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Gardening Articles: Landscaping :: Trees, Shrubs, & Vines
Steps to Rose Success
by National Gardening Association Editors
When choosing roses, select varieties that are adapted to your growing region. If specific diseases such as black spot are known to be a problem in your region, choose disease-resistant varieties.
Roses require a location that's sunny at least six hours a day. Ideally, the location should provide good air circulation and receive morning sun to help dry off leaves early in the day, which will help minimize disease problems.
Soil Preparation
Once you have outlined the shape of the rose bed, it's time to improve the soil--before planting the roses. Because roses are rather finicky about soil, it's a good idea to have your soil tested. Most university extension services will do this for a nominal charge. Once the soil analysis is complete, you will know exactly what should be added to the soil and in what amount. This is not the time for skimping. Any extra effort you put into advance preparation will pay off in superior results for years to come.
Standard care includes watering, fertilizing, and pruning. Roses need regular applications of water for top production of flowers. It makes no difference whether the water comes from a hose or from rain. Just make sure the roses receive enough water to moisten the soil to a depth of 18 inches every week during the growing season. The easiest way to check this is with a long screwdriver or stiff piece of wire, such as a straightened-out coat hanger. Either device will be easy to push through moist soil, more difficult once it hits dry soil. In arid summer climates, consider watering your roses with a drip system that is connected to a timer.
At least two applications of fertilizer should be made, once when new growth first starts in the spring and again in midseason. Favor non-burning, natural formulations that feed the soil as well as the plant.
Managing Pests
Vigorously growing roses will be far less susceptible to attack from pests and diseases than those that are struggling. However, roses are susceptible to attack from a variety of pests, so it's helpful to have some controls at the ready should you find your roses affected.
Disease Sprays
- Anti-transpirants, which are normally used to protect plants from drying out, are believed to work as fungus controllers by coating the leaves with waxes, plastic polymers, or silicones, thus preventing fungal spores from entering the pores in the leaves. Apply just as you would an anti-transpirant; follow label directions.
- A mixture of baking soda and horticultural oil is an effective method of controlling powdery mildew. This fungicide also reduces or eliminates black spot to acceptable levels on resistant rose varieties. Use one rounded tablespoon (approximately four teaspoons) of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) mixed with one tablespoon of horticultural oil per gallon of water, sprayed on a weekly basis or after a heavy rain. Note that baking soda can burn leaves: Apply in early morning and not at all during hottest weather.
- Sulfur-based fungicides have long been the organic gardener's weapon of choice for battling fungal diseases. However, they can leave residues on the leaves and petals and cannot be used when temperatures exceed 90°F.
- Whole neem oil is a promising new product for controling black spot, powdery mildew, and rust as well as many insects and mites. (Neem oil comes from the tropical neem tree, Azadirachta indica.)

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Actor tearfully apologized, insisted he didn't mean to kill her.
Woodville man drove into railroad crew, killed 1, injured 2.
A judge today sentenced Stafonda Hawkins, the mother of a teenage girl who said she was held in a North Toledo basement, to serve jail time on an unrelated charge. Hawkins, 39, appeared for a brief hearing in Toledo Municipal Court on a probation
Over the objection of prosecutors, a Toledo woman convicted in 2009 of involuntary manslaughter, aggravated burglary, and robbery was granted an early release from prison Thursday. Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Linda Jennings agreed to release
A Toledo woman accused of staging a drive-by shooting to explain away a gunshot wound to her 6-year-old daughter's leg entered an Alford plea Thursday to endangering children. Mecca Canty, 21, of the 2100 block of Alvin Street, faces up to
A Toledo man charged in a series of robberies pleaded guilty Wednesday to four counts of robbery before Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Gene Zmuda. Darian Highsmith, 33, of the 1700 block of Stahlwood Drive is to be sentenced June 22 for robbing
Federal court finds Fogle's arguments unpersuasive.
9th Circuit's rulings are binding in 9 Western states.
Mecca Canty entered Alford plea to child endangering charge.
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Our solidal and revolutionary greetings to National Assembly of ADDHIP (Asociation to defend the rights of people sons), Colombia.
Dear comrades of ADDHIP,
thank you for the invitation to participate in your National Assembly. We wish to send you our solidarity and our revolutionary greetings and best wishes for the success of the assembly and for the continuation of your struggle.
The program of poverty and war, devastation and looting perpetrated by the imperialist bourgeoisie against the proletariat and peoples around the world is faced with resistance growing every day and is expressed in various ways. The proletariat and the oppressed peoples have never stopped fighting for a future and a society without exploitation or oppression.
We are living through a time when a growing struggle of oppressed peoples against occupation and threats of imperialism, from Latin America to Afghanistan, from Iraq to Palestine, from Turkey to India, from Peru to the Philippines. Important progress and achievements have been made by the popular masses led by the Nepali Communist Party (maoist), where a hard blow was the attack against the secular monarchy which forced the people to poverty and brutalization.
Your work is part of the resistance of the peoples of the world. We consider your work precious for the defence and the conquest of children's rights in Colombia, for which the fascist and filoimperialist government of Uribe doesn't even attend to the most basic needs as food, clothing, education and health. We consider your work precious like a communitaries mothers and like a workers involved in resistance against those who deny our rights and those of our children.
It is only through struggle that the popular masses, women or men, can defend and conquer what they are entitled and which belongs to them because it is the fruit of their sweat and their work. It is only through struggle and the construction of a socialist society that the popular masses, particularly women, can emancipate themselves and there will be no socialist society without emancipation of women!
We support the struggle of the proletariat and Colombian masses workers for a socialist and free Colombia without exploitation and oppression. Your fight is ours.
Long live the proletarian internationalism!
Long live the emancipation of women in popular masses!
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Founded in Zurich, Switzerland in 1953, the International Board on Books for Young People (I.B.B.Y.) is comprised today of seventy National Sections all over the world. It represents countries with well-developed book publishing and literacy programs, and other countries with only a few dedicated professionals who are pioneers in the field of publishing and promoting children's books.
The I.B.B.Y. was the brainchild of Jella Lepman (1891-1973), who had already founded the Internationale Jugendbibliothek München ("International Youth Library in Munich") in 1949. She was a Jewish-German journalist and widow of the German-American businessman Gustav Horace Lepman (1877-1922).
In 1936, she fled Nazi Germany with their two children and settled in England. At the outbreak of the Second Great World War, she worked first for the Foreign Office, then the BBC, and finally for a radio station established by the U.S. Government, as recounted by one of her biographers, Walter Scherf.
In October of 1945, she returned to Germany, specifically to Bad Homburg in the American Zone of Occupation, with the U.S. Army as Advisor for Women and Youth's Issues with the rank of major. In July of 1946, she opened a traveling exhibit on children's books in Munich that traveled to Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Hanover, and Berlin.
She briefly worked as an editor for the magazine Today, but the success of the exhibit led to her founding the International Youth Library in Munich in 1948 with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Free State of Bavaria. Mrs. Lepman served as Director of the International Youth Library until 1957.
Having founded the International Board on Books for Young People in 1953, she created I.B.B.Y.'s international children's book prize, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, in 1956, and I.B.B.Y.'s journal Bookbird in 1957. She moved to Zurich in 1959 to devote her time to I.B.B.Y. (as Honorary President) and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. She also translated Richard Avedon and Truman Capote.
The National Sections of I.B.B.Y. are organized in many different ways and operate on national, regional, and international levels. In countries that do not have a National Section, individual membership in I.B.B.Y. is possible.
The membership of the National Sections include authors and illustrators of children's books, publishers and editors, translators, journalists and critics, teachers, university professors and students, librarians, booksellers, social workers, and parents.
I.B.B.Y.'s Executive Committee determines its policies and programs. The I.B.B.Y. Executive Committee is comprised of ten people from different countries and a president, elected biennially by the National Sections at a General Assembly during the I.B.B.Y. Congresses.
They work on a voluntary basis. The daily management of I.B.B.Y.'s affairs is conducted from its Secretariat in Basel, Switzerland.
