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An attic full of books
THERE'S TOO MUCH GOING ON* including various bits of news** both good and bad that I haven't entirely got my head around yet*** although when I do some of them will make it onto the blog.
Meanwhile I thought I might at least post some photos of an attic full of book boxes as requested by some strange person on the forum.
This is what greets you at the top of the stairs. That's the corner of my old double bed from Maine on the left, hard up against the end wall, pretending to be a Guest Room. When I get it made up again it will be a very good place for Lying with the Hellmob. The hellhounds and I had begun to explore this interesting possibility back when Third House was still Third House. And a double bed is enough bigger than a sofa I may be able to trap the hellterror in place more effectively.
But this is what I mean about lack of impressiveness–although you may be dazzled by my colour sense–you're looking at nineteen or twenty boxes wedged into that corner, but since you can only see the outside rows it's a big meh.
You're now standing with the bed behind you and the yellow filing cabinet to your left, looking down the length of the attic. This is the long kitchen table, worth £1.79, built out of bits Peter had found in rubbish tips, that when we moved out of the old house I REFUSED TO GIVE UP. And I was right. It is perfect as a long skinny attic table. That's the notorious dormer window that has produced those interesting ceiling angles, some of which you can see. And those are avocadoes on the window sill, in case you're wondering, ripening in the sunlight that blasts in during the day. If you peer into the murk to the far end of the attic you may just about be able to make out EMPTY SHELVES. Yes. I keep putting stuff on them and then taking it off again because how am I supposed to choose? Although Peter's 1,000,000,000 bound annuals of PUNCH take up a good deal of the space you can't see, and my encyclopaedia will go on those shelves too when I find the rest of it.
And that architectural feature in the upper right-hand corner is the boxed-in, so to speak, chimney. Why it has a sort of hoop skirt built out from it halfway down (or up) I have no idea, but all shelves to pile books and book boxes on are good shelves.
This is the left-hand far corner, so what is beyond the table on the same side of the attic. And again . . . not so impressive. But you're looking at nearly thirty boxes you just can't see most of them. What you are seeing at the bottom of the picture in the open box is the limited edition illustrated ROSE DAUGHTER.
This is now behind the chimney. Peter's gazillion PUNCHES are immediately to your left; the corner with the unimpressive thirty boxes is now behind you . . . more or less. You're a bit crowded back here.
I am particularly pleased with the table. It's one of the few pieces of furniture that came over with me from Maine, with the bed and the blue velvet sofa, and it was for the chop this move; there was nowhere to put it. I'm a little nostalgic about the stuff I brought over with me because barring the 1,000,000,000 books there isn't a lot of it–and I did have to get rid of my baby grand piano. This table has been sitting at the mews waiting for the axe to fall since like the kitchen table it isn't worth anything BUT IT'S A PERFECTLY GOOD TABLE. And then I thought, wait a minute, I can use it a Mediating Structure to make the wrangling of book boxes marginally less appalling. So it's shoved up against the back of the chimney and there are and/or will be stacks of two boxes below it and stacks of two boxes on top of it . . . instead of stacks of four boxes of books. Hurrah. Yessssss.
The view from above. Just by the way, don't get too excited by any labels you may see. Most of them are wrong. Well, most of the ones on Peter's backlist are wrong. My backlist, on the other hand, is 99% gorgeously and specifically accurate because I have a secret weapon named Fiona.
And, when appropriate, I get books out of their boxes and pile them interestingly in available gaps, available being another of those mutable concepts. I've got a lot of Peter's piled up on the chimney shelf just out of frame in the long shot of the ex-kitchen table. And just by another way, I have no idea where SHADOWS is. I haven't seen it at all. I hope it's hiding somewhere at the cottage.
And because I am hopelessly neurotic, I've saved a few empty boxes . . . just in case I need them later. Yes, that's a sink on your right. I have them piled in the loo because there isn't anywhere else.
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* Well how unusual
** No, no, not the kind you want
*** Although I HAD MY FIRST VOICE LESSON IN FOREVER on Monday YAAAAAAAY. It wasn't even as bad as feared^ but I still have a good deal of lost ground to make up. AND BOTH MY PIANO AND I SOUND DIFFERENT IN THIRD HOUSE'S SITTING ROOM.
^ Although if it had been as bad as feared it would have involved alien abduction and earthquakes and a recount in Scotland that demonstrated that they'd left the UK after all, which leaves quite a lot of room for a voice lesson still to be pretty bad in.
The backlist came home today
All 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 boxes of it. I should know, I shifted all of them. I am a HEROINE. Peter says so. I am a heroine having a nice little quarter bottle of champagne.* I'm kind of assuming I won't get out of bed at all tomorrow** because all my muscles will have gone paralytic*** as well as the ME saying, you did WHAT? Lie down,† but tonight I am aglow with virtue and a certain amount of astonishment. I'm still half spazzing with adrenaline so I thought I could tell you about how amazing I am.
Everything went wrong really early when I had a tech disaster over breakfast†† so I got up to Third House, to meet Atlas and his trailer, a good half hour later than scheduled. Fortunately Atlas is used to me.
It took two trips to haul all those boxes home††† and Atlas got all lugubrious the first time and said it might take three‡ whereupon I went into Frantic Action Mode and shoved a dozen boxes into Wolfgang, who is a bit tardis-like that way. We weren't going to get our somewhat bedraggled loot‡‡ into the attic today so Atlas unloaded it onto a pallet of black plastic garbage bags on the paving in front of the summerhouse‡‡‡ and then we rushed back for the second load . . . well, 'rush' does not pertain to Atlas' trailer, but he set out while I went back to the cottage for Pav and (a) got embroiled with a neighbour having a flap (b) WOLFGANG WAS MAKING A STRANGE NEW NOISE§ (c) got stuck behind a bicycle for about three miles.§§ By the time I finally arrived Atlas had nearly finished his plan for world peace and was just drawing up his list of world leaders to send it to.
When Atlas got the last of the second load into the back garden it was past his time to leave. So I was left looking at an Alp of book boxes. Peter told me helpfully that it might very well rain tonight. Not enough to do the garden(s) any good. Just enough to wet down boxes of backlist.
Tarpaulin, said Peter. Um, I said. And started carrying boxes upstairs. I meant to keep count, but I kept forgetting. Nearly a hundred. No, I'm serious. Over ninety but not quite a hundred. I think. Some of them were small. Not very many.
It took me quite a while. Atlas had sensibly put most of the biggest boxes in the bottom layer and by the time I reached it I had blisters on the middle joints of my little fingers and the insides of my arms just below the elbows. I was also cranky. I shifted about twenty of these last leviathans under the porch roof by the garden/sitting room door in the niches created by the bay windows. Everything else is in the attic. Oh, and yes, it is all going to fit. . . .
I think I'll take another arnica.§§§
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* It's going to be a drunken, revelrous week: we're taking Nina and Ignatius out to dinner on Friday as an INADEQUATE THANK YOU for everything they've done around the house move. Ignatius installed the much delayed splashback just this weekend. I hadn't had a car^ all week so I finally rang the Hardened Glass People on Friday and my impression is that they went around looking under everybody's desks till they found it. However, they did find it.^^ And Ignatius installed it. Hurrah hurrah hurrah. Tick one more thing off the House Move list. Only nearly as many things left on said list as there are boxes of backlist.
^ And they mended the thing they found+ but everything I took him in for is still there going zap whine roar moan.
+ Note to self: next time Wolfgang starts rattling like a nearly twenty-year-old car, ask them to check that there are no shock absorbers ready to fall off and go whirling down the road independently while Wolfgang and I blast away in a sudden, unplanned different direction.
