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Pucker up dear and I'll put your lippy on," Ian Winship affectionately instructs his wife Mary. She playfully blows kisses at him as the former steeplejack deploys the tube of lipstick with surprising ease. It's just one of the many skills, once foreign to the 73-year-old, which he has had to acquire since Mary, 66, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease six years ago.
"I find myself talking to people about recipes," admits Ian with a wry smile on his face. "Mary used say to me, 'We need a new iron.' I'd say, 'Mary, my mother had an iron for 30 years we can't need a new one.' I was just that used to getting it done for me."
They have been married for 50 years and the closeness that has underpinned such a strong bond is still very much apparent in every exchange between them – their constant lighthearted teasing emanates a cheerful warmth.
Ian talks enthusiastically about holidays abroad the couple, from Abronhill, Cumbernauld, once took, all of which were documented at length by Mary in her diary upon their return. They even bought a camper van with dreams of touring the continent throughout their retirement.
Hill walking is a great passion of Ian's, something he attributes to his time as a paratrooper. Evidence of this is dotted around the couple's immaculate, cosy home, thanks to their proudly-displayed paintings and sculptures from trips to conquer the Himalayas and the Italian Alps.
Ian's demeanour becomes serious when he concedes he doesn't have time to indulge his favourite pastime these days because caring for his beloved partner has become his primary concern. "Mary can't do anything for herself anymore," he explains. "I have to feed her, dress her, wash her. It's like having a child, we can't have a conversation now. It's 24 hours a day I have to look after her, I barely get any sleep."
He continues: "If it was another medical condition or cancer the nurses would have been at the door but because it's this, as a carer, I'm left on my own. It's trial and error – if something doesn't agree with her I have to just work that out myself. I think it's only becoming known how serious this condition is now since people are living longer."
The couple's three children, Fiona, David, and Ian, help as best they can, but the only regular respite Ian receives is when volunteers from the Alzheimer Scotland organisation take Mary out twice a week for a few hours. "I couldn't praise them enough," says Ian. "They're always trying to come up with new ways to stimulate sufferers, and that's what keeps them going. Mary loves to sing, we've got tambourines and musical bits and pieces that the carers play with her. It's fabulous."
Ian keeps a diary detailing Mary's state of mind each day. In an entry in February of this year he wrote: "I have long feared the day that Mary will no longer recognise me, and today that day is here. She will ask me my name, and what's my wife's name." An extract such as this, an insight into the difficult reality of living with such a devastating illness, reveals just how painful life can be for the loved ones of a sufferer.
It is obvious however, after spending only a few minutes in Ian's company, that he retains a very positive outlook on life. "There's always someone who has it worse than you, that's what you've always got to remember," he tells me.
The Joint Dementia Initiative in Falkirk runs a weekly café where sufferers and their carers can interact and support one another. "It makes such a difference," says Ian. "It's stimulus; that's what stops them going downhill as quickly as the sufferers who are sedated all the time. Mary just loves to go there and sing; at first it was embarrassing but now they all join in. It's a tremendous support to be able to speak to carers who are going through the same thing. People have come from Hong Kong and Germany to see the place because it's so well run."
The Scottish Government announced a new Charter of Rights for dementia sufferers last month, which Ian hopes will change attitudes towards the illness. "People say they understand but they don't really know what you go through and what happens," he explains. "I hope it will help – anything giving more support than there is at the moment has to help. It's one thing to talk about it but it's more difficult to get it into practice."
There's a noise at the door as Mary and her carer return. She's full of life as she sits down and tells Ian she had a blueberry muffin and a hot chocolate at the coffee shop. "You're a creature of habit aren't you?" he teases.
"Yes, but I like my habit," Mary quickly retorts. Ian jokes: "Shame you're not wearing a habit, I could be off to a warmer climate."
"Behave," comes Mary's reply, with a cheeky smile cracking across her face.
"It's no fun to behave," Ian pokes back.
"That's why I'm telling you to," concludes Mary, satisfied with her victory.
It's a fantastic sight to behold: despite her condition, she can still be as sharp as a tack in response to her husband's teasing.
As Ian walks me to the front door he gestures towards the living room. Mary and her carer are laughing and joking about the day out they've had together. "Listen to that in there," he says. "If you go to most of these support places they're just left sitting on their own, but just listen to that. She's chatting away, she's alive in there. That's just what she needs."
If you would like to know more about the support offered by Alzheimer Scotland, call their helpline on 0808 808 3000 or visit www.alzscot.org
David Graham: Winner of the Wyn Harness Prize
The Wyn Harness Prize for Young Journalists was established in November 2008 in memory of The Independent's former assistant editor, Wyngate Harness, who died from an inoperable brain tumour in 2007.
David Graham's feature impressed the judges with its "unusual approach to a traditional subject and a sensitive use of quotes and language which brought the article to life". David Graham, 24, finished a post-grad in journalism at the Strathclyde School of Journalism last June, following a brief career in banking. He now works for a local paper in Scotland and has just completed a work placement at The Independent.
He says: "I chose to write about Alzheimer's as I recently lost someone very close to me to the disease and it really struck me how little coverage it receives. There is so little awareness about how devastating a condition it is for the sufferer and everyone around them. It's very traumatic to watch as the person you once knew and loved slowly disappears before you. In a way, it can be worse than a sudden bereavement. We are years and years behind where we should be in terms of research into the condition and the development of treatments; however, through increasing awareness, that can only improve."
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Why did you name your dog that?!
I am interested in knowing what name you chose for your dog and why!
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I have two dogs....and I didn't choose either of their names....they did! When I get a new dogs, I just wait....and wait...and wait. I dont actively try to think of names. Then one day...BOOM...it is absolutely clear what their name is supposed to be. They let me know through behaviour, personality. I sort of wanted to name my boy Bruno....but then Charlie Pete presented itself after a week and it was perfect. My girl was slow...she didn't get a name for quite some time...almost a month. I thought about naming her Jessie....Then Annie. Then one day ...BOOM... JessAnneMarieLouise. It is perfect for her; there could be no name that is a better fit. :-)
Charlie Pete answered on 3/19/10. Helpful? / 0
Daisy was without a name for a while as I couldnt come up with one good enough. :S The one afternoon I was walking with mom and Daisy ran up to the garden and she loves smelling flowers so she started to smell a Daisy. So I thought about it and was like Daisy thats the perfect name! As for Boston he came with that name and I didnt like it. I wanted to name him spike. Well I got him at a slightly older age so he already new his name everyone was like he looks like a Boston you know very distinguished. Well now that I know him really well his personality fits spike to a tee! He is my bad attitude child :D O well go with my gut next time I guess.
Daisy answered on 3/20/10. Helpful? / 0
Dieta- had no choice that was her registered name but seems to fit her.
Bridget-Eley- the shelter named her that but it is cute so we kept it.
Baxter- I did name him it was just that cute name that you get that just pops into your head. He looked like a baxter.Seemed formal with his tuxedo colors.
And then right after that I think they came out with the commercial with a baxter who was a boston for the dirty mouth gum. :)
I would laugh.
Dieta answered on 3/20/10. Helpful? / 0
Hector was named after someone. I didn't personally know the man Hector, only by aqaintance,but he was a big man, nice, but very guarded. His size and demeanor just seemed to stand out. When I first got my dog from the shelter, he for some reason reminded me of this person from so many years ago. Heneforth, his name.