The annual dues from the National Sections are I.B.B.Y.'s only source of regular income. Independent financing is necessary to support I.B.B.Y. activities.
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One of its main proclamations is the right of the child to a general education and to direct access to information. Thanks to I.B.B.Y.'s insistence, the resolution includes an appeal to all countries to promote the production and distribution of children's books. I.B.B.Y. also cooperates with many international organizations and children's book institutions around the world and exhibits at the La fiera del libro per ragazzi ("International Children's Book Fair") in Bologna and other international book fairs.


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Ahiru no Sora © Hinata Takeshi/Kodansha
While I'm clueless over whether Kurumatani Sora actually weighs 44.4520523 kg, I do know he's supposed to be short on cm but tall on dreams of making it in basketball.
I heart this jammies-wearing cover of SORA - The Wingless Duck 8 so much that I had to lead with it for this Elex manga release. Not that I actually read the series, and what I know of the plot can be summed up as close to (theoretical) absolute zero.
Additionally, while I'm clueless over whether the eponymous Sora actually weighs 44.4520523 kg (98 lbs.), I do know he's supposed to be short on cm but tall on dreams of making it in basketball. The underdog overtones alone should be sufficient to provoke a read and who knows? Maybe I'll start next week and work my way up to Does he drink milk by the dam? volume 8.
Speaking of underdogs — or perhaps more appropriately, dark horses — brings me to Kobayakawa Sena and Eyeshield 21 volume 28, which actually cops the Most Wanted shounen manga honor for this sked. With the prospect of the absurdly strong Gao Rikiya wreaking major mayhem, is that any surprise?
(BTW, had to emphasize
shounen again because all 7 titles + 1 manga anthology twizzling from Elex on the 22nd are such, with the exception of concluding seinen Comic Bomber 13.)
Comic Bomber 13 of 13 [Finale]
As the story of the controversial manga-ka Hono Moyuru (and friends) ends, Hero grows some and resigns from Studio Hono to start a new career in another magazine. Per predictable, the road to pro-dom is never easy.
One more translated-from-Komikologi synopsis (for Ryuurouden: Chuugen Ryouranhen or New Legenda Naga 3) tails the manga list, but before that —
Comic Bomber no Hono-sensei's Shonen Star kohai return next week, Satoyama Katsuki from Adachi Mitsuru's Katsu! among them. Issue #55 streets on the 21st.
Elex Media manga (2009.07.22)
Release links are hide/unhide. Click for more details and cover scans.
- Comic Bomber (Hoero Pen) 13 of 13 by Shimamoto Kazuhiko [Finale]
- Eyeshield 21 v28 of 37 by Inagaki Riichiro and Murata Yusuke
- Ghost Sweeper Mikami (GS Mikami Gokuraku Daisakusen!!) 34 of 39 by Shiina Takashi
- Lum, The Invader Girl (Urusei Yatsura) 12 of 34 by Takahashi Rumiko
- New Legenda Naga (Ryuurouden: Chuugen Ryouranhen) 3 of 5+ by Yamahara Yoshito
- The Pitcher (Nanto Magoroku) 69 of 70+ by Sadayasu Kei
- SORA - The Wingless Duck (Ahiru no Sora) 8 of 24+ by Hinata Takeshi
Hoero Pen 「 吼えろペン 」 by Shimamoto Kazuhiko
Eyeshield 21 「 アイシールド21 」
GS Mikami Gokuraku Daisakusen!!
Urusei Yatsura 「 うる星やつら 」 by Takahashi Rumiko
Shogakukan Shonen Sunday, shounen
Volume 12 first published in Japan 1984.11
Series re-released in 15 wideban and 18 bunkoban volumes
Ryuurouden: Chuugen Ryouranhen
Nanto Magoroku 「 なんと孫六 」 by Sadayasu Kei
Ahiru no Sora 「 あひるの空 」 by Hinata Takeshi
(1) Sources: Elex Media STO 22 July 2009 (release schedule) and Komikologi July 2009 (synopses).
(2) Links like this are Amazon.com search and/or product links (commercial), in case you're interested in another language version.
New Legenda Naga 3
Ryuurouden: Chuugen Ryouranhen 「 龍狼伝 中原繚乱編 」 by Yamahara Yoshito
Shiro and allies triumph at the battle at Dang, thanks to help from the 300 dragon forces. But it's too early to celebrate as the enemy rallies; five thousand soldiers, led by the notorious general Liu Sun, breach the gate. With the dragon forces weakened from the previous fight, their only hope lies with the game plan concocted by military genius Shi Yuan.
mangazines (2009.07.21)
Shonen Star 55/2009
(Indonesian Shonen Sunday)
Featured story: Katsu! by Adachi Mitsuru:
The Japanese mass media is in a frenzy after Misaki announces to the world how much he loves Mizutani Kazuki. Meanwhile, interhigh starts and the boxing hopefuls have faces as cuddly as gangsters'. Satoyama — FIGHT-O!
Other Shonen Star serials:
Detektif Conan (Meitantei Conan) by Aoyama Gosho · D-LIVE!! by Minagawa Ryouji · Dr. Koto Shinryoujo by Yamada Takatoshi · Kekkaishi by Tanabe Yellow · Kurozakuro by Natsume Yoshinori · Look Up! (Miagete Goran) by Kusaba Michiteru · MÄR by Anzai Nobuyuki · Wild Life by Fujisaki Masato · Yakitate!! Japan by Hashiguchi Takashi
m&c! 22 July 2009 manga: Shinobi Life 1 by Conami Shoko, Sweet Black by Nishikata Mai, My Cinderella (Watashi no Cinderella) by Kawase Natsuna, Gift Under the Rainbow by MOONSTONE & Yukiwo
~niki DBA huamulan03 (花木蘭03)
Cover images and source summaries used here for reference are © their respective intellectual rights holders. No infringement intended.
manga available this week (14-15 July 2009 street dates)
- Level Comics (7.14): Fight!! Ippo 68 and Tokyo Juliet 7
- Elex Media (7.15): Yotsuba&! 8, Rocket Man 8, Alice Academy 11, La Corda D'Oro 1, The Best Skilled Surgeon (Saijou no Meii) 1 by Irie Kenzo & Hashiguchi Takashi
- m&c! (7.15): Bleach 13, Alive 15, Happy Café 10, Not an Angel (Tenshi Ja Nai!) 1-2 by Shigematsu Takako, Archlord 6 of 6, Battle Story Rockman Exe 4 of 4
...and next (21 July 2009 street date)
Level Comics (7.21): Magister Negi Magi 19 (Yes, only one Level manga)
related links
Elex Media July 2009 manga: Premiering I Hate You The Most (Sekai de Ichiban Daikirai) by Hidaka Banri, La Corda D'Oro by Kure Yuki, A Promise About Glass Shoe by Selena Lin, Tokkyu!! by Komori Yoichi & Kubo Mitsuro, and Uzumajin by Ohse Yoshio
other invaluable resources
7&Y · Amazon Japan · Baka-Updates Manga · Ubook
Technorati tags
manga, Elex Media, Shonen Star, seinen, shounen, Ahiru no Sora, Comic Bomber, Eyeshield 21, Ghost Sweeper Mikami, Hoero Pen, KATSU!, Nanto Magoroku, New Legenda Naga, Ryuurouden: Chuugen Ryouranhen, Urusei Yatsura


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Music in the News news
Schulich School of Music students in the band SHYRE were interviewed this morning on Global TV
Read story on Global Montreal. Web link - http://bit.ly/1AUkjjW
Musicology professor Lloyd Whitesell's course Music and Queer Identity in Montreal Gazette's 'Cool Courses'.
From Elton John to Tchaikovsky, Lloyd Whitesell's course examines the role that stigmatization plays in musical creation and explores the taboos in classical music. WEBLINK: http://bit.ly/1pz4882
Schulich's newest voice professor, Soprano Dominique Labelle received a glowing review in the New York Times
Praised in this review for her deeply hued, heady and potent voice for her role as Medea in Handel's opera Teseo, Professor Dominique Labelle begins teaching at Schulich this fall.
