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I was talking to one of my doctors last week who knows I wrestle with chronic pain and I brought up the fact that medicinal marijuana has become the national rage. Twenty-one states now allow it and Tennessee is one of about a dozen other states that is taking a hard look at a topic our best scientists admit they know too little about.
I'll admit I am nearly paranoid in my fear of prescription narcotics but several months ago, after Colorado legalized marijuana, I became fascinated with the tale of tiny Charlotte Figi, a six-year-old girl who has a rare disease called Dravet Syndrome. The kid was having 200 grand mal seizures a week – about once every 25 minutes – and was in a living hell. Strapped in a wheelchair, the child had a one-word vocabulary.
Today young Charlotte can walk, speak in full sentences and has a blend of marijuana named in her honor called "Charlotte's Web." Her life has been totally changed after her desperate parents began to mix a strain of the embattled cannabis with olive oil and started giving Charlotte two treatments a day. There is documentable proof Charlotte and about 85 other kids have had their lives altered and today – get this -- there are 2,000 more people on a Colorado Springs waiting list. Over 100 families have literally moved to Colorado!
So I am talking to this doctor I trust with my life and I suddenly asked, "Would marijuana help me?" The answer came out easily. "It is illegal for me to prescribe it. It is illegal in the state of Tennessee … but I would not tell you not to try it … "
Holy smokes, that was unbelievable for me. That is the closest real-life example I have ever heard that maybe there is more to all the hoopla, and growing public acceptance. Seriously, maybe there really is more to marijuana than mainstream conservatives have been willing to admit until now but scientists worry there may be more we don't know.
Amy Brooks-Kayal, the vice president of the American Epilepsy Society, was quoted in an Associated Press story the other day as saying "Until we have information (and proven research), as physicians, we can't follow our first creed, which is do no harm," she explained, carefully noting that, to date, it hasn't been proven there aren't threatening side effects to the children who are now avoiding the life-threatening seizures.
The strain of cannabis that is being given to these kids with seizures reportedly contains a relatively small amount of tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive component in marijuana, which means the user doesn't get the "high" that the marijuana being sold in Colorado's regular pot stores provides. Doctors remain leery, of course, because there is virtually no data yet available.
Josh Stanley, who grows the strain, told the AP, "My brothers and I thought that this little-known compound might just be the missing link to provide some validity in the realm of cannabis research and as it turns out we were correct," he said.
"Now the plant we had created, while it may have immense medical benefits, is completely non-psychoactive... so we named the plant 'The Hippie's Disappointment' (but) it proved incredibly useful to Charlotte."
There is some belief – and worry – that medicinal marijuana is the last step towards totally legalizing the drug, which the state of Washington will be the next to do. In Florida legalizing marijuana is on the November ballot but – just to be safe -- three state senators just sponsored a separate bill for the medicinal cannabis to be approved by the legislature – not the popular vote.
"Charlotte's Web helps patients improve their quality of life and offers hope to parents desperate to provide relief to their children," state Senator Rob Bradley said. "While many Floridians have significant concerns about medical marijuana being misused, SB 1030 offers a new opportunity for Floridians who have not found relief with current medications." And Senator Aaron Bean added, "This is completely different from what the public knows about marijuana. I'm excited about the possibility of ending seizures in medically challenged kids."
In New York a recent poll showed 88 percent of voters now favor medicinal marijuana and 58 percent favor recreational pot. According to government surveys, some 25 million Americans have smoked marijuana in the past year, and more than 14 million do so regularly despite harsh laws against its use. You can almost bet it will pass because New York and many other states are admittedly coveting Colorado's tax haul, on pace to exceed $100 million a year (for the record, alcohol in Colorado nets $39 million in taxes annually).
Candidly, I think it is just a matter of time – a recent Wall Street Journal/CBS News poll showed 55 percent of Americans favor legal sales. I see medicinal marijuana in Tennessee on a fast track and, with the war on marijuana long a joke, let's legalize and tax the stuff. The United States is spending an estimated $7.6 billion a year in its losing fight against marijuana possession laws and maybe we could use that money to help children who suffer from seizures.
