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beauty and the street
engagement ring
yep, i'm getting married (and keeping WeddingPlanning information in a wiki, no less). here's a picture of the ring i got beth (to complement
her post on the subject
), a bit overdue ...
one of the sites i try and read every now and then is
Gavin's Blog
. i found it while looking for respectable foreign policy blogs. turns out this guy's a decent writer and analyzes info pretty well, so i have been reading him for a bit. while it's a bit more irish-centric than i need at times (not being irish, some of the info is not of significant consequence to me), it's always worth reading.
my friend
celebrates 1 year of photoblogging on ambivilent images today. he's a law student (2L), wrote a novel in november (part of NaNoWriMo), and writes a thoughtful blog every day, too. and keeps sane, somehow. i feel like a slacker next to him.
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Tomato and orange soup with scallops….and a visit from Jack Frost.
Tomato velouté is my most favorite soup. Since childhood I loved my mother's creamed tomato soup. In summer it is gazpacho and in winter a velvety soup.
The recipe is so easy…I can only say what I used and then it is up to your own taste. Taste and taste and taste again. Unlike for a summer gazpacho, I don't use fresh tomatoes for the soup. They are bland and tasteless. I use good quality Italian canned tomatoes which make a rich flavorful soup. It would be perfect if you have bottled your own tomatoes in summer.
La recette:
- A large can of tomatoes make about 2 to 3 large helping(2 of those helpings are mine…). Add to a saucepan with a bouquet garni, the juice and grated zest of 1 orange, 1 TBSP of sherry(Jerez) vinegar and 2 cubes of sugar. Rinse the can with 1 cup of vegetable stock and add to the soup.
- Simmer over medium heat for about 30 minutes.
- Leave to cool a little and mix with a hand blender to a creamy soup.
- Remove the bouquet garni and adjust the seasoning…orange juice, vinegar, salt and pepper.
- Fry some scallops only on one side and season with salt and pepper. Remove and keep aside. Deglaze the pan with some freshly squeezed orange juice .
- Serve the soup in warmed soup plates. Place a scallop, cut in half in the soup and drizzle the juice from the pan over the scallops.
- Decorate with a slice of orange and serve immediately.
A visit from Jack Frost.
Mr Jack Frost showed up this morning. Totally unexpected. He just showed up without any call beforehand, without any warning. I actually find that a bit rude, just showing up like that at someone's door and at a very indecent hour in the morning at that! But there he was in all his glory when I opened the door this morning. I couldn't control the shiver that ran instantly through my body. We expected him, but I so hoped he would skip his visit to us this year. Alas…
A very interesting character he is, this Jack Frost. Definitely not someone to take on without gloves. But speak of handsome! He has a disarming charm that cannot be missed, even if he's rather cold and sometimes somewhat foggy and distant. Definitely not a boring character. But as handsome and charming as he is, he has a slippery side that I just don't trust. I always feel unsure of my step around him. I have lost my balance around him before which resulted in me seeing my own butt and bright stars all at the same time. I've learnt my lesson since…don't be fooled by the charisma of Mr Jack Frost!
I sighed heavily on the sight of Jack Frost in front of me, just outside my barn door. Bof OK, he's here, what else could I do but accept his arrival…after all, we are known for our hospitality here at Coin Perdu! So I decided to make the best of it. I dug into my linen closet for extra warm linens and blankets and duvets, all the time thanking the good Lord that this guest only shows up once a year and immensely grateful that he doesn't stay the whole year. Now that would be unbearable!
I wondered how long Mr Frost would stay this time? I didn't dare ask for fear I wouldn't like the answer. In any case, the sun came out and he took the road. I had no idea where he had gone off to or when we would see him again. He is like that, this Mr Frost…always takes off somewhere when the sun shines and returns in the early hours the next morning. Oh well, he's here now for some time. I might as well accept it and make the most of it. I think I'll go make a tomato soup for tonight. Mr Jack Frost will be cold when he gets in. Tomato soup will make him happy
December ambiance 2014…and Apple, date and pear compote.
Apples and spices…only two words necessary to express winter. And the festive season. The markets groan under the weight of all the apples available and we are used to eating varieties picked recently here in our own region. We don't even consider buying imported apples and pears when we can pick and choose between many varieties home grown. Which is exactly what I did to make this festive apple, pear and date compote. You can't get it any easier than this..quick, simple, but so flavorful. It goes to show just once again that you don't need complicated ingredients to get flavour into your dishes. The golden phrase in cooking is always…keep it simple and use quality ingredients.
La recette: Apple, pear and date compote:
- Peel and cut 3 firm pears and 3 firm apples into cubes.
- Place in a saucepan and drizzle liberally with the juice of 1 lemon.Add to the fruit mixture: 6 dates halved and seed removed, 1 vanilla pod with its seed scraped into the mixture, the grated peel of 1 lemon, 1 star anise, 1 bark of cinnamon, 1/2 tsp of Szechuan pepper(crushed in mortar and pestle, a tiny pinch of salt, 1 TBSP of maple syrup and 1tsp of cane sugar.
- Simmer on gentle heat for about 30 minutes or until the fruit is tender, but NOT PUREED. The fruit must still have a slight bite. Strain the compote and remove the cinnamon and star anise. Keep aside.
- Replace the juice on the heat and reduce to syrup.
- Serve the compote in bowls and sprinkle with pomegranate seeds for a fresh crunch. Drizzle with the syrup and serve with a dollop of crème fraîche.
Serves 6 people (dessert)
Pincée de fleur de sel:
- Instead of serving the compote as a dessert, it can be served as an accompaniment to meat like porc or veal.
- As an accompaniment, omit the pomegranate seeds and chop a red onion into small dice. Add some of the meat juices to the onion and compote to make it more suitable for an accompaniment.
- the compote can be served at room temperature or warm.
- Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream instead of créme fraîche.
- It can be prepared a day ahead and reheated at a gentle temperature.
This year has passed by so quickly, totally without my permission. I have the feeling I wasn't even present at times. I am definitely present today, the 1st of December 2014…a day I usually enjoy, because it is the day day we put up our Christmas tree, decorate it, drink vin chaud and listen to our first Christmas carols.
Every year, since Myfrenchkitchen's first December in 2007, I have posted on 1 December showing our Christmas tree for that year. It has just been a delight being able to share it with you these 7 years. Little has changed in these 7 years. From the beginning I had a recipe and then rambled on about some subject with words and images and bored you with my art. the only change is probably that I don't write from Montlouis any more, but from a barn on a farm in the south west of France.
Some years I wrote a lot and some years my presence was few and far between. there were times I even thought of quitting. But My little blog(s) has become such a part of me, I don't think I could let it go. I have many friends who gave it up for Facebook and Instagram, but finishing a post on my blog, still gives me such a big kick, every time.
I hope I can be more present in the near future, but if not, then that will be OK too. I am not going anywhere and I won't desert this baby of 7 years. This is my own little "corner", where I write for myself and for those readers and friends who have walked alongside me all this time. It is still fun.