Chris Kusuhara a prize winner at this weekend's 44th annual National Music Awards
Pianist Chris Kusuhara, a student of Kyoko Hashimoto has been awarded Second Prize and the Special Award at the National Music Festival held in Kelowna, B.C. In 2013 he received a Developing Artist Grant from the Hnatyshyn Foundation. WEB LINK: http://www.fcmf.org http://www.rjhf.com/html/darecipients-e.html
Alum Chris Howard promoted to Distinguished Analyst at Gartner
Chris Howard has worked as a research analyst for Gartner since 2005, studying technology trends. Earlier in 2014, he was promoted to VP Distinguished Analyst, and continues to provide thought leadership on emerging tech and business trends. His travels take him around the world, and he is in demand as a keynote speaker for major events. When home with his wife Anne and 5 dogs, Chris still plays and composes in his studio and on his 1954 Mason and Hamlin A.
Professor Richard King: Portrait of a Montreal Master (article in French from La Presse)
Dans l'ombre des grands musiciens Âge: 48 ans Emploi: Professeur agrégé, École de musique Schulich de l'Université McGill Spécialité: Enregistrement sonore Distinctions: Gagnant de 12 prix Grammy, il est le seul ingénieur de son à avoir récolté des statuettes autant pour la musique classique (11) que non classique (1). Ses étudiants l'ont aussi élu professeur de l'année en 2013.
Schulich School of Music Composition alumni and students awarded numerous prizes in the 2014 SOCAN Foundations Awards to Young Composers.
With a total of seven prizes at the SOCAN Foundations Awards to Young Composers, the Schulich School of Music Composition Area has performed remarkably. Four out five of the 2014 SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers have been awarded to current or former Schulich Students, and prize winners in the Sir Ernest MacMillan awards Category consist exclusively of former Schulich Students. Congratulations to all recipients and their respective professors.
Peter Schubert and Massimiliano Guido present "Unpacking the box", a series of videos about Frescobaldi's Ricercari of 1615
A new approach to music theory education. Three videos illustrate the master apprentice method of teaching the art of counterpoint with all transpositions and shortenings of cadential passages. The videos, filmed at the Schulich School of Music, feature a spectacular four octave Italian harpsichord that is part of the Kenneth Gilbert Harpsichord Collection.
OBOE SECRETS, a new book release by Associate Professor Jacqueline Leclair, was favourably reviewed in the International Double Reed Journal.
In Oboe Secrets: 75 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Oboist and English Horn Player, Jacqueline Leclair tackles the oboe's reputation as an especially difficult instrument and illustrates how oboists and English horn players can overcome common challenges. Leclair draws on her experience as a performer and instructor, offering practical tips and sometimes revolutionary ideas for rethinking oboe pedagogy. Leclair also looks at performance strategies in the areas of equipment maintenance and management, physical health, and performance technique.
Vanessa Blais-Tremblay, PhD student in Musicology and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies has won the SOCAN 2014 Writings on Canadian Music.
Vanessa Blais-Tremblay is the recipient of a 2014 SOCAN Foundation/CUMS Award for Writings on Canadian Music for her paper entitled: "Don't Pocohontas Me: Modernity and Transnational Politics in Tanya Tagaq's Throat Games with Concert Stage String Ensembles."
McGill music theorists prominently featured in journal
The newest issue of Music Theory Online, one of the top-ranked music theory journals and one of the only open-access journals in music theory, features three different articles by McGill researchers: an exploration of meter in rock music (by Nicole Biamonte, associate professor of music theory), a teaching demonstration on cadences, counterpoint and improvisation in 17th-century Italian music theory and practice (by Peter Schubert, professor of music theory, and Massimilano Guido, postdoctoral student in music theory), and an exploration of the derivation and expressive possibilities of the
Doctoral student Jonathan Vromet named candidate in the Canadian International Organ Competition.
See Press Release
Chair of Music Performance Stéphane Lemelin releases 2-CD set of Fauré's complete Nocturnes and Barcarolles
'The Whole Note' praises Lemelin for his interpretive expressiveness, and technical prowess for his recent release on the Atma label of Fauré's complete Nocturnes and Barcarolles. Web Link: http://bit.ly/1juDeKS
Congratulations to this year's winners of the Dean's Essay and Graduate Sound Recording Prizes.
First Prize – Jason Noble, Ph.D. Composition
The Schulich School of Music announces the appointment of Soprano Dominique Labelle to the Voice Faculty effective August 1st 2014
With a career that includes numerous appearances on stages in Europe, Asia and North America, Dominique Labelle's return to Québec as voice professor at Schulich is both a joyous homecoming and marks the turn of a page. Ms. Labelle has consistently received great acclaim for her performances and has made numerous recordings of opera and concert repertoire. She can be heard on record labels including Virgin Veritas, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Denon, New World, RCA Victor Red Seal and more.


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Many individuals don't know how to control their anger, they try and use their anger to hurt others, which is one way they misguide their anger. Daily meditation can help control misguided anger by meditating for about 10 minutes every morning. Meditation requires deep breathing exercises, relaxing body muscles, throwing negative thoughts out of the mind, putting righteous thoughts into the mind, being in the moment with yourself and the Heavenly Father.
A person that's often angry about something is usually a foolish person.
Bible meditation is the best meditation when you focus on visualizing yourself as a better person and acting on it. It will take time for change to gradually occur, and it will, your spirit will be happy that you changed for the better.
When you operate in anger you will also experience fear, depression, anxiety, trouble sleeping, broken relationships, and potential health problems. Along with meditating you can quote Bible verses and visual- affirmations to help you gradually come out of the mind-set of anger.
Bible meditation verses for anger control
Complaining - Do all things without complaining and disputing. Philippians 2:14
New man - But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him. Colossians 3:8-10
Avoid doing evil - See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all. Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things: hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil. 1 Thessalonians 5:15-22
Anger - He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding. Proverbs 14:29
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Permanent URL to this publication: http://dx.doi.org/10.5167/uzh-35929
Amirpur, Katajun (2010). Wider die "absolute Führungsbefugnis des Rechtsgelehrten" (velāyat-e moṭlaq-e faqīh): Zur Rolle und Kritik des Ḥosein 'Alī Montaẓerī. Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques, 64(3):475-515.
The Grand Ayatollah Ḥosein 'Alī Montaẓerī's death in December 2009 led to the biggest protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran's regime since those following the June 2009 elections, which also had sparked off massive uprisings. Much lamented, Montaẓerī (1922–2009) once was designated as successor by Khomeini himself, but fell from grace subsequently. This essay aims to discuss the part he played in Iran's history of the last 25 years. In addition, this essay focuses on his alternative reading of velāyat-e faqīh. It will be discussed whether Montaẓerī's autonomous interpretation is new to his thought, and whether it has always (or at least for a long time) been independent of today's official understanding of velāyat-e faqīh. The implications of Montaẓerī's reading are also discussed, as well as the question whether Montaẓerī succeeded in uniting velāyat-e faqīh with the principle of sovereignty of the people in a comprehensible way.
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The Diving Ducks Band was once "the best kept secret" on the Southern New England blues circuit. Now they are the blues band of choice. They don't sound like any other blues band because they don't want to sound like any other blues band.
Their style is high energy blues with rock overtones including tunes from Kim Wilson and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The J Geils Band, Eric Clapton and the blues greats of the past and present.
The Band is named for a famous blues line in the song entitled. "Diving Duck Blues: "If the river were filled with whiskey, I'd be a diving duck, I would dive to bottom and drink my way up."
Examiner spoke with guitarist Paul Thomas to find out more on this band.
Examiner: Can you tell us about the members of the band and how you came together?
Thomas: "I was friends with Kevin Doyle, our bass player ever since we were in our teens. We had lost touch over the years so one day in the late 1990's I decided to look Doyle up. It was then that we decided to have a jam session. The first song that we played was a blues standard entitled, "Diving Duck Blues." We decided that night that we would become a band and that would be the name of our band.