July 31, 2015
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Stood watching that blank paper
With girls screaming outside
Happiness, glee or madness
Nor I nor They could decide
While talks went loud and long
A word my pen didn't say
They laughed themselves into oblivion
And I tore my paper away
I have been gone for over a month. Does it matter to you where I was and what I did? To me it does (of course). And the very fact you did not acknowledge my absence makes it even the more important to me.
Where was I all these winters? I was at a countryside, eating guavas and oranges. Living one day at a time, no internet..partially incommunicado. Just those books in my hand and that Sun on my back. As now I pack my clothes into this giant bag, I stand a moment and close my eyes, watching those days we all gathered around the fire as the fog outside chilled the entire environment and blinded everyone. It was too cliched, too fine, it was the stuff that made up our memories and haunted us as the dark times came. But they aren't here as yet, and let's not talk about them. Tomorrow I will go back to world, back to reality and a lot of work. A part of me wants to go back, face it all and a part wants to go sit in the Sun that shone after two days and read more of Vonnegut, pretending nothing else exists..
I have a lot of stories to tell and a lot of laughter to share. But all I am gonna do is..finish my packing, have a quick shower and go outside to pick my last guava. For I know, what does my happiness mean to you? =)
It's funny what things we learn every second day. And how bold we become when we've got nothing to lose, how crass when we just don't care, so absolutely brave when we accept the facts and how…utterly light when we are done facing the reality and moving on
I've found a new way of pushing people to their absolute edge. That is: Showing them the weird part of my brain. That absolute craziness I hide when I care, when I am afraid that I'll end up screwing things up. But take that part away, and you've found utter and absolute …madness
Because…once you're past a moment in your life..you're done. Gone. Over. Once you accept the actual thing. Accept what you really are and cast aside the petty notions of what you wanted to become, those images you tried to mirror, those standards you tried to live up to, those illusions you had shrouded yourself in..world is a whole different place. I am not saying quit trying to be better or to be achieve something..all I am saying is I'd rather be a psycho with fifteen sneakers in my closet than a washed up imitation of a pompous know it all.
And if I get that response, that true reaction when the other person, instead of running away to the other direction when I blurt the glaring truth, stays and bares those completely idiotic moments of their life, comfortable because..hell, they're talking to someone way screwed up…the entire moment turns into such a fun memory they'll remember for years. No judgement, no, nothing. The air is suddenly lighter and the blanket a little bit warmer
And when I find those who live in their sane worlds with their normal lives and believe they can make it with me…
Loosen up or run..
You've been warned =P
I got up with sun stinging my eyes, someone banging at some door and my bladder threatening to burst. I woke up gruntled and went out. Took me a whole minute to recognize the fact that all my friends had gone to brunch and it was a whopping 12 26 pm
So by this time, the cafe downstairs would be closed for the breakfast crowd, I was out of cereal and all I had were three bananas. Well, that wasn't so bad. I plugged in my wifi, brushed my teeth and washed my face, which I then remembered, I hadn't washed for two days. Stuffed the bananas in my mouth. Cleaned my room, did my dishes..and here I am, sitting in my bed with sun shining so pretty, warming up the cold in my fingers
Another year of Medicine gone. I hope I make it through Pharma. Right now there is an eerie silence in my corridor and I am trying to arrange my thoughts. I am going to go outside, chose a corner and finish the book I am reading. It was my birthday last week and I didn't even have the time to sit somewhere and mope about it. It's the perfect day today. Everyone is their own worlds. The ones they prefer, the ones where I never truly am gonna fit it. Sometimes we try hard, trying to belong to a shiny, outwardly cheery happy place but the fact remains some of us are just not like that.
Years will go by, everything will change but the very core of our very being drags us back to what we became, or chose to become, long long while ago.
So let it be today =)
There's a little something I call…Back To Basics. It is basically the assumption that we all become that one person in our life when we are, about somethings in ourselves, all we could be. And it happens when we are young. And then times pass we grow up. Incorporate all those changes and experience in us..but then again..comes a point once or more, when we slowly revert back to that place and pretty much become that person lost somewhere deep in the synapses of our brain and the layers of our skin. I don't know.