Teddy was such a sweet dog, friendly, and easy going. He was just a big ole teddy bear!!
Bo, wash't suppose to stay, so we just called him bocephus, while he stayed here during his neutering surgery recovery. We never changed it when we decided to be his forever home.
Gidget was named due to her size. She was so very very tiny when she came to us. I was afraid one of my dogs would step on her and kill her. She is still the smallest, but also the most rotten, spoiled dog I have ever had. We now call her GIDGI-MONSTER!!! and it fits.
How did Rose get her name?
Gidget answered on 3/20/10. Helpful? / 0
I had my mind set on naming our puppy Star, but when we decided to get a male dog, I thought Star wasn't really fitting. My Hubby & I started to look at other names and Chris saw "Super Nova" as an alternate to Star. I thought it was cute but didn't want to be calling my dog Super anything lol So we opted to shorten it to just Nova. He's my little shining star :)
Nova answered on 3/20/10. Helpful? / 0
When I decided I needed the sounds of puppy feet throughout the house again, I already had the name picked out. When I went to see my new pup, I was so excited because the name fit him perfectly. It's funny, most people don't get his name. They always ask, "where did you come up with a name like that?" and when I say, "it's how you spell dog...D O G." They always laugh and say it's a cool name.
My hubby wasn't too keen on getting another dog. He said the heartbreak I felt over my first dog was difficult and he didn't want to see me go through it again. I would write little notes around the notes, I WANT A DOG!!! I'd write in on the mirror, DOG. I think I wrote it enough times that D O G just stuck in my head.
Of course I couldn't spell his name DOG cause they people would think I named him DOG, so the spelling became Deogie.
♥ DEOGIE ♥ answered on 3/20/10. Helpful? / 0
Skippy came to us already named as he is a rescue. But it totally suits him. He actually skips when he walks.
Vivace use to be called Daisy, but we quickly learned that she didn't even know her name so we choose to change it. My sister also has a GSP with a musical term as his name and I thought it would be cool to stay with that theme since my niece will be showing both dogs. I choose Vivace because of the meaning. It totally suits her personality. Not to mention it is something different and I'm not for using common names when naming my pets.
Vivace answered on 3/20/10. Helpful? / 0
Wiley was the obvious choice as the humane society believed he is part coyote & has a huge prey drive. When he was younger he would run headlong into gates, lakes, & even off a four foot drop in his quest to get gophers, ducks, rabbits. I wanted to get him a sign "Yikes!" to hold up! Thank dog he never hurt himself. Squ'mey is a first nations word that means "dog." I had wanted something to do with white, but that word is pronounced "uck" & I couldn't fathom calling that in a dog park without someone getting offended.!
Member 904338 answered on 3/20/10. Helpful? / 0
We named him Howard just because it suits him well. I don't call him Howard, sometimes I will, but I call him Henry. I got the name Henry from "What I Like About You", it's a tv show.
Woody's name came from the farm, he was found as a stray in the woody area on the farm. So, we named him Woody.
Member 930032 answered on 3/20/10. Helpful? / 0
Toto, Dorothy (since deceased) and Tinman all came from breeders in Kansas. Beanster was rescued and we picked them up at the LL Bean exit in ME. Harvey reminded me of a big ole' rabbit. Pinki was the pup in the litter with the pink yarn collar. The rest were just named cuz I liked the names.
Member 641257 answered on 3/20/10. Helpful? / 0
We had a name picked out before we even got a dog. My dad and I had read a nonfiction book titled "Rescuing Sprite", which was about a man and his rescued dog - a really good book, by the way. So that's how we got Sprite's name, and it really fits him now!
Sprite answered on 3/20/10. Helpful? / 0
You always have such cute questions, Rose.
Jack we named the fastest of any dog we've had...on the way home from the shelter. He was a very cute, but slightly serious puppy. We had been watching the show LOST the day we got him and since we like to name our dogs "people" names I started running through all the boy names I could think of and I started naming people on "the island." HA!
We came to "Jack" and he just sort of looked at both of us and we said, "That's it!""
Louie was just Louie. We thought it fit his great, sweet, goofy, happy go lucky nature. We sort of named him Louie-Louie for a while there for that old song. But now he's just Louie.
(PS I love the story of Deogie's name, here! The doggie daycare we take the boys to is actually called Dioji, but I don't like that spelling as much!)
Jack answered on 3/21/10. Helpful? / 0
shiloh bear got his name because when we were thinking about a dog name my sister was reading the book shiloh so we thought it was a perfect name for him. for the bear part he is part chow and if you smoosh his cheeks together he looks like a bear
shiloh Bear answered on 3/23/10. Helpful? / 0
My kids named three of our dogs - Daisy, Sora, and Jennifer. These are all video game characters. Peanut was named by his previous owner.
Sora answered on 4/11/10. Helpful? / 0
Thunder named himself. I wanted to name him Storm. My BF said that we should wait until we got to know our new pup. The first night we had him there was a T-Storm. Thunder was sleeping soundly on the floor. When it started to thunder he looked up and barked. I said oh, I think he is scared. My BF said No way, he is mad that the storm woke him up. Either way Thunder became his name. Now that I know him better I believe he really was mad at the storm. He is fearless.
Thunder answered on 5/22/10. Helpful? / 0
people have said that aussies have a good sense of humor so when we got joey, we immediately thought of a goofy name and joey seemed to fit. we call him other things too like joseph, joe, joanne, josephine, and all kinds of other goofy names. joey is a fun name to play around with, if you know what i'm saying.
Joey answered on 8/23/10. Helpful? / 0
I honestly don't know. I was little when we got her but I named her. I was about five yrs. and we were looking for a dog and we found her. I went looked and called her Kc. Don't know why.
Kc answered on 11/15/11. Helpful? / 0

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Bruce Wilk, PT, OCS
In our
clinic, we commonly see acute and often severe injuries
such as metatarsal stress fractures or navicular drop
correlating to minimalist shoe usage. Overuse injuries
such as tendonitis and various muscle strains of the
lower extremities have also been observed.One of the popular minimalist shoe manufacturers is
Newton Running. The Newton Running1 shoe is designed to
promote a more "natural" way of running. In its attempt
to promote a natural landing, most of the company's shoe
designs have a forefoot posting that encourages the
runner to land on their forefoot/midfoot. However, we
have observed clinically that the forefoot posting
creates a torsional fulcrum at the midfoot if the runner
isn't biomechanically sound. The torsion appears to
occur most notably during the stance phase of the
runner's gait. The midfoot of the minimalist shoe has a
space or an effective "gap" between the heel of the shoe
and the higher forefoot posting. As the runner naturally
moves through the pronation component during the stance
phase of gait, "torsion" or twisting occurs and the
midfoot collapses since, in this gap, there is no part
of the shoe making contact with the ground. The unstable
fulcrum at the midfoot combined with an underlying
weakness or muscle imbalance can predispose a runner to
an acute or repetitive stress injury. This torsion is
amplified when the increased ground reaction forces of
running are added. A recent patient in our office illustrated this problem.
