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There are several things that we can learn about Lamech's attitude toward sin in general, and his own sin specifically. Apart from the convicting power of the Holy Spirit, people still maintain these attitudes toward their sinfulness:
Failure To Recognize Sin
"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." (Proverbs 14:12)
First and foremost, people are reluctant or unable to identify the sin in their own life. Genesis 4:19 tells us that Lamech married two wives. This was a direct infraction against what God had decreed to Adam saying, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh" (Genesis 2:24). Yet we see no recognition on Lamech's part that he has done anything wrong.
Pride And Self-Importance
"And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech…" (Genesis 4:23a)
While we can really only speculate, it would seem from what Lamech says here that he definitely considered himself the ruler of that "roost", so to speak. It is unlikely that Lamech ever showed love or respect for either of his wives, but maintained this attitude whenever he dealt with them. "Listen to what I have to say, hear me speak!" A cavalier attitude toward sin demonstrates a lack of respect and reverence for God. Those without any reverence for God usually lack any real concern or respect for others, either. They are only concerned about themselves.
Revelry In Their Sin
"Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
The steadfast love of God endures all the day." (Psalm 52:1 ESV)
When Lamech tells his wives that he has killed a young man (Genesis 4:23), his language is almost poetic; it's as if he is singing a song about a heroic deed that he has performed! Shame and guilt over sin comes only by the convicting power of God's Spirit; apart from Him, people rejoice and are proud of their wicked behavior. Look around us today at how many people are glorying in abominable sinfulness that they should be ashamed of.
"…For I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt." (Genesis 4:23b)
We are not given any details about this incident except what Lamech himself says about it. Was he truly justified in killing the other man? Was it self-defense as he is claiming? We really do not know, but it is highly suspicious to say the least, based on what we do know about Lamech. Like so many criminals in courtrooms around the world: in his own eyes, Lamech felt completely justified and blameless for the blood that he had spilled. People have the tendency to come up with any and every possible excuse, explanation, and alibi imaginable when it comes to their own sins. When it comes to others, however, they are quick to point a finger. Which brings us to the next point:
Comparing Themselves With Others
"If Cain shall be avenged…" (Genesis 4:24)
Man's inclination is to compare his own behavior with that of others. We can all find an example of someone who has done far worse things than we have. The liar can point an accusing finger at the thief, who can point his finger at the adulterer, who can compare himself to the murderer, who feels satisfied that at least he is not so bad as the mass murderer, who can say that at least he is not so depraved as the wicked tyrant who has the blood of millions on their hands. People use this type of reasoning all the time, comparing themselves one to another, yet the only standard that matters at all is the perfect standard of God. Not one of us can live up to the perfect sinlessness that Jesus Christ maintained, and He is the only One that we are compared with. We have all fallen short of God's glory (Romans 3:23).
Disregard For God's Judgment
"If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold" (Genesis 4:24)
Lamech's arrogance and pride are vividly shown in his statement here: "If God withheld judgment from Cain, than surely He will not judge me!"
Lamech is boasting to his wives that they have absolutely nothing to fear from the God of Heaven. Since Cain's life was spared after he brutally murdered his brother, then Lamech assumed his own life would be that much safer since his actions were not nearly as despicable as Cain's (at least in his own eyes). What a dangerous practice it is to assume that judgment delayed is judgment withheld! David encourages us to "Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb" (Psalm 37:1-2).
Yet the wicked look at others and assume that since the outward manifestations of God's judgments are not readily apparent in their lives, then they themselves are safe to do the same things. What a tragic mistake it is to think this way. Cain was judged for his sin, in this life and in the next. So was Lamech. Those who do not put their trust in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of their sins can be certain, though they may have not experienced God's judgment yet, they certainly will.


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"Life Don't Have To End." is a compilation of stories, images, and wisdom from HIV positive men and women. Over a two-year period, more than 60 courageous individuals from the JACQUES Initiative of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine dictated their personal life stories to Cricket Barrazotto, a friend to the JACQUES Initiative and photographer, for the purpose of compiling a book. These contributors wanted their voices and stories to be inspirational to others. The book speaks to the resiliency of the human spirit and body. Readers are exposed to tragedy and triumph as they share in the intimate journeys of the book's contributors. Additionally, Ms. Barrazotto spent a year teaching photography to several of the book's contributors. It is the clients' photographic imagery that illustrates the book. Author Bio: Cricket Barrazotto and her husband live in Towson, Maryland. She is the founder and director of God's Economy, a non-profit organization working with HIV/AIDS in Africa. An accomplished photographer, Cricket's photography serves to educate people about issues of justice and mercy. She uses proceeds from the sale of her images to fund village transformation in its many forms. Cricket has had photo exhibitions at numerous churches in Maryland, Lutheran World Relief, The Three Arts Club, and the Jacques Initiative, an HIV/AIDS clinic of the University of Maryland Institute of Virology of the University of Maryland School of medicine. Her work was also showcased at a Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's World AIDS Day Memorial at the Lyric Theater. She received a citation from Maryland's Governor for her photographic contributions to "A Diary of Journeys, Volume III", an anthology of poetry funded by the Center for Disease Control and the Maryland AIDS Administration. Her photography was included in FOTO DC's Uncover series. For several years she has been a volunteer and an invited member of an HIV Support Group at the JACQUES Initiative. "Life Don't Have To End." brings together Cricket's interest in photography and her commitment to be an agent of blessing and change for those who are infected and affected by HIV. She is the mother of three adult sons, has one daughter-in-law, and a grandson. Her abiding faith is the core of all that she undertakes. Keywords: HIV, AIDS, Hope, Addiction, Faith, Inspiration, Urban, Stories, Photography, Support, Maryland, Baltimore, HIV/AIDS, Life, Death, Living
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Hog futures fell for the first time in four days on signs of weakening demand for U.S. pork exports. Cattle also declined.
Exports of U.S. pork fell 14 percent in the first two months through Feb. 28, compared with the same period a year earlier, the latest government data show. Sales to Japan, the largest importer, may drop 2 percent this year, Philip Seng, the chief executive officer of the U.S. Meat Export Federation, told reporters in Tokyo today. The cost of hogs sold for immediate delivery at meat processors are headed for a third straight weekly decline, including a 0.2 percent drop yesterday to 76.5 cents a pound, government data show.
"Export demand has been a concern on the market here a lot," Lawrence Kane, a market adviser at Stewart-Peterson Group in Yates City, Illinois, said in a telephone interview. "The export pace has been below what we need for a real strong hog market."
Hog futures for June settlement declined 0.7 percent to 90 cents a pound at 11:18 a.m. on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The commodity rose 5.7 percent this year through yesterday.
Cattle futures for June delivery fell 0.5 percent to $1.20825 a pound.
Feeder-cattle futures for August settlement dropped 1 percent to $1.45725 a pound.
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This is a discussion on Got a surprise when I installed my S203 Hazard button within the Interior Mods forums, part of the Tech & Modifying & General Repairs category; The triangle in the middle lights up when the headlights are on! The USDM doesn't do that. Neato!...
The triangle in the middle lights up when the headlights are on! The USDM doesn't do that.
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Plummer quits Diamonds after eight years
Less than a month after steering Australia to the netball world championship title, Norma Plummer has withdrawn from the running for the national coaching position.