^^ I should not have been driving on Friday—I told you it was a bad ME day—but God was looking out for me. He/she/it/they could have just not given me an ME day in the first place but I suppose that would be too easy.
** YAAAAAAY says the hellmob. MOVE OVER.
*** See, the champagne is therapeutic. Really. Absolutely.
† Yes, all right, don't be so pushy, I need a pee first. I'll lie down again in a minute, supposing the hellmob has left me any space. Bed sharing presently is a bit problematic because HALF the bed is still taken up with all the sheets and towels out of my airing cupboard. And have I mentioned that Atlas, my shelf builder, is GOING ON A FORTNIGHT'S HOLIDAY?
†† Most of my frelling kit at this point is ancient as tech goes, and while I hope the desktop—which is in fact the oldest of all—will soldier on for a while and possibly Pooka also, both the iPad and the laptop are frelling racing down that last long slope. Poor Raphael would already have the new stuff at least ordered and probably installed by now if I didn't KEEP CHANGING MY MIND. There's this vast horrible continuum of specs and . . . and . . . but the bottom line is that the Apple experiment has been kind of a bust. Pooka—who is an iPhone, for anyone who has forgotten (!)—is okay and I'll worry about what to upgrade her to when she starts failing, but I have had it with the iPad refusing to play nicely with all the Microsoft stuff I've been living by for the last fifteen or so years. Fifteen or so years ago you could not get Apple over here, or at least no one would support it, so when I bought my first real computer it just was not an issue that all my American friends said Apple is better. And I loathe Microsoft but it's what I'm used to and I can't be bothered trying to learn a whole new ratbagging system which, from my experience with the iPad is not so blindingly marvellous thank you very much. My next tablet will run Windows. Sue me.
††† Which is not wholly a bad thing. I took the hellhounds along the first time and hurtled them in the farmland, splendidly riddled with footpaths, beyond the storage place—loading Atlas' trailer with book boxes is not really a two person job—and then brought the hellterror the second time and hurtled her. The hellhounds aren't what I'd call safe to stock, but they do know I won't let them chase anything interesting. The hellterror got a little overexcited because she hasn't had as many long country hurtles as the hellhounds had at her age but I'm still bigger than she is. And she was so beside herself about the game birds that she missed a perfectly good rabbit sitting in the middle of a stubble field.
‡ We did this today^ in case it Did Not End Well because his only other free day before his fortnight away is Thursday,
^ When I could have been having my first voice lesson after a way-too-long break. Summer holidays are overrated.
‡‡ Some of those boxes have been loaded and reloaded and written on and written over and written over the over so often they probably need new shock absorbers. And speaking of the disintegration of crucial parts I wish to remark again on the sheer bloody awfulness of British tape. I swear half the frelling boxes' bottoms are falling out because the heavy packing tape has lost the will to live and started falling off like hair from a hellmob. Grrrrrrr.
‡‡‡ Which is full of Atlas' tools and unfinished projects and leftover stuff from moving house. And I need to get it cleared out before the first frosts so I can get plants in there and the growlight back from the cottage's sitting room. ARRRRRRRRRGH. Maybe I'll lie down till January. No, March.
§ Which seems to have been something he picked up bouncing over back roads, which then clattered its way back out again. I HOPE. But I wasted about five minutes crawling around on my hands and knees trying to find . . . whatever.
§§ I HATE BICYCLES. I am not sane on this subject.^ I have many friends who ride bicycles regularly and I have at least two who frelling race. I HATE BICYCLES. If there isn't room on a given road for a car to pass a bicycle it should be BANNED to bicycles.^^ They are a sodding hazard. And for example today there were I think eight cars behind this bozo going fifteen miles an hour—which is a perfectly good speed for a bicycle—before we could get past him. It regularly happens in the local equivalent of rush hour that #8 in the queue out of town will simply rocket on by the rest of us, white-knuckled with fury at our steering wheels ourselves, with the bicycle in the lead—and those adrenaline spikes when I'm waiting for all of us to die in a colossal pile up when a juggernaut comes over the hill and hits #8 on the wrong side of the road are very bad for me.
^ Consider yourselves warned. This is my blog. You want to argue about it, go elsewhere.
^^ Or to cars. But these two forms of vehicular transport are incompatible on shared road space. And I don't want bicycles mowing down the hellmob and me on the pavement either.
§§§ You don't have to be in pain already to take arnica. The likely prospect will do. If you know you've overdone it but you don't know how badly . . . take some arnica. And maybe you won't have to find out.
My piano comes home
It is tragic the amount of fabulous blog material I've missed using the last five days or so. For example the BT landline engineer on Thursday had just finished telling me that it couldn't be done because the wiring was too old, or possibly because it had been plastered over irrecoverably when I hired a small army to create an attic out of a large crawl space, or at least it couldn't be done till 2017 because they were going to have to rewire Hampshire first,* or at very least it couldn't be done that day, as scheduled, because they were going to have to import a special lorry with a special hoist which was presently in Belgium, or possibly Tanzania, with which to approach sufficiently reverently the overhead wiring from 1878 which was, of course, made out of string,** and, in 2014, can use all the reverence it can get. So he had just finished telling me this when his phone rang*** and it was his manager saying that his brother had rung from hospital WHERE THEY HAD TAKEN HIS FATHER AND HE SHOULD GO THERE NOW. Oh dear . . .
They sent me another engineer. Which is pretty impressive since this meant he would be working past closing time. And he was a little cranky about this—he says he rarely sees his two-year-old except on weekends—but he was in no way taking it out on me and I have total sympathy with cranky. And he found a hoist in, I don't know, Berkshire or Essex or Norway or something, and it came*** and HE GOT THIRD HOUSE PLUGGED IN NOT ONLY TO THE TELEPHONE BUT TO WHAT PASSES FOR THE REAL WORLD ANY MORE, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN . . . well, at all, for the internet, but a number of years for the phone, because Third House had stood empty for quite a while before the heirs put it on the market. And then it hung around on the market for another while because it was overpriced and I kept walking past and fretting, having been in to the estate agent and discovered that (a) it was WAAAAAAAY out of any semblance of my price range and (b) in the estate agent's opinion it was overpriced, and I should bide myself in patience.† And we know how that ended. And then I got my knickers in a twist about the 'several hundred pounds to lay new phone line' thing. Oh, and the great deal I was getting from BT? That they'd lay the new line if I'd agree to buy their broadband for two years? Is anyone amazed that it's not all that good a deal? I get one connection. If I want, you know, extensions, I have to pay for them. I get one connection with one underfrellingpowered router with built in wireless THAT IS SO FEEBLE IT WON'T REACH TO THE OTHER END OF THIS LITTLE HOUSE, LET ALONE INTO THE ATTIC. ARRRRRRRRRRGH. So we have wireless broadband (mostly††) in the sitting room. Peter can't even get it in his office which is about eight feet away. ARRRRRRRRRRRRGH.
I had asked Oisin and he'd said I should ask our mutual piano tuner about someone to move my darling, and the piano tuner clucked and said there was the less expensive option and the more expensive option and I said this is an old, heavy Steinway upright and I want her treated gently, and he said Sigurd of the Silver Doohickey was the bee's knees of piano movers pretty much over the entire south of England but they were not cheap. I rang Sigurd and they quoted a price that didn't seem to me, the owner of an old heavy Steinway upright‡, all that remarkable, so I said yes and, furthermore, since what they do is move pianos and are always galloping back and forth across the south of England they managed to find me a slot for today . . . the first working day after the rest of the furniture went.