J.R. is a 35 y/o male referred to physical therapy with
complaints of severe pain in his left lateral shin. J.R.
is a consistent runner, having previously completed two
full marathons within the past 3 years. He reported that
his symptoms began during mile 22 of his last full
marathon. Although he finished the race, J.R. reported
that his pain became progressively worse after its
initial onset. When asked about any changes to his
training or racing methods, he mentioned that he decided
to run the race in the Newton minimalist shoes with
Superfeet orthoses2 in an attempt to improve his
previous marathon time and reduce his risk for injury.
J.R carefully followed Newton's website tips on
"adjusting to your running shoes1" when he initially
transitioned into the new minimalist shoes. Prior to
this transition, J.R. was running in Nike stability3
shoes with Superfeet orthoses,2 which he had purchased
from the same store that later sold him the Newton shoes
with Superfeet orthoses. J.R. originally purchased the
stability shoes and orthoses after suffering an injury
10 months prior. At that time, after negative x-ray
results, he was diagnosed with plantar fasciitis. The
podiatrist's prescribed treatment was simply sending
J.R. to this running store for Superfeet orthoses and a
new pair of shoes. The store sold him the Nike stability
shoes with Superfeet orthoses, and he reported having no
problems while running in the stability shoes.
Shoe inspection (his minimalist shoes) revealed
mechanical breakdown of the left shoe's medial platform
and upper into pronation (Figure 1). No visible changes
or faults in the right shoe were observed. Current
examination of his orthoses revealed breakdown of the
medial side of the left orthotic at the arch.
Also noted
was a "crack" in the orthotic that was present at the
platform where the most breakdown occurred (Figure 2).
This finding was consistent with the region of breakdown
described in the left shoe. There was no significant
breakdown of the right or left sides of the stability
shoe and there was no obvious medial deformity present
in the shoe itself.Physical examination of J.R. revealed moderate edema
located in the left lateral ankle and foot. There was a
palpable deficit in the left peroneus longus tendon, 6
inches proximal to the left lateral malleolus with the
patient reporting a subjective pain level of 8/10. J.R.
denied that this deficit was present prior to his most
recent injury. These findings suggested a probable tear.
No additional diagnostic imaging was completed at that
time. He had a hypermobile subtalar joint toward
overpronation observed during weightbearing. J.R.
additionally reported difficulty with weight bearing
activities such as walking, standing, transitional
movements, as well as morning pain and stiffness getting
out of bed. He demonstrated an antalgic gait pattern and
was unable to functionally weight bear onto his first
ray while performing a heel raise. There is existing data indicating that one of the
predictors of a future running injury is a prior running
injury within the past year.4 Moreover, the rate of
injury has been shown to be higher with minimalist
footwear in those runners who have transitioned from a
more supportive shoe5 and remains higher after their
transition period with sustained usage than runners not
using minimalist shoes.6 We postulated that he was
running asymptomatically while in the stability shoe
because he had the adequate medial support he needed to
manage his functional weakness. However, when
transitioning into the minimalist shoe, we felt that the
combination of this functional instability in his left
lower extremity combined with an unsupportive shoe, led
to the breakdown of the orthotic--which ultimately led
to his running related injury. Examination of this
patient's equipment/footwear was crucial to his
assessment; guided treatment decisions, and contributed
to the successful return of this patient to his running
program. In addition to proper equipment, focus was placed on
correct running biomechanics to return the patient back
to their sport safely and to encourage independent
function. During the later stages of rehabilitation,
sports specific exercises including plyometrics and
stride development (eg, cadence and turnover) were also
important components. J.R. was instructed in a
return-to-training program as well as a graded
injury-specific exercise progression. Upon discharge,
J.R. was able to return to full function (including
running) and he subsequently ran his personal best at
his next half marathon. Addressing all of these issues
combined with immediately getting him out of minimalist
shoes, and into a more supportive shoe, was important in
effectively managing this case.After J.R's injury, Newton shoes recently released a
disclaimer on their website stating, "Pre-existing
conditions or injuries may mean our shoes are not right
for you. If you have an injury, a biomechanical issue,
an anomaly or a predisposition to a particular type of
injury, consult your physician, coach, or orthotics
supplier before using Newton shoes1." This statement
alone excludes the majority of the running population
from safely running in Newton shoes. Injury rates are
higher for both runners who transition to minimalist
footwear5,6 and for runners with current injury or
injury within the last year.4,7 Thus, for a recently
injured runner, transitioning to Newton shoes only
multiplies risk factors.New trends in athletic footwear frequently dominate the
marketplace and are often directed at the novice runner
or someone that suffers from current or previous running
injuries. However, in contrast, Newton's recent website
disclaimer clarifies that Newton shoes are only for the
small percentage of runners who have not been injured
and are not at risk for injury. As physical therapists,
we should be aware of the growing trend in minimalist
shoes. It has been proposed that runner's who have
"intact neuromuscular systems" can increase the strength
of their feet with the use of minimalist shoes.8 Those
runners trying the shoe should have at least three
consistent years of running experience and no injuries
within the past year because runners who do not meet
these criteria are more at risk for sustaining a new
injury.7 In addition, the runner must gradually
introduce the minimalist shoe into their training
program so that their body is able to adapt to the
decreased support these shoes offer. Minimalist shoes
may be appropriate for some runners or in specific
instances, but we believe they should NOT be marketed as
a blanket solution for the general runner. Certainly in
J.R.'s case, the minimalist shoe appears to have
amplified his predisposition to injury. This case was seen at Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Specialists, an outpatient physical therapy clinic in
Miami, FL. At the time of the case, the patient, J.R.,
was under the care of Sokunthea Nau, DPT. We understand
that running injuries are multifactoral based on both
intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Although the change in
footwear may be related to the injury described in this
case, the authors cannot establish a cause-effect
relationship between footwear and running injury for
this patient. Therefore, the opinions or assertions
contained herein are the private views of the authors
and are not to be construed as official. However, as
musculoskeletal specialists, we must be able to identify
possible risk factors for injury to include: less than 3
years of running experience, a running injury within the
last year, and transitioning to minimalist footwear.
Superfeet, Inc. www.Superfeet.com/activity/running-walking.aspx. Accessed March 6, 2012
O'Connor FG, Wilder RP. Textbook of Running Medicine. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2001:5.
Gutierrez GM, Olin E. Muscle Activity and Tibial Shock During the Initial Transition From Shod to Barefoot Running. Oral Presentation at the
23rd Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB), July 2011. Proceedings of the 23rd ISB Congress. Brussels, Belgium.
Leong R. The Effects of Footwear Habits of Long-Distance Runners on Running Related Injury: A Prospective Cohort. Running Training
Plan. http:www.runningtraining. Accessed March 6, 2012.
Macera C, Pate R, Powell K, et al. Predicting lower extremity injuries among habitual runners. Arch Intern Med. 1989;149(11):2565-2568.
Davis I. What can we learn from watching children run? J Am Med Athl Assoc. 2011;24 (3):7-8.
Address correspondence to:
Christopher Jagessar, 8720 North Kendall Drive Suite
206, Miami, FL 33176.
Christopher Jagessar, PT, OCS, ATC1
Sokunthea Nau, DPT2
Jeffery T. Stenback, PT, OCS3
Annmarie Garis, DPT4
Bruce R. Wilk, PT, OCS5
1Physical Therapist,
Orthopedic Rehabilitation Specialists, Miami, FL.