Plummer, who has been Test coach for the past eight years, led the Australians to their second successive world title with a thrilling one-point win in overtime in Singapore against arch-rival New Zealand.
Earlier this year Plummer accepted a two-year job with the under-performing West Coast Fever in Perth in the trans-Tasman competition.
The Netball Australia (NA) board decided to restructure the Test coach role to become more of a technical position, overseeing high-performance programs across the country, and did not believe she could do both.
Plummer said she felt comfortable with the decision because her passion was for working with players.
"In the last two years ... there was a diminishing of the hands-on coaching and that was disappointing for me," she said.
"That's a personal thing, I love the role of the coach.
"You lose it if you're not constantly working with players plus you can continuously refresh yourself when you're in daily training environment."
"That's what I love and that's why I signed with Fever."
Plummer felt she was leaving Australian netball in great shape, with Sydney to host the next world titles in 2015.
"We are looking at a pretty good position because most of our players will only be in their mid-20s," she said.
"I always said when I left the job I would leave it in a very healthy position."
Former Australian captain Sharelle McMahon said she thought Plummer had made the right decision.
"I'm excited for Norma that she is taking her coaching in a different direction," said McMahon, who missed the Singapore tournament after she ruptured her Achilles.
"She just loves getting that real hands-on coaching job, and certainly there was a big aspect of that job in the Australian team but she'll really enjoy getting back into club-land."
McMahon said Plummer left Australian netball with a stellar resume.
"To win back-to-back world championships is a huge effort," she said.
"What a way to go out, it's a fantastic final experience for her."
NA president Noeleen Dix said Plummer would leave the national program on the highest possible note.
"A supreme tactician, passionate and committed to Australian netball, Norma also leaves a magnificent legacy after guiding the international careers of so many of Australia's best players," Dix said.
The front-runner for the Test position is Adelaide Thunderbirds assistant coach Lisa Alexander, with NA set to finalise the role later this month.
The Diamonds have three Tests against both England and New Zealand in October.
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Maria was one among numerous Pakistani actresses, who earned a reputation and recognition for themselves although they had very small and kind of short-lived careers.
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She explained to me that when she was born, in 1927, she "made history". "I was 3 months premature, and weighed less than 2 pounds," she confided to me by the light coming out from between the locker room doors, illuminating the small area where her cot and belongings were. "My parents were sure I would not survive, there was not the kind of hospital care for preemies then that there is now."
Storm Sandy intensified outside and we could hear the howling winds as they passed over the roof of the high school. The lights in the gym, temporary home for over 250 residents, had been dimmed and parents with children quietly reassured them that they were safe. I was transfixed by the story of 'Beverly', an 85 yr. old resident who had come to the high school after a short visit to the clinic for breathing and ambulatory issues.
"My parents told me I was taken to a hospital on Coney Island, and had to stay there for 11 weeks until I gained weight and developed more fully," she continued, eager to have an audience it seemed.
Inside the temporary shelter, much of life comes to a standstill and time loses its ability to define how we spend the day. Some residents come with family members, or find a cot next to a neighbor and set up a de facto 'block', finding comfort in the proximity to familiar people in a wholly unfamiliar experience. Some, like Beverly, are alone at this time of their life, and they reach out eagerly to engage workers, and seem to especially enjoy the school-aged volunteers.
In Old Saybrook, since 1997, the Developmental Assets model www.searchinstitute.org has been taught, role-modeled, advertised and workshopped (!) extensively. Many of the experiences and exchanges I witnessed at the shelter during 3 days of working there exemplified how the community has really integrated so much of this model in the way the community functions. The First Selectman's office, where strategic decisions had to be made with the Police Chief about how to care for all residents, emergency and ambulance personnel who needed to plan for the most at-risk residents, the police force, responsible for directing the Emergency Management Effort, and the student youth, many of them children of the Emergency Management Team, all working together in an effort to provide safety, security and some creature comforts during a time when all were concerned that their homes and lives were at risk.
Beverly's was one of many stories we listened to those 3 days. Some of the teen-aged helpers played card games with the elderly residents, some colored with the children. We made connections between people who had felt very isolated in their own homes, and plan to offer some intentional opportunities for intergenerational gatherings. Perhaps without even being aware of it, our youth demonstrated that they have paid attention to their positive adult role models, that they care about their community, that they understand the value of community service, and they can appreciate that our elders have something to share with all of us.
Heather McNeil is the director of Old Saybrook Youth & Family Services. She is a marriage and family therapist and a licensed alcohol and drug counselor. Heather works within the community and school systems to offer supportive resources to Old Saybrook residents and their families.


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Grants for Teachers: Using Agriculture in the Classroom
Published August 12th, 2014
NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA - Teachers can now apply for grants to introduce projects in the classroom involving agriculture.
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Exploring non-cancer pain conditions in a community sample : critiquing a current conceptual model of the acute to chronic pain transition and examining predictors of chronicity
Lang, Cathryne P. (2008) Exploring non-cancer pain conditions in a community sample : critiquing a current conceptual model of the acute to chronic pain transition and examining predictors of chronicity. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
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This program of research examines the experience of chronic pain in a community sample. While, it is clear that like patient samples, chronic pain in non-patient samples is also associated with psychological distress and physical disability, the experience of pain across the total spectrum of pain conditions (including acute and episodic pain conditions) and during the early course of chronic pain is less clear. Information about these aspects of the pain experience is important because effective early intervention for chronic pain relies on identification of people who are likely to progress to chronicity post-injury. A conceptual model of the transition from acute to chronic pain was proposed by Gatchel (1991a). In brief, Gatchel's model describes three stages that individuals who have a serious pain experience move through, each with worsening psychological dysfunction and physical disability. The aims of this program of research were to describe the experience of pain in a community sample in order to obtain pain-specific data on the problem of pain in Queensland, and to explore the usefulness of Gatchel's Model in a non-clinical sample. Additionally, five risk factors and six protective factors were proposed as possible extensions to Gatchel's Model. To address these aims, a prospective longitudinal mixed-method research design was used. Quantitative data was collected in Phase 1 via a comprehensive postal questionnaire. Phase 2 consisted of a follow-up questionnaire 3 months post-baseline. Phase 3 consisted of semi-structured interviews with a subset of the original sample 12 months post follow-up, which used qualitative data to provide a further in-depth examination of the experience and process of chronic pain from respondents' point of view. The results indicate chronic pain is associated with high levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms. However, the levels of disability reported by this Queensland sample were generally lower than those reported by clinical samples and consistent with disability data reported in a New South Wales population-based study. With regard to the second aim of this program of research, while some elements of the pain experience of this sample were consistent with that described by Gatchel's Model, overall the model was not a good fit with the experience of this non-clinical sample. The findings indicate that passive coping strategies (minimising activity), catastrophising, self efficacy, optimism, social support, active strategies (use of distraction) and the belief that emotions affect pain may be important to consider in understanding the processes that underlie the transition to and continuation of chronic pain.
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Karan Singh Grover – The actor and the character Asad Ahmed Khan in Qubool Hai!
Asad Ahmed Khan is a man who is pained. He has been wronged. His childhood was shrouded with a father who left his mother pregnant and then one fine day he brought a child and said this is your brother, Aayan. He, at least, found some solace in this. A brother whom he mothered. However love is something he shies away from. Not because he does not want love but because he feels he is a chip off the old block and would leave the very person he loves at some stage in his life. So, prevention according to him is better than cure. But in Urdu there is a phrase, "Muddai lakh burr chahe toh kya hota hai, wahi hota hai jo munzure khuda hota hai," which means "Can someone steal one's fate?" And this even Asad Ahmed Khan cannot do for himself. Change his fate.
