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About the Author: Lorraine Hariton serves as Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs in the Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs.
I had the honor of serving as keynote at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2011 Roadshow program workshop for small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) at the University of California, Riverside on February 25. I had the opportunity to interface with approximately 20 local business officials and the audience asked great questions about export opportunities and how to overcome challenges in doing business abroad. I encouraged U.S. firms to not only seek customers in the United States, but amongst the 95 percent of the world's customers who live beyond our borders. I urged participants to consider Asia Pacific markets: more than 70 percent of the global economic growth has taken place during the past decade. In fact, developing countries are expected to be the fastest growing economies in the world between 2010 and 2015. And that means U.S. jobs. Fortunately, there's lots of help out there -- U.S. companies can seek support from 19 U.S. government agencies involved in trade promotion. One example of U.S. government efforts to promote business interests in the Asia Pacific includes seeking passage of the U.S.-Korea trade agreement which is expected to increase exports of American goods by $10 to $11 billion and support tens of thousands of American jobs. The group was interested in the agreement's benefits for California, which exported an average of $7 billion in goods to Korea from 2007-2009.
More to come on this -- the United States is hosting the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) this year, which means that officials from the 21 APEC economies will convene in the United States on various occasions this year to discuss how to expand economic cooperation in the Asia Pacific region in a way that fosters free and open trade and investment, and encouraged U.S. SMEs to engage in the APEC discussions on SMEs in mid-May in Big Sky, Montana.
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Democratic Party of Japan - "http: / / www.dpj.or.jp/" - the situation is very bad news, in Korea, I'm seeing the construction workers ... Although, the fulfillment of the promise of commitment that is opaque, but the Prime Minister of Japan to replace the 50-year practice of the dark, trying to reform think. Japan's economy, now the opposition and government officials realized, but Japan's rice cake, values, practices such as many side effects, making - a good direction with the politician, but the suspension received - and now, open and clean society create obstacles and think.
Was formulated, the world cried out for reform of the few people who was always, they disappear, then re-ruling conservative people, you think you know the importance of reform is the one who tried.
If you have some time, while in the Middle East problem, beyond the Democratic Party of Japan, um, getting a little attention, nor economies of Asia are considered to be a great help. If you hold the opposition to this regime, the development, but the shadow of the economic development of citizens with a heavy heart to think that might be. While the rich people of poor countries, and I think that go to the economics, cost-effective levels high, but the lives of ordinary citizens to rely on things like the lottery to escape ..
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If you can supply organic germanium powder in larger quantities at much lower cost then I would buy more.
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This product lasts forever!!! Very good value for money. Stick my finger in it every now and then and bingo... my hair analysis always comes back with a bit of germanium in it. Haven't figured out a dosing system... need to be a bit more systematic. :-)
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This is a great product for immune system, there are others great, but germanium do the job. I don`t notice many of the claims people do about, but there are research saying its good for cancer, arthrites,v immune system. It`s cheaper to buy in powder, but it`s already expensive. I like this manly for my sore throat, altough I recommend Royal Jelly more than this.
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maybe powder is not convenient to use
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My health can really use a boost but this didn't do anything as far as I noticed
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On the western fringes of Palm Beach County, where miles of sugarcane fields dominate the horizon, sits a hotbed of rising college football and NFL talent. The cities of Belle Glade and Pahokee boast a combined population of fewer than 25,000, but the area has been producing prolific football players for decades. Athletes like Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Ricky Jackson, running back Fred Taylor, wide receiver Santonio Holmes and corner back Janoris Jenkins, among others, all cut their teeth on the hallowed fields of the Muck Bowl far from the beach—and, in turn, have become role models, examples of hard workers who got out and made it big. For Pahokee native and now Super Bowl champ Anquan Boldin, football was not just a tool to a better life for him and family but also a way to give back to his community and those in need.
Anquan Boldin's touchdown reception in the first quarter of Super Bowl XLVII helped propel the Baltimore Ravens past the San Francisco 49ers. Representing the culmination of 10 years in the NFL, the touchdown has helped cement Boldin's reputation as one of the league's leading receivers. Now, he is a member of 49ers, the odds-on favorite to return for Super Bowl XLVIII.
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"It's definitely a way out for a lot of people, myself included," says Boldin, who's career reached the mountaintop in February when he helped lead the Baltimore Ravens to their second Super Bowl victory in franchise history.
For Boldin, who stands 6'1", weighs 220 pounds and runs a 4.71 in the 40-yard dash, football comes naturally: He was named Florida's Mr. Football in 1998 while a senior at Pahokee High School, was a freshman on Florida State University's 1999 National Championship team and was selected in the second round—fifty-fourth overall—in the 2003 NFL draft by the Arizona Cardinals. During Super Bowl XLVII, Boldin was the leading receiver on the night, bringing in 104 yards, including a 13-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter that helped lead the Ravens to a 34-31 victory—the crowning achievement of his ten-year career so far. "I've been waiting 10 years for it—10 hard, long years," Boldin says. But for many—some who have never even seen an NFL game before—Boldin has come to mean a whole lot more than athletic exploits.
Now a member of the San Francisco 49ers, Boldin runs on to the field during preseason.
Photo courtesy of @anquanboldin
Shortly after being drafted, Boldin started a foundation dedicated to helping underprivileged children in his hometown. The Anquan Boldin Foundation, Q81, has created a network of support, guidance and mentoring through after-school programs, an annual summer enrichment program and the annual Palm Beach County All-Stars Football Camp, a veritable who's who of up-and-coming talent from ages 10-18 across the county. With programs set up in Pahokee and in cities where Boldin once hung his pads, underprivileged children have access to free life insurance, home energy and dental programs (both in Phoenix) as well as seasonal services, including holiday dinners and shopping sprees, back-to-school and computer items, and football equipment for the start of season.
"My main goal is to help these kids as much as possible. That's always been my dream, to be able to affect people like that," says Boldin, who was named the Ravens' Walter Payton Man of the Year in 2012, an annual award given by the NFL to honor player's volunteer and charitable work.
On a hot and muggy July afternoon, I met with Boldin at the Seacrest Sports Complex in Delray Beach, the scene of the annual Palm Beach County All-Stars Football Camp. Now in its third year in partnership with fellow NFLers Abe Elam and Brandon Flowers, the camp guides football players ages 10-18 through skill assessment, drills and seven-on-seven scrimmages to gear up for the upcoming season. The participants and their parents, many of whom in attendance in the bleachers, hold Boldin, Elam and Flowers in reverence; everyone wants to be around them, learn from them, follow in their footsteps.
"For us, this is an annual thing," Boldin says. "The kids look forward to it. I think it's something they need. And it's great to see guys that have made it come back, hopefully setting an example for guys in the future."