2 Physical Therapist, Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Specialists, Miami, FL.
3 Assistant Director/Physical Therapist, Orthopedic
Rehabilitation Specialists, Miami, FL.
4 Physical Therapist, Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Specialists, Miami, FL
5 Director/Physical Therapist, Orthopedic Rehabilitation
Specialists, Miami, FL.


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Another Newbian
Just wanted to give a shout out to everyone. As I'm sure you already know, this site completely Rocks. The Info. on here is endless:cool: My interests are anything that involves great amounts of HP or TQ. I'm into NHRA, IHRA, Tractor/Truck Pulls, Rock Crawlers, 300' ATV Sand Drags, etc. etc.
My truck that I'm working on right Now is a 2003 LS 4.3l S-10 and my engine mods so far are: Gibson Headers, Borla Cat back dual exhaust, Stage 2 K&N Cold Air Intake, & Hyppertech Programmed. Will be adding a Vortech S/C & MSD Ignition in December (a little x-mas gift to myself ;) ). I'm looking to set this truck up as a daily drive w/some steam. Will do the occasional 1/8mi aspault drag with it.
I'm also big into 300' ATV Sand Drags; My current Quad is a 2001 Yamaha Banshee Frame & Chassis, powered by a Built ZX-12r Motor. The bike weighs in at 378lbs & puts out 188rwhp.
Welcome,enjoy sounds like you're coming along great with the S-10 and the atv for fun. :)
Gotta be a cool truck Man, sound awesome!!
Who long you had it dude? My brother-in-law builds and runs sand rails.. He's just finishing what he says will be a 12sec rail out of the box before tweaking??? Sounds a little crazy to me, I'll stick with Cruisin may 53 Chebby. Help out when you can, someone always need a little help and its always appreciated, just don't Bull ***** anyone.... some of these guys will jump hard at the smell of BS, and it isn't pleasant....... just play nice and you'll make friends.
Rat Rods Rule!
Re: Gotta be a cool truck Man, sound awesome!!
Truck = 1month
Drag Quad = Was just finished in October.
Thanks for the warm welcome guys! I look foward to learning and adding info. when I can.:cool:
Welcome to the boards.
Welcome aboard!
Got about everthing here, haven't seen much on ATV sand drags. Sounds interesting, used to help on a team for a blown mud truck.
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McCoy Art Pottery
Known for its clever kitsch, as well as more sober examples of dinnerware, vases, and garden planters, McCoy pottery has been popular with collectors for a century. Whether you are drawn to tankards resembling pigs, monk-shaped cookie jars with the ominous inscription "Thou Shalt Not Steal" on their sides, or elegant Art Deco flower vases decorated with geometric designs in pastel hues, chances are your eye has alighted on a piece of McCoy.
One of the hallmarks of McCoy pottery is its functionality. A cartoonish sailor figurine, for example, striding along in bell-bottom trousers with a pack slung over his shoulder, has a slot for coins — he's also a bank. Similarly, a woman peeking out from under a red brimmed hat appears to carry a basket in her arms, but the object she cradles is designed to hold topsoil and tulips—in other words, a planter.
When the Nelson McCoy Sanitary Stoneware Company opened in 1910 in Roseville, Ohio near a good supply of local clay, functionality routinely trumped style as McCoy focused on serviceable food-storage jugs. Decorative touches to the stoneware were simple, using mostly salt- and slip-glaze techniques, but in 1925, when McCoy built the area's first tunnel kiln, expansion into a new world of whimsy became possible.
McCoy began producing the artware for which it became famous in 1926. Fired in the bright glazes popular in the mid-20s was everything from planters in the shapes of rhinoceroses and pineapples to umbrella stands.
In the market for a cuspidor? McCoy's were green, with bunches of grapes in high relief on their sides. Designers at the company created green cider sets with mugs shaped like barrels rather than basic beer cups, and instead of giving plants a plain home, McCoy bulb bowls featured parading elephants loping around their circumferences.
In the kitchen, McCoy introduced advances in decoration as well as functionality. For example, its mixing bowls of the 1920s were glazed in green rather than the standard yellow, and embossed with flowers and line motifs — more detail than home cooks had previously enjoyed. McCoy's mixing bowls also nested, so several could be stored in the space of one, a handy trick Homer Laughlin later employed in its famous Fiesta line.
In 1933, in the midst of the Great Depression, the company changed its name to McCoy Pottery Company — the term "sanitary" had fallen out of vogue. Because cash-strapped families...
Returning to its roots, McCoy's first stoneware containers for baked goods were adorned with understated floral designs, but Duncan Curtiss, a savvy McCoy sales agent from New York, thought his company would do better if it had a little fun with these kitchen staples. Accordingly, McCoy started manufacturing novelty cookie jars, beginning in 1939 with "Mammy with Cauliflower," whose billowy apron called up warm thoughts of buttery, home-baked goodness.
World War II slowed production (the company made ceramic land-mine casings), but by the end of the 1940s, McCoy's cookie-jar and jardinière lines were in full swing again.
Most cookie jars from these postwar years are readily available because they were mass-produced, but collectors should be on the lookout for lost glaze and color. Grubby hands reaching for gingerbread snaps and chocolate pinwheels made this pottery form more susceptible to daily wear than other ceramics collectibles.
Despite their use, it's still possible to find well-preserved cookie jars in the shapes of kangaroos, Indians, clowns, Chinese lanterns, turkeys, grandfather clocks, and bananas, to name but a few of McCoy's styles.
By the 1950s and '60s, McCoy was producing some of its most sought-after cookie jars, as well as TV lamps, which exploded in popularity during this time. In the '70s and '80s, corporations routinely commissioned McCoy to produce advertising jars trumpeting their brands, Coca-Cola, Harley Davidson, and Quaker Oats among them.
Less likely to be damaged through use were McCoy vases and figurines. Today, collectors can score prime examples of Grecian-esque urns with slim looping handles, or yellow gnome statuettes. Other vases were swan-shaped or triangular, some resembled cornucopias, and still more were embossed with flowers in every shade of the pastel rainbow.
McCoy's production reached its peak in the '50s, when the company employed almost 500 workers, but the times they were a-changing. By the 1970s, the company was cranking out barbecue sets with Old West themes and punch bowls with matching cups that dangled from the sides.
Earth-toned Lazy Susans held chips and dip at cocktail parties while Woodsy Owl was among the characters to grace the sides of McCoy cookie jars. These were old-looking styles in a youth-obsessed nation, and by 1990, after several ownership and management changes, the factory finally closed its doors.