I was sitting with Kate on the entrance steps, we both were wearing the most casual, really old, ready-to-be-torn-next-time-we-wear-it clothes, weather hot and stuffy, books surrounding us, laughing at a sudden thing that'll pop up from some drug, reminding us one thing or the other. And pretty much making a mockery of everything Pharmacology stands for..
And I loved it. I came back, dropped my books on the floor and fell face down on the bed. My long legs dangling over the edge and welcoming the breeze from the window over my sweaty back.
There are a lot of things that dictate our existence and our personalities. Wanting something doesn't mean it's right for us or it will stick. Some people are meant to be a little different, a little alone, a little sad and a little crazy. Call it cowardly explanations but sometimes these are the only answers there are.
So tonight when Kate asked me why I wouldn't text back to my little cousin who, Kate doesn't know, used to be my best sister before she moved away to a whole new country with her family and went on being even happier than she ever was with a lame old soul like mine..
..all I could say was..aye..she's better off without me
I live next door to a beautiful paranoid brainiac. So the tale goes this way that she had a mild skin reaction on her neck. It was mild at first, but then it turned into this monster that attacked parts of her face. Next thing we know, there are screams and paranoia everywhere =D
We all love her, the entire corridor, btw (in case she reads this post and something offends her and kills me in the middle of the night). So she went to see this doctor at the hospital.
Being popular does a weird thing to people. So does money. And if you have both of them..boy, it is a disaster. So he prescribed him a measly Calamine lotion without proper checkup. And let me remind you again, our exams are close and this dermatitis was really getting on Quiana's nerves and..on mine too =D (again, I love you Q)
So. Week went by, but the doctor said..no..no… Calamine is the way to go. For those who do not know, Calamine and zinc oxide lotion is commonly used to relieve pain and itching from poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, sunburns, rashes, and insect bites. Calamine and zinc oxide also helps dry oozing and weeping caused from ivy, oak, and sumac poisons.
Where the hell would our Quiana get hold of poison oak and ivy? The girl is the sweetest person alive with no general attraction towards leaning on trees and smelling grass =_=
And Quiana's neck got worse. And boy,were we angry at the doctor
So..at last, when Quiana could take it no longer and the rash had now spread all across, toward her shoulders and a bit south (I'm guessing), she decided to visit a private clinic and viola.. a pile of money, half an hour and bucket full of ointments and drugs and two days later.. The rash almost disappeared and Quiana lived happily ever after
And the whole incident..just brought me down. I am not saying I doubt the medical opinion of docs and that I know more, I just hated myself for that one moment when I thought I might become that doctor one day..and I might have a bunch of people hating me for not caring and wasting all this study and resources for…nothing. Nothing. I do not wanna work in a private clinic (no matter what my parents say) I wanna work at a decent Government hospital. But I do not wanna become one of those people who lose the good decent stuff in them as money and fame comes and time passes.
I am not walking, I am just sitting by the side and gazing far ahead. All I see is..this road. This beautiful road. Flattened by the pressure of so many who have walked across it. Day in and day out. Forward or backwards. Carrying all the weight of their worlds on their shoulders. Such a poetic path. Such an elegant lane. It bends every which way, disappears in the dirt sometime, breaks down and mends again. I see it, then I don't and then it emerges again.
And I see them walking across too, the flesh that shuffles ahead and the soul that quietly follows. The noises in the silence vibrate through the concrete that sits and the dirt that blows. I put my palm lightly over the concrete, wary of the secrets and pain it might hold. But the stubborn hardness reveals nothing while the wind screams away in my head. The questions ring through the ground and the answers blow away.
I wanna step on this road too, walk across the footsteps of so many who came before me, and disappear like they did. Leave my mark on the ground that won't talk and give my silence to wind that won't stay
Some other day, some other day =)

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At our Bullis Room Committee meeting last week, we again talked about how to reach out to more members of the Bullis family. One suggestion was a Facebook page in honor and memory of John Lapham Bullis. The group liked the idea - and we are currently working on it. (More details will be coming in the next few weeks.)
