I'm talking about making a dry erase board. What you'll need: – 1 frame – 1 piece of scrapbook paper. Brenna's paper capiz shell chandelier.
I love wax paper for packing lunches; i wrap sandwiches in a piece of wax paper and tie it like a present with a little cotton string. it's so much better looking than a plastic bag. wax paper comes in handy for more things than i realized, like rolling it up to use for a funnel, or how about rubbing a piece of wax paper on the top of your shower curtain rod to cut down on that terrible screeching in the morning…problem solved. but who knew that if you iron layers of wax paper together it looks remarkably similar to a capiz shell? This discovery brought me to today's project: the faux capiz chandelier. hung over your dining table, or outside at an outdoor dinner party, it is an easy solution to a dramatic light fixture and will look phenomenal in either setting. i hope you enjoy making your own as much i did!
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- 1 cup(s) Superseedz, These are already dry roasted with Sea Salt
- 1.5 tablespoon(s) vegetable oil
- 2.5 teaspoon(s) kosher salt, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) chili flakes
- 3.5 cup(s) multigrain flour mix (see
- 1.5 teaspoon(s) baking powder
- 1 teaspoon(s) baking soda
- 16 tablespoon(s) unsalted butter
- 1 cup(s) packed dark brown sugar
- 1 cup(s) granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 8 ounce(s) dark chocolate, roughly chopped, divided
- 1/2 cup(s) dried cherries
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F and place a rack in the center. Toss pumpkin seeds, oil, 1 teaspoon salt, and chili flakes together. Place on a sheet pan and toast until golden brown, stirring occasionally, about 15 minutes.
- Increase oven temperature to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, stir together remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, flour, baking powder, and baking soda. In a standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix together butter and sugars on low speed. Mix in eggs 1 at a time. Add flour mixture and continue to blend on low speed, until just combined.
- Using a wooden spoon, slowly mix in half the pumpkin seeds, half the chocolate, and raisins. Scoop mounds of dough, about 3 tablespoons each, onto parchment-paper-lined baking sheets.
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