We basically laid the ground work for a hot blues sound. I've definitely sold my soul to the blues and always play a show like it's the very first time. "Reverend" Tom Shaheen plays blues harp and is our lead vocalist. He toured with the Hellhounds Blues Band and the Muddy Wolfe Blues Band. The outstanding drum work of Fred Larson III rounds out the band nicely. Larson is also currently working with So Many Rhodes, a Tribute to the Grateful Dead and previously worked with the Maynard Silva Band and The Senders in the 1980's."
Examiner: Do you play any original material or have any videos?
Thomas: "No, we play covers and all that we play, we tend to put our own signature on to make it our own as well as rearrange them. The Ducks do covers with a set list that includes tunes from Kim Wilson and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The J. Geils Band, Eric Clapton and the blues greats of the past and present. We don't need original material because the blues isn't songs, it's all about feelings. There's so much excellent material waiting to be interpreted our way so we won't start doing originals until we've covered all of them. That should be in about 500 years give or take. You Tube has many of our videos or you can go to the band website at: www.divingducksbluesband.com."
Examiner: What's your biggest wow moment in this business?
Thomas: "Our biggest wow moment is always the last gig. Every gig is wow, as in take nothing for granted. We are blessed to play and all the band members feel like brothers, not just a bunch of guys out to play a gig, that's what makes a duck a duck. Individually we've all had Wow moments but as a band I think opening for James Montgomery was a Wow.
Meeting Muddy Waters and James Cotton back stage at a gig was also a special moment for Rev. Tom when he was with `The Fabulous Hellhounds Blues Band."
Examiner: What are your upcoming dates?
Thomas: "We have dates scheduled through May which you'll find on our website if you can't make any of these shows. We play regularly in Massachusetts and Rhode Island."
Friday, March 7, 2014, Murphy's Law, 2 George Street, Pawtucket, Rhode Island


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URGENT APPEAL from Mukhtar Mai Women's Welfare Organization
Mukhtar Mai and her colleagues face intense harassment and false accusations of stolen electricity
Summary: On June 11, 2009, representatives from Multan Electric Power Company (MEPCO) stormed the headquarters offices of Mukhtar Mai Womens Welfare Organization (MMWWO) in Meerwala, Tehsil Jatoi district Muzafargarh and accused the organization of stealing electricity. All electrical connections to the organization have been disconnected without any notice and cases were registered at Jatoi Police Station against Mukhtar Mai Girls Model School, Womens Resource Centre and the Shelter Home.
This is a completely false accusation. MMWWO has the requisite documentation showing that all the electric bills are paid in full and to date. The organization is currently surviving without electricity with temperatures in Meerwala ranging between 40 to 45 degrees Celsius (104113 degrees Fahrenheit).
MMWWO believes that this harassment and security incident was conducted at the behest of the Federal Minister for Defence Production Mr. Abdul Qayyum Jatoi.
Mukhtar Mai and MMWWO request your immediate intervention to get electricity restored to the organization, independently investigate the incident and remove Federal Minister Mr. Abdul Qayyum Jatoi from his position within the government.
Please read the document below with details of the incident and information on how you can make your interventions. May I request you to please consider it highly urgent.
Thank you very much for your attention and support.
Yours sincerely,
Samson Salamat
Program Manager
Details of the Incident:
A team of at least eight members led by Mr. Mehar Masood, Line Superintendent at MEPCO executed this operation. The team breached the security check post and entered into the Mukhtar Mai Girls Model School, Resource Center and Shelter Home and cut off all the electricity connections. When they entered the Shelter Home (male entry is restricted in the womens shelter home), Mr. Mehar said they are from MEPCO and do not need permission from anyone because they have been ordered by Minister Jatoi and his senior Rana Ayub to conduct this operation. The men in the team went one by one in the rooms of female shelter residents, breaching all privacy and security protocols of the organization.
It was clearly a well planned operation and those involved knew that the management of MMWWO (President, Managing Director and Program Manager) was away from Meerwala for the hearing of Mukhtar Mais case at the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Upon the intervention of MMWWO staff, the MEPCO team left the organizations property. However, on their way out, they cut off the main electric supply line of the whole area depriving hundreds of families of electricity. MEPCO registered cases at the Jatoi police station against Mukhtar Mai Girls Model School, Shelter Home and Resource Centre including the staff of the organization under section 39-A electricity Act and 39/186-A electricity act.
The incident was immediately reported in the print and electronic media against Mukhtar Mai and the organization as it appeared MEPCO had a journalist with them during the raid.
MMWWO has registered two complaints against the incident but no action has been taken till this report. First application was submitted to the office of District Police Office on June 12, 2009, while the other at Jatoi police station on June 15, 2009.
A police post has been designated by the government for the security Mukhtar Mai and her associates. However, during this raid the police did not take any action and allowed the MEPCO team to enter onto the organizations property and buildings. Because of this, the organization is gravely concerned about the security of Mukhtar Mai herself, MMWWO staff and others in Meerwala.
It is clear to MMWWO that this is further harassment at the behest of Mr. Abdul Qayyum Jatoi, Federal Minister for Defence Production and his associates, who have been intimidating Mukhtar Mai and her colleagues in the past through different ways. A complete chronology of events and further harassment is detailed at the end of this document.
Action Requested:
You are humbly requested to please respond to our appeal and send written interventions to the authorities in Pakistan urging them to:
• Order MEPCO to immediately restore all electric power to MMWWO. An independent investigation of the accusations of MMWWO stealing electric power should be conducted, taking into account the clear documentation provided by MMWWO that all bills have been paid in full and up to date.
• Remove Mr. Abdul Qayyum Jatoi from his office as Minister for Defence Production for his continuous involvement in intimidating Mukhtar Mai and her colleagues and political interference in her case before the Supreme Court.
• The police must register cases against the Rana Ayub (Xian) and Mr. Maher Masood (Line Superintendent) and their accomplices for harassing MMWWO staff and the women in the shelter home.
• A high level inquiry should be conducted by the Ministry of Interior to assess the security lapses in Meerwala and develop an improved security system and plan for the safety and security of the Mukhtar Mai, her family and colleagues because the threat has increased significantly. The police officials should be directed to ensure that the security system is being implemented.
Please send your written interventions to the following:
His Excellency
Mr. Asif Ali Zardari
President of Pakistan
President's Avenue
Phone: +92-51-9206069, +92-51-9222666
Mr. Rehman Malik
Advisor / Minister for Interior
R Block, Pak Secretariat
Islamabad (Pakistan)
Email Address: email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
Tele : +92-51-9212026
Fax: +92-51- 9202624
Mr. Raja Pervez Ashraf
Minister for Water and Power
A Block, Pak Sectt. Islamabad.
Tel: 92-51-9212442
Fax: 92-51-9224825
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Background information on Mukhtar Mai and previous harassment incidents:
In 2002, Mukhtar Mai of Meerwala village, Tehsil Jatoi, District Muzafargarh in the South Punjab Region of Pakistan was gang-raped on the order of a council of elders (panchayat) as punishment for her 12-year-old brothers alleged affair with a woman of a higher clan Mastoi.
The accused were apprehended due to public pressure from the local civil society organizations and the international community. Mukhtar Mais case was tried in the local Anti-Terrorist Court against thirteen defendants who were involved in pronouncing the verdict of the panchayat or gang raped Mukhtar. The Anti-Terrorist Court gave death sentences to six accused while seven others were released.
In March 2005, the Lahore High Court released six on appeal and the death sentence of one of the accused was changed into life imprisonment. However, due to public pressure, the accused were placed under house arrest by the authorities under Provision of the Maintenance of Public Order.
After the High Courts verdict, the Supreme Courts Chief Justice Mr. Mohammed Ifftikhar Chaudhary took a Suo Moto action and suspended the decision of the lower court. Mukhtar Mais appeal was accepted by the Supreme Court and the Court ordered the re-arrest of all the accused. Thirteen defendants are currently in jail, including the leader of the Mastoi tribe Mr. Faiz Mastoi, who headed the panchayat. Mukhtar Mais case is still pending in the Supreme Court.