Our first step toward establishing a Facebook page was to search for current Facebook accounts with the Bullis name. The results was an impressive list that included "Bullis School." In reading the history of that educational institution located in Potomac, Maryland, we zoomed in on the name "Captain William F. Bullis." Captain Bullis and his wife founded this school in 1930 to "prepare young men for service academy entrance exams." (www.bulls.org/page/cfm?p=538)
The school continues to thrive today.
However, this new knowledge produced several questions that are now swirling through our heads, two of which are:
1. Is Captain William F. Bullis in any way related to the Macedon Bullises?
2. If so, does Captain Bullis have living descendants?
And a third question we're asking:
3. If you are a descendant of Captain William F. Bullis (or have knowledge of any of his descendants). would you please contact us?
We will greatly appreciate any information about the Bullis family that you can share with us.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Monday, July 13, 2015
This post 's heading is the title of a book in the Bullis collection. Actually, the full title is:
Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1851.
Part II. Agriculture
Published in Washington, Robert Armstrong, Printer, 1852
There are three other Report of the Commissioner of Patents in the Bullis collection. HOWEVER, this book has a local connection. It contains a letter from a Macedon, Wayne County, New York resident, J. J. Thomas, dated January 10, 1852. He begins with:
"Sir: I send a few brief replies to some of the questions in the Agriculture Circular of the Patent Office, regretting that I have been prevented from furnishing them sooner by unavoidable causes."
His first response was titled "Wheat Culture," and he noted that "a great loss is sustained by most of the farmers in the northern portion of western New York through shallow cultivation." He then recommended trench ploughing in order to mix the richer subsoil with the top, He also noted that the field of one farmer using this method went from 5 bushels per acre to 20. (He also noted that 40 bushels per acre was a very common product when the land was first cleared of the forests.)
His next topic was "Sowing Grass Seed" and he suggested methods that had the potential of bringing 3 1/2 tons per acre, perhaps even up to 5 tons per acre. Again, he supported his suggestions with specific ways to accomplish them.
Last, he responded to a question about "Breaking Steers," and gave step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish this feat. He noted that, "Very objectionable is the frequent practice of educating oxen to the sound of a loud voice, or a scream, in commanding them, and the free use of the lash in enforcing orders." The following description could today be described as "Methods of an Oxen Whisperer."
With the third response completed, he signed is letter "Very respectfully, J. J. Thomas."
We would love to find out more about J. J. Thomas. If any of you have information about this early Macedon resident, please let us know. (We looked in Pioneers of Macedon and found only one Thomas listed--Evan Thomas, "an eminent minister of the Society of Friends ...", page 78.) We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Saturday, July 4, 2015
Surrounded by celebrations, get-togethers, and fireworks, we are wondering how the Bullis family members observed this day. Did they watch the local parade and listen to the concert in the park? Participate in watermelon-eating contests? Run a 3-legged race? Watch fireworks at night? Perhaps.
Or, perhaps they spent the day with one or both of these books that were a part of their family library and are now a part of the Bullis Collection.
Or, perhaps they spent the day with one or both of these books that were a part of their family library and are now a part of the Bullis Collection.
A Popular School History of the United States:
in which are inserted as part of the narrative selections from the writings of
eminent American historians, and other American writers of note:
to which are added the Declaration of Independence, and the
Constitution of the United States, with copious notes:
fully illustrated with maps, portraits and views
By John Jacob Anderson
Published in New York by Clark & Maynard, 1883, c. 1879
The Elector's Guide:
Comprising the Declaration of Independence,
the Constitution of the United States,
the constitution of the state of New York, and
Washington's Farewell Address.
To which is added an essay on government.
Published in Batavia by A. W. Young, 1835
You too have the opportunity to look through these books and read again these documents that are the basis of our country's foundation. Just stop by the Bullis Room, next time you're at MPL.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
A new exhibit at the Rochester Museum and Science Center - titled "The American Civil War: the Impact of the Industrial Revolution" - recently opened and will run through January, 2016. It commemorates the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. Many items are on display from the museum's collection, including: Civil War swords, rifles, tents, flags, diaries and photographs.