I will also at present leave out describing the amount of hauling of little stuff, from the mews to Third House, that has been going on both before and since Friday, and the sordid appallingnesses thus implacably revealed‡‡. TODAY I was at the mews at 2 pm awaiting Cinderella's coach with the reinforced suspension, the turbo jets and the crane.
This rather mild-mannered van rolled into the courtyard at 2:15. It was bigger than your average White Van Man van but looking at it you didn't immediately think panzer division, although it did say SIGURD OF THE SILVER DOOHICKEY SPECIALIST PIANO MOVER on all visible surfaces. And three young laconic guys dropped out of it and strolled in a deeply cool manner to the front door. In hindsight I suspect they were waiting to find out if I was going to be a Fainting in Coils type who would need to be managed but my first thirty seconds' impression was not particularly positive. Whatever. Sigurd is the best, these guys must know what they're doing.
I started to come round to them when they viewed the situation calmly, and the mews is not exactly set up for the easy moving of old heavy upright pianos, and there had been a fair amount of drama from the gang who had brought her. One of these guys fetched one little skateboardy rolling thing and the other two started edging my darling out of her corner. The one with the most tats—who fetched the skateboard—acknowledged that he was a hired gun and the other two were the Real Piano Movers. They looked so, you know, normal. Until the bigger of the two simply LIFTED one end of my piano a good eighteen frelling inches off the floor so they could start working the skateboard under.‡‡‡ Eeeeeep.
Well, they loaded her up and slid her across the floor and DOWN THE HORRIBLE LITTLE STEEP FRONT STEPS with only a titanium alloy ramp and the two blokes to keep her where she belonged, and the third guy scampering around adding stability where requested. And while the two blokes waited for the third one to lower the tailgate ramp lift thing I said, I know there's this mythology about heavy upright pianos and everybody thinks theirs is the heaviest, so, tell me, on a scale of upright pianos, where does this one go? And they laughed—a little breathlessly, I'm happy to say—and replied, this model is the heaviest upright Steinway ever built which is to say this is the heaviest upright piano ever built. A lot of full size concert grands weigh less than this piano, they said.
Oh. This probably explains why Sigurd was so careful to ask for model number . . . and why they had the third bloke along today. And I guess the van is the extra super reinforced concrete suspension Cinderella's carriage.
So we trundled down to Third House and I, fool that I am, assumed that the worst was over, except for the part about how the sitting room would suddenly be Very Full of Piano once she was in. NEVER MIND. Atlas had cut back the clematis montana over the garden gate so you can actually get through without bending double and/or being strangled, and my piano and attendants came through with a flourish and swooped around to get a straight shot at the front door. My hero looked at the door, looked at me and said, you did measure the door, didn't you?
MEASURE THE DOOR? IT'S A DOOR. LIKE ANY OTHER DOOR . . . I was literally clutching my head at this point.
My hero looked at the door again, shook his head and said, I don't think it's going to go through. They didn't even use the ramp this time, they just kept picking her up over the steps. What do they feed these boys?
They were still so calm. Well, this must happen all the time. Stupid clueless people who assume that one ordinary front door is like another ordinary front door. So they looked at the new situation—calmly—while I tried not to fall down in fits (or coils) and start gnawing on the outdoor furniture which looks very nice on the lawn here, by the way.
We'll take the door off, said my hero. I think if we just take the bottom off§ we can bring the piano in backwards and swing it around inside.
Which is what happened. It was still a terrifyingly tight squeeze, and while they had her padded with blankets the frelling plastic door frame squealed unnervingly. BUT SHE CAME THROUGH THE DOOR THANK YOU GOD THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. And they swung her around like doing the do-si-so—the so-called fitted carpet didn't cooperate with this manoeuvre but along with the screwdriver as standard equipment for removing doors they're also accustomed to what they call correcting the carpet—stood her up against the wall and . . . the sitting room is a trifle full of piano but it's not actually as FRELLING SQUASHED LOOKING as I was afraid it would be. And the really great thing? Both the inner sitting room door and the outer door—the one that came off and that they put back on again because they are polite young gentlemen as well as major beefcake—into the garden OPEN ALL THE WAY. With like three-quarters of an inch to spare, both sides. Three quarters of an inch is all we need.
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* Which is probably true. There's all this bluster about getting Hampshire super-fast broadband and the first swathe happens next year. Uh-huh. We're in the swathe for 2017. And have I mentioned they're building houses in this town faster than a hammer can fall on a nail?^ And that the broadband we have is grinding slowly to a dead halt as more and more people sign up? And let's not even talk about traffic and parking and the way you sometimes can't get through the centre of town on foot.^^
^Possibly because they don't use hammers and nails in house-building any more. That's so two centuries ago.+
+ Also because England deforested itself of suitable house-building trees more centuries ago than that. They may still use hammers and nails in Maine.
^^ Especially not with totally clueless four-legged companions. You'd think the hellhounds would have learnt to look both ways by now. Pav, eh.
** Copper-impregnated galvanized string. They don't make string like they used to.
*** I'm beginning to forget what life was like before mobile phones. Not in a good way. I still consider Pooka back up not the main event. And maybe in retaliation she decided the end of last week TO BE UNRELIABLE FOR A FEW DAYS.^ So I'm leaving messages all over the landscape DON'T USE MY MOBILE USE MY LANDLINE and . . . I have two messages on my landline, neither of them important, and about twenty seven on Pooka, most of which won't pick up. What is the MATTER with people?^^
My very best example however of the profound basic demon-possessed infuriatingness of mobile phones happened only this morning. I was out with hellhounds. Chaos had just Assumed the Position to have a crap at the edge of the pedestrian pavement. Mildly embarrassing, with people streaming by, but not a big deal. Not like it hasn't happened before: we frelling live in the centre of town. I was focussed on him, getting my little black plastic bag out and so on, and glanced over my shoulder to check that Darkness wasn't doing anything he shouldn't. AND DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD ASSUMED THE POSITION IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF THE DOOR OF THE BARD AND OPHARION.
And Pooka started barking.
And Peter's favourite bridge partner's wife walked by, started to say hello and burst out laughing.
Oh, and the person who was ringing? WAS SOMEONE I HAD TOLD TO USE MY LANDLINE. I told her I'd ring her back. That's fine, she chirruped. I've rung her five? six? seven? times over the course of the rest of the day . . . and she's never at her desk, in her office or on the radar. Possibly because her digital exchange says, ooooh, landline, how retro, and her assistant says, landline? We don't want to talk to any clumsy vulgar landline, we don't do string anyway.
^ Or more than a few. We don't know yet. Raphael remonstrated with her briefly today but he had his hands full trying to bring the frelling BT frelling broadband frelling crap router to heel. Note: he failed.
^^ I'm not going to ask what's the matter with Pooka. That way madness lies.
*** The driver doesn't see his kids except on weekends either.
†† I'm not even going to start on this epic. Raphael is coming back later in the week. Maybe then.
††† There were epics on Friday, of course, but our loyal movers—this is now the third or fourth, depending on how you're counting, time they've moved us. We all call each other by name and say 'hi' in the street, you know? Small local family firms. Salt of the earth. Adore, adore—were fabulous. As they have always been fabulous.
‡ People go all faint when they see she's a Steinway.^ As I keep saying, she was cheaper than a lot of mediocre new pianos and who wouldn't have a Steinway if that's the choice?? I've told you the story of how I bought her, haven't I? Another of my epics.
^ The logo is usually covered up by my music rack.