As camp breaks for lunch, Boldin stands among a streaming crowd of youngsters, all wanting to give him a high-five as they walk by, which he happily obliges with an encouraging word. Amid the clack of cleats on sidewalks and asphalt, shouts and boasts from kids just getting off the field challenging each other to sprints, Boldin is in his element, on the field leading through example. And though in shorts and a T-shirt now, it was only a few short weeks earlier that Boldin was walking up the steps of the Capital Building in Washington, D.C. in suit and tie to testify before Congress at a special hearing about the exploitive mining practices of western companies in destitute regions of Africa.
Mr. Boldin Goes to Africa
Boldin first got interested in Africa two years ago, when he and fellow NFL wide receivers Larry Fitzgerald and Roddy White planned a trip to Ethiopia.
"I was reading about the drought [Ethiopia] was going through at the time. It was probably the worst they experienced in over 50 years. I wanted to see how I could help, if I could," Boldin says. "I started doing some research and got in contact with OxFam America. Instead of cutting a check, I wanted to see for myself where the money was going, how it was being used."
So, Boldin, Fitzgerald and White went to Ethiopia in March of 2012 to do just that.
"That's how I got hooked on Africa," Boldin says.
Anquan Boldin in Senegal in March 2013. Visiting with Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald and Atlanta Falcons receiver Roddy White, Boldin and the others saw firsthand how local communities were affected by large-scale mining facilities. "To see the way a lot of these companies take advantage of the locals in Africa, for us, was outrageous," Boldin says.
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When it comes to international aid, most Americans help by writing a check; not many actually go to witness the circumstances and relief efforts firsthand. "It's just hard," said Andrew Blejwas, humanitarian media manager with OxFam America, who traveled with the three receivers to Ethiopia and Senegal earlier this year. "The initial trip to Ethiopia was really about learning what was happening there, a way of becoming more informed."
After the trip, Boldin's interest in international relief and development was sparked, and plans were quickly laid for a return to Africa in the offseason—this time to Western Africa, dealing with a whole different set of issues.
On the heels of Super Bowl XLVII, Boldin, Fitzgerald and White visited the West African nation of Senegal in March 2013, where natural resources—specifically gold—has become big business, despite the effects it has had on local communities. While visiting Sabodala, a small village in eastern Senegal, Boldin was confronted firsthand with the disruption and devastation these large-scale gold-mining operations can have on farming communities that have tilled the same land for generations.
In many instances, landowners were stripped of their property or received a pittance in compensation, while restricted from the land once used for agricultural purposes. Whole communities are forced to pan for gold in the hopes of finding flakes and dust to earn enough to feed their families, while the large mining operations rake in untold profits without proliferating any benefits or help to the local community.
Boldin in Sobadala. After a mining company stripped the land from the villagers, much of the community relies to panning for gold to feed their families.
Photo by Audra Melton/Oxfam America
"To see how these companies take advantage of the locals, it was just outrageous," Boldin said of his time in Senegal.
So moved by what he saw, Boldin testified before the U.S. Congress on July 18 to "support measures to strengthen human rights protections for communities impacted by the oil and mining industries in Africa":
"During my visit to Africa, I promised the people I met that I would do everything I can to bring their stories back to the U.S.," Boldin said in his testimony. He added: "When the land they farmed was sold out from under them to a large mining company, the community, which had been farming the same land for generations, suddenly had nothing. Meanwhile, the community that lost its land sees little benefit from the enormous mine in what was once their backyard. No percentage of the revenue from the mine, which is bigger than several football stadiums and brings in untold revenues, ever makes its way back to the community. … I believe the U.S. Congress should call on Senegal's president, Macky Sall, to take action to improve the conditions of mining-affected communities in eastern Senegal. He should ensure that mining companies respect human rights, that mining revenue is managed in a transparent way, and that communities receive adequate compensation and have a meaningful voice in decision-making about where mining takes place."
Boldin is "a man of his word," Blejwas says. "He made a promise to those people in Senegal that he would go to D.C. and do whatever he could to bring their stories back. If he says he is going to do it, he'll do it."
Like his work with Q81, Boldin's presence alone has a lasting effect, even to those who've never seen an American football game. "It's pretty incredible for Africans who are experiencing poverty to see someone like Anquan, Roddy or Larry, who are clearly celebrities—powerful, strong men both in a physical sense and in presence—come to these communities and talk to them. It's kind of a transformative experience in a lot of ways," Blejwas says.
While in Senegal, Boldin and crew not only visited with villages and the community but also got their hands dirty, helping out any way they could. Some of it was a simple as moving rocks from a field so children could play soccer and rugby; they also built fences to keep hippos from trampling and eating a community's garden. The simple act of helping goes a long way. And though this had an immediate impact on the ground in Senegal, Boldin's time in Washington, D.C. has the opportunity to be much more lasting.
"Anquan, Roddy and Larry realize that they have a unique position, that they have a platform," says Blejwas, who accompanied Boldin to Washington, D.C. for the hearing with Congress. "It was kind of amazing for us working as a nonprofit in Washington, constantly trying to secure meetings with staffers, to have Anquan come in. Suddenly, we're not meeting with staff members but congressmen and senators, in their offices. And they listened to his issues in a bipartisan way—every single person we met said, 'Let me know what I can do to help.' That's what you want. People want to help other people, and this is a pretty easy way to do it. They love talking to him; he's a great ambassador."
Boldin playing rugby with some of the locals.
Photo credit: Audra Melton/Oxfam America
After Boldin's initial visit to Washington, D.C. in June, the hearing—something OxFam had been trying to secure for more than a year—was scheduled two weeks later. "Congress doesn't move that fast," Blejwas joked, "but I guess it does for Anquan."
Much like the impact he brings to the field, as a member of the Oxfam team, Boldin is quickly becoming a strong advocate for human rights around the world. He is in a unique position for a spokesman, admired for a game so at odds with what he champions off the field, and his voice has the opportunity to be much more impactful. In a time when athletes making the news—or better yet, testifying before Congress—is usually tagged with unfortunate headlines, Boldin is a player who uses the clout that comes with being an NFL star to good use.
"It's unfortunate; a lot of NFL players … we get a bad reputation because of things happening in the media, mistakes that are being made," Boldin says. "I think a lot of players give back in a lot of ways. There are a lot of people in need. We want to try and help as many as we can."
- To learn more about the Anquan Boldin Foundation [Q81], visit q81.org.
- To learn more about Anquan Boldin's fight for human rights in Africa, see oxfamamerica.org.
- To help, visit my.oxfamamerica.org and be a part of the solution.


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Will Amazon Drop 30% Like Apple?