Chronology - Jatois opposition to Mukhtar:
• In 2002, when Mukhtar was brutally gang raped on the orders of the influential local council, the powerful Jatoi family influenced the police authorities to technically weaken the case and favor the accused.
• Federal Minister Mr. Abdul Qayyum Jatoi visited Meerwala in 2006 when he was district Nazim and asked Mukhtar to compromise with the accused.
•In December 2008 Federal Minister Mr. Abdul Qayyum Jatoi attempted to pressure Mukhtar Mai to drop the charges against the thirteen accused of the Mastoi tribe who were involved either in the verdict against Mukhtar or gang raped her. The Minister said that if she does not comply, he and his associates will not let the Supreme Courts decision go in favour of Mukhtar.
• An organized media trial began against Mukhtar. On February 13, 2009 Minister Jatois associate and co-parliamentarian Mr. Jamshaid Dasti (MNA Constituency NA 178, Muzafargarh) held a Press Conference saying that Mukhtar Mais case against the perpetrators is a totally fraud and the perpetrators are innocent. The struggle of Mukhtar Mai for the violence against women was termed as a western agenda.


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Island Haven
Harlequin Superromance
July 2012
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Mercedes Stone has no time for men. Between caring for her sick grandmother, running her own business and volunteering at her family's women's shelter she barely has time for herself. So dating a man as complicated as Scott Pataki is definitely out of the question.
That doesn't mean she'll turn her back on Scott's pregnant teenage sister. Even if helping her does put Mercedes dangerously close to the temptation that is Scott. It's not just the killer abs and dimples that make him so irresistible. It's the man she sees when his guard is down. If only she could help him realize the importance of family. And remind herself that his family doesn't include her.
"Author Amy Knupp has captured this reader's heart with her emotional and heartfelt novels. Her characters make you feel like a close friend and her small-town charming cast makes the reader want to visit. You won't go wrong if you read Island Haven. I am certain you will want to read more from this outstanding author."
--Cataromance, 4 stars
"Nicely drawn characters placed into realistic situations make for a refreshing read, as Scott's inability to commit and Mercedes' insecurity both ring true."
--Alexandra Kay, RT Book Reviews, 4 stars
Scott knew who was at the door before he answered it. And yet he opened it anyway. "You get an A+ for persistence."
"We brought lunch." Mercedes held out a large paper sack that smelled of Mexican food and said Ruiz's on the side.
Food wasn't going to sway him. He was about to tell them that when Mercedes pushed past him into the living room.
"Mind if we invade your kitchen?" She was too cheerful as she stood distractingly close.
"Yes. I do." The kitchen wasn't fit for any visitor, let alone this woman who, he would bet, groomed her kitchen as well as she groomed herself. Say whatever else you wanted to about her, but she did make herself pretty and smelled nice to boot. Like...springtime. He couldn't say what that meant, exactly, except the scent took him back years, to a time when life was easier. Lighter. He scowled at the thought.
"Here's fine, then." Mercedes shared a conspiratorial look with the teenager and helped herself to the couch and coffee table.
She must have found her stubborn, pushy mojo overnight. Wasn't he lucky?
She'd dressed casual today, wearing short jean shorts and a white tank with the women's shelter logo on it instead of the preppy tailored clothes she'd had on yesterday. She was average height with nicer-than-average curves he couldn't help noticing in spite of himself. Her dark wavy hair was everywhere, though she'd tried to control it by pulling the front parts back in a clip. Her calculating smile at Gemma highlighted prominent cheekbones and drew his attention to her glossy lips.
If she wasn't so bent on steamrolling him about being this girl's knight in shining armor, he might have given thought to getting to know her on a more personal level. Short-term, of course.
"We got a baker's dozen plus chips and salsa. There's plenty for you," she said.
"I'm not hungry," he lied. "But don't let that stop you."
They missed the sarcasm completely...or didn't care that they weren't welcome. Gemma, lacking the awful eye make-up today, curled up on the near end of the couch, tucking her feet under her, and Mercedes bent over the bag to unload it, giving him a shot of cleavage she hadn't been sporting the day before. When she straightened and held out some food to him, she caught him getting an eyeful. She quickly darted her glance away, looking slightly disconcerted. Nervous.
"I'm starving." Gemma tossed a piece of fish that had fallen out of her tortilla into her mouth. "So." She leaned forward, chewing then licking sauce off her finger. "About your spare bedroom..."
"I never said I have a spare bedroom."
"Do you?" Gemma asked.
He had to admit a little admiration for her guts and directness. He leaned against the wall, realizing these two had every intention of drawing things out. "Yes."
"I can give you two hundred dollars if you let me stay here till you leave. Plus I'll clean. You're going to need that before you move out." She shot a concerned look around her as she raised her food to take another bite.
"Where'd you get two hundred dollars?" he asked.
"I brought it with me."
"And yet you took my money for a bus ticket?"
"I gave it back."
He couldn't argue with that. "I thought Mercedes had come to your rescue."
Mercedes became absorbed in dipping a chip in salsa.
"That's not going to work out," Gemma said.
"She's allergic to my cats," Mercedes said as if she felt guilty. "Poor girl ended up sleeping outside on one of the loungers for half the night."
"I've slept in much worse places, trust me." Gemma brushed her shoulder-length hair behind her ear, a dangly bracelet jingling with the movement.
Both women watched him expectantly. He could feel their gazes burning into him.
What was his hang-up, really? What did he care who slept in the other room, as long as they didn't bug him? The rent money couldn't hurt. And yet...this wasn't someone off the streets with no ties to him.
"You're a minor," he said stubbornly.
"Technicality. I'll be eighteen soon. The first of August. I'm going to be a mom, Scott. I can take care of myself."
Scott pushed himself off the wall in disbelief. "Are you planning to keep this baby?"
Gemma returned his stare with a stubborn one of her own. "I am. Yes."
"Gemma needs a place to stay temporarily," Mercedes said in a rush, as if she sensed he was about to voice what a stupid idea keeping a baby was for a seventeen year old. "While she looks for a job. Gets her future figured out. The baby is a few months down the road. You'll be long gone."
"I'm not a babysitter. For a baby or a teenager."
"We're not asking you to be." Mercedes had stopped eating after one taco. "She's been on her own for years for all intents. Gemma doesn't need you to take care of her."
Something about the way Mercedes looked at him said they expected too much of him. Hell, expecting anything of him was too much. They had no clue how just being in the same room with this girl, this part of his dad's other family, ripped him up inside.
Scott took a long look at Gemma, defiantly ignoring Mercedes' stare. He was still boggled by how similar Gemma's eyes were to his father's. The narrowness, the oval shape. The light hazel color. He dropped his gaze to her nose and lips. The nose was nothing like his father's delicate and thin where his overwhelmed his face. And the lips...her upper one was fuller than the lower and had a distinctive bow to it. Not a single hint of Dale in her mouth and Scott found himself fixated on that fact. Wondering for the first time about the woman who had lured his dad away from his happy family. Were these that woman's lips, her nose? Was it the dip at the top of her mouth that had caught his father's attention? Some other physical characteristic?
Scott stormed into the kitchen without a word. He leaned over the dirty dish-filled sink, arms propped on the counter, and worked to get the anger under control. Damn, he hated feeling like this. Seemed like he spent more time worked up than not anymore.
It took him several seconds to focus on breathing evenly before he realized he wasn't alone. He straightened quickly and turned the faucet on without a glance at the doorway. Pulled the last clean glass down from the cabinet and filled it with water. When he'd downed the full glass, he set it on the counter and finally looked.
Mercedes, of course.
Mercedes had frozen as soon as she'd hit the kitchen and seen Scott leaning on the sink looking...vulnerable. Not so tough. She didn't want to sympathize with him for any reason but that glimpse of a different side of him had caught her off guard.
"Where are my manners?" Scott said sarcastically. "I forgot to offer you a drink."