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text: Ben Skinner grew up in a small oil town in Southern Ontario. He graduated with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax in 2000, and with an MFA in Art & Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Ben lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. As a person interested in many things I have difficulty focusingI love the blurry and the banalI believe in the phonetics of materials and the grammar of spaceI'm interested in the invisible systems of the everydayFolk signage: KEYS CUT HEREEstimation, approximationand the challenge of accurate measuringThe wisdom of crowdsOld traditions of fine craftsmanshipTwisting a joke out of the mundaneSimple ideasSemiotics for DummiesTactilityThe subjectivity of our wordsComplexity simplified and back againPerception. The anatomy of the human eye and the science of seeingOptical illusionsLoops, self-referentiality, pangramsThe Ridiculous The Absurd. The NonsensicalSilly-Putty and SlinkysSelf-imposed constraintsFlooding of ideas and materialsNow less is even moreMore is MoreUkelelesNerding outCollecting, archiving, processing, filtering, editingPatterns and the quest to discover themPuzzles, magic, wondermentDogs, death and dopamineTaking it and leaving itUnderlying meanings, fresh perspectivesFun and new ways of wasting timeHolding the mustardGrowing accustomed to growing a pairThe history embodied in a rusty tool, or threadbare quiltSkipping while frowningRecognizing social and urban phenomena in the everydayThe peculiarities of human behaviourPointing at thingsGrouping like things together (or unlike things)Bouncing things against each otherSeeing what sticksLittoral spacesThe long drive to relate to things - and missing the exitDoing the The Hokey-Pokey to the Macarena songDoing the Macarena to the Bird dance songHope and HumiliationA passionate affinity toward all colours known and unknownColouring outside and reading betweenMeaning in repetition


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Coreopsis 'Garnet'
Low-growing mound (10 in. by 20 in.) with garnet-colored flowers.
Perennial. Overwinters in climates without hard frost (0 to -10 degrees).
'Garnet' would be a great front row plant in an all pink border. Picture it backed by pink coneflowers (Echinacea), Sedum 'Autumn Joy', and Agastache 'Raspberry Summer', for instance.
But this dark cherry pink shade would work in just about any color scheme.
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The School's reach extends to 88 countries
Mercedes Fernández Oromendía, a Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School, has been recently appointed student co-chair of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Division of International Psychology. This appointment is little surprise as she is currently developing a study looking at how to apply positive psychology interventions to help international students at UCSB with their acculturation process. Originally from Argentina, Oromendía went home this summer, and thanks to Gevirtz School professor Andrés Consoli (former president of the Interamerican Society of Psychology), she was able to observe an intake, participate in supervision, and attend a few classes at a psychology center in Buenos Aires.
"It was an incredible experience and cemented my passion to bridge the U.S., and particularly UCSB, with other countries," Oromendía says. "It also helped motivate me to apply for the APA position. At this center, they were even using the same book we used in my class here. It became clear that although it is a big world, we have many things in common too. I am now considering doing an internship at this center after graduation to develop my bilingual and bicultural skills and would like to continue opening up communication throughout the western hemisphere."
Reem Alfrayan, a GGSE international graduate student from Saudi Arabia recently served as a student ambassador for the 2013 US-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum in special recognition for her excellent leadership skills and her commitment to represent Saudi Arabia in a professional and positive manner. A Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Education's Educational Leadership and Organizations area, Alfrayan's dissertation is on the self-efficacy of Saudi Arabian businesswomen across generational/cohorts. "Walking the footsteps of great Saudi women leaders who preceded me in greatness is my approach to the empowerment of the new generation," she says. "Creating new paths for the next generation is my passion. I thrive to reach a key position in promoting and advocating for Saudi businesswomen in the Kingdome of Saudi Arabia. My research interests reflect my profound interest in the empowerment of Saudi Arabian businesswomen through policy reform."
Oromendía's and Alfrayan's experiences are just two examples of the growing global reach of the Gevirtz School. As a way to celebrate International Education Week 2013, November 11-15, UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School is holding two events:
1) November 12 – Talk/Luncheon: Gevirtz School international students and their faculty sponsors will attend a luncheon featuring a talk by Dr. Isabella Lin-Roark, a clinical psychologist and international specialist at UCSB Counseling & Psychological Services. Afterward, for students will hold breakout sessions to discuss the challenges they have faced as international students in the U.S. and the strategies they have used for success.
2) November 14 – Campus-wide Reception/Presentations: Gevirtz School visiting scholars, international students, and faculty, and campus and community friends interested in international education will attend a reception featuring short presentations on research.
"I am excited to work with the GGSE community to enhance the visibility and understanding of our strong international efforts that benefit our students' education and our research efforts," Gevirtz School Associate Dean Hsiu-Zu Ho comments. "I also look forward to having campus and larger community conversations regarding the globalization of higher education in general, and what that means to the GGSE and to UCSB, specifically."
Gevirtz School faculty and students are highly engaged in a variety of international projects across the globe including collaborative research, prominent lectures/workshops, teacher/student exchanges, and philanthropic projects. The extent of the School's internationalization for the 2013-14 academic year includes:
- 29 visiting international students (over 8% of our graduate student population) representing 13 countries across 5 continents;
- 29 visiting scholars representing 10 countries across 4 continents;
- 22 teacher education students (11 UCSB students, 11 international) will be involved in exchanges among institutions in the U.S., Denmark, Singapore, and Switzerland;
- 8 Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with institutions across 4 continents.
Ho adds, "I am still gathering information regarding the extent of our faculty's international activities, but I am impressed that of 26 GGSE faculty members for whom I have this type of information, the global reach of their professional activities already covers 86 countries."
The faculty work includes such notable projects such as those by Professors Chuck Bazerman, Judith Green, Shane Jimerson, and Jin Sook Lee. Bazerman, Professor in the Department of Education, has taken an active lead in Writing Research Across Borders with tri-annual conferences that have brought together over 500 presenters and 800 attendees from 35 countries. This consortium of writing researchers draws on all disciplines and focuses on aspects of writing at all levels of development and in all segments of society. Green, Professor in the Department of Education, has worked on the steering committee for the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research Conference – or ISCAR 2008 – "Ecologies of Diversities: The developmental and historical interarticulation of human mediational forms," a conference that included over 1000 scholars from 44 countries. Jimerson, Professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology, is the co-editor of the Handbook of International School Psychology and on the executive committee of the International Institute of School Psychology. Lee, Professor in the Department of Education, was a 2011-12 Fulbright Senior Scholar affiliated with the Graduate School of Education, Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea conducting research on current English language immersion programs and English language teacher training policies in South Korea.
Student work is highlighted by a recently initiated four-six week student teaching placement exchange between UCSB's Teacher Education Program (TEP) and institutions in three countries: Denmark, Singapore, and Switzerland. Unique to the program is the purposeful integration and overlap of teacher candidates' work in both countries. Twenty-two teacher candidates (eleven from the U.S. and eleven from abroad) will participate in this exchange.


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The Browns are going to ride Peyton Hillis as far as he will take them this season. So far it has been a fairly smooth ride with only a few bumps along the way.
After facing the Jets stingy ground defense last week and still gaining 82 yards in a game the Browns lost in overtime, 26-20, Hillis and the Browns take aim at the Jaguars, who ranked 28th defensively entering Week 10.
Last spring, when team president Mike Holmgren was sweeping quarterbacks Derek Anderson and Brady Quinn out of the locker room, he shipped Quinn to the Broncos for Hillis, a sixth-round pick in 2011 and a conditional pick in 2012.
Hillis is very comfortable in a Browns uniform and says he has no hard feelings about the Broncos giving up on him, but he also admits the first two months of last offseason was a nervous time for him. He rushed for 343 yards on 66 carries as a rookie in 2008 when Mike Shanahan was the Broncos coach. Under the Josh McDaniels plan Hillis carried just 20 times for 77 yards.