After you've experienced this interesting exhibit, we invite you to take a look at this Bullis book:
After you've experienced this interesting exhibit, we invite you to take a look at this Bullis book:
Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States
By Frederick Phisterer, Late Captain U. S. Army
The comprehensive data in this book was "compiled from Army orders, registers of regulars and volunteers, reports of the Provost-Marshall, and the Adjutant-General U.S. Army, Medical History of the Rebellion, and other sources."
In Part I, the "Calls for Troops" on April 15, 1861 on page 3 shows data for 26 states, both their quota and men actually furnished. Later calls for troops are enumerated on several more pages, with a summary for the war on page 10. Military divisions, strength of the Army at various dates, as well as national cemeteries, are covered in the following pages.
Part II lists the chronological record of engagements, battles etc. from 1861 to 1865, and general officers of the Armies during the "War of the Rebellion" are covered in Part III.
So there you have it - an exhibit and a book to enhance your knowledge and appreciation of the events of the Civil War. (And there are more books on the Civil War in the Bullis collection. We're always glad to help you access them.)
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Last week's post referred to information gleaned from the Bullis Room collection, to wit: "Much of the necessary documentation for the historic marker was provided by materials in the Bullis Room...."
Because so many of you indicated interest in the June 9th topic, this week we are including a few of the railroading books in the Bullis Room that are available for your research and enjoyment. We say "a few" because there are lots of them. We'll give you a partial list and let you stop by and discover the rest.
Before embarking on any new project, we normally ask, "But what is this going to cost me?" Therefore, we thought you'd want to take a look at:
The Cost of Transportation on the Erie Canal and By Rail
The Railroad Engineer's Practice:
Because so many of you indicated interest in the June 9th topic, this week we are including a few of the railroading books in the Bullis Room that are available for your research and enjoyment. We say "a few" because there are lots of them. We'll give you a partial list and let you stop by and discover the rest.
Before embarking on any new project, we normally ask, "But what is this going to cost me?" Therefore, we thought you'd want to take a look at:
The Economic Theory of the Location of Railways;
An Analysis of the Conditions Controlling the Laying Out of Railways ...
By A. M. (Arthur Mellen) Wellington
Published in New York by J. Wiley & Sons, 1887
Then if we ask, "Is there a less expensive alternative to railroads?" we can find an answer (based on the year 1911 conditions) in this American Railroad's publication:
The Cost of Transportation on the Erie Canal and By Rail
By Association of American Railroads,
Published in Washington D.C. by Bureau of Railway Economics, 1911
And there's also a book for those of us who want to find out more about how railroads are surveyed and constructed:
The Railroad Engineer's Practice:
Being a Short but Complete Description of the Duties of the
Young Engineer in Preliminary and Location Surveys and in Construction
by Thomas M. Cleeman
Published in New York by Engineering News Publ. Co., 1883
So there you have it -- three out of more than a dozen books on the topic of railroads. If you spend some time with them, you won't be disappointed.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Research enables grant for historic marker
Did you know that the Bullis Collection holds many publications of our state and local governments? On May 31 we attended the unveiling of this historic marker made possible in part by researching the Bullis Collection. The photo on the left is retired railroad engineer, H.P. Zerbe, who actually operated the train on this route between Stanley and Sodus Point. Much of the necessary documentation for the historic marker was provided by materials in the Bullis Room for Tim Wilbur, President of Ontario Pathways, who applied for the grant. A fellow railroad lover, Dr. Robert Ward had previously done research in the Bullis Room and shared with Mr. Wilbur about the rich railroad resources there. The William G. Pomeroy Foundation provided the grant for the marker. It is the Foundation's belief "that historic markers play an important role in local historic preservation by serving a dual purpose. They educate the public and foster historic tourism, which in turn can provide economic benefits to the town and villages where the markers are placed." - from Mr. Wilbur's Press Release for marker unveiling. The Ontario Pathways trailhead is located on Rt.96 between State Route 488 and Rt.8. This is a repurposing of the railroad track bed into a trail pathway -creating a multi-use rails-to-trails pathway. Ontario Pathways, Inc. is a non profit organization that owns and maintains 23 miles of rail-trail in Ontario County NY. Their mission is to create and maintain a network of walking trails that residents and visitors can enjoy year-round. Volunteers work hard to maintain trails, repair bridges and trim brush to keep trails open for visitors. Part of the Rails to Trails Conservancy, Ontario Pathways gives the public free access to beautiful nature trails that stretch from Canandaigua to Phelps. You will find contact and events information on Facebook.