She eyed the bottle of whiskey he'd left, uncapped, on the counter. It was more than half gone and she wondered just how long it'd taken him to work through that much hard liquor.
"I had water in mind," he said, "but I can pour you a shot or even a full glass if you want."
She opened her mouth to respond then bit down on it, reminding herself he was going out of his way to irritate her. Any trace of sympathy she'd experienced not two minutes ago was long gone. "I'm fine but Gemma needs to drink a lot."
"Thought you said she doesn't need anyone to take care of her."
The anger underlining his words was subtle but very much there. Something had set him off in the living room. She had no idea what. It certainly wasn't going to deter her.
"She's got a lot on her mind, if you hadn't noticed."
"Don't we all." He walked over to the refrigerator and took out a mini can of vegetable juice. He tossed it to Mercedes and she managed to catch it with both hands. "Give her that. You've decided I'm the scum of the earth, haven't you?"
"You've worked hard to make me believe that," she said, walking closer to him. "I'm not sure I understand why."
"Here's what you don't understand. The reason I'm not lining up to be best friends or even roomies with that girl in there..." He braced one hand on the counter and narrowed his eyes. Eyes full of something more than just anger. "I have a problem with the fact that my dad fathered her while he was married, theoretically happily, to my mother. I can't so much as look at her without all of...that coming back."
He turned away, seeming to regret revealing that little bit.
"I'm sorry, Scott," she said gently as she tried to imagine what that discovery must have done to him. "How old were you when you found out?"
"Does it matter?" he snapped.
"I guess not," she conceded. "It'd pretty much suck at any age."
He met her gaze again, sizing up her sincerity. "It's ancient history."
She studied him closely, realizing there was more to him than his gruff, irritable surface. Layers more. "Maybe not so ancient to you?" she asked.
In response, he reached around her and scooted the whiskey bottle closer. He stiffened when she touched his forearm.
"Gemma's a victim just as much as you are, you know. She had no control over...anything. Your dad hurt her, too. She hasn't heard from him in more than three years."
His jaw tightened as he considered that. Seconds passed. A minute and more. She was about to turn and leave him alone when he moved. He held out his hand and nodded toward the veggie juice. Mercedes handed it back to him, expecting him to blow up and yell at them to leave.
Scott stared blankly at the can for a few moments, then walked past her, into the living room.
Curious, Mercedes leaned against the doorjamb between the two rooms and watched as Scott sat down next to Gemma, who was still shoveling food in her mouth as if unsure when she'd get to eat again, and handed the juice to her.
"Thanks, I think," Gemma said, sounding surprised. She took the can and read the label. "Is this stuff really drinkable?"
"It's healthy for the baby."
Looking unsure, she popped the top open. Smelled it, frowned and took a sip. She didn't bother to hide a shudder, making Mercedes stifle a grin. "That crap is vile."
"Maybe it's not for everyone," Scott said, leaning forward to rest his forearms on his thighs. "Cleaning this place is a big task."
Gemma watched him, the look on her face mirroring Mercedes' curiosity.
"I've seen worse," Gemma said carefully.
"You've got a month," Scott said, not looking at his half-sister. "Keep the place clean for me and hold on to your money."
"You've got a deal."
The teen played it cool, but Mercedes could see her eyes spark with relief from here.
A full month. They could work with that. Gemma could get a job and start searching for a place to stay more permanently. Begin figuring out how to provide for her baby.
"I'm not agreeing to be your babysitter or your friend," Scott said, scowling to offset Gemma's grin. "I'm not home much."
He addressed Mercedes. "I work twenty-four hour shifts. She'll be alone a lot."
"I'll be around to help her." Mercedes pushed off the doorjamb and walked to the coffee table. "I'm not going to desert her."
"You stay out of my business and I'll stay out of yours," Scott said, turning back to Gemma.
"Where's my room?"
He leaned back, defeated in his quest to scare her away. "The room on the right of the hall."
Gemma tried to keep her poise as she passed Mercedes.
As soon as Gemma was gone, Mercedes lowered herself to the edge of the couch, keeping a good distance between herself and Scott. "Thank you," she said, fiddling with a silver band on her little finger. "I take back all the nasty thoughts I had about you."
Scott opened his mouth to say something and stopped. Looked sideways at her in surprise. Then he actually smiled.
The guy had killer dimples.
Mercedes had a thing for dimples.
Luckily, his grin slipped away before she could blink and he said, "I'm going to regret this."
It wasn't hard to remember why dimples weren't everything.
Excerpt 2* (which happens much later than Excerpt 1)
He opened his eyes at the same time the porch door flew open. Mercedes rushed into his line of vision and stood at the edge of the pool, hands on her hips, rain pelting her. She raised one hand, palm up, as if to question what in the world he was doing. Or maybe when he'd lost his mind. He didn't respond.
She looked toward the house, then turned back toward him and stared for another three seconds. Then she crossed the ten feet or so to the patio table, took her phone and his keys out of her pockets, stuck them under the table out of the rain. When she straightened, she peeled her now-wet jeans down her legs, folded them in quarters and placed them on top of her phone. The alternate-reality feel of the moment intensified as, her back still to him, she unbuttoned her shirt, slid it off and threw it on top of the pile.
The image of her when she finally faced him was burned into his memory permanently. The curves of her breasts were partially covered by ivory and black lace. Her body narrowed at her waist, then curved out again into sexy, feminine hips. Skimpily cut panties matched her bra. Her breasts rose with her arms as she unclasped whatever was securing her hair and let her long mane come cascading down over her shoulders.
An hour ago, he'd felt dead but now his body had a faint glimmer of life. Very faint. That said a lot about how messed up in the head he was because that body of hers warranted full-out flames.
Mercedes walked to the side of the pool and jumped in without hesitation. Perfect time to close his eyes and shut out the world again. Prevent her questions or at least postpone them.
She let him get away with it. He felt her swimming around him, skimming along the bottom beneath him, pausing at the side of the pool to rest.
As the rain slowed to a sprinkle, he started to come out of the numbness he'd managed to attain by swimming. He took in a slow, deep breath and pushed himself to the bottom of the pool, letting the silence and the isolation wash over him. He sat there until his lungs were empty, then pushed off to the surface.
Mercedes was at the edge of the pool, her elbows hitched on the concrete deck, her back to him. Steeling himself, he joined her, standing on the ledge that ran around the perimeter about four feet down. She glanced at him but didn't say anything. They rested there for several minutes watching the raindrops splatter in the puddles. Scott continued to fight off images of Elliot Gilbert.
"It was a peanut," he said eventually.
Mercedes turned her attention to him expectantly.
"Smaller than my little fingernail. One chocolate-covered peanut that the little guy didn't even like." His voice was rough, raw. "An undiagnosed peanut allergy." He heard Mercedes suck in air and expel it loudly.
"I asked what he'd eaten when we arrived on the scene. All his mom could tell me in her hysterical state was that he'd had chocolate. No known food allergies. It wasn't until later, much later, that they figured out the culprit."
He closed his eyes, tried to let the sound of the gentle rain soothe him but there was no comfort.
"Not that it mattered what it was. Knowing that wouldn't have changed anything Rafe and I did. It wouldn't have reversed the outcome."
Mercedes moved her arm toward him and touched his. Squeezed his upper arm and didn't take her hand away. For some reason, that little gesture gave him the strength to continue.
"Brad was on duty, too. Any other time, he would've been there on the call with us, but by random bad luck, the engine had another call at the same time we did. He wasn't there when his boy..."
The lump in his throat pulsed painfully and he fought the emotion threatening to drown him.
"That's terrible, Scott. I'm so sorry."
"I don't know how I'll ever look Brad in the face."
"He of all people should understand. He faces the same kinds of things himself, right?"
Scott didn't answer. There was no "same kinds of things" for losing your child. He couldn't really begin to imagine what Brad and his wife were going through right now, although hearing them from the hallway in the minutes after the doctor had called the boy's death gave him a sample of the soul-deep pain.
"I don't know how you do the job you do," Mercedes said quietly. "You guys are heroes, Scott. Think about the lives you save."