"I suspected big time I wouldn't be back with the Broncos after last season because I played very, very little," Hillis said. "Why keep a guy like me around if you're not going to play me?
"In Denver, I wasn't given my shot. Nothing against them; maybe I just didn't fit their offense. I was praying every day for a new beginning. I always felt I had the talent to do good things."
Coach Eric Mangini spoke with Hillis when the trade was made and told him he could be a 1,000-yard rusher in the Browns offense. Hillis is on his way to that and more this season.
The truth is the Browns would be lost without Hillis. Jerome Harrison gave no indication he would duplicate last season's finish when he rushed for 561 yards in the last three games, so they traded him to the Eagles after four games for running back Mike Bell. Bell gives Hillis a breather occasionally, but he isn't a factor in the offense beyond that.
"The Browns brought me in because they want me to be successful," Hillis said. "A lot of people are expecting me to do great things here. That's what's so fulfilling, because you finally have people who believe in you."
The Jaguars could try to stack the box with eight like the Jets did most of the time, but if they do the Browns are confident they can attack through the air Colt McCoy was 18 of 31 passing against the Jets for 205 yards. He has played three straight games without throwing an interception. He led a 59-yard, 10 play drive and tied the game on a three-yard touchdown pass to Mohamed Massaquoi with 44 seconds left in regulation.
If Coach Eric Mangini follows the script of the last two weeks, he will not name McCoy the starter for Jacksonville until Friday.
BY THE NUMBERS: 4 -- Peyton Hillis has rushed for 726 yards and eight rushing touchdowns, but he has also lost four fumbles. He lost one vs. the Jets.
UNDER THE RADAR: NT Ahtyba Rubin had a team-high nine tackles vs. the Jets. He's been vital in the team stuffing the run.
--Josh Cribbs was injured on a 37-yard catch and run in the second quarter and did not return.
--CB Sheldon Brown suffered a neck injury on the Jets' fourth offensive play and did not return.
--LB Scott Fujita left the game with a knee injury in the second quarter and did not return. The run defense suffered in his absence.
--TE Benjamin Watson caught five more passes to run his team-leading total to five catches.
--WR Chansi Stuckey fumbled in overtime at the Jets' 36, about five yards short of safe field goal range for Phil Dawson.


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Nice log home 3300 Square feet on Santiam River. Wooded area with trails to river front. Creek in front of home. Only a short 15 minute commute to Detroit Lake recreation area, Located away from the main highway's to give our guest a chance to get some peace and quiet, The master bedroom has a king bed, bedroom 2 has a queen bed and bedroom 3 has 2 twin beds.
No phone, but your AT&T or Verizon cell phone works ok and I noticed a new cell tower going up not far away, so we may have 4G or LTE service soon. Free Wi-Fi.
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We are Roger and Beth we like boating near our log home on Detroit Lake, Roger is a heavy equipment dealer and Beth is a massage therapist.We welcome our guests and want them to feel at home and totally delighted with their visit to our Santiam river home.
Beth Jensen purchased this house in 2008
Quiet place to get away from it all and we love being next to the Santiam river.
Close to lakes, rivers and 30 minutes to Hoodoo ski area.
We were very impressed by the home, especially its gorgeous setting on the Santiam River. Our kids loved the fire circle as well as the pool table and air hockey. We took long day trips to the ocean at Newport and the Mt. Jefferson area on the way to Bend. Silver Falls State Park, which is fantastic, is 45 minutes away. (We went twice.) A great week!
Our family with five adult children had a wonderful time sitting around talking, playing games and shooting some pool. We wanted to go on some hikes but it was raining and the trails were slippery.
We recently spent 3 weeks at this property. During our stay we went to wash the king bed sheets and found mouse turds between the fitted sheet and the mattress pad. We also found mouse turds in the queen bedroom dresser, where all the clean sheets and towels are stored. We realize that properties can from time to time have a mouse. But what upset us is after talking to the owners about the mice, they informed us that they had killed a few mice just 2 days before we arrived, but didn't tell us about it. They should have called us and given us the opportunity to cancel. With the TURDS in various parts of the house, they obviously have an infestation. This is different than having an occasional mouse! We do not appreciate being treated this way. The owners should have realized how serious an infestation they had and given us the opportunity to cancel. We did NOT appreciate living in the filth!!!!! Our advice to any potential renters of this property, BE AWARE OF THIS ISSUE AND INQUIRE ABOUT IT BEFORE YOU RENT!!!!! Our experience was not pleasant or enjoyable, we were grossed out.
Amazing. The house was beautiful and imaculent. The landscape surrounding the house was breath taking . Was like I was in a dream. Would love to visit again.
Everyone in our group loved the location, the cabin, the woods and everything about this place. Amazing views of the river and the creek out front was wonderful, the woods were lush and green. The deck down by the river was a favorite for everyone along with nightly fires in the fire pit with marshmallows. The large main deck was a great spot for dinner and card games. The proximity to Detroit Lake was perfect allowing for two day trips out on boats on the lake yet once back in the cabin it felt very secluded and isolated in a great way.
We will be back again!
I rented this house to spend some quality time fishing and outdoors with my grandsons from Portland. Having a very bad back, tent camping is out and I need comfortable furniture and beds to sleep in. When my husband and I walked in this house was so clean and much more delightful then the pictures show. My grandsons absolutely were immediately impressed with all the fun things it offered an 8 and 12 year old. They had their own room and bathroom downstairs with an air hockey table and a large assortment of games.
Upstairs is a pool table and they spent some wonderful time with their grandfather playing pool.
We loved the outdoor area and all the seating it provided along with a firepit for s'mores and hot dogs.It also, has a very accessible path leading down to the river with stairs that we were all able to negotiate. They fished and caught 4 trout the week we were there and went swimming on a 95 degree day. There is a perch table down by the river to sit and watch or get reprieve from the sun. I enjoyed walking down there in the morning with my coffee and my grandsons with their cocoa and having some great talks.
The kitchen is well equipped and I lacked nothing for cooking all the meals there along with a nice propane barbeque for outdoor cooking. We were planning on a dinner out but, ate them all there due to the convenience and view we had. The river is beautiful and it is so peaceful there it made for a very memorable vacation for us all.
Two things I enjoyed were the geese that fly up the river several times a day. I could hear them honking when approaching and would step outside to watch them. We saw eagles, osprey and other wildlife. Also, there is a small creek that runs in front of the house with a trail. At night from the master bedroom with the windows open you can hear the rippling sound and it is so relaxing.
The owners were great and you can tell are making improvements and keep up the house. The outdoor deck and furniture look like recent additions and it is well done and very comfortable.
We all agreed it was a fantastic house and we will be returning to make some more s'mores and memories.
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I am in a couple of hours 57 years old. My rather elderly (aged 40) mother gave birth, old-style, in Much Wenlock Cottage Hospital on 1 January 1955...with a midwife and the local GP, who (as he and Mum always used to joke, for years after) only got there when everything was more or less over. (This isn't just self obsession -- it's a story I heard repeated at the said GP's Xmas party for years and years in my childhood and adolescence... with greater or lesser shades of embarrassment, on my part)
So my birthday has always been (for me) a New Year occasion. And always bound up with New Year's Eve... everybody is pissed and enjoying the 'rite of passage' and at some point after midnight I nerve myself to say (or not to say) "and..errr.. excuse me..it's my birthday.