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Sunday, June 7, 2015
For those of us who have plans this summer to sail around the world (or at least a small portion of it), these Bullis books give an historical perspective of one of our greatest natural resources--our oceans.
A Voyage in the "Sunbeam"; Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months
(First published in 1878 under the title Around the World in the Yacht "Sunbeam")
by Annie Allnutt Brassey, Baroness
Published in New York by John Turtler Lovell, 1881
An Historical Account of the Circumnavigation of the Globe,
and of the progress of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the
voyage of Magellan to the death of Cook
Published in New York by Harper Brothers, 1839
A Voyage Round the World in the Years
1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804;
in which the author visited the principal islands in the
Pacific Ocean and the English settlements of
Port Jackson and Norfolk Island
by John Turnbull
Published in Philadelphia by Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1810
So before you leave for the shore this summer, you're invited to stop by the Bullis Room and look through these books (and others like them). We think you'll appreciate your time at the ocean more, as a result.
FYI: Tomorrow is World Oceans Day. There are lots of suggestions online for observing this special day. Perhaps you'd like to choose one or two to focus on for the rest of this year. (One that we think Nettie Bullis would have liked is reusing plastic shopping bags. How simple is that?)
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Hi, We are flying into Barcelona, spending 4 days, then want to go to Granada, Malaga, Seville, Cordoba & Lisbon with the last 4 days in Madrid. Not sure if we should go to Granda, then Malaga, Cordoba then Seville, need some help in putting those days into order! Can't figure out from Barcelona where to head next, probably flying from BCN then driving the rest.
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Please be aware that, along with all of Europe, Spain is larger than you think. If you want 4 days in Barcelona and 4 days in Madrid, that leaves you 6 days for everything else. While I did not go to either, I'd split my time between Granada (Alhambra is there--which I did not see) and Lisbon.
To give you an idea: I drove Salamanca to Porto and it took well over 4 hours. So look at the map and "guestimate" how far it is from Lisbon to Madrid. Many people think that everything in Europe is bunched together, but it isn't and roads can be slower. You definitely need a GPS to assist you with driving. Because I go to Europe often, I finally bought one, but you can rent one when you pick up your car.
You have way too much on your schedule for 2 weeks. Personally, I would eliminate Portugal altogether and save it for another time. I would split the trip Barcelona-Granada-Madrid. I just spent a total of 5 days in Madrid. It was really not enough, but enough to exhaust myself in art galleries and hit the basic highlights (bullfight, flamenco, etc.).
Remember, every time you pack up and decamp to the next place, it is stressful. Decide how much stress you want on what is supposed to be a vacation (but in Europe often turns into a forced march), look at the map, research driving times and then decide.
I have not been to Granada or Barcelona. I saved them for another trip. I was based in Salamanca in a home exchange for 3 1/2 weeks and did mostly day trips out of Salamanca. I went around the countryside near where I was quite a bit because I almost always returned to the home exchange home at night because the point is not to stay in hotels.
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I agree -- too much for 2 weeks!
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You can fly to Granada from Barcelona for two nights (one hour flight time), then on to Sevilla by bus or rail. You can then spend three nights in Sevilla and one night in Cordoba on the way up to Madrid by train.
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I'd agree with dropping Lisbon. Assuming you have 14 nights then you barely have enough time to adequately visit Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla and Granada. I'd do something like fly into Barcelona and spend 4 nights, fly to Granada for 2 nights, bus or train to Sevilla for 4 nights, then train to Madrid for 4 nights flying home from Madrid. I'd visit Cordoba as a daytrip from Sevilla or en route between Sevilla and Madrid. Or as Robert2533 suggests you could cut a night from Sevilla and do as a 1-nighter (although I personally hate 1-nighters). 4 nights each would be my minimums in Barcelona and Madrid (and Sevilla if a daytrip to Cordoba is done from there). So 14 nights to cover all of these places would be a fairly moderate pace. Trying to add Lisbon would be very hectic. And I wouldn't bother with renting a car as you won't have time to use it to do exploring between these places and it will just be a pain to park (and costly to park).