Greg Wolf, the newlywed and father-to-be, came to mind but Scott pushed him away. No life they'd managed to rescue canceled out the one they hadn't saved last night.
"Nineteen more days," he said, more to himself than her. "Six more shifts. I don't know if I can do it."
"You have to. You don't want to let that one be your last shift, the one that stays with you."
He considered that. Nodded vaguely. Then his thoughts returned to Elliott. "He was still conscious when we got there," he said hoarsely. "His mom called nine-one-one pretty quickly. I got the IV in on the first try, pushed epinephrine through his little body. Rafe got the oxygen going right away. We might as well have been putting water through him for all the effect it had." He shook his head helplessly.
Scott recited every procedure he and Rafe had done. The results or lack thereof of each. He remembered every detail like some kind of hypersensitive memory had kicked in. Forgetting Mercedes was there, he poured it all out.
"The second ambulance got there as we were loading him in the back. One of the other guys drove our rig to the hospital while Rafe and I kept working on Elliott in the back." He'd actually been kneeling on the gurney, still trying to get a heartbeat, as Rafe wheeled them into the emergency department.
"There was nothing else you could have done," Mercedes said when he stopped talking.
He finally looked at her straight on. "That's what makes it so damn hard to swallow."
Scott pulled himself out of the pool with his arms and sat on the side, his legs dangling in the water. He leaned on his hands behind him and angled his face to the darkening sky. The light sprinkle of rain intensified at that moment and he let the drops wash over him, as if it could cleanse him. The wind had picked up and the rain was now cooler than the water in the pool.
He pulled the night air into his lungs, relishing the crispness of it. As the minutes passed, he began to feel marginally better. Less heavy-hearted. Deep, even breaths became almost therapeutic, as had, apparently, pouring it all out, putting it out to the universe.
Mercedes had been stock still for ages. Now she moved sideways in the pool, so she was directly in front of him. She lifted her arms to his thighs, just above his knees, and braced herself there instead of on the pool wall. Her touch seemed to center him.
Maybe he could get through this night. Maybe, eventually, he could let himself sleep.
The sky was almost entirely dark now and the heavy clouds covered the moon. When he looked down at her, black lace commanded his attention. He could make out the tops of her breasts spilling out of her soaked bra.
He slid back into the pool, slipped his arms around Mercedes to keep her close and allowed himself to let the woman awaken something inside of him besides pain.
Mercedes wound her arms around Scott's neck, as she'd been longing to do ever since she'd found him in his car. He braced his feet on the underwater ledge, knees bent, creating room for her between his legs.
She'd been struggling for the right things to say for the past hour. She reached out with her eyes instead, attempting to convey her concern for him, her empathy for the tragedy he'd been through, without words.
They were so close their breaths mingled. Scott's gaze lowered to her lips and the energy between them heated in a single heartbeat. She inhaled shakily, shallowly, drawn to him. Fighting it. It wasn't the right time....
He moved the final inch, pressing his lips to hers, tightening his arms and kissing her with so much urgency and pent up need she didn't care if it was the right time. Didn't care if she breathed. As long as he didn't stop.
They had to stop.
"Scott," she managed to get out. "No."
It took him several seconds to break the contact, and she had just as hard of a time allowing the cool air to come between them. He didn't loosen his grip on her at all.
"This isn't right. Not now," she whispered. "Not after what you've been through--"
"Shh. Mercedes." His voice was a low, sexy growl that made her shiver. He trailed his knuckles gently along her jaw from her ear to her chin. "Please. I don't want to think anymore."
She managed to look into his eyes for a good second and a half before giving him what he needed, what she wanted. Closing the space between them, she gave into the need that pulsed through her. Tried to kiss his pain away.
Scott held her with both arms, pulling her body flush against his, letting her feel the physical effect she had on him. His tongue demanded entry into her mouth. She matched his desire wholeheartedly, answering the moan that came from deep in his throat with needy sounds of her own.
As he kissed her, he slid his hands lower, ran them over her rear, on top of her underwear. She ached to have him slide them beneath the material, to touch her everywhere. One hand trailed along the back of her thighs to where they met. Dipped between her legs. He gently lifted her legs, one at a time, and hooked them over his so she straddled him. The shift not only made it easier for her to hold on, it fit their bodies together intimately, with nothing but cotton and lace between them.
His fingers inched under her panties and kneaded her bare skin as he continued to devour her mouth with his. He slid his fingers lower, forward, to the most intimate part of her, teased her opening. She angled into his hand, aching for him. Gasped when his finger entered her. Sought more of his heat and friction, throwing her head back and arching toward him.
He kissed her neck, ran his tongue along the length of it. Continued to tease her body with his fingers, withdrawing till she nearly begged, refilling her, sending fire to every nerve ending at her core. Her climax came quickly. Falling, shattering to pieces around him. She tried to catch her breath, curling into his arms. He drew her chin up so he could kiss her again.
Before she could regain any semblance of mental functioning, Scott broke the contact of their lips, angling his head to the side. "Do you hear that?" he whispered into her ear.
"What?" She kissed the side of his neck. "What's wrong?"
"That," he said, increasing the space between them.
It took her several seconds to register what he was talking about, but when she did, she snapped out of her lust-induced trance instantly. "My phone. Gram."
How long had she been out here? What was she thinking, completely forgetting about her grandma?
Scratch that question. She hadn't been thinking at all. Hot shame burned her cheeks and her conscience.
She untangled her body from his and popped out of the pool, jogging around it toward the table. The ringtone stopped just before she uncovered her phone. As soon as she did, the display confirmed what she'd been afraid of.
"I need to go," she said, guilt washing through her and making it impossible to think.
She was in nothing but her underwear and bra. Soaked. And Gram needed her.
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Video: John Christy's stellar testimony – 'The recent anomalous weather can't be blamed on carbon dioxide.'
From The Senate EPW Jim Inhofe Press Office, well worth your time to watch.
Dr. John Christy, Alabama's State Climatologist, Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville testified before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works hearing on global warming and stated:
"During the heat wave of late June and early July, high temperature extremes became newsworthy. Claims that there were thousands of records broken each day and that "this is what global warming looks like" got a lot of attention.
However, these headlines were not based on climate science. As shown in Figure 1.3 of my testimony it is scientifically more accurate to say that this is what Mother Nature looks like, since events even worse than these have happened in the past before greenhouse gases were increasing like they are today.
Now, it gives some people great comfort to offer a quick and easy answer when the weather strays from the average rather than to struggle with the real truth, which is, we don't know enough about the climate to even predict events like this.
A climatologist looking at this heat wave would not be alarmed because the number of daily high temperature records set in the most recent decade was only about half the number set in the 1930s as shown in my written testimony. I suppose most people have forgotten that Oklahoma set a new record low temperature just last year of 31 below. And in the past two years, towns from Alaska to my home state of California established records for snowfall. The recent anomalous weather can't be blamed on carbon dioxide
See also his written testimony here
Australian Climate Commission called to task
The Australian Climate Commission sounded alarm bells about sea level rise in its Critical Decade report which shrilled:
Sea level rise is occurring at close to the worst case scenario, with the biggest rises happening on the southern coast. Rises on the northern coast have been around or just below the global average. The report concludes that a rise of between half a metre and one metre from 1990 levels is likely to happen by 2100, but more is possible.
The reality is quite different with studies reaching the opposite conclusion having just been published. Australian scientist Alberto A. Boretti reports:
The average rate of SLR over the almost 20-year period of satellite radar altimeter observations is 3.1640 mm/year, which if held steady over a century would yield a mean global SLR of 31.64 cm, which is just a little above the low-end projection of the IPCC for the year 2100. However, he also finds that the rate of SLR is reducing over the measurement period at a rate of -0.11637 mm/year2, and that this deceleration is also "reducing" at a rate of -0.078792 mm/year3.