Despite many fundamental differences between Amazon (AMZN) and Apple (AAPL) , they do share one key fundamental metric and an important technical similarity that may leave you questioning how far Amazon shares may fall.
Both companies have very small short interest, and both became overbought based on my reading of the charts using DeMark Indicators. Let's take a look at the short interest of both companies.
The last reported level of short interest for Apple is dated Jan. 15. On that day the short interest was about 17.7 million shares, which may initially appear excessive but it works out to less than one day's average trading volume.
Relative to the trading float of about 940 million shares, the short interest is only about 1.9%. This is a very small amount and generally considered a good thing. I say generally because sometimes small short interest can result in fewer buyers when a stock price falls and needs buyers the most.
Short sellers wanting to lock in profits will buy back the shares they shorted, resulting in buying pressure that would not otherwise exist. Stocks often overshoot to the upside and downside, and lack of short interest exacerbates euphoric optimism and depressing fear.
Amazon also has a low level of short interest. The intuitive reaction is to view small short interest positively. If the smartest market participants are short sellers, and short sellers haven't made bets against the company, the prospects should look very favorable.
The problem that needs to be asked is, Why? Why are shorts avoiding Amazon? I believe short sellers are avoiding Amazon because they believe the price can remain irrational longer than they can stay solvent. In other words, Amazon isn't a great investment, but the herd mentality is something to take very seriously.
Apple could be considered overbought based on DeMark timing back in September, but has now gone full circle. I consider it oversold and a great value buy. Amazon, on the other hand, is now overbought and I believe the downside risk outweighs the upside potential.
Let's take a look at some very troubling numbers that investors should consider.
Amazon's operating and profit margins are not trending in the typical direction a high-flying stock usually occupies. Keep in mind that Amazon is not experiencing a one-off event with low margins. The trend started low and has moved even lower. Even after a strong holiday sales quarter, Amazon is now losing money on a trailing 12-month basis.


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Alcoholics Anonymous – Early Bird meeting, 7-8 a.m., First United Methodist Church, Marquette. Handicapped accessible. Call AA Hotline at 249-4430. For a complete AA meetings list visit www.aa-marquettecounty.org.
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Next Chapter Book Club – meets from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. weekly in the Teen Area of Peter White Public Library in Marquette. Call Ellen Moore at 226-4312 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Alcoholics Anonymous – women's closed "A Woman's Way Through the 12 Steps" book discussion meeting at noon, Marquette Missionary Church. Handicapped accessible. Call AA hotline at 249-4430.
Jayne's Bridge Club – plays 1 p.m. Fridays at the Marquette Senior Center, 300 Spring St. Call 225-1456. Partners guaranteed.
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VFW Post 4573 Men's Bingo – early birds meet at 6:20 p.m. Regular session at 6:30 p.m. No Smoking.
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Skip to comments.Illinois Priest Loses Job After Refusing to Use New Catholic Prayers
Posted on 02/05/2012 2:49:07 PM PST by marshmallow
For 18 years, the Rev. William Rowe has done a little improvising while celebrating Mass on Sunday mornings at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Mount Carmel, Ill.
Now those deviations have led to his resignation in an incident that may be tied to global changes to the Catholic liturgy.
Last Sunday, instead of saying "Lord our God that we may honor you with all our mind and love everyone in truth of heart," during the opening prayer, he altered the phrasing to better reflect the day's Gospel message, in which Jesus heals a man with a troubled spirit.
"We thank you, God, for giving us Jesus who helped us to be healed in mind and heart and proclaim his love to others," the 72-year-old priest prayed instead.
Three days later, Rowe received a letter from Bishop Edward Braxton accepting his resignation.
"The problem is that when I pray at Mass, I tend to change the words that are written in the book to match what I was talking about, or what a song is about," Rowe said in an interview.
The book in question is the Roman Missal, a book of prayers, chants and responses used during the Mass. Rowe has been saying some of those prayers in his own words for years.
But in December the Vatican-mandated adoption of a new English-language translation of the Missal may have given bishops an opportunity to rein in freewheeling priests who have been praying in their own words for decades.
"Since December when the new translation came out, no one has said what would happen to you if you changed stuff," said the Rev. John Foley, director of the Center for Liturgy at St. Louis University. "But I find it hard to believe a priest in Illinois would be forced to resign...........
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And no doubt had become quite accustomed to monkeying with the Mass.
No Father, the Mass isn't yours to alter.
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Father Dennis used to make stuff up as he said the Mass including the consecration and the credo. Drove me nuts. Hope he gets fired. I haven't seen him around lately. He used to sub for other priests.
I'm a little surprised. Many priests have done worse liturgically and nothing was done. I hope more bishops try to maintain standards.
He's not supposed to change the wording, but I doubt this particular one would cause them to demand his resignation. If brought to someone's attention, it MIGHT just get a "don't do that again." There must have been other stuff.
A dog's dinner has been made of the liturgy in the past 50 years and all popes since Pius XII have had to answer for their modernism. Wonder where they all ended up?
I for one enjoy hearing an inspired prayer that comes from the heart instead of the same words read off a page day after day and week after week. Keeps you focused instead of having your mind wander off.
If he had molested an altar boy they would have just moved him to another Church, at the least he would have gotten an hearing.
Take a look in the phone book, lot of Prot churches that will do that for you, but NONE have the real presence or the promise to be guided in ALL things by the Holy Spirit.
I used to think like you. but I came back to the pillar and foundation of truth.
Last I heard, Michael Pfleger was still saying mass in Illinois, and he makes up pretty much everything as he goes along :-(
I doubt that using the word "consubstantial" will make any difference whatsoever on where I'm ultimately headed.
maybe, maybe not. If you move from a church that doesn't believe in consubstantiality of the Son with the Father to one which does, it could make a difference. (grin)
But regardless, Catholics will have more clarity as to their doctrine by the usage of that word.
The Collects change every week - they aren't the same. And they are geared to the readings. Basically, every Sunday's Mass has a theme that comes from the Gospel reading.
You wrote:
"If he had molested an altar boy they would have just moved him to another Church, at the least he would have gotten an hearing."
Actually, if he had molested a child, he would have been immediately suspended from public ministry, investigated and removed permanently from the active priesthood. He would be done as a priest ANYWHERE.
"If he had molested an altar boy they would have just moved him to another Church, at the least he would have gotten an hearing."
Au contraire.
You must be thinking of a public school teacher, a university professor or perhaps a unionized government employee, a congressman or senator.
**including the consecration **
Then it wasn't a valid Eucharist or Mass.
Oh I think the word, consubstantial is very important and makes a great difference.
con = with
substantial = substance
"begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father"
Of the same substance (Godly) as the Father.
Check post #8 here for some "other stuff".
I won't argue the point with you,but history says you are wrong.