Karan Singh Grover essays the role of Asad Ahmed Khan, the man with angst and silence his valor. Karan Singh Grover takes his character to the level where Asad's obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) of cleanliness is second nature. There was a scene where he cringes as Zoya pours two spoons of coffee on the table to rile him up. But anger ultimately gets the better of him and he upturns the mug (thankfully, not on Zoya's head – but somewhere he must have wanted to). The director, Gul Khan had asked him to first pour the whole cup on the table and then clean it up frantically as his OCD would get the better of him. Now, while the scene was shot, Karan Singh Grover took tissues out of the box, however even as his hands moved to clean the table, he took a second to straighten the vase that was not placed perfectly (according to him) and then continued the task of cleaning the table. This is what makes Karan Singh Grover. Be the character.
On sets, we have seen the energy he puts in his scenes. Especially during action sequence. His adrenalin is at a high and interestingly he does not rest in between shots lest it drops and the scene has a mismatch of energy. We have not seen him feel the fatigue after shooting strenuous action sequences that requires him to jump over railings, do Parkour moves and climb stairs two at a time. These are just some of the things he can do. His flying roundhouse kick (Yes, he is trained in martial arts and it was he who supplied with the exact terminology) is something one needs to watch for real, in slow motion. He particularly loves action sequences.
When asked how he feels about romantic scenes, his reply is that they are toughest as to emote when there are people sitting right under your nose holding a thermocol sheet would actually make one laugh. And to portray that the lady love is the only thing he can see in the whole wide world is something he has had to work at. Also when one is supposed to be deeply look into the eyes of the person you love, you are being told on a speaker by the director to give all sorts of expressions and that is not a cake walk.
We also asked how easy it is from him to switch off after a scene is done and he says, "I take longer to switch off than switch on. Once I am on the set and in the scene, I am the character but after doing an emotional scene, its takes a bit longer to switch off."
Well, this is just the tip of the iceberg or shall we actually say, a trickle of the hot molten lava that is Karan Singh Grover. There is more that will come. Watch out for more from Forum32 on what makes Karan Singh Grover the man he is, the actor and of course the heart-throb. Till then enjoy him play the angry young man as Asad Ahmed Khan in Qubool Hai, Monday to Friday, at 9:30pm on Zee TV.


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Japanese researchers are reporting the first filming of a living Architeuthis—a giant squid. You know the drill: world's biggest invertebrates, thing that attacked the submarine Nautilus in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, ancient enemy of the sperm whale, only hinted by fragments and half-seen pictures.
Now there's video of one. the team, from Japan's National Science Museum, shot it as they were bringing the 24-foot long beast on board…a process which, by the way, apparently killed it.
Here's a slightly hilarious quote from the lead researcher, Tsunemi Kubodera:
"Sperm whales need from 500 to 1,000 kilograms (1,100-2,200 pounds) of food every day," he said. "There are believed to be 200,000 or so of them, and that would suggest there are quite a few squid for them to be feeding on. I don't think they are in danger of extinction at all."
Considering Japan's record with their treatment of other giant denizens of the sea (Greenpeace on the subject; Japan Whaling responds) I maybe don't want this kind of early evaluation of how plentiful giant squid are. But then again, wouldn't it be awesome if they were just everywhere down there, 100 feet long, masters of the planet?
Brilliant New Yorker story about looking for giant squid: here
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Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on September 15, 1890, at Ashfield, her parents' villa on Barton Hill Road in a hillside neighborhood of Torquay. Her father, Frederick Miller, was the charmingly indolent scion of a wealthy New York family; because his stepmother was British, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic. Miller spent his days playing whist at Torquay's Gentlemen's Club and taking part in amateur theatricals; her mother, Clara Boehmer, instilled in Agatha, the youngest of three children, a love of reading and an active imagination. "I had a very happy childhood," she wrote in her autobiography, which she began in 1950 and completed 15 years later. "I had a home and garden that I loved; a wise and patient Nanny; as father and mother two people who loved each other dearly and made a success of their marriage and of parenthood." Christie's idyll disintegrated in the late 1890s, however, when her father squandered his inheritance through a series of bad business deals. He died of pneumonia at age 55 when Agatha was 11. From that point, the family scraped by with a puny income that Clara received from the law firm of her late father-in-law.
Agatha grew into an attractive, self-confident young woman, the belle of Torquay's social scene. She fended off a dozen suitors, including a young airman, Amyas Boston, who would return to Torquay 40 years later, as a top commander in the Royal Air Force. "He sent a note to Christie at Greenway requesting a meeting for old times' sake," says John Risdon, a Torquay historian and Christie expert. "And he got a reply back saying no thanks, she would rather have him 'cherish the memory of me as a lovely girl at a moonlight picnic...on the last night of your leave.'" She had, says Risdon, "a thread of romanticism that went right through her life." In 1912 she met Archie Christie, an officer in the Royal Flying Corps, at a Torquay dance. They married two years later, and Archie went off to France to fight in the Great War. During his absence, Agatha cared for injured soldiers at Torquay's hospital, then—in a move that would prove fateful—she distributed medicinal compounds at a local dispensary. That work alerted her to the "fascination for poison," wrote Laura Thompson in her recent biography, Agatha Christie: An English Mystery. "The beautiful look of the bottles, the exquisite precision of the calculations, the potential for mayhem contained within order" captivated the future crime writer.
By the time Christie tried her hand at a detective novel, in 1916, "I was well steeped in the Sherlock Holmes tradition," she would recall in her autobiography. The story she devised, a whodunit set in motion by a strychnine poisoning, introduced some of her classic motifs: multiple suspects and murder among the British upper classes—as well as a Belgian refugee who helps Scotland Yard solve the case. Poirot "was hardly more than five feet four inches, but carried himself with great dignity," Christie wrote in her promising debut, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. "His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military. The neatness of his attire was almost incredible; I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound." Four years later, by which time Christie was living in London with Archie and their infant daughter, Rosalind, the publishing firm Bodley Head accepted the manuscript. They offered a small royalty after the first 2,000 books were sold, and locked Christie in for an additional five novels under the same terms. "Bodley Head really ripped her off," says Curran.
Then, in 1926, Christie experienced a series of life-changing turns. In June of that year, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, her sixth novel, was published by William Collins to critical acclaim and far more generous remuneration. The book, notable for its surprising denouement—Poirot exonerates the original suspects and identifies his own assistant, the story's narrator, as the murderer—"established Christie as a writer," says Curran. That summer, Archie announced that he had fallen in love with his secretary and wanted a divorce. And on December 4, Agatha Christie's Morris car was found abandoned at the edge of a lake near the village of Albury in Surrey, outside London, with no sign of its owner. Her disappearance set off a nationwide manhunt that riveted all of England. Police drained ponds, scoured underbrush and searched London buses. The tabloids floated rumors that Christie had committed suicide or that Archie had poisoned her. Eleven days after her disappearance, two members of a band performing at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, reported to police that a guest registered as "Mrs. Teresa Neele" from Cape Town, South Africa, resembled newspaper photographs of the missing writer. Tracked down by police and reunited briefly with Archie, Christie never explained why she had vanished. The never-solved mystery has, over the decades, prompted speculation that she was seeking to punish her husband for his desertion or had suffered a nervous breakdown. The episode also inspired a 1979 film, Agatha, starring Dustin Hoffman and Vanessa Redgrave, which imagined Christie heading to Harrogate to hatch a diabolical revenge plot.