‡‡ And that the chief reason I haven't blogged before today is that I've either been racing around like a crazy woman or collapsed in a weepy little puddle of ME on the nearest horizontal surface, floor, ground, hellhound bed, hellhound(s), whatever. The ME is not exactly behaving itself, but I'm getting a certain amount of stuff done . . . and Nina and Ignatius are so golden. I don't know what we'd be doing without them. They were here a couple of days earlier last week, they were here Friday, they had the temerity to take the weekend off^, were here again today and are coming back tomorrow.
^ Nina, who is clearly insane, booked some holiday to help her dad move and Ignatius has one of these all or nothing jobs and he's in a mostly nothing phase at the moment.
‡‡‡ Let me say that I am glad to admit that I stopped finding young guys hot some years ago. They're so . . . you know, young. I like the old beat-up ones that look like we might have stuff in common to, ahem, talk about. But I might make an exception for this chap. He is not that big and he's not that bulky although you look at him and guess you wouldn't want to be on the wrong side in a pub brawl . . . but I've never liked the ripped gym-bunny look even when I was young. I had a serious case of the hots for my blacksmith, many years ago when I had a horse, because he had major muscles from USE, you know? The definition wasn't much because he wasn't doing gazillions of specialist curls but he was strong and I've always kind of swooned for strong, especially the easy-going, almost careless, strong-because-it's-part-of-the-job-description kind of strong. Also, turned out, once I apparently wasn't going to turn into a Fainting in Coils, today's hero has a really nice smile. I hope his main squeeze appreciates him.
§ Here's one of those big fat juicy ironies. I hated the old plastic door and have rarely been as happy as when Atlas finally got around to putting the wooden stable-style door in that I'd bought yonks ago but there's only one of Atlas and Peter or I keep pulling him off one thing to do something else. But finally . . . YAAAAAAAY. NICE DOOR IMPROVING GARDEN SIDE VIEW OF NICE HOUSE not to mention Aura of Sitting Room Within. But if it had been the nasty old plastic door today the piano would have fit through it. Because of the frame that the old door left behind—and which would have been an expensive ratbag to replace—Atlas had to install the new door slightly, um, in. Thus narrowing the entrance/egress part of the deal. Which I'd never really registered. My bad. Uggggh. Disaster narrowly averted.
§§ And if this blog is a little less coherent than usual, well, forgive me, it's been a rough week. . . .
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* He said, When I sell the mews we can buy a new car! I said, I don't want a new car! I'll just run it into things! I'm dangerous at less than 5 mph!^
^ Hate those frelling pillars at the Mauncester multilevel car park–the ones with the bulges below the driver's line of vision! HATE!
LA CENERENTOLA etc*
I think I haven't been to any of the New York Metropolitan Opera's live-streaming cinema broadcasts this season, for a variety of reasons, including being fired by my dog minder, but also . . . and I realise how pathetic and lame this sounds . . . because Saturday night is my favourite frelling church service, sitting silently in the dark with monks. Saturday night is the only service all week that has the silent-sitting thing. I'll try to catch an extra service at the abbey, I hope tomorrow night**, but if I want to sit silently in the dark I'll have to do it by myself. Whiiiiiiine.
But this run at the Met is probably Joyce DiDonato's last performance of La Cenerentola, and last night was the broadcast. And Radio 3, which would be airing it only without the eye-candy part, has been advertising it pretty hard. And there are, in fact, limits to my dedication to God (and monks).*** Joyce DiDonato, you know?† Not to mention Juan Diego Florez, who is adorable aside from the high Cs††.
Because I bought my ticket at the last minute I had a choice between being at the extreme end of one of the back rows and thus seeing the screen as if reflected in an unfunhouse mirror . . . or the aisle of the second row and thus needing a neck like a giraffe to tip my head far enough back to see the screen at all. I went for the second row. And brought a large tote bag with two big fat pillows in it—much to the hilarity of the guy behind me in row three†††—and lay down for the show.‡ Worked a treat, thanks.
AND THE OPERA WAS FABULOUS. STAGGERINGLY, GORGEOUSLY, JAW-DROPPINGLY FABULOUS. If they rerun it—which they sometimes do, and I would expect DiDonato's final go at one of her signature roles would be a good candidate—and you have the FAINTEST interest in opera or classical singing or music—GO. GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO. GO.
And . . . just by the way . . . not that this has anything to do with anything . . . but there are three cute guys in it. This doesn't happen in opera. You're lucky if you have one who, compared with a dead fish, comes out slightly ahead. Florez, as previously observed, is darling.‡‡ Dandini is also pretty frelling cute.‡‡‡ And Alidoro . . . ::fans self::§ I mean, gleep.§§
. . . . Anyway. I have now spent over an hour sifting through YouTube clips§§§ because I am so devoted to the welfare of my blog readers, and I HAVE TO GO TO BED. Maybe I'll get back to CENERENTOLA in a footnote sometime. . . .
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* The etc is chiefly that we went to a National Garden Scheme garden today . . . and took Pav. I've been wanting to take her to an open garden but there aren't that many that allow dogs—fewer than there used to be, I would have said, but maybe it's just around here, or we want to go to the wrong gardens.^
This one was gorgeous, mellow old stone house on the bank^^ of one of England's pencil-thick so-called rivers, but winding romantically, with waterfowl and reeds.^^^ The garden then extended back across fields with vistas and benches and the occasional outburst of perennial border. And the weather, which was forecast to be grouchy and streaming by turns, was glorious, bright blue sky and big fat scudding clouds.# I barely saw any of it, since Pav was trying to see, respond, engage, EAT all of it simultaneously and you couldn't see those little short legs, they were churning so fast. ADVENTURE! WE'RE HAVING AN ADVENTURE! Pantpantpantpantpantpantpant. She did not seem to be sorry to sit in my lap for tea, however, where she was more easily suppressed than if I tried to make her lie down under my chair##, although I did have to keep a sharp eye on the cakes. NO. NOT FOR DOGS. NOT EVEN FOR HELLTERRORS. Cute is not enough. —She was much admired by several aficionados of the breed, however, as well as cringed away from by several people who think they know that all bull terriers are evil biting machines. Sigh. We saw Labs (of frelling course), Goldens, poodles, gazillions of ordinary boring hairy terrier terriers . . . but we were the Supreme Only Bull Terrier present.
^ We used to allow dogs when we opened our garden at the old house. Just by the way. We also offered free plastic bags. Ahem. Today this aspect of the presence of dogs was pretty funny. Pav in the heat of excitement had an unscheduled defecatory moment which—since I always have plastic bags secreted about my person in several places in case I forget and run out in the standard coat pocket location—I recovered. But there wasn't anything like a bin to deposit the securely wrapped morsel in. I can't now remember what we did when we had our garden open; did we expect people to carry canine excreta home with them? Surely not. Anyway. No bin. So Pav and I went back to the gate while Peter bought tea+, and inquired there if there was a public bin nearby? The car park this private garden was using for their open day was attached to some public wildlife preserve, you'd frelling expect there'd be a bin.
You'd've thought I'd made an improper suggestion++. Both ladies looked alarmed and revolted and the nearer one edged her chair away from Pav doing her I-am-a-lunatic-and-I-have-no-manners shtick but clearly secured by a thick+++, heavy, short lead. No-no-no-no-no, quavered one of them, clutching her twinset to her bosom.
I was tempted to make little dashes at them—like the bully in the playground waving a poor confused harmless snake at the wusses, although I would not describe Pav as poor or confused, or harmless if you're wearing clean jeans—but I didn't want to be told to go away before I'd had my tea. So I restrained myself (and Pav).