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A vote for CathyM's plan
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I agree with all posters so far.
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Thank you everyone, I will drop Lisbon per your suggestions! Cathy's itinerary makes sense..
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We booked a Paradore in Granada, 2 nights. Malaga worth seeing?
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I love Málaga city and it's definitely worth seeing, but think you definitely shouldn't add more cities to this trip.
For another time, though
"Secret Spanish pleasures": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/nigel-tisdall/8773310/Malaga-Spain-Secret-Spanish-pleasures.html
"Picasso's city of hidden treasures":
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I'd love to visit Barcelona and South of Spain some day but right now I am preparing for home exchanges in Costa Rica in Nov.-Dec. and ones in Poland and Germany for next summer.
So I'll just have to wait for a home exchange offer to come in in 2015 or later.
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I gree with kimhe - Malaga is worth seeing as are dozens of other places. But you need to focus on what you can see adequately with the time you have.
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I like Cathy's plan, too. Be sure to see the Alhambra. It's like nothing else in the world.
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MCLEAN, Va., March 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAIC) announced today that it will be the presenting sponsor of the 2014 Washington Nationals Patriotic Series, a four-game series that celebrates the American Spirit and pays tribute to those who risk their lives and continue to make personal sacrifices to protect this country. Nationals' players will also honor these heroes by wearing their patriotic uniforms featuring the stars and stripes Curly "W."
The 2014 Patriotic Series includes the following games:
- Armed Forces Day - Saturday, May 17 vs. New York Mets at 4:05 p.m.
- Memorial Day - Monday, May 26 vs. Miami Marlins at 1:35 p.m.
- Independence Day - Friday, July 4 vs. Chicago Cubs at 11:05 a.m.
- Heroes Day - Wednesday, Sept. 10 vs. Atlanta Braves at 4:05 p.m.
"As the presenting sponsor of the Washington Nationals Patriotic Series, SAIC is proud to work with a great organization like the Washington Nationals to create an opportunity to recognize our nation's members of the military and first responders who put their lives on the line every day to protect our freedom," said SAIC CEO Tony Moraco. "This is the first year SAIC has had the privilege to sponsor this series as an independent, publicly traded company following our support last year of the Patriotic Series as part of our former parent company, and we are excited to continue our support for an event that honors our nation's heroes and their families."
As presenting sponsor, SAIC underwrites hundreds of Nationals tickets, which are donated to the organizations' members including, but not limited to active duty military personnel, reservists, retirees, veterans, wounded warriors, and their families. Also, SAIC sponsors the flag giveaway that takes place before each Patriotic Series game. Fans are encouraged to wave their flags during the Nationals In-Game Military Salute at the bottom of the third inning.
For each game of the series, SAIC and the Nationals partner with non-profit organizations, such as USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore (USO-Metro), The Mission Continues, Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), Operation Homefront, and Pentagon Memorial Fund, and honor their members in pre-game tributes. For Armed Forces Day, SAIC is partnering with USO-Metro and The Mission Continues to distribute the donated tickets to active duty military, veterans, and their families. On Memorial Day and in honor of TAPS 20th Anniversary, the Nationals will welcome hundreds of family members and survivors of fallen heroes as honored guests.
In celebration of Independence Day, Operation Homefront, a national organization that provides emergency assistance to military families, will be honored at the game and SAIC employees will salute the holiday with a large flag unfurling during the National Anthem. Heroes Day recognizes the Pentagon Memorial Fund and pays tribute to first responders and all those who lost their lives during the tragic events of September 11, 2001, and honors those who safeguard our homeland.