In September 1930, Christie married Max Mallowan, an archaeologist she had met six months earlier on a visit to the ancient Babylonian city of Ur in today's Iraq. The couple settled near Oxford, where she increased her literary output. In 1934, Christie produced two detective novels—Murder on the Orient Express and Why Didn't They Ask Evans?—two short story collections, and a romance novel written under the Westmacott pseudonym. From 1935 on, British editions of her whodunits sold an average of 10,000 hardcovers—a remarkable figure for the time and place. Her popularity soared during World War II, when Blitz-weary Britons found her tidy tales of crime and punishment a balm for their fears and anxieties. "When people got up in the morning, they didn't know whether they'd go to bed at night, or even have a bed to go to," says Curran. "Christie's detective novels were very reassuring. By the end the villain was caught and order restored." Grandson Prichard told me that Christie's tales of crime and punishment demonstrate "her belief in the power of evil, and her belief in justice."
One frigid December morning, I visited Prichard in his office at Agatha Christie Limited, in central London. He greeted me in a bright room filled with framed original covers and facsimile first editions of Christie's novels, now published by HarperCollins. Since his mother's death, Prichard, 67, has been principal guardian of his grandmother's legacy, screening requests to adapt Christie's work for media from film and computer games to graphic novels, overseeing merchandising agreements, and, on occasion, taking trespassers to court. In 1977, Agatha Christie Limited filed a lawsuit against the creators of Agatha, claiming that the film, then in production, took liberties with the story of her disappearance. The company lost its case, although Prichard believes that the lawsuit probably made the film "marginally less fictional than it might have been." More recently, Prichard approved a revival of A Daughter's a Daughter, a loosely autobiographical drama Christie wrote as Mary Westmacott. Prichard, who attended the December 2009 opening of the play, admitted its depiction of a troubled mother-daughter relationship mirrored that of Christie and her daughter, Rosalind. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, critic Charles Spencer characterized the work as "a fascinating, neglected curiosity."
Prichard describes his childhood at Greenway during the 1950s as "the anchor of my growing up...I used to toddle down the stairs, and my grandmother would tell me early morning stories, and she followed my career when I was at [Eton], my cricket." He settled back in his desk chair. "I was fortunate. I was the only grandchild, so all of her attention was concentrated on me." After dinner, Prichard went on, Christie would retire to the drawing room and read aloud from corrected proofs of her latest novel to an intimate group of friends and family. (Intensely disciplined, she began writing a novel each January and finished by spring, sometimes working from a tent in the desert when she accompanied Mallowan on digs in the Middle East.) "My grandfather's brother Cecil, archaeologists from Iraq, the chairman of Collins and [Mousetrap producer] Peter Saunders might be there," Prichard recalled. "Eight or ten of us would be scattered round, and her reading the book took a week or ten days. We were a lot more relaxed back then."
Prichard says he was taken aback by the 2009 research paper that suggested his grandmother suffered from dementia during the last years of her life. According to the New York Times, the researchers digitized 14 Christie novels and searched for "linguistic indicators of the cognitive deficits typical of Alzheimer's Disease." They found that Christie's next-to-last novel, published in 1972, when she was 82, exhibited a "staggering drop in vocabulary" when compared with a novel she had written 18 years earlier—evidence, they postulated, of dementia. "I said to my wife, 'If my grandmother had Alzheimer's when she wrote those books, there were an awful lot of people who would have loved to have Alzheimer's.'" (For his part, scholar John Curran believes that the quality of Christie's novels did decline at the end. "Mathew and I have a disagreement about this," he says.)
Today, Prichard enjoys occasional visits to Greenway, posing as a tourist. He was both pleased—and somewhat disconcerted—he says, by the first-year crush of visitors to his childhood summer home. Fortunately, more than half chose to arrive not by car, but by bicycle, on foot or by ferry down the River Dart; the effort to minimize vehicular traffic kept relations largely amicable between the National Trust and local residents. But there have been a few complaints. "Hopefully the fuss will die down a little, the numbers will go down rather than up, but one never knows. It's difficult [for the local community]," he told me.
Back at Greenway, Robyn Brown and I wander through the sun-splashed breakfast room and cozy salon where Christie's readings took place, and eye the bathtub where, Brown says, "Agatha liked to get in with a book and an apple." In their last years, Rosalind and Anthony Hicks had been too ill to maintain the house properly; Brown points out evidence of renovations that shored up sagging walls, replaced rotting beams, repaired dangerous cracks—and revealed intriguing glimpses of the house's history. Standing outside the winter dining room, she gestures to the floor. "We did some digging, and found a Victorian underfloor heating system here," she tells me. "Underneath the flue we found cobbled pavement that was in front of the Tudor court. So in fact we are standing in front of the original Tudor house." (That house, built around 1528, was demolished by Greenway's late 18th-century owner, Roope Harris Roope, who constructed the Georgian mansion on the site.)


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Suzanne Jackson
My focus is the exploration of the strength of pure acrylic paint as structure and narrative.
Formed acrylic shapes are integrated dimensional surfaces in the paintings and in drawings.
These are my visual responses, recognizing ancestral traditions that continue to resonate
in contemporary African-American retentions and expressions. African-American
Classical music (also known as jazz), Blues, and Indigenous World music forms are
visualized associating references to musicians, to dance, and to natural elements,
strongly influencing my work process. Pushing possibilities of the pure paint materials,
I work as if each beginning is a large-format drawing. These works evolve into paintings,
held together mostly by pure pigment.
Reused Acrylic shards and fragments directly applied alter gestural content and surface.
The paintings synthesize elected cultural memory in visual representation, integrating drawn,
implied or painted line. Pinching, crimping and pleating become linear reconstructions of the
painted surface. Elements and alterations are refined with acrylic paint emphasizing
structural tensions and fluidity of form in the final effect. The flexible two-dimensional
surfaces are realized into "almost "three- dimensional form. Within each composition are
suggested responses to curiosities about passed-down stories and lesser known day to day
traditions that are in continuing practice within African-American heritage and culture.
Surrounded by the raw elements of nature and its various extraordinary transitions, I am
now settled, experiencing and living in the Savannah Georgia lowcountry since 1996.
The development of my paintings and drawings has evolved as a result of continued searching
and finding the "spirit" references especially to Indigenous-American cultural traditions and
events, established and evidenced, in the entry origins of African-American cultural experiences,
throughout the Americas.
Moving from place to place, the influence has been, following the paths of ancestors.
"Suzanne Jackson creates large mixed media works that are expressive, spontaneous, and even playful. She creates each piece by layering a vast array of papers with acrylic and canvas. Her work is a hybrid of collage, painting, and sculpture that breaks the conventional rectangular frame. Her highly textured and colorful works seem to dance on the wall, sometimes bursting out into the space of the viewer. Her works mix monumentality and ruggedness with warmth and freedom."