What it means
Boretti writes that the huge deceleration of SLR over the last 10 years "is clearly the opposite of what is being predicted by the models," and that "the SLR's reduction is even more pronounced during the last 5 years." To illustrate the importance of his findings, he notes that "in order for the prediction of a 100-cm increase in sea level by 2100 to be correct, the SLR must be almost 11 mm/year every year for the next 89 years," but he notes that "since the SLR is dropping, the predictions become increasingly unlikely," especially in view of the facts that (1) "not once in the past 20 years has the SLR of 11 mm/year ever been achieved," and that (2) "the average SLR of 3.1640 mm/year is only 20% of the SLR needed for the prediction of a one meter rise to be correct." Read more here and here
Meanwhile Greenland's ice seems less vulnerable than feared to a runaway melt that would drive up world sea levels
An examination of old photos taken from planes revealed a sharp thinning of glaciers in north-west Greenland from 1985 to 1993, the experts in Denmark, Britain and the Netherlands wrote. Another pulse of ice loss in the area lasted from 2005 to 2010. The discovery of fluctuations casts doubt on projections that Greenland could be headed for an unstoppable meltdown, triggered by manmade global warming. Greenland contains enough ice to raise sea levels by 7 metres (23 ft) if it all thawed. "It starts and then it stops," Kjaer told Reuters of the ice losses. "This is a break from thinking that it is something that starts, accelerates and will consume Greenland all at once." However, Kjaer noted that the ice sheet did not get bigger in the pause between the pulses of ice loss. He said satellite data of Greenland's ice only dated back to about 2000 and the use of aerial photos had extended the records of the remote Arctic region back another 15 years. The cause of the surge in ice loss in the 1980s was unclear but might have been linked to a shift in ocean currents. The underlying cause of a change in currents was unknown. "It is too early to proclaim the 'ice sheet's future doom'" caused by climate change, lead author Kurt Kjaer of the University of Copenhagen wrote in a statement of the findings in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
Read more here
What we really need is more strategies like Meatless Mondays to save the planet now…


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The house was built in the early 1900's for a young bride and her husband, by her mother Lucy, whose family emigrated from England in the 1800's. The two bedroom dwelling was the foundation and the beginning of many dreams and hopes for this young family.
Abandoned for many years, the house still has a romantic (dream) charm. It is this magic that brings about stories and questions of the people who lived here. If only these walls could talk, what would they say and what would we learn about this extraordinary lifetime.
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BOI Governor Fischer addresses the Herzliya Conference
In my view, the Israeli economy is a sort of miracle, and we have very talented people.
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The Governor of the Bank of Israel Stanley Fischer spoke (1 February 2012) at the
Herzliya Conference
. The following is a summary of his remarks.
In opening, I would like to speak about the state of the global economy... Global growth is expected to be 3.3 percent, [when] a global growth rate of 3.5 percent as the boundary between recession and normal growth... European countries have realized that there is no certainty regarding expected events in the case of the departure, voluntary or forced, of a country or countries from the euro bloc, and so they have bolstered their efforts to find a solution to the eurozone problem. As a result, and as a result of efforts by the ECB and the monetary tools it is using, the probability of a crisis in the eurozone has decreased.
However, despite the uncertainty regarding how a crisis would come about, if it does come about, it is clear to us that in Israel it will be characterized by a sharp negative impact on exports. In that regard, I was pleased to hear the Director General of the Ministry of Industry, Labor and Trade, who reported progress in the signing of trade agreements with emerging markets. With that, the decline in exports can already be seen.
The Bank of Israel has begun to respond through monetary policy, and reduced the interest rate three times in recent months. We are struggling to assess what will happen in Europe, and so we cannot speak of a clear path for the interest rate. In any case, we have begun to reach decisions in the framework of the new Monetary Committee, and to date the experience has been excellent and the level of discussion has improved greatly. Professor Rafi Melnick, a member of the Monetary Committee, mentioned that financial markets are prepared to accept the fact that the deficit increased in the framework of the operation of automatic stabilizers. I agree with him, and I am sure that markets will not welcome an extraordinary increase in the deficit, such as, for example, in the framework of conducting election economics. In any case, I praise my colleagues at the Ministry of Finance on the manner in which they scrupulously maintain the fiscal framework.
There is no doubt that we must increase the capital adequacy ratio in the banking system, and we are aware of the problem that will be caused if we impose limitations on banks which will make it difficult to extend credit, and we take it into consideration.
In the housing market, we see some calm, and I was pleased to hear forecasts here of prices continuing to decline, though moderately.
Looking at short terms variables, then, we have a strong, flexible, and steadfast economy. Since I became governor of the Bank of Israel, the economy has experienced very significant stress tests, and was nearly unscathed. The economic policy framework is strong, and people in Israel have a lot of experience in dealing with tough problems, experience which helps in dealing with problems when they arise. If there will be a financial crisis in Europe, it will have a negative impact on us, but I believe that we will be able to deal with it.
From the perspective of long term variables, we are dealing with tough problems in the area of the increase in the scope of poverty. Figures show, not surprisingly, that poverty is prevalent among large families, with the probability of poverty being greater if two parents are not working, and that poverty declines with an increase in education. Figures also indicate very large - and growing - prevalence of poverty among the Arab and ultra-Orthodox populations.
Poverty among those populations is considerable because of the low rate of participation in the workforce by those populations, and I believe that that this situation is not sustainable. The situation is especially worrying when looking at demographic trends: the rate of increase of the Arab and ultra-Orthodox populations is much higher than the Jewish, non-ultra-Orthodox, population, and the share of these populations in the general population is increasing. Among Arabs, we see some decline in the rate of growth of the population, but among ultra-Orthodox it is actually the opposite.
I would like to point out that a continued increase in the share of the population which does not participate in the workforce cannot continue forever, and so will have to stop. We see positive trends - we see, for example, a change among the ultra-Orthodox, which can be seen in the fact that today there already are 6,000 ultra-Orthodox students in colleges. In the Arab sector, there is a trend of establishing independent businesses, even without government aid.
In the long term, we obviously must deal with the problem of the Israeli-Arab conflict, and the need to reach a peace agreement. In my view, the Israeli economy is a sort of miracle, and we have very talented people. If we succeed in resolving the problems of relations with our neighbors too, we will be able to achieve the growth, prosperity, and standard of living which we deserve.
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A workout injury can happen to anyone, no matter your experience or fitness level. Even walking can cause an injury.
But you can significantly cut your risk of getting hurt by following certain workout precautions.
Common Workout Injuries
People hurt themselves in all kinds of ways when they work out. Common workout injuries include:
- Muscle pull and strain
- Sprained ankle
- Shoulder injury
- Knee injuries
- Shin splint
- Tendinitis
- Wrist sprain or dislocation
Preventing Workout Injuries
There are simple steps that can help keep you injury-free during your workout.
But first, pay attention to this general rule. If you're a woman over age 55, check with your health care professional before you start an exercise program. Then you'll be sure you're healthy enough for working out. The same applies to a man over age 45 or a person with any medical condition.
Here are guidelines for avoiding injuries during your workout:
Warm-up and cool-down. Every workout should begin with a warm-up and end with a cool-down period. A warm-up helps your body get ready for exercise. It gradually increases your heart rate and loosens your muscles and joints. Some ways to warm up:
- Ride an exercise bike
- Jump rope
- Jog in place for 5 to 10 minutes
A cool-down after you work out is important to slowly bring your heart rate back to normal. Walking for 5 to 10 minutes after you work out is one way to cool down.
Stretch. Do dynamic stretching before and after you work out. This will help increase flexibility. Research is conflicting as to whether it can also help prevent injury, It's best to stretch after you warm up and cool down.
Ease into it. When you begin an exercise routine or start a new workout program, start slowly. Then gradually build up the intensity, duration, and frequency.
Don't push yourself too hard. As your fitness abilities increase, you will be able to challenge yourself more.
Cross-train. Vary your workout. Don't overuse one set of muscles. Repeating the same muscle movements frequently can lead to overuse and repetitive-use injuries such as shin splints and tendinitis. Some ways to vary your workout:
- Run on Day One.
- Lift weights on Day Two.
- Swim or cycle on Day Three.