I don't appreciate your attack on Catholicism.
I didn't consider it an attack. More like the hypocrisy of forcing the 72 year old man out because he changed a prayer
while they have historically hidden priests who did far worse.
It isn't by any means an attack on the Catholic Church, just an attack on hypocrisy.
I am sorry you are upset.
Has this specific Bishop hidden any Priests?
Not since 2002. Maybe you need to catch up to modern history.
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is not the priest's own personal celebration. There is a reason for the prayers that are used, and there is no reason to add anything else to make the priest seem eloquent, relevant, or 'hip'. If the priest wants to do some praying in his own words, he can do so in the greeting, before the Mass begins, or after the Final Blessing. If the people love it so much, they surely won't mind him taking up another minute or so of their time.
The article states that the Bishop warned the priest about this several years ago, and the priest ignored him.
This from the religion that gave us democracy and the constitution :)
But if a priest molests children he just gets moved to another house of worship.
We do live in strange times.
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I saw this quote on a window at the Denver airport. It spoke true to me today.
I jumped on an airplane from Denver to Boston and headed to a sponsor's event to celebrate one-year out until the Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games and I have to say that all of this seems so surreal. The fact that I even have sponsors to celebrate with – not that I feel that I don't deserve them, but that all of this is actually happening! Snowboarding is an official Paralympic sport and I, Amy Purdy, have supporters who believe in me and my dream enough to support me to get there, a blessing that I am still wrapping my head around. The second surreal part is that I am well on the path to compete in the Games … to not just compete but to represent a new sport. That is, if I continue to stay healthy and ride strong and make the U.S. team as I am currently training to do. Adaptive snowboarding may be a new sport for the Paralympic community but not a new one for me.I was passionate about snowboarding before ever knowing what the Paralympic Games were. The reason for this is that I fell in love with the sport when I had legs – legs of flesh and bone. I was 15 years old and I knew from the day I stood on a board, that it would be a part of my life forever, I just had no idea I would go on to do it in this way.
After losing both of my legs suddenly to Septic shock from a random case of Bacterial Meningitis at 19 years old, I was told I may never snowboard again. The doctors told me to focus on walking before thinking about snowboarding again. Not an easy task for a chronic daydreamer! I would daydream about carving down a mountain of powder, feeling the wind against my face and feeling the strength of my body. I knew in my heart, no matter what any doctors said, that I would do it again. Snowboarding became my drive, my inspiration and my motivation to get healthy and to move forward with my life.
I remember, not long after leaving the hospital, my prosthetist mentioned that snowboarding was not yet in the Paralympic Games, and my first thought was if it ever were, then I would be there representing my country. From that point forward I put all my creative energy into learning to snowboard again, not with the goal of being a Paralympian but with the goal of doing what I love, feeling alive again and being with my friends. From that desire, I progressed. I went on to race in USASA (United States of America Snowboard Association) regional and national competitions and I promoted adaptive snowboarding in any venue I could.
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Hello everyone and welcome to my website! In a way I feel bad about writing this because compared to what many of the people on this web ring must be going through I have very little right to complain. I only have some traits of Asperger's and the effects of these are very subtle. However, I feel that the people at the high-functioning end of the spectrum still do have an interesting story to tell, and that is why I decided to write the story of Eleanor Rigby. I identify strongly with this character as there is a lot of her in me, and a lot of me in her. For the purposes of anonymity on this website I am adopting her name as my name. Enjoy the story. If you wish to contact me or have any suggestions for improvement please write to: firstname.lastname@example.com
'Eleanor Rigby
Lifts up her eyes in the church...
Lives in a dream...
All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
Where do they all belong?'
The Beatles-Eleanor Rigby
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess,
For you know only
A heap of broken images.
T.S. Eliot-The Waste Land
I've always wanted to write a story which is like an apologetic piece for all the lonely people out there.
'All the lonely people? Where do they all come from?'
Why of course, they come from here, in our towns, in our streets, they live right among us.
'Where do they all belong?'
Of course they belong in our hearts. Maybe they're crying out for love but they don't know how they can attain it. This is Eleanor's quest.
Whilst Eleanor's quest is a lonely and a painful one, somehow one also intuitively knows that much good can and will come out of it. Just because men cannot immediately 'say or guess' what good will come, does not mean that there is none. Perhaps it is this, that by being deprived for a time of the most important thing in life, contact with other human beings, one can attain a deeper appreciation of how important this is. Therefore one can also attain a greater appreciation of other people. One can realise the aim of life should not so much be to win games as to connect with other people.
The thing is a work in progress, but I thought putting it on line would make me write more even though I've barely started it yet!
What did she pray? Would a stranger coming into the cathedral be able to guess what a woman in white was doing here alone so late in the evening, or why she was running away? Would a stranger understand when she looked up at the cathedral vault with eyes that jumped erratically from beam to sculpture to beam without ever seeming to find the answers, without seeming to find something upon which to rest? Eyes, which seemed to fervently search for some kind of connection to the world but did not find it here? A heart, which was a warm heart but chilled by the stone, yet clung to the stone because that stone was the closest semblance it could find of warmth.
Eleanor walked the streets. She stared up at the tall buildings, the spires of Oxford. In the daytime they were awe-inspiring, but at night-time they were breathtaking.
Every morning she walked past this church on her way to work. She passed him again. He looked at her with eyes that questioned the reason for the existence of himself. Eyes that were warm and human. Eyes that were in the image of God, eyes that did not understand, save that there is a reason, a reason for everything. She wished she could break down the invisible walls that kept them apart, the walls constructed by society. She did not understand either. Her voice was frozen. As so many times before, she failed to bring herself to say anything. But often in her mind she revisited this place. She was swept by him in a current that she did not really want to be a part of. She was swept by in the current of her upbringing, her society. When she was with people, they would not notice him and would encourage her to hurry along and keep up with them when she paused to look at him. When she was alone, she still could not break these invisible shackles. She was not in a hurry but had not learnt any other way than to pretend that she was and swiftly move by him. The people who told her to hurry along were not there in this moment but still she felt invisibly restrained. Her heart was too cold and empty, not to feel, or to want to give, but to have sufficient self-esteem to actually succeed in giving. She felt the ache that she had so often felt in her solar plexus and the sadness that accompanied it. This was what restrained her. She remembered The Little Prince and how he had said that when a flower is not loved it is meaningless. This is how she felt: she felt like an invisible flower, still clad in white, almost invisible, sensitive as gossamer. All she could manage to do was to crack a smile on her porcelain face. It should have been a momentous occasion announced with trumpets and a brass band but there was none. The mundane was all around her.