Albany Museum, Albany, Georgia
SUZANNE JACKSON has had a distinguished career, exhibiting her work in prestigious museums and galleries worldwide with her paintings and biography featured in numerous publications. Jackson's works can be found in public and private collections nationally and internationally. Works have been included in the Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980", Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, opening July 2013 at Williams College Art Museum; touring from MoMA PS1, Long Island and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.; "Places of Validation, Art and Progression", California African American Museum, Los Angeles; The 30 year retrospective, Marks From the Matrix, Normal Editions Workshop, Normal Il.; The Getty Research Institute Oral History Interviews- "Modern Art In Los Angeles", "Gallery 32 and Its Circle"; 2013 and 2010 selections, U.S. Embassies, Monrovia, Liberia and Belgrade, Serbia Art in Embassies Program, U.S Department of State. One person exhibitions include Danville Museum of Art, Danville, VA; Ferst Fine Arts Center, Richards and Westbrook Galleries, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta; Parkersburg Art Center, West VA; Albany Museum of Art, Albany GA; Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA; Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA.
Suzanne Jackson received a B.A. in Art from San Francisco State University and holds a MFA from Yale University School of Drama, Design.
Artist's photo courtesy of Nathan Jones


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CheapDJGear.us Pro Sound Depot, Pro Audio . I ordered to what I thought was reasonable price for DJ Equipment, On October 31, 2013 I made an online purchase to this CheapDJGear.us and it is now November 7, 2013 and still processing. I then phoned the company was told they were getting it ready for packaging and I will get and email verifying the shipment. Akron Ohio
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I made a purchase to this company using my credit card on October 31, 2013. I have logged into my account on the website at http://cheapDJGear.us and it tells me that my order I placed is in process. I phoned the company after searching online for a phone number. I got a guy on the line and he asked me for my order number and he said that my order is still in the warehouse being packaged and getting ready for shipping. I told him that I read reviews about a company that was ripping people off.
He told me that their comapny took over pro audio that went bank rupt. now I spent and made a purchase for 1743.57 for lights and equipment and still no email verifying that they have shipped it. I have called my bank, they told me to call back and speak to my a credit card rep. Therefore I did do some major searching and found out cheapdjgear.us has 47 domains and all from tucows. How i found this out is i went to this site. http://reversewhois.domaintools.com/?refine#q=%5B%5B%5B%22email%22%2C%220%22%2C%22support%40importersdirect.net%22%5D%5D%5D
Now I am trying to get my money back and trying to get help. i even found complaints about these sites using google and seen complaints in the Better Business Bureau. I am not happy, i put the rest of my earnings into what I thought was going to be a good start of being a DJ and getting ready for a karaoke night every saturday and was really counting on this equipment. Now I have to have my boss buy me a new sound system and I have to work for free till I pay it all back, if I can't get my money back.
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SUBMITTED: Friday, January 10, 2014POSTED: Friday, January 10, 2014
Did research and as well found out cheapdjgear.us took over another company that went bankrupt and as well the stuff i did order was straightened out and I did get everything i purchased. this complaint can be deleted and as well i am going to other reviews on the web to explain the current circumstances of cheapdjgear.us. Everything is working out fine. no defective equipment.
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SUBMITTED: Monday, December 16, 2013POSTED: Monday, December 16, 2013
The following recent experience is a true story. I am NOT an employee of this company and I live in Florida NOT Ohio.
The Tuesday prior to this post I went on their website and placed an order for slightly over 200.00 worht of DJ equipment.
I somehow stubled accross this consumer website which I have referred to for the past 10 years and I discovered 2 different complaints.
It was after hours so I sent an email to their customer service email address canceling the order. The next day (Wenesday) I called to cancel and a man on the other end told me that I could not cancel because it was already shipped. I called UPS to verify and UPS told me that they were not yet in possession of this order. That night, I called Wells Fargo and filed an immediate disupte against them.
I freaked out and sent another email to their customer service department threatenting to file a consumer complaint on this site, the BBB and the Ohio Attorney General as well as told them I contacted my credit card issuer and filed a dispute due to the negative consumer complaints I read online.
The next day, (Thursday), I got a call from a very nice lady, Tammy, and she told me that not to worry, she issued me an immediate refund but asked if she could speak to me further about my concerns and I was happy to provide her with feedback.
I explained to her that I went on ROR.com and found 2 complaints and that the other guy I spoke with told me my order had been shipped when it wasn't and that was part of the complaint I read.
She explained to me the entire situation about the other complaint and that they were under new ownership and they do sell brand new items and she hoped that I would give them another chance. She also informed me that reason why my package did not ship was that it got missed on the next UPS pickup and the gentlemen in the warehouse was not aware of this fact and she told me she cancelled my order but it was very possible the order was still going to arrive.
While I was on the phone with her, I felt she was being genuine with me so I told her I would give them 1 chance and would place an order for a smaller value item and gave her another credit card to process.
Late Thursday night, I got an automated message from UPS (I am a MY UPS CHOICE SUBSCRIBER) and it verified my package was shipped.
The next day, Friday, I logged into my Wells Fargo account and my refund was sure enough there.
It is now Monday and I got a big pacakge delivered to me at work. I was stunned to see such a big box when I was expecting a little box. I went on lunch and quickly opene the box to find my original 3 peices of audio equipment that I cancelled and I called Tammy right away. At first I thought she placed the wrong order for me but it was the fully packed original order.
She also told me that another package, the order that I placed the second time, for the smaller charge to my credit card was also on the way.
I told Tammy not to worry, I am not going to keep items that I did not pay for so she told me she was going to email me a printable UPS label to send back the items that I did not order. 1 of the items in the box was an item that I was gong to order anyway so I told her that I would also keep the microphone and that I will give her my credit card information the next day because I am not theif and I will not keep something I did not pay for.
When I got home there was a UPS door tag stuck to my door for the second item so I called UPS and told them that I am respectfully refusing this item since it was already in a package that I ordered prior and UPS confirmed that they would return the second item to the vendor.
When I got home I was able to inspect all the items I wanted to keep and I have to say they DO SELL BRAND NEW ITEMS and secondly they are very fast with shipping and finally they do take customer care very serious and because of the way the treated me I am going to order more items from them.
I am extremely satisfied with the way they treated me and the merchandise arrived in mint condition and FACTORY SEALED!
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We would like to make this right
SUBMITTED: Thursday, December 12, 2013POSTED: Thursday, December 12, 2013
Good Morning,
We just noticed your report on this webiste, we have no records of your order in the amount and date you are refering to. We would like to make this right as we are a newer company that purchased a companies URL's that went out of business and had bad reviews. We are trying to have all our customers completely satisfied as we strive for 100 percent customer satisfaction. So with that being said please call us during normal business hours Mon thru Fri 10am to 5pm EST and ask to speak with Jessi in regards to your issues you are having and we will do our best to make this right.
Thank you
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Anais Caradeux
After spending her childhood under the sun on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, Anais and her family moved to Annecy, located in a French region known for some of the world's most famed ski resorts. This is where Anais got her taste for winter sports, experimenting with ice skating before pursuing a competitive career in freestyle skiing. Today, Anais holds and defends her title as the French Champion—a title she has carried since 2005. Over the last five seasons, Anais has taken to the international circuit where she is gradually making her place in the limelight. During the 11/12 season, Anais earned the #3 spot on the Association of Freeskiing Professional's Halfpipe World Rankings.