And so, our Christmas this year is all in white and silver, my favorite colours for the festive season. the dry branch with moss from the garden, a pot filled with sand, candles and tea lights we burn every night for those gone, far away or just simply those we love. Birds are omnipresent on/in our trees. and there they are again this year, perched high on the branches I chose to hang a large brightly coloured painting behind the tree. I love the contrast of the simple tree in white and silver against the abundant colour of the painting. The painting depicts a scene in a church, which is quite fitting too. I wish you all a wonderful month of December. This is not the last you'll see of me for the month, so I greet you as usual:
à la prochaine fois!
Beetroot cappuccino…and November in reds.
A beetroot velouté, or creamy beetroot soup, is apart from delicious, also beautiful. Served as a starter in the way of a cappuccino, is a beautiful way to kick off an autumn or winter dinner. It is actually a good idea to always eta small starter of soup with any home dinner..it is healthy and helps fill one and so prevents over eating.
Pincée de sel:
- Younger beetroots give a deeper colour, are sweeter and softer. If possible, use small beets.
- Raw beets cab be replaced by ready cooked vacuum packed beets.
- add different spices for a more wintery touch…cardamom seeds, star anis, cinnamon, croriander – add together in a small muslin bag so it can be removed afterwards.
- To make froth with a machine: whisk a small amount(about 150 ml) milk in a high microwave proof) container. whisk vigorously until it starts foaming. Place in the microwave immediately. Heat the milk while keeping your eye on the milk all the time. The froth will start to rise high. Remove from the microwave and scoop the froth from the milk.
- Use vegetable stock to make it a vegetarian soup.
- A scoop of créme fraìche, or a scoop of whipped cream can be used, which will make the soup creamier and heavier.
- Ideal for a starter.
…and November in reds.
The artist in my appreciates November as the most beautiful month in the year. It is the most challenging and gratifing time of the year for painting, photographing, hunting for mushrooms in the woods, watching the leaves turn form green to yellow to red to purple to brown and finally float to the ground. No other season gives us this fast forward motion action of change in nature and it passes before your eyes from one minute to another.
…The stinky mushroom, Anthurus d'archer in bright autumn/winter red…
..la vigne vierge with its leaves turning red in autumn and a artistic spiderweb blinking in the morning light..
..foliage of vigne vierge, the attractive seedheads of Cleramtis vitalba, and stinging nettle in their natural environment..
..the stunning reds of hydrangea leaves in November..
..Ivy hugging a fallen vigne vierge red leaf..
à al prochaine fois
October scenes in the garden.
A big hello to all! I took a break, longer than intended, but summer kept me busy in several ways. As is the habit with summer, it is over before you know it and October sets in with all kinds of challenges: digging for warmer clothes….rain, bulb planting, cleaning garden tools to store away, facing weeds that have grown undisturbed, working vegetables from the "potager", picking up walnuts and rushing to get to the chestnuts before the squirrels do.
I love the fall colours of the hydrangeas…the blues turn to greens and the pinks and whites turn to an old, faded pink. The Maroccan mint is still a deep green which peeps through the pinks of the hydrangeas.
I never clean up too much…have always loved the difference in seasons…the rain and fallen leaves and twigs, the weeds, fried flowers and seeds…they all add to the atmosphere of autumn.
After the rain.
A bottle of wine forgotten outside….
Raindrops on some roses still blooming…
Rosehips living happily alongside Nepeta…
Fresh water for all the animals..
Droplets hanging on cafe chairs..
The "potager" delivered a bounty of vegetables this year and is still going strong even though the weeds are flourishing right there along with the vegetables.
Beautiful light shimmering through changing vine leaves..
Stinging nettle needing no encouragement in flowering..
A yellow rose in the yellow garden..
Cleaning up is not a favorite passtime of mine. I love to make a mess..and I love to have someone else doing the cleaning up. Unfortunately, I am that "someone else"… Evidences of unfinished spring work still staring me incriminatingly in the face.
The mornings stay darker longer and the evenings turn darker earlier..lighting candles and chandeliers and lanterns make for atmospheric evenings, which is what autumn and winter should be about, after all.
Our windows are in and I revel in the reflections!
Reading asks for blankets…
Bright yellow nasturtiums in the yellow and orange garden add a blast of sunshine to cloudy days.
Apart form the beautiful colours of autumn which is so obvious, many other scenes of October beauty can also be found in: the disarray of garden chairs, a chicken hiding in a flowerbed, walnuts bursting, a dilapidated rattan chair for the chickens, an enamel jug, a garden tap, a garden cloche…
Work in a garden is never ending, no matter which season. And beauty in a garden is never ending, no matter which season.
And when the day is done, but the work is not, the beauty of it all is to kick out the boots, put up those feet and relax…!
…à la prochaine!..

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Rejection of Christ
Then he proceeded to tell the people this parable. "(A) man planted a vineyard, leased it to tenant farmers
Then went on a journey for a long time.
At harvest time he sent a servant to the tenant farmers to receive some of the produce of the vineyard
But they beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed. So he proceeded to send another servant, but him also they beat and insulted and sent away empty-handed
Then he proceeded to send a third, but this one too they wounded and threw out
The owner of the vineyard said, 'What shall I do?
I shall send my beloved son; maybe they will respect him.'
But when the tenant farmers saw him they said to one another, 'This is the heir
Let us kill him that the inheritance may become ours.' So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him
What will the owner of the vineyard do to them? He will come and put those tenant farmers to death and turn over the vineyard to others
" When the people heard this, they exclaimed, "Let it not be so!" But he looked at them and asked
"What then does this scripture passage mean:
'The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone'?
Everyone who falls on that stone will be dashed to pieces; and it will crush anyone on whom it falls
" The scribes and chief priests sought to lay their hands on him at that very hour
But they feared the people, for they knew that he had addressed this parable to them. (LK 20:9-19)
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Despite junior guard Kevin Hamilton (Queens Village, N.Y.) scoring a career-high 22 points on 6-of-8 shooting from the 3-point line, the Crusaders fell to Minnesota, 72-56, at Williams Arena.
Minnesota (3-3) blistered the Crusaders (3-2) with outside shooting, led by freshman Rico Tucker, who hit 4-of-5 3-pointers en route to 15 points. For the game, the Gophers shot 63 percent from the floor, including 15-of-23 in the first half, when they used their transition game to set up many easy baskets.
Trailing 16-12 in the second period, Minnesota scored 17 straight points in seven minutes. Grier had 10 points in the run, converting three fast-break baskets, and Tucker hit a 3-pointer as the Gophers took a 29-16 lead.
Freshman guard Pat Doherty's (Scranton, Pa.) 3-pointer as the clock ran out to cut Minnesota's halftime lead to 39-28.
Vincent Grier scored 16 of his 19 points in the first half as Holy Cross shot just 36 percent as a team for the game.
Minnesota matched Holy Cross basket-for-basket in the second half, as Brent Lawson scored nine of his 11 points after the break. The Crusaders never got closer than eight points.
Jeff Hagen chipped in 12 points off the bench for Minnesota, while freshman Spencer Tollackson made his first collegiate start, scoring seven points and grabbing six rebounds.