And took our parcel back to the car. Which was kind of a frelling walk. Next year the owner, whom I heard saying jollily that they'd had a lot of dogs today, should consider both the suitability of the volunteers on the gate and the provision of a small bin with a lid.
+ Including the all-important Cake Selection process
++ Live in a yurt! Buy an armadillo! Get legless on a night you're wearing stacked stilettos and make the Street Pastors give you a pair of flipflops!
+++ and spectacularly gaudy. So gaudy I had a pair of meek little English men creep up to me and ask softly where I'd bought it. Oh, the States somewhere, I said loudly in my rich American accent. I forget.
So maybe it was the (pink) harness and rainbow-dazzle lead that the ladies on the gate were disturbed by, and the drooling hellterror exhibiting them was incidental.
^^ High enough, I guess, that they did not have water in their cellar this winter.
^^^ Rushes? Tall strappy-leaved edge-of-river plants.
# The best thing of all was how easy it was to find. It looked in the directions like it should be easy. But that doesn't mean anything.
## HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. But she lies down very well if there's cheese or chicken involved. And I did have chicken jerky in my pocket in case of emergencies.
** As I wrote to Alfrick, emailing to warn him I wasn't coming last night, I start jonesing for monks if I go much over a week without a hit.
*** I'm a Street Pastor! I'm about to become a frelling (nonreligious, but God still told me to) Samaritan! Cut me some slack here!
† https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3damaS03KgY wowzah
†† https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD1Cq2T5veI gonzo
††† And I wager my neck was in better shape than his at the end of the four hours
‡ Leg stowage I admit can be a problem in these situations, but as it happens there was no one in the front row, so I could rest my raised knees against the seat without anyone objecting.
‡‡ In the interviews I've heard with him he sounds like a decent human being too. I refuse to find darling people who are clearly major creepazoids.^
^ I'm old. My hormones are under control.+
+ Except for the ones involved in hot flushes. I thought you STOPPED HAVING hot flushes/flashes after a few years. I'm waiting. . . .
‡‡‡ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pietro+spagnoli
§ Hot flush. No, really.
§§ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr2LBjN7K10 Gah. I have wasted a lot of time trying to find a clip where you can not merely hear but see him. There's also quite a good one of him singing poor Cherubino off to battle but you don't get a close up. This one is fairly explicit. He's the one doing most of the singing, making up to the girl in the grey dress. ::fans self more:: Oh, Dmitri [Hvoroskovsky], you may have a rival.^
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 5, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VIVUS, Inc. (Nasdaq:VVUS) (the "Company"), a pharmaceutical company commercializing and developing innovative, next-generation therapies to address unmet needs in obesity and sexual health, today announced that it has filed its definitive proxy materials in connection with the Company's 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, to be held on July 15, 2013, with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). VIVUS stockholders of record at the close of business on May 31, 2013 are entitled to vote at the 2013 Annual Meeting.
The VIVUS Board of Directors unanimously recommends that stockholders vote " FOR" all of the Company's experienced and highly qualified directors – Leland F. Wilson; Peter Y. Tam; Mark B. Logan; J. Martin Carroll; Charles J. Casamento; Ernest Mario, Ph.D.; Jorge Plutzky, M.D.; Linda M. Dairiki Shortliffe, M.D.; and Robert N. Wilson – on the GOLD proxy card. Stockholders are encouraged to vote today by Internet, by telephone or by signing, dating and returning the GOLD proxy card. The Company also filed the following letter today with the SEC. The full text of the letter follows.Dear Fellow Stockholder: At VIVUS's Annual Meeting of Stockholders, scheduled for July 15, 2013, you will make an important decision regarding the future of your investment in the Company. First Manhattan Co. ("FMC") is seeking to replace the entire VIVUS Board of Directors with its own slate of nine director nominees in order to advance, in our view, its own interests. We believe the replacement of all of the incumbent directors at the present time is not in the best interest of VIVUS's stockholders. Under the guidance of the Board of Directors, VIVUS's management team successfully developed and won FDA approval for Qsymia, acknowledged by FMC to be "the most effective obesity drug ever developed." Since winning FDA approval in July 2012, VIVUS's Board and management have made valuable progress on our retail commercialization plan for Qsymia and have begun discussions with large pharmaceutical companies to expand our presence with primary care doctors. The campaign by FMC to replace VIVUS's entire Board of Directors, and presumably its management, jeopardizes our progress and puts your investment in VIVUS at risk. Other than replacing the entire Board and management team, which would likely throw the Company into turmoil at a critical juncture, FMC has failed to articulate a plan as to what they would do differently if they were to take control of VIVUS. Our independent Board has the relevant expertise, the in-depth understanding of our business, and will provide the continuity necessary to maximize value for all of VIVUS's stockholders. Your vote is important in this election and we urge you to continue to support the VIVUS Board. To elect VIVUS's Board nominees, we encourage you to vote today by Internet, by telephone or by signing and dating the enclosed GOLD proxy card and returning it in the postage-paid envelope. Please vote each and every GOLD proxy card or GOLD voting instruction form you receive since you may hold shares in multiple accounts. Consider the following in deciding how to vote at the upcoming Annual Meeting:VIVUS HAS A CLEAR AND CONSISTENT PLAN TO BUILD A SUCCESSFUL QSYMIA BRAND AND TO INCREASE STOCKHOLDER VALUE
VIVUS's Board of Directors and management team have been consistent in their strategy to ensure commercial success for Qsymia. We are making significant progress in laying the foundation for Qsymia by expanding patient access, gaining payor reimbursement and creating awareness with physicians. Recent important milestone events have already increased stockholder value and we believe will increase sales in the near future:Increasing Patient Access. The VIVUS management team has recently gained FDA approval allowing retail pharmacy distribution. Following the launch of Qsymia in September 2012, one of our priorities was to obtain approval of our REMS modification to allow access outside of the restrictive mail-order only channel. This important milestone was achieved in April 2013. Retail distribution will allow us to broaden the distribution of Qsymia to thousands of certified retail pharmacies, improve patient access to Qsymia, and significantly simplify the prescribing and dispensing process for healthcare providers. With the REMS modification approval from the FDA, we have begun developing our initial direct-to-consumer (DTC) campaign. The DTC efforts are focused on encouraging patients to ask their doctor about Qsymia – a critical step in increasing consumer awareness and building Qsymia into a top-selling brand. Over the next several months, our team will be diligently focused on the retail roll-out. The retail implementation includes: finalizing wholesaler agreements; building our distribution network; building and validating REMS-compliant databases; enrolling, training and certifying each pharmacy location; shipping product to wholesale and chain distribution centers; stocking certified retail pharmacies; and promoting the availability of Qsymia to prescribing doctors and patients. We expect to announce retail availability by mid-July 2013, at which time we anticipate that Qsymia will be stocked in thousands of certified retail pharmacies.
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Well, like I said, it sounds like the fan isn't throttling correctly. If there is a way for you to look at your card while it is running, see if it is spinning at all and if you can tell if it speeds up when you launch a game. If it isn't working and you don't want to mess with Compaq, then only suggestion is to buy a new card, I guess. How is your tower as far as cooling? How many case fans do you have? I have 6 fans, one 90mm and 5x80mm. Not to mention the 2 fans in the PSU and the 90mm on my CPU, and of course, the little one on my big ol' 5950 Ultra. So there is a lot of air flow in my case, plus I keep the house kinda cool, thermostat set on 75', but house temp is probably 73' or so.