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Overdue books are certainly a nuisance for librarians. But for one library in Charlton, Mass., they were grounds for a criminal inquiry. When two children's books were several months overdue, the library complained to the cops. After Sgt. Dan Dowd stopped by the home of Shannon Benoit, her 5-year-old daughter, who had borrowed the books, burst into tears and asked if she was going to jail. "Apparently, overdue library books are a misdemeanor," says Katherine Stone at Babble, "so get those overdue books in before it's too late!"
The Republican candidate for the vacant Montana House of Representatives seat, Greg Gianforte, allegedly assaulted Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs at a campaign event Wednesday night. Jacobs described the situation on Twitter:
Greg Gianforte just body slammed me and broke my glasses
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) May 24, 2017
Buzzfeed News reporter Alexis Levinson was directly outside the room in question, and she described "angry yelling" and a "giant crash." The Guardian posted audio of the encounter, where Gianforte can be heard shouting angrily, "I'm sick and tired of you guys:"
Gianforte's campaign put out a response accusing Jacobs of having "grabbed Greg's wrist, and spun away from Greg, pushing them both to the ground." This account is rather divergent from the recorded one, not least because it says Gianforte asked Jacobs to lower his recorder and he refused, which cannot be heard at all.
Jacobs wrote an article detailing Gianforte's ties to sanctioned Russian companies last month. The election is tomorrow. Ryan Cooper
Good news, poor people — Ben Carson is here to explain why you aren't a millionaire.
"I think poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind," the retired neurosurgeon, former presidential candidate, current Housing and Urban Development Secretary, and not an economic adviser said during a SiriusXM town hall recorded Tuesday night and released Wednesday. "You take somebody that has the right mindset, you can take everything from them and put them on the street, and I guarantee in a little while they'll be right back up there. And you take somebody with the wrong mindset, you can give them everything in the world, they'll work their way right back to the bottom."
Carson has been vocal about being poor growing up, and said that while he does believe the government is able to give a "helping hand" to people trying to lift themselves out of poverty, there are too many programs that are "sustaining them in a position of poverty. That's not helpful." HUD provides affordable housing and rental assistance to low-income families, and under President Trump's proposed budget released Tuesday, the department's budget would be cut by $6 billion. Catherine Garcia
When Attorney General Jeff Sessions applied for his security clearance, he neglected to share meetings he had in 2016 with Russian officials, the Justice Department told CNN Wednesday.
The SF-86 form requires a person list "any contact" they or their family had with a "foreign government" or its "representatives" over the last seven years, officials told CNN, and Sessions, who met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at least two times in 2016, did not mention these gatherings. Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores told CNN that Sessions and his staff were told by the FBI they did not need to list meetings he had with foreign ambassadors that took place while he was still a senator.
"My interpretation is that a member of Congress would still have to reveal the appropriate foreign government contacts notwithstanding it was on official business," Mark Zaid, a Washington attorney specializing in national security law, told CNN. During his Senate confirmation hearings earlier this year, Sessions, an early Trump supporter, also did not disclose his interactions with Kislyak. Catherine Garcia
Last summer, U.S. spies gathered information on senior Russian officials discussing how to influence Donald Trump through his advisers, three current and former American officials told The New York Times.
They specifically focused on two men with indirect ties to Russian officials: Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign chairman at the time, and Michael Flynn, his foreign policy adviser. The information was deemed credible enough by intelligence agencies to pass along to the FBI, but it remains unclear if the Russians actually did try to influence Manafort and Flynn, who have both denied any collusion with the Russian government before the 2016 presidential election.
The U.S. spies heard some Russians bragging about how well they knew Flynn, the Times reports; in 2015, Flynn earned more than $65,000 from several companies linked to Russia, including the government-funded RT news network. For his part, Manafort spent more than 10 years working for political organizations in Ukraine, forging a close relationship with Viktor Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine who was a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Tuesday, former CIA Director John Brennan testified that last summer, he was convinced "the Russians were trying to interfere in the election. And they were very aggressive." By the end of former President Barack Obama's term, he still had "unresolved questions in my mind as to whether or not the Russians had been successful in getting U.S. persons, involved in the campaign or not, to work on their behalf against either in a witting or unwitting fashion." Catherine Garcia
Congresswoman introduces bill meant to stop top-level officials from blabbing to hostile states
Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) on Wednesday introduced a bill that would require the president to alert Congress if anyone in the executive branch happened to, say, reveal some classified information to certain hostile nations. Murphy rolled out her bill just over a week after reports surfaced that President Trump had revealed highly classified information passed to the U.S. from Israel in an Oval Office meeting with Russian officials.
Murphy's bill, the Prevention and Oversight of Intelligence Sharing with Enemies (POISE) Act, would require the president "to promptly notify the House and Senate congressional intelligence committees when any U.S. executive branch official, including the president himself, intentionally or inadvertently discloses Top Secret information to government officials of nations that sponsor terrorism or, like Russia, are subject to U.S. economic sanctions."
As a former national security specialist at the Pentagon, Murphy said she's witnessed how damaging it can be to spill classified information. "When U.S. intelligence falls into the wrong hands, it puts our service members, intelligence operatives, and diplomats at risk and undermines our national security interests around the world," she said in a statement. "Additionally, our allies are unlikely to share highly-sensitive intelligence if they lose confidence in our ability to protect such information." Becca Stanek
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's cost estimate of the American Health Care Act released Wednesday predicted some steep costs for the elderly. Vox's Sarah Kliff reported that low-income Americans over the age of 64 would see premiums increase by a whopping 800 percent under the GOP-backed plan:
CBO estimates that in states requesting AHCA waivers, premiums for low-income elderly enrollees would go up 800 percent. That is not a typo. pic.twitter.com/W7QC4z9UUS
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) May 24, 2017
Under ObamaCare, Americans over the age of 64 with an annual income of $26,500 pay a net premium of $1,700. If the AHCA were to become law, that same population would pay a net premium of $13,600.
The score the CBO released Wednesday updates its previous evaluation of the bill, released in March, to reflect changes that Republicans made to the bill before passing it in the House earlier this month. Overall, the updated score predicted an additional 23 million Americans would be uninsured by 2026 if the AHCA were to replace ObamaCare. The bill would reduce the federal deficit by $119 billion. Becca Stanek
The CBO predicts the two amendments that saved the AHCA in the House will upend insurance markets
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its score of the American Health Care Act on Wednesday, updating its projections to accommodate the version of the bill that passed the House earlier this month. The CBO offered an initial score of the GOP health-care bill in March, after it was first drafted but before it was amended to amass enough Republican votes to pass the lower chamber.
The two major amendments made to the bill during negotiations sought to make the bill more amenable to the far-right Freedom Caucus members, who felt the first draft did not go far enough to repeal ObamaCare, while retaining the support of more moderate Republicans, who worried about constituents reliant on ObamaCare policies.
As a result, the second iteration of the bill included two key changes, delegating certain coverage mandates to states: They would have the option to waive the ObamaCare mandate that insurers cover certain essential health benefits, including maternity care and mental health treatment; and they would have the option to waive the requirement that insurers charge people of the same age the same premiums regardless of health status, also known as "community rating."