The Crusaders return to action on Monday, Dec. 6 at Fordham, at 7 p.m.


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The bad news is that the Mets have the worst 2B in the league. The good news is that it should be easy to get marginally better. Since spending money seems to be a problem the Mets need to identify good 4A 2Bs who have been stuck behind the Canos,Utleys. The guy won't be an All Star but he might be a better than average defender and a guy who can hit 240-250 with a little pop in the 8 spot. This would be a huge upgrade over Castillo/Cora/Tejada.


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Lantern Slide - Light Cruiser, HMS Defence, circa 1914 Reg. No: SH 881083
- Summary:
- Part of a collection of magic lantern slides relating to British naval history originating from the St John's Home for Boys. These slides were produced in Melbourne after the First World War with images from books and other sources. They are believed to have been used to illustrate lectures to the children in St John's Homes. Several of the slides are marked with the name 'Boreham'. This may indicate a link to Reverend Frank William Boreham (1871-1959), a noted Baptist writer and preacher who used lantern slides to illustrate talks in Melbourne and Tasmania however St John's was an Anglican institution.
Established as St John's Home for Boys in 1923, the home was located in Balwyn Road, Canterbury at 'Shrublands', a mansion formerly the property of investor & businessman John Hindson (1839-1919). His widow Alice Hindson (nee Henty) donated 'Shrublands' to the Anglican Church as a memorial to her husband and William, her late son, to be used as a home for "needy and destitute' boys on the condition it was named 'St John's'. It was officially opened on 22 November 1924 after extensive renovations to accomodate 30-40 boys, also paid for by Alice Hindson. There was a physical link with British naval history as Dame Nellie Melba donated a chapel lantern to St John's Home supposed to be one of those used by Admiral Lord Nelson in the cabin of his flagship HMS Victory. She also donated a cabin bell and wooden spars from HMS Victory. The latter were turned into candle holders.
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- Standard format black and white Lantern Slide with black binding tape.
- Description Of Content:
- Royal Navy light cruiser, HMS Defence, sunk at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Miss Appleby - St John's Homes for Boys & Girls, 1988
|82.0 mm (Height), 82.0 mm (Width)
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|'Newton & Co, 37 King St, Covent Garden, London, NWSC (Navy II), 6, HMS Defence'
|Lantern Slide: Black & White; Standard (3¼ in. x 3¼ in.)
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Good morning. It's a pleasure to be with you this morning.
Thank you, Stuart Ferguson, for that warm introduction.
Thank you also to Jon Linkous for the invitation to join you today. Jon has been a powerful advocate for the benefits that telemedicine can bring to patients, doctors and medical professionals and we're always eager to hear what he has to say.
And thank you to Kerry McDermott on my team who is here with me today. Kerry, please stand. Kerry led the process of crafting the National Broadband Plan recommendations relating to wireless medical devices that are at the core of the future of telemedicine, and she did an outstanding job.
Introduction: Telephones
Over a century ago, Alexander Graham Bell met with the President of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, to demonstrate a new invention: the telephone. After Bell finished his demonstration, the President turned to him and said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"
As it turned out, the answer to the President's question was simple: doctors.
As the eminent sociologist Dr. Paul Starr notes, the first recorded telephone exchange connected 21 Connecticut doctors with the Capital Avenue Drugstore in Hartford. The first phone line in Rochester, Minnesota, connected a doctor by the name of Mayo with his local drugstore. By 1923, use of the telephone was so widespread in the medical profession that a Philadelphia doctor's manual on medical practice remarked that it had become as necessary to the physician as the stethoscope.
Our era is perhaps an even more transformative time for medicine. As all of you know firsthand, we've seen tremendous innovation and investment in telemedicine over the last decade.
What We've Learned
Last fall, the FCC hosted a workshop and a field event on the intersection of broadband and health care in the lead-up to producing the National Broadband Plan's health care recommendations. In those sessions, practitioners told us amazing success stories in telemedicine, and patients reminded us how powerful a tool broadband is for improving health care in America.
Leaders from the University of Kansas told us about how their TeleKidcare® program helped save the life of a 4th grade girl with pneumonia. The young girl was running a fever at home and her mother walked to school to report that her daughter would be absent that day. The school nurse convinced the mother to bring her daughter to the school so that she could be seen by a doctor at the University of Kansas Medical Center via the school's broadband video link. The mother brought the girl to the school later that day. In the middle of the exam, the doctor instructed the school nurse and mother to get the girl to the hospital immediately. There, the girl was treated for life-threatening pneumonia, which would have otherwise gone undiagnosed. Thankfully, she made a full recovery. Without telemedicine, this would not have been possible.
Leaders from Avera Health, a non-profit health care delivery network operating in South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska, told us about a baby born two months premature during an ice storm. The nearest tertiary care center was 80 miles away. Using telemedicine, staff caring for the baby connected to neonatologists who were able to provide them with specific actions to take to stabilize the baby, who is now healthy and developing normally.
Leaders from CHRISTUS St. Catherine Hospital in Katy, Texas, told us about their comprehensive stroke center program that incorporates telemedicine from the time EMTs arrive on the scene to the time the patient is receiving care in the hospital emergency department.
These are just a few compelling examples that illustrate how telemedicine can be a powerful means for improving health care and the quality of life for all Americans.
However, we're a long way from ubiquitous telemedicine today. When developing the National Broadband Plan, we realized that to maximize broadband availability and use, the United States not only needs bigger and faster networks, but it also needs innovation and investment throughout what we called the "broadband ecosystem" – the networks, the applications, and the devices that affect what Americans can do with broadband.
More capable networks enable medical facilities to employ devices that run applications like electronic health records and image transfer applications. And more advanced applications can often mean saving more lives.
But today, America has gaps in all three parts of the broadband ecosystem that are slowing progress through this "virtuous circle" of innovation, and preventing telemedicine from being adopted more widely.
Connectivity via robust networks is a baseline requirement for telemedicine. But 3,600 small providers in the United States lack the connectivity they need to adopt even basic health IT, let alone high-definition video consultation. For example, nearly 30 percent of federally-funded Rural Health Clinics and a third of Indian Health Service locations do not have basic broadband connectivity.
Furthermore, although Americans send over 4 billion text messages on a typical day, our 9-1-1 system still lacks the network deployment and equipment to support the transmission of text and images to emergency response centers. The U.S. still has only one 9-1-1 call center, in Black Hawk County, Iowa, that can accept text messages. If we are to take full advantage of the possibilities of telemedicine in emergencies – say, sending images of a broken jaw to emergency responders so they can know what to expect when they arrive at the scene of an accident – there is much more work to do.
Numerous health IT solutions, specifically telemedicine solutions, promise to improve care and quality of life, and reduce costs. The potential of electronic health records, video consultations, diagnostic image transfer, remote monitoring, and wellness apps is largely untapped. We know that robust networks are needed to support the capture and exchange of growing amounts of data, and payment reform is needed to promote adoption of these solutions.