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At the first appointment, referred to as an Intake Appointment, students are asked to complete two forms. During the initial contact at the SCC, the counselor works with the client to clarify and assess concerns and determine the options available. The mission of the SCC is to provide time-effective assistance with problems in living that interfere with students' academic success. When more intensive or specialized service is required to meet a client's needs, the counselor will discuss with the client if extended care can be managed within this agency or if referral alternatives within the community would be more appropriate.
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BeeAre wrote:Ponder the significance of "The Forgotten" as design concepts from Bleedman's perspective. It's an excuse to draw characters who have not been utilized in a long time.
There will be a suitable explanation to satisfy the strangeness of the collection, but that's about as much as I feel is necessary, considering my artist friend's predisposition.
Given that: Protoboy and any other Forgotten demonstrated here absolutely IS subject to Vexus' hierarchical control.
I will make a note of his lust for destruction, to perhaps be showcased a little later on--the more important players in this scene are Vexus and the Tallest.
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A group of students at the Weapon Meister school called the DWM. They train along with their human-weapons to make them strong enough to be used by Shinigami-sama himself.
Hard-working Maka and uber-"cool" Soul; egomaniac Black Star and patient Tsubaki; OCD Death the Kid and Patty and Liz Thompson: these are the primary groups of Shinigami Meister-in-training and their weapons, all attending the Shinigami Weapons Meister Vocational Academy. Each student's ultimate goal is to feed their human weapon 99 human souls and the soul of one witch, which makes their weapon usable by full-fledged shinigami. In the meantime, they defeat humans who have or will become kishin, evil demon gods that throw the world out of balance.
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This book is soo amazing.I didnt think about reading it till one day i just took it off my sisters shelf, i mean i saw the movie and cried but the books details about how much Chris loved Ann was just phenomenal! Its amazing how much two people love each other.It also made me evalute if the people i know, know that i love them it helped me understand you could get lost if they dont know that; you may not exsist to them anymore.Well its an excellent book/journey about life after death and how much a man can love a woman. Definite 5 star!
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Top 10 Drum & Bass and Old Skool tunes.Jul 8, 2001
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The Bottom Line If you need any help or advice with drum and bass or old skool tunes, then just e-mail me - I'm only too happy to help. Keep the vibe alive.
I have been raving since around 1989, and am still going strong. I DJ as well and have a vast collection, so can give you a pretty accurate opinion of my favourite jungle and old skool hardcore tunes ever dating from the early 90's up until the late 90's. Happy raving, and keep the vibe alive. These are in no particular order, as I like plenty of tunes, but am giving you the lowdown on some of my favourites. The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea (1992) Written by Brian Dougans and Garry Cobain, this is one of the most relaxing and uplifting old skool tunes of our time. This melodic tune contains vocals sent to Dougans in a cassette from his girlfriend, when they were on the verge of splitting up. This combined with melodic tribal breakbeats and rolling basslines made Papua New Guinea one of the most relaxing and danceable tunes. This tune was made by The Future Sound of London, who pretty much invented British Techno in 1988. The record contains the original 4.58 version, and the 11.16 Weatherall mix, on Passion Music Ltd, but repressed on Jumpin & Pumpin Records. One of the greatest old skool tunes of our time. Brings back great memories of the early raving scene. Acen � Trip II The Moon Part 2 (1992) In my opinion, Acen (Acen. Razvi) was incapable of producing a bad tune. Volume 2 out of a 3 part series, which included the Kaleidoscopiklimax mix. Acen were obviously also incapable of making pronounceable titles, i.e. Close Your Eyes � Optikonfusion mix. Each of the three were brilliant tunes, but 2 was the one for me. This tune samples the orchestral work of John Barry, which was featured in the James Bond film � You Only Live Twice, later used in Robbie William�s � Millenium. Part one also sampled a different part of You Only Live Twice. Featuring sound samples such as �take me higher; I can�t believe this feeling; hear this; and enough respect to all the massive� are appropriately placed to make this tune an absolute killer. Still played on UK pirate stations and in raves, this tune will go down as one of my favourites. In case you are after an Acen old skool tune, - they are very hard to stumble upon, and will set you back at least �25 (about $40) Origin Unknown � Valley of The Shadows (1993) Written and produced by Andy C and Ant Miles, this tune is one of the greatest drum and bass tunes ever made. It is still played in the main drum and bass rooms as well as the old skool rooms. Often referred to as 31 Seconds, Valley of the Shadows is an absolute classic. The tune starts with an eerie, tinkling, climbing intro, and goes into a fantastic drum loop. The bass adds a whole different level to the tune. The tune contains a sample from a NASA space mission, with �31 seconds.� � the long and dark remix contains a bit more, with the 5,4,3,2,1 countdown. It also samples a documentary from the BBC (British television channel) with a trippy sounding �I was in a long dark tunnel� and later on in the tune �with a very bright light at the end�. Released on Ram records in 1993, and still available in its original form in HMV and good record stores, this is definitely one for your collection, whether you are a drum and bass or an old skool dj. The Renegade � Terrorist (1994) Written by Ray Keith, Terrorist is one of the hugest drum and bass tunes ever produced. When listening to this tune, you can see how drum and bass should really be made. The drums drop in and out as and when they should. Fantastic in its original state, but even better with the PA remix. Recently Dom and Roland brought out their remix of it, which also goes down well. I personally prefer the PA mix, which is on Vintage Dread 2000, if you don�t feel like tracking down an original copy. This tune starts with a fantastic and spine chilling piano, which when dropped by a dj will give the crowd a real treat. Then the bass kicks in, and believe me, the bass is nice and deep, as it should be. With a fantastic drum loop throughout, the piano is then brought back in to make an incredible tune, and probably my favourite tune of all time. Buy this tune � PA or Dom and Roland remixes. The original � I like, but it is best played and listened to in one of the two stated. Urban Shakedown featuring Mickey Finn� Some Justice (1991) Well I would have to say, that this is an absolute classic. One of the best old skool tunes ever. Mickey Finn went on to produce some of the best Drum and Bass and is still around dj�ing some of the finest drum and bass sets. This tune sampled the uplifting vocals from Ce Ce Rogers. The name of the tune just slipped my mind. Anyway, the Concrete Jungle remix also has a snippet from Ce Ce Roger�s vocals used in Liquid � Sweet Harmony. Not much to write about this tune, apart from � buy it. The original or the Concrete Jungle mix will do perfectly. Some Justice 95 is nothing like the original, but is still a very good drum and bass tune. The hardcore remix if anyone is wondering is called One Family by DJ Unknown. Bass Selective � Blow Out Part 2 One of my favourite tunes of all time � aren�t they all? Hehe. Part 2 is the version played everywhere. The original, although good, lacked everything that Part 2 offered. This tune begins with an incredible bit of piano, which then kicks in with a lovely drum loop, and then those oh-so-fantastic vocals � �you had it, you had it all boy�. The woooohooo�s add to the track�s incredibleness. It then breaks down into a lovely bit of tunage, the pianos and vocals kick in again, making it a definite tune for the collection. For any of you hardcore heads outs there, Monty and D�Skys � �You had it all� is the one for you. Q Project � Champion Sound (1993) Hugest drum and bass/old skool tune ever. The original was great, the alliance remix was better, and then the Total Science remix was even better. An absolute anthem dropped in both old skool sets and drum and bass sets. When the tune drops, the whistles are blowing, the horns are going, the crowd go absolutely mental. If the British national anthem was ever changed, it should be to Champion Sound. The Total Science remix slightly changes the pattern of the riff, but kicks in with a mad drum loop, and really gets the crowd, including myself completely hyped. Sound of the Future � The Lighter (1995) One of the greatest drum and bass tunes. This was produced by DJ SS, who