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Throughout the season, SAIC will also co-sponsor a hospitality area for every Sunday home game in support of the Nationals' "Me and a Friend" program, which benefits the USO-Metro. As part of the program, the Nationals and USO-Metro distribute more than 1,200 tickets to these games to the children of active duty military families. These children, who face special social challenges created by their parents' frequent reassignments, are given tickets and the opportunity to bring a friend to the games. Once at the game, they will have special access to the SAIC-hosted hospitality area, which offers food and beverages as well as co-branded T-shirts for all participating in the program. Participants also get priority for the post-game "Kids Run the Bases" activities.
"As military members deploy in and out of the country and across the nation, their families must often endure the hardships associated with multiple moves, such as getting used to a new community and schools," said USO-Metro CEO and President Elaine Rogers. "Each move means military children have to re-adjust to their new environment and begin the process of making friends all over again. Thanks to the support of SAIC and the Nationals, this transition process is made easier for our young patriots and their parents, and we're extremely grateful to them for their unwavering support."
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OPERA REVIEW; Opera in an Old West Mining Town Is a Long Way From a Cowboy Movie
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CENTRAL CITY, Colo., July 12— Like dainty foreigners in a western descending the stagecoach into the wilds of frontier America, two French operas are on display here in Central City.
In this narrow valley of used-up gold mines, the Wild West is no more: bullets do not fly, rather quarters. Central City and the adjacent Black Hawk are low-stakes casino towns ($5 minimums, if you please). Behind the cowboy-Victorian facades and plate glass windows of what were once hardware stores or dry goods emporiums one detects the electric glow of slot machines.
Their jingling monotone sings along the streets like a civic chorus, a song of aspiration and optimism not unlike the one sung by miners 140 years ago. Luck for them back then -- at least for a while -- seems to have been better than for their glassy-eyed descendants today. Central City, which had 515 citizens in 2000, was once known as the richest square mile in the world.
Opera in Central City does not quite follow the cowboy-movie script. Gambling came only 12 years ago, but the stone and brick opera house was built by Welsh miners in 1878. The Central City Opera itself, at 72, is one of the country's older companies and until the boom of off-season festivals nearly the only summer operatic entertainment.
Saturday and Sunday brought Massenet's near-forgotten ''Jongleur de Nôtre Dame'' and Offenbach's often-misunderstood ''Contes de Hoffmann'' to the 550-seat house. Jon Garrison as Massenet's Juggler was the generally recognizable name among a group of mostly young singers. But one reads old posters and sees that Samuel Ramey, Beverly Sills, Denyce Graves, Norman Treigle and Sylvia McNair were here before him. There is a sophisticated apprentice program and, emanating from nearby Denver and Boulder, a competent pit orchestra and a loyal donor and ticket buying base.
''Le Jongleur'' has become something of an orphan. It greeted the 20th century at about the same time as Debussy's ''Pelléas et Mélisande,'' lingered for several decades in softer hearts among operagoers and then sank largely out of sight. It has the energy, craft and unashamed sweetness of Massenet's successful work, though maybe not the flashes of lyrical beauty that regularly rescued his soupy melodrama and theatrical oversimplification from defeat.
Each performance was well-prepared and the smallish stage nicely managed. Mr. Garrison, a longtime campaigner, was earnest and honorable. As Boniface, Eduardo Chama sang with a strong healthy baritone. Gaétan Laperrière, the evening's Prior, possessed confidence, restraint and elegance -- enough to make a bass role the opera's best advocate.
Paul Curran's production of ''Hoffmann'' on Sunday struck a reasonable balance between the opera's comic surface and deeply disturbing core. Here, Olympia (Anna Christy) becomes less the usual mechanical doll, and more a surgically induced android, product of an operating room. Ms. Christy is a promising coloratura soprano: nimble of voice, body and spirit. John Baril had better luck with the orchestra than did J. David Jackson in the Massenet, but then he had a far better opera to work with.
Grant Youngblood, playing all four Offenbach villains, and Gerard Powers as Hoffmann gave much pleasure but were cause for worry as well. Both young voices were exhausted at the end, especially Mr. Powers who handles this French high-tenor role well. Maybe singing at altitudes exceeding 8,000 feet causes no injury, but pushing still-developing techniques in parts like these may not be the best formula for longterm careers.
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