Today, a number of wireless medical devices help patients focus on wellness or manage chronic conditions. Innovation has advanced diabetes care from countless finger pricks and injections to continuous, real-time glucose monitoring devices linked to insulin pumps. Many products that help consumers manage their health have been developed, but haven't made it to market because investors are unclear about the regulatory pathways for those products. And because few insurers reimburse for telemedicine services, practitioners are generally unable to invest in the devices that make telemedicine possible, like ECG transmitters or telepresence walls.
What We're Doing
To close these gaps, we at the FCC have relied on the comprehensive blueprint for action laid out in the National Broadband Plan. But even more importantly, we have relied on close partnerships and constant communications with other government agencies like the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, FDA, CMS, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration at the Department of Commerce, and state emergency management and health departments, to ensure that we are on the right track and able to course-correct as necessary.
Let me share with you some of the most exciting things we're doing to make ubiquitous telemedicine a reality in the United States.
First, let's talk about networks. Although telecommunications providers may build networks in rural areas capable of meeting everyday consumer needs, rural health care facilities often require much higher levels of connectivity.
Hopefully, you're familiar with the concept of an "anchor institution." Anchor institutions are entities critical to the vitality and social life of a community – schools, libraries, and health centers are primary examples. It's vitally important that rural health care providers have the infrastructure necessary to take advantage of telemedicine and the ability to pay for the connectivity that makes it possible. Health centers in remote areas of the country can benefit from telemedicine – perhaps even more than urban areas. Connecting hospitals and other health facilities should be done regardless of where they are located.
We're very pleased to see progress on the network funding front. Last month NTIA awarded hundreds of millions of dollars to build statewide telehealth networks, including $20 million in Nevada, $70 million in Mississippi, and $102 million in Arkansas. At the FCC, we've made $83.5 million in funding commitments through our pilot program to help build 35 telehealth networks across the country.
We also recognize that we could do a better job with our Rural Health Care Program. So, in July we proposed rules to reform it. At the highest level, these rules suggest providing support for both the continued construction of new statewide and regional health networks and deeper discounts on the cost of monthly Internet access for rural providers. Comments from the ATA and many of you on these proposed rules are invaluable as we work to design a program that targets support efficiently, makes resources available to more entities, and removes excessive burdens on applicants. The Commission's role is circumscribed by the Communications Act, our authorizing statute. So while we work to improve the rural health care program to achieve Congress's goals, we recognize that the FCC is only part of the answer. As a result, of course, we will continue to work with our partners at NTIA, USDA, HHS and other federal agencies to coordinate our efforts.
We also see a lot of promise to better leverage wireless networks to advance telemedicine and spark new applications in health care. Just last week, the FCC adopted an order that will create opportunities for investment and innovation in advanced Wi-Fi technologies in unused parts of TV spectrum, known as "white spaces." These technologies can help improve connectivity for health care providers. In fact, we issued a one-year experimental waiver for Hocking Valley Community Hospital in Ohio to deploy a community-wide wireless network for affiliated health care providers over TV white spaces. In addition to providing wireless access on and near the hospital campus, their network will enable wireless data transfer from ambulances and other first responder vehicles. We're following this closely and hoping that they achieve improvements in care delivery and health outcomes that might be replicated elsewhere.
Speaking of first responders, last week the FCC also adopted an order requiring wireless carriers to provide more granular information about the location of 9-1-1 callers. This helps emergency medical technicians find people more quickly. We also released formal inquiries asking for feedback on how next-generation 9-1-1 can better support emergency response. This is part of our efforts to make better information available to EMTs and other first responders – who are key players in health care delivery at the most critical moments.
Second, applications. We're working to make new applications possible, especially when it comes to telemedicine. We hope that our actions to reform broadband support mechanisms enable more providers to take advantage of electronic health records, video conferencing, image transfer and remote monitoring technologies. We hope that our actions to open up TV white spaces unleash innovation in wireless health care applications.
We also hope that our work with the FDA to maintain a flexible regulatory environment for mobile health devices will spark new health applications for prevention, detection, treatment and management of conditions that will soon be available to patients.
Finally, devices. We're working with our federal government partners to craft consistent, smart spectrum policy that will promote innovation in devices. As ATA and the folks in this room demonstrate everyday, the combination of wireless and medical technologies opens up vast new opportunities for improving health care.
At a July event with our Chairman, Julius Genachowski, and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, the FCC and FDA launched an initiative to clarify the requirements and improve the efficiency of the approval process for converged communications and health care devices. Through a legal document called a Memorandum of Understanding, we were able to improve information exchange between our agencies and streamline collaboration. We expect this will help us unleash the benefits of broadband for health care.
We also released a joint statement of principles on wireless health that will guide our work as we tackle this important topic. To briefly summarize the key principles, we recognize that all Americans stand to benefit from broadband-enabled wireless health solutions; we must unleash innovation while assuring patient safety; and we must partner effectively to do so.
The proliferation of innovative wireless medical devices is an exciting prospect that we at the FCC welcome. And we will continue to look for creative ways to promote wireless connectivity. This will improve remote monitoring and care delivery. We look forward to working with the telemedicine community as part of that process.
Call to Action
Going forward, the FCC will continue to be an advocate for the power of telemedicine to improve health care. And we'll continue to share that message with our federal agency partners to promote a consistent, integrated approach to improving communication networks, applications, and devices in the United States.
We're excited by the possibilities that telemedicine has to offer and are committed to helping overcome the challenges it faces. To drive policy changes and make informed decisions, we need to arm ourselves with more and better data – that's where you can help. Today I want to ask for your help gathering three types of data that will help the FCC and its partners make intelligent decisions about federal support for telemedicine.
First, actual provider-level connectivity data. In the National Broadband Plan, we used the best information available to estimate the connectivity available to providers. We also suggested guidelines on minimum connectivity thresholds to support usage of various health IT solutions in different delivery settings, ranging from solo providers to rural health centers to hospitals and academic medical centers. We need to better understand what level of connectivity providers are actually purchasing, the degree of price disparities faced, and the suitability of available broadband for adopting health IT solutions, especially telemedicine applications.
Second, we want your input on effective performance measures. The National Broadband Plan recommended that to protect against waste, fraud and abuse in the Rural Health Care Program, the FCC should require participating institutions to meet outcomes-based performance criteria to qualify for USF subsidies. I think we all agree that it's not about the technologies or methodologies. Instead, it's about the results for individuals' health outcomes. The less money we spend on what doesn't work, the more will be available for what does. We want your help in thinking through sensible performance measures that balance the need to gain insight with the need to avoid undue reporting burdens.
Finally, let us know what metrics would be most useful to track in a Health Care Broadband Status Report. Supporting health IT for the long term is going to require a better understanding of its current and projected states. The National Broadband Plan's analysis was an initial step to advance this effort, and the Plan recommends continued publication of such a status report.
The interaction of technology and medicine has come a long way since doctors and pharmacies were first connecting via telephone lines in 1879. I am confident that with your input and with our continued collaboration with you and our federal partners, we can use telemedicine to bring higher quality, more efficient, cost-effective care to more Americans in the years to come. Thank you for the opportunity to be with you here today.