Anyway, at 57, happily and very very gratefully married for more than quarter of a century .. five thoughts on birthdays as you get old(er).
1) Bloody lucky (version 1). I am still alive, 57 years on. I've survived 2 children and various bits of medical intervention (including a benign breast lump/aka clot of milk, when I was breast feeding, and that seemed like imminent death at the time). Most of the people I work on (the Romans) were dead or dying by their late 50s. So thank the Lord, and modern medicine.


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This is a different kind of meat adventure than what Jon Tester had in D.C.
In "MEAT," 11 dancers in nude underwear take the stage in front of a backdrop that evokes an industrial factory. They hold their arms semi-bent in front of their bodies in an unnatural manner—faces vacant—and they move in odd, sometimes beautiful ways as if they were super-robots (who only just look like humans) in a Minority Report-style.
The fascinating and kind of creepy piece, choreographed by UM alumnus Brian Gerke and his Icelandic dance partner Steinunn Ketilsdóttir, was chosen to represent UM's Dance Program at The National College Dance Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. May 24—27.
"MEAT" and another UM piece "My Body," choreographed by Collin Ranf, hit the American College Dance Festival Association's regional conference in Salt Lake City earlier this month— it's one of 11 regional conferences in the country competing for the national showcase. "MEAT" was one of 30 pieces chosen out of all the regional showcases to go to D.C. This is the second time in as many years that UM made it to the national stage. Last year, the piece "Prey" by renowned choreography Bebe Miller, made it to the national stage.
Steinunn & Brian have created a big buzz in the Missoula dance community for their quirky, sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortable and usually intriguing style.
Check out these photos from "MEAT," by the amazing Neil Chaput de Saintonge.


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Lifetime Cuts Seven Marketers6/15/2006 10:29 PM Eastern
Pink slips hit Lifetime Television's marketing department this week.
As part of a departmental reorganization under executive vice president of marketing Martha Pease, who joined the women's targeted programmer in January, seven staffers have lost their positions.
"As is common practice with new department heads in any organization, Martha Pease is reorganizing her department to accommodate new strategies and goals," the network said in a statement. "We're very grateful to these talented individuals for their contributions to the company and wish them the very best of luck."
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has become history's first global army. Never before have soldiers from so many states served in the same war theater, much less the same country. At the eighth anniversary of the United States' invasion of Afghanistan, the world is witness to a twenty-first-century armed conflict waged by the largest military coalition in history.
With recent announcements that troops from such diverse nations as Colombia, Mongolia, Armenia, Japan, South Korea, Ukraine, and Montenegro are to join those of some forty-five other countries serving under the command of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), there will soon be military personnel from fifty nations and five continents serving under a unified command structure.
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I figured this'd be based an article by Rick Rozoff, but wondered why the war on Afghanistan was said to be in its eigth year when it has now entered its 10th, having just ended its 9th. It's an August 2009 article.
He's written plenty more since and I'll refer to some of his articles available and for which the titles seem related, enough anyway.
"Ongoing Iran War Preparations? Arabian Sea: Center Of West's 21st Century War"
by Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO, rickRozoff.wordpress.com, Oct. 25th, 2010
"Global Military Agenda: Increased US-NATO Military Presence in Southeast Asia.
Completing Plans For Asian NATO"
by Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO, Oct. 22nd, 2010
"Pentagon Partners With NATO To Create Global Cyber Warfare System"
by Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO, Oct. 8th, 2010
"U.S. And NATO To Wage 15-Year War In Afghanistan And Pakistan"
by Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO, Oct. 6th, 2010
"Baltic States: Pentagon's Training Grounds For Afghan and Future Wars"
by Rick Rozoff, Stop NATO, Oct. 1st, 2010
There isn't a continent left untouched. The US and NATO have been militarizing, building up militarily on all continents, with (I believe) the exception of only the US doing this in South America. So not only is the war on Afghanistan, or it and Pakistan, committed by the largest military coalition, of willing and coerced allies, there isn't a part of this globe, planet that's left untouched by the leading military powers.
However, and as far as I've gathered, so far, most countries with military forces making up part of the criminal foreign coalition in Afghanistan or Af-Pak don't have many forces or troops there; while the US and surely NATO keep trying to get all countries taking part in this criminal coalition to provide more troops or forces. But what's supposedly lacking in that respect is surely offset or very offset by the large number of "security" contractors employed for this criminal war.
There are many thousands of them in Iraq, so there surely are many thousands in Afghanistan or Af-Pak. And these mercenaries are from many countries. I've read of them being from the US and UK, as most people have surely read by now; but have also read of others from Colombia, Peru, maybe one or two other South American countries, very possibly Rwanda, Uganda, and maybe some other African countries where the governments are basically proxies for the US, and also read of some coming from Jordan and some southeast Asian countries. There must surely be some from some European countries, western and/or eastern European ones.
When we're told about thousands of American "security" contractors being used in these two war zones, meaning to include Iraq, maybe some mention is also made of some British contractors, but I don't recall having read (in most articles about these wars and mentioning the mercenaries) of these contractors being also employed from many other countries. I wonder what their complete total numbers are in Afghanistan or Af-Pak, as well as Iraq.
Anyway, 50 countries in the coalition of aggression in Afghanistan must surely consist of many that have been coerced, instead of all of them having willingly accepted to take part in this. It was known to be this way with the so-called "coalition of the willing" for the war on Iraq and I imagine that coercion has also been used to get governments to send military forces to "contribute" to the war on Afghanistan. Maybe not though, for I've read of Iran and Malaysia wanting to "contribute", and it surely wasn't because they think the US and NATO are good, but both still want the Taliban out of power and/or wiped out, f.e. Iran wouldn't require coercion anyway.
People can check Rick Rozoff's index of articles at GR by using the link for it at the bottom of any of the above articles. I didn't check the titles of any earlier pieces from this year and maybe there are some that are more strongly related to the massiveness of the coalition warring on Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Some of those are the following.
"America Threatens Russia: U.S. Consolidates New Military Outposts In Eastern Europe
Bases, troops and missiles along the entire length of Eastern Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean"
by Rick Rozoff, Sept. 24th, 2010
"US Led Militarization of the European Union: NATO Provides Pentagon Nuclear, Missile And Cyber Shields Over Europe"
by Rick Rozoff, Sept. 22nd, 2010
"U.S. Marshals Military Might To Challenge Asian Century
The rise of a dynamic, integrated and dominant Asia in this century is inevitable and inexorable. Any attempt to retard or thwart it by military force from outside the continent will produce catastrophic consequences."
by Rick Rozoff, Aug. 21st, 2010
"Iraq: NATO Assists In Building New Middle East Proxy Army"
by Rick Rozoff, Aug. 14th, 2010
"Global Military Agenda: U.S. Expands Asian NATO To Contain And Confront China"
by Rick Rozoff, Aug. 7th, 2010
"Europe And Beyond: U.S. Consolidates Global Missile Shield"
by Rick Rozoff, Aug. 4th, 2010
"NATO Pulls Pakistan Into Its Global Network"
by Rick Rozoff, July 24th, 2010
And there are plenty more; some for which the titles say that the articles are about the U.S. vis-a-vis Russia and China.