also produced the coloured series of drum and bass tunes, i.e. black, blue, etc. This tune was remixed five times. The best ones in my opinion are the original and the dj friendly mix (don�t let the name put you off). This samples the theme tune from Love Story, and is an all time classic drum and bass tune. When the piano kicks in watch the lighters go up in the air, and watch the crowd go mad when it drops. One of my favourite tunes. Baby D � Let Me Be Your Fantasy (1992) Let Me Be Your Fantasy is one of the greatest rave tunes made. Written and Produced by Floyd Dyce, this tune was released in 1992 and sold over 40,000 copies. The tune was then re-released in 1994 and went straight to number 1 in the charts. The tune has been re-released on several occasions. Although being a huge commercial success, this tune is one of the greatest old skool tunes, finding itself played in old skool, house, and garage sets, with drum and bass and hardcore versions as well. The female vocals partly make the tune what it is, but behind that is an incredible tune. This 8 minute tune is a thriller from beginning to end, with lovely vocals, pianos and drums, and a live-sounding atmosphere, which seemed to crop up in several old skool tunes. If you don�t know this tune, then you must have been living on another planet for the previous 9 years. Buy it now if you don�t own it already. It was originally on Production House, who host Acen records. Baby D were signed up to London Sound in 1994, but this tune can probably be found on several dj friendly compilations. Orca � 4am (1993) What a tune! Instantly springs to mind. This was released in 1993 on a white label, and due to its success and anthem-status, sold out very quickly making the tune very difficult to get hold of. Starting with a brought back-scratching sample, this tune then kicks off with a nice drum loop, going into a lovely bit of piano, sampling vocals from two verses of Beverley Craven�s � Promise Me: �You look like you�re in another world and I can read your mind. Four o clock in the morning and it�s starting to get light.� This tune is still played today in both old skool and happy hardcore sets. There have been several remixes of this, but the most well known is probably Question Mark 3 (???) by Red Alert and Mike Slammer on Slammin� Vinyl. If you DJ, then it often goes down well at 4.00 in the morning :D . I have done it before, and the crowd went absolutely wild. Absolute tunage. If you manage to ever get hold of this, then buy it. Question Mark 3 is also a very good remix of this. |


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Dental Bib Chains Pose Cross Contamination Threat
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Wet, used towels left in the gym. Dirty tissues discarded by someone suffering from a nasty cold. You wouldn't think of touching these items. But unknowingly, you may be sharing something that could be just as filthy and potentially dangerous when you visit a dental office. Infection control specialists call this cross contamination.
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When an unsterilized bib chain is placed around your neck, you may be exposed to dangerous pathogens including pseudomonas, E. coli and Staph aureus – the most common cause of staph infections and a potential "superbug."
Noel Kelsch, a national infection control columnist, Registered Dental Hygienist and former President of the California Dental Hygienists' Association, conducted a study on various types of dental chains and clips after seeing debris falling from a chain she had planned to use to protect her uniform at lunch. What she found led her to write an article titled "Don't Clip that Crud on Me" for RDH Magazine, a trade publication for dental hygienists.
Cross contamination can occur when a bib chain 'grabs' onto hair or accumulates patients' sweat, make-up, and neck acne, not to mention the oral substances that spray out of the mouth. During a dental cleaning, saliva, plaque and even blood can come in contact with the bib and bib chain. While you might think these types of nasty contaminants won't find their way into your system, all it takes is for you or one of the dental workers to come in contact with them. If you touch your neck after a dental visit and then rub your eye, you may have just cross-contaminated yourself.
"Studies have shown the more cracks, crevices and indentations on a bib chain, the higher the bacterial count. The problem with this when we use the same bib chain with patient, after patient, after patient, the accumulation creates a risk for cross-contamination."
One specific study Kelsch conducted involved taking samples of bacteria found in a major U.S. airport bathroom and comparing them to the bacteria found on a used bib clip.
"What we were trying to do was put across to the public how bacteria-laden a bib clip can be, and what we discovered was, by looking at a bathroom floor at a busy airport, and looking at this bib chain, we got about the same level of bacteria in both of them. This is a risk that everyone needs to be aware of."
As expected, disposable clips and holders opened fresh for each patient, were free from contaminants and posed no cross-contamination threats. "As an advocate for patient safety within the dental profession, one of the most important things I can do is keep patients out of harm's way. By simply educating the public about this possible cross-contamination, we can make an impact and keep our patients out of harm's way."
Her findings echoed a study conducted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Dentistry Oral Microbiology Lab that found bib chains and clips are potential sources of contamination. In sampling 50 bib clips from various hygiene and dental operations, researchers discovered one in five bib clips were contaminated with "significant microorganisms," according to an article in Dental Health Magazine.
"Society is really putting an emphasis on healthier living. If you go out into society now, you can see it everywhere you go. When you go to the grocery store, you'll see that they have wipes for disinfecting the cart; when you go into a gym, they'll supply you with items for helping you keep the equipment safe and free of bacteria. By simply going into your dentist's office and insisting that they use a disposable bib holder, instead of a bib clip, you're eliminating that harm factor."
In addition to providing patients with a safer dental visit, Kelsch says that disposable dental bib holders are critical tools in the fight against the creation of more "superbugs."
"If the infection route is destroyed – specifically, this bib chain is eliminated – we're not going to have the chance of cross-contamination and no disease is going to occur."
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HP Software's community for IT leaders // January 2014Fortune 500 company's 4 DevOps secrets: Eliminate the monkeys
Unum Group's Tim Durgan explains why following "disruptive" DevOps principles is imperative in today's borderless enterprise.
The latest HP Discover Performance podcast examines how a Fortune 500 company adopted a DevOps approach to improve its applications delivery and deployment capabilities. Unum Group, an employee benefits provider, was stymied by an enterprise architecture that was "operating in silos," said the company's enterprise application architect, Tim Durgan. Meanwhile, Unum "began to realize that there were smaller companies starting to chip away in segments of the market."
During the podcast with analyst Dana Gardner, Durgan outlined his basic principles for DevOps success—a roadmap to better, faster delivery and real business value.
Q: How do you define DevOps?
Tim Durgan: I have a couple of principles that I use when I talk about DevOps that are a little disruptive, so [that] people pay attention.
For instance, I'll say, "eliminate the monkeys," which essentially means you need to try to automate as much as possible. Machines are very good at objective criteria. Let's save the humans for subjective things. As an architect, I recognize the automation of business process. But somehow I missed the fact that we need to automate the IT process, which in a lot of ways is what DevOps is about.
Another principle is "fail fast." If you're going to deliver software fast, you need to be able to fail fast. A lot of companies struggle with that. Unum does. We want to put a product out quickly, but if it's going to fail, we would love to know it's going to fail very quickly, and not make millions of dollars in investments.
Another one is visibility throughout. In a lot of companies … each team has a monitoring tool. You have to have a secret decoder ring to use each monitoring tool. While diversity is normally a great thing, it isn't when it comes to monitoring. You can't have the ops guy looking at data that's different from what the developer is looking at. That means you're completely hopeless when it comes to resolving issues.
My last one is "Kumbaya." A lot of IT organizations act competitively. Somehow infrastructure believes they can be successful without development and without QA, and vice versa. Business sees only IT. We are a complete team, and we have to work collaboratively to achieve things.
Q: Does DevOps put you in a better position vis-à-vis what we all seem to see coming down the pike?