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|This page contains a complete map list for the Northern Ungava Canoe Expedition. We carried a complete set of 1 : 250,000 scale
maps for our route and many of the 1 : 50,000 scale maps for areas when navigation was difficult and greater detail was required.
Click a link on the map of Nunavik below to see a description of that stage of the trip. Navigation hints are also given farther down
on this page along with a few examples of the 1 : 250,000 scale maps that we used.
Lac Minto
Lac La Potherie
|1 : 250,000 scale maps
Lac Guillaume - Delisle
Lac Minto
Lac Nedlouc
Lac La Potherie
Lac Du Pelican
Riviere Arnaud (Payne)
|1 : 50,000 scale maps
34 C/16 Riviere Itilliq
34 G/4 Lac Tikirartuuq
34 G/3 Lac Dornon
34 G/2 Lac Levitre
34 G/7 Colline Qummuangajuq
34 G/8 Baie Ogier
34 I/2 Lac Serindac
34 I/3 Lac Lintelle
34 I/6 Lac Morie
34 I/5 Lac Ladignac
34 I/12 Lac Bisson
34 I/13 Lac Serin
34 P/4 Lac Gobinet
34 P/5 Lac Tunusuk
|Nastapoka River
|Lake Minto
|Leaf River
|Vizien River
|Lac Tasialouc
|Payne Lake
|Payne River
Accurate maps and a working knowledge of how to navigate is essential
for any trip into the wilderness. Getting lost in a wilderness area the size
of Ungava is not an option. We carried both 1:250,000 and 1 : 50,000
scale maps for our route. Our charts were waterproofed with
Thompson's Waterseal and stored in zip lock baggies. The day's active
map was kept in a ziplock bag inside of another waterproof map case
with grommets that allowed it to be clipped to our boat or a pack.
Carrying a copy of your maps is a smart ideal as well.
|HINT - To waterproof your maps
coat them with Thompson's
Waterseal and hang until dry. On
the trip always keep your maps in
plastic bags. Remember, only the
day's active map needs to be
The Canadian Government topo maps are extremely accurate and the
treeless terrain of Ungava allows for a lot of visual navigation. Despite
this, a working compass and the ability to use it is essential. Travel on
large lakes can be surprisingly complicated and there were several times
on our trip when the only way we chose the correct route was because of
our compass. When in doubt trust your compass as its opinion is not
subjective. Good compasses are available for $20 to $100 dollars and a
fancy model is not necesary.
Declination is the difference between your position and true north versus
magnetic north. As a rule, the farther north you go, the greater the
declination. Maps are oriented to true north while you compass points to
magnetic north. Because of this, when declinations are high it is
essential to be sure you know which north you are dealing with. On our
trip the declination varied between 22 degrees and 34 degrees westerly.
This means that when our compasses pointed north (magnetic north) we
had to add the declination to the bearing so it would align with our map.
Not accounting for the declination at the start of a long portage would
leave us far off course at its completion.
Example of declination - We look at our map and see that we want to
portage to a pond that is 35 degrees east of north on the map. To
proceed in the proper direction we find magnetic north (with the
compass), locate 35 degrees and then add the declination. If the
declination is 25 degrees we would add that to 35 degrees and follow a
60 degree compass bearing.
|GPS (Global Positioning System)
The Northern Ungava Canoe Expedition was the first wilderness trip I
have ever done on which a GPS unit was carried. These devices are
NOT essential for travel in the north. They depend on batteries and
could fail when you need them the most. Unlike a compass, a GPS is not
fail proof. There are advantages to these units, but they should NEVER
be used in place of a compass. If you bring a GPS be sure to familiarize
yourself with its functions and be sure to determine how the position it
reads corresponds to the information on your maps.


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VIDEO/PHOTOS: Missing teen found shot, killed; mother chased down suspect
A Clewiston man faces a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of an Immokalee teenager missing since Monday.
The arrest of Teddy Osceola, 20, followed a high-speed car chase of the suspect by the victim's mother, who, with family and friends, had been searching frantically for 17-year-old Ricky Trevino.
"I know I was breaking the law, but that's my baby," said Noemi Trujillo, who called police as she gave chase. "I was going about 100 miles an hour."
Trevino's body was found hours later off a remote dirt road by a sugar cane field in Hendry County. According to an arrest affidavit, Osceola, 20, lead Seminole Police to the location after confessing to shooting Trevino with a shotgun, loading his body into a pickup truck and dumping it on the road.
A dispute over a previous drug robbery — and accusations of a set-up — were central to the shooting, according to the affidavit.
"It doesn't have to be like this," Osceola recalled telling Trevino as he pointed a shotgun at the teenager, the affidavit states.
Osceola was booked into the Hendry County jail on Thursday. He faces a first-degree murder charge and, if indicted, could face the death penalty or a life sentence. Proceedings will be through the Hendry Circuit, a Hendry County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman said.
Trevino disappeared between Monday night and early Tuesday morning. Trujillo last saw him after she departed for bed following Monday Night Football, which the pair watched together at the family's Immokalee home, she said. She awoke the next morning to find Trevino gone from his room.
Trujillo reported him missing the same day.
When Trujillo learned that her son's cell phone was last used near County Road 833 leading to the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, she led family and friends to search the area on Tuesday and Wednesday, she said.
On Wednesday, they spotted Osceola driving by in a pickup truck.
They followed him, and Osceola sped away. Trujillo called 911.
She approached the pickup after it was stopped by Seminole Police to see if her son was inside. Instead, she found Osceola, and three other men, who she said tried to intimidate her.
"They said, 'You all make sure you get a good look at her,'" Trujillo said. "I said, 'I'm going to bring my son home dead or alive.' They just started laughing."
Taken to a police station on the reservation, Osceola "spontaneously confessed" to killing Trevino, the affidavit states.
Osceola ultimately told detectives he had driven Trevino to his Clewiston home, at which point they began to argue over a drug robbery, which Trevino claims was a set-up. When Trevino threatened Osceola's family, the latter fetched a shotgun, the affidavit states. As Trevino raised his hands and walked backwards, Osceola shot him once in the chest, reloaded and shot Trevino again as the victim ran away.
Osceola asked his "boys" inside the house to help load Trevino's body into the truck, the report continues. Only one, a juvenile, helped, according to the affidavit.
After dumping the body, Osceola returned home and downed pills, he told detectives. With his brother, he dumped the shotgun into a canal. Investigators searched for the weapon on Thursday.
Trujillo learned of her son's death at 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, she said. Details have since been hard to come by.
"(Investigators) told me to stay here, 'We'll contact you,'" she said from her Immokalee home. "When are they going to contact me? I want to know what happened, when, who did it, what's going on."
On Thursday night, about 40 people gathered for a candlelight vigil at the home. Family remembered Trevino as happy and quick to joke.
Cousin Roman Salinas, 17, said he grew up with Trevino. News of the death hit him hard.
"It felt like just a nightmare that I wouldn't wake up from," he said.
Family members rejected any suggestion that the killing was drug-related, and they said Osceola was dating a cousin of Trevino's.
Family members also reported receiving threats on Myspace.com and hearing rumors of retaliation.