The next day she returned to this spot. There was no homeless man there so she sat down and read a book, waiting for one to arrive. Eventually, one did. This was a different one. He looked away from her, smoking a cigarette, the smoke billowing away in the wind, white mist circling past her, like incense, it even smelt a bit like incense. She was reading a book about Hinduism and this seemed quite fitting. Finally, he glanced in her direction and broke the ice, asking her what she was reading about. He did not seem to understand why she would want to be reading about Hinduism to understand what their religion was like without herself being a Hindu. But he had pulled a crack in the invisible wall and she was grateful for it. That day she was able to ask him if she could get him anything to eat or drink, just as she was about to leave, because, ashamed as she was of it the situation was making her uncomfortable. How she wished she were a man. Men were so much less vulnerable: a man could not be threatened by a woman in the same way that a woman could be threatened by a man. If she had been a man she would have felt safer and would have stopped and talked to him for longer, or if she had been an old, wise woman. She knew this would be easier when she was old, because then her façade would be beautiful in a more rugged, acceptable manner for her to be conversing with the homeless like this, and she would know everything she needed to. She would be able to engage him in a conversation about things which he would know about: the films, the books, and the media that the homeless attended to were most probably very similar to the media that the middle class attended to, although probably with a greater sense of justice, longing, brutality, and hopefully philosophy in them too. If she were to attend to the media, these would be the kinds of media that she would attend to, with the exception of brutality, that was, because brutality was something which would be too much for her constitution to take.
All she had ever cared about was justice, liberation and emancipation of the soul. And yet here, as she attempted it, as she attempted to follow her dreams of bringing about that equality, that justice, she was stumped. Because she did not have a solid grip on the mundane she could not ascend beyond it to the exceptional. She felt like a house with beautiful decorated spires that reached to the skies, like the dreaming spires of Oxford, but shaky foundations. Damn the laws of gravity! Why did everything have to let her down! Why was she too sensitive and too incomplete to truly be or to function as herself on this planet?
All he wanted was a coffee. She felt he was just asking for it to please her. Coffee is something entirely unnecessary, unlike food. Still, it was a start. At least she had done something. At least she had been able to interface with a homeless person in some menial sort of way. She walked home with her head held high and a smile on her face, but not for long. It was not enough.
She knew she should really be social. She knew she should go into the dining hall, but to her it was like a lion's den. Literally, when she walked into it she felt like she was walking into a lion's den, the fear in her heart and the pounding in her chest were as dramatic. She had been to that place, but it was terrifying. The high vaulted ceiling which magnified every sound and the other teenagers who she really should try and make friends with, but who she could not understand, who frightened her, for no apparent reason, but after many years of reflection, perhaps because they were too overwhelming for her: their fast conversation, where she couldn't make out half the words, their social hierarchy, which was determined more or less by the laws of the jungle, and at which she sat firmly irrevocably and eternally at the bottom, right underneath everyone else. So here she sat, rooted to the spot, gazing at the walls, the white walls. Her soul was stretching out on those walls, reaching out for someone, reaching out for a person, humanity in general, but all it could find was cold hard stone. Words echoed around and resounded in her head 'chrysalis', 'singularity', 'supernova'. Would she ever be able to blossom and become a butterfly or would she die an old woman, still as unfulfilled and spiritually small as she was now, and her soul spread out like a supernova, but an empty supernova, which was never really a successful sun or universe. 'You have to go to the people, because the people will not come to you'. She went into the bathroom, which was also all white, eerily white, and blank, like she was. And the corridors were also all white. The white corridors which she haunted like a white ghost, a shadow of a human being.
This is a poem Eleanor wrote when she was in school:
Teach Me How to Play
Teach me how to cry again
Teach me how to pray
Teach me all the games you know
And teach me how to play
Tell me all the jokes you've learnt
Explain to me their mirth
May I laugh in your company
May I have a second birth
Sing me all the songs you know
Show me how you dance
I want to learn them all you know
And join you when you prance
Take me down from Calvary
And put me in your midst.
I want to relish all your smiles
I want to start to live.
The Girls
The German gym teacher smoked, but otherwise she was very friendly. She approached Eleanor one day and offered help. She had seen the situation and found that previously, in similar situations, she had been able to help friendless individuals. All the previous girls she had helped had noticed some subsequent improvement in their quality of life, as a result of her intervention. Eleanor agreed to the gym teacher's intervention. After all, she had nothing to lose, they were all of them strangers anyway, and nothing, no matter how strange, could possibly make them more distant towards her than they already were.
It was the end of the gym lesson, time for lunch and the big discussion. Eleanor sat with her bag packed and ready to escape, back to the wall. This was it. She stared at her feet, unable to move. Now of course was the most inconvenient time possible to freeze and feel sick, but she couldn't help it. She just wanted to get it over and done with. There was a hammer banging on the inside of her head, the sort of sensation one gets when going to bed and trying to sleep straight after a fairground ride whilst drunk. To see it all as a bad dream was clearly the best option. This could not possibly be real. It could not possibly have come to this. Yet he who is in desperate need is unwise not to ask for it.
She felt relieved because she did not have to do anything, the German gym teacher did it all for her. She was very open and honest about the situation in a way that Eleanor could never have been. Then all she had to do was wait for the girls' response.
At first there was silence. Then finally they spoke. The ringleader was the first to speak. Tall, muscular and intimidating, she said that it was too late. Unbeknown to her, they had all already formed all their social networks, which were full and complete to overflowing. They did not have space, there was no-where to accommodate her. Others said perhaps she would find friends at university, which at the time was 3 years away. The teacher tried to defend her, tried to impress upon them how hard everything was that Eleanor must be going through. She tried to impress upon them the harshness and cruelty of their statements. But Eleanor herself was mute, much as she wanted to, she could not speak. She was frozen. She could not say all the things she wanted to say. It wasn't just anger she wanted to express, it was deeper than that. She wanted them to understand what it really meant to be her, how they made her feel. It wasn't really compassion she wanted, because compassion on its own doesn't solve anything. It was help. She wanted them to teach her how to connect with people. She wanted them to make allowances for how difficult she found it. She wanted them to really understand the situation, what was going on, and undertake practical steps to solve the problem.