In its updated score Wednesday, the CBO predicted these two waivers would destabilize the insurance market, due to "market responses to decisions by some states to waive [the aforementioned] two provisions of federal law":
Quite a paragraph in the CBO report - expects law would greatly destabilize insurance markets. pic.twitter.com/FQnMsfagz5
— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) May 24, 2017
The CBO predicted that in states that exercise their waiver right in both cases, young, healthier individuals would opt for insurance plans with lower premiums rather than purchasing plans from insurers that have retained the community-rating provision. When healthier individuals are not required to purchase insurance, or when they can purchase cheaper plans from alternate providers, those insurers providing more comprehensive coverage to sicker or older individuals are forced to charge higher premiums to those individuals to balance their costs.
Overall, the updated CBO score predicted the American Health Care Act would leave 23 million more Americans uninsured by 2026 than ObamaCare, while reducing the federal deficit by $119 billion. Senate Republicans have already set to work overhauling the bill. Read the CBO's full report here. Kimberly Alters


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The order has come: It's time to evacuate.
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This is Riverview Circle's response to Moorhead's Code Red that indicates evacuations are likely. Another pickup with another load of sandbags has just pulled into John Brummer's garage and another crowd of volunteers has arrived to stack it on the sandbag dike that rings this neighborhood along three miles of shoreline. I asked him if Read more →
Views of the Red River flooding in Fargo-Moorhead.
As a Code Red was issued this afternoon, signifying an evacuation is possible from Riverview Circle, and the surrounding neighborhoods, the Morses and John Brummer were not giving up.
The Red River can be very sneaky. It took a backdoor approach to get near Donna and Todd Morse's house today.
The daily meeting of officials battling the Red River flood is underway in Fargo.
I'm getting some emails about how people can volunteer. It's a pretty simple process in the Fargo Moorhead area.


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Davey Lighting's steel ship's cargo cluster pendant light, with protective galvanised guard. The reflector is available in a green painted finish (with white interior) or a galvanised finish. A six lampholder cluster or a single central lampholder can be specified.
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Davey lighting is very much a British manufacturing company with roots dating back to 1885 based in London's West India Docks. Many of Davey's interior and exterior pendants, wall and step lights date back over 100 years. Davey Lighting now supplies marine, industrial and decorative lighting, made to the same high standards, for exterior and interior architectural use and are all manufactured in England.


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My common sense says that since you were not the driver, you were not the one that broke the law, therefore, the LEO would not need to address you and you have no obligation to inform of your firearm.
Now, if the LEO has some "suspicions" and asks for all passengers to dismount the vehicle, I would likely inform him/her of my firearm.
The years that I lived and carried in Raleigh, I had "official" interactions with RPD twice, both for fender-benders and I informed the officer on both occassions.
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July 4th celebration at Lake Junaluska
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Join us at Lake Junaluska for July 4th! Our spectacular package includes reserved seat tickets to Balsam Range as well as to the Lake Junaluska Singers in concert. Don't miss an incredible weekend of music and fun, which includes three concerts, a parade, special meals, and much more! Bring your family to the Lake this 4th of July! Two- night packages start at $172 per person, based on two people in a room. Call 800-222-4930 to book. Read More
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- Bluegrass band with picnic
- Lake Junaluska Singers perform Star Spangled Banner
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- Lake Junaluska Singers Concert, 7:30 p.m., Stuart Auditorium
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Pamela Anderson may have become famous by filling out a one-piece swimsuit on Baywatch, but it's her tireless work in behalf of animals that we at peta2 love her for. In her latest project, "Cruelty Doesn't Fly," Pam stars as a no-nonsense airport security guard who strips travelers (like our pal Steve-O) of their fashion faux pas—animal skins!
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i soaked some tweezers i had in 50% rubbing alcohol and used the tweezers to pick out some dried mucus in my nose. i did this about 3 times and i am about on my 3rd week after rhinoplasty. is this a bad thing to be doing?
Will Soaking Tweezers in Alcohol and Using It to Take out Dried Mucous from my Nose 3 Weeks After Rhinoplasty Be Ok?
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Hello and thank you for the question.
I would not recommend placing any sort of instrument inside your nose. As my colleague suggested, you may cause inadvertant damage to the nose or stimulate bleeding. You may want to consider using a saline spray to irrigate the nasal cavity.
Kindest Regards,
Glenn Vallecillos, M.D., F.A.C.S.
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I don't recommend this. You may cause bleeding or damage the inside of your nose. Steam or a vaporizor might loosen them and then they will come out naturally.
Is removing dried mucous from my nose at 3 weeks after Rhinoplasty, OK.
No, IMHO if you have dried mucous in your nose at 3 weeks after a Rhinoplasty, IMHO it's best to return to your Rhinoplasty surgeons office to have your nose cleaned. There are internal sutures that you may pull causing collapse and web formation...it's best to let them handle it for the first 4-6 weeks until the sutures have dissolved and the incisions healed.
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Nasal Hygiene after rhinoplasty
Its natural and expected for crusting to occur inside the nostrils after surgery. Using tweezers can injure the stiches that your doctor placed so carefully. A better way is to moisten a Q-tip with peroxide, and roll the cotton bulb inside the nosril rim in a cleaning motion 4 times a day, followed each time with applying any over the counter , nonperscription antibiotic ointment with another clean Q-tip in a similar way. This will coat the healing tissues, as well as keep the nostrils well moisturized. Furthermore, it will keep your doctor happy !
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Jon Hichborn, the "Bounty Hunter of the Music Business" and noted as the "Best Royalty Tracker In The World", has more than 30 years experience in the music business. Hichborn owns Records On The Wall and handles Music administration and royalty-tracking matters for a diverse group of artists over the years, including Derek And The Dominos, Robert Johnson, Dr. John, Wild Cherry, Spiral Starecase, Foghat, Molly Hatchet, Solomon Burke, Bonnie Bramlett, Yvonne Elliman, The Association, Steam, Ten Years After and many others.
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After every blowout win this season, Alabama head coach Nick Saban has come into the post-game press conference with his arms crossed and a scowl on his face.
He glares down at reporters from the podium, his prickly personality in full effect as he goes into an opening statement about where his team could have done better and where they need to improve for next week.
After No. 1 Alabama beat Missouri 42-10 in rainy Columbia, Mo. last Saturday, Saban told reporters that he was upset with himself for not getting the team's intensity up after a 38-minute rain delay that came in the second quarter. Up until that point his Crimson Tide was playing just about perfect football and had a 27-0 lead.
But when play resumed (and Jeremy Shelley knocked down the lingering extra point from the touchdown running back T.J. Yeldon had scored before the lightening strike to make the score 28-0), Mizzou's Marcus Murphy returned a kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown and just like that, the Tigers were not only on the board, but had momentum.
A couple of series later, the Tigers knocked down a field goal. The Tide hadn't given up 10 unanswered points since the Auburn game in 2010.
After the game, Saban was mad at himself for the team's lack of energy after the rain delay. He was visibly still frustrated when asked about it the following Monday.
"Well, I tried to fire myself this week," he said, tone heightening. "When we were in the locker room, we had great focus, great attention to detail. We were going over all the things like it was halftime and everybody had the right look in their eye. We didn't come out and play with the same kind of energy and intensity. I'm responsible. I need to do a better job."
When players make mistakes, they have to answer to Saban. But when Saban admittedly messes up, who holds him accountable?
He does.
"If you have any ideas of what I could do to [punish] myself, I'd be glad to do it," he said. "I feel bad about it. Any time our team goes out there and I don't think they're playing the way they should, then I'm constantly searching for what I could have done better."