In Farm Worker's Village in Immokalee, Estella Reyes called Osceola her "step-grandson." She hadn't seen him in a month she said, and was surprised by the news.
"I never even seen him like a violent person or anything," she said.
Osceola has a history, however. He was arrested after an August 2007 traffic stop in which he gave a false name. A Collier County Sheriff's Office deputy discovered a loaded revolver and ski masks in the vehicle, according to an arrest report. A search of Osceola's name turned up four outstanding warrants, the report said.
In a 2006 arrest, Osceola was found with a 12-gauge shotgun and marijuana in his possession.
Osceola attended classes while he was in the county Juvenile Detention Center for part of 2007. He stopped attending the classes in October 2007.
Both men dropped out of school. Trevino was enrolled in Collier County's Phoenix Program, an alternative school for youth recommended for expulsion, for the 2006-2007 session, according to the county school district. He withdrew in January 2007.
Trevino was arrested Monday on a charge of driving without a license, according to court records.
Trevino's mother said her son "had issues" but didn't deserve to die.
"My son was not an angel, but he's my baby," Trujillo said.
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The body of a missing Immokalee teenager has been discovered in Hendry County, and a Clewiston man has been charged by Seminole Police in the shooting death.
Ricky Trevino, 17, was found dead of gunshot wounds on a remote dirt road in a sugar cane field near Clewiston, according to an arrest affidavit.
Teddy Osceola, 20, of Immokalee, was arrested Thursday afternoon on a first-degree murder charge and booked into the Hendry County jail in LaBelle.
Seminole detectives say Osceola on Wednesday admitted to shooting Trevino the previous night with a shotgun on the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation in Hendry County, placing the body in a pickup truck and dumping it on Blumberg Road early Tuesday morning.
Osceola then guided police to the field and the body on Wednesday evening, according to the affidavit.
Seminole Police say a drug-related dispute sparked the killing.
In the affidavit, Osceola said he brought Trevino to his Clewiston home when the teenager accused him of setting up a prior robbery of the two men. As the argument escalated, Osceola retrieved a shotgun, the report said.
He shot the teenager twice, once in the chest and once in the back, the statement read.
Trevino's mother, Noemi Trujillo, sad she learned of her son's death early Thursday morning.
Trujillo had been searching for answers long before. When Seminole Police stopped Teddy Osceola on a Big Cypress reservation road on Wednesday, Trujillo and family members were chasing after Osceola's Ford truck in their own car, desparate for answers.
They had been searching the reservation for Trevino, when they saw Osceola drive by and became suspicious, Trujillo said. When their car approached his truck, Osceola fled at a high speed, she said.
"I know I was breaking the law, but that's my baby," Trujillo said. "I was going about 100 miles an hour."
It was the last she saw of Osceola, who was taken by police for questioning. She was told of her son's death at 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, she said, hours after officers learned of the killing.
Osceola was dating a Trevino family member, Trujillo said.
Trevino went missing between Monday night and Tuesday morning. Trujillo reported to Collier County detectives that she last saw her son after the two watched Monday Night Football together and she left for bed.
The Sheriff's Office issued a missing person's report early Wednesday morning.
Seminole Police stopped Osceola--as Trujillo pursued-- on County Road 833 on Wednesday afternoon after receiving a dispatch. Osceola gave a false name but was soon identified, the report said.
The affidavit also gave the following details:
After being taken to the Jimmy Cypress Public Safety Complex, Osceola made a spontaneous confession to the killings.
He was read his Miranda rights, after which Osceola told officers he brought Trevino to his Canal Street home on the Big Cypress reservation and shot the teenager in front of the house.
After killing Trevino, Osceola discarded the body, returned home and began "taking pills" until later in the day when he and brother Patrick Osceola took the truck to discard the shotgun in a canal.
Police are currently searching for the gun, according to a press release.
Osceola on Wednesday took police to the sugar cane field, where he located the body. Police identified it as Trevino.
A juvenile witness later told police he was with Osceola during the shooting and helped him place the body in the back of the truck. The witness said Trevino had been facing Osceola, with his hands raised, before he was shot.
Trujillo, the mother, said she approached Osceola's truck moments after police stopped it on Wednesday. She didn't see her son inside, she said, but Osceola and three of his friends.
"I said 'I'm going to bring my son home dead or alive,'" she recalled. "They just started laughing.'"
Trevino was enrolled in Collier County's Phoenix Program, an alternative school for youth recommended for expulsion, for the 2006-2007 session, according to the county school district. He withdrew in January 2007.
Osceola attended classes while he was in the county Juvenile Detention Center for part of 2007. He stopped attending the classes in October 2007.
Osceola was arrested after a August 2007 traffic stop in which he gave a false name. A Collier County deputy discovered a loaded revolver and ski masks in the vehicle, according to an arrest report. A search of Osceola's name turned up four outstanding warrants, the report said.
In a 2006 arrest, Osceola was found with a 12-gauge shotgun and marijuana in his possession.
Trevino was arrested Monday on a charge of driving without a license, according to court records.
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Drupal 7 testing: status update and next steps
The first version of Drupal's automated test framework was developed in 2004 by Moshe Weitzman. It started as a simple wrapper around the SimpleTest unit testing framework. Later, Thomas Ilsche and Rok Zlender extended it as part of the Google Summer of Code projects of 2005 and 2006. NowPublic and others continued to sponsor Rok's work into 2008. Today, Jimmy Berry is the principal contributor of the Drupal test framework, as well as the main developer and maintainer of Drupal.org's automated test infrastructure. Behind the scenes, Kieran Lal was instrumental in helping to ensure our test framework received financial support, project management, hardware resources, and server administrators.
In the February 2008, I declared that Drupal should embrace test-driven development, and shortly thereafter, we added the test framework to Drupal 7 core. In addition to a test framework for core, Jimmy Berry and Chad Phillips developed a second generation automated testing framework for drupal.org -- so far, it has tested over 8500 unique patches on Drupal.org.
Yesterday, Jimmy announced that he will be working part-time as an intern for Acquia this summer. At Acquia, we like what Jimmy is doing, and because he has been looking for a financial sponsor for a while now, I decided Acquia should step up and help Jimmy for part of the summer. Frankly put, Jimmy's work has the potential of doubling the velocity of our developer community, and that is well worth sponsoring. Jimmy will spend his time with Acquia to continue his work on Drupal 7's test framework and the automated test infrastructure for drupal.org.
For well over a year now, core development has used a test-driven development strategy combined with automated testing. I think all core developers working on Drupal 7 will unanimously agree when I say that our test infrastructure has drastically improved our velocity and effectiveness. Overall, patches get accepted faster. The automated tests allow us to focus on the architectural and the algorithmic changes introduced by a patch, rather than having to worry about unexpected side-effects. This helps both patch reviewers and core developers contributing patches. Furthermore, thanks to the tests, we have a much better feel about the stability and the health of Drupal 7. I am optimistic that our code freeze period for Drupal 7 could be shorter than prior releases. As the project lead, our test framework helps me sleep better at night. The stability and health of our code base is important to me, but frankly, it is at least as important for the many Drupal users, or for those people and organizations looking to adopt Drupal.