This beast is massive, powerful, and totally out of control, so are elections, assuming that the results are very good next month, going to be sufficient to be able to rein in this unleashed beast? It's not Obama who's really commanding. The military chiefs are very much in command. And both work for the rich and influentially powerful imperialist and economic elites. So would a corrected Congress really be able to rein in this beast and put an end to these wars, as well as the global militarism of the U.S.?
In theory, yes; the Congress, a sufficiently or strongly corrected one, could rein in this beast. But we're clearly going to need a much stronger position than only a theoretical one.
And for people who haven't yet fully realized the scope of all of this warring and militarism, welcome to WW III; or IV, for those who understandably consider the former US-USSR Cold War as WW III, such as at World War 4 Report, ww4report.com.
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"Ongoing Iran War Preparations? Arabian Sea: Center Of West's 21st Century War"
by Rick Rozoff, Oct. 25th, 2010
The monumental expansion of arms sales and the buildup of naval and air power in the Arabian Sea region are unprecedented. They are also alarming to the highest degree.
A quarter of the world's nuclear aircraft carriers will soon be in the Arabian Sea.
The Nimitz class nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Abraham Lincoln arrived in the region on October 17 to join the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, which in turn had arrived there on June 18 as part of a regular rotation.
The Charles de Gaulle, flagship of the French navy, the country's only aircraft carrier and the sole non-American nuclear carrier, will soon join its two U.S. counterparts. The U.S. possesses half the world's twenty-two aircraft carriers, all eleven supercarriers (those displacing over 70,000 tons) and eleven of twelve nuclear carriers.
Regarding the unscheduled deployment of a second American aircraft carrier to the region, a CBS News report stated:
"Air strikes in Afghanistan are up 50 per cent and now Defense Secretary Gates has ordered a second aircraft carrier, the USS Lincoln, into the fight.
"Two carriers operating off the coast of Pakistan means about 120 aircraft available for missions over Afghanistan. And that's not counting U.S. Air Force missions flown out of Bagram and Kandahar." [1]
USS Lincoln and USS Truman are currently assigned to the Fifth Fleet's area of responsibility, which encompasses the Northern Indian Ocean and its branches and offshoots: ..., the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf.
The Fifth is the first fleet established in the post-Cold War period, recommissioned in 1995 after being deactivated in 1947. (Similarly, the Fourth Fleet, which is assigned to the Caribbean Sea and Central and South America, was reactivated two years ago after being decommissioned in 1950.)
It shares a commander and headquarters with U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (CENTCOM) at Manama, Bahrain, across the Persian Gulf from Iran. ...
The Fifth Fleet and Naval Forces Central Command are jointly in charge of five naval task forces operating in and near the Arabian Sea which patrol several of the most strategic chokepoints on the planet: ...
Combined Task Force 151 (CTF-151) was launched in January of 2009, operates in the Gulf of Aden and the Somali Basin and covers an area of 1.1 million square miles. Twenty nations are scheduled to participate ...
Combined Task Force 152 (CTF-152) operates from the northern Persian Gulf to the Strait of Hormuz, between the areas of responsibility of CTF-150 and CTF-158, and is part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Combined Task Force 158 (CTF-158) operates in the northern-most part of the Persian Gulf, .... Its main tasks are to oversee Iraqi oil installations and to create an Iraqi navy under the Pentagon's control.
The U.S. has divided the world between six regional military commands and six navy fleets. The Arabian Sea is covered by three of the Pentagon's overseas military commands - Central Command, Africa Command and Pacific Command - to provide an indication of the importance attached to the region.
Beforehand, shortly after entering the Mediterranean Sea in May, USS Truman engaged in joint interoperability exercises in Marseille with its French fellow nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. ...
"The new mission of the ship is to join the fight against pirates that is taking place off the coast of Somalia in the Indian Ocean [where a] NATO mission is ongoing." [4] Nuclear aircraft carriers are a curious choice for contending with piracy.
When the French carrier arrives in the Arabian Sea this month it will be accompanied by two frigates, an attack submarine and a refuelling tanker, 3,000 sailors and 27 aircraft: Ten Rafale F3 fighters, 12 Super Étendard attack jets, two Hawkeye early warning planes and three helicopters.
With USS Lincoln and the USS Truman carrier strike group, there will be three carriers, ten other ships, an attack submarine and as many as 150 military aircraft in the Arabian Sea. That is in addition to the five warships of the NATO Maritime Group 1 in theater, 14-15 ships with CTF-150 and perhaps dozens more with CTF-151, CFT-152 and CTF-158. A formidable armada covering the sea from one end to the other.
In the north of the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Oman and into the Persian Gulf, on October 21 the U.S. announced a $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia for advanced fighter jets, helicopters, missiles and other weaponry and equipment," according to a Western news agency "the largest US arms deal ever." [7]
(map of 10 US bases surrounding Iran)
The monumental expansion of arms sales and the buildup of naval and air power in the Arabian Sea region are unprecedented. They are also alarming to the highest degree.
The West, America and its NATO allies, are escalating military operations across the area, from Asia to Africa to the Middle East. The theater of operations has recently broadened from South Asia to the Arabian Peninsula with drone and helicopter attacks in Pakistan and air and cruise missile strikes in Yemen.
A war that started at the beginning of the century is in its tenth year and gives every indication of being permanent.
Much of what's omitted in the above excerpt of Rick Rozoff's article doesn't seem at all related to US militarism vis-a-vis Iran, but maybe I'm wrong about this.
"Largest U.S. Arms Deal Ever: $60 Billion In Weapons To Saudis"
by Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Oct. 21st, 2010
US announces Saudi arms sale of up to 60 billion dollars
The United States announced an arms deal with Saudi Arabia on Wednesday worth up to 60 billion dollars that includes advanced fighter jets, helicopters, missiles and other weaponry and equipment, dpa reported.
The deal that will be implemented over 15 to 20 years is the largest US arms deal ever.
The deal proposes the sale of 84 F-15 fighters jets to Saudi Arabia and upgrades older 70 F-15s previously purchased by the Saudi government, Andrew Shapiro, the State Department's assistant secretary for political and military affairs said.
The helicopters included in the deal are 70 Apaches, 72 Black Hawks and 36 Little Birds, Shapiro said. Also in the package are an assortment of advanced missiles, bombs, radar and other equipment.
The Obama administration formally notified Congress of the sale, which is required under such a massive agreement.
The Obama administration decided to proceed with a deal after evaluating Saudi's defence needs and determining would would not diminish Israel's military edge in the region, and concluded the deal would promote security and stability in the Middle East.
The Obama administration clearly is not qualified to assess the defense needs of Saudi Arabia, for it certainly doesn't need anywhere near $60bn worth of war machinery. But the US MIC definitely will be glad.
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Have you, or has someone you know, attempted suicide?
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I have tried to email Sarah but the email bounced back??
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We have removed the teachings of principles for living from our education system, replacing them with so-called 'freedom of choice' and 'rights' which respect only the individual in isolation, and wonder why people are unprepared for life and relationships.
They suicide largely because they can't get a handle on relationships, purpose and the bigger picture.
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