TD: It [does], if you think about movement to the cloud, which Unum is very much looking at now. And you start to think, "I'm going to take this application and run it on a data center I don't own anymore." So the need for visibility, transparency, and collaboration is even greater. If you think about DevOps and that visibility, data is great, but if you don't have any idea of expectations, it's just data.
You start to hear this phrase now, the borderless enterprise (reg. req'd), and it's so true. Whether it's mobile, cloud, or providing APIs to your customers, brokers, or third parties, that's the world we now live in. If you don't adopt DevOps principles, and do some of these things around failing fast and providing holistic visibility and shared data, I just don't see how you change the game, how you move from your quarterly release cycle to a monthly, weekly, or daily release cycle. I don't see how you do it.
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Heavily disguised with makeup, Mr. Bissonnette discussed the book Sunday on "60 Minutes," in which he reports surveying a grievously wounded man and trying to determine whether it was, in fact, bin Laden. "In his death throes, he was still twitching and convulsing," he writes.
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I am as excited as the rest of us about having Brady throwing to Moss. But the whitewash that Randy Moss is a case like Corey Dillon is kind of insulting. Moss has had run ins with the law repeatedly, as well as really bad behavior. Corey was no where near the same freak show, as far as I know. I hope Randy shapes up. But we are starting with much shakier raw material. Am I right, or did I not appreciate something really bad about Corey Dillon? In Bill We Trust
The truth of the matter is that off the field crimes don't necessarily hinder a team all that much; see Cincinnatti Bengals. What you don't want is someone who doesn't play at 100% which Moss has admitted to doing or someone who stirs thing up in the locker room. If a guy gives his all and gets along with everyone, the fact that he commits a felony on his own time doesn't have much impact on the team (assuming he's not suspended) aside from PR. This is a fresh start for "Randall" Moss, and everyone knows he'll be on a short leash. I hope he makes the best of this opportunity to solidify himself as one of the truly great WRs.
Too lazy to Google????????? http://sportsline.com/mcc/messages/chrono/2348034/0/0/2358941#ID2358941 April 30, 2007 4:28 am Wrong on Dillon, do a search on google on Corey Dillon and arrest and get things like this: (1996) Corey Dillon was arrested in Seattle's Central Area for investigation of several driving violations, including driving while intoxicated. Dillon was stopped by police for driving erratically in the 2100 block of East James Street sometime before 2 a.m., according to police. Dillon was subsequently booked into the King County Jail for suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant, driving with a suspended license and negligent driving. COREY DILLON Arrested for: DUI, theft (twice), intent to sell cocaine, obstructing a police officer (thrice), resisting arrest (twice), assault (five times), criminal trespass, malicious mischief (twice), reckless endangerment (twice) Corey Dillon has committed so many crimes (with such variety!), we inducted him early. He had 11 arrests before age 17. Since going pro Corey's been busted for DUI, driving with a suspended license, and assaulting his wife. Dillon was sentenced to rigorous "community service"—working with area youngsters on football skills and refereeing intramural basketball games. We still expect a lot of jail time from this promising youngster.
I dont know. Moss hasn't really been a major criminal or anything. He got in a couple of fights in high school because some racist kids tried to beat him up. Good for him. He's smoked pot. Good for him. He brushed his vehicle up against a meter maid. Not the best judgement but hardly reason for inclusion in a pen house. He pretend mooned the Packer faithful. Lock him up!
"repeatedly"???? please..I think you are confusing him with another..maybe Pacman??? There was ONE or maybe two hardly repeatedly... Dillon's trouble was as a teen...although there may have been something later. Arrests?? NOT the complainat about Moss..other things..yes..
The one run-in with the law with Moss was when he pushed the meter maid with his car. Probably not the best idea, but whatever. Moss's problem has always been his "take plays off" attitude.
It's amazing how fast people forget how Corey Dillon shot his way out of town. If people don't think that he didn't quit on that team, you're wrong. Here are some excerpts out of an article about the trade. Dillon, 29, wasn't happy during the Bengals' renaissance season under coach Marvin Lewis. While the Bengals stayed in playoff contention, Dillon groused about his lack of carries and lobbied for a trade. Lewis tried to get Dillon to take more of a leadership role last season, but was rebuffed. Dillon's public complaints in the middle of a turnaround season essentially sealed his fate. "They don't need me," Dillon said afterward. "They've been winning, quote unquote, without me." (Sounds like he's quitting on his team with that quote) Dillon renewed his push for a trade last month by going on a national sports talk show dressed in a Raiders jersey. He also lashed out at Pro Bowl offensive tackle Willie Anderson, calling him "a bum." Anderson had criticized Dillon for being selfish while the team was in playoff contention. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=1785718\ By the way, hasn't anyone looked at the fact that Dillon wanted his release from the Pats because his role was being reduced. To me that is quitting on your team, not accepting what your role is and not being happy in said role. Is this sort of sounding familiar? Instead of accepting a reduced role to help out our team, he pouted and then said he was retiring IMMEDIATELY after the AFCCG. The only reason why he didn't do that in the middle/end of the season is because he realized there was a legit shot at the SB. Factors are different between Moss and Dillon but the outcome was the same. They were unhappy in their situations and wanted out. The only difference is that the Raiders needed Moss a lot more than the Bengals needed Dillon.
Moss is also a better WR than Dillon is a RB. I'm not saying that Dillon wasn't good, he was a VERY GOOD RB. However he wasn't a Hall of Fame talent just a damn good one. Moss, however, is a Hall of Fame talent. He may have a few more issues than Dillon but his upside is even greater.
Let this be a lesson to all: get your facts straight before presenting your case! I appears that Dillon had his legal issues too. I definately remember the domestic abuse incident from his "Beyond the Glory" episode.
IIRC Dillon was considered MUCH more of a locker room cancer than Moss was/is. Granted, Moss pissed of his coaches/FO, but by all accounts, his teammates (by and large) generally liked him. Fans too from the sounds of it. Dillon was hated by most of his teammates (I beleive), his coaches lost faith in him and he wasn't a fan favorite either. I think that th only thing that he has over Moss was that he was a 100% worker, all the time. By the way, is it me, or does anyone else get the "quit on his teammates" being a little too hyped. Lets face it, he is HARDLY the only Raider the hasn't been giving it his all last year. He may be the highest profile Raider, but that is a whole team of underacheivers there. He will be fine here.
Because of his reputation for taking plays off, structuring his contract to a $3M base and $5M in incentives is a wise move. If the guy would rather play for money than his teammates, at least he's got something to play for. Regards, Chris


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Recently I was in a restaurant where the 30-something cashier kept calling me "young man." Sometimes, when I go to the supermarket, the cashier will call me "young man." Not long ago a department store clerk called me "young man." I hate that. I'm a purebred, registered, card-carrying octogenarian. I've worked hard to become one, […]
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Feb 10, 2014 8:19 PM by Monica Gouty
DENVER (AP) - Authorities say a 10-year-old girl put her mother's SUV into gear and drove it into a Division of Motor Vehicles office in the Denver suburb of Parker.
Police Sgt. Andy Coleman tells KMGH-TV a woman parked outside the office with the engine running and left her two daughters, ages 12 and 10, inside as she entered the building at about 2 p.m. Monday. That's when the younger girl slid into the driver's seat and put the vehicle into gear.
Coleman says the SUV rolled slowly through the front window of the office until the mother opened the driver's side door and jumped in to stop it from causing more damage. No one was injured in the crash.
The girl was cited for reckless driving.
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