By adopting a test-driven development strategy we raised the bar for core development, and I strongly believe we have to do the same for contributed modules. While the community cannot force module maintainers to write tests for their modules, I do want to support those that do write tests. The best way to support them, is to provide them the same tools and infrastructure that we use for core development. And as the maintainer of a contributed module myself (i.e. the Mollom module), I can't wait to have the same tools available that I have available when working on Drupal core.
Jimmy is working on making drupal.org's automated test infrastructure available to contributed modules, integrating the test results in the project pages as an incentive tool, improving the documentation to help people get started, and closing some functional gaps such as the ability to test Drupal's installer and upgrade system. We're also working on deploying the third generation of the automated testing framework. This new version will make it easier to add testing servers so we can triple the number of servers needed to run tests, and start testing the non-MySQL backends that are supported by Drupal 7.
All in all, I'm very optimistic that we'll succeed in our goal to adopt a test-driven development strategy.
I would love to get automated testing of my modules. It will be very difficult, however, to do this for some modules that are integrations modules and depend on 3rd party systems. It will take a lot of developer creativity to write tests in these cases. In the majority of cases, though, this is a big win.
Maybe this will also give rise to an ecosystem of pure testing projects where the community steps up to provide tests for modules whose maintainers aren't interested in maintaining tests (a legitimate stance for a maintainer, I might add).
Wow, fabulous! I'd love to have automated testing on my modules. So I guess I'd better get busy and write more tests.
The biggest impediment I have encountered with SimpleTest is that the documenatation needs a lot of improvement. This includes not only the technical "how to" stuff, but also, "what do I need to test and how would I design it."
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The main focus of the physiology, pharmacology and toxicology (P2T) group is to study factors and organs involved in coordinating and maintaining internal environment in cells, organs or entire organism in a stable and constant condition (homeostasis). To study biological processes in humans, animals and plants the ongoing projects include many advanced modern techniques directly related to physiology, pharmacology or toxicology. The P2T group is composed of researchers with multidisciplinary competence in physiology, pharmacology, genetics, molecular biology, medical and plant biotechnology, chemistry, bioinformatics, computer science and mathematics. The research includes clinical studies or techniques forming a holistic approach to the individual as well as the surrounding environment.
Research projects within pharmacology focuses mainly on characterizing the use of different substances and their medical and toxicological influence in humans in a multi-ethnic perspective. They also deal with characterization of pathological conditions at the level of cells and organ as well as the whole individual, aiming at the development of new methods for treatments.
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The Physiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology research group consists of the following researchers:
Dennis Larsson (Associate Professor in Biomedicine)
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Tonight: Hucknall's Christmas Carnival and lights switch-on
Posted: December 05, 2012|
Thousands of people are expected to turn out for Hucknall's Christmas carnival and light switch-on tonight.
The Carnival, which is now in its 18th year, starts from 6pm, with a funfair, entertainment in the Market Place, a Christmas tree festival and a parade.
The Hucknall Rotary club, the event organisers, are expecting around 7,000 people to attend, adding that it's "the biggest event in Hucknall's calendar."
Capital FM's Dino and Pete will be on stage at 6pm and Kenneth Knight, council chairman and councillor for Hucknall West, will switch on the Christmas lights at about 6.45pm.
The parade will include a band, floats, local groups and school children in uniforms or festive costumes.
There will also be stalls and refreshments along the High Street and at the John Godber Centre.
Roads will be closed for the parade, which will gather on the Market Place at 6.15pm and make its way up the High Street.
The Christmas tree festival will take place at St Mary Magdalene Church, where up to 70 individually decorated trees will be judged by an expected audience of about 1,000.
Live entertainment is also on the agenda with music from Phil Rostance & The Marshal Band.


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An interactive online learning system created by two Stanford computer scientists plans to announce Wednesday that it has secured $16 million in venture capital and partnerships with five major universities.
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In a move that expands higher education to a global audience, the University of Michigan has begun to offer online courses to anyone for free.
Former Silicon Valley CEO Ben Nelson has two years and $25 million to transform higher education.
Destiny Solutions, a provider of of lifelong learning business solutions, today announced that Penn State World Campus has introduced a new initiative aimed at dramatically growing its global online business. The effort, enabled by Destiny One™, centers around overhauling and scaling how the institution engages working professionals.
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EducationDynamics, higher education's leading marketing information and technology services company, recently released its 2011-12 eLearning Index, complete with five-year trends and analysis.
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About Printer deskjet 845c series
i have a deskjet 845c. that printer cannot print a color ink. if print with black ink. its normal. what happen with my deskjet. is cartridge have an expired date. really need answer as soon as posible thx
Re: About Printer deskjet 845c series
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Welcome to the HP Forums! I understand your HP Deskjet 845c cannot print in color. I am happy to help you!
Please take a look through this print quality guide. Color Images Print in Black and White.
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Her name is Sasha and she's hilarious; I guess she thinks she's a dog half the time, and a cougar the rest of the time. She LOVES affection, purrs if you even walk past her, begs for hugs all the time but is happy after a quick snuggle which is all I ever have time or patience for. She's devoted and loving no matter what. Loyal. Pouncing. WILDLY ENERGETIC. She climbs walls that have no curtains, people. Our couch has never looked worse but it wasn't in great shape to begin with.
The first night she was with us, she was so small and had never spent a night alone, so I put her tiny furry self on a warm cozy spot on my duvet right by my shoulder. Any time she woke up and cried, I put my hand on her and told her it was okay, and she purred immediately and went back to sleep. Attachment parenting a cat. Yes, naturally, I am intensely weird. In the morning, she forgot where her litterbox was and after about ten minutes of meowing in desperation, she peed on Brent. It was awesome.
We have this other cat. She's nine. She is fat. She is neurotic. She is weird. I love her to bits. I don't have a photo handy.
Paige (the nine year old cat) doesn't love Sasha. She doesn't HATE her, but she's not a fan. The thing she's most worried about in the WHOLE WORLD is that Sasha might eat her food. So she gorges herself trying to keep her food safe from that orange kitten, overeats, and barfs everywhere. And tries to steal Sasha's food constantly. But it's too rich for her (plus it's made for kittens) so it makes her barf more. It was a full time job keeping cat #1 out of cat #2's food.
Then, one day, Sasha had runny poop in her litterbox. The next day, it was worse. The following day? Her ass exploded all over our bathroom. A 360 degree explosion at ankle level. She was siiiiiick. She slept, explod-a-pooped, and slept some more for days.
I was frantic. We didn't have money for EXTRA vet bills, just the expected ones like vaccinations and spaying and stuff. I couldn't figure out what could be wrong, or where she would get a tummy bug. Did she get up close and intimate with a diaper? The kitchen scraps? Her own bum?
My Bible study ladies sorted it out for me: Sasha was eating Paige's food on the sly. I had seen her do it a few times but didn't think much of it. She was still eating her expensive kitten food so she should be okay, right?
WRONG. Kittens can't eat adult cat food because it has "too high an ash content." [I'm all, pardon? We put ASH in CAT FOOD?!?!?!] Apparently it gives them all manner of butt squirts. Which explained the runny cat pooplosion on Ayden's winter jacket. And some artwork. And a towel. And more of the bathroom walls.