She understood that the love of peers, contemporaries, colleagues was conditional, but she had not appreciated up until that moment how conditional. It appeared that the reason they did not love her was because she did not expose herself enough to the media. They felt she should listen to songs on the radio, watch movies, find what she liked and deliberately exaggerate that taste, become a caricature of herself to stand out against the background, and become interesting to others. She found this idea of exaggerating ones tastes to form an identity quite interesting. It was a bizarre way to define the self, less interesting and personal than the dreams she had of helping people, even sainthood. It was only later that she would come to realize that before being able to help people one must first learn to relate to people, and that the vast majority of people do in fact do this through a great deal of the media. Apart from the information overload, what prevented Eleanor spending any significantly large amount of time engrossed in the media was that she was tired of being a mute person who only received input. She wanted to output into the world. She wanted to write books and paint pictures that other people would see. She did not want to listen. She wanted to be heard. It was only later when she became more confident and felt she was achieving something in her life that she felt able to listen to the radio and the television. Then the unproductivity of these activities no longer disturbed her. It was more something calming, a relaxation, an input to balance all the output in her life. It seemed that unless she too spent so much time absorbing vast quantities of media information in a world that was already informationally so overwhelming she would not, could not possibly be interesting enough for them. She could often not remember to pack everything in her schoolbag, or even find it, let alone the names of famous people or who was doing what on which programmes, or the times of popular television programmes. Getting the TV timetable and co-coordinating it with her poor sense of timing was too much to cope with. But they did not, could not possibly understand this, because no-one had ever explained it to them.
Quickly they seemed to tire of the whole talk show atmosphere, and asked Eleanor to say something. They seemed to think it was unfair that they were doing all the work, that they had been asked to raise a finger before she did. They asked her to speak, but she still could not say anything. For months, for years after that point, she would remember that moment and wish that she had. Life is often that way. It deals us many opportunities, but blink and you miss it. They did not allow her enough time to respond. Another minute, even another few seconds of silence would have done it, would have broken fear's hold on her. She would have thawed enough and least to speak, even if it was only with a shaking voice and eyes gazing at the floor.
Perhaps again, it was something less like an electra complex. At the time she believed that God was using this image to give her a message, that the man who had this physical appearance would be the man with whom she could read and sing and pray. Whilst many physical qualities of her imaginary man were desirable, the paleness was not. So she deduced they were more like markers, the signs by which she could find the man she would most easily and best be able to relate to on a spiritual level. She would often wonder, and implicitly believe, whether this was not a preliminary connection to her soulmate, the love of her life, who she would meet one day. He would be shy too, but he would rescue her from this shyness, and she would rescue him. And together they would manage to encourage each other to go out into the world and con
Eleanor's' Dreams
Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa's passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self. She found her epos in the reform of a religious order.
That Spanish woman, who lived three hundred years ago, was certainly not the last of her kind. Many Theresa's have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later-born Theresa's were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul. Their ardour alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood; so that the one was disapproved as extravagance, and the other condemned as a lapse.
Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite love-stories in prose and verse. Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.
George Eliot-Prelude to Middlemarch
This poem is written about my friend whose dream it is to work with women in the shantytowns in Latin America.
Tonight I will go out on the shantytown
And walk the streets of this city.
I do not pretend to be a saint
Nor will I ever be.
Tonight I will see the run-down buildings
In the inky, smoky blackness
See their beauty
See the children run to play
On the rubbish dump
And I will be deeply happy.
I do not know why there is beauty
In poverty
But if there were no shantytown
Would love shine so brightly?
I will go alone, or maybe
I will take someone with me
A good friend, a companion
For all that weighs on my heart,
Makes it weary
A broken heart too is a beautiful thing.
I do not pretend to be useful.
I will relish in my uselessness
I will accept it
But remember Mother Teresa
With her drops of water
In the ocean
Maybe where you walk
Feet of angels go behind and before
And do the work for you
Maybe I am not entirely useless
Maybe there is something I can give
An embrace, a cup of cold water
And maybe there is something I can take:
Confidence, companions, love.
The Church
The Beautiful Atheist
The time is now propitious, as he guesses,
The meal is ended; she is bored and tired,
Endeavours to engage her in caresses
Which still are unreproved, if undesired.
Flushed and decided, he assaults at once;
Exploring hands encounter no defence;
His vanity requires no response,
And makes a welcome of indifference.
(And I Tiresias have foresuffered all
Enacted on this same divan or bed;
I who have sat by Thebes below the wall
And walked among the lowest of the dead.)
Bestows one final patronising kiss,
And gropes his way, finding the stairs unlit…
He opened the drawer. Amongst the electronic paraphernalia that spoke of his intelligence it contained a hair band and a necklace. The hair band had on it two flashing horns and the necklace a crucifix. 'Aha, I wonder what this is…this is my memorabilia from the women I've kissed.' The irony of the juxtaposition of the devil and Christ in that woman who had kissed him, whilst most probably unintentional, was a mockery of the church. However, whilst the wearer may have been unawares of the irony, he was not, and neither was Eleanor. He was all too blissfully, and she was all too painfully aware. That symbols of faith and treachery could be worn in juxtaposition in such a light-hearted manner seemed to Eleanor at that moment a very strange thing. It seemed that to him, these ornaments were trophies of his previous conquests. More than that, they were symbolic of his triumph over the faith that had oppressed him when he was little. She saw the little boy forced to attend mass against his own will and she wanted to cuddle him. Whilst there may have been reasoning with the little boy who was not yet so disenchanted there could be no reasoning with the man she now saw before her, or at least it would be much harder. In that moment, she wanted to be a man. She wanted to have the wit of a man. She wanted to make him see that what he was doing was wrong, but she felt powerless. Was that all she was to him, then, a potential conquest? Did he not value her heart, her mind, her spirit? She knew in that moment of course that the point of his actions was to make her jealous of this other woman, to lose her faith, and to kiss him. However she could not, because this would go against all her beliefs, and everything she stood for, everything she silently screamed for, and no-one could hear. Maybe one day she would find her voice, and then it would be worth it, it would be worth resisting him.
Every time she encountered him her whole body would begin to ache for him. Even looking at him put her in so much pain that she knew could only be eased by cuddling him. Interesting, that desire could be so strong that when blood rushed to the skin it could produce a sensation of vague pain and longing. However, she had to withstand this devilish desire to save him. She knew she could not be just another of his conquests, otherwise she would have lost the battle. She knew that to retain any power in her discussions with him she had to remain distant from him, no matter how much it hurt. Often she would go to the bathroom in his house and pray for strength, pray for the strength to withstand the devilish magnetic pull he had on her. He said she was like a computer with a virus, her faith was the virus. It overtook her mind and destroyed her reasoning completely, according to him. But according to her? Well, according to her, he was 2-dimensional. The 'virus' she had could perhaps appear as a virus to an outsider, but really it was a code. She knew that she loved him more than he loved her, and yet she longed for him to change his heart, change his desire, and pray with her. She desired the impossible. It was her heart's deepest, most unspoken desire. But she did not tell him. Perhaps that was her mistake. But then probably if she had he would merely have used it as one of his parlour tricks to convince her to kiss him.