And that's what Saban does on a regular basis. He's always trying to conjure up ways he can get better and his team can get better. After Alabama won national championships in 2009 and '11, former offensive coordinator and current Colorado State head coach Jim McElwain recently recalled that Saban didn't even celebrate but rather called a staff meeting for the following mornings to discuss next season, who they have coming back and recruiting.
"He shook our hands in the locker room and said, Thank you, which was nice," McElwain said. "We'll have time to celebrate, we'll have time to look back when we get done. There's always work to do and that's they key."
That type of vigor and determination is why the Tide is en route to another national title, why this program seems to be a step ahead of everyone else and why players want to play for Saban and Alabama.
What does it take to play for Nick Saban?
A passion, an open mind, a willingness to learn, a desire to get better. Not just in football, but in all aspects of life.
It takes a certain type of personality. He's not a coach for everyone. He's not a coach for the weak. There's no babysitting in Tuscaloosa.
"You can't be a guy who just wants to get by," said senior center Barrett Jones. "You have to be a guy that wants to be the best and wants to win.
"I love playing for him because he's extremely intelligent. He sets a standard for what he wants and he has clear consequences and you gotta respect that."
Players weren't allowed to go into detail about Saban's consequences, but Alabama Sports Information Director Jeff Purinton explained the repercussions are what one might expect—extra running, conditioning, push ups, etc.
However, Saban takes it a step further, Purinton said. If a player makes a mistake or doesn't meet the team's standard, he's called into Saban's office for a one-on-one meeting, which is comparable to one's worst fear of going to the principal's office times a thousand.
"He takes the time, no matter what he's doing, to meet with a player," Purinton said. "It's one thing to say you're going to be held accountable, it's another thing for the players here to know they're going to be held accountable."
The most recent example comes from Alabama redshirt freshman defensive end LaMichael Fanning. Late in last Saturday's game against Missouri, he was called for unsportsmanlike conduct after suplexing Tigers' running back Russell Hansbrough.
Saban does not condone that type of play, so he took punishment into his own hands, meaning that Alabama would handle the situation rather than the SEC. He would not say if Fanning would be suspended for the Tennessee game this weekend, but told reporters Fanning's consequences: he had to write letters of apology to Hansbrough and Mizzou head coach Gary Pinkel. Why? Because it was the right thing to do and he wanted to teach Fanning and the rest of his team a lesson.
"Our emphasis with him is to learn from this experience, as well as all the players on our team to help them make better choices and decisions in the future," he said. "Everybody makes mistakes. I make them. It's part of being human. But when you make a mistake and you make a poor decision, you have to understand the consequences and learn from them."
Senior defensive end Damion Square learned about consequences and discipline growing up because his mother and grandmother ran a tight ship.
"It could be overwhelming if you're not used to it," he said. "My grandmother, what she told you to do is what you were supposed to do, nothing less, nothing more. And you'd be getting the punishment she told you she was going to give you if you didn't do it.
"And it's the same thing with coach Saban. You have an obligation and he's going to let you know what's going to happen if you don't do it. So it takes a certain type of guy. Some guys adjust, some guys don't."
Saban is a teacher. He may be a very intimidating one, but he's all about "The Process" and helping develop young players into men. If a player makes a mistake in a game or practice, sure Saban will yell and scream, but he'll also take the time to go over what went wrong so that it doesn't happen again. Kind of like mandatory office hours.
Square explained that on Monday's before moving onto the next opponent, Saban goes through every mistake made in the previous game and has his team run the exact same plays they messed up on.
"We go out there and see what we did wrong just in case we see it again because you never want to get beat on the same thing twice," Square said.
Some players—the ones who embrace his wrath and understand he's there to help them—view Saban as a father figure, in a sense.
Sophomore safety Vinnie Sunseri grew up in a football family. His father Sal was the Crimson Tide's outside linebackers coach from 2009-11, but has since become Tennessee's defensive coordinator. Vinnie committed to Alabama for a lot of reasons, but one was that his family was a part of the program.
When his father left, Vinnie thought about following, but stayed at Alabama because of Saban.
"He's, in my eyes, the best all around," Sunseri said. "He is someone I really ended up looking up to the whole time I've been here. Once [my dad] left, I was trying to figure out why I wanted to be here, why I'd stay. Coach Saban is the reason I stayed. He's one of the best DB coaches out there and I wanted to learn from the best."
Saban and the Alabama coaching staff have the luxury of recruiting the nation's elite players with the following resume: one SEC title, two national championships, 18 first-team All-Americans and 24 NFL draft picks with 11 coming in the first round. And those are just accomplishments since 2008.
Saban's first recruiting class from start to finish was in '08, a talented group that included the nation's No. 1 prospect Julio Jones, future Heisman winner Mark Ingram, plus Marcell Dareus, Terrence Cody, Dont'a Hightower, Mark Barron, Courtney Upshaw, and current seniors Barrett Jones, Michael Williams, Damion Square and Robert Lester.
Since then, the Crimson Tide's recruiting classes have finished in the Scout Top 10 every year, which simply illustrates that the best players want to be coached by Saban.
"When I was getting recruited, I looked at a lot of different schools," said Jones, who was a four-star prospect with offers from Alabama, Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Florida. "Every coach kind of tells you the same thing. You're gonna win championships, you're gonna have success, they're gonna make you successful as a person and a player.
"But something about when coach Saban sits down in your living room, and tells that to your parents and looks you in the eye and lays out his plan, it's special. I don't know why, but you just believe him and you want to be a part of it."
Jones also explained that when Saban recruits a kid, he doesn't beg him to commit.
"He doesn't come to you and say, 'We really need you to come, we'll start you definitely,'" Jones said. "He doesn't make any promises. He says, 'Here's what we're doing and we'd love for you to be a part of it.' And that was just really appealing to me."
But Saban's track record for winning on the biggest stage in college football isn't the sole reason why kids come to play for him.
"The development all the way around, for life, for the workplace, for football, he just teaches you the foundation of being a good person," Square said. "Being someone that somebody would want to hire. Someone that somebody would want to play with. Someone that somebody would want to be around. That's always his thing. Doing what's expected of you when it's expected and knowing when it's expected.
"You know, a lot of people don't know what's expected of them."
This is where the famous "Process" comes into play.
"He's really given us a different mindset to life," Jones said. "How to focus on the little things and how to not focus so much on results."
Senior safety Robert Lester was recently asked what he was most proud of when looking back on his college career, and his answer had nothing to do with winning two national championships. Why? Because Saban teaches that winning is not enough.
"I would say just the development of the players here," he said. "When I came here, I thought I was ready to play. But I can look back on film and just tell I was nowhere near ready. And it amazes me how coach Saban can see that at an early stage."
Winning isn't enough, never settle, never rest, there is always room for improvement.
Those are things Saban preaches and if you're one of his disciples, those are things you have to practice on a daily basis in order to one day be satisfied.
And that begs the question, Will Saban or anyone who has ever studied under him be satisfied?
"Maybe when he's on his pontoon boat up at this lake in North Carolina he may look back and say, 'You know what, that was a pretty decent run,'" McElwain said. "But you know, he won't be satisfied with the way he tied the knot on the boat to put it on the dock. I mean, he's driven and that's how we all should be. You can never be satisfied because once you're satisfied, you become mediocre and that constant push, there's always things we can do better in everything we do, not just football."
And that is the allure of Saban.
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