It took several weeks of constant cat food dish shuffling to keep cat #1 and cat #2 eating out of the proper bowls and never stealing, but Sasha's butt finally recovered. My bathroom will never be the same, though.
Want to leave comments about how you hate cats and this will never be you because of all your fantastic cat loathing? Thank you buh-bye. Don't bother. I love my cats. Brent calls me the crazy cat lady and blames ME for the nail marks on the walls and the poop on the artwork but I just remind him how cats love to pee on you when you secretly hate them, and how he better fix his attitude before he gets drenched again.
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6 comments:
- Tamie said...
I hope you write a book about your life.
- January 20, 2013 at 10:17 AM
- melissa v. said...
Ha! Would you really PAY to read about poogate and my inability to get my toddler to take a bath? ;P
- January 20, 2013 at 5:02 PM
- Safari Kit said...
YES!!! (re:the reading a book about your life.)
- January 20, 2013 at 7:42 PM
- Caryn Ouwehand said...
ha ha. "Poogate"
I don't hate cats. But I would hate Poogate.
- January 21, 2013 at 1:34 AM
- Caryn Ouwehand said...
Maybe try this...?
- January 21, 2013 at 1:36 AM
- melissa v. said...
HA! Caryn, you're awesome. That cat is weird lookin!
Okay, a book then. I'll get right on that, in all my spare time =p
Maybe someday!!
- January 21, 2013 at 11:07 AM
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I dont know myself... but some of the old bald guys will be coming soon to help ya
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tho9900, Hablas español he? Si soy de Panamá, de que parte de Estados Unidos eres? Has venido aqui? Tus amigos son modelistas?
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QUOTE: Originally posted by miranc331
tho9900, Hablas español he? Si soy de Panamá, de que parte de Estados Unidos eres? Has venido aqui? Tus amigos son modelistas?
Yo soy de Texas, acerca Mexico. Yo vivo en la ciudad de Houston... No, nunca he visitado a Panamá, pero un dia yo quiero ir a Colombia (mi esposa es Colombiana, de Medellin <las Colombianas son guapas ¿no?>) y posiblemente a Panamá. No sé si mis amigos fueron modelistas... no los he visto en muchos años.. Yo pienso que ellos viven en Florida pero no estoy seguro... bueno, tengo me voy... ¡estoy cansado!
¡Mucho gusto enconcerte!
For everyone else in the forum (to be polite) I welcomed him to the forum in my last message and asked what city he was from and added that I had two good friends (in the Navy) from Panama, he asked where I was from and have I ever been to Panama... I told him no, but one day I would like to visit Colombia and possibly Panama, as my wife is from Colombia (then I went on to allude to the beauty of South American wimmen haha). He asked about my friends from Panama in the Navy and if they were modellers ( I started learning spanish from them) and told him I didnt know if they were modellers.. Didn't want to offend a non-Spanish speaking person and wanted to let you in on what we were talking about... this guy is very nice it seems! A welcome addition to our forum!
Oh yeah at the end I told him I was tired and I had to go to bed soon... and I say the same to you all in English! Good night!!!
Originally posted by miranc331
Nice man...well, I need to talk english in my job, but in other thing everything is in spanish.
Yea, the colombian girls are beauty (I was a girlfriend from there..) and they are very nice people...
What are you interestin in modeling? Here in Panama (IPMS), the most members are modelers of cars, aircraft, armor and aircraft, two or tree are for sci-fi or figures.
We are begining our web site, Every body are inviter to see it.
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Nice site! Some nice fighter craft on there...
I mostly model WWII aircraft, in 1/48 scale and for now mostly from the Pacific campaign. I am thinking of changing to Atlantic soon as there is a WIDE variety of German and British aircraft that I like to model. I occasionally model a ship, and I am thinking of doing two of the ships I was on in 1/700 as thats the only scale I can find them in. I have only built a few armor pieces, I like it but my love is aircraft.
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I guess this is a little off the topic, but when I wore my reporter's hat, I flew in and out of Howard AFB in Panama a few times, and it's a great place for bird watching (no, not women or things with feathers -- I mean airplanes). I often saw CIA contractor Southern Air Transport going in and out of the pattern with their civilian C-130s. And in the late 80s there was an Air Force A-7 unit based there, and I saw A-10s there I guess on TDY. This was pre-invasion, toward the end of Noriega's reign and things were tense in Panama.
As for the setting solution, once I figured out it couldn't be all that toxic (though I wouldn't recommend drinking it), I touched it with the tip of my tongue (this was MicroSet), and it definitely had vinegar in it. And I think alcohol might be in the MicroSol, but what else I couldn't say. Oh, and I might be wrong on the alcohol. So I guess I'm not much help here. Never mind.
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Review: Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
Friday, September 14, 2012 | Posted by kara-karina@Nocturnal Book Reviews
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Have you ever had the feeling that you've lived another life? Been somewhere that has felt totally familiar, even though you've never been there before, or felt that you know someone well, even though you are meeting them for the first time? It happens.
In 2073 on the remote and secretive island of Blessed, where rumour has it that no one ages and no children are born, a visiting journalist, Eric Seven, and a young local woman known as Merle are ritually slain.
Their deaths echo a moment ten centuries before, when, in the dark of the moon, a king was slain, tragically torn from his queen. Their souls search to be reunited, and as mother and son, artist and child, forbidden lovers, victims of a vampire they come close to finding what they've lost. In a novel comprising seven parts, each influenced by a moon - the flower moon, the harvest moon, the hunter's moon, the blood moon - this is the story of Eric and Merle whose souls have been searching for each other since their untimely parting.
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* * *Really weird book. I don't know what to think of it or if I liked it.
It starts in 2073 and grabs your attention in a manner of The Wicker Man - a lone journalist on a weird little island full of happy childless people. He is investigating a strange orchid rumoured to be sold on the black market and used to gain immortality.
But the story is split into several time periods going back ten centuries and concentrating on two souls which keep reincarnating and keep dieing tragically without a proper reunion and happy ending.
It's tantalising but not meaty enough, foggy, mysterious and dark story, but I couldn't quite like it despite author's compelling writing because it doesn't offer us as readers fulfilment. There is no satisfaction in the end, and ultimately I felt cheated.
Read at your own risk.
* * *Очень странная вышла книга несмотря на красивый, интересный слог автора, и я не скажу что она мне понравилась.
Концепция сюжета - на любителя. Повествование начинается в будущем (2073г.) и сразу же интригует. Однако действие в этих временных памках быстро завершается и переходит в следующий временной период в прошлом - и так в течение 10 веков.
Действие сосредоточено на двух душах, которые перерождаются чтобы быть вместе и каждый раз умирают мучительной и трагической смертью в различных ипостасях.
Честно говоря, книгу я не поняла. Что автор хотел передать сюжетом, что нам следует из этой книги вынести, к чему все эти жертвоприношения и ипостаси луны? Хрен его знает. Зато красиво.
Читайте на свой страх и риск.
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