Then one evening they were standing by a pool table playing pool. He wanted her to lie down on the pool table and kiss him. She told him that her aim was to wait with kissing until she'd found the person she was going to spend the rest of her life with. Surprisingly he admired her in this aim, even wishing her good luck. But he said that she was missing out one very important thing: the male psyche. Apparently, men were programmed differently and could not wait so long with kissing. Upon hearing this she thought that that made sense, he was probably right. It was not until many years later that she realised the wisdom of this statement. Time is so long and life is so short and the heart aches so much for company that perhaps one does not have to always wait for one's husband, the perfect person, the night in shining armour. Perhaps it is enough to kiss a kindred spirit, someone whom one knows very well, and loves, and has a deep connection with.
The Train
I could not
Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
Living nor dead, and I knew nothing
The Waste Land-T.S. Eliot
She took a risk and wrote on the piece of paper what was really on her mind. 'Will I find true love?'
Then they had to turn over the piece of paper and close their eyes, waiting for the answer to come back from the angels. All she could think of was that line from the Tracy Chapman Song.
'Let me speak the word that precedes bliss:
love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.'
It was in that moment that she realised that before she could find true love, painful as it was, she would have to disassemble this conglomeration of desire she had formed in her mind, as if one person could meet that desire. She would have to fight to do all the things she'd always wanted to do, alone. There was no knight in shining armour, no man of her life coming to rescue her. She would have to do all these things alone.
Whilst the mental picture of the girl who waits alone in the white corridor for them to come, for him to come, but who remained abandoned for minutes, hours days, weeks years, for maybe about 13 years is a terrible one. Perhaps there is something to be gained from this pain, this mental picture. Perhaps in a way it is more empowering, more feminist than the one in which the man rescues her. Because sooner or later she will grow stronger, strong enough to do the impossible, the inevitable. She will pick up the courage and the strength to stand and to walk out of that corridor, down the stairs, and face all the things that terrify and haunt her. Sooner or later she will look inside her heart and find it is stronger than she thought, more resilient. Sooner or later, because she is sustained by air and food and water, but longs for company, she will find it, even if only as a beggar who is so hungry but only finds a couple of scraps of food. Because she never had anything in terms of love, she has nothing to lose. She cannot possibly have any less love than she does now, unless she loses even God and is damned, and so she knows that she can bear it, she can bear rejection, because she has bourne something worse for 13 years: not daring, and not knowing, because she was always frozen. In the animal kingdom there are the fight, flight or freeze responses. And all her life she was always the frightened animal who froze. If she can unfreeze, if she can break through those walls of fear, then she can do it, although this, she knows, will be has hard as a ghost trying to transubstantiate, to become matter, a physical body. She has always been a ghost and now she wants
On the inside looking out
The walls will not break down
It should be the duty of the strong to protect the weak
The confident to unfold the shy
They talk too fast they know too much
They do not understand
The invisible shackles
I move to a different place
The air is lighter, the people warmer
I see what I once was
But I have failed
I cannot break down the walls
On the outside looking in
You are now entering the south wing of the Redemption Centre. Below is a listing of events and therapies going on in each room, first by room number then in alphabetical order.
1. Main Reception.
2. Information Centre
3. Information Centre
4. Information Centre
5. ABA with Linda Flockhardt
6. ABA with Maria Linding
7. ABA with Ronan Monroe
8. ABA with Andy White
9. ABA with Laura Zenon
10. ABA with Laura Zenon
11. Relaxation techniques with Julia Steventon
12. Aromatherapy
13. Anger Management
14. Kinesiology with Gillian Hindshaw
15. Music Therapy for autistic children
16. Music Therapy for autistic children
17. Kumon maths
18. Facilitated communication
19. Asperger Support Group-Catherine Black
20. Gospel Singing-Cindy Reid
21. Tai Chi-Christine Eckhardt Black
22. Ronald Davis techniques-Orientaion counselling
23. Ronald Davis techniques-teaching the alphabet and words through clay modelling
24. Ronald Davis techniques-teaching the alphabet and words through clay modelling
25. Group prayer meetings at 12:00 and 2:00pm daily
26. Hindu prayer meetings at 13:00 and 15:00 daily
27. Rest room-marked R
28. Brain Gym with Ronda Lewis
29. The Son-Rise Programme-experts from America
30. The Son-Rise Programme-experts from America
31. The Son-Rise Programme-experts from America
32. Lovaas developments
33. Lovaas developments
34. Seminar-are there links between autism and dyslexia? Jean Francis
35. Continuation of early intervention-what comes afterwards-research led by Catherine Black
36. Teenagers with asperger syndrome-discussion groups led by Catherine Black. Ring extension 102 for details. You will find 4 internal telephones, one in the middle of each colour wall behind the chairs in the central oval.
37. Parents of autistic children-discussion groups-ring extension 267 for details
38. Parents of autistic children-discussion groups-ring extension 267 for details
39. Parents of autistic children-discussion groups-ring extension 267 for details
Note: At 4 O'clock this afternoon there will be a conference in the central conference room to discuss…
Please feel free to supervise your children in the play area at any time or to sit in the chairs outside the central oval. You will find our library on shelves behind these chairs. This operates like a normal library: ask Hannah, outside Room 1, to borrow a book and you may do so for 3 weeks, otherwise you must pay us money. Feel free to use books for reference during your visit to the Redemption Centre and to participate in the philosophical and other discussions that take place in the chairs outside the central oval.


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Mary Lou Munts's Full Vibrant Life
A letter of her passing that is so Mary Lou
We received word of Mary Lou Munts's death in a way that was so Mary Lou Muntz. It was a letter that arrived at the house on Thursday. A letter from Mary Lou, a family letter, that included among other family news the news that she had died.
It was in fact written by her three kids, with her approval they assured us. Mary Lou lived with dementia for the last five years of her life, the only years she didn't live what her kids called a full and vibrant life. Our guess is even the last five had some fullness and vibrancy. It's who Mary Lou was. She's probably best known for her six terms in the State Assembly. But her many friends knew her for her love of travel, food, family and a passion to make the world a better place. Mary Lou was an integral part of the team that made Monona Terrace a reality. She was warm and smart and funny and she lived both large and small. We were sad to get her last letter, but loved that it was sent.
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New research reveals why some cats are striped and others have blotches.
Scientists from Stanford University, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research analyzed DNA samples from feral cats in California as well as captive and wild cheetahs. They discovered a gene they dubbed Taqpep, which they believe to be responsible for the various patterns on felines.
They say the same gene that produces dark stripes on tabby cats' coats is also responsible for the spots on cheetahs. However, when the gene is mutated, the stripes and spots become blotches instead.
The study is believed to be the first investigation into why cats have certain patterns.
"Nobody had any idea what the genes were that were involved in these things," Stephen O'Brien, a geneticist and researcher involved in the study, told The New York Times. "When the feline genome became available, we began to look for them."
The newspaper reports that scientists were also able to discover a second gene, Edn3, which controls hair color in cats' coat patterns.
According to CatChannel.com, the two newly discovered genes work together to produce specific patterns on cats' coats.
"Somehow, cells in the black stripes know they are in a black stripe and remember that fact throughout the organism's life," lead researcher Gregory Barsh told the website. "We were curious about what's happening at the boundary between light and dark stripes and spots. How do these spots know how to grow with the animal?"
Regardless of the pattern on a cat's fur, felines are well-known for meticulously grooming themselves and helping to maintain a healthy and shiny coat. In fact, PetFinder.com reports that adult cats may spend as much as half of their time each day grooming themselves.
According to WebMD Pets, pet health experts say there are a number of factors that may cause your cat's coat to lose its shine or to become dull-looking. They include poor nutrition, weight problems, age and bathing the animal too often. In addition, pet parasites, infection, diabetes in cats or another serious ailment may cause dry skin and a dull coat.
Veterinarians say it's important for cat owners to consult a professional if changes in their pet's coat occur and persist. Once the problem is determined, it can often be easily remedied.


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The race is on
By NIKKI YOUNK
Staff Writer
IRON RIVER – Thanks to a few snowstorms and some freezing temperatures, the inaugural IronLine Sled Dog Race in Iron River is all set to go this weekend.
The event had to be postponed from its originally scheduled dates of Jan. 18 and 19, due to a lack of snow.
Race director Josh Brindle said earlier this week that weather is not a problem anymore.
"Our trail has been officially ok'd by the race marshal and trail boss," he said. "It's a go, we're definitely having the race."
According to the National Weather Service, high temperatures are predicted to be at or below the freezing point through Saturday. There is also a chance for snow on Thursday.
IronLine festivities kick off Friday evening at the RV park on Genesee Street in downtown Iron River.
Opening ceremonies are scheduled for 6 p.m., and the race starts at 6:30 p.m.
Mushers will travel down the Apple Blossom Trail and connect to Iron County Recreational Trail 16, which passes near the George Young Recreation Complex and Chicagon Lake.
The six-dog sport class mushers will complete a 20-mile loop and the 10-dog professional class mushers will complete a 40-mile loop.
On Saturday, mushers will travel the same loops beginning at 9:30 a.m.
About 20 mushers have registered for the race.
"We have a town full of snow and excited people," said Brindle. "We're ready to go."
For more information, check out the IronLine's website at www.theironline.com.
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Family loses Lake Street home to fire
Gloria M. Brown
Gloria M. Brown, 79, of 253 Lake Flower Ave., Saranac Lake, died on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013, at Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake.
She was born on Jan. 22, 1934, in Malone, the daughter of Walter Lewis and Patricia (Fletcher) Lavery.
Gloria was a graduate of Saranac Lake High School. She married Allen P. Brown on Nov. 26, 1955. He predeceased her on April 28, 2004.
She was a home day-care provider for several years and worked at the National Army Store prior to her retirement.
She is survived by one son, Allen Brown and his wife Karen of Florida; three daughters: Debra Conway, Brenda Reeve and her husband Cristian of Vermontville, and Terry Buckley and her husband Robert of Saranac Lake; 11 grandchildren; one sister, Patricia "Katherine" Kubli of Plattsburgh; one brother-in-law, Harold Engelhart of Glenfield; several nieces and nephews; and her dog, Tippy.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; two brothers: Walter "Stan" Lewis and Frankie Lewis; and one sister, Nancy Engelhart.
Gloria loved to take her chances on raffle drawings and play the lottery. She was very lucky and won several drawings.
Funeral arrangements are in care of the Fortune-Keough Funeral Home in Saranac Lake. In accordance with her wishes, there will be no calling hours. A Mass of Christian burial will take place at noon Friday, Feb. 22, at St. Bernard's Church with the Rev. Bill Muench officiating. Interment will take place at Brookside Cemetery in the spring.
Friends wishing to remember Gloria Brown may make memorial contributions to the Saranac Lake Volunteer Rescue Squad. Family and friends can also share their memories and sign the online guestbook at www.fortunekeoughfuneralhome.com.


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Go here for Java Runtime Environment (JRE) the latest version being 6 update 3.
If you want to be able to click on links posted in the chat window, you'll need to enable pop ups for beesource.com. Also if you have a third party firewall, hardware or software, you must allow beesource.com. If you have a Java script blocker running, you must allow script to be run from beesource.com and sigmachat.com.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (5 votes).
Date of review: January 29, 2013
In short: Fantastic organisation and support, ultra flat.In full: My first ultra over 65K so this looked an 'easy' 100K one to do.The first section to CP1 was fairly fast with a nice drop from the start and along the beach.To CP2 where I met some of the marathon runners on their return leg.From then on didn't see anyone until I got to Wells (CP3) and was informed I was 5th which was amazing. I felt I was going well but never ever thought I'd be this high up the field.The ladies on this station were very supportive and helpful.I moshed on along Well's beach which was tough as there was a headwind. A wrong turn exiting the beach and talking the long route cost me a couple of places.At the next checkpoint I pressed on and about 3K to half way I saw the lead running come back on the return leg which helped boost my confidence as I knew he must only be about 6K ahead.Unfortunately I lost a couple of places here.At the halfway I stocked up and made the return journey.About 5K on the way back I met the 'peloton' and knew I must be about 10K ahead of the bulk of the field.Pressing on and back to Well's beach, the tide had gone out and there was hard sand to run on.Passing through Wells checkpoint and at 80K my Garmin gave up but I hadn't.At the penultimate checkpoint I lost a couple of places but pushed on to the last checkpoint.At the last one the Sun was just setting and the view across the coast was beautiful.Time to get the headtorch on and back along the shingle.Unfortunately a stealthy runner without a headtorch caught me just as I was exiting the beach.The last 3K up back through the forest was amazing, glow lights in the trees, nobody around and a fantastic clear evening.All in all a faultlessly organised event.Many thanks to the team on the stations, they really couldn't do enough for you. They were very helpful, supportive and genuinely the best I've ever come across.The course was absolutely flat as a pancake except for the last 2 or 3K.Would recommend it as an introduction to a 100K race.Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Well-organised and supported. Beautiful and challenging off-road course with track, beach and shingle. My first Ultra: loved it.Date of review: October 13, 2010
In short: Not a given by any stretch, but a great race.In full: Gently undulating course along the Norfolk Coastal Path. Beautiful scenery. The run is a toughie with a mix of terrain including 3 miles on a stoney beach after 55 miles - killer. All in all a great event. Date of review: October 12, 2010
In short: Well organised, friendly, challenging, a great eventDate of review: October 11, 2010
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